plaid at heart 3: buffalo plaid

a third installment in my favorite little mix series. this one is super cozy and comforting, like a favorite plaid shirt around the house.

01. "helplessness blues" fleet foxes

02. "switchblade" jenny and johnny

03. "i don't want love" the antlers

04. "come talk to me" bon iver

05. "in the dirt" s. carey

06. "look at you" my morning jacket

07. "don't carry it all" the decemberists

08. "more adventurous" rilo kiley

09. "i don't want to know" fleetwood mac

10. "the tree (feat. alela diane)" blitzen trapper

11. "back down south" kings of leon

12. " devil's in the jukebox" ray lamontagne & the pariah dogs

13. "diamond dancer" bill callahan

14. "the bump" deer tick

15. "atlas" fanfarlo

16. "40 day dream" edward sharpe & the magnetic zeroes

illustration via pencil bomb.

indie elves return - a new holiday mix

i actually have two finished mixes! this new holiday mix, as well as a new edition of "plaid at heart," which i will post later on. they would be great mashed together into a super cozy monster mix. hope you like.

01. "peace on earth/ little drummer boy" jack black & jason segel

02. "winter winds" mumford & sons

03. "donna and blitzen" badly drawn boy

04. "xmas time is here again" my morning jacket

05. "christmas after all" maria taylor

06. "all that i want" the weepies

07. "christmas is coming soon" blitzen trapper

08. "holiday" vampire weekend

09. "put the lights on the tree" sufjan stevens

10. "jingle bell rock" rogue wave

11. "listening to otis redding at home during christmas" okkervil river

12. "come on santa" the raveonettes

13. "silent night" bosque brown

14. "christmas time is here" au revoir simone

15. "baby, it's cold outside" she & him

16. "christmas lights" coldplay

spring into summer 2011 mix

finally! a mix that i've been promising for forever. it has morphed from an end of winter, spring beginnings mix to a reluctant pull from spring into summer. hope you enjoy.

01. "we turn it up" - oh land

02. "mine is yours (passion pit remix)" - cold war kids

03. "youth knows no pain" - lykke li

04. "all summer" - kid cudi, best coast & rostam of vampire weekend

05. "pumped up kicks (mndr 4-track remix) - foster the people

06. "burn it all down" - vhs or beta

07. "do it again" - holy ghost!

08. "shatter your lungs" - the get up kids

09. "coin laundry" - lisa mitchell

10. "triple spiral" - bright eyes

11. "holdin on to black metal" - my morning jacket

12. "what you know" - two door cinema club

13. "rome" - phoenix

14. "wait up (boots of danger)" - tokyo police club

15. "breaker breaker" - peter bjorn & john

16. "eyes wide (fool's gold remix) - local natives

17. "beggin" - madcon

18. "what part of forever" cee lo green

hot summer nights mix

this mix morphed into a weird kind of combo of a summer version of "house party hopes" and a "plaid at heart" summer edition. i've been listening to it a ton though, the transitions aren't all perfect, but you should give it a try anyway.

obviously i've been a horrible blogger, but the pre-move in to do list is insane and it's that crazy time of year at work where we're doing summer, halloween and christmas all at one time. total insanity, even if it is all the good kind. so, i'll be posting a super meaty friday (twenty)five tomorrow and probably an unpacking mix monday and then i'll take a little move-in-blog-break until august 11th. see you tomorrow!

"spring into summer nights" mix

something a little dreamy, a little boppy and a little cozy to hang to.

01. "world sick" by broken social scene

02. "vcr" by the xx

03. "the chills" by peter bjorn and john

04. "c'mon" by the soft pack

05. "floating vibes" by surfer blood

06. "shadow people" by dr. dog

07. "bushwick blues" by delta spirit

08. "two weeks" by grizzly bear

09. "laura"(cover) by mates of state

10. "rill rill" by sleigh bells

11. "be cool" by golden age

12. "feel it all around" by washed out

13. "technicolor health" by harlem shakes

14. "factory" by band of horses

spring breezes 2010 (a mix)

i've been working on this guy for a while, but wanted to get it to just the right blend of old school feel into boppy, car windows down goodness. hope you like. oh, and i made it into a playlist for you (ignore the mostly horrible music videos on the player, using the video player was the only way i could get all the songs on there).

