Jon Wolf’s Highly Rec’d Mixtape: May ’10 “I Was Afraid I’d Eat Your Brains!”

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HIGHLY REC’D – THE MONTHLY MIXTAPE
Because good music is a right, not a privilege.
By Jon Wolf

May’ 10: “I Was Afraid I’d Eat Your Brains!”
1. The Library Is On Fire – Vanessa’s Theatre of Peace
2. The Static Jacks – My Parents Lied
3. Eternal Summers – Able To
4. Japanther – Spread So Thin
5. Vivian Darkbloom – Let’s Become Machines (special thanks:Ryan’s Smashing Life)
6. Vivian Darkbloom – Jamie
7. The Hold Steady – The Weekenders
8. Jaill – Everyone’s Hip
9. Kleenex Girl Wonder – Misdirection
10. Kleenex Girl Wonder – Long Time, No Sleep
11. Apollo Ghosts – Coka-Cola Admen
12. The Morning Benders – Cold War
13. The New Pornographers – Moves
14. Magnapop – Open the Door (1996)
15. Darren Hanlon – Electric Skeleton
16. Harlem – Gay Human Bones
17. DEN – Jenny
18. Adam Green – Castles and Tassels
19. Communist Daughter – Not the Kid
20. Josh Pyke – Middle of the Hill
21. Deer Tick – 20 Miles
22. Plants and Animals – Tom Cruz
23. The National – Conversation 16
24. Florence and The Machine – Swimming

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New Feature: Graham Smith Is The Coolest Person Alive
That is an actual album title from Kleenex Girl Wonder impresario Graham Smith, and well deserved. Graham Smith is the best type of artist, he is ridiculously prolific, he has been producing crazy catchy pop songs with clever lyrics and song structures since the early 90′s, and is going to make music whether you know about it or not.

He is also running the best independent artist website I have seen, it’s a model for how an indie artist should market and sell their music, it’s easy to navigate, listen, and purchase his entire discography at super low prices, or even name your own price, for albums with 20-plus songs.

This is someone you should know. Two of his newer songs are in the May mix, and I’ve cherry-picked three classics below, but that is by no means everything you need to know about KGW, otherwise you will never get to hear the songs: The Nearest Future, Tendency Right Foot Forward, Reunited Airlines, Amelia, You and Me and Leslie, Showrunner’s Blues, You-Know-What, Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar, Great Things, and many more!

Start with 1999′s Ponyoak if you would prefer a little more direction, and 2008′s Yes Boss is also particularly dense with good songs, and being offered for 99 cents(?!).