Free Music - Nous Non Plus, Casiotone, Voxtrot

Nous Non Plus - Lawnmower Boy
So French pop.

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Young Shields
The name says it all: low-fi and melodramatic.

Voxtrot - The Start of Something
Smiths-y. Thanks Nancy :)

Playlist - New Bin Madness

I dove into the new bin this morning and came out with a lot of catchy stuff.

#		Artist	Track
1		Islands	Don't Call Me Whitney, Bobby
2		The Beta Band	I Know
3		Ratatat	Cherry
4		The Decemberists	We Both Go Down Together
5		Ralph Myerz & The Jack Herren Band	Think Twice
6		Nous Non Plus	Lawnmower Boy
7		Ben Harper	Oppression
8		Edan	Funky Voltron (feat. Insight)
9		Belle & Sebastian	Like Dylan In The Movies
10		Iron & Wine	Each Coming Night
11		Saint Etienne	A Good Thing
12		P:ano	Trouble Ahead
13		Carla Bruni	Quelqu'un m'a dit
14		Briskey	Galactic Jack (Buscemi's Beat to Beatnik Remix)
15		Donovan	There Is A Mountain
16		Brendan Benson	What I'm Looking For
17		Tricky Woo	First Blush
18		Deerhoof	Giga Dance
19		Matt Pond PA	Snow Day
20		Parks & Recreation	La La La La La
21		Elefant	Ester
22		Kind of Like Spitting	Hoax
23		Metric	Combat Baby
24		Fugazi	Afterthought
25		Malcom Middleton	No Modest Bear
26		YMCK	Darling
27		Clap Your Hands Say Yeah	This Home On Ice
28		Yerba Buena	El Burrito
29		Morningwood	Nth Degree
30		The Format	One Shot, Two Shots
31		The Album Leaf	Twenty Two Fourteen

Playlist - Raisins won't assimilate

Nancy and I thought of some band pairings last night, check out these double bills:

Gang of Four & Radio 4
The Decemberists & The Early November
The Cardigans & My Morning Jacket
The Tasty Habits & Cake
The Black Keys & Alicia Keys
The Knife & Spoon

#		Artist	Track
1		Test Icicles	Circle, Square, Triangle
2		Benzos	Mechanical Comrades
3		+/-	Summer Dress
4		Fugazi	I'm So Tired
5		Elephant	Make Up
6		Ted Leo and the Pharmacists	The Angels' Share
7		Disco Biscuits	Float Like A Butterfly
8		Thievery Corporation	Liberation Front
9		Seu Jorge	Rebel Rebel
10		Matt Pond PA	Measure 3
11		Metric	Dead Disco
12		Grandaddy	The Group Who Couldn't Say
13		Wolf Parade	Secret Knives
14		Jose Gonzalez	Crosses
15		Stars	Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
16		The Lovekevins	Happy Happy
17		The Happies	The Boy Who Knows
18		Suburban Kids With Biblical Names	Funeral Face
19		Girls in Hawaii	Time To Forgive the Winter
20		Pinback	Chaos Engine
21		RJD2	Final Frontier (feat. Blueprint)
22		The Postal Service	Clark Gable
23		K T Tunstall	Suddenly I See
24		Thao Nguyen	What About
25		Bloc Party	This Modern Love
26		Feist	Inside and Out
27		Kind Of Like Spitting	Scene
28		Carla Bruni	Raphael
29		Brendan Benson	Flesh & Bone
30		The Magic Numbers	Morning's Eleven

Playlist - First show of Spring 2006

What a great way to start the semester! Ghostface and I kept a pretty good balance of music and banter through the show, and we piloted a couple of new features.

The first was "Yoga on Tape", which I can't decide if I like. It has potential, I think. The second feature we tried was "Aural Research" where we chose a song that is written in an interesting way and analysed its unique qualities. This week we took a look at "Indo Silver Club" by Daft Punk, in which the melody is muted on the downbeat. This gives the listener the sensation that the bass is heavy enough to make them incapable of hearing the melody. Daft Punk later plays the melody alone, and it's more obvious what is going on.

On a side note - the playlists I post here will now include links to free music when I have them at hand. Links on an artist are for other songs by them, while a linked song title is that specific song.

#		Artist	Track
1		Feist	Sacred Heart
2		Wheat	These Are Things
3		Arctic Monkeys	Mardy Bum
4		The Unicorns	Sea Ghost
5		Thao Nguyen	City Sky
6		The Faint	Worked Up So Sexual
7		The Coral	Bill McCai
8		The Arcade Fire	Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
9		Andrew Bird	Measuring Cups
10		Head Like A Kite	Circus
11		The Soft Explosions	Sister Come On
12		Sufjan Stevens	Casimir Pulaski Day
13		The Dandy Warhols	I Am Over It
14		The Zutons	Havana Gang Brawl
15		Piebald	American Hearts
16		Jose González	Heartbeats (The Knife Cover)
17		Eels	Grace Kelly Blues
18		The Dismemberment Plan	Sentimental Man
19		Mando Diao	Little Boy Jr
20		Kings Of Convenience	Know How (feat. Feist)
21		Carla Bruni	Le Plus Beau du Quartier
22		Broken Social Scene	KC Accidental
23		Bright Eyes	First Day of My Life
24		Ted Leo and the Pharmacists	The Angels' Share
25		Brendan Benson	Cold Hands (Warm Heart)