Sunday, December 19, 2010

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Own Crayola Art! Help Kids!



Every year, my pal Ben Wagner organizes a holiday record and concert to benefit 826NYC, an organization dedicated to inspiring kids to write, and helping their teachers help them improve creative and expository writing skills. There's always a bunch of goodies to auction off for the cause as well. This year, I took out the Crayolas and drew each of this year's artists getting down Charles Schulz-style. This drawing will be one of the items available for auction. So if you're in NYC on Thursday, December 16, stop by Rockwood 2 and see a great show, help some kids, and maybe add to your Crayola wall art collection!

Saturday, December 4, 2010

The Holiday Mixtapes: Back Issues



A Very Shepherd Chrismukkah: 2008 Holiday Mix
Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3EIn0NOjsdJHTv5drSovuz?si=1e4fe87483a848c4

1. The Christmas Wish -- John Denver and the Muppets
2. Santa Claus Is Back In Town -- Elvis Presley
3. Christmas Blues -- Ramsey Lewis Trio
4. The Lonely Jew On Christmas -- South Park
5. Little Saint Nick -- Beach Boys
6. The Christmas Song -- Nat King Cole
7. All I Want For Chanukah (Is Hookers And Blow) -- Shwa Losben
8. Fairytale Of New York -- The Pogues
9. Merry Xmas -- Slade
10. Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight) -- The Ramones



#2009: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2JhGXzK5NKpkVcBqyg1NKc?si=64be19ef567b4b13 

1. Sultan -- What Made Milwaukee Famous
2. Hang On -- Illinois
3. Good On Paper -- Shwa Losben
4. Let It Ride -- Wes Tucker and the Skillets
5. Stay Positive -- The Hold Steady
6. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight -- U2
7. Stronger -- Rebecca Loebe
8. Martha -- Brian Webb
9. Dracula Moon -- Joan Osborne
10. Better Alone -- Chris Cubeta and the Liars Club
11. Go -- Andy Mac
12. Constructive Summer -- The Hold Steady
13. Silverline -- Bryan Dunn
14. Clear -- Lara Ewen and the Unstrung Orchestra



Valentine's Day Mix (2010)
Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5W8K0hWeCoh4DSKnbL5Kr5?si=5d067c30b80d442c

1. This Bouquet -- Ani DiFranco
2. Mulder and Scully -- Catatonia
3. Only You -- Yaz
4. Do Ya -- Matthew Sweet
5. Bad Reputation -- Freedy Johnston
6. Amy -- Shwa
7. There Tonight -- Rebecca Loebe
8. Temptation -- Moby
9. Strange Currencies -- REM
10. Blame You -- Wakey! Wakey!
11. Out To Get You -- James
12. New York City -- Taylor Davis
13. Romeo and Juliet -- Indigo Girls
14. Ballad of Emily Rose -- Bryan Dunn
15. Moment of Surrender -- U2



East Side Story: 2010 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/71sg6TNnMKDMq8ru7jD7g8?si=c542b0774c8a476a

1. I Hope You Like This Song -- Luke Wesley
2. L.E.S. (Lovely) -- Laura Jean Binkley
3. Sara With No H -- Andy Mac
4. I Could Sing -- Nate Campany and the Serenade
5. Slow Burn -- Misty Boyce
6. Flowers -- Bryan Dunn
7. One Day -- Lara Ewen
8. Take Me Out -- Atomic Tom
9. Brooklyn -- Wakey! Wakey!
10. Selline -- Tim Blane
11. I Don't Wanna Wait -- Rosi Golan
12. Worst Is Over -- Shwa Losben
13. Love Is Here To Stay -- Casey Shea

Valentine's Day Mix 2011
Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5xZnw7P0b9iJBLzyVnd4F8?si=8553e0b292364587 

1. Under the Lights -- Scourge of the Sea
2. Collect Call --Metric
3. Yesterday Threw Everything at Me -- Athlete
4. The Shore -- Basia Bulat
5. Talk to You -- Brian Webb
6. missing piece -- illinois
7. Love Will Come Through -- Travis
8. What is the Light? -- Flaming Lips
9. Sad Eyes -- Josh Rouse
10. As Is -- Ani DiFranco
11. Needles and Pins -- Ramones

Whiskey and Wellbutrin: 2011 Motion Picture Soundtrack
Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0gB9bnKYKzcqG9TS6lnABN?si=d9e5f23f79084911

