Musical Crack

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2009-08-14T13:47:00.000-04:00

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New Radiohead album due Oct 10

2007-09-30T19:51:00.000-04:00

The album will be called "In Rainbows". You can pre order it for download or get the discbox for $81. If you opt for the download, you can name your own price. Downloads are available Oct 10, and and discboxes are shipped on or before Dec 3.

Get it here.

Playslist

2007-09-10T20:00:00.000-04:00

1	Battles	Rainbow
2	The Starlight Mints	Inside of Me
3	Nouvelle Vague	Dancing With Myself
4	Sambassadeur	Sense of Sound
5	Vampire Weekend	Boston
6	Art Brut	People in Love
7	Final Fantasy	Peach Plum Pear (Joanna Newsom Cover)
8	Seabear	I Sing I Swim
9	Sparrow House	Blindfold Waltz
10	The Fiery Furnaces	Spaniolated
11	Seventeen Evergreen	Grays
12	Dina Washington	Is You Or Is You Ain't My Baby? (Rae & Christian Remix)
13	Annie	No Easy Love
14	DJ Mehdi	I Am Somebody feat. Chromeo (Paris Version)
15	Gotye	Learnalilgivinanlovin
16	Fatboy Slim	Ya Mama
17	Timbaland	Miscommunication (The Bloody Beetroots Remix)
18	The Go! Team	Keys to the City
19	Felix da Housecat	Walk With Me
20	Ralph Myerz & The Jack Herren Band	Dubspace
21	Quantic	Sound of Everything
22	Digitalism	Moonlight
23	Gorillaz	Kids With Guns
24	Alan Braxe & Fred Falke	Palladium
25	Yelle	Les Femmes
26	Donna Summer	I Feel Love
27	Armand van Helden	Go Crazy! (feat. Majida)

Playlist - First show of the Semester

2007-09-03T20:00:00.000-04:00

1	Coralie Clément	La Mer Opale
2	Eluvium	Prelude for Time Feelers
3	Gotye	Heart's A Mess
4	Iron & Wine	Boy With A Coin
5	Teddybears	Yours to Keep
6	The Avalanches	A Different Feeling (Paperclip People Remix)
7	Alan Braxe & Fred Falke	Penthouse Serenade
8	Chaka Kahn	Fate (Tynneterje Edit)
9	Chromeo	Tenderoni
10	Au Revoir Simone	I Couldn't Sleep
11	The Go! Team	Grip Like A Vice
12	Curses!	Hungry 4 Love!
13	Digitalism	I Want I Want
14	DJ Mehdi	Lucky Boy
15	Los Campansinos!	You! Me! Dancing!
16	Math & Science	Words
17	Kissy Sell Out	Harriet
18	Kavinsky	Testarossa Nightdrive
19	Boys Noize	Feel Good (TV=Off)

The White Stripes - Icky Thump (CDS)

2007-05-29T01:39:00.000-04:00

I think I finally understand Icky Thump.

The song is just an excuse to listen to this sweet, skull warping guitar riff over and over again. The same way that tostidos are just an excuse to stuff your face with salsa. The rest of the song is Jack White ranting about prostitutes, immigration, and saying "La la la la" a lot. There might be meaning behind the cryptic lyrics, but honestly, I just tune out until the riff comes back.

I'm going to go listen to it some more.

get it on hype machine.

Playlist

2007-03-26T23:59:00.000-04:00

1	Caetano Veloso	Manha de Carneval
2	Blonde Redhead	Spring and by Summer Fall
3	Apostle of Hustle	National Anthem of Nowhere
4	The Arcade Fire	The Well and the Lighthouse
5	Bright Eyes	Tourist Trap
6	Air	J'ai dormi sous l'eau
7	Boards of Canada	Twoism
8	Zoot Women	Its Automatic
9	Crash Crew	On the Radio
10	Le Knight Club	Mirage
11	Thomas Bangalter	Spinal Scratch
12	Klaxons	Gravity's Rainbow
13	Editors	Munich
14	Of Montreal	Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse
15	The Night Writers	Let the Music (Use you) (Orgional 12'')
16	Cassius	Rock Number One
17	Knightlife	Ambopop(DEMO)
18	Afrika Bambaataa	Looking for the Perfect Beat
19	datA	Master Level
20	Kavinsky	Wayfarer
21	Shalamar	Make That Move (remix)

Playlist: A Spring Break from House Music

2007-03-19T11:50:00.000-04:00

1	How I Became the Bomb	Secret Identity
2	Soul Position	Hand-Me-Downs
3	Apostle of Hustle	National Anthem of Nowhere
4	Caetano Veloso	Manha de Carnaval
5	Ron Sexmith	Secret Heart
6	Malajube	Le Crabe
7	Sufjan Stevens	She Is (Tim Buckley cover)
8	Tahiti 80	Chinatown
9	Klaxons	Golden Skans
10	Buen Chico	Things
11	Nouvelle Vague	Teenage Kicks
12	Gotye	Heart's A Mess
13	I'm From Barcelona	Collection of Stamps
14	Apples in Stereo	Sunday Sounds
15	Laura Veirs	Phantom Mountain
16	Of Montreal	Gronlandic Edit
17	Shout Out Out	Forever Indebted
18	Kings of Convenience	Know How
19	Notorious B.I.G.	Party and Bullshit (Ratatat Remix)
20	Stardust	Music Sound Better (In Miami Horror Remix)
21	Cylone	Lord of the Land

Playlist

2007-03-15T00:24:00.000-04:00

1	Modest Mouse	Dashboard
2	The Zutons	Tired of Hanging Around
3	Ant	We Will Bring You Up To Date
4	The Beach Boys	Good Vibrations + rayhAn Vocals
5	Air	Mer Du Japon
6	!!!	Heart of Hearts
7	The Apples in Stereo	Sunnal Song
8	Laura Veirs	Wandering Kind
9	George Duke	I Love You MoreFar
10	Peter Bjorn and John	Let's Call it Off
11	Cut Chemist	What's the Atitude
12	Young Buck	Shorty Wanna Ride (Ratatat Remix)
13	Phoenix	Long Distance Call (25 Hours A Day Mix)
14	C.O.D.	In the Bottle
15	Tyrone Brunson	The Smurf
16	Switch	A Bit Patchy (Kenny Dope Mix)
17	TEPR	Minuet Jacuzzi (datA Remix)
18	Brazilian Girls	Jique (MSTRKRFT Remix)
19	Brass Construction	Movin'
20	The JBs	You Can Have Your Watergate
21	Le Knight Club	Mosquito
22	Cut Copy	The Twilight

Daft Punk Live at Coachella 04.26.06

2006-07-13T23:16:00.000-04:00

~~Download it here.~~
Download it here.

