Friday, June 28, 2013

Soundcloud Artist of the Week: Vasco Da Gama

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 8:30 on my show that week, and will write a bit more about them here.

Vasco Da Gama is a British band out of Liverpool who are named after the famous Portugese explorer. Their music is a powerful mix of math rock and pop hooks. They sound something like a more cheerful, less aggressive version of At the Drive-In, or if Minus the Bear ditched the electronics and turned up the volume. Below you can listen to their excellent single "Brigadiers" from their latest EP, Geography, as well as a couple of older songs.


For more on Vasco Da Gama:

Facebook
Bandcamp
Soundcloud
Youtube

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Playlist for 6/26/13: Bands with Funny/Weird Names

This week I played the brand new single from Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, along with a bunch of my other favorite bands with funny or weird names. If you missed the show, you can listen online at http://wruv.org/thisweek?2013-06-26_2000h_Wed-Flight_of_the_Squawkatiel_with_McSquawk.m3u or http://wruv.org/schedule/wednesday

Here is the playlist:

Time Title Artist Album Label Genre
08:02 pm Home Austra Olympia Domino Rock
08:06 pm Soon the Sea Mint Julep Soon the Sea s/r Rock
08:11 pm We Work Nights Gold Panda Half Of Where You Live Ghostfly RPM
08:17 pm Planet Anamanaguchi Endless Fantasy dream.hax RPM
08:22 pm I'm Not Gonna Grow Old Club 8 Above The City Labrador Rock
08:26 pm One By One Fletcher Open Arms EP S/R Rock
08:30 pm Brigadiers Vasco Da Gama Geography s/r Rock
08:33 pm Gravity Surfer Blood Pythons Warner Bros. Rock
08:37 pm Hand Pistol GRMLN Empire Carpark Rock
08:40 pm Keep Your Eyes Peeled Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork Matador Rock
08:47 pm Fool Proof Smith Westerns Soft Will Mom + Pop Rock
08:51 pm Native Dreams Rose Windows The Sun Dogs Sub Pop Rock
08:57 pm Caught In The Briars Iron & Wine Ghost on Ghost Nonesuch Rock
09:06 pm Nightwater Girlfriend Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin Fly By Wire Polyvinyl Rock
09:10 pm Lounger Dogs Die In Hot Cars Please Describe Yourself V2 Rock
09:14 pm Monster You Say Party! We Say Die! Lose All Time Paper Bag Rock
09:18 pm In Green Volcano, I'm Still Excited!! Volcano, I'm Still Excited!! Polyvinyl Rock
09:21 pm The Heraldic Break of the Manufacturer's Medallion The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and The Sun Epitaph Rock
09:27 pm The Stay Golden Pt. I ...And So I Watch You From Afar All Hail Bright Futures Sargent House Rock
09:30 pm Filistata Stolen Babies There Be Squabbles Ahead The End Rock
09:35 pm The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! s/r Rock
09:40 pm Afterwards Squab Squawk Squab Squawk Sells Out s/r Rock
09:44 pm Lie In Your Bed Home By Hovercraft Are We Chameleons? s/r Rock
09:49 pm Invisible Friend Saturday Looks Good To Me One Kiss Ends It All Polyvinyl Rock
09:52 pm Perfect Day Cassettes Won't Listen EVINSPACEY Daylight Curfew Rock
09:57 pm Dawn of the Dead Does It Offend You, Yeah? You Have No Idea What You Are Getting Yourself Into Almost Gold Rock

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Playlist for 6/19/13: Whistle Songs

This week I revisited a theme I did on my show last year, but this time with some new songs! If you missed the show, you can listen online at http://wruv.org/thisweek?2013-06-19_2000h_Wed-Flight_of_the_Squawkatiel_with_McSquawk.m3u or http://wruv.org/schedule/wednesday

Here is the playlist:

Time Title Artist Album Label Genre
08:04pm Kveikur Sigur Ros Kveikur XL Rock
08:09pm Dream Captain Deerhunter Monomania 4AD Rock
08:12pm More Than You Can Chew Fletcher Open Arms s/r Rock
08:17pm Dark Corners Sonny & the Sunsets Antenna to the Afterworld Polyvinyl Rock
08:21pm Don't Let Me Go Mikal Cronin MCII Merge Rock
08:25pm This Is Love (Feels Alright) Camera Obscura Desire Lines 4AD Rock
08:28pm Hot Sun Club 8 Above the City Labrador Rock
08:33pm Save Your Season Mint Julep Save Your Season Village Green Rock
08:38pm Side of the Road Big Black Delta Big Black Delta Maters of Bates RPM
08:43pm An English House Gold Panda Half of Where You Live Ghostly RPM
08:49pm Replay AM & Shawn Lee La Musique Numerique Park the Van Rock
08:53pm Hurricane City Plains Limited Fanfare 2013 Spring/Summer Sampler Limited Fanfare Rock
08:56pm Sea of Love The National Trouble Will Find Me 4AD Rock
09:06pm Home (RAC Mix) Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes Home (RAC Mix) s/r Rock
09:12pm Coffee Misun The Sea EP T&A Rock
09:16pm Humble Peasants The Most Serene Republic Population Arts & Crafts Rock
09:19pm Came Out of a Lady Rubblebucket Omega La La MRI Rock
09:24pm Sissyneck Beck Odelay Geffen Rock
09:28pm Truth Alexander Alexander Community Music Rock
09:32pm Right Side of the Road The Lonely Wild Dead End s/r Rock
09:38pm Crash Years The New Pornographers Together Matador Rock
09:42pm Let's Go Surfing The Drums The Drums Downtown Rock
09:44pm Go Away My Lover Elizabeth & The Catapult The Other Side of Zero Verve Forecast Rock
09:48pm All the Way Up to Heaven Guster Lost & Gone Forever Sire Rock
09:53pm Always Look On the Bright Side of Life Monty Python Monty Python Sings! Virgin Other
09:58pm Young Folks Peter Bjorn & John Writer's Block Almost Gold Rock

Soundcloud Artist of the Week: Mint Julep

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 8:30 on my show that week, and will write a bit more about them here.  


Mint Julep is a husband and wife duo out of Portland, OR that consists of vocalist Hollie Kenniff and multi-instrumentalist Keith Kenniff. They play a mix of shoegaze and dream pop with electronic elements, reminiscent of artists like Still Corners, Twin Sister, Tamaryn and Washed Out. Their most recent release is 2011's Save Your Season, but will be releasing a new EP, Broken Devotion, later this year.

Here is their latest track, "Soon the Sea", along with a couple tracks from Save Your Season.

For more on Mint Julep:

Official site
Facebook
Soundcloud
Youtube

Friday, June 14, 2013

Playlist for 6/12/13: Foreign Language Songs

Sorry for the delay (internet still not working right at home). On this week's show I featured a playlist of all songs in languages other than English, as well as brand new music from Surfer Blood, The National, Camera Obscura, and Blake Hazard (from The Submarines).

If you missed this week's show, you can stream it for up to a week at http://wruv.org/thisweek?2013-06-12_2000h_Wed-Flight_of_the_Squawkatiel_with_McSquawk.m3u or http://wruv.org/schedule/wednesday

Here is the playlist:

Time Title Artist Album Label Genre
08:04pm Demon Dance Surfer Blood Pythons Warner Bros. Rock
08:08pm Break In Saturday Looks Good To Me One Kiss Ends It All Polyvinyl Rock
08:11pm Troublemaker Camera Obscura Desire Lines 4AD Rock
08:16pm Weekends Are For Amateurs Blake Hazard The Eleanor Islands unknown Rock
08:20pm Child Bride CocoRosie Tales of a Grass Widow s/r Rock
08:24pm Western Town We Are Loud Whispers Suchness Hardly Art Rock
08:27pm Feel Real Deptford Goth Life After Defo Merok Rock
08:32pm O Alienista Detonautas Roque Clube http://soundcloud.com/detonautas/o_alienista s/r Rock
08:37pm See It My Way Mikal Cronin MCII Merge Rock
08:41pm Clearing Life The Appleseed Cast Illumination Ritual Graveface Rock
08:47pm I Should Live In Salt The National Trouble Will Find Me 4AD Rock
08:52pm Nineteen Ninety Nine Statistics Peninsula Afternoon Rock
08:55pm Shut You Down Caveman Caveman Fat Possum Rock
08:59pm Yellow Red Sparks Yellow Red Sparks Yellow Red Sparks ORG Music Rock
09:08pm Jos Et Sa Soita Regina Soita Mulle Friendly Fire Rock
09:12pm New Years Asobi Seksu Citrus Polyvinyl Rock
09:16pm Hope Boris Attention Please Sargent House Rock
09:20pm Guwahati Pran Amaar Lucid Recess http://www.reverbnation.com/lucidrecess s/r Rock
09:24pm Como Estaras El Clubo n/a s/r Rock
09:28pm Wasurenaikara Gackt MOON Crown Japan Rock
09:33pm Sabamos Fingir Detonautas Roque Clube Detonautas Roque Clube EP s/r Rock
09:36pm Epilogo Rafael Evora y Balance n/a s/r Rock
09:41pm Melancolie Vinston n/a s/r Rock
09:45pm Bicycle Race (Remix by Plus-Tech Squeeze Box) Naivepop or Petitfool 1, 2, 3, Darts! Abcdefg*Record Rock
09:48pm Schokolade Tok Tok Tok Was Heisst Das Denn? ZYX Music International
09:52pm Supe Al Verte Sin Animo de Lucro Toda Pasa Por Algo EMI Colombia International
09:57pm Francesco Malcolm Neoismo Atmosfera nel cubo Ethnoworld Rock

