1. Tim Hardin “Red Balloon”
2. Funkadelic “I Bet You”
3. Sun Kil Moon “Carry Me Ohio”
4. Elvis Presley “I’ve Got A Thing About You Baby”
5. Pumajaw “Gooseberry Eye”
6. Low “Belarus”
7. Death Cab For Cutie “Scientist Studies”
8. Ramsey Lewis “My Love For You”
9. Gonzales, Feist & Dani “Boomerang 2005″
10. Amy LaVere “Killing Him”
11. Gillian Welch “Orphan Girl [...]

End of month = more good 2009 stuff
1. M. Ward “For Beginners”
2. Strand Of Oaks “Dogs Of War”
3. The Whitest Boy Alive “1517″
4. Dirty Projectors + David Byrne “Knotty Pine”
5. Vetiver “Down From Above”
6. Beck “Paradisco (live March 26, 2009)”
7. A Camp “Love Has Left The Room”
8. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy “Beware Your Only Friend”
9. The [...]

This one’s a little longer, and maybe flows less naturally than I’d like, but that’s because I happened upon some mixtape rules so thought I’d follow them:
The title must be a quote from a movie.
1. A song from the last record you bought.
2. A “blues” song. Does not have to be from a blues record, [...]

Candy pizza! Here is the recipe.
1. Phosphorescent “Little Boxes”
2. The Rolling Stones “Out Of Time (demo)”
3. Howling Bells “Blessed Night”
4. A Tribe Called Quest “Luck Of Lucien”
5. Captain Beefheart “Zig Zag Wanderer”
6. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan “Deus Ibi Est”
7. Bruce Springsteen “I Ain’t Got No Home”
8. Orange Juice “A Sad Lament”
9. Brian Eno [...]

Bob Dylan’s 7th Theme Time Hour was on “Fathers.” Here’s my take:
1. Cat Stevens “Father and Son”
2. Gnarls Barkley “Gone Daddy Gone”
3. James Brown “Papa Don’t Take No Mess”
4. Talking Heads “Big Daddy”
5. Nina Simone “My Father”
6. U2 “Daddy’s Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car”
7. Vetiver “Oh Papa”
8. Britta Persson “A Dad For You”
9. [...]

All new 2009 songs!
1. Beck “Leopard-Skin Pill-Box hat”
2. Blackout Beach “Cloud Of Evil”
3. Chain And The Gang “Reparations”
4. Bishop Allen “The Ancient Common Sense Of Things”
5. Ferraby Lionheart “Dear Corinne”
6. My Brightest Diamond “Feeling Good”
7. Odawas “Harmless Lover’s Discourse”
8. The Flaming Lips “Anything You Say Now I Believe You”
9. Wye Oak “Black Is The Color [...]

And, yea, that’s Vladimir Putin. (see)
1. Cat Power “Wild Is The Wind”
2. Loose Fur “Laminated Cat”
3. The Velvet Underground “Countess From Hong Kong”
4. The Sea & Cake “Bring My Car I Feel To Smash It”
5. Radiohead “Jigsaw Falling Into Place (Scotch Mist webcast)”
6. Bon Iver “For Emma”
7. Sophie Zelmani “So Long”
8. Laura Cantrell “When [...]

Just hitting shuffle and seeing what turns up… everytime I do this though, I think it’s going to turn up some weird rare stuff I’d never think of… but in the end, it ends up being all my favorite artists, because I have more of their music to randomly land on… oh well, can’t be [...]

Photo from here, by Andrea Galvani
Didn’t want to wait 11 more months to share the good new music of the year! These are all new songs, either out this month or leaked and will be out soon…
1. The Deep Dark Woods “All The Money I Had Is Gone”
2. Marissa Nadler “River Of Dirt”
3. Busta [...]

1. David Bowie “Heroes”
2. Curtis Mayfield “Future Shock”
3. Liz Durrett “Perfect Day”
4. Martina Topley-Bird “Shangri La”
5. The Roots “Long Time”
6. Thom Yorke “The Clock (live)”
7. Automatic Baby “One (live)”
8. Public Enemy “He Got Game”
9. Odetta “Sail Away Ladies, Sail Away”
10. Woody Guthrie “Pastures Of Plenty”
11. Cotton Jones “I Am The Changer”
12. Nina Simone “Sinnerman”