That Generic Variety Show 10-08 BATTLE OF THE SEXES

Aileen's picks are in PINK. Victor's picks are in BLUE.

Helen Reddy - I am Woman
The Fall of Troy - Single
Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Andrew WK - Party Hard
Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
Queens of the Stone Age - 3's & 7's
Hey Monday - How You Love Me Now
Converge - Homewrecker
Demi Lovato - Everything You're Not
The Ergs! - Everything Falls Apart (And More)
Shania Twain - That Don't Impress Me Much
Saves the Day - Head for the Hills
Teresa James & The Rhythm Tramps - I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday
The Get Up Kids - Action & Action
From My Fair Lady - Without You
Weezer - No One Else
Meredith Brooks - Bitch
Chiodos - Baby, You Wouldn't Last a Minute on the Creek
Avril Lavigne - Everything Back But You
AFI - Darling I Want to Destroy You
Spice Girls - Wannabe
The Fall of Troy - Shhh! If You're Quiet I'll Show You A Dinosaur
Martina McBride - This One's For the Girls
AFI - Summer Shudder

Weird Noises 10/07/09

Jandek - I Like You Too
Mauricio Kagel - Hallelujah 1968 (performed by Schola Cantorum Stuttgart)
Lissom - Forage
Holland Hopson & James Keepnews - Lunchpails
Egisto Macchi - Voci 1963 (performed by Schola Cantorum Stuttgart)
Holland Hopson & James Keepnews - Substation
Holland Hopson & James Keepnews - Border Incident
Billy Gomberg & Offthesky (Jason Corder) - They Were At the Beach
Holland Hopson - Walter Hopps in Neon (with Nicole Payrafitte, voice)
Solo Andata - In the Light Storming
Holland Hopson & James Keepnews - Wahbligato
Holland Hopson - Standard Stoppage 1
Holland Hopson & James Keepnews - Sephardic
AMM - Like a Cloud Hanging in the Sky?

Ambient Signal - 10/6/09

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Anathallo - Sleeping Torpor
Here we go magic - Fangela
Animal Collective - Grass
Fleet foxes - White winter hymnal
The Get up kids - Overdue
Fleet foxes - Blue ridge mountains (by request)
Bell orchestre - Elephants
Ramona Falls - Bellyfulla
Volcano Choir - Husks and shells
Le Loup - A celebration
Why? - Into the shadows of my embrace
Orenda Fink - Wind
Via Tania - Wonder stranger
Noah and the whale - I have nothing
Monsters of folk - His master's voice
Pains of being pure at heart - Higher than the stars
Raveonettes - Breaking into cars
Langhorne Slim - Back to the wild
Echo and the bunnymen - Think I need it too
Russian Circles - Fathom
Johann Johannsson - Melodia (I)
The Books - Tokyo
The Helio sequence - Back to this
Land of talk - As me
Margot and the nuclear so and so's - Children's crusade on acid
Mason Proper - A Chance encounter

Darling Tuesday - 10/06/2009

Welcome to another Darling Tuesday.. listen on Tuesdays at 2pm on 91.5 FM and online at wrpi.org/listen.

The Playlist:

Thievery Corporation - Blasting Through The City

Fort Knox Five - Insight (The Nextmen Remix)
Boozoo Bajou - S.I.P.
Hudson Mohawke - Gluetooth
The Prodigy - Warrior's Dance (Benga Remix)
Tom Middleton - Beginning Of The Middle

Rival Consoles - 1985
Isotope - Crunch Cake
Picture Plane - Trance Doll
Hybrid - A Dark Distance
Towa Tei - B.M.T (Dream Team aka BizzY B. & Pugwash Mix)

Zoot Woman - Lonely By Your Side / More Than Ever
Daft Punk - Da Funk
Dan Deacon - Woof Woof
Major Lazer - Anything Goes
Britney Spears - Circus (Diplo Remix)

LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge
Arnaud Rebotini - Decade of Agression
Paul van Dyk - For An Angel (PVD Remix 09)
Justice - Waters of Nazareth (Reprise) (Live from A Cross The Universe)

Plan B, 10/5/09

Healthy stack of new stuff again this week. Focus albums are Via Tania's Moon Sweet Moon, Aerosol's Airborne, and Múm's Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know.

