Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Playlist for 7/30/14: Funky Summer Jams

This week's show featured a playlist of groovy, funky tunes for summer: a mix of reggae, ska, hip hop and funk rock.

Starting this week, I will do something new on this blog: count down my Top 5 New songs from the first hour (so you can listen to the best tracks here first). So here is this week's Top 5:

5. Tops - Change of Heart


4. Lust For Youth - Illume


3. International Departures - The Title of Returning Champion


2. Bear in Heaven - Way Off

Listen at whro.org

1. Phox - Slow Motion


If you missed this week's show, you can listen online for up to a week at http://wruv.org/thisweek?2014-07-30_2000h_Wed-Flight_of_the_Squawkatiel_with_McSquawk.m3u or http://wruv.org/schedule/wednesday

Click here for this week's playlist.

Playlist for 7/30/14: Electro R&B

Last week's show featured a 2nd hour playlist of the more electronic, R&B inspired sound which has become popular in the last few year.

You can listen to this show (until tonight's show) at http://wruv.org/thisweek?2014-07-23_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 Hospital Bed Island Boy Basic Instincts Rita Rock
08:06 pm Time Go Caught a Ghost Human Nature +1 Rock
08:10 pm Dream Girl Miniature Tigers Cruel Runnings Yebo Rock
08:16 pm Down The Kooks The Bad Habit EP Astralwerks Rock
08:18 pm Dying Day Landlady Upright Behavior Hometapes Rock
08:20 pm Fade Northheart Northheart EP s/r Rock
08:23 pm (Theme From) Monomyth Monomyth Saturnalia Regalia! Mint Rock
08:26 pm Adult Diversion Alvvays Alvvays Polyvinyl Rock
08:31 pm Climber New Entry Braid No Coast Topshelf Rock
08:34 pm Vanilla Boris Noise Sargent House Rock
08:38 pm Night Running Mean Creek Local Losers Old Flame Rock
08:40 pm Yeah, Tonight Gold-Bears Dalliance Slumberland Rock
08:44 pm Weak Currents Buddy Last Call For the Quiet Life Stove Punchin' Rock
08:48 pm Golden Waves A Sunny Day In Glasgow Sea When Absent Lefse Rock
08:52 pm Lia Kitten Kitten (Bonus Track) Elektra Rock
09:02 pm Breezeblocks (Sebastian Carter Remix) Alt-J Breezeblocks Sebastian Carter RPM
09:07 pm Never Matter Toro Y Moi Anything in Return Carpark Rock
09:10 pm Feel Dead Times "Inner Gold" s/r Rock
09:15 pm Moonchild (Mouse On Mars Remix) Cibo Matto Moonchild Warner Bros. RPM
09:20 pm Frontier Psychiatrist The Avalanches Since I Left You Modular RPM
09:25 pm Ave B La Big Vic Cold War Underwater Peoples Rock
09:30 pm Seconds Ghost Loft "Seconds" s/r RPM
09:35 pm Wildfire SBTRKT SBTRKT Young Turks RPM
09:39 pm Subtle (feat. Mikky Ekko) Active Child Rapor EP Vagrant Rock
09:42 pm Bloodflows Sohn Tremors 4AD RPM
09:47 pm Stay (feat. Nick Acquroff) Chiefs "Stay (feat. Nick Acquroff)" s/r RPM
09:53 pm Ex-Files Loveskills Multiplicity No Shame Rock

Playlist for 7/16/14: Glitched Business

Sorry, I've not been good about putting up my playlists lately! This show is no longer available to stream online, but featured a bunch of songs with that glitchy style of electronics popular in the 00's during the second hour.

