Pelican video for "Dead Between The Walls"

Playlist 05/11/08

Song - Artist - Album

First Hour
1. Unhallowed - The Black Dahlia Murder - Unhallowed
2. Part 6 - The Flying Luttenbachers - The Void
3. Firecracker - Unwed Sailor - Firecracker
4. TRAS2 - Battles - EP C
5. Some Are White Light - Caspian - The Four Trees
6. American Dipper - Dianogah - Millions of Brazilians
7. Movements Of A Visionary - Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
8. Six Pack - Tortoise - Standards
9. Youngblood - Russian Circles - Station
10. Airship of DOOM - Nintendoom - Super Mario 3
11. Brown Metal - Hella - Hold Your Horse Is
12. We Say Goodbye To Ourselves - Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees
13. Closer To The Center - Byla - Byla

Second Hour
14. Fire Back About Your New Baby's Sex - Don Caballero - American Don
15. Four Months of Darkness - Saxon Shore - Four Months of Darkness
16. Night Terror - Ativin - Night Mute
17. Instrumental - Harvey Milk - Special Wishes
18. Angel Tears (JK Broadrick Remix) - Pelican - March Into The Sea
19. I'm Afraid They're Using Robots - Upsilon Acrux - In The Acrux Of The Upsilon King
20. The Birth And The Death Of The Day - Explosions In The Sky - All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
21. Mac's Oranges - Breadwinner - Burner
22. Glenn - Slint - Tweez Outtakes
23. Part Three - The Fucking Champs - V
24. Threads - This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You
25. Iowa Backroads - Roadside Monument - Eight Hours Away From Being A Man

Playlist 05/04/08

Song - Artist - Album

First Hour
1. Grab The Devil By The Horns And Fuck Him Up The Ass - Sum 41 - Half Hour Of Power
2. Gone - Mono - The Phoenix Tree
3. Bleeding In The Brain - Blotted Science - The Machinations of Dementia
4. Sex Invasion - No Funeral - Unreleased
5. Our Oases - Yellow Swans - At All Ends
6. Invading Assassin Is Dead - Necronomitron - Necronomitron
7. Mammoth - Pelican - [Untitled]
8. In The Eerie Pre-Dawn Silence Of The Cold - Striborg - Embittered Darkness
9. Musica Per Un Giardino Segreto #1 - La Quiete - Tenpeun '01-'05
10. I'm Going To Sleep On It - Mosh Patrol - Is There Anyone Else Outside?
11. Yasmin the Light - Explosions In The Sky - Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever
12. Bucephalus Bouncing Ball - Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy
13. Super Sheep - Merzbow - Animal Magnetism
14. Intercontinental Hustle - Magyar Posse - Random Avenger

Second Hour
15. The Pangs Of A Violent Berth - Many Men Mirror Many Faces - Many Men Mirror Many Faces
16. Akuma No Uta - Boris - Akuma No Uta
17. I Saw the Sky in the North Open to the Ground and Fire Poured Out - Red Sparowes - Red Sparowes/Gregor Samsa Split
18. Rock Song - Gregor Samsa - Red Sparowes/Gregor Samsa Split
19. Haymaker - The Shipping News - Three-Four
20. 2 Morro Morro Land - Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
21. A Meaningful Moment Through A Meaning(Less) Process - Stars Of The Lid - And Their Refinement Of The Decline
22. Misirlou - Dick Dale and The Del-Tones - Greatest Hits
23. Charmony - Electro Quarterstaff - Gretzky
24. On Noble - Tortoise - Tortoise
24. The Marionette's Cottage - Unwed Sailor - The Marionette And The Music Box
25. Pacific Sprawl - Continental - Four-Letter Words

Playlist 04/27/08

Song - Artist - Album

First Hour
1. Blue Fly Green Fly - Sleeping People - Sleeping People
2. On This Hand - Questions In Dialect - The Ghost Wishes To Speak To You
3. Antler Mask - Raccoo-oo-oon - Behold Secret Kingdom
4. You Will Be Reincarnated As An Imperial Attack Spaceturtle (Pt 1) - Behold... The Arctopus - Arctopocalypse Now... Warmageddon Later
5. The Dutch Fist - A Minor Forest - Inindependence

