Playlists 02-2013

Show 2-09
Airdate: 02-01-2013
Theme/Guest: 7" Records with Mick

Mick from Northwest Notes guested on this Pledge-Drive show. We swapped 7"s and stories. I brought mostly northwest-themed 7"s, and Mick brought mostly stuff from outside the northwest. Songs labeled M are Mick's picks, songs labeled A are mine.

A: Pond - Young Splendor
M: Too Much Joy - Hey Merlin
A: Typhoon - Shallows
M: Nothing Painted Blue - Another Child Bride
A: The Spinanes - Rummy
M: Now, Now - Shifting
A: Sunny Day Real Estate - Song #8
M: Spitfire - Come On, Get On
A: Juno - Venus on Ninth
M: Starflyer 59 - Next Time Around
A: Dub Narcotic Sound System - Shake a Puddin'
M: Shove - JohnLyons8TrackMachine
A: Modest Mouse - A Life of Arctic Sounds
M: Noah Stone - Dress
A: Dharma Bums - Shake Some Action
M: Guided By Voices - Volcano Divers / Snowman
A: Thirty Ought Six - Talon
M: Limblifter - Cordova
A: [guilty pleasure]   Phil Collins - Against All Odds
M: Stanford Prison Experiment - My Teacher Dad
A: Unwound - Torch Song
M: The Hi-Fives - Rip It Up
A: A Weather - One More One Night Stand
M: Flake - Science Diet



Show 2-10
Airdate: 02-08-2013
Theme: Untitled


Boy Eats Drum Machine - Untitled
Icu - Untitled
Mates of State - Untitled
All-Time Quarterback - Untitled
The Cure - Untitled
Jimmy Eat World - Untitled
Appleseed Cast - Untitled 1/2 [demo]
Sunny Day Real Estate - Untitled [demo]
Elliott Smith - No Name #6
Verona - Untitled
Stereolab - Untitled
Cat Power - Untitled
Belly - Untitled and Unsung
Shipping News - Untitled w/Drums
Yume Bitsu - Untitled #7
Swords - Untitled (white out)
Secret Stars - Untitled #2
Proudentall - Untitled with Mike and Breeze
Crom-Tech - Untitled #7
Super Deluxe - Untitled
[guilty pleasure]   Counting Crows - Untitled Love Song
Travis Morrison - Untitled
Paper - Untitled
Sigur Ros - Untitled #4



Show 2-11
Airdate: 02-15-2013
Theme: Bullet Proof Cupid


Girls Against Boys - Bullet Proof Cupid
Crom-Tech - Untitled #1
Jesus Lizard - Blue Shot
Make Believe - "Boom" Sounds Like "Hiss" from Inside It
Bluetip - Precious
Helmet - Street Crab
The Hellacopters - Soulseller
Rye Coalition - One Daughter Hotter Than One Thousand Suns
The Sonics - Louie Louie
Soundgarden - Hunted Down
10 Minute Warning - Is This the Way?
Black Flag - Forever Time
Godheadsilo - Your'e Fighting Me Now
Dead Kennedys - Halloween
Rites of Spring - Remainder
Teen Angels - Teen Dream
C Average - Dark Harbour / Green Mountain Airways / Illgagaard Forever
Earth - High Command
Karp - How Si Si How
Nebula - Ignition
The Hellacopters - Twist Action
Zwan - Number of the Beast
[guilty pleasure]   Iron Maiden - The Prisoner
Zeke - Evil Woman
Nirvana - Anorexorcist
Destruction Island - Casually Finding a Torso on Sunday Morning
Rocket From the Crypt - Sturdy Wrists
Kinski - Rhode Island Freakout
Saint - Hell Blade


