That Generic Variety Show 09-10. NOW WITH NEW COLORS

Aileen is now PINK!!!!. And Victor is BLUE. YEAH COLORS!!!!!!

Mew - Snow Brigade
The Academy Is... - Everything We Hold
Lemuria - Pants
Steve Perry - I Stand Alone
Saves the Day - Anywhere with You
Don McLean - American Pie
Weezer - Buddy Holly
Celine Dion - Ten Days
Rx Bandits - Only For The Night
From Repo! The Genetic Opera - Genetic Emancipation
Dillinger Four - Gainsville
Shania Twain - Man! I Feel Like a Woman
Coheed and Cambria - Neverender
Hinder - Better Than Me
AFI - Medicate
Hey Monday - Set Off
Portugal. The Man - People Say
Semisonic - Who's Stopping You?
fun. - Be Calm
The Temptations - My Girl
The Mars Volta - Teflon
Harry Nilsson - Jump Into the Fire
Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me

Weird Noises 9/9

Alvin Lucier - In Memoriam Jon Higgins (performed by Thomas Ridenour)
Billy Gomberg - Verse
David Tudor - Neural Synthesis
Allen Kaprow - How To Make a Happening
Morton Feldman - For Philip Guston (performed by The S.E.M. Ensemble)

Ambient Signal - 9/8/09

WRPI 91.5fm!
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Tuesdays 4-6pm

Yeaah, the blog is getting slowly refilled

Wolf Parade - Soldier's Grin
The Strokes - Soma
World's End Girlfriend - Birthday resistance
Why? - Early whitney
Son lux - Do
Alias - Weathering
Slow Six - These rivers between us (live recording at GZ)
Why? - Into the shadows of my embrace
Ramona Falls - Russia
Antlers - Sylvia
Dodos - Fable
Amy Millan - Old perfume
Windmill - Big Boom
Tyondai Braxton - Uffe's woodshop
Cougar - Stay famous
Orba Squara - Trouble with flying
Alan singley and the pants machine - Little by little
Caspian - Mie/La Cerva
Grand archives - Oslo Novelist
Softlightes - The Ballad of Theodore and June
Azeda Booth - Big Fists
Conor oberst and the mystic valley band - White shoes
Bibio - Haikuesque (When she laughs)
The Album leaf - Twenty two fourteen
Bitcrush - Every ghost has it's spectre

...And The Battle Begun 09/07 - NOW WITH FLAVOR

On every Monday from 2PM-4PM

artist - song name

fun. - All the Pretty Girls
The Syncope Threshold - Sunflower Avenue
Saves the Day - In Reviere
Mew - Beach
Portugal. The Man - Lay Me Back Down
Thrice - The Earth Isn't Humming
Daft Punk - Digital Love
RX Bandits - Its Only Another Parsec...
A Perfect Circle - Orestes
Why? - Into The Shadows of My Embrace
Death Cab For Cutie - Title Track
Coheed and Cambria - God Send Conspirator
Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Isis Unveiled
Slint - Good Morning Captain
The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
Minus the Bear - Knights
Thrice - Between the End And Where We Lie
The Unicorns - Tuff Ghost
The Get Up Kids - Ten Minutes
The Mars Volta - The Widow
Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts
MGMT - Kids
Between the Buried and Me - Prequel to the Sequel
Junior Senior - Move Your Feet

That Generic Variety Show 09-03

On every Thursday from 4PM-6PM. Aileen's selections are in purple. Victor's selections are in green.

Artist - Song

Saves the Day - Cars & Calories
David Cook - Lie
Tool - Aenema
Hanson - Runaway Run
Weezer - Why Bother?
Kings of Convenience - I'd Rather Dance With You
Coheed And Cambria - Everything Evil
Demi Lovato - Catch Me
Mew - Rebeaterbeater
Blackmore's Night - Loreley
Mastodon - Colony of Birchmen
From Newsies - Seize the Day
Anthony Green - Babygirl
Tommy and the High Pilots - Bluesy Floozie
Portugal. The Man - Work All Day
Jim Croce - Lover's Cross
Ok Go - A Million Ways
A-Ha - Take on Me
Queen - Killer Queen
Laura Branigan - Gloria
Thrice - Firebreather
Enrique Iglesias - Heroe
Between the Buried and Me - Prequel to the Sequel
Jesse McCarthey - Just So You Know
Hello Seahorse! - OK!...Lobster
Alkaline Trio - Stupid Kid
House of Freaks - 40 Years

