CiTR -- Pop Drones

Broadcast on 10-Mar-2010

CiTR 101.9 Vancouver — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:00:57 -0800

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CiTR 101.9 Vancouver — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:01:00 -0800

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CiTR 101.9 Vancouver — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:03:00 -0800

Best Coast "Up All Night" split w/Jeans Wilder 7" (Atelier Ciseaux) 2010 Vivian Girls "The Desert" Everything Goes Wrong LP (In The Red) 2009 Pearl Harbor "High Road" Something About The Chaparrals 12" (Mexican Summer) 2010 LA Vampires "Keep It, Turn It, Bump It" My Estrogeneration comp LP (Not Not Fun) 2010 Meercaz "Troubled Hand" s/t LP (Tic Tac Totally) 2009 Nerve City "Living Wage" Recordings 2007-2008 LP (Sweet Rot) 2010 Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin "Drop Dead Baby" Reverse Shark Attack LP (Kill Shaman) 2009 Double Dagger "No Allies" More LP (Thrill Jockey) 2009 No Balls "Suffering Contest" Come Clean LP (Release The Bats) 2009 Shit & Shine "Yes 9 10" 229-2299 Girls Against Shit 2LP (Riot Season) 2009 The Goslings "Everlasting Arm" Sister and Son CS (Rotting Chapel) 2010 AFCGT "Two Legged Dog" s/t LP (Sub Pop) 2010 Topping Bottoms "Towers Of Spines" Towers Of Spines CS (Not Not Fun) 2010 Empress "Empress 2, side 1" Empress 1/2 2CS (Soldier Pumps) 2010 LA's Pearl Harbor have warranted all the blog hype that's accumulated over the last 6 months, even though most of the hype has been tossed at the lone track Luv Goon. The new 12 inch on Mexican Summer, which sold out in a matter of days and is pretty much long gone from distros (try the Nominal shop), is a nice slice of dreamy pop from the sister duo. The A side features the two "hits", while the much more preferable B-Side is two smeared and haunted daydream lullabies that resonate the loudest, at least with me. Three seven inches are forthcoming (PPM, Big Love and Gloriette) and a 12 inch on Art Fag, hopefully in the coming months. LA Vampires, who recently sprung up out of nowhere, drop one of the more innarestin' tracks on the already explodin' with ideas comp, My Estrogeneration. LA Vampires, which is in fact a moniker for this mysterious sole female project, trudges the same warped reggae/dub path already worn by labelmate (and future collaborator!) Sun Araw, albeit in a more chopped 'n screwed way. New split 12 inch with Psychic Reality just unleashed on NNF, more on that soon. Also, keep an ear out for an upcoming collab with Zola Jesus. Despite reams of acclaim from Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, AMG, LA Record, The Stranger, BBC Music, and even Rolling Stone, I somehow completely missed one of 2009's most exciting LPs, namely Double Dagger's More on Thrill Jockey. While jammin' some records over at a friends place, More was eventually put on with a smirk and no mention of the band name. Holy shit! Is this an Unwound rarity I've never heard? Did ...Trail of the Dead ditch the pomp and circumstance and go back to the white-fisted anger of Madonna? Dude, seriously, what the hell is this? The record apparently hadn't even hit the shelves of any decent record store in town, but it was ordered in through the local grocer and I've been immersed in this monster ever since. Only drums, bass and vocals, but what a dense racket these three fellas make. The above mentioned bands are obvious starting points, so fans of those post-hardcore aggressors are urged to seek this one out. Highest recommendation. Thanks to the always quick work of Art For Spastics, I got to the Rotting Chapel site just in time to order one of the last 150 copies of a new Goslings double cassette release. Fans of the Goslings already know what they're getting into, namely, an overdriven-sludge pummeling that's recorded well beyond the red. There really isn't anyone out there making this much of a unique and, yet, highly listenable racket on the planet right now. Archive just re-issued the classic Grandeur Of Hair CD (check that out here) and their collab with Warmth. Archive, with their handmade and silkscreened CD packages, are about the only label out there worth buying a CD from. So go do that, please. Topping Bottoms are a new-ish band that fall in step with the long line of overblown psych bands that have emerged from Japan over the last 25 years or so. High Rise, Acid Mothers Temple, Suishou No Fune, and Mainliner (all of which owe a massive debt to the mighty Les Rallizes Denudes) are the forbearers of the sound, and Topping Bottoms are there to keep the amps smoking. Eye-popping silkscreened inserts with artwork by band member Ryo, who also did the artwork on the recent Blank Realm LP and cassette release.

Broadcast on 03-Feb-2010

CiTR 101.9 Vancouver — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:01:00 -0800