Soundcloud Artist of the Week: Detonautas Roque Clube

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 8:30 on my show that week, and will write a bit more about them here.   



Detonautas Roque Clube are a rock band from Brazil that formed in the late 90's and have been successful in their home country. They have opened for Red Hot Chili Peppers and have previously been signed to Warner Music Brazil and Sony BMG but released their self-titled EP independently last year and have since released a few more new songs on their own. Most of their lyrics are in Portugese and they have a diverse sound which ranges from hard rock to softer rock to more electronic productions. Here are three of their standout tracks that are available to stream and download from their Soundcloud page. Each of these three songs shows a different side of the band.


For more on Detonautas Roque Clube:

Official Site
Soundcloud
Facebook
Youtube
Wikipedia

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Playlist for 6/5/13: Acoustic Songs

Yesterday was Flight of the Squawkatiel's first show of the summer semester at the new time slot from 8-10 pm. If you missed the show, you can listen online at http://wruv.org/thisweek?2013-06-05_2000h_Wed-The_Fowl_Hour_with_Chickadeejay.m3u or http://wruv.org/schedule/wednesday

Here is the playlist:

Time Title Artist Album Label Genre
08:01 pm The Missing Deerhunter Monomania 4AD Rock
08:05 pm Right Above Me Boy + Kite We Can Go Anywhere We Want s/r Rock
08:09 pm Data World Wild Nothing Empty Estate EP Captured Tracks Rock
08:12 pm New City Saturday Looks Good to Me One Kiss Ends It All Polyvinyl Rock
08:17 pm Love Love Love Say Hi Free Samples (Music From the Film) Barsuk Rock
08:20 pm Hannah Hunt Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City XL Rock
08:24 pm Never Told Amatorski TBC Crammed Discs Rock
08:30 pm When We Were Young Gaoler's Daughter How To Make Time Strummerville Rock
08:33 pm North Star Ordination The Appleseed Cast Illumination Ritual Graveface Rock
08:39 pm Micromoving Valleys Are You Going To Stand There And Talk Weird All Night? Kanine Rock
08:43 pm Instant Crush Daft Punk Random Access Memory Columbia RPM
08:50 pm After the Afterlife CocoRosie Tales of a Grass Widow s/r Rock
08:53 pm Human Daughter If You Leave Glassnote Rock
08:57 pm Bright Sunny South Sam Amidon Bright Sunny South Nonesuch Rock
09:07 pm Heaven Knows Hotels & Highways Lost River The Co-Op Folk
09:11 pm Seed in the Ground Jason Spooner Sea Monster s/r Folk
09:14 pm Tattoos Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart Interscope Rock
09:17 pm You Paint Me Adam Ezra Group View From the Root s/r Rock
09:21 pm Mountain Song Connor Garvey Where Ocean Meets Land Mishara Rock
09:26 pm Seven Hours Adrian Roye & the Exiles Reclaimed s/r Rock
09:30 pm Legend of the Western Hills KaiL Baxley Heatstroke / The Wind and The War CEN Folk
09:35 pm The Game 3 Revisions Metal Blade Rock
09:40 pm Bobby Butcher the Bar For Each a Future Tethered Morr Music Rock
09:44 pm Someday Sarah Donner Typing is Dangerous CatLady Rock
09:48 pm Mona Lisa Guster Parachute Ocho Mule Rock
09:52 pm It's Never Not Happening (Part 1) First Rate People It's Never Not Happening s/r Folk
09:57 pm In the Ceiling (Acoustic Version) Leaving Rouge Elsewhere Greyday Rock

Soundcloud Profile of the Week: Strummerville

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.  

