Mux216: April 2017

Download or stream.

1. Spoon - Hot Thoughts (Hot Thoughts)
2. Cloud Nothings - Things Are Right With You (Life Without Sound)
3. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Fireproof (The Tourist)
4. Car Seat Headrest - Just What I Needed / Not Just What I Needed (Bootleg Version) (Teens of Denial)
5. Radiohead - Identikit (A Moon Shaped Pool)
6. The xx - On Hold (I See You)
7. Gorillaz - Kids With Guns (Demon Days)
8. Protomatyr - Clandestine Time (The Agent Intellect)
9. Flock of Dimes - Ida Glow (If You See Me, Say Yes)
10. Ty Segall - The Man Man (Sleeper)
11. Real Estate - Saturday (In Mind)
12. Carly Rae Jepsen - When I Needed You (Emotion)

TRT 46:16

2017 music: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Cloud Nothings, Real Estate, Spoon, The xx

Rookies: Flock of Dimes

Mux213: Mr. Mux Makes A Mess

Download or stream.

1. Devo - Gut Feeling (Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!)
2. Queens of The Stone Age - I Sat By The Ocean (...Like Clockwork)
3. Franz Ferdinand - Cheating On You (Franz Ferdinand)
4. Elliott Smith - Pretty (Ugly Before) (From A Basement On The Hill)
5. Cloud Nothings - Up To The Surface (Life Without Sound)
6. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (The Wall)
7. Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye (So This Is Goodbye)
8. Gorillaz - Superfast Jellyfish (Plastic Beach)
9. Big Boi - Mama Told Me (Vicious Lies And Dangerous Rumors)
10. Wolf Parade - Floating World (EP 4)
11. Japandroids - I'm Sorry (For Not Finding You Sooner) (Near To The Wild Heart of Life)
12. Radiohead - Black Star (The Bends)

TRT 45:23

2017 music: Cloud Nothings, Japandroids

Mux206: November 2016

Download or stream.

Been a while since I've laid down a bonus track. Seemed pretty apropos to recent current events. Also way more 2016 tracks than I expected. Eh; that's how it works sometimes. Same as how having three tracks over 7 minutes balloons the TRT.

1. Greys - Cruelty (Outer Heaven)
2. LVL UP - Hidden Driver (Return To Love)
3. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Wish (Pretty Years)
4. Car Seat Headrest - Vincent (Teens of Denial)
5. Cloud Nothings - Modern Act (Life Without Sound) [2017 release]
6. YACHT - It's Boring / You Can Live Anywhere You Want (See Mystery Lights)
7. Ty Segall Band - Thank God For The Sinners (Live In San Francisco)
8. Local Natives - Villainy (Sunlit Youth)
9. The Wrens - Happy (The Meadowlands)
10. Bon Iver - 8 (circle) (22, A Million)
11. Angel Olsen - Sister (My Woman)
12. New Order - Age of Consent (Power, Corruption & Lies)
13. Bonus track
(Janet Jackson - Nasty [Control])
TRT 1:04:33

Rookies: Greys, New Order (somehow), LVL UP

2016 music: Angel Olsen, Bon Iver, Car Seat Headrest, Cloud Nothings (2017, actually), Cymbals Eat Guitars, Greys, Local Natives, LVL UP

Mux165: Triumph of the Mux

Boom.

Unintentional Leni Riefenstahl reference. Also, minor apology for the zero people who care that the Caribou track has been both on Tapes by JET and this mux.

1. Belle and Sebastian - Nobody's Empire (Girls In Peacetime Just Want To Dance)
2. Spoon - Rainy Taxi (They Want My Soul)
3. YACHT - Where Does This Disco? (Single)
4. David Bowie - Sound And Vision (Low)
5. Ex Hex - New Kid (Rips)
6. Ty Segall & White Fence - Scissor People (Hair)
7. Weekend - Oubliette (Jinx)
8. Viet Cong - Bunker Buster (Viet Cong)
9. Thom Yorke - Truth Ray (Tomorrow's Modern Boxes)
10. Baths - Fade White (Ocean Death EP)
11. Caribou - Can't Do Without You (Our Love)
12. Cloud Nothings - I'm Not Part of Me (Live on RadioDBC)

TRT 49:59

Rookies: Viet Cong

2015 music: Belle and Sebastian, Viet Cong

JDK's Favorite Songs of 2014

JDK's Song of the Year: Iceage - The Lord's Favorite (Plowing Into The Field of Love)

The rest, in alphabetical order (and only one song per album):

Caribou - Silver (Our Love)
Caribou - Can't Do Without You (Our Love) [March retcon]
Cheatahs - Get Tight (Cheatahs)
Cloud Nothings - I'm Not Part of Me (Here And Nowhere Else)
Death From Above 1979 - Virgins (The Physical World)
Flying Lotus - Never Catch Me (feat. Kendrick Lamar) (You're Dead!)
Kendrick Lamar - i (Single)
Phantogram - Fall In Love (Voices)
Royksopp & Robyn - Do It Again (Do It Again)
Spoon - Do You (They Want My Soul)
Todd Terje - Inspector Norse (It's Album Time)

Mux155: Muxtastrophe

I like this one as well.

