Green Eggs and Ham: Forget The Song

Another Thursday, another metric tonne of new music. New songs form Wintersleep, Purity Ring, King Tuff, Olivier Jarda and Cadence Weapon graced the airwaves, a couple of Phils weighed in on girls who'll "take your heart, but you won't feel it" and I took a few minutes to play my Record Store Day acquisitions. But enough about all of that. I need to go listen to the Purity Ring song about 8 dozen more times. Here's the playlist:

Hüsker Dü - "I Apologize"
Eamon McGrath - "Rabid Dog"
King Tuff - "Bad Thing"
Real Estate - "Younger Than Yesterday"
The Acorn - "On The Line"
Olivier Jarda - "Piece of Fiction"
The Jezabels - "Horsehead"
Lioness - "Thunder"
Patrick Watson - "Lighthouse"
Uncle Tupelo - "That Year"
Beachwood Sparks - "Forget The Song"
Lee Hazlewood - "Won't You Tell Your Dreams"
SBTRKT - "Wildfire"
Para One - "Lean On Me" (Salva Remix)
Rustie - "Cry Flames"
Purity Ring - "Obedear"
Moonface with Siinai - "Yesterday's Fire"
Cadence Weapon - "Conditioning"
Wintersleep - "Resuscitate"
Phil Collins & Phil Bailey - "Easy Lover"
     *this week's Slice Of Cheese
Real Boys - "Marly"
Beach Velvet - "Orange Krush"
Doug Paisley - "Sad Sinner"
MV & EE - "Too Far To See"

Green Eggs and Ham: Traces To Nowhere

I may have had a lot of fun this morning. What with the set of doo-wop-inspired songs (and an actual doo-wop relic to boot), the individual moving parts of Constantines juxtaposed, the weird and wooly songs from Halifax, Calgary, Baltimore and beyond, not to mention the capper of 90's jams to round out the show, it's no surprise. I play what I like. What's your excuse? Here's the playlist:

Chairlift - "Take It Out On Me"
Active Child - "Ancient Eye"
Blouse - "Pale Spectre"
Gary Numan - "Metal"
Kids And Explosions - "Use Your Words"
Baby Eagle & The Proud Mothers - "Bone Soldiers"
Constantines - "New King"
Bry Webb - "Asa"
Timber Timbre - "Lonesome Hunter"
Hunx And His Punx - "Lovers Lane"
King Khan and BBQ Show - "I'll Be Loving You"
The Moonglows - "I Knew From The Start"
Doldrums - "Egypt"
CFCF - "Exercise 2 (School)"
Tycho - "Melanine"
The Cable-Knits - "Leejay's Peejays"
Apollo Ghosts - "Newcastle"
The Soupcans - "Shocked!"
Ed Schrader's Music Beat - "Car"
The Memories - "Softly"
Each Other - "Traces To Nowhere"
Kix - "Cold Blood"
     *this week's Slice Of Cheese
Frank Turner - "Peggy Sang The Blues"
Said The Whale - "We Are 1980"
Moss Icon - "Guatemala"
Blurtonia - "Won't You Ride?"

Today's Tune: Cookie Duster - "Two Feet Stand Up"

I never get what I want on Record Store Day. I'm never on time and the diehards always snag the ultra-limited things I've had my eye on. I walk out of my local record shop on RSD with an armful of records that, while great, aren't exactly what I had my hopes up for. That's why this year, I decided not to seek out the ever-changing list of RSD releases, in the effort to make whatever I end up with this year to seem as special as can be.

At least until Cookie Duster came... cookie... dusting...

Cookie Duster, a project featuring Brendan Canning (known for being in a lil' ol' band by the name of Broken Social Scene), are set to release their second album, and first for 11 years, When Flying Was Easy on May 15th. Before that, the world can hear the first single "Two Feet Stand Up", a jangly, upbeat number that would be right at home replacing BSS's (s?) "Shoreline" on the band's excellent eponymous 2005 album. Oh yeah, and it's coming out as a 7" single for Record Store Day. I guess I'll look for it on eBay.

Green Eggs and Ham: Society Is My Friend

This morning's show was a lot like a season of Doctor Who: kind of confusing with no strict time period. Tunes from the recent past, the farther past and... well, The Pointer Sisters were involved. There were plugs for shows (namely John K. Samson with Shotgun Jimmie, Miesha and the Spanks with Ketamines, and the sold out Plaskett show) and a look at Camouflage Nights in "context". Just read the dang list:

Extra Happy Ghost! - "True Love Leaves No Traces"
Kurt Vile - "Society Is My Friend"
Great Lake Swimmers - "The Knife"
Memoryhouse - "Heirloom"
When Saints Go Machine - "Bittersweet Symphony"
The Elwins - "Come On Out"
New Pornographers - "Mystery Hours"
Two Hours Traffic - "Wicked Side"
Cracker - "The Riverside"
Fruit Bats - "Tony the Tripper"
John K. Samson - "Cruise Night"
Kano - "Ikeya Seki"
TRST - "Chrissy E"
LCD Soundsystem - "Drunk Girls" (Holy Ghost! Remix)
Camouflage Nights - "United Airlines"
Thrush Hermit - "Hated It"
Joel Plaskett Emergency - "Tough Love"
Pointer Sisters - "Baby, Come And Get It"
      *this week's Slice Of Cheese
Shotgun Jimmie - "Masterpiece"
Miesha and the Spanks - "Highway Baby"
Real Boys - "Wilderness"
Little Chords - "Always / Never"
Zulu Winter - "Silver Tongue"
Bear In Heaven - "Noon Moon"

Green Eggs and Ham: Things I Could Live Without

This morning's show had some new music from weird familiar faces (Dirty Projectors, Black Moth Super Rainbow), a pair of covers straight out of the cold war (Japandroids, Les Jupes), raucous rockers from Alberta and beyond (Grown-Ups, Mandates, Thee Oh Sees) as well as new music from Gold & Youth, TOPS, The Karpinka Brothers and more. Here's the playlist:

Minotaurs - "Nothing New"
Destroyer - "Streets of Fire"
TOPS - "Rings of Saturn"
Gold & Youth - "Time To Kill"
Chromatics - "Lady"
The Mandates - "Take You to the Dance"
Grown-Ups - "The Things I Could Live Without"
Ceremony - "Adult"
Thee Oh Sees - "Crushed Grass"
Les Jupes - "First We Take Manhatten"
Japandroids - "Jack the Ripper"
Rustie - "After Light"
Sebastian - "Yes"
The Arkells - "Michigan Left" (Young Galaxy Remix)
The Karpinka Brothers - "Until You"
Hank Snow - "I Wonder Where You Are Tonight"
Cuff the Duke - "Drag Me Down"
Manfred Mann - "The Runner"
      *this week's Slice of Cheese
Breaker Breaker - "You're A Machine"
Michael Rault - "Let Me Go Out"
of Montreal - "Wintered Debts"
Black Moth Super Rainbow - "Spraypaint"
Dirty Projecters - "Gun Has No Trigger"