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MAY May always seems to be about transitions for me. It’s kind of the month equivalent of bracing yourself. June is when everything happens, really (end of the school year, graduations, weddings, etc), but May is right before you take the leap. My most memorable May was a few years ago when I was preparing to leave Atlanta for Ireland. There were so many emotions tangled up in that month: excitement, fear, uncertainty, longing,  determination. I made this mix as a sort of tribute to that time period, mixing a bit of Atlanta’s grittiness with the Euro pop of Ireland with a layer of antsy, dancey energy. Let’s begin. TRACK LISTING Richard Hawley - Tonight the Streets Are Ours Grouplove - Tongue Tied Yeasayer - Ambling Alp Geographer - Verona  A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It? Dum Dum Girls - Always Looking Stereophonics - Dakota - Decade in the Sun Version Phil Collins - Sussudio Royksopp - The Girl and the Robot Gotye - Easy Way Out Django Django - Default Bear Lake - Scissors The Crystals - Then He Kissed Me Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness Sea Wolf - You’re a Wolf Alabama Shakes - Hang Loose  First Aid Kit - Emmylou Patsy Cline - Walking After Midnight LISTEN (via Spotify)

MAY

May always seems to be about transitions for me. It’s kind of the month equivalent of bracing yourself. June is when everything happens, really (end of the school year, graduations, weddings, etc), but May is right before you take the leap. My most memorable May was a few years ago when I was preparing to leave Atlanta for Ireland. There were so many emotions tangled up in that month: excitement, fear, uncertainty, longing,  determination. I made this mix as a sort of tribute to that time period, mixing a bit of Atlanta’s grittiness with the Euro pop of Ireland with a layer of antsy, dancey energy. Let’s begin.

TRACK LISTING

  1. Richard Hawley - Tonight the Streets Are Ours
  2. Grouplove - Tongue Tied
  3. Yeasayer - Ambling Alp
  4. Geographer - Verona 
  5. A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It?
  6. Dum Dum Girls - Always Looking
  7. Stereophonics - Dakota - Decade in the Sun Version
  8. Phil Collins - Sussudio
  9. Royksopp - The Girl and the Robot
  10. Gotye - Easy Way Out
  11. Django Django - Default
  12. Bear Lake - Scissors
  13. The Crystals - Then He Kissed Me
  14. Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness
  15. Sea Wolf - You’re a Wolf
  16. Alabama Shakes - Hang Loose 
  17. First Aid Kit - Emmylou
  18. Patsy Cline - Walking After Midnight

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April is full of misery. I’ve just actually realized this as I was putting this month’s mix together. April Fools Day, tax day, rainy days when you’re itching to get out of your raincoat but aren’t, yet, quite able to leave it behind. But April is also full of joy. It’s probably the month with the most birthdays of my friends than any other (aside from June and August). Clearly there’s something about April that draws me in. Since I’ve recently decided to start incorporating THE SECRET into my everyday life (not really, although I did decide to ‘believe’ like I had already won the Mega Millions lotto—didn’t work), I tried to make this mix very happy-go-lucky. But some of the typical “cruelest month” gloom still crept in anyway. APRIL Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky Caribou - Odessa Washed Out - Feel It All Around Miike Snow - Devil’s Work Bran Van 3000 - Drinking In L.A. AWOLNATION - Sail Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Road Runner Better Than Ezra - Desperately Wanting The Rapture - Sail Away - Aeroplane Remix Cold War Kids - Hospital Beds Nat Baldwin - A Little Lost Fruit Bats - When U Love Somebody Pearl and the Beard - Sweetness Goldfrapp - Lovely Head The Books - The Future, Wouldn’t That Be Nice Airhead - Wait Carly Simon - Nobody Does It Better LISTEN (via Spotify)

April is full of misery. I’ve just actually realized this as I was putting this month’s mix together. April Fools Day, tax day, rainy days when you’re itching to get out of your raincoat but aren’t, yet, quite able to leave it behind. But April is also full of joy. It’s probably the month with the most birthdays of my friends than any other (aside from June and August). Clearly there’s something about April that draws me in. Since I’ve recently decided to start incorporating THE SECRET into my everyday life (not really, although I did decide to ‘believe’ like I had already won the Mega Millions lotto—didn’t work), I tried to make this mix very happy-go-lucky. But some of the typical “cruelest month” gloom still crept in anyway.

APRIL

  1. Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky
  2. Caribou - Odessa
  3. Washed Out - Feel It All Around
  4. Miike Snow - Devil’s Work
  5. Bran Van 3000 - Drinking In L.A.
  6. AWOLNATION - Sail
  7. Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar
  8. Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Road Runner
  9. Better Than Ezra - Desperately Wanting
  10. The Rapture - Sail Away - Aeroplane Remix
  11. Cold War Kids - Hospital Beds
  12. Nat Baldwin - A Little Lost
  13. Fruit Bats - When U Love Somebody
  14. Pearl and the Beard - Sweetness
  15. Goldfrapp - Lovely Head
  16. The Books - The Future, Wouldn’t That Be Nice
  17. Airhead - Wait
  18. Carly Simon - Nobody Does It Better

