{"id":2218,"date":"2014-02-14T01:31:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T09:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2015-01-12T09:31:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T17:31:48","slug":"meanwhile-elsewhere-on-the-web-my-bay-area-mixtape-2013-featured-on-the-official-avenue-live-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/2014\/02\/meanwhile-elsewhere-on-the-web-my-bay-area-mixtape-2013-featured-on-the-official-avenue-live-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, Elsewhere on the Web: My “Bay Area Mixtape 2013” featured on the official Avenue Live blog"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Art Elliot performing in Berkeley at a show that–full disclosure–my band also played at. That has no bearing on the fact that his song “Postcard” has become my favorite local track of 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I meant to do a post as part of my End of the Year Rankstravaganza<\/a> specifically focused on Bay Area bands and musicians. Of course, I didn’t get around to it. As it got later and later in January, I said: “Bah! Why bother? At this point, who is going to be interested in hearing what I thought about last year’s local music?”<\/p>\n

Avenue Live<\/a>, that’s who! Avenue Live is a Foster City-based start-up that is preparing to release an app that lets performers, venue operators, bloggers and other music geeks create their own interactive radio streams. The folks behind this service have been reaching out to people they think will help the app catch on, and they have evidently mistaken me for someone with influence. At any rate, they asked me to submit a list of my favorite songs of 2013 by Bay Area artists for their blog, and I obliged them because I love spreading the word about good music.<\/p>\n

Here are the songs I ended up submitting for what’s being called “All the City Lights’ Bay Area Mixtape 2013<\/a>.” Mixtape? Oooh, look at me, I’m just like Chance the Rapper!<\/p>\n

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  1. Art Elliot, “Postcard”<\/li>\n
  2. Shannon and the Clams, “Rat House”<\/li>\n
  3. Maurice Tani and Mike Anderson, “Out With the Old”<\/li>\n
  4. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, “City”<\/li>\n
  5. Thee Oh Sees, “No Spell”<\/li>\n
  6. Vandella, “Easy”<\/li>\n
  7. The Dodos, “Confidence”<\/li>\n
  8. Everyone is Dirty, “California”<\/li>\n
  9. Myron & E, “If I Gave You My Love”<\/li>\n
  10. Painted Palms, “Over Me”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Click on over to the post<\/a> to see the full write-up, complete with embedded music and my attempt to describe each song in one run-on sentence of randomly cobbled-together genre adjectives.<\/p>\n

    While you’re at it, you should also probably check out this\u00a0thing I submitted<\/a> for another blog, run by yet another person who seems to be under the impression that I am a member of the music industry. Eric Alper,<\/a> director of media relations for record label eOne Music Canada<\/a> and music correspondent for Canadian network CTV<\/a>, reached out to me for a feature where he asks people to blab about their favorite album, and how am I going to say no to that?! I used it as an opportunity to share my love for Great Lakes Myth Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Update (June 30, 2014)<\/strong>: Avenue Live seems to have mysteriously disappeared from the interwebs without a trace like Flight 370. So I’m going to just publish my write-up, complete with embedded songs, right here.<\/p>\n

    10. “Over Me,” Painted Palms<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

    Trippy electro-pop that just chugs along. This is from an EP the duo released before their full-length debut, which just came out on Polyvinyl.<\/p>\n