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Caught in the Carousel "There will be music despite everything"
MP3 LIBRARY
MUSIC MP3s
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Backwords: And Then Sigh

Balkans - "Troubled And Done"

Barzin:"Look What Love Has Turned Us Into"

Bird Call - "Lost Cause" (Beck Cover)

Bobby Bare Jr.:
"The Heart Bionic"

The Baskervilles:
"Caught In A Crosswalk"

Beautiful Supermachines:
"Oakland 2008"

Beep: “Wolf Pantolones”

Belflur:
"Gray Sparkle Finnish Pig"
"Insect Politics"

Robb Bensen:
"I Just Want You To Love Me"

The Biscuits:
"Don't Look Back" (previously unreleased)
"Fly Away" (previously unreleased)

Biography Of Ferns:
"Build You Down"

Blacklist:
"Flight Of The Demoiselles"

A Block Of Yellow:
"Are You Sure"
"You Shook My Head"
"I Do I Do"

Blunt Mechanic: "Less Beat"

Kip Boardman: Running Right

Bomarr:
“Wolf Pantolones”

Boomsnake:
"Sticks Stones & Animal Bones"

Bridges And Powerlines:
"The Golden Age"
"Middle Child"
"Uncalibrated"

Bright Archer:
"Hidden Systems"

Boo And Boo Too:
"No Tempo"
"Obviously"

Boots Electric: "I Love You All The Thyme"

The Broken West: "Auctioneer"

Richard Buckner:
"Born In To Giving"
"Emily Sparks"
"Gauzy Dress"

The Buddyrevelles:
"The Foreigner"
"I Dream Of Rodney"
"Moods"

Budos Band: "The Proposition"

The Builders and The Butchers:
"Black Dresses"
"Bottom of the Lake"

Buried Beds: "Breadcrumb Trail"

Basia Bulat: "Gold Rush"

C

Cage The Elephant: "Tiny Robots"

Sera Cahoone: "Only As The Day Is Long"

Calico Horses:
"Father Feed Me"
"Idioteque" (Radiohead cover)

Keith Canisius: “The Beach House”

The Caseworker - "National Runner"

Caught in the Carousel: Theme Songs
by Little Murders
by Mr. D

Céu: "Bubuia"

Chamberlin: "Fools"

Vic Chestnutt & Elf Power:
"And How"
"Teddy Bear"

Child Ballads:
"Cheekbone Hollows"

The Church: "Pangaea"

Circus Devils:
"The Girls Will Make It Happen"

Judson Claiborne:
"Song For Dreaming"

A Classic Education: "Forever Boy"

Creeping Weeds: "Outsiders"

Cock & Swan:
"Stash"

Dylan Connor: "Breakaway & Burn"

Cordero:
"Guardasecretos"
"Ruleto Rusa"

Cubic Zirconia: "Fuck Work" (Dances With White Girls Remix)

Cuckoo Chaos:
"Slowly Counting Down to Nothing"

D

Damn Handsome and The Birthday Suits:
"Tooth Decay"

Dark Captain Light Captain:
"Questions" (Hatchback Remix

The Dark Romantics:
"Heartbreaker"
“Hush Your Mouth”
"Let's Ride"

Deadstring Brothers:
"Meet Me Down At Heavy Load"
"Silver Mountain"

Decomposure:
"Hour 5"
"Hour 9"

Deerhoof: "Hitch Hike" (LiLiPUT cover)

Del The Funky Homosapien: "Bubble Pop"

The Delta Mirror: He Was Worse Than The Needle He Gave You

Dept. of Energy: "Empty Enemies"

Devices Disguised - "Gravity Taste Test"

DeVotchka: "How It Ends"

Tom DiCillo with Will Crewdson and Geeta Sparkle: "16 Tons"

Die! Die! Die!: "Blue Skies"
"Sideways, Here We Come"

The Diggs: "Careen"
"Recovery Forever"

The Dimes: "Damrell's Fire"

Disco Biscuits: "On Time"

Dizzee Rascal (Featuring UGK's): "Where's Da G's?"

