052 riding with mary

24 June 2009 – 8:58 am

HOUR ONE:
Pop O Pies - Truckin’ (Grateful Dead cover) - The White EP (415 Records, 1982)
The Specials - Concrete Jungle - The Specials (Chrysalis, 1979)
Ramones - Loudmouth - Ramones (Sire, 1976)
The Wipers - Tragedy - Is This Real? (Trap, 1980)

X - Riding With Mary (Single) - Under The Big Black Sun (Elektra, 1982)
Viva Voce - Die A Little - Rose City (Barsuk, 2009)
Sons & Daughters - Split Lips - This Gift (Domino, 2008)
Blur - Trouble In The Message Centre - Park Life (EMI,. 1994)
The Teenagers - Sunset Beach - Reality Check (XL, 2008)
Morrissey - Spring-Heeled Jim (live) - Boyracer EP (RCA, 1995)
The Slits - Spend Spend Spend - Cut (Island, 1979)
The Shaky Hands - Love All Of - Lung Light (Kill Rock Stars, 2008)

Explode Into Colors - Sharpen The Knife - unreleased (self, 2008)
Gary Numan - The Aircrash Bureau - Telekon (Beggars Banquet, 1980)
Yaz - Nobody’s Diary - You And Me Both (Sire, 1983)

HOUR TWO:
Malcolm Middleton - No Modest Bear - Into The Woods (Chemikal Underground, 2005)

John Vanderslice - Carina Constellation - Romanian Names (Dead Oceans, 2009)
Beirut - My Night With The Prostitute From Marseilles - Realpeople Holland (Pompeii, 2009)
Starfucker - Biggie Smalls - Jupiter (Badman, 2009)
Wesley Willis - Slow Cars Fast Cars - Fabian Road Warrior (American, 1996)
New Grape - New Grape - New Grape Time (Time Stereo, 1994)
Chicks On Speed - High-Heeled Shoes - Cutting The Edge (Chicks On Speed, 2009)
Sleater-Kinney - All Hands On The Bad One - All Hands On The Bad One (Kill Rock Stars, 2000)
Sonic Youth - Pink Steam - Rather Ripped (Geffen, 2006)

Amon Tobin - Like Regular Chickens - Permutation (Ninja Tune, 1998)
Ilyas Ahmed - Enter A Shadow - Goner (Rootstrata, 2009)
The Fall - Can Can Summer - Imperial Wax Solvent (Castle, 2008)

PJ Harvey & John Parrish - Black Hearted Love - A Woman A Man Walked By (Universal/Island, 2009)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Dull Life - It’s Blitz (Interscope, 2009)

HOME STRETCH:
Spoon - Everything Hits At Once - Girls Can Tell (Merge, 2001)
Portland Cello Project - Cut The Rope (featuring Justin Power) - The Thao & Justin Power Sessions (Kill Rock Stars, 2009)
Shoeshine Blue - 1776 - Howl At The Wooden Moon (self, 2009)
Headless Heroes - Hey, Who Really Cares - The Silence Of Love (Headless Heroes, 2009)
Ani DiFranco - Smiling Underneath - Red Letter Year (Righteous Babe, 2008)
Cat Power - Silver Stallion - Jukebox (Matador, 2008)
Amadou & Mariam - Sabali - Welcome To Mali (Nonesuch, 2009)

at this point ANODYNE was over, but I started playing songs on Folk Espresso (the morning folk show) while waiting for the DJ to show up. I ended up doing 45 minutes of extra radio:

Dan Bern - Trudy - Breathe (Messenger, 2006)
Billy Bragg - Talking Wag Club Blues - Brewing Up With Billy Bragg (Elektra, 1984)
Weinland - Sunken Eyes - Breaks In The Sun (Badman, 2009)
Neko Case - Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth (Sparks cover) - Middle Cyclone (ANTI, 2009)
Tom Waits - Alice - Alice (ANTI, 2002)

Martha Wainwright - Comin’ Tonight - I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too (Zoe, 2008)
Little Sue - Pictures Are Perfect - Baby Knows Better (self, 2008)
Michelle Shocked - Love’s Song - Soul Of My Soul (Mighty Sound, 2009)

6AM:
Loudon Wainwright III - Daughter (Peter Blegvad cover) - Strange Weirdos: Music From And Inspired By The Film Knocked Up (Concord, 2007)
Kate Maki - Blue Morning - On High (Confusion Unlimited, 2008)
Bob Dylan - Thunder On The Mountain - Modern Times (Sony, 2006)

okay, that’s it for my “song-playin’ thing on the radio”….see you in two weeks.

