Playlist for February 18th, 2010

A selection of songs that I have been enjoying quite a bit recently.

* = Canadian

1. Postdata* - Paranoid Clusters (Postdata)
2. American Analog Set - Know By Heart (Know By Heart)
3. Octoberman* - Breath of Sunshine (Run From Safety)
4. Deer Tick - These Old Shoes (War Elephant)
5. Gravity Wave* - The Great One (Gambol)
6. Clues* - Cave Mouth (Clues)
7. WOMEN* - Group Transport Hall (WOMEN)
8. Woodhands* - P'issin
9. Sleepless Nights* - You Don't Anymore (The Phone Booth Outside the Video Store)
10. Young Galaxy* - Destroyer (Invisible Republic)
11. Yeasayer - Madder Red (Odd Blood)
12. Blind Lemon Jefferson - Baker Shop Blues (Black Snake Moan)
13. Museum Pieces* - Lewis and Clark (Philidelphia)
14. Shugo Tokumaru - Rum Hee (Rum Hee)

HOMEWORK: a) go listen to that entire Postdata album (it's amazing) and b) go read all of the Achewood comic strips, starting here. (This will likely take you more than a week, but that's okay.) Report back here when you are finished/feel like you have grown as a person.

"A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea."

This show was all about the wee country of Scotland (wee geographically, not in heart, or... other areas, according to rumour.) It turns out they've mostly perfected strongly emotional rock and roll with an underlying melody catchy enough to keep you from getting too sad.

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1. Broken Records - Thoughts On A Picture (In A Paper, January 2009) (Until the Earth Begins to Part)
2. De Rosa - Flight Recorder (Prevention)
3. The Twilight Sad - Made to Disappear (Forget the Night Ahead)
4. Arab Strap - Dream Sequence (The Last Romance)
5. My Latest Novel - Pretty in a Panic (Wolves)
6. Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper (The Midnight Organ Fight)
7. Copy Haho - This Retro Decade (Bred For Skills & Magic)
8. Belle and Sebastien - Dog on Wheels (Push Barman to Open Old Wounds)
9. We Were Promised Jetpacks - Roll Up Your Sleeves (These Four Walls)
10. The Shop Assistants - All That Ever Mattered (Will Anything Happen)
11. The Vaselines - Rory Rides Me Raw (Enter the Vaselines)
12. Teenage Fanclub - What You Do To Me (Bandwagonesque)

This week's homework was to go listen to some Mogwai. Here's the trip-tacular track "The Sun Smells Too Loud" from their latest album"The Hawk is Howling" to get you started (or restarted). I, for one, have been away from these guys for far too long. (Unnecessary note: the people in the video are not Mogwai.)

Females!

Brett challenged me to an all-female fronted band radio show. He even came in and cohosted with me for it- what a swell guy. The show was two hours, marking the third edition of "When Insects Kill Leonard Cohen"!

* denotes Canadian

1. Feist* - Gatekeeper (Let it Die)
2. One Hundred Dollars* - My Father's House (My Father's House)
3. The Gruff* - Country Lovin (Hole in My Jeans)
4. The Heartstrings* - Amelia Earhart (In a Land Far Away That is True)
5. You Say Party! We Say Die!* - Dark Days - XXXX
6. Thunderheist* - Sweet 16 (Sweet 16)
7. A Gentle Forest* - No One Thought to Blow Up The Bridge (Our Phenomenal First Flight)
8. Basia Bulat* - Heart of My Own (Heart of My Own)
9. Jenn Grant* - Blue Mountains (Echoes)
10. Julie Doiron* - Tailer (I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day)
11. Gregory and the Hawk - Boats and Birds (Gregory and the Hawk)
12. Charlotte Gainsbourg - Le Chat du Cafe (IRM)
13. Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack (Leader of the Pack)
14. Sleater Kinney - Turn it On (Dig Me Out)
15. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With the Night (Date With the Night)
16. Plumtree* - Open the Window (Mass Teen Fainting)
17. Jeanette Stewart* - Dark Forces (A Sides)
18. The Pack A.D.* - Making Gestures (Funeral Mixtape)
19. Ohbijou* - Make it Gold (Beacons)
20. Ghost Trees* - Sounds of the City (Feathers EP)
21. Tricot Machine* - L'Ours (Tricot Machine)
22. Tessa Kautzman* - Someone Like You (Always Going Home)
23. Candi Staton - I'd Rather Be An Old Man's Sweetheart (Candi Staton)
24. Bella* - Can She Play Guitar (Pretty Mess)
25. Laura Barrett* - Gamma Ray (Seven Year Itch)
26. Ghost Bees* - Vampires of the East Coast (Tasseomancy)
27. Deerhoof - O'malley, Former Underdog (The Runner's Four)