Personally, my money was on Nialler9 and Aoife for the Nialler9 podcast, another great blend of music, but The Persuaders topped the voting for 2009.

Bonus for Nialler9 who just walked off with Best Music Site ahead of last year’s winners, State Magazine.

Awards still ongoing here, you can follow the action by keeping an eye on the #iwa09 hashtag on Twitter.

Catch all y’all after the holidays…

• Plinth – Vascanagina
• Rhino39 – Why
• Atomic Hoarsebox – Calvita
• Antiqcool – Girl In A Room
• Evibe – Rebyrth
• Sensual Harassment – Daddy Long Legs

In particular, check out the tracks from Plinth and Sensual Harassment along with the mystery-machine-esque sounds of Calvita from Atomic Hoarsebox.

Getting your tracks into the podcast is easy with submissions obviously preferred now over Soundcloud (given the ease of the service) to email, but if you want to email in anything you can drop a line to podcast [at] playlistmix.com. You can also follow the podcast on Twitter here.

Hopefully I’ll have two more podcasts squeezed out between now and friday as I’m away on holidays next weekend for a bit. For those of you in Dublin (that’s a good gathering of Irish podcasters), I’ll see you at the Irish Web Awards in the Radisson this coming Saturday night.

Until next week,

Enjoy the mix.

Check out the video on YouTube or catch TMSR on MySpace

Enjoy the video, and check the band out here on MySpace.

Also a special mention for Devious Theatre who have been included in the shortlist – their production of The War Of The Worlds, available as a podcast download from DeviousTheatre.com, is in the running this Friday night for a PPI Radio Award for Best Drama, so fingers crossed for them on that front.

On to the tracks for this week, another six acts with some new music for you from

1. Cary Kanno – Make It Through
2. I Am Three – Nostalgia
3. Omega Vague – Wonder
4. Uber Glitterati – Little Chances
5. Leaving Richmond – And Now We Stand Up
6. I Am Not Left Handed – Everybody Sleeps

Later in the year PLM will be hooking up with a new music resource called Rewind for an extension to the podcast (a couple of bonus podcasts each month), more on that in October. If you want to get a track submitted to the podcast don’t forget that you can use the dropbox to submit an MP3, drop an email to podcast AT playlistmix DOT com or find us here on Facebook and Twitter.

This year has been a year of change for the podcast, certainly bringing in a lot more Irish music, launching a new version of the site, delivering the podcasts via Blubrry, working around a legal hurdle or two, exploring options on syndication and a lot more besides.

Moving into the end of 2009 there’s a few more changes and developments to come the way of the Playlist Mix so if you’re not already subscribed to the podcast, now is the perfect opportunity to do so! PLM took home the award for Best Podcast last year so to be included in the running again is a great boost. The category itself is sponsored by 3 Ireland and joining the Playlist Mix on the shortlist are RTE Podcasts, Nialler9, The Persuaders, Michael Hanley, The Comic Cast, Hostelworld Podcasts, Chopshop FM, Devious Theatre, Mixtape.ie, Panic Dots and View From The Quad.

It’s a cold Monday night in Kilkenny as the 57th Playlist Mix hits the web. There’s a guest in the studio too, staying quiet for the moment; there’s music from Ireland, Iceland, Switzerland, the US… and for us it’s three-in-a-row for the start of the Autumn season.

Of course, it is Monday, that note highlighted thanks to the return the NFL. We (we as in Ken) got away with it last year but with the season returning, there’s a new blog on the horizon in the form of FirstDown.ie (check First Down on Twitter). So with Sunday night action taking centre stage for the month, we’re on a Monday night buzz for September. But that’s the joy of the web, yes?

On to the music, this week’s tracks include

1. Olafur Arnalds – Fok
2. Saving J – Everybody
3. Clive Barnes – Shotgun Grin
4. Herring Bones – Box Shaped Heart
5. Spank The Chemical Christians – A Plague Of Swine
6. Kwest feat. Anna – Graber (Radio Edit)

If you want to get in touch, find us on Twitter, drop us an email, or post a track in the drop box at Soundcloud.com.

