PR016 – The Ultimate

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Starting out the show with a joke track. No. Check that. It’s a track that started out as a joke, and then morphed into something wonderful. Start at the beginning. John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats was joking around on twitter with Rian Johnson, who is directing the new Star Wars movie. He suggested a song titled: The Ultimate Jedi Who Wastes All The Other Jedi And Eats Their Bones. Rian replied to John: PLEASE WRITE THIS. And so he did.

Still playing catch up to 2016, and it’s already February. Why did it take me so long to get Aesop Rock, Kate Tempest, and Bleached? Special shout-out to my friend Aaron who turned me on to The Scientists (and The Limiñanas back in the day). Also, I finally picked up Full Cold Moon by Cold Cave.

New (live) music from Sleater-Kinney, Cloud Nothings, Surfer Blood, and Japandroids. Going to play RTJ3 until I get through the whole thing. Belated tribute to William Onyeabor. Sending strength to Zachary Cole Smith from DIIV who just checked into rehab. Special shout out to Fire Retarded for deciding to change their name to Fire Heads.

First Hour:

  • 6:00am DJ Wiki Ben Theme Song by Marty Finkel on Theme Songs (Self-Released)
  • 6:01am The Ultimate Jedi Who Wastes All the Other Jedi and Eats Their Bones by The Mountain Goats on The Ultimate Jedi Who Wastes All The Other Jedi And Eats Their Bones (Self-Released / Soundcloud)
  • 6:03am Piazza, New York Catcher by Belle and Sebastian on Dear Catastrophe Waitress (Rough Trade Records)
  • 6:06am Anniversary Song by Lou Barlow on Apocalypse Fetish (Joyful Noise)
  • 6:10am Thieves! (Screamed the Ghost) (feat. Tunde Adebimpe) by Run The Jewels on Run The Jewels 3(Mass Appeal)
  • 6:14am Rings by Aesop Rock on The Impossible Kid (Rhymesayers)
  • 6:18am Europe Is Lost by Kate Tempest on Let Them Eat Chaos (Lex)
  • 6:24am Arc Of Bar by Japandroids on Near To The Wild Heart Of Life (Polyvinyl Records)
  • 6:31am Modern Act by Cloud Nothings on Life Without Sound (Carpark)
  • 6:35am Frozen by Surfer Blood on Snowdonia (Joyful Noise)
  • 6:39am Hypertension by William Onyeabor on Box Set (Luaka Bop)
  • 6:47am Dopamine by Diiv on Is The Is Are (Captured Tracks)
  • 6:51am Sleepwalking by Bleached on Welcome To The Worms (Secretly Canadian)
  • 6:56am Jumpers (Live) by Sleater-Kinney on Live In Paris (Sub Pop)

Second Hour:

  • 7:00am Sex Negative by Mall Walk on Funny Papers (Mt. St. Mtn.)
  • 7:03am Instantgratification by Cherry Glazzer on Apocalipstick (Secretly Canadian)
  • 7:07am Dicktator by Fire Retarded on Scroggz Manor (Big Neck Records)
  • 7:08am I Don’t Like You by The Regrettes on Feel Your Feelings Fool! (Warner)
  • 7:11am Can’t Give It Away by Matt Lamkin on Where I’m Matt (Volar Records)
  • 7:17am God Made The World by Cold Cave on Full Cold Moon (Deathwish)
  • 7:22am Portland U by Black Marble on It’s Immaterial (Ghostly International)
  • 7:25am Future Politics by Austra on Future Politics (Domino)
  • 7:29am El Beach by The Limiñanas on Malamore (Trouble In Mind)
  • 7:32am Why I Say No by Jay Som on Turn Into (Polyvinyl)
  • 7:37am Resistance by Suuns on Hold/Still (Secretly Canadian)
  • 7:42am Bet Ya Lyin (Slink City Lee) by The Scientists on A Place Called Bad (Numero Group)
  • 7:45am The Awkward Ones by Martha on Blisters In The Pit Of My Heart (Fortuna Pop!)
  • 7:48am Expatriate by Allison Crutchfield on Tourist In This Town (Merge)
  • 7:51am The Stars Are Projectors by Modest Mouse on The Moon And Antarctica (Epic)

