Playlist for 5-17-12

Hey folks!

Last night was another lovely evening of radio, had an intern who brought plenty of good stuff, there was free pizza at the station, I found and wore the worst/best airbrushed reggae t-shirt in the world, and we all had a real good time. Get in on this action. We listen to songs like these:

Things that Are Square 5-17-12 

(*) = New release

The Divine Comedy - Mother Dear - Victory for the Comic Muse

(*) Spiritualized - Life Is a Problem - Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
(*) Zammuto - F U C-3PO - Zammuto
Arthur Russell - Calling Out of Context - Calling Out of Context
Peaking Lights - All the Sun that Shines - 936

(*) Black Tambourine - I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend - OneTwoThreeFour
(*) Grass Widow - Milo Minute - Internal Logic
Ghost Mice - Critical Hit - Andrew Jackson Jihad/Ghost Mice Split
(*) King Tuff - Bad Thing - King Tuff

(*) Violens - Totally True - True
The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2 - The Glow Pt. 2
Lullabye Arkestra - All I Can Give Ya - Ampgrave
The Mummies - I'm Gonna Kill My Baby Tonight - Death By Unga Bunga!!

Fucked Up - Anorak City - Year of the Pig
****Intern Daniel takes over****
(*) Screaming Females - It All Means Nothing - Ugly
(*) OFF! - Feelings Are Meant To Hurt - OFF!
Toys That Kill - Brave Kids Jump - Flys EP
(*) Beach Fossils - Shallow - Shallow/Lessons EP
(*) Beach Fossils - Lessons- Shallow/Lessons EP 

(*) races - Walk Through the Fire - Year of the Witch
(*) Lee Ranaldo - Lost - Between the Times and the Tides
The Psychic Paramount - N5 - II
Woods & Amps for Christ - Form Oatmeal to Buttermilk - Woods/Amps for Christ
(*) Xiu Xiu - I Luv Abortion - Always

(*) Allo Darlin' - Neil Armstrong - Europe
(*) Best Coast - Better Girl - THe Only Place
(*) Imperial Teen - In over his head - Feel the Sound
(*) Dan P. and the Bricks - Watch Where You Walk - Watch Where You Walk
(*) The Submarines - Shoelaces - Shoelaces EP
(*) Hunx - Always Forever - Hairdresser Blues

Playlist for 5-10-12

Hey folks!

I did a radio show! I had an intern! We played music! The music consisted of these songs!:

Things that Are Square 5-10-12 

(*) = New release

The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio - High Violet

The Wedding Present - Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft - George Best Plus

When I Was 12 - Explicit Content - Dear Eskimo

Woods - Military Madness - Songs of Shame

(*) Allo Darlin' - Tallulah - Europe

(*) Evans The Death - A Small Child Punched Me in the Face - Evans the Death

Brian Eno - King's Lead Hat - Before and After Science

(*) Grimes - Genesis - Visions (For April and Diana in Irvine, CA)

Khaira Arby - Sourgou - Live on KEXP

(*) OFF! - King Kong Brigade - Off!

Shannon and The Clams - Toxic Revenge - Sleep Talk

Sex Bob-Omb - We Are Sex Bob-Omb - Scott Pilgrim vs the World (For Todd in Tustin, CA)

(*) Guantanamo Baywatch - Boomerenga - Chest Crawl

(*) Advance Base - My Sister's Birthday - A Shut-In's Prayer

(*) Spiritualized - Too Late - Sweet Heart, Sweet Light

****Intern Michael Takes Over****

Foot Foot - Trumpet - Trumpet

Japanther - 1-10 - Wolfenswan

Jason Webley - Icarus - Only Just Beginning 

Old Monk - Skullsplitter - Birds of Belize

These New Puritans - Attack Music - Hidden

The Deep Dark Woods - The Place I Left Behind - The Place I left Behind

Black Moth Super Rainbow Black Moth Super Rainbow - Sun Lips - Dandelion Gum

The Blue Van - Love Shot - Love shot

The Open House Collective - Chars and Cinders - Calavaras

South Sea Island Magic - Waves Will Crash - Death To Winter

Voltaire Twins - Animalia - Animalia

I Like Japanese Hardcore- Do Do Do - Live 

Playlist for 5-2-12

Hey folks,

Thanks to everyone who donated during the Fund Drive this year. If you still want to float us a couple bucks in order to keep a non-commercial, volunteer-run station going, call 949-824-5824 sometime before May 6th to donate. We'd appreciate it.

Here's the kind of music you'd be supporting:

Things that Are Square 5-3-12 

(*) = New release

(*) Spiritualized - Get What You Deserve - Sweet Heart, Sweet Light

(*) Xiu Xiu - Honey-Suckle - Always
(*) Perfume Genius - Dark Parts - Put Your Back N 2 It
(*) Advance Base - Summer Music - A Shut-In's Prayer

Tom Waits - Last Leaf - Bad As Me
Emperor X - Sig Alert - Western Teleport
(*) Allo Darlin' - Wonderland - Europe

(*) Best Coast - The Only Place - The Only Place
Shannon and The Clams - You Will Always Bring Me Flowers - Sleep Talk
3 1/2 - Green Leaf - First Recordings

(*) Blasted Canyons - Holy Geometry - 2nd Place
Mi Ami - Echonoecho - Watersports
Fugazi - Cashout - The Argument

Silver Jews - Friday Night Fever - Bright Flight
The Louvin Brothers - The River of Jordon - Satan Is Real
Yo La Tengo - Griselda - Fakebook
This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb - A Hundred Dollars - Front Seat Solidarity

Big Black - Heartbeat - The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape
Half Japanese - Stripping for Cash - Greatest Hits
The Sonics - Money - Here Are the Sonics!!!
Dios - Fifty Cents - dios

Jens Lekman - Pocketful of Money - Oh You're So Silent Jens
Gang Gang Dance - God's Money V - God's Money

Chain and the Gang - What Is a Dollar? - Down with Liberty...Up with Chains!

