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Here’s Your 2018 Year-End Mixes

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What a year! Even though I only made one Summer Fridays mix, I dig manage to put together year end mixes. Here you go! You check out my Favorite Albums and EPs lists over at BrooklynVegan.com.

Streaming players and individual mix downloads are below. See ya in 2019!

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Tracklist:
1. The Beths – You Wouldn’t Like Me
2. Kero Kero Bonito – You Know How it Is
3. Ty Segall & White Fence – Body Behavior
4. Tim Cohen – Modern World
5. Honey Hahs – I Know You Know
6. 77:78 – Love Said (Let’s Go)
7. Kelley Stoltz – Rolling Tambourine
8. Cut Worms – Till Tomorow Goes Away
9. The Goon Sax – Make Time 4 Love
10. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Talking Straight
11. Woolen Men – Brick Horizon
12. Papercuts – How to Quit Smoking
13. Salad Boys – Choking Sick
14. The Bevis Frond – A Hard Way to Learn
15. Ethers – Running Through the Night
16. Flasher – Pressure
17. wimps – OPP
18. Terry – The Whip
19. Go-Kart Mozart – When You’re Depressed
20. Insecure Men – Teenage Toy
21. Hater – It’s So Easy
22. Wand – The Gift
23. Sloan – 44 Teenagers

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Tracklist:
1. The Orielles – Bobbi’s Second World
2. MGMT – She Works Out Too Much
3. MUNYA – Hotel Delmano
4. Hollie Cook – Angel Fire
5. Gruff Rhys – Limited Edition Heart
6. Bonny Doon – I Am Here
7. Dungen & Woods – Loop
8. The Fernweh – Next Time Around
9. Fenster – The Room
10. Mystery Artist – Mystery Song
11. Shannon Shaw – Freddies n’ Teddies
12. Unloved – Love
13. Winter & Triptides – Dolce Violetta
14. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Solid Silk
15. Taken By Trees – Doin’ Time
16. Tunng – ABOP
17. Part Time – So Far Away
18. Suede – Don’t Be Afraid if Nobody Loves You
19. Low – Disarray

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Tracklist:
1. Roisin Murphy – All My Dreams
2. U.S. Girls – Pearly Gates
3. Lindstrom – Blinded by the LEDs
4. AMOR – Glimpses Across Thunder
5. Bjørn Torske – Clean Air
6. Neneh Cherry – Kong
7. Shook – Deep Dive
8. DJ Koze – Pick Up
9. Sound Bites Best of 2018 V3 – 08-mr-twin-sister
10. B.E.D. – Centipedes
11. audiobooks – Friends in the Bubble Bath
12. Confidence Man – Out the Window
13. Soulwax – Essential Four
14. Klaus Johann Grobe – Out of Reach

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Tracklist:
1. Melody’s Echo Chamber – Desert Horse
2. Beak> – Brean Down
3. Bodega – Name Escape
4. Shopping – Asking for a Friend
5. Lake Ruth – Julia’s Call
6. Pozi – KCTMO
7. Cavern Of Anti-Matter – Make Out Fade Out
8. Gwenno – Eus Keus?
9. Virgina Wing – The Second Shift
10. The Green Child – Her Majesty II
11. J. Fernandez – Volcanic Winter
12. Halo Maud – Du Pouvoir/Power
13. Cornershop – Double Denim Nights
14. Escape-ism – Nothing Personal
15. Arctic Monkeys – American Sports
16. Drinks – Real Outside
17. Peel Dream Magazine – Qi Velocity
18. Anemone – Baby Only You & I
19. Warmduscher – I Got Friends
20. Tropical Fuck Storm – The Future of History
21. Laibach – Sixteen Going on Seventeen

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Tracklist:
1. Protomartyr – Wheel of Fortune
2. Bambara – Jose Tries to Leave
3. Viagra Boys – Just Like You
4. Les Big Byrd – Geräusche
5. Lesser Evil – Sight Of
6. Champagne Superchillin – Amor Fati
7. En Attendant Ana – The Violence Inside
8. Dean Wareham Vs Cheval Chambre – A Bend in the River
9. The Coral – She’s a Runaway
10. The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Hold That Thought
11. No Joy & Sonic Boom – Slorb
12. BC Camplight – I’m in a Weird Place Now
13. Sound Bites Best of 2018 V5 – 13-iceage
14. Sauna Youth – Percentages
15. Lithics – Specs
16. Public Practice – Fate/Glory
17. Ulrika Spacek – Black Mould

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Making Time for Summer Fridays 11.1

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Were you beginning to wonder if there would be any Summer Fridays mixes this year? Me too! But here we are, the 10th anniversary of these and the 11th edition. I think we’ll get at least one more mix, hopefully a couple more before the summer is over. This one is on the guitar pop side, with a great new Goon Sax starting things off, with a pretty much 50/50 spit of new and less new. Enjoy!