Boom.

1. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Jackson (LOSE)
2. The New Pornographers - Champions of Red Wine (Brill Bruisers)
3. Phoenix - Rally (It's Never Been Like That)
4. Royksopp - Remind Me (Melody A.M.) (For JCD)
5. Flying Lotus - Never Catch Me (feat. Kendrick Lamar) (You're Dead!)
6. Chromeo - Over Your Shoulder (White Women)
7. Bear In Heaven - Demon (Time Is Over One Day Old) (For JET)
8. Strand of Oaks - Heal (Heal)
9. Cloud Nothings - No Thoughts (Here And Nowhere Else)
10. Pavement - In The Mouth A Desert (Slanted & Enchanted)
11. The War On Drugs - An Ocean Beneath The Waves (Lost In The Dream) (For BH)
12. Spoon - They Want My Soul (They Want My Soul) (For JC)

TRT 51:16

2014 music: Bear In Heaven, Chromeo, Cloud Nothings, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Flying Lotus, The New Pornographers, Spoon, Strand of Oaks, The War On Drugs

Mux151: Oregon Plates

Boom.

1. Strand of Oaks - Same Emotion (Heal)
2. Phantogram - The Day You Died (Voices)
3. Parquet Courts - What Color Is Blood? (Sunbathing Animals)
4. A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Boys Turn Into Girls (Initiation Rites) (Sea When Absent)
5. St. Vincent - Digital Witness (St. Vincent)
6. Prefuse 73 - Choking You (One Word Extinguisher)
7. Wye Oak - Civilian (Civilian)
8. Cheatahs - Fall (Cheatahs)
9. Led Zeppelin - Celebration Day (Led Zeppelin III)
10. Cloud Nothings - Giving Into Seeing (Here And Nowhere Else)
11. Mastodon - Tread Lightly (Once More 'Round The Sun)
12. King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King (Edit) (In The Court of the Crimson King)

Rookies: King Crimson, Strand of Oaks, A Sunny Day In Glasgow

2014 music: Cheatahs, Cloud Nothings, Mastodon, Parquet Courts, Phantogram, Strand of Oaks, St. Vincent A Sunny Day In Glasgow

Mux149: Cascadian Summer

Boom.

1. Cloud Nothings - Now Here In (Here And Nowhere Else)
2. Cheatahs - Northern Exposure (Cheatahs)
3. Perfect Pussy - Big Stars (Say Yes To Love)
4. Black Lips - Waiting (Underneath The Rainbow)
5. No Age - I Won't Be Your Generator (An Object)
6. Unwound - All Souls Day (Rat Conspiracy)
7. Baths - Ocean Death (Ocean Death EP)
8. Ought - Today More Than Any Other Day (More Than Any Other Day)
9. Parquet Courts - Black And White (7" Version) (Sunbathing Animals)
10. Wye Oak - Glory (Shriek)
11. Chvrches - Night Sky (The Bones of What You Believe)
12. Bear In Heaven - Time Between (Time Is Over One Day Old)

TRT 43:49

Rookies: Parquet Courts, Perfect Pussy, Unwound

2014 music: Baths, Bear In Heaven, Black Lips, Cheatahs, Cloud Nothings, Ought, Parquet Courts, Perfect Pussy, Wye Oak

Mux147: Nuclear Sunshine

Boom.

1. Cheatahs - Get Tight (Cheatahs)
2. Wye Oak - Holy Holy (Civilian)
3. Ought - Around Again (More Than Any Other Day)
4. Phoenix - Chloroform (Bankrupt!)
5. Life Without Buildings - The Leanover (Any Other City) (For JCD)
6. Justin Timberlake - My Love (FutureSex / LoveSounds)
7. Big Boi - Descending (Vicious Lies And Dangerous Rumors)
8. Kanye West - Two Words (The College Dropout)
9. Boards of Canada - Over The Horizon Radar (Geogaddi)
10. The National - Pink Rabbits (Trouble Will Find Me) (For JET)
11. Black Lips - Dog Years (Underneath The Rainbow)
12. Cloud Nothings - Now Here In (Acoustic) (Live on RadioDBC)

Rookies: Ought, Life Without Buildings, Wye Oak

2014 music: Black Lips, Cheatahs, Cloud Nothings, Ought

TRT 49:04

Mux145: One For The Teenagers

Consider it one of those Back To Rock muxes. Sans the title change.

