Soundcloud Artist of the Week: Dog & Panther

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.

Dog & Panther is a group out of Michigan. They have a very melodic indie sound that combines guitars with electronic beats, and are recommended if you like Freelance Whales, The Postal Service, or Band of Horses. Their most recent album is Our Bodies which was released in February. Here is a track from it called "One Piece" which is available for free download:

If you liked that, here are a couple of older songs from them:

For more Dog & Panther:

Official Site
Facebook
Soundcloud
Bandcamp

Soundcloud Artist of the Week: Lavers

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.

Lavers is a band from Canberra, Australia who play the kind of classic power pop made famous by bands such as The Beatles and The Beach Boys, but with a more fresh, modern style reminiscent of The Shins or Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. 

They just released their latest single, "I've Been Waiting For You", which you can listen to below and download for free. They will be releasing a new album later this year.

Here are a couple older tracks from Lavers:

If you like what you heard, check out their Facebook page to learn more or their Soundcloud page to listen to more of their songs.

Playlist for 4/20/13: Boston Tribute

On my show this week, I payed tribute to Boston in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing by playing some of my favorite Boston artists during the second hour. If you missed the show, you can listen to it at http://wruv.org/thisweek?2013-04-20_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
06:06 am	Basket Press	Apricot Rail	Quarrels	Hidden Shoal	Rock
06:03 pm	Suki and Me	Alex Calder	Time	Captured Tracks	Rock
06:11 pm	Cayucos	Cayucas	Bigfoot	Secretly Canadian	Rock
06:15 pm	The Sword By My Side	The Thermals	Desparate Ground	Saddle Creek	Rock
06:19 pm	I Never Know	Generationals	Heza	Polyvinyl	Rock
06:22 pm	50/50	The Strokes	Comedown Machine	RCA	Rock
06:24 pm	Pocket (Acoustic)	Biffy Clyro	Opposites	Warner Bros.	Rock
06:30 pm	I've Been Waiting	Lavers	Dream In Japanese	s/r	Rock
06:34 pm	Footnote	Enter the Haggis	The Modest Revolution	Firebrand Entertainment	Rock
06:37 pm	Sounds of Sanity	Remove Silence	Little Piece of Heaven	s/r	Rock
06:41 pm	Once Were Leaves	Pick a Piper	Pick a Piper	Mint	RPM
06:46 pm	I.O.U.	Fol Chen	The False Alarms	Asthmatic Kitty	Rock
06:49 pm	Berlin Lovers	Still Corners	Strange Pleasures	Sub Pop	Rock
06:52 pm	Dance Floor Destroyer	Heloise and the Savoir Faire	Diamond Dust	Simian	Rock
06:56 pm	Strictly Reserved For You	Charles Bradley	Victim Of Love	Daptone	Rock
07:02 pm	Tessie	Dropkick Murphys	The Warrior's Code	Hellcat	Rock
07:06 pm	Let's Face It	The Mighty Mighty Bosstones	Let's Face It	Island Def Jam	Rock
07:09 pm	Calling All Crows	State Radio	Let It Go	Ruff Shod	Rock
07:15 pm	The Message	Bela Fleck & the Flecktones	Three Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Warner Bros.	Jazz
07:19 pm	Another Day (Rhyme Writing)	Crown City Rockers	Another Day (Rhyme Writing)	Insiduous Urban Records	Urban
07:22 pm	Connect	The Campaign For Real-Time	Let It Rise	Wonderdrug	Rock
07:25 pm	Don't Let Me Down (Slowly)	The Main Drag	You Are Underwater	RPL Audio	Rock
07:30 pm	Hibernate	Pretty & Nice	Us You All We	Pax Natural	Rock
07:33 pm	Eyes	Apollo Sunshine	Apollo Sunshine	spinART	Rock
07:36 pm	Window	Guster	Parachute	Ocho Mule	Rock
07:39 pm	Love Everybody	Jim's Big Ego	Don't Get Smart	bigego.com	Rock
07:44 pm	The Sun Always Reminds Me of You	Marissa Nadler	Marissa Nadler	Box of Cedar	Rock
07:48 pm	I Could Sleep	Letters to Cleo	Wholesale Meats and Fish	Giant	Rock
07:51 pm	If I Could Talk I'd Tell You	The Lemonheads	Car Button Cloth	Atlantic	Rock
07:53 pm	My Alcoholic Friends	The Dresden Dolls	Yes, Virginia	Roadrunner	Rock
07:58 pm	Gigantic	The Pixies	Surfer Rosa	4AD	Rock

