The Music Lovers Monthly Review

TML Yearly Review - Best of 2009 (Final Show)

2010-01-13T19:43:00.002-06:00

25. Wavves - So Bored
24. JJ - Things Will Never Be the Same Again
23. Crystal Stilts - Love Is a Wave
22. It Hugs Back - Unaware
21. Bonnie Prince Billy - I Don't Belong To Anyone
20. Charles Spearin - Anna
19. Volcano Choir - Still
18. The Low Anthem - Charlie Darwin
17. Yonlu - I Know What It's Like
16. God Help the Girl - God Help the Girl
15. Langhorne Slim - Say Yes
14. Beck - Sunday Morning
13. Bibio - Lover's Carvings
12. Girls - Summertime
11. Loney, Dear - I Was Only Going Out
10. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home
09. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Tenure Itch
08. Akron/Family - River
07. Bill Callahan - Too Many Birds
06. The Dirty Projectors - Two Doves
05. Great Lake Swimmers - Pulling On A Line
04. Cass McCombs - Harmonia
03. Junior Boys - Dull To Pause
02. Elvis Perkins In Dearland - Doomsday
01. Animal Collective - Taste

Extra: Vic Chesnutt (RIP) - Flirted With You All My Life

TML Top 10 Albums of 2009

2009-12-22T13:44:00.003-06:00

10. It Hugs Back - Inside Your Guitar

9. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains of Being Pure At Heart

8. Yonlu - A Society In Which No Tear Is Shed Is Inconceivably Mediocre

7. Cass McCombs - Catacombs

6. Akron/Family - Set `Em Wild, Set `Em Free

5. Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor

4. The Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

3. Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue

2. Elvis Perkins In Dearland - Elvis Perkins In Dearland

1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion

TML Monthly Review - Episode #37

2009-12-08T10:15:00.003-06:00

Pants Yell! - Cold Hands from Received Pronunciation

The Chairs - Charlotte Pipe from Nine Ways

deVries - Darkest Summer from Death to God

Anders Ponders - The Discus Incident from Nodes of Overtones

Laarks - All the Words You Can't Say Right from An Exaltation of Laarks

The Bloodsugars - Light At the End of the Tunnel from I Can't Go On, I'll Go On

Tahiti 80 - Good Boy from Activity Center

Globes On Remote - D.T. Lipps from The Woo Hoo Hoo

Cold Cave - The Tree Grew Emotions and Died from Love Comes Close

Big Spider's Back - Warped from Warped

On Fillmore - Master Moon. from Extended Vacation

Little Dragon - Feather from Machine Dreams

Animal Collective - What Would I Want? Sky from Fall Be Kind EP

Hooray for Earth - Surrounded By Your Friends from Momo

Tape Deck Mountain - Scantrons from Ghost

Half-Handed Cloud - Once, Twice, Seven Times a Werewolf from Cut Me Down & Count My Rings

Jim O' Rourke - The Visitor (selection) from The Visitor

Loch Lomond - Wax and Wire from Night Bats

Little Tybee - Building a Bomb from Building a Bomb

Syntaks - Twentytwohundred from Ylajali

We All Have Hooks for Hands - Made Up of Tiny Lights from The Shape of Energy

Molina & Johnson - Twenty Cycles to the Ground form Molina & Johnson

The Mountain Goats - Genesis 3:23 from The Life of the World to Come

Ryan Trevor - Blue Mornings from Introducing Ryan Trevor

Ox - Burnout from Burnout

Ola Podrida - Your Father's Basement form Belly of the Lion

Jim O' Rourke - The Visitor (selection) from The Visitor

TML Monthly Review - Episode #36

2009-11-17T18:09:00.002-06:00

The Flaming Lips - Convinced of the Hex from Embryonic

Dark Meat - When the Shelter Came from When the Shelter Came

Califone - Alice Marble Gray from All My Friends Are Funeral Singers

Built to Spill - Life's A Dream from There Is No Enemy

Fruit Bats - Teguicigalpa from The Ruminant Band

Ah Holly Fam'ly - All Unfolding from Reservoir

Neon Indian - Terminally Chill from Psychic Chasms

The Clientele - I Wonder Who We Are from Bonfires of the Heath

The Very Best - Mfumu from Warm Heart of Africa

Ariana Delawari - Be Gone Taliban from Lion of Panjshir

El Perro Del Mar - Heavenly Arms from Love Is Not Pop

Get Back Guinozzi - Police and Thieves from Get Back Guinozzi

Vitalic - Poison Lips from Flashmob

Sufjan Stevens - Moment IV—Traffic Shock from The BQE

Thom Yorke - Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses from Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses

White Rainbow - Tuesday Rollers and Strollers (Excerpt) from Excerpts

Espers - The Road of Golden Dust from III

Pelica - The Creeper from What We All Come to Need

Broadcast and the Focus Group - The Be Colony from Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age

Bear in Heaven - Lovesick Teenagers from Beast Rest Forth Mouth

Atlas Sound - Ruben (Traditional) from Rough Trade EP

Fanfario - I'm a Pilot from Resevoir

The Mountain Goats - Genesis 3:23 from The Life of the World to Come

Elvis Perkins in Dearland - Slow Doomsday from The Doomsday EP

Beck - One of Us Cannot Be Wrong from The Songs of Leonard Cohen

White Denim - Regina Holding Hands from Fits

Oops! Repeat of TML Monthly Review Playlist - Episode #12

2009-11-17T18:03:00.004-06:00

This show originally aired in November 2007.

The Octopus Project - Truck
Radiohead - Bodysnatchers
Sunset Rubdown - Winged-Wicked Things
Blackball False, Truth! - Knives Chau Luvs LCD
Band of Horses - No One's Gonna Love You
Vampire Weekend - Mansard Roof
Samamidon - Saro
Grizzly Bear - Alligator (Choir Version)
Silver Seas - Imaginary Girl
Dr. Dog - The Girl (Beck Remix)
Johnossi - Man Must Dance
Celebration - Heartbreak
Saturday Looks Good To Me - Make A Plan
The Owls - Peppermint Patty
White Shoes & The Couples Company - Sabda Alam
The Fiery Furnaces - Restorative Beer
Yeasayer - Sunrise
Doveman - ...& Sunrise (Medley)
Battles - Tonto (Four Tet Remix)
Koushik - Basketball Beat
Beat Konducta - Trouble
J Rocc - Super Sound
Phosphorescent - My Dove, My Lamb
Andrew Bird - A Breaks B
Jens Lekman - It Was A Strange Time In My Life
Radiohead - House of Cards
Vashti Bunyan - Winter Is Blue

TML Monthly Review - Episode #35

2009-10-15T10:33:00.003-06:00

The Ettes - No Home from Danger Is EP

Times New Viking - Move To California from Born Again Revisited

Girls - Summertime from Album

Big Star - I Got Kinda Lost (Demo) from Keep an Eye on the Sky (Box Set)

The Feelies - Fa Cé-La (Single Version) from Crazy Rhythms (reissue)

The Apples In Stereo - Tidal Wave (Radio Remix) from #1 Hits Explosion

The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You from I and Love and You

Langhorne Slim - I Love You, But Goodbye from Be Set Free

The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored from The Stone Roses (Remastered)

The Pastels - About You from Two Sunsets

Yo La Tengo - Avalon or Someone Very Similar from Popular Songs

Sea Wolf - Wicked Blood from White Water, White Bloom

A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Failure from Ashes Grammar

Islands - Heartbeat from Vapours

Volcano Choir - Still from Unmap

Le Loup - Sherpa from Family

Tyondai Braxton - Opening Bell from Central Market

Ben Neill - Afterimage from Night Science

Memory Tapes - Bicycle from Seek Magic

BLK JKS - Lakeside from After Robots

Taken By Trees - My Boys from East of Eden

Sian Alice Group - Through Air Over Water from Troubled, Shaken, Etc.

Monsters of Folk - Dear God (Sincerely M.O.F.) from Monsters of Folk

David Bazan - Hard To Be from Curse Your Branches

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - 103 from Higher Than The Stars EP

Vic Chesnutt - Society Sue from Skitter on Take-Off

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home from Up From Below

Karen O and the Kids - Building All Is Love from Where the Wild Things Are (Soundtrack)

TML Monthly Review - Episode #34

2009-09-08T19:36:00.002-06:00

Darlings - If This Is Love from Online Exclusive

Jay Reatard - It Ain't Gonna Save Me from Watch Me Fall

Farmer Dave Scher - Bab'lone Nights from Flash Forward to the Good Times

Brendan Benson - A Whole Lot Better from My Old, Familiar Friend

Beck - Black Angel's Death Song from Online Exclusive

fun. - Be Calm from Aim and Ignite

Young Galaxy - Long Live The Fallen World from Invisible Republic

The Antlers - Two from Hospice

Anna Ternheim - What Have I Done from Leaving On A Mayday

Black Mold - Tetra Pack Heads from Snow Blindness Is Crystal Antz

Tune Yards - Sunlight from Bird Brains

Sally Shapiro - Dying In Africa from My Guilty Pleasure

Teengirl Fantasy - Portofino from Portofino 7"

The XX - Infinity from XX

Bird and Flower - Hot Boots from Here We Cease Out Motion

ApSci - Under Control from Best Crisis Ever

Jack Penate - Tonight's Today from Tonight's Today

Medeski, Martin and Wood - Undone from Radiolarians III

Vandaveer - Turpentine from Divide & Conquer

The Wooden Sky - Something Hiding For Us in the Night from If I Don't Come Home You'll Know I'm Gone

The Cave Singers - Beach House from Welcome Joy

Mount Eerie - Stone's Ode from Wind's Poem

Balmorhea - Truth (Helios Remix) from All Is Wild, All Is Silent

Ramona Falls - Russia from Intuit

Samara Lubelski - Evolution Flow from Future Slip

Blitzen Trapper - Black River Killer from Black River Killer EP

Choir of Young Believers - Action/Reaction from Action/Reaction

The Postmarks - Go Jetsetter from Memoirs at the End of the World

Beck - European Son from Online Exclusive

TML Monthly Review - Episode #33

2009-08-11T00:08:00.002-06:00

Wavves - So Bored from Wavves

Jay Reatard - It Ain't Gonna Save Me from It Ain't Gonna Save Me (single)

Tom Brosseau - You Don't Know My Friends from Posthumous Success

Luke Top - Friends from Friends

Motel Motel - Coffee from New Denver

Beck - Run Run Run from Online Exclusive

Here We Go Magic - I Just Want To See You Underwater from Here We Go Magic

Reverie Sound Revue - Arrows from Reverie Sound Revue

Delorean - Seasun from Ayrton Senna

Uuvvwwz - Castle from Uuvvwwz

Oneida - Brownout in Lagos from Rated O

Quantic and His Combo Barbaro - The Dreaming Mind (Part 2) from Tradition In Transition

Kleerup - Thank You For Nothing from Kleerup

Washed Out - Feel It All Around from Online Exclusive

Brian Olive - There Is Love from Brian Olive

West Indian Girl - Beach from We Believe

Memory Cassette - Surfin (Sail A Whale version) from Calls & Responses

Jónsi & Alex - Atlas Song from Riceboy Sleeps

Atlas Sound - Walkabout (w/Noah Lennox) from Logos

Bowerbirds - Ghost Life from Upper Air

Son Volt - Down To The Wire from American Central Dust

Magnolia Electric Co. - Little Sad Eyes from Josephine

The Minus 5 - Scott Walker's Fault (w/Colin Meloy) from Killngsworth

The Fiery Furnaces - The End Is Near from I'm Going Away

Royal City - A Belly Was Made For Wine from Royal City

JJ - Things Will Never Be the Same Again from JJ N° 2

Beck - All Tomorrow's Parties from Online Exclusive

Cass McCombs - Harmonia from Catacombs

Blue Roses - I Am Leaving from Blue Roses

TML Monthly Review - Episode #32

2009-07-14T17:04:00.002-06:00

Eels - Prizefighter from Hombre Lobo

Sonic Youth - Walkin Blue from The Eternal

Sunset Rubdown - Silver Moons from Dragonslayer

Deastro - Parallelogram from Moondagger

Eugene McGuiness - Fonz from Eugene McGuiness

Dinosaur Jr. - Plans from Farm

The Horse's Ha - Asleep In A Waterfall from Of the Cathmawr Yards

The Low Anthem - Charlie Darwin from Oh My God, Charlie Darwin

The Lemonheads - Waiting Around To Die from Varshons

Gregory and the Hawk - Boats and Birds from Gregory and the Hawk Demos

Liechtenstein - Roses in the Park from Survival Strategies In A Modern World

The Bats - Castle Lights from The Guilty Office

Little Joy - No One's Better Sake (by request) from Little Joy

Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue from Ambivalence Avenue

Bibio - Great Are The Piths from Vignetting The Compost

Tortoise - Gigantes from Beacons of Ancestorship

Sally Shapiro - Miracle from Miracle

Magic Wands - Black Magic from Magic Love & Dreams EP

DAT Politics - Bad Dream Machine from Mad Kit

Hecuba - Miles Away from Paradise

Cassettes Won't Listen - Into the Hillside from Into the Hillside

Elizabeth and the Catapult - Taller Children from Taller Children

Astrid Williamson - Eve from Here Comes the Vikings

Angel Deradoorian - High Road from Mind Raft

God Help the Girl - God Help the Girl from God Help the Girl

Regina Spektor - Folding Char from Far

Beck - Sunday Morning from Online Exclusive

The Dirty Projectors - Two Doves from Bitte Orca

Wilco - You and I (feat. Feist) from Wilco (The Album)

Playlist for 6/16/09

2009-06-16T09:11:00.004-06:00

The Horrors - Who Can Sya

Black Moth Super Rainbow - Smile the Day After Today

The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Those Memories

Elvis Perkins In Dearland - Send My Fond Regards To Lonelyville

Magnolia Electric Co. - It's Made Me Cry

Yonlu - Humiliation

Patrick Watson - Big Bird in a Small Cage

Tom Verlaine - Meteor Beach

It Hugs Back - Remember

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - The Humming Song

Bill Callahan - Too Many Birds

The Dirty Projectors - Fluorescent Half Dome

Bonnie Prince Billy - You Are Lost

Phosphorescent - Heartaches of a Fool

Mojave 3 - Trying to Reach You

Iron & Wine - Die

Rufus Wainwright - Harvest

Brittle Stars - So Unfair

Deerhunter - Calvary Stars

Greg Ashley - Mona Rider

M. Ward - One Hundred Million Years

Shugo Tokumaru - Such a Color

Bodies Of Water - Only You

Kings of Convenience - Little Kids

The New Year - My Neighborhood

Great Lake Swimmers - Pulling on a Line

Alec Ounsworth - Underwater (You and Me)

