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This show is an interview with Peter Calautti, A.K.A. Pete. He talked about putting out a record by himself and running a DIY label. We also gave relationship advice to some promiscuous punks and covered a little bit of screamo history. It's a genre that doesn't exist outside of the internet.
I did play a few songs just before the interview, though.
01. Silver Daggers - Displacement - New High and Ord (Load 2007)
02. The Hope and the Failure - Prozac Hell - The Lights Are On But This Dance Never Ends (Self Released 2005)
03. Mandela Strike Force - Did You Need It Specially Engraved - The Sound of Revolution in Stereo (Ladder 1995)
04. Assfactor 4 - Attempted Control - Self Titled (Old Glory 1995)
05. Marion - I've Got Your Shame - Self Titled (Kflr 199x?)
The Seeing Means More LP was played throughout the interview.
Apr 28, 2007
Apr 21, 2007
April 21, 2007 Playlist - TWS
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Started the show off with some metalcore-ish stuff this time. It's all good.
01. Converge - Plagues - No Heroes (Deathwish 2007)
02. Cursed - Fatalist - Cursed II (Goodfellow 2005)
03. Kylesa - Hollow Severer - Time Will Fuse Its Worth (Prosthetic 2006)
04. Botch - Thank God for Worker Bees - We Are the Romans (Hydra Head 2000)
05. Coalesce - A New Language - Functioning on Impatience (Second Nature 2002)
06. Tragedy - Deaf and Disbelieving - Nerve Damage (Tragedy 2006)
07. Lords - Watching the Clock - Swords (Jade Tree 2005)
08. Unearth - Black Hearts Now Reign - The Oncoming Storm (Metal Blade 2004)
09. Baroness - Red Sky - Second (Hyperrealist 2005)
10. Dawntreader - Road Warriors - Deconstructing The Coffin (Metaphysics 2006)
11. Breather Resist - Loose Lipped Error - Charmer (Jade Tree 2004)
12. Young Widows - Small Talk - Settle Down City (Jade Tree 2006)
13. Coliseum - This Mind Locked Inside This Body - Self Titled (Level Plane 2004)
14. Akimbo - Tower of the Elephant - Forging Steel and Laying Stone (Alternative Tentacles 2006)
15. Doomriders - Deathbox - Black Thunder (Deathwish 2007)
16. The National Acrobat - Eyes the Size of Organs - The Complete Recordings (Initial 2004)
17. Black Cross - Icebox in the Alley - Art Offensive (Equal Vision 2003)
18. Graf Orlock - A Shocking Interrogation - Destination Time Tomorrow (Level Plane 2007)
19. Das Oath - Years of Veneers - Self Titled (ThreeOneG 2006)
20. Orchid - Lights Out - Dance Tonight, Revolution Tomorrow! (Ebullition 2001)
21. Wolves - 13 - Simulation.Transparency.Alienation (Coalition 2003)
22. Ampere - We Live Like Lost Children - Ampere/Sinaloa Split (Ebullition 2006)
23. Bucket Full of Teeth - A Hopeful Sound - IV (Level Plane 2005)
24. Transistor Transistor - Power Chord Academy - Erase All Names and Likeness (Level Plane 2005)
25. Panthers - Uncertainly - The Trick (Vice 2006)
26. Envy - Chain Wandering Deeply - A Dead Sinking Story (Level Plane 2003)
27. City of Caterpillar - Minute Hour Day Week Month Year (The Faiths In My Chest) - Self Titled (Level Plane 2002)
28. Pg. 99 - In Love With an Apparition - Document #8 (Robotic Empire 2001)
29. Stop It!! - Amen and Boys - Self Made Maps (Robotic Empire 2003)
30. Yage - Leben Leben - Anders Leben (Ebullition 2003)
31. Forensics - Boat Day at the Marina - Things To Do When You Should Be Dead Anyway (Magic Bullet 2004)
32. Hot Cross - Rejoiner - Risk Revival (Equal Vision 2007)
Started the show off with some metalcore-ish stuff this time. It's all good.
