Jessica Mellott: "Slow Motion"

Here's the latest video from Jessica Mellott, who's made an appearance on both of my podcasts.

Mental Nomad Podcast 138: Baker's Dozen With Groove

No real theme today; it's also a bit shorter than normal since there are two shows this week.

Here's what you'll hear today (direct download here):

• Ronnie Spector: "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" (IODA Promonet)
• Mr. Something Something: "What Are You Waiting For?" (FlipSwitch PR)
• JJ Soul Band: "Getting Colder by the Year" (Ariel Publicity)
• Lisa Bianco: "As Good As It Gets" (Ariel)
• 8 Ball Aitken: "Outback Booty Call" (Ariel)
• Ten Year Vamp: "One Night Ticket" (Ariel)
• ... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead: "Inland Sea (radio edit)" (Music Alley)
• Majandra: "What Sad Day" (from the album Tarte) (courtesy of Red Velvet Cake Records)
• Stars Go Dim: "Come Around" (Ariel)
• John Taglieri: "Living Without You" (Ariel)
• Robert Soko: "March Of The Sultans" (FlipSwitch)
• KaiserCartel: "Something About What Happens When We Talk" (Mood Indigo Entertainment)
• Robin Stine: "Don't I Know" (Magnatune)

(Total play time: 47:54)



The IODA-sponsored track may be downloaded below as long as its promotion remains in effect. Links (and a logo) to come later today.

Ronnie Spector
"Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" (mp3)
from "Siren"
(ItsAboutMusic.com)
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Mental Nomad Podcast 137: First Shots, Second Chances

Today's show barely has a theme: Artists you've never heard on my programs before paired, back to back, with artists who've had one previous appearance on Dancing Mattress Productions shows.

Here's what you'll hear today (direct download here):

• Shalone: "Ain't Like We" (Ariel Publicity)
• The SilenTreatment: "The Shore" (Ariel)
• Comrade Down: "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" (Music Alley)
• Solomon Burke: "Sweeter Than Honey" (IODA Promonet)
• Deer Tick: "Easy" (IODA)
• Three Legged Fox: "Don't Just Be" (Music Alley)
• Colleen Jameson: "Revolution Now!" (Music Alley)
• Anouschka: "Silently" (Music Alley)
• Ace Noface (Lee Abramson): "Regret" (Ariel)
• Kira Fontana: "Spark the Fire" (Ariel)
• Shalone: "Ain't Like We (instrumental)" (Ariel)
• Alan Wilkis: "Pink and Purple" (from the EP Pink and Purple)
• Yo La Tengo: "Upside-Down" (IODA)

(Total play time: 1:05:17)



The IODA-sponsored tracks in today's episodes may be downloaded for free below as long as their promotions remain active.

Thanks to Alan Wilkis for contacting me about his music, and special thanks to Ace Noface for the thoughtful letter that accompanied his CD. Do your part to help fight ALS (aka Lou Gehrig's disease) by contributing to The ALS Association if you have the means to do so.

Next week: Wednesday brings a new Mental Nomad Podcast, and Thursday sees the return of Pod Across America, featuring music from Virginia.

Yo La Tengo
"Upside-Down" (mp3)
from "Upside-Down"
(Alias)
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Deer Tick
"Easy" (mp3)
from "Born on Flag Day"
(Partisan Records)
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Solomon Burke
"Sweeter Than Honey" (mp3)
from "The Commitment"
(KSB INC)
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REPOST: Dancing Mattress' Greatest Hits 11

And here's the last of the greatest hits episodes recorded before the long hiatus, reposted with artist links and all that jazz.

Here's what you'll hear today (direct download here):

• Human People: "Count It All Good" (originally featured in Pod Across America 2)
• Human People: "I'd Run Just Like You" (originally featured in Mental Nomad Podcast 120)
• G Tom Mac: "Cry Little Sister" (Ariel Publicity) (originally featured in MNP113)
• Ingrid Michaelson: "Be OK" (Music Alley) (originally featured in MNP117)
• The Xbanders: "Leave Here" (MySpace) (originally featured in MNP106)
• Miranda Vettrus: "Book of Lies" (Ariel) (originally featured in MNP120)
• Steven Charles Cecil: "Dark Days" (Music Alley) (originally featured in PAA9)
• Dram: "Kringellek" (Magnatune) (originally featured in MNP134)
• Diane di Stasio: "On and On" (Garageband) (originally featured in MNP114)
• The Perfects: "End of Us" (originally featured in MNP112)
• Nina Simone: "Turn Me On (Tony Humphries Main Mix)" (Music Alley) (originally featured in MNP118)
• Buena Vista Social Club: "De Camino a la Vereda" (IODA Promonet) (originally featured in MNP115)
• Yalcin Konuk: "Come" (Music Alley) (originally featured in MNP128)
• Love Riot: "Maybe She Will" (from the album Maybe She Will) (originally featured in PAA9)
• Steve Wynn: "Manhattan Fault Line" (Music Alley) (originally featured in MNP114)

(Total play time: 1:02:51)

Special thanks to Mike Robinson for the Human People tracks, to Ric Peters for the Perfects song and to Lisa Mathews (now with the band Milkshake) for letting me bring Love Riot into the Dancing Mattress Productions family.

