Show No. 497: Frequent Flyers 2012

Matthew Dear--her fantasy [ghostly]
Crocodiles--sunday (psychic conversation #9) [frenchkiss]
School of Seven Bells--kiss them for me [ghostly/vagrant]
Tame Impala--apocalypse dreams [modular]
Computer Magic--trinity [kitsune]
Diiv-doused [captured tracks]
Holograms--fever [captured tracks]
Wild Nothing--shadow [captured tracks]
Cardinal--love like rain [fire]
Japandroids--the house that heaven built [polyvinyl]

*abbreviated show due to basketball broadcast

Show No. 496

*abbreviation due to UCI Basketball

Wazu--bugsatio [anti language]
John Foxx & The Maths--talk (beneath your dreams) feat. Matthew Dear [metmatic]
Black Marble--a great design [hardly art]
Blondfire--where the kids are [hardly art/wb]
The Denzels--rae rae [admirable traits]
Gospel Claws--i want it all [common wall]

The 3hive Triple Download:
The Super Vacations--controller
Mac Demarco--freaking out the neighborhood [captured tracks]
Divine Fits--would that not be nice [merge]

The Jigsaw Seen--sell me a coat [vibro-phonic]
Why?--waterlines [anticon]
Prince Rama--blade of austerity [paw tracks]
Wazu--controller [anti-language]

Show no. 495

Beach Fossils--face it [captured tracks]
San Cisco--awkward [fat possum]
Brassy--1-0-0 [wiiija]
Lindstrom--ra-ako-st [feedelity]
Chase and Status--big man
Toro Y Moi--new beat [carpark]
St. Germain--so flute [blue note]
DJ Shadow--the number song *cut chemist remix [mo'wax/island]
Massive Attack--blue lines [emi]
Crystal Castles--sad yes [casablanca]
Daphni--ye ye [merge]

Melody's Echo Chamber--i follow you [fat possum]
The Horrors--endless blue [xl]
The Holograms--abc city [captured tracks]
The Holograms--stress [captured tracks]
Hot Snakes--who died [swami]
Jawbox--static [dischord]
The Bronx--ribcage [white drugs/ato]
Gospel Claws--i want it all
The Joykiller--brainless [epitaph]
GRMLN--relax yourself (dolphin cry) [carpark]
The Photographic--secure [galaxia]
Bat for Lashes--winter fields [capitol]
Earlimart--97 heart attack [the ship]
Little Green Cars--the john wayne [glassnote]
Beach Fossils--out in the way [captured tracks]

Show no. 494

*abbreviation due to UCI Basketball

Lunapark--anesthesia [elektra]
Diiv--doused [captured tracks]
Wild Nothing--shadow [captured tracks]
Laetitia Sadier--find me the pulse of the universe [drag city]
Ringo Deathstarr--waste [sonic unyon]
Frankie Rose--apples for the sun *the go! team remix [slumberland]
Neil Halstead--digging shelters [brushfire]
Local Natives--breakers [frenchkiss]
Luna--california (all the way) [elektra]

Why I love Camille Paglia

I'll be writing much more about Camille Paglia in this post later, but for now enjoy this interview with her.

She used to be a regular columnist with Salon and I miss being able to pick her brain all the time. I guess her time away has been worthwhile as her new book sounds great.

I've since added another author to my reading list, one that I turn to when I'm feeling particularly brainy, rather when I feel like pretending I'm brainy.

Show No. 493

The Three O'Clock--feel a whole lot better [outtake]
Melody's Echo Chamber--i follow you [
Velocity Girl--go coastal [sub pop]
Laetitia Sadier--silent spot [drag city]
Efterklang--hollow mountain [4ad]
Tamaryn--garden [mexican summer]
!!!--the most certain sure [warp]
Seapony--what you wanted [hardly art]
Beach Day--beach day [kanine]
Black Marble--cruel summer [hardly art]
Django Django--default [ribbon]

Sebadoh--weird [sub pop]
The Jam--all around the world [decca]
Bleeding Rainbow--inside my head [kanine]
The Clash--know your rights [epic]
Ween--fiesta [chocodog/rounder]
Black Moth Super Rainbow--windshield smasher [rad cult]
Fink--fear is the like fire [ninja tune]
Generationals--lucky numbers
Deerhoof--breakup songs [polyvinyl]
Animal Collective--applesauce [domino]
Frankie Rose--the fall *fort romeau remix [slumberland]
Frankie Rose--night swim
Captain Beyond--bright, blue tango [pclc]
The Funk Ark--chaga [esl]
The Three O'Clock--marjorie tells me 

The Three O'Clock < The Byrds

A rare recording from The Three O'Clock, a band I discovered one night at age 14, travelling down PCH in a van driven by my orthodontist's son on our way to a church dance. That night, that moment, those songs have yet to fade.

I'm going to open the show tonight with this track. I get giddy when I find great songs to play on the radio.

Everything is interesting

Somebody somewhere came up with a list of habits to help one navigate life. This somebody calls these Habits of Mind (THIS somebody, me, should do some homework and give credit where credit is due. But if I did that, I'd have to stop writing this and I'm not going to stop writing this).

One of these habits is Responding with Awe & Wonder. What a wonderful habit to have, to see the world around you as though your seeing it for the first, not five-hundredth, time.

