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Tuesday Morning Music Shuffle – Smells Like Gin Mix

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“Golden Days” by Year of October from WDVX Blue Plate Special 4/12/2014 1.

 

“Spacetic Fever” by Left of Logic from In Formation 2.

 

“Sharp Feathers” by Telepathic Teddy Bear from Forgiveness 3.

 

“bleibet meine freude/bron van al my vreugde” by velodrones from kersfees tape $ 4.

 

“Running Wild” by Moon Taxi from Mountains Beach Cities

 

“A Real Woman” by Slew of Young Gentlemen from Mama Coco’s Funky Kitchen – Section 5 5.

 

“Cross-Eyed Woman” by Michael Burks from Alligator Records: 21st Century Blues and Roots 6.

 

“Titfull of Mumbles” by Tipi Valley from Blue Moon EP 12.

 

“Falling (Theme from Twin Peaks)” by Verdigirls from the single 7.

 

“Bait and Switch” by Gumshen from Progtonica

 

“Sharkjaw Beartrap (Megan)” by No Shoes from Cow Drawings EP 8.

 

“In the 9th Inning” by The Jean Jackets from Field Theory Blues  9.

 

“Drinking Song” by The Danbury Lie from Fourth Time’s a Charm 10.

 

“Infinity of Folded Cloth” by Ghostpal from Mama Coco’s Funky Kitchen – Section 5

 

“A Life Spent Pissing in the Wind” by Darrin Bradbury from Death in my Left Ear 11.

 

“Open Ended Life” by The Avett Brothers from Magpie and the Dandelion

 

Hitting some highlights…

 

1.       A performance of a what will likely be the title track from the forthcoming Year of October album – recorded at the band’s April appearance on the WDVX Blue Plate Special from Knoxville.

2.       A crazy fun song from Left of Logic.

3.       Some new music from Telepathic Teddy Bear.

4.       Another awesome track from Velodrones.  Thean Slabbert’s other band Bosveld are currently on a bike tour in Canada.  Check them out if you are there…

5.       A band that lives up to it’s name…. 

6.       Real Woman meet Cross-Eyed Woman….

7.       Formerly The Velveteens an E2TG featured artist.  Now Verdigrls and covering the Twin Peaks theme..  how cool.

8.       Our Mama Coco’s love fest continues with 4 more Mama Coco’s related songs in today’s shuffle including this one.

9.       Coincidently appropriate given the All-Star Game is tonight…

10.   Another awesome song from the new The Danbury Lie release.

11.   One from Darrin Bradbury’s latest release, and just as expected it’s a really great song..
12.  I almost forgot.  Our friend Tipi Valley is from Wales.  The Mumbles is a place in Wales or something.  Anyway, this is a cool song, and quit giggling at the word Titfull.

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Monday Morning Music Shuffle – Death-Defying All Odds Mix

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I hope you haven’t forgotten to check out Couch by Couchwest, but if you have, no worries. Unlike that other festival, you can go right now and get caught up. In a day and a few hours, we’ve already seen our friends: The Foresters, Kassy Key and the Raindogs ,and Cupla. Plus tons of bands who are new to us, but who we are digging on big time.  We hope to have some highlights up soon.

Today was a rainy day, a Monday and it was the first work day after Daylight Savings Time began. How do you improve on that? How about a killer playlist of cool music.

Today’s pre-shuffle shuffle included: The Avett Brothers, a triple shot of classic Elvis Costello, Delta Spirit, and The Dead Exs.  All of these songs are included (or represented in the You Tube Playlist embedded below. We have four songs in our actual shuffle today.  Check those songs out – after the jump:

  •  “This is PiL“ by Public Image Limited from This is PiL (2012)
 

The title track from Public Image Limited’s first studio album in 20 years sounds about like you would expect. Your perception and tastes will determine whether that is a good thing or not.  As the title implies, the song is about the band. Johnny Lydon still sounds like Johnny Lydon.

  • “Summer ’78” by THEY KNOW from Reverbnation download (?) 

THEY KNOW are a couple of guys from Pennsylvania who I connected with through Twitter (I’m pretty sure).  “Summer of ’78” is a great sounding tune, and I look forward to checking out more of their music soon. We have a performance of a different THEY KNOW song in the playlist below.

  • “Hello Cruel World” by Gretchen Peters from CXCW12 Mixtape (2012)

Gretchen Peters is a two-time Grammy Nominated singer/songwriter who Nashville claims as our very own.  She performed the title track from her (then) brand new album for last year’s CXCW.

  • “Disorderly Boy” by Calicocat from Mighty Superfluous (2013)

Another Nashville favorite and a former featured artist at E2TG. Calicocat have called it quits after two and a half years. They leave behind and catalog impressive in it’s quantity and quality.  Might Superfluous is proof that the band left it all on the floor and we wish them all well in their future endeavors.

