The Fable of the Real World

2011-12-25T23:39:00.002-05:00

Winter hiatus! Obviously this blog has been long neglected. Mostly it's been from a lack of awareness of the outside world on my part! Anyway, hopefully we will get some reviews/random musings up next semester. Or next week. AHHH. PRESSURE.

2011-09-02T13:30:00.000-04:00

St. Vincent- Cruel
Her Space Holiday- Ghost In The Garden
Radiohead- Staircase
Hemmingbirds- Light And Darkness
The Do- The Wicked And The Blind
Eleanor Friedberger- I Won't Fall Apart On You Tonight
Regina Spektor- Silly Eye-Color Generalizations
Elliott Smith- No Name 3
Doctors And Dealers- Backstabber
Oneida- Pre-Human
The Jezabels- Dark Storm
Fall On Your Sword- The First Time I Saw Jupiter
Momus- Gibbous Moon
Maria Taylor- Happenstance
Company Of Thieves- Gorgeous/Grotesque
Cymbals Eat Guitars- Definite Darkness
Ochre- Advanced Tree Surgery
Debbie Neigher- Home
Stars- Life 2: The Unhappy Ending (Film Score)
The Calm Blue Sea- Literal
Arcade Fire- Neighborhood 3 (Power Out)
Emmy The Great- Trellick Tower
Pictureplane- Real Is A Feeling

2011-08-26T18:06:00.002-04:00

Finally posting a playlist...

Com Truise- Ether Drift
Innerpartysystem- And Together
Active Child- You Are All I See
The Hundred In The Hands- The Beach
Florence + The Machine- What The Water Gave Me
Emilie Simon- The Way I See You
Oh Land- Human
The Jezabels- Mace Spray
Eleanor Friedberger- Roosevelt Island
Sia- The Co-Dependent
Son Lux- Chase
Bodies Of Water- Like A Stranger
Architecture In Helsinki- YR Go To
The Do- Gonna Be Sick!
Elliott Smith- Drive All Over Town
Thurston Moore- Benediction
Tiger Darrow- Takes Time
Maria Taylor- This Could Last A Lifetime
Cumulus- Hey Love
Strange Holiday- Hands
Fruit Bats- Wild Honey
Feldberg- House Of Fun
Her Space Holiday- Death Of A Writer

2011-06-18T18:36:00.001-04:00

Abbe May- Disney On Acid
Alegebro- Tangent
Art Brut- Lost Weekend
Unknown Mortal Orchestra- FFunny Frendss
Arrington De Dionyso's Malaikat Dan Singa- Kerasukan
Coconot- El Final Del Sonido Tropical
Schwefelgelb- Wie Ich Heiss
Gardens And Villa- Orange Blossoms
Mildlife- Milk And Wool
Austra- Shoot The Water
The Belle Brigade- Where Not To Look For Freedom
Kahimi Karie- Good Morning World
Miwa Gemini- The Other Half Of Me
Hercules And Love Affair- Painted Eyes
Boris- Attention Please
Foster The People- Helena Beat
Herzog- Slowest Romance
Clock Opera- Belongings (Radio Edit)
Ian Axel- Girl I Got A Thing
The Elected- Who Are You
Morning After Youth- Lived
The Happy Hollows- Tambourine
I'm From Barcelona- Always Spring
Braids- Plath Heart
Savoir Adore- Loveliest Creature

2011-05-27T18:25:00.002-04:00

Wise Blood- B.I.G. E.G.O.
Bella Ruse- An Animal A Natural
Big Fox- Saturday
Computer Magic- Electronic Fences
The Do- Dust It Off
De Montevert- Skyll Pa Mig
The Cars- Sad Song
Savoir Adore- Honestly
The Elected- Babyface
Akudama- Rose Colored Glasses
Figurines- Glee
Cold Cave- Villains Of The Moon
Ancient Ocean- Triangle Of Sprirt
The Oddword Ft. Gtronic- Chop Chop
French Horn Rebellion- Brasilia Girl
Jessica 6- Prisoner Of Love
Midnight Magic- Drop Me A Line
Gold Panda- Quitter's Raga
Blue Ducks- High Season In Helliconia
Memory Tapes- Today Is Our Life
Eksi Ekso- Carte De Visite
The Go! Team- I Never Needed It Now So Much
Jets Overhead- Bystander
The Bird And The Bee- She's Gone
Chop Chop- Victory
Company Of Thieves- Death Of Communication

2011-05-21T09:29:00.001-04:00

Grim Dunkels- Lethargic
Colourmusic- Dolphins And Unicorns
Ochre- Circadies
Of Montreal- Black Lion Massacre
Bird People- Hollow Sun
Emilie Simon- Dreamland
The Most Serene Republic- The Church Of Acorns
Wagon Christ- Sentimental Hardcore
Architecture In Helsinki- Everything's Blue
Com Truise- Pyragony
Theophilus London- Flying Overseas
Smoosh- Time
An Horse- Trains And Tracks
Company Of Thieves- Gorgeous/Grotesque
Metric - Gimme Sympathy
The Antlers- Parentheses
C'est La Mort- Nothing Ever Lasts
Okkervil River- Wake And Be Fine
Joshua Stamper- Smoke Signals
The Wilderness Of Manitoba- Hermit
Avett Brothers- Paranoia In Bb Major
Cloud Cult- Running With The Wolves
The Elected- Who Are You
Les Etoiles- Little Measurements
Bella Ruse- Like Spinning Plates
Midday Veil- Divide By Zero
Blue Bird- Don't Leave Me
Marissa Nadler- Wedding
Fever Ray- Keep The Streets Empty For Me

2011-05-20T16:08:00.001-04:00

Find us on 6/7 at Maxwell's in Hoboken for CLOUD CULT!

