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.