NIN Update - FREE Music

You heard me right. Nine Inch Nails has jumped on the bandwagon and is giving away a free music sampler download of their new music along with some other great bands that you hear on my show like Crystal Castles, Does it Offend You, Yeah? and Deerhoof. Visit their website or click here to download!

In other news.. have you seen the Camp Bisco lineup for this year? It's great! Check it out at www.campbisco.net We'll be giving away tickets in the next few weeks so stay tuned!

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Ambient Signal 6/4/08

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Broken Social Scene - Cranley's gonna make it
The Album Leaf - Twenty two fourteen
Pure Horsehair- On looseleaf with sharpie
Annuals- Complete or completing
Wolf Parade- Dear songs and daughters of hungry ghosts
Camera obscura- Let's get out of this country
Death cab for cutie - Cath (meant to play talking bird..)
Mates of state- My only offer
Peter von poehl- Going to where the tea trees are
Watson Twins- How am i to be?
Spiritualized- i gotta fire
My education- Arch
Submarines- Brightest hour
Mar- farewell
Quitzow- Sponsor (it didn't mean a thing)
Bittersweet- Get what i want
Cursive- Bad sects
13 & God- Soft atlas
The velvet teen- We were bound (to bend the rules)
Sigur Ros- Gong
Caspian- Some are white light
Explosions in the sky- what do you go home to?
Venetian Snares- Hajnal

pinkie swear.

Hiii, I'm back! I've got a chilled out show for you today to go along with the gloomy clouds overhead. My new favorite cds that have just dropped are: Death Cab for Cutie, Bitter:Sweet, Radiohead (best of), Four Tet, The Ting Tings, Yelle, Neva Dinova, and Dosh. Can you handle all that?

artist - track title

minus the bear - the game needed me - oktopus remix
the presets - my people
M83 - kim & jessie
odd nosdam - untitled three - jb og mix
neva dinova - clouds
diva sonic - girations
my brightest diamond - inside a boy
portishead - we carry on
bitter:sweet - come along with me
the ting tings - shut up and let me go
lali puna - small things
modest mouse - baby blue sedan <3
misha - delovedly
mates of state - get better
bitter:sweet - the bomb
radiohead - 2+2=5
death cab for cutie - i will possess your heart
dosh - wolves
ladytron - seventeen
ladytron - ghosts
flight of the concords - the most beautiful girl (in the room)
daedelus - make it so - XXXchange remix
four tet - ribbons
booka shade - charlotte
Young MC - bust a move - don rimini ravekid extended remix
midnight juggernauts - dystopia


-Emelie [9794]

Ambient Signal 5/28/08 - Extended edition

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Guest playlist from my girlfriend for the first hour

Junior Boys- Double Shadow
The Anniversary - D in detroit
Mewithoutyou - January 1979
Apples in stereo - Go
St. Vincent- All my stars aligned
Art in Manila- Time gets us all
Neko Case- John saw that number
Badly Drawn Boy- Something to talk about
Pipettes- Your kisses are wasted on me
Battles- Atlas
Simian - LA Breeze
Black keys-Do the rump
Bobby birdman- gone beyond

Begin normal playlist at 5:55:
Hammock- Elm
Animal Collective- Did you see the words
Menomena- Evil Bee
Irepress - Pah No
Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook
Halou - Morse code
Denali- Gunner
Styrofoam- After sunset
Shy child- Drop the phone
Lucky Dragons- Morning rituals
Mar- Icarus
Mates of state- Get better
Subtle - Exiting arm
Bitter:Sweet - The bomb
Submarines- You me and the bourgeouis
Death cab for cutie - Grapevine fires
Spiritualized- Soul on fire
Dosh - Kit and Pearls
Forget Cassettes- Like tiny swords
Bright Eyes- Four Winds
Rachel's - Water from the same source
Enigmatic String Quartet- There There (Radiohead cover)
Odd Nosdam- Don't come down here
Faunts - Of nature
Squarepusher- Tetra Sync