2011-05-12T14:12:00.000-04:00

French Horn Rebellion- Geomancer's Compass And Other Quasi-Scientific Findings
Barrett Elmore- The Nixie
Nonagon- Mr. Sniggles' House
Ringo Deathstarr- Day Dreamy
Hercules And Love Affair- Blind
D-pulse- Spirit Soul Disco Session 003
Foster The People- Helena Beat
Rye Rye- Never Will Be Mine
The Hundred In The Hands- Young Aren't Young
Ellie Goulding- Under The Sheets
Oh Land- Perfection
New Order- Procession
Eksi Ekso- 14 For 3
Strand Of Oaks- Daniel's Blues
Land Of Talk- Color Me Badd
Pure X- You’re In It Now
Okkervil River- Hanging From A Hilt
Bomba Estéreo- Feelin'
RJD2- Gypsy Caravan
Blaqstarr- Oh My Darlin'
Midnight Magic- Beam Me Up
Of Montreal- Slave Translator
The Happy Hollows- Labyrinth
Satanicpornocultshop- It's Not Unusual
Noah And The Whale- Tonight's The Kind Of Night

2011-05-12T14:09:00.000-04:00

Wye Oak- Fish
Joan As Police Woman- The Magic
Yeasayer- Phoenix Wind
Noah And The Whale- Give It All Back
The Pauses- Little Kids
The Low Anthem- I'll Take Out Your Ashes
Timber Timbre- Too Old To Die Young
Barrett Elmore- Dusk (Dance Of The Pixies)
She And Him- Brand New Shoes
Ellie Goulding- Animal
Midday Veil- Anthem
Les Etoiles- Restless Night, Restful Morning
Chop Chop- The Shapeshifter Deception
The Hundred In The Hands- Undressed In Dresden (Jacques Renault Remix)
Ryann Donnelly- Tait Toi Sois Belle
Oh Land- Rainbow
SertOne- Past, Present, Future
Chikita Violenta- Laydown
Figurines- Hanging From Above
Tracing Figures- Whiter Than A Ghost (Remix By Nonagon)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Dull Life
Stuporhero- Ross Street Volume I
Movits!- Kulturarbetblues
I'm From Barcelona- Always Spring

2011-05-12T14:03:00.000-04:00

Oneida- End Of Time
Lumerians- Melting Space
Ted Leo And The Pharmacists- Last Days
Memphis- Five Loops
Chikita Violenta- Siren
Joan As Police Woman- Human Condition
Land Of Talk- Quarry Hymns
Noah And The Whale- Old Joy
Explosions In The Sky- Be Comfortable, Creature
Sandra McCracken- Gypsy Flat Road
Asobi Seksu- Counterglow
The Pauses- Hands Up
Stuporhero- Electric Kool Aid Lawn Chair Test
The Low Anthem- Love And Altar
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart- Belong
Lissie- Bad Romance cover
The Sounds- Better Off Dead
Ellie Goulding- Guns And Horses
Savoir Adore- The Cave Of Good Secrets
Cold Cave- Catacombs
Company Of Thieves- Modern Waste
Oh Land- White Nights
Metric- Twilight Galaxy
Blonde Redhead- Will There Be Stars
Azure Ray- Make Your Heart

2011-05-12T13:58:00.000-04:00

Chikita Violenta- The Monster (Was Last Seen Approaching The Power Plant)
Tristen- Eager For Your Love
French Horn Rebellion- Running Through The Wild
Danielson- Denominator Bluise
Lia Ices- After Is Always Before
Juliette Commagere- Glass
The Bird And The Bee- I Can't Go For That
Lykke Li- I Follow Rivers
Lumerians- Burning Mirrors
Cold Cave- Villains Of The Moon
Esben And The Witch- Warpath
Foster The People- Pumped Up Kicks
Modest Mouse- Dashboard
The Cave Singers- All Land Crabs And Divinity Gh
The Sea And Cake- Up On The North Shore
Azure Ray- Silver Sorrow
High Places- The Modern Things
Undersea Poem- Walking (with Juju)
Ryann Donnelly- Laser Eyes
The Sounds- The Best Of Me
Fever Ray- Concrete Walls
Blonde Redhead- Oslo
The Happy Hollows- Faces

2011-04-05T17:37:00.003-04:00

Elapse-O- Island
The Luyas- Tiny Head
M83 vs Big Black Delta- Fall (Daft Punk remix, Tron OST)
The Hundred in the Hands- Gold Blood
The Octopus Project- Korakrit
Matmos- Tract For Valerie Solanas
Yelle- Que Veux-Tu
White Sea- Ladykiller
Woodfish- Losing My Mind
The Sounds- Something To Die For
Javelin- Cowpoke
Oberhofer- Don'tneedya
Metric- Collect Call
Final Fantasy and Ed Droste- Possibly Maybe (Bjork cover, Tribute to Post)
Lykke Li- Love Out Of Lust
Thom Yorke, Burial, Four Tet- Mirror
Radiohead- Little By Little
Yo La Tengo- Autumn Sweater
Land Of Talk- Blangee Blee
Asobi Seksu- Deep Weird Sleep
Okkervil River- Wake And Be Fine
Wye Oak- Fish
Savoir Adore- Sparrow
Deerhoof- No One Asked To Dance
Charles Spearin- Mrs. Morris

2011-03-01T18:45:00.002-05:00

Abstract: on growing older and wiser.

