Man vs Machine - September 16th, 2010

Like a science fiction movie, but on the radio.

One playlist was created by my new ipod's genius playlist creation program and the other by me. Which one is better?

SET 1

• Immaculate Machine* - Broken Ship (Ones and Zeroes)
• Cuff the Duke* - Take My Money and Run (Cuff the Duke)
• You Say Party!* - Downtown Mayor Goodnight, Alley Kids Rule! (Lose All Time)
• Joel Plaskett* - Snowed In / Cruisin' (Ashtray Rock)
• Ohbijou* - St. Francis (Swift Feet For Troubling Times)
• The Bicycles* - B-b-bicycles (The Good, the Bad, and the Cuddly)

SET 2

• GOBBLE GOBBLE* - Meteor Aschat (Neon Graveyard)
• Winter Gloves* - Tooth Fairy (All Red)
• Maybe Smith* - A Walrus With a Gunswordaxe vs The Big Bang Machine (Another Murder in the Morning)
• Woodhands* - Be Back Soon (Heart Attack)
• The Asexuals* - Be What You Want
  
• Turbo Fruits - Naked With You
• The Kinks - Situation Vacant (Something Else by the Kinks)
  

HOMEWORK: make some playlists by hand, share with friends

3 song set challenges! With Vicky Loessin

Vicky and I gave each other mini challenges for the entire show.

* = Canadian

1. Songs the ghostbusters listened to while ghost busting (Dana)
- Wolf Parade* - Ghost Pressure (Expo 86)
- Winter Gloves* - We Need New Transportation (All Red)
- Devo - What We Do (Something For Everyone)

2. Songs You Would Not Want To Have Sex To (Vicky)
- B.A. Johnston* - How Many T-Bone Steaks Could I Fit In My Pants? (Stairway to Hamilton)
- Mountain Goats - No Children (Tallahassee)
- Frightened Rabbit - Keep Yourself Warm (The Midnight Organ Flight)

3. Theme Songs For A Walk Of Shame (Dana)
- Broken Social Scene* - I Slept With Bonhomme At the CBC (Feel Good Lost)
- Aidan Knight* - Fighting Against Your Lungs (Versicolour)
- Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring (Romance is Boring)

4. Songs to Explain the Earth to an Alien (Vicky)
- Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Areoplane Over the Sea (In The Areoplane Over the Sea)
- Sebastien Grainger & the Mountains* - American Names (Sebastien Grainger & the Mountains)
- Library Voices* - Step off the Map and Float (Hunting Ghosts (and Other Collected Shorts))

Solutions to the BP Oil Crisis - June 17th, 2010

* = Canadian

1. The Sadies* - Cut Corners (Darker Circles)
2. Carbon Dating Service* - Oil Sands (Reliquiae)
3. Adam & the Amethysts* - Stupid Ocean (Amethyst Amulet)
4. Dan Mangan* - Robots (Nice, Nice, Very Nice)
5. Bruce Peninsula* - Steamroller (A Mountain is a Mouth)
6. Wintersleep* - Laser Beams (Welcome to the Night Sky)
7. Wax Mannequin* - Volcano God (And Black Blood)
8. Think About Life* - Wizzard (Family)
9. Azeda Booth* - Lobster Quadrille (In Flesh Tones)
10. Deer Tick - Choir of Angels (The Black Dirt Sessions)
11. The Wrens - Ex-Girl Collection (The Meadowlands)
12. Sleepless Nights* - Allyson Got Robbed (Turn Into Vapour)
13. Mumford & Sons - Thistle & Weeds (Sigh No More)

Special Guest Host: Jenn Freeze! - June 10, 2010

Yes, the very same Jenn Freeze from Thrice Removed. This came soooo close to being a space themed show, but then Jenn bailed on that. I have us covered, but space is a fun one. I should do it again another time.

