Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Playlist for 2/26/14: Mardi Gras

This week, in honor of the Magic Hat Mardi Gras parade taking place this weekend in Burlington, I played a special Mardi Gras themed set featuring a bunch of Cajun, zydeco, New Orleans jazz and other fun stuff, including a few albums I inherited from my grandfather that I have fond memories of listening to when I would visit my grandparents in Philadelphia.

If you missed the show, you can stream it for up to a week at http://wruv.org/thisweek?2014-02-26_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
08:03 pm Kong The Notwist Close to the Glass Sub Pop Rock
08:08 pm A Burial Eternal Summers The Drop Beneath Kanine Rock
08:12 pm Battles My Gold Mask Battles (single) Goldy Tapes Rock
08:17 pm Had to Hear Real Estate Atlas Domino Rock
08:22 pm New York Morning Elbow New York Morning - Single Concord Rock
08:26 pm Bill Murray Phantogram Voices Republic Rock
08:30 pm The One Who Has to Carry You Home Hollow & Akimbo Hollow & Akimbo Quite Scientific Rock
08:36 pm Go In Warpaint Warpaint Rough Trade Rock
08:40 pm Holiday In Marissa Nadler July Sacred Bones Rock
08:43 pm Airwaves Be Forest Earthbeat WWNBB Collective Rock
08:50 pm Perfect World Broken Bells After the Disco Columbia Rock
08:55 pm Feel Bombay Bicycle Club So Long, See You Tomorrow Vagrant Rock
09:07 pm Who Stole My Monkey? Zachary Richard Women in the Room A&M Blues
09:11 pm What You Gonna Do? Buckwheat Zydeco Menagerie Mango Blues
09:15 pm Zydeco Gris Gris Beausoleil The Big Easy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Fontana Island Folk
09:21 pm Tipitina Professor Longhair The Big Easy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Fontana Island Blues
09:24 pm We're Rockin' Out Tonight Kid Creole and the Coconuts I Wake Up Screaming Strut Urban
09:27 pm Junco Partner (Worthless Man) Crescent City Gold The Ultimate Session Highstreet Jazz
09:30 pm On Your Way Down Trombone Shorty Backatown Verve Forecast Blues
09:35 pm Magnolia Soul Ozomatli Don't Mess With the Dragon Concord Urban
09:39 pm Mardi Gras ONOFFON Your Mind s/r Jazz
09:43 pm Red and Lee Crescent City Gold The Ultimate Session Highstreet Jazz
09:47 pm That Was Your Mother Paul Simon Graceland Legacy Rock
09:50 pm Marilou Mama Rosin Now Hear This! - The Winners of the 12th Independent Music Awards The Independent Music Awards Rock
09:54 pm Take Me Away Zachary Richard Women in the Room A&M Blues
09:59 pm Meantime Givers In Light Glassnote Rock

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Playlist for 2/19/14: Weird Electronic Pop

This week's playlist for the second hour was kinda put together at the last minute. I knew I wanted to play some Memory Tapes since I listened to them earlier in the day, and chose some weird but catchy indie/electronic/pop to go along with it. Next week, to celebrate 2014's Magic Hat Mardi Gras, stay tuned for a special Mardi Gras show featuring a bunch of New Orleans jazz and Cajun/Zydeco music!

If you missed this week's show, you stream it for up to a week at http://wruv.org/thisweek?2014-02-19_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
08:03 pm Howling at the Moon Phantogram Voices Republic Rock
08:07 pm Fever Dreams Hollow & Akimbo Hollow & Akimbo Quite Scientific Rock
08:10 pm Sabotage Four Phonica Four Phonica H.R.M. Rock
08:15 pm American Horror Speedy Ortiz Real Hair EP Carpark Rock
08:18 pm Leave to Remain Cheatahs Cheatahs Wichita Rock
08:21 pm Long Hair Drowners Drowners Frenchkiss Rock
08:23 pm Colour Wild Cub Youth Mom + Pop Rock
08:27 pm Overdone Bombay Bicycle Club So Long, See You Tomorrow Vagrant Rock
08:32 pm Lady in Waiting U.S. Royalty Blue Sunshine s/r Rock
08:37 pm Leeches PT Walkley Shoulders Bathing Suit Music Rock
08:41 pm Velvet Antlers Death Vessel Island Intervals Sub Pop Rock
08:45 pm Blue Moon Beck WRUV Rock Singles Feb. 2014 Mix #1 Capitol Rock
08:49 pm Going Out Hospitality Trouble Merge Rock
08:53 pm Strange Figurines The Black & White Years Strange Figurines Modern Outsider Rock
08:56 pm Faith I Break Horses Chiaroscuro Bella Union RPM
09:06 pm Drop Cornelius Point Post Modern Rock
09:12 pm Chinese High Gang Gang Dance Eye Contact 4AD Rock
09:18 pm Doin' It Right (ft. Panda Bear) Daft Punk Random Access Memories Columbia RPM
09:21 pm FNYC Alpaca Demimonde Robotic Empire RPM
09:26 pm Colour Me Her Royal Harness The Hunting Room Manufacture Rock
09:30 pm Graphics Memory Tapes Seek Magic s/r Rock
09:37 pm Oh, Naoko Sun Airway Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier Dead Oceans Rock
09:41 pm Jungles Stepdad Wildlife Pop Black Bell Rock
09:47 pm Cactus Tanlines Mixed Emotions True Panther Sounds Rock
09:50 pm My Kz, Ur Bf Everything Everything Cough Cough EP RCA Rock
09:53 pm Fingers Never Bleed Yeasayer Fragrant World Secretly Canadian Rock
09:59 pm It's All Ours Delorean Subiza True Panther Sounds Rock

