The Alchemist Weekly

Mix 10 // Shake Your Quakers

2007-11-19T23:32:00.000-05:00

Fall Flowers: holga photo: courtesy of Ellie

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1. Maple Leaves - Jens Lekman
2. Jesus Saves, I Spend - St. Vincent
3. Bookshop Casanova - The Clienele
4. Our Mouths Were Wet
5. Hanging On - People Press Play
6. Questions and Answers - Apples in Stereo
7. Tall Trees - Lost in The Trees
8. Nantes - Beirut
9. Merchants of Soul - Spoon
10. Direct to Helmet - The Spinto Band
11. All I Need - Radiohead
12. Derek - Animal Collective
13. Soldier Jane - Beck
14. All the Night Without Love - Elvis Perkins
15. Fire Coming Out of a Monkey's Head - Gorillaz
16. At Sea - Electrelane
17. Modern Inventions - The Submarines
18. Liars and Thieves - Eric Bachman
19. Potters Wheel - Josh Ritter

Mix 9 // Son of a Mix

2007-10-18T10:32:00.000-04:00

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Mix & Illustration brought to you by Leni from Philly.

1. Wearing That Loved On Look - Elvis Presley
2. Grandfathered - Nathan Fake
3. When the Morning Comes - Hall & Oates
4. Andrea - The Extraordinaires
5. Irene - Caribou
6. Philadelphia - Ladybug Window Party
7. How Naked Are We Going to Get - The Blow
8. Xilo - Gui Boratto
9. Fireworks - Animal Collective
10. A Machine in India - The Flaming Lips
11. Gone Beyond - Akron/Family
12. Your Arms Around Me - Jens Lekman
13. Sweetness & Tenderness - The Rentals
14. Keep Hanging On - Hüsker Dü

What's a Leonard Nimoy?

2007-10-17T13:18:00.000-04:00

Watcha got??

2007-10-13T15:59:00.001-04:00

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Mix 8 // Policy by Press Release

2007-10-08T00:14:00.001-04:00

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1. Experimental Music Love - The Magnetic Fields
2. Sea Lion Woman - Feist
3. El Kitapena - Manu Chao
4. By Tomorrow - Candie Payne
5. The Way The Wind Blows - A Hawk and A Hacksaw
6. Marry Song - Band of Horses
7. Did I Step On Your Trumpet - Danielson
8. Luckydutch - Radio Moscow
9. #1 - Animal Collective
10. Ta Voix Au Telephone - Stereo Total
11. Warm Panda Cola - Boy Least Likely To
12. Incandescent Hearts - The Russian Futurists
13. Over and Over Again - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
14. Enjoy the Silence - String Quartet
15. Get Off - Dandy Warhols
16. I Love My Car - Belle & Sebastian
17. Sombras - Soledad Bravo
18. The Mistress Witch from McClure - Sufjan Stevens
19. Ostrich & Chirping - Elliot Smith

MIX 7 // Tesla's Earthquake Machine

2007-09-21T20:41:00.000-04:00

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1. Safe Travels - Peter & The Wolf
2. Solta O Frango - Bonde Do Role
3. Before You - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
4. I Ripped My Own Heart Out - Numbers
5. Kto Sie Zani - Kapela Ze Wsi Warszawa
6. Jamna Plagor - Dungen
7. When I Was A Girl - Feist
8. Melody Day - Caribou
9. Women Are Born in Love - Oh No! Oh My!
10. Draw a Map - Takka Takka
11. America Too - Jonathan Wolf
12. Raphael - Carla Bruni
13. March Into the Sea - Modest Mouse
14. Eanie Meany 2 - Jim Noir
15. L'Accordeoniste - Edith Piaf
16. Forks and Knives - Beirut
17. Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk - Rufus Wainwright
18. Ani-Kuni - Madeleine Chartrand
19. House By the Sea - Iron & Wine
20. Summersong - The Decemberists
21. The Rifle - Alela Diane

2007 Hipster Olympics

2007-09-10T11:08:00.000-04:00

I think Sasha Pinrod III will take it this year...

MIX 6 // Progeny of Loki

2007-09-06T22:52:00.000-04:00

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1. Balkan Low Rider Anthem - Alaska in Winter
2. Look at the Floor - Brother Nigel's Proxy Party
3. Arcade Precinct - 1990's
4. Have You Seen in Your Dreams - Miracle Fortress
5. The Lady of the Lake - Klima
6. Space Fruit Interlude - Talib Kweli
7. Passara - Jaimie Alem
8. Cliquot - Beirut
9. St. Andrew (This Battle is in the Air) - The White Stripes
10. Awaddu - Ghalia Benali & Timnaa
11. Grape Nuts & Chalk Sauce - Blockhead
12. Satan Said Dance - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
13. Togire Togire Ni Tadoru - Mastaka Hara
14. Eyes of Love - The Embrooks
15. Moi Je Joue - Stereo Total
16. Paris Is Burning - St. Vincent
17. Junk Bond Trader - Elliot Smith
18. Mazurek Op. 33 #2 - Leszek Mozdzer
19. Breakin' Up - Rilo Kiley
20. Epilogue - Patrick Wolf

Great New(er) Music Videos

2007-09-04T09:57:00.000-04:00

Bat For Lashes - What's a Girl To Do

The Veils - Calliope

Feist - 1234

Beirut - Elephant Gun

M.I.A. - Jimmy

Spoon - Don't You Evah (featuring Keepon)

