Yeah, that’s a Britney Spears song tacked on the end there, sandwiched between Wilco and a Wu-Tang dubstep remix. Nobody ever said I was consistent.

Once again, I’ve made an attempt at mixing all these songs together in some sort of discernable and enjoyable way. Enjoy that.

1. Pedro The Lion – “Progress” (Control)
2. Nicki Minaj – “Roman’s Revenge (feat. Eminem)” (Pink Friday)
3. Mumford & Sons – “Sigh No More” (Sigh No More)
4. Flying Lotus – “Camel” (Los Angeles)
5. Killabits – “DSGSTNG” (DSGSTNG single)
6. Smith Westerns – “Still New” (Dye It Blonde)
7. Tom Waits – “Heartattack and Vine” (Heartattack and Vine)
8. Wanda Jackson – “Thunder on the Mountain” (The Party Ain’t Over)
9. Wu-Tang Clan – “Pencil/MyPiano/Firehouse (Soroka Remixes)” (Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture Vol. 2: Enter the Dubstep)
10. Kanye West – “Monster (feat. Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj and Bon Iver)” (My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy)
11. Wu-Tang Clan – “Alphabets (Dakimh instrumental remix)” (Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture Vol. 2: Enter the Dubstep)
12. Britney Spears – “Hold It Against Me” (Hold It Against Me single)
13. Wilco – “Reservations” (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)

December saw me discovering witch house (Salem), wondering why I’d all but ignored LCD Soundsystem for the last five years and remembering how awesome Titus Andronicus’s last album was.

It also saw me getting a full version of Ableton Live, with which I hope to improve on my DJ/producer skills (of which I have almost none, but hey), so for that reason you can listen to little bits and pieces of all these songs as a DJ mix (with admittedly poor transitions at times; working on it).

1. LCD Soundsystem – “Disco Infiltrator” (LCD Soundsystem)
2. LCD Soundsystem – “Losing My Edge” (LCD Soundsystem)
3. Nosaj Thing – “Us (Jon Hopkins remix)” (Drift Remixed)
4. Teebs – “Moments” (Ardour)
5. Tranqill – “Payroll (Paul White’s clean dub)” (Mary Anne Hobbs: Wild Angels)
6. Monopoly – “Red and Yellow Toys” (Mary Anne Hobbs: Wild Angels)
7. Salem – “King Night” (King Night)
8. Salem – “Sick” (King Night)
9. Delorean – “Real Love” (Subiza)
10. Flying Lotus – “Clock Catcher” (Cosmogramma)
11. Salem – “Trapdoor” (King Night)
12. Titus Andronicus – “A More Perfect Union” (The Monitor)
13. Titus Andronicus – “Theme From ‘Cheers’” (The Monitor)

Songs that caught my attention in November. Mostly dance music, which is funny because I don’t dance. Must be the wannabe-DJ in me. Also, the new Kanye record is wicked good after a listen or two.

Sorry there’s no 8tracks playlist this time. They changed some of their rules so I can’t grab music from “the cloud” any more. I tried to link to tracks or YouTube videos where I could.

1. Jon Hopkins – “Small Memory (Tuung remix)” (Seven Gulps of Air)
2. Robyn – “Dancing On My Own” (Body Talk)
3. Born Ruffians – “I Need a Life (Four Tet remix)” (DJ KiCKS: Moderat)
4. The Tallest Man on Earth – “Love is All” (The Wild Hunt)
5. Joker – “Snake Eater” (The Big Pink: Tapes)
6. Tobacco – “Sweatmother (feat. Height)” (La Uti)
7. TC – “Where’s My Money (Caspa remix)” (Get Darker Presents: This Is Dubstep 2)
8. Barn Owl – “Ancestral Star” (Ancestral Star)
9. Kanye West – “POWER” (My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy)
10. Kanye West – “Monster (feat. Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj and Bon Iver)” (My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy)
11. Kanye West – “Runaway (feat. Pusha T)” (My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy)
12. Girl Unit – “Wut” (Wut)

October: a month in which a minor obsession with minimal techno flourishes. Hence Gold Panda (I listened to “You” at least once a day), The Field, more Flying Lotus collabs. Someone buy me the Ninja Tune XX comps please.

Sufjan’s new album is worth a listen or seven.

Brian McBride of Stars of the Lid is keeping the ambient torch lit.

And the rest is all new releases and old favorites. Make sure to check the streaming player below or on the 8tracks site.

