I'm getting my hair cut in the morning and I'm still contemplating what I want. I'm thinking of getting some fringe again. We shall see.
Fyfe Dangerfield - When You Walk In The Room
Badly Drawn Boy - Silent Sigh
Taxi Taxi - Old Big Trees
Gypsy & the Cat - Jona Vark
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
Muse - Undisclosed Desires
Clubfeet - Teenage Suicide
Visitor - Too Far Gone
Maps - The Note
Telepathe - So Fine
Immoor - Bows & Arrows
Anya Marina - Whatever You Like
Maximo Park - The Kids Are Sick Again
Vampire Weekend - The Kids Don't Stand A Chance
The Walkmen - On The Water
Greg Laswell - Your Ghost
The Editors - Acceptable In The 80s
The Futureheads - Beginning of the Twist
BM Linx - The Outlaw Jimmy Rose
HIM - Wicked Game
Animal Collective - My Girls
Monster Movie - Driving Through The Red Lights
Holy Ghost - I Will Come Back
Goyte - Learnalilgivinanlovin'
Florence & The Machine - Rabbit Heart (Jamie T rmx)
The Robocop Kraus - In Fact You're Just Fiction
Foals - Balloons
Pete & The Pirates - Blood Gets Thin
Ladyhawke - Magic
Van She - Strangers
Shout Out Louds - You Are Dreaming
Starlight Mints - Paralyzed
Monday, November 16, 2009
Guilty Pleasure 11.16.09
Monday, November 9, 2009
Guilty Pleasure 11.09.09
I'm back from visiting family in LA and I have a cold. No guests on the show tonight, so I was able to keep talking to a minimum which worked out since I kept sneezing. Don't worry, I used hand sanitizers.
Listen to the show here
Miike Snow - Kelly Watch The Stars
The Big Pink - Sweet Dreams
The xx - Crystalized
Maps - Chameleon
Sound Of Arrows - Into The Clouds
Republic Tigers - The Nerve
Mew - Repeaterbeater
M83 - We Own The Sky (Udachi rmx)
Sweet Serenades - On My Way
Rumble Strips - Girls & Boys In Love
Priscilla Ann - Find My Way Back Home
Jaymay - Gray or Blue
Brett Anderson - The Hunted
Jacob Golden - Hold Your Hair Back
Greg Laswell - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Kate Bush - This Woman's Work
Blur - Tender
Cracker - Low
Empire Of The Sun - We Are The People
Fleetwood Mac - Never Forget (Cut Copy rmx)
Cut Copy - Feel The Love
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Peek A Boo
Revlon 9 - Someone Like You
Lo Fi Fnk - The End
Roxy Music - Virginia Plain
INXS - Never Tear Us Apart
James - Say Something
Smashing Pumpkins - The Boy
The Swans - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Karate - Autobahn
Grizzly Bear - Slow Life
Skeeter Davis - The End Of The World
Monday, November 2, 2009
The Mary Onettes on Guilty Pleasure
Swedish act The Mary Onettes dropped by my show tonight to play a few songs off their album, which is out tomorrow. I've been into them ever since Josh from Blacklist turned me on to their songs, so it was nice to get the new album and meet the guys.
They were a bit shy, so there isn't too much talking. I also played a few new songs tonight, plus some great covers I haven't played before. I leave in the morning for LA, and I have to put together a Baby Shower mix. I'm thinking some of these songs might do the trick.Tracklist after the jump
Listen to Guilty Pleasure with The Mary Onettes
Morrissey - Every Day Is Like Sunday
The Rosebuds - My Punishment For Fighting
Zoot Woman - Seven Days
Ladytron - International Dateline
Yeasayer - Ambling Alp
The Rifles - The Great Escape
Cage The Elephant - Psycho Killer
The Jam - That's Entertainment
The Mary Onettes - Puzzles
The Bear Quartet - on the map
The Mary Onettes - The Disappearance of my Youth
The Blue Nile - Stay
The Mary Onettes - Dare
The Mary Onettes - Symmetry
A Fine Frenzy - Electric Twist
All Wrong & the Plans Change - I Get Down
Harlem Shakes - Strictly Game
Noah & The Whale - Five Years Time
Fanfarlo - The Walls Are Coming Down
Beirut - Elephant Gun
Jens Lekman - Black Cab
Sea Wolf - Wicked Blood
Ruby Suns - Kenya Dig It?