Show 2-12
Airdate: 02-22-2013
Theme: Sickness

Nirvana - Pennyroyal Tea
The Soundtracks - The Icy Hands of Death
Rodan - The Everyday World of Bodies
Owls - Holy Effing Ghost
The Cure - Pornography
Talking Heads - Drugs (Electricity) [live]
Smart Went Crazy - I Liked You Better When You Were Sick
Easterly - Get Well Card
Bettie Serveert - Healthy Sick
Weinland - Sick as a Gun
Suzanne Vega - Blood Makes Noise
Palace Brothers - I Tried to Stay Healthy for You
The Smiths - Still Ill
Symmetry/Symmetry - Drugs are Quick
Mary Timony - Dr. Cat
The Regrets - A Sick Man's Grief
Election Year - Down in the Jaw
Shipping News - Horrible Bed Versus Sickening Bridge
Yume Bitsu - Doctor Trips
Rainer Maria - Sickbed
[guilty pleasure]   Thompson Twins - Doctor Doctor
His Name Shall Breathe - Swallow No More Drugs
Typhoon - The Sickness Unto Death / The Honest Truth [NPR Tiny Desk Concert]
Low - Shots and Ladders

Playlists 01-2013

Show 2-05
Airdate: 1/4/2013
Theme: Best of 2012

Wolf Colonel - The Perspective That a New Year Brings
Codeine - New Year's
Low - July [live]
His Name Shall Breathe - In the Northwest


Top 5 OLD Finds 2012:

5. The Hardship Post - New Wave
4. The Church - Reptile
3. Carissa's Wierd - One Night Stand
2. Mary Timony - Muzik and Charming Melodee
1. The Merry-Go-Round - Gonna Fight the War


Top 5 records 2012:

5. Typhoon - Green
4. Mumford and Sons - Whispers in the Dark
3. Finn Riggins - Plural
2. Counting Crows - Hospital
1. Landing - Heart Finds the Beat

Hazel - Comet
Arlo - Runaround
Eric's Trip - Lost
The Bloody Muse - Giant
The Breeders vs. They Might Be Giants - Istanbul
Dead Can Dance - Chant of the Paladin
[guilty pleasure] Hole - Violet
Black Whales - Books on Tape
Sugar Hiccup - Awa
Maya Shore - The Plan
Sigur Ros - Olsen Olsen
The Promise Ring - Scenes From Parisian Life



Show 2-06
Airdate: 1/10/2012 
Theme: None

The Smiths - Shoplifters of the World, Unite

Radiohead - Stupid Car
Stereolab - Anemie
Beat Happening - Cat Walk
Shadows of Knight - Gloria
Weird War - Girls Like That
Steel Pulse - Worth His Weight in Gold (Rally Round)
Modest Mouse - I Came as a Rat
Mineral - If I Could
Dirty Three - Lullaby for Christie

Mirah / The Vibration / Emilyn Brodsky Split 7"
     Mirah - Out Riding
     The Vibration - Sweet Oil
     Emilyn Brodsky - A Million Different Yous
     Emilyn Brodsky - What's Left

Cap'n Jazz - Basil's Kite
Lois - Hey Antoinette!
Stanley Brothers - Angel Band
Mumford and Sons - The Cave
Julian Snow - Twisted Roadless Dawn
Baptist Generals - Unimaginative
Destruction Island - The End is Near!
Some By Sea - A Book and No Disasters
[guilty pleasure]   Madonna - Express Yourself
Handsome Furs - Damaged
Get Up Kids - One Year Later
Rainer Maria - Sooyoung
Low - Old Man Song
Loch Lomond - Blood Bank
Dntel - Last Songs [Vocal Version]
Dharma Bums - Far from Gone


Show 2-07
Airdate: 01/18/2012
Theme: none

DEVO - Girl U Want
Rocket From the Crypt - Don't Darlene
The Vaselines - Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam
Kelley Stoltz - Your Reverie
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit [Butch Vig Mix]
Cat Power - He War
Red House Painters - Make Like Paper
Bonnie Prince Billy - Three Questions
The Walkabouts - The Anvil Rise [live]
Wooden Indian Burial Ground - My Bones They Are Naked
P.W. Long - She's Gone
Scud Mountain Boys - Silo [version 1]
Norman - Seasons
The Cure - The Caterpillar
The Specials - Guns of Navarone
David Bowie - Yassassin
Talking Heads - The Listening Wind
Martyrs of Sound - Ong Namo
Five Style - Here We Go
The Fire Theft - Houses
[guilty pleasure]   Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
Mates of State - As Night as Now
Owls - I Want the Blindingly Cute to Confide in Me
Pixies - Monkey Gone to Heaven
R.E.M. - Camera
Mineral - Slower
Superchunk - Hyper Enough