PR015 – Fifteen Years Ago Was Not That Long Ago

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Hour one of the show is mainly music from 2016-2017. There’s a broken bassline on the Suuns track that made me jump back to 1996 for a hot second. Then back to Car Seat Headrest, Savages, Cherry Glazerr. New music from Japandroids, Run The Jewels, Austra, The Regrettes, and Braids.

Hour two of the show started as a discussion about RJD2’s Deadringer album. What grew out of it was a whole lot of nostalgia for yours truly. A little angry hip-hop, some electronic music, some rock, some weirdness. There were politicians that I disagreed with. The state of the world felt poor.

Thank goodness for Definitive Jux, brainchild of El-Producto & Amaechi Uzoigwe. Def Jux is how I first heard Aesop Rock, Cannibal Ox, RJD2 and El-P. (No, I had not heard of Company Flow at the time.)

I am pretty sure that I first heard of Beth Orton on the Chemical Brothers’ Exit Planet Dust. As far as her solo work, I remember hearing Daybreaker before Central Reservation. I would have to dig out some mix CDs from the time to be sure.

But Doves. Oh man, Doves. I was so in love with that band. Ladytron, too. Both groups put out their second albums in 2002. Neither suffered from the sophomore slump. Who else? Throw in some Idlewild, Decemberists, and Trail Of Dead, and you take me back to a lot of live shows from that year.

I will continue this thread at another time. Maybe next week.

First Hour:

  • 6:00am DJ Wiki Ben (Grungy) by Marty Finkel on Theme Songs (Self-Released)
  • 6:00am Brainwash by Suuns on Hold/Still (Secretly Canadian)
  • 6:05am Enjoy (Further Over The Edge Mix) by Bjork on Telegram (Elektra)
  • 6:10am Christiansands by Tricky on Pre-Millenium Tension (Island)
  • 6:14am Fill In The Blank by Car Seat Headrest on Teens Of Denial (Matador)
  • 6:18am Sad Person by Savages on Adore Life (Matador Records)
  • 6:22am Trash People by Cherry Glazerr on Apocalipstick (Secretly Canadian)
  • 6:25am Rabies by Aesop Rock on The Impossible Kid (Rhymesayers)
  • 6:28am Hey Kids (Bumaye) by Run The Jewels on Run The Jewels 3 (Mass Appeal)
  • 6:31am When It Rain by Danny Brown on Atrocity exhibition (Warp)
  • 6:35am Gaia by Austra on Future Politics (Domino)
  • 6:38am Joni by Braids on Companion (Arbutus)
  • 6:41am Redefine by Trentemøller on Fixion (In My Room)
  • 6:46am In A Body Like A Grave by Japandroids on Near To The Wild Heart of Life (Polyvinyl Records)
  • 6:51am 40oz. On Repeat by Fidlar on Too (Mom + Pop)
  • 6:55am Moscow On Thames by Terry on Terry HQ (Upset The Rhythm)
  • 6:57am Sea Hearts by Honeyblood on Babes Never Die (FatCat)

Second Hour:

  • 7:01am A Human Living Girl by The Regrettes on Feel Your Feelings Fool! (Warner)
  • 7:04am Keep On Keepin’ On by Bleached on Welcome The Worms (Dead Oceans)
  • 7:09am Ghostwriter by RJD2 on Deadringer (Definitive Jux)
  • 7:14am Patriotism by El-P on Fantastic Damage (Definitive Jux)
  • 7:17am Ox Out The Cage by Cannibal Ox on The Cold Vein (Definitive Jux)
  • 7:21am Chemical Calisthenics by Blackalicious on Blazing Arrow (MCA Records)
  • 7:24am Closet Freak by Cee-Lo on Cee-Lo Green and his Perfect Imperfections (La Face)
  • 7:27am Schlock Mobster by MC Paul Barman on Pallelujah (House Husband Music)
  • 7:32am Extreme Ways by Moby on 18 (Mute)
  • 7:36am True Mathematics by Ladytron on Light & Magic (Emperor Norton)
  • 7:39am Daybreaker by Beth Orton on Daybreaker (Heavenly)
  • 7:43am Pounding by Doves on The Last Broadcast (Heavenly)
  • 7:47am You Held The World In Your Arms by Idlewild on The Remote Part (Capitol)
  • 7:51am Leslie Anne Levine by The Decemberists on Castaways and Cutouts (Kill Rock Stars)
  • 7:56am Relative Ways by …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead on Source Tags & Codes (Interscope)

PR014 – Intoxicado

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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)

PR013 – Bring That Beat Back

BFF.fm Archive Link: PR011 – BFF – Take A Van My house tried to kill me last week. I had to see a doctor & get a tetanus shot. I survived. I couldn’t stop thinking about a song by The Faint.Take Me To The Hospital became the seed of this show. Everything But The Girl & Oakland’s […]

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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)

PR012 – Best of 2016

BFF.fm Archive Link: PR011 – BFF – Take A Van My house tried to kill me last week. I had to see a doctor & get a tetanus shot. I survived. I couldn’t stop thinking about a song by The Faint.Take Me To The Hospital became the seed of this show. Everything But The Girl & Oakland’s […]

 

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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)

PR011 – Take A Van

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My house tried to kill me last week. I had to see a doctor & get a tetanus shot. I survived. I couldn’t stop thinking about a song by The Faint.Take Me To The Hospital became the seed of this show. Everything But The Girl & Oakland’s Mall Walk provided the rest of the soundtrack to that incident.

While 2016 has been a dumpster fire of a year, there have been some incredible hip-hop albums. A Tribe Called Quest, Danny Brown, and NxWorries / Anderson.Paak are all reasons to believe. Electronic albums from Trentemøller, Junior Boys, and TV Girl aren’t half bad. Vanishing Twin remind me of Stereolab, and that’s a good thing.

Rock-wise, Sad13, PinkShinyUltraBlast, and Sunflower Bean each bring other bands to mind, but none of them too quickly. That is to say, they all sound like themselves. Influences shine through on repeat listens. Also, I decided to revisit the Medical Records catalog, and pulled out Post-Industrial Noise, Alexander Robotnick, and Psychic Youth.

First Hour:

  • Take Me To The Hospital by The Faint on Saddle Creek 50 (Saddle Creek 50)
  • Walking Wounded by Everything But The Girl on Walking Wounded (Atlantic)
  • Death In Small Increments by Mall Walk on Funny Papers (Mt. St. Mtn.)
  • The Space Program by A Tribe Called Quest on We got it from Here… Thank You for your Service (Epic)
  • Goldust by Danny Brown on Atrocity Exhibition (Warp)
  • Best One by NxWorries on Yes Lawd (Stones Throw)
  • Tricky Kid by Tricky on Pre-Millenium Tension (Island)
  • My Conviction by Trentemøller on Fixion (In My Room)
  • What You Won’t Do For Love by Junior Boys on Big Black Coat (City Slang)
  • The Conservation Of Energy by Vanishing Twin on Choose Your Own Adventure (Soundway)
  • Kyberneticka Babicka Pt. 2 by Stereolab on Fab Four Suture (Too Pure)
  • Ultra-Powerful Short Wave Radio Picks Up Music From Venus by Yo La Tengo on Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo (Matador)
  • Krampus (In Love) by Sad13 on Slugger (Carpark)
  • The Blonde by TV Girl on French Exit (Self-Released)
  • Duplex Planet by Deerhunter on Fading Frontier (4AD)

