first wednesday in june

Elvis Costello - Down among the wines and spirits
Elvis Costello - Complicated Shadows
Dr. John - Bad Neighborhood
Beck - Gamma Ray
My Morning Jacket - off the record

the Shins - Red Rabbits
She and Him - Sweet Darlin'
Langhorne Slim - Spinning Compass
Nicole Atkins - Maybe Tonight
Iron and Wine - Love Vigilantes
She and Him - I should have known better

Langhorne Slim - Diamonds and Gold
Nina Simone - Funkier than a Mosquito's Tweeter
My Morning Jacket - I'm Amazed
Toots & the Maytals - Funky Kingston
Althea and Donna - Uptown Top Rankin

Beck - Orphans
My Morning Jacket - Highly Suspicious
Dennis Brown - Love has found its way

the Derek Trucks Band - Something to make you happy
Sergio Mendes - Indiado
the Derek Trucks Band - Maybe this time

the Derek Trucks Band - Sweet Inspiration
Jessica Lea Mayfield - For Today
My Morning Jacket - Look at you

the Flaming Lips - Fight Test
Jessica Lea Mayfield - we've never lied
Dr. John - Morgus the Magnificent

George Clinton and his Gangsters of Love - Let the good times roll
George Clinton and his Gangsters of Love - Pledging My Love

Ambient Signal - 6/2/09

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73 and Sunny

Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks (Fred Falke Radio Mix)
The Postal Service - The district sleeps alone tonight
St. Vincent - The Neighbors
Wolf Parade - Language City
Broken Social Scene - Hotel
Bright Eyes - Coat Check Dream Song
Animal Collective - Banshee Beat
Grizzly Bear - I Live with you
Phoenix - Lisztomania
Viva Voce - Rose city
So Many Dynamos - The Formula
Camera Obscura - Swans
Deastro - Parallelogram
Landy - BFF!
Black moth super rainbow - Tooth decay
City Center - Killer whale
Wooden Birds - Sugar
Conor Oberst and the mystic valley band - Eagle on a pole
Great northern - Houses
Akron/Family - Sun will shine
Bon Iver - Flume
Beck - Lost Cause
Midlake - Roscoe (acoustic)
Why? - Simeon's Dilemma
A Northern Chorus - Subjects and matter
Sufjan Stevens - The predatory wasp of the palisades

So Many Dynamos - The Loud Wars review

In 2006, So Many Dynamos released their second album Flashlights, an album that improved dramatically from their first. This progression continues with The Loud Wars. Opener "Artifacts of Sound" properly introduces us to The Loud Wars by cramming in four minutes of fast, off-kilter, technical, danceable music. With songs like this, the band has the right to sing lyrics like, "Get me out of this party/Because it's boring and so uneventful/Get me out of this party/All the rhyming is so predictable"; there's never a dull moment in The Loud Wars, and it's unpredictable and interesting both musically and lyrically.

Musically, the band has never sounded better. Though initially nothing stands out as much as their most well-known song "Search Party," it's clear that every song is solid and the majority are shining achievements, resulting in what is by far their most consistently impressive album (really, only "Glaciers" fails to leave a lasting impression). What if Talking Heads had the technology of today when they formed? They'd probably have written something similar to "New Bones," one of the strangest, most unique dance rock songs released in recent memory and one of the Dynamos' most anthemic tracks. During its five minutes, the music builds and builds on top of the consistent, driving beat, slowly but surely leading to an explosive outro. It's one of the album's catchiest songs, and it's not a shock that the band chose to release it as the album's first single.

The Loud Wars has some of the band's hardest songs as well; tracks like "Oh, the Devastation!" possess unrelenting, frantic drumming and guitar work reminiscent of Cinemechanica. The impressive musicianship present in The Loud Wars is augmented by the production of Chris Walla, who helped the band create some of the best drum sounds this side of "Tired of Sex" (especially in "The Formula"), something the band wished to accomplish from the start (for anyone interested, the recording of the album is documented on So Many Dynamos' recording/touring/all-purpose blog. Check out the first posts from 2007). The album's only real issues are the sometimes overproduced vocals (notably the first verse of "The Formula") and the occasional synth overload: the synth overpowers the guitar work in "If You Didn't Want to Know," and in the intro to "It's Gonna Rain," it nearly forces the drums out of the picture. However, there are plenty of instances where the synth sounds great (notably the bridge of "Friendarmy"); sometimes the band just struggles to find the right balance.

