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Because of the recent unpleasantness, here's a mixtape of songs about nuclear war!

This idea popped into my head while I was standing at the bar last night and I thought, "Yeah, I probably have enough videos for that" and started writing down song names... 10 minutes later I had more than 2 hours worth.

Oh yeah, and I had to find an alternate upload of the Two Tribes video because the official one is marked "inappropriate for some users, sign in to confirm your age." "Based on community guidelines." That video played hourly on MTV from like 1984 through 1988. I hate you, Milkman Youtube.

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 257.

In only vague and fickle order of favoriteness:

• Emika - Vega & Frames
• Ela Minus - Acts of Rebellion & Día
• Marie Davidson - City of Clowns
• Lou Hayter - Unfamiliar Skin
• Vanbot - How Could I Prepare For This
• The Knocks & Dragonette - Revelation
• Garbage - Let All That We Imagine Be The Light
• Scratch Massive - Nox Anima
• Screensaver - Three Lens Approach
• Black Honey - Soak
• Witch Fever - Congregation
• Pudéndüm - Øne
• Zanias - Cataclysm
• Chloe Qisha - Chloe Qisha & Modern Romance
• Au/Ra - Soundtrack to an Existential Crisis
• Wet Leg - Moisturizer
• Gloomy June - Gloomy June
• Lydia Night - Parody of Pleasure
• Scowl - Are We All Angels
• Shriekback - Monument
• Vowws - I'll Fill Your House With an Army
• Just Mustard - We Were Just Here
• Al1ce - As Above, So Below
• Catherine Moan - Chain-Reaction
• Causeway - Anywhere
• Llynks - Time Reborn
• Bootblacks - Paradise
• Immortal Girlfriend - Sojourner
• Ovrgrwn - Chasing The Good Dreams
• Momma - Welcome To My Blue Sky
• Sally Shapiro - Ready to Live a Lie
• Vague Lanes - Divergence And Declaration
• Winona Fighter - My Apologies to the Chef
• Guerilla Toss - You're Weird Now
• Magic Wands - Cascades
• Rocket - R is for Rocket
• Lambrini Girls - Who Let The Dogs Out
• Die Spitz - Something To Consume

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 256 -- a nice round number.

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Or you can call it 0xFF if you're nerdy.

Last night we did a screening of The Lost Boys, and it was epic. Amongst all of our Cyberdeliae, this was the one with the rowdiest audience: lots of screaming and singing along. Excellent costume contest entries, too.

For this one I did something a little different from the others: instead of DJ music over abstract visuals, I filled the pre-roll and intermission with music videos featuring VAMPIRES. I only needed 30 and 20 minutes respectively, but I immediately had way more than that, in fact, more than enough for a mixtape.

It has only been two weeks since the previous mixtape, but hey, why not.

So, in the immortal words of The Kurgan, "Happy Halloween, Ladies!"

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Here is some new music that I enjoyed in 2024. These are pretty good. Honestly, none of these really rose to the level of: "I am obsessed with this album and can't stop listening to it", but not every year has one of those, I guess. But these are all worth your time.

In not really any particular order:

• Kraków Loves Adana - I Saw You I Saw Myself
• Ghost Cop - Trouble
• Allie X - Girl With No Face
• Emika - Vega
• The Prids - I Only Care About You and Me
• Nico Vega - Make It Out Alive
• Kiesza - Dancing and Crying Vol. 1
• BABii - DareDevil2000
• Pom Pom Squad - Mirror Starts Moving Without Me
• Crows - Reason Enough
• Mediocre - Growth Eater
• Illuminati Hotties - Power
• Kat Koan - Cocoon
• Halou - The Butcher's Bill
• Glass Spells - Crystals
• Los Campesinos! - All Hell
• Night Club - Masochist
• Charli XCX - Brat
• Causeway - We Were Never Lost
• Beach Bunny - Emotional Creature
• Art School Girlfriend - Soft Landing
• False Figure - Castigations
• House of Harm - Playground
• Houses of Heaven - Within/Without
• ionnalee - Close Your Eyes
• Josie Pace - IV0X10V5
• Leathers - Ultraviolet
• Nation of Language - Strange Disiciple
• Porridge Radio - Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There for Me
• Nuovo Testamento - Love Lines

Six of these bands performed at DNA Lounge within the last few years, so hooray for that!

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From this mixtape: Able Machines return at DNA Lounge on Tue Aug 6; Yellacatt was here last Sunday; and [REDACTED] will be here next month, but that isn't public yet.

Let's start with his thundering 1993 article, "The Problem With Music". "Some of your friends are probably already this fucked."

Then there's this 2015 article about his business practices, "Punk Rock Ethics Are Good Business".

"A bakery opens because a guy wants to make bread. That's why people start businesses. It's because they want to do something with their time. They want that enterprise to be how they spend their days."

