Hit It and Quit It

10/16 Fill-In Show
Filled in for my buddy Josh Thursday evening as he headed to Wisconsin for the weekend. He should have fun watching the Colts destroy the Packers on Sunday. (edit: perhaps I spoke too soon...)

Started with some classic punk, then a good dose of new track and a heaping helping from Of Montreal's excellent new album. Closed things out with some uptempo stuff before I shut it down a half hour early at midnight (hence the "hit it and quit it"). Thanks to Zach for stopping by and picking out some tracks.

Artist / Song
Richard Hell & the Voidoids / Blank Generation
The Clash / Career Opportunities (live at Shea Stadium)
The Ramones / 53rd & 3rd
Sex Pistols / Holidays in the Sun
TV on the Radio / Golden Age
Matt & Kim / Daylight
Jay Reatard / See Saw
Shaky Hands / We Are Young
Kings of Leon / Sex on Fire
Hacienda / She's Got a Hold on Me
Mountain Goats / If You See Light
Say Hi to You Mom / Let's Talk About Spaceships
Of Montreal / For Our Elegant Caste
Of Montreal / Touched Something's Hollow
Of Montreal / An Eluardian Instance
Of Montreal / Gallery Piece
Holy F*ck / Super Inuit (live)
Ratatat / Shempi
Roots Manuva / Witness (1 Hope)
Gang Gang Dance / House Jam
Passion Pit / Sleepyhead
Mercury Rev / Senses on Fire (Fujiya & Miyagi remix)
Cut Copy / Far Away
Empire of the Sun / Walking on a Dream
Cut Copy / LIghts and Music

Stay Hungry

10/13 Show
Free 6th row tickets to David Byrne in Denver was more than worth the 10+ hours of driving required in the last 24 hours. I had planned to get my radio show covered, but I was so inspired and excited by Byrne's live show that I decided to wake up early and drive back to CB in time for Music is My Girlfriend. Obviously the concert is the reason for the glut of Talking Heads and Byrne/Eno tracks in this playlist.

I came back to KBUT to find loads of new and exciting albums in the studio. To name a few: Of Montreal, I'm From Barcelona, Margot & the Nuclear So & So's, among others. I should be digging into these during the next week, so expect to hear more tracks off them then.

Links will be up soon, hopefully.

Artist / Song
Talking Heads / Artists Only (live 8/8/79)
Talking Heads / Stay Hungry (live 8/8/79)
David Byrne & Brian Eno / Strange Overtones
Of Montreal / Mingusings
Delta Spirit / People C'mon
Talking Heads / Houses in Motion (live)
Talking Heads / Heaven (live)
Margot & the Nuclear So & So's / O' What a Nightmare
Matt & Kim / Good Ole Fashioned Nightmare
Ratatat / Dura
David Byrne & Brian Eno / Life is Long
Broken West / Perfect Games
Elvis Costello / (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea
the Brazda Brothers / Lonely Time
Nick Drake / Pink Drake
Elliott Smith / Angel in the Snow
Gangi / Fire in Cairo
Miniature Tigers / Cannibal Queen
I'm From Barcelona / Headphones
Peter, Bjorn, and John / Up Against the Wall
Ratatat / Can You Tell
Spoon / Back to the Life
Her Space Holiday / Sleepy Tigers
Pete Yorn / American Blues, Vol 1
Birdmonster / I Might Have Guessed
Beck / Loser (live London 2003)
Mercury Rev / Senses on Fire (Fujiya & Miyagi remix)
Weird Tapes / TV Romance
Cut Copy / Unforgettable Season
Hercules & Love Affair / Hercules Theme
Ratatat / Wildcat

Loosen Up

10/6 Show
Technical difficulties have taken their toll at Music is My Girlfriend Headquarters. I moved into a new house at the beginning of the month and don't have an internet connection as of yet, thus limited my web-based trolling, downloading, and show preparation. Even worse, the CD drive in my laptop has decided to stop reading CDs, meaning I can't rip endless amounts of new music from KBUT during my show. These technical issues have severely altered my radio show preparation, but I feel that may have produced a more well-rounded show on Monday.

