hi. i was sick. so i played a new game that i called the 5432fun shuffle. it went like this. i took an mp3 player. put in on shuffle. and sat on the couch. cool. i did that for the first hour. for the second hour i played a special on greek mythology that cole and i made for a class. it's pretty aweful. but it's funny. cool!

5...4...3...2...fun!!
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Blanketarms - cut the anchor
Atom and His Package - mustache tv
Dear Nora - coda to dreaming out loud
The Lucksmiths - columns o' steam
liz isenberg - you will love me
Bikeride - fakin' amnesia
Eskimo Kisses - junebug
Tinyfolk - something fierce
Matty Pop Chart - autumn
Amina Althea - hawaii song
Scandaliz Vandalistz - yr 2 kool
Watercolor Paintings - overtime
Pipas - rock and/or roll
Kimya Dawson - the beer
Brown Recluse Sings - black sunday
Antarctica Takes It! - fog song
Colin Clary - cinderella
Cub - main and broadway
Michael Jordan Touchdown Pass - passing through
Colin Clary - some of my favorite people are consigners
The Dentists - there was love on the floor
alfred daniels midland - hairy mouth
Math the Band - red sweater
Drew Danburry - double you see is an acronym four

greek mythology one hour special

i present to you:

amor de dias featuring lupe núñez-fernández and alasdair maclean

both from bands you may have heard of... Pipas & The Clientele. :-) in my imagination they sound like caetano and gal - a south london domingo. and if you live in london or copenhagen you can even see them play live. and you are the luckiest people in the world. for not only do you get the aforementioned band, if you're in london you see and hear the return of the pines (yes, that pines, the pam and joe one) and as a bonus: the would-be-goods. i feel tempted to fly over for the weekend.

so here are those dates in full:
15 march
din nye ven
copenhagen

28 march
positively 4th street
london

Radiohead
Pixies
Death Cab for Cutie
Coldplay
Keane
Weezer
David Byrne
Arcade Fire
We Are Scientists
Art Brut
of Montreal
The Blow
Camera Obscura
Mirah
Björk
Brazilian Girls
Benny Benassi
Arctic Monkeys
Tilly and the Wall
Tokyo Police Club
Flosstradamus
Cornelius
LCD Soundsystem
Girl Talk
Andrew Bird
Peter Bjorn & John
Hot Chip
The Fratellis
Rage Against the Machine
Manu Chao
Lily Allen
Klaxons
Cansei de Ser Sexy
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Explosions in the Sky
Mika
Ben Kweller
Boombox Orchestra
Suburban Legends
Bright Eyes
Oakley Hall
Gillian Welch
The Clientele
Pipas
Beach House
The Decemberists
Café Tacuba
Wilco
Final Fantasy
Cursive
Kimya Dawson
Cadence Weapon

Ian

Everyday Sensations - No Applause
The Afternoon Naps - Orange Paws
Rocketship - Hey Hey Girl
Velocity Girl - Pop Loser
Vic Godard And The Subway Sect - Stop That Girl
Camera Obscura - San Francisco Song
The Chesterfields - Completely and Utterly
Beat Happening - Bewitched
Pipas - Barbababa
Math and Physics Club - Baby, I'm Yours
Sparky's Magic Piano - Like Falling In Love
Club 8 - Whatever You Want
Primal Scream - All Fall Down
Felt - Ballad of the Band
Tiger Trap - Words and Smiles
Milky Wimpshake - Dialing Tone
Belle and Sebastian - The Model

Alice

My Favorite - Homeless Kids Club
Disco Inferno - Sleight of Hand
The Brittle Stars - Circus
The Brunettes - Mars Loves Venus
New Order - Ceremony
Mahogany - Neo Plastic Boogie Woogie
The Pastels - Yoga
Guided by Voices - Surgical Focus
Sambassadeur - Subtle Changes
Asobi Seksu - Strawberries
Broadcast - Americas Boy
Belle and Sebastian - Me and The Major

Katey

Fosca - Secret Crush on Third Trombone
Talulah Gosh - Bringing Up Baby
Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - Noodles
Belly - Now They'll Sleep
Pavement - Cut Your Hair
Hefner - Painting and Kissing
Cats on fire - White-Mantled King
Pelle Carlberg - Clever Girls Like Clever Boys...
Morrissey - You're the One For Me Fatty
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Head On
The Fall - Touch Sensitive
The Long Blondes - Giddy Stratospheres

