Personally, my money was on Nialler9 and Aoife for the Nialler9 podcast, another great blend of music, but The Persuaders topped the voting for 2009.

Bonus for Nialler9 who just walked off with Best Music Site ahead of last year’s winners, State Magazine.

Awards still ongoing here, you can follow the action by keeping an eye on the #iwa09 hashtag on Twitter.

Catch all y’all after the holidays…

• Plinth – Vascanagina
• Rhino39 – Why
• Atomic Hoarsebox – Calvita
• Antiqcool – Girl In A Room
• Evibe – Rebyrth
• Sensual Harassment – Daddy Long Legs

In particular, check out the tracks from Plinth and Sensual Harassment along with the mystery-machine-esque sounds of Calvita from Atomic Hoarsebox.

Getting your tracks into the podcast is easy with submissions obviously preferred now over Soundcloud (given the ease of the service) to email, but if you want to email in anything you can drop a line to podcast [at] playlistmix.com. You can also follow the podcast on Twitter here.

Hopefully I’ll have two more podcasts squeezed out between now and friday as I’m away on holidays next weekend for a bit. For those of you in Dublin (that’s a good gathering of Irish podcasters), I’ll see you at the Irish Web Awards in the Radisson this coming Saturday night.

Until next week,

Enjoy the mix.

Enjoy the video, and check the band out here on MySpace.

It’s a cold Monday night in Kilkenny as the 57th Playlist Mix hits the web. There’s a guest in the studio too, staying quiet for the moment; there’s music from Ireland, Iceland, Switzerland, the US… and for us it’s three-in-a-row for the start of the Autumn season.

Of course, it is Monday, that note highlighted thanks to the return the NFL. We (we as in Ken) got away with it last year but with the season returning, there’s a new blog on the horizon in the form of FirstDown.ie (check First Down on Twitter). So with Sunday night action taking centre stage for the month, we’re on a Monday night buzz for September. But that’s the joy of the web, yes?

On to the music, this week’s tracks include

1. Olafur Arnalds – Fok
2. Saving J – Everybody
3. Clive Barnes – Shotgun Grin
4. Herring Bones – Box Shaped Heart
5. Spank The Chemical Christians – A Plague Of Swine
6. Kwest feat. Anna – Graber (Radio Edit)

If you want to get in touch, find us on Twitter, drop us an email, or post a track in the drop box at Soundcloud.com.

That’s it for 57, back next weekend for 58.

On October 2nd (12th in the UK), the Galwegian releases Impossibly Beautiful, from pages, on single, accompanied by a brand new video as well shot by director Vittoria Colonna.

She’s also announced a few dates for late September / October in support of the release of the single.

• Thursday 24 September, Town Hall Theatre, Galway
• Thursday 15 October, The Sugar Club, Dublin
• Friday 16 October, The Dock, Carrick on Shannon
• Saturday 17 October, Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
• Sunday 18 October, Oh Yeah Centre, Belfast
• Thursday 22 October, Spirit Store, Dundalk, Co. Louth
• Saturday 24 October, Glor, Ennis Co. Clare
• Friday 30 October, The Pavilion, Cork

Show 56 rolls around in a timely Monday fashion. Timely in the sense that it matches up with last Monday’s podcast release, albeit a day off the calendar. If you missed it during the week as well the podcast release schedule for the remainder of 2009 has been posted, at long last.

We’re still on the look out to get 100 fans via Facebook – think you can help? Pop along to the Playlist Mix Podcast Facebook page and help us on our way to 100. When we get there we’re gonna give away a couple of the albums that have been stacking up on the desk over the summer months (including a huge box of discs from Irish and UK acts).

If you want to make a submission for the 57th podcast, you’ve got until midnight this coming Thursday night to do so. You can submit your tracks via email to podcast [at] playlistmix [dot] com, or use the Soundcloud Dropbox to send us on a track. If you’re emailing in, don’t forget to include your MySpace / Bebo / Facebook / iTunes URL (whatever you’ve got), a brief biography and of course your music in MP3 format (WMA’s won’t be accepted, sorry Windows Media lovers).

On with the mix for this week…

• 835 – Shame It
• Loomis & The Lust – Bright Red Chords
• Heritage Centre – Your Leaders Are Dead
• ABCQ – He’s A Dog
• Finn Riggins – Wake (Keep This Town Alive) [Buy at Tender Loving Empire]
• Maido Project – Discovery Soundtrack

Don’t forget too that for updates during the week you can keep your eyes on the Playlist Mix on Twitter.

This one is a recent one from The Coronas, hitting the web last week. The video is for their forthcoming single Listen Dear which drops on September 11th (this music be one of the busiest weekends for music I’ve seen in a long time), followed up two weeks later by the release of their Tony Was An Ex-Con album.