Subsequent listens of my initially-eh impression of Cloud Nothings' Here And Nowhere Else are reversing. Who knew an album like that could actually be called a grower? But since my new mux rules state that no band can be on two consecutive muxes, I'll likely go through their whole album one track per month and eventually toss it up to the Hall of Fame (where they'd join Japandroids' Post-Nothing and CN's own Attack On Memory). Helps that two advance tracks have already been muxed.

And the Green Day-to-Rage transition? Get outta here.

Boom.

1. Ty Segall Band - Death (Slaughterhouse) (For that guy who got me kicked out of the Ty Segall 7th St. Entry show)
2. The Kinks - You Really Got Me (Kinks)
3. Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor (Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not) (For Post)
4. Sleater-Kinney - Entertain (The Woods) (For JCD)
5. Cheatahs - The Swan (Cheatahs)
6. Black Lips - Funny (Underneath The Rainbow) (For that cute girl I talked to for three minutes at the BL show)
7. Cloud Nothings - Giving Into Seeing (Here And Nowhere Else)
8. The Sword - Freya (Guitar Hero II / Age of Winters) (For BTS, JLV and all those others who suffered through the hand-cramping GH II chart)
9. Green Day - Brain Stew (Insomniac) (For JMG, because, eh, why not?)
10. Rage Against The Machine - Bulls On Parade (Evil Empire)
11. The Stooges - 1970 (Fun House)
12. Death From Above 1979 - If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It (Heads Up! EP)

TRT 44:18

Rookies: The Kinks

2014 music: Black Lips, Cheatahs, Cloud Nothings

Mux143: Muxploitation

I came up with the title then threw a bunch of stuff together. Apologies in advance for sudden aural shifts.

Boom

1. Cheatahs - I / Geographic (Cheatahs)
2. Metz - Dirty Shirt (Leave Me Out / Dirty Shirt 7")
3. Jack White - Sixteen Saltines (Blunderbuss)
4. Haim - Honey & I (Haim)
5. St. Vincent - Birth In Reverse (St. Vincent)
6. Real Estate - Crime
7. Cloud Nothings - Psychic Trauma (Here And Nowhere Else)
8. Superchunk - Unbelievable Things (Indoor Living)
9. The National - Learning (Perfume Genius cover) (I Need My Girl single)
10. Chvrches - Tether (The Bones of What You Believe)
11. Arcade Fire - Afterlife (Reflektor)
Bonus Track: Kanye West - Bound 2 (Yeezus)

TRT 45:06

Rookies: Cheatahs, Jack White

2014 music: Cheatahs, Cloud Nothings, Real Estate, St. Vincent

Mux141: Jack The Ripper

Boom.

1. !!! - The Most Certain Sure (Strange Weather, Isn't It?)
2. Disclosure - F For U (Mary J. Blige version) (Settle remixes)
3. Prefuse 73 - The Color of Tempo (One Word Extinguisher)
4. The Range - Everything But (Nonfiction)
5. Chromatics - Let's Make This A Moment To Remember (Night Drive)
6. EMA - Satellites (The Future's Void)
7. Pissed Jeans - Cathouse (Honeys)
8. Metz - Leave Me Out (Leave Me Out / Dirty Shirt 7")
9. Black Lips - Boys In The Woods (Underneath the Rainbow)
10. The Hold Steady - I Hope This Whole Thing Didn't Frighten You (Teeth Dreams)
11. Cloud Nothings - I'm Not Part of Me (Here And Nowhere Else)
12. Nick Drake - Pink Moon (Pink Moon)

TRT 44:30

Rookies: Nick Drake

2014 music: Black Lips, Cloud Nothings Disclosure, EMA, The Hold Steady

Mux126: Porkchop Sandwiches

You can never go wrong with closing on a Justin Timberlake cover.

Boom.