Marianthi

Black Tambourine - We can't be friends
Dorotea - I wish I wish I had some money
The Bumblebees - Cool science
Sportique - If you ever change your mind
Fat Tulips - Where's Clare Crogan now?
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - This love is fucking right!
The Raveonettes - You want the candy
McCarthy - We are all bourgeois now
Stereolab - Eloge d'eros
The Aislers Set - Been hiding
The Wake - Crush the flowers
Bis - Popstar kill
Heavenly - C is the heavenly option
The Cardigans - Rise and Shine
Pocketbooks - Don't stop

Katey

The Go-Betweens - Lee Remick
Le Tigre - My My Metrocard
The Smiths - Handsome Devil
Black Tambourine - Throw Aggi Off the Bridge
My Bloody Valentine - Thorn
Kenickie - Punka
Belle and Sebastian - Legal Man

Alice

Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folk
Club 8 - Heaven
Stereolab - Jenny Ondioline
The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Happy When it Rains
Jonathan Richman - Velvet Underground
All Girl Summer Fun Band - Dear Mr and Mrs Troublemaker
Velocette - Get Yourself Together
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
of Montreal - So Begins My Alabee

Ian

The Field Mice - Emma's House
Jens Lekman - Black Cab
The Smiths - William, it Was Really Nothing
Belle and Sebastian - Boy With The Arab Strap
The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet
Tullycraft - The Punks Are Writing Love Songs
The Pastels - Nothing To Be Done
Orange Juice - Wan Light

Marianthi

Talulah Gosh - My best friend
Shop Assistants - Safety net
Strawberry Switchblade - Since yesterday
The Hidden Cameras - I believe in the good of life
Jonathan Richman - I was dancing in the lesbian bar
The Vaselines - Son of a gun
Helen Love - I love indiepop
The Darling Buds - Hit the ground
The Aislers Set - The red door
Saint Etienne - Who do you think you are?
The Housemartins - Happy hour

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LIFE1003 - Days
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Some music seems not to have been made so much as it simply fell out of the sky, the product not of intensely scrutinized songwriting-by-committee and the chipped glamour of rehearsal rooms and recording studios, but some type of celestial will. If music is as serious as life to you, you know what this means, and you probably have in mind a handful of bands who you think have achieved it.

These seven songs – the first that Days have committed to any sort of official artifact – come from years of anonymous toil and tinkering in the band's native gothenburg, sweden. But they don't sound as though they came from anywhere in particular, or were ever troubled by anything as common and earthbound as mistakes, arguments, second guesses and broken strings. Taken as a whole, it doesn't sound like a debut, either – although its air of innocence, of untainted wonder at the beauty of life, could only have come from a band that, until now, has only existed in its own safely contained universe.

Of course, this is the great illusion that truly special bands are able to create. The reality of Days, and of their Downhill EP, is nothing so glamorous or otherworldly. "We've made hundreds of recordings through the years, most of them now scattered on old cassettes," says guitarist John Ludvigsson, "but these were the ones we were most happy with at that time. The making of songs has been a goal in itself, and we were quite happy just doing that for five or six years."

The band met as teenagers, "randomly, through common friends," John recalls. "Fabian's parents let us use his basement for a rehearsal room. Ever since, that came to be the place from which we would set out on our musical journey that led us to where we are now."

Although they aren't teenagers anymore, Downhill evokes a soft-focus memory of the best adolescent summer you (n)ever had: blazing hot sun, suburban fields and city sidewalks, and the latent anticipation of an inevitable leap into the wider experience of adulthood. "I've come to realize it's downhill," sings fabian sahlqvist on the title track, and it sounds like both a resignation and a celebration, surrender and rapture. It's a song of almost ridiculous beauty, and Days repeat the trick six more times across the length of the EP.

"We always try to make songs that can stand the test of time and stand for themselves – I think we've all lost track of our influences in the creative process of doing so," says John, politely declining comparisons to The Byrds, early Primal Scream, and the legendary cult indiepop label Sarah Records. "We're not trying to be unique or redefine pop, but find and define what's beautiful and worthwhile in a seemingly conventional context."

Bull's-eye.

For fans of: The Smiths, The Wild Swans, The Left Banke, East Village, The Orchids
Artwork by: Anna Bjerger
CD: 5 tracks / 7": 2 tracks

--> http://www.shelflife.com/


----------------------------------------------------------
STILL AVAILABLE: A SMILE AND A RIBBON
----------------------------------------------------------
Shelflife Records continues it's comeback with the next installment
of it's combo 7-inch/CD collection: "The Boy I Wish I Never Met" by A
Smile and a Ribbon.