Akron/Family - Set `Em Free, Pt. 1

Dean & Britta - Me & My Babies

Lake Trout - Street Fighting Man

Jeremy Enigk - Make Believe

Little Joy - The Next Time Around

Jim Noir - The Only Way

John Vanderslice - Hard Times

Polaris - The Monster's Loose

TML Montly Review - Episode #31

2009-06-09T11:17:00.004-06:00

Sir Richard Bishop - Kaddak el Mayass from The Freak of Araby

White Rabbits - Percussion Gun from It's Frightening

Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band - Cabbage Town from Outer South

Bricolage - Footsteps from Bricolage

Double Dagger - The Lie/The Truth from More

Jarvis Cocker - Hold Still from Further Complications

Mika Miko - Turkey Sandwich from We Be Xuxa

The Vaselines - Son of a Gun (live) from Enter the Vaselines

Viva Voce - Devotion from Rose City

Lindstrøm and Prins Thomas - For Ett Slikk Og Ingenting from II

NOMO - Banner on High from Invisible Cities

The Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is the Move (A Cappela Remix) from Stillness Is the Move EP

Black Moth Super Rainbow - Twin of Myself from Eating Us

City Center - Killer Whale from City Center

The Field - The More That I Do from Yesterday & Today

James Yuill - This Sweet Love from Turning Down Water for Air

Pink Mountaintops - Axis: Thrones of Love from Outside Love

Passion Pit - Sleepyhead from Manners

Citified - My Family Cup from Absence EP

Deerhunter - Game of Diamonds from Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP

Patrick Watson - Fireweed from Wooden Arms

Jeremy Enigk - April Storm from OK Bear

John Vanderslice - Too Much Time from Romanian Names

St. Vincent - The Strangers from Actor

James Blackshaw - Fix from The Glass Bead Game

Au Revoir Simone - Take Me As I Am from Still Night, Still Light

Magnolia Electric Co - Rock of Ages from It's Made Me Cry EP

Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks from Veckatimest

Jay Bennett - I Don't Have the Time from Whatever Happened I Apologize

Playlist for 5/28/09

2009-05-28T15:09:00.005-06:00

Still Flyin' - The Hottchord Is Struck

It Hugs Back - Look Out

Akron/Family - River

M. Ward - Shangri-La

Grizzly Bear - Cheerleader

Camera Obscura - You Told A Lie

Scrabbel - Chicago New York

Breathe Owl Breathe - Baseball Diamond

Polaris - Hey Sandy

Jarvis Cocker - Pilchard

Peter Doherty - Last of the English Roses

Alpha Crasis - Apples and Oranges (Interlude)

Boards of Canada - Everything You Do Is A Balloon

The Field - I Have the Moon, You Have the Internet

Junior Boys - Dull To Pause

Shallow - You Give Me Butterflies

Brittle Stars - Yow Went In Phases

Animal Collective - Taste

Loney, Dear - Summers

Dirty Projectors and David Byrne - Ambulance Man

Elvis Perkins in Dearland - Chains, Chains, Chains

Bill Callahan - Too Many Birds

Arthur Russell - Close My Eyes

Great Lake Swimmers - Everything Is Moving So Fast

Television Personalities - Someone to Share My Life With

John Vanderslice - The Parade

Phosphorescent - Can I Sleep In Your Arms

Au Revoir Simone - Take Me As I Am

Bonnie Prince Billy - I Don't Belong To Anyone

Yonlu - I Know What It's Like

TML Monthly Review - Episode #30

2009-05-12T07:15:00.002-06:00

Thee Oh Sees - Ruby Go Home from Help

Chain and the Gang - Interview with the Chain Gang from Down with Liberty... Up with Chains

Immaculate Machine - Sound the Alarms from High on Jackson Hill

Crocodiles - I Wanna Kill from Summer of Hate

Art Brut - DC Comics and Chocolate Milkshake from Art Brut vs. Satan

Camera Obscura - The Sweetest Thing from My Maudlin Career

Pilot Speed - Put the Phone Down from Wooden Bones

It Hugs Back - Forgotten Song from Inside Your Guitar

Still Flyin' - Good Thing It's a Ghost Town Around Here from Never Gonna Touch the Ground

Crystal Antlers - Andrew from Tentacles

Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound - Two Birds Sang from When Sweet Sleep Returned

Black Math Horseman - Tyrant from Wylit

Gomez - Airstream Driver from A New Tide

Japandroids - Young Hearts Spark Fire from Post-Nothing

Nadja - Only Shallow from When I See the Sun Always Shines On TV

Yonlu - I Know What It's Like from A Society in Which No Tear Is Shed Is Inconceivably Mediocre

Beastie Boys - Pass the Mic Pt. 2 from Check Your Head (Deluxe Edition)

The Whitest Boy Alive - Island from Rules

Damian Lazarus - Moment from Moment (single)

Lotus Plaza - Whiteout from The Floodlight Collecting

Bill Callahan - Jim Cain from Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Real Estate - Old Folks from 7"

Death Cab For Cutie - A Diamond and a Tether from The Open Door EP

The Dirty Projectors & David Byrne - Ambulance Man from Online Exclusive

Richard Swift - Lady Luck from The Atlantic Ocean

TML Monthly Review - Episode #29

2009-04-21T07:58:00.002-06:00

Crystal Stilts - Love Is A Wave from Love Is A Wave EP

Peter Bjorn and John - Nothing To Worry About from Living Things

Chin Chin - GG and the Boys from GG and the Boys (single)

Dead Heart Bloom - Flash in a Bottle from In Chains

Asobi Seksu - Thursday (Acoustic) from Acoustic at Olympic Studios

Times New Viking - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) from SCORE! 20 Years of Merge Records: THE COVERS!

BLK JKS - Lakeside from Mystery

Balmorhea - Harm & Boon from All Is Wild, All Is Silent

Peter Doherty - New Love Grows On Trees from Grace/Wastelands

Fever Ray - When I Grow Up from Fever Ray

Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - Old Panda Days (w/Nick Krgovich) from Advance Base Battery Life

The Soundtrack Of Our Lives - Fly from Communion

O + S - We Do What We Want To from O + S

Dan Deacon - Slow With Horns/Run For Your Life from Bromst

Ben Klock - Gooldy Sin (w/Elif Blicer) from One

Fridge - Astrozero from Early Output 1996-1998

Beanfield - Planetary Deadlock from Compost Ambient Selection

Death Cab For Cutie - Kicked In from SCORE! 20 Years of Merge Records: THE COVERS!

Speck Mountain - I Feel Eternal from Some Sweet Relief

Elvis Perkins In Dreamland - 123 Goodbye from Elvis Perkins In Dearland

Great Lake Swimmers - Pull On A Line from Lost Channels

The Shins - Plenty Is Never Enough from SCORE! 20 Years of Merge Records: THE COVERS!

Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Afraid Ain't Me from Beware

Junior Boys - Dull To Pause from Begone Dull Care

Neko Case - Middle Cyclone from Middle Cyclone

Tracy Thorn w/Jens Lekman - Yeah! Oh, Yeah! from SCORE! 20 Years of Merge Records: THE COVERS!

WEVL Baseball Special `09

2009-04-07T06:50:00.003-06:00

The Harry Simeone Songsters - It's A Beautiful Day For A Ballgame

Kenneth Patchen - The Origin of Baseball

Guided By Voices - Look, It's Baseball

Bruce Springsteen - Take Me Out to the Ballgame

Sid Bass Orchestra and Chorus - Here Comes the Yankees

Phil Foster - Let's Keep The Dodgers In Brooklyn

Wild Carnation - Dodger Blue

Dave Frishberg - Play Ball

Jonathan Winters & Gary Owens - Baseball Player

I'm Not Jim - The Pitchers Gave Up

The Baseball Project - Satchel Paige Said

The King Odom Quartette - Amazin' Willie Mays

Brownie McGhee - Robbie Doby Boogie

The Intruders - (Love Is Like A) Baseball Game

Ultramagnetic MC's - Saga of Dandy, the Devil, & Day

Sam & Dave - Knock It Out The Park

Jimmy Martin Tribute Band - Home Run Man

Bill Slayback - Move Over Babe (Here Comes Henry)

McKinley Mitchell with Willie Dixon's Chicago Blues All-Stars - That Last Home Run

Claire Hamill - Baseball Blues

The Magnolia Electric Co - 31 Seasons in the Minor Leagues

Bob & Ray - Biff Burns: 94 Year Old Met Rookie Whitey Stickwell

The Mountain Goats - Cubs In 5

The SF Seals - Dock Ellis

Rev. James M Bollin - He Hit A Home Run

Rev. J.M. Gates - The Ball Game of Life

Nat King Cole - The First Baseball Game

Mel Allen & The Naturals - Baseball Dreams

Mary Ellen Amos (Tori Amos) - Baltimore

Ernie Harwell - The Game For All America (A Definition of baseball)

Frank Sinatra - There Used To Be A Ballpark

The Baseball Project - The Closer

TML Monthly Review - Episode #28

2009-03-10T06:40:00.003-06:00

M. Ward - Stars of Leo from Hold Time

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction from The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

The National - So Far Around the Bend from Dark Was The Night

Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele - You Can't Force A Dance Party from The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele

Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 - Up To Our Nex from Goodnight Oslo

Mike Bones - What I Have Left from A Fool For Everyone

Benjy Ferree - Fear from Come Back To The Five And Dime Bobby Dee Bobby Dee

Here We Go Magic - Fangela from Here We Go Magic

Burning Hearts - Various Lives from Aboa Sleeping

Scrabbel - Chicago New York from eMusic Sampler Vol. 2

Now, Now Every Children - Cars from Cars

Alela Diane - White As Diamonds from To Be Still

Lisa Hannigan - Lille from Sea Sew

Asobi Seksu - Familiar Light from Hush

The Sight Below - At First Touch from Glider

Mountains - Choral from Choral

Charles Spearin - Ondine from The Happiness Project

Animal Collective - Daily Routine from Merriweather Post Pavilion

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Born in the U.S.A. from Advance Base Battery Life

Odd Nosdam - Fly Mode from T.I.M.E. Soundtrack

Beirut - No Dice from March of the Zapotec & Realpeople: Holland

Animal Collective - My Girls from Merriweather Post Pavilion

Southeast Engine - Black Gold from From the Forest to the Sea

Faunts - It Hurts Me All the Time from Feel.Love.Thinking.Of.

Odawas - Harmless Lover's Discourse from The Blue Depths

Phosphorescent - I Gotta Get Drunk from To Willie

Bonnie Prince Billy - I Am Goodbye from Beware

TML Monthly Review - Episode #27

2009-02-10T10:38:00.002-06:00

A.C. Newman - Prophets from Get Guilty

Matt and Kim - Daylight from Grand

Kyle Andrews - Sushi from Real Blasty

The Online Romance - Ladybug, Don't Smile from Online Exclusive

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Come Saturday from The Pains of Being Pure A Heart

Dirty Projectors/David Byrne - Knotty Pine from Dark Was The Night

Of Montreal - First Time High from Jon Brion Remix EP

Golden Boots - Love is in the Air from Winter of Our Discoteque

Bon Iver - Blood Bank from Blood Bank EP

Charles Bissell - It Ends With A Fall from Will Sheff covers Charles Bissell, Charles Bissell covers Will Sheff

Cotton Jones Basket Ride - I Am the Changer from Paranoid Cocoon

Angil Hiddntracks - Narrow Minds from Oulipo Saliva

NightWaves - In the Air Tonight from Online Exclusive

MV and EE with the Golden Road - Huna Cosm from Drone Trailer

Telefon Tel Aviv - Helen of Troy from Immolate Yourself

Hot Chip - Transmission from War Child Heroes

Minotaur Shock - Accelerated Footage from Amateur Dramatics

Lymbyc Systym - Lotan Baba from Carved By Glaciers

Black Moth Super Rainbow - Feel the Drip from Feel the Drip EP

Animal Collective - Suppertime Clothes from Merriweather Post Pavilion

J. Tillman - Steel on Steel from Vacilando Territory Blues

Blue Giant - Target Heart from Target Heart EP

Real Estate - Black Lake from Real Estate 7"

Loney, Dear - I Was Only Going Out from Dear John

Andrew Bird - Take Courage (Bonus Track) from Noble Beast

Antony and the Johnsons - Kiss My Name from The Crying Light

Silver Jews - Long Long Gone from Tennessee EP

TML Yearly Review - 2008 Honorable Mentions

2009-01-13T16:17:00.002-06:00

My Morning Jacket - Aluminum Park from Evil Urges

31Knots - Compass Commands from Worried Well

Thao Nguyen & the Get Down Stay Down - Beat (Health, Life and Fire) from We Brave Bee Stings And All

Jukebox The Ghost - Hold It In from Let Live And Let Ghosts

Dr. Dog - The Breeze from Fate

Dungen - Satt Att Se from 4

Plants and Animals - Faerie Dance from Parc Avenue

She and Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? from Volume One

No Kids - I Love the Weekend from Come Into My House

Au - rr vs. d from Verbs

El Guincho - Final de Archipielago from Alegranza

Fredrik - Black Fur from Na Na Ni

Hello, Blue Roses - Shadow Falls from Hello, Blue Roses

The Old-Believers - The Trouble I've Met from Eight Golden Hits

Elephone - Canister from Canister

The Dodos - Walking from Visiter

The Ruby Suns - Walking from Sea Lion

Ratatat - Falcon Jab from LP3

Sporto Kantès - Whistle from 3 At Last

Cut Copy - Far Away from In Ghost Colours

M83 - Kim & Jessie (Montag Remix) from Kim & Jessie EP

Quinn Walker - Smile For Me from Lion Land

Death Vessel - Bruno's Torso from Nothing Is Precious Enough For Us

Hercules And Love Affair - Blind (feat. Antony) from Hercules And Love Affair

Of Montreal - Jimmy from Online Exclusive

Deer Tick - Beautiful Girls from Online Exclusive

The Magnetic Fields - California Girls from Distortion

Lampchop - Ohio from OH

Amadou & Mariam - Sabali from Welcome to Mali

TML Yearly Review - Top 25 of 2008

2009-01-13T16:04:00.002-06:00

25. The New Year - Seven Days and Seven Nights from The New Year
24. Shugo Tokumaru - Parachute from Exit
23. Quiet Village - Victoria's Secret from Silent Movie
22. Paavoharju - Tuoksu tarttuu meihin from Laulu Laakson Kukista
21. Jay Reatard - I'm Watching You from Matador Singles `08
20. Sébastien Tellier - Divine from Sexuality
19. The Battle of Land and Sea - The Beautiful Ones from The Battle of Land and Sea
18. Animal Collective - Water Curses from Water Curses EP
17. The Lodger - The Good Old Days from Life Is Sweet
16. Dengue Fever - Sober Driver from Venus on Earth
15. Vampire Weekend - I Stand Corrected from Vampire Weekend
14. The Walkmen - In the New Year from You & Me
13. Bonnie Prince Billy - Easy Does It from Lie Down In The Light
12. Final Fantasy - The Butcher from Spectrum, 14th Century EP
11. Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened from Microcastle
10. Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele - Meet Me in the Garden from Meet Me in the Garden (single)
09. TV on the Radio - Family Tree from Dear Science,
08. Silver Jews - Strange Victory, Strange Defeat from Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
07. The Avett Brothers - Murder in the City from The Second Gleam
06. Bon Iver - Re: Stacks from For Emma, Forever Ago
05. Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me from Love Is Overtaking Me
04. Breathe Owl Breathe - Playing Dead from Ghost Glacier EP
03. Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal from Fleet Foxes
02. Destroyer - Foam Hands from Trouble In Dreams
01. Vic Chesnutt - You Are Never Alone from North Star Deserter

WEVL Fall Pledge Drive

2008-11-18T11:35:00.001-06:00

Make a pledge today! Call 901-528-1990 or pledge online.

