Squawkatiel Madness 2014: Round 4 Begins!

Voting for Round 4 of Squawkatiel Madness 2014 has begun! We are down to 8 bands left out of 64. One of these 8 will get the second hour of the April 9th show dedicated to their music, and you get to decide who that will be!

Click here to vote for who you want to advance to the Feathered Four.

Here are the matches in the Avian Eight:

Beach Fossils, who made the Feathered Four last year, are looking to get there once again this year. But standing in their way is Stephen Malkmus, frontman of the beloved 90's band Pavement, and his current band The Jicks who have been going strong for over 10 years.

In what looks to be possibly the most competitive match this round, we have Washed Out, who appear to be popular with the same crowd who carried Beach House to victory last year, up against Real Estate, who just released their newest album Atlas that has been very popular on WRUV.

In the third match we have two of the more surprising artists in the Avian Eight fighting it out for a spot in the Feathered Four. We have Tennis, who have been quite busy with two albums and an EP in the last three years, versus Dr. Dog who are a really great live band.

Finally, in the last match we have two artists who couldn't be more different. Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Ros goes up against dance duo Daft Punk whose popularity has soared in the last year with a hit single and Grammy-winning album.

So who will make it to the Feathered Four? It's up to you. You have until Wednesday, April 2nd at 6 pm to vote for who you want to advance, and then the results will be announced on that night's show.

CLICK HERE TO VOTE!

Squawkatiel Madness Round 3: Results!

Round 3 of Squawkatiel Madness 2014 has ended! The votes are in, let's see who you voted through to the Avian Eight! Here are the final scores:

Beach Fossils 3
Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2

Dum Dum Girls 2
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks 3

Washed Out 3
Kurt Vile 2

Real Estate 3
Polica 2

Broken Bells 2
Tennis 3

Phantogram 1
Dr. Dog 4

Gogol Bordello 1
Sigur Ros 4

Daft Punk 4
Rubblebucket 1

In the 4th round Beach Fossils, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Washed Out, Real Estate, Tennis, Dr. Dog, Sigur Ros, and Daft Punk will compete for a place in the Feathered Four.

CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR ROUND 4!

Playlist for 3/26/14: Old Songs from my iTunes

On my show this week I decided to feature a bunch of the older songs from my iTunes collection during the second hour (they had to have been from before I graduated from college) and were all by obscure artists. Great chance for you to discover something new!

This week's show also marked the beginning of Round 3 of Squawkatiel Madness 2014! You, the listeners have voted and the artists in the Squawky Sixteen are: Beach Fossils, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Dum Dum Girls, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Washed Out, Kurt Vile, Real Estate, Polica, Broken Bells, Tennis, Phantogram, Dr. Dog, Gogol Bordello, Sigur Ros, Daft Punk, and Rubblebucket. One of these 16 artists will be 2014's Squawkatiel Madness champion and will get the 2nd hour of my April 9th show - but you get to decide who it will be! Vote here for who you want to advance to the Avian Eight.