I'm not normally into comps but a few standouts have been released over the last few weeks. First up is the all femme-psyche comp My Estrogeneration on Not Not Fun, featuring blog mainstays Zola Jesus, US Girls, Valet, Pocahaunted, Tickley Feather, and Inca Ore, and a bunch of relative newcomers who haven't released much (or anything) or have been under most listeners radars--HNY, Topaz Rags and Talk Normal (feat. Blevin Blectum and Sumara Lubelski). Despite the wide range of vibrations picked up here, from the industrial hymns of Zola Jesus to the floating web of of HNY to the cavernous psych secretions of Topaz Rags, this comp flows easily from each track to the next. Highly recommended stuff, all of which is exclusive to this LP. Speaking of femme mystique, my ears were recently perked up by the Minneapolis via LA duo Tropic Of Cancer and their sadly out of print 10" EP, The Dull Age. Two tracks of dark 'n hypnotic chant-filled drones, most reminiscent of pre-dubbed-out Pocahaunted, and maybe with a sprinkling of Portishead. Camella Lobo, lead enchantress of the duo, has an excellent blog worth a regular peep here. Back on to the subject of comps, Secret Seven has just released an LP of unreleased tracks by various San Franciscan bands. Regular readers of this here blog will no doubt be familiar with The Fresh & Onlys, The Sandwitches, Sonny & The Sunsets, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall and Grass Widow, but there are plenty of tracks from newer or lesser known acts. A track by new band Exrays is the biggest surprise, which initially came off a little like a Tim Cohen (also featured on the comp) song. After a little research (and bugging Secret Seven for answers), I found that The Exrays are a new band lead by Ray's Vast Basement's Jon Bernson. According to his Wikipedia page we can expect an Exrays full length soon, and it'll feature contributions by--surprise, surprise!--The Fresh & Onlys' Tim Cohen. After a little more reading it looks like the two are also in a group called Window Twins, who released an LP in 2008 on Broken Twilight. This is all news to me, but looks like AQ is carrying this one. Anyways, In A Cloud is limited to 500 copies, so if yr a fan of any of the above I highly recommend tracking this one down. Sweet Rot has started the year off correct with 2 new 7 inches and their first full length LP. After two years of releasing a coupla satisfyin' 7 inches on labels like Severed Hands and Hozac, a 10 incher on Kill Shaman and a handful of cassettes, Richmond, Virginia's Nerve City finally get down to a full length release (pictured at top of the post), and it was well worth the wait. Comprised of recordings from 2007-2008, this collection is a varied, yet cohesive, batch of lurch 'n stomp-style rock reminiscent of early Velvets, dark 'n twangy surf rippers, and some rougher garage blues numbers. Fans of past Sweet Rot releases, particularly the now classic Meth Teeth 7 inch, oughta be lining up for this one asap. Absolute highest recommendation. Watch out for future NC releases on Sacred Bones, a split 7 inch with Flight on Needless and a split cassette with Florida's Tee Pee. Sweet Rot also launched two new 7 inches in the same week. Over the last few years Metz, France has been bustling over with releases by Anals, A.H. Kraken and Feeling Of Love, the latter of which drop this overdriven and infectious 7 inch and simultaneously release an LP on Kill Shaman. Not sure how a city of 125, 000 manages to come up with three exciting garage and punk bands, but if they keep pumping out high quality releases, I'll keep buyin�. Alabama's Amber Alerts whip up three tracks of lo-fi drum machine-driven synth punk with nicely placed low end bass grooves, which makes a bit of sense considering they share members with the like-minded Wizzard Sleeve. Though I wasn't quite as juiced on the recent Wizzard Sleeve LP on Hozac, it appears as if I can rest easy knowing the Amber Alerts are pickin' up the slack. Vancouver's own Von Bingen quietly released an LP late last year, and I was finally able to track down this ironically difficult to find record. Featuring Josh Stevenson (aka Magneticring, ex-Jackie-O-Motherfucker and Pink Mountaintops member, and head of the always-amazing FM Shades blog), Daniel and Jennie Pace Presnell (Feed and Seed Records), and Richard Smith, Von Bingen do some serious time traveling (backwards and forwards), visiting the ghosts of Kluster, Suicide and probably a bunch of them oddball records regularly seen on FM Shades. Walls of dense motorik kosmiche are explored here with the lead taken by some vintage synths that I'm not even gonna pretend I know anything about. You can track this one down at fine online retailers like Mimarogalu, Volcanic Tongue and Eclipse. Damn good company to be keeping. You can also buy this at their sporadic live appearances here in our fair city. Well worth tracking down. Olde English Spelling Bee dropped three LP re-issues of some recent "classic" cassette releases. Most notably is the released last year tape by Matrix Metals, which garnered many favorable reviews online, including Tinymixtapes ("the perfect soundtrack to the shittiest summer of your life") and Rose Quartz ("neo-primitive retro-futuristic FUN that oozes out of these claps and plastic beats), where it made it to number 1 on their best of '09 cassette list. I played it on the show several times and always got a positive, yet head scratching, response (fellow DJ Luke Meat said it "sounded like we had tuned into an alien pirate radio rave station"). All in all,pretty damn good responses for initially being limited to 100 copies. Check this recent video taken from the cassette/LP release MATRIX METALS "FLAMINGO BREEZE, PART 4" from OESB // FUTURE SOUND on Vimeo. Other reissues include a classic by James Ferraro (Skaters, Lamborghini Crystal, Vodka Soap) and a blinked-and-you-missed-it cassette from the mysterious Outer Limits Collective, who count Sam Meringue (aka Matrix Metals) as a member. All three are worth the dough and should be readily available at many of the above mentioned suppliers. In other local action, ETMS faves solars have released another fine cassette, this time issued on the newly launched Vacant Tapes label, run by the head of the always amazing Scrapyard Forecast and the metal and drone manipulator known as Empress. First release, though numbered as the second release on the label (when is that first one coming out??), is a lengthy, side-long synth and guitar drone-out. It never really blasts off, but leaves the listener gripping in dread. An excellent companion piece to solars continuously Pearl Harbor "Sunburn" Something About The Chapparalls 12" (Mexican Summer) 2010 Zola Jesus "Heaven Sold You Back To Earth" V/A-My Estrogeneration LP (Not Not Fun) 2009 Tickley Feather "For Rent" V/A-My Estrogeneration LP (Not Not Fun) 2009 Tropic Of Cancer "Dull Age" Dull Age EP 10" (Downwards) 2009 Nerve City "Disaster" s/t LP (Sweet Rot) 2010 Amber Alerts "Somewhere Under A Shit Cloud" s/t 7" (Sweet Rot) 2010 Feeling Of Love "School Yeah" School Yeah 7" (Sweet Rot) 2010 Flight "Unpredicatable" s/t 10" (Kill Shaman) 2009 The Fresh & Onlys "You Owe Your Life To The Streets" V/A-In A Cloud: New Sounds From San Francisco LP (Secret Seven) 2010 Sonny & The Sunsets "Heart Of Sadness" V/A- In A Cloud: New Sounds From San Francisco LP (Secret Seven) 2010 Exrays "Everything Goes" V/A-In A Cloud: New Sounds From San Francisco LP (Secret Seven) 2010 Sun Araw "Live Mind" Sun Ark 7" (Not Not Fun) 2010 Matrix Metals "Flamingo Breeze" Flamingo Breeze LP (Olde English Spelling Bee) 2009, **reissue of Not Not Fun CS Flashback Repository "untitled" s/t LP (Olde English Spelling Bee) 2009 ** reissue of Outer Limits Collective CS 20?? Grippers Onesers Nothers "Alien Breeze Transistor" Live At Slimer Beach LP (Olde English Spelling Bee) 2009 **reissue of 2006 CS on New Age Tapes Von Bingen "Eyeglasses Of Kentucky" s/t LP (Amen Absen) 2009 solars "Eyes" Eyes CS (Vacant Tapes) 2010 Blank Realm "Saint Tegram" Heatless Ark LP (Not Not Fun) 2010 DOWNLOAD EPISODE 36 here (right click link, then Save As)

