Playlist for 11/27/13: Thanksgiving Show

This week, I played a set of food themed songs during the second hour. Happy Thanksgiving!

If you missed the show, you can stream it online at http://wruv.org/thisweek?2013-11-27_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	Sugarcane	Sleigh Bells	Bitter Rivals	Mom + Pop	Rock
08:04 pm	Lockjaw	Special Request	Soulmusic	Houndstooth	RPM
08:10 pm	Jump Out of the Train	CFCF	Outside	Paper Bag	RPM
08:17 pm	Jazz	Ducktails	Wish Hotel	Domino	Rock
08:21 pm	Very Cruel	Polica	Shulamith	Mom + Pop	Rock
08:26 pm	Drag Bones	Kiev	Falling Bough Wisdom Teeth	Suspended Sunrise	Rock
08:29 pm	Oh God	Chris Garneau	Winter Games	s/r	Rock
08:35 pm	Pin Me Up	Mavis Gary	Pin Me Up	The Attic	Rock
08:38 pm	Beat	Sebadoh	Defend Yourself	Joyful Noise	Rock
08:43 pm	Put Me to Work	PAPA	Tender Madness	Universal Island	Rock
08:47 pm	Dumb Luck	We Are Scientists	WRUV Rock Singles November 2013 Mix 2	Dine Alone	Rock
08:49 pm	Normal Person	Arcade Fire	Reflektor	Merge	Rock
08:54 pm	Fight to Keep	Run River North	Fight to Keep	Nettwerk	Rock
08:57 pm	Another Story	The Head and The Heart	Let's Be Still	Sub Pop	Rock
09:08 pm	Applesauce	Animal Collective	Centipede Hz	Domino	Rock
09:13 pm	Cranberry	The Ruby Suns	Fight Softly	Sub Pop	Rock
09:17 pm	Avocado, Baby	Los Campesinos!	No Blues	Wichita	Rock
09:23 pm	Apples & Oranges	Dogs Die in Hot Cars	Please Describe Yourself	V2	Rock
09:27 pm	More Than Soup	Starfinger	songfight.org	s/r	Rock
09:29 pm	Noodles on My Back	Steven Wilson	invasioncreations.com/	Invasion Creations	Other
09:31 pm	The Sandwich	Instant Music Project	instantmusicproject.blogspot.com/	s/r	Rock
09:36 pm	Rock N Roll McDonalds	Wesley Willis	Greatest Hits	Alternative Tentacles	Rock
09:39 pm	Eat It	Weird Al Yankovic	The Essential Weird Al Yankovic	Volcano	Rock
09:42 pm	Crawfish	Zachary Richard	Snake Bite Love	A&M	Blues
09:47 pm	Green Eggs and Ham	Moxy Fruvous	n/a	s/r	Rock
09:51 pm	Spam	Monty Python	The Final Rip Off	Virgin	Other
09:54 pm	Fancy Beer	The Two Man Gentlemen Band	Drip Dryin' with The Two Man Gentlemen Band	Serious Business	Rock
09:57 pm	Ice Cream	Muscles	Guns Babes Lemonade	Modular	Rock

Soundcloud Artist of the Week: Mavis Gary

Each week, I will be featuring an unsigned/independent artist I discovered on Soundcloud. I will play one of their songs during my show that week, and write a bit more about them here.  

Mavis Gary is the musical project of Adrian Ng from Dunedin, New Zealand. He recently released his debut album Pin Me Up. This is an album of lo-fi power pop that will appeal to fans of Big Star or 90's bands like The Posies, as well as the type of garage rock that is popular with a lot of people these days, especially at WRUV.

Pin Me Up is available on cassette from the record label The Attic, or for download from his Bandcamp page.

Here are a few songs off the album:


For more on Mavis Gary:

Facebook
Soundcloud
Bandcamp

Playlist for 11/23/13: Cover Songs

I didn't do my show at the regular time this week, since I was at the Beach Fossils show at Arts Riot. Instead, I took a three hour slot from 3-6 pm on Saturday, and played two hours of new music, followed by an hour of my favorite cover songs.

