Evan O’Television

Here is installment #2 in my undeniably an “art-faggy” notion of punk and adolescent aggro-pop.  Special thanks to Josie Gray whose adoration of last September’s 9th Grade Detention Mix pushed me to kick out another blast of sonic delinquency! The dominant players in this selection are Black Francis (with one cut from his underrated solo [...]

So tonight’s mix was created with the post-party late-night chillout vibe  in mind.  It is good for about the 1 or 2 am spot at a weekend jam or clocking in at say 11 pm on a schoolnight (not coincidentally when I’m posting this).  Though it is titled 2 Bougie 2 Smooth Mix #1, it [...]

This last installment of Summer Pop for the season follows the “something for everyone” creed of the (now double-digit-yay!)  series:  There’s 60′s folk and British invasion, 70′s post-punk and neo-disco, 80′s synths and college-rock, 90′s indie and 00′s trendy.  Plus it all ends with what is probably my favorite (surprisingly upbeat) cover song of the [...]

My Summer Pop mixes soldier on!  From Paul Weller’s city snapshots to Woody Guthrie’s California skies as sung by Jeff Tweedy, this batch is characterized by a surprising number of  90′s entries.  But they are surely balanced out by cuts both as nouveau as Sleigh Bells and as retreau as Cat Stevens!  Plus… “Some people [...]

For those of you who enjoyed April’s “Jazz & Soul on Outerspace Parole” Mix.  This is, in many ways, the sequel but with a refined focus on electronic jazz and instrumental hip-hop.  The title is a reference to a scene in my favorite movie of the last decade, 2046. And the mix ends with a [...]

Yes!  Another healthy dose of Summer Pop just in time for Memorial Day weekend.  White Stripes, Modern Lovers, Gorrillaz and Go-Go’s git down… Playlist is below the fold. O’Pinionated Mix -Summer Pop #8

“Anthony walked to his death because he thought he’d never feel this way again,” begins the Belle & Sebastian opener to my first Summer Pop mix of the season, and it’s a strangely accurate warning of what lies ahead.  As always I’ve picked tracks that are hummable, catchy and eclectic, but as I was building [...]

For the one-year anniversary of the Mixtape Friday series we’re going back to basics:  great songs  in the verse-chorus-verse mode by rock outfits and singer-songwriter types. Much like my first posted O’Pinionated Mix “Lost Verses” and July’s “Lost Causes”, the songs are a combination of classic favorites by folks like Tom Waits and R.E.M. as [...]

For the return of Mixtape Fridays, I have let the jazz and soul masters take command and guide us into the spring.  It takes several  tangents (many of them African), includes a track Nas did with his father, a Sade song off my favorite new album of 2010, and opens with a great Nina Simone [...]