| Y-Rock On XPN playlist for 11.14.08!! |
[Nov. 18th, 2008|06:16 pm] |
artist - title - album 12 pm: The Nooner! Elvis Costello - Pads, Paws And Claws - Spike Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You - Gorgeous George Iggy Pop - Some Weird Sin - Lust For Life The Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray - It's A Shame About Ray The Jam - Strange Town - Setting Sons Hüsker Dü - Celebrated Summer - New Day Rising Massive Attack - Be Thankful For What You Got - Blue Lines The Cure - Pictures Of You - Disintegration The B-52's - Dance This Mess Around - The B-52's Soul Coughing - Soundtrack To Mary - Irresistible Bliss The Velvet Underground - Beginning To See The Light - The Velvet Underground James - She's A Star - Whiplash The Jesus And Mary Chain - Between Planets - Automatic Talking Heads - Slippery People - Speaking In Tongues X - In This House That I Call Home - Wild Gift 1 pm The Pipettes - Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me - We Are The Pipettes Snow Patrol - Take Back The City - A Hundred Million Suns Kaiser Chiefs - Like It Too Much - Off With Their Heads Darker My Love - Two Ways Out - 2 Garbage - #1 Crush - Romeo & Juliet Soundtrack Delta Spirit - People C'mon - Ode To Sunshine The Decemberists - Record Year - Always The Bridesmaid, Vol. III The Specials - Nite Klub - The Specials The Secret Machines - Atomic Heels - Secret Machines Belle & Sebastian - Stay Loose - Dear Catastrophe Waitress The Duke Spirit - Lassoo - Neptune Beck - Timebomb Fleet Foxes - He Doesn't Know Why - Fleet Foxes Cold War Kids - I've Seen Enough - Loyalty To Loyalty David Bowie - Boys Keep Swinging - Lodger 2 pm The Killers - Human - Day & Age The Dandy Warhols - Everyday Should Be A Holiday - The Dandy Warhols Come Down Blitzen Trapper - Gold For Bread - Furr MGMT - Electric Feel - Oracular Spectacular Aqualung - Brighter Than Sunshine - Strange & Beautiful I'm From Barcelona - Paper Planes - Who Killed Harry Houdini? Kings Of Leon - Be Somebody - Only By The Night Roxy Music - Love Is The Drug - Siren Vampire Weekend - Ottoman - Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist Soundtrack Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed The Aliens - Setting Sun - Astronomy For Dogs The Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun - Dig Your Own Hole M83 - We Own The Sky - Saturdays=Youth Regina Spektor - On The Radio - Begin To Hope 3 pm Franz Ferdinand - Lucid Dreams - Tonight Margot & The Nuclear So And So's - A Children's Crusade on Acid - Not Animal The Sea And Cake - Aerial - Car Alarm The Ting Tings - Shut Up And Let Me Go - We Started Nothing Electric Six - Formula 409 - Flashy New Order - Love Vigilantes - Low-Life Ra Ra Riot - Ghost Under Rocks - The Rhumb Line The Spinto Band - Later On - Moonwink Lykke Li - Breaking It Up - Youth Novels Doves - Black And White Town - Some Cities Wilco - A Shot In The Arm - Summerteeth Okkervil River - Pop Lie - The Stand Ins The Clash - The Magnificent Seven / Armagideon Time - Live At Shea Stadium
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| Y-Rock On XPN playlist for 11.7.08!! |
[Nov. 12th, 2008|11:19 pm] |
artist - title - album 11 am Oasis - The Shock Of The Lightning - Dig Out Your Soul Delta Spirit - Parade - Ode To Sunshine Kaiser Chiefs - Always Happens Like That - Off With Their Heads New Order - Age Of Consent - Power, Corruption & Lies Franz Ferdinand - The Dark Of The Matinee - Franz Ferdinand Blizten Trapper - Gold For Bread - Furr Mates Of State - Jigsaw - Re-Arrange Us Stereolab - Wow And Flutter - Mars Audiac Quintet Cold War Kids - Something Is Not Right With Me - Loyalty To Loyalty The Little Ones - Morning Tide - Morning Tide The Replacements - Left Of The Dial - Tim Arcade Fire - Wake Up - Funeral Margot & The Nuclear So And So's - A Children's Crusade on Acid - Not Animal The Sea And Cake - Car Alarm - Car Alarm The White Stripes - It's My Fault For Being Famous - Conquest EP 12 pm: The Nooner! eels - Flyswatter - Daisies Of The Galaxy The Clash - Wrong 'Em Boyo - London Calling Public Image Ltd. - Seattle - Happy? Porno For Pyros - Tahitian Moon - Good God's Urge