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Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 3/29/13

I was happy to get back on the radio this weekend after missing a couple Fridays due to vacation plans. Last night’s playlist comprised a compendium of new stuff from (sort-of) guilty pleasure acts like Vampire Weekend and Justin Timberlake, along with truly terrific new tracks from Phosphorescent, Old Gray, Josh Ritter, Donovan Wolfington and more. I truly wish I had enough time to write about all of the new stuff that I’ve been loving lately, but hopefully I’ll be able to compensate for that in the near future. If you didn’t catch my show on Friday, feel free to stream the available tracks via Spotify at the embedded link at the bottom of this post. Tune in again next Friday, April 5th, for another live broadcast of Left of the Dial on WNHU.

1. The Microphones - “I Want Wind To Blow”
2. Sondre Lerche - “Track You Down”
3. The Strokes - “Tap Out”
4. Vampire Weekend - “Diane Young”
5. The Modern Lovers - “Roadrunner”
6. Parquet Courts - “Master of My Craft”
7. The New Pornographers - “Mystery Hours”
8. Grandaddy - “Now It’s On”
9. The Thermals- “The Sunset” (Requested by total-witch)
10. Wavves - “Cop”
11. David F. Bello - “Better Off”
12. Cursive - “Bad Sects”
13. Donovan Wolfington - “Love Is Natural”
14. Algebrahs - “Salt of the Sea”
15. Foxygen - “No Destruction”
16. fun. - “Benson Hedges”
17. Suede - “Faultlines”
18. Wavves - “Demon to Lean On”
19. Christopher Owens - “Here We Go”
20. Justin Timberlake - “That Girl”
21. Bilal - “West Side Girl”
22. Blue Hawaii - “In Two”
23. Phosphorescent - “Terror in the Canyons (The Wounded Master)”
24. Josh Ritter - “A Certain Light”
25. Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell - “Hanging Up My Heart”
26. Lou Reed - “I’m So Free”
27. Milkshakes - “Distant”
28. Old Gray - “Coventry”
29. Sigur Rós - “Brennisteinn”

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Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 5/25/12

Thanks to all of you who tuned in and requested songs last night for my radio show Left of the Dial. On last night’s broadcast, I played a track from that excellent new Japandroids record, the fantastic new single from Self Defense Family, and a couple standouts from Spirit Night’s new record One Man Houses, out now on Broken World Media.

Here’s the full playlist below, complete with links to stream some of the songs that were unavailable on Spotify. Quite a few of the tracks I played last night are not on Spotify, but feel free to stream the 17 that are available at the embedded link below.

1. Japandroids - “Fire’s Highway”
2. The War On Drugs - “Baby Missiles”
3. The Hold Steady - “Massive Nights”
4. Spirit Night - “Rubberneck” (David Bello cover)
5. R.E.M. - “Imitation Of Life”
6. Daddy Lion - “No Solution But Resolution”
7. Violent Femmes - “Used To Be”
8. The Tallest Man On Earth - “Revelation Blues”
9. Self Defense Family - “Self Immolation Family”
10. Cursive - “The Recluse”
11. Codeine - “D”
12. Sunny Day Real Estate - “Song About An Angel” (Requested by vinegar-eels)
13. Panda Bear - “Ponytail” (Requested by anon)
14. Julia Holter - “In The Same Room”
15. WHY? - “These Few Presidents”
16. Circle Circle - “Fruitflies”
17. Mount Eerie - “Through The Trees pt. 2”
18. Fugue - “White Tiger Of The West”
19. Perfume Genius - “17”
20. The Smiths - “Reel Around The Fountain”
21. Elvis Costello - “Alison”
22. Built To Spill - “Liar”
23. Sigur Rós - “Varúð”
24. Into It. Over It. - “Raw Bar OBX 2002” (Everyone Everywhere cover) (Live 05/14/2011)
25. Spirit Night - “The Last Time”
26. Erik Satie - “Gymnopédie No. 1” (Pascal Rogé)

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Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 1/27/12

I have been absolutely exhausted this entire week, and I think that last night’s Left of the Dial radio playlist reflected that, at least towards the second half. Thanks to the people who called in and placed requests, and thanks to everybody who tuned in on that bizarre, foggy night in New Haven, Connecticut.

