Ross Jackson's Daydream Nation

So I took a night run in Honolulu

2011-10-04T00:47:00.000-07:00

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

"It wasn't till I woke up that I could hold down a joke or a job or a drink...

2010-04-16T19:05:00.000-07:00

...but then all three are one in the same"

My Morning Jacket- One in the Same
Broken Social Scene- Stars and Sons
The Low Lows- Modern Romance
Spoon- The Mystery Zone
The Morning Benders- Wet Cement
Real Estate- Fake Blues
Yo La Tengo- The Lie and How We Did It
Broken Social Scene- Romance To The Grave *NEW*
Pete And The Pirates- Song For Today
Kings Of Leon- Trunk
Sleater Kinney- All Hands On The Bad One
Happy Birthday- Girls FM
The New Rags- Surf Seven Seas
The Futureheads- Robot
LCD Soundsystem- Drunk Girls *New
StarF*cker- Biggie Smalls
Caribou- Odessa
Vampire Weekend- Diplomat's Son
The Ruby Suns- Cinco
LCD Soundsystem- Dance Yrself Clean *New
Pains Of Being Pure At Heart- 103
Broken Social Scene- Ungrateful Little Father
Destroyer- A Dangerous Woman Up To A Point
David Bowie- Time
Phoenix- Girlfriend
Spoon- Who Makes You Money *New
Andrew Bird- Tenuousness
Snowden- No One In Control
Ramona Falls- I Say Fever
Menomena- Evil Bee
Radiohead- Where I End And Your Begin
Sonic Youth- Shadow Of A Doubt
Blonde Redhead- Misery Is A Butterfly
Arcade Fire- In The Backseat
Explosions In The Sky- Memorial
Bon Iver- Skinny Love
Fleet Foxes- Blue Ridge Mountains

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"I was in functional way.."

2010-03-17T03:01:00.000-07:00

Too busy rocking faces at thirtyninehotel to post a playlist at the moment but the archive is up. Playlist tomorrow.

~Ross

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"What did you want to see..

2010-03-08T18:51:00.000-08:00

What did you want to be when you grew up? -Atlas Sound"

I have recorded a lardge number of shows that I have subbed in for over the part few months and have been so much less than diligent about uploading and posting... I plan on remedying this situation over the coming week so stay tuned for a large preponderance of new content.

Dont miss it.

For starters... How about last night's show?

Playlist:
My Morning Jacket- Sooner
Broken Social Scene- World Sick *NEW*
Spoon- The Mystery Zone *NEW*
Sonic Youth- Teenage Riot
The National- Brainy
The Editors- All Sparks
Love of Diagrams- Single Cable
Handsome Firs- Talking Hotel Arbat Blues
The Walkmen- Thinking of a Dream I Had
Tapes N Tapes- Insistor
Supergrass- Diamond Hoo Ha Man
Phoenix- Napoleon Says
Metric- Combat Baby
Franz Ferdinand- Come On Home
The Virgins- Rich Girls
Vampire Weekend- Diplomat's Son
Neon Indian- Terminally Chill
Atlas Sound- Walkabout
Biblio- Lovers' Carvings
The Bee's- This Is The Land
Beach House- Zebra *NEW*
Emily Wells- Fountain of Youth
Madeline- Sleeping Dogs
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy- Lay And Love
Neko Case- Wish I Was The Moon
Sea Wolf- Wicked Blood
Elliott Smith- Fond Farewell
Destroyer- Your Blood
Camera Obscura- James
Cotton Jones- Chewing Gum
Real Estate- Green River
Spoon- Who Makes Your Money
Blonde Redhead- Misery Is A Butterfly
Clones of the Queen- Forest
Broadcast- City In Progress
Pains Of Being Pure At Heart- Falling Over
M83- Kim & Jessie
Menomena- Evil Bee
Asobi Seksu- Strings (maybe I overplay it.. maybe it's just that good)
The Evangelicals- The Water Is Warm
LCD Soundsystem- All My Friends

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"Come Monday Night"

2009-09-22T19:18:00.000-07:00

Mix of old and new throughout.. Felt amazing to be back in the studio,
here's the playlist and the link.

ENJOY! and comment.

~Ross

PLAYLIST

Pete & The Pirates- Come On Feet
Metric- Stadium Love
Electrelane- Oh Sombra!
Stereolab- Peng 33!
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart- Higher Than The Stars
Helio Sequence- Hallelujah (live from KTUH)
Kings Of Leon- Trunk
St. Vincent- Strangers
Broadcast- Goodbye Girls
Destroyer- Bay Of Pigs
Grizzly Bear- Two Weeks (Fred Falke Extended Mix)
Passion Pit- The Reeling
!!!- Must Be The Moon (Emperor Norton Mix)
Sunset Rubdown- Idiot Heart
Handsome Furs- Thy Will Be Done
Pretty Girls Make Graves- Something Bigger, Something Brighter
Snowden- Kill The Power
Late Of The Pier- Broken
Datarock- Red
Midnight Juggernauts- Shadows
Erlend Oye- Every Party
Feist- Mushaboom
Iron & Wine- Peng 33!
Bonnie Prince Billy- Strange Form Of Life (Live from KTUH)
Andrew Bird- Anonanimal
Neko Case- Lady Pilot & Magpie To The Morning
Rufus Wainright- Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk
Kings Of Convenience- Mrs. Cold
Nick Drake- Which Will
Fairport Convention- Who Knows Where The Time Goes
The Velvet Underground- I'm Set Free
Belle & Sebastian- Stars Of Track And Field
God Help The Girl- Come Monday Night
Biblio- Lover's Carvings
Cotton Jones- Bubble Gum
David Bowie- Rock N' Roll Suicide
Destroyer- Ravers
Menomena- Wet & Rusting
Taken By Trees- My Boys
Hedwig & The Angry Inch- Wicked Little Town

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MODERN ROMANCE

2009-06-14T18:21:00.000-07:00

I felt on fire, for essentially the entirety of the show today. There was some error in the encoding of last weeks show. But I think the more anthemic qualities of this weeks show should more than make up for it.

Playlist:

COMING SOON

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"Lover I dont play to win.."