Broadcast on 27-Jan-2010

CiTR 101.9 Vancouver — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:02:00 -0800

Took a while but I finally managed to lay my hands on the Fungi Girls 12" on Play Pinball!, which is actually a re-issue of a cassette release on Animal Image Search. Three kids from suburban Texas re-imagine JAMC's Darklands as if it had been made in the repressive heat of their hometown. Plenty more releases on the way, with Group Tightener releasing a 7 inch and Psychic Lunch dropping a split 7 inch with Vancouver's own Indian Wars. SF's Awesome Vistas awakens after a a year long slumber. Past releases by Thee Oh Sees and Sic Alps were sold out damn near instantly, while underrated records by Linda Hagood and Dragging An Ox Through Water went mostly overlooked. I get the feeling that these two newest releases will probably receive the same ignorance, which is really a shame because both LPs sound as good as their hand silkscreened sleeves look. Flower Of Flesh and Blood features labelhead and artist Chris Johanson forming a trio with fellow SF'ers and attempting to ignite a slowcore revival. Is features an all-star cast with Tara Jane O'Neil, Sam Coomes (Quasi), Tom Greenwood (Jackie O Motherfucker), Sara Lund (Unwound), and Nick Bindeman (Acre). Together they create two side-long creepy atmosphere pieces that was meant to accompany a Chris Johanson art exhibit. Highly recommened stuff. Check AQ for a copy. Fungi Girls "Dystopic Vision" Seafaring Pyramids 12" (Play Pinball!) Flower Of Flesh and Blood "Let It Die" High Life LP (Awesome Vistas) Blessure Grave "In The First Place" s/t 7" (Holidays) Druid Perfume "Weird Wally Wigwam" s/t 7" (M'Lady's/Italy) Unnatural Helpers "Confidence" split w/Intelligence 7" (Dirty Knobby) Flight "My Business" s/t 10" (Kill Shaman) Flight "Feels So Good" s/t 7" (Hozac) Tee Pee "Oh Mercy" s/t 7 " (Hozac) Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin "High School" Reverse Shark Attack 12" (Kill Shaman) Tommy Jay Band "Bug Men" Skull Without Borders comp. 10" (Siltbreeze) Sic Alps "Clarence" Skull Without Borders comp. 10" (Siltbreeze) Kurt Vile & the Violators "Denial" Skull Without Borders comp. 10" (Siltbreeze) Topaz Rags "Mindpower" Capricorn Born Again LP (Not Not Fun) Twinsistermoon "Druid's Sun" Hollow Mountain CD (Blackest Rainbow) *reissue of Dull Knife LP Is "Side A, untitled" s/t LP (Awesome Vistas) Rusalka & Burrow Owl "untitled" untitled 3"cdr (self released)

Broadcast on 20-Jan-2010

CiTR 101.9 Vancouver — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:00:00 -0800

