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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Top Albums For The Week Of March 25, 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:
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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Coachella 2014: 77 Bands In 77 Days
Bryan Ferry
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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Coachella 2014: 77 Bands In 77 Days
Arcade Fire
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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Coachella 2014: 77 Bands In 77 Days
Future Islands
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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Coachella 2014: 77 Bands In 77 Days
Dum Dum Girls
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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Pixies Announce First Album Since 1991’s Trompe Le Monde
The Do-It-Yourself band the Pixies continue to execute innovative ways to make money hand over fist. The latest effort has the band releasing their first album in nearly 23 years on April 29. The album entitled Indie Cindy, is a double LP/CD that includes all 12-tracks that have already been released as new music on EP’s 1, 2 and 3, along with a 13-track live set.
In addition to the album announcement, the group unveiled its third installment of their EP collection, conveniently titled EP3. The 4-track extended play includes the single “Bagboy,” which was the first new tune to drop last June, and “Silver Snail,” a song that has made regular appearances in recent live sets. The EP’s final two tracks are brand new tunes, “Ring The Bells” and “Jaime Bravo.” It appears that the digital download is currently only available with the purchase of a limited edition 10-inch exclusive vinyl EP, or by pre-ordering the Indie Cindy album. I could be wrong, but I’m probably not. The songs are currently available as separate song downloads on iTunes, inside the pre-order Indie Cindy download. By the time you’re reading this, it could all change, or when the 3,000 copies of limited edition vinyl dries up.
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Coachella 2014: 77 Bands In 77 Days
Superchunk
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 64 = Superchunk
Performing = Sunday
Superchunk is an indie rock band that formed in 1989 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The band consists of frontman Mac McCaughan, guitarist Jim Wilbur, bassist Laura Ballance, and drummer Jon Wurster. Formed around the same time McCaughan and Ballance started the indie rock label Merge Records, the band helped shape the Chapel Hill music scene with the likes of Polvo and Archers Of Loaf in the early nineties. The scene had already had the indie world’s attention just a few short years earlier when Flat Duo Jets and The Connells emerged.
The D.I.Y. quartet originally started making music under the moniker Chunk. The band’s name was chosen when original drummer Chuck Garrison’s name was misspelled in the phonebook. Kids, Google “phonebook.” They later added Super, to avoid any potential issues with the New York jazz band by the same name.
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New Music Tuesday March 25, 2014
The following albums dropped today and are available in your local trendy record stores or on digital download.
Dandy Warhols
“Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia”
Live at The Wonder
At the end of the zero’s decade, I named this album as my #2 favorite album of the decade. What a treat to have it played live in its entirety! My package came early on Saturday, so I’ve had the opportunity to spin it a couple of times already. A must-have for Dandy’s fans, vocals could be a little louder.
Read my previous post on this release here.
Watch “Get Off” here:
Download “Thirteen Tales… Live at The Wonder” here:
Future Islands “Singles”
The Baltimore, Maryland indie trio are releasing their fourth studio album. This is the follow-up to the 2011 LP On The Water. Find out more about Future Islands when I feature them in an upcoming 77 Bands In 77 Days piece.
Watch “Seasons (Waiting On You)” here:
Download “Singles” here:
Tokyo Police Club “Forcefield”
The fun and high-energy Toronto based indie rockers are releasing their third proper full-length. It’s the follow-up to the 2010 LP Champ. I’m not counting the 2011 all covers album Ten Songs, Ten Years, Ten Days.
Watch “Hot Tonight” here:
Download “Forcefield” here:
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Coachella 2014: 77 Bands In 77 Days
Lorde
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 63 = Lorde
Performing = Saturday
Ella Yelich O’Connor is a New Zealand based pop star that was born on the world wide web in November of 2012. Under the moniker Lorde, the perpetual 16 year-old has become an international pop star, overnight.
By the power of the EP The Love Club, Ms. O’Connor virally began to take over the world immediately. Originally posted on Soundcloud and available as a free download in late 2012, the EP grabbed the music world’s attention instantaneously (if that’s the music world you live in). After a brilliant move by the record label to “just get the music out there, and worry about the money later,” the suits changed their tune soon after the 60,000th free copy of it came down. Eventually, the extended play was officially released for business purposes digitally in March 2013, and physically in May. Included on the EP was the international #1 hit song “Royals.”
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Indie On TV Alert For The Week Of 3/24/14
Here’s your Indie on TV alert for the Week of 3/24/14. Watch previous week’s performances in the Indie on Indie on TV Alert page.