If you missed the show, you can listen to it at http://wruv.org/schedule/saturday You will want to play "Yoshi's Island" for the first hour and "The Radio Show with Ian the DJ" for the second two hours (those are the normally scheduled shows).

Here is the playlist:

Time ∧	Title	Artist	Album	Label	Genre
03:04 pm	Turning Into Tiny Particles...Floating Through Empty Space	Hammock	Oblivion Hymns	s/r	Rock
03:08 pm	Solar Diary	Love Inks	Generation Club	Mono Fonus Press	Rock
03:12 pm	Republic	Alpaca	Demimonde	Robotic Empire	Rock
03:16 pm	100 Lovers	Tennis	Small Sound	Communion	Rock
03:19 pm	Chest of Hearts	My Midnight Heart	Chest of Hearts EP	MNRCH	Rock
03:24 pm	Heart of Nowhere	Noah and the Whale	Heart of Nowhere	Mercury	Rock
03:28 pm	Girls	Au Revoir Simone	Move in Spectrums	Instant	Rock
03:32 pm	Bitter Rivals	Sleigh Bells	Bitter Rivals	Mom + Pop	Rock
03:37 pm	Chamakay	Blood Orange	Cupid Deluxe	Domino	Rock
03:40 pm	Celebrating Nothing	Phantogram	Phantogram EP	Republic	Rock
03:44 pm	Memorial	Russian Circles	Memorial	Sargent House	Rock
03:48 pm	Calico	Widowspeak	The Swamps	Captured Tracks	Rock
03:51 pm	A Grey Cloth Covering My Face	Elf Power	Sunlight on the Moon	Orange Twin	Rock
03:54 pm	Come Outside	The Melodic	Effra Parade	Anti	Rock
04:03 pm	Holding On For Life	Broken Bells	After the Disco	Columbia	Rock
04:07 pm	You're Not the One	Sky Ferreira	Night Time, My Time	Capitol	Rock
04:11 pm	Every Day	Magic Man	You Are Here	Neon Gold	Rock
04:16 pm	Chain My Name	Polica	Shulamith	Mom + Pop	Rock
04:19 pm	Closed Hand, Full of Friends	Foy Vance	Joy of Nothing	Glassnote	Rock
04:23 pm	You Already Know	Arcade Fire	Reflektor	Merge	Rock
04:27 pm	This Lonely Morning	Best Coast	Fade Away	Jewel City	Rock
04:32 pm	The Dada Song	Wends	The Dada Song	Authentic Sounds	Rock
04:35 pm	The Curtain	Deer Tick	Negativity	Partisan	Rock
04:38 pm	Pebbles & Stones	Adrian Roye & the Exiles	Reclaimed	s/r	Rock
04:42 pm	St Clarity	The Paper Kites	States	Nettwerk	Rock
04:48 pm	For Flotsam	Los Campesinos!	No Blues	Wichita	Rock
04:52 pm	From the Mouth of an Injured Head	Radical Face	The Family Tree: The Branches	Nettwerk	Rock
04:56 pm	The Big Mango	Land of Kush	The Big Mango	Constellation	International
05:07 pm	Around the World (Intro)	Senor Coconut	Around the World	Nacional	International
05:10 pm	Lovesong	The Brunettes	Just Like Heaven	American Laundromat	Rock
05:14 pm	Heart it Races	Dr. Dog	Heart it Races	Polyvinyl	Rock
05:19 pm	A Real Hero	High Highs	A Real Hero (single)	Never Leave Never Sleep	Rock
05:23 pm	Instant Karma	The Campaign For Real Time	Yes...I Mean, No	Curve of the Earth	Rock
05:26 pm	Hit 'Em Up Style	Carolina Chocolate Drops	Genuine Negro Jig	Nonesuch	Folk
05:32 pm	Dancing Queen	Frank Turner	The First Three Years	Xtra Mile	Rock
05:35 pm	Human Behavior	The Decemberists	Read: Interpreting Bjork	Hush	Rock
05:39 pm	Animal	Manicanparty	http://soundcloud.com/manicanparty	s/r	Rock
05:43 pm	Panic	Kitten	Please Please Please: A Tribute to The Smiths	American Laundromat	Rock
05:47 pm	Losing My Religion	[ cell 7 ]	RE:COGNITION	Cognition	RPM
05:52 pm	Kompressor Want To Get With You	Kompressor	Kompilation	Sharing Machine	Other
05:58 pm	All My Friends	The Main Drag	n/a	s/r	Rock

Soundcloud Artist of the Week: Wends

Each week, I will be featuring an unsigned/independent artist I discovered on Soundcloud. I will play one of their songs during my show that week, and write a bit more about them here. 