Then another someone, Kerri Smith (I can pull her name right out of the ol' memory bank because I own one of her books: Wreck This Journal), wrote a whole book about this habit. She calls her book How to be an Explorer of the World: A Portable Life Museum. She offers a list of ways to respond with awe and wonder:

How to Be an Explorer of the World:
1. Always be looking. (Notice the ground beneath your feet.)
2. Consider everything alive and animate.
3. Everything is interesting. Look closer.
4. Alter your course often.
5. Observe for long durations (and short ones).
6. Notice the stories going on around you.
7. Make patterns. Make connections.
8. Document your findings (field notes) in a variety of ways.
9. Incorporate indeterminacy.
10. Observe movement.
11. Create a personal dialogue with your environment. Talk to it.
12. Trace things to their origins.
13. Use all of the senses in your investigations.

I try to teach these to my students everyday of my working life. It's not easy. I'm gonna turn this into a poster and hang it in the front of my classroom so my students see this day in and day out. One or two of these tips just might stick. I mean, I memorized the Big Mac's ingredients in third grade because the lyrics to a jingle were taped up near the pencil sharpener. Unfortunately, they stuck, while  Shelley's Ozymandias has mostly slipped away.

Didion < Orwell

This post's title doesn't mean Orwell is great than Didion, rather Didion stole from Orwell and did so shamelessly—

Of course I stole the title for this talk, from George Orwell. One reason I stole it was that I like the sound of the words: Why I Write. There you have three short unambiguous words that share a sound, and the sound they share is this:
I
I
I
In many ways writing is the act of saying I, of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying listen to me, see it my way,  change your mind. It’s an aggressive, even hostile act.

Didion inspires just about everything I do when it comes to words and thinking about words. And then I stole the name of my radio show from Didion's first novel. I hope she doesn't mind.

#492

Tame Impala--apocalypse dreams [modular]
Bogan Via--copy and paste
The Motors--airport [caroline]
The Wedding Present--let him have it [island]
Artichoke--the market of farms [greeen]
The Jesus & Mary Chain--head on [rhino]
Redd Kross--stay away from downtown [merge]
Dinosaur Jr.--watch the corners [jagjaguwar]
Freedom Fry--summer in the city [caveman arts society]
Belle & Sebastian--dirty dream number two [matador]
Lloyd & Will Cole--pale blue eyes [lloydcole.com]
Real Estate--it's real

Peace--your hand in mine [suicide squeeze]
AC Newman--
Indian Handicrafts--red action [sargent house]
Nick Lowe--so it goes [columbia]
Freelance Whales--dig into waves [mom+pop]
Beach House--myth [sub pop]
Bat For Lashes--all your gold [capitol]
Veronica Falls--my heart beats [slumberland]
Ultraista--smalltalk [temporary residence]
Daphni--ye ye [merge]
Ssion--earthquake [dovecote]
John Maus--quantum leap [ribbon]
Jason Lytle--your final setting sun [anti]
Latitia Sadier--find me the pulse of the universe [drag city]
Deerhoof--breakup songs [polyvinyl]

#491

Michna--through the city on the edge of forever [ghostly]
Kid Koala--4 bit blues [ninja tune]
Jim Noir--key of c
George Sarah--lament [pusan music group]
Melody's Echo Chamber--i follow you [fat possum]
The Pale Saints--throwing back the apple [4ad]
My Bloody Valentine--soon [sire]
Jason Lytle--your final setting sun [anti]
Lloyd & Will Cole--pale blue eyes
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions--four flights up [capitol]
Camera Obscura--lloyd, i'm ready to be heartbroken [merge]
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti--only in my dreams [4ad]

Tame Impala--solitude is bliss [modular]
Wild Nothing--shadow [captured tracks]
Simian Mobile Disco--cerulean
Cold Cave--love comes close [matador]
Can--millionenspiel [mute]
Daphni--ye ye [merge]
Matthew Dear--up & out [ghostly]
Ultraista--bad insect [temporary residence]
Flying Lotus--pickled! [warp]
Liars--brats [mute]
Ssion--earthquake [dovecote]
Citizens--reptile [kitsune]

#490

The Moons--jennifer (sits alone) [schnitzel/cobraside]
Ringo Deathstarr--waste [sonic unyon]
Viva Voce--from the devil himself [barsuk]
Echo & The Bunnymen--villiers terrace [sire]
The Soft Pack--saratoga [mexican summer]
Ultraista--bad insect [temporary residence]
Efterklang--hollow mountain [4ad]
Super Furry Animals--lazer beam *dangermouse remix [xl]
Tame Impala--apocalypse dream [modular]
Computer Magic--trinity [kitsune]
Nouvelle Vague--confusion [luaka bop/v2]
Dan Deacon--true thrush [domino]
Django Django--default [ribbon]

Matthew Dear--earthforms [ghostly]
Fauna--hongo x hongo [waxploitation]
Grimes--oblivion [4ad]
The Presets--adults only [modular]
Laetitia Sadier--find me the pulse of the universe [drag city]
Komeda--curious [minty fresh]
Shonen Knife--osaka rock city [tomato head]


Teen--better [carpark]
Guided By Voices--class clown spots a ufo [

#489

Diiv--doused [captured tracks]
The Sea and Cake--harps [thrill jockey]
The Sea and Cake--flat lay the water [thrill jockey]
Divine Fits--what gets you alone [merge]
Islands--hallways [anti/epitaph]
Birkii--shade of doubt [kitsune]
Fergus & Geronimo--roman tick [hardly art]
Antibalas--dirty money [daptone]
Dntel--bright night [pampa]
Aardvaark--autopilot [snacks]
The Soft Pack--saratoga [mexican summer]
Les Savy Fav--let's get out of here [frenchkiss]
Bis--don't let the rain come down [spinart]
Neu!--hallogallo [gronland/highwire]