The Dodos: "Fools"

The Duke and the King: "Shine On You"

The Dunes: "Going Under"

Dylan In The Movies:
"Josephine If You Only Knew"

E - F

Eagle Winged Palace - "Movin' On To Babylon"

Echo and the Bunnymen: "Proxy"

Empires: "Damn Things Over"

Brock Enright: "Maybe"

The Epochs: "Giving Tree"

Everest: "Rebels In The Roses"

Fang Island:
"Daisy"

Mike Farley: "This Game"

Fielded: "Another Time"

David Fienis: "Come On Up To The House" (previously unavailable)

Finn Riggins:"Keep This Town Alive"

Firewater:
"Borneo"
"Feels Like The End Of The World"

Flashmen: "Little Wildkat"

Flat Duo Jets:
"Everybody's Movin'"
"Rawhide"
"Rockhouse"

Flight Of The Conchords: "Ladies of the World"

Flyleaf - "Set Apart This Dream"

Foals: "Balloons"

Follow That Bird - "The Ghosts That Wake You"

Mike Ford: "A Woman Works Twice as Hard"
"Expo '67"
"Open for Business"

Sarah Elizabeth Foster
"Gardening From The Ground Up"

David Francey and Mike Ford:
"Chief Engineer"
"Climbing up to the Soo"

Tom Fuller Band:
"Air That I Breathe"
"Sunglass Wardrobe"

Future Clouds and Radar:
The Epcot View"
"Feet On Grass"
"Mummified"

Future of the Left: "Arming Eritrea"

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Garotas Suecas: "Codinome Dinamite"

Gauntlet Hair:I Was Thinking

Glass Vaults: "Forget Me Not"

Golden Ages:
"Everything Will Be Alright"

Golden Shoulders: "Mountain"

Good Old War: "Looking for Shelter"

The Graduate: "Anhedonia"

Grand Archives:
"Torn Blue Foam Couch"

Great Lakes Myth Society:
"Brablec Farms"
"She Comes Home To Steal Her Rainbows"

Great Northern: "Houses"

The Grownup Noise - "Carnival"

Gutter Twins: "Idle Hands"

H - I

Kelly Haigh - "Ballad Of The Heaven Sent"

Happy Anarchy: "Is That Right?"

Happy Ending:
"It Barely Makes A Sound"

The Happy Hollows:
“Lieutenant”
“Tambourine”

Headless Heroes: "Nobody's Baby Now" (Nick Cave Cover)
"True Love Will Find You In The End" (Daniel Johnston cover)

Health: "The Problem Is"
"Triceratops" (Remix)

Heroes Of The Dancefloor:
"Ricky"
"Same Scandal"

HIJK:
"Center of Things"
"Hey Sleepy Smile"
"Paper Boat"

Hollands: "Air Conditioned Heart"

Holy Sons:
"Gnostic Device"
"I'm Healed"
"Things You Do While Waiting For The Apocalypse"

The Homosexuals: "Slow Guns"

The Honey Pies:Get It Right

Hooray for Earth: "Surrounded By Your Friends" (Twin Shadow Remix)

House Of Wolves - "50's"

The Houston Brothers "Confederate Dunce"

IAMX: "Think of England"

The Irrepressibles: "Forget the Past"

J - K

Jasmine Minks: "Running" (previously unreleased)

Jeniferever: “Green Meadow Island”

Ernest Jenning: "Can You Hear Me See Me Now?"

The Jet Age: "False Idols"
"O Calender"

Jex Thoth: "When The Raven Calls"

Grace Jones - "Well, Well, Well" (Dub)

Jump Clubb: "Rather Be Played"

Kaiser Cartel: "Ready To Go"

Katzenjammer: "A Bar in Amsterdam"

Jesse Kilguss: "31"
"A Little Place Behind My Eyes"
"Americana"

Kinetic Stereokids:
“Have A Nice Day”

Elle King:
"Good to be a Man"

Kites: "Easy Now"
"Heroes And Villains"

L

Lab Coast: Really Realize

Laminated Cat: "Aquamarine"

Landing On The Moon - "She Wants"

Land Of Talk: "Some are Lakes"

LANDy: "BFF"

Jon Langford and Skull Orchard: Getting Used To Uselessness

Bettye LaVette: “Heart Of Gold” (Neil Young Cover Live from Joe’s Pub)

