That Generic Variety Show 09-03

On every Thursday from 4PM-6PM. Aileen's selections are in purple. Victor's selections are in green.

Artist - Song

Saves the Day - Cars & Calories
David Cook - Lie
Tool - Aenema
Hanson - Runaway Run
Weezer - Why Bother?
Kings of Convenience - I'd Rather Dance With You
Coheed And Cambria - Everything Evil
Demi Lovato - Catch Me
Mew - Rebeaterbeater
Blackmore's Night - Loreley
Mastodon - Colony of Birchmen
From Newsies - Seize the Day
Anthony Green - Babygirl
Tommy and the High Pilots - Bluesy Floozie
Portugal. The Man - Work All Day
Jim Croce - Lover's Cross
Ok Go - A Million Ways
A-Ha - Take on Me
Queen - Killer Queen
Laura Branigan - Gloria
Thrice - Firebreather
Enrique Iglesias - Heroe
Between the Buried and Me - Prequel to the Sequel
Jesse McCarthey - Just So You Know
Hello Seahorse! - OK!...Lobster
Alkaline Trio - Stupid Kid
House of Freaks - 40 Years

Rabble rabble rabble

I know everyone usually gets upset about certain pitchfork reviews. Sometimes they can be right, sometimes they can be way off..its the nature of reviewing. I was particularly upset this week that they gave a 15 year old album the title of Best new music (I know its a Sunny day real estate re-issue and an important album, blah blah blah). Meanwhile, my #1 album of the year contender, Intuit by Ramona Falls, scored a very respectable 8.0 but I suppose doesn't warrant a "best new music" title. It was bad enough a few weeks ago when they were giving the titles to Radiohead re-issues and giving Kid A a 10.0. I still use the site for various music news things, but I'm increasingly disappointed in their reviewing when they seem to be hailed as the be all, end all of indie music knowledge.

I was also going to whine about their top 500 songs of the 2000's but was just linked to this fantastic buddyhead article that does a much better job than I could:
http://www.buddyhead.com/lil-wayne-2000-pitchfork-snorts-a-decade/

Post some of your favorite alternative music review websites!

Weird Noises 9/2/09

First playlist of the semester:

Stephen Vitiello - Light Readings
Horaflora - A Win, Din, Thud Or...
Disband - Rebel
Tom Johnson - Abundant Numbers
Gruppo di Imrovazzione Nuova Consonanza - Eflot, Percussion per Tutti
Beat Furrer - Fama (Scenes IV & V), performed by Klangforum Wien
Billy Gomberg - Into
John Cage - Cheap Imitation III (performed by Paul Zukofsky

Ambient Signal - 9/1/09 - New Month, New Time!

WRPI 91.5fm!
http://www.wrpi.org/ for webcast
Tuesdays 4-6pm

New time and you know what that means...

Yes..my graphic displays the wrong times again, but that's ok..it can stay like that..I think i was on wednesdays 6-8 last yearand didn't change it

So weird being on the air this early. Plus this blog is a little lonelier this fall because of so little DJ's on it, but hopefully participation will pick up.

Pre-Show - Tyondai Braxton - Platinum Rows

Son lux - Raise (Playing at Mass Moca this friday at 8pm! Going to be great!)
Denali - Gunner
Camera Obscura - Tears for affairs
Cat power - Metal heart
Doves - Winter Hill
Morcheeba - Ten Men (Request)
Feist - Sea lion Woman
Sigur Ros - Festival
Ramona Falls - Clover - SEE MY VIDEO HERE
The Antlers - Kettering
Amy Millan - Bruised Ghosts
Choir of young believers - Under the moon
Darlings - Eviction party
Dodos - Longform
Alan Singley and the pants machine - Le Rain
Phantogram - When I'm Small (Playing in Saratoga this saturday at Final Stretch festival! Free show!)
Inner Banks - Pyramids
Mew - Repeater beater
Health - Die slow
Balmorhea - Attesa
Brand New - The boy who blocked his own shot
Bright Eyes - Tourist Trap
Grizzly Bear - Knife
Starfucker - Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second
Why? - The Vowels pt. 2
The Velvet Teen - Building a whale

...And The Battle Begun 08/31

Hey hey everybody out there. This is my the first And The Battle Begun for the semester. So I will be on Mondays at 2PM-4PM. Today I'm on a bit longer because Capitol Report won't be playing afterward. Here is the playlist for the show:

Artist - Title

Rx Bandits - ...And the Battle Begun
The Get Up Kids - Holiday
Mew - Introducing Palace Players
Jimmy Eat World - Lucky Denver Mint
Circa Survive - Stop the Car
Weezer - El Scorcho
The Mars Volta - Teflon
Interpol - Obstacle 1
Piebald - King of the Road
Pavement - Gold Soundz
Coheed and Cambria - Time Consumer
Saves the Day - At Your Funeral
Dillinger Four - Noble Stabbings
Animal Collective - My Girls
Pixies - Trompe le Monde
Coheed and Cambria - The Velourium Camper III: Al the Killer
The Ergs! - Introducing Morrissey
Between the Buried and Me - Informal Gluttony
Mastodon - The Czar
Built to Spill - Car
Explosions in the Sky - First Breath After Coma
Aha - Take on Me
Sunny Day Real Estate - Song About An Angel
The Dismemberment Plan - A Life of Possibilities
Silversun Pickups - Common Reactor
Jawbreaker - Bivouac
None More Black - Oh, There's Legwork
Moving Mountains - Foreward
The Fall Of Troy - The Hol[ ]ly Tape
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Another Morning Stoner
The Appleseed Cast - Hanging Marionette
Saosin - It's Far Better to Learn
The Sound of Animals Fighting - The Heraldic Beak of Manufacturer's Medallion