Often times, carefully crafted and musically impressive albums serve up lyrics that are obviously little more than afterthoughts but in the case of The Loud Wars, things only get better when taking the lyrics into consideration. The band paints pictures of disorder and destruction on both a micro and macro scale. From tales of glaciers melting and the St. Louis Arch collapsing to disputes among friends and romantic interests, the album is teeming with detail-rich wordplay. Lyrics like "Wine stains on your favorite rug/And there's a hole where the living room was," ("It's Gonna Rain") and "If you wanted to know that it happened before/On the kitchen counter, the living room floor" ("If You Didn't Want to Know") exemplify this lyrical specificity, and lyrics like "The fault line skipped/And my knees keep shaking," and "In a million years we'll all just be fossils" ("The Formula") provide a sense of impending doom. If the world's going to end and there's no chance to stop it, we might as well dance and sing along as hard and loud as possible until it collapses; or, to use their words, "I don't want to make amends/I just want to make a mess." With The Loud Wars, So Many Dynamos provides the perfect music to accompany the chaos.

So Many Dynamos are touring throughout the summer, with one show coming up at Valentine's in Albany on June 11th with Maps & Atlases. As good as they are on record, they're even better live. Do yourself a favor and catch them before they blow up and play larger venues. The Loud Wars comes out on June 9th courtesy of Vagrant Records.

Listen to "Artifacts of Sound" and "New Bones" here.

A lot of Nina Simone today

The Shins - Australia
Death Cab for Cutie - Bixby Canyon Bridge
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career

Nina Simone - the times they are a changing
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Death Cab for Cutie - I will possess your heart
Nina Simone - Turn Turn Turn

Iron and Wine - Love Vigilantes
Nina Simone - I put a spell on you
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
Passion Pit - Moth's Wings
Nina Simone - Feelin Good

Grizzly Bear - All we ask
Jessica Lea Mayfield - For Today
Nina Simone - I want a little sugar in my bowl
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

the Avett Brothers - Murder in the City
Nina Simone - In the Morning
Jessica Lea Mayfield - the one that I love best
Elvis Costello - I felt the Chill

Passion Pit - Eyes as Candles
Grizzly Bear - For now
Nina Simone - I wish I knew how it would feel to be free
Iron and Wine - Loud as Hope
the Decemberists - July July!
Camera Obscura - the Sweetest thing
Nina Simone - Black is the color of my true love's hair
Nina Simone - to love somebody

the Avett Brothers - if it's the beaches

Ambient Signal - 5/26/09

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62 (brr) and Cloudy..let's play some music!

Hammock - Wish
Riceboy Sleeps - Boy 1904
The Album leaf - Brennivin
Bon Iver - Woods (best use of auto-tune ever..favorite song of the week)
Doveman - Breathing Out
Final Fantasy and Ed Droste - Possibly Maybe (cover of Bjork)
Steve Reich - Music for large ensemble
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks (Veckatimest is destined to be one of my favorite albums of the year, check video for this song in the post below)
Camera Obscura - Forest and sands
Apostle of hustle - Eazy Speak (speaking easy seems to require swear words that you weren't aware of and almost played over the air so you cut the song short)
Dirty Projectors - Stillness is the move
Viva Voce - Octavio
Deastro - Biophelia
Mocky Saskamodie
Akron/Family - The Alps and their orange evergreen
Clues - Haarp
Diamond Watch wrists - One second early late
Dosh - Kit and Pearls
Starfucker - Medicine
Electric President - White Noise
Ester drang - Repeating the procedure
A Weather - Spiders, Snakes
The Velvet Teen -Forlorn

