February 26th

Today Will played a lot of songs he was listening to around this time in previous years, so there are several high school-age gems.

Brazilian Girls - Sweatshop
Megapuss - Adam & Steve
Megapuss - Theme from Hollywood
Loney Dear - Airport Surroundings
Goldfrapp - Winter Wonderland (for some reason the fact that this song was called "Winter Wonderland" didn't deter me from accidentally playing a Christmas song at the end of February)
Here We Go Magic - Only Pieces
Broadcast - Come On Let's Go
Pinback - Penelope
Low - In the Drugs
Juana Molina - La Verdad
Yo La Tengo - Damage
Arcade Fire - Black Wave/Bad Vibrations
Why? - Gemini (Birthday Song)
Tegan and Sara - Nineteen
Black Moth Super Rainbow - They Live in the Meadow
Värttinä - Kiiriminna
Spoon - Reservations
Deerhoof - Believe E.S.P.
Do Make Say Think - The Universe!
My Brightest Diamond - Golden Star
The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Hanne Hukkelberg - The North Wind
Gospel Claws - God Keeps Me Alive
Other Lives - Paper Cities
YACHT - Hot Dog


Juana Molina was incredible. More later. A real review on the WTBU blog, perhaps!

February 19th

Just Will and the interns today. Quiet and sleepy. Lots of Broadcast.

Broadcast - Accidentals
realpeople - Venice
Juana Molina - El Vestido
Passion Pit - Sleepyhead (appropriate AND addictive)
Morrissey - Black Cloud
Broadcast - Papercuts
Hood - The Lost You
Kate Bush - Houdini
The National - Baby, We'll Be Fine
The Magnetic Fields - All the Umbrellas in London

OH HEY JULIA WHAT YOU FOUND YOUR WALLET COOL!

Lykke Li - Everybody But Me
Broadcast - Living Room
Blonde Redhead - Top Ranking
Stereolab - The Noise of Carpet
Tobacco - Tape Eater
Why? - These Few Presidents
Little Joy - No One's Better Sake
Hanne Hukkelberg - All Day and All of the Night
Belle & Sebastian - Funny Little Frog
The Bird and the Bee - Diamond Dave
Wolf Parade - I'll Believe in Anything
Lily Allen - Everyone's At It
Delta Spirit - Trashcan
M83 - 0078h
Like a Fox - Better Bring a Bomb
Mandrew - Hotwax


The Toothaches, Pretty & Nice, Math the Band, and The Bynars at Great Scott tonight! It will be a good time, and there will be college kids trying to give you WTBU magnets the whole time. Woo!

February 12th

In honor of Valentine's Day, Julia played all her favorite love songs, which happened to include a few of mine. Then it got somewhat sad, but we kicked it back up.

Dr. Dog - From
Feist - Lonely Loney (Frisbee'd Remix)
Simon and Garfunkel - Cecilia
Beach House - Auburn and Ivory
Belle and Sebastian - If She Wants Me
The Velvet Underground - Stephanie Says
Beirut - The Canals of Our City
The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
Hanne Hukkelberg - Break My Body
Broken Social Scene - Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl
The Microphones - I Felt Your Shape
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Radiohead - All I Need
Psapp - Happy Lamb
Al Green - I'm Still in Love With You
Belle and Sebastian - We Are The Sleepyheads
The Shins - New Slang
Arcade Fire - Headlights Looked Like Diamonds
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Smog in Cities
Grizzly Bear - On a Neck, On a Spit
Django Reinhardt - Honeysuckle Rose
Starfucker - Florida
The Magnetic Fields - With Whom to Dance?
The Mountain Goats - Woke Up New
Oh No! Oh My! - The Backseat
Charles Spearin - Vittoria
Delta Spirit - People, Turn Around
Vetiver - Everyday
Animal Collective - Daily Routine
The Notorious B.I.G. - One More Chance / Stay With Me (Remix)

February 5th

Will's been having a renaissance of his favorite bands (asterisked) so he commandeered the majority of the show this week. Oops? Julia gets it back next week.

Hanne Hukkelberg - A Cheater's Armoury
*Yo La Tengo - Everday
*Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
*Xiu Xiu - Fast Car
*Fugazi - Sweet and Low
Jason Anderson - Moon Song (impulse play - the CD had a mole in winter clothes on it)
*Low - Lust
*Sleater-Kinney - Leave You Behind
*The National - Looking for Astronauts
*The Magnetic Fields - All the Umbrellas in London
*Deerhoof - C
*Grizzly Bear - Lullabye
*The Fiery Furnaces - Tropical Ice-Land
*Elliott Smith - Bottle Up and Explode!
*Pretty & Nice - Peekaboo
*The Smiths - There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
*Juana Molina - Micael
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
Matt and Kim - Daylight
Pavement - Shady Lane/J vs. S
The Naked Hearts - Call Me
Nous Non Plus - Loli
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Come Saturday (rotation, but I'm a fan)
Modest Mouse - The Good Times Are Killing Me
The Knife - Heartbeats
Arto Lindsay - Personagem
John Mayer - The Heart of Life

Joe's band Kids with Kites is playing this Saturday. Check out ticketmaster for tickets to The Loft at Tommy Doyles for the show on Februrary 7th, Joe's birthday!