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Nebraska Pop Festival + Free Mixtape
Aug 18th
Between August 27 – 30, 24 indie pop bands from New York City, Chicago, Seattle, Dallas, Milwaukee, Omaha, Lincoln, NE, Lawrence, KS, Ames, IA, Des Moines, Denmark, Brazil, and Indonesia will be playing at the first-ever Nebraska Pop Festival.
The festival is being held in benefit of Mavradio, the college radio station at the university Nebraska-Omaha to which all proceedings will go to directly.
Ticket prices are the following: 8 USD in advance,10 USD at the door each night (5 USD at the Thursday night show). Four-day passes are available for 25 USD at etix.com.
Nebraska Pop Festival 2009 lineup
Thursday August 27th @ Barley Street Tavern. Start time 7:00PM with end time at 1:00AM (This show is 5 USD at the door)
1. The Argyle Wishlist (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
2. The Sleepover (Lincoln, Nebraska)
3. Magic Crayon (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
4. Honey and Darling (Omaha, Nebraska)
5. The Tinycakes (Chicago, Illinois)
6. Pennyhawk (Ames, Iowa)
Friday August 28th @ The Waiting Room. Start time 7:00PM with end time at 1:00AM (ALL AGES SHOW)
1. Spiders For Love (Omaha, Nebraska)
2. Transmittens (Lawrence, Kansas)
3. Mr. and Mrs. Muffins (Jakarta Indonesia & Seattle, Washington)
4. Talking Mountain (Omaha, Nebraska)
5. Poland (Seattle, Washington)
6. Strega (NYC, New York)
Saturday August 29th @ The Waiting Room. Start time 7:00PM with end time at 1:00AM (ALL AGES SHOW)
1. Electric Needle Room (Omaha, Nebraska)
2. Hanwell (Des Moines, Iowa)
3. Labrador w/ special guest Dereck Higgins on bass (Copenhagen, Denmark)
4. Mammoth Life (Lawrence Kansas)
5. Thunder Power (Omaha, Nebraska)
6. Cleemann w/ special guest Dereck Higgins on bass (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Sunday August 30th @ The Waiting Room. Start time 7:00PM with end time at 1:00AM (ALL AGES SHOW)
1. Sweet Pea (Omaha, Nebraska)
2. Andrew K. Butler (Lincoln, Nebraska)
3. Cowboy Indian Bear (Lawrence, Kansas)
4. At Land (Omaha, Nebraska)
5. The Mother Z’s (Chicago, Illinois)
6. Darren Keen (Omaha, Nebraska)
A free mixtape of the bands performing can be downloaded here.
The Worst Mixtape To Ever Exist
Aug 11th
This morning I came across a great mixtape of Japanese and Korean music made by a girl called Rinkymoon over at LiveJournal. She kindly gave me permission to re-post it here which I’m very happy about because this mix (despite its title) is cracking. It’s mostly indie, shoegaze and post-rock, so if you’re into that and haven’t heard much of Japanese/Korean music you should definitely download it.
Tracklist
~ Maikotobranco – “Autumn Tree” ~
Maikotobranco – “Phase”
Denci Hinji – “Aspirin Boy”
Denci Hinji – “Winter Night Blackout”
Super Car – “White Surf Style 5″
~ Oldfish – “Dot Dot Dot” ~
Apartment – “Sleeping Bird”
Denci Hinji – “Counting God”
Shugo Tokumaru – “Rum Hee”
Perfect Piano Lesson – “Telegnosis”
~ Riki Kinoshita -“Like a Daydream” ~
Kim Jun Won – “Violette Imagination”
Nell – “Minus”
Nell – “Words You Should Never Trust 1″
~ Nell – “My Reason” ~
Soulsberry – “Little Escape”
Vola & The Oriental Machine – “Double Standard”
Nell – “Words You Should Never Trust 2″
Basement Mixtape
Jul 25th
I’ve accumulated a lot of CDs over the years. A rather large portion of them have been in the basement for some time, either because I didn’t listen to them anymore or just didn’t want them cluttering up the apartment. But neither of those reasons mean I don’t like them (although some I might consider a bit embarrassing) so I decided to take a bunch up with me and make a mixtape out of them. And here’s the result. Bit of an odd mix perhaps, but like most I’ve had a varied taste in music over the years:
Tracklist
01. The Mo – “The Mo”
02. Play Dead – “Witnesses”
03. Anouk – “It’s So Hard” (Acoustic)
04. Prince – “I Would Die 4 You”
05. Danielle Brisebois – “Crawling”
06. Zero Le Creche – “Last Year’s Wife”
07. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – “Mickey’s Monkey”
08. Dilba – “Keep A Promise”
09. Flash and The Pan – “Midnight Man”
10. Morrissey – “Ordinary Boys”
11.Teena Marie – “Fix It” (12 Inch Version)
12. All About Eve – “Don’t Follow Me (March Hare)”
13. Björk – “Isobel”
14. Quicksand – “Delusional”
15. Talking Heads – “City Of Dreams”
Soundtrack For The Modern Teenage Brat
Jul 18th
This is a mixtape I made sometime last year. It’s rather (er, very) silly but it was fun to make. I’d all forgotten about it but was reminded when I realized that my oldest niece is already a young teenager. Not that she’s a brat! Well maybe sometimes…
~ The Coathangers – “Don’t Touch My Shit!”, The Model – “Success” ~
Swedish National Day Mixtape ‘09
Jun 6th
Today is Sweden’s National Day, which I will not be celebrating by watching the royal family wave at their minions on TV. No, listening music is much better, hence this mixtape of Swedish music, obscure as well-known. That, and eating strawberries with ice cream. Enjoy!
