Mux217: Mr. Mux Breathes The Wild

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1. Japandroids - North East South West (Near To The Wild Heart of Life)
2. Craig Finn - Preludes (We All Want The Same Things)
3. LVL UP - The Closing Door (Return To Love)
4. Muncie Girls - Respect (From Caplan To Belize)
5. Cadence Weapon - Cheval (Hope In Dirt City)
6. Junior Boys - Bits & Pieces (Begone Dull Care)
7. Neon Indian - The Glitzy Hive (VEGA INTL. Night School)
8. Pile - Dogs (A Hairshirt of Purpose)
9. Pinegrove - Cadmium (Cardinal)
10. Preoccupations - Memory (Edit) (Preoccupations)
11. Phantogram - Barking Dog (Three)
12. Weezer - Surf Wax America (The Blue Album)

TRT 46:31

2017 music: Craig Finn, Japandroids, Pile

Rookies: Craig Finn, Pile

Mux211: Mr. Mux On Ice!

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1. Radiohead - 15 Step (In Rainbows)
2. Weezer - The World Has Turned And Left Me Here (The Blue Album)
3. Band of Horses - Wicked Gil (Everything All The Time)
4. Car Seat Headrest - Unforgiving Girl (She's Not An) (Teens of Denial)
5. Future of The Left - Stand By / Your Manatee (Travels With Myself And Another)
6. Angel Olsen - Those Were The Days (My Woman)
7. Pink Floyd - Time / Breathe (Reprise) (Dark Side of The Moon)
8. Wye Oak - Trigger Finger (Tween)
9. The Kills - Whirling Eye (Ash & Ice)
10. Hop Along - Powerful Man (Painted Shut)
11. Midlake - Young Bride (The Trials of Van Occupanther)
12. Pinegrove - New Friends (Cardinal)

TRT 47:09

Mux201: Mr. Mux Plays The Hits

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Not going to post the tracklist because 1) pretty sure most of you will know all the songs, and 2) I like to throw in a little mystery every now and then.

The title of the Mux is fairly self-explanatory. It actually started right when Random Access Memories came out and I didn't want to put "Get Lucky" on anything because it was ridiculously overplayed. So I literally made an advance playlist called Mux201 and put "Get Lucky" on it, knowing it'd be a few years before I got around to it (and already knowing that Mux200 would be another Retromux). So yeah, thrilling origin story.

1. The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner (The Modern Lovers)
2. The Cars - Just What I Needed (The Cars)
3. Weezer - Buddy Holly (The Blue Album)
4. Prince - Little Red Corvette (1999)
5. Radiohead - Idioteque (Kid A)
6. Justice - D.A.N.C.E. ([Cross])
7. Daft Punk - Get Lucky (Random Access Memories)
8. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends (Sound of Silver)
9. Ice Cube - It Was A Good Day (The Predator)
10. The Streets - Weak Become Heroes (Original Pirate Material)
11. R. Kelly - I Believe I Can Fly (R)
12. David Bowie - "Heroes" ("Heroes")

TRT 58:51

Rookies: The Cars, Ice Cube, The Modern Lovers, R. Kelly

Mux198: July 2016

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1. Phantogram - You Don't Get Me High Anymore (Three)
2. Porches - Be Apart (Pool)
3. Santigold - Walking In A Circle (99 Cents)
4. Aesop Rock - Rings (The Impossible Kid)
5. Purity Ring - Repetition (Another Eternity)
6. The Avalanches - Colours (Wildflower)
7. Prince - Kiss (Under The Cherry Moon)
8. Jay Reatard - Don't Let Him Come Back (Singles 06-07)
9. Ty Segall - The Hill (Twins)
10. The Strokes - Oblivius (Future Present Past)
11. Weezer - (Girl We Got A) Good Thing (The White Album)
12. Guided By Voices - I Am A Tree (Mag Earwhig!)

TRT 43:19

2016 music: Aesop Rock, The Avalanches, Phantogram, Porches, Santigold, The Strokes, Weezer

Mux195: Mr. Mux Drops The Mic

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Decided to push this one out the door a few hours before the new Radiohead drops. Like Battles' La Di Da Di, I'll likely be breaking my rule of not having a band on two consecutive muxes, especially since I've got "Daydreaming" already queued up for the June mux. Here I've got a ripped MP3 from the "Burn The Witch" video, so if the album cut omits the heads and tails, apologies if you're offended by birds chirping and a fade out that is about half a second shorter than I wanted.

