isn’t it a shame – the so so glos
ice age – diarrhea planet
marikkkopa – desaparecidos
spanish bombs – the clash
anxiety block (television personalites) titus andronicus
where are they now – cock sparrer
unsatisfied – the replacements
continuous thunder – japandroids
Enjoy the rest of your summer.
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Music for walking around alone in the freezing cold with your headphones on.
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Rilo Kiley – 85
Built To Spill – Twin Falls
Beck – Guess I’m Doing Fine
Bright Eyes – Going For The Gold
Modest Mouse – Custom Concern
Elliott Smith – Pitseleh
The Mountain Goats – Pale Green Things
The Tallest Man On Earth – Like The Wheel
Arab Strap – The Week Never Starts Around Here
Jonsi – Hengilas
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I tried really hard to make this one longer than 25 minutes, I really did, but I couldn’t find another song that fit well into this mix for the life of me. I think its pretty good, though a bit short. Have a listen.
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The Microphones – Sand (Eric’s Trip)
Modest Mouse – Sleepwalkin’ (Santo & Johnny)
St. Vincent & The National – Sleep All Summer (Crooked Fingers)
Bright Eyes – I Woke Up With This Song In My Head (The Bruces)
Iron & Wine – Waitin’ For A Superman (The Flaming Lips)
Eliott Smith – Trouble (Cat Stevens)
Sparklehorse & The Flaming Lips – Go (Daniel Johnston)
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Noisecast #3 – The Covers (Summer 2010 Edition)
you can download a zip of the individual files here , or the single file here
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I started this noisecast by trying to make a pop punk mix and failing miserably (the only track remaining is “Glendora”). I know that not all of these songs are “folk-punk” in the strictest sense, and you die hard folk-punkers will probably scoff at a bunch of my choices, but I selected these songs under the criteria that they all had something punk about them, and that they were acoustic, not because they were traditional anarcho-folk-punk jams (though you still get “Punx win!”).
Its loose, but I think it flows pretty well.
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Bright Eyes – If Winter Ends
Rilo Kiley – Glendora
Defiance, Ohio – Grandma Song
Leftover Crack – Soon We’ll Be Dead
Violent Femmes – Out The Window
Mischief Brew – Punx Win! Electric
Okkervil River - Black
Against Me! – Joy
or get a zip of the individual files here.
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For the past few weeks I’ve been working on developing an acoustic set for my solo live performances. Ive been paying a lot of attention to what makes a song feel complete when its stripped down to nothing but vocals and acoustic guitar. No overdubs, piano, doubled vocals, strings, effects, etc. I started looking through my music library for songs by some of my favorite artists that I could reference/steal from for inspiration, and (kind-of) to my surprise, a much larger number of tracks than I would have imagined featured extra accompaniment of some kind. I actually found it pretty difficult to make this playlist flow well with the limited amount of music that fit the requirements(no live tracks/bootlegs solo performances allowed). I’m pretty happy with the result though, and I think its a pretty good showcase of just how many different things you can actually do with only one voice and one guitar.
enjoy.
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The Tallest Man On Earth – The Gardner
Nick Drake – Road
The Microphones – I Felt Your Shape
Neutral Milk Hotel – Two Headed Boy
Elliott Smith – Pitseleh ( I cheated it has a piano part! it’s one of the few Elliott songs with no guitar overdubs though)
The Mountain Goats – Island Garden Song
Tom Waits – I Want You
Bright Eyes – Waste Of Paint
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