Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Expressway To Yr Skull! 02.09.10

I don't know what was going on here, but about forty-five minutes in, I got this fucking horrendous pain in my side, which progressed into me getting full-on feverish & dizzy at about the second hour. I think I spent most of that Moon Duo song sprawled out on the floor & trying to keep from blacking out. Everything was kind of fuzzy for a good chunk of that time, so I might not have been making much sense. Shit was crazy. But I felt much better by the time I played Fucked Up, because I was lucid enough to realize how badly they butchered that Shop Assistants song. Seriously guys, not good...

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(* denotes a request, # denotes a new release.)

Time Played - Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

#20:01:35 - Wetdog - The Burry Man - Lower Leg 7"- Captured Tracks
20:05:31 - Television - Venus - Marquee Moon - Elektra
20:09:13 - Comet Gain - The Fists in the Pocket - City Fallen Leaves - Kill Rock Stars
#20:12:33 - Bad Sports - I Can't Remember Your Name - V/A - Casual Victim Pile: Austin 2010 - Matador
20:15:08 - Daniel Johnston - Tears Stupid Tears - 1990 - Shimmy Disc
20:18:08 - The Gazetteers - Come Play In Aberdeen! - Territory Songs - Magic Marker
#20:22:00 - Pants Yell! - To Take - Received Pronunciation - Slumberland
#20:26:05 - Veronica Falls - Starry Eyes - Found Love In A Graveyard 7" - Captured Tracks
20:28:01 - The Yips - Tin Ear - Blue Flannel Bathrobe Butterfly - Siltbreeze
20:30:49 - Lake of Dracula - Four Teachers - Mailorder Freak 7" - Kill Rock Stars
20:34:39 - Judy Nylon - Jailhouse Rock - V/A - New York Noise, Vol. 3 - Soul Jazz
#20:41:25 - Christmas Island - Black Cloud - Blackout Summer - In The Red
20:45:42 - Billy Bragg - Lovers Town Revisited - Life's A Riot With Spy Vs. Spy - Yep Roc
20:46:27 - Marmoset - A Prayer For Elaine - Today It's You - Secretly Canadian
#20:47:41 - French Kissing - Oh Suzanne - Oh Suzanne 7" - Sleep All Day
20:50:00 - Vomit Launch - Block of Wood - V/A - Teenbeat 50 - Matador
#20:52:40 - Sea Dweller - Every Inch - Love Is Coming - Two & One
21:00:33 - The Cat's Miaow - Do You Think It Will Snow Tonight? - Songs For Girls To Sing - Drive-In
21:02:51 - Dolly Mixture - Everything & More - Dreamism - Trattoria
21:05:44 - Sea Scouts - Beacon of Hope - Beacon of Hope - Unstable Ape
21:08:50 - The Pandoras - It's About Time - It's About Time - Voxx
#21:19:09 - Moon Duo - Stumbling 22nd Street - Escape - Woodsist
#21:19:46 - Home Blitz - Is Anybody There? - Out of Phase - Richie
21:23:26 - Thanksgiving - I Am Yours - The "In The World" - Marriage
21:25:17 - Boyracer - North Yorkshire Coastline - Sunlight Is The Best Antiseptic - 555
21:26:42 - The Marmite Sisters - Wouldn't Bother You - Tug EP - Tea Records
21:31:37 - Fire Party - Walls of Mind - s/t - Dischord
#21:36:24 - Overnight Lows - So Well Read - City of Rotten Eyes - Goner
21:37:38 - The Action - Come Around - Rolled Gold - Reaction
#21:39:48 - Thee Oh Sees - The River Rushes (To Screw MD Over) - Dog Poison - Captured Tracks
21:42:31 - Sarolta Zalatnay - Munayang Almok - s/t - Finders Keepers
#21:47:07 - Fucked Up - I Don't Want To Be Friends With You - Couple Tracks: Singles 2002-2009 - Matador
21:54:51 - Old Blood - I Win - Old Men - RCRD LBL
21:55:12 - In Camera - Fragments of Fear - 13 (Lucky For Some) - Teenbeat
22:00:04 - Golden Triangle - Prize Fighter - s/t - Mexican Summer

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

When I Get To The City, My Tears Will All Be Dry (A 2009 Mix)

Since I won't be doing a radio show this week, here's another mix that was commissioned by a WMUA donor. Anne was apparently passing through our signal range on her way back to Brooklyn & called up to donate to the show. I believe what she asked for was a "best of your generation" mix, but since I'm not entirely sure what constitutes "my generation" (aside from it being a Who song), I put together a mix of some highlights from 2009-or-thereabouts releases - not exhaustive by any means. Download link below the tracklisting.