This is a bit of a frankenmux in terms of genres. It's mostly rock but it goes Top 40 with the new Justin Timberlake single, which is nowhere near anything on The 20/20 Experience Part 1 but will serve as a good earworm for the next two weeks. I'm sure it'll horribly date this mux, like the time I once put a song from Chinese Democracy on one as a non-joke joke. And then I push it even farther with the rave-y A-Track/Phantogram collab but, hey, people like this summery shit, am I rite?

1. Shearwater - Radio Silence (Jet Plane And Oxbow)
2. Radiohead - Burn The Witch (A Moon Shaped Pool)
3. Cheatahs - Freak Waves (Mythologies)
4. White Lung - Below (Paradise)
5. Holy Fuck - Tom Tom (Congrats)
6. Mastodon - Curl of the Burl (The Hunter)
7. Royksopp - Eple (Melody A.M.)
8. Santigold - Lights Out (Santogold)
9. Justin Timberlake - Can't Stop The Feeling (Single)
10. A-Trak - Parallel Lines (feat. Phantogram) (Single)
11. Sufjan Stevens - The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts (Illinois)
12. Weezer - Endless Bummer (The White Album)

TRT 50:18

Rookies: A-Trak, White Lung

2016 music: A-Trak, Holy Fuck, Justin Timberlake, Radiohead, Shearwater, Weezer, White Lung

Mux193: Mr. Mux Sees A Ghost!

(I accidentally deleted this page when I was monkeying around the back end yesterday. The direct MP3 link still works, but, ugh, I have to redo this page. Thanks to Bill for pointing this out.)

Download or stream. At least this still works!

1. Tame Impala - It Was Not Meant To Be [Innerspeaker]
2. Beach Slang - Dirty Lights [The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us]
3. Veruca Salt - I'm Telling You Now [Ghost Notes]
4. Radiohead - High And Dry [The Bends]
5. Sufjan Stevens - To Be Alone With You [Seven Swans]
6. Holy Fuck - Xed Eyes [Congrats]
7. EL VY - Sad Case [Return To The Moon]
8. Weezer - California Kids [The White Album]
9. Cheatahs - Murasaki [Mythologies]
10. The Mountain Goats - The Mess Inside [All Hail West Texas]
11. Santigold - Run The Races [99 Cents]
12. Shearwater - The Snow Leopard [Rook]

TRT 47:02

2016 music: Holy Fuck, Santigold, Weezer

Mux160: December 2014

Boom.

1. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe (Single)
2. The New Pornographers - War On The East Coast (Brill Bruisers)
3. Split Single - Monolith (Fragmented World)
4. Death From Above 1979 - Always On (The Physical World)
5. Angel Olsen - Lights Out (Burn Your Fire For No Witness)
6. Flying Lotus - Flotus (Ideas+Drafts+Loops)
7. Kendrick Lamar - The Art of Peer Pressure (Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City)
8. Caribou - Second Chance (Our Love)
9. TV on the Radio - Test Pilot (Seeds)
10. Weezer - Pink Triangle (Pinkerton)
11. Iceage - Against The Moon (Plowing Into The Field of Love)
12. Queens of the Stone Age - My God Is The Sun (...Like Clockwork)

TRT 43:25

2014 music: Caribou, Death From Above 1979, Iceage, The New Pornographers, TV on the Radio

Mux129: August 2013

Boom.

1. Boards of Canada - Reach For The Dead (Tomorrow's Harvest)
2. Aesop Rock - Zero Dark Thirty (Skelethon)
3. Matthew Dear - Overtime (Beams)
4. Daft Punk - Lose Yourself To Dance (Random Access Memories)
5. Thundercat - Bonus (Apocalypse)
6. Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around... / ...Comes Around (FutureSex/LoveSounds)
7. !!! - Me And Giuliani Down By The Schoolyard (A True Story) (Louden Up Now)
8. Deerhunter - Dream Captain (Monomania)
9. The Men - Electric (New Moon)
10. Apostle of Hustle - National Anthem of Nowhere (National Anthem of Nowhere)
11. Titus Andronicus - In A Big City (Local Business)
12. Weezer - No One Else (Live Acoustic)

TRT 55:02

Rookies: Apostle of Hustle

New(ish) 2013 music: Boards of Canada, Daft Punk, Deerhunter, The Men, Thundercat

Mux065: The Quarter Century

Here's a lot of mux tracks on my giant Put-On-A-Muxtape playlist that I finally decided to halfway-decently sequence and, well, put on a mux. Side note: Do you know how hard it is to find a place for "Transatlanticism" without shoving it at the end of a mix? I barely squeezed it in there without grinding things to a halt.

