Show 14/11/2010

Here we are, new show for this week.
The guest was my brother who has been on a few times before. Stalk him here.

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Playlist:
Gentle Friendly - Lovers Rock
Nico - Frozen Warnings
Serena-Maneesh - Blow Yr Brains in the Mourning Rain
Archers of Loaf - Web in Front
Cats on Fire - Tears in Your Cup
The dBs - Black and White
Superchunk - Slack Motherfucker
Vic Chesnutt - Coward
Rocketship - I Love You Like the Way That I Used to Do
Aberfeldy - Hypnotized
Deerhunter - Basement Scene
Another Sunny Day - I'm In Love With a Girl Who Doesn't Know I Exist
A.A. Bondy - Witness Blues
Daniel Johnston - True Love Will Find You in the End
Okkervil River - Red
The National - Lucky You

Introducing "Label Minded"!

I've been talking about this idea for a while. It's the new show I'm doing with the Tin Trains conductors (Dasal and Rob). We're going to be looking at one record label each show - probably every couple of weeks - and our first on Sunday focused on Rough Trade.

You can listen to the first show of the new format here:
Label Minded

Check it out and let us know what you think!

If you want you can become a fan on Facebook (and we promise we won't spam you too much):
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Show 07/11/2010

Hey!
Here's this week's show. Shaky start but it gets better after that.

Good Luck - Man on Fire
Trash Kit - Fame
Animals that Swim - Kitkats & Vinegar
Schema - Echolalia... Curvilinear
Sackville - If His Shadow Moves on the Water
Black Flag - Wasted
Shrag - Furnishings
Long Fin Killie - The Lamberton Lamplighter
Swirlies - In Harmony, New Found Freedom
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Heart in Your Heartbreak
Shellac - The End of Radio

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My top pick for this week is that Long Fin Killie song: check out their albums if you get the chance.

Until next time!

At last! New show

They said it would never happen! And admittedly I have been saying a new show is imminent for a good number of months now. But here it is at last.

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Teen Sheikhs - Germs
Bedhead - Living Well
Standard Fare - Philadelphia
Mogwai - Cody [Special Moves live version]
Henry's Dress - Sunshine Proves all Wrongness
Titus Andronicus - Four Score and Seven
My Bloody Valentine - Thorn
Silkworm - Wild in my Day
Allo Darlin' - Silver Dollars
Sonic Youth - My New House
Plug - Fresh Pleasures
Parts & Labor - Brighter Days
Wive - Lazaruvs and Dives
Papercuts - The Machine Will Tell Us So
Prolapse - Slash/Oblique
P.S. Eliot - Bear Named Otis

There will be a new one (genuinely) pretty soon so look out for that. Zine news also coming soon as well as details for a new radio show format I'm going to do with Rob and Dasal from Tin Trains. So lots of fun things in the pipeline!

See you next time.

Another Mixtape!

Yeah! I just came back from Indietracks, which was amazing as usual. Sadly I don't have time to write it up for you since I'm off to Edinburgh for the Fringe on Wednesday and before that I need to pack my entire room into boxes since I'm moving out while I'm away.
So this will have to act as a stopgap: another mixtape for Pic 'n' Mixx, who were DJing and did their usual mixtape swap fun. Because I'm an idiot I didn't actually manage to get mine in the box and swapped, but here it is for you anyway. Sadly you won't get the amazing/shit/amazingly shit cover art but hopefully you can cope with that.

Robot Boys & PUNK Girls

Have a fun rest of the summer! See you in September when I'll finally keep my new show promise.

Mixtape

OK, this time I promise, new show pretty soon.

In the interim here is a special mixtape I made last week for the mixtape swap at a gig I went to (Pic 'n' Mixx, Pocketbooks headlining). Good show and hopefully a good mix, so download it here.

It's mostly indiepop but with a couple of curveballs in there too.

Sounds Just Like a Foreign Movie

Show 28/02/2010

Sorry it's taken so long to put this show up! There'll be a new one probably tomorrow. Soon anyway.

This was our 60th ever show.

