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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Click the link above to tune in to my radio show Left of the Dial on WNHU from 6 to 8 PM tonight. This playlist includes some blistering new garage rock from Ty Segall and King Tuff, in addition to new stuff from Dan Deacon and SPOOK HOUSES, and some classic ’80s indie rock from The Replacements and Hüsker Dü. This is the first show of the summer for me, now that I’m out of school, so I’m very excited for it.
Leave any and all requests in my ask box. The full playlist will be up here and on Spotify tomorrow. Let’s get started now with a demo version of “Can’t Hardly Wait” by The Replacements, from the 2008 deluxe edition of their 1985 album Tim.
Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 5/25/12
- 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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Another Friday night means another live broadcast of my radio show Left of the Dial on WNHU. I’ve been thinking of doing some themed broadcasts in the future but for now I’ll keep the show as free-form as it’s always been — Some of my favorite songs that I’ve been listening to in the past week along with whatever new material happened to fall on my plate recently. Tonight’s show will feature new stuff from Mount Eerie, The Tallest Man On Earth, and Japandroids, whose new record Celebration Rock received a glowing review from me HERE. I’m kicking the show off right now with “Fire’s Highway,” a highlight track from that album.
This broadcast will run from 6 to 8 PM, and I’ll post regular updates throughout the next two hours. Leave any requests you might want to hear in my ask box. The playlist will be up tomorrow to stream on Spotify.
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)
Tune in now!
Friday night means it’s time for another live broadcast of my radio show Left of the Dial on WNHU. Tonight’s program will feature brand new material from Fang Island, The Tallest Man On Earth, Sun Kil Moon and many more artists. Built To Spill, Iron Chic, and The Hold Steady are also on the playlist at the moment.
Later on in the program, I’ll also lament the end of Cutler’s Records and talk about some upcoming shows that are worth paying attention to if you live in the tri-state area. All of that and more is coming up in the next two hours, so tune in from now until 8 PM!
Leave requests in my ask box. The playlist will be up tomorrow along with a link to stream it on Spotify. Thanks for tuning in!
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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Click the link above to tune in to my radio show Left of the Dial live on WNHU. On tonight’s program, I’m going to be paying tribute to the Beastie Boys’ MCA, aka Adam Yauch, who died today after a long battle with cancer. I’ll also get to some new tracks from Hallelujah The Hills, Death Grips, and Japandroids. The show runs from 6 to 8 PM, and the playlist will be up tomorrow along with a link to stream it via Spotify.
I’ll be here in the studio checking tumblr throughout the show, so feel free to leave a request in my ask box or just say hi. Also, I’m taking the SATs tomorrow. Wish me luck.
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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Click the link above now to tune in to my weekly radio show Left of the Dial on WNHU. I didn’t have my show last Friday because I was at the Titus Andronicus show at Quinnipiac, which you can read about HERE. I haven’t been able to post all that much in the past couple days because I’ve had a lot going on at school, but I’m very happy to be here in the studio doing my show tonight.
On tonight’s program, I’ll be playing some of the new stuff I bought on Record Store Day, in addition to new tracks from Jack White, Spiritualized, and Screaming Females. Over the course of the show, I’ll also discuss some of the recent concerts I’ve seen and celebrate the Desaparecidos reunion.
My show runs from 6 to 8 PM, so tune in now or at any point in the next two hours for some great music! Feel free to leave requests in my ask box. I’ll post the playlist tomorrow.
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.
This is what my setup looks like here at WNHU. Also, I just configured my instragram account. I’ll probably be posting immediate photos from shows on here in real time now, in addition to higher quality photos afterwards.
By the way, there’s still about 18 minutes left on my radio show Left of the Dial. Tune in now HERE!
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Click the link above now to tune in to another live broadcast of my radio show Left of the Dial on WNHU. I’m in the studio here at the University of New Haven ready to play some great tunes for you for the next two hours, and I’d really appreciate it if you tuned in. On tonight’s program, I’ll be playing new tracks from Suns, Beach House, and The Act of Estimating As Worthless.
Feel free to leave a request in my ask box at any point during the show. The full playlist will be posted tomorrow with a link to stream each song. Thanks for listening, and have a great weekend!
Starting right now with an old track by The Get-Up Kids. Tune in!
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”
Tune in now!
Click the link above to tune in to my weekly radio show Left of the Dial live on WNHU right now. I missed my show last week, but I’m glad to be back in the studio tonight. This show’s playlist will feature new music from Japandroids, Lower Dens, Suns, Jaill, and others, along with some classic tracks from as far back as 1965. And of course, since it’s Good Friday, you know I have to play this at some point.
To leave a request during the show, simply head over to my ask box. As always, the full radio playlist will be posted tomorrow.