Onuinu--ice palace [bladen county]
Washed Out--hold out [mexican summer]
Fad Gadget--fireside favourite [mute]
Two Door Cinema Club--sleep alone [glassnote]
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion--bag of bones [mom+pop]
Title Fight--secret society [side one dummy]
Earlimart--97 heart attack [the ship]
The Raveonettes--young and cold [vice]
Mister Loveless--wild summer [shady glen]
Django Django--default [ribbon]
Pinback--proceed to memory [temporary residence]
Holland--softcore war [teenbeat]
April March--charlatan [mammoth/ideal]
Dum Dum Girls--lord knows [sub pop]
The Boys Next Door--suddenly she was gone [akarma]

A Life, a Blog, a Radio Show

Spontaneous, easily distracted, impulsive, afraid of being bored (and hungry). Sounds like the description of Adult ADHD, but they are just a few of the words I'd use to describe myself (for the record, no I don't have ADHD—although I suspect my father does). I enjoy these attributes in myself, but they can also be a hindrance. They hold me back from planning and committing to plan, scheduling things and remembering to check my schedule.

I'd rather go with the flow, play it as it lays, or as one of my previous bosses always used to say, "just do whatever in whatever kind of way."

This blog embraces that tendency to chase whatever squirrel crosses my path, a la Homer Simpson (I'm like him in more ways than one). I will explore the zany ideas that pop into my head and take up residence for a minute, an afternoon, a day or two.

Sometimes that exploration will take the form of a single post, other times it may take the form of an entire blog.

I think the person who will appreciate this site most is my wife, because if I'm committing every detour of mind to the screen, I won't be scrambling her brain and plans with my constant stream of daydreams.

#488

Barcelona--pop goes the world [march]
Ray Barbee--lets perservere [galaxia]
Delicate Steve--positive force [luaka bop]
Jens Lekman--i know what love isn't [secretly canadian]
Bob Mould--round the city square [merge]
The Presets--it's cool [modular]
Supreme Cuts--(youngster gone off that) sherm [dovecote]
His Name is Alive--the waitress [4ad]
Royal Headache--girls [what's your rupture]
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti--only in my dreams [4ad]
Tame Impala--Elepant [modular]
Film School--heart full of pentagons [hi-speed soul]
The Raveonettes--sinking with the sun [vice]
Club 8--boyfriends stay [hidden agenda]

The xx--sunset [young turks]
I Am The World Trade Center--shoot you down [kindercore]
Drop Nineteens--winona
Animal Collective--today's supernatural [domino]
Freelance Whales--spitting image [mom + pop]
School of Seven Bells--babelonia [ghostly/vagrant]
Wild Nothing--shadow [captured tracks]
Neil Halstead--bad drugs and minor chords [brushfire]
The Orb w/ Lee Scratch Perry--man on the moon [the end]
Telefon Tel Aviv--the birds *matthew dear remix [bpitch control]
Old Time Relijun--dark matter [k]
Matthew Dear--earthforms [ghostly]
Fauna--hongo x hongo [waxploitation]

#487

Minus the Bear--steel  and blood [dangerbird]
The Cast of Cheers--human elevator [schoolboy error]
Van She--idea of happiness [modular]
Sugar--if i can't change your mind [merge]
Django Django--default [ribbon]
The Apples in Stereo--tidal wave
Wavves--so bored [fat possum]
Wild Nothing--shadow [captured tracks]
Dan Deacon--lots [domino]
Marco Benevento--this is how it goes [royal potato family]
Bloc Party--octopus [frenchkiss]
DJ Shadow--don't try it
Tame Impala--elephant [modular]
The Fresh & Onlys--yes or no [mexican summer]
Holograms--abc city [captured tracks]
Fergus & Geronimo--roman tick [hardly art]
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion--bag of bones [mom+pop]

Library Voices--me, myself, and id [nevado]
Freelance Whales--spitting image [mom+pop]
The Heavy--what makes a good man? [ninja tune]
The Black Tambourines--25-27 blues [art is hard]
Redd Kross--stay away from downtown [merge]
The Germs--communist eyes [rhino]
Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra--institutionalized [american laundromat]
Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra--lost [8 ft]
School of Seven Bells--kiss them for me
Matthew Dear--her fantasy [ghostly]
Hot Chip--motion sickness [domino]
Polica--dark star [mom+pop]
Two Door Cinema Club--sleep alone [glassnote]

#486

Matthew Dear--earthforms [ghostly]
Grasscut--pieces [ninja tune]
Lemon Jelly--space walk [xl]
The Helio Sequence--october [sub pop]
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion--bag of bones [mom+pop]
Holograms--fever [captured tracks]
Smile--rock anthem for the retarded teenage hipster population [cargo]
Crocodiles--sunday (psychic conversation #9) [frenchkiss]
Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra--institutionalized [american laundromat]
Cardinal--love like rain
Dinosaur Jr.--don't pretend you didn't know [jagjaguwar]
Jupiter Affect--druscilla i dig your scene [futureman]
The Three O'Clock--with a cantaloupe girlfriend
Zumpano--i dig you [sub pop]