01. "your hands (together)" by the new pornographers

02. "infinity guitars" by sleigh bells

03. "the afterlife" by YACHT

04. "jail la la" by dum dum girls

05. "fall hard" by shout out louds

06. "in the sun" by she & him

07. "periodically double or triple" by yo la tengo

08. "40 day dream" by edward sharpe & the magnetuic zeroes

09. "lisztomania" by phoenix

10. "flash delerium" by MGMT

11. "there are listed buildings" by los campesinos!

12. "O.N.E." by yeasayer

13. "life magazine" by cold cave

14. "walking on a dream" by empire of the sun

15. "holiday" by vampire weekend

16. "young forever" by jay-z

let me know what you think, and while you're at it, why not let me know if you have a favorite of my playlists. i'm curious if there's anyone out there listening to these as much as i am.

house party hopes 5: brit edition

i will actually already be at heathrow on my way back to the states when this publishes, so we'll call it an ode to this journey, haha. it was mostly worked on while i've been here, which explains the shorter than normal track listing, i've just been doing too many things! anyway, enjoy what there is!

01. "this too shall pass" by ok go

02. "run" by vampire weekend

03. "sun hands" by local natives

04. "souls of gold" by sister crayon

05. "fences" by phoenix

06. "rome" by yeasayer

07. "i start to run" by white denim

08. "i like you so much better when you're naked" by ida maria

09. "all is love" by karen o and the kids

10. "there are listed buildings" by los campesinos!

11. "fix up, look sharp" by dizzee rascal

12. "air force ones" by nelly

a transatlantic valentine

i'm not a huge mushy valentine's day kind of girl, but being away from the boy for it does seem a bit bummy, hence the slightly low-key love-y mix. just a little musical valentine from all the way across the pond.

01. "love song" spoon

02. "touch me i'm going to scream, pt. 1" my morning jacket

03. "jackhammer (slim version) the spinto band

04. "my love" lykke li

05. "heroes" david bowie

06. "two doves" dirty projectors

07. "february stars" foo fighters

08. "elevator love letter" stars

09. "to be alone with you" sufjan stevens

10. "always love" nada surf

11. "publish my love" rogue wave

12. "please, please, please, let me get what i want" the smiths

13. "une annee sans lumiere" arcade fire

14. "teen angst" m83

15. "pachua sunrise (alias remix) minus the bear

16. "konstantine" something corporate

plaid at heart 2: the flannel edition

you may remember plaid at heart (the original) which i posted last spring. i can't believe it's taken me this long to create another edition considering how much i love my folk/plaid bands. this one is a little bit more comfy cozy feeling, just like your favorite plaid flannel; especially designed to get you through the rest of the winter. so, with no further ado, here it is;

01. "behind that locked door" by yim yames

02. "the right place" by monsters of folk

03. "home" by edward sharpe & the magnetic zeroes

04. "carpetbaggers" by jenny lewis featuring elvis costello

05. "thank you too" by my morning jacket

06. "hold on, hold on" by neko case

07. "long way home" by mates of state

08. "acorn factory" by the dodos

09. "15" by rilo kiley

10. "train song" by ben gibbard & feist

11. "done all wrong" by black rebel motorcycle club

12. "the first days of spring" by noah and then whale

13. "requiem" by m. ward

14. "romeo and juliet" by dire straits

15. "on and on" by mission to the sea

16. "heartbeats" by jose gonzalez

17. "blindsided" by bon iver

a new edition of house party hopes!

