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    2009 was a very special year in music. Animal Collective were still releasing bearable records, Anohni was called Antony and the Johnsons, Bon Iver followed up his cabin records with that (pretty great) Blood Bank EP, Dan Auerbach dropped a red hot solo record, Miley Cyrus was still Hannah Montana. Even Jason Schwartzman was doing the band thing and remarkably well I might add. Guitars were still present in plenty of what you were hearing on the radio and the rise of the producer-vocalist hadn’t yet overwhelmed community radio.

    So from within this context was birthed a quite excellent compilation record called Dark Was The Night. It was the 20th in a series of releases aimed at raising money for HIV/AIDS awareness organisation Red Hot whose (dating as far back as 1990) and it was as if 21 year old me had been given free reign to custom curate their own blank cheque mixtape with a mandate of slapping together artists for excellent collaborative tracks to boot. Just bask in a few of these for a second: Dirty Projectors + David Byrne, Bon Iver, Feist + Ben Gibbard, The National, Grizzly Bear, Yeasater, Antony + Bryce Dessner, Iron & Wine, Sufjan, Spoon, Arcade Fire, Beirut, My Morning Jacket, Dave Sitek, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Yo La Tengo, Jonsi, Andrew Bird, Conor Oberst…

    An absurdly well curated batch. Well friends, it’s happening again.

    Announced this week was the advent of a new Red Hot compilation, this one also doubling as a Grateful Dead tribute record. Prep yourself: The War On Drugs, The National, Courtney Barnett, Kurt Vile, Lee Ranaldo, Stephen Malkmus, Perfume Genius, Anohni, Angel Olson, Tallest Man On Earth, Local Natives, The Walkmen, UMO, Real Estate, Fucked Up, The Flaming Lips… And I’m barely scratching the surface here. I’m not particularly excited to hear Mumford butcher ‘Friend of the Devil’ but I’ll wear that small cost if it comes in the wake of this great profit.                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

    The 59 track record is spearhead by the National’s Dessner brothers and is out May 20 via 4AD. Full tracklisting below.

     

    Thunder (Vol. 1): 

    01 The War on Drugs: "Touch of Grey"
    02 Phosphorescent, Jenny Lewis & Friends: "Sugaree"
    03 Jim James & Friends: "Candyman"
    04 Moses Sumney, Jenny Lewis & Friends: "Cassidy"
    05 Bruce Hornsby and DeYarmond Edison: "Black Muddy River"
    06 Ed Droste, Binki Shapiro & Friends: "Loser"
    07 The National: "Peggy-O"
    08 Kurt Vile and the Violators: "Box of Rain" [ft. J Mascis]
    09 Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Friends: "Rubin and Cherise"
    10 Perfume Genius, Sharon Van Etten & Friends: "To Lay Me Down"
    11 Courtney Barnett: "New Speedway Boogie"
    12 Mumford & Sons: "Friend of the Devil"
    13 Lucius: "Uncle John's Band"
    14 The Lone Bellow & Friends: "Me and My Uncle"
    15 Lee Ranaldo, Lisa Hannigan & Friends: "Mountains of the Moon"
    16 Anohni and yMusic: "Black Peter"
    17 Bryce Dessner: "Garcia Counterpoint"
    18 Daniel Rossen, Christopher Bear and the National: "Terrapin Station (Suite)" [ft. Josh Kaufman, Conrad Doucette, So Percussion and Brooklyn Youth Chorus]
    19 Angel Olsen: "Attics of My Life"
    20 Wilco and Bob Weir: "St. Stephen (Live)"

     

    Lightning (Vol. 2):

