mixtape 9: 5 for ’10
Since we are only a week into 2011, I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on the past year with this offering of some of my favorite songs released in 2010. I call it… wait for it… 5 for ’10. Vampire...
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mixtape 8: if we make it through december
First of all, this post is late. Sorry about that. Yesterday I was just too darn busy baking cookies to get this thing up in a timely manner. I know. It’s a crying shame. Second of all, this post features holiday music....
Read Morethem chickens jackin’ my style
Like many other 30-year-olds, my concept of a great night out increasingly involves making a pot of white cheddar shells and cheese and staying in to watch House Hunters. I’ve always been slow to take to new trends —...
Read Moremixtape 7: electric feeling
I was never really that much into “electronic” music. Until one day, I was. To be fair, this isn’t electronic music in the sense of trance, or house. It isn’t inaccessible. It’s pop. Good, clean,...
Read Moremixtape 6: head space
Sometimes I get in a zone. A musical zone where I want to be mellow and introspective without necessarily being slow or quiet. In those instances, nothing really suits me like a good trip hoppy/electronica/acid jazzy fix. Who...
Read Moremixtape 5: darkness on the edge of town
Recently, Bruce Springsteen released The Promise — the reissue of 1978’s Darkness On the Edge of Town, plus a bunch of other good stuff. I put the box set on my Christmas list. In the meantime, I have been obsessively...
Read Moremixtape 4: 80s redux
In 1983, when I was three years old, I told my mother that Duran Duran was my favorite band and that I was in love with Knight Rider’s David Hasselhoff. While this doesn’t give me supreme cultural ownership over the...
Read Moremixtape 3: i’m just wondering where you’ll sleep tonight
In a shining example of all that is good, pure, and holy about this here process of music-sharing, last week I fell in love with a band on Dana’s playlist named Beach Fossils. I’d never heard them before, yet I...
Read Moremixtape 2: a study in frustration
Okay. First off, let me preface this post by saying that WordPress.com blocks embedding except from a select few whitelisted websites, of which Mixpod isn’t one. I tried all sorts of code to trick it WordPress into...
Read Moremixtape 1: but i’m a creep
I wanted to get on board with this Mixtape Masters thing last week, when Angie and Ashley first kicked off this music-sharing effort, but at the time I was up to my eyebrows in a catalog deadline. No more. So. A few short days...
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