Back at it again this week ! There are lotsa cool things to look forward to in the bay area this week, so many things I just had to dedicate a show to ‘em, sandwiched inbetween some pretty rad new releases. So tune in, and if you’re in the bay area, come out and support your scene.
Tuesday July 12th - Ducktails, Nic Hessler @ Starline Social Club
Tuesday July 12th - Crush, Heavy Petting, White Knuckles, Future Shapes @ Different Fur Studios
Friday July 15th - Fear of Men, Puro Instinct, Plush @ Swedish American Hall
Until next time, folks.
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Setlist
Blue Jeans - Summer's Almost Gone from Songs Are Easy (Jigsaw)
Charm Bags - Trouble from Typical Girls (Emotional Response)
Mercury Girls - Collisions from The Key Studio Sessions (WXPN)
Nic Hessler - I Feel Again from Soft Connections (Captured Tracks)
Free Time - All Four Season from In Search of Free Time (Bedroom Suck)
Fear of Men - Onsra from Fall Forever (Kanine)
UV-TV - Fear from Demo (High Fashion Industries)
Tony Molina - Change My Ways from Dissed & Dismissed (Slumberland)
Toys That Kill - Times We Can't Let Go from Joyce Manor Split (Recess)
Royal Headache - Down The Lane from Royal Headache (What's Your Rupture?)
Soar - Corpse Flower from Wilt (Self-Released)
The Shivas - Gun In My Pocket (Revisted) from Better Off Dead (K)
Unity - p from p (Self-Released)
Crush - Soviet Life from Crush II (Self-Released)
Susan - Waffle from Never Enough (Volar)
Alice Bag - He's So Sorry from Alice Bag (Don Giovanni)
Royal Headache - Stand and Stare from Stand and Stare (Matador)
Hey ! It’s that time again where I’d like to present you with an hour of lovely music finds that I’m really stoked about, sandwiched between my stupid-excited-(and ridiculously nervous) airbreaks.
This week’s show features a buncha indiepop and jangle pop! Including a combination of new releases (Failed Flowers, Parasol, Trust Fund), older ones (The Fizz Bombs, Choo Choo Train), and some releases from 1993 which some argue may be the best year for indiepop. Enjoy !
Until next time !
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Setlist
Choo Choo Train - Many Happy Returns from Eye Pilgrims Split (Woosh)
Snowbirds - Yesterday's Gone from Beautiful Dreamers (Shiny Sunset)
Change of Seasons - Wish I Had from Seahorses (Red Roses For Me)
Confetti - Jenny from The Waaaaah! CD (Bring On Bull)
The Bartlebees - You Are Still Beautiful from The Bartlebees (Little Teddy Recordings)
Failed Flowers - Coke Floats from Failed Flowers (25 Diamonds)
The Happy Birthdays - She Breaks Your Heart from Happy Birthdays To You! (Popkonst)
The Fizzbombs - Surfaround from The Surfin' Winter (Calculus)
The Anyways - Wish Away from Sunshine Down (Marineville)
Snowbirds - Starshine from Beautiful Dreamers (Shiny Sunset)
Johnny Dee - Goodbye My Favourite Girl from Motorbike Loves You... (Vinyl Japan)
The Danny Says - Good Start (A Little Early Calling It Going Steady) from Summer Bliss (Fabulous Friends)
Literature - O.J. from Arab Spring (Square of Opposition)
Parasol - Collect Dust from Affliction (Lost Sound Tapes)
Bulldozer Crash - Changing from Sarah Said (Sunday)
Trust Fund - Crab Line from We have always lived in The Harolds (It Takes Time)
Terry Malts* - No Good For You from Killing Time (Slumberland)
*Terry Malts are playing at The Chapel in the Mission District on Monday June 27th, go seeee them !
Hey folks! My portion of Fractal Chambers is now officially back on BFF.fm after skipping town for various weeks on end.
