Been meaning to post this one for a while, even though it features questionable rationing of pizza slices. I’m out of town this week, but Jim will be on the show per usual, playing jams from 9pm til midnight. Streamt it at www.WRCT.org.
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Dirty Dishes live from the Hanging Horse Studio.
Welcome to another edition of the Interstellar Radio Shower Week in Review. Here in we navel gaze.
Matt Picks a Jim Song
Holy shit is that G.L.O.S.S. song capital-A Angry. Give it a listen immediately, it’s 90 seconds you won’t regret.
Jim Picks a Matt Song
Viet Cong is great. The word is they may be changing their name. Regardless what you think, the music is good. But my pick for this week is Wildhoney.
7″ Highlight – Kim Phuc
Matt highlighted some hard to find 7″ records from legendary Pittsburgh band Kim Phuc. Their existence was brief, but their music was awesome.
Sunday, September 13th Radio Show Playlist
The show featured good music. Which I can’t link to right now for silly reasons. More later…
Everything I’ve heard from the upcoming Deerhunter album has been fantastic. They seem to be retreating a bit from the 8-track roughness present on Monomania and the result reminds me of a mix of the bedroom experimentation of frontman Bradford Cox’s Atlas Sound solo project and grayscale indie sheen of guitarist Lockett Pundt’s Lotus Plaza. There’s still a weirdness to these songs though, even if I can’t quite put my finger on where it’s coming from. Coming from somebody who revisits Cryptograms more often than Halcyon Digest, that’s meant as a compliment. In the woozy video for “Breaker” above, you can watch Cox and Pundt share vocals on a track I feel comfortable in describing as damn near poppy.
How about a word from New Orleans post-punk outfit Heat Dust. A word on Seeking a Praxis. A word on destiny. A word on reverb.
Perfect! Another excuse to remind you to check out Viet Cong’s fantastic self-titled LP that came out earlier this year. Do it now before they make everybody’s year-end lists and you feel like you missed out.
Sometimes I forget how much I like that classic indie rock sound. Run Forever here reminds me a lot of Karl Hendricks Trio. Is their crossover between these Pittsburgh bands? Or just major influences?
Wildhoney isn’t wasting any time following up on their stellar debut, Sleep Through It, that came out earlier this year. Your Face Sideways is an EP due out in October on Topshelf records, and “Laura” is the first glimpse of said EP that the band has made public. Looking at the tracklist, here’s hoping “FSAII” actually has some sort of relation to Flying Saucer Attack.
I’ve had to put energy into other life arenas lately. So i’ve been just barely getting these up in time. K Records has been going around posting various stuff from their archives on bandcamp. Which is quite nice. I wish they would include downloads with their vinyl purchases, but glad to see this stuff available. Anyhow, this song was making me feel whatever it was I needed to feel this morning. And who doesn’t love Beat Happening? Except maybe complete assholes.
The Moonlandingz started as a fictional band, part of The Eccentronic Research Council’s Johnny Rocket, Narcissist & Music Machine… I’m Your Biggest Fan, but they didn’t stay imaginary for long. The “band”, featuring members of the aforementioned Eccentronics and Fat White Family, have already put out an EP and are currently working on a long player. Too hard to follow? Just watch the video for the insanely catchy “Sweet Saturn Mine” above.