Rainy Tuesday Set List 10/13/09

This week I played songs by some amazing ladies I saw perform during the previous week, played new and recent stuff that's come through the station, along with some old favorites. I talked up the Rats (Sundays) and Mad Gregs (Saturdays) Echo Curio October residencies. I forgot to talk up Light FM, but you should tune in to http://KSCR.org this Friday 10/16 at 1pm for their appearance on KSCR's Live Show.

Please please please come see Nosaj Thing, Rainbow Arabia, Ras G and Mr. Dibiase for free this Saturday 10/17 on the USC campus! Doors open at 7:30 pm.

Set List 10/13/09

Sian Alice Group - First Song / Angelina - Troubled, Shaken, Etc. - Social Registry
Mount Eerie - (something) - Wind's Poem - P.W. Elverum & Sun
Boredoms - Ant 10 - Super Roots 10 - Thrill Jockey

Built to Spill - Nowhere Lullaby - There is no Enemy - WEA/Reprise
Bauchamp - Tchumu - Friends of Friends Vol. 2 - Friends of Friends
Flight of the Conchords - Hurt Feelings - I Told You I Was Freaky - Sub pop
The Flaming Lips - The Impulse - Embryonic - WEA/Reprise
Fairport Convention - Autopsy - Live at the BBC - Universal UK
Linda Perhacs - Sandy Toes - Parallelograms - Sunbeam Records
The Raincoats - No One's Little Girl - Moving - Geffen

White Hills - Oceans Of Sound (Antrønhy Øh Remix) - Dead - Thrill Jockey
Ras G - Alkebulan - Brotha from Anotha Planet - Brainfeeder
Mr. Dibiase - May The Force - Low Limit/Mr. Dibiase 7" - Fat City
Rainbow Arabia - I know i see i love i go - Kabukimono - Manimal Vinyl

Jason Urick - Strides - Husbands - Thrill Jockey
Bill Callahan - Too Many Birds - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle - Drag City
Orange Juice - Untitled Melody - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever - Polydor
Arthur & Yu - There Are Too Many Birds - In Camera - Hardly Art
Denim - Bubblehead - Back in Denim - Boy's Own
Fairport Convention - Si Tu Dois Partir - Live at the BBC - Atlantic UK

Nosaj Thing - 1685 / Bach - Drift - Alpha Pup
Atlas Sound - Walkabout w. Noah Lennox - Logos - Kranky
A Place to Bury Strangers - I Lived My Life to Stand in the Shadow of your Heart - Exploding Head - Mute U.S.
Kurt Vile - He's Alright (Hidden Track) - Childish Prodigy - Matador
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - Fixed It! - Know Better Learn Faster - Kill Rock Stars

Rats - We Have No Name Strange Woman Soundtrack - MySpace.com/RatsTheBand
Echo And The Bunnymen - I Think I Need It Too - The Fountain - Ocean Rain
Mad Gregs - Safe In Sound - Big Nun - Fake Four Inc.
Flight of the Conchords - Hurt Feelings (Reprise) - YouTube - HBO
Air - Love - Love 2 - Astralwerks

Set List: Tuesdays with Maura 09/29/09

This week I talked up Hope Sandoval's upcoming 9/29 performance, Tokimonsta at Low End Theory 09/30, Elvis Perkins in Dearland at the Troubadour 10/03 & The Eagle Rock Music Festival 10/3. I forgot to talk up the Manimal Vinyl Weekend in Joshua Tree 10/3&4, but it looks pretty fun, too.