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Broken Family Band - Mother O' Jesus
Absentee - Something to Bang
Loose Fur - Laminated Cat
Arab Strap - Stink
AA Bondy - Witness Blues [Daytrotter Session]
Sebadoh - Perverted World
Quasi - Sea Shanty
Lucksmiths - The Chapter In Your Life Entitled San Francisco
Retribution Gospel Choir - Kids
The Band - King Harvest (Has Surely Come)
Tall Dwarfs - Think Small
Silver Jews - Federal Dust
Neutral Milk Hotel - Where You'll Find Me Now
Roky Erickson & Okkervil River - Goodbye Sweet Dreams

Show 21/02/2010

This week's show:

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Playlist:
Belle & Sebastian - Mayfly
Gliss - Sleep
Wive - Come Join the Sea
Mission of Burma - Einstein's Day
Shrag - Forty Five 45s
Fugazi - Cashout
Dylan - Idiot Wind [original version]
Hefner - May God Protect Your Home
lift to Experience - Falling From Cloud 9
Galaxie 500 - Pictures
long Fin Killie - Godiva
The Velvet Underground - After Hours

Have fun! New show tomorrow.

Show 07/02/2010

This weeks show has 20% extra snap, crackle and pop, and comes in glorious mono. Also a noise track (Temperatures) which prompted our most scathing email ever:

"Does this sound like music to you? Cos it doesn't to me, the wires in your brain must be crossed or sumfin. Were you dropped on your head as a child? Or possibly a rugby injury from teenage years?"

So yeah, you might want to skip that one if your feedback tolerance isn't very high.

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Playlist:
Guided By Voices - Hardcore UFOs
Sparklehorse - Weird Sisters
Dananananaykroyd - No Wage
Spare Snare - Strange and Silent Staircase
Mobile Unit - We Live in Our Own World, But It's OK They Know Us Here
The Tyde - Look Back in Anger
Giddy Motors - Magmanic
The Moles - Saint Jack
Shellac - My Black Ass
Number One Cup - Smile, It's Sugar
Temperatures - Kakorr
Saloon - Shoot the Singer
Charlene - Blackout

See you next time.

Show 31/01/2010

Join me and this week's guest, Toby, as we play records, overanalyse our favourite bands and plumb new depths of technical incompetence.

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Iggy & the Stooges - Search & Destroy
Beach House - Zebra
Tall Dwarfs - Highrise
Allo, Darlin' - The Polaroid Song
Japandroids - Rockers East Vancouver
Fanfarlo - You are One of the Few Outsiders Who Really Understands Us
Stars - My Favourite Book
Bardo Pond - Rumination
Magnolia Electric Company - Oh Grace
Black Eyes - Commencement
Daniel Johnston - The Beatles
life Without Buildings - Envoys
The Research - The Hard Times
Besnard lakes - Albatross
The Bishops - I Can't Stand It Any More
Skill 7 Stamina 12 - Ijsman
Wake the President - Miss Tierney
Wilco - Theologians
Tunng - Bullets
Okkervil River - Happy Hearts
Tindersticks - Patchwork

Show 17/01/2010

For our second show of the new year, some new stuff! Also some old stuff.

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Playlist:
Cats & Cats & Cats - Brilliant the Brilli Ant
Titus Andronicus - Theme From Cheers
Lilys - Periscope
Blonde Redhead - Hated Because of Great Qualities
Thurston Moore - Fri/End
Bob Dylan - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Sophia - When You're Sad
Silver Mt Zion - Kollapz Tradixional (Thee Olde Dirty Flag)
Jay Reatard - Always Wanting More
Mirza - Last Clouds

RIP Jay.

Show 10/01/2010

"Don't look back", said Teenage Fanclub.
"But how else am I going to highlight some great records from 2009 and the 2000s as a whole, some which people will have heard and some which they might not?" I said.
There was no answer.