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play him off, 8-bit keyboard cat

17 June 2009 – 9:15 am

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051 assemble an army

15 June 2009 – 1:01 pm

HOUR ONE:
OMD - Radio Prague - Dazzle Ships (Virgin, 1983)
Bauhaus - Terror Couple Kill Colonel - In The Flat Field (Beggars Banquet, 1980)
IQU - Flower And Moon - Chotto Matte A Moment (K, 1998)
Momus and Anne Laplantine - McKenzie Fling - Summerisle (Analogue Baroque, 2004)

Young Fresh Fellows - Amy Grant - The Men Who Loved Music (Frontier, 1987)
Half Man Half Biscuit - National Shite Day - CSI:Ambleside (Probe Plus, 2008)
Art Brut - The Passenger - Art Brut Vs. Satan (Downtown, 2009)
Elvis Costello - (I Don’t Want To Go To) Chelsea - Taking Liberties (Columbia, 1980)
Explode Into Colors - Paper (Hot Sax Version) - PDX Pop Now 2009 (self, 2009)
Prince Buster - Take It Easy - Fabulous Greatest Hits (Blue Beat, 1967)
Madness - Swan Lake - One Step Beyond (Virgin, 1979)

Micachu - Lips - Jewellry (Rough Trade, 2009)
Viva Voce - Die A Little - Rose City (Barsuk, 2009)
The BPA featuring Iggy Pop - He’s Frank (Slight Return) - I Think We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat (Southern Fried, 2009)
Roches - Nurds - Nurds (Warner Bros, 1980)
Squeeze - Out Of Control - UK Squeeze (A&M, 1978)

Chicks On Speed with The Noheads - The Household Song - Press The Spacebar (Chicks On Speed)

HOUR TWO:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll - It’s Blitz (Interscope, 2009)
Berlin - Sex (I’m A…) - Pleasure Victim (Geffen, 1982)
Telepathe - Devil’s Trident - Dancemother (Iamsound, 2009)
St. Vincent - Marrow - Actor (4AD, 2009)
!!! - Me And Giuliani Down By The Schoolyard - Me And Giuliani Down By The Schoolyard 12″ (Touch & Go, 2003)
Prince - Irresistible Bitch - Let’s Pretend We’re Married 12″ Single (Warner Bros, 1982)

Starlight Mints - Eyes Of The Night - Drowaton (Barsuk, 2006)
Frank Black - Czar - Frank Black (Elektra, 1993)
The Breeders - Don’t Call Home - Safari EP (Elektra, 1992)
Throwing Muses - City Of The Dead - Firepile EP (4AD, 1992)
The Go-Go’s - Fading Fast - Beauty And The Beat (I.R.S, 1981)

The Sea And Cake - Aerial - Car Alarm (Thrill Jockey, 2008)
DOA - The Prisoner - Bloodied But Unbowed (Sudden Death)

HOME STRETCH:
The National - Fake Empire - Boxer (Beggars Banquet, 2007)
Feist with Ben Gibbard - Train Song - Dark Was The Night compilation (4AD, 2009)
Loudon Wainwright III - Prince Hal’s Dirge - The BBC Sessions (Strange Fruit, 1998)
Jill Sobule - Clever - Happy Town (Atlantic, 1997)
Julie Doiron - Lovers Of The World - I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day (Jagjaguar, 2009)

Weinland - Sunken Eyes - Breaks In The Sun (Badman, 2009)
Laura Veirs - Ether Sings - Carbon Glacier (Nonesuch, 2004)

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050 PDX pop NOW

8 June 2009 – 10:10 am

HOUR ONE:
Stephen Malkmus - Mets To Infinity - PDX Pop Now 2006 (self)
The Joggers - We’ve Been Talked Down - PDX Pop Now 2006 (self)

Junkface - ATAMAKATAHIZAASHI - PDX Pop Now 2007 (self)
Sunset Valley - Mr. Extreme Jeans - PDX Pop Now 2004 (self)
The Gossip - It’s Over - PDX Pop Now 2005 (self)
The Thermals - You Dissolve - PDX Pop Now 2009 (self)
Davies vs. Dresch - My Friend Is My Hairstylist - PDX Pop Now 2004 (self)
Small Sails - Aftershocks & Afterthoughts - PDX Pop Now 2006 (self)

