Gold Sounds 12/2/08: Location is everything, especially in Europe

Today's show will feature blocks of music by artists that are from the same European countries, at least assuming I don't get bored with it. We'll see! New songs in red, requests in blue. Ridiculous songs in green.

Rock Block - Epic English Bands
Spiritualized "Intro"/"Shine a Light" (from Royal Albert Hall Live 1997 album)
My Bloody Valentine "To Here Knows When" (based in London now, though originally formed in Ireland. Who's splitting hairs? Not me!)
Portishead "All Mine"

Rock Block - Scottish Bands
Mogwai "Kids Will Be Skeletons"
Belle and Sebastian "The State I Am In" (from their new BBC Sessions album)
Camera Obscura "Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken"
Long Fin Killie "The Heads of Dead Surfers"

Rock Block - Welsh Bands
Stereophonics "My Own Worst Enemy"
Mclusky "Forget About Him I'm Mint"
Future of the Left "The Lord Hates a Coward"
Los Campesinos! "Miserabilia"

Rock Block - Swedish Punk Bands
Refused "Liberation Frequency"/The Deadly Rythm"
The Hives "Die, All Right!"
Millencolin "Material Boy"

Sgt. Dunbar and the Hobo Banned "Passing Time"
Neutral Milk Hotel "Ghost"
Charlie Everywhere "Mouthful of Diamonds"
Pretend You're Happy "Everyone's Tired in Boston"

Women "Black Rice"
Starfucker "Florida"
Of Montreal "Id Engager"
Miniature Tigers "Tell it to the Volcano"

Hospital Ships "Baby for J"
Fourth of July "The Faint"

Between the Pine "Cut the Crap"
Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron & Fred Squire "Lost Wisdom"/"Voice in Headphones"

Rock Block - Icelandic Bands
Sigur Ros "Milano"
Bjork "All Is Full of Love"
Mugison "Mugiboogie" (from Made in Iceland compilation)

Max Tundra "Will Get Fooled Again"
Polysics "Moog Is Love"
David Byrne & Brian Eno "The River"
The Organ "Oh What a Feeling"

Rock Block - The British Are Coming, The British Are Coming (With New Music)!
The Cure "The Only One"
Bloc Party "Flux"
Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid "25th Street"

Rock Block - Swedish Indie Pop Bands (Plus Something Ridiculous)
Lykke Li "Breaking it Up"
Love Is All "A More Uncertain Future"
I'm from Barcelona "Paper Planes"
Europe "The Final Countdown" (IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWWWWWWN)

Moon & Moon "Act II: Hands of a Man"
Thursday "As He Climbed the Dark Mountain"
Longwave "Satellites"

Rock Block - German Bands/Artists
The Notwist "Pick Up the Phone"
ckid "Down With Ghosts"
The Notwist "Gloomy Planets"

Rock Block - British Electronica
Aphex Twin "Windowlicker"
Radiohead "Skttrbrain (Four Tet Remix)"
Burial "Archangel"

WRPIwave 11_24

Song of the night in bodacious WRPIwave red!

Gang of Four - Anthrax (Blood Brothers Remix)
Big Audio Dynamite - Bad
Depeche Mode - Precious
Front 242 - U Men
Several Heads - 20 Deadly Diseases
Billy Idol - Dancing with Myself
Fad Gadget - Pedestrian
Bauhaus - David Jay, Peter Murphy, Kevin H
Coming Back to You - Television Set
Vice Versa - Riot Squad
The Killers - Shadowplay
Human League - Do or Die
Gang of Four - To Hell with Poverty
Heaven 17 - We Don't Need that Facist Groove Thang

Ambient Signal 11/25/08

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http://www.wrpi.org/ for webcast
Tuesdays 6-8pm

The Album Leaf - The Light
Amiina - Hilli
Lymbyc Systym - Birds
Sufjan Stevens - Concerning the UFO sighting
The Postal Service - This place is a prison
Radical face - Wrapped in piano strings
Alias - I heart drum machines
St. Vincent - Landmines
Stars - The Night starts here
Anathallo - Italo
Arliss Parker - Oh my
Frontier Ruckus - Animals need animals
Her space holiday - Four tapping shoes and a kiss
School of seven bells - Half Asleep
Wintersleep - Weighty Ghost
Dark dark dark - Ashes
Margot and the nuclear so and so's - Mariels brazen overture
Pretend you're happy - Everyone's tired in Boston
Alexander Scriabin - Piano Concerto in F# Minor, Op. 20 II. Andante
Strangers Die Everyday - Bicycle
Sigur Ros - Gong
Ulrich Schnauss - Shine
The Six parts seven - Stolen Moments
Japancakes - Far from here
Hammock - Shipwrecked (flat on your back)

pinkie swear

Chemical Brothers - Do it again
Simian Mobile Disco - Fabric Live Mix
Moby - I love To Move In Here - Crookers Mass Remix
Quivver - Surin
The Chemical Brothers - Galvanize
The Faint - The Geeks Were Right
Tobacco - Street Trash
Fujiya + Miyagi - Knickerbocker
Hot Chip - Hold On - Mockn' Toof remix
sBach - 06
Alias - Well Water Black
The Rapture - Junkyard Band - The Band
Annuals - confessor
Brazilian Girls - Good times
Minus the Bear - The Game Needed Me - The Oktopus Remix
Alias - Oakland in the Rearview
minus the bear - Michio's Death - Michio aka Monostereo Remix
explosions in the sky - first breath after coma

-Emelie

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Gold Sounds 11/25/08: 'Half as long, twice as awesome' edition

Only here from 12-2pm today so I can drive home before it gets too late! Also, 'sup Ben Gibbard? New songs in red

Talkdemonic "March Movement"

Mono in VCF "Escape City Scrapers"
Dr. Dog "The Old Days"
Spiritualized "Soul on Fire"

The Organ "Even in the Night"
Love Is All "Give it Back"
Lake "Counting"

Andrew Jackson Jihad "Brave as a Noun"/"Survival Song"
Dirty Jeans Jenkins "Love Me I'm a Liberal" (cover of Evan Greer covering Phil Ochs)
Paul Baribeau "Ten Things" (from The Fest 7 compilation)

Pretty Girls Make Graves "Speakers Push the Air"
Death Cab for Cutie "Amputations"
Miniature Tigers "Dino Damage"

French Miami "Lil' Rabbits"
Anathallo "Northern Lights"
Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron & Fred Squire "Voice in Headphones"
Death Cab for Cutie "Title Track"

Ben Gibbard "You Remind Me of Home"
Pinback "N0n-Ph0t0 B00m"
The Postal Service "Against All Odds" (request!)

The Smiths "There Is a Light that Never Goes Out"
The Decemberists "Valerie Plame"

Weezer "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here"
Longwave "Secrets Are Sinister"
Talkdemonic "Dim Sky"
Arliss Parker "Besos"

Death Cab for Cutie "President of What?" (live at The Crocodile Cafe 2/25/98)
Her Space Holiday "Four Tapping Shoes and a Kiss"
The Dismemberment Plan "The Face of the Earth"/"Superpowers"

This show was a lot of fun! Have a good Thanksgiving, everyone!

WRPIwave 11_17

So, I know I'm lazy, and to prove it here is last week's playlist. I thought it was an exceptionally great show.

