I’ve let a few things slide over the last couple of weeks, and one of those things is listening to music submissions and digging around for new tunes to play. So I’m going to take this week off and give myself a little more time to take care of that. If you want to catch up on back episodes of Dave’s Lounge, you can download them here.

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.

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