Video Of The Week.

Hey gang!

Sorry I've been a bit slack with the VOTW but here I am with an absolutely amazing vid to make a comeback!

Check out Greg Laswell in his new clip below:

Greg Laswell "Take Everything" from Vanguard Records on Vimeo.

***MonthlyIndieMixtape #11***

Some interesting musical facts about 11:

- The interval of an octave and a fourth is an eleventh. A complete eleventh chord has almost every note of a diatonic scale.
- The number of thumb keys on a bassoon, not counting the whisper key. (A few bassoons have a twelfth thumb key.)
- In the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, Spinal Tap's amplifiers go up to eleven.
- In Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, there are eleven consecutive repetitions of the same chord.
- In Tool's song Jimmy, the number eleven is heard numerous times in the lyrics.

Pretty cool eh? Well so is the 11th MonthlyIndieMixtape!!

Just check out what we have in store this month!!


Tracklisting:

Amy McDonald - This Pretty Face
The Apples In Stereo - Dream About The Future
Archie Bronson Outfit - Magnetic Warrior
Arid - Something Brighter
Black Tambourine - Pack You Up
Brasstronaut - Lo Hi Hopes
Cady Groves - Real With Me
Chad VanGaalen - Bones Of Man
Clogs - On The Edge
Club Smith - Lament
Cults - Most Wanted
Dag For Dag - I Am The Assassin
David John Broughton - Perfect Louse
Dead Meadow - That Old Temple
The Deadly Syndrome - Party City
The Dolly Rocker Movement - Sad Sally
DOOMSTAR! - Ronald Ray-Gun
Dr. Dog - Where'd All The Time Go?
Dum Dum Girls - Jail La La
The Dynamites - Somebody Stop Me
Emanuel And The fear - Guatemala
Empire Of The Sun - Half Mast (Slight Return)
Freaky Age - A Little Late
French Cowboy - Girl
The Fresh & Onlys - Diamond In The Dark
Goldfrapp - Alive
Goldheart Assembly - King Of Rome
Here We Go Magic - Hibernation
Island - Mistral
Japanther - $100 Dollar Remix
Jason Collett - Love Is A Dirty Word
John Butler Trio - I'd Do Anything (Soldier's Lament)
Josiah Wolf - The Trailer And The Truck
Kaki King - Falling Day
Laura Marling - Alpha Shallows
Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love - Where're You Goin?
Marching Band - It Will Never Slip
Matt Pond PA - Starting
Matt Wertz - Somebody New
MGMT - Brian Eno
Micky Green - The Game
Miles Kurosky - She Was My Dresden
Monster Movie - Down, Down, Down
The Pass - Colors
Pepper Rabbit - Harvest Moon
Plants And Animals - Tom Cruz
Portugal The Man - 60 Years
Quadron - Jeans
Roky Erickson With Okkervil River - Goodbye Sweet Dreams
S - We Are Not Friends
Silje Karlsen - You Shit Like Me
The Slack - Indier Than You
The Splinters - Sea Salt Skin
The Tallest Man On Earth - Troubles Will Be Gone
Tocotronic - Ein Leiser Hauch Von Terror
Very Truly Yours - The Ballad Of Growing Up
Violent Soho - Outsider
We Have Band - Love, What You Doing?
What Laura Says - Spoke
Wye Oak - My Neighbor


Ahh it's purdy ain't it?

You guys have got to spread the word about this!! These mixtapes are gradually gaining much more exposure and who in their right mind wouldn't want to be a part of the biggest thing since sliced ipods?

GET THE WORD OUT ABOUT MONTHLYINDIEMIXTAPES OR BE FORCED TO SPEND AN ETERNITY LISTENING TO LADY GAGA!!!

Peace Y'all.

A Goo Goo Goo, A Ga Ga Ga, here are the links so far:

MonthlyIndieMixtape #11 - Part 1.
MonthlyIndieMixtape #11 - Part 2.

***MonthlyIndieMixtape #10 - Part 2***

Welcome strangers and friends, and friends of strangers and strangers of friends. Here within your grasp is the second part to the magical 10th MonthlyIndieMixtape. Another 60 bands playing another 60 songs for well over 60 minutes! Well in fact it's more like 3 hours and 52 minutes but who's counting?

Well lets stop dilly dallying and get on with it shall we? Hmmm, Yes...........