As expected, missed records from 2009 keep rolling in, with the Meercaz LP on Tic Tac Totally (reissue of Gulcher Records CD from early 2009) currently dominating the stereo. For those that are also late to the game on this one, Meercaz is based outta Portland, Oregon and even shares a member with one of my favorite bands from that city, Meth Teeth. Definitely one of those records that doesn't sound contemporary, but more like some long lost mid-70s proto-punk group hailing from some industrial city in middle America. Heavy riffage, tone deaf vocals and plenty o' weird analog synth bleeps and burps thrown in for serious left tiltage. Songs range from two-minute, fist pumping MC5-styled jams to seven-minute stormy industro-punk excursions. Highly recommended. Also late on the 2009 chopping block is the sprawling 2LP speaker shredder that is the new Shit & Shine. Over an hour of repetitive riffs that sound spewed through slashed amps and run over with a rusty lawnmower. 229-2299 Girls Against Shit also makes brief dalliances into dub, disco and, uhhm, race car humour(?). Yeah, anyways, fans of the early, damaged end of the Butthole Surfers and even the overkill fuzz-sludge of The Goslings are urged to pay attention. The painfully limited-run of the Siltbreeze 10 inch compilation Skulls Without Borders dropped in the mail slot last week, and it's an odd mix of folks trying to share the same airspace. Puffy Areolas make a nasty punk-splatter and give high hopes for their forthcoming Siltbreeze debut LP; Chickins, an FNU Ronnies off-shoot, put down a quirky number complete with raygun guitar shots; Dan Melchior plops down another grumpy blast of fuzz riffs and off-kilter guitar solos. The flipside, featuring Kurt Vile, Tommy Jay Band and Sic Alps, will be played next week... Heading back over to this side of continent, AFCGT (aka A Frames Climax Golden Twins), who have been given much love here on ETMS, drop their vinyl-only (!) release via Sub Pop next week, and I was lucky enough to be able to provide a sneak peek. Not much has changed from the Seattle juggernaut, hell, if anything, the 5 piece have beefed up their sound considerably on the more amped up tracks, and waded even deeper into their more experimental side. Not yr typical Sub Pop release, but we're pleased as all hell they've decided to put this one strictly to wax. Swimming up the coastline back to our city, Tassles sent over a few intriguing tracks of drifting bedroom electronic pleasantries. Tassles is better known in Vancouver as Sean Orr, who helms the shit detector on Beyond Robson's Morning Brew and fronts the recently reunited post-hardcore revisionists Taxes. Tassles sees Orr relaxing his jaw for a few and learning to relax a little bit. You probably won't see Tassles open for Taxes anytime soon. Either way, someone out there release fucking something from either of these...asap! Banana Head (aka Zully Adler, head of Goaty Tapes) also was kind enough to send some new jams my way. Brand new cassette of solo loner jams, absolutely perfect for these bland winter days. Goaty Tapes has come a long way since its inception a few years back; brand new tapes by HNY (awesome cassette on Not Not Fun reviewed here), Russian Tsarlag and Paradise Sisters, who have a forthcoming 12 inch due out soon on De Stijl. In the works are cassettes by El Jesus De Magico, Psychic Reality (split 12" with LA Vampires forthcoming for them on Not Not Fun) and Goaty will also head into LP territory with an Ancestral Diet full length. Get stoked, people. Hot off the heels of the much-loved seven inch, Brainbombs offshoot No Balls release a full length LP on Sweden's Release The Bats. And, of course, its in a disgustingly small pressing of 300 and sold out before it was even outta the pressing plant. Not far off the Brainbombs aesthetic of violent, hammering repetition, but, this time around with just drums and guitar, plus the occasional sax squlech and distance vocals, which may or may not be appallingly misogynistic. This meager pressing has annoyed me enough to share a ripped version with ya'll (courtesy of Soundeyet). Tassles "Brother Soft" unreleased mp3, 2010 Indian Wars "Carol Anne" s/t 7" (Bachelor) 2009 The Intelligence "Gettin' Classy" split w/ Unnatural Helpers 7" (Dirty Knobby) 2009 Fair Ohs "Automatic" Obscene & Violent: A Tribute To GG Allin 7" (Italian Beach Babes) 2009 Male Bonding "You Hate Me And I Hate You" Obscene & Violent: A Tribute To GG Allin 7" (Italian Beach Babes) 2009 Chickins "Chickin Den" Skull Without Borders compilation 10" (Siltbreeze) 2009 Dan Melchior "1000 Times" Skulls Without Borders compilation 10" (Siltbreeze) 2009 Puffy Areolas "El Jita" Skulls Without Borders compilation 10" (Siltbreeze) 2009 Meercaz "Unlust" s/t LP (Tic Tac Totally) 2009 Shit & Shine "Have You Really Though About Your Presentation?" 229-2299 Girls Against Shit 2LP (Riot Season) 2009 AFCGT "Black Mark" AFCGT LP (Sub Pop) 2010 No Balls "Come Clean" Come Clean LP (Release The Bats) 2009 Oneohtrix Point Never "Russian Mind" Russian Mind LP (No Fun Productions) 2009 Afternoon Penis "...Jack Of Hearts" split w/ Eskimo King LP (Abandon Ship) 2009 Banana Head "Take It Back" In The Tubs CS (Goaty Tapes) 2009 Blue Sabbath Black Cheer & Nihilist Assault Group "untitled" Planned Obsolescence LP (Gnarled Forest) 2009

Broadcast on 06-Jan-2010

CiTR 101.9 Vancouver — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:55:26 -0800

One last post of 2009ness, promise. This week's show is dedicated to my favorite tracks from 2009 that appeared on either a 12 inch EP or full length LP. 90 minutes was not quite enough to cover it all, but this week's show here is about as good as I can offer. Not a lot of surprises for those that have been following the Pop Drones show since its inception last May, but its definitely an excellent primer for those just catching up. The Bitters "Warrior" Wooden Glove 12" (Captured Tracks) The Girls At Dawn "It's The Only Time" s/t 12" (Captured Tracks) Grass Widow "Tattoo" s/t 12" (Captured Tracks) Ganglians "Into The Void" s/t 12" (Woodsist) Blank Dogs "Slowing Down" Under and Under 2LP (In The Red) The Mantles "Don't Lie" s/t LP (Siltbreeze) Nothing People "It's Not Your Speakers" Late Night LP (S-S) Dan Melchior Und Das Menace "Blue Tentacles" Thankyou Very Much 2LP (S-S) Amen Dunes "By The Bridal" D.I.A. LP (Locust) The Fresh & Onlys "Peacock & Wing" s/t LP (Castleface) Sonny & The Sunsets "Death Cream" Tomorrow Is Alright LP (Soft Abuse) Thee Oh Sees "Schwag Rifles" The World Is Lousy With Ideas Vol. 8 LP (Almost Ready) Eat Skull "Stick To The Formula" Wild & Inside LP (Siltbreeze) Meth Teeth "Failures Selected By God" Everything Went Wrong LP (Woodsist) The Hunches "Ate My Teeth" Exit Dreams LP (In The Red) Mayyors "The Crawl" Deads EP 12" (Hurling Man) Twin Stumps "Scar" s/t LP (Dais) Shearing Pinx "I Am Jim O'Rourke" Weaponry LP (Divorce) Moon Duo "Killing Time" Killing Time EP 12" (Sacred Bones) Peaking Lights "Silver Tongues Soft Whispers" Imaginary Falcons LP (Night People)