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Tracklist:
1. The Goon Sax – Make Time 4 Love
2. Orange Juice – Poor Old Soul Pt 1
3. Olden Yolk – Cut it to the Quick
4. Corridor – Coup d’epee
5. Sloan – Right to Roam
6. Eggstone – Against the Sum
7. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Mainland
8. Cornershop – Brimful of Asha
9. Teenage Fanclub – Sparky’s Dream
10. Kelley Stoltz – A Rolling Tambourine
11. Goat Girl – Cracker Drool
12. Melody’s Echo Chamber – Breathe In, Breathe Out
13. The Sea and Cake – I Should Care
14. Nick Heyward – Kite
15. Gruff Rhys – Limited Edition Heart
16. Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Young Girls and Happy Endings
17. The Essex Green – Sloane Ranger
18. Felt – Rain of Crystal Spires
19. The Radio Dept. – Your True Name
20. Pavement – Box Elder
21. Game Theory – Together Now, Very Minor

HEY IT’S BEST OF 2017 MIXES

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Heyo, it’s the last day of 2017 and I managed to make six mixes hitting on my favorite stuff of the year. For my best album’s list, head over to BrooklynVegan. Mixes are streamable or downloadable below. (Download all six in one go here.) See ya in 2018.

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MIX #1 TRACKLIST
1. Baxter Dury – Miami
2. Sleaford Mods – Moptop
3. Saint Etienne – Underneath the Apple Tree
4. Daniele Luppi, Parquet Courts & Karen O – Talisa
5. Dent May – Take Me to Heaven
6. Bertrand – Ultradevotion
7. Alvvays – Dreams Tonight
8. Kommode – Captain of Your Sinking Ship
9. The Moonlandingz – The Strangle of Anna
10. Jane Weaver – The Architect
11. Ariel Pink – Another Weekend
12. She-Devils – Come
13. Total Control – Luxury Vacuum
14. Kelley Polar – Empty Kicks
15. Washed Out – Hard to Say Goodbye
16. Baxter Dury – Miami (Parrot And Cocker Too Remix)
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MIX #2 TRACKLIST
1. Baby Dayliner – You Push, I’ll Go
2. King Krule – Dum Surfer
3. Fever B – Plunge
4. Coldcut x On-U Sound – Divide and Rule feat. Lee Scratch Perry, Junior Reid and Elan (Dub)
5. Beach Fossils – Sugar
6. Alex Cameron – The Chihuahau
7. Destroyer – Tinseltown Swimming in Blood
8. Art Feynman – Can’t Stand It
9. !!! (Chk Chk Chk) – Imaginary Interviews
10. The New Lines – Whiteout Conditions
11. Tashaki Miyaki – Girls on Tv
12. Mac DeMarco – This Old Dog
13. Slowdive – Sugar for the Pill
14. Rose Elinor Dougall – All At Once (Tom Furse Extrapolation)
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MIX #3 TRACKLIST
1. Big Thief – Shark Smile
2. PETER PERRETT – How the West Was Won
3. Spiral Stairs – Emoshuns
4. Hand Habits – Sun Beholds Me
5. Cherry Glazerr – Nuclear Bomb
6. Robyn Hitchcock – 1970 in Aspic
7. Bedouine – Solitary Daughter
8. Jack Cooper – North of Anywhere
9. Kevin Morby – City Music
10. Broken Social Scene – Hug of Thunder
11. Amber Arcades – It Changes
12. Fazerdaze – Lucky Girl
13. Real Estate – Saturday
14. Luna – Let Me Dream If I Want To
15. Marika Hackman – Boyfriend
16. Feist – Century (ft. Jarvis Cocker)
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MIX #4 TRACKLIST
1. R. Stevie Moore and Jason Falkner – I H8 PPL
2. Eaters – Embrace the Strange
3. Display Homes – Climate Change
4. The Stevens – Cruiser
5. Lars Finberg – Born Shopping
6. The World – Gary Panter
7. OMNI – Fever Bass
8. Corridor & Halo Maud – Deux Couers
9. Corridor – Coup d’épée
10. Rips – Losing II
11. Protomartyr – Night Blooming Cereus
12. Priests – Nothing Feels Natural
13. Escape-ism – Rome Wasn’t Burned in a Day
14. Business Of Dreams – Joyride
