A Rush of Music to the Head

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2010-02-24T14:09:00.003-05:00

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A Rush of 2008

2008-12-18T02:48:00.011-05:00

This is A Rush of 2008 with witty comments inserted where I see fit. Many songs listed are singles and just as many are not. I’ll be a free-format radio child for the rest of my life, always digging through album cuts. I noted if a song was played on the air to prove to you that I graduated with a degree in Indie rock. Make a comment, leave your contact information, and I’ll personally call you to read and/or sing E.E. Cummings’ poem “dying is fine)but Death” (#11).

1. Fleet Foxes – “White Winter Hymnal” (Ragged Wood)
I met the band in July at the Pitchfork Music Festival, before every Starbucks had their CD for sale by the register. They were about to leave the site after their performance, when I stuck my face into their van to say how I wished I still had a college radio show to promote their music. Without asking, they all hopped out of the van to take a picture. One point for Sub Pop Records and one point for men with beards.

2. Clinic – “Tomorrow” (Do It!) [4/16, 4/23]
Psychedelic freaks from Liverpool who are underappreciated in America.

3. DeVotchKa – “Transliterator” (A Mad and Faithfull Telling) [2/27, 3/5, 3/12]

4. Hercules & Love Affair (Feat. Antony) – “Blind” (Hercules & Love Affair)
All credit goes to KEXP for being my ears and finding this gem to play.

5. Animal Collective – “Water Curses” (Water Curses EP) [4/23, 5/7, 5/14]
I saw Animal Collective live twice in 2008. Once in Chicago at Pitchfork and a second time at All Points West in Jersey City, NJ. Their performance in Chicago was at night, while the NJ set was during the day. I prefer AC silly drunk off of free VIP beer with laser beams piercing the night sky with fantastic colors. Chicago and P4K wins over Jersey City and APW.

6. Little Joy – “No One’s Better Sake” (Little Joy)
Brazillan-hippie swoon music.

7. Lykke Li – “I’m Good, I’m Gone” (Youth Novels)
Who heard this during fashion week at the American Express Zac Posen show in Bryant Park? Me.

8. MGMT – “Electric Feel” (Oracular Spectacular)
Use the following pick-up like to improve your game: “Shock me like an electric eel.”

9. Beck – “Gamma Ray” (Modern Guilt)
The apocalyptic world according to Beck.

10. Fleet Foxes – “Mykonos” (Sun Giant EP)

11. Ra Ra Riot – “Dying Is Fine” (The Rhumb Line)
While reading E.E. Cummings’ poem “dying is fine)but Death,” listen to this song and silently thank your English teachers.

12. Vivian Girls – “Where Do You Run To” (Vivian Girls)
CMJ sirens.

13. The Magnetic Fields – “Please Stop Dancing” (Distortion)
2008 also marks the year I finally bought the 69 Love Songs box set and at an independent record shop (Sound Fix).

14. Vampire Weekend – “Oxford Comma” (Vampire Weekend)
I met the lead singer at Pitchfork. We’re tight. I don’t think he’ll attack me for my use of the Oxford comma.

15. Brian Eno & David Byrne – “Life Is Long” (Everything That Happens Will Happen Today)

16. Jenny Lewis – “Acid Tongue” (Acid Tongue)
This song would’ve been better with the Watson Twins on backup.

17. The Raveonettes – “Dead Sound” (Lust, Lust, Lust) [2/20, 2/27, 3/5]

18. Sigur Rós – “Gobbledigook” (Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust)

19. Dungen – “Satt Att Se” (4)
Not that other band (#18).

20. Santogold – “L.E.S. Artistes” (Santogold) [5/7]
She’s vomiting gold glitter on the album cover!

21. The Walkmen – “In the New Year” (You & Me)

22. Ray LaMontagne – “You Are the Best Thing” (Gossip in the Grain)
I love horns. I love beards. I love being told that I’m the best thing over and over again.

23. Bon Iver – “Skinny Love” (For Emma, Forever Ago) [4/16]
The name’s French. Don’t say “Bahn Eye-vir.” It’s almost as bad as saying “Suff-Jan.”

24. The Verve – “Love is Noise” (Forth)
Oasis didn’t make this list. I’m making a statement in support of the British underdog.

25. Okkervill River – “Calling and Not Calling My Ex” (The Stand Ins)

26. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – “Today’s Lesson” (Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!) [4/9]
Exclamation points hunt in packs.

27. Wolf Parade – “Soldier’s Grin” (At Mount Zoomer)

28. Portishead – “Silence” (Third) [5/14]
Because I was 8 when Dummy came out.

29. Deerhoof – “The Tears and Music of Love” (Offend Maggie)

30. No Age – “Teen Creeps” (Nouns) [5/14]

31. New Bloods – “Oh Deadly Nightshade!” (The Secret Life) [4/23]
I trust the label Kill Rock Stars for a reason. Influences: The Slits and the Raincoats.

32. Beach House – “Wedding Bell” (Devotion) [3/5]

33. Ruby Suns – “Adventure Tour” (Sea Lion) [3/12/, 3/22]
I bow down to the advertising agency that picked the band’s song “Oh, Mojave” for a Microsoft commercial. Another successful album for Sub Pop Records.

34. Marnie Stern – “Ruler” (This Is It And I Am It And You Are It And So Is That And He Is It And She Is It And It Is It And That Is That)
She’s up there with my favorite Jewish ladies of the year (e.g. Rachel Maddow and Sarah Silverman).

35. The Mae Shi – “Run to Your Grave” (Hlllyh) [3/22]
That’s Hell Yeah without vowels.

36. White Hinterland – “Dreaming of the Plum Trees” (Phylactery Factory) [3/12, 3/22]

37. Destroyer – “Dark Leaves Form a Thread” (Trouble in Dreams) [3/12, 3/22]
Here’s to A.C. Newman’s January 2009 release.

38. The Kills – “Last Day of Magic” (Midnight Boom) [4/5, 4/9]

39. French Kicks – “Abandon” (Swimming) [4/16, 4/23]

40. Retribution Gospel Choir – “What She Turned Into” (Retribution Gospel Choir) [4/16]

A Rush of 2008 - Coming Soon

2008-12-17T21:49:00.003-05:00

2008 has an additional second.

A Rush of 2008 coming soon!

Summer of Music (Thus Far)

2008-07-15T23:32:00.013-04:00

You would think that as a college graduate, I would have all the time in the world to blog. Because my friend gave me a free month of Netflix, I've spent all those blogging hours catching up on movies I meant to see when they came out (i.e. Once, Persepolis, Sylvia). I watched The Beatles Anthology when it came out on TV in the mid-90s, but because I don't own it, I used my Netflix for all 6 discs. Also, I queued The Concert for George. I should post all 392 reasons why he's my favorite Beatle. (Reason #23: He started carrying two ukeleles instead of one while travelling because when he wanted to jam, no one ever had a ukelele!)

Since the beginning of June, my life has been enjoyable because of Netflix gems and... [FREE] CONCERTS. (Plus, a birthday thrown in.)

June 23: Coldplay @ Madison Square Garden [FREE]

They didn't do an encore. The show was about an hour and 15 minutes. Yes, it was free, but even artists playing for free do an encore(s).

July 4: Sonic Youth/The Feelies @ Battery Park [FREE]

Mindblowing!! I want to be Kim Gordon. Sonic Youth did 2 encores. Take that, Coldplay. As for the Feelies, it was great to see the band after just discovering them during my last semester on the air when a caller requested a Feelies song and said I'd love them. Thanks, caller.

July 12: Bon Jovi @ Central Park [FREE]

A male friend of mine, who will remain nameless, literally drooled when they encored with "Always." 2 hours + 2 Jon Bon Jovi clothing changes: I prefered the leather vest over the red shirt.

July 18-20: Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago [$, but less $ than APW]

Expect a grand post once I return. Acts I'm excited for: Spoon (I tried to see them for free last summer, but I didn't feel like standing in the rain... I must hear "I Turn My Camera On"); Fleet Foxes (Buy/DL "Mykonos" or "White Winter Hymnal" & read the write-up in July's Spin Magazine); Animal Collective (I'll also see them at All Points West in August); Jarvis Cocker (Pulp, I was too young to enjoy you when you were together); Dinosaur Jr. (Legendary).

Free Coldplay, 6/23/08

2008-06-03T22:13:00.011-04:00

Last month, Coldplay announced two free shows in New York and London -- they'll also be playing a show in Barcelona. I entered to win tickets for the New York show and honestly, forgot I had entered until today:

"Congratulations you're a winner of a pair of tickets to the free Coldplay show at Madison Square Garden on June 23rd, 2008!!"

In Fall 2004, I chose to pay homage to Coldplay and name my radio show after them on WHRW. Four years ago, I changed "Blood" to "Music" and called my show A Rush of Music to the Head.

Thousands have won tickets to this show at MSG, but I believe I won because the music gods went, "Taryn had a bangin' radio show. Let's give her a graduation/birthday (6/20) present!"

"It's all happening." -- Almost Famous

"Good feeling won't you stay with me just a little longer"

2008-05-19T13:05:00.006-04:00

a rush of music to the head
wednesdays, 2:30-4pm
listen live: whrwfm.org

THE FINAL RUSH -- the last radio show (as an Undergrad)

MAY.14.2008

bold = NEW NEW NEW MUSIC

Gospel Gossip – “Revolutions in Physics” (Sing Into My Mouth)
Pixies – “Here Comes Your Man” (Doolittle)
Okkervill River – “A Hand to Take Hold of the Scene” (The Stage Names)
Cat Power – “He War” (Free)
No Age – “Teen Creeps” (Nouns)
Sunset Rubdown – “For the Pier (And Dead Shimmering)” (Random Spirit Lover)
Dean & Britta – “You Turned My Head Around” (Back Numbers)
Shout Out Louds – “Tonight I Have to Leave It” (Pillows & Prayers)
Echo & The Bunnymen – “The Killing Moon” (Songs to Learn and Sing)
The Strokes – “Under Control” (Room on Fire)
Portishead – “Silence” (Third)
Beck – “Debra” (Midnight Vultures)
Moldy Peaches – “Who’s Got the Crack” (S/T)
M83 – “Graveyard Girl” (Saturdays=Youth)
Joe Cocker – “The Letter” (Mad Dogs & Englishmen)
Heatmiser – “Not Half Right” (Mic City Songs)
Madeline Peyroux – “Between the Bars” (Careless Love)
Jamie Lidell – “Little Bit of Feel Good” (Jim)
Jens Lekman – “The Opposite of Hallelujah” (Night Falls Over Kortedala)
Super Furry Animals - “Receptacle for the Respectable” (Rings Around the World)
Guillemots – “Who Let the Lights Off Baby?” (From the Cliffs)
Animal Collective – “Water Curses” (Water Curses EP)
Belle & Sebastian – “I’m a Cuckoo” (Dear Catastrophe Waitress)
The Magnetic Fields – “Famous” (Get Lost)
Yo La Tengo – “False Alarm” (Electr-o-Pura)
Elvis Costello – “Watching the Detectives” (My Aim is True)
The Kinks - “Waterloo Sunset”
Old 97’s – “Ride” (Blame it on Gravity)
Apples in Stereo – “Ruby” (Her Wallpaper Reverie)
Regina Spektor – “On the Radio” (Begin to Hope)
The Smiths – “Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before” (S/T)
DJ Shadow – “Dark Days” (The Score: 20 Ultra-Cool Soundtracks from the Producers of Mojo)
The Beatles – “Cry Baby Cry” (The White Album)
George Harrison – “What Is Life” (All Things Must Pass)
Coldplay – “Politik” (A Rush of BLOOD to the Head)
The Modern Lovers – “Girlfriend” (S/T)
Ben Kweller – “Falling” (Sha Sha)
The Velvet Underground – “Sunday Morning” (The Velvet Underground & Nico)
Bob Dylan – “Gates of Eden” (Bringing It All Back Home)
The Violent Femmes – “Good Feeling” (S/T)
Oasis – “Rock ‘N Roll Star” (Definitely Maybe)

A delayed posting because I graduated from Binghamton over the weekend.

Thank you for a musically stimulating 4 years as your DJ at WHRW 90.5 FM Binghamton.

Please post a comment or send me a message. Let's keep in touch. I adore you.

"She spits on summers and smiles to the night/She collects crowns made of black roses/But her heart is made of bubble gum"

2008-05-07T20:23:00.001-04:00

a rush of music to the head
wednesdays, 2:30-4pm
listen live: whrwfm.org

NEXT WEEK'S SHOW: 1-4PM // THE LAST "RUSH"

MAY.7.2008

bold = NEW NEW NEW MUSIC

Santogold – “L.E.S. Artistes” (S/T)
The Essex Green – “By the Sea” (The Long Goodbye)
The Bird & the Bee – “La La La” (The Bird and the Bee)
Animal Collective – “Water Curses” (Water Curses)
Panda Bear – “Comfy in Nautica” (Person Pitch)
The Raveonettes – “Lust” (Lust Lust Lust)
M83 – “Graveyard Girl” (Saturday = Youth)
Grandaddy – “El Caminos in the West” (Sumday)
Jamie Lidell – “Little Bit of Feel Good” (Jim)
The Kooks – “Always Where I Need to Be” (Konk)
Sloan – “Two Seater” (Smeared)
Tapes ‘n Tapes – “The Iliad” & “Insistor” (The Loon)
No Age – “Eraser” (Nouns)
The Raincoats – “Only Loved at Night” (Odyshape)
Blonde Redhead – “Publisher” (23)
Clinic – “The Witch (made to measure)” & “Free Not Free” (Do It!)
The Futureheads – “Trying Not to Think About Time” (The Futureheads)
Sonic Youth – “Hey Joni” (Daydream Nation)
The Magnetic Fields – “100,000 Fireflies” (Distant Plastic Trees)
The Velvet Underground – “Cycle Annie”

"Win a Date with Taryn" was a success!! See you at the Belmar Thursday night for the poetry reading starting around 9pm and ending when the drunks go home.

WIN A DATE WITH ME, YOUR DJ

2008-04-30T17:46:00.003-04:00

Hello all,

On next week's show, there'll be a special contest: win a date with me!

For details, listen in: Wednesday, 2:30-4pm.

One obvious requirement: must love music as much as me or more.

Best,
Taryn

"There's one thing you gotta do/To make me still want you/Gotta stop sobbing now"

2008-04-30T17:37:00.006-04:00

a rush of music to the head
wednesdays, 2:30-4pm
listen live: whrwfm.org

APRIL.30.2008

It was Vinyl Week, so the new tracks were few. Thanks for all the positive feedback today. Killer show... including the one album I was thrilled to find in our library by Family Fodder:

bold = NEW NEW NEW RELEASE

Big Brother & the Holding Company (feat. Janis Joplin) – “All in Loneliness” (S/T)
Lio – “Banana Split” (Premier album)
Pavement – “Stereo” (Brighten the Corners)
Jamie Lidell – “Out of My System” (Jim)
Joy Division – “Transmission” (Substance)
The Psychedelic Furs – “Flowers” (S/T)
Clinic – “The Witch (made to measure)” (Do It!)
The Monkees – “She” (More of the Monkees)
The Cynics – “Creepin’” (Twelve Flights Up)
Black Keys – “Psychotic Girl” (Attack & Release)
Family Fodder & Friends – “Sunday Girl #1” (Sunday Girls)
Beat Happening – “Hot Chocolate Boy” (Dreamy)
Talking Heads – “Girlfriend is Better” (Speaking In Tongues)
Brian Eno – “I’ll Come Running” (Another Green World)
B-52’s – “52 Girls” (S/T)
The Modern Lovers – “It’s You” (It’s Time For)
Violent Femmes – “Promise” (S/T)
The Kinks – “Stop Your Sobbing” (You Really Got Me)
Simon Joyner – “I Went to Our Lady of Perpetual Healing” & "Montgomery" (The Cowardly Traveler Pays His Toll)
Bob Dylan – “When the Ship Comes In” (The Times They Are A-Changin’)
Mamas and the Papas – “Gemini Childe” (S/T)
Happy Family – “She’s Your Trashcan” & “You” (Lucky)

RIP: Albert Hofmann, who died on Tuesday aged 102, synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in 1938 and became the first person in the world to experience a full-blown acid trip.