Thursday, February 13, 2014

The Squawkatiel's Dozen #2

Welcome to a special Valentine's Day edition of The Squawkatiel's Dozen. Just like last time, 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.

First, the downloads:

1. The Honey Trees are a duo from California who will be releasing their debut album Bright Fire in April. "Nightingale" is our first taste of it. The vocals are great in this song, I recommend it if you like Neko Case.



2. Black Twig is a band from Helsinki, Finland. They are signed to the Finnish record label Soliti (who have a bunch of free downloads from their artists on their Soundcloud page) "Pastel Blue" is the first single from their sophomore album Heliogram. This is lo-fi guitar pop a little bit like The Pains of Being Pure at Heart or Veronica Falls.



3. Australian band Nova and the Experience released their EP There's Something Here last summer, but recently released their latest single from it, "Shipwrecked". It's mostly acoustic and very good.



4. "Natural" is the second single from Preston Lovinggood's latest album Shadow Songs which will be released on February 25th. This song is just a little over two minutes long and very catchy.



5. You may have heard My Gold Mask on my show last year, I played a few songs from their album Leave Me Midnight. Here is their brand new single "Battles".



6. Finally, we have Hollow & Akimbo who are a duo from Michigan who have released a great self-titled debut album. Their music covers a wide range of genres, and they have given us a free download of the song "The One Who Has to Carry You Home". This song is more straight forward and less experimental than their other songs, but is one of my favorites on the album.



Here are the streams:


1. Cloud Nothings are back with the first single from the forthcoming album Here and Nowhere Else. While I haven't been a fan of every Cloud Nothings song I've heard, this song falls into the category of Cloud Nothings songs I do like, so definitely give it a listen.


2. After becoming one of the breakout bands of 2013, Speedy Ortiz return with a new EP called Real Hair. The songs on this EP seem a bit more cheerful than their album Major Arcana. "American Horror" is one of the standouts from it.



3. Eternal Summers are back with a new album called The Drop Beneath which will be out on Kanine Records on March 4th. Here is the first single from it, "Gouge". You may remember their song "You Kill" which I played a few times on my show in 2012 (and came in at #19 on my Top 20 of that year).



4. It's been a while since we last heard from The Hold Steady, but they finally have a new album coming out on March 25th called Teeth Dreams. Here is "I Hope This Whole Thing Didn't Frighten You", which has some great guitars in addition to their unique lyrical style.



5. Ex Hex is a new band on Merge Records, featuring Mary Timony from the bands Helium and Wild Flag. "Hot and Cold" is their debut single.



6. edapollo - Breathing Lessons

Finally, here is something completely different from the last few songs, from the electronic artist edapollo. Breathing Lessons" is from his new Shallow Swell EP, which has a very fresh sound. I'm not usually a fan of the chopped-up vocal samples approach to electronic music, but there is much more than that going on here and the end result is beautiful.



That wraps up this week's Squawkatiel's Dozen. Thanks for checking these songs out, and let me know which songs you liked! More music to come in a couple weeks.

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Playlist for 2/12/14: Thoughts on Love

This week I played a special Valentine's Day show, named after the song in the video below. Since this isn't everyone's favorite holiday (I've been there), I mixed some happy love songs with some sad love/breakup songs, plus a few funny songs as well, so there's something for everyone.

One of the songs I played was this one right here, by one Madame Protesta and her friend Ratwinka. Warning, do not click on this video unless you want to get this very silly (and slightly inappropriate) song stuck in your head! I warned you!


