yo la hannukah mix by yoni wolf of why?

WHY? is a weird, weird band, and that’s why I dig them. I first encountered them when a coworker at the public library I worked at in college gave me Elephant Eyelash and was surprised to find it was nothing like I’d ever heard. M|H has been featuring WHY?’s work over the years and when we saw they were coming to town to play a free show at the Sett in Union South with Astronautalis and Dream Tiger we jumped on the chance to have them make us a mixtape, and WHY? founder Yoni Wolf passed along his Yo La Hannukah mix to us. Be sure to check out WHY?’s website for more tour dates, videos, and Yoni’s blog.

Yo La Hannukah

01| I Shall Be Released by Bob Dylan

02| True Love Will Find You in the End by Daniel Johnston

03| Lady May by Michael Wolf

04| Prince Song by Dump

05| Wonderwall (Oasis Cover) by Cat Power

06| Blimps Go 90 by Guided By Voices

07| Kids Party by Chris Morris

08| Tears of Rage by The Band

09| Hide Your Love Away by The Beatles

10| Among Those Killed in the Dawn Raid Was a Man Aged a Hundred by Dylan Thomas

11| 8 Million Stories by A Tribe Called Quest

12| Money Trees (feat. Jay Rock) by Kendrick Lamar

13| Nice Train by The Donkeys

14| What’s Up Freaks? by Fog

15| Ol’ English by The Game

16| Bad Religion by Frank Ocean

17| Night at the Knight School by Thee More Shallows

18| Figaro (101 Remix) by Madvillain

19| Hit by Guided By Voices

20| I Like Dat by Lil’ Wayne

21| Minha Galera by Manu Chao

22| Nehadar Zéytkéwen by Teweide Redda

23| Deny Deny Deny by Hood

24| Tshitua Fulia Mbuloba by Kasai Allstars

25| Long Ears by Serengeti

26| On a Good Day by Joanna Newsom

27| Song One by cLOgs

28| Elevators by Outkast

29| Dying Crapshooter’s Blues by Blind Willie McTell

30| Mermaids by Liz Hodson

31| Queston by May Swenson

32| I Shall Be Released by The Band

33| Grave Robbers by Mount Eerie, Julie Doiron, Fred Squire

what a difference a decade makes

This morning I realized that yesterday was the ten-year anniversary of the first concert I ever booked. As a freshman in college I joined the WUD Music Committee after seeing their ad in the student activities guide and then attending a free concert featuring Hey Mercedes. The committee quickly became the center of my extracurricular activities and social life, and at the end of my first semester I managed to book one of my favorite bands from home, Punchline, and this little Chicago band that they were on tour with – Fall Out Boy.

This is what I looked like exactly ten years & one day ago.

The show was at the very beginning of the spring semester of 2003, and being that it was January in Wisconsin it was freezing cold and snowing. One of the people who had co-booked the show (Madcap, Count the Stars, and 504 Plan were also on the bill) had nightmares leading up to the show, dreaming that nobody came. Happily, the show ended up being packed. Below is an era-appropriate photo collage from the night, as well a video sampling of the bands that played.

504 Plan – Fathead

Count the Stars – Taking It All Back

Punchline – Play

Fall Out Boy – Chicago Is So Two Years Ago

Madcap – Going on the Road