***MonthlyIndieMixtape #2***

Well howdy partn'r!

Have I got one rootin', tootin' good time for y'all this month! Plenty of new tracks to whip on your dancin' sandals and hop around your Grandmothers old creaky floorboards! But don't wake Grandpa!

Thanks for all you who have jumped on board over the last few weeks. It's really great to know that there is people out there who are willing to lend me their ears.

So without much more whoopla, I introduce to you the second installment of the MonthlyIndieMixtape!!!


Tracklisting:

Among The Oak & Ash - The Housewife's Lament
Ant - Time I Was Gone
Baby Woodrose - Coming Around Again
Cameron McGill & What Army - Dark Times, Dark Times
Cercueil - Skip One Breath
Chase Pagan - Gun And The Sword
Cicada - Falling Rockets
Deportees - Under The Pavement The Beach
Diane Birch - Valentino
The Drums - Let's Go Surfing
Eskimo Fires - I'm Still Alive
The Fiery Furnaces - Charmaine Champagne
Ganglians - Lost Words
Gregory Alan Isakov - Light Year
The Grizzly Owls - Father Of The Revolver
Hungry Kids Of Hungary - Scattered Diamonds
Icarus Himself - Scars
King Of Prussia - Misadventures Of The Campaign
L'Homme Puma - La Marche De Mina
The Little Hands Of Asphalt - The Bull's Eye
The Lonely Forest - We Sing In Time
Love In October - Softerrors
The Lovely Feathers - Long Walks
Lunch Money - Wake Up World
Marina And The Diamonds - I Am Not A Robot
The Mars Volta - Since We've Been Wrong
Miike Snow - Black & Blue
Motorama - Bear
Needy Cat - Heavy On The Scene
Nightmare Of You - Eustacia Vye
Orba Square - Picture Perfect (All The Colours)
Owen - A Fever
Paolo Nutini - Coming Up Easy
Papercranes - Shell
Pete Yorn - Don't Wanna Cry
Phoenix - Lisztomania
Revolver - Balulalow
Richard Walters - Weather Song
The Rumble Strips - Not The Only Person
Silvia's Magic Hands - For A Kiss Or Two
Simone White - Yakiimo
Slow Club - When I Go
The Sounds - Beatbox
Sparrow And The Workshop - Last Chance
Starfucker - Girls Just Want To Have Fun
The Submarines - You Me & The Bourgeoisie (Alaska In Winter Remix)
Tame Impala - Half Full Glass Of Wine
The Temper Trap - Love Lost
Traps - Construct/Deconstruct
Until June - Sound Of Defeat
The Vega Star -The Collector
Vuk - Red-Beard
We Are Enfant Terrible - I Can't Help Myself
When Saints Go Machine - You Or The Gang
Windmill - Epcot Slow
Wintermute - Shark Vs E-Boat
Youves - Fully Erect Serve And Protect
Yves Klein Blue - Blasphemy
Zeus - That's All
The Zookeepers - Chicken


A classy little collection of music goodness. Put a little in your ears each day to ward off the nasty "Top 40" bug that has taken over so many in this world.

Enjoy my pretties..............


This be the link for the music I think........

MonthlyIndieMixtape #2

Video Of The Week.

Totally addicted to this great young band right out of Western Australia. Check out their amazingly hypnotic video right here, right now!!

Video Of The Week.

One eskimO - Kandi.

A fantastically animated journey through one little eskimo's eyes.

***MonthlyIndieMixtape #1***

Welcome all to the very first, brand spankin' new, "MonthlyIndieMixtape".

After the success of the weekly mixtape's I do hope you spread the word and get some more listeners over here for the monthly lists. Great bands, great songs. Great times to be had by all. There is a nice little mix in here that includes some rock, some folk, some dance and some experimental. But most of all the music includes heart. Check it out for yourself and let me know if you like the new design.

Here are the tracks in alphabetical order just for shits and giggles..............

