Interview With Tacoma Hellfarm Tragedy Online

This week's guest on the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show was Brad Giefert and Darryl Stevenson from Guelph's Tacoma Hellfarm Tragedy. I've played the band on my radio show and have really enjoyed the little I've heard. Their latest album is called Orchard Songs.

Interview with Brad Giefert and Darryl Stevenson (Tacoma Hellfarm Tragedy)

The interview starts after the news and will be up for thirty days from the date of the post.

Interview With Sage Francis Online

Last week's guest on the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show was Sage Francis. He's on to talk about his new album Human The Death Dance.

Interview With Sage Francis

The interview starts after the news and will be online for three weeks from this post's date.

Interview With Fond Of Tigers Online

The second interview from two weeks ago on the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show was Fond of Tigers' Stephen Lyons. I've never heard of the band but has a nice mix of members from other projects including The Buttless Chaps, Great Aunt Ida and Zubot & Dawson.

Interview with Stephen Lyons (Fond Of Tigers)

The interview starts after the news and will be online for two weeks from the date of this post.

Interview With Abominal Online

I've fallen behind on posting the interviws from the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show from CFRU so here we go.

Back two weeks ago the had Toronto MC Abominal on the show for an interview to talk about his album Escape from the Pigeon Hole. I haven't heard the interview but it takes place a bit into the show, I'm guessing around twenty minutes.

Interview with Abominal

The interview will be up for two weeks from this post.

Canadian Campus Radio Charts For May 15

Here are the Canadian campus radio charts for the week ending May 15 from Earshot, the official publication of the NCRA.

1 Frog Eyes Tears Of The Valedictorian Scratch
2 Feist The Reminder Arts & Crafts
3 Joel Plaskett Emergency Ashtray Rock MapleMusic
4 Blonde Redhead 23 4AD
5 You Say Party! We Say Die! Lose All Time Paper Bag
6 Elliott Smith New Moon Kill Rock Stars
7 Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare Domino
8 The Arcade Fire Neon Bible Merge
9 The Wooden Stars People Are Different Sonic Unyon
10 Dog Day Night Group Black Mountain Music

For the complete national chart go here.

Now my home station CJAM's chart.

1 Feist The Reminder Arts & Crafts
2 The Sea And Cake Everybody Thrill Jockey
3 Elliott Smith New Moon Kill Rock Stars
4 The Phonemes There's Something We've Been Meaning To Do Recording Club
5 Dinosaur Jr. Beyond Fat Possum
6 Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare Domino
7 Bright Eyes Cassadaga Saddle Creek
8 The Clientele God Save The Clientele Merge
9 Young Galaxy Young Galaxy Arts & Crafts
10 Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra Security Anti

For the whole CJAM chart go here.

The Sweet Static Menage A Trois For May 25

Every week on the radio editon of Sweet Static on CJAM 91.5 FM in Windsor/Detroit, I have the Sweet Static Menage A Trois. Three cover songs that I play and then also put them up here on the blog for download.

As always the songs are in a zip file together on Rapidshare.

The Sweet Static Menage A Trois (cover songs)
Arctic Monkeys-You Know I'm No Good (Amy Winehouse) from Stereogum mp3
The Shins-Strange Powers (The Magnetic Fields) from You Ain't No Picasso mp3
Ryan Adams-Down In A Hole (Alice In Chains) from I Am Fuel, You Are Friends mp3

To get the Sweet Static Menage A Trois from May 25 go here.

The Menage A Trois can be heard on the Sweet Static radio editon every Friday around 11am on CJAM 91.5 FM.

Sweet Static Playlist For May 25

You can listen to Sweet Static, every Friday from 10:30am to noon on 91.5 FM in Windsor/Detroit. Or you can tune in on the internet at
-http://cjam.ca, under listen or
-opening a url on whatever player you use and put in http://137.207.3.11:8050/

New and improved broadband stream from the station, as well as the original lo-fi stream.