15. Cold Beat – 22 Moons
16. The Drums – Blood Under My Belt
17. Barringtone – Pet Gazells
18. Wire – Short Elevated Period
19. Flat Worms – Pearl
20. Spinning Coin – Sides
21. Mick Trouble – Second Offense
22. SAVAK – Keys to the City
23. presentable corpse – Don’t End Up Alone
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MIX #5 TRACKLIST
1. Melody’s Echo Chamber – Cross My Heart
2. The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Melody’s Actual Echo Chamber
3. John Maus – Touchdown
4. The Horrors – Weighed Down
5. Neutral Zone – Cycling Champion
6. Peaking Lights – Everytime I See the Light
7. Grooms – Dietrich
8. Lindstrøm – Bungl Like a Ghost ft. Jenny Hval
9. Kelly Lee Owens – Throwing Lines
10. Mary Epworth – Me Swimming
11. Liars – Cred Woes
12. Molly Nilsson – American Express
13. Halo Halo – Du Pouvoir
14. The Clientele – Lunar Days
15. Charlotte Gainsbourg – Lying with You
16. The Luyas – Self Unemployed
17. US Girls – Mad as Hell
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MIX #6 TRACKLIST
1. lcd soundsystem – How Do You Sleep?
2. Patience – White of an Eye
3. Land of Talk – Heartcore
4. Guerilla Toss – Betty Dreams of Green Men
5. Showtime Goma – Big Disaster
6. Spoon – Tear it Down
7. Mega Bog – She’s History
8. Girl Ray – Stupid Things
9. Reptaliens – If You Want
10. TOPS – Petals
11. Grandaddy – The Way We Won’t
12. Flasher – Winnie
13. RIDE – Lannoy Point
14. RVG – A Quality of Mercy
15. Shadowgraphs – Countryside
16. Holiday Ghosts – Quiet Carriage
17. Wand – Plum
18. TERRY – Take Me To the City
19. Sparks – Edith Piaf Said it Better Than Me
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Still Feels Like Summer (Fridays 10.5)

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This year was kind of a total fail for these mixes but I did want to put up one last one while you could still go out without a coat, especially as my friend Heloise spent hours and hours making the cover art you see above. And I had a bunch of songs I still wanted to use, including the awesome new King Krule song. One good thing about less mixes is there’s less filler, right? Anyway, here we are for downloading or streaming.

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Summer Fridays 10.5 Tracklist:
1. Kommode – Captain of Your Sinking Ship
2. Steely Dan – FM
3. King Krule – Dum Surfer
4. The Horrors – Machine
5. Beach Fossils – Sugar
6. Captain Sensible – Martha the Mouth
7. MINKS – Romans
8. Dent May – Take Me to Heaven
9. Girl Ray – Don’t Go Back at 10
10. Manuela – Cracks in the Concrete
11. The World – Hot Shopper
12. Puberty – Parties
13. Tashaki Miyaki – Girls on TV
14. Patience – White Of An Eye
15. Saint Etienne – Whyteleafe
16. The Clientele – Lunar Days
17. The Beat – Walk Away
18. TOPS – Petals
19. Yumi Zouma – Champagne Supernova

Will these be back in 2018? Will any of us? Stay tuned!

People love it when you lose: Summer Fridays 10.4

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It’s Labor Day Weekend and I haven’t done so well with cranking out the mixes this year, but here’s #4 which is one of the weirder mixes I’ve ever made including at least one artist I pretty much would’ve never thought I’d ever put on one of these. But King of the Streets, whose digital graffiti graces this week’s cover, told me to seek inspiration from his artwork…so blame him! There’s also at least three amazing new songs here, via Baxter Dury, LCD Soundsystem and Kelley Stoltz. And inbetween…please enjoy!

There are, technically, three more weeks of summer so I’m gonna try and finish strong. See you next week.