T. Rex - Jeepster - Electric Warrior Blind Melon - Tones Of Home - Blind Melon Soup Dragons - Divine Thing - Hotwired The Breeders - Divine Hammer - Last Splash Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Beyond Belief - Imperial Bedroom XTC - Wrapped In Grey - Nonsuch The Specials - Stupid Marriage - The Specials The Beta Band - Dry The Rain - The Three E.P.'s Siouxsie & The Banshees - The Killing Jar - Peep-Show David Bowie - Sound And Vision - Low Blur - She's So High - Leisure 1 pm Ben Folds - You Don't Know Me (featuring Regina Spektor) - Way To Normal Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good - Back To Black Snow Patrol - Please Just Take These Photos From My Hands - A Hundred Million Suns Clinic - Corpus Christi - Do It! Cracker - Get Off This - Kerosene Hat The Fratellis - A Heady Tale - Here We Stand The Decemberists - A Cautionary Song - Castaways And Cutouts Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon - Ocean Rain Matthew Sweet - Byrdgirl - Sunshine Lies Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Magick - Cardinology Sonic Youth - Kool Thing - Goo Of Montreal - Id Engager - Skeletal Lamping Dr. Dog - The Rabbit, The Bat, And The Reindeer - Fate Fleet Foxes - He Doesn't Know Why - Fleet Foxes Devo - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! 2 pm The Killers - Human - Day & Age James - Say Something - Laid stellastarr* - My Coco - stellastarr* The Strokes - The Modern Age - Is This It Beck - Orphans - Modern Guilt Amanda Palmer - Runs In The Family - Who Killed Amanda Palmer Operation Ivy - Unity - Operation Ivy The Cure - The Reasons Why - 4:13 Dream David Byrne & Brian Eno - Strange Overtones - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today Hot Chip - Wrestlers - Made In The Dark Pavement - Summer Babe (Winter Version) - Slanted & Enchanted The Shins - Australia - Wincing The Night Away The Last Shadow Puppets - My Mistakes Were Made For You - The Age Of The Understatement Vampire Weekend - The Kids Don't Stand A Chance - Vampire Weekend The Stone Roses - She Bangs The Drums - The Stone Roses
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| Go to sleep now, little ugly |
[Nov. 10th, 2008|10:17 pm] |
It's funny how, within the alternative/indie music world, there are some bands that are wildly popular when compared to other bands in the very same scene...you would think that, as a band became more and more popular, they would stop being 'alternative' and cross over into more mainstream territory...some might tell you that this is exactly what happened to The Decemberists, and I'm not sure I'd be quick to argue...however, there have been more than just a few cases in history of a band hitting it big and still remaining true to their own creative direction...
The Decemberists released their first album, Castaways And Cutouts, in 2002...in my opinion, this is their best album, as the next two would mostly retread the literate, waltz-time path that their debut blazed...their fourth album, 2006's The Crane Wife, though, was their first for Capitol Records, and it shows...along with a few nautical-folk moments, there are some completely uncharacteristic turns and explorations into genres like funk, big guitar rock, and (gulp) prog...in concert on Friday night, the band played a good amount of material from each of their albums, and focused rather heavily on their new singles series, Always The Bridesmaid...according to leader Colin Meloy, their upcoming album, Hazards Of Love, lacks many of the more jaunty numbers that drove their previous albums; however those missing songs are being released one at a time over a few months (the last of the three singles comes out the first week of December)...Still, the band puts on a really good show, and brings great life and energy into some of the more questionable songs in their catalogue...the show is interactive as well, with Meloy getting everyone in the Electric Factory to sit down during "The Perfect Crime #2", or rousing an Obama-inspired call-and-response during the not-so-subtle "16 Military Wives"...naturally, their devoted (and ever-growing) audience ate it all up...