1. Almost Everything -- Wakey! Wakey!
2. Three Years On -- Bryan Dunn
3. Reckless -- Lara Ewen
4. You Can Make Him Like You -- The Hold Steady
5. Dead Man's Saloon -- Creeper Lagoon
6. Bar on A -- Greg Holden
7. Rip Her to Shreds -- Blondie
8. The Cowboy Song -- Kelli Rae Powell
9. Fading Lately -- Katie Costello
10. Treat the Disease -- Shwa Losben
11. Pretty Boy -- Luke Wesley
12. Break My Heart Around You -- Atomic Tom
13. Star Pupil -- Abby Ahmad
14. If You Don't Mind (Baby Go Ahead) -- Alec Gross
15. World United Already -- Wheat
16. Head Full of Doubt -- The Avett Brothers
17. Whiskey and Cigarettes -- Jessi Robertson
18. You're Aging Well -- Dar Williams

Valentine's Day Mix 2012
Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0N7yYIGY5aBU0FiNluJwMu?si=d43917809db44637

1. Kiss Me Deadly -- Lita Ford
2. Half Light -- Athlete
3. You and Me -- Jessi Robertson
4. Nothing's As Good -- Andy Mac
5. Cassette Tape -- Katie Costello
6. Here Is Your Ballad -- Luke Wesley
7. You, South Dakota -- Bryan Dunn
8. an open door -- illinois
9. Guy What Takes His Time -- Kelli Rae Powell
10. A Good Life -- Jill Sobule
11. Under the Moonlight -- Travis
12. Think of Me -- Rosi Golan
13. The Outlaw Song -- Lara Ewen

The Shep Hits the Fan: 2012 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

1. Generals -- The Mynabirds
2. I Don't Believe You -- Greg Holden
3. Mayday -- Jessi Robertson
4. When Your Mind's Made Up -- Cast of Once: A New Musical
5. Love it When You Call -- The Feeling
6. Drive All Night -- NEEDTOBREATHE
7. Wrecking Ball -- Creeper Lagoon
8. Gold Guns Girls -- Metric
9. Get Used To It -- Ben Lee
10. Battered Apartments -- Luke Wesley
11. Sweetheart of the Music Hall -- Bryan Dunn
12. So Cry -- Shwa Losben (live from Rockwood Music Hall)
13. Gotta Get Up From Here -- Ellie Lawson
14. Something Bigger, Something Better -- Amanda Blank
15. Some Bridges are Good to Burn -- Kelli Rae Powell
16. Philadelphia (the City of Brotherly Love) -- We Are Augustines
17. Hang with Me -- Robyn
18. 45 -- Brian Webb
19. Going Gone -- Abby Ahmad


Everyone Says Hi: 2013 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2WqGIPKlz4Xu46Dt6ZT1Kl?si=adb399225bb2400f

1. Massive Nights -- The Hold Steady
2. Like Lightning -- Lucero
3. Brooklyn Girls -- Shwa Losben
4. Every Band We Ever Loved -- Henry Clay People
5. Yonder -- The Love Leighs
6. Litte Mascara -- The Replacements
7. Better Off Without a Wife -- Tom Waits
8. Moment for Life -- Nicki Minaj
9. In These Shoes -- Kirsty McColl
10. Nothing to Prove -- Jill Sobule
11. Like a Friend -- Pulp
12. Missing You -- Bryan Dunn
13. Lower East Side -- Justin Townes Earle
14. A Way to You -- Lara Ewen and the Unstrung Orchestra
15. Muume wa Mtu -- The Dataz
16. Lullaby for Bad Girls -- Kelli Rae Powell
17. Always Love -- Nada Surf
18. She's Got Something -- Greg Holden
19. Are You Listening? -- A City on a Lake

Annual Review: 2014 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/630gmXL4y9Bdsh74fNOEPW?si=14fcc366d74e4aef 

