Another short mix. Haven’t been impressed by much this week. More Counting Crows. Thansk to Heather for turning me on to Eli Reed in the first place, and for another great track. Sam Isaac reminds me of Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. a bit. Scott Matthew, not ScottMatthews. The Dodos will be in Atlanta soon- at Lenny’s. The Subways’ new album was produced by Butch Vig. White Lies can hurt. I’m going to see Will Hoge tonight. Then End.
Okay, it’s just another Friday, just another mixtape. STuff from around the internet, with some help from Paul Ford’s reviews of the SXSW material. Download it, listen, enjoy. I’m done.
This is just cool- the kind of thing that, when sent to you first thing on what could be an ugly Friday, makes the rest of the day look better. Paul Ford writes for TheMorningNews.org, and recently covered SXSW for the blog from his desk in New York by listening to all 763 tracks in the 2008 SXSW torrent, and writing a review of each track- using just six words each!
Sometimes, his review was right in line with my thoughts. Like his description of Brooke Waggoner’s Hush If You Must: “Big piano pop sound, with strings.” Sometimes, I thought he was way off, like his review of the Hush Sound’s Wine Red: “Commercial directors, we await your call.” I freakin’ loved that song. In at least one case, his review could have been taken litterally. Of Nouvellas’ track Satisfied, he wrote: “Crunchier guitar and this’d be great.”. Listen to the difference between the SXSW track and the version on the Nouvellas’ myspace- it’s as if they read the review and remixed the track.
Hey Atlantans- I got an email yesterday from Luis, who writes on my other favorite Atlanta music blog Drive A Faster Car, and is promoting a killer show at the Star Bar tomorrow night. His Pop Death Squad is presenting:
With everybody else off to SXSW this week, there’s been pleanty of coverage to read through on the blogoshpere, and I’ve been a little busy with some other things- so, I’m kinda throwing this week’s mix together last-minute. I’ve been meaning to include A-Punk from Vampire Weekend for a while now, but I kept forgetting to put it into a mix until after I posted each week. I’d tell myself “next week, then”, and forget to put it in again. So, here it is this week. I’m pretty excited about adding The Script’s Man Who Can’t Be Moved to the mix this week, as I’ve been listening to a crappy copy of this song for weeks now, and it’s good to have a clear version of the song that’s been predicted to be “a worldwide hit“. Also this week: new stuff from Sam Duckworth, A.K.A. Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly. Not sure if I like the new album as much as I did the last, but I’m willing to give it time. I threw in the Joe Purdy song from the Commercial Music post yesterday, simply because I can’t seem to get it out of my head. Otherwise, new Nada surf, Kaki King, and Portishead, and a couple fo new artists: Evan Voytas and The Afternoons. That’s all from me this week. Everybody enjoy your St. Patrick’s Day weekend!
A friend recently aske me if I knew who was singing the song in the new Kia commercial, which reminded me that I had a few other commercials with music that I had wondered about. So, I looked them up, tracked down mp3’s and I’m sharing them with you here today. I present the Thursday Commercial Music Mix (not to be a regular feature, and not a copy of Duke’s Commercial Thursdays- I meant to put these up Wednesday but I was feeling a bit, er, sick).
Ah, March is here. Spring is just around the corner, and so is St. Paddy’s Day! Thankfully, my favorite watering hole is re-opening this weekend, so I’ll have someplace to celebrate the holiday o’ green. But that’s a week away yet- for this week, I’ll pulled together a little mixtape of a few bands for your listening pleasure. I’m not as taken by the new Gnarls Barkley, but I do like the single and the track I’ve included here. Most of the rest of the album just doesn’t stand out as much as the first one did. Sophomore slump (from two artists that can be called anything but sophomores or sophomoric- not my meaning)? What did impress me this week was Attack and Release from The Black Keys. A slighty different sound from them, and I really liked the banjo pickin’ on Psychotic Girl. Also this week: Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner and The Rascals’ Miles Kane have gone in together on a side project called The Last Shadow Puppets. I’m not exactly sure what to think of the video for The Age Of The Understatement, but it’s got tanks, and the two musician’s look as if they’re brothers. Lots of other goodies on this week’s mix, so give it a listen, and let me know what you think!
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Another short mix. Haven’t been impressed by much this week. More Counting Crows. Thansk to Heather for turning me on to Eli Reed in the first place, and for another great track. Sam Isaac reminds me of Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. a bit. Scott Matthew, not Scott Matthews. The Dodos will be in Atlanta soon- at Lenny’s. The Subways’ new album was produced by Butch Vig. White Lies can hurt. I’m going to see Will Hoge tonight. Then End.
Okay, it’s just another Friday, just another mixtape. STuff from around the internet, with some help from 
With everybody else off to SXSW this week, there’s been pleanty of coverage to read through on the blogoshpere, and I’ve been a little busy with some other things- so, I’m kinda throwing this week’s mix together last-minute. I’ve been meaning to include A-Punk from Vampire Weekend for a while now, but I kept forgetting to put it into a mix until after I posted each week. I’d tell myself “next week, then”, and forget to put it in again. So, here it is this week. I’m pretty excited about adding The Script’s Man Who Can’t Be Moved to the mix this week, as I’ve been listening to a crappy copy of this song for weeks now, and it’s good to have a clear version of the song that’s been predicted to be 
Ah, March is here. Spring is just around the corner, and so is St. Paddy’s Day! Thankfully, my 
