Grand National Championships w/ Alastair, Jerrad, and Corin

We've Moved!

grandnationalchamps@yahoo.com — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:41:00 +0000

Hey there. Thanks for stopping by. Please note, as of February 14th, our home will be grandnationalchampionships.com exclusively. We've simplified our look and moved to a different platform. This site will remain as an archive and memorial to our past work.

GNC Playlist for 2.9.2011 - Demon Attorney: Blu

grandnationalchamps@yahoo.com — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:08:00 +0000

Artist	Track	Album/CD
Cinemechanica	Antsinjapants	The Martial Arts
Four Tet	She Moves She	Rounds
Saskatchewan	Beast Coast	Creature Comfort
set break
caribou	Melody Day	Caribou Vibration Ensemble
Amon Duul II	Archangels Thunderbird	Live in London
Dungen	Oga, Nasa, Mun	-
Thee Oh Sees	Crushed Grass	Bruise Cruise Split 7"
Ty Segall	Happy Creeps	Bruise Cruise Split 7"
set break
Electrelane	Saturday	No Shouts, No Calls
Prince Rama	Satt Nam	Shadow Temple
Grass Widows	Uncertain Memory	Past Time
Joan Of Arc	Questioning Benjamin Franklin's Ghost	Joan Of Arc, Dick Cheney, Mark Twain...
set break
Silvester Anfang II	Ossezaaddans	Silvester Anfang II
Saint John Green	Goddess of Death	Saint John Green
Sic Alps	Zeppo Epp	Napa Asylum
The Fall	Impression of J Temperance	Grotesque
set break
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks	Dynamic Calories	Dark Wave
Vacations	Friday the 13th Part 2	Joan of arc Presents Don't Mind Control
Captain Beefheart	Clear Spot	Clear Spot
Pearl Harbor	I've Got Some Happiness	Puro Instinct
set break
Sic Alps	Cement Surfboard	Napa Asylum
Cyndi Lauper	Goonies are Good Enough	Goonies: OST

GNC Playlist for 2.2.2011 - You've heard of the show Jeopardy, right?

grandnationalchamps@yahoo.com — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 06:17:00 +0000

Artist	Track	Album/CD
Field Music	Let's Write A Book	Measure
Tobacco	Heavy Makeup	Maniac Meat
Tartufi	Church Of Hanging Leaders	Nests Of Waves And Wire
set break
Julian Casablancas	Left & Right In The Dark	Phrazes For The Young
Isotope 217	Audio Champion	Utonian Automatic
Prefuse 73	Prog Version Slowly Crushed	Preparations (Warp Recs)
The Fringe	Token For My Mind	-
set break
The Black Hollies	When You're Not There	Softly Towards The Light
Elbow	The Bones Of You	The Seldom Seen Kid
J Dilla	Da Factory	Donuts
Solar Bears	Forest of Fountains	She Was Coloured In
set break
Blast and the Detergents	Minimalism, D'uh	Time Misses a Beat
Totally Nebular	Snowmass	Live at WMNF
The Hunches	Deaf Ambitions	Exit Dreams
Johnson, Hawkins, Tatum & Durr	Eccentric Soul: The Capsoul Label	You Can't Blame Me
Prism Riot	Shallow People in the Hallow Earth	Prism Riot
set break
Young Coyotes	Hell Is...	Young Coyotes
Bjork	5 Years	Homegenic
Joan Of Arc	(I'm 5 Senses) None Of Them Common	Live In Chicago, 1999
set break
Johnny Unicorn	At The Heels of Irrevocability	Put Your Mind Inside My Mouth

Mother Winslow - S/T

grandnationalchamps@yahoo.com — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:39:00 +0000

GNC Playlist for 1.26.2011 - Topical or Oracle?

grandnationalchamps@yahoo.com — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:26:00 +0000