When I Get To The City, My Tears Will All Be Dry
(apologies to Sonny & Cher, by way of Dum Dum Girls)
1. Let's Wrestle - I Won't Lie To You
2. Electricity In Our Homes - Motorbike
3. Grass Widow - Lulu's Lips
4. Brilliant Colors - Absolutely Anything
5. Nodzzz - Is She There
6. The Marked Men - Fortune
7. Vivian Girls - Lake House
8. Dum Dum Girls - Baby Don't Go
9. Crystal Stilts - Love Is A Wave
10. Mika Miko - Wild Bore
11. Box Elders - Talk Amongst Yourself
12. Ty Segall - Can't Talk
13. The Strange Boys - Baby Please Don't Go
14. Spectrals - Leave Me Be
15. Fabulous Diamonds - Untitled 2
16. Best Coast - Make You Mine
17. Lovvers - 100 Flowers
18. The Mantles - What We Do Matters
19. caUSE co-MOTION! - You Lose
20. Liechtenstein - This Must Be Heaven
21. Meth Teeth - I Was Wrong
22. The Pastels/Tenniscoats - About You
23. Christmas Island - Twenty-Nine
24. The Champagne Socialists - Blue Genes
25. Times New Viking - Move To California
26. Thee Oh Sees - Ruby Go Home
27. The King Khan & BBQ Show - Spin The Bottle
28. Jay Reatard - It Ain't Gonna Save Me


Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Expressway To Yr Skull! 01.26.10

I'm on hiatus next week because WMUA will be broadcasting a women's basketball game during my show. Also, the host I've been using for my podcasts won't be allowing any more uploads after February (the old shows will still be available if you're into that sort of thing), so I think I'm just going to be posting straight-up download links/embedded mp3s on here for awhile, if that's kosher with y'all.

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(* denotes a request, # denotes a new release.)

Time Played - Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

20:06:54 - Big Star - When My Baby's Beside Me - #1 Record/Radio City - Stax
20:07:31 - Out Hud - Le Elephant Stomp - The First Single of The New Millennium 7" - 5RC
20:11:06 - Protex - I Can't Cope - I Can't Cope 7" - Polydor
#20:17:05 - Pierced Arrows - Buried Alive - Descending Shadows - Vice
#20:17:24 - Sleepover - Supercrush - s/t - Magic Goat
20:19:31 - The La's - There She Goes - s/t - Go! Discs / London
20:24:03 - Chromatics - Running Up That Hill - Night Drive - Italians Do It Better
20:30:33 - C.O.C.O. - Move On - s/t - K
20:33:13 - Sonic Youth - Little Trouble Girl - Washing Machine - DGC
20:37:00 - Kathleen Hanna - I Wish I Was Him - V/A - Rock Stars Kill - Kill Rock Stars
#20:40:39 - The Girls At Dawn - Every Night - Never Enough 7" - Hozac
20:47:05 - Jacques Dutronc - Mini-Mini-Mini - s/t - BMG
20:48:14 - Love - 7 & 7 Is - Da Capo - Elektra
20:50:16 - Olympic Death Squad - Maple Leaf - Blue - Teenbeat
*20:53:58 - Love Positions - Satellite of Love - Billiepeebup - Half A Cow
20:56:50 - The Teddy Boys - Don't Mess With Me - V/A - Hang It Out To Dry! - Satan
#21:03:14 - The Method Actors - Do The Method - This Is Still It - Acute
21:07:23 - Very Truly Yours - Popsong '91 - split EP with The Understudies - Cloudberry
21:10:43 - The Rezillos - Flying Saucer Attack - Can't Stand The Rezillos - Sire
21:17:13 - The Gordons - Future Shock - Future Shock EP - Flying Nun
#21:20:00 - Bunnygrunt - You Get What You Get - Matt Harnish & Other Delights - Happy Happy Birthday To Me
21:24:33 - Les Gamines - Vis Ta Vie Mon Gars - V/A - Girls In The Garage, Vol. 4 - Romulan
21:26:34 - Monroe Mustang - We Aren't The Stars - Plain Sweeping Themes For The Unprepared - Trance Syndicate
21:29:19 - Girl Trouble - She No Rattle My Cage - Riverbed 7" - K
21:32:19 - The Small Faces - Runaway - Early Faces - Pride
21:34:53 - The Mad Scene - Transatlantic Telephone Conversation - Sealight - Merge
#21:40:25 - Sea Dweller - Settings - Love Is Coming - Two & One
#21:44:29 - Coeur Magique - Madmoiselle Marie - V/A - The BYG Deal - Finders Keepers
21:47:00 - Major Stars - Black Road - Syntoptikon - Important
21:50:25 - Cleaners From Venus - Only A Shadow - Midnight Cleaners - Man at the Off-Licence
21:52:45 - Lois Maffeo & Brendan Canty - You Love Your Wounds - The Union Themes - Kill Rock Stars
21:56:00 - The Receptionists - Laundry Song - The Last Letter - Ba Da Bing!

