I don’t think we’ve played this. But I also want to call attention to how awesome Speedy Ortiz frontwoman Sadie Depuis is. So read this article before you watch the video. Maybe even go buy yourself a Gender is Over t-shirt. Ok, now you’re good.
Radio show occurred. It was good. Here is what we played.
| Artist | Album | Song |
| Hawkwind | Space Ritual | Hurry on Sundown |
| Thee Oh Sees | Putrifiers II EP | Lupine Fiasco |
| Trementina | Almost Reach the Sun | Kisses in Your Eyes |
| White Reaper | White Reaper Does It Again | B.T.K. |
| Widowspeak | “Gun Shy” 7″ | Wicked Game (Chris Isaak cover) |
| The Kitchen Cinq | Everything But | You’ll Be Sorry Someday |
| Carousel | 2113 | Jim’s Song |
| Yo La Tengo | Stuff Like That There | Butchie’s Theme (Lovin’ Spoonful cover) |
| Unwound | 7/26/2001 | Kandy Korn Rituals |
| Air Waves | ep | Shine On |
| The WIldebeests | 7″ | Pointless |
| Conspiración Autista | lp | Solanas Maqullada |
| The Wicked Farleys | Make It It | Dig the Ring |
| Bunny’s a Swine | Calling Out | Lasell |
| Bratmobile | potty mouth | Cherry Bomb |
| Apart | Gray Light | Candles and Calendar |
| Tortuganónima | Split w/ UH | Interludio |
| Y.A.C.H.T. | Shangri-La | Tripped and Fell in Love |
| Strange Boys | And Girls Club | Poem Party |
| Unknown Mortal Orchestra | Multi-Love | The World is Crowded |
| Slowdive | Souvlaki | When the Sun Hits |
| Bombino | Nomad | Amidinine |
| Puffy Areolas | 1982: Dishonorable Discharge | All Day |
| Los Halos | Leaving Ya | Blue Star |
| janitor joe | Big Metal Birds | Early Retirement |
| Pow Wows | Nightmare Soda | Pandemic #44 |
| Lady Lamb | After | Batter |
| Westkust | Last Forever | Drown |
| The Ethical Debating Society | New Sense | Creosote |
| Gunk | Sugarsoap | Bom Bom |
| Gunk | Gradual Shove | Terrified |
| Nots | We are Nots | Reactor |
| Screaming Females | Rose Mountain | Burning Car |
| Acid Baby Jesus | lp | Android Robot |
| Tame Impala | Currents | Yes I’m Changing |
| Grand Piano | Sea EP | Octopus pt. 1 |
| Sunflower Bean | Show Me Your Seven Secrets | 2013 |
| The Books | Thought for Food | Motherless Bastard |
| The Blind Shake | Key to a False Door | Monofactory |
| Tindersticks | Waiting for the Moon | 4.48 Psychosis |
| Crain | 7″ | Crackhouse |
| angelic milk | Pale | Hunted Birds |
| The M’s | The M’s | Banishment of Love |
| Best Coast | California Nights | Heaven Sent |
| Dom Flemons | Til’ The Seas | Georgia Drumbeat |
| Dinosaur Jr. | Dinosaur | Gargoyle |
| Desperfecto | split with Rehusar | Fracaso |
| Korea Girl | LP | B-Side |
| Le Tigre | Feminist Sweepstakes | Well Well Well |
Anybody who listens to the show with any regularity has probably caught on to my predilection for The American Analog Set. And while singer Andrew Kenny has kept somewhat busy since that band’s dissolution with The Wooden Birds, news of his artistic output tends to leak out quite slowly. That’s why I’m so excited to hear that Kenny is providing an original score for Alex R. Johnson’s upcoming film Two Step. Part of that score includes a solo take on The Wooden Birds’ “Long Time to Lose It”, posted above.
More info on the movie can be found here.
I like this track. They have a new lp coming out or it just came out. Seems like it’s worth a listen.
And in this new video, they get seriously trippy.
