Jon Wolf's Highly Rec'd August Mixtape - "I'd Know Those Eyes From 100 Miles Away"

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HIGHLY REC'D - THE MONTHLY MIXTAPE
Because good music is a right, not a privilege.

August '09: "I'd Know Those Eyes From 100 Miles Away"
1. Sam Bennett and The Sharp Knees - Speak To Me Softly
2. New Numbers - Hinterlands
3. The Drums - Let's Go Surfing
4. Whale Tooth - Clever
5. The Drowners - Summer Break My Fall
6. The Lovely Eggs - I Like Birds (But I Like Other Animals Too)
7. All Girl Summer Fun Band - Everything I Need
8. Grand Duchy - Lovesick (Frank Black & wife Violet Clark)
9. Grand Duchy - Black Suit
10. Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning
11. Julian Plenti - Games For Days (Paul Banks of Interpol)
12. Pete & The Pirates - Good Girl (live, WOXY)
13. The Bats - Block of Wood (1987) (special thanks: The World's Best Ever & Jay @ Punks Git Cut!)
14. Dirty Projectors - Cannibal Resource
15. Tunng - Bullets
16. Plastic Operator - Folder
17. The Sounds - Lost In Love
18. Eric Sarmiento - Nothing's Ever Satisfying
19. Eric Sarmiento - Alejandra
20. Florence and The Machine - My Boy Builds Coffins
21. The Lemonheads - Fragile (Wire cover)
22. Coconut Records - The Summer
23. Guster - G Major (live)
24. Jason Anderson - July 4, 2004 (special thanks: I Am Fuel, You Are Friends)

Knew Feature: "You Gotta Be/Kidding Me!"
Dynamite Hack, one of the best one-album wonders ever (at least one album that anyone's ever heard). Kind of like a pissed-off Weezer, DH out of Alvin, TX, named after a Bill Murray line from Caddychack, got the most attention for their rock cover of Eazy-E's "Boyz-N-The-Hood". But they also made one of my personal favorite albums of all time, Superfast, perfect all the way through, and the cherry-on-top being the hidden track, a piano ballad cover of the rocking "Anyway" sung by the lead's sister, too f'n cool. Actually, "Pissed-off Weezer" is too easy of a comparison, I would say they are much closer to a "Frustrated Fountains of Wayne" or an "Inconvenienced Better Than Ezra". And there is finally word of a new album on the horizon, and I'm sure they're going to sound exactly the same after almost a decade ...

Dyno-mite!
Return of the living Dead Journalist! Deadjournalist.com is back! And not only are they nice enough to feature ME every month, but they, in all seriousness, have the the best music interviews anywhere, and believe it or not, it's actually interesting! It's like "Inside The Indie Rocker's Studio" (That was all me, sorry Chuck!) without the Will Ferrell impression or embarrassing ass-kissing.


HIGHLY REC'D - THE MONTHLY MIXTAPES

July '09: "I Wanna Drink Too Much!"

Covered & Smothered '09!

June '09: "Have You Ever Felt So Goddamn Strong?!"

May '09: "It's Still Okay To Like Me"

April '09: "Just One More Thing You Outgrew"

Don't Hog the Covers '09!

March '09: "Sometimes I Wish We'd Just Get Our Asses Fired!"

February '09: "Join a Local Gang and Get a Cool Nickname!"

January '09: "What Will We Do? What Will We Do?"


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