May 23, 2008

Theme: TweePop, Seattle, and little bit of Finland On Air: Frank

On this show I had a set where I highlighted the CDs that I picked up while I was out west in the week before the show. My first musical stop was Seattle where I saw Lykke Li, El Perro Del Mar, and Anna Ternheim, the show was excellent, the venue was excellent, you can hear my review on the podcast (although I did go to Calgary and Banff as well there wasn't much of a musical part to that part of the trip). Also in Seattle I visited Easy Street Records ( http://www.buymusichere.net/stores/easystreet/ ), a cool fountain( http://nedkahn.com/water.html# and look at the Encircled Stream), and a cool library ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:SCL9.JPG ) . The most amazing thing about Seattle? I walked around for about 4 hours and I only saw 3 Starbucks. The next stop was Vancouver where I didn't see any shows but I picked up some CDs at the great record store Zulu Records and probably could have seen at least 3 Starbucks from almost every street corner. Before I left for my trip I got a few CDs in the mail from WeePop records ( http://www.weepop.net/ ), the packaging is just so darn cute that it fits perfectly with the music. And there was a Finnish influence to the show as Hannu managed to visit me at the show before he left the country, although he didn't want to speak on air, I noted the Finnish songs that we played. TALK-Theme Hello, Blue Roses - Shadow Falls (C) Destroyer - Dark Leaves From A Thread (C) Ironville - Roses The Lucksmiths - Adolescent Song Of Mindless Devotion The Sweaters - The Pop Thing (C) Robert Church And The Holy Community - Train To Asia TALK (WeePOP Records Set) Sunny Intervals - Let The City Run Away With Us Wonder For All - Can't Say It The Deirdres - Spring Forward, Fall Over Colin Clary - Backseat Man TALK Rambling James Heron - As If I Didn't Know It The Coy Hunt - Banana Cream Pie (C) The Bet - Evileah (C) Bare Knees - Wine Stains Ben Sures - Drunk In My Kitchen (C) TALK 22 Pistepirkko - Taxi 74 (Fin) Pet Politics - In The Twinkle Of An Eye The Lowest Of The Low - Salesmen, Cheats, And Liars (C) Von Hertzen Brothers - Kiss A Wish (Fin) TALK (Seattle and Vancouver Set) Lykke Li - Everybody But Me Tullycraft - Misgiving Stephin Merrit - Shall We Sing A Duet? Moby - Live For Tomorrow TALK Lights - I Owe You One (C) The Ting Tings - Shut Up And Let Go Afternoons In Stereo - How Does It Feel? (C) Annie - I Know UR GF Hates Me (Get Shakes Remix) TALK Los Campensinos - Death To Los Campensions (C) Denotes Canadian Content (Fin) Denotes Finnish Content

May 9, 2008

Theme: Very Random On Air: Frank

This was pretty much a random show with a poppy set, rockin' set, laid back set, funky set, and even a failed set. I'll just talk about the failed set, ahh the magic of live radio. I played the song Twee by Tullycraft and then had the idea to play songs by the bands that are mentioned in the song. Of course I didn't do any pre-show planning so I was hoping to grab the songs while I was there, but nothing worked out, I couldn't find any of the music either at the station or even on the web. So instead of my usually 5 or 6 song set I only managed to find 2 of the artists mentioned in the song and I just decided to quit the set rather than struggle on. On a side note, one of the bands I did play was the Posies who happened to be playing their 20th anniversary show when I was in Seattle last week, I didn't go, but I saw it listed. TALK-Theme Dag for Dag - Racing To Racine Those Dancing Days - Disc-Hoe Club 8 - Whatever You Want **From Eric Robert Church And The Holy Community - Sunday Love Viva Revolucion - That Means I Love You TALK (Failed set) Tullycraft - Twee Lucksmiths - Beer Nut Posies - Golden Blunders TALK Violent Archers - Insecure (C) The Liptonians - Write Your Name In The Sand (C) Kurt Swinghammer - All Roads Lead To Rome (C) Andrew Vincent And The Pirates - Gary Hache (C) Thomas Denver Jonsson - The Border TALK Simply Saucer - Almost Ready Betty (C) Rough Bunnies - Modern Love Young Knives - Up All Knight Strip Squad - Unreliable Narrator The Woodmen - Bring My Baby Back (C) TALK Moby - Disco Lies Formula Z - Trouble Charles Wright And The 10th Street Rhythm Band - 65 Bars And A Taste Of Soul Flight Of The Choncords - Ladies Of The World The Supreme Beings Of Leisure - The World TALK Rigas - Born Not To Run Datarock - Fa-Fa-Fa The Radio Department - Freddie And The Trojan Horse TALK The Cancecos - Raised By Wolves (C) (C) Denotes Canadian Content