Thursday, January 30, 2014

Playlist for 1/29/14: Flashlight Planetarium

Last night was my first show of WRUV's spring semester. There are a bunch of great new shows this semester, as well as a bunch of old favorites that are back. I based my second hour's playlist around the song "Flashlight Planetarium" by Amusement Parks on Fire, with a mix of recent songs and older classics.

If you missed the show, you can listen to it for up to a week at http://wruv.org/thisweek?2014-01-29_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 Lariat Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks Wig Out at Jagbags Matador Rock
08:05 pm Pastel Blue Black Twig Heliogram Soliti Rock
08:09 pm It's Not Serious Hospitality Trouble Merge Rock
08:12 pm Wool Junior Miss Wool s/r Rock
08:17 pm Cocoon The Melismatics Rising Tide Pravda Rock
08:20 pm Proto Dios Mio Proto s/r Rock
08:24 pm The Crooked Kind Radical Face The Family Tree: The Branches Nettwerk Rock
08:29 pm Down to the Sound Bibio The Green EP Warp RPM
08:32 pm Quantum Chronological perth What's Your Utopia? Hidden Shoal Rock
08:36 pm Soft Hammer Painted Palms Forever Polyvinyl Rock
08:41 pm The Light That Guides the Blind HeadShy La Belle Epoque Medicina Rock
08:47 pm She, Untamed Mode Moderne Occult Delight Light Organ Rock
08:51 pm Say What You Mean NYIKO Always Always s/r Rock
08:54 pm Overlook bEEdEEgEE Sum / One 4AD RPM
09:03 pm Flashlight Planetarium Amusement Parks on Fire Road Eyes Filter US Rock
09:06 pm Heaven Popstrangers Antipodes Carpark Rock
09:09 pm Coast to Waxahatchee Cerulean Salt Don Giovanni Rock
09:12 pm Cemented Shoes My Vitriol Finelines Epic Rock
09:15 pm Belong The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Belong Slumberland Rock
09:19 pm Bright Pavilions Superdrag In the Valley of Dying Stars Flame On Music Rock
09:25 pm Beni Accident Pistolita Oliver Under the Moon Montalban Hotel Rock
09:28 pm Girl From Mars Ash 1977 Rhino Rock
09:32 pm Heart Full of Pentagons Film School Fission s/r Rock
09:37 pm Rusted Wheel Silversun Pickups Carnavas Dangerbird Rock
09:43 pm Airbag Radiohead OK Computer Parlophone Rock
09:48 pm Thin Ocean The Soft Province The Soft Province Three Ring Rock
09:54 pm Returning Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Specter at the Feast Vagrant Rock

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

The Squawkatiel's Dozen #1

Welcome to The Squawkatiel's Dozen, a new feature on this blog where I bring you 6 great songs you can download for free, and 6 songs that aren't available for free but are worth a listen. I have an excellent mix for you, featuring some songs you may have heard on Flight of the Squawkatiel and a bunch of new ones.

Let's start off with the downloads:

1. Dios Mio is a band from London, I recommend them if you like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' mellower songs. Here is their latest single, "Proto":



2. At WRUV, we recently added HeadShy's new album La Belle Epoque, which is a triple EP containing the EPs The Head Chord, The Heart Chord and The Bass Chord. Here is one of my favorite songs from it, "Coma":



3. Straw Man Standing is the project of Travis Webster-Booth, a friend of mine on Facebook who I knew back in junior high/high school. Here is the lead track off his new EP Two Inches of Ash, "Go On Rewind":



4. perth is an experimental band from Australia who have a new album called What's Your Utopia? Here is their song "Drank and Kites and Tomorrow", which I played on my show last week:



5. Snowflake is the musical project of producer D. James Goodwin who has worked with a diverse range of artists including Norah Jones, Murder by Death and Devo. Here is his song "Snakes and Spiders" off the new album We All Grow Toward the Sea:



6. Finally, here is "Sweep" from Leverage Models, off their self-titled album that I have played on my show quite a bit.



Now for the streams. Don't miss out on these, there are some really good songs here!

1. Bombay Bicycle Club are releasing their new album So Long See You Tomorrow on February 3, and from it we have the first contender for my Top 20 Songs of 2014, "Luna". Don't miss this one.



2. Morning Arms are a band from Chicago who caught my attention with the title track to their new Moon & Tide EP, which is available from their bandcamp page.