in honor of 2 awesome girls & a super awesome pup's new apartment in a new year, i bring you a celebratory mix that had us dancing;

01. "basic space" the xx

02. "dead sound" the raveonettes

03. "you got yr. cherry bomb" spoon

04. "crown of age" the ettes

05. "tiny little home" jay reatard

06. "dominos" the big pink

07. "lessons learned" matt & kim

08. "friends" band of skulls

09. "boys wanna be her" peaches

10. "empire state of mind" jay-z

11. "shove it" santogold

12. "ambling alp" yeasayer

13. "photobooth" friendly fires

14. "little secrets" passion pit

15. "highly suspicious" my morning jacket

16. "what's the attitude" cut chemist

17. "on to the next one" jay-z

i must admit that the "whip it!" soundtrack really helped me out on this one, all those kick butt songs work for these ladies. enjoy.

wintry mix

just a little wintry mix for you my loves

01. "two" the antlers

02. "possibility" lykke li

03. "blood bank" bon iver

04. "4 out of 5" peter bjorn and john

05. "do you believe in rapture?" sonic youth

06. "roslyn" bon iver & st.vincent

07. "on and on and on" wilco

08. "blue skies" noah and the whale

09. "stars of leo" m. ward

10. "charlie brown's lament" jacob miller

11. "map of the world" monsters of folk

12. "o valencia!" the decemberists

13. "penelops" pinback

14. "walking" the dodos

15. "snow day" matt pond pa

16. "love like a sunset; pt. II" phoenix

50 favorite songs of 2009.

(5o tracks i've been digging the past year, wether they came out in 2009 or not, in no particular order)

01. "don't stop believin" the glee cast

02. "daylight" matt & kim

03. "ballad of bird love" blitzen trapper

04. "disturbia" rihanna

05. "my girls" animal collective

06. "blood bank" bon iver

07. "plans" band of horses

08. "tightrope" yeasayer

09. "no one does it like you" department of eagles

10. "click, click, click, click" bishop allen

11. "use somebody" kings of leon

12. "right round" flo rida

13. "breaking it up" lykke li

14. "talking bird" death cab for cutie

15. "nothing to worry about" peter bjorn and john

16. "we are beautiful, we are doomed" los campensinos!

17. "dog days are over" florence & the machine

18. "sunlight" harlem shakes

19. "little secrets" passion pit

20. "sweet disposition" the temper trap

21. "fables" the dodos

22. "in the hospital" friendly fires

23. "periodically double or triple" yo la tengo

24. "1901" phoenix

25. "simple as..." kid cudi

26. "on to the next one" jay-z

27. "i'm amazed" my morning jacket

28. "bear" the antlers

29. "pot kettle black" tilly & the wall

30. "mansard roof" vampire weekend

31. "very loud" shout out louds

32. "electro-socket blues" rogue wave

33. "non-photo blue" pinback

34. "blue skies" noah and the whale

35. "home" edward sharpe & the magnetic zeroes

36. "roslyn" bon iver & st. vincent

37. "say please" monsters of folk

38. "ambling alp" yeasayer

39. "heartbeats" jose gonzalez

40. "carpetbaggers" jenny lewis featuring elvis costello

41. "teen angst" m83

42. "things i'll do" northern state

43. "wake up" arcade fire

44. "furr" blitzen trappers

45. "elevator love letter" stars

46. "for the price of a cup of tea" belle & sebastian

47. "through the roof 'n' underground" gogol bordello

48. "borne on the fm waves of the heart" against me! featuring tegan

49. "poison cup" m. ward

50. "animal" mike snow

comment by january 3rd with your top 5 songs this past year and i'll use the random number generator to pick a person to send my favorites to in mix cd form.

indie elves.

i love to belt out mariah carey's "all i want for christmas is you" in the car just as much as any other girl, but when it comes time to wrap presents and decorate the tree i love to cozy myself up with some less mainstream versions of christmas songs. here are some of my current and all time favorites all wrapped up into one happy little mix.

