Breakthru Radio got in touch with me last week and asked me to be their Blogger of the Week this week, a title that involves them featuring a few of EAR FARM posts on their site and the recording of a Blogger of the Week radio show. For the radio show they asked me to select some songs from their cleared list of record labels to feature in-between interview segments with me. In doing so, rather than look into the past, I decided to select some favorite songs from the great year that’s been 2008 thus far. Because of the constraints of having to select from their list of cleared music I ended up looking to quite a few (great) albums and bands I haven’t yet had a chance to feature on EAR FARM. So… hopefully the mix below will offer a bit of a different look at some of 2008’s top music (in my opinion). They didn’t end up using the same order, or all of the same songs, you’ll find below, so this should be a fresh experience for anyone who’s already heard the Anatomy of a Blogger show.

For those who haven’t yet, be sure to head over to Breakthru Radio and check out DJ DoseU’s Anatomy of a Blogger show to listen to the interview segment with me and to hear me recite (yikes) that favorite quote from The Goonies that featured so prominently on the old site.

***Listen to my version of the mix (aka this week’s muxtape) HERE***

Join EAR FARM’s Community for a link to download the entire extended mix as a ZIP. It’s twenty songs long and includes tracks from Man Man, Billy Bragg, No Age, She & Him, and more, in addition to what you’ll hear over on EAR FARM’s muxtape.

EAR FARM’s Muxtape #20: Top Songs from 2008 for Breakthru Radio
1. “No Lucifer” by British Sea Power
2. “From” by Dr. Dog
3. “Your Protector” by Fleet Foxes
4. “Fatalist Palmistry” by Why?
5. “Bang Your Drum” by Wolf Parade
6. “Liferz” by Blood on the Walls
7. “Barnacle Goose” by Born Ruffians
8. “Far Away” by Cut Copy
9. “Aloyisius Bluegrass Drummer” by Silver Jews
10. “Burnout Babies” by Sybris
11. “Inside a Boy” by My Brightest Diamond
12. “We Swim” by Islands
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A Muxtape is a simple way to create and share mixtapes. We create and share a brand new one each week on Friday morning. That’s all there is to it. Feel free to share your own mix in the comments. Check out all of the EAR FARM Weekly Mixes HERE.