That’s it for 57, back next weekend for 58.

Tonight’s playlist has been picked, yet again helped by the Soundcloud additions – if you’ve got a track you want to submit to the podcast, don’t hesitate to use the drop box to leave us an MP3.

Taken from their new album After The Wedding, Sanzkrit have just released this video for new single Futilia. The first of their launch gigs for the album takes place tonight before making their way to Whelan’s in Dublin on Sunday night with support from The Ambience Affair and Fiach.

Check ‘em out on MySpace and grab this weekend’s Playlist Mix for some Sanzkrit sounds.

Video note: Official Video for Futila by Irish rock band Sanzkrit. Music written and performed by Sanzkrit (marron / clarke / markey / duffy) Video directed by Gary Farrell and written by Dave Marron. Starring the very talented Aoife, Oran, Tristan and the two Cians. (YouTube)

On October 2nd (12th in the UK), the Galwegian releases Impossibly Beautiful, from pages, on single, accompanied by a brand new video as well shot by director Vittoria Colonna.

She’s also announced a few dates for late September / October in support of the release of the single.

• Thursday 24 September, Town Hall Theatre, Galway
• Thursday 15 October, The Sugar Club, Dublin
• Friday 16 October, The Dock, Carrick on Shannon
• Saturday 17 October, Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
• Sunday 18 October, Oh Yeah Centre, Belfast
• Thursday 22 October, Spirit Store, Dundalk, Co. Louth
• Saturday 24 October, Glor, Ennis Co. Clare
• Friday 30 October, The Pavilion, Cork

Show 56 rolls around in a timely Monday fashion. Timely in the sense that it matches up with last Monday’s podcast release, albeit a day off the calendar. If you missed it during the week as well the podcast release schedule for the remainder of 2009 has been posted, at long last.

We’re still on the look out to get 100 fans via Facebook – think you can help? Pop along to the Playlist Mix Podcast Facebook page and help us on our way to 100. When we get there we’re gonna give away a couple of the albums that have been stacking up on the desk over the summer months (including a huge box of discs from Irish and UK acts).

If you want to make a submission for the 57th podcast, you’ve got until midnight this coming Thursday night to do so. You can submit your tracks via email to podcast [at] playlistmix [dot] com, or use the Soundcloud Dropbox to send us on a track. If you’re emailing in, don’t forget to include your MySpace / Bebo / Facebook / iTunes URL (whatever you’ve got), a brief biography and of course your music in MP3 format (WMA’s won’t be accepted, sorry Windows Media lovers).

On with the mix for this week…

• 835 – Shame It
• Loomis & The Lust – Bright Red Chords
• Heritage Centre – Your Leaders Are Dead
• ABCQ – He’s A Dog
• Finn Riggins – Wake (Keep This Town Alive) [Buy at Tender Loving Empire]
• Maido Project – Discovery Soundtrack

Don’t forget too that for updates during the week you can keep your eyes on the Playlist Mix on Twitter.

This one is a recent one from The Coronas, hitting the web last week. The video is for their forthcoming single Listen Dear which drops on September 11th (this music be one of the busiest weekends for music I’ve seen in a long time), followed up two weeks later by the release of their Tony Was An Ex-Con album.

The video was shot on location in Dublin at the beginning of August. Check out The Coronas on MySpace.

The album has been a long time in the making with the band already having released five singles – Bus Stop, Valentine, Kick Off, Indication Street and ABC – in advance of the album, with all singles included. Their next single, Everybody, is set for release shortly with artwork previews available on the band’s MySpace page.

I’ve had a copy of the album here for a few weeks and it’s nice to see how the band’s sound has shaped and evolved over the past two years. For an independent band, they’re certainly not afraid to get out, do the work, clock up the mileage in the tour van and make an investment in their musical careers. Hopefully the album, when it drops, will bring them some more deserved attention.