Here is the playlist:

Time Title Artist Album Label Genre
08:02 pm U-Turn Amatorski From Clay to Figures Crammed Discs Rock
08:06 pm Is It Natural? Donovan Blanc Donovan Blanc Captured Tracks Rock
08:09 pm Wormholes Mimicking Birds Eons Glacial Pace Rock
08:12 pm 1936 Phox Phox Partisan Rock
08:17 pm Armida Lust For Youth International Sacred Bones Rock
08:22 pm Writing on the Wall Bear's Den Without/Within Communion Rock
08:26 pm Hold Tight Midnight Faces The Fire is Gone Broken Factory Rock
08:32 pm Go Grimes WRUV Rock Singles July 2014 Mix #1 4AD Rock
08:35 pm Fool's Gold Manicanparty The District EP Atwork Rock
08:38 pm The Body, It Bends A Sunny Day in Glasgow Sea When Absent Lefse Rock
08:42 pm Sensible Kitten Kitten Elektra Rock
08:47 pm East End Hollows Braid No Coast Topshelf Rock
08:50 pm Luna Fear of Men Loom Kanine Rock
08:54 pm Captives The Sea The Sea "Captives" s/r Rock
09:04 pm Random Word Generation Freestyle Boy Backroom "Random Word Generation Freestyle Boy" s/r RPM
09:05 pm Nannou Aphex Twin Windowlicker Warp RPM
09:10 pm Sleeping In The Postal Service Give Up Sub Pop Rock
09:14 pm Quitter's Raga Gold Panda Companion Ghostly International Rock
09:17 pm Complex Scenic Square Grey EP s/r Rock
09:21 pm The White Flash (feat. Thom Yorke) Modeselektor Happy Birthday! BPitch Control RPM
09:26 pm Breathing Lessons Edapollo Shallow Swell Bad Panda RPM
09:31 pm Ungirthed Purity Ring Shrines 4AD RPM
09:34 pm Inner Hue Anenon Inner Hue Alpha Pup RPM
09:39 pm H Soft Escape The Age of Rockets Hannah Astronaut / Dinosaur Rock
09:43 pm An Owl With Knees The Books Lost and Safe Temporary Residence Ltd Rock
09:49 pm From One Wrong Place to the Next The Notwist Close to the Glass Sub Pop Rock
09:52 pm Ram Ram The Deer Tracks The Archer Trilogy Pt. 1 The Control Group Rock
09:57 pm You Are Here Falling Off Maps A Seaside Town in Winter Square Peg Round Hole Rock

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Playlist for 7/9/14: 3 Years of Flight of the Squawkatiel!

This week's show was a very special one, because exactly three years ago I had my first show on WRUV (from 6-9 am). For the second hour I played a bunch of my favorite songs from that very first show, as well as others I have played over the last few years.

If you missed the show, you can listen online at http://wruv.org/thisweek?2014-07-09_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 Dust Little May "Dust" Dew Process Rock
08:06 pm Acting Your Age Mimicking Birds Eons Glacial Pace Rock
08:10 pm Dwindle Craft Spells Nausea Captured Tracks Rock
08:14 pm Apples and Cigarettes Kitten Kitten Elektra Rock
08:18 pm Runaway Young Liars Tidal Wave Nettwerk Rock
08:21 pm Jennifer Lawrence Nova & The Experience Where We Go EP s/r Rock
08:26 pm Swimming Pool Blues Miniature Tigers Cruel Runnings Yebo Rock
08:31 pm Around Town The Kooks Bad Habit EP Astralwerks Rock
08:35 pm Brain Freeze The Voluntary Butler Scheme A Million Ways to Make Gold Split Rock
08:38 pm Melina The Burning of Rome Year of the Ox Surfdog Rock
08:42 pm Taiyo no Baka Boris Noise Sargent House Rock
08:47 pm Hangover Mind Mean Creek Local Losers Old Flame Rock
08:49 pm Forgiveness Bob Mould Beauty & Ruin Merge Rock
08:52 pm Kick Conor Oberst Upside Down Mountain Nonesuch Rock
08:56 pm The Judge You Me & Apollo Sweet Honey AA Duel Monopoly Rock
09:05 pm Gangsta tUnE-yArDs w h o k i l l 4AD Rock
09:09 pm Call It What You Want Foster the People Torches Columbia Rock
09:13 pm All of Me Tanlines Mixed Emotions True Panther Sounds Rock
09:18 pm The Ballad of Mr. Steak Kishi Bashi Lighght Joyful Noise Rock
09:21 pm If Ever I Stray Frank Turner England Keep My Bones Xtra Mile Rock
09:24 pm Scarecrow Enter the Haggis The Modest Revolution Firebrand Entertainment Rock
09:29 pm Seven Hours Adrian Roye & the Exiles Reclaimed s/r Rock
09:33 pm Falling Out Veronica Falls Waiting For Something to Happen Slumberland Rock
09:35 pm Out in the Way (feat. Wild Nothing) Beach Fossils What a Pleasure Captured Tracks Rock
09:41 pm Myth Beach House Bloom Sub Pop Rock
09:45 pm Isjaki Sigur Ros Kveikur XL Rock
09:49 pm Middle States The Appleseed Cast Middle States Graveface Rock
09:57 pm Kill the Light Kitten Kitten Elektra Rock