Show 2-08
Airdate: 01/25/2012
Special Guest: Mitch Duafa

Typhoon - Common Sentiments
Black Happy - Home
Dan Jones and the Squids - Hot Pink UFO
Alkaline Trio - Nose Over Tail
Pavement - Conduit for Sale!
Afghan Whigs - What Jail Is Like
Wandering Lucy - Home, Home, Home
My Bloody Valentine - Soft as Snow (But Warm Inside)
Broken Hearts Are Blue - Because I Am
Man or Astro-Man? - DNI
Eraserheads - Bokchi Hokbu
Stone Roses - Elizabeth My Dear
Fela Kuti - Zombie
Sunny Day Real Estate - Rodeo Jones
Christie Front Drive - 4010
Rites of Spring - Hain's Point


Mitch Duafa Chandelier Session:
     Deep South Salem
     Ain't That a Funny Thing
     Soothsayer
     Father-Son


[guilty pleasure]   Cyndi Lauper - When You Were Mine
Cap'n Jazz - Oh Messy Life!
Camber - Hollowed-Out
Appleseed Cast - The Last Ring
Mineral - Take the Picture Now

Top 5 Records 2012

Okay, here it is... my favorite 5 of 2012:

1. Landing (self-titled)
 

Landing (self-titled)

Released: 06/2012

Geographic North Records

I've been a friend of Landing's for a long time. I've been a fan of theirs just as long.  They've made a long career of beautiful, gauzy, droney shoegaze, and have made some pretty killer albums. After a 6-year hiatus to raise a beautiful daughter, Landing have triumphantly returned with their eighth or so album. This album finds them revisiting some of their influences (the cure, slowdive, seefeel) that have always been bubbling under the surface. Landing has managed to create an LP with atmosphere and beauty to match their perfect 2004 album, Sphere. The big surprise, here, is the rhythms-- there's a song called "Heart Finds the Beat," but it could be "Landing Finds the Beat", as they have added a surprisingly kicked-up tempo and danceable beat to their usually solemn sonic template.

I think you oughtta watch these two fun videos, and I dare you not to like the tunes:


Landing - Heart Finds the Beat from Geographic North on Vimeo.



Landing - Finally from Geographic North on Vimeo.


I don't know if this one knocks "Sphere" off as best Landing album, but it comes close. Buy the vinyl or digital download here (warning: I've had trouble viewing the site with I.E.)


2. Counting Crows - Underwater Sunshine

Counting Crows - Underwater Sunshine

Released: 4/12/2012

Collective Sounds

Whoosh! All the indie cred I've built up over the years just went flying out the window. I feel like I have to apologize as a punk rocker for putting this album number 2 on my 2012 list. I like Counting Crows. Always have. I keep looking for excuses to not like them (and there are plenty to choose from). They're a jam band. They're rock stars. They're old, ugly, and boring. Yet I can't quit their music. This album I really wanted to hate, because it's a covers album. Yet, they sound more excited and at home performing these songs than most of their last several albums. I almost didn't own this album because I went to the show (yes, I did), and they were selling it for $25 at the merch table (total sucky rock stars). ...but I found a good deal on Amazon, and here we are. This CD spent a good deal of 2012 in our CD player, and these songs seem like songs we've known forever.

The interesting thing about this album is that some of these songs are covers in name only-- they're written by members of the band (for their side projects), just not by Adam Duritz. Only in an ego-driven vehicle like this would these even be considered covers. These songs ("Hospital", "Untitled Love Song") are undisputedly the best on the album. The only missteps are attempting to cover britpop without a functioning falsetto "Coming Around", or a clunky cover of an old Faces song "Ooh La La". Otherwise, this works as well as any album of Counting Crows originals.

