July 2010
1 post
Revenge!
1) Nat Baldwin - De-attached - Most Valuable Player (2008) 2) D’Angelo - Devil’s Pie - Voodoo (2000) 3) Black Flag - Six Pack - Damaged (1981) 4) Mars - Helen Forsdale - No New York (1978) 5) Glenn Branca - Lesson No. 1 - Lesson No. 1 (1980) - Matt
Jul 14th
April 2010
5 posts
A Little Bit Rock 'N' Roll
1) Merle Haggard - The Sunny Side Of My Life - Mama Tried (1968) 2) Hank Williams - There’ll Be No Teardrops Tonight - There’ll Be No Teardrops Tonight [7”] (1950) 3) Buck Owens - I’ll Catch You When You Fall - Buck Owens Sings Harlan Howard (1961) 4) The Byrds - Hickory Wind - Sweetheart Of The Rodeo (1968) 5) Dolly Parton - River Of Happiness - Jolene (1974) ...
Apr 29th
The Mixtape to Make Up for Two Late Mixtapes
1) Sebastian Teller - Kilometer (Universe Remix) 2) Sneaky Sound System - When We Were Young (Breakbot Remix) 3) Mylo - In My Arms (“Betty Davis Eyes”) 4) Classixx - I’ll Get You 5) Royksopp - Happy Up Here (Breakbot Remix) 6) The Brothers Johnson - Stomp (GMGN) Remix 7) Sebastian Teller - Kilometer (A-Trak Extended Dub) 8) Priors - What You Need (Hey Champs...
Apr 23rd
Fun with Fidelity
1) The Underdogs - Love’s Gone Bad - Love’s Gone Bad 7” (1966) 2) Guided by Voices - I Am A Scientist - Bee Thousand (1994) 3) Ain’t No Use - Moby Grape - Moby Grape (1967) 4) Sexteto Habanero - Tres Lindas Cubanas (circa 1930) 5) Memory Tapes - Plain Material - Seek Magic (2009) - Jeffrey
Apr 16th
Dance with me
Brian Eno & David Byrne - Help Me Somebody - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1981) The Monks - Oh, How to Do Now - Black Monk Time (1966) Neil Young - For the Turnstiles - On the Beach (1974) Sparklehorse + Fennesz - Mark’s Guitar Piece - In the Fishtank 15 (2009) Theophilus London - Enjoy the Sun - This Charming Man Mixtape (2009) - SR
Apr 9th
Rock Your Baby
1) Hubert Porter With George Moxey & His Calypso Quintet - Dry Weather House - Mento Madness (195?) 2) Les Paul & Mary Ford - The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise - The Hit Makers! (1951) 3) The Flying Lizards - A-Train - Fourth Wall (1981) 4) R. Stevie Moore - Lip Service -Games and Groceries (1978) 5) James Brown - Talkin’ Loud and Sayin’ Nothing (Remix) - In The...
Apr 2nd
February 2010
4 posts
Looking forward, looking back
1) jj - Ecstacy - jj no. 2 (2009) 2) The Ruby Suns - Palmitos Park (2009) 3) Taken By Trees - My Boys - East of Eden (2009) 4) Magic Arm - Daft Punk Is Playing At My House - Make Lists Do Something (2009) 5) Atlas Sound - Unicorn Rainbow Odyssey (2007) - SR
Feb 25th
A Very Sloan edition of FiveSongMixTape
Sloan is a Canadian band that has been crafting album after album of superb music informed by 60s and 90s guitar pop and 70s riff-rock since 1991. All four members of the band sing and write songs and are adept multi-instrumentalists outside of their normal roles. To celebrate the fact that I am seeing them tonight, all of the songs on this edition of Five Song Mix Tape are Sloan songs. 1)...
Feb 19th
Under Stairs and in Back Alleys
1) El Guincho - Polca Mazurca - Alegranza (2008) 2) Zach Hill - Hindsight is Nowhere - Astrological Straits (2008) 3) Laurie Anderson - It Tango - Big Science (1982) 4) Zs - Nobody Wants to Be Had - Arms (2007) 5) Owen Pallett - Midnight Directives - Heartland (2010) -Matt
Feb 12th
Barbershop 2: Back In Business
1) Washington Phillips - Lift Him Up That’s All - The Key To The Kingdom (192?) 2) The Fleetwoods - I Care So Much - Come Softly To Me [7”] (1959) 3) Piero Umiliani - Gadget - Musica Elettronica, Vol. 1 (19??) 4) Brigitte Fontaine & Areski Belkacem - Cher - Vous et Nous (1977) 5) Little Joe & The Thrillers - Peanuts - Peanuts [7”] (1957) - Tomi
Feb 4th
January 2010
4 posts
Yr Hue Ist Hirsute
1) Papa M - Roses In the Snow - Whatever, Mortal (2001) 2) Augie March - There’s Something At The Bottom Of The Black Pool - Strange Bird (2002) 3) Don Ray - Standing in the Rain - Standing in the Rain (1978) 4) OJ Da Juiceman (feat. Gucci Mane) - Good Night (HEALTH Remix) - ATL RMX (2010) 5) Johnny Darrell - As Long As the Wind Blows - As Long As the Wind Blows (1966) - Daniel
Jan 28th
Not Ah Bear
Introduction: ML Audio 1111931 - Albula vulpes - Macaulay Library, Cornell Lab of Ornithology (1951) 1) Telex - Moskow Diskow - Looking for Saint Tropez (1979) Interlude: Unknown - Radio Calcutta #2 - Radio India: The Eternal Dream of Sound (2004) 2) The Dovers - What Am I Going To Do? - She’s Gone/What Am I Going To Do? 7” (1965) 3) Cat Stevens - I’ve Found A Love -...
