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

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

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