Depeche Mode - Set Me Free
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Cities in the Dust
Cocteau Twins - Wax and Wayne
The Cure - La Men
tThe Cure - Let's Go to Bed
Joy Division - She's Lost Control
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
The sisters of mercy - Temple of Love (ext version)
Dead Can Dance - Xavier
The Chameleons UK - Don't Fall
A Flock of Seagulls - Committed
The Psychedelic Furs - Wedding Song
Devo - Jocko Homo
Kraftwerk - The Telephone Call (Razormaid Mix)
Cabaret Voltaire - Yahsar
The Human League - The Black Hit of Space
Tears for Fears - Shout
The Mission UK - Over the Hills and Far Away
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Fall
The Lords of the New Church - When Blood Runs Cold
Echo and the Bunnymen - Killing Moon
The Smiths - Shakespeare's Sister

Ambient Signal 11/18/08

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Tuesdays 6-8pm

Charlie everywhere - Mouthful of diamonds
Camera Obscura - Tears for affairs
Cyann and Ben - Words
Boy in static - Newborn
My Brightest Diamond - Inside a boy (Son Lux Remix)
Explosions in the sky - The birth and death of the day
Eighth Blackbird - Coming Together (by Frederick Rzewski)
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's - Cold kind and lemon eyes
Annuals - Springtime
Wintersleep - Archeologists
Plushgun - Dancing in the minefields
French Miami - Wind War
School of seven bells - Wired for light
Her space holiday - The truth hurts so this should be priceless
Dark dark dark - Cloud Story
Death Cab for Cutie - Grapevine Fires
Fleet Foxes - Blue Ridge Mountains
Neva Dinova - Squirrels
Bright Eyes/ The Album Leaf - Bad Blood
Arovane - Tides
Mum - Green grass of tunnel

pinkie swear

1. simian mobile disco - half hour mix from Fabric
2. Nobody - Akk tge Shallow Deep
3. Madlib's Sound Directions - Wildflowers
4. Tarek DJ DUSK Captain - Let Me Know
5. A Race of Angels - Just Begin
6. Adventure Time - This Done is Our Home
7. Nathan Yell - Goodbye
8. Take - Tuesday Never Comes
9. Glen Porter - Intrid
10. ILL Padre - Theif of Tranquility
11. Milfod Reynolds - Building 453
12. Glen Porter - Image of You
13. Unknown Source - Frowning
14. Glen Porter - Prolong
15. Glen Porter - Memoirs
16. Urban Quilt - This Rhythm
17. Akello Uchenna - Been So Good
18. Milford Reynolds - Lowe's Market
19. ILL Padre - ILL Padre Theme Part 2
20. Tsunchoo - Stutsja
21. ILL Padre - Cielo
22. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - I Love Creedence <--- Playing at Valentines tomorrow in Albany!
23. MGMT - Electric Feel - Justice Remix
24. Cassius - Cactus
25. M.I.A. - 10 $
26. Explosions in the Sky - Memorial

-Emelie
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Gold Sounds 11/18/08: Long Songs, pt. 2

So one time last year, I did a show comprised only of long (6+ minutes) songs, and it was really fun, so I figured today I'd do it again. They aren't all that long, but most of them are. New stuff in red. Requests in blue.

Explosions in the Sky "First Breath After Coma"
Mogwai "Punk Rock"/"Cody"
Do Make Say Think "A with Living"

Neil Young with Crazy Horse "Cortez the Killer"
Earth Opera "The Great American Eagle Tragedy"

Led Zeppelin "In My Time of Dying"
Built to Spill "Twin Falls"/"Some"

Television "Marquee Moon"

Drive Like Jehu "Sinews"
We Versus the Shark "Mountaineering"

Hum "Apollo"
Echo & The Bunnymen "The Killing Moon"
Envy "Pure Birth and Loneliness"

Sunny Day Real Estate "Song about an Angel"
Kevin Drew "Gang Bang Suicide"
Bad Astronaut "Solar Sister" (The Posies cover)

Boo and Boo Too "Alleys in Whitechapel"
The Velvet Underground "Heroin" (the 'this record sounds ridiculous because it's over 40 years old' edition)
The Decemberists "I'm Sticking with You" (The Velvet Underground cover)

The Decemberists "The Island - Come and See - The Landlord's Daughter - You'll Not Feel the Drowning"
Explosions in the Sky "Memorial"

Russian Circles "Youngblood"
The Cure "Close to Me"
The Drones "Work for Me"

Okkervil River "So Come Back, I Am Waiting"
Modest Mouse "Spitting Venom"
Death Cab for Cutie "I Will Possess Your Heart"

The Mae Shi "Kingdom Come"

Gold Sounds: "Making up for lost time" reviews post

Hey, it's been awhile since I've written any reviews. Here are a couple to make up for lost time:

Sebastien Grainger - Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains

One listen through ex-Death from Above 1979 guy Sebastien Grainger's debut solo album reveals Grainger's passion: creating booty-shaking rock music. Every track on the album (with the exception of the momentum-killing piano ballad "Love Is Not a Contest") delivers bass-heavy rock with wailing vocals, with "Love Can Be So Mean," "I Hate My Friends" and "American Names" especially showcasing what Grainger is capable of. As a whole, however, the album's songs are slightly primitive musically and lyrically, but hey, who needs those things to have a good time, right?

"Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains" is out now courtesy of Saddle Creek Records.

Listen: Sebastien Grainger

Miniature Tigers - Tell it to the Volcano

Clever lyrics and melodic sensibilities add up to one of the year's most enjoyable pop albums, with some songs (like the ridiculously catchy "Dino Damage") adding synth into the guitar/bass/drums mix. The excellent title track "Tell it to the Volcano" exemplifies this formula and, believe it or not, is slightly reminiscent of both "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid and "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, pt. 1" by The Flaming Lips (though the band steers clear of the experimentalism on most Flaming Lips albums). The band's lyrics provide specificity and details often absent from most music of this sort, which is never a bad thing ("I watched you through your window/I was wearing that dumb sweatshirt/I looked like a goon/I was dressed for winter even though it was the middle of June," and "You moved up close/I could feel your sweat/I kissed you on the neck and you got wet" are some prime examples). Overall, this is a great alternative to that Vampire Weekend album you've probably worn out by now.

"Tell it to the Volcano" is out now courtesy of Modern Art Records.

Listen: Miniature Tigers

WRPIwave-11/11/08

Here's the playlist from last night. Its actually relatively on time this week! I chose mostly darkwave with a little bit of new wave thrown in to offset last weeks complete lack of the genre from which the show draws its name. Also this whole show was brought to you in wonderful statiky vinyl.

Darkwave in great gothy grey
New Wave in hula hooping hipster hues
Joy Division in beautiful best band blue

Ministry - Every day Is Halloween
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Talking Heads - Life During Wartime
Shriekback - Mercy Dash
The Smiths - Manchester
New Order - Blue Monday
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Jigsaw Feeling
Bauhaus - Third Uncle
Skinny Puppy - One Night One Place
Tones on Tail - Long
Severerd Heads - Canine (Extended)
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Inside Me
Killing Joke - Bloodsport
Gang of four - Life! Its a shame
Front 242 - Take One
Pet Shop Boys - In the Night
The Smiths - How Soon is now

WRPIwave-11/04/08

So here's the playlist from last week. It's mostly electronic with a little bit of "indie" thrown in:

Kraftwerk - Computer Love
Cabaret Voltaire - Sensoria
Yello - Bostich
Busy P - Rainbow Man
Hot Chip - Hold On (Mock n' Toof Remix)
LCD Soundsystem - Get Innocuous (Greek Chic Remix)
Ghostland Observatory - Heavy Heart
Cut Copy - Hearts on Fire
Calvin Harris - The Girls (Groove Armada Version)
Bloc Party - Flux
Adventure - Civilization
Aphex Twin - Die Fantastischen Vier
Sally Shapiro - I'll Be By Your Side (Ext mix)
Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch
Emilie Simon - Song of the storm
Pink Skull - Gonzo's Cointreau
Gogol Bordello - Start wearing Purple
Ratatat - Montanita
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombone
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

Ambient Signal 11/11/08

WRPI 91.5fm!
http://www.wrpi.org/ for webcast
Tuesdays 6-8pm

Whoa..sort of had a show alst week but got pre-empted by a hockey game. if you're really craving the 40min playlist from last week..let me know.

