2010.5 Guest List Mixtape

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We’re half way through the year of the metal tiger. So, we asked some friends (20 – bloggers, bands, writers, radio folk, media peeps) to contribute one song from 2010 to create a half way through 2010 mixtape.  200 emails later, this is what happened…

Mark Schoneveld (yvynyl.com)
Bronze – Horses
“I’m all over this band these days”

Travis Keller (Buddyhead)
AA Bondy – Hey Preacher (aka Put On Your Best)
“Dude is a ripper.”

Anthony Van Hart (SeizureChicken)
LCD Soundsystem – Home
“Windows down-Check.  Volume up-Check.  Roll out… Wait!!!  You’re gonna need a neck brace.”

Tarik Moody (88.9 Radio Milwaukee)
James Blake – CMYK
“It is simply amazing!”

Kevin Meyer (Dusty Medical Records)
The Ponys – Pop Culture (Revisited)

Alyssa Scott (Make-Up Your Mind)
LCD Soundsystem – Dance Yrself Clean
“It is impossible not to love this song, unless you are a total dick. So slap on some leg warmers and laissez-faire.”

Anthony Lopez (High Frequency Media)
Happy Birthday – Girls FM

Jon Salimes (High Frequency Media)
The Midwest Beat – Molly Molly

Dudes over at Rollo Grady (Rollogrady.com)
Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar

Steve Hyden (AVClub)
Avi Buffalo – Summer Cum
This song makes my heart ache and stomach turn.

Erin Wolf (WMSE, Fan-belt, BattleCry MKE, Group Of The Altos)
Archie Bronson Outfit – Shark’s Tooth
“Shark’s Tooth” (second track on Coconut (Domino Records)) is the highlight — it is dark, tuneful and abrasive all at the same time in a Gang of Four + Talking Heads + Liars kinda of way. Guitarist Sam Windett’s vocals are entrancingly messy and strangled and his band mates breeze over all this cacophony, delivering a crashing yet solid, slightly psychedelic post/art punk sound that is unsettling, but ultimately catchy.

Vinne Kircher (of JAILL)
Conspiracy of Owls – Ancient Robots
“like that song cuz it’s real good and the video is pretty bitchin… I’d say my next fave is Eyes music by happy birthday,  he wears pants with eyes on them, and he’s got eyes and sings about em so that’s funny.”

Jeffrey Wallman (SeizureChicken)
big bio – shutterbug
“Probably just producer Scott Storch’s clever ploy to convince everyone that it’s 1978, thereby making it slightly more socially acceptable to blow $80 million on cocaine and end up like Bob Saget in Half-Baked. But hey, whatever. This song is outrageous.”

Brandon Malacara (BattleCry Milwaukee)
Family Of The Year – Hero
“thats the song I always end up listening to when it’s 2:30 am”

Jessi Hector (Goldest Egg)
best coast – when i’m with you
“it’s so simple and perfect and gets stuck in your head for weeks. and i totally have a girl crush on bethany because she is as obsessed with cats almost as much as i am.”

Mark Goldstein (SeizureChicken)
Ariel Pink – Round & Round
“pop masterpiece with a monster hook… ”

Robert & Cortney Novogratz (SIXXDESIGN / 9 by Design on Bravo)
Pete Dougherty & Wolfman – For Lovers
“people know Pete through the tabloids ie Kate Moss..Few know how good his voice is..”

Evan Rytlewski (Shepherd Express)
DJ Khaled – “All I Do is Win” ft. T-Pain, Ludacris, Rick Ross and Snoop Dogg
“Sure, on the surface, DJ Khaled doesn’t do much of anything—he doesn’t sing, rap, write or produce; he may not even be literate, for all we know—but as the curator of this all-star, motivational rally, this year’s most awesome song about being awesome, he deserves every cent of his paycheck. Throw away all those Tony Robbins books and just try blasting this on your way to work, then see if you don’t finally get that promotion.”

Jack Schleicher (SeizureChicken)
Harlem – Cloud Pleaser
“2010 will be remember as the year people fell in love with Harlem.  “Cloud Pleaser,” is a different pace and color than the rest of the songs off of Hippies, which will surely be placed highly in the year-end album list.  This track is an example of Harlem’s versatility and song-writing ability, beyond just being another crazy basement band”

Brad Horenstein (right-hear.com)
DOM – Living in America
“The perfect summer pop anthem for Americans down on the economy and also for anyone else who realizes how boss US pop culture is. And also for everyone else.”
TENNIS – Marathon
“The perfect representative of the indie doo-wop pop wave and just generally one of the summer’s best songs, by far.”