The usual internal debating and spreadsheeting has been underway here for several weeks as List Season moves forward. Instead of giving you several dozens of albums this year, I give you this mix of the runners-up and soon, a Top Ten. You can grab the zip file here. I also made a Spotify mix, because [...]
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Posted 18 December 2011
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Also tagged: A.A. Bondy, Brett DeTar, Dark Mean, Glossary, Kurt Vile, little hurricane, Lydia Loveless, Megafaun, Middle Brother, Other Lives, Richmond Fontaine, Riviera, Star Anna, Whitehorse
I’d been tracking The Roadside Graves for a while now, and even ranked their last full-length, LP, My Son’s Home, in my Top 20 of 2009. They’ve been on a roll since then, releasing the fantastic EP, You Won’t Be Happy With Me, earlier this year. So they’d been on my must-see list for Pickathon [...]
Yes, I enjoy making fun of hippies and I don’t particularly enjoying camping. However, I am very much looking forward to this weekend’s Pickathon festival just outside Portland. For three days and two nights, I will sleep on the ground in the woods (or, rather, on a Deluxe Series Thermarest) in order to take advantage [...]
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Posted 01 August 2010
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Also tagged: Bonnie Prince Billy, Chatham County Line, Cotton Jones, Heartless Bastards, Little Wings, Pickathon, Portland, Richmond Fontaine and Black Prairie., Sam Quinn, The Cave Singers, The Deep Dark Woods, Typhoon
I made you a new mix. It was going to be a thematic follow-up to February with an optimistic, spring-like bent, but I don’t have many mp3s that fit that description. It also started raining again in Oregon. So here’s a random lil mix of new tunes and old favorites. Get the zip file here. [...]