The show is archived for a month at http://web2.uwindsor.ca/cjam/nvd_mp3.php with a new, easier to navigate layout.

as always...

cc-canadian content
*-in rotation
r-request
mp3-from an mp3 blog (link on the mp3)

Lauren Hill-Lose Myself from Idolator mp3
Mavis Staples-This Little Light Of Mine from We'll Never Turn Back (Anti-2007)
Lucinda Williams-Words from West (Lost Highway-2007) *
Wilco-What Light from Sky Blue Sky (Nonesuch-2007) *
Bob Dylan/The Band-Lay Lady Lay from Before The Flood (CBS-1974)
Broken Social Scene-Canada vs. America from Adult Swim mp3
Jason Collett-Reunion from Do You Trust Your Friends? (Arts & Crafts-2007) cc *

The Sweet Static Menage A Trois (cover songs)
Arctic Monkeys-You Know I'm No Good (Amy Winehouse) from Stereogum mp3
The Shins-Strange Powers (The Magnetic Fields) from You Ain't No Picasso mp3
Ryan Adams-Down In A Hole (Alice In Chains) from I Am Fuel, You Are Friends mp3

Ryan Adams-Two from I Am Fuel, You Are Friends mp3
The Replacements-Can't Hardly Wait from Don't You Know Who I Think I Was? The Best Of (Rhino-2006)
Rock Plaza Central-The Things That Bind You from The World Was Hell To Us (indie-2003) cc
The Morganfields from Thrash Waltz (MCA-1993) cc
-Sheho
-Up The Ladder
White Cowbell Oklahoma-Faster Than Sin from Casa Diablo (Slick Monkey-2006) cc *
Grinderman-No Pussy Blues from self-titled album (Anti-2007) *
Joel Plaskett-The Instrumental from Ashtray Rock (Maple-2007) cc *
They Might Be Giants-Cyclops Rock from A Users Guide To (Rhino-2005)
Zumpano-Rosecrans Boulevard from Look What The Rookie Did (Sub Pop-1994) cc
Alun Piggins-Garbage Inspires from Awaken The Snakes (AML-2003) cc
Petunia And The Loons-Sheila's Song from self-titled album (Forward Music-2007) cc *

Free Music In Detroit-CityFest

Being right across the river from Detroit is a good thing for a music fan. Most bands hit the city at some point, so you've usually got a chance to see any act you want to catch. Another excellent thing is the huge amount of free festivals in the summer. Over the next couple of days I'm going to go over some of the ones I'm excited about.

First up today is CityFest formerly known as TasteFest, running from July 4-8. It's at New Center in Detroit and offers four stages of music. They usually have some pretty sweet bands and this year is no different. A weird mix of bands from the Afrobeat of Femi Kuti to the comedy of Weird Al to indie favs Yo La Tengo and Spoon.

Here is the main stage listings

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007
5:30 PM
Femi Kuti and The Positive Force
8:30 PM
SPOON

Thursday, July 5th, 2007
5:30 PM
The Wailers
8:30 PM
“Weird Al” Yankovic

Friday, July 6th, 2007
5:30 PM
BRIAN CULBERTSON reunited with Steve Cole
7:30 PM
The Detroit News Battle of the Bands Winner
The Displays
8:30 PM
Lupe Fiasco

Saturday, July 7th, 2007
5:30 PM
Deniece Williams
8:30 PM
Yo La Tengo

Sunday, July 8th, 2007
3:00 PM
Bobby “Blue” Bland
6:00 PM
Cheap Trick

Plus there are three other stages of local bands.

For full details on CityFest go here.

The Old Soul

The Old Soul is a Toronto band. Really great, energetic stuff. Anyways, Friendly Fire Records has released, from the best that I can see, a compilation of their two previous releases. Looks like a mix of the two Canadian records for the U.S. One of my favorite bands from the last couple of years, both live and recorded so definitely check them out. Friendly Fire has a couple of mp3s up and the retro-tinged video from "River Of Daughters" is up on You Tube.

The Old Soul-"Nectar Of The Nitwit"
The Old Soul-"River Of Daughters"

Zunior's Latest Free Compilation Now Available

The holiday weekend is coming to an end up here in Canada which is unfortunate. Thankfully though Zunior has brought out another excellent compilation for everyone to check out for free. Lots of great stuff as usual including my current favorite Jenn Grant, Land Of Talk, Great Aunt Ida and even some classic Cub. Here's the whole track listing.