Jim Noir--eanie meany [barsuk]
Purity Ring--fineshrine [4ad]
Supreme Cuts--(youngster gone off that) sherm [dovecote]
Animal Collective--today's supernatural [domino]
Tame Impala--elephant [modular]
Van She--idea of happiness [modular]
Orbital--one big moment [downtown]
The Raveonettes--she owns the streets [vice]
Jens Lekman--i know what love isn't [secretly canadian]
Wild Nothing--shadow [captured tracks]
Bob Mould--the descent [merge]
Sugar--a good idea [merge]
Two Gallants--my love won't wait [ato]

#485

Holograms--apostate [captured tracks]
DJ Shadow--don't try it
Grieves & Budo--gwenevieve [black clover]
Grimes--nighttime
Daughn Gibson--tiffany lou [white denim]
Computer Magic
Vox Dei--terroriste [everloving]
Devo--human rocket [warner bros]
Versus The World--a fond farewell [viking funeral]
Dag Nasty--never go back [dischord]
Ferguson & Geronimo--roman tick [hardly art]
Delicate Steve--positive force [luaka bop]
Antibalas--dirty money [daptone]
Dinosaur Jr.--watch the corners [jagjagwar]
Pavement--shady lane [matador]

The Mattson 2--give inskis [galaxia]
Dan Deacon--true thrush [domino]
Two Gallants--my love won't wait [ato]
Field Music--it's okay to change
Field Music--sorry again, mate
Shawn Lee--boogie children [esl]
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion--bag of bones [mom+pop]
Unknown Mortal Orchestra--how can u love me [fat possum]
Minus The Bear--steel and blood [dangerbird]
X--the once over twice [slash]
2:54--revolving [fat possum]
Polica--dark star [mom+pop]
Dum Dum Girls--lord knows [sub pop]
Yeasayer--longevity [secretly canadian]

#484

Delicate Steve--postive force [luaka bop]
Hot Chip--motion sickness [domino]
Caribou--i've lived on a dirt road all my life [domino]
Nickodemus--moon people [esl]
Com Truise--colorvision [ghostly]
Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra--the killing type [8 ft]
Propaganda--p machinery [zzt]
Matthew Dear--earthforms [ghostly]
Diiv--doused [captured tracks]
Holograms--chasing my mind [captured tracks]
Generationals--ten twenty ten [mom + pop]
Fang Island--seek it out

Red Kross--stay away from downtown [merge]
Dum Dum Girls--lord knows [sub pop]
Dinosaur Jr.--watch the corners [jagjaguwar]
Matthew E.White--one of these days [hometapes]
Library Voices--reluctant readers make reluctant lovers [nevado]
Animal Collective--today's supernatural [domino]
Daleduro--la poli [waxploitation/zzk]
General Elektriks--summer is here [oi musica]
Fergus & Geronimo--roman tick [hardly art]
Richard Hawley--down in the woods [mute]
The Raveonettes--she owns the streets [vice]
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion--bag of bones [mom + pop]
Two Door Cinema Club--sleep alone [glass note]
Yeasayer--longevity [secretly canadian]

w/ dj emily

adam and the ants "zerox machine"  45

**bad indians "all over now" the path home gingko records

beat happening "bad seeds" beat happening K LP 1

**ariel pink "driftwood" mature themes 4AD

food and shelter "square dance" square dance resistance records

catholics "sunshine superman" soundcloud

**grass widow "goldilocks zone" internal logic

**parquet courts "stoned and starving" bandcamp

steve mcdonald group "motorboat"  -- kim fowley cover

fun boy three "our lips are sealed URDU version" 12 inch

**xyx "sobrenada" teatro negro monofus press

**sic alps "baby's in a coma" - tronics covers EP

frank alpine "no exit" weird records

broken water "peripheral star" perennial 

primal scream "RISE" evil heat

big in japan "suicide a gogo" 45

factory floor "real love" 12 inch

summer hits "mod cinema" 45 silver girl

Poppys -"Le Tourbillon Du Pakistan"   Poppys 1971

**cheap time "more cigarettes" wallpaper music

13th chime "cursed" EP

human league "do or die" live on tiswas

mambo taxi "do you always dress like in front of other people's boyfriends" 45

yummy fur "plastic cowboy"

new order "586" peel sessions

unknown duo "love with fake words" 12 inch

** veronica falls "my heart beats" slumberland

arms of someone new "spiral of silence"

section 25 "looking from a hilltop" 45

#483

The Posies--definite door [geffen]
Sea Wolf--old friend [dangerbird]
Real Estate--it's real [domino]
Deep Sea Diver--nwo [gypsy cab]
Shovels & Rope--birmingham [dualtone]
X--some other time [rhino/slash]
The New Pornographers--think about me [hear]
Dinosaur Jr.--watch the corners [jagjaguar]
Tom Vek--c-c (you set the fire in me) [startime]
Diiv--doused [captured tracks]
Deleted Scenes--bedbedbedbedbed [park the van]
Wild Nothing--shadow [captured tracks]
Purity Ring--fineshrine [4ad]
Supreme Cuts--(youngster gone off) sherm [dovecote]

