The Indie Hipster Kryptonite DEATHTRAP!!

Deathtrap on hold till May

2006-03-22T22:56:00.000-09:00

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

2006-03-22T20:29:00.000-09:00

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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.

The Deathtrap February 23

2006-02-23T14:03:00.000-09:00

Caviar "Clean Getaway"
Prozzak "Starting Over"
Conehead Buddha "My Way"
Fantastic Plastic Machine "Mr. Fantasy's Love"
Amon Tobin "Verbal"
Asylum Street Spankers "Digga Digga Do"
Reel Big Fish "Brand New Song"
Bullfrog "Reverse Psychology"
Guster "Backyard"
Mark Gardener "Flaws of Perception"
The Strokes and Regina Spektor "Modern Girls and Old Fashioned Men"
Jeffrey Lewis "Three Quarter Moon"
The Metasciences "Four Color Love Story"
M. Ward "Vincent O'Brien"
Death Cab For Cutie "This Temporary Life"
The Weakerthans "Exiles Among You"
Lemon Demon "I've Got Some Falling To Do"
Cake "Meanwhile, Rick James"
Sufjan Stevens "How Can The Stone Remain?"
Say Hi To Your Mom "Pop Music of the Future"
Cloud Cult "Transistor Radio"
The Microphones "Between Your Ear And Your Other Ear"
Catch 22 "Alone In A Crowd"
The Mr. T Experience "More Than Toast"
Pain "Full Speed Ahead (Battleship Version)"
Brand New "Jaws Theme Spinning"
Pain "Jabberjaw" (because my laptop ran out of batteries)
The Pixies "Where Is My Mind"

Short show today, due to rampant technical difficulties. No podcast either.

Death Comes on February 16

2006-02-16T14:03:00.000-09:00

This was a fun show. And inevitably, the computer didn't record it, so I can't podcast it.

Ah well. Next week.

Gym Class Heroes "Make Out Club"
Kitty In The Tree "C'mon"
Josie and the Pussycats "Come On"
Boom Bip "The Unthinkable (Venetian Snares Remix)"
Daisy Spot "Cats and Doggies"
Asylum Street Spankers "Paul Revere" (yes, a swing Beastie Boys cover)
Blackalicious and Jurassic 5 "4,000 Miles"
Prozzak "Tricky"
The Go! Team "Friendship Update"
Jack's Mannequin "La La Lie"
Ben Gibbard "Farmer Chords"
Pseudosix "Run Rebel"
Rebecca Pearsey "Hook, Line and Sinker"
Ellen Cherry "1933: To California"
The Magnetic Fields "No One Will Ever Love You"
General Electriks "Terms and Conditions Apply"
Yacht "I Love A Computer"
The Foibles "I Will Carry The Icepick"
Jeffrey Lewis "New Old Friends"
Marisa Anderson "Top Shelf"
Willis Fireball and Caressa "Naked Miles"
The Stereo "There Goes My Mouth Again"
Castroglide "Bionic Commando Theme Remix"
jimmy eat world "Spangle"
Mos Def, Diverse and Prefuse 73 "Wylin' Out (RJD2 Remix)"
Secret Mommy "Dojo"
Saint Ettiene "Hug My Soul"
Erlend Oye "The Talk"
Totally Michael "The Balloon Song"
Irving "I Can't Fall In Love"
Jason Forrest "Spectacle to Refute All Judgment"
The New Amsterdams "Are You True"
Brand New "I Will Play My Game Beneath The Spin Light"
Atom and His Package "Seed Song"

... Is it Thursday already?

2006-02-09T16:29:00.000-09:00

Hmm. Completely forgot about my show today. Whups.

Sorry folks. I'll make it up to you somehow.