From where I was standing, I had a tough time getting good pictures, but a few that I did catch were pretty good...
As always, there are a few more pictures from this show (and lots more from other shows) here...
Additionally, Y-Rock, XPN and NPR Music were broadcasting the show live that night, and now have it archived for your streaming pleasure...
E.
Lyric of the Time:
Strolling under grimey skies
Machines that make you kiss in time
Smoke on your breath, smoke on your breath |
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| Y-Rock On XPN Hallowe'en playlist 2008!! |
[Nov. 3rd, 2008|07:37 pm] |
Due to the hellish transportation tie-up resulting from the Phillies' World Series celebration parade on Friday, I had to miss the first few hours of my show, but got to the station just in time for an all-Hallowe'en Nooner...
12 pm: The Hallowe’en Nooner! Southern Culture On The Skids - Zombified - Zombified The Cranberries - Zombie - No Need To Argue The Sisters Of Mercy - This Corrosion - Floodland The Specials - Ghost Town - The Singles Collection Nine Inch Nails - Dead Souls - The Crow Soundtrack Bush Tetras - Things That Go Boom In The Night - Boom In The Night Man Or Astro-Man? - Mystery Science Theater 3000 Love Theme - Live Transmissions From Uranus Iggy Pop - Candy - Brick By Brick eels - My Beloved Monster - Beautiful Freak David Bowie - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) - Scary Monsters They Might Be Giants - Turn Around - Apollo 18 Marcy Playground - Sex And Candy - Marcy Playground Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Up Jumped The Devil - Tender Prey Oingo Boingo - No One Lives Forever - Dead Man's Party 1 pm MGMT - Kids - Oracular Spectacular Ladytron - Ghosts - Velocifero Friendly Fires - Jump In The Pool - Friendly Fires Me First And The Gimme Gimmes - Science Fiction Double Feature - Are A Drag The Jesus And Mary Chain - Sometimes Always - Stoned & Dethroned Glasvegas - Geraldine - Glasvegas Matthew Sweet - I've Been Waiting - Girlfriend Ministry - (Everyday Is) Halloween - All Day Snow Patrol - Engines - A Hundred Million Suns Matt And Kim - Daylight - Grand Tegan And Sara - Walking With A Ghost - So Jealous The Brighton Port Authority - Toe Jam (featuring David Byrne & Dizzee Rascal) - We're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat The Magnetic Fields - Zombie Boy - Distortion Clinic - The Witch (Made To Measure) - Do It! Ramones - Pet Sematary - Brain Drain 2 pm Cold War Kids - Something Is Not Right With Me - Loyalty To Loyalty Spoon - The Ghost Of You Lingers - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga DeVotchKa - Overture - Nightmare Revisited The Raconteurs - Store Bought Bones - Broken Boy Soldiers The Cramps - Goo Goo Muck - Left Of The Dial: Dispatches From The `80s Underg Ra Ra Riot - Ghost Under Rocks - The Rhumb Line The Cure - The Hungry Ghost - 4:13 Dream M83 - Graveyard Girl - Saturdays=Youth The Decemberists - Valerie Plame - Always The Bridesmaid Vol. 1 Sparks - Eaten By The Monster Of Love - Angst In My Pants The Ting Tings - Fruit Machine - We Started Nothing Crash Test Dummies - The Ghosts That Haunt Me - The Ghosts That Haunt Me The Sea And Cake - Car Alarm - Car Alarm The North American Hallowe'en Prevention Initiative - Do They Know It's Hallowe'en? - Do They Know It's Hallowe'en? The Automatic - Monster - Not Accepted Anywhere
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| Y-Rock On XPN playlist for 9.26.08 |
[Oct. 3rd, 2008|12:17 am] |
