The Mixtape 4/20/09: Ups and downs, a new TV channel, and the horizon is now.

This week it's more about what's not on the Mixtape than what is.

First, what's on: Six out of the top ten hold their spots this week including the top three. Mastodon (13) ,Grizzly Bear (15), Woods, and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (19) are all making moves upwards while Camera Obscura (21), The Broken West (22), and Phoenix (23) all begin to fade away.

TV on the Radio's Kyp Malone returns to the top ten - a familiar setting for him considering the late 2008 saturation of songs from TVOTR's Dear Science in the upper quarter of the 'tape. This time it's with his pre-TVOTR band, Iran, and theirfirst single off their third album, Dissolver. Buddy is moving quickly up the 'tape and looks to break through the Thermals/Spinnerette/Decemberists log jam next week.

Now for what's not on the Mixtape (but will be very shortly). Sure, there is the inevitable appearance in the next few weeks from Green Day's "Know Your Enemy," the first single from their newest conceptual excess, 21st Century Breakdown. It will get some spins for sure, but I would rather hear another Foxboro Hot Tubs record than American Idiot part deux. Call me a simpleton.

What I did hear today (and is currently on infinite replay) is the new Clipse song featuring Kanye West. Yeezy is actually rapping again without that damn AutoTune nonsense and Pusha T and Malice are flowing like their hustlin' selves. The song, which accurately describes itself, is called "Kinda Like a Big Deal" and will be on the Mixtape next week. It will also most likely be on Clipse's upcoming third album, Till The Casket Drops, which should be out late summer. It's been a couple years since the last time I heard it like this.

1. Panic Switch / Silversun Pickups (3 weeks @ #1) iTunes MySpace
2. Now I'm a Fool / Eagles of Death Metal iTunes MySpace
3. Zero / Yeah Yeah Yeahs iTunes MySpace
4. Seaside / Kestrels iTunes MySpace
5. Houses / Great Northern iTunes MySpace
6. The Rake's Song / The Decemberists iTunes MySpace
7. Ghetto Love / Spinnerette iTunes MySpace
8. Now We Can See / The Thermals iTunes MySpace
9. Go Square Go / Glasvegas iTunes MySpace
10. Buddy / Iran iTunes MySpace
11. It's Nice to Know You Work Alone / Silversun Pickups iTunes MySpace
12. Providence, RI / Nickel Eye iTunes MySpace
13. Oblivion / Mastodon iTunes MySpace
14. Night Lights / Golden Bear iTunes MySpace
15. Cheerleader / Grizzly Bear iTunes MySpace
16. Cemetery Songs / The Archibalds iTunes MySpace
17. Pulling On a Line / Great Lake Swimmers iTunes MySpace
18. My Girls / Animal Collective iTunes MySpace
19. Statues / Clap Your Hands Say Yeah iTunes MySpace
20. Rain On/ Woods iTunes MySpace
21. My Maudlin Career / Camera Obscura iTunes MySpace
22. Perfect Games / The Broken West iTunes MySpace
23. 1901 / Phoenix iTunes MySpace
24. Search and Destroy / Peaches iTunes MySpace
25. I Was Once a Loyal Lover / Death Cab For Cutie iTunes MySpace
26. Back 'Round / Wolfmother iTunes MySpace
27. Starting Over / Black Lips iTunes MySpace
28. Brother Sport / Animal Collective iTunes Myspace
29. Just Impolite / Plushgun iTunes MySpace
30. My Last Mistake / Dan Auerbach iTunes MySpace
31. Little Bribes / Death Cab For Cutie iTunes MySpace
32. Come Saturday / The Pains of Being Pure at Heart iTunes MySpace
33. Wire to Wire / Razorlight iTunes MySpace
34. The Ancient Common Sense of Things / Bishop Allen iTunes MySpace
35. Wrong / Depeche Mode iTunes MySpace
36. Who's Asking? / Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band iTunes MySpace
37. Sleepyhead / Passion Pit iTunes MySpace.
38. One Week of Danger / The Virgins iTunes MySpace
39. Trepanation Party/ Voxtrot iTunes MySpace
40. The Box / The 1990s iTunes MySpace