Last Town Chorus - Modern Love
The National - Slow Show
Windsor For The Derby - Melody Of A Fallen Tree
Giorgio Moroder - Tears
Monday, October 26, 2009
Guilty Pleasure 10.26.09
Thank the sweet lord CMJ week is over. Generally I love CMJ week, and I did have a really good time this year, but I'm still happy everyone is gone.
I think mostly, I was just feeling the stress and nervousness/excitement over my first showcase for Guilty Pleasure. All the worrying paid off though, because the night was a complete success and I'm so thankful to all the bands, the fans, and encouragement and support of everyone who came out.
PureVolume is awesome and they know how to throw a good party. The sound was great, everyone was really helpful and nice, and all the bands got alone and had a good time. They were getting free drinks all night plus massages up in the VIP area, so really, there were no complaints!
What a great night. Jump Into The Gospel played their best set yet, Home Video got everyone moving, U.S. Royalty played their most fun set ever, and Pete & The Pirates just made everyone overjoyed. We Are Wolves had to pull out the last minute but no one seemed to notice with all the awesomeness of the other bands.
I DJed a bit in between the sets and gave away free Guilty Pleasure t-shirts that EVR made for me. We're gonna get them reprinted though and fix the way they look.
Tonight, I started out the set with a track off the new Rakes album and sadly had to announce that the band has broken up. Jamie has started managing a new group called Official Secrets Act and I need to reach out to the others to see what their plans are.
Ben from Jump Into The Gospel is gutted, especially as just a few days ago he was telling me how excited he was that the Rakes would be back in NYC soon touring. Well, that is obviously off now. Sad news :(
Played a couple other new ones including a new song by Kordan, who I love, and A Place To Bury Strangers, who I have heard of but finally decided to get into. Thanks to Sean at Battery In Your Leg for supplying some of the tracks tonight.
Louis from Jump Into The Gospel popped by for a little hello and we talked about how the recording for their first EP is coming along. I can't wait for it to be ready. Sarah Silverman also walked by the booth tonight and smiled at me as I played the Kish Mauve track. She seemed into it.
I ran into Robert from BRMC last week and he says he's sending me a 7" as soon as it's ready. I love new music :)
Tune in and listen to the archives
The Rakes - That's The Reason
Au Revoir Simone - Shadows
A Place To Bury Strangers - In Your Heart
Jarvis Cocker - Black Magic
The Raveonettes - Suicide
Matt & Kim - Daylight
Freelance Whales - Location
Boy Least Likely To - Be Gentle With Me
Dirty Secrets - Strangers
Black Tie Dynasty - Tender
Kish Mauve - I'm In Love With Your Rock and Roll
The Horrors - Who Can Say?
Kordan - Closer
Zaza - Sooner or Later
The Drums - Down By The Water
Coconut Records - Microphone
Girls - Lust For Life
Joy Formidable - Austere
Dappled Cities - The Price
American Princes - Auditorium
The Howlies - Chimera
Republic Tigers - Buildings & Mountains
Low v Diamond - I'll Be
The Rushes - Cross The Wire
Your Vegas - Up Until The Lights Go Out
Muse - Resistance
Say Hi - The Stars Blink Just For Us
My Teenage Stride - To Live and Die in the Airport Lounge
The Thermals - Returning to the Fold
Junkie XL - Yesterdays
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Frank, AB
Pete & The Pirates - Come on Feet
I think mostly, I was just feeling the stress and nervousness/excitement over my first showcase for Guilty Pleasure. All the worrying paid off though, because the night was a complete success and I'm so thankful to all the bands, the fans, and encouragement and support of everyone who came out.
