Upcoming Philadelphia/Local Shows

I figured I could keep a list of upcoming shows that local listeners might be interested in attending. I'll try to update this as frequently as possible. All shows are in Philly unless otherwise noted:

Sunday, August 17, 2008. The Faint, Jaguar Love (ex-members of the Blood Brothers), Shy Child. The Trocadero

Friday, August 22, 2008. Defiance, Ohio, Guignol. The Barbary

Friday, August 22, 2008. Don Caballero, An Albatross, Ponytail. Johnny Brenda's (21+)

Friday, August 22, 2008. Lullatone, Alex Luquet, Jez Godin. Milk Boy in Ardmore, PA

Friday, August 29, 2008. Sonic Youth, The Hold Steady. TLA

Tuesday, September 9, 2008. Silver Jews, Monotonix. First Unitarian

Wednesday, September 17, 2008. Why?, Mount Eerie. First Unitarian

Friday, September 19, 2008. Mogwai, Fuck Buttons. Starlight Ballroom

Friday, September 19, 2008. Stars, Bell X1. Trocadero

Saturday, September 20, 2008. Built to Spill, Meat Puppets. The Trocadero

Saturday, September 20, 2008. The Mars Volta. Electric Factory

Wednesday, October 1, 2008. Stereolab, Atlas Sound, The Van Allen Belt. The Trocadero

Sunday, October 5, 2008. Hot Chip, Growing. The Trocadero

Wednesday, October 8, 2008. Girl Talk. Starlight Ballroom

Friday, October 10, 2008. TV on the Radio, The Dirtbombs. Electric Factory

Tuesday, October 14, 2008. The Notwist. The First Unitarian

Thursday, October 16, 2008. Sunn O))), Thou. First Unitarian

Saturday, October 25, 2008. Deerhoof, Flying, Experimental Dental School. Starlight Ballroom

Saturday, October 25, 2008. The Magnetic Fields. The Merriam Theater

Friday, October 31, 2008. Of Montreal. Electric Factory

Wednesday, November 5, 2008. Deerhunter, Times New Viking, Knyfe Hyts. First Unitarian

Friday, November 7, 2008. The Mountain Goats, Kaki King. TLA

Thursday, November 13, 2008. Crystal Castles. First Unitarian Church

Saturday, November 15, 2008. m83, School of Seven Bells. Starlight Ballroom

Friday, November 21, 2008. Bishop Allen, Drink Up Buttercup. Olde Club

If you feel like any other shows should be on this list or notice any mistakes, feel free to comment. I admittedly overlook 21+ shows, sorry.

New Cursive songs (youtube videos)

So, Cursive used to be my favorite band. I was seriously in love with everything Tim Kasher touched. They still hold a pretty solid place in my heart, and I have a feeling their upcoming album (Title TBA) is going to be excellent. Here are some videos of new songs from their show in Madison, Wisconsin:

"Couldn't Love You"


"Hips"


I can't wait to hear what they put out this year!

April 27, 2008

Yay, prom playlist. This may have been our last show for the semester. Thanks for listening. I might turn this into an mp3 blog or something. Idk.

"Moon River" - Henry Mancini - Breakfast at Tiffany's
"Pretty Dress" - Rosie Thomas - If Songs Could Be Held
"Not a Single Day" - Rain - Rain's World
"Textbook Love" - Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes EP
"Maple Leaves [7" Version]" - Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens
"Hot Boyz" - Dear Nora & Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Bro Zone
"Yutzprachia" - Tony An - Yutzpracachia's Love
"Are You for Real" - Squeeze Me I Squeak - 45 Songs
"She's the One (Kelley Polar's Hughes Wilson Prom Night In Hell version)" - Caribou - "She's the One" Single
"Start to Melt" - Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block
"Always Come Back to Your Love" - Samantha Mumba - Gotta Tell You
"Flower 4" - 山下康介 - Hana Yori Dango OST
"Trashing Days" - The Notwist - Neon Golden
"Only in Dreams" - Weezer - Weezer (Blue Album)
"Time After Time" - Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual

Peace!

April 20, 2008

First of all, I'd like to mention that The Great Mom Swap is like the best movie ever. Second of all, the theme for today was summer! The weather has been really lovely lately, so I thought it was appropriate.

