Monthly Mix: September 2016

FEELING OK from marvelousmaggie on 8tracks Radio.

1. Wood – Rostam
2. Pretty Pimpin – Kurt Vile
3. Arizona – Frances Cone
4. I Wish I Was – The Avett Brothers
5. N'importe quel gars – Les Hay Babies
6. River Wider – Tall Heights
7. Casual Party – Band of Horses
8. Gooey – Glass Animals
9. You Already Know – Bombay Bicycle Club
10. Everything Looks Better (In Hindsight) – The Wild Reeds
11. The Con – Tegan and Sara
12. South – Hippo Campus
13. A Summer Song (Radio Edit) – Conner Youngblood
14. Aphasia – Pinegrove
15. Feeling Ok – Best Coast
16. Lover – In the Valley Below
17. In the Light – The Lumineers
18. Still – Seinabo Sey
19. This Feeling – Alabama Shakes

Although it's now officially fall, it probably won't feel like it in Austin until the end of October (or later—the leaves didn't really start changing until December last year), so my summer mix is relevant for at least one more month. I've found that these songs are best listened to driving through your favorite city in the rain or back home late at night with the windows down.

Until next time.

-Maggie

Monthly Mix: May 2016

Here we are at the beginning of another month, wondering again how we got here already. Is it just me, or does it feel like the first half of the year goes by so much faster than the second? I'm sure I've said the same thing in reverse before, but I swear it was just New Years!

The weather has been amazing lately and all of Austin has been taking advantage of it, including me. I'm hoping to take a long walk around Lady Bird Lake and go kayaking again in the next few weeks, before it gets too hot (because, unfortunately, that's coming soon). I have been spending many weekends and evenings reading or blogging, listening to music, and sipping cold drinks on various patios around Austin. Here's a mix to help keep the weekend vibes going into Monday.

Saturday Night Kind of Pink from marvelousmaggie on 8tracks Radio.

1. Water – Ra Ra Riot & Rostam
2. Taro – alt-J
3. Someday Soon – KT Tunstall
4. Bros – Wolf Alice
5. Look What I Made – Last Good Tooth
6. Simple Song – The Shins
7. Lunar Sea – Camera Obscura
8. Don't Just Sit There – Lucius
9. Brazil – Declan McKenna
10. Crawl – Bear Lake
11. Sedona – Houndmouth
12. My Only Swerving – El Ten Eleven
13. Jackrabbit – San Fermin
14. Coffee – Sylvan Esso
15. Absinthe Party at the Fly Honey Warehouse – Minus the Bear
16. Vagabond – Wolfmother
17. Tenuousness – Andrew Bird
18. River – Leon Bridges

I just checked and I haven't posted a mix since about a week after I moved to Austin. (So not only has it been a year and a half since I've posted a mix, but I've lived in Austin for a year and a half, which is NUTS, but I digress.) Despite the name, my mixes have never been "monthly," but even I will admit it's getting a little out of hand at this point. I'll get the hang of this eventually.

Have a good week, all!

-Maggie

Monthly Mix: October 2014

Lost In Daydreams from marvelousmaggie on 8tracks Radio.

1. Through the Dark – Alexi Murdoch
2. Talking In Code – Margot & The Nuclear So and So's
3. Swim Club – The Cave Singers
4. Funny Heartbeat – Kisses
5. Luna – Bombay Bicycle Club
6. Georgia – Vance Joy
7. Fast Car – Tracy Chapman
8. Lately – The Helio Sequence
9. Red Eyes – The War On Drugs
10. Temple – Kings of Leon
11. Dissolve Me – alt-J
12. Space Age Love Song – Flock of Seagulls
13. Agape – Bear's Den
14. Lump Sum – Bon Iver
15. These Waters – Ben Howard
16. Empress of the North – The Moondoggies
17. Blue Mind – Alexi Murdoch
18. Warm Foothills – alt-J

My October mix is a little late because all of October was devoted to moving–packing, loading trailers, saying goodbyes, crying, and unpacking. (Also, we don't have Internet set up at our apartment yet, so any down time I've had has been spent watching Will &Grace.) I could have just pretended this was my November mix, but it doesn't have the right feel to it. (Also, I already wrote "October 2014" on all the mixes I still haven't sent out.)

More on being an official Austin resident (!!!) later. For now, enjoy this music and go drink some hot chocolate or something.

-Maggie

Monthly Mix: Fall 2011

In a City of Lights from marvelousmaggie on 8tracks Radio.

