My car was recently broken into, and my iPod was lifted. I say: Good. I think the whole ordeal’s kind of funny. I mean, what kind of America do we live in, where a guy can’t cause a thousand dollars in damage so that he can turn like $50 or $80 at a nearby pawn shop? Further: I’m pretty sure, after sifting through the aftermath, that the guy who broke in totally left me a can of Sprite.  As a token of my enthusiasm, here’s a giant can of Sprite:

On the upshot: Plenty of opportunity now to flex my mixtape-making muscles.  I thought maybe you’d enjoy that, too.  Here’s eleven (naturally) songs that are now spinning in the car CD player.

Joshcast Vol 01:

1. Bullets // Tunng
2. Hustle // Tunng
3. Animal // Miike Snow
4. Party with Children // Ratatat
5. What You Know // Two Door Cinema Club
6. A Fairytale Ending // The Boy Least Likely To
7. When My Time Comes // Dawes
8. I Can Change // LCD Soundsystem
9. Radar Detector // Darwin Deez
10. Cold War // Janelle Monae
11. Magic (feat. Rivers Cuomo) // B.o.B

Some liner notes: Tunng is great. I love their two most recent albums, Good Arrows and …And then We Saw Land, which respectively feature songs 1 and 2. I must have seen Miike Snow a half dozen times at music festivals across the country this year. “Party with Children” feels like it belongs in an old school Sonic.  Maybe a water level.  I’ve loved The Boy Least Likely To for the last three years, I get the feeling I’ll love Dawes for the next three. “Radar Detector” and “Magic” are catchy as the cold that seems to have swept the city this weekend.

Anyway, I hope you like it.

Download the mix as one long playable thing here: http://drop.io/joshcast01