• 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We’re back on track for another Sunday!

Last week saw a handy spin in a plane all the way to Amsterdam with the best of intentions of getting show 52 out from Amsterdam last Sunday. As it happens, well, it didn’t happen, so now you’ve got the 52nd podcast for Sunday April 5th, 2009.

This week’s mix brings a host of new Irish acts to the podcast as well as a favourite around the offices in the form of Australia’s multi award-winning and award-nominated virtuoso guitarists, Jeff Lang.

We’ve got tracks from

1. The Resistance – Half The Burden
2. ODi – What You Deserve
3. Ilya K – She’s Got The Loneliest Eyes (In The World)
4. Ten Past Seven – Conjunctivitis
5. Emmet Scanlan & What The Good Thought – Under The Weather
6. Jeff Lang – The Road Is Not Your Only Friend

As usual, if you want to get in touch during the week with a track or some news for the podcast, drop me a line on podcast [at] playlistmix.com or via Twitter here. You can also stop by and send your requests, bios and links to the Playlist Mix MySpace.

Until show 53…

Enjoy.

We’re trucking on past the 50 mark and bring you Playlist Mix 51 with another six tracks from another six fine acts. Outside of the music world it’s been a great weekend here in Ireland – United lost, Chelsea lost, Liverpool hammered Aston Villa, Ireland won the Grand Slam, Bernard Dunne took a world boxing title so the podcast comes to you this weekend on a bit of a high.

I also made it along to the launch gig for Myp Et Jeep’s Blood Is Not Enough debut album release in Kilkenny tonight, the album hitting the shops this coming weekend, so there’s a track for you there in tonight’s mix.

All in all you’ve got music from

1. The Aftermath – All I Want Is For You To Be Happy
2. Reemo – Turn
3. Deerfoot – Hyperion
4. The Lions Mane – DNA 4
5. 4D Model – Rethink
6. Myp Et Jeep – Beware Of Sound

Next week’s podcast comes from Amsterdam, should be an interesting one. If you want to get in touch, drop me a line on Twitter or via email to podcast@playlistmix.com.

Until next week,

Enjoy.

The fiftieth (five-oh) podcast hits the web a few hours later than expected, but in making up for it, there’s an addition nine (count em) tracks for you as the Playlist Mix marks its fiftieth show with fifteen tracks for your listening pleasure. Tied up in the mix this week is a healthy balance of acts from Ireland, the UK and US. There’s also a lot less chatter this week as it can be tricky (as one finds out) in cramming fifteen tracks into an hour of listening – oh the fun that was had in coming up with the mix last night! Actually, looking back at the mix, the Irish have the serious advantage here with 11 of 15 tracks coming from homegrown acts.

Don’t forget to check out the four featured bands for this month – The Very Most, The Funeral Suits, Serial Twin and Heritage Centre.

The playlist for this week brings tracks from

1. Hybrasil – We’ve Got Music
2. God Blind Scientists – Talk Of The Town
3. Gum – Can’t Tell A Heart
4. Nell Bryden – Late Night Call
5. Rilo Kiley – With Arms Outstretched
6. Ian Whitty & The Exchange – City Friend
7. Super Extra Bonus Party – Everything Flows
8. Tenaka – Open Up
9. Flinders – Corners First, Middle Later
10. Serial Twin – Burn It All
11. Mumblin’ Deaf Ro – The Hero Is A Graduate
12. Vesta Varro – Blue Mirror Boy
13. Dirty Epics – The Cure
14. New York Fashion Week – Dear Spartacus
15. Myp Et Jeep – Enough Is Enough

Until next week and show 51, enjoy the Playlist Mix. If you want to drop me a line, please do, you can email podcast@playlistmix.com or follow Playlist Mix on Twitter.

