Broadcast 01: What Are You Listening to?

Weekly Mix­tape!

The Dis­mem­ber­ment Plan’s Emer­gency & I as been on a con­stant rota­tion. Griz­zly Bear joins the cover / col­lab train by cov­er­ing Hot Chip’s Boy From School. Speak­ing of Hot Chip they released a new album “One Life Stand” includ­ing this song “Thieves in the night”. Phantogram’s full length “Eye­lid Movies” it out check out “Turn if Off” (hey I made that video!). Soul­ful indie rocker Flo­rence + The Machine wants to tell us the “Dog Days” are over. Some­one remixed The Bea­t­les and did the song jus­tice, “Come Together (David Starfire rmx)”. Elec­tro rock­ers Pas­sion Pit have been rather busy remix­ing “This To Shall Pass” an Ok Go song and there is a release of a piano ver­sion of “Sleepy­head”. There is a new Matt & Kim remix float­ing around. Then Holy Toledo… Vam­pire Week­end cov­ers Ran­cid… “Ruby Soho”

Weekly Mix­tape!

This song has been on an almost con­stant loop. Friendly Fires — “Paris” (Aero­plane Remix).
it needs to have a killer video like the orig­i­nal track.

Spoon tops the charts this week with their new album Trans­fer­ence.  Spoon — “Writ­ten in Reverse”

They knocked Vam­pire Week­end down from their one week old on the #1 spot. Vam­pire Week­end opened up for them at San Diego in Decem­ber.  Both “Con­tra” and “Trans­fer­ence” main­tain each bands sig­na­ture sound. Which in this day an age it seems that not only art but orig­i­nal­ity is hard.

This pro­ducer Break­bot invented a new style of music that is called some­thing like “syn­th­funk”. The Whitest Boy Alive have been pro­duc­ing noth­ing but sonic good­ness lately. Give a multi-track to Fred Falke and you have your­self some­thing to dance to. Who added such a nice touch to such a lovely Griz­zly Bear song with a creepy video and an ani­mated one.

The duo Japan­droids, I hate to say it are a “breath of fresh air” not that they aren’t fresh it’s just I don’t have a bet­ter metaphor for it. But Young Hearts Spark Fire is a great sim­ple, fresh, fast, and fun song about life and grow­ing up.

Eigh­teen clas­sics that molded my music taste over the years.
I miss early nineties Alter­na­tive Glam Rock.

Just push play and let it rip.

That is the abridged as EMI doesn’t let you embed their videos (bunch of dicks). So here is the link to rock it right from Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9AWGc0d8ik&feature=PlayList&p=48FE75D131DBACBD&index=0&playnext=1

Here is a New Years Eve / Day Mix­tape. Fea­tur­ing The Dis­mem­ber­ment Plan, Death Cab For Cutie, Thurs­day, U2, Regina Spek­tor, Cur­sive, The Walk­men, and more. All put in a nice YouTube Playlist. It is mostly mel­low but with a few rock­ing and one espe­cially crunk tune.

The Dis­mem­ber­ment Plan’s “The Ice of Boston” has to be our per­sonal favorite. With lyrics like:

…And I stand there, all alone on New Year’s Eve
Buck naked, drenched in cham­pagne, look­ing at a bunch of strangers
Uh, look­ing at them, look­ing at me, look­ing at them, and I say:
“Oh, I’m fine Mom—how’s Washington?”

Happy New Years!

Weekly Mix­tape!

For the week of Decem­ber 13th-19th:

A Side:

The Rakes — Retreat

Whitest Boy Alive — Golden Cage (Fred Falke Remix)

Wild Sweet Orange — Ten Dead Dogs

The Shout Out Louds — Normandie

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B Side:

Lily Allen — Not Fair (Remix)

Albert Ham­mond Jr — Every­one Gets a Star

Peter Bjorn and John — Young Folks

Brand New — At the Bottom

For copy­right rea­sons I do not pro­vide the down­load. You can buy these on Itunes or get the CD.
or
You can Google search for a free down­load if you are so inclined.