You Know What's Big in Europe?

The music from this week. No kiddin. Most of the kids are Brits, but we've got some Colombians and some Swedes in there, even some Americans who could never rock the States like they could rock a kingdom. What's that? We missed your favorite obscure Italian pop duo? No problem, this Ode is comin' back soon, WITH A VENGEANCE.

1. Lily Allen - Everyone's At it
2. Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You
3. La Roux - Bulletproof
4. Florence and the Machine - Kiss with a Fist
5. Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent
6. Mark Ronson (feat. Kasabian) - LSF
7. Kate Nash - Pumpkin Soup
8. Lykke Li - Dance Dance Dance
9. El Perro del Mar - Change of Heart
10. Bombay Bicycle Club - Always Like This
11. Juanes - Volverte a Ver
12. Mumford and Sons - White Blank Page
13. Peter Bjorn and John - I Want You!
14. Allo Darlin - Henry Rollins Don't Dance
15. Housemartins - Happy Hour Again
16. Ash - A Life Less Ordinary
17. Jesus and Mary Chain - April Skies
18. Kenickie - Punka
19. Kinesis - Billboard Beauty
20. Liam Finn - Second Chance
21. Little Hell - Use Your Brain
22. Los Campesinos! - Sweet Dreams, Sweet Cheeks
23. The Libertines - Can't Stand me Now
24. Phoenix Foundation - Damn the River
25. Florence and the Machine - Halo (Beyonce cover)
26. We Are Scientists - This Scene is Dead
27. The Pipettes - Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me
28. The Pixies - Allison
29. Manic Street Preachers - Revol

WITHIN SOME DAYS:
A Contra review.
WITHIN A WEEK:
An Ode to Time.
WITHIN OUR LIFETIME:
Hamsters with an expiration date longer than milk.

Until then,
This is Kendra and Ali
[Signing Off]

[It's also Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos]

[ampersands are, evidently, impossible].

[Until Thursday, when we actually have a show]

This has been Kendra,
-K
Wasting Time

An addendum

I would like to note a correction to last week's show. The preposterously long title to of Montreal's little known hit 'Dustin Hoffman's Wife Makes A Sarcastic Remark, Cuts The Head Off A Duck, Places It Where The Tub Was And Begins To Growl' was written down incorrectly on the part of yours truly. Too many words for my wee little noodle to grasp, methinks.

Anywho, to make up for it, here's a really, really good song.
In the coming week, expect more errors, more music, and above all, more of this stuff:


Images we love, blatantly stolen from websites funnier than ours.

Until then,
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
K
[Toothpaste for Dinner did that one.]

Florence and the Machine - Halo (Beyonce Cover)

Lions! And Tigers!

1/21/10

...and Andrew Bird's and Fleet Foxes and 'Dustin Hoffmans Wife Makes a Sarcastic Remark Bites the Head off a Duck Places it Where the Tub was and Barks'...oh my? Yes this week we focused on the natural world, playing our favorite songs about animals, or sung by bands with animalistic names. Plus we meowed and quacked in the studio, no big deal. Roar.

1. Anonanimal – Andrew Bird
2. Sealion – Feist
3. Red Rabbits – The Shins
4. Caterpillar Playground – The Nurses
5. Rear Moth – Psapp
6. Animal – Miike Snow
7. Two Weeks – Grizzly Bear
8. The Great Defector – Bell x1
9. Time is a Lion – Joe Henry
10. She Wolf – Shakira
11. Two Birds – Regina Spektor
12. Mykonos – Fleet Foxes
13. The Crane Wife 3 – The Decemberists
14. Sic of Elephants – Andrew Bird
15. Anniemal – Annie
16. Dustin Hoffmans Wife Makes a Sarcastic Remark Bites the Head off a Duck Places it Where the Tub was and Barks - Of Montreal
17. Ponyride – Bumblebeez 81
18. Hounds of Love – The Futureheads
19. Fur Coat Roaming Like Animals – Jonezetta
20. Lizze’s Lion – Mystery Jets
21. Ser Humano – Natalia y La Forquetina
22. Paper Kitten Nightmare – Margot and the Nuclear So So’s
23. Cardinal Rules – Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
24. Rama Lama – Sons and Daughters
25. Slow Crows Over – These United States
26. Wolf Like Me – TV On the Radio
27. I Fought Piranhas – White Stripes
28. The Rat – The Walkmen
29. Send Away the Tigers – Manic Street Preachers

Ode to Pretension

1/14/10

First show! And what a great way to start off the semester with our favorite hipster virtue: pretension. Here are songs we love, but are "holier than thou" in some way or another…whether it is the title, the group, or even the way the artist sounds while singing. Note: we also threw in some extremely unpretentious songs, too, just to feel a little bit better about ourselves.

1. Charmless Man- Blur
2. So Bored – Wavves
3. Bad Education - Tilly and the Wall
4. Kiss of Life – Friendly Fires
5. Staplegun – Ladyfuzz (Moment in A Capella - RIP segment)
6. The Penalty – Beirut
7. The Crook of My Good Arm – Pale Young Gentlemen
8. Peacebone – Animal Collective
9. Damn Sam I Love a Woman – Ryan Adams
10. Lord – Langhorne Slim
11. About Love – Timothy Seth Avett as Darling
12. White Sky - Vampire Weekend
13. Maybe Someday – The Ordinary Boys
14. You, Me, and the Bourgeoisie – The Submarines
15. Kings of the Wild Frontier – Adam and the Ants
16. Pretty Green – Mark Ronson (Feat. Santogold)
17. I’m Good I’m Gone – Lykke Li
18. Homecoming – Kanye West (Feat. Chris Martin)
19. When the Day Met the Night – Panic at the Disco
20. The Underdog – Spoon
21. Momma’s Boy – Elizabeth and the Catapult
22. That’s Not My Name – The Ting Tings
23. To Kingdom Come – Passion Pit
24. The Angels Hung Around – Rilo Kiley (Music About Musicians - RIP segment)
25. Small Planet – Ferraby Lionheart
26. Dearest – Buddy Holly
27. By and By – Brett Dennen