Robyn- None Of Dem
The Hundred In The Hands- Commotion
Radiohead- Give Up The Ghost
Young Galaxy- Blown Minded
Boris- Hope
Chilly Gonzales- Final Fantasy
Fujiya And Miyagi- Spilt Milk
Kahimi Karie- Vogue Bambini
Gold Motel- Slow Emergency
Yuna- Decorate
The Happy Hollows- Tambourine
Oberhofer- Away Frm U
Danielson- Grow Up
Nouvelle Vague- Road To Nowhere (Talking Heads Cover)
Bat For Lashes- Strangelove
Lykke Li- I Follow Rivers
Allison Weiss- Fingers Crossed
Lia Ices- Ice Wine
Stars- Wasted Daylight
Land Of Talk- Better And Closer
Metric- Front Row
The Low Anthem- Matter Of Time
The Concretes- Sing For Me
Esben And The Witch- Eumenides
The Russian Futurists- To Be Honest

2011-02-22T17:38:00.008-05:00

On Arcade Fire's Grammy win

Americans seem to enjoy their ignorance a little too much. http://whoisarcadefire.tumblr.com/

But why is there this immense knowledge gap? Was the disparity between good music and popular music always this huge? Celebrity musicians, of all people, should at least try keep themselves culturally informed...

2011-02-22T17:04:00.002-05:00

French Horn Rebellion- This Moment
Cut Copy- Strange Nostalgia For The Future
Young Galaxy- Cover Your Tracks
Mother Of The Forest- Vid Berget
When Saints Go Machine- Pick Up Your Tears And Run
Javelin- Oh! Centra
Deerhoof- Super Duper Rescue Heads!
White Sea- Cannibal Love
Lykke Li- Sadness Is A Blessing
The Russian Futurists- One Night, One Kiss
Fever Ray- Keep The Streets Empty For Me
Juliette Commagere- Hovering In The Wings
Azure Ray- Dancing Ghosts
S- This Way Always
Cruel Summer- Don't Touch
The Concretes- What We've Become
The Dears- Lamentation
Radiohead- Morning Mr Magpie
Big Troubles- Freudian Slips
Akudama- Marzipan Man
K. C. Accidental- Something For Chicago
Chad McCullough And Michal Vanoucek- Soliloquy For D.G.
Swimmingdoll- Last Take
Yo La Tengo- You Can Have It All

2011-02-08T17:22:00.002-05:00

The new spring semester showtime is 8-10AM on Tuesday mornings!

Azure Ray- Silver Sorrow
Blonde Redhead- Will There Be Stars
Savoir Adore- Loveliest Creature (Lightwaves Remix)
French Horn Rebellion- Last Summer
The Russian Futurists- One Night, One Kiss
Young Galaxy- We Have Everything
Midnight Juggernauts- Lifeblood Flow
Destroyer- Chinatown
Gold Motel- Cold Shoulders
Arcade Fire- Crown Of Love
Elliott Smith- Ballad Of Big Nothing
Animal Collective- Peacebone
Chetreo- The Boy Without A Fairy
The Concretes- Crack In The Paint
Christine Owman- Spelling Words
Zeit- Numb
Land Of Talk- Hamburg, Noon
Mini Mansions- Kiddie Hypnogogia
C'est La Mort- Among The Ruins
Tracing Figures- Finally Gone
The Decemberists- Calamity Song
The Low Anthem- Apothecary Love
Metric- Gimme Sympathy
Fujiya And Miyagi- OK

2010-12-10T14:16:00.004-05:00

Chilly Gonzales- I Am Europe
J+J+J- Old People (Take Back The Nite)
David Lynch- Good Day Today
Bjork- To Lee, With Love, Nick
Sufjan Stevens- Now That I'm Older
Radiohead- Where I End And You Begin
The Hundred In The Hands- Pigeons
Glasser- Home
Gold Panda- I'm With You But I'm Lonely
Wye Oak- Civilian [New stuff!]
Leland Sundries Concocts- Elegy
Abe Vigoda- Throwing Shade
Jonathan Boulet- You're A Animal
Hot Panda- The Ghost
Avey Tare- 3 Umbrellas
Mahjongg- Wardance
Ga'An- Servant Eye **Records on Ribs everything up for free download
Les Savy Fav- Clear Spirits
C'est La Mort- Paper Ships
The Bird And The Bee- Private Eyes
Florence + The Machine- Swimming (Live From Hammerstein Ballroom)
Arcade Fire- Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
Bodies Of Water- I Don't Believe In The Sun [The Magnetic Fields cover]

P.S. Support Seattle's KEXP! Help keep independent music alive. http://kexp.org/

2010-12-03T14:41:00.000-05:00

Noisia- Thursday
Fujiya & Miyagi- Sixteen Shades Of Black And Blue
Brian Eno- Dust Shuffle
Crystal Castles- Suffocation
SoulEye- Predestined Fate
French Horn Rebellion- Broken Heart
Shigeto- Relentless Drag
The Phenomenal Handclap Band- You'll Disappear (Horse Meat Disco Remix)
Glasser- Mirrorage
Jane Lui- Southern Winds
Regina Spektor- Apres Moi
Heylady- So Long
Zach Hill- Total Recall
Chris Scharb- I Can Live Forever If I Slowly Die
Floored By Four- Watt
Hauschka- Children
Hot Panda- Start Making Sense
Akudama- Barbershop
Tracing Figures- Distance
We Landed On The Moon- Song Of Few Words
Half-handed Cloud- Out On The Ice, We Face Our Hearts
Artichoke- Cold House
Sia- Oh Father
Jason Collett- Bitter Beauty
Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger- The World Was Made For Men
We Show Up On RadaR- Oh How I Wish To Be A Small Japanese Car

2010-12-02T23:45:00.000-05:00

Some Thoughts on Kant and Cupcakes...