Dntel--still [pampa]
The Boredoms--(heart) [birdman]
Bear in Heaven--the reflection of you *cfcf remix [dead oceans]
Delicate Steve--positive force [luaka bop]
Daughn Gibson--tiffany lou [white denim]
General Elektriks--summer is here [oi musica]
Tame Impala--that's all for everyone [hear]
Fang Island--seek it out [sargent house]
Two Door Cinema Club--sleep alone [glassnote]
Mister Loveless--wild summer [shady glen]

#482
RJD2--wander [rj's electrical]
Birds & Batteries--love is coming back [eightmaps]
NEU!--negativeland [gronland/high wire]
Laidback--cocaine cool extended vol. 2 [brother]
Matthew Dear--her fantasy [ghostly]
The Cinematic Orchestra--necrology [ninja tune]
Diiv--doused [captured tracks]
Dirty Projectors--gun has no trigger [domino]
Crocodiles--sunday (psychic conversation #9) [frenchkiss]
Hot Panda--future markets [mint]
Empires--we lost magic

Dan Deacon--tru thrush [domino]
Two Gallants--my love won't wait [ato]
Sugar--hoover dam [merge]
Archers of Loaf--scenic pastures [merge]
Dinosaur Jr.--watch the corners [jagjaguar]
The Tyde--go ask yer dad [rough trade]
Sparklehorse--someday i will treat you good [capitol]
Wild Nothing--shadow [captured tracks]
Craft Spells--warmth [captured tracks]
Two Door Cinema Club--sleep alone [glassnote]
Deep Sea Diver--nwo [gypsy cab]

#481

Deleted Scenes--bedbedbedbedbed [park the van]
Stepdad--jungles [quite scientific]
Pomegranates--heaven [modern outsider]
General Elektriks--summer is here [oi musica]
Grandaddy--summer here kids [v2/will]
Neon Indian--deadbeat summer [fader]
Lower Dens--brains [ribbon]
Empires--we lost magic [history]
Henry Clay People--hide [tbd]
Bloc Party--octopus [frenchkiss]
Godzuki--love crown [march]
Los Straitjackets--space mosquito [yeproc]

The Helio Sequence--october [sub pop]
Com Truise--colorvision [ghostly]
Diiv--how long have you known? [captured tracks]
Diiv--doused [captured tracks]
Supreme Cuts--sherm [dovecote]
Light Asylum--ipc [mexican summer]
Two Door Cinema--sleep alone [glassnote]
Royal Headache--girls [what's your rupture?]
Evans the Death--threads [slumberland]
Sugar--if i can't change your mind [merge]
White Arrows--get gone [votiv]
The Tallest Man on Earth--1904 [dead oceans]
Karen Dahlstrom--the miner's bride
Versus the World--a fond farewell [viking funeral]
A Place to Bury Strangers--mind control [dead oceans]

w/ Martina


beirut - nantes - the flying club cup
harlem shakes - niagara falls - technicolor health
the what four - destroy that boy
mike doughty - unsingable name 
tilly and the wall - bad education - bottom of the barrels
st. vincent - jesus saves, i spend - marry me
brigitte bardot - les amis de la musique - brigitte 
sufjan stevens - chicago - illinois
cults - go outside - cults
yacht - psychic city - see mystery lights 
dent may - rent money - do things
george sarah - solace - who sleep the sleep of peace
stepdad - jungles - wildlife pop
reptar - sebastian - body faucet*

hunx - hairdresser blues - hairdresser 
jo stafford - you belong to me 
the suzan - rondo - golden week for poco beat
noah and the whale - blue skies - the first days of spring
little dragon - machine dreams
hungry kids of hungary - the vacationer - escapades
french films about trains - bookmarked 
francoise hardy - tous les garcon et les fill - tous les garcons
coconut records - minding my own business - nighttiming
bittersweet - dirty laundry - the mating game 
the bird and the bee - man eater - interpreting the masters
beach house - house on the hill - beach house
cheap time - more cigarettes - wallpaper music

#480

Exitmusic--passage [secretly canadian]
Live Animals--buster brown
Communist Daughter--ghosts [grain belt]
Japandroids--the house that heaven built [polyvinyl]
Tanlines--all of me [true panther sounds]
Blockhead--panic in funkytown [ninja tune]
Justice--new lands *a-trak remix [ed banger/elektra]
Sylver Tongue--hook you up [none]
Cornelius--star fruits surf rider [matador]
Cornelius-- chapter 8 - seashore and horizon - [matador]

Cornelius-- drop [matador]
Cornelius-- fit song *the books remix (eat white paint) [everloving]
Evans the Death--threads [slumberland]
Crocodiles--sunday (psychic conversation #9) [frenchkiss]
Screaming Females--it all means nothing [don giovanni]
Simian Mobile Disco--cerulean [witchita]
El-P--request denied [fat possum]
The Aquabats--radio down! *feat Biz Markie [fearless]
The 2 Bears--warm & easy [dfa]
Hot Chip--motion sickness [domino]
Empires--keep it steady [history]
Donora--and then the girls [rostrum]
Devin--masochist [frenchkiss]
The Manic Low--daylight comes

#479

The Manic Low--daylight comes [moonlight graham]
King Tuff--bad thing [sub pop]
Veronica Falls--my heart beats [slumberland]
Cloud Nothings--i'm useless [carpark]
Graham Coxon--spectacular [caroline]
A Place to Bury Strangers--mind control [dead oceans]
Crocodiles--sunday (psychic conversation #9) [french kiss]
Liars--no. 1 against the rush [mute]
Can--millionenspiel [mute]
George Sarah--lament [pusan]
Dirty Projectors--gun has no trigger [domino]
Cardinal--her [fire]
Cardinal--love like rain [fire]
Cardinal--if you believe in christmas trees [empyrean]
Richard Davies--coldest day [kindercore]
Eric Matthews--fanfare [sub pop]

