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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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