Bonnaroo this yeaar

Bonnaroo lineup this year looks quite classy...I went a couple years ago for the radiohead show (caught beck and bright eyes too)..i wish I had gone last year for sigur ros and battles though..check out this year's lineup through the link below:

Memorial Day Show (Walter Goldberg Hours)

Sugarman 3 - Turtle Walk
Len "Boogsie" Sharp + Pelham Goddard - With a song in my heart
Burnin Flames - Swinging Engine
David Sitek - With a Girl Like You
Spoon - I turn my camera on

Squirrel Nut Zippers - Hell
Antibalas - Gabe's new joint
Ra Ra Riot - Ghost under Rocks

Dennis Brown - Money in my Pocket/Cool Runnings
Rufus Wainwright - Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk
the Mighty Diamonds - Just Like a river
Albert Hammond Jr. - Victory at Monterey
Barington Levy - My Woman
the Avett Brothers - Backwards with time

Sugarman 3 - Chicken Half
Sergio Mendes f. will.i.am and siedah garret - Funky Bahia
Wayne Gorbea - Prakatun
the Derek Trucks Band - Something to make you happy

Black Uhuru - Rent Man
Boogsie Sharp + Pelham Goddard - You Got ta be
Sergio Mendes f. Ledisi - Waters of March
Cuban Cowboys - El Capitan

Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings - How Long do I have to wait for you
Might Sparrow - Tobago Girl
Antibalas - Hypocrite
JC Lodge + Prince Mohammed - One time daughter
Althea + Donna - Uptown Top Ranking

BPA f. David Byrne - Toe Jam

Grizzly Bear video for "Two weeks"

So I have been listening to the upcoming Grizzly Bear album Veckatimest nonstop since I got it on monday (I still haven't settled on a pronunciation, however) and there are several standouts on the album, barely a song that I don't like really..but it seems as if their first single is going to be "Two Weeks" (and rightly so, its the first one that jumped out at me) and the music video is one of the best I've seen in a long time.

It was directed by one of my favorite video makers since Gondry, Patrick Daughters, who has also worked on many of Feist's quirky videos and a couple off of Bright Eye's Cassadaga album..anyway..here is that video (sorry for the myspace video embed..)..make sure to watch to the end..it gets way better than the beginning (unless you are as entertained/ amazed at the almost cartoonish 50's style faces/outfits the band is wearing..then you might think the beginning is just as good).. Cue the slanted eye blinks!:


Two Weeks

Walter Goldberg Wednesdays

Exodus - War 2004
Kokolo - Candela
the Gipsy Kings - Escucha Me
Madeleine Peyroux - I'm all right
Kokolo - Trouble Come, Trouble Go
Jessica Lea Mayfield - Kiss Me again

Spoon - well-alright
Stevie Ray Vaughan - the house is rockin'
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Rebel Music (3 o clock roadblock)
Soukous Stars - Likelele
Bob Marley + the Wailers - Stir it up
Beck - Gamma Ray
Coconut Records - Microphone

Ben Sollee - How to see the sun rise
Jessica Lea Mayfield - the one that I love best
Simply Red - So beautiful
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Tightrope
Elbow - Grounds for Divorce
Gipsy Kings - Djobi Djoba
Soukous Stars - I Yelele

Lykke Li - Little bit
Santana - Samba Pa Ti
Foals - the French Open
Kokolo - Gimme Yaya

the Decemberists - Yankee Bayonet
Metric - London Halflife
the shins - split needles
the Decemberists - July, July!
Jessica Lea Mayfield - We've never lied
Metric - Grow up and blow away

Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings - Inspiration Information
10cc - Dreadlock Holiday
Madeleine Peyroux - the summer wind
the Avett Brothers - the weight of lies

the decemberists - legionnaire's lament

Ambient Signal - 5/19/09

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Well it may be just me and Walter Goldberg hours posting here over the summer..the blog may be pretty quiet unless Tim and Emelie decide to post post-graduation..ah well..quality music comin up anyway

