bsides the radio show

Serious Black on JAZZ Euphorium CKUT 90.3FM

seriousblack514@gmail.com (serious black (bsides crew)) — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:58:00 +0000

IMPULSE!

Right before the New Year - Serious takes over JAZZ Euphoruim on CKUT to flex her JASS muscles alongside the Euphorium Collective. Surprise guest David Lion http://www.lionism.tv/ drops by to amaze us on the air waves....

(to listen click below)
Serious Black on Jazz Euphorium CKUT 90.3

Aging Young Rebel - DJ FOOD
Misunderstood - Nina Simone - The Best of Nina Simone
All that - Rayford Griffen - Rebirth of the Cool
Soul on Ice - Me'shell NdegeOcello - Plantation Lullabies
Peace - Courtney Pine - Journey to the Urge Within
Three to get Ready - Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
Bad Brother - Ronny Jordan - Rebirth of Cool (a deeper shade of blues compilation)
Jazz Potato - Mr Scruff - MRSCRUFF
Behaviour the sickness - B'Zar Behaviour - Street Jazz Where Hp Hop Meets Jazz
RA Monk - Eval Manigat - Monk Swing - Andy Williams
I be Blowing - De La Soul - Buhloone Mind State
Om - John Coltrane - OM (IMPULSE)
Green Dolphin Street - Eric Dolphy Quintet- EDQ featuring Freddie Hubbard
HumAllah HumAllah Hum - Pharoh Sanders - Jewels of Thought ( Impulse)
Oiratan (Tales of a Courtesan) - Toshiko Akiyoshi- Le Tabackin Big Band
Blue Train - John coltrane - Blue Train
Thieves in Temple - Herbie Hancock - The New Standard

The Suite Delight Sessions - December 22 2012

seriousblack514@gmail.com (serious black (bsides crew)) — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 16:54:00 +0000

For those of you that didn't know on Saturday December 22 2012 , when the poles were aligned and cosmic goodness was being poured out to humanity...

Serious B had the divine and delightful opportunity to slang vinyl's next to the undisputed DJ Solespin...see below for the b-side crate gem battle royal ...all in the name of VINYL.

James Last	Aquarius
Professor Longhair	Big Chief
Greenwood Rhythm Coalition	Tabaco y Ron (TM Juke & The Jack Baker Trio Rework)
The Biddu Orchestra	Funky Tropical
Earth, Wind & Fire	Let's Groove (Restless Soul Inspiration Information Mix)

Midnight Star	No Parking On The Dance Floor
Vanity 6	Nasty Girl
Poysner, Riggins & Jackson	Funky Butt, Pt. 1
Medeski, Martin & Wood Featuring Guru	Whatever Happened To Gus (Word To The Drums Mix) (Guru Remix)
N'Dea Davenport	Whatever You Want (Remix)

M.C. Solaar	Caroline
Voice	Fantasy Pt1 (Think Twice Rmx)
K-os	Heaven Only Knows (Saukrates Remix)
Cut Chemist	Bunky'
Main Source	Watch Roger Do His Thing

Mood Ruff	Rocketship (Remix)
Pete Rock	We Good feat. Kardinal Offishall
Karma & Lotus	Monk's Swing
Conn-Shawnery	B-Boy Academy

THE SUITE DELIGHT: Serious Black (December 22, 2012)

seriousblack514@gmail.com (serious black (bsides crew)) — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 18:21:00 +0000

THE SUITE DELIGHT: Serious Black (December 22, 2012):
Serious Black and Solespin go way back.

We knew each other long before either of us would don those names. I have to remember to ask her how she arrived at naming herself Serious Black.

Although we were at opposite radio stations, our dedication to the crafts of DJing and radio were common denominators.

Fate would have us face each other at Greenlight Gallery twice this year and I got to hear Serious Black spin for the very first time.

Her hip hop heavy guest fill-in spot on The Goods preceded my finalizing The Suite Delight guest schedule for 2012 and naturally I invited her to join me.

Tune in to CJLO 1690AM for a blissful episode of The Suite Delight on December 22 from 8-10pm EST.

Discoing Down the Autobahn: Next Stop Hastings, Detroit City

seriousblack514@gmail.com (serious black (bsides crew)) — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:46:00 +0000

Who was the real Donna Summer?

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High Kraut Priestess? Detroit Underground Diésse, Disco Royalty? Surprisingly, all three. Listen to this lost Bsides special featuring Donna Summer, her Krautrock and Detroit Techno connection on CKUT 90.3 FM.

This Week's Playlist:

The show was aired in June and unfortunately I no longer have the complete playlist handy but you can expect to hear a selection from la Dusseldorf to Neu!, Donna Summer to Juan Atkins. The second half of the show, my cohort Serious Black takes on the Wheels of Steel. Serious, feel free to add to this summary. Everyone else Listen Here

Bell well!

HELLAHIGH ART SHOW - FRIDAY OCTOBER 5TH AT GREEN LIGHT GALLERY

seriousblack514@gmail.com (serious black (bsides crew)) — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:18:00 +0000

If you live in Montreal, Friday 5th of October SERIOUS BLACK turns up the VINYL at GREEN LIGHT GALLERY along side Spoon BEE....come and check out CHRIS DYER'S solo show at Green Light Gallery. Though he has had solo shows in places like Cali, Peru, Mexico, Belgium, etc, it's been a while since he's done one in MONTREAL, so I hope peeps come to enjoy the skates, canvases, drawings, its gonna get HELLAHIGH up in there!!!

check the link below for all the information....
HELLAHIGH ART SHOW

Break-up Sex (aka the After-Party Crash)

seriousblack514@gmail.com (serious black (bsides crew)) — Mon, 14 May 2012 09:24:00 +0000

When you just can't resist one more roll in the HEY!

