I should be working instead of aurally trippin' balls

I think I'm just going to start posting music videos of things that find themselves getting stuck in my stereo. That way, this blog has more than just boring ol' playlists.

First up: Black Moth Super Rainbow - "Born on a Day the Sun Didn't Rise" off of their most recent album Eating Us

Playlist for 9-24-09

Hey folks,

It's been a pretty shitty week, but it's Friday now, and things are looking up. I have a stomach full of breakfast burrito, I'm seeing Norm Macdonald tonight at the Improv, instead of working I'm making mix CDs for girls, I'm listening to sweet jamz, etc. Everything's coming up Kyle.

And here's what I played last night:

Things that Are Square 9-24-09

(*) = New release

The Magnetic Fields - Papa Was a Rodeo - 69 Love Songs

Neutral Milk Hotel - King of Carrot Flowers, Pt One/King of CarrotFlowers, Pts Two and Three - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Rocketship - Friendships and Love - A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness
Colin Meloy - I Know Very Well How I Got My Name - Colin Meloy Sings Morrissey
(*) Yo La Tengo - Nothing to Hide - Popular Songs

Young Marble Giants - Searching for Mr. Right - Colossal Youth
Lullatone - The Bathtime Beat - The Bedtime Beat
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Tonight Was a Disaster - PocketSymphonies for Lonesome Subway Cars
Nico - These Days - The Royal Tenenbaums Soundtrack

(*) Fool's Gold - Nadine - Fool's Gold
Cave - Requiem for John Sex - Psychic Psummer
Ally Kerr - The Sore Feet Song - Calling Out to You (For Justin in Irvine, CA)

(*) WHY? - Eskimo Snow - Eskimo Snow
(*) Tara Jane O'Neil - Dig In - PDX Pop Now! 2009
(*) Desolation Wilderness - Boardwalk Theme - New Universe

(*) Polvo - D.C. Trails - In Prism
Ponytail - Celebrate the Body Electric (It Came From an Angel) - IceCream Spiritual
Mammatus - The Righteous Path Through the Forest of Old - Mammatus

No Age - Everybody's Down - Weirdo Rippers
Operation Ivy - Missionary - Energy
Man Man - Harpoon Fever (Queegueg's Playhouse) - Rabbit Habits
(*) A Hawk and a Hacksaw - The Man Who Sold His Beard - Delivrance

(*) The Twilight Sad - I Became a Prostitute - Forget the Night Ahead

(*) Mount Eerie - Stone's Ode - Wind's Poem

Ukulele Love

I've been practicing my ukulele a good deal more, lately. I intend to become quite good at it. This is only in part to win the heart of Kate Micucci.

Find this woman and bring her to me.

The voice in headphones...

I hope you kids are coming to the Mount Eerie (performing with full band and two drummers!)/Tara Jane O'Neil/No Kids/Karl Blau show tonight at UC Irvine's Pacific Ampitheater, put on by Acrobatics Everday. It's $8, at 730pm and will probably be a total snugglefest.

Playlist for 9-17-09

Hey folks,

Sorry for the delay in playlist-posting. You can stop holding your breath now. I was up in Yosemite at the wedding of my former co-host Sierra. If you remember when Sierra was cohosting, you're a TtAS O.G. (and probably a good friend of mine since no one has really been listening steadily since 2003 other than that). Anyway. Here's what I played:

Things that Are Square 9-17-09

(*) = New release

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Death Is Not the End - Murder Ballads

The Angels of Light - Kosinski - Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home
(*) The xx - Crystalised - XX
(*) The Antlers - Kettering - Hospice
(*) Mount Eerie - Between Two Mysteries - Wind's Poem

(*) WHY? - Even the Good Wood Gone - Eskimo Snow
The Mountain Goats - Michael Myers Resplendent - Heretic Pride
Joanna Newsom - Clam Crab Cockle Cowrie - Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band
Jonathan Richman - Papel de Chicle - Jonathan, Te Vas a Emocionar!