Of note this week is Beck's live version of "Guess I'm Doing Fine" from the Union Chapel, London show in 2003. You can find the entire show by following the link. And yes, I played Passion Pit's "Sleepyhead" again.

A couple mp3s are up and running. I may stop linking repeat mp3s (songs that I have played and linked to in previous weeks). Any thoughts?

Artist / Song
Birdmonster / Born to Be Your Man
Little Joy / No One's Better Sake
Vampire Weekend / I Stand Corrected
The Morning Benders / Mother and Child Reunion
Okkervil River / Singer Songwriter
Sam Champion / Always the Same
The Broken West / Perfect Games
The Strokes / Hard to Explain
The Shaky Hands / Loosen Up
Wild Sweet Orange / Either/Or
Delta Spirit / Children
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah / Is This Love?!
French Kicks / Said So What
The Dutchess & the Duke / Mary
Earlimart / Face Down in the Right Town
The Spinto Band / Summer Grof
Band Marino / Every Time I Make a Girl Cry I Know I've Done My Job
Starf*cker / German Love
the Notwist / Pilot
Fujiya & Miyagi / Pussyfooting
Prefuse 73 / One Word Extinguisher
Beck / Guess I'm Doing Fine (live in London 2003)
Blitzen Trapper / Furr
Richard Swift / Would You
Young Coyotes / When I Was in the Fire
The Kooks / Kids (MGMT cover)
TV on the Radio / Golden Age
The Faint / Forever Growing Centipedes
Hot Chip / Hold On
Passion Pit / Sleepyhead

I Shall Be Released

9/29 Show
This week: the usual mix of new tracks with some older gems. The Booker T track at the end of the show was to promote Thursday night's Booker T Jones concert here in Crested Butte. Sadly, I think I have to work.

Be sure to check out the free Wilco / Fleet Foxes download below. All you have to do is promise to vote in the upcoming election and the song is yours. Also, the Empire of the Sun track is a pretty ridiculous MGMT-esque jam.

Artist / Song
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson / Woodfriends
Wolf Parade / Language City
TV on the Radio / Halfway House
Passion Pit / Sleepyhead
Brendan Canning / Hit the Wall
War on Drugs / Taking the Farm
Broken West / Auctioneer
Hacienda / She's Got a Hold on Me
Architecture in Helsinki / Like it or Not, Version 2
Donkeys / Nice Train
David Byrne & Brian Eno / Life is Long
Kooks / Kids (MGMT cover)
Wilco / I am Trying to Break Your Heart
Wilco w/ Fleet Foxes / I Shall Be Released
Gringo Starr / All Y'all
Shaky Hands / We Are Young
Hives / The Stomp
The Muslims / On My Time
The Sonics / Strychnine
Band Marino / Everytime I Make a Girl Cry I Know I've Done My Job
Blitzen Trapper / Furr
Restaurant / Home
Mason Proper / Fog
Chad Van Gaalen / Phantom Anthill
Fujiya & Miyagi / Knickerbocker
Passion Pit / I've Got Your Number
Empire of the Sun / Walking on a Dream
Cut Copy / Far Away
CSS / Beautiful Song
TV on the Radio / Golden Age
Booker T & the MG's / Green Onions

A-Z, 4.0

9/22 Fill-In Show
What? Another show today? Indeed. The venerable King of Soul himself (aka Arvin) had a concert to attend in Denver, so I filled in for him tonight from 8:30-10:30. Having already played my weekly load of new music and whatnot a mere 4 hours prior, I went with an old standard: the A-Z show.

No links, 'cause its all old (or I've linked to it many times prior).

