Summer Guide 16

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Summer Guide 16  Track List

1. Tearing the Posters Down / Dick Diver
2. Goshen '97 / Strand of Oaks
3. Casual Party / Band of Horses
4. NC-17 / Broncho
5. Kid Who Stays in the Picture / Hot Hot Heat
6. Strange Combinations / Teleman
7. Dream / Husbands
8. Dusseldorf / Teleman
9. Flicker / Atmosphere
10. King Kunta / Kendrick Lamar
11. Girls @ Joey Purp (ft. Chance the Rapper)
12. Sugar / Kid Mountain
13. No No No / Beirut
14. Ben's My Friend / Sun Kil Moon
15. Berlin Got Blurry / Parquet Courts
16. 100 Million / Charlie Hilton
17. PPP / Beach House
18. Roma Fade / Andrew Bird
19. La Seine / Scala & Kolacny Brothers
20. Nowhere to Be / Bronze Radio Return
21. I Went To the Store One Day / Father John Misty

Crazy Leaves (2014)

An Indie Rock Playlist for Fall

For well over a decade I've made an indie rock playlist that captures (at least to me) the ambiance of the four seasons. This is the first time I've shared my autumn mix.

All songs chosen based on their ability to conjure up feelings, images, rhythms, and moods of everything that comes with the fall.

Click play and enjoy!

 

Notes at this time:

1. The full version of "Hey Doreen" by Lucius isn't on YouTube, 
2. The recorded version of Blunda's "If You Want Me" isn't on YouTube, and 
3. Making Marks' "Falling in Love Again" isn't on YouTube at all. 

PLEASE let me know (via comments) if any of these become available down the road

Share this with your friends! These artists deserve being heard by many!!

Summer Guide 14

The best perennial indie-rock playlist ever. 

Selection Rules 

All songs must pass these two tests (which is more difficult than you think)...

1. The song makes you want to dance your face off or sing at the top of your lungs
2. The song must make a party and road trip better.

FYI: the "almost" tracks will be released in a couple month's time on Summer Cuts.

Listening Rules

1. Play them in order (failure to do so may result in sudden death)
2. Play them loud!!
3. Play them with friends who love great music.

Seriously, these artists are amazing, and I encourage you to purchase these songs or see them in concert. Also, thanks to my main sources: the Indie-Rock Playlist, BIRP!, and good ole Pitchfork.

Enjoy! This mix will put you in a better mood! Track listing and download links below:

Download #1: http://www.bts.to/summerguide14-tf4039196.html
Download #2: https://isohunt.to/torrent_details/11436624/Summer-Guide-14

Track Listing

01 - Cooking Up Something Good - Mac Demarco
02 - Bullet - Franz Ferdinand
03 - Skin To Bone - The Jungle Giants
04 - Payday - The Title Sequence
05 - Sweet Marie - Twin Beasts
06 - Shadow - Bleachers
07 - Me And Myself - Piano Club
08 - Young Free - Lover Lover
09 - 147 - Ed Zealous
10 - Spinning Signs - Painted Palms
11 - Fever Boy - Femme
12 - Good Mistake - Mr Little Jeans
13 - No One's Saying Nothing - The Dismemberment Plan
14 - Stay Young - Okkervil River
15 - In This Life - The Strumbellas
16 - Freaking Out the Neighborhood - Mac Demarco
17 - El Rito - Destroyer
18 - Broken Heart - Dr. Dog
19 - Lonely Nights - Yellowgold
20 - Do You Want Me Now - Fierce Bad Rabbit
21 - Country Down - Beck
22 - Witchi Tai To - Fanfarlo

Winter & Wine (2014)

In stark contrast to Summer Guides, for years I've been making mixtapes especially tailored for the long, dark, chilly winter months that are far less exuberant. This is the first one I've ever shared... and I've chosen this Winter Solstice to upload it.  Enjoy!

