Hello everyone! Thanks to anyone and everyone who listened to the show this past Saturday and in case you missed it, here's the podcast!!! (click the link or right-click and "Save Link As..." to download)
As always, here's the playlist.
Blonde Redhead - In Particular
Broken Spindles - Move Away
Rilo Kiley - Accidntel Deth
Albert Hammond, Jr. - Spooky Couch
Bat For Lashes - Trophy
Massive Attack - Tear Drop
Bloc Party - Hunting for Witches
Late of the Pier - Mad Dogs and Englishmen
The Mars Volta - Cotopaxi
Michael Jackson - Bad
Radiohead - The National Anthem
Broken Social Scene - Canada Vs. America
Passion Pit - Folds In Your Hands
Torches in Trees - Pillars Fall
Cursive - Art Is Hard
Anthony Green - The First Day of Work at the Microscope Store
Thanks to those who listened, and in case you couldn't catch the show, here's the podcast! (click the link or right-click and "Save Link As..." to download)
Here's the playlist:
Radiohead - Bangers + Mash
Grizzly Bear - Cheerleader
Beirut - My Wife, Lost in the Wild
Land of Talk - Death By Fire
Cursive - Driftwood: A Fairy Tale
mewithoutYou - Every Thought a Thought of You
Deerhunter - Lake Somerset
Torches in Trees - Good Samaritan
Minus the Bear - Knights
Pistolita - Metronome
Mew - The Zookeeper's Boy
James Figurine - All the Way to China
Sondre Lerche & Regina Spektor - Hell No
Animal Collective - Unsolved Mysteries
Manchester Orchestra - Where Have You Been?
Passion Pit - Moth's Wings
Georgie James - Cake Parade
Kate Nash - Skeleton Song
Death Cab for Cutie - I Was a Kaleidoscope
The Faint - Machine in the Ghost
Dntel - Dreams
Zoé - Human Space Volt
Mellowdrone - Fashionably Uninvited
The Sound of Animals Fighting - Another Leather Lung
Broken Social Scene - Backyards
The Dismemberment Plan - I Love a Magician
Battles - Tonto
Again, I think I may be gone this upcoming Saturday, so see you next week.
Here's the playlist from Saturday night's show. Thanks to Marcus for joining me for this week's episode and thanks all who tuned in! And in case you missed it, here's the Podcast! (just click the link or right click and "Save Link As..." to download)
Mew - The Seething Rain Weeps For You (Uda Pruda)
Built to Spill - Conventional Wisdom
Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened
Q And Not U - District Night Prayer
Portugal. The Man - The Devil
The Album Leaf - Wherever I Go
Tera Melos - Melody 7
Phoenix - Girlfriend
Hot Chip - Arrest Yourself
Lamb - Five
No Age - Semi-Sorted
Les Savy Fav - Reprobate's Resumé
Holy Fuck - Choppers
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Noonward Race
Flight of the Conchords - Foux Du Fafa
Slowdive - Celia's Dream
Regina Spektor - Pound of Flesh
mewithoutYou - Timothy Hay
Mellowdrone - Whatever the Deal
Bran Van 3000 - Willard
Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place
Kinky - Mirando De Lado
Say Hi - We Lost the Albatross
Neon Blonde - Love Hounds
Don Caballero - Well Built Road
The Sound of Animals Fighting - Uzbekistan
Once again, thanks to everyone who tuned in. I will not be broadcasting Saturday, June 6th, but I will be back the following week on June 13th. Remember.
So, a little bit before I decided to start Aural Life, I went to see Circa Survive a few times in February and did a couple of interviews on 02/06/09 on behalf of my friend Gabby's blog, Avant-Noise. Now, since I have my own blog, I'll post them here, and I'm sure Avant-Noise will have them posted up somewhere as well. These are a bit overdue, but better late than never, I always say.
