Saturday, August 28, 2010

#417: See you space cowboy. (w/ guest host Tsubaki Nekoi)

And after many years (for some, well over a decade, even two) of keeping this station on the air, we get blown off with a three-line form letter. This, my friends, is the very definition of "chickenshit".

Feel free to write in to the University of Scranton with your complaints about the elimination of weekend programming to satisfy a station manager's personal grudge:

Board of Trustees
c/o The University of Scranton
Scranton, PA 18510

Note that I'm pretty much done here, regardless. Eight years of wasting my Saturdays on what can only be described as an abusive relationship is enough for me. But please go ahead and make your opinions known for those like T. O'Hearn and Roman Grecco, who wish to continue fighting the good fight.

Now, this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Stay tuned to this blog for a new web-based audio entertainment product in the weeks to come. 'Cause I paid $10 for this domain name, and dammit, I'm gonna use it! Besides, who actually listens to the radio anymore?
ArtistTitleAlbumCommentsNew?
Justin Beiber
U Smile (Slowed down 800x)
From the Interwebs


Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno)
Tank! (Live @ Shibuya AX)
Cowboy Bebop CD Box


Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno)
The Real Folk Blues (Live @ Shibuya AX
Cowboy Bebop CD Box



Kid Icarus
A Good Place to End
Imaginary Songs & Aluminum Hits

*

Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno)
Blue
Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack
You're gonna carry that weight.


And now, our Roman Grecco Theme Continuation Moment, continuing the theme of "Radio" heard today on the Grecian Formula, which airs... oh, right, it doesn't air anymore. Nevermind! This is Swedish band The Drowners, with a song from their album Muted to a Whisper, an excellent disc that I found in the garbage can in the management office many years ago, which goes to show you how long this place has been going downhill.

This song is called "On the Radio", and, well, it would have required a lot of editing if I actually did have to play it on the air, so maybe this is for the best:

What did we learn on today's programme?
  • Despite all evidence to the contrary, Kid Icarus is actually a Minneapolis-based band.
  • Reading all of these host names will give one laryngitis for a month.
  • Speaking of which, I should have asked Conan to lend me the Bugatti Veyron Mouse for this show.
  • Going out with all of your proverbial guns a-blazing on the air may not be the most productive thing in the world to do, but damn does it feel good.
Bang.

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Frequency Demodulation

The WUSR Transmitter
On this week's episode, Electroman strikes again, taking the WUSR transmitter (what's left of it) off the air until somebody can drive up to the top of Bald Mtn. to switch it back on! (SPOILER ALERT: ain't gonna happen.)

Tune in next week, as we kick off our annual "Welcome Freshmen" show a full week after the freshman have moved in, causing it to make no sense whatsoever! Either that, or the station will be on fire. The fire is looking more likely right now, actually.

And now, as is tradition here on the blog, it's time for a special web-only edition of the Magic Miku Moment, in which we feature the musical stylings of Miku Hatsune, Japan's computer-generated vocal diva, and author of the new book "Self-healing through MTBI"

Saturday, August 14, 2010

#416: of Parking Meter Futility (w/ guest host Some Allegedly-cute Abandoned Duckling Your Aunt Bertha Found on Facebook)

Maybe if Scranton stopped tyring to milk every last quarter they could get out of people who work in the city, more businesses would actually locate in the city, instead of in the boroughs or other regions entirely. Just a thought.

ArtistTitleAlbumCommentsNew?
Joel Martin Kohn
Jazz Concepts with Buckminister Fuller
Good Radio / Bad Radio (Irwin's 2005 WFMU Marathon premium)


Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno)
Tank!
Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack


The Divine Comedy
The Complete Banker
Bang Goes the Knighthood

*

Mates of State
Second-Hand News
Crushes: The Covers Mixtape

*
DEVO
Human Rocket
Something for Everybody

*
LCD Soundsystem
I Can Change
This Is Happening

*
New Young Pony Club
We Want To
The Optimist


Twink
Catnip
Twink


Oleg Kostrow
Playing Marilyn Monroe
Lego for Four


tinypixel
Sloop John B
Hippocamp Ruins Pet Sounds


Guitar Vader
Bird Ship
Dawn



Pops McGonigle: Driving in the Slow Lane (encore presentation)