The Men - Open Your Heart - Country Song
Patrick Watson - Adventures In Your Own Backyard - The Things We Do (cc)
The Pixies - Doolittle - Hey
Lee Ranaldo - Between the Times and the Tides - Waiting on a Dream
TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light - Keep Your Heart
Jack White - Blunderbuss - On and On and On
Chromatics - Kill for Love - Into The Black
Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation - The Hunt
Patrick Watson - Adventures In Your Own Backyard - Adventures in your own Backyard (cc)
Bahamas - Barchords - Snow Plow (cc)
Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It - Normal Song
Mark Lanegan - I'll Take Care of You - I'll Take Care of You
Booker T & the MGs - Green Onion
Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread - Fine
Metronomy - The English Riviera - Everything Goes My Way
LCD Soundsystem - London Sessions - I Can Change
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory - Excursions
Willis Earl Beal - Acousmatic Sorcery - Take Me Away
Sharon Van Etten - Tramp - Magic Chords
Lambchop - Mr.M - Mr.Met
Patrick Watson - Adventures In Your Own Backyard -Lighthouse (cc)
Elbow & The BBC Orchestra - The Seldom Seen Kid - The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver
Timber Timbre - Timber Timbre - Demon Host (cc)
Siskiyou - Take Away The Dead - Twigs and Stones (cc)
Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light - Too Late
Lou Reed - Transformer - Perfect Day
WU LYF - Go Tell Fire to the Mountain - Heavy Pop
Harry Belafonte - Very Best Of - Cucurrucucu Paloma
Django Django - Django Django - Default
Cornershop - Urban Turban - What Did The Hippie Have In His Bag?
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust.... - Moonage Daydream
Iggy Pop - Lust For Life - Sixteen
Real Estate - Days - Easy
Ambulance LTD - Ambulance LTD - Heavy Lifting
THE FUCKING BEATLES!!!!!! BITCH!

CKUT 90.3 FM Brings You:

seriousblack514@gmail.com (serious black (bsides crew)) — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:01:00 +0000

New Orleans Bounce • Psychotic Felines • Dim Sum with the Dim Stars on this Week's Edition of the Bsides - Wee Hour Classics

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Psychotic Felines and Carburetor Dung
When watching the Orbital video for "Wonky" I imagined that this might be the effect cat nip might have on cats through the perspective of a human. A paranoia freakout of the worse kind: a s**t load of cats invading your living room demanding to be fed. Pictures of talking cats on your favorite cat t-shirt (doesn't everyone have one?) Argh! A horror movie of epic proportions! (Of course, all I need to do is walk down Beaudoin Street in Saint Henri, Montreal to experience this cat version of Planet of the Apes.) Good song, disturbingly great video invoking the Twilight Zone at its creepiest. Thanks for that Orbital!

On New Orleans Bounce
There seems to be a non-exhaustive flow of emerging mini-docs on the Bounce scene, some student projects, some outsider projects (Check out DJ Diplo's mini-doc), and some homegrown. Check out this one featuring Big Freedia called Almost Famous. Queer bounce or what I rather more inclusively refer to as simply bounce is here to stay. It's hard to imagine a more eclectic mix assembled at a typical show feat. artists like Big Freedia, Sissy Nobby or Katey Red. It would seem that that the borders that previously isolated groups along the all-to-familiar binaries of black/white, gay/straight, queer/mainstream get stripped down to the raw essence: music.

"When Freedia's on the mic respect is given from the drug dealers, to the ballers, to the punks…it's not judgment down here, because we've been judged enough…"(Big Freedia Bounce Teaser),

Unless you're completely sedated or physically tethered to the floor, there's just no way that you'll be able to resist getting up and shaking your ass to these electric beats.
More bounce titles:
Punks Under Pressure
Ya Heard Me

Dim Summmmmm
And to round out this edition a brief mention of the Dim Stars…I gotta say it's a treat kids. Go put this one in your time capsule. Richard Hell, Thurston Moore Steve Shelley, Rob Quine, Don Flemming. Special Mention: Stray Cat Generation; tribute to Hell's anthemic Blank Generation and his legacy. Hell put the punk in Punk rock. When Malcolm McLaren came to NYC to ruin the New York Dolls, before going back to the UK with his tail between his legs, he did manage to do a couple of things right. He copped the soon-to-become widespread "punk look" of ripped clothes and clothespins as well the provocative "Please Kill Me" style slogans and mixed-symbolism of Day-Glo swastikas from Mr. Richard Hell. You're the man Rich!

This Week's Playlist:

Big Freedia — Gin in My System
Diplo & Nicky da B — Express Yourself
Sissy Nobby — Yippy
Orbital & Lady Leshurr — Wonky
The Cramps — Here We Go Magic
Pangea — River
Ice Age — White Rune
The Men — Open Your Heart
U2 — I Will Follow
Denim — Jane Suck Died in '77
Here We Go Magic — How do I Know
Dim Stars — All my Witches Come True
The Cramps — Zombie Dance
The Stranglers — Sverige
Hunx — Let Me In
The Magnetic Fields — Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
Taxi Girl — Chercher le garçon
Can — Oh Yeah
Liars — No. 1 Against the Rush
Wedding Present — You're Dead
Lee Ranaldo — Waiting in a Dream
David Bowie — Warszawa
Jah Wobble — What the Problem Is
Conrad Schnitzler — Ballet statique
School of Seven Bells — The Night
M83 - Midnight City
Lescop — La forêt
M. Ward — Primitive Girl
Nina Simone — Go Limp
Harry Belafonte — Will His Love Be Like His Rum?
Alabama Shakes — Hold On
The Platters — Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Dina Washington — What a Difference a Day Makes
Sara Vaughan — Broken-Hearted Melody
Jack Scott — Goodbye Baby

One Last Song For The Road.....

seriousblack514@gmail.com (serious black (bsides crew)) — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:19:00 +0000