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Expressway To Yr Skull! 01.19.10

Kicking ass & taking names on Tuesdays now! I got a request for a mini-set of "a surf song, a surf-punk song & a punk song", which shows up in this playlist as the Surf Trio/Urinals/Carbonas combo. True, "Surfin' With The Shah" isn't really a surf-punk song, but it's a punk song that references surfing & that's good enough for me.

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Podcast: Sidebar to the left!

(* denotes a request, # denotes a new release.)

Time Played - Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

20:03:48 - Shoes - Burned Out Love - Tongue Twister - Elektra
20:06:05 - Holly Golightly - She Said - Truly She Is None Other - Damaged Goods
20:07:49 - The Go-Betweens - Apology Accepted - Liberty Belle & the Black Diamond Express - Beggar's Banquet
*20:12:43 - The Dismemberment Plan - Girl O'Clock - Emergency & I - deSoto
20:15:29 - Heavenly - By The Way - Operation Heavenly - K
#20:19:35 - Christmas Island - Weird You Out - Blackout Summer - In The Red
20:25:41 - The Lemonheads - Into Your Arms - Come On Feel The Lemonheads - Atlantic
20:28:56 - The Lovely Eggs - I Want To Be In Your Fire - If You Were Fruit - Happy Happy Birthday To Me
#20:33:59 - UV Race - Gore Orphanage - s/t - Aarght!
20:34:25 - All Girl Summer Fun Band - Dear Mr. & Mrs. Troublemaker - 2 - K
20:36:30 - The Chiffons - Nobody Knows What's Going On - Sixteen Golden Classics - Collectables
20:42:11 - Noise Addict - Back In Your Life - Young & Jaded EP - Grand Royal
20:43:29 - Josef K - Fun 'n Frenzy - The Only Fun In Town - Postcard
20:45:33 - Milky Wimpshake - Kickstart Affair - Popshaped - Fortuna Pop
#20:47:26 - The King Khan & BBQ Show - Tryin' - Invisible Girl - In The Red
20:51:07 - Half Man Half Biscuit - Arthur's Farm - V/A - Ways To Wear Coats - Vulcan
20:57:33 - The Pleasers - The Kids Are Alright - The Kids Are Alright 7" - Arista
21:01:17 - Low - Home - Secret Name - Kranky
*21:02:28 - The Surf Trio - Deep In Your Eyes - Safari In A Living Graveyard - Blood Red Vinyl & Discs
*21:05:19 - The Urinals - Surfin' With The Shah - Negative Capability... Check It Out! - Amphetamine Reptile
*21:08:10 - Carbonas - Hate You - s/t - Goner
21:10:10 - The Sandwitches - Back To The Sea - How To Make An Ambient Sandcake - Southpaw
21:16:53 - Come On - Don't Walk On The Kitchen Floor - V/A - Homework 105 - Hyped2Death
21:20:15 - So Cow - Casablanca - s/t - Tic Tac Totally
#21:23:41 - Alice - Que Pouvons-Nous Faire Ensemble? - V/A - The BYG Deal - Finders Keepers
21:25:44 - Bright - On Life After Death - The Albatross Guest House - Ba Da Bing!
21:30:48 - Middle Class - Home Is Where - Out of Vogue: The Early Material - Frontier
21:33:08 - Thomas Function - Conspiracy of Praise - Celebration! - Alive
#21:37:44 - Jacuzzi Boys - Burn It Down - No Seasons - Florida's Dying
21:40:59 - The Razorcuts - Summer In Your Heart - R Is For... Razorcuts - Matinee
21:42:54 - The Monochrome Set - The Twitch - The Lost Weekend - Blanco y Negro
21:44:51 - Section 25 - Girls Don't Count - Girls Don't Count 7" - Factory
#21:49:38 - Little Girls - Growing - Concepts - Paper Bag
21:53:53 - Autohaze - Undecided - V/A - Just A Taste - Summershine
#21:56:34 - Wetdog - Lower Leg - Lower Leg 7" - Captured Tracks

Friday, January 15, 2010

Rock & Roll.


Since I haven't been able to do a radio show in about three weeks, things have been kind of thin in the blog-worthy content department. There's a string of really great shows happening in the area over the next week or so, though. Let this serve as an official endorsement:

Friday, January 15th (that would be tonight)
at the Diamond Junction Bowling Lanes (1446 N. Main Street, Palmer, MA)
Fat Worm of Error
Bone Zone
Greyskull
Lady Jam
8pm, $7, theoldstore.org for more information (although all you really need to know is music + bowling + pinball = fun)

Friday, January 22nd
at Toy Prison / Media Mansion (145 South Street, Northampton, MA)
Daniel Higgs
Bill Nace
Stellar Om Source
8:30pm, $5, Facebook that shit for more information

Sunday, January 24th
at Grey Matter Books (47 East Street, Hadley, MA)
Vetiver
Happy Birthday
8pm, $10, Grey Matter Books for more information