Katie Mullins joins me on this episode to talk about her new album and the process behind her work. Be sure to check her out at Union Hall on February 1st! Preorder her new album on Bandcamp and show your support for a bad-ass independent artist!

The songs:

Pink Orange Red – Cocteau Twins
Before We Begin – Broadcast
Cool Light – Bear In Heaven
A Walk (Kolombo Remix) – Tycho
Unwise – Lapland
Sequences – Backlights
The Main Event – Katie Mullins
Spring – Katie Mullins
Tiffany Lou – Daughn Gibson
Build – The Housemartins
The Ship Song – Camille O’Sullivan

I mention a free 2012 sampler from Ghostly International in the show, you can get it here.

There’s also a free download of Lapland’s “Unwise” at americansongwriter.com. Click here for it.

My dear friend Chris Mahula hipped me to a few of the songs on this podcast, check out what else he loved from 2012 here.

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Corey Dargel is my guest on the show today. He’ll be performing his newest song cycle “Hold Yourself Together” tomorrow night, January 7 at (le) poisson rouge.

The songs:
Dream Within A Dream – Propaganda
Tomorrow – Niki & The Dove
Symphonia IX (My Wait Is U) – Grimes
Don’t Follow – B. Fleischmann
There’s Nothing There – Corey Dargel
No Feelings Grown-Up Enough – Corey Dargel
For – Nils Frahm
Amid the Minotaurs – Roomful of Teeth
Testy Pony – Eve Beglarian
diminutive – Tin Hat
Silver Threads – Jacob Cooper with Melissa Hughes, Soprano

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