If you missed this week's show, you can listen to it for up to a week at http://wruv.org/thisweek?2014-03-26_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
08:04 pm	Happy Alone	Saintseneca	Dark Arc	Anti	Rock
08:07 pm	Eyes to the Wind	The War on Drugs	Lost in the Dream	Secretly Canadian	Rock
08:13 pm	Fire-Scene	S. Carey	Range of Light	Jagjaguwar	Rock
08:19 pm	Going Forth	Axxa/Abraxas	Axxa/Abraxas	Captured Tracks	Rock
08:24 pm	King Leo	Hi-Tide	She's Gone	s/r	Rock
08:28 pm	Never Ask Why	Jupe Jupe	Crooked Kisses	s/r	Rock
08:33 pm	Past Life	Lost in the Trees	Past Life	Anti	Rock
08:38 pm	Yell it Out!	The Derevolutions	Yell it Out!	s/r	Rock
08:42 pm	Now	Joywave	How Do You Feel?	Cultco	Rock
08:48 pm	Are You What You Want to Be?	Foster the People	Supermodel	Columbia	Rock
08:52 pm	Dancing's Done	Thumpers	Galore	Sub Pop	Rock
08:55 pm	Losing to the Dark	La Sera	Hour of the Dawn	Hardly Art	Rock
08:58 pm	Guilty of Everything	Nothing	Guilty of Everything	Relapse	Rock
09:07 pm	Straw Man	State Shirt	Don't Die	Los Fucking Angeles	Rock
09:12 pm	Walk to the Sun	Analog Missionary	Transmitter	s/r	Rock
09:15 pm	Daydream	Purple Wage	Daydream	s/r	Rock
09:20 pm	Mayfly	The Silent Years	n/a	s/r	Rock
09:24 pm	Can't Be Trusted	One Star Hotel	Good Morning, West Gordon	Stereo Field	Rock
09:28 pm	Popular Cult	The Burdocks	Airplane Tracks	s/r	Rock
09:33 pm	Tokyo	Satellite Hearts	demo	s/r	Rock
09:37 pm	Mars	The DSC Project	Very Number One	s/r	Rock
09:40 pm	Summerlin Avenue	Noon Blue	Noon Blue	s/r	Rock
09:44 pm	Intervallum	Common Effect	n/a	s/r	Rock
09:49 pm	Monza	Autobot City	n/a	s/r	Rock
09:52 pm	Parallel	Smokescreen	garageband.com	s/r	Rock
09:55 pm	Alpacalypse	Saleem Reshamwala	Saleem Reshamwala's Album	s/r	Other
09:59 pm	In Your Twilight	Leaving Rouge	White Houses EP	Greyday	Rock

Squawkatiel Madness Round 2: Results!

Voting has ended for Round 2 of Squawkatiel Madness 2014! 32 of Flight of the Squawkatiel's favorite artists competed for your votes, and only 16 move on to the next round. Did your favorite band make it into the Squawky Sixteen? Here are the final scores:

Beach Fossils 6
Sleigh Bells 1

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin 2
Yeah Yeah Yeahs 5

CocoRosie 2
Dum Dum Girls 5

They Might Be Giants 2
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks 5

Vampire Weekend 1
Washed Out 6

Kurt Vile 5
Of Montreal 2

Real Estate 6
Cheatahs 1

Poliça 5
Iron & Wine 2

Broken Bells 4
Minus the Bear 3

Los Campesinos! 2
Tennis 5

Phantogram 5
Frank Turner 2

Dr. Dog 5
Franz Ferdinand 2

Gogol Bordello 4
Queens of the Stone Age 3

Arcade Fire 3
Sigur Ros 4

Daft Punk 6
The Fratellis 1

Rubblebucket 6
Portugal. The Man 1

CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR ROUND 3!

Voting opens for Round 2 of Squawkatiel Madness 2014!

Thanks to everyone who voted in Round 1 of Squawkatiel Madness! To see how the voting went down, you can go to http://challonge.com/squawkatiel2014

Now it is time to vote on who you want to advance to the "Squawky Sixteen" for a chance to be the featured artist of the April 9th edition of Flight of the Squawkatiel.

CLICK HERE TO VOTE!

The matches for Round 2 are:

Beach Fossils (1) vs. Sleigh Bells (9)

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (4) vs. Yeah Yeah Yeahs (5)

CocoRosie (15) vs. Dum Dum Girls (10)

They Might Be Giants (3) vs. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks (6)

Vampire Weekend (1) vs. Washed Out (8)

Kurt Vile (4) vs. Of Montreal (5)

Real Estate (2) vs. Cheatahs (10)

Poliça (14) vs. Iron & Wine (11)

Broken Bells (1) vs. Minus the Bear (9)

Los Campesinos! (4) vs. Tennis (5)

Phantogram (2) vs. Frank Turner (10)

Dr. Dog (3) vs. Franz Ferdinand (6)

Gogol Bordello (1) vs. Queens of the Stone Age (8)

Arcade Fire (4) vs. Sigur Ros (5)

Daft Punk (2) vs. The Fratellis (7)

Rubblebucket (3) vs. Portugal. The Man (11)

Voting for Round 2 ends on Wednesday, March 26 at 6 pm, and then the "Squawky Sixteen" will be announced on that night's Flight of the Squawkatiel on 90.1 WRUV. Voting for Round 3 will begin shortly after that. Please only vote once per round. DJ McSquawk will only vote if there are an even number of voters and we need to break any ties.