2009-05-28T10:49:00.000-07:00

"...but for the thrill until I'm spent"

PLAYLIST:
The Virgins- Teen Lovers
The Vox Jaguars- Swagger
The White Stripes- I Smell A Rat
Tangiers- Ca Va Cool
The Clash- I Fought The Law
The Buzzcocks- Harmony In My Head
Dangermouse & Sparklehorse- Little Girl
The Breeders- Huffer
The Vivian Girls- Wild Eyes + Where Do you Run To
Love Is All- Aging Has Never Been His Friend
The Yeah Yeah Yeah's- Heads Will Roll
Tokyo Police Club- Citizen's For Tomorrow
St. Vincent- The Strangers
Dirty Projectors- Stillness Is The Move
Starf*cker- Medicine
Metric- Raw Sugar
Phoenix- Lasso
Jarvis Cocker- Angela
Kings Of Leon- California Waiting
M. Ward- Stars of Leo
The New Pornographers- The Myriad Harbour
The Kinks- Johnny Thunder
The Magnetic Fields- When My Boy Walks Down The Street
The Crocodiles- Refuse Angels
The Pixies- Caribou
The Whitest Boy Alive- Golden Cage
St. Vincent- Laughing With Mouth Of Blood + The Party
Beach House- Master Of None
Lush- Deluxe
Dent May- Meet Me In The Garden
Phoenix- Lisztomania
The Shins- New Slang
Electrelane- Cut & Run
Elliott Smith- Baby Britain
The Evangelicals- Hello Jenn, I'm A Mess
Feist- Brandy Alexander
Camera Obscura- The Sweetest Thing
Doves- Winter Hill
Empire Of The Sun- Half Mast
Handsome Furs- Talking Hotel Arbat Blues
Animal Collective- Brother Sport
Broadcast- Winter Now
*ahem*
Stereolab- The Noise Of Carpet
Walter Meego- Your Love
Destroyer- Watercolors Into The Ocean
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Keep that nasty summer heat coming..

2009-05-27T21:57:00.000-07:00

lil slow getting this up... I've had some strange things going on lately. I got assaulted on the street the other day.. have had to muddle through some police nonsense as a result.

Guess thats the problem with being as good looking as I am.. ;) haha..

Kaleidoscope has been picking up and I had an amazing time there last night. Come on out sometime and listen to some good music. The sets there aren't all club disco a lot of the time I end up up playing more evocative moodier and prettier sets. The actual venue.. the setting of downtown at night are always a lovely canvas to paint some music over..

PLAYLIST:

St. Vincent- The Strangers
Broadcast- Where Youth And Laughter Go
Doves- Jetstream
Slowdive- Some Velvet Morning
Stereolab- Eye Of Volcano
The Whitest Boy Alive- Timebomb
Yo La Tengo- Sudden Organ
The Yeah Yeah Yeah's- Dragon Lady
Wolf Parade- Fancy Claps
Vox Jaguars- Swagger
Pains Of Being Pure At Heart- Come Saturday
The Libertines- Up The Bracket
The Late Of Pier- Broken
Jarvis Cocker- Angela
Kings Of Leon- Pistol Of Fire
Franz Ferdinand- What She Came For
The Duke Spirit- Into The Fold
Dan Auerbach- I Want Some More
Metric- Sick Muse
Mouthful Of Bees- Under The Glacier
The New Pornographers- End Of Medicine
Peter Bjorn & John- Nothing To Worry About
Phoenix- Lasso
The Evangelicals- The Water Is Warm
Camera Obscura- You Told A Lie
St. Vincent- Laughing With A Mouth Of Blood
Fiest- In One Evening
Roxy Music- Grey Lagoons
David Bowie- Oh You Pretty Things
Marching Band- I Could Never
Phoenix- Armistice
Dent May- You Can't Force A Dance Party
Rufus Wainright- California
Saturday Looks Good To Me- Edison Girls
Dreamdate- How Low Are You?
The Raincoats- Lola
The Rolling Stones- I Am Waiting
Kings Of Convenience- Toxic Girl
Red House Painters- Between Days
The Helio Sequence- The Captive Mind
Handsome Furs- All We Want Baby Is Everything
----scratched----
Erlend Oye- Every Party
St. Vincent- Actor Out Of Work
Broken Social Scene- Swimmers
Neko Case- This Tornado Loves You
Ruby Suns- There Are Birds
Destroyer- Watercolors Into The Ocean

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Summertime Commences!

2009-05-15T17:33:00.001-07:00

This weeks show was a fun one.. Summers here and everythings picking up. It'll be good to see people out and celebrating.. I anticipate some big shows and even some north shore gigs this summer.

Playlist:
Zombies- Summertime
Camera Obscura- French Navy
Velvet Underground- Who Loves The Sun
Dent May- At The Academic Conference
Jens Lekman- Postcard To Nina
Francoise Hardy- Oh Oh Cheri
Dr Dog- Ain't It Strange
The Ladybug Transistor- Perfect For Shattering
The Little Ones- Unlock The Door
Lykke Li- Dance Dance Dance
M. Ward- Shangri-La
The Kinks- Big Sky
Love- Bummer In The Summer
Neko Case- I'm An Animal
Bill Callahan- The Wind And The Dove
Camera Obscura- You Told A Lie
The Beatles- In My Life
Sun Kil Moon- Si Palomar
Bon Iver- For Emma
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy- Beware Your Only Friend
The Black Keys- Strange Desire
Asobi Seksu- Sunshower
Doves- Compulsion
Empire Of The Sun- Walking On A Dream
Phoenix- 1901
The Whitest Boy Alive- Courage
Stereolab- The Noise Of Carpet
Starf*cker- Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Pixies- Gigantic
Sonic Youth- Bull In The Heather
The Walkmen- Louisiana
The Crocodiles- I Wanna Kill
Japanese Motors- Single Fins & Safety Pins
Guitar Wolf- Summertime Blues
The Handsome Furs- Talking Hotel Arabat Blues
Franz Ferdinand- What She Came For
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart- Come Saturday
Band Of Horses- Is There A Ghost?
The Apples In Stereo- Tidal Wave
Yo La Tengo- Decora
Rogue Wave- The Endless Shovel
Phoenix- Girlfriend
Tangiers- Ro Ro Rolands
Tapes N Tapes- Hang Them All
Neko Case- People Got A Lotta Nerve
Sun Kil Moon- Pancho Villa
Destroyer- Watercolors Into The Ocean

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2009-04-29T04:56:00.001-07:00

LATE! SORRY. Here's the list.

ARCHIVE:

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"No one at this party's having any fun tonight.."

2009-04-08T21:12:00.000-07:00

"..and I'd do anything just to make it alright."

PLAYLIST:

Handsome Furs- All We Want Baby Is Everything
Metric- Help I'm Alive
Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Hysteric
Asobi Seksu- Sunshower
Pains 0f Being Pure At Heart- Come Saturday
__secret track__
Doves- Kingdom of Rust
Whitest Boy Alive- Intentions
Phoenix-Lisztomania
Lykke Li- Let It Fall
Asteroids Galaxy Tour- Crazy
Jenny Lewis- Acid Tongue
M.Ward- Rave On
Sea & Cake- Midtown
Stereolab- Captain Easychord
Neko Case- Magpie To The Morning
Iron & Wine- Lovesong Of The Buzzard
Jens Lekman- A Little Lost
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci- Stood On Gold
Bon Iver- For Emma
Beach House- Gila
Yeah Yeah Yeah's- Little Shadow
Blind Pilot- Go On Say It
The Walkmen- Thinking Of A Dream I Had
The Zombies- She Does Everything For Me
The Young Knives- Up All Night
Franz Ferdinand- Girls
Supergrass- Diamond Hoo Ha Man
Kings Of Leon- Taper Jean Girl
The Virgins- Radio Christiane
Handsome Furs- Legal Tender
Rogue Wave- 10:1
Phoenix- Girlfriend
Animal Collective- My Girls
The Evangelicals- Midnight Vignette
Yo La Tengo- Today Is The Day
East Hundred- Slow Burning Crimes
Pains Of Being Pure At Heart- Young Adult Friction
Dent May & His Magnificent Ukelele- You Can't Force A Dance Party
Destroyer- Notorious Lightning
Neko Case- People Got A Lotta Nerve
Beirut- Elephant Gun
Horse Feathers- Helen
Fleet Foxes- Quiet Houses
Andrew Bird- Oh No
Destroyer- Watercolors Into The Ocean

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THE FINAL ROSS JACKSON'S DAYDREAM NATION!