Here you go, World

The Men - Open Your Heart - Country Song
Django Django - Django Django - Firewater
Bahamas - Barchords - I Got You Babe (cc)
Timber Timbre - Creep On Creepin' On - Lonesome Hunter (cc)
Bombay Bicycle Club - A Different Kind of Fix - Your Eyes
Metronomy - The English Riviera - The Fix
Sika - Sika - You Are (cc)
Lambchop - Mr. M - Gone Tomorrow
Coeur de Pirate - Blonde - Place de la Replublique (cc)
Siskiyou - Keep Away The Dead - Where Does That Leave Me (cc)
Sharon Van Etten - Tramp - We are Fine
The Barr Brothers - The Barr Brothers - The Devil's Harp (cc)
Guided By Voices - Let's Go Eat The Factory - God Love's Us
The Wedding Present - Valentina - You're Dead
G'nee and Her Kings - Believe - Be My Daddy (cc)
Katie Moore - Montebello - When You Disappear (cc)
Bowerbirds - The Clearing - Tuck The Darkness In
Julia Holter - Ekstasis - Marienbad
The Sheepdogs - Five Easy Pieces EP - The Middle Road (cc)
The Men - Open Your Heart - Presence
Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It - Sister Song
First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar - Emmylou
Patrick Watson - Adventures in Your Own Backyard - Into Giants (cc)
Bahamas - Barchords - Never Again (cc)
Mike Wexler - Dispossession - Pariah
Mark Lanegan Band - Blues Funeral - Bleeding Muddy Water
Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation - July
Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas - Lullaby (cc)
TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light - Killer Crane
Paul McCartney - Ram - Ram On
Elvis Perkins - Elvis Perkins in Dreamland - Send My Fond Regards to Loneleyville
Eddie Vedder - Ukulele - Goodbye
Lambchop - Mr. M - 2B2

And Here's The Show:

http://archives.ckut.ca/128/20120402.04.00-07.00.mp3

That's all, Folks!

I'll miss you, Justin James Ford

Artist - Album - Song (cc= Canadian content)

Best of 2011 on BSides (aka The Besties!)

seriousblack514@gmail.com (serious black (bsides crew)) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:30:00 +0000

Here's The Best Tracks of 2011 as chosen by BSides (bng & Justin James Ford):

B-Sides Radio on CKUT.ca Best of 2011 Show Right Here! http://archives.ckut.ca/128/20120109.04.00-07.00.mp3

Artist - Album - Song (cc = canadian content)

Bombay Bicycle Club - A Different Kind of Fix - How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep

M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming - Midnight City

King Krule - King Krule EP - The Noose of Jah City

James Blake - James Blake - To Care (Like You)

Feist - Metals - Undiscovered First (cc)

The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient - Baby Missiles

The Barr Brothers - The Barr Brothers - Beggar in the Morning (cc)

Gillian Welch - The Harrow & The Harvest - The Way It Goes

Jonathan Wilson - Gentle Spirit - Can W Really Party Today

Wye Oak - Civilian - Civilian

Girls - Father, Son & Holy Ghost - My Ma

Real Estate - Days - It's Real

Kurt Vile - Smoke Rings For My Halo - Baby's Arms

Cass McCombs - Wit's End - The Lonely Doll

Siskiyou - Keep Away The Dead - Twigs & Stones (cc)

Radiohead - King of Limbs - Codex

Timber Timbre - Creep On Creepin' On - Creep On Creepin' On (cc)

PJ Harvey - Let England Shake - The Words That Maketh Murder

WU LYF - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain - We Bros

Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation - Montana

The Antlers - Burst Apart - Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out

Elbow - Build a Rocket Boys! - Lippy Kids

Chad VanGaalen - Diaper Island - Burning Photographs (cc)

The Weeknd - Echoes of Silence - Montreal (cc)

The Roots - undun - The Other Side

tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l - Powa

TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light - You

Tinariwen - Tassili - Ya Messinagh

Washed Out - Within and Without - Amor Fati

Cults - Cults - Most Wanted

The Black Keys - El Camino - Little Black Submarines

Okkervil River - I Am Very Far - Rider

That's the Year boiled down to Three Hours..... not an easy task, but we love what we do!

Justin James Ford & bng

Is Letterman Trying to Steal the 'Best Late Night TV Music' Crown?

seriousblack514@gmail.com (serious black (bsides crew)) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:14:00 +0000

Ever since the show first aired in 2009, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon has ruled the music department of late night television. Not only has Fallon regularly had a constant stream of great acts grace his stage (it could be considered a cream of the crop of Pitchfork.com indie elite), but he is also fortunate enough to have hip hop's greatest band, The Roots, be his in-house band. As if this is not enough, The Roots also regularly play with the guest musical acts!

Yet, since returning to the airwaves Jan. 2, the Late Show with David Letterman has been giving Fallon's show a run for their money. This week has seen Letterman host a who's-who of hipster darlings. Tuesday's show started the year off with a bang! Guided By Voices (Robert Pollard reunited with the classic mid-90's GBV line-up) performed 'The Unsinkable Fats Domino', the lead single off their new album 'Let's Go Eat The Factory' (released Jan.1, 2012 n their label, GBV inc.). While known for their chain-smoking, beer-guzzling and always raucous shows, Pollard and co. did not disappoint their fans by taming down their act. There might not have been any beer, and they did abide by New York's no smoking laws, but the band did give a enthusiastic performance, culminating in bassist Greg Demo falling flat on his ass in a spirited display of rock n roll acrobatics.

