3.17.09 playlist

“Over My Head” - Godzoundz
“Track 3” - Piso Mojado
“Wrong” - Gusto
“Number Two” - Brett Nelson
“Some Say She's Evil” - Spondee
“The KKK Took My Baby Away” - Tuck Nelson
“Apartment Walls” - Pete Holly
“Man Made Soul” - Ian Waters
“Let Me Get This Straight” - Central Boise Library
“all the lilacs in Ohio” - Lowbelly
“Half Step” - Caustic Resin
“Who Are You-nit” - Gordie Howe Trio Unit
“Electric Chair” - Eightball Break
“On The L” - Clock
“Big Lake” - Falldowns
“Mederclinch” - Dirtboy
“Skylab” - Flycatcher
“tail chaser ”- eL Dopamine
“Flying” - Finn Riggins
“Trailer Park” - Treepeople
“Caflywompus” - Splinter
“turn me on mr. tambourine man” - Lovey
“War” - Low-Fi
“Cool Car” - H is for Hector
“Horse Sense” - Dirt Fishermen
“Orange2” - Discoma
“Love makes you fee”l - G. America
“Pokey” - Raspberry
“South” - Racing Vent
“Euphio Question” - Fury III
“Nighttime Theater” - Stuntman
“I Try” (Macy Gray Cover) - Built To Spill
“Caught Up in Your Breakdown” - Juan Fangio

3-10-09 playlist

Hello city of cold naked trees! New to the show this week are recent east-Idaho-to-Boise transplants Spondee. I first saw these guys play at VaC before Christmas and they turned in a set of exuberant, boyish pop capped off with a nice cover of The Very Most's “Sod Off”. It's charming to see a young band pay homage to Mr. Jeremy Jensen and co. with the cover and with their basic sound... kind of reminds me of another young band from years back called The Yukon and You fronted by the same Jeremy and proudly wearing their influences (from Boise and elsewhere) on their sleeves. Spondee front man Clint Vickery sent me a handful of tracks and “Lovelorn Robot” has been a favorite at the Hard Math Cave this week. Fun band and they seem to be playing shows pretty regularly in addition to prepping their debut record... Watch out for them. I can't help adding that a certain local rock veteran remarked that Spondee Clint looked like “Matt Damon’s love child.” Now I can’t shake that association... but it's certainly not a bad thing for a young band to have a frontman who looks like a moviestar. * We also have a track from a mysterious mid-1990's Olympia, WA band called decoy decoy... turns out this band accounts for some of Brian Mayer’s wanderlust between his time in classic Boise band H is for Hector and his current outfit, mayerforceone... good stuff. Birthday wishes go out to Universal guitarist Phil Merrell this week.

Lovey - “Sepentina”
Pete Holly - “Bustin' Out”
Spondee - “Lovelorn Robot”
Built to Spill - “Else”
Morningly - “They Call Me Yo”
eL Dopamine - “Boddering”
Central Boise Library - “That Ain't Bad”
decoy decoy - “december, '94”
Flycatcher - “Weather King”
Size of Alaska - “Dollar Store Duct Tape”
Freak In A Jar - “The 'Dee' Remix”
Ticks - “TV's On”
Kid Corduroy - “Probably”
Kris Doty - “Eggs”
The Hand - “An Excuse”
Graveltruck - “If I Had”
The Invasion - “The Government”
Geyser - “Horace Dropped the Needle”
Lowbelly - “weightlifer”
Pajama Party in a Haunted Hive - “Fly Thru Dark”
Splinter - “Not This Time”
Bock - “Head Full of Stars”
Butterfly Train - “Memory Of”
Discoma - “Tiny Legs”
Septic Death - “Child”
Magnetics - “Wish I Was Cool”
The Halo Benders - “Foggy Bottom”
Crogan - “Put Down”
G. America - “Secret Remix”
Le Fleur - “Silver and Gold”
Hillfolk Noir - “Belly Up to the Sun”
The Very Most - “What I Think I'd Like to Leave Here”

3-03-09 playlist

This week kicks off with some unearthed eL Dopamine from a 1996 recording session in Seattle. Thank you, John O. Other than that I'll let the tunes do the talking this week.

