Sweet Static Playlist For July 16

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.

Here is the direct link for Sweet Static for July 16

as always...

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

Patterson Hood-She's A Little Randy from Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs) *
Deastro-Kurgan Wave Number One from Moondagger *
Think About Life-Sofa-bed from Family cc *
Regina Spektor-Dance Anthem Of The 80's from Far *
Bidiniband-Terrorize Me Now from The Land Is Wild cc *
Wilco-Country Disappeared from Wilco (The Album) *
Steve Earle-John Walker's Blues from Jerusalem
Los Campesinos!-Don't Tell Me To Do The Math from Sticking Fingers Into Sockets
Spiral Beach-Domino cc mp3
Julie Doiron-Spill Yer Lungs from I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day cc
Rural Alberta Advantage-Don't Haunt This Place from Hometowns cc *
The Hidden Cameras-Walk On mp3
Ohbijou-Eloise And The Bones from Beacons cc *
Magnolia Electric Co.-The Rock Of Ages from Josephine *

Interview With Clem Of White Cowbell Oklahoma Online

Tonight I was lucky enough to have Clem from White Cowbell Oklahoma on my radio show for a talk. As always it was an entertaining and educational experience. If you want to hear it you can listen to it (and the rest of the my show) on the link below.

Interview with Clem from White Cowbell Oklahoma

The interview starts about 25 minutes in. It will be online for 30 days from today (July 9)

They are playing in Sarnia tomorrow night at Paddy Flaherty's and in Windsor at The Blind Dog on Saturday.

The 2008 Sweet Static Baker's Dozen

Another year has come and gone and despite my erratic posting tendencies another edition of the Sweet Static Baker's Dozen is here. This is not the best or greatest albums of the year. These are the albums that I found myself going back to over and over.

As in every other year on my radio show I will be playing a song from each album and then uploading the entire playlist as a zip file. The link for that is at the end. For now though in alphabetical order are my favorite albums of 2008.

Write ups coming soon. Just wanted the list of albums (and songs played on the show) online.

The Awkward Stage-Slimming Mirrors, Flattering Lights
-Mini Skirt Of Xmas Lights

Jason Collett-Stay Positive
-Out Of Time

Death Cab For Cutie-Narrow Stairs
-Long Division

The Felice Brothers-The Felice Brothers
-Frankie's Gun

Flight Of The Conchords-Flight Of The Conchords
-Bowie

Hilotrons-Happymatic
-Emergency Street

The Hold Steady-Stay Positive
-Slapped Actress

The Magic-EP
-Never Lock the Door

Mother Mother-O My Heart
-Arms Tonite

My Morning Jacket-Evil Urges
-Highly Suspicious

Ra Ra Riot-The Rhumb Line
-Dying Is Fine

She & Him-Volume One
-This Is Not A Test

Vampire Weekend-Vampire Weekend
-One (Blake's Got A New Face)

To download the entire 2008 Sweet Static's Baker's Dozen click here.

I had a bit of extra time so I also played Jenny Omnichord-Charlotte Or Otis from Charlotte Or Otis: An Album Of Duets which I loved but just didn't make the list.

I'm Digging Tusks

One of the things I enjoy about doing my radio show live is the ability to check out a great deal more music then when I'm recording.

Take last week when I was doing my final Friday broadcast I found the EP from Toronto's Tusks. I had read a review and was interested in checking it out. So I gave it a listen and really enjoyed it.

I definitely recommend checking it out. Their label White Whale has a sample mp3 available from their self-titled EP. Here's the link below.

Tusks-"Baby Noise"

Ruth Minnikin Playing In Windsor This Friday

A show that I'm really excited about seeing happens this Friday at Phog in Windsor as Ruth Minnikin is coming to town. She'll be joined on the bill by Ron Leary, Reels and The Good Lovelies.

I was first introduced to her when she played in The Guthries and their album Off Windmill remains a favorite of mine to this day. To be honest I haven't really checked out much of her solo stuff other then the album Marooned and Blue but I've always liked her voice. I'm really looking forward to the show.

Here's a song courtesy of her Sonic Bids website
Ruth Minnkin-Chicken Cooped Up In Country Music

Also here's an older track from The Guthries featuring Ruth Minnikin on Media Fire
The Guthries-Wednesday Night

Flight Of The Conchords

I have a confession to make. I was slow and I can't believe how slow I was. Flight Of The Conchords have been around for a bit but I've only got into them in the last couple of weeks. I love this band and the show. Like I said I'm coming to this late but I still wanted to share it.

Here are a couple of videos, first for one of my favorite songs, "The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room)"



Next their great hip hop song, "Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros"



And of course Sub Pop is always good about putting up mp3s to sample so here is one from them.

Flight Of The Conchords-"Business Time"

Culture Reject

Hopefully this doesn't come across as overkill with two posts in one day.

I've always been a big fan of Black Cabbage, a band from Guelph from the '90s. Their time came and went but at the end of last year a group on Facebook was dedicated to hoping the band would reunite for a show and word came that they would be performing at Hillside this year.

Also appearing there will be one of Black Cabbage's main members, Michael O'Connell's new project Culture Reject. The album is out on White Whale Records and is another one I've really gotten into since I've first heard it.

I'm trying to get into Hillside this year as a volunteer and if I'm fortunate enough to be picked I'll definitely be checking out both Black Cabbage and Culture Rejects if possible. Here's a taste of the band from the White Whale website.

Culture Rejects-Inside The Cinema

Hilotrons

Well, it's been a long time since I've posted and got a lot of stuff that has peaked my interest the last few months. No promises on how often the posts will come but I'm going to try and revive this.