The Laughing:
"Canopy"
"Paradise"

Ben Lear: "Scuba Lessons"

Cate LeBon
"Shoeing The Bones"

Le Butcherettes - "New York"

Kim Lenz and the Jaguars: "Touch Me"

Les Savy Fav: "Sweat Descends"

Lights On: "Red Lights Flashing"

Jon Lindsay - "My Blue Angels"

The Little Death:
"Gather Round"

The Little Heroes:
"Say I'll Be Gone"
"Back Where You Came From"

Little Murders: "Caught in the Carousel: Theme Song" (previously unreleased)

Rene Lopez:
"Not The Same Day"

Los Amigos Invisibles: "Mentiras"

Tim Love Lee: "Ain't Dubbin' My Goodbyes" (Tom Vek Cover)

Love Tractor:
"Buy Me A Million Dollars"
"Cartoon Kiddies"
"Christ Among the Children"
"Highland Sweetheart"
"I Broke my Saw"
"Timberland"
"The Little Murders" (previously unreleased)
"Turquoise and Yellow"

Lowfish:
"Frozen And Broken"
"Things Fall Apart"

Lox Lomond:
"Wax And Wire"

M - N

Makaras Pen - "Currents"

Mathemagic: "Breaststroke"

¡Mayday!: "Technology"

Meanest Man Contest:
"Takitani Edit"
(Superhumaniods Remix)

Melissa McClelland: "GlenRio"

Richard McGraw: "Balmville Hotel"

Meridene:Gone Baby Gone
"Parade Of Fools"

Metroid Metal: "Theme (NES)"

Midnight Juggernauts:Lifeblood Flow” (Turkish Prison Remix)

Mimosa: "Block Party"

Vincent Minor - "Late Night Show"

Holly Miranda:
"Forest Green Oh Forest Green"

Misfits: "Twilight Of The Dead"

Mist and Mast:
"X-Ray"

Mistress Stephanie And Her Melodic Cat:
"Little Death"

Mock Orange - "Grow Your Soul Away"

The Mojomatics:
“Clean My Sins”
“Miss Me When I’m Gone”
“Wait A While”

The Morning Benders:
"Crying" (Roy Orbison Cover)
"Mother and Child Reunion" (Paul Simon Cover)
"Why Don't They Let Us Fall In Love?" (Ronettes Cover)
"Lovefool" (Cardigans Cover)
"I Won't Share You" (Smiths Cover)
"He's a Rebel" (Crystals Cover)
"Marie" (Randy Newman Cover)
"Fools Rush In" (Johnny Mercer/Rube Bloom)
"Temptation Inside Your Heart" (Velvet Underground Cover)
"Dreams" (Fleetwood Mac Cover)
"Pull Up The Roots" (Talking Heads Cover)
"Caroline, No" Remix (Beach Boys Cover)

Morning Claws:Slack Magic

The Morning Pages: "My Name Is Lion"

Morning State:
"Never So Strange"
"Oh Yeah"
"Spectacular"
"That's Quite A Rash"

Mr. D.: "Caught in the Carousel: Theme Song" (previously unreleased)

Mr. Gnome: "Pirates"
"Vampires"

My First Earthquake: "Cool in the Cool Way"

My Education:
"Arch"
"Bad Vibrations"

My Milky Way Arms: "Magneto (AAHHH!!!)"

Nada Surf:
"Electrocution" (Bill Fox Cover)

Nedry: "A42"

New Frontiers: "The Day You Fell Apart"
"Look At Miss Ohio" (Gillian Welch Cover)
"Man Down"

Night Purse: "Heart Medley"

Nite Club: “Good Life” (Kanye West Cover)

Julia Nunes: "I Think You Know"

O - P

The OaKs: "Masood"

The Oax: "Liar, Cheat, Jerk"

Conor Oberst: "Danny Callahan"

Ned Oldham:
"The One Light"

Olney Clark:
"Josefin The Writer"

OMD: "If You Want It" (Marsheaux Remix)

Omo: "Teabreak"

The Orion Experience:
"Nice Guys Finish Last"
"Heartbreaker"
"Obsessed With You"
"Sugar"

Padre Pio:
"Common Day"
"High Fives"
"Madeline"

