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Au Revoir Spring: June 2009 Mix
June consists of the longest day of the year. June is sometimes a female's name. June is a bug. June is when you forget about hockey and basketball and focus entirely on baseball and the FedEx Cup. June has 30 days. June has 15 songs. June is here. You're late. Welcome to another podcast.
Sunshine Girls: May 2009 Mix
If young hearts do in fact spark fire then Sunshine Girls are only a figment of your tabloid newspaper reading soul. And if this makes absolutely no sense to you it's time to move to Canada and stop worrying about dying. Oh, you may as well stop taking advice from strangers while you're at it, too. But, from one stranger to another, please have a listen to this podcast, because, quite simply, we all need a distraction from time to time, and more often than not your hometown team will let you down.
Open the Door: April 2009 Mix
As each and every April seems to start slow, we decided to reflect the seasonal change with a similar pace in the music. Sometimes it's not a bad way to begin. You know, ease into it. Don't rush it. Relax. Take a deep breath. Things will pick up, but you have to be a little patient. Here it is, though -- fifteen new songs of whiskey, love, DJ's, night skies, and everything in between. Text all your friends.
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Au Revoir Spring: June 2009 Mix
June consists of the longest day of the year. June is sometimes a female's name. June is a bug. June is when you forget about hockey and basketball and focus entirely on baseball and the FedEx Cup. June has 30 days. June has 15 songs. June is here. You're late. Welcome to another podcast.
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 The Love Language - "Lalita" - The Love Language [Bladen County]
Mark it down: this is your funhouse theme song and middle school dance jam of '09. The tempered chorus, the railroad drums, the twisted mirror guitars, all here, all waiting for adoration and the groove. It's coming to you soon.
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 Paper Chase - "What We Should Do" - Someday This Will All Be Yours [Kill Rock Stars]
What you should do? Tweak. Tweak like none other. Run out of breath. Tweak some more.
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 The Radio Dept. - "David" - David [Labrador]
Summer means it's time to get excited about the Radio Dept. again. For real, son. You may be saying, "It feels like maybe fall would be more appropriate." Well, that's why your friends call you a whining baby behind your back, and do things like spit in your soup. ... Man, your friends are dicks.
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 Serengeti & Polyphonic - "My Patriotism" - Terradactyl [Anticon]
So, you spent a lot of time thinking hip-hop had dropped out of college, and you got a little worried 'cause you weren't entirely convinced it would make it in such a cold, cruel, corporate world without a degree. ... Then along came Serengeti & Polyphonic, reenrolling that shit. (Mostly to get back into ultimate frisbee, but what the fuck ever.)
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 Lightning Dust - "I Knew" - Infinite Light [Jagjaguwar]
If every band made music sound this easy, everyone would be in bands...making music sound this easy. Then we'd all get bored with life and stop making babies...entirely. Civilization would be doomed to its slow suffocation, and alcohol sales would double six times over. Possibly an adequate way to go out, though it's likely better for the Big Picture to let Lightning Dust remain an anomaly.
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 The Wind Whistles - "Turtle" - Animals are People Too
This is probably music for the post-apocalyptic oral tradition. But, you know, who the fuck's to say, really?
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 Vaselines - "Son of a Gun" - Enter the Vaselines [Sub Pop]
That scene in "The Wrestler" where Mickey Rourke is complaining about that Cobain pussy and how he ruined the 80s? Well, we'd like to think the inner motivation there was either Rourke's personal preference for the Vaselines' version of this song or the writing staff's preference for this song. Either way, Cobain can't be to blame, but yeah, sweet.
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 Mouthful of Bees - "Please and Thank You - Mouthful of Bees [Afternoon]
Hey, you fucking yokels, it's jazz night at the indie club and no one is there, 'cause the whole thing is just a drug front, and on nights like tonight everyone has all the drugs they'll ever need. Um, what?
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 Cub Country - "Where Are You?" - Stretch That Skull Cover and Smile [Future Farmer]
This is as close as we can get to legitimately mentioning Jets to Brazil (unless they make our best of decade list, hint hint), but the song remains the same, solid in its own right. There's a sort of lazy sprawl that would be Weezer's best song of the decade if they wrote it, and then there's a sort of mini build up bridge, but never in the way. Pretty nice.
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 Portland Cello Project - "Tallymarks" - The Thao and Justin Power Sessions [Kill Rock Stars]
It seems that for every cello project you've read about, there's a project happening in Portland. So it only stands to reason that eventually a Portland Cello Project would emerge. You might expect we'd tell you what such a thing sounds like, but you'd be expecting too much. Actually, it sounds like pleasant sadness. There. Are you happy?
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 Au Revoir Simone - "Shadows" - Still Night, Still Light [Our Secret Record Company]
It's unclear if things get any cooler than three girls performing mild pop on keys under a French name. Perhaps doing it for years and still plugging away. Consistency is cool, and so are really fun organs near the finish.
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 Magnolia Electric Co. "Josephine" - Josephine [Secretly Canadian]
You can count on Jason Molina to be classic: big guitar breaks, smooth singing, solid simple songwriting, and downhome arrangements. Classic.
magnoliaelectricco.com
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 Dan Mangan - "Road Regrets" - Nice, Nice, Very Nice
The result of the flex and the buff result could have very well spelled the end of the line for the Nice Nice. But it could have been predicted that our vulnerability to nostalgia, and penchant for romanticizing the past would bring about the Nice Nice Very Nice. It's a well-reviewed rib joint with all the allusions you'd ever need to a seedy night club...and Dan Mangan despises everything it stands for. Escape is what he needs.
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 Woods - "Rain On" - Songs of Shame [Woodsist]
So, the big trend in music these days is that bands have been creating their own shirk rays, using the machines on themselves and then recording their albums inside of empty Coke bottles before either the ray's effects wear off or the band dies of tiny hearts. Any word where we're at with Woods, by the way?
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 Think About Life - "Nueva Nueva" - Family [Alien8]
June's podcast nearly began with pig noises, so it's only fitting that we end it with the courageous looping Letterman's sneezing monkey; it's a fucking zoo in here! June is a fucking zoo! Well played, Think About Life, you are today's offhand tradition.
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