3. Tycho is one of my favorite electronic artists right now, and he has released another song from his forthcoming album Awake, which will be out on March 18. Here is "Montana":



4. Yumi Zouma is a group from New Zealand who have been getting a lot of attention lately for the two singles they have released. They will release a 10" EP on February 11. Here is their debut single "The Brae", which has a dream pop sound you will enjoy if you like Wild Nothing.




5. German band The Notwist are back with their first album in over seven years, Close to the Glass, which will be released on February 25. Their new song "Kong" is more rock and less electronic than their recent albums:



6. Lastly, we have the band NO, who have signed to the label Arts & Crafts. They are releasing their debut album El Prado on February 18. Here is their great new single "Leave the Door Wide Open":



That wraps up this week's Squawkatiel's Dozen. Thanks for checking these songs out, and let me know which songs you liked! Will be back with more in a couple weeks.

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Playlist for 1/22/14: Global Grooves

This week's playlist had a theme I'll call "Global Grooves", electronic music with good beats and sounds from all over the world (plus a few other things mixed in I thought would sound good).

In other news, Flight of the Squawkatiel will be returning for the Spring semester on WRUV at the same time, 8-10 pm on Wednesdays. I have lots of great new stuff planned for you, including the return of Squawkatiel Madness in March - it will be even bigger and better this year! Also, stay tuned for a new feature on this blog called "Squawkatiel's Dozen" - this will be replacing Soundcloud Artist of the Week. On Squawkatiel's Dozen I will post 6 free downloads from Soundcloud that I really like and hope you will too, and 6 songs that aren't free downloads but are great songs you should check out.

If you missed this week's show, you can listen online at http://wruv.org/thisweek?2014-01-22_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 Thunder Clatter Wild Cub WRUV Rock Singles Jan Mix #2 2014 Mom + Pop Rock
08:06 pm Too High Painted Palms Forever Polyvinyl Rock
08:09 pm Cybernautic Low Frequency in Stereo Pop Obskura Long Branch Rock
08:15 pm Gold James Vincent McMorrow Post Tropical Vagrant Rock
08:19 pm Drank and Kites and Tomorrow Perth What's Your Utopia Hidden Shoal Rock
08:22 pm Lead Me Home HeadShy La Belle Epoque Medicina Rock
08:25 pm Moon & Tide Morning Arms Moon & Tide EP s/r Rock
08:32 pm Tough Crowd Dios Mio Tough Crowd s/r Rock
08:38 pm Rotten Driver Upstairs Downstairs Upstairs Downstairs 20 Sided Rock
08:40 pm Blue Eyed Hexe Pixies WRUV Rock Singles Jan Mix #1 2014 Artemis Rock
08:43 pm Cannibal Silversun Pickups The Singles Collection Dangerbird Rock
08:48 pm Hot Tonight Tokyo Police Club WRUV Rock Singles Jan Mix #2 2014 Mom + Pop Rock
08:51 pm Cherry On Top Oh Land Wish Bone Federal Prism Rock
08:55 pm Ransom Son Lux Lanterns Joyful Noise Rock
09:07 pm Mr. Brown Ikarus The Angkor Sessions s/r RPM
09:11 pm Objet Petit A Harouki Zombi Objet Petit A Polyvinyl Rock
09:14 pm Ready On The Line Big Sir Before Gardens After Gardens Rodriguez Lopez Productions Rock
09:18 pm Zephyr Photay Photay s/r RPM
09:22 pm No Time Gaudi No Prisoners Six Degrees International
09:27 pm Fortress Europe Asian Dub Foundation Enemy of the Enemy Naive RPM
09:31 pm Birthday Dubstepler Blot! Vdoh/Lunateka RPM
09:36 pm Detroit Part 1 Shigeto No Better Time Than Now Ghostly RPM
09:41 pm Transistors Isaac Delusion Early Morning Cracki Rock
09:46 pm The Hop Radio Citizen Berlin Serengeti Ubiquity RPM
09:50 pm Bohemian Rhapsody in Blue (Guillotine Cuts Remix) Federico Aubele No One EP ESL Music RPM
09:54 pm Ambient India Zeropage Ambient Pills s/r RPM

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Playlist for 1/15/14: Never Tasted Poison Quite Like This Before

For this week's show, I wanted to create a playlist that gave me an opportunity to play a few songs for you: the underrated band Echorev's song "The Fool" (which the title of this post comes from) Frank Turner's song "To Absent Friends" (my favorite song of his between his B-sides & rarities compilations The First Three Years and The Second Three Years) and something by Hayley Jane & the Primates (a great band I discovered at Radio Bean and had neglected to play on my show so far).