Artist	Track	Album/CD
Wolf Parade	Secret Knives	Wolf Parade (EP)
Polvo	Tragic Carpet Ride	Celebrate The New Dark Age
Hourglass Sea	Teenager	-
The National	Lemonworld	High Violet
set break
The Magnetic Fields	Long Vermont Roads	The Charm of the Highway Strip
Akron/Family	So It Goes	S/T II: The Cosmic Birth And Journey Of Shinju TNT
Deerhoof	The Merry Barracks	Deerhoof vs Evil
Make Believe	Plants Dance	Of Course
set break
Earth Girl Helen Brown	Hit After Hit	Story of an Earth Girl
Aztex	I Said Move	Back FromThe Grave 4
Crystal Stilts	Shake the Shackles	Shake the Shackles
Tennis	Baltimore	Cape Dory
set break
Giant Travel Avant Garde	Lanterns	Apres
Toy Love	Ain't It Nice	Toy Love
set break
atlas sound	Talent Show	Bedroom Databank 4
Sufjan Stevens	I Walked	The Age of Adz
The Semis	Pelican Song	Back To The Beach
Wolf People	Silbury Sand	-
set break
Parts and Labor	Constant Future	Constant Future
Datahowler	Prophet	Slowdrifter
Avey Tare	Lucky 1	Down There
Doppler	My Third Life, Minimum!!	Songs to Defy
The Idle Race	Come With Me	Back to the Story
set break
Lynx	In Sand	Lynx

GNC Playlist for 1.19.2011

grandnationalchamps@yahoo.com — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 04:21:00 +0000

Artist	Track	Album/CD
Yip-Yip	Been Caught Stealing	-
Helene Smith	What's In The Lovin'	Eccentric Soul: The Outskirts of Deep City
ABBA	Ring Ring	Ring Ring
A.C. Newman	35 in the Shade	The Slow Wonder
set break
Weekend	End Times	Sports
Ramones	The KKK Took My Baby Away	Pleasant Dreams
Animal Collective	Who Could Win a Rabbit	Sung Tongs
Mr. Dream	Scarred for Life	Scarred for Life
Nada Surf	Fruit Fly	Let Go
set break
The Mountain Goats	'No Children'	Tallahassee
Luke Chrisinger	Elluseves One	Elluseves-Flight
Luke Chrisinger	Origin One	Elluseves-Flight
Grandaddy	Kim, You Bore Me To Death	A Pretty Mess By This One Band
Television	Elevation	Marquee Moon
set break
Jay Reatard	Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle	-
Hands And Knees	Sitting at the Piano Disappearing	Wholesome
Woubeshet Feseha	Track 1	1976
Young Adults	Rip It Up	-
set break
panda bear	Take Pills	Person Pitch
Ghost Houses	Rituals	-
Mike Slott	Flunky	Flunky
Pregnant	Wiff of Father	New People
set break
Duck, Little Brother, Duck!	L. Ron Hubbard (We Did One Of These At The Mall)	Survival is Not a Workout

Luke Chrisinger - Elluseves-Flight

grandnationalchamps@yahoo.com — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:45:00 +0000

Get this album from AMDISCS. You'll be glad you did. It's full of dirty fuzzed out guitars that morph into glassy windscapes like you might hear hissing past your ear in the scene above. Half of the tracks are catchy dirt-pop, and the other half are tone sculptures of the close-listening variety, their impact made through subtle shifts occurring over greater time. Both halves make me smile.

GNC Playlist for 1.12.2011 - Tiny Bowflex

grandnationalchamps@yahoo.com — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:54:00 +0000

Artist	Track	Album/CD
31Knots	Welcome To Stop	The Curse of the Longest Day
Thee Oh Sees	Everything Went Black	Warm Slime
Kurt Vile	In My Time 7"	In My Time
Ty Segall	My Sunshine	Melted
set break
Blitzen Trapper	Furr	Furr
King Khan and the Shrines	Torture	The Supreme Genius of...
The Granny Smiths	Boom Boom	Mongrel Zine Vol. 9
Pixies	Dead	Doolittle
set break
Marnie Stern	Nothing Left	On A Tightrope
Stage Kids	Subtlewarmer	West Coast Blues
13th Floor Elevators	Livin' On	Going Up
mates of state	Hoarding It For Home	Our Constant Concern
set break
Pavement	stereo	brighten the corners
gauntlet hair	Our Scenery	Single
The Yolks	Too Much For Me	The Yolks
Headphones	Hot Girls	Headphones
set break
Railcars	There Is Ice; It Is Blue	Cities Vs Submarines
Ghost Animals	In Your Room	In Your Room
Monsters	Luciano Pavoratti	Monsters
set break
Tree Hopping	Hullahoop	00 0
Villanova Junction	Track 2	11:11
set break
King Turtle	Caenezoic

