4 March 2008

Stuff from across the pond...

• Badly Drawn Boy - Born in the UK
• Duke Special - Brixton Leaves
• Casper Hauser - What Should I Do?
• Arab Strap - Go Back to the Sea
• Gruff Rhys - Ni Yw Y Byd
• Monkey Swallows the Universe - Little Polveir
• Umlaut - Lea Green
• Kaiser Chiefs - I Can Do It Without You
• Art Brut - Fight!
• Lightspeed Champion - I Could Have Done This Myself
• Balor Knights - Tornado
• [heart]yeah! - Chris Huelsbeck
• Chiara L's - Odio
• The Long Blondes - Once and Never Again
• The Jakpot - Turning Point
• Cillian Murphy - So New

26 February 2008

Canadian Take-Over!

• The New Pornographers - Laws Have Changed
• Tegan & Sara - Relief Next To Me
• Tokyo Police Club - Your English Is Good
• Arcade Fire - (Antichrist Television Blues)
• Feist - I Feel It All
• Broken Social Scene - Love and Mathematics
• Stars - The Big Fight (Minotaur Shock)
• Julie Doiron - Yer Kids
• Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton - The Bank
• Metric - The Twist
• Wolf Parade - Disco Sheets
• Sunset Rubdown - The Taming of the Hands That Came Back To Life
• Bella - Go
• Hot Hot Heat - Let Me In

19 February 2008

Pseudo Valentine's/Lupercalia Playlist

• The Reindeer Section - Whodunnit?
• Wolf Parade - This Heart's On Fire
• Monkey Swallows the Universe - Martin (demo)
• Brendan Benson - Cold Hands (Warm Heart)
• One Hand Loves the Other - Don't Know
• The Selmanaires - Just to Get Yr Love
• The Whigs - Right Hand On My Heart
• The Magnetic Fields - (Crazy for You) But Not That Crazy
• Badly Drawn Boy - The Shining
• Ben Lee - Gamble Everything For Love
• Cake - Love You Madly
• Sondre Lerche and the Faces Down - (I Wanna Call It) Love
• The Magic Numbers - This Love

Selmanaires have a show tomorrow night at the the Earl!

5 February 2008

• Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations - From Which I Came/A Magic World
• Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister - Like Dylan in the Movies
• The Whigs - Mission Control - I Never Want to Go Home
• The Selmanaires - The Air Salesman - Broken Mirrors in the Mud
• Modest Mouse - Building Nothing Out of Something - Other People's Lives
• Sebadoh - III - Hassle
• Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted - My First Mine
• Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic (Bonus) - Organ Yn Dy Geg
• Guillemots - Never Went to Church (Streets cover)
• Regina Spektor - 11:11 - Braille
• The Clientele - Suburban Light - Reflections after Jane
• Stereolab - Emporer Tomato Ketchup - Spark Plug
• The Wombats - Dr. Suzanne Mattox PhD
• Duke Special - Songs From The Deep Forest - Salvation Tambourine

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

15 November 2007

First five are groups from the lovely city of Sheffield.

• Inspector Flamingo - Monkey Swallows the Universe
• Winter Coat - Umlaut
• The Kermit Song - Smokers Die Younger
• Thinking - Champion Kickboxer
• Get Straight - Balor Knights
• Martin, Doom! It's Seven O'Clock - The Boo Radleys
• Mary Jo - Belle & Sebastian
• Perfect Lovesong - Divine Comedy
• Up the Stairs - Locksley
• Go Lucky - Fluid Ounces
• Sunndal Song - The Apples In Stereo
• Adventures in Solitude - The New Pornographers
• Between the Rent and Me - Snowden