Caught on the In Between Playlist 11-03-09

"Spend the night in my arms" -- Deer Tick

A week before Halloween, Melinda, Mike Carney (Emcee MC), and I went and saw the new Deer Tick documentary "To The City of Sin" at Palace 9 Theatre in Burlington. It was part of the Vermont International Film Festival and was a documentary put together by a student at Burlington College. A music documentary will either make me like a band a lot more or a lot less. Kind of like seeing them live. Either they pull me in more or push me away. This documentary definitely pulled me in more. I've listened to Deer Tick for the last 6 months or so and have really liked them, but sometimes I get over the singer's voice and have trouble understanding where they're coming from. This doc really helped me to like them more. Actually, a lot more. So I started off tonight's show with a set by them.

I've also really been into AA Bondy lately. He was in the band Verbena who were OK in my book, but his solo stuff is excellent. He's homies with the Felice Brothers, so that seals the deal for me as I love those guys. The 2 songs I played tonight are off of his 1st solo album. I have 2 songs off of his newest album, When The Devil's Loose, and I can't wait to get the rest of it.

1. Surfin' Elephant - Craig Cohill - The Ultimate Surfin' Hits
2. Sorry You're Sick - Ted Hawkins - Watch Your Step
3. The Whole Damn Thing - Those Darlins - Those Darlins
4. Furr - Blitzen Trapper - Furr
5. Spend The Night - Deer Tick - War Elephant
6. Song About A Man - Deer Tick - Born on Flag Day
7. The Ghost - Deer Tick - Born on Flag Day
8. Alaska - Dr. Dog - We All Belong
9. Ask Isaac Asimov - Spanish Prisoners - Los Angeles Guitar Dream
10. in the aeroplane over the sea -Matt Pond PA - What Has Been
11. There's A Reason - AA Bondy - American Hearts
12. Vice Rag - AA Bondy - American Hearts
13. Which Side Are You On? - Billy Bragg - Peel Sessions
14. Riding the Rods - Murry Hammond - I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm On My Way
15. Come Out With Me Tonight - Cordero - Somos Cordero

Caught on the In Between Playlist 10-20-09

At the gym the other day, I saw this picture from the new movie The Road. It's based on the book by Cormac McCarthy that I tried to read but I never was able to get into. As I write this, I'm getting motivated to read it so I'm going to pick it up again either tonight or tomorrow morning over coffee. The General Manager of the company I work for has tried a couple times to get me to read inspirational business books but they just never interest me. They seem so dry. They talk about business situations and life situations and how you should act in them, but I've always felt that I want to learn that stuff on my own. Experience it myself and decide on my own how I think I should act in those situations based on what happens in my life, rather than a book. Anyway, he just gave me the book Blink and I've heard good things about it and I've tried to read it, but I just can't. It's a lot like the Psych books I read in college. So I think I'll give up on it and pick up The Road. Those are the types of books I'm interested in. I've read a couple other Cormac McCarthy books--No Country For Old Men, All The Pretty Little Horses, I attempted The Crossing but didn't YET finish it, and I think that's it. I'm ready for The Road. And a lot of it has to do with wanting to read it before seeing the movie that comes out in a couple weeks (no way I'm going to finish by then b/c it takes me forever to finish books).

The picture I saw in the gym was a screen shot of the movie and it looked so bleak and cold and intense and it reminded me of some music that I liked. It mainly made me think of The Drones out of Australia. Then I started thinking about the Nick Cave scored movie The Proposition. And with the weather getting colder and the leaves falling off of the trees, it made me want to listen to that type of music. And in doing so, I started to put together a soundtrack for the movie and book that I've never read all based on a picture I saw in a magazine. I know the gist of the book/movie from reading a portion of it and reading about it, so based on that, I was inspired to put together what I thought would be a great soundtrack for the movie.

1. Sliding In - The Marauders - The Ultimate 60's Surf Rock
2. Nail It Down - The Drones - Havilah
3. Oh My - The Drones - Havilah
4. This Time - The Drones - Wait Long By The River and The Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By
5. Bury Your Burden - Oakley Hall - Gypsum Strings
6. The Wolves - Fast Piece of Furniture - Adventures in Contentment
7. Beast For Thee - Bonnie "Prince & Matt Sweeney - Superwolf
8. I Go with Him - Nina Nastasia - The Blackend Air
9. Hunter - Bjork - Homogenic
10. Hoppipolla - Sigur Ros - Takk...

Caught on the In Between Playlist 10-06-09

Quite an array of music on the show tonight but my hightlight(s) was/were the songs by The Exit and Stiff Little Fingers. I remember the first time I heard both bands. First was Stiff LIttle fingers. I was working in the warehouse at Sole Technology out in CA in probably the Spring of 2000 and was good buddies with a guy named Sam Jorgensen. Whenever we'd get super busy and have a ton of work to finish up for the day, Sam would put in the Stiff Little Fingers album "Inflamable Material" and it would never fail to put us in a zone. We'd happily pack up and ship skate shoes to whomever all across the country. It always got us going and I love that album still today. It's such a raw, real, and honest album.

The first time I heard The Exit, my buddy Johnny Dunn forwarded it to me while I was sitting at my new desk job at Burton Snowboards. It sounded like a modern day Police meets Stiff Little Fingers. I was really, really impressed. I just remembered it sounding so refreshing. I also remember Johnny leaving me a voicemail talking about the album and he said he just can't wait to get home to listen to it again. I remember feeling the same way. It's such a raw, real, and honest album.

1. Fort Lauderdale, USA - Bill Friell - The Ultimate '60s Surf Classics
2. Bang! - The Raveonettes - In & Out of Control
3. Boys Who Rape - The Raveonettes - In & Out of Control
4. Last Dance - The Raveonettes - In & Out of Control
5. Horchata - Vampire Weekend - Contra
6. Memphis - Chuck Berry - The Chess Box Set
7. Surprise Hotel - Fool's Gold - Fool's Gold
8. Two Guitars Clash - Stiff Little Fingers - All The Best
9. Stands To Reason - Stiff Little Fingers - All The Best
10. Touch and Go - Stiff Little Fingers - All The Best
11. Trapped - Exit - New Beat
12. Lonely Man's Wallet - Exit - New Beat
13. Question The Chorus - Exit - New Beat
14. Card Cheat - The Clash - Clash on Broadway 2

Mondo Mix

This is a link to a great radio mix of a bunch of different types of music from all over. Crank it up and travel through your computer!


mondomix.com - all colors of music!

Caught on the In Between Playlist 09-22-09

The standout of tonight's show for me are the Sam Corbin tunes. I stumbled across him when I was perusing the blog Songs:Illinois. He's a Michigan singer/songwriter and he sings some great heartfelt comforting music. Check him out here www.samcorbin.com

1. Fish Taco - Dick Dale - Unknown Territory
2. It Ain't Gonna Save Me - Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall
3. Plenty For All - Hot Snakes - Audit In Progress
4. The Bleeding Heart Show - The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
5. Blood Oranges - Foreign Born - Person To Person
6. Finish Line - Fanfarlo - Reservoir
7. Olive Hearts - Bowerbirds - Hymns For A Dark Horse
8. Baby - Devendra Banhart - What Will We Be
9. Chinese Children - Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
10. Michigan's Waltz - Sam Corbin - Michigan's Waltz
11. Twenty Three - Sam Corbin - Goodnight Candlelight
12. Beach House - The Cave Singers - Welcome Joy

Caught on the In Between Playlist 09-13-09

I got into the honky tonk feeling at the end of the night. Wayne The Train Hancock is amazing and the bassist for the local heroes, Starline Rhythm Boys, used to play with him. I need to see the Starline Rhythm Boys play again soon. They have a bunch of shows over the next couple months, but one that sticks out is 10/24 for a Bike Recycle Vermont at Burlington City Hall! I'll be there!

1. Without Warning - The Ghastly Ones - Target Draculon
2. A Thousand Men - Joe Pug - In The Meantime EP
3. More Than Fair - Deano Waco - Deano Waco Meats The Purveyors
4. Tequila Sunday - The Maldives - Listen To The Thunder
5. When The Devil's Loose - AA Bondy - When The Devil's Loose
6. I Can See The Pines Are Dancing - AA Bondy - When The Devil's Loose
7. Molalatladi - BLK JKS - After Robots
8. On The Floor - Family Portrait - N/A
9. Mega Secrets - Family Portrait - N/A
10. Are The Good Times Really Over For Good - John Doe and the Sadies - Country Club
11. Texacos and Roadmaps - Starline Rhythm Boys - Better Luck Is A Barroom Away
12. Dog House Blues - Wayne Hancock - Viper of Melody
13. Bottle Of Wine - Deano Waco - Deano Waco Meats The Purveyors
14. No Gal Cooks Like Mine - Starline Rhythm Boys - Red's Place
15. Midnight Stars and You - Wayne Hancock - Viper of Melody