2009-04-02T23:13:00.000-07:00

April fools. Although I wont be subbing the monday show anymore. There's a new DJ there now. Give her your support.

slightly too derivative of my last show. It didnt feeel that way at the time, but typing it in at the moment I feel somewhat embarrassed by the overlap. Tomorrow I post a guide to new music. Stay tuned.

Playlist:

Animal Collective- Brother Sport

Phoenix- 1901

Royksopp- Happy Up Here

The Asteroids Galaxy Tour- Crazy

Gnarls Barkley- Run

The Go! Team- Grip Like A Vice

Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Heads Will Roll

Cut Copy- Feel The Love

Dent May- Meet Me In The Garden

Franz Ferdinand- Ulyses

The Greenhornes- Shelter Of Your Arms

Dan Auerbach- Heartbroken In Disrepair

Handsome Furs- All We Want, Baby, Is Everything

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart- Come Saturday

All Girl Summer Fun Band- Not The One For Me

The Apples In Stereo- Look Away

Bella- Stay Here

David Bowie- It Aint Easy

Destroyer- Here Comes The Night

The Evangelicals- Party Crashin

The Flaming Lips- Evil Will Prevail

The Delgados- Hate Is All You Need

Clinic- 2/4

The Horrors- Count In Fives

Jarvis Cocker- Fat Children

Kings of Leon- Slow Night, So Long

Peter Bjorn & John- Nothing To Worry About

Phoenix- Fences

The Whitest Boy Alive- Dead End

Of Montreal- Cato As A Pun

Midnight Juggernauts- End Of An Era

M. Ward- Stars Of Leo

Sun Kil Moon- Salvador Sanchez

Low- When I Go Deaf

Neko Case- Don't Forget Me

Bon Iver- Skinny Love

Smog- Finer Days

Sea Wolf- Middle Distance Runner

The Rolling Stones- Let It Bleed

Nick Drake- Hazey Jane II

Camera Obscura- Shine Like A New Pin

Belle & Sebastian- Put The Book Back On The Shelf

Destroyer- Watercolors Into The Ocean

ARCHIVE LINK:

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"Glitter on the wet streets.."

2009-03-25T18:46:00.000-07:00

"..Silver over everything

The river's all wet

you're all cold" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

The Handsome Furs- Evangeline

Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Heads Will Roll

Metric- Gold Guns Girls

Asobi Seksu- Glacially

Phoenix- Armistice

Helio Sequence- Lately (ktuh performance)

Animal Collective- Are You Also Frightened?

Franz Ferdinand- Ulyses

Fujiya And Miyagi- Uh

Peter Bjorn & John- Nothing To Worry About

Lykke Li- I'm Good I'm Gone

LadyHawke- Love Don't Live Here Anymore

Bella- No One Will Know

M83- Kim & Jessie

Menomena- Muscle N Flo

Dan Auerbach- Heartbroken In Disrepair

Crytal Stilts- Departure

The Buzzcocks- Why Can't I Touch It?

The Broken West- Gwen, Now And Then

Broadcast- America's Boy

Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Soft Shock

Bjork- Hidden Place

Evangelicals- Hello Jenn, I'm A Mess

The Bees- There Are The Ghosts

The Flaming Lips- Fight Test

The Whitest Boy Alive- Dead End

Phoenix- Lisztomania

Metric- Help Me I'm Alive

The Knife- Hearbeats

Radiohead- Wierd Fishes

Asobi Seksu- In The Sky

Andrew Bird- Fitz & Dizzyspells

Neko Case- This Tornado Loves You

Sun Kil Moon- Neverending Math Equation

Belle & Sebabstian- Wrapped Up In Books

The Lucksmiths- Welcome Home

Dent May- Meet Me In The Garden

Voxtrot- Shut Your Eyes

The Housemartins- Happy Hour

The Velvet Underground- Who Loves The Sun?

The Unicorns- Jellybones

The Asteroids Galaxy Tour- Golden Age

CLOR- Love + Pain

M. Ward- To Save Me

Destroyer- Watercolors Into The Ocean

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~Ross

"Carved your name across three counties ground it in with bloody hides..."

2009-03-04T19:14:00.000-08:00

"Their broken necks will line the ditch

Till you stop it, stop it, stop it

Stop this madness

I want you" - Neko Case

PLAYLIST:

Neko Case- This Tornado Loves Me

Cotton Jones- Cotton & Velvet

Bonnie Prince Billy- Beware (Live from KTUH)

Andrew Bird- Sovay

Mirah- Generosity

M. Ward- Oh Lonesome Me

Rolling Stones- Playing With Fire

The Duke Spirit- Sunken Treasure

Asobi Seksu- Sing Tomorrows Praise

Destroyer- This Night

The Walkmen- Canadian Girl

The Decemberists- Shanty for Arethusa

Dent May & Magnificent Ukelele- College Town Boy

Neko Case- People Gotta Lot of Nerve

Sea Wolf- You're A Wolf

Helio Sequence- Shed Your Love

Dan Auerbach- When the Night Comes

Jenny Lewis- Carpetbaggers

Kings of Leon- 17

Yeah Yeah Yeah's- Zero

Goldfrapp- Lovely 2 C U

LadyHawke- Professional Suicide

The Evangelicals- Hello Jenn, I'm A Mess

Animal Collective- Summertime Clothes

Stereolab- Get A Shot of the Refrigerator

Asobi Seksu- Glacially

Judy Collins- Who Knows Where the Times Goes

Neko Case- Vengeance is Sleeping

The Rolling Stones- Wild Horses

Andrew Bird- Oh No

Lou Reed- Satellite of Love

Love- Orange Skies

Fleet Foxes- Ragged Wood

Band of Horses- Islands off the Coast

The Lucksmiths- Welcome Home

Jets to Brazil- Lemon Yellow Black

Poster Children- Accident Waiting to Happen

Dent May- Meet Me in the Garden

Jens Lekman- You Are the Light

Magnetic Fields- A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off

Pulp- Glory Days

:LOST TRACKS:

Destroyer- Watercolors Into the Ocean

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Will Oldham Performs LIVE

2009-02-23T21:43:00.000-08:00

Finally had the spare time to get this up. Working on getting the master recordings to put up seperately but for now this will have o suffice. Playlist coming soon.