Second Hour:

  • LVL UP by Pain on Return To Love (Sub Pop)
  • For You Always by Minor Victories on Minor Victories (Fat Possum)
  • Strange Mercy by St. Vincent on Strange Mercy (4AD)
  • Happy Xmas (War Is Over) by Father John Misty on Live (Not On Label)
  • Suzy Snowflake by Soul Coughing on Made Especially For You By Soul Coughing (Warner)
  • Christmas in E.C. by Brazzaville on Welcome To Brazzaville (Mimcry Records)
  • Kiddy Pool Dreams by Pinkshinyultrablast on Kiddy Pool Dreams (Club Reverence by Jesus And Mary Chain on Honey’s Dead (Plain Recordings)
  • My Weakness by A Place To Bury Strangers on A Place To Bury Strangers(Killer Pimp)
  • Eyes by Post Industrial Noise on The Official Post Industrial Noise Anthology(Medical Records)
  • Problemes D’Amour by Alexander Robotnick on Ce N’Est Q’Un Debut(Medical Records)
  • Step In Time by Psychic Youth on Electroconvulsive Therapy Vol 1 (Medical Records)
  • Human Ceremony by Sunflower Bean on Human Ceremony (Fat Possum)

PR010 – Prescription Meds

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First Hour:

  • 6:01am Melatonin by A Tribe Called Quest on We got it from Here… Thank You for your Service (Epic)
  • 6:05am The Tussin (Robotussin) by MC Chris on Life’s A Bitch And I’m Her Pimp (Self-Released)
  • 6:08am Ativan by Atlas Sound on Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel (Kranky)
  • 6:11am Life Is But A Dream by The Genders on Phone Home (Self-Released)
  • 6:16am Hall Of Mirrors by The Helio Sequence on Negotiations (Sub Pop)
  • 6:20am Birthplace by Flock of Dimes on If You See Me, Say Yes (Partisan)
  • 6:24am And It’s Forever by Junior Boys on Big Black Coat (City Slang)
  • 6:30am I’m Set Free by Yo La Tengo on Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo(Matador)
  • 6:34am A Hundred Ropes by Minor Victories on Minor Victories (Fat Possum)
  • 6:38am We Will Commit Wolf Murder by Of Montreal on Paralytic Stalks(Polyvinyl)
  • 6:44am 2013 by Sunflower Bean on Human Ceremony (Fat Possum)
  • 6:47am Unforgiving Girl (She’s Not An) by Car Seat Headrest on Teens of Denial (Matador Records)
  • 6:53am Taking What’s Not Yours by TV Girl on Who Really Cares (Self-Released)
  • 6:56am River In Me by Trentemøller on Fixion (In My Room)
  • 6:59am Orlando by Trans Am on Trans Am (Thrill Jockey)

Second Hour:

  • 7:04am Hello, Dear by American Wrestlers on Goodbye Terrible Youth (Fat Possum)
  • 7:07am Rhythm Section Want Ad (Live) by They Might Be Giants on First Album Live (Idlewild)
  • 7:10am Walking The Cow by TV On The Radio on The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered (Gammon/Eternal Yip Eye/Rogue)
  • 7:15am Ha Ha Ha by The Julie Ruin on Run Fast (Dichord)
  • 7:19am Professor Booty by The Beastie Boys on Check Your Head (Grand Royal)
  • 7:23am Roads by Portishead on Dummy (Go! Discs)
  • 7:28am Go Home To My Bed by Andrew Hung on The Greasy Strangler(Death Waltz)
  • 7:32am <2 by Sad13 on Slugger (Carpark)
  • 7:35am Realiti by Grimes on Art Angels (4AD)
  • 7:41am Call Again by Mall Walk on Funny Papers (Mt. St. Mtn.)
  • 7:44am Generator by Elastica on The Menace (Deceptive)
  • 7:46am Zond by Pond on Man It Feels Like Space Again (Caroline)
  • 7:50am Fuck You Sweetness by Regurgitator on Dirty Pop Fantasy (Valve)
  • 7:54am Nicotine & Gravy by Beck on Midnite Vultures (DGC)

