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Last show. Animal: THE ZOO. Anything goes! Click for music. O’Death: Bugs Portugal. The Man: Elephants Joanna Newsom: Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie (includes: bats, dragons, bumblebees, clams, crabs, cockles, cowries) Patrick Watson: Big Bird in a Small Cage Joanna Newsom: You and Me, Bess (about Dick Turpin and his horse, Black Bess) Ratatat: Wildcat Horse the Band: Face of Bear (DON’T...

Apr 27th

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Apr 18th

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Today’s animal: THE SLOTH. You guessed it- slow tunes, 50 bpm and under. Click for music! Earth: Omens and Portents I: The Driver Low: The Plan The Low Anthem: Sawdust Saloon The Middle East: Deep Water My Brightest Diamond: She Does Not Brave the War Joanna Newsom: This Side of the Blue Soap and Skin: Boat Turns Toward the Port Sunn O))): Alice (if you have fifteen minutes, listen to all...

Apr 13th

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This week’s animal: THE CHEETAH. Fast tunes. Nothin’ under 180 bpm. Venetian Snares: Tache Boris: Furi Maps and Atlases: Everyplace Is a House Piglet: Anthropology Anthology Ahleuchatistas: Unfolding Lite: Phantasia Volta do Mar: Mass Transit Highways O’Death: Allie Mae Reynolds Mars Volta: A Plague Upon Your Hissing Jardín de la Croix: Blacksnout Seasnail Behold… The...

Apr 6th

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Dirty Projectors’ new single, “Gun Has...

Apr 2nd

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This week’s animal: THE PRAIRIE VOLE. The prairie vole is one of the few non-human mammals that forms lifetime pair bonds. So, songs about love (good or bad). Now with selected YouTube links! Björk: It’s Oh So Quiet - about the excitement of first falling in love. zing boom! (if you’re going to click on one video, make it this one. directed by Spike Jonze) The Low Anthem:...

Mar 30th

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This is important. Austrian singer-songwriter Anja...

Mar 29th

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This week’s animal: DEER. Calm, woodsy tunes. Stuff you might listen to while walking through a forest. The Middle East: Months The Low Anthem: Smart Flesh Ólöf Arnalds: Í Nýju Húsi Joanna Newsom: Swansea O’Death: Home The Middle East: Very Many The Low Anthem: To Ohio Murder by Death: Holy Lord, Shawshank Redemption Is Such a Good Movie! Joanna Newsom: Ribbon Bows Alexi Murdoch:...

Mar 23rd

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This week’s animal: FISH. Chill-out, floating-in-the-ocean tunes. Tortoise: On the Chin múm: We Have a Map of the Piano Helios: Bless this Morning Year Jónsi: Hengilas Low: Sunflower Amiina: Hilli/Lóri Tristeza: Wand Washed Out: A Dedication Sigur Rós: Untitled 4 Helios: Dragonfly Across an Ancient Sky Murder by Death: Canyon Inn, Room 16

Mar 2nd

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This week’s animal: THE BIRD. Tunes with great melodies, the kind you can’t help but sing along to. Ólöf Arnalds: Vinur Minn Dirty Projecters: Two Doves The Low Anthem: Charlie Darwin Joanna Newsom: Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie Ólöf Arnalds: Náttsöngur My Brightest Diamond: We Added It Up Joanna Newsom: In California Patrick Watson: Big Bird in a Small Cage Sufjan Stevens: The Tallest...

Feb 24th

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This week’s animal: THE MONKEY. Lots of loud, fast, crazy tunes. Melt-Banana: Shield for Your Eyes, a Beast in the Well on Your Hand Boris: Ibitsu About Tess: Violence Freak Adebisi Shank: Masa Fang Island: Welcome Wagon/Daisy Joanna Newsom: Monkey and Bear (the one lyrical one- the lyrics are in a style kinda like a fable about a monkey and a bear who live together in captivity as...

Feb 17th

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New show! Every week brings a different animal and music that relates to it, either musically or lyrically. This week’s animal: THE WHALE. Joanna Newsom: Colleen (about a whale that turns into a girl, see here) Sunn O))) & Boris: The Sinking Belle (slow, atmospheric) Mono: Halcyon (Beautiful Days) (big, slow post-rock) Red Sparowes: Finally, As That Blazing Sun Shone Down upon Us,...

Feb 10th

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BEST LP (2011): Battles, Gloss Drop; honorable mention - Braids, Native Speaker LPs (pre-2011): The Low Anthem, Oh My God, Charlie Darwin (2009) / What the Crow Brings (2007); MGMT, Congratulations (2010); Maps and Atlases, Perch Patchwork (2010); The Format, Dog Problems (2006); Ólöf Arnalds, Við Og Við (2007) EP (2011): Between the Buried and Me, The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues EPs...

Jan 9th

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Another music break because I’ve taken a liking to submitting photographs I’ve taken of pretty things to blogs. icelandpictures: Submission from: KeithListensToMusic Took this photo while driving a section of Ring Road this past April. I only had the car for a day, but it was one of the best days of my life. Came across this abandoned little barn by a cave full of seagulls...

Dec 1st

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Nov 29th

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Nov 17th

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Nov 16th

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Nov 16th

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When you get down to it, I’m really just a...

Nov 13th

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Most Scandinavian singers tend to avoid singing in...

Nov 3rd

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AFTERMATH: WSPN 91.1 FM, 1-2PM:

Foals : Jizue : Piglet : Ahleuchatistas : Battles : This Town Needs Guns : Rooftops : Mouse on the Keys : Don Caballero : The Speed of Sound in Seawater : The Redneck Manifesto : Volta do Mar : Toe : Slim Charles

Oct 27th

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My earliest memory of Skidmore’s math rock...

Oct 26th

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AFTERMATH: WSPN 91.1 FM, 1-2PM:

Battles : The Redneck Manifesto : Maps and Atlases : Volta do Mar : Slim Charles : Battles : Foals : Toe : Colour : Rooftops : Pretend : Piglet : Gallops It would do you well to download (Skidmore’s own!) Slim Charles’ pre-release here.

Oct 6th

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Things noticed This portion of “In...

Oct 4th

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AFTERMATH: WSPN 91.1 FM, 1-2pm:

Gallops : Battles : Lite : Ahleuchatistas : Maps and Atlases : The Redneck Manifesto : Rooftops : Murder by Death : American Football : Toe : Volta do Mar : Mouse on the Keys : This Town Needs Guns : The Redneck Manifesto I take the one hour time limit very seriously.

Sep 29th

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Sep 22nd

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Sep 6th

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Fibonacci sequence spotted in...

Aug 9th

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Jul 26th

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I have found the best application ever made (not really). I’ve always wished that iTunes had some kind of feature to better track listening information and view more than only play count, last listened, etc. I didn’t think until today to google “iTunes statistics,” and up came Super Analyzer. You can analyze your entire library or individual playlists for a bunch of...

Jul 23rd

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Jul 19th

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Jul 18th

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WSPN 91.1, 8-9pm

Battles : MGMT : Dosh : Them, Roaring Twenties : Venetian Snares : Björk : Lykke Li : Orion Rigel Dommisse : The Speed of Sound in Seawater : Yuck : The Redneck Manifesto : The Low Anthem : O’Death : William Elliott Whitmore : Murder by Death

Jul 13th

WSPN 91.1, 8-9pm

Nujabes : Battles : Joanna Newsom : Lykke Li : Björk : MGMT : Yuck : Joanna Newsom : The Low Anthem : Aphex Twin : Toe : The Antlers

Jul 11th

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Why did no one tell me that Björk is like, really...

Jul 9th

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