"Well if I lived in Greenland, I'd still have Chinese children uh huh/But out of my ears my little gray baby hears/And that's my fact"

2008-04-23T19:55:00.000-04:00

a rush of music to the head
wednesdays, 2:30-4pm
listen live: whrwfm.org

APRIL.23.2008

bold = NEW NEW NEW RELEASE

Jeffrey Lewis – “End Result” (12 Crass Songs)
The Wrens – “Everyone Chooses Sides” (The Meadowlands)
Lida Husik – “Hopi Ants” (The Return of Red Emma)
Black Keys – “Psychotic Girl” (Attack & Release)
Pulp – “Help the Aged” (This is Hardcore)
Flight of the Concords – “Foux de Fafa” (S/T)
Moe Tucker – “Too Shy” (I Spent a Week There the Other Night)
Mandrew – “Hot Wax” (The Wonderful World of Mandrew)
Gossip – “Standing in the Way of Control” (Live in Liverpool)
Daniel Johnston – “Got to Get You Into My Life” (1990)
Christina – “Don’t Be Greedy” (S/T)
Clinic – “Tomorrow” & “The Witch (Made to Measure)” (Memories)
Broken Social Scene – “Windsurfing Nation” (Broken Social Scene)
Animal Collective – “Water Curses” (Water Curses)
Tokyo Police Club – “Your English Is Good” (Elephant Shell)
Devendra Banhart – “Chinese Children” (Cripple Crow)
Morrissey – “Suedehead” (Greatest Hits)
New Bloods – “Oh Deadly Nightshade” (The Secret Life)
French Kicks – “Abandon” (Swimming)

Don't forget to go to Dayle's BFA Exhibit opening reception on Saturday night!! 7pm // RCFIII Gallery // 15 Charles St., Binghamton, NY // (607) 765-3704

"I met a non-dairy creamer/Explicitly laid out like a fruitcake"

2008-04-16T18:55:00.002-04:00

a rush of music to the head
wednesdays, 2:30-4pm
listen live: whrwfm.org

APRIL.16.2008

bold = NEW NEW NEW

Clinic – “Tomorrow” (Do It!)
Sleater-Kinney – “Prisstina” (One Beat)
Super Furry Animals – “Hometown Unicorn” (Fuzzy Logic)
Black Keys – “Psychotic Girl” (Attack & Release)
Portastatic – “Drill Me” (Summer of the Shark)
Superchunk – “From the Curve” (On the Mouth)
Retribution Gospel Choir – “What She Turned Into” (S/T)
She & Him – “Sentimental Heart” (Volume One)
Menomena – “Muscle ‘n Flo” (Friend and Foe)
Jamie Lidell – “Another Day” (Jim)
Yo La Tengo – “Moby Octopad” (I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One)
The Only Ones – “Telescopic Love” (The Peel Sessions Album)
French Kicks – “Abandon” (Swimming)
The Decemberists – “Oceanside” (5 Songs)
Built to Spill – “Still Flat” (The Normal Years)
Apples in Stereo – “Shine (In Your Mind)” (Electronic Projects for Musicians)
Wilco – “Handshake Drugs” (A Ghost is Born)
R.E.M. – “We Walk” (Murmur)
Bon Iver – “Skinny Love” (For Emma, Forever Ago)
Guided by Voices – “Hot Freaks” (Bee Thousand)
Devo - “Praying Unions” (Q: Are We Not Men? A: We are Devo!)

"And what costume shall the poor girl wear/To all tomorrow's parties"

2008-04-10T01:18:00.004-04:00

a rush of music to the head
wednesdays, 2:30-4pm
listen live: whrwfm.org

APRIL.9.2008

bold = NEW NEW NEW

Mission of Burma – “Red” (Signals, Calls, and Marches)
Low – “Monkey” (The Great Destroyer)
The Stranglers – “Golden Brown” (Feline)
The Halo Benders – “Your Asterisk” (The Rebels Not In)
The Rolling Stones – “Sing this All Together” & “Citadel” (Their Satanic Majesties Request)
Architecture in Helsinki – “Debbie” (Places Like This)
Man Man – “Mister Jung Stuffed” (Rabbit Habits)
The Feelies – “Time for a Witness” (Time for a Witness)
The Flaming Lips – “Buggin’ (Remix)” (The Soft Bulletin)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – “Today’s Lesson” (Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!)
Jens Lekman – “Maple Leaves” (Oh you’re so silent Jens)
Dogbowl – “On the Monkeybars” (Tit! An Opera)
The Kills – “Last Day of Magic” (Midnight Boom)
The Velvet Underground & Nico – “All Tomorrow’s Parties” (S/T)
Beachwood Sparks – “Ghost Dance 1492” (Make the Cowboy Robots Cry)
The New Pornographers – “The Bones of an Idol” (Twin Cinema)
The Talking Heads – “Pulled Up” (Talking Heads: ’77)
The Stone Roses – “She Bangs the Drums” (S/T)
Of Montreal – “Everything Disappears When You Are Around” (Cherry Peel)
Monc – “And the Girls Sing” (Guilty)
Half Japanese – “Day and Night” (Charmed Life)

As always, thank you for the studio calls. Best call of the day was at around 3:50pm when a child attending Thomas Jefferson Elementary School called to say she loved the show and loves the Dandy Warhols (I must play them for her next week).

