Month: February 2010

First Hour:

1. Odessa by Caribou from Swim [Merge]
2. Minors by Toro Y Moi from Causers Of This [Carpark]
3. Terminally Chill by Neon Indian from Psychic Chasms [Lefse]
4. I Know There’s An Answer by The Beach Boys from Pet Sounds Sessions [Capitol]
5. Hang On To Your Ego by Frank Black from Frank Black [4AD]
6. Art Czars by Japandroids from Art Czars 7″ [Polyvinyl]
7. I Learned The Hard Way by Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings from I Learned The Hard Way [Daptone]
8. Love More by Sharon Van Etten from Shaking Through 2010 [Weathervane Music]
9. Our Love Was Saved by Spacemen by The Pipettes from Our Love Was Saved by Spacemen [Self-Released]
10. The High Road by Broken Bells from The High Road Single [Columbia/Sony]
11. Apartment Story by The National from Boxer [Beggars Banquet]
12. The Blackest Purse (Radio Edit) by Why? from Eskimo Snow [Anticon]
13. Army by Ben Folds Five from The Unauthorized Biography Of Reinh [Caroline/Sony]
14. Cigarettes Will Kill You by Ben Lee from Breathing Tornados [Grand Royal]
15. The Rules by Ben Kweller from On My Way [ATO Records/RCA]

Second Hour:

1. I Like Your Old Remix Better Than Your New Remix by Regurgitator from The Fourth Single From Unit [eastwest/Warner Australia]
2. Weeds by Pulp from We Love Life [Rough Trade]
3. Weeds II (The Origin Of The Species) by Pulp from We Love Life [Rough Trade]
4. Me and You, Watson by Alec Ounsworth from Mo Beauty [Anti]
5. Mama, I’m Swollen by Cursive from Mama, I’m Swollen [Saddle Creek]
6. Life Magazine by Cold Cave from Love Comes Close [Matador]
7. The Mighty Sparrow by Ted Leo + Pharmacists from The Brutalist Bricks [Matador]
8. Airplanes by Local Natives from Gorilla Manor [Frenchkiss]
9. This Too Shall Pass (Live) by OK GO from Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky [Self-Released]
10. Giving Up The Gun by Vampire Weekend from Contral [XL]
11. Excuses by The Morning Benders from Big Echo [Rough Trade]
12. Natural Selection (feat. The Black Angels) by UNKLE from Where Did The Night Fall [Surrender All]

Notes:

• Japandroids will be releasing 7″ singles with songs from the Post-Nothing sessions, with cover songs on the flipside. Art Czars is available for pre-order now from Polyvinyl.
• Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings will release their new album I Learned The Hard Way on April 6.
• The Pipettes have released the single Our Love Was Saved by Spacemen, which is available for download from their website.
• The National are working on a new album. They are also on tour with The Antlers this spring. They’ll be playing Bonnaroo, among other dates.
• Ben Folds, Ben Lee, and Ben Kweller went on tour in Australia as The Bens. They recorded and released a 4-song EP as a group, taking turns on lead vocals.
• Alec Ounsworth will play on Wednesday, 2/24/2010 at the High Noon Saloon in Madison.
• Cursive will play on Saturday, 2/27/2010, at The Metro in Chicago.
• Cold Cave have canceled their show on Friday, 2/26/2010, at The Project Lodge, as well as the rest of their Midwestern US tour.
• Ted Leo + Pharmacists will release their new album, The Brutalist Bricks, on 3/9/2010 on Matador.
• OK GO continue to make (arguably) entertaining videos. See their latest, featuring the Notre Dame Marching Band, on their website.
• Vampire Weekend have also just released a new video, starring RZA, Jake Gyllenhall, Lil’ Jon, and Joe Jonas.
• The Morning Benders will release their new album, Big Echo, on 3/9/2010 on Rough Trade.
• UNKLE are set to release their new album, Where Did The Night Fall, on 05/11/2010.

