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

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.

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

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

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

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