March 2011
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A Mix: Heavy Carpentry
Though the title and cover suggest a hammer-themed mix, this is actually just a straight up rock mix made in honor of my friend and NATN brother in arms Troy Carpenter. To know and love Carpent, is to know and love this mix. Maybe…
Track List:
1. Touch Me in the Righ Place At The Right Time - Robert Pollard
2. Under Cover Of Darkness - The Strokes
3. Evil City Music - Archers
4. Teenage Blood - Apex Manor
5. Silva & Grimes - Holy Fuck
6. Politicians In My Eyes - Death
7. 8:00 AM, Seattle, Washington - Coop
8. New York City - Demics
9. Blow Dumb - Nobunny
10. Daily Bread - The Shoestrung
11. Digging For Something - Superchunk
12. Tin Soldiers - Stiff Little Fingers
13. Civilian - Wye Oak
14. Glitter - No Age
15. Breathless - Todd Rundgren
16. Strawberry Letter 23 - Shuggie Otis
17. Blue & Silver - Lower Dens
18. Me And My Arrow - Harry Nilsson
19. Sink/Let It Sway - Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
Stream on my 8Tracks page.
Band to Watch: Telekinesis →
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A rock trio led by Michael Benjamin Lerner, a 24-year-old songwriter from Seattle, Washington who specializes in sunny, dynamic power pop.
February 2011
6 posts
Today's vinyl haul...
One place in the Brooklyn Flea is good. Another is not.
John Fahey - The Best of John Fahey 1959-1977
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Can’t stop listening to The Shoestrung. Thanks to Rollo & Grady for the heads up. You can d/l and stream their full EP here.
A Mix: Crayme Graysh
A mix intended for my friend Gresh and anyone who has tastes like him. Listen if you don’t mind the indulgence of including both Guided by Voices’ “Dayton, Ohio - 19 Something 5” and Harry Nilsson’s cover of Randy Newman’s “Dayton, Ohio 1903.”
Track List:
1. A Fistful of Lead - Calibro 35
2. Under the Gun - Apex Manor
3. Paradise is Not So Bad - Lifeguards
4. Libraries - Yellow Ostrich
5. someday Soon - Harlem
6. Everyone’s Hip - Jaill
7. The Life of a Scholar - 3 Titans
8. Let’s Get Out of Here - Les Savy Fav
9. Momma Miss America - Paul McCartney
10. Caesar - Ty Segall
11. Gotta Cheer Up - Cotton Jones
12. Holloway Jail - The Kinks
13. Dayton, Ohio - 19 Something and 5 - GBV
14. The Way We Used to Be - Joel Alme
15. Dayton, Ohio 1903 - Harry Nilsson
16. Silver Platter Club - John Grant
17. Suffragette Suffragette - Everything Everything
18. One Last (Album) - Avi Buffalo
Stream on my 8Tracks page.
Band to Watch: Yuck →
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Sounds Like: A well-rounded Nineties indie rock mixtape. Yuck’s self-titled debut album has a comforting, familiar sound, but the appeal isn’t limited to nostalgia – Blumberg and his bandmates have a talent for penning memorable hooks and gorgeous harmonies on par with the best work of the bands that inspired them. Though the group are great with noisy rockers like “Get Away” and “Georgia” (listen below), they are even better with wistful, gently melodic ballads such as “Shook Down” and “Suicide Policeman.”
Today's vinyl haul...
Yay, Academy.
Elton John - Honky Chateau
Ennio Morricone - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly OST
Mission of Burma - Vs.
January 2011
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A Mix: 20 Songs From 2010
As always, I’m a little late in posting my year end playlist — a mix of stuff I liked this year and/or discovered in the last two weeks as I frantically sampled other people’s year-end lists. (Special nod to Aquarium Drunkard and Rollo & Grady.)
Track List:
1. A More Perfect Union - Titus Andronicus
2. Bloodbuzz Ohio - The National
3. King of Spain - Tallest Man on Earth
4. 2 Trees - Foals
5. Heaven’s on Fire - The Radio Dept.
6. Where’d All The Time Go? - Dr. Dog
7. Fractures in Plaster - Superchunk
8. Harlem River Blues - Justin Townes Earle
9. Sentimental X’s - Broken Social Scene
10. Trust - Generationals
11. Big Wave - Jenny and Johnny
12. Lover’s Carvings - Biblio
13. You Are Not Alone - Mavis Staples
14. The Mermaid Parad - Phosphorescent
15. Home - Glasser
16. Desire Lines - Deerhunter
17. All Around and Away We Go - Twin Sister
18. Sigourney Weaver - John Grant
19. Bad Stuff - Free Energy
20. Remember Last Time - Avi Buffalo
October 2010
1 post
A Mix: Punk Lunch Dove
Just as it sounds…
Track List:
1. Somebody’s Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight - Rezillos
2. Pirate Love - The Heartbreakers
3. Mystery Achievment The Pretenders
4. My Shadow - Jay Reatard
5. Bored Teenagers - The Adverts
6. The 400 Blows - The Demics
7. Neon Heart - The Boomtown Rats
8. Hanging on the Telephone - The Nerves
9. Set The House Ablaze - The Jam
10. The Anchor - Minutemen
11. Gabrielle - Ween
12. I Wanna Live - The Ramones
13. Whole Wide World - Wreckless Eric
14. Nothing Left - Buzzcocks
15. At The Edge - Stiff Little Fingers