PureVolume is awesome and they know how to throw a good party. The sound was great, everyone was really helpful and nice, and all the bands got alone and had a good time. They were getting free drinks all night plus massages up in the VIP area, so really, there were no complaints!
What a great night. Jump Into The Gospel played their best set yet, Home Video got everyone moving, U.S. Royalty played their most fun set ever, and Pete & The Pirates just made everyone overjoyed. We Are Wolves had to pull out the last minute but no one seemed to notice with all the awesomeness of the other bands.
I DJed a bit in between the sets and gave away free Guilty Pleasure t-shirts that EVR made for me. We're gonna get them reprinted though and fix the way they look.
Tonight, I started out the set with a track off the new Rakes album and sadly had to announce that the band has broken up. Jamie has started managing a new group called Official Secrets Act and I need to reach out to the others to see what their plans are.
Ben from Jump Into The Gospel is gutted, especially as just a few days ago he was telling me how excited he was that the Rakes would be back in NYC soon touring. Well, that is obviously off now. Sad news :(
Played a couple other new ones including a new song by Kordan, who I love, and A Place To Bury Strangers, who I have heard of but finally decided to get into. Thanks to Sean at Battery In Your Leg for supplying some of the tracks tonight.
Louis from Jump Into The Gospel popped by for a little hello and we talked about how the recording for their first EP is coming along. I can't wait for it to be ready. Sarah Silverman also walked by the booth tonight and smiled at me as I played the Kish Mauve track. She seemed into it.
I ran into Robert from BRMC last week and he says he's sending me a 7" as soon as it's ready. I love new music :)
Tune in and listen to the archives
The Rakes - That's The Reason
Au Revoir Simone - Shadows
A Place To Bury Strangers - In Your Heart
Jarvis Cocker - Black Magic
The Raveonettes - Suicide
Matt & Kim - Daylight
Freelance Whales - Location
Boy Least Likely To - Be Gentle With Me
Dirty Secrets - Strangers
Black Tie Dynasty - Tender
Kish Mauve - I'm In Love With Your Rock and Roll
The Horrors - Who Can Say?
Kordan - Closer
Zaza - Sooner or Later
The Drums - Down By The Water
Coconut Records - Microphone
Girls - Lust For Life
Joy Formidable - Austere
Dappled Cities - The Price
American Princes - Auditorium
The Howlies - Chimera
Republic Tigers - Buildings & Mountains
Low v Diamond - I'll Be
The Rushes - Cross The Wire
Your Vegas - Up Until The Lights Go Out
Muse - Resistance
Say Hi - The Stars Blink Just For Us
My Teenage Stride - To Live and Die in the Airport Lounge
The Thermals - Returning to the Fold
Junkie XL - Yesterdays
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Frank, AB
Pete & The Pirates - Come on Feet
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
I Do Interviews
I guess I do sorta know what I'm doing. Well, after four years, I can at least say I've improved. Here I am, first day of CMJ, interviewing Your Vegas, Jump Into The Gospel, and Pete & The Pirates for a special CMJ edition of the Guilty Pleasure show. East Village Radio hooked me up with a rad video dude, Zach, and he put this together in a matter of hours.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Midnight Juggernauts on Guilty Pleasure
I had my fingers crossed all day that Midnight Juggernauts would fly into JFK in time to come on my radio show tonight, and to my shock and amazement, that's exactly what happened.
I didn't want to say anything prior in case they couldn't come, but in the end, the got into the cab from the airport and the promise of beers and pizzas and good tunes was too much for them to resist.
The band showed up and we chatted about their upcoming album, what shows they're doing this week for CMJ, and played some music. I also tried out some new songs I haven't played on the show before, so I hope you enjoy!
I'll be doing a show for EVR tomorrow 2-4pm, and it will be a CMJ theme show with lots of special guests!