Basement Jaxx
Good Luck
Kish Kash



Ed Shepp
Pumpkin Cake Recipe
Images of Rapture from the Boggle Woggle


GLaDOS and Jonathan Coulton
Still Alive
The Orange Box: Original Soundtrack


The Fiery Furnaces
Cut the Cake
I'm Going Away


Wilco
You and I
Wilco (the Album)


Yoko Ono with the Polyphonic Spree
You and I
Yes, I'm a Witch


Silver Apples
You and I
Silver Apples


Tilly and the Wall
You and I Misbehaving
Wild Like Children


Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
Singing a Song
Adventures in Middle America, Volume 2


Yo La Tengo
Pass the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind
I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass


Viva
Moons of Jupiter
Electric Cabaret Volume One & Volume Two


Tom Waits
Get Behind the Mule
Glitter & Doom Live



Talking Heads
I Zimbra
Fear of Music
Roman Grecco Theme Continuation Moment

Robyn Hitchcock
The Devil's Radio
Moss Elixir


Laura Veirs
Sun is King
July Flame


Jim White
Static on the Radio
Drill a Hole in that Substrate and Tell Me What You See


Sufjan Stevens
Chicago
Come On Feel the Illinoise


Eels
Railroad Man
Blinking Lights and Other Revelations


Elvis Costello
Down Among the Wines and Spirits
Secret, Profane, and Sugarcane


Guided By Voices
Sons of Apollo
Half-Smiles of the Decomposed


Joanna Newsom
In California
Have One on Me

*
Mostly Other People Do the Killing
Forty Fort
Forty Fort


Frank Black
I'm Not Dead (I'm In Pittsburgh)
Fast Man, Raider Man



Randy Newman
Laugh and Be Happy
Harps and Angels


What did we learn on today's programme?
  • Always sip your sake
  • Stay away from sushi wrapped in Pop Tarts
  • When you see an ampersand, it means profanity.

Saturday, August 7, 2010

#415: We're not recovering from the Bush debacle fast enough, let's just vote ourselves back into the stone age! (w/ guest host Nell (and cat Pepper))

And I assume that once the Republicans start forcing rape victims to bear their attackers' children, the next step will be to stone them to death after giving birth, for having sex without being married to the person. But nevermind that, it's that scary big government Obamacare socialism secret Muslim agenda with no birth cirtificate that's really going to bring this country down!!!!1111one

Why the hell did we ever let those states back into the union? Anybody know? Any chance we can still give Texas back to Mexico? They don't want it, either? Well, damn. What if we throw in U... nah, nobody wants Utah.

ArtistTitleAlbumCommentsNew?
The WUSR Jupiter Theatre of the Air
Electroman Episode 1: Electroman Meets Panelman
The very worst of WUSR


Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno)
Tank!
Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack


Mates of State
Long Way Home
Crushes (The Covers Mixtape)

*

Steve Burns
Talkin' 'Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues
Steve Burns Live at the Casbah 7-27-2004


The Sw!ms
Take the Monorail
Sw!ms EP


The Young Fresh Fellows
Lamp Industries
I Think This Is


Self
Dead Man
Gizmodgery


of Montreal
Disconnect the Dots
Satanic Panic in the Attic


DEVO
Don't Shoot (I'm a Man)
Something for Everybody

*
ceo
Love and Do What You Will
White Magic

*
Smoosh
We Are Our Own Lies
The World's Not Bad

*
LCD Soundsystem
One Touch
This Is Happening

*

Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
(It Must Be) Somebody's Birthday
Adventures in Middle America, Volume 2


They Might Be Giants
Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head
They Might Be Giants


The Fiery Furnaces
Chief Inspector Blancheflower
Blueberry Boat


The Like
I Can See It In Your Eyes
Release Me

*
Stars
The Passenger
The Five Ghosts

*
The Flaming Lips
Watching the Planets
Embryonic


The Apples in Stereo
Dream About the Future
Travellers in Space and Time

*
The Syrup
Love is Sad
The Syrup Best


Shuggie Otis
Strawberry Letter 23
Inspiration Information



Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
Military Open Mic Night (Christian Terror)
Adventures in Middle America, Volume 2
Since I was finally able to score a copy of this after, like, five years, I might as well play another track.

