all 2009 songs
1. Cotton Mouth “You Are A Pragmatist”
2. The Phenomenal Handclap Band “15 To 20″
3. Bishop Allen “The Lion & The Teacup”
4. Blacklands “Come Sad Light Of Dawn”
5. White Antelope “False Knight On The Road”
6. The Black Keys “Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles”
7. Ryan Leslie “Just Right”
8. Jason Lytle “Flying Thru Canyons”
9. [...]

1. Beck “Run Run Run”
2. Jad Fair & Yo La Tengo “Retired Grocer Constructs Tiny Mount Rushmore Entirely Of Cheese”
3. The Clancy Brothers “The Real Old Mountain Dew”
4. Neko Case “A Widow’s Toast”
5. Dizzee Rascal “Driving With Nowhere To Go”
6. The Clash “Spanish Bombs”
7. Corinne Bailey Rae “Choux Pastry Heart”
8. Robbie Robertson “Peyote Healing”
9. The [...]

a little longer than the usual 8 tracks… 12 tracks, closer to an hour… all from 2009
1. Ruby Jean & The Thoughtful Bees “You Don’t Miss Me”
2. Rachelle Van Zanten “Halo”
3. Venice Is Sinking “Ryan’s Song”
4. The Shins “Plenty Is Never Enough”
5. Marina & The Diamonds “Obsessions (Pink Stallone Crush remix)”
6. Purplespace “Kaleidoscope”
7. Circulatory System [...]

We won! This one is a little longer than the usual 8 tracks, all celebratory fun songs (I think).

End of the month, time for more 2009 songs. Looking at the tunes I collected over the month… I listened to some weird stuff this month. Go figure.
Picture by Josh Keyes, more here.
1. Deep Sea Diver “Hangin’ On”
2. Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse “Insane Lullaby (feat. James Mercer)”
3. Akron/Family “Sun Will Shine (Warmth Of [...]

1. Radiohead “Permanent Daylight”
2. Roxy Music “Amazona”
3. White Magic “One-Note”
4. John Cale “Set Me Free”
5. Nickel Creek “Tomorrow Is A Long Time”
6. Brandi Shearer “Lullabies”
7. Brian Eno & David Byrne “The Lighthouse”
8. Vic Chesnutt “I Melt With You”
9. The Rolling Stones “I Am Waiting”
10. Willie Nelson “Peach Pickin’ Time Down In Georgia”
11. Del Tha Funkee [...]

I didn’t have much to choose from here with this letter! Thus quality control was a little tougher.
1. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan “It’s Hard To Kill A Bad Thing”
2. Ima Robot “I’m A Bitch For You”
3. Isaac Hayes “I’ll Never Fall In Love Again”
4. Ian Brown “Ice Cold Cube”
5. Imogen Heap “I Am [...]

painting called The Easy Way, by Ricky Allman, see here
1. The Dixie Cups “Iko Iko”
2. David Bowie “Fascination”
3. Iron & Wine “Kingdom Of The Animals”
4. Billy Nicholls “Daytime Girl”
5. Jackson C. Frank “Blues Run The Game”
6. Sonic Youth “Lite Damage”
7. The Giraffes “Gone Again Gone”
8. Thea Gilmore “Hydrogen”
9. Death Cab For Cutie “Blacking Out The [...]

Picture by Lucy Skaer (here)
Sorry, just noticed I only did like 3 of these in April. That’s not enough, I’ll step it back up.
End of the month, so it’s time for some more 2009 goodness!
1. Phosphorescent “Reasons To Quit”
2. Chin Chin “Go There With You”
3. Bat For Lashes “Two Planets”
4. Bill Callahan “My Friend”
5. [...]

Part of the reason I took so long since G was because I was finding H to be a pretty lame bunch of songs. My favorite H artists either didn’t have H songs, or they did, but they were lame. I was left with a bunch of silly tracks, or artists I barely [...]