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Playlist:
Dananananaykroyd - Watch This (Hey Everyone, 2009)
Grandaddy - Jed's Other Poem (The Sophtware Slump, 2000)
Wake the President - Professor (You Can't Change that Boy, 2009)
Enablers - The Destruction Most of All (Tundra, 2008)
Pink Mountaintops - Axis: Thrones of love (Outside Love, 2009)
Manhattan love Suicides - Extra Medication (Burnt Out Landscapes, 2008)
Simon Scott - Flood Inn (Navigare, 2009)
Life Without Buildings - Envoys (Any Other City, 2001)
Jay Reatard - There is No Sun (Watch Me Fall, 2009)
And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Another Morning Stoner (Source Tags & Codes, 2001)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Everything With You (The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, 2009)
Okkervil River - The War Criminal Rises and Speaks (Down the River of Golden Dreams, 2003)
Deerhunter - Circuation (Rainwater Cassette Exchange, 2009)
Drones - I'm Here Now (Gala Mill, 2005)
Tartufi - System Folds (Nests of Waves & Wire, 2009)
The USA is a Monster - Somehow (Tasheyana Compost, 2003)
Dirty Projectors - Cannibal Resource (Bitte Orca, 2009)
Radiohead - Idioteque (Kid A, 2001)
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Wind Phoenix (Proper Name) (Why There Are Mountains, 2009)
Wilco - Ashes of American Flags (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, 2001)

P.S. Sorry for the even worse than usual sound quality this week.

Show 13/12/2009

Hello!

Firstly, sorry for the long absence. Technical problems, plus last week when I was at ATP, have meant that it's over a month since the last proper show.
Hopefully this new one willmake up for it!

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I played:
Fergus & Geronimo - Blind Muslim Girl
Tubelord - Night of the Pencils
Josh T Pearson - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Joanna Newsom - Sprout and the Bean
Trailer Trash Traceys - You Wish You Were Red
Atlas Sound - Quick Canal
Life Without Buildings - The Leanover
Pissed Jeans - Dream Smotherer
Allo Darlin' - Heart Beat Chilli
Hangedup - Powered By Steam
Titus Andronicus - Titus Andronicus Forever!

One more show before Christmas, so get your requests in! Also if you have any thoughts on the year in music as a whole send them in and I might read some out.

Another thing: I did the sound design for a play a while ago (The Pillowman in the Garage Theatre) and as part of it I recorded some stuff on guitar. I found the files while I was putting the new show up and thought I might as well put them on the blog, so here's the house music I did in case anyone's interested (recorded in one take the afternoon of the show).

Most People are Tin Trains ATP Special

Hey!

This weekend I went to All Tomorrow's Parties Nightmare Before Christmas curated by My Bloody Valentine. The Tin Trains crew was there too. We also had a dictaphone. So we recorded a special podcast from the festival for your listening pleasure!

Here's the mp3.

Playlist:
De La Soul - Me, Myself and I
Yo La Tengo - Little Honda
Television Personalities - This Angry Silence
The Pastels - Nothing To Be Done
J Mascis and the Fog - Ammaring
The Horrors - New Ice Age
Sonic Youth - Death Valley '69
No Age - Brain Burner
A Place To Bury Strangers - In Your Heart
Swervedriver - Sci-Flyer
Dirty Three - Everything's Fucked
My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise

Have fun. Show as per usual (first for a month!) on Sunday. Be there.

Show 08/11/2009 - Indiepop Special!

Here it is.

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Playlist:
Malcolm Middleton - We're all Going to Die
Airport Girl - Between Delta and Delaware
Hefner - The Hymn for the Alcohol
CaUSE CO-MOTION!!! - This Just Won't last
The Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
Speedmarket Avenue - Don't Fall in love
Apples in Stereo - Seems So
Belle & Sebastian - Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying
Comet Gain - Young lions
Pocketbooks - Cross the line
Even as we Speak - Getting Faster
Helene - Heliotrope
Orange Juice - Blue Boy
Stereolab - Tone Burst

On an indiepop subject go get tickets for the last ever Twee as Fuck, 11th Dec at the Buffalo Bar. Comet Gain are headlining, and, as you might have noticed, I'm qute fond of them (they released maybe my favourite pop single of the decade after all).

Show 25/10/2009 & Fanzine

Hello.

Here is this week's show.

Playlist:
The Tamborines - Sally O'Gannon
Times New Viking - Those Days
Mazzy Star - Mary of Silence
Pavement - Date w/Ikea [Peel Session]
A Place to Bury Strangers - Breathe
Comet Gain - Brothers off the Block
Japancakes - Soon [James Rutledge Mix]
Richmond Fontaine - Incident at Conklin Creek
The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again
The Dead C - Power
Daniel land & the Modern Painters - Benjamin's Room
The Fall - Eat Y'self Fitter [Peel Session]

We played a few things this week on Sonic Cathedral.

