Month: January 2017

BFF.fm Archive Link: PR014 – Intoxicado

This week we have big guitars from Wolf Alice, Ceremony (the east coast band), Pinkshinyultrablast, and My Bloody Valentine. Old electronic favorites like New Order, Ladytron, and Kraftwerk. New-old electronic music from Geneva Jacuzzi & Cold Showers.

New hip-hop from Run The Jewels, A Tribe Called Quest, and The Avalanches. The original version of Clint Eastwood featuring Phi Life Cyber. Nonsense song titles from Le Tigre & Lush. Melodicas. Sad sacks like Tom Waits & Jeff Buckley.

And a rambling epic diatribe by Car Seat Headrest.

First Hour:

• 6:00am DJ Wiki Ben (Grungy) by Marty Finkel on Theme Songs (Self-Released)
• 6:01am I’m a T.V by Geneva Jacuzzi on Technophelia (Minimal Wave)
• 6:03am Sex Objekt by Kraftwerk on Electric Cafe (Warner)
• 6:10am Let’s Get Worn Away by Tobacco on Sweatbox Dynasty (Ghostly International)
• 6:15am Sine Wave by Regurgitator on Dirty Pop Fantasy (Valve)
• 6:17am Vincent by Car Seat Headrest on Teens Of Denial (Matador)
• 6:25am Plantlife by Cold Showers on Matter Of Choice (Dais Records)
• 6:29am Fired Up by Titus Andronicus on The Most Lamentable Tragedy (Merge Records)
• 6:33am Don’t Wait Up by Tweens on Tweens (Frenchkiss Records)
• 6:36am Burn Up by Baseball Gregg on Vacation (La Barberia)
• 6:39am Breaking Up by Ceremony on Rocket Fire (Killer Pimp)
• 6:42am Honey Power by My Bloody Valentine on Tremolo EP (Creation)
• 6:45am Comet Marbles by Pinkshinyultrablast on Grandfeathered (Club AC30)
• 6:52am Because I’m Me by The Avalanches on Wildflower (Astralwerks)
• 6:55am Call Ticketron by Run The Jewels on Run The Jewels 3 (Mass Appeal)
• 6:59am The Donald by A Tribe Called Quest on We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service (Epic)

Second Hour:

• 7:04am Nothing Good Ever Happens At The Goddamn Thirsty Crow by Father John Misty on I Love You, Honeybear (Sub Pop)
• 7:09am Misery Is The River Of The World by Tom Waits on Blood Money (Anti)
• 7:13am Yard Of Blonde Girls by Jeff Buckley on Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk (Columbia)
• 7:18am Eggs by Vanishing Twin on Choose Your Own Adventure (Soundway)
• 7:23am Nanny Nanny Boo Boo by Le Tigre on This Island (Universal )
• 7:27am Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep by Lush on Topolino (4AD)
• 7:33am Burning Up by Ladytron on Velocifero (Island)
• 7:34am Fever by Preoccupations on Preoccupations (Secretly Canadian)
• 7:39am Fluffy by Wolf Alice on My Love Is Cool (RCA)
• 7:42am Turn The Heater On by New Order on Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
• 7:47am Clint Eastwood (Phi Life Cypher Version) by Gorillaz on G Sides (Parlophone)
• 7:51am The Return Of Evil Bill by Clinic on Internal Wrangler (Domino)
• 7:54am A Thousand Times More by School of Seven Bells on SVIIB (Vagrant)

BFF.fm Archive Link: PR013 – Bring That Beat Back

It all started with an electronic track in a coffee shop. I thought, man, when are we finally gonna get that soundtrack from Johnny Jewel. Not the one he put out that we didn’t ask for, but Dear Tommy. It’s coming. (Well, the mp3s are here , but the vinyl is still coming.) In the meantime, let’s go back to 2012 and revisit B/E/A/T/B/O/X by G/L/A/S/S/C/A/N/D/Y. No, that many slashes is totally not annoying to type.