1. Zwan - Lyric (Mary Star of the Sea)
2. Marnie Stern - Noonan (The Chronicles of Marnia)
3. The Hold Steady - Massive Nights (Boys And Girls In America)
4. Foals - My Number (Holy Fire)
5. Cloud Nothings - Forget You All The Time (Cloud Nothings)
6. Broken Social Scene - Anthems For A Seventeen-Year-Old GIrl (You Forgot It In People)
7. Midlake - In This Camp (The Trials of Van Occupanther)
8. Vampire Weekend - Unbelievers (Modern Vampires of the City)
9. Chromatics - Cherry (After Dark 2)
10. Baths - Earth Death (Obsidian)
11. !!! - Infinifold (Myth Takes)
12. Klaxons - My Love (Justin Timberlake cover) (Live)

TRT 47:11

Rookies: Zwan

New(ish) music from 2013 albums: Baths, Chromatics, Foals, Marnie Stern, Vampire Weekend

JDK's Favorite Albums of 2012 (Extremely Short Edition)

Continuing my trend of pushing out a list before the other sites do so I can't be, like, accused of following P4K too closely. But, hell, this, like most other music lists (and muxes) might as well be curated by them.

And if something awesome comes out in December, I'm sure it'll be on my giant write-up, complete with those lovely little graphics of the album art (that take forever to insert, but whatever).

The ordered list

1. Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory
   
2. Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes
   
3. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
   
4. Chromatics - Kill For Love
   
5. Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror

The unordered list

• Bear In Heaven - I Love You, It's Cool
  
• Hot Chip - In Our Heads
  
• Liars - WIXIW
  
• Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action At A Distance
  
• The Men - Open Your Heart
  
• Titus Andronicus - Local Business
  
• Ty Segall & White Fence - Hair
  
• Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse
  
• Wiping Out Thousands - This Came First

You can download Wiping Out Thousands' This Came First at their Bandcamp page as a pay-what-you-want download. (And yes, that includes $0.) Favorite songs of the year (limiting two songs per band)

• Chromatics - Into The Black
  
• Chromatics - Lady
  
• Cloud Nothings - Wasted Days
  
• Cloud Nothings - Cut You
  
• Divine Fits - Shivers
  
• Flying Lotus - Electric Candyman (feat. Thom Yorke)
  
• Four Tet - Pinnacles
  
• Hot Chip - Flutes
  
• Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built
  
• Liars - No. 1 Against The Rush
  
• Liars - Brats
  
• Lotus Plaza - Strangers
  
• The Men - Open Your Heart
  
• The Men - Ex-Dreams
  
• Sleigh Bells - End of the Line
  
• Wiping Out Thousands - Creation
  
• Wiping Out Thousands - Beach

Mux109: Megamux / Hall of Fame entrant #2

Enough with these 35-minute muxes, you say? How about 50 minutes? Even though, well, the last five minutes is a "bonus track," named as such because it's a tad intense than usual mux fair (no, it's not Lightning Bolt), you have the power to simply stop listening before it. So everybody wins!

This is where you right-click.

1. Spoon - I Saw The Light (Transference)
2. Twin Shadow - You Can Call Me On (Confess)
3. Purity Ring - Ungirthed (Shrines)
4. Matthew Dear - Ahead of Myself (Beams)
5. Chromatics - Running From The Sun (Kill For Love)
6. Cloud Nothings - Our Plans (Attack On Memory)
7. Blur - Coffee & TV (13) (for JET)
8. Lotus Plaza - Eveningness (Spooky Action At A Distance)
9. Divine Fits - Shivers (A Thing Called Divine Fits)
10. Swans (feat. Karen O) - Song For A Warrior (The Seer)
Bonus Track: Mount Eerie - Waves (Ocean Roar)

TRT 49:51

Rookies:
Blur
Divine Fits
Purity Ring
Swans
Twin Shadow

And it looks like we have another entrant into the Muxtape Hall of Fame. The requires are simply that all tracks off a given album make it onto any muxes in any order. Japandroids accomplished the feat in April 2011 with all eight songs off Post-Nothing sneaking into muxes.

So, surprise surprise, the newest addition is Cloud Nothings and their album Attack On Memory:



1. No Future / No Past (Mux101: One Future)
2. Wasted Days (Mux095: Still Burnsvillianous)
3. Fall In (Mux099: The Precipice)
4. Stay Useless (Mux098: April 2012)
5. Separation (Mux103: The 2012 Sampler)
6. No Sentiment (Mux107: Heatwave)
7. Our Plans (Mux109: Megamux)
8. Cut You (Mux096: March 2012)

I'm going to assume that most of the MP3 links are broken, and if you want a new link, I can provide a fresh file.

Mux107: Heatwave

Disclaimer: This mux has nothing to do with any sort of waves, be it chill, heat, tidal, et cetera.

Download.

