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

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

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

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

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

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.)

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