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2006-02-06T16:31:00.000-09:00

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Killing You With Music On February 2

2006-02-02T14:04:00.000-09:00

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Like the show? Subscribe to the weekly podcast and add yourself to our map.The Blue Man Group "Time To Start" Harvey Danger "Diminishing Returns" Alkaline Trio "Queen of Pain" The Animators "Better Not Say" Brand New "The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot" Jeffrey Lewis "Moving" Kil Haole Day "For Having Said Goodbye" Her Space Holiday "Forever and a Day" Catch 22 "Bloomfield Ave." The Pietasters "Take Some Time" The Blues Brothers "Rubber Biscuit" The Go! Team "Power Is On" Cake "When You Sleep" Jack's Mannequin "MFEO Pt 1: Made For Each Other Pt. 2: You Can Breathe" Atom and His Package "Does Anyone In this Room Want To Marry His Or Her Grandma?" Andy Prieboy "Psycho Ex" Emperor X "Citizens of Wichita" Of Montreal "Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games" Prozzak "Clothes We Wear" Licoln "Blow" Showoff "Someone" Guster "Ramona" June Madrona "Arcata" Kind of Like Spitting "You Got Served" The Foibles "The Smallest Thing" Regina Spektor "Aching to Pupate" Mirah and the Black Cat Orchestra "What Keeps Mankind Alive" Cary Judd "Perfect Tonight" Bran Van 3000 "Break Through" Burnside Project "Only Ordinary" Cloud Cult "What Comes At The End" The Blow "How Naked Are We Going To Get" Blue Skies For Black Hearts "I've Been Crying" Alix Olson "Built Like That"

We be podcasting.

2006-01-31T14:33:00.000-09:00

The Deathtrap is now available as a podcast.

Your very special mp3 of the week.

2006-01-29T19:17:00.000-09:00

Andy Prieboy "Psycho Ex"The musician describes this kind of music as "Gilbert and Hooligan." Which is very fitting. Light opera, Bohemian Rhapsody-esque, about your drunken ex trying to kill you.

Quality.

The January 26 Deathtrap

2006-01-26T14:00:00.000-09:00

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Like the show? Subscribe to the weekly podcast and add yourself to our map.Kids These Days "Rest Tonight" Say Anything "Admit It" Jim's Big Ego "Cut Off Your Head Jeffrey & Jack Lewis "Don't Be Upset" Kind of Like Spitting "Aubergine" Matt Lewis Band "Killing Time" Palomino "Stop This Car" Ming + FS "New York" Blackalicious "Make You Feel That Way" The Foibles "Never Been In Love" (I appreciate The Foibles. They're fun.) Kil Howlie Day "My Proscenium Arch" Basement Jaxx "Romeo" Lemon Demon "The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny" Ben Folds Five "She Don't Use Jelly" (Flaming Lips cover) Harvey Danger "Wine, Women and Song" (a set of songs about my recent trip) June Madrona "Perseus" Yes, Please "Blood Relatives" Totally Michael "The Balloon Song" Mirah and Ginger Takahama "Pure" Mike Doughty "Fuckin' Yeah" Tarkio "Tristan and Isault" (Colin Meloy from The Decemberists' old band) The Blow "Hey Boy" (dedicated to The Blow, who didn't write me back) Miss Kittin "Meet Sue Be She" Telefon Tel Aviv "What It Was Will Never Again" Secret Mommy "Tennis Court" The Vandals "Join Us For Pong" Jill Sobule "Karen By Night" Bright Eyes "Loose Leaves" Cary Judd "Glow"

Listen to past shows as mp3s

2006-01-21T19:16:00.000-09:00

I've uploaded a couple of my radio shows that I'd saved as mp3s. The sound quality is quite low to try and keep the file size down, but they're still 55 meg files. I also only have a few of my past ones saved, but now that I have a helluva lot of web space, I'll make sure to save each show I do, and I'll post them each week.

Here's the ones that are online right now:

If you like them, let me know!

My show is now on Thursdays, from 2-4 p.m. Alaska time. For the time in other timezones, see the link in the right hand column.

Very special mp3 of the day.

2006-01-06T16:18:00.000-09:00

Lemon Demon's "The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny" details a battle between everyone who has ever been cool, ever. Plus Aaron Carter.

