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Theme
1/15/2007
Two things I generally hate are (1) theme mixes with nothing to bind the songs together but common words in the title, and (2) songs about rock & roll. So, hey, my apologies. Fortunately, there are eno …
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Pop
1/13/2007
Time for the annual mix... and, gotta say, tough year. Not necessary a brilliant year -- song for song, I think my 2005 mix was stronger -- but a ton of really, really good tunes out there. As with a c …
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Single Artist
1/4/2007
A truly great American band, though one I'll admit isn't always easy on the ears and thus spends a lot less time in play on my stereo than it's probably due. A haunting mix of stark Americana and grung …
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Single Artist
1/1/2007
For my first mix of 2007 (well, last mix of 2006, actually, but for obvious reasons I didn't quite get it together in time to post last night), please allow me to introduce (to many of you, I suspect) …
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Single Artist
12/31/2006
Perhaps not unlike my somewhat recent Bright Eyes mix, this is a band I've always viewed as more the province of some angst-ridden college girl writing bad poetry in a beat up journal than as something …
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Single Artist
12/31/2006
One of the great, largely unheralded power pop heroes of the past 20 years -- why this guy never got any traction truly escapes me. Falls pretty squarely into the post-Big Star school of chiming guitar …
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Single Artist
12/17/2006
Been meaning to rework my old Pavement mix into a 2-cd deluxe edition for some time; my recent purchase of the Wowee Zowee reissue gave me the excuse to do it. As should be obvious, my heart belongs to …
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Single Artist
12/10/2006
File under Surprising Rediscoveries, if you will. Pulled their 1990 debut Some Friendly out of storage recently as was pleasantly surprised by how well it's held up over the years, certainly more so th …
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Mixed Genre
12/3/2006
No, this has nothing to do with Christmas (thematically). Just happened to be putting together a mixed genre, relatively non-threatening (yet nonetheless marginally unpredictable) mix that could be tos …
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