1 Went To War - Amason
2 West Coast - Skipping Girl Vinegar
3 Animal Games - Emiliana Torrini
4 Hunger & Thirst - Typhoon
5 Do Your Own Time - AC Newman
6 Gray Eyed Bird - Slow Machete
7 Neon Love - Walla
8 Afterlife - Arcade Fire
9 Two Chords - Summer Camp
10 Waves That Rolled You Under - Young Summer
11 Bear - Pacific Air
12 Pull Me Like A String - Rue Royale
13 Lean - The National
14 Daedalus (What We Have) - San Fermin
15 Million Miles - TV On The Radio
16 Won't See Me - Dark Furs
17 Scars - Camden
18 Stars - Buried Beds
19 Voyager - Takeobu

Torrent Download (option 1): http://isohunt.to/torrent_details/9820960/Winter-Wine-2014
Torrent Download (option 2): http://www.bts.to/winter-and-wine2014-tf3821491.html


Instructions:

1. Download uTorrent. 
2. Go to link above
3. Click the "Correct" download button (be wary of booby traps)
4. uTorrent will download songs from website, 
5. Once downloaded, those songs will fall in your download folder, 
6. Go to iTunes (or equivalent) and import the Winter & Wine (2014) folder that's in your computer's downloads folder, 
7. Sync your phone. 
8.  DONE!!!

Summer Guide 13

The 13th Edition of the Ultimate Summer Mix!!
As per the rules of the summer guide selection process, these songs made the 2013 cut and have been specially sequenced to turn any mood or any event into pure bliss. Download links below.

Summer Guide 13 

1 Days Of Youth - Locksley

2 Waiting - The Cat Empire
3 Let Me Go - Hacienda
4 Spinoza - Generationals
5 Rocket Ship - San Cisco
6 Ride On , Right On - Phosphorescent
7 Time To Run - Lord Huron
8 Kaiso Newscast - Kobo Town
9 Ndiri Ndanogio Niwe - Mbiri Young Stars
10 One Girl One Boy - !!!
11 I Love It - Icona Pop
12 Dragon Queens - Starfucker
13 Step - Vampire Weekend
14 Radlands - Mystery Jets
15 Bird On The Buffalo - Angus Stone
16 I Spy - Mikhael Paskalev
17 Riptide - Vance Joy
18 Buried - Family Of The Year
19 The Thick Of It - Royal Wood
20 Good to See You - The Grapes of Wrath
21 Teeth - Santah

WARNING! Once downloaded, arrange songs in order (via playlist) and only play them in order! Failure to do so will result in a compromised experience and possible death.

Torrent Download #1 (Kick Ass Torrents)
Torrent Download #2 (Pirate Bay)

Murals - "Eyes of Love"

This song is fantastic because it's almost 1920's with its school room piano and reverberated sound, but the rest of the song brings you into home, right now.

"Hey" - The Pixies

Wow. Amazing what 25 years does to musical perspective.

Few gave The Pixies the credit they deserved through the '90's as bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc were the ones to become famous with the fast-slow, fast-slow "alternative" sound. Foundational songs like this one were amazing achievements in an era dominated by glam rock and Brit pop.



And here's the original if interested.

"Two Cousins" ~ Slow Club

While the recorded version of this track is absolutely fabulous and brings back great memories, I stumbled upon this live version of the song tonight and was impressed ... and made me think how acoustic slow-downs can make songs better ... maybe because they're that much closer to the original, more composition-close versions of what we hear on our radio and digital feeds, like the personal versions of ourselves, instead of the online, made-up, publicized versions.

Mystery Jets - Radlands

Happy New Year everyone!!

Here's a new track to start off your year.  It makes me miss old times and playing guitar.

Lord Huron - “Time to Run”

Thought you might dig this ditty. From Boingboing.net: 'Lord Huron started as just Ben Schneider, a Michigan-born Navy brat with fond memories of his father playing guitar around a campfire at (you guessed it) Lake Huron. Ben’s since moved to LA and morphed Lord Huron into a 5-piece melodic hootenanny machine. The songs are lush and accomplished and feel perfect for this time of year. “Time to Run” is my favorite song, and the band is giving us a free download for a week.'

The Coup - "Guillotine"

The Coup is a revolutionary communist hip-hop group hailing from Oakland CA. Their outspoken political views have generated heat before, most notably in 2001 when their album Party Music was pulled from a September 2001 release because of the artwork which featured rappers Boots Riley and Pam the Funkstress blowing up the World Trade Centre towers. Bad timing indeed.