Here's the Set List:

Blue Scholars - Hi (Hi 808 Instrumental) - Oof! - Massline
The Stone Roses - Waterfall - The Stone Roses (20th Anniversary Reissue) - Silvertone
Small Factory - Everyone's Happy For the First Time In Weeks - For If You Cannot Fly - Vernon Yard
The Shaky Hands - Gonna Hold You Tonight - Let It Die - Kill Rock Stars
Elvis Perkins - I Heard Your Voice In Dresden - Elvis Perkins In Dearland - XL
The Dutchess & The Duke - Let It Die - Sunset / Sunrise - Hardly Art
The Cave Singers - Summer Light - Welcome Joy - Matador

The Clean - Loog - Mister Pop - Merge
The Pastels / Tenniscoats - Sodane - Two Sunsets - Domino
The XX - Stars - XX - XL Records
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Higher Than the Stars (Saint Etienne Visits Lord Spank remix) - Higher Than The Stars EP - Slumberland Records
YACHT - Summer Song - See Mystery Lights - DFA
Rival Consoles - Milo - IO - Erased Tapes
Nosaj Thing - 1685 / Bach - Drift - Alpha Pup

Os Mutantes - Neurociencia Do Amor - Haih or Amortecededor - Anti
Amadou & Mariam - Welcome to Mali - Welcome to Mali - Nonesuch
Illes A Bolond Iany Well Hung - 20 Funk Rock Eruptions From Hungary B Music
Yim Yames - Long, Long, Long - Tribute To - ATO Records
No Age - Genie - Losing Feeling EP - Sub Pop
Tokimonsta - Tweet Call Me Remix - MySpace.com
The Gaslamp Killer - Birthday Music - My Troubled Mind EP - Brainfeeder
The Vampires of Dartmoore - Crime And Horror - Dracula's Music Cabinet - Finders Keepers
The Horrors - Whole New Way - Whole New Way EP - XL
Free Moral Agents - Sound At Sea - From L.A. With Love - Milan

Islands - Vapours - Vapours - Anti
Golden Silvers - Magic Touch - True Romance - XL
The Feelies - Fa Ce La - Crazy Rhythms - Bar None
Vivian Girls - I'm Not Asleep - Everything Goes Wrong - In the Red Records
The Twilight Sad - Scissors - Forget the Night Ahead - Fat Cat
Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions - Satellite - Through the Devil Softly - Nettwerk
Richard Hawley - For Your Lover Give Some Time - Truelove's Gutter - Mute

Feeling Fall Set List 09/22/09

For the season opener, I threw in some favorite Fall tracks, all of the instrumental Felt album Let the Snakes Crinkle Their Heads to Death, spun some recent releases by local folks, a couple of my little brother's favorite songs des jours and played the hits from new additions to the station. I also talked up the Bon Iver sunrise performance this Sunday morning at Hollywood Forever and the sure-to-be-killer guest appearance by Mary Anne Hobbs at Low End Theory this Wednesday 9/23 at The Airliner in Lincoln Heights. Here's the set list.

Artist - Title - Recording - Label

Felt - Song for William S. Harvey - Let the Snakes Crinkle Their Heads to Death - Creation
The Fall - Repetition - 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong (Disc 1) - Beggars Banquet

The Raveonettes - Bang! - In and Out of Control - Vice
Pastels / Tenniscoats - Song for a Friend - Two Sunsets - Domino
Mum - Ladies of the New Century - Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know - Euphono
Taken By Trees - Anna - East Of Eden - Rough Trade
Girls - Hellhole Ratrace - Album - True Panthers
Felt - Ancient City Where I Lived - Let the Snakes Crinkle Their Heads to Death - Creation

The Envy Corps - Kid Gloves - Kid Gloves EP - Tempo Club
Farmer Dave Scher - Flash Forward to the Good Times - Flash Forward to the Good Times - Kemado
Le Loup - A Celebration - Family - Hardly Art
The Big Pink - Velvet - A Brief History Of Love - 4AD
HEALTH - We Are Water - Get Color - Lovepump United
Pens - I Sing Just for You - Hey Friend, What You Doing? - DE STIJL
Why? - Into the Shadows of My Embrace - Eskimo Snow - Anticon

Fool's Gold - Yam Lo Moshech - Fool's Gold - IAMSOUND
The Entrance Band - Lookout! - The Entrance Band - Ecstatic Peace
Division Day - Reservoir - Visitation - Dangerbird
The Happy Hollows - Faces - Spells - The Happy Hollows
Sea Wolf - Orion & Dog White Water, White Bloom - Dangerbird
The Minor Canon - Silence By Your Side - Emptiness Is Form - Tenderness Records