Mix 5 // Handstand & Deliver

2007-08-30T11:14:00.001-04:00

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1. Our Spring is Sweet Not Fleeting - Of Montreal
2. Nine Ships - The Voom Blooms
3. Pleng Keh Sam Sip Sam Natee - Thais from Issan
4. Get it Together - The Go! Team
5. Goods - Mates of State
6. Sidewalk Flight - Jon Brion
7. Laisse Tomber Les Filles - France Gall (Gainsbourg)
8. Don't You Evah - Spoon
9. One Last "Whoo-hoo!" For the Pullman - Sufjan Stevens
10. The Start of Something -Voxtrot
11. Push It - Stereo Total
12. Run to Your Grave - The Mae Shi
13. Blistered Heart - Badly Drawn Boy
14. Doot Doot Plot - The Hidden Cameras
15. Why the Long Face - Caribou
16. Heavy - Oh No
17. Upon Encountering the Crippled Elephant - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
18. Doves Circle the Sky - Bodies of Water
19. Grandmaphone Speaks - Kid Koala
20. Lake Michigan - Rogue Wave
21. Miniature - Super Furry Animals
22. Paper Planes - M.I.A.
23. The Strain - Blockhead
24. Diamond Heart - Marissa Nadler
25. Glmod Konst Kommer Studom Anyo Till Heders - Dungen
26. Absolutely Cuckoo - The Magnetic Fields

MIX 4 // Rickshaw Spinners

2007-08-30T00:22:00.001-04:00

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1. Robochacha - Kid Koala
2. Mastermind - Deltron
3. Crosshairs - Danger Doom
4. Pudpots - Nightmares on Wax
5. Rainbowarriors - CocoRosie
6. Grip Like A Vice - The Go! Team
7. Slideshow at Free University - Le Tigre
8. Nausea - Beck
9. Boxe - Prototypes
10. The Crystal Cat - Dan Deacon
11. Turn It Out - Jurassic 5
12. Cha Cha - Balkan Beat Box
13. Jimmy - M.I.A
14. Car Thief - Beastie Boys
15. That Right Ain't Shit - The Books
16. Fa-Fa-Fa - Datarock
17. Fantasy - Miles Davis
18. Drumheller - Caribou

MIX 3 // Gaza Strip Club

2007-08-23T10:53:00.000-04:00

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1. Magic Trick - M. Ward
2. Vacant - The Heavenly States
3. Skin Is, My - Andrew Bird
4. Inaugural Pop Music for Jane Margaret Byrne - Sufjan Stevens
5. Hey Hippie! - Cars Can Be Blue
6. Cause, I Lover - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
7. In The Aeroplane Over the Sea - Matt Pond PA (Neutral Milk Hotel cover)
8. Through the Wire - Belaire (Kanye West cover)
9. Can I Stay - Ray LaMontagne
10. Avery Island/April 1st - Neutral Milk Hotel
11. Queen of the Savages - The Magnetic Fields
12. LDN - Lily Allen
13. I Used to Complain Now I Don't - White Rabbits
14. Dusk: A Peach in the Orchard - Eels
15. Candy Floss - Wilco
16. Washington, D.C. - The Magnetic Fields
17. He Can Only Hold Her - Amy Winehouse
18. Dying Sun - Moonraker
19. When I Am Gone - Sparrow House
20. Goodnight John Dee - Grant Lee Buffalo

MIX 2 // God Bless Italics

2007-08-22T00:41:00.001-04:00

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1. Main Title - Jon Brion
2. Pagan Angel & A Borrowed Car - Iron & Wine
3. Hendrix with a KO - Caribou
4. Computer Song - Jim Noir
5. All I Have - Tiger Lou
6. La Demiere Minute - Carla Bruni
7. Just One Girl - The Robot Ate Me
8. Slope Song - Essex Green
9. Chime Out - Nightmares on Wax
10. Your Love is Like Las Vegas - The Thrills
11. Tokyo - The Books
12. Prarie Fire that Wanders About - Sufjan Stevens
13. Cardinal Points - Essex Green
14. Ripchord - Rilo Kiley
15. Rock & Roll - Velvet Underground
16. The Underdog - Spoon
17. Grass - Animal Collective
18. Go Find your Saint - Frank Black
19. Phone Call - Jon Brion

MIX 1 // Stepping Outsider

2007-08-20T17:59:00.000-04:00

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1. Simple X - Andrew Bird
2. Cemetery Lawns - The Rosebuds
3. Sell Out - Tiger Lou
4. Dear Friend, 2nd Draft - Bill Baird
5. Don't Thank Me - French Kicks
6. White Tooth Man - Iron & Wine
7. Canto de Ossanha - Jurassic 5
8. Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn - The White Stripes
9. A Bright-Ass Light - Jana Hunter
10. The lighthouse - Electrelane
11. Somebody Changed - The Clientele
12. Camaro - Kings of Leon
13. Stuck in the Metal - Eagles of Death Metal
14. Wraith Pinned to the Mist & Other Games - Of Montreal
15. Father & Son - Cat Stevens
16. Pink Batman - Dan Deacon
17. Rhythm & Soul - Spoon
18. A Boy in Motion - Robert Pollard
19. Fear of Sleep - The Strokes
20. Cleanse Song - Bright Eyes