And since Megaupload doesn't let you stream, I'll be posting these on Soundcloud with an embedded player. Only problem is I have a finite time limit for my overall uploads, so I'll probably have to delete each mux when the next comes out. A necessary-evil workaround.

So download via the obnoxious Megaupload and stream below via Soundcloud.

The tracks:

1. David Bowie - Five Years
2. Pulp - Common People
3. The Get Up Kids - I'm A Loner, Dottie, A Rebel...
4. Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
5. Weezer - Say It Ain't So
6. Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
7. Brian Eno - By This River
8. Radiohead - Sulk
9. Spoon - The Underdog
10. The Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
11. The National - Mr. November

Making their mux debut:
Brian Eno (though I swore I had the Eno/Byrne track "Strange Overtones" on a mux...)
The Get Up Kids
Harvey Danger
Pulp

Upcoming music releases for the rest of 2010

This has already been a ridiculously-awesome year for music, and there's still more coming in these last four months. Off the top of my head, this is what I'll be looking forward to. I probably missed some stuff, so fill me in via the comments.

• Battles - Untitled Tyondai Braxton-less album (in production)
  
• Cee-Lo Green - The Lady Killer
  
• Daft Punk - Tron Legacy soundtrack
  
• Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest (plus at least a bonus EP or, hell, a secret double album)
  
• The Hood Internet - The Mixtape Vol. V (expected)
  
• Japandroids - 7" Singles #3, 4, and 5 (following "Art Czars" and "Younger Us")
  
• Kanye West - Album formerly titled Good Ass Job
  
• Lil Wayne - Tha Carter IV
  
• Marnie Stern - Marnie Stern
  
• Michael Jackson - Untitled posthumous release
  
• No Age - Everything In Between (leaked)
  
• Of Montreal - False Priest (leaked)
  
• Radiohead - Untitled eighth album (rumored; unlikely)
  
• Sufjan Stevens (feat. The National?) - The Age of Adz
  
• The Thermals - Personal Life (leaked)
  
• The Walkmen - Lisbon (leaked)
  
• Weezer - Hurley (it should have at least one decent song, right?)

Mux059: The Muxtape Reloaded

Boom.

1. The National - Fake Empire
2. Jens Lekman - Black Cab
3. TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me
4. Weezer - Tired of Sex
5. Guided By Voices - Tractor Rape Chain
6. Radiohead - Fog
7. Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out To Get Us
8. Wolf Parade - I'll Believe In Anything
9. Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945
10. Destroyer - Rubies

TRT 44:38

Mux042: 2010 Better Not Suck

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1. Death Cab For Cutie - The New Year
2. Weezer - My Name Is Jonas
3. Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline)
4. Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
5. The Black Keys - 10 a.m. Automatic
6. The Wrens - Everyone Chooses Sides
7. Wolf Parade - Shine A Light
8. Yo La Tengo - Sugarcube
9. Radiohead - Reckoner
10. The Arcade Fire - No Cars Go

Mux009: October 2008, the reissue

No paperwork today, but the trend must continue!

And I don't want to horn-toot, but some of these are pretty dece.

Dropped.

1. David Holmes - I Heard Wonders
2. Weezer - No One Else
3. Brendan Canning - Churches Under the Stairs
4. King Khan and the Shrines - Outta Harm's Way
5. Vivian Girls - Where Do You Run To?
6. Radiohead - Weird Fishes / Arpeggi
7. Do Make Say Think - In Mind
8. Oxford Collapse - B-Roll
9. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - In This Home On Ice
10. The National - Guest Room
11. Wolf Parade - An Animal In Your Care
12. Born Ruffians - Red Elephant

Mux013: Black Friday, the resissue

In honor of the most ridiculous calendar day of American consumeristic greed, I'm reissuing last year's Black Friday "schizomix" with a bit of retconning. See, when I first made it, I included the title track from the abortion that is Guns N Roses' Axl Rose's Chinese Democracy as a grand, limp-fish joke. I might have actually deluded myself into thinking I could enjoy such a cock-rock single, but my enjoyment with the song lasted a mere handful of days. And keeping in line with a good mix rule of thumb to keep things under forty-five minutes, it has been graciously axed from this fine array of songs.