Ambient Signal 5/21/08

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The Velvet Teen- Building a Whale
The Arcade Fire- Wake Up
The Pipettes- Pull Shapes
Minty Fresh Beats- Nude (Remix of Radiohead)
The Avalanches- Since I Left You
This Will Destroy You- Threads
Beck- Missing
The Books-Lemon of Pink
Psapp- Hill of our Home
Hammock- Mono no aware
Sigur Ros- Glosoli ( by request..one of the few i've ever been able to fill, haha)
Port O' Brien- I woke up today
Dosh- Wolves
Death cab for Cutie- Cath
Styrofoam- Microscope
Mar - A Celebration
Son Lux- Inside a boy (Remix of My Brightest Diamond)
Subtle- Day Dangerous
Battles- B+ T
Q and Not U - Soft pyramids
Osborne- There
Panda bear- Comfy in nautica
Album leaf- We need help
Denali- Gunner

Ambient Signal 5/14/08 - The what the hell am i doing edition

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So theres supposed to be a baseball game coming on sometime during my show..so I didn't plan a playlist because I thought I wasn't going to have to come in so i'm playing random new stuff, and an old playlist from 10/11/05 on a cd I found in the station, haha.. enjoy!

Start of show: Hammock - Gold star mothers and City in the dust on my window
Ester Drang- All this feeling
Wesafari- Alaska
Stars- What the snowman learned about love
Portishead- Machine Gun
Dosh- Wolves
Death cab for cutie- Bixby canyon bridge
Scarlett Johannson- Anywhere I lay my head
Russian Circles- Harper Lewis

Baseball game started like 5:40

REVIEW: Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs

It's 4 AM on Tuesday morning. Do you know where your new Death Cab For Cutie album is?? I got my dirty little paws on a copy early (it's been floating around the interwebs since 5/2) and just finished listening to it. This is the Bellingham, WA group's 7th studio album and 2nd album with Atlantic Records (the first being Plans in 2005).

Let me get this out of the way first: take what you expect from this album and throw it out the window. OK now that's done, let's move on.

Narrow Stairs marks a dark turn in Death Cab's sound. Sure they still write about rejection, lost love, and regret, but in an especially melancholy way. The album finds the group using massive production, long build-ups, and careening echoes left hanging like so much dust in the air. Where Plans has a more pop sound, Narrow Stairs takes that sound and drags it through some dark twisting alleyways for a bit. What you end up with is a collection of songs that leave the lost lover narrative behind and take on a more menacing (and quite creepy) sound.

The intro to the first track, "Bixby Canyon Bridge," fools you into thinking this might be like Plans but no! The heavy guitar riff that kicks in tells you that you've left Kansas behind and entered a new dark world that Ben Gibbard will lead you through with his clear voice. The song ends with Gibbard singing the last verse over guitar feedback. I think Karouac would have approved of this song and Gibbard has said as much (see here and here).

The single "I Will Possess Your Heart" once again comes at you with a bass/piano riff intro then comes the stalking vocals. No, really. After hearing this track, I went to double check all my window shades were drawn and doors locked so Mr. Gibbard over there wouldn't break in or anything. Check it: "You reject my advances and desperate pleas / I won't let you let me down so easily" Wow. Luckily I happen to be on the male side of things. Ladies, good luck...and keep the narrator 100 yards away from you at all times.

Personally, I'm a fan of "Your New Twin Sized Bed." With some cheesy (but still decent) metaphors and a more upbeat sound, it is romantic and longing. Also check out "Grapevine Fires" where Gibbard's writing really shines through. As a comment on the southern California fires and the experience of watching them, I'd say this is one of the best tracks on the album.

So what have we learned today kids? By the end of this record, Gibbard has led us through a haunting world where people live with a lack of love and a deep understanding of loneliness. Though it may have some perky moments ("No Sunlight" and "Long Division"), Narrow Stairs is definitely an album bathed in the lack of light. I find it to be Death Cab's best album since Transatlanticism (though Plans wasn't bad).

4.5/5

Tracklist:

1] Bixby Canyon Bridge
2] I Will Possess Your Heart
3] No Sunlight
4] Cath...
5] Talking Bird
6] You Can Do Better Than Me
7] Grapevine Fires
8] Your New Twin Sized Bed
9] Long Division
10] Pity And Fear
11] The Ice Is Getting Thinner

Official Site
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A Moveable Dance {Last Broadcast}

This comes a week late, but I have a surprise for you in return! Check my next post...