Starfucker - Boy Toy
Dntel - Dumb Luck (Goddamn Electric Bill Remix)
Sigur Ros - Staralfur (Mojib break of dawn remix)
Benoit Pioulard -The Loom Pedal
Patients - Voice of our age
Antarctic - Paseo la salamandria
Battles - Tonto
Brand New - Limousine
Camera obscura - James
Apostle of hustle - Xerses
The Whiskers - Grownups
Jason Lytle - Here for good
Headless heroes - here before
Conor Oberst and the mystic valley band - Difference is time
Wooden birds - Bad
Black moth super rainbow - Born on a day the sun didn't set
Xu Xu Fang - Your way
Tereu Tereu - All that keeps us together
Great Northern - Houses
Efterklang - Mirador
The Helio Sequence - Lately
Camera Obscura - I Don't do crowds
Azeda Booth - Ram
World's end girlfriend - Purple Ripple
Talkdemonic - Cascade locks
Radical Face - Wandering
Erik Satie - Trois Gymnopedies 1 (Orchestral)

Walter Goldberg Hours 5/18/09

Feist + Ben Gibbard - Train Song
Kokolo - Trouble Come, Trouble Go
the Derek Trucks Band - Sweet Inspiration

Gaida Hinnawi - Bint Arabiya
Kurtis Blow - Basketball
the Avett Brothers - Die Die Die
Willie Nelson + Wynton Marsalis - Night Life

John Vanderslice - Tremble and Tear

Soukous Stars - Sinovela
Troubadours - Talk
Yeasayer - Tightrope
Kassav - Pa Kriye Mwen

the Shins - Australia
Mates of State - My Only Offer
the Decemberists - Perfect Crime #2

Troubadours - Nice Time
Arrow - Dance dis Dance
Spoon - Rhthm & Soul
the Avett Brothers - Shame

Sirsy - Revolution
She & Him - This is not a test
Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis - Birghts Life Big City
Why? - These Few Presidents
Soukous Stars - Daly Swing
Lord Kitchener - Bee's Melody

Kassav - Zouk Party

Entrainment Catastrophe

Tim and Blar hankering for some late night radio. Tim's songs are red, Blar's are blue.

Akron/Family "Everyone Is Guilty"
St. Vincent "Actor out of Work"
Animal Collective "Fireworks"

Miniature Tigers "Black Magic"
Neva Dinova - Poison
The Album leaf/Bright Eyes - Hungry for a holiday
Carole King "It's Too Late"

The Arrogant Sons of Bitches "Have Fun Rotting By Yourself"
The Arrogant Sons of Bitches "Yeah, I Don't Know What It's Like to Be around a Bunch of Hipsters"
The Arrogant Sons of Bitches "Last on My List"
Forget Cassettes - Quiero, Quieres

Hella - Cafeteria bananas
Menomena - Rotten Hell

Velvet Teen - Chimera Obscurant
Pinback - Tres
Son Lux - Stand

Headless heroes - Here before
Camera obscura - James
Bricolage - Bayonetes
Woods - Rain On

On the Might of Princes "And the Hat Stays On"
Converge "Hell to Pay"
Desert City Soundtrack "Widow's Staircase"
Hum "Pewter"
Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton "Winning"

The Shaggs "My Pal Foot Foot"/rest of side one
The Velvet Teen - No one gets the best of me
Black Sabbath - War Pigs (request!)

Dirty Projectors "Stillness Is the Move"
Black Sabbath "Fairies Wear Boots" (request! from a different person, no less!)
Amina - Fjarkanistan

Ambient Signal - 5/12/09

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Camera Obscura - French navy (Jim Noir Remix)
Animal Collective - Grass
Annuals - Complete or completing
Forget Cassettes - Salt and Syncope
Stars - Ageless Beauty
Cortney Tidwell - So we sing
Mono - Burial at sea
Camera Obscura - You told a lie
Iron and Wine - Such great heights
Boy in static - Osaka
Conor Oberst and the mystic Valley Band - Big Black Nothing
The Whiskers - Autopia
The Wooden Birds - Sugar
Headless heroes - True love will find you in the end
Jason Lytle - Ghost of my old dog
Doves - Winter Hill
Years - Don't let the deaf go blind
PJ Harvey and John parish - Black Hearted love
Riceboy Sleeps - Atlas Song
Amiina - Rugla
Radiohead - Nude (Son Lux Popularity Contest Remix)
A Whisper in the noise - As we Were
Benoit Pioulard - Ragged Tint
Sigur Ros - Untitled #1 (Goddamn Electric Bill Remix)

Deer Tick on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. What?