01. "the christmas song" by the raveonettes

02. "carol of the bells" by the bird and the bee

03. "maybe this christmas" by ron sexsmith

04. "just like christmas" by low

05. "a great big sled" by the killers

06. "let's boogey to the elf dance!" by sufjan stevens

07. "christmas day in the sun" by hot hot heat

08. "a change at christmas (say it isn't so) by the flaming lips

09. "happy xmas (war is over)" by the polyphonic spree

10. "christmas (baby please come home)" by death cab for cutie

11. "christmas time is here" by ivy

12. "xmas curtain" by my morning jacket

13. "christmas" by rogue wave

14. "holiday road" by matt pond pa

15. "so this is christmas" by acceptence

16. "do you hear what i hear?" by copeland

17. "i heard the bells on christmas day" by pedro the lion

18. "red ribbon foxes" by a fine frenzy

19. "wonderful christmastime" by tom mcrae

20. "my dear acquaintance (a happy new year)" by regina spektor

falling leaves & an autumn breeze

so thanks to a little help from cosmo cricket's adorable woodgrain from their new "nutmeg" collection, which i just put out today in the soon-ish to be re-opened store, i bring you my official autumn mix. i'm slightly bummed because i realized that i included some tracks from my mix for the dares, but they still hold. let me know what you think!

in the mean time it's a combination of unpacking at the new store & packing at home for my austin trip and i'm feelin' it!

house party hopes 3:bklyn birthday edition

i journeyed to brooklyn via nj transit, the path, my footsies and 2 subways trains for kristina's birthday celabration and it was total perfection. (and totally worth the trains to not have a repeat of my hulking out at people pre and post holland tunnel like last time.)

aaaaaaanyway, obvs i had to make her a mix for the occasion, and here it is;

house party hopes 3: bklyn birthday edition

01. "better things" by passion pit

02. "it don't move me" by peter bjorn and john

03. "1901" by phoenix

04. "creator" by santogold

05. "a pillar of salt" by the thermals

06. "the underdog" by spoon

07. "kiss with a fist" by florence & the machine

08. "u.r.a. fever" by the kills

09. "in the hospital" by friendly fires

10. "i'm good, i'm gone" by lykke li

11. "electric feel" by mgmt

12. "jealous lovers" by tiger! tiger!

13. "shadows of the night" pat benatar

shorter than my usual mixes, but their was a time crunch involved. there will be a v2.0 and it will have to include "disturbia" and "out of my dreams (and into my car" which k and i were belting at the top of our lungs the whole way to coffee the morning after. love that girl.

"austin bound"

"austin bound"

01. "sleeping lessons" the shins

02. "dog days are over" florence & the machine

03. "never had nobody like you" m. ward feat. zooey

04. "something is not right with me" cold war kids

05. "we are beautiful, we are doomed" los campesinos!

06. "daylight" matt & kim

07. "tightrope" yeasayer

08. "sunlight" harlem shakes

09. "borne on the fm waves of the heart" against me! feat. tegan

10. "ballad of bird love" blitzen trapper

11. "wraith pinned to the mist and other games" of montreal

12. "all new friends" dirty on purpose

13. "little bribes" death cab for cutie

14. "don't look away" the helio sequence

15. "hurry up let's go" the shout out louds

16. "rain" bishop allen

17. "eraser" no age

18. "spotlight" mute math

19. "no one does it like you" department of eagles

p.s. i know this is seeming more like a music blog than a crafty blog lately, but that's just how it goes sometimes. i've been up to crafty things, but i'm just now feeling in the mood to blog again. and true, i got back from austin like 2 weeks a go, but i think the next step in my mission to get back into blogging is a top ten favorite moments style re-cap of my vacation, complete with pictures? eventually i'll post something actually crafty, promise!