1. Everything Louder Than Everything Else – Quiet Company
2. All At Once [Live] – Jack Johnson
3. Under Mountain, Under Ground – The Lighthouse and the Whaler
4. Moth's Wings – Passion Pit
5. Fighters – Lupe Fiasco feat. Matthew Santos
6. Don't I Hold You? – Wheat
7. Lost Myself In Search of You [Live] – Matt Nathanson
8. Try a Little Tenderness – Michael Bublé
9. Jezebel Or a Song About My Friend and That Whore He Dated – Quiet Company
10. Still Ain't Over You – Augustana
11. Re: Stacks – Bon Iver
12. Sleeping Sickness – City and Colour
13. Comes and Goes (In Waves) – Greg Laswell
14. In Your Atmosphere [Live] – John Mayer
15. Lights – Journey
16. Fader – The Temper Trap
17. Suspended [Live] – Matt Nathanson

In honor of it now being Officially Fall, I decided to share one of my favorite mixes I have ever made, circa Fall 2011. I still listen to this mix all the time (it's actually in my car stereo right now), and I've sent it to at least ten bloggers. I hope you enjoy it too, and that your first day of autumn is filled with falling leaves, hot coffee, and gray sweaters.

-Maggie

Monthly Mix: July 2014

"Rest stops have always made him strangely happy. He couldn't say why. Just the idea of everyone on their way somewhere, united by wanderlust, no one belonging more than anyone else."

United By Wanderlust from marvelousmaggie on 8tracks Radio.

1. Trembling Hands – The Temper Trap
2. God Made Man – Young the Giant
3. Sahara Mahala – The Jezabels
4. I Wait for You – Right Away, Great Captain!
5. Petardu – Delorentos
6. Colour – Wild Cub
7. Houdini – Foster the People
8. Breezeblocks – alt-J
9. What You Want – Bombay Bicycle Club
10. Somebody – Hannah Georgas
11. So Much Trouble – Matt Pond PA
12. Bloom – The Paper Kites
13. Bloodflood – alt-J
14. Young Blood – The Naked and Famous
15. Fools – The Temper Trap
16. Satan Is a Vampire – Fierce Creatures
17. Atlas Hands – Benjamin Francis Leftwich
18. This Must Be the Place (Live) – Talking Heads

The quote above is from Jonathan Tropper's One Last Thing Before I Go, which I finished reading while at home a week or so ago. As someone who has taken her fair share of long drives (here's looking at you, six-hour drive to Austin), these lines made me smile. There is a weird sort of camaraderie among people on the highway, isn't there? Maybe that's just me.

Anyway, this particular mix was largely inspired by that quote and my impending seven-hour drive to Colorado Springs next weekend to see Dillon and Shelby. I suppose us bloggers are united by wanderlust, too.

-Maggie

Monthly Mix: March 2014

In Like a Lion from marvelousmaggie on 8tracks Radio.

1. Take Yours, I'll Take Mine – Matthew Mole
2. The End of That – Plants and Animals
3. Song For You – Alexi Murdoch
4. This Is a Country Song – A Great Big Pile of Leaves
5. Tiderays – Volcano Choir
6. The Love Club – Lorde
7. Stay Alive – José González
8. Into the Mystic – Van Morrison
9. Love Like This – Kodaline
10. How Do I Know – Here We Go Magic
11. Changing of the Seasons – Two Door Cinema Club
12. A World Alone – Lorde
13. Naïve – The Kooks
14. Punching In a Dream – The Naked and Famous
15. Fortune – William Fitzsimmons
16. Sufidrop – Sean Hayes
17. Sweet Disposition – The Temper Trap
18. The Modern Leper – Frightened Rabbit
19. Careless – Amos Lee
20. I Will Be Back One Day – Lord Huron

Spring is probably my least favorite time of the year. For some reason, the transition from winter to summer is always worse than from summer to winter. Allergies are going crazy, it's windy all the time–not to mention the "haboobs" that blow through every week. (For those who don't know, a haboob is a massive dust storm. We've had two in less than two weeks. This is what I deal with all the time.)

Regardless of the nasty weather, things have been okay. Summer (and the end of my career as an undergrad) is so close. In the meantime, here's some warm weather music to get you through the windy days of March.

-Maggie

Monthly Mix: January 2014

For the Sleepless Nights from marvelousmaggie on 8tracks Radio.