GNC Playlist for 1.5.2011

grandnationalchamps@yahoo.com — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:54:00 +0000

Artist	Track	Album/CD
Faraquet	Study in Movement	-
Radiohead	Cuttooth	Knives Out
Fugazi	Place Position	End Hits
Jay Reatard	Oh, It's Such a Shame	Singles
set break
The Rollers	Knockin' at the Wrong Door	Eccentric Soul
Bishop Allen	Come Clean	--
Goldfrapp	Number 1	Number 1 (EP)
The Dirty Projectors	Two Doves	Bitte Orca
set break
Mission of Burma	That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate	Vs
deerhunter	Never Stops	Microcastle
Squarepusher	Plug Me In	Shobaleader One: d'Demonstrator
The Constantines	Shine A Light	Shine A Light
set break
The Pepper Pots	Real True Love	Now!
The Flaming Lips	All We Have Is Now	Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Make Believe	Small Apartment Party Epiphany	Shock Of Being
The Jesus Lizard	Gladiator	The Jesus Lizard
set break
Women	Heat Distraction	Public Strain
Solar Bears	Children of the Times	She Was Coloured In
Clues	You Have My Eyes Now	Clues
Cuby and The Blizzards	Your Body Not Your Soul	Nuggets II
set break
Battles	Race: In	Mirrored
Hella	Biblical Violence	Hold Your Horse Is
set break
Hear Hums	Hexagon	Psyche Cycles

Don't Forget Our New Time!

grandnationalchamps@yahoo.com — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 04:50:00 +0000

12.20.2010 - The GNC Top 25

grandnationalchamps@yahoo.com — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 02:43:00 +0000

Well, it's that time of year again. List Time. If you asked us two weeks ago or two weeks from now, the countdown would probably be completely different. Also, Jerrad and Corin each mumbled two bands names at me on the night of the show, the sum total of their involvement in the process. If they were pressed, or at all interested in the show, they could probably produce an opinion on a few more releases from 2010. Maybe next year, eh fellows?

Anyhoo, besides the songs on the list, we also played "Christmas With The Andersons", sung by Craig Anderson on the hilarious Stop Podcasting Yourself from their 2008 Christmas episode. We'll be back next week with the Year in Review. Then after that, it's on to Wednesday nights.

	Artist	Track	Album/CD
25	Holy Light of Demons	Requiem	-
24	The Art Museums	Paris Cafe	Rough Frame
23	Blind Man's Colour	Canoe Paddles	Wooden Blankets
22	caribou	Kaili	Swim
21	Surfer Blood	Take It Easy	Astro Coast
20	the sword	arrows in the dark	Warp Riders
19	Aloha	Moonless March	Home Acres
18	The Apples in Stereo	No Vacation	Travellers In Space And Time
17	Morningbell	Sun Come Out	We Are Angular and Beautiful
16	Zeus	How Does It Feel?	Say Us
15	tres bien	You Really Broke My Heart	The Weather on Milk Mountain
14	Bangs	Meet Me On Facebook	-
13	Tame Impala	Why Won't You Make Up Your Mind?	InnerSpeaker
12	Spoon	Written In Reverse	Transference
11	Title Tracks	Piles Of Paper	It Was Easy
10	Best Coast	Our Deal	Crazy For You
9	Field Music	Them That Do Nothing	Measure
8	Ty Segall	Sad Fuzz	Melted
7	Here We Go Magic	Collector	Pigeons
6	Medications	Long Day	Completely Removed
5	deerhunter	Revival	Halcyon Digest
4	Flying Lotus	Do the Astral Plane	Cosmogramma
3	Tobacco	Constellation Dirtbike Head	Maniac Meat
2	Wavves	Super Soaker	King Of The Beach
1	Sufjan Stevens	Too Much	Age of Adz

