Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 11/30/12

Thanks to everybody who tuned in to my broadcast of Left of the Dial on WNHU last night. I won’t be on the air next week, but I will return on the 14th to start playing some of my favorite songs of the past year in a three part radio series that will take place over the next three Fridays. 

The full playlist from last night’s show is below, along with a Spotify link to stream the available songs at the bottom*. Thanks again for listening! 

*Edit: Spotify’s embed code doesn’t seem to be working with tumblr today. I will update this if it starts working again in the near future. Until then, I’m afraid you won’t be able to stream this playlist. Oh well! Enjoy it anyway.

• 1. Bomb The Music Industry! - “25!”
• 2. Sufjan Stevens - “Alphabet St.” (Prince cover)
• 3. Anamanaguchi - “Overarrow”
• 4. Parquet Courts - “Borrowed Time”
• 5. Title Fight - “Numb, But I Still Feel It”

— Interview with Jamie Rhoden of Title Fight —

• 6. Title Fight - “Head In The Ceiling Fan”
• 7. Title Fight - “Sympathy”
• 8. Tigers Jaw - “Between Your Band And The Other Band”
• 9. The Guru - “Cow”
• 10. Yo La Tengo - “Avalon Or Someone Very Similar”
• 11. Red House Painters - “Lord Kill The Pain”
• 12. Low - “Words” (Live, feat. Benjamin Gibbard)
• 13. Elliott Smith - “Waltz #2 (XO)”
• 14. Snowing - “Pump Fake (Demo)”
• 15. My Heart To Joy - “That Ungodly Arch-Villain Voltaire Is Dead”
• 16. Joie De Vivre - “Sundays”
• 17. Koji - “Matches”
• 18. WHY? - “Gnashville”
• 19. Radiohead - “These Are My Twisted Words”
• 20. Elvis Depressedly - “A Bible In A Bath of Bleach”
• 21. Paul Baribeau - “How Could That Be True”
• 22. Cat Power - “Empty Shell”
• 23. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - “Love Letter”
• 24. Carissa’s Wierd - “Low Budget Slow Motion Soundtrack Song For The Leaving Scene”
• 25. Sharon Van Etten - “Tornado”
• 26. Waxahatchee - “Bathtub” (Requested by firewalkwithmel) 

Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 10/19/12

Thanks to everybody who tuned in for my radio show last night. In retrospect, this playlist was pretty moody. Check out the whole thing below and stream the available tracks via Spotify at the embedded link at the bottom.

• 1. Ty Segall - “Thank God For Sinners”
• 2. Wilco - “You Are My Face”
• 3. Bon Iver - “Holocene”
• 4. Sun Kill Moon - “Ålesund”
• 5. Bright Eyes - “Four Winds” (Requested by Blueshadedays)
• 6. The Jesus And Mary Chain - “Just Like Honey”
• 7. Converge - “Sadness Comes Home”
• 8. Titus Andronicus - “Still Life With Hot Deuce On Silver Platter”
• 9. Burial - “Loner”
• 10. The Caretaker - “As if one were sinking into sand”
• 11. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - “Mladic”
• 12. Cat Power - “Moonshiner”
• 13. Elliott Smith - “Oh Well, Okay”
• 14. The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up - “In Focus”
• 15. Codeine - “Vacancy”
• 16. Scott Walker - “Big Louise”
• 17. Beck - “Already Dead”
• 18. Bright Eyes - “Amy In The White Coat”
• 19. Jeff Buckley - “Grace”
• 20. Built To Spill - “Things Fall Apart”
• 21. Carissa’s Wierd - “Asleep” (The Smiths cover) 

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Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 10/12/12

Thanks for tuning in to last night’s broadcast of my radio show Left of the Dial on WNHU. Last night’s show was of the autumnal musical persuasion, featuring some perfect fall songs by artists like The Tallest Man On Earth and Yo La Tengo. This is the kind of music that Mr. Autumn Man probably listens to this time of year.

The full playlist is below, and most of the songs are available to stream via Spotify at the embedded link at the bottom.

