08.26.12 Playlist, AGBPOL Interview

Really just had a great time last night with all our friends back in the studio and the music being as good as it gets.

In homage to probably one of the more unnecessary and just-plain-stupid reviews against indie music, we’ve decided to suggest one of the scene's "worst hipster bands" for your listening pleasure:

The Decemberists - Burying Davy

Genesis- Grimes

*Poison- Kotki Dwa

*Love Is Greed- Passion Pit

Fitzpleasure- Alt-J

*Ghosts- Communist Daughter

*1997- Saint Motel

San Francisco- The Mowgli’s

*Isn’t This World Enough- Admiral Fallow

Westward Bound- Ha Ha Tonka

Keep You Right- Blind Pilot

Back Against the Wall- Cage the Elephant

*The House that Heaven Built- Japandroids

Howlin’ For You- The Black Keys

The Prowl- Dan Auerbach

You Could Be Mine- Abbe May

Art & Wife- Rah Rah

*Yet Again- Grizzly Bear

Service Bell- Feist & Grizzly Bear

*Heather- Ponderosa

Elephant Gun- Beirut

*You Go Running- Deep Sea Diver

Jejune Stars- Bright Eyes

*Settle Down- Goldrush

Son of A Gun- Motion City Soundtrack

Ambiversion- A Great Big Pile of Leaves

Pet Mouse- A Great Big Pile of Leaves

*Song of Songs- Two Gallants

*Female Robbery- The Neighbourhood

Show Me Your Blood- Stepdad

Hazelton- Justin Vernon

Towers- Bon Iver

Burying Davy- The Decemberists

DNA- The Kills

Get By- Little Hurricane

Can’t Feel My Face- Islands

Valentine- Fiona Apple

Demons- Dry the River

Crest- The Antlers

So Easy- Lightning Love

This Too Shall Pass- OK Go

All the Rowboats- Regina Spektor

*Denotes New Music


Here's Type A's interview with Tyler from A Great Big Pile of Leaves:

 The Campus Buzz- A Great Big Pile of Leaves Interview by CampusBuzzWsou

Their newest project (Making Moves) is great, so have a listen.

8.19.12 Playlist & mewithoutYou/Kevin Devine

Last night was a total sleepover party. The booth was crowded and we all told stories and made s’mores. (only half of that is true). Anyway, so much good music is going around at the moment, we have no idea where to start… So try these on for size:

Admiral Fallow - The Paper Trench

 folk wrock rocks.

The Neighbourhood - Sweater Weather

I Was Totally Destroying It - Control

Playlist below:

Young Folks- Peter Bjorn and John

Skinny Love (Remix - Das Kapital)- Bon Iver

*Vexations- I Was Totally Destroying It

*The Void- Metric

Black Balloon- The Kills

Level- Raconteurs

Bodysnatchers- Radiohead

We Will Become Silhouettes- The Postal Service

Don’t Gotta Work It Out- Fitz & The Tantrums

*Sweater Weather- The Neighbourhood

*Navajo- Ponderosa

Sinister Kid- The Black Keys

Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine- The White Stripes

*Golden- White Arrows

To the Desert- Branches

Midnight on the Interstate- Trampled By Turtles

*Guest of the Government- Admiral Fallow

*I Could Tell You I’m Sorry- Rah Rah

King’s Crossing- Elliott Smith

*Constant Conversations- Passion Pit

Simple Song- The Shins

*Resuscitate- Wintersleep

The Popular Thing- Jukebox the Ghost

*Keep It Moving- Deep Sea Diver

Rivers And Roads- The Head and the Heart

Walking Far From Home- Iron & Wine

Will You Return- The Avett Brothers

The Angel of Death Came to David’s Room- mewithoutYou

All Circles- mewithoutYou

*Drift Dive- The Antlers

*Forever- Michael Andrews

Gold Lion- Yeah Yeah Yeahs

*The Prayer of Francois Willon- Regina Spektor

*Denotes new music

Type A recently went to see mewithoutYou and Kevin Devine, so here’s some pictures and videos for you to scroll through and click on:

Kevin Devine

(^audience participation warning)

mewithoutYou

8.12.12 Playlist

Our friend Matt came to hang out with us today in the studio! He just got back from some crazy, smart person trip to South Africa where he took a picture of this (among other wild pictures):

IT'S A CHEETAH DUDE. A CHEETAH. yeah, nothing to do with music, but IT'S A CHEETAH.