Second Hour
6. By The Kiss - M83 - Digital Shades [Vol 1]
7. No 1 - Knot Feeder - 3 Song Demo
8. Vein Harvest - Disappearer - Winter Sessions
9. Surry II - Soporus - Atomove Elektrarne
10. Environmental Science - Wayne Western - Grattan Heights
11. Weak Wrists - Beware Of Safety - It Is Curtains
12. Sisters! Brothers! Small Boats Of Fire Are Falling From The Sky - Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band - Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upwards
13. The Dead Flag Blues - Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#∞
14. Breadcrumb Trail - Slint - Live in Chicago, IL 03/03/89
15. 02:28 - Byla & Jarboe - Viscera
16. Brown Medal 2003 - Hella - The Devil Isn't Red

Playlist 04/20/08

Song - Artist - Album

First Hour
Herald Of The Roggaboggas/Bass Gnm2 - Forcefield - Roggaboggas
ASA - Caspian - The Four Trees
Groove Vs. The Ill - Infradig - Kinetic Transfer
Next Year, I Want To Be Batman For Christmas - Dakota/Dakota - Redline Distribution 2004 Sampler
Assassins - Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
Sleep Decayer - Dysrhythmia - Barriers And Passages
Spell For A Sweeter Past - Evan Miller - Beeswax Ephemera
Rainbow Silhouette of the Milky Rain - Deerhoof - Milk Man
No One Gives A Hoot About Faux-Ass Nonsense - Don Caballero - Don Caballero 2
I - Indricothere - Indricothere
Requiem For Dying Mothers, Part 1 - Stars Of The Lid - The Tired Sounds Of Stars Of The Lid
6 - Ocrilim - Anoint
Storm Of Shit - The Flying Luttenbachers - Revenge

Second Hour
Etna - Sunn & Boris - Altar
Chrome Corridors - Frodus - Conglomerate International
Silence Lends a Face to the Soul - Saxon Shore - The Exquisite Death Of Saxon Shore
Apres Un Reve - Timbre - Timbre
The Universe! - Do Make Say Think - You, You're A History In Rust
Movements Of A Visionary - Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
A Warm Wind - Oceans - Demo 2007
Off The Grid - Beastie Boys - The Mix Up
Daft Krunked - Noumenon - The Megalodon vs. The Blue Whale
Panda Strong - Oxes - Oxes
Apartment Over The Peninsula - Roadside Monument - Eight Hours Away From Being A Man
I Can't Concentrate - Zs - Arms

Playlist 04/13/08

Song - Artist - Album

First Hour
1. A Cold Day In Hell - Winds Of Plague - Decimate The Weak
2. Air On G-String - The Fucking Champs - V
3. Keep It Gold - Maserati - The Language Of Cities
4. Aurora - Unwed Sailor - Little Wars
5. Simple Reminder (Anger Is Not a Motive) - UpC DownC LeftC RightC ABC + Start - The Jangling Dischords of Our Nation
6. Dreamland Precipice - Latitudes - Bleak Epiphanies In Slow Motion
7. Stolen Moments - The Six Parts Seven - Casually Smashed To Pieces
8. Treefingera - Radiohead - Kid A
9. Flat Panda - Dianogah - Millions of Brazilians
10. Breeze - Velour 100 - Fall Sounds
11. I PT 2 - Battles - B EP
12. Modernation - Hunab - Random Coincidences
13. In My Room - Mercury Radio Theater - The Death and Life of the Undead Boy
14. Seoul - Amina - Seoul

Second Hour
15. Am Meer - Bellador - The Day's Intent
16. Kisses Men On the Mouth On the Mountain - Breadwinner - Burner
17. Upper Ninety - Russian Circles - Upper Ninety
18. Goob Tooblies - Neon Hunk - Smarmy Mob
19. Pithot 1 - Orthrelm - Orthrelm/Behold... the Arctopus Split
20. Threads - This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You
21. A Meaningful Moment Through A Meaning(Less) Process - Stars Of The Lid - And Their Refinement Of The Decline
22. Moonlight - Mono - You Are There
23. Panoramic Long-Range Vertigo - Canvas Solarie - Penumbra Diffuse
24. Part I No. 4 - The Bird Ensemble - Migration
25. The End of Dying - Foxhole - We the Wintering Tree

Stars Of The Lid play Arvo Part's "Fratres" live in Utrecht, Netherlands, December 2007

These guys have quickly become one of my favorite ambient artists. I'm seeing them play at Grinnell College on April 23!



