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Mixtapes

Brian’s Mixtape #43: California

Brian’s Mixtape #43: California

After a break for Coffee and Cake, Brian’s back on his musical tour of the U.S.A., this time touring around the great state of California.  Home to surfer bums, angels and oranges, California has more than its fair share of lovely spots, and this playlist demonstrates this in vintage style, with tracks by the legendary...
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Tags: Folk Implosion, Joni Mitchell, kristin hersh, Magnetic Fields, The Beach Boys
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Brian’s Mixtape #42: Cake and Coffee

Brian’s Mixtape #42: Cake and Coffee

After his Schmercury playlist triumph, Brian is taking another mixtape-making breather, but that’s not to say you’re missing out on a playlist of treats, oh no. Even though his usual meal of choice would be acorn wine and some barbecued mouse, Brian’s partial to a bit of what we humans enjoy now and again, so...
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Tags: Guy Clark, John McCusker, Muddy Waters, Peggy Lee
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Brian’s Mixtape #41: Pick of the Schmercuries 2010

Brian’s Mixtape #41: Pick of the Schmercuries 2010

This weekend we launched our Schmercury Poll – FFS’s best album award, in which we’re asking you to vote for your favourite of 12 albums released in the past year.  While the FFS editors were tearing our hair out, trying to whittle down the huge pile of wonderful albums released this year to our...
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Tags: Anais Mitchell, Broadcast 2000, Caitlin Rose, Cocos Lovers, Field Music, Laura Marling, Local Natives, Midlake, Mountain Man, Noah & the Whale, Peggy Sue, Schmercuries 2010, Sea of Bees
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Brian’s Mixtape #40: New York, New York

Brian’s Mixtape #40: New York, New York

Brian’s recently gotten to thinking about how much of the music he loves is about the cities, suburbs and plains of the U S of A.  He was going to do you a playlist about the whole darn country, but realised that that was biting off more than he could chew (which isn’t much...
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Tags: Belle & Sebastian, Bright Eyes, Jeffrey Lewis, Kings of Convenience, Magnetic Fields, Regina Spektor, Rufus Wainwright, Simon and Garfunkel, Sufjan Stevens, The Mountain Goats, The New Pornographers, Thea, Thea Gilmore, Vampire Weekend
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Brian’s Mixtape #39: The Middleclass Myth of Love and Marriage

Brian’s Mixtape #39: The Middleclass Myth of Love and Marriage

Brian’s an enlightened sort of owl, and this week he’s taken it upon himself to learn about Feminism. He’s realised it’s a rather complicated subject – probably because it tries to cater for the needs of over half of the population – and its advocates range from the properly batshit mental, to the totally...
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Tags: Anais Mitchell, Forest City Lovers, Laura Marling, Laura Veirs, Mountain Man, Peggy Sue, This is the Kit
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Brian’s Mixtape#38: School’s Out for Summer

Brian’s Mixtape#38: School’s Out for Summer

This is a time of year that Brian always anticipates with dread.  At the end of the week, all the schools will spew out their charges onto British summertime and there will be no peace in the daytime for self-respecting owls to get a bit of snooze time.  On the plus-side, there’ll be a...
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Tags: Herman Dune, Rufus Wainwright
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Brian’s Mixtape #37: Let The Sun Shine

Brian’s Mixtape #37: Let The Sun Shine

Brian’s been having a lovely time at festivals over the past few weeks, and basking in the baking hot sun. Now the weather’s turned and he’s staying in to nurse his burnt feathers (not one for the factor 50, our Brian. Silly owl) he’s put together a nostalgic playlist for summers past. So kick...
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Tags: Au Revoir Simone, Beach House, Eels, Elbow, Noah & the Whale, She & Him, Wintersleep
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Brian’s Mixtape #36: Brian’s been to Glasto

Brian’s Mixtape #36: Brian’s been to Glasto

Brian’s been a bit quiet of late, largely because when he gets really excited his wings start quivering and he can’t type.  What happened was, he realised it was June and that it was about to be Glastonbury, and his feathers were no longer under his control.  The lucky fellow doesn’t even have to...
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Tags: Alessi's Ark, Beach House, Devendra Banheart, Ellen and the Escapades, Fanfarlo, Frightened Rabbit, Laura Marling, Midlake, Mountain Man, Mumford & Sons, Seasick Steve, Stornoway, The Leisure Society, Tune Yards
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Brian’s Mixtape #35: Leave the Animals Out of It

Brian’s Mixtape #35: Leave the Animals Out of It

Following a delectable week of Joni Mitchell, Brian’s allowed his hippy side out of the oak tree for a pad around the forest floor.  Now, don’t get Brian wrong: he’s not about to give up his beloved dormouse suppers.  He has been thinking a lot about lentil-munching, Haribo-avoiding vegetarians a lot over the weekend,...
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Tags: Anton Barbeau, Belle & Sebastian, Butcher Boy, Efterklang, God Help The Girl, Herman Dune, Jeffrey Lewis, Of Montreal, The Beach Boys, The Pernice Brothers, The Smiths, Willy Mason
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Brian’s mixtape #34: We Love You Joni

Brian’s mixtape #34: We Love You Joni

Brian noticed Joni Mitchell’s recent comments about Bob Dylan and he thinks he’s worked it out. Poor Joni is sad because she’s not getting enough attention. And she really isn’t Bob, Neil Young and Johnny Cash get plaudits aplenty but Brian had a harder time whittling down his favourite Joni songs to playlist length...
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Tags: Joni Mitchell
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