01. Converge - Plagues - No Heroes (Deathwish 2007)
02. Cursed - Fatalist - Cursed II (Goodfellow 2005)
03. Kylesa - Hollow Severer - Time Will Fuse Its Worth (Prosthetic 2006)
04. Botch - Thank God for Worker Bees - We Are the Romans (Hydra Head 2000)
05. Coalesce - A New Language - Functioning on Impatience (Second Nature 2002)
06. Tragedy - Deaf and Disbelieving - Nerve Damage (Tragedy 2006)
07. Lords - Watching the Clock - Swords (Jade Tree 2005)
08. Unearth - Black Hearts Now Reign - The Oncoming Storm (Metal Blade 2004)
09. Baroness - Red Sky - Second (Hyperrealist 2005)
10. Dawntreader - Road Warriors - Deconstructing The Coffin (Metaphysics 2006)
11. Breather Resist - Loose Lipped Error - Charmer (Jade Tree 2004)
12. Young Widows - Small Talk - Settle Down City (Jade Tree 2006)
13. Coliseum - This Mind Locked Inside This Body - Self Titled (Level Plane 2004)
14. Akimbo - Tower of the Elephant - Forging Steel and Laying Stone (Alternative Tentacles 2006)
15. Doomriders - Deathbox - Black Thunder (Deathwish 2007)
16. The National Acrobat - Eyes the Size of Organs - The Complete Recordings (Initial 2004)
17. Black Cross - Icebox in the Alley - Art Offensive (Equal Vision 2003)
18. Graf Orlock - A Shocking Interrogation - Destination Time Tomorrow (Level Plane 2007)
19. Das Oath - Years of Veneers - Self Titled (ThreeOneG 2006)
20. Orchid - Lights Out - Dance Tonight, Revolution Tomorrow! (Ebullition 2001)
21. Wolves - 13 - Simulation.Transparency.Alienation (Coalition 2003)
22. Ampere - We Live Like Lost Children - Ampere/Sinaloa Split (Ebullition 2006)
23. Bucket Full of Teeth - A Hopeful Sound - IV (Level Plane 2005)
24. Transistor Transistor - Power Chord Academy - Erase All Names and Likeness (Level Plane 2005)
25. Panthers - Uncertainly - The Trick (Vice 2006)
26. Envy - Chain Wandering Deeply - A Dead Sinking Story (Level Plane 2003)
27. City of Caterpillar - Minute Hour Day Week Month Year (The Faiths In My Chest) - Self Titled (Level Plane 2002)
28. Pg. 99 - In Love With an Apparition - Document #8 (Robotic Empire 2001)
29. Stop It!! - Amen and Boys - Self Made Maps (Robotic Empire 2003)
30. Yage - Leben Leben - Anders Leben (Ebullition 2003)
31. Forensics - Boat Day at the Marina - Things To Do When You Should Be Dead Anyway (Magic Bullet 2004)
32. Hot Cross - Rejoiner - Risk Revival (Equal Vision 2007)
Apr 14, 2007
Review
Souvenir’s Young America
September Songs
RIYL: Russian Circles, Isis, Grails, Godspeed You! Black Emperor
"6:39"
Two words: Richmond, Virginia. Also, freight trains, but that may be my GY!BE nostalgia seeping through. This new release by Souvenir’s Young America takes us across all the familiar tracks of the instrumental post-rock scene while not forgetting the importance of capturing one’s attention before a song even takes off. Right from the get-go, September Songs howls desperately through the twang of a harmonica fit perfectly for some lonesome down-and-out roughnecking it through the old west. But all reminiscence and melodic harmonies aside, September Songs has more than its fair share of epic build-ups and heavy guitar work. And while they don’t take on quite the same amount of metallic intensity of bands like Isis, Souvenir’s Young America thankfully reach out with an urgency refreshing enough to maintain a captivating originality in a genre oversaturated by bands all too willing to cash in on the doom and gloom motif. Even though the album only features three tracks, September Songs is an effort deserving of anyone interested in, or even the slightest bit curious of, the future of post-rock outside of its established confines.
April 14, 2007 Playlist - TWS
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Call it Fire - Golden Egg
Fugazi - Glue Man
Genrevolta - Ploughed
Bastro - Tallow Waters
Wake Up Snake - Tracking Lice
Puke Attack - Dip Dive
Circle Jerks - Live Fast Die Young
The Skuds - Blood for Oil/Asylum
Dillinger Escape Plan - 43% Burnt
Descendents - Statue of Liberty
Hot Cross - Silence is Failure
The Locust - Book Bot
Bad Brains - Riot Squad
Uniform Choice - Use Your Head
Os Pedrero - Kymura
Minor Threat - Filler
Scream - Came Without Warning
Negative Approach - Bad Attitude
Adolescents - I Hate Children
Cro-Mags - Don't Tread On Me
Burn - The Bait
Bold - Looking Back
Sick of it All - The Bland Within
Most Precious Blood - Type A Personality
Slapshot - Do What You Want
Kill Your Idols - Madly
The New Flesh - No Expectations
Unwound - Message Received
Akarso - Leave Quietly
Relics - Poisonous Beliefs
Wasteland - River
Death to Tyrants - A Light in the Hall
Crain - One Who Hangs
The Exploder - Living, Breathing
O Pioneers!!! - I Could Buy a Prostitute for the Price of These Tickets
Rodan - Shiner
June of 44 - Cut Your Face
Ordination of Aaron - Exercise in Futility Part 1
Threadbare - Feed
Shroomunion - Crown
