Monday, October 31, 2005

Music quote of the week

"One day all these cookie-cutter New-Wave ripoff bands are going to combine Voltron-style into a giant Mecha Ian Curtis and destroy downtown London. NME will give their rampage a 9 out of 10." - Questionable Content

Thursday, October 27, 2005

The Deathtrap, October 27: "It Gets Really Loud In The Middle of a Riot"

Go to this show's iMix on the iTunes Music Store to sample or buy these songs.

I mentioned this blog on the air a couple times today, and in a MySpace bulletin that only lived for about 45 minutes.

And I got 60 unique hits. Damn. Somebody was interested...

Tracks in bold are Deathtrap debuts.
  • Say Anything "Admit It!"
  • RJD2 "Ghostwriter (Remix)"
  • Prefuse 73 "Drum Machine, Cello, Headwrap"
  • The Stereo "There Goes My Mouth Again"
  • Jack's Mannequin "Dark Blue"
  • Reel Big Fish "Nothing Like a Dame"
  • Space "Female of the Species"
  • Mono Puff "Extra Krispy"
  • Say Hi To Your Mom "Dimensions and Verticals"
  • Metric "Live It Out"
  • Cursive "Drifwood: A Fairy Tale"
  • Cake "Jolene"
  • General Electrics "Facing That Void"
  • Nice & Smooth "Sometimes I Rhyme Slow"
  • The Magnetic Fields "I Don't Believe You"
  • Hybrid "Never Gonna Come Back Down" (the sort of mix that kicks you in the face)
  • Broken Social Scene "Major Label Debut (Fast)"
  • Royksopp "What Else Is There?"
  • Fountains of Wayne "Maureen"
  • Jack's Mannequin "La La Lie"
  • Ozma "If I Only Had A Heart"
  • Cloud Cult "What Comes At The End"
  • From Monument to Masses "Deafening"
  • Prefuse 73 "Rain (Edit Interlude)"
  • Dar Williams "the Poignant, Yet Pointless, Crisis of a Co-Ed"
  • Jamie Cullum "Twentysomething"
  • The Scholars "Kindly Turn Around" (good old Fairbanks band)
  • The Bomboras "A Fistful of Terror"
  • Mount Eerie "2 Mountains"

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Doctor: "If I'm not mistaken, his brain has done a 360 inside of his skull."

Kickball Player: "So what!!! I lost my arm on the kickball field and I still played!"

Doctor: "Medically speaking, that's rad."
PENG is fun. It would be, considering it's a comic by Corey "The Rey" Lewis, the creator of Sharknife (starring a busboy who transforms into a ninja-robot when he eats magic fortune cookies, and has to fight the monsters that live in the walls of his restaurant and want to eat all the food), and it's about... kickball. Advanced Kickball. Which is, like, kickball with martial arts and special signature power-up moves and telepathy. Dude. Plus, both Sharknife and Scott Pilgrim have guest appearances.

It made me really happy. In fact, it made me glow. Especially when I reached the end, and found it specifically said "Go to page 1 to read again."

And especially this moment:

The Deathtrap, October 20th

Tracks in bold are Deathtrap debuts! (Which usually means: It's the new album! Yay!!)
  • The Weakerthans "Our Retired Explorer (Dines With Michael Foucault In Paris, 1961)"
  • Reel Big Fish "Irish Drinking Song"
  • Great Big Sea "Mari-Mac"
  • jimmy eat world "H Model"
  • Alkaline Trio "Stupid Kid"
  • Gravenhurst "The Ice Tree"
  • The Honorary Title "Cats In Heat"
  • The Pasties "This Dance"
  • The Bloodhound Gang "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo"
  • The Red Elvises "Harriet"
  • Kitty In The Tree "C'mon"
  • Fountains of Wayne "I'll Do The Driving" (featuring the line, "She has a soft spot, for cops who are robots." Which is why I played it.)
  • The Specials "Goodbye Girl"
  • Sarge "Beguiling"
  • Northern State "Ignite"
  • Soul Position "Candyland Pt. 1"
  • The Moldy Peaches "Nothing Came Out"
  • Ugly Duckling "Journey to Anywhere" (three songs in a row about '80s cartoons! Woot!)
  • Tom Waits "Everything Goes To Hell"
  • The Stills "Retour a Vega"
  • The Impossibles "Oh Angelina"
  • The Roman Candles "Angelina" (I had to!)
  • The Dead Milkmen "I Dream of Jesus"
  • Jim's Big Ego "She's Dead"
  • The Aquabats! "Chemical Bomb"
  • Brinton Jones (from Palomino) "Your Love = Math"
  • Petracovich "Footsteps"
  • Max Tundra "Lights"
  • "Definition of Uncool"
  • Royksopp "Only This Moment"
  • Metric "Empty"
  • Broken Social Scene "7/4 (Shoreline)"
  • The Real Tuesday Weld "Bruises" (a song whose lyrics are "The money you gave me, never saved me, or even changed me. But the bruises you gave me... they made me." That's all.)

