15 mixes with tracks by “The Gizmos”

US & Canada punk vol.1

A tribute with songs by Frank Sinatra, the Strokes, REM and Simon & Garfunkel

One in a series of annual Thanksgiving mixes. A few friends sit down the night before the US Thanksgiving holiday and create a few mixes of vinyl finds in the past year. Most of the songs are new acquisitions or songs increasing in appearances on our individual playlists.

This mix is a blend of prog rock, glam and punk. Fourteen tracks including music by The Buzzcocks, Dramarama, and The Stranglers.

Thirteen happyass songs to PUMP YOU UP for your calc exam, including music by Descendents, Devo, and Dow Jones & The Industrials. Hulk Smash integrals!

A dozen of my favorite songs from (or about) the Circle City including music by Bottle Rockets, Brando and The Gizmos.

Thirty-four tracks of raucous, dirty, offensive and fun punk rock including music by 45 Grave, Against Me! and Poison Girls. I love them all with a mad passion.

Twelve tracks including music by Dandelions, Ras Michael & the Sons of Negus and Third World War.

Sixteen tracks including music by Allen Toussaint, The Cramps, and Modernettes. Jessica Cassyle Carr gave me this mix in 2008. It's one of the best mixes I've ever received. It makes me wanna rock.

Eight tracks including music by Gas Huffer, Pierced Arrows, and Rotten Apples.

Eight tracks including music by Derrick Harriott, Dexy's Midnight Runners, and Dwight Twilley Band.

Primarily psychedelic music giving way to punk. With appearances by Captain Beefheart, Len Bright Combo and Love.

Ten tracks including music by Hemme Fatale, Benga, and Czerwono Czarini. Includes Midwestern punk rock, a field recording of elevator winches, dubstep, poppy British electro-rock, ambient electronic weirdness, Polish rock'n'roll from the 60s, Jamaican calypso, psychedelic-tinged Czech vocal pop, a mellow electronic instrumental from Peru, and a totally cheesy retro boogie woogie dance number which everyone is probably justified in hating but which has found a strange place in my heart.