Monday, April 29, 2013


Subbed in on the Alumni show.. Originally had the intention to play a lot of sexy libidinous music but settled into a lovely psychadelic groove and moved through some singer songwriter and noise pop. There's a really lovely anarchic pop set towards the beginning I really like. 

Old and new, Fun and serious. Sort of proud of this one. Link to a streamable / downloadable archive after the playlist: 

Playlist 4-27-13:

Tame Impala- Mind Mischief
Caribou- Jacknuggeted
White Hinterland- Begin Again
Tune-Yards- Powa
The Ruby Suns- Mingus and Pike
Neon Indian- 6669
Miami Nights- Ocean Drive
Dog Bite- You're Not That Great
Ducktails- The Flower Lane
Biblio- Lovers' Carvings
Dirty Projectors- Just From Chevron
Cornershop- Double Decker Eyelashes
The Left Banke- I Haven't Got the Nerve
The Olivia Tremor Control- Jumping Fences
Queen- Bicycle Race
Born Ruffians- Badonkadonkey
Camera Obscura- Do It Again
The Bees- I Really Need Love
Of Montreal- Nickee Coco and the Invisible Tree
Stereolab- Captain Easychord
Young Dreams- Fog of War
Panda Bear- Comfy in Nautica
Otouto- Cartoon Shoes
Kings of Convenience- Freedom and It's Owner
Jessica Pratt- Streets of Mine
Tallest Man On Earth- 1904
Sun Kil Moon- Tiny Cities Made of Ashes
Cass McCombs- Wheel of Fortune
Ah Holly Fam'ly- Loneliest City
Phosphorescent- The Quotidian Beasts
Heartless Bastards- Only For You
Nina Simone- Suzanne
Lilacs & Champagne- Alone Again and..
Love- Always See Your Face
Neko Case- This Tornado Loves You
Sea & Cake- New Patterns
Yo La Tengo- Season of the Shark
Gold Leaves- Hanging Window
Grizzly Bear- Cheerleader
Junip- Line of Fire
Destroyer- Priest's Knees
Richard Hawley- Seek It
Pulp- The Day After The Revolution
Stephen Agustin- Drown With Us
Nick Drake- Hazey Jane II

Archive:



Sunday, April 21, 2013

Playlist 4/21/13

James Blake- Retrograde
PVT- Shiver
Atoms For Peace- Default
Matthew Dear- Earthforms
Clinic- The Second Line
Lilacs & Champagne- Sour / Sweet
DJ Shadow- Scale It Back
Dog Bite- Forever, Until
Shout Out Louds- Sugar
Young Galaxy- Pretty Boy
Metric- Breathing Underwater
Dirty Projectors- Gun Has No Trigger
Phosphorescent- Ride On / Right On
Cat Power- Willie
Tennis- Long Boat Bass
The Pipettes- It Hurts To See You Dance So Well
Of Montreal- Your Magic Is Working
New Pornographers- Letter From An Occupant
Destroyer- Dark Leaves Form A Thread
Holly GoLightly- I Wanna Love Ya Kiss Ya Squeeze Ya
Gold Leaves- The Ornament
Neutral Milk Hotel- Holland 1945
The Soft Boys- Positive Vibrations
Tapes N Tapes- Conquest
Liz Phair- Stratford-on-Guy
Flaming Lips- When You're Twenty-Two
Beach Fossils- Birthday
Nirvana- Drain You
The Pixies- Gouge Away
The Rapture- Sail Away
Tame Impala- Mind Mischief
Chris Cohen- The Optimist High
Camera Obscura- Do It Again
The Minders- Yeah Yeah Yeah
Andrew Bird- Dark Matter
Jens Lekman- Waiting For Kirsten
Belle & Sebastian- I Didn't See It Coming
Yo La Tengo- Stupid Things
Nina Simone- Suzanne
Tallest Man On Earth- Let Them Grow Away
Father John Misty- Only Son Of The Ladiesman
The National-
Melodies Echo Chamber-
Caribou- Bijoux
Panda Bear- Surfer's Hymn
Atlas Sound- Walkabout
Mac Demarco- Annie
Destroyer- Watercolors Into The Ocean


Sunday, January 6, 2013


Here is the Audio Archive for Subbing Davey's show. Playlist in a little while.