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TRACKLIST:
1. Baxter Dury – Miami
2. Eddy Grant – Electric Avenue
3. Coldcut x On-U Sound – Kajra Mohobbat Wala feat. Hamsika Iyer
4. Soulwax – Another Excuse (DFA Remix)
5. Cornelius – In a Dream
6. Imagination – Just an Illusion
7. Shit & Shine – Long Island City
8. Don Henley – Dirty Laundry
9. LCD Soundsystem – I Used To
10. Big Audio Dynamite – Sightsee MC!
11. L’ Trimm – The Cars That Go Boom
12. Art Attacks – Can’t Stand It
13. UB40 – Food for Thought
14. Kelley Stoltz – Empty Kicks

Those Were the (Summer Fri)Days

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Have you read Meet Me In The Bathroom? It’s an oral history of the early-’00s NYC music scene and is pretty entertaining even if it leaves out a lot of stuff. It really did feel like a special time, especially coming off the ’90s where there wasn’t much going on locally/musically. Living in Williamsburg at the time and being a music fan, it was hard to avoid. With that in mind, here’s a Summer Fridays mix with songs pulled entirely from that era (2000 – 2005). No cocaine necessary to enjoy it!

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TRACKLIST:
1. The Strokes – Barely Legal
2. The Rodgers Sisters – Chain Reaction
3. Calla – Strangler
4. Interpol – PDA
5. TV on the Radio – Staring at the Sun
6. Stellastarr – My Coco
7. The Walkmen – The Rat
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Date With the Night
9. Liars – Mr Your On Mr. Fire
10. Out Hud – On Life to Leave
11. LCD Soundsystem – Yr City’s a Sucker
12. The Rapture – House of Jealous Lovers
13. Diamond Nights – Saturday Night
14. Le Tigre – Deceptacon
15. Les Savy Fav – The Sweat Descendes
16. The Secret Machines – Nowhere Again
17. Ambulance LTD – Heavy Lifting
18. The Cloud Room – Hey Now Now
19. !!! – Me And Giuliani Down By The School Yard (A True Story)

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There will be more Summer Fridays before the summer’s over, I promise.

Quel oiseau magnifique! Summer Fridays 10.2 (Bastille Day édition)

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It’s Bastille Day and Friday, so that means an all-French edition of Summer Fridays. I’ve done a few of these and feared I’d gone to the well too many times, so I got some help from some friends. Crowdsourcing works! I had an abundance of stuff to choose from but kept being drawn to the dancier songs, so that’s the direction this one takes. There are a few repeat offenders (MC Solaar, Lio, Bertrand Burgalat) but a lot of this was new to me too. I’ve listened to this one a few times through and I dig it. Enjoy!

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TRACKLIST:
1. Calypso Valois – Vis a Vie
2. Paradis – La Ballade de Jim
3. Yelle – La Musique (Terp remix)
4. Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Fire
5. Le Couleur – Underage
6. Guru/MC Solaar – Le Bien, Le Mai
7. Cannibale – Diabolik Prank
8. Corine – Porquoi Porquoi
9. Charlotte Adigéry – Le Froid
10. Francois & The Atlas Mountains – Grand Dereglement
11. Bertrand Burgalat – Ultradevotion
12. Lockett Pundt – Femme fantôme
13. Lio – Banana Split
14. Aquaserge – Si loin, si proche
15. Veroique Jannot – Aviateur
16. Kid Creole & the Coconuts – Les Vitrines
17. Dylarama – Saison Estivale
18. M Farmer – Tristana
19. Orval Carlos Sibelius – Coeur De Verre

Maybe she’ll call me back: Summer Fridays 10.1

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Can you believe this is the is the tenth summer of Summer Fridays mixes? When I started these, 2008, George W Bush was still in office, we were on the brink of the real estate bust and recession, and I’d just been laid off work. Those were the days, huh! Well, we’re all still here, and thanks for sticking around. I’m gonna try and do these every Friday, we’ll see. Anyway, here’s the first of 2017, opening with a brand new Baby Dayliner song — his first new music since Summer Fridays existed. We’ve also got new Broken Social Scene, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Cold Beat…as well as oldies by Bowie, Eno and more.

You can stream it, or download. Enjoy!

