Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 8/24/12

Last night my good friends in Milkshakes delivered a great acoustic set on my radio program Left of the Dial on WNHU. After engaging in some jokey banter and answering a few serious interview-style questions, they also took the time to share some music that influenced theirs, along with some of their favorite songs in general. The resulting playlist was a pretty great mix of indie rock, pop-punk, and emo, along with a few hilarious surprises thrown in. Check out the full playlist below and stream it via Spotify at the embedded link at the bottom.

• 1. Da Band - “Bad Boy This, Bad Boy That”
• 2. Pavement - “Loretta’s Scars”
• 3. Death From Above 1979 - “Little Girl”
• 4. The Arrogant Sons Of Bitches - “So Let’s Go! NOWHERE”
• 5. Nana Grizol - “Blackbox”
• 6. The Beach Boys - “We’ll Run Away”
• 7. I Heart Hiroshima - “London In Love”
• 8. Alkaline Trio - “Message From Kathlene”
• 9. Dexy’s Midnight Runners - “Come On Eilein” 
• 10. Latterman - “If Batman Was Real, He Would Have Beaten The Crap Out Of My Friends”
• 11. Spraynard - “Can I Borrow A Feeling?”
• 12. Street Smart Cyclist - “Kiss Kitty On The Lips”

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

Last night’s broadcast of Left of the Dial on WNHU was my first radio show of Summer 2012! That’s something to celebrate, right? I first started interning at WNHU two years ago this month, and got my show soon after that. I like to think that I’ve come a long way since then. Anyway, here’s the full, 30 track playlist from last night’s show. If you want, you can stream the 24 tracks that were available on Spotify at the embedded link at the bottom, provided that you have a Spotify account. I provided click through links for the songs that aren’t available to stream on Spotify below. Thanks for tuning in last night.

Also, as a sidenote, there won’t be another broadcast of Left of the Dial next Friday, June 8th. I’ll be playing a charity show in Glastonbury, Connecticut with some other great bands. Here’s the facebook event page if you’re interested in coming. 

• 1. The Replacements - “Can’t Hardly Wait (Outtake-Electric)”
• 2. Hüsker Dü - “Makes No Sense At All”
• 3. Pavement - “Summer Babe (Winter Version)”
• 4. King Tuff - “Bad Thing”
• 5. PS I Love You - “Facelove”
• 6. Japandroids - “Evil’s Sway”
• 7. Ty Segall & White Fence - “Easy Ryder”
• 8. Algernon Cadwallader - “Horror”
• 9. Joyce Manor - “Beach Community”
• 10. Cloud Nothings - “Stay Useless” (Live at the Grog Shop)
• 11. Milkshakes - “Kalabar’s Revenge”
• 12. SPOOK HOUSES - “American”
• 13. Dan Deacon - “Lots”
• 14. World’s End Girlfriend - “Birthday Resistance”
• 15. Man Man - “Banana Ghost”
• 16. Two Humans - “Lonely Tunez”
• 17. The Magnetic Fields - “California Girls”
• 18. Cymbals Eat Guitars - “Indiana”
• 19. Cheap Girls - “Ft. Lauderdale”
• 20. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - “Round And Round”
• 21. Dirty Projectors - “Two Doves”
• 22. Sun Kil Moon - “Carry Me Ohio”
• 23. Tom Waits - “Downtown Train”
• 24. Mercury Rev - “Holes”
• 25. Pavement - “Frontwards”
• 26. Mission of Burma - “Academy Fight Song”
• 27. These United States - “Nobody Can Tell”
• 28. Bruce Springsteen - “Atlantic City”
• 29. House Of Wolves - “Love Labored Lost”
• 30. The Mountain Goats - “Going To Georgia” 

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Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 3/23/12

Last night’s show went really well. Thanks to everybody who tuned in and enjoyed the programming. Next Friday I will probably not be able to do my show because I’ll be performing in New Haven, but if that ends up not happening for whatever reason, I’ll probably be back in the studio doing another broadcast of Left of the Dial. As always, here’s the playlist from the show last night with links to stream each song. A number of these tracks were culled from the records I listened to while I was in Paris this past week, which I wrote about yesterday HERE. I also devoted the final segment of the show to Mitch Dubey, who was murdered a year ago today here in New Haven, Connecticut. 

• 1. Ben Kweller - “Wasted & Ready”
• 2. Weezer - “The World Has Turned And Left Me Here”
• 3. Pavement - “Elevate Me Later”
• 4. Titus Andronicus - “Upon Viewing Oregon’s Landscape With The Flood Of Detritus”
• 5. Okkervil River - “Unless It’s Kicks”
• 6. Japandroids - “Darkness On The Edge Of Gastown”
• 7. The Unicorns - “Jellybones”
• 8. Street Smart Cyclist - “Hoods Up!”
• 9. Wingnut Dishwashers Union - “Never Trust A Man (Who Plays Guitar)”
• 10. Defiance, Ohio - “The List”
• 11. The Cure - “In Between Days”
• 12. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - “Falling Over”
• 13. Belle and Sebastian - “If She Wants Me”
• 14. Beach House - “Lazuli”
• 15. Polica - “Dark Star”
• 16. Passion Pit - “To Kingdom Come”
• 17. College - “A Real Hero (Feat. Electric Youth)”
• 18. Venetian Snares - “Öngyilkos Vasárnap”
• 19. Knife City - “Just Trash”
• 20. s / s / s - “Beyond Any Doubt”
• 21. People Who Love People - “Obligatory Sad Song”
• 22. Titus Andronicus - “My Time Outside The Womb” (acoustic demo)
• 23. Swear Jar - “Charles Bronson (The Man, Not The Band)”
• 24. Rites of Spring - “Deeper Than Inside”
• 25. Snowing - “Pump Fake”
• 26. Into It. Over It. - “Wicker Park”
• 27. Trash Talk - “Blind Evolution”
• 28. Connecticut - “Clean Streak”
• 29. My Heart To Joy - “All Of Life Is Coming Home”

Anonymous asked: What do you think of Pavement?