Archive Link: Click Here

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Playlist AND Archive for Friday Dec 28th

One of my favorite Late night sets in years. And I got it recorded and uploaded. Getting ready for my podcast project and this was a big boost. Felt like a monster in the booth.


Matthew Dear- Earthforms
LCD Soundsystem- On Repeat
Little Dragon- Ritual Union (Bufi Remix)
Allan Braxe & Fred Falke- Palladium
Holy Ghost- Static on the Wire
Juan Maclean- Give Me Every Little Thing
Cut Copy- Unforgettable Season
Metric- Dead Disco
The Unicorns- Tuff Ghost
The Rapture- Alabama Sunshine
Liars- Mr You’re On Fire Mr
Yacht- Utopia
Sebastian Tellier- Cochonville
Of Montreal- Gallery Piece (Minitel Rose)
Justice- D.A.N.C.E. (Fred Falke Remix)
Jessie Ware- Night Light (Joe Goddard Remix)
Friendly Fires- On Board
Hot Chip- I Feel Better (live)
Janelle Monae- Locked Inside
Tame Impala- Mind Mischief
Stereolab- Flourescences
Sea and Cake- Harps
Pulp- Disco 2000
Peter Bjorn & John- I Know You Don’t Love Me
Yo La Tengo- Little Eyes
Broken Social Scene- Major Label Debut
Eternal Summers- Good As You
Grimes- Genesis
James Blake- Limit To Your Love
Portishead- Glory Box
Snowden- Victim Card
Beach House- Irene
Wye Oak- Civillian
Twin Shadow- Forget
Rhye- The Fall
The Antlers- Endless Ladder
Frankie Rose- Night Swim
Interpol- Leif Erikson
Jessie Ware- Devotion
Yeah Yeah Yeah’s- Little Shadow
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah- In This On Ice
Matthew Dear- Temptation

Archive - DOWLOAD OR STREAM:
Playlist for Sunday Dec 16th

Great show and some preliminary talk of some of the years best albums. Lots of new and newish records some highlights of 2012


Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
Tame Impala - Mind Mischief
Yo La Tengo –Ohm
Tennis – It All Feels The Same
Divine Fits – Civilian Stripes
Cults- You Know What I Mean
Rufus Wainright & Sharon Van Etton- Baby It’s Cold Outside
Father John Misty – O I Long To Feel Your Arms Around Me
Chris Cohen- Caller No 99
Olivia Tremor Control- Marking Time
The Apples In Stereo- Pine Away
Real Estate- Kinder Blumen
Jackson C Frank – Blues Run The Game
Jessie Pratt- Half Twain the Jesse
Elliott Smith – Clementine
The Tallest Man On Earth- Leading Me Now
Nina Simone – Suzanne (live in Rome
The Sea and Cake – New Patterns
The Shins –Wonderful Christmastime
Tune-Yards – Bizness
Best Coast –When I’m With You
Melody’s Echo Chamber – Endless Shore
Tame Impala- Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
David Byrne & St. Vincent – Who
Divine Fits – Like Ice Cream
Tennis – Long Boat Pass
The Evangelicals – Hello Jenn, I’m A Mess
Destroyer- Dark Leaves Form A Thread
Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan
Feist – Look At What The Light Did Now
Jens Lekman- Kanske Ar Jag Kar I Dig
Of Montreal - Disconnect The Dots
Richard Hawley – Seek It
Heartless Bastards – Blue Christmas
Low – Just Like Christmas
Beach Fossils- Fall Right In
Chris Cohen – Monad
David Bowie – Sound And Vision
The Beach Boys- Sloop John B

Monday, October 22, 2012

Saturday Subbing 10/20

Playlist:

Amazing show with some great call ins. Thanks to Brian for having me sub, and everyone that tuned in. Here's the playlist. I was pushing hard on some of the new records I really love. You'll see a few tracks from them