    01 Bonnie "Prince" Billy: "If I Had the World to Give"
    02 Phosphorescent & Friends: "Standing on the Moon"
    03 Charles Bradley and Menahan Street Band: "Cumberland Blues"
    04 Tallest Man on Earth & Friends: "Ship of Fools"
    05 Bonnie "Prince" Billy & Friends: "Bird Song"
    06 The National: "Morning Dew"
    07 Marijuana Deathsquads: "Truckin'"
    08 Cass McCombs, Joe Russo & Friends: "Dark Star"
    09 Nightfall of Diamonds: "Nightfall of Diamonds"
    10 Tim Hecker: "Transitive Refraction Axis for John Oswald"
    11 Lucinda Williams & Friends: "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad"
    12 Tunde Adebimpe, Lee Ranaldo & Friends: "Playing in the Band"
    13 Local Natives: "Stella Blue"
    14 Tal National: "Eyes of the World"
    15 Bela Fleck: "Help on the Way"
    16 Orchestra Baobab: "Franklin's Tower"
    17 Luluc With Xylouris White: "Till the Morning Comes"
    18 The Walkmen: "Ripple"
    19 Richard Reed Parry with Caroline Shaw and Little Scream: "Brokedown Palace" [ft. Garth Hudson]



    Sunshine (Vol. 3):

    01 Real Estate: "Here Comes Sunshine"
    02 Unknown Mortal Orchestra: "Shakedown Street"
    03 Hiss Golden Messenger: "Brown Eyed Woman"
    04 This Is the Kit: "Jack-a-Roe"
    05 Daniel Rossen and Christopher Bear: "High Time"
    06 The Lone Bellow & Friends: "Dire Wolf"
    07 Winston Marshall, Kodiak Blue and Shura: "Althea"
    08 Orchestra Baobab: "Clementine Jam"
    09 Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks: "China Cat Sunflower - I Know You Rider"
    10 Bill Callahan: "Easy Wind"
    11 Ira Kaplan & Friends: "Wharf Rat"
    12 The Rileys (Terry and Gyan Riley): "Estimated Prophet"
    13 Man Forever, So Percussion and Oneida: "Drums - Space"
    14 Fucked Up: "Cream Puff War"
    15 The Flaming Lips: "Dark Star"
    16 s t a r g a z e: "What's Become of the Baby"
    17 Vijay Iyer: "King Solomon's Marbles"
    18 Mina Tindle & Friends: "Rosemary"
    19 Sam Amidon & Friends: "And We Bid You Goodnight"
    20 The National With Bob Weir: "I Know You Rider (live)"

     
    -Tommy Faith

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2009 was a very special year in music. Animal Collective were still releasing bearable records, Anohni was called Antony and the Johnsons, Bon Iver followed up his cabin records with that (pretty great) Blood Bank EP, Dan Auerbach dropped a red hot solo record, Miley Cyrus was still Hannah Montana. Even Jason Schwartzman was doing the band thing and remarkably well I might add. Guitars were still present in plenty of what you were hearing on the radio and the rise of the producer-vocalist hadn’t yet overwhelmed community radio.

So from within this context was birthed a quite excellent compilation record called Dark Was The Night. It was the 20th in a series of releases aimed at raising money for HIV/AIDS awareness organisation Red Hot whose (dating as far back as 1990) and it was as if 21 year old me had been given free reign to custom curate their own blank cheque mixtape with a mandate of slapping together artists for excellent collaborative tracks to boot. Just bask in a few of these for a second: Dirty Projectors + David Byrne, Bon Iver, Feist + Ben Gibbard, The National, Grizzly Bear, Yeasater, Antony + Bryce Dessner, Iron & Wine, Sufjan, Spoon, Arcade Fire, Beirut, My Morning Jacket, Dave Sitek, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Yo La Tengo, Jonsi, Andrew Bird, Conor Oberst…

An absurdly well curated batch. Well friends, it’s happening again.

Announced this week was the advent of a new Red Hot compilation, this one also doubling as a Grateful Dead tribute record. Prep yourself: The War On Drugs, The National, Courtney Barnett, Kurt Vile, Lee Ranaldo, Stephen Malkmus, Perfume Genius, Anohni, Angel Olson, Tallest Man On Earth, Local Natives, The Walkmen, UMO, Real Estate, Fucked Up, The Flaming Lips… And I’m barely scratching the surface here. I’m not particularly excited to hear Mumford butcher ‘Friend of the Devil’ but I’ll wear that small cost if it comes in the wake of this great profit.                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

The 59 track record is spearhead by the National’s Dessner brothers and is out May 20 via 4AD. Full tracklisting below.

