on the metro

the past three shows!

2008-02-05T21:46:00.000-05:00

January 29th show

Arcade Fire -- Keep the Car Running
Spoon -- Stay Don't Go [download mp3]
Scissors for Lefty -- Lay Down Your Weapons
Little Man Tate -- Man I Hate Your band
Voxtrot -- Firecracker
Union of Knives -- Opposite Direction [download mp3]
Belle & Sebastian -- Piazza, New York Catcher
The Black Keys -- All Hands Against His Own
Peter Bjorn & John -- The Chills [download mp3]
Dirty Pretty Things -- Deadwood
The Shins -- Australia (Live iTunes Session Version)
The Black Kids -- I'm Not Going to Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah -- Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood
The Enemy -- Had Enough

31 January show

Stars -- Take Me to the Riot
Arcade Fire -- Rebellion (Lies)
The Kooks -- Sofa Song
Little Man Tate -- European Lover [download mp3]
David Gray -- Babylon
The Wombats -- Moving to New York
M.I.A. -- Boyz
We Are Scientists -- Inaction
The Hives -- Tick Tick Boom [download mp3]
The Replacements -- Something to Du
Spiderbait -- Black Betty
The Changes -- When I Wake
Led Zeppelin -- Friends
David Bowie -- Fashion

5 February show

The Format -- Janet (live)
Beck -- Scarecrow
Vampire Weekend -- M79
Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong -- Sleazy Hughes
Hatcham Social -- Til the Dawn [download mp3]
Flunk -- Play
The Cribs -- Don't You Wanna Be Relevant?
The Futureheads -- The Beginning of the Twist
Yelle -- Ce Jue
Vampire Weekend -- Campus [download mp3]
Arcade Fire -- No Cars Go
Scissors for Lefty -- Next to Argyle
Klaxons -- Golden Skans
Aqueduct -- Hardcore Days & Softcore Nights
Biffy Clyro -- 27 [download mp3]

2008-01-24T19:35:00.000-05:00

January 24th show

The Virgins -- "Rich Girls"
Pixies -- "Where Is My Mind?"
Oasis -- "Up in the Sky"
Mando Diao -- "Sheepdog"
Shout Out Louds -- "100 Degrees"
Arctic Monkeys -- "Bet You look Good On the Dancefloor"
Tiger Lou -- "Sell Out"
Cat Power -- "Metal Heart"
The Verve -- "Bittersweet Symphony"
Kings of Convenience -- "I Don't Know What I Can Save You From"
Led Zeppelin -- "Gallows Pole"
Sufjan Stevens -- "Come On! Feel the Illinoise!"
The Kooks -- "Ooh La"
Keane -- "Is It Any Wonder?"

2008-01-23T23:01:00.000-05:00

Wooow. Kids, this is a good example of how not to keep up with your blog. Anyway, two for the price of one I guess!

January 17th show

Buzzcocks -- "Ever Fallen In Love?"
The Black Keys -- "10 A.M. Automatic"
Pinback -- "Concrete Seconds" [download mp3]
Dirty Pretty Things -- "Bang Bang You're Dead"
The Author -- "Taxi"
Gang of Four -- "Natural's Not In It"
The Cure -- "Lovesong"
The Hold Steady -- "Stuck Between Stations"
Placebo -- "Nancy Boy" [download mp3]
Sex Pistols -- "Anarchy in the U.K."
South -- "A Place in Displacement"
Biffy Clyro -- "A Whole Child Ago" [download mp3]
Arctic Monkeys -- "D is for Dangerous"
Violent Femmes -- "Gone Daddy Gone"
Iggy Pop -- "Nightclubbing"

January 22nd show

David Bowie -- "Golden Years" [download mp3]
The Black Keys -- "Girl Is On My Mind"
The Good the Bad and the Queen -- "Herculean"
Semisonic -- "FNT"
Editors -- "Munich" [download mp3]
Yeasayer -- "2080"
The Shins -- "Fighting In A Sack"
Death Cab for Cutie -- "Summer Skin"
Queens of the Stone Age -- "I Never Came" [download mp3]
The White Stripes -- "Rag & Bone"
Black Lips -- "O Katrina!"
The Who -- "Baba O'Riley"
The Enemy -- "Technodanceaphobia"
Joy Division -- "She's Lost Control"

I can't sleep when I think about the times we're living in ::

2008-01-15T23:32:00.000-05:00

Hello, 2008! It's a new semester and I plan on bringing a lot of great stuff to my show on WGUR that will hopefully be productive to my show The Metro. Tonight's show was pretty low-key with a little visit from my friend Cooper but still A+ music all the same!

