Blues on the Bluff - Photos (Part 1)

Thanks to all the artists, volunteers, and attendees for making Part 1 of this year's Blues on the Bluff the most successful in the concert series' history! Scroll down for photos from the event:

Blues on the Bluff - Photos (Part 2)

Blues on the Bluff - Photos (Part 3)

Blues on the Bluff - Photos

Coming Soon!

Blues on the Bluff - Tonight!

The Lovers' Album of the Week - Part 1

Cut Chemist The Audience's Listening

The Lovers' Album of the Week - Part 2

Tied & Tickled Trio A.R.C.

This Week on the Lovers

New releases from:
Thom Yorke, TV On The Radio, Thievery Corporation, French Kicks, James Figurine, Islands, Kid 606, The Pipettes, Camera Obscura, The Dears, Early Day Miners, Tied & Tickled Trio, Regina Spektor, Feist, Pas/Cal, Say Hi To Your Mom, Clue To Kalo, and many more...

A Random Album Recommendation

The Books Thought for Food

A Tribute to Syd on WEVL

Cassie did a great job paying tribute to the late Syd Barrett this afternoon on her program Vapour Trails. Check out the playlist here.

The Hitchhiker's Dance Guide playlist on 7/15/06

1. Bitstream - Retreat Pod
2. Scan 7 - Mind Trap
3. Aril Brikha - Groove La Chord
4. Kirk Degirogio - Irradiant
5. Adam Beyer - As If Dub 1
6. Robin Porter - Futhernature (Mariel Ito Remix)
7. Kraftwerk - Robots
8. Juan Atkins - Info World
9. Transmat - Bytes
10. LFO - Freak
11. Harthouse - Bionical Clones
12. Planet E - Darkness
13. James Ruskin - Transfer
14. Newworldaquarium - Monkeyworld
15. Phonogenic - Fiddler on the Floor
16. The Advent - Inn Search
17. Sebastian Kramer - Sunwarriors
18. Steve Rachmad - Love Sweet Love
19. Jori Hulkkonen - Science
20. Joel Mull -For Me
21. New Order - The Beach
22. Meikbar - Liston
23. Bart Skills - Hihert
24. Derrick May - Drama
25. Aphex Twin - Ageispolis
26. Plastikman - Plastique
27. Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine
28. DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World
29. Kraftwerk - Neon Lights (bonus)

The Lovers' Album of the Week - Part 1

David Bazan Fewer Moving Parts EP

The Lovers' Album of the Week - Part 2

Thom Yorke The Eraser

The Music Lovers playlist for 7/13/06

1. Fire Island, AK - The Long Winters from Putting The Days To Bed
2. Cream and Bastards Rise - Harvey Danger from Little By Little...
3. Situation: Hot! - Apollo Up! from Chariots of Fire
4. Fidelity - Regina Spektor from Begin To Hope
5. Rally (by request) - Phoenix from It's Never Been Like That
6. Parade Of Punk Rock T-Shirts - Maritime from We, the Vehicles
7. Oh No, Oh Boy - Shapes and Sizes from Shapes and Sizes
8. The Party Punch - Oh No! Oh My! from The Jolly Rogers EP
9. Keyholes and Curtains - Parenthetical Girls from Safe As Houses
10. Nu Tones - Nomo from New Tones
11. Up With People - Oneida from Happy New Year
12. Dismember - Spoon from Telephone (reissue)
13. Instrumentals H - Arthur Russell from First Thought Best Thought
14. Wylin Out (Kut Masta Kurt Remix) - Mos Def/Diverse from Chocolate Swim EP
15. We Know Where You Sleep - The Paper Chase from Now You Are One Of Us
16. It's For You (Rub N Tug's Primavera Edit) - Out Hud from It's For You EP
17. Cub - Alias & Tarsier from Brookland/Oaklyn
18. Bless This Morning - Helios from Eingya
19. Popzag - Magyar Posse from Kings of Time
20. Bangkok Nordusins - Jóhann Jóhannsson from Dis
21. Enjoy Your Worries, You May Never Have Them Again - The Books from Thought For Food
22. These Fangs - Say Hi To Your Mom from Impeccable Blahs
23. Selling Adertising - David Bazan from Fewer Moving Parts EP
24. The Mistress Witch From McClure (or, The Mind That Knows Itself) - Sufjan Stevens from The Avalanche
25. Let's Get Out Of This Country - Camera Obscura from Let's Get Out Of This Country
26. The Eraser - Thom Yorke from The Eraser

This Week on the Lovers

New releases from:
Thom Yorke, David Bazan, The Long Winters, Apollo Up!, Regina Spektor, Oneida, Parenthetical Girls, Maritime, Nomo, and many more...