Hey everyone,

So if you remember, a few months ago we had the pleasure of having Deer Tick at WRPI. They played three acoustic songs and I got to interview them afterward. Since then, they've been named one of the top bands of SXSW by Rolling Stone magazine and, as of this past week, have been featured on NBC Nightly News and interviewed by none other than Brian Williams.

Check out the interview here. John McCauley from Deer Tick talks about their recent rise in popularity and their upcoming album Born on Flag Day, while Brian Williams asks them when they'll know that they've hit it big. It's awkwardly hilarious and definitely worth viewing (it's about three and a half minutes long).

Brian Williams has a music blog too, apparently. Dude loves indie rock.

Walter Goldberg Hours - A monday in may

the Derek Trucks Band - Preaching Blues
the Derek Trucks Band - Younk Funk

Dr. John - Iko Iko
Arturo O'Farril Trio - Girl From Ipanema
Dr. John - Huey Smith Medley
a. High Blood Pressure
b. Don't you just know it
c. Well I'll be John Brown
Colin Lucas - Dollar Wine

Bela Fleck + the Muwewesu Xylophone Group - Wairenziante
Bela Fleck Bela Fleck with Afel Bocum, Hama Sankare, Yoro Cisse, Barou Diallo + Zoumana Tereta - Buribalal

Machel Montano - Powder Puff
the Derek Trucks Band - Volunteered Slavery
the Derek Trucks Band - I'll Find My Way

Seun Kuti - Think Africa
Menahan Street Band - the Contender
Kokolo - Democracy (Democrazy)

the Mighty Sparrow - Wanted Dead or Alive
Red Plastic Bag - Ragga Ragga

Kokolo - Trouble Come, Trouble Go
Tony Allen - Crazy Afrobeat
El DeBarge + George Clinton - Never gonna give you up
MacFingall - Big Belly Man

Carlos Santana, El DeBarge + George Clinton - Gypsy Woman
Tony Allen - Crazy Afrobeat
Spice + Company - Take Ya Clothes off
Taxi - Frenchman

Kassav' - Mwen Le Sere'w
Kokolo - Gimme Yaya

the Derek Trucks Band - Revolution
the Derek Trucks Band - I'd Rather be blind, crippled and crazy
Kassav - Pa Kriye Mwen
Arrow - Medley (Longtime, Feeling Hot Hot Hot)

Troubadours - Nice Time
Chicago Afrobeat Project - Jekajo

Kassav' - Zouk Party
Spice - In de Congaline

Sizzla - Thank you mama
Ras Iley - Spring Garden
Shandileer - Happy

Troubadours - Talk

Possible new Velvet Teen song!

(btw.. boo again to Tim and Emelie leaving..hopefully they'll keep posting on the blog)

So I was looking for new info on the Velvet Teen's upcoming album, and they apparently recently changed their site (they often do with new cryptic messages and strange graphics) and a song plays in the background..check it out:

http://www.thevelvetteen.com/

It isn't a randomly generated or looped video game song..it definitely has an ending about 3 minutes later. Could be a song off the new album, could be something from lead singer Jonah's long awaited solo album, or it could be them trying to fuck with us..in any case it sounds pretty awesome. Try counting it, for fun

They've been recording since last fall or early this year I think..so cross your fingers for a late 2009 release. Apparently the label they were on, Slowdance, recently folded, so they'll have to make the jump to a new label (possibly Pandacide?) but I don't foresee that being a problem.

Gold Sounds 5/6/09: Last show! Crazy music after 12pm!

