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

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

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.

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

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