May 26th, 2009 - Birthday Show, hosted by Megan

Tonight's show was hosted by my lovely partner in crime, Megan. I was out in Vancouver for the week, for my Birthday. Here's her playlist:

Mika Miko - "I Got A Lot (New, New, New) (We Be Xuxa)

Black Dice - "La Cucaracha" (Repo)
Liars - "Pillars Were Hollow And Filled With Candy, So We Tore Them Down" (Fins to Make Us More Fish-Like EP)
Lightning Bolt - "Magic Mountain" (Hypermagic Mountain)
Sonic Youth - "Kissability" (Daydream Nation)

Githead - "Drive-By" (Art Pop)
Japandroids* - "Young Hearts Spark Fire" (Post-Nothing)
Vapid* - "Do the Earthquake" (S/T 7")
Nomeansno* - "Dad" (The People's Choice)

Special Phonecall from Devin, whoooo, hahaha

Mount Analogue** - "Ivory Tusk" (Avant-Garbage EP)
The Scissor Girls - "The Sequential" (We People Space with Phantoms)
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks - "Baby Doll" (Shut Up and Bleed)
God is My Co-Pilot - "Backstab" (The Best of God is My Co-Pilot)

Herr Doktor** - "Untitled" (D-Day 4/40)

*-Canadian
**-Local

May 19th 2009

Double Dagger - No Allies (More)
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Githead - Drive By (Art Pop)
The Famines - The Rumor Mill (14 July 2008)
Beneath These Idle Tides - Goya (D-Day 4/20)
Greyscreen - In the Chariot City (001)
Braden Funchner - Learoyd Love (This Old Tape)
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Grimmrobe - The Haunting of Sydney Koke (D-Day 4/20)
Pulp - I Love Life (We Love Life)
Black Dice - Nite Creme (Repo)
PRE - Fudging on our Folks (Epic Fits)
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volcano! - Easy Does It (Beautiful Seizure)
Hot Snakes - No Hands (Automatic Midnight)
Mika Miko - Blues Not Speed (We Be Xuxa)
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Superchunk - Learned to Surf (Leaves in the Gutter EP)

Writeup coming later! Off to see King Khan & the Shrines!

Next week I'll be celebrating my birthday (May 26th, pals!) in Vancouver, watching Grizzly Bear. Megan, my very lovely partner in crime, will be hosting the show next week - be sure to tune in!

Beneath These Idle Tides will be debuting his massive "Moments of a Red Sun (In D Major) at the Cantos Music Museum on Wednesday, May 20th at 8 PM. Epic experimental drone stuff that I personally can't wait to see.

If you like the bleeps and bloops made by a gameboy, run off to the Soda after Beneath These Idle Tides to catch a performance from Greyscreen. Tetraktys will be opening.

May 12th 2009

Liars - Plaster Casts of Everything (Liars)
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Pterodactyl - First Daze (Worldwild)
Mika Miko - Sex Jazz (We Be Xuxa)
Crocodiles - Flash of Light (Summer of Hate)
Githead - Drop (Art Pop)
HEALTH - Crimewave (HEALTH)
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Thee Thems - Oh Shit! (Pizza Records Party Pack)
B-Lines - Busy Man
North of America - Cities and Plans (Elements of an Incomplete Map)
Crystal Antlers - Until the Sun Dies, Part One (Tentacles)
Pink Noise - Phonecalls
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Upsilon Acrux - Landscape With Gun and Chandelier (Radian Futura)
The Dismemberment Plan - Academy Award (Is Terrified)
The Thermals - I Called Out Your Name (Now We Can See)
Jawbreaker - Caroline (Etc.)
Magik Markers - Jerks (Balf Quarry)
Fugazi - Full Disclosure (The Argument)
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Nels Cline - Thurston County (Coward)
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Liars, HEALTH, and Githead will all be playing Calgary as part of the Sled Island festival at the end of June. Other bands that I've played on the show that are playing: Obits, Monotonix, King Khan & BBQ Show, Japandroids, Holy Fuck, and more to be announced. More on that as the festival comes closer.

Pterodactyl's Worldwild is a solid record, although it takes several listens before it really clicks -- probably because it's not nearly as noisy as their previous album. The band seems to have traded in their harsh tones for more psychedelic leanings, but the energy is still there. There's no "Polio" on here, but Pterodactyl have begun branching out a bit -- check it out. (Brah Records)

Here's a video for "No Sugar", from Worldwild:

Pterodactyl--"No Sugar" Music Video from Pterodactyl on Vimeo.

May 5th 2009

Crocodiles - Refuse Angel (Summer of Hate)
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Sonic Youth - No Garage (Split 7" w/Jay Reatard)
Pterodactyl - Share the Shade (Worldwild)
Mount Analogue - The Stranger and the Fall (Avant Garbage)
A Certain Ratio - Do the Du (The Graveyard and The Ballroom)
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Black Dice - Chickenshit (Repo)
The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa - Swoony (Susurrate)
Fennesz - Endless Summer (Endless Summer)
Double Dagger - We Are The Ones (More)
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The Famines - Hi Hi Hi (14, July 2008)
Perilisk - Sprinkled Wizard Ears of Confusion
In Flux - Cracked Models (Hoc Age CD-R)
Wooden Shjips - For So Long (Dos)