An eclectic selection of shoegazing, slow core, trip hop, indie, synthpop, and gothic music from now and the past. Catch the show streaming online Fridays at 8pm MST at www.kisu.org
HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Today is the first day of Hannukkah and Christmas is not far behind. In celebration of this wonderful Yule, I have put together a holiday special featuring songs that have become near and dear to me over the years. Most of these tracks come from the three volumes of gothic Christmas music that Projekt put out ages ago. Proof that you don't have to be of a certain culture or denomination to enjoy the season and its trappings. Stream or Download
Playlist: Black Tape for a Blue Girl - Channukkah, O Channukkah Sofia Run - Nerotai Hazarurim (Little Candles) Rhea's Obsession - Huron Indian Carol El Duende - Gaudete, Gaudete Station Break - Julia Kent - What Child is This? Siouxsie and the Banshees - Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant Cocteau Twins - Frosty the Snowman Rhea's Obsession w/ Athan Marou - We Three Kings Siddal - In the Bleak Midwinter Station Break - Lycia - O Little Town of Bethlehem C-3PO & R2-D2 - Sleigh Ride The Raveonettes - Come On Santa Departure Lounge - Christmas Downer Granddaddy - Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland Belle & Sebastian - O Come, O Come Emmanuel Love Spirals Downwards - Welcome Christmas
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant:
Jack Skellington - What's This?
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
It snowed. I was cranky. This was the show that ensued. Stream or Download
Leonard Cohen - Avalanche Emiliana Torrini - Stephanie Says Pernice Brothers - Pisshole in the Snow Sufjan Stevens - Sister Winter Station Break - Black Tape for a Blue Girl - Beneath the Icy Floe Belle & Sebastian - Fox in the Snow Tori Amos - Winter Modern English - After the Snow Kate Bush - Under Ice The Cure - Last Dance Station Break - Black Tape for a Blue Girl - Beneath the Icy Floe Regina Spektor - 20 Years of Snow Eisley - Winter Song Modest Mouse - The Cold Part Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - 15 Feet of Pure White Snow
This song isn't really about winter; it's about masturbation instead of reading the Bible. But it also drips with regret and twinges of guilt, so it's very wintry in that respect.
Also, the Nick Cave video for 15 Feet of Pure White Snow:
Sorry for the delay on posting this episode. Destined to become one of my favorites, this show focuses mainly on the people who defied the status quo and thereby defined glam rock. Truly, truly out of this world.
The Velvet Underground - I'll Be Your Mirror David Bowie - Be My Wife Brian Eno - Everything Merges With the Night Roxy Music - Song for Europe T. Rex - Life's A Gas Station Break - David Bowie - A New Career in a New Town Paul Williams - Phantom's Theme (Beauty and the Beast) Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel - Sebastian Klaus Nomi - Cold Song (Henry Purcell cover) Station Break - David Bowie - The Weeping Wall Shudder to Think - Hot One London Suede - Where the Pigs Don't Fly Morrissey - You Know I Couldn't Last Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Midnight Radio
Klaus Nomi performs "Cold Song" live shortly before his death in 1983:
David Bowie in one of the bleakest music videos ever made: "Be My Wife". From the Low album, recorded in Berlin during Bowie's rehabilitation from drugs.
Smog - Bathysphere Trespassers William - Anchor Doves - Sea Song Keane - Bedshaped Station Break - Secret Machines - Leaves Have Gone Snow Patrol - Run Channels - Helen Mirren Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Isis Secret Machines - Nowhere Again Station Break - Troubled Hubble - Ear, Nose & Throat #2 Dears - 22 (The Death of All Romance) Black Heart Procession - Guess I'll Forget You Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Darker With the Day
Video Times: As promised, here's the video for the Dears track "22: Death of All Romance". The animation in this is wonderful, the story is appropriately heartbreaking and one of the singers (I believe Natalia Yanchak but don't quote me on that) is the most beautiful woman I have seen in my entire life. Watch it!
This show didn't come together like I had planned. I was left with seven minutes of space to fill and couldn't manage to re-arrange anything well enough to cap things off with "Nature Boy" as I'd intended. But, it is what it is. So for the anniversary of "mission accomplished" I present a collection of songs about dreams, lies, destruction, desperation, death, the end and love. Stream or Download
Tom Waits - Alice Dresden Dolls - Mrs. O Jason Webley - Dance While the Sky Crashes Down Vermillion Lies - I Should Fly Station Break - Mercury Rev - I Collect Coins Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - Toby Take A Bow Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things The Postal Service - We Will Become Silhouettes Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) Station Break - Mercury Rev - The Happy End (The Drunk Room) Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday Depeche Mode - Stripped Placebo - Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush cover) Shearwater - Rooks Big Star - Nature Boy Lights Out Asia - Drift_Fade
Bonus Video Time!
Interesting note: when I was first approached with the idea of doing a show, I had initially considered calling it "Running Up That Hill Radio" because I love this song so much. Thankfully it hasn't been the uphill battle that everything else is. And so-
Kate Bush being... Kate Bush in the video for "Running Up That Hill":
So, this is actually a fan-made video, but it's professional quality and pretty amazing as far as videos go. While I don't like the male singer's voice on this track, STG made a decent effort and it outshines that godawful other cover that was released on the Depeche Mode tribute album x years back. Anyway, without further ado: Shiny Toy Guns performing "Stripped".
'Nother Saturday, 'nother episode. Enjoy, folks. Stream or Download
Psychedelic Furs - President Gas The Smiths - A Rush And A Push And the Land is Ours Orchestral Manoevers in the Dark - Electricity The Damned - Wait for the Blackout Station Break - Dave Gahan - Dirty Sticky Floors (instrumental) Joy Division - Isolation (live) The Buzzcocks - Autonomy Siouxsie and the Banshees - Sin in My Heart Bauhaus - Burning From the Inside Station Break - Dave Gahan - Dirty Sticky Floors (instrumental) Dave Gahan - Song for Europe (Roxy Music cover) David Bowie - Outside Gary Numan - We Are Glass Ultravox! - The Wild, the Beautiful and the Damned
Madeleine Peyroux - Between the Bars Nico - These Days Brigitte Fontaine - Dommage que tu sois mort Nick Drake - Way to Blue Station Break - Blue States - Day Star Neko Case - Things That Scare Me Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights Caitlin Cary - My Dreams Have Withered and Died The Kills - Black Balloon Eisley - One Day I Slowly Floated Away Minipop - Precious Station Break - Takeshi Kobayashi - Ether Tune Mazzy Star - Into Dust Low - Shame Carissa's Wierd - So You Wanna Be A Superhero? Azure Ray - These White Lights Will Bend to Make Blue
Behold! A monster has been created! Listen now and let loose its slithering tentacles of madness and macabre melancholy. Be consumed by the horror- THE HORROR! Stream and/or Download.
Rasputina - Transylvanian Concubine Voltaire - When You're Evil Tom Waits - Poor Edward Violent Femmes - Country Death Song Station Break - The Misfits - The Abominable Dr. Phibes Steve Harley & Sarah Brightman - The Phantom of the Opera Alien Sex Fiend - She's A Killer Siouxsie and the Banshees - Rawhead and Bloodybones A Flock of Seagulls - Nightmares Fresh Prince & DJ Jazzy Jeff - Nightmare on My Street Station Break - Coil - Hellraiser Box Theme Switchblade Symphony - Dollhouse The Cramps - Human Fly The Misfits - Return of the Fly The Damned - Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde The Ramones - Pet Sematary
This week we honor the memory of Edgar Allan Poe with an hour of music based (directly or not) on his work. Stream or Download
Marianne Faithful - Alone Alan Parsons Project - Dream Within A Dream Alan Parsons Project - The Raven Glass Prism - The Conqueror Worm Station Break - Angelo Badalementi - Dance of the Dream Man Alice Cooper feat. Vincent Price - Black Widow Siouxsie and the Banshees - Premature Burial The Glove - Perfect Murder Adam Ant - Killer in the Home Station Break - Death in June - The Guilty Have No Pride Lou Reed feat. Willem Dafoe and Steve Buscemi - The Cask The Damned - Twisted Nerve Jeff Buckley - Ulalume Alan Parsons Project - To One In Paradise
I'm genuinely fond of this episode. We're just getting into Autumn now and what better way to celebrate than by showcasing songs with a general horror theme. Download (should be fixed)
The Cruxshadows - Annabel Lee The Stranglers - Strange Little Girl Daniel Ash - Spooky (Classics IV cover) Station Break - Goblin - Profondo Rosso Main Titles Tom Waits - Circus Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Carney Siouxsie & the Banshees - Carousel Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting Sting - Moon Over Bourbon St. Station Break - Goblin - Phenomena The Cramps - Surfin' Dead The Misfits - Braineaters Ministry - Cannibal Song Creaming Jesus - Celebrity Cannibalism Gitane Demone - Gloomy Sunday (Billie Holiday cover)
Apologies if anyone heard this one on the air; there were a few technical errors that have since been repaired. The podcasts should be fine, but let me know if any problems remain. Stream or Download
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love Pixies - Gouge Away Modest Mouse - Satin in a Coffin Matt Pond P.A. - Halloween Station Break - Angelo Badalementi - Blue Velvet Theme Elbow - Newborn (Acoustic) Neutral Milk Hotel - Ghost The Decemberists - Eli, the Barrow Boy Kahoots - I'll Be Your Coffin Shearwater - Rooks John Vanderslice - Radiant With Terror Station Break - Angelo Badalementi - Laura's Theme Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Mack the Knife Red House Painters - Funhouse Kristin Hersch feat. Michael Stipe - Your Ghost
Bonus Video Time! I had intended to include this song in the show, but left the disc at home. Here's a live version instead:
Welcome back to school, college kids! Two weeks in and I bet you're sick of homework already. So here's a mini-dance party you can have right at home. Invite your friends or dance naked on your couch, we don't care. But get up off of your ass and dance! Stream or Download
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! - Satan Said Dance Junior Senior - Can I Get Get Get BitterSweet - The Mating Game CSS - Let's Make Love (And Listen to Death From Above) Station Break - Padded Cell - Savage Skulls LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum Peaches - Boys Wanna Be Her Ladytron - Seventeen Proper Filthy Naughty - Fascination (Droyds' Ghetto Remix) Station Break - Ratatat - Lex David Bowie w/ The Pet Shop Boys - Hallo Spaceboy Golden Boy w/ Miss Kittin - Rippin Kittin IMA Robot - The Beat Goes On Trucks - Zombie
Video! David Bowie/The Pet Shop Boys - Hallo Spaceboy
This radio program was specially put together to make a statement about television's ruthless yoke over American (and global) culture. Special thanks again to Shellzx for planting the seed for this show in my brainmeats as well as helping me compile over half of the material for it. Stream or Download
Gil Scot-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Frank Zappa - I Am the Slime David Bowie - TVC15 Iggy & the Stooges - TV Eye Break The Misfits - TV Casualty The Damned - Nasty The Cramps - TV Set Man... or Astroman? - Television Man (Talking Heads cover) Crass - Nineteen Eighty-Bore Violent Femmes - I Hate the TV Break Miranda July - Lena Beamish Daft Punk - Television Rules the Nation Negativland - The Playboy Channel The Normal - TVOD
The Damned - Nasty (performance from BBC comedy The Young Ones):
The Normal - TVOD
I really wish I had the technologies to upload the December 1976 Frank Zappa performance of "I Am the Slime" from Saturday Night Live. It's truly brilliant (complete with actual slime).
Black Flag - TV Party (I am not a huge fan of this song or band, but I felt it necessary to include this for completeness' sake)
Industrial music for industrial people. Stream or Download
Throbbing Gristle - United Legendary Pink Dots - Louder After 6 Front 242 - Welcome to Paradise Coil - Ostia (Death of Pasolini) Station Break - Dave Gahan - Dirty Sticky Floors (instrumental) Einsturzende Neubauten - Negativ Nein Pailhead - Don't Stand in Line My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult - Kooler Than Jesus KMFDM - Search and Destroy Station Break - Pig - Silt Murder, Inc. - Murder, Inc. Pigface - Nutopia Skinny Puppy - Tin Omen Ministry - No W.
The Cure - The Snakepit Depeche Mode - In Your Room Bowery Electric - Psalms of Survival Station Break - The Cure - Icing Sugar Curve - Fait Accompli Lush - Desire Lines Th' Faith Healers - Reptile Smile Catherine Wheel - Flower to Hide Station Break - Asp Hole (video game soundtrack) Kidneythieves - Time Bomb Piney Gir - Creature Trespassers William - What of Me? Thievery Corporation (feat. Emiliana Torrini) - Until the Morning Comes
BtWoS isn't ashamed of its roots; it's damn proud of them. So we put together a show devoted to the classic greats, lest they be forgotten (like tears... in rain).
The Cure - 100 Years Joy Division - New Dawn Fades Siouxsie and the Banshees - Night Shift (live) Station Break - Sisters of Mercy - Phantom Bauhaus - Sanity Assassin Doctor and the Medics - Spirit in the Sky Specimen - Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang The Birthday Party - Release the Bats Station Break - Coil - At the Heart of it All Sisters of Mercy - Body Electric Siouxsie Sioux and Marc Almond - Threat of Love The Smiths - I Know It's Over (live) This Mortal Coil (featuring Elizabeth Frazier) - Song to the Siren Current 93 - All the Pretty Little Horses
Personally, I'm really happy with this playlist. It's perfect for a hot summer night when you're drinking whiskey outside or driving down an empty freeway with the smell of sagebrush pungent in the wind whipping through your hair.
Calexico - All the Pretty Little Horses Old 97's - Lonely Holiday Brendan Benson - Metarie The Jayhawks - Stumbling Through the Dark (Acoustic Version) Station Break - Tom Waits - Dave the Butcher Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - Happy Whiskeytown - Lo-Fi Tennessee Mountain Angel Neko Case - Wish I Was the Moon Doug Burr - Whippoorwill Station Break - Tom Waits - Rainbirds Okkervil River - Westfall Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Weeping Song Son Volt - Highways and Cigarettes Milton Mapes - Bowie, AZ My Morning Jacket - Dondante
I was lucky enough to attend the Faint show in Salt Lake City this past Monday. The band had their new CD, not out in stores until Tuesday, for sale at their merch booth. Deciding to share the wealth, I played two brand new Faint songs on the show as well as a semi-rare B-Side and an old favorite. Also on the playlist are two songs by the two bands that opened for the Faint, Cavedoll and Shy Child. Download or Stream
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - When You Go Out Secret Machines - Light's On Born Ruffians - This Sentence Will Ruin/Save Your Life Beep Beep - Giggle Giggle Daft Punk - Technologic Ladytron - Evil Dot Allison - We're Only Science CSS - Let's Make Love (And Listen to Death From Above) Cavedoll - Decoder Shy Child - Astronaut The Faint - Take Me to the Hospital The Faint - Glass Danse The Faint - Get Seduced The Faint - Mirror Error
Klaus Nomi - Keys of Life Gary Numan - I Dream of Wires Thomas Dolby - Airwaves Kraftwerk - Metropolis Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark - Enola Gay Duran Duran - Planet Earth Peter Schilling - Major Tom Depeche Mode - Ice Machine Berlin - The Metro John Foxx - No One Driving David Bowie - Always Crashing in the Same Car Ministry - Isle of Man Visage - Fade to Gray
Bat for Lashes - What's A Girl to Do? Client - Someone to Hurt The Notwist - Pick up the Phone Junior Boys - Count Souveniers Seefeel - Charlotte's Mouth Th' Faith Healers - Don't Jones Me The Trucks - Comeback DNTEL - Why I'm So Unhappy Flunk - See Thru You Massive Attack - Three Elbow - Teardrop (Massive Attack cover) The Egg - Walking Away
Depeche Mode - Only When I Lose Myself Morcheeba - Never An Easy Way Baxter - Fading Elbow - Powder Blue - Station Break - Portishead - To Kill A Dead Man Faithless - Not Ennuf Love Massive Attack - Rising Son Portishead - Only You (live) - Station Break - Massive Attack - Exchange Garbage - Milk (Rabbit in the Moon mix) Pale 3 - Bodo Tricky - Black Steel
Pink Martini - Que Sera, Sera Blonde Redhead - Hated Because of Great Qualities Stars of Track & Field - Exit the Recital Trespassers William - Vapour Trail (Ride cover) Solvent - When the Sun Hits (Slowdive cover) B. Fleishman & Mrs. John Soda - Here She Comes (Slowdive cover) Slowdive - Ballad of Sister Sue Low - Cue the Strings Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Here Comes the Sun Roxy Music - Sunset Brian Eno - On Some Faraway Beach Devics - Living Behind the Sun The Knife - Still Light
Boo Radleys - Upon 9th & Fairchild Stone Roses - I Wanna' Be Adored Verve - She's A Superstar Red House Painters - Mistress Mary Onettes - The Laughter Galaxie 500 - Blue Thunder The Cure - Chain of Flowers Tones on Tail - Happiness Cocteau Twins - Pandora Slint - Nosferatu Man Siouxsie and the Banshees - Slowdive (live) Slowdive - Dagger Low - Dark
Galaxie 500 - 4th of July Pale Saints - Hair Shoes Curve - Doppleganger Ride - Leave Them All Behind Swervedriver - Last Day on Earth Spacemen 3 - Come Down Softly to My Soul Codeine - D Low - Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me (Smiths Cover) Portishead - Undenied Massive Attack - Group 4 Goldfrapp - Tiptoe Craig Armstrong - Laura's Theme (Angelo Badalementi Cover)
All right, MySpace was just too much of a hassle and layout nightmare, so I've decided to move everything here in hopes that the information will be easier to access and enjoy. The first entry deserves an appropriate show, so here's the very first episode of Beyond the Wall of Sleep, originally broadcast on May 17, 2008:
Download or Stream My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow Ride - Some Other Place Slowdive - When the Sun Hits Lush - Undertow Break - Japancakes - Only Shallow Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey Catherine Wheel - Black Metallic Chapterhouse - Pearl Swervedriver - Last Train to Satansville Break - M83 - ? Giant Drag - Wicked Game (Chris Issak cover) Ringo Deathstarr - Some Kind of Sad Beach House - ? Asobi Seksu - Red Sea