The Lovers' Album of the Week

Nomo New Tones

The Modern World playlist on 7/7/06

1. The Jam - The Modern World (83)
2. Clean - Tally Ho! (81)
3. The Soft Boys - The Queen of Eyes (80)
4. The Embarressment - Lifespan (83)
5. Half Japanese - Firecracker (85)
6. The Cure - Plastic Passion (79)
7. Young Marble Giants - Credit In The Straight World (79)
8. Wire - 15th (79)
9. Gang of Four - At Home He's A Tourist (79)
10. Alternative TV - Life (79)
11. The Cure - Fire In Cairo (79)
12. The Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine and Roses (82)
13. Suicide - Keep Your Dreams (77)
14. Spectrum - Indian Summer (93)
15. Yo La Tengo - The River of Water (86)
16. Sonic Youth - Burning Spear (82)
17. Happy Mondays - Holiday (90)
18. Blancmange - Living on the Ceiling (82)
19. Haysi Fantayzee - Shiny Shiny (83)
20. The (English) Beat - Ranking Full Stop (83)
21. The Cure - Killing An Arab (79)
22. The db's - The Spy In The House Of Love (84)
23. Heavenly - I Fell In Love Last Night (01)
24. Talking Heads - Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town (77)
25. A Flock Of Seagulls - Space Age Love Song (82)
26. The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys (79)
27. The Bats - The Law of Things (90)
28. Honeybunch - Hey Blue Sky (87)
29. The Smiths - Unloveable (86)
30. Culture Club - Church of the Poison Mind (83)
31. Depeche Mode - Shake the Disease (89)
32. Vaselines - Rory Rides Me Raw (92)
33. New Order - Dreams Never End - Peel Sessions (81)

bold = Album Feature: The Cure Boys Don't Cry (1979)

The Music Lovers playlist for 7/6/06

1. Wanted To Be Your - Spoon from Telephone (reissue)
2. Puzzles Like You - Mojave 3 from Puzzles Like You
3. To Get Lost - Carey Ott from Lucid Dream
4. The Time Of My Ruin - Frank Black from Fast Man Raider Man
5. Alone On The Sea - Steel Train from Bonnaroo Sweet Sounds Vol. 11
6. Rats - Sonic Youth from Rather Ripped
7. Dragonfly - My Brightest Diamond from Bring Me The Workhorse
8. I Just Came To Tell You That I'm Going - Jarvis Cocker and Kid Loco and Karen Elson from Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisted
9. Love Connection, Pt. II - Parenthtical Girls from Safe As Houses
10. This Lamb Sells Condos - Final Fantasy from He Poos Clouds
11. OK-Oyot System - Extra Golden from OK-Oyot System
12. Coulibaly (Akon Remix) - Amadou et Mariam from Summer Tour EP
13. Boy From School (Erol Alkan's Extended Mix) - Hot Chip from Boy From School EP
14. Divisions - Nomo from New Tones
15. This Month Day 10 - CSS from Cansei de Ser Sexy
16. Whole World - Aloe Blacc from Shine Through
17. Power Is On (by request) - The Go! Team from Thunder, Lightning, Strike
18. La Verdad - Juana Molina from Son
19. Commuter Anthem - Opsvik & Jennings from Online Exclusive
20. Sex On Wheelz (by request) - My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult Cool World (Soundtrack)
21. C.T.A. - Tortoise from Urban Renewal Program
22. Our Swords - Band of Horses from Everything All The Time
23. Party - El Perro Del Mar from El Perro Del Mar
24. TV On The Radio - TV On The Radio from Return To Cookie Mountain
25. Topsy Turvey - Shapes and Sizes from Shapes and Sizes
26. No Man's Land - Sufjan Stevens from The Avalanche