Below, you can find a playlist with all 32 artists in Round 2 in case you're unfamiliar with any of them.

Squawkatiel Madness - Round 1 Results!

We've reached the end of Round 1 of Squawkatiel Madness! Let's see how you voted:

The biggest upset in Round 1 was The Strokes, who made it all the way to the final round against Beach House last year, but were defeated in the 1st round this year by none other than CocoRosie. All the #1 seeds advanced to Round 2, but in the cases of Vampire Weekend and Gogol Bordello, it was by a very small margin. Votes came in strong for They Might Be Giants, Franz Ferdinand, Daft Punk and Dr. Dog, while many of the other matches were decided by one vote, including Frank Turner's victory over Phoenix, and Wild Nothing's defeat at the hands of Iron & Wine.

Here are the final scores:

Beach Fossils 4
Tera Melos 0

Foals 2
Sleigh Bells 4

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin 3*
Superchunk 2

Yeah Yeah Yeahs 3
Frankie Rose 2

The Strokes 2
CocoRosie 3

Arctic Monkeys 1
Dum Dum Girls 4

They Might Be Giants 5
Shout Out Louds 0

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks 2
Enter the Haggis 1

Vampire Weekend 3
Still Corners 2

Washed Out 4
Youth Lagoon 1

Kurt Vile 3
Marissa Nadler 1

Of Montreal 4
Speedy Ortiz 2

Real Estate 3
Minks 0

Bibio 1
Cheatahs 2

Tycho 1
Polica 2

Wild Nothing 2
Iron & Wine 3

Broken Bells 4
Saturday Looks Good to Me 1

Surfer Blood 1
Minus the Bear 3

Los Campesinos! 3
Warpaint 1

Tennis 3
The Notwist 1

Phantogram 4
The Melodic 1

Phoenix 2
Frank Turner 3

Dr. Dog 5
Generationals 0

Franz Ferdinand 5
Frightened Rabbit 0

Gogol Bordello 3*
Man Man 2

Queens of the Stone Age 3
Pretty & Nice 1

Arcade Fire 4
Adrian Roye & the Exiles 1

Sigur Ros 4
Kitten 1

Daft Punk 5
The Appleseed Cast 0

The Fratellis 3
Delorean 1

Rubblebucket 3
Home by Hovercraft 0

Bombay Bicycle Club 1
Portugal. The Man 2

*means this match was a tie, and DJ McSquawk cast the tiebreaker vote.


Click here to vote for Round 2!

Playlist for 3/19/14: The Cold Wave

Here in Burlington, we had unseasonably cold temperatures for March this week, so the theme for last night's show featured an of icy synth rock, vaguely "coldwave" playlist. I figured if I planned on having a cold themed show the weather would finally get warmer, as the weather never wants to cooperate with my show (like last week when we had the snowstorm that delayed Squawkatiel Madness).

In other news, last night's show marked the beginning of Squawkatiel Madness 2014! Voting for Round 1 has opened and you can vote for which artist you want to advance to Round 2 for an opportunity to have the April 9th edition of Flight of the Squawkatiel dedicated to their music. Click here to vote.