The video was shot on location in Dublin at the beginning of August. Check out The Coronas on MySpace.

The album has been a long time in the making with the band already having released five singles – Bus Stop, Valentine, Kick Off, Indication Street and ABC – in advance of the album, with all singles included. Their next single, Everybody, is set for release shortly with artwork previews available on the band’s MySpace page.

I’ve had a copy of the album here for a few weeks and it’s nice to see how the band’s sound has shaped and evolved over the past two years. For an independent band, they’re certainly not afraid to get out, do the work, clock up the mileage in the tour van and make an investment in their musical careers. Hopefully the album, when it drops, will bring them some more deserved attention.

Can you believe it’s actually here? Show 55 has been sitting on the desk for ages. Then of course, you realise that the news is irrelevant, the gigs have already happened and while the music should get a play, I’m looking for something a little current.

The summer break is over, the autumn is in and the podcast returns, the 55th release in the series, one which should hopefully see us reach for number seventy by the year’s end.

There’s the new facelift, some changes on Facebook, a new drop box for MP3s, Twitter is still there and the show returns with six acts and six tracks, as if we’d have it any other way.

Music this week comes from

• Jester – Crying
• New Nobility Band – Galactic Love
• Saving J – ABC
• Jennifer Logue – Sigh
• theendisthebeginning – Adrift (Lessons In Time)
• Von Bizmark – London

The schedule for September through December will be published shortly so if you want to get your tracks in, now’s a fine time to do it. Drop an MP3 in our drop box here or email podcast at playlistmix dot com.

Tip: When uploading an MP3, please name the track in the format of ARTIST NAME – TRACK NAME.mp3 e.g. Coldplay – Clocks.mp3.

Submissions for tracks are stacked up of May / June / July thanks to the break for touring and theatre and while you can still submit tracks via email we thought it nice to offer you the possibility of uploading tracks through the site. Plus we get to hold them all in the one spot online.

While SoundCloud.com will support a number of formats (AIFF / WAVE / FLAC / AAC / OGG / MP3), it’s only MP3 we’re looking for with a minimum quality of 128kpbs stereo. Uploading the track doesn’t guarantee that it will get played on the podcast but we can say that if and when the track does get an airing, you’ll be the first to know.

At the tail end of October 2007 I featured this band, Pora Pora, on the podcast with this track, ‘So Cinematic’. At the time I’d said they reminded me in parts of (or their lead did) of Courtney Love. Has the opinion changed? Check for yourself and let me know what you think. Looks like I’ll also be scratching the band off the Christmas card list as they’ve been quite a bit of late. On a wee break perhaps?

Long one of my favourite podsafe tracks featured since the podcast began, this track wound its way onto show number 4 and show number 15 (recapping 2007). They’re from New York, they’re currently wrapping up their new album and the track – Countdown – seemingly appeared in the season three premiere of Heroes? Check out Jupiter One on MySpace

Buy the Jupiter One album here on iTunes (Ireland) or here (USA)

Back when the podcast was a brain fart on a Sunday night, almost two years ago now, I’d been doing some digging around for some podsafe music and came across this gem of a track.

It’s a long one, ringing up at the post six-minute mark but it’s got a great feel to it. Very Radiohead inspired, reminding me of some of the Pablo Honey releases. They’ve been quiet (on the web front) over the bulk of the past year but last month they got around to uploading a new track, We Won’t Let You Drown, on the Infotourist MySpace.

Headquartered in Kingston, Ontario, Canada you can also find them on Infotourist.org.

This gem, ‘Have I Gone Astray’ is your first of 46 tracks for lent and is taken from Infotourist’s ‘Selected Case Studies’

Heritage Centre, who were featured on Playlist Mix 46, have released ‘The City, The Tree & The Fox’ to the public, the EP release hitting shops and the web on Friday gone.

This is a great release. The music is totally infectious with non of your indie-pop crap. It makes for great listening and great repeat-listening at that as well. The launch gig in Whelan’s in Dublin was a sell-out and the band go on to play Dolan’s in Limerick this Friday night. ‘You Are Something’ makes for a great start and the quality of performance and writing doesn’t dip at all throughout with ‘Death By Science’, the TV-friendly ‘Losing Touch’, the much edgier ‘Stars’, ‘Somehow I Feel Cheated’ and ‘Your Leaders are Dead’ all on the cards. Consider them firmly chalked down on the list of Irish bands to see in action this year.

Debut EP? More please!

Check out Playlist Mix 46 here or download the MP3 directly to hear them for yourself.

You can also visit the Heritage Centre MySpace or check DownloadMusic.ie for some downloads and support the band!