Winterpills - A Benediction
Emily Haines & the soft skeleton - Our hell
Feist - Lonely Lonely (Frisbee'd mix)
Battles - Race:In
Sunset Rubdown - Stadiums and shrines II
Animal Collective - For Reverend Green
Faunts - Of Nature
God is an astronaut - All is violent, all is bright
Annuals - always do
Margot and the Nuclear so and so's - Children's crusade on acid
The Decemberists - Valerie Plame
Frontier Ruckus - Foggy Lilac Windows
Dark Dark Dark - Trouble no more
Copeland - good morning fire eater
School of seven bells - iamundernodisguise
French miami- Mr. Moment
Her space holiday - New kid revival
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Tristeza - Wand
Boards of canada - Julie and candy
Bitcrush - Every ghost has is spectre
Boom bip - Cimple

pinkie swear.

song . artist

alias - i heart drum machines
twink - what the dickens
hot chip - touch too much - kollektiv turmstrasse remix
the faint - i treat you wrong
hybrid - trifonic - parks on fire
tobacco - street trash
sBach - 03
fujiya and miyagi - knickerbocker
fabric live mix of simian mobile disco (half hour mix)
brazilian girls - good times
explosions in the sky - memorial
near the parenthesis - modernisme
elsiane - vaporous
FM - into the night
baja - meth arrow
another electronic musician - 02
moby - i like to move
quiver - surin

Emelie
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Gold Sounds 11/11/08

You wanna know which of the songs I played are new? They're in red!

The Album Leaf "On Your Way"

Pinback "Tres"
Ra Ra Riot "Dying Is Fine"
Nada Surf "What Is Your Secret?"

Acid House Kings "That's Because You Drive Me"
Akron/Family "Ed Is a Portal"

The Little Ones "Morning Tides"
Lake "Blue Ocean Blue"
I'm from Barcelona "Paper Planes"

Jessica Lea Mayfield "I Can't Lie to You, Love"
The Dutchess and the Duke "Reservoir Park"
The Manhattan Love Suicides "Keep it Coming"

Dillinger Four "A Jingle for the Product"
Bridge and Tunnel "White-Collar Crime Scene"
Hot Water Music "Free Radio Gainesville"

Atom and His Package "I'm Downright Amazed at What I Can Destroy with Just a Hammer"
Bomb the Music Industry! "Sadder? Weirder?"
caUSE-coMOTION! "Don't You Know?"
Television "See No Evil"

ROCK BLOCK - Archers of Loaf and songs that remind me of them
Archers of Loaf "Plumb Line"
Hot Rod Circuit "Flight 89"
Braid "Never Will Come for Us"
Archers of Loaf "Underdogs of Nipomo"/"Floating Friends"

Sebastien Grainger "American Names"
Crystal Stilts "Graveyard Orbit"
The Walkmen "In the New Year"

The Decemberists "Days of Elaine (Long)"
Her Space Holiday "The New Kid Revival"
What Laura Says "July 23"

Richard Strauss "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (aka 2001: A Space Oddysey song)
Dark Dark Dark "A Cloud Story"
Frontier Ruckus "Foggy Lilac Windows"
Okkervil River "Lost Coastlines"
Land of Talk "Corner Phone"

Glassjaw "Trailer Park Jesus"
Hum "Little Dipper"
My Bloody Valentine "Feed Me with Your Kiss"

Boo and Boo Too "I Know Nothing's All Right"
Brendan Canning "Churches Under the Stairs" (check out the awesome new music video for this song here)
God Is an Astronaut "Forever Lost"

The New Year "The Door Opens"
Monroe Mustang "Up with the Sun"
Ben Weaver "Anything with Words"

Modest Mouse "Night on the Sun"
The Notwist "Pick up the Phone"
The Album Leaf "Over the Pond"

Annuals "Down the Mountain"
The Organ "Let the Bells Ring"
Modern English "I Melt with You"

Lykke Li "Breaking it Up (Punks Jump Up remix)"
Mirah "Nobody Has to Stay"
Passion Pit "I've Got Your Number"

pinkie swear

Alias - Oakland Morning
Alias - M.G. Jack
Fujiya & Miyagi - Knickerbocker
Hot Chip - Touch Too Much - Fake Blood Remix
sBach - 06
Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats
The Faint - The Geeks Were Right
Tobacco - Street Trash
Tobacco - Truck Sweat ( aka Black Moth Super Rainbow people)
Starfucker - Florida
Stereo Image - Dark Chapter
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - The Subway Home
Bloc Party - Flux
Escape Mechanism - Theme
Bloc Party - Ares
+ / - - Snowblind
Kaiser Chiefs - Never Miss a Beat
Brazilian Girls - Good Times
The Octopus Project - Bees Bein' Strugglin'
Mates of State - Help Help
Yelle - Ce Jeu
Chemical Brothers - Galvanize
Booka Shade - Numbers
Gang Gang Dance - Bebey
Another Electronic Musician - 02
Bitcrush - Adventious
The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
Bitcrush - Waiting for something


-Emelie
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Gold Sounds 11/4/08: No Plans, Just Music

Well, I guess I had a couple plans, but they were very sudden and came to me right before/during the show. New stuff in red Songs that were requests to various degrees are in blue

Talkdemonic "Leaving Light"

ROCK BLOCK-ISH: Barsuk Records
Ra Ra Riot "Ghost Under Rocks"
Mates of State "Help Help"
The Long Winters "Prom Night at Hater High"

Germans "Tiger Vacuum Bottle"
Pavement "Transport Is Arranged"
Interpol "Public Pervert"

Bad Brains "Banned in DC"
Refused "Liberation Frequency"
The Hives "Die, All Right!!!"

The (International) Noise Conspiracy "Boredom of Safety"
caUSE-coMOTION "Only Fades Away"/"Baby Don't Do It"
Wire "1 2 X U"

Pavement "Cut Your Hair"
Archers of Loaf "Floating Friends"
Husker Du "I'll Never Forget You"

We Versus the Shark "Dummy Discards a Heart (Deerhoof cover)"
Deerhoof "Basket Ball Get Your Groove Back"
Jawbreaker "P.S. New York Is Burning"

ROCK BLOCK: New Pornographers 'n Thangs
The New Pornographers "Execution Day"
Destroyer "Painter in Your Pocket"
Neko Case "The Needle Has Landed"

Blitzen Trapper "Furr"
Cold War Kids "Every Valley Is Not a Lake"
Okkervil River "Calling and Not Calling My Ex"

The Weakerthans "Tournament of Hearts"
The Hold Steady "One for the Cutters" (hardest request to honor ever; CD was in a very strange place)

Appomattox "Either Way"
Ponytail "G Shock"
Sebastien Grainger "I Hate My Friends"
Parts & Labor "Mount Misery"

The Hush Now "Sadie Hawkins Dance"
Takka Takka "Monkey Forest Road"
Love Is All "A More Uncertain Future"

Super XX Man "Cautious Like a Panther"
School of Seven Bells "Half Asleep"
Refused "The Shape of Punk to Come"

ROCK BLOCK - BAD, BAD, BAD
Bad Brains "Sailin' On"
Bad Religion "Sanity"
Bad Astronaut "Greg's Estate"