Artist- Track Name

Tame Impala- Mind Mischief
Melody's Echo Chamber- Some Time Alone, Alone
Broadcast- Still Feels Like Tears
Panda Bear-Surfer's Hymn
Dirty Projectors- Just From Chevron
The Sea And Cake- Harps
David Byrne & St Vincent- Dinner For Two
Divine Fits- Flaggin A Ride
Clones Of The Queen- Ray
Matthew Dear- Headcage
Chromatics- Lady
Metric- Breathing Underwater
Miike Snow- Devils Work
Richard Hawley- She Brings The Sunlight
Father John Misty- O I Long To Feel Your Arms Around Me
Bowerbirds- Tuck The Darkness in
Tallest Man On Earth- To Just Grow Away
Andrew Bird- Lusitania
Neutral Milk Hotel- King of Carrot Flowers 1-3
The Apples In Stereo- Look Away
The Minders- Hand On Heart
The Kinks- Arthur
The Yardbirds- Over Under Sideways Down
Tame Impala- Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
Olivia Tremor Control- Define A Transparent Dream
Melody's Echo Chamber- You Wont Be Missing That Part Of Me
The Bees- These Are The Ghosts
Stephen Agustin & The Fourth Wall- Drown With Us
Ducktails- Killin The Vibe
Father John Misty- Funtimes In Babylon
Grizzly Bear- Sleeping Ute
Kings of Convenience- Know-how
Joni Mitchell- Case Of You
Feist- So Sorry
Fleet Foxes- Helplessness Blues
Thurston Moore- The Shape Is In A Trance
Yo La Tengo- Today Is The Day
Chris Cohen- Monad
Tame Impala- Keep On Lying
Dirty Projectors- Swing Lo Magellan
The Velvet Underground- I Found A Reason
The Rolling Stones- I Am Waiting
Stereolab- Peng! 33
Eternal Summers- Wonder
Best Coast- I Want To
Divine Fits- Like Ice Cream
Pavement- Summer Babe (Winter Version)
REM- E-Bow The Letter

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

So I took a night run in Honolulu

So here's the playlist, let's play, "guess what's been on my mind". Or not because hell it's digustingly obvious, and I'm going to tell you anyway.

ANTLERS- PARENTHESES (... and I'll close your parentheses. Hell of a lyric)
ST VINCENT- THE STRANGERS ("for the thrill until i'm spent" This entire track is a treasure trove or phrase and innuendo. stories and images painted in extraordinary detail with detached minimalism. Desperate don't look good on you.)

STARFUCKER- ASTORIA (Tonally and thematically out of place but it is excellent on a run, and relentless introspection has led me further and further into wondering about the type of life worth aspiring towards. A simple life... perhaps i still prefer the ugly trainwrecked complications of the life i've chose)

SUN KIL MOON- SALVADOR SANCHEZ (What man doesn't take personal stock of his virility in the aftermath of these things. Salvador Sanchez, the man eulogized here in this ballad (along with pancho villa but thats another story) was a great boxer who much like James Dean found himself cracked up on the side of a highway at the very height of his beauty and grace. Both of these men possess the kinds of style effortless movement and gesture to which i have always yearned and always found myself lacking. Shambling and drug soaked this is a sad song about men of admiral character or sublimity that we wish we were)

PETE AND THE PIRATES- SONG FOR TOMORROW (A bit emo. Yes. Admitted. But I rounded diamond head as it came on. and the central idea of the song here the paralysis of beauty. The creeping sadness brought on by coming face to face with something so much larger than you, incomprehensible glories. A thing which once observed compels you to a form of union you cannot have. A beauty that you cannot touch, be apart of play with. A beauty which contrasts sharply with the squalor and compromise of your own life. I couldn't concentrate at all. there's so many stars" In many ways the reason I've stayed so long in that hellish backwater with so many illiterates and useless expatriate hedonists without courage of their convictions and understriving artists is that beauty here on this island is tangible. You can dance in it swim in it breath it in. When you jump spitting caves, you leap into glory. Impossible blues and swirling mathematics of dancing seafoam and volcanic rock. and all you have to do to be a part.. is just to take a step forward. )

CLONES- GALAXIES (If you lived in the scene 2k4 on you love Ara. Many are the reasons for this, but as an icon, she is (and remains) untouched. I rarely talk with my hanai sister about lyrics, I know not whether she is invoking the traditional poetic meanings for the planets referenced in this song. I think it is more likely that she is not. But what I really would like to talk aobut here is how over the years I have seen my sisters ethereal presence overwhelm small smokey dive venues. I've heard her ring out her voice and detox at bars in north shore tiny venues all over this island, Places that did not deserve her or her thundering voice, spaces and time in our lives transcended by her perfomances. Whether or not se will find the life she seeks as a community organizer and a mother is yet to be seen, but her immortality as Honolulu's Lady Stardust is assured. We will carry her voice on. )