1. McLusky - Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues (McLusky Do Dallas)
2. Cloud Nothings - No Sentiment (Attack On Memory)
3. Sleater-Kinney - Not What You Want (Dig Me Out)
4. Spoon - Waiting For The Kid To Come Out (Soft Effects EP)
5. DIIV - How Long Have You Known? (Oshin)
6. Maximo Park - I Want You To Stay (A Certain Trigger)
7. Lotus Plaza - Jet Out of the Tundra (Spooky Action At A Distance)
8. The Men - Cube (Open Your Heart)
9. Ty Segall Band - I Bought My Eyes (Slaughterhouse)
10. The Flaming Lips - The Ego's Last Stand (Embryonic)

Rookies:
DIIV
Ty Segall Band


Also: Cloud Nothings is a mere track away from entering the Muxtape Hall of Fame. Word on the street is that they'll probably make it next Mux.

Mux103: The 2012 Sampler

All 2012 tracks. The "newer" stuff are from Japandroids, The Walkmen, Liars, and PS I Love You.

Download.

1. Japandroids - The Nights of Wine and Roses (Celebration Rock)
2. The Walkmen - Heaven (Heaven)
3. Liars - No. 1 Against The Rush (WIXIW)
4. Bear In Heaven - The Reflection of You (I Love You, It's Cool)
5. Chromatics - Lady (Kill For Love)
6. Cloud Nothings - Separation (Attack On Memory)
7. The Men - Ex-Dreams (Open Your Heart)
8. PS I Love You - First Contact (Death Dreams)
9. Wiping Out Thousands - Bounce (Reaction Machine EP)
10. Tanlines - Nonesuch (Mixed Emotions)

Rookies:
Tanlines

Mux101: One Future

Business as usual,  I guess.

In the Box.

1. Cloud Nothings - No Future / No Past (Attack On Memory)
2. The Men - Turn It Around (Open Your Heart)
3. Titus Andronicus - Anxiety Block (Television Personalities cover) (Titus Andronicus LLC Mixtape Vol. I)
4. Spoon - I Could Be Underground (30 Gallon Tank EP)
5. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - There She Goes, My Beautiful World (Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus)
6. Boris - Ibitsu (Akuma no Uta)
7. Ty Segall - Girlfriend (Melted)
8. Sleigh Bells - Demons (Reign of Terror)
9. Bear In Heaven - Sinful Nature (I Love You, It's Cool)
10. Chromatics - Into The Black (Kill For Love)

Rookies:
Chromatics

TRT 37:39

Mux099: The Precipice

Whoabuddy: 99 muxes! Nothing too special planned for 100. Special, but not too special.

99 and counting...

1. Maximo Park - Signal And Sign (A Certain Trigger)
2. The Men - Please Don't Go Away (Open Your Heart)
3. Cloud Nothings - Fall In (Attack On Memory)
4. Real Estate - Wonder Years (Days)
5. Sonic Youth - Reena (Rather Ripped)
6. Sleigh Bells - End of the Line (Reign of Terror)
7. Wiping Out Thousands - Mass Nerve (Single)*
8. Crystal Castles - Suffocation (HEALTH Remix) (Crystal Castles 2 remixes)
9. Hot Chip - Look After Me (The Warning)
10. James Blake - Lindisfarne I/II (James Blake) (yeah, I cheated a bit)
11. Lotus Plaza - Strangers (Spooky Action At A Distance)
12. PJ Harvey - Rid of Me (Rid of Me)

Apologies that the last track is a bit low. For whatever reason, I can only find really low-volume rips, and the wonder that is GarageBand only lets me kick it up 6 dB. So adjust accordingly, though the song exists on two disparate ends of the dynamics spectrum.

Rookies:
Lotus Plaza
Maximo Park
PJ Harvey

*Wiping Out Thousands is local MPLS electro. Full disclosure: Yes, I know their names and they know mine, though in a pinch I'm usually called "Tall Guy." You can get all their music for free at this here location. And if you happen to reside in the greater MPLS area, follow them @wot_thoughts to get details on their next show. Definitely worth your while. If nothing else, the live guitar is quite spectacular. Maybe one day I will be their live drummer. But shh, don't tell them that.

Mux098: April 2012

Yep.

Might as well file this one next to my "Back To Rock" muxes.

1. Joy Division - No Love Lost (Substance comp.)
2. Mclusky - To Hell With Good Intentions (Mclusky Do Dallas)
3. Archers of Loaf - Wrong (Icky Mettle)
4. Cloud Nothings - Stay Useless (Attack On Memory)
5. The Men - Open Your Heart (Open Your Heart)
6. Radiohead - Where I End And You Begin (Hail to the Thief)
7. Death - Let The World Turn (For The Whole World To See)
8. Sleater-Kinney - Night Light (The Woods)
9. Derek and the Dominos - Layla (Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs)

Rookies:
Derek and the Dominos
The Men