MyMix 10.12

I make a new on-the-go mix just about every morning. Here's what I was listening to, shuffled, today...

The Decemberists: The Perfect Crime*
CSS: Alala
Joseph Arthur: Black Lexus
The Ballet: In My Head
Jawbreaker: Ashtray Monument
R.E.M.: Sitting Still
M. Ward: Chinese Translation
The Thermals: Pillar of Salt**
I Know You See It: Yung Joc
The Rapture: First Gear
Beiruit: Postcards From Italy
The Roots: In the Music
Justin Timberlake: Damn Girl
New Order: Age of Consent
Beck: Elevator Music
Spoon: Jonathon Fisk
Ursa Minor: ShanAmericana
Terence Trent D'arby: Wishing Well
Cold War Kids: God Make Up Your Mind
Basement Jaxx: Where's Your Head At
Bloc Party: So Here We Are
Shakira: Hips Don't Lie***
Iron and Wine: Love and Some Verses
Smashing Pumpkins: 1979
The Beastie Boys: Shazam!



* From the excellent, exuberant new Decemberists disc The Crane Wife, this song will remind you more than a little bit of The Talking Heads (specifically, of Life During Wartime), but made wholly unique by Colin Meloy's staunchly old-fashioned wordsmithing and vocal style.

** Awesome new-ish punk stylings from the Portland, Oregon crew, highlighted by Hutch Harris talking/screaming/whining lyrics like
"We built too many walls...
Yeah, we built too many walls!
And now we've got to run:
A giant piston's out to crush us."

*** "Better than 'Promiscuous'", says the lithe and lovely dancing machine DGlass.