Listen to music inside the blog.

When you see a little blue arrow inside a box in this blog (like this: ), clicking it will cause the mp3 link next to it to start playing, without you having to do anything else.

It's a tiny JavaScript applet called PlayTagger, and it's damn useful. I'll be posting more mp3s because of this.

"I rescued you from robots and untied you from the tracks and you pretended not to know that it was me. (We didn't even kiss, until issue #26.)"

Thank you Warren Ellis, for "Four Color Love Story" by The Metasciences. It's a sweet little anti-folk love song (anti-folk is musicians like the Moldy Peaches and Kimya Dawon, Jeffrey Lewis, Regina Spektor, Hammel on Trial, and Beck and Ani Difranco too, according to Wiki), about living in a comic book. An acoustic guitar and a boy and a girl singing clever lyrics. Some of the vocal melodies sound like The Mountain Goats, and most of the guitar is G and E minor strummed in the exact same was at the intro to "Fire Water Burn" by The Bloodhound Gang, but it's still really nice and goofy, well-constructed, silly and very sweet at the same time.

Their whole album is available as free mp3s on their MySpace page, which is linked above, I'm skimming through it now.

Listen to the song. I forecast an 85% chance that you'll like it.

The Thanksgiving Deathtrap

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

• Jack's Mannequin "I'm Ready"
  
• The Honorary Title "Frame By Frame"
  
• The Format "The First Single (Cause A Scene)"
  
• Jimmy Eat World "Spangle"
  
• The Impossibles "Eight Ball"
  
• Deltron 3030 "3030"
  
• The Go! Team "Junior Kickstart (UK Version)" (by request! How cool is that!)
  
• Madlib "Young Warrior"
  
• Guster "Ramona (live)"
  
• The Capsules "I'll Be The One"
  
• Trouser Trouser "Sunday"
  
• Death Cab For Cutie "Brothers on a Hotel Bed"
  
• Pedro the Lion "I Am Always The One Who Calls"
  
• Pinback "Non-Photo Blue"
  
• Nada Surf "Popular"
  
• They Might Be Giants "For Science"
  
• Pain "Umbrella"
  
• The Zambonis "Bob Marley and the Hartford Whalers"
  
• Da Vinci's Notebook "Title of the Song (live in a radio station)" (for The DJ With No Name))
  
• Great Big Sea "End of the World" (a friend called to say she's graduating and she wanted to hear a celebratory song. So I played an REM cover by a Canadian Celtic/rock fusion band. Be careful what you wish for on the Deathtrap)
  
• Jumbo Shrimp "Buddy Holly" (Weezer, done as a surf instrumental)
  
• Dntel "The Dream of Evan and Chan (Safety Scissors Spilled My Drink Mix)" (for Quinton in Sweden Denmark. I'm dumb.)
  
• Royksopp "What Else Is There?"
  
• M. Ward "Story of An Artist"
  
• Soul Coughing "True Dreams of Wichita"
  
• The Weakerthans "Diagnosis"
  
• Jon Brion "The Strings That Tie To You"
  
• The Microphones "The Moon"
  
• Ozma "Restart"
  
• Lincoln "Blow"
  
• The Pietasters "Nothing Good To Eat"
  
• The Broadways "Restless"

The Deathtrap, November 17

This ended up being a really fun, satisfying show.

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

• Atom and His Package "I Am Downright Amazed At What I Can Destroy With Just A Hammer"
  
• Totally Michael "The Animal Song"
  
• Experor X "Exterminata Beat"
  
• Figurine "IMpossible"
  
• The Animators "Girl #3"
  
• Slow Reader "Every Part of Nothing"
  
• The Blow "Come on Pauline"
  
• Badly Drawn Boy "The Shining"
  
• Big Bad Voodoo Daddy "I Wanna Be Like You"
  
• Henry's Child "Trust In Me" (two JungleBook songs in a row!)
  
• Massive Attack "Teardrop"
  
• Caviar "The Last Of The Gold"
  
• The Weakerthans "Past Due" (older version, not the album version)
  
• Rilo Kiley "A Man/Me/Then Jim"
  
• Say Anything "Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too!"
  
• The Honorary Title "Frame By Frame"
  
• Modest Mouse "Gravity Rides Everything"
  
• Pain "Full Speed Ahead (Battleship Version)"
  
• Tom Waits "Everything Goes To Hell"
  
• The Microphones "Weird Storm"
  
• Funki Porcini "Purrfect"
  
• Ben Harper "Wicked Man" (not the album version)
  
• Matt Skiba "Next To You"
  
• April March "Garcon Glacon"
  
• Emilie Simon "Secret"
  
• Milady "Habitos Pasados"
  
• djpretzel "Actraiser (Lord PROTEKTOR Remix)"
  
• MC Apostle "All I Ever Wanted"
  
• Basement Jaxx "Romeo"
  
• Kil Howlie Day "The End"

The Deathtrap, November 10th: "The Me You Used to Kiss Thrashes Like a Cat in a Sack, Somewhere in the Back of My Head"

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

• Da Vinci's Notebook "Title of the Song"
  
• Alkaline Trio "Stupid Kid"
  
• Mike Doughty from Soul Coughing "Where Have You Gone?"
  