1 Dreamer - Jenn Grant Orchestra for the Moon Paris 1919 Records
2 Company You Keep - Great Aunt Ida How They Fly Great Aunt Ida
3 The Bellwoods Crew - Carry On - Friends In Bellwoods Friends In Bellwoods
Friends In Bellwoods
4 Speak To Me Bones - Land Of Talk Applause Cheer Boo Hiss Land Of Talk
5 My Chinchilla - Cub Betti-Cola Mint Music
6 Something - Glissandro 70 Glissandro 70 Constellation
7 Every Creepy Pusher - Hawksley Workman Before We Were Security Guards Isadora Records
8 Mike O’Neill – She Believes In Me (99% acoustic mix) - Mike O’Neill Our Power Solar Music Compilation Zunior Label
9 By Divine Right - Shaved Head - By Divine Right Rheostatics Tribute - The Secret Sessions Zunior Label
10 Cler Achel - Tinariwen Aman Iman: Water Is Life Outside Music

For full details on how to get the new Zunior compilation go here.

Hope everyone has a good Victoria Day.

Canadian Campus Radio Charts For May 15

Here are the Canadian campus radio charts for the week ending May 15 from Earshot, the official publication of the NCRA.

1 Frog Eyes Tears Of The Valedictorian Scratch
2 Feist The Reminder Arts & Crafts
3 Joel Plaskett Emergency Ashtray Rock MapleMusic
4 Blonde Redhead 23 4AD
5 You Say Party! We Say Die! Lose All Time Paper Bag
6 Elliott Smith New Moon Kill Rock Stars
7 Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare Domino
8 The Arcade Fire Neon Bible Merge
9 The Wooden Stars People Are Different Sonic Unyon
10 Dog Day Night Group Black Mountain Music

For the entire national chart go here.

Now as always, the CJAM chart.

1 Feist The Reminder Arts & Crafts
2 The Sea And Cake Everybody Thrill Jockey
3 Elliott Smith New Moon Kill Rock Stars
4 The Phonemes There's Something We've Been Meaning To Do Recording Club
5 Dinosaur Jr. Beyond Fat Possum
6 Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare Domino
7 Bright Eyes Cassadaga Saddle Creek
8 The Clientele God Save The Clientele Merge
9 Young Galaxy Young Galaxy Arts & Crafts
10 Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra Security Anti

For the whole CJAM chart go here.

Sweet Static Playlist For May 18

You can listen to Sweet Static, every Friday from 10:30am to noon on 91.5 FM in Windsor/Detroit. Or you can tune in on the internet at
-http://cjam.ca, under listen or
-opening a url on whatever player you use and put in http://137.207.3.11:8050/

New and improved broadband stream from the station, as well as the original lo-fi stream.

The show is archived for a month at http://web2.uwindsor.ca/cjam/nvd_mp3.php with a new, easier to navigate layout.

as always...

cc-canadian content
*-in rotation
r-request
mp3-from an mp3 blog (link on the mp3)

Feist-1 2 3 4 from The Reminder (Arts & Crafts-2007) cc *
Ashley Park-The Race from Nobody Broke Your Heart (Darling-2005) cc *
Rufus Wainwright-Tulsa from Release The Stars (Universal-2007) cc *
The Decemberists-The Sporting Life from Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars-2005)
The Golden Dogs-Never Meant Any Harm from Big Eye Little Eye (True North-2006) cc *
The Hold Steady-Southtown Girls from Boys And Girls In America (Vagrant-2006)
Joel Plaskett-Penny For Your Thoughts from Ashtray Rock (Maple-2007) cc *
Fembots title track from Small Town Murder Scene (Indie-2002) cc
Fembots-Count Down Our Days from The City (Paper Bag-2005) cc
Wilco-Side With The Seeds from Sky Blue Sky (Nonesuch-2007) *
Blonde Redhead-My Impure Hair from 23 (4ad-2007) *
The Go! Team-Grip Like A Vice from Shamless Complacency mp3
White Cowbell Oklahoma-Bulletproof from Casa Diablo (Slick Monkey-2006) cc *
The Detroit Cobras-Leave My Kitten Alone from Tied And True (Bloodshot-2007) *
Fear Of Pop w/William Shatner-In Love from self-titled album (Sony-1998)
The Polyphonic Spree-Light To Follow from Gorilla Vs. Bear mp3
Nathan Lawr-Should And Shouldn't from Secret Carpentry (indie-2006) cc *
Fear Of Pop w/William Shatner-Still In Love from self-titled album (Sony-1998)
Luke Doucet-Free from Broken (And Other Rogue States) (Six Shooter-2005) cc *
Alun Piggins-Heading Out West from Balladesque (Moldy Floor-1999) cc
The Fembots from The City (Paper Bag-2005) cc *
-Gilded Age
-My Life In The Funeral Service

Jeff Tweedy Living Room Show Online

I was checking out my Livejournal friends list and caught an exciting post from one of the Wilco groups there. Back in March, Jeff Tweedy did a living room show for charity. Well the show was recorded and The Owl & The Bear has it.

