In my teen years, if we were friends, you probably received a mixtape from me. I probably spent hours pouring over cassette after cassette trying to find the most perfect song that I thought you might just love. More often then not, it was indie music. Something obscure you’d never heard before, and my hopes were that you’d love a certain band just as much as I did. Growing up in a small rural town in Wisconsin made it difficult to find anything that wasn’t Top 40 or Country. But I lived close enough to Madison, and State Street had great college record stores that fed my need for something different.
H I T P L A Y T O L I S T E N
So I’ve gone round and round as to why or why not to create a mixtape for you guys. Music is so particular. The Boy HATES the music I listen to. Hates it. Don’t get me wrong, because he loves me, he listens along without complaint. But usually when we are in the car together to satisfy both our needs, we listen to Classic Rock. Well, that is if Little Maus isn’t in the car with us…then we listen to episodes of Strawberry Shortcake over and over and over again. I don’t want to turn any of my readers off with my music choice. So I hope if you don’t like my musical picks, you just skip over this post rather than changing the channel all together. You have to promise to come back (Thursday’s post is going to be so much fun!) So be honest, do you like this mixtape post? Do you want to see more like this or should we for go for the future? What are your favorite songs? Enlighten me.
I must tell you that track 13 is very near and dear to my heart. It’s by a band called PHOX. They are from my hometown of Baraboo, and I’ve seen them a few times this past year. They played Lollapolooza a couple years ago. Earlier this year they played SXSW and most recently they play the Conan O’Brian show. If you like that one, then play this song / video on YouTube. I had a tie between 1936 and Slow Motion. I love them both. So here’s my big shout out to PHOX!
Dude. I think we’re musical soul mates. If PHOX ever come to Seattle I’m so there. I love Found music, you know?! The cups and the background stuff?! What a great wake up song. More please.
There’s a play button that is kinda hiding above that. I’m not sure why the jump is going down to far, but there’s a whole playlist up there. Glad you like it Anna. And they are touring right now. They are opening for The Head and the Heart. I don’t see Seattle on their tour schedule right now, but I know they have been out there.
My “hello bar” was covering it up…I fixed it!
I’m jamming to your mix while working this morning. Thanks, Kyla:)
Ha! I tried to make sure it was pretty safe for little ears.
I’m excited to give this a listen. I’m so bad..I’ve never heard of a single band on the list!!
GREAT LIST! Many of these are in my everyday mix – I’ll have to check out the others.
Gorgeous blog, btw..
Heather Wyancko
http://thriftstories.me
Dude! I just check our your pretty blog! How about the jacket hot momma! I’m so happy to hear you like the mix…seriously, check out PHOX.
Thank you for this! The last mixed CD I got was like over a decade ago. I hope one of these new-to-me bands will click with me. I just can’t go about finding new artists and reading Pitchfork the way I used to and my musical tastes have suffered and are subsequently stuck in the early 2000s.
This is so awesome!!! Thanks for the mixtape 🙂 Your blog is so pretty!
I grew up in a WI small town, too!! I lived near Green Bay, and always thought Madison was the cool WI city, so you are lucky to have close by;)
Yeah for fellow Wisconsinites! I’m from Baraboo near Wis Dells =)
I can’t tell you how grateful I am to have had a listen to a sampling of your “mixed tape” . Always in search of music that moves me, I’ve found it harder and harder to find- not because people aren’t making it – but because it’s not easy to access. I adore this song and this band and am now about to have a go and listen to the rest on your list. Thank you for sharing- and for being a girl with an ear and love for authentic, unique and soulful music.
Oh Kathi! I’m so excited you like PHOX, and I really hope you like the rest of the mix. I debated long and hard if I should post something like this since I didn’t want anyone to be turned off. Music is such a personal taste. But it makes me so excited to hear you like this one!
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