Artist	Song
Feist	1234
Paolo Nutini	New Shoes
Emma Pollock	Acid Test
Ryan Adams	This is It
Dogs Die in Hot Cars	Godhopping
Two Cow Garage	Been So Long
Thurston Moore	Fri/End
Sound Team	Handfull of Billions
Alberta Cross	Lucy Rider
Brian Wilson	In Blue Hawaii
VHS or Beta	Can't Believe a Single Word
Armchair Martian	Saving Anger
The Captains	Hatto Ni Pittoin
British Sea Power	Atom
Coldplay	In the Sun (feat. Michael Stipe)
The Lucksmiths	I Started a Joke
The Forms	Bones
Vampire Weekend	Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
Little Name	Tracy & I
Lucky Soul	Add Your Light to Mine, Baby
Action Camp	Best I Can Do
!!!	All My Heroes are Weirdos
Tullycraft	The Punks are Writing Love Songs

Comment:

Okay ... second attempt. As with the first, this is my misguided attempt to have a 40-something dad whip up mix CDs for his 18-year-old daughter who's off to college. She really liked the last CD (Needles in a Haystack) but even though I thought I was picking lesser-known bands for her musical edification, I was informed that they were only lesser-known to me and were actually mainstream in the indie rock arena.

So, I needed to go back to school as far as my own musical education went. As an avid Google Reader user, I figured subscribing to few music blogs might help me get back in touch with the current music scene. I quickly discovered that not only did the blogs report on music but usually included some links to MP3 files as well. Very cool!

The above mix is what I enjoyed most from the files I downloaded the first week I was subscribed. What a great way to find new artists and music genres! Of course there are some songs like Feist's "1234" that are played a million times a day on Apple ads but most are songs I'm hoping she's not already familiar with.

Just FYI for those interested, here's the 14 blogs I'm currently monitoring:

Aquarium Drunkard
Blogcritics Music
EAR FARM
Glorious Noise
gorillavsbear
i guess i'm floating
My Old Kentucky Blog
ninebullets
Nothing But Green Lights
Ryan's Smashing Life
stereogum
Twangville
who killed the mixtape?
You Ain't No Picasso

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