I heard Daft Punk's show at Coachella a few months ago and fell in love with it. This post is an incomplete description of the bliss that I feel when listening to the set.

My favourite cuts:
3:00 - Robot Rock / Human After All
21:14 - Unknown arpeggiated chords
29:45 - Around the World / Harder Better Faster Stronger
47:08 - Aerodynamic (+ new bass synth backups!) / One More Time
48:54 - Listen for the repeater on the words "Music's got" and "Celebrate".
01:07:16 - Da Funk sampled (listen to 02:26 in the original for reference)

On the last two, it sounds like they've got a beat matched sampler, with buttons for repeating 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, or 1/32 of the sample. Here's what I think happens:

You push one of the buttons (4, 8, 16, 32)
It splits the sample up into the appropriate number of slices
It gets the position of the sampler
It finds the slice that the sampler is currently "in".
It repeats that slice on beat.
Finally, when the button is released, continues playing the sample from the appropriate position, as if it had been muted (basically, doesn't restart the sample).

You can hear it again during "Technologic" at 13:34 and again at 14:05. I don't know what the equipment is called, but I like the way they've used it. I think that I'll try to write a program to do the same thing one day, and hopefully have it plug into other programs (Acid, FL Studio, Cubase, etc.) via VST(i) and Rewire.

One of the things I love about Daft Punk is their ability to take a piece of technology and do something very sonically interesting with it.

In "Indo Silver Club" (Homework), as soon as the beat drops (at 00:19) the main sample is muted on the downbeats. At high volume, it sounds like your ears are incapable of hearing the sample due to the massive bass. To top it off, at 03:40 they play the main sample muted without the bass kick, revealing the secret of their magic to the listener. When the beat drops again (03:48) the gaps left by the main sample are filled, and you are allowed to continue your booty-shaking.

In "Aerodynamic" (Discovery) at 02:28, a synth comes in playing the same arpeggiated chords as the (mindblowing) solo at 01:02. I didn't realize this until I threw the song into Acid and laid the soft synths over the solo.

In "Superheroes" (Discovery) at 02:22, the left channel plays arpeggiated chords, while the right channel is on delay. I can't really describe the effect, but it's worth hearing.

"Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" (Discovery) sounds like an exercise in vocoder manipulation. A vocoder takes in two signals, called a carrier and a modulator. The carrier is usually a voice, and the modulator is some kind of instrument, usually a synthesizer. The two are merged for the familiar result. The samples are established for the first half of the song. At 02:01 a huge change happens, where the established samples are modulated into insanity. They use a synthesizer plugged on the vocoder for most of the song, except at 02:36, where a guitar is used. I love it.

"Harder, Better, Stronger" is the song that got me hooked on Daft Punk. I heard the cut from 02:01 on a General Electric commercial but didn't know what it was. A month later, Jon and I swapped mixTapes, and there it was. I must have listened to it on repeat for at least an hour and a half. This was in Spring 2001.

There are many more songs by Daft Punk that I could write about, but I feel it would be best if you explored their catalogue for yourself. This is just the tip of the iceburg.

Last Show of Freshman Year

2006-05-18T13:21:00.000-04:00

The radio show will (hopefully) never eat my morning again. Amy and Judith came in to lend me their talents as guest-jockeys, and a good time was had by all.

#	N	Artist	Track
1		Elliott Smith	Rose Parade
2	*	Destroyer	Rubies
3	*	Talkdemonic	White Gymnasium
4		Of Montreal	Disconnect the Dots
5		Monks of Doom	Vaporize Your Crystals
6		Of Montreal	Wraith Pinned to the Mist
7		Six Organs of Admittance	A Thousand Birds
8	*	The Essex Green	Cardinal Points
9	*	South	A Place in Displacement
10		Blonde Redhead	This Is Not
11	*	The Tasty Habits	Untitled
12		Modest Mouse	I Came As A Rat
13		Ms. John Soda	Hiding / Fading
14	*	Montag	Kiddo 3
15		!!!	Me And Guliani Down By The Schoolyard
16		Thao Nguyen	We
17		Speechwriters LLC	Spaghetti Streetwalker
18	*	The Little Ones	Lovers Who Uncover
19	*	The Like Young	All the Wrong Reasons
20		Madeline Peyroux	Don't Wait Too Long
21	*	Envelopes	It Is the Law
22		Lightning Bolt	Ride The Sky
23	*	Margot & the Nuclear So & So's	Paper Kitten Nightmare

Playlist - Lots of cute songs

2006-05-11T20:52:00.000-04:00

68% new bin material.
unghhhh.

