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Find us on FacebookStill 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.
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January 18, 2012 in New Music, News by Jamie @ 7:22 pmFavorite Albums of 2011: DJ Picks
December 26, 2011 in New Music, News by Jamie @ 8:28 pmOn 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 pmWhat 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!
Here’s one of the artists who made my list:
The Beatle & The Stones
September 14, 2011 in News by Jamie @ 2:55 pmGood news for rock film nerds like myself – this Fall brings us two spectacular works including Martin Scorcese’s epic George Harrison documentary, “Living in the Material World.” Early buzz indicates the movie reveals much about the late legend that will illuminate even the most diehard Beatles fans. Not surprising, considering its 3-1/2 hour length. The doc will air Oct 5 & 6 on HBO and will later be available on DVD.
Also this fall, celebrate The Rolling Stones LP, Some Girls, with fully restored footage of the band performing the album at Will Rodgers Memorial Stadium in Fort Worth, TX on July 18, 1978. The film will be available on DVD and Blue-Ray on November 21.
Movin’ On Up!
September 9, 2011 in News by Jamie @ 2:58 pmCongratulations to Utah’s own Fictionist! Look out world, ’cause here they come, here they come…
Wye Oak on Jimmy Fallon
July 19, 2011 in News by Jamie @ 3:06 pmLast night, KRCL fave Wye Oak made their network television debut with an exciting performance of Civilian’s “Holy Holy,” that inspired The Roots’ ?uestlove to rave about the Baltimore duo’s keyboard/drummer on Twitter:
“@wyeoak’s drummer just topped billy ray cyrus’ drummer for most inventive performance on a late night show!”
See for yourself!
Trent Call designs new KRCL T-Shirt
June 14, 2011 in News by P.D. @ 10:59 pm
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Local artist Trent Call has generously donated both his time and
talent to 90.9 KRCL, designing the latest KRCL t-shirt. You can
get your limited edition t-shirt by donating to KRCL’s Community
Drive, June15-17.
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Trent was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Graduated from the University of Utah in 2004 with a BFA. He
has been publishing the zine, Swinj, since 1998.
He is actively involved in a diversity of ongoing projects.
Trent’s work combines formal academic painting with comics,
graffiti, and popular culture. He currently works out of
CAPTAIN CAPTAIN Studios in beautiful downtown Salt Lake City.
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Record Store Day!
April 15, 2011 in KRCL Events, New Music, News by Jamie @ 12:24 pm
Now in its fourth year, Record Store Day started as a response to the gloom-and-doom stories concerning the demise of mom-and-pop shops. Contrary to popular belief, the sky is not falling and many record retailers are actually thriving! The event has blossomed into an international celebration of the small businesses that fill our continued need for physical albums, and that act as invaluable community partners. For a complete list of RSD exclusive releases, visit the official website.
Here in Utah, several stores have big parties planned including Slowtrain, Graywhale, Uprok, Fourth Street Music, The Heavy Metal Shop and Randy’s Records. KRCL will be up at Graywhale’s University location hosting a local music showcase. Additional live music showcases at other fine indie record stores are listed below. Hope to see you out there!
Graywhale University
208 S. 1300 East
Bronco – Noon
Holy Water Buffalo – 12:45
Octet – 1:30
Pablo Blaqk – 2:15
Joshua Payne Orchestra – 3:00
Super 78 – 3:45
Desert Noises – 4:00
Slowtrain
221 E. Broadway
Birthquake – 11 am
Trappers – 12 pm
Paul Jacobsen – 1 pm
Ryan Tanner – 2 pm
American Shakes – 3 pm
Plastic Furs – 4 pm
Jay William Henderson – 5 pm
Desert Noises – 6 pm
Joshua James – 7 pm
Uprok/Fourth Street Music
370 S. State
1pm: Youth In Eyes
2pm: Abacus 81 & DJ Goobers
3pm: Dumb Luck
4pm: Daniel Day Trio
5pm: Burnell Washburn
6pm: Dusk One
7pm: Sam Eye Am
8pm: Mark Dago & DJ Shanty
9pm: Native Son w/ a Live Band
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Sundance Review – The Music Never Stopped
January 25, 2011 in News by Alana @ 6:11 pm
This year, the Sundance Salt Lake Premier film was a crowd-pleaser that reminded me just how fundamental music is to the human psyche. The Music Never Stopped is Jim Kohlberg’s exploration that speaks to the ineffable power that music has over memory. You know that feeling, when you hear a certain song, and you are transported back to a specific moment in time? This film is an entire meditation on that sensation.
Twenty years after Gabriel (Lou Taylor Pucci) leaves home, his parents Henry (J.K. Simmons) and Helen Sawyer (Cara Seymour) are notified that he is in a local hospital with a brain tumor that, while benign, has seriously damaged his memory. He can neither recall his parents and life he left behind, nor craft new associations about the people that come to visit him every day. Soon, however, his caretakers and family realize that he responds to the rock music he loved – The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, and Buffalo Springfield – and that he is able to increasingly recall his past and create a context for his future with the help of this music and the guidance of a music therapist (Julia Ormand).
The Music Never Stopped made me laugh, cry, and sigh – all the while considering my own relationship between music and emotions. Early on in the film, we see a family tradition of associating memories and feelings to music. Henry asks a child-Gabriel to recall the stories of the first time his father heard his favorite song (‘Till There Was You”) and to learn the favorite music (Count Basie) and play it in memory of his Uncle Gabriel, the young boy’s namesake who died fighting in World War II.
Perhaps the most foundational role that the music plays in the film is as the medium of connection between father and son. It is both the alpha and the omega of their relationship. Gabriel had originally left his home after feeling pushed away; Henry, his father, had seen rock music as poison in his son’s mind, and when Gabriel abandons a College Night to head to a Dead concert with his friends, the quietly building conflict between them explodes. However, as Henry realizes that this music is the only means he has to recconect with his son who has been lost (in more ways than one), he makes an effort to understand, and the classic generational divide about musical preferences bleeds a little.
Based on ‘The Last Hippie,” a case study and essay by the celebrated neurologist Oliver Sacks, the film explores the effect of the 60′s counterculture on a family and the intimate impact that music has on the brain. Even Mickey Hart, a founding member of The Grateful Dead, who was present at the screening and quite vocal during the Q&A after the film, hinted as the mystical qualities of this relationship while recalling the experiencing of meeting the young man who the film is based on, “In real life, before the screenplay and all of that, the character in the movie had visited our stage and was transformed by the power of music,” he said. “This is what the story is all about.” .
Luckily for those who don’t have the chance to view this outstanding film at the Sundance Festival, the director and screenwriters announced that it has been picked up for distribution and will start playing in select cities in March!
Update to Top 15 Metal Albums of 2010
January 7, 2011 in New Music, News by Forgach @ 6:27 pmTime… Oh, how you make me question myself.
While I don’t think my Top 15 Metal Albums of 2010 is exactly “wrong”, it was probably haphazardly compiled and is in need of a little tweaking. While this new, updated list might be almost as haphazardly compiled, this is what I remember of our (me & Cody D) discussion about it during the last show.
15. Freya – All Hail The End
14. Arsis – Starve For The Devil
13. The Absence – Enemy Unbound
12. Within The Ruins – Invade
11. Nevermore – The Obsidian Conspiracy
10. Through The Eyes Of The Dead – Skepsis
9. Witchery – Witch Krieg
8. Look What I Did – Atlas Drugged
7. Son Of Aurelius – The Farthest Reaches
6. Periphery – S/T
5 The Acacia Strain – Wormwood
4. Allegaeon – Fragments Of Form And Function
3. Fleshwrought – Dementia/Dyslexia
2. White Chapel – A New Era Of Corruption
1. The Contortionist – Exoplanet
Here’s the show clip “Zipping Our Coats Together Since 2005″, from the 1-5-2011 show discussing the list.
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