Also, I'm still madly in love with Silver Starling's new self-titled debut LP. You owe it to yourself to track it down and play it on repeat for hours. Well, when it's commercially released in the US, anyway. (I love being a college radio DJ.)

[Track - Artist (Album)]

Fields - Via Tania (Moon Sweet Moon)
High Plains Drifter Finds The Oracle at Delphi - Jupiter One (Sunshower)
Never Fine - The Shaky Hands (Let It Die)
Closer - Silver Sterling (Silver Sterling)
Bed - Brand New (Daisy)
Underdog - Kasabian (West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum)
Circles - Thrice (Beggars)
Circles - As Tall As Lions (You Can't Take It With You)
Sing Along - Múm (Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know)
The Beginning - Via Tania (Moon Sweet Moon)
Midnight Ride Down the Mental Freeway - Aerosol (Airborne)
Something Over Nothing - Silver Starling (Silver Starling)
A Trenchant Critique - Owen (New Leaves)
On The Shore - World's Greatest Ghosts (No Magic)
Almighty Moon - Sondre Lerche (Heartbeat Radio)
Wonder Stranger - Via Tania (Moon Sweet Moon)
Wintertime Love - Choir of Young Believers (This Is For the White In Your Eyes)
Let The Seasons Drift - Aerosol (Airborne)
A River Don't Stop To Breathe - Múm (Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know)
Strange Teacher - Jupiter One (Sunshower)
Dangerously - Via Tania (Moon Sweet Moon)
How We Operate - Gomez (How We Operate)
Infinite Expanse - Aerosol (Airborne)
Love And A Broken Heart - Silver Starling (Silver Starling)
Ugly On The Inside - Owen (New Leaves)
Moving On - Anthem In (Anthem In)

That Generic Variety Show 10-01

Aileen's choices are in PINK. Victor's choices are in PURPLE.

Plain White T's - Hate ( I Really Don't Like You)
Deerhunter - Agoraphobia
The Downtown Fiction - No Typical Thursday Night
AFI - Okay, I Feel Better Now
We The Kings - Stay Young
Thrice - The Weight
Tom Petty - The Apartment Song
David Cook - Permanent
Everytime I Die - After One Quarter of a Revolution
Vitamin String Quartet (tribute to Fall Out Boy) - Sugar, We're Goin' Down
Mew - Am I Wry? No
The Academy Is... - I'm Yours Tonight
Broadway Calls - Back to Oregon
Rooney - Believe in Me
The XX - Crystallized
Hanson - Sure About It
Streetlight Manifesto - A Moment of Silence
Vienna Teng - Lullabye For a Stormy Night
The Fall of Troy - Battleship Graveyard
Sirsy - Sorry Me
RX Bandits - My Lonesome Only Friend
Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker
Coheed and Cambria - Radio Bye Bye

Weird Noises 9/30/09

Toshimaru Nakamura, Joe Foster, Bonnie Jones - Plant Signs
Wilson Shoock - Advert
Celer - Fountain Glider (excerpt)
Talking Heads - Wild Wild Life
Evan Caminiti - Midnight Naked Swim
Van Der Graaf Generator - Killer
Ellen Fullman - Woven Procession
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Happy House
Celer - Brittle (excerpt)

Ambient Signal - 9/29/09

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Grizzly Bear - On a neck, on a spit
Hymie's basement - Ghost Dream
I am robot and proud - Grace days
The Get up kids - Is there a way out
Land of Talk - May you never
The Velvet Teen - Gyzmkid
Sigur Ros - Glosoli
WHY? - Berkeley by hearseback
Ramona Falls - Darkest day
Le Loup - Forgive me
Volcano Choir - Still
Noah and the whale - blue skies
Monsters of Folk - The sandman, the brakeman and me
Mum - Hullabbalabbaluu
Stars of track and field - Racing lights
Girls - Ghost mouth
The xx - Crystalised
Brand New - At the Bottom
Shaky hands - Let it die
Turbo Fruits - Want some mo'
Georgie James - Cake Parade
Orenda Fink - High Ground
The Album Leaf - Story board
Hammock - ...Like starlight into day
Headless heroes - True love will find you in the end
Clare and the reasons - Pluto

Darling Tuesday - 9/29/2009

Hey guys, we're back again with more electro on WRPI! Tune in at wrpi.org/listen, Tuesdays at 2pm.

