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)

No Show March 16, March 23

I'm back in Chicago for spring break, so I won't be doing the show this Sunday or next Sunday.  

In other news, I went to this sweet record/zine fair in Chicago yesterday... you pay $3, you get as many records/cds/stickers/zines as you want for FREE!  So I got a lot of vinyl and a lot of CDs, all from various Chicago labels.  YES.

Band of the week: Noumenon

I'm going to start posting a "band of the week."  The purpose is to give amazing yet relatively unknown bands the exposure they deserve.

Noumenon hails from Madison, Wisconsin and Syracuse, New York.  They play complex, energetic, tappy/mathy stuff in the vein of dakota/dakota, Volta Do Mar, and Don Caballero.  I just saw these guys play in a basement last Saturday night, and their live show blew me away.  Despite their short set, they were really tight and had the crowd going crazy.

You can download a high-quality version of their newest demo, The Megaladon vs. The Blue Whale (Concept Albums Are Fucking Stupid), on their MySpace page.

Playlist 03/09/08

Song - Artist - Album

First Hour

1. Unhallowed - The Black Dahlia Murder - Unhallowed

2. Nude Beach, Pin Hole Camera - Pele - The Nudes

3. The Angry Garbage - Noumenon - The Megaladon vs. The Blue Whale

4. Elegant Fabrics - MANS. - Summer 2007

5. Prime Numbers - Birth Rites - Birth Rites

6. The Great Caldera - Collapsar - Integers

7. The Strength It Takes To Recover (Is Not Our Own) - Sleeping At Last - Capture

8. Between Realities - Tangerine Dream - Firestarter Soundtrack

9. A Brief Moment Of Clarity Broke Through The Deafening Hum, But It Was Too Late - Red Sparowes - At The Soundless Dawn

10. Please Tokio, Please This Is Tokio - Don Caballero - Don Caballero 2

11. The Slowest Way Of Saying So Little - The Six Parts Seven - Silence Magnifies Sound

12. Oh Patti Smith, When Will You Let Me Go - Tsukimono - The Silent Ballet Vol. VII

Second Hour

13. Total Joplin - Grand Ulena - Gateway To Dignity

14. Untitled - Windmills By The Ocean - Windmills By The Ocean

15. Environmental Science - Wayne Western - Grattan Heights

16. Synaptic Plasticity - Blotted Science - The Machinations Of Dementia

17. I Can't See Anything When I Close My Eyes (Live) - Rumah Sakit - Trr50 Thank You

19. Warm Blood Within - Sparrows, Swarm And Sing - O'Shenandoah, Mighty Death Will Find Me

20. Vein Harvest - Disappearer - Winter Sessions

21. Breaking Ribs For Tom Thayer - Volta Do Mar - At The Speed of Light Or Day

22. Intercontinental Hustle - Magyar Posse - Random Avenger

Playlist 03/02/08

Song - Artist - Album

First Hour

1. Title Music - A Clockwork Orange - A Clockwork Orange Soundtrack

2. Cafeteria Bananas - Hella - Hold Your Horse Is

3. Some Are White Light - Caspian - The Four Trees

4. Articulate Silences Part 2 - Stars Of The Lid - And The Refinement Of The Decline

5. Dogwood - Antlers - Antlers

6. Cut Up Piano & Xylophone - Fridge - Happiness

7. Harper Lewis - Russian Circles - Station

8. Neckwrecker - Electro Quarterstaff - Gretzky

9. Rainbow Silhouette Of The Milky Rain - Deerhoof - Milk Man

10. Gypsy's Curse - Calexico - The Black Light

11. My Angel Rocks Back And Forth - Four Tet - Rounds

12. Weak Wrists - Beware Of Safety - It Is Curtains

Second Hour

13. Caught Inside - The Supertones - Supertones Strike Back

14. Part Three - The Fucking Champs - V

15. (5:20) - The Body Lovers - Number One Of Three

16. Loss Prevention Officer - Ocelot - The Quiet Storm

17. Halcyon (Beautiful Days) - Mono - Walking Cloud And Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered And The Sun Shined

18. I Wear The Gold - The For Carnation - Promised Works

19. Arterial - Rachel's - Systems/Layers

20. Transient Exuberance - Behold... The Arctopus - Skullgrid

21. The Friscalating Dusklight - If These Trees Could Talk - If These Trees Could Talk

22. No 1 - Knot Feeder - Demo

23. What's Blood Got To Do With It? - American Draft - Volume II