Here’s your Indie on TV alert for the Week of 4/7/14. Remember you can watch previous week’s performances in the Indie on TV Alert page.
Here’s the schedule:
Conan
Monday = MGMT
Wednesday = Bastille
Thursday = Broken Bells
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Top Albums For The Week Of April 8, 2014
Here’s the weekly Top 20 College Radio Albums from the Radio 200 list published by CMJ (College Media Journal). The reputable rag surveys up to 600 college radio stations of a weekly basis to compute the list.
In addition, here’s my Spicy Six Albums of the week. These are the six albums that can’t find their way out of my six disc changer. The list consists of my Top 5 Albums of the week, and one Heritage Album that’s worth dusting off and giving a listen.
Here’s the lists:
Two weeks in a row at the top spot on College Radio for Real Estate. Four new albums debut in the Top 20, including the latest from Cloud Nothings. Dylan Baldi and Co. jump up 82 spots to #5. Also new to the countdown is DJ DEEp’s new favorite band Future Islands (pictured), the Samuel T. Herring fronted band come in at #16, as well as hold down the top spot on Spicy Radio with their latest album “Singles.”
Radio 200 Top 20 College Radio Album for the week of April 8, 2014:
1. REAL ESTATE Atlas
2. WAR ON DRUGS Lost In The Dream
3. ST.VINCENT St. Vincent
4. MAC DEMARCO Salad Days
5. CLOUD NOTHINGS Here And Nowhere Else
6. BECK Morning Phase
7. BLACK LIPS Underneath The Rainbow
8. LIARS Mess
9. TYCHO Awake
10. PERFECT PUSSY Say Yes To Love
11. TOKYO POLICE CLUB Forcefield
12. TACOCAT NVM
13. COATHANGERS Suck My Shirt
14. FOSTER THE PEOPLE Supermodel
15. TEMPLES Sun Structures
16. FUTURE ISLANDS Singles
17. ELBOW The Take Off And Landing Of Everything
18. ANGEL OLSEN Burn Your Fire For No Witness
19. BROKEN BELLS After The Disco
20. PHANTOGRAM Voices
The DJ DEEp Spicy Six:
1. FUTURE ISLANDS Singles
2. DUM DUM GIRLS Too True
3. REAL ESTATE Atlas
4. CLOUD NOTHINGS Here And Nowhere Else
5. BROKEN BELLS After The Disco
Heritage Album Of The Week
6. PIXIES Trompe Le Monde
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New Music Tuesday April 8, 2014
The following albums dropped today and are available in your local trendy record stores or on digital download.
Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks
“Enter The Slasher House”
Animal Collective member Dave Portner aka Avey Tare has a new project that includes Angel Deradoorian (Dirty Projectors) and Jeremy Hyman (Ponytail). Mr. Tare had a solo release back in 2010 titled Down There.
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Coachella 2014: 77 Bands In 77 Days
The Replacements
Well that was a delightful 11 weeks!
Special thanks to Present-Tense for his big-time contributions to this project. Also, a HUGE thank you to Jimi Jam and his team down in the IT department, this would not have been possible without your support. This project was surely unprecedented, not to mention an immense undertaking. I have to admit there were times I felt like pulling the plug on it, but I was way to deep into it to not see it through. Present-Tense and I finished this endeavor by writing about our #1 band on the 2014 poster. Queens Of The Stone Age for Present-Tense, and The Replacements for me. It was almost like we were playing a game or something.
Hope you enjoyed 77 Bands In 77 Days, see you in the desert.
Day 77 = The Replacements
Performing = Friday
The Replacements are an American alternative rock band that hail from Minneapolis, Minnesota. The band formed in 1979 under the name Impediments, when frontman Paul Westerberg joined a band made up of Bob Stinson (guitar), Chris Mars (drums), and Bob’s 12 year-old brother Tommy Stinson (bass) that called themselves Dogbreath at the time The moniker Impediments was short lived, apparently they showed up wasted for their first gig in a church basement, a non-alcoholic affair for a group of recovering alcoholics. Westerberg got his start in the mid-seventies playing lead guitar in a band called Neighborhood Threat, mostly doing a bunch of Rush and Budgie covers. The day he got his hands a copy of the Sex Pistols record he said “I ain’t playing with these fuckers ever again.”
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Watch Coachella Weekend 1 On YouTube
For the first time ever, Coachella will make both weekends of the festival available for streaming. Weekend 1 (April 11-13) will take place on YouTube, while Weekend 2 (April 18-20) while be provided by AXS TV.
Sit at home in the privacy of your air conditioned home and pretend like you’re at the event. Or… race back to your hotel room and stay up all night watching the rebroadcast of all the bands you missed that day. Don’t worry, if you fall asleep, I will strike the cymbal when it’s time to wake up.
Streaming begins each day at 3pm Pacific Standard Time. The streaming takes place on three different channels simultaneously, so you’re going to need more than one device to watch all of them at the same time, if that’s your thing. Spicy Pie not included.
Use the link below to connect to the YouTube channel and view the 3 day schedule.
Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/user/Coachella
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Pixies Added To Coachella! Set Times Revealed
As speculated on this blog last week in my piece on Young & Sick, the Pixies have been added to the 2014 Coachella Music Festival. The news confirms what we knew all along… the Pixies were playing Coachella! The tour schedule screamed Coachella, and now we can be pissed there are even more conflicts. The band that’s been full of surprises, pulled off another one, and more surprising than the “late add” was the placement in the Mojave at 8:50 on Saturday
In addition to the Pixies, The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas was also added to the Saturday lineup, performing a few hours before the Pixies in the same venue. Sunday is where both of those acts should have landed, Day 3 was the day in need of indie help.
Enjoy all your conflicts here:
http://www.coachella.com/settimes/
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Coachella 2014: 77Bands In 77 Days
Queens of the Stone Age
Present-Tense here giving daver a bit of a break. I’m helping to dig deep into the 2014 Coachella Music Festival lineup, featuring one band per day. The purpose of this piece is to assist in difficult decisions that inevitably you’ll need to make, as well as, serve as a fun countdown to Coachella Week. Note: All bands appear in a completely random order… Enjoy, and let the countdown continue!
Day 76 = Queens of the Stone Age
Performing = Saturday
Queens of the Stone Age are a desert rock band that formed way back in 1996. Formed out of the ashes of the stoner rock band Kyuss, QOTSA are categorized into the very specific subset of ‘Desert Rock’ which is basically just ‘rock n’ roll’. The media loves labels and I’m just doing my part. QOTSA have released critically acclaimed albums over the years and their group has been quite the revolving door of musicians. Several members have left (Nick Oliveri, Alain Johannes) but their sound has remained consistently awesome regardless of who they plug in their line up. The central figure since the band’s inception has been Josh Homme (a Coachella Valley native). I once had the pleasure of almost having my photo taken with Mr. Homme but I pussed out, fearful of that whole ‘meeting your idols’ thing. Queens of the Stone Age also feature a guitarist by the name of Troy Dean Van Leeuwen who just happened to play in one of my favorite bands – Failure.
Indie On TV Alert For The Week Of 4/7/14
Here’s your Indie on TV alert for the Week of 4/7/14. Watch previous week’s performances in the Indie on TV Alert page.
Watch David Letterman announce his retirement here:
Here’s the schedule:
Letterman
Wednesday = Real Estate
Conan
Thursday = Wild Cub
Daly
Monday = Band Of Skulls
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Coachella 2014: 77 Bands In 77 Days
Pet Shop Boys
Over the next 11 weeks I’ll dig deep into the 2014 Coachella Music Festival lineup, featuring one band per day. The purpose of this piece is to assist in difficult decisions that inevitably you’ll need to make, as well as, serve as a fun countdown to Coachella Week. Note: All bands appear in a completely random order… Enjoy, and let the countdown continue!
Day 75 = Pet Shop Boys
Performing = Saturday
Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic duo that consists of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe. Formed in 1981, the two have enjoyed a lucrative career, and are regarded as one of the most successful pop duos of all-time.
Originally they called themselves West End, after an area in London, but later switched to Pet Shop Boys, named for friends who worked at a Pet Shop. The two enjoyed immediate success with the release of their first single “West End Girls.” The tune was originally released in 1984, but didn’t top Casey Kasem’s charts until it was rereleased in the States
in 1986. The debut full-length Please followed, and so did the hits: “Love Comes Quickly,”
“Opportunities,” “Suburbia,” and the aforementioned “West End Girls.”
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Top Albums For The Week Of April 1. 2014
Here’s the weekly Top 20 College Radio Albums from the Radio 200 list published by CMJ (College Media Journal). The reputable rag surveys up to 600 college radio stations of a weekly basis to compute the list.
In addition, here’s my Spicy Six Albums of the week. These are the six albums that can’t find their way out of my six disc changer. The list consists of my Top 5 Albums of the week, and one Heritage Album that’s worth dusting off and giving a listen.
Here’s the lists:
Ridgewood, New Jersey’s pride and joy, Real Estate (pictured), have the #1 album in the land, replacing St. Vincent after one week a the top. Five new albums debut in the Top 20, including the latest from Liars, the Brooklyn, NY trio moves an incredible 130 spots to #17. Future Islands maintain the #1 spot on Spicy Radio, but continue to receive no love on College Radio.
Radio 200 Top 20 College Radio Album for the week of April 1, 2014:
1. REAL ESTATE Atlas
2. ST. VINCENT St. Vincent
3. WAR ON DRUGS Lost In The Dream
4. BECK Morning Phase
5. BLACK LIPS Underneath The Rainbow
6. PERFECT PUSSY Say Yes To Love
7. TACOCAT NVM
8. BROKEN BELLS After The Disco
9. TEMPLES Sun Structures
10. NATURAL CHILD Dancin’ With Wolves
11. ANGEL OLSEN Burn Your Fire For No Witness
12. PHANTOGRAM Voices
13. DUM DUM GIRLS Too True
14. TYCHO Awake
15. THE MEN Tomorrow’s Hits
16. COATHANGERS Suck My Shirt
17. LIARS Mess
18. NOTWIST Close To The Glass
19. FOSTER THE PEOPLE Supermodel
20. ELBOW The Take Off And Landing Of Everything
The DJ DEEp Spicy Six:
1. FUTURE ISLANDS Singles
2. DUM DUM GIRLS Too True
3. REAL ESTATE Atlas
4. CLOUD NOTHINGS Here And Nowhere Else
5. BROKEN BELLS After The Disco
Heritage Album Of The Week
6. THE CULT Sonic Temple
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Coachella 2014: 77 Bands In 77 Days
Muse
Over the next 11 weeks I’ll dig deep into the 2014 Coachella Music Festival lineup, featuring one band per day. The purpose of this piece is to assist in difficult decisions that inevitably you’ll need to make, as well as, serve as a fun countdown to Coachella Week. Note: All bands appear in a completely random order… Enjoy, and let the countdown continue!
Day 74 = Muse
Performing = Saturday
Muse is an English alternative rock band that formed in 1997. The band consists of Matthew Bellamy (vocal, guitar), Chris Wolstenholme (bass), and Dominic Howard (drums), all friends from school. As early as 1994, at the tender age of thirteen, the trio played under the names Gothic Plague, Fixed Penalty, and Rocket Baby Dolls, before settling on the name Muse in 1997. The band’s sound is a fusion of progressive, space, and alternative rock, with a light dusting of electronica. Bellamy serves as the band’s pianist.
The band is headlining the Coachella Festival for the second time in five years, and making their third appearance overall. Their high energy shows are an extravaganza, which in turn has placed the band in the conversation as The Best Live Act In The World.
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Coachella 2014: 77 Bands In 77 Days
Fishbone
Over the next 11 weeks I’ll dig deep into the 2014 Coachella Music Festival lineup, featuring one band per day. The purpose of this piece is to assist in difficult decisions that inevitably you’ll need to make, as well as, serve as a fun countdown to Coachella Week. Note: All bands appear in a completely random order… Enjoy, and let the countdown continue!
