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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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Revolver guns for America

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 | musiX | No Comments

As we come down from celebrating America’s independence by getting drunk, blowing shit up and barbecuing wieners (all things I wholeheartedly endorse), I shall now whisk you away to a faraway place. Come along, won’t you?

A little something for you Francophiles out there—a Parisian band named after a Beatles album who’s finally ready to release their debut LP here in the States. The three cheeky chic lads in Revolver have been making music since 2006, opting for acoustic instruments due to the fact they were writing songs in an apartment … I mean appartement.

Revolver’s music has been referred to as pop de chambre—they’d do extremely well here in Portland if they all grew beards and wore period clothing. Harmonies are sweet. Hooks are hook-y. All three are classically trained musicians (cellist Jérémie Arcache knew nothing outside of classical music until his late teens). It all came together on the group’s debut EP, fittingly titled Pop de Chambre. Last year Revolver added a drummer, incorporated more guitars and released Music For a While in France to rave reviews. The record was produced by [Cred alert!] Julien Delfaud, who twiddled the knobs on Phoenix’s Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, and is set for release here August 24 on Astralwerks.

Bottom line: These kids have made a damn fine pop album (preview a few tracks at their fancy website). Let’s see, it’s been 123 years, three months and 21 days since France gifted America the Statue of Liberty. Now they give us Revolver—I’ll take flesh and blood and rock ‘n’ roll over a bunch of copper and steel any day.

“Get Around Town” - Revolver

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