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Mixtape 106 • Odelia

They call it Hotlanta for a good reason, but I’m sure The Black Lips have enough bad attitude to have way more colorful names for their hometown.

They call it Hotlanta for a good reason, but I’m sure The Black Lips have enough bad attitude to have way more colorful names for their hometown.
Black Lips
SongArtistNotes
Odelia
Black Lips
Woke up singing this
She All Right
Dr. Frank
So short, so sweet
Down Down Down
The Muffs
Go out swinging
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Need Your Love
Tennis
Bring the yacht around
Tune Out
The Growlers
Ghosts of the Hollies
Alone Together
Mr. Elevator
Gimme 5
I Want You Back
Thee Shams
A plaintive call
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Aviator
Funkineven
Filter sweeps and LFOs
Lip Up Fatty
Tim Timebomb
Bad Manners!
Ah!
Linnea Olsson
Ex-Isildur's Bane, you Tolikien nerds
So It Goes
Nick Lowe
Still nobody knows
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Only In a Man's World
Field Music
At their talking headiest
Rub Alcohol Blues
The Fiery Furnaces
Back to the weird times
In The Evening (It's Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best)
Karen Dalton
Haunted voice
Waiting for My Baby
The Obscuritones
olskool
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Célaphine
Daddy Long Legs
Is it spicy enough?
Lou Barlow
The Get Up Kids
Kinda famous
Mahalageasca (Bucovina Dub)
Mahala Rai Banda
Pure paprika
Vexamao
Pele + Elis Regina
What are they talking about?
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Fisher Price
Creedle
There was an album called Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars
Quiet Wars
The Capstan Shafts
The ever-prolific Shafts
Front Row (Daniel Clarke Remix)
Metric
A nicely done resparsing
Causing a Rainbow
Moon Duo
Thank you Charley!
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Big
Fontaines D.C.
Gotta be big
Tombes Oubliées
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Your partial Velvets
What If You Knew
Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
Super saucy
American Food Chain
Free Radicals
Very very honky
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Moving Target
The Wild Reeds
Happy soundings
Daytripper
Pom Poko
I can hear the Beatles influence
Dun Dun
Los Amigos Invisibles
Some much-needed tropical
Rex’s Blues
Entrance
Tragic
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Don't Go
Amir Alexander
Old skool
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Mixtape 114 • Can't Do Much

Katie Crutchfield, performing as Waxahatchee, has been slowly and steadily building her repertoire and now her talent is overflowing her banks.