Goldteef's Best Songs of 2010

I know we're already almost a month into 2011, 

but I wanted to share a mixtape of what I thought to be 

the most lovely and interesting songs of 2010!  

You can download it for free here.

Here's the tracklist:

1~All Eyes - Gauntlet Hair

2~Locust Valley - Women

3~Mickey Mouse - Wavves

4~Born Free - M.I.A.

5~The Overachievers - Liars

6~Expectations - Tame Impala

7~In the Trees - Moon Duo

8~Slow Motion - Panda Bear

9~Tall Grass -Toro y Moi

10~Set Your Arms Down - Warpaint

11~Amsterdam - White Hinterland

12~Pleasure Sighs - Morning Benders

13~Harmonix - Surfer Blood

14~California Shakedown - Pearl Harbor

15~Round and Round - Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti

16~Blood Dries Darker - Woods

17~Gay Human Bones - Harlem

18~Crazy for You - Best Coast

19~Lost in the World - Kanye West featuring Bon Iver

20~Sir Greendown - Janelle Monae

21~Hocus Pocus - Woodsman

22~Untitled - Atlas Sound

23~Oliver Twist - Avey Tare

24~Helicopter - Deerhunter

25~Screens - Animal Collective

26~It's a Trap - Power Animal

27~Lady Daydream - Twin Sister

28~Silver Soul - Beach House

Here's Goldteef's favorites of 2009, if you're interested!

Have a lovely weekend!

xo.

Memomena in Salt Lake City

I think I'm getting the idea that nostalgia can be a dangerous thing.  

Menomena played a show at Urban Lounge a couple weekends ago at the Urban Lounge.  Shug and I have had the pleasure of seeing these talented musicians play in Chicago, Boise, and a little old venue I adore here in Salt Lake City, Kilby Court.  Needless to say, Shug and I are SUPERfans of Menomena.  We have embarrassed ourselves (and our friends) countless times with our shameless adoration and need to be in the front row.  SO when we saw Menomena was booked to play SLC just a week after our return from our travels, Shug and I decided it was kismet!

While we weren't completely sold on their new album, it was Memomena!  We HAD to go.  This was a band that played in the background when the shackles of love were being soldered around both Shug's and my hearts.  This was a band that was playing when I decided to pursue a career completely outside of my educational background.  This was the band that blasted in the speakers of my car when I drove Shug to meet my sweet Grandparents for the first, nerve-wracking time.  This band kinda means a lot to us.

And this is where nostalgia can get a little tricky.  The performance at Urban was just, well, bland.  I'm blaming Salt Lake being the second-to-last stop on a loooong tour with Tu Fawning and the addition of another guitarist.  Three's company and four's a crowd, right?  The energy and snap these musicians used to convey so effortlessly was just absent from this performance.

And you know what?  Shug and I were totally ok with that.  Because this band has a few songs that are a part of our mixtape.  No matter what kind of so-so albums they create, they are already a part of what I consider to be the best album I will ever hear: the music I fell in love to.

Goldteef's Best of 2009

I know we are almost a month into 2010,
but I had a "best of" mix in the works since the beginning of December!

If you know me at all, you know I love music.
And lists.

So here it is to download!
For free, of course;)!

1. Toro y Moi - Blessa
2. Cassowaries - Covens
3. Real Estate- Fake Blues
4. Kurt Vile - The Hunchback
5. Girls - Lust for Life
6. Inverness - Her Nectar
7. Beach House - Zebra
8. Fever Ray - Seven
9. Grizzly Bear - Ready, Able
10. Animal Collective - Daily Routine
11. Circulatory System - I, You, We
12. Ganglians - Valiant Brave
13. CAN'T - Ghosts
14. Califone - Ape-like
15. Bibio - Over the Hills and Far Away
16. Dirty Projectors - The Bride
17. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Twin of Myself
18. Atlas Sound - Sheila
19. HEALTH - Death+
20. Bear in Heaven - Lovesick Teenagers
21. Monsters of Folk - Dear God

I hope you like it.

End of Summer Mixtape

Libación Fria - Bell Biv Devo End of Summer Mix
Here's a sampling of the jams we've been feeling this past summer.

01. F KENYA RIP - Highlife
02 Summertime Clothes - Animal Collective
03 Her Nectar - Inverness
04 Weed Demon - Wavves
05 Gypsy Home - Woods
06 Lovers' Carvings - Bibio
07 Something in the Way - Best Coast
08 Horse Steppin' - Sun Araw
09 The Air We Share - The Gerbils
10 Cheerleader - Grizzly Bear
11 Walkabout Feat. Panda Bear - Atlas Sound
12 Quicksand - Lotus Plaza
13 Radically Inept Candy Girl - Ganglians
14 To Connect - Floating Action
15 Covens - Cassowaries
16 Jonesy Boy - Cass McCombs

Shug has a new blog. Get this mixtape here.

MJ

I know it's been a month and all, and Micheal was associated with some horrible things, but when I watch videos of him before all the scandal(s), I still get chills.

My very first tape was MJ's "Bad." Still have it.

MIXTAPE

Forest Swords - Miarches from the battle on Vimeo.

Nice.

Just When You Thought You'd Escaped....

Daily Strip Routine from vamos on Vimeo.

I think this is a nice way to start off the week...Did anyone else feel like their weekend didn't exist?

This song made me fall in love...fo' realz...

The art of a well-made mix has been the subject of many heated debates, arguments, and John Cusack movies. The song selection, song order, and the mix length could be distilled down to an algorithm for some mixtape masters, while others let their "gut" lead their organic process of mixtape creation.

I am here to attest that the power of the well-made mixtape is why I am getting married. Me: super-pessimist-feminist-ice-queen was reduced to a melty-mess-of-kittens-and-hot-chocolate-with-whipped-cream-on-top after a single listen to such a mixtape.

Shug knew I'd be a hard sell, so he cowboyed up and came out with mixtape guns blazing. I knew I was in deep trouble after listening to this Talkdemonic song for the first time.