#TBT My First Radio Show

Back in 2004 (ten years ago!), I broadcasted my first ever radio show live on air on January 13th on KCSB-FM 91.9 in Santa Barbara. At the time, I was a freshman in college at UC Santa Barbara and my time slot was 4-6am (everyone who made the cut started there), but I kept programming my show "Break Out The Shakedown" (a title inspired by The Rapture) for another 2+ years. I eventually worked my way up to the not-so-coveted 12-2a slot and held steady.

The first show was all over the place: house, indie rock, hip-hop, UK grime & garage, dance punk, electronica, etc. I now present the playlist from my first radio show on that fateful night/morning, taken from my website archives:

1.13.04 Playlist
Artist	Title	Label
Alexkid	Don't Hide It	Pias America
The Joggers	Hot Autism	StarTime Int'l
Aceyalone	Lost Your Mind	Red Urban
The Ends	Are You Really From The Ends?	Stifle
Gravy Train!!!!	Titties Bounce	Kill Rock Stars
The Rapture	Sister Saviour	Universal
TV On The Radio	Staring At The Sun	Touch & Go
Blackalicious	Deep In The Jungle	Quannum
The Darkness	I Believe In A Thing Called Love	Atlantic
The Streets	All Got Our Runnins	Vice
Prefuse 73	Radio To B	Warp
Automato	Walk In To The Light	Coup de Grace
Interpol	Obstacle 2	Matador
Moving Units	Between Us And Them	Palm Pictures
Broadcast	Minim	Warp
Junior Senior	Shake Your Coconuts	Crunchy Frog
Mount Sims	Black Sunglasses	Emperor Norton
Phoenix	Summer Days	Astralwerks
The Shins	Saint Simon	Sub Pop
Roots Manuva	Join The Dots feat. Chali 2Na	Big Dada
Coldplay	Clocks (Röyksopp's Trembling Heart Remix)	Parlophone
Röyksopp	Poor Leno	Astralwerks
The Beta Band	I Know	Astralwerks
The Stills	Lola Stars And Stripes	Vice
The Strokes	Under Control	RCA

Here's the very first song I opened with:

Best Music of 2013

Wow, how I never give my blog any love these days! And here I am making my annual "Best Of" post for 2013 this late. One barely needs to scroll down to see last year's on the same screen (say what!). Granted, I did a few private gigs last year that I couldn't share on my blog, but yeah...it's been a little quiet here.

Anyhow, I couldn't keep putting this off. This time around I decided to open up my selection to EPs in addition to full-length albums. So there's three favorite EPs of mine from 2013 on here. Looking forward to seeing 5 of these artists + all the other great talent at Coachella 2014 (Weekend 1) in a few months.

In no particular order, I present to you my Best of 2013 music releases followed by song selections to check out:

Kanye West - Yeezus "Black Skinhead"
Pusha T - My Name Is My Name "Numbers On The Boards"
Disclosure - Settle "Latch feat. Sam Smith"
Factory Floor - Factory Floor "Fall Back"
Junip - Junip "Line Of Fire"
Laura Mvula - Sing To The Moon "Can't Live With The World"
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II "Swim and Sleep (Like a Shark)"
Cayucas - Bigfoot "Cayucos"
Big Black Delta - Big Black Delta "Side Of The Road"
Roosevelt - Elliot EP "Elliot"
Boys Noize - Go Hard EP "Starwin"
Empire of the Sun - Ice On The Dune "Alive"
Wild Belle - Isles "It's Too Late"
AlunaGeorge - Body Music "Attracting Flies"
Djrum - Seven Lies "Arcana (Do I Need You)"
Chrome Sparks - Sparks EP "Marijuana"

Honorable Mentions:
Phoenix - Bankrupt! "Chloroform"
Myron & E - Broadway "If I Gave You My Love"
Darkside - Psychic "Freak, Go Home"
Machinedrum - Vapor City "Don't 1 2 Lose U"

Previous "Best Of" lists:
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008