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!
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
Saturday, 9 January 2010
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.
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.
Friday, 11 December 2009
My (not) last show
I've not been updating like I should be. Whoops. I will do better! If you don't know what's going on at WRVU, then read the Nashville Scene. Stories: Number of WRVU Community DJs Capped at 25, Cap on Community DJs at WRVU Upheld by VSC Board, and List of Community DJs Whose Shows Will Stay on WRVU. You can find more on there, but those are three interesting ones. For those of you who don't like to read (why the fuck are you looking at my blog?), WRVU has 48 community DJs. There has been a limit of 25 DJs applied starting next week. I am one of the lucky 25. I'm not sure how BB survived, but it has and will continue to reign supreme. Who knows, I might have a show time other than 1-3 AM. Although, it is kind of a cool time, because I feel like I can play whatever I want, but I guess I can anytime... haha. So yeah, I totally thought that this upcoming show would be my last, but I'm so pumped that it's not. Currently working on the playlist, so I'm going to get back to that so the show will be jammin'. I'm even putting off reading the newest MRR that came in the mail TODAY, so you know I'm serious about this...
Oh yeah and a final note, I will be doing my show over the winter break. The schedule will be whacky, but hopefully I'll find a decent spot I can settle into for a month or so until the new schedule is made in mid-to-late January.
Oh yeah and a final note, I will be doing my show over the winter break. The schedule will be whacky, but hopefully I'll find a decent spot I can settle into for a month or so until the new schedule is made in mid-to-late January.
Monday, 2 November 2009
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Girl U Want
Well it looks like BB 4 (C set) is lost somewhere in the interwebs, so I don't have a document of what I played. I have the list on my computer of the non-station CDs, but it's not complete, so whatever. You can just imagine... Circle Jerks, Clash, Citizen Fish, etc.
Here's the list from my last show BB 5 (D set). You can listen to it here. This link will only be good until the next week, though. I need to find out if there's a way I can have my shows saved in mp3 format... But speaking of the next show. I need some names of bands that start with the letter E. This will be much more difficult than D was. I will have a little bit longer time frame to figure it out because I'm taking off next week. So yeah. Please spread the word about the radio show! If you have a band and want to hear it on air, get in touch. If want free advertisement about your show, get in touch. Touch me!
If you're in the Nashville area, check out Middle Class Trash this Friday night at 19:00 at the Hardcore House in Murfreesboro.
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
catching up
The Backchannel Broadcast is a radio show on WRVU every Saturday night (Sunday morning) at 1AM. I play punk rock plus random other things. Here are the playlists from my past shows. Just click on the number for the set.
BB -1
BB 0
BB 0.1
BB 1 Summer set, # set, new 7" set
BB 2 A set, guest Average Smith 7" set
BB 3 B set
BB 4 C set (will be up soon).
If you have any requests for the D set (band or specific song by a band) then post them.
Here are some bands.
DBF, DI, DRI, Dead Allison, Dead Kennedys, Descendents, Dead Milkmen, DOA, Dwarves, Devo, Dag Nasty, Deep Wound, Damned, Dead Boys, Dictators, Dropkick Murphys, Dr. Know, Dicks, The Disrupters, Darlington, Distillers, Discharge, Dead Livers, Dead Landlord, Dopamines.
~end transmission
BB -1
BB 0
BB 0.1
BB 1 Summer set, # set, new 7" set
BB 2 A set, guest Average Smith 7" set
BB 3 B set
BB 4 C set (will be up soon).
If you have any requests for the D set (band or specific song by a band) then post them.
Here are some bands.
DBF, DI, DRI, Dead Allison, Dead Kennedys, Descendents, Dead Milkmen, DOA, Dwarves, Devo, Dag Nasty, Deep Wound, Damned, Dead Boys, Dictators, Dropkick Murphys, Dr. Know, Dicks, The Disrupters, Darlington, Distillers, Discharge, Dead Livers, Dead Landlord, Dopamines.
~end transmission
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