By popular request, here is a New Music Blend that gathers together some of the best tunes that have been bumping out of The Podcast Cafe this summer: fresh tracks from old favorites like The Black Keys, Ray LaMontagne, Natalie Merchant, Jack White and Beck, alongside new discoveries like Chet Faker, Ayla Nereo and tUnE-yArDs, seasoned with a sprinkling of EDM cuts (curated by DJ Playaduster of Destination Burning Man) from The Polish Ambassador, Halo Refuser and Gramatik. This mix has been getting heavy play in our backyard beer garden, inspiring sing-alongs, making out and danceparties on more than one occasion!

Happy Summer Solstice!

Love you, DJ Fundi

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It's been six months since our last new episode was posted….here's something we've been tinkering with off and on that is finally ready to be set free: a tribute mix to the one and only Bon Iver -- featuring songs from his two albums, live tracks, b-sides, covers and obscures songs from compilations. We are HUGE fans of the music of Justin Vernon and this episode — our 94th!! — features all kinds of rarities and hidden gems. Enjoy, friends.

Track list // Holocene / For Emma / Blood Bank / Calgary / Flume / Perth / Skinny Love / Roslyn (with St. Vincent) / Towers / Blindsided / Michicant / The Park / Hinnom, TX / Creature Fear / Wash. / Fall Creek Boys Choir / I Can't Make You Love Me > Nick of Time/ re: Stacks

Greetings friends of The Podcast Cafe — we’re back with another installment in our annual End of the Year Roundup of our favorite music of the year. We already posted "The Thickness: Favorite Music of 2013" a few weeks back, but 2013 offered up a plethora of great tunes and so we had more music to play with. Hope you dig the variety and quality of “Joy: More Favorite Music from 2013.”

Track list // Daughter "Get Lucky" (An-ten-ae remix) / Nightmares of Wax "Eye (Can't See)" / Bob Dylan "Pretty Saro" / Valerie June "Pushin' Against a Stone" / Ty Seagall "The Man Man" / Bonobo "Get Thy Bearings" / Phosphorescent "The Quotidian Beasts" / LYNX "Picture" / Saqi + The Polish Ambassador "Jarro" / Pearl Jam "Pendulum" / Cocorosie "Gravedigress" (original + FlicFlac edit) / Vampire Weekend "Step" / Emancipator "Merlion > Outlaw" / Josh Ritter "Joy to You Baby" / Iron & Wine "Joy" / Rhye "Open" / Rokia Traore "Lalla" / Kurt Vile "Goldtone" //

2013 Favorites

Tor "Lux"

Atoms for Peace "Ingenue"

Bob Dylan "I Went to See the Gypsy"

Laura Mvula "She" + Shlomo remix

Lorde "Royals" (An-ten-ae remix)

Daft Punk "Doin' It Right" (w/ Panda Bear)

Laura Marling "Master Hunter"

Bonobo "Antenna"

Mount Kimbie "Many Times, So Many Ways"

Iron & Wine "Low Light Buddy of Mine"

Neko Case "Night Still Comes"

Phaeleh "Night Lights" (ft. Cian Finn)

RJD2 "Behold, Numbers!"

Janelle Monáe & Erykah Badu "Q.U.E.E.N."

James Blake "Retrograde"

Pearl Jam "Infallible"

Cave Singers "Shine > Northern Lights"

Rising Appalachia and The Human Experience "Downtown"

Tor "The Thickness"

ODESZA "Keep Her Close" (Tor remix)

The Polish Ambassador "Conversations Between" (with Ayla Nereo"

Pretty Lights "One Day" (Break Science remix)

Plantrae "Primary Decomposers"

Rena Jones "Dusk to Daen"

Andrew Bird "Hover II"

Darkside "The Only Shrine I've Seen"

Bill Callahan "Spring"

Valerie June "Trials, Troubles, Tribulations"

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This musical mix by Kaya Rainface is a soundtrack for our vision of Sacred Bass Sessions, like a mission statement, or a map to the subconscious nooks and crannies of your mind. It features music from the West Coast's finest DJs, producers and sound shamans, artists we either have already booked to play an upcoming SBS or are actively pursuing. The low-end mystical flow is deeply inspired by Rainface's time spent in the DreamDome at Photosynthesis 6 this past summer.

