Category: Sounds
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February 2024 Mix
Greetings from Mexico City. I had this mix all ready a couple weeks ago but then got sloppy with the street food, contracted terrible food poisoning and my son’s forever-cold, so it’s coming out a little late. Not that anyone’s noticing. Still, it’s important to assert we’re alive. Through Spotify mixes. Great stuff this month!…
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January 2024 Mix
It takes a great deal of strength to keep January out of the soul and I’ve failed this year. – Jim Harrison A friend sent me that quotation, thank goodness for friends. The Nebraska fall was warm in a disconcerting way. Then the year turned like sour milk and the temperature dropped and it snowed in…
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December 2023 Mix
Here’s a pic of my childhood bedroom erased of childhood. Many a mix was made here on a red Sony boombox, first directly off the radio and then tape-to-tape with my dual-cassette player. There was a Walter Payton poster up on the left side of the window, a Chris Sabo one on the right. The…
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November 2023 Mix
Okay, okay, there’s one current trend in music that I absolutely love: moody, weird, Ornette-Colemanish (?) saxophone. In this mix it’s courtesy of Credit Electric, but I hear it in Cassandra Jenkins and some others every once in a while. Very cool. And you know what? I like this mix! The Husbands album is great,…
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October 2023 Mix
I’m returning to regular posting mixes after the brief interruption last month. Eitzel’s voice and lyrics are as powerful as ever, but we move on. Or, we stumble on. I’m still in a heck of a music rut, but here are twenty-three songs for your enjoyment. What the hell else is happening in life? War,…
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Mark Eitzel + American Music Club Mix
The kids are not alright. When my friend Mike remarked how bad a year it’s been for new music releases, I felt relieved; I’m not crazy. Most everything I’ve heard this year is beat-less, drenched in vocal effects and saddled by therapy lingo. I was struggling to put together a mix this month when I…
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August 2023 Mix
I wish I were meeting my fiftieth year with more grace than this but here I am, still grumping ceaselessly into the past. Jessica Anne came to town from Chicago. We had ribs, donuts, and a reading at the Benson wine bar. The boy gave me this card after asking me if I was like…
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July 2023 Mix
A lil itty-bitty mix this month that I have to admit I like but don’t love. Like: the songs are good but not a lot of them really pop out as memorable. I don’t know if that’s because I’m not in much of a listening mood these days or I’ve exhausted the music seams I…
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June 2023 Mix
I spent some time in Chicago recently and snapped this picture of my old lavanderia. Sunday afternoons with a paperback and an iPod. Then I’d get carryout from Taqueria Super Burrito, letting my pit bull Stanley lick up my burrito drippings off the hardwood floor. Those weren’t good times but gosh do I miss Chicago.…
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May 2023 Mix
Last weekend, I found myself in the Fremont, Nebraska, HyVee, pictured above. It’s the setting for a lot of action in my manuscript which I’m calling This Glorious Middle State. I started sending it off to literary agents a couple weeks ago. I don’t know how I ended up writing a novel that takes place…
Jim Kourlas 