eL Dopamine - “Plaster Ears”
The Unicorn Feather - “The Old Man and the Young Man”
Finn Riggins - “Hraka”
Stuntman - “The Devil”
Falldowns - “Belt Loop”
Eightball Break - “My Shell”
La Knots - “New Age Social Pads”
State of Confusion - “Windows”
Fury III - “Autumn Leaves”
fourgirldrive - “Girl”
The Treatment - “Night Life”
The Left Coast - “Courting Like a Mexican”
Lowbelly - “Minokichi meets the snow maiden”
Butterfly Train - “Disgruntled Pony Ride”
Ian Waters - “Eighteen”
Gordie Howe Trio Unit - “Nag Unit”
Bock - “Dead by Christmas”
Royball - “Chub”
Dirt Fishermen - “Scuba Diver”
Low-Fi - “Overtime”
Jeremy From Boise - “Quilt”
The Invasion - “The Madness”
Treepeople - “Big Mouth Strikes Again”
25 Wheeler - “Frankie”
G. America - “Hot burrito two”
The Blue Flames - “555”
Splinter - “Whatever”
Black Happy - “A. Bedini”
Built to Spill - “Allen the Cowboy” (Big Dipper live at the Crocodile)
The Zekes - “Let's Have a Party”
Size of Alaska - “Working Man”
The Halo Benders - “Volume Mode”
Caustic Resin - “A Fistful of Violence”
The Pugs - “Shudder, Shake and Squirm”
Central Boise Library - “Eyes on the Prize”
The Very Most - “Neuron”
The Hand - “Understand”
With Child - “You”
Geyser - “Swell”

2-24-09 playlist

Rotating Tongues:2 was a roaring success this weekend and a reminder that Boise has as many or more vital bands than it has at any other point. I saw many new bands for the first time like ATTN, Nollifur and Juntura who I hope to get into the mix soon. It was cool to see the older guys who had been on the original comp rock as hard as young kids like La Knots (who's set the first night ruled). Self proclaimed “elder statesman” of the scene John O'Neil led his eL Dopamine through a blistering set the first night that set the bar high for the rock the followed both nights. I don't want to mention too many more things because the bands and the performances were uniformly awesome. What does this have to do with my radio show you ask? Well, this weekend reaffirmed the need for a show like mine and locally programmed community radio in general... With so many great artists playing original music in the valley there needs to be as many venues as possible for their music to get heard and create excitement about their performances.

This week’s show has one new-to-us band, an old Boise punk/new wave band called The Ticks. The tracks were sent to me by someone and Mr. Bonefish Sam confirmed that it was a Boise 7" release. Enjoy!

Haggis - “Falling Squirrels”

Dirt Fishermen - “In Your Heaven”
Magnetics - “Caravine”
Clock - “Red Letters”
Stuntman - “8 Women & 2 to 3 Men”
Bovalexia - “Manipulator”
The Halo Benders - “Do That Thing”
Ticks - “Fodomat”
Black Happy - “Black Radio”
Bonefish Sam and His Orchestra - “Cheap Gear Jam”
Central Boise Library - “Truth’s Revealed”
The Invasion - “The Law”
Narcissus Isthmus - “Land Station”
Brett Nelson - “Years Too Late At Least For Now”
Raspberry - “Euro K Nothing”
Pajama Party in a Haunted Hive - “Shooting Star”
Built to Spill - “Sidewalk”
Godzoundz - “From the Last Page”
Finn Riggins - “Geology”
Lowbelly - “line of automobiles”
Pete Holly and the Looks - “What Did I Say?”
Doug Martsch - “Window”
G. America - “These Hands”
Splinter - “Scene Report”
Lovey - “complaint #3”
Dirtboy - “Bus Stop”
Treepeople - “Cartoon Brew”
Septic Death - “Thaw (Cold World)”
Caustic Resin - “Cancerous Eye”
Kid Corduroy - “Thin”
Juan Fangio - “Underground”
Veronica and the Mental Foreplays - “World's Sex REcord, 300 Men & Jerry Springer”
A Man Called Sun - “(Reprise)”

The Very Most - “Friendly Friend”

Flycatcher - “Caught Up”

25 Wheeler - “Roger’s Gone”

02-17-09 playlist

Hey everybody... It's Rotating Tongues:2 week and this show is packed full of the artists who will be appearing at the event this weekend (and a few from the original compilation). Hope you can make it to VaC in Garden City on  Friday, Febrauary 20th and Saturday, February 21st for two nights of brand new music from some of Boise's most exciting artists. This week I also ask the question: Which is the best 2 minute 38 second contemporary Boise pop song, The Very Most's ”Dodged Ev’ry Bullet, Pt 1” or Central City Music Company's “Lorie”? I’m quite smitten with both.