Chase Pagan: "Gun And The Sword"

Pajama Club: "These Are Conditions"

Pansy Division: “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”

Parallels: "Find The Fire"

Parts of Speech: "Canopy"

Lucian Piane: Christian Bale

The Pendletons: "Upstate"

ph10:
"Bulldozin'" (Featuring I-45 and Prodigal Son)
"BK United" (Featuring Pete Miser)
"Enter The Underground" (Featuring Pete Miser and Jamalski)

Phil and the Osophers: "We Have All Summer"

Gretchen Phillips: "Red State/Blue State"

Mark Pickerel:
"Cherokee Grove"
"Cody's Dream"

Peter von Poehl: "A Broken Skeleton Key" (Alternate Version)

Pomegranates:
"Thunder Meadow"

"Whom/Who"

Ponytail: "Celebrate The Body Electric (It Came From An Angel)"

John Prine: "Long Monday" (live)
“Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness”

Q - R

Quitzow:
"Sponsor (It Didn't Mean A Thing)"
"The Cut"

Rauelsson: "Debutantes"

Ravens and Chimes: "January"
"So Long, Marianne" (Leonard Cohen Cover)

Red Molly: "Long Island Cowboy"

Toby Richardson:
"King Of All The Moves"

Finn Riggins:
"Wake (Keep This Town Alive)"

The Ritz:
"Langston Bukowski"
"Blown"

Omar Rodriguez Lopez: "Locomocion Capillar"

Oscar Rodriguez: "Mundo de Ciegos"

Bess Rogers: "I Would Never"
"See Me? See You!"
"Sunday"

Michael Charles Roman:
Second First Kiss

Roman Photos: "Decline"

Rykarda: "A Drinking Song"

RX Bandits: "My Lonesome Only Friend"

S - T

65 Days Of Static:
"Hole"
"Retreat! Retreat!"

Said The Whale:
"This City's A Mess"

Sambassadeur: "Stranded"

Scanners:
"Salvation"

Scattered Trees - "Four Days Straight (Album Leaf Remix)

Polly Scattergood: "Please Don't Touch" (The Golden Filter Mix)

Fred Schneider and The Superions: “Fruitcake”

Scripts ‘N Screws:
“Big City Lights”

“Fairy Tale”

Seabear: "Lion Face Boy"

Sea Of Bees: "Marmalade"

Sea Pinks - "Fountain Tesserae"

The Secret History:
"It's Not The End Of The World, Jonah"

Secret Machines: "Dreaming Of Dreaming" (Non-Album Track)

Setting Son:
"You Got Lucky" (Tom Petty Cover)
"They're Calling"

Jim Shepherd:"Breaking Out of the Circle"

Shellshag: "Resiliant Bastard"

The Shimmies:
"And The Radio Played On" (Delta Mirror cover)
"Friendly Fire"
"Judas"

The Shods: "Shame on You"

The Shondes: "My Dear One"

SIA: "Clap Your Hands"(Diplo Remix)

Slow Club:
"It Doesn't Have To Be Beautiful"

Slow Dancing Soceity:
"And To The Dust We Shall Return"

Soars:Throw Yourself Apart

Scott Solter - "The Great Cold"

Sonny and the Sandwiches:
“Throw My Ashes From This Pier When I Die”

Sounds Under Radio - "Sing"

Spectrals: "Chip A Tooth (Spoil A Smile)"

Spindrift: "Ace Coltrane"
"The New West"

The Standard:
"Sunday Eyes"
"A Different Skin"
"The Swimmer"

Star Anna and The Laughing Dogs:
"Alone In This Together"

Freddie Stevenson:
"Brand New Heart"
"Easy Now"
"If An Alien Astronomre Could See Us From Afar"
"If You Don't Kiss Me"
"Love Is Gonna Take Its Toll"

Philip Stevenson: "Come On Honey"
"If You Ever Love Something"

Strand Of Oaks: "Two Kids"

Chris Stroffolino: "Laurie And Lou"

Sundelles:Can’t Wait

Sunfold: "Sara The American Winter"

Sun Hotel: "Alchemy"
"Gifts"

The Super Vacations: "Be Glad"

System And Station: "The Magnetic North"

