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THE HUM OF FADING LIGHTS /// A P|M|W Mixtape

It’s been a strange couple of weeks in my world, and instead of loading up a traditional podcast featuring hot new blog-buzzed jams, I thought that I would share a mixtape that has been keeping me company as of late. It’s a collection of mostly older tracks, all adhering to a particular late-night-drive-type-vibe. Something for the lonely and dark nights spent on dusty highways, or walks through your sleeping neighborhood, or whatever nocturnal adventures you have planned for yourself. Whatever the case, I promise that it will sound a hundred times better at night. 

Below you will find links to multiple download sources for the collection (zip file), as well as a longplay mix version (all one track via Soundcloud). Please share/reblog with others if you like what you hear and or support any and all artists that strike your interest. Stream or download as you wish. 

FEATURED MUSIC (click the name for band info)

• “Everyday” by Yo La Tengo
• “Making Up” by Dead Mellotron
• “Permanent Daylight” by Radiohead
• “The Twist” by AA Bondy
• “The Boat Song” by The Black Angels
• “Ghost Boy” by Widowspeak
• “Sun/Shine” by Triptides
• “Cheree” by Suicide
• “Lone Runner” by Dirty Beaches
• “Silver Sun” by Crystal Stilts
• “I’m Gone” by Dead Meadow
• “Skating With Girl” by Grooms
• “Sunday” by Sonic Youth
• “On the Wall (Demo)” by The Jesus & Mary Chain
• “Moorestown” by Sun Kil Moon
• “(David Bowie) I Love You (Since I Was Six)” by The Brian Jonestown Massacre
• “Wicked Game” by Washed Out
• “Summer Moon” by The Raveonettes 
• “Into Dust” by Mazzy Star

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THE SOUNDS OF SHADOWS // The Afterglow :: Episode 52

It’s been a while since I’ve visited these waters, so I thought it was time to break out a new Afterglow Mixtape. This time around I’ve stuck closely to newer tracks and each of those tend to stick to sounds containing darker electronics, shoegaze, post-punk, or dream pop. Fairly close to the usual Afterglows, but think of this one as a little bit darker and sometimes even a little more ominous for the later months of the year. Of course, that’s not everything. There’s also a few contemplative dream pop gems mixed it to keep things from being another Halloween Mixtape without the direct holiday association. 

So, without further ado, this is The Sounds of Shadows, and as usual with these Afterglow Mixtapes, they’re best heard at night. Let it soundtrack you as you wish, but please enjoy the listen and support the acts that catch your attention. 

Featured Music // Click the name for band info:

1. Minks - Araby
2. Deep Cut - About Face
3. WIM - See You Hurry (Twin Shadow Remix)
4. Terminal Twilight - Impossible
5. College - A Real Hero (feat. Electric Youth)
6. The New Division - Munich
7. Ohbijou - Anser
8. Dive - Sometime (Heavenly Beat Edit)
9. Genuflex - Bluedevotion
10. Baths - Lammicken (BRAIDS Cover)
11. Exitmusic - The Silence
12. Sleep ∞ Over - Flying Saucers are Real
13. Pink Playground - Sunny Skies
14. Soft Pipes - In Violet
15. High Places - Altos Lugares
16. Blouse - Videotapes
17. Syntaks - Ruby Glass
18. Still Corners - Velveteen
19. Tammar - Frost Meter
20. How to Dress Well - Here, In Heaven (Elite Gymnastics Cover)

(download) THE SOUNDS OF SHADOWS // The Afterglow 52 (MF link)

(stream) The Entire Mix @ 8Tracks

(photo credit) Juan Del 0 @ Flickr

Please support the artists that you find and enjoy. Buy their music, merchandise and tickets to see their shows. Supporting them is the only purpose in doing this blog. Contrary to the opinions of some, music blogs are a great way to discover new music, but there will only be so much new music to go around if these artists can’t afford to support themselves through their art and commerce. Only use these mixtapes as a guide to find something to throw your (financial and emotional) support behind.