HiFidelity playlist on 7/4/06

1. Elvis Costello - Oliver's Army
2. Tullycraft - Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend's Too Stupid To Know About
3. The Tyde - Go Ask Your Dad
4. Saturday Looks Good To Me - Underwater
5. Flake Music - The Shins
6. Stephen Malkamus - Fractions and Feelings
7. Badly Drawn Boy - The Shining
8. The Decemberists - Shiny
9. Radar Brothers - Sisters
10. T.W. Walsh - Old Fashioned Way Of Speaking
11. Pedro the Lion - Never Leave A Job Half Done
12. Beulah - Popular Mechanics For Lovers
13. Pinetop Seven - The Fear Of Being Found
14. Summer Hymns - Half Sick Of Shadows
15. Matt Marque - Unknown Flowers On Your Dress
16. Jerremy Enigk - Abegail Anne
17. Rainer Maria - Artifical Light
18. Portastatic - Oh Come Down
19. Portastatic - Josephine
20. Magnetic Fields - Lonely Highway
21. Camera Obscura - Teenager
22. The Clientele - Five Day Morning
23. Sea & Cake - Jacking the Ball
24. Of Montreal - Tim Wish You Were Born A Girl
25. All Time Quarterback - Empire State
26. East River Pipe - Make A Deal With The City
27. Sufjan Stevens - Niagara Falls Final
28. Belle and Sebastian - Belle & Sebastian
29. Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet - Spin Me Round `86
30. Spoon- Sister Jack (Piano Demo)

Flow Radio playlist on 7/3/06

1. Sonny Sharrock - Broken Toys
2. Autechre - Bike
3. Cranes - Flute Song
4. Patrick Phelan - Lesser Laws
5. Harold Budd/Simon Raymonde/Robin Guthrie/Elizabeth Fraser - Sea, Swallow Me
6. The Innocence Mission - Bright As Yellow
7. Windy & Carl - Sketch For Flea
8. Thievery Corporation - Interlude/Omid (Hope)
9. King of Woolworths - Bakerloo
10. Tommy Hools - Doricamente
11. Jazzanova - Song Of Will
12. Gabin - Terra Pura
13. Amina - Hemipode
14. De Facto - Fingertrap
15. Third Eye Foundation - What Is It With You
16. Dead Can Dance - The Writing On My Father's Hand
17. Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
18. Blow Up Hollywood - Descend
19. This Mortal Coil - I Am The Cosmos
20. Flunk - Blue Monday

The Lovers' Albums of the Week - So Far

Here are all the Lovers' picks for Album of the Week since January. Do you see any major mistakes?

Cat Power - The Greatest (1/13)

Tortoise and Bonnie Prince Billy - The Brave and the Bold (1/28)

Film School - Film School (2/3)

Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies (2/10)

Various Artists - I Am The Resurrection: A Tribute To John Fahey (2/17)

Chicago Underground Duo - In Praise Of Shadows (2/24)

Various Artists - Congotronics 2: Buzz'N'Rumble From the Urb'N'Jungle (3/3)

Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice - Gipsy Freedom (3/10)

Various Artists - Exit Music: Songs With Radio Heads (3/18)

Madlib - Beat Konducta Vol. 1-2:Movie Scenes (3/24)

Talkdemonic - Beat Romantic (3/31)

Aki Tsuyuko - Hokane (4/7)

Lambchop - The Decline of Country and Western Civilization, Pt. 2: The Woodwind Years (4/21)

Voxtrot - Mothers, Sisters, Daughters, & Wives EP (4/28)

Arthur Russell - First Thought Best Thought (5/6)

Danielson - Ships (5/12)

Camera Obscure - Let's Get Out Of This Country (5/19)

Beirut - Gulag Orkestar (5/19)

Cut Chemist - Garden/Storm (singles) (5/26)

Carl Hancock Rux - Good Bread Alley (6/9)

Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped (6/23)

Mojave 3 - Puzzles Like You (6/30)