Pomegranates--pass away [modern outsider]
The Funk Ark--rinconcito [esl]
The History of Panic--the devil's boredom
Orbital--wonky *japanese popstars remix
ESG--erase you [fire]
Swayzak--quiet life [K7]
No Age--you're a target [sub pop]
Fang Island--sisterly [sargent house]
Beware of Darkness--howl
Donora--and then the girls [rostrum]
The Hundred in the Hands--recognise [warp]

#478

The Heavy--what makes a good man? [counter]
Telefon Tel Aviv--the birds *matthew dear remix
Yppah--blue schwinn [ninja tune]
Hot Chip--ends of the earth [domino]
Slowdance--boyfriends [white iris]
Craft Spells--burst [captured tracks]
The Magnetic Fields--your girlfriend's face [merge]
Library Voices--traveller's digest [nevado]
Liars--no.1 against the rush [mute]
David Bowie--speed of life [virgin]
Yellow Magic Orchestra--seoul music [strut]
Neu!--drive (grundfunken) [gronland/high wire]
Brian Eno & Rick Holland--no story [warp]

Lloyd Cole & The Commontions--rattlesnakes [polydor]
X--because i do [slash]
X--blue spark [slash]
Flagship--still i wait [bright antenna]
Superchunk--cruel summer [merge]
Crocodiles--sunday (psychic conversation #9) [frenchkiss]
Beach House--myth [sub pop]
Donora--and then the girls [rostrom]
Geographer--kites [modern art]
Beatless--hercules [ubiquity]
The Funk Ark--funky southern [esl]
Brownout--meter beater [nat geo]
OC Tolbert--fix it [ace]
Delta 5--mind your own business [strut]

#477

School of Seven Bells--kiss them for me
Marbert Rocel--small hours [compost]
Laid Back--white horse [caroline]
Laid Back--cocaine cool extended vol 2 [brother]
New Order--fine time
Nickodemus--alkebulan feat. afrika bambaataa [esl]
Robert Glasper Experiment--black radio [blue note]
Quakers--russia with love [stones throw]
Simian Mobile Disco--cerulean
Deep Space Orchestra--sir shina [compost]
Slugabed--sex [ninja tune]
The Bombay Royale--monkey fight snake [hope street]

Crocodiles--sunday (psychic conversation #9) [frenchkiss]
Dent May--home groan [paw tracks]
Tame Impala--lucidity [modular]
The Black Tambourines--27-25 blues
2:54--easy under cover [fat possum]
Violens--totally true [slumberland]
Washed Out--amor fati [sub pop]
King Tuff--bad thing [sub pop]
Heavy Cream--prison shanks [infinity cat]
X--your phone's off the hook, but you're not [slash]
The Gun Club--preaching the blues
The Hundred in the Hands--keep it low [warp]
Metronomy--she wants [big beat]
Japandroids--the house that heaven built [polyvinyl]

#476

Crocodiles--sunday (psychic conversation #9) [frenchkiss]
Japandroids--the house that heaven built
George Sarah--Anna
--solace
--moja bila moja [pusan]
--lament
--the t.v. is in my eye
--emo
--drag ass
--manatee

Spiritualized--little girl [fat possum]
The Walkmen--heaven [fat possum]
Pomengranates--pass away [modern outsider]
2:54--you're early [fat possum]
2:54--easy undercover [fat possum]
Atlas Genius--trojans [wb]
Owusu & Hannibal--caroline no [ubiquity]

#475

Violens--every melting degree [slumberland]
Japandroids--the house that heaven built  [polyvinyl]
Cloud Nothings--stay useless [carpark]
Beach House--myth [sub pop]
The Hundred in the Hands--keep it low [warp]
Slugabed--unicorn suplex [ninja tune]
Slugabed--dragon drums [ninja tune]
Tanlines--brothers [true panther]
Craft Spells--burst [captured tracks]
Shawn Lee--celestial waltz [esl]
All Good Funk Alliance--throw down [fort knox]
Joe Cuba Sextet--gimme some love [tico]
Crocodiles--sunday (psychic conversation #9) [french kiss]
Allo Darlin'--capricornia [slumberland]

King Tuff--bad thing [sub pop]
Ski Lodge--i would die to be
The Rapture--sail away
Atlas Genius--trojans [warner bros.]
Starlicker--double demon [delmark]

Charles Bradley -- lovin' you, baby [no time for dreaming]
Albert King -- you upset me baby [King Albert]
Booker T. -- progress [road to Memphis] 

#474
My Bloody Valetine--soon
Beach House--wild [sub pop]
Veronica Falls--stephen [slumberland]
Luna--california (all the way)
Toro Y Moi--dead pontoon [carpark]
Billy Bragg--sexuality
Lush--lovelife [4ad/reprise]
Yppah--soon enough [ninja tune]
Blockhead--panic in funkytown [ninja tune]
Huoratron--new wave of mutilation [last gang]
George Sarah--moja bila moja [pusan]
The Bombay Royale--monkey fight snake [hope street]
General Elektriks--tu m'intrigues [quannum]