Jan 21st
Not quite the future
1) Homosexuals - Vociferous Slam (1978) 2) The Very Best - Julia (2009) 3) Califone - Our Kitten Sees Ghosts (2006) 4) Abner Jay - St. James Infirmary Blues (2009) 5) Bibio - S’Vive (2009) - SR
Jan 14th
Birthday Jamz Vol. 3
1) Sloan - People of The Sky - Twice Removed (1994) 2) Iggy Pop - Some Weird Sin - Lust for Life (1977) 3) U.S. Maple - The State Is Bad - Long Hair in Three Stages (1995) 4) Sholi - November Through June - Sholi (2009) 5) Silkworm - A Cockfight of Feelings - Italian Platinum (2002) -Kazoo
Jan 7th
December 2009
4 posts
Groove Is In The Heart
1) Sly & The Family Stone - Spaced Cowboy - There’s A Riot Goin’ On (1971) 2) Promise - I’m Not Ready For Love - I’m Not Ready For Love [7”] (1975) 3) Santo & Johnny - Tear Drop - Encore (1960) 4) Randy Newman - Suzanne - 12 Songs (1970) 5) Spacemen 3 - Walkin’ With Jesus - The Perfect Prescription (1987) - Tomi
Dec 24th
I'm Going Back to Cali (I Don't Think So)
1) Javelin - Lindsay Brohan - Jamz N Jemz (2008) 2) CYNE - Excite Me - Pretty Dark Things (2008) 3) The Hood Internet - Just A Friendomania (Biz Markie vs Phoenix vs Classixx) - (2009) 4) Basement Jaxx - Romeo - Rooty (2001) 5) Far From Home (DFA Remix) - Tiga - The DFA Remixes: Chapter 2 (2006) - Daniel
Dec 17th
Auntie Rod Stewart's Dirty Ditties
1) Bryan Scary & The Shredding Tears - (It’s A) Gambler’s Whirl - Mad Valentine EP (2009) 2) Hanan - Besma - Yalla: Hitlist Egypt (1990) 3) Plainsong - Even the Guiding Light - In Search of Amelia Earhart (1972) 4) Mission of Burma - That’s How I Escaped My Certain Fate - Vs. (1982) 5) The Grateful Dead - Brokedown Palace - American Beauty (1970) - Jeffrey
Dec 13th
Presque Vu
1) Ganglians - Voodoo - Monster Head Room (2009) 2) Hood - The Negatives… - Outside Closer (2005) 3) Autolux - Subzero Fun - Future Perfect (2004) 4) Apollo Ghosts - Dobermans - Hastings Sunrise (2008) 5) Kurt Vile - Beach on the Moon - God Is Saying This to You (2009) - SR
Dec 4th
November 2009
3 posts
Chimes for Chicago Nearing Christmas/You Bitch
1) Steve Reich - Section 1 - Music For 18 Musicians (1978) 2) Gang of Four - What We All Want - Solid Gold (1981) 3) King Crimson - Discipline - Discipline (1981) 4) Group Doueh - Eid For Dakhla - Guitar Music From the Western Sahara (2007) 5) Ivo Pogorelich - Pictures at an Exhibition X. The Great Gate of Kiev (Mussorgsky) (1997) -Matt
Nov 22nd
Invasion of the...
1) The Kinks - Ring The Bells - The Kink Kontroversy (1965) 2) Orange Juice - Wan Light - You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever (1982) 3) This Heat - 24 Track Loop - This Heat (1978) 4) Junior Murvin - Solomon - Police and Thieves (1977) 5) The Esso Trinidad Steel Band - I Want You Back - Esso (1971) - Tomi
Nov 12th
Rock and Roll, Pt. 3
1) Smith Westerns — Girl In Love — Smith Westerns (2009) 2) Gordon Downie — Vancouver Divorce — Coke Machine Glow (2001) 3) Arch M — Cple Outside Park With Me — Cples EP (2007) 4) Don’t Touch My Bikini — The Halo Benders — God Don’t Make No Junk (1994) 5) Songs: Ohia — Farewell Transmission — Magnolia Electric...