Tracklisting:

Additional Moog - Signs On Fifty-Four
Alondra Bentley - Of All Living Creatures, Why A Human Being?
Andrew Bird - Ten-You-Us
Annuals - Hot Night Hounds
Balmorhea - Settler
Beads - Alligator
Bowerbirds - Northern Lights
Casper & The Cookies - Little King
The Chairs - Crooked Concubines
Crash Kings - Mountain Man
The Curious Mystery - Go Forth And Gather
Director - Don't Think I'll Know
Donora - Shout
Elephant Stone - I Am Blind
Eskimo Joe - Falling For You
Fergus Brown - Hot Kisses, Cold Tiles
Florence And The Machine - Dog Days Are Over
Great Bloomers - The Young Ones Slept
Halloween, Alaska - The Hollywood Sign
Hayden - Disappear
Hiawata! - White Men, Black Hearts
In-Flight Safety - I Could Love You More
It Hugs Back - Q
Jack Penate - Pull My Heart Away
James Yuill - No Pins Allowed
Jenny Owen Youngs - What Beats Within
Jets Overhead - Heading For Nowhere
Jukebox The Ghost - Lighting Myself On Fire
Lady Of The Sunshine - Smoking Gun
The Legends - Dancefloor
The Lemonheads - Yesterlove
Liechtenstein - All At Once
The Loves - You Don't Have To
The Lovetones - A New Low In Getting High
The Maccabees - One Hand Holding
Mando Diao - High Heels
Marie Fisker - Seven Days
Maupa - Satellites
The Meligrove Band - Everyone's A Winner
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - There Will Be Mud
My Latest Novel - A Dear Green Place
New Cassettes - You Won't Stop
Oh No Ono - Icicles
One eskimO -Kandi
Our Family Name - The War
Pajaro Sunrise - Salt And Spoon
Pajo - Where Eagles Dare
The Phantom Band - Halfhound
Plushgun - How We Roll
Robert Gomez - Lock The Door
Ryan Driver - That's Which Way The Water Falls
Sean Fournier - Holding The Hand Of The Hurricane
Sean Riley & The Slowriders - Buffalo Turnpike
The Sheer - Here And Now And Long Before
Telekinesis! - Imaginary Friend
Think About Life - Johanna
Tigers That Talked - Black Heart, Blue Eyes
Vib Gyor - Tiny Daggers
The Weatherman - Follow You Everywhere
Wilco - Solitaire


So get downloading and get listening!!! I really hope you enjoy it as much as I do!


MonthlyIndieMixtape #1

On Hiatus Until The New Mixtape's Arrive

So here's the plan people.

1 - The Weekly Mixtape's will cease to continue.

2 - Collect many great songs over the next week or so.

3 - Begin a new monthly Mixtape which is more fun and more accessible.

4 - Do it all again next month.

Do you dare hold your breath in A-N-T-I-C-I-P-A-T-I-O-N............????

Mixtape #10

FINALLY!!!!

See what happens when life gets in the way? You completely lose track of everything else and struggle to fit your passions into your busy lifestyle. Well my friends, I have finally found that time. It's taken me around a month to get back on track but here I am with the 10th installment of The Week In Sound Mixtape.

Now I've been having a think about it and in all reality this mixtape may have to turn into a monthly thing. I just don't have the time to search for all this great music during the week so if I make this a monthly endeavour then we are more likely to get the good stuff and not just any old song that I find laying around. I will have a think about my options in the next few days. I already know that there are a few monthly playlists getting around so is it really worth having another? I say it is but is that what the public want. Only time will tell.

So without wasting your time any longer, I FINALLY introduce the 10th and possibly final 'weekly' mixtape.

Listen & enjoy kiddos!!


Tracklisting:

Ape School - Deathstomp
Ape School's Michael Johnson wraps his catchy songs in a hazy, insulated sound that references neo-psych heroes Mercury Rev and the Flaming Lips, ropes in elements of hip-hop (in the rhythms), shoegaze (the drifting textures are reminiscent at times of the Lilys best work), and oddly enough, a shoestring budget version of stadium dreamers like Coldplay or Keane.

The Bicycles - B-B-Bicycles
The four piece pop perfectors from Toronto, The Bicycles, are known for their sparkly live shows filled with catchy two minute tunes that’ll get your heart racing.

