Green Eggs and Ham: Double Down

Last Thursday, I actually did 4 hours of radio. The following playlist is for the first 2 only. Partly because it's a week late and I feel bad, partly because in the second set of two hours I took advantage of a largely different audience from my regular one to play lots of stuff I've played before (although there were requests for Woodhands and MC5 thrown into the mix). What follows will have to do. It was pretty rad:

The Mountain Goats - "Up The Wolves"
Hot Panda - "Future Markets"
Black Mountain - "In Sequence"
Cinderpop - "Summers in the Shelter"
Islands - "Can't Feel My Face"
Shearwater - "Pushing the River"
Dinosaur Jr. - "Watch The Corners"
Chelsea Light Moving - "Groovy & Linda"
Dusted - "(Into The) Atmosphere"
Muneshine - "The City"
Handsome Furs - "Dead + Rural"
Divine Fits - "Would That Not Be Nice"
Quadrant Khan - "It's Your Dying Wish"
Mr. Oizo - "WC"
Diamond Rings - "I'm Just Me"
Beck - "I Just Started Hating Some People Today"
Mark Davis - "Eliminate The Toxins"
Shadow Folk - "Heaven's Gate"
New Kids on the Block - "This One's For The Children"
The xx - "Angels"
Jets Overhead - "Beach Dream"
Mark Sultan - "Misery's Upon Us"
The Spits - "Wanna b A.D.D."
Talk Normal - "Bad Date"

Green Eggs and Ham: What's The Rush?

I was a little bit late this morning. Of course, I could blame my lateness on Saskatoon's crushing heat wave and my noisy neighbours spontaneously conspiring to render my ability to achieve a sleep-state as impossible as Iceland's summer Olympic hopes or I could face facts and admit I'm bad at mornings. That's why I kicked off the show with the classic Pursuit of Happiness gem "I'm An Adult Now". It's time to take responsibility for my shortcomings. Wait, I was only 10 minutes late? I arrived in time to do everything I'm supposed to do? Ok, forget about all that "taking responsibility" malarky, I'm going to shirk like nobody's business. Here's this morning's playlist:


Pursuit of Happiness - "I'm An Adult Now"
The Danks - "What's The Rush?"
Apollo Ghosts - "Why Can't I Be The Man On Stage?"
COUSINS - "Thunder"
Cold Showers - "Double Life"
Polysick - "Smudge, Hawaii"
Cold Cave - "Believe In My Blood"
Bend Sinister - "Don't You Know"
The Darcys - "Deacon Blues"
Young Benjamins - "Bones"
Twin Shadow - "Golden Light"
MNDR - "Faster Horses"
Dirty Projectors - "About To Die"
Hot Panda - "Holidays"
Howie Beck - "Everybody Sold Out"
James Irwin - "Nothing At All"
Foreigner - "Urgent" **
The People's Temple - "Looter's Game"
Omma Cobba - "Up And Run"
METZ - "Headache"
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - "Only In My Dreams"
Tame Impala - "Apocalypse Dreams"
Taken By Trees - "Dreams"




**This week's Slice Of Cheese

Green Eggs and Ham: Turn Up The Radio

I may have veered towards weird this morning. Any place of business that had the wherewithal to turn on CFCR and the fortitude to leave it on may have been met with consternation and skepticism from their clientele: if that did happen, it's simply proof that the clients aren't cool enough. Personally, I found this morning's mix of mainstream-esque pop with one-off misdirects of strange sounds kept it fresh. Maybe it's just me. Here's the playlist:


Los Campesinos! - "Tiptoe Through the True Bits"
Spools - "Spool VI"
Wolfcow - "Caveman Bones"
Peer Support - "Kremlin Gremlin"
One Hundred Dollars - "Work"
Foxygen - "Waitin' 4 U"
Thee Oh Sees - "Lupine Dominus"
Ty Segall Band - "I Bought My Eyes"
Father John Misty - "I'm Writing A Novel"
Royal Wood - "When the Sun Comes Up"
Elk - "Every Girl That I Meet"
Cat Power - "Ruin"
Mungolian Jetset - "Toccata"
Fur - "Knots"
Purity Ring - "Fineshrines"
Unicorns - "I Don't Wanna Die"
Unnatural Helpers - "Hate Your Teachers"
Caymans - "Hard Feelings"
Seapony - "What You Wanted"
Fist City - "The Creeps"
Colonel Abrams - "Trapped"**
Ice Choir - "I Want You Now And Always"
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - "The Body"
Sheer Agony - "She's An Artist"
Korean Gut - "If You Want"
Camp Radio - "Turn Up The Radio"
Young Guv & The Scuzz - "Heal Over Time"

**This week's Slice Of Cheese

Green Eggs and Ham: Summer Spectacular 2012

A full 2 hours of summer fun this morning, with songs that evoke heat in the forefront. From your road trips, to your ocean dips, to tornadoes (the theme so far in Saskatchewan this year), the show was designed to soundtrack the season. It's an annual tradition now. Here's the playlist:

King Tuff - "Bad Thing"
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - "The Mighty Sparrow"
PS I Love You - "Princess Towers"
Young Rival - "The Ocean"
Frankie Rose - "Pair Of Wings"
Echo Lake - "Even The Blind"
Chromatics - "At Your Door"
Hey Ocean! - "Islands"
We Were Lovers - "Islands"
Islands - "Jogging Gorgeous Summer"
Crocodiles - "My Surfing Lucifer"
Robin Ward - "Wonderful Summer"
Magic Kids - "Summer"
Breakbot - "Summerparty"
Teen Daze - "Cold Sand"
The Parish of Little Clifton - "It's Okay, Roseanne"
The Golden Seals - "Summer Side Of Life"
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - "Summer Wind"
Actual Water - "Summer In The End"
Shotgun Jimmie - "Summer Sound"
Richard Marx - "Endless Summer Nights"**
Drive-By Truckers - "Tornadoes"
The Rural Alberta Advantage - "Tornado '87"
Cannon Bros - "Soft View"
Real Boys - "Vacation"
Superchunk - "This Summer"
Japandroids - "The Nights of Wine and Roses"




**This week's Slice Of Cheese

Green Eggs and Ham: The MoSo With The MoSo-est

This week's show was simple: 2 hours of songs by bands and artists playing this year's MoSoFEST in Saskatoon. It's going to take over the city's nightlife this weekend, so I let it take over my show. This thing is going to be absolutely terrific. Here's the playlist:


Smokekiller - "Jenny"
Eamon McGrath - "I Am The Deer"
Slow Down, Molasses - "Wake Me Up at the Coast"
Snailhouse - "I Never Woke Up"
Zachary Lucky - "Back In The Fall"
Bry Webb - "Get You Up In Peace"
Factor - "Cassette Tape Hiss" (ft. Jeans Boots)
Moka Only & Ayatollah - "Come Along"
Feral Children - "Magic Sacred Ritual"
Zombifyus - "City Heads"
Breaker Breaker - "You're A Machine"
Eyebats - "Who Made You Government Baby"
C'mon - "Feeding Off the Dirt"
Junior Pantherz - "(jammer)"
Teen Daze - "Brooklyn Summer"
Form - "Celery"
economics - "Night Shift"
The Karpinka Brothers - "When the Storm Clears"
Andy Shauf - "Sam Jones"
B.A. Johnston - "Raised by the Wooden Spoon"
Ketamines - "Evil Intentions"
Shuyler Jansen - "Wedding Band"
Damien Jurado - "This Time Next Year"
Shotgun Jimmie - "That's Not Joel"
Cannon Bros - "Out Of Here"
The Dudes - "Tear it Up"

Green Eggs and Ham: Space Will Follow

From an 80's pastiche of an opening, to brand spanking new tracks from Grizzly Bear, Cold Warps, Cookie Duster and No Joy, this show was fun to do. It's always fun when it's wall-to-wall good times. Here's the playlist:

Chromeo - "The Right Type"
Hall & Oates - "Out Of Touch"
Chairlift - "Amanaemonesia"
Octoberman - "Waiting For Christine"
The Crackling - "Ashen"
Tacoma Hellfarm Tragedy - "Your Wild"
Crocodiles - "No Black Clouds For Dee Dee"
Boxer the Horse - "Bridge to the U.S.A."
White Lung - "Those Girls"
Trailer Trash Tracys - "Candy Girl"
SFV Acid - "Granmasmitza"
Handsome Furs - "When I Get Back"
Cut Copy - "Sun God"
Cold Warps - "Slimer"
No Joy - "Junior"
Stella Ella Ola - "Little Black Rope"
Milks & Rectangles - "Hospital Patience"
John Waite - "Missing You"**
Wintersleep - "Unzipper"
Grizzly Bear - "Sleeping Ute"
Cookie Duster - "Space Will Follow"
Young Liars - "Marathon"


**This week's Slice of Cheese

Green Eggs and Ham: Drink To Moving On

There is so much good music out there; this week is no different. Some grand and brand new tracks from Cellphone, Kestrels, King Tuff, Weed and We Were Lovers graced the airwaves, Tenacious D returned only to end up as the slice of cheese, and I paid tribute to the fact that I'm moving today with a few semi-related jams. Here's the playlist


Soft Mirage - "Courtyards of Atlantis"
David Simard - "The Knife"
Parlovr - "Now That You're Gone"
Kestrels - "The Field Where I Died"
King Tuff - "Anthem"
The Sadies & Andre Williams - "One Eyed Jack"
Drive-By Truckers - "Dancin' Ricky"
Japandroids - "Fire's Highway"
Weed - "Ben's Tour"
Wintersleep - "In Came The Flood"
Grand National - "Drink To Moving On"
The National - "Apartment Story"
Billy Joel - "Movin' Out"
We Were Lovers - "Islands"
Young Galaxy - "B.S.E."
Blood Diamonds - "Phone Sex" (ft. Grimes)
Lower - "Craver"
Fist City - "Buried"
Cellphone - "One Last Shot"
Tenacious D - "Rize of the Fenix"**
Zeus - "Strong Mind"
Rah Rah - "Little Poems"
Monomyth - "Sacred Hand"
Army Girls - "T W I C E"
PS I Love You - "How Do You"


**This week's Slice of Cheese