My friend Dave put together a great podcast of tracks from his vinyl collection! Seeing as I can’t hear out of my right ear for the second day in a row, I’m gonna go see the doctor. The track list and commentary from DO after the jump!

DO Phonograph Podcast No. 1

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Some unexpected hiatus, huh? I have CDs sitting in my bag, waiting to be mailed. That will happen soon. Meanwhile, I have two things that I urge you to check out and notice:

• Number 1: The guitar tone that they get on that Okkervil River song, “Unless It’s Kicks.” Check it out. I love it. I think it’s the best.
• Number 2: Los Campesinos! All of it. Everything.

We got some stuff in the works for you, so stay tuned. Really!

ADDENDUM: I haven’t gone over my bandwidth limit yet, but it’s bound to happen someday. This just might do it. I zipped all the songs (and their originals) in this file and will leave it up until January 7th (or until I exceed my bandwidth). So, come get it: IRCMT2007.zip Gone, thanks for dl’ing!

It’s over! The year, and the mix tape. (Happy new year). This is what I do, after a long drive to NYC from Boston, through snowy grossness, I stay up too late and make sure I get this stuff posted! We had a great time in Beantown, saw some Candice and GW (and their respective SOs). We saw many a drunk Bostonian and heard annoying horns all night long. I ate nachos, potato skins, pizza, almond cookies, and other stuff that is bad for you but tastes great.

But back to the mix tape: Thanks everyone for participating and listening. This was a really fun project to do, and it couldn’t have turned out better. I’m hoping this will turn into a yearly tradition, and next year hopefully I’ll give everyone much more time to do multiple songs and be able to get these things out to everyone much sooner. The limited edition covers are done!They turned out to be much more work than I thought, so some changes were made… I’ll try to get them in the mail over the weekend. If you’re not sure I have your address, send it along!

I received two lists of favorite songs from the year, one from B-Dogg (two G’s) and one from A(manda) and will add my list as well in a day or two. As I mentioned in Lippy’s song post, his list is over here and he even has mp3’s of his songs up!

Lists (2) and full tracklist after the jump.
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