Forty songs of Jeff Tweedy up close and personal. Here's the set list

1. Spiders
2. Someday Soon
3. Radio King
4. Reservations
5. Pot Kettle Black
6. Muzzle of Bees
7. Not for the Season
8. No More Poetry
9. Dreamer in my Dreams
10. Jesus Etc. (with Erin on violin)
11. Heavy Metal Drummer
12. One by One
13. Impossible Germany
14. Who Were You Thinking of?
15. Gun
16. New Madrid
17. ELT
18. What Light

19. Theologians
20. I'm a Wheel

21. Passenger Side
22. Family Gardner
23. Magazine Called Sunset
24. Is That the Thanks I Get
25. Forget the Flowers
26. Always in Love
27. Love N Mercy
28. Can't Keep From Talking
29. I Got You (accompanying vocals Jen/Chris)
30. I am Trying to Break Your Heart
31. Misunderstood (16 nothings)
32. Pecan Pie
33. Should Have Been in Love
34. Acuff Rose (at the edge of the stage w/o PA)
< I Hate it Here fragment>
35. Can't Stand It
36. Candyfloss
37. Pieholden Suite
38. How to Fight Loneliness
39. I'm the Man Who Loves You
40. California Stars (at the edge of the stage w/o PA)

For a live report on the show go here.

To download the show go here.

Fembots & Nathan Lawr In Windsor

Sorry for the lack of updates this week. Just been in one of those moods and not into blogging much. Going to correct that though.

Tomorrow night at Phog Lounge in Windsor is what should be an incredible show as the Fembots and Nathan Lawr perform. Only thing that sucks is that Luke Doucet is playing the same night at The Avalon Front. If I had my way I'd hit both shows but unfortunately I have to choose one and I go with Fembots/Lawr. Honestly you can't go wrong with either show.

Anyways a couple of songs from the Fembots and videos to try and persuade everyone in the area to go.


Fembots-"Count Down Our Days"
Fembot-"Small Town Murder Scene"

Check out the video for "Count Down Our Days"


Here's the video for "Broken And Blue"

Patti Smith Interview: Part Two Online

Last week I gave the link to the first part of an interview with hall of famer Patti Smith on the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show. Last Wednesday they aired part two. It starts right after the news and will be available for thirty days from the original air date.

Interview with Patti Smith: part two

You may also want to check out the Exclaim Timeline feature on Smith, where parts of this interview is from. http://exclaim.ca/articles/timelline.aspx?csid1=110.

Interview With Ron Leary Online

It was a great pleasure to have friend of the show Ron Leary on today for an interview on today's show. Ron is playing a couple of shows in Windsor in the next week, opening of K'Naan and also playing with Dean's Dragon.

Interview with Ron Leary

The interview starts about twenty minutes in and will be online for thirty days from the CJAM archive.

The shows

May 17

Cleary Auditorium
K'Naan
Ron Leary

Phog Lounge (K'Naan afterparty)
Dean's Dragon CD release
Ron Leary

Song to get you in the mood (although solo Dean Drouillard is different from Dean's Dragon)

Dean Drouillard-"Valentine"
Ron Leary-"Turn"

Sweet Static Playlist For May 11

You can listen to Sweet Static, every Friday from 10:30am to noon on 91.5 FM in Windsor/Detroit. Or you can tune in on the internet at
-http://cjam.ca, under listen or
-opening a url on whatever player you use and put in http://137.207.3.11:8050/

New and improved broadband stream from the station, as well as the original lo-fi stream.