If you missed last night's show, you can listen to it for up to a week at http://wruv.org/thisweek?2014-03-19_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
08:02 pm	Simple and Sure	The Pains of Being Pure at Heart	Days of Abandon	Yebo Music	Rock
08:05 pm	Erosion	Cymbals	The Age of Fracture	Tough Love	Rock
08:09 pm	Horizon	Real Estate	Atlas	Domino	Rock
08:12 pm	Beetle	Run River North	Run River North	Nettwerk	Rock
08:17 pm	Suffering	The War on Drugs	Lost in the Dream	Secretly Canadian	Rock
08:23 pm	Monday	NO	El Prado	Arts & Crafts	Rock
08:27 pm	Miles Away	Ghost Modern	https://soundcloud.com/ghost-modern-1	s/r	Rock
08:32 pm	Sprinkles	We Are Scientists	TV En Francais	Dine Alone	Rock
08:36 pm	Le Sigh	Johnny Foreigner	You Can Do Better	Alcopop!	Rock
08:39 pm	So You Know	Bleeding Rainbow	Interrupt	Kanine	Rock
08:42 pm	Tired Step	Ten Sleep	Departure EP	s/r	Rock
08:47 pm	Somebody New	Joywave	How Do You Feel?	Cultco	Rock
08:51 pm	Sound of Screams	Thumpers	Galore	Sub Pop	Rock
08:54 pm	Harakiri	CEO	Wonderland	Modular	Rock
09:03 pm	Villains of the Moon	Cold Cave	Cherish the Light Years	Matador	Rock
09:10 pm	Lightbringer	Covenant	Modern Ruin	Metropolis	Rock
09:16 pm	Doubt	Kitten	Like a Stranger EP	Elektra	Rock
09:22 pm	Vanished	Crystal Castles	Crystal Castles	Last Gang	Rock
09:26 pm	Couer Hante	Frank (Just Frank)	The Brutal Wave	Wierd	Rock
09:31 pm	Western Rust	Blume	Autumn Ruins	WTII	RPM
09:35 pm	Sabotage	Four Phonica	Four Phonica	H.R.M.	Rock
09:39 pm	USA Boys	HEALTH	:DISCO2	Lovepump United	RPM
09:44 pm	Dear Ophelia	Abney Park	The Death of Tragedy	s/r	Rock
09:50 pm	It's Time	Butterfly Messiah	Eternal	The Fossil Dungeon	RPM
09:56 pm	Into the Night	Isgaard & Loic	Ninthwave Records Presents Electropop 2012	Ninthwave Media	RPM

Squawkatiel Madness 2014: Voting Opens!

The madness has begun! The time has come to vote for which artists you want to move on to Round 2 of Squawkatiel Madness, and which artists you want to give a chance to win a special April 9th edition of Flight of the Squawkatiel dedicated to their music. Click here for details on which artists are in the running (and more info on Squawkatiel Madness).

CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR ROUND 1!

The above link will take you to a survey where you can vote for all 32 matches in Round 1. This time, you don't have to vote for every single match, just the ones you care about. But please do vote for as many matches as possible!

Voting for Round 1 ends at 10 pm on Saturday, March 22nd. Please only vote once per round.

Below, you can listen to a Soundcloud playlist of all 64 artists in Squawkatiel Madness, in case you're unfamiliar with any of them.

Playlist for 3/15/14: St. Patrick's Day

Tonight I subbed for DJ G-LUV's show Frosted Tips from 6-8 pm, and did my special Celtic Rock St. Patrick's Day show that I missed doing at my regular time when we had the snowstorm.

Be sure to tune in this Wednesday at 8pm to kick off Squawkatiel Madness 2014!

If you missed the St. Patrick's Day show, you can stream it online for up to a week at http://wruv.org/thisweek?2014-03-15_1800h_Sat-Frosted_Tips_with_G-LUV.m3u or http://wruv.org/schedule/saturday (be sure to click the button next to "Frosted Tips with G-Luv"

Here is the playlist:

Time ∧	Title	Artist	Album	Label	Genre
06:03 pm	Say Goodbye	Beck	Morning Phase	Capitol	Rock
06:07 pm	We're the Future	Fanfarlo	Let's Go Extinct	Blue Horizon	Rock
06:12 pm	Unkinder (A Tougher Love)	Thumpers	Galore	Sub Pop	Rock
06:17 pm	Regret	St. Vincent	St. Vincent	Loma Vista	Rock
06:21 pm	No Matter What You're Told	Broken Bells	After the Disco	Columbia	Rock
06:26 pm	Chainz	Lolawolf	Lolawolf	Innit Recordings	Rock
06:29 pm	Mind	Com Truise	Wave 1 EP	Ghostly International	RPM
06:33 pm	Lion Cub	Ten Sleep	Departure EP	s/r	Rock
06:37 pm	Never Enough	Eternal Summers	The Drop Beneath	Kanine	Rock
06:42 pm	Eyeballs	Pillar Point	Pillar Point	Polyvinyl	Rock
06:46 pm	7-Hour Drive	The Notwist	Close to the Glass	Sub Pop	Rock
06:50 pm	Bruises	The Stillwalkers	Bruises	FatCat	Rock
06:53 pm	Black Stone	Ume	Monuments	Dangerbird	Rock
06:57 pm	Bent Nail	Nothing	Guilty of Everything	Relapse	Rock
07:02 pm	The Devil in the Kitchen	Ashley MacIsaac	Hi How Are You Today?	Linus Entertainment	Folk
07:05 pm	I'll Tell Me Ma	The Rumjacks	Hung Drawn and Portered	ABC Music	Rock
07:08 pm	Angels Gather	The Glengarry Bhoys	Rhoots	Cerberus	Rock
07:12 pm	Raft of the Medusa	The Levellers	Static on the Airwaves	On the Fiddle	Rock
07:15 pm	Unreel	Pubside Down	Keen On Green	s/r	Folk
07:19 pm	Walking Around Lucky	The Mighty Regis	Walking Around Lucky	s/r	Folk
07:22 pm	The Devilll for My Hurt	The Olllam	The Olllam	Compass	Folk
07:29 pm	Toy Soldiers	Carbon Leaf	Echo Echo	Constant Ivy	Rock
07:33 pm	Goodmornin Da	The Tossers	The Valley of the Shadow of Death	Victory	Rock
07:35 pm	To Youth (My Sweet Roisin Dubh)	Flogging Molly	Within a Mile of Home	Side One Dummy	Rock
07:38 pm	Setlon	Eluveitie	Everything Remains (As It Never Was)	Nuclear Blast	Metal
07:42 pm	White Gown	Wolfstone	Year of the Dog	Green Linnet	Rock
07:47 pm	Murphy's Ashes	Enter the Haggis	Gutter Anthems	Firebrand Entertainment	Folk
07:50 pm	Drunk Tonight	The Bloody Irish Boys	Drunk Rock	Sick Sad	Rock
07:52 pm	(F)lannigan's Ball	Dropkick Murphys	The Meanest of Times	Born & Bred	Rock
07:58 pm	If I Should Fall From Grace With God	The Pogues	If I Should Fall From Grace With God	Rhino	Rock

Squawkatiel Madness Delayed Due to Winter Storm

Bad news - today was supposed to be day the voting would begin for the first round of Squawkatiel Madness, but a bad winter storm has hit vermont and Burlington is expected to get up to 2 feet of snow between Wednesday morning and Thursday afternoon, and I am unable to get to WRUV to do my show.

Flight of the Squawkatiel will return on March 19th, and you will be able to vote for the first round of Squawkatiel Madness that night.

The Squawkatiel's Dozen #3

Here is the first Squawkatiel's Dozen of March! I meant to get this one up earlier but I've been way too busy lately. Once again, I bring you 6 songs you can download for free, and 6 more that aren't available to download for free but are still worth a listen.

Downloads:

1. First up is PT Walkley's catchy song "Leeches", the second single to be released from his new album Shoulders. This song has very funny, clever lyrics and reminds me a little of They Might Be Giants or Jonathan Coulton, but at the same time offers plenty of melodic hooks.



2. La Sera (Katy Goodman of Vivian Girls) is releasing her third album, Hour of the Dawn, through Hardly Art Records on May 13th. Here is the first single, "Losing to the Dark".



3. Ghost Modern is a new band from Boston, and they remind me a lot of the band Stellastarr* (who had an excellent debut album). Here is "Miles Away", my favorite of the three songs on their Soundcloud page.