artist - title - album 11 am MGMT - Kids - Oracular Spectacular Man Man - Engwish Bwudd - Six Demon Bag Alicia Keys & Jack White - Another Way To Die - Quantum Of Solace Soundtrack The English Beat - Tears Of A Clown - I Just Can't Stop It Lily Allen - Knock 'Em Out - Alright, Still Beck - Soul Of A Man - Modern Guilt I'm From Barcelona - Paper Planes - Who Killed Harry Houdini? Blur - Parklife - Parklife Ben Folds - You Don't Know Me (featuring Regina Spektor) - Way To Normal Gnarls Barkley - Run - The Odd Couple Lykke Li - Breaking It Up - Youth Novels Fatboy Slim - Gangster Tripping - You've Come A Long Way, Baby Kaiser Chiefs - The Angry Mob - Yours Truly, Angry Mob Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines - The Stand Ins of Montreal - Id Engager - Skeletal Lamping Franz Ferdinand - Tell Her Tonight - Franz Ferdinand 12 pm: The Nooner Sweet - The Ballroom Blitz - Desolation Boulevard Luna - Slash Your Tires - Lunapark Squeeze - If I Didn't Love You - Argybargy Cracker - Low - Kerosene Hat Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth - Saint Julian Translator - Everywhere That I'm Not - Heartbeats & Triggers Hoodoo Gurus - Bittersweet - Mars Needs Guitars The Presidents Of The United States Of America - Peaches - The Presidents Of The United States Of America The Runaways - Cherry Bomb - The Runaways James - Say Something - Laid Space - Neighbourhood - Spiders Devo - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! The Juliana Hatfield Three - My Sister - Become What You Are The Buzzcocks - I Don't Mind - Another Music In A Different Kitchen The Sundays - Here's Where The Story Ends - Reading, Writing & Arithmetic Pixies - Is She Weird - Bossanova 1 pm Cold War Kids - Something Is Not Right With Me - Loyalty To Loyalty Phantom Planet - California - The Guest Hot Chip - Hold On - Made In The Dark Wolf Parade - Language City - At Mount Zoomer Friendly Fires - Jump In The Pool - Friendly Fires Jenny Lewis - Carpetbaggers (featuring Elvis Costello) - Acid Tongue Oasis - The Shock Of The Lightning - Dig Out Your Soul R.E.M. - Imitation Of Life - Reveal Victor Victor Band - Lost & Found - Live @ Y-Rock On XPN Victor Victor Band - Lady of The Night - Live @ Y-Rock On XPN Victor Victor Band - Meteor - Live @ Y-Rock On XPN 2 pm Dinosaur Jr - Been There All The Time - Beyond The Cure - The Only One - 4:13 Dream Stereolab - Cellulose Sunshine - Chemical Chords The Replacements - Waitress In The Sky - Tim Fountains Of Wayne - Someone To Love - Traffic And Weather Brazilian Girls - Good Time - New York City Tilly And The Wall - Dust Me Off - O X - In This House That I Call Home - Wild Gift Dr. Dog - The Ark - Fate Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing! - Hold On Now, Youngster… Vampire Weekend - Ottoman - Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist Soundtrack Fine Young Cannibals - Suspicious Minds - Fine Young Cannibals The Fratellis - A Heady Tale - Here We Stand King Khan and the Shrines - Took My Lady to Dinner - The Supreme Genius Of King Khan And The Shrines
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| Y-Rock On XPN playlist for 9.19.08!! |
[Sep. 25th, 2008|10:32 pm] |
artist - title - album 11 am of Montreal - Id Engager - Skeletal Lamping
The Pretenders - The Wait - Pretenders The Fratellis - A Heady Tale - Here We Stand Gang Of Four - At Home He's A Tourist - Return The Gift Gnarls Barkley - Just A Thought - St. Elsewhere Franz Ferdinand - Lucid Dreams Matthew Sweet - Let's Love - Sunshine Lies Air - Sexy Boy - Moon Safari Dr. Dog - The Ark - Fate Paul Weller - From The Floorboards Up - As Is Now The Secret Machines - Atomic Heels - Secret Machines Wilco - Walken - Sky Blue Sky Conor Oberst - I Don't Want To Die (In The Hospital) - Conor Oberst Snow Patrol - Take Back The City - A Hundred Million Suns Vampire Weekend - Mansard Roof - Vampire Weekend 12 pm: The Nooner Adam & The Ants - Jolly Roger - Kings Of The Wild Frontier Morrissey - We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful - Your Arsenal Public Image Ltd. - This Is Not A Love Song - This Is What You Want...This Is What You Get Blur - Tracy Jacks - Parklife The Clash - Straight To Hell - Combat Rock The Lemonheads - Great Big No - Come On Feel The Lemonheads