Published on Tuesday, 26 August 2008 .
The playlist for this week. Insert something witty… here.
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Artist | Name | Album
The Sways | Backseat | Happy Days Are Coming
TV On The Radio | Mr. Grieves | Young Liars
Bishop Allen | Corazon | The Broken String
The Bombshells | My Kind Of Love | Audio Wasteland
Cloud Cult | No One Said It Would Be Easy | Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes)
Dirty Looks | Accept Me | Turn It Up
Electric Laser People | Realhiphop | Straight Talk On Raising Kids
Golden Shoulders | I Will Light You On Fire | Friendship Is Deep
Heavy Trash | She Baby | Going Way Out with Heavy Trash
Land Of Talk | All My Friends | Applause Cheer Boo Hiss
Miwa Gemini | Traveling Man | This Is How I Found You
Okkervil River | John Allyn Smith Sails | The Stage Names
Oxford Collapse | Prop Cars | A Good Ground
Say Hi To Your Mom | But She Beat My Highscore | Numbers & Mumbles
The Gaslight Anthem | Boomboxes And Dictionaries | Sink Or Swim
Death From Above 1979 | Romantic Rights | You’re A Woman, I’m A Machine
Tom Lehrer | The Masochism Tango | The Remains Of Tom Lehrer
Published on Tuesday, 19 August 2008 .
With my boss out of town this week, I drew the short straw and will be speaking at three public meetings on KCSB’s behalf today. With the tight schedule, I’ve decided to do a re-air this week, but it’s a fun one - the first cover song edition that originally aired on February 5th. I’ll be back live next week.
Standard Podcast [61:09m]:
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Artist | Song | Album
The Vandals | Don’t Stop Me Now | Hollywood Potato Chip
The Embarrassment | Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough | heyday 1979-83
Nouvelle Vague | I Just Can’t Get Enough | Nouvelle Vague
Petra Haden | I Can See For Miles | The Who Sell Out
Hell Blues Choir | I Don’T Wanna Grow Up | Greetings From Hell
The Persuasions | The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing, Frankly A Cappella
Skyline Citizen | My Humps | Anyone Else Just Isn’t You
Bruce Lash | Misty Mountain Hop | Prozak for Lovers II
Mambo Kurt | Private Dancer | Spiel Heimorgel Spiel
The Lounge-O-Leers | Tubthumping | Right Now!
Richard Cheese | Baby Got Back | Tuxicity
Stars | This Charming Man | A Lot Of Little Lies For The Sake Of One Big Truth
Stereo Phase Update | Sunshine Superman | ib: Pop Artificielle
The Moog Cookbook | Come Out and Play | The Moog Cookbook
MC Hawking | Entropy | A Brief History of Rhyme
Published on Tuesday, 12 August 2008 .
This week, we feature various artists attached to the Canadian indie-rock scene, with special emphasis on the various Broken Social Scene connections. I wish I could take credit for the idea behind this theme, but it largely was inspired by a conversation I had on this message board - so thanks to Jamie aka Bullitt for the idea.
And instead of the requisite Tom Lehrer, we say goodbye to Isaac Hayes.
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Artist | Name | Album
Metric | Monster Hospital | Live It Out
Broken Social Scene | Stars And Sons | You Forgot It In People
Bang Lime | The Death Of Death | Best Friends In Love
Apostle Of Hustle | My Sword Hand’s Anger | My Sword Hand’s Anger (Maxi-Single)
K.C. Accidental | Nancy And The Girdle Boy | Captured Athems For An Empty Bathtub
Valley of the Giants | Westworld | Valley of the Giants
Do Make Say Think | End of Music | & Yet & Yet
Royal City | Daisies | Alone At The Microphone
Dandi Wind | Ms. 45 | Bait The Traps
Land Of Talk | Magnetic Hill | Applause Cheer Boo Hiss
Mocky | Fightin’ Away The Tears feat. Feist | Navy Brown Blues
The Dears | Find Our Way To Freedom | Gang of Losers
Isaac Hayes | Walk On By | Greatest Hit Singles
Published on Monday, 11 August 2008 .
Last Friday, I took my monthly trip to our transmitter site at Broadcast Peak, and discovered a dead mouse. That’s not always a unique thing, as Broadcast Peak is in a very remote area, and it’s not unusual for a mouse to end its days around our facility. One even found it’s way into the electrical part of our backup generator, and… well, there wasn’t a whole lot left - although it got the final laugh. Cost of a new generator: over $8000 (includes rodent prevention).
One of the other critters that enjoys broadcast sites are black widows. I routinely see these little creepies when I first enter - where they immediately run and hide out of site and proving that they are, in fact, more scared of us than we are of them (please, no one tell them different).
Apparently, between visits, and mouse tangled with a black widow, and the end result is the photo below:
That is the skeletal remains of a mouse suspended in the remaining web of a black widow spider… and easily one of the coolest things I have ever seen. And if you feel sorry for the mouse… think bubonic plague.
Published on Tuesday, 5 August 2008 .
A six-hour round-round trip drive to LAX kept this from getting up in a timely manner. Not bad with 2 minutes to go. Artist links will be added later, but there’s not a ton of stuff here that I haven’t played before.
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Artist | Song | Album
The Dirtbombs | Kung Fu | Ultraglide In Black
My Robot Friend | I Know What Women Want | Hot Action!
The Embarrassment | Age Five | heyday 1979-83
The Witnesses | Dead Wood | Black Eyes White Lies
The Pogues | Dirty Old Town | Rum Sodomy And Lash
Kissinger | Certain Girls | Me and Otto
Lightning Head Vs Koçani Orkestar | L’Orient Est Rouge | Electric Gypsyland
The Pooh Sticks | Optimistic Fool | Optimistic Fool
Super Furry Animals | Valet Parking | Phantom Power
Bishop Allen | Click Click Click Click | The Broken String
The Teeth | Ball of The Dead Rat | You’re My Lover Now
Arto Lindsay | Over/Run | Invoke
Stiv Bators | Not That Way Anymore | L.A. Confidential
The Black Lips | Lock and Key | Good Bad Not Evil
Tom Lehrer | Smut | That Was THe Year That Was