PS: the show is free, so you should go too.

Song - Artist - Album

First Hour
Misirlou - Dick Dale and the Del-Tones - Greatest Hits 1961-1976
Eyelids - Fridge - The Sun
The Sound Of Staticn - Oceans - Demo 2007
Attack Sequence - The Flying Luttenbachers - Retrospektiw III
Meditational Flaws - Ativin - Pills Versus Planes
Axiomatic Fragment - Collapsar - Integers
Goob Tooblies - Neon Hunk - Smarmy Mob
Brown Metal - Hella - Hold Your Horse Is
Magic Hours - Explosions In The Sky - How Strange, Innocence
Fusion for Suckers - Continuo Renacer -Continuo Renacer
The Great Leap Foward Poured Down Upon Us One Day Like a Mighty Storm, Suddenly and Furiously Blinding Our Senses - Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun

Second Hour
...Of All This - Ahleuchatistas - Even In The MIdst
Ostinato - Eluvium - Copia
The Difference Between Wind And Rain - Beware Of Safety - It Is Curtains
City Of Echoes - Pelican - City Of Echoes
Rhoda - Slint - Tweez Outtakes
Grattan Heights - Wayne Western - Grattan Heights
Surry II - Soporus - Atomove Elektrarne
Moya - Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada
Expiration (Alaska, My Darkness) - Upsilon Acrux - Galapagos Momentum
Cetus - Zombi - Cosmos
The Death Of Paradigm - If These Trees Could Talk - If These Trees Could Talk

Playlist 03/30/08

Song - Artist - Album

First Hour
1. Scolopendra Cingulata - Cephalic Carnage - Lucid Interval
2. Copper Islands - Unwed Sailor - Little Wars
3. Moksha - Caspian - The Four Trees
4. Declaring War - No Funeral - No Funeral
5. Retrace A Walk - Zs - Zs
6. Sirius - Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw
7. Exospatial Psionic Aura - Behold... The Arctopus - Nanonucleonic Cyborg Summoning
8. Iowa Backroads - Roadside Monument - Eight Hours Away From Being A Man
9. (6:13) - The Body Lovers - Number One Of Three
10. Dog Years - Aughra - Is There Anyone Else Outside?
11. On Noble - Tortoise - Tortoise

Second Hour
12. Ex-Cowboy - Mogwai - Come On Die Young
13. II - Indricothere - Indricothere
14. Flat Panda - Dianogah - Millions Of Brazillions
15. The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same - Mosh Patrol - Is There Anyone Else Outside?
16. Sleep Decayer - Dysrhythmia - Barriers And Passages
17. Water From The Same Source - Rachel's - Systems/Layers
18. Live - Chord - Live
19. Activation Synthesis Theory - Blotted Science - The Machinations Of Dementia
20. Speed For Gavin - A Minor Forest - Flemish Altruism (Constituent Parts 1993-1996)
21. Cutting, Opening, Swimming - Growing - The Sky's Run Into The Sea
22. Threads - This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You

Band of the week: dakota/dakota

Chicago's dakota/dakota features Mike and Colin from the original lineup of Russian Circles on guitar and bass, respectively.  After dakota/dakota broke up a few years ago, Mike and Colin went on to enlist Dave from Riddle of Steel to play drums in Russian Circles.  Expect upbeat, catchy, technically proficient songs with hilarious titles from these guys.

One of my roommates in college got me into a lot of the instrumental music I listen to now (thanks, Pat!).  One night he came home, really excited about this band, dakota/dakota, that he'd just seen play at this apartment.  Rarely had I seen him this excited about a band.  They sounded interesting, but it took him going to about 5 more of their shows before I finally went to one with him.  We saw dakota/dakota play in a classroom at DePaul University in Chicago.  There were a decent number of people there.  I was ecstatic.  This was amazing! 

Most of their releases are out of print or hard to find these days, but I'm sure you could find their stuff by searching on Google, gemm.com or musicstack.com.  Here's some links to a few of their songs:

Hamburger Help Us (Shoot In The Dark CD, Hamburger Help Us 7")

I Hope To God I'm Not A Sheep (Shoot In The Dark CD)

Don't Forget Herpes Begins With Her (Hamburger Help Us 7")

Misery Loves Company, But Hates Hosting Parties (demo 2002, unreleased)