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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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Say yes to Yep Roc and BARB

Monday, June 21st, 2010 | musiX | No Comments

If you keep up with The Days of Lore, which at last count had just inched ahead of the Joneses, you know that I am a strong backer of Liam Finn. His pops, too. Last year the younger Finn talked to TDoL about a side project called BARB, featuring longtime collaborator Eliza Jane Barnes and fellow New Zealand musicians Lawrence Arabia, Connan Mockasin and Seamus Ebbs. As Finn explained: “It did start out of the fact that probably all of us were doing things on our own for so long that we were kind of craving that band experience again. It was all a very collaborative record. It was quite refreshing.”

The new single “Leo” is a hazy pop tune devoted to our pal Leonardo DiCaprio, accompanied by a video that may leave you scratching your head, or relishing its wacky artiness (or arty wackiness). BARB’s self-titled debut is out now in New Zealand and will be released in the States Aug. 24 on Yep Roc Records.

If that’s not enough, Yep Roc just dished up Songs From the Vault: Volume One, a free (!) sampler featuring unreleased songs from their roster including Liam Finn, Robyn Hitchcock and a sweet li’l gem called “Atom Bomb” from The Apples in stereo. Needless to say your/my/the Joneses Monday playlist is set.

“Leo” - BARB

“Atom Bomb” - The Apples in stereo

“I Will Explode” - Liam Finn

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