Kisses,
Taryn/Talper/Tarynator

"Beat on the brat with a baseball bat"

2008-04-05T12:27:00.002-04:00

a rush of music to the head
wednesdays, 2:30-4pm
listen live: whrwfm.org

April 2, 2008

bold = NEW NEW NEW

--LISTEN NEXT WEEK FOR MORE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS TICKETS--

Adam Green – “Be My Man” (Sixes & Sevens)
Desoto Reds – “College Love” (Hanglide Thru Your Window)
Of Montreal – “Disconnect the Dots” (Satanic Panic in the Attic)
The Kills – “Last Day of Magic” (Midnight Boom)
Vue – “Pictures of Me” (Find Your Home)
Coco – “Move On” (S/T)
Sonic Youth – “Beat on the Brat” (Master=dik)
Caribou – “Bees” (The Milk of Human Kindness)
Elvis Costello – “Miracle Man” (Collection: No Sacrifice – 1970’s New Wave 7-inchers Vol. 1)
The Apples in Stereo – “Shine (In Your Mind)” (Electronic Projects for Musicians)
Belle & Sebastian – “The Wrong Girl” (Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant)
XTC – “King for a Day” (Oranges & Lemons)
Matt & Kim – “Silver Tiles” (Love and Circuits: A Cardboard Records Compilation)
CocoRosie – “Rainbowarriors” (The Adventures Of Ghosthorse and Stillborn)
The Shins – “Pressed in a Book” (Oh, Inverted World)
Cowboy – “Kneebending” (Collection: A House Full of Friends – Magic Marker Records)
Mendoza Line – “Baby I Know What You’re Thinking” (We’re All in This Alone)
The Magnetic Fields – “You and Me and the Moon” (Lost)
The New Pornographers – “The Electric Version” (The Electric Version)
The Rapture – “Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks” (Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks) (Subpop Collection)
The Red Crayola with Art & Language – “An Old Man’s Dream” (Kangaroo? LP)
Dressy Bessy – “Hey May” (S/T)

Win Tickets to See the New Pornographers!

2008-03-31T13:04:00.003-04:00

WHRW Concert Contest: The New Pornographers at the State Theatre of Ithaca

Listen to WHRW 90.5 FM on Wednesday from 2:30-4 PM for a chance to win a pair of tickets to see the New Pornographers with opening act Okkervil River at the State Theatre of Ithaca on April 13. The radio show is "A Rush of Music to the Head," hosted by Taryn Alper. A live web stream is available at http://www.whrwfm.org.

Brush up on your NP knowledge! It won't be easy.

Kisses,
Taryn

"She's a honeymooner/A June crooner/A spoon feeder/And a natural leader"

2008-03-22T19:48:00.002-04:00

a rush of music to the head
wednesdays, 2:30-4pm
listen live: whrwfm.org

bold = NEW NEW NEW

Destroyer – “Dark Leaves Form a Thread” (Trouble in Dreams)
White Hinterland – “Dreaming of the Plum Trees” (Phylactery Factory)
Blondie – “X Offender” (S/T)
The White Stripes – “I Think I Smell a Rat” (White Blood Cells)
Andrew Bird – “A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left” (Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production of Eggs)
Bob Dylan – “I Shall Be Free- No.10” (Another Side of Bob Dylan)
Mecca Normal – “I Walk Alone” (The First LP)
The Mae Shi – “Run to Your Grave” (HLLYH)
The New Pornographers – “Miss Teen Wordpower” (The Electric Version)
Deerhoof – “You Can See” & “Scream Team” (The Runners Four)
Mirah – “The Light” (C’mon Miracle)
The Cat Empire – “Two Shoes” (Two Shoes)
Roxy Music – “Re-Make-/Re-Model” (The First Roxy Music Album)
The Ruby Suns – “Adventure Tour” (Sea Lion)
Holiday – “15 Dollars”
Blanket Music – “Stand to Love” (The Love)
Pavement – “Gold Soundz” (Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain)
The Only Ones – “From Here to Eternity” (Strange Fruit)

"You will you won't/You do you don't/You're saying you will/But you know you won't "

2008-03-12T23:04:00.002-04:00

a rush of music to the head
wednesdays, 2:30-4pm
listen live: whrwfm.org

bold = NEW NEW NEW

White Hinterland – “Dreaming of the Plum Trees” (Phylactery Factory)
Ben Kweller – “I Need You Back” (On My Way)
Old Time Relijun – “Indestructible Life!” (Catharsis in Crisis)
The Jam – “In the City” (In the City)
Lush – “Ladykillers” (Lovelife)
Devotchka – “Transliterator” (A Mad and Faithful Telling)
De Novo Dahl – “Shout” (Move Every Muscle, Make Every Sound)
The Zutons – “You Will You Won’t” (Who Killed… The Zutons)
Okkervill River – “Unless It’s Kicks” (The Strange Names)
Destroyer – “Dark Leaves Form A Thread” (Trouble in Dreams)
The Boggs – “Melanie in the White Coat” (Fort)
Mixel Pixel – “Body Automatic” (Rainbow Panda)
The Ruby Suns – “Adventure Tour” (Sea Lion)
Mudhoney – “Good Enough” (Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge)
Oasis – “Rock ‘N’ Roll Star” (Definitely Maybe)
Electrelane – “The Greater Times” (No Shouts No Calls)
Olivia Tremor Control – “Courtyard” (Music from the Unrealized Film Script)
The Icicles – “Sugar Sweet” (A Hundred Patterns)
Jeremy Jay – “Airwalker” (Airwalker)
The Beatles – “Penny Lane” (Magical Mystery Tour)
The Operators – “Punch You Out” (The Light and the Dark)
New Order – “Ceremony” (Ceremony)

"I took a record of pretty music/Now I'm putting it to you straight from hell/I'll stick it deep inside/I'll stick it deep inside/Cause I'm loose"

