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