Gold Sounds 3/18/09: New and free music!

Spring break was a blast, and now since I was gone for a week there's even more new music to play today! I'm also going to play some music from albums that you can legally download for free! It doesn't get much better than free legal downloading - I'll post the links to those songs/albums as well.

Great Lake Swimmers "She Comes to Me in Dreams"
Andrew Eckel "Cedar Cabinet"
Asobi Seksu "Glacially"

O + S "Permanent Scar"
Elvis Perkins In Dearland "Shampoo"
Mirah "The World Is Falling"

An Horse "Postcards"
Halloween, Alaska "In Order"
Youth Group "Good Time"
Cursive "In the Now"

Violens "Already Over"
Shinobu "1995 Store Champion" (from Strange Spring Air)
The Arrogant Sons of Bitches "Yeah, I Don't Know What it's Like to Be around a Bunch of Hipsters" (from Three Cheers for Disappointment)
Pegasuses-XL "Major in Business/Minor in Art" (from Pegasuses-XL)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Zero"
Alligators "Original Fear"
Miniature Tigers "Octopus"
Georgie James "Need Your Needs"

Rock Block - Music from the I Love You, Man trailer (inspired by Dinosaur in Brooklyn)
Vampire Weekend "Campus"
I'm From Barcelona "Paper Planes"
Pixies "Here Comes Your Man"

Neko Case "Middle Cyclone"
Neil Young "Out on the Weekend"
Venice Is Sinking "Ryan's Song"

Emperor X "Approximately Nine Billion Tigers" (from The Blythe Archives Volume Two)
Thom Yorke "The Eraser"
Dan Deacon "Paddling Ghost"

Say Anything "Slowly, through a Vector" (this album is my life recently, random but true)
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead "The Far Pavilions"
The Show Is the Rainbow "Roar Means Run"
The Submarines "You, Me and the Bourgeoisie (Alaska in Winter remix)"

Shinobu "Teachers Get Tired" (from Strange Spring Air)
O Pioneers!!! "The Architect of Disney World" (from Neon Creeps)
We Versus the Shark "Suddenly it's a Folk Song (Future of the Left cover)" (from Murmurmur)

Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band "Cheer for Fate"
Mew "Special"
Miniature Tigers "Vietnam"

The Lovetones "Journeyman"
Mono in VCF "Escape City Scrapers"
Emperor X "Go-Captain and Pinlighter" (from The Blythe Archives Volume Two)
Laura Stevenson and the Cans "Nervous Rex" (from Laura Stevenson: A Record)

Fever Ray "When I Grow Up"

Of course, donations to the artists/labels releasing this free music are appreciated. Back next week!

Ambient Signal - 3/17/09

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

Ah the first whispers of spring...

Starfucker - Girls just want to have fun (cover)
Desaparacidos - $$$$
The Velvet Teen - Caspian can wait
Dosh - Wolves
Phantogram - Voices
Sin Fang Bous - Catch the light
Serene - Wars and Rumors of Wars
Riceboy sleeps - Happiness
O+S - New Life
Cursive - Donkeys
Andrew Eckel - Colorful night watchmen
East hundred - Slow burning crimes
Neko Case - Middle cyclone
Fever Ray - If I had a heart
Bell orchestre - Dark lights
Dan Deacon - Build Voice
Marissa Nadler - River of dirt
Mirah - The Forest
Asobi Seksu - Layers
Grizzly Bear & Feist - Service Bell
Vio/Mire - Wood Splitting
Swan lake - All Fires
Alias - Death Watch
Talkdemonic - Black wood crimson
Electric President - Insomnia
School of seven bells - Wired for light
Ester Drang - Caledonia

