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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

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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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unhallowed Where my Halloween mix last year was focused on monsters, my mix this year is focused on people. Because, ultimately, aren’t we much scarier as a whole?  BONUS: Castlevania and Tales from the Crypt theme songs! rockwell - somebody’s watching me kanye west, nicki minaj, rick ross, jay-z, bon iver - monster kavinsky - nightcall working for a nuclear free city - dead fingers talking desire - under your spell konami kukeiha club - vampire killer alice in chains - them bones fever ray - if i had a heart st. vincent - the strangers electric light orchestra - evil woman tv on the radio - dlz screamin’ jay hawkins - i put a spell on you donovan - season of the witch air - cemetary party goldfrapp - lovely head danger mouse, daniele luppi - black (feat. norah jones) devotchka - this place is haunted smashing pumpkins - the beginning is the end is the beginning danny elfman - tales from the crypt theme LISTEN (via Spotify)

unhallowed

Where my Halloween mix last year was focused on monsters, my mix this year is focused on people. Because, ultimately, aren’t we much scarier as a whole? 

BONUS: Castlevania and Tales from the Crypt theme songs!

  1. rockwell - somebody’s watching me
  2. kanye west, nicki minaj, rick ross, jay-z, bon iver - monster
  3. kavinsky - nightcall
  4. working for a nuclear free city - dead fingers talking
  5. desire - under your spell
  6. konami kukeiha club - vampire killer
  7. alice in chains - them bones
  8. fever ray - if i had a heart
  9. st. vincent - the strangers
  10. electric light orchestra - evil woman
  11. tv on the radio - dlz
  12. screamin’ jay hawkins - i put a spell on you
  13. donovan - season of the witch
  14. air - cemetary party
  15. goldfrapp - lovely head
  16. danger mouse, daniele luppi - black (feat. norah jones)
  17. devotchka - this place is haunted
  18. smashing pumpkins - the beginning is the end is the beginning
  19. danny elfman - tales from the crypt theme

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I'm a Blowfish! (Songs from Breaking Bad) →

I may just have compiled all of the available songs from the Breaking Bad episodes I have seen into one playlist on Spotify. I might have just done that. Could be.

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THE TILT OF THIS STRANGE NATION I have a friend who is making the move from Chicago to California tomorrow. When he asked for what songs I constituted as good for road trips, I immediately started compiling this mix. I get a little honky tonky and ’80s when I think of driving across America (which I have done twice now). Anything that is upbeat, punchy, and will keep your foot down on the gas gets my vote.  The Arcade Fire - Ready to Start David Bowie - Suffragette City Electric Light Orchestra - Don’t Bring Me Down Vampire Weekend - Walcott Talking Heads - Wild Wild Life The Choir Boys - Run to Paradise Handsome Furs - All We Want, Baby, Is Everything The Wallflowers - One Headlight Olivia Newton-John - If You Love Me Let Me Know Metric - Help I’m Alive LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends Annie Lennox - Little Bird Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run Jens Lekman - Maple Leaves (7” version) Dirty Gold - California Sunrise The Mountain Goats - This Year Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Company Chet Atkins - Arkansas Traveler DOWNLOAD

THE TILT OF THIS STRANGE NATION

I have a friend who is making the move from Chicago to California tomorrow. When he asked for what songs I constituted as good for road trips, I immediately started compiling this mix. I get a little honky tonky and ’80s when I think of driving across America (which I have done twice now). Anything that is upbeat, punchy, and will keep your foot down on the gas gets my vote. 

  1. The Arcade Fire - Ready to Start
  2. David Bowie - Suffragette City
  3. Electric Light Orchestra - Don’t Bring Me Down
  4. Vampire Weekend - Walcott
  5. Talking Heads - Wild Wild Life
  6. The Choir Boys - Run to Paradise
  7. Handsome Furs - All We Want, Baby, Is Everything
  8. The Wallflowers - One Headlight
  9. Olivia Newton-John - If You Love Me Let Me Know
  10. Metric - Help I’m Alive
  11. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
  12. Annie Lennox - Little Bird
  13. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
  14. Jens Lekman - Maple Leaves (7” version)
  15. Dirty Gold - California Sunrise
  16. The Mountain Goats - This Year
  17. Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Company
  18. Chet Atkins - Arkansas Traveler

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LONGING a mix for summer I am at work. I don’t want to be here. The weather is warm outside for the first time in weeks. Instead of lounging in a park or walking on the shore, I’m sitting at my desk. Here is a mix that is part feeling sorry for myself, part anticipating sunny days and warm nights. The Hold Steady - Constructive Summer The Catalina Rhyme Mixers - Nasa Drugs (Kanye West/Wale/Ratatat) Faces - Borstal Boys Josie and the Pussycats - Pretend to be Nice Robyn - Dancing On My Own R. Kelly vs. Broken Social Scene - I’m a Flirt (Shoreline) Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks Lindstrom & Christabelle - Lovesick The Strokes - Under Cover of Darkness Anya Marina - Whatever You Like (T.I. cover) The Cranberries - Linger Broadcast 2000 - That Sinking Feeling Linda Ronstadt - Poor, Poor Pitiful Me Pocketbooks - Summertime Of Oceans - In Love, Not Limbo Aimee Mann - Save Me The Velvet Underground - Oh! Sweet Nothing DOWNLOAD

LONGING

a mix for summer

I am at work. I don’t want to be here. The weather is warm outside for the first time in weeks. Instead of lounging in a park or walking on the shore, I’m sitting at my desk. Here is a mix that is part feeling sorry for myself, part anticipating sunny days and warm nights.

