Links for 2006-09-25

Anamanaguchi - “Power Supply” (Power Supply)
ATD vs. Sage and the Verve - “Slow Down Symphony”
Halloween Alaska - “Call it Clear” (Halloween, Alaska)
Harvey Danger - “Cream and Bastards Rise” (Little by Little)
Kidd Video vs. Hidden Fortress - “I Need a Quarter” (Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Select, Start, Remix)
Nedavine - “5am” (Soulseed)
8BitPeoples
Soulseek Records
SubSource
John's blog
Radiozoom podcast

68. 2006-09-25 "Geneva"

It's John's birthday. Send him happies.

Time	Artist	Song
12:05	Kalyanji Shah, Anandji Shah	Theme From Don
	The Beatles	Birthday
	Harvey Danger	Cream and Bastards Rise
	Live	White, Discussion
	The Tragically Hip	Fireworks
12:24	Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band	Thunder Road
	Jessee Malin	Hungry Heart
	Crooked Fingers	Mansion on the Hill
	Dwight Yoakam	Truckin'
12:45	Sublime	Scarlet Begonias
	Sublime	We're Only Gonna Die
12:53	Jimi Hendrix	Third Stone From the Sun
1:01	Matthew Good	Advertising On Police Cars
	Grateful Dead	Dark Star
1:22	Lou Reed	Coney Island Baby
	Our Lady Peace	Starseed
	Nedavine	5am
	Fountains of Wayne	Halley's Waitress
1:42	Psapp	Tricycle
	The Sugarcubes	Birthday
	They Might Be Giants	Someone Keeps Moving My Chair
1:52	The New Pornographers	Star Bodies
	Turin Brakes	Underdog (Save Me)
2:02	DJ Shadow	You Made it (feat. Chris James)
	Halloween Alaska	Call it Clear
	The Black Keys	All Hands Against His Own
	Dropkick Murphys	The Gang's All Here
	The Dandy Warhols	Godless
2:21	Snow Patrol	Hands Open
	Sufjan Stevens	Chicago
	Christine Fellows	Vertebrae
	Jean-Michel Bernard	Generique Stephane
	Jean-Michel Bernard	Generique Debut
2:40	Talking Heads	Don't Worry About the Government
	Bob Dylan	Masters of War (Live)
	The Rolling Stones	Street Fighting Man
	ATD vs. Sage and the Verve	Slow Down Symphony
2:57	Tori Amos	Cornflake Girl
3:01	The Beatles	Within You Without You
	Michael Franti and Spearhead	Bomb the World
	The Clash	I'm Not Down
	Billy Bragg	Accident Waiting to Happen
	R.E.M.	It's the End of the World as We Know it (And I Feel Fine)
3:24	Tricky	Makes Me Wanna Die
	Dylan Thomas	Don't Go Gentle Into That Good Night
	Bob Marley & the Wailers	Get Up, Stand Up
	Jamiroquai	(Don't) Give Hate a Chance
3:40	Buju Banton	Misty Days
	We're Wolves	96 Entries for "Happy"
	Kidd Video vs. Hidden Fortress	I Need a Quarter
	The Twilight Singers	Toward the Waves
	The Twilight Singers	I'm Ready
	Anamanaguchi	Power Supply
3:56	Vale and Year	You're a Good Man
	Guster	Happier
	Ghost Dog	Hagakure excerpt

SubSource signs off

via No Error, the Internets makes me cry:

After nearly seven years of providing quality electronic ambient music for free subsource will stop it's work. No new music will be released at this place. Past Releases will be kept online as long as possible. Thanks to all listeners, supporters and of course the artists for the good work. We had great times during this project.

I've enjoyed the music from SubSource for a while now, especially the mixes they'd post which would always direct me to further great netlabels that I'd be ignorant of otherwise. It's a drag to see them closing shop, though admittedly not as sad as seeing a physical music label shutting down. At least the SubSource recordings will remain available both at their site SubSource.de (for a while) and at the SubSource collection on Archive.org here (hopefully permanently).

I'll put together an hour-long mix of their music for one of my upcoming shows. I haven't been playing enough netmusic on my show in general and I'm a little ashamed that it takes moments like these to force my hand (as it did for my Comfort Stand show)

links:
SubSource home
SubSource on the Internet Archive
No Error

The Science of Sleep

I saw a free screening of Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep tonight and it wasn't what I expected. I went in thinking I'd say, "This is a great date movie-sweet and romantic but visually compelling and artfully done." Instead I came out remembering every moment where I couldn't express myself-that mix of sadness, impotence and shame.

The previews for the movie misrepresent it a little bit. It is about Stephane trying to win his neighbor over, but that's just a part of the bigger story-Stephane trying to reconcile his fantasy world with the real world. He can't distinguish and you see the world through his eyes. So you get incredible moments of visual madness (which are heavily featured in the previews) interspersed with the people around Stephane offering him advice on how to deal with the real world. Only Stephane isn't interested in understanding the real world. He wants the real world to accept his fantasies. It's not said but he's vaguely autistic and the film is really a portrait of the people around him trying to survive being in love with him.

The movie is beautiful and artfully done. Gondry is a visual genius and a good directer. The movie's quiet, subtle, even funny, but the sadness and despair that surrounds Stephane grows until it eventually dominates the film. So it's not a "date movie" but it is a very good movie. It's different and it's strange. If you want a film that's quality and uplifting, see Little Miss Sunshine. If you want a film that's quality and special, see The Science of Sleep.

*** of ****

67. 2006-09-18 "25-Punk for Life"

Time	Artist	Song
12:01	Kalyanji Shah, Anandji Shah	Theme From Don
	The Who Boys	Revolution Uber Alles
	The Dirty Dozen Brass Band	What's Going On (Featuring Chuck D)
	Woody Guthrie	Dust Bowl Refugee
	Bruce Springsteen	Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
12:22	The Rolling Stones	Wild Horses
	The Rolling Stones	Gimme Shelter
	Grateful Dead	Bird Song
12:41	The Proclaimers	My Old Friend the Blues
	Radiohead	Idioteque
	R.E.M.	Falls to Climib
12:55	Sufjan Stevens	Chicago
1:02	Rufus Wainwright	Everybody Knows
	Nina Simone	Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair
	Thelonius Monk Quartet with John Coltrane	Monk's Mood
	Furry Lewis	Judge Boushe Blues
1:25	Campbell Brothers	Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around
	Bob Dylan	Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
	The Byrds	My Back Pages
1:43	Chuch Berry	Roll Over Beethoven
	Dick Dale	Gypsy Fire
	The White Stripes	The Hardest Button to Button
	Harangue	N'est Front Pas
	Norman Nardini	Burnin' Up
2:03	James Taylor	Suite for 20 G
	The Clash	I'm Not Down
	Zombi	Gemini
	The Moog Cookbook	Buddy Holly
2:26	Sex Pistols	Pretty Vacant
	Pretty Girls Make Graves	The Number
	The Essex Green	This Isn't Farmlife
	Crooked Fingers	Andalucia
2:41	Sponge	Rotting Pinata
	Dead Kennedys	M.T.V.-Get Off the Air
	The Dead Milkmen	Bitchin' Camaro
	Ramones	Surfin' Bird
2:55	Lampchop	The Decline of Country and Western Civilization
	M. Ward	Chinese Translation
3:03	Rancid	Let Me Go
	The Pietasters	New Breed
	Dropkick Murphys	For Boston
	Camera Obscura	Phil and Don
	Spoon	They Never Got You
3:21	Robert Pollard	Love is Stronger Than Witchcraft
	Teenage Fanclub	Only With You
	Enter the Haggis	One Last Drink
	The Mountain Goats	If You See Light
	Stars	Set Yourself on Fire
3:42	The Go! Team	Hold Yr Terror Close
	Maximo Park	Apply Some Pressure
	Broken Social Scene	Major Label Debut (Fast)
3:52	Underworld	Born Slippy Nuxx
	Ghost Dog	Hagakure excerpt

Obligatory Horror Post

Autumn's here which means Halloween-my favorite holiday-is fast approaching. Here are some links to get you into the spirit or to help keep you there all year long.

The It's Alive show:
I know I mentioned the It's Alive show last week, but there are two reasons to mention it again. First, the show just started it's second official season after being in reruns all summer. New movies, new bits, new music. All good.
The second more important reason to mention It's Alive is the show's cast and producers have organized Pittsburgh's First Zombie Walk. It goes down this Friday in the South Side. You should grab some old clothes, run them through the mud and join in. The post-walk party costs money but being a zombie or zombie food is free. Full details here.

Bateman 365 Presents: Atom Age Vampire:
Political cartoonist and animator Scott Bateman spent the past year animating a new short film for each and every day (and they were great). Now he's started a new project-joining the audio from the public domain film Atom Age Vampire with all new animations. The result is both a parody of the film and a brilliant evolution of the MST3K-style of film mockery. You don't have to have seen the original to appreciate Bateman's project, though it is available on the Internet Archive for download. Scott Bateman's maintaining a blog about the project here, you can grab the original movie here, or you can jump to the most recently animated part of the film here.

Scar Stuff:
Scar Stuff is a blog dedicated to old Halloween and horror LPs. It's all here-sound effect records, novelty discs, even Vincent Price reading Edgar Allen Poe. It doesn't get more Halloween than that. This site has everything you need to make the perfect Halloween mixtape or just select tracks to spice up your Halloween party. Not only are the albums on the site great, the webmaster provides concise descriptions and histories for each piece. I guarantee some of these tracks will be on my next Halloween show.

Finally, speaking of horror, I mentioned in the last post that I had free tickets to The Covenant. It bites. Don't see it. If you're in the mood for horror though, might I recommend Dario Argento's Suspiria. If you don't feel like renting (or trucking all the way around town to find a place with Suspiria even though it's totally worth the trip) you can check out a classic film from Pittsburgh's own George A. Romero. I speak of course of Night of the Living Dead, a film that's in the public domain and available for download from the Internet Archive here.

66. 2006-09-11 "Bull Dada"

Time	Artist	Song
12:01	Kalyanji Shah, Anandji Shah	Theme From Don
	Blind Melon	I Wonder
	Nick Drake	Black Eyed Dog
	John Mellencamp	I Need a Lover
	Grateful Dead	Cassidy
12:24	Jimi Hendrix	Little Wing
	The Who	Pictures of Lily
	Joni Mitchell	God Must Be a Boogie Man
	Bob Marley & the Wailers	No Woman, No Cry (live)
12:41	The Mountain Goats	Moon Over Goldsboro
	Daniel Johnston	Living Life
	Odetta	Muleskinner Blues
	Sigur Ros	Glosoli
12:58	Frank Zappa	Tryin' to Grow a Chin
1:02	Crosby, Stills & Nash	Helplessly Hoping
	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	Helpless
	Superdrag	Sucked Out
	Troubled Hubble	Try to Find
	Troubled Hubble	Floribraska
	Clem Snide	Joan Jett of Arc
1:24	Leftover Salmon	River's Rising
	Duvall	Between the Lines
	The Plus Ones	Serve in Heaven/Rule in Hell
	Kate Bush	Somewhere in Between
	Sneaker Pimps	Spin Spin Sugar
1:46	North Mississippi Allstars	Moonshine
	Belle and Sebastian	Seeing Other People
	Luna	ihop
1:58	The Firm	Star Trekkin'
2:04	Air Guitar Magazine	This Song is Called Track 3
	Vale and Year	You're a Good Man
	We're Wolves	The Conversationist
	Norman Nardini	Rock You
	Paul Westerberg	I Love You in the Fall
	Injury	Dig Dug-"Six Feet Under" (OC Remix)
2:24	Johnny Cash	Man in Black
	Lead Belly	Governor O.K. Allen (aka Angola Blues)
	"22" + group	Early in the Mornin'
	Old & in the Way	The Hobo Song
	Billy Bragg & Wilico	Against th' Law
2:41	The Tannahill Weavers	Are Ye Sleeping Maggie?
	Jeff Buckley	Hallelujah
	Bob Dylan	Solid Rock
2:56	Jr. Walker & the All Stars	Walk in the Night
3:00	Chuck Berry	Maybellene
	Roy Buchanan	Hidden
	Guster	Empire State
	Mike Doughty	White Lexus
	Beck	Devil's Haircut
	DJ Shadow	You Made It (feat. Chris James)
3:20	Gomez	Cry on Demand
	Spacemen 3	Feel So Sad
	Too Much Joy	Stay At Home
	MC Honky	The Object
	The New Pornographers	The Bleeding Heart Show
	Buckwheat Zydeco	Route 66
3:42	Lambchop	The Rise and Fall of the Letter P
	Robert Pollard	Conqueror of the Moon
	Crooked Fingers	Twilight Creeps
	Mychael Danna	We're Going to Make it
3:57	Sufjan Stevens	Chicago