"house party hopes 2: austin edition"

house party hopes 2: austin edition

01. "see fernando" jenny lewis

02. "nothing to worry about" peter bjorn and john

03. "it's not over yet" the klaxons

04. "sunrise" yeasayer

05. "sleepyhead" passion pit

06. "we are your friends" justice

07. "zero" yeah yeah yeahs

08. "oh my god" ida maria

09. "u. r. a. fever - the kills

10. "like knives" the fashion

11. "right round" flo rida

12. "flux" bloc party

13. "fa-fa-fa" datarock

14. "dusk till dawn" ladyhawke

15. "pot kettle black" tilly and the wall

current crushes.

current crushes

a miss morgan mix

01. "hard to live in the city" albert hammond jr.

02. "politics, music and drugs" slowreader

03. "live your life" t.i. featuring rihanna

04. "fans" kings of leon

05. "liar, liar" a fine frenzy

06. "maps" rogue wave

07. "never had nobody like you" m. ward

08. "i'm yours" jason mraz

09. "foundations" kate nash

10. "the comeback" the shout out louds

11. "thing's i'll do" northern state

12. "a pillar of salt" the thermals

13. "noi boi" the velvet teen

14. "tightrope" yeasayer

15. "cick, click, click, click" bishop allen

update: i brought my mom home from the hospital yesterday, and things are looking better. still stressing, but trying not to. why do the little things love to pile on when there's a big stress? what's that about?

plaid at heart

plaid at heart

a.k.a. morgan hearts mountain men

a miss morgan mix

01. "portland oregon" by loretta lynn & jack white

02. "oh my sweet carolina" by ryan adams

03. "acid tongue" by jenny lewis

04. "ballad of bird love" by blitzen trapper

05. "red and purple" by the dodos

06. "plans" by band of horses

07. "mykonos" by fleet foxes

08. "to go home" by m. ward

09. "the ballad of sean foley" by maria taylor

10. "blood bank" by bon iver

11. "one big holiday" by my morning jacket

12. "sausalito" by conor oberst

p.s. today morgan is thankful for post queues because without them, there would be no post today!

please send out any prayers, happy thoughts, or whatever else you believe in, out into the world for my mom today. things are looking better, but we're still here at the hospital.

it's going to be a long weekend...

... but in the most age appropriate/loveliest of ways. : ) tonight marykate & i are headed to some bar in trenton for a show (this guy i used to have a major crush on in high schools new band). and then i work tommorow before i'm off to a philly houseparty for the night with rick, ryan & ryan's friend dan. rick assures me that i will actually be able to pull my camera out without groans issued forth by himself and ryan, finally.

so, appropriate outfits have been acquired and last minute touches are in the works. most importantly i have the perfect nail polish (o.p.i for sephora in "cab fare" a totally obnoxious yellow.) and have created the raddest mix to get us appropriately psyched up. and, since i'm at work and then headed straight to mk's and have no pictures i will share said mix with you. i'm still not totally in love with the order, i think i would switch tracks 01 and 02 and something seems a little bit hinky towards the end there, but other than that i love, love.

"house party hopes"

01. "kids" by mgmt
02. "keep the car running" by the arcade fire
03. "heartbeats" by the knife
04. "let's dance to joy division" by the wombats
05. "ice cream" by new young pony club
06. "tessellate" by tokyo police club
07. "sour cherry" by the kills
08. "l.e.s. artistes" by santogold
09. "pieces of the people we love" by the rapture
10. "lights out" by santogold (usually i don't repeat, but she sounds totally different!)
11. "I'm not gonna teach your boyfriend how to dance with you" by black kids
12. "rat is dead (rage)" by css
13. "shut up and let me go" by the ting tings
14. "paper planes" by m.i.a.
15. "deceptacon" by le tigre
16. "timebomb" by beck
17. "under pressure" by david bowie feat. queen
18. "true affection" by the blow

i wonder what it is that makes indie dance bands feel the need to always have "the" in their name. weirdness. hope everyone enjoys their weekend!