Weird Noises 3/16/09

Jacques Berrocal - Rock and Roll Station
Kai Fagaschinski - Manchmal glaube ich schon, das es uberhaupt keine liebe mehr gibt
Joan La Barbara - Des Accords pour Teeny
Stephen Mathieu - Tinfoil Star (Recording Angels)
Luciano Berio - Sequenza XII for Bassoon (performed by Noriko Shimada)
Ekkhard Ehlers - Cornelius Cardew I & II
Sebastien Roux - Flicker
Keith Rowe and John Tilbury - Duos for Doris (excerpt)
Jason Kahn and Gabriel Paiuk - Breathings
Steve Roden - Airria (Second Version)
Marcel Duchamp - Some Texts from A L'Infinitif
Jacques LeJeune - Danse Du Miroir
Clusone 3 - Medley 2 (Bella Coola/The Peacocks)

Ambient Signal - 3/10/09

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

New is this color

The Books and Jose Gonzalez - Cello Song
Feist and Ben Gibbard - Train Song
Amiina - Souvenir (Orchestral manoueversesers in the dark cover)
Sigur Ros - Untitled 8
Colour Revolt - Moses of the south
Brand New - Degausser
Cursive - From the hips
Andrew Eckel - Cedar Cabinets
Bishop Allen - True or false
Here we go magic - Fangela
Neko Case - Never turn your back on mother earth
Maria Taylor - A Chance
Marissa Nadler - Mary Come Alive
Reigns - Everything beyond these walls
Last days - Onwards
Youth group- All this will pass
Mirah - Generosity
Son Lux - Don't you forget about me (cover)
Doves - Firesuite
The Notwist - Pick up the phone
Dntel - Turning red
The Album leaf - Streamside
Chad VanGaalen - Willow Tree
Azeda Booth - Lobster Quadrille
Denali - No Quarter (Led Zep cover)

Gold Sounds 3/4/09

So I won't be here next week 'cause of spring break, but no matter! Let's just enjoy today, eh? No long themes today, just good music. New stuff in red.

Los Campesinos! "Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown #1"
Hello Seahorse! "Won't Say Anything"
Band of Horses "No One's Gonna Love You"

Velocity Girl "Sorry Again"
The Posies "Solar Sister"
Placebo "Without You I'm Nothing"

Grizzly Bear "On a Neck, On a Spit"
Bon Iver "Woods" (apparently even Bon Iver digs autotune)
The Books "Take Time"/"Read, Eat, Sleep" (The Books are playing at Mass MOCA this Saturday)

Neko Case "This Tornado Loves You"
Maria Taylor "Cartoons and Forever Plans"
Mirah "Gone Are the Days"
Marissa Nadler "Rosary"

M. Ward "Hold Time"
Vetiver "On the Other Side"
Pinback "Boo"
Silver Jews "People"

Beirut "The Shrew"
La Strada "Sun Song"
Dent May and His Magnificent Ukulele "Meet Me in the Garden"

Arcade Fire "Windowsill"
Bell Orchestre "Dark Lights"
Audrye Sessions "Perfect, Sometimes"

Piebald "King of the Road"/"Just a Simple Plan"
We Versus the Shark "Gothic Y'all"
The Ergs! "Hey Jealousy"

The Weakerthans "This Is a Fire Door Never Leave Open"
The Wedding Present "Blue Eyes"
The White Stripes "The Union Forever"

Beach House "Used to Be"
Pinback "Montaigne"
So Many Dynamos "It's Gonna Rain"

Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Zero"
Hot Panda "Afraid of the Weather"
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart "Everything with You"

Why? "Fatalist Palmistry"
Animal Collective "Brothersport"

Like I said, I'll be back two weeks from today. Also, right now Gold Sounds is a featured show on wrpi.org! Awesome.

fill-in show this morning (Walter Goldberg Hours)

Solo Pan Knights - For your Love
Stevie Wonder - For your love

Travis - J. Smith
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
the Black Keys - Wanted

Dan Auerbach - Whispered Words
Ray Charles - I'm gonna move to the outskirts of town
Elbow - Grounds for Divorce