Well, I know I'm not going to change your mind about this album. Either you hate Counting Crows, and I don't blame you, or you like them, and how did you find this blog? Here's the album on amazon. Don't pay $25 for it.


3. Finn Riggins - Benchwarmers

Finn Riggins - Benchwarmers

Released 4/21/2012

Tender Loving Empire

Okay, that's more like it: A 5-song 10" EP from one of my favorite bands on my favorite record label. Finn Riggins are from Idaho, and make cerebral indie music that you can dance to. This EP has one or two dancy numbers (Benchwarmers, Parkour) and several moody pieces (Arrow, Plural). Just enough to leave you howling for more. Check this out (on vinyl or digital) and if you like it, check out their 2007 masterpiece "A Soldier, A Saint, an Ocean Explorer"



4. Mumford and Sons - Babel

Mumford and Sons - Babel

Released: 9/25/2012

Glassnote Records

As if the Counting Crows selection didn't destroy my indie cred... I've missed the hype on Mumford and Sons. I don't generally pay attention, so I've heard the name for the last few years batting around cyberspace, but never bothered a listen. Then, my wife comes home from driving in the car with the alternatrash radio station on, and asks about that song... "what song?" "I don't know. Kinda sounded like Typhoon." A little savvy research turned up that she was listening to Mumford and Sons. A quick perusal of youtube followed; this stuff was legit. So we picked up the album. It's good stuff. Tuneful, indie-ish. Cute british accents of boys exuberantly trying to play appalachian folk music.

Still, the album's pretty darn good. It's like an across-the-pond (and world famous) version of our own the Builders and the Butchers.


5. Typhoon - Common Sentiments

Typhoon - Common Sentiments b/w Green

Released: 10/30/2012

Tender Loving Empire

I'm not sure what I can say about this record. Typhoon has been playing these two songs in some form or another for a long time, so they don't seem new to me. Typhoon is, however, possibly the greatest band making music today, so they deserve inclusion on this list.

Here is a video:


You should buy this record. Once you've done that, here's a live performance that has both these songs that you can download for free.



Honorable Mention:

Rebecca Gates - The Float
Talkdemonic - Ruins
Afthan Whigs - See and Don't See / Lovecrimes (free)
Purple & Green - Music (free)
Joan of Arc presents Joan of Arc
Jared Mees and the Grown Children - Only Good Thoughts Can Stay
His Name Shall Breathe - We Must Not Find Him, for He Is Lost
The Hive Dwellers - Hewn from the Wilderness
Chain and the Gang - In Cool Blood

Top 5 OLD releases 2012

Well, here's a list of the best stuff I discovered this year that isn't new.

1. The Merry-Go-Round (self-titled)

The Merry Go Round (Self-titled)

Released: 1967

A&M Records

60s California Summer of Love music. These guys were fantastic songrwiters. I think they only had one album, but this album is right up there with the classic Beatles albums in terms of songcraft, arrangement, etc.

For most of my life, I've avoided music made before 1977 and punk rock. 2012 was the year that I started to stretch back a bit further, and this is the best of my discoveries. Thanks, Eric Lovre for sharing this record with me.

I don't know where you could pick this album up (other than getting really good at searching the used bins), but here is a youtube video of the band on strange 60s tv, and here is a good looking reissue on amazon.

2. Mary Timony - The Golden Dove

Mary Timony - The Golden Dove

Released: 5/21/2002

Matador Records

I picked this one up in the dollar bin at Ranch. Yay for cheap discoveries. Mary Timony was in the almost-famous Helium back in the alternacrazed 90s. She's also famous for her musical and personal former relationship with Polvo guitarist Ash Bowie, with whom she shares quite a bit of guitar and songwriting style.