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A mouth all full of stars...

2009-02-08T21:37:00.000-08:00

Slow on updates. Apologies. There'll be a large backlog posted. But this will get us current.

Really one of the best shows in a long time. Lots of new music and new old music. A really nice cohesive thread and a number a quite beautiful transitions. Lots of fun in the studio that day.

Playlist:

The Low Lows- Raining in Eva

Bon Iver- For Emma

Jenny Lewis- Pretty bird

Neko Case- Teenage feeling

Cotton Jones- Some strange rain

Nick Drake- Cello song

Midlake- Young bride

Fleet Foxes- Blue Ridge Mountains

Dent May & His Magnificent Ukelele- Love Song 2009

Beirut- In the mausoleum

Magnetic Fields- I don't want to get over you

Rufus Wainright- California

R.E.M.- Radio Free Europe

Smog- Butterflies drowned in wine

Silver Jews- Send in the clouds

Will Oldham- Let it be

Cotton Jones- I am the changer

Kings of Convenience- Love is no big truth

Kings of Leon- 17

Broken West- Shiftee

Wilco- Outtasite

Dent May & His Magnificent Ukelele- Meet me in the garden

Supergrass- Alright

Animal Collective- My Girls

Stereolab- Captain Easychord

Whitest Boy Alive- 1517

Yo La Tengo- Autumn Sweater

The Walkmen- Another one goes by

Cotton Jones- Blood red sentimental blues

Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions- Suzanne

Horse Feathers- Helen

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy- Lay and love

Fairport Convention- Who knows where the time goes

Andrew Bird- Masterswarm

Belle & Sebastian- Ease your feet into the sea

Cass McCombs- Pregnant Pause

The Decemberists- I don't mind

The New Pornographers- Spirit of giving

Olivia Tremor Control- NYC 25

The Apples in Stereo- Hightide

The Lucksmiths- Can't believe my eyes

Destroyer- Watercolors into the ocean

AUDIO ARCHIVE:

http://www.archive.org/details/RossJacksonsDaydreamNation2-4-09

BEST NEW MUSIC:

COTTON JONES- PARANOID COCCOON

DENT MAY AND HIS MAGICAL UKELELE- S/T

HORSE FEATHERS- HOUSE WITH NO HOME

The Latest *(playlist on the way)

2008-12-10T18:43:00.000-08:00

Reverse engineering the playlist from the recording. As follows:

Crystal Stilts- Prismatic Room

LadyHawke- Back Of The Van

Cut Copy- Unforgettable Season

Walter Meego- Forever

Menomena- Muscle & Flo'

Phoenix- Too Young

Ambulance LTD- Stay Where You Are

The Virgins- Teen Lovers

The Black Kids- I'm Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You

The Rosebuds- Bow To The Middle

Pulp- Misshapes Mistakes

Supergrass- The Return Of...

Lykke Li- I'm Good, I'm Gone

Love Is All- Movie Romance

Midnight Juggernauts- Into the Galaxy

David Bowie- Rebel Rebel

Clor- Good Stuff

Pulp- Party Hard

Jens Lekman- Kanske Ar Jag Kar I Dig

The Go Team!- We Just Won't Be Defeated

School Of Seven Bells- Half Asleep

Imperial Teen- Yoo Hoo

Starf*cker- Laadeedaa

Ladytron- Seventeen

Kings Of Leon- 17

Menomena- Evil Bee

Trail of Dead- Another Morning Stoner

Fujiya & Miyagi- Uh

Andrew Bird- Oh No

Vivian Girls- Such A Joke - Wild Eyes

Electrelane- At Sea

LadyHawke- Paris Is Burning

LCD Soundsystem- North American Scum

The Walkmen- In The New Year

Jenny Lewis- Acid Tongue

The Magnetic Fields- Strange Powers

Belle & Sebastian- Funny Little Frog

Brendan Canning- Churches Under The Stairs

Helio Sequence- Lately (live)

Asobi Seksu- Strawberries

The Crystal Stilts- The Dazzled

Broadcast- Come On Let's Go

Clinic- Memories

School Of Seven Bells- Iamundernodisguise

Stereolab- Chemical Chords

Destroyer- Watercolors Into The Ocean

The audio archive is here:

http://www.archive.org/details/RossJacksonsDaydreamNation12-10-2008beforeTheReturnOfKaleidoscope

~Ross

A new day for the Daydream Nation..

2008-11-19T20:07:00.000-08:00

rededicating myself to excellence in broadcasting and refinement of aesthetic as well as community service here during the show. It is your cathedral of sound. Ross Jackson's Daydream Nation.

Listenable/Downloadable Archive:

http://www.archive.org/details/RossJacksonsDaydreamNation11-19-2008AParticularlyGoodShow

Playlist:

School Of Seven Bells- Half Asleep

Air- Brakes On

Broadcast- Man is not a Bird

Goldfrapp- Lovely Head

Slowdive- Slouvaki Space Station

The Rapture- Open Up Your Heart

Ruby Suns- There Are Birds

The Rosebuds- Border Guards

Crystal Stilts- Departure

Spoon- They Never Got You

Kings of Leon- Manhattan

The Walkmen- Thinking of a Dream I Had

My Morning Jacket- Anytime

Supergrass- The Return of

Darker My Love- White Composition

Stereolab- Tomorrow is Already Here

School of Seven Bells- Iamundernodisguise

Panda Bear- Take Pills

Lykke Li- Dance Dance Dance

Peter Bjorn & John- Up Against the Wall

The Broken West- Smartest Man Alive

The Pixies- Winterlong

Jenny Lewis- See Fernando

Holly Golightly- I Wanna Hug Ya Kiss Ya Squeeze Ya

The Black Keys- Back Door

Clinic- Walking With Thee

Kings of Leon- Crawl

Love Is All- Give it Back

The Libertines- Death on the Stairs

All Girl Summer Fun Band- Not The One For Me

The Apples In Stereo- 20 Cases Suggestive Of...

The Kinks- Tired of Waiting

The Zombies- I Can't Make Up My Mind

The Minders- Pauline

Yo La Tengo- Sugarcube

Destroyer- Dark Leaves Form A Thread

The Exploding Hearts- I'm A Pretender

Dressy Bessy- Dress the Part

Kelly Stoltz- Your Reverie

King Of Prussia- Spain in the Summertime

Menomena- Muscle & Flo'

The Ladybug Transistor- Echoes

The Little Ones- Morning Tide

Irving- Lovely, Just Like Her

Neutral Milk Hotel- Aeroplane Over the Sea

Crystal Stilts- City in the Sea

Velvet Underground- I Found a Reason

Destroyer- Watercolors into the Ocean

HELIO SEQUENCE PERFORM LIVE

2008-10-27T19:27:00.000-07:00

AND YOU CAN HEAR IT HERE, EVEN IF YOU MISSED IT TODAY:

http://www.archive.org/details/RossJacksonsDaydreamNation-HelioSequencePerformLive

4 track performed live in the studio but the amazing and delightful members of the Helio Sequence. Brandon and Benjamin.