2008-03-05T19:52:00.000-05:00

a rush of music to the head
wednesdays, 2:30-4pm
listen live: whrwfm.org

bold = NEW NEW NEW

Stephen Malkmus and the Jinks – “Dragonfly Pie” (Real Emotional Trash)
Dinosaur Jr. – “In a Jar” (You’re Living All Over Me)
The White Stripes – “You’re Pretty Good Looking” (De Stijl)
Some Velvet Sidewalk – “Loch Ness” (Avalanche)
The Essex Green – “The Late Great Cassiopeia” (The Long Goodbye)
Her Space Holiday – “Missed Medicine” (The Past Presents the Future)
Devotchka – “Transliterator” (A Mad and Faithful Telling)
The Rosebuds – “What Can I Do?” (Make Out)
The Stooges – “Loose” (Fun House)
Jonathan Richman – “Vincent Van Gogh” (Not So Much to Be Loved as to Love)
The Smiths – “Stop Me If You Think That You’ve Heard This One Before” (S/T)
Beat Happening – “Sea Babies” (Music to Climb the Apple Tree By)
The Raveonettes – “Dead Sound” (Lust, Lust, Lust)
The Velvet Underground – “I Heard Her Call My Name” (White Light/White Heat)
The Blackouts – “Happy Hunting Ground” (History in Reverse)
Wire – “The 15th” (154)
Modest Mouse – “Styrofoam Boots/It’s All Nice on Ice, Alright” (The Lonesome Crowded West)
Beach House – “Wedding Bell” (Devotion)
The Vaselines – “Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam” (The Way of the Vaselines)
Guided by Voices – “I am a Scientist” (Bee Thousand)
Ladybug Transistor – “The Places You’ll Call Home” (S/T – 4th album)
Camera Obscura – “San Francisco Song” (Old Enough 2 Know Better: 15 Years of Merge Records)

a rush of music to the head, 2/27/08

2008-02-29T12:30:00.000-05:00

every wednesday, 2:30-4pm
stream live: whrwfm.org
request line: (607) 777-2137

bold = NEW

Electrelane – “Cut and Run” (No Shouts No Calls)
Los Campesinos – “You! Me! Dancing!” (Sticking Fingers Into Sockets)
Sloan – “I am the Cancer” (Smeared)
Devotchka – “Transliterator” (A Mad and Faithful Telling)
Erase Errata – “Ca. Viewing” (S/T)
The Fiery Furnaces – “Straight Street” (Blueberry Boat)
Beach House – “Some Things Last a Long Time” (Devotion)
The Talking Heads – “Found a Job” (More Songs About Buildings and Food)
Hot Chip – “Over and Over” (The Warning)
The Raveonettes – “Dead Sound” (Lust Lust Lust)
Make Up – “Save Yourself” (Save Yourself)
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down – “Bag of Hammers” (We Brave Bee Sting and All)
Bob Dylan – “My Back Pages” (Another Side of Bob Dylan)
Ed Askew – “Little Eyes” (Little Eyes)
Beck – “The Golden Age” (Sea Change)
The Magnetic Fields – “Too Drunk to Dream” (Distortion)
The Kills – “Cheap and Cheerful” (Midnight Boom)
The Futureheads – “Decent Days and Nights” (S/T)
The Dirty Projectors – “Winter is Here” (The Glad Fact)
Dirty on Purpose – “No Radio” (Hallelujah Sirens)

a rush of music to the head, 2/20/08

2008-02-20T20:26:00.000-05:00

Stars – “My Favourite Book” & “Midnight Coward” (In Our Bedroom After the War)

The Slits – “Instant Hit” (S/T)

The Beach Boys – “Feel Flows” (Surf’s Up)

Xiu Xiu – “No Friend Oh!” (Women as Lovers)

Jandek – “Babe I Love You” (Lost Cause)

The Kills – “At the Back of the Shell” (No Wow)

Air – “Playground Love” (Virgin Suicides Soundtrack)

The Magnetic Fields – “Three-way” (Distortion)

Yo La Tengo – “Cherry Chapstick” (And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out)

Elvis Costello – “(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes” (My Aim is True)

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – “Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone?” (Hearts of Oak)

The Raveonettes – “Dead Sand” (Lust Lust Lust)

Broadcast – “Black Cat” (Tender Buttons)

Some Velvet Sidewalk – “Sidewalkin’” & “Crayons” (Appetite for Extinction)

Thao with the Get Down Stay Down – “Hammer” (We Brave Bee Sting and All)

Bat for Lashes – “What’s a Girl to Do?” (Fur and Gold)

The Smiths – “This Charming Man” (S/T)

Spoon – “The Way We Get By” (Kill the Moonlight)

Electrelane – “Cut and Run” (No Shuts No Calls)

Sneetches – “Over ‘round Each Other” (Slow)

Blonde Redhead – “SW” (23)

same time next week. 2:30-4pm. stream live: whrwfm.org

A Rush of Music to the Head, 2/13/08

2008-02-18T13:02:00.000-05:00

a rush of music to the head
wednesday, 2/13/08, 2:30-4pm

Xiu Xiu – “I Do What I Want, When I Want” (Women as Lovers)
Beck – “Think I’m in Love” (The Information)
The Jazz Butcher – “Party time” (Bloody Nonsense)
Okkervill River – “Black” (Black Sheep Boy)
Bob Dylan – “Lay Lady Lay” (Nashville Skyline)
Apples in Stereo – “Seems So” (Tone Soul Evolution)
Cat Power – “Metal Heart” (Jukebox)
Raveonettes – “Expelled from Love” (Lust Lust Lust)
Human Switchboard – “I Can Walk Alone” (Who’s Landing in my Hangar?)
Fiona Apple – “Not About Love” (Extraordinary Machine)
The Beatles – “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?” (White Album)
The Magnetic Fields – “I Think I Need a New Heart” and “The Book of Love” (69 Love Songs)
Heatmiser – “See You Later” (Mic City Songs)
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down – “Beat (Health, Life, and Fire)” (We Brave Bee Sting and All)
The Coral – “Dreaming of You” (S/T)
The Pastels – “Holy Moly” (Sittin’ Pretty)
Derek and the Dominos – “Why Does Love Got to be So Sad?” (Layla)
The Velvet Underground – “I’m Sticking With You” (Juno Soundtrack)
Antony & the Johnsons – “Fistful of Love” (I Am a Bird Now)
Dead Meadow – “Between Me and the Ground” (Old Growth)
Arthur & Yu – “Lion’s Mouth” (In Camera)
Stevie Wonder – “I Was Made to Love Her” & “I’m Wondering”

send me requests. make 'em good.