Viex Farka Toure - Dounia (Cheb i Sabbah's Africa Unite Remix)
Andrew Bird - Oh No
the Shins - Australia
Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
Ravi Bal & Daljit Mattu - Captain Bhangra Da

the books featuring Jose Gonzalez - Cello Song
Ben Sollee - A Change is gonna come
Rasputina - Rock and Roll
Yo Yo Ma - Ecstasy of Gold

Mike Doughty - Looking at the World from the bottom of a well
Matthew Loiacono - Modest Birds
the Avett Brothers - Backwards with time
She and Him - Why do You Let me stay here
Ra Ra Riot - St. Peter's day Festival

Stevie Wonder - Send One your love
Tropical Angel Harps - Celebration (that's what the CD case said but it's a live performance and you can hear the announcer introducing the band as "St. James... " and I'm pretty sure the song sounds like a sound I'm familiar with Barry White doing that I can't remember the name of right now. Anyhow the album is the Art of Pan II: Pan in the 21st century)
the National - You're so far around the bend

the National - Green Gloves
Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines
Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
Mates of State - Get Better

Dan Auerbach - My Last Mistake

Ambient Signal - 3/3/09

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

Bright Eyes - Southern state
Neva Dinova - A man and his dream
Art in manila - Set the woods on fire
My Milky way arms - Soft alarm
My brightest diamond - The diamond
The Velvet Teen - Penicillin (It doesn't mean much)
World's end girlfriend - The octuple personality and eleven crows
Bell orchestre - Icicles/Bicycles
Youth group - Two sides
Appleseed Cast - Like a locus
Neko Case - People got a lot of nerve
Maria Taylor - Lady luck
Here we go magic - Everything's big
Mirah - Gone are the days
Last days - Run Home
Asobi Seksu - In the sky
Laura Gibson - Glory
Mum - Weeping Rock, Rock
Gregor Samsa - Ain Leuh
Kashiwa Daisuke = Stella (First 7 minutes)
Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook
The Books - Tokyo
Camera obscura - My Maudlin Career

pinkie swear with Emelie

artist - song

Tittsworth - 12 Steps Set
Boy 8 Bit - 21 minutes mix
Animal Collective - My Girls
Tobacco - Little Pink Riding Hood
Late of Pier - Space and the Woods
Architechture in Helsinki - That Beep
Yelle - Ce Jeu
Broken Spindles - I've Never Been This Afraid
John Tejada Fabric Mix

Emelie
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Weird Noises 3/2/2009

Here's today's playlist from the Weird Noises show:

Jacques Berrocal - Rock and Roll Station
Cornelius Cardew - Memories of You (performed by Apartment House)
Suicide - Frankie Teardrop
William Basinski - Disintegration Loops 4
Morton Feldman - The Viola in My Life I (performed by Ensemble Recherche)
Luciano Berio - Sequenza VII for Oboe (performed by Jackie Leclair)
Heiner Goebbels - Die Wiederholung (performed by Marie Goyette and John King)
Jurg Frey - Ohne Titel (performed by Clemens Merkel and Joanna Becker)
Sightings - Anna Mae Wong
Christian Clozier - Lettre a une demoiselle
Giacinto Scelsi - Canti del Capricorno (performed by Michiko Hirayama)
Captain Beefheart - Ella Guru
Cornelius Cardew - Material (performed by Apartment House)

Gold Sounds 2/25/09: Brought to you by the letter A

So I was wondering what it'd be like to have a show that was like Sesame Street, so here's my attempt: songs and artists that start with A. If the song and artist both start with A, it's worth two points! Anyway, new stuff in red. Songs with identical titles are in "All My Friends" gold.