1. Landfill – Daughter
2. Twin Size Mattress – The Front Bottoms
3. On the Roam – Baby Alpaca
4. We Don't Need Our Heads – A Great Big Pile of Leaves
5. Chasing a Ghost – The Head and the Heart
6. Marching Bands of Manhattan – Death Cab for Cutie
7. Until We Get There – Lucius
8. Good To Sea – Pinback
9. Hearts Like Ours – The Naked and Famous
10. Human – Daughter
11. Perth – Bon Iver
12. Days – The Drums
13. Late March, Death March – Frightened Rabbit
14. A Few Screws Loose – A Great Big Pile of Leaves
15. Half About Being a Woman – Caroline Smith
16. Yellow – Coldplay
17. This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) – The Lumineers
18. Sloom – Of Monsters and Men

I finished this mix back in December. Why am I just now posting this? (I actually have reason this time, guys. I wasn't just procrastinating.) My cousin and I moved into our house. That took considerable time as I packed and moved everything mostly by myself (which was awful and I would not advise it). Then school started, and I also began training for morning books at work, which meant going in at five in the morning. Aside from all that, and worst of all, we still do not have Wi-Fi at our house yet. It's been a struggle. I feel like Laura Ingalls Wilder.

We also don't have our washer and dryer hooked up yet, so I've brought my laundry over to my grandparents' house and am using their Wi-Fi while I wait for my towels to dry. Expect more updates in re our house and school soon.

-Maggie

Monthly Mix: September 2013

Making You Shake from marvelousmaggie on 8tracks Radio.

1. Rinse Me Down – Bombay Bicycle Club
2. Waitin' On the Day – John Mayer
3. From Afar – Vance Joy
4. Power Hungry Animals – The Apache Relay
5. Old Old Fashioned – Frightened Rabbit
6. Northwestern Girls – Say Hi
7. Medicine – Daughter
8. No Other Plans – Sunny Levine
9. Wildfire – John Mayer feat. Frank Ocean
10. If So – Atlas Genius
11. Riptide – Vance Joy
12. Strictly Game – Harlem Shakes
13. Ain't Nobody's Problem – The Lumineers
14. Alone – Trampled By Turtles
15. Shake – The Head and the Heart
16. Footshooter – Frightened Rabbit
17. Things We Lost In the Fire – Bastille
18. So Here We Are – Bloc Party
19. Serpentine – Chris Bathgate
20. World News – Local Natives

I've been looking for a good way to do my mixes for forever, and could never figure out the best way to do it. A lot of the playlist sites I had found before either 1) didn't have the music I needed/a way to upload my own, 2) didn't have a way for me to embed the player in a post, 3) did have a way to embed the player but didn't let me customize it, or 4) just didn't work.

I think I have finally found one that does work though. Hopefully. Now you can actually listen to it as a playlist, and if you really like a song it has a link to buy it. Let me know if this works/what you think!

-Maggie

Monthly Mix: August 2013

1. Learning to Love Again – Mat Kearney
2. Floating in the Forth – Frightened Rabbit
3. New Slang – The Shins
4. Careful – Guster
5. Glory – Radical Face
6. Rome – Phoenix
7. It's Alright – Matt & Kim
8. Maps – The Front Bottoms
9. Could It Be Another Change – The Samples
10. Flowers in Your Hair – The Lumineers
11. Brother – Swear and Shake
12. Puzzle Pieces – Saint Motel
13. Danny's Den – Castlecomer
14. Take It From Me – The Weepies
15. Wait For Love (You Know You Will) – Josh Ritter
16. Stay – Justin Rock
17. The Field Song – The Lighthouse and the Whaler
18. Breathe Me In – Jared & The Mill

Okay, I'll be honest–not only is this cutting it very close to be my August mix, but it was originally meant for July. I just got so busy with the meet-up and all that I never got around to posting it in July. Then I got so busy with, you know, sleeping and reading Harry Potter that I never got around to posting it before the last day of August.

The important thing is that it is posted now. Right? Sure.

-Maggie

Monthly Mix: May 2013

I am aware that it is halfway through June, but you should know by now that I never get things done when I intend to. Like, ever. This mix, specifically numbers three and four, helped me get through the last few weeks of school. I haven't stopped listening to it since, so I decided it was still okay to post it. Enjoy.

