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CHIRP Playlist: Friday, January 27, 2012

Sarah — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:20:48 +0000

Hear my delightful music selections every Friday night on Chicago’s own CHIRP Radio, from 8 – 10 pm Central time. It’s awesome.

9:55 PM Jakob Olausson Keep the Sky from Falling from Morning & Sunrise (De Stijl)
9:51 PM The Dresden Dolls Ultima Esperanza from No, Virginia (Roadrunner)
9:47 PM Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse Grim Augury from Dark Night Of The Soul (EMI)
9:44 PM John K. Samson Highway 1 West from Provincial (Anti/Epitaph)
9:38 PM Anson Krekeler Orange Coastline from Orange Coastline (self-released)
9:33 PM Abalone Dots Over Georgia from Traveler (RCA)
9:29 PM Joe Pug Nation of Heat from Nation of Heat EP (self-released)
9:25 PM Cloudbirds Soak’d from Cloudbirds (Movings)
9:21 PM The Decemberists Rox In The Box from The King Is Dead (Capitol)
9:17 PM Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings How Long Do I Have to Wait for You from The World of Daptone Records (Daptone)
9:13 PM Blanche Garbage Picker from If We Can’t Trust the Doctors (V2)
9:09 PM Puerto Muerto Drumming For Pistols from Drumming For Pistols (Fire)
9:06 PM Laura Gibson La Grande from La Grande (Barsuk)
9:02 PM Martha Wainwright When The Day Is Short from Martha Wainwright (Zoe)
8:58 PM Paper Route Tearing The House Down from Paper Route EP (Drama Club)
8:55 PM Nada Surf Waiting for Something from The Stars are Indifferent to Astronomy (Barsuk)
8:50 PM Tortoise & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy Daniel (Elton John) from The Brave and the Bold (Overcoat)
8:44 PM Gemma Hayes Horses from The Roads Don’t Love You (Source UK)
8:41 PM Over the Rhine I’m on a Roll from The Trumpet Child (Great Speckled Dog)
8:37 PM First Aid Kit Emmylou from The Lion’s Roar (Wichita)
8:33 PM Mutts Blind Truth from Pray for Rain (8eat8)
8:30 PM Neil Young Only Love Can Break Your Heart from After The Goldrush (Reprise)
8:27 PM Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah Lake Shore Drive from Lake Shore Drive (Quicksilver)
8:22 PM New Buffalo On Sunday from The Last Beautiful Day (Arts & Crafts)
8:18 PM Nerissa & Katryna Nields Haven’t I Been Good from This Town is Wrong (Zoe)
8:15 PM Sandro Perri Impossible Spaces from Impossible Spaces (Constellation)
8:10 PM Lonely Drifter Karen Ready to Fall from Fall of Spring (Crammed Discs)
8:07 PM Kathleen Edwards Sidecar from Voyageur (MapleMusic)
8:03 PM Cate Le Bon Puts Me to Work from Cyrk (The Control Group)
8:01 PM Hannah Georgas Chit Chat from This Is Good (Hidden Pony)

CHIRP Playlist: Saturday, October 1, 2011

Sarah — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 16:23:58 +0000

Thanks to everyone who tuned in to my inaugural (internet) radio adventure on CHIRP Radio. If you’re interested to know what kind of music I play whenever I get three hours behind the controls of Chicago’s best radio station, then read on. I’ll be back on the air on Saturday, October 8th, from 9 am to noon, Central time.

8:56 PM Neil Young Southern Man from After The Goldrush (Reprise)
8:52 PM Jessica Lea Mayfield Blue Skies Again from Tell Me (Nonesuch)
8:51 PM The Jayhawks She Walks in So Many Ways from Mockingbird Time (Rounder)
8:47 PM Tinariwen Tamiditin Tan Ufrawan from Tassili (ANTI-)
8:44 PM Martha Wainwright Jesus and Mary from I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too (Zoe)
8:40 PM Serengeti Flutes from Family & Friends (Anticon)
8:33 PM Andrew Bird Not A Robot, But A Ghost from Noble Beast (Fat Possum)
8:29 PM Brandi Carlile Looking Out from Live at Benaroya Hall with the Seattle Symphony (Columbia)
8:25 PM Milagres Halfway from Glowing Mouth (Kill Rock Stars)
8:20 PM The Bowmans Make It Last from Far From Home (self-released)
8:17 PM Wilco Black Moon from The Whole Love (dBpm)
8:14 PM Justin Townes Earle Poor Fool from Midnight At The Movies (Bloodshot)
8:08 PM Allá Es Tiempo from Es Tiempo (Crammed)
8:04 PM Vienna Teng 1BR/1BA from Dreaming Through the Noise (Zoe)
7:59 PM Active Child Johnny Belinda from You Are All I See (Vagrant)
7:54 PM Gotye Somebody That I Used to Know from Making Mirrors (Ais)
7:52 PM Buffalo Rome Plant White Roses from Obscurities (Merge)
7:45 PM Ohbijou Balikbayan from Metal Meets (Last Gang)
7:41 PM The Avett Brothers The Weight of Lies from Emotionalism (Ramseur Records)
7:37 PM Low Majesty / Magic from C’mon (Sub Pop)
7:33 PM White Mystery Take a Walk from White Mystery (self-released)
7:28 PM Okkervil River Your Past Life as a Blast from I Am Very Far (Jagjaguwar)
7:25 PM Peter Wolf Crier Beach from Garden of Arms (Jagjaguwar)
7:20 PM Booker T. Jones Representing Memphis (featuring Matt Berninger and Sharon Jones) from The Road from Memphis (ANTI-)
7:15 PM Teddy Thompson Separate Ways from Separate Ways (Verve)
7:07 PM Braid Universe or Worse from Closer to Closed EP (Polyvinyl)
7:04 PM St. Vincent Northern Lights from Strange Mercy (4AD)
7:01 PM Anais Mitchell Hades & Persephone from The Brightness (Righteous Babe)
6:57 PM Dessa Into the Spin from A Badly Broken Code (Doomtree)
6:53 PM The Grey Race On the Chin from Give It Love (Unfiltered)
6:51 PM Tom Vek World of Doubt from Leisure Seizure (Co-op)
6:45 PM Nico The Fairest of the Seasons from Chelsea Girl (Polygram)
6:42 PM Laura Marling Rest in the Bed from A Creature I Don’t Know (Ribbon)
6:39 PM Jeff Pianki Missing Parts from Paper Window. (self-released)
6:35 PM Alpha Consumer The Crown Salesman from Kick Drugs out of America (self-released)
6:30 PM A.A. Bondy Surfer King from Believers (Fat Possum)
6:25 PM Dusty Bibles Wintersong from Sinus Rhythm EP (self-released)
6:20 PM April Smith and the Great Picture Show Drop Dead Gorgeous from Songs for a Sinking Ship (self-released)
6:17 PM Beirut Goshen from The Rip Tide (Pompeii)
6:14 PM Neko Case Runnin’ Out of Fools from Blacklisted (Bloodshot)
6:09 PM The Mountain Goats Psalms 40:2 from Life Of The World To Come (4AD)
6:03 PM Girls Just a Song from Father, Son, Holy Ghost (True Panther Sounds)
5:59 PM Ha Ha Tonka Usual Suspects from Death of a Decade (Bloodshot)

This Week in Great Music: 8/9 – 8/15

Sarah — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:43:39 +0000

After three days of Lollapalooza, I kind of don’t want to think about music right now. Fortunately for those of us who are sort of burnt out at the moment, there’s not a lot going on. I’ll be at the Rufus Wainwright show on Friday. I’m not in love with his new album, but as a Rufus (and Martha) fangirl, I’ll go to the concert all the same. Maybe I will love the new songs more, seeing them live.

Monday, August 9
Neon Trees; Hard Rock Cafe. 6 pm, free
Victoire; Millennium Park. 6:30 pm, free
Robbie Fulks; Hideout. 7 pm, $10 suggested donation

Tuesday, August 10
Tony Lucca and Ernie Halter; SPACE. 8 pm, $12-20
The Cliks; Schubas. 8 pm, $8-10

Wednesday, August 11
Meh.

Thursday, August 12
Jeremy Messersmith, Judson Claiborne, Conrad Plymouth; Schubas. 9 pm, $8

Friday, August 13
Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright; Bank of America Theatre. 8 pm, $48.50-58.50

Saturday, August 14
Jeffrey David; Navy Pier Beer Garden. 5 pm, free
How Far to Austin; Cubby Bear Wrigleyville. 8:30 pm, $7
Katie Herzig, Andrew Belle; Schubas. 9 pm, $12-15

Sunday, August 15
Meh.

June in Review

Sarah — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:25:34 +0000

Look what’s up in a timely fashion, my friends. I did a lot of non-blog related writing this past month, and almost all of it was completed to a soundtrack consisting of Mumford & Sons, Peter Wolf Crier, and Joe Pug. But there was other stuff, too. Check it out.