Nosaj Thing - Fog - Drift - Alpha Pup

Boys Noize - Kontact Me - Starter EP - Last Gang
Simian Mobile Disco - Pinball - Temporary Pleasure - Witchita
Sally Shapiro - Swimming Through the Blue Lagoon - My Guilty Pleasure - Paper Bag

To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie - In Peoples' Homes - Marlone - kranky
The Fall - Stepping Out - Psykick Dance Hall - Eagle Records
Felt - Voyage to Illumination - Let the Snakes Crinkle Their Heads to Death - Creation
Julianna Barwick - Choose - Florine - self released

Thanks for the flyer Sandra!

Set List: Tuesdays with Maura 06/02/09

Artist - Title - Recording - Label

Piano Magic - Trick of the Sea - Trick of the Sea 12' - Darla
Mika Miko - Keep On Calling - We Be Xuxa - Post Present Medium
Dreamdate - Best Friends - Patience - Skywriting Records
Talulah Gosh - Escalator Over the Hill - Backwash - K Records
Au Revoir Simone - Take Me As I Am - Still Night, Still Light - Our Secret
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career - My Maudlin Career - 4AD
Grizzly Bear - Hold Still - Veckatimest - Warp
The Vaselines - Son of a Gun - Enter The Vaselines - Sub Pop
Comet Gain - Love Without Lies - Broken Record Prayer - What's Your Rupture?
Depeche Mode - In Sympathy - Sounds of the Universe - Capitol
The Field - Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime - Yesterday and Today - Kompakt
Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is the Move (mixed by Jimmy Douglas) - Domino
Bill Callahan - Too Many Birds - Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle - Drag City
Pallette All Stars - After School Special - Fabric 44 - Fabric
Ear Pwr - Tripodium - Super Animal Brothers III - Carpark
Tiga - Beep Beep Beep - Ciao! - Last Gang / Turbo
Busdriver - Split Seconds (Between Nannies and Swamis) - Jhelli Beam - Anti
Deastro - The Shaded Forests (Gift Giver's Version) - Moondagger - Ghostly
Leonard Cohen - Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye - Live in London - Columbia
Cryptacize - Mythomania - Mythomania - Asthmatic Kitty
The Movies - Jacaranda - Based On A True Story - The Movies
Viva Voce - The Slow Fade - Rose City - Barsuk
New York Dolls - This is Ridiculous - 'Cause I Sez So - Atco
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Smile the Day After Today - Eating Us - Graveface
The Minor Canon - If Wishes Were Horses - Emptiness Is Form

First Spring Show 2009 (note the new time)

Today, along with the beginning of a new presidency for the USA (Thanks Aunt Renee for the daft Punk clip), Spring semester programming began on KSCR and I have a new time slot, 2-4 p.m. PST. There was a ton of great stuff that came out today or between today and the last week of Fall programming in November. If you haven't heard Surf City or The Pains of Being Pure at Heart yet, check 'em out for sure. Here's some cool LA shows this week and the set list.

1/20 Beach House, The Walkmen at The Henry Fonda Theater

1/21 Exile Radio record release party at Low End Theory at The Airliner

1/22 High Places at The Echo
1/23 Department of Eagles at The Troubadour
1/23 Animal Collective at Henry Fonda Theatre

1/24 KSCR presents Gangi, Other Lives, Army Navy - Free All Ages show at Ground Zero Coffeehouse on the USC campus (try to park on Figueroa)

1/24 Raveonettes at The Henry Fonda Theatre
1/24 Animal Collective at The Troubadour