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Tracklist:
1. Baby Dayliner – You Push, I’ll Go
2. Brian Eno – Backwater
3. Johnny Gamboa – That Good Old Feeling Back Again
4. Melody’s Echo Chamber – Cross My Heart
5. Cymbals – Decay
6. Bill Nelson – Hope for the Heartbeat
7. Cold Beat – Don’t Touch
8. Elastica – 2:1
9. Fazerdaze – Lucky Girl
10. Broken Social Scene – Protest Song
11. Deep Throat Choir – Be OK
12. David Bowie – Without You
13. CAN – I’m So Green
14. Guerilla Toss – TV Do Tell
15. Molly Nilsson – Mona Lisa’s Smile
16. Sneaks – Inside Edition
17. Terry – Take Me to the City
18. Klark Kent – Theme for Kinetic Ritual

Do these old shoes look funny? Summer Fridays 9.8

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We’re winding down but Summer’s still here and so are Summer Fridays mixes. This is unlike any I’ve done before, in that I don’t think I’ve ever had so many genuine “hits” on one mix. Of course the theme is new for Summer Fridays too. My good friend Sarah did the cover art and, as I suspected, it features her dog Gertie (the third dog cover star this season!). What with the down home flavor of the pic, and Sarah’s love of country, I knew what I had to do. This mix also features Sarah’s favorite ever singer, Donna Fargo. Or was it another D, anyway, it’s all country. Only two songs on this mix are from the last decade and only one from this year. Most are from before 1975. I think this one turned out good. Enjoy!

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Tracklist:
1. Billie Jo Spears – Mr. Walker, It’s All Over
2. George Jones & Tammy Wynette – Golden Ring
3. Richard Hawley – Like the Rain
4. Glen Campbell – Galveston
5. Lee Hazelwood and Suzie Jane Hokum – I’ll Never Fall in Love Again
6. Donna Fargo – The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A.
7. Albert Collins – It Never Rains in Southern California
8. Jerry Reed – If I Promise
9. Jim Reeves – He’ll Have to Go
10. Bobbie Gentry – Ode to Billy Joe
11. Dolly Mixture – Jolene
12. Faron Young – I Can’t Wait (For the Sun to Go Down)
13. Buck Owens – I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail
14. Jean Shepard – Twice the Lovin’ (In Half the Time)
15. Marty Robbins – Big Iron
16. Don Gibson – Sea of Heartbreak
17. Jennie C Riley – Harper Valley PTA
18. Margo Price – Hurtin’ (On the Bottle)
19. Bobby Bare – The Cowboy And The Poet (Faster Horses)
20. Patsy Cline – Heartaches
21. Lynn Anderson – All-Day Sucker
22. Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn – Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man

Dance to the Musizika: Summer Fridays 9.7

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I remember back in 1999 when West Nile Virus hit NYC, during that ultra-hot July, they sprayed down the streets of South Williamsburg along Kent at like 2AM. There were cars leading the way a few blocks ahead, blaring horns and warnings to “GET INSIDE NOW WE ARE SPRAYING INSECTICIDE.” It was like some sort of post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie. Scary! Thankfully, Zika hasn’t really hit here, but for my friend Kelly who lives in Miami it’s very real. Weirdly, according to her, the fear has manifested itself into a musical subgenenre of dance music they’re calling “zika wave” which is somewhere between Belgian “new beat” and Italo? Or it could just be a joke on this party flyer. Either way it was her inspiration for this week’s cover art. I think the “9,7” is made out of mosquitos?

I didn’t put any New Beat on here but there is a little Italo (Chromatics) and I wanted to put the great new Radio Dept song “Swedish Guns” on here so everything is pretty much either dance or dub. Also, I dipped into Sandinista! for a second week in a row. Please enjoy, whether you’re wearing a mosquito net suit for not.

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Tracklist:
1. The Radio Dept. – Swedish Guns
2. El Perro Del Mar – Ding Sum
3. Saint Etienne – On the Shore
4. Soft Hair – Lying Has Got to Stop
5. The Beta Band – Lion Thief
6. Hollie Cook – Sugar Water (ft. Horseman)
7. New Age Steppers7 – Some Love
8. Blackbeard – Electrocharge
9. Trentemøller – Redefine
10. Chromatics – Hands in the Dark
11. The Clash – The Call Up
12. The Modernist – The Price of Love (ft. Joe Goddard)
13. Renegade Soundwave – Thunder
14. Pional – Casualty