This Week's Mix

If you haven't noticed, Joe has been M.I.A. this week with a pretty serious illness. The good news is that he is finally recovering and was just cleared by the doctor, so he should be back in circulation by next week. Anyway, I wanted to do more of a rock infused mix this week to help him get his energy back. Enjoy!

Pelican - City Of Echoes
Avec - Dysplasia
Junius - At the Age of Decay
Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye
Unkle - Hold My Hand
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Down Boy
Hum - Counting Stars
!!! - Myth Takes
Soft - You Make Me Wanna Die
Minus The Bear - Dr. L'Ling

Eskimo Joe in Philly

Join me at The Khyber Thursday night to check out, Eskimo Joe, coming to us all the way from Australia. Already multi-platinum in their home country, they are ready to conquer America with their third release, Black Fingernails Red Wine. They are joined by synth-pop artists from Montreal, Badflirt, and Birdy Num Num & The Spirit Squad, sporting members from Ween and The Buzzcocks.

Eskimo Joe - Black Fingernails Red Wine
Birdy Num Num & The Spirit Squad - Buffet

Also going on in the city, The Electric Factory has the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Fire has Hello Tokyo, originally from the DC scene, now representing Brooklyn.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion

Hello Tokyo - Radio

New Releases From The Past 2 Weeks

It has been crazy around IA lately and that has made us slow with keeping up with the new releases. So, here are two weeks worth. Hopefully, we will be back on track this week.


John Vanderslice released Emerald City. His singing and songwriting are always great to listen to and this disc continues that tradition.

The Canadian female duo Tegan and Sara gave us The Con. The girls' album is full of indie pop songs that don't seem to be anything special in the beginning, but once the full band breaks in, you realize they actually aren't half bad.

Brooklyn's Bishop Allen is this quirky little pop group that puts out fun songs that are great to listen to. They always seem to put me in a great mood and the music in the background has a very playful sound to it. The Broken String continues that tradition and improves upon it.

Tiny Vipers is a male and female duo from Seattle and they just release Hands Across The Void. Jesy has a beautiful voice that goes hand in hand with the music and speaks to those emotions deep within you. They will be here in DC at the Rock and Roll Hotel on August 26th.

Keeping with the one release for those who can appreciate some great electronic instrumentals and awesome dance beats, UNKLE just released War Stories. Unlike The Chemical Brothers, UNKLE is more trip hop and guitar oriented and has a dark edge to it. This release is definitely one of their best.

After teasing us since late last year, NYC's Robbers on High Street finally made Grand Animals available to the masses.

1990s released Cookies on Tuesday. If you are into the dance indie in the vein of Franz Ferdinand, I highly recommend this.

The last release, is the one that I most looked forward to. It is the Is Is EP from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The YYYs wanted to redo a few songs and make studio recordings of some live favorites. I feel that they did a great job capturing the more aggressive feel of their live show. I was listening to it in the car yesterday and I could barely keep my eyes on the road, because I just couldn't contain myself from rocking out.

John Vanderslice - Tablespoon of Codine
Tegan and Sara - The Con
Bishop Allen - Click Click Click Click
Tiny Vipers - On This Side
UNKLE - Burn My Shadow
Robbers On High Street - Crown Victoria
1990s - See You At The Lights
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Down Boy

This Week's Music Mix

Since I am going away for the weekend, I won't be able to post my normal weekend mix. Instead of waiting until Monday to post it, I will post it today! I have been getting a lot of new music and listening to many different things, but these are all songs that I have playing on repeat on my mp3 player:

1. Vampire Weekend - A-Punk
2. The Vita Ruins - Godspeed To That Polytheist
3. Sigur Ros and Mob Deep - Untitled Shook Ones (Emancipator Mash Up)
4. Shout Out Louds - Tonight I Have To Leave It
5. Iron and Wine - Boy With A Coin
6. Zulu Pearls - Half Hearted
7. Fields - Charming The Flames
8. Film School - On & On
9. Wild Sweet Orange - Ten Dead Dogs
10. Ra Ra Riot - Each Year
    
11. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Isis (Video Shown Below)<hype machine>

I have two local bands in there, The Vita Ruins and Zulu Pearls. The Vita Ruins played an amazing set last Friday at Black Cat and Zulu Pearls are having their CD Release Party this upcoming Tuesday at the Rock & Roll Hotel. I will definitely be attending this show and I highly recommend it! Enjoy the music and I will be back with a lot more next week.