The following night, Jan. 3, WU LYF (which stands for World Unite! Lucifer Youth Foundation) a new band from Manchester, and my personal favorite new band of 2011, made their Late Show debut with 'Heavy Pop' from the album 'Go Tell Fire To The Mountain' (self-released, 2011). And 'Heavy Pop' it was! With their combination of beautiful, reverb-washed guitars, heavy drums that mix military-march beats with good ol' fashion pop sensibility and indistinguishably-barked vocals, this band is geared to set the world on fire! They were the epitome of indie-chic, barely acknowledging Letterman's (surprisingly) enthusiastic post-song greetings, and then walking off stage before the show was able to cut to a commercial break.

On Jan. 4, Montreal's own Barr Brothers made their first appearance on American television. Andy and Brad Barr (along with Sarah Page and Andres Vial) have spent the year getting lots of attention for their self-titled debut record (released on Secret City Records, 2011). They have played with many of Montreal's biggest names and also had a headlining spot on the Trees Stage during Montreal's Osheaga Festival. They played the lead single off their album, 'Beggar in the Morning'. This is just another nod to Montreal's ever-burgeoning music scene, highlighting the city's love for dark indie-folk.

So what will 2012 hold for late night television music? In a day and age when music videos are no longer the staple of the MTVs and MuchMusics of the world, late night television is one of the last ways for new bands to get exposure to the "larger buying market" of North America. People in the know search Vimeo and YouTube for their favorite bands' videos, and for those who still pride themselves on knowing the up-and-comers of indie fame, i.e. those who only like bands before the late night tv audience knows their names, there will always be the Pitchforks (that is, until everyone else knows about the site).

And please don't get me wrong, in no way has Jimmy Fallon waned in his choice of musical guests (this week features Sharon Von Etten and Wild Flag). But it looks like Letterman gets that it might be the music that has helped Jimmy Fallon (and The Roots) garner so much attention so quickly. So I say, "Kudos to you, Dave!". Kudos for trying to stay current with the hip kids of today! The more great music that goes out to the masses the better! Music should not be about status ... all you kids with ironic mustaches and Buddy Holly glasses must accept that you own no music, that music is universal and one of the great unifiers left. So, it's about time Dave starts flexing his indie muscles (he has been a New York institution much longer than the trust-fund children of Brooklyn!).

My only suggestion to Dave... see if LCD Soundsystem will reform and become your house band (sorry, Paul Shaffer!).

Here's the links to watch the performances:

Guided By Voices (via the Audio Perv):

http://theaudioperv.com/2012/01/04/guided-by-voices-the-unsinkable-fats-domino-13-letterman/

WU LYF (via Pitchfork.com):

http://pitchfork.com/news/44990-watch-wu-lyf-on-letterman/

Barr Brothers (via YouTube):

http://youtu.be/boHhpY4_SEs

Justin James Ford

Ready, Set, Pogo!: ICEAGE Revive Punk on this Week's Bsides Wee Hour Classics, CKUT 90.3 FM

seriousblack514@gmail.com (serious black (bsides crew)) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:00:00 +0000

White Noise/White Runes: Danish Punks Explore the Ancient Runes of Punk & Post Punk on their Debut Youth Brigade

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With songs averaging between 1:50 and 2:00, these Danish punks come crashing in at glacial magnitudes with their debut album, Youth Brigade. These 17 year olds have really done their homework. There's a palpable innocence about this band and they've done a convincing job of making us believe that sweet spot in the punk and post-punk periods lives on.

Iceage channels Joy Division (via more than just the bandname), the early Clash, the Damned, the rowdy sing along brotherhood style of Sham 69 (Wu Lyf make good use of this too) with hardcore's speed and passion à la Bad Brains. Mix that with the pop-goth sounds of the Cure and the noisy nostalgic pop sounds of the Jesus and Mary Chain, add some Nirvana and you've got an allstar list of Iceage's secret ingredients.

These sprites bring 1979 - 1989 back with a fierce vengeance with their own brand of vim and vigour. Take everything that was great in this period, ball it up into a wak of 12 songs and well, Iceage, half of your fans pogoing at your shows will be in their 30s and 40s. (that is, if they can find a babysitter!)

This Week's Playlist:

No Fun — The Stooges
Trucker's Atlas — Modest Mouse
Hits of Sunshine (For Allen Ginsberg) — Sonic Youth
Ruckzuck — Kraftwerk
Negativland — Neu!
In the Futrure — Brian Eno & Rick Holland
Out of My Mind on Dope & Speed — Julien Cope
Library Pictures — Arctic Monkeys
Time to Reiterate — Duchess Says
Riding Tigers — Slapp Happy
Kiss Me On the Bus — Younger Lovers
Powerlines — Delta 5
Cave Song — Wu Lyf
House Clouds — Liars
Rumble — Link Wray
Big Belly Giant — Tandori Nights
Mafe Karo — Kazi Aniruddha
The Jezebel Spirit — Brian Eno/David Byrne
The Sound Of Sinners — The Clash
Johnny Appleseed — Joe Strummer
Get Lost — Tom Waits
Theory of the Crows — The National
Precarious Stair — Crystal Stilts
Sad Eyed Lady — The Clean
Broken Bone — Iceage
Panda Panda Panda — Deerhoof
Singing In My Sleep — The Chills
Young Urban — Ambulance Ltd.
I Found Love — The Falcons
Diana — Tasseomancy
Scampering the Frontier — Expwy (pronounced Expwee)
VCR(The XX) — The Antlers
Fade Into You — Mazzy Star

Falling Leaves Swirl Around My Mind

seriousblack514@gmail.com (serious black (bsides crew)) — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:18:00 +0000

October 17, 2011

Henry Roland - After All

The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient - Baby Missiles

PJ Harvey - Let England Shake - The Words That Maketh Murder

The Museum Pieces - Philadelphia - Torn (cc)

WU LYF - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain - 14 Crowns for Me & Your Friends

Beirut - The Rip Tide - Payne's Bay

St. Vincent - Strange Mercy - Cruel

Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost - Myma

Dan Mangan - Oh Fortune - Jeopardy (cc)