1. Buke and Gass – “Revel in Contempt” (Riposte)
2. Young Money – “BedRock (feat. Lloyd)” (We Are Young Money)
3. Mumford & Sons – “Timshel” (Sigh No More)
4. Sleigh Bells – “Infinity Guitars” (Treats)
5. Junip – “Sweet & Bitter” (Fields)
6. Andreya Triana – “Lost Where I Belong (Flying Lotus remix)” (Ninja Tune XX: Volume 1)
7. Gold Panda – “You” (Lucky Shiner)
8. The Field – “The More That I Do” (Yesterday and Today)
9. Swans – “My Birth” (My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky)
10. Mount Kimbie – “Serged” (Chilled Deep Dubstep)
11. JFB – “Duck Jam” (Chilled Deep Dubstep)
12. Breakage – “Vial (feat. Burial)” (Chilled Deep Dubstep)
13. Brian McBride – “Mélodrames Télégraphiés (in B major 7th) Part 1″ (The Effective Disconnect)
14. Sufjan Stevens – “Too Much” (The Age of Adz)

If this summary of last month’s listening habits isn’t an indication of my Jekyll-and-Hyde-esque music preferences, I don’t know what is. The obsession with Flying Lotus has returned, I discovered the crass d&b of Venetian Snares, I learned how to look past Neil Young’s nasal vocals — both on his new record and Harvest, an old classic — and enjoyed a new non-rock Lil Wayne record.

1. Dabrye – “Special (feat. Guilty Simpson and Paradime)” (Two / Three)
2. Deadmau5 – “Reward Is More Cheese” (Reward Is More Cheese)
3. Bobby Bare Jr. – “A Storm – a Tree – My Mother’s Head” (A Storm – a Tree – My Mother’s Head)
4. The Two Man Gentlemen Band – “There’s Something in My Trousers” (¡Dos Amigos, Una Fiesta!)
5. The Two Man Gentlemen Band – “Me, I Get High on Reefer” (¡Dos Amigos, Una Fiesta!)
6. Venetian Snares – “Posers and Camera Phones” (My So-Called Life)
7. Venetian Snares – “Ultraviolent Junglist” (My So-Called Life)
8. Broken Social Scene – “World Sick” (Forgiveness Rock Record)
9. Flying Lotus – “Camel” (Los Angeles)
10. bellflur – “Gasoline Heaven” (Asleep.Asleep.)
11. Neil Young – “Heart of Gold” (Harvest)
12. Neil Young – “Old Man” (Harvest)
13. Manchester Orchestra – “Shake It Out” (Mean Everything To Nothing)
14. Lil Wayne – “What’s Wrong With Them (feat. Nicki Minaj)” (I Am Not a Human Being)
15. Lil Wayne – “Gonerrhea (feat. Drake)” (I Am Not a Human Being)
16. Neil Young – “Hitchhiker” (Le Noise)

Listen up for a few of these songs here (or if you have Rhapsody, the whole thing is here):

August. Busiest month of my life. Aside from more surgery recovery, I DJed a wedding, saw Arcade Fire and started a new job. That said, not much downtime for listening to new stuff.

1. J Roddy Walston – “Full Growing Man” (J Roddy Walston and the Business)
2. Arcade Fire – “Rococo” (The Suburbs)
3. Kid Cudi – “Pursuit of Happiness (nightmare) (feat. MGMT and Ratatat)” (Man On the Moon: The End of Day)
4. Taio Cruz – “Break Your Heart (feat. Ludacris)” (Rokstarr)
5. Arcade Fire – “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)” (The Suburbs)
6. Smith Westerns – “Girl In Love” (Smith Westerns)

And here’s all the songs but one in a handy-dandy playlist, plus a few bonus ones for the heck of it.

I guess you could say July was a busy month. I had ear surgery at the end of the month, so I think my brains were trying to get in as much music before I’d be down for the count for a few weeks while my hearing comes back. Sucks to be me.

The beginning of the month brought a re-run epiphany that Pavement succeeded at what Nirvana was trying to do. Long story for another post. And then I found the This Is Dubstep comps and got hopelessly lost in electronic music for the rest of the month. I only took breaks for some new releases, like the new New Pornographers, the new M.I.A., Admiral Radley, Acacia Strain, Best Coast and Max Richter. And in the middle there somewhere was a phenomenal Hold Steady/Whigs show in Memphis. Needless to say, I’m a bit music saturated in my current environment and I am not going to complain about it.

1. Pavement – “Here” (Slanted and Enchanted)
2. Chasing Shadows – “Ill” (GetDarker Presents: This Is Dubstep 2)
3. Tes La Rok – “Darkness Falls Upon Us” (GetDarker Presents: This Is Dubstep)
4. Drumsound & Bassline Smith – “R U Ready (Dubstep Mix)” (GetDarker Presents: This Is Dubstep 2)
5. Fused Forces – “Chemical Reaction” (GetDarker Presents: This Is Dubstep 2)
6. Lung – “Afterlife” (GetDarker Presents: This Is Dubstep 2)
7. The New Pornographers – “Crash Years” (Together)
8. The New Pornographers – “Valkyrie In the Roller Disco” (Together)
9. The Hold Steady – “Positive Jam” (Almost Killed Me)
10. The Whigs – “Right Hand On My Heart” (Mission Control)
11. M.I.A. – “Teqkilla” (MAYA)
12. M.I.A. – “Meds and Feds” (MAYA)
13. Admiral Radley – “I Heart California” (I Heart California)
14. The Hold Steady – “Soft In the Center” (Heaven Is Whenever)
15. Beach House – “Walk in the Park” (Teen Dream)
16. The Acacia Strain – “Btm Fdr” (Wormwood)
17. Max Richter – “Infra 5″ (Infra)
18. Best Coast – “Summer Mood” (Crazy For You)

And here is your playlist, as usual.