1. FUCKERY LEVEL 3000 -- Jean Grae
2. One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces -- Ben Folds Five
3. My Life -- Richard McGraw
4. She's So Happy Now -- Bryan Dunn
5. Bodies -- Soul Miner's Daughter
6. 17 Again -- Eurythmics
7. How to Be Your Girl -- Lara Ewen
8. Love Don't Turn Your Back on Me Now -- Jesse Ruben
9. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) -- Stacey Kent
10. Black Dress -- Mercy Bell
11. What Makes a Good Man -- The Heavy
12. Mother Feather -- Mother Feather
13. Annie in Luck -- Shwa Losbem
14. Lipstick -- Jessi Robertson
15. Kids in NY -- The Julie Ruin
16. The Weekenders -- The Hold Steady
17. Pink Rabbits -- The National
18. The City -- The 1975
19. Here Comes a Regular -- The Replacements


Number One Single: 2015 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

1. Kentucky Bourbon -- Murder By Death
2. Let the Good Times Roll -- JD McPherson
3. Mama Your Boys Will Find a Home -- Scissors for Lefty
4. Whatever Makes You Happy -- Jennifer Hudson
5. Bukowski -- Parlor Tricks
6. Philadelphia -- The Love Leighs
7. Can't Bring Me Down -- Awreeoh
8. underneatu -- Jean Grae
9. All Good Cowboys -- Mercy Bell
10. All the Way There -- Lara Ewen
11. New Mercedes -- Bryan Dunn
12. Sharpening the Knives -- Jessi Robertson
13. Never Too Soon To Compromise (Yourself and All Your Values!) -- Shwa Losben
14. California -- Rebecca Loebe
15. Don't Hold Your Breath -- Athlete
16. Justine -- T Bird and the Breaks
17. Don't Slow Down Zachary -- Kelli Rae Powell
18. Q&A -- Abby Ahmad
19. The Revealing -- Chris Ayer
20. Sylvia -- Pulp


This is Fine: 2016 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

1. Everybody Wants To Rule the World -- Lorde
2. This Land is Your Land -- Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings

3. Dear Mr. Man -- Prince
4. Swingers -- Bryan Dunn
5. Natural Disaster -- Mother Feather
6. Wicked Tongue -- Fife & Drom
7. He's on the Beach -- Kirsty MacColl
8. Scared of America -- Jesse D. Ruben
9. Democracy -- Leonard Cohen
10. War Sweater -- Wakey! Wakey!
11. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next -- Manic Street Preachers
12. My Shot -- The Roots
13. Tinsel Take Down -- Luke Wesley
14. Mr. November -- The National
15. Walk in the Park -- Parlour Tricks
16. Rock 'N' Roll Suicide -- David Bowie


Not Here For This Crap: 2017 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

1. I'm Afraid of Americans, David Bowie
2. Clampdown, The Clash
3. Do It With a Rockstar, Amanda Palmer
4. Step Off, Kacey Musgraves
5. 76%, Jean Grae
6. Tonight Ain't Gonna Be Good, Lucero
7. She Owns the Streets, The Raveonettes
8. Get Home Safely, Kissy Girls
9. Needed Me, Rihanna
10. Stand By Me, Ki:Theory
11. Blankest Year, Nada Surf
12. Show Me, Kristin Kontrol
13. We the People..., A Tribe Called Quest
14. Marguerita, Rebecca Loebe
15. Chimpanzees, Dynamite James
16. The KKK Took My Baby Away, The Ramones
17. Alternative Ulster, Stiff Little Fingers
18. Sins of My Youth, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
19. City People, Sweet Soubrette
20. We Were Here, BOY
21.And You Get a Car! And You! And You!, Maude Gun


The Me Decade: 2018 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

1. If You Love Me — Kate Vargas
2. New Agenda — Janet Jackson
3. Long Long Time — Guy Forsyth
4. I Want You — Fefe Dobson
5. Constellation Baby — Mother Feather
6. Dangerous — Caves & Clouds
7. Lost On Me — Abby Ahmad
8. Married Man — Rebecca Loebe
9. What’ll I Do — Nobody’s Girl
10. Don’t Say I Didn’t Warn You (Texas Woman Song) — The Love Leighs
11. Queen of New York — Tancred
12. I Miss You — Kacey Musgraves
13. Outta My Way — Kasey Williams
14. She — Laura Mvula
15. Johnny Cash — Kelley McRae
16. June — Jo Kroger
17. BITS part 2: The Fear — Jean Grae
18. We Only Come Out At Night — The Sugar Stems
19. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right — Kesha