Feist - Metals - Undiscovered First (cc)

Jonathan Wilson - Gentle Spirit - Can We Really Party Today

Robert Brown and the Sons of the South - Fire in my Bones - Nobody Knows

Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo - Runner Ups

Patti Smith - Outside Society - Smells Like Teen Spirit

Elbow - Build a Rocket Boys - The River

Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation - 17

Siskiyou - Keep Away The Dead - Twigs and Stones (cc)

Wilco - The Whole Love - One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley's Boyfriend)

Krista Muir - - Between Atoms (cc)

Washed Out - Within and Without - Amor Fati

Department of Eagles - Blue Valentine (OST) - In Ear Park

Gillian Welch - The Harrow and the Harvest - The Way the Whole Thing Ends

Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Wolfroy Goes To Town - Quail and Dumplings

Precious Bryant - Fire in My Bones - When the Saints Go Marching In

Tinariwen - Tassili - Ya Messinagh

Bon Iver - Bon Iver - Holocene

Active Child - You Are All I See - Hanging On

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored

Ohbijou - Metal Meets - Niagara (cc)

Conn-Shawnery - CS01 - Shoulder Roll (ft. N'FA & BluRum13) (cc)

BlackStar - Single - Definition

M83 - Single - Midnight City

(cc) = Canadian Content

September Lady - September 19, 2011

seriousblack514@gmail.com (serious black (bsides crew)) — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 18:27:00 +0000

Listen here!

Do the Mussolini	Cabaret Voltaire
Honeymoon Croon	Bauhaus
Isabel	Baxter Dury
The Puppet Motel	Laurie Anderson
It's Raining Today	Scott Walker
Go Outside	Cults
Es-So	Tune-Yards
To Go Home	M. Ward
Cue	Scott Walker
To Care (Like You)	James Blake
Jane Suck Died in 77	Denim
Dragon	Breathe Owl Breathe
Fool's Day	Blur
Cave Song	Wu Lyf
Second Chance	Peter Bjorn and John
Villian	Ambitious Lovers
Untitled	Neutral Milk Hotel
Lovers Lane	Hunx & His Punx
The Boys from Brazil	The Pop Group
Dragon	Deerhoof
Beat Connection	LCD Soundsystem
May I?	Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Brian Eno & Nico
Here Come the Warm Jets	Brian Eno
Chance Meeting	Josef K
Ticket To Immorality	The Dears
September Lady	Felt
Salvador Dali's garden party	Television Personalities
Ice Cream Man	Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
Start Again	Krista Muir
Slow Boy	The Controllers
Nighttoad	Kleenex
Sad Eyed Lady	The Clean
New York Telephone Conversation	Lou Reed
Don't Look Down	F in Math
Never Ending Math Equation	Modest Mouse
Mary-Christ	Sonic Youth
Ere Tasfata Adounia	Tinariwen
Time	La Düsseldorf
Negativland	Neu!
Halleluhwah	Can

Rebellion Against Nothing.... aka The Mountain Show

seriousblack514@gmail.com (serious black (bsides crew)) — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:48:00 +0000

Artist - Album - Song (cc= Canadian Content)

White Stripes - White Blood Cells - Union Forever

WU LYF - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain - Heavy Pop

Black Lips - Arabian Mountain - Modern Art

Big Kids - Single - I'm Bored

Writer - Brotherface - Miss Mermaid

Black Mountain - Black Mountain - No Satisfaction (cc)

The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From The Vaccines - Post Breakup Sex

Chad VanGaalen - Diaper Island - No Panic/ No Heat (cc)

Russian Red - Fuerteventura - Every Day Every Night

Beirut - The Rip Tide - Port of Call

Tinariwen - Tassili - Tenere Taqqim Tossam

TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light - Killer Crane

tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l - Wooly Wolly Gong

Jonathan Wilson - Gentle Spirit - Ballad of the Pines

Gillian Welch - The Harrow and The Harvest - The Way It Goes

Steve Earl - I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive - I Am A Wanderer

Siskiyou - Keep Away the Dead - Revolution Blues (cc)

Hefner - Dead Media - When The Angels Play Their Drums

The Antlers - Burst Apart - French Exit

John Maus - We Must Become The Pitless Censors of Ourselves - ...And The Rain

Washed Out - Within and Without - Within and Without

Hurts - Happiness - Wonderful Life

Efrim Manuel Menuck - Plays "High Gospel" - Our Lady of Parc Extension and Her Munificent Sorrows (cc)

Weeknd - Thursday - Heaven or Las Vegas (cc)

Bright Eyes - The People's Key - Ladder Song

The Rapture - In The Grace of Your Love - It Takes Time To Be A Man

Dan Mangan - Single - Oh Fortune (cc)

Portugal. The Man - The Mountain in the Clouds - Senseless

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! - Hysterical - Same Mistake

Beth Ditto - EP - Open Heart Surgery

Zoot Woman - Zoot Woman -Grey Day

Vetiver - The Errant Charm - Can't You Tell

Gordon Downie - Coke Machine Glow - Trick Rider (cc)

Allan Hull - Alright on the Night - We Can Swing Together

Arctic Monkeys - Suck It And See - That's Where You're Wrong

Tinariwen - Tassili - Ya Messinagh

B Sides July 25th, 2011

seriousblack514@gmail.com (serious black (bsides crew)) — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:13:00 +0000

So much new music... I can barely keep up, can you?

