Season 13 Episode 14: September 5th, 2016

SPECIAL BERLIN EPISODE!

They Might Be Giants (Brooklyn, NYC)
01 Road Movie to Berlin
Flood
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify)

Still Corners (London, UK)
02 Berlin Lovers
Strange Pleasures
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify)

Electrelane (Brighton, England, UK)
03 In Berlin
No Shouts, No Calls
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify)

Parquet Courts (Brooklyn, NYC)
04 Berlin Got Blurry
Human Performance
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify)

The Heavenly States (Austin, TX)
05 Berlin Wall
Oui Camera Oui
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify)

Stereo Total (Berlin, Germany)
06 Docteur Love
07 Zu Schön Für Dich
Les Hormones
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify)

Stanley Brinks and The Wave Pictures (Berlin, NYC)
08 Berlin
My Ass
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify)

Lou Reed (NYC)
09 Berlin
Lou Reed
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify)

Frank Black (Boston, MA)
10 Road Movie to Berlin
Hello Radio: The Songs of TMBG
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify)
cover of: They Might Be Giants

Also On This Episode

This episode features a clip from a ABC News Special Report with Peter Jennings from November 9th, 1989 where he announced the fall of Berlin Wall.

Season 13 Episode 13: August 29th, 2016

Tele Novella (Austin, TX)
01 Heavy Balloon
House of Souls
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify)
similar to: God Help the Girl

S U R V I V E (Austin, TX)
02 Stranger Things
03 Kids
Stranger Things Vol 1 Soundtrack
(iTunes, Amazon)

Computer Magic (Brooklyn, NYC)
04 Been Waiting
05 Gone for the Weekend
Obscure but Visible
(iTunes, Amazon)

Gasper Nali (Nkhata Bay, Malawi)
06 Abale Ndikuwuzeni
07 Aliyense Adzaonetsa
Abale Ndikuwuzeni
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, bandcamp)
video: Abale Ndikuwuzeni on YouTube

Gap Dream (Fullerton, CA)
08 Rock and Roll
09 College Music
This Is Gap Dream
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify)

Tall Juan (Rockaway, NYC)
10 It's True
11 I Don't Know What to Do
Why Not? EP
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, bandcamp)
similar to: Juan Wauters

Haiku Salut (UK)
12 You Dance a Particular Algorithm
13 Foreign Pollen
Etch and Etch Deep
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, bandcamp)

Sharon Van Etten (Brooklyn, NYC)
14 Do You Realize?
Gortimer Gibbons Soundtrack
(Amazon)
cover of: The Flaming Lips

Season 13 Episode 12: August 8th, 2016

Pond (Perth, Australia)
01 Waiting Around for Grace
Man It Feels Like Space Again
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify)
similar to: MGMT

Caveman (NYC)
02 Never Going Back
03 Lean on You
Otero War
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify)

Babes (Los Angeles, CA)
04 I've Got a Reason to Keep on Living
05 I Want Love
Untitled (Five Tears)
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify)

Michael Friedman (NYC)
06 Presidential Campaigns are Like Wildfires
The New Yorker Radio Hour from WNYC Studios Podcast
(iTunes)

Jonathan Rado (NYC/LA)
07 Hand in Mine
08 Would You Always Be at Home
Law and Order
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify)
similar to: Foxygen

Acapulco Lips (Seattle, WA)
09 Awkward Waltz
10 Hangover Blues
Acapulco Lips
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify)

The Julie Ruin (NYC)
11 Planet You
12 Hello Trust No One
Hit Reset
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify)
similar to: Le Tigre

Willie Hutch (Dallas/LA)
13 Brother's Gonna Work It Out
The Mack soundtrack
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify)
similar to: Curtis Mayfield

Also On This Episode

This episode features a clip from WNYC Studio's The New Yorker Radio Hour where they talk with Michael Friedman about his interviewing people across the country during the 2016 presidential campaign and turning their words into songs. I love it, particularly the song featured in this episode.

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Season 13 Episode 11: July 18th, 2016

SPECIAL ALL-BANDS-I'VE-NEVER-PLAYED-BEFORE EPISODE!

DIRTYGIRL (London, UK)
01 Transition
Junk Food EP
(bandcamp)
similar to: Childbirth

Eerie Wanda (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
02 I Am Over Here
03 New Harmony
Hum
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, bandcamp)
similar to: Amber Arcades

Flowers (London, UK)
04 Pull My Arm
05 Ego Loss
Everybody's Dying to Meet You
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify)

Failed Flowers (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
06 Beautiful Shadow
07 Leave Them All Behind
08 Supermarket Scene
Failed Flowers
(iTunes, Spotify, bandcamp)
maybe a little like: Galaxie 500

The Avalanches (Melbourne, Australia) feat. Biz Markie (NYC)
09 Frankie Sinatra
10 The Noisy Eater
Wildflower
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify)

Expert Alterations (Baltimore, Maryland)
11 Such a Stupid Fool
12 The Past and You
You Can't Always Be Liked
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, bandcamp)

Steady Holiday (Los Angeles, CA)
13 So Long
14 Your Version of Me
Under the Influence
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify)

Miss is Sleepy (Poznań, Poland)
15 Scream Sealions
En Route EP
(bandcamp)

Also On This Episode

This episode features a clip from Comedy Central’s Not Safe with Nikki Glaser, where she goes to a Trump Rally and talked to some of the idiots there.

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Season 13 Episode 10: June 27th, 2016

DJ Shadow (San Jose, CA)
01 Nobody Speak
The Mountain Will Fall
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify)
featuring: Run the Jewels' Killer Mike

Amber Arcades (Utrecht, Netherlands)
02 Come with Me
03 Fading Lines
Fading Lines
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify)
similar to: Eerie Wanda, Cate Le Bon

Whitney (Chicago, IL and Portland, OR)
04 Golden Days
05 The Falls
Light Upon the Lake
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify)
former members of: The Smith Westerns and Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Sonny and the Sunsets (San Francisco, CA)
06 Death Cream part 2 "Watch Out for the Cream"
07 Nightmares
08 My Little Death
Moods Baby Moods
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify)
similar to: Kelley Stoltz

The Snails (Baltimore, Maryland)
09 Big Boy
10 Snail Trail
Worth the Wait EP
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, bandcamp)
similar to: Future Islands

Monster Rally (Los Angeles, CA)
11 Lovely You
12 Dusty
13 Moon Magic
Return to Paradise
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify)

Air (Versailles, France)
14 Au Fond Du Rêve Doré
Twentyears
(iTunes, Amazon, Spotify)

Also On This Episode

This episode features a clip from NPR’s Planet Money podcast (Episode 707: Brexit) where they discuss what led up to and what the ramifications are for the UK’s vote to leave the European Union.