Explode Into Colors - Paper (Hot Sax Version) - PDX Pop Now 2009 (self)
Nice Nice - Uh-Oh - PDX Pop Now 2005 (self)
Copracrescent - Do My Thing - PDX Pop Now 2007 (self)
Ms. Su’Ad - Sweat The Design - PDX Pop Now 2006 (self)
Talkdemonic - Mutiny Sunshine - PDX Pop Now 2004 (self)
LKN - To An Angel On No Condition - PDX Pop Now 2005 (self)

The Mint Chicks - Hot On Your Heels - PDX Pop Now 2009 (self)
Bodhi - Nadine - PDX Pop Now 2008 (self)
What’s Up? - Seasoning’s Greeting - PDX Pop Now 2009 (self)

HOUR TWO:
Viva Voce - Alive With Pleasure - PDX Pop Now 2005 (self)

Kristin Hersh - Blackstone - PDX Pop Now 2007 (self)
Tea For Julie - Hello - PDX Pop Now 2004 (self)
Au - Are Animals - PDX Pop Now 2008 (self)
Breakfast Mountain - J Hollerday - PDX Pop Now 2009 (self)
Copy - Just Expect - PDX Pop Now 2005 (self)

YACHT - See A Penny (Pick It Up) - PDX Pop Now 2007 (self)
Glass Candy - Lovin’ Machine - PDX Pop Now 2005 (self)
Paint And Copter - Manzier - PDX Pop Now 2006 (self)
Binary Dolls - I Am The Only Master Of The Ten-Key - PDX Pop Now 2005 (self)
The Sensualists - You Are Love - PDX Pop Now 2004 (self)
Quasi - 23 & 24 - PDX Pop Now 2004 (self)

Blues Goblins - A Plague Upon The White House - PDX Pop Now 2005 (self)

HOME STRETCH:
Menomena - Wet And Rusting - PDX Pop Now 2007 (self)

Mirah - Generosity - PDX Pop Now 2009 (self)
M. Ward - Vincent O’Brien - PDX Pop Now 2004 (self)
Alela Diane - Up North - PDX Pop Now 2007 (self)
Leviethan - This Town That Town - PDX Pop Now 2006 (self)
Corrinna Repp - Lost At Sea - PDX Pop Now 2004 (self)

Colin Meloy - The Culling Of The Fold - PDX Pop Now 2007 (self)

Laura Gibson - Hands In Pockets - PDX Pop Now 2006 (self)

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150 minutes of local rock tomorrow AM

7 June 2009 – 4:34 pm

Good news! The 2009 PDX Pop Now! compilation is out this week! It seems like the perfect time to pull out ALL SIX PDX Pop Now compilations and throw together a local music show.

PDX Pop Now began in 2004, it is a non-profit org that produces this amazing festival each summer. All local music, free to the public (all ages). Each year they also release a two-disc compilation of local music.

Here’s a good guess of some bands I’ll be playing on the show this morning: Viva Voce, Sleater-Kinney, Thermals, YACHT, The Blow, Talkdemonic, Shaky Hands, Menomena, Syndel.

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the show must go on

4 June 2009 – 4:48 pm

Wet KOMU 8 Live Shot from KOMU News on Vimeo.

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unstoppable at sasquatch

3 June 2009 – 9:41 am

one-man dance party inspires others to let their freak flags fly high, all to the tunes of Santogold.

