Tenth Show! YO LA TENGO!!!

Yo La Tengo - Little Eyes (Summer Sun)
Yo La Tengo - Cherry Chapstick (And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out)
Yo La Tengo - Decora (Electr-O-Pura)
Yo La Tengo - Pass the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind (I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass)
Yo La Tengo - Deeper Into Movies (I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One)
Yo La Tengo - Our Way to Fall (And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out)
Yo La Tengo - Cast a Shadow (Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo) *Beat Happening cover
Yo La Tengo - A House is Not a Motel (Ride the Tiger) *Love cover
Yo La Tengo - Little Honda (I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One) *Beach Boys cover
Yo La Tengo - You Can Have it All (And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out) *George McCrae cover
Yo La Tengo - My Little Corner of the World (I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One) *Anita Bryant cover
Yo La Tengo - Speeing Motorcycle (Ft. Daniel Johnston) (Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo) *Daniel Johnston Cover
Yo La Tengo - Season of the Shark (Summer Sun)
Yo La Tengo - Beanbag Chair (I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass)
Yo La Tengo - Upside-Down (May I Sing With Me)
Yo La Tengo - The Cone of Silence - (Ride the Tiger)
Yo La Tengo - Sugarcube (I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One)
Yo La Tengo - Tom Courtenay (Acoustic Version) (Camp Yo La Tengo)
Yo La Tengo - Nowhere Near (Painful)
Yo La Tengo - Let's Save Tony Orlando's House (And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out)
Yo La Tengo - The Room Got Heavy (I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass)
Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater (I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One)
Yo La Tengo - From a Motel 6 (Painful)
Yo La Tengo - Stockholm Syndrome (I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One)
Yo La Tengo - The Crying of Lot G (And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out)

9th Show! Canadian Pop Rocks!

This week I visited our neighbors to the north. Canada may be seen as "wimpy" to some Americans, but their lack of violence and their reluctance to wage war without precedence and other things makes their music that much sweeter! This show is birthed out of the realization that a nice sized chunk of my favorite pop bands are Canadian, so yeah!

Also, you are probably well aware of the whole Canadian Pop Supergroup complex they have up there, well, let it be known that there is only one Canadian Pop Supergroup in my heart and let it be no secret that I swoon for the New Pornographers. So you get a nice helping of AC Newman, Dan Bejar (AKA Destroyer), Kurt Dahle (AKA Limblifter), Kathryn Calder (AKA member of Immaculate Machine) and, even though she isn't quite Canadian, Neko Case, who drummed in the early lineup of Cub and Maow!

Jim Guthrie - Problems With Solutions (Now More Than Ever)
Destroyer - The Sublimation Hour (Streethawk: A Seduction)
Sunset Rubdown - They Took a Vote nad Said No (Shut Up I Am Dreaming)
The Unicorns - Tuff Ghost (Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?)
The Hidden Cameras - Awoo (Awoo)
The Weakerthans - Plea From a Cat Named Virtue (Reconstruction Site)
The Constantines - Why I Didn't Like August '93 (Believer Music Issue Comp)
Immaculate Machine - Broken Ship (Ones and Zeroes)
Pony Up! - The Truth About Cats and Dogs (is That They Die) (Make Love to the Judges With Your Eyes)
Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline) (Broken Social Scene)
The New Pornographers - The Slow Descent into Alcoholism (Mass Romantic)
Sloan - The Good in Everyone (One Chord to Another)
Wolf Parade - Grounds for Divorce (Apologies to the Queen Mary)
Frog Eyes - One in Six Children Will Flee in Boats (The Golden River)
AC Newman - On the Table (The Slow Wonder)
Zumpano - The Party Rages On (Look What the Rookie Did)
Limblifter - Vicious (Limblifter)
Stars - Your Ex-Lover is Dead (Set Yourself on Fire)
Islands - Volcanoes (Return to the Sea)
Cub - Tell Me Now (Betti-Cola) (Daniel Johnston cover)
Vancougar - Down on Me (Losin' It)
Maow - Ms. Lefevre (The Unforgiving Sounds Of...)
Cub - Your Bed (Come Out, Come Out)
Metric - Combat Baby (Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?)
Final Fantasy - This is the Dream of Win and Regine (Has a Good Home)
Eric's Trip - Behind the Garage (Love Tara)
Elevator to Hell - Physically Unaddictive Mind Change (Parts 1-3)
Royal City - Can't You (Little Heart's Ease)

Band of the Week
The New Pornographers

In my opinion, they're Canada's finest pop export and without a doubt one of my absolute favorite bands period. In 2005 they released their most focus record, Twin Cinema (which was my favorite record of 2005) and this Summer they are set to unleash Challengers. Exciting stuff. Just listen.

