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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 - 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 - 5/18/12

Thanks to everyone who tuned in to last night’s show! I got a lot of requests through tumblr, some of which I didn’t get around to playing, so thanks well for that! Check out the full playlist from last night immediately below, and stream all the tracks that were available on Spotify below that.

1. The Smashing Pumpkins - “Zero”
2. The Hold Steady - “Soft In The Center”
3. Japandroids - “Adrenaline Nightshift”
4. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - “Young Adult Friction” (Requested by anon)
5. Screaming Females - “I Don’t Mind It”
6. The Hiya Dunes - “Black Fur”
7. Fang Island - “Asunder”
8. Iron Chic - “Cutesy Monster Man”
9. Animal Collective - “Honeycomb”
10. St. Vincent - “Cheerleader”
11. The Act of Estimating As Worthless - “Black Fly”
12. Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s - “Dress Me Like A Clown”
13. Sun Kil Moon - “Among The Leaves”
14. The Tallest Man On Earth - “1904”
15. The Smiths - “That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore”
16. Sean Milo - “Eyes So Small”
17. Sharon Van Etten - “Leonard”
18. Sea Snakes - “Forget-Me-Not Night”
19. Owen Pallett - “Lewis Takes His Shirt Off” (Requested by whileyouweresleeping)
20. The Rural Alberta Advantage - “North Star”
21. Spiritualized - “Too Late”
22. The Men - “Candy”
23. The Replacements - “Swingin Party”
24. Joy Division - “Atmosphere”
25. Built To Spill - “The Weather”
26. My Heart To Joy - “All Of Life Is Coming Home” (Live 05/14/12)

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Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 5/4/12

On last night’s show, I paid tribute to the late Adam Yauch (aka MCA) by playing some of my favorite Beastie Boys songs over the course of my two-hour airtime. Check out the full playlist below, and stream the embedded playlist below via Spotify.

1. Dum Dum Girls - “Bhang Bhang, I’m A Burnout”
2. The Antlers - “I Don’t Want Love”
3. fun. - “At Least I’m Not As Sad (As I Used To Be)”
4. Beastie Boys - “Johnny Ryall”
5. Beastie Boys - “Egg Man”
6. The Men - “Turn It Around”
7. PS I Love You - “Facelove”
8. Sparklehorse - “Rainmaker”
9. Japandroids - “The Night Of Wine And Roses”
10. Beastie Boys - “Pass The Mic”
11. Death Grips - “I’ve Seen Footage”
12. At The Drive-In - “Arcarsenal”
13. Flying Lotus - “Do The Astral Plane”
14. Beastie Boys - “Paul Revere”
15. De La Soul - “Plug Tunin’”
16. Holy Ghost! - “Wait And See”
17. The Hold Steady- “Most People Are DJs”
18. Nana Grizol - “Less Than The Air”
19. Beastie Boys - “Sabotage”
20. Beastie Boys - “Time For Livin’”
21. Hallelujah The Hills - “Hungry Ghost Extraordinaire”
22. The Spinto Band - “Oh Mandy”
23. River City Extension - “South For The Winter”
24. Spider Bags - “Blood For You”
25. Beastie Boys - “Nonstop Disco Powerpack”
26. Joy Division - “Shadowplay”
27. Grandaddy - “Jed’s Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)”
28. Bright Eyes - “Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh”
29. The Microphones - “Headless Horseman”

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Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 4/27/12

Thanks for tuning in to Left of the Dial last night. By popular demand, I’ve decided to start posting my weekly radio playlists on Spotify, even though not all the songs are available. If you would like to stream the playlist on Spotify, I’ve embedded it below, sans the 7 songs that weren’t available. The full playlist can be found directly below, but I’ve only attached links to the songs that weren’t available on Spotify. If you’re not on Spotify already, hopefully this will provide you with an incentive to get on that!