So this is my last scheduled show at WRPI. I'm really glad I was able to spend the last two years (more or less) as a member of and DJ at the station. Extra thanks go to Emelie for getting me involved originally, Blar for making this blog and being an awesome Music Director/person, and you for listening! It's been a lot of fun, and has definitely inspired me to become more involved with music in general. For this last show I'm going to try to play really loud/fast/tension-filled music for the last four hours (12pm to 4pm) without letting up. We'll see if I have the stamina/musical knowledge to do such a thing. I'll play a few blocks of tracks from personal favorite albums/artists as well.

New music in red. Requests in blue.

1100am
Akron/Family "River"
Jason Lytle "Birds Encouraged Him"
The Music Lovers "A Word From Your Fashion Editor"

Camera Obscura "My Maudlin Career"
A Camp "Stronger Than Jesus"
Metric "Blindness"

The Bronzed Chorus "16Fifty Hundred"
Spokes "Precursor"
Woods "Rain On"
Ape School "Be an Encore"

Gramercy Arms "Nothing I Can Do" (ft. Matthew Caws from Nada Surf)
Harlem Shakes "Niagara Falls"
The Vaselines "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam"

1200pm - Here we go!
Maps & Atlases "Witch"
So Many Dynamos "Bed of Nails"
Fugazi "Epic Problem"
Choking Victim "500 Channels"

The Misfits "Last Caress"
Les Savy Fav "Asleepers Union"
The Mae Shi "Run to Your Grave"
Pegasuses-XL "The Big Haunt"

Refused "The Deadly Rythm"
Television "See No Evil"
Shudder to Think "X-French Tee Shirt"

Husker Du "Never Talking to You Again"
Georgie James "Hard Feelings"
The Last Shadow Puppets "Standing Next to Me"
Sondre Lerche "Phantom Punch"
Bear Vs. Shark "Ma Jolie"

100pm - So far so good.
Bridge and Tunnel "Call to the Comptroller's Office"
Slingshot Dakota "The Golden Ghost"
Mates of State "Fluke"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Pin"

Defiance, Ohio "Petty Problems"
O Pioneers!!! "The Architect of Disney World"
Bomb the Music Industry! "Ghost of Corporate Future" (Regina Spektor cover)

Favorite artist block: We Versus the Shark
We Versus the Shark "Ten Uh Clock Heart Uh Tack"
We Versus the Shark "This Graceless Planet"
We Versus the Shark "I Am a Fantastic Battle"
We Versus the Shark "Hello Blood"
We Versus the Shark "Suddenly it's a Folk Song" (Future of the Left cover)

Drive Like Jehu "Sinews" (the last time I'll play this song on WRPI...so sad)
Jawbreaker "Ashtray Monument"
Shinobu "Sometimes I Wish I Were a Cat"
Desaparecidos "Man and Wife, the Latter (Damaged Goods)"

200pm - Exhaustion! But we'll keep going.
Germans "Tiger Vacuum Bottle"
Deerhoof "Dummy Discards a Heart"
The Unicorns "Jellybones"

Failure "Pillowhead"
Local H "Bound for the Floor"
Glassjaw "Tip Your Bartender"
Devo "Gut Feeling"

Favorite artist block: Pavement (duh)
Pavement "Trigger Cut/Wounded-Kite at :17"
Pavement "Stereo"
Pavement "AT & T"
Pavement "Shoot the Singer (1 Sick Verse)"
Pavement "Unfair"

Q and not U "Soft Pyramids"
Cap'n Jazz "In the Clear"
Cinemechanica "Antsinjapants"
Los Campesinos! "Death to Los Campesinos!"

300pm - I think we're going to make it!
Weezer "No One Else"
The Anniversary "The D in Detroit"
The Go! Team "Feelgood By Numbers"/"The Power Is On"

Miniature Tigers "Octopus"
The Dismemberment Plan "Girl O'Clock"
Ozma "Korobeiniki" (yes, this is the Tetris theme. It is awesome)

Favorite Artist Block: So Many Dynamos
So Many Dynamos "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning"
So Many Dynamos "Search Party"
So Many Dynamos "Progress"
So Many Dynamos "Friendarmy"

Alkaline Trio "Armageddon"
Fourth of July "Purple Heart"
Why? "Fatalist Palmistry"

Tokyo Police Club "Your English Is Good"
Archers of Loaf "Plumb Line"
Pavement "Gold Soundz" (I had to, apparently!)

