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TIME CAPSULE

The Decemberists to Wooden Shjips…

So, I had the brilliant idea of making an end-of-2011 mixtape that had a song by every band I mentioned in a tweet in chronological (by tweet) order… A way of recording the path that my musical head followed through the year…

Yeah… there’s way too many. So, instead, I’m just making a list right here.

JANUARY
The Decemberists

FEBRUARY
Sonic Youth
Pixies
The Clash
Cee-Lo
PJ Harvey

MARCH
Sam Cooke

APRIL
The Sonics
PUJOL
Action!
Lucero
Iggy Pop
TV On The Radio
Wye Oak
Fleet Foxes
Acid Flashback
Peaking Lights

MAY
Junior Gong
Okkervil River
The Who
The Zombies
Led Zeppelin
Lupe Fiasco
Mos Def
Wale
Eric B & Rakim
Boogie Down Productions
Foster the People
Del the Funkee Homosapien

JUNE
Fine Young Cannibals
Sharon Van Etten
Big Star
Dum Dum Girls
Jawbreaker
The Mountain Goats
Lou Reed
Minor Threat
Ted Leo
DeVotchKa
Egg Hunt
Fugazi
Boston

JULY
Johnny Rotten

(hmmm… July must’ve been a weird month this year…)

AUGUST
Amanda Palmer
Murder City Devils
Active Child
Bon Iver
David Bowie

SEPTEMBER
The Knife
The Smiths
Yo La Tengo
The Cure
The Magnetic Fields
Xiu Xiu
Psychic TV
The Microphones
The Cars
The Velvet Underground
Gem Club
Ol’ Dirty Bastard

(one of these things is not like the others..?)

OCTOBER
Metalocalypse
Love & Rockets
Tones on Tail
Black Sabbath
Devendra Banhart
The Specials

NOVEMBER
Fishbone
Neutral Milk Hotel
The Buzzcocks
Radiohead
Spacemen 3
Joy Division

DECEMBER
Guided By Voices
Jay Reatard
Wooden Shjips