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I am very much looking forward to a 2-day work week and to Thanksgiving with the family. I hope you all have a wonderful and safe holiday. Let's get to today's ten... 1. Old To Begin/Pavement (13) - last played on 1/17/16 2. Brain Gallop/Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks (14) - last played on 10/23/15 3. Girls Like Status/The Hold Steady (6) - last played on 3/12/17 4. Everything Is Free/Gillian Welch (5) - last played on 3/25/12 5. The Heartbreak Rides/A.C. Newman (8) - last played on 6/5/16 6. Say Goodnight/Dean & Britta (7) - last played on 10/23/16 7. Debbie Downer/Courtney Barnett (18) - last played on 10/21/16 8. Coughing Up Blood/Marah (8) - last played on 4/10/15 9. He Doesn't Know Why/Fleet Foxes (8) - last played on 8/28/16 10. Laughing With A Mouth Of Blood/St. Vincent (11) - last played on 7/31/16

Hard to believe I'm 10 shuffles away from 400. As usual, I've been very busy with work and my class. Less than 2 weeks until a nice break, at least. Don't forget to check the Sunday Shuffle Spotify playlist if you want to listen along; I change it out every Sunday and post a link by the evening. I hope you find something to like if you do. Let's see what we get today... 1. With My Eyes Closed/The Raveonettes (4) - last played on 1/18/15 2. Snails/The Format (5) - last played on 3/12/15 3. I Need Better Friends/Cracker (4) - last played on 3/18/12 4. Today Will Be Better, I Swear/Stars (8) - last played on 10/11/15 5. Debris/Reigning Sound (7) - got distracted and missed when it last played 6. Long Hard Book/Stephen Malkmus (13) - last played on 10/23/15 7. Zurich Is Stained/Pavement (8) - last played on 1/4/15 8. Satellite/TV On The Radio (6) - last played on 5/26/13 9. The Lost Brigade//Ted Leo/Pharmacists (8) - last played on 11/22/15 10. The Vampire Lano...

I've had a great Thanksgiving break and hope you have too. Unfortunately, my class started up again yesterday and I have lots to do. Still, only three weeks left of my class and of school before Christmas break; only two weeks left of swimming lessons before break. Speaking of Christmas, we are now in the period where I will let Christmas music play if it pops up. Oh, I've also started putting the Sunday Shuffle songs in a Spotify playlist. I'll change the songs out each week as the shuffle is progressing and will post a link on Sunday afternoons or evenings. You can find me on Spotify at Justin Steiner if you don't see the links on Facebook or Twitter. Hope you enjoy listening along! Okay, let's finally get to today's ten... 1. Bright Eyes Darkened/Slobberbone (5) - last played on 4/9/15 2. Monster Closet/Two Hours Traffic (6) - last played on 3/11/15 3. June Hymn/The Decemberists (22) - last played on 3/9/15 4. Diamond Light Pt. 1/Tweedy (3) - ...

I wasn't 100% sure I was going to continue the shuffle in 2015. I got burned out on it last year and went 4 1/2 months without doing one. When I did one at the end of September, I thought I might dip my toe in and out but ended up getting back into the swing. I'm enjoying the process again. Another reason to keep this feature going is that my other long-standing Sunday morning tradition has come to an end. For well over a decade (and probably for at least 15 years) I watched The Sports Reporters on ESPN. This past week, however, we cut our cable and I no longer can watch. I will definitely miss that ritual, so it's going to be good to keep this one going, at least for a while. If I do stick with this throughout the year, I will reach #400 before the end of the year. Maybe that would be a good stopping point. We'll see. All of that leads me to this: here are today's ten... 1. 30 Gallon Tank/Spoon (13) - last played on 10/12 2. Daphnia/Yo La Tengo (4) - last pl...

It's the last Sunday of the school year and I'm ready for summer break. We only have one normal day this week - the rest will be field day or field trips or awards. I'm looking forward to having only one job for a while. Other posts are in progress and I hope to be a little more consistent as June progresses. In any event, we'll get to today's ten... 1. East Coast Time/Warren Zanes (2) - last played on 11/12/10 2. Crudely Drawn/The Drams (3) - last played on 8/11/11 3. 15 Step/Radiohead (7) - last played on 8/25/11 4. Perth/Bon Iver (6) - last played on 4/30/12 5. Natural Disaster/Andrew Bird (4) - last played on 7/7/11 6. Ill Wills/Shout Out Louds (4) - last played on 2/13/11 7. Fables/The Dodos (2) - last played on 5/30/10 8. Hard Rain/Shout Out Louds (2) - last played on 7/18/10 9. In a Cave/Tokyo Police Club (7) - last played on 1/29/12 10. Brain Gallop/Stephen Malkmus (10) - last played on 1/11/12

It's time once again to check in with what I've been listening to the most over the past few weeks... Band of Horses/Cease To Begin - Cooler temperatures and changing leaves put me in the mood for this band and the mood stayed when the weather turned warmer again. There is a nice convergence in the epic mood-setting of this band as you are driving down a road where colorful leaves are piling up in the bright sunshine. No one is ever gonna love you more than I do, indeed. Band of Horses/Infinite Arms - One BoH album lead to another, in this case their excellent effort from last year. This album is absolutely one of my 2010 favorites and probably is my favorite Band of Horses album at this point, which is saying something. This is such a strong batch of songs. I'm quite excited to hear they are working on the follow-up. A.A. Bondy/When the Devil's Loose - Not quite sure why I dipped back into this album, though it's possible it's the fact I haven't ye...