Beware of Darkness--howl [bright antenna]
Pond--fantastic explosion of time [modular]
Living Things--fake it baby, fake it [brotherly]
Emily's Army--good looks [adeline]
Exitmusic--the night [secretly canadian]
Amanda Mair--sense [labrador]
Rameses III--no water, no moon

Intern Nikki:
The Clay Idols--nothing lasts forever
My Awesome Mixtape--diderot
Antarctica Takes It--straight to your heart
Jack Drag--we could've been big
The Cribs--housewife
Hello Echo--the coming days
Telekinesis--dirty thing
My Awesome Mixtape--me and the washing machine

#473

Spiritualized--little girl [fat possum]
Grand Duchy--let the people speak [sonic unyon]
Lower Dens--brains [ribbon]
Tussle--here it comes [troubleman unlimited]
Phantogram--when i'm small [barsuk]
Simian Ghost--wolf girl [playground]
Total Babe--bearbones [soTM]
Computer Magic--trinity [kitsune]
Telefon Tel Aviv--the birds *matthew dear mix [bpitch control]
Graham Knox Frazier--the big chill [simply deep]
Alex Attias--le foto proibite di una signora per bene [compost]

!!!--the most certain sure [warp]
Japandroids--the house that heaven built [polyvinyl]
A Place to Bury Strangers--i lost you [deep oceans]
The Bronx--strobe life [white drugs/ferret]
Live Animals--buster brown
The Cribs--come on be a no-one [witchita]
Best Coast--last year [mexican summer]
Exitmusic--the night [dead oceans]
Humans---de ciel [hybridity]
Tanlines--brothers [true panther sounds]

#472

Washed Out--eyes be closed [sub pop]
Here We Go Magic--how do i know [secretly canadian]
Diamond Rugs--blue mountains [partisan]
Best Coast--why i cry [mexican summer]
The Lords (LA)--trapped in [substance]
Tanlines--brothers [true panther sounds]
Ladytron--ghosts [nettwerk]
Tennis--petition [fat possum]
Exitmusic--the night  [dead oceans]
School of Seven Bells--low times [ghostly/vagrant]
SBTRKT--hold on [young turks]
Magic Wands--black magic [bright antenna]

The Raveonettes--into the night
Washed Out--amor fati [sub pop]
Metronomy--she wants [big beat]
Devin--masochist [frenchkiss]
Balance and Composure--separation [no sleep]
Cloud Nothings--useless [carpark]
Library Voices--be my juliette greco, paris 1949 [dine alone/nevado]
Chase and Status--end credits [mercury]
VCMG--lowly [mute]
Thee Satisfaction--earthseed [sub pop]
The Magnetic Fields--your girlfriend's face [merge]
Grand Duchy--silver boys [sonic unyon]
The Cribs--come on, be a no-one [witchita]

#471

Part Time--thunderbolts of love [mexican summer]
George Sarah--moja bila moja [pusan]
Craft Spells--party talk
Imperial Teen--runaway [merge]
Sietta--what am i supposed to do? [elefant traks]
Geographer--the myth of youth [modern art]
Grand Duchy--let the people speak [sonic unyon]
Frankie Rose--interstellar [slumberland]
Computer Magic--trinity [kitsune]
Gaz Coombes--simulator [hot fruit]

#470

Grand Duchy--shady [sonic unyon]
Field Music--guillotine [memphis industries]
Magic Wands--black magic [bright antenna]
Donora--the world is ours [rostrum]
Maps & Atlases--fever [barsuk]
The Funk Ark--rinconcito [esl]
Georgia Anne Muldrow--wind [fat beats]
Antonym--cinnamon air [stones throw]
Matthew Dear--headcage [ghostly]
Sarah Jaffe--glorified high [kirtland]
John Maus--...and the rain [ribbon]
School of Seven Bells--lafaye [ghostly/vagrant]
Igor Boxx--alarm [ninja tune]

Orbital--one big moment
Metronomy--she wants [big beat]
David Sylvian & Robert Fripp--god's monkey [virgin]
Yppah--blue schwinn [ninja tune]
Ceremony--citizen [matador]
No Age--fever dreaming [sub pop]
Wire--12 x u [pink flag]
Wire--one of us [pink flag]
Atari Teenage Riot--blood in my eyes [dim mak]
Crystal Castles--baptism [universal motown]
Wavves--bug
Library Voices--if raymond carver was born in the '90s [nevado]
Oberhofer--away from u [glassnote]
Exitmusic--passage

#469

Tanlines--brothers [true panther sounds]
School of Seven Bells--love play [ghostly/vagrant]
Bear in Heaven--idle heart [dead oceans]
Metronomy--the look [big beat]
La Sera--i can't keep you in my mind [hardly art]
Dancing Heals--live & learn
Magic Wands--black magic [bright antenna]
Margot & the Nuclear So and So's--shannon [mariel]
Versus--shooting star [teen beat]
Luna--california (all the way) [rhino]
James & Evander--abigamy [velvet blue]
Apparat--song of los [mute]
VCMG--lowly [mute]

Ernest Gonzales--when synchronicity prevails [fof]
Orbital--one big moment
My Bloody Valentine--you never should [sire]
Ulysses--glacier [eenie meenie]
Porcelain Raft--unless you speak from your heart [secretly canadian]
Soft Swells--every little thing [modern outsider]
Atlas Sound--walkaround [kranky/4ad]
Ceremony--citizen [matador]
The Germs--communist eyes [slash]
Anti-Flag--this is the new sound [sideone dummy]
Clark--tooth moves [warp]
Evan Voytas--when we could all float away
Computer Magic--trinity [kitsune]
We Ragazzi--forever surrender 2 u [self-starter foundation]
Gary Numan--dead sun rising [mortal]