• 1. Jens Lekman - “Black Cab”
• 2. Belle and Sebastian - “Come On Sister”
• 3. The Velvet Underground - “Sunday Morning” (Live at Max’s Kansas City version)
• 4. A.C. Newman - “There’s Money In New Wave”
• 5. Benjamin Gibbard - “Bigger Than Love”
• 6. Jason Lytle - “Matterhorn”
• 7. Lower Dens - “Brains”
• 8. Poliça - “I See My Mother”
• 9. Purity Ring - “Saltkin”
• 10. S O H N - “Oscillate”
• 11. Sharon Van Etten - “Sychophant”
• 12. The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die - “Gig Life”
• 13. Elliott Smith - “Son Of Sam” (Requested by blueshadedays)
• 14. Perfume Genius - “Dark Parts”
• 15. The Tallest Man On Earth - “The Wild Hunt”
• 16. Violent Femmes - “Hallowed Ground”
• 17. Wilco - “Jesus, Etc.”
• 18. Yo La Tengo - “Tears Are In Your Eyes”
• 19. WHY? - “Kevin’s Cancer”
• 20. The Mountain Goats - “Steal Smoked Fish”
• 21. Titus Andronicus - “In A Small Body”
• 22. LVL UP - “TOPSIDER”
• 23. Destroyer - “Your Blood”
• 24. Morrissey - “Speedway”
• 25. Radiohead - “Let Down”
• 26. The Microphones - “I Felt Your Shape”
• 27. Okkervil River - “John Allyn Smith Sails”
• 28. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - “Biomusicology”

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Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 9/28/12

Thanks for tuning in to my radio show Left of the Dial last night. We had a lot of fun in studio spinning classic 00’s indie rock along with new stuff. I played a track from that new Spook Houses LP Trying, which I reviewed recently, as well as a song from the Waxahatchee album that I also reviewed. Both of those LPs are great if you haven’t heard them already. 

Check out the full playlist from the show last night below, and stream it via Spotify at the embedded link below that. Tune in again next Friday for another live broadcast.

• 1. Nana Grizol - “Galaxies”
• 2. Woods - “Cali In A Cup”
• 3. Wild Nothing - “Only Heather”
• 4. A.C. Newman - “Encyclopedia of Classic Takedowns”
• 5. Elvis Depressedly - “Waves of Bad Intention”
• 6. Flying Lotus - “Electric Candyman” (feat. Thom Yorke)
• 7. Sigur Ros - “Hoppipolla”
• 8. How To Dress Well - “Cold Nites”
• 9. Girls - “Hellhole Ratrace”
• 10. Bright Eyes - “We Are Nowhere And It’s Now”
• 11. Bright Eyes - “Lover I Don’t Have To Love”
• 12. Elliott Smith - “Between The Bars”
• 13. Teen Suicide - “The Same Things Happening To Me All The Time, Even In My Dreams”
• 14. Deer Leap - “What Is Dead May Never Die”
• 15. Sidewalk Dave - “Honey Bee”
• 16. Spook Houses - “Bad Sound”
• 17. Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - “Loop Duplicate My Heart”
• 18. Dum Dum Girls - “I Got Nothing”
• 19. Madeliene - “Susan, Oh”
• 20. Feist - “Let It Die”
• 21. Waxahatchee - “Be Good”
• 22. Morrissey - “Suedehead”
• 23. Jens Lekman - “If You Ever Need A Stranger (To Sing At Your Wedding)”
• 24. Neutral Milk Hotel - “Two-Headed Boy Pt. Two”
• 25. Belle and Sebastian - “If You’re Feeling Sinister”
• 26. The Magnetic Fields - “Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits”
• 27. The Antlers - “I Don’t Want Love”
• 28. Grizzly Bear - “Yet Again”
• 29. The Smiths - “Reel Around The Fountain”
• 30. Sufjan Stevens - “John Wayne Gacy, Jr.”

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Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 8/31/12

Last night’s radio show was my last broadcast of Left of the Dial for the summer. I’ll still be doing my show throughout the school year, but I’m going to miss heading into the studio at 5:30 and coming out two and a half hours later with the sun still out. Here’s the full playlist from last night’s program, which was (unusually? especially?) sad, overall. Scroll down to the embedded link to stream the available songs from this playlist via Spotify. 