Their new album is recently out called Sorry to Bother You. This single mixes French Revolutionary messages with a wacko Wizard of Oz theme (paying tribute to the 70s Motown remake "The Wiz" [featuring Micheal Jackson as the Scarecrow, and Diana Ross as Dorothy.

Never has the revolution sounded so funky.

Lake Side Dive - "I Want You Back"

A jazzy country four-piece from Boston belts out this Jackson 5 classic on a Boston street.

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - "Only in My Dreams"

Rock and roll weirdo Ariel Pink's new album "Mature Themes" has recently been released, and his first video "Only in My Dreams" is now floating through the interweb. He is a real weirdo, as documented in this Pitchfork feature, and has freaked out and refused to play major gigs like Coachella due to nerves. Luckily he's got his band to back him up. Like many musicians or creative geniuses in general, he walks the sanity line. He had recorded hundreds of lo-fi songs over the years, before one of his homemade CD-Rs made it into the hands of Animal Collective, who liked what they heard and signed him to their label. Ariel Pink's sound is like an alternative take on 60s dream-pop, and is sweetly captured in this new single "Only in my dreams". The VHS style video is also a nifty throwback. Enjoy!

Grapes of Wrath - "Good to See You"

Flipping through radio stations I stumbled upon and stopped on this song on CBC Radio1. I thought, "Wow, full circle – great sound. Must be coming back." Yet I was puzzled, because I couldn't picture someone in their early 20's writing a song with lyrics like this one ... lyrics about time going by in a way that I really identified with.

But when the song ended, the DJ credited Grapes of Wrath, an early 90's Canadian alternative band (that didn't get packaged and exported south like Barenaked Ladies did, but one that everyone north of the border knew about), and it all made sense.

Maybe the sound is coming back. It should. It's good.

Here's what a 1972 issue of "Archie" thought 2012 would be like. Not far wrong...

Beirut talks Influences

I know you're totally into Beirut. In this P4K 5-10-15-25 interview he talks about his influences throughout his life. This could have been Regan, had he shirked a "responsible life" and followed the dream.

Death From Above 1979 Back Together!

Pitchfork is reporting that Death from Above 1979 have reformed and are currently on an Eastern Canadian Tour road testing new music. I'm so happy that they've come to their senses, and Jesse Keeler taken a break from his occasionally excellent and mostly just OK side project turned main project MSTRKFT. I can't wait until a western Canadian tour happens, and I look forward to hearing new music! Until then, here's "Romantic Rights" from 2004's 'You're a Woman, I'm a Machine'

Mixtape 11

Mixtape 11 is ready just in time for fall! This one has been percolating for a good long while, and features some of the bands that I'm digging at the moment, like Yukon Blonde, Japandroids, The Drums, and Frankie Rose. Some of the tracks have been linked on the blog before, so they might be familiar to you. You can find the torrent link here. Let me know what you think, or if you have any technical difficulties with downloading it.

MIXTAPE 11

1. Yukon Blonde - My Girl
2. Real Estate - It's Real
3. Japandroids - The House that Heaven Built
4. Alabama Shakes - Hold On
5. The Drums - Book of Revelation
6. Frankie Rose - Know Me
7. Grouplove - Tongue Tied
8. Kathleen Edwards - Change the Sheets
9. Yukon Blonde - Fire
10. War on Drugs - Best Night
11. Sophie Madelene - Oil & Gold
12. Youth Lagoon - Daydream
13. Purity Ring - Fineshrine
14. Frankie Rose - Interstellar
15. Kindness - Gee Up
16. Escort - Starlight
17. Spiritualized - Hey Jane

New M.I.A.!

M.I.A. is set to drop her fourth album 'Matangi' in the coming weeks. She has described it as "Paul Simon on acid", and has a new production team ditching former boyfriend Diplo and Switch (who went on to do the Major Lazer project), describing them as "fame whore colonisers". OK then. Here is a sneak peek at the first single "Come Walk with Me"

Pete Yorn - "Life on a Chain"

Pete Yorn is a man with big brass balls. He had a dream that he collaborated with Scarlett Johansson on an album. He approached her through her agent (his brother) and they did collaborate to release 2009 "Break Up" featuring the dynamite single 'Relator'. My dreams about Scarlett have no hope of coming true!


This track popped up on the radio recently, and I totally dug it. It's from his 2001 debut 'musicforthemorningafter'. Enjoy