1. Ceremony - “Into The Wayside Part I\Sick”
2. Ted Leo and The Pharmacists - “Dial Up”
3. Bomb The Music Industry! - “Everyone That Loves You”
4. Titus Andronicus - “Upon Viewing Oregon’s Landscape With The Flood Of Detritus”
5. The Fucking Cops - “Paycheck”
6. Screaming Females - “It All Means Nothing”
7. St. Vincent - “KROKODIL”
8. Andrew Jackson Jihad - “Heartilation”
9. Ceremony - “Citizen”
10. One Hundred Year Ocean - “Poison Smoak”
11. Desaparecidos - “Greater Omaha”
12. Beach House - “Lazuli”
13. Fang Island - “Sideswiper”
14. The Guru - “Pirate’s Cove”
15. The Format - “She Doesn’t Get It”
16. Sufjan Stevens/Rosie Thomas - “Here I Am!”
17. Serengeti & Polyphonic - “Bon Voyage”
18. Aesop Rock - “Labor”
19. Zammuto - “Groan Man, Don’t Cry”
20. Jack White - “Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boy”
21. Elvis Costello - “Every Day I Write The Book”
22. Simon & Garfunkel - “Cecilia”
23. Red House Painters - “San Geronimo”
24. Cameron Boucher - “27”
25. Into It. Over It. - “Raw Bar OBX 2002”
26. Sigur Rós - “Varúð”

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Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 4/13/12

Apologies for not posting this yesterday. I got caught up in writing the review of that excellent new LP from The Act Of Estimating As Worthless and then had to go to band practice. Anyway, I hope those of you who tuned in to my show on Friday (the thirteenth!) had a good time. Here’s the playlist below, along with a link to stream each song.

1. The Get Up Kids - “Holiday”
2. Elvis Costello - “(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes”
3. Into It. Over It. - “Discretion & Depressing People”
4. Beach House - “Myth”
5. Destroyer - “Suicide Demo For Kara Walker”
6. Grandaddy - “The Go In The Go-For-It”
7. fun. - “All Alone”
8. Suns - “I Could’ve Made Time”
9. Iceage - “White Rune”
10. Refused - “The Deadly Rhythm”
11. Titus Andronicus - “Upon Viewing Breughel’s “Landscape With The Fall of Icarus”
12. The Arrogant Sons Of Bitches - “Disappointment At The Taco Bell”
13. Defiance, Ohio - “Oh, Susquehanna!”
14. Laura Stevenson and the Cans - “The Healthy One”
15. By Surprise - “Realometer”
16. Dikembe - “Scottie Spliffen”
17. Jimmy Eat World - “A Praise Chorus”
18. Pavement - “The Killing Moon” (Echo & The Bunnymen cover)
19. Cloud Nothings - “Stay Useless”
20. The Act Of Estimating As Worthless - “My Left Thumb”
21. Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s - “Skeleton Key”
22. Elliott Smith - “Bled White”
23. Local Natives - “Who Knows Who Cares”
24. First Aid Kit - “Emmylou”
25. Bright Eyes - “On My Way To Work”
26. Andrew Jackson Jihad - “Love In The Time Of Human Papilloma Virus”
27. Low - “Done”
28. The Mountain Goats - “The Mess Inside”

I won’t be doing my show next week because I’ll be going to WQAQ’s Festapalooza (with Titus Andronicus, Bomb The Music Industry!, The Front Bottoms and more!). Find more information about that day long Connecticut festival HERE.

Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 4/6/12

Thanks to everybody who tuned in to last night’s live broadcast of Left of the Dial on WNHU. The full playlist is below along with links to stream each of the songs. Tune in next Friday for another broadcast.

1. Teenage Fanclub - “The Concept”
2. Girls - “Honey Bunny”
3. Sebadoh - “Magnet’s Coil”
4. Joyce Manor - “Beach Community”
5. Japandroids - “The House That Heaven Built”
6. The Strokes - “Hard To Explain”
7. The Hold Steady - “Party Pit”
8. Midi & The Modern Dance - “Everything I Touch (Just Falls Apart)”
9. Suns - “Crocodile”
10. Martin Luther King - “Boneflower”
11. Stay Ahead Of The Weather - “Get Old Or Die Tryin’”
12. LVL UP - “ROMAN CANDLE”
13. Screaming Females - “Expire”
14. Jaill - “Waste A Lot Of Things”
15. The Act Of Estimating As Worthless - “The Things We Remember”
16. Scott Walker - “Mathilde”
17. Jaques Brel - “La Chanson De Jacky”
18. Broadcaster - “All Your Friends”
19. WHY? - “Good Friday”
20. Serengeti - “Long Ears” (feat. Yoni Wolf and Becky Wolf)
21. Astronautalis - “Meet Me Here Later”
22. The Cure - “Close To Me”
23. The Unicorns - “Ghost Mountain”
24. Lower Dens - “Brains”
25. Beach House - “Myth”
26. Dirty Projectors - “Useful Chamber”
27. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billie - “Death To Everyone”
28. Poliça - “Amongster”
29. Craig Finn - “Honolulu Blues”
30. Red House Painters - “Brown Eyes”