Rabble rabble rabble

I know everyone usually gets upset about certain pitchfork reviews. Sometimes they can be right, sometimes they can be way off..its the nature of reviewing. I was particularly upset this week that they gave a 15 year old album the title of Best new music (I know its a Sunny day real estate re-issue and an important album, blah blah blah). Meanwhile, my #1 album of the year contender, Intuit by Ramona Falls, scored a very respectable 8.0 but I suppose doesn't warrant a "best new music" title. It was bad enough a few weeks ago when they were giving the titles to Radiohead re-issues and giving Kid A a 10.0. I still use the site for various music news things, but I'm increasingly disappointed in their reviewing when they seem to be hailed as the be all, end all of indie music knowledge.

I was also going to whine about their top 500 songs of the 2000's but was just linked to this fantastic buddyhead article that does a much better job than I could:
http://www.buddyhead.com/lil-wayne-2000-pitchfork-snorts-a-decade/

Post some of your favorite alternative music review websites!

Weird Noises 9/2/09

First playlist of the semester:

Stephen Vitiello - Light Readings
Horaflora - A Win, Din, Thud Or...
Disband - Rebel
Tom Johnson - Abundant Numbers
Gruppo di Imrovazzione Nuova Consonanza - Eflot, Percussion per Tutti
Beat Furrer - Fama (Scenes IV & V), performed by Klangforum Wien
Billy Gomberg - Into
John Cage - Cheap Imitation III (performed by Paul Zukofsky

Ambient Signal - 9/1/09 - New Month, New Time!

WRPI 91.5fm!
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Tuesdays 4-6pm

New time and you know what that means...

Yes..my graphic displays the wrong times again, but that's ok..it can stay like that..I think i was on wednesdays 6-8 last yearand didn't change it

So weird being on the air this early. Plus this blog is a little lonelier this fall because of so little DJ's on it, but hopefully participation will pick up.

Pre-Show - Tyondai Braxton - Platinum Rows

Son lux - Raise (Playing at Mass Moca this friday at 8pm! Going to be great!)
Denali - Gunner
Camera Obscura - Tears for affairs
Cat power - Metal heart
Doves - Winter Hill
Morcheeba - Ten Men (Request)
Feist - Sea lion Woman
Sigur Ros - Festival
Ramona Falls - Clover - SEE MY VIDEO HERE
The Antlers - Kettering
Amy Millan - Bruised Ghosts
Choir of young believers - Under the moon
Darlings - Eviction party
Dodos - Longform
Alan Singley and the pants machine - Le Rain
Phantogram - When I'm Small (Playing in Saratoga this saturday at Final Stretch festival! Free show!)
Inner Banks - Pyramids
Mew - Repeater beater
Health - Die slow
Balmorhea - Attesa
Brand New - The boy who blocked his own shot
Bright Eyes - Tourist Trap
Grizzly Bear - Knife
Starfucker - Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second
Why? - The Vowels pt. 2
The Velvet Teen - Building a whale

...And The Battle Begun 08/31

Hey hey everybody out there. This is my the first And The Battle Begun for the semester. So I will be on Mondays at 2PM-4PM. Today I'm on a bit longer because Capitol Report won't be playing afterward. Here is the playlist for the show:

Artist - Title

Rx Bandits - ...And the Battle Begun
The Get Up Kids - Holiday
Mew - Introducing Palace Players
Jimmy Eat World - Lucky Denver Mint
Circa Survive - Stop the Car
Weezer - El Scorcho
The Mars Volta - Teflon
Interpol - Obstacle 1
Piebald - King of the Road
Pavement - Gold Soundz
Coheed and Cambria - Time Consumer
Saves the Day - At Your Funeral
Dillinger Four - Noble Stabbings
Animal Collective - My Girls
Pixies - Trompe le Monde
Coheed and Cambria - The Velourium Camper III: Al the Killer
The Ergs! - Introducing Morrissey
Between the Buried and Me - Informal Gluttony
Mastodon - The Czar
Built to Spill - Car
Explosions in the Sky - First Breath After Coma
Aha - Take on Me
Sunny Day Real Estate - Song About An Angel
The Dismemberment Plan - A Life of Possibilities
Silversun Pickups - Common Reactor
Jawbreaker - Bivouac
None More Black - Oh, There's Legwork
Moving Mountains - Foreward
The Fall Of Troy - The Hol[ ]ly Tape
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Another Morning Stoner
The Appleseed Cast - Hanging Marionette
Saosin - It's Far Better to Learn
The Sound of Animals Fighting - The Heraldic Beak of Manufacturer's Medallion

Ambient Signal - 8/25/09

WRPI 91.5fm!
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Tuesdays 6-8pm

Come back summer..you just started feeling like summer! 80 and sunny today

Menomena - Cough, Coughing
The Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
Battles - Tras
Desaparecidos - Greater Omaha
Cursive - A Gentleman Caller
Sunset Rubdown - The taming of the hands that came back to life
Explosions in the sky - First breath after coma
Ramona Falls - I say Fever (see my Ramona Falls music video below!)
Antlers - Wake
Fanfarlo - I'm a pilot
Nurses - Caterpillar playground
Choir of Young Beleivers - These rituals of mine
Bronzed Chorus - Hiding in the woods
Reigning Sound - If I can't come back
Anna Ternheim - Damaged ones
Inner Banks - Lemon Tree
Darlings - TV
Still life still - Neon Blue
Dodos - Fables
Royalchord - Mighty minor
Land of Talk - Death by fire
Sigur Ros - Inni mer syngur vitleysingur
Dosh - Everybody Cheer up song
Maria Taylor - A Good start
Mirah - While we have the sun
Ambulette - Save it
Emily haines and the soft skeleton - Doctor Blind
Amy Millan - Skinny boy

Ramona Falls - Music video - Clover fan video

Hey all,

I am premiering my fan music video for Ramona Falls' song: Clover. Unfortunately the sideways-ness prevented it from becoming much more than a fan video. Oh well, hope you enjoy! Other versions are available on my vimeo page, including the ever so exciting "turn your head or monitor sideways" version and the "easy to watch, but super small" version. And definitely check out Ramona Falls debut "Intuit" available now from barsuk!

Ramona Falls - Clover (9:16 edition) from blair neal on Vimeo.

WG Hours - Monday August 24th

Ray Charles
Album: Love and Peace
Songs: You 20th Century Fox
Take off that dress
She Knows
Riding Thumb
We had it all
No Achievement Showing
A peace that we never before could enjoy
Is There anyone out there
Give the Poor man a break

Curtis Mayfield
Album: Never Say You Can't Survive (Side 1)
Songs: Show Me Love
Just Want to be with you
When We're Alone
Never Say you can't survive

Sly and the Family Stone
Album: Small Talk (side 1)
Songs: Small Talk
Say You will
Time for Livin'
Can't Strain my brain

Curtis Mayfield
Album: Never Say You Can't Survive (Side 2)
Songs: I'm gonna win your love
All night Long
When you used to be Mine
Sparkle

Sly and the Family Stone
Album: Small Talk (side 2)
Songs: Loose Booty
Holdin' On
Wishful Thinkin'
Better thee than me
Livin' while I'm livin'
This is Love

the Allman Brothers Band
Album: Idlewild South
Songs: Revival
Don't Keep me Wonderin'
Midnight Rider
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
Hoochie Coochie Man
Please Call Home
Leave My Blues at Home

Bob Marley and the Wailers
Album: Natty Dread
Songs:
Lively Up Yourself
No Woman, No Cry
Them Belly Full (But we hungry)
Rebel Music
So Jah Seh
Natty Dread
Bend Down Low