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THE DIMMING LIGHTS // The Afterglow : Episode 51

With the gap in time between each Afterglow mixtape growing, I’ve decided to try and make each one stand out as it’s own, by sticking to a more cohesive theme each time out. Sometimes it might be more lo-fi rock sounds, others might lean toward the ambient or chillwave, this one is more in the direction of darker, haunting sounds. It starts upbeat enough but works its way into more of a night atmosphere and takes the sounds into more of a dark synth pop and dream pop vibe. 

This mix is comprised of newer tracks from all over the indie world and this time around the male/female vocals duties are pretty much split, which is a big change, as these are usually inadvertently male dominated. So, without further ado, this is The Dimming Lights, and as usual with these Afterglow Mixtapes, they’re best heard at night. Let it soundtrack you as you wish, but please enjoy the listen and support the acts that catch your attention. 

Featured Music (click the band name for more info on the band):

1. Pepper Rabbit - The Annexation of Puerto Rico
2. Gross Magic - Sick
3. Bangs - Fakes
4. WU LYF - Brooklyn Girls (acoustic)
5. I Break Horses - Pulse
6. Kitteh Fur - Winter Will Never Come
7. Active Child - See Thru Eyes
8. High Places - Year Off
9. Replicas - Open Arms
10. Cameras - I Know
11. Zola Jesus - Avalanche (Daytrotter Session)
12. Porcelain Raft - I Found a Way (Memoryhouse Remix)
13. Halloween, Alaska - In Your Sleep
14. Elvis Depressedly - Turn Blue
15. Widowspeak - Ghost Boy
16. Dum Dum Girls - Hold Your Hand
17. Frightened Rabbit - Fuck This Place
18. Balam Acab - Now Time
19. Cant - Bericht
20. Memoryhouse - Quiet America

(download) THE DIMMING LIGHTS // AFTERGLOW Ep.51   (mediafire)

(stream) The Entire Mix @ 8Tracks

Please support the artists that you find and enjoy. Buy their music, merchandise and tickets to see their shows. Supporting them is the only purpose in doing this blog. Contrary to the opinions of some, music blogs are a great way to discover new music, but there will only be so much new music to go around if these artists can’t afford to support themselves through their art and commerce. Only use these mixtapes as a guide to find something to throw your (financial and emotional) support behind.

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THE AFTERGLOW // EPISODE 50  ::  A P|M|W Mixtape

After a few months away from The Afterglow name, I just figured it was time to return to the place it started for the fiftieth episode (that includes all previous Afterglows and Perfect|Midnight|World episodes). I decided against recording this episode as a podcast and instead created a Desert Island Mixtape podcast that will go up a little later. In the meantime, I wanted to get back to collecting great new tracks from the worlds of dream-pop, chillwave, indie, lo-fi, and shoegaze.

Give it a listen, if you like what you hear, seek out the bands that grab your attention. As usual these Afterglow mixes are best heard at night. Make out, drive, study, sleep, or fuck to it. Do whatever you like, but please enjoy it.

Featured Music (click the band name for more info on the band):

1. Theme Park - Wax
2. Eternal Summers - Pure Affection (Beach Fossils Remix)
3. Deaf Club - Forest/Shore
4. Echo Lake - Breathe Deep
5. Brain Idea - Signals
6. Big Troubles - Misery
7. Summer Heart - Hold On
8. Washed Out - Call It Off
9. M83 - Midnight City
10. I Break Horses - Winter Beats
11. Brilliant Colors - Round Your Way
12. Nick Diamonds - In Dust We Trust
13. Coma Cinema - Exhaustion Prevails (Demo)
14. Real Estate - It’s Real
15. Cut Off Your Hands - Oh Hell
16. Ela Orleans - I Know
17. WIM - See You Hurry (Acoustic Version)
18. The Tallest Man on Earth - Weather of a Killing Kind
19. Case Studies - The Eagle, or the Serpent
20. Dum Dum Girls - Coming Down
21. Summer Library - A Lonely Architect
22. Gem Club - In Wavelengths

(download)  THE AFTERGLOW // EPISODE 50  (mediafire)

or STREAM OVER AT 8TRACKS

Please support the artists that you find and enjoy. Buy their music, merchandise and tickets to see their shows. Supporting them is the only purpose in doing this blog. Contrary to the opinions of some, music blogs are a great way to discover new music, but there will only be so much new music to go around if these artists can’t afford to support themselves through their art and commerce. Only use these mixtapes as a guide to find something to throw your (financial and emotional) support behind.

