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This will be the first regular edition of the Sunday Shuffle since the end of June. My to-do list today includes finishing the book I'm reading ( Year Zero ) and finishing the trade I'm reading ( Batman: The Black Mirror ). Oh, and watching the White Sox sweep the Rangers. Sounds like a good day, doesn't it? Let's get to it and today's ten... 1. Kick Drum Heart/The Avett Brothers (6) - last played on 2/18/12 2. Clementine/The Decemberists (3) - last played on 1/25/12 3. Crooked Roof/J Tillman (6) - last played on 5/17/12 4. All My Banks/The Whigs (3) - last played on 4/15/12 5. Marie/Steve Earle (3) - last played on 6/24/10 6. Queen Bitch/Rhett Miller (4) - last played on 4/29/12 7. Never Here/Higgins (6) - last played on 7/26/12 8. Tweakers/Spoon (2) - last played on 6/11/11 9. Rubies/Destroyer (5) - last played on 6/17/12 10. A Slow Parade/A.A. Bondy (11) - last played on 6/18/12

It has been a busy couple of weeks, filled not only with a vacation but also Shakespeare in the park and a wedding down around Purdue, to name the bigger events. You may have noticed that this is another "double issue" - we will be away on another mini-vacation at the end of the week so it's just easier to do things this way. I hope to get back to posting more often this week but it may not happen with the short week. Anyway, let's get to today's twenty... 1. Make It Right/J Mascis (15) - last played on 3/17/12 2. Destroyer/Crooked Fingers (4) - last played on 11/13/10 3. I Understand/Sloan (13) - last played on 7/9/12 4. Not Your Lover/Blitzen Trapper (2) - last played on 10/27/10 5. When I Lose My Eyes/Saturday Looks Good To Me (5) - last played on 5/13/12 6. All the Lightning Rods/Centro-Matic (4) - last played on 2/20/12 7. For An Hour With You/J Tillman (4) - last played on 5/17/12 8. Every Single Switch/Centro-Matic (4) - last played on 6/25/12 9. ...

It's time for a double dose of Sunday Shuffle, as we will be driving back from upstate New York next Sunday, a very long drive. It's a trip I'm very much looking forward to, not just because it's a vacation but because we get to spend many days with family at a beautiful lake. So, without further ado, here are today's twenty... 1. Fernando/The Baseball Project (3) - last played on 6/19/12 2. I Read A Lot/Nick Lowe (6) - last played on 6/11/12 3. Little Bird/Eels (4) - last played on 10/30/10 4. Rider/Okkervil River (11) - last played on 6/5/12 5. Champagne Year/St. Vincent (10) - last played on 12/28/11 6. Lie/Higgins (4) - last played on 6/1/12 7. Gotta Get It Right Now/Telekinesis (17) - last played on 5/6/12 8. Surgeon/St. Vincent (10) - last played on 12/28/11 9. Built It Up/Higgins (4) - last played on 6/1/12 10. Pieces/Dinosaur Jr. (10) - last played on 6/28/12 11. Mellotron 2/Apples In Stereo (3) - last played on 3/4/12 12. Shock And Awe/Teenage ...

Hard to believe it's the last Sunday in June already... 1. Everyone I Know Is Listening To Crunk/Lightspeed Champion (3) - last played on 2/24/11 2. I am Morris Townsend (No-Fi Transmission) - The Prayers & Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers (5) - last played on 11/20/11 3. The Rabbit, The Bat & The Reindeer/Dr. Dog (4) - last played on 8/10/11 4. Aly, Walk With Me/The Raveonettes (4) - last played on 7/18/11 5. My Heart's Reflection/Yo La Tengo (3) - last played on 11/27/11 6. Dead End/The Format (4) - last played on 12/18/11 7. One For The Cutters/The Hold Steady (6) - last played on 5/13/12 8. She Loves You [Mono]/The Beatles (4) - last played on 2/5/12 9. It's Plain To See/Sloan (20) - last played on 4/11/12 10. Out The Door/Ben Kweller (13) - last played on 5/10/12

I have not done a good job of talking about the books I've been reading, so here's a rundown of everything I've read since the last time I did so (which was back in the middle of March. Yikes!).... Unpossible and Other Stories by Daryl Gregory - When I read the titular story when it was first published in F&SF , I knew that Gregory was a writer worth reading. "Unpossible" is about a man who used to travel between worlds when he was a child and how he tries to do it now that he's middle-aged and it is utterly brilliant. Other stories are about a world of super-heroes and villains (for which I am a sucker), the rise of a new religion, a woman who spends most of her time thinking and needs others to watch her body, and so much more. All are well worth reading. Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records by John Cook with Mac McCaughn and Laura Ballance - Merge Records is one of, if not the best record label out there. This book came out a few years ago to cel...

No preamble today - just right to the music... 1. Everybody Knows Everybody/Earlimart (4) - last played on 1/22/12 2. Shrinking Violet/Bishop Allen (2) - last played on 5/1/10 3. Furr/Blitzen Trapper (5) - last played on 4/29/12 4. Dirty Rag/Justin Townes Earle (5) - 10/5/11 5. The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)/The Decembersists (5) - last played on 12/11/11 6. Pop Lie/Okkervil River (3) - last played on 8/12/11 7. Jimmie Standing In The Rain/Elvis Costello (8) - last played on 7/19/11 8. Conversation 16/The National (23) - last played on 11/17/11 9. Big Julie/Jarvis Cocker (2) - last played on 4/7/10 10. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi/Radiohead (8) - last played on 8/25/11