Thursday, October 13, 2005

The Deathtrap, October 13th

  • Miss Kittin "Meet Sue Be She"
  • The Supaflies "Hot Rod '75"
  • Wise Crack "Come Undone"
  • Don Knotts Overdrive "Snowball"
  • Space "Female of the Species"
  • Geggy Tah "Whoever You Are"
  • Astrud Gilberto "The Gentle Rain (RJD2 Remix)"
  • Elliott Fisher "Dr. No's Fantasy (Mark Sinclair Remix)"
  • Juno Reactor "Pistelero" (if you don't like this song, you aren't cool)
  • Modest Mouse "Float On" (request)
  • Mike Doughty "(Girls Love Robots)"
  • The Flaming Lips "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1"
  • Mike Doughty "The Only Answer"
  • The Magnetic Fields "All My Little Words"
  • Her Space Holiday "My Girlfriend's Boyfriend"
  • Architecture in Helsinki "Maybe You Can Owe Me"
  • The Avalanches "Frontier Psychiatrist"
  • Bullfrog "Reverse Psychology"
  • Mos Def, Diverse and Prefuse 73 "Wylin' Out (RJD2 Remix)"
  • Reel Big Fish "Hungry Like The Wolf"
  • Jill Sobule "Karen By Night"
  • Passage "Duck'n'cover"
  • Ugly Duckling "A Little Samba"
  • The Zambonis "Bob Marley and the Hartford Whalers"
  • Fantasrtic Plastic Machine "Electric Lady Land"
  • Jim's Big Ego "The Ballad of Barry Allen"
  • The Weakerthans "Confessions of a Futon Revolutionist"

Thursday, October 06, 2005

The Deathtrap, October 6th

  • The Weakerthans "A New Name For Everything"
  • The Zambonis "Great Zamboni of Devotion"
  • Trailer Bride "Poor Little Crittur on the Road"
  • The Format "Tune Out"
  • Tim Easton "Torture Comes To Mind"
  • Rilo Kiley "We'll Never Sleep"
  • Alabama 3 "U Don't Dans To Tekno Anymore"
  • Erlend Oye "The Talk"
  • Sarah Vaughan "Whatever Lola Wants (Gotan Project Remix)"
  • In Grid "Tu Es Foutu"
  • Stereo Total "L'amour o 3"
  • The Impossibles "Disintegration (Is The Best Album Ever)"
  • Say Anything "Woe"
  • Ozma "If I Only Had A Heart"
  • Ratatat "Seventeen Years" (for Katie)
  • Los Rudiments "Wailing Paddle"
  • LittleHorse "Hear No Evil"
  • Enon "Disposable Parts"
  • The Broadways "Restless"
  • Regina Spektor "The Ghost of Corporate Future"
  • Firewater "Dark Days Indeed"
  • Tipsy "Reverse Cowgirl"
  • Red Elvises "200 lbs. of Pure Love"
  • Big Rude Jake "Queer For Cat"
  • Ricky Dean "Bikini"
  • Blackalicious "World of Vibrations"
  • Showoff "Tell Me"
  • Inspection 12 "Hear Anything?"
  • The Honorary Title "Bridge and Tunnel"
  • The Supaflies "Hot Rod '75"
  • The Animators "Late Night Show"
  • Palomino "Costa Rica"
  • Cursive "Some Red-Handed Sleight of Hand"
  • Jeffrey Lewis "The Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song"
  • Rasputina "Wish You Were Here"