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PERFECT MIDNIGHT WORLD // EPISODE EIGHT

After several setbacks recording this week’s podcast, I’ve decided to give in and just post the mixtape. I kept having to modify the podcast and when push came to shove, I simply did not have the time to keep adjusting. That’s the bad news. The good news is this is a rock solid collection of great new tracks. Almost all new. I use some old dream pop favorites to lead the mix out, but three quarters of the selections are new tracks from around the internet’s various music blogs.

Give it a listen, if you like what you hear, seek out the bands that grab your attention. As usual these Perfect|Midnight|World mixes are best heard at night. Make out, drive, study, sleep, or fuck to it. Do whatever you like, but please enjoy it.

Featured Music (click the band name for more info on the band):

1. Hotel Mexico - Dear Les Friends
2. Stoner Showers - 4EVER & 4EVER
3. Washed Out - Amor Fati
4. Lost Lander - Cold Feet
5. The Rosebuds - Woods
6. Key Losers - Bi-Focal
7. Ennui - Lights
8. Sun Airway - Symphony in White, No. 2
9. Soft Metals - Do You Remember
10. Gardens & Villa - Black Hills
11. Exitmusic - The Sea
12. How to Dress Well - Us in the Sense of Forever
13. Porcelain Raft - This is Not Our Home
14. Tammar - The Last Line
15. Zomby - Haunted
16. Ruby Weapon - Don’t Worry Baby (Beach Boys cover)
17. The Album Leaf - Story Board
18. The Smashing Pumpkins - Obscured
19. Grandaddy - First Movement / Message Fade
20. Lali Puna - Bi Pet

(download) Perfect Midnight World :: Episode Eight   ( MF | MU )

Please support the artists that you find and enjoy. Buy their music, merchandise and tickets to see their shows. Supporting them is the only purpose in doing this blog. Contrary to the opinions of some, music blogs are a great way to discover new music, but there will only be so much new music to go around if these artists can’t afford to support themselves through their art and commerce. Only use these mixtapes as a guide to find something to throw your (financial and emotional) support behind.

Check out the previous Afterglow  // P|M|W Episodes.

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PERFECT MIDNIGHT WORLD // EPISODE FIVE (MIX+CAST)

Welcome to the new episode of the Perfect Midnight World Mixtape/ Podcast series. We’re back to normal this week with a batch of great new tracks from various artists in the indie community, as well as a handful of classics. I hope that you find plenty of good in the new and the old and that the links guide you towards bands that you will want to follow.

Check out the podcast and if you like what you hear, seek out the bands that grab your attention. As usual these Afterglow, er… Perfect|Midnight|World mixes are best heard at night. Make out, drive, study, sleep, or fuck to it. Do whatever you like, but please enjoy it.

Featured Music (click the band name for more info on the band):

1. Cults - Never Saw the Point
2. Chad VanGaalen - Phantom Anthills
3. Coma Cinema - Her Sinking Sun (Hooray for Earth Remix)
4. Art Imperial - Young and Dangerous
5. Summer Heart - Please Stay
6. Chad Valley - Now that I’m Real
7. Saskatchewan - Dreamboat
8. Bachelorette - Sugarbug
9. Singapore Sling - On a Different Star
10. Trembling Blue Stars - Sunrise on Mars
11. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - Skeletons
12. Doves - The Man Who Told Everything
13. The Horrors - Still Life
14. Guards - Resolution of One
15. WIM - See You Hurry
16. Dead Man’s Bones - Pa Pa Power
17. Nightlands - Trouble (Lindsey Buckingham cover)
18. Ryan Garbes - Perfume
19. Badly Drawn Boy - Pissing in the Wind
20. The Avett Brothers - If It’s the Beaches
21. Dakota Suite - Ornamental
22. Creeper Lagoon - Roman Hearts
23. Arrange - Medicine Man
24. Now It’s Overhead - Goodbye Highway

Email questions, voice notes, or whatever else you’d like to: perfectmidnightworld@gmail.com.