Happy July! I don’t even know what to say about my musical selections for June. I reviewed some albums for Ghettoblaster (Sarah Jaffe), continued to get stoked on the new Hold Steady album, saw David Bazan and mewithoutYou live and crept into a major electronic music phase, which I am currently entrenched in. My monthly playlist for July will be packed with it, don’t you worry.

1. Mumford & Sons – “Winter Winds” (Sigh No More)
2. Wye Oak – “That I Do (Mickey Free remix)” (My Neighbor / My Creator EP)
3. The Polyphonic Spree – “Section 2 (It’s the Sun)” (The Beginning Stages of…)
4. N.A.S.A. – Spacious Thoughts (feat. Tom Waits & Kool Keith)” (The Spirit of Apollo)
5. Iron & Wine – “Peace Beneath the City” (The Shepherd’s Dog)
6. This Will Destroy You – “Brutalism & the Worship of the Machine” (Field Studies)
7. The Hold Steady – “Rock Problems” (Heaven Is Whenever)
8. Sarah Jaffe – “Clementine” (Suburban Nature)
9. mewithoutYou – “Timothy Hay” (it’s all crazy! it’s all false! it’s all a dream! it’s alright)
10. Zomby – “Spliff Dub (Rustie remix)” (Mu5h / Spliff Dub single)
11. Burial – “Shutta” (Ghost Hardware EP)
12. Sleigh Bells – “Tell ‘Em” (Treats)
13. Wye Oak – “For Prayer” (The Knot)

And, of course, here’s your free, streaming playlist of all the songs above.

Oh, hello there. How’s your family? I live in Nashville now. How’s that for crazy? Hopefully that whole moving-across-the-country thing is a good enough excuse for my lack of writing output. I’ll be back to it soon, I promise.

April was an exciting month, and not only due to my move. Not only did Jónsi, of Sigur Rós fame, release his first solo album, but I also got to go up to Amoeba Records in San Francisco to see him play a live acoustic set for Record Store Day a few days before my move. And the week before that, I was lucky enough to see Beach House perform to a sold-out crowd in town. A great goodbye from California, if I may say so.

The rest of the month was spent driving and visiting and driving and moving boxes and painting furniture and other such things, so the list is a bit more slim than usual. I hope you are enjoying your day as much as I’m enjoying mine.

1. Jónsi – “Go Do” (Go)
2. The Sight Below – “Splénétique” (It All Falls Apart)
3. Radiohead – “I Am A Wicked Child” (Com Lag: 2plus2isfive)
4. Wye Oak – “For Prayer” (The Knot)
5. Beach House – “Zebra” (Teen Dream)
6. Beach House – “Take Care” (Teen Dream)
7. Mimicking Birds – “The Loop” (Mimicking Birds)
8. The Tallest Man On Earth – “A Lion’s Heart” (The Wild Hunt)
9. The Hold Steady – “Slapped Actress” (Stay Positive)

And now you can listen to (most of) these tracks, because it’s just a good idea.

This month’s list is large because time kind of dragged on and on. Probably because I’m counting down the days until I move to Nashville. But hey, a lot of good music came out this month, so that is cause for celebration! If anything on here isn’t due to a new release, it’s due to me just now getting back to a release or two that I’ve been meaning to enjoy more (like Local Natives, Freelance Whales and Surfer Blood).

1. Four Tet – “Love Cry” (There Is Love In You)
2. Mumford & Sons – “Little Lion Man” (Sigh No More)
3. Frightened Rabbit – “The Loneliness and the Scream” (The Winter of Mixed Drinks)
4. The Jimi Hendrix Experience – “Red House” (Are You Experienced?)
5. Anais Mitchell – “Wedding Song (feat. Justin Vernon)” (Hadestown)
6. Broken Bells – “The High Road” (Broken Bells)
7. The Chieftains – “La Iguana (feat. Lila Downs)” (San Patricio)
8. Titus Andronicus – “A More Perfect Union” (The Monitor)
9. First Aid Kid – “Tiger Mountain Peasant Song” (Drunken Trees EP)
10. Local Natives – “Airplanes” (Gorilla Manor)
11. Liars – “Scissor” (Sisterworld)
12. The White Stripes – “Icky Thump” (Under Great White Northern Lights)
13. Freelance Whales – “Generator ^ Second Floor” (Weathervanes)
14. Surfer Blood – “Swim” (Astro Coast)
15. Surfer Blood – “Take It Easy” (Astro Coast)
16. Ryan Bingham & the Dead Horses – “Bluebird” (Roadhouse Sun)
17. Manchester Orchestra – “100 Dollars” (Mean Everything to Nothing)
18. Manchester Orchestra – “I Can Feel a Hot One” (Mean Everything to Nothing)
19. Deftones – “Diamond Eyes” (Diamond Eyes single)
20. The Dillinger Escape Plan – “Farewell, Mona Lisa” (Option Paralysis)
21. Silversun Pickups – “Growing Old is Getting Old” (Swoon)
22. The Boxer Rebellion – “Soviets” (Union)

And, as always, here is your mix: