Playlist 01.23.07

tuesday, january 23, 2007
3:00 a.m. – 6:00 a.m.

xela – wet bones
doldrums – prog epilogue
rickard javerling – wind play
belong – i’m too sleepy… shall we swim

clinic – family
animal collective – grass
our brother the native – apodiformes
jessamine – pilot-free ignition

tartit – ansari
brush – grey hound bus
the monks – complication
entrance – lost in the dark

black elk – who knew?
1349 – legion
bathory – blood fire death

16-17 – spit it out
dan deacon – big big big big big
fiery furnaces – i’m waiting to know you
swan lake – the partisan but he’s got to know

rahim alhaj – taqsim maqam sharqi rast
tinariwen – aldhechen manin
sierra leone’s refugee all stars – bull to the weak

thuja – track 1 (from ‘pine cone temples’)
ariel pink’s haunted graffiti – helen
chamellows – siggur

mile end ladies string auxiliary – sequences of a warm front

matt shoemaker - … (track 1 from ‘spots in the sun’)

Playlist 01.16.07

tuesday, january 16, 2007
3:00 a.m. – 6:00 a.m.

bardo pond – adrop

emily hay and marcos fernandes – away from the doom
nels cline / wally shoup / chris corsano - minus mint

j.p. shilo – the sea has done a number on me
the timeout drawer – blue eyed and filled with horror
sonic youth – kim’s chords

entrance – pretty baby
drones – baby
lullabye arkestra - y’make me shake
the mall – adcantage out

the blow – fists up
the boy least likely to – be gentle with me
the spinto band – oh mandy
a hawk and a hacksaw – fernando’s giampari

yaseen mohamed - ni wewe
selda – mehmet emmi
gasper lawal - awon-ojise-oluwa

colleen – i’ll read you a story
torturium - an apocryphal luciferian code
nightbringer – the void
urfaust – der halbtoten dichters schein-existenz

sunn o))) & boris – akuma no kuma
jan jelinek – palmer aus leader
e.a.r. – the calm before

droneaement - wassermonf

Playlist 01.09.07

tuesday, january 9, 2007
3:00 a.m. – 6:00 a.m.

sunn o))) & boris – etna

burnt by the sun – spinner dunn
mastodon – circle of cysquata
napalm death – turn the knife (slowly)

fucked up – crusades
lightning bolt – hello morning
16-17 – clap trap

weasel walter quartet – we have revolted
sweep the leg johnny – walking home on the emergency bed
honey ride me a goat – curried goat

ui – answers
crime in choir – complete upsmanship
tussle – second guessing

khan jamal creative arts ensemble – inner peace

amon tobin – searchers
faust & dalek – t-electronique
wu-tang clan – triumph
jrk – r.a.w.

japanther – i lo
the blow – the long list of girls
caribou – crayon
dosh – o mexico

robert fripp – red two scorer
our brother the native – track 3
spacemen 3 – set me free/i got the key

entrance – lost in the dark
the fall – big new prinz
pell mell – food clothing & shelter

sunn o))) – o))) bow 1

Playlist 01.02.07

tuesday, january 2, 2007
3:00 a.m. – 6:00 a.m.

teeko – someone said listen
polyphonic the verbose – container life #473
daedelus – a sneaking suspicion
david behrman – leapday night (from four tet “dj kicks”)

hammers of misfortune – chastity rides
butthole surfers – something
thinking fellers union local 1282 – another clip

jasper tx – help me die
albert ayler – holy ghost

narita munehiro – sublimation

inade – movement & construction
heresi – bevingad och forledd med horn
nortt – glemt
tim hecker – blood rainbow

jessica rylan – untitled
yellow swans – untitled
boredoms – super are you
microwaves – codex vortex

asunder – famine

animal collective – pride & fight

damon & naomi – judah and the maccabees
karen dalton – same old man

Playlist 12.05.06

tuesday, december 5, 2006
3:00 a.m. – 6:00 a.m.

forgot to write it down, but i played a track off of the ‘women take back the noise’ 3-disc set. it was off the first disc, think it was aedrian hughes. talked over other parts of the disc for the rest of the show. friday night at the 21 grand should be awesome!!!

grey daturas – path of niners
ludicra – veils
nachtmystium – chosen by no one

earth – harvey (remixed by justin broadrick)
geoff mullen – the air in pieces ii
current 93 – inerrant infallible (black ships at niveneh and edom)

karen dalton – are you leaving for the country
joanna newsom – sawdust & diamonds
sean smith – the augur of deviation

califone – a chinese actor
evangelicals – another day (and you’re still knocked out)
white magic – palm & wine

cat power – lived in bars
tom waits – you can never hold back spring
daniel higgs – are you of the body?

blow – pardon me
black moth super rainbow – spiracle
ratatat – wildcat
guilty simpson – clap your hands

michael liggins – standing on the corner
uptights band – devil’s on the run
clarence carter – snatching it back
chester randle’s soul senders – soul borhters testify pt. 1

wight walker brothers – god been good to me
ken boothe – is it because i’m black
noel ellis – memories
dub specialist - banana walk

melvins – the talking horse

Playlist 11.28.06

tuesday, november 28, 2006
3:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m.