• 1. Suns - “Repulse”
• 2. Swans - “Lunacy”
• 3. Mount Eerie - “Appetite”
• 4. Joie De Vivre - “I Was Sixteen Ten Years Ago”
• 5. The xx - “VCR”
• 6. Cat Power - “I Don’t Blame You”
• 7. Desaparecidos - “Give Me The Pen” (feat. David Dondero)
• 8. Everyone Everywhere - “Fervor & Indifference in the Bicameral Brain”
• 9. Have A Nice Life - “The Big Gloom”
• 10. The Mountain Goats - “In Memory Of Satan”
• 11. Elliott Smith - “Junk Bond Trader”
• 12. Owen - “Nobody’s Nothing”
• 13. Jens Lekman - “She Just Don’t Want To Be With You Anymore”
• 14. Henry Bemis Is A Superhero - “Kuromori”
• 15. Sean Milo - “The February Heat Wave”
• 16. Swans - “Song For A Warrior” (feat. Karen O)
• 17. Cat Power - “Cherokee”
• 18. Pixies - “Gouge Away” (Requested by bangst)
• 19. The xx - “Reunion”
• 20. Serengeti - “Greyhound”
• 21. WHY? - “Bitter Thoughts”
• 22. The Shins - “September” (Requested by blueshadedays)
• 23. Mount Eerie - “I Walked Home Beholding”
• 24. Bright Eyes - “Drunk Kid Catholic”
• 25. The Human Fly - “Connecticut One”

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WOAH BRO WHERE’S THE ELLIOTT SMITH- S/T MENTION?????????????????????

The Elliott Smith….. s/t…… isn’t as good….. as his later albums………..

Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 2/17/12

Last night’s broadcast of Left of the Dial was an interesting mix. I saved most of the new stuff (Grimes, Burial, etc.) for the second half of the show, and reserved the first for a selection of deep cuts from the Conor Oberst discography. If you missed the broadcast, those early Bright Eyes and Commander Venus songs are definitely worth giving a listen to. 

• 1. Bright Eyes - “Haile Selassie”
• 2. Death Cab For Cutie - “Bend To Squares”
• 3. Elliott Smith - “Coast To Coast”
• 4. Bright Eyes - “Falling Out Of Love At This Volume”
• 5. The Replacements - “Color Me Impressed”
• 6. The Get Up Kids - “Valentine”
• 7. Cloud Nothings - “No Sentiment”
• 8. Commander Venus - “The Uneventful Vacation (Part 1)”
• 9. Dinosaur Jr. - “Just Like Heaven” (The Cure cover)
• 10. Ceremony - “Repeating The Circle”
• 11. Desaparecidos - “Survival Of The Fittest / It’s A Jungle Out There”
• 12. Bright Eyes - “Trees Get Wheeled Away”
• 13. Okkervil River - “John Allyn Smith Sails”
• 14. Leonard Cohen - “Crazy To Love You”
• 15. First Aid Kit - “King of the World”
• 16. Burial - “Kindred”
• 17. Grimes - “Oblivion”
• 18. Astronautalis - “Meet Me Here Later”
• 19. James Blake - “A Case Of You” (Joni Mitchell cover)
• 20. Dan Deacon - “Build Voice”
• 21. Bright Eyes - “Touch”
• 22. Sharon Van Etten - “Mike McDermott”
• 23. Sparklehorse - “Homecoming Queen”
• 24. Mercury Rev - “Hudson Line” (Early Rough Version)
• 25. Weezer - “Tragic Girl”
• 26. Nana Grizol - “Broken Cityscapes”

Tune in next Friday for another live broadcast on WNHU. 

Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 10/21/11

Thanks to everybody who listened to my show last night. Just as a heads up, I’m not going to be doing my show next Friday (October 28th) because I’ll be playing a show at my school. Regular broadcasting will resume as usual the following Friday, November 4th. 

Here’s the full playlist from the show last night, complete with youtube or bandcamp links to each song when I could find them.

