Introduction.

Well, I was gonna make my first post, and first mix, all material released in 2008. The year is only half over, but a lot of great music has come out. And I realized it's more music than i've had time to sort through yet. So later today, or possibly tomorrow, I'll put up a grab-bag mix, which will be most of what I post, and later this week, will be one devoted soley to new music.

here are some of the bands that have put out good stuff I like so far this year (or will soon). Feel free to suggest others I may have missed.

Atlas Sound
Black Mountain
Blood On The Wall
Cheap Girls
Chuck Ragan & Austin Lucas
Coldplay
Crime In Stereo
Cut Copy
Cursed
Destroyer
The Dirtbombs
Drag the River
Fleet Foxes
Frank Turner
Fucked Up
The Futureheads
Gaslight Anthem
H2O
Harvey Milk
The Hold Steady
Hostage Calm
Hour Of The Wolf
Ladyhawk
Lemuria
Life Long Tragedy
The Loved Ones
Lyrics Born
The Magnetic Fields
My Turn To Win
Nick Cave & The bad Seeds
The Old 97's
Paint It Black
racebannon
Scouts Honor
Silver Jews
Smoking Popes
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
Teenage Bottlerocket
Torche
Wait In Vain
The Watson Twins

there we got indie rock, punk, hardcore, country, metal, and some other stuff. Keep in mind that I haven't heard all of this yet, and some of what I have heard hasn't been fully digested, but there are some winners for sure.