1-13-09 playlist

Keepin' on truckin' in 2009...

Le Fleur - “Silver Hair”
Dirt Fishermen - “Herpes of the Mouth”
Low-Fi - “Rabbit Hole”
Piso Mojado - “Track 4”
Black Happy - “Two Hands and a Hat”
Geyser - “Microwave”
Built to Spill - “Conventional Wisdom”
Gusto - “Worst Hunting Dog Ever, Pt 1”
The Hand - “The Rocker”
Bovalexia - “Bop”
Bonefish Sam & His Power Orchestra - “Every Toy I Ever Owned”
Kris Doty - “Baby”
eL Dopamine - “Monday Morning”
Pete Holly - “Hyde Park Square”
A Man Called Sun - “Battered Boat”
G. America - “My New Story”
Butterfly Train - “Standstill”

Finn Riggins - “The Plumest”

Splinter - “Super Loser”

One Fantastic Bind - “Life Left Dear”

Size of Alaska - “Yes Man”
Central Boise Library - “Still Payin Rent”
Ian Waters - “Eighteen”
Caustic Resin - “Kill You If You Want Me To”
Magnetics - “Angel”
Treepeople - “Fishbasket”
Lowbelly - “awake our sleeping sword”
Narcissus Isthmus - “Cerulean”
The Invasion - “Halfway to Infinity”
The Very Most - “Smiling Surprise”
Discoma - “Robogoat”
Dirtboy - “Flying Fortress”

1-06-09 playlist

Thanks for checking out the Hard Math Radio playlist. If you are new: bands are linked to their sites or sites of subsequent bands by some of the same folks. If you are trying to track down info, you can also email me. Earlier blog entries have a bit more info about the bands as they are introduced to the show... so you can search a particular band, too. This week we have a couple of new bands on the show. We start the show with a artifact from 1980 by Pete Holly and The Looks... I don't know much about Pete Holly, but this single was on SF's legendary Bomp Records. When I first moved here I used to see flyers for Holly's "Wizard of the Garage" CD all over telephone poles in the Northend and downtown... I finally picked it up and will include selections in future shows. The Magnetics are a hard-edged band that has been around for several years... they are led by Boise scene vet Troy Wright on vocals and guitar along with Ryan "Skully" Davis (H is for Hector, Gusto) on guitar, Dave Wall (Kid Corduroy) on bass and Glenn Newkirk (Dirt Fisherman, Geyser, Gordie Howe, etc.) on drums. Also making their first appearance is Eightball Break, a band active in the mid-to-late 1990's. Line-up for this album features singer guitarist Nick Millward, bassist Andy Agenbroad (Haggis, Demoni) and Joe Hensley (el Dopamine, Suffocation Keep, etc.). The Blue Flames also make their debut, but I know very little about this band other than the fact that their cd came out in 1996 and I believe they are from Sun Valley (please comment if you have any info!). Thanks to Brad Angell, Glenn Newkirk and Todd Sloan for contributions and to all who have suggested bands (old and new) to include in future shows.

Pete Holly and The Looks - “Baby Please Believe Me”
Gordie Howe Trio Unit - “I Like Robots Unit”
Bock - “Farewell Address”
The Yukon and You - “Marshmellows”
Lowbelly - “Mick Mars always wears a hat”
Brett Nelson - “Through the Ceiling Into The Clouds”
Falldowns - “Solitary Vowels”
Magnetics - “In the Absence”
The Treatment - “Duke of Oly”
Kid Corduroy - “Freeway”
The Blue Flames - “Pocket Knife”
Shamus - “Beating”
Built to Spill - “Revolution”
Clock - “Plan D”
Fury III - “Eeyore's Detangler”
Eightball Break - “Kicking Myself”
Central City Music Company - “Lorie”
The Pugs - “Land of Make Believe”
Dirt Fishermen - “Carcul”
Treepeople - “(I'm Gonna) Miss You (When You're Dead)”
Finn Riggins - “Carbonate”
Brett Netson/Reversion - “Title TBD”
Boise Cover Band - “Ashes to Ashes”
Hillfolk Noir - “Broken Like A Music Box”
Haggis - “Want it All”
Caustic Resin - “Station Wagon (live)”
Flycatcher - “Light as a Feather”
Grant Avenue - “400=Love”
Morningly - “Celeste”
Pajama Party in a Haunted Hive - “Silver State”
Lovey - “Every”
Godzounds - “Hateness”

12-30-08 & 1-02-09 playlist

One last show of 2008 on Tuesday and first of 2009 on Friday. This week features the introduction of The Skulldiggers, a Boise punk band circa 1984 featuring Brad Angell of the Pugs (see previous playlist). We also have more goodness from Fort Hazel's Jeremy who shared selections from Lowbelly's newest creation, "X", with me. Highly recommended.

H is for Hector - “No Go”
Lowbelly - “Make this Circuit”
Finn Riggins - “Hraka”
The Halo Benders - “Bury Me”
Black Happy - “3-Day Weekend”
Freak in a Jar - “Kick Your Momma When She's Down”
Central Boise Library - “Molehill into a Mountain”
fourgirldrive - “Vroom”
Butterfly Train - “Rain”
The Very Most - “Bleess”
The Zekes - “Let's Have a Party”
La Knots - “Cannons and Daggers”
The Skulldiggers - “Green-Fleshed Zombies”
Dirtboy - “Stung”
Caustic Resin - “Healing Cough”
Graveltruck - “Cousin It”
Treepeople - “No Doubt”
Fury III - “Flying Dog Vomit”
Dirt Fishermen - “Lost Country Fair”
Ian Waters - “Jet Plane”
G. America - “This is the Sound”
Splinter - “Speak of Moons”
The Unicorn Feather - “Bad News”
The Left Coast - “Predating the Existence of Cancer”
State of Confusion - “MX”
Geyser - “Sample”
The Hand - “Fall Inside”
The Invasion - “Homecoming”
El Dopamine - “Snare”
Crogan - “Call You Up”
Brett Netson Family - “Title TBD 5”
Discoma - “Paramecium”
Stuntman - “Before Going Under”
Brandon Follet - “Unreleased 14”
Built to Spill - “nowhere nothin' fuck-up (live)”
System and Station - “For the Pawns”

12-19-08 playlist

Sorry for all the glitches! This show will play tonight and a couple of times next week to give you all a chance to listen.

Hey Idaho rock fans! Sorry for the technical diffuculties the last couple of weeks, we're back and hopefully running smoothly this week. Lots of goodies and introductions this week... starting with a Christmas track from The Very Most, courtesy of Mr. Jeremy Jensen. Then we have a long “Medley Track” by H-Hour, a Boise-to-Seattle band from the mid 80's whose drummer Tad Doyle went on to become TAD. Another 80's Boise band, The Pugs, make their first appearance, too... I don't know a lot about them, but you can find more tunes by clicking the link. Scott Scmaljohn's The Hand and Boise hardcore stalwarts, Haggis, also make their first appearance (lots of Haggis tracks are available online courtesy Mark Hanford). Two bands in the Caustic Resin family tree also make their debut... Tommy Dirtweed (led by Caustic bassist Tom Romich) and Size of Alaska (led by Pat Perkins of The Universal, Godzounds and Caustic).  Many thanks to folks who have contributed or helped me find new/old music: Jeremy Miller, Jeremy Jensen, Phil Merrell and Mark Hanford.

The Very Most - “This year, Christmas came November 4th”
H-Hour - “Medley”
Caustic Resin - “Semiconductor”
Discoma - “Svelte”
Le Fleur - “Grooming Song”
Ian Waters - “The Radio Drown”
Raspberry - “Alex's Day”
The Hand - “The Hand”
Piso Mojado - “Track 3”
Size of Alaska - “alien pigs”
Haggis - “Large Size Houses”
Treepeople - “Funnelhead”
Low_Fi - “Paper Airplanes”
Kris Doty - “Pivot”
The Pugs - “Don't You Now It's A Sin”
Stuntman - “Inspiration Please!”
Black Happy - “Washcloth”
Built to Spill - “Carry the Zero”
Splinter - “Every Six Months”
Bovalexia - “Moodswing”
The Suffocation Keep - “Holes and Clouds”
Narcissus Isthmus - “Glass Course Compass”
25 Wheeler - “Don't Tell Me”
Grant Ave - “Tallest”
Hillfolk Noir - “Other Eye on the Crow”
Bock - “Final Sunset”
Tommy Dirtweed - “Coo-Koo”
Bonefish Sam & His Power Orchestra - “Smorgasbord”

12-02-08 playlist

Hope you all can make it to the Third Annual Practice New Year's Eve at the Bouquet on Friday, Dec. 5 it's a benefit for Boise Community Radio and should be a fun night. There's another benefit for the station the next night, Saturday, Dec. 6 Finn Riggins will be playing at the VAC. They will be sharing the night with a few other bands including Hard Math stars The Very Most and Super XX man (Scott Garred of Raspberry, Crogan). Big thanks to Jeremy Miller of Fort Hazel, Fury III, Lowbelly and Monster Dudes... he hooked me up with some great stuff including the Piso Mojado track here... don't know much about them, but my pals Ed and Sam (25wheeler & plumb bob) were involved. Check out Jeremy's awesome radio at therearemillions.com. 

Built to Spill - “Goin' Against Your Mind”
Piso Mojado - “Track 1”
Butterfly Train - “Insomnia”
Freak in a Jar - “Eat Your Brain”
The Universal - “Dead Battery Accident”
Stuntman - “The Right Channel”
The Invasion - “Emperor of San Francisco”
Graveltruck - “Sulk”
The Unicorn Feather - “Golden Wing”
Finn Riggins - “Pancakes”
Splinter - “Put that Down”
Central Boise Library - “A Flying Fly”
Treepeople - “Stay”
The Very Most - “HIstorical Movement”
A Man Called Sun - “Road Song”
The Suffocation Keep - “Walking Distance”
el Dopamine - “Worksong”
Flycatcher - “Craig”
Dirt Fishermen - “Plum”
Fury III - “George at the Bottom”
System and Station - “Axic”
Dirtboy - “Trentmobile”
Caustic Resin - “Keep On Truckin”
Grant Ave - “Bright Yellow”
The Halo Benders - “Will Work For Food”
mayerforceone - “Angels”
Narcissus Isthmus - “4-way stop”
Juan Fangio - “Walk All Over You”
Morningly - “Metro”

11-25-08 playlist

Today's show kicks off with a mayerforceone track courtesy of Mr. Mayer himself.... good stuff and we hope to hear a full album from that camp in the near future. We also have the introduction of the old 90's Moscow band Royball. I have to admit that I wasn't the biggest fan of theirs, but guitarist Carlos Lantz is a fellow Lewiston High School alumni and was hands down the best guitarist in our school... his talents are on display here. Check out radioboise.org for info about the upcoming Practice New Year's Eve benefit at the Bouquet... Hard Math radio allstars The Universal and The Invasion will be headlining and playing some interesting covers from decades past... 

mayerforceone - “shadowboxing”
The Treatment - “Crown of Stars”
Grant Ave. - “Chevy Van”
Treepeople - “Ballard Bitter”
Raspberry - “Twin”
Discoma - “Making You Good Feeling”
Kris Doty - “Lately”
25 Wheeler - “Gluegun”
Royball - “Slices”
Falldowns - “Belt Loop”
Dirt Fishermen - “Passion”
Finn Riggins - “Flying”
Pajama Party in a Haunted Hive - “Glacial Ruins”
Caustic Resin - “Taste”
Hillfolk Noir - “Voodoo”
Flycatcher - “Jewish Carpenter”
Geyser - “A Part of Me”
Clock - “In Hospital”
Stuntman - “Mostly Always”
Lovey - “No”
Le Fleur - “Truce”
Bovalexia - “The Lunar Light”
fourgirldrive - “Fireflies in my Head”
Brett Nelson - “Sunshine”
Low-Fi - “Kitty Suicide”
The Yukon and You - “Marker Fight”
Doug Martsch - “Cracked and Crazed”
Kid Corduroy - “Hambone”
One Fantastic Bind - “Carbonation Sickness”
State of Confusion - “Education”
Built to Spill Caustic Resin - “When Not Being Stupid Is Not Enough”

11-18-08

Here's your weekly helping of Idaho tunes... starting off with some monster rockers from Caustic Resin. one of my personal favorite boise bands of all time. If you are new to the Hard Math radio show and curious about any of the bands, do a search on this blog for more info (most bands are linked to their webpages... or those of subsequent musical projects). You can also email me here with any inquiries and I'll do my best to answer any questions or point you in the right direction. Thanks to the many great musicians who have shared tunes with me, both new and old.

Caustic Resin - “Mysteries Of...”
Caustic Resin - “Hold Your Head Up”
Falldowns - “Big Lake”
Finn Riggins - “Geology”
Treepeople - “Liquid Boy”
Flycatcher - “Strong Chin”
Dirt Fishermen - “Vena Cava”
Fury III - “D.D.N.D.I.A.V.”
The Zekes - “Be My Test Tube Baby”
Gusto - “3rd Degree”
Bock - “After the War”
Crogan - “Terrible Shoes”
Built to Spill - “Hazy”
Freak in a Jar - “Locust Bean Gum”
Graveltruck - “Love and Boredom”
Lowbelly - “Motel West Virginia”
Butterfly Train - “Decompression”
Central Boise Library - “The Saddest Thing”
el Dopamine - “eXtension”
Booth Sitter - “Those Are Not Real Monsters, Just Robot Parts”
The Very Most - “Polygraph”
Dirt Fishermen - “Tongue in a Bag”
G. America - “Helicopter”
Black Happy - “Such Much Suck”
Godzounds - “Jobromofoho”
The Invasion - “Evinrude”
Narcissus Isthmus - “Army Murders on Beta”
Brandon Follet - “Unreleased 13”
Hillfolk Noir - “I'll Dig Through My Marbles”
A Man Called Sun - “The Traveller”