Okkervil River - I am Very Far - Rider
Cults - Cults - Bad Things
Writer - Brotherface - Miss Mermaid
Malajube - La Caverne - La Caverne (cc)
My Morning Jacket - Circuital - Circuital
Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo - Conservation Conversation
The Rosewood Thieves - From The Decker House - Back Home from Harlem
Vetiver - Errant Charm - Ride, Ride, Ride
Juliette Lewis - Terra Incognito - Hard Lovin' Woman
Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See - The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala
tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l - Powa
WU LYF - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain - We Bros
Portugal. The Man - In The Mountain In The Sky - Floating (Time Isn't Working My Side)
The Acorn - No Ghost - Slippery When Wet (cc)
Fred Eaglesmith - Lipstick, Lies and Gasoline - Alcohol and Pills (cc)
Bernard Adamus - Brun - Cauchemar De Course (cc)
Dan Mangan - - Oh Fortune (cc)
Gillian Welch - The Harrow and The Harvest - Dark Turn of Mind
Emmylou Harris - Hard Bargain - Six White Cadillacs
Eddie Vedder - Ukulele Songs - Satellite
Steve Earl - I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive - I Am A Wanderer
The Antlers - Burst Apart - Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo - On Tour
Wye Oak - Civilian - The Altar
White Denim - D - Street Joy
Fucked Up - David Comes To Life - Running on Nothing (cc)
Iceage - New Brigade - Remember
Wire - Red Barked Tree - Two Minutes (cc)
Chad VanGaalen - Diaper Island - Burning Photographs (cc)
TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light - Keep Your Heart
Bob Marley - African Herbsman - Sun is Shining
Arkells - Jackson Square - Ballad of Hugo Chavez (cc)
WU LYF - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain - Such a Sad Puppy Dog
Braids - Native Speaker - Glass Deers (cc)

[Artist - Album -Song]
(cc) = Canadian Content

Suisse Guerrilla Grrls Kleenex/LiLiPUT & Kiwi Punks the Clean Clean House on this Week's Bsides Wee Hour Classics, CKUT 90.3 FM

seriousblack514@gmail.com (serious black (bsides crew)) — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:46:00 +0000

Did you know that Hermoddities' favorite activities include drinking Diet Hüsker Dü...and that the bulge around their necks is due to the excessive stuffing of Kleenex in their Lederhosen. Certain groups in Hermoddite society can be very sectarian; a popular sect known as World, Unite, Lucifer, Youth Foundation administers Draconian sanctions for such 'misbehaviors' as getting Fs in Math and escaping from the M.ental Ward to form a Pop Group.

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Greetings friends. The above prose was a blatant exercise in hat-tipping to this week's featured artists in oh-so-clever riddles and rhymes.

Elsewhere: June was a month of book releases! Temple Bates of Pony da Look fame launched a fantastical book of comics and paintings (Check out Temple's work here) and Bob Mould published a bio on his musical odysseys in collaboration with Michael Azerrad. Woo!

Lederhosen Lucil makes an appearance at Ms. Bates' book launch and almost plays a song from her alter ego Krista Muir's new album (See "Start Again" for a good time, wink, wink) More on Krista's new album Between Atoms here.

In other news, Flying Nun Records is awesome. Please see F in Math and the Clean for proof.

I'm excited, not that I'm not generally always excited about music.

It's that Summer Feeling…

Happy Summer Folks!

To listen to the show CLICK HERE.

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*PLAYLIST*

Hüsker Dü – What's Going On

Mission of Burma - 1, 2 ,3, Partyy!

The Replacements –Kiss Me on the Bus

The Screamers - She's The Girl

The Controllers – Killer Queers

The Pop Group - We Are Time

The Gun Club – Texas Serenade

Bloodshot Bill – Crazy ‘Bout the Girl

X-Ray Spex - Day the World Turned Day-Glo

The Dead Kennedys - California Über Alles

The Clean – Point That Thing Somewhere Else

Kleenex/LiLiPUT – Heidi's Head

Kleenex/LiLiPUT - Ü

The Bush Tetras - Can't Be Funky

The Television Personalities - Part time punks

Tiger Lillies – Bully Boys

INXS – The Beck sessions - Tiny Daggers

INXS – The Beck sessions - Guns in the Sky

BRMC – War Machine

The Jesus and Mary Chain –Kill Surf City

The Pastels- Automatically Yours

The Smiths – Meat is Murder

Sonic Youth - Schizophrenia

Arctic Monkeys – Black Treacle

The Feelies – Loveless Love

Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 – Adventure Rocket Ship

Peter Bjorn and John – Second Chance

M. Ward – To Go Home

Cave Painting - Leaf

Talking Heads – (Nothing But) Flowers Flowers

Krista Muir – Start Again

Sloan – I Hate My Generation

Pony da Look – (I’ve Got) Dirty Nails

Deerhoof - I Did Crimes For You

F in Math – Benny and the Jets

Brian Eno – Pour it Out

Wu Lyf – We Bros

Portishead – the RIP

The Modern Lovers - The Morning Of Our Lives

June 13, 2001

seriousblack514@gmail.com (serious black (bsides crew)) — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 08:13:00 +0000

Here's the list, Folks:

Artist - Album - Song (cc - Canadian content)

Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See - That's Where You're Wrong
Chad VanGaalen - Diaper Island - Blonde Hash (cc)
Wire - Red Barked Tree - Please Take
TV On The Radio - Nine Types of Light - Repitition
tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l - My Country (cc)
Eddie Vedder - Ukulele Songs - Can't Keep
I Am Kloot - Sky at Night - Fingerprints
Elbow - Build a Rocket Boys! - Lippy Kids
Bon Iver - Bon Iver- Towers
Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here - I'm New Here
Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces of a Man - Pieces of a Man
Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx - We're New Here - I've Been Me
The Nototrious xx - Wait What - Juicy-r
Hellafactz - Single Song 4 Nan (cc)
The Roots - How I Got Over - Right On
Joanna Newsome - Milk-Eyed Mender - Bridges and Balloons
Emmylou Harris - Hard Bargains - The Ship on His Arm
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues - Montezuma
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo - Baby's Arm
Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes - Get Some
Peter, Bjorn and John - Gimme Some - Tomorrow has to Wait
My Morning Jacket - Circuital - Victory Dance
Cults - Cults - Go Outside
Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo - Christopher Colombus
Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Rome - Problem Queen
The Cars - Move Like This - Blue Tip
LCD Soundsystem - London - Us v Them
Cecile Doo-Kingue - Freedom Calling - Walk Away (cc)
Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces of a Man - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Booker T. Jones - Road to Memphis - The Bronx
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary - Grounds for Divorce (cc)
Braids - Native Speaker - Glass Deers (cc)
Radiohead - The King of Limbs - Codex
Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby - Coney Island Baby