[artist] - [track]

Estelle (feat. Kanye West) - American Boy (DJ Sujinho remix)
Thunderkatz - 3 AM (DJ Klever's So So Death remix)
Boys Noize - &Down (Optimus Grime remix)
autoKratz - 1000 Things
Dada Yakuza - Full Metal Yakuza
Feadz - Back It Up (feat. Spank Rock)
Asian Dub Foundation - Fortress Europe
Flufftronix - Shark Attack (Ruff Cut)
Justice - Stress (Auto Remix) <--check out Emelie's post w/ the music vid
Immuzikation - Jeumie (Yelle vs. Weezer)
Busy P (feat. Murs) - To Protect and Entertain
Kanye West - Flashing Lights (Optimus Grime remix)
Santogold - Say Aha
Dead Prez - Bigger Than Hip Hop (Flufftronix Ghetto House refix)
Uffie - Robot Oeuf
Minitel Rose - Continue
Justice vs. Transformer - DVNO
MOULiNEX - Break Chops
Cobra Krames (feat. Rye Rye) - Get Familiar (Start the Violence! remix)
Louis La Roche - Love (Optimus Grime remix)
So Me - Decalcomania
D.I.M. - Is You (Optimus Grime remix)
Feist - Sealion (Chromeo Remix)
Oldschool Reunion - Disco Interface

Ambient Signal 5/7/08

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I believe summer schedule starts next week..pretty sure I'll be at the same time though

Talkdemonic- Bering
Talkdemonic- Human till born
Battles- Rainbows
Sunset Rubdown- Stadiums and Shrines II
Menomena- Muscle n' Flo
Bright Eyes- True Blue (Live)
A Northern Chorus- This Open Heart
Valley of the Giants- Westworld
Dosh-Kit and pearls
Arc lab- The secret lives of A.C. Wuornos
Portishead- Plastic
Leerone- Empty Houses
Russian Circles-Campaign
El Perro Del Mar- Somebody's Baby
Feist- Honey honey (live)
Langhorne Slim- Spinning compass
Flight of the conchords- The most beautiful girl
Pattern is movement- Peach trees
Orenda Fink- Leave it all
Mogwai- Teamhanded
Bend like branches- Snowroom
Ulrich Schnauss- Blumenweise neben autobahn
Sigur Ros- Andvari
Hammock- The house where we grew up

pinkie swear | last show of academic year

sally shapiro - anorak christmas - woodhands remix
cut copy - out there on the ice
b-52's - funplex - css remix
act - ping pong
shy child - drop the phone
ghostland observatory - dancing on my grave
bad dudes - suez
architechture in helsinki - heart it races
crystal castles - crimewave (crystal castles vs health)
chromeo - fancy footwork
does it offend you, yeah? - dawn of the dead
the ting tings - great dj
pink skull - get inside (my tiny pyramids)
moby - alice
burial - archangel
metaform - urban velvet
ghislain poirier - no more blood feat. face-t - hudson mohawke remix
juno reactor - las vegas future past
mashed buddha - ego maniac
boys noize - my head - para one
justice - genesis
daft punk - around the world / harder better faster stronger
M.I.A. - paper planes - scottie b. remix
substantial - resurrection of the house party
four tet - ribbons
bjork - wanderlust - ratatat remix
glen porter - prolong
bitcrush - what would hope be without disapointment
subtractive lad - decay as a lifestyle

This was my last show for the semester but I'll be in and out during the summer at random times once I have my schedule figured out. Thanks for listening and thanks for all of my callers who always show their appreciation, I love hearing from you so keep it up!

-Emelie [9284]

Free Nine Inch Nails

Download it here!

Free music all over the place these days...