See Them Perform this HALLOWEEN @ the Loft for the HallowBaloo music festival.

Tickets available online: http://hallowbaloo.com/

~Ross

"Regrets A Paradise"

2008-10-27T19:24:00.000-07:00

-Japanese Motors

We'll I'll give you one guess; my fellow Honoluluans, which of the two I prefer to live in...

I'll add more to this post soon like theplaylist and the upcoming shows. For now here's a link to the archive.

BOOM!

http://www.archive.org/details/RossJacksonsDaydreamNation10-22-2008

"At least I smell nice... "

2008-10-16T03:55:00.000-07:00

"so come on and breathe me in." Go ahead. Like my words and my show I am immaculately perfumed. Though at the moment I smell more like faintly burnt green tea and lavender than my usual amalgam of chanel and vigorous ... we'll say discussion. Either way it at least lives up to the spirit of the Young Knives lyric used here as our dedication. The show has going magnificently, as has business around town, (even if my vaunted update schedule has not)

HELIO SEQUENCE IS PLAYING LIVE ON MY SHOW THE 27th!! 'll be recording it in case you miss it going out live. And I'll be their performing inbetween sets at their concert on Halloween. Which i'm also s-upe-r enthused about. A Honolulu Halloween like I've always wanted.

Info about the show here: Hallowbaloo.com

Eyes and Ears from denver performs with the malcogs tuesday at bar 35 and thursday at Anna Banana's.

Menomena tickets are on sale for November here: http://enterprise.bigcartel.com/

Steph's got a Rocky Horror Showing at Bar 35 towards Halloween. I'll post some info about that and some links when they become available.

Without further ado, the playlist:

All Girl Summer Fun Band-Not the One for Me

Flaming Lips- This Here Giraffe ---> for Nadia who is back in her friday afternoon slot.

Midnight Juggernauts- Into the Galaxy

Walter Meego- Letting Go

The Rapture- The Devil

Darker My Love- Northern Soul

The Rosebuds- Life Like

The Raveonettes- Dead Sound

The Duke Spirit- Into the Fold

Placebo- Every You Every Me

Elastica- Smile

Young Knives- Up All Night

Kings of Leon- Revelry

Broken Social Scene- Stars & Sons

Helio Sequence- Keep Your Eyes Ahead

Darker My Love- Two Ways Out

Handsome Furs- Cannot Get Started

The Doves- Sky Starts Falling

The Broken West-House of Lies

Destroyer- The Way of Perpetual Roads

The Rosebuds- Bow to the Middle

Lykke Li- Dance, Dance, Dance

Dirty On Purpose- Like Bees

The Low Lows- Modern Romance

Holly Golightly- I Wanna Hug Ya, Kiss Ya, Squeeze Ya

Japanese Motors- Regrets a Paradise

The Virgins- Love Is Colder Than Death

The Ladybug Transistor- Wooden Bars

The Left Banke- Walk Away Renee

Starfucker- German Love

Marching Band- Makeup Artist

Pas/Cal- You Were Too Old For Me

Belle & Sebastian-String Bean Jean

French Kicks- One More Time

The Breeders- Overglazed

The Walkmen- You & Me

Midlake- It Covers the Hillsides

King of Prussia- Misadventures of the Campaign Kids

Olivia Tremor Control- NYC-25

Clinic- Emotions

Stereolab- Daisy Click Clack

Destroyer- Watercolors Into the Ocean

LISTEN TO THE SHOW!!!:

http://www.archive.org/details/RossJacksonsDaydreamNation10-16-2008

Revelations

2008-09-17T20:06:00.000-07:00

HELIO SEQUENCE WILL BE PLAYING ON THE SHOW LIVE THE 27th OF OCTOBER IN PREPARATION FOR THEIR HALLOWEEN SHOW.

for details on that show please check out www.Hallowbaloo.com

in the meantime here is the link to the podcast of the show and the playlist for today.

http://www.archive.org/details/RossJacksonsDaydreamNation9-17-2008

Playlist:
Broken West- Gwen Now and Then
StarF*cker- Laadeedaa
AC Newman- On the Table
Marching Band- I Could Never
Stereolab-Three Women
Dungen- Satt Att Se
Air- Kelley Watch the Stars
Feist- One Evening
Sea & Cake- Introducing
Call & Response- When the Lights are Out
Sondre Lerche- Two Way Monologue
Dean & Brita- Teen Angel
Lou Reed- Perfect Day
Pulp- Help the Aged
Lykke Li- Dance, Dance, Dance
Helio Sequence- Back to this
Brendan Canning- Possible Grenade
Love Of Diagrams- Single Cable
BellaVista- Carve Our World
Clinic- Memories
StarF*cker- Rawnald Gregory Erikson the Second
Bella- No One Will Know
Belle & Sebastian- Electronic Renaissance
My Morning Jacket- Evil Urges
Black Keys- Psychotic Girl
Grand Ole Party- Look Out Young Sons
Greenhornes- Shelter of Your Arms
Walkmen- In the New Year
Handsome Firs- Cannot Get Started
Galaxie 500- Leave the Planet
Starling Electric- British Boots
Stone Roses- She Bangs the Drums
Yo La Tengo- The Race is On Again
Tapes N' Tapes- Conquest
Wolf Parade- The Grey Estates
Young Knives- Up All Night
Rogue Wave- Sewn Up
Zombies- Don't Cry for Me
Broken West- Perfect Games
Virgins- Murder
Spoon- Sister Jack
Brendan Canning- Churches Under the Stairs
Sonic Youth- Jams Run Free
Sigur Ros- (track 2 from their new album)
Lykke Li- Little Bit
Destroyer- Watercolors into the Ocean

~Ross

The link for now..

2008-08-21T02:28:00.000-07:00

post the playlist tomorrow here's the link to the show archive for now.

Kisses.

~Ross

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In Memorium: Michael Swanson

2008-08-04T19:19:00.000-07:00

This is by no means an exhaustive or comprehensive list of the music played on the show for today. It was request that I post it here and so I shall. I'm low on words for the moment, perhaps I will return shortly and add more.

some of the music that is unlisted was played from cd's and not from my computer which kept better track than I what was played today. Prominently among the unlisted songs was music by the Fleet Foxes and pieces of Elliott Smith some El Perro Del Mar.

A thank you to Carl, Dominic, Iman and Andrew for keeping me company during the show today. Our love and concern goes to Shane who has had to bear so deeply the brunt of all of this.

I apologize if I did not plays songs that you would have wished dedicated to the man. I did my best to do this show for those of us here in the wake of these events.