#	N	Artist	Track
1		Volta Do Mar	Music for Countries
2		Koop	Soul for Sahib
3		Elliott Smith	Waltz #2 (XO)
4		Radiohead	Idioteque
5		Thievery Corporation	Meu Destino
6	*	The Light Footwork	The Art Of Everyday Communication
7	*	The Tasty Habits	If Nick and Jessica Were Wrong (I Don't Want To Be Right)
8	*	Aphex Twin	Chosen Lords
9	*	Mates of State	Beautiful Dreamer
10	*	Electric President	Metal Fingers
11	*	The High Violets	Cool Green
12		The Album Leaf	Over The Pond
13	*	Seth Koffman	Black Biscuit
14	*	Belle & Sebastian	Dress Up In You
15	*	Juana Molina	La Verdad
16	*	Junior Boys	Max
17		Acid House Kings	One Two Three Four
18	*	Boy Least Likely To	I'm Glad I Hitched My Apple Wagon To Your Star
19	*	Suburban Sky	Surf Instrumental
20	*	Spank Rock	Backyard Betty
21	*	Cities	Ooc
22	*	Mcklusky	She Will Only Bring You Happiness
23	*	The Secret Machines	Lightning Blue Eyes
24	*	Margot & The Nuclear So and So's	Vampires in Blue Dresses
25		Air	Surfing on a Rocket
26	*	Tarkio	If I Had More Time
27	*	Wizardzz	"Do Come In!" (Tea and Chulliwugs)
28		Voxtrot	Long Haul
29	*	Shelly Short	Like Anything, It's Small

Playlist - Loops and Loops and Loops

2006-04-27T14:55:00.000-04:00

I looped the stream from the WMUC website into the studio via Aux cable to build huge cacophonies. Hear it on the stream at 40:35 and again at 63:30. A week from now the stream link will be the radio show from May 4th, so hear it while you can! Also, today's show was 47.8% new bin material, a new personal best.

#	N	Artist	Track
1		Mint Royale	Princess
2	*	Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins	The Charging Sky
3	*	The Light Footwork	Rapture Good Rapture Bad
4		Massive Attack	One Thought at a Time
5		Simon & Garfunkel	The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
6	*	Band of Horses	The Great Salt Lake
7	*	Birdy Nam Nam	Jazz It At Home
8	*	Cities	A Theme
9		Ambulance LTD	Stay Tuned
10		Secret Machines	Nowhere Again
11		Matt Pond PA	Winter One
12		MSTRKRFT	Easy Love
13		Supergrass	Kiss of Life
14	*	Field Music	You're Not Supposed To
15	*	Built To Spill	Conventional Wisdom
16	*	Flaming Lips	The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song
17		Raconteurs	Store Bought Bones
18	*	The Fiery Furnaces	Topical-Iceland
19	*	I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness	Lights
20		We Will Build	1214
21	*	Teeth	I Love You
22		Lali Puna	Grin and Bear
23		Air	Playground Love

Playlist - Three Guest DJs

2006-04-20T13:36:00.000-04:00

Nancy, Jan, and Jon (via telephone) helped out with the show this morning. What a lively bunch! This was one of our best shows yet. Jan fell asleep before we could beatbox.

#	Artist	Track	Comment
1	Metric	Monster Hospital (MSTRKRFT Remix)	nancy's pick
2	Parks and Recreation	Break Into Song
3	Jason Collett	Fire	nancy's pick
4	Mates of State	Think Long
5	Broken Social Scene	Puff The Magic Dragon (cover)
6	Final Fantasy	This Is The Dream of Win and Regine	nancy's pick
7	The Libertines	Death on the Stairs
8	Athlete	El Salvador	jon's pick
9	Phoenix	Too Young	jan's pick
10	Boy Least Likely To	Fur Soft As Fur
11	Voxtrot	Missing Pieces
12	We Are Scientists	Can't Lose	jon's pick
13	Air	Mike Mills	sooothing
14	Stars	Soft Revolution
15	Fugazi	Break	jon: "play something upbeat!"
16	Thao Nguyen	Hills
17	Isobel Campbell & Mark Lannagen	Honey Child, What Can I Do?	nancy's pick
18	Death From Above 1979	Blood On Our Hands	nancy's pick
19	Alden Ginger	Soon	i'm in love
20	Jose Gonzalez	Lovestain	jon is cleaning out his apartment
21	Hard-Fi	Living For The Weekend	jon's pick
22	The Raconteurs	Steady As She Goes	jon's pick.... again!
23	Wolf Parade	I'll Believe In Anything
24	Absinthe Glow	Contradictions

Podcast Roundup

2006-04-15T13:11:00.000-04:00

These are the podcasts I find myself actually listening to.

Audiovant is relatively new, but don't let that fool you. Their first three episodes are interviews with Clap Your Hands, Tapes 'n Tapes, and Jens Lekman. I've no idea how he does it, but I do know that I want him to keep doing it. That sounds a little dirty. Subscribe here.

3hive's Podcast is an offshoot of their main site, highlighting their favorite songs of those they have posted. http://threehive.libsyn.com/rss (read below*)

WOXY.com has three podcasts, but the most important one to check out is the Lounge Acts. They have some really cool bands come in and play in their studio. Subscribe here.

NPR has a great show called All Songs Considered. It features a broader, more mainstream scope of music than the rest, but is just as enjoyable. Subscribe here.

Antcast is the RSS version of videos.antville.org, which posts up cool new videos available on the net. Watch out though, these are videos so the feed will tend to eat more hard disk space. http://feeds.feedburner.com/antcast (read below*)

PopMontreal's Popcast is an excellent show run by Andrew Rose. It started out showcasing bands that were playing in the festival, but now it has a broader scope, focused on bands from Montreal. In it's third episode it included the world premiere of Island's "Rough Gem". Yeah, I know. Subscribe here.

*For all of the podcasts with no direct link, can subscribe in iTunes by clicking on Advanced->Subscribe to Podcast and pasting the address in the text box.

