Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Deathtrap on hold till May

Right now, I don't have time to make my show as good as I feel it needs to be. So, the Deathtrap is officially closed for the moment. Hopefully I'll have time to pry its jaws open again for the summer.

(But this doesn't mean I won't be doing random, sneaky shows and posting them. So, stay tuned, and subscribe to the podcast to make sure you catch all the shows!)

Sneaky Special Deathtrap, March 22

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Special surprise ninja radio show! Woo PAH!
  • Margot and the Nuclear So-And-Sos "Skeleton Key"
  • Blitzen Trapper "Pink Padded Slippers"
  • Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. "Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager Pt 1"
  • Royksopp "What Else Is There? (live)" (didn't want to play)
  • Onyx "Steal Me Flowers"
  • Tim Fite "A Little Bit"
  • MC Lars "Generic Crunk Song"
  • Da Vinci's Notebook "Title of the Song"
  • Corky and the Juice Pigs "The Grunge Song"
  • Kids These Days "Aging Friends (Snowcapped)"(because I can't have a full show without screwing something up, we got a bit of Tim Fite again first)
About The Featured Artists:
An eight-piece indie band with a cello and keyboard from Indianapolis, I was disappointed by Margot and the Nuclear So-And-Sos album, but "Skeleton Key" is a great song (it's on their MySpace).

A buddy of mine got back from South By Southwest today and went, "There's a band you need to hear." In addition to having THE BEST NAME EVER, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. is a dude from England who sounds pretty good... or his two songs on MySpace do. Acoustic guitar over beats off his laptop, this song manages the tricky juggling act of being both sad and upbeat at the same time.

Onyx is a friend of mine in Olympia, She's in June Madrona now, and also plays harp, melodica and thrift store instruments and sings on her own. She's got some mp3s she recorded at K Records (well, technically, in the art studio she rents in K -- but doesn't that sound so much more impressive than saying "some mp3s she recorded on her iBook's microphone in her art studio in a warehouse?").

MC Lars was one of my big happy discoveries today. Great funny white boy hip hop vaguely similar to MC Chris and MC Paul Barman, with some good topics, good song construction, great lyrics. The sort of album where evey song fits in with songs I already play. I love that. For instance, the song on this show kicked off three songs presenting the formulas for crunk, boy band and grunge songs.