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I haven’t posted a mixtape for a long time, but that means there’s just more concentrated awesomeness in this one. Please check this out. It’s a good.

Go ahead and check out the playlist (below) or the liner notes. Adrian’s April 2013 Mixtape (zip file)

Or stream it.

— You can download the zip file with the following: 1. mp3s of the songs 2. liner notes (pdf) 3. playlist file (iTunes txt file) (for the iTunes file, simply add all the songs to your library and then go to File->Library->Import Playlist and then select the song list (the txt file). you should now have the playlist 2013April in your iTunes with all the songs in the correct order). —

April 2013 mixtape:

1. Breton Wood Ooogum Boogum
2. Phosphorescent Song for Zula
3. Night Beds Everything Trying
4. Local Natives Heavy Feet
5. Lord Huron Time to Run
6. Sin Fang Young Boys
7. Keegan DeWitt Two Hearts
8. Chris Porterfield I Would Not Die in Springfield
9. Hayden Blurry Nights
10. Pickwick Lady Luck
11. Llans Thelwell and His Celestials Grazing in the Grass
12. The Ray Alexander Techniques I Don’t Bite
13. Frightened Rabbit Late March, Death March
14. The Mouthbreathers Birthdays
15. Fionn Regan 67 Blackout
16. The Local Strangers Uptown
17. Hey Marseilles Heart Beats
18. Benjamin Gibbard Bigger Than Love
19. The Tree Ring Salton Sea

If you like the artists or songs, I suggest supporting them by buying their music, going to a show, buying merchandise from them. And tell other people about the artists!

It’s only been a little while since my last mixtape, but really September and October can be seen as part one and part two of the same mix. This one starts out with some soul and then movies into indie rock and folk. It’s a good one…

Go ahead and check out the playlist (below) or the liner notes.

Adrian’s October 2011 Mixtape (zip file, mediafire link)

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You can download the zip file with the following:
1. mp3s of the songs
2. liner notes (pdf)
3. playlist files (iTunes txt file and an m3u file)

(for the iTunes file, simply add all the songs to your library and then go to File->Library->Import Playlist and then select the song list (the txt file). you should now have the playlist 2011October in your iTunes with all the songs in the correct order).

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October 2011 mixtape:

1. Raphael Saadiq Heart Attack
2. James Brown Think
3. Charles Bradley The World (Is Going Up In Flames)
4. Adele Someone Like You
5. Otis Redding Security
6. The Womack Brothers Yield Not To Temptation
7. Pickwick The Round
8. Two Sheds Let her dance
9. The Tree Ring Wore It Deep
10. Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love My Ears Are For Listening
11. BOAT Lately
12. The Head and the Heart Winter Song
13. An Heart Dressed Sharply
14. Aimee Mann The Scientist
15. Eef Barzelay In The Aeroplane Over the Sea
16. Leslie Sisson Blues
17. Beirut East Harlem
18. Crooked Fingers Typhoon
19. Low Try To Sleep
20. Delorean Country Clutter

If you like the artists or songs, I suggest supporting them by buying their music, going to a show, buying merchandise from them. And tell other people about the artists!

I haven’t done a monthly mixtape in a long time even though I’ve been wanting to get back to them. Here’s my first and if you stay tuned for a couple of days, I’ve got part two of the mix, October 2011, coming up. I hope you enjoy it–there’s a nice mix of music here.

Go ahead and check out the playlist (below) or the liner notes for it.

Adrian’s September 2011 Mixtape (zip file, mediafire link)

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You can download the zip file with the following:
1. mp3s of the songs
2. liner notes (pdf)
3. playlist files (iTunes txt file and an m3u file)

(for the iTunes file, simply add all the songs to your library and then go to File->Library->Import Playlist and then select the song list (the txt file). you should now have the playlist 2011september in your iTunes with all the songs in the correct order).

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September 2011 mixtape:

1. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists Parallel or Together
2. Frightened Rabbit Fuck this Place (ft Tracyanne Campbell)
3. Matt & Kim Block After Block
4. The Morning Benders Last Night
5. Tune-Yards My Country
6. WHY? These Few Presidents
7. David Bazan Eating Paper
8. Fanfarlo The Walls Are Coming Down
9. Bon Iver Holocene
10. Typhoon Summer Home
11. John Statz Tired of Telephones
12. the Wooden Birds Two Matchsticks
13. Fionn Regan For a Nightengale
14. Josh Ritter Good Man
15. Strand of Oaks Ohio
16. the National Think You Can Wait
17. Vandaveer Dig Down Deep
18. A Weather Giant Stairs
19. Explosions in the Sky Look Into the Air

If you like the artists or songs, I suggest supporting them by buying their music, going to a show, buying merchandise from them or at least telling other people about them.