First off is Ottawa's Hilotrons. I caught them at Phog Lounge in Windsor back in April. They're on Kelp Records, so I was immediately interested. I checked out the album and to be honest, I wasn't too crazy about them right away.

However I was soon to be proven wrong by their live performance. It was an amazing, high energy show. If you get the chance to see them make sure you try and get out to see them. A couple of songs via the Kelp records website to give you a taste.

Hilotrons-Dominika
Hilotrons-Emergency Street

Jim Guthrie

I woke up this morning to one of my favorite Jim Guthrie songs playing on my computer, "1901". So it got me wondering what is up with him lately. His last proper release came out in 2003 so I'm definitely ready for some new music. No news on his website and his Wikipedia page says he's working on an album hopefully out late in 2007, but who knows how reliable that info is. The bottom line is that I have no clue what's going on with him.

So anyways with all that I did see that there's a lot of cool stuff on his website to download (solo, Royal City, Mandrills) and since I mentioned "1901" I'll point out this short, remix of the song by i am robot and proud.

Jim Guthrie-"1901" remixed by i am robot and proud

Revisiting Feist's Monarch aka Post 504

It has been a week since I started things up again and so far so good. A funny thing happened though when I was doing a post and had realized that I had passed post number 500. I'm kind of stunned that I've kept this up for that long. Usually I get distracted or tired of it and give up things, which has happened a couple of times. Yet somehow I keep coming back and posting.

So in honour of reaching 500 posts I've decided to go back to the well with what has easily been my most popular post. Back in April of 2006 I did a post with three songs from Feist's debut album Monarch. I also passed a full copy of the album over to Heather at I Am Fuel, You Are Friends and she put it up. Her links are no longer up and I've gotten a couple of requests for it since then and since the album is still not available commercially I thought I'd put it up again.

So as usual, on the link below is a zipped copy of it from Rapidshare.

To get Feist's Monach go here.

Hope you enjoy.

Interview With Steve Albini (Shellac) Online

The other interview on the past week's Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show was a return from noted producer, engineer and musician Steve Albini. In the interview he mainly talks about Shellac's new album, Excellent Italian Greyhound.

Interview with Steve Albini (Shellac)

The interview starts right after the news and will be online for roughly the next four weeks.

Interview With Kat Burns (Forest City Lovers) Online

The first guest on this week's Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show was Kat Burns of the Forest City Lovers. She talks about the bands tour that's about to start and their upcoming appearance at the Hillside Festival.

Interview with Kat Burns (Forest City Lovers)

The interview starts about twenty minutes in and will be online for about four weeks.

Sweet Static Playlist For 6/22

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)

Meryn Cadell-The Sweater from Angel Food For Thought reissue (Bongo Beat-2007) cc *
Frank Black-Headache from 93-03 (Cooking Vinyl-2007)
The Parkas-Raggedy Ann from Put Your Head In The Lion's Mouth (Saved By Radio-2007) cc *
The National-Ana from Boxer (Beggars Banquet-2007) *
Kevin Drew-tbtf from Gorilla vs. Bear cc mp3
Mother Mother-Tic Toc from Touch Up (Last Gang-2007) cc
Ben Folds Five-Bad Idea from Naked Baby Photos (Caroline-1998)
They Might Be Giants-The Mesopotamians from The Else (Idlewild-2007) *

The Sweet Static Menage A Trois (cover songs)
REM from Berkeley Place mp3
-Paint It Black (The Rolling Stones)
-I've Got You Babe (Sonny & Cher)
-The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Solomon Linda and the Evening Birds)

Boats-Classic Rock Weekend from Intercontinental Champion (indie-2007) cc *
Los Campesinos-Frontwards from Sticking Fingers Into Sockets (Arts&Crafts-2007) *
The White Stripes-Icky Thump live from Cable & Tweed mp3
Ford Pier-You Don't Want To Know What I'm Into from Organ Farming (Six Shooter-2007) cc *
Patterson Hood-Heavy And Hanging from An Aquarium Drunkard mp3
Jason Isbell-Dress Blues from An Aquarium Drunkard mp3 r
The Hold Steady-Citrus from Boys And Girls In America (Vagrant-2006)
Kathleen Edwards-Six O'Clock News from Failer (Maple-2002) cc
Wayne Omaha-In The Ether from Let It Mellow (Scratch-2004) cc
Black Cabbage-Chester from their self-titled album (DROG-1993) cc
White Cowbell Oklahoma-(Tear You) A New One from Casa Diablo (Slick Monkey-2006) cc *
Wreckless Eric-Whole Wide World from The Poor Ditching Boy mp3
Carolyn Mark-Pirate And Shotgun from Nothing Is Free (Mint-2007) cc *

The Sweet Static Menage A Trois For June 15

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.

The Sweet Static Menage A Trois (cover songs)
Calvin Johnson & Julie Doiron-Lonesome Sundown (Halo Benders) from Gorilla vs. Bear mp3
Handsome Furs-You Got Lucky (Tom Petty) from You Ain't No Picasso cc mp3
Kevin Hearn & The Thin Buckle Band-War Pigs (Black Sabbath) from promo single cc

To get the Sweet Static Menage A Trois for June 15 go here.

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

The Sweet Static Menage A Trois For June 1

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.
Jeff Buckley-Hallelujah/I Know It's Over (Leonard Cohen/The Smiths) from Mystery White Boy: Live '95-'96 (Sony-2000)
Dr. Dog-Heart It Races (Architecture In Helsinki) from Stereogum mp3
And You Will Know Us By The Trail of the Dead-The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (The Band) from Berkeley Place mp3

To get the Sweet Static Menage A Trois from June 1 go here.

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

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.

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.