If you missed the show, you can find the playlist online at http://wruv.org/thisweek?2014-02-12_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
08:03 pm Luna Bombay Bicycle Club So Long, See You Tomorrow Vagrant Rock
08:06 pm Singularity Hollow & Akimbo Hollow & Akimbo Quite Scientific Rock
08:11 pm New Foundation Daytona Daytona Ernest Jenning Rock
08:14 pm Spinning Signs Painted Palms Forever Polyvinyl Rock
08:19 pm After the Disco Broken Bells WRUV Rock Singles Feb Mix #1 2014 Columbia Rock
08:22 pm Breathing Lessons edapollo Shallow Swell Bad Panda RPM
08:27 pm Keep it Healthy Warpaint Warpaint Rough Trade Rock
08:31 pm Montana Tycho Awake Ghostly International RPM
08:37 pm Talking Backwards Real Estate WRUV Rock Singles Feb Mix #1 2014 Domino Rock
08:40 pm Rimbaud Eyes Dum Dum Girls Too True Sub Pop Rock
08:43 pm Get Tight Cheatahs Cheatahs Wichita Rock
08:48 pm Everything's Bigger Speedy Ortiz Real Hair EP Carpark Rock
08:51 pm Rapture Brightest Color #2 s/r Rock
08:55 pm Was It a Dream? Marissa Nadler July Sacred Bones Rock
09:04 pm Cancer Smile Smile Truth on Tape Kirtland Rock
09:07 pm Whatcha Gonna Do With My Heart Adrian Roye & the Exiles Telephones and Traffic Lights EP s/r Rock
09:11 pm Hand-in-Hand Grenade Bedroom Eyes The Long Wait Champion A West Side Fabrication Rock
09:14 pm B-A-B-Y (Brunettes Against Bubblegum Youth) The Brunettes Structure and Cosmetics Sub Pop Rock
09:19 pm Geeks in Love Lemon Demon Damn Skippy s/r Rock
09:23 pm You Are My Soul Manicanparty Manicanparty EP s/r Rock
09:27 pm Keep You Class Actress Rapprocher Carpark Rock
09:31 pm New Cat My Body New Cat Danger Village Rock
09:35 pm Heart in Your Heartbreak The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Belong Slumberland Rock
09:39 pm Yeah! Oh, Yeah! Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs Volume 3 Merge Rock
09:42 pm Anymore Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart Interscope Rock
09:46 pm Desperate Plea From the Heart of a Sh!t-Head Adam Ezra Group Daniel the Brave s/r Rock
09:51 pm Teenage Veronica Falls Waiting For Something to Happen Slumberland Rock
09:54 pm Thoughts on Love Madame Protesta & Ratwinka n/a s/r Other
09:58 pm Hold On When You Get Love (And Let Go When You Give It) Stars The North ATO Rock

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Playlist for 2/5/14: Science Fiction

This week's show had a sci-fi inspired playlist for the second hour that featured a variety of genres. If you missed the show, you can listen online for up to a week at http://wruv.org/thisweek?2014-02-05_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 Stayin' Alive Les Claypool's Duo de Twang Four Foot Shack ATO Rock
08:06 pm Nightingale The Honey Trees Bright Fire s/r Rock
08:11 pm Silver Timothy Damien Jurado Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son Secretly Canadian Rock
08:15 pm Love Is To Die Warpaint Warpaint Rough Trade Rock
08:20 pm The Spinney View of Hinkley Point Bibio The Green EP Warp RPM
08:27 pm Reminders Radical Face The Family Tree: The Branches Nettwerk Rock
08:31 pm Shipwrecked Nova and the Experience There's Something Here s/r Rock
08:35 pm The Janitor Revealed Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks Wig Out At Jagbags Matador Rock
08:38 pm Natural Preston Lovinggood Shadow Songs Communicating Vessels Rock
08:41 pm Cut the Grass Cheatahs Cheatahs Wichita Rock
08:47 pm Gravity The Melismatics Rising Tide Pravda Rock
08:50 pm Cult of Love Dum Dum Girls Too True Sub Pop Rock
08:52 pm 216 Lee Bannon Alternate / Endings Ninja Tune RPM
09:05 pm The Tower That Ate People Peter Gabriel Red Planet Pangea RPM
09:10 pm Into the Red Light Unease Mind the Gloom Larks Ord & Media Rock
09:14 pm Cricket Aamu http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=322869 s/r RPM
09:19 pm 25th Hour Neoismo Atmosfera nel cubo Ethnoworld Rock
09:22 pm Ether Drift Com Truise Galactic Melt Ghostly RPM
09:27 pm Shell [cell 7] RE:COGNITION Cognition RPM
09:33 pm The Man Talking to the Stars Roberto Zaneli The Urban Dream Vol. I s/r RPM
09:37 pm Insomnia Moon Theory Moon Theory Ursa Minor Arts & Media Rock
09:41 pm Edge of the Earth 30 Seconds to Mars 30 Seconds to Mars Immortal Rock
09:46 pm Betrayed in the Octagon Oneohtrix Point Never Rifts Software RPM
09:49 pm Major Tom Shiny Toy Guns Major Tom Motown Rock
09:54 pm The Picard Song DarkMateria YTMND Soundtrack - Volume 2 ytmnd.com RPM
09:59 pm Red5 (Violent Breed Mix) Yavin 4 Red5 Negative Gain RPM