Hello everyone! Thanks to all who tuned in to the show this weekend. Aural Life was celebrating the 10th Anniversary of The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin by playing the album in it's entirety. Along with it, we also had some other great music. Here's the playlist, and if you missed it, here's the PODCAST! (just click that link or right-click and "Save Link As..." to download)
The Flaming Lips - Race for the Prize(sacrifice of the new scientists)
The Flaming Lips - A Spoonful Weighs a Ton
The Flaming Lips - The Spark That Bled (The Softest Bullet Ever Shot)
The Flaming Lips - Slow Motion
The Flaming Lips - What Is The Light? (An untested hypothesis suggesting that the chemical [in our brains] by which we are able to experience the sensation of being in love is the same chemical that caused the "Big Bang" that was the birth of the accelerating universe)
The Flaming Lips - The Observer
The Flaming Lips - Waitin' for a Superman (Is it gettin' heavy??)
The Flaming Lips - Suddenly Everything Has Changed (Death anxiety caused by moments of boredom)
The Flaming Lips - The Gash (Battle Hymn for the wounded mathematician)
The Flaming Lips - Feeling Yourself Disintegrate
The Flaming Lips - Sleeping on the Roof (excerpt from "Should We Keep The Severed Head Awake??")
The Flaming Lips - The Spiderbite Song
The Flaming Lips - Buggin' (The buzz of love is busy buggin' you)
The Postal Service - Suddenly Everything Has Changed
The Happy Hollows - Lieutenant
Torches In Trees - Bloody Hands
Colour Revolt - A New Family
Theresa Andersson - Japanese Art
mewithoutYou - Goodbye, I!
Grizzly Bear - On A Neck, On A Spit
Of Montreal - My British Tour Diary
Camera Obscura - The Sweetest Thing
Vampire Weekend - Walcott
Metric - Twilight Galaxy
Phoenix - Fences
Passion Pit - Little Secrets
Maps & Atlases - Daily News
Hope everyone tunes in next week.
Remember:
Aural Life Live from South Gate, CA Saturdays 8pm-10pm PST http://radio23.org (Channel A) peace&love .erick.
So, recently, I've been hearing about Theresa Andersson, mostly from Jason Bentley, DJ and host of Morning Becomes Eclectic on KCRW, while listening to the program. I first heard about Theresa Andersson when I was listening to KCRW, NPR...one of those listener-supported stations. They were playing some music from a live performance of hers, and it was good jazzy-alternative music. Then they started discussing her performance...and mentioned that she did everything herself using loops recorded live. I was very intrigued, so I checked her out online and I was amazed.
Theresa Andersson is a woman from New Orleans, though she was born and raised in Sweden and lived there until she was 18. The music she plays is great. Not only is she a multi-instrumentalist, playing guitar, violin, dulcimer, glockenspiel, percussion (you name it, she could probably play it) and using her voice as a percussive instrument and to sing, but she, in her own repsect, is somewhat like a DJ. With arsenal of 40 or so pedals in front of her, Theresa is a one-woman-band. All of her songs are full of life and sound that she produces herself. Drums, guitars, violin, dulcimer, glockenspiel, everything she does herself. Her own vocal harmonies, even down to a duet with, well, herself. Nothing is prerecorded when she performs, everything she does is live, recorded live using a ton of looping pedals. This not only requires an internal sense of the tempo of the song, but full attentiveness and even balance. From cueing loops while playing, twisting knobs with her toes (she performs barefoot), multitasking barely scratches the surface of what she does when she performs and she does it so flawlessly and makes it look so simple. She knows how to do what she does, and she does it well. Not only is what she does visually astonishing, but sonically, it is great. Her music is wonderful and once you find out how she does it all live, that it is not a band backing her but HER backing her, you are even more amazed.
But don't just take my word for it, check her out for yourself:
Here are the videos from her youtube channel of her performing her songs "Na Na Na" and "Birds Fly Away":
"Na Na Na"
"Birds Fly Away"
Also, I highly suggest that you watch her Morning Becomes Eclectic In-Studio Session. You can watch it here: Theresa Andersson on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic You can also stream just audio, but I highly suggest you watch it.
Then you'll love In Rainbows 2: Electric Boogaloo!!!
No, but seriously, the good ole blokes at the BBC say that Radiohead has entered the studio and have started work on the follow up to 2007's In Rainbows (oh my, has it really been that long?). Knowing Radiohead, this will definitely not be In Rainbows part two, but something more amazing than we can even begin to fathom (I hope.)
