WRVU 1953 - 2010??

New Fall show time: Saturdays 21:00 - 22:00.

SO, if you don't know what's been the talk of the town recently concerning WRVU, here's a brief run down. Vanderbilt Student Communications (the people in charge of WRVU) are considering selling the broadcasting license and making it online radio only. That's the basic info. If you want to read more about it click on this link. http://www.vandymedia.org/wrvu/ If you want to do something about it, you can go to the bottom of the linked page and voice your opinion there. PLEASE LET THEM KNOW HOW YOU FEEL! No one at the station wants to see WRVU die. I will continue to post more info on here as I know it.

http://www.vandymedia.org/wrvu/

WRVU 1953 - ∞

I know I said this would be up last night, but.... didn't happen. The show was rando for sure. If you missed it, just plug this link into Real Player and you can listen to my latest show: http://media-srv1.its.vanderbilt.edu/ramgen/wrvu/archive/backchannel.rm

So, here are some links for the videos from last night

Double Rainbow:


Double Rainbow song that I played:



Double Rainbow Auto-Tuned (not played on air):


Antoine Dodson (they rapin' errbody out here) original video:


Antoine's reaction to being efamous (not played on air). Note the fact they censor him saying the word ass, then talk about how he shouldn't be censored from telling his message. WTF?!:


Antoine song I played:


I should write more, but I'm not gonna. Ha. I will leave you with one more video, though. Please vote for this guy tomorrow...

As I mentioned on the show tonight, there's lots of stuff that I'm gonna post. All rando and pointless. Just like life. ha

This is a good review of the last Riverdales record that came out in the fall.
http://forthesound.com/2009/09/riverdales-invasion-usa/comment-page-1

(more on the 27th greatest band of all time) Please don't believe reviews of Tarantula (their newest record). Totally bogus. Just get the album yourself!
http://www.recessrecords.com/

NPR article about the new Devo record:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128085921

Speaking of Devo... Here's something random my buddy found.
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/28/devo-frontman-i-smok.html

"Don't taze me, bro!"


FBI Biker Terminology






Links I mentioned: N▲SHVILLE'S DE▲D.
Nashville Punk & Metal Forum
1000 Aspirines.

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Record Store Day catalogue

Well, Record Store Day was great for my ears, but not for my bank account. I had a great time at The Great Escape on Charlotte Avenue. I walked in at 10:15 and got all the RSD specials that I wanted without waiting in line. I then looked through all the fifty cent LPs. I spent way more money than I should have, but I did fairly well. Here's the list of the records I bought:

Alice Donut		Donut Comes Alive
All Night Radio		Spirit Stereo Frequency (Sealed)
Angst		Cry for Happy
Anton Dvořák		Symphony No. 9 in E Minor ("From the New World"), London Philharmonic, Alexander Gibson con.
Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra		A Toscanini Omnibus
A-Town Players		Playin' For Keeps (Promo)
The Bambi Slam		Is…
The Band of Holy Joy		When Stars Came Out to Play
Basic Blackjacks		Self-Titled
Batfish Boys		Head
Beastie Boys		Self-Titled
Bracket		924 Forestville St.
Braindrops		Adrenalin Mother
Brian and the Nightmares		Lizards
TheBrothers Johnson		Blast!
The Capitol City Dusters		Simplicity
The Carter Family		On Border Radio
Chronic Disorder		The Drums of War
Corky Hale		Harp Beat
Dolly Parton		The Great Pretender
Fela Kuti and his Africa 70		S/T 10"
The Flaming Lips & Stardeath and White Dwarfs		The Dark Side of the Moon
Franz Schubert		Greatest Hits (Sealed)
Gary Burton, Chick Corea		Crystal Silence
Happy Days		Fonzie Favorites
J. S. Bach		Orchestral Suites No.1 in C, No. 2 in B minor, New Bach Collegium Musicum, Max Pommer
Jesus Christ Superstar		Original Recording
Jesus Christ Superstar		Original Broadway Cast
Mannequin Beach		Don't Laugh, You're Next
Maurice Ravel		Boléro, La Valse, Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2; New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov		Scheherazade - Opus 35
Pop Will Eat Itself		Box Frenzy
Raybeats		It's Only a Movie!
Renegade Soundwave		Probably A Robbery…
Scott Henderson and Tribal Tech		Spears
Scott Henderson and Tribal Tech		Dr. Hee
Snot Boy		Today/Tomorrow 7"
Surf Punks		My Beach
Velvet Elvis		Enigma
The Wedge		Surf Party '83
World Class Wrecking Cru		Rapped in Romance

Just listened to the Beastie Boys Record Store Day 12" single. Daft Punk samples?! Oh yeah.

I went to Grimey's for a bit, but wasn't there too long. I was at one of the check-points for the first alley-cat of the spring. I just sat outside Yazoo (the new place is great, btw) for a while and drank and chatted with some people from Denmark. It was very "laterly." Then went to a cook-out, drank some more beers, had some food, and ended up calling 911 for the second time in my life. We saw this woman wreck her car by where we were. She was okay, but not excited. We think she hit the gas instead of the brake and she destroyed a sign and almost hit a house. Crazy stuff.

Record Store Day!!!

Record Store Day is almost upon us! Don't know what RSD is all about? Go here. And check the list of the RSD exclusives. Go support your local record store on April 17th.

Nashville, here's our list... Cat's Music, Grimey's, The Groove, and both Great Escapes.

See you at Grimey's in less than two weeks!

Whoa...

Watch this clip from Freaks and Geeks while listening to my show. hahaha.

