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Radio1190 – Best Non-commercial Radio Station

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Looks like some of the Westword Best of Denver awards were
announced today online and Radio1190 is pleased to be recognized once again! The full list of awards will be published tomorrow.

Best Radio Station — Non-commercial
Radio 1190
By its very nature, Radio 1190, the University of Colorado at Boulder’s station, has a very fluid staff, with DJs coming and going at various times of the year. But despite these frequent changes, 1190 has some important constants. The vast majority of hosts are more interested in exploring the variety of independent sounds being created today, as opposed to focusing on the most predictable or heavily hyped stuff — and instead of phonying up their presentations, their straightforward talks comes from the heart. That’s giving it the old college try.

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SXSW Recap: Coathangers at Spider House

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

I caught the Coathangers in Austin at a venue called the Spider House – a sprawling coffee shop that had four different stages going. Definitely my favorite venue of the trip. The Coathangers are an all-girl punk/garage rock band from Atlanta. They were on the very top of my list of bands not to miss at SXSW. I want to be best friends with the girls in the band but I also think that they’d probably tear me apart. When they first took stage I immediately noticed the bruises all up and down the drummer’s leg. (She’s the tattooed one in the pictures below.) During one of the last songs when she started wailing on her leg with a tambourine I realized where they came from. These girls are super cute and also really good musicians – they rotated through all the instruments. The way they thrashed around and screamed in ear-splitting tones exuded fearlessness and I couldn’t help but dance. I love seeing shows like this that make me feel like I could be in a really badass all-girl band myself if I just picked up an instrument. I wish they had gotten to do “Nestle in My Boobies,” but the sets are short at SXSW and they were mostly playing brand new stuff.

Their brand new album “Scramble” will be in rotation very shortly!

Pictures by Courtney Fellion.

-Katherine (Coathangers’ #1 fan)

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Highlights in Rotation

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Let me tell you about some of my favorite albums in rotation at the moment!

Drag the River – Bad at Breaking Up [Suburban Home]
This alt-country band from Fort Collins has been around for quite awhile and it seems like they’re always getting better. Definitely on par with other heart-crushing groups like Lucero. This is a collection of 20 rarities from the band including 7″ tracks and B-sides. The packaging alone looks like reason enough to buy this one for yourself. The band “broke up” in 2007, but that hasn’t seemed to have stopped them from playing shows. In fact, members Jon Snodgrass and Chad Price are releasing brand new solo records this year which will probably be popping up in rotation themselves sometime soon!

Julie Doiron – I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day [Jagjaguwar]
Julie has been around the independent music scene for quite awhile. In the 90s she was in the notable band Eric’s Trip and last years she appeared on an album with Phil Elverum. (Our CD of the month from October!) This album has been bashed a bit for returning to the fuzzy distorted sounds of Eric’s Trip, but that sound was so good I don’t mind hearing it again. There are some cutesy happy songs that are pretty good, but the best ones are sad and lonely. All the songs sound so big and all are solid indie rock anthems. This record bears repeated listens.

Various – I Woke Up One Morning in May [Mississippi Records]
Mississippi Records is one of my absolute favorite record labels around right now. They find the best music you’ve never, ever heard and put it out on affordable limited edition vinyl. And they’re so hip they don’t even have a website. Thurston Moore seems to have been involved with the label at some point, but I’ll let wikipedia explain that better than I can. On this album we have a collection of blues from 1927-1934. These extra crackly tunes are refreshingly barebone, with just voice and guitar and simple lyrics. Maybe these unrelenting Depression-era songs are just what we need for our current situation.

-Katherine (music director)

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Catching Wavves

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
I was pretty excited to catch Wavves in Austin during SXSW. Here’s a little video taken at Emo’s of “Summer Goth” from Wavves’ 2009 full-length Wavvves (Fat Possum); a record I’m confident I’ll be revisiting when it’s time for “2009 Best Of” lists.
Wavves – Summer Goth 

You can listen to a couple more tracks from Wavvves here:

   

- Ed Post (Under The Mattress)

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ALELA DIANE – To Be Still [Rough Trade]

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

In a dive urbanized java-stop I’m giving a first listen to Alela Diane’s latest Rough Trade release, To Be Still. This CD is so deck it’s killing me, the grayed out bohemian goofing my mind through ear-buds and window reflections, typing on a single-finger keyboard and getting off to the effortless melodies and seemingly overcast lyrics. All the while tapping my foot and abusing the free Wi-Fi, searching out exactly who is Alela Diane Menig?

Running up and around the west coast between Northern California, S.F., and Portland brewed up the smooth loathing Psych Folk style Alela is becoming known for. Her lyrics float and sink on cloudy mountains and snow-covered paths. Windy relationships pull at this child like a sedated kite over a rocky beach. The range of her voice spans the clarity of Arctic ice and the mellowness of a 56 year old whiskey I just dug out of my dead father’s liquor stash.

Sniffing through the world-wideness does not give up much dirt on Alela’s backing band, except it consists of her father Tom Menig (Deadbeats), hipster Michael Hurley (hepcat fiddler with Son Volt, Calexico and Lucinda Williams) and a host of musically adept friends she keeps in her kitchen by feeding them grilled cheese sandwiches and smoky lyrics.

This 11 track CD is a complete joy and I predict it to be my top pick for 2009… now I am committed. The vocals are right out front and the accompaniment includes a diversity of stringed instruments (cello, fiddle, mandolin, banjo), plenty of tribal beats and interesting effects. It all fits so perfectly with Alela Diane’s vocals.

The eerie stillness of “Every Path” makes it my favorite track. Other joys of solace include the walking beat with steel guitar in “To Be Still” and the somewhat traditional folk sound of “The Alder Trees”.

