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Eluvium: cease to know
Chieko Mori: spiral light
Andy Cahan: picking tea leaves
hsia tan and kiang hung: picking water chestnuts
Josephine Baker: madiana
orlando julius & and his afro-sounders: afro-blues
Those Lovely Hula Hands: missa on marilyn
River City Extension: our new intelligence
All Girl Summer Fun Band: charm bracelet
Sun Ra: otherness blues / somebody else's world
Bonnie "Prince" Billy & The Cairo Gang: someone coming through
Bob Baker & The Pike County Boys: the philadelphia lawyer
Angele Dubeau & La Pieta (Arvo Part): spiegel im spiegel
Randy Greif: we're all mad here
Micachu: floor
Olive: trickle [*req]
DJ Olive: yard swing
Coil: the spoiler
Ben Hackbarth: open end
Emily Jane White: victorian america
Serena Maneesh: magdalena (symphony no. 8)
The Sight Below: new dawn fades
Me and My Arrow: aya crash
Terry Riley: the royal 88
DM Stith: curtain speech
Labor Exchange Band 交工樂隊: after a long time, a strange place becomes home
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yes yes! have wanted to ask focusbird to come in and play for a while now, and now look!

5...4...3...2...fun!!
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Turkey Sandwich - Mika Miko
Get Numb - Alright Class
Subliminal Message - Happy Birthday
Newfallen - A Weather

LIVE: Focusbird

Take Up Space - Mammary
Lungs Are Trees & So What - Bunny Zewt Suit
Ashes - Dark Dark Dark
Football Dream - June Madrona
Twinkle Toes - Doctor Bird
Brutha - Sunny Afternoon
Secrets - Wabash
Your Fire Arms - eskimeaux
Bobby-O - Kimya Dawson
Words Can Keep Their Meaning - Attic Abasement
Carabell - Foot Ox
I'd Rather Go - The Dining Dead
If Tucson Had a Beach - Boogie Nazis
There Was Sunshine - The Visitations
Vowel Sounds - Eat Avery's Bones
Come With Me - Marmoset
For Teta - James Fella
Lost - All Girl Summer Fun Band
These Kids - scott churchman
Letter To The Professor - Lemons Are Louder Than Rocks

The plan was to make a couple of mixes for my 12 yr old niece. As I tried to compiIe the first CD, I soon discovered that there was much to share with her which she might not not hear elsewhere. And so, a couple of mixes has become the A-Z series. I will get her a cd of 20 or so songs on an 80 minute CD every two or three weeks. Here is what I've got down for A:

01. Angie Mattson - In Violet
02. A Camp - Frequent Flyer
03. Acid House Kings - This Heart Is A Stone
04. Adele - Right as Rain
05. All Girl Summer Fun Band - Grizzly Bear
06. Amber Rubarth - Good Mystery
07. Amy Millan - Skinny Boy
08. An Horse - Company
09. Andrew Bird - Darkmatter
10. Angus & Julia Stone - Hollywood
11. Angus & Julia Stone - Just A Boy (EP Version)
12. Anja Garbarek - Can I Keep Him
13. Anna Nalick - Breathe (2 AM)
14. Anna Ternheim - Girl Laying Down
15. Architecture in Helsinki - That Beep
16. Aṣa - Jailer
17. Asobi Seksu - Transparence
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50 questions about your top 50 artists on last.fm
(mine is last 12 months)


1. How did you get into 29? Stars
I saw them with Broken Social Scene and they were awesome and a fan was born.


2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? Jen Wood
Imperfect


3. What’s your favourite lyric by 33? Incubus
Vitamin
"You stare at me like a vitamin, on the surface you hate but you know you need me."
couldn't really think of any lyrics I love by them



4. What is your favourite album by 49? The Detachment Kit
Of This Blood


5. How many albums by 13 do you own? Smoosh
None, one day I'll buy Free To Stay but not for awhile.


6. What is your favourite song by 50? Jimmy Eat World
That's tough... probably Softer.


7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? Reverie Sound Revue
None that I can think of at the moment.


8. What is your favourite album by 15? Pixies
Doolittle wins by a hair over Surfer Rosa.


9. What is your favourite song by 5? Sally Crewe & The Sudden Moves
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Top 30 Survey
1. How did you get into 29?
Heard the song Hate To Say I Told You So by The Hives and liked it.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
The first song I ever heard by Interpol was PDA.

3. How many albums by 13 do you own?
Santogold only has one, Santogold so one!

4. What is your favorite song by 15?
My favorite songs by the Heavens to Betsy are Paralyzed, Get Out of My Head, and Nothing Can Stop Me.

5. What is your favorite song by 5?
My favorite songs by Black Sabbath are Tomorrow's Dream, Black Sabbath,Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, N.I.B., Paranoid, War Pigs, Electric Funeral, and Iron Man.

6. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
Yes the songs DemiRep, I Like Fucking, and Jet Ski by Bikini Kill make me very happy!

7. What is your favorite song by 10?
My favorite songs by Michael Jackson are many. Will You Be There, Give In To Me, Dirty Diana, Beat It, Scream, Euphoria, Black Or White, The Way You Make Me Feel are honorable mentions.

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My Top 50 Artists

1. How did you get into 29?
I got into The White Stripes when I was about 16, heard their song Fell in Love With a Girl, and I fell in love with them.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
The first song I ever heard by Oasis was Wonderwall.

3. What’s your favorite lyric by 33?
My favorite lyric by Natalia Lafourcade is 'Aunque pierde el arco iris su belleza', from the song Piel canela.

4. What is your favorite album by 49?
My favorite album by The Bouncing Souls is How I Spent My Summer Vacation and Anchors Aweigh .

5. How many albums by 13 do you own?
I own all 3 albums by the Heartless Bastards (Stairs And Elevators, All This Time, and The Mountain.) Great albums go out and get them!

6. What is your favorite song by 50?
My favorite songs by the Ramones Garden of serenity and Blitzkrieg Bop.

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad?
Yes, the song Hello Joe by the Beatsteaks.

8. What is your favorite album by 15?
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