Mux169: Mr. Mux Hits Shuffle

Boom.

A little bit of column A, a little bit of column B.

1. Diarrhea Planet - Lite Dream (I'm Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams)
2. Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian At Best (Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit)
3. Nirvana - Drain You (Nevermind)
4. Helmet - Unsung (Meantime)
5. Kendrick Lamar - These Walls (To Pimp A Butterfly)
6. Caribou - Back Home (Our Love)
7. Submerse - Truth (Algorithms & Ghosts)
8. Sleater-Kinney - Surface Envy (No Cities To Love)
9. Sonic Youth - Jams Run Free (Rather Ripped)
10. Oneida - The River (Rated O)
11. Fleetwood Mac - The Chain (Rumours)
12. Lightning Bolt - Snow White (& The 7 Dwarves Fans) (Fantasy Empire)

TRT 53:21

Rookies: Courtney Barnett, Fleetwood Mac, Helmet, Submerse

2015 music: Courtney Barnett, Kendrick Lamar, Sleater-Kinney, Lightning Bolt

Mux166: March 2015

Boom.

1. Death From Above 1979 - Cheap Talk (The Physical World)
2. TV on the Radio - Lazerray (Seeds)
3. Ty Segall - The Connection Man (Manipulator)
4. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Warning (LOSE)
5. Iceage - Simony (Plowing Into The Field of Love)
6. Sonic Youth - Sleepin' Around (Rather Ripped)
7. A Place To Bury Strangers - I'm So Clean (Transfixiation)
8. Queens of the Stone Age - 3's and 7's (Era Vulgaris)
9. Strand of Oaks - Shut In (Heal)
10. The Dodos - Pattern/Shadow (Individ)
11. Sleater-Kinney - Fade (No Cities To Love)
12. Oneida - Ghost In The Room (Rated O)

TRT 45:11

2015 music: The Dodos, A Place To Bury Strangers

Mux164: February 2015

Boom.

1. TV on the Radio - Ride (Seeds)
2. Death From Above 1979 - Trainwreck 1979 (The Physical World)
3. Iceage - Abundant Living (Plowing Into The Field of Love)
4. Split Single - Last Goodbye (Fragmented World)
5. Queens of the Stone Age - If I Had A Tail (...Like Clockwork) (Thanks to JLA for his Last.fm scrobbles)
6. Wye Oak - Hot As Day (Civilian)
7. The National - Humiliation (Trouble Will Find Me)
8. Sleater-Kinney - Hey Darling (No Cities To Love)
9. The Dodos - Competition (Individ)
10. Battles - Tonto (Mirrored)
11. Songs: Ohia - Blue Factory Flame (Didn't It Rain)
12. Bloc Party - So Here We Are (Silent Alarm)

TRT 55:17

2015 music: The Dodos, Sleater-Kinney

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

Mux119: Oregon Dreamin'

Blame all volume disparity on the geniuses who mastered Local Natives and MBV so ridiculously low.

Boom.

1. Friendly Fires - Skeleton Boy (Friendly Fires)
2. Justin Timberlake - Suit & Tie (Single)
3. Kanye West - Street Lights (808s and Heartbreak)
4. LCD Soundsystem - Too Much Love (LCD Soundsystem)
5. Chromatics - At Your Door (Kill For Love)
6. Oneohtrix Point Never - Betrayed in the Octagon (Rifts)
7. Frightened Rabbit - Holy (Pedestrian Verse)
8. Local Natives - Mt. Washington (Hummingbird)
9. Bloc Party - This Modern Love (Silent Alarm)
10. Sleater-Kinney - Buy Her Candy (Dig Me Out)
11. Tame Impala - Be Above It (Lonerism)
12. My Bloody Valentine - Who Sees You (MBV)

TRT 47:15

Rookies: Tame Impala

Mux111: PacNor

Tried to make a mix of all Portland bands for my recent trip to the northwest. I apparently do not have enough Portland-only bands in my iTunes, so I decided to venture over into Washington and the surrounding areas to make a rather scattershot PacNor playlist.

And no, there's no obligatory Nirvana track.

Yoink.

1. Modest Mouse - Dark Center of the Universe (The Moon & Antarctica)
2. Death Cab For Cutie - Meet Me On The Equinox (The Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack [yep])
3. Band of Horses - The Funeral (Everything All The Time)
4. The Decemberists - The Engine Driver (Picaresque)
5. The Joggers - Hot Autism (Solid Guild)
6. Sleater-Kinney - What's Mine Is Yours (The Woods)
7. The Thermals - When We Were Alive (Now We Can See)
8. YACHT - I Walked Alone (Shangri-La)
9. Stephen Malkmus - Out of Reaches (Real Emotional Trash)
10. Elliott Smith - Between The Bars (Either/Or)
11. Chromatics - Into The Black (Drumless version)
12. The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2 (The Glow Pt. 2)

TRT 49:27

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.

