Hopefully soon, I’ll be able to post two things: some thoughts on 2009 songs and albums thus far (Phoenix, “My Girls,” Yeah Yeah Yeahs, AC Newman, Royksopp), and more excitingly, my take on some of the best stuff to come out of Indiana lately (the Broderick, We Are Hex, Push/Pull, I’m looking in your direction[s]). [...]

Here are the last two:

marathonpacks year-end mix, vol. 3 (128k mp3, 68.4MB) (expired)
1. Black & White Town–Doves
2. A Little Bit More–Jamie Lidell
3. Gone (f. Cam’ron & Consequence)–Kanye West
4. Trouble With Dreams–Eels
5. All We Are–Fischerspooner
6. Gideon–My Morning Jacket
7. Like A Honeycomb–British Sea Power
8. There Goes the Sun–The Pernice Brothers
9. I Was A Teenage Rainphase–Stereolab
10. So Begins [...]

Bill Callahan, like his contemporary Will Oldham, has resurrected, or perhaps even created, a style of intensely personal, starkly delivered music in the vein of Townes Van Zandt that never manages to give way to the bleakness that underscores its creation (which would make them Jandek). Callahan in particular places his quirky baritone at the [...]

This podcast will serve as the first to be distributed with Feedburner, a free and comprehensive distribution service that will allow marathonpacks to automatically download to your feed-reader of choice. Coolest to me, though, is the ability to feed it directly into your iTunes, and let it update each time you open the application (music [...]

More of the best from this year…grab it here.(128kb mp3, 61MB)

1. The Shouty Track-Lemon Jelly from ‘64-’95
2. Rock and Roll-Edan f. Dagha from Beauty and the Beat
3. Tale from Black-Tunng from This Is Tunng…Mother’s Daughter and Other Songs
4. Episodes (Diphenhydramine)-Pela from All in Time
5. The Runaround-The Sugarplastic from Will
6. Ringodom [...]