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049 micabit

1 June 2009 – 4:13 pm

HOUR ONE:
Wall Of Voodoo - Lost Weekend - Call Of The West (I.R.S., 1982)
John Vanderslice - Too Much Time - Romanian Names (Dead Oceans, 2009)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero (Animal Collective Remix) - Zero Single (Interscope, 2009)
Drake Tungsten - Do The Manta Ray (Pixies Cover) - Six Pence For The Sauces EP (Peek-A-Boo, 1996)
Beck - Waitin’ For A Train - Stereopathic Soul Manure (Flipside, 1994)
Suburban Lawns - Flying Saucer Safari - Suburban Lawns (I.R.S., 1981)
Hook & The Twin - They’ll Get Yr Head (Neu cover) - Brand Neu! compilation (Feraltone, 2009)
Split Enz - Hard Act To Follow - Waiata (Mushroom, 1981)
The Hoodoo Guru - Be My Guru - Do The Pop: Australian Garage Sound 1976-1987 (Shock, 2002)
Man Or Astro-Man - Joker’s Wild - Destroy All Astro-Men! (Estrus, 1994)
Micachu - Calculator - Jewellry (Rough Trade, 2009)
The Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer - Young, Loud, & Snotty (Sire, 1977)
Social Unrest - Teenage Blue - Complete Studio Recordings Vol 2 (New Red Archives)
Wavves - Sun Opens My Eyes - Wavves (Fat Possum, 2009)
Chicks On Speed - Scream Song - Cutting The Edge (Chicks On Speed, 2009)
Front 242 - Headhunter v1.0 - Front By Front (Sony, 1988)
Talking Heads - Crosseyed And Painless - Remain In Light (Sire, 1980)

HOUR TWO:
Grand Duchy - Black Suit - Petits Fours (Cooking Vinyl, 2009)
Viva Voce - Devotion - Rose City (Barsuk, 2009)
St. Vincent - Save Me From What I Want - Actor (4AD, 2009)
Rachel Taylor Brown - Bruce Wayne’s Bastard Son - Susan Storm’s Ugly Sister And Other Saints And Superheroes (Cutthroat Pop, 2009)
Depeche Mode - Shouldn’t Have Done That - A Broken Frame (Mute, 1982)
Faunts - Alarmed / Lights - Feel Love Thinking Of (Friendly Fire, 2009)
Adventure - Lifeguarddddddddd - Dan Beacon / Adventure split 12″ (Carpark, 2009)
Soul Coughing - Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago - Ruby Vroom (Slash, 1994)
Clinic - IPC Subeditors Dictate Our Youth - Clinic (Domino, 1999)
Magnetic Fields - Three Way - Distortion (Nonesuch, 2008)
Sisters Of Mercy - 1969 (Iggy & The Stooges cover) - Some Girls Wander By Mistake (Elektra, 1983)
King Khan & BBQ Show - Animal Party - Animal Party 7″ (Fat Possum, 2009)
Young Fresh Fellows - Thirsty - Electric Bird Digest (Frontier, 1991)
The Breeders - Fate To Fatal - Fate To Fatal EP (self, 2009)
Quasi - The Golden Egg - Field Studies (Up, 1999)
Momus - Mr. Proctor - Joemus (American Patchwork, 2008)

HOME STRETCH:
Clem Snide - Me No - Hungry Bird (429 Records, 2009)
Regina Spektor - Laughing With - from the forthcoming album “Far” (Sire, 2009)
Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 - I’m Falling - Goodnight Oslo (Yep Roc, 2009)
Elvis Costello - Complicated Shadows - Secret, Profane and Sugarcane (Hear Music, 2009)
Neko Case - Vengeance Is Sleeping - Middle Cyclone (ANTI-, 2009)
Shoeshine Blue - Prayer - Howl At The Wooden Moon (self, 2009)
Headless Heroes - True Love Will Find You In The End (Daniel Johnston cover) - The Silence Of Love (Names, 2009)

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tomorrow’s radio

31 May 2009 – 7:44 pm

here are some bands that are on my shortlist for tomorrow’s show: Dead Boys, Depeche Mode, Chicks On Speed, Split Enz, Micachu, Grand Duchy, Rachel Taylor Brown, and Front 242.

if you’re up, give me a listen! 90.7fm in Portland, kboo.org everywhere else.

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blame canada

24 May 2009 – 12:57 pm

I hope you enjoyed the last two shows, they were kinda sorta “best of” shows, leaning heavily on some segues that I came up with in the first year of doing the show.

I’ll be gone this coming Monday, but not to fear….Devin La Croix will be subbing, and he weaves quite an eclectic show. I heard some of his show last week when he was subbing for Music From Your Neighbor’s Basement (the show before mine), and he hipped me to a local band called Ahmed.

I’ll leave you with a small gift….the newest Breakfast At Sulimay’s is out. Dan Deacon is featured, as are the Doves. This particular episode suffers from some bad editing. It actually feels like the creators have stopped caring. But still, there are a couple of good moments. (”Cezanne or whatever…”)

See you in a week!

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