Though These Arms are Snakes broke up quite a few years ago, now, I’ll always remember them as 1.) owning one of my favorite guitar tones of all time, and 2.) being the band I saw at just the right time in my life when a raucous, nihilistic live show seemed like the perfect form of therapy for my young adult angst. I still remember driving to Cleveland with my friend Nina to go see them and watching a crowd member get clocked in the head by a ladder that vocalist Steve Snere dug out of who-knows-where backstage. Keep reading after the jump for a look at how rowdy they could get when playing in front of a sizable crowd.
***An additional note for those of you that may have found your way to the blog over the weekend: Our weekly radio show is on tonight from 9PM – 12AM EST. Tune in to hear what Jim and I sound like when we’re sober/slightly more rational. 88.3FM if you’re in Pittsburgh, and streaming at www.wrct.org everywhere else in the world.***
Mescaline Eyes
Drinking From the Necks of the Ones You Love
Well, in our first excursion into international drunk music blogging on Friday we came across Rehusar. They are awesome. Lots of great anger. Is that a Brett Favre jersey?
Welcome to the third edition of the Interstellar Radio Shower Week in Review. Here in we pick the favorite song posted by the other (ie. Jim picks his favorite Matt song, and Matt his favorite Jim song) and we say why it’s our fav. Also, quick summaries of our other long posts for the week. Basically, herein we navel gaze.
Jim Picks a Matt Song
I could easily go with Minor Victories for the great video giving a sneak peak at their upcoming debut. But the audio peaks are so short. So let’s go with something you can listen to and enjoy. I also really like the intro to Jacuzzi Boys. And the song is good, but something about the exchange with the lady about their name that is very familiar. Anyhow, lots of good stuff again this week from Matt. I’m going to go with Butterscotch Cathedral. Because damn if that doesn’t work.
Matt Picks a Jim Song
Another week full of highlights from Jim. I found myself wishing the Nicole Kidman (not the Nicole Kidman, I assume) song was longer so I could let the synth tone gently massage my brain, but ultimately I’ll go full-on 90’s emo/indie and say my favorite post of the week was Silian Rail’s “Slint if they ever smiled” instrumental, followed very closely by the eternally affable Jad Fair and Jason Willett doing their thing.
Drunk Radio Shower – Chile Edition
One of our newer features is our International Radio Shower series. We will pick a different country each month and highlight some of the interesting music coming from that nation state. The mundane aspect of this will debut next Friday with a glimpse into the Greece music scene.
Last night we debuted one of our more obnoxious features. Similar to the International Radio Shower, we dove into music from Chile. And we did so while drinking extensively. And therefore opining absurdedly.
Click here to check out the 31 bands highlighted during last night’s Drunk Radio Shower.
7″ Highlight – The Ghost Ease’s “Quit Yer Job”
We must be on to something. We posted about The Ghost Ease’s excellent 7″ EP “Quit Yer Job” on Tuesday and the next day I got an e-mail from K Records saying they are distributing it. Well, hey, they have good taste. We must have it too. Check out our full blog post here. Or listen to part of it below.
LP Highlight – Min Diesel’s Mince
This weeks focus album is the new release from Scotland’s Min Diesel. This pure indie rock album is really great. You can read the full post by visiting the blog post or listen to the album below.
Sunday, July 26th Radio Show Playlist
Matt held down the fort. The show featured Web of Sunsets, The Homosexuals, and The Aislers Set. Check out the full playlist here.
I was working in north Jersey this week, and my friend Sam was nice enough to take me out to a show at Brooklyn’s Union Pool. I’d originally intended to write up a review for the blog but, truth be told, not many of the bands really caught my ear (though the crowd was WAY into both Savants and The Yin Yangs, so maybe I just don’t know what I’m talking about). The one exception was locals Acid Dad, who did a good job mixing the Black Lips’ southern charm and White Fence’s hazy psychedelia. “Brain Body” slows things down a bit, but the payoff about halfway through hits hard.
