I was driving home one day last week, really tired after several days of late nights, and I needed a playlist of very calming, down-tempo, melancholy-type songs. And I liked what I came up with so much I decided to hammer it down into a mix. I’ve called it the Melancholia Mix because that most [...]
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Tagged:Amy Millan, Angie Mattson, Architecture in Helsinki, Bat for Lashes, Belle & Sebastian, Broken Social Scene, Citizen Helene, Elizabeth and the Catapult, Emma Pollock, Jenny Lewis, Karen O and the Kids, Lost Art of Murder, mates of state, Metric, Neko Case, Rilo Kiley, The Beatles, The Bird and the Bee, The Libertines, The Submarines, The Whispertown 2000, Viva Voce, where-the-wild-things-are
Every once in a while I put together a mix that’s unthemed other than it’s what I’m into at the moment. Okay, that’s actually what most of my mixes are. Usually I just make them and foist them off on people and say HERE LISTEN TO THIS IT’S AWESOME because I’m egomaniacal like that. But [...]
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Tagged:An Horse, Bat for Lashes, Broken Social Scene, Elizabeth & The Catapult, Headlights, Johnathan Rice, Metric, Neko Case, Rilo Kiley, Shout Out Louds, Stars, stellastarr*, The Bird and the Bee, The Dead Weather, The Dodos, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Raveonettes, The Whispertown 2000, Viva Voce, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Haven’t done one of these in a LOOONG time. But I need to, because I actually got a bunch of very good music over Christmas, and I’ve been selfishly hoarding it.
Headlights – Some Racing, Some Stopping
First up, my favorite FFFFest find Headlights has just put out a new album in the past couple of [...]
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Tagged:Broken Social Scene, Emily Haines, Headlights, Some Racing Some Stopping