last show of the season

Yo radio people!

This is my last show of the season. Check out WMBR's programming for the summer here: wmbr.mit.edu.

People for Audio/The New Ancients LP/The Old Identical
Code Pie/The Most Trusted Name In Yous LP/Conway Killjoy
The Marlboro Chorus/American Dreamers LP/Love Is In Love
Miracle Fortress/The Syndicate LP/This Thing About You
Miracle Fortress/The Syndicate LP/Whirrs
Ral Partha Vagelbacher/Shrill Falcons LP/three gorges
The Ladybug Transistor/Can't Wait Another Day LP/Always on the Telephone
Immaculate Machines/Fables LP/Dear Confessor
Ulrich Schnauss/Quicksand Memory EP/Look at the Sky
Mobile/Tomorrow Starts Today EP/Out Of My Head
The Electric Soft Parade/No Need to be Downhearted LP/Shore Song and Surfacing
Robert Pollard/Silverfish Trivia LP/Wickerman Smile
Robert Pollard/Silverfish Trivia LP/Waves, Etc.
Mary Timony Band/The Shapes We Make LP/Killed by the Telephone

I hope you've enjoyed the show and maybe discovered some new music that will change your life. See you next year, I'm going home.

<3 <3 anna

A Super Show

This week was the best show ever. Maybe the best show that will ever be. But you should still listen. I completely abandoned the new music format today to play some old favorites and end with the ulimate BANG. This week's show featured the musical stylings of Rick and Jennifer with their band The One Bag In the Air With the Leg In It Band.

The Playlist:

Feist/The Reminder LP/So Sorry
DeVotchKa/Curse Your Little Heart EP/I Cried Like A Silly Boy
Joy Division/Substance LP/Atmosphere
The Essex Green/The Long Goodbye LP/Lazy May
Yeah Yeah Yeahs/Show Your Bones LP/Turn Into
PJ Harvey/To Bring You My Love LP/To Bring You My Love
Blonde Redhead/Meolody of Certain Damaged Lemons LP/In Particular
Pixies/Doolittle LP/Here Comes Your Man
The Blow/Paper Television LP/True Affection
Patti Smith/Horses LP/Break It Up
Le Tigre/Le Tigre LP/Deceptacon
The Books/Lost and Safe LP/Be Good To Them Always
The One Bag In the Air With the Leg In It Band/Cough

5/9 blonde redhead at paradise
5/16 omgo gomogmogmgogmogmgogmgggggg the blow! at the paradise

<3 anna

April 30, 2007

The final reason why Minneapolis is awesome. The weather the next 10 days is an average 72 degrees and sunny. There are a few scattered thunderstorms but none of this raining drizzly crap for ten days that Boston has. And thunderstorms are way cool. AWESOME!

The Playlist:

Attack Formation/We Are Alive In Tune LP/Black Magic
Azeda Booth/Mysterious Body EP/Dead Girls
Thee More Shallows/Book of Bad Breaks LP/Night at the Knight School
Walker Kong/Deliver Us From People LP/We Are the Falling Stars
Frog Eyes/Tears of the Valedictorian LP/"Stockades"
Andrew Shapiro/Quiet Kissing EP/Detectors in the Eyes
Girl In A Coma/Both Before I'm Gone LP/Say
Gruff Rhys/Candylion LP/The Court of King Arthur
Adult/Why Bother? LP/Plagued By Fear
The Young Knives/Voices of Animals and Men LP/The Decision
Bonde De Role/Solta O Frango Single/Solta O Frango
Pterodactyl/Pterodactyl LP/Ask Me Nicely
The Soft Drugs/In Moderation EP/Defending the Paint
Wolf and Cub/Vessels LP/March of Clouds
Audionom/Retrospektiv LP/And You Said I Was the Only One
The Fall/Reformation Post TLC LP/Reformation

Don't forget!
5/8 Blonde Redhead
5/16 The Blow

And this weekend is steer roast at MIT. Some bands will play, I don't know which ones yet.

Oh yeah, the video for Elephant Gun by Beirut is AMAZING. I LOVE BEIRUT.

<3 anna

April 23, 2007

Sorry for the delay!

The Playlist:

Tin Cup Prophette/Liar and the Theif LP/Liar and the Thief
Kid Koala/Your Mom's Favorite DJ LP/Right Side
Liz Esenberg/Seaport, Seaport, Seaport LP/Two Weeks Till the Midwest
Holland/The Paris Hilton Mujahideen LP/Satanic Effervescent Country Black
Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid/Tongues LP/People Be Happy
Junior Boys/The Dead Horse EP/FM (tensnake remix)
Joakim/Monsters and Silly Songs LP/Everything Bright and Still
The Leather Uppers/OK, Don't Say HI LP/You Know I Do
The Ponys/Turn the Lights Out LP/Everyday Weapon
Bjork/Earth Intruders Single/Earth Intruders
Bill Callahan/Woke On A Whaleheart LP/From the Rivers to the Ocean
The Basement/Illicit Hugs and Playground Thugs LP/Medicine Day
Peel/Peel LP/In the City

Man Man is playing Beast Roast at MIT on Saturday, April 28!
Blonde Readhead May 8 @ paradise
The Blow! May 16 @ paradise

with love,
anna

Actually from April 16, 2007

Hello. Tonight we had a lot of guests in the studio. You heard from Leanne, Katy, Julia, Jennifer, Tania, and Melody during the show, adding in some side commentary between songs.

The Playlist:

Bang Gang/Something Wrong LP/Inside
Joanna Newsom/Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band EP/Colleen
Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her/Future or No Future LP/Evolution
Trans Am/Sex Change LP/North East Rising Sun
Benni Hemm Hemm/Kajak LP/Snjor Ljos Snjor
The Breakers DK/Here For A Laugh LP/Tried So Hard
Deerhunter/Flourescent Grey EP/Flourescent Grey
Ono/Open Your Box LP/Walking On Thin Ice
Peter Bjorn and John/Writer's Block LP/Objects of My Affection
Idlewild/Make Another World LP/Lookin For A Love
Illinois/What the Hell Do I Know? LP/Nosebleed

I saw the books on Sunday. I hung out with them before the show and photographed them during load in/set up/sound check. Pretty cool. They're quiet guys. It was my first time at the Somerville Theatre. It's a great venue.

Deerhunter 4/25 Middle East
Blonde Redhead 5/9 Paradise

<3 anna

Today I was very tired. Then I came to WMBR, and the sight of all the shiny new cd cases glistening on the shelf brightened my day so much, that I recovered enough energy to make it through another show. The music is that good. I've also forgotten how to use commas. Thank you, MIT.

The Playlist:

Small Sails/Similar Anniversaires LP/Somnambulist
A Northern Chorus/The Millions Too Many LP/Skeleton Keys
Blonde Redhead/23 LP/23
Automusik/The Hound Dog EP/The Hound Dog*
Bright Eyes/Casadaga LP/Clairaudients (Kill Or Be Killed)
Dntel/Dumb Luck LP/Rock My Boat
The Cripple Lillies/La Bete LP/Bella of the Rocks
The Blow/Poor Aim:Love Songs LP/"Come On Petunia"
Panther/"Secret Lawns" LP/Tiger's Touch
We All Have Hooks For Hands/The Pretender LP/Jumpin Jean-Luc
Lesbians On Ecstasy/We Know You Know LP/Alone In Madness
Gowns/Red State LP/Fake July
The Ladybug Transistor/Here Comes the Rain EP/Girl On A Swing

*umm, what?

I LOVE the Blow. LOVE LOVE LOVE. love love love.

<3 anna

Hola wmbr listening denizens,

Hay retornado de Mexico para tocar mas musica para Uds. That may or may not make sense, it's been a while since the days of high school spanish class. Anyways, the show today is themed mellow with a spanish flavor. Enjoy.

The Playlist:

Woods/At Rear House LP/Don't Pass On Me
Gang/Guess What You'll Find... EP/Past, Present, Future
Cibo Matto/The Essential Cibo Matto LP/Vamos A La Playa
Tracy Thorn/Out of the Woods LP/Triangles
+/-/Plus/Minus vs. Bloodthirsty Butchers EP/Banging the Drum
Dinosaur Jr./Beyond LP/I Got Lost
The Rosebuds/Night of the Furies LP/Night of the Furies
Music For Animals/Music For Animals LP/Esperanza
The Twilight Sad/Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Summers LP/Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Summers
Low/Drums and Guns LP/Murderer
Parts and Labors/Escapers One EP/Tiny Lightening

This is hot:
http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/inventory_26_songs_that_are

The Twilight Sad @ Middle East, April 4

May the clouds part and your rainy days be filled with sunshine.

<3 anna

Another week! We learned how to pronounce !!! and create origami representations of your song titles, oh the excitement.

The Playlist:
SJ Esau/Wrong Faced Cat Feed Collapse LP/All Agog
Nurse & Soldier/Marginalia LP/Green Tea
Origami Ghosts/Solving My Own Puzzles LP/Using Words to Describe the Ocean
Bonnie "Prince" Billy/Lay & Love Single/Lay & Love
Call Me Lightning/Soft Skeletons LP/Soft Skeletons
I'm From Barcelona/Let Me Introduce My Friends LP/This Boy (Feat. Lonely, Dear)*
!!!/Myth Takes LP/A New Name
Aids Wolf VS Atheltic Automaton/Clash of the Life Force Warriors LP/Letter to Al Johnson
Air/Pocket Symphony LP/Once Upon A Time
Feist/My Moon My Man Single/My Moon My Man (Boys Noize Remix)
The Western States Motel/The Western States Motel LP/Cheap Speakers
Modest Mouse/We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank LP/Education
Sloan/People Think They Know Me LP/People Think They Know Me

*a 29 member band? really?

I don't know if I like the new Modest Mouse and I'm quite distraught over that.

