Thursday, January 16, 2014

#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:

Friday, January 10, 2014

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