Eels
Flyswatter
Daisies of the Galaxy


Rilo Kiley
Dreamworld
Under the Blacklight


Talking Heads
Television Man
Little Creatures


YACHT
The Afterlife
See Mystery Lights


The Rosebuds
Border Guards
Life Like


Passion Pit
Little Secrets
Manners



Kaki King
Can Anyone Who has Heard This Music Really Be a Bad Person?
Dreaming of Revenge
Roman Grecco Theme Continuation

Mostly Other People Do the Killing
St. Mary's Proctor
Forty Fort


Joanna Newsom
Occident
Have One On Me

*
Emi Meyer
Kaigara
Passport


Supercell feat. Miku Hatsune
Melt

This Week's Magic Miku Moment

Wilco
Bull Black Nova
Wilco (the Album)


Sonic Youth
I Love You Golden Blue
Sonic Nurse


Yo La Tengo
Spec Bebop
I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One


Lali Puna
Faking the Books
Faking the Books



Tom Waits
Long Way Home
Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards


What did we learn on today's programme?
  • College radio DJs sound absolutely pathetic when attempting to impersonate a cat.
  • Real cats never perform on cue.
  • People who attempt to rob the drive-thru at Wendy's are really, really stupid.
  • The Tea Party is full of people who attempt to rob the drive-thru at Wendy's.

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Dead Air Disco

WUSR Power Conditioner
This is the power conditioner located in the lobby of the WUSR studios. It stabilizes incoming power before sending it off to our sensitive, and extremely expensive broadcasting equipment. Note that should this conditioner lose power for whatever reason, it will be a minimum of several hours before the station can be brought back on the air. But no worries. As long as that little green light remains lit, everything is just peachy-keen in WUSR-land.

Wait, what do you mean the light isn't on?

Darkened studio
Well, damn.

Anyway, here's another special online-only edition of the Magic Miku Moment, in which we feature the musical stylings of Japanese computer-generated vocal diva, and now V8 spokesperson, Miku Hatsune:



Next week: everybody gripes about how Catholic Charismatics don't know how to park! Be there!

Saturday, July 24, 2010

#414: Eviction Notice (w/ guest host Los Angeles County Inmate #2409752)

In which all of the WUSR DJs who actually show up for their programs are officially told that they're being kicked out in favor of more student programs. You know, the ones that come in for three weeks, then are never seen again. Because they shouldn't have any problem at all filling in the Saturday time slots! I mean, look at 6 and 8 PM: Those time slots have only been open since... ohhhh... 2003. So no worries. Hooray for power trips!

Today's episode is brought to you by the all-new Blue Bear Grille and Tavern! Now featuring the words "Grille" and "Tavern" in its name! Tavern, that's a classy word right there. And that's a genuine 'e' in "grille", accept no substitutəs. That's the Blue Bear Grille and Tavern, still conveniently located in South Side, next to the shady Mexican restaurant, across the street from where someone left an old sofa on the curb!

ArtistTitleAlbumCommentsNew?
Holger Hiller
Fresh Young Girls in Commercials



Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno)
Tank!
Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack


LCD Soundsystem
Home
This Is Happening

*

Smoosh
Aaarplane Song
The World's Not Bad (I'm just gonna stick with this title)

*
The Eames Era
Fake DoGooders
Heroes & Sheroes


Bat For Lashes
Moon and Moon
Two Suns


Sean Lennon
On Again, Off Again
Friendly Fire


The Fiery Furnaces
My Egyptian Grammar
Widow City


Stars
He Dreams He's Awake
The Five Ghosts

*
St. Vincent
The Neighbors
Actor


marble
Mebae Drive
Hidamari Sketch Season 1 opening theme single


I'm From Barcelona (feat Loney, Dear)
This Boy
Let Me Introduce My Friends
These two songs are irrevocably linked in my mind now.


ceo
No Mercy
White Magic

*

Pops McGonigle: Driving in the Slow Lane (encore presentation)



of Montreal
Art Snob Solutions
The Sunlandic Twins (Bonus EP)


The Apples in Stereo
Nobody But You
Travellers in Space and Time

*
New Young Pony Club
Chaos
The Optimist


Caribou
Bowls
Swim


Stereo Total
Barbe à Papa
Baby Ouh!

*
The xx
Heart Skipped a Beat
xx



The Sw!ms
Busload of Art Students Forced to Watch Hollow Man
Welcome to the Back of Beyond


Joanna Newsom
'81
Have One On Me

*
Lucky Stiffs
If It Weren't For Drugs
Lucky Stiffs 2


Jim's Big Ego
Pascagoula Pawn and Gun
free*


Johnny Cash
Sam Hall
American IV: The Man Comes Around


Tom Waits
Step Right Up
Small Change


Jenny Lewis (feat. Elvis Costello)
Carpetbaggers
Acid Tongue


They Might Be Giants
Experimental Film
The Spine



Art Brut
Summer Job
Art Brut vs. Satan
Roman Grecco Theme Continuation

Cub
Summer Samba
Betti-Cola


The Snow Fairies
Summer in Japan
Feel You Up


Kalmaria feat. Miku Hatsune
Summer Days
Sugar Particle
This week's Magic Miku Moment

The Chris Stamey Experience
The Summer Sun
A Question of Temperature


YACHT
Summer Song
See Mystery Lights


The Smurfs
Smurfin' Summertime
Best of Friends



DEVO
March On
Something For Everybody

*

What did we learn on today's programme?
  • Bears cannot drive, despite what the Clerks animated series claims.
  • It apparently takes a judge to determine that cheerleading isn't a sport now.

Saturday, July 17, 2010

#413: This programme brought to you by Walt Disney Comics. (w/ guest host Eli Squinch)

I swear, if Peter Hocking ever decides to do a show here again, I am so going to find a way to crash it with 45 minutes of pointless CLAMP trivia.
ArtistTitleAlbumCommentsNew?
Coyle & Sharpe
Maniacs in Living Hell
Audio Visionaries: Street Pranks and Put-ons


Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno)
Tank!
Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack


DEVO
Fresh
Something For Everybody

*

LCD Soundsystem
You Wanted a Hit
This is Happening

*
ceo
Illuminata
White Magic

*
Smoosh
The Line
The World's Not Bad, or Withershins, depending on the phase of the moon, apparently.

*
Stars
The Passenger
The Five Ghosts

*
YACHT
It's All the Same Price
I Believe in You. Your Magic is Real.


Stereo Total
Baby Ouh
Baby Ouh!

*
Xiu Xiu
This Too Shall Pass Away
Dear God, I Hate Myself


Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band
Between My Head and the Sky
Between My Head and the Sky


Syd Barrett
Effervescing Elephant
Barrett



Tender Trap
Danger Overboard
Dansette Dansette

*

Pops McGonigle: Driving in the Slow Lane (encore presentation)



The Flaming Lips
Suddenly Everything Has Changed
The Soft Bulletin


Joanna Newsom
In California
Have One on Me

*
Laura Veirs
July Flame
July Flame


The Thrills
You Can't Fool Old Friends with Limousines
Let's Bottle Bohemia


The Minus 5
The Disembowlers
Killingsworth


The Fiery Furnaces
Ray Bouvier
I'm Going Away


They Might Be Giants
The Ballad of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space)
Here Comes Science



The Aquabats
Hot Summer Nights (Won't Last Forever)!
Charge!!
Roman Grecco Theme Continuation

of Montreal
An Eluardian Instance
Skeletal Lamping


Bat for Lashes
Pearl's Dream
Two Suns


Bell X1
The Great Defector
Blue Lights on the Runway


The Apples in Stereo
Hey Elevator
Travellers in Space and Time

*
Wilco
Bull Black Nova
Wilco (the Album)


The Sw!ms
Turbo-Lined Suit
Itemlord


Tilly and the Wall
Bad Education
Bottoms of Barrels


The Like
Fair Game
Release Me

*
The B-52's
Funplex
Funplex



The Baseball Project
Harvey Haddix
Volume One: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails


Yo La Tengo
Periodically Double or Triple
Popular Songs



Tom Waits
Small Change (Got Rained On With His Own .38)
Small Change



What did we learn on today's programme?
  • There is more than one old duck with glasses
  • (Scrooge McDuck has whiskers, while Ludwig von Drake has some kind of long hair that comes down or something)
  • Yes, some of these ducks actually do have hair. There are also ducks that have ears. Human ears.
  • Most of the ones with ears seem to be policemen, making the law in Duckburg mostly mutant ducks.
  • And so on, and so forth.
  • The curly fry was originally an ancient Mayan delicacy.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

#412: Fun with contingency plans! (w/ guest host A Pack of Feral Chihuahuas in Heat, with Grenades Taped to Their Backs)

In which numerous campus network problems turn this entire operation into a farce that doesn't even start until 5:30.

Playlist might be prettied up later. No guarantees.

(* = new)

- William Shatner - It Was a Very Good Year - Spaced Out: The Very Best of Leonard Nemoy and William Shatner
- Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno) - Tank! - Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack
- Smoosh - We Are Our Own Lies - The World's Not Bad, or Withershins, depending on who you ask and when. (*)
-----
- LCD Soundsystem - One Touch - This is Happening (*)
- ceo - White Magic - White Magic (*)
- The Apples in Stereo - Dance Floor - Travellers in Space and Time (*)
- Stars - We Don't Want Your Body - The Five Ghosts (*)
- New Young Pony Club - The Optimist - The Optimist
- The Ex - The Pie - Turn
- Xiu Xiu - Chocolate Makes You Happy - Dear God, I Hate Myself
- Steve Burns - Maintain - Songs for Dust Mites
- Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players - Mountain Trip to Japan, 1959 - Vintage Slide Collections from Seattle, Volume 1
-----
- Spoon - Written in Reverse - Transference (*)
- The Like - Wishing He Was Dead - Release Me (*)
- Tender Trap - Girls With Guns - Dansette Dansette (*)
- Pops McGonigle: Driving in the Slow Lane (encore presentation)
- Superdrag - Lighting the Way (live) - Changin' Tires on the Road to Ruin
- The New Pornographers - Valkyrie in the Roller Disco - Together(*)
- St. Vincent - Just the Same but Brand New - Actor
- Sean Lennon - Spectacle - Friendly Fire
- Eels - Little Bird - End Times
- Joanna Newsom - Baby Birch - Have One on Me (*)
-----
- Mostly Other People Do the Killing - Round Bottom, Square Top - Forty Fort
- The Lost Fingers - Tainted Love - Lost in the 80's
- Television Personalities - Walk Towards the Light - A Memory is Better Than Nothing (*)
-----
- They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul - Severe Tire Damage


What did we learn on today's programme?
- Somebody at 'Da U tripped over a very important ethernet cable today
- A company is working on a cellphone app that will convert spoken words into text mesages in order to avoid being distracted by typing on the keyboard. I've got a better idea: why don't you just, you know, call the person? Phones can do that now. Amazing, isn't it?

Saturday, July 3, 2010

#411: Technical Excellence! (w/ guest host Geoff Peterson)

In which my computer decides that it's time to end the show.
ArtistTitleAlbumCommentsNew?
Sam Chalpin
Michelle
My Father the Pop Singer


Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno)
Tank!
Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack


ceo
Come With Me
White Magic

*

Micachu & the Shapes
Vulture
Jewellery


Los Campesinos!
I Just Sighed. I Just Sighed, Just So You Know
Romance is Boring


Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
Even Heroes Have to Die
The Brutalist Bricks


Pernice Brothers
Jacqueline Susann
Goodbye, Killer

*
Young Fresh Fellows
If You Believe in Cleveland
I Think This Is


Archers of Loaf
Wrong
Icky Mettle


Superdrag
The Staggering Genius
Last Call for Vitriol


Frank Black
Headache
93-03


The Flaming Lips
Be My Head
Transmissions From the Satellite Heart


Nøb Dylan and His Nøbsoletes
Motorpsycho Nitemare
Positively 12 Stiff Dylans!



Pops McGonigle: Driving in the Slow Lane (encore presentation)



They Might Be Giants
Lullaby to Nightmares
Long Tall Weekend



Stars
Wasted Daylight
The Five Ghosts

*
Camera Obscura
Swans
My Maudlin Career


The Like
Catch Me if You Can
Release Me

*
Shonen Knife
Evil Birds
Super Group


Kalmaria (feat. Miku Hatsune)
Summer Days
Sugar Particle
This week's Magic Miku Moment

YACHT
Women of the World
I Believe In You. Your Magic is Real.


The Apples In Stereo
It's All Right
Travellers in Space and Time

*
Caribou
Leave House
Swim


Felix Kubin & Coolhaven
Notbremse
Suppe Für Die Nacht


Xiu Xiu
Apple For a Brain
Dear God, I Hate Myself



Mostly Other People Do the Killing
Rough and Ready
Forty Fort


Joanna Newsom
No Provenance
Have One on Me

*
Sufjan Stevens
Movement II - Sleeping Invader
The BQE: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack


St. Vincent
Black Rainbow
Actor


Asobi Seksu
Blind Little Rain
Rewolf



mocksession.com
Crazy Train (Microsoft Songsmith version)

Roman Grecco quasi-theme continuation moment

Eläkeläiset
Humppaneitsyt
Humppasirkus


Supersuckers
Rubber Biscuit
Play


The Bran Flakes
The Sidewalk Song
I Have Hands


The Smurfs
Smurfin' Summertime
Best of Friends


The Yamaha PSS-170 Keyboard
Just the Way You Are
The infamous WUSR Technical Difficulties track
Thank you, Traktor!

Rifle Nice
Move Closer to What Deaner Was Talking About
Songs from the Sixth Borough



Juliana Hatfield
The End of the War
Peace & Love


What did we learn on today's programme?
  • Reenacting Battleship Potemkin on a commercial flight is apparently a trend now.
  • The police hate those %*#@ speed cameras, too.
  • Apparently even Brian Carpenter is now getting sick of hearing Brian Carpenter ramble on over the phone for 45 minutes.
  • Traktor DJ Studio is a QUALITY product

Saturday, June 26, 2010

#410: From the Land of the Subhuman Drones (w/ guest host Gray Powell)

BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!1111one
ArtistTitleAlbumCommentsNew?
Walter BrennanBlue Jay YarnStories of Mark Twain
From the WFMU Blog
Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno)
Tank!
Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack
The theme song that's guaranteed 100% vuvuzela-free

Stars
I Died So I Could Haunt You
The Five Ghosts

*

Joanna Newsom
In California
Have One on Me

*
The Lost Fingers
Careless Whisper
Lost in the 80's


Tom Waits
Step Right Up
Small Change


Mostly Other People Do the Killing
Pen Argyl
Forty Fort



Pops McGonigle: Driving in the Slow Lane (encore presentation)



The Aquabats
Canis Lupus
The Aquabats vs. the Floating Eye of DEATH!


"Weird Al" Yankovic
Dog Eat Dog
Polka Party!


Eels
Dog Faced Boy
Souljacker


The Beatle Barkers
Day Tripper
The Beatle Barkers


Jim's Big Ego
Cat Named Boogers
Titanic



The Pernice Brothers
We Love the Stage
Goodbye, Killer

*
Chumbawamba
The Devil's Interval
ABCDEFG


Stereo Total
Babyboom Ohne Mich
Baby Ouh!

*
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band
Ask the Elephant!
Between My Head and the Sky


Uryu Akiha
Fureguransu
In the Souk

*
She & Him
Thieves
Volume Two


Laura Veirs
Make Something Good
July Flame


Yo La Tengo
My Little Corner of the World
I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One