January 15th show

The Wombats -- "Moving to New York"
Pinback -- "Tres"
Yeasayer -- "2080"
Black Lips -- "O Katrina!" [download mp3]
Radiohead -- "House of Cards"
LCD Soundsystem -- "All My Friends" [download mp3]
Cat Power -- "Metal Heart"
Sneaker Pimps -- "6 Underground (Nelle Hooper edit)"
Charlatans -- "The Only One I Know" [download mp3]
Kate Nash -- "Merry Happy"
Led Zeppelin -- "In the Evening"

Sadly, there was no featured band on the show but hopefully I can get my act together and have one for Thursday. :]

top 35 of 2007::

2008-01-03T03:59:00.000-05:00

Wow, what a way to keep this blog going. I think I should add "keep this blog alive" as one of my new year's resolutions along with going to class more & saving as much money as possible so I can waste it all ridiculous trips to Chicago for Harry Potter nerdism and New York City to see Daniel Radcliffe blind some horses and get his kit off. Good times to be had by all this year, believe me.

Earlier in December I was told that WGUR 88.9 is going to be streaming online this semester so get excited! As for my show I've now upgraded to a whopping two shows a week and will now be playing all my ridiculous indie music on Tuesdays & Thursdays from 6-7pm EST (I think. . . I honest to god can't remember what time slot I signed up for so it'll be a surprise to both you and I).

Anyways, since the radio station isn't really being aired right now with everyone away for the holidays I can't really make any posts about any recent shows but why not my favourite songs of 2007? y/n? I mean, I know Pitchfork did their little shindig that had some people up in arms and I don't even want to freaking talk about how utterly mental the Rolling Stones list is but here are just 35 songs that made my 2007 so musically fantastical in oh so many ways.

My Top 35 Tracks of 2007

35. "Take It Like A Man" -- Dragonette
34. "Unless It's Kicks" -- Okkervil River
33. "The Underdog" -- Spoon
32. "Direct Hit" -- Art Brut
31. "O Katrina!" -- Black Lips
30. "Count in Fives" -- The Horrors
29. "New Romantic" -- Laura Marling
28. "When Did Your Heart Go Missing?" -- Rooney
27. "One Year A.D." -- Feist
26. "Ruby" -- Kaiser Chiefs
25. "Straight Lines" -- Silverchair
24. "Atlas" -- Battles
23. "Dashboard" -- Modest Mouse
22. "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You" -- The Black Kids
21. "Had Enough" -- The Enemy
20. "Lake Michigan" -- Rogue Wave
19. "Foundations" -- Kate Nash
18. "Rag & Bone" -- The White Stripes
17. "Gray or Blue" -- Jaymay
16. "Sea Legs" -- The Shins
15. "Typical" -- Mute Math
14. "Fluorescent Adolescent"-- Arctic Monkeys
13. "Keep the Car Running" -- The Arcade Fire
12. "Take Me to the Riot" -- Stars
11. "Golden Skans" -- Klaxons
10. "Welcome, Ghosts" -- Explosions in the Sky
09. "Knights" -- Minus the Bear
08. "The Plot" -- White Rabbits
07. "Firecracker" -- Voxtrot
06. "2080" -- Yeasayer
05. "House of Cards" -- Radiohead
04. "Waiting for the 7.18" -- Bloc Party
03. "Melody Day" -- Caribou
02. "All My Friends" -- LCD Soundsystem
01. "Moving to New York" -- The Wombats

download the whole list: [megaupload | 181MB]

Happy 2008 and let us hope this year is as musically rewarding as 2007 was!

girl talk live in seattle ::

2007-11-14T15:37:00.000-05:00

Once again, Good Weather For Airstrikes is being mind-blowingly awesome, as usual.

Girl Talk

Girl Talk has been one of my favorites this year and here is an excellent example of how nothing compares to seeing this kid live. This cutie straight out of PA has been making a name for himself by doing mash-ups that can only be described as pure genius. I'm in love with his album Night Ripper but I do believe this copy of his live show in Seattle has definitely taken the lead.

Download full album: megaupload [123mb]

Girl Talk Murders Seattle:
01. “Give me like, three minutes.”
02. (Crowd Noise)
03. “Girl Talk” (Radio Chatter Intro)
04. “SPOON MAN!” (Introduction)
05. “Ring The Alarm Once Again”
06. “What It’s All About”
07. “Stuntin’ By The Lights”
08. “Doin’ It Bossy”
09. “Pump This Party”
10. “Work It”
11. “Need You To Set It Off”
12. “Loving Changes, Hating Changes”
13. “What A Fool Know About That”
14. “Kryptonic Train Ride”
15. “Whoomp Wit It, Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It”
16. “Digital Hustlin'”
17. “Run This Motherf*cker”
18. “Just Need To Stay Fly”
19. “Galang-nologic”
20. “Ain’t No Other Love Triangle”
21. “Bounce That”
22. “Smash Your Head”
23. “I finally feel like I’m Spoon Man!”
24. “Nuckin, Buckin, Gettin’ Some”
25. “Lay It Back And Drop It”
26. “Pump That P***y, Don’t Back Down”
27. “Peak Out”
28. “From The Muddy Banks Of Seattle”

oh, you can be your own god if you want to::

2007-11-07T21:49:00.000-05:00

I had a double show this week! My friend Drake wasn't able to do the his show directly after mine today so I gladly stepped in to cover the spot so loads of music to check out!