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CiTR 101.9 Vancouver — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:02:00 -0800

Sandwitches "Tarantula Arms" How To Make Ambient Sad Cake LP ( 2009) Best Coast "Sun Was High (So Was I)" s/t 7" (Art Fag) 2009 VIBES "Psychic" Psychic 7" (Not Not Fun) 2009 Real Estate "Fake Blues" Fake Blues 7" (Half Machine) 2009 Crystal Stilts "Love Is A Wave" s/t 7" (Slumberland) 2009 Woven Bones "Janie" Janie 7" (Needless) 2009 Woven Bones "With You Alone" s/t 7" (Hozac) 2009 Idle Times "Million Miles Away" s/t 7" (Hozac) 2009 Hunches "Actors" Exit Dreams LP (In The Red) 2009 Hunches "Ate My Teeth" Exit Dreams LP (In The Red) 2009 Mayyors "The Crawl" Deads EP 12" (Hurling Man) 2009 The Ramjac "Curserer" Curserer 7" (self released) 2009 The Ramjac "Curserer" Date With A Magician 7" (self released) 2009 Twin Stumps "Siberia" s/t LP (Dais) 2009 Back Pus "Down The Drain" s/t 7" (Corleone) 2009 Drunkdriver "Fire Sale" Fire Sale 7" (Fashionable Idiots) 2009 Drunkdriver/Mattin "Suicide Tax" List Of Profound Insecurities 12" (Badmaster) 2009 Billy Bao "untitled" May '08 LP (Parts Unknown) 2009

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CiTR 101.9 Vancouver — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:02:00 -0700

The Mantles "What We Do Matters" s/t LP (Siltbreeze) 2009 Thee Oh Sees "The Fizz" Dog Posion LP (Captured Tracks) 2009 Dan Melchior Und Das Menace "Blue Tentacles" Thank You Very Much 2LP (S-S) 2009 Meth Teeth "I Was Wrong" Everything Went Wrong LP (Woodsist) 2009 Shearing Pinx "I Am Jim O'Rourke" Weaponry LP (Divorce) 2009 Nu Sensae "Mens Rea" 3 Dreams 7" (Critiscum Internationale) 2009 Little Claw "Frozen In The Future" Human Taste LP (Not Not Fun) 2009 Eternal Tapestry "Cathedral Of Radiance" The Invisible Landscape LP (Not Not Fun) 2009 Wet Hair "Mesmerized Glass" Fountain LP (Not Not Fun) 2009 Natural Snow Buildings "The Fall of the Shadow Kingdom" Shadow Kingdom 3LP (Blackest Rainbow) 2009 Nervous Operator "Side A excerpt" s/t CS (Self Released) 2009 Fortress "Otoro" unreleased 2009

Broadcast on 23-Sep-2009

CiTR 101.9 Vancouver — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:02:05 -0700

A Sunny Day In Glasgow "Close Chorus" Ashes Grammar 2LP (Mis Ojos Discos) 2009 Grass Widow "Lulu's Lips" s/t 12" (Captured Tracks) 2009 Pens "Hate Your Calendar" Hey Friend! What You Doing LP (De Stijl) 2009 Veronica Falls "Beachy Head" unreleased 2009 Amen Dunes "Amen Dunes" Dia LP (Locust) 2009 Nerve City "Patience As A Virtue" I Fucked Death 10" (Kill Shaman) 2009 Six Finger Satellite "Half Contro"l Half Control LP (Load) 2009 The Dictaphone "It Tastes Better Than Before" s/t 7" (Sweet Rot) 2009 Sex Church "Let Down" s/t 7" (Sweet Rot) 2009 Pissed Jeans "Dream Smotherer" King Of Jeans LP (Sub Pop) 2009 Anals "She's The Man" Total Anal LP (Permanent) 2009 Billy Bao "untitled" May '08 LP (Parts Unknown) 2009 Wooden Shjips "Contact" Contact 12" (Mexican Summer) 2009 Moon Duo "Dead West" Killing Time 12" (Sacred Bones) 2009 Fossils "Young Guns" Young Guns one-sided 12" (Ketchup Cavern) 2009 Locrian "Rain Of Ashes" Rain Of Ashes CS (Fan Death Records) 2009

Broadcast on 16-Sep-2009

CiTR 101.9 Vancouver — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:03:00 -0700