Animal Collective "Also Frightened"
These Are Powers "Adam's Turtle"
Architecture in Helsinki "That Beep"

Los Campesinos! "All Your Kayfabe Friends"
O Pioneers! "The Architect of Disney World"
Spoon "All the Pretty Girls Go to the City"

Rock Block - Hello Sir Records
Cinemechanica "Antsinjapants"
We Versus the Shark "As Good As it Gets"
A.Armada "The Dam Was Split but the City Was Saved"

At the Drive-In "One Armed Scissor"
Appomattox "Either Way"
Archers of Loaf "Audiowhore"

And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead "Another Morning Stoner"
Jawbreaker "Accident Prone"
Pavement "And Then (The Hexx)"

Defiance, Ohio "Anxious and Worrying"
Fugazi "Argument"
Deer Tick "Ashamed"

Devendra Banhart "Autumn's Child"
The Dismemberment Plan "Automatic"
Dntel "Anywhere Anyone"

Radiohead "Airbag"
Faunts "Alarmed/Lights"

Menomena "Air Aid"
Minus the Bear "Absinthe Party at the Fly Honey Warehouse"
Mott the Hoople "All the Young Dudes"

The Smiths "Ask"
Hello Seahorse! "Atardecer en Parapent"
Ozma "Apple Trees"

The Books "All Our Base Are Belong to Them"
Pinback "AFK"
The Avalanches "Frontier Psychiatrist"
The Beatles "Across the Universe"

Broken Social Scene "All My Friends"
LCD Soundsystem "All My Friends"
Pavement "All My Friends"

Aphex Twin "Windowlicker"

WG Hours (filled in for Hello Pretty City this morning)

Weezer - My Name is Jonas

the Neville Brothers - Shake Your Tambourine
the Mighty Shadow - Bassman

the Weakerthans - Civil Twilight
Lykke Li - I'm Good I'm Gone
Santogold - Lights out
Foals - the French Open

the Apples in Stereo - Energy
Nicole Atkins - Together we are both alone
Matthew Loiacono - Modest Birds

Krosfyah - Pump Me up
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Noel La Pierre - Have I told you lately
Jeneric - After the Great Flood of Troy
She & Him - Sentimental Heart

Tightrope - Yeasayer
Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood
Matthew Loiacono - Inside my grin

TV on the Radio - DLZ
Oasis - Don't Look back in anger
the Avett Brothers - Shame
the Walkmen - Red Moon

Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - Inspiration Information
Atlantik (vocals by Tony Prescott) - All aboard
Budos Band - Chicago Falcon

Yo Yo Ma & Diana Krall - You couldn't be cuter
Mike Doughty - the Only Answer
Albert Hammond Jr. - Gfc
Why? - These Fews presidents
Travis - Sing

Chuck Mangione - Feels So Good.

Ambient Signal - 2/24/08

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

Anathallo - Cafetorium
Azure Ray - November
Margot and the Nuclear so and so's - Dress me like a clown
Gregor Samsa - The Adolescent
Johann Johannsson - The Rocket Builder (Io Pan!)
Bitcrush - Every ghost has its spectre
Mono - Burial at sea
Here we go magic - Tunnelvision
Faunts - Das malefitz
Asobi Seksu - Sing tomorrow's praise
Neko Case - This Tornado loves you
Laura Gibson - come by storm
Marissa Nadler - Heart paper lover
N.A.S.A. - Strange enough
La Strada - Flying
Love Language - Lalita
World's end girlfriend - Birthday Resistance
The Books - That right aint shit
Phantogram - Bloody Palms
Beck - Girl (Octet remix)
Grizzly Bear - Little brother
The Helio sequence - The Captive mind
Ambulette - I've got more
Forget cassettes - Ms. Rhythm and blues

So Many Dynamos - The Loud Wars release announced

It's official: So Many Dynamos' new album The Loud Wars will be released by Vagrant Records on April 28th, 2009.

1	Artifacts of Sound
2	Glaciers
3	The Novelty of Haunting
4	New Bones
5	If You Didn’t Want To Know
6	Oh, The Devastation
7	Keep It Simple
8	Friendarmy
9	It’s Gonna Rain
10	The Formula

Oh yes, this will be a big one. Best of 2009? Place your bets.

Watch: So Many Dynamos "The Novelty of Haunting" live

Deer Tick at WRPI 2/16/09 pt 2: songs and interview!