Tracklisting:

Admiral Freebee - My Hippy Ain't Hip
Air Formation - Low December Sun
Alcoholic Faith Mission - Put The Virus In You
Angus & Julia Stone - On The Road
April Smith And The Great Picture Show - Movie Loves A Screen
The Automatic - Interstate
The Ballet - The House On Fire
Beach House - Walk In The Park
Bears - Let Me See You Again
Beck - Little Hands (Feat. Feist, Wilco & Jamie Lidell)
Bibi Tanga & The Selenites - The Moon
The Big Big Bucks - Do It Or Diet
Butterfly Explosion - Chemistry
Eagle Scout - Spies Like Us
Electrocute - My Tube Top
Ellie Goulding - Guns And Horses
Emerald Park - The Commonfield
Emily Arin - It Wasn't Love But It Was Lovely
Fishermans Mission - Torr
Frightened Rabbit - The Loneliness And The Scream
Ghost Society - Recognize
Giant Drag - White Baby
Golden Triangle - Jellyroll
Good Weather For Airstrikes - And All Seems Lost
Happy Birthday - I Want To Stay (I Run Away)
Have Gun, Will Travel - Wolf In Shepherd's Clothes
Hitide Lotide - Beaded Blood
Humanzi - Just Like Bukowski
Jaguar Love - Everything Is Awesome
Jay Malinowski - There's A Light
Joanna Newsom - Soft As Chalk
John Nolan - Screaming Into The Wind
Julia Nunes - Grown A Pair
Kiss Kiss Kiss - Scarlet
La Habitación Roja - Younger
Local Natives - Sun Hands
Look Mexico - They Only Take The Backroads
Los Punsetes - Dinero
Lou Rhodes - Circles
Love Is All - Never Now
Monzano - The Mannequin Wakes
The Mountains & The Trees - Up And Down
Murmansk - Sweet Trio
Nom De Guerre - Run Run Run
Nothing People - Explode A View
Per England - Lust Och Hägring
Rafter - Timeless Form, Formless Time
Scanners - Salvation
St. Claire - You Itch Like A Secret
Standard Fare - Let's Get Back Together
The Swimmers - A Hundred Hearts
Tindersticks - Harmony Around My Table
Tunng - Hustle
Turin Brakes - Sea Change
Volcano Choir - Island, IS
We Are The Willows - The Windows
White Apple Tree - Broken Bones
White Hinterland - Bow & Arrow
Wolf People - Black Water
Zeep - Hidden Surprises


Very cool eh? There are some wonderful songs in there that will be on high rotation for The Doc for sometime to come. I hope you find a new band, a new sound, a new favourite song. If you don't there is always next month!

Stinkin' Links:

MonthlyIndieMixtape #10/2 - Part 1.
MonthlyIndieMixtape #10/2 - Part 2.

Check Out MIDDLE DISTANCE RUNNER!!

The Sun & Earth
March Tour Dates Announced

QRO Magazine, in a review of their newest release "The Sun & Earth", says "If you don’t like pop, Middle Distance Runner might just change your mind" and "full of elastic creativity that plays off accepted idioms with an ease and fluency that most bands would kill for."

"MDR’s sound clearly draws on mid-’90s British rock — think pre-OK Computer Radiohead, Blur, Oasis — and exudes a confidence and professionalism that many young bands lack.” – Washington Post


With a blend of tuneful pop-inspired indie-rock and darker, heavier layered guitars, Middle Distance Runner have been cited by Paste Magazine as “on the verge of something big” and heralded by SPIN as “insanely catchy.” The band completed The Sun & Earth earlier this year and joined Engine Room Recordings’ roster in July.

Formed by four high school friends in 2005, Middle Distance Runner self-released their debut album, Plane in Flames in 2006. A 2008 self-titled EP followed. Most recently, the band released their new album, The Sun & Earth. The video for the “The Unbeliever,” a stop-motion animation piece created by Philadelphia-based filmmaker Maxwell Sorenson, garnered early exposure for the band on MTVu, The Tripwire, and Fuse.tv among other outlets.

Middle Distance Runner are Stephen Kilroy (lead vocal, guitar, keyboard), Erik Dean (drums), Jay Smith (guitar, keyboard, vocals) and Tony Acampora (bass, vocals).



The Fury - Free Song Download

Album Art

Band Photo

Tour Dates

3/11 8pm IOTA Club & Cafe, Arlington, VA
3/12 7pm Evening Muse, Charlotte, NC
3/14 8pm Drunken Unicorn, Atlanta, GA
3/15 7pm Hayride Diner & Venue, Shreveport,
3/18 4pm SXSW (Sonny's Vintage)
3/20 12pm SXSW (Lovejoys)
3/21 12:30pm SXSW (Austin's Moose Lodge)
3/23 8pm The 51st Speakeasy, Oklahoma City, OK
3/24 8pm Cicero’s, St. Louis, MO
3/26 8pm Huckleberrys Pizza, Rock Island, IL

3/27 8.30pm Founder's Brewing Co., Grand Rapids, MI
3/28 8pm PJ's Lager House, Detroit, MI
3/29 8pm The Summit, Columbus, OH

3/31 8pm M Room, Philadelphia, PA



For more information please visit:
Official Page
MySpace Page
Engine Room Recordings

***MonthlyIndieMixtape #10 - Part 1***

Ten is a composite number, its proper divisors being 1, 2 and 5. Ten is the smallest noncototient, a number that cannot be expressed as the difference between any integer and the total number of coprimes below it.

