soft, soft static with a human voice underneath

Tallahassee- Wooden Hearts
Ryan Adams- Lucky Now
Rah Rah- Communist Man
Rah Rah- What About Love
Cass Mccombs- Mystery Mail
Big Deal- Chair
Big Deal- 13
Bloc Party- Mercury in Retrograde
Ryan Adams- I Love You But I Don’t Know What to Say
Ski Lodge- I Would Die To Be
Herb Alpert- Mona Lisa
Willy Mason- Oxygen
Phosphorescent- The Mermaid Parade

Only one hour tonight, I was feeling tired and was more than a little sketched out  by Sarah, the self-described manic middle school spanish teacher who came into the studio and sat down because she wasn’t ready to go to bed yet. So we hung out in the station for an hour and she told me stories about being a spanish teacher, running away from home and eloping in Mexico (where she learned the Spanish) and falling off the roof of North Hall when she lived there at the age of 3 (she was also born there apparently).

Definitely one of the stranger nights here at KW. Also, I’ve been informed that the reason none of my electronics are working properly is because Mercury’s in retrograde. Who would’ve figured.

Posted on November 28 2011

Loosely themed from Summer nostalgia at Winter’s Emergence

Steel Train ft. Scarlett Johansson- Bullet
Summer Camp- Lose Your Mind
Keep Your Marriage PSA
Blind Pilot- We Are The Tide (Live)
The Rural Alberta Advantage- In The Summertime
The Head and the Heart- Winter Song
Kina Grannis- Flume (Bon Iver)
Rilo Kiley- The Good That Won’t Come Out
Okkervil River- On Tour With Zykos
Feist- Comfort Me
Gary Clark Jr.- When My Train Pulls In
Typhoon- Summer Home
The Decemberists- Foregone
Feist- Get It Wrong, Get It Right
H1N1 Vaccine PSA
Slow Club- If We’re Still Alive
Slow Club- Hang On
Barr Brothers- Deacon’s Son
First Aid Kit- Cross Oceans
The Veils- Calliope!
The Lumineers- Flowers In Your Hair
Aidan Knight- Knitting Something Nice For You
A House For Lions- Let Back
Dan Mangan- Et Les Mots Croisés

Posted on November 21 2011

Dntel- Postal Service Remix
Sarah Jaffe- A Sucker For Your Marketing
Holiday Shores- Something Aborted (not the name of the song)
Holiday Shores- Spells
Sun Wizard- Sugarsister
Slow Club- You, Earth or Ash
Megafaun- Get Right
Cataldo- Deep Cuts
Real Estate- Kinder Blumen
Lonely Dear- D Major
This Mountain- I Thought
Ryan Adams- New York, New York (Piano Version)
(In which I begin reviewing albums on the air)
Williamsboy- Analog
Williamsboy- A Million and One WhatIfs
Rob Crow- Prepare To Be Mined
Honest Haloway- The Towns
yMusic- Proven Badlands
(end of said reviewing-on-air experiment)
Slow Club- Hackney Marsh

Posted on November 7 2011

Dan Mangan- Post-War Blues
Elliott Smith- I Don’t Think I’m Ever Gonna Figure It Out
Elliott Smith- New Monkey
Zoe Boekbinder- Make A Mess
Hey Rosetta!- Bandages
Young Man- Home Alone
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin- Coming Through
Sarah Jaffe- When You Rest (Demo)
The Echo Friendly- Same Mistakes
The Janks- Can’t Give Up
Feist- Train Song (w. Ben Gibbard)
Leona Naess- train song
Josh Rouse- Movin’ On
Jenny Owen Youngs- Last Person
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin- House Fire
Anathallo- Luminious Luminesence In The Atlas Position
Bombay Bicycle Club- Always like this
Evening Hymns- Reason To Believe (Tim Hardin)
Jets To Brazil- Sweet Avenue
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit -Alabama Pines
Wolf Parade- You Are a Runner and I Am My Fathers Son (Redux)
Foo Fighters- Next Year
Clem Snide- Moment In The Sun
Kathryn Calder- Turn A Light On
The Boy Least Likely To- Rock Upon a Porch With You
Dan Mangan- Road Regrets

 

Posted on October 31 2011

Dan Mangan- Road Regrets

Pixar meets Indie Folk?

Posted on October 17 2011

No that’s not a typo, it’s true, I haven’t shown up to the radio for the better part of a month. The hours of meetings and miles of travel in between yield no excuses, but they’re about all I’ve got.

1. Dan Mangan- Rows of Houses
2. Gregory Alan Isakov- Freeway Searching
3. The Barr Brothers- Cloud (For Lhasa)
4. Matthew and the Atlas- I Will Remain
5. The Weakerthans- Plea From A Cat Named Virtue
6. Ryan Adams- Dirty Rain
7. The Tallest Man on Earth- In The Pockets
8. Kathleen Edwards- One More Song the Radio Won’t Like
9. Megafaun- Everything
10. Megafaun- State Meant
11. Benjamin Francis Leftwich- Don’t Go Slow
12. Kathleen Edwards- Six O Clock News
13. Nickel Creek- I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (Wilco)
14. Wilco- One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley’s Boyfriend)
15. Rhett Miller- The Believer
16. Elliott Smith- Happiness
17. Ryan Adams- (Time) The Revelator (Gillian Welch)
18. Tallahassee- Songs of the Lonely Highway
19. S. Carey- In The Dirt
20. Hey Rosetta!- Young Glass
21. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin- Back In The Saddle
22. Blind Pilot- Just One

Highlights:

-me, not being able to speak, at all

-Rhett Miller and Hey Rosetta! in every way

-I’m here for once, what more do you want?