Hosted by: Justin James Ford & Benjamin James Monk

Gil Scott-Heron 1942-2011

seriousblack514@gmail.com (serious black (bsides crew)) — Sat, 28 May 2011 14:06:00 +0000

Yesterday, Gil Scott-Heron, the influential poet, activist and spoken-word artist, died yesterday in New York City. We will be featuring his music heavily in our next few episodes.

B-Sides May 2nd, 2011

seriousblack514@gmail.com (serious black (bsides crew)) — Mon, 02 May 2011 08:49:00 +0000

Here's the Show:

https://secure.ckut.ca//64/20110502.04.00-07.00.mp3

Here's the list:

TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light - You (nr)
Peter, Bjorn & John - Gimme Some - Tomorrow Has To Wait (nr)
Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes - Get Some (nr)
Malajube - La Caverne - Le Blizzard (cc, nr)
Gossip - Music For Men - Four Letter Word
X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescence - Oh Bondage, Up Yours!
You Say Party! - XXXX - Thee is XXXX (within my heart) (cc)
Feist and Ben Gibbard - Dark was the Night - Train Song (cc)
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues - Montezuma (nr)
Rae Spoon - Love is a Hunter - Love is a Hunter (cc)
Vetiver - To Find Me Gone - You May Be Blue
Bernard Amadus - Brun - La Brise (cc)
BaliMurphy - Poussiere - Les Alumettes
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today - Fright Night (Nevermore)
Panda Bear - Tomboy - Tomboy (nr)
Beirut - March of the Zapotec - The Akara
Siskiyou - Siskiyou - It's All Going to End (cc)
Sean Hayes - Flowering Spade - Elizabeth Sways
Luna - Guilt By Association - Straight Up
The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt - Troubles Will Be Gone
Twi the Humble Feather - Music For Spaceships and Forests - 1c. Music for Spaceships and Forests
Summer Camp - Youth (EP) - Ghost Train
Pixies - Doolittle - Hey
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake - The Words That Maketh Murder (nr)
Ron Sexsmith - Long Player Late Bloomer - Believe It When I See It (cc, nr)
Braids - Native Speaker - Glass Deers (cc, nr)
Wire - Red Barked Tree - Red Barked Tree (nr)
Thao - We Brave Bee Stings and All - Bag of Hammers
The Decemberists - The king is Dead - June Hymn (nr)
LCD Sounsystem - The London Sessions - I Can Change (nr)
Radiohead - The King of Limbs - Codex (nr)
TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light - Killer Crane (nr)
House of Love - Beatles and the Stones
DJ Champion - Chill'em All - Keep on Ridin' (cc)
Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo - Sensations in the Dark
Beta Band - Three E.P.s - Dry The Rain

[Band - Album - Song]
cc = Canadian Content
nr = New Record

The People have Spoken!: The Competition of the Bryans/Brians Ferry Vs. Eno

seriousblack514@gmail.com (serious black (bsides crew)) — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 04:25:00 +0000

The People have spoken! "The Competition of the Bryans/Brians: Ferry vs. Eno" poll is now closed.

The complete playlist will be posted and the results revealed this week on the blog. Just dying to know who won right now? In the meantime, you can listen HERE to the radio show which broadcast live on CKUT 90.3 FM 4AM - 7 AM April 4 and find out for yourself.

Thanks to everyone for voting! It was a tight race!

Be well!

Tim

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Brian Eno - Cultural Guru, Musical Alchemist, Non-Musician.

seriousblack514@gmail.com (serious black (bsides crew)) — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 04:15:00 +0000

Eno By Association (Eno and associated terms)

musique concrète, krautrock, minimalist, texture music, Darmstadt School, plunderphonics, ambient, Cagean, proto-sampling, regenerative musics, oblique strategies, dada, kosmische musik, atmospherics, vertical music, punk.

**CAST YOUR VOTE NOW: GO TO: http://www.twosevens.net/bryanVbrian.html

and participate in "The Competition of the Bryans/Brian: Eno Vs. Ferry"**

FYI, Survey results were announced on April 4 live on Bsides the Radio Show on CKUT 90.3 fm. Listen HERE to find out who won!

It's not with ease that anyone foolhardy enough to tackle a *Brain(*I'll leave this typo in tact. Some would argue that he is a musical genius!) Eno bio conjures up a description of his expansive career…And, you'll see no such bravery here.

His most renown role as a rock star, albeit brief, was the flamboyant sound technician in the Bryan Ferry lead, Roxy Music. Since his departure in 1973, Eno's had his hand in just about everything. Possessing, a voracious appetite for music, Eno' s produced everything from, no wave, free jazz, to pure unadulterated pop. One of his longest standing projects early in his career on the Obscure label stemmed from Eno's relationship to contemporary experimental musicians such as Michael Nyman, Gavin Bryars and Cornelius Cardew as well as the influences of Steve Reich and his experiments with phase shifting.

Eno's continued experimentation with tape looping, pre-recorded sounds, and cut-up techniques presaged the widespread use of sampling by a decade and can be heard in succeeding sample pioneers such as Public Enemy and Big Audio Dynamite. Eno also has earned accolades for his bold use of the VCS3 synth and his notorious "treatments" and inventions such as the snake guitar. Whether on a Bowie album, John Cale or Talking Heads, his production style has become trademark.