Track name+ Artist + Album Name

Things Ain't Like They Used to Be - The Black Keys - Attack & Release
Broken Afternoon - The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career - Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
A Minor Place - Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See A Darkness
Tears In The Typing Pool - Broadcast - Tender Buttons
Eulogy To Lenny Bruce - Nico - Chelsea Girl
River Man - Nick Drake - Way To Blue
In Our Blood - Horse Feathers - Words Are Dead
Master of None - Beach House - Beach House
Our Swords - Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time
Feather In Your Cap - Beck - subUrbia sndtrk
Cold Wind - ARCADE FIRE - rarity
Le Voyage De Penelope - Air - Moon Safari
I See A Darkness - Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See A Darkness
Farrar, Straus & Giroux (Sea Of Tears) - Destroyer - Streethawk: A Seduction
Peace Attack - Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
The Shape Is In A Trance - Thurston Moore - Trees Outside The Academy
Engine - Jeff Mangum - Live at Jittery Joes
Heavy Weather - Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis
Day Is Done - Nick Drake - Family Tree
I Know It's Over [Live] - Jeff Buckley - So Real: Songs From Jeff Buckley
Strayed - Smog - Dongs of Sevotion
I'm Set Free - The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
Dinner Bells - Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary
The Rose Captain - Sea Wolf - Leaves In The River
In The Pines - Smog - A River Ain't Too Much To Love
The Wild Kindness - Silver Jews - American Water

"I got my Mojo working..."

2008-08-01T16:16:00.000-07:00

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"Please don't wake me from this my golden slumber.."

2008-07-23T22:54:00.000-07:00

"...I am proud to be a part of this number"

Playlist for 7/23/08:
Destroyer-Rubies
Pas/Cal-Summer Is Almost Here
Marching Band- Makeup Artist
Os Mutantes- My Baby
Willoughby-Intentions
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci- Waiting for Winter
King of Prussia- Shades of Hippiedom
Vampire Weekend- Campus
Little Ones- Forgive Yourself
Botticellis- Up Against the Glass
Shins- Kissing the Lipless
Born Ruffians-Foxes Mate for Life
Brendan Canning- Churches Under the Stairs
Dandy Warhols- Welcome to the Third World
Whitest Boy Alive- Fireworks
Virgins- Rich Girls
Black Kids- Hit the Heartbrakes
Shout Out Louds- Tonight I Have to Leave It
Metric- Combat Baby
CSS- Give Up
Tapes N' Tapes- Hang Them All
Futureheads- Radio Heart
Virgins- I Week of Danger
Pas/Cal- O Honey We're Ridiculous
Walkmen- There Goes My Baby
Willoughby- Frankenstien
Spoon- The Distance
Morning Benders- Patient Patient
Fleet Foxes- Quiet Houses
Silver Jews- Send in the Clouds
Decemberists- Oh, Valencia!
Little Ones- Unlock the Door
She & Him- Sweet Darlin'
Rogue Wave- Chicago x12
Kings of Convenience- Know How
Brendan Canning- Snowballs & Icicles
Jarvis Cocker- Big Julie
Yes- Sweetness
M. Ward- Let's Dance
Midlake- Young Bride
New Pornographers- Jackie
Yo La Tengo- Double Dare
Pavement- Summer Babe
Vampire Weekend- m79
Destroyer- Watercolors into the Ocean

SHOW ARCHIVE:
DOWLOAD IT HERE

Late Playlist... Too many birthdays and dinner parties

2008-07-19T18:14:00.000-07:00

MGMT- The Youth
Morning Benders- Damnit Anna
Mouthful of Bees- The Now
Botticellis- Old Home Movies
Vampire Weekend- I Stand Corrected
Virgin- Fernando Pando
Walkmen- Canadian Girl
Brendan Canning- Hit the Wall
National- Fake Empires
Wolf Parade- Grey Estates
Clinic- Memories
Os Mutantes- I Feel a Little Spaced Out
Stereolab- Three Women
Shangri-La's- Train from Kansas City
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin- Think I Wanna Die
Lucksmiths- A Chapter in Your Life Entitled San Fransisco
Destroyer- Your Blood
Love- Bummer in the Summer
M. Ward- Outta My Head
Peter Moren- Tell Me in Time
Fleet Foxes- Oliver James
Virgins- Rich Girls
Little Ones- Unlock the Door
Flaming Lips- Yeah Yeah Yeah Song
Tangiers- Ro Ro Roland
Rosebuds- Happily Ever After
National- Mistaken for Strangers
Walkmen- In the New Year
Brendan Canning- Possible Grenade
Cut Copy-Feel the Love
Virgins- Teen Lovers
M83- Kim & Jessie
Dirty On Purpose- Like Bees
Tapes N' Tapes- Lines
Helio Sequence- Hallelujah
Foals- Big Big Love (fig. 2)
Belle & Sebastian- Seeing Other People
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lost tracks
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Orange Juice- Simply Thrilled Honey
Octopus Project-Truck
Destroyer- Watercolors into the Ocean

"La la la Kimi to ireba..."

2008-07-14T22:38:00.000-07:00

"...Nanimo mienai, Kimi to nara, Dokodemo iku, Nanimo nai kara, Yoake demo, Itsudemo yobu, Yume no yohni shizunde iku" -Asobi Seksu "Strings"

Merciful christ I'll have to ask McVicker about what in the hell that means. (or Aly for that matter) but it sounds magnificent coming the KTUH studio speakers and top volume. Some abstract and perfect proclamation of summer demanding we pay tribute with revelry with dreams and sweat and pleasure. A hymn to sunbleached afternoons

Summer in Honolulu is marked by many things, none of them being weather. Which, like my attitudes toward soft skin pressed against my body in the morning, remain absolute and unchanging. What changes, what marks the season here in Honolulu's summer is the coming and going friends. Even removed from the living constraints of university you cannot escape the cycle of movement that is so deeply ingrained in Honolulu.

I type this now in the moments before I go to a goodbye dinner for a longtime friend of mine and DJing partner who goes to enter civil service in Cambodia. Dave Wilke who spins music at KTUH and around town as "Davey Shindig" is taking off and we'll all be wishing him the best tonight.

I'll return here and post more about it. maybe the text of what i'll say tonight at dinner if the world affords a moment for toasts and speaches. For now.. the playlist of the show..

