Winter Playlist

Snowfall, long nights, bright lights. Mellow tunes.

Great Lake Swimmers.............................I Could Be Nothing
The Colour.............................................Silver Meadows
Bat For Lashes........................................Marilyn
Iron and Wine.........................................Cinder and Smoke
The Chapin Sisters..................................Digging a Hole
Kelli Ali..................................................The Savages
Isbells.....................................................Heart Attacks
Mumford and Sons................................Ghosts That We Knew
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's......Broad Ripple is Buring
Gossling.................................................Heart Killer
Grizzly Bear...........................................Foreground
Fleet Foxes............................................Your Protector

Fall Playlist

Sweet tunes for my favorite season : )

Sóley......................................................I’ll Drown
Sigur Rós...............................................Glósóli
Bat for Lashes........................................Laura
Wooden Sky..........................................Child of the Valley
Cat Power.............................................Metal Heart
CocoRosie.............................................Smokey Taboo
The Sweet Serenades.............................Die Young
Ramona Falls.........................................The Darkest Day
Carla Bruni............................................Quelqu'un M'a Dit
Bon Iver................................................Minnesota, WI
The Drums.............................................Down By the Water
Ed Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes........Kisses Over Babylon

New Mix- Goofs v. Goons

It's a valid science, I promise. If you think you know the difference, you're wrong. Anyway. This one was made for a friend in return for the best mix I've received in a verrrry long time. Magic.

1. Vagabond- Wolfmother
2. Blood Bank- Bon Iver
3. Spring and By Summer Fall- Blonde Redhead (I have theory that this song would be really scary if you were tripping, and, in fact, there's a thoroughly trippy music video version of it with these dreamy airplane scenes all mashed together. It freaks me out.)
4. Adventures in Solitude- The New Pornographers (This song is equally effective for endings and beginnings.)
5. Blood- The Middle East (This is the best song I've found in a while. Listen on repeat, improve your life.)
6. Sweet Disposition- The Temper Trap
7. Islands- The Xx (Both of these singers have dead-sexy voices. Both of them.)
8. In the Dirt- S. Carey
9. To Leave It Behind- The Great Lake Swimmers
10. Love Me Through- Port O'Brien
11. Smile That Explodes- Joseph Arthur (All-time favorite, what can I say?)
12. Desperately Wanting- Better Than Ezra
13. Heartbeats- José González (Another old favorite. I've seen him live before, and he's fantastic. I also love his less-well-known band Junip. Check them out.)
14. Twelve Minutes North- Breakfast of Champions (Ok, this song has a weird story behind it. I'm constantly sniffing out new music to love, and I have many ways of doing that. In that capacity, I stumbled across this song online, and fell in love with it. I'd never heard of the band before, and they only had a couple of songs out, so I did a little research and realized the band is fronted by the brother of an old friend. This is the Twilight Zone.)
15. Pure- Mirah ft. Ginger Takahashi
16. Thunderclap- Eskimo Joe

The Pink Bow is Crucial

I love a good mix-cd. I really do. I get asked for them often, and I love to make them. By make I mean choose the music, order the music, put it on the cd, and then package the cd. The pink bow is crucial- who doesn't want a bunch of pretty songs tied with a bow? This is my most recent mix, made for a friend:

1. Die Young- The Sweet Serenades (If you haven't seen the music video for this one, you need to remedy that. If there's a man in a giant heart-costume, you've found the right one)
2. Speed of Light- Joseph Arthur
3. Rainbow Warriors- CocoRosie
4. Stay Golden- Au Revoir Simone
5. The Man Who Told Everything- Doves
6. Sprawl (Flatland)- Arcade Fire
7. Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)- Arcade Fire
8. Cosmic Love- Florence + The Machine, recorded acoustic and live for RTE's Other Voices (This is, by far, my favorite version of this song, and believe me, it's a much-loved song. It doesn't have the range of the album version, and the first time I heard it, that bothered me a little. Listen again though- the restraint adds depth. I still love the album version, but this one is just better. What a sad song)
9. Flume- Bon Iver
10. Set the Fire to the Third Bar- Snow Patrol
11. Love Ridden- Fiona Apple (A lovely song for a broken heart)
12. Girl and the Sea- The Presets
13. Icarus- White Hinterland
14. A Cloak of Elvenkind- Marcy Playground
15. Stars- Warpaint
16. The Garden- Mirah
17. The Bleeding Heart Show- The New Pornographers
18. Bag of Bones- The Maccabees (I have a playlist on my iTunes called "Endings", which I can't really explain to anybody's satisfaction, but which makes a lot of sense to me. This song belongs there)

What is this mix good for? Nothing in particular. If I'm making a mix for someone who didn't request it, the music usually has more direction; Music to Cry To, Music for Mingling, Music for the Angsty Version of Yourself That Just Needs To Come Out Sometimes. Music for Sunny Days. Music for Driving in the Rain. Ya know.