i have to thank everyone for all your wonderful emails, comments and tweets in the past month regarding the music mixes. i didn’t realise how much they meant to so many of you (a fact that makes my heart explode in double rainbows) and i’m really happy to know that the playlists encouraged you to go out and buy albums, see concerts and support the artists who you came to love just from hearing a couple of their songs.

so – here it is. a new music mix that’s been one month in the making. thanks for waiting! there are some treats in here for you, including new songs from beirut, best coast, dent may, clap your hands say yeah and the middle east, as well as my favourite track from the new bon iver album. caveman is also an exciting new band who i’m keen to hear more from.

i hope this sets off your weekend on a good note. have a great one.

Wild Horses. playlist:

1. Atlas Genius – Trojans
2. Beirut – East Harlem
3. Best Coast – Gone Again
4. Dent May – Fun
5. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Same Mistake
6. Caveman – December 25th
7. Bon Iver – Towers
8. The Middle East – Hunger Song
9. Mister Heavenly – Pineapple Girl
10. Holiday Shores – Spells
11. Light Vibes – Wish We Had
12. High Highs – Open Season
13. Wintercoats – Windmill

all music is for sampling purposes only – please go out and buy the artists’ records & support them at their shows!

PS: i can’t believe i haven’t included a Queen track in any of the mixes yet. i loved Queen so much growing up that my best friend and i staged a musical performing our favourite songs to our parents… i think they loved it (or they were just being really polite). you’re my best friend is a particular favourite because i always used to sing along to it in my mom’s car (it was the only cassette tape she had in there) and whenever it comes on now i feel like a 10 year old again.

elton john is another one of those dudes whose music makes me so happy, even though so many of his songs are rather bittersweet. the fact that i can sing along to them at the top of my voice probably does it for me.

(love how he dances at 1:10)

this album was inspired by music blogs. and it was made to show my appreciation for them. each track on the record features a sample of an indie band i have found specifically on a music blog in the recent past. the tracks are humble arrangements of bands that i really enjoy and it’s my hope that people that enjoy this album will seek out the bands i’ve sampled and support them as well.

that’s really all you need to know! oh and that i have it on repeat. here’s his take on mrs cold by kings of convenience:

i put together this playlist of paul simon / simon & garfunkel cover songs last week and have been wanting to share it… been toying around with the idea of sharing the mixes via a streaming site, and 8tracks seemed like a pretty good bet (thanks to kate for turning me onto them.) i know streaming can be a pain for my fellow south africans, but maybe give it a couple of listens if you’re using office bandwidth (muwahaaaa.) to everyone else with first world internet – enjoy.

edit: i’ve uploaded the playlist for you to download – get it here. playlist:

1. Deer Tick – Still Crazy After All These Years (Paul Simon Cover)
2. Reid Jameson – Homeward Bound (Simon and Garfunkel cover)
3. The Morning Benders – Mother And Child Reunion (Paul Simon Cover)
4. Lucy Wainwright Roche – America (Simon and Garfunkel Cover)
5. Grizzly Bear – Graceland (Paul Simon Cover)
6. Two Door Cinema Club – Cecilia (Simon and Garfunkel cover)
7. Jens Lekman – You Can Call Me Al (Paul Simon Cover)
8. Platinum Piped Pipers f. Raheem DeVaughn – 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover (Paul Simon Cover)

all music is for sampling purposes only – please go out and buy the artists’ records & support them at their shows!

mid-month music mix is here. there’s no rhyme or reason to this one, just a bunch of tunes i have been enjoying & playing to death lately. i decided not to over think it this time round. truth.

It was a good day. playlist:

1. Fleet Foxes – Lorelai
2. The Wilderness of Manitoba – Orono Park
3. Field – Sunday (Field is now known as Auditorium)
4. The Beatles – Michelle
5. Miriam Makeba – The Click Song
6. The Velvet Underground – Sunday Morning
7. Tenacious D – Fuck Her Gently
8. Ice Cube – Today Was A Good Day
9. Funkdoobiest – Rock On
10. Pixies – Havalina
11. Paul Simon – 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover (Pollyn’s Re-Edit Remix)
12. TV On The Radio – Killer Crane
13. Broken Social Scene – Swimmers
14. The Chemical Brothers – Asleep from Day
15. The Mutato Muzika Orchestra – Hey Jude

all music is for sampling purposes only – please go out and buy the artists’ records & support them at their shows!

taken by ariel rosenbloom for the spring issue of bullett magazine.

all photographs by ariel rosenbloom

Josh T. Pearson promised himself he wouldn’t shave until he put out a second record. Now he hasn’t seen his face in “over ten fucking years” and doesn’t know what he’ll do with the length of ashen fodder he’s grown when his new album Last of the Country Gentlemen is released this spring.

from this article about josh t. pearson

sweetheart i ain’t your christ (piano version with dustin o’halloran) by josh t. pearson

Even if I could hear what you said
I doubt my reply would be interesting for you to hear
Because I haven’t read a single book all year
And the only film I saw, I didn’t like it at all

i’m sure those of you who are socially awkward can relate! if i go to a party these days i’ll get a few drinks in me and hit the dance floor as soon as possible. it breaks down so many barriers, eh? plus it’s fun.

happy friday all – hope you get some dancing in.