November 7th show

Larrikin Love -- Forever Untitled [download mp3]
Tiger Lou -- Sell Out
The Killers -- Mr. Brightside
Bloc Party -- On
Klaxons -- Gravity's Rainbow [download mp3]
David Bowie -- Golden Years
King Midas -- Music From A Window [download mp3]
The Wombats -- Moving To New York
The Fratellis -- Flathead
The Arcade Fire -- Rebellion (Lies)
Led Zeppelin -- Immigrant Song
The Horrors -- Count In Fives [download mp3]
The Cinematics -- Keep Forgetting
The Smiths -- What Difference Does It Make?
Starsailor -- Music Was Saved [download mp3]
We Are Scientists -- Inaction
The Cribs -- Girls Like Mystery
Voxtrot -- Wrecking Force [download mp3]
Oasis -- How Does It Feel?
Five O'Clock Heroes -- Run to Her
The Rakes -- Wish You Were Here [download mp3]
Shout Out Louds -- Never Ever
The Shins -- Fighting In A Sack
Buzzcocks -- Ever Fallen In Love? [download mp3]
The Libertines -- Bangkok
The Hives -- Abra Cadaver
New Order -- Temptation [download mp3]
Iggy Pop -- The Passenger

Featured Band of the Show

Voxtrot

I just recently got into this band only back in July and let me tell you, they are a force to be reckoned with. This band may not have a handful of albums under their belt or years and years of experience but they are the next big thing in America. Hailing from Austin, Texas, Voxtrot has been making music news since they hit the scene back in early 2006 when they released their Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives EP after only mainly selling out stores in Austin since 2003. Not only are the lyrics absolutely mesmerizing in each song but they have a sound to them that one can't help get into. After touring with the Arctic Monkey on their American tour last summer and the release of their self-titled album back in May, you can bloody well count on these guys making more news than they all ready have.

Voxtrot -- Firecracker [mp3]
Voxtrot -- Raised By Wolves [mp3]
Voxtrot -- The Start of Something [mp3]

If you have any questions, suggestions, comments, etc. please leave them here or direct them to my email.

hey, we could break the bed without broken hearts ::

2007-10-26T00:41:00.000-04:00

Well, this is a blog. For my radio show which basically features loads of music that is so disgustingly indie/punk rock that you would think I'm striving to be the next NME or something. But seriously, after receiving a few comments from people asking me about the songs I have played on my radio shows this past month I decided to throw this little blog together to keep track of what I play and how you yourself can get your hands on the music as well.

For now I'm just going to be posting playlists of my shows as well as some free downloads, music reviews and anything having to do with my radio show in general...which I still haven't named. Seeing as this blog is named "Pass the Metro" after my favorite Rakes song I'm thinking possibly something along those lines...? Ah, we'll have to see.

October 17, 2007 show

Fiction Plane -- Cold Water Symmetry
White Rabbits -- The Plot [download mp3]
The Cinematics -- Keep Forgetting [download mp3]
Radiohead -- Jigsaw Falling Into Place
Bloc Party -- Hero
The Beta Band -- Assessment
The Clash -- This Is Radio Clash
Led Zeppelin -- The Ocean
Guster -- Two Points For Honesty
Ocean Colour Scene -- Hundred Mile High City [download mp3]
Stars -- Take Me to the Riot
Joy Division -- Lover Will Tear Us Apart
Jimmy Eat World -- Polaris
Pela -- Lost to the Lonesome [download mp3]

Featured Band of the Show

Pela

Pela is a band I recently found out about after much talk of them on going on across the numerous music blogs around the internet. Needless to say, this NYC rock band is definitely worth checking out. With their debut album Anytown Graffiti it is clear that they certainly have a promising future ahead of them. "Pela has toured ambitiously in America over the past 2 years, playing in any room that would have them, and rewarding audiences with a passionate, and occasionally explosive, live show. Along the way they have shared stages with The Flaming Lips, Norah Jones, Sleater-Kinney, Mission of Burma, Devendra Banhart, The National, The Decemberists, Gomez, Rainer Maria, and others, earning a devoted and passionate following in the process." Nearly every song on this album is abusive-repeat worthy. I honestly can't say exactly why I love this band's sound so much but it's absolutely addicting. Kind of like a mix between Stellastarr* meets The Killers with a hint of Arcade Fire and, really, that's an A+ mix if I ever saw one.

To check out more about this band and their history check out their blog here.

Pela -- Trouble With River Cities [mp3]

No playlist for October 24th seeing as I wasn't able to host my show that night but hopefully next week that won't be happening again!

If you have any questions, suggestions, comments, etc. please leave them here or direct them to my email.