The Fiery Furnaces
Teach Me Sweetheart
Bitter Tea


of Montreal
Disguises
The Bird who Continues to Eat the Rabbit's Flower



Okay Paddy
Gas Money
The Cactus Has a Point
Roman Grecco Theme Continuation

Ted Leo & the Phamacists
Woke Up Near Chelsea
The Brutalist Bricks


Black Francis
Captain Pasty
Bluefinger


The Flaming Lips
Powerless
Embryonic


The Like
Walk of Shame
Release Me

*
Caribou
Hannibal
Swim


New Young Pony Club
Dolls
The Optimist


The New Pornographers
Up In the Dark
Together


The Apples in Stereo
Wings Away
Travellers in Space and Time


They Might Be Giants
I Can Hear You
Factory Showroom







Television Personalities
Walk Towards the Light
A Memory is Better Than Nothing

*
What did we learn on today's programme?
  • Vuvuzelas are really annoying
  • There are actually people out there who defend New Jersey
  • Vuvuzelas are really, really annoying.
  • Pet Turtles are among the things that cannot be taken on an airplane. Apparently, a little girl might smuggle a bomb on-board in its shell or something.
  • Seriously, I'm downright amazed that nobody at the World Cup has had one of those infernal plastic horns shoved up their you-know-what already.

Saturday, June 19, 2010

#409: What the %&*@ is a "Cyber Sabor"? (w/ guest host 500,000 Vuvuzelas)

Yes, that's right, 500,000 vuvuzelas. Those annoying buzzing things that drive you crazy when attempting to watch the World Cup. Well, more crazy than just the total lack of any sort of action in the game whatsoever. Oh, and the completely random officiating. Aaaand the fact that the referee can pretty much end the game whenever he feels like it. Are you guys sure this isn't professional wrestling?
ArtistSongAlbumCommentsNew?
Dokaka
Larks' Tongues in Aspic II



Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno)
Tank!
Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack


The Like
Wishing He Was Dead
Release Me

*

Television Personalities
People Think That We're Strange
A Memory is Better Than Nothing

*
Pernice Brothers
Jacqueline Susann
Goodbye, Killer

*
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
Ativan Eyes
The Brutalist Bricks


Eels
Lilac Breeze
Hombre Lobo


The New Pornographers
Silver Jenny Dollar
Together

*
De Novo Dahl
Marketplace
Move Every Muscle, Make Every Sound


of Montreal
Forecast Fascist Future
The Sunlandic Twins


Sam Chalpin
Batman
My Father the Pop Singer


Yo La Tengo
The Room Got Heavy
I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass


The Polyphonic Spree
Running Away
The Fragile Army



New Young Pony Club
Dolls
The Optimist

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The Apples in Stereo
Hey Elevator
Travellers in Space and Time

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Pops McGonigle: Driving in the Slow Lane (encore presentation)



Elvis Costello
Down Among the Wines and Spirits
Secret, Profane and Sugarcane


Robyn Hitchcock
Television
Spooked


Joanna Newsom
Baby Birch
Have One on Me

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Laura Veirs
Summer is the Champion
July Flame


Tom Waits
Dirt in the Ground
Glitter & Doom Live


Sufjan Stevens
Movement I - In the Countenance of Kings
The BQE: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack


Mostly Other People Do the Killing
Little Hope
Forty Fort



They Might Be Giants
Withered Hope
The Else


Uryu Akiha
Mizutama Doresu
In the Souk

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The Bird and the Bee
Ray Gun
Ray Guns are Not Just the Future


Jim's Big Ego
Everything Must Go
Free*


The Flaming Lips
When You Smile
Clouds Taste Metallic


Silver Apples
Whirly-Bird
Silver Apples


David Byrne and Brian Eno
Life is Long
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today


Bell X1
Amelia
Blue Lights on the Runway



Visqueen
Centerfield
Play
Roman Grecco "Sorta-Theme-Continuation, even though it was continuing from last week's show, and it wasn't really a theme, anyway" Moment.

The Baseball Project
Past Time
Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails


Morning Glory
Piano Man
Magical Mystery Tour


Puffy AmiYumi
Red Swing
Nice



The Aquabats
The Ballad of Mr. Bonkers
The Aquabats vs. the Floating Eye of DEATH!


What did we learn on today's programme?
  • ABC News announcers don't know anything about video games.
  • God is apparently an art critic.
  • There is now a dating website for people who are too obsessed with Apple products to functionally participate in a relationship.
  • It would be incredibly amusing if said dating website were Flash-based.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

The Great College Radio Labor Dispute of 2010


On this week's programme... we're locked out of the WUSR studios! Tune in, as we play absolutely no music, discuss no stupid news stories, play no instructional films for defunct camera manufacturers featuring decrepit actors, and almost certainly don't ramble on with Brian Carpenter for forty-five minutes! It's all happening right now on WUSR - playing your ex fave song!