The show is archived for a month at http://web2.uwindsor.ca/cjam/nvd_mp3.php with a new, easier to navigate layout.

as always...

cc-canadian content
*-in rotation
r-request
mp3-from an mp3 blog (link on the mp3)

Bright Eyes-Four Winds from Cassadaga (Saddle Creek-2007) *
Joel Plaskett-Chinatown/For The Night From Ashtray Rock (Maple-2007) cc *
Richard Laviolette-Ordinary Fellow from A Little Less Like A Rock. A Little More Like Home (Burnt Oak-2006) cc
Jason Zumpano-Sway from Living Room Recordings (Powertool-2007) cc *
The Flaming Lips-The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (Chicken Fried Hoedown Protest Rally) from If You Could Blow Up The World EP (Warner-2006)
The Local Rabbits-Record Body Count from The Secret Sessions: Rheostatics Tribute (Zunior-2007) cc *
Common w/Ft. Dwele-The People from Idolator mp3
K'Naan-What's Hardcore from The Dusty Foot Philosopher (Sony-2005) cc *
Krief-Black Empty Hearts from Take It Or Leave (indie-2007) cc
Jenn Grant-Make It Home Tonight from Orchestra For The Moon (Paris 1919-2007) cc *
Nathan Lawr-Empty Trees from Secret Carpentry (indie-2006) cc
The Fembots-Broken and Blue from Small Town Murder Scene (indie-2002) cc
M.I.A.-Hit That from Gorilla vs. Bear mp3

Interview with Ron Leary

Dean's Dragon from The Dragon (indie-2007) cc
-title track
-Chocolate Toupee
Ron Leary-Long, Long Day from theroadinbetween (Bootbrush-2006) cc
Alun Piggins-Girl Inside from Awaken The Snakes (AML-2003) cc
White Cowbell Oklahoma-She Likes To Boogie from Casa Diablo (Slick Monkey-2006) cc *

Interview with Pietro Amato (Torngat) Online

One of the guests on this Wednesday's Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show was Pietro Amato of Torngat. The interview starts about 20 minutes into the file.

Interview with Pietro Amato (Torngat)

The interview will be archived for thirty days from the broadcast date on the CFRU website..

Canadian Campus Radio Charts For May 8

Here are the Canadian campus radio charts for the week ending May 8 from Earshot, the official publication of the NCRA.

1 You Say Party! We Say Die! Lose All Time Paper Bag
2 Frog Eyes Tears Of The Valedictorian Scratch
3 The Arcade Fire Neon Bible Merge
4 Joel Plaskett Emergency Ashtray Rock MapleMusic
5 Blonde Redhead 23 4AD
6 Feist The Reminder Arts & Crafts
7 A Northern Chorus The Millions Too Many Sonic Unyon
8 Dog Day Night Group Black Mountain Music
9 The Book Of Lists The Book Of Lists EP Scratch
10 LCD Soundsystem Sound Of Silver DFA/EMI

For the complete Canadian campus radio charts go here.

Now the CJAM charts.

1 LCD Soundsystem Sound Of Silver DFA/EMI
2 Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare Domino
3 Bright Eyes Cassadaga Saddle Creek
4 Blonde Redhead 23 4AD
5 Go Jeff!!! Wake Up The Dance Machine! With A Bullet
6 Kids On TV Mixing Business With Pleasure Blocks Recording Club
7 Neil Young Live At Massey Hall 1971 Reprise
8 Pete Samples Yours Makes Mine Vinyl Republik
9 The Phonemes There's Something We've Been Meaning To Do Recording Club
10 Detroit Cobras Tied And True Bloodshot

FOr the whole CJAM chart go here.

Canadian Campus Radio Charts For April

Here are the Canadian campus radio charts for the month of April from Earshot, the official publication of the NCRA.

1 The Arcade Fire * Neon Bible Merge
2 You Say Party! We Say Die! * Lose All Time Paper Bag
3 Do Make Say Think * You, You're A History In Rust Constellation
4 Apostle Of Hustle * National Anthem Of Nowhere Arts & Crafts
5 LCD Soundsystem Sound Of Silver DFA/EMI
6 Julie Doiron * Woke Myself Up Endearing
7 Besnard Lakes * Are The Dark Horse Jagjaguwar
8 Great Lake Swimmers * Ongiara Nettwerk
9 Peter, Bjorn And John Writer's Block Almost Gold
10 Bloc Party A Weekend In The City Vice

For the entire chart for the month go here.

New Zunior Free Compilation Now Available

Thanks to Zunior for making these kick ass compilations available for free. Their newest is possibly one of the best they've made available. Great list of bands and artists including Jason Zumpano, Danny Michel, Lily Frost, The Golden Seals, Oh Susanna and The United Steel Workers of Montreal. Here's the full track listing.

