Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Excites and Soothes Like Biscuits and Gravy

1. Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing - Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
2. Postcards From Italy - Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
3. Star Witness - Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
4. Marry Me - St. Vincent - Marry Me
5. Dear John 5:12 Ryan Adams Follow The Lights
6. Kissing the Lipless - The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
7. Peaches En Regalia - Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
8. Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) - Arcade Fire - Funeral
9. Hang Me Up To Dry - Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards
10. Earthquake Weather - Beck - Guero
11. Girlfriend is Better - Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
12. Dead Meat - Sean Lennon - Friendly Fire
13. Sarah - Ween - Pure Guava
14. Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen - Soungs of Love and Hate 15. Sophisticated Cissy - The Meters - The Meters

--Scott Rudolph

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

I Just Cured Depression

The "I just cured depression" Mix

User's guide, legal disclaimer, and cut list will be added in comment section.
1. A Thousand Hours - The Cure
2. Lonesome Swan - Glasvegas
3. Made a Mountain - Train Meets Truck
4. Plea from a cat named Virtue - The Weakerthans
5. 100 Miles and Runnin' - NWA
6. Here to Stay - Korn
7. Renegades of Funk - Rage Against the Machine
8. Wrath of Marcie - The Go! Team
9. That's not my Name - The Ting Tings
10. Why do you let me stay here? - She and Him
11. Trouble is a Friend - Lenka
12. Goods - Mates of State
13. Hallelujah - The Helio Sequence
14. Say Hello Wave Goodbye - David Gray
15. One Great City! - The Weakerthans

not responsible for excessive happiness,

Dave Kracker

Propaganda

1. You! Me! Dancing!- Los Campesinos! (Hold on Now, Youngster...)
2. Sleepytime in the Western World- Blitzen Trapper (Fur)
3. Punchlines- Mates of State (Bring It Back)
4. Fumble- Architecture in Helsinki (Fingers Crossed)
5. Weird- Menomena (Friend and Foe)
6. Comfy in Nautica- Panda Bear (Person Pitch)
7. Never Stops- Deerhunter (Microcastle)
8. Boogie Down- MGMT (Time to Pretend- EP)9
. Unconditional- The Bravery (The Bravery)
10. Failsafe- The New Pornographers (Challengers)
11. Blacking Out the Friction- Death Cab for Cutie (Studio X Sessions)
12. A Change is Gonna Come- Sam Cooke

--Mark Rastetter

I was going to exchange this mix for a Senate Seat until that fucking Patrick Fitzgerald ruined everything!

1. 5:15 Train - A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Scribble Mural Comic Journal
2. My Girls - Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
3. Brother - Annuals - Be He Me
4. Comfy in Nautica - Panda Bear - Person Pitch
5. Car - Built to Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love
6. If You're Feeling Sinister - Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
7. The Orchids - Califone - Roots and Crowns
8. Good Arms Vs. Bad Arms - Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
9. Come Back From San Francisco - The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs, Vol. 1
10. Song Against Sex - Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island
11. Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
12. Family Tree - TV on the Radio - Dear Science,
13. The Convert - Shearwater - Winged Life
14. Suffering Jukebox - Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
15. Drinking at the Dam - Smog - A River Ain't Too Much To Love

--Alex Crisafulli

-= No Where There =-

better buckle up

1. Someone Great - LCD Soundsystem
2. Primitive Notion - New Order
3. Teardrop - Massive Attack
4. Jupiter - Desolation Wilderness
5. Strict Machine - Goldfrapp
6. moan - trentemoller
7. Armchairs - Andrew Bird
8. Heron Blue - Sun Kil Moon
9. Salvation - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
10. All I Need - Air
11. The National Anthem - Radiohead
12. Young Men Dead - The Black Angels
13. Sometimes - My Bloody Valentine
14. Nowhere - Ride
15. Untitled 4 - Sigur Rós

-Chris Hillar

A companion for your seesaw [Some Parm for your Whines]

1. Into the Open - Heartless Bastards
2. Sometimes - James
3. Watching the Detectives - Elvis Costello
4. Sound & Vision - David Bowie
5. I Can't Touch You Anymore - Magnetic Fields
6. Devil Inside - INXS
7. Heaven Hammer [Missing] - BECK
8. Jesus Was Way Cool - King Missile
9. You Live Alone - Liz Durrett
10. House of Cards - Radiohead
11. Rememo - Kings of Leon
12. The Circus is Leaving Town - Isobel Campbell/Mark Lanegan
13. Dolphins - Tim Buckley
14. You Win Again - Keith Richards
15. Tonight - Sibylle Baier

--Megan Murphy

Monday, January 19, 2009

Mountain Man Nuts

a musical mix creation roasted, salted and palmed by Whitney L. Stensrud

1. Old Familiar Steam - Old 97s (Wreck Your Life)
2. Shasta Beast - Eagles of Death Metal (Death By Sexy)
3. Bloodhounds on My Trail - The Black Angels (Passover)
4. Guitar Town - Steve Earle (Guitar Town)
5. Nantes - Beirut (The Flying Club Cup)
6. Tell Me in the Morning - Cold War Kids (Robbers & Cowards)
7. The Light (Part 2) - Mason Jennings (Use Your Voice)
8. You Don't Know Her Name - Maps (We Can Create)
9. Like a Doggy - Earl Greyhound (Soft Targets)
10. Chitown Tonight - Joe Purdy (You Can Tell Georgia)
11. What May Seem Like Love - Whiskeytown (Faithless Street)
12. Wild Mountain Nation - Blitzen Trapper (Wild Mountain Nation)
13. Livin' Was Easy - The Glands (The Glands)
14. Keep Me - The Black Keys (Rubber Factory)
15. Pollo Asado - Ween (All Request Live)