I saw Ratatat at the Paradise on Thursday. Good show! My friend Harold asked if I ever thought they wrote their name as R@@@. I hope they do. I want a repeating thing in my name. Everybody's doing it. Ok, you shall call me Annanana. Just kidding.

The Books, April 15th @ Somerville Theatre

Obviously, they need to be stopped.
http://stoppeterbjornandjohn.blogspot.com/
Hilarious.

See you in 2 weeks! SPRING BREAK 2007 CAMBRIGE! Except I'm getting out of this country.

<3 anna

So last night I went to see Of Montreal at Avalon. Unfortunately we were forced to watch the performance by Grand Buffet before Of Montreal hit the stage. What a bunch of wankers. I've never seen Of Montreal live before (I know...) and wow, that was weird. Awesome, but weird. There were giant lobster claws and cross-dressing. And some guy in a white spandex bodysuit who did his own special seductive fruit performance with an apple and some bananas. I don't think the band really warmed up to the crowd until the very end of the show which was kind of disappointing. Kevin Barnes seemed to be off in his own world most of the time. They ended with a cover of the Fiery Furnaces Tropical-Iceland and it was awesome.

Tonight was poetry night on New Frontiers because, why not? A poem is like a song. But without music. You know.

The Playlist:
The Broken West/I Can't Go On, I'll Go On LP/Down In the Valley
"Mr. Brain" by Russell Edson
Maps of Norway/Sister Stations LP/Manners*
"Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein
The Soul of John Black/The Good Girl Blues LP/The Hole
"I Met A Genius" by Charles Bukowski
"The Floor" by Russell Edson
Menomena/Friend and Foe LP/Weird
"Girl In A Miniskirt Reading the Bible Outside My Window" by Charles Bukowski
Panda Bear/Person Pitch LP/Comfy In Nautica
"Postcards" by Margaret Atwood
Ghost Stories/Quixoticism LP/The Black Hand
"Backdropp Addresses Cowboy" by Margaret Atwood
Kinetic Stereokids/Basement Kids LP/Cold and Tired
"Insomniac" by Sylvia Plath
Beirut/Lon Gisland EP/Elephant Gun
"The Sad Message" by Russell Edson
Bikeride/The Kiss LP/Your Lips and You
"Antimatter" by Russell Edson
"A Radio With Guts" by Charles Bukowski
Andrew Bird/Armchair Apocrypha LP/Imitosis

*From Minneapolis, like me! It's cold there.

I engineer for two shows:
1.Medium-sized Yellow Robots with Josh, monday at 1am (thats like the monday thats actually tuesday but it will always be monday to me)
2.Shennagins with Jennifer and Katie, wednesday at 2am (same thing, actually thursday)

Josh plays good music. Jennifer and Katie are hilarious and awesome. LISTEN. DO IT NOW. Well not now, at the times I told you.

Free Ratatat concert at Tufts on Wednesday. YEs!

Check this out!

I love menomena.

Exclamation Points Run Amok

It's a new season here at WMBR! And a new show for you! We're all very excited. New Frontiers is an hour of all new music every Monday at midnight. It might be good, it might be lame. Sorry if it's lame. But most of it should be musical goodness to your aurally deprived ears. I'm putting my playlists here because I'm too lazy to figure out how to create html that works with the text editor on my mac.

The Playlist:

New Young Pony Club/New Young Pony Club EP/Ice Cream
Cyann & Ben/Sweet Beliefs LP/Words
Let's Go Sailing/The Chaos In Order LP/Sideways
The Makes Nice!/Candy Wrapper and Twelve Other Songs LP/Cop Killer
The Apples In Stereo/New Magnetic Wonder LP/7 Stars
Do Make Say Think/Constellation LP/The Universe!
Fujiya & Miyagi/Transparent Things LP/Collarbone
The New Century/The New Century EP/The Middle Years
LCD Soundsystem/Sound of Silver LP/North American Scum/
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin/Broom LP/House Fire
My Teenage Stride/Ears Like Golden Bats LP/Reversal
New Thing Now/Divine Library Intervention LP/Extra Sensory Perception Is Good *
Mouthful of Bees/The End LP/Jessica

*Bonus points in life for cool, hand-stamped album art

Well, we made some new discoveries,heard some new stuff from old favorites, and learned the story behind the name of Fujiya & Miyagi. Sorry things got a bit hectic at the end of the show. The scared, little, lost children are starting thier first shows today so I had to teach them the ways of not playing from their laptop and violating FCC regulations. But they're so cute clutching their overplayed CDs and stammering into the microphone. Just kidding, they done good.

Oh man, I wish I was going to South by Southwest next week. Pretty much everyone ever is playing there. But for those of us in cold, cold Boston; do not despair, for there is hope!
3/11 OF MONTREAL Avalon
3/15 RATATAT Paradise

And now I leave with this awesome obnoxiousness: http://www.kiiiiiii.com/. From where else, but Japan.

<3 anna