If you are a member of one of these bands and no one is buying you beer, please email me and I'll take the songs down ASAP.
Change is good
Some random selections from Sunday's spring cleaning shuffle:
Of Montreal - "A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger" (from Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer)
Nick Lowe - "Nutted By Reality" (from Jesus Of Cool)
The Format - "Tie the Rope" (from Interventions and Lullabies)
Belle and Sebastian - "Like Dylan in the Movies" (from If You're Feeling Sinister)
Cansei de Ser Sexy - "Music Is My Hot Hot Sex" (from Cansei de Ser Sexy)
Just a friendly reminder - tonight both AutoVaughn and De Novo Dahl will be at the Cannery Ballroom celebrating their new albums with a dual release show/party that promises to be the best way possible to spend a Friday night. If you caught my show last Saturday, you've already heard all of AutoVaughn's new EP, The Cycles, (if not you can check out the archive) and I'm sure you're as excited as I am to hear the new tunes live. And De Novo Dahl's Move Every Muscle, Make Every Sound has already been out for a bit - but the band is headed out on the road tomorrow for a month-long tour with Tally Hall, so you can be sure their warm-up tonight is going to be worth catching.
AutoVaughn - "The Cycles" (from The Cycles)
De Novo Dahl - "Heartbreaker" (from Move Every Muscle, Make Every Sound)
The Pink Spiders are also making an appearance tonight and will be kicking off the show at 9 p.m. (no really, probably right at 9, since rock o'clock tends to come early at the Cannery). The show is 18+ and tickets will be $10 at the door.
And if THAT weren't enough, after you spend a few hours boozing and dancing with three great Nashville acts, get ready to bid farewell to my favorite local crazy-ass dance party band, Spring Hill Spider Party. Alas, the band is calling it quits, so their after party performance at the Mercy Lounge tonight will be their LAST SHOW EVER. Sigh. Nashville just won't be the same without headlamps and male go-go dancers and Basement dance-offs with creepy kitten posters as the prize. I think I might cry a little tonight... but to be honest it will probably be because I'm laughing too hard to breathe. I mean, this will be the last time I'll hear these live:
"Kevin's Bacon"
"This Club is Full of Boys"
The after party kicks off right after the Cannery show wraps up - Jensen Sportag will also be making an appearance to keep the dance party going. It's free if you paid to get into the show next door, otherwise it's only $5 to get in.
Tomorrow's show is the last Out the Other of the spring semester - on Sunday all the potential summer DJs are meeting to turn in our applications for the summer schedule, which means that after tomorrow, most likely my timeslot will be changing (I should be back to two hours, and hopefully I'll be moving back to a weeknight). To be honest, I'm still not sure what I'm going to play for most of the show, but I definitely have my featured album picked out.
I've been head over heels for French Kicks for quite a few years now, and 2006's Two Thousand was absolutely one of my favorite albums of that year. I knew we were due for a follow-up in 2008, but when Swimming stealthily appeared on iTunes last month, I was surprised at how quickly it came out. The album was entirely produced and mixed by the band itself (a first), and while it definitely sounds different than any of their albums to date, it also sounds like the obvious next step down the path from Two Thousand. Here's the first track:
"Abandon"
Amazing, right? Swimming won't see a physical release until May 20, but I'll be playing three tracks off of the album on tomorrow's show. And if you're a French Kicks fan, make sure you mark your calendar for June 10, because they'll be playing Exit/In along with Frightened Rabbit (!!!).
Like I said, I'm not sure what else is on the menu tomorrow afternoon - absolutely the concert calendar and all that fun stuff, but I'll have to spend some time later today choosing some particularly excellent songs.
Tune in tomorrow at 2!
I don't know what it is, but there are times when my taste in music is HUGELY influenced by the weather. I think everyone is like that to a certain extent - I'm pretty sure you all have your favorite rainy-day records - but for me there are a few times every year when the albums I keep coming back to have everything to do with what's going on outside my window.
Like right now, for instance. Summer is stretching its sleepy legs and slowly climbing out of bed, and all I want to listen to is whatever is playing on its clock radio. And for the past week or so that's been Jamie Lidell's new one, Jim - it's exactly what I imagine Summer wakes up to on a sunshine-y Saturday morning. Slackly funky, soaked in the heat of the first few 80-degree days of the year - it's the soundtrack for that perfect temperature when you can dance barefoot on the lawn without breaking much of a sweat.
Jim is out now on Warp Records - and the number of times I've put it on repeat is just about as full an endorsement as you can get.
Cinco. You know, de Mayo.
Mazzy Star - "Five String Serenade" (from So Tonight That I Might See)
The Raconteurs - "Five on the Five" (from Consolers of the Lonely)
Miracle Fortress - "Five Roses" (from Five Roses)
The Minus Five - "With a Gun" (from The Minus Five)
Nick Drake - "Day Is Done" (from Five Leaves Left)
In my continuing effort to get show playlists up in a timely fashion, I'm actually posting one the day after the show aired! Yesterday's show was great - I was joined in the studio by all four members of AutoVaughn, and we got to listen to their entire new EP - The Cycles. Like we mentioned (many, many times) on the show, the band will be celebrating the release of the EP this Friday, May 9 over at the Cannery Ballroom. It's actually a dual CD release show with local greats De Novo Dahl, and Pink Spiders are on the bill, so it should be fantastic time, and I'll be reminding you again on Friday.
You'll be able to pick up a physical copy of The Cycles on Friday, but the EP is actually available NOW - you can download a copy over at Amazon MP3. You can also check out the whole thing (well most of it, the archive cut off the last song) if you go ahead and:
Stream the May 3 edition of Out the Other
And here's the playlist:
1. The Black Keys - All You Ever Wanted (Attack & Release)
2. Eureka Gold - Just North (Eureka Gold)
3. AutoVaughn - The Cycles (The Cycles)
4. AutoVaughn - Inertia (The Cycles)
5. De Novo Dahl - Shout (Move Every Muscle, Make Every Sound)
6. AutoVaughn - Missing Something (The Cycles)
7. AutoVaughn - Love Her to Pieces (The Cycles)
8. Snowden - Anti-Anti (Anti-Anti)
9. The Features - GMF (Some Kind of Salvation)
10. AutoVaughn - Our Confidence (The Cycles)
11. AutoVaughn - Dream a Little (The Cycles)
I'm back on the air tomorrow, and the show I have lined up for you is going to be a treat - I'll be joined in the studio for the hour by local band AutoVaughn. They've come a long way since they were last on my show waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in November of 2005, and I'm super excited to hang out with them and catch up on what they've been up to lately.
The band is getting ready to release The Cycles, and they'll be celebrating a week from today on May 9 over at the Cannery Ballroom. In fact, it's a dual CD release show with De Novo Dahl, and Pink Spiders are on the bill as well, so mark your calendars now. But you won't have to wait until next week to hear some new AutoVaughn tunes - we'll be checking out the new EP on the show tomorrow.
Tune in at 2 tomorrow!