Nov 5th
October 2009
5 posts
You Don't Know What I Mean
1) Poco - Hurry Up (Now Tell Me) - Poco (1970) 2) Guided by Voices - A Big Fan of the Pigpen - Bee Thousand (1994) 3) The Band - Ferdinand the Impostor - Unreleased (1967?) 4) Dave Davies & The Kinks - Creeping Jean - Creeping Jean 7” (1969) 5) The Buffalo Springfield - Whatever Happened to Saturday Night? - Unreleased (1967) - Jeffrey
Oct 30th
The name of the game
1) DOOM - Lightworks - Born like this (2009) 2) The Wrens - This Boy is Exhausted - The Meadowlands (2003) 3) Lotus Plaza - Whiteout - The Floodlight Collective (2009) 4) Cee-Lo - I’ll Be Around (feat. Timbaland) - Is the Soul Machine (2004) 5) Jonny Osbourne - Right Right Time - Summer Records Anthology (1974-1988) (2007) -Steven
Oct 23rd
Late For An Important Date
1) Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Anointed One - Hearts of Oak (2003) 2) Neil Young - Revolution Blues - On The Beach (1974) 3) Smart Went Crazy - Con Art - Con Art (1997) 4) Unwound - December - Leaves Turn Inside You (2001) 5) Police Teeth - Always A Greg McBridesmaid, Never A Greg McBride - Real Size Monster Series (2009) -Kazoo
Oct 20th
Marketplace of Ideas
1) Burning Spear - Irie Niya Keith - Original Living Dub Vol. 1 (2003) 2) The Mae Shi - Young Marks - HLLLYH (2008) 3) The Minutemen - My Life and the Real World - Double Nickels on the Dime (1984) 4) Tyondai Braxton - The Duck and the Butcher - Central Market (2009) 5) Staff Benda Bilili - Polio - Très Très Fort (2009) -Matt
Oct 8th
Al Capone Guns Don't Argue
1) Boney M. - Ma Baker - Love For Sale (1977) 2) Gene Pitney - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - Only Love Can Break A Heart (1963) 3) Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Bang Bang - Dim The Lights, Chill The Ham (1991) 4) The Everly Brothers - Take A Message To Mary - The Fabulous Style of the Everly Brothers (1960) 5) Prince Buster - This Is A Hold Up - Fabulous Greatest Hits (1968) ...
Oct 1st
September 2009
4 posts
My Regards to the West Coast
1) Best Coast - Gloomy - Where The Boys Are (2009) 2) J Dilla - Two Can Win - Donuts (2006) 3) The Wedding Present - Corduroy - Seamonsters (1991) 4) Brendan Benson - Metarie - Lapalco (2002) 5) Mercury Rev - Meth of a Rockette’s Kick - Boces (1993) -Dan
Sep 24th
A Day in the Life
1) The Hollies - Open Up Your Eyes - Jennifer Eccles B-Side (1968) 2) Jefferson Airplane - Today - Live at Monterey Pop Festival (1967) 3) Buffalo Springfield - No Sun Today - Unreleased (1967) 4) Neil Young - Barstool Blues - Zuma (1975) 5) The Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection - The Stones Roses (1989) - Jeffrey
Sep 17th
Echoes
1) Bullion - Don’t Talk - Pet Sounds: In the Key of Dee (2007) 2) Studio - West Side - Yearbook (2007) 3) Toumani Diabate - Kaunding Cissoko - The Mande Variations (2008) 4) Arthur Russell - Hiding Your Present From You - World of Echo (1986/2004) 5) Watussi - Purple Moon - Purple Moon 12” (2008) -Steven
Sep 11th
Bases Loaded
1) The Fall - New Big Prinz - I Am Kurious, Oranj (1988) 2) Silkworm - Couldn’t You Wait? - Libertine (1994) 3) Worker Bee - No Dreams - Tangler (2009) 4) The New Year - The Company I Can Get - The New Year (2008) 5) Mission of Burma - All World Cowboy Romance - Signals, Calls and Marches (1981) -Kazoo (To download the mixtape, click the divShare logo.)
Sep 2nd
August 2009
3 posts
Hat Trick
1) CHLL PLL - Dick Moves - Aggressively Humble (2009) 2) John Cale - Paris 1919 - Paris 1919 (1973) 3) An Albatross -…And Now Emerges the Silver Pilgrim - The An Albatross Family Album (2008) 4) Gal Costa - Sebastiana - Gal Costa (Não Identificado) (1969) 5) Dirty Projectors - Slaves’ Graves - Slaves’ Graves and Ballads (2004) -Matt
Aug 27th
Sloppy Seconds
1) Ketty Lester — Love Letters — Love Letters (1962) 2) Kraftwerk — Tanzmusik — Ralf and Florian (1973) 3) Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich — Save Me — Save Me [7”] (1966) 4) Tyrannosaurus Rex — Scenescof — My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair…But Now They’re Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows (1968) 5)...
Aug 20th
Maiden Voyage
1) Spoon - Stroke Their Brains - Got Nuffin’ EP (2009) 2) City Center - Bleed Blood - City Center (2009) 3) Thee Oh Sees - Two Drummers Disappear - The Master’s Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In (2008) 4) Food For Animals - Tween Fantasy Reprise - Belly (2008) 5) Memory Cassette - Sleep On the Roof - Rewind While Sleeping (2008) -Dan (To download the mixtape, click the...
Aug 13th