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Introducing new GGR contributor Lauren Fukano.

Departing ever so slightly from the normal albeit terrifying journey that is producing a new Giant Golden Radio podcast, I am pleased to introduce the newest podcast/blog contributor: myself. In GGR speak that just means John finally caved and allowed me to assemble and write this edition, his editorial hand at the helm, swift and piercing, ready to off any track suggestion deemed too dweeby. Or actually in his case, not dweeby enough. Our ultimate hope for this new partnership is that we will get more awesome music to you, the GGR listener, faster. So while sparing you the boring details of our back-end quibbles and music debate nerd out sesh’s, here’s the important end result. Fresh back from the Redbull vodka drinking/BBQ eating/fist pumping extravaganza that is SxSW, we’ve assembled a musical buffet of sorts for episode 23. We’ve got some hot new singles discovered in the Lone Star state, like Tanlines’ “Real Life”.  We’ve also got some internet-only business gleaned from our favorite music blogs, such as Passion Pit’s remix of the Shout Out Louds track “Fall Hard”.  And, in an addition made during furious last minute production, we’ve not forgotten the new new, single “Odessa” off of Swim, Caribou’s latest project released just days ago.  Pictured above, looking to me like he might put that thing down and ask if I know where the nearest elementary school is, John brushes me off thusly: “His new album’s the joint and he’s a mega-dweeb with a PhD in mathematics. My kinda dude.” Either way, this podcast spans France, the UK, and North America, includes side projects and new projects, and hopefully will affirm for you the way it did us, that 2010 is off to a damn fine start. Damn fine.

1. Freelance Whales – Starring
2. Fol Chen – The Beautiful Ones
3. Two Door Cinema Club – What You Know
4. Here We Go Magic – Collector
5. Penguin Prison – The Worse It Gets (RAC remix)
6. Jonsi – Go Do
7. Cults – Go Outside
8. Mountain Man – Animal Tracks
9. Big Star – The Ballad of El Goodo
10. Turin Brakes – Sea Change
11. James Yuill – This Sweet Love
12. Tanlines – Real Life
13. Caribou – Odessa
14. Shout Out Louds – Fall Hard (Passion Pit remix)
15. Memory Tapes – Bicycle

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It really shouldn’t take eight months to create one of these mixtapes. I went through a little dry stretch when I wasn’t all that impressed with what I was hearing on the radio/internet. I was getting ready to chalk it up to growing old and out of touch; I was preparing to settle down and listen to my same favorite bands from my mid-twenties for the rest of my life. As LCD Soundsystem would say, “I could hear the kids creeping up from behind” and I was prepared to let them pass me.

But then I started digging a little deeper, listening a little closer and — wait just a goddamn minute — I can still do this. I’m not ready to be passed up yet. It just took a little kick in the arse, but behold episode twenty fucking two.

As the ancient proverb says, don’t call it a comeback.

1. Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros – Home
2. The Temper Trap – Love Lost
3. Islands – Switched On
4. Hot Chip – So Glad To See You
5. The Notwist – One With The Freaks
6. Mimicking Birds – Burning Stars
7. Evening Hymns – Dead Deer
8. Built To Spill – Else
9. Kills – Last Day of Magic
10. Local Natives – Stranger Things
11. Efterklang – Modern Drift
12. French Kicks – One More Time
13. Lusine – Two Dots
14. Phoenix – Rome (Neighbours with Devendra Banhart remix)
15. The Middle East – Blood
16. Frightened Rabbit – Swim Until You Can’t See Land

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Karin Andersson, the feminine half of the Swedish brother-sister group The Knife, has started up her own project under the moniker Fever Ray. And she has officially blown my mind. As spring becomes less of distant concept and more of a reality, hopefully we’ll still have the occasional dark and dreary day, the kind that goes best with her creepy vocals. I also stuck some Port O’Brien on here after seeing them live. They passed out pots and pans for us to bang on and told us to scream along. They sure know the quickest way to my heart. You might notice a whole bunch of other songs in the mix too.

1. Port O’Brien – I Woke Up Today
2. Caribou – Sandy
3. Noah And The Whale – Give A Little Love
4. The Mountain Goats – Love Love Love
5. Here We Go Magic – Tunnelvision
6. The Arcade Fire – (Antichrist Television Blues)
7. Vampire Weekend – The Kids Don’t Stand A Chance (Miike Snow remix)
8. Fever Ray – When I Grow Up
9. Trentemoller – Moan
10. Ladyhawke – Paris Is Burning (Cut Copy remix)
11. Matt and Kim – Good Ol’ Fashion Nightmare
12. Phoenix – 1901
13. Empire Of The Sun – Tiger By My Side
14. Fever Ray – If I Had A Heart (Familjen remix)
15. Born Ruffians – I Need A Life (Four Tet remix)

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