-Emelie [9229]

Margot and the Nuclear So and So's New Album Animal - July 29th

Finally

I've been waiting quite a while to hear about the release date of Margot and the Nuclear So and So's sophomore effort: Animal! In 2006 they took me by surprise..I saw them play after another band I came to see and I was intrigued (which frankly rarely happens at a live show) but the rest of the people I was with thought they were lame so we had to leave...what a mistake. A month of so later I received their debut "The Dust of Retreat" in the first half of 2006 and it went on to become my #1 album that year. I've been keeping a casual eye on their myspace and homepage hearing tiny details about the recording process and tracklisting for about a year..they even threw us a bone with the release of a B-side track called "Hello Vagina" (its out there in the blagosphere for downloading..I've played it on my show before). A balmy release date has been set for July 29th, 2008. I'm very very interested to hear what this 8 piece folk/rock collective managed to put together this time..here is the tracklist from their myspace..some of the songs have been around as demos for quite a while:

Animal! tracklisting

1. At the carnival
2. German Motor Car
3. O’ What a nightmare!
4. I am a lightning rod
5. Love song for a schubas bartender
6. Mariel’s brazen overture
7. A children’s crusade on acid
8. There’s talk of mineshafts
9. The shivers (I’ve got ’em)
10. Cold, kind, and lemon eyes
11. My baby (shoots her mouth off)
12. Tall as cliffs.

Their myspace

p.s. to tell you how excited i am..my dog is named Margot

Yeaah

Justice Video for 'Stress'

New Justice Video for Stress
I'm not sure how I feel about it because I wish I knew what their intentions were in making the video this harsh. [9153]

justice stress (official video)

Gold Sounds: Pattern Is Movement's new album "All Together" reviewed!

Pattern Is Movement - All Together

Philadelphia's Pattern Is Movement, who recently became a duo, are back with their third album (and first on new label Hometapes) All Together.

The band is often compared to Pinback, a comparison that makes sense in that both bands make intricate, minimalist pop songs with very precise rhythms. Indeed, nothing about this album is sloppy. Not one note of the album is extraneous, and all ten songs are very concise. Though all this is evident to the listener, none of it takes away from the record's appeal. While it sounds complicated on paper, this assembly line-like efficiency somehow translates to a very pleasant listen; everything just sounds so right about this album. It's impossible to listen from start to finish without finding yourself bobbing your head to at least one song, and the album is filled with many surprising twists and turns, keeping the listener interested and wondering what will happen next.

Starting with the very beginning of the first song "Bird," Pattern Is Movement reel the listener in and show them they mean business. Quick drumming and sailing vocals anchor the beginning of "Bird," but then out of nowhere everything stops and a single, beautiful Rhodes piano figure is performed, followed by a similarly beautiful flute piece, courtesy of member Andrew Thiboldeaux's mellotron. The breakdown ends as abruptly as it starts, flawlessly transitioning back into the song's opening notes. The band does not miss a beat during this song, which can be said for the rest of the album as well.

Similarly shocking are the transitions between songs. The subdued "Sea Captain," which sounds sort of like a waltz on a cruise ship, ends very innocuously but leads into the opening horn blare (again, the wonders of the mellotron) of "Sound of Your Voice," with singer Andrew Thiboldeaux declaring "How I just like the sound of your voice!" triumphantly over the music. This turn of events is surprising enough, but the immediate, driving introduction shortly gives way to a drumming/Rhodes piano breakdown (one of the album's best moments), and right when this breakdown ends, these two parts of the song are immediately repeated. All the songs employ repetition to great effect, and their ideas are so unique that this repetition does not bore the listener. It's obvious that the band named themselves Pattern Is Movement for a reason.

There are just so many impressive songs on this album, it's difficult to discuss them all in one review. "Peach Trees" offers some of the album's best and most haunting melodies, while "Jenny Ono" possesses an amazing vocal performance by Thiboldeaux. His vocal delivery, at first listen, sounds better suited for opera than pop, but they compliment the band's music very nicely, though lyrics are very hard to make out the majority of the time. As previously mentioned, all instrumentation is carefully calculated, but the main force behind the music of Pattern Is Movement is Chris Ward's drumming. The man clearly has talent, and none of these songs would work as well without his consistently impressive percussion skills. With his drumming, he serves as the band's navigation system, keeping them on track throughout all their unique instrumental flourishes. Without it, the lofty instrumentation would be harder to stomach and consistently listen to, and the music would just sail off into the distance, never to be remembered again.