The Organ "Even in the Night"
Manchester Orchestra "I Can Feel a Hot One"
Team Genius "Surely the Sun Will Explode"
I'm From Barcelona "Music Killed Me"

Galaxie 500 "Temperature's Rising"
Slowdive "Catch the Breeze"
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead "Another Morning Stoner"

Regina Spektor "Ghost of Corporate Future"
The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up "Reckless Driving"
Starfucker "laadeedah"
Giraffe Running "You've Got Some Neck"
Universe Narrows "Lots of Space"

Boy Eats Drum Machine "Planets + Stars"
+/- "Snowblind"
The Books "Take Time"

The Avalanches "Since I Left You"/"Stay Another Season"
Alias "I Heart Drum Machines"/"Well Water Black"

Ambient Signal - 10/28/08

WRPI 91.5fm!
http://www.wrpi.org/ for webcast
Tuesdays 6-8pm

This will destroy you - Freedom blade
If these trees could talk - The Friscalating daylight
Lymbyc Systym - Notations
Petra Haden & Bill Frisell - Yellow (coldplay cover)
Camera obscura - Books written for girls
Denali - Welcome
Margot and the nuclear so and so's - At a carnival
Annuals - Hot night hounds
I'm from barcelona - Music killed me
Copeland - The grey man
Audrye Sessions - Turn me off
School of seven bells - Half Asleep
Jolie holland - Palmyra
Postmarks - 7-11
The Arcade fire - In the backseat
Menomena - the late great libido
Beck - Lost cause
The Album leaf & Bright eyes - Hungry for a holiday
Amiina - Fjarskanistan
Sigur Ros - Svefn G Englar
Midlake - Roscoe (acoustic)

my CMJ update!:

Bands i saw in order:
Frontier ruckus (good..folk music..lots of members..even a saw!)
rainbow arabia
starfucker (awesome)
shugo tokumaru
faunts (nice to finally see them live)
tobacco
women
--
cory chisel
shugo tokumaru
audrye sessions (good energy)
love as laughter (eh..)
wild sweet orange
margot and the nuclear so and so's (delivered)
---
blind pilot (vibraphone and banjo? hellz yeah)
starfucker (awesome again)
white rainbow (guy with effects pedals and drum machine making a minimalist loop/drone)
dear everything (solo guy from menomena)
helio sequence (drummer had amazing faces)
--
annuals (amazing..crazy energy)
uglysuit (totally unexpected postrock type music from like 6 guys with super long metal hair..pretty good)

pinkie swear

misha - weatherbees
minus the bear - let's play clowns
minus the bear - drilling
the notwist - good lies
modest mouse - dashboard
modest mouse - baby blue sedan
modest mouse - fly trapped in a jar
modest mouse - so much beauty in dirt
portishead - nylon smile
radiohead - street spirit (fade out)
air - once upon a time
emilie simon - flowers
explosions in the sky - first breath after coma
portishead - sour times
radiohead - fake plastic trees
alias - oakland in the rearview
antenne - gloves on
explosions in the sky - your hand in mine
air - mayfair song
mogwai - i chose horses
her space holiday - just another day
portishead - only you

I'm back, CMJ was great. If you're looking for some halloween fun, check out the troy night out after party this Friday night at Revolution Hall!
Emelie
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Gold Sounds 10/28/08: CMJ + new music edition

So as you've been reading, CMJ was this past week. I'll provide a retrospective of sorts by playing CDs from artists that performed at this year's CMJ Music Marathon. I also have new music to play from artists who weren't involved with CMJ at all this year. CMJ music is blue and plain old new music is red.

The Broken West "Auctioneer"
Miniature Tigers "Dino Damage"
Pattern Is Movement "Jenny Ono"

Broken Social Scene "Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day)"
Land of Talk "It's Okay"
The New Year "Folios"

Her Space Holiday "Same Song Sing Along"
Shugo Tokumaru "D. P. O."
Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez "Narwhal Horn"

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson "The Debtor"
Margot & the Nuclear So and So's "As Tall As Cliffs"
Anthony Green "Califone"

Fourth of July "Purple Heart"
The Little Ones "Rise & Shine"
Of Montreal "Women's Studies Victims"

Love Is All "Movie Romance"
Johnny Foreigner "Eyes Wide Terrified"
Los Campesinos! "...and We Exhale and Roll Our Eyes in Unison"

Oxford Collapse "Young Love Delivers"
Appomattox "Spanish Virgins"
Deerhoof "Basket Ball Get Your Groove Back"

CMJ ROCK BLOCK - Hello Sir Records showcase
Pegasuses-XL "The Big Haunt"
We Versus the Shark "I Am a Fantastic Battle"
So Many Dynamos "Progress"
The Bronzed Chorus "Inbetween"

Annuals "Hardwood Floor"
Minus the Bear "Knights"
Coheed and Cambria "Delirium Trigger"

Jessica Lea Mayfield "Kiss Me Again"
Marnie Stern "Ruler"
Kimya Dawson "We're All Animals"

Women "Shaking Hand"
Boo and Boo Too "No Tempo"
Sonic Youth "Teen Age Riot"

Thursday "In Silence"
These Arms Are Snakes "Woolen Heirs"
Envy "An Umbrella Fallen into Fiction"
Hum "I Hate it Too"

Ra Ra Riot "Dying Is Fine"
The Notwist "The Devil, You + Me"
Starfucker "German Love"

Passion Pit "Better Things"
School of Seven Bells "Half Asleep"
Lykke Li "I'm Good, I'm Gone"
CaUSE co-MOTION "Take a Look"/"Which Way Is Up?"

Rainbow Arabia "Omar K"
sBACH "08"
We Versus the Shark "Gothic Y'all"

The Mae Shi "Run to Your Grave"
Maps and Atlases "You and Me and the Mountain"
Tobacco "Street Trash"/"Truck Sweat"/"Hairy Candy"

Fifty/Fifty {No Go}

There's no Fifty/Fifty on tonight but not to worry, I'll be back next week.

However, there is something I'd like to share with the readers:

MTV Music

Oh, remember Pop Up Video? Go here: http://www.mtvmusic.com/search/?term=pop%20up%20video

I think I've spent about an hour on this site today no lie. Pretty much every music video ever (including new ones like Holy Fuck's "Lovely Allen" and Neon Neon).

Gold Sounds at CMJ: Part 3

Wednesday night, Hello Sir Records Showcase @ Bowery Poetry Club: The illustrious Hello Sir Records organized quite the show Wednesday night, featuring some Hello Sir mainstays and some up-and-coming artists. The best performances are once again preceded by an asterisk.

Child Bite: Probably the only mediocre band of the night, Child Bite has all the elements of what could be an interesting band: sloppy and dirty instrumentally and unpolished vocally. Dirtiness is a quality that works in some music (see: We Versus the Shark), but for Child Bite it did little to enhance their sound. Here's hoping they manage to cultivate a sound that works for them in the future.

*Pegasuses-XL: Being a very strange band, I had no idea what to expect from Pegasuses-XL. However, they put on a strong live performance full of unreserved enthusiasm. The set consisted of dual drumming at one point, beatboxing and rapping at another, and instrumental mayhem everywhere else. Most of the members swapped instruments a few times during the show, further displaying their obvious musical propensity. Recent full length The Antiphon highlight "The Big Haunt" made a strong showing, and the band also played some new songs from an upcoming new release.