Very excited for new music from Nine Inch Nails and David Bowie. What is it, 1995 again? Bowie released an EP called “No Plan” exactly one year after his birthday, just short of one year after his death. It’s eerie. It’s brilliant. The guy had some serious musical and artistic chops. New Reznor puts me in the mind of old Reznor, back when I was an angry young lad. It works for middle age, too. Same but different.

Continuing to play every song on the Warpaint and Duchess Says albums. Both among my favorite releases of 2016. (See previous show.) Songs going out to my daughter from Liars, Savages, and Frank Black. Some TV Girl, Helado Negro, and Chook Race thrown in for good measure.

Let’s begin, shall we?

First Hour:

• 6:01am Beatific by Glass Candy on B/E/A/T/B/O/X (Italians do it better)
• 6:05am Song About Me by TV Girl on Who Really Cares (Self-Released)
• 6:09am Lengua Larga by Helado Negro on Private Energy (Asthmatic Kitty)
• 6:14am We Awake by Doldrums on The Air Conditioned Nightmare (Sub Pop)
• 6:17am Think by Post Industrial Noise on The Official Post Industrial Noise Anthology (Medical Records)
• 6:24am Academic by New Order on Music Complete (Mute)
• 6:30am Give Up by American Wrestlers on Goodbye Terrible Youth (Fat Possum)
• 6:34am Start Anew by Chook Race on Around the House (Tenth Court)
• 6:37am Creation Myth by Sunflower Bean on Human Ceremony (Fat Possum)
• 6:42am Nietzche by The Dandy Warhols on Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia (Capitol)
• 6:48am Burning Bright (Field On Fire) by Nine Inch Nails on Not The Actual Eventws (The Null Corp)
• 6:54am Godzilla by Blue Oyster Cult on Spectres (Columbia)
• 6:58am Simple Death by Chelsea Wolfe on Abyss (Sargent House)

Second Hour:

• 7:04am Only Human by Cold Showers on Matter of Choice (Dais Records)
• 7:07am Flower Of Sex by Merchandise on A Corpse Wired for Sound (4AD)
• 7:12am Mask Maker by Liars on Mess (Mute)
• 7:16am No Face by Savages on Silence Yourself (Matador)
• 7:20am Broken Face by Frank Black on Frank Black Francis (SpinArt)
• 7:22am A Question of Time by Depeche Mode on Black Celebration (Mute)
• 7:26am Once In A Lifetime by Talking Heads on Sand In The Vaseline (Sire)
• 7:30am No Plan by David Bowie on No Plan (Sony)
• 7:34am Bills by Ultimate Painting on Dusk (Trouble In Mind)
• 7:38am Hotel Orlando by Atlas Sound on Bedroom Databank Vol. 1 (Self-Released)
• 7:41am Justine, Misery Queen by Honeyblood on Babes Never Die (FatCat)
• 7:46am I Shot All The Birds by The Blind Shake on Celebrate Your Worth (Goner Records)
• 7:50am By Your Side by Warpaint on Heads Up (Rough Trade)
• 7:54am Talk In Shapes by Duchess Says on Sciences Nouvelles (Slovenly)
• 7:56am Hysterical Strength by St. Vincent on Strange Mercy (4AD)

 

BFF.fm Archive Link: PR012 – Best of 2016

I played a lot of music on my show. I listened to more music than I had time to play. This is a distillation of those two lists. It’s a giant weird, lopsided Venn Diagram that I had to stop tweaking and finally walk away from. As always, there’s a mix of indie rock, hip-hop, noise rock, electronic, and a little country thrown in.

When I did my top seven most played albums of the year for BFF.fm, I was a little surprised. When I had to expand it to my top 33 albums, everything started moving around. Albums that I had played a lot started to drop. Albums that I had played once (or not at all) moved into my top ten. They were just that good.