The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic

Eighth Show!

Another week of swooning over my musical crushes. Played stuff from Voxtrot's forthcoming debut LP (my favorite song from that) and inadvertently realized that I completely adore Love is All after flirting with them for a couple of months!

Voxtrot - Future Pt. 1 (Voxtrot)
Jim Guthrie - Virtue (Morning, Noon, Night)
Destroyer - Your Blood (Destroyer's Rubies)
Guided by Voices - 158 Years of Beautiful Sex (Tonics & Twisted Chasers)
The Vaselines - Son of a Gun (The Way of the Vaselines)
Beat Happening - What's Important (Beat Happening)
The Bodines - William Shatner
The Wedding Present - My Favourite Dress (George Best)
Zumpano - The Party Rages On (Look What the Rookie Did)
The Cloud Room - Hey Now Now (The Cloud Room)
Sugar - The Act We Act (Copper Blue)
Ween - Ocean Man (The Mollusk)
Rocketship - Hey Hey Girl
Ozma - Natalie Portman (Rock and Roll Pt. 3)
White Town - Hair Like Alain Delon
Gene - Her Fifteen Years (To See the Lights)
Yo La Tengo & Daniel Johnston - Speeding Motorcycle (Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo)
The Modern Lovers - Pablo Picasso (The Modern Lovers)
Francoise Hardy - Veins
Chantal Goya - Tu M'as Trop Menti (Masculin-Feminin Soundtrack)
Split Enz - Six Months in a Leaky Boat (History Never Repeats)
Ted Leo - Six Months in a Leaky Boat (Tell Balgeary, Balgury is Dead) (Split Enz Cover)
Shop Assistants - All That Ever Mattered
Wolfie - You're Lucky I'm Skinny (Where's Wolfie)
The Lucksmiths - Untidy Towns
Morrissey - Hairdresser on Fire (Viva Hate)
Jawbreaker - Boxcar (24 Hour Revenge Therapy)
Love is All - Make Out Fall Out Make Up (9 Times That Same Song)
The New Pornographers - Sing Me Spanish Techno (Twin Cinema)
I'm From Barcelona - We're From Barcelona (Let Me Introduce My Friends)
Big Star - September Gurls (Radio #1)
Andrew Bird - Plasticities (Armchair Apocrypha)

Band of the Week(s)
Love is All

I got "9 Times That Same Song" right around the time Pitchfork was hyping the hell out of it. Gave it a listen, wasn't too impressed. They just seemed like the "quirky indie rock band of the week." About a month ago I heard their cover of the Pastels "Nothing to Be Done," one of my absolute favorite songs and while the female vocals on it bugged me a big, I realized that any band that covers the Pastels deserves a shot. Listen to "Make Out Fall Out Make Up," I know this song was hot in the internet months ago but holy fucking shit what a song!

Sugar

Between the ages of 16 and 18 I was completely subscribed to punk rock. However, two years wasn't long enough for me to get to everything especially when I basically started with, gasp, Fat Wreck Chords and Henry Rollins spoken word. It was a weird mix that got me into sort of faceless pop-punk (although I still have a place in my heart for No Use for a Name, Lagwagon, and of course, NOFX) and the broader strokes of hardcore (Black Flag, Minor Threat, Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, etc) with the Descendents sort of fusing the two together. Shortly after getting really into punk I got swept into the maddening world of you-know-what and etc etc. In short, I glossed over Husker Du. Don't know how, don't know why, I know I listened to "New Day Rising," and I just bought it on vinyl a few months ago, and I think it's a great record but man I didn't really get into it until about a year ago. I'm not making any sense. Anyway, I was putting a review on an old Sugar single and finally heard THAT band. And I was obsessed with that song "Paralyized" on Bob Mould's last solo album. So yeah it makes sense I would love this band, a sort of midpoint between Husker Du punk and Bob's new stuff. A COMPLETELY BRILLIANT ALT-POP BAND!

IN FUCKING SHORT: I put the iPod on shuffle and "The Act We Act" came on and I had a moment. I played the song on the show so that maybe others might have a moment. "Copper Blue" is a great record and you should get it and yeah, Bob Mould makes me weak at the knees.