4. British band Johnny Foreigner are back with a new album You Can Do Better, which comes out next week. Here is their first single from it, "Le Sigh". Recommended if you like Los Campesinos!



5. Ten Sleep are a Canadian band who have released a couple of singles so far. Here is their song "Lion Cub", a catchy melodic indie rock song, with a sound somewhere between Local Natives, Minus the Bear and Two Door Cinema Club.



6. Keeping with the lion theme, here is the song "King Leo" by the British band Hi-Tide. You will need to give your email address if you want to download this song, which you can find here.



Streams:

1. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart have returned with their third album Days of Abandon, which will be released on. Their 2009 self-titled debut was my favorite album of that year, and their sophomore release Belong was very good as well, so expect to hear a lot from the new album on my show this spring. Here is the first single, "Simple and Sure":



2. Four Phonica are a Ukrainian band who have just released their debut self-titled EP, and from it is their latest single "Sabotage". This song sounds a lot different than anything out there right now: industrial rock similar to bands popular in the late 90's (they remind me of the band Garbage in particular) but bring this style of music into the 2014 with some modern production. The lyrics in the chorus are a little strange, but offer some vivid imagery.



3. Klaxons are back with their first album since 2010's Surfing the Void. The new album, Love Frequency will be released on June 2. From it, here is the song "Children of the Sun" which was produced by Tom Rowlands of the Chemical Brothers.




4. Wends are a Finnish band I featured as one of Flight of the Squawkatiel's Soundcloud Artist of the Week a few months ago. They have released a brand new single called "Love or Let Go".



5. Dream pop band A Sunny Day in Glasgow (who are actually from Philadelphia) will be back with a new album sometime this year. Here is their song "In Love With Useless (The Timeless Geometry In The Tradition of Passing". This song has a lot going on but there is a beautiful song underneath all the crazy sounds.



6. Finally, on a completely different note from the last song, Manchester Orchestra are back with their first album since 2011. COPE will be released on April 1. From it here is the new song "Every Stone".



I promise the next Squawkatiel's Dozen will up much quicker than this one. Also, if you missed the last two installments of the Squawkatiel's Dozen, you can find #1 here and #2 here.

Playlist for 3/5/14: Guitar Rock

This week's show featured a playlist of songs pulled from my "Guitar Rock" playlist on iTunes. Next week, stay tuned for my annual St. Patrick's Day show featuring a playlist of my favorite Celtic Rock bands.

If you missed the show, you can stream it for up to a week at http://wruv.org/thisweek?2014-03-05_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	Klapp Klapp	Little Dragon	WRUV Rock Singles March Mix #1 2014	Loma Vista	Rock
08:06 pm	You Burn	I Break Horses	Chiarascuro	Bella Union	RPM
08:11 pm	Home By Now	Bombay Bicycle Club	So Long, See You Tomorrow	Vagrant	Rock
08:16 pm	Wave 1	Com Truise	Wave 1	Ghostly	RPM
08:21 pm	Run Run Run	The Notwist	Close to the Glass	Sub Pop	Rock
08:26 pm	My Only Friend	Phantogram	Voices	Republic	Rock
08:33 pm	Landlocked	Fanfarlo	Let's Go Extinct	Blue Horizon	Rock
08:36 pm	Medicine	Broken Bells	After the Disco	Columbia	Rock
08:40 pm	We Are Coming Back	Marissa Nadler	July	Sacred Bones	Rock
08:43 pm	Crime	Real Estate	Atlas	Domino	Rock
08:47 pm	Leave the Door Wide Open	NO	El Prado	Arts & Crafts	Rock
08:51 pm	She's a Riot	The Jungle Giants	She's a Riot	Amplifire Music	Rock
08:55 pm	I'm Surprised	The Owls	Two	Polyvinyl	Rock
08:58 pm	Time & Place	Bleeding Rainbow	Interrupt	Kanine	Rock
09:07 pm	Avalanche	ASG	Blood Drive	Relapse	Rock
09:11 pm	What Planet Are You From?	Smoody	Smoody	s/r	Rock
09:15 pm	Over It	Dinosaur Jr.	Farm	Jagjaguwar	Rock
09:19 pm	Hell	Tegan and Sara	Sainthood	Sainthood	Rock
09:23 pm	It All Means Nothing	Screaming Females	Ugly	Don Giovanni	Rock
09:27 pm	Your Favorite Thing	Sugar	File Under Easy Listening	Merge	Rock
09:31 pm	The Swan	Cheatahs	Cheatahs	Wichita	Rock
09:36 pm	Lay Down	Priestess	Hello Master	RCA	Metal
09:40 pm	Crushed Like Fruit	InMe	Overgrown Eden	The End	Rock
09:42 pm	Hush	Coheed & Cambria	Year of the Black Rainbow	Columbia	Rock
09:47 pm	Centurion de la Noche	My Little Radio	Demo	s/r	Rock
09:50 pm	Broken Bottles	Silversun Pickups	Seasick	Dangerbird	Rock
09:54 pm	Boxcutter	Armchair Committee	Imola EP	s/r	Rock
09:59 pm	Learned to Surf	Superchunk	Majesty Shredding	Merge	Rock