Today's Playlist:
(new music in red)
Rival Consoles - XVR VR

Simian Mobile Disco - Off The Map
Grafton Primary - Telling Lies
Radiohead - Kid A
King Cannibal - Onwards Vultures
Infected Mushroom - Saeed

Buraka Som Sistema - Sound of Kuduro
Major Lazer - I'll Make Ya feat. Mr. Lex & Santigold
Jahdan Blakkamoore - She Said ft. 77Klash
LT Bukem - Selection from his Fabriclive46 mix
Bat for Lashes - Daniel (Death Metal Disco Scene Remix)

Portishead - Machine Gun
Autechre - Basscadet
Chromeo - Night by Night
Aphex Twin - Vordhosbn
Royksopp - Happy Up Here (Holy Fuck Remix)
HEALTH - Before Tigers

Chemical Brothers - Believe
Nadia Ali - Be Mine
Massive Attack - Risingson
Goldie - Judged By Colour, Heard By Sound, Seen By Blind

Plan B, 9/28/09

I'm back in full this week after last week's technical difficulties (the CD drive on my laptop decided to stop working with me.) Here's the plan for this week's show. Focus albums this week are Silver Starling's self-titled, No Magic by World's Greatest Ghosts, and New Leaves by Owen.

[track - artist (album)]

Something Over Nothing - Silver Starling (Silver Starling)
The Royal Court - World's Greatest Ghosts (No Magic)
Doublespeak - Thrice (Beggars)
You Stole - Brand New (Daisy)
Comin' Home - City and Colour (Sometimes)
Never Been Born - Owen (New Leaves)
Melectric - Ramona Falls (Intuit)
In The Branches - The Builders and the Butchers (Salvation is a Deep Dark Well)
Good Luck - Sondre Lerche (Heartbeat Radio)
Alright - Pilot Speed (Into The West)
No Secret Why - The Coast (Expatriate)
She Walks - Choir of Young Believers (This Is For The White In Your Eyes)
Loudest Speaker - World's Greatest Ghosts (No Magic)
Amnesia and Me - Owen (New Leaves)
Golden and Green - The Builders and the Butchers (Salvation is a Deep Dark Well)
Blind - Silver Starling (Silver Starling)
Daisy - Brand New (Daisy)
The Weight - Thrice (Beggars)
Russia - Ramona Falls (Intuit)
Birds - Emiliana Torrini (Me And Armini)
The Only Child of Aergia - Owen (New Leaves)
Magick Words - World's Greatest Ghosts (No Magic)
Florida Logic - Cougar (Patriot)
This Is Not A Dream - Silver Starling (Silver Starling)
One More Day - Lydia (Illuminate)


EDIT: I'm trying out a slightly different format for my citations this time around. Does this work? Is the album thing really a big deal? (I, for one, think it is, but I'll defer to public opinion on this one.)

...And the Battle Begun 09-28

Artist - Song

Coheed and Cambria - Junesong Provision
Mutemath - Backfire
Polar Bear Club - Take Me to the Tour
RX Bandits - Its Only Another Parsec...
The XX - Crystallized
Muse - United States of Eurasia
Brand New - Sink
Thrice - All the World is Mad
Everytime I Die - For the Record
Polvo - Beggar's Bowl
Ramona Falls - Clover
Sunny Day Real Estate - In Circles
Islands - Switched On
AFI - I'm Trying Very Hard to Be Here
Le Loup - Family
Mew - Introducing Palace Players
The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
The Antlers - Kettering
Circa Survive - Travel Hymn
Frank Turner - The Road
Dodos - Fables
The Fall of Troy - Single
Sole and the Skyrider - Children of Privilege
The Sound of Animals Fighting - Act 1: Chasing Suns
The Lawrence Arms - The Devil's Takin' Names
None More Black - Dinner's For Suckers
Underoath - Anyone Can Dig A Hole But It Takes A Real Man to Call It Home

Last Monday in October

This morning and I played a few albums I like

Nina Simone - Jazz as Played in an exclusive side street club
The Shins - Wincing the night away
Mike Doughty - Skittish
The Avett Brothers - Emotionalism

and then I started playing a Ray Charles record till Democracy Now

Ray Charles - Them that got
Ray Charles - Georgia on my mind
Ray Charles - Unchain my heart
Ray Charles - I'm gonna move to the outskirts of town
Ray Charles - the Danger Zone

That Generic Variety Show 09-24

Victor's picks are in ORANGE. Aileen's picks are in LIGHT BLUE.

