GIMME TINNITUS

Once again it’s time to look back into the past. This mix starts with two covers and it even has a remix of a Passion Pit song. Luckily, the remix is by Pollination. Just what was November 2008 like? It was a little like this…

Downloadables:

Banned From The Roxy (mp3) by Jeffrey Lewis

We Didn’t Start The Fire (mp3) by The Forms

Focus (mp3) by The Forms

Dickshakers Union (mp3) by Surf City

Parasites (mp3) by The Soft Pack

Phantom Of My Longest Day (mp3) by Valina

Manchasm (Live) (mp3) by Future Of The Left

Draped Up, Oxed Out (mp3) by Smart Growth

Run To The Facts (Brad Shi Shitty Emo Ending Mix) (mp3) by Yea Big + Kid Static

Old Year (mp3) by Jesu

How Heavy This Axe (mp3) by The Sword

Haze On The Mobius Strip (mp3) by Dinowalrus

Zodiac Girls (Pony Version) (mp3) by Black Moth Super Rainbow

Sleepyhead (Pollination Remix) (mp3) by Passion Pit

Some Are Lakes (mp3) by Land Of Talk

Fog (mp3) by Mason Proper

Strand The Test Of Time (mp3) by Wilderness

Nothing’s The Same (mp3) by Koushik

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

If you want to download all the tracks in this mix, you should install DownThemAll!.

And now another installment of Stuck In My Head, where I post some mp3s that are um, stuck in my head.

Downloadables:

It Ain’t Gonna Save Me (mp3) by Jay Reatard
(no preorder yet @ Matador)

Psychic City (mp3) by YACHT
(no preorder yet @ DFA) (more about this song… here)

Noel’s Got A Chord (mp3) by Valina
(totally free zip file @ soapbox promotions)

Paradise Knife Fights (mp3) by Vampire Hands
(buy it @ Modern Radio)

Just In Case (mp3) by Micachu & The Shapes
(buy it @ Beggars)

>> 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.