Happy 4th!

I will be in Austin, TX tonight to visit my fellow DJ Big TeXXX and celebrate the 4th. Thus, I will not be doing my show tomorrow.

Catch you all next week! Have a great, safe weekend.

DJ Name

I am, once again, changing my DJ name to DJ Sun Bear. :)

Show 72

Here's what I played:

The Very Best; "Warm Heart of Africa"
Jack Penate; Tonight's Today; "Tonight's Today"
Sons of Young; "Prepare for the Worst"
*Amazing Baby; Rewild; "Dead Light; Deerripper"
*Conshafter; Bombs Away, Baby!; "Bombs Away; You Cannot Save Your Love"
Beach House; "Used to Be"
Delorean; "Deli"
Papercuts; You Can Have What You Want; "Future Primitive"
*Elizabeth & The Catapult; Taller Children; "Momma's Boy; Race You"
*Polly Scattergood; Polly Scattergood; "Please Don't Touch; Bunny Club"
*Halloween, Alaska; Champagne Downtown; "Be A Man; Knights Of Columbus"
Miike Snow; Miike Snow; "Burial (Benny Blanco Remix Feat. Neon Hitch)"
The Big Pink; "Velvet"
Daniel Martin Moore; Stray Age; "Stray Age"
Paul Spencer and the Maxines; "Ain't Nobody"
Cherry Monroe; The Good, The Bad & The Beautiful; "Can't Explain"
Inkwell; "This Modern Medicine"
Bottle Up and Go; These Bones; "Wayward Son"
Jeremy Jay; Slow Dance; "In This Lonely Town"
*Mannequin Men; Lose Your Illusion, Too; tracks 11&10 "Exquisite Corpse; WTF LOL"
*Looner; I Love My Tamagotchee; tracks 1 "I Love My Tamagotchee!"
Katzenjammer; "Tea with Cinnamon"
Bajofondo; Mar Dulce; "Grand Guignol"
Flipside, "Someday"
The Sons Of Silence, "Silence Go Boom!"
*Passion Pit; Manners; "Make Light; Moth's Wings"
*Tiga; Ciao!; "Beep-Beep-Beep"
Selkow; "Prize Is Love"
The Leaf Album; In a Safe Place; "Twentytwofourteen"
Earlimart; Hymn And Her; "Song For"
The Whip; X Marks Destination; "Frustration"
King Khan & The Shrines; The Supreme Genius Of...; Torture"
Hecuba; Paradise; "Suffering"
*18th Dye; Amorine Queen; track 9 "Backdoor"
*Suckers; s/t; track 4 "It Gets Your Body Movin"


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Show 71

Here's what I played today on my show:

Jarvis Cocker; Further Complications; "Angela"
Debashish Bhattacharya; Calcutta Chronicles: Indian Slide Guitar Odyssey; "Sufi Bhakti"
Oh captain My Captain; Recklessly She Split the Sea; "On My Mind"
*Elvis Perkins; In Dearland; "How's Forever Been Baby"
*Polly Scattergood; Polly Scattergood; "Nitrogen Pink"
*Conshafter; Bombs Away, Baby!; "Fell In A Hole"
Alexander Robotnick; "Obsession for the Disco Freaks (HeavyFeet remix)"
Jets Overhead; No Nations; "It's A Funny Thing"
Au Revoir Simone; Still Night, Still Light; "Shadows"
*Crocodiles, Summer of Hate, "Flash of Light; Summer of Hate"
*Liechtenstein, Survival Strategies for a Modern World, "Sophistication; Wallpaper Stripes"
Ape School; Ape School; "Wail to God"
Owl City; Maybe I'm Dreaming; "Rainbow Veins; West Coast Friendship"
Free Kitten; Inherit; "Seasick"
*Halloween, Alaska; Champagne Downtown; "Un-American"
*Phoenix; Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix; "Fences; Girlfriend"
*Elizabeth & The Catapult; Taller Children; "Taller Children"
Apostle of Hustle; Eats Darkness; "Eazy Speaks"
Chantal Goya; "Becassine is my cousine"
The Sand Band; Love Is The Devil; "The Secret Chord"
The Ruse; "Beautiful Is Gone"
CocoRosie; La Maison de Mon Reve; "Not for Sale"
*Headdress Amazing Baby Headdress - Single
*Passion Pit; Manners; "Swimming In The Flood; Folds In Your Hands"
HIGHLIFE; "F KENYA RIP"
Wavves; Wavvves; "No Hope Kids"
Architects; "Reciprocity"
The Vaselines; Enter the Vaselines; "Son of a Gun"
*The Crystal Method; Divided By Night; "Black Rainbows; Slipstream"
*Tiga, Ciao, "Sex O'Clock; Turn the Night On"
Polly Scattergood; "Please Don't Touch (The Golden Filter Remix)"
*Joan of Arc, Flowers, "Fogbow; The Garden of Cartoon Exclamations"