A Smile and a Ribbon is rebecca mehlman and martin lindqvist, a
Swedish combo who was more-than-willing to take the unlucky fate of
Rebecca's failed relationship and set it to music. The result is
bubblegum pop most sanguine. But watch out, this sweet spoonful of
sugar might give you a toothache if you're not careful. The Boy I
Wish I Never Met is a pure P!O!P! album that draws influences from
1950's girl bands, 90's twee, and a whole lot of quirky personality.
Its a not-so-innocent look at childhood fancy and lost love.

13 bittersweet songs on CD and Vinyl. A limited edition pressing of
300 copies.

For fans of: Pipas, Talulah Gosh, Free Loan Investments, Confetti, Language of Flowers

Photography by: Xavier Gomez
CD: 9 tracks / 7": 4 tracks

--> http://www.shelflife.com/


----------------------------------------------------------
STILL AVAILABLE:
----------------------------------------------------------
LIFE1001 - Warm Morning "Silver Rain" CDEP+7"
----------------------------------------------------------
FORTHCOMING:
----------------------------------------------------------
LIFE1004 - Kuryakin "Still Here" CDEP+7"
LIFE1005 - the ruling class "Tour de Force" CDEP+7"
----------------------------------------------------------

----------------------------------------------------------
LIFE1003 - Days
----------------------------------------------------------
Some music seems not to have been made so much as it simply fell out of the sky, the product not of intensely scrutinized songwriting-by-committee and the chipped glamour of rehearsal rooms and recording studios, but some type of celestial will. If music is as serious as life to you, you know what this means, and you probably have in mind a handful of bands who you think have achieved it.

These seven songs – the first that Days have committed to any sort of official artifact – come from years of anonymous toil and tinkering in the band's native gothenburg, sweden. But they don't sound as though they came from anywhere in particular, or were ever troubled by anything as common and earthbound as mistakes, arguments, second guesses and broken strings. Taken as a whole, it doesn't sound like a debut, either – although its air of innocence, of untainted wonder at the beauty of life, could only have come from a band that, until now, has only existed in its own safely contained universe.

Of course, this is the great illusion that truly special bands are able to create. The reality of Days, and of their Downhill EP, is nothing so glamorous or otherworldly. We've made hundreds of recordings through the years, most of them now scattered on old cassettes, says guitarist John Ludvigsson, but these were the ones we were most happy with at that time. The making of songs has been a goal in itself, and we were quite happy just doing that for five or six years.

The band met as teenagers, randomly, through common friends, John recalls. Fabian's parents let us use his basement for a rehearsal room. Ever since, that came to be the place from which we would set out on our musical journey that led us to where we are now.

Although they aren't teenagers anymore, Downhill evokes a soft-focus memory of the best adolescent summer you (n)ever had: blazing hot sun, suburban fields and city sidewalks, and the latent anticipation of an inevitable leap into the wider experience of adulthood. I've come to realize it's downhill, sings fabian sahlqvist on the title track, and it sounds like both a resignation and a celebration, surrender and rapture. It's a song of almost ridiculous beauty, and Days repeat the trick six more times across the length of the EP.

We always try to make songs that can stand the test of time and stand for themselves – I think we've all lost track of our influences in the creative process of doing so, says John, politely declining comparisons to The Byrds, early Primal Scream, and the legendary cult indiepop label Sarah Records. We're not trying to be unique or redefine pop, but find and define what's beautiful and worthwhile in a seemingly conventional context.

Bull's-eye.

For fans of: The Smiths, The Wild Swans, The Left Banke, East Village, The Orchids
Artwork by: Anna Bjerger
CD: 5 tracks / 7: 2 tracks

--> http://www.shelflife.com/


----------------------------------------------------------
STILL AVAILABLE: A SMILE AND A RIBBON
----------------------------------------------------------
Shelflife Records continues it's comeback with the next installment
of it's combo 7-inch/CD collection: The Boy I Wish I Never Met by A
Smile and a Ribbon.

A Smile and a Ribbon is rebecca mehlman and martin lindqvist, a
Swedish combo who was more-than-willing to take the unlucky fate of
Rebecca's failed relationship and set it to music. The result is
bubblegum pop most sanguine. But watch out, this sweet spoonful of
sugar might give you a toothache if you're not careful. The Boy I
Wish I Never Met is a pure P!O!P! album that draws influences from
1950's girl bands, 90's twee, and a whole lot of quirky personality.
Its a not-so-innocent look at childhood fancy and lost love.