Thus, the link, which I'm contractually obligated to say is hosted by the fine folks at drop.io.

1. Jay Reatard - Blood Visions
2. Wolfmother - The Joker and the Thief
3. Marnie Stern - The Package Is Wrapped
4. Weezer - Pork And Beans
5. Final Fantasy - This Lamb Sells Condos
6. Blitzen Trapper - Not Your Lover
7. Rogue Wave - Harmonium
8. Deerhunter - Agoraphobia
9. Brendan Canning - Hit the Wall
10. Nirvana - All Apologies
11. Radiohead - Let Down

Mux004: August 2007, the reissue

I'm working on Archetype, I swear.

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1. Bloc Party - Like Eating Glass
2. Born Ruffians - I Need A Life
3. Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood
4. Weezer - El Scorcho
5. Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly
6. Destroyer - Painter In Your Pocket
7. Grizzly Bear - Knife
8. Joy Division - Transmission
9. The National - The Perfect Song
10. Do Make Say Think - A Tender History In Rust (Edit)
11. No Age - Every Artist Needs A Tragedy
12. Jay Reatard - Nightmares (Demo)

Mux039: November 2009

I'm going out of town from Halloween until the 9th, so consider this the official chunk of the Pitchfork 500 month-starting mux. And yes, I legitimately like a Weezer track off Raditude, which is surprisingly better than The Red Album. But there's nothing nearly as good as "Pork And Beans."

But anyways--

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1. Broken Social Scene - KC Accidental
2. The Exploding Hearts - Modern Kicks
3. Weezer - (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To
4. Guided By Voices - Chasing Heather Crazy
5. Les Savy Fav - The Sweat Descends
6. A Place To Bury Strangers - Keep Slipping Away
7. David Byrne and Brian Eno - Strange Overtones
8. Elliott Smith - A Distorted Reality Is Now A Necessity To Be Free
9. The Dismemberment Plan - The Face of The Earth
10. Okkervil River - For Real
11. Smog - Dress Sexy At My Funeral
12. Wilco & Feist - You And I

Mux022 / Re-examining The Red Album

Just in time for Mother's Day. And one year after my first mux, when Muxtape used to be worthy of creating muxes. I don't even know what they do now. Not even worth linking. Or checking.

Download the full mix via drop.io. The tracks:

1. Metric - Help, I'm Alive
2. Japandroids - Wet Hair
3. Rage Against The Machine - Guerrilla Radio
4. Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses
5. The Thermals - When I Died
6. The Sea And Cake - Car Alarm
7. Radiohead - Blow Out (Remix)
8. The Ting Tings - Be The One
9. Atlas Sound - Springtime Instrumental
10. Why? - The Hollows
11. Neko Case - This Tornado Loves You
12. Camera Obscura - French Navy

Also, I gave this neglected album an impromptu listen earlier:



Seriously, it's not that bad. Sure, it disappointed all post-Blue Album, post-Pinkerton expectations in which everyone expected it to be as good as The Blue Album or Pinkerton, but there are some good tracks here. And forget all the ridiculous stuff Rivers and the band said about how "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived" was the best thing Weezer has ever recorded.

I listened to it as a reaction to Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown last night, which I think is a resounding Eh at best. I pinned it down pretty easily: even if some songs are catchy power-chord pop-rock, Green Day positions themselves as some saviors of everything, which comes off as condescending, obnoxious, and really pretentious. With regards to the latter, it doesn't help that the over-arcing "opera" is some impenetrable, impossible-to-follow-without-liner-notes narrative.