Boogie with Ace: The Mixtape Experience

Side Light

1) Working Too Hard: The Nerves, The Nerves EP
2) Cotton Fields: Creedence Clearwater Revival, Willy and the Poor Boys (When Ace was a little bitty baby, Mama Freebird would a-rock him to this album.)
3) Not Fade Away: Buddy Holly, The Buddy Holly Collection
4) Mr. Tough: Yo La Tengo, I Am Not Afraid of You And I Will Beat Your Ass (Ace stays current.)
5) Love Ain't for Keeping: The Who, Who's Next (Sure ain't.)
6) Buzzin' Fly: Tim Buckley, Dream Letter: Live in London 1968 (disc 1) (Had a son who was also apparently some kind of musician.)

Side Heavy

1) The Daily Planet: Love, Forever Changes
2) Stove by a Whale: Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, The Tyranny of Distance (Tyrannical old distance got nothin' on Ted.)
3) Machine Gun: Band of Gypsys, Live at The Fillmore East (disc 2) (Proven capable of bending light and warping space-time. And then drummer Buddy Miles went on to be the voice of the California Raisins.)
4) In Every Dream Home a Heartache: Roxy Music, For Your Pleasure
5) Guiding Light: Television, Marquee Moon

--Ace Freebird

tunes from the snowy woods

1. "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)" The Arcade Fire. Funeral
2. "He Lays in the Reins" Calexico and Iron and Wine. In the Reins
3. "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" Neutral Milk Hotel. In the AeroplaneOver the Sea
4. "Kissing the Lipless" The Shins. Chutes Too Narrow
5. "Las Vegas Blush" Ford & Fitzroy. Canyons
6. "Jorge Regula" The Moldy Peaches. The Moldy Peaches
7. "Visions of Johanna" Chris Smither. Leave the Light on
8. "You Can Bring me Flowers" Ray Lamontagne. Till the Sun Turns Black
9. "Whiskey Bottle" Uncle Tupelo. No Depression
10. "Hot Rock" Sleater-Kinney. Hot Rock
11. "Nothing Better" The Postal Service. Give up
12. "Another Lonely Day" Ben Harper. Fight for your Mind
13. "Ashes of American Flags" Wilco. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
14. "When I was a Young Girl" Feist. Let it Die
15. "Long as I can See the Light" Ted Hawkins. The Next Hundred Years

--Damien Callahan

Friday, January 16, 2009

Missent to Bermuda

1. Qué Onda Guero (Beck)
2. Hangin' Around (Counting Crows)
3. Cocaine (Eric Clapton)
4. Guided By Wire (Neko Case)
5. Wave of Mutilation (the Pixies)
6. Chinese Translation (M. Ward)
7. Time to Pretend (MGMT)
8. The Party's Crashing Us (Of Montreal)
9. The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight (REM)
10. So Much Things to Say (Bob Marley)
11. Peaceful Easy Feeling (The Eagles)
12. New Madrid (Uncle Tupelo)
13. Spirit on the Water (Bob Dylan)
14. The Wind (Cat Stevens)

--Amy Haneberg

Electric Fetus

Just like you don't mess with the unborn child, you don't mess with this mix.

1. "Just Drums" Tapes 'n' Tapes. The Loon
2. "Little House of Savages" The Walkmen. Bows + Arrows
3. "Wordless Chorus" My Morning Jacket. Z
4. "The Season" The Dodos. Visiter
5. "Patty Lee" Les Savy Fav. Let's Stay Friends
6. "Dr. Strangeluv" Blonde Redhead. 23
7. "Peacebone" Animal Collective. Strawberry Jam
8. "Aiko" Pete Wen (A. Wen) Guguryo
9. "Furr" Blitzen Trapper. Furr
10. "I Wanna Be Your Dog" Uncle Tupelo. March 16-20, 1992
11. "The Great Salt Lake" Band of Horses. Everything All the Time
12. "Get Your Head Around It" The Headlights. Some Racing Some Stopping
13. "Get Better" Mates of State. Re-Arrange Us
14. "Chicago x 12" Rogue Wave. Asleep at Heaven's Gate
15. "One Big Holiday" My Morning Jacket. It Still Moves

--Audrey Wen

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Your Shit's Burnt Toast

1) En Focus - De La Soul (Buhloone Mind State, 1993)
2) Parisian Goldfish - Flying Lotus (Los Angeles, 2008)
3) Under the Sun - Junior Boys (Last Exit, 2004)
4) Your Silent Face - New Order (Power, Corruption & Lies, 1983)
5) Cheree - Suicide (Suicide, 1977)
6) Endless Summer - Christian Fennesz (Endless Summer, 2001)
7) All Our Base Are Belong to Them - The Books (Thought for Food, 2002)
8) Another Step Away - A Place to Bury Strangers (A Place to Bury Strangers, 2007)
9) Cloud Pleaser - Black Dice (Creature Comforts, 2004)
10) What? - A Tribe Called Quest (The Low End Theory, 1991)

Total runtime: 44:14

--Brian Herrmann