We Versus the Shark: Gold Sounds favorite We Versus the Shark performed next, and played a few songs from Dirty Versions as well as their recent Radiohead cover and "I Am a Fantastic Battle" from the EP of Bees EP. The band's performance wasn't bad by any stretch, but after seeing them perform several times before, something seemed to be missing. Temporary guitarist Neil Callaghan possesses the chops of recently resigned guitarist Samantha Paulsen, but the chemistry the band had live in the past wasn't as strong this time around. Not that that's Neil's fault; that sort of chemistry is hard to come by, and is only established after a long time of playing as a unit. Hopefully WVTS will grow out of these growing pains and continue their streak of solid releases.



*The Bronzed Chorus: Two-man post-rock that sounds just as full as other like-minded bands with more members. Drummer Brennan O'Brien simultaneously drummed and played keyboard at times and guitarist Adam Joyce made his guitar swell and envelope the room. They created a warm atmosphere the crowd basked in and ingrained themselves into the minds of many an audience member, as seen by the influx of people at their merch table right after they played. The Bronzed Chorus is clearly a band to watch out for in the future.



*So Many Dynamos: For the second night in a row, So Many Dynamos put on the best performance of the night. Again playing a mix of songs old and new, the band played just as tight as the previous night and got the significantly larger crowd dancing. New songs such as "New Bones" and "The Novelty of Haunting" present a new, almost creepy dimension of the band, both with its eerie instrumentals and dark lyrics ("I think your demons need some exercise", "I'll cut the wires that run through your cranium," etc.) that is sure to get them out of the shadow cast upon them by The Dismemberment Plan. Their new album, the Chris Walla-produced The Loud Wars, comes out in February and will definitely be an album to watch out for next year. Even sooner than that, the band will be playing Valentine's in Albany on December 4th with Ra Ra Riot, a show that should not be missed.



I left the show before Ho-Ag went on because it was late. Lame, I know. More to come soon!

Gold Sounds at CMJ: Part 2

Wednesday afternoon, Terrorbird Party @ Cake Shop: The next afternoon, Cake Shop played host to many frequently covered, blogged about, up-and-coming artists (again, the best performances have an asterisk preceding them).

*Starfucker: Now here's an example of a band I had heard absolutely nothing from before I saw them live and loved after seeing them live. Their songs ranged from more traditional sounding rock songs to short keyboard/electronic freakouts, and this wide variety kept me guessing throughout their whole set. Along with the music, it looked like the band were having a lot of fun playing, especially their singer (though I wasn't close enough to take any good pictures). Good songs + enthusiastic performance = one of the best shows of the week.

Shugo Tokumaru: Japanese singer/songwriter Shugo Tokumaru recently released his new album, "Exit," here in the states. The album is a pleasant, slightly melancholic affair, something one might listen to while trying to relax or sleep. In short, his music is beautiful. However, most of the songs Shugo Tokumaru and his band played fell flat in this live setting. Perhaps with other like-minded musicians it would have been enjoyable, but the music was too quiet and reserved compared to that of the other artists playing that day and I mostly found myself patiently waiting for the next act to come on.


Faunts: This Canadian foursome only had time to play four songs, which ranged from standard mid-tempo chilled-out rock numbers to more drawn out, largely instrumental songs (sort of a mix of jam band stuff and post-rock). The music, while not very original, was pretty good and the band's live antics kept the crowd interested.

*Tobacco: Tobacco, member of Black Moth Super Rainbow, was up next and turned in a short set of his spazzy brand of electronica. He got most of the audience grooving, providing woozy beats accompanied by a very, very strange video. While it was revealed that the video also contained the majority of the performance's audio, this realization didn't take away anything from his performance; it just proved how great his music is and how enjoyable his live performance was. His new album, Fucked Up Friends, is out now.

Women: Up next was Women, a recent Jagjaguwar signing and a group that's pretty hard to categorize except as perhaps loud and dirty rock. Their songs sounded much different live than on record, but they were still very good. The band had a certain cocky swagger not often seen in such young artists, and indeed the group seemed very comfortable on the stage. Also, if you look hard enough, you can see Marnie Stern watching them in the back.



Takka Takka: Honestly, this just didn't click for me. I watched and listened to the band's set and can't remember a single aspect of it less than a week later. Maybe I missed something, or maybe they just weren't that good. Another product of the hype machine? Possibly.

Marnie Stern: Finally, the woman most of the crowd were waiting for stepped up to the microphone with her band. A lot has been made of Marnie Stern's impressive guitar skills, but the thing that struck me most about her live performance was how shrill and high-pitched her vocals were. She made innocent jokes in between songs in her normal, Alvin and the Chipmunks-esque voice, and then would go into a song and scream like a banshee. The sonic assault experienced as a result of the shredding guitar and vocals was very, very intense, and made for a good show. Just make sure to bring earplugs if you ever see her live.

Gold Sounds at CMJ: Part 1

So CMJ was this past week, and it was an absolute blast. While seeing 30 live performances, I made sure to write about and take pictures of the various artists I saw throughout the week. With hundreds of bands performing across tons of venues, there were sure to be some surprises and some duds, and indeed there were. With that said, here's the first part of my CMJ coverage, with the best performances preceded by an asterisk.

Tuesday night, The Annex and Don Pedro's: I started my night at The Annex, located in the Lower East Side (the majority of venues in NYC seem to be there). Out of all the venues I went to, I would have to say that this was, by far, the worst. The sound was totally out of whack for all two performances I saw and the audience space was very, very cramped.

Chairlift @ The Annex: Chairlift is a three-piece Brooklyn-based band who play indie pop/rock consisting of synth/guitar/drums. Yes, another one of those. Unfortunately, this band did not have any memorable songs at all; they were all similar in tempo and sound. Their stage presence was pretty static and between songs they only asked for the sound to be fixed. Basically, they took themselves way too seriously and that took all the fun out of their show.

Violens @ The Annex: Violens were one of the bands I really wanted to see at CMJ this year. They've yet to release a full-length, but the songs they have released so far sound great. They sound like The Doors, but with more pleasant vocal harmonies (see: "Violent Sensation Descends"). However, the band suffered a lot of problems during their set, included the aforementioned sound problems and a blown-out amp halfway through their set. As a result, their songs sounded much different than intended and I ended up not enjoying their set at all either. Unlike Chairlift, however, they took the sound woes more in stride and at least tried to make the best of it.

*So Many Dynamos @ Don Pedro's: This show was actually not a CMJ show, but I knew it was going on near where I was staying in Brooklyn and since I got to the Bowery Ballroom for Friendly Fires and Lykke Li way too late, I decided to stop by Don Pedro's on my way back home to check them out. I'm sure glad I did, because Don Pedro's was a much better venue than The Annex and So Many Dynamos put on one of the best shows of the week. Playing half old and half new songs, the dance-rock band were tight the whole way through and even incorporated some interesting transitions; the whole band yelling the lyrics to the outro of "In Every Direction" after the song ended and then going straight into "Progress" was my favorite moment of the show. More on So Many Dynamos to come in future CMJ coverage.

WRPI at CMJ: Update

Hello from New York City! As you know, Blar, Emelie and I are attending CMJ this week. We're a little over halfway through CMJ and it's already been a blast. The three of us have been going to different shows pretty much all week, so we'll definitely have a lot to report on once we get back to RPI! Check back for that coverage sometime next week.

Talkdemonic Interview on Ambient Signal - 10/7/08

So as you all know, Blar, Kyle and I had the pleasure of interviewing Kevin O'Connor of Talkdemonic a couple weeks ago on Blar's show, Ambient Signal. Now, we have the entire interview available for your listening pleasure! Check it out here. Topics covered include Kevin's drumming influences, Talkdemonic's history, music review criticism and questions about particular Talkdemonic songs.

Thanks again to Kevin for granting us this opportunity! It was a lot of fun for all of us here at the station. In the event that you're not familiar with Talkdemonic's music, listen to songs on their myspace or check them out live next time they tour near your city!