So here's why, at the root of things, I like the Red Album: it doesn't take too itself seriously. "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived" isn't an unnecessary statement about the state of things; it's a huge, proggy, silly song. "Troublemaker" is fairly innocuous. "Porks and Beans" is downright solid. "Thought I Knew" is the only downright-bad track, mostly considering that a song not sung or written by Rivers, by definition, isn't a Weezer song. The rest are fairly mild on the ears.

I don't recall ever downright-trashing The Red Album, and now there's further reason not to: it's passably good.

Favorite Albums

I'm in the mood for a list. Not numbered, and strictly alphabetical, since this turned out to be a bit more +10 than I thought.


The Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004)
Favorite track: "Rebellion (Lies)"


Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children (1998)
Favorite track: "Roygbiv"


Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People (2002)
Favorite track: "Cause = Time"


Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine (2004)
Favorite track: "Little Girl"


Deerhunter - Microcastle (2008)
Favorite track: "Agoraphobia"


DJ Shadow - Endtroducing... (1996)
Favorite track: "Midnight in a Perfect World"


Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing (2008)
Favorite track: "Okay, Let's Talk About Magic"


John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (1965)
Favorite track: "Resolution"


Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (1959)
Favorite track: "Blue In Green"


Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica (2000)
Favorite track: "Gravity Rides Everything"


My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991)
Favorite track: "When You Sleep"


The National - Boxer (2007)
Favorite track: "Slow Show"


No Age - Nouns (2008)
Favorite track: "Teen Creeps"


Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994)
Favorite track: "Cut Your Hair"


Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
Favorite track: "Time / Breathe (Reprise)"


Radiohead - Kid A (2000)
Favorite track: "Kid A"


Weezer - The Blue Album (1994)
Favorite track: "No One Else"


Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary (2005)
Favorite track: "I'll Believe In Anything"

What are yours?

Mux013: Black Friday Schizomix

If the sudden mad rush of the holiday season had a part-rock, part-slow, part-obligatory-guilty-pleasure-Chinese-Democracy-song, part-weird soundtrack, this might be it:

1. Jay Reatard - Blood Visions
   
2. Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy
   
3. Wolfmother - Joker and the Thief
   
4. Marnie Stern - The Package Is Wrapped
   
5. Weezer - Pork and Beans
   
6. Final Fantasy - This Lamb Sells Condos
   
7. Blitzen Trapper - Not Your Lover
   
8. Rogue Wave - Harmonium
   
9. Deerhunter - Agoraphobia
   
10. Brendan Canning - Hit the Wall
    
11. Nirvana - All Apologies
    
12. Radiohead - Let Down

October Mux

Muxtape, as once known, is dead, but dammit, I'm still calling them muxtapes, and here's one to start off October:

1. David Holmes - I Heard Wonders
   
2. Weezer - No One Else
   
3. Brendan Canning (Broken Social Scene) - Churches Under the Stairs
   
4. King Khan and the Shrines - Outta Harm's Way
   
5. Vivian Girls - Where Do You Run To?
   
6. Radiohead - Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
   
7. Do Make Say Think - In Mind
   
8. Oxford Collapse - B-Roll
   
9. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - In This Home On Ice
   
10. The National - Guest Room
    
11. Wolf Parade - An Animal In Your Care
    
12. Born Ruffians - Red Elephant

Hey, a Vivian Girls track! See? I'm a Pitchfork reader hipster! So what if, a month from now, I'll probably hate that album? It sounds kind of cool now!

Obligatory film update: Shot parts one and two, so shooting is officially 2/9th done. An awkward fraction, yeah, but at least I know there's 7/9th left. More work in less time, but it can be done. If worst comes to worst, I end up behind schedule and release in March instead of February.

Scratch that, the worst that could happen is breaking my camera. Or a leg. Or both. At the same time.

But this is just shooting. There will be a lot of post, but I like post better than shooting. Compared to all my past projects, though, this shoot is relatively painless. Just tiring. And a constant learning process/experience.

Also: On a semi-whim, I bought a custom shirt for $70 for my character to wear in a very low number of scenes. Probably just about six shots. I'll definitely wear the shirt once the film wraps, but it's kind of scary knowing that, excluding my iMac, $70 is a fourth of what I've already spent on this film. Probably only about $200 left to spend after that, and half of that is for DV tapes. And to think that low-budget films still cost over a million. This is no-budget filmmaking. But I wouldn't have it any other way, really.

Unless I got paid to do this.