TML Monthly Review - Episode #24

2008-11-11T19:32:00.005-06:00

American Princes - Don't Lie To Me from Online Exclusive

Marnie Stern - Transformer from This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That

Jay Reatard - I'm Watching You from Matador Singles `08

Starflyer - The Brightest of the Head from Dial M

Department of Eagles - Teenagers from In Ear Park

Hospital Ships - The Shots I Drank from Oh, Ramona

Pit Er Pat - Evacuation Days from High Time

The Sea and Cake - Car Alarm from Car Alarm

Fight Bite - Widow's Peak from Emerald Eyes

The Rosebuds - Border Guards from Life Like

Deerhunter - Little Kids from Microcastle

Lake - Blue Ocean Blu from Oh, The Places We'll Go

Times New Viking - No Sympathy from Stay Awake

Of Montreal - Triphallus, To Punctuate! from Skeletal Lamping

Matthew and the Arrogant Sea - Pretty Purple Top Hat from Family Family Family Meets the Magic Christian

Danielson - Southern Paws (live) from Danielson Alive

Women - Black Rice from Women

CSS - Move (Cut Copy Remix) from Move (Remix 12")

Jason Forrest - Dark New Ages (Polvo Remix) from Score! Bonus Materials

Portastatic - Duck 96 from Some Small History

Crystal Stilts - Crystal Stilts from Alight of Night

Dreamend - Are You Waking from The Long Forgotten Friend

Fredrik - Black Fur from Na Na Ni

Eels - Fresh Feeling (live) from Manchester 2005

Antony and the Johnsons - Hope Mountain from Another World EP

Vic Chesnutt - And How from Dark Developments

Lampchop - Ohio from OH

Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened from Microcastle

Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me from Love Is Overtaking Me

TML Monthly Review - Episode #23

2008-10-14T15:01:00.002-06:00

Calexico - Two Silver Trees from Carried To Dust

The Broken West - Auctioneer from Now or Heaven

The Physics of Meaning - Aeroplanes and Hurricanes from Snake Charmer and Destiny at the Stroke of Midnight

Cause Co-Motion! - I Lie Awake from It's Time!

Portastatic - Some Small History from Some Small History

The Donkeys - Walk Through A Cloud from Living on the Other Side

All Girl Summer Fun Band - Rewind from Looking Into It

The Mountain Goats - Thank You Mario But Our Princess Is In Another Castle from Black Pear Tree EP

Chad VanGaalen - Willow Tree from Soft Airplane

Horse Feathers - Curs in the Weeds from House With No Home

Sprengjuhöllin - Worry `til Spring from Sprengjuhöllin

The Absentee - Shared from Victory Shorts

Mogwai - The Sun Smells Too Loud from The Hawk Is Howling

ColourMusic - Put In A Little Gas from F, Monday, Orange, February, Venus, Lunatic, 1 Or 13

Emiliana Torrini - Me and Armini from Me and Animal

Parenthetical Girls - Unmentionables from Entanglements

Mercury Rev - Senses of Fire from Snowflake Midnight

Shugo Tokumaru - Parachute from Exit

High Places - The Tree with the Lights In It from High Places

David Byrne & Brian Eno - I Feel My Stuff from Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

Tricky - Council Estate from Knowle West Boy

Dungen - Satt Att Se from 4

Boduf Songs - Quiet When Group from How Shadows Chase the Balance

Final Fantasy - The Butcher from Spectrum, 14th Century

The Howling Hex - No Good Reason from Earth Junk

Television Personalities - I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives from And Don't The Kids Just Love It

David Grubbs - An Optimist Declines from An Optimist Notes the Dusk

The New Year - Seven Days and Sevens Nights from The New Year

Damien Jurado - Where Lies My Tarp? from Online Exclusive

TV on the Radio - Family Tree from Dear Science,

WEVL Baseball Tribute

2008-10-04T08:29:00.002-06:00

Fred Lambert - Take Me Out to the Ballgame

The Baseball Project - Past Time

Wes Prince and his Rhythm Princes - Pop Fly Blues

Jerry Colonna - Casey (The Pride of Them All)

Bud Messner - Safe at Home

Terry Cashman - Talkin' Baseball (Yankees Version)

Teresa Brewer - I Love Mickey

Billy Bragg & Wilco - Joe DiMaggio Done It Again

Les Brown and his Orchestra - Joltin' Joe DiMaggio (Fox Trot)

Phil Foster - A Brooklyn Baseball Fan

Unknown Artist - Dragnet Dodgers

Count Basie Orchestra - Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball?

The Treniers - Sey Hey

Marshall Young - Red Sox Polka

Andrejka, Steve and Irene and Roy Jacobson - Our Milwaukee Braves Polka

Bickley Reichner and Elliot Lawrence - The Fightin' Phils

Unknown Artist - Meet the Mets

Cactus Pryor - What's the Score, Podner?

Sir Cecil - Sir Cecil Goes to a Ball Game

Eddie Lawrence - German Baseball

Rockin' Richie Ray - Baseball Card Lover

George Carlin - Baseball and Football

The Mad Daddy - Baseball Scores

Dr. John - Take Me Out to the Ballgame

Great Plains - Black Sox Scandal

Pamela Neal - Charlie Hustle

Rev. J.M. Gates - The Ball Game of Life

Sister Wynona Carr - The Ball Game

Captain Stubbby and the Buccaneers - Let's Go Go-Go White Sox!

Paul Mall and the Bleacher Boys - GoGoSox

Unknown Artist - Come On You Cubs, Play Ball!

Wesley Willis - Wrigley Field

Chicago Cubs Singers - Hey Hey Holy Mackeral

Frank Sinatra - There Used To Be A Ballpark

WEVL Playlist for 9/25/08

2008-09-25T14:42:00.002-06:00

Beach House - D.A.R.L.I.N.G from Devotion

I Love Math - Josephine St. from Getting To The Point Is Beside It

Cat Power - Remember Me from eMusic Session EP

The Ladybug Transistor - I Found A Reason from VU Tribute

Bodies of Water - I Guess We'll Forget the Sound, I Guess, I Guess from Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink

El Perro Del Mar - Happiness Won Me Over from From the Valley to the Stars

The Battle of Land and Sea - The Beautiful Ones from The Battle of Land and Sea

Elephone - Canister from Noise Pop 2008

The New Year - Seven Days and Seven Nights from The New Year

Television Personalities - The Glittering Prizes from And Don't The Kids Just Love It

The Dirty Projectors - New New Attitude from Daytrotter Sessions

Dengue Fever - Tooth and Nail from Venus on Earth

Caribou - Kid You'll Move Mountains from Up In Flames

Quiet Village - Victoria's Secret from Silent Movie

Koushik - Nothing's the Same from Out My Window

Paavoharju - Tuoksu tarttuu meihin from Laulu Laakson Kukista

The Avett Brothers - Murder in the City from The Second Gleam

Breathe Owl Breathe - Playing Dead from Ghost Glacier EP

Gregory and the Hawk - Boats and Birds from 8-Track Demos

Bonnie Prince Billy - Easy Does It from Lie Down in the Light

Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele from Meet Me in the Garden (single)

She & Him - I Thought I Saw Your Face Today from Volume One

Greg Ashley - Lost Highway from Medicine F*ck Dream

Silver Jews - San Francisco B.C. from Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea

TV on the Radio - Family Tree from Dear Science,

Destroyer - Foam Hands from Trouble In Dreams

The Uglysuit - Chicago from The Uglysuit

The Lodger - The Good Old Days from Life Is Sweet

Vampire Weekend - The Kids Don't Stand A Chance from Vampire Weekend

TML Monthly Review - Episode #22

2008-09-09T06:50:00.004-06:00

The Walkmen - In the New Year from You & Me

The Dutchess and the Duke - Reservoir Park from She's the Dutchess, He's the Duke

31Knots - Compass Commands from Worried Well

Kristoffer Ragnstam - Disco Fiasco from Wrong Side of the Room

Robyn Hitchcock - Bad Case of History from Luminous Groove

Stereolab - Three Women from Chemical Chords

Fujiya & Miyagi - Knickerbocker from Knickerbocker (single)

Azeda Booth - Ran from In Flesh Tones

The Clientele - That Night, a Forest Grew from That Night, a Forest Grew

Of Montreal - Id Engager from Id Engager (single)

Animal Collective - Water Curses from Water Curses EP

Koushik - Nothing's the Same from Out My Window

The Music Tapes - The Majesty from Music Tapes For Clouds and Tornadoes

Oneida - Preteen Weaponry, Pt II from Preteen Weaponry

Truckasauras - Up, Up, Down, Down, L, R, L, R from Tea Parties, Guns & Valor

Lindstrøm - Grand Ideas from Where You Go I Go Too

M83 - Kim & Jessie (Montage Remix) from Kim & Jessie EP

Destroyer - Madame Butterflies from Online Exclusive

Wye Oak - Prodigy from Online Exclusive

M. Ward - Outta My Head (demo) from Online Exclusive

M. Ward - Undertaker (demo) from Online Exclusive

The Postmarks - Eight Miles High from By the Numbers

What Laura Says - July 23 from Think & Feels

Death Vessel - Bruno's Torso from Happy Birthday To Me: Terminal Sales Vol. 3

Lykke Li - Dance Dance Dance from Youth Novels

Matt and Kim - Good Ol' Fashion Nightmare from Good Ol' Fashion Nightmare (single)

David Bryne and Brian Eno - Strange Overtone from Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

TML Monthly Review - Episode #21

2008-08-12T10:37:00.003-06:00

Albert Hammond Jr - GfC from Como Te Llama

Pas/Cal - You Were Too Old For Me from I Was Raised On Matthew, Mark, Luke & Laura

Earlimart - Song For from Hymn and Her

Dr. Dog - The Breeze from Fate

The Baseball Project - Past Time from Volume One: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails

Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You from Partie Traumatic

Doveman - Footloose from Online Exclusive

Bodies of Water - Water Here from A Certain Feeling

Women - Black Rice from Women

Takka Takka - The Takers from Migration

Kelley Polar - A Feeling of the All-THing from I Need You To Hold On While the Sky Is Falling

Azeda Booth - Ran from In Flesh Tones

Dizzee Rascal - Dance Wiv Me from Dance Wiv Me (single)

Sporto Kantès - Whistle from 3 At Last

Leila - Little Acorns from Blood, Looms & Bloom

Ratatat - Falcon Jab from LP3

Chromeo - Bonafied Lovin (Yuksek Remix) from Fancy Footwork (Deluxe Edition)

Feathers - Ap(Parenthe)Synthesis from The Summer of Summer Running

Arbouretum - Buffalo Ballet from Kale

TieDye - Nothing Else Matters from Nothing Else Matters (single)

Jay Reatard - Don't Let Him Come Back from Singles 06-07

The Postmarks - 7-11 from By the Numbers Vol. 7

The Octopus Project - Wet Gold from Wet Gold

The Avett Brothers - Murder in the City from The Second Gleam

The Old-Believers - The Trouble I've Met from Eight Golden Greats

Neil Halstead - Queen Bee from Oh Mighty Engine

Beau Jennings - Tulsa Sound from Holy Tulsa Thunder

Benji Hughes - The Mummy from A Love Extreme

Bon Iver - Flume (live) from Daytrotter Sessions

TML Monthly Review - Episode #20

2008-07-08T09:29:00.003-06:00

My Morning Jacket - Aluminum Park from Evil Urges

Alejandro Escovedo - Always A Friend from Real Animal

Wolf Parade - Call It A Ritual from At Mount Zoomer

Electric President - Monsters from Sleep Well

The War On Drugs - Taking the Farm from Wagonwheel Blues

King Khan and the Shrines - Torture from The Supreme Genius of King Khan and the Shrines

Jay Reatard - Always Wanting More from Always Wanting More (single)

Viva L'American Death Ray Music - Getting Better from Sangre Libre

Tilly and the Wall - Cacophony from o

The Low Lows - Sparrows from Shining Violence

Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood from Fleet Foxes

Silver Jews - Suffering Jukebox from Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea

Shearwater - Rooks from Rook

Sigur Rós - Gobbledigook from Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust

Cineplexx - Espiral from Picnic

The Notwist - Where In This World from The Devil, You + Me

Deastro - The Shaded Forests from Keeper's

Hercules and Love Affair - Blind (featuring Antony) from Hercules and Love Affair

Air France - June Evenings from No Way Down EP

Ladytron - Ghosts from Velocifero

Ponytail - Celebrate the Body Electric from Ice Cream Spiritual

Twine - Disconnected from Violets

Au - Two Seasons from Verbs

Grouper - Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping from Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill

Calico Horse - Idioteque from Myspace Exclusive

Jon Sonnenberg - DOA from Acoustic Selections

Sloan - Witches Wand from Parallel Play

Eef Barzelay - Lose Big from Lose Big

Silver Jews - Strange Victory Strange Defeat from Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea

Tuesday Afternoon Show on 6/24/08

2008-06-24T22:16:00.003-06:00

East River Pipe - Make a Deal with the City

The Tyde - New Confessions

Beulah - Popular Mechanics For Lovers

Tullycraft - Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend Is Too Stupid To Know About

Belle & Sebastian - Belle & Sebastian

The Halo Benders - Virginia Reel Around the Fountain

The Brian Jonestown Massacre - (David Bowie I Love You) Since I Was Six

Grandaddy - The Town Where I'm Livin' Now

Glyn Styler and Lydia Lunch - The Desperate Ones

Camera Obscura - Teenage

Jens Lekman - Sky Phenomenon

The Ladybug Transistor - Massachusetts (live)

Of Montreal - Montreal

Parker and Lilly - The Low Lows

T.W. Walsh - Old Fashioned Way Of Speaking

Matt Marque - Unknown Flowers On Your Dress

Smog - I Was A Stranger

Lambchop - Up With People (live)

Giant Sand - Shiver

M. Ward - Vincent O'Brien

Calexico - Along Again Or

Bonnie Prince Billy - Southside of the World

The Annomoanon - One That Got Away

Mojave 3 - In Love With A View

Rader Bros. - Sisters

Vic Chesnutt - In My Way, Yes

Smoke - Awake

Sufjan Stevens - Niagara Falls Final

Daniel Johnston - Held the Hand

TML Monthly Review - Episode #19

2008-06-10T14:48:00.003-06:00

The Impossible Shapes - Hey from The Impossible Shapes

I Love Math - Josephine St. from Getting To The Point Is Beside It

The Lodge - The Good Old Days from Life Is Sweet

Gazillion - King of the Cats from King of the Cats EP

Julie Ocean - #1 Song from Julie Ocean

The Instruments - Ode to the Sea from Dark Smaland

Natural Snow Buildings - The Spears of the Wolf from The Snowbringer Cult

Hecuba - 1 Sir from Sir EP

Paavoharju - Kevätrumpu from Laulu Laakson Kukista

The Black Angels - Doves from Directions To See A Ghost

Black Moth Super Rainbow - The Fields Are Breathing (Tobacco's Wispy Version) from Zodiac Girls EP

Vampire Weekend - Walcott (Insane Mix) from Oxford Comma EP

No Age - Eraser from Nouns

Spectrum Meets Captain Memphis - Hey Man from Indian Giver

Spiritualized - Soul On Fire from Songs In A&E

Mogwai - Honey from Young Team (reissue)

Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes from Santogold

Steinski - Lesson 3 (History of Hop Hop) from What Does It All Mean?

Dosh - The Magic Stick from Wolves and Wishes

Health - Heaven (Narctrax Remix) from Health Disco

Ellen Allien - Elphine from Sool

James Pants - Ka$h from Welcome

Au - rr vs. D from rr vs. D

Numero 6 (feat. Bonnie Prince Billy) - Da Piccolissimi pezzi from Quando arriva la gente si sente meglio EP

Quiet Village - Victoria's Secret from Silent Movie

The Parson Red Heads - Crowds from Owl & Tower

Gregor Samsa - Jeroen Van Aken from Rest

Tim Fite - Heaven Is War from Fair Ain't Fair

Bonnie Prince Billy - Easy Does It from Lie Down In The Light

TML Monthly Review - Episode #18

2008-05-13T18:00:00.000-06:00

Jukebox the Ghost - Hold It In

Man Man - Top Drawer

Someone Still Loves Boris Yeltsin - Think I Wanna Die

South - Tell Me

Antenna Shoes - Wait

French Kicks - Said So What

Crystal Stilts - Crippled Croon

The Weepies - Antarctica

The Explorers Club - Do You Love Me?

American Princess - Auditorium

Neva Dinova - Clouds

Foals - Balloons

The Duke Spirit - The Step and the Walk

Eliot Lipp - The Area

Thank You - Empty Legs

Rocket Number Nine Zoom Zoom Up - Mello

M83 - Graveyard Girl

Air - Kelly Watch the Stars (Moog Cookbook Remix)

Clinic - Free Not Free

New Bloods - Oh, Deadly Nightshade!

Portishead - Silence

Wye Oak - Warning

Annuals - Sore

Cloud Cult - When Water Comes To Life

Colin Meloy - Devil's Elbow (live)

Robert Forster - If It Rains

El Perro Del Mar - Happiness Won Me Over

The Breeders - We're Gonna Rise

Langhorne Slim - Spinning Compass

TML Monthly Review - Episode #17

2008-04-07T22:49:00.002-06:00

Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Baltimore from Real Emotional Trash

Soundpool - The Divides of March from Dichotomies & Dreamland

Mouserocket - Fall Down South from Pretty Loud

White Hinterland - Dreaming of the Plum Trees from Phylactery Factory

Hands on Heads - Romantic Aorta from Hands on Heads

The Botticellis - Old Home Movies from Noise Pop 2008

MGMT - Kids (Remix) from Online Exclusive

Why? - These Few Presidents from Alopecia

DeVotchka - Transliterator from A Mad & Faithful Telling

Cassettes Won't Listen - Paper Float from Small-Time Machine

13ghosts - Riverside from The Strangest Colored Lights

Crystal Castles - Black Panther from Crystal Castles

Junior Boys - No Kinda Man from Body Language Six

Does It Offend You, Yeah? - With a Heavy Heart (I Regret To Inform You) from You Have No Idea What You're Getting Into

Panda Bear - Comfy In Nautica (Remix) from Online Exclusive

F Buttons - Bright Tomorrow from Street Horrsing

Daniel Lanois - Here Is What Is from Here Is What Is

Adam Green - Morning After Midnight from Sixes and Sevens

The Black Keys - Strange Times from Attack & Release

These New Puritans - Numerology aka Numbers from Beat Pyramid

The Postmarks - Three Little Birds from By The Numbers

Malcolm Middleton - Stay from Sleight Of Heart

Andrew Bird - Heretics (Early Version) from Soldier On

The Dodos - Walking from Visiter

She and Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?

Elephone - Canister from Noise Pop 2008

Guillemots Get Over It from Red

Jack Oblivian and the Final Four Buh-Buh Basketball from Buh-Buh Basketball (single)

Destroyer Foam Hands from Trouble In Dreams

TML Monthly Review - Episode #16

2008-03-11T11:18:00.005-06:00

The Mountain Goats - Sax Rohmer #1 from Heretic Pride

The Airfields - Never See You Smile from Up All Night

Antarctica Takes It! - Circuits from The Penguin League

Fire on Fire - Hangman from Fire on Fire EP

The Ruby Suns - Tane Mahuta from Sea Lion

Jason Collett - Out Of Time from Here's To Being Here

No Kids - I Love the Weekend from Come Into My House

Taken By Trees - Sweet Child O'Mine from Sweet Child O'Mine (single)

Plants and Animals - Faerie Dance from Parc Avenue

The Postmarks - You Only Live Twice from By The Numbers 2

Atlas Sound - Recent Bedroom from Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel

Maritime - Boy From School from Online Exclusive

Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor from Made In The Dark

M83 - Coleurs from Coleurs EP

Belong - Late Night from Colorloss Record

The Raveonettes - Dead Sound from Lust Lust Lust

Ssion - Heaven from Fool's Gold

Sébastien Tellier - Divine from Sexuality

Ben Benjamin - Selective Periphera from The Many Moods of Ben Benjamin Volume 1

Club 8 - Jesus, Walk With Me (Jimahl Remix) from Online Exclusive

Deer Tick - Beautiful Girls from Myspace Exclusive

The Battle of Land and Sea - The Beautiful Ones from The Battle of Land and Sea

Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal from Some of Mount Fairweather

Beach House - Some Things Last A Long Time from Devotion

Breathe Owl Breathe - Playing Dead from Ghost Glacier EP

Bon Iver - Re: Stacks/Team

TML Monthly Review - Episode #15

2008-02-12T16:33:00.001-06:00

The Magnetic Fields - Three-Way from Distortion

King of Prussia - Spain in the Summertime from Save the Scene

Evangelicals - Skeleton Man from The Evening Descends

Jack Penate - Second, Minute, Or Hour from Matinee

The Whigs - Right Hand On My Heart from Mission Control

Blood on the Wall - Hibernation from Liferz

Biirdie - Estelle from Catherine Avenue

Times New Viking - DROP-OUT from Rip It Off

Dengue Fever - Woman in the Shoes from Venus on Earth

Mgmt - Time To Pretend from Oracular Spectacular

El Guincho - Final de Archipielago from Alegranza

Instruments of Science & Technology - Shooting A Rhino Between the Shoulders from Music from the Films of R. Swift

The Postmarks - One Note Samba from By the Numbers

High Places - Shared Islands from Myspace Exclusive

Black Mountain - Night Walks from In the Future

Cat Power - Lost Someone from Jukebox

Hello, Blue Roses - Shadow Falls from The Portrait Is Finished and I Have Failed to Capture Your Beauty

Holland Buffalo - Optimistic from Holland Buffalo

The Whitsundays - Sorry James from The Whitsundays

School of Language - If There Is Something from Online Exclusive

Quinn Walker - Smile For Me from Laughter's An A**hole/Lion Land

Salem - Brustreet from Online Exclusive

Thao and the Get Down Stay Down - Beat (Health, Life, and Fire) from We Brave Bee Stings And All

Radar Bros. - Happy Spirits from Auditorium

Bodies of Water - I Guess We'll Forget the Sound, I Guess, I Guess from Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink

Vic Chesnutt - You Are Never Alone from North Star Deserter

Of Montreal - Jimmy from Online Exclusive

Vampire Weekend - The Kids Don't Stand a Chance from Vampire Weekend

Xiu Xiu - Under Pressure from Women As Lovers

The Magnetic Fields - California Girls (Alternate Vocal Version) from Distortion (Bonus Track)

New Releases Tuesday

2008-01-15T08:52:00.000-06:00

Is there really any other release today bigger than this?

The Magnetic Fields - Distortion

Apparently only being offered for a limited time, the entire album is available for free streaming on the group's Myspace page.

Also, for a limited time, when you purchase the album at your local record store or from Nonesuch Records, you'll receive for free, Stephen Merritt's "The Man of a Million Faces" single which he performed on NPR's All Songs Considered.

So, hurry up!

Edit: If you go the Nonesuch route, you get the actual copy of the CD as well as a downloadable album. However, there is the pain of having to download all the songs separate. What's up with that, Nonesuch? Still, the mp3 files are of a higher quality than those on iTunes (320kbps vs. 128kbps). However, you still might want to check out Distortion on iTunes since its bonus track replaces the NPR song with an alternate vocal version of "California Girls".

Free Music Mondays

2008-01-14T00:28:00.001-06:00

The Postmarks, everyone's new favorite indie band from Miami FLA, are starting the new year with a personal challenge, to release a new cover every month until the end of 2008. The experiment, referred to as By The Numbers, starts off with "One Note Samba," which according to The Postmark's website is a song composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim. While I have never heard the original, the song has been covered by a number of artists including Sergio Mendes, Elle Fitzgerald, Quincy Jones, and Frank Sinatra.

The Postmarks' version plays like a slowed down of this typically playful tune. Don't expect to be showing off any of your best Samba moves with this one, but do expect to be seduced by the dreamy, breathy vocals of singer Tim Yehezkely (yes, the female singer is named Tim). To hear it for yourself, you will need an account with emusic.

The Postmarks - One Note Samba

TML Yearly Review - Top 25 Songs of 2007

2008-01-08T13:47:00.000-06:00

25. Dean & Britta - Words You Used To Say from Back Numbers
24. Joel Gibb - That's Us/Wild Combination from Fours Song By Arthur Russell
23. Loney, Dear - I Am John from Loney, Noir
22. CocoRosie - Rainbowarriors from The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn
21. The Field - From Here We Go Sublime from Here We Go Sublime
20. Justice - D.A.N.C.E from †
19. Calvin Harris - Disco Heat from I Created Disco
18. Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position from The Magic Position
17. Tim Fite - Oh Well from Over the Counterculture
16. Studio - No Comply from West Coast
15. Yoko Ono w/Apples In Stereo - Nobody Sees Me Like You Do from Yes, I'm a Witch
14. John Hancock - I'm Your Man from Part Mongolian
13. LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum from Sound of Silver
12. Akron/Family - I've Got Some Friends from Love Is Simple
11. Jens Lekman - Friday Night At The Drive-In Bingo from Night Falls Over Kortedala
10. The Dirty Projectors - Police Story from Rise Above
09. Radiohead - House of Cards from In Rainbows
08. Andrew Bird - Scythian Empires from Armchair Apocrypha
07. The New Pornographers - Myriad Harbour from Challengers
06. Grizzly Bear - Knife (Girl Talk Remix) from Online Exclusive
05. Of Montreal - A Sentence of Sorts In Kongsvinger from Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
04. Clipse - Mr. Me Too (Z.A.K. Remix) from Online Exclusive
03. M.I.A. - Paper Planes from Kala
02. Animal Collective - For Reverend Green from Strawberry Jam
01. Panda Bear - Bros from Person Pitch

More album recommendations from 2007:
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible, Band of Horses - Cease To Begin, Harlan T. Bobo - I'm Your Man, Greg Ashley - Painted Garden, Peter and the Wolf - The Ivori Palms, Okkervil River - The Stage Names, St. Vincent - Marry Me, Vampire Weekend - Mansard Roof, The Octopus Project - Hello Avalanche, Ghost - In Stormy Nights, Caribou - Melody Day, Ladybug Transistor - Can't Wait Another Day, White Williams - Smoke, The Go! Team - Proof of Youth, Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum, Electrelane - No Shouts, No Calls, The Clientele - God Save the Clientele, Jesu - Conqueror, Amon Tobin - Foley, Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings, and Ross Johnson - Make It Stop! The Most of Ross Johnson

This Week on the Lovers

2008-01-07T01:01:00.000-06:00

This week on the Lovers, The Music Lovers Monthly Review will become The Music Lovers Yearly Review. From 4-6pm, I'll be bringing you my Top 25 favorite releases from 2007. Who's going to be number 1?

Tune in to find out!