Playlist

2006-04-13T23:04:00.000-04:00

#	N	Artist	Track
1		Hotel Lights	AM Golden Hit
2		Basement Jaxx	Rendez-Vu
3		The Dandy Warhols	Be-In
4	*	The Light Footwork	Pirate Karate
5		Matt Pond PA	Neighbor's New Yard
6	*	Jason Collett	We All Lose One Another
7	*	Kudu	Bar Star
8	*	Toothfairy	Kicked Outta The Band
9	*	Sufjan Stevens	The Friendly Beasts
10		Madeline Peyroux	Dance Me To The End of Love
11		Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Theme Song
12		Ted Leo & The Pharmacists	My Vein Illin
13	*	The Playwrights	Dislocated
14	*	The Capes	Tightly Wound
15		Telepopmusik	Breathe
16		Voxtrot	Raised By Wolves
17	*	Envelopes	It Is The Law
18	*	Tarkio	Sister Nebraska
19	*	The Essex Green	Uniform
20	*	The M's	Mansion In The Valley
21		The Rolling Stones	Sympathy for the Devil (Neptunes Remix)
22		Bloc Party	Banquet
23		Yeah Yeah Yeahs	Cold Night
24		Stars	Set Yourself On Fire
25		Elliott Smith	Waltz #2 (Xo)
26		Malcolm Middleton	Devestation
27		Need New Body	Moondear
28		Architecture In Helsinki	Wishbone

Playlist

2006-03-30T12:05:00.000-05:00

#	N	Artist	Track
1	*	Islands	Swans (Life After Death)
2		The Mountain Goats	This Year
3	*	Belle and Sebastian	Funny Little Frog
4		Shoot the Moon	Tales from the Sea
5	*	Mass Movement of the Moth	Untitled Track 4
6		The Appleseed Cast	A Place In Line
7	*	Loose Fur	An Ecumental Matter
8		Mint Royale	Always Welcome
9	*	Faris Nourallah	Brogadiccio
10		Polaris	Saturnine
11		Dirty on Purpose	Girls & Sunshine
12		Pixies	Monkey Gone to Heaven
13	*	Mates of State	For the Actor
14		Wolf Parade	Dinner Bells
15	*	Patrick Phelan	Lesser Laws
16		New Buffalo	On Sunday
17		Pelle Carlbeg	Go to Hell, Miss Rydell
18		RJD2	Rain
19		Tamba Trio	Mas Que Nada
20		The Magnetic Fields	You and Me and the Moon
21		Tullycraft	Stowaway
22		Yerba Buena	Guajira
23	*	The Boy Least Likely To	My Tiger My Heart
24	*	Tarkio	Tristan and Iseult
25	*	Kickball	Brown
26		Postal Workers at the University of Ghana	Untitled (Cancelling Stamps)
27		The Teeth	Oh, Bessie!
28		Yeah Yeah Yeahs	Maps
29		Dimitri from Paris	Not Quite Disco
30		Medeski Martin & Wood	Pappy Check
31		The Bees	No Atmosphere

Playlist - Spring break here I come!

2006-03-17T15:43:00.000-05:00

So this week was pretty tough, but through hardship comes strength, and through strength comes a pretty rockin' playlist.
Also - today's show had 37.5% new bin material! I ripped about 10 of the albums from today's show and will be exploring them over Spring break.

#	N	Artist	Track
1		Ambulette	Seconds Until Midnight
2		Kinobe	Slip Into Something More Comfortable
3		Elliott Smith	A Passing Feeling
4		The Stills	Gender Bombs
5		Donovan	Hurdy Gurdy Man
6	*	Film School	Breet
7	*	Polysics	Ah-Yeah!
8	*	Toothfairy	Stephanie, My First Love
9		Mu-Ziq	Balsa Lighning (Jake Slazenger Remix)
10		Sondre Lerche	No One's Gonna Come
11		Susan Tedeschi	Tired Of My Tears
12		Climber	Escape
13	*	We Are Scientists	Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt
14	*	The Notes and Scratches	The Hours
15		Kris Gruen	Lullaby School
16		Ted Leo & The Pharmacists	The Anointed One
17		The Avalanches	Electricity
18	*	The Mendoza Line	Golden Boy (Torture in the Shed)
19		Muse	Bliss
20		The Cinematics	Chase
21		Tullycraft	Stowaway
22		Rogue Wave	Publish My Love
23		The Picture	It's Alright
24	*	The Boy Least Likely To	Be Gentle With Me
25	*	Jason Collett	Pavement Puddle Stars
26		Simon & Garfunkel	Scarborough Fair
27	*	Funkiller	Hook Line and Sinker
28		Looper	My Robot
29	*	Lilys	Scott Free
30	*	Frequent Flyer	Sometimes In The Spring
31	*	Essex Green	Rue De Lis
32		Thao Nguyen	Gorgeous Thing

Playlist - Anne Coulter may be the Devil.

2006-03-09T15:24:00.000-05:00

Conor sat in on today's show for some interesting (if not inflammatory) commentary.

#	N	Artist	Track
1	*	Eagle*Seagull	Photograph
2		These Bones	Toxic
3	*	P:ano	I Felt His Presents/Doing The Can Can
4		Mint Royale	Little Words
5		The Dismemberment Plan	The Other Side
6		Outlandish	Guantanamo
7		Spoon	The Infinite Pet
8		Sufjan Stevens	The Man Of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
9		Koop	Tonight (feat. Mikael Sundin)
10		Mando Diao	Down In The Past
11		DJ Shadow	...Meets His Maker
12		Clint Mansell	2-Pi-r
13		Lemon D	Hard Leaders 26
14		Marcos Valle	Garra
15	*	Magnetophone	Kel's Vintage Thought
16		Pink Floyd	Any Colour You Like
17		Hard-Fi	Living For The Weekend
18		Blitzhosen	John Glenn (Spaceflight Superhero)
19		We In Music	Grandlife
20		The Crystal Method	Busy Child
21		Spoon	Was It You?
22		Wilco	A Shot In The Arm

Playlist

2006-03-02T16:02:00.000-05:00

I missed last week's show because I was ill, but I'm back in action!