WRPIwave-10/13/08

Aired on 10/13/08
So this is really late...my bad
This show was pretty much all darkwave...not to toot my own horn or anything, but I thought it was freakin' sweet.

Duran Duran - Rio
The Fall - No Bulbs
Tears for Fears - Mad World
The Cure - Kyoto Song
Echo and the Bunnymen - Rescue
The Lords of the New Church - Dance with Me
Tones on Tail - Happiness
New Order - Hurt
Front 242 - Umen
Kraftwerk - Its more fun to Compute
Gang of Four - History of the World
Cocteau Twins - Those Eyes That Mouth
The Sisters of Mercy - Alice
Bauhaus - Of Lilies and Remains
Skinny Puppy - Burnt with Water
Ministry - Everyday is Halloween
Chris and Cosey - Obsession (Extended Mix)
Cabaret Voltaire - Protection
The Human League - Being Boiled
Yello - Daily Disco
Depeche Mode - Photographic
Lilevsia - Coming Back to You
20 Deadly Diseases - Several Heads
Gary Newman - Change Your Mind (Extended Version)

Fifty/Fifty {10/14}

Yes for new Animal Collective! "Merriweather Post Pavilion" (named after a venue in my hometown of Bmore, MD) will be out January 20, 2009.

[artist] - [track]
Animal Collective - Brother Sport
Radiohead - The Gloaming (DJ Shadow Remix)
M.I.A. - Boys (remix)
Le Castle Vania - Zero Machine
Yelle - Ce Jeu (The Twelves Remix)
Sparks - Lighten Up, Morrissey
The Moondoggies - Changing
Mercury Rev - Senses On Fire (Fujiya & Miyagi Remix)
Secret Dakota Ring - The Fade to Black
Murs - The Science
Mike Heron - Warm Heart Pastry
Styx Tyger - String Strikes
Our Brother The Native - Seminal Paws
The Notwist - Boneless
Shrag - Forty Five 45s
The Lemurs - Blackspot
The Cure - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Deerhoof - Chandelier Searchlight
Hospital Ships - The Shots I Drank (SayMyName Remix)
Passion Pit - Sleepyhead
Gang Gang Dance - House Jam
It's A Musical - Bad Day
Kinetic Stereokids - Have a Nice Day
Larkin Grimm - Ride That Cyclone
Matthew Herbert Big Band - The Story (Edit)
Chandeliers - Mr. Electric
The Pica Beats - Poor Old Ra
Reefer - Let It Go (Flying Lotus Remix)
The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! - Fast Forward Regrets.
Wilderness - Strand the Test of Time
Yonlu - I Know What It's Like
Fiasco - Oh, You Horny Monster!
Dancer Vs. Politician - Justin Fairborn
Lou Reed - Caroline Says, Pt. II

Ambient Signal 10/14/08

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5:30pm pre show:

Mono/ World's End Girlfriend - Untitled 3
Antony and the Johnsons - Shake that dog
6pm-

Radiohead - Bodysnatchers
Wolf parade - Language City
Antarctic - Your ships are googlin' pretty hard
Neva Dinova - It's worse when you're young
The Velvet Teen - Around the roller rink
Psapp - Needle and thread
Grizzly Bear - Don't ask (Final Fantasy remix)
Why? - Close to me (Cure Cover)
Maria Taylor - A Good Start
Margot and the Nuclear so and so's - As tall as cliffs
Annuals - Confessor
I'm from barcelona - Paper planes
Brooke Waggoner - The wrong
Postmarks - Three little birds
talkdemonic - A hundred faces in the neon forest
Marnie Stern - Prime
Land of talk - it's ok
Her space holiday - Sleepy tigers
Holy Sons - I'm healed
Damiak - Tenuous Gears
Morning Recordings - Sugar Waltz
A Northern chorus - This Open heart
Vio/Mire - Wood Splitting
13 & God - Perfect Speed
Helios - Woods and Gives away
Dosh - Kit and Pearls
Japancakes - Sometimes

--End of show--

Gold Sounds 10/14/08: The Really Prepared Edition

Unlike most Tuesdays, I had class right before my show so most of this is from a playlist I prepared last night. I'm also covering most of Pinkie Swear too! New stuff is in red.

Marnie Stern "Prime"
TV on the Radio "Stork & Owl"
Land of Talk "Some Are Lakes"

The Weakerthans "Everything Must Go!"
So Many Dynamos "It's Gonna Rain" (I don't want to make amends! I just want to make a mess!)
Maps and Atlases "You and Me and the Mountain"

Tokyo Police Club "Graves"
Los Campesinos! "My Year in Lists"
Mates of State "Proofs"
Why? "Waterfalls"

We Versus the Shark "I Am at the Mercy of an Ambulance Driver"
Medications "Exercise Your Futility"
Future of the Left "The Lord Hates a Coward"

Cap'n Jazz "In the Clear"
The White Stripes "Death Letter"
Weezer "Waiting on You"

CONCEPTUAL ROCK BLOCK - OMG COVERS
Dirty Projectors "Rise Above" (Black Flag)
We Versus the Shark "Idioteque" (Radiohead)
Bomb the Music Industry! "Ghost of Corporate Future" (Regina Spektor)

Andrew Jackson Jihad "Sense, Sensibility"
This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb "Depression"
Defiance, Ohio "Anxious and Worrying"
Bomb the Music Industry! "Sadder? Weirder?"
Andrew Jackson Jihad "I Am So Mad at You" (and I just can't shake the feeling that I'll be alone forever, please tell me that's not the case!)

Belle and Sebastian "Piazza, New York Catcher"
Neutral Milk Hotel "Gardenhead/Leave Me Alone" (live from New Zealand)
Colour Revolt "Moses of the South"

Animal Collective "Leaf House"
Black Mountain "Tyrants"

Bad Astronaut "These Days"
Ben Kweller "Hospital Bed"
Fourth of July "Purple Heart"

The Dismemberment Plan "Following Through"(I can do it anywhere with anyone at anytime, don't you forget, this is my life and it's gonna be good, don't you know?)
Hop Along, Queen Ansleis "Bruno Is Orange"
Kickball "Fight"

Movie Giveway - Body of Lies (Leonardo Dicaprio AND Russell Crowe? Whoa)

Death Cab for Cutie "20th Century Towers"
Le Loup "Planes Like Vultures." (Oh, this world was made for ending!)
Monroe Mustang "Found Out"

ckid "Down with Ghosts"
Deceptikon "Ox Conservatory"
Glen Porter "Prolong"/"Memoirs"

Justice "Stress"
Islands "Tsuxiit"
Minus the Bear "This Ain't a Surfin' Movie" (Iqu 06 Mix)

Irepress "Fiddler, Yeeryding"
Experimental Aircraft "Blue Cream Sky"
Do Make Say Think "The Landlord Is Dead"

Battles "Hi/Lo"

I won't be here next week (and neither will Emelie, actually) because of CMJ, so see you two weeks from today (perhaps from 12-4 instead of the normal 2-4)! I'll play more new stuff next show too.

Songs to Hear: We Versus the Shark cover Radiohead

We Versus the Shark

VERSUS

Radiohead

If you've followed my posts on this blog, you probably know how much I like We Versus the Shark. One reason I like them is due to their current prolific nature; not only have they released the excellent full length Dirty Versions this year, but they've also been releasing a new cover song every month, which will eventually make up a full album called Murmurmur, for free on mp3-based donation label Quote Unquote Records. So far they've provided unique takes of songs by well-known artists past and present, such as Tom Waits, Deerhoof and Television, and this month they cover the grandaddy of them all, the one band that's almost forbidden to be covered: Radiohead. Not just settling with any old Radiohead song, We Versus the Shark takes on Kid A centerpiece "Idioteque".