Now here is the playlist representing all of our pre-shuffle and shuffle shuffle songs:

 

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Tuesday Morning Music Shuffle – 47 Percent Elegance Mix

Man you guys, I think I need an intern or something.  I mean if Kramer could have an intern, I could – right?  So much goodness going on – Our good friends, The Dead Exs dropped their sophomore album, Relovolution, while we were AMAing, and we are going to have a lot to say about this one.  Cosmonauts are just a week away from unveiling the video to the song they recently debuted and which we had in the shuffle yesterday, Cold Harbor. The Disappointment have a new video, we just heard a killer new song from Dogs of Oz. There is new music out or coming soon from The Avett Brothers, Mumford and Sons, Band of Horses, John Hiatt and just about everybody else.  We made some good contacts at the Americana to-do, and some big things are coming for little ole us.  So of course, by nbl (non-blogging life) is also exploding and time become a precious commodity, but it’s all good.

Our shuffle today features two artists we saw live last week plus a song from the early 2000s and a relatively new song that sounds like an old song…  Let’s jump into the shuffle:

First up we have Leeds’ own, The Dunwells, who we saw last Thursday at Live on the Green with I Could Be A King off of their debut record, Blind Sighted Faith.

 
 

Up next, we have a retro-sounding fuzzy guitar-driven, Garage Rock song called Driven by Love from the band 45 Spider which comes from Supercharged Sounds (the 8th Volume of the Best of GaragePunk Hideout) which came out in July. 

Next, we have the debut single by California ska-punk band OPM from way back around the turn of the century. Heaven is  Halfpipe promises skating after death. The debut album was called Menace to Sobriety (see what they did there?)





And finally, we have another song from the fantastic Marvin Country! album by Marvin Etzioni who at The Station Inn in Nashville along with his Marvin Country! String Quartet. I had the chance to talk briefly with Mr. Etzioni, and hope to have the opportunity to have a longer chat with him soon.







Tuesday Morning Music Shuffle – Que Sera Sera Mix

Chasing rabbits down the rabbit hole
Dreaming of birds
A melody crashes
The mind reels
A journey which never ends
A time out of context
Rivers running backward
A mountain falling silently into the roiling sea.
Challenge (no challenge)
Lost the sense of what is real
And what is not real
Does it matter?
Did it ever?
Ah – musings of a Tuesday with rising temperatures and gathering clouds….
Record Store Day is just over two weeks away.  Support your local record store whether you are a vinyl junkie or not.  I’ll be holding court down at Grimey’s.  Jeff the Brotherhood have been announced as a musical guest with more acts to follow.
Due to some technical issues, only two tracks on the shuffle (Que sera sera) and a bonus track for your listening pleasure:
40 East by Avett Brothers from Four Thieves Gone reminds me of the treks from my hometown/college town to the city (Nashville) for shows at the Cannery, Vanderbilt, War Memorial and Cat’s Records  and to shop at Discount Records and Cat’s Records… And those late night/early morning trips back to our lives which seemed endless but which are now lost to the vagrancies of time.
 
 
Top 5 Band of the Year finalist, Taco Land are up next with a track called Can You Hear Me? from his fabulous Heart of Texas release.  
 
 (a video of another Taco Land track – Wonderful Rain)
 
Bonus track time:  Danny Brown is a Detroit-based rapper.  His 2011 album XXX just got the deluxe treatment – the deluxe version was released in March of this year.  
 
He has a brand new song, Grown Up which you can grab for free over the Stereogum .

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Friday Morning Music Shuffle – Hills are Alive Mix

Good morning, I’ve got a lot to do and not a little bit of time to do it so let’s get to today’s list:

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Dawes are back on our playlist with a track from their  2009 album North Hills:  Love is All I Am

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Delta Spirit have also come back to our list.  Today’s song is on Ode to Sunshine (although our version is

from the I Think I Found It -EP which we got from Noisetrade) – People, Turn Around!

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Americana-Country-Folk band Folk Family Revival are from Texas and they are Chasing a Rabbit  from their 2011 album Unfolding.  Check them out:
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And we’ll go out today with North Carolina’s The Avett Brothers with a rollicking number off their latest I and Love and You – Kick Drum Heart .
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Wednesday Morning Music Shuffle – Lead Balloon Mix

Thankful for all of you and for the great music that has come my way this year.

Dreary and drizzly morning even though the forecast says a 0% chance or rain. I guess drizzle is not considered rain?
Another shuffle of the November 2011 playlist:

I’m Real Punk by Brother Howe.   The one where BOTW alums Brother Howe demonstrate that they are in fact Real Punk.  Put on your slam dancing shoes and slam dance your blues away.
(click on the Rock ‘n Roll Country album cover to purchase and download I’m Real Punk by Brother Howe @ Amazon.com)

VCR by The Antlers.  The one where The Antlers – the Brooklyn-based indie rock band – covers The xx – the English indie pop band. Let’s go watch things on VCR…
(click on the (together) album cover to purchase and download VCR (The xx Cover) by The Antlers @ Amazon.com)

Walking For You by The Avett Brothers.  The one where transportation won’t hold the Avetts back from their baby…
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Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 by Roger Waters. The one where Roger Waters covers Pink Floyd.  Wait, is it really a cover when a solo artist does a song by his old band?  Growing up the son of a college professor, I’m sure it was disturbing for him to hear me singing this song…
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