{mix tape} stay in november

This month's mix tape would (and should have) been the soundtrack to this past weekend at home. Wake up, enjoy a cup of coffee or tea, plop onto the sofa, read a book, do some light chores, plop back onto the sofa, read some more....you get the picture. It's a little mellow and a little up beat, enjoy it as things wind down for the holiday season.

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1   In My Dreams    Eels 2   Cubism Dream    Local Natives 3   Two Doves    Dirty Projectors 4   Jailer    Asa 5   The General Specific     Band of Horses 6   I Got You Babe      Bahamas 7   Troubleman     Electric Guest 8   Wonder Years     Real Estate 9    Live Long      Kings of Convenience 10  Roll On      Dntel

P.S. today is the last day to enter to win a photo print from my new print shop! winners will be announced tomorrow.

{monthly mix tape} road nostalgia august

I was a big-time commuter in LA before moving closer to work and public transportation options. While I can't say that I miss having a car, I do miss the long periods of time when it was just me and my music. There's something about driving that makes everything sound and feel better, isn't there? To satisfy my driving nostalgia I decided to create a playlist of songs from my college days to now that would make me smile, bob my head, and cheer me up even in the worst of traffic jams. That's why there's 17 tracks instead of the usual 10 ;)

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1    Patient Patient   The Morning Benders 2    Turn on Me   The Shins 3    Benny and the Jetts   TV Girl 4    Haiti   Arcade Fire 5    I Can Go   White Arrows 6    Home   Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros 7   Ocean Breathes Salty  Modest Mouse 8   Awake  Electric Guest 9   Get It Together   Go! Team 10   Let's Call Ig Off (Single Mix)  Peter Bjorn & John 11   Emergency Call   Matt Costa 12   Disco Friends   Just Jack 13   Cause=Time   Broken Social Scene 14   The Bucket   Kings of Leon 15   Long Distance Call  Phoenix 16   City Sky  Thao Nguyen 17  Out of Tune  Real Estate

(image: LA by freeway by Ana Maria Munoz)

{monthly mix tape} songs of summer

Grooving and chillaxing - that's what a summer music mix is all about and I am so not disappointed with how this month's tape came out!

I've been loving some of the new artists that KCRW has had on rotation, particularly Electric Guest whose album has me completely smitten. Pair their summer hit (if it's not already it should be) with a few new and old goodies and I am one happy girl.

Happy summering!

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1 -  Caught Me Thinking  Bahamas 2 -  All Of Me  Tanlines 3 - This Head I Hold  Electric Guest 4 - Friends Of Friends  Hospitality 5 - The Walk  Mayer Hawthorne 6 - Swing Tree  Discovery 7 - Battez Vous  Brigitte 8 - In The Water  Beat Connection 9 - Hollywood (Feat. Penguin Prison)  [Felix Da Housecat Remix]  10 - Houdini  Foster the People

 (image: poolside summer 2011, Los Angeles)