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Sat, 25 May 2013 10:24:05 -0400

Pre-order the Graham Repulski Cop Art LP on Big School and be...

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:04:00 -0400

Pre-order the Graham Repulski Cop Art LP on Big School and be entered to win a test pressing (1 of 5!) featuring one of these uniquely screen-printed jackets put together by TheDreamComparison. B.A.D.A.S.S. The record itself is limited to 150 copies so don’t sit on it.

0 To 25 In X / Chapter .041 {MIXTAPE}

Mon, 13 May 2013 08:30:00 -0400

Well, I’ve finally settled into the new digs out in the burbs and for as much as I will miss being so close to the music activities in Philly it feels great to not hear sirens every 15 minutes all night or see trash all over my street. In other exciting news I announced pre-orders for the next Big School Records project, Graham Repulski’s Cop Art. I’ve included one of the more successful smash hits from it in this edition’s mixtape. Don’t forget you can stream the mix on 8tracks by clicking on the visually pleasing artwork down yonder.

1. This Frontier Needs Heroes - 2012
2. Cold Fronts - Ready To Go
3. Graham Repulski - Rip Van Winkle
4. Spider Bags - Papa Was A Shithead
5. Husking Bee - Face The Sunflower
6. Miho Hatori - Barracuda
7. Rich Aucoin - It
8. Letting Up Despite Great Faults - Visions
9. Everyone Everywhere - Turn & Go & Turn
10. The Life and Times - Day Eleven
11. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Windshield Smasher
12. Jonathan Boulet - You’re A Animal
13. Built To Spill - Aisle 13
14. Powerblessings - Wet Ones
15. Campfires - Red Five and Dime
16. Cisneros & Garza Group - I’m A Man
17. The Left Banke - And Suddenly
18. Mr. Gnome - Bit Of Tongue
19. The Sound - Missiles
20. Tom Waits - Step Right Up
21. Kishi Bashi - Bright Whites
22. The Spinto Band - Ada Lee
23. Sigur Ros - Varua
24. The XX - Angels
25. Arborea - Song For Obol

Load it into your portable vessel of choice: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5768436/0To25InX.041.zip

Previous chapters: 40, 39, 38, 37,36, 35, 34, 33, 32, 31, 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

Behold! the vinyl lounge I’m in the process of building in...

Sun, 12 May 2013 10:19:30 -0400

Behold! the vinyl lounge I’m in the process of building in the new house. There will be many hours spent relaxing and entertaining in this space, for sure.

Pre-orders are live for the new Graham Repulski Cop Art LP out...

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:19:47 -0400

Pre-orders are live for the new Graham Repulski Cop Art LP out on Big School Records (my label, duh). The band wastes not with 13 tracks clocking in at around 21 minutes.

Also - one lucky pre-order will receive a test pressing with custom screen-printed artwork (different from the LP jacket) so whut r yewww waitin’ 4?

Git it. / Stream it.

RSD sale thing at Big School records

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:26:16 -0400

RSD sale thing at Big School records:

Go buy stuff, enter RSD2K13 at checkout and get 25% off of anything and everything from now until Sunday night, including the Appleseed Cast 3LP and the ‘wax ecstatic’ bundle.

0 To 25 In X / Chapter .040 {MIXTAPE}

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:30:09 -0400

How about some covers?

1. Southern Culture On The Skids - Muswll Hillbilly (The Kinks)
2. The Foundry Field Recordings - Caribou (Pixies)
3. Elf Power - Needles In The Camel’s Eye (Brian Eno)
4. Shy Mirrors - Dodging Invisible Rays (Guided By Voices)
5. Cassettes Won’t Listen - Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand (Primitive Radio Gods)
6. JEFF The Brotherhood - Marie Provost (Nick Lowe)
7. Piney Gir - My Generation (The Who)
8. Amo Joy! - Don’t Let The Bastards Get You Down (Kris Kristofferson)
9. Okkervil River - Your Other Man (Jandek)
10. Lotte Kestner - Black Metallic (Catherine Wheel)
11. The Clientele - Paper Planes (M.I.A.)
12. Night Panther - Two Weeks (Grizzly Bear)
13. Coltrane Motion - I’m On Fire (Bruce Springsteen)
14. Circle Jerks - I Wanna Destroy You (The Soft Boys)
15. The Cinnamon Band - Main Man (T. Rex)
16. Benjamin Francis Leftwich - Swim Until You Can’t See Land (Frightened Rabbit)
17. Guerre - Halo (Beyonce)
18. Owen - More Than Words (Extreme)
19. Jose Gonzalez - Teardrop (Massive Attack)
20. Matt Pond PA - Pillar Of Salt (The Thermals)
21. Graham Coxon - That’s When i Reach For My Revolver (Mission Of Burma)
22. Yellow Ostrich - Don’t Haunt This Place (The Rural Alberta Advantage)
23. The Chairs - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (Neutral Milk Hotel)
24. U.S Elevator - Never Said Nothing (Liz Phair)
25. South San Gabriel - All Night Long (Lionel Richie)

Load it into your portable vessel of choice: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5768436/0To25InX.040.zip

0 To 25 In X / Chapter .040 (Behold! The Covers Edition) from BigSchoolRecords on 8tracks Radio.

Previous chapters: 39, 38, 37,36, 35, 34, 33, 32, 31, 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

yvynyl: Blogging through thick and thin

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:06:52 -0400

yvynyl: Blogging through thick and thin:

yvynyl:

For 7 years I have been writing about music nearly daily as a hobby, as a passion project. I don’t get paid, I don’t do it for glory. I do it because I love music. I do it because I love musicians. I do it because I love being swept away into other worlds. I do it because I love feeling…

0 To 25 In X / Chapter .039 {MIXTAPE}

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 08:30:12 -0400

EHRMERGERD

1. Oberhofer - Landline
2. PS I Love You - Sentimental Dishes
3. Eternal Summers - I Love You
4. Shudder To Think - Day Ditty
5. Hop Along - Young and Happy!
6. Young Galaxy - Shoreless Kid
7. Meursault - Flittin’
8. Heavenly - C Is The Heavenly Option
9. Odonis Odonis - Ledged Up
10. Nada Surf - Deeper Well
11. Retisonic - Robots Fucking
12. Built To Spill - Distopian Dream Girl
13. Glowfriends - Explain Away
14. Laetitia Sadier - Find Me The Pulse Of The Universe
15. Danny Brown - EWNESW
16. Lee Fields & The Expressions - Wish You Were Here
17. Okay Paddy - You Never Worry
18. Dirty Projectors - Dance For You
19. The Adolescents - Kids Of The Black Hole
20. Japandroids - Younger Us
21. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Down On Me
22. Mikhael Paskalev - I Spy
23. Songs:Ohia - Love Leaves Its Abusers
24. The Smashing Pumpkins - In The Arms Of Sleep
25. Wax Mannequin - Don’t Want To Go

Load it into your portable vessel of choice: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5768436/0To25InX.039.zip

0 To 25 In X / Chapter .039 from BigSchoolRecords on 8tracks Radio.

Previous chapters: 38, 37,36, 35, 34, 33, 32, 31, 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

hi54lofi: This is a very promising trend to see, especially...

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 12:20:30 -0400

hi54lofi:

This is a very promising trend to see, especially given the fact that we will be releasing our very first vinyl record in May. Hopefully we can add 250 sales to the 2013 numbers (is it too much too ask to have 250 of 4 million + sales?).

Audio

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:01:15 -0400

Exercise your right to quality music via this here best of March...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:58:28 -0400

Exercise your right to quality music via this here best of March playlist that I created

0 To 25 In X / Chapter .038 {MIXTAPE}

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:27:08 -0400

Hope I’m not overwhelming you guys with the frequency of mixtapes lately. I’m piling up a serious backlog of great trax in my ‘keepers’ folder so I’m putting them forth like once a week now that I have some extra time. That will all change soon once we move into the new house (end of April!) so take advantage of this surplus while you can. Or just ignore it and listen to what Pitchfork tells you to listen to. S’cool.

1. Hop Along - Sirens
2. Neighbors - Henry’s Party
3. Parenthetical Girls - A Note To Self
4. Back Seat Headrest - Overexposed (Enjoy)
5. New Order - Love Vigilantes
6. Avec Pas D’casque - La Journee Qui S’en Vient Est Flambant Neuve
7. Georgia Anne Muldrow - Best Love
8. Opossum - Blue Meanies
9. The Avett Brothers - Die Die Die
10. The Kamikaze Hearts - Dead Kennedys Shirt (live)
11. Little Green Cars - The John Wayne
12. CIVIL CIVIC - Mayfield
13. Kurt von Stetten - You Don’t Know
14. Darlington - Sugar Fix
15. Fuck, I’m A Ghost - King Of The President
16. Diiv - How Long Have You Known
17. Lands and Peoples - Ghosts
18. Dirty Projectors - Tour Along The Potomac
19. The Woolen Men - Hold It Up
20. Mikal Cronin - Situations
21. The Ambience Affair - Weeds
22. Bright Eyes - Falling Out Of Love At This Volume
23. Walt Mink - Act Of Quiet Desperation
24. William Tyler - Cadillac Desert
25. Will Johnson - You Will Be Here, Mine

Load it into your portable vessel of choice: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5768436/0To25InX.038.zip

0 To 25 In X / Chapter .038 from BigSchoolRecords on 8tracks Radio.

Previous chapters: 37,36, 35, 34, 33, 32, 31, 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

alyssadehayes: @NorwegianArms will be handling all my calls...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:56:26 -0400

alyssadehayes:

@NorwegianArms will be handling all my calls today on the banana phone.

Such a lovely tune. Even moreso when the stirring percussion...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:00:59 -0400

Such a lovely tune. Even moreso when the stirring percussion kicks in.

I’ll be donating half of all Big School record sales from...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:58:00 -0400

I’ll be donating half of all Big School record sales from now until next Tuesday to the Jason Molina Medical Fund. Jason’s music, regardless of what moniker he operated under, has always burned a lasting impression into my being and it will continue to do so until I experience my very own farewell transmission.

Audio

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:13:09 -0400

Burnin’ a flame

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:12:33 -0400

Burnin’ a flame

Magnolia Electric Co.: on the passing of jason molina

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:59:26 -0400

Magnolia Electric Co.: on the passing of jason molina:

magnoliaelectricco:

We are deeply saddened to announce that Jason Andrew Molina passed away in his home in Indianapolis this past Saturday, March 16th of natural causes at age 39. Jason was a world class musician, songwriter & recording artist. He was also a beloved friend. He first caught international attention in…

RIP music friend

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:22:49 -0400

RIP music friend