
It's finally here. The Day of 200 Songs held in honour of my 200th post, which happened way back in April of last year. A brief recap for those who don't know the whole story: to celebrate my 200th post, I decided to try a little community-building project. I wanted to get 200 people who read this blog (or perhaps those who even only read that 200th post) or friends they know to submit their favourite songs so that I could then compile them into 10 mixes for everyone to share. While I received several submissions, I didn't receive many, [...]
I know that the sweet song "Ally, ally oxen free" by BMX Bandits and the South-Korean singer YeonGene , was a favourite by many of our listeners on our free compilation "Birdsongs, Beesongs" . YeonGene will release her new album "Bonnie Gene" next monday (February 8th) on the Poppydisc -label, and "ally ally oxen free" is one of the many great songs on it, - among them several written and performed by BMX Bandits together with her. BMX Bandits is [...]

Comme chaque année, à l'époque des barbecues, apéro et autres gâteries ensoleillées, un titre me tombe dans les mains au meilleur des moments et devient mon hymne pour les quelques jours de soleil en attendant le perpétuel changement d'heure. Cette année, musicalement mais aussi visuellement, j'ai jeté mon dévolu sur The Pearlfishers pour un titre sorti il y a douze ans, Even On A Sunday Afternoon sur un album plus que difficile à trouver, The Strange Underworld of the Tall Poppies [...]
It's the first day of Winter, the longest night of the year (YAYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!! WE GET MORE DAY LIGHT AFTER TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!) so I thought I would share some of my favorite winter songs, and some not so familiar winter songs. Starting off the festive solstice, here's another one that could be categorized under "lost radio treasure." Surely a song that doesn't get nearly enough spin time on the radio these days... Milan-Wintertime It's perhaps one of the coldest days/nights of the year here, perhaps one of the coldest nights [...]
Song obsessions are those songs that we listen to on repeat. I noticed that my obsessions are often a week long. I also thought that other people might have similar obsessions. I've collected a panel of a few like-minded individuals and gotten their "song obsessions of the week." Quite often it's easy to explain why the song is good; it's much hard to explain why we're obsessed. Maybe you'll become obsessed with one of these. - Adrian ( me ): Mobius Band - Friends Like These (mp3) [...]