GNC Playlist for 12.13.2010

grandnationalchamps@yahoo.com — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 04:14:00 +0000

Artist	Track	Album/CD
so many dynamos	Progress	Flashlights
Hunx and His Punx	Dream on (Little Dreamer)	-
passion pit	Sleepyhead	chunk of change
Milton Nascimento	Cravo E Canela	Milton
set break
Smart Went Crazy	A Brief Conversation Ending In Divorce	Con Art
Great Deceivers	Black Hotel	House of Stairs
Woubeshet Feseha	Track 1	1976
set break
the corin tucker band	1,000 Years	1,000 Years
Adebisi Shank	Oyasumi	-
loose fur	Apostolic	Born Again in The USA
gauntlet hair	I was thinking	Single
set break
Totally Nebular	Anthony Naples	Boat Boat
God Boat	Oregano in My Yard	-
Tree Hopping	Tough Summer	The Beat Band
the fantasies	Tick Tock	meet the fantasies
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake	Farewell	Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
set break
Coniferous	I Want to Know You	-
Hear Hums	Hexagon	Psyche Cycles
Autre Ne Veut	OMG	Autre Ne Veut
Gleaming Amoebas	Style From The Breeze	-
set break
Gobble Gobble	Meteor Eschat	Neon Graveyard
R.E.M.	Try Not To Breathe	Automatic for the People
Chrissy Zebby Tembo	Coffin Maker	My Ancestors
set break
Dem Hunger	Horse Stomach	Caveman Smack

6 Songs By Gleaming Amoebas

grandnationalchamps@yahoo.com — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 01:22:00 +0000

Gleaming Amoebas started recording an album last year or the year before. I was helping them with it. It was never completely finished before singer/guitarist Jonny left town, and it was unclear to me what would happen to the parts that did seem finished. I decided that one way I could be sure of what would happen would be to happen it myself. So, here are 6 Songs By Gleaming Amoebas. An album that is not necessarily endorsed by the band. I guess as long as you are still able to stream/download the music via the links above, the guys have not asked me to take it down.

Not coincidentally, Gleaming Amoebas will be playing this Friday, December 17th, at Local 662 in downtown St.Pete. Despite our absence from the text of this flyer, my band Gentlemen Please, will be opening. GNC faves Signals From Satellites, and Jet W. Lee from Chicago will be playing too. Don't miss.

alstr

Braids - Live at the Knitting Factory

grandnationalchamps@yahoo.com — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 04:20:00 +0000

Here's Braids performing at the Knitting Factory. It's a Bleary Eyed Brooklyn video that I saw at Dead as Digital.

Tree Hopping - The Beat Band

grandnationalchamps@yahoo.com — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 07:10:00 +0000

Gabriel Berrios is Tree Hopping. He is also one third of former GNC Live Musical Guests Totally Nebular. You will certainly recognize elements of TN's sound in Tree Hopping's latest release, The Beat Band. It's full of syncopated drum patterns and African-scented guitar lines anchored by deep, fuzzed out synth bass. In addition to shouting out international crate diggers Global Groove, Gabriel describes his process briefly:

The music in "The Beat Band", except for the vocals, is completely made out of loops, either played or sampled from music. I looped guitar, drums, keyboards, and percussion for the majority of the tracks but also included samples in every song. I did this partly to blur the line between the music that influences me and the music I was making.

That statement's emphasis on looping belies the organic nature of all the music on The Beat Band. It's lead by sometimes desperate yelping vocals and highly human percussion that sounds like a lot of objects hitting a lot of other objects. This album is about moving air around. Great stuff.

And there is still more music to be mined from the members of Totally Nebular. Weston "haha" Mansfield has another project that goes by God Boat (you can grab some mp3s of newer songs from this developing project over at Hear Hums' site); and Forest Clay seems to be how Eddie Roqueta spends his free time.

Hear Hums - Psyche Cycles

grandnationalchamps@yahoo.com — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 06:36:00 +0000

As mentioned in a previous post, Crash Symbols is releasing the new Hear Hums' cassette, Psyche Cycles. If you head over to their bandcamp page, you can place an order for it or download it digitally for free. I must point out though, that purchasing the actual object for the paltry asking price not only helps to support the artistic community, but also gives you an exciting reason to rush home from the Choklit Shoppe or the corner Five and Dime and check your mailbox. A musical totem can be a powerful thing. Sometimes you don't know how you should feel about a song until you can hold it in your hand. Plus, they're lighter than records and still look good on a bookshelf, once you get a decent-sized collection going.

