doves at royal festival hall

nashville mixtapes is taking a break from the radio this sunday. i think i'll be back on may 10. after that the summer schedule begins, so i'll post the new schedule when i get it.

anyway, i have a high-quality doves bootleg for you - live at royal festival hall september 12, 2008 - which includes some of their new songs as part of a tribute concert to heavenly records. i looked around and i'm pretty this hasn't been released, so enjoy.

show #47 playlist

i'm on my way to exit/in to see the war on drugs. here's the playlist...


the m's - pigs fly
the war on drugs - a needle in your eye #16
doves - the outsiders
elbow - picky bugger
the botticellis - awaiting on you all
blind pilot - go on, say it
elvis perkins - shampoo
papercuts - future primitive
ambulance ltd - primitive (the way i treat you)
joe tex - the love you save
the mumlers - red river hustle
papercuts - john brown
i am kloot - gods and monsters
portishead - sour times

san francisco nights

last spring i became briefly obsessed with san francisco band thee oh sees. truth be told i still jump every time i hear they're on tour, putting out new music, etc. but there was one major flaw in this obsession - uncharacteristically, i didn't follow through and see what else is going on musically in and around san francisco. it's one of my favorite cities, but bands from there tend to stay close to home and don't garner much attention beyond silicon valley and the occasional music blog.

so i was piddling around online last night and came across some san francisco/northern ca music that will hopefully make its way to the show over the next few weeks. like...

papercuts

the botticellis

the mumlers
the mumlers - red river hustle


and this is thee oh sees, in case you haven't heard them yet:

show #46 playlist

no dowloadable mix tape this week.

somehow you'll survive - but i do have tonight's playlist here:

bonnie "prince" billy - beware your only friend
elvis perkins - shampoo
doves - house of mirrors
the decemberists - won't want for love
the raveonettes - lust
wiskey biscuit - stonergirl
edward sharpe & the magnetic zeros - home
and selby jase - minor city
radiohead - all i need
dr. dog - the beach
dan auerbach - i want some more
sharon jones & the dap kings - this land is your land
delta spirit - people, turn around

psycho

so anthony perkins (i.e. norman bates in "psycho") had a kid back in '76 who grew up to be a professional musician. you already knew this, but i didn't because i'm clueless.

now that elvis perkins and i have been properly introduced, i may start off tomorrow night's show with this:

show #45 playlist

i have a playlist for you:


roxy music - editions of you
the monks - shut up
the blues magoos - she's coming home
the rolling stones - empty heart
the brian jonestown massacre - vacuum boots
yo la tengo - the race is on again
doves - compulsion
the stone roses - something burning
animal collective - fireworks
nick drake - pink moon
jose gonzalez - down the line
fleet foxes - mykonos
nina simone - backlash blues

free music archive

there is a new place for music fans to legally download free music without any hassle from the man. it turns out that new york state has a philanthropic music fund that originated from payola fines paid out by big labels to the state. they've taken some of that money and created free music archive. every piece of music is free and has been cleared by people who know copyright law.

fma is in its beta form now, but you can already sign up to create shareable compilations or just download away now without logging in to anything. currently the site appears to be curated by two of the best free form radio stations in the country - wfmu and kexp - so the selection is already pretty rad, i must say.

keep buying music, though. okay?

show the love

record store day 2009 is fast approaching, so you might want to go ahead and mark your calendar (unless you're going to coachella, you lucky jerk) - saturday, april 18 is the day.

in case you're new to it, there are a lot of special dvds and cds released in celebration of record store day. plus it gives everybody a chance to stop in and say hi to all the other music dorks out there.

a couple of nashville's finest independent stores plan go the extra mile and pull out all the stops with live music all day long...

grimey's will host:
the avett brothers*
stardeath & white dwarfs
michigan city vandals
derobert & the half-truths
black joe lewis & the honeybears*
charlie louvin
del mccoury*
royal bangs
the ettes*
mute math

the groove will host:
cotton jones*
dave cloud and the gospel of power*
hotpipes*
shoot the mountain
red white blue
the tits
the coolin' system
wrvu's own chris crofton*

*nashville mixtapes favorites (but they're all good)

so make sure to save up your hard earned cash and support your local record stores on april 18. after all, where would we be without them?

show #44 playlist

thanks for listening... if you like what you heard, here's the playlist:

the brian jonestown massacre - servo
the troggs - i want you
the monks - i hate you
eels - fresh blood
canned heat - poor moon
jj cale - the problem
black rebel motorcycle club - fault line
good lupine - sleep patterns (a voice keeps calling)
clem snide - hum
broken social scene - swimmers
american analog set - gone to earth
doves - melody calls
arcade fire - intervention
the handsome family - so long

apw etc.

you might want to check out all points west this year. it looks like it'll be the best u.s. festival lineup of 2009. they'll even have a layaway ticket payment plan (details forthcoming - on sale 4.3).

and here are a couple possibilities for sunday's show. dunno...

eels - fresh blood


edward sharpe & the magnetic zeros - home