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

Mux092: January 2012

Starting off the year with a bit of a clearinghouse. The sequencing holds, but a look at the tracklist looks rather unwieldy.

Boxed.

1. Battles - Africastle (MPLS.tv session) (Gloss Drop)
2. The Roots - One Time (Undun)
3. The Hold Steady - Chips Ahoy! (Boys And Girls In America)
4. The Strokes - Barely Legal (Is This It?)
5. Sleater-Kinney - One Beat (One Beat)
6. Radiohead - Climbing Up The Walls (OK Computer)
7. Deerhunter - Saved By Old Times (Microcastle)
8. Phantogram - Futuristic Casket (Eyelid Movies)
9. Oneohtrix Point Never - Child Soldier (Replica)
10. Air - Alone In Kyoto (Talkie Walkie / Lost In Translation Soundtrack)
11. The Beach Boys - Surf's Up (The Smile Sessions)

In particular, "Saved By Old Times" and "Alone In Kyoto" have been in my pending to-be-added-to-a-mux playlist for at least two years. And "Surf's Up" been there even since I heard The Smile Sessions; but given the multi-suite nature of most of Smile, it's hard to cram a Beach Boys cut into the mix. Thus, it caps it off.

Rookies:
The Beach Boys
Oneohtrix Point Never

Mux089: Twenty-Six Bullshit Years

Edit: Posting this now so it doesn't clutter up next week's Meridien K posts.

In the Box.

1. St. Vincent - Chloe In The Afternoon (Strange Mercy)
2. Sleater-Kinney - Oh! (One Beat)
3. Sun Kil Moon - Lily and Parrots (Ghosts of the Great Highway)
4. Girls - Die (Father, Son, Holy Ghost)
5. The War On Drugs - I Was There (Slave Ambient)
6. The Rapture - How Deep Is Your Love? (In The Grace of Your Love)
7. Neon Indian - Halogen (I Could Be A Shadow) (Era Extrana)
8. Radiohead - How To Disappear Completely (Kid A)
9. Boards of Canada - Over the Horizon Radar (Geogaddi)
10. Iceage - You're Blessed (New Brigade)
11. James Blake - I Never Learnt To Share (James Blake)
12. The Mountain Goats - This Year (The Sunset Tree)

Rookies: The Rapture St. Vincent

Mux084: September 2011

Boxed.

1. Yacht - Utopia (Shangri-La)
2. Dom - Damn (Family of Love EP)
3. Fucked Up - The Other Shoe (David Comes To Life)
4. Black Lips - Dumpster Dive (Arabia Mountain)
5. Friendly Fires - Show Me Lights (Pala)
6. Metric - Satellite Mind (Fantasies)
7. Sleater-Kinney - The Drama You've Been Craving (Dig Me Out)
8. Sonic Youth - 'cross The Breeze (Daydream Nation)
9. Titus Andronicus - A Pot In Which To Piss (The Monitor)

While my love of The Monitor is well documented, my most-recent listen involved some phantom criterion that made "A Pot In Which To Piss" really stand out. For as much self-loathing there's packed into The Airing of Grievances and The Monitor, I found the song strangely uplifting at the time. If nothing else, I love the lyric, "And there's a white flag in my pocket never to be unfurled."

Mux082: August 2011

Gave this one a little room to breathe.

In the Dropbox.

1. Peter Bjorn and John - Tomorrow Has To Wait
2. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Heart In Your Heartbreak
3. Jay Reatard - Hammer I Miss You
4. Deerhunter - Primitive 3D (Edit)
5. Sleater-Kinney - One More Hour
6. Wilco - A Shot In The Arm
7. Fleet Foxes - Sim Sala Bim
8. Bon Iver - Holocene
9. Titus Andronicus - Upon Viewing Brueghel's "Landscape With The Fall of Icarus"
10. Yacht - Shangri-La
11. Washed Out - A Dedication

Rookies:
Washed Out

Mux081: Swampy Summer

Short and/or sweet, with seven out of nine tracks released in 2011.

To the Box!

1. Fucked Up - Queen of Hearts
2. Sleater-Kinney - Light Rail Coyote
3. Times New Viking - Ways To Go
4. Cults - Oh My God
5. Friendly Fires - Hawaiian Air
6. Passion Pit - Eyes As Candles
7. Battles - Wall Street
8. Bon Iver - Calgary
9. The Antlers - Corsicana

And did I mention it's a heated race for MPC's second-favorite album of the year? The King of Limbs probably won't get unseated as no. 1, but the second slot is a cage match between Fucked Up's gloriously-confusing but shit-hot David Comes To Life, Battles' Gloss Drop, and Bon Iver's self-titled.