This week I'm doing something different. Instead of featuring a band, I'm featuring a charity. Strummerville is a charity out of London that was founded by the family & friends of Joe Strummer of The Clash after his death. In addition to helping out with worldwide music projects such as WayOUT Project in Sierra Leone, Strummerville provides resources to London musicians so they can record and showcase their music. On their Soundcloud page, there are over 600 songs from artists they have helped out that are available for free download. Here are a few of the most recent songs they have posted:

For more on Strummerville:

Official site
Soundcloud
Facebook
Youtube

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

New time slot: 8-10 PM on Wednesdays

Starting tonight, Flight of the Squawkatiel moves to a new time slot for the summer semester! Tune in every Wednesday from 8-10 pm. I will still be bringing you an hour of the best new music followed by an hour of music from my collection. Listen live at wruv.org/wruv128.m3u or on 90.1 WRUV FM in Burlington, VT. You can stream the latest show for up to a week at http://wruv.org/schedule/wednesday (currently the show listed for my time slot is The Fowl Hour with Chickadeejay, but clicking that show will play my show. The schedule should be updated in a week or two.)

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Playlist for 6/1/13: Summer Songs

A little late posting this, sorry...internet at home has been inconsistent at best. This was the last show of the spring semester. If you missed the show, you can listen online at http://wruv.org/thisweek?2013-06-01_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
06:02pm Doin' It Right Daft Punk Random Access Memory Columbia RPM
06:06pm One Girl / One Boy !!! Thr!!!er Warp Rock
06:10pm Why U Wanna Run (feat. Danny Ladwa) Gaudi In Between Times Six Degrees RPM
06:16pm Step Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City XL Rock
06:20pm Polar Bear Saturday Looks Good To Me One Kiss Ends It All Polyvinyl Rock
06:23pm The Body In Rainfall Wild Nothing Empty Estate Captured Tracks Rock
06:27pm Glow Hibou Demo FatCat Rock
06:33pm Seven Hours Adrian Roye & The Exiles Reclaimed s/r Rock
06:37pm Anymore Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart Interscope Rock
06:40pm Still Daughter If You Leave Glassnote Rock
06:45pm Son in Rags Norma The Invisible Mother Novoton Rock
06:49pm Childhood Brothers in Law Hard Times For Dreamers Watta Lab Rock
06:53pm 30 Degrees 3 AM The Appleseed Cast Illumination Ritual Graveface Rock
06:57pm NRR Wolf People Fain Jagjaguwar Rock
07:04pm Summer Holiday Wild Nothing Gemini Captured Tracks Rock
07:08pm Careless Beach Fossils Clash the Truth Captured Tracks Rock
07:11pm Sunglasses Saturday Looks Good To Me One Kiss Ends It All Polyvinyl Rock
07:16pm Endless Summer The Jezabels Prisoner Mom + Pop Rock
07:20pm Summer Nights Lapko A New Bohemia Paper Tiger Rock
07:23pm Blood Red Summer Coheed & Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 Equal Vision Rock
07:27pm A Dip in the Ocean Fountains of Wayne Sky Full of Holes Yep Roc Rock
07:32pm Summer Grof The Spinto Band Moonwink Park the Van Rock
07:35pm Sail Into The Sun Gentleman Hall Sail Into The Sun s/r Rock
07:39pm Real Life Tanlines Mixed Emotions True Panther Sounds Rock
07:44pm Endless Sunset Delorean Subiza True Panther Sounds Rock
07:49pm New Love Southern Shores New World Cascine Rock
07:52pm Jump In The Ruby Suns Christopher Sub Pop Rock
07:57pm Plastic Beach Gorillaz Plastic Beach Parlophone Rock