Okay, it’s just preposterous to call this a June mixtape. But I have something planned for July already.

This is the 32nd mixtape I’ve done since I started these three years ago. It may be my last for a while. I might get one more in before I leave for SA. We’ll see.

You can download the zip file with the following:
1. mp3s of the songs
2. liner notes (pdf)
3. playlist files (iTunes txt file and an m3u file)

(for the iTunes file, simply import all the songs to your library and then go to File->library->import playlist and then select the song list (the txt file). you should now have the 2009june in your iTunes with all the songs in the correct order).

Go ahead and check out the playlist (below) or the liner notes.

Adrian’s June 2009 mixtape (mediafire link)

If you like the artists or songs, I suggest supporting them by buying their music, going to a show, buying merchandise from them or at least telling other people about them.

The playlist:

1. The National Wasp Nest
2. Octopus Project Wet Gold
3. Bombadil So Many Ways to Die
4. Silver Scooter Goodbye
5. Weezer I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams
6. Grand Lake Concrete Blonde on Blonde
7. Leo Kottke The Driving Year of the Nail
8. Joe Pug A Thousand Men
9. The Woodlands Until the Day Dims
10. Two Sheds You (Live at KZSU)
11. Gillian Welch Look at Me Miss Ohio
12. Jeff Mangum My Dream Girl Don’t Exist
13. Oh No! Oh My! I Have No Sister
14. the Magnetic Fields All the Umbrellas of London
15. The Album Leaf Over the Pond
16. Mogwai Cody
17. Unwed Sailor Ruby’s Wishes
18. Riceboy Sleeps Boy 1904

This one’s quite overdue at this point. My apologies.

You can download the zip file with the following:
1. mp3s of the songs
2. liner notes (pdf)
3. playlist files (iTunes txt file and an m3u file)

(for the iTunes file, simply import all the songs to your library and then go to File->library->import playlist and then select the song list (the txt file). you should now have the 2009may in your iTunes with all the songs in the correct order).

Go ahead and check out the playlist (below) or the liner notes.

Adrian’s May 2009 mixtape (mediafire link)

If you like the artists or songs, I suggest supporting them by buying their music, going to a show, buying merchandise from them or at least telling other people about them.

The playlist:

1. Dawes When My Time Comes
2. J Tillman Earthly Bodies
3. Olof Arnalds Vi Og Vi
4. My Latest Novel Sister Sneaker Sister Soul
5. American Analog Set Punk as Fuck
6. mk ultra The Dream is Over
7. Archers of Loaf Web in Front
8. Les Savy Fav Precision Auto
9. The Twilight Sad Reflection of the Television
10. The One AM Radio The Landmine
11. Sebastian Schuller Midnight
12. At the Close of Every Day The Jesus Heart
13. Iron & Wine the Trapeze Swinger
14. Adele Hometown Glory
15. Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career
16. Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens What Have You Done?

You can download the zip file with the following:
1. mp3s of the songs
2. liner notes (pdf)
3. playlist files (iTunes txt file and an m3u file)

(for the iTunes file, simply import all the songs to your library and then go to File->import and then select the song list (the txt file). you should now have the 2009april in your iTunes with all the songs in the correct order).

Go ahead and check out the playlist (below) or the liner notes.

Adrian’s April 2009 mixtape (mediafire link)

If you like the artists or songs, I suggest supporting them by buying their music, going to a show, buying merchandise from them or at least telling other people about them.