(download podcast)//(stream podcast) P|M|W Podcast episode 5

(download mixtape) Perfect Midnight World // Episode Five ( MF | MU )

Please support the artists that you find and enjoy. Buy their music, merchandise and tickets to see their shows. Supporting them is the only purpose in doing this blog. Contrary to the opinions of some, music blogs are a great way to discover new music, but there will only be so much new music to go around if these artists can’t afford to support themselves through their art and commerce. Only use these mixtapes as a guide to find something to throw your (financial and emotional) support behind.

Check out the previous Afterglow (P|M|W of the past) Episodes.

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PERFECT MIDNIGHT WORLD : EPISODE THREE // MAY 15TH, 2011 (The Afterglow: Ep. 44)

Broke out some old favorites from a decade or so back this week to go with all of the new music. Picked out several favorite new up and coming artists to spotlight. I think you’ll enjoy them if you’ve enjoyed any of these mixtapes in the past. I can’t slather enough praise on Hooray for Earth, so they’re included, but also be sure to check out new Cults, EMA, and Clock Opera - they’re some of my favorites among favorites.

Check out the podcast and if you like what you hear, seek out the bands that grab your attention. As usual these P|M|W mixes are best heard at night. Make out, drive, study, sleep, or fuck to it. Do whatever you like, but please enjoy it.

Featured Music (click the band name for more info on the band):

1. Guards - Hear You Call
   
2. Film School - Two Kinds
   
3. The Antlers - Tongue Tied
   
4. Dead Gaze - Take Me Home Or I Die Alone
   
5. Dodos - Companions
   
6. The Legends - When the Day is Done
   
7. Epic45 - You Said Nothing
   
8. Death Cab for Cutie - Blacking Out the Friction (Studio X Version)
   
9. Austra - Crying (Roy Orbison cover)
   
10. Bjork - It’s Not Up to You
    
11. EMA - Breakfast
    
12. Cults - Make Time
    
13. Also - Frost
    
14. Soft Metals - Psychic Driving
    
15. Notwist - Consequence
    
16. Clock Opera - Let Go the Lifeboats
    
17. Teen Daze The Bluest Water I’d Ever Seen
    
18. Saskatchewan - Beast Coast
    
19. Jeans Wilder - In My Dreams
    
20. Robin Guthrie - Emeralds
    
21. Hooray for Earth - Black Trees
    
22. The Twilight Singers - Into the Street
    
23. Cinematic Orchestra - To Build a Home

(download podcast) Perfect Midnight World Show : Episode Three

(stream podcast) Perfect Midnight World Show : Ep. 3

(download mixtape) Perfect Midnight World//Episode Three ( MF | MU )

Please support the artists that you find and enjoy. Buy their music, merchandise and tickets to see their shows. Supporting them is the only purpose in doing this blog. Contrary to the opinions of some, music blogs are a great way to discover new music, but there will only be so much new music to go around if these artists can’t afford to support themselves through their art and commerce. Only use these mixtapes as a guide to find something to throw your (financial and emotional) support behind.

Check out the previous P|M|W // Afterglow Episodes.

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PERFECT MIDNIGHT WORLD : EPISODE TWO // MAY 8TH, 2011

Lots of great stuff this week. Dug out some older tracks that I hadn’t recently given proper attention, so that’s fun to hear, but as usual, the vibe stays in the relaxed atmosphere. So new or old, you’re going to be in a consistently dreamy vibe. Oh, and the mixtape is back this week.

