日志

Fri 17 Feb – A Silver Mt. Zion, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, Poverty Hymns

I've been waiting over five years for this one, kids, thus there was a lot of anticipation in the months between the show announcement and last night. For the most part, it was definitely worth it, but it was not a perfect show. Then again, it was a bunch of messy and messed up humans getting together in a room for a night of music. Thankfully, that can never really be perfect.

I went to the show with a coworker, who, as of this writing, I'm pretty sure bailed on me. We arrived nice and early to find that the venue doors were already open, apparently unintentionally, but it gave us a chance to come in from the windy chill. Thierry was already manning the merch table, so I took the chance to chat with him a bit and pick up the two albums I didn't have. I wanted to get the single, but, without a turntable, I couldn't justify it to myself. Efrim, Jessica, Sophie and Dave were also milling around the venue for setup and probably soundcheck. …

Music-lovers!

Did you miss me? I got DP'd by men's AND women's basketball last week and didn't have a show. But I was back this week in all my amateur radio glory! Bask in its radiance. Let the light of my visage warm your faces like the sun on the most perfect day at the beach you've ever known. And what better way to soundtrack this moment than these songs I played last night:

Things that Are Square 2-9-12

(*) = New release

Hasil Adkins - I Wanna Kiss Kiss Kiss Your Lips - Peanut Butter Rock and Roll

(*) The Lovely Bad Things - You Done Messed Up - New Ghost/Old Waves
The Cramps - Mystery Plane - Songs the Lord Taught Us
The King Khan & BBQ Show - Shake Real Low - The King Khan & BBQ Show
(*) The Underground Railroad to Candyland - That I Dunno - Knows Your Sins

(*) A Place to Bury Strangers - I Lost You - Onwards to the Wall
Prinzhorn Dance School - You Are the Space Invader - Prinzhorn Dance School
Truman Peyote - New Wife, New Life - Light-Lightning
…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wslm6NFHh-U

1. The Lawrence Arms - The Greatest Story Ever Told
2. Adult. - Anxiety Always
3. The Dagons - Teeth For Pearls
4. Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
6. Jay-Z - The Black Album
7. Ellen Allien - Berlinette
8. Give Up The Ghost - Background Music / We're Down Til We're Underground
9. Strike Anywhere - Exit English
10. Ricardo Villalobos - Alcachofa


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zfQI5S_bfI

11. 50 Cent - Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
12. A Silver Mt. Zion - This Is Our Punk Rock
13. Rasputina - Lost & Found
14. M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
15. Cursed - One
16. Hot Cross - Cyronics
17. Every Time I Die - Hot Damn!
18. The Movielife - Forty Hour Train Back To Penn
19. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
20. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6fVhYTRVp8

21. 1 Mile North - Glass Wars / Minor Shadows
22. Amy Winehouse - Frank
23. Android Lust - The Dividing
…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj2F2QfbAyM

1. Converge - Jane Doe
2. Daft Punk - Discovery
3. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
4. Le Tigre - Feminist Sweepstakes
5. Anti-Flag - Underground Network
6. Adult. - Resuscitation
7. Pzychobitch - Eden
8. Life Without Buildings - Any Other City
9. Lovage - Music to Make Love To Your Old Lady By
10. December - The Lament Configuration

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDrj8tc8r5g

11. Strike Anywhere - Change Is A Sound
12. Metric - Grow Up and Blow Away (Original)
13. A Silver Mt. Zion - Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upward
14. Miss Kittin & The Hacker - First Album
15. The Angels of Light - How I Loved You
16. Bjork - Vespertine
17. Radiohead - Amnesiac
18. Lamb - What Sound
19. Collide - Chasing the Ghost
20. DJ Harvey - Sarcastic Disco Vol. 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DkdKvK3s1I

21. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
22. Basement Jaxx - Rooty
23. S.I.N.A- Snapshot
24. Crane AK - Pink Eyed Pony
25. Backstabbers Inc. - While You Were Sleeping
…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE

1. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command (Album of the Decade)
2. Radiohead - Kid A
3. A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corners of Our Rooms
4. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
5. PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
6. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
7. The Crystal Method - Tweekend
8. Kronos Quartet - Kronos Caravan
9. Bowery Electric - Lushlife
10. Sleater-Kinney - All Hands on the Bad One

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVqqOK2FStE

11. Luomo - Vocalcity
12. New Found Glory - New Found Glory
13. Tegan & Sara - This Business of Art
14. VAST - Music For People
15. Elysian Fields - Queen of the Meadow
16. pg. 99 - Document #5
17. The Dagons - Make Us Old
18. dead prez - Let's Get Free
19. Jack Off Jill - Clear Hearts Grey Flowers
20. Bratmobile - Ladies, Women and Girls

These were also extremely good:

The Briefs - Hit After Hit
Brighter Death Now - Obsessis
…

Hey folks,

Short show this week, as I was pre-empted by basketball on both ends of my show. Fingercuffs-style.

Oh well.

Things that Are Square 12-28-11

(*) = New release

Bill Callahan - Drover - Apocalypse

A Silver Mt. Zion - I Fed My Metal Bird the Wings of Other Metal Birds
- Kollaps Tradixionales
Sir Richard Bishop - Rasheed - Salvador Kali

(*) Thee Oh Sees - The Dream - Carrion Crawler/The Dream EP
Gang of Four - Damaged Goods - Entertainment!
Destroyer - Savage Night at the Opera - Kaputt
The Unicorns - Tuff Ghost - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?

If you can sense the promise in this short playlist, feel free to tune in any Thursday at 6pm on KUCI 88.9fm in Irvine, CA, and worldwide live on the internet at KUCI.ORG, the college radio presets of iTunes, and various smartphone apps.

XOX,
Kyle

Top 10:
1. Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction/Ghost
Mind-blowing metal and beautiful ambience from the craziest character in metal... and now also the ambient scene
2. Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
Completely revolutionary and downright fantastic in almost everything it does
3. Efrim Manuel Menuck - plays "High Gospel"
Moody ballads and soundscapes from one of main minds behind A Silver Mt. Zion and Godspeed You! Black Emperor
4. Fair To Midland - Arrows & Anchors
Exceptionally catchy and well-written alt-pop-death metal
5. Mastodon - The Hunter
Comparatively stripped-down but thoroughly enjoyable metal
6. Boris - New Album
Drone/stoner/doom rockers do J-pop
7. This Will Destroy You - Tunnel Blanket
Transcends post-rock to encompass a broader drone/doom/ambient sound
8. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
Tim Hecker. Nuff said.
9. Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning
Still nagged by the large chunks of this album which basically form a love-letter to Robert Fripp…