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What Would Jane Jacobs Do? The Club Mix
09.24.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Click on the post title to get the player in the post on the big screen. Otherwise you can play the mix from the player in the sidebar. You can download a zipped file (under dubious legal conditions) here.
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It isn’t plagiarism if you play your own instruments. (The Periphery Summer Mix 2009)
06.04.09 | Permalink | Comment?
We are proud to introduce this years summer mix, the lazy student edition.
You can either stream by going to post’s very own page and listening in the embedded player, or you can download the .zip file. that contains all of the mp3s. We took our inspiration this year from a fine batch of papers that were dropped into our mailbox at the tail end of the semester. Each was similar, but in a different font, organized slightly differently, printed on different sized paper, one had even been translated into a different language. When we flew our students up to our home offices in the frigid north, they each told us that they did their own work. They simply considered changing the fonts “work.”
1. 1. Gone Daddy Gone (Violent Femmes Cover) – Gnarls Barkley
2. 2. Paper Planes (M.I.A. Cover) – Panda Riot
3. 3. Blake’s Got a New Face (Vampire Weekend Cover) – The Mystery Jets
4. 4. What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong Cover) – The Ramones
5. 5. Mrs. Robinson (Simon and Garfunkle Cover) – The Lemonheads
6. 6. Ms. Jackson (Outkast Cover) – The Vines
7. 7. You Can Call Me Al (Paul Simon Cover) – Jens Lekman
8. 8. Nowhere Man (The Beatles Cover) – of Montreal
9. 9. I See a Darkness (Johnny Cash Cover) – Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy
10. 10. Against All Odds (Phil Collins Cover) – The Postal Service
11. 11. I’m Good, I’m Gone (Lykke Li Cover) – Friendly Fires
12. 12. Thriller (Michael Jackson Cover) – Ben Gibbard
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While we wait for the election (6 songs about Presidents)
06.24.08 | Permalink | Comments Off

We can listen to 6 songs about U.S. Presidents… Any other favorites?
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Summer Camp with Geoff and the Gang
05.23.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Do you guys remember summer camp. Swimming in the lake, day hikes to the waterfalls, daily embarrassment, lousy food, kitchen duty, failed hijinks, did I mention the daily embarrassment. And at the end of the week the counselors always put together a slide show that forces you to relive the painful experience all [...]
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I ain't a frickin dj: volume 2
04.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

No, I’m not a dj. I don’t know across fade from hybridized corn. But I do like music. It gets me through the day. So, you can check out volume II of the peer reviewed periphery muxtape series. This tape “Fun and Games” aims to bring a bit of joy [...]
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How come so few good musicians write songs that are explicitly about geography, and what would a song explicitly about geography be like anyway?
03.25.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

I’ve succumbed to the swamp, melted in my miasmic melodrama, tumbled to triumphalist territory and tripped terribly toward tired triteness, and positively pfailed to post petulant peripheric ‘pinions promptly.
But, music will save my day (perhaps). Remember the days you stayed up late at night copying songs onto cassette tapes so that you could tell [...]