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”

Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 3/16/12

By this time tomorrow, I’ll be staying in an apartment in Paris, France. On last night’s Left of the Dial radio program, I geared up for my trip by playing a little French music. I also played some new tracks, including a song from Port of Morrow, the new album from The Shins. I wrote a pretty thorough piece about The Shins yesterday as well, and I think that’s worth reading if you’re into them. Other new music on the playlist included the new b-side from Sharon Van Etten and a track from the new Saddest Landscape album After The Lights, which the legendary post-hardcore band is releasing officially tomorrow in Hamden, CT. Unfortunately I won’t be able to go, but you should if you’re in the area. Find more information about the record release show HERE.

Below is the full playlist rom last night’s show, plus youtube links to each song. Thanks for tuning in!

1. Cloud Nothings - “No Future/No Past”
2. Cheap Girls - “Ft. Lauderdale”
3. Hostage Calm - “The ‘M’ Word”
4. Dikembe - “Scottie Spliffen”
5. The Thermals - “A Pillar of Salt”
6. New Year’s Revolution - “Long Drive Home”
7. Baby Grand - “Blame”
8. The Shins - “The Rifle’s Spiral”
9. God Help The Girl - “God Help The Girl”
10. The Magnetic Fields - “The Nun’s Litany”
11. Sharon Van Etten - “Life Of His Own”
12. Feist - “L’Amour Ne Dure Pas Toujours”
13. Pink Martini - “Je ne veux pas travailler”
14. Bjork - “It’s Oh So Quiet”
15. Belle and Sebastian - “The Boy With The Arab Strap”
16. The Shins - “New Slang”
17. The Smiths - “Reel Around The Fountain”
18. Vampire Weekend - “M79”
19. The Flaming Lips - “The Spiderbite Song”
20. Feist - “The Limit To Your Love”
21. The Magnetic Fields - “Andrew In Drag”
22. Fishing The Sky - “You Just Got Niced!”
23. Alcest - “Summer’s Glory”
24. Built to Spill - “Kicked It In The Sun”
25. The Saddest Landscape - “Desperate Vespers”

Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 3/9/12

Last night’s broadcast of Left of the Dial on WNHU was my first time doing my radio show in three weeks! It felt good to be back. On the show last night I played a lot of new stuff by artists such as The Men, Arcade Fire, and Bruce Springsteen. I also played some new music from Cheap Girls, whom I saw live the night before in New Haven. Check out some photos from that show HERE. Additionally, I played one of my favorite tracks from Love At The Bottom of the Sea, the new record from The Magnetic Fields. I reviewed that album HERE.

Here’s the full playlist, complete with youtube links to each song whenever I could find them. Thanks for tuning in!

1. The Men - “Turn It Around”
2. Ben Kweller - “Launch Ramp”
3. Cheap Girls - “Gone All Summer”
4. New Year’s Revolution - “City Lights”
5. Paul Baribeau - “Nothing To Say”
6. The Mountain Goats - “Full Flower”
7. Dagwood - “Guilt”
8. of Montreal - “Jacques Lamure”
9. The Kinks - “Victoria”
10. Echo & The Bunnymen - “My Kingdom”
11. Simon & Garfunkel - “April Come She Will”
12. Arcade Fire - “Abraham’s Daughter”
13. Bruce Springsteen - “Death To My Hometown”
14. Cheap Girls - “Communication Blues”
15. The Magnetic Fields - “I’d Go Anywhere With Hugh”
16. Porcelain Raft - “Unless You Speak From Your Heart”
17. Grimes - “Oblivion”
18. LCD Soundsystem - “North American Scum”
19. Cursive - “The Sun and Moon”
20. The Saddest Landscape - “This Heals Nothing”
21. Loma Prieta - “Fly By Night”
22. Alcest - “Écailles De Lune (Part II)”
23. Balance and Composure - “Separation”
24. I Hate Myself - “This Isn’t The Tenka-Ichi-Budokai”
25. Xiu Xiu - “I Luv The Valley OH”
26. Bruce Springsteen - “Wrecking Ball”
27. Nick Drake - “Place To Be”
28. Into It. Over It. - “Raw Bar OBX 2002”
29. David Bello - “Farewell Earth”