Glen Hansard & Marketa Irgolva - Falling Slowly
Colbie Caillat - Midnight Bottle
Thrice - In Exile
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
She & Him - I Was Made For you
Polar Bear Club - Living Saints
Hinder - Lips of an Angel
Circa Survive - Stop the Car
Coldplay - Viva la Vida
Mew - Introducing Palace Players
The Academy Is... - We've Got A Big Mess In Our Hands
Between the Buried and Me - Mirrors
Vienna Teng - Whatever You Want
RX Bandits - Mientras La Veo Sonar
James Blunt - Goodbye My Lover
Sirsy - Leftover Girl
Brand New - At the Bottom
Jason Marz - Curbside Prophet
Dillinger Four - AMERICASPREMIERFAITHBASEDINITATIVE
Solas - Just You
Anthony Green - First Day of Work at the Microscope Store
Saosin - I Keep My Secrets Safe
Kate Bush - Joanni
Muse - Uprising
Maria Talyor - Cartoons and Forever Plans

Weird Noises 9/23

Petr Kotik - Many Many Women (Performed by the S.E.M. Ensemble), Excerpt

Ambient Signal - 9/22/09

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Green = In stores today! 9/22!

Br'er - Catch a falling knife (Playing at ground zero this friday! www.gzbasement.net for more info)
Balmorhea - Dream of thaw
Dark Dark Dark - All the things Dosh Remix
Wesafari - Credit
Denali - The Instinct
WHY? - The Blackest purse
Ramona falls - Salt sack
Le Loup - Family
Volcano Choir - Island, IS
Mew - Beach
Monsters of Folk - Dear God (Sincerely, MOF)
Speech Debelle - Searching
Slaraffenland - Meet and greet
Raveonettes - Last dance
Langhorne Slim - I love you but goodbye
Orba Squara - Very very (snow in june)
Vivian Girls - I have no fun
Choir of young believers - Under the moon
itsnotyouitsme - Great day
Bright Eyes - No one would riot for less
Cat Power - Maybe Not
Grizzly Bear - Two weeks
Battles - Atlas
Talkdemonic - Human til born
The Velvet Teen -Gyzmkid

Darling Tuesday - 9/22/2009

Join us on Tuesdays 2-4pm. Listen online at wrpi.org/listen.

Today's playlist:

Rival Consoles - iO - 1985
Islands - Tender Torture
Os Mutantes - O Careca

Simeon Mobile Disco - Cruel Intentions
Dungen - Saat Att Se
Felix Da Housecat - Do we move your world
Health - Die Slow

Air - Redhead Girl
Nadia Ali - Fine Print
Claude VonStroke - Aka aka - Nightingirl

Vivian Girls - Can't Get Over You
Chromeo - I Can't Tell You Why
King Cannibal - Dirt ft. Daddy Freddy

Crystal Castles - Crimewave
Boys Noize - Starter
Sondre Lerche & Regina Spektor - Hell No
New Young Pony Club - Get Lucky
Depeche Mode - Wrong

Mew - The Magic Cars
Boozoo Bajou - Flickers
Royksopp - Royksopp Forever
Justice - Waters of Nazareth
Arnaud Rebotini - 777

Ladytron - Tomorrow (port-royal Remix)

New music reviews: Good time grooves

The Wild - The Wild EP

Looking to extend summer past its September 22nd expiration date? The Wild's debut EP was released over Fourth of July weekend and as such is full of songs ideal for campfires, the beach, and other summery locations. The EP's five tracks are full of harmonica, twangy guitar (both acoustic and electric), and wistful vocals singing about singing along to songs and missing friends and, well, summer. See the theme here? Unfortunately, the final two tracks sort of just plod along and are less interesting than the first three. But hey, considering the EP's available to download for free, you have no excuse not to download the album to see how big of a smile emerges on your face from hearing the first three songs.