#468

Cloud Nothings--stay useless [carpark]
Breton--interference [fat cat]
Geographer--kites [modern art]
VCMG--spock [mute]
Craft Spells--from the morning heat
Sybarite--the fourth day [4ad]
Daniel Rossen--silent space [warp]
Grand Duchy--silver boys [sonic unyon]
Magicwands--space [bright antenna]
Nite Jewel--one second of love [secretly canadian]
Races--big broom [frenchkiss]
Andrew Bird--lusitania [mom+pop]
St. Vincent--cheerleader [4ad]
The Horrors--i can see through you [xl]

The Black Tambourines--27-25 blues [art is hard]
Errors--tusk [rock action]
Computer Magic--trinity [kitsune]
Computer Magic--help me [kitsune]
Metronomy--she wants [big beat]
Telefon Tel Aviv--birds *matthew dear remix [BPitch Control]
Lee Renaldo--angles [matador]
Capsula--hit 'n' miss [krian]
Oberhofer--away frm u [glassnote]
Guards--do it again [white iris]
Duologue--endless imitation
Chains of Love--he's leaving with me [manimal vinyl]
Abaco Dream--life and death in G & A [a&m]
The Pepper Pots--real tru love [record kicks]

w/ Martina

hunx and his punx - hairdresser blues - hairdresser blues**

sleigh bells - born to lose - reign of terror** (last time :((((( r.i.p. indie cred)
the puppinni sisters - panic - betcha bottom dollar
tilly and the wall - rainbows in the dark
carla bruni - raphael - quel'qun m'a dit
professor elemental - cup of brown joy - the indifference engine

JRK - purple has an iris - jrk
YACHT - SHANGRI-LA - SHANGRI-LA
THE JEZABELS - TRYCOLOUR - PRISONER**
the submarines - shoelaces - the shoelaces ep**
jarvis cocker - baby's coming back to me - jarvis

gogol bordello - through the roof n underground
andrew sisters - boogie woogie bugle boy
mountain goats - cotton - we shall be healed
colleen and paul - mermaids and surfer girls - colleen and paul

good old war - coney island
plumtree - scott pilgrim - predicts the future
may mcdonough - mama drained the bathtub - spilt milk
noah and the whale - shape of my heart - peaceful the world lays me down
kate micucci - walking in los angeles - songs
ra ra riot - too dramatic - the orchard

com truise - iwywsaw - cyanide sisters
kele - everything you wanted - the boxer
beirut - venice - realpeople holland
joe dassin - champs elysses
deerhunter - basement scene - halcyon digest
anya marina - move you - move you

the horrors - i can see through you
little dragon - recommendation - little dragon
hospitality - betty wang - hospitality
the magnetic fields - your girlfriend's face - love at the bottom of the sea
errors - magna encarta - have some faith in magic

The Shortest Show in this Show's History:

Oberhofer--away frm u [sic] [glassnote]
Pond--moth wings [modular]
Geographer--kites [modern art]

#466

School of Seven Bells--the night [ghostly/vagrant]
Craft Spells-- from the morning heat
Porcelain Raft--unless you speak from your heart [secretly canadian]
Fake Problems--songs for teenagers [sideone dummy]
Cardinal--her [fire]
Soft Swells--every little thing [modern outsider]
Imperial Teen--runaway [merge]
Magicwands--space [bright antenna]
Pretty Good Dance Moves--movement 2 (1000 sasa) [mad dragon/township]
David Lynch--pinky's dream [pias/sunday best]
Gary Numan--dead son rising [mortal]
The Big Sleep--ace [french kiss]
Frankie Rose--night swim [slumberland]
Wise Blood--nosferatu

w/ Martina

best coast - boyfriend - crazy for you
beirut - elephant gun - lon giisland
the xx - islands - xx
friendly fires - hurting - pala
sufjan stevens - all good naysayers - michigan

flight of the conchrods - leggy blonde - flight of the conchords
the beatle-ettes - only seventeen
dirty projectors - stillness is the move - stillness is the move
ra ra riot - massachusetts - the orchard
jrk - come one and all - jrk

#465

Bing Ji Ling--everybody dub [tummy touch]
Cass McCombs--the same thing [domino]
Canasta--mexico city
Matthew Dear--headcage [ghostly]
Tycho--hours [ghostly]
School of Seven Bells--love from a stone [ghostly/vagrant]
Wild Fire--irene the avalance [greyday]
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour--heart attack [bmg]
Hess is More--going looking for the end of the world [nublu]
Chris Joss--toxic people [esl]
The Pimps of Joytime--keep that music playin' [wonderwheel]

#464

Frequent Flyer Edition - a look back at 2011

Cut Copy--alisa [modular]
Computer Magic--found out [white iris]
AM & Shawn Lee--dark into light [esl]
Tomorrows Tulips--eternally teenage [galaxia]
Veronica Falls--found love in a graveyard [slumberland]
Esben & The Witch--marching song [matador]
F'ed Up--queen of hearts [matador]
Mariachi El Bronx--48 roses [ato/white drugs]
Library Voices--if raymond carver was born in the 90s [nevado]
Tycho--dive [ghostly]

Then UCI basketball...