Looking out the window at a grey sky and pissing rain, I tried to invoke a few last rays of sunshine as the summer officially grinds to a halt. New tracks by Washed Out, who has been absolutely exploding across blogs, Pearl Harbour (following suit?), and Real Estate have been doing their damndest at squeezing the last dying breath out the summer. I kinda wonder if all this beach-y dream pop stuff that has been popping up like dandelions can keep coasting through until next year. Seems doubtful, though looking at the Mexican Summer release list for the next few months, which includes all 3 of the above mentioned artists, they're obviously hedging their bets that way. If it doesn't work out for 'em, at least '09 will be the year that summer crept into the 4 tracks of every bedroom savant in the land and spread rays of cheer across the blogosphere and into tape decks. Haven't checked 'em out yet, but this new-ish Vancouver band Indian Wars have been steadily getting some coverage, but outside of our own city, of course. Great stuff, I have to say. Nothing too new, but jangly, fuzzy, reverb laden garage pop with massive hooks will always perk up these ears. Coupla' shows coming up here in Vancouver, including a show on the 18th of September at some venue called The Enchanted Forest. Anyone who knows the whereabouts of this place should drop a comment below. Though some of his earlier work has left me wanting a little more, the new 2LP Dan Melchior Und Das Menace on S-S is jaw droppingly good. It's also pretty biting, with the most bite left over for a track dedicated to Williamsburg, NYC and the locust-like hipster invasion the NYC suburb has been dealing with lately. Anyways, this monster should satisfy those who loved last year's solid skewed garage-rock album Christmas For Crows. Played it on the show already, but once I heard Woven Bones has a new 12" coming in via Zoo Music, I had to play the excellent b-side off the already excellent Janie 7" from Needless Records. The Austin Texas native is on a flawless run right now, having released 3 dynamite 7"s on some of the best garage labels going right now (ie. Sweet Rot, Hozac and Needless). The 12", so I've been told, should be ready for the first week of October. You'll hear all about it here when it does drop. Speaking of having a flawless year, San Francisco's Fresh and Only's drop LP number 2 this week and it's easily as good, if not better, than their Castleface debut LP from earlier this year. The mp3's were sent my way a few weeks back, courtesy of Color Magazine, and though I don't listen to much music off my computer, this album has burned a hole in my hard drive. I'm not entirely sure how the group is able to peel off so many impossibly infectious songs (so far, the group have released 2 cassettes, 2 seven inches, 2 LPs and there is another LP on In The Red due year's end, aaaand another couple 7"s due by year's end as well. Oh, and don't forget about that Tim Cohen solo LP) but here's hoping they can keep running with it. Vancouver's Defektors are back in the city and they have a new cassettes available, featuring some covers and demos from the forthcoming LP due on Nominal sometime soon. Pretty limited run, so grab while you can... Thee Expressway has definitely shared the love for Belgium's Sloow Tapes here before, but now I've done it live on the air. Excerpts from the kraut-riddled Von Himmel, space-drone of Chicago's Drmwpn (featuring Steve Krakow of Plastic Crimewave/Galactic Zoo fame), and the ethereal forest-folk-psych of Im Jarhtal all got some airplay this week. Most of these cassettes play through as a whole, so only excerpts could be played. But, hopefully, it was enough to turn some people on to one of the best cassette outfits going. More local action: Ahna and Solars have just released a split 7", and, man, have these two put a lot of time into this package. Linocut sleeves and labels, spraypainted inner sleeves and an insert! Limited to 300 copies. Essential Vancouver power-drone/psych release. Any Canadian listeners/readers outside of Vancouver will have a ton of chances to catch Ahna as they embark on a lengthy cross-Canadian tour. Check below for those dates. The fine people at Vancouver's Ketchup Cavern passed along the test pressing for a forthcoming Robedoor 7", which should see the light of day in the next few weeks. Robedoor have been pretty quiet for most of 2009, but this new 7" see's the group stretching out a bit and amping things up. Their doom-drone vibe rooms intact but the group have added a pulse to it and come off with a bit of an Om vibe. Easily the most interesting stuff I've heard from the group (now a trio) in ages. You'll hear more about this one when it's finally ready to launch. Ketchup Cavern also has a brand new one-sided LP by Hamilton, Ontario's Fossils. Haven't had much time to sink my teeth into this one, but it should be ready for airplay for the next show. KC also have a new Sissy Spacek 7" due and two, count 'em TWO, full lengths by Aidan Baker. Keep 'em coming. In other Aidan Baker news, Nadja will be playing the Rickshaw Theatre on Saturday, October 3rd. Ahna and Empty Love both support. That one there is being presented by the skyrocketing Twee Death label and promotion group. Also in the works is a Blues Control show at Little Mountain on November 3rd, Wooden Shjips at the Anza club on Sunday, September 27, and Sic Alps with Magik Markers on Friday December 18th. All those bands will be playing Vancouver for the first time! Thanks for livening up this city a touch, Twee Death. Finally, ending the show in a typically noisy fashion, we have the brand new LP by Vancouver's The RITA, just recently released on RRR. I played the skate side, and rather than go into any details, I'll let the youtube video below do the 'splainin... Limited run on this one that, like all other RITA releases, this one will not last long. Drop by the shop to snatch one up Washed Out "Feel It All Around" High Times CS (Mirror Universe) 2009 Pearl Harbour "Sun Burn" Something About The Chapparrals 12" (Mexican Summer) 2009 Real Estate "Beach Comber" unreleased 2009 Indian Wars "If You Want Me" unreleased 2009 Dan Melchior Und Das Menace "O! Anxiety" Thank You Very Much 2LP (S-S) 2009 Meth Teeth "My Heart's Heart" Sleepy Sisters Honeymoon Tour CDR (self released) 2009 Woven Bones "Let It Breathe" Janie 7" (Needless Records) Fresh And Onlys "DY" Grey Eyed Girls LP (Woodsist) 2009 Defektors "Shadow Of Fear" s/t CS (self released) 2009 Om "Thebes (Edit)" God Is Good LP (Drag City) 2009 Von Himmel "Moon Moss" Space Communion CS (Sloow) 2009 Drmwpn "Side A Excerpt (Live In Chicago, 29 July, 2008)" Smoker CS (Sloow) 2009 Im Jarhtal "Reprise 1" Reprisen Und Instrumentalstuecke CS (Sloow) 2009 Im Jarhtal "Thema Mit Rosenstrauch" Reprisen Und Instrumentalstuecke CS (Sloow) 2009 Ahna "Cognitive Dissonance" split w/ Solars 7" (Soldier Pumps) 2009 Robedoor "Pagan Drugs" Pagan Drugs 7" (Ketchup Cavern) 2009 The Rita "Skate" Skate/Snorkel LP (RRR) 2009

