Playlist 5-06

Races - Don’t Be Cruel - Year of the Witch***
Sharon Van Etten - One Day - Epic
Father John Misty - Nancy From Now On - Fear Fun***

The Proper Ornaments - Are You Going Blind? - Make A Mess***
The Beets - Doing As I Do - Let the Poison Out
Woods - Suffering Season - At Echo Lake

Horse Feathers - Pacific Bray - Cynic’S New Year***
S. Carey - In the Dirt - We All Grow
Field Report - Fergus Falls - single***

La Sera - Devil’s Hearts Grow Old - Sees the Light***
Lower Dens - Hospice Gates - Twin-Hand Movement
Cast Spells - Pioneer Scalps - Bright Works and Baton

Suckers - Turn on the Sunshine - Candy Salad***
Alabama Shakes - On Your Way - Boys & Girls***

Album Premiums for you Cabin Fever kids:

If you have a spare $35 and want to support college radio while grabbing a new CD, please call into the station and pledge this week at (949) 824-5824. KUCI is volunteer-run, and all proceeds go directly to station upkeep. Mull over these albums I picked out for you from our full premium list. If you listen to Cabin Fever, you’ll probably like any of these. You can check out the list for yourself on kuci.org!

Quick key— triple stars denote a new release, bolded artists are ones I’ve played on the air; an (f) is folk rock.

Kathleen Edwards - Change the Sheets (f) ***
Produced by Justin Vernon of Bon Iver

Loney, Dear - Dear John 
Indie chamber pop from Sweden 

Lower Dens - Twin-Hand Movement (f)
Psychedelic/ambient folk? Freak folk?  

M. Ward - A Wasteland Companion (f) ***
The raspy he of She & Him; one of my favorites. Lyrical 50s/60s throwbacks with more of an edge.

Megafaun - Heretofore (f) ***
Lo-fi Americana, an untamed Fleet Foxes

Poor Moon - Poor Moon ***
 If the Johnny Rockets jukebox was run by college radio. Fleet Foxes/Crystal Skulls/Christmas Cards supergroup 

Said the Whale - Little Mountain
Indie pop/rock 

Tennis - Young & Old ***
Jangly surf pop by a nautical husband-wife duo

The Decemberists - We All Raise Our Voices to the Air (f)
A live album, double CD

Tu Fawning - A Moment
 Lo-fi chamber pop quartet (with horns!)

Sharon Van Etten - Epic (f)
Gorgeous voice. Echoing, expansive folk.

Portugal. The Man, - The Satanic Satanist (f-ish?)

The Oh Sees - carrion crawler/the dream EP
 Lo-fi garage rock

Bombay Bicylcle Club - A Different Kind of Fix
 Melodic indie rock, folk-y

Woods - Echo Lake (f)
Lo-fi indie folk, my background music on Cabin Fever

Playlist 4-22-12

Today’s playlist! If you’re only going to listen to a few bands from it, I recommend Cold Specks and Waterdeep. I found Waterdeep on an excellent folk rock music sampler from the Nashville Film Festival, downloadable here via NoiseTrade. 

Gregory Alan Isakov & the Freight - Salt and the Sea - The Gambler
Alabama Shakes - Rise to the Sun - Boys & Girls***
These United States - Born Young - These United States***
Paleo - Holly Would - Fruit of the Spirit

Saintseneca - James - Last
Sugar and the Hi-Lows - I’ve Got You Covered - Sugar and the Hi-Lows***
Cold Specks - Winter Solstice - Single***
Tu Fawning - Anchor - A Monument***

Radiation City - The Color of Industry - The Hands that Take You***
Lotus Plaza - Strangers - Spooky Action at a Distance***
Father John MIsty - Nancy From Now On - Fear Fun
Bowerbirds - Walk the Furrows - The Clearing***

Waterdeep - Time and Time Again
The Do - Calendar - Slippery Slope***

Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls

When I first heard the country-tinged quartet Alabama Shakes, I was studying on my apartment balcony, reluctant to relinquish the last warm breath of sunlight after returning from a weekend camping in the desert. The perfect soundtrack to that evening was the loose and jangling “Boys & Girls,” a solid, summery album of classic guitar hooks and jukebox throwbacks.

—My dilettante review of Boys & Girls in last week’s New University.

Download a sample track via sendspace: 
The Alabama Shakes - Rise to the Sun
 

Guess who?

What you heard last week at 3pm was not me experimenting with a weird new genre— it was actually a UCI baseball game. But I’m back for real today at 3PM PST, so tune in at kuci.org or KUCI 88.9 FM in Irvine, CA! 

Playlist 3-20

Father John Misty - Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings - Fear Fun
Wooden Shjips - Lazy Bones - West
Forest Fire - Staring at the X - Staring at the X
Bare Wires - Don’t Ever Change - Cheap Perfume

Laura Veirs - Galaxies - Year of Meteors
Peasant - The Flask - Bound for Glory
Beth Jeans Houghton and the Hooves of Destiny - Sweet Tooth Bird - Yours Truly, Cellophane Noise***
The Bees - I Really Need Love - Every Step’s A Yes***

Superhumanoids - Mikelah - Mikelah
Delta Spirit - Time Bomb - Delta Spirit***
Slow Club - There Is No Good Way to Say I’m Leaving You - Yeah So
Poor Moon - People In Her Mind - Illusion***

Andrew Bird - Danse Carribe - Break It Yourself***
The Do - The Calndar - Slippery Slope
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes - Man on Fire - Here*** (request)
Tennis - My Better Self - Young & Old*** (free download here)

Josephine Foster - Birdo - Little Life
Black Flamingo - Proud Head - Luau in the Graveyard
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone - Middle Cyclone
First Aid Kit - Dance to Another Tune - The Lion’s Roar***

Summer Fiction - Chandeliers - Summer Fiction
You Won’t - Who Knew - Skeptic Goodbye***
Cate le Bon - Cyrk - Cyrk***
Bleached - Searching Through the Past - Searching Through the Past

The Ruffled Feathers - Mockingbird - Oracles***
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan - Black Mountain - Ballad of Broken Sea
Jose Gonzalez - Down the Line - In Our Nature
Bowerbirds - Tuck the Darkness In - The Clearing***

Elvis Depressedly - A Bible in a Bath of Bleach - GLMR KLLS***

March Madness!

If you’re listening to my show this morning (right now, 6-8am, tune in through http://soundtap.com/madness by clicking on KUCI so we can get to the next round of their competition! Call in and I’ll play something for you: (949) 824-5824

On the air 2pm-4pm (now-ish)!

I’m subbing for the beautifully named A Crazy Random Happenstance in a few minutes! Listen to Rin’s show today (and every Sunday) on kuci.org or on KUCI 88.9fm, Irvine. 

Giving away a First Aid Kit album on air tomorrow!

Listen between 6am and 8am PST and call (949) 824-5824 to win a copy of The Lion’s Roar! You can stream Cabin Fever through iTunes on KUCI.org or listen in the Irvine area on KUCI 88.9 FM.