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.

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Saving J, featured on the latest Playlist Mix with current single ABC are set to launch their debut album offering This City Street in Whelan’s in Dublin on Saturday September 12th, the CD itself available from the Friday. Support on the night will come from Rekoj and doors open at 8pm with tickets €10 available from the venue.

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.

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Back for the third podcast of the month, the 46th Playlist Mix lands with a nice smattering of Irish acts for your listening pleasure. This week I’ve been listening to a host of Irish acts with new releases – Parhelia have just released their ‘Shifting Sands’ album and there’s a track from that while Heritage Centre release ‘The City, The Tree & The Fox’ this coming weekend, so there’s an introduction to that EP as well. It’s also been a busy week in many regards around PlaylistMix.com as more introductions to the site are made including the Playlist Mix Tape giving you access to the month’s current listening selection. Head over to mix.playlistmix.com or check the ‘Mix’ link from the menu for tracks from shows 44 and 45 along with this week’s selection.

Don’t forget our four featured bands as well, all of whom I’ve been speaking to during the week. You’ve got Homespun [the.band], Pavesi, The Unravelling and The Lions Mane all part of this month’s featured acts.

This week’s mix features

1. Heritage Centre – ‘Losing Touch’
2. Saving J – ‘Indication Street’
3. JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound – ‘How To Stop Loving Someone Who Stopped Loving You’
4. On The Cinnamon – ‘Hide & Seek’
5. Serial Twin – ‘Things That I Fear’
6. Parhelia – ‘Our Ship Has Sailed’

If you would like to submit tracks for shows 47 / 48 then drop me a line before midweek with your MP3s. You can send everything to podcast@playlistmix.com or look up the podcast on Twitter – it’s open pretty much most hours of the day and is rapidly becoming the quickest way to get in touch (near-immediate response assured).

Until next week and show 47,

Enjoy.

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Well, well, well. Almost four months on (literally) since the last podcast (May 13th if you were counting or observing around the website) and the Playlist Mix hits show number 34, at long last. Of course at this stage we should likely be cruising into our 50s but no such luck – perhaps by the end of the year.

So yeah, the podcast is back, the mics are being dusted off, inboxes being cleared of music and snippets on bands and gigs and I’m slowly getting back into the swing of things.

Picking up exactly where things left off in May, the podcast returns with another six tracks from another six acts for you. This week you have the pleasure of listening to

1. Saving J – ‘Kick Off’
2. Supernova Scotia – ‘Oxen’
3. South – ‘Wasted’
4. Virginia Coalition – ‘Home This Year’
5. Citizens Of Contrary Knowledge – ‘Complicated’
6. Twilight Dementia – ‘Aftermath’

As always, if you want to get involved by sending in comments, audio comments tracks for the podcast, suggestions for bands or indeed your own preferred six tracks for a nominated podcast then please do email me, podcast@playlistmix.com. I’d love to hear from you.

Until next week, let’s settle back into the groove and enjoy PLM 34.

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One of those days turned into one of those weeks and today is once again ‘one of those days’. But – it is time for the 17th Playlist Mix podcast.

After a long weekend away in Germany, through no fault of my own, I’m missing a day in the week and as such the podcast went to record on Wednesday night instead of Tuesday night..

There’s six more acts for you to listen to including Broken Social Scene (opening), Saving J (Ireland, first podcast play of new single release), Bastard Groove Orchestra (via email) and plenty more besides. Shout out too this week to Kenny and the lads in Hollow Horse for the CDs. Quality stuff.

Don’t be afraid to get in touch either – I’m always eager for some feedback on the shows and choice of music. If you’ve someone you’d like to suggest or maybe you want to submit your own music – either fill out the contact form on the site or drop an email my way to podcast@playlistmix.com, simple!

Anyway, this week’s playlist consists of

1. 00:59 – Broken Social Scene – ‘Backed Out On The…’
2. 06:18 – Dead Poets Society – ‘Invisible Monsters’
3. 10:52 – Artemis – ‘Subterranean’
4. 14:06 – The Bastard Groove Orchestra – ‘The Girl I Once Knew’
5. 19:20 – Saving J – ‘Valentine’
6. 25:44 – The Dogs Divine – ‘My Old Friends’

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