Artist / Song
The Avalanches / Since I Left You
The Beatles / Lovely Rita
Cat Power / He War
Dodos / Winter
Everything Absent or Distorted / The Exit Parade
Franz Ferdinand / Come on Home
Ghosthustler / Only Me to Trust
Hercules and Love Affair / Blind
I Love You But I've Choosen Darkness / According to Plan
Jonquil / Whistle Low
Kinks / Autumn Almanac
Low / Breaker
The Mae Shi / Run to Your Grave
The Notwist / One with the Freaks
Of Montreal / A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger
Passion Pit / Better Things
Quiet Village / Circus of Horror
Ratatat / Lex
The Shins / Fighting in a Sack
Tap Tap / Way to Go, Boy
U2 / Sunday Bloody Sunday
Velvet Underground / Pale Blue Eyes
The Walkmen / The Rat
X / Johnny Hit & Run Pauline
Yo La Tengo / Autumn Sweater
Zookeeper / Rosemarie, etc.
Cut Copy / Out There on the Ice
Esau Mwamwaya, etc. / Get it Up

First of Fall

9/22 Show
Its the first day of fall, and my song selections have absolutely nothing to do with that fact. Enjoy the new music.

Mp3s will be up soon?

Artist / Song
Passion Pit / Sleepyhead
MGMT / Weekend Wars
Fujiya and Miyagi / Knickerbocker
Memory Cassette / Surfin
Birdmonster / Born to be Your Man
Broken West / Perfect Games
Pomegranates / Appreciations
Mason Proper / Lock & Key
Frightened Rabbit / Square Nine
Okkervil River / Starry Stairs
Rosewood Thieves / Silver Gun
Benoit Pioulard / Idyll
Benoit Pioulard / Brown Bess
Joose Keskitalo / Saimaan Ramallan
Morning Benders / Mother and Child Reunion
Spiritualized / Soul on Fire
Spiritualized / I Gotta Fire
Dr. Dog / The Rabbit, the Bat, the Reindeer
Dr. Dog / Heart it Races
Band Marino / Every Time I Make a Girl Cry I Know I've Done My Job
Susumu Yokota / Golden Years
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds / Death is Not the End
Pivot / In the Blood
Johnny Foreigner / Hennings Favorite
TV on the Radio / Golden Age
Night Marchers / I Wanna Deadbeat You
Ezra Furman & the Harpoons / We Should Fight
Shaky Hands / World's Gone Mad
Mates of State / The Re-Arranger
Santogold / L.E.S. Artistes

Sleepy Head

From 9/15 show
A sprinkled a few post-Monolith thoughts into this show, but you can expect a fuller, written recap very shortly. Its been a busy week/weekend, so please excuse my tardiness on the matter.

If you haven't checked out Passion Pit's new jam "Sleepyhead," you're missing out on one of the best tracks of the year. Expect to hear to it often in the coming weeks (as was the case in the previous weeks).

Mp3 links should be up later today after my show.

Artist / Song
Ra Ra Riot / Each Year
Matt + Kim / Good Ol' Fashioned Nightmare
Mason Proper / Fog
Birdmonster / Born to be Your Man
Broken West / Auctioneer
Alejandro Escovedo / Always a Friend
Calexico / House of Valparaiso
Okkervil River / Calling and Not Calling My Ex
Kooks / Kids (MGMT cover)
Shaky Hands / We Are Young
Wolf Parade / Modern World
CSS / Rat is Dead (Rage)
Cut Copy / Lights and Music
Fujiya and Miyagi / Sore Thumb
Fandeath / When the Money's Right
Weird Tapes / Home
Blitzen Trapper / Furr
Lackthereof / Last November
Foals / Ballons
Everything Absent or Distorted / The Exit Parade
Ra Ra Riot / Dying is Fine
Arcade Fire / The Well and the Lighthouse
Zookeeper / Snow in Berlin
Vampire Weekend / M79
Ben Folds / You Don't Know Me (ft. Regina Spektor)
The Muslims / On My Time
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists / Sons of Cain
Hearts of Palm / No Water
Passion Pit / Sleepyhead