Foreign Born - Early Warnings
Foreign Born began in San Francisco shortly after Matt Popieluch and Lewis Pesacov became roommates. They’d first met a few years earlier in a university piano practice-room, jamming out to the classic strains of “Sunny Afternoon.” Many years and projects later, they found themselves in Los Angeles, where they hooked up with Lewis’ old high school pal, Ariel Rechtshaid and his accomplice, drummer Garret Ray. They played together for only one weekend and thus Foreign Born was, er- born.

Hopewell - Island
After more than a decade of continuous releases, Hopewell has become an institution in the indie space rock scene. Weathering music industry collapse, stylistic shifts and near fatal personal conflicts, the tenacious band continues to pump out genre defying music to critical acclaim.

Jenny Owen Youngs - Led To The Sea
Jenny Owen Youngs is a feisty, hyper-sensitive, disease-free singer/songwriter/former girl scout who wants to be your friend. Claiming influences from Beck to Jesus Christ Superstar to Britney Spears, her music is an echo of Erin McKeown hopping into Jeff Buckley¹s Pontiac, cruising backwoods Alabama red dirt roads and singing along to The Sundays and Nick Drake. Her songs straddle the heart-wrenching and the tongue-in-cheek and say giddyup.

The Lightning Seeds - All I Do
Lightning Seeds are an alternative pop band, largely the brainchild of writer, singer and guitarist Ian Broudie (born 4th August 1958 in Liverpool, England). The band currently consists of Broudie (vocals, guitar), Ali Kane (keyboards), Martyn Campbell (bass) and Simon Rogers (percussion).

Little Birdy - Brother
Little Birdy is an australian, four piece rock band from Perth. The band formed in 2002 when songwriter, singer and guitarist Katy Steele left her former band the plastik scene. She joined with Simon Leach on guitar, Scott (‘Barney’) O’Donoghue on bass, and Matt Chequer on drums.

Magic Arm - Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
Magic Arm - who, in 2009, you will see erroneously described as a singer-songwriter; laptop-folk troubadour; and more - is otherwise known as Marc Rigelsford. Like Beck, Beta Band or Adem, Magic Arm is a sonically curious soul who fuses folk, rock and effervescent electronics. But, as reference points, none of those three quite hit the spot.

The Meligrove Band - Planets Conspire
The Meligrove Band are a Canadian indie rock band, based in Toronto, and consisting of Jason Nunes on vocals, guitar and piano, Darcy Rego on vocals and drums, and Michael Small on bass guitar.

Passion Pit - To Kingdom Come
Passion Pit is an American electro band from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Formed in 2007, the group consists of Michael Angelakos (lead vocals/keyboards), Ian Hultquist (keyboards), Ayad Al Adhamy (synth/samples), Jeff Apruzzese (bass) and Nate Donmoyer (drums).

The band’s debut Chunk Of Change EP (originally intended as a Valentine’s Day gift from Angelakos to his girlfriend) was released on September 16th, 2008 .

Piers Faccini - Your Name No More
Piers Faccini began his music career in London in the band ‘Charley Marlowe’, which he fronted alongside the poet Francesca Beard. In 2001, the band ended and Piers started solo work. He writes music for television - notably the BBC docudrama ‘Killing Hitler’ - as well as painting. His style is rhythmic and melodic. His album is mostly based around acoustic guitar riffs, whereas his earlier music and TV themes reflect his interest in dance music.

Viva Voce - Good As Gold
A Portland, OR based duo & married couple, Viva Voce have an extremely diverse sound. The music captures both the sweet and the melancholy, with comparisons ranging from the fey pop antics of Belle & Sebastian to the transcendental cinematics of the best Grandaddy. Their sound seems far more expansive than that of a simple duo, and are currently seeking soundtrack & commercial work through their agents at Bank Robber Music.