Here’s the schedule:
Fallon
Monday = Vampire Weekend
Thursday = The National
Daly
Tuesday = The Preatures
Thursday = together PANGEA
Letterman
Monday = The Hold Steady
Watch on CBS
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Coachella 2014: 77Bands In 77 Days
Motörhead
PresentTense here böwing beföre the almighty indie master daver and pröviding yöu anöther article aböut a Cöachella band. Daver is a little busy alphabetizing his setlists that he’s accumulated över the years. I believe he’s ön Dishwalla nöw. I’m helping tö dig deep intö the 2014 Cöachella Music Festival lineup, featuring öne band per day. The purpöse öf this piece is tö assist in difficult decisiöns that inevitably yöu’ll need tö make, as well as, serve as a fun cöuntdöwn tö Cöachella Week. Nöte: All bands appear in a cömpletely randöm örder… Enjöy, and let the cöuntdöwn cöntinue!
There’s heritage and then there is HERITAGE. Mötörhead has been aröund since 1975, ölder than möst any band ön the lineup (save för Bryan Ferry and a few öthers). Mötörhead is a English heavy metal band frönted by Lemmy Kilmister and they will KICK YÖUR ASS. Lemmy is ölder than my dad, and he can beat my dad’s ass. He cöuld beat my ass with his arm tied behind his back, and that’s why I’ll be watching his band play at Cöachella this year.
Coachella 2014: 77Bands In 77 Days
Daughter
Present-Tense here helping daver with this exhausting project. 77 is a good number so I felt compelled to help him. We’re digging into the 2014 Coachella Music Festival lineup by 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 61 = Daughter
Performing = Sunday
Daughter is a European rock band originating from England (LOL that kind of reads funny, oh well) who has released two EPs and one album on Glassnote and 4AD records. Even though I only recently heard of them, Daughter has been headlining tours around North America, Europe and Australia since 2010. I find them enjoyable and I thought it was really nice that they named themselves after the emotionally wrenching Pearl Jam track of the same name.
Coachella 2014: 77 Bands In 77 Days
Neko Case
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 60 = Neko Case
Performing = Friday
Neko Case is a singer-songwriter that’s solo work is considered within the genre alt-country slash folk-rock, furthermore, she’s a member of the indie band The New Pornographers. Case was born in Virginia, but spent the majority of her childhood in Tacoma, Washington, prior to moving to Vancouver to attend school. While in Vancouver she played in two groups, Cub and Maow, before forming her own band Neko Case & Her Boyfriends.
Prior to leaving Canada when her student visa expired, Case released her first album The Virginian in 1997, along with providing vocals on a couple of tunes that eventually made it on Mass Romantic, the 2000 full-length debut by The New Pornographers.
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Top Albums For The Week Of March, 18, 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:
For a second straight week Beck has the #1 album on college radio. Three new albums enter the Top 20, including the latest release from Wild Beasts (pictured), who jump up 19 spots to #14. As we have discussed ad nauseam on this blog, the Wild Beasts LP is titled Present Tense. Real Estate remains #1 on Spicy Radio, I don’t see anyone knocking them out of the top spot anytime soon.
Radio 200 Top 20 College Radio Album for the week of March 18, 2014:
1. BECK Morning Phase
2. ST. VINCENT St. Vincent
3. REAL ESTATE Atlas
4. DUM DUM GIRLS Too True
5. BLACK LIPS Underneath The Rainbow
6. ANGEL OLSEN Burn Your Fire For No Witness
7. BROKEN BELLS After The Disco
8. TEMPLES Sun Structures
9. PHANTOGRAM Voices
10. TACOCAT NVM
11. NOTWIST Close To The Glass
12. EAGULLS Eagulls
13. NATURAL CHILD Dancin’ With Wolves
14. WILD BEASTS Present Tense
15. GUIDED BY VOICES Motivational Jumpsuit
16. SHARON JONES AND THE DAP-KINGS Give The People What They Want
17. BLEEDING RAINBOW Interrupt
18. GARDENS AND VILLA Dunes
19. HOSPITALITY Trouble
20. THE MEN Tomorrow’s Hits
The DJ DEEp Spicy Six:
1. REAL ESTATE Atlas
2. DUM DUM GIRLS Too True
3. FANFARLO Let’s Go Extinct
4. THUMPERS Galore
5. BROKEN BELLS After The Disco
Heritage Album Of The Week
6. THE CONNELLS Boylan Heights
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