FEMALE ROCK OF THE GRUNGE ERA: GIRLS KICK ASS

I've had a lot of compliments about this comp I made, and whenever it gets played at a party everybody thinks it's the jam. I actually hate grunge rock, but the women of that era were full-on destroyers.

Compilation length: 80 mins

1. L7 - Shirley

2. Elastica - Smile

3. Sonic Youth - Drunken Butterfly

4. The Donnas - Checkin' It Out

5. PJ Harvey - Meet Ze Monsta

6. Liz Phair - Supernova

7. Lauren Hoffman - Rockstar

8. Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl

9. Hole - Celebrity Skin

10. Elastica - Stutter

11. Veruca Salt - Seether

12. The Breeders - Saints

13. Liz Phair - 6'1"

14. Team Dresch - Hand Grenade

15. Lunachicks - Terror Firmer

16. Sonic Youth - Bull In The Heather

17. Sleater-Kinney - It's Enough

18. Babes In Toyland - Sweet '69

19. Helium - Pat's Trick

20. Cat Power - Nude As The News

21. Hole - Awful

22. Elastica - Vaseline

23. Joan Jett - Love Is All Around

COACHELLA MIX 2010

In preparation for Coachella 2011 and the compilation I'll be finishing next week or so, here's the mix I made for last year (I tend to avoid headliners so the underdogs get a chance):

1. Pretty Lights - How We Do

2. Dead Weather - Cut Like A Buffalo

3. Major Lazer - Hold The Line (feat. Santigold)

4. Florence + The Machine - Kiss With A Fist

5.  Tokyo Police Club - Sixties Remake

6. Rusko - Jahovah (excerpt - cut at 1:36)

7. Little Boots - New In Town

8. Mayer Hawthorne - Just Ain't Gonna Work Out

9. Phoenix - Long Distance Call

10. Passion Pit - Little Secrets

11. Yo La Tengo - Avalon

12. The Big Pink - Dominos

13. Spoon - The Underdog

14. Charlotte Gainsbourg - Trick Pony

15. Vampire Weekend - White Sky

16. Corinne Bailey Rae - Feels Like The First Time

17. The Raveonettes - Dead Sound

18. Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension

19. Little Dragon - My Step

20. Beach House - Silver Soul

21. Grizzly Bear - Southern Point

22. Band Of Skulls - Honest

Length 80 mins

Best Melodic Alternative Rock of 1999

SOFT-ALT 1999 CD Compilation by BLANCONADA (80 mins)

1. Mercury Rev - Holes
2. Air - Playground Love
3. Drunk - Dorothea
4. Charlatans UK - My Beautiful Friend
5. Pavement - Spit On A Stranger
6. Damien Jurado - Eyes For Windows
7. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - DRWS
8. Sigur Ros - Staralfur
9. Poe - 5 1/2 Minute Hallway
10. Coldplay - Yellow (Acoustic)
11. Mark Lanegan - Creeping Coastline Of Lights
12. Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater
13. Twilight Singers - East 17th Street
14. Twilight Singers - Out Into The Street
15. Low - Starfire
16. Starlight Mints - Cracker Jack
17. Travis - Why Does It Always Rain On Me?
18. Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack
19. Tripping Daisy - Sonic Bloom

Interesting details:
1. The Poe song references details from her brother Mark Z Danielewski's creepy novel House Of Leaves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves
2. Mark Lanegan was the lead singer of 90s grunge-era band Screaming Trees.
3. The Twilight Singers were the side project of Greg Dulli from Afghan Whigs.
4. Tripping Daisy later incarnated into the Polyphonic Spree.