#	N	Artist	Track
1		Radiohead	Airbag
2		Final Fantasy	This Modern Love (Bloc Party Cover)
3		Ralph Myerz & The Jack Herren Band	Funky Biznizz
4	*	Wolf Parade	Shine A Light
5		Head Of Femur	Elliott Goul is in California Spit
6	*	Up The Empire	Careful What You Say
7	*	P:ano	T. Hatch Says "Round Ev'ry Corner"
8	*	Spoon	Sister Jack
9	*	J+J+J	Insomnia Is A Sleeping Disorder
10	*	Elbow	Mexican Standoff
11		Islands	Rough Gem
12		Broken Social Scene	Cause=Time
13		Built To Spill	Center of the Universe
14	*	Eels	Flyswatter (With Strings)
15		The Capes	Super Girls
16	*	Parks & Recreation	Flat on her Back
17		The Decemberists	Eli, The Barrow Boy
18		The Dandy Warhols	Sleep
19		Elefant	Now That I Miss Her
20		Casiotone for the Painfully Alone	Young Sheilds
21	*	Sam Bisbee	You Are Here
22		Royksopp	Remind Me
23	*	Sam Bisbee	Drug Of Choice
24		The Shins	Mine's Not A High Horse
25		Wilco	I'm The Man Who Loves You
26		Minus The Bear	Pachuca Sunrise
27		The Zutons	Long Time Coming
28	*	Half-Handed Cloud	You've Been Faithful To Us Clouds
29		Voxtrot	The Start Of Something
30		Islands	Bucky Little Wing

Free Music - Nous Non Plus, Casiotone, Voxtrot

2006-02-26T03:17:00.000-05:00

Nous Non Plus - Lawnmower Boy
So French pop.

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Young Shields
The name says it all: low-fi and melodramatic.

Voxtrot - The Start of Something
Smiths-y. Thanks Nancy :)

Playlist - New Bin Madness

2006-02-16T15:56:00.000-05:00

I dove into the new bin this morning and came out with a lot of catchy stuff.

#	Artist	Track
1	Islands	Don't Call Me Whitney, Bobby
2	The Beta Band	I Know
3	Ratatat	Cherry
4	The Decemberists	We Both Go Down Together
5	Ralph Myerz & The Jack Herren Band	Think Twice
6	Nous Non Plus	Lawnmower Boy
7	Ben Harper	Oppression
8	Edan	Funky Voltron (feat. Insight)
9	Belle & Sebastian	Like Dylan In The Movies
10	Iron & Wine	Each Coming Night
11	Saint Etienne	A Good Thing
12	P:ano	Trouble Ahead
13	Carla Bruni	Quelqu'un m'a dit
14	Briskey	Galactic Jack (Buscemi's Beat to Beatnik Remix)
15	Donovan	There Is A Mountain
16	Brendan Benson	What I'm Looking For
17	Tricky Woo	First Blush
18	Deerhoof	Giga Dance
19	Matt Pond PA	Snow Day
20	Parks & Recreation	La La La La La
21	Elefant	Ester
22	Kind of Like Spitting	Hoax
23	Metric	Combat Baby
24	Fugazi	Afterthought
25	Malcom Middleton	No Modest Bear
26	YMCK	Darling
27	Clap Your Hands Say Yeah	This Home On Ice
28	Yerba Buena	El Burrito
29	Morningwood	Nth Degree
30	The Format	One Shot, Two Shots
31	The Album Leaf	Twenty Two Fourteen

Playlist - Raisins won't assimilate

2006-02-09T10:23:00.000-05:00

Nancy and I thought of some band pairings last night, check out these double bills:

Gang of Four & Radio 4
The Decemberists & The Early November
The Cardigans & My Morning Jacket
The Tasty Habits & Cake
The Black Keys & Alicia Keys
The Knife & Spoon

#	Artist	Track
1	Test Icicles	Circle, Square, Triangle
2	Benzos	Mechanical Comrades
3	+/-	Summer Dress
4	Fugazi	I'm So Tired
5	Elephant	Make Up
6	Ted Leo and the Pharmacists	The Angels' Share
7	Disco Biscuits	Float Like A Butterfly
8	Thievery Corporation	Liberation Front
9	Seu Jorge	Rebel Rebel
10	Matt Pond PA	Measure 3
11	Metric	Dead Disco
12	Grandaddy	The Group Who Couldn't Say
13	Wolf Parade	Secret Knives
14	Jose Gonzalez	Crosses
15	Stars	Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
16	The Lovekevins	Happy Happy
17	The Happies	The Boy Who Knows
18	Suburban Kids With Biblical Names	Funeral Face
19	Girls in Hawaii	Time To Forgive the Winter
20	Pinback	Chaos Engine
21	RJD2	Final Frontier (feat. Blueprint)
22	The Postal Service	Clark Gable
23	K T Tunstall	Suddenly I See
24	Thao Nguyen	What About
25	Bloc Party	This Modern Love
26	Feist	Inside and Out
27	Kind Of Like Spitting	Scene
28	Carla Bruni	Raphael
29	Brendan Benson	Flesh & Bone
30	The Magic Numbers	Morning's Eleven

Playlist - First show of Spring 2006

2006-02-02T11:42:00.000-05:00

What a great way to start the semester! Ghostface and I kept a pretty good balance of music and banter through the show, and we piloted a couple of new features.

The first was "Yoga on Tape", which I can't decide if I like. It has potential, I think. The second feature we tried was "Aural Research" where we chose a song that is written in an interesting way and analysed its unique qualities. This week we took a look at "Indo Silver Club" by Daft Punk, in which the melody is muted on the downbeat. This gives the listener the sensation that the bass is heavy enough to make them incapable of hearing the melody. Daft Punk later plays the melody alone, and it's more obvious what is going on.

On a side note - the playlists I post here will now include links to free music when I have them at hand. Links on an artist are for other songs by them, while a linked song title is that specific song.

