Mixtape 246 • Hide + Seek

The Jesus Lizard are back, like a delicious headache you thought was gone but is now raging.

The Jesus Lizard

Song	Artist	Notes
Hide & Seek	The Jesus Lizard	The familiar throb
— • BREAK • —
Mystery Achievement	Pretenders	Still fresh
Comme Un Garçon	Stereo Total	So much noisy
My Kind	Guster	A grandiose recap
— • BREAK • —
Silent Picture	Cage The Elephant	Fuzzing it out
Eat My Words	Divorce	Winning the argument
San Diego	Wheat	The kids don’t hang
Losing My Mind	Chicano Batman	Fantastic casiocore
— • BREAK • —
Lou Reed Was My Babysitter [First Draft]	Jeff Tweedy	Rough and ready
Espionage	The dB's	Early edge
The Last Year	Jessica Pratt	Sparseness abounds
No Machine	Adrianne Lenker	Forget the devices
— • BREAK • —
For A Night	Pokey Lafarge	Feeling tropical
Big Ciggie	Royel Otis	Get yer sleaze on
Koteja (Oh Bolilla)	Stewart Copeland	From the Rhythmatist soundtrack
— • BREAK • —
Utopia Parkway	Fountains Of Wayne	Part the clouds

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