All aspects considered, Pattern Is Movement have made a very impressive third album. Every song has a moment that makes an impression in the mind of the listener and stays there all day. Some songs are a little more impressive than others (it's hard not to play favorites here), but there are absolutely no duds on the record. Check out the band on tour in smaller venues around the Northeast before the influx of good reviews occurs, which it will. All Together is one of the best, most unique albums released so far this year, and it will serve to put the band on the map in 2008.

Rating: 8.5/10

Key Tracks: Sound of Your Voice, Peach Trees, Jenny Ono

Listen: Myspace

The album will be released in the U.S. on May 6th via Hometapes

No Radio Today

Sorrry kids! No pinkie swear today.. our transmitter is having issues and we've been off all day. We've got our team working on it so we hope to be back asap!

See you next Wednesday,

Emelie

HACKED:
no ambient signal either!

<3 blar..be back next week

Portishead and More...

XLR8R Magazine - The best magazine to keep up with electronic music.

Their latest issue is online here. (That's right, they post it online for free, it's amazing.)
In the new issue is an article on Portishead and a few blurbs about Cut Copy. I highly recommend checking it out. Not only that, it's some of the best graphic design work I've seen (every month). In addition to the magazine, new videos are posted each Tuesday about different artists and stuff going on, so tune in.

-Emelie

New Coldplay!

Free Coldplay song!

Download it from their site (it's sent to your email) at Coldplay.com

I like the song too, so how bout them apples? Free concerts coming up too!

-Emelie

Ambient Signal 4/23/08

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Portishead- Cowboys (live)
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's- On a freezing chicago street
Denali- Everybody Knows
Red Lions- I'll never know
Le Loup- Planes like vultures
Animal collective- Fireworks
Azure Ray- Fever
Cat power- Metal heart
Vashti Bunyan- Here before
Neva Dinova- Squirrels
Leerone- To fill the void
Anna Ternheim- Girl laying down
Dosh- Don't wait for the needle to drop
Pattern is movement- sound of your voice
M83- graveyard girl
Four tet- Swimmers
Flight of the conchords- Inner city pressure
El perro del mar- How did we forget?
Alias and Ehren- Lillian
The Notwist- Moron
Paww- Into the valley
Amiina- Sexfaldur
The Album leaf- Outer Banks
Sigur Ros- Untitled 4

pinkie swear

artist - track - remix

B-52's - Funplex - CSS Remix
Ting Tings - Great DJ - Calvin Harris
Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor
Bad Dudes - Suez
Bjork - Wanderlust - Ratatat Remix
Neon Neon - Neon Theme
Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire
Jef Stott - Medina Stepper
Pink Skull - Unicorn Harpoon
Does it Offend You, Yeah? - We Are Rockstars
Moby - Alice - General Midi Remix
Boys Noize - My Head - Para One Remix
Ghislain Poirier - No More Blood FEAT Face-T
Justice - Phantom
Lowfish - 999
Robert Hood - Intro - M-Plant
Moby - Degenerates
Marie Moor - Pretty Day
Crystal Castles - Alice Practice
Ruth - Polaroid/Roman/Photo
M.I.A. - Paper Planes - DFA Remix
Hot Chip - Made In The Dark
Subtractive Lad - Decay As a Lifestyle







-Emelie [ 9010 ]

Ambient Signal 4/16/08

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Preshow-

Four Tet- Ribbons
O! the joy - this fault is not mine
Plants and animals- feedback in the field
Flight of the conchords- Business time

Show start
Memphis- I dreamed we fell apart
Fog- Song about a wedding
Dosh- Steve the Cat
The Notwist- Good lies
Efterklang- Bright
Brand New- Degausser
Denali- Relief
Feist- La meme histoire
Cortney Tidwell- Lala
Son Lux- Stand
Annuals- Sore
Cut copy- Feel the love
Neva Dinova- A man and his dream
Wye oaks- Warning
South- Better things
Cloud cult- Journey of the featherless
El perro Del mar- Glory to the world
Stars- The Big fight
Bright Eyes- Neely O' Hara
The Velvet teen- Forlorn
Arovane-Tokyo ghost stories
Hammock- Bird's flying in sequence
Sigur Ros- Svefn G- Englar