Last post twenty days ago... No good. I have a lot on my mind these days, which is my excuse currently for not updating much. I used to just be lazy. Wait, I'm still lazy, but trying not to be as to better my life. Man this blog is pretty boring. I'm excited about this weekend because I'm off to Richmond, VA for the NAHBS to do bicycle related things. I have no clue what to expect, but I wish I had my new bike for the trip. Oh well. This is the last hoorah for Bikecycle and me. Some people name their bikes, and when I finally decided I should, I knew I'd be getting a new one so Bikecycle it is. My buddy will be receiving Bikecycle, so he'll be in good hands. One of my besties is leaving Nashville for NYC for about three months. She made the observation that it was ironic she felt closer to everyone just as she's about to leave. I feel the same about her and my bike. I'll survive.

Anyhow, new music..... It's hard to keep up with as I'm usually adding to my collection pretty regularly. I've been building my vinyl collection up the past year and a half with a lot of things that I love and wanted on vinyl. Last week saw the addition of Bad Religion - No Control (my favourite) and Adolescents' self titled record. Also as a gift I received Maximum Rocknroll's vinyl only rerelease of the comp Welcome to 1984. Haven't had the chance to listen to it yet which makes me hurt inside. Buy it here. Read Felix Havoc's review of it here.

I wanted this post to be so much more, but alas. The Tussin is kicking in and bedtime is nigh. If I don't update before then, make sure to listen tomorrow (of course) but especially next week (March 3) as it will be the eve of my birthday, and I'm sure I'll play something super rad (not really) as Midnight hits. I don't think Insomniac Motel will mind tooooo much.

For internet funnies sake, here are the two youtube videos I've featured on my radio show...

Bacon is Good for Me:

Charlie the Unicorn:

Laugh or cry... it all sounds the same.


And here's one just for the bicycle kids out there:

SUNBURN LIVE from F.E.T.I.S.H. on Vimeo.

Over and out.

NEW TIME!

For the Spring semester, The Backchannel Broadcast will be from 23:00-midnight every Wednesday. It will be different having a slot where there are DJs before AND after me. That hasn't happened to me yet, so it looks like I won't be doing too much extra special. Ah well, it will just force to me to cram everything into an awesome sixty minutes every week. Anyhow, the fun starts tonight.

Reatard dead, Dimmick stuck in bed

This will be short. Hopefully many of you caught last week's show. If not, you've undoubtedly heard the news about Jay Reatard's death. I had an hour long tribute to Jay, playing songs from Matador Singles '08, Blood Visions, and a side project of his The Final Solutions - Disco Eraser. Special thanks to my friends at Misprint Records for loaning me the CD on supershort notice. I would have liked to have played songs from more records, but I was lucky enough to be able to find the material I did in the two hours prior to the show. Click here for the playlist. I saw some of Jay's show at Pitchfork Music Festival '08 in Chicago. I was way more excited to see him at The End in Nashville just a few months ago. That was such a bad ass show. It made me excited about live music. There was just a lot of energy that had been lacking from shows I'd seen recently. Jay Reatard, you are missed.

Of much less importance, The Backchannel Broadcast will not be on the air today. I am fighting round 2 of a battle with strep throat. This time, I shall prevail!

Top ten records of 2009? Top ten records of the 00s? Who fucking cares?! Maybe I'm just pissed because my music consumption is NOT what it used to be. In my "old age" I find myself listening to NPR most of the time in the car. I don't take long trips like I used to where I'd listen to my iPod for hours. It's sad. I can sit here and make up more excuses, but I'd rather do something about it (for a change). I guess top ten lists are for people like me so we can discover what we missed out on by not being on top of the music scene like we should be. The only down side is, who the fuck are these people making lists? Why do I care what they say?

Here's an example:

Top 25 albums of 2009 from Rolling Stone

While there are a few good records on there, I've only heard them because they were in rotation at WRVU. Animal Collective, Phoenix, Grizzly Bear. All electro goodness. I did see a few good bands at shows and hear a few good records this past year. I won't bore you except for the best...

Femi Kuti at Bonnaroo, The Queers at the Sanctuary in Paducah, KY, Flaming Lips at Rites of Spring, Very Disco (Daft Punk tribute) at Exit-In, Michael Jackson Off The Wall tribute at Mercy Lounge, Teenage Whore Moans at Foobar II (while they were totally jammin', you can't find any of their shit online. there is another group of the same name from NY, but totally different), Hellfire Revival at the End, King Khan & the Shrines AND The King Khan & BBQ Show both at Exit-In, um.... shit, I'm sure I saw some other great shows, but can't remember them now. Hopefully, I'll be keeping this updated with shows this year. Haven't seen anything this first week of 20ten, but I'm sure I will soon. That list was totally longer than I thought it would've been. haha.

Onto something else. A friend of mine asked me the other day if I still liked The Lillingtons. Ofuckingcourse! He asked if I had their first record, Shit Out of Luck, which I don't.... Well, didn't until he mailed it to me! I got it in the mail today! WHAT THE FUCK?! I don't know what I did to deserve this, but I've gotta figure it out! It still has the lyric sheet AND the 7" with the Lillingtons covering everyone's first punk song, the infamous Blitzkrieg Bob. Now I have all four of their LPs!!! Time to start work on getting their 7"s and comps...

I was going to end the post here, but I totally forgot to mention my favourite album of the year...

Riverdales - Invasion USA!!! If you like Rock and/or Roll, you WILL like this record. Please listen to it. You can hear four tracks on their myspace... http://www.myspace.com/officialriverdales Here's a review that's worth reading, but it's not a track-by-track review I loved, but can't find. Arg. Anyhow, Teenage Strangler is the shit.

Until next time.