Squeeze - Take Me I'm Yours - Singles 45's And Under Luna - Tiger Lily - Bewitched The Police - When The World Is Running Down - Zenyatta Mondatta XTC - Generals & Majors - Black Sea The Prodigy - Firestarter - The Fat Of The Land Devo - Beautiful World - New Traditionalists Garbage - I Think I'm Paranoid - Version 2.0 Magazine - Shot By Both Sides - Real Life The Dandy Warhols - Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth - The Dandy Warhols Come Down 1 pm Electric Six - I Buy The Drugs - Switzerland Beck - Modern Guilt - Modern Guilt Lykke Li - Breaking It Up - Youth Novels Nine Inch Nails - Survivalism - Year Zero James - Upside - Hey Ma Black Kids - Partie Traumatic - Partie Traumatic The Virgins - One Week Of Danger - The Virgins The Cure - Freakshow - 4:13 Dream The Ramones - Rock And Roll High School - End Of The Century Friendly Fires - Jump In The Pool - Friendly Fires Ben Folds Five - Philosophy - Ben Folds Five Spoon - Don't Make Me A Target - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga MGMT - Kids - Oracular Spectacular Bighton Port Authority - Toe Jam (featuring David Byrne & Dizzee Rascal) Neutral Milk Hotel - King Of Carrot Flowers Part 1 - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea 2 pm Oasis - The Shock Of The Lightning - Dig Out Your Soul The Breeders - Cannonball - Last Splash Death Cab For Cutie - You Can Do Better Than Me - Narrow Stairs Justice - D.A.N.C.E. - † Cake - No Phone - Pressure Chief Illinois - Things Are Gonna Be Ok - Kid Catastrophe Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue - Acid Tongue Elvis Costello & The Imposters - No Hiding Place - Momofuku R.E.M. - Losing My Religion - Out Of Time Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! Kaiser Chiefs - Never Miss A Beat - Off With Their Heads Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You - Gorgeous George Primal Scream - Can't Go Back - Beautiful Future Elbow - One Day Like This - The Seldom Seen Kid
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| Adventures In Modern Recording |
[Sep. 23rd, 2008|01:39 pm] |
As you probably know, I've been the engineer for the live studio sessions on The Folk Show for quite some time now...it's a funny story of how I came about this position and how it has affected my work at XPN...
Initially, I had no interest in learning how to use the mixing console...I didn't want to go into audio production, so I didn't want to concern myself with something that I wouldn't be using in an on-air position...as it turns out, I had to learn how to use the board because the fella who was the engineer at the time was going to be leaving...I was chosen as his successor because I had be there the longest of the other production guys and it seemed like I was going to be around the longest...as it turns out, learning how to work with the board wasn't that difficult (it's the musicians that are difficult to work with!)...before long, I was mixing sessions by myself, and I'm even showing a new production assistant how to mix sessions (don't worry, I'm not leaving any time soon, but it's good to have more than one person around who can mix a session)...
As it turns out, learning how to use the mixing board was one of the most beneficial things I've done for my radio career (and not just for The Folk Show)...somehow, word got around to the XPN people (the Folk Show team is only at the station on Sunday nights) that I was mixing sessions...from there, I was offered the chance to do the live mix for the Kids Corner stage at this past summer's festival, and mix sessions for shows other than the Folk Show...a few weeks ago, I mixed the band [ism] for a Y-Rock session...the set-up was rather similar to the ones I'm used to on the Folk Show...that is, all acoustic guitars and a small drum kit...it wasn't that demanding of a session, so it wasn't that hard to mix...