Ready for Prime Time?!

grandnationalchamps@yahoo.com — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 03:00:00 +0000

Hi all.

The picture above is a re-enactment of the moment that WMNF Program Director Randy Wynne, played by Jack's Dad from Lost, told Alastair, played by Michelle Rodriguez from Avatar, that Grand National Championships would be moving to Wednesdays from 8 to 10pm, starting on January 19th. This is a big deal for us. We began many a year ago, when Mother Gaia was still cooling from her tumultuous pubescence, in the early dawn hours. Slowly, we worked our way backward through the night, manning the boards during the overnight shift and befriending many a creepy lurker throughout our listening area.

In our current time slot, we straddle the threshold of today and tomorrow, but come January, we'll have a brand new set of challenges. Chief among these is a whole mess more of potential listeners, not ready to go to sleep yet, and tuned in with much keener and discerning ears. That means stepping up content. The show won't be changing, but maybe becoming a little more like itself. We're going to runs things the same way, but getting a few extra hands behind the scenes, so that certain aspects of the show that we enjoy can be executed more easily. We're also going to feature more frequent live musical guests. As we speak, we're arranging sessions with:

...and more are soon to be announced. We'll also be having more in studio guests: old friends, new friends, and also people onto whom we wish to force our friendship.

The GNC Podcast will still be the same, scrubbed of all objectionable material, copyright-wise. Part of our behind-the-scenes overhaul will be making sure that the podcasts are updated in a timely manner, with some occasional bonus content thrown in. Also, we've gotten a slightly shorter email address that you can use, if it's absolutely killing you to type our long-ass URL one damned time into your contacts. Do people even type anymore? We have a houseboy for that. Anyway, it's us@thegncshow.com. Flows a little nicer, innit? We'll keep the old one too, because it's already paid for...and we're hoarders.

I think that's all for now. Thank you VERY much for sticking with us this long. Don't think we don't appreciate every person who gets it. I hope this move makes the show better for you.

Alastair, Jerrad, and Corin
Grand National Championships

GNC Playlist for 12.6.2010

grandnationalchamps@yahoo.com — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:30:00 +0000

Artist	Track	Album/CD
Zorch	Moris the Loris	Demo
atlas sound	Talent Show	Bedroom Databank 1
Fugazi	Break	End Hits
The Magnetic Fields	Please Stop Dancing	Distortion
set break
Radiohead	Pyramid Song	Amnesiac
Pretty And Nice	Pixies	Get Young
Gobble Gobble	o Sacred Dandruff	Neon Graveyard
set break
Sleepy Vikings	Twin Peaks	Live at WMNF
Sleepy Vikings	Country Song	Live at WMNF
Sleepy Vikings	Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl	Live at WMNF
Sleepy Vikings	Flashlight Tag	Live at WMNF
set break
The Velvet Underground and Nico	I'll Be Your Mirror	The Velvet Underground and Nico
Mellows	Of Age	Dope Mountain Fuck
The Left Banke	Goodbye Holly	There's Gonna Be A Storm: The Complete Recordings 1966-1969
set break
31Knots	The Breaks	Worried Well
Strider	Main Theme	Strider for NES
Pariah Carey	Cold Flowers (Pry Them)	Dope Mountain Fuck
Cinemechanica	Rivals	Rivals EP
set break
atlas sound	Hotel Orlando	Bedroom Databank 1
Tree Hopping	How Fun We Used to Be	The Beat Band
Tumbleweave	The Ghost With The Most Moves	Demon Squeeze
Tumbleweave	Mystery Lynch	Demon Squeeze
Braids	She Brave Soul	Set Pieces EP
set break
The Constantines	Tiger & Crane	Shine A Light
set break
Hear Hums	Mokom Wolos	Dope Mountain Fuck

Sleepy Vikings - 12.1.2010

grandnationalchamps@yahoo.com — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:52:00 +0000

1 Twin Peaks
2 Country Song
3 Anthems For a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl
4 Flashlight Tag

Sleepy Vikings graced the WMNF Live Music Studio with their beautiful tunes, all stompy (stompish?) with a crystalline sheen. They also showed us how to play a Broken Social Scene cover. God bless them for it. They'll be out at the New World Brewery on Saturday, December 11th, with Birdlips and Great Deceivers. You should listen to these songs loud.