You can download the EP for free from Quote Unquote Records.

Girls - Album

Sporting the retro lo-fi sound that's so popular in 2009, Album by the much talked about San Francisco band Girls succeeds by making songs that would be catchy and powerful with or without member Chet White's production trickery. First track "Lust for Life" is neither a Stooges cover nor about a lust for life (just for romantic companionship, a common theme in the album), but that won't stop you from singing and dancing along to the song. Later, singer Christopher Owens tells a girl named "Laura" that he wants to be "friends forever" despite the fact that she's been "a bitch" and he's been "an ass." Whatever, right? Then the beautiful Beach Boys-esque outro hits and once the song ends, you're left wondering how 4 minutes and 44 seconds passed by so quickly. Other moments, like the percussion in "God Damned" and the lyrics and overall mood of "Hellhole Ratrace" ("And I don't wanna cry my whole life through/I wanna do some laughing too/So c'mon and laugh with me"), serve to keep your ears perked throughout the course of the album. Overall, Album is big, bold, and bashful. Don't get turned off by the hype - make sure to check it out.

Album will be released on September 22nd by True Panther Records. You can stream the whole album on True Panther's website right now.

That Generic Variety Show (09-17)

Aileen's songs are in yellow; Victor's are in black.

"Do You" ~ Portugal. The Man
"The Remedy (I Won't Worry)" ~ Jason Mraz
"Head For the Hills" ~ Saves the Day
"Out Tonight" ~ from Rent
"Feathers" ~ Coheed & Cambria
"The Church of Hot Addiction" ~ Cobra Starship
"Cryptograms" ~ Deerhunter
"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" ~ Cyndi Lauper
"There's No Penguins in Alaska" ~ Chiodos
"Every Time You Lie" ~ Demi Lovato
"Sweetness" ~ Jimmy Eat World
"Be Prepared" ~ from The Lion King
"Pacucha Sunrise" ~ Minus the Bear
"Coming to Terms" ~ Carolina Liar
"Bloodmeat" ~ Protest the Hero
"Waiting Up" ~ Remember Maine
"Between the End and Where We Lie" ~ Thrice
"The Waiting" ~ Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
"Friends in the Armed Forces" ~ Thursday
"She Is" ~ The Fray
"Backfire" ~ Mutemath
"Holly (Would You Turn Me On?)" ~ All Time Low
"Don't Hate Me" ~ The Get Up Kids
"Unwell" ~ Matchbox Twenty
"Repeater Beater" ~ Mew

Weird Noises 9/16

Charlemagne Palestine - Cataclisma 3
The Cure - Pornography
Lucky Rabbit - performed by Seymour Wright and Ross Lambert
Gyorgy Ligeti - Le Grand Macabre, Act 2
Pere Ubu - Go
This Heat - Health and Efficiency
Jacques Lejeune - D'Une Multitude En Fete
Tandem Electrics - Intaglio

Ambient Signal - 9/15/09

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Code.

Pre show- Code in the clouds - Don't go awash

The Octopus Project - Malaria Codes
Four Tet - My angel rocks back and forth
Q and not U - Sleeping the terror code
WHY? - Against me
Bright Eyes - Arc of time
Tiesto - Kaleidoscope (Featuring Jonsi of Sigur Ros)
itsnotyouitsme - Throne built for the past (playing wednesday at RPI at 7:30! Visit arts.rpi.edu for more info!)
Ramona falls - Going once, going twice
Le Loup - Morning song
Slaraffenland - Open your eyes
Mew - Introduction palace player
Yo la tengo - Avalon or someone very similar
Amy Millan - Towers
Windmill - Ellen save our energy
Orba Squara - All the colors (picture perfect)
Alan Singley and the pants machine - Lean in
Vivian girls - Walking alone at night
Port o' brien - Oslo Campfire
Grizzly Bear - While you wait for the others (Playing Sept 25th at Skidmore!)
Annuals - Springtime
Cmaera Obscura - Away with murder
Feist - Let it die
Orenda Fink - Let it die
Halou - Morsecode
I'm from barcelona - Paper planes