Playlist for 5-16-13

Happy Friday, folks!

Ready for the weekend? Hell yeah you are. I'm stoked because a bunch of us are doing an Orange County bike-beer tour tomorrow. Thirty-three miles of biking to 6 different bars/breweries. It's two things I love put together in an awesome way. Like reading a book made of peanut butter.

Anyway. The show:

Things that Are Square 5-16-13


(*) = New release

(*) Ducktails - Letter of Intent - The Flower Lane

(*) Bleached - Next Stop - Ride Your Heart
Why? - Gemini (Birthday Song) - Elephant Eyelash
Xiu Xiu - Clowne Towne - Fabulous Muscles
(*) English Singles - Ordinary Girls - Ordinary Girls

Fugue - Arrive Alive - Fugue
Fugazi - Cashout - The Argument
Tera Melos - Hey Sandy - Idioms, Vol. 1 (For Brian in Los Angeles, CA)
Drive Like Jehu - Here Come the Rome Plows - Yank Crime

James Chance and the Contortions - Contort Yourself - Twist Your Soul
Gang of Four - Not Great Men - Entertainment!
Fog - A Word of Advice - Fog
Neutral Bling Hotel - Communist Mic - In My G4 Over Da Sea

Smog - Ex-Con - Red Apple Falls
Dustin Wong - Gymnopedie - Let It Go
****Intern David Takes Over****
Yo La Tengo - Paddle Forward - Fade
(*)Low - So Blue - The Invisible Way
Weekender - LSD and the Age of Interest - Spanish Peaks

(*)Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin - Drop Dead Baby - Reverse Shark Attack
(*)Mitzi - Who Will Love You Now - Truly Alive

Fair Ohs - Everything Is Dancing - Everything Is Dancing
Battles - Ice Cream (ft. Matias Aguayo) - Gloss Drop
Youth Lagoon - Dropla - Wondrous Bughouse

(*)The Blank Tapes - Coast to Coast - Vacation
(*) Still Corners - Fireflies - Strange Pleasures
Grimes - Genesis - Visions

(*) Adventure - Nervous - Weird Work

Playlist for 5-9-13

Happy Friday, folks!

Are you ready for Mother's Day? It's Sunday! You better buy your mom something mom-ish before then. We're taking my mom to Pechanga and then the Yard House because she's a drunken gambler. She's my favorite drunken gambler in the world.

The playlist:

Things that Are Square 5-9-132


(*) = New release

(*) Deerhunter - The Missing - Monomania

(*) Born Ruffians - Permanent Hesitation - Birthmarks
Hunx and His Punx - The Curse of Being Young - Too Young to Be In Love
The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner - The Modern Lovers
(*) Parquet Courts - Borrowed Thyme - Light Up Gold

(*) Thee Oh Sees - Tunnel Time - Floating Coffin
Jay Reatard - Screaming Hand - Matador Singles '08
Peach Kelli Pop - Do the Eggroll - Peach Kelli Pop
Prinzhorn Dance School - Don't Talk to Stranger

Public Image Limited - One Drop - This Is PiL (For those dudes that called and wanted "like...rock with a reggae influence?")
Battles - Tij - Mirrored
Giraffes? Giraffes! - I Am S/H(im)e[r] As You Am S/H(im)e[r] As You Are Me And We Am I And I Are All Our Together: Our Collective Consciousness’ Psychogenic Fugue - More Skin with Milk-Mouth

Sonny Sharock - Fourteen - Seize the Rainbow
Labradford - P - Mi Media Naranja

Hymie's Basement - Ghost Dream - Hymie's Basement
The Blow - True Affection - Paper Television
Chvrches - The Mother We Share - The Mother We Share
Casiokids - Min Siste Dag - Topp Stemning På Lokal Bar

(*) Adult. - Idle (Second Thoughts) - The Way Things Fall
The 6ths - In the City in the Rain (with Lou Barlow) - Wasps' Nests
Momus - Murderers, The Hope of Women - The Poison Boyfriend
Red House Painters - Mistress - Red House Painters

Boards of Canada - Turquoise Hexagon Sun - Music Has the Right to Children

Playlist for 5-2-13

Hey folks!

