I would also encourage you to check out the Properly Chilled podcast, which features some extra-long and excellent playlists. If you use iTunes, click here.

As if landing Thievery Corporation last month wasn’t enough, this week I bring you a track from another legendary name in the world of trip hop — Tricky. His new album, Knowle West Boy, is available now through all the major online retailers. Just click through one of the links below to add it to your collection.

You’ll notice another theme playing out through the middle of the show. Sometimes, things just work out that way…

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #132:

1. Tricky, "Past Mistake"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3 | Amazon CD
2. Mr. Meeble, "Dragonfly"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon CD | Amazon CD
3. Lemonchill, "Dragonfly (Zero Cult Remix)"  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3
4. Povi, "Dragonflies"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3 | Amazon CD
5. Lovespirals, "This Truth (Soulwhirlingsomewhere Remix)"  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3
6. Second Sky, "Peligroso"

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It’s been an interesting week around the house. My dad’s replacing some plumbing, and at one point, we turned one of my ceiling fans into a sprinkler system. Thankfully, though, that problem was fixed quickly, and we can keep things going for another week…

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #131:

1. Caitlyn Hessell, "Always There (Toby Benson Remix)"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
2. Dive Index, "Water In Our Hands (Tiny Mile Remix)"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3 | CD Baby
3. Nude vs. Flashbaxx, "Inside"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
4. Thievery Corporation, "Beautiful Drug (featuring Jana Andevska)"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3 | Amazon CD
5. Global Noize, "Exotic Thoughts"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3 | Amazon CD
6. Apaxan Corma, "It Matches the Sky (Overcast Mix)"  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3 | CD Baby

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This week’s show features one of several free tracks now available from All India Radio’s web site. It’s a collection of outtakes and previously unreleased songs from the sessions that brought us Fall, which was featured on Dave’s Lounge #124. The collection is called Fallout, and you can download them here. Nice touch. More bands should do this sort of thing.

As you might have noticed, new episodes are now being recorded on Tuesday nights instead of Monday nights. That will continue for the rest of the year. Hopefully, it will reduce the number of potential interruptions this fall.

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #130:

1. Elsiane, "Vaporous"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
2. All India Radio, "The Muse"  Download from: AllIndiaRadio.com.au
3. Favard, "Wait For Me"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes
4. Tokyo507, "Share Some Love"  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3
5. Endless Blue, "Her"
6. PalliDust, "Meridian"

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It’s been a busy week around these parts, and it’s not going to slow down for the next week or so, so I’ve decided to keep it simple for this show — less talk, more music. Given the quality of these instrumentals, I don’t think anyone will mind very much…

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #129:

1. 72 Soulmaker, "Riding the Edge"  Buy from: iTunes
2. Kush, "The Beauty of Machines at Work"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
3. Flashbaxx, "Voodoo Therapy"  Buy from: eMusic | Amazon MP3
4. Sine, "Slowjam"  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3
5. Stockfinster, "Seventeen Days"  Download from: Stockfinster.nu

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This week’s episode is a bit of a milestone, as it features a band I never thought I would get to play on this show — Thievery Corporation. Their publicity folks sent me a copy of their new album, Radio Retaliation, which will be out on September 23.

Speaking of new albums, congratulations go out to Andrew from New South Wales, Christy from Columbus, James from San Diego and Noah from Boulder. They all won a copy of Natalie Walker’s new CD, With You, which will go out in the mail later this week. Thanks to everyone who entered. If you didn’t win, you can still get a copy for yourself from the links below…

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #128:

1. Thievery Corporation, "The Forgotten People"  Coming Sept. 23…
2. Shaheen Sheik, "In You"  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3
3. Vanessa Daou, "Love Child"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
4. Dive Index, "For Centuries (Brian Eno/Plumbline Remix)"  Coming Sept. 23…
5. Monk Fly and Camilla Hill, "I Saw You First"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
6. Natalie Walker, "Empty Road"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
7. Natalie Walker, "Monarch"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3

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So I’m over the jet lag from the trip to the New Media Expo, and I think it’s time to get a new episode out there. If you haven’t seen some of my photos from the Expo, click here.

You still have time to enter the drawing for four copies of Natalie Walker’s new CD, With You. Just send your name and full mailing address to contest@daveslounge.com by Midnight GMT on August 30, 2008 to put your name in the jar. I plan to announce the winners next week, so get those entries in soon!

