Ambient Signal 11/25/08

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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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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

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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

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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!