music: september mixtape

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I've decided to compile a monthly play list-or what we used to call in the good ol' days, a mixtape. Since I'm not really sure of a better way to provide that to you, I'm compiling it over at my last.fm account, where you can listen to samples and some full songs. So, here's this month's mixtape:

September '10: songs for going back to school, the onset of autumn and returning to routine.

  1. These New Puritans – We Want War
  2. Broken Bells – The Ghost Inside
  3. Soul-Junk – Wax Presidential
  4. Sleigh Bells – Kids
  5. Museum – The Law
  6. Arcade Fire – Ready to Start
  7. M.I.A. – It Takes a Muscle
  8. Janelle Monáe – Tightrope (feat. Big Boi)
  9. Deftones – Caress (Drive Like Jehu Cover)
  10. The Roots –Birthday Girl
If someone knows of a better tool to put this kind of thing together, please let me know w/ a note in the comments.

By the way, every music lover should read Nick Hornby's High Fidelity, or watch the movie. It captures well the beauty of a mixtape.

music: jawbox

via latenightwithjimmyfallon.com

Remember how I recently said that I've long been a huge fan D.C.-based bands? Well, Jawbox is one of those bands. It's hard to put my finger on exactly why their music means so much to me... it just moves me the way good music should. The band hasn't played together in over a decade but just re-released their opus, For You Own Special Sweetheart. To celebrate, they reunited to play live on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (this guy's got some good taste in music lately). "Savory" is actually one of mine and Brooke's favorite songs. It was often on mix tapes I made her back in the day. So, here is Jawbox, rocking as hard as they did in the 90's and playing music that is still ahead of the curve in my opinion. You can check out Jawbox playing "FF=66" and "68" as well. They absolutely nail it on "FF=66!"

UPDATE: Dan sent this to me. It's the bands, Deftones and Far covering "Savory" ... together! Two drummers. Nice! And they pull of the harmonies live a lot better than Jawbox did on Fallon unfortunately (and both of their guitars were in tune too... eek!). The two bands released the cover, in '97 I believe, on an exlusive EP that Far put out before the release of Water & Solutions. And if I'm not mistaken, that's Sergio from Quicksand playing bass. Not as intense as the writers playing it but in key at least. Sweet!