In the hopes of jumpstarting the activity on this blog from a painfully irregular basis (no new posts since the beginning of October?!?!) to a semi-painfully irregular basis, I’ve decided to post, each and every Friday, a 10-song mix containing new and old favorites that I’ve been listening to and enjoying throughout the week.While this doesn’t necesarily mean that I’ll stop doing expanded reviews in the future of releases which I feel warrant mention, it does mean that I’d like to reroute the ongoing direction of the blog in the hopes of providing some type of regular content. I still love listening to and sharing music that I feel should be heard by the masses but the reality of the situation is that I just don’t currently have the time needed to provide some type of in-depth, or in my case shallow, analysis in an expanded form.
Therefore, I felt that maybe a weekly mix was the way to go. And while I originally wanted to provide the mix in a zip-file and avoid posting each song under a separate mp3 link so as all ten songs would hopefully be heard in the order provided, I’m still debeating over which online storage site to use. In the meantime, enjoy these mp3s of current favorites, each of which is a terrific song.
1. "Swim (To Reach The End)," Surfer Blood (from the upcoming 2010 CD, Astro Coast)
2. "Walkabout (feat. Noah Lennox)," Atlas Sound (from the 2009 download, Logos)
3. "The Other Man," Sloan (from the 2005 CD, A-Sides Win: Singles 1992-2005)
4. "Beggars Bowl," Polvo (from the 2009 LP, In Prism)
5. "New York Romance Blues," Pray TV (from the 1996 CD, Westonia)
6. "Drive Me Down," The Velvet Crush (from the 1991 CD, In the Presence of Greatness)
7. "Island, IS," Volcano Choir (from the 2009 download, Jagjaguwar)
8. "Are You Really On Drugs?," The Clean (from the 2009 CD, Mister Pop)
9. "Today and Tomorrow," Tommy Keene (from the 1996 CD, Ten Years After)
10. "Ghosts of American Astronauts," The Mekons (from the 1988 LP, So Good It Hurts)
