Thursday, February 24, 2011

don't fall asleep.

Jenn co-hosted tonight. I can't do this on my own anymore, it seems.
  1. Telekinesis - You Turn Clear in the Sun (12 Desperate Straight Lines)
  2. Cut Copy - Take Me Over (Zonoscope)
  3. Teen Daze* - Around (Four More Years)
  4. The Lawrence Arms - Boat Less Booze Cruise (Apathy & Exhaustion)
  5. The Thermals - A Stare Like Yours (Fuckin' A)
  6. Chixdiggit!* - Since You Got a Dog (Safeways Here We Come)
  7. The Black Keys - Howlin' For You (Brothers)
  8. Peter Elkas* - Cruel Thing to Do (Repeat Offender)
  9. Slow Down, Molasses* - As Meant to Be (Walk Into the Sea)
  10. Doctor Ew* - Let's Make it Legitimate (Gadzooks)
  11. Wire - Adapt (Red Barked Tree)
  12. The Rural Alberta Advantage* - Muscle Relaxants (Departing)
HOMEWORK: click this, get excited.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

This place is as good as any.

Matt Stefanson helped out with the show this week. We played some songs about places.

* = Canadian
  1. Japanther - Garage Station (Master of Pidgeons)
  2. Hollerado* - Americanarama (Record in a Bag)
  3. Screeching Weasel - Hey Suburbia (Boogadaboogadaboogada)
  4. Telekinesis - Tokyo (Telekinesis)
  5. The Riff Randells* - Parker Place (Double Cross)
  6. The Stolen Minks* - North End Strangler (High Kicks)
  7. Guided By Voices - Big Chief Chinese Restaraunt (Alein Lanes)
  8. Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945 (In the Aeroplane Over the Sea)
  9. The Cure - Fire in Cairo (Boys Don't Cry)
  10. Stompin' Tom Connors - Cross Canada (Once Upon a Stompin' Tom)
  11. The Deep Dark Woods* - Charlie's (Is Coming Down) (7")
  12. The Wooden Sky* - North Dakota (When Lost at Sea)
  13. So Cow - Casablanca (So Cow)
  14. The Rural Alberta Advantage* - Frank AB (Hometowns)
  15. Boxer the Horse* - Romania (Would You Please)
  16. Dent May - 26 Miles (& His Magnificent Ukulele)
  17. Said the Whale - Emerald Lake, AB (Islands Disappear)

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Nostalgia



I asked Brett Suwinski which topic he would rather help me host a show about - the past or the future. He chose the past. Nostalgia! We had the Daft Punk soundtrack for Tron playing under our voices while we talked, which made everything a little bit too epic.

* = Canadian
  1. The Wooden Sky*- Angst for the Memories (Lost at Sea)
  2. Stompin' Tom Conners* - I've Been Everywhere (Live at the Horseshoe)
  3. The Deep Dark Woods* - Charlie's (Is Coming Down) (Charlie's 7")
  4. The Decemberists - When the War Came (The Crane Wife)
  5. Cuff the Duke* - Head-Smashed-in-Buffalo-Jump (Life Stories of the Minimum Wage)
  6. The Ataris - San Dimas High School Football Rules (Broken Hearts... Next 12 Exits)
  7. The Rural Alberta Advantage* - Tornado '87 (Departing)
  8. Hey Rosetta!* - Seventeen (Seeds)
  9. The Four Tets - Baby I Need Your Loving (Hitsville USA)
  10. Iron & Wine - Walking Far From Home (Kiss Each Other Clean)
  11. The Weakerthans* - Reconstruction Site (Reconstruction Site)
We found the new RAA and hey Rosetta! albums in the new music library and amended the show to include them, because, awesome.

Thursday, February 3, 2011

"No theme" theme.

Just music.





* = Canadian
  1. Braids* - Lemonade (Native Speaker)
  2. Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes (Merriweather Post Pavillion)
  3. Crystal Castles* - Vanished (Crystal Castles)
  4. Maritime - We've Got to Get Out (Glass Floor)
  5. Cat Stevens - Longer Boats (Tea For the Tillerman)
  6. Los Campesinos - A Heat Rash In The Shape Of The Show Me State; Or, Letters From Me To Charlotte (Romance is Boring)
  7. Destroyer* - Blue Eyes (Kaputt)
  8. Teen Daze* - Neon (Four More Years)
  9. Two Bicycles* - Run (The Holy Forest)
  10. Low - Try to Sleep (C'mon)
  11. Slow Down, Molasses* - Feathers (Walk Into the Sea)
  12. Mountains and the Trees* - More & More & More (I Made This For You)