Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Married to a... PEE-do-bear or PEH-do-bear?

New releases:
Broadcast and the Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
Tegan and Sara - Sainthood

Upcoming shows:
Mount Eerie & Tara Jane O'Neil @ MassArt, Wednesday, October 28th
Liam Finn @ The Middle East Downstairs, Sunday, November 1st
Junior Boys @ The Middle East Downstairs, Monday, November 2nd
Thao with The Get Down Stay Down @ The Middle East Downstairs, Tuesday, November 3rd
Islands @ The Middle East Downstairs, Wednesday, November 4th
Dan Deacon @ MassArt, Sunday, November 8th
Dirty Projectors & tUnE-yArDs @ Paradise, Tuesday, November 17th

Today's playlist:
Lightning Bolt - The Sublime Freak
The Breeders - Bang On
OOIOO - O O I A H
Broadcast - In Here the World Begins
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Passionate Introverts (Dinosaurs)
Atlas Sound - Quick Canal (w/ Laetitia Sadier)
Camera Obscura - Come Back Margaret
My Bloody Valentine - Blown a Wish
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Mylo - Sunworshipper
Plastiscines - Loser
Deerhunter - VHS Dream
Midlake - The Jungler
The Black Keys - Psychotic Girl
Radiohead - Everything in Its Right Place
Phil Collins - Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)*
Metric - Rock Me Now
Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone
Fiona Apple - Sleep to Dream
Cat Power - Back of Your Head
Dr. Dog - The Way the Lazy Do
Elton John - Rocket Man
Joni Mitchell - Chelsea Morning
Canned Heat - Going Up the Country
Neon Indian - Deadbeat Summer
Fugazi - Place Position
Leadbelly - Midnight Special

*I don't know why I let things like this happen.

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Sultry Bears...

New releases:
Atlas Sound - Logos
Do Make Say Think - Other Truths
Excepter - Black Beach
Florence and the Machine - Lungs
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Kings of Convenience - Declaration of Dependence
Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights
OOIOO - Armonica Hewa
Sufjan Stevens - The BQE

Upcoming shows:
Broadcast & Atlas Sound @ The Paradise, Thursday, October 22nd
We Have Band @ Great Scott, Sunday, October 25th
Mount Eerie & Tara Jane O'Neil @ MassArt, Wednesday, October 28th
Liam Finn @ The Middle East Downstairs, Sunday, November 1st
Junior Boys @ The Middle East Downstairs, Monday, November 2nd
Thao with The Get Down Stay Down @ The Middle East Downstairs, Tuesday, November 3rd
Islands @ The Middle East Downstairs, Wednesday, November 4th


Today's playlist:
Weezer - The Good Life
Evangelicals - Bloodstream
Lykke Li - My Love
The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
The Strokes - Hard to Explain
The White Stripes - Black Math
Klaxons - Forgotten Works
The Whitest Boy Alive - Intentions
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Close Chorus
Eluvium - Radio Ballet
Dirty Projectors - No Intention
The Flaming Lips - Silver Trembling Hands
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - Know Better Learn Faster
Juana Molina - No seas antipatica
Electrelane - Film Music
School of Seven Bells - Face to Face on High Places
Al Green - I'm Still in Love with You
Feist - How My Heart Behaves
Beach House - Apple Orchard
Bill Withers - Use Me
Hanne Hukkelberg - No One But Yourself
Here We Go Magic - I Just Want to See You Underwater
The Fruit Bats - The Ruminant Band
The Raveonettes - Gone Forever
Capybara - Magpies

Monday, October 12, 2009

60% of a Bear

New releases:
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - Know Better Learn Faster

Upcoming shows:
Le Loup & Nurses @ T.T. the Bear's, Tuesday, October 13th
Former Ghosts @ The Middle East Upstairs, Wednesday, October 14th
Asobi Seksu @ Great Scott, Wednesday, October 14th
The Dodos & The Ruby Suns @ The Middle East Downstairs, Thursday, October 15th
School of Seven Bells & Magic Wands @ The Paradise, Saturday, October 17th
Broadcast & Atlas Sound @ The Paradise, Thursday, October 22nd
We Have Band @ Great Scott, Sunday, October 25th
Mount Eerie & Tara Jane O'Neil @ MassArt, Wednesday, October 28th

Today's playlist:
Califone - Giving Away the Bride
Broadcast - Unchanging Window
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Nitetime rainbows
Dirty Projectors - Spray Paint (The Walls)
Kate Bush - Houdini
Squarepusher - My Sound
Dark Dark Dark - Junk Bones
WHY? - This Blackest Purse
Boards of Canada - Smokes Quantity
Gang Gang Dance - House Jam
The National - Baby We'll Be Fine
Wild Beasts - The Fun Powder Plot
Deerhunter - Like New
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Falling Over
Mission of Burma - 1, 2, 3, Partyy!
Times New Viking - No Time, No Hope
Nurses - Caterpillar Playground
Asobi Seksu - Sing Tomorrow's Praise
Roxy Music - Pyjamarama
The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
CSS - Alala
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Scattered Pearls
New Order - The Perfect Kiss
Basement Jaxx - All I Know
Kings of Convenience - Toxic Girl (Monte Carlo 1963 Version)
The Clash - I'm Not Down
Vivian Girls - Walking Alone at Night

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Married to a Taiwanese Insomniac... Bear.

New releases:
Air - Love 2
Built to Spill - There Is No Enemy
Osso - Run Rabbit Run (remake of Sufjan Stevens' Enjoy Your Rabbit)
Califone - All My Friends are Funeral Singers
The Clientele - Bonfires on the Heath
DJ Spooky - The Secret Song
Dead Man's Bones - Dead Man's Bones
The Gossip - Music for Men
The Mountain Goats - Life of the World to Come

Upcoming shows:
The Twilight Sad @ Great Scott, Wednesday, October 7th
Grizzly Bear and Beach House @ Orpheum, Thursday, October 8th
Mirah @ Somerville Theatre, Friday, October 9th
Le Loup & Nurses @ T.T. the Bear's, Tuesday, October 13th
Former Ghosts @ The Middle East Upstairs, Wednesday, October 14th
Asobi Seksu @ Great Scott, Wednesday, October 14th
The Dodos & The Ruby Suns @ The Middle East Downstairs, Thursday, October 15th
School of Seven Bells & Magic Wands @ The Paradise, Saturday, October 17th
Broadcast & Atlas Sound @ The Paradise, Thursday, October 22nd

Today's playlist:
Dirty Projectors - Cannibal Resource
Dark Dark Dark - Trouble No More
WHY? - January Twenty Something
Björk - Alarm Call
The Twilight Sad - Interrupted
Built to Spill - Hindsight
Yo La Tengo - Periodically Double or Triple
Low - Belarus
PJ Harvey - A Perfect Day Elise
Vivian Girls - I Have No Fun
Wild Beasts - We Still Got the Taste Dancin' on Our Tongues
Megapuss - To the Love Within
The xx - Basic Space
Röyksopp - This Must Be It
Chairlift - Planet Health
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Immune to Emotion
Architecture in Helsinki - Heart It Races
Clutchy Hopkins - 3:02
Helicopter Goes Kaboom! - Feed Me Your Heart
Air - Mer du Japon
Sonic Youth - My Friend Goo
Dirty Projectors - When the World Comes to an End
Dark Dark Dark - Junk Bones (Odd Nosdam remix)
Karen O and the Kids - Hideaway
Fanfarlo - Comet
Capybara - Happiness / Let Child Roam

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