31 Knots:
"Compass Commands"

311: “Hey You”

Tahiti 80: "Darlin'" (Jimmy Edgar Remix)

Tall Pines: "Beach House"

Tape Deck Mountain - "Kellies"

Team Genius:
"Handclaps In E Major"
"I'm Just An Idiot"
"Meanderings And Musings"
"Sing Song"
"Take Me Home"
"While We're Asleep"

Technoir MA: "Sparks"

The Terrodactyls: "Adieu Adieu"
"Devices" (featuring Kimya Dawson)
"Little Toys On A Shelf"
"Mirror"

Thee American Revolution:
"Power House"

They Might Be Giants - "Judy Is Your Viet Nam"

Third Eye Blind:
"Non-Dairy Creamer"

This Is Ivy League:
"Crown Of Love" (Arcade Fire cover)
"London Bridges"

This Will Destroy You:
"Communal Blood"

Tiga: "Shoes"

Tilly And The Wall:
"Cacophony"

"Pot Kettle Black"

Tiny Masters: "Skeletons"

Tokyo Police Club: "In A Cave"

James Jackson Toth: “Arriving”

Justin Townes Earle:
"Hard Livin'"
"Who Am I To Say"

The Traditionist: “Know My Ocean”

Trainwreck Riders: "Chug Along"

Trees On Fire:
"Live Life"

Trentalange:
"Fever"
“Shadow Man”
“Valentine”

Tristeza: "Manitas"

Typhoon:Starting Over

U - W

Uncut: "Hideaway"

Underground Railroad "Kill Me Now"

The Union Trade: "Headlands"

The Upside Down: "Silver Wind"

U.S Royalty Music: "Monte Carlo"

Variety Lab: "Soda Pop Confusion" (Featuring Kids Are Dead)

Joyo Velarde: "Take You Home"

Versus: "Invincible Hero"

VHS Or Beta - "Breaking Bones"

Vincent Black Shadow:
"Black Kimono"
"Shamanix"
"Volume One"

The Vines: “Get Out”

Peter Von Poehl: "The Story Of The Impossible"

Voxhaul Broadcast - "Leaving On The 5th"

Evan Voytas: "A Few Hours After This" (Cure Cover)

The Waco Brothers:
"Cowboy In Flames" (Live)
"Do What I Say" (Live)

Waking Lights:
"Ice Cream And Vicodin"
"Sharks"

We Were The States:
“Gold”
"Up Your Sleeve"

Ben Weaver:
"White Snow"
"Alligators and Owls"

What Laura Says: "July 23"

Wheat: "Chages Is"

The Whigs: "Dying"

Andre Williams:
"Can You Deal With It?"
"Never Had A Problem"

Tim Williams:
"I Hit Another Wall"
"Murderous Air"

Elizabeth Willis: "One"

Women:
"Black Rice"
"Group Transport Hall"

Wooden Shjips:
"Lucy's Ride"
"We Ask You to Ride"

Woodhands: "Can't See Straight"

The Worthy Poor:
"Indian Boy Jim" (Previously unreleased)
"Midnight Train" (Previously unreleased)

X-Y
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READINGS

Alex Green reads from his book, Stone Roses

INTERVIEW EXCERPTS

El Presidente's Dante Gizzi tells Caught In The Carousel what his songs are really all about.

Alex and MTV's Nina Blackwood talk about how the channel has changed.

The late Michael Hutchence (INXS) discussing the band's early days.

Peter Buck (R.E.M.) discussing his daily writing routine.

David Lee Roth on the lasting power of the "California Girls" and "Just a Gigolo" videos.
David Lee Roth on how he handles racism.

David Bowie talks to Alex about getting older.

Kasey Chambers describes the nuances of writing songs about home.

Robyn Hitchcock on death!

RADIO SHOW EXCERPTS

Alex and Jesse Michaels (Operation Ivy) discussing Idlewild (89.5 FM KSMC)

Alex's "Bedtime with Alex" (various 89.5 FM KSMC)

Alex with Jason White (Green Day)and Jess Michaels (89.5 FM KSMC)

Alex and Barry (Raspyni Brothers) hosting "Radio of Man"  (89.5 FM KSMC)

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