01-31-09 Slowcore/Post-Rock

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Mogwai - Boring Machines Disturbs Sleep
Idaho - A Sound Awake
The Doves - Down to Sea
Grouper - Traveling Through A Sea
Station Break - Explosions in the Sky - Glittering Blackness
Comsat Angels - At Sea
Talk Talk - After the Flood
Dirty 3 - Ends of the Earth
Low - Over the Ocean
Station Break - Explosions in the Sky - Glittering Blackness
Codeine - Washed Up
Crippled Black Phoenix - I'm Almost Home
Black Heart Procession - Beneath the Ground

1-24-09

New and upcoming artists in the shoegazing/dream pop genres. Click on their links and support these talented new artists.
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The Daysleepers - Summerdreamer
Hinterland - Western Development Museum
Rumskib - This Crucial Love Game
Soundpool - So Much for That
Station Break
Osni - Love Burns in Your Heart
A Place to Bury Strangers - I Know I'll See You
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Everything With You
Stella Mora - Alone
Film School - Two Kinds
Air Formation - Ghosts
Amusement Parks on Fire - Venus in Cancer
Alcest - Les Iris
Engineers - Thrasher

01-17-09 Stare At Your Shoes

More dreamy shoegazing ecstasy here. I've been on a constant diet of Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine for two weeks, so what do you expect?
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The Verve - Starsail
The Stone Roses - I Am the Resurrection
Ride - Dreams Burn Down
Catherine Wheel - Indigo is Blue
Station Break - Ulrich Schnauss - Crazy For You
My Bloody Valentine - Lose My Breath
Pale Saints - Thread of Light
Lush - Light From a Dead Star
Mazzy Star - Blue Light
Station Break - Max Richter - On the Nature of Daylight
Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde
Hammock - I Can Almost See You
Slowdive - Machine Gun

Best o' 2008

Sadly, when I saved the file to my hard drive it saved as a 48kpbs mp3 instead of 192kbps. You can imagine my horror when I tried playing it back. But for completion's sake, I'll provide the playlist:

Radar Bros. - On Nautilus
Shearwater - Rooks
Beck - Chemtrails
My Morning Jacket - Smokin' From Shootin'
Max Richter - Berlin by Overnight
Station Break - Deerhunter - Intro
School of Seven Bells - Iamundernodisguise
Santogold - Anne
The Raveonettes - Lust
Portishead - The Rip
Lights Out Asia - If I Die, I Wish You A Horrible Death
Padded Cell - Beautiful Gloom
Station Break - Lindstrøm - Grand Ideas
Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Attack of the 60ft. Lesbian Octopus
Robots in Disguise - The Sex Has Made Me Stupid
Cut/Copy - Lights and Music
MGMT - Time to Pretend

THE CHRISTMAS EPISODE!

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.
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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?

It snowed. I was cranky. This was the show that ensued.
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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:

Nothing to Share But Yesterday

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.

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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.