Saturday, April 27, 2013

Playlist for 4/27/13: End of Spring Semester

This week, since it is the last week of the Spring Semester at UVM and it was such a nice day out, I played a lot of music to help you celebrate. I also featured brand new songs from Frank Turner and Wild Nothing. If you missed the show, you can listen to it at http://wruv.org/thisweek?2013-04-27_1800h_Sat-Flight_of_the_Squakatiel_with_McSquawk.m3u or http://wruv.org/schedule/saturday

Here is the playlist for this week's show:

Time Title Artist Album Label Genre
06:02 pm Wedding Song Yeah Yeah Yeahs Mosquito Interscope Rock
06:06 pm Lost In My Head My Gold Mask Leave Me Midnight Goldy Tapes Rock
06:09 pm Contessa Mice Parade Candela FatCat Rock
06:12 pm East Coast Girl Cayucas Bigfoot Secretly Canadian Rock
06:17 pm The Way I Tend To Be Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart Interscope Rock
06:21 pm Blackout Enter the Haggis The Modest Revolution Firebrand Entertainment Rock
06:26 pm Say Goodbye to the Night KaiL Baxley Heatstroke/The Wind & The War CEN Rock
06:31 pm One Piece Dog & Panther Our Bodies s/r Rock
06:35 pm Power Lines Telekinesis Dormarion Merge Rock
06:39 pm Never Run Away Kurt Vile Wakin On A Pretty Daze Matador Rock
06:44 pm A Dancing Shell Wild Nothing Empty Estate EP Captured Tracks Rock
06:48 pm Fester Dutch Uncles Out Of Touch In The Wild Memphis Industries Rock
06:51 pm Hour Hands Pick a Piper Pick a Piper Mint RPM
06:56 pm A Tourist Town Fol Chen The False Alarms Asthmatic Kitty Rock
07:02 pm Weekend in the Dust David Byrne & St. Vincent Love This Giant 4AD Rock
07:06 pm Riot Rhythm Sleigh Bells Treats Mom + Pop Rock
07:08 pm Objet Petit A Harouki Zombi Objet Petit A Polyvinyl Rock
07:12 pm Happy Ending (Erol Sabadosh Remix) The Strokes n/a n/a RPM
07:16 pm My Kz, Ur Bf Everything Everything Cough Cough EP RCA Rock
07:19 pm Soul Killing The Ting Tings Sounds From Nowheresville Columbia Rock
07:23 pm Grow Delorean Subiza True Panther Sounds Rock
07:28 pm The Wrath of Marcie The Go! Team Proof Of Youth Sub Pop Rock
07:31 pm Cult Logic Miike Snow Miike Snow Downtown Rock
07:35 pm Funny Games First Rate People Someone Else Can Make a Work of Art s/r Rock
07:38 pm Argonauts The Little Ones The Dawn Sang Along Branches Recording Collective Rock
07:42 pm The Boxer The Chemical Brothers Push the Button Virgin Rock
07:47 pm My Number Foals Holy Fire Warner Bros. Rock
07:51 pm Marshmallow Muscles Guns Babes Lemonade Modular RPM
07:57 pm Bag of Hammers Thao & The Get Down Stay Down We Brave Bee Stings and All Kill Rock Stars Rock

Soundcloud Artist of the Week: Dog & Panther

Each week, I will be featuring an unsigned/independent artist that I discovered on Soundcloud. I will play a song from them during the new music hour at 6:30 on my show that week, and will write a bit more about them here.

Dog & Panther is a group out of Michigan. They have a very melodic indie sound that combines guitars with electronic beats, and are recommended if you like Freelance Whales, The Postal Service, or Band of Horses. Their most recent album is Our Bodies which was released in February. Here is a track from it called "One Piece" which is available for free download:

If you liked that, here are a couple of older songs from them:

For more Dog & Panther:

Official Site
Facebook
Soundcloud
Bandcamp

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Soundcloud Artist of the Week: Lavers

Each week, I will be featuring an unsigned/independent artist that I discovered on Soundcloud. I will play a song from them during the new music hour at 6:30 on my show that week, and will write a bit more about them here.

Lavers is a band from Canberra, Australia who play the kind of classic power pop made famous by bands such as The Beatles and The Beach Boys, but with a more fresh, modern style reminiscent of The Shins or Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. 

They just released their latest single, "I've Been Waiting For You", which you can listen to below and download for free. They will be releasing a new album later this year.

Here are a couple older tracks from Lavers:

If you like what you heard, check out their Facebook page to learn more or their Soundcloud page to listen to more of their songs.

Playlist for 4/20/13: Boston Tribute

On my show this week, I payed tribute to Boston in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing by playing some of my favorite Boston artists during the second hour. If you missed the show, you can listen to it at http://wruv.org/thisweek?2013-04-20_1800h_Sat-Flight_of_the_Squakatiel_with_McSquawk.m3u or http://wruv.org/schedule/saturday

Here is the playlist:

Time Title Artist Album Label Genre
06:06 am Basket Press Apricot Rail Quarrels Hidden Shoal Rock
06:03 pm Suki and Me Alex Calder Time Captured Tracks Rock
06:11 pm Cayucos Cayucas Bigfoot Secretly Canadian Rock
06:15 pm The Sword By My Side The Thermals Desparate Ground Saddle Creek Rock
06:19 pm I Never Know Generationals Heza Polyvinyl Rock
06:22 pm 50/50 The Strokes Comedown Machine RCA Rock
06:24 pm Pocket (Acoustic) Biffy Clyro Opposites Warner Bros. Rock
06:30 pm I've Been Waiting Lavers Dream In Japanese s/r Rock
06:34 pm Footnote Enter the Haggis The Modest Revolution Firebrand Entertainment Rock
06:37 pm Sounds of Sanity Remove Silence Little Piece of Heaven s/r Rock
06:41 pm Once Were Leaves Pick a Piper Pick a Piper Mint RPM
06:46 pm I.O.U. Fol Chen The False Alarms Asthmatic Kitty Rock
06:49 pm Berlin Lovers Still Corners Strange Pleasures Sub Pop Rock
06:52 pm Dance Floor Destroyer Heloise and the Savoir Faire Diamond Dust Simian Rock
06:56 pm Strictly Reserved For You Charles Bradley Victim Of Love Daptone Rock
07:02 pm Tessie Dropkick Murphys The Warrior's Code Hellcat Rock
07:06 pm Let's Face It The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Let's Face It Island Def Jam Rock
07:09 pm Calling All Crows State Radio Let It Go Ruff Shod Rock
07:15 pm The Message Bela Fleck & the Flecktones Three Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Warner Bros. Jazz
07:19 pm Another Day (Rhyme Writing) Crown City Rockers Another Day (Rhyme Writing) Insiduous Urban Records Urban
07:22 pm Connect The Campaign For Real-Time Let It Rise Wonderdrug Rock
07:25 pm Don't Let Me Down (Slowly) The Main Drag You Are Underwater RPL Audio Rock
07:30 pm Hibernate Pretty & Nice Us You All We Pax Natural Rock
07:33 pm Eyes Apollo Sunshine Apollo Sunshine spinART Rock
07:36 pm Window Guster Parachute Ocho Mule Rock
07:39 pm Love Everybody Jim's Big Ego Don't Get Smart bigego.com Rock
07:44 pm The Sun Always Reminds Me of You Marissa Nadler Marissa Nadler Box of Cedar Rock
07:48 pm I Could Sleep Letters to Cleo Wholesale Meats and Fish Giant Rock
07:51 pm If I Could Talk I'd Tell You The Lemonheads Car Button Cloth Atlantic Rock
07:53 pm My Alcoholic Friends The Dresden Dolls Yes, Virginia Roadrunner Rock
07:58 pm Gigantic The Pixies Surfer Rosa 4AD Rock

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Playlist for 4/13/13

If you missed this week's show, you can listen to it at http://wruv.org/schedule/saturday

Here is the playlist:

Time Title Artist Album Label Genre
06:04 pm Day Dreams Midi Matilda Red Light District Five Seven Music Rock
06:08 pm Put a Light On Generationals Heza Polyvinyl Rock
06:12 pm Sentimental Pieces Superhuman Happiness Hands The Royal Potato Family Rock
06:18 pm Happy Ending The Strokes Comedown Machine RCA Rock
06:21 pm Midnight Love Cave Painting Midnight Love EP Third Rock Recordings Rock
06:25 pm Backyard Skulls Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse Atlantic Rock
06:28 pm The Joke's On Us Biffy Clyro Opposites Warner Bros. Rock
06:34 pm Admirable Remove Silence Stupid Human Atrocity s/r Rock
06:39 pm The Swan Cheatahs Extended Plays Wichita Recordings Rock
06:44 pm Born To Kill The Thermals Desparate Ground Saddle Creek Rock
06:47 pm Paranoid Wavves Afraid of Heights Mom + Pop Rock
06:49 pm Step Up for the Cool Cats Palma Violets 180 Rough Trade Rock
06:52 pm Memory Dust Twinstar The Sound of Leaving Commercial Suicide Rock
06:56 pm Letters Enter the Haggis The Modest Revolution Firebrand Entertainment Rock
07:03 pm A Decent Cup of Tea Frank Turner Sleep Is For the Week Xtra Mile Rock
07:06 pm I Am the One Who Will Remember Everything Dar Williams In the Time of Gods Razor & Tie Folk
07:10 pm The General Dispatch Bang Bang Universal Rock
07:15 pm Fire (Folked Out 4-Track Version) The Submarines The Shoelaces EP Nettwerk Rock
07:19 pm Saint Simon The Shins Chutes Too Narrow Sub Pop Rock
07:23 pm Silver & Gold Neil Young Silver & Gold Reprise Folk
07:26 pm One Chance Modest Mouse Good News For People Who Love Bad News Epic Rock
07:30 pm Permanent Bliss Smile Smile Marry a Stranger Kirtland Rock
07:33 pm Love You Madly Cake Comfort Eagle Columbia Rock
07:37 pm Secrets On Our Lips Astronautalis This Is Our Science Fake Four Rock
07:42 pm Love the Lie Sage Francis Li(f)e Anti Rock
07:46 pm Man in the Hall State Radio Us Against The Crown Nettwerk Rock
07:49 pm Disguise The Dirty Heads Cabin by the Sea Five Seven Music Reggae
07:53 pm The Circle in the Square Flobots The Circle in the Square Shanachie Rock
07:58 pm Recovery Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart Interscope Rock













































































































































































Saturday, April 13, 2013

Soundcloud Artist of the Week: Remove Silence

Each week, I will be featuring an unsigned/independent artist that I discovered on Soundcloud. I will play a song from them during the new music hour at 6:30 on my show that week, and will write a bit more about them here.

Remove Silence is a band from Sau Paulo, Brazil. They have a progressive rock/industrial sound that really caught my attention. If Steven Wilson from Porcupine Tree and Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails formed a band together, it might sound something like Remove Silence.

Here is their 2012 album Stupid Human Atrocity which you can stream from Soundcloud. If you like what you hear, you can go to their Soundcloud page listen to their first album Fade and their most recent release, the Little Piece of Heaven EP.

Remove Silence - official site
Soundcloud
Facebook

Friday, April 12, 2013

DJ of the Month/Squawk Tunes April 2013

Flight of the Squawkatiel's very own DJ McSquawk has been named the April DJ of the Month at WRUV! You can read the interview at http://wruv.org/news/n199

Also, Flight of the Squawkatiel is doing a special new feature starting this month. Each month, I will be presenting "Squawk Tunes", a digital mixtape of 12 of my favorite free downloads that are available on Soundcloud. This month's set includes great tunes from Enter the Haggis, Youth Lagoon, Loveskills, Javelin and more! Listen to the tracks and download them below:

Enjoy, and if you like what you hear, be sure to support the artists by buying an album or seeing them live!

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

And the winner of Squawkatiel Madness 2013 is...

Congratulations to Beach House on winning Squawkatiel Madness 2013! It was close, but in the end they beat The Strokes by just one vote.

Beach House received a one hour special on last Saturday's episode of Flight of the Squawkatiel, which you can listen to here.

To celebrate their victory, here is their latest video for their song "Wishes":




Thanks to everyone who voted and made Squawkatiel Madness a success! Tune in next March for Squawkatiel Madness 2014!