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Put Your Cookies on the Cooling Rack – Mix ’11

Tim Wager — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:00:31 +0000

Hey there, you, you lovely person you. Here’s my 2011 mix. I was tempted to entitle this one “Thru Being Cool” because it seems just so incredibly mainstream and predictable to me, but . . . well, I have to be true to myself, yes? And cripes, is this, what, the fifth of these I’ve made for TGW? Yikes. If it’s not clear to you where my mixical affinities lie, well, you’re not paying attention. (And fine, really, it’s not a requirement to pay attention.)

For those of you who don’t know my method, here’s the explanation from a couple years ago. Remember, just a mix of songs from the year, not a “best of”.

Click photo for tuneage. Track list below (sans notes).

1. Beirut – Santa Fe
2. The Belle Brigade – Belt of Orion
3. Fruit Bats – Tony the Tripper
4. P.G. Six – January
5. Good Luck Mountain – Softly Tonight
6. Brian Eno – Bless This Space
7. Akron/Family – So It Goes
8. Gillian Welch – Scarlet Town
9. Wye Oak – Civilian
10. Ikebe Shakedown – Tujunga
11. YACHT – Dystopia
12. Alela Diane – Heartless Highway
13. Joe Henry – Odetta
14. Thurston Moore – Benediction
15. Low – Something’s Turning Over
16. Mia Doi Todd – All My City
17. Jonathan Wilson – Can We Really Party Today?
18. The Cave Singers – Swim Club
19. Vetiver – Worse for Wear
20. Tinariwen – Imidiwan Ma Tennam

For fans of “new music”

Tim Wager — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:53:13 +0000

Or “contemporary classical” or what you will. Bang on a Can are celebrating their 25th anniversary by giving away downloads of their latest release. Check it out here.

Christmix 2011

Tim Wager — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:00:38 +0000

Click on the photo of Ferdinand, the dog J-Man and I helped rescue recently, for a little holiday listening treat. I tried to keep the cheer to a minimum, for those of you who aren’t so cheery around the holidays. An itty bit of cheer came through all the same. Deal.

Christmix 2011

Blue Holiday – Aretha Franklin
Pretty Paper – Willie Nelson
I Want My Baby for Christmas – Jimmy Liggins & His Drops of Joy
Holiday Hymn – Orange Juice
Christmas in Jail, Ain’t That a Pain – Leroy Carr
Joy to the World – John Fahey
The Last Month of the Year – Vera Hall Ward
Occom’s Carol – Tim Eriksen
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel – Joan Baez
Ain’t That A-Rocking – Odetta
Listening to Otis Redding During Christmas – Okkervil River

Serenity now!

Tim Wager — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:47:31 +0000

At the risk of seeming like an Apple worshiper, I will recommend to you the Buddha Machine app. Once you play around with it and figure out the Chinese characters, you can customize up to six different drones for simultaneous play on an iPad. Ommmm.

What you had and what you lost

Tim Wager — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:56:50 +0000

I’d love to take this hypothetical class on Stevie Nicks, and I have a hunch some of you might too.