There are cupcakes, purely for consumption and gratification of physical needs, and symphonies, whose beauty stirs our feelings. There is cupcake-like music (e.g. pop songs). There is a spectrum between the two. But this whole spectral range is thrown into confusion when we consider that even the beauty of the symphony may be approached as an item to be consumed, rather than something that awes. Then the significance of the status of some in-between (e.g. oh I don't know, an Of Montreal song) as having in proportions both consumability and beauty is made insignificant as even that which we ought only be in awe of might also be consumed.

2010-11-12T19:41:00.000-05:00

Ben Folds/Nick Hornby- From Above
Of Montreal- Coquet Coquette
S. Carey- Action
The Dresden Dolls- Coin-Operated Boy
The Octopus Project- A Phantasy
Savoir Adore- We Talk Like Machines (The Core In-Studio recording)
Les Savy Fav- High And Unhinged
April Smith- Terrible Things
Lost In The Trees- All Alone In An Empty House
The Welcome Wagon- Sold! To The Nice Rich Man ***of Resurrection Church in BK!!
Paul Hammer- Outside These City Walls ***of Savoir Adore
Land Of Talk- Playita
The Red River- When We Are Wild
Arcade Fire- Wasted Hours
Yo La Tengo- Stockholm Syndrome
Artichoke- Honey
Land Of The Look Behind- September
Belle And Sebastian- Write About Love
Ferraby Lionheart- Harry And Bess
Chilly Gonzales- Bittersuite
M83- *
Gold Panda- Snow And Taxis

2010-11-05T10:48:00.003-04:00

Have been inexcusably lazy with these...

Radiohead- 2 2=5 (The Lukewarm)

Noisia- Diplodocus

The Octopus Project- Glass Jungle ***New album Hexadecagon

Blonde Redhead- My Plants Are Dead

Yeasayer- Madder Red (Henning Furst Remix) ***Weird auto-tune backup vocals

Chilly Gonzales- Pixel Paxil

Thievery Corporation- Satyam Shivam Sundaram

The Kora Band- Za Ayi Neyi

C'est La Mort- Drown Out ***"Starts out sounding like Pornography-era Cure"

Smoosh- In The Fall

Les Savy Fav - Excess Energies

The Dollyrots- Pour Tour Jours

Land Of The Look Behind- Moonlight Lullaby ***From Jersey City!

Fever Ray- Dry And Dusty

Derek Webb- Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread

Ben + Vesper - My Father's Eyes***From Orange, NJ

Sufjan Stevens- Bad Communication

Olof Arnalds- Svif Birki

Belle And Sebastian- Read The Blessed Pages

Gold Motel- Make Me Say

Land Of Talk - Goaltime Exposure

Nouvelle Vague- Blue Monday (New Order) ***Yes, not an Orgy original...

2010-09-27T00:00:00.008-04:00

Stars at Littlefield.

The Night Starts Here.
Soft Revolution.
The Passenger.
We Don't Want Your Body.
Fixed.
Going, Going, Gone.
Look Up.
What the Snowman Learned About Love.
Take Me to the Riot.
I Died So I Could Haunt You.
Wasted Daylight.
The Comeback.
Ageless Beauty.
Heart.
Dead Hearts.
Calendar Girl.

Encore.

Winter Bones.
This Charming Man.
How Much More.
Your Ex-Lover Is Dead.
Tonight.

2010-09-24T15:22:00.000-04:00

Radiohead- There There (The Boney King Of Nowhere)
Cloud Cult- The Strength: Forces Of The Unseen
Of Montreal- Out Riotous Defects (feat. Janelle Monae)
French Horn Rebellion- Beaches And Friends (Hey Champ Remix)
Paper Tiger- The Ritual
Robyn- In My Eyes
Azure Ray- Silver Sorrow
The Swell Season- Two-Headed Boy (cover)
The Books- A Cold Freezin' Night
Arcade Fire- Half Light I
Land Of Talk- Quarry Hymns
Shapes And Sizes- Time Has Practically Stopped
Menomena- Lunchmeat
Ben + Vesper- Hot Thunder
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin- Sink/Let It Sway
The Summer Pledge- Recurring Dream
The Happy Hollows- Tambourine

2010-08-16T21:15:00.002-04:00

Playlists have been on summer vacation, but now they are back and anticipating the new school year. Summer hours (Monday 12-2AM) for only a few more weeks!

Royksopp- Vision One
Cloud Cult- No One Said It Would Be Easy
Menomena- Tithe
The Books- Free Translator
Red Sparowes- A Message Of Avarice Rained Do
Twin Sister- I Want A House
Broken Social Scene- Water In Hell
The Beauties- Hearts Are Down
Tilly And The Wall- Poor Man's Ice Cream
Band Of Horses- Factory
Bon Iver- Lump Sum
Jj- No Escapin' This
Camera Obscura- Other Towns And Cities
The Living Sisters- The Ferris Wheel
R.E.M.- Orange Crush
Portland Cello Project- Hungry Liars
Seabear- We Fell Off The Roof
Blue Ducks- Farewell To Floss
Eisley- Ambulance
Denison Witmer- Carry The Weight
Danielson- When It Comes To You I'm Lazy
The Black Rabbits- Painter, Poet, Prophet, Priest
Smoosh- In The Fall
Kele- Other Side
School Of Seven Bells- I L U
The Jezabels- Easy To Love

2010-06-26T13:06:00.006-04:00

We will be airing the in-studio recording done by The Happy Hollows on our show on July 5th at 12AM. Please tune in to 90.3 if you're in the central Jersey area or listen online at thecore.fm! They were GREAT and we love them!

And they made too much noise for the Livingston Student Center..!
http://twitpic.com/1zwxpr

Big Bad Wolf MV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3nP3JG4hAg

2010-06-22T21:46:00.001-04:00

We were serious when we said that some of the songs off Vampire Weekend's first album were Paul Simon ripoffs, but little did we think that it'd be true for every song on Contra.