Call it Fire - Golden Egg
Fugazi - Glue Man
Genrevolta - Ploughed
Bastro - Tallow Waters
Wake Up Snake - Tracking Lice
Puke Attack - Dip Dive
Circle Jerks - Live Fast Die Young
The Skuds - Blood for Oil/Asylum
Dillinger Escape Plan - 43% Burnt
Descendents - Statue of Liberty
Hot Cross - Silence is Failure
The Locust - Book Bot
Bad Brains - Riot Squad
Uniform Choice - Use Your Head
Os Pedrero - Kymura
Minor Threat - Filler
Scream - Came Without Warning
Negative Approach - Bad Attitude
Adolescents - I Hate Children
Cro-Mags - Don't Tread On Me
Burn - The Bait
Bold - Looking Back
Sick of it All - The Bland Within
Most Precious Blood - Type A Personality
Slapshot - Do What You Want
Kill Your Idols - Madly
The New Flesh - No Expectations
Unwound - Message Received
Akarso - Leave Quietly
Relics - Poisonous Beliefs
Wasteland - River
Death to Tyrants - A Light in the Hall
Crain - One Who Hangs
The Exploder - Living, Breathing
O Pioneers!!! - I Could Buy a Prostitute for the Price of These Tickets
Rodan - Shiner
June of 44 - Cut Your Face
Ordination of Aaron - Exercise in Futility Part 1
Threadbare - Feed
Shroomunion - Crown
Apr 12, 2007
Reviews
I decided to post some of my reviews for the station that are written marginally higher than a fifth grade reading level or are about an album worthy of negligible listenership.
Tar..Feathers
Make Way for the Ocean Floor to Fall to the Surface
RIYL: Woods, Meneguar, Les Savy Fav, Owls, Modest Mouse
"Was it Even There?"
Here we have another DIY miracle. The music, artwork, lyric sheet, and packaging are all the product of one Marcus Nyke from a little place called Sweden. Nyke is all over this record with his doubled/tripled/multi-layered vocal tracks that will stop at nothing to haunt you at every verse, chorus, and breakdown. Although Nyke is responsible for writing the songs, the bass lines and drum beats are filled in by friends Morten Bileskalns and Pål Olovsson. I really hope these guys can pull off everything on this album live because it would make a bad show an impossibility. Their sound is like a good synth-pop take on all the new freak folk bands that have been sprouting up lately, and I'm struggling to find anything wrong with that. It’s like Jana Hunter meets Les Savy Fav. I mean, come on! They’re from Sweden!
SeepeopleS
Apocalypse Cow Vol. 1
RIYL: The Physics of Meaning, Band of Horses, The Shins, Fields
They say puns are a rare medium well done, but SeepeopleS’ new release Apocalypse Cow Vol. 1 puts a stake in any grisly foretaste that might be nibbling at you. This album demonstrates not only the band’s exemplary application of wordplay, but their musical aptitude as well. Also, SeepeopleS claim to be an anarchist band, putting many of their political messages at the forefront of their lyrics when not about love or something even more boring like personal and universal issues. Why is it that anarchists bands always have the best album titles? Anyway, this Asheville, NC band manage to easily hold their own among southern indie greats like The Physics of Meaning and Band of Horses with this immense 15 song release on the band’s own Razcalz Recordz, a name of which its wordplay sorely lacks the same sense of whimsicality as Apocalypse Cow.
Chemikal Records
Ballads of the Book
RIYL: Areogramme, Idlewild, Sons & Daughters, Arab Strap, Scottish Accents
This compilation by Chemikal Records puts Scottish musicians in collaboration with Scottish writers. Chemikal Records considers it an "elaborately ambitious" project, but I think I would describe it as being closer to plain old "totally awesome." I'm surprised at how non-verbose this record really is. The lyrics are just as strong as the music and take nothing away. There really is no gimmick here. Despite all that could have gone horribly wrong, Ballads of the Book remains a fantastically genuine album. Upcoming and unsigned artists belt out, with heavy Scottish accents abound, solid and convincing rock songs that leave hardly any low points on the album. I would have it no other way. I can only hope this doesn’t become something more government "Art Councils" begin to latch onto.
Pistolero
The Last Foire
RIYL: Wilco, Spoon, Dead Ponies, The Kinks
Kick up a stool at the old saloon, buckaroo, and buckle down with some melodies from the wild west. Well, the west. And really, just west of here. Which means Atlanta. All right. You know what? Their CD case has a dude with mutton chops on it. So if that isn’t good enough for you, I don’t know what is. Honestly, aside from their name, Pistolero aren't so much representative of the wild west as they are of British rock and roll during the 60s. They manage to mix a few different influences to create a pleasant dissonance that is largely unique to the Atlanta music scene while still letting the British invasion shine through.