Dope Mountain Fuck: A Crash Symbols Compilation

grandnationalchamps@yahoo.com — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 19:16:00 +0000

The next thing that you should do is head over to the Crash Symbols site and follow the necessary links to obtain a download of Dope Mountain Fuck, be it free or otherwise. This is a collection of music from 19 artists, including Foot Village, Hear Hums, and Beggars in a New Land. Those three artists are behind the first, second, and third releases, respectively, from this new cassette label (don't worry, it seems you'll be able to DL digital copies of their releases if you're not a Maxell fetishist). See the comps entire tracklist below.

Oh, that reminds me, the Hear Hums blog is a new favorite to peep in on weekly, if not daily. Tons of good, great, and interesting music to check out over there. Do yourself a favor.

Dope Mountain Fuck tracklist:
01 Bummer Sanders - Sunset Funset
02 School Knights - Never Needed
03 Closed Cassette - Alright
04 Wish - Take My Hand
05 D/R/U/G/S - Hathaways
06 Sports - Mind Has Changed
07 Fox Hands - Patella
08 The Fruhstucks - She Doesn’t Know
09 Gay Boiz - Mat
10 Kohwi - Hobbies (ft. Mutual Benefit)
11 Great Beer - After Effects
12 Monster Rally - Sun Bum
13 Pariah Carey - Cold Flowers (Pry Them)
14 Pregnant - Dog
15 Mellows - Of Age
16 Cop Magnet - Glossy
17 Foot Village - Energy Hunters (Unicorn Hard-On Mystic Materials Refuck)
18 Beggars in a New Land - A Cool Way To Jog
19 Hear Hums - Mokom Wolos

GNC Playlist for 11.29.2010

grandnationalchamps@yahoo.com — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 04:57:00 +0000

Artist	Track	Album/CD
Hella	Been a Long Time Cousin	Hold Your Horse Is
shellac	This is a Picture	terraform
Les Savy Fav	The Sweat Descends	Inches
The Drums	When I Come Home	The Drums
set break
The Halo Benders	Virginia Reel Around The Fountain	The Rebels Not In
Blaster Master	Stage 1-1	-
Okkervil River	Song of Our So-Called Friend	Black Sheep Boy
The Recovery	The Recovery	The Recovery
set break
Cars Can Be Blue	Hope You're Hurting	Doubly Unbeatable
Bunnygrunt	The Limits of Southern Hospitality	Matt Harnish and Other Delights
The Thermals	At the Bottom of the Sea	Now We Can See
Akron/Family	Everyone Is Guilty	Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free
set break
Spoon	All The Pretty Girls Go To The City	Kill The Moonlight
Junip	In Every Direction	Fields
The Morning Benders	Excuses	Big Echo
Belle And Sebastian	Write About Love	Write About Love
set break
Twin Sister	Meet the Frownies	Shaking Through Volume 1
The Hold Steady	Chips Ahoy!	Boys and Girls in America
Apex Manor	Under the Gun	The Year of Magical Driking
Woodsmen	Insects	Rare Forms
set break
The Do	Playground Suite	A Mouthful
Joan Of Arc	Eventually, All At Once	Eventually, All At Once
set break
Centro-Matic	Glacial Slurs	South San Gabriel Songs/Music

Most Played Artists in 2010

grandnationalchamps@yahoo.com — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:43:00 +0000

Hello friend.

We've been running some numbers. Since it's getting near the end of the year, we were curious what artists got the most radio play via GNC in 2010. The results are not necessarily surprising:

Honorable Mentions must also go to the following:

Stay tuned to the show. December is always our most exciting month. In addition to a live session by Sleepy Vikings that will be airing on 12/6, we also have the Best of 2010 (our countdown of favorites from this year) on 12/21, and the GNC Year in Review (our recap of a year's worth of on-air stupidness) on 12/28. If you have any suggestions for either list, feel free to send them to us@grandnationalchampionships.com.