1 Sheep and Wolves - J. Zumpano Living Room Recordings J. Zumpano
2 Souvenir -Danny Michel Welcome Home (1997-2007) Danny Michel
3 All of Us - Lily Frost Flights of Fancy Aporia Records
4 Back On Speed - Frankie Sparo Welcome Crummy Mystics Constellation
5 Sticks and Stones - The Outfit The Outfit The Outfit
6 Keep the Living Bodies Warm - Tangiers Hot New Spirits Sonic Unyon
7 The Golden Seals - Loving Arms - Rheostatics Tribute The Secret Sessions Zunior
8 Greyhound Bus - Oh Susanna Short Stories Outside Music
9 Small Town Banks - The United Steel Workers of Montreal Kerosene & Coal Weewerk
10 Love Makes It Mad - Dog Day Thank You Divorce Records

For complete information on how to get this free comilation go here.

Sweet Static Playlist For May 4

You can listen to Sweet Static, every Friday from 10:30am to noon on 91.5 FM in Windsor/Detroit. Or you can tune in on the internet at
-http://cjam.ca, under listen or
-opening a url on whatever player you use and put in http://137.207.3.11:8050/

New and improved broadband stream from the station, as well as the original lo-fi stream.

The show is archived for a month at http://web2.uwindsor.ca/cjam/nvd_mp3.php with a new, easier to navigate layout.

as always...

cc-canadian content
*-in rotation
r-request
mp3-from an mp3 blog (link on the mp3)

Luke Doucet-It's Not The Liquor I Miss from Broken (And Other Rogue States) (Six Shooter-2005) cc
They Might Be Giants-Alphabet Of Nations from Here Come The ABCs (Disney Sound-2005)
Head Of Femur-Science Needed A Medical Man from Ringdom Of Proctor (Greyday-2003)
Ramones-Spiderman from Greatest Hits Live (Radioactive-1996)
Bob Wiseman-My Cousin Dave from It's True! (Blocks-2004) cc
Jason Zumpano-Summers Of Decay from Living Room Recordings (Powertool-2007) cc *
Peter Elkas-Fall Apart Again from Wall Of Fire (Maple-2007) cc *
Ron Leary-Everyday I Think Of You from Last Night EP (indie-

The Sweet Static Menage A Trois (covers)

Scout Niblet-"Just What I Needed" (The Cars) from My Old Kentucky Blog mp3
The White Stripes-"Jolene" (Dolly Parton) from Shamless Complacency mp3
Mike Watt-Burnin' For You (Blue Oyster Cult) from Pitchfork mp3

The Phonemes-Easter Suit from There's Something We've Been Meaning To Do (Blocks-2007) cc *
The Detroit Cobras-On A Monday from Tied And True (Bloodshot-2007) *
Lucky Soul-Add Your Light To Mine, Baby from Good Hodgkins mp3
The Old Soul-Robert Wyatt from self-titled album (Friendly Fire-2007) cc *
Rheostatics-Northern Wish from Rheostatics Live mp3 cc
Nathan Lawr-Covering Up from Secret Carpentry (indie-2006) cc
Jenn Grant w/Ron Sexsmith-In A Brown House from Orchestra For The Moon (Paris 1919-2007) cc *
Joel Plaskett-The Glorious Life from Ashtray Rock (Maple-2007) cc *
James Gordan & Sons-The Moon Looks Like It's Crying from Nine Green Bottle (Borealis-2007) cc *
Blair-Mona Lisa from My Old Kentucky Blog mp3
Bob Wiseman-Misery from Theme And Variations (Blocks-2006) cc *
The Phonemes-Municipality from There's Something We've Been Meaning To Do (Blocks-2007) cc *
Oh Susanna-Bullies from Short Stories (Stella-2007) cc *

The Sweet Static Menage A Trois For May 4

Every week on the radio editon of Sweet Static on CJAM 91.5 FM in Windsor/Detroit, I have the Sweet Static Menage A Trois. Three cover songs that I play and then also put them up here on the blog for download.

As always the songs are in a zip file together on Rapidshare.

Scout Niblet-"Just What I Needed" (The Cars) from My Old Kentucky Blog mp3
The White Stripes-"Jolene" (Dolly Parton) from Shamless Complacency mp3
Mike Watt-Burnin' For You (Blue Oyster Cult) from Pitchfork mp3

To get the Sweet Static Menage A Trois from May 5 go here.

