They are not witches!

The heat has descended. In no way am I referring to the gradual rise in temperature, where watered down beers are broken out of recently purchased coolers, and those can afford to be without shirts will go without. No, what I'm referring to is a literal blitzkrieg attack of hair-raping humidity and inhumane temperatures. My dear friends, August is upon us, and with that, you have little chance of surviving without hearing the sickening (but oddly pleasing?) sounds of LFO's "Summergirls".... until today. Alas, I have assembled for you a mixtape, frantic assortment of summer-orientated lyrics about women, men, alcohol and other mundane things that shimmer so poignantly in popular song! With these previously unrelated statements in mind, I sincerely hope that you enjoy this assortment of musical pleasure!

I advise you to err on the side of caution though, because this collection is intended for the water, for the sun, and for that miniscule space between your ears and the cave of your headphones. The union of song featured below is NOT intended to be purveyed at dawn, or any other such time where tender summer moments are stripped bare to their necessities. In simpler words, this is a daytime mixtape.

Apocalyptic Heat, where are your arch-angel children?

An Official Looks Like Coffee, Tastes Like Juice Mixtape!

SIDE A

Einn - Hi-Fi Goon - Throw Me The Statue

Ni - Name Tossers - Boat

Trois - As We Go Up, We Go Down - Guided By Voices

Cuatro - Say Please - Monsters of Folk

Fünf - Good Vibrations - Beach Boys

SIDE B

Sei - Walkabout (Feat. Panda Bear) - Atlas Sound

Sab'a - Fables - The Dodos

Aath - Can I Kick It? - A Tribe Called Quest

Novem - Wet Gold - The Octopus Project

Shi - My Sweet Lord (George Harrison Cover) - Yim Yames

SIDE C

For those of you who are ridiculously stubborn (also known as all the readers of this little blog...) and would love nothing more than to listen to this mixtape in the forbidden "time between", I thought I'd offer you up two tracks to accompany the sun's descent!

Eleven - Bay of Pigs - Destroyer (13 minutes and 39 seconds)

[clicking Bay of Pigs will bring you to a link, which is the stream of the song. We'll offer the song up for download as soon as robotically possible]

Twelve - Tribute To - Yim Yames (6 song EP)

[clicking Tribute To will bring you to Stereogum, which offers the entirety of the this George Harrison tribute album streaming. I'm not going to offer each song, basically because one of the songs is already in the Summer mixtape, and because I actually paid money for this. You should too!]

So, enjoy, and look forward to a cavalcade of posts that is sure to be brought upon you before the madness of the school year.

Yeah, I miss him too.

See you soon?

I went in where the makeup girl came through, I waited there for ages, I waited there for you

Hello dear world, and welcome to another beautiful October evening, here on Looks Like Coffee, Tastes Like Juice. I've got quite a post in store for you today, whoever you may be, and it will include the following; the  new Andrew Bird album, some completely random youtube videos (which I think I should make a weekly feature?), and part two of the oh-so good Official Autumn Mixtape. So, scroll the page down, and continue reading this week's edition of Looks Like Coffee, Tastes Like Juice.

Andrew Bird, My Heart Belongs To You

If you're a human being, or a reader of this blog (hopefully, you're both), then you are completely aware of my ... obsession, of sorts, with a mister Andrew Bird. It all started when, let's see, The Mysterious Production of Eggs came out, in whatever year it came out. After hearing the opening lines of Sovay, I knew it was love at first listen.

So, it is time again for Andrew, or Mr.Bird as I'd prefer to call him, to release a new album after the success of last year's fantastic Armchair Apocrypha. Anyways, the new album will be called Noble Beast, and it'll drop January 27th (coincidentally, this is also the date I will be at Dr.Disc purchasing it). From what I've heard of this album, a good portion, I may add, it is pretty spectacular. 

I'll leave you, the dedicated reader, with a track from the new album, entitled "Oh No". Also, if you're wondering whether Mr.Andrew "Whistlin'" Bird delivered the goods on the whistling front on this song ... well, we'll just say he did. Take a listen and see what you think.

Oh No - Andrew Bird

Here's the fantastic track list for Noble Beast;

1 Oh No

2 Masterswarm

3 Fitz and Dizzyspells

4 Effigy

5 Tenuousness

6 Nomenclature

7 Not a Robot, But a Ghost

8 Anonanimal

9 Natural Disaster

10 Confess

11 Souverian

12 On Ho!

And now, a NEW feature!

As all of you should know by now, I'm pretty notorious for adding/taking away multitudes of fun little features on this here blog. This occasion is no different. Lately, I've been getting the urge to post random videos from YouTube on here, just because I've found them very interesting (if you look backwards, you can see that I sometimes act on these impulses). Therefore, I think it's only appropriate to do this every week. So, for the first time in history, I'd like to preset to you, the people, an Official Looks Like Coffee Tastes Like Juice Feature: Random YouTube Videos. The link brings you straight to the page.

Conjunction Junction - Schoolhouse Rock

Flight 180 (Live) - Bishop Allen

The Old Prince Still Lives At Home - Shad

The Green Fields of France - Dropkick Murphys

and finally ...

An Actor's Revenge - Destroyer, Final Fantasy & Cadence Weapon

That wasn't so bad, now, was it?

Looks Like Coffee, Tastes Like Autumn; The Official Autumn Mixtape Part 2

(P.S I'm on my sister's laptop, which explains the limited song selection)

1. California Dreamin' - The Beach Boys

2. Blue Flower/ Blue Flame - Destroyer

3. Behind Blue Eyes - The Who [who I'll be witnessing live in 16 days!]

4. Dust Flowers - Norman Nehmetallah [this is just a really rough demo that I recorded about 7 months ago, as an idea for a song]

That's all for this week, expect parts 3 to 1999994432544 soon.

Til' Next Week