This album blew me away with its pop tunefulness and Ms. Timony's lyrical metaphors. This album has been on heavy rotation in the possum house, and is one of the best dollar-bin finds ever. I'm not sure I can say more about it, so here are some links so you can listen yourself:

Here's a track on youtube.  Here's another.  Here's an inexplicable video with bad line dancing.

Matador records doesn't seem to have it in print anymore, so here's Amazon. (Used from $1.65!)

3. Carissa's Wierd - They'll Only Miss You When You Leave

Carissa's Wierd - They'll Only Miss You When You Leave: Songs 1996-2003

Released 7/13/2010

Hardly Art Records

I'm not sure how many times I almost saw Carissa's Wierd live and didn't. I seem to remember them opening for a few shows which I showed up late for, playing a few more that I missed, and I know I was going to see them at Bumbershoot and got talked into going to dinner instead. Anyway, this is my first actual time hearing them.

So apparently, these guys went on to form Band of Horses, who are the poster children for unoffensive, bland white indie rock. (They're not bad, they're just not unique). Carissa's Wierd [yes, sic] is softer, more orchestral, a bit stranger, and a bit more off-kilter. There's cello arrangements on almost every song, and most of the good ones are wistful, hushed, low-fi, demo-type songs that sound like they were recorded in somebody's apartment at 3 AM, hoping desperately not to wake the neighbors. Sounding like Death Cab at their most introspective and chamber-poppiest, these guys definitely set the template from which Some By Sea operated.

Here's the legit place to buy it from the label  and the CD's also on amazon but you should support the artists.

4. The Church - Starfish

The Church - Starfish

Released: 1988

EMI or some dumb major label

So everyone's heard "Under the Milky Way" by these aussie gents. I was surprised to learn it came from an album track-for-track as good, dark, and atmospheric as that song. This is classic 80s pop. What used to pass for "alternative" from the major labels in the late 80s. This album stands up to anything by U2, Depeche Mode, INXS from that era. If you're into that stuff (or have a weakness for it, like me), then pick this up cheap. Don't bother supporting major record labels. Amazon-- from $1.18 used or a penny if you like cassettes!

5. The Hardship Post - Somebody Spoke

The Hardship Post - Somebody Spoke

Released: 1995

Sub Pop Records

Forever ago, my sister-in-law picked up matching Hardship Post T-shirts for all the guys in my family in some bargain bin in Seattle. Sub Pop Surplus, no doubt. At the time, I had one compilation from Sub Pop with a Hardship Post song that I liked and always felt a little guilty wearing the shirt while only knowing (and liking) one song from the band. Much later, I picked up a dollar-bin 7" which was good, but this year (16 years later?), I finally got the album.

This album is good, rocking pop music. No frills, just fun songs. Here's a music video that looks like every other low-budget music video from 1995. Here's another song. And another. Here's the album for a reasonable price from Sub Pop. There's nothing flashy about this album that makes it better than other records, it's just a solid rocker...

...now if I could only find that T-shirt...

Honorable Mention

Other albums that almost made the cut:

The Bongos - Drums Along the Hudson (1982)

Dead Moon - In the Graveyard (1988)

Earth - Pentastar: In the Style of Demons (1996)

The Left Banke - Walk Away Renee (1967)

Low - Live at Eindhoven (2010) (how did I miss this free download?)

Patti Smith - Horses (1975) (okay, well this is my first time hearing the whole album straight through)

Roadside Monument - Eight Hours Away from Being a Man (1997)

Seven Storey Mountain - Based on a True Story (2000)

Special Mention

In the interest of full disclosure: My ABSOLUTE FAVORITE album of 2012, but TOTALLY DISQUALIFIED from the rankings:

Kalaloch (self-titled)

Released: 2/25/2012

Heather House Records

$15 Vinyl+CD or free download on Bandcamp

Yes, this is my band's album. From an objective standpoint, it's probably not the best album released this year, but to me it is. Jen and I set out to make an album that would make us happy, rather than please anyone else. I think we got it. It was a labor of love. It's weird listening to it, because it's ours, but it is my favorite. You should listen to it. It's free. Here.

