GIMME TINNITUS

It’s time again to look back, reflect, and contemplate… what were we listening to one year ago?

Listen to the July 2010 Mix and find out.

Downloadables:

1. Airbrushed (mp3) by Anamanaguchi
   (d/l the Summer 2010 Singles @ anamanaguchi.com)
2. Dead Youth (mp3) by The Sundelles
3. I Don’t Mind It (mp3) by Screaming Females
4. For Ash (mp3) by Marnie Stern
5. Crimes (mp3) by Paul A Rosales
6. We are the Goer (mp3) by We Are Hex
7. I Don’t Believe You (mp3) by The Thermals
8. Revival (mp3) by Deerhunter
9. Whirlpool (mp3) by Mermaids
10. Scream White Noise (Demo) (mp3) by Future Ghost
11. Angst In My Pants (Sparks Cover) (mp3) by Signals
12. Highway Scratch (mp3) by Sisters
13. Throw Yourself Apart (mp3) by SOARS
14. Vermont (mp3) by Procedure Club
15. 100 (mp3) by Keepaway
    (d/l the Kompetitor EP @ keepaway.bandcamp.com)
16. Magical Date Night (mp3) by Total Slacker
17. Tea Lights (mp3) by Lower Dens
18. Sea Salt (mp3) by Like Bells
19. Eyesore (mp3) by Women
20. From Here to Obscurity (mp3) by Motico
21. Nausea (X Cover) (mp3) by YACHT
22. Form (Oh No Ono Remix) (mp3) by Hooray For Earth

If you haven’t done it already, make sure you check out the other monthly mixes.

You can stream all the songs in this mix using the Yahoo media player at the bottom of the page OR if you are browsing with Chrome you can play (and scrobble) the whole page using the ex.fm extension OR you can just download any or all of the tracks at your leisure and play them using a digital media player of your choice.

And if you like what you hear you should probably purchase music from the above artists at any of these fine online retailers:

Insound | Amazon MP3 | eMusic | Other Music

Also, If you want to download all the individual tracks in this post, you should probably think about installing the DownThemAll! or FlashGot Firefox extensions.

We put this mix together for one of our favorite local bookstores, WORD. If you are anywhere near Greenpoint, you should probably go there right now and buy a book or two (if not, just go to their website and buy some online).

This mix explores the more electronic/postrocky side of GIMME TINNITUS. We even went and dropped all the mp3s in a convenient zip file just for you. Download then listen.

Downloadable: almost no WORDs Mixtape (mediafire)

I also uploaded a few individual mp3s from the mix, just in case you can’t wait for the d/l and need to hear some music right now.

Tracklisting:

1. Wanderings by Spirituals
2. Fall Bicycle by Lymbyc Systym
3. Green Echo by Sleep Whale
4. Atlas by Like Bells
5. Night Squall by Balmorhea
6. Chesapeake (mp3) by Evenings (free digital or buy physical)
7. Why Like This? by Teebs
8. Angel Echoes by Four Tet
9. Soak It Up (mp3) by Houses
10. Sung (Not Said) by Magnetic Island
11. Figurehead (mp3) by SOARS
12. Sinister Skies (Zoomzip Remix) by Pollination (free album)
13. Turns (mp3) by Big Spider’s Back (free album)
14. DIE SLOW (NITE JEWEL RMX) by HEALTH
15. I’d Be Insane To Say It (Ape School rmx) by Day of the Woman (free album)
16. some lonesome street corner (USF remix) by cars & trains (free album)
17. A Parking Lot Carnival by Yppah
18. Rebuilt Leer (mp3) by Firebrand Boy

And make sure you follow those “free album” links for more awesome musics.

If you like what you hear you should probably purchase music from the above artists at any of these fine online retailers (or just your local independent record store):

Insound | Amazon MP3 | eMusic | Other Music

Also, if you want to download all (or most of) the tracks in this post, you should probably think about installing the DownThemAll! or FlashGot Firefox extensions.

Cleveland, Ohio ambientrockers Like Bells combine violin, guitar, drums, electronics, and sometimes voice to create sonic landscapes. Their sophomore effort is entitled Palma. Listen.

Downloadable: Sea Salt (mp3)

Order Palma on vinyl @ the Exit Stencil Store.

Like Bells is on the internet
Like Bells is on Myspace
Like Bells is on Facebook
Like Bells is on Twitter
Like Bells is on elbo.ws
Like Bells is on Hype Machine
Like Bells is on Exit Stencil
Like Bells is on Insound
Like Bells is on Amazon MP3
Like Bells is on eMusic

BONUS: Follow The Birds (mp3)

It’s time to look back and reflect again. What were we listening to one year ago?

Listen to the February 2009 Mix to find out…

Downloadables:
First Daze (mp3) by Pterodactyl

New Guitar (mp3) by Mi Ami

Empty Legs (mp3) by Thank You

Cage Those Pythons (mp3) by Dinowalrus

Zontag (mp3) by Gary War

Bobbie Joe Wilson (Pollination Remix) (mp3) by Yppah

Yeti (mp3) by Like Bells

So Fine (mp3) by Telepathe

Don’t Lie (mp3) by Abe Vigoda

Troubles Like Mine (mp3) by Gun Outfit

Pine On (mp3) by Obits

Wasted Youth (mp3) by Lovvers

Lake House (mp3) by Vivian Girls

To Clean (mp3) by Woods

Sunlight (mp3) by Harlem Shakes

Is She There? (mp3) by Nodzzz

In the Parlor (mp3) by Pree

Tourniquet (mp3) by Sholi

Now We Can See (mp3) by The Thermals

Cable TV (Liars remix) by Fol Chen

If you haven’t done it already, make sure you check out the other monthly mixes.

If you want to download all the individual tracks in this post, you should think about installing the DownThemAll! Firefox extension.

>> Perhaps my favorite album by Mr. Beck Hanson is getting a deluxe reissue, One Foot In The Grave. Check out the deets… here.

Streamable Embed:

NOTE: Be sure to stream “Teenage Wastebasket”

>> There is an awesomely free Slumberland Records Spring 2009 Sampler over @ Amazon… here.

Downloadable: Prismatic Room (mp3) by Crystal Stilts

>> Check out the Mika Miko Sex Jazz A-Side over at Passion Of The Weiss… here. Check out the B-Side at the GT blogspot… here.

>> PTST reminds us that the (FUCKING AWESOME) Power Move by Screaming Females is finally had its official release… here.

The Females also got a write up the Village Voice… here.

Also officially released as of yesterday, is the Like Bells eponymous album, and the Steve Albini-produced A Tempo! A Tempo! by Austrian math[SKINNG GRRR]rockers Valina.

Downloadables:
Buried In The Nude (mp3) (order) by Screaming Females
Atlas (exit stencil mp3) (order) by Like Bells
Phantom Of My Longest Day (joyful noise mp3) (order) by Valina

>> The latest Contrast Podcast looks at the best of 2009. Track listing and deets are… here.

Downloadable: The best of 2009 so far (part 1) (mp3)
My Submission: So Bored by Wavves

>> Now I rarely post links to whole albums, but when it’s a new wave masterpiece that has never ever been released on CD I just can’t resist. Download the I.R.S. GREATEST HITS VOLS. 2 & 3 over at Sound Bites… here. And yes, it’s tax day and I am linking to something I.R.S.-related, ugggh.