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Reading from this today on White Noise. Hart Crane was a phenomenal and often overlooked 1920s poet who died at the young age of 32 under tragic circumstances. To accompany a selection of his work, I’ll be playing music from Sufjan Stevens, Mazzy Star, Scott Walker and more. Tune in here until 3PM EST.
The first podcast of my new radio show White Noise, which pairs literature and music, is available to stream above or download here. In this broadcast, which aired live on Sunday 9/20 at 2PM EST, I read sections of Don DeLillo’s 1985 National Book Award winning novel and postmodern classic White Noise, and cross-analyzed them with a selection of tracks. Don’t worry -- there’s nothing on here from The Airborne Toxic Event. View the original post at the WYBC website, and check out my playlist of musical pairings below.
Playlist:
1. Aphex Twin - “Flim”
2. Stiff Little Fingers - “White Noise”
3. Bruce Springsteen - “No Surrender”
4. Talking Heads - “Warning Sign”
5. Parquet Courts - “What Color Is Blood”
6. Parquet Courts - “Careers in Combat”
7. Rilo Kiley - “All The Drugs”
8. Panda Bear - “Take Pills”
9. Devo - “Uncontrollable Urge”
10. Desaparecidos - “Man and Wife, the Former (Financial Planning)”
11. Desaparecidos - “Man and Wife, the Latter (Damaged Goods)”
Tune in again this Sunday at 2PM on WYBC.
Originally broadcast live on Sunday, April 5th, at 8PM EST. How The Turntables is a weekly, hourlong, vinyl-only program on WYBCx hosted by Programming Director Chris Cappello.
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The nostalgic associations that we form with our favorite (and sometimes least favorite!) songs are compounded by the materiality of a vinyl record. On this broadcast, I spun a few records of mine that have interesting stories behind them, sharing those narratives in between tracks. From an unexpected and retrospectively bittersweet Replacements find to the time that Julian Koster of The Music Tapes slept at my house, join me as I take a Proustian trip through my vinyl-collecting past.
Check out the playlist below, and stream or download the podcast at the bottom.
Playlist:
Jacques Brel – “Les Bigotes” (Jacques Brel, Barclay, 1963)
HHH – “Barcelona 92″ (Sin identidad / Intellectual Punks, B-Core, 2009)
HHH – “Vota”
Guided By Voices – “Game of Pricks” (Alien Lanes, Matador, 1995)
Guided By Voices – “The Ugly Vision”
Midi & The Modern Dance – “I’m Sure You’ll Call” (Make It Easy On Yourself, Audubon Records, 2010)
Midi & The Modern Dance – “Where Do You Think I Belong?”
Midi & The Modern Dance – “Reprise”
The Mountain Goats – “Up The Wolves” (The Sunset Tree, 4AD, 2005)
Kind of Like Spitting – “Hook” (One Hundred Dollar Room, Count Your Lucky Stars, 2002-2014)
Kind of Like Spitting – “One Bird, One Stone”
The Replacements – “Unsatisfied” (Let It Be, Twin-Tone, 1984)
Why? – “Good Friday” (Alopecia, Anticon, 2008)
The Music Tapes – “Takeshi & Elijah” (Mary’s Voice, Merge, 2012)
Tonight at 8PM Eastern Time on WYBC: How the Turntables re*turns* with a broadcast called TRAVELING SONGS, about how vinyl records can connect us, both via their materiality and their musical content, to a world outside of our limited geographic/national perspectives. Tune in at the link above in a little over an hour! I’ll repost this link when the time comes.
Listen to our Director Brett Littman speak about The Drawing Center's history, the joys of the intimate museum experience, what we are planning for the coming year, and more. Littman speaks with Yale University Radio’s Brainard Carey.
On Yale University Radio WYBCX’s website:
After four years as deputy director of MoMA PS1, where he managed five departments and oversaw the Warm Up summer DJ festival and wps1.org (now ArtonAir.org) radio, Brett Littman assumed the post of executive director of The Drawing Center in 2007.
Littman brought with him experience as a writer and critic as well as an administrator. Since 1996 he has contributed news and commentary to a range of international publications and critical essays to many scholarly catalogues.