The playlist:

1. Seldom Can’t/ Must
2. Elliott Smith Say Yes
3. Cymbals Eat Guitars Wind Phoenix
4. Dr. Dog The Old Days
5. The Ad Libs He Ain’t No Angel
6. David Ruffin Anything That You Ask For
7. Ben E. King So Much Love
8. Jimmy Ruffin What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted
9. Damien Jurado and Gathered in Song Air Show Disaster
10. St. Vincent and the National Sleep All Summer
11. Joel P. West Bark and Feathers
12. Telekinesis Coast of Carolina
13. John Vanderslice Too Much Time
14. Garrett Pierce And The Ghosts Boarded Trains
15. Rural Alberta Advantage Edmonton (Hearya session version)
16. Songs: Ohia Blue Chicago Moon
17. American Analog Set New Equation

I uploaded my mixtape to an archive folder and included all of 28ish mixtapes over the last 2.5 years. Email me if you want access and I’ll send the location and password.

You can download the zip file with the following:
1. mp3s of the songs
2. liner notes (pdf)
3. playlist files (iTunes txt file and an m3u file)

(for the iTunes file, simply import all the songs to your library and then go to File->import and then select the song list (the txt file). you should now have the 2009feb in your iTunes with all the songs in the correct order).

Go ahead and check out the playlist (below) or the liner notes. It’s got all sorts of stuff: lots of folky stuff and intricate droney pop.

Adrian’s March 2009 mixtape (mediafire)

If you like the artists or songs, I suggest supporting them by buying their music, going to a show, buying merchandise from them or at least telling other people about them.

The playlist:

1. Shirley Ann Lee There’s a Light
2. Sam Cooke Rome (Wasn’t Built in a Day)
3. Gospel Supremes Sinner Man
4. Deer Tick Beautiful Girls
5. An Horse Little Lungs
6. Lucky Soul Whoa Billy
7. The Low Anthem This God Damn House
8. Bon Iver Brackett, W9
9. The Avett Brothers Die, Die, Die
10. The Welcome Wagon But For You Who Fear My Name
11. Mumford & Sons Little Lion Man
12. Ohbijou St. Francis
13. Great Lake Swimmers Pulling on a Line
14. Venice is Sinking Ryan’s Song
15. The Weakerthans Plea from a Cat Named Virtue
16. Viva Voce Octavio
17. Red Cortez All the Difference
18. The Wooden Birds Sugar
19. A Classic Education Stay, Son

I just realized I never posted this over here.

You can download the zip file with the following:
1. mp3s of the songs
2. liner notes (pdf)
3. playlist files (iTunes txt file and an m3u file)

(for the iTunes file, simply import all the songs to your library and then go to File->import and then select the song list (the txt file). you should now have the 2009feb in your iTunes with all the songs in the correct order).

Go ahead and check out the playlist (below) or the liner notes. It’s got all sorts of stuff: lots of folky stuff and post rock/ ambient.

Adrian’s February 2009 mixtape (rapidshare link [1])[2]

If you like the artists or songs, I suggest supporting them by buying their music, going to a show, buying merchandise from them or at least telling other people about them.

The playlist:

1. Fanfarlo I’m A Pilot
2. Bishop Allen The Ancient Commonsense of Things
3. Andrew Bird Tenuousness.mp3
4. Throw Me the Statue Ship
5. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone Old Panda Days (w/ Nick Krgovich)
6. Realpeople My Night With The Prostitute From Marseille
7. Birds & Batteries I’ll Never Sleep Again
8. Laura Gibson Spirited
9. the Gentle Guest Longfellow
10. Blind Pilot Oviedo
11. Iron & Wine Dead Man’s Will
12. Frontier Ruckus Orion Town 2
13. .tape. Rosa Luxemburger
14. Lymbyc Systym Processed Spirits
15. Grandchildren Cold Warrior
16. Riceboy Sleeps Happiness
17. Amiina Gl-mur
18. J. Tillman Kids

[1] If you’re having trouble with the rapidshare link, here’s what you do, step-by-step. 1) Click on the link. 2) scroll down and click “FREE” 3) wait till the counter gets to zero 4) enter the letters in their graphic into the box 5) click “download”

[2] Also, I realize Rapidshare is sort of a pain. I’m trying to find other options. I’m open to other suggestions.

These are still supposed to be monthly. I guess I can’t always get my stuff together.

You can download the zip file with the following:
1. mp3s of the songs
2. liner notes (pdf)
3. playlist files (iTunes txt file and an m3u file)

(for the iTunes file, simply import all the songs to your library and then go to File->import and then select the song list (the txt file). you should now have the 2008dec-2009jan playlist in your iTunes with all the songs in the correct order).