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Show 70

Summer DJ training is under way and one of the DJ trainees was in the studio with me today for an hour. :)

And here's what we played:


*Bishop Allen, Grrr..., “Dimmer; The Lion and the Teacup; South China Moon”
*The Crystal Method, Divided by Night, “Divided by Night; Smile?”
*Passion Pit, Manners, “The Reeling”
Memory Cassette, Responses,” Last One Awake (Friend Version)”
Damien Jurado, Caught in the Trees, “Gillian was a Horse”
Chiwoniso, Hear Globally - A Cumbancha Collection, “Woman of the Well”
*Ace Enders & A Million Different People, When I Hit the Ground, “Where Do We Go From Here?”
*Empire of the Sun; Walking on a Dream, “Standing on the Shore; Walking on a Dream”
Chad VanGaalen, Soft Airplane, “City of Electric Light”
The Morning Benders, Talking Through Tin Cans, “Boarded Doors”
Joan of Arc, Boo Human, “A Tell-Tale Penis”
YACHT, See Mystery Lights, “Psychic City”
Kurse Go Back, New Orleans Falls Open, “New Orleans Falls Open”
*The Paper Chase, Someday This Will All Be Yours Vol. 1, “If Nobody Moves Nobody Will Get Hurt (The Extinction); I'm Going To Heaven With Or Without You (The Forest Fire)”
*Crystal Antlers, Tentacles, “Until the Sun Dies (Part 1), Your Spears”
Supersuckers, Get It Together, “What It Takes”
High Places, s/t, “From Stardust to Sentence”
Shearwater, Rook, “Rooks”
South, You Are Here, “Better Things”
*Röyksopp, Junior, “Tricky Tricky”
*Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, “Love Like a Sunset Part I & II”
Conshafter, Bombs Away Baby, “Bombs Away”
Japandroids, Post-Nothing, “Young Hearts Spark Fire”
The Music Tapes, Music Tapes For Clouds And Tomatoes, “Majesty”
The Whip, X Marks Destination, “Trash”
*Elvis Perkins, In Dearland, “123 Goodbye; Doomsday”
*Halloween Alaska, Champagne Downtown, “The Hollywood Sign; The Ends”
Osborne, s/t, “Outta Sight”
Jean on Jean, s/t, “Tonight”
Bajofondo , Mar Dulce , “Pa Bailar”


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Show 69

Today I gave away pairs of lawn tickets to see Blink-182 in Charlotte, NC at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater. It was very exciting, and successful! Congrats to all of the winners!

Here's what I played:

A.A. Bondy, American Hearts, "American Hearts"
Beep Beep, Enchanted Islands, "Secrets For The Well"
Little Boots, "Meddle"
American Gun, Dark American Hearts, "Little Sister"
The Format, EP, "The First Single"
*Condo Fucks, Fuckbook, "What'cha Gonna Do About It"
*Halloween, Alaska, Champagne Downtown, ""Hot Pink; Hurry Up"
Issa Bagayogo, Mali Koura, "Sebero"
Tricky, "Past Mistake"
Vieux Farka Touré, "Fafa"
Lenka, s/t, "Knock Knock"
The Scaries, Souvenir, "Revolvers"
*Justice, A Cross the Universe, "D.A.N.C.E."
*Passion Pit, Chunk of Change, "Sleepyhead"
*Passion Pit, Manners, "Seaweed Song"
*Röyksopp, Junior, "You Don't Have A Clue"
Craig's Brother, E.P.IDEMIC, "Bad Marriage"
Ra Ra Riot Remix, "Ghost Under Rocks (Passion Pit Mix)"
Spoon, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, "The Underdog"
Miranda Lee Richards, Light of X, "Early November"
*Say Hi Oohs & Aahs, "November Was White, December Was Grey"
*Ace Enders & A Million Different People, When I Hit The Ground, "Take The Money And Run; When I Hit The Ground"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, "Heads Will Roll (Weird Tapes Version)"
Anuhea, Anuhea, "Right Love, Wrong Time"
You Won't Be Able To Be Sad The Break and Repair Method milk the bee
*Peter Bjorn & John, Living Thing, "Blue Period Picasso"
*Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, "Lisztomania; 1901"
One For The Team, Build It Up, "Best Supporting Actor"
TK Webb & The Visions, Ancestor, "Closed Captioned Slang"
Crystal Stilts, "Departure"
*Drown In The Now The Crystal Method Divided By Night
White Rabbits, "Percussion Gun"
Dr. Dog, Fate, "The Old Days"
Minus the Bear, "Guns & Ammo"
Cambridge, How To Walk A Tightrope EP, "Board Up The Windows And Doors"


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Show 68

My laptop decided to be stupid today (not really that big of a surprise) and there was some skipping periodically in my show, but here's what I played:

The Mountain Goats, Heretic Pride, "Sax Rohmer #1"
The LK, "Private Life of a Cat"
The Stills, "Being Here"
His Name Is Alive, "This Is My Confession"
*Halloween, Alaska, Champagne Downtown, "Gone With The Wind; Champagne Downtown"
*Elvis Perkins, In Dearland, "I Heard Your Voice"
The Crystal Method, "Drown In the Now (feat. Matisyahu)"
Elizabeth & The Catapult, Taller Children (Bonus Track Version), "Taller Children"
Dredg, "Zebra Skin"
VEGA, "No Reasons"
*Justice, A Cross the Universe, "TTHHEE PPAARRTTYY; LET THERE BE LITE"
*Röyksopp, Junior, "Röyksopp Forever; It's What I Want"
Jeff Hanson, "If Only I Knew"
Bat for Lashes, Two Suns, "Daniel"
The Decemberists, The Hazards of Love, "The Rake's Song"
K'naan, Troubadour, "Wavin' Flag"
*Lydia, Illuminate, "...Ha Yeah It Got Pretty Bad; Now The One You Once Loved is Leaving"
*Ace Enders & A Million Different People, When I Hit The Ground, "Reintroduction; Take The Money And Run"
Deerhoof, Offend Maggie, "Offend Maggie"
Diane Birch, , "Rise Up"
TK Webb & The Visions, "Teen Is Still Shaking"
Aterciopelados, Río, "Río"
*Crystal Antlers, Tentacles, :Several Tongues; Memorized"
*Grizzly Bear, Veckatimest, track5 "Cheerleader"
Blind Pilot, 3 Rounds and a Sound, "Go On, Say It"
Other Lives, Other Lives, "Black Tables"
Stereo Total, My Melody, "I Love You, Ono"
Gomez, A New Tide, "Airstream Driver"
*Red Red Meat, Bunny Gets Paid, tracks 5&6 "Gauze; Idiot Son"
The Narrative, "The Moment That It Stops"
The Magnetic Fields, Distortion, "California Girls"
Ben Kweller, Changing Horses, "Wantin' Her Again"
Novalima, Hear Globally - A Cumbancha Collection, "Tumbala (Chris Franck Remix)"
*Amadou & Mariam, Welcome to Mali, tracks 2&6 "Ce n'est pas bon; Je te kiffe"


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