GNC Playlist for 11.22.2010

grandnationalchamps@yahoo.com — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:56:00 +0000

Artist	Track	Album/CD
Jay Reatard	It's So Useless	Singles
Intelligence	St Bartholemew	Fake Surfers
Do Make Say Think	THofR Part Three	The Whole Story of Glory
Ghost Houses	Rituals	-
set break
Nirvana	Oh The Guilt	Puss/Oh The Guilt
Guided By Voices	Her Psychology	bee thousand
Dies Irae	Another Room	First
Hanoi Jones	Beach Kids	Year of Panic
Built To Spill	Distopian Dream Girl	There's Nothing Wrong With Love
set break
Bygones	ex-people	by-
The Knife	The Height of Summer	Tomorrow, In a Year
Fugazi	Place Position	End Hits
Garotas Suecas	Ghost Writer	Garotas Suecas
set break
Jaded Hipster Choir and Teen Daze	Low Glow	-
The Joggers	I'm Not Convinced	Solid Guild
Soft Powers	Just Like Tropica-L	Bad Pop
set break
Whorse	Theme from Whorse	Songs You've Heard Once
Sex Bomb-omb	Threshold	Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Maps And Atlases	Banished Be Cavalier	Perch Patchwork
Idle Race	Come With Me	Back to the Story
set break
Marnie Stern	Ruler	This Is It And I Am It And You Are It And So Is That And He Is It And She Is It And It Is It And That Is That
Pink Floyd	See Emily Play	Early Singles
Tera Melos	In Citrus Heights	Patagonian Rats
set break
Woodsmen	Insects	Rare Forms
tyondai braxton	Uffe's Workshop	Central Market

Listener Survey - What do YOU think?

grandnationalchamps@yahoo.com — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 23:19:00 +0000

Hi Important Listener! How are you? I hope you're well!

Alright, enough ass kissing. We both know what's really going on here. Your day/life can't be turning out like you'd hoped it might if you're spending any valuable minutes at our website. Hopefully it also means that you find our show to have some redeeming qualities. If that's the case -- or even if it isn't, who are we to judge -- please fill out the WMNF Listener Survey. It shouldn't take much of your time, which you've already admitted to be almost worthless by your presence here. It is also a key source of information for the station regarding the listening habits, preferences, etc., of all our peoples. Thanks very much for taking part, and be sure to mention Grand National Championships if you like what we do. And for fans of the morning show, remember, Marcie Finkelstein's name is spelled J-E-R-R-A-D M-C-L-E-O-D . Here's where you go to Do the Deed:

Listener Survey

Trousers and the New Argyles - 8.14.2010

grandnationalchamps@yahoo.com — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:03:00 +0000

1 Nameless
2 Little Deaths
3 Cherry Bomb Smile
4 Last Breath

Bryan Duffy, Josh Price, and Carlos Andujar (not pictured...yet) are Trousers and the New Argyles. All three of these guys could, at any particular time, be making their own music, or playing in a number of bands. Josh plays in Philip Pietri and the The Manatees, who've been on GNC before, and he and Carlos both play with Philip in Pielos, a more improvisational and experimental group. Josh and Duffy's noisy, aggressive duo Hello.Invade! and one of Carlos's groups, When Tides Collide or Rails, will likely also be a guest on our show sooner than later.

Trousers came to the WMNF Live Music Studio on August 14th of this year and played a fantastic set of lively rock music in their own particular style. I hope the band will forgive me for taking so long to post this here properly. It's certainly not because I don't love these songs. They are complex and inviting in their warmth, and skim by like whirlpools around your legs when you dip them in a river. Please listen closely.

Unfortunately, the guys from the band will also have to forgive me for something else. I do not have audio of our interview with them when Josh and Bryan came back to the studio the following Monday. We called up Carlos, who was back home in Jacksonville. We also thought up dishes that we would serve at our Metallica theme restaurant. I'm sad it's gone.