Hey everyone,

So as I mentioned before, Deer Tick stopped by WRPI on Monday to play some songs and interview with yours truly. I'm happy to post the songs and interview here:

Deer Tick "Dirty Dishes"

Deer Tick "These Old Shoes"

Deer Tick "La, La, La"

Deer Tick - Interview (includes some details on their two 2009 releases, among other subjects)

Deer Tick's set at Madison Grille in Albany that night was awesome as well! They packed the place and put on a great performance. If you haven't yet seen them live, be sure to rectify that next time they come around the area. You can keep up with Deer Tick's music and intense tour schedule by checking their official website or myspace page.

Gold Sounds 2/18/09 - New, longer timeslot. Also, robots!

Hey everyone! So I have a longer timeslot now, 11am-2pm instead of 12pm-2pm. I also really like eagles. Finally, I'm going to play at least an hour's worth of songs that somehow involve robots! Sweet.

We had Deer Tick stop by a couple days ago to record some songs and interview. I'll be posting the songs and interview here within the next few days.

New stuff in red. Requests in blue.

Deer Tick - Live at WRPI, 2/16/09
Deer Tick "Dirty Dishes"
Deer Tick "These Old Shoes"
Deer Tick "La, La, La"

Deer Tick "Ashamed"
Jessica Lea Mayfield "I Can't Lie to You, Love"
The Black Keys "Things Ain't Like They Used to Be"
Dan Auerbach "Keep it Hid"

Pavement "Date w/ Ikea"/"Fin" (Peel Session 8/21/97)
Mike Bones "What I Have Left"
Clem Snide "Hum"

Delta Spirit "Strange Vine"
Other Lives "Matador"
Here We Go Magic "Tunnelvision"

The Ergs! "Hey Jealousy"
Bomb the Music Industry! "25!"
O Pioneers! "The Architect of Disney World"

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart "Contender"
Asobi Seksu "In the Sky"
The Appleseed Cast "The Summer Before"
La Strada "Orphan"

Conceptual Rock Blocks - ROBOTS
Nada Surf "Robot"
Mathematicians "Robotic Voices"

Radiohead "Paranoid Android"
Arling & Cameron "Dirty Robot"

The Dresden Dolls "Coin-Operated Boy"
They Might Be Giants "Robot Parade"
The Phenomenauts "I Am Robot"

The Misfits "We Are 138"
The Dismemberment Plan "Memory Machine"
Mr. Bungle "None of Them Knew They Were Robots"
Black Sabbath "Iron Man"

Tokyo Police Club "Citizens of Tomorrow"
The Flaming Lips "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1"
The Flaming Lips "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 2"
Was (Not Was) "Anything Can Happen"

Flight of the Conchords "Robots"
Clutch "10001110101"

Ghostland Observatory "Robotique Majestique"
Daft Punk "Robot Rock"

Back next week! Robot requests are radical.

Happiness Is All The Rage - 02/17/09

artist - song
requests in blue

mock orange - payroll
hey mercedes - knowing when to stop
piebald - long nights
cap'n jazz - take on me
propaghandi - rock for sustainable capitalism
the appleseed cast - forever longing the golden sunsets
the promise ring - everywhere in denver
the get up kids - ten minutes
fugazi - bed for the scraping
texas is the reason - nickel wound
braid - jimmy go swimmer
american football - honestly?
no knife - riot for romance
knapsack - thrusday side of the street
hot water music - rooftops
rainer maria - long knives
christie front drive - long out

Ambient Signal - 2/17/09

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

Remember! I am playing video with Phantogram (aka Charlie Everywhere) at Revolution hall tomorrow night at 8pm! They are playing with the New Deal..should be fun!