This week’s show features a buncha new cuts within the past few weeks (such as Supermoon’s fantastic Playland EP, Mercury Girls, Frankie Cosmos, Dogbreth, and more), in additon to some more older classic indiepop like The Lucksmiths, Peru, and the Lilys.
You can listen to this set in its entirety along with me fumbling my words to get over my on-air anxiety by clicking the link above !
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Setlist
Endless Bob Brown - It's Harder from Endless Bob Brown (Firestation)
The Lucksmiths - After the After Party from A Little Distraction (Matinée)
Eva & John - Ciempiés from Cesar Gutierrez (Self Released)
Pia Fraus - Sailing Yes from After Summer (SekSound)
Teen Body - Daymoon from Get Home Safe (Self Released)
Supermoon - Bottleships from Playland (Mint)
Cave Babies - Bad News from Accomplish Nothing (Lost Sound Tapes)
The Felt Tips - Going Natural from Nobody's Business (Candy Twist)
Mercury Girls - All That Heaven Allows from Ariana (Slumberland)
Peru - Twisted Sister from Across Blue Skies (Jigsaw)
Pet Milk - Christian Solicitors from Philadelphia Punklife (Self Released)
Lilys - Dandy from A Brief History of Amazing Letdowns (SpinART)
The World - In Pieces from Managerial Material (Upset The Rhythm)
Dogbreth - Cups and Wrappers from Second Home (Asian Man)
Supermoon - Witching Hour from Playland (Mint)
Frankie Cosmos - Fool from Next Thing (Bayonet)
Stephen's Shore - Ocean Blue from Stephen's Shore (Cloudberry)
Hey folks! This past week’s installment of Fractal Chambers features a buncha really rad and badass femme fatal fronted punk, garage, and pop sounds ranging from the ‘60s to the present day.
Tune in for a combination of early punks like Androids of Mu and Swedes Livin' Sacrifice alongside fantastic current Vancouverettes The Courtneys and Pups (feat Rose Melberg on drums!!), and more. Cool stuff.
This will be the last episode of Fractal Chambers for the month (skipping town yeah). I’ll be back on the airwaves in May to throw more tunes at ‘cha!
Setlist
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The Tammys - Egyptian Shumba from Egyptian Shumba (Jazzman)
The Mo-Dettes - White Mice from White Mice / Masochistic Opposite (Mode)
The Flowers - [Life] After Dark from Confessions (Pop Aural)
Livin' Sacrifice - Mentalsjuk from San (Rosa Honung)
Androids Of Mu - Bored Housewifes from Blood Robots (Fuck Off)
Henry's Dress - Over 21 from Rocketship Split (Slumberland)
Girls At Our Best! - Pleasure from Pleasure (Happy Birthday)
Ex Hex - All Kindsa Girls from Single (Merge)
Flesh World - The Wild Animals In My Life from The Wild Animals In My Life (Iron Lung)
These local ex-Brilliant Colors folk will be playing with Sheer Mag (!!) at the Rickshaw Stop Saturday Apr 23rd
French Vanilla - Thru the Earth from Demo (Self Released)
Girlpool - Ideal World from Before The World Was Big (Wichita)
These folks will be headlining a show along with French Vanilla and Try the Pie at the Rickshaw Stop on Tuesday 4/19
Diet Cig - Scene Sick from Over Easy (Father/Daughter)
Playing with Plush (local acts featuring members of the She’s) at Bottom of the Hill Saturday April 16th
The Courtneys - Nu Sundae from The Courtneys (Hockey Dad)
Movieland - 1-2-3-4 Get Fucked from Blows Up (Green Burrito)
TV Ugly - Slow Thighs from UCLA Yankee Cola (Alarum)
Grass Widow - Unbelievable from Shannon And The Clams Split (Wacky Wacko)
Supermoon - I've Been Told from Comet Lovejoy (Alarum)
Pups - Pop Song from Pups (Green Burrito)
Sleater-Kinney - The Size Of Our Love from The Hot Rock (Kill Rock Stars)
Fear Of Men - Island from Fall Forever (Kanine)
First single off the new Fear of Men album ! Fall Forever will be out on May 29th. Should be really f’in rad
Sweden has a history of being the breeding grounds for fantastic indiepop. For this week’s installment of Fractal Chambers, I wanted to highlight some of their gems, whilst mixing in some indiepop from outside of Sweden (I couldn’t help myself).