Changing Climates: 2019 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

1. Beautiful -- The Go-Go's
2. What's Up Danger -- Blackway, Black Caviar
3. Making the Most of the Night -- Carly Rae Jepsen
4. No Man's Land -- Karen Dahlstrom
5. The Last Wig Shop -- Lara Ewen
6. All This Useless Beauty -- Elvis Costello
7. Surfin Bird -- The Ramones
8. Eh La Bas -- Leyla McCalla
9. My Friend Has a Swimming Pool -- Mausi
10. Contigo -- Yaniza
11. Love Untold -- Paul Westerberg
12. You're Gonna Remember -- Kate Vargas
13. Ultraviolet -- E.W. Harris
14. Risk -- Metric
15. Even Though -- Shwa Losben
16. Love is All Around -- Joan Jett and the Blackhearts



This Was All So Unnecessary: 2020 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

1. La Grippe -- Squirrel Nut Zippers
2. This Will All End in Tears -- Bryan Dunn
3. Losing Streak -- Jessi Robertson
4. Under the Table -- Fiona Apple
5. I Feel Like Funkin' It Up -- Rebirth Brass Band
6. You're a Dead Man -- Mother Feather
7. My Best Friend's Weddings -- The Chicks
8. The Whole World Lost Its Head -- The Go-Go's
9. Hackensack -- Fountains of Wayne
10. Hello in There -- John Prine
11. Just One Of the Guys -- Jenny Lewis
12. Antifa Dance -- Ana Tijoux
13. This Man -- Robert Clay
14. walking in the snow -- Run the Jewels
15. All You Fascists -- Billy Bragg and Wilco
16. Turntables -- Janelle Monae
17. Song 33 -- Noname

HORSESHOES AND HAND GRENADES – 2021 ORIGNAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK
Spotify link: 
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0WX37zL7kMNxaeuuElXuAf... 

1. Come Out and Play – Billie Eilish
2. Pumpkin -- The Regrettes
3. Hold U – Indigo De Souza
4. Delayed Pursuit – Jessi Robertson
5. Chaise Longue – Wet Leg
6. Opaline – Novo Amor
7. Lanyards – The Hold Steady
8. Lost in the Citadel – Lil Nas X
9. Don’t Be So Hard On Yourself – Alex Lahey
10. Halloween – Phoebe Bridgers
11. The Night We Met – Lord Huron
12. Take Back the Power – The Interrupters
13. Dance For The Hell Of It – Lova
14. Plea From a Cat Named Virtue – The Weakerthans
15. Maybe Next Year – Niall Connolly


RUMSPRINGA: 2022 ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK

1.Has It Hit You?–The Regrettes
2.Four Letter Words–K. Flay
3.CHURCH GIRL–Beyonce
4.Calor–Conchita Velasco
5.Carnival–Andi Rae Healy
6.Sigh (Killing Eve)–Unloved
7.Salt–Ava Max
8.Hello Hello Hello–Remi Wolf
9.Texas Man–The Chicks
10.Vai Tu Sei Libero–Dalida
11.Our Song–Lara Ewen
12.Good Girl–The Go-Go’s
13. Better Now — Oh Wonder
14.Dancing On My Own–Robyn
15.Alma Seca–Juanita Euka
16.Broken Hearts/Broken Bones–Parlour Tricks
17.We’ll All Be Alright–Amy Stroup, AG


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East Side Story: 2010 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack



Two years ago, when I found myself in diminished circumstances, I decided to send everybody holiday CD mixes to save money. And damned if it wasn't the most well-received holiday gift season ever. So I'm doing it again, for the third year in a row. This being my first full year in New York, I decided to make a playlist of some of the lovely and amazing people that I've gotten to know. This is by no means an exhaustive list, since that would be a multi-volume work, but it's a nice sampling. Happy new year, you guys!

1. I Hope You Like This Song -- Luke Wesley
2. L.E.S. (Lovely) -- Laura Jean Binkley
3. Sara With No H -- Andy Mac
4. I Could Sing -- Nate Campany and the Serenade
5. Slow Burn -- Misty Boyce
6. Flowers -- Bryan Dunn
7. One Day -- Lara Ewen
8. Take Me Out -- Atomic Tom
9. Brooklyn -- Wakey! Wakey!
10. Selline -- Tim Blane
11. I Don't Wanna Wait -- Rosi Golan
12. Worst Is Over -- Shwa Losben
13. Love Is Here To Stay -- Casey Shea