I think Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain is the second best album of the 1990s and you can hold me to that. The rest of their work is pretty good to great as well; they were a rather consistent band. One of my favorites. I missed the chance to catch them on their recent reunion tour, and I really regret that.

Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 6/24/11

I forgot to post this playlist from last friday’s Left of the Dial college radio show this weekend, so here it is a few days late. A youtube link to each song is provided when available. As always, this show’s playlist was comprised mostly of music that I had been listening to a lot in the past week, new and old alike. Remember to tune in this Friday from 6 to 8 PM on WNHU to hear the next Left of the Dial broadcast!

• 1. Okkervil River - “We Need A Myth”
• 2. Low - “Dinosaur Act”
• 3. R.E.M. - “E-Bow The Letter”
• 4. Sinforiano Diaz - “Congregation”
• 5. Real Estate - “Beach Comber”
• 6. Bon Iver - “Minnesota, WI”
• 7. WHY? - “Gnashville”
• 8. Madvillain - “Accordian”
• 9. Aesop Rock - “No Jumper Cables”
• 10. Crystal Castles - “Suffocation”
• 11. Weezer - “Blast Off!
• 12. Weezer - “Who You Callin’ Bitch?”
• 13. Pavement - “Date With IKEA”
• 14. By Surprise - “Mostly Harmless”
• 15. Defiance, Ohio - “Condition 11:11”
• 16. John Galm - “Kids in Catholic School”
• 17. Ramshackle Glory - “Your Heart Is A Muscle The Size Of Your Fist”
• 18. The Flaming Lips - “Feeling Yourself Disintegrate” (Demastered)
• 19. The Antlers - “Rolled Together”
• 20. Joan of Arc - “A Party Able Model Of”
• 21. David Bowie - “What In The World”
• 22. The Flaming Lips - “Fight Test” (*Request*)
• 23. The Mountain Goats - “No Children” (*Request*)
• 24. Weezer - “Butterfly”
• 25. Beck - “The Golden Age”
• 26. Pavement - “Transport Is Arranged”
• 27. Man Man - “Life Fantastic”
• 28. The Beach Boys - “I Know There’s An Answer” (*Request*)
• 29. Modest Mouse - “Cowboy Dan”

Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 6/3/11

Last night’s show on WNHU was another great one. It was also the first show of the summer, so I included a selection of summery music to get listeners in the mood. Remember to tune in next Friday on 88.7 FM if you’re in the New Haven area, or online HERE. I’ll be having the founders of the Red Rash Collective on my show to talk about their work, the state of DIY music in Connecticut, the festival that they’re planning, and more. I’ll also be having Red Rash Collective band The Helveticas on the show the same day for a live in studio acoustic set. The playlist from last night is below, with youtube links to each song (when available).

1. 1. Pavement - “Summer Babe (Winter Version)”
2. 2. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - “Parallel or Together?”
3. 3. The Tallest Man on Earth - “You’re Going Back”
4. 4. Belle and Sebastian - “Another Sunny Day”
5. 5. Okkervil River - “Black”
6. 6. Titus Andronicus - “Upon Viewing Brueghel’s “Landscape With the Fall of Icarus”
7. 7. Algernon Cadwallader - “Pitfall”
8. 8. Rites of Spring - “For Want Of”
9. 9. The Replacements - “I Bought a Headache”
10. 10. The Hold Steady - “Your Little Hoodrat Friend”
11. 11. Snowing - “KJ Jammin”
12. 12. The Strokes - “Gratisfaction”
13. 13. R.E.M. - “7 Chinese Bros.”
14. 14. My Heart to Joy - “Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory” (Guided By Voices cover)
15. 15. Titus Andronicus - “A Pot In Which To Piss”
16. 16. Pixies - “Velouria”
17. 17. Ra Ra Riot - “Boy”
18. 18. The Love Language - “Heart to Tell”
19. 19. Defiance, Ohio - “A Lot To Do”
20. 20. Modest Mouse - “Paper Thin Walls” (Request)
21. 21. Arcade Fire - “Speaking In Tongues” (Feat. David Byrne)
22. 22. Grandaddy - “Hewlett’s Daughter”
23. 23. The Octopus Project - “Bees Bein’ Strugglin’”
24. 24. of Montreal - “You Do Mutilate?” (Request)
25. 25. Okkervil River - “Your Past Life As A Blast”
26. 26. Bon Iver - “Perth”
27. 27. Andrew Jackson Jihad - “Who Are You?”
28. 28. Thurston Moore - “Illuminine”

Thanks for listening!