show #71 playlist

show #71 was potentially the penultimate broadcast of nashville mixtapes on wrvu. due to policy changes at the station regarding community volunteer dj's, there is a 50/50 chance that this show will not be around after dec 5. obviously, i'd love to stay with my favorite radio station for years to come but i won't have any details about the future of nashville mixtapes until winter break begins.

but don't worry yet. barring some unforeseen change, you can tune in on dec. 5 for a special show featuring some of my favorite music and a few selections from the current wrvu rotation. until then, i'll be taking a 2 week thanksgiving break.

here's the playlist from saturday's show:

nina simone - backlash blues (live at montreux)
ray charles - what'd i say
mel torme - comin' home baby!
bo allen - i hope you're proud
gloria jones - tainted love
surfer blood - swim (to reach the end)
the ponys - double vision
dead meadow - stacy's song
girls - summertime
the botticellis - betrayed (live daytrotter sessions)
le loup - beach town
florence and the machine - you got the love (the xx remix)
the xx - islands

wrvu benefit show + more

the end will host wrvu's fall benefit show next thursday (nov 19) and everybody's invited to stop by and show their support for the station. $5 gets you in and a $10 donation gets you a limited edition wrvu poster. other schwag will be for sale, so if you want a cool wrvu bumper sticker or whatever i'm sure they'll have it there. every dollar counts.

wrvu dj's will be spinning between sets and the all-local lineup includes:

cheer up charlie daniels
vermicious k’nids
westfolk
powerbrrrd

in case you haven't heard, the board that oversees the station has decided to reduce the number of community volunteer dj's by about half. this change will take effect at the beginning of the winter break and i'm a community dj, so there's a 50/50 chance (at best) that nashville mixtapes won't be invited back to wrvu after this semester.

a lot of people are unhappy out there and have voiced their concerns all over the internet about what this change means for the future of the station's unique character and its unparalleled contribution to nashville's radio listening audience. some people are even considering making their dissatisfaction known by boycotting this and future benefit shows. although myself and the other dj's (from both the student body and the community) appreciate everybody's concern, i personally don't see any merit in boycotting an event that can help the station. if you truly care about wrvu, i hope you and your friends can make it out next thursday. for what it's worth, i supported wrvu long before i was a dj and i will continue to support the station in the future.

show #70 playlist

the ponys - double vision
ambulance ltd - sugar pill
the raveonettes - heart of stone
the black hollies - gloomy monday morning
the beatles - the night before
edward sharpe & the magnetic zeroes - desert song
cotton jones - nicotine canaries
caribou - eli
bibio - ambivalence avenue
menomena - strongest man in the world
the xx - intro
stephin merritt - the man of a million faces
papercuts - a peculiar hallelujah
yo la tengo - here to fail

show #69

many thanks to milktooth and eleonore denig for coming by the studio last week despite the horrible parking situation and technical glitches. i arrived at the station completely unprepared and exhausted, but my favorite local band saved the day with a great acoustic performance. the youtubes have all the proof you need:

they also guest dj-ed for half the show - you can find that playlist on wrvu.org. anyway, i'll be back in good form and well-rested this saturday at noon.

show #68 playlist

long-time nashville mixtapes devotees (do they exist?) may have noticed that large portions of last saturday's show were very similar to previous shows. that's because my day job becomes an all-consuming attention black hole during the last 3 months of the year and show #68 was thrown together at the last minute.

this also explains the pitifully small number of updates to the site lately. i'll try to cobble together some music news and post it here soon. for now, here's the playlist:

badly drawn boy - road movie
radiohead - reckoner
portishead - sour times
blur - ambulance
the beach boys - heroes and villains
doves - valley
elbow - picky bugger
tom waits - way down in the hole
the mumlers - 99 years ago
kurt vile - hunchback
dead meadow - between me and the ground
iggy pop - the passenger
roxy music - editions of you

and here's a halloween video from the mumlers to you:

show #67 playlist

kurt vile - hunchback
the raveonettes - heart of stone
pulp - the night that minnie temperley died
cortney tidwell - 17 horses
le loup - forgive me
peter bjorn & john - amsterdam
massive attack - splitting the atom
air - do the joy
thom yorke - feeling pulled apart by horses
the kinks - big sky
a.c. newman - homemade bombs in the afternoon
the fresh & onlys - feelings in my heart

show #66 playlist

real estate's self-titled full-length album comes out via woodsist on 11.17 and they play with japandroids in atl at 529 on 10.17. they're much more psychedelic-surf and far less wimpy-indie than you might think.

