“Bonny Light Horseman! Exclamation point! This album is a wonder.”
This isn’t a competition. It’s a collaboration.
HI! here's FIVE things FOR consideration… | SEPTEMBER 2020
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FANDCAMP: Rock Bottom Rhapsody
“Say hello to an amazing blend of blues, jazz, country, gospel, and alt-folk brilliance! Pokey LaFarge pulls off the Tom Waits trick of seeming to come from another time without sounding dated, and the songs are so cool and catchy they feel like newly-minted standards of the genre. This record's just impossibly groovy from start to finish.”
EPISODE 155 | THE MIX TAPE RADIO SHOW
Episode 155 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘EVERYTHING LIKED IN: INSERT CURRENT YEAR’ - ft. Field Medic, Robert Chaney, Sara Rachele, Young Jesus + a bunch more 2020-flavoured headphone goodness.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED W/ SVVN
“Quit your phone. Delete all the apps that aren't absolute necessities. Just do it. It's not as impossible as it feels.”
FANDCAMP: South Somewhere Else
“Very relevant subjects discussed here, done in a way only this band can. Once again, Nana Grizol refuses to release anything that is less than spectacular, and I hope for many many many more releases to rate 10/10 like I have with all the other albums these beautiful people have put out.”
DIY SPIN CLASS | #HI54MIXCDS
Throw this playlist on shuffle and let the music determine when you hit the pedals hard and how hard you hit them. If you're ADD like me, run some NBA highlights on Youtube in the background.
EPISODE 154 | THE MIX TAPE RADIO SHOW
Episode 154 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems pulled from my personal Bandcamp Collection - ft. Icarus Phoenix, Fighting Kites, Noname, Julia Jacklin + a bunch more Available-on-Bandcamp-flavoured headphone goodness (ps: Friday, September is another special ‘Bandcamp Friday’).
FANDCAMP: Snapshot of a Beginner
“In this vertiginous historical moment, this album was a needed anticipation. There’s something about this band that just tells a truth. These songs speak directly without distorting simplification. Also musically, a real pleasure.”
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED W/ ADI-KESHET COHEN
“When you feel like you can't do anything, or the thoughts run too wild, go to the beach in the evening, just sit there and shut up. It's magic.”
SubmitCloud | August 2020
A monthly playlist for the Soundcloud-linked submissions that get approved on Submithub for a HI54 Mix CD feature during the month of August 2020.
ARCHIVES | MIX TAPE RADIO on FRUK - EPISODE 024
A local power outage fried my 2009 iMac, which means we’re going back in time to repost some “lost” episodes of the Mix Tape Radio Show until my ol’ Mac gets back from computer hospital. Luckily, these old episodes — like EPISODE 024 from October 2013— are still really nice to listen to.