NOISECAST #4 – WINTER 2010

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

noisecast #4 – Winter 2010

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NOISECAST #3 – THE COVERS (SUMMER 2010)

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)

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NOISECAST #2 – FOLK PUNK

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

NOISECAST #2 ; Folk Punk

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Noisecast #1 – Voice//Guitar

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

Noisecast #1 – Voice//Guitar

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