NewPornographers
Asobi Seksu- Strings
Brendan Canning- Churches under the Stairs
Beachwood Sparks- You take the gold
Helio Sequence- You can come to me
The Bee's- Ocularist
The Minders - Red Admiral
Morning Benders- Waiting for a war
Little Ones- Forgive Yourself
Vampire Weekend- Oxford Comma
Rogue Wave- Christians in black
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy- Easy does it
Fleet Foxes- Ragged Wood
Rolling Stones- It's not easy
Tapes N' Tapes- Conquest
The Virgins- Hey hey girl
Strokes-Soma
Breeders- Saints
T.Rex- Solid gold easy action
Caesars- Not the fall that hurts
Go Team!- Fake ID
Born Ruffians- I need a life
Brendan Canning- Love is new
Health- Crimewave (crystal castles remix)
The Virgins- Teen lovers
Beck- Sexx laws
Midnight Juggernauts- Ending of an era
Black Keys- Psychotic girl
Stereolab- Three women
Supergrass- The return of..
United States of America- Coming down
Dirty On Purpose- Send me an angel
Broken Social Scene- Stars and sons
Whitest Boy Alive- Done with you
Little Ones- Boracay
Ladybug Transistor- Wooden Bars
Flaming Lips- Bad days
Andrew Bird- Naming of things
Sigur Ros- Gobbledigook
Olivia Tremor Control- California Demise
Morning Benders- Damnit Anna
Minders- Hooray for tuesday
Deerhoof- The perfect me
Buzzcocks- Pulse beat
Guns of Detroit- Caligula's Sister
She & Him- Sweet Darlin'
New Pornographers- Mutiny, I promised you
Destroyer- Watercolors into the ocean

Album Recommendation Day!

2008-07-08T01:27:00.000-07:00

Well it's summertime, and much like Jesus, summer hits like the atom bomb. So it's about motherf*&%n' time that we hit back. To the max.

And if that doesn't suit your level of erudition perhaps the self-titled debut from New York's The Virgins will fare you better. A wry, fun, solid, rock-pop record to start us off with this summer. And before I get into discuss anything silly such as who they sound like, or what people are saying about them let me first say that 'Rich Girls" and "Teen Lovers" are absolute necessities. If you try to live your next few months without them you will in all likelihood sprain a fun muscle trying to keep up with all of those shining happy people who have the damn good sense to listen to what I tell them to. ;) So get to it. The record has a number of other good songs. ("One Week of Danger", "Fernando Pando", and "Hey Hey Girl" to my mind) on the whole it doesn't quite deliver as an ALBUM in that classical sense. But its a good time and you'll love it.

RIYL- early Strokes, later Rapture, better Duran Duran

Along similar lines, which is to say similar bullet trains to sticky summer bliss, King Of Prussia, recently came out with an EP entitled "Save The Scene" With a candor and lyrical nimbleness reminiscent of a Belle and Sebastian and the production style and aesthetic of an Elephant 6 band, "Save the Scene" delivers 7 tracks a few of them might be the crown indie-pop gems of the whole summer. "Spain in the Summertime" the EP's opener coils out like a faster jauntier "Legal Man" and lulls it's ways through an beautiful male female interchange. "Shades of Hippiedom" and "Terrarium" are lush and clever and inordinately pretty and stand out as its highlights, although the whole of the record is quite good. I will do cartwheels when they release a full length. A very promising band.

RIYL- Ladybug Transistor, Apples in Stereo, Belle & Sebastian

INTO THE VAULT--- To Be Added

and lastly sometimes points about culture must be made through parallel medium. There is a lot of bad radio and ugly soulless music pumped through the airwaves here in Honolulu. A writhing venomous centipede of cultural poison and malaise. And against such influences... I promise you.. the citizens of Honolulu and the world.. that I will remain stout and resolute..

A BEETLE FOR JUSTICE

"I know so many people who think they can do it alone.."

2008-07-06T21:24:00.000-07:00

..They isolate their heads and stay in their safety zones"

"Now how can I come on
And tell them the way that they live could be better"
-The Beach Boys 'I Know There's An Answer"

Bill Callahan's favorite Beach Boys song. With good reason. A polemic against the death of youth and light. Certainly one of the most genuinely hopeful tunes from my sixties library. It exists in my mind as a kind of broad existential counterpoint to Radiohead's 'Let Down'. A song which also speaks to the broadly disaffected masses of people caught in cycles of depredation (who knows maybe I'm one of them) The difference of course between the two songs is in attitude. Wilson boldly and perhaps naively asserts that he knows (with almost religious fervor) that there is an answer to the apathy and unhappiness around him, Thom Yorke to contrast achieves catharsis through fantasy: "Someday I am going to grow wings, A chemical reaction" and commenting on the futility of this hope for escape "Hysterical and useless, hysterical and useless"

Another lyric from the song that always does me in: "They trip through there days, and waste all their thoughts at night" and certainly for A time as I have not been blogging or up late talking and actually connecting with the friends I have around me has seemed a damning indictment. But times are changing. The lyric reminds me also of the refrain from 'Put the book back on the shelf':

"you're always looking for a sign , but boy you blow it every time, you hear a voice begin to speak, you ignore it and go softly to sleep"
The kind of lyric that keeps you up late, burning your toes a little bit.

Comments on this show... A bit awkward in some of the selection at first. The pairing were not as ideal as I like to keep things. I've been meaning to to a more definitive and chronologically diverse Dream-pop set, and there are some sketches of it in the past few shows. There's a lot of just fun silly pop and rock tracks, which feel suited for summer. Look forward to more of that and a MIX CD WITH ART COLLABORATION FROM HONOLULU VISUAL ARTISTS in the coming weeks.

and tomorrow, a few album recommendations/reviews and cute videos. Stay tuned.

PLAYLIST FOR 7-2-08

Explosions In The Sky- Yasmin The Light
Radiohead- Backdrifting
Cut Copy- Hearts On Fire
Dirty On Purpose- Like Bees
Bjork- Coccoon
Concretes- Sugar
Beta Band- Human Being
Stone Roses- Sally Cinnamon
The Virgins- Rich Girls
Supergrass- Diamond Hoo Ha Man
----mistake----
Black Kids- I'm Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You
Futureheads- Hard To Bear
Morning Benders- Damnit Anna
Metric- Raw Sugar
Broadcast- Come On Let's Go
The Foals- Balloons
Stars- Elevator Love Letter
My Bloody Valentine- Sometimes
Slowdive- Some Velvet Morning
The Notwist- Good Lies
Softlightes- Microwave song
Helio Sequence- Broken Afternoon
Cat Power- Wild is the wind
Fleet Foxes- Blue Ridge Mountains
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci- Stood On Gold
Sondre Lerche- Don't Be Shallow
Camera Obscura- Red Red Rose
Destroyer- Painter In My Pocket
Pete and the Pirates- Moving
Clinic- Free Not Free
Stereolab- Three Women
The Ladybug Transistor- Echoes
Fleet Foxes- Quiet Houses
Circulatory System- Yesterday's World
Born Ruffians- Badonkadonkey
The Little Ones- Unlock the Door
Botticellis- The Reviewer
The Kinks- Startstruck
Beatles- Good Day Sunshine
Beach Boys- I Know There's An Answer
Francoise Hardy- La Fille Avec Toi
Minders- Golden Street
King of Prussia- Spain In The Summertime
Flaming Lips- She Don't Use Jelly
Gin Blossoms- Till I Hear It From You --Yikes
Exploding Hearts- Throwaway Style
Destroyer- Watercolors Into The Ocean

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"Can You Believe I'm alive after all that.."