2010-06-14T18:49:00.003-04:00

Abstract: Rewatched Pulp Fiction this weekend. Tarantino is good with untwisting impossible situations into "happy" endings.

Kid606- Hello Serotonin, My Old Friend (Eats Tapes Remix)
Crystal Castles- Baptism
Ratatat- Drugs
The Happy Hollows- Colors
Blossom- Pink Cloud
Smile.dk- Butterfly (Pikachu And The Pokemon's Mix)
Talk Less, Say More- Still As A River
LCD Soundsystem- You Wanted A Hit
Wavves- So Bored
Broken Social Scene- Romance To The Grave
Caribou- Bowls
The Joy Formidable- The Last Drop
El Perro Del Mar- Let Me In
Broken Bells- Vaporize
Capsula- Found And Lost
Deerhoof- All Rise
The Whitsundays- You Know I Can't Lie
The Press- Big Boss, Little Boss
CocoRosie- Undertaker
Metric- Eclipse (All Yours)
Stars- Wasted Daylight
Danielson- Singers Go First
Holler, Wild Rose!- Mercy Beat
Various Artists Edelweiss- By Laura Gibson
Andrew Bird- Oh No
Honey Is Cool- Homecomings
Hooray For Earth- Surrounded By Your Friends

2010-06-07T18:49:00.001-04:00

Kele- Rise
Indian Jewelry- Look Alive
Crystal Castles- Empathy
Shy Child- ESP
Frog Eyes- Paul's Tomb
Casiokids- Finn Bikkjen!
Blue Ducks- Four, Floss, Five, Six
Grizzly Bear- Ready, Able
The Killers- Read My Mind
LCD Soundsystem- One Touch
CocoRosie- Hopscotch
States- Time To Begin
Cloud Cult- A Place
Memphis- A Ghost Story
Broken Social Scene- Meet Me In The Basement
The New Pornographers- Up In The Dark
Arcade Fire- The Suburbs
Kate Nash- Take Me To A Higher Plane
Jes- Closer
School Of Seven Bells- Windstorm
The Happy Hollows- Bird Of Prey
Math And Physics Club- Jimmy Had A Polaroid
Belle & Sebastian- The Magic Of A Kind Word
Annuals- Flesh And Blood
Kaki King- Everything Has An End, Even Sadness
S- Welcome Home
Múm- The Last Shapes Of Never

2010-05-26T23:11:00.001-04:00

"Do Stars honestly think that by denying the state their brand of dreamy pop that they’re going to force the governor’s hand?"

The Sound Strike.

2010-05-25T17:57:00.000-04:00

Abstract: Seduction at the pagan temple. Art and freedom riot. All this youthful adventure. But somehow one ends up stuck in an intellectual desert.

Oneida- Almagest
Zoot Woman- Blue Sea
Claude Vonstroke- Monster Island
All The Empires Of The World- Asleep At The Temple
Napoli Is Not Nepal- Mono Reve
Kate Miller-Heidke- The One Thing I Know
Mount Eerie- Ancient Questions
CocoRosie- Trinity's Crying
Gonjasufi- Change
Andrew Bird- Anonanimal
Florence + The Machine- Cosmic Love
Jonsi- Go Do
White Hinterland- Magnolias
Stars- We Don't Want Your Body
Delorean- Infinite Desert
Fucked Up- Magic Word
Boyz & Girl- He Must Be
Give Up The Ghost- You And Me
Civil Twilight- Anybody Out There
Ted Leo And The Pharmacists- Mourning In America
Yukon Blonde- Blood Cops
Carissa's Wierd- Brooke Daniel's Tiny Broken Fingers
The Happy Hollows- Delorean
The Press- The Continental Divide
Momus- I Was A Maoist Intellectual
Sambassadeur- Stranded
Sia- Academia

2010-05-20T08:32:00.001-04:00

M.I.A. does a Žižek impression: "I find the new Justin Bieber video more violent and more of an assault to my eyes and senses than what I've made."

2010-04-24T12:55:00.000-04:00

The Sounds- Living In America
The Happy Hollows- Lieutenant
Jason Collett- Lake Superior
White Hinterland- Huron
Jenny Lewis- Godspeed
Twin Sister- All Around And Away We Go
The Tallest Man On Earth- Kids On The Run
Tom McRae- Told My Troubles To The River
Roky Erickson With Okkervil River- God Is Everywhere
Land Of Talk- Street Wheels
Kate Miller-Heidke- Supergirl
Regina Spektor- Carbon Monoxide
The New Pornographers- Silver Jenny Dollar
Savoir Adore- Hollywood / Early Bird
Smoosh- We Are Our Own Lies
Elliott Smith- No Name #3
Sandra McCracken- Springtime Indiana
The Like- He's Not A Boy
Jj- Golden Virginia
Le Loup- Go East
Metric- Soft Rock Star
Caribou- Lalibela
Broken Social Scene- Chase Scene
Love Is All- Again, Again
Roadside Graves- Everything
The Russian Futurists- Paul Simon
Cloud Cult- Living On The Outside Of Your Skin

2010-04-17T12:32:00.000-04:00

Abstract: Purgatory. Approaching paradise through the Stars.