The Woodlands - Asleep In September
The Woodlands are a wife and husband duo from Portland, OR that craft intimate indie folk-pop songs of lyrical poetry, lush melody, and intelligent simplicity. Hannah & Samuel churn beauty spun of melancholy and mirth, conjuring faraway lands and the longing of lovers. It is the allure of song and sound, wrapped in the hauntingly sweet hush of wonder…

The Working Title - Physical Love
The Working Title was five members, then they were four members, then they were three members, then they were two members, and then there was one.

The remaining member is the ever-determined mastermind of Joel Thomas Hamilton.

(blah blah blah…)

Zee Avi - Monte
Zee Avi, also known as Koko Kaina, is a singer/songwriter from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is best known for her Christmas song No Christmas for me, which became a YouTube success in 2007.


Well there you go. 15 new tracks to listen to and bounce along with. I really hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

Until next time my friends, here are some links to stuff:


The Week In Sound Mixtape #10.

Oh and here is the cover also. I really gotta remember to put in in with the mixtape before I upload it!!

Mixtape #10 Cover.


Take care now y'all!!

The Doc.

Mixtape #9

Hi gang!

First of all let me apologise for being late. I scored myself a job and since it is a 5am to 5pm affair, that's including travel, the Week In Sound mixtapes will have to come whenever i get a chance now. Hold those tears, it will all be ok.

In this volume I have featured a few Australian artists who have new releases. I always enjoy listening to the new Australian stuff as it makes me feel like I'm back home. Australia has some wonderful undiscovered talent. Actually, while I'm at it, I'll throw you a link. The site is called Triple J Unearthed and it is a site that allows bands and artists from all over Australia to upload their music and share with the world. You can vote for songs that you like and you can even download tracks from the artists pages.

Triple J Unearthed.

So anyway, back to what we are all here for, the 9th Mixtape!! Lets have a bit of a geezer and see what lucky bands have made it onto the list.

Tracklisting:

Bertie Blackman - White Owl
Bertie (Beatrice) Blackman (born 1982) is an Independent Australian singer, songwriter and guitarist. Taking inspiration from an eclectic array of musicians such as Björk, Erykah Badu, Suzanne Vega, Joni Mitchell, and Radiohead, Bertie's songs are at once heartfelt and uniquely her own.

Bob Evans - Pasha Bulka
Kevin Edward Mitchell, is an Australian musician, most famous for his role as vocalist/guitarist for the band Jebediah. Kevin Mitchell often performs his solo work under the pseudonym of Bob Evans. He plays Beatle-esque pop songs about love and life.

Deer Tick - Art Isn't Real (City Of Sin)
Deer Tick is an American rock band from Providence, Rhode Island led by guitarist and singer-songwriter John McCauley.[1] The band began as McCauley's solo project in December 2004. Within a few years he had acquired a strong following through constant touring in parts of the Atlantic Northeast and self-released CD-Rs. Deer Tick's music has often been described as a combination of folk, blues, and country with a strong grunge influence. McCauley is known for his distinct gruff-sounding voice.

Dogs Die In Hot Cars - Like Music To My Ears
Dogs Die in Hot Cars are a Scottish band which became popular in the UK and international music scene around the same time as Biffy Clyro and Franz Ferdinand. The band's name comes from a RSPCA campaign to advise dog owners not to leave their pets in hot cars and has often been a strong talking point of polarized views. In an interview with U.S. Rolling Stone magazine, singer/guitarist Craig Macintosh mentioned that "Rolling Stone in Australia said it was the best band name in the history of rock & roll. But then the NME said it was the worst".

Eskimo Joe - Foreign Land
Eskimo Joe is an Australian rock band. Eskimo Joe formed in 1997 in Fremantle, Western Australia. Kavyen 'Kav' Temperley (bass/vocals), Joel Quartermain (guitar) and Stuart MacLeod (guitar) formed a band to compete in the Australian National Campus Band Competition.

Halloween, Alaska - In Order
Halloween, Alaska is a Minnesota-based band consisting of James Diers (voice, guitar, keys), Jake Hanson (brother of Tapes 'n Tapes drummer Jeremy Hanson, guitar), Matt Friesen (electric bass guitar), and David King (acoustic and electronic drums). Members of the group are or have been part of the bands The Bad Plus, Love-Cars, Happy Apple, 12 Rods, Cowboy Curtis, Minneapolis Dub Ensemble, and The Gang Font feat. Interloper.