Hello Seahorse! - Won't Say Anything - Hoy a Las Ocho
(*) The Phenomenal Handclap Band - 15 to 20 - The Phenomenal Handclap Band
(*) YACHT - Psychic City - See Mystery Lights
Nose Bleed Island - Pizza Planet - More Tales from Blood Island

Math the Band - Tour de Friends - Don't Worry
Totally Michael - Winona - Totally Michael
Matt & Kim - Lessons Learned - Grand
Dan Deacon - Snookered - Bromst

Jacob Borshard - Grass Stains - The Last Brontosaurus
The Magnetic Fields - The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side - 69 Love Songs
Dent May - You Can't Force a Dance Party - The Good Feeling Music of Dent May and His Magnificent Ukulele
Beirut - Postcards From Italy - Gulag Orkestar

(*) Yo La Tengo - If It's True - Popular Songs
The Dismemberment Plan - The Dismemberment Plan Gets Rich - Juno & The Dismemberment Plan
Dinosaur Jr. - Start Choppin - Where You Been

Television - See No Evil - Marquee Moon

You are the liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight

I was talking to my friend Ali about this song last night during the show, and remembered how rad the video is. Now I'm passing the savings on to you!

Playlist for 9-10-09

Dudettes y dudes!!!

I'm back from my week in the desert at Burning Man, aka "the psychotic messy circus that is always on fire." It was definitely an experience. A dusty, drunken, glow-in-the-dark experience. Perhaps I'll see you next year. :)

Anyway. I was in a pretty good mood, and as such, did a pretty cheery show. Hope you enjoyed it if you were listening. Hope you will tune in for a future show if you missed it.

The playlist:

Things that Are Square 9-10-09

(*) = New release

The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride - Heretic Pride

(*) Hornet Leg - Wait - Ribbon of Fear
Coconut Coolouts - (Please Don't Break Me Out Of) Party Jail - Party Time Machine
Chain and the Gang - Unpronounceable Name - Down with Liberty...Up with Chains!
Calvin Johnson - Rabbit Blood - Before the Dream Faded...

Jens Lekman - You Are the Light (By Which I Travel Into This and That) - When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog
King Khan & The Shrines - Destroyer - The Supreme Genius Of...
Los Campesinos! - C Is the Heavenly Option - The International Tweexcore Underground
Noah and the Whale - 2 Atoms in a Molecule - Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down

(*) Jonesin' - Bummer Summer - What Is Happening...
Nose Bleed Island - When We Won the War - More Tales from Blood Island
The Endless Bummer - Boring but Beautiful - Donald Fagen Mix Tape
(*) CAPYBARA - Soft - Try Brother

(*) WHY? - January Twenty Something - Eskimo Snow
Jonathan Richman - Rooming House on Venice Beach - I, Jonathan
Colin Meloy - Bring It On Home to Me - ...Sings Sam Cooke
The Magnetic Fields - All My Little Words - 69 Love Songs

(*) Yo La Tengo - Avalon or Someone Very Similar - Popular Songs
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country - Let's Get Out of This Country
Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline) - Broken Social Scene (For Richard in Irvine, CA)
Dananananaykroyd - Totally Bone - Hey Everyone!

(*) The Clean - Tensile - Mister Pop
Dinosaur Jr. - Ocean in the Way - Farm
Blood on the Wall - I'd Like to Take You Out Tonight - Awesomer
The Lucksmiths - There Is a Boy That Never Goes Out - Naturaliste

Tom Waits - Goin' Out West - Bone Machine
Xiu Xiu - Homonculus - Knife Play (For Brian in Costa Mesa, CA)
Fog - What's Up Freaks? - Ditherer
The Olivia Tremor Control - NYC-25 - Dusk at Cubist Castle

Parts & Labor - Fractured Skies - Mapmaker