~Tracklist~
01. Lacrosse – “We Are Kids”
02. Mando Diao – “Gloria”
03. Hearts Of Black Science – “Cold Comfort”
04. Bob Hund – “Världens bästa dåliga låt”
05. El Perro Del Mar – “Let Me In”
06. Peter, Björn & John – “Nothing To Worry About” (Troublemaker Remix)
07. Kalle J – “Din egen delivery service”
08. They Live By Night – “Endless Summer”
09. The Sounds – “Dorchester Hotel”
10. The Mary Onettes – “God Knows I Had Plans”
11. Kite – “Say It Ain’t So”
12. Fanfarlo – “Sand and Ice”
13. Robert Svensson – “I Was Summer”
14. Stygg – “Lunacy”
15. Light In Your Life – “We Could Be There”
16. Gentle Touch – “Once You Used To”
17. Miss Universum – “På tunnelbanan”
Cassette Tape Days
Feb 21st
I got a sudden urge to throw together a cheesy 80s mix of songs I used to listen to as a kid on my Walkman, much like the one Kim Wilde is sporting in the picture.
Consider yourself warned though: I was mainly into pop music alá Madonna back then; The Smiths and the like didn’t enter my record collection well into my teens. (Okay that’s not completely true but since I wanted a strictly cheesy mix I had to exclude some of more “credible” bands and artists I may have listened to back then)
Once again this is a Spotify mix so if you don’t have access to the program you can’t listen. It sucks, I know, but apparently there are some workarounds on how to get an account despite living in a country where Spotify supposedly isn’t available yet. I’ll let you seek out those on your own though.
Those of you who have access can find the playlist here. Some of the artists included besides the already mentioned: Billy Idol, Sandra, Ofra Haza, Pet Shop Boys, Samantha Fox and Eurythmics.
Enjoy my cheesy stroll down memory lane!
Crimes Of Passion – A Valentine’s Mix
Feb 11th
Valentine’s Day is coming this weekend, Saturday to be exact. I told myself that I wasn’t going to do a mix but then I got bored and – voila!
It’s a rather mellow yet experimental and perhaps, at times, a bit depressing blend of songs… you get the picture. Basically a little something for everyone depending on your feelings towards Valentine’s: some love it, some hate it, some just don’t really care…
But regardless of what you think of this commercially fabricated holiday, remember: If anything, it gives you a good excuse to eat a lot of chocolate, heart-shaped or not.
Tracklist
~ Sleazy Romance – “Song About Love” ~
~ The Tiny – “I Don’t Like (The Way You Move Me)” ~
~ Pluramon – “Drowning In You” ~
~ Swan Lake – “Heartswarm” ~
~ Rockettothesky – “A Cute Lovesong, Please” ~
~ eas/Svart Bröllop – “(Pasamos Por La) Diagonal” ~
~ My Little Pony – “Do You Really Love Me, Or Am I Just In Your Network?” ~
~ Laakso – “Stay Tuned To My Love” ~
~ Mark Kozelek – “Finally” ~
~ Highspire – “Love Me Or Leave Me” ~
~ Cat Power – “Dark End Of The Street” ~
~ Windy & Carl – “My Love” ~
Mixtapes Anonymous
Feb 1st
[Image via PostSecret]
I think this is a really cute idea. In the past I’ve considered giving out anonymous postcards and letters to strangers as a surprise but this is even better. Too bad I’m paranoid about getting caught. Don’t want some grumpy old man wondering why you have your fingers down his mail slot. OK, that just sounded wrong…