WASHED OUT-ECHOES (this record is as good as people say it is. Lie on the floor in a state of soreness and disrepair and listen to it. Let it bring you pleasure. But earn it, no one deserves to listen to this record without putting work in first. It cheapens the power of it)

TAMMAR- THE LAST LINE (Capecod, who forced this record upon me have a similar take on it. It dabbles its toes in so many beloved influences and genres without doing violence to any of them that its staggering. kraut, garage, psychadelic, drone. It's all there in such fantastic balance. People really need to jump on this record so that we can bring this band out. It has a similar feeling of Eureka! as the first Clap Your Hands record. Remarkable synthesis)

JARVIS COCKER- BIG JULIE (I broke up with a girl because of this song. She's married now. This is Jarvis at his best, singing portraiture of the disenfranchised but ascendant. Sex is just for dummies anyway, something for you do when youve run out of things to say.Feminism without the ugly dworkinite propaganda about these things. A lovely take on the confusion and striving for love in adolescence. Of self-confidence seized by rejecting the values of others. And it's doomed romanticism)

DESTROYER- A VERY MODERN DANCE ("Is this the golden bridge I'm burning? Because, fire is the real gold!" I take it from this that Mr Bejar that he prefers a scorched earth breakup (a kindred spirit is nice to have) Not the only great lyric by miles. "Now you see why i'll always be a dancer" "and we are not the answer" and once again his metaphor of love as fascist regime "whats one more police action" also the bassline at the end. Marvelous.)

JAMES BLAKE- WILHELMS SCREAM (I dont know about my dreams, I don't my shows, I dont know about my ideas, I don't know about my love... all I know is... Well, you take my point. Tragic that this song is the closest thing to an anthem in my life. But it is.)

METRIC- BLACK SHEEP (dear god that last bit was morbid. I'm sorry you had to read that. I normally dont do large reservations for my pity parties. (I just charge 5 dollars at the door amirite!) Bt this is back to straightforward literal reads about public perception of sexuality and relationships with "liberated" but broken people. "you're a mechanical bull, you take a ride from anyone" Nihilist chic and the later incipient condition of boredom with it. the last line "Everyone pulls away from youu-uuu" is almost orgasmically self-pitying. If more of my borgeois friends listend to music like this I might hang out with them)

ARCADE FIRE- TUNNELS (Mostly dry humping my early twenties here. Hey imaginary grandkids I was the first DJ in hawaii to play this album on air! Now listen to my boring stories about how I used to be a wrestler... and so on. But not entirely, this song is about a sort of end-run romantic escapism. The unvarnished desire to run away from society and live subsumed in love without interference of a world or society. Even going so far as to forget how to name children free from old myths and narratives choking our futures and those of our children. It's a dangerous escapism, but we needed it at the time as a culture. And In many ways that love as childish escape paradigm is what I did for the past 2 years. It can be so sweet.)

TAMMAR- SUMMER FUN (and from that sappiness we contrast these lyrics here "And all the stupid things you do, oh no, yeah so .. Curse you curse your name and I dont know what to say" Well to her at least I don't. Even my verbosity balks at the challenge. Words do not come. Also, on a less confessional note BUY THIS RECORD IT IS VERY GOOD AND YOU WILL LIKE IT /advocacy )

RAPTURE-HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE (Simple enough. And one of the best from the new record. Staying tethered to a genre with richer artistic history has allowed the rapture to last longest in relevance of the 2k new york buzz bands. This record is very very good.>
Broken Social Scene- SENTIMENTAL X'S ("a friend a friend you used to call" "shouldnt we keep it as a promise")

PAPERCUTS- DO WHAT YOU WILL

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM- TOO MUCH LOVE

Whitest Boy Alive- DONE WITH YOU


these last three are so painfully literal that I'll spare myself the embarrassment of writing any sort of explanation about them. except for perhaps to reference the papercuts lyric "home is where you run to"

Well there we are. those are the songs I listened to on my run and in some small measure what I was thinking hearing them. I hope you enjoyed it.

~Ross