This past Friday, [XPN afternoon host/Y-Rock program director] Jim McGuinn comes into the Y-Rock studio during my shift and asks if I would be available to mix a session with the band Darker My Love (they opened for The Dandy Warhols at the TLA this weekend)...of course I was willing to do so, not realizing how immensely different this session would be in comparison to all the other ones I've done...Darker My Love are a psychedelic/shoegaze type of band, but are also quite poppy...because their records are very heavy with reverb, they wanted a similar effect in this session...they also had a few requests on how to 'pan' the instruments (that means how heavily skewed to the right or left channels in stereo)...in the end, I think I learned a lot about how I can experiment a bit more with what I already know, benefiting both the Y-Rock sessions that I mix as well as the Folk Show sessions...
This Thursday, I'll be mixing Philadephia blues/rock duo Victor Victor Band...it's kind of funny because the band and I share a friend in Steve D, and guitarist Jamie Victor has e-mailed me before thanking me for playing them on my show...
I guess the moral of the story is that you should take every opportunity to learn something new, because it just might be the thing that gets you the furthest and you'll always........
...holy crap, All Tomorrow's Parties was at Kutscher's...
E.
Lyric of the Time:
And if the enemy don't see it your way
Be smart, play dead, live to fight a new day
And vive le rock |
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| Y-Rock On XPN playlist for 9.12.08!! |
[Sep. 18th, 2008|10:31 pm] |
artist - title - album 12 pm: The Nooner David Bowie - Space Oddity - Space Oddity Space - Female Of The Species - Spiders Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning - Diesel & Dust G. Love & Special Sauce - I-76 - Yeah, Its That Easy The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary - Love The Trash Can Sinatras - Obscurity Knocks - Cake Reel Big Fish - Sellout - Turn The Radio Off Ian Dury - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll - New Boots And Panties!! Cake - Stickshifts And Safteybelts - Fashion Nugget The Stooges - Search And Destroy - Raw Power Joe Jackson - Fools In Love - Look Sharp! They Might Be Giants - Hearing Aid - Flood The Velvet Underground - I'm Waiting For The Man - The Velvet Underground & Nico Soul Asylum - Misery - Let Your Dim Light Shine Mission Of Burma - Devotion - Signals, Calls And Marches 1 pm Dr. Dog - The Ark - Fate The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1 - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots The Last Shadow Puppets - Standing Next To Me - The Age Of The Understatement Hot Chip - Over & Over - The Warning MGMT - Kids - Oracular Spectacular Kaiser Chiefs - Never Miss A Beat - Off With Their Heads The Replacements - We're Comin' Out - Let It Be The Raconteurs - Many Shades Of Black - Consolers Of The Lonely OkkervilRiver - Lost Coastlines - The Stand Ins The Cure - 10:15 Saturday Night - Three Imaginary Boys Cold War Kids - Hospital Beds - Robbers & Cowards The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name - We Started Nothing Paul Weller - 22 Dreams - 22 Dreams Hoodoo Gurus - I Want You Back - Stoneage Romeos 2 pm Ben Folds - You Don't Know Me (featuring Regina Spektor) - Way To Normal James - Born Of Frustration - Seven Stereophonics - My Friends - Pull The Pin The Clash - Revolution Rock - London Calling Amanda Palmer - Leeds United - Who Killed Amanda Palmer The Dandy Warhols - Mis Amigos - ...Earth To The Dandy Warhols... Darker My Love - Two Ways Out - 2 Wolf Parade - Language City - At Mount Zoomer Matthew Sweet - Let's Love - Sunshine Lies Dinosaur Jr - Start Choppin' - Where You Been Tim Armstrong - Into Action - A Poet's Life Fleet Foxes - Quiet Houses - Fleet Foxes Brazilian Girls - Good Time - New York City 3 pm Nine Inch Nails - Echoplex - The Slip Oasis - Falling Down - Dig Out Your Soul David Byrne & Brian Eno - Wanted For Life - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today Elbow - Grounds For Divorce - The Seldom Seen Kid Phantom Planet - Big Brat - Phantom Planet The Rapture - No Sex For Ben - The Music Of Grand Theft Auto IV dan le sac vs. Scroobius Pip - The Beat That My Heart Skipped - Angles Bob Mould - See A Little Light - Workbook An American Chinese - No No Like That - Panic Pilgrim Fujiya & Miyagi - Dishwasher - Lightbulbs Luna - Sideshow By The Seashore - Penthouse The Redwalls - Game Of Love - The Redwalls Lykke Li - Breaking It Up - Youth Novels The Secret Machines - Atomic Heels - Secret Machines