Thanks to everyone who donated during my fund drive show. You are the light that will guide this world to an exciting future full of hoverboards and sex robots. If you still want to donate (and ANY amount is welcome), go to our donation page to help us out. XOX

Help keep music like this on-air:

Things that Are Square 5-2-13


(*) = New release

(*) Akron/Family - Way Up - Sub Verses

(*) Guided By Voices - Flunky Minnow - English Little League
Jonathan Richman - When She Kisses Me - Having a Party with Jonathan Richman
Half Japanese - Firecracker - Greatest Hits
(*) May McDonough & Company - Mannequin - Mannequin

Wide Streets - Children's Crusade - Laughing in the Jungle
The Cramps - Lonesome Town - Psychedelic Jungle/Gravest Hits
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - People Ain't No Good - The Boatman's Call
White Rainbow - Gilded Golden Ladies - Zome

Cillie Barnes - Brainwash - Happy Valley (For John in Orange, CA)
Dash Jacket - January - Ten Thousand Things
Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan - Swing Lo Magellan
Neutral Milk Hotel - Song Against Sex - On Avery Island

(*) Thee Oh Sees - Tunnel Time - Floating Coffin
Comet Gain - Ripped-Up Suit! - Réalistes
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Joanna Gruesome - Sugarcrush - E.P.

(*) Nails - In Exodus - Abandon All Life
All Pigs Must Die - Die Ignorant - All Pigs Must Die
Trash Talk - I Block - Shame

(*) Dump - Liberty Spikes - I Can Hear Music
The Vaselines - Sex Sux (Amen) - The Way of the Vaselines
Cloud Nothings - Stay Useless - Attack on Memory
Pedro the Lion - Rapture - Control

A Hawk and a Hacksaw - God Bless the Ottoman Empire - The Way the Wind Blows
Black Dice - Drool - Load Blown
(*) Matmos - Very Large Green Triangles - The Marriage of True Minds

(*) Michael Gira - Whiskey Johnny - Son of Rogue's Gallery

No show tonight/Fund drive

Hey folks!

I don't have a show tonight due to a 24-hour jazz marathon. But feel free to tune in and donate during our two-week fund drive. We are a publicly-funded/volunteer-run station, so the only way we can stay on-air is if you call in or go online to donate a couple of bucks. Skip getting a coffee sometime this week and donate that $5 to us. We'll appreciate it a lot more than Starbucks

Playlist for 4-18-13

Hey folks,

Sorry for the delay in putting this up, but I left for Vegas Friday morning and didn't get back until yesterday afternoon. At that point, I really only had the energy to go buy a burrito and then put that burrito into my mouth. Please forgive me.

The playlist:

Things that Are Square 4-18-13


(*) = New release

LAKE - Don't Give Up - Let's Build a Roof

Aberfeldy - A Friend Like You - Young Forever
French Quarter - The Cops - It's Not Just Kissing
Rocketship - Kisses Are Always Promises - A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness
(*) Emperor X - Allahu Akbar - 19 Live Recordings

When I Was 12 - Explicit Content - Dear Eskimo
Dump - When U Were Mine - That Skinny Motherfucker With the High Voice
The Specials - Rudi, A Message to You - The Singles Collection
The Olivia Tremor Control - NYC-25 - Dusk At Cubist Castle

Young Marble Giants - Searching for Mr Right - Colossal Youth
Aphex Twin - Actium - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
(*) Matmos - You - The Marriage of True Minds

(*) The Knife - Without You My Life Would Be Boring - Shaking the Habitual
Dan Deacon - Oscillating Diamonds - Wish Book Vol 1
Boom Bip - Third Stream (Four Tet Remix) - Corymb
Odd Nosdam - Untitled Three - Burner

