Mux023: June 2009, the reissue

Working backward now. Second mix today considering I have no conscious memory of compiling the first one.

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1. Jay Reatard - It Ain't Gonna Save Me
2. Franz Ferdinand - What She Came For
3. Green Day - Basket Case
4. Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien
5. Beach House - Gila
6. Sunset Rubdown - Apollo and the Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh!
7. Swan Lake - Heartswarm
8. The Arcade Fire - Une Annee Sans Lumiere
9. Japandroids - Sovereignty
10. Mission of Burma - That's When I Reach For My Revolver
11. Tortoise - Chateroak Foundation

Hey look, another list of albums!

And yet another gun-to-my-head scenario, in which if said gun was held to said head, and if said gun-holding thug demanded that I rank Pitchfork's Best New Music my ten favorite albums of the year, in order of preference, it'd go like this:

1. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
2. The Antlers - Hospice
3. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
4. WHY? - Eskimo Snow
5. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
6. Dan Deacon - Bromst
7. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
8. We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls
9. Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
10. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

Also, here are some albums I liked once or twice but have yet to give a fair/full shake:

• Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
  
• Eyedea & Abilities - By The Throat
  
• Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
  
• The Dodos - Time To Die
  
• Health - Get Color ("In Violet" is easily one of my favorite songs of the year)
  
• Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
  
• Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
  
• A Place To Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
  
• Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
  
• The xx - xx
  
• Yacht - See Mystery Lights

And what hasn't come out yet that might surprise me?

• Annie - Don't Stop (which is apparently all-new beats and some new tracks compared to the mass-leaked version I have)
  
• Los Campesinos! - The Sea Is A Good Place To Think About The Future
  
• Weezer - Raditude (probably will have one good song)

A few more albums in consideration for my best of '09

Old list prior to additions:

• Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
  
• Dan Deacon - Bromst
  
• Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
  
• Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
  
• Japandroids - Post-Nothing
  
• Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
  
• We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls

Stuff added for consideration in the past month or so:

• The Antlers - Hospice
  
• The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love
  
• Eyedea & Abilities - By The Throat
  
• Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
  
• Why? - Eskimo Snow
  
• Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
  
• The xx - xx

I saw the Japandroids at the Turf Club the other night. Fantastic show. I'll have a bigger write-up later today or tomorrow. I'm also set to see Phoenix next week, Why? in early October, and the Dirty Projectors in November. The only other "band" I'd want to see live would be Fuck Buttons, but don't you have to be on drugs just to get in the door? Like as a rule?

Mux026: August 2009

I'm like a magazine: saying some shiz is next month when it's really this month. Just wanted to make my third Mux of July and not label it as such. But when good new stuff comes out, I can't help but cannibalize albums for some twelve-track mix.

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Tracks:
1. Blues Control - Good Morning (propers to MS)
2. We Were Promised Jetpacks - It's Thunder And It's Lightning
3. Les Savy Fav - The Year Before The Year 2000
4. Future of the Left - Throwing Bricks At Trains
5. Oneida - I Will Haunt You (MS again)
6. Japandroids - Heart Sweats
7. The Dodos - Fables
8. The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Deadroads
9. Harlem Shakes - Nothing But Change Part II
10. The Fiery Furnaces - The End Is Near
11. Sunset Rubdown - You Go On Ahead (Trumpet Trumpet II)
12. Radiohead - The Tourist

Mux023: June 2009

Download via drop.io. The tracks:

1. Jay Reatard - It Ain't Gonna Save Me
2. Franz Ferdinand - What She Came For
3. Green Day - Basket Case
4. Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien
5. Beach House - Gila
6. Sunset Rubdown - Apollo and the Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh!
7. Swan Lake - Heartswarm
8. The Arcade Fire - Une Annee Sans Lumiere
9. Japandroids - Sovereignty
10. Mission of Burma - That's When I Reach For My Revolver
11. Tortoise - Chateroak Foundation

Mux021: Back to Rock

After including some electro cuts across the last few mix/muxes, I wanted to go back to my roots, if that is, in some way, possible. That doesn't make sense, since the first good album I bought was Kid A, and that strays pretty far from rock. Regardless, you can download Mux021 via drop.io, and here are the tracks:

1. The Kills - U.R.A. Fever
2. Radiohead - Palo Alto
3. Sunset Rubdown - Idiot Heart
4. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Some Trees
5. Asobi Seksu - Thursday
6. No Age - Cappo
7. The Thermals - Now We Can See
8. Sonic Youth - Theresa's Sound-World
9. Modest Mouse - Life Like Weeds
10. Mastodon - Colony of Birchmen
11. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Lie Down Here (And Be My Girl)

Simple explanation for the somewhat-random Mastodon inclusion: it's awesome to play in Rock Band 2.