6 December 2009 – 8:30 pm
I’ll be using Pitchfork’s Best Albums of the Decade list to do my show, playing a track from each one as I count it all down. Here’s a link to the list in case you want to follow along at home: http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7709-the-top-200-albums-of-the-2000s-50-21/ (I’m starting at number 42: Grizzly Bear’s “Veckatimest”)
2 October 2009 – 12:59 pm
It is time for KBOO’s fall membership drive, and to celebrate, on this coming Monday’s show (October 5th — set your outlook calendars) I am going to be playing nothing but The Cure for 2 and one-half hours**. And not that jumpy happy Friday I’m In Love Cure, we’re talking the pitch-black nachtmuzik that they [...]
24 September 2009 – 2:38 am
As part of KBOO’s fall membership drive, I will be featuring a Cure retrospective on October 5th. 150 minutes of nothing but cure, starting from their days as Easy Cure in 1976, through punk, pop, and goth, all the way up to their present incarnation as stadium alternatrockers. Have a favorite Cure song you’d like [...]
15 August 2009 – 12:16 pm
ANODYNE welcomes NYC-based singer/songwriter Matt Keating to the KBOO studios August 17th. Matt’s music melds the country feel of Willie Nelson with the classic songwriter sounds of a Ron Sexsmith or an Elvis Costello. New York Times says that “his tunes are clear-cut, and his confessions and uncertainty ring true”. Matt will co-host, spinning some [...]
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, [...]
“What do I play next?” is my favorite question as a KBOO DJ. It’s like one of those “Choose Your Own Adventure” books that I looked at as a kid. Every once in awhile, I’ll have a revelatory moment or a hunch that pays off with a satisfying combination of songs. This coming Monday I [...]
I’m out of town this week, so no ANODYNE tomorrow am. Next show will be March 30th.
here’s some bands on my shortlist for tomorrow’s show: hot chip, ramones, the church, yeah yeah yeahs, doom, the herbaliser, boomtown rats, rachel taylor brown, stephen malkmus, devo. see ya in about 7 hours.
27 February 2009 – 10:50 am
Robyn Hitchcock celebrates birthday #56 on March 3. I’ll be re-airing last fall’s Soft Boys / Robyn Hitchcock retrospective on Monday’s show in honor of this occasion. I plan on re-tooling it a bit so that it’ll end with a track from Robyn’s brand new album “Goodnight Oslo”. I’ll also be giving away a copy [...]
26 February 2009 – 3:46 pm
Howdy! Boy Eats Drum Machine appeared LIVE on ANODYNE two weeks ago, and an mp3 of the performance is now available at the KBOO website. Enjoy! The Super XX Man set should be available soon as well, I’ll post a note when it is ready.