Monday, June 28, 2010

Youth Animation Project, Hunter-Gatherer

Good morning, all!

I'm gonna say the first hour of the show was outstanding and the rest of it was pretty good especially when my special guests showed up! This without having heard it from your end. We heard:

Pat Metheny (comp. Steve Reich) // Electric Counterpoint 1. Fast; Electric Counterpoint 2. Slow, Electric Counterpoint - Fast
Talk Talk // Ascension Day**
TuneYards // For You; Sunlight**
Arp // White Light**
Royaume Des Morts // Motherless Kids Have Eyes
Olympic Symphonium // Picture That
Rachel's // Systems/Layers; Packet Switching
Xavier Rudd & Izintaba // Reasons We Were Blessed
Lily Frost // Chalet Du Bois
Savath & Savalas // Mi Hijo
Wolf Gang // Back to Back (Active Child Remix)
E&E // Gate
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti // L'estat
Charlie Hunter & Bobby Previte, with John Medeski // Seoul Tower
Youth Crime // You'll Change Your Mind**
Memory Tapes // Bicycle (Little Loud Remix)
Cloud Nothings // Hey Cool Kid (Memoryhouse remix)
No Age // Things I Did When I Was Dead
Ornette Coleman // Lonely Woman
TuneYards // Hatari
No Age // Here Should Be My Home
Smog // Cold-Blooded Old Times
Cloud. // All City; She's Fly
Bill Cosby // Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

We spoke to Corinne Cornish, of the Youth Animation Project at Quickdraw Animation Society. You can check out the short films from that project this Wednesday at the Plaza Theatre in Kensington, the show is free, 7:00pm. www.quickdrawanimation.ca

We also heard from Nate of Hunter-Gatherer, a local band that is opening up the stage at the Legion on Saturday night for Sled Island. He brought the No Age, Ornette Coleman and the Smog we heard, as well as Bill Cosby... check out the lineup that night at the Legion for Saturday night at sledisland.com


Thanks for listening.

Love,

Dane

Monday, June 21, 2010

Something about Afghanistan but not about Kabul


http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/15/showcase-173/

Late nights, early mornings, bike rides

Yeah-

Today we heard:

Tortoise // DJed
Dapp Theory // After the Fact
Smadj // Toi et Moi
Don Caballero // Peter Criss Jazz
Scott Kemp // Nut Crackin'
Budos Band // Hidden Hand**
Afternoons in Stereo // #3**
Broken Social Scene // Sentimental X's
Dangermouse & Sparklehorse // Little Girl
Lindstrom & Christabelle // Music in My Mind
Berdsen // Supertime
Ruxpin // Her Body Smells of Cinnamon
Meursault // Crank Resolutions
Gold Panda // Quitter's Raga**
Twin Sister // Phenomenons
TuneYards // Hatari**
Casiokids // Fot I Hose
M83 // We Own the Sky (Udachi Remix)
Major Lazer + La Roux // Colourless Artibella**; I'm Not Your Lemonade
Funky Porcini // Robert Crumb's Natural Gait
Oopikk // Bunting

We spoke to Richard Shelly, Interim President of the Calgary Jazz Association, regarding this weekend's announcement that the Jazzfest would not go on this year. He held his own though he appeared rather subdued, which is a euphemism for pretty much devastated. You can check out the interview at cjsw.com/news

Thanks again for listening...

Dane

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Niall O'Brien


From the Superheroes series, on youth.

You can find more of this photographer's work at: http://www.niallobrien.co.uk/

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Pon de Foley

Pon de Floor is a track off Major Lazer's Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do!! Pon de Foley is a remix of that track. Here is a video a Greek DJ and pencil crayon artist made to go with that song, your coffee and your cornflakes.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Halfway Home Showfill

Good day, loyal listener:

Today I filled in for Walter on his show Halfway Home. So much fuckin fun!