Broadcast on 09-Sep-2009

CiTR 101.9 Vancouver — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:02:00 -0700

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Broadcast on 19-Aug-2009

CiTR 101.9 Vancouver — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:00:00 -0700

Not a whole lot of time to write up reviews this week, as I'm getting ready to head out to Summer Bummer in Portland this weekend (sneak preview on this week's show). If I can, however, recommend one record this week, it's gotta be the brand new one from Billy Bao. Even harsher and more relentless than their full length from two years back, "May '08" is a monster akin to the g(l)ory days of Brainbombs. Since Mattin of Billy Bao is anti-copyright, you should be able to find this one for download somewhere out there, but I do recommend you snatch the vinyl up for maximum aural punishment. That's it for this week. Full report on Summer Bummer when I get back. Show will be uploaded later this week. Cresting "Sashes" Waving Spades In The Air CDR EP (Fixture) 2009 Kurt Vile "I Wanted Everything" Meet The Philly Elite 4-way split 7" (Kraak) 2009 Woven Bones "Janie" Janie 7" (Needless) 2009 Womankind "untitled" unreleased CDR 2009 Pissed Jeans "Dream Smothers" King Of Jeans LP (Sub Pop) 2009 B-Lines "Crazy Glue" Burnt CDs 7" (Nominal) 2009 **Summer Bummer preview** Meth Teeth "Failures Selected By God" s/t CS (self-release/re-issued by Night People) 2008/2009 Christmas Island "Morning Sunshine" split w/ Jonathan Reilly 7" (FDH) 2009 Box Elders "Stay" Alice & Friends LP (Goner) 2009 Ty Segall "Maria Stacks" split w/ Thee Oh Sees 7" (Castleface) 2009 Timecopz "Barely Alive" unreleased mp3 2009 Gestapo Khazi "Smoke Signals" s/t LP (Deadbeat Records) 2009 The Intelligence "Boys Annoy" Boys Annoy 12" (In The Red) 2006 ***** Cold Cave "Cebe & Me" Love Comes Close LP (Heartworm) 2009 Prurient "Earthworks/Buried In Secret" Pleasure Ground CD (Load) 2006 Prurient/Cold Cave "Presomnal" Stars Explode CS (Hospital) 2009 Billy Bao "untitled" May '08 LP (Parts Unknown) 2009 AFCGT "Old Spy" Live April 24 2009 CDR (Fire Breathing Turtle) 2009 Explorers "Side A excerpt" Bermuda Telepaths LP (Not Not Fun) 2009

Broadcast on 12-Aug-2009

CiTR 101.9 Vancouver — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:03:00 -0700

Broadcast on 05-Aug-2009

CiTR 101.9 Vancouver — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:00:45 -0700

Started things off this week with a bangin' track off the new Oneida, and I do mean bangin'. Upon first listen, Brownout In Lagos sounds like it coulda' come off last year's dubby dancehall record by the Bug. Anyone let down by the loose kraut explorations on Oneida's record from last year, 'Preteen Weaponry' (the opener in the 'Thank Your Parents' trilogy), will be pleasantly surprised. Though the triple LP does have some sitar-drenched kosmiche, Oneida still find the time to rock it like it's 1999. Brand new cassette (now sold out from the source) by France's High Wolf shows a brand new talent in the burgeoning cosmic-beach-world-psych genre. The man has played shows with Sun Araw, so you know he's in good company. He's also started a label called Winged Sun, which released the now-out-of-print debut cassette and CDR. Big things to come... In the meantime, you can snatch up the NNF cassette here, the Winged Sun cassette here, and the CDR here. Came across a gnarly Big Black-styled band thanks to one of my favorite blogs, Still Single. A self-released 7"/CDR (order now!) has just been unleashed and it's pretty crushing. Definitely heavy on the Big Black, but much more blown out and textured, almost black metal styles at times. Required listening! Just got the last batch of Goaty cassettes in the mail last week and Zully Adler (the NYC'er behind the label) has really upped the ante on the new batch. Thick cardstock sleeve, tons of inserts and other little goodies dropped inside make for some of the better packaging coming from the cassette underground right now. He's also managed to rope in some great, unheralded artists, including Bone Patrol, which is a collab between Dead Luke and Aaron from Peaking Lights. Nice meandering lo-fi psych drools. The flip of that cassette is Dead Luke going at it solo under the moniker Varlet Tarsod. Again, fans of Sun Araw et. al need to snatch up a copy! (drop a comment below to cop one from yours truly...) New CDR from my main man in Connect_icut, Sam Macklin, was handed off last weekend and it's turned out to be one of the best things I've heard pried from the man's fingertips. The track I played on the show, Sea Bells On Sunday, is based around the opening of the Velvet Underground's Sunday Morning! Absolutely gorgeous...drop the man a line for a copy. Coupla' shows worth mentioning... Kris from Twee Death, Empress, Jeffrey Allport and Light Industry (NYC) present a night of experimental film and music. Check the Twee Death site for more info. This one is tonight and starts around 8pm. See you there... Also, Sex Negatives will be playing with Damo Suzuki this Saturday on the 8th at the Biltmore. Should be an interesting Sex Negatives set with Keith and Justin out of the city for the time being. Apparently Brody has lined up some guest musicians. Defektors are opening, and I really can't wait to see them again after they killed it last night at Pat's pub, where they played with Detroit's Frustrations. That's it for this week. Download this week's episode here. (right click link, then save as) Oneida "Brownout In Lagos" Rated O 3LP (Jagjaguwar) 2009 Future Blondes "Heartless" split w/Indian Jewelry 12" (Dull Knife) 2009 High Wolf "The Boto" Animal Totem CS (Not Not Fun) 2009 Kurt Vile "Subliminal Message" Fall Demons 7" (Skulltones) 2009 Magik Markers "Sleep Next To Me" Balf Quarry LP (Drag City) 2009 Woods "Echo Lake" Songs Of Shame LP (Woodsist) 2009 The Ramjac "Flee The Skin" Curserer 7" (self released) 2009 Francis Harold & The Holograms "Mirror Of Fear" 7" (Hozac) 2009 Action Swingers "Nothing To Me Now" The Complete London Toe Rag Sessions LP (Cheap Date) 2009 Tyvek "Flowers" The World Is Lousy With Ideas Vol. 8 LP (Almost Ready) 2009 Heavy Winged "Tidal Blackness" Washing, Shaking LP (aurora-borealis) 2009 Varlet Tarsod "Psychic Desert" split w/Bone Patrol CS (Goaty Tapes) 2009 Caethua "Surface Waters And Underground Seas" split w/Ancestral Diet CS (Goaty Tapes) 2009 Connect_icut "Sea Bells On Sunday" Fourier's Algorithm CDR (self released) 2009