Hello World / Methodology

Greetings.

This is the official blog of The Chandelier Swing, a weekly radio show on KMUZ (88.5 FM / streaming at kmuz.org / available on the TuneIn Radio app). The show has been going for about a year now. The theme of the show is Indie Rock from the 90s and Beyond, but I manage to be somewhat omnivorous in my music tastes, and what gets actually played on the radio.

I've been posting my playlists on Facebook, which isn't that great of a platform. Playlists are always also available at Spinitron.com, but I like having them in a more digestible format.

Anyway, having a radio show, I guess that makes me into an official Music Journalist. Being a Music Journalist (and all the pretension that entails), I guess I need an official place to vent my useless opinions on music and life in general. Hence, this blog.

The first order of business is the ubiquitous year-end best-of list. As an analytical intellectual, I feel the need to discuss methodology before launching into the list (s) so here goes:

-My best-of lists won't necessarily conform to the format of my radio show. In the strictest definition, there were absolutely no 90s indie rock records released in 2012.

-Most music writers limit "new music" to "stuff released in this calendar year" which kinda gives stuff released towards the end of the year the shaft. Given my limited resources and predilection for physical (non-internet) releases, it usually takes me a few months to hear new music. My "New Music" consists of anything released in calendar 2012 or 2011 that I first encountered in 2012.

-I'm still discovering older stuff, so I'm going to have a category of older music I discovered in 2012. This may just showcase my ignorance of things I missed the first time around.

-Reissues are stupid. Publications (ahem, pitchfork) that put reissues in their "best new music" categories are dumb. Sorry, that Miles Davis reissue, or the reissue of the complete works of that one mental patient that you so lovingly refer to as "outsider music"? Not new, and probably not even good.

-All releases are fair game-- EPs, albums, single tracks. In this internet age, I'm seeing a lot more onesy-twosy releases. That being said, I'm a fan of albums, and it will be difficult for me to express preference for one song over a group of 12 or so.


Also, just as a note, now that I'm looking over the candidate albums for best of 2012, the pickings are kindof slim. Part of that is because I'm a self-described fogey and I don't like a lot of new music out there. Part of that also comes from becoming a parent and having different priorities in my life. Truth be told, I haven't heard a ton of new music in the last year.

Playlists 12-2012

December marks the beginning of season 2 of The Chandelier Swing!

Show 2-1
Airdate: 12/7/2012
Theme: Calvin / 1st Anniversary
Man or Astro-Man? - Television Fission
Hive Dwellers - Ride With Me

The Paper 7":
     Lois - A Summer Long
     Mad Planets - Super 8
     Low - Lift
     The Receptionists - Chills

Dub Narcotic Sound System - Ridin' Shotgun [Remix]
Cap'n Jazz - Easy Driver
Wolf Colonel - Motorcycle Cop
The Comforters - The Coventry Carol
The Rondelles - Angels We've Heard on High

Crom-Tech: X-Mas
     Silent Plarm
     Here Comes Mobo-Clais
     Lit-l Floater Boy
     O-Climtwist Tree

Heavenly - C Is the Heavenly Option
Track Star - These Horses Carry Blood
Hive Dwellers - Pine-Shaped Box
Fugazi - Long Distance Runner
Jesus and Mary Chain - Degenerate
Beat Happening - Angel Gone
His Name Shall Breathe - Leave the Lights On [chandelier session]
Whiskey Priest - Souvenir [chandelier session]
Election Year - Old Man [chandelier session]
Pedro the Lion - Big Trucks
Halo Benders - Your Asterisk
They Might Be Giants - Boat of Car
[guilty pleasure]   Roxette - It Must Have Been Love (Christmas for the Broken-Hearted)
Ida - The Pain of Loving You
Amelia, Scott, Peter, and Calvin - Ambulance Driver Blues
Death Cab for Cutie - Why You'd Want to Live Here
3 Swimmers - The Worker Works to Live
Q and Not U - Wet Work
Finn Riggins - Big News
Hive Dwellers - Somebody's Phone Is Ringing