First Hour:

1. Kofi by Stafrænn Hákon from Skvettir Edik Á Ref [Resonant]
2. Alt Er Tabt by Under Byen from Alt Er Tabt [Unbekannt]
3. Boy Lilikoi by Jónsi from Go [XL]
4. Need You by Darkstar from Need You / Squeeze My Lime [Hyperdub]
5. Distant Lights by Burial from Burial [Hyperdub]
6. Quakes by Flying Lotus from Warp Exclusive Track [Warp]
7. Gigantes by Tortoise from Beacons Of Ancestorship [Thrill Jockey]
8. The Trees Grew Emotions and Died by Cold Cave from Love Comes Close [Matador]
9. Crystal Visions by The Big Pink from A Brief History Of Love [4AD]
10. Love Dog by TV On The Radio from Dear Science [Interscope/4AD]
11. If You Could Speak by God Help The Girl from God Help The Girl [Matador]
12. Despicable Dogs by Small Black from Small Black EP [Cass Club]

Second Hour:

1. Ruby Soho (Rancid Cover) by Vampire Weekend from Live @ Maida Vale
2. Wild Heart (Stevie Nicks Cover) by Abe Vigoda from Reviver EP [Post-Present Medium]
3. Common People (Pulp Cover) by William Shatner from Has Been [Shout! Factory Records]
4. You Must Be Out Of Your Mind by The Magnetic Fields from Realism [Merge]
5. Lisztomania by Phoenix from Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix [Glass Note]
6. Crazy/Forever by Japandroids from Post Nothing [Polyvinyl]
7. Canada by The Thermals from Canada single [Kill Rock Stars]
8. Canada by Low from Trust [Kranky]
9. Moving to Canada by Cloud Cult from Advice from the Happy Hippopotamus [Earthology]
10. A Chinese Actor by Califone from Roots & Crowns [Thrill Jockey]
11. Handshake Drugs by Wilco from More Like The Moon EP [Nonesuch/Warner]
12. On The Tower by Sondre Lerche from Two Way Monologue [Astralwerks]

Notes:

• The theme of the opening set was Icy / Icelandic music. Stafrænn Hákon is an artist that I recently discovered. You may already be familiar with Jónsi from his work with Sigur Ros. His album, Go, will be out 03/22/2010 on XL.
• Under Byen is a Danish band, whose name means “Below The City. Their new single, Alt Er Tabt, is also the title track from their album due out later this year. Alt Er Tabt is Danish for “All Is Lost” and has a freaky video on Youtube.
• Muzzle of Bees is an excellent Music Blog, and is celebrating their first five years. Come celebrate with them at The High Noon in Madison on Friday, 19 February, or at The Cactus Club in Milwaukee on Saturday, 20 February.
• Tortoise will play on Saturday, 20 February at Lincoln Hall, in Chicago.
• Cold Cave will play on Friday, 26 February at The Project Lodge in Madison.
• Abe Vigoda will play on Wednesday, 24 March at The Project Lodge in Madison.
• You can listen to Canada, the new single by The Thermals at their website. You may also buy it on the iTunes store.
• Califone will be opening for Wilco at a sold-out show on Saturday, 20 February at the Overture Center in Madison.
• Sondre Lerche will be playing on Saturday, 20 February at The Frequency in Madison.
• New Releases that I’m looking forward to: Moon Duo – Escape, Local Natives – Gorilla Manor, Tindersticks – Falling Down A Mountain, Dum Dum Girls – Jail La La

First Hour:

1. Black History Month by Death From Above 1979 from You’re A Woman, I’m a Machine [Vice]
2. Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect by The Decemberists from Castaways and Cutouts [Kill Rock Stars]
3. Maybe You Can Owe Me by Architecture In Helsinki from In Case We Die [Bar/None]
4. Answer To Yourself by The Soft Pack from The Soft Pack [Kemado]
5. Ambling Alp by Yeasayer from Odd Blood [Secretly Canadian]
6. You Never Wash Up After Yourself by Radiohead from My Iron Lung [Capitol]
7. Arrest Yourself by Hot Chip from The Warning [EMI/Astralwerks/DFA]
8. Bomb Yourself by TV On The Radio from Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes [Touch And Go]
9. If You Find Yourself Caught In Love by Belle And Sebastian from Dear Catastrophe Waitress [Rough Trade]
10. You Can’t Force A Dance Party by Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele from Daytrotter Sessions [Daytrotter Sessions]
11. Faces by Yeah Yeah Yeahs from It’s Blitz! [Interscope]
12. Air Aid by Menomena from Friend And Foe [Barsuk]
13. Sloop John B (A Cappella) by The Beach Boys from Pet Sounds Sessions [Capitol]
14. John Allyn Smith Sails by Okkervil River from The Stage Names [Jagujaguar]
15. I Want To Go Home by Johnny Cash from Songs Of Our Soil [Columbia]

Second Hour:

1. New Theory by Washed Out from Life of Leisure EP [Mexican Summer]
2. Low Shoulder by Toro Y Moi from Causers of This [Carpark]
3. Saturday Come Slow by Massive Attack from Heligoland [Virgin/EMI]
4. Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) by Florence And The Machine from Lungs [Universal Republic]
5. Satellite Mind (Radio Edit) by Metric from Fantasies [Last Gang / Arts and Crafts]
6. Down Again by The Superjesus from Sumo [Warner Australia]
7. Our Productive Years Are Fleeting by The Berg Sans Nipple from Along the Quai-Vinyl [Team Love]
8. Take It In by Hot Chip from One Life Stand [Astralwerks/Parlophone]
9. Flume by Peter Gabriel from Scratch My Back [Virgin]
10. Hell by Tegan & Sara from Sainthood [Sire / Wea]
11. Anchorage by Surfer Blood from Astrocoast [Kanine]
12. Janine by Soul Coughing from Ruby Vroom [Warner]

Notes:

• I was very excited to play Sloop John B (A Cappella) by The Beach Boys, John Allyn Smith Sails by Okkervil River, and I Want To Go Home by Johnny Cash. The song that most of us know as Sloop John B is actually a folk song that is much older. Johnny Cash’s 1959 version isn’t even considered the definitive one. More info at Wikipedia. (or your local library, kids!)
• Odd Blood by Yeasayer is out 02/09/2010. They are releasing it digitally on Amazon for a special price today, 02/08. — Also, Yeasayer will be on tour with Sleigh Bells this winter/spring. In Madison 04/28/2010 at the Majestic.
• One Life Stand by Hot Chip is out 02/09/2010. They just performed on Jimmy Fallon, which you can see here.
• Heligoland by Massive Attack is out 02/09/2010. They had been streaming their album over at NPR.
• Peter Gabriel just released an album of covers called Scratch My Back, which includes not only the Bon Iver track that I played today, but Heroes by Bowie, My Body Is A Cage by The Arcade Fire, and The Book Of Love by The Magnetic Fields. I haven’t picked up a copy yet, but I plan to.
• I have a big place in my heart for Soul Coughing. They are a band I wouldn’t have known about except for college radio. I had to play this song after Mike Doughty posted on Twitter, “Soul Coughing fans note: the real-life Janine is texting me exultant texts about that touchdown call.”

First Hour:

1. What We Know by Sonic Youth from The Eternal [Matador]
2. Halfway Home by TV On The Radio from Dear Science [Interscope]
3. Faking It by Jay Reatard from Watch Me Fall [Matador]
4. Trouble Comes Running by Spoon from Transference [Merge]
5. And The Glitter Is Gone by Yo La Tengo from Popular Songs [Matador]
6. Keep Slipping Away by A Place To Bury Strangers from Exploding Head [Mute]
7. Giving Away The Bride by Califone from All My Friends Are Funeral Singers [Dead Oceans]
8. We Used To Vacation by Cold War Kids from Robbers & Cowards [Downtown]
9. In It For The Money by Supergrass from In It For The Money [Capitol/EMI]
10. Me & Mia by Ted Leo + Pharmacists from Shake The Sheets [Lookout]
11. I Am A Wicked Child by Radiohead from Go To Sleep Single [Capitol]
12. Life Magazine by Cold Cave from Love Comes Close [Matador]

Second Hour:

1. Skeleton by BLK JKS from After Robots [Secretly Canadian]
2. Skeletons by Yeah Yeah Yeahs from It’s Blitz! [Interscope]
3. The Sniper at the Gates of Heaven by The Black Angels from Passover [Light In The Attic]
4. Who Loves The Sun by The Velvet Underground from Loaded [Atlantic]
5. Falling From The Sun by The Album Leaf from A Chorus of Storytellers [Sub Pop] album released 2/2/2010
6. Diplomat’s Son by Vampire Weekend from Contra [XL]
7. Heaven Can Wait (feat. Beck) by Charlotte Gainsbourg from IRM [Elektra]
8. E-Pro by Beck from E-Pro Single [Interscope]
9. That Is Not My Home by Alec Ounsworth from Mo Beauty [Anti]
10. Heaven by Talking Heads from Stop Making Sense [Sire/Warner]
11. God Only Knows by The Beach Boys from Pet Sounds [Capitol]
12. Watching The Planets by The Flaming Lips from Embryonic [Warner]
13. I and Love and You by The Avett Brothers from I and Love and You [American]

Notes:

• I am very tired today. I did a lot less planning and a lot more freestyling on the show today. I hope it did not disappoint.
• Spoon will be playing a few shows nearby: Thu 1 April @ Aragon in CHI. Fri/Sat 2-3 April @ First Avenue in Minneapolis. All dates with Deerhunter and Micachu & The Shapes. I am very, very excited for this show. **Update: Fri 2 Apr is sold out.
• Califone will be opening for Wilco at the sold-out show in Madison on Saturday, 20 February 2010. Had I known they were coming, I would have tried harder to get tickets.
• A Place To Bury Strangers will be playing with The Big Pink at Turner Hall in Milwaukee on Friday, 19 March 2010. 8pm show. $10. Excited to make this trip.
• Ted Leo + Pharmacists will be playing the High Noon in Madison on Sunday 14 March 2010. 8pm show. Tix $13 adv/$15 dos
• Cold Cave will be playing at The Project Lodge in Madison on Friday 26 February 2010, with Hair Police and Zola Jesus. See them now. They will probably not be coming back this way if they keep blowing up.
• Vampire Weekend will be playing on Tuesday 23 March 2010 at the Riverside Theatre in Milwaukee.
• Alec Ounsworth will be playing at the High Noon in Madison on Wednesday 24 February 2010. 8pm show. $12 adv/$14 dos.
• The Avett Brothers will be playing at Turner Ballroom in Milwaukee on Saturday 6 March 2010. 8pm show.
• Thanks to Dave Zero for letting me sub for his show, and for his awesome recommendations on albums by The Beach Boys & The Velvet Underground. I’m a fan of both bands, but haven’t owned these.

First Hour:

1. Planisphère Part 1 by Justice from Planisphère [Self-Released]
2. Love Cry by Four Tet from There Is Love In You [Domino]
3. Híbakúsja by Ben Frost from By The Throat [Bedroom Community]
4. Let There Be Horns by RJD2 from The Colossus [RJ’s Electrical Connections]
5. Rad Anthem by Rad Omen [Self-Released]
6. Speak The Truth by Dam Funk from Unreleased [Stones Throw]
7. Odessa by Caribou from Swim [Merge]
8. Lovesick by Lindstrøm & Christabelle from Real Life is No Cool [Smalltown Supersound]
9. Glory in Itself/Egyptian by Gang Gang Dance from God’s Money [The Social Registry]

Second Hour:

1. Twin Peaks by Surfer Blood from Astrocoast [Kanine Records]
2. Norway by Beach House from Teen Dream [Sub Pop]
3. Real Life by Tanlines from Real Life Single [True Panther Sounds] album Settings out March 9
4. Summer Holiday by Wild Nothing from Gemini [Captured Tracks]
5. Evelyn McHale by Parenthetical Girls from Privilege, pt. I [Slender Means Society]
6. Skeletons by Yeah Yeah Yeahs from It’s Blitz! [Interscope]
7. O.N.E. by Yeasayer from O.N.E. single [Secretly Canadian]
8. Sun Hits The Sky [Live From Peel Acres] by Supergrass from Supergrass – bonus disc [Parlophone]
9. Give Blood by Rain Machine from Daytrotter Sessions [Daytrotter Sessions]
10. Consolation Prize by Sharon Van Etten from Because I Was In Love [Drag City]
11. Older Crowd by MC Chris from MC Chris Is Dead [Self-Released]
12. C’mon by The Soft Pack from The Soft Pack [Kemado] out 2/2/2010
13. Elephants by Warpaint from Exquisite Corpse [Manimal Vinyl]

Notes:

• The video for Rad Anthem by Rad Omen is actually pretty rad, in the sense that it features fast food mascots getting into all sorts of trouble.  It is decidedly NOT SAFE FOR WORK.  You have been warned.
• I am still waiting to get my hands on a copy of Toeachizown by Dam Funk. His label, Stones Throw, released Speak The Truth as a single to thank customers for their patience during a manufacturing delay.
• Parenthetical Girls will be releasing their next album as a limited series of 12″ EPs. The first, Privilege Part I, comes out on 2/23/2010. As the band says on its website, “These EPs will be sold separately in sequence every quarter over the next 15 months, each as they are completed. They will not be distributed to stores.” Also, they will be “hand-numbered in the blood of their respective band members.” Ouch.
• Odd Blood, the new album by Yeasayer will be out 2/9/2010. If you were lucky enough to have heard it at a local listening party, you are probably as stoked about it coming out as I am.
• MC Chris rejects the nerdcore label, even though it’s hard to deny. You may have heard him on [adult swim], or around town. His new album, MC Chris Is Dead, is a lot of fun.