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March is an odd month. It always manages to escape my attention when I’m remembering the year. It sits in a sandwich between winter and spring and there’s not much else to do with it. The biggest event of the month is St. Patrick’s Day, and there you go. But that is part of the beauty of March — there’s no pressure there to make it a big deal or a big event. It’s a month of fun and slightly warming temperatures. March is underrated. MARCH Patrick Hernandez - Born To Be Alive Yuksek - Always On the Run Jay-Z & Kanye West - Ni**as in Paris The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic Wilhelm Tell Me - So Into You The Human League - (Keep Feeling) Fascination Young the Giant - My Body Cults - Abducted Land Lovers - The Cinema Bell The Monkees - Pleasant Valley Sunday Nick Lowe - So It Goes L’Trimm - Cars That Go Boom Yelle - Que Veux Tu (Madeon Remix) Metronomy - Everything Goes My Way Cake - Commissioning A Symphony in C Arcade Fire - We Used to Wait Walter Sobcek - Miami (Pharao Black Magic Remix) Fitz and the Tantrums - Don’t Gotta Work It Out Looking Glass - Brandy TV On The Radio - You LISTEN   (via Spotify)
March is an odd month. It always manages to escape my attention when I’m remembering the year. It sits in a sandwich between winter and spring and there’s not much else to do with it. The biggest event of the month is St. Patrick’s Day, and there you go. But that is part of the beauty of March — there’s no pressure there to make it a big deal or a big event. It’s a month of fun and slightly warming temperatures. March is underrated.

MARCH

  1. Patrick Hernandez - Born To Be Alive
  2. Yuksek - Always On the Run
  3. Jay-Z & Kanye West - Ni**as in Paris
  4. The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
  5. Wilhelm Tell Me - So Into You
  6. The Human League - (Keep Feeling) Fascination
  7. Young the Giant - My Body
  8. Cults - Abducted
  9. Land Lovers - The Cinema Bell
  10. The Monkees - Pleasant Valley Sunday
  11. Nick Lowe - So It Goes
  12. L’Trimm - Cars That Go Boom
  13. Yelle - Que Veux Tu (Madeon Remix)
  14. Metronomy - Everything Goes My Way
  15. Cake - Commissioning A Symphony in C
  16. Arcade Fire - We Used to Wait
  17. Walter Sobcek - Miami (Pharao Black Magic Remix)
  18. Fitz and the Tantrums - Don’t Gotta Work It Out
  19. Looking Glass - Brandy
  20. TV On The Radio - You

LISTEN 

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FEBRUARY As has been mentioned ad nauseam, it’s a warmer winter here in New York this year, but aside from the weather, it has just been warmer overall lately. It’s nice. I like it. The Undertones - Teenage Kicks Urban Cone - Urban Photograph Sleigh Bells - Comeback Kid Best Coast - Boyfriend Vivian Girls - Where Do You Run To Washed Out - Amor Fati The Rapture - No Sex For Ben Trailer Trash Tracys - Candy Girl The Silver Seas - Catch Yer Own Train Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Stick Figures In Love Veronica Falls - Found Love In A Graveyard Friends - Friend Crush The Flys - Got You (Where I Want You) Mr Little Jeans - The Suburbs My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes Goldfrapp - Melancholy Sky (Original Mix) Carole King - So Far Away Mazzy Star - Into Dust LISTEN

FEBRUARY

As has been mentioned ad nauseam, it’s a warmer winter here in New York this year, but aside from the weather, it has just been warmer overall lately. It’s nice. I like it.

  1. The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
  2. Urban Cone - Urban Photograph
  3. Sleigh Bells - Comeback Kid
  4. Best Coast - Boyfriend
  5. Vivian Girls - Where Do You Run To
  6. Washed Out - Amor Fati
  7. The Rapture - No Sex For Ben
  8. Trailer Trash Tracys - Candy Girl
  9. The Silver Seas - Catch Yer Own Train
  10. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Stick Figures In Love
  11. Veronica Falls - Found Love In A Graveyard
  12. Friends - Friend Crush
  13. The Flys - Got You (Where I Want You)
  14. Mr Little Jeans - The Suburbs
  15. My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes
  16. Goldfrapp - Melancholy Sky (Original Mix)
  17. Carole King - So Far Away
  18. Mazzy Star - Into Dust

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I’ve made a mix for January. I hope you like it.  JANUARY Shout Out Louds - The Comeback Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros - Janglin’ Foster the People - Don’t Stop (Color on the Walls) Lykke Li - Youth Knows No Pain Belle and Sebastian - Funny Little Frog Junior Boys - Banana Ripple The Smiths - Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want M83 - Kim & Jessie YACHT - Psychic City (Classixx Remix) Dum Dum Girls - Everybody’s Out Yo La Tengo - You Can Have It All Cults - You Know What I Mean Nancy Sinatra - You Only Live Twice Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights Neutral Milk Hotel - Ghost St. Vincent - Year of the Tiger Fleet Foxes - Montezuma Van Morrison - Into the Mystic Bon Iver - Perth The Zombies - This Will Be Our Year LISTEN

I’ve made a mix for January. I hope you like it. 

JANUARY

  1. Shout Out Louds - The Comeback
  2. Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros - Janglin’
  3. Foster the People - Don’t Stop (Color on the Walls)
  4. Lykke Li - Youth Knows No Pain
  5. Belle and Sebastian - Funny Little Frog
  6. Junior Boys - Banana Ripple
  7. The Smiths - Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
  8. M83 - Kim & Jessie
  9. YACHT - Psychic City (Classixx Remix)
  10. Dum Dum Girls - Everybody’s Out
  11. Yo La Tengo - You Can Have It All
  12. Cults - You Know What I Mean
  13. Nancy Sinatra - You Only Live Twice
  14. Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
  15. Neutral Milk Hotel - Ghost
  16. St. Vincent - Year of the Tiger
  17. Fleet Foxes - Montezuma
  18. Van Morrison - Into the Mystic
  19. Bon Iver - Perth
  20. The Zombies - This Will Be Our Year

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