13 bittersweet songs on CD and Vinyl. A limited edition pressing of
300 copies.

For fans of: Pipas, Talulah Gosh, Free Loan Investments, Confetti, Language of Flowers

Photography by: Xavier Gomez
CD: 9 tracks / 7: 4 tracks

--> http://www.shelflife.com/


----------------------------------------------------------
STILL AVAILABLE:
----------------------------------------------------------
LIFE1001 - Warm Morning Silver Rain CDEP+7
----------------------------------------------------------
FORTHCOMING:
----------------------------------------------------------
LIFE1004 - Kuryakin Still Here CDEP+7
LIFE1005 - the ruling class Tour de Force CDEP+7
----------------------------------------------------------

----------------------------------------------------------
LIFE1003 - Days
----------------------------------------------------------
Some music seems not to have been made so much as it simply fell out of the sky, the product not of intensely scrutinized songwriting-by-committee and the chipped glamour of rehearsal rooms and recording studios, but some type of celestial will. If music is as serious as life to you, you know what this means, and you probably have in mind a handful of bands who you think have achieved it.

These seven songs – the first that Days have committed to any sort of official artifact – come from years of anonymous toil and tinkering in the band's native gothenburg, sweden. But they don't sound as though they came from anywhere in particular, or were ever troubled by anything as common and earthbound as mistakes, arguments, second guesses and broken strings. Taken as a whole, it doesn't sound like a debut, either – although its air of innocence, of untainted wonder at the beauty of life, could only have come from a band that, until now, has only existed in its own safely contained universe.

Of course, this is the great illusion that truly special bands are able to create. The reality of Days, and of their Downhill EP, is nothing so glamorous or otherworldly. We've made hundreds of recordings through the years, most of them now scattered on old cassettes, says guitarist John Ludvigsson, but these were the ones we were most happy with at that time. The making of songs has been a goal in itself, and we were quite happy just doing that for five or six years.

The band met as teenagers, randomly, through common friends, John recalls. Fabian's parents let us use his basement for a rehearsal room. Ever since, that came to be the place from which we would set out on our musical journey that led us to where we are now.

Although they aren't teenagers anymore, Downhill evokes a soft-focus memory of the best adolescent summer you (n)ever had: blazing hot sun, suburban fields and city sidewalks, and the latent anticipation of an inevitable leap into the wider experience of adulthood. I've come to realize it's downhill, sings fabian sahlqvist on the title track, and it sounds like both a resignation and a celebration, surrender and rapture. It's a song of almost ridiculous beauty, and Days repeat the trick six more times across the length of the EP.

We always try to make songs that can stand the test of time and stand for themselves – I think we've all lost track of our influences in the creative process of doing so, says John, politely declining comparisons to The Byrds, early Primal Scream, and the legendary cult indiepop label Sarah Records. We're not trying to be unique or redefine pop, but find and define what's beautiful and worthwhile in a seemingly conventional context.

Bull's-eye.

For fans of: The Smiths, The Wild Swans, The Left Banke, East Village, The Orchids
Artwork by: Anna Bjerger
CD: 5 tracks / 7: 2 tracks

--> http://www.shelflife.com/


----------------------------------------------------------
STILL AVAILABLE: A SMILE AND A RIBBON
----------------------------------------------------------
Shelflife Records continues it's comeback with the next installment
of it's combo 7-inch/CD collection: The Boy I Wish I Never Met by A
Smile and a Ribbon.

A Smile and a Ribbon is rebecca mehlman and martin lindqvist, a
Swedish combo who was more-than-willing to take the unlucky fate of
Rebecca's failed relationship and set it to music. The result is
bubblegum pop most sanguine. But watch out, this sweet spoonful of
sugar might give you a toothache if you're not careful. The Boy I
Wish I Never Met is a pure P!O!P! album that draws influences from
1950's girl bands, 90's twee, and a whole lot of quirky personality.
Its a not-so-innocent look at childhood fancy and lost love.

13 bittersweet songs on CD and Vinyl. A limited edition pressing of
300 copies.

