boo! - an encore (33 min, 30 MB)

yeah, there's nothing new this week. it's my birthday, I'm old and the weekend was ka-ka-ka-KARAZY. plus, this happened:



so here's one from a few weeks ago that is apropos given tonight's tidings. enjoy.

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as the leaves begin to turn and the evenings get darker, it comes time to get SPOOKY.

1. the color bars - all your kitchen ghosts
2. tegan & sara - walking with a ghost
3. spoonboy - ghost overseas
4. neutral milk hotel - ghost
5. the unicorns - sea ghost
6. fig. 4 - bottle of the ghost of time
7. patrick wolf - ghost song
8. saturday people - ghost of a chance
9. the white stripes - little ghost
10. pretty girls make graves - ghosts in the radio
11. elliot the letter ostrich - house plants to ghost
12. the specials - ghost town

hip and also hop (29 min, 27 MB)

1. rjd2 - june ft. copywrite
2. the pharcyde - passing me by
3. digable planets - nickel bags
4. company flow - definitive
5. aesop rock - daylight
6. mc frontalot - indier than thou
7. el-p - stepfather factory
8. platinum pied pipers - your day is done ft. georgia
9. binary star - binary shuffle
10. non-prophets - that ain't right
11. DANGERDOOM - old school ft. talib kweli
12. prefuse 73 - the end of biters

just say no (33 min, 31 MB)

ask yourself: what would nancy reagan do?

1. orbital - halcyon + on + on
2. blur - chemical world
3. the verve - the drugs don't work
4. marcy playground - poppies
5. wilco - handshake drugs
6. the mountain goats - dilaudid
7. velocity girl - drug girls
8. karl hendricks trio - naked and high on drugs
9. ac newman - miracle drug
10. of montreal - lysergic bliss
11. the comas - invisible drugs
12. creta bourzia - marijuana tragedy
13. the crimea - lottery winners on acid
14. nick drake - cocaine blues

cover up (33 min, 30 MB)

as anyone who knows me can attest, I'm a sucker for a quality cover, and one of my many life quests is to create a complete, CD-length cover chain (a series of songs where each band covers a song by the next band in the series). I have made several attempts, but most approaches hit a dead-end, usually due to mistaken authorship (e.g., no, radiohead has never covered the deftones, dammit). this podcast begins with my strongest lead, then shoots off in its own direction, but the songs are pretty badass in their own right nevertheless.

1. of montreal - know your onion! (the shins)
2. the shins - we will become silhouettes (postal service)
3. postal service - suddenly everything has changed (flaming lips)
4. flaming lips - can't get you out of my head (kylie minogue) (ed. note: the lips are a great jumping-off point and can take you to the white stripes, radiohead, queen, etc. radiohead worked the best but due to an unfortunately mislabeled mp3, my greatest accomplishment yet...14 tracks...has been nullified)
5. the cardigans - iron man (black sabbath)
6. stars - this charming man (the smiths)
7. nouvelle vague - a forest (the cure)
8. the decemberists - bridges and balloons (joanna newsom)
9. luna - season of the witch (donovan)
10. yo la tengo - when doves cry (prince)
11. bonnie prince billy - ignition (r. kelly)
12. belle and sebastian (with morrissey, or so it would seem) - the boy with the thorn in his side (the smiths)

what's the rush? (29 min, 27 MB)

1. of montreal - so begins our alabee
2. broken social scene - windsurfing nation
3. the cansecos - faster than you go
4. the blow - the sky opened wide like the tide
5. josh abrahams - addicted to bass
6. happyland - don't you know who I am?
7. mobius band - twilight
8. bearsuit - prove katie wrong
9. "iron" mike baron and his bunkitiers - rock me baby
10. bunky - baba
11. the hidden cameras - ban marriage
12. adult. - nothing of the kind
13. 14 iced bears - lie to choose