1. Rites of Spring - “Deeper Than Inside”
2. Refused - “Liberation Frequency”
3. Nana Grizol - “Tambourine-N-Thyme”
4. Conor Oberst - “Sausalito”
5. Laura Stevenson and the Cans - “The Healthy One”
6. Craig Finn - “No Future”
7. Low - “Dinosaur Act”
8. Paul Baribeau - “When You Go Back To College”
9. Cursive - “The Recluse”
10. Codeine - “D”
11. Belle and Sebastian - “Electronic Renaissance”
12. The Postal Service - “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight”
13. Balam Acab - “Welcome”
14. James Blake - “Why Don’t You Call Me?”
15. Perfume Genius - “Dark Parts”
16. Boards of Canada - “Dayvan Cowboy”
17. Grouper - “Come Softly”
18. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - “The Dead Flag Blues”
19. Desertshore - “Diana”
20. peaer - “blood”
21. The Microphones - “Headless Horseman”
22. Perfume Genius - “Hood”
23. Co-Pilots - “Rooms Are Empty Things”
24. Sufjan Stevens - “Romulus”
25. Weekend - “Coma Summer” (Requested by Jill)

Also, this is somewhat unrelated, but last night while I was doing my show, I was thinking about how I’m kind of getting bored with the music that I’ve been listening to for a long time, or how it sometimes makes me upset to listen to because of the people and events that I associate it with. I’m sort of entertaining the idea of just taking everything that I’ve listened to already in my itunes library and putting it on an external hard drive and just getting it off my computer. This will give me the freedom to explore all of the new music that I have in my overstuffed downloads folder too. Does anyone have any thoughts about this?

Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 1/6/12

I just realized that in the midst of all the horrible things that happened this weekend, I forgot to post the playlist from my radio show on Friday. I’m sorry about that. Thank you to everyone who tuned in. Prepare for this show to get a lot sadder to listen to in the coming weeks.

Anyway, here’s the playlist with an attached link to stream to each song.

1. The Replacements - “Go”
2. The Germs - “Land of Treason”
3. Titus Andronicus - “Anxiety Block” (Television Personalities cover)
4. Deer Tick - “Main Street”
5. A Paper Tugboat - “Magazines”
6. Rivers Cuomo - “Lisa”
7. Cursive - “The Radiator Hums”
8. Heavy Breath - “Enter The Void”
9. Rites of Spring - “Spring”
10. Estrogen Highs - “Kaleidoscope”
11. Hüsker Dü - “First of the Last Calls”
12. The Replacements - “Raised In The City (Demo)”
13. Have a Nice Life - “Waiting For Black Metal Records To Come In The Mail”
14. Sunny Day Real Estate - “Pillars”
15. Bright Eyes - “Trees Get Wheeled Away”
16. Okkervil River - “Song Of Our So-Called Friend”
17. Andrew Jackson Jihad - “This Is Not A War”
18. Guided By Voices - “The Unsinkable Fats Domino”
19. Deerhunter - “Desire Lines”
20. Spiritualized - “Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space”
21. The Stone Roses - “I Wanna Be Adored”
22. The Music Tapes - “Majesty”
23. Carissa’s Wierd - “Tucson”
24. David Bello - “Farewell Earth”
25. Snowing - “Pump Fake (Demo)”
26. The Mountain Goats - “There Will Be No Divorce”
27. Tom Waits - “Ol’ 55”
28. The Replacements - “Within Your Reach”
29. Midi & the Modern Dance - “I Recall The Dancer”

Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 12/9/11

Thanks to everyone who tuned in to my radio show Left of the Dial online or on WNHU last night and listened to me broadcast. Special thanks to Jon Scranton from Babytown Frolics for calling in while delivering pizzas from Pizza Hut. I really appreciate it when people call in, even if it’s just to let me know that they’re listening.

Here’s the full playlist from last night’s show, with links to each song. Next Friday I won’t be broadcasting because I’m going to be seeing WHY? with Serengeti in Hartford. Tickets are still available for that show, and anyone from around Connecticut who is a fan of the group should try to make it out. The show is part of a special unplugged sit down tour where the band will be debuting new songs and allowing audience members to ask questions. This particular date was rescheduled recently from an earlier date after singer/rapper Yoni Wolf broke his hand in September. More information about the show can be found HERE.

1. The Hold Steady - “Positive Jam”
2. Hüsker Dü - “Chartered Trips”
3. Trash Talk - “Gimme Death”
4. Cursive - “Art Is Hard”
5. Cymbals Eat Guitars - “Definite Darkness”
6. Desaparecidos - ”$$$$”
7. Street Smart Cyclist - “Hoods Up!”
8. Ovlov - “The City”
9. Spider Bags - “Blood For You”
10. The Rural Alberta Advantage - “Barnes’ Yard”
11. !!! - “Jamie, My Intentions Are Bass”
12. James Blake - “Love What Happened Here”
13. Wild Beasts - “Albatross”
14. SBTRKT - “Sanctuary” (feat. Jessie Ware and Sampha)
15. Nicolas Jaar - “I Got A”
16. Sharon Van Etten - “Mike McDermott”
17. Perfume Genius - “All Waters”
18. Blue Sky Black Death - “To The Ends Of The Earth”
19. This Will Destroy You - “Killed The Lord, Left For The New World”
20. Deafheaven - “Unrequited”
21. La Dispute - “King Park”
22. Deer Leap - “Coffee and Keys”
23. Thurston Moore - “Benediction”
24. WHY? - “Eskimo Snow”
25. Desertshore - “Mercy”
26. Tom Waits - “Kiss Me”
27. Oneohtrix Point Never - “Andro”

Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 11/11/11

Here’s the complete playlist from Friday’s Left of the Dial show on WNHU. I’m thinking about recreating the playlists from each week’s show on Spotify and posting the link on here from now on. Would this be a good idea? Do any of you guys use Spotify?

Anyway, for now, as always, click the song titles to be directed to their respective youtube links. Thanks for tuning in on Friday, and be sure to listen next week!

1. Bruce Springsteen - “Thunder Road”
2. Bomb The Music Industry! - “Why, Oh Why, Oh Why (Oh Oh Oh Oh)”
3. Johnny Hobo And The Freight Trains - “New Mexico Song”
4. Conor Oberst - “Souled Out!!!”
5. Mister Heavenly - “Bronx Sniper”
6. Silver Jews - “People”
7. Jeff Mangum - “A Baby For Pree / Glow Into You” (Live At Jittery Joe’s version)
8. Mister Heavenly - “I Am A Hologram”
9. Mercury Rev - “Tonite It Shows”
10. Balam Acab - “Expect”
11. cLOUDDEAD - “Dead Dogs Two”
12. Dntel - “Anywhere Anyone”
13. Cursive - “Art Is Hard”
14. Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) - “Keep What You Have Built Up Here”
15. Football, etc. - “Hail Mary”
16. WHY? - “Act Five”
17. Arcade Fire - “No Cars Go” (The Arcade Fire EP version) (Requested by Blueshadedays)
18. Grandaddy - “Miner At The Dial-A-View”
19. Neutral Milk Hotel - “Ferris Wheel On Fire”
20. Atlas Sound - “Lightworks” (Requested by Mdznr)
21. The Velvet Underground - “Candy Says”
22. Dirty Projectors - “Useful Chamber” (Requested by Sufiandakiller)
23. The Antlers - “Uprooted”
24. Weezer - “Butterfly”