Aha, the 49th Playlist Mix podcast has landed. Sure enough, we’ve another six acts and another six tracks including a second one from featured band for February, The Funeral Suits, and a new one from Donegal-based Pavesi who you’ll be able to catch gigging in Dublin at the end of the month. Hitting show 49 means there’s one podcast to go before the 50th, a nice milestone to hit considering where it all started and how long it took to get things going!

Don’t forget you can also follow the podcast on Twitter by visiting http://twitter.com/playlistmix or by dropping over to the Playlist Mix MySpace.

This week’s tracks include

• Miri – ‘Bitter Romantic’
• The Funeral Suits – ‘Modern Urban Pleasures’
• Pavesi – ‘Apology’
• Show Me The Skyline – ‘Clocks and Calendars’
• South – ‘Symmetry’
• Darragh J Glennon – ‘For My Love’

That’s it for another week. As of last week you can also pick the podcast up on the Blubrry network, something I’m happy now to be a part of and hope it will continue to raise the profile of the podcast.

The first podcast for March brings with it six more tracks, five free downloads, four more featured acts, three promo videos, two new feeds and one tired host. Not a band countdown for tonight’s show, all things considered. With recent moves from Google to shake up the FeedBurner delivery of feeds I’ve wound up changing the feeds for the podcast, introducing a new feed for the show audio only, and one for shows and posts combined.

If you’ve also been following the blog during the week you’ll have picked up on the free mp3 giveaways, five published so far with another 41 to come as PlaylistMix.com and CubikMusik.com give away an MP3 download a day for the run of lent. Sure lent is 40 days and 40 nights but by the calendar it’s 46 days so you’ll get 46 podsafe downloads right up to Easter. Sure why not! Check out today’s download from Low Sea Roar or check the downloads so far in the series.

Music this week comes from

1. Hurt – ‘Pandora’
2. Froud – ‘Nostalgia’
3. The Very Most – ‘April Is The Kindest Month’
4. Wayne Brennan – ‘Please, Please’
5. The Simple Pleasure – ‘The Brave and The Free’
6. Heritage Centre – ‘You Are Something’

The four featured bands for March 2009 are Heritage Centre, The Very Most (both featured this week), The Funeral Suits and Serial Twin – more music from them next week. Check out this week’s tracks on mix.playlistmix.com, follow the podcast on Twitter or drop an email to podcast@playlistmix.com to get in touch.

It’s Sunday the 22nd of February and it’s time for the 47th Playlist Mix podcast. The acts this week are again primarily Irish (nice to see) with five of six acts from green shores and Graystar hailing from the UK. The podcast is available to download but will be replaced at some stage on Monday February 23rd with a higher quality track – after uploading I’ve spotted an error with the mic track, as you do but rather than hold off on the music I’ll let you enjoy tonight’s six acts.

This week’s mix brings you tracks from

• Chemical Addiction – ‘Friends Are Enemies’
• Graystar – ‘I Disappear’
• Tenaka – ‘Ain’t Nobody’
• Bill Coleman – ‘Offer Up The Hope’
• Pavesi – ‘Staring At The Ground’
• Clergy – ‘The Greed’

With this being the last podcast of February, next show around we’ll have a new bunch of featured bands and some more new music for you. The mix tape will also reset but for now, you can click here to listen to 24 tracks from the playlisted acts over the month of February.

For now, it’s time to get some sleep after the Irish Blog Awards last night – epic session in Cork which will no doubt see people with a few sore heads, even at this stage of Sunday night.

Don’t forget to check out the Playlist Mix MySpace or follow the podcast on Twitter.

Back for the third podcast of the month, the 46th Playlist Mix lands with a nice smattering of Irish acts for your listening pleasure. This week I’ve been listening to a host of Irish acts with new releases – Parhelia have just released their ‘Shifting Sands’ album and there’s a track from that while Heritage Centre release ‘The City, The Tree & The Fox’ this coming weekend, so there’s an introduction to that EP as well. It’s also been a busy week in many regards around PlaylistMix.com as more introductions to the site are made including the Playlist Mix Tape giving you access to the month’s current listening selection. Head over to mix.playlistmix.com or check the ‘Mix’ link from the menu for tracks from shows 44 and 45 along with this week’s selection.

Don’t forget our four featured bands as well, all of whom I’ve been speaking to during the week. You’ve got Homespun [the.band], Pavesi, The Unravelling and The Lions Mane all part of this month’s featured acts.

This week’s mix features

1. Heritage Centre – ‘Losing Touch’
2. Saving J – ‘Indication Street’
3. JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound – ‘How To Stop Loving Someone Who Stopped Loving You’
4. On The Cinnamon – ‘Hide & Seek’
5. Serial Twin – ‘Things That I Fear’
6. Parhelia – ‘Our Ship Has Sailed’

If you would like to submit tracks for shows 47 / 48 then drop me a line before midweek with your MP3s. You can send everything to podcast@playlistmix.com or look up the podcast on Twitter – it’s open pretty much most hours of the day and is rapidly becoming the quickest way to get in touch (near-immediate response assured).

Until next week and show 47,

Enjoy.

The second podcast of 2009 lands and the 45th show overall has another six acts for you coming in the forms of The Crash Moderns, That’s What She Said, The Funeral Suits, A Band Called Quinn, South and The Lions Mane. What’s more is that the new PlaylistMix.com has launched. Tires will be kicked and some Internet Explorerness will be mended (I’m just going to assume it’s broken, what else can you do with IE really?) over the next day or so but for the moment – enjoy the new site.

The homepage now plays host to a rearranged blog and player feature along with a new spot for the featured bands mentioned on last week’s podcast. Don’t forget that this month’s featured bands include Homespun, Pavesi, The Unravelling and The Lions Mane, each act getting some additional plays on the podcast, plays and features both here on the site and via MySpace and anywhere else we can dig our claws into. This will gradually get bigger over the course of the year but please, go check out these bands and support their music.

This week’s mix is as follows

1. The Crash Moderns – ‘Where Did All The Scene Girls Go’
2. That’s What She Said – ‘Partisan’
3. The Funeral Suits – ‘Start Of The End’
4. A Band Called Quinn – ‘Invincible’
5. South – ‘Levity’
6. The Lions Mane – ‘Buddha’

If you want to get involved, find out more about the features or send your music for inclusion on a show, then drop a line to podcast@playlistmix.com. If you’ve got giveaways (we’ll look after the postage on this end), physical press packs or CDs you’d like to submit for review or inclusion in the show then again, send an email to the above address and we’ll give you some address details to send your goodies on to.

Don’t forget too that for this year you can follow the podcast on Twitter via @playlistmix.

Until next Sunday,

Enjoy,

K

It’s 2009, a new year, a new run of the Playlist Mix Podcast which finally returns after a lengthy Christmas break.

While the new PlaylistMix.com site is just a few days away it’s good to get the ball rolling with the podcast again. There’s some new online features and additions to come to the show over 2009 as a result of some planning time afforded by the Christmas break. When you’re running things week to week it’s nice to be able to down tools for a while and focus on the year ahead.

The focus for this week though is on the music and there’s six new bands for you to enjoy in this week’s mix.

You’ve got

• The Unravelling – ‘Unscripted Disclosure’
• Kelly Richey Band – ‘Leave The Blues Behind’
• Mrandmrsmays – ‘B05′
• I Am Not Left Handed – ‘Long Goodbyes’
• PAVESI – ‘Turnaround Year’
• Homespun – ‘Badman’

Just like last year, if you want to get in touch, drop me an email to podcast@playlistmix.com. A quick way of getting in touch during the day is via Twitter – just add @playlistmix on Twitter and you’re set.

Keep an eye on PlaylistMix.com itself during the week for the lowdown on the new updates – it’s all coming this week!