But first, check out the podcast and if you like what you hear, seek out the bands. Thanks for listening.

Featured Music (click the band name for more info on the band):

Friendly Fires - “Pala” // Tearjerker - “Strangers” // Coma Cinema - “Wondering” // Wheat - “Slow Fade” // Phantom Planet - “After Hours” // Pavement - “Heaven is a Truck (Egg Shell)” // Wild Beasts - “Loop the Loop” // Airlines - “Burial Grounds” // Field Mouse - “Helicopter” // Craft Spells - “Party Talk” // The XX - “Teardrops” // Teen Daze - “Waves” // Havergal - “New Innocent Tyro Allegory” // The Rural Alberta Advantage - “In the Summertime” // Nada Surf  - “In the Mirror” // Washed Out - “Eyes Be Closed” // No Demons Here - “Every Second Darker” // Kids on a Crime Spree - “Sweet Tooth” // Fleet Foxes - “Lorelai” // I Am Oak - “Ancient”  // Cub Country - “Could Be the Moon” // Radiohead - “Fog” // Zola Jesus - “Lightsick” 

(download podcast) Perfect Midnight World : Episode Two // May 8th, 2011 

(download mixtape) The Afterglow : Episode 43 ( MU | MF )

Please support the artists that you find and enjoy. Buy their music, merchandise and tickets to see their shows. Supporting them is the only purpose in doing this blog. Contrary to the opinions of some, music blogs are a great way to discover new music, but there will only be so much new music to go around if these artists can’t afford to support themselves through their art and commerce. Only use these mixtapes as a guide to find something to throw your (financial and emotional) support behind.

Check out the previous Afterglow Episodes.

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THE AFTERGLOW SHOW // EPISODE ONE // MAY 1ST, 2011

All right. Here is the first run at a new format for the Afterglow Mixtape Series. I went full on into podcast territory which has it’s upsides and its downsides. The good news is it’s more of a full mixtape. It’s more about the atmosphere and tone than previous versions and I’m really happy to be making something that’s much more akin to a real mixtape than just a collection of mp3s in a zip file. The bad news is that you have to listen to me talk about music for a couple of minutes spread out over the 90 minute duration of the show. Also, for some of you, i’m sure the lack of that zip file will be seen as a downer.

Think of this first episode as a beta test. I did my best to correct the levels and make sure it sounded passable, but I know there’s work to do. Another nice upside here is that there are chances for participation here in the podcast format in that you can email me requests or questions regarding the show. You can also take your ipod or iphone and record a voice note and email that to me for use in the show as well. Feel free. That could be a lot of fun.

Email questions, voice notes, or whatever else you’d like to: afterglowpodcast@gmail.com.

(download) The Afterglow Show : Episode One // May 1st, 2011

Featured Music:

Teen Daze - “Let’s Fall Asleep Together” // Pinback - “Concrete Seconds” // My Morning Jacket - “Holdin on to Black Metal” // Handsome Furs - “Serve the People” // Matthew Dear - “Deserter” // Sufjan Stevens - “Now That I’m Older” // Deakin - “Country Report” // Austra - “The Villain” // Glass Ghost - “Like a Diamond (demo)” // Boy Friend - “D’Arrest” // Autre Ne Veut - “Two Days of Rain” // Dom (feat. Cults) - “Bowl Cut” // Cults - “You Know What I Mean // Faunts - “Memories of Places We’ve Never Been” // Port St. Willow - “Even” // Panda Bear - “Benfica” // Chad VanGaalen - “Sara” // Kurt Vile - “He’s Alright” // Economics - “Cold Air In My Lungs” // Iron & Wine - “The Sea and the Rhythm” // Jenny Owen Youngs - “Have You Forgotten” // The Antlers - “Hounds” // The Smiths - “Asleep”

Hopefully everyone enjoys the song selections. Next episode should roll a bit smoother and allow me to loosen up a good amount, so hopefully you’ll be around for the next run as well.

Please support the artists that you like and reblog to share with friends.