If you missed the show, you can listen online for up to a week at http://wruv.org/thisweek?2014-01-15_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 Red Eyes The War on Drugs Lost in the Dream Secretly Canadian Rock
08:08 pm The Returning of the Doves Echo Bloom Blue s/r Rock
08:12 pm Maxon Minor Alps Get There Barsuk Rock
08:17 pm Parkas Indoors Upstairs Downstairs Upstairs Downstairs 20 Side Rock
08:19 pm Snakes and Spiders Snowflake We All Grow Toward the Sea The Satellite Union Rock
08:24 pm Holy Smokes Seasick Mama Tip Top Shape No Shame Rock
08:27 pm Theme From PSB Public Service Broadcasting Inform Educate Entertain Test Card Rock
08:32 pm Lost Boys & Girls Club Dum Dum Girls Too True Sub Pop Rock
08:36 pm Too Cold For Magic Leverage Models Leverage Models Hometapes Rock
08:42 pm Paradiddle Daedelus Drown Out Anticon RPM
08:45 pm Nuclear Dragon The Mast Nuclear Dragon Channel A Rock
08:50 pm Wonder (feat. The Kite String Tangle) Adventure Club Calling All Heroes - Part 1 BMG RPM
08:55 pm Morning Light Anoraak Chronotropic Grand Blanc RPM
08:58 pm Back to Life Dresses Sun Shy Side One Dummy Rock
09:05 pm The Fool Echorev Find North Monkey Rock Rock
09:10 pm We Are the Tide Blind Pilot We Are the Tide Expunged Rock
09:13 pm You Paint Me Adam Ezra Group View From the Root s/r Rock
09:17 pm Coffee & Wine Chadwick Stokes Simmerkane II (Bonus Track Version) Ruff Shod Rock
09:22 pm 1957 Milo Greene Milo Greene Chop Shop/Atlantic Rock
09:22 pm Come Alive Hayley Jane and the Primates The Color Me EP s/r Rock
09:29 pm Ghosts Tejas Singh A Brief History Nice Rip Media Rock
09:34 pm Fear of Phantoms Adrian Roye & the Exiles Reclaimed s/r Rock
09:38 pm To Absent Friends Frank Turner The Second Three Years Xtra Mile Rock
09:41 pm Lakeside Trust Brave Baby Forty Bells Hearts and Plugs Rock
09:46 pm Ava Darlingside Pilot Machines s/r Rock
09:50 pm Tiger Man of the Matto Grasso This Old Ghost Island of Violent Lovers s/r Rock
09:54 pm Pushover The Long Winters Putting the Days to Bed Barsuk Rock
09:59 pm What's What I Do Last Good Tooth Not Without Work & Rest Team Love Rock

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Playlist for 1/8/14: 2014 Preview

On my show this week I played a selection of bands who will be releasing new albums in 2014 during the second hour. You will be hearing new stuff from all of those artists on Flight of the Squawkatiel this year.

If you missed the show, you can listen online at http://wruv.org/thisweek?2014-01-08_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
08:04 pm Bird in an Aeroplane Oh Land Wish Bone Federal Prism Rock
08:09 pm Like Rain Man bEEdEEgEE Sum / One 4AD RPM
08:13 pm Bohemian Idol Lord Echo Curiosities Bastard Jazz RPM
08:19 pm Here it Comes Painted Palms Forever Polyvinyl Rock
08:22 pm Lost It To Trying Son Lux Lanterns Joyful Noise RPM
08:26 pm Speed Reader Marley Carroll Sings Melanaster Rock
08:34 pm Go On, Rewind Straw Man Standing Two Inches of Ash s/r Rock
08:37 pm Golden Wake Mutual Benefit Love's Crushing Diamond Other Music Rock
08:40 pm Mercy Please The Whistles and The Bells Nashville Indie Spotlight 2014 Tone Tree Music Rock
08:44 pm Diamond Brendan Benson You Were Right Readymade Rock
08:49 pm I Don't Know What to Do With My Hands Minor Alps Get There Barsuk Rock
08:52 pm Preacher Gemini Club An Introduction s/r Rock
08:57 pm Tiger Kit Sleigh Bells Bitter Rivals Mom + Pop Rock
09:06 pm Holding On For Life Broken Bells After the Disco Columbia Rock
09:10 pm Black Out Days Phantogram Voices Republic Rock
09:13 pm Shuffle Bombay Bicycle Club A Different Kind of Fix Universal Island Rock
09:19 pm Awake Tycho Awake Ghostly RPM
09:24 pm Waste Foster the People Torches Columbia Rock
09:27 pm Graffiti Soul Kitten Like a Stranger EP Elektra Rock
09:31 pm Harold T. Wilkins, or How to Wait For a Very Long Time Fanfarlo Reservoir Atlantic Rock
09:37 pm One With the Freaks The Notwist Neon Golden Domino Rock
09:41 pm Baby Missiles The War on Drugs Slave Ambient Secretly Canadian Rock
09:44 pm Strange Apparition Beck The Information Interscope Rock
09:49 pm Baby, I Will Leave You in the Morning Marissa Nadler Marissa Nadler Box of Cedar Rock
09:53 pm It's Real Real Estate Days Domino Rock
09:59 pm Hurricane J The Hold Steady Heaven is Whenever Vagrant Rock

Saturday, January 4, 2014

Playlist for 1/4/14: Favorite Soundcloud Downloads of 2013

Happy new year! On the first Flight of the Squawkatiel show of 2014, I recapped my favorite free downloads on Soundcloud from last year. I will be doing another post about these songs shortly (with some more songs that I couldn't fit in on my show).

If you missed this week's show, you can stream it for up to a week at http://wruv.org/thisweek?2014-01-01_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 We Are Explorers Cut Copy Free Your Mind Loma Vista Rock
08:06 pm FNYC Alpaca Demimonde Robotic Empire RPM
08:10 pm Hide Away Hibou Hide Away s/r Rock
08:16 pm The Streets Are Still a Mess Sebastien Grainger Yours To Discover Last Gang Rock
08:19 pm Snap Out of It Arctic Monkeys AM Domino Rock
08:23 pm Sirens PT Walkley Shoulders Bathing Suit Music Rock
08:26 pm Dancing Anymore Is Tropical I'm Leaving Kitsune Rock
08:32 pm Sweep (feat. Sharon Van Etten) Leverage Models Leverage Models Hometapes Rock
08:36 pm Wet Salt Psapp What Makes Us Glow The State 51 Conspiracy Rock
08:39 pm Curly Hair The Low Frequency in Stereo Pop Obskura Long Branch Rock
08:45 pm Advanced Falconry Mutual Benefit Love's Crushing Diamond Other Music Rock
08:50 pm Shipwrecked Preston Lovinggood Shadow Songs Communicating Vessels Rock
08:53 pm Sugar Natureboy The Sweep s/r Rock
08:57 pm Veins Echo Bloom Blue s/r Rock
09:09 pm Right Above Me Boy + Kite We Can Go Anywhere We Want s/r Rock
09:14 pm Zoo Lion Home by Hovercraft Are We Chameleons? s/r Rock
09:18 pm Amazon Eyes Twinstar The Sound of Leaving Commercial Suicide Rock
09:22 pm Everything's Fine Minks Tides End Captured Tracks Rock
09:26 pm Soon the Sea Mint Julep Soon the Sea s/r Rock
09:30 pm It's In Her Eyes Manicanparty Manicanparty EP s/r Rock
09:34 pm Sparklers Gemini Club An Introduction s/r Rock
09:37 pm Brigadiers Vasco Da Gama Geography EP s/r Rock
09:41 pm The Swan Cheatahs Extended Plays Wichita Rock
09:45 pm Hand Pistol GRMLN Empire Carpark Rock
09:47 pm More Than You Can Chew Fletcher Open Arms s/r Rock
09:52 pm Plastic Bag Goldfish Adrian Roye & the Exiles Reclaimed s/r Rock
09:55 pm George Clooney This Frontier Needs Heroes Hooky s/r Rock
10:03 pm Say Goodbye to the Night KaiL Baxley Heatstroke / The Wind and the War CEN Rock