Out On The Side playlist for 7/2/06

1. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Out On The Side
2. Love - A House Is Not A Motel
3. The Red Krayola - Sherlock Holmes
4. Gary Lewis & the Playboys - I Won't Make That Mistake Again
5. The Webb Brothers - Some Velvet Morning
6. Devin Davis - When I Turn Ninety-Nine
7. T.Rex - Jeepster
8. Reigning Sound - Time Bomb High School (live)
9. Knaughty Knights - I'm Not Trying To Hurt You
10. Rat Traps - Tennessse Rock'n'Roll
11. Twisted Sister - You Can't Stop Rock and Roll
12. Secret Service - End of the Night
13. Half Japanese - Daytona Beach
14. Os Mutantes - Panis et Circenses
15. B.C. Camplight - Couldn't You Tell
16. The Beach Boys - Let's Go Trippin' (live)
17. The Unicorns - I Was Born (A Unicorn)
18. Boris - Electric
19. Make-Up - Intro: Hold It/Here Comes The Judge
20. The Velvet Underground - I'm Gonna Move Right In
21. The Mekons - Lost Highway
22. Buffy Sainte-Marie - Helpless
23. Pearls Before Swine - Another Time
24. Charlie Mcalister - Darla Come Down From Jackson
25. Thinking Fellers Unnion Local 282 - Hell Rules
26. Daniel Johnston - Devil Town
27. Frank Black - Seven Days
28. Can - Turtles Have Short Legs
29. Ted Leo - Biomusicology
30. Sloan - The Good In Everyone
31. My Bloody Valentine - Paint A Rainbow
32. Elvis Costello - Beyond Belief
33. Bob Dylan - Wedding Song (Though I should have played the updated version from Megan Reilly)

WEVL and I: A Week of Subbing

This week I will be subbing for the following programs:

Sunday: Out On The Side 8-10pm
Monday: Flow Radio 6-8pm
Tuesday: HiFidelity 10pm-Midnight
Friday: The Modern World 6-8am

Plus this week, the Memphis Beat will be two hours long.

My Bonnaroo On Loconotion

My entire day reports on Bonnaroo 2006 are all together as one feature on Loconotion, a website my friend Trae started up, and that I contribute to from time to time. I also added a review of Danielson's new album Ships. For the Bonnaroo report, click here.

The Lovers' Album of the Week

Mojave 3 Puzzles Like You

The Music Lovers playlist for 6/29/06

1. Walking the Plank - Apollo Up! from Chariots Of Fire
2. See Myself - The Sails from The Sails
3. Nature of the Experiment - Tokyo Police Club from A Lesson In Crime
4. Reena - Sonic Youth from Rather Ripped
5. Send My Senses - Idiots! from Spring Is Here
6. The Pestilence Is Coming - The Minor Leagues from The Pestilence Is Coming
7. Something Of An End - My Brightest Diamond from Bring Me The Workhorse
8. Anesthesia - Luna from Very Best of Luna
9. Upon Rock City - Books On Tape from Dinosaur Dinosaur
10. Aabesses - Birdy Nam Nam from Birdy Nam Nam
11. What Happened To The Love We Know? - Denise James from Promises
12. Rally - Phoenix from It's Never Been Like That
13. I'm Beautiful - Aloe Blacc from Shine Through
14. Free Stress Test - Professor Murder from Professor Murder Rides The Subway
15. Strange Days (Thievery Corporation Remix) - The Doors/Thievery Corporation from Versions
16. El Corazon De San Vicente - Amps For Christ from Every Eleven Seconds
17. I Owe You (Remix) - Isolee from Western Store
18. The Number Song (Cut Chemist Remix) - DJ Shadow from Endtroducing... (Deluxe Edition)
19. Teen Angst (Montag Remix) - M83 from Teen Angst EP
20. In The Morning - Junior Boys from So This Is Goodbye
21. Lazy Eye - Silversun Pickups from Carnavas
22. Big Star Baby - Mojave 3 from Puzzles Like You
23. Don't Be Afraid, I've Just Come to Say Goodbye, "The Ballad of Clementine Jones" - Spider from The Way To Bitter Lake
24. The Beautiful Dancing Dust (with Antony) - Current 93 from Black Shops Ate The Sky
25. Paradise Here Abouts - Howe Gelb from `Sno Angel Like You
26. Seven Days - Frank Black from Fast Man Raider Man
27. What's Mine Is Yours - Sleater-Kinney from The Woods
28. I Love You (Me Either) - Cat Power and Karen Elson from Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisted