(top photo: Voxtrot.  Bottom photo: no idea but surely not Vampire Weekend) (EDIT: that’s Dr. Dog and yes, IU’s Union Board needs to better tag its indie band clip art)

Yes, this one’s a couple months late.  But it might be my favorite of the first three, too.  Maybe because I’ve sat on it for longer.  Regardless, here’s yr rock (with incessant references to John Lennon to boot).  Then, it’s time to move on–so much amazing music has been released over the past six months!  [...]

Second mix from the first quarter. A handful of bangers.  First mix is back here.  Third should be here anytime.

Mix 2: “However Do You Need Me” | 192k | 45:58 | 63.3mb

RJD2 “Let There Be Horns” (RJ’s Electrical Connections) According to my ledger, this guy’s got two (2) all-time instrumental soul jams–”1976” and “Good [...]

They’re all on the same page of the latest Rolling Stone!  Wayne gets big-upped by Ezra of the Vampire Weekends:

A few things about this
1) Not to get all punny on the SoCal vibe they’re reaching for here, but “Horchata” really jumps with both feet into The Ocean That Is Everything Haters Hated About Vampire Weekend the first time around. And for that, good for them. The “horchata”/”balaklava” rhyme scheme in particular seems [...]

At one point during Vampire Weekend’s set here in Bloomington last November (opening for Baltimore’s Celebration), singer Ezra Koenig remembered the last time the band came to our fair college town, as openers for the Dirty Projectors a few months prior. The bits of Koenig’s wistful reminiscence could have been taken directly from [...]