Day 73 = Fishbone
Performing = Sunday
Fishbone is an alternative rock Heritage Act that formed in Los Angeles in 1979, when they were in junior high school. The band’s unique sound fuses rock, ska, punk, soul, and funk. The current seven-piece collective consists of three original members, including frontman Angelo Moore aka Dr. Madd Vibe, more on that imbecile later.
The group enjoyed the most success during the mid to late eighties, and developed a cult following around the L.A. club scene. They dropped their first single “Party At Ground Zero” in 1985, and then followed it with a self-titled EP. The band’s full-length debut In Your Face dropped in 1986, two years later they released the critically acclaimed album Truth And Soul. The 88′ album housed some of their more popular material such as “Freddie’s Dead” and “Ma And Pa” (a DJ DEEp fave). In 1991 they released the album The Reality Of My Surroundings, the highest charting album in the band’s career. The LP sported the singles
“Fight The Youth,” “Everyday Sunshine” and “Sunless Saturday.”
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Coachella 2014: 77 Bands In 77 Days
Young & Sick
Over the next 11 weeks I’ll dig deep into the 2014 Coachella Music Festival lineup, featuring one band per day. The purpose of this piece is to assist in difficult decisions that inevitably you’ll need to make, as well as, serve as a fun countdown to Coachella Week. Note: All bands appear in a completely random order… Enjoy, and let the countdown continue!
Day 72 = Young & Sick
Performing = Saturday
When I started out sculpting this enormous task I had 75 acts on my list. I figured I would hold out for some “late adds” and then add two more to my list after the fact. Courtney Barnett was added, but nothing worth writing about since. The musical act I’m writing about today was the last one added to my list (for those of you that keep track of that sort of thing). I’m still holding out for a Pixies “late add.” It made perfect sense initially that they should have been on the poster from the beginning, and since then, they scheduled a show in Big Sur, Ca. between Weekend 1 and Weekend 2. Maybe they’ll surprise us, they seem to enjoy surprises lately. If you missed it last week, The Naked and Famous switched days from Saturday to Sunday.
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Coachella 2014: 77 Bands In 77 Days
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Over the next 11 weeks I’ll dig deep into the 2014 Coachella Music Festival lineup, featuring one band per day. The purpose of this piece is to assist in difficult decisions that inevitably you’ll need to make, as well as, serve as a fun countdown to Coachella Week. Note: All bands appear in a completely random order… Enjoy, and let the countdown continue!
Day 71 = The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Performing = Friday
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion are a New York based punk-blues band that formed in 1991. Yep, 1991, who knew? certainly not I. I guess that would qualify them as a Heritage Act. The band consists of Jon Spencer (vocal and guitar), Judah Bauer (guitar), and Russell Simins (drums). They formed shortly after Jon Spencer’s former band Pussy Galore, an eighties noise rock band called it quits.
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New Music Tuesday April 1, 2014
The following albums dropped today and are available in your local trendy record stores or on digital download.
Band Of Skulls “Himalayan”
English alternative rockers Band Of Skulls return with their third studio album. Himalayan is the follow-up to 2012’s Sweet Sour. The lead single from the new album is “Asleep At The Wheel.”
Watch “Asleep At The Wheel” here:
Download “Himalayan” here:
Cloud Nothings “Here And Nowhere Else”
Dylan Baldi and Co. are back with their follow-up to 2012’s Attack On Memory. Cleveland, Ohio’s pride and joy are releasing their third album overall, that is if you count 8-song, 30 minute pieces of work as albums. The band shared the video for “I’m Not Part Of Me” today!
Enjoy “I’m Not Part Of Me” here:
Download “Here And Nowhere Else” here:
Kaiser Chiefs “Education, Education, Education & War”
British indie fun rock band Kaiser Chiefs are releasing their fifth studio album. This is the first we’ve heard from the Leeds based quintet since 2011’s The Future Is Medieval, the album was released in North America in 2012 under the title Start The Revolution Without Me……who knows?
Watch “Coming Home” here:
Download “Education, Education, Education & War” here:
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