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:
Wednesday = Real Estate
Thursday = Wild Cub
Monday = Band Of Skulls
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The following albums dropped today and are available in your local trendy record stores or on digital download.
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:
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:
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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Here’s your Indie on TV alert for the Week of 3/31/14. Watch previous week’s performances in the Indie on TV Alert page.
Here’s the schedule:
Thursday = Kevin Drew
Friday = Sky Ferreira
Thursday = Deap Vally
PBS (check local listings) = Nine Inch Nails
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1. Perfect Pussy “Driver”
2. Band Of Skulls “Asleep At The Wheel”
3. Eternal Summers “Gouge”
4. The War On Drugs “Red Eyes”
5. Future Islands “Seasons”
6. Big Data “Dangerous”
7. Broken Bells “After The Disco”
8. The Notwist “Kong”
9. Tokyo Police Club “Hot Tonight”
10. The Preatures “Better Than It Ever Could Be”
11. Kaiser Chiefs “Coming Home”
12. Kevin Drew “Good Sex”
13. In The Valley Below “Peaches”
14. Speedy Ortiz “American Horror”
15. Cloud Nothings “Now Here In”
16. Courtney Barnett “History Eraser”
17. The Coathangers “Follow Me”
18. The Men “Pearly Gates”
19. Dean Wareham “The Dancer Disappears”
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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:
The latest self-titled release from St. Vincent (pictured) replaces Beck after two weeks at the top of the charts. A total of four new albums enter the top 20 this week; including the latest from War On Drugs, the Philadelphia indie band jumps up 48 spots to #5, and the Syracuse, New York hardcore outfit Perfect Pussy, debut in the Top 200 all the way at #15. Another noteworthy debut is the sophomore effort from Bear Hands. The band will perform at the Coachella Festival this year on the Saturday lineup. “Singles,” the fourth studio album from Future Islands, takes over the top spot on Spicy Radio.
Radio 200 Top 20 College Radio Album for the week of March 25, 2014:
1. ST. VINCENT St. Vincent
2. REAL ESTATE Atlas
3. BECK Morning Phase
4. BLACK LIPS Underneath The Rainbow
5. WAR ON DRUGS Lost In The Dream
6. DUM DUM GIRLS Too True
7. TEMPLES Sun Structures
8. ANGEL OLSEN Burn Your Fire For No Witness
9. BROKEN BELLS After The Disco
10. TACOCAT NVM
11. NOTWIST Close To The Glass
12. PHANTOGRAM Voices
13. NATURAL CHILD Dancin’ With Wolves
14. THE MEN Tomorrow’s Hits
15. PERFECT PUSSY Say Yes To Love
16. SHARON JONES AND THE DAP-KINGS Give The People What They Want
17. EAGULLS Eagulls
18. DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS English Oceans
19. WILD BEASTS Present Tense
20. BEAR HANDS Distractions
The DJ DEEp Spicy Six:
1. FUTURE ISLANDS Singles
2. DUM DUM GIRLS Too True
3. REAL ESTATE Atlas
4. PIXIES EP-3
5. BROKEN BELLS After The Disco
Heritage Album Of The Week
6. ROXY MUSIC Avalon
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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 68 = Bryan Ferry
Performing = Friday
On Day 68, I think it’s fitting that I showcase the 68 year-old English singer-songwriter and musician Bryan Ferry. In addition to being best known for his work as the frontman of the legendary glam rock band Roxy Music, Mr. Ferry has had a solo career that’s span the better part of the last forty years.
Roxy Music formed in 1971 and have taken extended breaks on two occasions. They’re still currently together, playing live sporadically since 2001. Prior to 2001, the band was active between 1979 to 1983, and originally from 1971 to 1976. The group has released eight studio albums, all prior to 1982, and most were well-received in the U.K. Early on, the band’s unique sound and style was associated with Ferry’s infatuation with Beatles influenced art pop, and Brian Eno’s love for experimental rock, most specifically The Velvet Underground. The creative tensions grew between the two, and eventually Eno exited. At the zenith of the band’s commercial success, Ferry left to focus on his solo career, but he always returns.
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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 67 = Arcade Fire
Performing = Sunday
Arcade Fire are an indie rock band that hail from Montreal and formed circa 2001. The Canadian sextet are headlining their second Coachella Festival in four years, and making their fourth appearance overall.
The collectives rise to fame came at such a rapid rate that they went from “your favorite band” (not mine) to guilty pleasure, faster than you could spell Reflektor. Over their ten plus year career, they’ve released four studio albums, all of which were
received positively, some more than others.
The band arrived on the scene in 2003 with a self-titled 7-track EP, and follow-up it up a year later with the critically acclaimed full-length debut Funeral. I don’t think I ran across a best albums of the decade list that didn’t include Funeral. The much-anticipated sophomore album Neon Bible followed in 2007, and the cherry on the top arrived in 2010, by way of the Grammy Award winning album The Suburbs.
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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 66 = Future Islands
Performing = Saturday
Future Islands are an indie electro-pop trio that formed in Greenville, North Carolina in 2006. They met while attending art school at East Carolina University back in 2003, and started out playing in the band Art Lord and The Self-Portraits. When they disbanded the three formed Future Islands, and are now based in Baltimore, Maryland.
The band is fronted by Samuel T. Herring (vocals), William Cashion (Guitars), and Gerrit Welmers (keyboards). Mr. Herring created quite a buzz after his epic dance performance on the David Letterman show three weeks ago. When the band finished playing “Seasons (Waiting on You),” a stunned Mr. Letterman screamed, “Buddy, come on! How about that? I’ll take all of that you got.” The verve and manic dance moves of frontman Samuel Herring shocked the late-night host. Off camera, Paul Shaffer signed off on Letterman’s adoration with “Fantastic! Love this band” (watch the performance below). The next night Dave was so impressed with what he saw the night before, he referenced the moves in his monologue with “Let’s Dance” and showed Mr. Herring one more time.
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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 65 = Dum Dum Girls
Performing = Friday
Dum Dum Girls is the moniker used by dream-pop extraordinaire Kristin Welchez aka Dee Dee Penny. Ms. Welchez started out as a bedroom project back in 2008, and since then has produced some of the planet’s most elegant lo-fi pop.
With most bedroom acts, there comes a time when you need a band, that’s you want to take your show on the road. Early on, Dee Dee recruited a touring act that consisted of Jules (still with the band). Bambi (not the deer), and Frankie Rose (Vivian Girls, Crystal Stilts). Also included in the band’s early work were her husband Brandon Welchez of San Diego’s best band Crocodiles (sorry Soft Pack), and Nick Zinner of Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
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