Marten Reed from Questionable Content Shares Some Sad Songs (2009.09)
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Tags: ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Apollo, Castor, Comics, Death Cab for Cutie, Deathmøle, do make say think, Five Hours Later, Home, How Near How Far, Hum, In Mind, IYLT, Jeph Jacques, Juno, Low, Marten, Martent Reed, mixtape, Mogwai, No Joy In Mudville, questionable content, seam, Still Light, Take Me Somewhere Nice, The Great Salt Lake, The Knife, They Move On Tracks of Never-Ending Light, This Will Destroy You, web comic
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When Starbucks started offering its Pumpkin Spice Lattes last week, I almost started to cry. Fine, that may be a little bit of an exaggeration but not by much. Don’t get me wrong. I love the fall. And, it’s not only because my birthday is in October. No other season brings the enjoyment that...
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Tags: Ari Hest, Big Casino, Bruce Springsteen, Cranberry Lake, down the shore, Dr. Dog, freelance writer, Golden Days, goodreads, Guster, hairspray, Homecoming King, indie music stores, Jen A. Miller, Jimmy Eat World, June, Labor Day, matt pond PA, mixtape, National Geographic, New Jersey, Pete Yorn, Philadelphia Inquirer, She & Him, shore, So Much Trouble, Surfer Girl, The Beach Boys, the Damnwells, This Is Not a Test, Thunder Road, USAirways, We All Belong, Writing
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IndyHall's Alex Hillman Knows Karaoke (2009.07)
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Tags: Barenaked Ladies, beastie boys, Billie Jean, Billy Joel, Bohemian Rhapsody, books, Chuck Berry, Citizen Space, co-working, DJ Joe, Don't Go Breaking My Heart, Don't Stop Believing, Elton John, Emma Persky, Faith, Fight for your Right, Geoff DiMasi, George Michael, Happy Cog, I Touch Myself, IgnitePhilly, Imagine, IndyHall, Jessie's Girl, John Lennon, Johnny B Goode, Journey, karaoke, Kiki Dee, kiss, Like a Prayer, Lovefool, Madonna, Michael Jackson, mixtape, My own worst enemy, National Mechanics, Neil Diamond, One Week, Piano Man, Prince, Queen, rick springfield, Sweet Caroline, Tara Hunt, The Beatles, the Cardigans, the Divinyls, The Wuffie Factor, Tony B Goode, Twist & Shout, whuffaoke, whuffie
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nonpretentious contributors have been Sasha Pasulka fans for a long time.¹ For folks like us, bloggers with extra letters – like B.A., B.S., J.D., M.A., Ph.D., M.D. – after their names, Sasha is a role model. Here’s a girl who traded in her job working on this for an opportunity to work on this.² ...
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Tags: A Beautiful Life, Blue Skies, Carey, Charlotte Martin, Counting Crows, Dark Blue, Diamond in the Rough, Did We Not Chose Each Other, Dirty Diana, dropkick murphys, ecstasy, Everyone Nose (All the Girls Standing in the Line for the Bathroom), Evil Beet Gossip, Gravel/Ani DiFranco, Hawthorne Heights, Jack's Mannequin, Joni Mitchell, kanye west, Kevin Rudolf, Lindsay Lohan, media mogul, Metro Station, Michael Jackson, Missy Higgins, mix tapes, mixtape, monster, Niki FM, nyc, Ode to Divorce, Regina Spektor, Rusted Root, Sasha Pasulka, Scar, Shawn Colvin, Singer-songwriter, Sophie B. Hawkins, Stromata, Taxi Ride, Tori Amos, Up All Night, Wish We Were Older, Zelda Lily
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While we do have a mix tape prepared – or, shall I say, while we did have a mix tape prepared – thanks to the wonderfully fabulous, genuinely hilarious Sasha Pasulka, we are going to postpone publishing Sasha’s mix for one week. On Wednesday and Thursday, we were unexpectedly unavailable. (Read: We’d tell you...
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Tags: Evil Beet Gossip, July 4, mix tapes, mixtape, Sasha Pasulka, Zelda Lily
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There are people who influence your life. Some of these people you’ve met. Some of these people you aspire to be. Some you can’t quite place into categories. These mixes are from, inspired, and made possible by two people who usually stand behind the scenes in the music industry, Paul Sommerstein and Marc Goodman. ...
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Tags: Ace Frehley, Candlemass, Chavez, Circle, crush, Dark Was the Night, David Byrne, Dax Riggs, entertainment lawyer, fourth grade, Harlem, Henry Flint, inspiration, Jolie Holland, Jon Guez, Krallice, Kurt Vile, Lou Reed, Marc Goodman, mixtape, mixtapes, No Age, Paul Sommerstein, pencil sharpener, Strange Weather, Strange Weather Brooklyn, Talib Kweli, The Mai Shi, tom waits, Tune-Yards
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The main motivation behind the column is that there are “celebrities” out there – not-so-ordinary people changing the world, influencing communities, or doing really cool things – who have not been asked to submit a “Celebrity Playlist” to iTunes (as if!). But, how cool is it to hear new music recommended by...
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Tags: beastie boys, billy bragg, Cats, celebrity playlist, devo, dillinger four, dropkick murphys, fucked up, fugazi, iTunes, jawbreaker, joy division, kanye west, lush, massive attack, mastodon, metblogs, mix tapes, mixtape, record label, rick springfield, rival schools, seam, sean bonner, Social Media, social media celeb, supersuckers, sxsw, the pogues, tom waits, torche, twitter engagement, urban journal
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Chicago Artist: Man Bartlett's "Music I Make Art To"
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Tags: 9th Symphony, ancient Qin music, Arthur Russell, Beethoven, Boards of Canada, contemporary mysticism, Dan Deacon, FLATFILEgalleries, Fleet Foxes, Glenn Branca, Grouper, Guan Pinghu, Joan Armatrading, Joanna Newsom, Man Bartlett, Mia Doi Todd, mixtape, numerology, Richard Serra, Talk Talk, Transmission, Wolfgang Laib, Yayoi Kusama
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An Essex Green song list – to be listened to when reading this post. plus two more songs: “Julia” and “Penny & Jack”
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Tags: Elephant 6, essex green, Julia, mixtape, penny & jack, series of letters
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Around two years ago, someone made this mix for me. During one of the last conversations I had with this person, I admitted to him that whenever I introduce two people, two friends, I’m always scared that they are going to become super close and forget about me. An acquaintance of mine had recently...
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Tags: Bad Babysitter, CSS, Dance Music, frienemy, LCD Soundsystem, mix tape, mixtape, Spank Rock
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