TML Monthly Review - Episode #13

2007-12-11T16:34:00.000-06:00

Japancakes - Only Shallow from Loveless

Robyn Hitchcock - I Wanna Go Backwards from I Wanna Go Backwords

The Veils - Advice For Young Mothers To Be from Nux Vomica

Joe Lally - Day Is Born from Nothing Is Underrated

Malajube - La Maladie from Le Compte Complet

Animal Collective - Safer (live) from Causes 1

Greg Ashley - Sailing with Bobby from Painted Garden

Takka Takka - We Feel Safer At Night from We Feel Safer At Night

Bobb Trimble - One Mile From Heave from Iron Curtain Innocence

Citay - First Fantasy from Little Kingdom

Danielson - Uh-Oh (It's Morningtime Again) from K Records Tribute

Fog - I Have Been Wronged from Ditherer

Maserati - Synchronicity IV from Inventions for the New Season

HEALTH - Heaven from HEALTH

Daft Punk - Da Funk from Alive 2007

Glass Candy - Computer Love from After Dark: Italians Do It Better

Chromatics - Running Up That Hill from Online Exclusive

Tim Hecker - Norberg (section) from Norberg (single)

Andrew Bird - Imitosis (Four Tet Remix) from Online Exclusive

Sixtoo - Jackals and Vipers In Envy of Man Part 9 from Jackals and Vipers In Envy of Man

White Williams - Route To Palm from Smoke

John P. Strohm - Where Is My Mind? from Dig for Fire: A Tribute to the Pixies

Foundry Field Recordings - Caribou from Fallout Stations EP

Japancakes - Soon from Loveless

Castanets - And The Swimming from In the Vines

Cat Power - Song To Bobby from Song to Bobby (single)

Garage Rock Rocks!

2007-11-30T08:41:00.000-06:00

Billy John and the Continentals - Ooh Pooh Pah Doo

The Del-Vetts - I Call My Baby STP

The Beavers - Why Baby Why

The Avengers - Everyone's Gonna Wonder

Catamorands - Over You

Peter Pan and the Good Fairies - Kaleidoscope

The Hard Times - Sad, Sad Sunshine

The Chantels - Have You Ever Felt Blue

The Swingin Lamp Liters - Get Away

Jimmy Rabbit - Pushover

Lawson and 4 More - If You Want Me You Can Find Me

The Outcasts - 1523 Blair

The Kentuckys - Stupid Generation

Soup Greens - Like A Rolling Stone

The Pleazers - Don't Gimmie No Lip Child

Question Mark and the Mysterians - Ain't It A Shame

Hot Coffee - Some Day You Will Die

The Breakers - Don't Send Me No Flowers

Pleasure Seekers - What A Way To Die

The Mystics - Didn't We Have A Good Time

The Distortions - Smokestack Lighting

Wild Vybrashons - One Track Mind

The Young Tigers - I Have Nothing

The Action - I Can't Make A Friend

The Counts - Counted Out

Luv'd Ones - Up Down Sue

The Voxmen - You Tell Me

The Bittersweets - Hurtin Kind

The Romancers - Love's The Thing

The Merits - Please, Please Little Girl

The Esquires - Sadies Ways

Mercy - Love (Can Make You Happy)

Network - The Boys and the Girls

The Rhythm Checkers - On Your Way Down The Drain

The Singers - Land of 1000 Dances

Dara Puspita - A Go Go

Chris and Craig - Isha

Pete Schofield and the Canadians - Mrs. Robinson

German Bonds - We Are Out Of Sight

The Rock Shop - State of Your Mind

C.C. and the Chasers - Hey, Put the Clock Back on the Wall

The Relations - The Image

Sea-Ders - Thanks A Lot

Emil Richards and the Factory - No Place I'd Rther Be

Baby Huey and the Baby Siters - Monkey Man

The Ban - Bye Bye

TML Monthly Review Playlist - Episode #12

2007-11-28T19:08:00.000-06:00

The Octopus Project - Truck

Radiohead - Bodysnatchers

Sunset Rubdown - Winged-Wicked Things

Blackball False, Truth! - Knives Chau Luvs LCD

Band of Horses - No One's Gonna Love You

Vampire Weekend - Mansard Roof

Samamidon - Saro

Grizzly Bear - Alligator (Choir Version)

Silver Seas - Imaginary Girl

Dr. Dog - The Girl (Beck Remix)

Johnossi - Man Must Dance

Celebration - Heartbreak

Saturday Looks Good To Me - Make A Plan

The Owls - Peppermint Patty

White Shoes & The Couples Company - Sabda Alam

The Fiery Furnaces - Restorative Beer

Yeasayer - Sunrise

Doveman - ...& Sunrise (Medley)

Battles - Tonto (Four Tet Remix)

Koushik - Basketball Beat

Beat Konducta - Trouble

J Rocc - Super Sound

Phosphorescent - My Dove, My Lamb

Andrew Bird - A Breaks B

Jens Lekman - It Was A Strange Time In My Life

Radiohead - House of Cards

Vashti Bunyan - Winter Is Blue

The Halloween Special on 10/26/07

2007-10-26T00:16:00.000-06:00

Criswell - Orgy of the Dead (Opening)

Danny Hutton - Monster Shindig

Bob McFadden and Dor - Frankie And Igor At A Rock And Roll Party

Don Hinson and the Rigamorticians - Do the Rigomortis

Count Chocula, Frankenberry and Boo Berry - The Monsters Go Disco

Philly Joe Jones - Blues for Dracula

The Jazz Butcher - The Jazz Butcher Meets Count Dracula

The Mighty Sparrow - Madam Dracula

Sivad - Dickey Drakeller

Dickie Goodman - Dracula Drag

Jad and David Fair - Frankenstein

Daniel Johnston - Frankenstein Love

Wade Denning and Frank Daniels - Frankenstein Returns

Dickie Goodman - Frankenstein Meets the Beatles

Bob McFadden and Dor - The Mummy

Mad Monster Party - The Mummy

The Verdicts - Mummy's Ball

Bob Ridgley - The Way Out Mummy

Bob McFadden and Dor - Son of The Mummy

Frankie Stein and His Ghouls - Weerdo The Wolf

Don Hinson and the Rigamorticians - Werewolf Watusi

Gary Warren - Werewolf

Screaming Lord Sutch - Monster Man

Rich Little - Witchcraft

The Sonics - Witch

Wade Denning and Frank Daniels - Burned at the Stake

Shalimar and His Friends - Voodoo Mash Part 1 & 2

Wade Denning and Frank Daniels - Curse of the Zombies

Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Voodoo Priestess

Roky Erickson and the Aliens - I Walked With A Zombie

Mr. Fab - Cannibal Zombie Mom

Harold Arlen - Halloween

The Shaggs - It's Halloween

Morgus & The Ghouls - Morgus The Magnificent

Tim Curry - Anything Can Happen On Halloween

Joe Meek - `Til the Following Night

It's Always Something for 10/11/07 (SciFi Special)

2007-10-12T11:05:00.000-06:00

Mollie Thompson - Cockeyed Ballad

Billy Lee Riley - Rockin' On A UFO

Joe Meek and the Blue Men - I Hear A New World

Geoff Goddard - Sky Men

Merv Griffin - The Screamin' Meemies from Planet X

Marty Quinn - Genuine UFO Contactee

Joe Dolce - Ain't No UFO Gonna Catch My Diesel

Floyd Robinson - My Little Martian

Walter Brennan - Space Mice

Sam Space & the Cadettes - Take Me To Your Leader Cha Cha

The Ran Dells - The Martian Hop

Nervous Norvus - The Fang

The Kirby Stone Four - You Came From Outer Space

Mike Adkins - The Invaders Are Here!

Dean Barlow and the Crickets - Man from the Moon

Buchanan Brothers - (When You See) Those Flying Saucers

Leonard Nimoy - Alien

Sheldon Allman - Girl From The 4th Dimension

Devo - Space Girl Blues

James Lee Turner - The Little Space Girl

Gloria Lambert w/Richard Maltby - Moon Man

Delsu & The Smarts - The Moon Bug

Topps Orchestra and the Toppers Cast - The Rocket Ship

The Five Du-Tones - The Chicken Astronaut

Sun Ra - Rocket Number Nine Take Off For The Planet Venus

Jimmy Durante - We're Going UFO'ing

Television - The Rocket

Vik Venus - Moonflight

The McGuire Sisters - Will There Be Space In A Space Ship

Hank Snow - Honeymoon on a Rocket Ship

Annette - That Crazy Place From Outer Space

Dickie Goodman - Martian Melodies

Bill Murray - Star Wars Theme

Ella Fitzgerald - Two Little Men In A Flying Saucer

Not Specified - Meanwhile, Back on the Air

Buchanan & Goodman - Flying Saucer, Pt. 1-2

Fibonaccis - Second Coming

Susan Goodman - Following A Star

Jelly Bean Bandits - Generation

The Sophisticats - Gizmo

TML Monthly Review Playlist - Episode #11

2007-10-09T15:16:00.000-06:00

The Go! Team - Doing It Right from Proof Of Youth

Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach You from Wizard of Ahhhs

The Black Lips - Bad Kids from Good Bad Not Evil

Figurines - Hey, Girl from When the Deer Wore Blue

Via Audio - Presents from Say Something Say Something Say Something

Devendra Banhart - Seahorse from Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon

Rogue Wave - Chicago x 12 from Asleep At Heaven's Gate

Georgie James - Cake Parade from Places

Cass McCombs - That's That from Dropping the Writ

Mum - Dancing Behind My Eyelids from Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy

Wooden Shjips - We Ask You To Ride from Wooden Shjips

The Heliocentrics - Once Upon A Time from Out There

Glass Candy - Covered In Bugs from Myspace Exclusive

Asobi Seksu - Then He Kissed Me from Stay Awake 7"

Calvin Harris - Disco Heat from I Created Disco

Petra Haden - Don't Stop Belevin' from Guilt By Assocation

The Dirty Projectors - Police Story from Rise Above

Peter and the Wolf - Better Days from The Ivori Palms

Beirut - Nantes from The Flying Club Cup

Great Lake Swimmers - I Am Part Of A Large Family from Live EP

Taken By Trees - The Legend from Open Field

José González - Time To Send Someone Away from In Our Nature

Iron & Wine - Pagan Angel And A Borrowed Car from The Shepherd's Dog

Sea Wolf - Black Dirt from Leaves In The River

Broken Social Scene feat. Kevin Drew - Aging Faces/Losing Places from Spirit If...

Animal Collective - For Reverend Green from Strawberry Jam

Akron/Family - I've Got Some Friends from Love Is Simple

Danielson - Happy Days Are Here Again from Song of America

It's Always Something for 9/21/07

2007-09-21T08:13:00.000-06:00

The Primitives - The Ostrich

Wolfman Jack and the Wolf Pack - Wolfman Boogie (Part 1)

Liberace - Liberace's Twist

Murray the K - The Lone Twister

Chubby Checker - Move It

Fred Astaire - Attitude Dancing

Gerrard Kennedy - I Am An Island/Searching/Four Letter Word

Esther Rolle - Maybe It's

Tiny Tim and Eleanor Baruchian - I Got You Babe

Sam Sachs - It's A Lie, It's A Fake

Betty Johnston - The Little Blue Man

Anthony Newley - Within You, Without You

Beatle Barkers - All My Loving

Keely Smith - A Hard Day's Night

Mme St. Onge - Help

Daffy Duck - Yesterday

Victor Lopez - Shaft (Marching Band Version)

Dickie Goodman - Superfly Meets Shaft

The Bar-Kays - Son of Shaft

Harry Belafonte - Banana Boat Song

Dickie Goodman - The Banana Boat Story

George Guzman - Banana Freak Out

The Mariachi Brass (feat. Chet Baker) - Chiquita Banana

The Soft Boys - We Like Bananas

The Goodees - Condition Red

Lottie Golden - Motor Cycle Michael

Moby Grape - Motorcycle Irene

Not Specified - Motorcycle Policeman

Yo La Tengo (w/Daniel Johnston) - Speeding Motorcycle

Descendents - Weinershnitzel

Peggy Lee - McDonald's Theme Song

Rabaue - Pizza Hut

Phoebe Kreutz - Taco Bell Song

Weird Al Yankovic - Trapped in the Drive-Thru

The Sophisticats - Gizmo

It's Always Something for 9/14/07

2007-09-14T08:22:00.000-06:00

Tidal Waves - Fun, Fun, Fun

The Beach Boys - Punchline

The Beach Boys - Help Me Rhonda Sessions

Murray Wilson w/The Sunrays - Colonel's March

Hi Hopes - Wipe Out

Googie Rene Combo - Smokey Joe's La La

Ronny Kae - Swinging Drums

Gary Spider Webb - Drum City Part 1 & 2

The Love Sitars - Paint It Black

The Electric Prunes - I Had To Much To Dream (Last Night)

George Harrison - Wah-Wah

Ross Johnson - Signify

Gypsy Boots and the Nature Boys - Learn To Be A Drinker

The Monks - Drunken Marie

Ace Cannon - Drunk

American-Standard - Behind Every Man Is A Woman

Chris - Crazy Crazy

Not Specified - The Women's Clothing Store Pick-Up

U.B.'s Group - Percussive Woman

Albert DeSalvo - Strangler In The Night

Tom Waits - Telelphone Call From Istanbul

Lou Reed - New York Telephone Conversation

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - Telephone Conversation

Y Pants - Off the Hook

Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty - As Soon As I Hang Up The Phone

The Cramps - Heartbreak Hotel

Elvis Presley - Are You Lonesome Tonight (Laughing Version)

Elvis Presley - Dominic the Impotent Bull

The Soft Boys - That's When Your Heartaches Begin

The Sunflowers - I Like the Ukulele

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - Teenage Kicks

Ukuleles of Halifax - Country Roads

The Sophisticats - Gizmo

It's Always Something for 9/07/07

2007-09-07T05:29:00.000-06:00

Bill Cosby - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

The Beatles - Moonlight Baby (w/Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise)

Dickie Goodman - Frankenstein Meets the Beatles

The Scramblers - Beatle Walk

Daniel Johnston - The Beatles

Bobby Darin - Plain Jane

Robert Mitchum - Mama, Looka Boo Boo

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?

Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty - You're the Reason Our Kid's Are So Ugly

Linda Laurie - Jose He Say

Dick Catan and the Losers Combo - I'm Sassy But Classy

John Rydgren - A Beautiful Girl/Music To Watch Girls By

Half Japanese - Daytona Beach

Dave Gardner - White Silver Sands

Not Specified - Make A Woman Our Of Our Wife

Peggy Scott-Adams - Good Little House Wife

Travis Wammack - It's Karate Time

The Bedwells - Karate

Mad Professor and Lee Perry - Kung Fu Fighting

The George Garabedian Players - The Third Man Theme

Orson Welles - I Know What It Is To Be Young (But You Don't Know What It Is To Be Old)

William Shatner - Rocket Man

Sun Ra - Travel the Spaceways

Hermanos Calatrava - Space Oddity

Impala - LTD A Go Go

Tiny Tim - Tiptoe To The Gas Pumps

Darts - Hollywood Drag

The Humbards - I've Found A Place

Big Stick - Drag Racing

Not Specified - The Same In Any Language

The Who - Coke 2

The Andrew Sisters - Rum and Coca Cola

The Records - Coca-Cola Jingle

Preston Epps - Mister Bongos

The Rocky Fellers - Don't Sit Down

The Sophisticats - Gizmo

TML Monthly Review Playlist - Episode #10

2007-09-05T08:27:00.000-06:00

Animal Collective - Peacebone from Peacebone (single)

M.I.A. - Paper Planes from Kala

The New Pornographers - Myriad Harbour from Challengers

Caribou - Eli from Andorra

Numbers - Mind Hole from Now You Are This

Athlete - Hurricane (Camp America Remix) from Athlete Exclusives

Odd Nosdam - Kill Tone from Level Live Wires

Vera November - Our Last Night Together from Four Songs By Arthur Russell

Minus The Bear - Dr. L'Ling from Planet Of Ice

James Carney - Shame from Green-Wood

Blue States - What Can Be Done To Right A Wrong from First Steps Into...

Earlimart - Don't Think About Me from Mentor Tormentor

Architecture In Helsinki - Like It Or Not from Places Like This

New Young Pony Club - The Bomb from Fantastic Playroom

Prinzhorn Dance School - Up! Up! Up! from Prinzhorn Dance School

Nina Nastasia and Jim White - I Come After You from You Follow Me

Josh Ritter - To The Dogs Or Whoever from The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter

The Ladybug Transistor - This Old Chase from Can't Wait Another Day

Pseudosix - Enclave from Pseudosix

Palliard - Drier's Butcher Shop from At The Roger Brown House

The Diminisher - Trainstation from Imaginary Volcano

Rilo Kiley - Silver Lining from Under the Blacklight

Okkervil River - Unless It's Kicks from The Stage Names

Jeremy Enigk - Oh John from The Missing Link

Over the Rhine - I Don't Wanna Waste Your Time from The Trumpet Child

New Buffalo - Cheer Me Up Thank You from Somewhere, Anywhere

Joel Gibb - That's Us/Wild Combination from Four Songs By Arthur Russell

It's Always Something for 8/31/07

2007-08-30T20:29:00.000-06:00

Bob Vidone & The Rhythm Rockers - Weird

Henry Mancini - A Shot In the Dark

Don Reed & His Orchestra - The Lonely King of Rock N' Roll

Travis Wammack - Upset

Bernadette Carroll - Party Girl

Richard Cheese - Girls, Girls, Girls

Peggy Lee - I Enjoy Being A Girl

The Dollybeats - Sindy

The Mad Lads - The Side Walk Surf

Incredible Broadside Brass Bed Band - Little Dead Surfer Girl

Treble Spankers - Popcorn

Bill Cosby - Funky North Philadelphia

Martin Mull - Do The Nothin'

Joy & Dave - Let's Go See Gran'ma

Dickie Goodman - Batman and His Grandmother

Frankie Laine & Jimmy Boyd - The Little Boy & The Old Man

Billy Love - Harts Bread Boogie

Scandaliz Vandalistz - Hamsta Lovin'

Louis Gentile - Poor Hamster!

Johnny Richardson - My Funny Hamster

King Missile - Hamsters

Not Specified - Magic Oranges From Spain

Dick Two Ton Baker - I Like Stinky Cheese

Coyote McCloud & Clara Peller - Where's the Beef?

Watt Wilfong - Casey's Stew

King Missile - Jesus Was Way Cool (Millennium Edition)

New Creation - Dig! (The Origin Of Man)

The Humbards - I've Found A Place

Jim & Tammy & Their Friends - Oops! There Comes A Smile

Richard Cheese - Fight For Your Right

Ray Gelato Giants - Given Up, Given Up

Brent Bolt & The Nuts - The Mechanical Man

Satanic Puppeteer Orchestra - Robots Can't Cry

Litchfield MN High School Band - Mr. Roboto

Warp Nine - Theme From Star Trek

Johnny Cash - Wo Ist Zu Hause, Mama?

Ralf Paulsen - Mister Ed Theme (German)

Beach Boys - Ganz Allein (In My Room)

The Langley Schools Music Project - Good Vibrations

Katie Lee - It Must Be Something Psychological

Mae Questal - The Music Goes Round and Round

The Ink Spots - I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire

The Sophisticats - Gizmo

TML Monthly Review Playlist - Episode #9

2007-08-14T13:45:00.000-06:00

You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb - Spoon from Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

Now, Now - St. Vincent from Marry Me

White Dove - John Vanderslice from Emerald City

Happiness Machine - Oliver Future from Pax Futura

Our Mouths Were Wet - Oh No! Oh My! from Between the Devil and the Sea

Drawing Mountains - The Album Leaf from Green Tour EP

Shine- Ulrich Schnauss from Goodbye

Your Book of Everything - RF & Lili De La Mora from Schole Compilation Vol. 1

Saturday People - Luke Temple from Snowbeast

Chicago Falcon - The Budos Band from The Budos Band II

Fables of Faubus - Charles Mingus from Cornell 1964 (reissue)

Sci Fi Kid (Principal Participant 'Kingswood' Remix) - Blitzen Trapper from Online Exclusive

Exp Out the Fox - Oh No from Dr. No's Oxperiment

Zoe - Caribou from Melody Day EP

Every Bird - David Garland from Noise In You

Take Out the Trash - They Might Be Giants from The Else

Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa - Vampire Weekend from EP

Blues Run the Game - Nick Drake from Family Tree

Beautiful Car - M. Ward Duet For Guitars #2 (reissue)

On This Side - Tiny Vipers from Hands Across the Void

Katydid - Will Stratton from What The Night Said

The Night Starts Here - Stars from In Our Bedroom After the War

My Life - Harlan T. Bobo from I'm Your Man

Telepathic Ray - Final Solutions from Songs By Solutions

I'll Be Yr Bird - M. Ward from Duet For Guitars #2 (original version)

The Anvil Will Fall - Harvey Milk from My Love Is Higher Than Your Assessment of What My Love Could Be (reissue)

Disorder - Bedhead from 4 Song EP (reissue)

Friday Night At the Drive-In Bingo - Jens Lekman from Friday Night At the Drive-In Bingo (single)

The WEVL and Daniel Johnston

2007-08-09T10:59:00.000-06:00

The legend, Daniel Johnston, is scheduled to stop by the WEVL station today between 4:30-5:00pm to talk it up and perhaps play a few tunes before his appearance tonight at the HiTone. Show openers Harlan T. Bobo and the Chimps will also be Daniel's backing band. Don't miss out on this one!

TML Monthly Review Playlist - Episode #8

2007-07-25T09:45:00.000-06:00

Welfare Bread - King Khan & His Shrines from What Is?!

Cool Love #1 - Blitzen Trapper from Wild Mountain Nation (outtake)

I See Things - The Choir Practice from The Choir Practice

St. Pauli - Art Brut from It's A Bit Complicated

Danny B. Cool- Spiritual Mansions from Give Us Your Hearts

Soft Rock Star - Metric from Grow Up and Blow Away

In Our Talons - Bowerbirds from Hymns for a Dark Horse

Rey - The Sharp Things from A Moveable Feast

To Live and Die in the Airport Lounge - My Teenage Stride from Ears Like Golden Bats

Debutante - Great Lakes Myth Society from Compass Rose Bouquet

City of Echoes - Pelican from City of Echoes

Eric's Trip (Demo Version) - Sonic Youth from Daydream Nation (Deluxe Edition)

Boute - Au from Au

Tamaghis - Tied and Tickled Trio from Aelita

OK!!!! - Bumps from Bumps

My Environments - Eliot Lipp from City Synthesis

Møljekalas - Bjørn Torske from Feil Knapp

D.A.N.C.E - Justice from †

Deserter - Matthew Dear from Asa Breed

The Angel of Angels - Nels Cline Singers from Draw Breath

The Cloud of Unknowing - James Blackshaw from The Cloud of Unknowing

Come To View (Song for Neil Young) - Arthur & Yu from In Camera

Ghost Ships - Nedelle from The Locksmith Cometh

Rugla - Amiina from Kurr

Softness I Forgot Your Name - Montag from Going Places

Hope For Us All - Nick Lowe from At My Age

Hopefully (Demo) - My Morning Jacket from At Dawn & Tennessee Fire Demos Package

TML Monthly Review Playlist - Episode #7

2007-06-12T21:23:00.000-06:00

Been There All the Time - Dinosaur Jr. from Beyond

Hat and Rabbit - Page France from ...and the Family Telephone

Alone/Alive - Shapes and Sizes from Split Lips, Winning Hips, A Shiner

Kid Gloves - Voxtrot from Voxtrot

Fake Empire- The National from Boxer

Qhat They Said - Skeletons and The Kings of All Cities from Lucas

Stockades - Frog Eyes from Tears of the Valedictorian

A Labor More Restful - Dirty Projectors from Daytrotter Session

Så Blev Det Bestämt- Dungen from Tio Bitar

The Magic Position - Patrick Wolf from The Magic Position

Red Eagles - Paul Duncan from Above the Trees

Cut and Run - Electrelane from No Shouts, No Calls

Hope - Rafter from Music For Total Chickens

No Conclusion - Of Montreal from Icons, Abstract Thee EP

Rollerdisco - Black Moth Super Rainbow from Dandelion Gum

Pink Batman - Dan Deacon from Spiderman of the Rings

The Pinks - Boom Bip from Sacchrilege EP

See A Penny (Pick It Up) - YACHT from I Believe In You. Your Magic Is Real.

Chemistry - UNKLE from Night Temper EP

Fuzzy Reactor - Boris (w/Michio Kurihara) from Rainbow

Klezmer Rhapsody - The Cracow Klezmer Band from Remembrance

This Place In Time - Colleen from Les Ondes Silencieuses

Watch Out - Slaraffenland from Private Cinema

Idylwild - Trembling Blue Stars from The Last Holy Write

Dreams of Living - The Clientele from God Save the Clientele

High Times - Elliott Smith from New Moon

Transparent - The Sea and Cake from Everybody

The Mid-Week Recommendation

2007-05-23T20:29:00.000-06:00

The Tyde Once

Silver's Okay Michelle

The Raincoats - Back in the Kitchen

2007-05-22T22:25:00.001-06:00

The Raincoats have returned with a once hard to find classic, The Kitchen Tapes. Released in 1983, The Kitchen Tapes still remains The Raincoats only live album. For a long time, it was only available on cassette. I still have my copy which I had to special order from Shangri La Records about ten years ago. Well, I happy to report that the album is now on CD and downloadable from eMusic.

TML Monthly Review Playlist - Episode #6

2007-05-08T15:31:00.000-06:00

Milk Crate - Red Eyed Legends from Mutual Insignificance

Bulldozers - King Kong from Buncha Beans

99 and 1/2 - Mavis Staples from We'll Never Turn Back

Los Cruzados - Elk City from New Believers

He Hit Me- Grizzly Bear from Daytrotter Seasons

23 - Blonde Redhead from 23

Appropriate Ending - The Electric Soft Parade from No Need To Be Downhearted

Night of the Furies- The Rosebuds from Night of the Furies

Like New - Deerhunter from Flourescent Grey EP

That Summer, At Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy - The Twilight Sad from Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters

Cosmia - Joanna Newsom from Joanna Newsom and the Y's Street Band EP

Hey Boy - The Blow from Poor Aim: Love Songs & Remixes

Dumb Luck - Dntel from Dumb Luck

All Ears - Kompis & Erlend Oye from All Ears/Untitled EP

In The Morning (Hot Chip Remix) - Junior Boys from Dead Horse EP

Don't Bother They're Here - Stars of the Lid from And Their Refinement of the Decline

Polyfusion - Seefeel from Quique (reissue)

Clown Towne - Marissa Nadler from Xix Xiu Remixed & Covered

Lightness - Peter and the Wolf from Daytrotter Session

The Wheel - Bill Callahan from Woke On A Whaleheart

Blessed Is The Memory (Bonus Track) - Leonard Cohen from Songs of Leonard Cohen (reissue)

From the River to the Ocean - Fred Anderson and Hamid Drake from From the River to the Ocean

TML Episode #6 - Today!

2007-05-08T10:32:00.000-06:00

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, but I thought I should mention a new episode of The Music Lovers Monthly Review will be airing today on WEVL 89.9FM from 4-6pm.

Tune in or listen online.

WEVL Spring Pledge Drive Starts Today!

2007-04-13T07:47:00.001-06:00

WEVL 89.9FM starts their Spring Pledge Drive today and continues until April 21st. Please take the time to make a donation and show that you support volunteer radio.

Pledge Online!

TML Monthly Review Playlist - Episode #5

2007-04-10T12:08:00.000-06:00

Myth Takes - !!! (Chk Chk Chk) from Myth Takes

North American Scum - LCD Soundsystem from Sound Of Silver

Comfy In Nautica - Panda Bear from Person Pitch

I Used To Dance With My Daddy - Datarock from Datarock

Suicide Summer - Headache City from Headache City

Stop And Think It Over- Mary Weiss from Dangerous Game

Four Winds - Bright Eyes from Four Winds EP

Rehearsed Verses - The Horns of Happiness from What Spills Like Thread

A Tender History In Rust - Do Make Say Think from You, You're A History In Rust

The Sun Never Sets - Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid from Tongues

At The End Of The Day - Amon Tobin from Foley Room

From Here We Go Sublime - The Field from From Here We Go Sublime

Belarus - Low from Drums and Guns

No Comply - Studio from Yearbook 1

Stays Demons - Nadja from Touched

Up All Night - El-P from I'll Sleep When You're Dead

Flyentology (Cassettes Won't Listen Remix) - El-P from I'll Sleep When You're Dead (Online Exclusive)

Wild - J Dilla from Ruff Draft

Rainbowarriors - CocoRosie from Rainbowarrios (single)

Alleluia - Odawas from Raven and the White Night

New Partner - Bonnie Prince Billy from Stranger Form of Life EP

Sleepdriving - Archives from MySpace Exclusive

Scythian Empires - Andrew Bird from Armchair Apocrypha

Diamond Dancer - Bill Callahan from Diamond Dancer (single)

Black Wave/Bad Vibrations - Arcade Fire from Neon Bible

This Week on the Lovers

2007-04-10T00:13:00.000-06:00

The Music Lovers Monthly Review Episode #5 will air today from 4-6pm. Listen at 89.9FM or online. And remember, the Spring Pledge Drive begins this Friday!