As a curator, Littman has organized a number of noteworthy exhibitions. For The Drawing Center, he curated Yüksel Arslan: Visual Interpretations; Greta Magnusson Grossman: Lighting and Furniture; Leon Golub: Live & Die Like a Lion?, which was awarded the `Best Show in Non-Profit Gallery’ award by AICA USA in 2010, as well as Drawing and its Double: Selections from the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome (2011) and co-curated with Joanna Kleinberg, Sean Scully: Change and Horizontals (toured to four Europe venues in 2012-2013 and will be at TDC in September 2013). Upcoming projects for The Drawing Center include: a collaboration with the Ecole des Beaux-Arts Paris on an exhibition of 400 years of portrait drawings and Runaway Girl, a new video commission by Turkish artist Inci Eniver (both April 2015); an exhibition of Richard Pousette-Dart’s drawings from the 1930’s (September 2015); a large scale installation by Louise Despont and an exhibition of Jennifer Bartlett’s Hospital 2012 pastels (both January 2016).
For the American Folk Art Museum, New York, Littman organized Eugene Von Bruenchenhein in 2010, for Japan Society Gallery, he curated the drawing component of Mariko Mori: Rebirth October 2013 – January 2014 and David Lynch Naming for Kayne Griffin Corcoran Gallery in Los Angeles, November 2013 – January 2014.
Originally broadcast live on Sunday, March 8th, at 8PM EST. How The Turntables is a weekly, hourlong, vinyl-only program on WYBCx hosted by Programming Director and Zine editor-in-chief Chris Cappello ’17.
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Sufjan Stevens has a new record on the way this year, and you may or may not have already heard it. To celebrate, join me as I exclusively play through some selections from my favorite Sufjan Stevens records — If you haven’t gotten into this amazing artist yet, now’s your chance!
Check out the playlist below, and stream or download the podcast above or at the bottom.
Playlist
“Flint (For the Unemployed and Underpaid)” (Michigan, Asthmatic Kitty, 2003)
“Marching Band”
“Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother!” (Illinois, Asthmatic Kitty, 2005)
“The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is Out To Get Us!”
“Size Too Small” (Seven Swans, Asthmatic Kitty, 2004)
“We Won’t Need Legs To Stand”
“A Good Man Is Hard To Find”
“He Woke Me Up Again”
“Seven Swans”
“Futile Devices” (The Age of Adz, Asthmatic Kitty, 2010)
“Too Much”
“Vesuvius”
“Here I Am!” (Hit & Run Vol. 1 7″, 2012)
“Chicago” (Illinois, Asthmatic Kitty, 2005)
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Originally broadcast live on Sunday, March 1st, at 8PM EST. How The Turntables is a weekly, hourlong, vinyl-only program on WYBCx hosted by Programming Director and Zine editor-in-chief Chris Cappello ’17.
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“What do we get when we listen to a record with the intention of feeling better, or letting ourselves feel bad?”
On the first broadcast after a weeklong break, I set my sights on a ritual that should be familiar to any vinyl heads. Draw the curtains, lock the door, throw a record on the turntable, lie down, and shut out the world for a while — it’s time for a therapeutic session with the best psychiatrist you know: your vinyl collection. Join me as I examine this process and consider — what benefit do we get out of listening to sad music, anyway? What’s the best kind of music to listen to when you’re feeling down?
Check out the playlist below, and stream or download the podcast above or at the bottom of the post.
Playlist:
Patsy Cline – “That Wonderful Someone” (Country Great, MCA, 1969)
Patsy Cline – “Hungry For Love”
Patsy Cline – “Too Many Secrets”
Jens Lekman – “Tram #7 To Heaven” (When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog, Secretly Canadian, 2004)
Jens Lekman – “Happy Birthday, Dear Friend Lisa”
Jens Lekman – “I Want a Pair of Cowboy Boots” (I Know What Love Isn’t, Secretly Canadian, 2012)
Girls – “Hellhole Ratrace” (Album, True Panther, 2009)
Told Slant – “I Am Not” (Told Slant, Broken World, 2012-2014)
Told Slant – “Pine Tree Lines”
Sufjan Stevens – “In The Devil’s Territory” (Seven Swans, Burnt Toast, 2004)
Sufjan Stevens – “To Be Alone With You”
Phosphorescent – “Song For Zula” (Muchacho, Dead Oceans, 2013)
Silver Jews – “We Are Real” (American Water, Drag City, 1999)
Silver Jews – “Wild Kindness”
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[Podcast #3: Membership] [Podcast #2: The Shelf] [Podcast #1: Origins]