#	Artist	Track
1	Feist	Sacred Heart
2	Wheat	These Are Things
3	Arctic Monkeys	Mardy Bum
4	The Unicorns	Sea Ghost
5	Thao Nguyen	City Sky
6	The Faint	Worked Up So Sexual
7	The Coral	Bill McCai
8	The Arcade Fire	Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
9	Andrew Bird	Measuring Cups
10	Head Like A Kite	Circus
11	The Soft Explosions	Sister Come On
12	Sufjan Stevens	Casimir Pulaski Day
13	The Dandy Warhols	I Am Over It
14	The Zutons	Havana Gang Brawl
15	Piebald	American Hearts
16	Jose González	Heartbeats (The Knife Cover)
17	Eels	Grace Kelly Blues
18	The Dismemberment Plan	Sentimental Man
19	Mando Diao	Little Boy Jr
20	Kings Of Convenience	Know How (feat. Feist)
21	Carla Bruni	Le Plus Beau du Quartier
22	Broken Social Scene	KC Accidental
23	Bright Eyes	First Day of My Life
24	Ted Leo and the Pharmacists	The Angels' Share
25	Brendan Benson	Cold Hands (Warm Heart)

New show for Spring 2006

2006-01-28T16:15:00.000-05:00

I've got a new radio show this semester, and as you can see, Ethan has lent us his talents of dry-erase advertisement. In English, it reads, "Energy of the music - With Killer Ray and Ghostface Conor. 8:00-10:00am Thursday." Of course, I'll be updating this page with every week's new playlist.

Live - Act Local Hurricane Relief Fundraiser @ The Knitting Factory

2006-01-17T18:34:00.000-05:00

Conor and I had nothing planned for Sunday night and decided to continue our ManHat10 adventure at the Knitting Factory. Thirty bands were scheduled to perform, with Matt & Ira (from Nada Surf) and The Wrens headlining.

Matt & Ira played a great set. Matt played acoustic guitar while Ira drummed along on tambourine. Their songs translated to the acoustic format beautifully. It says something about the quality of a songwriter when their work is just as good, if not better, with all but the essentials stripped from it. I talked to Matt in the lobby after their set and he was very friendly. He seemed uncommonly happy that I'd enjoyed their show. Humble, even.

We checked the other stages after Matt & Ira were done and found a couple of terrible bands, so we decided to come back later that night for The Wrens.

We arrived a little early and caught The Soft Explosions playing on the main stage. They seemed pretty solid: two guitarists, a bassist, and a drummer. Their second guitarist was pretty attractive, but as soon as she started soloing she instantly became the hottest girl in the world. I'm not even kidding. She shredded like Enron. She played the slide like it was easy. Conor and I were in love. With her. Not with each other. Well maybe. Anyways, the band as a whole was pretty cohesive, but the solos flying around in the background made the whole thing mesmerizing.

Finally, The Wrens came on stage. They played their gig almost like a rehearsal. Not that they were unprofessional to a fault; it gave the show a friendly, playful touch. They fooled around between songs, playing the starting chords to "Sweet Home Alabama", joking with the audience, and whispering into each other's ears. They played without their drummer but made up for it by rocking extra hard. They did some interesting things with their electronics as well. Charles Bissel (vocals, guitar) called Greg Whelan (guitar) on his cell phone. Whelan held his phone to the pickups on his guitar, while Bissel sung the opening lines of a song into his phone. The result was a warped, barely understandable sound that kept the whole place holding their breath. Later, Bissel played with his loop machine in interesting ways, while Kevin Whelan surrounded us with glorious, synthesized piano. There were good vibes and good times to be had by all.

Free Music - Wheat, Climber, Matisyahu, Jupiter One

2005-12-19T02:09:00.000-05:00

Wheat - I Met A Girl
I have a thing for songs that start with their chorus. This one comes extra catchy.

Climber - Always Right
Close your eyes and feel the long, drawn out harmonies swim around your head.

Matisyahu - King Without a Crown (live)
Hasidic reggae at its best.

Jupiter One - Turn Up The Radio
Violins in verses and a synth-poppy chorus. What else do you need?

I found these at 3hive.

Playlist - Last show of the semester

2005-12-18T05:34:00.000-05:00

Jeffry co-hosted tonight and supplied some tracks. We had a good time foolin around and digging through the mountain CDs they have at WMUC. We found some real gems, including Holland and The Black Sea. I'm definitely going to visit the station more often next semester to dig.

Tonight's was the last show of the semester. I'll miss it over break but hopefully I'll have a shiny new show for Spring.

Play order	Artist	Song
1	Minus The Bear	Absinthe Party at the Fly Honey Warehouse
2	Jim of Seattle	Welcome to Windows
3	Franz Ferdinand	Missing You
4	Thao Nguyen	Feet Asleep
5	Muse	Citizen Erased
6	Paul Oakenfold	Password
7	Hockey Night	For Guys' Eyes Only
8	Radiohead	Karma Police
9	The Decemberists	16 Military Wives
10	6:40 Tag	Trees In Space
11	Imogen Heap	Hide and Seek
12	Wir Sind Helden	Ist Das So?
13	Bump of Chicken	Tentaikansoku
14	The Black Sea	Ghost Lanterns
15	The Magic Numbers	Love is Just A Game
16	Dizzy Gillespie	Manteca (The Funky Lowlives Remix)
17	Holland	American Eyes
18	Pinback	Tripoli
19	Radiohead	Wonderwall (Oasis Cover)
20	The Mountain Goats	This Year
21	Mr. Scruff	Blackpool Roll
22	Daft Punk	Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
23	Pedro the Lion	Of Minor Prophets and Their Prostitute Wives
24	Royksopp	Only This Moment
25	L'Arc en Ciel	Dive to Blue
26	Zwan	Honestly
27	Grandaddy	Saddest Vacent Lot in the World
28	OK Go	Invincible
29	Gackt	Emu For My Dear

Playlist - Cambodian Politics Abound

2005-12-11T14:12:00.000-05:00

Conor came in tonight and we talked about randommes. For a long time. Glorious randommes.

Play order	Artist	Song
1	Dinosaur Jr.	Freak Scene
2	Hard-Fi	Unnecessary Trouble
3	Ash	Walking Barefoot
4	Jurassic 5	Sausage Gut
5	Climber	Always Right
6	The Pillows	Carnival
7	Piebald	Location is Everything
8	Ballboy	I Lost You, but I Found Country Music
9	Midfield General	Keeping it Real
10	Mint Royale	Floor Basics
11	Wheat	I Met A Girl
12	The Faint	Worked Up So Sexual
13	Feist	Inside and Out
14	Penn Masala	Aap Jaisa Koi
15	Super Furry Animals	Check It Out
16	The New Pornographers	Letter From An Occupant
17	Matisyahu	King Without A Crown
18	Sondre Lerche	Two Way Monologue
19	Rachel Reis	You Only
20	Explosions in the Sky	Your Hand In Mine

Playlist

2005-12-04T16:22:00.000-05:00

Melissa and I did this show together. Conor was very much in Potomac, and very much asleep.