 

Thunder (Vol. 1): 

01 The War on Drugs: "Touch of Grey"
02 Phosphorescent, Jenny Lewis & Friends: "Sugaree"
03 Jim James & Friends: "Candyman"
04 Moses Sumney, Jenny Lewis & Friends: "Cassidy"
05 Bruce Hornsby and DeYarmond Edison: "Black Muddy River"
06 Ed Droste, Binki Shapiro & Friends: "Loser"
07 The National: "Peggy-O"
08 Kurt Vile and the Violators: "Box of Rain" [ft. J Mascis]
09 Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Friends: "Rubin and Cherise"
10 Perfume Genius, Sharon Van Etten & Friends: "To Lay Me Down"
11 Courtney Barnett: "New Speedway Boogie"
12 Mumford & Sons: "Friend of the Devil"
13 Lucius: "Uncle John's Band"
14 The Lone Bellow & Friends: "Me and My Uncle"
15 Lee Ranaldo, Lisa Hannigan & Friends: "Mountains of the Moon"
16 Anohni and yMusic: "Black Peter"
17 Bryce Dessner: "Garcia Counterpoint"
18 Daniel Rossen, Christopher Bear and the National: "Terrapin Station (Suite)" [ft. Josh Kaufman, Conrad Doucette, So Percussion and Brooklyn Youth Chorus]
19 Angel Olsen: "Attics of My Life"
20 Wilco and Bob Weir: "St. Stephen (Live)"

 

Lightning (Vol. 2):

01 Bonnie "Prince" Billy: "If I Had the World to Give"
02 Phosphorescent & Friends: "Standing on the Moon"
03 Charles Bradley and Menahan Street Band: "Cumberland Blues"
04 Tallest Man on Earth & Friends: "Ship of Fools"
05 Bonnie "Prince" Billy & Friends: "Bird Song"
06 The National: "Morning Dew"
07 Marijuana Deathsquads: "Truckin'"
08 Cass McCombs, Joe Russo & Friends: "Dark Star"
09 Nightfall of Diamonds: "Nightfall of Diamonds"
10 Tim Hecker: "Transitive Refraction Axis for John Oswald"
11 Lucinda Williams & Friends: "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad"
12 Tunde Adebimpe, Lee Ranaldo & Friends: "Playing in the Band"
13 Local Natives: "Stella Blue"
14 Tal National: "Eyes of the World"
15 Bela Fleck: "Help on the Way"
16 Orchestra Baobab: "Franklin's Tower"
17 Luluc With Xylouris White: "Till the Morning Comes"
18 The Walkmen: "Ripple"
19 Richard Reed Parry with Caroline Shaw and Little Scream: "Brokedown Palace" [ft. Garth Hudson]



Sunshine (Vol. 3):

01 Real Estate: "Here Comes Sunshine"
02 Unknown Mortal Orchestra: "Shakedown Street"
03 Hiss Golden Messenger: "Brown Eyed Woman"
04 This Is the Kit: "Jack-a-Roe"
05 Daniel Rossen and Christopher Bear: "High Time"
06 The Lone Bellow & Friends: "Dire Wolf"
07 Winston Marshall, Kodiak Blue and Shura: "Althea"
08 Orchestra Baobab: "Clementine Jam"
09 Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks: "China Cat Sunflower - I Know You Rider"
10 Bill Callahan: "Easy Wind"
11 Ira Kaplan & Friends: "Wharf Rat"
12 The Rileys (Terry and Gyan Riley): "Estimated Prophet"
13 Man Forever, So Percussion and Oneida: "Drums - Space"
14 Fucked Up: "Cream Puff War"
15 The Flaming Lips: "Dark Star"
16 s t a r g a z e: "What's Become of the Baby"
17 Vijay Iyer: "King Solomon's Marbles"
18 Mina Tindle & Friends: "Rosemary"
19 Sam Amidon & Friends: "And We Bid You Goodnight"
20 The National With Bob Weir: "I Know You Rider (live)"

 
-Tommy Faith

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