anyway, hopefully you tuned in to the special 2-hour show yesterday. my apologies to all fans of this is pop. chris will be back next saturday at 11am and i'll be back at noon. here was what you heard/missed:

silver jews - suffering jukebox
blitzen trapper - black river killer
spiral stairs (scott kannberg of pavement)- maltese terrier
nouvelle vague - master and servant
the raveonettes - heart of stone
papercuts - future primitive
real estate - fake blues
here we go magic - fangela
doves - compulsion
the monks - i hate you
thee oh sees - tidal wave
the la's - i can't sleep
the nashville ramblers - the trains
the stone roses - i am the resurrection
yo la tengo - autumn sweater
le loup - beach town
animal collective - in the flowers
dan deacon - paddling ghost
the asteroid no. 4 - into the meadow
autolux - turnstyle blues
the black angels - doves
ambulance ltd - primitive (the way i treat you)
ramona falls - i say fever

asleep in the back

elbow's classic debut album asleep in the back is set to receive the full "deluxe edition" treatment with a release date scheduled for oct. 26 in the uk . fans should be ecstatic, although the cynic in me wonders if v2 records is just cashing in on elbow's new found success since the label dumped the band prior to the recording of the seldom seen kid.

regardless, most labels worth their salt know loyal fans will not spend their hard earned cash on a reissue unless it comes with plenty of good features. it looks like there will be little room for disappointment: the whole package will include the band's original debut noisebox ep (which was never repressed after the initial self-release), concert performances, radio performances, the album itself, and what is sure to be a dvd masterpiece produced by the soup collective.

here's the breakdown:

Disc 1 - CD - The Album
1. Any Day Now
2. Red
3. Little Beast
4. Powder Blue
5. Bitten by the Tailfly
6. Asleep in the Back
7. Newborn
8. Don't Mix Your Drinks
9. Presuming Ed (Rest Easy)
10. Coming Second
11. Can't Stop
12. Scattered Black and Whites

Disc 2 - CD - The Bonus Material
Noisebox EP
1. Powder Blue
2. Red
3. Theme From Munroe Kelly
4. Can't Stop

Live At The Astoria 2001
5. Bitten By The Tail Fly *
6. Coming Second
7. Don't Mix Your Drinks *
8. Can't Stop *
9. Scattered Black And Whites *
10. George Lassoes The Moon *

Radio 1 Lamacq Session 2001
11. Newborn *
12. Don't Mix Your Drinks *
13. Red

Disc 3 - The DVD
'Asleep In The Back' Movie

* Previously Unreleased

show #65 playlist

the set was a little shorter last saturday because i wanted my new trainee to put on a couple songs at the end. it looks like wrvu has fixed the audio archive settings for the show now, so feel free to listen online via realplayer. an itunes archive is still in the works, but we're not there yet.

anyway, here's the playlist:

doves - jetstream
the xx - islands
thom yorke - feeling pulled apart by horses
the flaming lips - silver trembling hands
cortney tidwell - missing link
doves - here it comes
yo la tengo - avalon or someone very similar
le loup - forgive me
the beta band - inner meet me
john lennon - well well well

show #64 playlist + mixtape

it's been a good week. pavement announced a reunion world tour in 2010 and i have an end-of-summer mixtape just for you:

it features a lot of new music that has either just been released or will be released this fall. here's the playlist for the mixtape (and today's show):

girls - summertime - (from album - out 9.22)
atlas sound - criminals - (from logos - out 10.20)
wild beasts - all the kings men - (from two dancers - out 9.8)
bear in heaven - lovesick teenagers - (from beast rest forth mouth - out 10.13)
radiohead - the gloaming
the black hollies - can't stop these tears (from falling) - (from softly towards the light - out 10.6)
the fresh & onlys - d.y. - (from grey-eyed girls - out 9.15)
the stone roses - this is the one - (from the stone roses re-mastered edition - out 9.8)
pavement - passat dream
yo la tengo - you can have it all
blur - there's no other way
love and rockets - no new tale to tell
the xx - blood red moon
the xx - islands - (from xx - out 10.20)
beak> - i know - (from beak> - out 10.19 in europe)