2008-07-06T18:47:00.000-07:00

..picking panties off the floor with my cold cold hands."

My hands have been very cold in the mornings. The air-conditioning at my place is very effective and bringing out a morning chill. As for the other part of the lyric, I'll leave you make your assumptions. NEXT DOOR is on a very temporary hiatus and all of my close friends have vanished to bold new futures of visionary excitement and self-redefinition, or at least to new girlfriends and work schedules that keep them pre-occupied. Such is the way with summers in Honolulu..

And far be it from me to be while away hours forlorn at the decimation of my inner circle of friends. I once sported T-shirts emblazoned with the phrase "KILL YOUR FRIENDS, MAKE YOURSELF ANEW".. though joking at the high school friends I was leaving behind ot lives of idle misery and progressive alcohol and perscription drug dependencies. the slogan does have an uncomfortable truth to it.

Friends though marvelous in their supports and their abilities to invest even the most horrid and mundane tasks (cooking, eating food, sitting around, dancing at 80's night) with some semblance of joy and meaning, have a nasty habit. The habit of trying to make the person you are whne you hang out with them permanent. To hold you to being that one things that you are to them.

Sometimes, it is good to be allowed to be something fresh, something new.

That said, do call me up and harass me because in a scant few weeks I will not doubt be so cripped be desperate lonliness I will not be able to raise myself from bed. Except of course for the purpose of playing unbelievably sad music on the radio and making you all suffer through it with me.

;)

PLAYLIST FOR 6-25-08

Apples In Stereo- Pine Away
Fleet Foxes- Ragged Wood
Neko Case- Soulful Shade Of Blue
Oakley Hall- Rue the Blues
Silver Jews- Monsters
Band Of Horses- Great Salt Lake
Destroyer- My Favorite Year
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah- Over and over
Born Ruffians- Badonkadonkey
Vampire Weekend- Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin- Modern Mystery
Softlightes- A Town Named Blue
Saturday Looks Good To Me- Underwater Heartbeat
Botticellis- Old Home Movies
Ladybug Transistor- Perfect for Shattering
Concretes- Sunbeams
The Little Ones- Unlock The Door
Calexico- Alone Again /Or
King of Prussia- Terrarium
Fleet Foxes- He Doesn't Know Why
M. Ward- Outta My Head
Rogue Wave- Lake Michigan
Midlake- It Covers The Hillside
Camera Obscura- Anti-Western
All Girl Summer Fun Band- Ticking Time Bomb
Dressy Bessy- This May Hurt A Little
Imperial Teen- Yoo Hoo
Supergrass- Diamond Hoo Ha Man
Spoon- Rhythm and Soul
The Dandy Warhols- Cool Scene
Spacehog- Cruel To Be Kind
Pete and the Pirates- Mr. Understanding
MGMT- Electric Feel
Pulp- Party Hard
Cut Copy- Feel The Love
Shout Out Louds- Shut Your Eyes
Bella- Stay Here
Santogold- You'll Find A Way
T.Rex- Twentieth Century Boy
Tangiers- Thousand Hands
Supergrass- Rebel In You
Belle & Sebastian- We Are The Sleepyheads
Tapes N' Tapes- Lines
Fleet Foxes- Oliver James
Nick Drake- Time Has Told Me
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy- So Everyone
Clinic- Free Not Free
El Perro Del Mar- How Could We Forget
Stereolab- Anonymous Collective
Vampire Weekend- Bryn
Destroyer- Watercolors Into The Ocean

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"And when, when I picture you.. "

2008-07-04T18:23:00.000-07:00

"..there upon your wall, forever in my view, ses monuments, all the places I will never go with you."

A warm sadness moved slightly in my stomach and then across my face as I looked at the vista splayed out from Sacre Coeur. A City stretched out glistening as a spring rain. The injustice of being there and without her... was striking. But exactly to whom injustice was done by this I have to admit was lost on me. Surely I must have felt cheated for her absence, and yet in no small part vindicated. I had made my way here and she had fallen by the wayside. An echo of a memory of a scratched up record. So I decided to build her from memory and place her there next to me. Her hair moving the way it had its tendency to. Her smirk and idle wit and condecension wreathed about my ersatz copine. Always to my right, always joking. When the time came to leave, she walked the other way.

So be it.. and so was the show. Friends recovering from surgery, friends preparing to leave, and at the center of it all of course my indomitable libido.

Summer Pop sets and and some more upbeat Alt Country will be fixtures all this summer. More guests and interviews. And the best indie show on KTUH. Stay tuned and welcome to the new blog.

PLAYLIST FOR 6/18/08

Belle & Sebastian- State I Am In
Fleet Foxes- Quiet Houses
The Doves- Black and White Town
Phoenix- It's Never Been Like That
Supergrass- Diamond Hoo Ha Man
The Girls- She's Hysterical
Guns of Detroit- Apocalypse Later
Black Keys- Strange Times
Futureheads- Radio Heart
Be Your Own Pet- Zombie Graveyard Party!
Pete and the Pirates- Dry Wing
Exploding Hearts- Sleeping Aides and Razor Blades
Dressy Bessy- Girl You Shout
Little Ones- Lovers Who Uncover (Bass Remix)
Born Ruffians- Hummingbird
Botticellis- The Reviewer
Kelly Stoltz- Morning Sun
Fleet Foxes- Ragged Wood
Ladybug Transistor- The Swimmer
M.Ward- Undertaker
Sondre Lerche- Track You Down
Iron & Wine- Pagan Angel And A Borrowed Car
Sea Wolf- Ses Monuments
The Kinks- Do You Remember Walter?
Televion Personalities- The World of Pauline Lewis
The Bees- Who Cares What The Question Is?
Tapes N' Tapes- Headshock
My Morning Jacket- Evil Urges
Supergrass- Rebel In You
Orange Juice- Rip It Up
Bella- Give It A Night
The Golden Dogs- Run Outta Luck
MGMT- Electric Feel
M83- Kim And Jessie
Stereolab- Three Women
Broadcast- City In Progress
The Foals- Olympic Airways
The Caesars- Soulchaser
Pete and the Pirates- Come On Feet
New Pornographers- To Wild Homes
Helio Sequence- Hallelujah
The Stone Roses- I Wanna Be Adored
Fleet Foxes- White Winter Hymnal
The Broken West- So It Goes
Born Ruffians- Little Garcon
Vampire Weekend- Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
Jens Lekman- Postcard to Nina
Gene Pitney- A Town Without Pity
PAS/CAL- I Wanna Take You Out In Your Holiday Sweater
Destroyer- Watercolors into the Ocean

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Stood on gold

2008-07-02T00:42:00.000-07:00

I'm going to write more here. Just give me a moment. I just tried and the rant was about a '7' and the inaugural post ought to be at least an '8.5'

soon then.