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January 18, 2012 in New Music, News by Jamie @ 7:22 pm

Still hungry for more 2011 music recaps? Craving music criticism that you can actually sink your teeth into? Look no further than the Village Voice’s 39th annual Pazz + Jop list. Each year, the alternative weekly polls music journalists across the country to round up their favorite albums/artists/trends from the past 365 days. The result is what democracy looks like. Sort of. It’s a great snapshot of ’11, regardless. Check it out. Put aside some time to read the thoughtful long-form essays – an increasingly rare format in our refresh society. Oh, and here’s a video from the list’s No. 1 pick, one of KRCL’s faves, too.

Favorite Albums of 2011: DJ Picks

December 26, 2011 in New Music, News by Jamie @ 8:28 pm

On Friday, KRCL will reveal the Top 100 Albums of 2011 as selected by our lovely listeners. Tune in for a day-long countdown beginning at 8 a.m. on 90.9 FM!! To tide you over until then, we’ve gathered a handful of KRCL DJs to share their personal favorite releases of the year. And if you still haven’t weighed in, share your faves in the comments section!

Ebay Jamil Hamilton (Weekday Middays)

*in no particular order
The War On Drugs / Slave Ambient
Elbow / Build a Rocket Boys!
Paul Simon / So Beautiful or So What
Raphael Saadiq / Stone Rollin’
TV On The Radio / Nine Types of Light
Fleet Foxes / Helplessness Blues
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks / Mirror Traffic
Radiohead / The King of Limbs
Bon Iver / Bon Iver
Tinariwen / Tassili

Jamie (Weekday Mornings)
*in no particular order
Kurt Vile/ Smoke Ring For My Halo
The War On Drugs/ Slave Ambient
Tom Waits/ Bad As Me
The Kills/ Blood Pressures
Booker T Jones/ The Road From Memphis
Wild Flag/ Wild Flag
Wye Oak/ Civilian
Charles Bradley/ No Time For Dreaming
AA Bondy/ Believers
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks/ Mirror Traffic

Bad Brad Wheeler (Weekday Afternoons)
TOP 20

Thee Oh Sees/ Carrion Crawler
Kid Congo & Pink Monkey Birds/ Gorilla Rose
Moon Duo/ Mazes
Richard Swift/ Walt Wolfman
Moon Duo/ Mazes
Sonny & The Sunsets/ Hit After Hit
Mark Sultan/ Whenever I Want
Mark Sultan/ Whatever I Want
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis/ Smoking In Heavn
Wooden Ships/ West
Tom Waits/ Bad As Me
Ty Segall/ Goodbye Bread
Jacuzzi Boys/ Glazin
Jack Oblivion/ Rat City
Darondo/ Listen To My Song
Unknown Mortal Orchestra/ Unknown Mortal Orchestra
VA/ Psyche Funk Sa Re Ga
Bloodshot Bill/ Thunder & Lightning
Bass Drum of Death/ GB City
VA/ Sonny Smiths 100 Records
Wanda Jackson/ The Party Ain’t Over
LOCAL
Spell Talk/ Touch It
Spell Talk/ Electricloud
Ugly Valley Boys/ Double Down
The Chickens/ The Chickens
Dark Seas/ Dark Seas
VA – Long Memory Project / Utah PhillipsTribute
No Nation Orchestra/ More, More, More
Holy Water Buffalo/ Holy Water Buffalo
Joshua Payne Orchestra/ Zoom
Max Pain & The Groovies/ Tortilla Sunrise

Gianni (Dirty Boulevard)
No Wye Oak or Adele, sorry.
Let’s start with some real stinkers…
Such as…
the Lou Reed I still love and the Metallica I used to love. Somebody
owe some back taxes??
Red Hot Chili Pee still making records? Good God, put that band down,
they have parvo.
PJ Harvey, I have a record you should listen to… it’s called “Uh Huh
Her” and it’s by the same woman who gave us “Stories From the City”…
ever heard of her?

1. Elbow / Build a Rocket Boys
Best band on the planet, hands down.
2. Tom Waits / Bad As Me.
The Messiah of the Dirty Boulevard.
3. Vanish Valley / Get Good
Best Record nobody played but me, and nobody heard but me & Dave…
tsk tsk people.
4. Girls / Broken Dreams Club…
My friends from SF… they rule, even though it came out in late 2010
and they released Father Son, Holy Ghost in 2011…
Trust me… START HERE.
5. Coeur de Pirate / Blonde
God, I love Béatrice Martin. She could read the phonebook to me and I
would listen all day.
6. Thievery Corporation / Culture of Fear
Boom. Sound.
7. Bon Iver / Bon Iver
I want to hate him but I don’t, so here’s the deal. I will make him
#6 if people will stop pronouncing it “Boney Vare.”
You don’t say “Bone Jure” do you??
8. The Antlers / Burst Apart
Beautiful, sad and unique.
9. Handsome Furs / Sound Kapital
I’m kidding. Really? This record sucks. What won’t people listen to???
10. Little Dragon / Ritual Union
10.5 Those Darlins / Screws Get Loose
Neither are great records, but they make me happy albeit, for
completely different reasons.