• 1. Pixies - “Debaser”
• 2. Titus Andronicus - “Upon Viewing Breughel’s ‘Landscape With The Fall of Icarus’” 
• 3. Ramones - “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend”
• 4. The Stone Roses - “I Wanna Be Adored”
• 5. M83 - “Reunion”
• 6. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - “Heart In Your Heartbreak”
• 7. Girls - “Lauren Marie”
• 8. The Feelies - “The High Road”
• 9. Real Estate - “Easy”
• 10. Elliott Smith - “Son Of Sam”
• 11. Elliott Smith - “Waltz #2 (XO)”
• 12. Elliott Smith - “Rose Parade”
• 13. St. Vincent - “Year Of The Tiger”
• 14. Dntel - “(This Is) the Dream Of Evan And Chan”
• 15. Primal Scream - “Higher Than The Sun”
• 16. Coldplay - “Hurts Like Heaven”
• 17. Fugue - “White Tiger Of The West”
• 18. Into It. Over It. - “Pinky Swear” (Daytrotter Session Version)
• 19. The Postal Service - “Nothing Better”
• 20. Youth Lagoon - “July”
• 21. Modest Mouse - “Cowboy Dan”
• 22. The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - “I Will Be Okay. Everything”
• 23. Trash Talk - “Awake”
• 24. Invisible Hand - “There’s Room In My Will”
• 25. Snowing - “Pump Fake”
• 26. My Heart To Joy - “All Of Life Is Coming Home” (Virgin Sails version)
• 27. Pavement - “Fillmore Jive”

Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 10/14/11

Sorry for posting this a day late. Yesterday I went up to Providence for Brown University’s homecoming and hung out with Mary. I left early and got back late, so I wasn’t able to do any posting yesterday. I had a great time though, so it was worth it. Anyway, here’s the full playlist from Friday’s Left of the Dial radio broadcast on WNHU. Click the song titles to listen to them. Thanks for listening to my show to everyone who did! Tune in next Friday for another live broadcast!

• 1. Neutral Milk Hotel - “Gardenhead / Leave Me Alone”
• 2. A Tribe Called Quest - “Excursions”
• 3. Washed Out - “Eyes Be Closed”
• 4. James Blake - “Once We All Agree”
• 5. Youth Lagoon - “Afternoon”
• 6. House of Wolves - “Follow Me”
• 7. Perfume Genius - “Mr Peterson”
• 8. The Middle East - “Black Death 1349”
• 9. Modest Mouse - “Gravity Rides Everything” (Requested by Blueshadedays)
• 10. Real Estate - “Green Aisles”
• 11. Beach Fossils - “Out In The Way” (feat. Wild Nothing)
• 12. YRRS - “YRRS”
• 13. By Surprise - “Terra Cotta Army”
• 14. iwishididntexistrightnow - “Twinkle Twinkle Death Star”
• 15. Man Man - “Dark Arts”
• 16. Man Man - “Rabbit Habits”
• 17. Man Man - “Banana Ghost”
• 18. Radiohead - “Lotus Flower”
• 19. The Rapture - “How Deep Is Your Love?”
• 20. Astronautalis - “Midday Moon”
• 21. WHY? - “Ferriswheel”
• 22. The Cranberries - “Dreams”
• 23. Destroyer - “Savage Night At The Opera”
• 24. Have A Nice Life - “Waiting For Black Metal Records To Come In The Mail”
• 25. Elliott Smith - “Somebody That I Used To Know”
• 26. The Antlers - “Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing” (The Magnetic Fields cover) (feat. Sharon Van Etten)

gangstarapismylife-deactivated2 asked: I want a quiet folky album preferably with little production. Can you help me out?

The first and third Nick Drake albums are perfectly suited to your request. Also check out Elliott Smith’s self-titled album, Seven Swans by Sufjan Stevens, The Creek Drank The Cradle by Iron & Wine (his only good album, really) and Tallahassee by The Mountain Goats. If you want some really lo-fi folk music, check out any of the Mountain Goats albums that came out before Tallahassee. In terms of more recent music, listen to Kurt Vile’s new album Smoke Ring For My Halo.

I hope this helps! All of these albums are worth downloading.