A very special song, with a very special music video. It shall be on my next radio show (which will be in two weeks).

This is the ultimate showdown, of ultimate destiny!
Good guys, bad guys and explosions as far as the eye can see,
And only one will survive, I wonder who it will be?
This is the ultimate showdown, of ultimate destiny!

The Deathtrap, January 4

2006-01-04T14:03:00.000-09:00

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Go to this show's iMix on the iTunes Music Store to sample or buy these songs.The Coloring Season "Julie" Say Anything "Red Cat (Slash) Yellow Cat" I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business "The Best Happiness Money Can Buy" The Impossibles "The Week of August First (Live)" The Honorary Title "Snow Day" Jason Forrest "My 36 Favorite Punk Songs" Gym Class Heroes "Cab Driver" Soul Position "Candy Land Part 1" The French "Wu-Tang Clan" Ozma "Game Over" Ratatat "Lapland" Prozzak "Sweeping Romance" The Postal Service "Brand New Colony" The Zambonis "Great Zamboni of Devotion" (for Kelly. Who said to make up some story for the dedication) Crosstops "Places to Go, People to Do" Wally Pleasant "Two For One Coupon" The Weakerthans "My Favourite Chords" Geggy Tah "Don't Close the Door" Hepcat "No Worries" Big Rude Jake "Queer for Cat" Rilo Kiley "After Hours" (a song I discovered on my iPod. I have no idea where it's from) Ben Gibbard from Death Cab "Farmer Chords" Jim's Big Ego "Cut Off Your Head" Soul Coughing "Janine" Cloud Cult "Fairy Tale" Pain "Futz Said Julie" Regina Spektor "Aching to Pupate" Eleni Mandell "He Thinks He's In Love" Thunder Thighs "NextWave Theme" (it's rare for a song to have The Explodo. So here are two songs that do) Juno Reactor "Pistelero" (if you don't like this song, you're not cool) The Avalanches "Undersea Community" De La Soul "The Grind Date" The Dresden Dolls "Thirty Whacks"

The Deathtrap, December 28

2005-12-28T13:51:00.000-09:00

Tracks 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.

Jason Forrest "War Photographer"
Hellogoodbye "Shimmy Shimmy Quarterturn" (my guilty pleasure of the week)
Prozzak "Clothes We Wear" (my favorite track off their new album)
Jim's Big Ego "Cut Off Your Head"
Guster "Come Downstairs and Say Hello"
The Stereo "There Goes My Mouth Again"
Fastbacks "One More Hour"
Man or Astro-Man? "Manta Ray" (Pixies cover)
Red Elvises "200 lbs. of Pure Love"
Mike Doughty "Needle To The Bar"
Souls of Mischief "'93 to Infinity"
Bullfrog "Reverse Psychology"
Plastilina Mosh "I've Got That Milton Pacheco Kind Of Feeling"
The Album Leaf "Brennivin"
Jeffrey Lewis "The East River"
The Decemberists "The Gymnast, High Above the Ground"
The Honorary Title "Petals"
Architecture in Helsinki "Like A Call"
Tilly and the Wall "Shake It Out"
Secret Mommy "Dance Studio"
Gym Class Heroes "Taxi Driver" (a hip-hop song using the names of numerous indie bands)
Matthew Herbert "Brother Where Are You"
Kind of Like Spitting "The Rest Is Up To You"
Lincoln "Unhappy"
ZOX "I Am Only Waiting"
Caviar "Clean Getaway"
The Roman Candles "Summerfling"
The Magnetic Fields "No One Will Ever Love You"
Pain "Excalibur"
Limp "Exit"
Animal Chin "Seven"

Merry Christmas! Here, have a present!

2005-12-25T19:15:00.000-09:00

"Fucking Up My Christmas" by MC Chris.

This is not a present I can play on the radio.

This is in honor of running out of heating oil on Christmas Eve, at -10 F, while my landlord is out of town and can't help me restart my furnace.