1. The Match – The Eastern Sea
2. Who Knows Who Cares – Local Natives
3. The Loneliness and the Scream – Frightened Rabbit
4. Trojans – Atlas Genius
5. Why Even Try – Theophilius London feat. Sara Quin
6. Lights Out, Words Gone – Bombay Bicycle Club
7. 1957 – Milo Greene
8. Dents – The Acorn
9. Royals – Lorde
10. Madness – Muse
11. Skin (Akustik Version) – Boy
12. Sun – Two Door Cinema Club
13. Kids – MGMT
14. Pompeii – Bastille
15. Many Ways – Bombay Bicycle Club
16. Giving Up – Ingrid Michaelson
17. False Knight On the Road – Fleet Foxes
18. 3rd Planet – Modest Mouse
19. Sidekick – Val Emmich
20. Sweater Weather – The Neighbourhood

I hope everyone's summer has been great thus far. Mine has been filled with working, trips home, and a lot of meet-up planning. Just a month until I'm in Austin with some really fabulous people. I can't wait.

-Maggie

Monthly Mix: January 2013

I actually made this mix at the same time as my Christmas mix, but instead of posting two December mixes I saved it for January because I'm kind of lazy. This is one of my favorite mixes I've made. I've been jamming to it for the past few weeks.

1. Always Gold – Radical Face
2. Backwards Walk – Frightened Rabbit
3. Cannons – Youth Lagoon
4. Walking On a Dream – Empire of the Sun
5. Maps – The Fray
6. A Little More Time – ZOX
7. How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep – Bombay Bicycle Club
8. Holiday Review – Magnolia Sons
9. Stubborn Love – The Lumineers
10. Heartbeat – Kopecky Family Band
11. Shuffle – Bombay Bicycle Club
12. Let Your Heart Hold Fast – Fort Atlantic
13. July – Boy
14. Somebody – Jukebox the Ghost
15. Carried Away – Passion Pit
16. Keep Yourself Warm – Frightened Rabbit
17. Rivers and Roads – The Head and the Heart
18. Auld Lang Syne – Ben Rector

You should look up these songs and actually listen to them.

-Maggie

Monthly Mix: CHRISTMAS!

Christmas is my very favorite time of the year. I just get so INTO IT. Unfortunately, the first part of the month is spent struggling through the end of the fall semester, but once I finish finals WATCH OUT. Tomorrow (well, today seeing as it's nearly three in the morning) is my last final, and you better believe as soon as I get home I'm going to watch The Muppet Christmas Carol and make snowflakes.

It should come as little surprise to you that I've made a Christmas mix. There are so many people (too many people) that hate Christmas music and I've never understood it. Usually, their main complaint is that it plays literally everywhere through the month of December, but THAT'S THE BEST PART. We only get this music for one month a year, guys! EMBRACE IT.

1. It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas – Fruit Bats
2. Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow – Dean Martin
3. We Need a Little Christmas – AgesandAges
4. (Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man With the Bag – Black Prairie
5. All I Want For Christmas Is You – Quiet Company
6. Baby, It's Cold Outside – Glee Cast
7. Wonderful Christmastime – The Shins
8. Are You Coming Over For Christmas? – Belle & Sebastian
9. Winter Wonderland – Billy Gilman
10. Angels We Have Heard On High – Quiet Company
11. Christmas Is Coming – John Denver & The Muppets
12. The 12 Days of Christmas – Straight No Chaser
13. All That I Want – The Weepies
14. The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On an Open Fire) – Paul McCartney
15. Jingle Bells – Ben Rector
16. Little Saint Nick – John Denver & The Muppets
17. White Christmas – Sleeping At Last
18. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) – Michael Bublé
19. We Wish You a Merry Christmas – John Denver & The Muppets
20. O Holy Night – Quiet Company
21. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas – Sleeping At Last
22. What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? – The Head and the Heart
23. Auld Lang Syne – Barenaked Ladies

Honestly, it took a lot to not make this mix every version of "All I Want For Christmas Is You," "Baby, It's Cold Outside," and "Auld Lang Syne" I have. Those are the best.

-Maggie

Monthly Mix: November

Technically my Monthly Mix segment isn't really monthly seeing as my last one was in July. I should rename is to something like Whenever Maggie Actually Gets Around To It Mix, but that's not nearly as catchy.