Play order	Artist	Song
1	Pinback	Versailles
2	Grandaddy	The Final Push To The Sum
3	The Beta Band	Out-Side
4	Andrew Bird	Skin Is, My
5	Black Rebel Motorcycle Club	As Sure As The Sun
6	Citizen Cope	Let The Drummer Kick
7	The Bees	Horsemen
8	Death From Above 1979	Romantic Rights
9	Ladytron	Playgirl
10	Minibosses	Wizards and Warriors
11	José Orlando	Eu Também Quero
12	I Am Bones	Talk to the Hand
13	Jarebe de Palo	Quiero ser Poeta
14	Marcos Valle	Garra
15	Jean Jacques Smoothie	2 People
16	Sambassadeur	If Rain
17	Fun Loving Criminals	Scooby Snacks
18	The Kleptones	My People Feel Like That In The Morning
19	Blonde Redhead	In Particular
20	Coldplay	Fix You
21	RDJ2	The Horror
22	2Raumwohnung	Sasha
23	The Arcade Fire	Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
24	The Benevento/Russo Duo	Becky

Playlist

2005-11-20T09:14:00.000-05:00

We did a lot more talking on last night's show than usual, it was alright, I think.

Play order	Artist	Song
1	Ratatat	Lapland
2	Metropolis	El Bombero
3	Piebald	Karate Chops for Everyone but Us
4	The Go! Team	Bottle Rocket
5	Absolute Beginner	Hammerhart
6	Ladytron	Playgirl
7	The Happies	Blue Stream
8	Hard-Fi	Hard To Beat
9	Matt Pond Pa	Fairlee
10	The Happies	Wahaka
11	RJD2	1976
12	Israel Kamakawiwo'ole	Take Me Home Country Road
13	The Faint	Worked Up So Sexual
14	Franz Ferdinand	Eleanor Put Your Boots On
15	The Mountain Goats	Dance Music
16	The White Stripes	You're Pretty Good Looking
17	Manu Chao	Me Gustas Tu

Playlist: Flying solo

2005-11-13T06:13:00.000-05:00

First show without guests. Jon co-hosted via telephone.

Play order	Artist	Song
1	Zero 7	I Have Seen
2	Kinobe	Bopalong
3	Valley Lodge	All Of My Lovin'
4	Arcade Fire	Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
5	Feist	Sacred Heart
6	Medeski Martin and Wood	Mami Gato
7	Ambulance LTD	Yoga Means Union
8	The Dandy Warhols	Bohemian Like You
9	Veruca Salt	Seether
10	The Zombies	Care of Cell 44
11	Handsome Boy Modeling School	Holy Calamity (Bear Witness)
12	Donovan	Jersey Thursday
13	Ash	Burn Baby Burn
14	Bright Eyes	Let's Not Shit Ourselves
15	The Bees	Wash In The Rain
16	The Dandy Warhols	Bohemian Like You
17	Fried Chicken	Funky DJ
18	13 & God	Men of Station
19	Neutral Milk Hotel	Two-Headed Boy

Playlist

2005-11-06T06:13:00.000-05:00

Play order	Artist	Song
1	Bentley Rhythm Ace	Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out!
2	The Coral	Dreaming of You
3	The Crystal Method	Magic Carpet Ride (Remix)
4	Kings of Leon	Taper Jean Girl
5	Mint Royale	Singin' In The Rain (Remix)
6	Gabin	Doo Uap Doo Uap Doo Uap
7	Rage Against The Machine	Renegades of Funk
8	OK Go	You're So Damn Hot
9	RJD2	1976
10	The Pillows	Carnival
11	Pinback	Loro
12	Piebald	Long Nights
13	The Beatles	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club (Reprise)
14	Junior Senior	Chicks and Dicks
15	Brand Nubian	Rockin' It
16	Donovan	Colours
17	Thao Nguyen	Tallymarks
18	Jupiter One	Turn up the Radio
19	Arma Secreta	Sweater Weather
20	The New Deal	Intro (Deep Sun)
21	Radiohead	Paranoid Android
22	Ratatat	Desert Eagle
23	Royksopp	In Space
24	Lemonheads	My Hero, Zero
25	Seeed	Dancehall Caballeros
26	Telepopmusik	Breathe
27	Unknown	Nhemamusasa

Playlist: Jan practices

2005-10-30T06:11:00.000-05:00

Jan flew solo for some time on this show and got a feel for the equipment.

Play order	Artist	Song
1	John Vanderslice	Me and my 424
2	Polvo	Sure Shot
3	Mint Royale	Don't Falter
4	The Wrens	Boys You Won't
5	Blur	Battery in Your Leg
6	Built to Spill	Else
7	The Dismemberment Plan	Spider in the Snow
8	Sigur Ros	Hoppipolla
9	Animal Collective	We Tigers
10	Animal Collective	Mouth Wooed Her
11	Godspeed You! Black Emperor	Antennas to Heaven
12	Broken Social Scene	7/4 (Shoreline)
13	The New Pornographers	The Bleeding Heart Show
14	My Morning Jacket	Anytime
15	Songs: Ohia	The Lioness
16	Kings Of Leon	Slow Night, So Long
17	Elliott Smith	Bled White
18	Pixies	Where Is My Mind?
19	OK Go	A Million Ways
20	The Happies	Wahaka
21	LCD Soundsystem	Disco Infiltrator
22	The Dandy Warhols	The Dandy Warhols Love Almost Everyone
23	Wir Sind Helden	Denkmal
24	Dimitri From Paris	Okinawa Love
25	Beck	Girl
26	Logh	Guided Tour of a Dead Man's House
27	Mercury Rev	Holes