"Aruarian Dance" - Nujabes + Fat Jon - Departure
"Steal My Sunshine" - Len - You Can't Stop the Bum Rush
"Secret Secret" - Perfume - Game
"Good Grief" - Nedelle - From the Lion's Mouth
"Blue Summer" - The Phoenix Foundation - Eagle Vs. Shark: Original Soundtrack
"Several Arrows Later" - Matt Pond PA - Several Arrows Later
"It's A Sunshine Day" - The Brady Bunch
"Otsukare Summer" - Halcali - Halcali Bacon
"Sweet Summer's Night on Hammer Hill" - Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens
"Beach Party" - Air France
"Summer Samba" - Icy Demons - Miami Ice
"Jamais Je Ne Mens" - Melon Galia - Les Embarras Du Quotidien
"Summer Special" - Land of Talk - Applause Cheer Boo Hiss EP
"Flame" - Maggi, Pierce, and E.J. - Gold
"Harpoon Fever (Queequeg's Playhouse)" - Man Man - Rabbit Habits
"Windsurfing Nation" - Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene

Have a fabulous week! Don't forget to vote on Tuesday if you live in PA!

Perfume - Secret Secret MV

Just try and tell me this isn't the most amazing thing you've seen today.

April 13, 2008

"Daddy Cool" - Boney M - Take the Heat Off Me
"Some Like It" - Amerie - Because I Love It
"With U" - Girl Friends - Addict 2 Times
"Look Down (Because the Ground Is Easier to Understand and Doesn't Take So Much Work to Figure Out But I'd Rather Not Know Where I'm Standing and Have An Idea of What Life Is All About) - Algernon Cadwallader - Demo
"Ride On" - The Endless Bummer - No Beach Out of Reach
"Porque Te Vas" - Jeanette - Porque Te Vas
"Lucky" - The Tough Alliance - Neo Violence 7"
"Good God to Gerty" - Gregg Porter - Final Final EP
"Hein" - Tom Ze - Estudando O Samba
"We Break the Dawn" - Michelle Williams
"You Are A Big Screen" - Ghosty - Answers
"Venus in Cancer" - Amusement Parks on Fire - Amusement Parks on Fire
"Gimme Gimme Gimme" - Dirty Projectors - Rise Above
"'The State I'm In' aka 'Goode Buy From Cobbs Creek Park'" - Karate - Pockets
"Ai Dake Ga" - Emi Hinouchi
"Scared of a Snail" - Wolf Colonel - Vikings of Mint

Have a good week y'all. Dancing Dumbledore commands you.

April 6, 2008

"Rasputin" - Boney M - Nightflight to Venus
"I'm That Chick" - Mariah Carey - E=MC²
"In A Cave" - Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell
"Paper Float" Cassette's Won't Listen - Small-Time Machine
"Baltic Sea" - Brazzaville - 21st Century Girl
"Waiting Patiently" - Belaire - Exploding Impacting
"Fern Beard" - The Submarines - Honeysuckle Weeks
"Ole Rinka" - The Ruby Suns - Sea Lion
"Lynette I Love You" - Drew Danburry
"Doo Right" - Man Man - Rabbit Habits
"Penicillin (It Doesn't Mean Much)" - The Velvet Teen - Elysium
"The Woods" - Ohbijou - Swift Feet for Troubling Times
"Morning Sun" - The Ruby Suns - Sea Lion
"Time After Time" - Ashley Tisdale
"Broken Promises" - Quiet Village - Silent Movie

March 30, 2008

I'm really digging Fleet Foxes right now. They were supposed to open for Blitzen Trapper here at Olde Club last weekend, but they canceled :[ Also, the new Ashanti song is SO DOPE. Who knew she could lay it down so well (oh, Ashanti). The Extraordinaires are a Philly band that played Olde Club this semester. They're really swell!

"Water Curses" - Animal Collective - Water Curses EP
"The Way That I Love You" - Ashanti - The Declaration
"Hyperballad" - Dirty Projectors - Stereogum Presents... Enjoyed: A Tribute To Björk's Post
"I Woke Up Today" - Port O'Brien - All We Could Do Was Sing
"She Got Dressed" - Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes EP
"My Hero, Zero" - The Lemonheads - Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks
"Neighborhood Watch" - The Extraordinaires - Short Stories
"Touch My Body (Remix ft. The-Dream) - Mariah Carey
"Lobbying Congress for the Right to Punch You in the Face" - Fewn - Foin
"Hanging on the Telephone" - The Nerves - The Nerves EP
"Velouria" - Pixies - Bossanova
"Tell Me" - Cocoon - My Friends All Died in a Plane Crash
"First Class Riot" - The Tough Alliance - A New Chance
"So Long to the Headstrong" - Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes EP
"If I'm Waiting" - Jason Anderson - Wreath
"Pillows" - Cuddle Magic - Cuddle Magic
"Men" - The Dodos - Beware of the Maniacs

March 23, 2008

Very Why? heavy playlist this week. I saw them over Spring Break, and they were flipping fabulous. Jason Anderson's new album is really excellent as well. It comes out April 8th.

"DuckTales" - TV Theme Songs
"Tell Me" - Wonder Girls - The Wonder Years
"Fatalist Palmistry" - Why? - Alopecia
"Underwater Wave Game" - Pit Er Pat - Shakey
"I'm Pretty Sure This Is Someone Else's Song, But I Couldn't Figure Out Whose So I'm Keeping It! (Demo Version)" - Drew Danburry - Mother EP
"Brook & Waxing" - Why? - Alopecia
"Montreal" - Kaki King - Dreaming of Revenge
"Roboxulla" - The Jealous Girlfriends - The Jealous Girlfriends
"Tenderly" - Billie Holiday - Lady in Autumn: The Best of the Verve Years
"Good Grief" - Nedelle - From the Lion's Mouth
"Twenty Eight" - Why? - Alopecia
"Simeon's Dilemma" - Why? - Alopecia
"After" - Zhang Li Yin - I WILL
"The Hopeful and the Unafraid" - Jason Anderson - The Hopeful and the Unafraid
"Stay Gold" - Utada Hikaru - HEART STATION

Yay!

Lame!

Sorry for totally forgetting about this blog!
As an apology, I can only offer this:

What a twatwaffle. Yeah.
I'll put up playlists and ish later. You can listen to the webcast live now at http://wsrnfm.org/. And you can download the podcast here. It only has one working show on it (3/23), but it was a good one, so get on that! I say "awesome" a lot. Please ignore it.
Here is a hedgehog:

March 2, 2008

So this week you can access the WSRN website for playlists and schedules and all that. The webcast and podcasts aren't really working yet but they should be soon! Here's our fab heavily Kinsella-influenced playlist for this week:

"Massive Cure" - Smoosh - She Like Electric
"Surly Girl" - Aberfeldy - Young Forever
"Miniature Birds" - Grand Archives - The Grand Archives
"Tip Taps Tip" - Halcali - Cyborg Oretachi
"Reasons Why" - Nickel Creek - Nickel Creek
"One in a Million" - Aaliyah - One in a Million
"Fools" - The Dodos - Visiter
"Saving Days in a Frozen Head" - Kaki King - Dreaming of Revenge
"Take On Me" - Cap'n Jazz - Analphabetapolotholgy
"Say What You Mean" - Make Believe - Shock of Being
"Bad News" - Owen - At Home With Owen
"Everyone is my Friend" - Owls - Owls
"The Sad Waltzes of Pietro Crespi" - Owen - At Home With Owen
"Temping as a Shaman" - Make Believe
"Quiet Houses" - Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood
"Jamais Je Ne Mens" - Melon GALia - Les Embarras Du Quotidien

I'm not sure when our next show will be (either the 16th or the 23rd), but it will be poppin', like lip gloss and other such things. Have a great week!

February 24, 2008

"TPL (Talk, Play, Love)" - AnyBand - AnyBand
"Harder on Me" - Via Audio - Say Something
"You Look Good to Me" - No Kids - Come Into My House
"You May Crawl" - School Food Punishment - Air Feel, Color Swim
"Pull Me Out Alive" - Kaki King - Dreaming of Revenge
"Lolita" - Throw Me The Statue - Moonbeams
"Maria" - 김아중 - 200 Pounds Beauty OST
"Blush" - The Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust
"Entropy Reigns (In the Celestial City)" - Kelley Polar - I Need You to Hold On While the Sky is Falling
"바보" - Big Bang - Hot Issue
"Parakit" - Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - #3
"Difference" - Dave Ross
"Candy Sprinkles" - Rafter - Sex Death Cassette
"Can't Speak French" - Girls Aloud - Tangled Up
"Cowboy Take Me Away" - The Dixie Chicks - Fly

Yarr.

NPR Live Concert Series

Since WSRN's website isn't up yet, you should definitely check out NPR's Live Concert Series from All Songs Considered. I know you kids all listen to NPR anyway, but I figured I should put up a link for those of you not in the know. Here you can listen to the likes of Bon Iver, Gogol Bordello, Animal Collective, Rilo Kiley, Nickel Creek, and Femi Kuti performing live at various venues in and around D.C. You can listen to Black Mountain and Bon Iver's show from last night at the Rock and Roll Hotel, especially if you missed out on them performing here in Philly tonight like I did/am right now. I'm listening to Bon Iver's performance and it is fabulous. Here's a video of Justin Vernon aka Bon Iver performing "Lump Sum":

Nice.
Did everybody see the lunar eclipse? I was hoping for something more... total. It was still really cool though. Solar eclipses freak me out. Dark Moon Circus, anyone? Haha, anyway, I hope you have a nice rest of the week. Don't forget to listen to the show this Sunday from 6 to 7! It's gonna be radtacular and the website should hopefully be up by then. Yay bye.

First Show - February 17, 2008

Hey y'all! Today was our first show. Here's the playlist, in case anyone was wondering. It's in the "Song" - Artist - Album format:

"ZZZPenchant" - Rafter - Sex Death Cassette
"Love" - Brown Eyed Girls - With L.O.V.E.
"One Dark Love Poem" - The Notwist - Nook
"She Lab Luck" - THE NOVEMBERS - THE NOVEMBERS
"Top Drawer" - Man Man - Rabbit Habits
"Make Her Mine" - Swing Girls - Swing Girls OST
"Pain" - Jhene Aiko
"Torn Blue Foam Couch" - Grand Archives - The Grand Archives
"거짓말" - Big Bang - Always Mini-Album
"Busy Lights Busy Carpet" - Q and not U - Hot and Informed 7"
"월광 (月狂)" - W & Whale - Que Sera Sera OST
"Last Drive" - Ben Davis & the Jetts - Battle of the Beards
"The Choreographer" - Elle Milano - Elle Milano Demos
"花屋の娘" - Fujifabric - A La Mode
"NEW LOOK" - Namie Amuro - NEW LOOK Single

Hope y'all are having a super Sunday and a great week!

Happy VD08, y'all <3

Doot doot doot, I made a Valentine's Day mix again this year and I figured I'd post it here. It's pretty fabulous, if I do say so myself.

Tracklist:
1. Jim Lang - Helga's True Love 4
2. Chet Baker - My Funny Valentine (Vocal)
3. The Robot Ate Me - Hi Love
4. Gregory and the Hawk - Boats & Birds
5. Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
6. Johnny Cash - 'Cause I Love You
7. Daft Punk - Something About Us
8. Epik High - Love Love Love (ft. Yoongjin of Casker)
9. Nat King Cole - These Foolish Things
10. Jon Brion - Overture
11. Selena - Dreaming of You
12. Of Montreal - It's Just So
13. Love - Andmoreagain
14. Jens Lekman - Into Eternity
15. Brown Eyed Girls - Love
16. Dorothy Ashby - The Look of Love
17. The Books - A True Story of True Love
18. Ida - The Love Below
19. The Rosebuds - 4-track love song
20. Dong Bang Shin Ki - Forever Love
21. Coffee Prince Soundtrack - 햇살 한 조각

Testing testing

Hola panecillos amados! I've decided to start a blog for the radio show I host with Abe. It's called Sealed With A Kick and it airs on Sundays from 6-7 PM starting February 17th. Here I'll post playlists, mixes, songs we didn't have time to play/were too profane, reviews (maybe), and all sorts of fun stuff. You can comment on music you liked/hated and make requests. I want this to be as interactive as possible, so listen and comment and participate!

Here's the super fantabulous pilot after which our radio show is named! Bask in its glory: