Tracklisting:

Alex Napping – Living Room
Family Friends – I’m Like You
Bad Dad – Sum Bunny Gun Love Me
thanks for coming – be good
The Wooden Sky – Swimming in Strange Waters
Philippa Zang – Tongues and Boobs
Boosegumps – Happy
Golf Lexapro – Beatitudes
Antiphons – Tiny Rooms
Goodman – Hourglass
Yucky Duster – Elementary School Dropout
Nice Legs – Mighty Three
Lady Pills – Old Song
Jay Som – The Bus Song
Nnamdi Ogbonnaya – dOn’t turn me Off Ft. JD AKA ThrashKitten & Mal Devisa
big snack – a book of poems
Julia Lucille – Eternally
Tom Cunliffe – Old Moon
Andrew James – Shoreline
Jenny Berger Myhre – Måter Å Forstå Seg Selv I Verden
Twelve Gardens – Hahaha
Old Amica – Condensation
Moon Gravity – Nightfall
YOWL – Saturday Drag
Laura Jean Anderson – Won’t Give Up On You
Spartan Jet-Plex – Another Other
Lord Youth – Gray Gardens
Canshaker Pi – What You’re Trying To Say
Loverboy Wanderers – Big Boy
Idan Altman – Expiration Date
Winter Coat – Into The Blue
The National Park Service – Knowing 1
Jacob Furr – Easy Waves

That’s all for Feb, onward to March! Remember you can check out previous roundup mixtapes on the tag.

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Tracklisting:

1. A Hospital + Crucifix Made of Plastic – Florist
2. Richmond – talons’
3. Say – Indoor Voices
4. Aeroplane – House Plants
5. When I Was an Island – David Karsten Daniels
6. The Gentleman’s Apocalypse – JR Green
7. Hitman – Mrs. Hopewell
8. sun drops – ratbath
9. A Cruise – Brian S. Cassidy
10. Orpheus – Matt Kivel
11. Your Love – Jeremy Squires (INTERVIEW)
12. Blood Moon – C.M. Slenko
13. Bake – Broken Beak
14. Brushes Like a Fox – Saint Corsair
15. daniel – francie cool
16. Baby Blue – Mount Moriah
17. For You – Free Cake For Every Creature
18. Have This Dance – Govier
19. Goodness (trailer) – The Hotelier
20. The River Because – Sawtooth
21. why are you so cool? – Dying Adolescence
22. cockroach – tall friend
23. Waiting – Faint Peter
24. Heart Destroyer – Lazy Legs
25. Take it Forever – Beat Radio (INTERVIEW)
26. Every One of Them, Dogs – Quarterly
27. like a feather or a pawprint – Field Medic
28. Lay For June – Old Earth
29. 2 old 2 broke – Gorgeous Bully
30. Funny Man Routine – Table People
31. House & Home – Arlo Aldo
32. Cave Song – Sea Ghost
33. Everywhere (Fleetwood Mac cover) – Boosegumps (from Sugar Rush)

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Tracklisting:

1. Amerika – Wintersleep
2. Born Confused – Porridge Radio
3. Catchyalater – Frog
4. Water – Opals
5. Listerine – Foxall
6. Nightmare Song – Oscar Lush
7. October Mirage – Island Eyes
8. Past is Personal – West America
9. Roller – Quilt
10. Unattached – Two White Cranes
11. On the Nights You Stay Home – Donovan Woods
12. Call Out – Minor Moon
13. Consolation – The Chairman Dances (Lit Links)
14. First I’m Sorry – Haley Heynderickx
15. Waitress – Soft Lions
16. Vanitas – Hanging Hills
17. Waiting – Faint Peter
18. Farewell Navigator – Naomi Pop
19. Gifts – Real Swell
20. Future Wife – Jacob Faurholt
21. Wall – Slows Down
22. Olly Oxen Free – Creature Speak

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Tracklisting:

1. Townie – Mitski
2. Prosthetic Love – Typhoon
3. Seven – Oh, Rose
4. Pylon Pile-On – Benjamin Shaw
5. Lost in Time – Jom Comyn
6. Sweet Surrender (Sarah McLaughlin Cover) – Evening Hymns
7. In Evil Hour – Battle Ave.
8. N.M.S.S. – Elvis Depressedly
9. Welcome To Heaven – Gay Angel
10. Background Painters – Daytime TV
11. Ocean Song – The Wailin’ Smithers
12. Art School Wannabee – Sorority Noise
13. Good Morning, August – K. Adem
14. Alone At The Party – Eskimeaux
15. Someone Else – Acid Ghost
16. Go – Eerie Glue
17. The Lights In The Sands of Katumpkale – REW<<
18. Sandspurs – Naps
19. Winning Streak – Glen Hansard
20. Beautiful Blue Sky – Ought
21. The Race – Oh Pep!
22. Midnight Cross – Fog Lake
23. Sweet Gin – Leisure Suite
24. Motorcycle – Helen
25. Sleep Talk – Diet Cig
26. The Knower – Youth Lagoon
27. The Closing Door – LVL UP
28. That Kind of Girl – All Dogs
29. Hesitate – Dude York
30. Elk City – Samantha Crain
31. The Grass Is Always Greener – Say Hi
32. James Orin Incandenza – Mrs. Hopewell
33.Choking on Flowers – Fox Academy

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Tracklisting:

1. A Lingering – German Error Message
2. All You’ve Gotta be When You’re 23 – Free Cake For Every Creature
3. Can You Feel It, Too? – Fun Home
4. Garden Tomb – Pasture Dog
5. How Marvelous – Lewtrakimou
6. Out Names – Shunkan
7. Floral Mattress – Naps
8. Rapture in Heat – Liam Betson
9. Astoria – Gwenno
10. Electric Duck – Henry Demos
11. Angharad – Yucatan
12. Orchids (Instrumental) – Celebrity Crush
13. Tulsa – John Statz
14. Snow – Alanna McArdle
15. Yours Till the Ocean – Danielle Fricke
16. The Lights in the Sands of Katumpkale – REW<<

April 2015 Roundup from Wake The Deaf on 8tracks Radio.

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So what are you waiting for? Run along and tune in to Mix Tape Radio. Tell your friends too – it will make them love you even more.

P.S. Did you see the mixtape we put together with Jeremy a couple of years back?

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March has gone and Spring has sprung. If you were too busy trying to top up your vitamin D levels with every weak little sunbeam then fear not, we have collected everything featured on Wake The Deaf in one handy little playlist. Follow the links in the tracklisting to be whisked away to the relevant pages.

We are taking a short break over Easter to gather our thoughts and hopefully return with something shiny and new. No promises just yet but keep an eye here, Twitter or Facebook for developments. Until then!

Tracklisting:

1. i. – Danielle Fricke
2. Dk/Pi – Aero Flynn
3. Summering – Summering
4. Chapter 1 – Human Behavior
5. Dogs 1 – Vio/Miré
6. A Home Just Over Yonder – Frankie Duff
7. M.M.G.A.T.M – Field Medic
8. Broken Necks – Eskimeaux
9. Maybe I’m Wasting My Time – Jake Rollins
10. God is Laughing at Me – Butterfly House
11. Hold Me Like a Child – GOOD, GOOD BLOOD
12. Invisible Cities – Beat Radio
13. Somebody Kill Me Please – LVL UP
14. The Plane – Andrew Hung
15. Roles Reversed – Kid In The Attic
16. Floral Mattress – Naps
17. Tennis – Derek Piotr
18. The Day is Past and Gone – Jean Ritchie
19. The Day is Past and Gone (Variations) – Sarah Louise
20. Buffalo Bones – Wes Tirey
21. Don’t Go – Radical Dads
22. Lucky Man – Joplin Rice
23. Billy Madison Victory Song – Krill
24. Demise – Psalmships

March 2015 Roundup from Wake The Deaf on 8tracks Radio.

