29 January 2008

• One Hand Loves the Other - S/T - 2 Not 3
• Locksley - Don't Make Me Wait - All Over Again
• Locksley Interview! (to be posted later)
• Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World - Receptacle for the Respectable
• B-SIDES!!!
• Boombip and Gruff Rhys - Do's & Don'ts - Do's & Don'ts (edit)
• Arcade Fire - Keep the Car Running 7" - Broken Window
• Interpol - C'mere 7" - Not Even Jail (Daniel Kessler Remix)
• Decemberists - Billy Liar 7" - Sunshine
• New Pornographers - Challengers B-sides - Speed of Luxury
• Monkey Swallows the Universe - Little Polveir 7" - Hemingway
• Duke Special - Last Night I Nearly Died (But I Woke Up Just in Time) - Last Night I Nearly Died

More b-sides next week!

Top 10 of 2007

In no particular order because each of these records deserves to be in the top:

• Ulrich Schnauss - Goodbye
• One Hand Loves the Other - S\T
• Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
• New Pornographers - Challengers
• Polyphonic Spree - Fragile Army
• Monkey Swallows the Universe - Casket Letters
• Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
• Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
• Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
• The National - The Boxer

Honorable mentions go out to The Apples in Stereo for New Magnetic Wonder and Anais Mitchell for the Brightness. Another mention to an artist whose record came out last year, but I just got into this year: Duke Special with Songs from the Deep Forest. If you haven't heard him, check his stuff out. It's positively brilliant!
http://www.myspace.com/dukespecial

22 January 2008

Jeremy did a wonderful job covering the show. Here's what he played:

• Slint - Spiderland - Good Morning, Captain
• On!Air!Library! - On!Air!Library! - Fell to Earth
• On!Air!Library! - On!Air!Library! - i95
• Tegan and Sara - The Con - Relief Next To Me
• The Brunettes - When Ice Met Cream - Pink Ribbons
• I'm From Barcelona - Let Me Introduce My Friends - Treehouse
• Mission of Burma - The Obliterati - 1001 Pleasant Dreams
• The Soundtrack of our Lives - Behind the Music - Sister Surround
• Misfortune500 - Before This Winter Ends - Vaudevillian
• Clinic - Walking With Thee - The Equaliser
• LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver - Get Innocous!

15 January 2008

• Polyphonic Spree - Wig In a Box - Wig In a Box
• Ben Lee - Ship My Body Home EP - Sydney
• The Annuals - Big Zeus EP - Ease My Mind
• The Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder - The Sun Is Out
• Blitzen Trapper - S/T - Texaco
• Eisley - Combinations - Combinations
• Nada Surf - North Sixth Street - River Pheonix
• Gruff Rhys - Yr Atal Genhedlaeth - Yr Atal Genhedlaeth\Gwn Mi Wn
• Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World - Run! Christian, Run!
• Radiohead - Amnesiac - Like Spinning Plates
• The Boo Radleys - Giant Steps - Take the Time Around
• Beat Beat Beat - Living in the Future - Don't Tell Me Now
• Fluid Ounces - Big Notebook for Easy Piano - Daddy Scruff
• Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Grounded

8 January 2008 - DANCE PARTY!

• Heaven 17 - Penthouse and Pavement - We Don't Need This (Fascist Groove Thang)
• Scissor Sisters - Ta Da! - I Don't Feel Like Dancing
• La Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends - What Would Wolves Do?
• The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible - Keep the Car Running
• Built to Spill - Fly Around, Pretty Little Miss
• The Wombats - - Let's Dance To Joy Division
• Dan Deacon - The Crystal Cat
• The Bird and the Bee - So You Say
• Monkey Swallows the Universe - Fonz You!
• Architecture in Helsinki - Cold Music
• Hot Chip - Shake a Fist
• Locksley - Don't Make Me Wait
• New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
• The Thermals - A Pillar of Salt
• The Faint - I Disappear
• Art Brut - Emily Kane