Beat City Radio #585 Playlist

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Tonight's show is a mix of Psychobilly, Cow Punk, Roots Punk, Goth Rock, Surf, and more. The featured artist is Springville, Utah's redneck punkers, The Utah County Swillers, a band that recently played with the Queen of Rockabilly, Wanda Jackson, who is on tour in support of the Jack White produced album, The Party Ain't Over. 
The Swillers are to bring their mix of irreverent, wry humor and booze-saturated, pill poppin' roots punk rock 'n' roll to Pocatello this Saturday night, April 2, at the First National Bar. There is no cover and the show starts at 9:30 PM. RIYL: The Dead Milkmen, Mojo Nixon, The Gun Club, The Waco Brothers, White Trash Watson, The Reverend Horton Heat, etc.
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The Utah County Swillers - Hold Your Breath  from Polygamist out on Big Bender Records.
The Utah County Swillers - Tits on Bacon from Polygamist out on Big Bender Records.
The Utah County Swillers - Hope You're Happy Now from Polygamist out on Big Bender Records.

This show features several new releases from March 29. More information about the records is below.

*Update!* I think I mentioned in this show that All Eternals Deck was the Mountain Goats third LP, which is obviously incorrect (ouch, indie cred!). What I meant to and should have said was that this is the third LP with a more rock-oriented trio. Sorry, ya'll.

Beat City Radio #583 Playlist

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A Few of This Week's New Releases

The Mountain Goats released All Eternals Deck, which takes its name from a fictional set of tarot cards. The album shows that John Darnielle's songwriting is still quite solid and the rhythm section gets a boost from Superchunk drummer Jon Wurster.  Stream the album on NPR's website. Favorite tracks: Damn These Vampires, High Hawk Season, The Autopsy Garland, For Charles Bronson, Birth of Serpents.


Hosannas is a duo from Portlandia who create sweeping and beautiful experimental dream pop tinged with cosmic spaghetti western sounds and shoegazing tendencies. They are back with a FREE EP, Thug Life Nicole, that follows the release of their third album, Together late last year. Find out more about the band and download the EP from the link above.

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Hosannas - Obsolete People
Hosannas - Walroos


From the Moon Duo website: "Moon Duo was formed by Ripley Johnson of Wooden Shjips and Sanae Yamada in San Francisco in 2009. Inspired initially by the legendary duo of John Coltrane and Rashied Ali, Moon Duo counts such variant groups as Silver Apples, Royal Trux, Moolah, Suicide, and Cluster as touchstones. Utilizing primarily guitar, keyboards, and vocals, the Duo plays space against form to create a primeval sound experience." This experimental psychedelic duo dropped Mazes this week on Sacred Bones Records.


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Moon Duo - Mazes
Moon Duo - ScarsMoon Duo - When You Cut 


The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are a shoegazing bliss/gliss rock quartet from Brooklyn, NY. They released their debut self-titled album a couple of years ago to much critical acclaim. That record was very much rooted in the 80s, with elements of post-punk, dream pop, twee, and the C86 sound. It was a very saccharine heart-on-the-sleeve album, but balanced those elements with some darker tones and distortion. The sophomore album, Belong out on Slumberland Records, builds on the first album's elements and takes them further with a BIG and slick wall of sound production style, courtesy of Flood and Alan Moulder (Smashing Pumpkins, My Bloody Valentine, Depeche Mode). The overall sound of this album is early 90s guitar pop-rock, though there are some synth-washed tracks that recall Modern English and The Cure. Belong is a big-sounding, shimmering and slick, heart-breakingly blissful record that glides along beautifully and is enjoyable, though cloying at times. Favorite tracks: Heart in Your Heartbreak, My Terrible Friend,Anne With an E, The Body.Bonus mp3:The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - I Wanna Go All the Way (B-side of the Belong 7" vinyl single).
We also played a new one from Swedish indie rockers Peter Bjorn and John's new album, Gimme Some and a couple from Dirty Beaches. We'll feature Dirty Beaches in another post.
Enjoy!
Bonus Video: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction from The Pains of Being Pure at Heart out on Slumberland Records in 2009.

Beat City Radio #582 Playlist

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Chenoa Roseberry of Somewhere in Texas Radio and Portneuf Valley Bruisers RDA fame put together this wonderful mix. Hopefully she'll grace us with her on-air presence more often in the future.

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Bonus Video: Uncle Leon & the Alibis - "Roller Derby Saved My Soul"

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Bonus Video: Janis Ian at age 16 performing "Society's Child" on the Smothers Brothers show.

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Sometimes the Spring season isn't as bright and cheery as it's supposed to be and post-winter seasonal depression kicks in. This angsty, psychedelia-tinged, shoegazing reverie of a show attempts to touch on that feeling, as well as the bi-polarity inherent in the start-stop-start-stop-again crawl of springtime, and the apprehension that sometimes accompanies the new beginnings, growth, and rebirth that occur during this time of the year. Plus, there are several tracks referencing the gaseous and incendiary sphere that we orbit, all the while knowing it will one day collapse and take everything with it.

Beat City Radio #578 PLAYLIST

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Beat City Radio #578 - March 22, 2011

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Crystal Stilts - Flying Into the Sun  from In Love With Oblivion which drops April 12. Pre-order from Insound.

Fight Bite - Spring Rain

The Velvet Underground - Who Loves the Sun

Bonus Video: Coma Cinema - "Her Sinking Sun" from Blue Suicide. Purchase the cassette here.

 Source: Woodstock Council for World Peace
I'm back from my spring holiday and feel quite refreshed and ready to get back to work. We have implemented a new playlist reporting method at KISU, and it's kind of time consuming, so I think I'll just start linking to the playlist entries over there. We'll still post podcasts, mp3s, videos, and the like at this we location. Also, check out the widget on the top right-hand corner of the page. It's an indicator of what's live on KISU at the moment, and if you're streaming Beat City Radio live, you'll see a list of the last four songs played on the show and the times they started. Kinda neat, aye?

This edition of the show aired the day after the 2011 Spring Equinox and some of the songs are a tad icy and crushing.

BCR 3-21-11 PLAYLIST

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St. Paddy's Day show featuring several bands of Irish descent and more.

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Crystal Stilts - Verdant Gaze [mediafire]
The Cramps - Green Door    [mediafire]
Randy Alvey and the Green Fuz - Green Fuz [mediafire]
New Order - Everything's Gone Green [mediafire]

       
       
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Dropkick Murphys – The Spicy McHaggis Jig (Sing Loud, Sing Proud!) 2001
Flogging Molly – Drunken Lullabies (Drunken Lullabies) 2002
Ash – Teenage Kicks (John Peel Session) *Undertones cover*

The Undertones – Get Over You (Get Over You single) 1979
Stiff Little Fingers – Alternative Ulster (Inflammable Material) 1979
Morrissey – Irish Blood, English Heart (You are the Quarry) 2004

Station Break

Virgin Prunes – Baby Turns Blue (If I Die, I Die) 1982
Boomtown Rats – Up All Night (Ratrospective) 1983
That Petrol Emotion – Big Decision (Babble) 1987

My Bloody Valentine – Nothing Much to Lose (Isn’t Anything) 1988
Them – Here Comes the Night (Here Comes the Night single) 1965
The Magnetic Fields – Torn Green Velvet Eyes (Holiday) 1994

Station Break

Santah – Irish Wristwatch
The Glove – This Green City (Blue Sunshine) 1983
Star 69 – Girl From Mars (You Are Here) 1996 *Ash cover*

Real Estate – Green River (Real Estate) 2009
The Pogues – Dirty Old Town (Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash) 1985