PR009 – Right/Wrong

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First Hour:

  • 6:01am The Cherry Pit by Pinkshinyultrablast on Grandfeathered (Club AC30)
  • 6:06am Cherry-Colored Funk by Cocteau Twins on Heaven or Las Vegas (4AD)
  • 6:09am Cherry by Chromatics on After Dark 2 (Italians Do It Better)
  • 6:14am Squealer by Ty Segall on Emotional Mugger (Drag City)
  • 6:18am Madness by King Tuff on Black Moon Spell (Sub Pop)
  • 6:21am Turn Around by Mikal Cronin on MCIII (Merge)
  • 6:25am Marquee Moon by De Lux on Life In Time Gets Narrow (Innovative Leisure)
  • 6:31am Us V Them by LCD Soundsystem on Sound Of Silver (DFA)
  • 6:39am Minor Justice by Flock of Dimes on If You See Me, Say Yes (Partisan)
  • 6:43am Kids… by A Tribe Called Quest on We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service (Epic)
  • 6:47am I Think Imma (Clean) by Fudge on Lady Parts (Lex Records)
  • 6:50am Krill by Hail Mary Mallon on Bestiary (Rhymesayers)
  • 6:53am Big Black Coat by Junior Boys on Big Black Coat (City Slang)

Second Hour:

  • 7:01am Mirage Trooper by Clark on 2016 Adult Swim Singles Program (Adult Swim)
  • 7:07am The Yabba by Battles on La di da di (Warp Records)
  • 7:14am Real Big Sky by Emma Ruth Rundle on Marked for Death (Sargent House)
  • 7:20am Apocalpyse Fetish by Lou Barlow on Apocalypse Fetish (Joyful Noise)
  • 7:24am Everything Goes To Hell by Tom Waits on Bone Machine (Anti)
  • 7:28am Get A Yes by Sad13 on Slugger (Carpark Records)
  • 7:32am Heads Up by Warpaint on Heads Up (Rough Trade)
  • 7:37am Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales by Car Seat Headrest on Teens of Denial (Matador)
  • 7:44am Anthrocene by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on Skeleton Tree (Bad Seed Ltd)
  • 7:48am Over And Over Again (Lost And Found) by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah on Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (CYHSY)
  • 7:51am I Might Be Wrong by Radiohead on Amnesiac (EMI)
  • 7:57am New Theory by Washed Out on Life Of Leisure EP (Mexican Summer)

PR008 – Blow Your System

BFF.fm Archive Link: PR008 – Blow Your System

First Hour:

  • Not Entertainment by Black Monuments on Black Monuments (Self-Released)
  • Youth Against Facism by Sonic Youth on Dirty (Geffen)
  • Dirty by Wrangler on White Glue (Memetune)
  • 11-2-12_Driving Day by Toro Y Moi on Samantha (Self-Released)
  • Dis Generation by A Tribe Called Quest on We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service (Epic)
  • System Blower by Death Grips on The Money Store (Epic)
  • Heroes and Villains by The Beach Boys on Smile (Sea of Tunes)
  • Wolfboy by Seabear on We Built A Fire (Morr Music)
  • Naked In The River With The Creator by LVL UP on Return To Love (Sub Pop)
  • Death Beds by The Genders on Phone Home (Self-Released)
  • Needle In The Hay by Juliana Hatfield on Say Yes! A Tribute To Elliot Smith (American Laundromat)
  • Medusa by Emma Ruth Rundle on Marked for Death (Sargent House)
  • What Happened To You? by Subject on The Minimal Wave Tapes: Volume Two (Stones Throw/Minimal Wave)
  • So In Love by Orchestral Manoevers In The Dark on Crush (Virgin)
  • Leave Me Alone by New Order on Power Corruption & Lies (Qwest Records)