Montt Mardié - Elisabeth By The Piano
Montt Mardié (born David Olof Peter Pagmar on September 16, 1983) is a Swedish singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and composer. As of November 2007, Montt Mardié has released two full length albums as well as various singles under the Swedish record label Hybris. His first released studio album was Drama (Montt Mardié album) in 2005.

My Latest Novel - Lacklustre
My Latest Novel are a Scottish band, from Greenock & Gourock. They augment the traditional rock line up of guitars, drums, bass and keyboards, with the use of violins, xylophones and undulating percussion, as well as multi-part vocals. Their musical style is notable for its contrasting melancholic and uplifting moods, the unusual use of the spoken word, and by surprising mid-song changes in tempo and atmosphere.

New Ruins - Symptoms
New Ruins began in 2004 as a home recording project of Elzie Sexton and J.Caleb Means. They have been compared to: Band of Horses, Sun Kil Moon, Modest Mouse, The National, My Bloody Valentine, TV on the Radio.

Red Red Meat - Buttered
Red Red Meat was a '90s Chicago-area blues-influenced alternative rock band. After their break-up, frontman Tim Rutili went on to form Califone, for which many of Red Red Meat's former members, including producer Brian Deck, often record and perform. Tim Hurley went on to form Sin Ropas.

The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Deathbridge In Lethbridge
The Rural Alberta Advantage is a Canadian indie rock band that formed in 2005. Based in Toronto, Ontario, the band consists of Paul Banwatt, Amy Cole and Nils Edenloff. First formed in 2005, the band released a demo tape and an EP independently before completing their first full-length album, Hometowns, in early 2008.

Ryan Driver - When Were You In Mexico?
Ryan Driver is a member of The Silt, The Reveries, Deep Dark United, St. Dirt Elementary School, Double Suicide, The Draperies, The Fake New Age Music Band, Blah Blah 666, The Guayaveras, The Ryan Driver Quartet, N, Cluttertones, and The Everytime Band, sometimes singing, sometimes playing piano, sometimes pieces of balloons, sometimes flute, sometimes analog synth, sometimes guitalele, sometimes street-sweeper bristles, sometimes guitar.

Too Soft - Bubble Gum
Too Soft are an Indie/Folk/Pop/Acoustic duo straight out of France. I haven't been able to find out much about them but I do know that their music is great. Hopefully we get to hear and learn more about them in the future.

We Were Promised Jetpacks - Moving Clocks Run Slow
We Were Promised Jetpacks are a four-piece rock band, formed in Edinburgh, United Kingdom in 2003 by high school friends Adam Thompson (Guitar/Vocals), Michael Palmer (Guitar), Sean Smith (Bass) and Darren Lackie (Drums). This shit could/should go places... a clever guitar pop record to usher in the new warmer weather.

White Belt Yellow Tag - You're Not Invincible
Justin Lockey is surely one of the north-east's most prolific music-makers. As well as his production work for the likes of This Ain't Vegas and Catweasels, he was quick to establish new outfit The British Expeditionary Force after his former group, yourcodenameis:milo, broke up. It seems Lockey's itchy feet have struck again with the formation of his latest band, White Belt Yellow Tag. This new project finds him moving on from the mechanised tones of yourcodenameis:milo and the prog-rock of The British Expeditionary Force, instead channelling his obvious love of post-punk into melodious pop. What does remain is his penchant for richly textured sounds.


Super stuff hey? Yessums. There is some great stuff in there and it gets me all excited to know that Eskimo Joe's new record is just around the corner. I love them guys!

Well anyways, I'm off to find some more wonderful music for you guys to go in the 10th mixtape which will arrive sometime next week. Not too sure when but I guarantee it will be done.

You peeps have a great week listening to your music.

Take care.


Slink de Link:

Mixtape #9 - The Week In Sound.

Oh and before I go, here's a link to all the Mixtape album covers. All the way back to Volume 1.

Mixtape Covers!!