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The rains have returned in a big way to the wet side of the Cascades mountain range this week, signaling the definitive end of another gorgeous, carefree, playful summer in Ish River Country. We've been keeping summer hours here at the Podcast Cafe, releasing a couple of kick-ass bootleg concerts from the Dead and Panic but otherwise focused on outdoor pursuits.

As the season shifts, the Cafe springs back to life, with customers coming back around looking for steaming bowls of soup, hot toddies, spruce tip martinis and a place next to our blazing hearth. We're excited to welcome the winter weather back, and along with it all things cozy and good.

Here's a mix we've been tinkering with off and on for a month, full of new/recent songs from many of our standby favorites, but with a twist: our buddy DJ Playaduster from Destination Burning Man.com dropped in midway through our mixing and we decided to let him share some new music from the Realms of Elektronika to spice up the mix. He eases his entry in with the familiar voice of Bon Iver before launching off in to a half-hour journey that makes our heads spin and feet move….before we take back the controls and land the Fundiship back on Planet Earth just in time for dessert at the Cafe with amazing new songs from Mazzy Star (!!!), Pearl Jam and, finally, the sweet strains of Sam Beam.

Hope you all enjoy!

This mix evokes the sacred bass celebrations held in the Dream Dome, tapping in to dream states, dream flights, subconscious massages & third eye galaktivations, a space where dreams morph in to altered realities….let the music take you to the place where you access your subliminal side & express your secret powers!

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band opened for Widespread Panic during their two-night stand at The Joint in Las Vegas, NV on July 12-13, 2013. Of course, several of the horn players from the Dirty Dozen joined Panic onstage to help them jam out some of their funky, bluesy, swampy, git-down tunes. This mix collects all nine songs that the boys collaborated on, sharing some of the mightiest, most epic WSMFP I've heard in a very long time!

An amalgamation of first set songs from the Grateful Dead circa May 1977. These are the best first set nuggets culled from the new box set from Rhino Records, "Five Days in May." Remastered, rebalanced and rejujued, this is the Dead at one of their 4 or 5 musical peaks.

We open with two songs that find the band energetic yet ragged, like a runner bursting out of the gates before the starting bell….Bertha and Music Never Stopped give them ample opportunity to warm up and start to locate the communal groove.

We then take a tromp through a slew of classic songs that showcase the restraint and complexity of their playing, Rose, Cassidy, Brown-Eyed, Jack A Roe, all right in that warm pocket of the groovy, earthy 70s. Listen to Jerry's guitar somehow weave together elements of country, jazz, funk, bluegrass, rock and disco, as if to demonstrate that all American popular music shares a common rootstock.

Lazy > Supplication finds the Dead opening up the gates for the first time in to an unrestrained instrumental jam.

By the time we get to High Time, Jack Straw and Half-Step, we are in the presence of a warmed-up band playing honest, heartfelt music that takes in all strands of  American roots music while simultaneously leans in to the future, creating something brand new from shards of the past. The band has found their groove in this twilight of the first set and saunter through the countryfied psychedelic landscapes with an ease bordering on swagger.

Dancin' in the Street brings the parade of set one songs to a rousing, all-on conclusion -- hear the Grateful Dead tease disco, and find both funk and flat-pickin' somewhere deep in that groove.

A guest DJ set from our friend DJ Playaduster, courtesy of Destination Burning Man — a user-friendly survey of the best electronic music cuts of 2013, including house, nu disco, sacred bass, ambient, electrofunk, dub and a good dose of whomp! Buy the ticket, take the ride….

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