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #127:

1. ElodieO, "Crazy"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
2. Natalie Walker, "By and By"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
3. Mujaji, "Peepers"  Download from: Jamendo
4. Amahla, "A Lonely Tree"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
5. Hussein Boon, "Mellow"  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3
6. Anomaly, "Angel"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3

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I’ve been meaning to get these photos posted here for a while, and here they are — just some of the many cool people I hung out with at the New Media Expo in Las Vegas last week. (Click on each image for a larger image.)

Hanging out with Roxanne and Shane (a/k/a Secret Cameraman) from Beachwalks with Rox.

Here’s a larger photo of me and Anji Bee from The Chillcast and Lovespirals.

At the Wizzard Media booth with Rob Walch from Podcast411 and Today in Phone…

…and with Elsie from Elsie’s Yoga Kula.

This was taken at the Revision3 party with Charles Stepczyk, the new chief at Insomnia Radio.

Revision3 was well represented, with podcasting rockstar Veronica Belmont from Tekzilla…

…and Sarah Lane from PopSiren.

I even got to meet John C. Dvorak! (Ha ha.)

Ariel Publicity’s own Ariel Hyatt.

Rocking out at Coverville 500 with C.C. Chapman from Accident Hash.

As great as Las Vegas was, it was the people that made going to the New Media Expo so much fun. I hope I get the chance to do this again soon.

So I got back last night from the New Media Expo in Las Vegas, where I had an absolute blast. It was tons of fun meeting and hanging out with so many great podcasters, including Anji Bee from The Chillcast, Brian Ibbott from Coverville, Roxanne and Shane from Beachwalks, Ariel Hyatt from Ariel PR, Dan Klass from The Bitterest Pill, Rob Walch from Podcast411 and Today in iPhone, CC Chapman from Accident Hash, Charles Stepczyk from Insomnia Radio, Elsie from Elsie’s Yoga Kula… the list could go on forever, really. Plus, the Coverville 500 party was spectacular, and we all had a ton of fun out on the strip. I’ll have photos from the New Media Expo up here very soon.

Unfortunately, I stayed out late and didn’t get much sleep while I was there, and I am heinously jet-lagged. So I’ve decided to release an encore performance of Dave’s Lounge #50, which includes a speech I gave at a conference at Duke University three years ago. A few things have changed since then, but a lot of it still applies today, and it’s kind of amazing how so few people, both musicians and podcasters, don’t know about this. Perhaps I need to publish this info somewhere else on the web…

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #50:

1. Artemis, “Fountain of Life”  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
2. Bitstream Dream, “Rising Sun”  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
3. Goldlix, “Atoll Moao”
4. san.drine, “Les Larmes d’Isis”  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3
5. Tal M. Klein, “Yona (Ahava Sheli Across the Sea)”  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
6. Natalie Walker, “No One Else”  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
7. Sarah Fimm, “Paradise”  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3
8. All India Radio (feat. Chloe Hall), “For Angel”  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
9. Kmotiv, “Something on the Wing”  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3
10. Microbunny, “Ether”
11. Slovo, “Whisper”  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
12. Permanent4, “By Candlelight”  Buy from: Amie Street

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Dave’s Lounge and Dorado Records are teaming up to give away four copies of Natalie Walker’s new CD, With You. If you would like a chance to enter the drawing to win one of these CDs, send an email to contest@daveslounge.com with your name and complete mailing address. (Don’t worry: I won’t give your address out to any 3rd parties.) Deadline is Midnight GMT on August 30, 2008. I will have a random drawing on August 31 to determine the winners, who will be announced on this web site and in the first episode in September.

This drawing is open to anyone on the planet who doesn’t live in a place where this sort of thing is prohibited by law. Only one entry per person, please, and if you live outside the continental U.S., do allow a few weeks for delivery. Good luck!

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #126:

1. Attic Tree, "Fatcap"  Buy from: eMusic | Amazon MP3
2. Blackfish Productions, "Delta"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
3. Polished Chrome, "Red Sky"  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3
4. Fauxliage, "All the World"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
5. The Black Seeds, "Cool Me Down"  Buy from: eMusic | Amazon MP3
6. Natalie Walker, "Too Late"  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3

Not an eMusic member? Click here to sign up for a free 15-day trial and receive 25 free MP3 downloads, plus 30 MP3s a month for only $9.99. It’s a great value for indie music lovers and a great way to support both the artists and this podcast.

If you’d like to listen to this episode or any other on your iPhone, check out the Dave’s Lounge direct download page.

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A few things worth nothing this week. First off, you’ll notice that I’ve redesigned the Dave’s Lounge web site, so hopefully it looks a bit cleaner and is easier to navigate. I plan on adding a few new features to the site soon, but in the meantime, stop by and let me know what you think of the new look.