* = Canadian

1. Woodpigeon - In The Battle of Sun Vs. Curtains, Sun Loses and We Sleep Until Noon (Treasury Library Canada)
2. Rebekah Higgs* - Mr. Weatherman (Rebekah Higgs)
3. Rah Rah* - Henry (Breaking Hearts)
4. By Divine Right* - All Over It! (Sweet Confusion)
5. Wilco - Hate It Here (Sky Blue Sky)
6. T. Rex - Planet Queen (Electric Warrior)
7. Dan Anerbach - My last Mistake (Keep It Hid)
8. The White Stripes - Stop Breaking Down (The White Stripes)
9. Joel Plaskett Emergency* - Cry Together (Down At The Khyber)
10. Meligrove Band* - Halflight (Shivering Lights)
11. Shapes & Sizes* - Tell Your Mum (Candle to Your Eyes)
12. Josh Ritter - The Curse (So Runs the World Away)
13. Ugly Casanova - Lay Me Down (The 180 South Soundtrack)
14. Sports: The Band* - Cast Lots (Sports: The Band)

Punk Rock and cheesy 80s covers - July 15th, 2010

Two weeks week after the very fun Sled Island music festival in Calgary. I wrote an article about it for the Concordian.

Personal highlights:

• meeting InMediaRes after getting drunk and deciding to ditch Dinosaur Jr. to find their show. I used to listen to them when I was in high school in Melfort. I was posting on a forum ran by a guy out of Vancouver who was friends with them. I warmed to them immediately because they sort of sound like David Bazan if he was in a rock band. Their guitarist was intensely awesome.
• Nardwar pinata at the Paper Bag Records party
• seeing other bands that I've liked for years and years and years, Hot Water Music and The Thermals.

Playlist:

* = Canadian

1. In Media Res* - Radio Friendly (Of What Was)
2. Minus the Bear - Thanks For the Killer Game of Crisco (Highly Refined Pirates)
3. Paper Tiger - Medi's Asleep (Get It Right)
4. The Fjords* - Get It Right (Get It Right)
5. The Lawrence Arms - Drunk Mouth Kitchen Smile
6. Sleater-Kinney - Heart Factory (Dig Me Out)
7. The Rural Alberta Advantage* - Eye of the Tiger (Drain the Blood 7")
8. Arcade Fire* Brazil (Cold Wind 7")
9. Duvall - True (Racine 7")
10. The Pack A.D.* - Everyone Looks Like Everyone (We Kill Computers)
11. Tessa Kautzman* - Back to the Yukon (Always Going Home)
12. The Smiths - William, It Was Really Nothing

More nostalgia - July 8th, 2010

Some more tunes from my youth mixed in with new ones.

* = Canadian

1. Dakota/Dakota - Don't Pee In My Bed and Tell Me It's Raining (Shoot in the Dark)
2. The Firebird Band -Beautiful (Setting Sun & It's Satellites)
3. Feral Children* - Illustrate (Currents)
4. Owls - Everyone is My Friend (Owls)
5. Fred Eaglesmith* - Dynamite & Whiskey (Cha Cha Cha)
6. The City Streets* - Irish Rose (The Jazz Age)
7. The Thermals - How We Know (Fuckin' A)
8. The Burning Hell* - Northern Life (This Charmed Life)
9. Pedro the Lion - Winners Never Quit (Winners Never Quit)
10. Bob Dylan - Slow Train (Slow Train)
11. The Guess Who* - It's My Pride (The Guess Who)
12. Raised By Swans* - Easier (No Ghostless Place)
13. Crystal Castles* - Year of Silence (Crystal Castles)

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1. Pearson* - Cold Comfort (Clear Thinking on Mixed Feelings)
2. Sleepy Sun - Wild Creatures (Fever)
3. Mini Mansions - Pacers (Mini Mansions)
4. The Pinecones* - Act A Gentlemen (Sage)
5. Young Galaxy* - Queen Drum (Invisible Republic)
   
6. Collapsing Opposites* - You Can Escape From Time (In Time)
7. Daniel Johnston - Happy Time (Happy Time 7")
8. Dumb Angel* - I Woke Up This Morning (I Woke Up This Morning)
9. The Robots* - Drunk Uncle (Hey Buddy, Dummy)
   
10. The Rural Alberta Advantage - Don't Haunt This Place (Hometowns)