Finn Riggins - “Box Elder”

ReVoLtReVoLt - “Farewell Address”
Bone Flower - “1600 Miles”
Treepeople - “Something Vicious for Tomorrow”
La Knots - “Spring Song”
With Child - “High On a Rocky Ledge”
Low-Fi - “Where You Are”
Magnetics - “Rotten Sunday”
Dirt Fisherman - “Hole Song”
Bonefish Sam and His Power Orchestra - “Dumb Cute Ditty”
Crogan - “Silver Scooter”
The Very Most - “Dodged Ev're Bullet, Pt 1”
Discoma - “Cubed”
Netson Family - “God is Wrong”
Hillfolk Noir - “Born A Balladeer”
Doug Martsch - “Instrumental”
Geyser - “I Again”
Central City Music Company - “Lorie”
Kris Doty - “Pivot”
Le Fleur - “Grooming Song”
Caustic Resin - “Drive #49”
eL Dopamine - “Canvas”
Ian Waters - “The Radio Drown”
Butterfly Train - “Blame Weight”
Universal - “Dead Battery Accident”
Hive - “Butterfly”
Built to Spill - “Now & Then”
Freak in a Jar - “Crack Down”
mayerforceone - “shadowboxing”

2-10-09 playlist

Splinter - “After All”
Red Set- “In This State”
Built to Spill - “Linus and Lucy”
La Knots - “Commie Song”
Black Happy - “Up the Faith”
Dirt Fishermen - “Breakin' Bones”
Shack Nasty - “Down”
Eightball Break - “Parenthetical Love Song For Janeane Garofolo”
With Child - “Don't Want None”
Discoma - “My Every Nerve”
Caustic Resin - “I Feel”
Lovey - “miss k.”
Stone Garden - “SF Policeman Blues”
Falldowns - “Trench Broom”
G. America - “Fake Love”
The Halo Benders - “Love Travels Faster”
Hillfolk Noir - “Preface to a Hole”
Clock - “A Man and His Dream”
Haggis - “Don't Tell Me”
Septic Death - “Control”
Bovalexia - “Backwards”
Fury III - “First Kiss”
Le Fleur - “Ceramic Dog”
Treepeople - “Gre”
H is for Hector- “Rock Sniper”
Gordie Howe Trio Unit - “Buglas Unit”
Magnetics - “Choke it Down”
Central Boise Library - “The Ballad of Angela Davis”
The Suffocation Keep - “An Overload”
Finn Riggins - “DeTamble Wings”
The Hand - “No Sleep”
Low-Fi - “Broken Compass”
The Very Most - “The Word "Almost" ”
Kid Corduroy - “Layaway”
State of Confusion - “Trashed”
Royball - “Blow”
Bonefish Sam & His Power Orchestra - “Over Here”

2-03-09 Playlist

This list is a little longer than my allotted time, so the last couple of tracks might get cut off... sorry. Last week the Stone Garden song didn't play and I want to make sure enough time was filled in case it happened again. Enjoy.

Caustic Resin - “People Fall Down”
Low-Fi - “1957”
The Blue Flames - “Electric Car”
Finn Riggins - “Pannin' for Gold”
Godzounds - “Yellow and Read”
Treepeople - “Treepeople”
Chris Bock - “Connie”
Ian Waters - “Come Back”
Crogan - “Put Down”
Juan Fangio - “I Won't Compromise You”
The Halo Benders - “Bombshelter, Pt. 1”
Dirtboy - “Pacer X”
Grant Ave - “Dress”
The Treatment - “Mr. Goodbar”
Flycatcher - “Weather King”
Lowbelly - “alpha twelve”
Pajama Party in a Haunted Hive - “Oh Yeah!”
Central Boise Library - “Start Transmission”
The Skulldiggers - “Werewolf”
Mayerforceone - “Angels”
Geyser - “Save It”
Boise Cover Band - “I Love You More” (Lee Williams and the Cymbals cover
Pete Holly - “Are You Gonna Be My Girl”
Kris Doty - “Lemonade”
Dirt Fishermen - “If I Could”
Butterfly Train - “Distorted, Retarded, Peculiar”
el Dopamine - “Faded”
Gordie Howe Trio Unit - “His Hands Are Made of Fire”
Stone Garden - “Oceans Inside Me”
Built to Spill - “Easy Way”
Netson Family - “Title TBD”
Discoma - “Wetslap”
Size of Alaska - “Danger”