Ten is the second discrete semiprime (2.5) and the second member of the (2.q) discrete semiprime family. Ten has an aliquot sum σ(n) of 8 and is accordingly the first discrete semiprime to be in deficit. All subsequent discrete semiprimes are in deficit. The aliquot sequence for 10 comprises five members (10,8,7,1,0) with this number being the second composite member of the 7-aliquot tree.

It is the aliquot sum of only one number the discrete semiprime 14.

Ten is a semi-meandric number.

Ten is the sum of the first three prime numbers, of the four first numbers (1 + 2 + 3 + 4), of the square of the two first odd numbers and also of the first four factorials (0! + 1! + 2! + 3!). Ten is the eighth Perrin number, preceded in the sequence by 5, 5, 7.

A polygon with ten sides is a decagon, and 10 is a decagonal number. But it is also a triangular number and a centered triangular number.

Ten is the number of n-Queens Problem solutions for n = 5.

Ten is Grand. As is the 10th instalment of MonthlyIndieMixtapes. IT'S TWO PARTS PEOPLE!! Part one at the start of the month and part two halfway thru!! Ten volumes in and getting better and better with age. You can sit here and read all the useless information I have quoted above or you could get on with downloading the mixtape and enjoying it, with the volume increased ten fold.

Tracklisting:

Anna F. - Time Stands Still
Babybird - Unloveable (Feat. Johnny Depp)
Bedwetters - Nightlight On-Off
Beta Chicks - That's What She Said
Bikinians - Old Lady face
Bill Fay - I Will Find My Own Way Back
Blaudzun - Jezebelle
Botanica - You Might Be The One
Bullets In Madison - Riot
Clinical Trials - Polly Got Away
College - A Real Hero (Feat. Electric Youth)
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Star Eyes (I Can't Catch It) (Feat. James Mercer)
The Dirties - Summer Sunday
Efterklang - I Was Playing Drums
Emmanuelle Seinger - Emmanuelle
Errors - Sorry About This Mess
Exsonvaldes - Sunlight
Fallulah - Hey You
Fang Island - Careful Crossers
Fenech-Soler - Lies
Fionn Regan - Lord Help My Poor Soul
The Flaws - Sixteen
Grand Hallway - Blessed Be, Honey Bee
Greg Laswell - Off I Go
Hot Club de Paris - Dog Tired At The Spring Dance
The Hours - Never See You Again
I Was A Teenage Satan Worshipper - Whatcha Lookin' At?
Jeremy Jay - This Is Our Time
Joe Pug - The First Time I Saw You
Kissaway Trail - Beat Your Heartbeat
Kumm - Beautiful Country
Lali Puna - Rest Your Head
Le Vibrazioni - Va Così
The Lighthouse And The Whaler - Soon You'll Be Found
Lightspeed Champion - I Don't Want To Wake Up ALone
Love Connection - I Know You're Real
Martha And The Muffins - Drive
Mina May - Slow Fire
MiniBoone - Devil In Your Eyes
The Morning Benders - Wet Cement
Mumford & Sons - Roll Away Your Stone
My Gold Mask - Bitches
Northern Portrait -The Operation Worked But The Patient Died
Operator Please - Logic
Paul Dempsey - Bats
Phantogram - Futuristic Casket
Ravenna - When Good Men Do Nothing
The Ruby Suns - Cranberry
Sex With Strangers - (The Part Where You) Surrender
Shy Child - The Beatles
So So Modern - Berlin
Sophie Madeleine - I Just Can't Stop Myself (From Writing Love Songs About You)
SPARK PET - Cerillas Y Muebles
The Spill Canvas - Don't Let Your Enemies Become Friends
Tony Sly - Love, Sick Love
Twin Tigers - Passive Idol
Wakey!Wakey! - Almost Everything
We Show Up On RadaR - It Should Be You And Me
Yoyoyo Acapulco - The Patterns Of The Swallows
Zeus - Marching Through Your Head


Wonderful, wonderful sounds. Magical, phantasmagorical sounds. Once again it's the smaller bands that show the way in how music is meant to sound. Raw, passionate and loaded with love.

I hope you all get as much out of this as me.

Stinky Pinky Links:

MonthlyIndieMixtape #10/1 - Part 1.
MonthlyIndieMixtape #10/1 - Part 2.

Video Of The Week.

Hey Guys!

Short and sweet, this one is neat!!

How About Some YouTube Subscribing Just To Pass The Day?

Hey Gang.

Well I thought I'd just let you know that MonthlyIndieMixtapes now has a YouTube channel for all the wonderful videos we find. You should really take the time out of you day and head on over to subscribe just so you never miss out on all the good things that may arise over there.

Do You Dare To Tube?