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 - 2/3/12

Thanks to everyone who called and tuned in last night for this week’s live broadcast of Left of the Dial. It was a lot of fun doing this show last night, especially because the lead singer of Palomar happened to call in and compliment the music I was playing! Naturally, I felt obliged to play one of their songs towards the end of the set. Tune in next Friday for another broadcast on WNHU.

1. Modest Mouse - “Styrofoam Boots/It’s All Nice On Ice”
2. Grandaddy - “Now It’s On”
3. Dum Dum Girls - “Bedroom Eyes”
4. The Shins - “Phantom Limb”
5. Bright Eyes - “Shell Games”
6. LVL UP - “*_*”
7. Bruce Springsteen - “No Surrender”
8. The Smiths - “Still Ill”
9. The Beach Boys - “Good Vibrations” (The Smile Sessions version)
10. Big Star - “Thirteen”
11. Matt Elliott - “This Is For”
12. David F. Bello - “Gemini (Birthday Song)” (WHY? cover)
13. Sufjan Stevens - “All Delighted People (Original Version)”
14. Perfume Genius - “No Tear”
15. Primal Scream - “Higher Than The Sun”
16. MDC - “Born To Die”
17. Bad Brains - “Banned In D.C.”
18. Secret Plot To Destroy The Entire Universe - “Roswell, NM”
19. Mineral - “Gloria”
20. 10,000 Blades - “I Hate Everything And I Like It That Way”
21. Have a Nice Life - “Guggenheim Wax Museum”
22. Slow Warm Death - “Sleep”
23. Loma Prieta - “Uniform”
24. Embrace - “No More Pain”
25. Palomar - “Top Banana”
26. Pavement - “AT&T”

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 - 1/20/12

Here’s the playlist from last night’s broadcast of Left of the Dial on WNHU. I tried to play some positive music to counteract my general unhappiness and I guess it worked, at least for the two hours during the show. Notable songs included Sharon Van Etten’s beautiful “Kevin’s,” from her new album Tramp, which I reviewed earlier today HERE. I also played a track from the new One Hundred Year Ocean EP Poison Smoak, and the new Bruce Springsteen single. I hope those of you who tuned in enjoyed what I had to play.

1. The Hold Steady - “Positive Jam”
2. Hallelujah The Hills - “It’s All Been Downhill Since The Talkies Started To Sing”
3. The Shins - “Simple Song”
4. Free Energy - “I’m Going Down” (Bruce Springsteen cover)
5. Girls - “Heartbreaker”
6. Chestpiece - “Cassius Clay”
7. The Flaming Lips - “Do You Realize??”
8. Grandaddy - “Hewlett’s Daughter”
9. Sharon Van Etten - “Kevin’s”
10. Belle and Sebastian - “Seeing Other People”
11. The Microphones - “The Moon”
12. Laura Stevenson and the Cans - “Master Of Art”
13. Spraynard - “We’re Pretty Nice Guys”
14. Suns - “Machine”
15. Rivers Cuomo - “There Is No Other One”
16. Hour of the Star - “Steeplechase”
17. One Hundred Year Ocean - “1576”
18. Sinforiano Diaz - “Congregation”
19. Bruce Springsteen - “We Take Care Of Our Own”
20. Okkervil River - “Black”
21. of Montreal - “Dour Percentage”
22. Cloud Nothings - “Wasted Days”
23. The Music Tapes - “The Minister of Longitude”
24. Neutral Milk Hotel - “A Baby For Pree/Glow Into You”
25. Neutral Milk Hotel - “Little Birds (studio)”
26. Neutral Milk Hotel - “In The Aeroplane Over The Sea”

Tune in next Friday for another broadcast on WNHU.

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”