Wends are a band from Finland. They play a fun style of power pop that brings to mind 80's bands like Devo and The Cars. They have released one EP, Lives Breathes, as well as two singles "Head First" and "The Dada Song" that are available to download on their Soundcloud page.

Below, you can listen to a few of their songs. Also be sure to check out the bizarre, funny video for "The Dada Song".


For more on Wends:

Official site
Facebook
Soundcloud
Youtube

Free Music: Squawk Tunes

If you are looking for some free music downloads (100% legal!), here is a collection of my favorite songs on Soundcloud that are available to download for free. You may have heard some of these songs on my show. The list is in alphabetical order by artist, in case there is anyone you heard on my show you're looking for. This list covers a wide variety of genres, from indie rock to pop to electronic, and even some metal and Celtic rock! Maybe you'll discover a new favorite.

Enjoy, and if you like what you hear, please support the artists by buying an album or seeing them live.

Playlist for 11/13/13: Story Songs

The theme for this week's show was suggested by my girlfriend Althea, as it gave me an excuse to play some of her favorite songs, including a few I've never played on my show before like Dar Williams' "The Pointless, Yet Poignant, Crisis of a Co-Ed". It also gave me an opportunity to play Moxy Fruvous' take on "Green Eggs & Ham", which you should really listen to if you've never heard it before.

If you missed the show, you can stream it at http://wruv.org/thisweek?2013-11-13_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	It's Just Forever (feat. Alison Mosshart)	Cage the Elephant	Melophobia	RCA	Rock
08:05 pm	Scarlet Letters	The Mizzerables	Every Last Stitch	Whoa!	Rock
08:09 pm	Drugs	The Fresh & Onlys	Soothsayer EP	Mexican Summer	Rock
08:14 pm	Homecoming Heroes	The Head & The Heart	Let's Be Still	Sub Pop	Rock
08:18 pm	Brass Bed	Widowspeak	The Swamps	Captured Tracks	Rock
08:20 pm	Love	Dr. Dog	B-Room	Anti-	Rock
08:24 pm	Hand Back Down	The Devil Makes Three	I'm a Stranger Here	New West	Rock
08:29 pm	Dirty Oxygen	Silvertin	Dirty Oxygen	s/r	Rock
08:33 pm	FNYC	Alpaca	Demimonde	Robotic Empire	RPM
08:36 pm	The Day You Died	Phantogram	Phantogram EP	Republic	Rock
08:40 pm	Coma	HeadShy	La Belle Epoque	Medicina	Rock
08:46 pm	Young	The Paper Kites	States	Nettwerk	Rock
08:50 pm	Runaway	The Melodic	Effra Parade	Anti	Rock
08:53 pm	Prominence	Heavenly Beat	Prominence	Captured Tracks	Rock
08:57 pm	In a Glass	Blouse	Imperium	Captured Tracks	Rock
09:05 pm	Furr	Blitzen Trapper	Furr	Sub Pop	Rock
09:10 pm	Richie and Ruben	Fountains of Wayne	Sky Full of Holes	Yep Roc	Rock
09:13 pm	Little Houdini	Sage Francis	Li(f)e	Anti	Rock
09:20 pm	The General	Dispatch	Bang Bang	Bomber	Rock
09:24 pm	Murder Ballad in G Minor	The Rosewood Thieves	Lonesome	s/r	Rock
09:28 pm	The Pointless, Yet Poignant, Crisis of a Co-Ed	Dar Williams	Mortal City	Razor & Tie	Folk
09:33 pm	O Valencia	The Decemberists	The Crane Wife	Capitol	Rock
09:37 pm	Steel Drivin' Man	The Arrogant Worms	Dirt!	s/r	Folk
09:40 pm	Green Eggs & Ham	Moxy Fruvous	n/a	s/r	Rock
09:45 pm	I Had Lost My Mind	Daniel Johnston	Is and Always Was	Eternal Yip Eye	Rock
09:47 pm	Finnegan's Wake	Dropkick Murphys	Do or Die	Hellcat	Rock
09:49 pm	The Death of Johnny Mooring	Enter the Haggis	Gutter Anthems	Firebrand Entertainment	Rock
09:56 pm	Long Live the Queen	Frank Turner	Love Ire & Song	Xtra Mile	Rock

