As promised, I am working on my first Mix CD in nearly two years. Ow! I haven’t listened to a lot of new music in that time, yet I still have a pretty big list of stuff to choose from. I have begun culling this down to two disks, but here’s the starting point:

Alphabeat – Fantastic 6
AM Syndicate – All The People Under The Sun
Ana Laan – Paradise
Art Brut – Emily Kane
Asobi Seksu – Thursday
Baltic Fleet – 3 Dollar Dress
Baltic Fleet – Black Lounge
Bat For Lashes – What’s A Girl To Do?
Be Your Own Pet – Becky
Beck – E-Pro
Bella – Give It A Night
Black Moth Super Rainbow – Sun Lips
Bon Savants – Between the Moon and the Ocean
Bottom Of The Hudson – Bee Hive
Cake – War Pigs
Camera Obscura – I Don’t Do Crowds
Citay – First Fantasy
Citizen Helene – ‘Til Tomorrow
Cloudland Canyon – Krautwerk
David Sugar – Ode to London Transport
Decoder Ring – Ether
Dressy Bessy – Do You Whisper?
Dressy Bessy – Just Once More
Echobelly – Give Her A Gun
Echobelly – I Can’t Imagine a World Without Me
El Ten Eleven – Living On Credit Blues
Émilie Simon – Never Fall in Love
Flobots – Handlebars
Freezepop – Less Talk More Rokk
Fujiya & Miyagi – Ankle Injuries
Gang Of Four – What We All Want
Gang Of Four – What We All Want (live at KEXP)
Gnarls Barkley – Crazy
Gnarls Barkley – Gone Daddy Gone
Great Lake Swimmers – Put There by the Land
Grizzly Bear – Knife
Her Space Holiday – A Match Made In Texas
Her Space Holiday – The Great Parade
Her Space Holiday – You And Me
Home Blitz – Hey!
Hurra Torpedo – Total Eclipse Of The Heart
Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins – Handle with Care
John Vanderslice – Time to Go
Kaiser Chiefs – You Can Have it All
Ladytron – Beauty
Ladytron – Ghosts
Leeni – Perfection Interrupted
Liars – Freak Out
Liars – Plaster Casts of Everything
Liars – Protection
M.I.A. – Amazon
M.I.A. – Paper Planes
Mandrew – Hotwax
Marsheaux – Pure
Nouvelle Vague – In a Manner of Speaking
OK Go – Get Over It
Panda Bear – Bros (edit)
Panda Bear – Comfy In Nautica
Parts & Labor – Fractured Skies
Peter, Bjorn and John – Young Folks (featuring Victoria Bergsman)
Plumtree – Scott Pilgrim
R.E.M. – Supernatural Superserious
Rogue Traders – Voodoo Child
Secret Mommy – Kool Aid River
Shout Out Out Out Out – Forever Indebted
Shriekback – God’s Gardenias
Shriekback – More Heat than Light
Social X-Ray – Earthshake
Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin – Glue Girls
Suzanne Vega – New York Is A Woman
The Arcade Fire – (Antichrist Television Blues)
The Arcade Fire – Keep The Car Running
The Billy Nayer Show – Hey Boy
The Black Angels – Doves
The Books – Take Time
The Books – Tokyo
The Decemberists – Sons And Daughters
The Dodos – Fools
The Field – Over The Ice
The Fiery Furnaces – The Old Hag Is Sleeping
The Go! Team – Flashlight Fight
The Go! Team – The Wrath Of Marcie
The Jesus and Mary Chain – All Things Must Pass
The Magic Numbers – Love Me Like You
The Magnetic Fields – California Girls
The Minders – 357
The Mountain Goats – Half Dead
The Mountain Goats – Sax Rohmer #1
The Octopus Project – Truck
The Otterpops – Trotsky
The Polyphonic Spree – Running Away
The Rondelles – Pay Attention to Me
The Thermals – Here’s Your Future
The Thungs – Bridget, Where Are You?
The Thungs – I Didn’t Murder You
The Ting Tings – That’s Not My Name
These United States – First Sight
They Might Be Giants – Seven Days Of The Week (I Never Go To Work)
Throw Me The Statue – Lolita
White Heat – Nervous Breakdown
Yo La Tengo – Beanbag Chair
Yo La Tengo – I Should Have Known Better

If you have any suggestions for tunes from the past two years I should check out, please put them in the comments! I will probably be following up this Mix CD with another one, since I’m so far behind.