Show 2-2
Airdate: 12/14/2012
Theme: The Best of the Guilty Pleasure

Roxette - Dangerous
Genesis - Invisible Touch
Purple & Green - Invisible
Kesha - Tik Tok
Metallica - Battery
Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now
NSync - Bye Bye Bye
ABBA - S.O.S.
Erasure - A Little Respect
Dixie Chicks - Goodbye Earl
Stanley Brothers - Little Glass of Wine
Spice Girls - Say You'll Be There
Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
Men Without Hats - Moonbeam
Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories - Stay (I Missed You)
Phil Collins - Sussudio
Phil Collins - Burn Down the Mission
Parliament - Flash Light
The Aquabats - Super Rad
Roxette - Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)
[not the guilty pleasure]   Braid - The Chandelier Swing
Har Mar Superstar - D.U.I.
Guns 'n' Roses - Sweet Child o' Mine
Sponge - Plowed
Meco - The Empire Strikes Back (Medley: Darth Vader / The Force Theme)
Natalie Imbruglia - Torn [Fired Up Mix]
Nicki French - Total Eclipse of the Heart



Show 2-3
Airdate: 12/21/2012
Theme: The Lost Christmas Episode

Low - Little Drummer Boy
Typhoon - O Holy Night
Eskimo and Sons - Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!
Verona - Carol of the Bells
Some By Sea - The Saddest Christmas
Cap'n Jazz - Winter Wonderland

Seasons Greetings from Velocity Girl and Tsunami
     Velocity Girl - Merry Christmas I Love You
     Tsunami - Could Have Been Christmas
     Velocity Girl and Tsunami - Deck the Halls

Servotron: There Is No Santa Claus!
     Christmas Day of the Robot
     Servotron Sonic Evaluation of the Christmas Season
     Death of the Sugarplum Fairy

Crom-Tech - X-Mas
     Clomtad Is Here
     We Wish You X-Mas
     Jorpeel Bells
     Winter Wonderland

Symmetry/Symmetry - Deck Them Hallz
Ghosties - Good King Wenceslas
Royal - All I Want for Christmas Is You
Remy Zero - Christmas
The Firebird Band - Gift
Typhoon - Merry Xmas Anyways
Mineral - Rubber Legs
Joan of Arc - The Hands
Low - Long Way Around the Sea
[guilty pleasure]   Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton - Hard Candy Christmas
Jared Mees and the Grown Children - Joy to the World
Sufjan Stevens - Come On, Let's Boogie to the Elf Dance!
Symmetry/Symmetry - O Holy Night
Chris Cornell and Eleven - Ave Maria
Jimmy Eat World - 12.23.95
Jimmy Eat World - Christmas Card
R.E.M. - It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)



Show 2-4
Airdate: 12/28/2012
Theme: None

The Cure - Underneath the Stars
Some By Sea - (These) Actors and Actresses, They'll All Die Soon
Combustible Edison - Solid State
Ida - Encantada
David Bazan - Curse Your Branches

Audio Armada / Sunsets and Landscapes Split:
     Audio Armada - TakeNumberNine
     Sunsets and Landscapes - Conversion

The Walkabouts - Hangman
Built to Spill - Girl
Christie Front Drive - Bowl
The Incredible Force of Junior - Kid Champion
Six Finger Satellite - Last Transmission

I Am the World Trade Center / Phofo Split:
     Phofo - Ancient Chinese Secret
     I Am the World Trade Center - Loveless Sunday

Guided By Voices - Everywhere with Helicopter
David Bowie - Velvet Goldmine
Velvet Underground - The Black Angel's Death Song
Landing - Heavy Gloss
Motorpsycho - Sungravy
James - Sit Down
Mirah - Recommendation
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Punky Reggae Party
[guilty pleasure]   U2 - Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car
                          Bono and the Edge - In the Name of the Father
They Might Be Giants - Robot Parade
Octant - This and What
The Bats - Popgun
Jen Wood - Spoken For
The Mountain Goats - Pale Green Things