Here's an interview with him talking about him coming to terms with his 90s "edgelord shit".

I was gonna link to a few sample videos, but it just kept growing, so now it's a mixtape. Please enjoy jwz mixtape 245 of Albini-related music. (He probably hated music videos.)

Update: This post wasn't quite finished yet, so I wrote some more.

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Please enjoy jwz mixtape 244.

It has been quite a while since last one. As I have lamented before, my ingestion of new music has slowed to a trickle. Please send links to music video blogs that have RSS feeds.]]> https://cdn.jwz.org/blog/2024/03/jwz-mixtape-244/feed/ 12 https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/12/2023-music-wrap-up-and-mixtape-243/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/12/2023-music-wrap-up-and-mixtape-243/#comments Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:21:22 +0000 https://jwz.org/b/ykHt really hard (which is why most music journalists just write about themselves instead). I also included some boring statistics on how music discovery gets more difficult for me every year. And then my 2018 haul disappointed me enough that I table-flipped on the whole thing and haven't written a year-end post since. Well, in the hope of getting back in the habit of that, here are a few favorite albums that I met between 2018 and 2023. Plus a corresponding mixtape with very little flow to it. I had a draft of this that was half as long, and another that was twice as long, so let's just run with this. Close enough. This list is only barely in any kind of order of favoriteness... Enjoy!

• Craig Wedren & Anna Waronker - Blood Hive 1 + 2 (Yellowjackets score)
• Gazelle Twin - Then You Run (Score)
• Garbage - No Gods No Masters
• Haelos - Any Random Kindness
• Able Machines - Digital Precision
• Wet Leg - Wet Leg
• Metric - Formentera
• Keep Shelly in Athens - Among Wolves
• Ultraísta - Sister
• Battery Operated Orchestra - Yesterday Tomorrow and You
• Skating Polly - Chaos County Line
• Louse Post - Sleepwalker
• Elohim - Braindead
• Chvrches - Screen Violence
• Dream Wife - Social Lubrication
• Blood Red Shoes - Get Tragic
• Damn the Witch Siren - Gold Magic
• Xylø - Unamerican Beauty
• Desire - Escape
• Charly Bliss - Young Enough
• The Chemical Brothers - No Geography
• Broken Baby - Broken Baby
• Queen Kwong - Couples Only
• Kanga - You and I Will Never Die
• K.Flay - Inside Voices
• Night Club - Die Die Lullaby
• Sleater-Kinney - The Center Won't Hold
• Automatic - Excess
• Kristeen Young - The Beauty Shop
• Glüme - The Internet

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Please enjoy numerologically significant jwz mixtape 242.

Of particular note! Bestial Mouths (track 6) and I Speak Machine (track 16) are performing at DNA Lounge on Wed Apr 3 and Ultra Sunn (track 10) is here on Tue May 7. Getcher tix.

Wow, it has been three months since the last mixtape. I feel I have failed you all. Anyway, please enjoy jwz mixtape 241.

Wow, it has been three months since the last mixtape. That means that my music acquisition has slowed way down, and I don't know what to do about that. Do you have any favorite music-video-related blogs?

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It's been a little while since the last one. Not as long as the previous gap, but still, my rate of discovery has noticeably slowed in the last year....

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 237.

Scroll down. Farther. Farther. Keep going. No, scroll down really far. There it is.

In the early days, the theme was "music I have been enjoying this week", so it wasn't necessarily new stuff, though I did try to make them flow together well. Occasionally I would do a mixtape with a secret or not-so-secret "what's the connection?" theme, like "songs with Control in the title" or "songs whose titles are 4 character acronyms."

I kept up the nearly-weekly pace for a few years, through mixtape Ø75, running out of steam in early 2009. That's when I switched to the new format of video-only mixtapes, containing only new music. I've managed to keep up the nearly-monthly pace ever since.

Since mixtape 237 isn't full yet, enjoy the ancient history!

Notes:

1. Track names aren't displaying in the popup audio player because things have atrophied somewhat in the intervening decades. Oh well. Make due. Update: Ok, maybe I've fixed that.

2. Many of the video-only mixtapes are missing up to 30% of their songs, because they vanished out from under me on YouTube at the fickle whims of the Content Mafia, and keeping track of those shifting sands proved to be far too much work. I tried for a while, but it was hopeless. As Textfiles often says, "YouTube is a video archive in the same sense that a supermarket is a Food Museum."

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It has been almost two months since my last mixtape, which I guess means that my music discovery has slowed down again. So I guess it's time to ask again, what music-related (or preferably music video-related) feeds do you read? Things curated by humans only. I am very much not asking what streaming services or algorithm-fed nonsense you prefer.

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It has been almost three months since the last one! I guess my music discovery has slowed down quite a bit. I don't know what happened.

Have any new music video related blogs or channels I should be following?