Broadcast on 29-Jul-2009

CiTR 101.9 Vancouver — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:00:00 -0700

The sweat continues to drip from my fingers and on to tasty new platters of wax as Vancouver is pummeled with a heat wave. The show kicked off this week with some serious feminine heat, courtesy of midnight disco-murk goddess Nite Jewel, a new CDR of outtakes by the Magik Markers taken from their recently released 'Balf Quarry' LP, the new tightly wound Little Claw on Ecstatic Peace, and a new re-issue from Grouper. No wonder my palms were so sweaty in the booth this week. New 10"er by Nerve City has been receiving many hits at home, and I couldn't be more excited for a full length LP from them due in the coming months from local label Sweet Rot. Stay tuned for more on them... Managed to snake a copy of the limited to 200 cassette (sold only at the Captured Tracks/Woodsist fest that happened a few weeks back in NYC) by the Fresh and Onlys. Wow, can that band ever punp out the tuneful garage kickers. Two 7"s, two cassettes, an LP all in one year? Scratch that...two LPs. New full length of all unreleased material due out on Woodsist sometime in September. Band of the year? Ty Segall continues his onslaught of 2009 with a handful of 7"s, a new full length and a split LP with the UK's Black Time. West Coast tour coming from the one-man wonder. Have to fit that into my schedule somewhere along the lines... Coupla' new-ish numbers popped in the mail from the burgeoning Almost Ready label. The new Pink Noise is worth the peeping, but the best of the batch is the 'World Is Lousy With Ideas Vol. 8', which contains the best Blank Dogs song I've e'er laid ears on (played on this show, thanks to Grimmertown for heppin' me that one), not to mention exclusive tracks by Pink Reason, Times New Viking, Vivian Girls, Sic Alps, and a heap of others. This one won't stick around for too much longer. Finally got to lay my hands on a copy of the Amen Dunes LP, which is slowly making it's way up the ladder of best of '09. A lot of acoustic-based lo-fi downer-pop. It's a mouthful but worth the investigatin'. Moon Duo, which is Ripley the guitarist from Wooden Shjips, continues on down the trail being burned by his mothership. Get a hold of Aquarius Records for this one, as it seems to be disappearing fast. New Blues Control finally made it's way up to Canada, and was it ever worth the wait. 4 tracks of molten psych, submerged and raised up in all the right spots. Not quite as tops as Puff, but a necessary piece of future psych. Squeezed in a nice spotlight on Indiana cassette label El Tule, which just released the Ducktails side-project Parasails. More drifting beach psych from the reigning king. El Tule has also been pumping out some other great cassettes, two of which are highlighted below. Anyone interested in some Parasails action should drop a comment below. Until next week, keep yer records out of the sun.

Broadcast on 22-Jul-2009

CiTR 101.9 Vancouver — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:00:00 -0700

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CiTR 101.9 Vancouver — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:01:00 -0700

Broadcast on 08-Jul-2009

CiTR 101.9 Vancouver — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:00:00 -0700

Broadcast on 01-Jul-2009

CiTR 101.9 Vancouver — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:00:00 -0700

Broadcast on 24-Jun-2009

CiTR 101.9 Vancouver — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:01:00 -0700

Broadcast on 17-Jun-2009

CiTR 101.9 Vancouver — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:01:00 -0700

Broadcast on 10-Jun-2009

CiTR 101.9 Vancouver — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:02:00 -0700

Smattering of selections by bands playing Music Waste this week. Plenty of unreleased and demos of to-be-released material.

Broadcast on 03-Jun-2009

CiTR 101.9 Vancouver — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:02:00 -0700

Pop Drones Episode 4

Broadcast on 27-May-2009

CiTR 101.9 Vancouver — Wed, 27 May 2009 10:00:00 -0700