Feels good to be back…

Update:In my haste, I gave the incorrect URL for The Unravelling – check them out instead at http://myspace.com/theunravellingmusic

Better late than never, the 43rd Playlist Mix touches down with a healthy blend of French and Irish-based artists for your musical pleasure this week.

It’s also the mark of a short break for the Playlist Mix as I’m disconnecting this Sunday for two weeks. While arrangements are half-made for someone to stand in on my Wednesday podcast (Sound System), I’ve made no such arrangements for the Playlist Mix and as such you’ll just have to enjoy the 43rd show for a little longer.

However, the podcast will return on the first week of December so you won’t have to wait too long.

Looking to this week’s podcast though there’s music to be had from

• House Of Cosy Cushions – ‘Animal Dream’
• Panda Transport – ‘Devil In Me’
• The Portraits- ‘Poppy Song’
• Pooler – ‘Learning To Fly From The Second Floor Window’
• Maido Project – ‘Down’
• Halves – ‘Medals’

As always you can leave a comment on the podcast below, drop an email to podcast AT playlistmix DOT com or drop by the Playlist Mix MySpace and introduce yourself.

Show 44 goes live on Tuesday December 2nd so until then,

Enjoy.

The Playlist Mix returns – a week late with show 42 – with another six tracks for your listening pleasure. This week’s mix is a little more up tempo, total other end of the scale in comparison to the 41st show.

There’s tracks in this week’s mix from

1. Monosylabik – ‘Brake’
2. Pilgrim Speakeasy – ‘Over Dosile’
3. One Week From Wednesday – ‘Acrylic’
4. Null Device – ‘Twisting And Turning (Club Mix)’
5. Panda Transport – ‘La Fin Du Prince Charles’
6. Blame It On Society – ‘Landing Zone’

If this is your first time to listen to or download the Playlist Mix podcast I hope you enjoy it. If last week’s show (or two weeks ago) was one to sleep to or cruise to then this week’s mix is one to get up and going to.

Want to get in touch? Drop me a line by emailing podcast AT playlistmix DOT com.

Until next week,

Enjoy.

The 41st Playlist Mix lands almost in slow motion. For this week only your “in between” track changes out to some soft piano while all music is of a serious chillout nature.

Yes, winter is setting in, I’ve been downing a lot of tea for the day while working since first thing this morning and as a result, all I wanted to listen to and what you’ve got before you tonight is a healthy blend of chillout tunes from some of the finest chillout artists online.

There’s tracks this week from

1. Climax – ‘My Favourite Place’
2. Anji Bee – ‘Crossing The Pond’
3. Solstice Coil – ‘Brilliance’
4. Divasonic – ‘Processing…Luv (Return To Mono Mix)
5. The Atomica Project – ‘Gravity’
6. Sine – ‘Summer Rain’

Back with a dose of electronic and rock for you next week but for now, enjoy one very chilled out 41st Playlist Mix.

If you want to get in touch, do drop me a line on podcast@playlistmix.com, pop across to the MySpace or click here to email the studio.

Until next week,

Enjoy.

The 40th Playlist Mix lands in the week where the podcast was named winner in the Best Podcaster category at the 2008 Irish Web Awards. You can check here for a summary of things from earlier this week but needless to say, it was a great night and thanks very much to everyone involved in the selection process, you’ve made one podcaster very happy indeed!

On with this week’s mix and there’s six more tracks for you with tunes from

1. Bloc Party – ‘The Pioneers’
2. The Most Serene Republic – ‘Present Of Future End’
3. Ingrid Michaelson – ‘Be OK’
4. Gum – ‘Frozen Out (Remix)’
5. Guy David – ‘This Truth (Remix)’
6. Empire Social – ‘We Know The Truth’

There’s changes afoot for the website and the MySpace as well (some changes already hitting MySpace). If you haven’t connected with the show on MySpace yet then drop over here (click) and get in touch.

Don’t forget you can mail your music in as well to podcast [at] playlistmix [dot] com for inclusion on the podcast.

Until next week and show 41…

Enjoy.