It should be noted that Music Alley is the site formerly called the Podsafe Music Network, and that Steve Wynn -- if you're not familiar with him by name -- led the band Dream Syndicate in the 1980s.

The Buena Vista Social Club song featured in today's show may be downloaded below for as long as the IODA promotion remains active.

Look for a new Mental Nomad Podcast on Wednesday, and Pod Across America returns Oct. 1 with music from Virginia.

Buena Vista Social Club
"De Camino a la Vereda" (mp3)
from "Buena Vista Social Club At Carnegie Hall"
(World Circuit)
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Three Legged Fox: "What It's Like (live)"

Here's a video featuring Three Legged Fox, a band who appeared in the first episode of Pod Across America. This Everlast cover was recorded live at 104.5-FM in Philadelphia.

REPOST: Dancing Mattress' Greatest Hits 10

Here's one of a couple of episodes put together before the hiatus, reposted with more extensive show notes, artist links, etc.

Here's what you'll hear today (direct download here):

• Jayme Dawicki: "I Don't Want This Anymore" (from the album Shatter Queen) (originally featured in Mental Nomad Podcast 107)
• The Black Cats: "How Long" (Podsafe Audio) (originally featured in Pod Across America 8.5)
• Roomful of Blues: "Lower on Your List of Priorities" (IODA Promonet) (originally featured in MNP107)
• Shannon Curfman: "I Can't Wait to Miss You" (from the album Fast Lane Addiction) (originally featured in the 2009 Women's History Month special)
• Blake Leyh: "Apophenia" (from the album X-Ray Yankee Zulu Tango) (originally featured in MNP108)
• Michael Franti & Spearhead: "Say Hey (I Love You)" (Music Alley) (originally featured in MNP117)
  
• The Pimps of Joytime: "Street Sound" (Ariel Publicity) (originally featured in MNP123)
  
• Bazza: "Skinny Dippin'" (from the album I Dream of Beavers and inspired by Carl Hiaasen's novel Skinny Dip) (originally featured in MNP109)
  
• Majandra: "Daddy Died" (from the album Tarte) (originally featured in MNP124)
  
• Kira Fontana: "Always" (Ariel) (originally featured in MNP112)
  
• Kara Nomadica: "We've Never Met" (Magnatune) (originally featured in MNP129)
  
• Ween: "Your Party" (IODA) (originally featured in PAA2)
  
• Bright Eyes: "Take It Easy (Love Nothing)" (Music Alley) (originally featured in MNP108)

(Total play time: 1:03:05)

The Roomful of Blues track may be downloaded below for as long as its promotion remains in effect. (The Ween track's no longer available as a free download.)

Roomful of Blues
"Lower on Your List of Priorities" (mp3)
from "Raisin' a Ruckus"
(Alligator Records)
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Mental Nomad Podcast 136: So, Where Was I?

After a four-month hiatus, we're back with almost an hour's worth of music and some talk about what's been going on with Ye Olde Podcaster.

Here's what you'll hear today (direct download here):

Ana Gori: "If It Was (Just Sex)"
Joseph Liddy and the Skeleton Horse: "The Ballad of Joe Hill" (MusicAlley)
David Rovics: "Halliburton Boardroom Massacre" (MusicAlley)
Billy Bragg: "O Freedom" (MusicAlley)
Howard Markman: "Louder Than Words" (from the album Symptom Recital)
Peter & Kayrin Bayreuther: "Pan and Daphne, Part One" (Ariel Publicity)
Sarah Vaughan: "The Mystery of Man" (IODA Promonet)
Noam Weinstein: "Jamie" (MusicAlley)
HuDost: "Name It for Us" (Grit PR)
Nick Daugherty: "Staring at the Sun" (Ariel)
Dala: "Northern Lights" (Ariel)

Bonus Track:

Not the Sensational Alex Harvey Band: "Goodnight Irene (live)"

The IODA-sponsored track may be downloaded below for as long as the promotion lasts. Ana Gori's track is played with the artist's blessing, and my thanks to Howard Markman for sending me a big ole box of Baltimore music while I was on hiatus.

Sarah Vaughan
"The Mystery of Man" (mp3)
from "The Poetry of Pope John Paul II"
(ELEC3CITY)
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