I didn't want to say anything prior in case they couldn't come, but in the end, the got into the cab from the airport and the promise of beers and pizzas and good tunes was too much for them to resist.The band showed up and we chatted about their upcoming album, what shows they're doing this week for CMJ, and played some music. I also tried out some new songs I haven't played on the show before, so I hope you enjoy!
I'll be doing a show for EVR tomorrow 2-4pm, and it will be a CMJ theme show with lots of special guests!
Check out tonight's show and past archives here
Generationals - When They Fight, They Fight
Girls - Hellhole Ratrace
The Isolation - Cyclone
House of Love - Christine
Sweet Serenades - On My Way
Delphic - Counterpoint
The xx - Shelter (Them Jeans rmx)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Soft Shock (Them Jeans rmx)
Dizzee Rascal - Holiday ft Chrome
Epic Man ft Plan B - More Is Enough
Desire - Don't Call
Magic Wands - Kaleidoscope Hearts
Midnight Juggernauts - Twenty Thousand Leagues (Bag Raiders rmx)
Discovery - Carby
Here We Go Magic - Fangela
Midnight Juggernauts - This New Technology
Memory Tapes - Bicycle (Horrors rmx)
NHK - The Monkey Magic Theme Song
Eroc - Der Prophet
Air Waves - Knock Out
Electric Tickle Machine - Gimmie Money
Sonic Youth - Antenna
Jump Into The Gospel - Flagship
We Are Wolves - Paloma
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Trees, Mountains, and Fresh Air
Last Tuesday, Mat and I took a much needed vacation up to the Catskills. Neither of us had ever visited before and we were really excited.
My mom booked us a room at the swanky Emerson Resort and Spa and we took the two hour bus up to Mount Treper. We stayed for three nights and left Friday morning. It's hard to imagine, but there is a New York beyond New York City.
We got up there and there is no cell reception. I thought maybe there was a problem with our room, but the hotel staff laughed and said, welcome to the country. Wow. At first I panicked, what will I do for four days without mobile or internet access? What happens in an emergency? How do I communicate with the world what I am up to?
Mat was thrilled. This meant we couldn't be disturbed. We couldn't do any work. All we could do was relax, and that is exactly what we did...although I did panic a bit at first.
Our room was very impressive. We had a huge king size bed, fireplace, giant flat screen TV with DVD player, porch with views of the trees, big jacuzzi with whirlpool jets, one of those showers with stream coming down from the top AND the sides.
Check out some of these pics to see how pampered we were.
I made up a little itinerary of things for me and Mat to do, but once we got up there we realized that there was little we were going to accomplish without a car. There is no public transportation in the mountains.
Our first morning, Mat suggested we go for a hike. He knows I don't hike. He knows I'm not the camping, hiking, nature loving type of girl. The only time I ever went camping was at a 2 day music festival and I slept in the car, not the tent.
I told him to find us an easy trail. I figured he'd want to go for like 20 or 30 minutes only. That's normal right? I have to explain, that Mat grew up going hiking and camping. He loves it. I grew up watching Friday the 13th and half expected Jason to pop out from behind a tree to chop off my head.
We got driven to the trail Mat picked out and I'm excited for our nature walk, despite my initial fears. The air is completely different up there. Everything smells so good and it's so much easier to breath. There are these little creatures running around us, and they're called chipmunks. There are no pigeons. No city rats. Just cute little animals and beautiful leaves of different colors.
The minutes are quickly passing by though and after the first few trees, they're all looking exactly the same, and I'm like, how long is this hike? And he tells me it's five miles. Woah, that's a lot isn't it? What's five miles? And Mat says five miles is nothing. I am way outta shape and that was a rough hike. We were going up a mountain.
Parts of my body were starting to hurt that had never experienced any sort of work before. I was looking over my shoulder for Jason to come take me outta my misery, but it was just another stupid chipmunk. Old people well into their late 40's and 50's were blazing past us on the trail, while I begged for a three minute break on every rock we passed by.