Oftentimes employing Oblique Strategy, a set of actions roughly inspired by the Cageon notion of "create parameters, set it off, see what happens" Eno's production techniques, whether direct Oblique strategy or simply steeped in anti-orthodoxy, seemed to set the tone for a prolific career that would span decades as well as genres.

A ridiculously eclectic resume found him in the company of David Byrne, Scott Waker, Grace Jones, Jah Wobble, U2, Coldplay and Liberace.

Contemporaneously, Eno's artistic ventures in experimentation with video and light coalesced naturally with his music, a gap that was originally bridged when he heard the Who. Although Eno would migrate away from any traditional form of rock toward 'vertical music', his inherent sensibilities for rhythm and strong sense of melody can be traced to his formative years growing up by an an American army base where he would be enchanted by the sounds of doo-wop and r&b. It's these influences that have lead him full circle from the very Europeon-Krautrock sounds of his work with Cluster and Harmonia to diasporic sounds of central and North Africa on David Byrne and Talking Heads albums, My Life in A Bush of Ghosts and Remain in LIght. His cumulative life experiences have, in one way or another, allowed him to channel music beyond any one geographic location that has culminated in a highly regarded canon in the history of contemporary 20th century music.

Whatever your opinion of Brain Eno, it's a safe bet that he offers something out there for everyone.

Listen HERE to the the Eno/Ferry edition of the radio show broadcast last night (April 3) on CKUT 90.3 fm.

Musical Nipple! Sonic NipSlip!

seriousblack514@gmail.com (serious black (bsides crew)) — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:24:00 +0000

DAMN YOU! OVER EAGER RECYCLING FREAK! (me!)

Some highlights from the show include:

Joe Strummer and the Mescolaroes
The NEW LCD Soundsystem
Modern Lovers!
Lizzy Mercier Descloux (love you T!)
Adam and The Ants
Patti Smith and Camper Van Beethoven (In tribute to my financial woes)
AND SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!!! AAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH!

PS The new LCD album, London Sessions, is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! And the slowed down version of "I Can Change" is like catching sight of a nipple. It's a MUSICAL Nipple! And nipples (musical or not) make everyone smile!

SO LISTEN!

Spring Fever Has Hit Montreal`s Finest 3 Hours of Radio!

seriousblack514@gmail.com (serious black (bsides crew)) — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:21:00 +0000

Here`s the link to the last episode of B-Sides

https://secure.ckut.ca//64/20110321.04.00-07.00.mp3

Set list soon to follow!

MOBB DEEP SHOOK ONES uncovered

seriousblack514@gmail.com (serious black (bsides crew)) — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:24:00 +0000

Thanks to Lexis from MIMS who took over the wheels of steel for Serious B two weeks ago has found the elusive Shook ones track that I had to get out to you radio heads ..ENJOY!

Mobb Deep “Shook Ones” finally uncovered!

March 24, 2011 | Written by Lexis

Finally the sample behind one of the hardest and grimiest beats of the 90′s has been uncovered. Mobb Deep’s “Shook Ones pt.II”, the mother of all classics if you wanna stab someone in an alley. Apparently, the archeological find was made by Bronco from the awesome sampling site called The-Breaks.com

The sample is from living legend Herbie Hancock‘s 1969 cult-classic called “Fat Albert Rotunda”. The track used for the Mobb Deep sample is called “Jessica” and only about 3 seconds of it is used, but the video below does a really nicejob on showing you how it was chopped, slowed down and looped.

Music is my Sanctuary

seriousblack514@gmail.com (serious black (bsides crew)) — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:21:00 +0000

RADIOHEADS

Tracklist

01. Seiji – Sticks (0:00)
02. Silkie – It’s Late (3:15)
03. Mau’lin - Deeper Than The Sun (06:00)
04. MJ Cole - TGV (08:45)
05. Martyn – For Lost Relatives (11:30)
06. Kowton – She Don’t Jack (15:15)
07. Lone - Cloud 909 (18:00)
08. Take – Begin End Begin (Falty Dl Remix) (20:00)
09. Bakey Ustl – Nose Candy (23:15)
10. Ital – Queens (26:30)
11. Mim Suleiman – Nyuli (30:00)
12. Sara Schiralli – Paranoid (33:45)
13. Full Crate – 80′s Sugar (feat. Mar) (37:00)
14. Grooveman Spot – Ur Luv (Woo) (40:30)
15. Monkey Robot – Neverending Rhodes (44:00)
16. Jesse Boykins – B4 The Night is Thru (46:45)
17. Slum Village – Don’t Fight The Feeling (50:30)
18. Bilal - The Dollar (Black Milk Remix) (53:30)
19. Dee La Kream & Declaime – Old School (56:30)
20. Häzel and Ebrahim – This is Dope (58:45)
21. Eric Lau – What the world should be (60:15)
22. Freddie Joachim - Quick (1:01:45)
23. AFTA-1 – 4nia (1:03:30)
24. Miles Bonny x Ta-Ku – Down To Earth Club Music (1:05:15)
25. Wagon Christ – Harmoney (1:08:00)
26. Apollo Brown – Shoot The Heart (1:10:30)
27. Polyester Feat. Zipp, Skeme, Casey Veggies – Keep It Real (1:12:30)
28. Freddie Gibbs – The Ghetto (1:14:40)
29. Pharoahe Monch – Clap (1:17:45)
30. Shashu – Beat # 03 (1:20:30)
31. Lewis McCallum – Fly Or Die (1:22:30)
32. Nicky Lars – Get Back (biatch!!!) (1:26:45)
33. Fatima x Alex Nut – Waist High Jeans (1:29:00)
34. Taylor McFerrin – Done For (1:31:00)