It's the end of 2014 Mixtape

It's the end of 2014 and we decided do a last "Mixtape (Not)Monday" for the year. Here we highlight some of our favorite tracks of 2014 or that were on heavy rotation for us this year. Hopefully we will be doing more of these in 2015! No promises though. Check out the video below and the Spotify Playlist featuring favorites like Paramore, Kendrick Lamar, and Hozier.



 

Spotify Playlist Link

Road Trip!

Whether with friends of family, going on a road trip is one of my favorite types of vacationing. Being on the open road with your loved ones and singing at the top of your lung is an experience that you must have at least once in your life. You'll feel free!

In honor of this (and because my friends and I are doing a west coast trip later this week) Melissa and I filmed a Mixtape Monday  Road Trip Edition.  This playlist includes some of our favorites like Neutral Milk Hotel, Rilo Kiley, and yes even Hanson (haters to the left.)  

Please enjoy and look out for much more content to come!

Oh shit, We forgot it's Mixtape Monday: Winging It Edition

Sometimes work and play can get in the way of things that are really important, like music. Sha and I have been playing grown ups in real life and we kind of forgot to put something together, oops. The beauty of music is that we love it so much and that we have so many favorites that winging it isn't too bad for us. So here it is, a collection of songs that we love so much we didn't even have to think too hard about putting on a playlist. Below you will be able to find our accompanying video and as always our Spotify Playlist link.

Spotify Link: MIXTAPE MONDAY:WING IT

Mixtape Mondays: Good Vibes Edition

Have you missed us!? The last couple weeks Mel and I have been insanely busy. While we would love nothing more than to sit around creating playlist after playlist, the call to work is what keeps our internet paid and our bellies full!

Better late then never, right? With us over worked and under sexed (name that lyric),  we decided to call this week's edition, Good Vibes. Sure we could have picked some indie rock tunes, rock n' roll or blue grass, but this week we decided to show case some of our favorite songs that carry a good beat. So if you're in the mood for some Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, A Tribe Called Quest or Chiddy Bang, click on the video below. 

Mixtape Mondays: A Love Letter to Reality Bites

I remember the first time I saw "Reality Bites," well in all honesty I don't remember how old I was or where I was exactly but I do remember the feeling it gave me. The feeling I felt more specifically in the scene at the gas station which at my young age was the one that resonated with me the most. Completely oblivious of the fact that they were majorly stoned at the time, I loved the moment when Janeane Garofalo, Winona Ryder, and Steve Zahn are so compelled to dance to "My Sharona" that they ask the attendant to turn up the music and proceed to jump around like idiots. This is what I thought my twenties were going to be like, not literally smoking out and dancing like idiots which I'm sure is how a lot of people spent their twenties, but just being so enthralled in having fun with your friends that you don't care who sees. Now that I'm thirty I look back at how the movie spoke to me in different ways. "I'm not going to work at the Gap" was also a line that I often quoted and not just because I worked there but because I understood how judged Janeane felt at that moment. This movie gave me a different point of view about being an adult that maybe my parents didn't want me to know. Up until then I thought adulthood was house payments and children, I didn't understand that you were allowed to not have it all together for awhile, that you were allowed to figure things out.

With this Mixtape Monday we chose to celebrate its 20th anniversary of this movie compiling songs inspired by the nineties featuring bands like Everclear, The Cranberries, and The Smashing Pumpkins. Come walk down memory lane with us ....

Mixtape Monday - The Valentine’s Day Edition

This week we bring you The Valentine’s Day Edition of Mixtape Monday! Last week we brought you our version of the “Anti” Valentine’s Day mix and this week we bring you the more traditional version. We have so much love to share, we each picked 8 songs.  Featured this week are Band of Horses, Bjork, and Phantom Planet among many more. 

Mixtape Monday - Anti-Valentine's Day Edition

This week we are bringing you an "Anti-" Valentine's Day Mix of sorts. Anti in not a very traditional way. The songs we picked talk about unrequited love, break-ups, and heartbreak in a more realistic adult way. Featured on this weeks mix are bands like The Cranberries, Wilco, and The Cure.



Spotify Playlist Link
Tune in next week for a special (proper)Valentine's Day mix.

Mixtape Mondays: New Playlist!

We are at it again, our second "Mixtape Monday" video and playlist is here. Spotify playlist link can be found in the description of the video. Enjoy!



 

Mixtape Mondays

Welcome to Mixtape Mondays (I mean Tuesday)!

A bi-weekly segment where Melissa an I list our top 5 songs from the last two weeks and make a mix on Spotify  for your listening pleasure.

So if you’re looking for a new mix, jonesing for new music or just want to see us be ridiculous on camera, definitely click on video and link below.

This week’s mix includes:

Melissa’s Picks

• Jose Gonzalez – Step Out
•  Lorde – Ribs
• Tennis – Mean Streets
•  Foo Fighters – Next Year
• Broken Social Scene – Anthem for a seventeen year old

Shadi’s Picks

• Arctic Monkey’s – Do you wanna know
• Lorde – Team
• Phantogram – Fall In Love
• M83 – Midnight City
• Ms Mr – Hurricane

Listen to it on Spotify, click here!