POPCAST #534 TREATS THE FOLLOWING: Dry skin, mosquito bites, migraines and colorblindness.

RECOMMENDED USE: If its cloudy outside, listen indoors while wearing bermuda shorts, pretending your wall heater is the sun. If its sunny outside, play cassette in ghetto blaster perched on your shoulder and do what track 1 says.

ADDITIONAL NOTES: Dr. Marnie wholeheartedly endorses 2 new releases this week: Broken Bells (self-titled) and Gorillaz Plastic Beach. Musical self-medication highly recommended.

ACTIVE INGREDIENTS:

1. Go Outside: Cults
2. Amour Du Sol: Yelle
3. Lost In Emotion: Lisa Lisa & The Cult Jam
4. Kiss You On The Cheek (King Of Town Remix): Desmond & The Tutus
5. In The Sun: She & Him
6. I Don't Mind: Lisa Ekdahl
7. In A Manner of Speaking: Nouvelle Vague
8. The Mall & Misery: Broken Bells
9. Fake Palindromes: Andrew Bird
10. Midnight: Yaz
11. Empire Ants: Gorillaz

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POPCAST #533 TREATS THE FOLLOWING SYMPTOMS: Hypothermia, cavities, depression due to low income earnings, allergies and boring-winter-wardrobe-syndrome.

RECOMMENDED USE: Close your eyes and imagine the first song being sung by a tiny black and white cat sitting on a sandy beach. You will then find yourself transported out of your cubicle and into a world where everything is half its original size and the accepted form of currency is bubble gum. Your journey will end with a flaming hot ball of awesome in the form of So Electric that will give you the power to accomplish any task in front of you; from mailing a letter to building a birdhouse, the power is yours.

WARNINGS: Listening to song #3 while consuming alcohol and wearing clogs may result in a broken ankle and a permanent smile across your face. 

ACTIVE INGREDIENTS:

1. Sabali: Amadou & Mariam
2. Carol Brown: Flight of the Conchords
3. Klass 6b: Rena Rama
4. Miss Teardrop: Felix Laband
5. You Make Me Weak At The Knees: Electrelane
6. Fool's Gold: Lhasa
7. These Things: Looper
8. Coldest Night of the Year: Vashti Bunyan
9. IZ-US: Aphex Twin
10. Knocked Up: Lykke Li
11. Inni Mer Syngur Vitleysingur: Sigur Ros
12. So Electric: Lifelike

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POPCAST #532 TREATS THE FOLLOWING SYMPTOMS: Lack of inspiration, frownability, Restless Leg Syndrome, sleeplessness, laziness and the inability to daydream and crack a smile during the 9-5 daily grind.

RECOMMENDED USE: Use Popcast #532's loosely-based 'electro-robotic-cosmonaut' theme to whisk you away to undiscovered planets where inhabitants wear mod futuristic silver outfits and offer you moon brew and invite you to cosmic dance parties. Decide whether The Carpenters completes this fantasy or totally ruins it.

WARNINGS: Possible volume inconsistencies may inhibit listening pleasure. P&C productions is working to remedy the situation.

ACTIVE INGREDIENTS:
1. Mouth Full Of Diamonds: Phantogram
2. Star Fruit Surf Rider: Cornelius
3. Tetsuwan Atomu: Stereo Total
4. Indian Fig: Bob Callaghan & Co.
5. Synthia: FM Belfast
6. Radio Kaliningrad: Handsome Furs
7. Dead Sound: The Raveonettes
8. Greatest Hit: Annie
9. A New: Little Dragon
10. Let Me Be The One: The Carpenters
11. Lovers Carvings: Bibio
12. To The End: Blur

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POPCAST #531 TREATS THE FOLLOWING SYMPTOMS: The winter blues, the mean reds, job search fatigue, anxiety, vertigo and joint pain. 

RECOMMENDED USE: Listen as frequently as needed, preferably in combination with a cup of tea and sketchbook.

WARNINGS: In rare cases listening to Kim Carnes has been known to encourage Raspy-Voice Syndrome and the urge to tie a bandana around your head. Listen cautiously.

ACTIVE INGREDIENTS:
1. Blonde On Blonde: Nada Surf
2. Tougher Than the Rest: Camera Obscura
3. Zebra: Beach House
4. You Can Have It All: George McCrae
5. La Poupée Qui Fait Non: St. Etienne
6. My Heart Must Do The Crying: The Renegades
7. Sugar On My Tongue: Talking Heads
8. Go It Alone: Noonday Underground
9. Service Bell: Feist & Grizzly Bear
10. Bette Davis Eyes: Kim Carnes
11. Prophets: A.C. Newman
12. Thats us/Wild Combination: Arthur Russell

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Sometimes, you gotta take things into your own hands if you want to live the good life.

Telepopmusik: Smile

…there’s definitely still lots of things that we’re lucky to have. I’m starting to get a little tired of the unprecidented amount of loss going on around me; jobs, families, happiness, homes, forests, husbands, wives, health, deposits, Kodachrome, ugh, enough already! In the last couple weeks alone I was served with an official layoff notice and a last-minute (and temporary, I repeat, oh-so-temporary…) move back home to weather the storm until I find my footing. Folks, I’m just gonna say it; the world kinda sucks right now. FOR EVERYONE. And before it starts to get depressing I offer you this song and photo for inspiration. After all, you may not have a job but for crap’s sake, you got your boobies. End of story.