Memphis- I Dreamed We Fell Apart
Aloha- Everything Goes My Way Home Acres
Family Of The Year- Psyche Or Like Scope
Mountain Goats- 1 Samuel 15:23
The Eastern Stars- The Diamonds In Your Eyes
White Hinterland- Icarus
Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Shame And Fortune
People Eating People- Let's Rage
Broken Bells- Your Head Is On Fire
Kleerup- Misery
The Knife- Tumult
Zoot Woman- Memory
Zero 7= Count Me Out
Mon Khmer- Count Me Out
Company Of Thieves- Past The Sleep (Live from Daryl's House)
The Do- Unissasi Laulelet
Hess Is More- Yes Boss
Vector- American Dream
Regina Spektor- Long Brown Hair
Jacqui Hunt- There Is A Force
Twin Sister- Milk And Honey
The Apples In Stereo- Dream About The Future
Schoolyard Heroes- Battlestar Anorexia
Idian Jewelry- Temporary Famine Ship
Cold Cave- Youth And Lust
Memory Tapes- Bicycle
Goldfrapp- Hunt
Stars- Fixed

2010-04-10T11:20:00.006-04:00

Abstract: The old is the new new.

Polysics—Wasabi
Polysics—Digital Coffee
Boy Eats Drum Machine—The Pieces Fit Together and Never Fall Apart
Boy Eats Drum Machine—La La La La LA!
Animal Collective—Doggy
Animal Collective—Lion in a Coma
Aloha—Cold Storage
Aloha—Brace Your Face
Xiu Xiu—This Too Shall Pass Away (For Freddy)
Xiu Xiu—Under Pressure (feat. Michael Gira)
RJD2—Gypsy Caravan
RJD2—The Horror
k-os—Burning Bridges
k-os—Man I Used to Be
Four Tet—Reversing
Four Tet—Hilarious Movie of the '90s (Manitoba Remix)
Primal Static—Walking Shadows
Primal Static—Sunrise
These New Puritans—Canticle
These New Puritans—Doppelganger
Frightened Rabbit—The Loneliness and the Scream
Frightened Rabbit—Old Old Fashioned
Yeasayer—Strange Reunions
Yeasayer—Wait for the Summer
Drink Up Buttercup—Sosey Dosey
Drink Up Buttercup—Heavy Hand
The Apples in Stereo—No One in the World
The Apples in Stereo—Energy
Lay Low—Days Have Been
Lay Low—Beauty
The Ruby Suns—Haunted House
The Ruby Suns—Oh, Mojave
Yukon Blonde—Babies Don't Like Blue Anymore
Yukon Blonde—Free Your Mind
Sambassadeur—Forward Is All
Sambassadeur—Kate
Joanna Newsom—Esme
Joanna Newsom—Only Skin
The Bird and the Bee—Heard It on the Radio
The Bird and the Bee—La La La
She & Him—I'm Gonna Make It Better
She & Him—Change Is Hard
White Hinterland—Thunderbird
White Hinterland—Hung on a Thin Thread
The Weakerthans—Left and Leaving
The Weakerthans—Sun in an Empty Room
The Magnetic Fields—We are Having a Hootenanny
The Magnetic Fields—Please Stop Dancing

2010-04-03T13:28:00.002-04:00

Joanna Newsom- Autumn
Cold Cave- The Trees Grew Emotions and Died
Savoir Adore- Gloria and the Scarlet Exit
Audiose My Angel- Inactivity
Holler, Wild Rose!- Poor in Spirit
Mount Eerie- Between Two Mysteries
Akai- Drifted
Savoir Adore- Bodies
The Magnetic Fields- Zombie Boy
The Magnetic Fields- Always Already Gone
Momus- Fade To White
white Hinterland- No Logic
Elliott Smith- Ballad of Big Nothing
Primal Static- In Time
French Horn Rebellion- Up All Night
The Ruby Suns- Adventure Tour
Little Girls- Imaginary Friends
Xiu Xiu- Secret Motel
Yeasayer- Ambling Alp
Polysics- Time Out
Out Hud- How Long
RJD2- A Spaceship For Now
M. Ward- One Hundred Million Years
Samassadeus- Days
Vesper- Lead Kindly, Light

2010-03-27T11:43:00.025-04:00

Abstract: Our protagonist, upon swiftly concluding his battle in the desert from last week, discovers a nearby monastery and checks in to finish his study of the quadrivium, then sails off to Nordic pastures and beyond...

Sambassadeur—Sandy Dunes
Polysics—Eye Contact
These New Puritans—Attack Music
Kaki King—Close Your Eyes & You'll Burst Into Flames
Giraffes? Giraffes!—I Am S/h(im)e[r] as You Am S/h(im)e[r] as You Are Me and We Am I and I Are All Our Together: Our Collective Consciousness' Psychogenic Fugue
Swims—Beauty in Battle
Hella—Friends Don't Let Friends Win
Boy Eats Drum Machine—Constellation
Akai—When the Sun Goes Down
The Bird and the Bee—Meteor
White Hinterland—Moon Jam
Reverie Sound Revue—Rip the Universe
Young Galaxy—Light Years
M83—We Own the Sky
Laura Gibson and Ethan Rose—Boreas Borealis
Stars—Going, Going, Gone (Live)
Azure Ray—We Are Mice (Bleed Version)
She & Him—Sing
School of Seven Bells—Half-Asleep (Alternative Version)
Broken Social Scene—Forced to Love
Savoir Adore—Animals in My Throat Make Me Sing
Golden Triangle—I Want to Know
Aloha—Waterwheel
Marnie Stern—Clone Cycle
Metric—Black Sheep
Casiokids—Hun er Min Venstre Hånd (Casiokids Translation)
Lay Low—On My Own
Husky Rescue—Grey Pastures, Still Waters
Joanna Newsom—Go Long

2010-03-20T11:05:00.010-04:00

Abstract: What did you go out into the wilderness to hear? A career fair with the high school?

