It's Never That Easy Though, Is It?

1/19 Show
Sometimes people are annoying. Especially when they thieve the cables needed to connect my new laptop to the audio board at KBUT. Fresh from making a couple of turns on the ski hill, I arrived at the studio psyched to do my first show with the powers of my new Apple. Instead, I had to perform a makeshift first half hour while Chad, the program director, graciously when out and bought a new cable. Ok, so it wasn't that terrible, but the flustered mood it put me in lasted for much of the show.

Regardless, there is some decent new music this week. The "Of Great and Mortal Men" Presidential song project released its final recording: a song for Obama. Its timely, if nothing else. Be sure to check out: the Dirty Projectors/David Byrne collaboration, the new Decemberists track, Those Darlins, Odawas, Dent May, Real Estate, and especially NewVillager. The new Matt & Kim album is pretty terrific as well.

I also learned that Wilco's "Hummingbird" now unfotunately reminds me of the vastly overrated film "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". I don't know if I can ever listen to A Ghost is Born again.

Artist / Song
Matt and Kim / Daylight
Matt and Kim / Good Ol' Fashioned Nightmare
Totally Michael / Don't Stop
Los Campesinos! / It's Never That Easy Though, Is It? (Song for the Other Kurt)
The Helio Sequence / Hallelujah
French Kicks / So Far We Are
Dirty Projectors w/ David Byrne / Knotty Pine
Little Joy / How to Hang a Warhol
M. Ward / Never Had Nobody Like You
Odawas / Harmless Lover's Discourse
Noah and the Whale / Five Years Time
Those Darlins / Wild One
The Tallest Man on Earth / Pistol Dreams
Jose Gonzalez / Down the Line
Belle & Sebastian / She's Losing It
The Decemberists / The Rake's Song
A.C. Newman / Like a Hitman, Like a Dancer
Christian Kiefner (ft. Will Johnson) / Someone to Wake (the Obama song)
Elvis Perkins in Dearland / Shampoo
Wolf Parade / Shine a Light
Handsome Furs / All We Want, Baby, Is Everything
Handsome Furs / I'm Confused
The Heartless Bastards / The Mountain
The Heartless Bastards / Searching for the Ghost
My Morning Jacket / Bring It On Home to Me (live)
The Henry Clay People / You Can Be Timeless
WIlco / Hummingbird
Real Estate / Suburban Beverage
Eternal Summers / Fall Straight Back
Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele / You Can't Force a Dance Party
NewVillager / Rich Doors