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Playlist for 7/2/14: Best of 2014...So Far

After being out sick last week, Flight of the Squawkatiel returned with a very special show - since we are halfway through 2014, I played my favorite songs of the year so far during the second hour.

Also, if you are enjoying the show, please like Flight of the Squawkatiel's Facebook page - I plan on using it for more updates on all your favorite artists you hear on the show and other fun stuff.

If you missed this week's show, you can stream it online until next Wednesday night at http://wruv.org/thisweek?2014-07-02_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 Melody Boris Noise Sargent House Rock
08:08 pm Scapegoat The Faint Doom Abuse SQE Rock
08:11 pm Violet Popstrangers Fortuna Carpark Rock
08:15 pm MTLOV (Minor Keys) A Sunny Day In Glasgow Sea When Absent Lefse Rock
08:19 pm Descent Fear of Men Loom Kanine Rock
08:24 pm Devotion Kitten Kitten Elektra Rock
08:30 pm Colorful Manicanparty The District EP Atwork Rock
08:35 pm Xtalk Hundred Waters The Moon Rang Like a Bell OWSLA Rock
08:39 pm Blue Hour Duck House "Blue Hour" s/r Rock
08:42 pm I Am Not Afraid Owen Pallett In Conflict Domino Rock
08:48 pm Girlfriend Donovan Blanc Donovan Blanc Captured Tracks Rock
08:52 pm Hundreds of Ways Conor Oberst Upside Down Mountain Nonesuch Rock
08:56 pm Shut In Strand Of Oaks Heal Dead Oceans Rock
09:05 pm Philosophize In It! Chemicalize With It! Kishi Bashi Lighght Joyful Noise Rock
09:09 pm Seasons (Waiting On You) Future Islands Singles 4AD Rock
09:13 pm The Brae Yumi Zouma EP Cascine Rock
09:17 pm Komorebi Craft Spells Nausea Captured Tracks Rock
09:23 pm Hello, San Francisco Margot & the Nuclear So & So's Slingshot to Heaven Mariel Rock
09:26 pm Elusive Youth Elephant Sky Swimming Memphis Industries Rock
09:29 pm Sweet Albion Blues Frank Turner Polaroid Picture EP Interscope Rock
09:32 pm Luna Bombay Bicycle Club So Long, See You Tomorrow Vagrant Rock
09:36 pm Apogee Tycho Awake Ghostly RPM
09:40 pm A Beginner's Guide to Destroying the Moon Foster the People Supermodel Columbia Rock
09:45 pm Le Sigh Johnny Foreigner You Can Do Better Alcopop! Rock
09:48 pm Naive Dream The Mary Onettes Portico: Labrador Rock
09:51 pm Lost In The Dream The War on Drugs Lost In The Dream Secretly Canadian Rock
09:55 pm Masokissed The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Days of Abandon Yebo Rock
10:00 pm When You Want Me Jingo https://soundcloud.com/jingomusic s/r Rock