Posted on October 17 2011

Cataldo- Rock of Calvary
You Won’t- Television
Blind Pilot- Keep Your Right
Wildlife- Drunken Heart (Daytrotter)
Slow Club- Two Cousins
Slow Club- Hackney Marsh
Blitzen Trapper- American Goldwing
A.A. Bondy- Surfer King
The Barr Brothers- Beggar In the Morning
Mates of State- Mountaintops
Sarah Jaffe- A Sucker For Your Marketing
James Blake & Bon Iver- Fall Creek Boy’s Choir
Big Harp- Nadine
Fruit Bats- Early Morning Light
Sera Cahoone- Couch Song
Feist- Strangers
Built To Spill- Temporarily Blind
Cowboy Junkies- Miles From Our Home
Andrew Bird- Fake Palindromes
Andrew Bird- Tables and Chairs
The War On Drugs- Baby Missiles
Kings of Convenience- Me In You
Suspended From Class- Camera Obscura
Joshua James- Dear Darcy
Yellow Ostrich- Campaign
Yellow Ostrich- Morgan Freeman’s Alleged Relationship With His Step-Granddaughter
Megafaun- Volunteers

Highlights:
-Monsters, I mean MONSTERS
- everything about that Barr brothers song, holy shit that’s good
-the amazing mediocrity that is various PSA’s
- Morgan Freeman (need I say more)

…and antiquity is filled with little stones like you and me
cracked and burning with meaning, like the Rock of Calvary

(Source: kickingtv)

Posted on September 28 2011

Frontier Ruckus- June Is Our Mother’s Name
St. Vincent- Strange Mercy
Phosphorescent- Mermaid Parade
Tallahassee- Jealous Hands
Feist- How Come You Never Go There
The Notwist- Good Lies
Bombay Bicycle Club- How Could You Swallow So Much Sleep
Minus The Bear- Lemurs Man, Lemurs
Hey Rosetta!- Young Glass
Ryan Adams- Words
Frontier Ruckus- The Tower
Elliott Smith- I Don’t Think I’m Ever Gonna Figure It Out
Bon Iver- Lump Sum
The Moldy Peaches- What Went Wrong
St. Vincent- Champagne Year
Sufjan Stevens- Vito’s Ordination Song
Alexi Murdoch- Orange Sky
Bright Eyes- No One Would Riot for Less (aborted into) Everything Must Belong Somewhere (because it was the right thing to do)
Brett Dennen- Desert Sunrise

A reading of For The Queer Girls Who Dream of Drowning by Lindsay Miller

I felt Fall creeping in on the airwaves tonight. Funny how that works.

…I know that I am young

(Source: kickingtv)

Posted on September 28 2011 with 1 note

It has come to my attention that I deliberately or not neglected two weeks of radio play, I have no excuse for said actions, and I take full responsibility. That said I am not resigning and will continue to sporadically play music at will, though I will most likely switch to Friday nights.

1. AA Bondy- Rapture (Sweet Rapture)
2. Evening Hymns- Dead Deer
3. Rosebuds- Without a Focus
4. Twenty One Pilots- Car Radio (aborted b/c seriously…)
5.Pepper Rabbit- Dance Card
6. Kevin Devine Time To Burn (Another Bag of Bones)
7. Among Brothers- Same, Isaiah, and the Wolf
8. Cataldo- Prison Boxing
9. The Low Anthem- (Don’t) Tremble
10. Black Whales- Shangri-La Indeed
11. Dr. Dog- Hang On
12. EEls- It’s A Motherfucker
13. Frontier Ruckus- June Is Our Mother’s Name
14. Gregory Alan Isakov- Light Year
15. Yellow Ostrich- The Mistress
16. Yellow Ostrich- Morgan Freeman’s Selected Discography
17. Anathallo- To Gary and Marcus: The Sovereignty of God is Omnipresent
18. Joe Pug- Unsophisticated Heart
19. Ben Kweller- My Apartment
20. Ryan Adams- A-Punk (Vampire Weekend)
21. Deer Tick- Miss K
22. Ben Folds Evaporated

>…if your heart is unemployed
do not rush but do not stall
I’ll be waiting

(Source: kickingtv)

Posted on September 28 2011

Kevin Drew (Built To Spill)- Cocaine Skin
The National- England
Megafaun- Carolina Days
The Wrens- Nightswimming (REM)
Iron & Wine- Boy With A Coin
Whiskeytown- Easy Hearts (Forever Valentine Demo)
Ratatat- Wildcat
Oasis- Champagne Supernova (Live)
Frightened Rabbit- I Feel Better
RJD2- Smoke and Mirrors
Weezer- The Weight (The Band)
The Moldy Peaches- Steak for Chicken
Gillian Welch- Dark Turn of Mind
Ryan Adams- (Argument With David Rawlings Concerning Morrissey)
The National- Ashamed of The Story I Told (Mulcahy)
Bonnie “Prince” Billy- All The Trees of the Field Will Clap Their Hands (Sufjan)
Coldplay- Amsterdam (Live)
Evening Hymns- Lanterns
Ryan Adams- Halloween
Counting Crows- August And Everything After (Live 12/12/03)

Highlights:
-Michael on Mike 2
- various PSA’s, mostly from our friends at the Internal Revenue Service circa 2009
- Who am I gonna stick my dick in?

(Source: kickingtv)

Posted on September 28 2011 with 1 note

Welcome to Kicking Television, assaulting your ears with indie goodness and making you remember how little you miss your TV since 2010.

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