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Did you miss anything on Wake The Deaf this month? Catch up with this handy 8tracks mixtape featuring a track from all the artists. Click the names in the tracklist to be zoomed off to the relevant post.

Tracklisting:

1. The Blackest Crow – Robbie Banks
2. Good News is Too True – Newfoundland
3. The Blues Easing – Slows Down
4. Silly River – Gay Angel
5. A Whole New Shape – Happyness
6. The Ghost at Woodland Park – Molly Drag
7. Matches – ACAB Rocky
8. Comb The Feelings Through You Hair – Grooms
9. Spider’s Web – Obody
10. Field Guide – Sarah Louise
11. So Long – Anomie
12. Slow Time Vultures – Elephant Micah
13. Light Leaks – Ben Seretan

February 2015 Roundup from Wake The Deaf on 8tracks Radio.

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January was a bit of a scrappy month in terms of regular posts, but we still managed to cover some excellent artists. Why not catch up with any you missed with this tailor-made mixtape? Click the artist names in the tracklist to be whisked off to the review.

Tracklist:

1. Jesus in the 70s – Siskiyou
2. 2 Broke 2 Old – Gorgeous Bully
3. Another Way To Go – Adeline Hotel
4. Scene Sick – Diet Cig
5. Dog Burial Theme – Dicktations
6. Up the Academy – Mike Pace and the Child Actors
7. Con/ A Sewer/A Cat – Amateur Love
8. The End is a Vicious Thing – Puzzlecuts
9. Manic Pixie Dream Girl – Furnsss
10. Party Girls – Gleemer
11. Soft Reputation – Unlikely Friends
12. Passing Through – Harley Alexander
13. Coward’s Luck – Hip Hatchet
14. Memphis – The Wandering Lake
15. How a Resurrection Really Feels – The Hold Steady
16. Fire in My Eyes – Yours Are The Only Ears
17. Traffic is Okay – Sitcom
18. Gold & Rose – Dear Sister

Also make sure you check out our mammoth collection of our Favourite ‘Free’ Music of 2014. Finally, if you enjoy long, rambling pieces that try and draw connections between my favourite music and my favourite books, check out this piece on The Hold Steady’s Separation Sunday (Craig Finn said he enjoyed it, so it carries his stamp of approval).

January 2015 Roundup from Wake The Deaf on 8tracks Radio.

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Tracklist:

1. Something About Us (Daft Punk cover) – Spazzkid
2. Waves and Waves and Waves (Playlounge cover) – Two White Cranes
3. Dogmas (Kississippi cover) – Cyberbully Mom Club
4. Call Me Maybe (Carly Rae Jepsen cover) – The Yellow Dress
5. Clouds (One Direction cover) – Shunkan
6. Lodi (Creedence Clearwater Revival cover) – Advance Base
7. Emma’s House (The Field Mice cover) – Lost Film
8. Pitseleh (Elliott Smith cover) – Marissa Nadler
9. Pink Rabbits (The National cover) – Matt Paxton
10. Ontario Gothic (Foxes in Fiction cover) – Julia Brown
11. Australia (Attic Abasement cover) – R.L. Kelly
12. Sister of the Moon (Fleetwood Mac cover) – Globelamp
13. I’m On Fire (Bruce Springsteen cover) – Wakes
14. When the Sun Hits (Slowdive cover) – Mao Ra Sun (Feat Dems)
15. Tomorrow is a Long Time (Bob Dylan cover) – Phosphorescent
16. Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana cover) – Noah Gundersen
17. The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton (The Mountain Goats cover) – Nathaniel Rateliff
18. Museum of Flight (Damien Jurado cover) – Winterpills

Covers Mix Volume #13 from Wake The Deaf on 8tracks Radio.

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