ah, a mixtape of one of my all-time favorite bands (saw 'em twice in one day during the acl festival a few years back) for a fri*nd who hasn't really heard much of them. i know a two-hour mix may be ov …

A two-disc "best of the rest", custom-compiled to introduce a frie nd to some Dylan he hasn't heard before. He already has a solid set of Bob Dylan records: all the albums released during the sixties, …

After discovering that all the old Madness albums are out of print following the expiry of the band's contract with Virgin, I started thinking about how the next label to inherit the back catalogue cou …

My re-tooling of my old "best of vocal Eno" mix from six and a half years ago, done using the relatively recent remasters. One of these days I promise to finish my multi-volume instrumental/ambient Eno …

Who ARE these guys, and why didn't anyone tell me???Okay, that is stupid, the internet is a wonderful thing. Some of the titles here may be butchered, found all of them on a download of Relax Music, an …

(July 2008) Made for Tyler's birthday. He's a wonderful guitarist and I was lucky enough to have had a chance to play with him for a number of months before he moved to L.A. We wanted to work on a cove …

Too long. Also, "Don't Go Into That Barn," my vote for the spookiest of all Tom Waits songs, didn't quite fit.

Threw this together this weeke-nd after picking up a few more of the recent reissues, but held off on posting so Rob could get his up first. Like Rob, the 'Mats were a huge part of my life in the 80s.  …

Additional track on Disc 1/Side A: 31) Answering Machine. Back in the mid-to-late '80s, in the prime of my teenage years, discovering the Replacements completely transformed my life. They were everythi …