  1. The Hold Steady - Constructive Summer
  2. The Catalina Rhyme Mixers - Nasa Drugs (Kanye West/Wale/Ratatat)
  3. Faces - Borstal Boys
  4. Josie and the Pussycats - Pretend to be Nice
  5. Robyn - Dancing On My Own
  6. R. Kelly vs. Broken Social Scene - I’m a Flirt (Shoreline)
  7. Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks
  8. Lindstrom & Christabelle - Lovesick
  9. The Strokes - Under Cover of Darkness
  10. Anya Marina - Whatever You Like (T.I. cover)
  11. The Cranberries - Linger
  12. Broadcast 2000 - That Sinking Feeling
  13. Linda Ronstadt - Poor, Poor Pitiful Me
  14. Pocketbooks - Summertime
  15. Of Oceans - In Love, Not Limbo
  16. Aimee Mann - Save Me
  17. The Velvet Underground - Oh! Sweet Nothing

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Seasonal mixes are my favorite. Here’s one I made for autumn. FALLING Matt & Kim - Daylight Say Hi - Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Frightened Rabbit - Good Arms vs. Bad Arms The Four Tops - Bernadette Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood Air - Cemetary Party Otis Redding - These Arms of Mine St. Vincent - Save Me From What I Want Happy Family - Cups Alexandre Desplat - Mr. Fox in the Fields Andrew Bird - Heretics Arms - Kids Aflame Grizzly Bear - Southern Point The Avett Brothers - I Would Be Sad Bon Iver - Creature Fear Department of Eagles - Nobody Does It Like You Blitzen Trapper - Furr The National - So Far Around the Bend Menomena - Rotten Hell DOWNLOAD HERE Artwork from here.

Seasonal mixes are my favorite. Here’s one I made for autumn.

FALLING

  1. Matt & Kim - Daylight
  2. Say Hi - Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh
  3. Frightened Rabbit - Good Arms vs. Bad Arms
  4. The Four Tops - Bernadette
  5. Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood
  6. Air - Cemetary Party
  7. Otis Redding - These Arms of Mine
  8. St. Vincent - Save Me From What I Want
  9. Happy Family - Cups
  10. Alexandre Desplat - Mr. Fox in the Fields
  11. Andrew Bird - Heretics
  12. Arms - Kids Aflame
  13. Grizzly Bear - Southern Point
  14. The Avett Brothers - I Would Be Sad
  15. Bon Iver - Creature Fear
  16. Department of Eagles - Nobody Does It Like You
  17. Blitzen Trapper - Furr
  18. The National - So Far Around the Bend
  19. Menomena - Rotten Hell

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DEAD SHARKS: A MIX I am feeling mighty cynical tonight for no reason in particular.*  Songs help. These  don’t have much rhyme or reason, I guess, aside from than the obvious theme. Biz Markie - Just A Friend Aceyalone - The Lonely Ones Ft. Bionik Say Hi - One, Two… One MSTRKRFT - Heartbreaker Lykke Li - Let It Fall New Order - Ceremony Radiohead - The Bends Okkervil River - Songs Of Our So-Called Friend Bob Dylan - It Ain’t Me Babe The Bird and the Bee - Fucking Boyfriend Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billy Joe Swan Lake - All Fires The Shangri-Las - Remember (Walkin’ in the Sand) CocoRosie - By Your Side Joni Mitchell - Case Of You Download here. * Really! No reason! Weird, I know!

DEAD SHARKS: A MIX

I am feeling mighty cynical tonight for no reason in particular.*  Songs help. These  don’t have much rhyme or reason, I guess, aside from than the obvious theme.

  1. Biz Markie - Just A Friend
  2. Aceyalone - The Lonely Ones Ft. Bionik
  3. Say Hi - One, Two… One
  4. MSTRKRFT - Heartbreaker
  5. Lykke Li - Let It Fall
  6. New Order - Ceremony
  7. Radiohead - The Bends
  8. Okkervil River - Songs Of Our So-Called Friend
  9. Bob Dylan - It Ain’t Me Babe
  10. The Bird and the Bee - Fucking Boyfriend
  11. Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billy Joe
  12. Swan Lake - All Fires
  13. The Shangri-Las - Remember (Walkin’ in the Sand)
  14. CocoRosie - By Your Side
  15. Joni Mitchell - Case Of You

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* Really! No reason! Weird, I know!

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