• Get Well Soon "Everything I Hate"
  
• Iridescent "It's Obvious"
  
• The Postal Service "Be Still My Heart"
  
• Guster "So Long"
  
• Jack's Mannequin "Into the Airwaves"
  
• djpretzel "Actraiser (LORD PROTEKTOR Remix)" (one of the most badass SNES remixes in the history of the world)
  
• Mirah "Words Cannot Describe"
  
• The Noisettes "Monte Christo"
  
• The Dresden Dolls "The Jeep Song"
  
• Sekou tha Misfit "A Love Poem I Call Hate"
  
• Jonny 5 "101101010010100"
  
• The Animators "Better Not Say"
  
• Say Anything "I Want To Know Your Plans"
  
• The Most Serene Republic "Content Was Always My Favorite Colour"
  
• The Blow "How Naked Are We Gonna Get?"
  
• Regina Spektor "A Cannon (demo)"
  
• Jamie Cullum "Blame it on my Youth" (request)
  
• Tom Waits and Bette Midler "I Never Talk to Strangers"
  
• The Microphones "Great Ghosts"
  
• Pedro the Lion "Big Trucks"
  
• The Honorary Title "Cats in Heat"
  
• Lindsey Pool "Angel Pumping Gas"
  
• Brand New "70 Times 7"
  
• Pain "Antidote"
  
• MC Chris "Fette's Vette (Baddd Spellah Remix)"

My map.

I just started a map of my listeners. If you listen to my show on a vaguely-regular basis, please go add yourself to it. You enter your name, zip-code or city, a comment, and (preferably) a picture, and it adds a marker for you on the map of the world.

I just started it, and there aren't any markers on it yet. It's as if I have no listeners. You'll assist me in dispelling that illusion, won't you?

In other news, the drummer for Shonen Knife died in a car accident.

In less important news: This week's show is entitled "The me you used to kiss thrashes like a cat in a sack, somewhere in the back of my head." It's a line from English writer Warren Ellis.

The Deathtrap, November 3rd

I used a new method of playlist-programming this week: I shuffled my iPod and skipped through it, to see what interesting songs it might provide. Much of thuse week's show resulted.

Songs in bold are Deathtrap debuts, albums I've never played before.

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

• Say Anything "Admit It!"
  
• The Most Serene Republic "(Oh)God"
  
• Cake "Let Me Go (Live)"
  
• Self "Dead Man" (recorded entirely on toy instruments)
  
• Ugly Duckling "A Little Samba"
  
• The Dresden Dolls "Good Day"
  
• Rasputina "Wish You Were Here"
  
• string tribute to Bjork "Bachelorette"
  
• The Noisettes "Don't Give Up"
  
• Asylum Street Spankers "Whatever"
  
• The Format "Tie The Rope"
  
• The Weakerthans "Uncorrected Proofs"
  
• Les Ogres De Barback "Le Café Du Canal"
  
• Mount Eerie "The Intimacy of the World With The World"
  
• Korea Girl "Reunion"
  
• Jack's Mannequin "I'm Ready"
  
• Devotcha "Such A Lovely Thing"
  
• Balkan Beat Box "La Bush Resistance"
  (A set of songs from Melbourne; 1 from a fairly normal artist, three from frickin' weird artists)
  
• New Buffalo "Inside" (pretty normal)
  
• Architecture in Helsinki "Where You've Been Hiding" (weird)
  
• The Avalanches "Different Feeling, A" (weirder)
  
• Curse ov Dialect "Upside Down Frowns" (weirdest)
  
• Halloween, Alaska "You and Me Both"
  
• Mirah "You've Gone Away Enough"
  
• Matt Hopper "I've Got You Covered"
  
• Mike Doughty "Looks"
  
• The Magnetic Fields "I Think I Need A New Heart"
  
• Tipsy "Wig Out (Seksu Roba)"
  
• Kitty In The Tree "C'mon"
  
• The Impossibles "Oxygen"
  
• Cold Cut "More Beats & Pieces Pt. II"

Tuesday is a really good night to listen to KSUA.

The Show With No Name from 8 to 10 has a lot of strange variety, some of it very close to my heart; this week he played Say Hi To Your Mom, Rilo Kiley, Shonen Knife, Prefuse 73, Regina Spektor, and The Postal Service.

K-Dawg's got good, weird variety that I absolutely can't identify from 10 to midnight. And after that, it's DJ Random English Girl's show till 2 a.m. (Technically her name is DJ Louise. But I think of her as DJ Random English Girl.) Last night she played some good music that may have never made it out of England -- but that should've. She's why I'll be playing the Noisettes in the morning.