A WONDERUL music video.

2005-12-13T18:25:00.000-09:00

Warren Ellis directed me to the video for Jason Forrest's "War Photographer" . I like Forrest , so I checked it out.

It's about vikings who attack each other with laser beams of pure rock, and form together into giant robots. One of the robots looks like Voltron with a big beard and mustache. All set to a really catchy song.

It's AWESOME. HOLY CRAP.

And now it's time for you to watch it. It takes a long time to load, but it's very, very worth it.

The Deathtrap, December 1

2005-12-01T10:59:00.000-09:00

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

Soul Coughing "Screenwriter's Blues"
M. Doughty "By The Light Of The Silvery Silvery"
Death Cab For Cutie "The Sound of Settling"
Tilly and the Wall "Bessa"
Pain "The Comeback"
The Weakerthans "Watermark"
Kids These Days "Aging Friends (Snowcapped)"
Prefuse 73 "Desks, Pencils, Bottles"
Her Space Holiday "The Young Machines"
The Paperbacks "I Suffer This Like A Dream"
Say Anything "Chia-Like, I Shall Grow"
Basement Jaxx "Red Alert"
Blackalicious "Blazing Arrow"
Ozma "Korobeiniki" (aka the Tetris theme)
The Impossibles "Connecticut (live)"
Ratatat "17 Years"
Fountains of Wayne "Leave the Biker"
The Metasciences "Four-Color Love Story"
Modest Mouse "The World At Large"
Modulator "Don't Hold Out On Me"
No Use For A Name (w/Cinder Block) "Fairytale of New York"
Showoff "Falling Star"
Skycycle "Last Girl On Earth"
Mono Puff "It's Fun To Steal"
Space "Neighborhood"
Citizen King "Gangsters"
Everclear "Walk Don't Run"
Mr. T Experience "Up and Down" (a Sesame Street cover)
Alkaline Trio "Hell Yes"
Massive Attack "I Am Home" (off the Unleashed soundtrack)
Man or Astroman "Song of the Mile-Long Particle Accelerator, Stamford University, Stamford California"
Cake "Mahna Mahna"
The Dead Milkmen "The Woman Who Was Also A Mongoose"

Listen to music inside the blog.

2005-11-29T16:06:00.000-09:00

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.)"

2005-11-29T16:00:00.000-09:00

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

2005-11-24T11:02:00.000-09:00

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

2005-11-17T11:08:00.000-09:00

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"

2005-11-10T11:07:00.000-09:00

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.

2005-11-08T19:52:00.000-09:00

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

2005-11-03T11:03:00.000-09:00

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.

2005-11-02T18:40:00.000-09:00

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.

Music quote of the week

2005-10-31T16:02:00.000-09:00

"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

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

2005-10-27T11:13:00.000-08:00

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"

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

2005-10-20T21:49:00.000-08:00

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

2005-10-20T12:00:00.000-08:00

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.)

The Deathtrap, October 13th

2005-10-13T13:00:00.000-08:00

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"

The Deathtrap, October 6th

2005-10-06T13:00:00.001-08:00

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"

The Deathtrap, September 29

2005-09-29T13:00:00.000-08:00

Inspection 12 "Hear Anything?"
Say Anything "Admit It"
Ozma "Immigration Song"
Showoff "Falling Star"
The B-Sides "Self-Deprecation"
Blackalicious "Rhythm Sticks"
Souls of Mischief "'93 Til Infinity"
Jonny 5 + Yak "S.P.A.R."
Plastilina Mosh "Ode to Mauricio Garces"
Boom Bip "Mannequin Hand Trapdoor I Remember"
Cloud Cult "What Comes At The End"
Jim's Big Ego "Music of You"
Palomino "A Night In Mexico"
The Roman Candles "Rollerblader Queen"
Death Cab For Cutie "Soul Meets Body" (for Karen)
Burning Airlines "The Deluxe War Baby"
Zox "Anything But Fine"
Say Hi To Your Mom "Let's Talk About Spaceships"
Architecture in Helsinki "Maybe You Can Owe Me"
The Honorary Title "Frame By Frame"
The Format "Tie The Rope"
Soul Position "Candyland Pt. 1"
Decimo "Murder My Sweet" (also for Karen)
The Underground Orchestra "Raincatcher"
Totally Michael "The Animal Song"
The Aquabats 'Meltdown"
The Blow "Hey Boy"
Billy Bragg "Waiting for the Great Leap Forward"