Thanks, everyone :).

Gold Sounds: Covering Ambient Signal (5/5/09)

Blar's had a busy few days, so I'm filling in for Ambient Signal today. But don't worry, it will (mostly) be like he never left! New stuff in red.

600
Akron/Family "Everyone Is Guilty"

R.E.M. "There She Goes Again" (Velvet Underground cover)
Blonde Redhead "Without Feathers" (do you remember when albums were mixed really low? Blonde Redhead does!)
Mew "Special"

Camera Obscura "French Navy"
Sunset Rubdown "Stadium and Shrines II"

Great Northern "Houses"
The Dismemberment Plan "The City"
The Bronzed Chorus "Hiding in the Woods"

Stars "Your Ex-Lover Is Dead"
Broken Social Scene "Fire Eye'd Boy"
Margot & the Nuclear So and So's "My Baby (Shoots Her Mouth Off)" (the cd2 malfunction version)

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists "Biomusicology"
Other Girls "White Rabbit"

700
Why? "Simeon's Dilemma"
Mogwai "Kids Will Be Skeletons"
Radical Face "Welcome Home"
Years "Binary Blues"

Jason Lytle "Brand New Sun"
Jeremy Enigk "Sandwich Time"
Bill Callahan "The Wind and the Dove"
Hum "The Very Old Man"

Six Parts Seven "Falling Over Evening"
Holopaw "Curious"
Bend Like Branches "Bedroom Eyes" (oh hey 'sup Blar?)
Tortoise "The Lithium Stiffs"

Cornelius "Chapter 8 - Seashore and Horizon -"
Broken Social Scene Presents Kevin Drew "Big Love"

Blar will be back next week, and my last scheduled show at WRPI will be tomorrow at11am! It should be crazy. Thanks for listening!

Weird Noises 5/4/09

Last show of the semester!

Christian Marclay/Otomo Yoshihide - Deep Down Under
Terry Riley - In C (performed by CCA, SUNY Buffalo)
Acid Mothers Temple - In C
Henry Cowell - 26 Simultaneous Mosaics (Take 7) (performed by Musicians Accord)
Giacinto Scelsi - Anahit (performed by Krakow Radio Orchestra)
People - Please Send Me a Refund
Iannis Xenakis - Epei (performed by Spectrum)
Seth Nehil - Weald
Wet Fur - Untitled
Tom Johnson - The one 13-note chord
Luigi Nono - Der Rote Mantel (excerpt) (performed by Deutches Symphony Berlin)

uhh, yeah, Monday May 4th (WG Hours)

Andrew Bird - Giant of Illinois
Bebeto - Flamengao
Ben Sollee - It's not impossible
Lord Melody - Booboo Man

Dirty Projectors + David Byrne - Knotty Pine
Atlantik (feat. Tony Prescott) - All aboard
George Benson - Breezin
Bob Marley - Trench Town

Andre Tanker - Sayamanda
the Derek Trucks Band - Kam-ma-lay
David Rudder - Engine Room

Decemberists - Sons and Daughters
MGMT - Electric Feel
My Brightest Diamond - Feeling Good

Colin Hay - Beautiful World
Liam Finn - Second Chance
Krosfyah - Pump Me up

Bruce Springsteen - Erie Canal
Pretender - Never Ever Worry
Bela Fleck + Luo Cultural Association - Angelina

Credence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary
Bob Marley & the Wailers - Punky Reggae Party

Skip Parsons Trio - Swing that music
Skip Parsons Trio - Riverboat Shuffle
Skip Parsons Trio - the best things in life

We are Jeneric - After the Great Flood of Troy
Camera Obscura - the Sweetest Thing
George Clinton and his gangsters of Love - Let the good times roll

Willie Nelson + Wynton Marsalis - Down by the Riverside
Camera Obscura - the French Navy
the Decemberists - Annan Water

JJ Cale - Riverboat Song
Osibisa - Sunshine Day

Elvis Presley - Down by the Riverside