For fans of: Pipas, Talulah Gosh, Free Loan Investments, Confetti, Language of Flowers

Photography by: Xavier Gomez
CD: 9 tracks / 7: 4 tracks

--> http://www.shelflife.com/


----------------------------------------------------------
STILL AVAILABLE:
----------------------------------------------------------
LIFE1001 - Warm Morning Silver Rain CDEP+7
----------------------------------------------------------
FORTHCOMING:
----------------------------------------------------------
LIFE1004 - Kuryakin Still Here CDEP+7
LIFE1005 - the ruling class Tour de Force CDEP+7
----------------------------------------------------------

----------------------------------------------------------
LIFE1003 - Days
----------------------------------------------------------
Some music seems not to have been made so much as it simply fell out of the sky, the product not of intensely scrutinized songwriting-by-committee and the chipped glamour of rehearsal rooms and recording studios, but some type of celestial will. If music is as serious as life to you, you know what this means, and you probably have in mind a handful of bands who you think have achieved it.

These seven songs – the first that Days have committed to any sort of official artifact – come from years of anonymous toil and tinkering in the band's native gothenburg, sweden. But they don't sound as though they came from anywhere in particular, or were ever troubled by anything as common and earthbound as mistakes, arguments, second guesses and broken strings. Taken as a whole, it doesn't sound like a debut, either – although its air of innocence, of untainted wonder at the beauty of life, could only have come from a band that, until now, has only existed in its own safely contained universe.

Of course, this is the great illusion that truly special bands are able to create. The reality of Days, and of their Downhill EP, is nothing so glamorous or otherworldly. We've made hundreds of recordings through the years, most of them now scattered on old cassettes, says guitarist John Ludvigsson, but these were the ones we were most happy with at that time. The making of songs has been a goal in itself, and we were quite happy just doing that for five or six years.

The band met as teenagers, randomly, through common friends, John recalls. Fabian's parents let us use his basement for a rehearsal room. Ever since, that came to be the place from which we would set out on our musical journey that led us to where we are now.

Although they aren't teenagers anymore, Downhill evokes a soft-focus memory of the best adolescent summer you (n)ever had: blazing hot sun, suburban fields and city sidewalks, and the latent anticipation of an inevitable leap into the wider experience of adulthood. I've come to realize it's downhill, sings fabian sahlqvist on the title track, and it sounds like both a resignation and a celebration, surrender and rapture. It's a song of almost ridiculous beauty, and Days repeat the trick six more times across the length of the EP.

We always try to make songs that can stand the test of time and stand for themselves – I think we've all lost track of our influences in the creative process of doing so, says John, politely declining comparisons to The Byrds, early Primal Scream, and the legendary cult indiepop label Sarah Records. We're not trying to be unique or redefine pop, but find and define what's beautiful and worthwhile in a seemingly conventional context.

Bull's-eye.

For fans of: The Smiths, The Wild Swans, The Left Banke, East Village, The Orchids
Artwork by: Anna Bjerger
CD: 5 tracks / 7: 2 tracks

--> http://www.shelflife.com/


----------------------------------------------------------
STILL AVAILABLE: A SMILE AND A RIBBON
----------------------------------------------------------
Shelflife Records continues it's comeback with the next installment
of it's combo 7-inch/CD collection: The Boy I Wish I Never Met by A
Smile and a Ribbon.

A Smile and a Ribbon is rebecca mehlman and martin lindqvist, a
Swedish combo who was more-than-willing to take the unlucky fate of
Rebecca's failed relationship and set it to music. The result is
bubblegum pop most sanguine. But watch out, this sweet spoonful of
sugar might give you a toothache if you're not careful. The Boy I
Wish I Never Met is a pure P!O!P! album that draws influences from
1950's girl bands, 90's twee, and a whole lot of quirky personality.
Its a not-so-innocent look at childhood fancy and lost love.

13 bittersweet songs on CD and Vinyl. A limited edition pressing of
300 copies.

For fans of: Pipas, Talulah Gosh, Free Loan Investments, Confetti, Language of Flowers

Photography by: Xavier Gomez
CD: 9 tracks / 7: 4 tracks

--> http://www.shelflife.com/


----------------------------------------------------------
STILL AVAILABLE:
----------------------------------------------------------
LIFE1001 - Warm Morning Silver Rain CDEP+7
----------------------------------------------------------
FORTHCOMING:
----------------------------------------------------------
LIFE1004 - Kuryakin Still Here CDEP+7
LIFE1005 - the ruling class Tour de Force CDEP+7
----------------------------------------------------------