PLAYSHEET - April 11, 2009 (Cinnamon and Gravy...again)

NOTABLES:

The most notable aspect of this week's show was the return of former host/extreme bukkae-er Jesse Blondin. Jesse's last appearance on the show was marred by my inability to professionaly manipulate my coordination and digestive system. With the past firmly behind us (and smeared on the side of a garbage can), we tried once again to re-ignite the magic of yore. When all was said and done, the only thing that was truly ignited was the better part of CJAM's studio. Regardless, it was certainly a show not to be missed.

ARTIST/SONG/ALBUM

• Drums and Wires: Fragments (Drums and Wires)
• Spoon: Well Alright (Dark Was The Night)
• Wavves: No Hope Kids (Wavvves)
• Drummer: Diamonds to Shake
• M. Ward: Rave On, To Save Me (Hold Time)
• Superchunk: Learned to Surf (Leaves In The Gutter)
• Michachu: Vulture
• Black Lips: Drugs, Short Fuse (200 Million Thousand)
• Arcade Fire: Lenin (Dark Was The Night)
• El Goodo: Esperanto (S/T), Feel So Fine (Coyote)
• Papercuts: Dead Love (You Can Have What You Want)
• Coconut Records: Wires (Davy)
• Beck: Pay No Mind (Snoozer) (Mellow Gold)
• Modest Mouse: Doin' the Cockroach (The Lonesome Crowded West)
• Nirvava: Negative Creep (Bleach)

Guests: Jesse Blondin and Francois Jacques

PLAYSHEET - April 4, 2009

NOTABLES:

• PICK OF THE WEEK: Black Lips - Trapped in a Basement (Not sure how to peg this one as anything other than unique. Their sound isn't anything new but it should say something that I'm still listening to it days later)



• SCORE! 20 Years of Merge Covers (Collection of covers of notable Merge artists as done by contemporary counter-parts or some straight out of left field. Apples in Stereo's cover of Neutral Milk Hotel and Times New Viking cover of Arcade Fire are more interesting than they are enjoyable. Like hearing the song for the second-first time)

ARTIST/SONG/ALBUM

• Still Flyin: Following the Itenerary, Forever Dudes (Never Gonna Touch the Ground)
• Peter Bjorn & John: It Don't Move, Lay It Down (Living Thing)
• Apples in Stereo: King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 3 (SCORE! 20 Years of Merge Covers)
• Times New Viking: Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels) (SCORE! 20 Years of Merge Covers)
• The Soft Pack: Right and Wrong, Future Rock (The Muslims EP)
• The Boy Least Likely Too: Saddle Up, When Life Gives Me Lemons I Make Lemonade (The Law of the Playground)
• Papercuts: A Doctor's Lament, The Machine Will Tell Us So (You Can Have What You Want)
• Black Lips: Trapped in a Basement (200 Million Thousand)
• Condofucks: What'cha Gonna Do About It (Fuckbook)
• Surf City: Free the City (Surf City EP)
• The National: So Far Around the Bend (Dark Was The Night)
• Husker Du: The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill (New Day Rising)
• Buzzcocks: Walking Distance (Operators Manual)
• The Ponys: Small Talk (Turn the Lights Out)
  

Guests: Francois Jacques and Paul Ibrahim