Go ahead and check out the playlist (below) or the liner notes. It’s got all sorts of stuff: indie pop/ folk/ rock, soul and some African songs.

Adrian’s December 2008-January 2009 mixtape (rapidshare link [1])

If you like the artists or songs, I suggest supporting them by buying their music, going to a show, buying merchandise from them or at least telling other people about them.

The playlist:

1. Try Me Bicycle Big Small
2. Tallest Man on Earth the Gardener
3. Ohbijou Tender Bones
4. Karl Blau Before Telling Dragons
5. Marv Johnson Come to Me
6. The Swinging Tigers Snake Walk (Part 1)
7. Henry Lumpkin Don’t Leave Me
8. The Satintones Going to the Hop
9. Coconut Records I am Young
10. Shugo Tokumaru Green Rain
11. Grouper Heavy Water/ I’d Rather be Sleeping
12. The Gaslight Anthem The ’59 Sound
13. The New Amsterdams Hover Near Fame
14. The New Year Seven Days and Seven Nights
15. Peter Broderick With Notes in My Ears
16. Koernag Namadlanga Ngiyalila
17. Kasai Allstars Kafuulu Balu
18. The Very Best Kamphopo
19. Mogwai The Sun Smells Too Loud

[1] If you’re having trouble with the rapidshare link, here’s what you do, step-by-step. 1) Click on the link. 2) scroll down and click “FREE” 3) wait till the counter gets to zero 4) enter the letters in their graphic into the box 5) click “download”

My monthly mixtapes were not quite monthly there. However I did want to get this up so you could put it on your ipod for your Thanksgiving travels if you wanted.

You can download the zip file with the following:
1. mp3s of the songs
2. liner notes (pdf)
3. playlist files (iTunes txt file and an m3u file)

(for the iTunes file, simply import all the songs to your library and then go to File->import and then select the song list (the txt file). you should now have the 2008oct-nov playlist in your iTunes with all the songs in the correct order).

Go ahead and check out the playlist (below) or the liner notes. It’s pretty folksy but with some soul and things thrown in.

Adrian’s October November 2008 mixtape (rapidshare link [1])

If you like the artists or songs, I suggest supporting them by buying their music, going to a show, buying merchandise from them or at least telling other people about them.

The playlist:

1. Horse Feathers Curs in the Weeds
2. The Acorn Darcy
3. David Bazan Please Baby Please
4. Lewis & Clarke Be the Air We Breathe
5. Laura Marling Ghosts
6. Theresa Andersson Na Na Na
7. Frightened Rabbit Poke (live)
8. American Analog Set Born on the Cusp (demo)
9. Ben Gibbard Farmer Chords
10. Raphael Saadiq Seven
11. The Supremes Run, Run, Run
12. Ruby Andrews You Made a Believer Out of Me
13. Dorothy Berry You’re So Fine
14. Miriam Makeba Pata Pata
15. Crooked Fingers Solitary Man
16. Joe Pug Bury Me Far From My Uniform
17. Low Sunflower
18. Peasant Impeccable Manners
19. Deer Tick Ashamed
20. the Twilight Sad Some Things Last a Long Time

[1] If you’re having trouble with the rapidshare link, here’s what you do, step-by-step. 1) Click on the link. 2) scroll down and click “FREE” 3) wait till the counter gets to zero 4) enter the letters in their graphic into the box 5) click “download”

Yup, a little late on this one, as if that’s unusual!

You can download the zip file with the following:
1. mp3s of the songs
2. liner notes (pdf)
3. playlist files (iTunes txt file and an m3u file)

(for the iTunes file, simply import all the songs to your library and then go to File->import and then select the song list (the txt file). you should now have the 2008august playlist in your iTunes with all the songs in the correct order).

Go ahead and check out the liner notes. This one has a bunch of folksy stuff, some soul and some slowcore, the new and the classic, like Johnny Flynn, Andrew Bird, Lykke Li, Unwed Sailor and Early Day Miners.

Adrian’s August 2008 mixtape (rapidshare link [1])

If you like the artists or songs, I suggest supporting them by buying their music, going to a show, buying merchandise from them or at least telling other people about them.

[1] If you’re having trouble with the rapidshare link, here’s what you do, step-by-step. 1) Click on the link. 2) scroll down and click “FREE” 3) wait till the counter gets to zero 4) enter the letters in their graphic into the box 5) click “download”