Playlist below:

Ok Pal - M83

Die Young- The Danks

*Brand New Kind of Blue - Gold Motel

Rum Rumspringa - Alex Winston

Glass House- Animal Kingdom

I Got You Babe- Bahamas

oOoO- Oberhofer

Wolf Mother- The Mynabirds

U.R.A. Fever- The Kills

White Collar Boy- Belle and Sebastian

It's Only Life- The Shins

From Finner- Of Monsters and Men

Scenic World- Beirut

Bugs- O'Death

Yet Again- Grizzly Bear

I See Things That You Don't See...- Sweet Sweet Moon

*Isn't This World Enough?- Admiral Fallow

Mystery of the Brain- A Great Big Pile of Leaves
*Pet Mouse- A Great Big Pile of Leaves

Crest- The Antlers

Radioactive- Imagine Dragons

*Starfriends on Earth- Stepdad

Need Your Love- The Temper Trap

Take, Take, Take- The White Stripes
The Wanting Comes In Waves... - The Decemberists

*NWO- Deep Sea Diver

*Ships- Deep Sea Diver

Dead Deer- Evening Hymns

*Old Friend- Sea Wolf

Midnight on the Interstate- Trampled By Turtles

High Water- Trampled By Turtles

*Shiver, Shiver- Walk the Moon

*I'll Be Alright- Passion Pit

*Carried Away- Passion Pit

Bitter Moon- Zulu Winter

You Only Want It 'Cause You're Lonely- Parlovr

*Don't You Give Up On Me- Milo Greene

After the Storm- Mumford and Sons

*Always Wanted A Daughter- Melpo Mene

The Loneliness and the Scream- Frightened Rabbit

*Staycations- Kotki Dwa

Time Is Running Out- Muse

*Denotes New Music

Couldn't tell you why there is a mysterious white box haunting our playlist, but it is what it is.

ANYYYWAY, our favorite album of late is History Speaks from Deep Sea Diver. Loads of lyrically rich alternative with hints of old timey piano, wailing vocals, and stomp-a-long rhythm. Well-- WE like it. :)

8.5.12 Playlist

Lonely sort of day what with Lady of the Lake sick this evening and a big thunderstorm pounding on the station. Looking forward to living out August and squeezing out the last bits of summer...and summer shows. Word to the wise, listen to EVERYTHING in our new music. Just--- just do it. It's teeming with good finds. 

Till next week folks-- in this air conditioned arctic home from which I write,  a warm bed calls. Playlist follows.

Seven- Arctic Monkeys

*Living This Way- Ryan Darton

Flowers In Your Hair- The Lumineers

God Made Man- Young the Giant

Hey DJ- Go Back to the Zoo

Waves- Electric Guest

Everlasting Light- The Black Keys

*Beetle in the Box- Admiral Fallow

Living In Colour- Frightened Rabbit

*I Believe In Everything- Alberta Cross

Howling Through- O’Death

Every Valley Is Not A Lake- Cold War Kids

*Waste Your Time- Boxed Wine

*Honest Feedback- Saint Motel

There & Back Again- River City Extension

Money Saves- Delta Spirit

*Dark Sea- Husky

*Ambiversion- A Great Big Pile Of Leaves

E. Watson- The Decemberists

Sonnet- The Decemberists

*We Should Be Walking- Melpo Mene

Make Believe- Silversun Pickups

*Synthetica- Metric

Alone- Trampled By Turtles

*For Here I Am Born- Ponderosa

*1957- Milo Greene

*Bright Lanterns- The Tallest Man On Earth

Lusitania- Andrew Bird

*Elephant- Tame Impala

Fireball- Royal Bangs

Together (We Are One)- The Mowgli’s

They Are Filled- Bison

Fell In Love With A Girl- The White Stripes

No Hassle Night- The Dead Weather

*Ballad of a Politician- Regina Spektor

*Gladiator- Big Scary

Violet Hill- Coldplay

*It’s Not My Fault, I’m Happy- Passion Pit

*The Ancestor- Darlingside

You’re So Damn Hot- OK Go

Meantime- Givers

*Every Single Night- Fiona Apple

Where Our Destination Lies- Ben Gibbard

Brand New Colony- The Postal Service

You Are a Runner and I am My Father’s Son- Wolf Parade

Grist for ther Malady Mill- mewithoutYou

Quickest Exist- I Build Collapsible Mountains

Your New Twin Sized Bed- Death Cab For Cutie

Foux Du Fafa- Flight of the Conchords

*Denotes new music