Playlist for 11/03/07

Here’s what you heard on today’s show:

Animal Collective – “Peacebone” (from Strawberry Jam)
Eisley – “Many Funerals” (from Combinations)
Arcade Fire – “Wake Up” (from Funeral)
The Jam – “Strange Town” (from Setting Sons)
Squeeze – “Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)” (from Singles 45′s and Under)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “Six Months in a Leaky Boat” (from Sharkbite Sessions EP)
Against Me! – “Thrash Unreal” (from New Wave)
The Rolling Stones – “Play With Fire: (from Hot Rocks: 1964 – 1971 and The Darjeeling Limited OST)
Nirvana – “All Apologies” (from MTV Unplugged)
Elliott Smith – “Angeles” (from Either/Or)
The Shins – “Phantom Limb” (from Wincing the Night Away)
The Miracle of ’86 – “Dance! Dance, Revolution” (from Every Famous Last Word)
Husker Du – “New Day Rising” (from New Day Rising)
Pavement – “Silence Kit” (from Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain)
R.E.M. – “The One I Love” (from R.E.M. Live)

Playlist for 05/06/07

Here’s what you heard today on an extra long final show of the semester:

The Hold Steady – “Girls Like Status” (from Boys and Girls in America)
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists – “The Sons of Cain” (from Living with the Living)
Bright Eyes – “Four Winds” (from Cassadaga)
Bjork – “Earth Intruders” (from Volta)
TV on the Radio – “Wolf Like Me” (from Return to Cookie Mountain)
Arctic Monkeys – “Brianstorm” (from Favorite Worst Nightmare)
Modest Mouse – “We’ve Got Everything” (from We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank)
The Shins – “Australia” (from Wincing the Night Away)
Arcade Fire – “Keep the Car Running” (from Neon Bible)
Dinosaur Jr – “Almost Ready” (from Beyond)
The Jam – “Going Underground” (from The Best of the Jam)

The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
Nouvelle Vague – “Melt With You” (from Nouvelle Vague)
Low – “Hatchet” (from Drums and Guns)
Petra Hayden – “Don’t Stop Believing” (from Guilt By Association)
Ben Folds – “In Between Days” (from Speed Graphic EP)
Gomez – “Love is Better Than a Warm Trombone” (from Bring It On)
Belle and Sebastian – “Me and the Major (live)” (from If You’re Feeling Sinister)
Apples in Stereo – “Energy” (from New Magnetic Wonder)
Pulp – “Disco 2000″ (from Different Class)
Blues Brothers – “Rubber Biscuit” (from The Blues Brothers: The Definitive Collection)
Teenage Fanclub – “Neil Jung” (from Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Six Seconds: the Best of Teenage Fanclub)
Matthew Sweet – “The Ballad of El Goodo” (from Big Star, Small World: Tribute to Big Star)
Big Star – “Thirteen” (from #1 Record / Radio City)
Craig Wedren – “Higher and Higher” (from Wet Hot American Summer)
Cornershop – “Brim Full of Asha” (from When I Was Born for the 7th Time)
Talking Heads – “Life During Wartime” (from Fear of Music)
Sonic Youth – “Kool Thing” (from Goo)
Death Cab for Cutie – “Crooked Teeth” (from Plans)
The Stone Roses – “I Wanna Be Adored” (from The Stone Roses)
Echo & the Bunnymen – “Bring on the Dancing Horses” (from Songs to Learn and Sing)
R.E.M. – “Exhuming McCarthy” (from Document)
Wilco – “Theologians” (from A Ghost is Born)
The Hold Steady – “Stuck Between Stations” (from Boys and Girls in America)
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists – “Biomusicology” (from The Tyranny of Distance)
Spoon – “The Way We Get By” (from Kill the Moonlight)
Billy Bragg – “A New England” (from Must I Paint you a Picture? The Best of Billy Bragg)
The Zombies – “This Will Be Our Year” (from Odessey and Oracle)

Playlist for 02/18/07

Today’s show was the first show back for the semester and featured a ton of new music! Here’s what you heard:

The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
The Shins – “Sleeping Lessons” (from Wincing the Night Away)
Bloc Party – “Hunting for Witches” (from A Weekend in the City)
Modest Mouse – “We’ve Got Everything” (from We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank)
Arcade Fire – “No Cars Go” (from Neon Bible)
Deerhunter – “Spring Hall Convert” (from Cryptograms)
The Apples in Stereo – “Energy” (from New Magnetic Wonder)
LCD Soundsystem – “North American Scum” (from Sounds of Silver)
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – “La Costa Brava” (from Living With the Living)
Dinosaur Jr – “Almost Ready” (from Beyond)
Of Montreal – “Bunny Ain’t No Kind of Rider” (from Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?)

And today’s episode featured a bit of “bonus time” too! Here’s what you heard then:

Peter Bjorn and John – “Young Folks” (from Writer’s Block)
Sonic Youth – “Reena” (from Rather Ripped)
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians – “Madonna of the Wasps” (from the Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the 80′s Underground box set)
X – “See How We Are” (from See How We Are)
Arcade Fire – “Intervention” (from Neon Bible)

Here’s a link to a recent Hartford Current article on some of the people bringing underground rock music to Connecticut. Also, check out the Arcade Fire next Saturday on Saturday Night Live!