SET LIST 01/20/09: Artist - Title - Recording - Label

Gaby Hernandez - The Tropics - When Love - Armed Orphan
Animal Collective - In the Flowers - Merriweather Post Pavilion - Domino
Deerhunter - Cicadas - Weird Era Cont. - Kranky
Cat Power - Fortunate Son - Dark End of the Street - Matador
A. C. Newman - There Are Maybe Ten or Twelve - Get Guilty - Matador Records
The Magnificents - Ring Ring Oo Oo - Year of Explorers - Mush Records
Roger O'Donnell - In Your Hands Now - Songs from the SIlver Box - Great Society
Sparks - Intro - Exoctic Creatures of the Deep - Lil' Beethoven
Surf City - Headin' Inside - EP - Morr Music
Glasvegas - Flowers & Football Tops - Glasvegas - Columbia
Susanna - Dance On (Prince) - Flower of Evil - Rune Grammofon
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Contender - S/T - Slumberland
Gangi - Commonplace Feathers - A - self-released
Army Navy - Get Right Back (Where We Started From) - Army Navy - The Fever Zone
Chairlift - Garbage - Does You Inspire You - Kanine
Antony and the Johnsons - Another World - Another World - Secretly Canadian
Ras G and the Afrikan Space Program - Intro & Sunrise - Ghetto Sci-Fi - PooBah Records
Exile - Sound Is God - Radio - Plug Research
Charles Spearin - Anna - The Happiness Project - Arts & Crafts
Learning Music - Contagious - The Greatest Hits So Far - Vosotros
Matt and Kim - Lessons Learned - Grand - Fader Label
Los Campesinos! - Heart Swells / Pacific Daylight Time - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed - Arts & Crafts
Department of Eagles - In Ear Park - In Ear Park - 4AD
Beach House - Turtle Island - Devotion - Carpark
High Places - You in 40 Years - High Places - Thrill Jockey
Bon Iver - Woods - Blood Bank - JagJaguwar
Animal Collective - No More RUnnin - Merriweather Post Pavilion - Domino

2008 Top Tens

What's a blog without year end top ten lists?

So the first 10 are all LA-based peeps (Andres Renteria deserves props for appearing on at least 3 of them) and the other 10 are the albums released in 2008 that, upon reflection, most ended up on repeat in my car or headphones this year. I spent a while finding YouTube videos and such, so try the links!

LA Top Ten



1. Flying Lotus, Los Angeles, Warp

FlyLo gets top bill because he named the album Los Angeles.

2. No Age, Nouns, Sub Pop

No Age brought the Smell Scene to the pages of The New Yorker and beyond.

3. Health, //Disco, Lovepump United

Health //Disco brought the Smell Scene to dance floors across the globe.

4. Hearts of Palm UK, For Life, Hypnote

I guarantee this album will gain momentum in 2009, especially after the remixes drop.

5. Daedelus, Love to Make Music To, Ninja Tune

"Fairweather Friends" was the summer jam and "My Beau" was the slow jam of '08.

6. Ras G & The Afrikan Space Program, Ghetto Sci-Fi, PooBah Records

This is the debut full length from South L.A.'s biggest sweetheart and dopest beat maestro.

7. Nobody Presents Blank Blue, Western Water Music Volume II, Ubiquity

One of my favorite things about this album has been watching the trip hop production on the album evolve into performances built around a live rhythm section, psychedelic guitar and Space-Echoed vocals.

8. The Little Ones, Morning Tide, Chop Shop

The world is a better place now that this album is out in it.

9. Mia Doi Todd, Gea, City Zen

2008 saw a lovely release from L.A.'s favorite guitar strumming, harmonium playing chanteuse.

10. Gaby Hernandez, When Love, Armed Orphan

Rhumba tinged "The Tropics" was my favorite song of 2008.

Reefer by Reefer (Alpha Pup) gets honorable mention!

Maura's Top 10 Most Listened to, 2008

1. Nomo, Ghost Rock, Ubiquity
2. School of Seven Bells, Alpinisms, Ghostly International
3. Karl Hector and the Malcouns, Sahara Swing, Now-Again
4. Dr. Dog, Fate, Park the Van
5. Four Tet, Ringer, Domino
6. Department of Eagles, In Ear Park, 4AD
7. Hercules & Love Affair, S/T, DFA
8. Portishead, Third, Mercury
9. Spiritualized, Songs in A&E, Fontana
10. Lykke Li, Youth Novels, LL