RCFSV Mixtape

The Rock County Folk Symposium may well be our favorite part of the summer, and we’re over the moon about sharing this mix with you. On Saturday, August 23rd, join us in the safe zone of Camp Rotamer and let the antidote of live music, local food, and interactive art steel you against the encroaching madness and heal what ails you. The main stage artists have all handpicked a piece to share with you. For a field test, retrieve your headphones and bunker down – if your body and soul feel rejuvenated it is in your best interest to enter the quarantine zone and seek the full treatment. Let heritage lead you home.

Cover Art by Jeremy Nealis

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RCFSV Mixtape

01| Leave the Dance (With the Girl You Brought) by Double Ewes
02| Chirp by Sayth f/Wealthy Relative
03| It’s a Trick by Bedtimes

04| Acceptance by Jon Mueller: Death Blues
05| King Ciccada by Dietrich Gosser

06| Good Luck by Hello Death

07| Perhaps by Adelyn Rose

08| Things I Say by Softly, Dear

09| Reunion by All Tiny Creatures

hot’n’slow

Hello! I’m excited to announce the first of at least one guest post from Valerie Burn. I have had top-of-my-lungs sing-alongs to her high school mixtapes after being well into my twenties, and thus am very pleased that Ms. Burn has been kind enough to share with us her hottest and slowest summer jams.

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Everyone loves a good, hot, summer jam. Everyone. This is science. However, sometimes you need to roll it back. Slow it down a bit. And that is precisely what slow jams are for.

But what, dear readers, would it mean if a song could be both? Simultaneously a hot jam and a slow jam? Before your head explodes, allow me to explain.

Sometimes musicians, usually white ones in indie rock bands, take an amazing hot jam and slow it down – with the tempo, acoustics, or otherwise. It’s like Columbusing, but way cooler and hopefully less offensive. Certainly, some (many) covers are awful, which is why I conveniently made you this list. You’re welcome.

These hot’n’slow jams are the perfect music to listen to at the end of a long night. Party’s over, but everyone’s got time for one last singalong.

hot’n’slow
01| Are You That Somebody – Gossip

02| Umbrella – Marie Digby

03| Crazy – Emily Asen

04| Hey Ya – Obadiah Parker

05| Hot in Herre – Jenny Owen Youngs

06| Heartless – Virender Singh

07| Whatever You Like – Anya Marina

08| Cry Me a River – Glen Hansard

09| Single Ladies – Pomplamoose

10| Bitches Ain’t Shit – Ben Folds

11| Whatcha Say – Princess

12| Grenade – Julia Sheer & Tyler Ward

13| 99 Problems – Hugo

14| Pursuit of Happiness – Lissie

 

Honorable mentions (i.e., songs not on Spotify or they might be on this list):

No Diggity – Klaxons

Umbrella – Mandy Moore (starts at 0:35)

World’s Greatest – Bonnie “Prince” Billy

Cry Me a River – Selena Gomez (trust me)

We Found Love – Ed Sheeran

Valerie Burn is a very cool adult who writes things sometimes and is always looking for new and innovative ways to listen to pop music.

true american

 

For the Fourth of July we decided to use a hackneyed theme to make a decent mixtape. Every song has something about America or the USA in its title or artist name, they’re all songs you’ve probably heard, and there are thirteen of them to represent the colonies. Is it groundbreaking? Nope. Is it perfect for grilling in the sunshine and starting the USA chant? Indeed it is. Mixtapes|Heartbreaks presents to you: True American.

TRUE AMERICAN
01| Born in the U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen
02| American Woman by Lenny Kravitz
03| Bleed American by Jimmy Eat World
04| Lump by The Presidents of the United States of America
05| Ventura Highway by America
06| Never Meant by American Football
07| My Paper Heart by The All-American Rejects
08| So American by Portugal. The Man
09| USA by Yellow Ostrich
10| American Hearts by Piebald
11| American Girl by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
12| American Boy by Estelle f/Kanye West
13| Party & Bullshit in the USA by DJ Crazy J Rodriguez