Amazingly (or not so amazingly, considering how skilled We Versus the Shark are as musicians), the band's cover is immensely enjoyable, displaying few, if any, of the qualities that made Radiohead's song so great while still creating a song just as good, if not better than, the original version. This is the way covers should be, a total reworking of a song as opposed to a song that adheres strictly to the original band's template. We Versus the Shark changes Idioteque from a somber dance song to an even more depressing-sounding rock opus, with a slow-stomping chorus, verses that just get louder and louder, and a haunting outro. It's unquestionably one of the best covers I've heard, and you'd be doing yourself a disservice by not checking it out.

Listen to We Versus the Shark's cover of "Idioteque", as well as all their other covers, for free here.

Fifty/Fifty {10/7}

[artist - track]

*Red Sea Station - The Streets Are Whispering
*Final Fantasy - The Butcher
*The Decemberists - Valerie Plame
*Pale Young Gentlemen - The Crook of My Good Arm
*Daniel Martin Moore - It's You
*Animal Collective - Fireworks / Essplode [live from Pitchfork]
*Passion Pit - Cuddle Fuddle
*The Soiree - Perfect Crimes
*Marnie Stern - Transformer
*Stereolab - Neon Beanbag
*Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes (Left/Right Remix)
*Daft Punk vs. Adam Freeland - Aer Obama
*C$H - El Buho de Minerva
I. Klaxons - No Diggity (Cover)
II. Jaques Renault - Sweet Rollin’ On
III. Purple Crush - Marry Me
IV. CSS - Move (Cut Copy Remix)
V. Le Tigre - Deceptacon (DFA Remix)
VI. Plimsouls - Contact
VII. $jammie the Money - $jammie Getting Warm
VIII. Bounce Camp - Big Dancin’
IX. Pnau - Baby
X. The Rolling Stones - You Can’t Always Get What You Want (Soulwax Remix)
*Simian Mobile Disco - Run: Nike+ Sport Music

Ambient Signal - 10/7/08 - TALKDEMONIC interview!

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We got to interview talkdemonic today! yeaaah..will be posting the interview in a few days when i find hosting for it

Talkdemonic - Dusty Flourescent
Talkdemonic - Andean Twilight
Ghost Orchid - Ana mir
Slow Six - These rivers between us
This will destroy you - Quiet
Brooke Waggoner - Lungs Speed/Lungs Sped
****TALKDEMONIC INTERVIEW**** ***SUPER FUN*****
Talkdemonic - Blackwood Crimson and March movement
Women - shaking hand
Loquat - harder Hit
Land of talk - some are lakes
Deerhoof- Tears of music and love
Antony and the johnsons- another world
These united states - Get yourself home
Spinto band - The carnival
Forget Cassettes - Ms. Rhythm and Blues
St. Vincent - Jesus saves, I spend
Georgie James - More Lights
Ester Drang - I don't want to live (in a world of infinite keys)
Styrofoam - Couches in alleys
Lymbyc Systym - Fall bicycle (Album leaf remix)
Sigur Ros - Ba Ba

pinkie swear.

artist -song

portishead - plastic
lali puna - faking the books - dntel remix
near the parenthesis - modernisme
baja - meth arrow
bitcrush - no bridge no water
alias - oakland in the rearview
modest mouse - baby blue sedan
portishead - sour times
casiotone for the painfully alone - a normal suburban lifestyle is a near impossibility once you've fallin in love with an international spy
bjork - wanderlust
lali puna - grin and bear
death cab for cutie - i will posess your heart
the appleseed cast - sunlit and acending
the notwist - sleepy
vhs or beta - bring on the comets
radiohead - fake plastic trees
brazilian girls - good times
beck - orphans
fujiya and miyagi - knickerbocker
stereo image - your collapsed state
chemical brothers - block rockin' beats
heartbreak - regret
css - let's reggae all night
hot chip - touch too much -kollektiv turmstrasse remix
the faint - the geeks were right
sbach - 06
adventure - wild wild ride
kraftwerk - pocket calculator

I hope everyone got to come out and see EMPAC!
Madlib and Juiceboxxxx were really fun!
-Emelie
[12402]

Monday 10/6/08 ::12-2am

-Darkwave in hang yourself grey
-New Wave in 80's pink
-New stuff in sweet green

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Cities in the Dust (Ext Eruption Mix)
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
Duran Duran - Girls on Film (Night Version)
David Bowie - Up the Hill Backwards
John Foxx - Burning Car
Joy Division - Isolation
Front 242 - Quite Unusual
Riot Squad - Visa Versa
Ministry - Over the Shoulder (12" mix)
Fad Gadget - Pedestrian
Joy Division - She's Lost Control
Bauhuas - Bella Lugouis is Dead
Cocteau Twins - Wax and Wane
Echo and the Bunnymen - Silver (Tidal Mix)
She Wants Revenge - Tear You Apart
The Killers - Shadowplay (yes its by Joy Division...I know...I like Joy Division)
Boris - Statement
Battles - Tij
Mochipet - Laffy Taffy Core
Arling and Cameron - Spaceclub 1999
The Knife - Marble House
M83 - Kim and Jessie
Something for Rockets - Might as Well

Gold Sounds 10/7/07: Pinback, etc.

Here from 12-4 today! Lots of Pinback/Rob Crow/Zach Smith-related stuff today, 'cause I saw Pinback last weekend and they were awesome. That stuff is in green, and new stuff is in red.

Pinback "Boo"
My Morning Jacket "Touch Me I'm Going to Scream pt. 1"
Blitzen Trapper "Furr"

Chad Vangaalen "Phantom Anthills"
Xu Xu Fang "The Mourning Son"
All Girl Summer Fun Band "Trajectory"

Land of Talk "Death by Fire"
Tired Irie "IM Keller"
Tokyo Police Club "Graves" (you traded me for the lump sum, you can try but I'll never be a gentleman)

Pinback "From Nothing to Nowhere" (The Breakfast Club dancing to Pinback here)
Appomattox "Either Way"
The Dismemberment Plan "Gyroscope"

Los Campesinos! "Death to Los Campesinos!"
The Anniversary "The D in Detroit"
Georgie James "Look Me Up"

So Many Dynamos "Progress" (we watered the sidewalks and interstates sprouted)
Ra Ra Riot "Dying Is Fine"
Oxford Collapse "Electric Arc" (our plans fell through, what will we do?)

Adem "Loro"
Death Cab for Cutie "Grapevine Fires"
The Walkmen "In the New Year"

Delta Spirit "People C'mon"
Dr. Dog "The Old Days"
Pinback "Offcell"
Talkdemonic "Shattered into Dyes"

Fourth of July "Pimps in Paris"
Heavy Vegetable "Crash"/"P.O.E."
Women "Upstairs"

Ghost to Falco "Maupin"
Mercury Rev "Runaway Raindrop"
Jackson Browne "Lawyers in Love" (request!)

Animal Collective "Fireworks"
90 Day Men "We Blame Chicago"

Team Sleep "Princeton Review"
Pinback "Shag"
Hella "Cafeteria Bananas"
sBACH "08"
We Versus the Shark "I Am a Caffeinated Corpse"

MakeUpBreakUp "Blame Game"
31Knots "The Breaks"
TV on the Radio "Dancing Choose"

Johnny Foreigner "Eyes Wide Terrified" (your life is a song, your life is a song, your life is a song but not this one!)
Lykke Li "I'm Good, I'm Gone"
Fujiya & Miyagi "Knickerbocker"/"Uh"

Talking Heads "New Feeling"/"A Clean Break"/"Don't Worry about the Government"

Digitalism "Pogo (Mentalism Remix)"
Flying Lotus "Camel"/"Melti"/"Comet Course"
Adventure "Loredo"

Farewell.

