The Radio's Hot Sun

6/22 Show
Only one link this week, but its to a Daytrotter session featuring Little Joy. Certainly worth your time.

Artist / Song
The Shaky Hands / I'm Alive
State Bird / I Saw the Light
Little Joy / No One's Better Sake
Spoon / Back to the Life
Spiritualized / I Gotta Fire
Wilco / You Never Know
Grizzly Bear / Two Weeks
Suckers / Easy Chairs
Yeasayer / Sunrise
Black Moth Super Rainbow / Born on a Day the Sun Didn't Rise
Sunset Rubdown / Apollo and the Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh!
Handsome Furs / The Radio's Hot Sun
Wolf Parade / I'll Believe in Anything
Kurt Vile / Freeway
Viva Voce / Octavio
Jonathan Richman / Parties in the USA
The Modern Lovers / Roadrunner
The Velvet Underground / Lonesome Cowboy Bill (live)
Television / Marquee Moon
Talking Heads / Don't Worry About the Government
Eels / That Look You Give That Guy
Apostle of Hustle / Soul Unwind
White Rabbits / Rudie Fails
The Strange Boys / Untitled
Phoenix / Lisztomania
The Phenomenal Handclap Band / All of the Above
Passion Pit / Sleepyhead
Shout Out Out Out Out / How Do I Maintain, Pt. II

This Must Be The Place

6/15 Show
Music is My Girlfriend went well this week. Lots of new stuff, some older tracks, previewed upcoming concerts, no bad requests or hate calls, etc. The show was generally mellower than most MIMGs with mostly acoustic stuff taking the place of the danceable electro I sometimes play at the end of the show.

This Thursday the 18th, KBUT is presenting the classic Talking Heads concert film "Stop Making Sense" at the Majestic Theatre. Thus, you may notice a couple live Talking Heads tracks in today's playlist.

Hey! Guess what! Links are back. Dara Puspita kicks ass. Also, Peter Bjorn & John's "Nothing to Worry About" is 320x better without the screaming kids chorus.

Artist / Song
Talking Heads / Life During Wartime
Fanfarlo / Finish Line
Fruit Bats / My Unusual Friend
Heavy Hometown / Hold Hands Plans
Apostle of Hustle / Eazy Speaks
Au Revoir Simone / Shadows
Still Flyin / Good Thing It's a Ghost Town Around Here
Architecture in Helsinki / Do the Whirlwind
Get Back Guinozzi / Police & Thieves
Peter Bjorn & John / Nothing to Worry About
Violens / Doomed (MGMT remix)
Highlife / F Kenya Rip
Dara Puspita / Believe Me
Smith Westerns / Be My Girl
Mark Sultan / Hold On
Talking Heads / This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
The Fiery Furnaces / The End is Near
Belle & Sebastian / The Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner
The Felice Brothers / Penn Station
AA Bondy / Witness Blues
Radiohead / House of Cards
Amanez / Khala My Friend
Bill Callahan / Faith/Void
Antony & the Johnsons / Fistful of Love
DeVotchKa / Transliterator
Drummer / Diamonds to Shake
Talking Heads / Once in a Lifetime

From Blown Speakers

6/08 Show
Lots of "older" tracks this week that I was profusely spinning a couple of years ago. Not too many new releases were moving me this week.

Artist / Song
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists / Parallel or Together?
The New Pornographers / From Blown Speakers
Dr. Dog / Heart it Races
Sufjan Stevens / Casimir Pulaski Day
Zee Avi / Kantoi
Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele / 26 Miles
Jens Lekman / A Sweet Summer's Night on Hammer Hill
Boy Least Likely To / Be Gentle With Me
Architecture in Helsinki / It's 5!
Beirut / Elephant Gun
Grizzly Bear / Cheerleader
Here We Go Magic / Only Pieces
Kurt Vile / Freeway
Black Moth Super Rainbow / Twin of Myself
Savoir Adore / Bodies
Jay Reatard / It Ain't Gonna Save Me
Love Language / Lalita
Micachu & the Shapes / Lips
Spirit Spine / How Soon?
Patrick Wolf / Bluebells
Phoenix / Girlfriend
Real Estate / Old Folks
Dana Jewell / Baby Come On
Electrelane / To the East
Toro y Moi / Talamak
Passion Pit / The Reeling
Phoenix / 1901
The Phenomenal Handclap Band / 15 to 20
Cansei Se Ser Sexy / Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above
Starfucker / Medicine
Royskopp / Happy Up Here

Frazzled Rock

6/1 Show
I rolled into Crested Butte about twenty minutes before my show on Monday feeling somewhat discombobulated. Although I spent most of the drive from Denver to CB listening to new music in preparation for the show, I still felt clueless. As such, you may recognize many of the below tunes from previous weeks.

I got to see Menomena, Handsome Furs, White Rabbits and Dent May & Magnificent Ukulele while in Chicago last week. Order of preference? (first to last): Handsome Furs, Dent May, Menomena, White Rabbits. All four were enjoyable though.

Artist / Song
Grizzly Bear / While You Wait for the Others
Here We Go Magic / Collector
The National / Fake Empire
The Rural Alberta Advantage / Don't Haunt This Place
Akron/Family / River
Cotton Jones / Chewing Gum
Woods / September With Pete
Family Portrait / Mega Secrets
Leichtenstein / Postcard
Love is All / Last Choice
Marmoset / Peach Cobbler
Menomena / E is Stable
Menomena / Evil Bee
Handsome Furs / Evangeline
Handsome Furs / All We Want, Baby, Is Everything
Dire Straits / Sultans of Swing *by request
Grizzly Bear / Two Weeks
Kurt Vile / Freeway
Love Language / Lalita
Throw Me the Statue / Lolita
Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele / Oh, Paris!
White Rabbits / Percussion Gum
Spoon / You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
Yeah Yeah Yeahs / Soft Shock
Starfucker / Medicine
Phoenix / Lisztomania
Phoenix / 1901
The Magic Kids / Hey Boy
Girls / Lust for Life
Surf City / Free the City
Suckers / Beach Queen

No Time

5/18 Show
Forgot to post this playlist before I went on vacation...