The Deathtrap, September 22

2005-09-22T21:40:00.000-08:00

Skycycle "Last Girl On Earth"
Showoff "Ralphie"
The Stereo "Devotion"
Phantom Planet "Recently Distressed"
Don Knotts Overdrive "Snowball"
Say Anything "Woe"
Brand New "Okay I Believe You But My Tommy Gun Don't"
Cloud Cult "What Comes At The End"
From Monument to Masses "Sharpshooter"
Neutral Milk Hotel "Communist Daughter"
The Moldy Peaches "Nothing Came Out"
Jeffrey Lewis "East River"
Emperor X "Ainseley"
Red Elvises "Scorchie Chornie"
Self "While the Gangsters Sleep"
John Powell "John and Jane's Identity" (clapping song from Mr. & Mrs. Smith)
Paco de Lucia "Nina de Puetra Oscura" (clapping and tap-dancing song from Life Aquatic)
Tilly and the Wall "Bessa" (tap-dancing band)
Palomino "A Night In Mexico"
Jim's Big Ego "Mix Tape"
Junior Senior "Shake Your Coconuts" (by request)
Her Space Holiday "Forever and a Day" (the only song I really like off their new album)
The Robot Ate Me "Just One Girl" (from their new album)
The Most Serene Republic "Content Was Always My Favorite Color"
Jumbo Shrimp "Buddy Holly"
The Flaming Lips "SpongeBob and Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall Of Force"
Asylum Street Spankers "Antifreeze"
Death Cab For Cutie "Brothers on a Hotel Bed"
Broken Social Scene "Pacific Theme"
Billy Bragg "Waiting For The Great Leap Forward"

The Deathtrap, September 15

2005-09-15T21:41:00.000-08:00

Jim's Big Ego "The Ballad of Barry Allen"
Emperor X "Citizens of Wichita"
The Stereo "Unordinary" (oops. Meant something else)
Racer 10 "Never Change"
Moulan Rouge soundtrack "Sparkling Diamonds"
Prozzak "Pretty Girls"
Cake "Hem of Your Garment"
Santa Esmeralda "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"
~~Paco de Lucia "Nina de Puerta Oscura"~~ (the CD didn't work)
Of Montreal "Will You Come and Fetch Me" (arrg! Hit "Fade" instead of 'Auto-Segue! This is not my best show)
Tilly and the Wall "Fell Down The Stairs"
Petracovich "Footstops"
The Animators "How Do I Get Over You?"
The Most Serene Republic "(Oh)God"
Burning Airlines "The Deluxe War Baby"
Northern State "Ignite"
Bullfrog "Reverse Psychology"
Hideki Naganuma "Like It Like This Like That"
Totally Michael "The Animal Song"
The Weakerthans "A New Name For Everything" (for Blyss!)
Tim Easton "Torture Comes To Mind"
Liz Clark "Love and War"
Matt Hopper "Lost You"
Jeffrey Lewis "Seattle" (also for Blyss)
Palomino "Being Alone" (the theme song for my MySpace page. Because Palomino rocks)
Cloud Cult "Transistor Radio"
Cursive "The Rhyme Scheme"
Death Cab For Cutie "Broken Teeth" (with a shout out for Austin for getting his name in the liner notes)
The Push "Zelda (The Legend of Copyright Infringement)" (the Austin Sousa Adventure Theme!)
Kil Howlie Day "My Proscenium Arch"
Caviar "Last of the Gold"
Billy Bragg "Waiting For The Great Leap Forward"