Notwist - Consequence
Husky Rescue - Summertime Cowboy
Mirah - La Familia
Port O' Brien - I woke up today
Morning Recordings - We loved the city years
High places - Visions the first
Mono - Everlasting light
Faunts - Explain
Animal Collective - Summertime clothes
Here we go magic - Frangela
Laura Gibson - Funeral Song
Vetiver - Another reason to go
Appleseed Cast - Summer before
Love Language - Graycourt
Psapp - Fix it
Asobi Seksu - Layers
My Brightest Diamond - Inside a boy
Maria Taylor - A Good Start
Land of talk - It's Okay
Panda bear - Comfy in nautica
The Album leaf - MP
Sigur Ros - Hijomalind
Nico Muhly - Skip Town

pinkie swear | Emelie

artist - song

Tujiko Noriko - Vinyl Words
Brighton Port Authority - Seattle - feat. Emmie the Great
Cassius - Toop Toop
Cloud Cult - Transistor Radio
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Scattered Pearls
Death Cab for Cutie - No Sunlight
Domestic Blend Compilation Album - Frowning
Michna - Triple Chrome Dipped
Minus the Bear - Hooray [Dark Baby Remix]
Minus the Bear - Ice Monster
Modest Mouse - Never Ending Math Equation
Modest Mouse - Gravity Rides Everything
The Notwist - Good Lies
Mates of State - The Re-Arranger (by request)
Santogold - I'm a Lady
Teddybears - Punkrocker
Yelle - Ce Jeu
Blake Watson (of Attractive and Popular) - Rooftops in New York City
Kyle Andrews - Sushi
Kylie Minogue - Can't Get Blue Monday Out Of My Head
Maroon 5 - This Love (Cut Copy Galactic Beach House Mix)
Tobacco - Little Pink Riding Hood
The Knife - Silent Shout
The BPA - Toe Jam
Tearglass and Plateglass - Plague Burial (featuring David Hykes)
Lali Puna - Flowchart - Fast Forward Remix
Ladytron - Cracked LCD

Emelie
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Deer Tick at WRPI 2/16/09

Hey everyone,

So WRPI had the pleasure of having Deer Tick play some songs and participate in an interview for us in the studio today! If you'd like to hear the songs and interview I conducted with Deer Tick, listen to WRPI today at 6pm and Wednesday at 11am. I'll be posting the songs and interview here within the next week or so.

I'd also like to add that tonight, Deer Tick will be playing at Madison Grille in Albany at 7pm. Check it out:

Walter goldberg hours - feb 16th 2009

Miles Davis - So What
Warren Zevon - Johnny Strikes up the band
Elvis Costello & the Attractions - the greatest thing
the Fugees - Killing me Softly with his song

Grateful dead - Candyman
the Specials - Ghost town
Weakerthans - Civil Twilight
Weezer - Island in the Sun
the Who - Behind blue eyes

Yardbird Suite - Charlie Parker
Gravity - John Mayer
the Avett Brothers - Pretty Girl from Chile
Cream - I'm So Glad
Cake - Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps

Mates of State - Middle is Gold
the Shins - Turn on Me

the Black Keys - She Said She Said
the National - Secret Meeting
Wolf Parade - Soldier's Grin

Osibisa - Sunshine Day
Santogold - You'll find a way
Ra Ra Riot - Dyin is fine
Cut Copy - Lights & music
Bela Fleck & the flecktones - Space is a lonely place
the Avett Brothers - the ballad of love and hate

blitzen trapper - furr
another world - antony and the johnsons
aerosmith - sweet emotion
the hold steady - sequestered in memphis

the apples in stereo - energy
machel montano - J'ouvert morning
Gipsy Kings - Volare

TV on the radio - Golden Age
Tina Turner - What's love got to do with it
the BPA feat Emmy the Great - Seattle
the Black Keys - thickfreakness
the Walkmen - In the new year
Tito Puente - Prelude to a Kiss
Spoon - the Underdog

David Rudder - Bahia Girl
Gregory Isaacs - Love is Overdue
St. Vincent - All my stars aligned

Michael Jackson - Human Nature
Moldy Peaches - Anyone Else but you
Ben Sollee - A Change is Gonna Come