Can you believe it’s actually here? Show 55 has been sitting on the desk for ages. Then of course, you realise that the news is irrelevant, the gigs have already happened and while the music should get a play, I’m looking for something a little current.

The summer break is over, the autumn is in and the podcast returns, the 55th release in the series, one which should hopefully see us reach for number seventy by the year’s end.

There’s the new facelift, some changes on Facebook, a new drop box for MP3s, Twitter is still there and the show returns with six acts and six tracks, as if we’d have it any other way.

Music this week comes from

• Jester – Crying
• New Nobility Band – Galactic Love
• Saving J – ABC
• Jennifer Logue – Sigh
• theendisthebeginning – Adrift (Lessons In Time)
• Von Bizmark – London

The schedule for September through December will be published shortly so if you want to get your tracks in, now’s a fine time to do it. Drop an MP3 in our drop box here or email podcast at playlistmix dot com.

Tip: When uploading an MP3, please name the track in the format of ARTIST NAME – TRACK NAME.mp3 e.g. Coldplay – Clocks.mp3.

Submissions for tracks are stacked up of May / June / July thanks to the break for touring and theatre and while you can still submit tracks via email we thought it nice to offer you the possibility of uploading tracks through the site. Plus we get to hold them all in the one spot online.

While SoundCloud.com will support a number of formats (AIFF / WAVE / FLAC / AAC / OGG / MP3), it’s only MP3 we’re looking for with a minimum quality of 128kpbs stereo. Uploading the track doesn’t guarantee that it will get played on the podcast but we can say that if and when the track does get an airing, you’ll be the first to know.

Taking time to arrange some licensing and syndication matters (as well as build up a wealth of new music), the PLM is set to return, next week, for the run to the end of the year.

I’ve been looking forward to this for too long…

Normal programming will resume in June when the wheels on the bus slow down enough for us to catch up.

In the mean time, don’t forget you can still access any and all previous shows from this year right here on PlaylistMix.com and via iTunes.

If you’ve never been to Belfast before, give it a shot. Had a great weekend up there and would most definitely go back again.

1. Valentine Black – A Song From The Underground
2. Dogs Bollocks – Rebel Reload
3. The Free Design – Bubbles (Buy at Amazon MP3)
4. Beirut – My Night With The Prostitute From Marseille (Buy at Rhapsody)
5. Ebo – Paper Planes
6. Diarmuid Comerford – Skit Show

While I’m here, I should also plug a competition I’m involved in running, Busker 2009. One of my other hats with Kilkenny Music sees the promoting of a lot of music, at every level, including street-level. Busker 2009 kicked off yesterday with acts competing for a prize each da of 200 Euro. From tomorrow onwards, we’re looking for people to vote for their favourite act out of three from yesterday, the voting available here at KilkennyMusic.com.

Sunday rolls right ’round again so it’s time for another helping of the Playlist Mix. It’s also Easter Sunday here (and pretty much everywhere else for that matter), time to stuff yourself with chocolate, enjoy an extra day or two out of the office and generally chill out. That’s what’s been happening here in the past few days, a lot of chilling out. It might also be worth mentioning again at this time that if you’re not already following the Playlist Mix on Twitter, now might be a good time to do so. Regular listeners will know I wear all kinds of musical hats, but one particular startup I’m involved in has built up a nice collection of CDs to give away to listeners of the podcast and followers on Twitter – if you’re not in, you can’t win, so follow us here today.

This week’s mix features tracks from

1. Hundred Year Storm – ‘Look To The Skys’
2. Star Crossed Enemies – ‘Imagine Me As I Am’
3. Pearse McGloughlin (Walkperson) – ‘Partings Day One’
4. Max Greenwood – ‘Faces In The Water’
5. The Velodrome – ‘Fascination On Easter Sunday’
6. Hero In Error – ‘Under My Sky’

Until next week and show 54,

Enjoy.