(*) Thee Oh Sees - Tunnel Time - Floating Coffin
Parts & Labor - Fractured Skies - Mapmaker
Dead Kennedys - Viva Las Vegas - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
(*) Akron/Family - Sand Talk - Sub Verses

Old Time Relijun - Reptilians - 2012
Tom Waits - Filipino Box Spring Hog - Mule Variations
The Blood Brothers - Set Fire to the Face on Fire - Young Machetes

Dustin Wong - Pink Diamonds - Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads

Come along with me to a place beside the sea

Last time our band was on tour, we got to play in Olympia with Eli Moore and Ashley Eriksson's band Baby Island. They were extremely nice and really talented and I wanted to support them, but our drummer and guitarist bought their last two tapes. When I got home, I wanted some of their music, and knowing they were both in the band LAKE, I picked up their "Let's Build a Roof" album. I have supported that decision ever since. The whole album packs the warm, communal familiarity of old pop vinyl, the G-rated hedonism of the Free Design, and weaves in stands of soul and rock and great horn lines to make a nice, diverse pop album. I'd say something about "several flavors of music," but...I mean...it's still all pop music. So I guess it's like....a nice chocolatier. Sure it's all chocolate, but you know there's some wonderful variety thrown in there. And even if you don't think you're familiar with this band, I can almost guarantee you've heard one of their songs in the closing credits of a fantastic TV show.

Bring the gift of beautiful pop music into your life by picking up "Let's Build a Roof" at the K Records page or through Amazon.

Playlist for 4-11-13

Hey folks,

Sorry for putting up the playlist a little late. I called in sick yesterday and didn't get around to much. Hopefully you understand.

And thank you to everyone who called in to request things! We were talking about listener requests at a KUCI DJ party last night, and we agreed that for a while, it seems, people just request whatever. Doesn't matter what kind of show you do, they want to hear X song. But when you start getting requests that make sense for your show, that means people are actually listening and it's a really good feeling. And I got a lot of really great requests on Thursday. You guys make me happy. Thanks dudes/dudettes.

Here's the playlist, complete with awesome requests from good people (feel free to comment with something you want me to play next week). :)

Things that Are Square 4-11-13

(*) = New release

White Rainbow - Pulses - Prism of Eternal Now

(*) Toro y Moi - Grown Up Calls - Anything in Return

Lullatone - Thoughts and Clouds - Plays Pajama Party Pop Pour Vous

Zammuto - Idiom Wind - Zammuto

Dntel - Fear of Corners - Life Is Full of Possibilities

(*) Matmos - Aetheric Vehicle - The Marriage of True Minds

Einstürzende Neubauten - Zampano - Silence Is Sexy

Suicide - 96 Tears - Live at CBGB's 1977

Miles Davis - Rated X - Get Up With It

Spacemen 3 - May the Circle Be Unbroken - Playing With Fire

Mogwai - 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong - Rock Action

The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Panic in Babylon - Aufheben (For Marisa and Jaxie in Orange, CA)

Isis - False Light - Oceanic

(*) Nails - In Exodus - Abandon All Life

Boris - Furi - Akuma No Uta

Deathspell Omega - Scorpions & Drought - Drought (For Will in Irvine, CA)

Shannon and the Clams - Toxic Revenge - Sleep Talk

(*) Thee Oh Sees - I Come From the Mountain - Floating Coffin

The King Khan & BBQ Show - Love You So - The King Khan & BBQ Show

No Paws - Different Dreams - Healthy Men

Veronica Falls - Teenage - Waiting for Something to Happen (For Alexi in San Diego, CA)

Built to Spill - Twin Falls Idaho - There's Nothing Wrong With Love (For Akahm in Irvine, CA)

Stornoway - The End of the Movie - Beachcomber's Windowsill