#18 NEVERMIND WHAT'S BEEN SELLING

It's ROCKTOBER again! I am so excited about this new mixtape. It's like none other I have done before. Normally I tend to focus on new music and I take care to make sure there is something for everyone on each one. So everyone can find something they will like. Not this time.

This new mix is all music that was very influential on me at a very specific time in my life. A time when the sounds of Fugazi broke me out of my Seattle grunge fixation and opened my ears to a whole new world of rebellion and angst. The grand indie rock years, when indie at least appeared to mean something real. Before the terms Indie and Emo came to mean Mall Punk of the overly postured and oh-so photogenic variety. These were bands that for the most part toiled in obscurity, toured the country in stinky white vans and played to small crowds in the back of record stores and warehouses. I gotta admit I admired them greatly and their music changed my perspective permanently.

The mix is comprised of what I consider to be the quintessential indie rock and post hardcore tracks of the 90's, focusing on bands from DC, San Diego and the Midwest. Those places were just incubators for great music at that time.

Warning: this mix isn't nice. It's abrasive, angular and demanding. It won't appeal to everyone. But it definitely rocks. I feel terribly nostalgic just thinking about it.

Download the Mix as a 94 MB Zip File
Now using sendspace to deliver these massive files. Email me if the file expires.

The tracklist was as follows:
(The links below will lead you to ways of supporting these artists)

01 Do You Like Me?, Fugazi
02 Tucked In, Boys Life
03 Hill, Boilermaker
04 A Kid Who Tells on Another Kid is a Dead Kid, Nation of Ulysses
05 Burn Pigs Burn, Pitchfork
06 Hot Trunk, Tanner
07 Precious, Bluetip
08 What Was, Kerosene 454
09 We Ate Sand, Karp
10 Learned It, Girls Against Boys
11 Halogen Bomb, The Shortwave Channel
12 The Misaligned Men of Flomation, Frodus
13 Chinese Fork Tie, Jawbox
14 The Fourth Introduction, Faraquet
15 Pretender, Hoover
16 Spikes to Your, Drive Like Jehu
17 No Bonds, aMiniature
18 A Force, Quixote
19 Sharks & Sailors, June of 44