A Rush of Music to the Head, 2/6/08

2008-02-07T00:25:00.000-05:00

Wednesday, 4-7pm

Cat Power – “Metal Heart” (Jukebox)
The Chills – “Look for the Good in Others and They’ll See Good in You” (Brave Words)
Ral Partha – “Messy Artist” (S/T)
Plastic Bertrand – “Ca Plane Pour Moi” (Ca Plane Pour Moi)
Shout Out Louds – “Tonight I Have to Leave It” (Our Ill Wills)
The Poets – “Wooden Spoon” (Collection: Adventures in the Mist)
The Feelies – “On The Roof” & “The High Road” (The Good Earth)
Xiu Xiu – “You Are Pregnant You, You Are Dead” (Women as Lovers)
The Raincoats – “Lola” (S/T)
Solex – “That’s What You Get with People Like that on Cruises Like These” (Pickup)
Arcade Fire – “Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)” & “Neighborhood #2 (Laika)” (Funeral)
Kelley Stoltz – “Birmingham Eccentric” (Circular Sounds)
Curtis Mayfield – “Move On Up” (Curtis)
Jens Lekman – “The Opposite of Hallelujah” & “A Postcard to Nina” (Night Falls Over Kortedala)
Patric Wolf – “Wolf Song” (Lycanthropy)
Stars – “The Night Starts Here” (In Our Bedroom After the War)
Sugar Man Three – “Take It As It Come” (Pure Sugar Cane)
Oneida – “Treasure Plane” (Secret Wars)
Sunset Rubdown – “For the Pier (And Dead Shimmering)” (Random Spirit Lover)
The Beatles – “For You Blue” (Let It Be)
The Doors – “Take It As It Comes” (S/T)
Unrest – “June” (B.P.M. [1991-1995])
The Kinks – “A Well-Respected Man” (Juno Soundtrack)
Zoomer – “Hey Now” (Songs for the Uninvited)
Love Child – “Sofa,” "Start to Smike" & "Diane" (Okay?)
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down – “Beat (Health, Life, and Fire” (We Brave Bee Stings and All)
Lora Logic – “Wonderful Offer” (Wonderful Offer)
Kate Nash – “Foundations” (Made of Bricks)
Mirah – “I Am The Sun” (Advisory Committee)
Bob Dylan – “Gates of Eden” (Bringing It All Back Home)
Violent Femmes – “Please Do Not Go” (S/T)
The Wedding Present – “Love Machine” (Mini – EP)
The Vaselines – “Son of a Gun” (A Complete History)
Leon Russell – “Beware of Darkness” (Leon Russell and the Shelter People)
Serge Gainsbourg – “Mambo Miam Miam”(Comic Strip)
The Strokes – “Take It or Leave It” (Is This It?)
The Tom Tom Club – “Genius of Love” (S/T)
The Fall – “C.R.E.E.P.” (Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall)

A Rush of Music to the Head, 1/30/08

2008-01-30T21:35:00.000-05:00

“A Rush of Music to the Head” (1/30/08)

The Black Lips – “Cold Hands” (Good Bad Not Evil)
The Modern Lovers – “Roadrunner” (S/T)
Belle & Sebastian – “Legal Man” (Single)
Kate Nash – “Pumpkin Soup” (Made of Bricks)
Janis Joplin – “Ball & Chain” (Cheap Thrills)
The Sneetches – “Only for a Moment” (S/T)
The Raveonettes – “Love in a Trash Can” (Pretty in Black)
The DB’s – “Black and White” (Stands for deciBels)
Vampire Weekend – “Mansard Roof” (S/T)
The Moldy Peaches – “Anyone Else But You” (S/T)
Pulp – “Common People” (Different Class)
Beat Happening – “Bewitched” (Jamboree)
Cat Heads – “Apologize” (Knocking from Ocean to Ocean)
Ugly Cassanova – “Barnacles” (Sharpen Your Teeth)
The New Buffalo – “Cheer Me Up Thank You” (Somewhere, anywhere)
Fiery Furnaces – “Waiting to Know You” (Bitter Tea)
The Mamas & The Papas – “Gemini Childe”
The Beatles – “You’re Gonna Lose That Girl” (Help!)
Leonard Cohen – “Famous Blue Raincoat” (Songs of Love and Hate)
Animal Collective – “For Reverend Green” (Strawberry Jam)
Super Furry Animals – “Receptacle for the Respectable” (Rings Around the World)
Laura Veirs – “Galaxies” (Year of Meteors)
Andrew Bird – “Plasticities” & “Heretics” (Armchair Apocrypha)
Television – “Marquee Moon” (Marquee Moon)
The Velvet Underground – “Oh, Sweet Nothing” (Loaded)
Tom Tom Club – “Wordy Rappinghood” (S/T)
Of Montreal – “Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse” (Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?)
The New Pornographers – “All the Old Showstoppers” (Challengers)
Joe Cocker – “The Letter” (Mad Dogs & Englishmen)
Caribou – “Melody Day” (

Andorra

)
Les Savy Fav – “Brace Yourself” (Let’s Stay Friends)
Always August – “Freedom Flight” (Black Pyramid)
Spoon – “Don’t You Evah” (Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga)
Dean & Britta – “You Turned My Head Around” (Back Numbers)

A Rush of 2007

2007-12-12T11:57:00.000-05:00

A Rush of 2007 – Top 40 Songs – Wednesday, December 12, 2007

40. Saturday Looks Good to Me – “Make a Plan” (Fill Up the Room)

39. The Bird & The Bee – “Again & Again” (The Bird And The Bee)

38. Orion Rigel Dommisse – “Alice and Sarah” (What I Want From You Is Sweet)

37. Arctic Monkeys – “Fluorescent Adolescent” (Favourite Worst Nightmare)

36. The Hold Steady – “Chips Ahoy!” (Boys and Girls in America)

35. Rilo Kiley – “Silver Lining” (Under the Blacklight)

34. Bright Eyes – “Four Winds” (Cassadega)

33. The Boggs – “Melanie in the White Coat” (Forts)

32. Of Montreal – “Suffer for Fashion” (Hissing Fauana, Are You the Destroyer?)

31. Laura Veirs – “Pink Light” (Saltbreakers)

30. Spoon – “You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb” (Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga)

29. The White Stripes – “You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Just Do As Your Told)” (Icky Thump)

28. Architecture in Helsinki – “Debbie” (Places Like This)

27. Bruce Springsteen – “Girls in Their Summer Clothes” (Magic)

26. Iron & Wine with Calexico – “Dark Eyes” (I’m Not There)

25. Devendra Banhart – “Lover” (Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon)

24. Jarvis Cocker – “Don’t Let Him Waste Your Time” (Jarvis)

23. Panda Bear – “Comfy in Nautica” (Person Pitch)

22. The Go! Team – “Grip Like a Vice” (Proof of Youth)

21. The Shins – “Australia” (Wincing the Night Away)

20. Bat for Lashes – “What’s a Girl to Do?” (Fur and Gold)

19. Jose Gonzalez – “How Low” (In Our Nature)

18. The Cave Singers – “Dancing on Our Graves” (Invitation Song)

17. Feist – “1 2 3 4” (The Reminder)

16. Wilco – “Impossible Germany” (Sky Blue Sky)

15. Deerhoof – “The Perfect Me” (Friend Opportunity)

14. Elliott Smith – “Angel in the Snow” (New Moon)

13. The Besnard Lakes – “Disaster” (The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse)

12. Arcade Fire – “Keep the Car Running” (Neon Bible)

11. Mark Ronson feat. Amy Winehouse – “Valerie” (Version)

10. Jens Lekman – “Opposite of Hallelujah” (Night Falls Over Kortedala)

9. Caribou – “Melody Day” (Andora)

8. Animal Collective – “Peacebone” (Strawberry Jam)

7. Les Savy Fav – “Brace Yourself” (Let’s Stay Friends)

6. The New Pornographers – “Go Places” (Challengers)

5. Arcade Fire – “Intervention” (Neon Bible)

4. Radiohead – “House of Cards” (In Rainbows)

3. Andrew Bird – “Plasticities” (Armchair Apocrypha)

2. Ed Askew – “Little Eyes” (Little Eyes)

1. Sunset Rubdown – “For the Pier (And Dead Shimmering)” (Random Spirit Lover)

A Rush of 2007

2007-12-10T12:09:00.001-05:00

This Wednesday, I will be on the air from 1-4 PM playing my "Rush of 2007" list: the best concoction of rock, folk, and independent music on WHRW 90.5 FM. Listen live at whrw.org. The list will be posted ASAP.

December 5, 2007

2007-12-10T11:57:00.000-05:00

Radio / Wednesday, December 5, 2007 / 10-11:30 AM
Request #: 607-777-2137
Web site: whrw.org

Mates of State – “Fluke” (Team Boo)
Dressy Bessy – “You Stand Here” (Pink Hearts)
Tom Vek – “I Ain’t Saying My Goodbyes” (We Have Sound)
PJ Harvey – “Broken Harp” (White Chalk)
Traffic – “Heaven is in Your Mind” (Mr. Fantasy)
Rachael Yamagata – “Worn Me Down” (Happenstance)
Grateful Dead – “Ripple” (American Beauty) (Request)
Built to Spill – “Liar” (You in Reverse)
Jeremy Jay – “Airwalker” (Airwalker)
Tom Jones & The Cardigans – “Burning Down the House”
Cat Power – “He War” (Free)
Yo La Tengo – “Fourth Time Around” (I’m Not There Soundtrack)
Jarvis Cocker – “Black Magic” (Jarvis)
The Ladybug Transistor – “Meadowport Arch” (The Albemarle Sound)
Les Savy Fav – “Brace Yourself” (Let’s Stay Friends)
Buffalo Springfield – “Questions” (Last Time Around)
Terrordactyls – “Devices” (S/T)
Elvis Costello – “Less Than Zero” (My Aim is True)
Sleeper – “Stop Your Crying” (The It Girl)
Holiday – “Happy if you Knew It” (Café Reggio)
The Rolling Stones – “Mother’s Little Helper” (Flowers)
The Beatles – “Rain” (Hey Jude)
The Mighty Lemon Drops – “My Biggest Thing” (The Brit Box:

U.K.

Indie, Shoegaze, and Brit Pop Gems of the Last Millennium – from Rhino Records)