J's Indie/Rock Mayhem - Hallowen Mixtape 2010

Happy Halloween, Mayhem readers and listeners!

As I said on the show this week, it felt like All Hallow's Eve was too many days away yet to really do a proper Halloween show. So here, as promised, is the Halloween Podcast 2010. It's around 45 minutes long and contains a hodgepodge of some random and not so random things. The tracklisting below gives you an idea of what songs are on it, though don't necessarily expect them to be there in their entirety or not simply represented through background samples and what not. For instance, The Specials and Bauhaus both get the chopped treatment. You'll recognize a few annual traditions from my Halloween shows (Flaming Lips, Woody Allen, the Louvin Brothers and the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark stories), but a few new things as well.

I had a blast crafting this thing, so I hope you enjoy it. Take care of yourself this weekend, have fun and I'll see you next week on the show!

J's Indie/Rock Halloween Podcast 2010 - Click here to stream/download.

The podcast contains, in their entirety or partial excerpts of:

Wade Denning and Kay Lande - "Halloween"
Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Halloween"
The Specials - "Ghost Town"
Woody Allen - "Down South"
The Flaming Lips - "Halloween on the Barbary Coast"
George S. Irving - "Room for One More" / "Cold as Clay"
C.A. Quintet - "Trip Thru Hell"
A.A. Allen - "I Am Lucifer" / "Crying Demons"
The Louvin Brothers - "Satan Is Real"
The Gun Club - "Ghost on the Highway"
A.A. Bondy - "Oh the Vampyre"
Bauhaus - "Bella Legosi's Dead"
Helium - "Baby Vampire Made Me"
Li'l Marky - "Diary of an Unborn Child"
Drive-by Truckers - "A Ghost to Most"
The Replacements - "Rock and Roll Ghost"

J's Indie/Rock Podcast - Christmas Edition 2009

Hey, folks. I hope you're having a happy holiday season so far. J's Indie/Rock Mayhem is on holiday break this week, but I'll be back next Wednesday with the 8th Annual J's Indie/Rock Top 25 Albums of the Year. It's going to be an amazing show.

In the meantime, in what I hope will be the first of a number of non-radio podcasts in the coming year, I wanted to share with you my first attempt at a homemade podcast for the Christmas season. Since I didn't get to do the usual Christmas show this year, I've whipped together a few of my favorite holiday songs into a handy podcast that clocks in at just over an hour. This means it's perfect for downloading and burning to CD or putting on your mp3 player for the car trips over the coming days. There's a mix of classic and heartwarming moments, some hilarious, ribald and mildly sacrilegious ones as well. In other words, something for everyone. Check out the download link and track list below. As usual, the podcast is also available via iTunes.

Happy holidays and I'll see you next week!

J's Indie/Rock Podcast: Christmas 2009 Podcast

Big Star - "Jesus Christ" (demo) [from the keep your eye on the sky boxset]
David Bowie/Bing Crosby - "Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth" [television special performance.]
Josh Rouse - "Christmas with Jesus" (live) [from under cold blue stars radio sampler EP.]
Run-D.M.C. - "Christmas in Hollis" [from a very special christmas.]
Ramones - "Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight)" [from brain drain.]
The Kinks - "Father Christmas" [from come dancing with the kinks.]
John Denver - "Please, Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)" [from rocky mountain christmas.]
Vince Guaraldi Trio - "Skating" [from a charlie brown christmas.]
Joni Mitchell - "River" [from blue.]
Type O Negative - "Red Water (Christmas Mourning)" [from october rust.]
Johnny Cash - "Blue Christmas" [from the christmas spirit.]
Didjits - "Under the Christmas Fish" [from hey judester.]
Patton Oswalt - "My Christmas Memory" [from feelin' kinda patton.]
Elastica - "I Wanna Be a King of Orient Aah" (live) [from the radio one sessions.]
Flaming Lips - "Christmas at the Zoo" [from clouds taste metallic.]
Nicolai Dunger - "Going Home for Christmas" [from tranquil isolation.]
Jim White - "Christmas Day" [from no such place.]
Vince Guaraldi Trio - "Christmas Time is Here" (instrumental) [from a charlie brown christmas.]