Playlist

2005-10-23T06:07:00.000-04:00

Play order	Artist	Song
1	Medeski Martin and Wood	End of the World Party
2	Jamie Lidell	Multiply
3	Thunderbirds Are Now!	Pink Motorcycle Helmet
4	The Walkmen	We've Been Had
5	Black Rebel Motorcycle Club	Spread Your Love
6	Pixies	Debaser
7	Neutral Milk Hotel	Holland, 1945
8	Bay City All Stars	Green Onions
9	The Avalanches	Egtb/Royksop
10	My Morning Jacket	Anytime
11	Ramsey Lewis	Do What You Wanna (Mr. Scruff's Soul Party Mix)
12	E*Vax	What We Meant
13	Kasabian	Club Foot
14	French Toast	Hatred Mace
15	New Pornographers	Mass Romantic
16	Architecture In Helsinki	Do The Whirlwind
17	K-Os	The Love Song
18	DJ Shadow	Mashin' On The Motorway
19	The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower	For Marcus
20	Ted Leo and the Pharmacists	The Angel's Share
21	Royksopp	64 Position
22	Thao Nguyen	Moped
23	Seal	Crazy (Acoustic)
24	The Chaps	Alright Lads!
25	The Unicorns	I Was Born (A Unicorn)
26	Panic! At The Disco	Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off
27	Suburban Kids With Biblical Names	Loop Duplicate My Heart
28	Franz Ferdinand	You're The Reason I'm Leaving
29	Kings of Convenience	Toxic Girl
30	Fugazi	Arpeggiator Demo

Playlist

2005-10-16T06:05:00.000-04:00

Play order	Artist	Song
1	Common	The Food
2	The Dismemberment Plan	Secret Curse
3	Veruca Salt	Volcano Girls
4	The White Stripes	My Doorbell
5	Blonde Redhead	Melody
6	Hella	Dad For Song
7	The Fugees	Fu-Gee-La (Refugee Camp Global Mix)
8	The Crystal Method	Born Too Slow
9	The Dandy Warhols	You Were The Last High
10	The Castaways	Liar, Liar
11	BT	Somnambulist
12	RJD2	Ghostwriter
13	Gorillaz	19-200 (Soul Child Remix)
14	Interpol	Roland
15	Red Hot Chili Peppers	Dosed
16	Royksopp	Eple
17	The Smashing Pumpkins	Zero
18	Paul Oakenfold	Ready Steady Go
19	Bump of Chicken	Sailing Day
20	The Eels	Souljacker Part I
21	Motion City Soundtrack	My Favorite Accident
22	Muse	Plug In Baby
23	M83	Teen Angst
24	N.E.R.D.	Rock Star (Jason Nevins Remix)
25	Franz Ferdinand	The Dark of the Matinee
26	Neutral Milk Hotel	Holland, 1945
27	The Decemberists	Red Right Ankle
28	The Happies	Wahaka
29	Okkervil River	The Latest Toughs

Playlist

2005-10-09T06:04:00.000-04:00

Play order	Artist	Song
1	Jurassic 5	Concrete Schoolyard
2	Ratatat	El Pico
3	Mylo	Otto's Journey
4	Daft Punk	Digital Love
5	The Avalanches	Live At Dominoes
6	Motion City Soundtrack	The Future Freaks Me Out
7	Thievery Corporation	The State Of The Union
8	The Shins	So Says I
9	The Beatles	Penny Lane
10	Ben Folds	Bitches Ain't Shit
11	Queen	Killer Queen
12	Kings of Convenience	Toxic Girl
13	Suburban Kids With Biblical Names	Love Will
14	KYO	Comment Te Dire
15	The Unicorns	Emasculate The Masculine
16	Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band	Casino
17	The Suicide Machines	New Girl
18	Neutral Milk Hotel	In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
19	The Bees	These Are Ghosts
20	The Beatles	Rocky Raccoon
21	Beck	E-Pro
22	E-Vax	What We Meant
23	Foo Fighters	Everlong
24	Yoko Kanno	Tank!
25	The Flaming Lips	Fight Test
26	Kanye West	Get 'Em High (Ratatat Remix)
27	Interpol	C'Mere

Playlist: First show!

2005-10-02T09:03:00.000-04:00

Play order	Artist	Song
1	Ratatat	Seventeen Years
2	The Unicorns	Les Os
3	Mint Royale	Show Me (Feat. Pos from De La Soul)
4	Bloc Party	Banquet
5	Piebald	The Monkey vs. The Robot
6	Gorillaz	DARE
7	Dandy Warhols	We Used To Be Friends
8	The Magnetic Fields	Absolutely Cuckoo
9	Suburban Kids with Biblical Names	Rent A Wreck
10	Kings of Convenience	I'd Rather Dance With You
11	The Go! Team	Get It Together
12	Handsome Boy Modeling School	Breakdown
13	Neffa	Prima Di Andare Via
14	Thao Nguyen	Chivalry
15	The Beta Band	Easy
16	Spoon	Stay Don't Go
17	Lords of Acid	Let's Get High (Reach Out and Touch The Sky Mix)
18	The Arcade Fire	Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
19	2Raumwohnung	Speil Mit
20	Super Furry Animals	Golden Retriever
21	White Stripes	Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
22	Ambulance LTD	Anecdote
23	Jurassic 5	Swing Set
24	Citizen Cope	Bullet and a Target
25	Daft Punk	Aerodynamic
26	Malcom Middleton	A Happy Medium
27	Animal Collective	Sweet Road
28	Kings of Leon	Razz
29	Royksopp	Remind Me (Someone Else's Remix)
30	Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!	Over and Over Again
31	Cornershop	Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
32	Nina Gordon	Straight Outta Compton
33	Missy Elliot	Hot (Ratatat Remix)
34	Spoon	I Turn My Camera On
35	Donovan	Colours
36	Beck	Ghettochip Malfunction (Hell Yes)