Broken Social Scene—Love and Mathematics
Seven Saturdays—Good Morning, I Love You
Red Sparowes—Giving Birth to Imagined Saviors
Explosions in the Sky—So Long, Lonesome
Flow Trio—Slow Cab
Angelo Spencer—The Desert/The Strongest
Audiose My Angel—Sandmines

2010-03-13T21:15:00.002-05:00

Abstract: Water renews Creation. Lilies, trees, thistles, even weeds are again in bloom. Animals of all sorts from two make another, and another. Man, the pinnacle of creation, is reinstated as ruler and steward. There is yet a manner in which all is caduke... And so all wait for the final conflagration of imperfection and a glorious, but unknown, future. The end is a new beginning, forever and ever.

Indian Jewelry—Walking on the Water
Capsula—Flood
The Magnetic Fields—Everything Is One Big Christmas Tree
Husky Rescue—Blueberry Tree Part I
Joanna Newsom—Baby Birch
Mumford and Sons—Thistle & Weeds
Atlas Sound—An Orchid
The Ruby Suns—Cranberry
Holler, Wild Rose!—Peace Lily
Ben + Vesper—LuvInIdleness
Sufjan Stevens—Year of the Rooster
Danielson—Two Sitting Ducks
Ortolan—Creature
Kahimi Karie—I Am a Kitten
Via Audio—Lizard Song
Florence + the Machine—Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)
Sambassadeur—Albatross
Basia Bulat—Sparrow
Savoir Adore—Early Bird
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Intentions—Blue Bird
Gonjasufi—Sheep
Malachai—Snake Charmer
Four Tet—Sun Drums and Soil (Sa-Ra Creative Partner Remix)
BLK JKS—Banna Ba Modimo
Deerhoof—Hot Mint Air Balloon
Company of Thieves—The Fire Song

2010-03-10T03:42:00.037-05:00

Abstract: Suppose we are at a show, and after the openers go up, we all have a collective moment: "Wait. Is that Muse?" "No. It's not." Suppose further that we are trying to connect experimental electronica with so-called minimalism. We strip our compositions and lose our faculty of speech, then our rhythm, then our perception of the passage of time itself until, finally, we are empty, the world is empty, our brains are empty. Is this a Beckett play, or an alien abduction? Suppose we at last find ourselves returned. The world words itself as worlding in this post-linguistic re-turn, but with difference: what if we have been replaced by alien-human hybrids? What if the underground and its dialectic from hip to hop is the hegemony (in Laclau's sense) of alien colonialism?

Mon Khmer—Anniversary
Solid Gold—One in a Million
Civil Twilight—Letters from the Sky
Zoot Woman—Lust Forever
Autechre—pt2ph8
Oni Ayhun—OAR003-A
Fever Ray—Triangle Walks
Claude Vonstroke—Vocal Chords
trance[]control—Beginning of the End
Eats Tapes—Hussled_2004
RJD2—Small Plans
Primal Static—Love Drone
Mount Eerie—(Something)
Audiose My Angel—Corrosive Brain Tissue
Ben Frost—…Coda
Thom Yorke—The Hollow Earth
The Books—Smells like Content
Matmos—Roses and Teeth for Ludwig Wittgenstein
jj—No Escapin' This
White Hinterland—Begin Again
Broken Bells—The Mall and Misery
Phantogram—Mouthful of Diamonds
The Counterfeit Junkies—Manifestation
k-os—Uptown Girl
Metric—Collect Call
Love Like Deloreans—Ollie Mess
Savoir Adore— Transylvanian Candy Patrol
Jacqui Hunt—Myriad
The Long Lost—Woebegone
Boy Eats Drum Machine—Mr. Train
Reverie Sound Revue—We Are the Opposite of Thieves
Pretty Good Dance Moves—Demons Dancing
Mike Maimone—on the Rope

2010-03-09T11:57:00.000-05:00

"Muse + Coldplay + U2 = ?"

"Something less than Radiohead?"

2010-03-06T11:17:00.002-05:00

Abstract: A Japanese/Japanese-American convention is called to prepare a homecoming reception for the dragons, but when the dragons actually show up, nobody notices because they're busy making out at a Savoir Adore concert, so the dragons get mad and set everything on fire, and then they fly away into the clouds, and you can't see them anymore because they're in the clouds, and then the clouds eat you, and you are what eats you, so you become a cloud, but you still can't see them--for, behold, the dragons are within you.

Savoir Adore—Seven Stars Surrounded the Moon
Asobi Seksu—Urusai Tori
Deerhoof—News from a Bird
Thee American Revolution—In Your Dream/Japanese Clone
Half-handed Cloud—Buffet
Yukon Blonde—Kumiko Song
Akai—Not in My Mind
The Bird and the Bee—Love Letter to Japan
The Magnetic Fields—The Dolls' Tea Party
Guillemots—Made-up Lovesong #43
Angelo Spencer—Did You Hear the Sound Of…
Kotono Mitsuishi—Watashi no Tamagoyaki
Danielson Famile—Cutest Lil' Dragon
Broken Social Scene—Puff the Magic Dragon
Do As Infinity—Kitakaze
The Dead Letters—War
Yeah Yeah Yeahs—Dragon Queen
Sunset Rubdown—Dragon's Lair
Polysics—Enter Sandman
Golden Triangle—The Melting Wall
Stuporhero—Cloudshine
Jacqui Hunt—Dark Clouds
Fanshaw—Dark Eyes
Cloud Cult—Everybody Here Is a Cloud
Company of Thieves—Infect the Youth
Sufjan Stevens—Year of the Dragon
I Fight Dragons—I Fight Ganon

2010-02-27T11:13:00.001-05:00

Dear listeners, thanks for being awake for our Saturday morning show! The songs were picked for an imagined romantic tragedy. We traced the nightmarish fling between our female protagonist who desired the I-Thou and a certain predatory fellow with a taste for vulnerable women. Often, they talked past each other, giving rise to the dissonance of voices. The climax was the breakup segment, during which we played Variation of Birds, a new one from The Knife. The starkness, harshness, eeriness of electronic simulations of frenetic avian chirping echoes the relationship's inevitable reduction to animality and finally I-It. So! Stay away from scary men/women.