Artist / Song
John Vanderslice / Too Much Time
The Balky Mule / Range
Here We Go Magic / It's a Surprise
Papercuts / Once We Walked in the Sunlight
Family Portrait / Mega Secrets
Marmoset / Peach Cobbler
Surf City / Free the City
Deerhunter / Circulation
Leichtenstein / Roses in the Park
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart / Everything With You
The Magic Kids / Hey Boy
Camera Obscura / French Navy
Belle & Sebastian / Wrapped Up in Books
Cotton Jones / Gotta Cheer Up
Liam the Younger / Country Wide
Elvis Perkins in Dearland / Shampoo
Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele / You Can't Force a Dance Party
Neko Case / This Tornado Loves You
Cloud Cult / Journey of the Featherless
Harlem Shakes / Sunlight
Foreign Born / Early Warnings
Woods / To Clean
The Soft Pack / Extinction
King Khan & the Shrines / No Regrets
New York Dolls / Personality Crisis
Art Brut / DC Comics & Chocolate Milkshakes
Crocodiles / Soft Skull (In My Room)
Suckers / Beach Queen
Richard Swift / Lady Luck
Thao & the Get Down, Stay Down / Fear & Convenience
Starfucker / Medicine
The Whip / Trash

We'll See the Sun

5/04 Show
Sorry for the late posting of last week's playlist/links, but here it finally is. Some fun stuff this week, including Wilco's cover of Woody Guthrie's "Jolly Banker" & Joel P West's new model of music distribution. I also fully enjoy the new single from Sunset Rubdown. See below for links.

Furthermore, you may have noticed I wasn't on air yesterday (5/11). I was getting my wisdom teeth yanked, but I'll be on next week!

Mp3 links are up.

Artist / Song
Wilco / Jolly Banker
Billy Bragg & Wilco / Walt Whitman's Niece
Joel P West / 28th & NE Davis
Houses / We'll See the Sun
Little Big Adventure / Happiest Times
The Papercuts / A Dictator's Lament
Thao & the Get Down, Stay Down / Bag of Hammers
Elvis Perkins in Dearland / Send My Fond Regards to Lonelyville
Margot & the Nuclear So & So's / As Tall As Cliffs
BLK JKS / Lakeside
Akron/Family / River
The Helio Sequence / Hallelujah
Hearts of Palm / No Water
Hearts of Palm / Valentine
Crocodiles / I Wanna Kill
Surf City / Canned Food
Spirit Spine / How Soon?
tUnE-YaRdS / Sunlight
Suckers / Afterthoughts & TV
Art Brut / Mysterious Bruises
Sunset Rubdown / Idiot Heart
Pomegranates / Svaatzi Uutsi
Still Flyin' / The Hott Chord is Struck
Camera Obscura / Honey in the Sun
Peter Bjorn & John / It Don't Move Me
The Faint / Forever Growing Centipedes
Dan Deacon / Paddling Ghost

Happy Up Here

4/27 Show
Spring in Crested Butte, with all its unstable tendencies, has sprung. Four days of sunshine and 50 degree weather followed by two days of cold, clouds and snow? Yea, that's life, but it makes the nice days that much sweeter. In a rather unrelated correlation, there are a vast amount of worthwhile new releases coming into the studio these days. Art Brut, Akron/Family, Bat for Lashes, The Bicycles, Camera Obscura, Elvis Perkins, Jack-O & the Tennessee Tearjerkers, Junior Boys, Rhett Miller, The Whip & more all found their way onto my harddrive (and, for the most part, my playlist) today. Also, there's a bunch of links this week too!

By the way, Portland was great. If I had to live in a city, I could see myself there. As a bonus, I even got to attend "Independent Record Store Day" and pick up a limited edition Thermals/Thao 7" vinyl. Score!

Check out this Atlas Sound link (or below) for the excellent "Springtime Instrumental" which didn't officially make my playlist today. Its the jam. I should also say the new Suckers EP is really exciting (link below). Further more, I can't believe the Spirit Spine song (also below) was crafted by a Freshman in his dorm room at IU (my alma mater).

Mp3 links are up and running.

Artist / Song
The Cave Singers / Seeds of Night
Japanese Motors / Spendin' Days (acoustic)
Jonathan Richman / The Lovers Are Here & They're Full of Sweat
Richard Buckner / Canyon
Papercuts / Future Primitive
Camera Obscura / French Navy
Atlas Sound / Time Warp
Still Flyin' / The Hott Chord is Struck
Bishop Allen / Dimmer
The Acrylics / Molly's Vertigo
Harlem Shakes / Sunlight
Passion Pit / Moth's Wings
Suckers / Beach Queen
Suckers / Afterthoughts & TV
Black Moth Super Rainbow / Born on a Day the Sun Didn't Rise
Pulp / Mile End
Jarvis Cocker / Angela
Art Brut / Summer Job
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart / Ramona
Woods / Rain On
The Bicycles / Won't She Be Surprised
Thao With the Get Down, Stay Down / DId You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?
Strange Boys / Untitled
Spirit Spine / How Soon?
The Whip / Frustration
Neon Indian / Deadbeat Summer
Empire of the Sun / Walking on a Dream
Royskopp / Happy Up Here
Junior Boys / Bits & Pieces
Dan Deacon / Snookered