The return of Squawkatiel Madness!

Flight of the Squawkatiel presents the 2nd annual Squawkatiel Madness! In honor of NCAA's March Madness, 64 artists who have been played on Flight of the Squawkatiel in the past year will go head to head in a similar style tournament for the title of your favorite Flight of the Squawkatiel artist of the year. The winner will get a special show dedicated to their music on the April 9th episode of Flight of the Squawkatiel (plus a cool banner that will be displayed on this blog).

Last year's inaugural Squawkatiel Madness was a success and you, the listeners, voted Beach House as your Squawkatiel Madness champion for 2013. This year, Beach House is not in the running since they didn't release any new music, so who will your winner be for 2014?

The first round matches are:

Beach Fossils (1) vs. Tera Melos (16)

Foals (8) vs. Sleigh Bells (9)

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (4) vs. Superchunk (13)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs (5) vs. Frankie Rose (12)

The Strokes (2) vs. CocoRosie (15)

Arctic Monkeys (7) vs. Dum Dum Girls (10)

They Might Be Giants (3) vs. Shout Out Louds (14)

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks (6) vs. Enter the Haggis (11)

Vampire Weekend (1) vs. Still Corners (16)

Washed Out (8) vs. Youth Lagoon (9)

Kurt Vile (4) vs. Marissa Nadler (13)

Of Montreal (5) vs. Speedy Ortiz (12)

Real Estate (2) vs. Minks (15)

Bibio (7) vs. Cheatahs (10)

Tycho (3) vs. Poliça (14)

Wild Nothing (6) vs. Iron & Wine (11)

Broken Bells (1) vs. Saturday Looks Good to Me (16)

Surfer Blood (8) vs. Minus the Bear (9)

Los Campesinos! (4) vs. Warpaint (13)

Tennis (5) vs. The Notwist (12)

Phantogram (2) vs. The Melodic (15)

Phoenix (7) vs. Frank Turner (10)

Dr. Dog (3) vs. Generationals (14)

Franz Ferdinand (6) vs. Frightened Rabbit (11)

Gogol Bordello (1) vs. Man Man (16)

Queens of the Stone Age (8) vs. Pretty & Nice (9)

Arcade Fire (4) vs. Adrian Roye & the Exiles (13)

Sigur Ros (5) vs. Kitten (12)

Daft Punk (2) vs. The Appleseed Cast (15)

The Fratellis (7) vs. Delorean (10)

Rubblebucket (3) vs. Home by Hovercraft (14)

Bombay Bicycle Club (6) vs. Portugal. The Man (11)

Click here for the Challonge bracket.

This year, there are seed rankings so you are more likely to know at least one of the artists in each match. Seeds were determined by a score of 2x who people are most likely to vote for + 1x my personal preference.
Stay tuned for details on how to vote: on this blog, on Facebook, and on Soundcloud.

VOTE FOR ROUND 1 HERE!