The Lovers' Album of the Week

2007-04-06T21:50:00.000-06:00

Small Snails Similar Anniversaries

Somnambulist (music video)

This Week's Episode - Delayed (and New Date)

2007-04-02T18:59:00.000-06:00

The Music Lovers Monthly Review will be pushed back another week (4/10), a few days before WEVL's Spring Pledge Drive. Also, all future programs will now air on the second Tuesday of each month from 4-6pm.

The Lovers' Album of the Week

2007-03-30T09:21:00.001-06:00

Nadja Touched

The Mid-Week Recommendation

2007-03-28T09:33:00.000-06:00

Shelby Bryant Cloud-Wow Music

The Walk

New Releases - Tuesday

2007-03-27T10:57:00.000-06:00

If you can't get enough of Panda Bear, eMusic has released Panda Bear Live at ZDB, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2004 Part 2, which features an 11:23 minute version of "Bros". This version fades in, so we can only assume that Part 1 of this release refers to the first part of this already epic song. But since eMusic doesn't provide it, and there is no mention of the release on Carpark Records (who apparently put it out), we have no way of knowing at the moment. Oh well, enjoy another version only on eMusic.

Free Music Monday - Headache City

2007-03-26T10:56:00.000-06:00

Headache City has a bit of a misleading band name. Sure, they come from Chicago. And sure there are days when living in this Windy City can cause the worst of migraines. But my first reaction was "noise pop/rock". Well, forget the noise and concentrate on the pop and the rock. Featuring members of the Motards and CoCoComa, Headache City create foot tappin' (even addictive) pop gems, such as "Suicide Summer," which just might be the best song I never heard in 2006. If you're in Chicago, make sure to check out a free(!) show from them tonight at the Empty Bottle.

Throw Up Red

TML Monthly Review Playlist - Episode #4

2007-03-13T22:17:00.000-06:00

Bluebells - Patrick Wolf from The Magic Position

Nobody Sees Me Like You Do - Yoko Ono (w/Apples In Stereo) from Yes, I'm a Witch

You Kept Me Waiting Too Long (Ratatat Remix) - Television Personalities from My Dark Places Remixes

Because Tonight - The Besnard Lakes from The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse

Fairy Stories - Black Lips from Los Valientes Del Mondo Nuevo

Pretty Voice - Cloud Cult from The Meaning of 8

Fountains and Tramways - Beirut from Pompeii EP

I'm Your Man - John Hancock from Part Mongolian

I Am John - Loney, Dear from Loney, Noir

Bubbha's Dance - J Rocc from Chrome Children Vol. 2

Oh Well - Tim Fite from Over the Counterculture

Paragraphs Relentless - Dälek from Abandonded Language

Vanitas - Bobby Conn from King for a Day

Medicine - Jesu from Conqueror

So Long, Lonesome - Explosions in the Sky from All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone

Origin - Studio from Yearbook 1

The Campaign For Real Bread - Ollo from The If If

Everyone Is Someone's - Rio en Medio from Bride of Dynamite

Beautiful Life - Gui Boratto from Chromophobia

Human Punching Bag - M. Ward from To Go Home EP

Knoxville Girl (featuring Will Oldham) - Charlie Louvin from Charlie Louvin

Words You Use To Say - Dean & Britta from Back Numbers

Put There By The Land - Great Lake Swimmers from Ongiara

Watch Out, Here I Come!

2007-03-12T18:41:00.000-06:00

Tune in to WEVL 89.9 on Tuesday, March 13, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. I'll be live in the studio bringing you my favorite releases from the last month. You can also listen online. Rock on!

Friday Night!

2007-03-08T13:59:00.000-06:00

This Week's Episode - Postponed

2007-03-05T17:27:00.000-06:00

The Music Lovers Monthly Review will not be airing this Tuesday (3/6). Since I will be in Memphis next week, I will be able to host a new episode live at the WEVL Studio. So, tune in Tuesday March 13 for my favorite releases of the past month.

The Lovers' Album of the Week

2007-03-02T00:03:00.000-06:00

Dälek Abandoned Language

Paragraphs Relentless

Thursday Tidbits - Asobi Seksu

2007-03-01T17:33:00.000-06:00

This one slipped past me on Tuesday, but Asobi Seksu released an iTunes Exclusive EP called Live from SoHo. The set is entirely made up of songs from last year's release, Citrus, which certianly isn't bad thing. The live EP includes "Thursday," the single from Citrus, which perfectly blends the dreaminess of My Bloody Valentine and the pop beauty of say, Camera Obscura.

The Mid-Week Recommendation

2007-02-28T22:54:00.000-06:00

Summer Hymns Clemency

Wet Mess

New Releases - Tuesday

2007-02-27T13:26:00.000-06:00

Looking around for albums to recommend today, one of the most interesting (or unexpected) I've come across is an "eMusic Only" release from Beirut called Pompeii. Hardly even an EP (there are only two songs), the tracks are still rather strong and, along with Lon Gisland EP, will have to hold us until Beirut's follow up to Gulag Orkestar.

Also, everyone's favorite hip-hop label, Stone Throws, releases Chrome Children Vol. 2, featuring Madlib, J Rocc, Aloe Blacc (w/Four Tet), Oh No, and others on the Stone Throws roster.

Free Music Monday - Tim Fite

2007-02-26T00:20:00.000-06:00

"I want you to buy my record so I can sell out in 60 seconds. At the Best Buy, I want to be the best guy," raps Tim Fite on "It's All Right Here" on his new album Over the Counterculture. Despite such declarations, Fite's latest release is being offered free on his website. As with most hip-hop, it should be noted that if this was found in Best Buy, it would be donned with a Parental Advisory sticker. My favorite track is "Oh Well," which doesn't even feature Fite's stylings but a hilarious sampling from an unknown (at least to me) interview:

Oh Well
from Over the Counterculture

The Weekend - Ennio Morricone

2007-02-25T11:20:00.000-06:00

Sure, there is a new album out there right now celebrating the work of legendary film composer Ennio Morricone with artists ranging from Celine Dion to Metallica, but for a more daring tribute you might want to take a look at John Zorn's The Big Gundown: John Zorn Plays the Music of Ennio Morricone. According to Zorn, The Big Gundown was an album that even Zorn thought was a bit pointless, since who could improve on Morricone? Despite his early reservations, the project was funded and gave Zorn a chance to get back into the studio. And the results even impressed Morricone. I am mentioning all this because it's the day of the Oscars, and Morricone is receiving an Honorary Academy Award. Of course, for the ultimate Morricone experience, you can't go wrong with a piece by the man himself. Without hesitation, my suggestion would be for Morricone's work on Sergio Leone's classic spaghetti Western, Once Upon A Time In The West. It still ranks as one of my favorite soudtracks of all time.

The Lovers' Album of the Week

2007-02-23T02:28:00.000-06:00

Studio Yearbook 1

- Audio samples can be found on Studio's Myspace page.

Thursday's Tidbits - Great Lake Swimmers

2007-02-22T01:55:00.000-06:00

Despite the fact that Great Lake Swimmers' website claims that their new album Ongiara isn't scheduled for release in the States until May, it's already downloadable on both iTunes and eMusic. I'm not sure if this is a goof up or not, but I wasted no time in finding out. On first impression, the new one hasn't instantly drawn me in like Great Lake Swimmers' previous album, Bodies and Mind. Ongiara just might be one of those albums you have to spend some time with for awhile. And heck, I've got nowhere to go.

- If you need proof that Great Lake Swimmers' singer/songwriter Tony Dekker has one of the most achingly beautiful voices out there, listen to the evidence:

Bodies and Minds
from Bodies and Minds

I Will Never See The Sun
from Great Lake Swimmers

The Mid-Week Recommendation

2007-02-21T03:23:00.000-06:00

Matt Marque Get There

My first introduction to Matt Marque's music was through his representative label, Truckstop Records. From 1999-2001, the output from this small (now defunct) Chicago label was nothing short of spectacular, producing some of the loveliest songs of the indie singer/songwriter genre. T.W. Walsh's "Old Fashioned Way of Speaking," Pinetop Seven's "The Fear of Being Found," Simon Joyner's "I Will Find You," and The Lofty Pillars’ “At the Station” are all underrated masterpieces. These are songs that once you hear them you become lost within their narrative landscapes, and you long to revisit them promptly after their running time has expired. The same could be said of the music of fellow labelmate, Matt Marque. Admittedly, Marque is the less polished of the bunch, but it doesn’t make his efforts any less impressive. His debut, Get There (2001), is an unassuming album that sounds like a cross between a demo and a fully realized undertaking, which is less a comment on Marque’s musical abilities than it is on the album’s honesty. Sure Marque’s voice cracks but that’s part of the charm. By the way, Marque’s real talent lies within his songs, which are cleverly crafted over an acoustic guitar and his lyrical rime. Now, it would be a disservice not to mention Marque’s strong backing band - Michael Krassner (Boxhead Ensemble), Glenn Kotche (Wilco), Fred Lonberg-Holm (God is my Co-Pilot), and Steve Dorocke - whose talents give color to Marque's lovelorn world. The highlight here is "Unknown Flowers On Your Dress," a rolling ballad where Marque's wispy voice duets with Dorocke's pedal steel. It just might be the most beautful song released on Truckstop. It's also a song that I must have listened to over a thousand times. So, in a lot of ways, revisiting Get There is a bit like getting together with an old friend.

Unknown Flowers On Your Dress

Bonus Track:
Blowback
from Nothing Personal*

*Marque's follow up was released in 2004, three years after Get There. Since it's 2007, I suspect (hope) we will be getting a new Marque album real soon.

New Releases Tuesday

2007-02-20T21:04:00.000-06:00

Personal Picks:

M. Ward - To Go Home EP
Jesu - Conqueror
Explosions In the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
LCD Soundsytem - North American Scum (single)
Richard Swift - Dressed Up For The Letdown
Television Personalities - My Dark Places Remixes
Charlie Louvin - Charlie Louvin

Explosions In The Sky - Welcome, Ghosts

Free Music Monday - Pela

2007-02-19T01:12:00.000-06:00

Starting last week and continuing until April 24, Brooklyn's Pela are putting out a free song each week from their upcoming release, Anytown Graffiti. The ploy must be working as Pela headlined a sold out show last week at The Mercury Lounge in NYC. "Lost to the Lonesome" expands on the guitar driven rock found on the group's 2005 All In Time EP, complete with crafty lines like "Hey, we should crash the party on Christmas Eve. Hey, we should write our name on every wall we see. Hey, we should break our wallets at every bar. Hey, we could break the bed without broken hearts. La La La". Enjoy!

Lost to the Lonesome

The Lovers' Album of the Week

2007-02-16T10:34:00.000-06:00

Loney, Dear Loney, Noir

I Am John

The Mid-Week Recommendation

2007-02-14T10:18:00.000-06:00

Jeff Mangum Orange Twin Field Works Volume 1

Orange Twin Field Works is not a lost recording of Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel/Indie Cult God), but a Mangum field recording of his trip to the National Festival of Bulgarian Folklore, a three day festival of traditonal Bulgarian music in Koprivshitsa. The festival, which is held every five years, has been rapidly growing since it's formation in 1965, having nearly 15,000 performers in 2005 (take that Bonnaroo!). In 2000, two years after recording "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea," Mangum continued to frustrate his fan base by ignoring the studio, and instead, treking over 5,000 miles with only his recorder and microphone at hand ready to capture the eclectic sounds of the Bulgarian people. Instead of an album of seperate track recordings, Mangum has assembled the entire event into a thirty minute composition, having one song drift into another as ambient sounds of crowds, traffic, and general atmosphere linger in the background. The result feels like a sampling of the weekend, showcasing various instrumentations, odd rhythms, and singing styles. At times, Mangum only allows the listener a few minutes of a song before his interest moves along to something else. Sure, Mangum is fascinated by these artists, but unlike famous field recorders like Alan Lomax whose recordings are documentations of the artist, Orange Twin Field Works Volume 1 is a documentatoin of the recorder's experience.

New Releases Tuesday

2007-02-13T11:35:00.000-06:00

Wow, it's a very slow week for new releases. I suppose the biggest release is Lucinda Williams' West. However, also check out the early release of Explosions In The Sky's All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone. The album isn't scheduled to come out until February 20, but it's already available on iTunes. Head over to the band's label Temporary Residence for a free mp3 of the song "Welcome, Ghosts".

And, are iTunes Live Sessions the new Peel Sessions? The newest in the Apple series is a set from The Rapture.

On the Emusic front, there is an advance release from Brooklyn's The Subject's called With the Ease Grace Precision and Cleverness of Human Beings. If you're in the Chicago area, you can check them out twice on Feb. 20: 1) Reckless Records in store performance 2)Empty Bottle CD Release Party.

"Hounds Of War"
from With the Ease Grace Precision and Cleverness of Human Beings

Free Music Monday - Podington Bear

2007-02-12T12:13:00.000-06:00

So, do you need a reason to look forward to Mondays? Well, how about this one? Every Monday (as well as Wednesday and Friday), the Portland based Podington Bear (aka P Bear, not Panda Bear) releases upon the online sharing community a new electropop instrumental track that's 100% free. It's an experiement that he started on Janurary 1st and plans to continue until the end of the year (that's 52.177457 weeks or 156.532371 songs!). Despite the rigorous schedule put upon himself, P Bear's songs don't sound rushed. While the compositions are relatively simple, they're also highy layered with plenty of unexpected twists and turns. Some are bouncy, feel good distractions. Others are slow, calming, and reflective. I like to think of it as the perfect background music, meaning it's clever enough for a closer listen, but also an ideal listen at the office, working around the house, or even walking the dog. Highly recommended!

Go To Sleep
A sweet song today. This one already satisfying a request to do a song about dreaming. Part 1 is the lullabye. Part II is sleep (or non REM stages 1-4. Listener Tod can visualize his baby sleep-laughing here). Then something happens! - P Bear

(A similar experiment was undertook by my friends The Hometown Nobodies. You can check them out here.)

Albums of the Month (January)

2007-02-09T10:57:00.000-06:00

Here are some of my favorite releases from January. And, expect for the Album of the Week's feature to start up again next week. Let's get started:

Of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?