Playlist for 4/13/13

If you missed this week's show, you can listen to it at http://wruv.org/schedule/saturday

Here is the playlist:

Time ∧ Title Artist Album Label Genre 06:04 pm Day Dreams Midi Matilda Red Light District Five Seven Music Rock 06:08 pm Put a Light On Generationals Heza Polyvinyl Rock 06:12 pm Sentimental Pieces Superhuman Happiness Hands The Royal Potato Family Rock 06:18 pm Happy Ending The Strokes Comedown Machine RCA Rock 06:21 pm Midnight Love Cave Painting Midnight Love EP Third Rock Recordings Rock 06:25 pm Backyard Skulls Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse Atlantic Rock 06:28 pm The Joke's On Us Biffy Clyro Opposites Warner Bros. Rock 06:34 pm Admirable Remove Silence Stupid Human Atrocity s/r Rock 06:39 pm The Swan Cheatahs Extended Plays Wichita Recordings Rock 06:44 pm Born To Kill The Thermals Desparate Ground Saddle Creek Rock 06:47 pm Paranoid Wavves Afraid of Heights Mom + Pop Rock 06:49 pm Step Up for the Cool Cats Palma Violets 180 Rough Trade Rock 06:52 pm Memory Dust Twinstar The Sound of Leaving Commercial Suicide Rock 06:56 pm Letters Enter the Haggis The Modest Revolution Firebrand Entertainment Rock 07:03 pm A Decent Cup of Tea Frank Turner Sleep Is For the Week Xtra Mile Rock 07:06 pm I Am the One Who Will Remember Everything Dar Williams In the Time of Gods Razor & Tie Folk 07:10 pm The General Dispatch Bang Bang Universal Rock 07:15 pm Fire (Folked Out 4-Track Version) The Submarines The Shoelaces EP Nettwerk Rock 07:19 pm Saint Simon The Shins Chutes Too Narrow Sub Pop Rock 07:23 pm Silver & Gold Neil Young Silver & Gold Reprise Folk 07:26 pm One Chance Modest Mouse Good News For People Who Love Bad News Epic Rock 07:30 pm Permanent Bliss Smile Smile Marry a Stranger Kirtland Rock 07:33 pm Love You Madly Cake Comfort Eagle Columbia Rock 07:37 pm Secrets On Our Lips Astronautalis This Is Our Science Fake Four Rock 07:42 pm Love the Lie Sage Francis Li(f)e Anti Rock 07:46 pm Man in the Hall State Radio Us Against The Crown Nettwerk Rock 07:49 pm Disguise The Dirty Heads Cabin by the Sea Five Seven Music Reggae 07:53 pm The Circle in the Square Flobots The Circle in the Square Shanachie Rock 07:58 pm Recovery Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart Interscope Rock

Soundcloud Artist of the Week: Remove Silence

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.

Remove Silence is a band from Sau Paulo, Brazil. They have a progressive rock/industrial sound that really caught my attention. If Steven Wilson from Porcupine Tree and Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails formed a band together, it might sound something like Remove Silence.

Here is their 2012 album Stupid Human Atrocity which you can stream from Soundcloud. If you like what you hear, you can go to their Soundcloud page listen to their first album Fade and their most recent release, the Little Piece of Heaven EP.

Remove Silence - official site
Soundcloud
Facebook

DJ of the Month/Squawk Tunes April 2013

Flight of the Squawkatiel's very own DJ McSquawk has been named the April DJ of the Month at WRUV! You can read the interview at http://wruv.org/news/n199

Also, Flight of the Squawkatiel is doing a special new feature starting this month. Each month, I will be presenting "Squawk Tunes", a digital mixtape of 12 of my favorite free downloads that are available on Soundcloud. This month's set includes great tunes from Enter the Haggis, Youth Lagoon, Loveskills, Javelin and more! Listen to the tracks and download them below:

Enjoy, and if you like what you hear, be sure to support the artists by buying an album or seeing them live!

And the winner of Squawkatiel Madness 2013 is...

Congratulations to Beach House on winning Squawkatiel Madness 2013! It was close, but in the end they beat The Strokes by just one vote.

Beach House received a one hour special on last Saturday's episode of Flight of the Squawkatiel, which you can listen to here.

To celebrate their victory, here is their latest video for their song "Wishes":




Thanks to everyone who voted and made Squawkatiel Madness a success! Tune in next March for Squawkatiel Madness 2014!