1. Towers – Bon Iver
2. Pull My Heart Away – Jack Penate
3. Something in the Water – Brooke Fraser
4. Weighty Ghost – Wintersleep
5. For Those Below – Mumford & Sons
6. Heart It Races – Dr. Dog
7. Take a Walk – Passion Pit
8. When U Love Somebody – Fruit Bats
9. The Wolves – Ben Howard
10. Bloodstream – Stateless
11. Kissing a Fool – Michael Bublé
12. Missed the Boat – Modest Mouse
13. What You Know – Two Door Cinema Club
14. Give Me Love – Ed Sheeran
15. You Are a Tourist – Death Cab For Cutie
16. Blood – The Middle East
17. Swept Away (Sentimental Version) – The Avett Brothers
18. I Can't Make You Love Me (Live) – Adele

I'm quite proud of this mix, and I'm glad that I finally finished it because it's been sitting half-made since September. This one will definitely make its way to a few members of the Blogger Family.

As you know, the semester is quickly coming to a close. Somehow, Thanksgiving is next week, and as if that isn't crazy enough, the week after is my friend Mary's wedding. She's the first of my friends to get married and I get to be a bridesmaid! Needless to say, I am thrilled.

This semester has been a struggle–a few ups and a lot of downs to come to terms with. I'll elaborate on that in a later post. Now, I need to focus on making it through these last few weeks of school in one piece.

Hope everyone else is doing well, especially those still in school. I feel your pain! Listen to this mix–it'll make you feel better.

-Maggie

Monthly Mix: July

This month's mix was heavily influenced by my impending trip to Seattle and the evening runs I've been taking in preparation for that 5K I spoke of before.

1. Old Pine – Ben Howard
2. Heartbeats – José González
3. Small Town Moon – Regina Spektor
4. Take Our Turn – The J Band
5. Something Good Can Work – Two Door Cinema Club
6. It's Time – Imagine Dragons
7. Man On Fire – Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
8. Between Two Lungs – Florence + The Machine
9. The Fear – Ben Howard
10. Pumped Up Kicks – Foster the People
11. Six Weeks – Of Monsters and Men
12. Demons – Imagine Dragons
13. Sweeter – Gavin DeGraw
14. Going On – Gnarls Barkley
15. Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall – Coldplay
16. The Party – Regina Spektor
17. Some Nights – fun.
18. 1901 – Phoenix
19. Your Ex-Lover Is Dead – Stars
20. World At Large – Modest Mouse

For some reason, I always thought that workout playlists should consist of a lot of rock and your general LET'S-GET-PUMPED music, but I've found that I enjoy it more when I listen to more mellow music (like I do all of the time anyway). Lately, I've had my Pandora set to a mix of Ben Howard, Regina Spektor, Gavin DeGraw, and Of Monsters and Men.

Speaking of, a few days ago when Amazon was having some crazy 99¢ sale on recently released albums, I bought Of Monsters and Men's My Head Is An Animal because I loved "Little Talks" (and, I mean, it was only 99¢), and I am very pleased with it. Also, after my friend Alissa talking about them incessantly and hearing "It's Time" in The Perks of Being a Wallflower trailer, I downloaded Imagine Dragons's EP, and it is fantastic as well.

New music is the best thing. Well, maybe not the best for my bank account, but whatever.

-Maggie

P.S. Since we're on the subject of music, you should watch this video.

Monthly Mix: June

Sometimes I will listen to one song and it will inspire me to make a mix CD that I usually end up sending to several of my Blogger Family. It takes me awhile to actually finish these mixes, but I like making them and like to think I am good at it. In reality, I am probably the only one who really enjoys the mixes I make (except for my Fall 2011 mix–that was a masterpiece), but I have decided to share them anyway. So without further ado, here is June.

1. I Dream An Ocean – Charlene Kaye
2. All These Things That I've Done – The Killers
3. Sweet As Whole – Sara Bareilles
4. On the Road – Keane
5. Wasted – L.P.
6. Save Yourself – James Morrison
7. Addicted to Love – Florence + The Machine
8. Barlights – fun.
9. Please Speak Well of Me – The Weepies
10. Gotta Get Through This (Acoustic) – Daniel Bedingfield
11. Water's Gettin' Too Hot – TalkFine
12. Come Back Down – Greg Laswell feat. Sara Bareilles
13. Preaching to the Choir Invisible, Part 1 – Quiet Company
14. Firewood – Regina Spektor
15. Heart of Mine – Norah Jones & The Peter Malick Group
16. Ulysses – Franz Ferdinand
17. The Freedom Song – Jason Mraz
18. All Wash Out – Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
19. Born and Raised – John Mayer

The goal is to actually remember to do this every month.

-Maggie