Also the newest issue of the fanzine Under City lights is now on the internet. You can download it here: http://undercitylightszine.blogspot.com

Have a good week!
Edwin

Show 18/10/2009

Hello!

Yes it's that time again. Time to download last week's show.

Here.

Playlist:
The National - Mr November
No Age - Things I Did When I Was Dead
Maybeshewill - Seraphim & Cherubim
Sunset Rubdown - The Courtesan has Sung
Cats and Cats and Cats - This Brilliant Sky
The Fire Show - The Godforsaken Angels of Epistemology
Tender Trap - Grand National
Pink Mountaintops - Execution
Mogwai - like Herod
lift to Experience - Just as was Told
Cap'n Jazz - Planet Shhh

Anyway I just got back from seeing No Age play a show in a church hall (literally a church hall, with the posters on the walls and the plastic chairs and the horrible fluorescent lights). It was amazing. See next issue of the fanzine for Dasal's review. Sort of a prophetic choice there as I didn't expect to be seeing them this week!

Here's that article about lift to Experience I mentioned on the show, it's interesting.


Also I forgot to mention if you liked Tender Trap that they're playing in london on Thursday.

That's all for now. Bye!

Show 11/10/2009

Hey!

Here's the playlist and mp3 for our 50th ever show.

Even As We Speak - 100
Allo, Darlin' - Henry Rollins Don't Dance
Okkervil River - Song About a Star
Polvo - Tilebreaker
Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Side Ponytail
Damon & Naomi - ETA
Jim O'Rourke - All Downhill from Here
The Specific Heats - Ice Cream Shop
Cass McCombs - Opium Flower
White Denim - Shake Shake Shake
Algernon - Yo Soy Milk
Hefner - Hymn for the Cigarettes
Sonic Youth - Rain on Tin
Teenage Fanclub - Don't look Back
Built to Spill - life's a Dream
East River Pipe - King of Nothing Never
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Indiana
Prolapse - Zen Nun Deb
Wake the President - Miss Tierney
Tartufi - Church of Hanging leaders
Deerhunter - Fluorescent Grey
The For Carnation - Get and Stay Get March
The Fall - Container Drivers
Jay Reatard - An Ugly Death
Wives - Boys Club


As I said I'm looking for suggestions for a name change, so send them in.

Also for comedy value here's the first ever Most People are DJs (or Edwin's Gold Soundz as it was then known). Pretty solid playlist, not so sure about the presenter though.

Show 20/06/2009

It's the summer and the studio is shut but here's a show anyway!

Recorded "live at home" in Camden. Hope you enjoy it.

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Playlist:
Old Time Relijun - Indestructible Life!
Husker Du - Chartered Trips
Pains of Being Pure at Heart - 103 [Acoustic]
The Replacements - I Need a Goddamn Job
Magnolia Electric Co. - Memphis Moon
Galaxie 500 - Oblivious
Polvo - Beggar's Bowl
School of Seven Bells - Iamundernodisguise
My Sad Captains - Troika
The Posies - Open Every Window
Fireflies - Winter
Chain & The Gang - Interview with the Chain Gang
Foreign Born - In the Shape
Murray Attaway - Allegory
Stricken City - Bardou [Demo]
Pavement - Kennel District

You can get the Fireflies EP I mentioned here.

Show 31/05/09

Long show this week (which doesn't explain why it's taken so long to put it up).

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Playlist:
The Vaselines - Son of a Gun
Quasi - Our Happiness is Guaranteed
Jeffrey Lewis - Back When I Was Four
The Gaslight Anthem - The Navesink Banks
Frank Black and the Catholics - Hermaphroditos
Sonic Youth - Schizophrenia
Wilco - Shes ' a Jar
Mclusky - Without MSG I am Nothing
Pink Floyd - Summer of '68
Deerhunter - Disappearing Ink
Captain Beefheart - Pachucho Cadaver
David Bowie - Life on Mars?
Moldy Peaches - Anyone Else but You
Pink Mountaintops - While We Were Dreaming
David Bowie - Life on Mars? [take 2]
The Hold Steady - Two-handed Handshake
Glenn Branca - The Spectacular Commodity
Elbow - Bones of You [Live]
Bearsuit - Chargr

Show tomorrow too. Be there.