Music Mixes

Covers Up

Nick Douglas inspired me to put up a muxtape, and I am inordinately proud of it:

U2 - Dancing Barefoot
The Postal Service - Against All Odds
Calexico - Alone Again Or
Bono - Hallelujah
Michael Stipe and Chris Martin - In the Sun
Jonathan Houghton - Train in Vain
Smashing Pumpkins - Dancing in the Moonlight
Foo Fighters - Baker Street
Jeremy Adona [...]

Dirty Beats - Christmas 2001

Running time: 70:43
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Every once in a while, a work of art appears that is inarguably excellent. No one, for example, can dispute the sheer quality of Michelangelo’s David, Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, Beethoven’s Ninth, or Raiders of the Lost Ark. They might not be to your tastes, but you’d be hard pressed to contend that [...]

Things Are Gonna Change So Fast - Easter 2007

Running time: 69:09
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“Our only hope is apocalypse.” —Marshall McLuhan
After two years out of the Christmas-mix loop (well, technically there was a 2005 Christmas mix, but only one copy was ever burned), I returned—resurrected, as it were—with my first-ever Easter mix (of which two copies were burned). It’s … melancholy. And there’s some classic rock [...]