This show features Swedish Indiepop acts from the 90s (Happydeadmen, Poprace) in addition to newer acts (Moon Types, Whalo, The Sun Days). Threw in a Television Personalties track in there too because why not??
Setlist
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Non-Swedish acts indicated so with an asterisk (*)
50 000 000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong - Amelia from Baby Trash (Marsh-Marigold) *
Lorelei - Sometimesmethinks from The Bitter Air (Slumberland) *
Bouquet - Dream All The Way from The Pink Blossom In Outer Space (Bring On Bull) *
Girl of the World - Green Song from Le Cirque (Parasol) *
The Spinning Wheels - A Million Years from A Million Years (Tea Time)
Life Studies - Girl on Fire from Homeward (Occasion) *
The Goon Sax - Telephone from Up To Anything (Chapter Music) *
Happydeadmen - Heaven No! from Eleven Pop Songs (Ceilidh Productions)
Gentle Tuesday - Lovesong from A Gentleman's Laundry (A Boy Wonder)
Liechtenstein - Roses In The Park from Survival Strategies In A Modern World (Slumberland)
The Best Wishes - I Never Wanted Any of This from Bella Vista Split (Turn Up The Treble!) *
Moon Types - Know The Reason from Know The Reason (Jigsaw)
Poprace - If I Was Handsome from Hanggliding At Sea (Marsh-Marigold)
Secretly French - Not Enough Flowers from Rough Demos (Self Released)
Television Personalities - Geoffrey Ingram from ...And Don't The Kids Just Love It (Rough Trade) *
The Faintest Ideas - No Gravity from This Is How Fast You Go (Jigsaw)
The Sun Days - You Can't Make Me Make Up My Mind from Album (Run For Cover)
I really like making friends with folks who know more about the music I love than I do. And if I find out they’ve never had an opportunity to do radio, I usually highly urge them to take over my show for the week, primarily because 1- people who know that much about music really shouldn’t keep it to themselves, and 2- there’s a 100% likelihood of me being completely blown away by what they put together.
So for this week, I was super grateful to have my friend Ryan do a guest show on the latest installment of Fractal Chambers. As a very seasoned record collector, he knows his shit (and saying so feels like such an understatement).
This week we have pop of the new wave, dreamy, and experimental sorts. From the likes of SF natives The Units to the wacky-and-brilliant R. Stevie Moore, Ryan totally destroyed it with a buncha really f’ing killer cuts.
Check it out! Ryan’s set can be listened to in its entirety following the link above.
Setlist
Cleaners from Venus - Summer in a Small Town from Under Wartime Conditions (Modell)
R. Stevie Moore - I Like To Stay Home from Glad Music (New Rose)
Scott Walker - It's Raining Today from Scott 3 (Philips)
The Durutti Column - Never Known from LC (Factory)
Julia Holter - Hello Stranger from Loud City Song (Domino)
Yo La Tengo - Let's Save Tony Orlando's House from And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (Matador)
John Maus - Hey Moon from We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves (Upset! The Rhythm)
Cocteau Twins - Summerhead from Four-Calendar Cafe (Fontana)
Felt - Crystal Ball from Gold Mine Trash (Cherry Red)
The Embarrassment - (I'm a) Don Juan from The Embarrassment (Time To Develop)
High-Functioning Flesh - Hunger Cries from Definite Structures (Dais Records)
Units - High Pressure Days from Digital Stimulation (415 Records)
The Camberwell Now - Working Nights from Ghost Trade (Ink)