Fifty/Fifty {9/30}

Oh this was a good one. Lots of new music!!! Plus Polaris Music Prize nominees (now in red)!

*Caribou - Melody Day
*Dresden Dolls - Girl Anachronism
*Lykke Li - Dance Dance Dance
*Au - RR vs. D
*Born Ruffians - Red Yellow And Blue (White Williams Mix)
*I am Robot and Proud - Uphill City
*Princeton - The Waves
*Golden Silvers - Magic Touch
*One-Two - Something In My Mind
*La Rocca - Sing Her Song
*Margot and the Nuclear So and So's - A Children's Crusade on Acid
*Neimo - Lines
*Western States Motel - Oh World
*Holy Fuck - Lovely Allen
*Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter - In the Summertime
*Bodies of Water - Water Here
*The Theater Fire - Coyote
*Port O'Brien - Stuck on a Boat
*Two Hours Traffic - Stuck for the Summer
*The Standard - Hotel
*Samuel Markus and the Only Ones - New Dawn
*Matthew and the Arrogant Sea - Within the Universe
*Basia Bulat - In The Night
*John Maus - Do Your Best
*Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines
*Dressy Bessy - Do You Whisper?
*Duchess Says - Black Flag

WRPIwave-9/29/08

Monday Nights 12-2AM
Darkwave Newwave Electronic

1 The Chameleons - Pleaure and Pain - Script of the Bridge - 5:11
2 Siousxie & the Banshees - Jigsaw Feeling - The Scream - 4:36
3 Kissing the Pink - Watching Their Eyes - Naked - 3:16
4 Chris and Cosey - Shivers - Technoprimitiv - 5:04
5 S.P.K. - Metal Field - 5:56
6 Yello - Bostich - Bostich - 4:30
7 Depeche Mode - Master and Servant
8 Devo - Jocko Homo - Devo - 3:38
9 The Smiths - Pretty Girls Make Graves - The Smiths - 3:43
10 Abosolute Body Control - Do You Feel It Inside - 3:48
11 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart [live] - 3:26
12 The Cure - Fascination St - Galore - 4:20
13 Cabaret Voltaire - Sensoria - 7:52
14 The Human League - Crow and a Baby - Travelogue - 3:42
15 Kraftwerk - Autobahn (ext mix) - Ultra Rare Traxx 2 - 8:00

16 Ghostland Observatory - Heavy Heart - Robotique Majestique - 4:10
17 Hercules and Love Affair - Blind(Club Mix) - Blind Remixes - 6:58
18 Ratatat - Mumtaz Khan - LP3 - 2:38
19 Hot Chip - Hold On - Made in the Dark - 6:21
20 Interpol - Stella Was a Diver… - Turn on the Bright lights - 6:28
21 Massive Attack - Teardrop - Messainine - 5:30
22 Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch - Witching Hour - 4:36
23 Modeselektor - Happy Birthday (Original Mix) - Happy Birthday - 5:04
24 - Phoenix - Too Young United - 3:19
25 Luke Vibert - ComfyCozy - Chicago, Detroit, Redruth - 5:34

Guilty Pleasure
26 The Darkness - Get Your Mands Off My Woman - Permission to Land - 2:46

Ambient Signal - 9/30/08

WRPI 91.5fm!
http://www.wrpi.org/ for webcast
Tuesdays 6-8pm

new music in purplz

Cut Copy - Feel the love
Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline)
Colour revolt - Mattresses underwater
The Decemberists - Leslie anne levine
The Books - the lemon of pink
Efterklang - Bright
Forget Cassettes - Salt and Syncope (request)
The Album Leaf - malmo
Johann Johannson - Melodia (Guidelines for a propulsion system based on Heim's Quantum Theory)
Talkdemonic - March movement
Koushik - Lying in the sun
Brooke Waggoner - Fresh pair of eyes (eyes o' eyes remix)
Land of talk - Some are lakes
Women - Black rice
Deerhoof - Snoopy Waves
Jenny lewis - Acid Tongue
Spinto band - Later on
Andrew Bird - Cataracts
Secret Machines - Now you're gone
Faunts - Instantly Loved
Annuals - x
Grizzly Bear - Easier
Menomena - Oahu
Son Lux - Stay
Feist - Mushaboom [Mocky mix]

pinkie swear.

artist - title

chemical brothers - hey boy hey girl
MGMT - Electric Feel - Justice
Moby - I love to Move It - Croookers Mass Remix
Terry Lynn - Kingstonlogic
Boys Noise - My Head - Para One Remix
Daft Punk - Around the World + Harder Better Faster Stronger - 2007
Yelle - Je Veux Te Voir
The Faint - The Geeks Were Right
The Ting Tings - Fruit Machine
The Ting Tings - Shut Up and Let Me Go
Stereo Image - Dark Chapters
Hercules and Love Affair - Blind
Fujiya & Miyagi - Knickerbocker
Tilly and the Wall - Jumbler
Brazilian Girls - Good Times
Mates of State - Help Help
Bitter:sweet - The Bomb
Elsiane - Vaporous
Adventure - Loredo
sBach - 06
Glomag - Pocket Calculator
Alias - I heart Drum Machines
CSS - Move
Tobacco - Street Trash
sBach - 03
Minus the Bear - Dog Park
The Notwist - On Planet Off

I'M HAVING A REALLY FUN WEEK. LIKE CAPS LOCK.
LOVE EMELIE
[12190]

Gold Sounds 9/30/08

I had a dream last night that something bad was going to happen during my radio show today. I guess we'll see about that now! New music in red. Bands I'm going to see live soon in green

Preshow: Nick Drake "One of These Things First"

Pinback "Tres"
Mono in VCF "Escape City Scrapers"
Why "Rubber Traits" (I should cut down my caloric intake, I should go to sleep hungry and wake up with my guts knotted up and ears open like a burnt down hut)

Alias "Oakland in the Rearview"
Xu Xu Fang "These Days"
Shugo Tokumaru "Parachute"

TV on the Radio "Stork & Owl"
The Mae Shi "Run to Your Grave"
Deerhoof "Chandelier Searchlight"

Appomattox "Spanish Virgins"
Man Man "Van Helsing Boombox" (I wanna sleep for weeks like a dog at her feet even though I know it won't work out in the long runnnn)
Cold War Kids "Golden Gate Jumpers"
Talkdemonic "Ending the Orange Glow"

ROCK BLOCK - Songs with crazy breakdowns/freakouts/etc. (yeah, lame title, get over it!)
Explosions in the Sky "Glittering Blackness"
Wye Oak "Please Concrete"
Son Lux "Stand" (this whole song is basically one big drum/opera sample freakout)

Dr. Dog "The Rabbit, the Bat, and the Reindeer"
Maps + Atlases "The Ongoing Horrible"
Les Savy Fav "The Orchard"

Women "Sag Harbor Bridge"/"Group Transport Hall"
The Last Shadow Puppets "Standing Next to Me"
David Bowie "Life on Mars?" (Q: Is there life on Mars? A: I mean, maybe. But probably not)

I'm from Barcelona "Paper Planes"
The Dark Romantics "Hush Your Mouth"
The Postal Service "Against All Odds"

Pegasuses-XL "The Big Haunt"
M83 "Kim & Jessie"

Hey, nothing went wrong! Awesome. I'll be on 12-4 next Tuesday, so check that out!