And just as a bit of self-promotion, our band Moon Pearl is playing a show on Saturday at Pehrspace with Heller Keller, 3 1/2, and Le Cos. Come get sweaty with us on Cinco de Mayo.

Playlist for 4-26-12

Hey folks!

I hope you were able to tune in last night and participate in our fund drive, which helps keep KUCI commercial-free, uncorrupted by business interests, and community-minded. If you would like to support independent radio, you can go to KUCI.ORG and donate with your credit card (securely) on-line, or call 949-824-5824 sometime before May 4th to donate. Any amount helps. Really. We have modest fund-raising targets. We are a simple people with simple goals.

You'd be supporting music that sounds like this:

Things that Are Square 4-26-12

(*) = New release

(*) Allo Darlin' - Capricornia - Europe

Woods - Rain On - Songs of Shame
Pavement - Spit on a Stranger - Terror Twilight
Bill Callahan - Drover - Apocalypse

(*) Spiritualized - I Am What I Am - Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
(*) La Sera - Please Be My Third Eye - Sees the Light
(*) Grimes - Oblivion - Visions

(*) Zammuto - Idiom Wind - Zammuto
Manitoba - I've Lived on a Dirt Road All My Life - Up in Flames
(*) Moonface with Siinai - Yesterday's Fire - Heartbreaking Bravery

Thee Oh Sees - The Dream - Carrion Crawler/The Dream EP

Black Eyes - Someone Has His Fingers Broken - Black Eyes

The Blood Brothers - Crimes - Crimes

(*) Perfume Genius - Normal Song - Put Your Back N 2 It
(*) Xiu Xiu - Always - Xiu Xiu/Dirty Beaches 7"
Evangelicals - You've Been Flirting Again - Enjoy: A Tribute to Björk's "Post"

(*) AU - Solid Gold - Both Lights
Liars - We Fenced Other Gardens with the Bones of Our Own - They Were Wrong So We Drowned
The Microphones - The Glow, Pt 2 - The Glow, Pt 2

Big Black - Kerosene - The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape

The dream, it seems, is peeking

This song is my single favorite piece of music to be released in 2011. On their most recent album, "Carrion Crawler/The Dream EP," Thee Oh Sees finally managed to find a way to encapsulate their sweat-drenched live show onto tape, and this song is the ultimate documentation of that success. "The Dream" is the perfect melding of garage rock intensity and krautrock drive, creating a perfect trancelike space where all that exists is full energy rocking out, and for seven minutes there is only jostling with your fellow concert-goers, lost in a euphoric, perspiring abandon. This song will be on repeat in my apartment for years to come.

Playlist for 4-19-12

Happy Friday, folks,

It's 10:45, and I've already done all the work I needed to do today. Now I'm just going to kick back and read in my office until 5. Truly we live in the best of all possible worlds. And here is the soundtrack to this bold new utopia. The music I played on my show last night:

Things that Are Square 4-19-12

(*) = New release

Dirty Projectors - Two Doves - Bitte Orca

Dear Nora - Second Hand - Three States
Camera Obscura - I Need all the Friends I Can Get - Let's Get Out of This Country
Television Personalities - Geoffrey Ingram - ...And Don't the Kids Just Love It
Los Campesinos! - By Your Hand - Hello Sadness

(*) Spiritualized - Hey Jane - Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
Essential Logic - Collecting Dust - Beat Rhythm News (For Ivy in Westminster, CA)
Stereolab - Pack Yr Romantic Mind - Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements

(*) Zammuto - F U C-3PO - Zammuto
Holy Fuck - Echo Sam - LP
Mi Ami - Latin Lover - Steal Your Face
Oneida - People of the North - Anthem of the Moon

Religious Girls - OG - Midnight Realms
(*) Ed Schrader's Music Beat - Rats - Jazz Mind
mclusky - To Hell with Good Intentions - mclusky Do Dallas
(*) Xiu Xiu - Smear the Queen - Always

(*) Ufomammut - Empireum - Oro: Opus Primum
(*) Willis Earl Beal - Away My Silent Lover - Acousmatic Sorcery

(*) Perfume Genius - Sister Song - Put Your Back N 2 It
Girls - Forgiveness - Father, Son, Holy Ghost

Owen Pallett - Lewis Takes Off His Shirt - Heartland

Ask yourself if you could do better

After I saw Shellac live in LA a couple months ago, my mind had been so thoroughly blown by the live show that I needed some type of documentation of the evening. I figured a Peel Session, gold standard of the recorded live experience, would fill that need handedly.

But while this Peel Session had a much different setlist than what I had experienced, tracks like "Billiard Player Song" are no less....harrowing. The intensity that Albini delivers near the end of this song is enough to make you physically uncomfortable. Thankfully, live, they have Q+A breaks between songs, and the band's wit and levity help to break what could be a very tense evening. Also, you can ask Steve Albini how to cook things and he is very helpful about it.