Alive!

But barely.  On Friday I was bitten by a spider, swelled up, spent the morning at the doctor's and got put on a bunch of meds.  Unfortunately, the pain meds made me sick and didn't get rid of the pain, so I quit taking those and am going at it alone.  

But pain meds and all, I made it to the show Friday (half an hour late after being at the doctor's all day) and I'm damn glad I did.

Instead of trying to type up all the things that I've missed what with exams and spiders, go HERE to check out the playlist from two weeks ago, and HERE to look at the songs from this week.  Below are some featured songs that I particularly enjoyed.  

So sorry for the break from the blog, and I promise I'll be around more often now.  

Cibelle, "London, London" from The Shine of Dried Electric Leaves

Beautiful summer music featuring Devendra Banhart alongside Cibelle, relaxed and floating.

Emma Wallace, "Exceed My Expectations" from A Reason to Stay Up All Night

Another sweet piano ballad from a singer/songwriter out of Florida, who deserves more attention than she's getting.

Umbrella Tree, "Schizophrenia" from The Church and the Hospital

FINALLY, the latest from Nashville locals, dischordant and strange and delightful.

The Gutter Twins, "Idle Hands" from Saturnalia

By request from a listener, grunged-up rock with dark breathy screams and sexy vocals.  What the Donnas wish they could do.

Sorta, "Eight-Five Feet"

Folk-indie storytelling, simple lyrics, true story.

Nouvelle Vague, "Teenage Kicks" from Nouvelle Vague

Sweet, smooth, delicately sung version of The Undertones' classic.

Tokyo Police Club, "Tessellate" from Elephant Shell

Yay, TPC finally released a full-length!  Playful, handclap-ful, crashing along.

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, "Oceanographer" from Pershing

Can we all just take a moment to revel in how GOOD this album is?  

Foals, "Olympic Airways" from Antidotes

Frantic indie electro-pop, repetitive and bouncy and light.

The Protomen, "The Will of One" from The Protomen

You all caught the show Saturday, right?  Cowboy-robot rock has never looked so good.

SOS

FINAL DAYS OF CLASSES..... SO MUCH WORK.... GOING INTO HIBERNATION UNTIL APRIL 24TH.  KEEP LISTENING TO THE RADIOSHOW.  CAITLIN ROSE ON THIS WEEK.  I PROMISE I'LL BE BACK.............

Playlist, 4/4/08

I know, I know--I really need to start putting this up sooner.  Mediafire keeps giving me errors when I try to upload songs, so I don't know if it's a problem with my internet or a problem with Mediafire--I'm inclined to believe the former.  ROAR.  I'm going to keep trying, but here's the playlist nonetheless.

As an explanation of my lateness, though, I'll plug the show I've spent all weekend and all yesterday and will spent all of the rest of my time until Saturday working on--

Original Cast!

If you enjoy musical theatre, you should come out to the Johnson Theater at TPAC this Thursday, Friday, or Saturday, to watch a musical revue including songs from Godspell, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Cabaret, and Into the Woods.

I will be behind the scenes running the show (stage managing) so you won't actually see me on stage, but the show's fun nonetheless.

Tickets are ten dollars and can be bought at the door or at ticketmaster.

See you there?

Lula Córtes and Zé Ramalho, "Nas Paredes de Pedra Encantada, Os Segredos Talhadas por Sumé" from Paebirú

We Will Build, "Drive Through Three" from untitled collection

Yeaysayer, "Germs" from All Hour Cymbals

Half Handed Cloud, "You've Been Faithful to Us Clouds" from Halo's & Lassos

Turbo Fruits, "The Run Around" from Turbo Fruits

Mstrkrft, "She's Good for Business" from The Looks

Quiet Life, "Were You Singing" from Act Natural

Built to Spill, "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss" from Ancient Melodies of the Future

Elf Power, "The New Mythology" from In a Cave

Lucas Haas, "Kemp" 

DeVotchKa, "Transliterator", from A Mad & Faithful Telling

M, "La Bonne Etoile" from Qui de Nous Deux

Sigur Ros, "Agaetis Byrjun" from Agaetis Byrjun

Umbrella Tree, "A Horse That Will Come When I Whistle" from What Kind of Books Do You Read?