Poor Mat, he had it much worse though, because he had bad shoes on. Plus, it didn't help that he had to carry me up part of the way. Well, he didn't have to, he offered, and I happily accepted. He is strong. Like really really strong. I was very impressed.
Along the way, we discovered this abandoned hotel from like the beginning of the century or something. It was really cool and creepy looking. I thought maybe it was an old mental asylum for all the people who went nuts for living in the mountains, but we were told later it was an old hotel.
When we reached the top, it was worth it though. We could see all the mountains and little rivers. Look how pretty it is up here. Plus, on the hike back down, we saw deer!
The rest of our trip, we were extremely sore, so we got massages at the spa and body wraps. The hotel had a bunch of free DVDs for us to watch and we saw some cool movies and just relaxed. It was so great!
My mom booked us a room at the swanky Emerson Resort and Spa and we took the two hour bus up to Mount Treper. We stayed for three nights and left Friday morning. It's hard to imagine, but there is a New York beyond New York City.
We got up there and there is no cell reception. I thought maybe there was a problem with our room, but the hotel staff laughed and said, welcome to the country. Wow. At first I panicked, what will I do for four days without mobile or internet access? What happens in an emergency? How do I communicate with the world what I am up to?
Mat was thrilled. This meant we couldn't be disturbed. We couldn't do any work. All we could do was relax, and that is exactly what we did...although I did panic a bit at first.
Our room was very impressive. We had a huge king size bed, fireplace, giant flat screen TV with DVD player, porch with views of the trees, big jacuzzi with whirlpool jets, one of those showers with stream coming down from the top AND the sides.
Check out some of these pics to see how pampered we were.
I made up a little itinerary of things for me and Mat to do, but once we got up there we realized that there was little we were going to accomplish without a car. There is no public transportation in the mountains.Our first morning, Mat suggested we go for a hike. He knows I don't hike. He knows I'm not the camping, hiking, nature loving type of girl. The only time I ever went camping was at a 2 day music festival and I slept in the car, not the tent.
I told him to find us an easy trail. I figured he'd want to go for like 20 or 30 minutes only. That's normal right? I have to explain, that Mat grew up going hiking and camping. He loves it. I grew up watching Friday the 13th and half expected Jason to pop out from behind a tree to chop off my head.
We got driven to the trail Mat picked out and I'm excited for our nature walk, despite my initial fears. The air is completely different up there. Everything smells so good and it's so much easier to breath. There are these little creatures running around us, and they're called chipmunks. There are no pigeons. No city rats. Just cute little animals and beautiful leaves of different colors.
The minutes are quickly passing by though and after the first few trees, they're all looking exactly the same, and I'm like, how long is this hike? And he tells me it's five miles. Woah, that's a lot isn't it? What's five miles? And Mat says five miles is nothing. I am way outta shape and that was a rough hike. We were going up a mountain.
Parts of my body were starting to hurt that had never experienced any sort of work before. I was looking over my shoulder for Jason to come take me outta my misery, but it was just another stupid chipmunk. Old people well into their late 40's and 50's were blazing past us on the trail, while I begged for a three minute break on every rock we passed by.
Poor Mat, he had it much worse though, because he had bad shoes on. Plus, it didn't help that he had to carry me up part of the way. Well, he didn't have to, he offered, and I happily accepted. He is strong. Like really really strong. I was very impressed.Along the way, we discovered this abandoned hotel from like the beginning of the century or something. It was really cool and creepy looking. I thought maybe it was an old mental asylum for all the people who went nuts for living in the mountains, but we were told later it was an old hotel.
When we reached the top, it was worth it though. We could see all the mountains and little rivers. Look how pretty it is up here. Plus, on the hike back down, we saw deer!
The rest of our trip, we were extremely sore, so we got massages at the spa and body wraps. The hotel had a bunch of free DVDs for us to watch and we saw some cool movies and just relaxed. It was so great!
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