Of course, this is all completely arbitrary, started with metrics, and finished with emotion. What I like best about this exercise is the chance to revisit albums you haven’t picked up in months, and remember what you were doing when you first heard it. Or, listening to friends’ best of shows, and realizing there’s still plenty of new music to discover.

So, without further ado, let’s put the spaghetti in the machine.

First Hour:

• 6:00am Mental Disease by Dow Jones and the Industrials on Can’t Stand the Midwest 1979-1981 (Family Vineyard , 2016)
• 6:02am Ordinary People by Black Monuments on Black Monuments LP (Self Released, 2016)
• 6:03am Wall Watcher by Sunflower Bean on Human Ceremony (Fat Possum, 2016)
• 6:06am Cosmic Zeroes by The Genders on Phone Home (Self Released, 2016)
• 6:09am Blind Kids by American Wrestlers on Goodbye Terrible Youth (Fat Possum, 2016)
• 6:12am Mölkky by Pinkshinyultrablast on Grandfeathered (Club AC30, 2016)
• 6:17am Is It So? by The Pack A.D. on Positive Thinking (Cadence Music, 2016)
• 6:20am Stupid by Wrangler on White Glue (Memetune, 2016)
• 6:25am Love Is A Fire by Junior Boys on Big Black Coat (City Slang, 2016)
• 6:30am Wriggle by Clipping. on Wriggle (Sup Pop, 2016)
• 6:34am Suede by NxWorries on Yes Lawd! (Stones Throw, 2016)
• 6:37am Period Piece by Jenny Hval on Blood Bitch (Sacred Bones, 2016)
• 6:40am Human Performance by Parquet Courts on Human Performance (Rough Trade, 2016)
• 6:45am Not What I Needed by Car Seat Headrest on Teens Of Denial (Matador, 2016)
• 6:49am Dead Man’s Gun by Thee Oh Sees on A Weird Exits (Castle Face CF-080, 2016)
• 6:53am Sea Stories by Sturgill Simpson on A Sailor’s Guide to Earth (RJ Records Inc, 2016)
• 6:56am Rings Of Saturn by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on Skeleton Tree (Bad Seed Ltd, 2016)
• 6:59am Hand of God by Emma Ruth Rundle on Marked for Death (Sargent House, 2016)

Second Hour:

• 7:04am Choose Your Own Adventure by Vanishing Twin on Choose Your Own Adventure (Soundway, 2016)
• 7:09am Line Up by Sad13 on Slugger (Carpark, 2016)
• 7:11am Circuits by Trentemøller on Fixion (In My Room, 2016)
• 7:15am Cogs by Minor Victories on Minor Victories (Fat Possum, 2016)
• 7:19am Monotony by Preoccupations on Preoccupations (Secretly Canadian, 2016)
• 7:21am Signals by School Of Seven Bells on SVIIB (Vagrant, 2016)
• 7:26am Constellations by Black Mountain on IV (Jagjaguar, 2016)
• 7:29am Rome by Operators on Blue Wave (Last Gang, 2016)
• 7:32am Dre by Warpaint on Heads Up (Rough Trade, 2016)
• 7:36am The Family Physicians by Duchess Says on Sciences Nouvelles (Slovenly, 2016)
• 7:40am Street Drugs and Cartoons by Mall Walk on Funny Papers (Mt. St. Mtn., 2016)
• 7:44am We The People…. by A Tribe Called Quest on We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service(Epic, 2016)
• 7:47am Rolling Stone (Ft Petite Noir) (Clean) by Danny Brown on Atrocity Exhibition (Clean Version)(Warp, 2016)
• 7:51am Candy Sam by Ty Segall on Emotional Mugger (2016, Drag City) (Drag City, 2016)
• 7:55am Memory Girl by Tobacco on Sweatbox Dynasty (Ghostly International, 2016)
• 7:57am I Think I Smell A Rat by The White Stripes on The Complete John Peel Sessions (Third Man, 2016)