The Menage A Trois can be heard on the Sweet Static radio editon every Friday around 11am on CJAM 91.5 FM.

Will Arnett On Conan

All I can say is Will Arnett, Conan and air guitar. Enjoy.

Canadian Campus Radio Charts For May 1

Here is the Canadian campus radio charts from Earshot, the official publication of the NCRA, for the week ending May 1.

1 Joel Plaskett Emergency Ashtray Rock MapleMusic
2 You Say Party! We Say Die! Lose All Time Paper Bag
3 Blonde Redhead 23 4AD
4 The Arcade Fire Neon Bible Merge
5 Frog Eyes Tears Of The Valedictorian Scratch
6 The Wooden Stars People Are Different Sonic Unyon
7 LCD Soundsystem Sound Of Silver DFA/EMI
8 Dog Day Night Group Black Mountain Music
9 Grinderman Grinderman Anti-
10 The Book Of Lists The Book Of Lists EP Scratch

For the entire national chart go here.

Now as always my home station CJAM's chart.

1 Joel Plaskett Emergency Ashtray Rock MapleMusic
2 The Fall Reformation: Post-TLC Narnack
3 LCD Soundsystem Sound Of Silver DFA/EMI
4 The Book Of Lists The Book Of Lists EP Scratch
5 Land Of Talk Applause Cheer Boo Hiss Dependent Music
6 The Superfantastics Pop-Up Book Independent
7 Dog Day Night Group Black Mountain Music
8 The Guest Bedroom Movement Independent
9 Frog Eyes Tears Of The Valedictorian Scratch
10 Blonde Redhead 23 4AD

For the whole CJAM chart you can go here.

Bob Wiseman, The Phonemes and Jason Trachtenburg Show In Windsor

A big show next Wednesday, May 9, in Windsor aa Bob Wiseman, The Phoenemes and Jason Trachtenburg appear at Phog Lounge. I'm really excited about the show. Someone from one of the bands is supposed to call in to the radio edition of Sweet Static this Friday at around 11:30 am.

Some stuff to preview and get everyone excited about the show.

Here's a video of Jason Trachtenburg for everyone.



For some more tracks of him and The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players go here.

The Phonemes have an mp3 up on their website and I really like it. You can get it below.

The Phonemes-"Steeples And People"

Lastly a Bob Wiseman song for you all, one of my personal favorites.

Bob Wiseman-"My Cousin David"

Around The Blogs

Haven't done this in a long time, but there's been some really kick ass stuff lately and thought I'd point out the way.

-Good Hodgkins has a CBC session of Final Fantasy and Cadence Weapon performing together. Some really great stuff in it. Check it out here.
-Speaking of Final Fantasy, B(oot)Log has a recording of a show from a month ago in Kingston. Interesting set list and includes a John Cale cover, so head over and check it out.
-Over at i (heart) music they have a live Rhume show to celebrate Kelpmitzvah. Definitely worth grabbing so get it here.

As always all blogs on the side are highly recommended by myself to check out.

Interview With Patti Smith Online

This week's guest on CFRU's Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show was Patti Smith. It's a two part interview with part two airing on next week's show.

Interview with Patti Smith

The interview starts after the news and will be online for thirty days.

Free Kelp Records Compilation Available

This past weekend the great Kelp Records held it's thirteenth anniversary celebrations up in Ottawa. There was series of shows to celebrate the Kelpmitzvah, as they called it. Well now they've teamed up with Zunior to bring you you a free compilation of Kelp bands called Kelpmitzvah.

Here's the complete tracklisting.

01. Andy Swan - Brian Jones
02. Chris Page - Keep me On Your Radar
03. The Acorn - Glory
04. Sarah Hallman - Snowballin'
05. Andrew Vincent - Little Ruffian
06. Jim Bryson - The Time Every Year
07. Camp Radio - I've Got Designs
08. Rhume - The Kerosene Clean
09. The Soirée - Across the Sea
10. The Micheal Parks - Vanessa
11. Mark Wilson - The Art Of Give and Take
12. Flecton - Echoes On the Trap Line
13. The Luck - We've Got It All

For full details on how to get the Kelp compilation go here.

Congrats to Jon Bartlett and all the great Kelp bands on the 13th birthday and here's to at least thirteen more.