Alela Diane Menig is playing SXSW this week, then directly off to the UK for a European tour through April. She returns to the states in early May to play Seattle’s Triple Door with Iron & Wine. I can only imagine the harmonic possibilities of a Sam Beam/Alela Diane duet.

Previous releases by Menig include The Pirate’s Gospel [Holocene Music, 2006] and two self-released EP’s, Forest Parade [2003] and The Pirate’s Gospel, [2004].

-Jay Niemoth

“To Be Still” is Radio1190′s CD of the month for March 2009.
Read more reviews at Vitamin Fuzz.

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Casiotone for the Painfully Alone Interview

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
I caught up with Owen Ashworth, also known as Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, after one of his shows at SXSW. He played at one of the fantastic Todd P parties put on at Ms. Bea’s. If you’re unfamiliar with his music, the band name gives you a pretty good idea of what you’re in for. He’s been making lo-fi melancholy songs with a keyboard for about 12 years now out of San Francisco.

KP: So this was your first time at SXSW?
OA: Yeah, this is the first time.

KP: Did you like playing at the shows here?
OA: The shows are really fun. It’s so…I get really stressy really easily. And the parking and the loading in and out just made me super crazy. This was the best of all of the shows, this was so much fun.

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DJ ALISHA: High Five of Awesome

Monday, March 23rd, 2009
5 things that are awesome-

REAL Lucha Libre coming to Denver: Top-Name Luchadores straight from Mexico, including L.A. Park, Tinieblas Jr, Rey Misterio and Mascara Sagrada… plus masked heroes Quantum and Lucifer – all descend in one spot for full-tilt, top-rope-flying, mask-wearing madness! First time in Denver — don’t miss it, amigos! My friend Sid Pink is hosting some of this show and I cannot wait. I’ve only gone to Mexican Wrestling once and a semi-pro thing another time and had some of the most fun ever sitting in bleachers at these shows.
Date: Saturday, April 4, 2009
Time: 7:00pm – 10:00pmLocation: National Western Complex – Arena Stadium
Street: I-70 & Washington
City/Town: Denver, CO

Buy tickets on-line at www.FMLL.ticketleap.com/OR at any Illegal Pete’s location/ OR at FashioNation! 13th & Pearl

OH AND GUESS WHAT, I’ll be giving away tickets on Wednesday from 4-6pm!

Twilight on DVD: Its more the teasing of it being on dvd. I read the books and of course I’m one of the girls to be fond of the main character Edward Cullen, but as a journalist I’m more fascinated rather than obsessed with the whole Twilight phenomenon! However, it is on dvd and I’m borrowing it from my neighbor so I can relive the book through film. And I also joined the Facebook club “Because I read Twilight I have unrealistic expectations in Men” just cuz. Oh and I “Stuff on My Cat” my cat with the Twilight dvd. Do you think I should post it to their site, the pic isn’t good and was taken on a camera phone and taken impulsively not earnestly?!
$5 t-shirt sale at Threadless.com: Great designs for everyone all discounted until March 30, nuff said!
New Fever Ray album: Um, the sister of the duo The Knife has a side project that is equally as rad as her and her brother’s band. There has been a couple videos and mp3s online of this for months, but the album is out today on Mute and I promise its super good!

Movie news: Trailer for Year One online, the first draft of the new Muppets script has been completed and is supposed to be really great oh and best of all, Sam Raimi says that he and Bruce Campbell are going to team up for another Evil Dead film! Holla!
Love to you,

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The coolest guy ever!

Monday, March 23rd, 2009




Omar Souleyman
“Leh Jani”
Sublime Frequencies

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Sublime Frequecies

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

My recent obsession has been the Seattle-based recording label Sublime Frequencies. I first heard of SFs at the behest of a friend who sent me a copy of ’1970′s Algeria Proto-Rai Underground, at which point I was hooked.

As a devotee to other-worldy sounds, I became fascinated with every SF release I could get my hands on. Unfortunately, all of the vinyl copies have have long since sold out during my indoctrination and I am left with solely with the mp3 option.


Explore this label!!

http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/

-Charles

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Radio 1190 T-Shirts, Lakeside Waffles, DKBC oh my!

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

Just got back from breakfast at Lakeside Waffles. I live in that hood so it was a very nice Sunday morning treat. I ordered the “Waffles in Stereo” which I kept calling Apples in Stereo because it was an apple-y waffle (I think the band influenced the name but I forgot to ask Aaron, one of the owners).

I ran into the “John Cougar Mellencamp” DKBC team eating there and an old friend that has some history with 1190 is on the team. I saw Ian from “Ian’s Emo Corner” a segment on Milkman Dan’s afternoon radio show that he hosted before he took the morning show over from me circa 2001ish. Ian is now in a pretty successful band here in Denver called Laylights. They are looking for a new bassist if you’re looking for a band to play in.

I love that the DKBC is alive and well and more competitive and costume-y as ever. I haven’t played in 7 years… since before the DKBC existed. I need to free up my schedule a little more and participate, or at least be a cheerleader. I love kickball. Radio 1190 has a kickball team and they’re all getting super excited for the new season. I hear the draft is next week at hi-dive.
When I was leaving Lakeside Waffles today, I saw a guy walking his dog wearing a Radio 1190 t-shirt, which made me giddy because I’ve got nothing but love for this great station! Which reminds me… the Radio 1190 Pledge Drive is coming up meaning a new t-shirt design to add to your collection. I do so hope you support our station again this year. We wouldn’t be here without you!
This last hour of my life reminded me of what a great community we have. I love Radio 1190 so much… the music and the people add value to my simple and quirky little life.
<3,

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