Robert Nelson (Smile Jamaica)

1. Various/ Bristol Reggae Explosion 1 & 2 (Bristol Archives) 1978-83
2. Thievery Corporation/ Culture of Fear (ESL)*
3. Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry/ Return of Sound System Scratch (Pressure Sounds) 1973-79
4. Easy Star All Stars/ Dubber Side of the Moon (Easy Star)*
5. Soom T & Disrupt/ Ode to a Carrot (Jahtarian)*
6. 10 Foot Ganja Plant/ Shake Up the Place (ROIR)
7. Keith Richards/ Wingless Angels (Mindless) 1997
8. Hollie Cook/ Hollie Cook (Mr. Bongo)
9. Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry/ Return of Pipecock Jackson (Honest Jons) 1980
10. Bob Marley & the Wailers/ Live Forever: Pittsburgh (Tuff Gong) 9/23/1980
*Mutant Dub

Courtney (Afternoon Delight)

PJ Harvey/ Let England Shake
Wild Flag/ Wild Flag
Zola Jesus/ Conatus
M83/ Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
Austra/ Feel It Break
Destroyer/ Kaputt
Yuck/ Yuck
Active Child/ You Are All I See
Craft Spells/ Idle Labor
Future Islands/ On The Water

Eugenie (Red, White & Blues)

Tedeschi Truck Band/ Revelator
Gregg Allman/ Low Country Blues
Warren Haynes/ Man In Motion
Etta James/ The Dreamer
Tab Benoit/ Medicine
Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton/ Plays the Blues Live from Jazz at
Lincoln Center
North Mississippi AllStars/ Keys to the Kingdom
Eric Lindell/ West Country Drifter
Jimbo Mathus/ Confederate Buddah
Ana Popovich/ Unconditional
Satan & Adam/ Back in the Game

Emily (Wednesday Nights)

the head and the heart
wye oak/ civilian
st. vincent/ strange mercy
gardens & villa/ gardens & villa
middle brother/ middle brother
fleet foxes/ helplessness blues
lykke li/ wounded rhymes
the black keys/ el camino
bon iver/ bon iver
generationals/ actor-caster
little dragon/ ritual union

Phil (Sunday Sagebrush)

Robert Earl Keen/ Ready for Confetti
John Hiatt/ Dirty Jeans And Mudslide Hymns
Dave Alvin/ Eleven Eleven
Adele/ 21
Drive By Truckers/ Go Go Boots
Neil Young International Harvesters/ A Treasure
Hot Tuna/ Steady As She Goes
Leon Russell/ Best Of
Steve Earle/ I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive
Bruce Cockburn/ Small Source of Comfort
Slaid Cleaves/ Sorrow and Smoke

Circus Brown (Not A Sideshow)

Spindrift – Classic Soundtracks Vol. 1
The Flaming Lips – Strobo Trip E.P.
Pretty Worms / Plastic Furs 7 Inch Single
Mr. Gnome – Madness in Miniature
No Nation Orchestra
Spell Talk – Touch It!
Palace of Buddies – Summertimes
Man Man – Life Fantastic
Black Lips – Arabia Mountain
Bing Ji Ling – Shadow to Shine (thanks for this one Jamie)
Mixel Pixel – Highschool is not Hell

2 of these were EP’s so I went up to 11.

Wanted: YOUR Top Albums of 2011

December 12, 2011 in New Music, News by Jamie @ 1:52 pm

What a year it’s been for music! Across the board we’ve seen fantastic albums from emerging voices like Adele and Wye Oak, more consistently awesome goods from Wilco and The Black Keys, and material from legends including Tom Waits! KRCL DJs will be posting our lists soon, but we want to hear from you first! Participate in our Top 100 Countdown by sharing your favorites today! You can select from over 200 albums posted online and let us know what we might have missed!

Vote for your top 10 and then tune in and listen Dec. 30th as we count down
the 100 Best Albums of 2011 as picked by KRCL listeners.

Here’s one of the artists who made my list:

New Music Tuesday

November 22, 2011 in New Music by Jamie @ 1:31 pm

The Rolling Stones reissue their classic 1978 release, Some Girls, with 12 previously unreleased tracks. The deluxe version also comes with a DVD of their concert film, Live in Texas 1978.