Sunset Rubdown // Nightingale/December Song
Gobble Gobble // Meteor Eschat**
Dan Mangan // Robots
Basia Bulat // Sugar and Spice
HeRajika Tracks // I Believe
Clinton St. John // ?
Brigitte Fontaine // Eternelle**
Silver Jews // I Remember Me**
Bright Eyes // From a Balance Beam
Dojo Workhorse // You Heartbreaker**
Pocahaunted // Touch You
Pontiak // Original Vestal**
Male Bonding // Weird Feelings
Cowboy Fringants // Awikatchikaen
Deer Tick // Friday XIII**
Alberta Cross // Song Three Blues
Portugal the Man // Created
John Vanderslice // Up Above the Sea
Gold Panda // You (Seams Remix)**

Haggard Beat also played a 3-song set around 5:00 today. They have a show upcoming this weekend in Rocky Mountain House, AB, at the Treefrog Festival which is organized by members of that band. Nine other hag rockers are gonna be there too, it's gonna be haggard... they'll make you feel like getting up out of bed in the late afternoon, groaning and reaching for coffee and smokes and without knowledge of what day it is, except the music, the music rolls on and Dennis Hopper is still alive, riding a chopper down the desert highway... haggardbeat.com for the haglog, and Dickens Pub on July 26th, with the Afterparty form Winnipeg.

Yours,
Dane

Monday, June 14, 2010

This morning I played more eighties covers than I'd anticipated

Today, we heard:

BRAIDS // Lemonade
Brad Mehldau // The Falcon Will Fly Again
Brad Turner + the October Trio // Found
The Sounds of Rhythm // Just My Imagination
Jeff Dyer & Bill Brennan // Nicaragua
The Montreal Black Community Youth Choir // Tryin' Times
Ronnie Foster // Mystic Brew
Francoise Hardy & Iggy Pop // I'll Be Seeing You
Jaga Jazzist // Swedenborgske Rom
Damien Jurado // Arkansas
Angus & Julia Stone // Yellow Brick Road
Peggy Sue // Watchman
Elli Medeiros // Sophisticated Lady
Wailing Wall // Bones Become Rainbows
Julian Lynch // Sedan Delivery
Black Keys // She's Long Gone
Royal Hideouts // Old Money
Washed Out // You and I (ft. Caroline Polachek)
Cotton Mouth // Black Hand
Cousins // ?
Phosphorescent // Mermaid Parade
Hop Along, Queen Ansleis // Breakfast Song
Middle East // Blood
Deer Tick // Christ Jesus
LCD Soundsystem // Dance Yrself Clean
Gayngs // Cry
Golden Ages // Africa (Toto)
Wilderness of Manitoba // Hardship Acres

Monday, June 7, 2010

Good morning!

Today, we heard:

Sonny Rollins // Everything Happens to Me
Bill Plummer // Pars Fortuna
Della Reese // I Only Want a Buddy, Not a Sweetheart
Stanley Turrentine // You Said It
Dave Brubeck // Pennies from Heaven
Herbie Mann // Not Now - Later On
Dinah Washington // Black & Blue
HeRajiKa tracks // I Believe
Gobble Gobble // Ash Fountain
Taj Mahal // Leavin' Trunk**
Blue Shadows // Wonder Bout Me
Cowboy Junkies // Sir Francis Bacon at the Net
Prince Rama // Land of the Apocalypse Transcended
St Vincent // Never Tear Us Apart**
Deer Tick // Houston, TX**
The Fall // Weather Report II**
Pete Tremblay and the Boozy Truth // No Halo
Nix Dicksons // Maria
The Collapse // Motel Lodge; Whiskey
Eric Copeland // Black Dink Death**
Braids // Liver & Tan**
Born Ruffians // What to Say**
Gang Gang Dance // Dust**
Animal Collective // Fireworks**
The Acorn // Cobbled from Dust
Paul Weller // Wake up the Nation

That's it for today. All I can promise for next week is more Deer Tick, some Black Dice and who knows what else.
Dane

Sunday, June 6, 2010

I'm not sure how this pertains

Hair Conditioner from Jonathan Gurvit on Vimeo.



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