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Archive for April, 2009
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009New Material from Lilium
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
I was very excited to hear today that local band Lilium is releasing new material. Here’s the info straight from the band:
We are excited to announce that we just finished mixing our new album called “Felt”, ten songs featuring our good friends, Hugo Race, Kal Cahoone, Vicky Brown, Xian Lechevretel, Thomas Belhom (Tindersticks), Vassili Caillosse (Santa Cruz) & Marta Collica (John Parish).
Of course we will keep you posted with the release infos very soon. In the meantime please enjoy this first song called “Her man as run”. Thank you so much for your constant support.
Lilium was started by Pascal Humbert, the bass player of 16 Horsepower. The first Lilium album, Transmission of All the Good-byes, came out in 2000 on Glitterhouse Records. You can go here to check out an interview that Pascal did in October 2000 on the Local Shakedown.
Former 1190er Has Brush with Bear
Thursday, April 30th, 2009Our former production director, Ashley, is getting national attention for having a bad day recently. Ashley, who is going to be a mother soon, was getting chased by a bear in Colorado Springs, when she got hit by a car. She is fine, she’s been on the Today Show, and she’s got a name for the baby now. And a pretty good band. Here’s the latestand here is Ashley’s band. Good luck Ashley. Grin and bear it!
Our Favorite Things
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009Some LP Saved My Life Tonight…
“Seems Like A Freeze Out – Uncle Jeff’s Most Prized LP”
We were talking about our most prized piece of vinyl, and I had to go into the stacks and pull out an old Dylan bootleg I picked up in Boston as a kid. It was one of those rubber stamped kinds with no track listing, but it had the TMOQ (Trade Mark of Quality) sticker on it, and that meant you were in for something good. Now, back then around 1971 there wasn’t no stinkin’ Internet, no bittorent, and believe me, we didn’t like it. The only way to hear unreleased gems was to buy sketchy bootleg recordings from underground record shops, places where Uncle Jeff was known to inhabit as a toddler. I had to take the train into downtown and sure enough, near Cambridge I found this mysterious Dylan LP, pink cover and all. The hairy dude at the counter said it was on colored vinyl when I bought it, and this might have been the LP that caused my life-long fetish for sexy vinyl– it was splatter white, brown and black like a spin-art painting done at the Amusement Park. And the recordings were excellent studio sound, all unreleased Bob takes of which only some are available on the Bootleg Series Dylan has so mercifully unleashed for the masses…
Five Things That Are Crush-Worthy
Monday, April 27th, 2009Five things that are crush-worthy:
1)Camera Obscura’s cover of “Some Guys Have All the Luck.” Yes I like the original, but man I’m getting a sweet-tooth!
2)Fan videos for the now departed Bea Arthur. Watching them and clips of her over the years tugs at the heart strings and her comedic timing and genius makes me laugh!
3)Metric’s new album Fantasies out on Last Gang. Emily Haines has an amazing voice!
4)Anvil: The Story of Anvil… it was the sweetest, sad, hard-rocking and most charming documentary about a heavy metal Canadian band you’ve probably never heard of. It was the best film I saw at last year’s Sundance and I’m guessing its going to be hitting indie theaters this Spring/Summer because the band and director have been doing a lot of press for it. You have to see it!
5)Scoring 4 tickets to My Bloody Valentine because some awesome 1190 listener called up and said he spotted free tickets at Pablo’s Coffee. So I went, grabbed four tickets for the price of a latte! Then when I arrived at the Fillmore for the show I was talking in front of the venue about how I got tickets and actually met the guy who called! I only have a few more minutes, so we can discuss this later in the comments section if you want, but I must say that seeing My Bloody Valentine wasn’t as epic as I was expecting. I mean their sound was epic and deafening, and I should have worn two pairs of earplugs, but it really just didn’t do it for me. I was into it for the first three songs, and the light show was amazing and the colors were exactly what I’d hoped them to be. But, the songs were so muffled in my earplugs I couldn’t appreciate their wall of sound that I have loved on record for years. All the things I love about the band in theory and on record were not present at all onstage. And don’t get me started on that intense body shaking wall of noise they created as their finale, it actually was really soothing for a few minutes, but after about 6 or 7, it just got ridiculous. Oh well, checked it off on the list of bands I never thought I’d see.
<3,
djAlisha.
ED’S VINYL DAY PLAYLIST
Friday, April 24th, 2009Radio 1190’s very own Ed from Sunday’s “Under The Mattress” fame created and broadcast the following vinyl playlist:
CHUCK WILLIS – HANG UP MY ROCK’N'ROLL SHOES
FREDDIE SCOTT – WHERE ARE YOU
The Coathangers
THE DAMNED – NEAT NEAT NEAT
The Damned
HOLLY GOLIGHTLY & THE BROKEOFFS – MY 45
Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs
COATHANGERS – SHAKE SHAKE
MUDHONEY – LET IT SLIDE
DEER HUNTER – NOTHING EVER HAPPENED
FRANCOISE HARDY – JE N’ATTEND PLUS PERSONNE
OBITS – MILITARY MAN
ELVIS PRESLEY – RIP IT UP (requested)
CLIFF RICHARD & THE SHADOWS – DO YOU WANNA DANCE
THE VIBRATORS – WHIPS & FURS
The Vibrators - Whips & Furs
MATSON JONES – A LITTLE BIT OF ARSON NEVER HURT ANYONE
Sonic Youth
GOLDEN TRIANGLE – PRISE FIGHTER
BLACK LIPS – DOES SHE WANT
SONIC YOUTH – NO GARAGE
WE THE PEOPLE – MY BROTHER THE MAN
XRAY SPEX – IDENTITY
XRAY SPEX
ROKY ERICKSON & THE EXPLOSIVES – I’VE JUST SEEN A FACE
PRETTY THINGS – ROAD RUNNER
DJ DOC’S VINYL DAY BLUES PLAYLIST
Friday, April 24th, 2009DJ DOC brought his blues from home on Radio 1190’s Vinyl Day and presented the following for your blues experience:
The Temptations – Can We Come And Share In Love from Hear To Tempt You
Jeff Beck Group – Head For Backstage Pass from Wired
Jeff Beck Group
Paul Butterfield Blues Band – Driftin’ & Driftin’ from Live Chicago
Otis Spann – Country Boy from Power Blues
B.B. King – Worried Dream from Blues On Top Of BLUES
Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac – Oh Well from Man Of The World
BB King said of Peter Green, "He was the only man to ever make me sweat."
John Mayall & Bluesbreakers – Steppin’ Out from self-titled
Elmore James – Blues Before Sunrise from Greatest Hits Collection
James Brown – Honky Tonk from Greatest Hits Collection
Funkadelic – Into You from One Nation Under A Groove
Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove
Iron Butterfly – Are You Happy from In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
FRANK ZAPPA – Son Of Green Gene from HOT RAT
Frank Zappa
Vinyl Day Fun…
Friday, April 24th, 2009Its fun looking at the blog this week and seeing playlists from my fellow DJ’s on Vinyl Day, which was this past Wednesday.
I myself had a fun Vinyl Day too. I tried to keep track of the playlist online so you could follow along but about 15 minutes in, our DJ software fizzled out so I got behind. HRMMM.
But, I’d like to share a few highlights from my collection and from the 1190 stacks that seemed to get the most response.
Album most coveted by other DJs at the station: Radiohead - Kid A 10″
Album played that made me wish I was Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink: Echo and the Bunnymen’s “Seven Seas” 12″ single…. okay so that song isn’t in the movie but I know that her and Blaine would have totally made-out to that song.
Album played that generated best phone call: Meatballs soundrack. I played “Are You Ready For the Summer” and I got a call from someone saying that Meatballs is going to the top of their Netflix queue! Now that makes me happy, not only turning someone on to new music, but a new (old) movie.
Album played that generated second best phone call: I talked a little on-air about the record I was playing by Replicast, a side-project that includes some of Radio 1190s finest former and current djs and I got a call asking for more info., then our conversation digressed into other Radio 1190 bands, Record Store Day…
Most fun local set: Drag the River’s cover of the “Magic Cyclops Theme” song and Mr. Pacman’s “Baby’s on Fire.” Fun cuz Mr. Pacman wrote the “Magic Cyclops Theme,” Drag the River covered it and then I played Mr. Pacman’s cover song of Brian Eno which is on a 7″ with Magic Cyclops. Oh, there was a cute phone call about this saying they loved hearing them back-to-back as well.
Album I covet from the 1190 archives and can never find at the record store: The Rutles Revisited. I played Galaxie 500’s cover of “Cheese and Onions,” here’s the original for you!
My favorite part about Vinyl Day was being able to interview Junior Boys frontman Jeremy Greenspan. While their new record “Begone Dull Care” isn’t out on vinyl until next month, their show at Bluebird was that night so it was fun to talk with him. I think I creeped him out a little because going into the interview my tactic was to flirt with him because his music is so flirty, I thought he would be game. I’ll post the interview next week sometime and you can tell me if I was creepin’ him out.
Well, off to go see My Bloody Valentine,
djAlisha.
Untitled #20 (Trip)
Friday, April 24th, 2009
There’s an awesome event going on at the Denver Art Museum tonight. It’s Untitled #20 – an event of live music, collaborative art and more centered around the “Psychedelic Experience” exhibit up now at the musuem. It’s from 6-10 PM at the DAM. Our own Ed from Under the Mattress will be there DJing along with DA from Wax Trax and Eddie B from Sputnik! There will also be a poster screening station, remastered 60’s fashion on display, and performances from local bands including Sweet Tooth Meat Tooth, Mike Marchant and Rob Drabkin. Sounds like lots of fun! The Untitled events happened a lot last year, but this is the first one of 2009. Don’t miss it!
Westword Showcase Ballot
Friday, April 24th, 2009The Westword Music Showcase is coming up on June 13th in Denver. Head over to their website to vote for your favorite local bands in 29 different categories!