Soundcloud Artist of the Week: Silvertin

Each week, I will be featuring an unsigned/independent artist I discovered on Soundcloud. I will play one of their songs during my show that week, and write a bit more about them here.

Silvertin are a rock band from the UK. They have a sound that recalls 90's britpop, which is no surprise since they list The Verve and The Stone Roses as some of their influences. Their music also has a very spacey atmosphere, reminiscent of Pink Floyd, and some of the guitar work brings U2 to mind. So far, they have released one album, 2012's Dirty Oxygen, as well as a couple other tracks and remixes that you can listen to on their Soundcloud page.

Below you can stream their entire album Dirty Oxygen. (I recommend the title track, which I played on my show this week). They are currently working on new music which should be out next year.


For more on Silvertin:

Facebook
Soundcloud
Bandcamp

Playlist for 11/6/13: 2x New Music

This week, there was a lot of new music I wanted to play so both hours were dedicated to new music. The first hour featured more rock, and the second hour was more electronic.

If you missed the show, you can stream it online at http://wruv.org/thisweek?2013-11-06_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
08:03 pm	Mean Streets	Tennis	Small Sound	Communion	Rock
08:07 pm	Cuckoo	Dr. Dog	B-Room	Anti	Rock
08:10 pm	Stranger	The Devil Makes Three	I'm a Stranger Here	New West	Rock
08:14 pm	Plunge	The Melodic	Effra Parade	Anti	Rock
08:19 pm	I Wanna Know	Best Coast	Fade Away	Jewel City	Rock
08:22 pm	St. Justice	Albert Hammond, Jr.	AHJ	Cult	Rock
08:26 pm	Invisible	The Dismemberment Plan	Uncanney Valley	Partisan	Rock
08:30 pm	Pick it Back Up	The Mizzerables	Every Last Stitch	s/r	Rock
08:34 pm	Tiny Raindrop	Balance and Composure	The Things We Think We're Missing	No Sleep	Rock
08:37 pm	Be Ready When I Say Go	Emperors	Stay Frosty	Gun Fever	Rock
08:42 pm	You Scare Me to Death	Tim Kasher	Adult Film	Saddle Creek	Rock
08:47 pm	I Saw Her Standing There	Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros	Beatles Reimagined	Community Music	Rock
08:50 pm	Colossus	Of Montreal	Lousy with Sylvianbriar	Polyvinyl	Rock
08:53 pm	Eyesite	Blouse	Imperium	Captured Tracks	Rock
09:03 pm	Celebrating Nothing	Phantogram	Phantogram EP	Republic	Rock
09:06 pm	Landscape	Glasser	Interiors	True Panther Sounds	Rock
09:10 pm	Slow Down	Mum	Smilewound	Morr Music	RPM
09:16 pm	Awake	Tycho	Awake	Ghostly International	RPM
09:21 pm	A Long Time	Moby	Innocents	Mute	Rock
09:25 pm	Flyway	Keep Shelly in Athens	At Home	Cascine	RPM
09:31 pm	Island I Would	NYIKO	Always Always	s/r	Rock
09:35 pm	Expectation	Heavenly Beat	Prominence	Captured Tracks	Rock
09:39 pm	The Village	Tunng	Turbines	Full Time Hobby	Rock
09:45 pm	Paper Trails	Darkside	Psychic	Matador	Rock
09:49 pm	Last Love	Myra Flynn	Half Pigeon	s/r	Rock
09:53 pm	Electric Lady (feat. Solange)	Janelle Monae	The Electric Lady	Bad Boy	Urban
09:59 pm	Faded Glory	Ginkgo	Manopause	Ibid	Rock

Soundcloud Artist of the Week: The Mizzerables

Each week, I will be featuring an unsigned/independent artist I discovered on Soundcloud. I will play one of their songs during my show that week, and write a bit more about them here.