There's an ad on my milk

There's an ad on my milk
It's a gallon jug and on the back is a sticker saying "Got Milk? Get Oreo" with a big picture of the cookie on it.
That depressed me. It's been a depressing day. I couldn't get anything done. And then I got free tickets to a showing of The Covenant (from Renny Harlin, the director of Driven and a slew of other painfully bad films). Proof that things can always get worse.
So to end the constant bring-down my day has been, and to strike back against the spirit of ambivalence and celebratory mediocrity that allows ads on milk jugs or films like The Covenant, here are some things that make the world a better place:

Vale and Year - Famous Fights
I've played a some of this album on my show recently and I have to say it's very good, maybe even best of 2006 good. They sound a little like pre-Top 40 Modest Mouse, but in the sense that Vale and Year listened to those earlier albums and then went their own way. This is a pretty quiet and restrained album. It's definitely worth checking out plus they're from Pittsburgh so you get bonus warm fuzzies for supporting the local scene if you pick this up.
website: http://www.valeandyear.com

V/A - Enamel Records Sampler
Speaking of the local scene, I picked up the Enamel Records sampler today. Enamel is the label that released Vale and Year's Famous Fights as well as one of my favorite albums from last year, We're Wolves' Welcome to the Childhood Home of Andy Warhol and Dan Marino-the title track of which is featured on this disc. 7 tracks, 3 bucks and it's good. It's very good. The CD comes in a little plastic sleeve and the title is just Enamel Records Sampler so it might get lost at your record store. But take the time to look. It's definitely worth finding.
website: http://www.enamelrecords.com/

Time Again - "Cold Concrete" (NSFW)
A punk song about being unjustly singled out by the cops. I couldn't stop listening to this track once I got my review copy of Give 'Em the Boot V. I'd just put it on repeat and grin. There are f-bombs so don't play it at work (or expect to hear it on the radio), but if you want to drop it onto your iPod for when you're jogging or stuck in traffic, who's to say no to that?
The other mp3 at the link below is a groovy reggae/ska track without any profanity at all. Play it wherever you want. It'll only offend people who hate reggae-sounding stuff, but you probably don't like them anyway so it's win-win.
website: http://www.epitaph.com/artists/album/480 (NSFW)

The Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Collection
I am a horror/sci-fi geek. Kind of. I lean more towards the classics than the moderns (Bela Lugosi over Freddy Krueger, H.P. Lovecraft over Stephen King) so of course I love old time radio. I grew up listening to tapes of Jack Benny and Abbott & Costello. I even have old X-Minus One tapes that I break out every Halloween. I love this stuff but it's kind of hard to find. Leave it to the folks at the Internet Archive to solve that. They have an Old Time Radio collection featuring complete runs of various series including X-Minus One, Bob and Ray, The Shadow, every genre you can think of. It's very exciting.
website: http://www.archive.org/details/oldtimeradio

Mystery Science Theater 3000: Episode 0208 - Lost Continent
"Even rock climbing movies don't have this much rock climbing."
I've hated nearly every movie I've seen this summer so I've taken special joy in watching old episodes of MST3K. Helping me in my endeavor is the Digital Archive Project. They've been releasing episodes of the show in DVD format and I've been gobbling them up. Lost Continent is the latest one and it's fantastic.
Here's the story: A group of air force pilots escort a group of scientists to recover the black box from a crashed experimental rocket. Of course their plane crashes as well so they proceed on foot. Eventually they stumble upon a land that time forgot-dinosaurs included-but only after doing some rock climbing. Lots of rock climbing. Oh my goodness, do they climb rocks. This is a film where nothing happens. A lot. Joel and the bots salvage it though, screaming and raving at the film just about the same time you feel the need to. Check out this or any of the MST3K DVDs, both on the DAP or in stores. It's pure satisfaction.
Digital Archive Project website: http://www.dapcentral.org/
DAP Lost Continent DVD website: DVD #78
See the DAP FAQ for downloading instructions.

It's Alive
Or if downloading isn't your thing or you prefer your B-movies without additional commentary or you just long for the good old days of chiller theater right here in Pittsburgh, check out It's Alive. It's a locally-produced horror-movie showcase that also features local bands and filmmakers. This show makes every weekend a joy for me. It airs Saturday nights at 10PM ET on WBGN (check your listings) or you can catch a live stream of the show from the website. There's also an archive of the most recently aired episode on the homepage. Seriously, check it out. This show made me happy to be in Pittsburgh.
website: http://www.theitsaliveshow.com/

Hope these links helped pick you up as much as they did me. What have you found lately that's made you excited? Add a comment and let me know.

65. 2006-09-04 "Labor Day '06"

Time	Artist	Song
12:01	Kalyanji Shah, Anandji Shah	Theme From Don
	Lyle Lovett	Friend of the Devil
	Johnny Cash	Further On Up the Road
	Merle Haggard	Misery and Gin
	The Pogues	Whisky in a Jar (Long Version)
12:20	Dennis Brown	Bubbling Sweet Tonight
	John Brown's Body	Blazing Love
	Bob Dylan	Friend of the Devil
	Paul Simon	The Boy in the Bubble
	Erin McKeown	We Are More
	The Kinks	A Well Respected Man
	Chuck Berry	Johnny B. Goode
	The Beatles	Get Back
12:54	Brazilian Girls	Long
	Matt Costa	Sunshine
1:02	Billy Bragg & Wilco	California Stars
	River City High	Us vs. Them
	Maximo Park	Apply Some Pressure
	M. Ward	Chinese Translation
1:19	Pinky and the Brain	"Are you pondering what I'm pondering..."
	Grateful Dead	Bird Song
	Troubled Hubble	Work
	Dolly Parton	9 to 5
	Jamiroquai	(Don't) Give Hate a Chance
1:39	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Third Stone From the Sun
	Ghost Dog	Hagakure excerpt
	Gnarls Barkley	Storm Coming
	Porcupine Tree	Blackest Eye
1:54	We're Wolves	96 Entries for "Happy"
	Troubled Hubble	Morning Person (DJ Pants Remix)
2:02	Curtis Mayfield	People Get Ready
	Michael Franti and Spearhead	Never Too Late
	Radiohead	High and Dry
	They Might Be Giants	Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
	M	Bellville Rendez-Vous (French Version)
	Los Lobos with Antonio Banderas	Cancion Del Mariachi (Morena De Mi Corazon)
2:22	Violent Femmes	American Music
	Spoon	Sister Jack
	Band of Horses	The Great Salt Lake
	Tori Amos	Rapberry Swirl
	Phish	Piper
2:43	Wilco	Casino Queen
	The Tragically Hip	It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken
	Elf Power	An Old Familiar Scene
2:54	David Bowie	Stay
3:01	Nirvana	All Apologies
	Mike Doughty	Grey Ghost
	Devo	Post Post-Modern Man
	Talking Heads	Wild Wild Life
	The New Pornographers	Star Bodies
3:19	Ramones	I Wanna Be Sedated
	Screeching Weasel	Judy is a Punk
	Me First & the Gimme Gimmes	Me & Julio Down By the Schoolyard
	Ann Beretta	Efforts Wasted
	The Promise Ring	Electric Pink
	Duvall	Standing At the Door
	Colossal	Table Setting
3:40	Anti-Flag	Spaz's House Destruction Party
	The B-52's	Rock Lobster
	Rufus Wainwright	California
3:55	Lambchop	Paperback Bible