And while we have to wait until January 13 for the new Leonard Cohen album, here’s a sneak preview from, Old Ideas, which will be released on CD, vinyl and via digital download.
Show Me The Place by leonardcohen

New Music Tuesday!

November 7, 2011 in New Music by Jamie @ 10:54 pm

In Stores November 8:

The ambitious, enigmatic, prolific Cass McCombs delivers his second LP of 2011 in the form of Humor Risk, a slightly more upbeat departure from his typically heartbreaking fare.

And, known in their native UK as The Bees and stateside as A Band of Bees, the groovy rockers return with Every Step’s a Yes! Let’s hold hands and dance a jig!

New Black Keys Track!

October 26, 2011 in New Music by Jamie @ 2:34 pm

This song will be available as a 7″ on 11/25 at your friendly neighborhood record store. The full-length record, El Camino, comes out 12/6 on Nonesuch. Just in time for the holidays.

M83 Sax Attack

October 19, 2011 in New Music by Jamie @ 3:16 pm

The latest from French duo M83 is an expansive two-disc set that continues their love affair with cinematic dream-pop suitable for re-scoring most John Hughes films. Hurry Up, I’m Dreaming is also ideal for long, aimless drives up or down the canyon. The second track off of the first disc, “Midnight City,” also features some pretty sultry saxaphone toward the song’s tail end. If anyone can bring saxy back, it’s the French.

not sold on the sax yet? Maybe Jon Hamm can convince you otherwise

You Can Do It Ryan!

August 24, 2011 in New Music by Jamie @ 2:37 pm


In recent years, even hardcore Ryan Adams fans have started to lose faith in his ability to replicate the mastery of Whiskeytown’s catalog or his beautiful solo albums, from Heartbreaker to Gold. Since Cold Roses, his records have been largely hit or miss. Take Easy Tiger which follows up a gorgeous tune like “Goodnight Rose” with the jarring “Halloweenhead.” Such inconsistency paired with his marriage to cotton-candy pop star/actress Mandy Moore and the random metal record of 2010 is enough for most to write him off. Not me. I’ve held out hope for Ryan, clutching the torch tightly in anticipation for another great LP. On Oct 11 we’ll see if Mr. Adams still has it in him to produce a brilliant album from start to finish. Today he issued the first single off of Ashes & Fire. It’s not bad…
Lucky Now by ryanadams

Feist Channels Nico

August 22, 2011 in New Music by Jamie @ 1:24 pm


On October 4, Canadian songstress Feist will release her latest LP, Metals. The first single “How Come You Never Go There,” has been on heavy rotation on KRCL. We can’t get enough of her! Here’s another goodie to get you by until the full-length album drops: Feist recently teamed up with The Hotrats to cover the Velvet Underground’s “Femme Fatale.” It’s tasty.
Feist ft. Nigel Godrich, Colin Greenwood, Hot Rats) Femme Fatale (Velvet Underground Cover) by TwentyFourBit.com

Toro Y Moi announces new EP, shares new track

July 13, 2011 in New Music by P.D. @ 9:32 pm

For Toro Y Moi’s Chaz Bundick, 2011 has seen the release of his
acclaimed sophomore album, Underneath the Pine, remix work for
Tyler, the Creator, a split 7″ with Cloud Nothings, and a steady
stream of international tour dates. Just over halfway through
what’s already been a busy year, the prolific producer has a brand
new batch of lavishly funky material to offer.

Bundick’s latest is no sloppily assembled bunch of Pine session
throwaways. The Freaking Out EP was put to tape in June during a
period of touring quiescence. The release finds Bundick reveling in
twenty minutes of boogie, roping in the heavy sounds of groups
like the Gap Band and Mtume. While the first two tracks are modern
takes on the 80s post-disco vibe, “Sweet” sounds like the product of
a Todd Edwards and Teddy Riley collaboration, with smooth synths
weaving in and out of meticulously chopped and arranged vocal
samples. The New Jack influence spills over into the cover of
Cherrelle and Alexander O’Neill’s “Saturday Love,” in which a s
wing beat carries along fluttering piano lines steeped in delay.
The EP’s crown jewel, “I Can Get Love,” sees Bundick assimilating
styles of each of his to-date releases, with the synthesized funk
of Causers of This, the irresistible hooks of Pine, and dance alias
Les Sins’ penchant for filter effects and house beats. Full of energy
and crafted with a conciseness that begs repeated listens, Freaking Out
is Toro Y Moi’s most concentrated venture into pure dance floor hedonism.

MP3: “Saturday Love” (Alexander O’Neal & Cherrelle cover):
http://pitchfork.com/news/43164-toro-y-moi-is-ifreaking-outi-on-new-ep/

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