RTX
Western Xterminator
RIYL: Pussy Galore, Royal Trux, Memories of Hollywood before the “Hollywood Rock” music festival made everyone turn in their guitars and self-parody for synthesizers and sunglasses.
This will be the music blaring through the side-alley door of a cocaine-littered rock club while some 1980s, blast-from-the-past head banger, whose butt crack would be surging toward freedom if it weren’t for the overgrown mane sprouting out of his balding cranium, watches you with intrigue as you’re wallowing in your own vomit after a night of some impressively hard partying on the Sunset Strip. Yes, it really does take so many adjectives to explain the weight with which this album [review] should be taken. I’ve never seen a five-piece rock outfit pretend so hard to relive an era in which the only notable events were the rise of Mötley Crüe and the release of Beverly Hills Cop.
Actually, on second thought, where do I sign up for this?
Tar..Feathers
Make Way for the Ocean Floor to Fall to the Surface
RIYL: Woods, Meneguar, Les Savy Fav, Owls, Modest Mouse
"Was it Even There?"
Here we have another DIY miracle. The music, artwork, lyric sheet, and packaging are all the product of one Marcus Nyke from a little place called Sweden. Nyke is all over this record with his doubled/tripled/multi-layered vocal tracks that will stop at nothing to haunt you at every verse, chorus, and breakdown. Although Nyke is responsible for writing the songs, the bass lines and drum beats are filled in by friends Morten Bileskalns and Pål Olovsson. I really hope these guys can pull off everything on this album live because it would make a bad show an impossibility. Their sound is like a good synth-pop take on all the new freak folk bands that have been sprouting up lately, and I'm struggling to find anything wrong with that. It’s like Jana Hunter meets Les Savy Fav. I mean, come on! They’re from Sweden!
SeepeopleS
Apocalypse Cow Vol. 1
RIYL: The Physics of Meaning, Band of Horses, The Shins, Fields
They say puns are a rare medium well done, but SeepeopleS’ new release Apocalypse Cow Vol. 1 puts a stake in any grisly foretaste that might be nibbling at you. This album demonstrates not only the band’s exemplary application of wordplay, but their musical aptitude as well. Also, SeepeopleS claim to be an anarchist band, putting many of their political messages at the forefront of their lyrics when not about love or something even more boring like personal and universal issues. Why is it that anarchists bands always have the best album titles? Anyway, this Asheville, NC band manage to easily hold their own among southern indie greats like The Physics of Meaning and Band of Horses with this immense 15 song release on the band’s own Razcalz Recordz, a name of which its wordplay sorely lacks the same sense of whimsicality as Apocalypse Cow.
Chemikal Records
Ballads of the Book
RIYL: Areogramme, Idlewild, Sons & Daughters, Arab Strap, Scottish Accents
This compilation by Chemikal Records puts Scottish musicians in collaboration with Scottish writers. Chemikal Records considers it an "elaborately ambitious" project, but I think I would describe it as being closer to plain old "totally awesome." I'm surprised at how non-verbose this record really is. The lyrics are just as strong as the music and take nothing away. There really is no gimmick here. Despite all that could have gone horribly wrong, Ballads of the Book remains a fantastically genuine album. Upcoming and unsigned artists belt out, with heavy Scottish accents abound, solid and convincing rock songs that leave hardly any low points on the album. I would have it no other way. I can only hope this doesn’t become something more government "Art Councils" begin to latch onto.
Pistolero
The Last Foire
RIYL: Wilco, Spoon, Dead Ponies, The Kinks
Kick up a stool at the old saloon, buckaroo, and buckle down with some melodies from the wild west. Well, the west. And really, just west of here. Which means Atlanta. All right. You know what? Their CD case has a dude with mutton chops on it. So if that isn’t good enough for you, I don’t know what is. Honestly, aside from their name, Pistolero aren't so much representative of the wild west as they are of British rock and roll during the 60s. They manage to mix a few different influences to create a pleasant dissonance that is largely unique to the Atlanta music scene while still letting the British invasion shine through.
RTX
Western Xterminator
RIYL: Pussy Galore, Royal Trux, Memories of Hollywood before the “Hollywood Rock” music festival made everyone turn in their guitars and self-parody for synthesizers and sunglasses.
This will be the music blaring through the side-alley door of a cocaine-littered rock club while some 1980s, blast-from-the-past head banger, whose butt crack would be surging toward freedom if it weren’t for the overgrown mane sprouting out of his balding cranium, watches you with intrigue as you’re wallowing in your own vomit after a night of some impressively hard partying on the Sunset Strip. Yes, it really does take so many adjectives to explain the weight with which this album [review] should be taken. I’ve never seen a five-piece rock outfit pretend so hard to relive an era in which the only notable events were the rise of Mötley Crüe and the release of Beverly Hills Cop.
Actually, on second thought, where do I sign up for this?
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