***EDIT*** – Listening to Savants’ bandcamp page, I think I gave them a raw deal in my original post. So here’s one of their songs, too:
New air waves? This makes me very excited. It’s got her trademark guitar style. That’s all you need really. This single is from her upcoming release Parting Glances due out September 18th via Western Vinyl. And it’s a nice tune to relax to while recovering from last night’s drunk radio blogging…
Refresh this post for updates. Follow along on twitter. #drunkradioshower and #chile
8:00pm In just a minute we’re going to roll into a bunch of psyche. But check out this awesome post-rock / math-rock band from Chile. Warm up to this comfortably shifty music.
8:08pm Oops let that go for two songs. The Holydrug Couple… Sacred Bones signees and maybe the most well known band from this scene Stateside. Might as well ease into things.
8:20pm oops we’re slow. just let that band play for a bit. On to the next one. Y’all motherfuckers like MBV, right?
8:30pm and now we go twee. just discovered this an hour before going live with the drunk blog. so there!
8:40pm ok matt brings you… La Hell Gang. BJM-esque rock ‘n roll muzak.
8:50pm Psychedelic Schafferson Jetplane… probably the first band from this scene I heard, and the sound I associate with it. Look up the video to this song, fits the mood perfectly.
9:00 And now we get pretty. so very pretty. reminds me a bit of a Chilean Emiliana Torrini.
9:10pm Let’s pick up the energy.
9:20pm ok we picked this one at random. umm, we’ll let you know what we think.
9:25pm oh that was a good break. Actually those guys seem like terrible people, please don’t give them any more attention than we already did. OK, back to the real tunes. Mi Andromeda toured with Astrobrite, which seems absolutely obvious when you listen to that.
9:35pm we will try another random one. we will so here is 5 minutes of some random dub-step from Chile.
9:40pm ok, let’s try fucking gothics at the beach. because that’s what we do.
9:45pm Watch Out!
9:55pm ok more good music. no more random stuff yet. Chicos de Nazca, featuring members of one of the bands we played already… who I forget… just take my word for it.
10:05pm The final pre-planned song of the night, which means we’ll be getting weird with it shortly. Bookending things another Sacred Bones band. Best accompanied by a bottle of Robitussin.
10:15pm Don’t call child protective services. The kids did picked this though. Seriously don’t call child protective services.
10:25pm this band is mixed in jim’s opinion. But he likes the opening track. He has opinions that no one listens to though so there is that.
10:35pm ok, random for the rest of the night. But we have hope and this looks good.
10:45pm Pontiacs were so good! wow! yay! awesome! and now for our next experiment. Mainly this dude looks like an old co-worker and friend.
10:51pm ok that was good in it’s way but totally ready for something hopefully better. everyone, arm your mind phasers.
10:54pm quick abandonment of that last one. Just ambient doesn’t fit drunk live blogging. But this is starting out really well.
11:04pm wow that was so good. can you match that nueva costa?
11:14pm we’ve been calling this the devil music all night. Doom but psychadelic? Are these tags legit?
11:21pm we thought that this album cover was very swirlies. but how is the music?
11:27pm this is for anyone who doesn’t like drunk radio shower blogging. los fuck you!
11:35pm that was really quite good. This looks like it has potential.
11:45pm gonna be hard to beat that. holy shit Desperfecto is soooooo good. And this is tagged as pop punk. Which is dangerous. Sorry Ryan. Anyhow, let’s find out.
11:55pm We keep eying this one. Could go either way. We all feel that let down is inevitable after Desperfecto, but who knows…
12:00am this one is fuckin medium fi. what the fuck is that? Note that we are playing at random.
12:05am so let’s try something different. sorry bandcamp, time to do some soundcloud.
12:10am omg i’m late! turns out laptops need power. even drunk ones.
Closing comments
I’m tired. We discovered some great shit. Some stuff I liked well enough but maybe won’t listen to much again. And some other stuff. No matter what. Music is something everyone can create and there is all kinds. What I like may not be what you like. But how great is it that we all find lovely tunes that fit our needs. Love music. Will never ever forget a certain split lp. – jim k