Some songs I dig right now:
Lindsay Smith-One Fish, Two Fish
Gingersol-A Great Day For War
Great Depression-The Sargasso Sea
Dexateens-Cardboard Hearts
Calexico-Corona (the Minutemen tune and "Jackass" theme)
Butchies-Your Love (the Outfield song)
Vestals-Too Late To Say Goodbye

Also, the new Mission of Burma is pretty great and for some reason I'm smitten with a band from New Orleans called Blood Red Velvet . They've got a couple of really good songs, but I like them because they are a duo and simultaneously released two full-length albums this year. Also, they feature basically naked women in their album artwork. Because of that, the CNN fn channel refused to run ads for the albums.