Second Hour:

  • Les Yper Sound by Stereolab on Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Elektra)
  • The Reason Why by Ladytron on Light & Magic (Emperor Norton)
  • All I Want by LCD Soundsystem on This Is Happening (DFA)
  • Orlando by Exploded View on Exploded View (Sacred Bones)
  • Liberal Party by Total Control on Typical System (Iron Lung Records)
  • Knives Out by Radiohead on Amnesiac (EMI)
  • White Out by Warpaint on Heads Up (Rough Trade)
  • I’m An Idea by Duchess Says on Sciences Nouvelles (Slovenly)
  • Mr. Tough by Yo La Tengo on I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador)
  • You Can Have The Crown by Sturgil Simpson on High Top Mountain (High Top Mountain)
  • Girl In Amber by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on Skeleton Tree (Bad Seed Ltd)
  • Born to Be Wine by Protomartyr on 2016 Adult Swim Singles Program (Adult Swim)
  • Uh, Zoom Zip by Soul Coughing on Ruby Vroom (Slash/Warner)

PR007 – These Things Fall Apart

BFF.fm Archive Link: PR007 – These Things Fall Apart

First Hour:

  • Get Off the Internet by Le Tigre on From the Desk of Mr Lady (Modarm Records)
  • Alpha Omega by Wrangler on White Glue (Memetune)
  • Hall of Mirrors by Symmetry on Themes For An Imaginary Film (Italians Do It Better)
  • The Trickster by Radiohead on My Iron Lung (EMI)
  • Blow Away by Doldrums on The Air Conditioned Nightmare (Sub Pop)
  • Delorean Dynamite by Todd Terje on It’s Album Time (Olson)
  • Artangels by Grimes on Art Angels (4AD)
  • Travaillez by Duchess Says on Sciences Nouvelles (Slovenly)
  • We Got Game by The Radio Dept on Running Out Of Love (Labrador)
  • It Ain’t Good Enough by Dow Jones and the Industrials on Can’t Stand The Midwest 1979-1981 (Family Vineyard)
  • Degraded by Preoccupations on Preoccupations (Secretly Canadian)
  • Ain’t It Funny by Danny Brown on Atrocity Exhibition (Warp)
  • Never Belonged To You by The Genders on Phone Home (Self-Released)
  • Laura by Lush on Spooky (4AD)
  • Close To The Glass (Live) by The Notwist on Superheroes, Ghostvillains & Stuff (Live) (Sub Pop Records)

Second Hour:

  • Furious Angel by Emma Ruth Rundle on Marked for Death (Sargent House)
  • Intern by Angel Olson on My Woman (Jagjaguar)
  • Ain’t No Grave by Johnny Cash on American VI: Ain’t No Grave (American)
  • Cheerleader by St. Vincent on Strange Mercy (4AD)
  • Today Dear by Warpaint on Heads Up (Rough Trade)
  • The Linear Way by Linear Movement on The LInear Way (Minimal Wave)
  • Living The Dream by Sturgill Simpson on Metamodern Sounds in Country Music (High Top Mountain)
  • God’s Away on Business by Tom Waits on Blood Money (Anti-)
  • There Is No Tomorrow by Ty Segall on Twins (Drag City)
  • New Order by Ruined In A Day on Republic (Qwest)
  • What’s On Your Mind (Pure Energy) by Null Device on What’s On Your Mind (Pure Energy) (Self-Released / Bandcamp)
  • It’s Different For Girls by Of Montreal on Innocence Reaches (Polyvinyl)
  • Dark Entries by Bauhaus on In The Flat Field (4AD)
  • Allison by The Pixies on Bossanova (4AD)
  • This Land Is Your Land by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings on Naturally (Daptone)