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Getting Chummy: TDoL Summer Mix 2010

Monday, July 26th, 2010 | musiX, pdX | 3 Comments

Summer is finally here in Portland … at least for a few days—’tis the season for barbecues, tubing down the river, bottomless ice chests and summer jams (Jams? JAMZ!).

TDoL spent countless hours in a dark room assembling your summer soundtrack for 2010, a mixtape filled with singalongs, un poquito de español, noise (Noise? NOIZE!), a few breezy numbers, a handful of Portland cuts, and loads of hand claps … we’re talking more clap than a state school fraternity house. Most of the music on this compilation has been lovingly featured on The Days of Lore. You should totally buy the records.

Grab the full mix in a convenient zip folder by clicking the link below. Pairs well with road trips, good barbecue and cheap beer, as well as bad trips, good times and cheap friends.

TRACKLIST:
1. “Guadalajara” - Pepe Guízar
2. “Girlfriend” - Ty Segall
3. “Too Young to Burn” - Sonny & the Sunsets
4. “Free Association” - These Hills of Gold
5. “Better Surrender” - Far
6. “Beverly Kills” - Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
7. “Flashes” - International Waters
8. “Miss Metro” - The Knuckles
9. “Starting Over” - Typhoon
10. “The Ghost Inside” - Broken Bells
11. “Bad Buzz” - The Mint Chicks
12. “Get Around Town” - Revolver
13. “Juniper” - Y La Bamba
14. “Evening Star” - Blitzen Trapper
15. “TAOS” - Menomena
16. “La Barra” - Montañas
17. “Cars and Explosions” - Kevin Dunn
18. “Doesn’t Shake Me” - The Goodnight Loving
19. “Floating Vibes” - Surfer Blood
20. “Atom Bomb” - The Apples in stereo
21. “Sidepain” - Sea of Bees
22. “A More Perfect Union” - Titus Andronicus

DOWNLOAD: Getting Chummy: TDoL Summer Mix 2010 (117 MB ZIP)

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Märiachi Crüe

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 | musiX | No Comments

I was in Mexico for a week and a half only to return to find that every blogger and their mother had written about Ryan Adams releasing a new metal record. It was fantastic news … I thought I had actually missed something while I was gone.

I spent a solid 10 days without a single note of American music entering my cochlea (save for a couple of Rock Band sessions that included an arthritic, 8-minute rendition of Metallica’s ” … And Justice For All”). No iPod. No nothing. The state of Jalisco is the birthplace of mariachi. Sometimes we’d hear two, three ensembles playing at once while we sat at any of the numerous cafes and bars in Guadalajara, Tlaquepaque and nearby Guanajuato. And it was great.

I observed these generations of men perform together: The proficiency of the playing. Lyrics celebrating life and the beauty of a woman. The pageantry. Not a hair was out of place. And their pantalones looked as if they were spray-painted on to their thin legs, and were usually bejeweled with small, silver studs. It hit me: Mariachis are rock stars in Mexico, the original glam rockers if you will—except they play better music … and look like actual men.

The song most often performed was “Guadalajara,” written by Pepe Guízar in the 1930s, and done and redone countless times since. It’s the anthem, the mariachi equivalent of “Rock and Roll All Nite.” And Pepe Guízar is sort of the Ronnie James Dio of mariachis, only a little taller. I know this probably all sounds ridiculous … but only about as ridiculous as mariachis performing a Radiohead song. Which is to say, not at all ridiculous.

“Guadalajara” - Pepe Guízar

“Guadalajara” - Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán

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