In the meantime, while the University and Union lawyers duke it out over who's paying for the Chinese take-out, here's a special web-only edition of the Magic Miku Moment, in which we feature the musical stylings of former WUSR Jazz director Mark Webb^H^H^H^H^H^H Sorry, wrong moment. *ahem*, The musical stylings of Japan's computer-generated vocal diva Miku Hatsune.

This week, we're featuring a remake of one of my favorite tracks from the "Miku Hatsune is Murdering Improving the 1980's" genre, a cover of "Heaven is a Place on Earth", originally by Belinda Carlisle (whoever that is), by YouTube user initializedee. This version uses the recently released "Miku Append" libraries, which feature a wider range of vocal tones to work with. Also, initializedee seems to have acquired an animation budget with this one:




(Though I still like the goofy, minimalistic animation (okay, okay, lack of animation) of the original better)

Lock photo by Darwin Bell

Saturday, June 5, 2010

#408: Cranial Impacts and their Influence on Human Vocalisation (w/ guest host The Stig)

In the case of the Scrantonian accent, this only proves what we've suspected all along, henna or no?
ArtistTitleAlbumCommentsNew?
Vincent PriceNishika 3D Camera (part two)


Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno)
Tank!
Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack


The New Pornographers
Valkyrie In the Roller Disco
Together

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Joanna Newsom
Baby Birch
Have One on Me

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Yo La Tengo
More Stars Than There are In Heaven
Popular Songs


Stephen Malkmus
No More Shoes
Face the Truth


King Crimson
Lark's Tongues in Aspic III
Three of a Perfect Pair


Sonic Youth
Antenna
The Eternal



The Apples in Stereo
Nobody But You
Travellers in Space and Time

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Wilco
Wilco (the Song)
Wilco (the Album)



Pops McGonigle: Driving in the Slow Lane (encore presentation)



James Kochalka Superstar
Fascist Bikes
Spread Your Evil Wings and Fly


They Might Be Giants
Dirt Bike
John Henry


LK
Tandem Bikes
vs. the Snow


New Young Pony Club
Stone
The Optimist

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Bit Shifter
The World Has Turned and Left Me Here
Weezer - The 8-bit Album


YMCK
Anotoki
Cloclo Made in Japan


Role Model
Showroom Dummies
8-bit Operators: A Tribute to the Music of Kraftwerk


Hot Chip
Wrestlers
Made in the Dark



Devo
One Dumb Thing
Pioneers who Got Scalped: The Anthology


of Montreal
Du Og Meg
Icons, Abstract Thee EP


The Fiery Furnaces
The Philadelphia Grand Jury
Widow City


The Flaming Lips
The Ego's Last Stand
Embryonic


Sufjan Stevens
Movement V: Self-Organizing Emergent Patterns
The BQE: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack


The Bad Plus
Feeling Yourself Disintegrate
For All I Care


Uryu Akiha
Yubisakino Hachimitsude
In the Souk

*
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down
Fixed It!
Know Better Learn Faster


Talking Heads
Making Flippy Floppy
Remain in Light



The Pillows
Ride on Shooting Star
FLCL Soundtrack No. 3
Roman Grecco Theme Continuation

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Bartomelo and the Buzzing of Bees
The Brutalist Bricks


Art Brut
Slap Dash for No Cash
Art Brut vs. Satan


Bell X1
How Your Heart is Wired
Blue Lights on the Runway


Television Personalities
How I Learned to Love the...Bomb
Yes Darling, But Is it Art?


Bonzo Dog Band
The Trouser Press
The History of the Bonzos



Elliott Smith
Somebody That I Used to Know
Figure 8


What did we learn on today's programme?
  • The hardest part of beekeeping is engraving your state hive ID number onto each individual bee.
  • It turns out that the best thing you can possibly do with a Chia Pet is just eat the damn thing.
  • ... until next month, when the same doctors will invariably discover that doing so is somehow linked to at least sixteen different forms of cancer.
  • The key to good impersonations? A reallly good whack to the head.
  • You should definitely avoid eating bath goods, no matter how much they're made to resemble desserts.