Lucero, "I Can Get Us Out of Here Tonight" from Rebels, Rogues, & Sworn Brothers

The Magnetic Fields, "Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side" from 69 Love Songs

Panther, "Violence, Diamonds" from 14 kt. God

Editors, "Heads in Bags" from Rarities

Dinosaur Jr., "Nothing Going On" from Ear-Bleeding Country

BOAT, "Clogged Castle" from Songs That You Might Not Like

Bobby Bare Jr., "Flat-chested Girl from Maynardville" from Young Criminal's Starvation League

Stephen Malkmus, "Baltimore" from Real Emotional Trash

The Hold Steady, "Yr Little Hoodrat Friend" from Separation Sunday

Ladytron, "Seventeen" from Witching Hour

Enon, "Believo" from Believo!

Live on Antennas to Heaven

Yesterday was highly productive, and I finally got the CD burner in the production room at the radiostation working again!  So to celebrate all that, below are a slew of live songs and interviews from bands I've had on in the last couple of years.  Some I've posted before, some are brand brand new, but they're all delightful, at least to me.  You can also pretty much tell how long I had been DJing by the difference in my voice from when I first started doing the show until now.

So, to kick things off....

Meemaw--Last week's show in its near entirety.  Starts when we played "D.A.N.C.E." for Wes, and goes all the way to its sweet conclusion.

Beat It / Original Sin--Live with Meemaw.  Turns out, no one actually knows the words to "Beat It".

Amy LaVere--Check the sidebar--she's coming back in town in a month or so!

"Washing Machine" 

"Overcome"

"That Beat"

LYLAS--One of the very firsts I had into the station.

"Do You Believe in Blood?"

"My Sleepwalking Summer"

Cory Branan and Ben Nichols--One of my favorites.  Fifty three minutes of live music, recorded music, and Ben and Cory being charming.

"Last Night in Town"

"Sour Mash"

"She Wakes When She Dreams"

"Jumper Cables"

Excuses, Excuses... and the Playlist

Thanks for the nudge, stranger.  I'm making excuses, but I woke up on Sunday feeling totally awful and have been trying to recover from that seasonal bug since then.  This morning I coughed up a golfball sized wad of phlegm.  Yum!

But seriously, last week's show was a blast, and thanks to Meemaw for not only toughing it out for all two hours, but also being one of the best groups I've had in.

The playlist is rather short due to all the live stuff that was going on, which I'm going to try to get up online soon.  For some reason mediafire wasn't working last week, which is why no songs got posted--I'm going to try it again right now and see what happens.

But seriously, sorry I'm being such a slacker.  It's that season for theatre and for schoolwork and for me being sick, which makes an awful combination.  Plus, I had a shitty weekend.   I think it's time to get some friends my own age.

But here's the thing that made the weekend for me: after the radioshow, we grabbed dinner with Meemaw and some friends from Infinity Cat, who told us that the whole gang from Critical Mass was huddled around a radio in Dragon Park listening to the show and singing along in the rain.  That's like eight of my radio listener fantasies all rolled into one.  Thanks, Critical Mass!  Then we ate fried pickles and grilled cheeseburgers (and Daniel ate chicken gizzards......) and made plans for their upcoming tour, including sending Jessica running into the venues with her hands tied and duct tape over her mouth, and posing as inhabitants of a post-second coming Earth.  Then we had to explain to Jessica what Costco was.

The Mae Shi, "Kingdom Come" from Hllyh

Meemaw, "Blue in the Blacklight"--prerelease

MGMT, "Weekend Wars" from Oracular Spectacular

Justice, "D.A.N.C.E." from [cross]

Espositio, "Ditch" from Esposito

Meemaw, "Fever Dreaming" --prerelease

Stephen Malkmus, "We Can't Help You" from Real Emotional Trash

The Apples in Stereo, "The Golden Flower" from Electronic Projects for Musicians

Born Ruffians, "Hummingbird" from Red Yellow & Blue

DeVotchka, "Along the Way" from Mad & Faithful Telling

Meemaw, "Gingerbreadman"--prerelease

The Billionaires, "Highschool High" from Really Real for Forever

The Apparitions, "Electricity & Drums" from As This is Futuristic

Chromeo, "Call Me Up" from Fancy Footwork

The Aislers, "Red Door" from How I Learned to Write Backwards

The next post is going to be a slew of live things from past guests I've had in if I can get the darn program at the radiostation to burn things for me again.  She's finicky. 

Then, since we're officially 1/4 of the way through the year, I'm going to post the ten albums most likely to make my top-20 list at the end of the year, mostly for my enjoyment.

Also, I saw Once and didn't like it AT ALL.  Go ahead indie music world, slaughter me.