The Mizzerables are a punk band from Chicago. They released their first full-length album Every Last Stitch this past summer. This album features mix of pop-punk as heard on tracks like "Pick It Back Up", "Beauty Queen" and "Scarlet Letters"and more aggressive punk rock like "Rise With Me" and "Everything I Need".

Their album is available from their Bandcamp page, where you can download it for free or name your own price. Here are a few tracks from it:


For more on The Mizzerables:

Official site
Soundcloud
Bandcamp
Youtube

Playlist for 10/30/13: Halloween Show

This week's show was the day before Halloween so I played a mix of spooky and Halloween-themed songs during the second hour.

If you missed the show, you can listen to it at http://wruv.org/thisweek?2013-10-30_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
08:03 pm	On My Way	The Melodic	Effra Parade	Anti	Rock
08:07 pm	Distant Light	Dr. Dog	B-Room	Anti	Rock
08:10 pm	Street of Dreams	Frankie Rose	Herein Wild	Fat Possum	Rock
08:16 pm	Lengths	Heavenly Beat	Prominence	Captured Tracks	Rock
08:19 pm	Black Out Days	Phantogram	Phantogram EP	Republic	Rock
08:24 pm	Stay	Royal Teeth	Glow	Dangerbird	Rock
08:27 pm	Farewell	Manicanparty	Manicanparty EP	s/r	Rock
08:33 pm	Moon	Photay	Photay	s/r	RPM
08:39 pm	Givin Em What They Love (Ft. Prince)	Janelle Monae	The Electric Lady	Bad Boy	Urban
08:42 pm	Ain't No Tellin'	Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band	Introducing...	s/r	Urban
08:48 pm	One For the Road	Arctic Monkeys	AM	Domino	Rock
08:51 pm	Hegira Emigre	Of Montreal	Lousy with Sylvianbriar	Polyvinyl	Rock
08:55 pm	Act I	Migrant Kids	Migrant Kids	s/r	Rock
09:06 pm	Norman Bates	The Burning of Rome	With Us	Surfdog	Rock
09:10 pm	Prom Zombie	Stellastarr*	Civilized	Bloated Wife	Rock
09:14 pm	Halloween Blues	The Fratellis	We Need Medicine	BMG	Rock
09:18 pm	Our Ghosts Would Rise	Leaving Rouge	Halloween EP 2004	s/r	Rock
09:23 pm	When You're Evil	Voltaire	The Devil's Bris	Projekt	Rock
09:28 pm	Halloween	3	Revisions	Metal Blade	Rock
09:32 pm	Filistata	Stolen Babies	There Be Squabbles Ahead	The End	Rock
09:36 pm	Static Space	Dimension Zero	RePLiCa	Liquid	Rock
09:41 pm	Forget Me	Theatre des Vampires	Desire of Damnation	Blackend	Metal
09:46 pm	Zydrate Anatomy	Repo! The Genetic Opera	Repo! The Genetic Opera	Lionsgate	Rock
09:50 pm	The Phantom of the Opera	Nightwish	Century Child	Spinefarm	Metal
09:54 pm	I'm Only Human Sometimes	William Control	Noir	Victory	Rock
09:58 pm	Close Enough	Ghost Beach	Close Enough (single)	s/r	Rock

Soundcloud Artist of the Week: Photay

Each week, I will be featuring an unsigned/independent artist I discovered on Soundcloud. I will play one of their songs during my show that week, and write a bit more about them here.

Photay is an electronic music producer from Woodstock, NY. His music has a sound that would fit well on the label Ghostly International alongside artists like Tycho, Shigeto and Gold Panda. The songs feature a mix of live instruments and computer generated sounds.

His debut self-titled album is available from his Bandcamp page. There are also a few non-album tracks you can download for free on Photay's Soundcloud page that are worth checking out.

Here are a few songs from Photay's self-titled album:


For more on Photay:

Facebook
Bandcamp
Soundcloud
Youtube