News & Links – January 20

Sarah — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:39:34 +0000

OK Go might have gotten their big break with their imaginative, and yet incredibly simple, video for “Here We Go Again”, which, when it came out, was pretty much posted on every website ever. Things have changed now, however, with EMI disabling embedding of their new music video for “This Too Shall Pass”. Damien from the band writes a pretty comprehensive explanation about why the label has chosen to do this. In short, it’s all about money. To oversimplify, embedding the Youtube video means that EMI can’t monetize the content on someone else’s blog or website or what have you, and the label certainly doesn’t want to lose out on the few pennies they get from Youtube. So no embedding means that you’ve got to go to Youtube to see the video, as well as whatever ads are chucked up alongside it. The internet is all about monetizing things these days.

Several sites and blogs are remembering Kate McGarrigle with some truly beautiful tributes. Carl Wilson writes a beautiful piece, as understated and simple as the music that Kate was known for. Neda Ulaby and Noah Adams from NPR share their memories of Kate. A recording of Kate and Anna McGarrigle performing along with Rufus Wainwright at a tribute to Emmylou Harris is available on NPR’s site. The Cover Lay Down blog shares several songs by Kate and her family, as well as other artists covering “Heart Like a Wheel”, by Kate and Anna McGarrigle.

Music For Relief, a nonprofit organized by members of Linkin Park in the aftermath of the 2005 tsunami, is offering a compilation of unreleased music from artist such as Peter Gabriel, Alanis Morissette, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dave Matthews Band in exchange for donations to the relief efforts in Haiti. Paste Magazine is doing something similar, offering access to 250+ songs, many of which are otherwise unreleased. Are you aware of any other artist giveaways or fundraising efforts? Drop links in the comments if you’ve got something of interest.

Martha Wainwright hasn’t let the recent birth of her son (Arcangelo, 10 weeks premature) stop her. The Telegraph reviews a recent show, where she was joined on a few songs by her father, Loudon Wainwright III.

Owen Pallett gives a track-by-track guide to Heartland to Drowned in Sound.

Coachella has announced its 2010 headliners: Jay-Z, Muse, and Gorillaz. Other artists appearing include Pavement, Phoenix, Them Crooked Vultures, Grizzly Bear, the Avett Brothers, La Roux, Vampire Weekend, the xx, Camera Obscura, Old Crow Medicine Show, Florence and the Machine, Miike Snow, Owen Pallett, Girls, Ra Ra Riot, Hockey, Kate Miller-Heidke, and pretty much every band that has ever existed.

New Zealand’s Under the Radar interviews Neko Case, who talks about the origins of her music, her work with the New Pornographers, songwriting, and why there are thirty minutes of frogs and crickets at the end of Middle Cyclone.

The 2010 edition of Starbucks’ Sweetheart series is out now, and say what you will about Starbucks, but they definitely promote great music. Artists included on this year’s compilation include Jose Gonzalez, Spoon, Elvis Perkins, Diane Birch, and the Avett Brothers. (Incidentally, I noticed the other day when I was in a Starbucks that while they sell I and Love and You in the store, they’ve changed the album cover to be headshots of the band rather than the less-yuppie-consumer-friendly painting of the woman with the skull.)

Upcoming Release: Martha Wainwright’s Edith Piaf Record

Sarah — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:46:40 +0000

In 2007, Rufus Wainwright released his homage to Judy Garland, so now it’s only fair that sister Martha releases her own tribute album to another iconic figure in music history, Edith Piaf. Just as Rufus’ penchant for flair and flamboyance made him a natural to recreate Garland’s Carnegie Hall concert, Martha’s emotive style makes her a perfect match to interpret Piaf’s songs.

Wainwright is set to release a new album, Sans Fusils, Ni Souliers, A Paris: Martha Wainwright’s Piaf Recordon November 9th in Europe, featuring her own interpretations of Edith Piaf songs, such as “Adieu Mon Coeur”, “Vieux Piano”, “Une Enfant”, and “Le Foule”. You won’t find “La Vie En Rose” here, though, as Wainwright has stuck to covering more rare pieces from the French singer. The album was recorded over three performances in New York in June, and will be recreated in a special one-time performance on November 11th at the Barbican.

There’s no word yet on a release date for anywhere outside of Europe, at least not that I have been able to locate. I’m crossing my fingers that it will see a US release, mostly because I’m so tired of paying ridiculous amounts of money to import things.