Rookies:
Cults

The Archive: Mux007: Noisy

Lest they fade into oblivion, I've taken the task upon myself to listen to all my Muxes. If nothing else, it's a nice progression of my listening tastes starting way back in May 2008.

While most are pretty good (that is, back in the era before I was totally obsessed with sequencing), there are some surprises that, like grandmaster Mux028, just flow.

One such is Mux007: Noisy, which, in this horrific post-drop.io world, has been added to my Dropbox. Hit it up, and here are the tracks:

1. No Age - Teen Creeps
2. Sleater-Kinney - Wilderness
3. TV on the Radio - Staring at the Sun
4. Son of Supercar - When Have I Been Wrong?
5. Les Savy Fav - Raging In The Plague Age
6. A Place To Bury Strangers - Don't Think Lover
7. Broken Social Scene - Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day)
8. Jay Reatard - Turning Blue (Blood Visions versions)
9. Crystal Castles - Alice Practice
10. The Knife - We Share Our Mothers' Health
11. Justice - New Jack
12. Junior Boys - Last Exit (Fennesz Mix)

And that "We Share Our Mothers' Health" to "New Jack" transition? Get out of here.

Mux074: April 2011

(Given that I'm still in the process of fixing my Mac, I'll make up for the stark lack of blog posts and unleash this mixtape into the wild a few days early. I think I hit a good stride with this one.)

If by "new" I mean "came out in 2011," there's a nice amount of "new" songs. And also a rookie that I've been trying to put on muxes forever, albeit only tracks from their first album.

So download or stream at ye olde Dropbox.

1. The Strokes - Machu Picchu
2. No Age - Valley Hump Crash
3. Sleater-Kinney - Rollercoaster
4. The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts
5. The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
6. Braids - Lemonade
7. Bear In Heaven - Dust Cloud
8. Lykke Li - Love Out of Lust
9. The Rural Alberta Advantage - North Star
10. The Dodos - Companions
11. Gold Panda - You (Part 1)

Mux rookie:

• The Strokes

Mux054: Noisy 2

Download or stream via drop.io.

1. Sleater-Kinney - The Fox
2. Marnie Stern - Vibrational Match
3. Crystal Castles - Doe Deer
4. Wavves - No Hope Kids
5. Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights
6. A Place To Bury Strangers - Everything Always Goes Wrong
7. Lightning Bolt - Dracula Mountain
8. Liars - Scarecrows on a Killer Slant
9. Health - Triceratops
10. Justice - Waters of Nazareth
11. Tobacco - Nuclear Waste Aerobics
12. Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart (Fuck Buttons Remix)

Mux046: Shooting

Pretty ridiculous, but I sometimes need a reprieve from all this seriousness.

Download or stream via drop.io.

1. A Place To Bury Strangers - It Is Nothing
2. Rollins Band - What's the Matter Man?
3. Boris - Woman on the Screen
4. Iggy and the Stooges - Search and Destroy
5. Les Savy Fav - The Equestrian
6. Rage Against the Machine - Sleep Now In The Fire
7. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
8. Death From Above 1979 - Little Girl
9. Marnie Stern - Transformer
10. Sleater-Kinney - Jumpers
11. Future of the Left - Arming Eritrea
12. The White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl
13. Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

Mux007: Noisy, the reissue

The madness is almost done.

Dropped.

1. No Age - Teen Creeps
2. Sleater-Kinney - Wilderness
3. TV on the Radio - Staring at the Sun
4. Son of Supercar - When Have I Been Wrong?
5. Les Savy Fav - Raging in the Plague Age
6. A Place To Bury Strangers - Don't Think Lover
7. Broken Social Scene - Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day)
8. Jay Reatard - Turning Blue (Blood Visions Version)
9. Crystal Castles - Alice Practice
10. The Knife - We Share Our Mother's Health
11. Justice - New Jack
12. Junior Boys - Last Exit (Fennesz Mix)

JDK Radio 005: My Brain Is Insane

Second playlist of the day. Fifth installment of semi-themed JDK Radio. (Whereas The Muxtapes are mostly new music.)

And if you happen to be in the presence of anyone older than 40, I suggest you listen to the last track in private.

Download via drop.io.

The tracks:

1. Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper
2. A.C. Newman - Miracle Drug
3. Jimi Hendrix - Manic Depression
4. Green Day - Brain Stew
5. The Shout Out Louds - Wish I Was Dead
6. Modest Mouse - Medication
7. Elliott Smith - King's Crossing
8. Sleater-Kinney - Jumpers
9. The National - Abel
10. Notorious B.I.G. - Suicidal Thoughts