Caught on the In Between Playlist 08-18-09

Tonight I'm updating my blog as I do my show. It's a first, so we'll see how it goes. I'm up here with my buddy Mike (Emcee MC for all of those that listen on Thurs nights at 11pm) and we just had a couple brews down at 3 Needs and discussed the upcoming Queen City Social Club event. We're trying to set up a salsa night sometime around 9/10 and hoping to have it at LIFT--a new club in downtown Burlington where 2nd Floor used to be. Mike has been running point on it and setting it all up and is pulling in the peeps from Salsalina to help with the salsa lessons. If we can do it that week, it'll be the Thurs during Latino Fest so it'll be perfect. We'll start it off with some salsa lessons to get us all knowing the moves and then it'll be full on dance party with DJ JahRed who used to do the Thurs Salsa Nights at Half Lounge, so he knows what he's doing.

Starting off tonight's show was Dick Dale and the Del-Tones doing Surf Beat. Then for the first set I played some tunes by Mariachi El Bronx. The Bronx is a hard punk band out of So Cal which features 2 members of Los Lobos. With those 2 hombres in the band, it was only a matter of time before they released some Mexican tinged tunes. Usually when a punk band decides to come out with some traditional music of any style, it seems contrived and forced. However, these guys nail it. Pick up the album and you'll enjoy it.

Second set started off with a band I first heard about today called Depedro. I found them on Spinner.com and really love what I hear from them. I was playing it at work and my buddy who sits behind me was really digging it too. The band consists of singer/guitarist from Madrid, Jairo Zavala, and the dudes from Calexico. It's great Spanish pop music. I played the song Don't Leave Me Now off of their s/t album. Next song was by Gentleman Jesse who I first read about in Paste. I played his song All I Need Tonight (Is You) and it sounded very similar to Jay Reatard, so if you like his stuff, then you'll like this. I finished the set off with current blog superstars--Passion Pit with their song To Kingdom Come.

Last week I was out in CA on vaca at my girlfriend's parents' house in Auburn, CA. There's gold in them there hills. While there I picked up the new Michael Franti & Spearhead album and I'm going to say that it's just alright. There are some jems--especially the song Say Hey (I Love You) and the first song on the album, Rude Boys Back in Town. I started off the next set with the latter. The rest of the album seems to be pretty bland. After that I jumped into a tune by the incredible Very Best (Radioclit and their Malawian friend, Esau Mwamwaya). The song was Rain Dance and featured some vocals by M.I.A. They have a new album coming out on November 1st and it's sure to kill. Finishing up the set was Le Loup and their tune Beach Town.

Next up was Mattafix--a DJ duo out of the UK. The songs I played are off of their 2007 release called Rhythm & Hymns. It's great RnB, Hip Hop, Reggae, and Caribbean style music. Songs I played were In The Background and Things Have Changed. Check 'em out.

I was planning on playing another song by Mattafix, but I was impatiently interrupted by two wine drinking gals who requested a song be dedicated to them. Thinking on my toes, I quickly chose Say Hey (I Love You) and sent it out to them. As the beat came in, I could picture them dancing around the kitchen to the tune.

I finished off the set with a cover song by Amy Milan of Broken Social Scene and Stars fame. It's a cover of the Death Cab For Cutie song called I Will Follow You Into The Dark.

1. Surf Beat -- Dick Dale and the Del-Tones -- Surfrock Extravaganza
2. Quinceniera -- Mariachi El Bronx -- Mariachi El Bronx
3. Slave Labor -- Mariachi El Bronx -- Mariachi El Bronx
4. Holy -- Mariachi El Bronx -- Mariachi El Bronx
5. Don't Leave Me Now -- DePedro -- DePedro
6. All I Need Tonight (Is You) -- Gentleman Jesse
7. To Kingdom Come -- Passion Pit
8. Rude Boys Back In Town -- Michael Franti & Spearhead -- All Rebel Rockers
9. Rain Dance (ft. M.I.A.) -- The Very Best
10. Beach Town -- Le Loup -- Family
11. In The Background -- Mattafix -- Rhythm & Hymns
12. Things Have Changed -- Mattafix -- Rhythm & Hymns
13. Say Hey (I Love You) -- Michael Franti & Spearhead -- All Rebel Rockers
14. I Will Follow You Into The Dark -- Amy Millan -- Masters Of The Burial
15. Angel -- Mattafix -- Rhythm & Hymns