The Dead Letters—Ghost of a Thousand Battles
Metric—Twilight Galaxy
Fontän—The Bridge
Jacqui Hunt—Connect
Eats Tapes—Blow Your Tapes Up
Cold Cave—The Laurels of Erotomania
Röyksopp—So Easy
The Knife—Heartbeats
CFCF—Raining Patterns
Primal Static—Blue Orpheus
Stars—Better Be Heaven
Neon Indian—6669 (I Don't Know if You Know)
Four Tet—Sing
Phantogram—When I'm Small
Infected Mushroom—Smashing the Opponent
Fever Ray—Dry and Dusty
The Knife—Variation of Birds
Rebotini—Decade of Aggression
jj—My Life
Blonde Redhead—The Dress
Zero 7—Ghost Symbol
El Perro del Mar—Change of Heart (Robyn's Rakamonie Remix)
Kleerup—Until We Bleed
The Field—Everybody's Got to Learn

2010-02-21T10:38:00.006-05:00

Abstract: A substitutionary psalmodic meditation on Hauerwas and Willimon in hope of the revelation (behold, they make something new) of the threefold cord of Jersey: "The kingdom of God is a party with a bunch of people with whom we wouldn't be caught dead spending a Saturday night had not we also been invited."

A Camp—Stronger than Jesus
Animal Collective—What Would I Want? Sky
Arcade Fire—Intervention
Asobi Seksu—Familiar Light
Bodies of Water—I Turned My Face
Charlotte Gainsbourg—Vanities
Danielson—Sold! To the Nice Rich Man!
Datarock—Dance!
Eddie Vedder, Campbell 2000, Sadie 7—Hymn
Four Tet—Angel Echoes
Half-handed Cloud—Thumb/Toe Collection
Metric—Waves
Momus—Devil Mask, Buddha Mind
Neon Indian—Mind, Drips
Oh No Ono—The Tea Party
Ortolan—Sticky Situation
Sandra McCracken—Lo the Storms of Life Are Breaking
Sunset Rubdown—Idiot Heart
The Welcome Wagon—I Am Not Skilled to Understand
Vector—American Dream (Trials and Tribulations)
Vesper—One-Handed Love Song
Yeah Yeah Yeahs—Little Shadow
Manda And the Marbles—Simple Things

2010-02-20T11:55:00.010-05:00

Abstract: The new Broken Social Scene track, a jazz piano, and some visitors from across some ocean who may or may not be considering citizenship walk into a hipster bar somewhere between New and South Brunswick and collect enough quarters to play a tribute to Nirvana on the jukebox.

Radiohead—Banana Co.
Deerhoof—Come See the Duck
Broken Social Scene—World Sick
Charlotte Gainsbourg—La Collectionneuse
Yeasayer—Madder Red
Xiu Xiu—Cumberland Gap
Brad Mehldau—Dusty McNugget
Christopher O'Riley—Coast to Coast
Esbjörn Svensson Trio—When God Created the Coffeebreak
Joe Lewis Walker—Highview
The Dead Letters—Cathedral of Leaves
Casey Dienel—Better in Manhattan
Joanna Newsom—Good Intentions Paving Company
Akai—Like You
Yeah Yeah Yeahs—Dull Life
People Eating People—I Hate All My Friends
When I Was 12—Oh Telephone Wires
Primal Static—Dream Arabic
Surprise Me Mr. Davis—Sissyfuss
Golem!—Citizen Boris
We Were Promised Jetpacks—Short Bursts
Los Campesinos!—The Sea is a Good Place to Think of the Future
Screaming Females—Lights Out
The Polyphonic Spree—Lithium
Dani Siciliano—Come as You Are
Hooverphonic—In Bloom
Coco—Drain You
Paul Anka—Smells like Teen Spirit

2010-02-13T14:08:00.007-05:00

Dear public, we apologize profusely for that shoddy first performance. I will consider it a personal loss if you stop listening. Please don't leave me!

Radiohead—2+2=5 (The Lukewarm)
Deerhoof—Kidz Are So Small
The Bird and the Bee—Fanfare
The Bird and the Bee—My Love
Inara George—Where to Go
Los Campesinos!—A Heat Rash in the Shape of the Show-Me State; Or, Letters from Me to Charlotte
Broken Social Scene—Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl
Savoir Adore—Space Travel
The Jezabels—Hurt Me
Oh No Ono—Eleanor Speaks
Enon—Carbonation
Ladyhawke—Better Than Sunday
The Sounds—Living in America
Regina Spektor—* * *
Regina Spektor—Your Honor
Fever Ray—Keep the Streets Empty for Me
Asobi Seksu—Meh No Mae
Charlotte Gainsbourg—Le Chat du Café des Artistes
Crystal Castles—Black Panther
CFCF—Letters Home
Akai—Breath
Röyksopp—This Must Be It
Metric—Gimme Sympathy
The Like—What I Say and What I Mean
Elliott Smith—Waltz #2 (XO)
Company of Thieves—Old Letters
Stars—Elevator Love Letter
Cloud Cult—Princess Bride
Eisley—Trolley Wood
The Watson Twins—Snow Canyons
El Perro Del Mar—You Can't Steal a Gift
Marnie Stern—Prime
Mando Diao—Dance with Somebody

2010-02-10T18:02:00.004-05:00

Feed the fish! They are so cute!