The Derek Trucks Band - Sweet Inspiration
the Avett Brothers - You Swept me away

Ambient Signal - 8/18/09

WRPI 91.5fm!
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Tuesdays 6-8pm

Radiohead - These are my twisted words
Bright Eyes - Neely O' hara (live)
Brand New - At the bottom
Nico Muhly - A Hudson Cycle
Rachel's - Systems/Layers
Amiina - Asinn
Cut Copy - Out there on the ice
Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook
Ramona Falls - Melectric *Read my review of this album! a few posts below!*
The Antlers - Sylvia
Fanfarlo - The walls are coming down
Health - Nice girls
Bronzed Chorus - Underpass sunrise
Reigning Sound - Call me
Nurses - Apples Acres
Choir of young believers - Hollow Talk
Anna Ternheim - What have I done
Postmarks - My lucky charm
Blitzen Trapper - Black river killer
Nocturnes - Trojan
The Notwist - One with the freaks
13 & God - Soft atlas
Volcano Choir - Island, IS
Margot and the Nuclear so and so's - As tall as cliffs
The Airwaves - Keys
Octopus Project - The Adjustor

Monday Morning

Kokolo - Trouble Come, Trouble Go
Novalima - Tumbala (De La Remix)
Vieux Farka Toure - Ana (Captain Planet)

Beau Soleil avec Michael Doucet - Peux Pas me refuser
Hugh Masekela - Don't go lose it baby
Spoon - well it's alright
Apples in Stereo - Energy
Elbow - Snooks (Progress Report)
Vieux Farka Toure - Dounia (Cheb i Sabbah's Africa Unite Remix)
Albert Hammond Jr. - Gfc
Lykke Li - I'm good I'm gone
Beck - Lost Cause

Owl City - Fireflies
the National - So far around the bend
Bobby Bare Jr. - I'll be around
the Avett brothers - the weight of lies
Portugal the Man - Work all day
Kokolo - Heaven

somewhere around here I played Camera Obscura - the sweetest thing

the Avett Brothers - Shame
Bobbt Bare Jr. - the Heart Bionic
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career

Beau Soleil avec Michael Doucet - Gitane Cajun I
Beau Soleil avec Michael Doucet - La femme qui Jouait aux cartes
Beau Soleil avec Michael Doucet - La fleche d'armour

Beres Hammond - House is not a home
Derrick Lara - Don't know who to trust
Portugal the Man - People Say

Ambient Signal ~ 8/11/09

WRPI 91.5fm!
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Tuesdays 6-8pm

Summer is ending too quickly..it was about 83 and sunny today..hott

Annuals - Confessor
The New Year - Seven days and seven nights (Request)
The Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
Falcon - Birds and mice
Faunts - Feel. Love. Thinking. Of.
Stars - Sleep Tonight
DNTEL - Roll On
Morning Recordings - We loved the city years
Neko Case - Star Witness
Never - Searching and chasing
The Antlers - Shiva
Nurses - Man at arms
Wye oak - Talking about money
Royal chord - Midnight lines
Cymbals eat guitars - What dogs see
Mount eerie - The hidden stone
Reigning sound - Brake it
Timber timbre - Demon host
Postmarks - No one said this would be easy
Black Mold - Toxic lake
These united states - I want you to keep everything
Generationals - Nobody could change
Nico Muhly - Clear Music
My brightest diamond - To pluto's moon (son lux remix)
M83 - Don't save us from the flames
Amiina - Tvisturinn
Balmorhea - Rememberence

Show with Kim

Today my friend Kim was on the show and played some songs

The Rooftop Singers - Walk right in
Parliament Funkadelic - Tear the Roof off the Sucker
South - Paint the Silence
Madeleine Peyroux - You're Gonna be lonesome when you go

Burnin Spear - Mek we dweet
Stevie Wonder - Skeletons
Xaiver Naidoo - Bevor du Gehst
Adele - Cold Shoulder

North Mississippi Allstars - Eyes
Tracy Chapman - Mountains O'Things
Johnnie Taylor - Disco Lady
Sondre Lechre - Sleep on Needles

Elbow - Forget Myself
Mae - Cover Me
Otis Redding - Satisfaction
Peter Starsedt - Where do you go to (My Lovely)
Blackalicious - Egosonic War Drums
Ivete Sangalo - Nao Precisa Mudar

Doves - Pounding
School of Language - Disappointment '99
John Butler Trio - Daniella

Portugal the Man - People Say
My morning jacket - Christmas Curtain
Rooney - When did your heart go missing
the Beatles - I will
Iron and Wine - Belated Promise Ring

Modest Mouse: New Video + EP Release

New Video directed by Heath Ledger.