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| And I'm floating in a most peculiar way... |
[Aug. 25th, 2008|02:49 pm] |
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The Dandy Warhols - ...Earth To The Dandy Warhols... (Beat The World Records)
Okay, I get it; the CD is dead, long live the digital download. It seems that there's a new variation on the theme with each band that joins the 'give it away' club. In the case of The Dandy Warhols, they didn't give it away to just anyone. Sharing its name with a song from an earlier self-released album, ...Earth To The Dandy Warhols... was offered to members of the band's online fan club just over three months before its physical release date. The unorthodox release isn't the only thing that makes this album different from the Dandys' past efforts. Earth provides a look into the eclectic mind of leader Courtney Taylor-Taylor, with noisy disco ("Welcome To The Third World"), bubblegum pop ("Valerie Yum") and classic Dandys psychedelia ("Mission Control," "Wasp In The Lotus") being some of the album's more accessible turns. The real oddities are songs like "Mis Amigos," a Spanish-inflected ode to the band's favorite vices, and the head-scratchingly fun "The Legend Of The Last Of The Outlaw Truckers AKA The Ballad Of Sheriff Shorty," which is over the top, even for the Dandys. All is not so baffling on Earth, with lead track "The World The People Together (Come On)" bringing in some Go! Team-style chants and the very lovely "Love Song" bringing some highbrow guitarists (namely Mark Knopfler and Mike Campbell) into the dense mix. Though I'm not sure anyone (fan club member or otherwise) is ready for the 14-minute closer "Musee D'Nougat," it does offer some delectable background on the fluffy confection. ...Earth To The Dandy Warhols... won't be bringing in the scores of new fans like Thirteen Tales Of Urban Bohemia did, but it is a treat for the band's established (and very patient) fanbase.
Review by Eric Schuman
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| Y-Rock On XPN playlist for 8.18.08!! |
[Aug. 20th, 2008|11:38 pm] |
artist - title - album 4 pm The Cure - The Perfect Boy T. Rex - Mambo Sun - Electric Warrior The Caesars - Waking Up - Strawberry Weed The Secret Machines - Nowhere Again - Now Here Is Nowhere Buzzcocks - Noise Annoys - Love Bites Wolf Parade - Language City - At Mount Zoomer Stereophonics - Dakota - Language, Sex, Violence, Other? Justice - D.A.N.C.E. - † Cold War Kids - Something Is Not Right With Me - Loyalty To Loyalty dan le sac vs. Scroobius Pip - Look For The Woman - Angles The Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection - The Stone Roses Stereolab - Neon Beanbag - Chemical Chords Delta Spirit - Trashcan - Ode To Sunshine The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement - The Age Of The Understatement 5 pm The Jesus And Mary Chain - Head On - Automatic Albert Hammond, Jr. - GfC - ¿Cómo Te Llama? The Dandy Warhols - Mis Amigos - …Earth To The Dandy Warhols… Rogue Wave - Lake Michigan - Asleep At Heaven's Gate Kaiser Chiefs - The Angry Mob - Yours Truly, Angry Mob Primal Scream - Can't Go Back - Beautiful Future The Baseball Project - Past Time - Volume One: Frozen Ropes And Dying Quails Television - See No Evil - Marquee Moon Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma - Vampire Weekend Arcade Fire - Intervention - Neon Bible Oasis - The Shock Of The Lightning - Dig Out Your Soul Jane's Addiction - Ripple - Deadicated Brazilian Girls - Good Time - New York City Tilly And The Wall - Pot Kettle Black - O Siouxsie & The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden - The Scream 6 pm Beck - Gamma Ray - Modern Guilt Echo & The Bunnymen - The Cutter - Porcupine The