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 wasn’t able to listen this weekend. I regret it. I’m sure there are many more like me. So I ask ye… who out there recorded Lilys, Lightning Bolt, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Alexander Tucker, Om, Bardo “Motherfuckin” Pond, Wooden Shjips, My Bloody Valentine, and/or Growing a la WFMU’s stream this weekend? WFMU did not archive the jams, so the psychedelic community will handsomely reward anyone who steps up with hugs, kisses, and possibly some weeeeed. I found a few, but not many… MP3s that is, not weed.

Stereogum has some Lightning Bolt jams, along with some choice photos (I had no idea Wooden Shjips were, like, old). I found Lilys’ set as well. No MBV bootlegs just yet, but remember that I have lots of MBV goodies, here and here.

I really wanna grip some live BJM though, if anyone’s on that tip. KB [at] thedecibeltolls.com, beeeotch. I will send you a gift bag by way of USPS if you gots the goods.

Speaking of Stereogum, I’ve been pretty impressed by their Outsiders series. They recently did a nice write-up about my friends Hair Police. I know I like to rag on the big guys, but hats off to the ‘gum for attempting to report on music other than Vampire Weekend and the subsequent boners they produce. This week, they feature U.S. Girls, who I’ve been tryin’ to czech out for a while but haven’t sans any good excuse at all.

MP3 :::
Lilys at All Tomorrow’s Parties, 9.21.08
My Bloody Valentine – Noise Interlude (Live)