Of Montreal's lastest album is all primal scream therapy as singer/songwriter Kevin Barnes takes the listener on a journey of his past year full of resentment, heartache, depression, and divorce. Still, such subjects have never sounded this joyful. Along with their debut Cherry Peel, this is Of Montreal's second masterpiece.

Animal Collective People EP

Noah Lennox (or Panda Bear) just might be the most talented guy working in indie pop these days. Here is a four song EP to tide us over until the full length comes out from both Animal Collective and his solo record Person Pitch (which is already being labeled the best album of the year).

Radicalfashion Odoir

Odori means "dance" in Japanese, but don't expect to be busting out your best dance moves. Odori is a highly textured album combining samples, electronics, and piano to create something rather serene.

Ghost In Stormy Nights

Those Japanese psych/prog rockers are back with another strong outing with In Stormy Nights. I'm waiting for the tribute album to Ghost to emerge, highlighted by performances from Ian Anderson, Robert Wyatt, Rick Wakeman, and Robert Fripp. (Really, it's only in my mind, so don't start googling it.)

Exploding Star Orchestra We Are All From Somewhere Else

A jazz outfit led by Rob Mazurek of The Chicago Underground and Isotope 217 and containing such Thrill Jockey heavyweights as John McEntire, Jeff Parker, Jim Parker, and Nicole Mitchell. Now, there is an awe indusing reasoning behind each of these songs, somehow relating to our cosmic universe and electric eels and sting rays and rebirth. But, honestly, all that information really just seems to get in the way. So, forget the backstory, and take in the recording which, if it's not the best jazz release thus far, it's certainly the best post-rock.

TML Monthly Review Playlist - Episode #3

2007-02-06T14:48:00.000-06:00

+81 - Deerhoof from Friend Opportunity

Sleeping Lessons - The Shins from Wincing The Night Away

Elephant Gun - Beirut from Lon Gisland EP

Underwater (You & Me) - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah from Some Loud Thunder

A House Is Not A Home - Field Music from Tones Of Town

Canyon Arrow - The Autumn Defense from The Autumn Defense

Jacket - David Vandervelde from The Moonstation House Band

Knife (Girl Talk Remix) - Grizzly Bear from Online Exclusive

The Troglodyte Wins - Busdriver from RoadKillOvercoat

The Past Is A Grotesque Animal - Of Montreal from Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?

The Old Men Of The Shells - Alasdair Roberts from The Amber Gatherers

Caledonia - Ghost from In Stormy Nights

Tikwid - Animal Collective from People EP

Under the Sun - Junior Boys from Live Session (iTunes Exclusive)

Electro Karaoke In The Negative Style - Fujiya & Miyagi from Online Exclusive

Thousand (feat. Carl Stone) - Radicalfashion from Odori

Frogs In Tuxes - Podington Bear from Online Exclusive (January)

Mr. Me Too (Z.A.K. Remix) - Clipse from Online Exclusive

Cosmic Tomes For Sleep Walking Lovers, Pt.3 - Exploding Star Orchestra from We Are All From Somewhere Else

My Rain - Boris (w/Michio Kurihara) from Rainbow

Not Nice - Chris Garneau from Music For Tourists

Bro's - Panda Bear from Bro's (single)

This Week on the Lovers

2007-02-06T11:10:00.000-06:00

My favorite new releases from month of Januaray, including such artists as The Shins, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Of Montreal, Beirut, Animal Collectice, Deerhoof, and many more...

Today, 4-6pm on WEVL 89.9FM or online.

New Episode - This Tuesday!

2007-01-31T22:45:00.000-06:00

The Music Lovers Monthly Review (Episode #3 ) will air this coming Tuesday (2/6) from 4-6pm. Tune in to hear all my favorite songs from those albums released in January. As always, you can listen online.

- I just updated to the new Blogger (powered by Google), so I just noticed that I had been left comments on previous posts. Just so you know that I wasn't ignoring you.

The Music Lovers Monthly Review Playlist for 12/5/06

2006-12-05T17:49:00.000-06:00

Trouble - Voxtrot from Your Biggest Fan EP

Go Lucky - The Curtains from Calamity

Grain of Salt - The Morning Benders from 3 Songs

The Light - White Magic from Dat Rosa Mel Apibus

Big Julie - Jarvis from Jarvis

True Affection - The Blow from Paper Television

Cosmia - Joanna Newsom from Ys

Master of None - Beach House from Beach House

I Do Have Weapons - Mogwai from Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait

The Sinking Belle (Blue Sheep) - SunnO)))/Boris from Altar

Elq Milq - The Octopus Project/Black Moth Super Rainbow from The House of Apples & Eyeballs

In The City - Xiu Xiu vs. Grouper from Creepshow

Steal the Blue Prints - +/- from Let's Build A Fire

Cut From The Cloth - The Evens from Get Evens

My Children, Be Joyful - Rock Plaza Central from Are We Not Horses

Brother - Annuals from Be He Me

Cold & Wet - Bonnie "Prince" Billy from Cold & Wet EP

Worlds Away - Daylights for the Birds from Trouble Everywhere

Let's Go Driving - Barzin from My Life In Rooms

Sons and Daughters - The Decemberists from The Crane Wife

The Sun's Gone Dim and the Sky's Turned Black - Johann Johannsson from The Sun's Gone Dim and the Sky's Turned Black EP

Safe Travels - Peter & the Wolf from Lightness

Bottom of the World - Tom Waits from Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards

Our Prayer - R. Keenan Lawler from Music for Bluegrass States

Been Here Before - Jeremy Enigk from World Waits

Update: The Music Lovers Monthly Review

2006-12-03T23:01:00.000-06:00

Check out the new program The Music Lovers Monthly Review starting this Tuesday (12/5) from 4-6pm. I'll be playing all my favorite new releases from the past month. You can think of it as a monthly "best of" of The Music Lovers. The new program will air every first Tuesday of each month. And as always, you can check here for the playlist.

WEVL Halloween Special Playlist

2006-10-31T18:27:00.000-06:00

Joost Visser - It's Halloween

Arch Oboler - Introduction To Horror

Evangelicals - Halloween Song

Bing Crosby, Victor Moore, and Boris Karloff - Halloween

Arch Oboler - I'm Hungry

John Zacherle - Dinner With Drac

Nouvelle Vague - Bela Lugosi's Dead

Hot Blood - Soul Dracula

Gene Defcon - Frankenstein

Jad Fair and Daniel Johnston - Frankenstein vs. The World

Jad and David Fair - Frankenstein

Harry Belafonte - Zombie Jamboree

R.E.M. - I Walked With A Zombie

Bruce Lenkei - Moonllight Zombie Dance

Crewnecks - Rockin' Zombie

Vincent Price - How To See Ghosts Or Surely Bring Them To You

The Specials - Ghost Town

Roky Erickson & The Aliens - If You Have Ghosts

Sheldon Allman - I Don't Stand A Chance With A Ghost Like You

Jumpin' Gene Simmons - Haunted House

Whodini - Haunted House Of Rock

Loretta Lynn - This Haunted House

Creepy Clyde - Haunted House

Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Voodoo Priestess

The Chants - I'm Your Witchdoctor

The Sonics - Witch

Goblin - Suspiria (Main Title)

The Barbarellatones - Monster Surf Party

Jack and Jim - Midnight Monsters Hop

The Misfits - Monster Mash

The Cramps - I Was A Teenage Werewolf

Wally Ford - I Was A Teenage Mental Case

Thrul Ravenscroft - Teenage Brain Surgeon

The Blanks - Happy Halloween

Chicago Blog Is Up!

2006-10-09T11:38:00.000-06:00

If there is anyone still left out there who is checking this blog, I am here to inform you that the Chicago blog is up. The wife and I are still working on it but I couldn't wait to get some updates up! So expect it to look more flashy as time goes by.

Welcome to A Mild Uproad of Fun!

A message from Chi-caw-go

2006-09-07T17:24:00.000-06:00

Hey there! I just wanted leave a quick message to say that I think that both Tate and Andrew are doing a great job in my old time slots. Check out Andrew on the Memphis Beat every Tuesday from 1-2pm. And Tate during the old time slot for the Lovers every Thursday from 4-6pm.

P.S. Thanks Tate for all the kind words and for my song!

P.S. #2 Look out for another blog about my new life in Chicago to start real soon. Miss you!

A Lovers' Goodbye

2006-08-25T08:33:00.000-06:00

Well, I guess that's it! It has been a lot of fun bringing you The Music Lovers each week. I will certainly miss it. Thanks for listening!

- And if you enjoyed The Lovers, you should be checking out these other programs on WEVL: Hi Fidelity, Janet's Planet, Siren's Muse, Welcome to the Working Week, Out on the Side, Pathways, Thursday Morning Throwdown, and every Tuesday Afternoon 4-6pm.

(Thanks Kenya for humoring me with the picture.)

The Lovers' Album of the Week

2006-08-24T23:23:00.000-06:00

The Mountain Goats Get Lonely

The Music Lovers playlist for 8/24/06 (Final Show)

2006-08-24T15:09:00.000-06:00

The Music Lovers - Destroyer from Notorious Lighting and Other Works

Here's Your Future - The Thermals from The Body, The Blood, The Machine

Mini T.V.'s - Chad VanGaalen from Skelliconnection

Almost There - Like A Fox from Like A Fox

Country Girl - Primal Scream from Riot City Blues

No Backbone - The Lemonheads from The Lemonheads

Rolling One Sun Blues - Wooden Wand And The Sky High Band from Second Attention

Ghost of York - As Tall As Lions from As Tall As Lions

She Is - Sufjan Stevens from Dream Brother: The Songs of Tim and Jeff Buckley

The Lamests Shows - The Tyde from Three's Co

The American Line - Dog Age from Reefy Seadragon

Collection Of Stamps - I'm From Barcelona from Let Me Introduce My Friends

Golden Star - My Brightest Diamond from Bring Me The Workhorse

Be Good - Tokyo Police Club from A Lesson In Crime

White Light/White Light - Supersystem from A Milliion Microphones

Cybele's Reverie (Remastered) - Stereolab from Serene Velocity: A Stereolab Anthology

Count Souvenirs - Junior Boys from So This Is Goodbye

Dorothy At Forty - Cursive from Happy Hollow

I'm On Fire- Electrelane from Singles, B-Sides & Live

Lex - Ratatat from Classics

Let Down - Easy Star All-Stars w/Toots and the Maytals from Radiodread

No Surprises - Easy Star All-Stars w/The Meditations from Radiodread

As You Said - Tortoise from A Lazarus Taxon

Chinese Translation - M. Ward from Post-War

What Were The Chances - Damien Jurado from And Now That I'm In Your Shadow

Memphis Moon - Magnolia Electric Co from Fading Trails

The Race Is On Again - Yo La Tengo from I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass

Woke Up New - The Mountain Goats from Get Lonely

The Music Lovers - Destroyer from Yer Blues

This Week on the Lovers - Final Show

2006-08-23T22:39:00.000-06:00

New releases from:
The Mountain Goats, The Lemonheads, Primal Scream, Cursive, My Brightest Diamond, The Tyde, Chad VanGaalen, Junior Boys, Damien Jurado, Magnolia Electric Co, M. Ward, Ratata, Supersystem, The Thermals, Lambchop, Electrelane, Tortoise, and many more...

Back To The Country playlist for 8/22/06

2006-08-22T07:12:00.000-06:00

Marty Stuart - Get Back To The Country

Buck Owens - Above and Beyond

Ernest Tubb - Soldier's Last Letter

George Jones - Her Name Is

George Jones - Blue Moon of Kentucky

Hank Williams - Honky Tonkin'

Loretta Lynn - I'm A Honky Tonk Girl

Hank Thompson - When God Calls His Children Home

Lucy J. Dalton - Hard Times

Louvin' Brothers - Kentucky

Emmylou Harris - Blue Kentucky Girl

Charlie Rich - Behind Closed Doors

Jim Reeves - Blue Side of Lonesome

Bobby Osborne - The Hard Times

Tara Nevins - Troubles

The Sons of the Pioneers - Tumbling Tumbleweeds

Connie Smith - Ribbon of Darkness

Tanya Tucker - Blood Red and Goin' Down

Dolly Parton - Harper Valley PTA

Jimmie Rogers - T.B. Blues

Riders In The Sky - That's How The Yodel Was Born

Rex Allen, Jr. - Can You Hear Those Pioneers?

Gene Autry - Back In The Saddle Again

Carl Smith (by request) - Hey Joe

Bill Monroe - I'm On My Way To The Home

Johnny Horton - I'm Coming Home

Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown

Dwight Yoakman - Guitars, Cadillacs

Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Three - One Piece At A Time

Dave Dudley - Six Days on the Road

Don Gibson - Waitin' Down The Road

Tennessee Ernie - Mule Train

Doc & Merle Watson - Freight Train Blues

Fred Eaglesmith - I Like Trains

Asleep At The Wheel - My Baby Thinks She's A Train

Freddy Fender - Wasted Days and Wasted Nights

Charlie Rich - Sittin' and Thinkin' (by request)

Johnny Bond - Sick, Sober, and Sorry

James Hand - In The Corner, At The Table, By The Jukebox

Album Feature:
In Concert w/Charley Pride, Chet Atkins, Ronnie Milsap, Dolly Parton, Jerry Reed, Gary Stewart

Charley Pride - Kaw-Liga

Charley Pride - Mississippi Cotton Picking Delta Town

Charley Pride - Louisiana Man

Dolly Parton - Jolene

Dolly Parton - Love Is Like A Butterfly

Dolly Parton - Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton - The Bargain Store

Gary Stewart - Out Of Hand

Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed - Colonel Bogey

Charley Pride - For The Good Times

Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed - John Henry

- End of Album Feature -

Billy Walker - Thank You For Calling

Willie Nelson - Hello Walls

Patsy Cline - Three Cigarettes In An Ashtray

Ernest Tubb and Loretta Lynn - Who's Gonna Take Your Garbage Out

Gail Davies - Love Love Love

Roy Acuff - Pins and Needles (In My Heart)

June Carter Cash and Carl Smith - Love Oh Crazy Love

Jimmie Dal Gilmore - Braver New World

Merle Haggard - Wonder If They Ever Think Of Me

Blues on the Bluff - Part 2 Photos

2006-08-20T10:09:00.000-06:00

Sorry, I didn't take that many photos from Part 2 since I wasn't able to get to the event until the start of the Kenny Brown Band. But I shall share what little I captured:

Blues on the Bluff - It's Tonight!

2006-08-18T14:50:00.000-06:00