Zutons - Always Right Behind You - You Can Do Anything Gnarls Barkley - Run - The Odd Couple Snow Patrol - You're All I Have - Eyes Open Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood - Fleet Foxes Fujiya & Miyagi - Dishwasher - Lightbulbs Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Accidents Will Happen - Armed Forces The Raconteurs - Many Shades Of Black - Consolers Of The Lonely Victor Victor Band - Lost & Found - Chatterbox Band Of Horses - Islands On The Coast - Cease To Begin Gorillaz - Dare - Demon Days Conor Oberst - I Don't Want To Die (In The Hospital) - Conor Oberst Reverend Horton Heat - It's Martini Time - It's Martini Time The Stooges - Search And Destroy - Raw Power
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| Y-Rock On XPN playlist for 8.8.08!! |
[Aug. 8th, 2008|09:31 pm] |
artist - title - album 11 am R.E.M. - Hollow Man - Accelerate David Bowie - TVC15 - Station To Station dan le sac vs. Scroobius Pip - Look For The Woman - Angles Squeeze - If I Didn't Love You - Argybargy The Decemberists - The Perfect Crime #2 - The Crane Wife Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes Paul Weller - Echoes Round The Sun - 22 Dreams Pixies - Velouria - Bossanova Santogold - Say Aha - Santogold Marah - Walt Whitman Bridge - If You Didn't Laugh You'd Cry Victor Victor Band - Lost & Found - Chatterbox X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage Up Yours! - Germ Free Adolescents Rilo Kiley - Portions For Foxes - More Adventurous Brazilian Girls - Good Time - New York City CSS - Rat Is Dead - Donkey The Chemical Brothers - Galvanize - Push The Button 12 pm: The Nooner Southern Culture On The Skids - Voodoo Cadillac - Dirt Track Date The English Beat - Tears Of A Clown - I Just Can't Stop It Lucas - With The Lid Off - Lucacentric Garbage - Stupid Girl - Garbage Luna - Anesthesia - Lunapark Depeche Mode - People Are People - People Are People Hoodoo Gurus - I Want You Back. - Stoneage Romeos Belle & Sebastian - Dirty Dream Number Two - The Boy With The Arab Strap The Cranberries - Zombie - No Need To Argue The Pretenders - The Phone Call - Pretenders Mission Of Burma - Fame And Fortune - Signals, Calls And Marches Pavement - Gold Soundz - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain Matthew Sweet - I've Been Waiting - Girlfriend Fastball - The Way - All The Pain Money Can Buy Cornershop - Sleep On The Left Side - When I Was Born For The 7th Time 1 pm James - Waterfall - Hey Ma Electric Six - Gay Bar - Fire The Last Shadow Puppets - Standing Next To Me - The Age Of The Understatement The Buzzcocks - I Don't Mind - Another Music In A Different Kitchen The Raveonettes - Blush - Lust Lust Lust Dr. Dog - The Ark - Fate TV On The Radio - Hours - Return To Cookie Mountain Television - See No Evil - Marquee Moon Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You - Partie Traumatic Ben Folds - You Don't Know Me (featuring Regina Spektor) - Way To Normal of Montreal - Id Engager - Skeletal Lamping The Ting Tings - Be The One - We Started Nothing The Clash - Lost In The Supermarket - London Calling Beck - Soul Of A Man - Modern Guilt David Byrne & Brian Eno - Strange Overtones - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today The Cure - 10:15 Saturday Night - Three Imaginary Boys 2 pm Morrissey - That's How People Grow Up - Greatest Hits Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma - Vampire Weekend Conor Oberst - I Don't Want To Die (In The Hospital) - Conor Oberst Love Of Diagrams - Trouble - Mosaic The Flaming Lips - Mr. Ambulance Driver - At War With The Mystics Elbow - Grounds For Divorce - The Seldom Seen Kid The New Pornographers - Myriad Harbour - Challengers XTC - Mayor Of Simpleton - Oranges And Lemons The Raconteurs - Consoler Of The Lonely - Consolers Of The Lonely Cold War Kids - Something Is Not Right With Me - Loyalty To Loyalty Stan Ridgway - Don't Box Me In - Rumblefish Soundtrack The Good The Bad And The Queen - Kingdom Of Doom - The Good The Bad And The Queen Fujiya & Miyagi - Dishwasher - Lightbulbs Sonic Youth - What A Waste - Rather Ripped The Shins - New Slang - Oh, Inverted World
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