Check out http://www.wearethemasses.com/ for more information on the video.
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Ambient Signal - 8/4/09

WRPI 91.5fm!
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Tuesdays 6-8pm

Sunny and hottt.. 83

The Velvet Teen - No one gets the best of me
Hot Gurl party - Orchestral Finale
Animal Collective - For reverend green
Denali - Surface
The Swords project - City life
Enigmatic String Quartet - There There (radiohead cover)
Explosions in the sky - Greet Death
Nurses - Technicolor
Royalchord - The good times
Postmarks - Gone
Most serene republic - Don't hold back, feel a little longer
Cymbals eat guitars - Indiana
Black mold - Metal spider webs
YACHT - Ring the bell
Patrick Wolf - Hard times
Pissed jeans - False jessi pt. 2
Kasabian - Underdog
Wye oak - For prayer
The Octopus Project - Exploding Snowhorse
Port O'brien - I woke up today
The Arcade Fire - Wake Up
Anathallo - Cafetorium
The Books - An owl with knees
Sigur Ros - Staralfur
Balmorhea - Harm and Boon

Bobby Bare Jr. vs Daniel Johnston

Ra Ra Riot - Ghost Under Rocks
The Shins - Red Rabbits
Spoon - the way we get by

The Pogues - Young Ned of the Hill
Bobby Bare Jr. - the Heart Bionic
Camera Obscura - Tears for Affairs
Daniel Johnston - Story of an artist

The Pogues - Love you 'til the end
Bobby Bare Jr. - Things I didn't say
Daniel Johnston - Don't Let the sun go down on your grievance
Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm ready to be heartbroken

Cymbals Eat Guitars - Indiana
Bobby Bare jr. - your adorable beast
Albert Hammond Jr. - victory at monterey
Bobby Bare Jr. - Strange Bird
Ra Ra Riot - Can you tell
Bobby Bare Jr. - My Valentine
Nicole Atkins - Together we are both alone

Phantogram - Running from the cops
Animal Collective - Did you see the words
Daniel Johnston - The sun shines down on me
Burning Spear - Wickedness

Bobby Bare - Paul
Bobby Bare - Tequila Sheila
Jessica Lea Mayfield - For Today
Camera Obscura - the sweetest thing
the Pogues - the sunnyside of the street
The Shins - Kissing the Lipless
Bobby Bare Jr. - I'll be around
She & Him - Got Me
Bobby Bare Jr. - Visit me in music city

Daniel Johnston - True Love will find you in the end

July 27th show

Novalima - Concheperla
Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet - Overture
Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet - A fuller wine
Sars Flannery - Let the Love songs guide you

Santana - Oye Como Va
Novalima - Liberta
David E Sugar - Radioactivity
Santana - Jingo
Roy Budd- Love is a four letter word

Trevor Giuliani - Wasting your town
Trevor Giuliani - Settled Bounds
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights
Noel La Pierre - Havana

My brightest diamond - golden star
my morning jacket - evil urges
Noel LaPierre - Feels so good
Novalima - Se Me Van

Santana - Black Magic Woman
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - be easy
Jackie Wilson - (Your Love keeps lifting me) Higher and Higher
My morning Jacket - Off the record
Esperanza Spalding - Samba em Preludio
Nina Simone - In the Morning

Nina Simone - No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed
Jointpop - the irony of it all
My Brightest Diamond - We were sparkling
Nina Simone - Here Comes the Sun
My Morning Jacket - It beats for you
Beck - Gamma Ray
Spoon - I turn my camera on
Novalima - Coba Guarango

Sars Flannery - High School Fairy Tale