Secondly, instead of doing a Natalie Walker feature this month, I’m going to play one new song from her new album, With You, in every new show released in the month of August. In addition, I’m teaming up with Dorado Records to give away free CD copies of With You to Dave’s Lounge listeners. I’ll announce the details of that giveaway next week.

Finally, if you’re going to the New Media Expo in Las Vegas next week, send me an email. I have a long list of things I want to do when I get there, and I’d love to have some company.

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #125:

1. LazyGrooves, "Ocean Wave"  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3
2. MinusBlue, "Be As One (Michael E. Remix)"  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3
3. Takeru Ishikawa & Anji Bee, "Favor Tweet"  Download from: Jamendo
4. Natalie Walker, "With You"  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3
5. Stockfinster, "Visiting Hours"  Download from: stockfinster.nu
6. Killer Bass, "Cold Sun"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes

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Initially, I wasn’t going to do a special episode for All India Radio’s new album, Fall, but the more I listened, the more I was compelled. Martin Kennedy has teamed up with with singer/songwriter Leona Prue and a handful of talented musicians to craft this album, and it’s All India Radio’s best work yet. Here’s to many more musical collaborations between Martin and Leona.

Click here to visit All India Radio’s web site.
Click here to visit All India Radio’s Myspace page.
Click here to visit All India Radio’s Last.fm page.

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #124:

1. All India Radio, "Far Away" 
2. All India Radio, "Let Me Remain" 
3. All India Radio, "The End or Near" 
4. All India Radio, "Fall" 
5. All India Radio, "Asphyxiated" 
6. All India Radio, "Morning Drops"

Buy "Fall" on CD from: CD Baby
Buy "Fall" in MP3 format from: eMusic | Amazon MP3 | CD Baby
Buy "Fall" in DRM-free AAC format from: iTunes

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If you’d like to listen to this episode or any other on your iPhone, check out the Dave’s Lounge direct download page.

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So I’m playing songs by Dive Index and Science for Girls this week, and it got me to thinking. I did a special episode for Dive Index, but I’ve pretty much scattered Science for Girls’ music throughout multiple episodes, and I’m wondering which approach y’all like better. Feel free to leave a comment here with your thoughts.

By the way, that little voice in the back of our heads that I mentioned at the top of this episode? Mine’s telling me that I really need to redesign this web site soon. Among other things…

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #123:

1. Favard, "Emotion"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes
2. Alka, "Side of a Mountain"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
3. Indidginus, "Unstuck"  Download from: Last.fm
4. Di Johnston, "Epilogue (Reimagined)"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
5. Dive Index, "Come Tell Me"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
6. Science for Girls, "Pattern Recognition"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3

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Warren Ellis used to write a column about comics called Come In Alone. The title referred to the only way people can enjoy a comic book. We can experience other media — movies, music, etc. — together with friends or complete strangers, but comics were almost exclusively experience by one person at a time. I wonder, sometimes, if we experience music the same way a bit too often…

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #122:

1. Sharon Robinson, "Party for the Lonely"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3 | CD Baby
2. Vanessa Daou, "Mess Around"  Coming soon from: Amazon MP3
3. The Grooveblaster, "Waiting for Snow in Havana"
4. Ivana Gomez, "Moth"  Buy from: CD Baby
5. Mystical Sun, "In Between Orbits"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3 | CD Baby
6. Urban Myth Club, "Spacewalk"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes

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This week features a sneak preview of Natalie Walker’s new album With You, which hits stores on August 19, and brand new music from All India Radio’s new album Fall, which is available now. You’ll be hearing a lot more from both those discs in the coming weeks.

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #121:

1. Natalie Walker, "Lost My Shadow"  Coming soon…
2. All India Radio, "Far Away "  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
3. Evolve, "Mellow"  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3
4. Moosefrog, "Left Out "  Download from: Moosefrog.net
5. Irene B, "Me Dejo Llavar"
6. Man in the Moon (feat. Debora Vilchez), "Fragile"  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3

Not an eMusic member? Click here to sign up for a free 15-day trial and receive 25 free MP3 downloads, plus 30 MP3s a month for only $9.99. It’s a great value for indie music lovers and a great way to support both the artists and this podcast.

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Dive Index’s fantastic album Mid/Air was featured in Dave’s Lounge #95. Here’s a video from the closing track of that album, “The World Is Kind” — a lovely little kaleidoscope of theme park rides, which serves to remind me that I need to get myself on some roller coasters very, very soon…

The video was directed by Anita Leib.