skullflower – track 7 from “tribulation”
james plotkin / tim wyskida – three from “8 improvisations”

tim hecker – chimeras
jesu - dead eyes
my bloody valentine – sometimes

ecstatic sunshine – tuscan
clark – night knuckles
colleen – what is a componium? - part 1
christina carter – words are not my own

tom waits – dog door
wolf eyes – stabbed in the face
dälek – forever close my eyes
roy montgomery – downtown to vesuvio

susan christie – echo in your mind
pretty things – bracelets of fingers
the kinks – big black smoke
the black keys – the flame
pavement – frontwards

annuals – brother
hush arbors – bones by the sea
pearls before swine – images of april
erik amlee – melting trees

califone – our kiten sees ghosts
orso - lf
harvey milk – brown water

hjarnidaudi – pain

You Don't Need to Be Stoned, But It Probably Wouldn't Hurt

If you didn’t already know where you need to be this evening, you do now: Slim’s. Headlining the night is Om , aka Al Cisneros (vocals and bass) and Chris Hakius (drums), aka 2/3s of seminal stoner metal band Sleep. With a name like Om, there had better be something trance-inducing about the sound, and there is. Repeated, slowly evolving slowed down fuzzy bass, drums and chanted vocals give it a meditative quality. Not having seen them live before, I can’t speak too much about what it’ll be like in person (although you could find out about the sound by following the link I just gave you and scoping out a live recording that’s available for free download). I imagine that it’s going to be easy to lose oneself in the music.

You should remember another band in the lineup, Mammatus , that I have repeatedly told you to check out if you’re into stoner metal, heavy psych, and the like. More trance-inducing goodness.

Starting off the evening is an Australian band I’m super-pumped about checking out, Grey Daturas . It’s noise rock, but there’s definitely a solid foot in the rock category, albeit with a tendency towards metal, no-wave and sludge. These guys just put out a split with Wolf Eyes, after all. I’m excited about all the merch I’m not going to be able to resist purchasing.

Finally, somewhere in the lineup is a band I know jack about, Pearls and Brass . But they’re on the nigh impeccable Drag City label, so that’s good enough for me. And if it’s good enough for me, it better be good enough for you. After all, I can still dish out the melvins, if need be.

No Melvins for You, Loser

Like the title says, I’m not even going to bother giving all of you melvins, because the Melvins show last night was so fucking good, it's sort of a like a melvin to your soul that you missed it. Two drummers for the whole set, tons of classic material… I’d like to say more, but I’m in a hurry to address your pressing need to know what’s happening tonight. It will suffice to say that your sorry ass missed an amazing show, definitely a highlight in a year of great shows. Sucker.

Thursday, November 30, 2006

My number one pick for tonight would have to be the Evangelicals’ wild and crazy psychedelic pop. These Oklahomans are touring in support their wonderful debut, So Gone. Fans of The Flaming Lips might want to check out the new Oklahoman psych-pop band on the block. I know I do. I tried a couple of times during SXSW this year, but was thwarted. I did see singer/guitarist Josh Jones play a little solo set, and it was good enough to warrant wanting to see him play with a full band. Step on up.

If that doesn’t sound like where you want to be tonight, you can see Dan The Automator (Deltron 3030, Gorillaz, Handsome Boy Modeling School, etc.) performing with a live band, Chali 2na (Jurassic 5) and Casual (Hieroglyphics). We all know Chali’s the #1 MC in J5. Now’s your chance to see him do his thing solo. The show’s $20, but if you’re not on the Mezzanine mailing list and you want to go for $10, I can send you a link that’ll cut the price in half.

Lots of good stuff this weekend, too. Om, Mammatus and Grey Daturas playing together, for god’s sake! Primus! Rjd2! Jana Hunter!

Melvins All Around!!!

Tuesday, November 27, 2006

For the hip hoppers, check out The Coup and Mr. Lif at the Independent. That is, if you’re willing to shell out $22 to see two great hip hop acts that rarely command so high a cover.

Personally, I’d push towards a jaunt over the Bay Bridge to 21 Grand for something a little more experimental and a little more reasonably priced ($6). Henry Barnes has done the harsh noise thing during his time with Man is the Bastard and Bastard Noise (with noise-god John Wiese, no less). While I love his work with those projects, there’s something for everyone in his guise as Amps for Christ. Using mostly homemade stringed instruments and electronics, Amps for Christ’s output falls all over the place. From straight-ahead folk to experimental electronic weirdness to all places in between, the music’s good enough to warrant repeated playings on my show. And if that’s not enough for you, he also has done 3 or 4 versions of “Scotland the Brave.” That’s enough for me.


Wednesday, November 28, 2006

If you don’t know who the Melvins are by now, you’d better have a really good excuse. They’ve been around for twenty years. That’s long enough to be cited as a major influence by such notables and personal favorites as Nirvana and Boris (who take their name from a Melvins’ song). If weird, sludgy rock is your thing, this is where you should be on Wednesday. And it weird, sludgy rock isn’t your thing, you’ve got bigger problems than figuring out where to be tomorrow night, bud.


That’s all for now. Tomorrow (hopefully), I’ll tell you about Thursday, which brings us the Evangelicals, another Amps for Christ show (this time in the city) and a hip hop throwdown with Dan the Automator and Chali 2na. Don’t even get me started on the weekend… Although you probably won't be getting out too much with all the post-melvin pain you'll be enduring if you miss the Melvins.