Last week, I had part one of the 26-song, seasonally-inspired, massive clusterfuck mix. Guess fucking what! This is part dos, just in time to send March off like a lion (or a lamb, depending on where you are I suppose). Spring rules, and I want you to have the jams I’m cranking in my car with the windows down and rims still spinnin’. Below are 15 more songs that are one million times better than the new Phoenix or St. Vincent or Lykke Li albums (or whatever the other blogs are poppin’ boners for). Fuck that shit. String Band, Meadow, Growing, Yoko, the Banke, Lilys, some Ghost Box, some insane old and obscure psych… I even put ol’ Ginger and Eric on here. I mean, Jesus, I wish someone had made me a mix like this.

No annotations just time. Just enjoy the jams. As always, if you think these shits is tight, support the artist and grip their album(s).

As a visual aside, I took some photos yesterday evening of the beautiful seasonal unfurling in the Old Louisville neighborhood. For our readers in the area, you should grab this mix (as well as the samples from the new Akron/Family and Lotus Plaza albums), load the tracks onto your iPod, iPhone, iCranial RFID chip, pipe ‘em through some big headphones (not shitty earbuds), and take a stroll down South 2nd Street between Magnolia and Lee Streets for a most transcendental time. Nature owns.

MP3 :::
The Incredible String Band – Koeeadi There
Penny Arkade – Woodstock Fireplace
Tower Recordings – Other Kinds Run
Belbury Poly – Scarlet Ceremony
Dungen – Familj
Dead Meadow – Stacy’s Song
Cream – Passing the Time
Growing – Wrong Ride
Margo Guryan – Sun
High Places – Namer
The Left Banke – Desiree
The Free Design – Now is the Time
Lilys – FBI and Their Toronto Transmitters
Sun City Girls – The Flower
Yoko Ono – Mind Holes

I’m really good at the Internet. I find awesome videos. I share some of my favorites with you. It’s a nice change from posting MP3s and waxin’ on why they’re awesome/not awesome.

The Cube is an early surrealist teleplay written and directed by none other than Jim Henson. It was broadcast only once, late at night probably, as part of NBC’s Experiment in Television in 1969. You can sort of feel a whimsical, exaggerative undertone to the film that remains congruent to his latter work. The Cube is also certainly evocative of Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist theater piece The Chairs. The original film ran about an hour, and unfortunately, is no longer available online. Here’s a Cliff’s Notes version, though, which provides the basic gist of The Cube.

And one more from Henson. This one is Limbo, The Organized Mind, with music by Raymond Scott . He, somehow, managed to get this short piece on the Tonight Show.

I have absolutely no information concerning the origin of this rare Cream television appearance. Lana Montana discovered it not too long ago. It’s just strange, totally weird, brain melting, fuct tape. EC looks either pissed or tweaked on uppers. Or both. What an insane way to promote your new album on TV.

And finally, Harry Smith’s Early Abstractions, Part 3. Get shattered.