I Don’t Really Love You Anymore – The Magnetic Fields
The Pleasure is Mine – Plastic Operator
Shadow Falls – Ruby Isle (Hello Blue Roses Cover)
Love in a Trash Can – The Raveonettes
Kill the Director (CSS Remix) – The Wombats
D.A.N.C.E. (Benny Blanco Mix Ft. Mos Def) – Justice
Indie Rock Discipline – AZLTRON
We’ve all survived encounters with our nuclear family (presumably), and if you’re like me and live up north (Canada is 3 hours away!), then you’ve undoubtedly had your first run in with some snow. So that got me to thinking about songs that reminded me of winter or that had a nice sitting by the fireplace sipping hot chocolate type feel. After a while, I had a whole mix, so here it is:
French Stack Attack I.D. – AZLTRON
Outside the City – Young Galaxy
One with the Freaks – The Notwist
When You Were Mine – Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Someone Great – LCD Soundsystem
Fallen Snow – Au Revoir Simone
Figures in the Snow – Graig Markel
Exploding Snow Horse – The Octopus Project
I don’t know how I missed this, Spoon’s new video for “Don’t You Evah” references the viral video of the keep on dancing yellow squishy guy. Except this time he goes on an adventure through (I’m Assuming) Tokyo. Look closely for cameos from Jim Eno and Brit Daniel. If there were justice in the world, kids everywhere would get a keep on dancing yellow squishy and a copy of Spoon’s Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. You know what they say, “Be the change you want to see in the world”…
and I ran into this on a jazz website
Well Did You Evah – Bing Crosby & Cole Porter
Similar spelling… coincidence? or conspiracy theory?
It’s Thanksgiving, so that means I am going to do a little extra today by posting my radio show track by track, including my custom little promotional advertisements, which I enjoy way too much. Keep an ear out for next week, there’s going to be even more ridiculous promos, which are my favorite thing ever right now.
AZLTRON Station ID #1
Truck – The Octopus Project
Almost Ready – Dinosaur Jr.
Scientist – The Dandy Warhols
I Can Cook – Grafton Primary
Short Sharp Shock – (We Are) Performance
She Don’t Use Jelly – Flaming Lips
What Would Wolves Do? – Les Savy Fav
So Many Frequencies – Midnight Juggernauts
Unlucky In Love – Greg Summerlin
The Kids From Orange County – Moving Units
It’s crazy, before a new indie song can humbly rest into our frontal lobes, it has to be covered. If I remember right, it even took “Crazy” a couple months before the onslaught of coverage. The new cover is Ruby Isle’s much more electronic take on the Hello, Blue Roses song Shadaw Falls. The Kindercore label that supports Ruby Isle said:
Here it is, the first show in full that I successfully recorded.
In the same spirit of otherworldly dance/rockers the Klaxons comes Melbourne’s Midnight Juggernauts. Their debut album Dystopia, throbs with equal parts psychedelia and stomping beats. Often times sounding like the raucous procreation of David Bowie and Justice. If you’re headed into another dimension via experimental space-craft anytime soon, The Midnight Juggernauts might be just the thing for you.
So Many Frequencies – Midnight Juggernauts
Tombstone – Midnight Juggernauts
Do you remember those “Greatest Hits” collections of the 1980′s that over saturated the airwaves weekend afternoons? I do, particularly the “What’s on Your Mind (Pure Energy)” song by The Information Society. Years later, I can safely blame a large part of my musical taste on these commercials, particularly being exposed to New Order’s “Bizarre Love Triangle” from them as well. Anyway, since then I’ve re-examined Information Society and found them to be a great deal sillier than I thought they were in my youth. The huge hair, the science fiction clips, and barrages of silly FX rhythms were a sign of late 80′s club culture, but there’s something endearing about their mix and match Spock-Rock that carries through to today.
I haven’t had a reason to write about Information Society before other than maybe as a fun entry for a slow day, but they released a new album “Synthesizer” earlier this year. Like most New Wave comebacks their latest release has taken a turn for the dark to conceal their former silliness. Singer Christopher Anton takes a noticeably David Gahan-esque vocal style for the album. While the songs ride on safe rave-house techno that only occasionally erupts into a full on pop collages, they are surprisingly not as embarrassing as you’d think. They’ve tempered their excessive sound with vintage sounds evoking their 1980′s halcyon days without a lot of the cringe-able tacky-ness that they devolved into in the 90′s. While there’s nothing new or innovative about the album, it’s cool that that Information Society can still stand with the best of the New Wave copycats.
What’s On Your Mind (Pure Energy) – Information Society
It’s been three years since the Moving Units released a full album and you can tell immediately that the band has progressed past their Rapture worshiping punk/funk style and looked farther back, taking more influence from Post-Punk. Unlike the Rapture who went straight for a polished pop sound, The Moving Units, while still more polished, kept the dark and sleek element to their music.
The electronics are brought more to the forefront on Hexes for Exes, the lead off single “Crash ‘N’ Burn Victims” starts off with a descending digitized bass line that subtly leads to handclaps and a digitized beat accented by synth that recalls “Anyone” from their previous album. This is a very good thing, since that was my favorite track off of the previous album. Another song that makes great use of that electronic bass sound and Flock of Seagulls style chorused guitar riffs to make an ominous atmosphere is “The Kids from Orange County”, which is a front runner for my favorite song off of the album. One of the other front runners is the bouncy Age of Consent-ish “Dark Walls”. While Hexes For Exes trades in it’s raw funk energy for post-punk propulsion it is just as good if not better than Dangerous Dreams.
Anyone – The Moving Units (Dangerous Dreams)
Nail it to the Cross – The Moving Units (Hexes For Exes)
The Kids From Orange County – The Moving Units (Hexes For Exes)
So I have a show that is broadcast from WNYO every Monday from 11-noon. I know that many people are in class or at work and cannot listen. However I am in the process of developing techniques and schedules so that everyone can listen to my show. If you can you should definitely listen next week because I have a special guest co-host. Anyway one of my plans is to post all the tracks I’ve played the same day.
I realize that it is Wednesday morning and that I am posting Monday’s show. So, I’ll just get to it.
Stack Attack Station ID – AZLTRON
The Girls – Calvin Harris
I am Somebody – DJ Mehdi (Ft. Chromeo)
Live a Litte – (We Are) Performance
Starlett Johanssen – The Teenagers
Despite What You’ve Been Told – Two Gallants
Is This The Last Time? – Spoon
He Keeps Me Alive – Sally Shapiro
P.S. You Rock My World – The Eels
Nothing Lasts Forever – Echo & The Bunnymen
Cut Cut Paste – Tokyo Police Club
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