Playlist 09/07/05

The Magnetic Fields/ Holiday/ Take Ecstasy With Me
Doug Hoyer/ Busy Busy Busy/ Teenage Romance
The Endless Bummer/ No Beach Out of Reach/ Southern California
Bubblegum Lemonade/ Doubleplusgood/ I'll Never Be Yours
Crystal Stilts/ Alight of Night/ Verdant Gaze
Brighter/ Disney/ British Summertime
Belle & Sebastian/ I'm Waking Up to Us/ Marx & Engels
God Help the Girl/ God Help the Girl/ Pretty Eve in the Tub
The Left Banke/ Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina/ Pretty Ballerina
Butcher Boy/ Profit in Your Poetry/ Profit In Your Poetry
Cats on Fire/ Our Temperance Movement/ Letters From a Voyage to Sweden
Hormones in Abundance/ (floating around the internet but officially unreleased?)/ Silent Obligations
Dear Nora/ Three States/ Second Birthday
My Friend Wallis live on-air: "Running", "In the Winter", "Free Day"
My Friend Wallis/ When the Blue Turned Yellow/ On a Vacation
Kimkio/ En Az Iki/ En Falza Sekiz/ Dogru
P:ano/ The Den/ After School Special
Candles/ The Second Old Life Compilation/ Follow the Leader
Blank/ The Third Old Life Compilation/ Tripe

Thanks My Friend Wallis and Almonds, Cohen for dropping by the station and doing a live studio session with us! It was a lot of fun, and I think it sounded great. Hopefully, the complete studio sessions and interviews will be uploaded to the UVic website as a podcast later this month. Perhaps you will also be able to hear this edition of Sunday Surprise on campus stations across the country if we decide to share the show with them. Thanks Donald from CFUV program We Are Ugly but We Have the Music and the now famous Burger Blog for providing extra production support.

I should also review the Pterodactyl Sneak Attack Productions show since I'm blogging about Sunday already. Iji (Seattle) and Watercolor Paintings (Santa Barbara) visited the island and joined Almonds, Cohen and Ruthie and Winfield for a show at the Bayanihan Centre. Ruthie and Winfield played really well, despite their lack of violin. I actually liked the synth substitute--you folks should keep it! Pick up their new CD, Rough Bubba Trauna; it looks and sounds awesome. Watercolor Paintings gave us the first non-picnic sit-down set Victoria has seen for awhile. (I can't remember sitting down since Second Story or old Fifty-Fifty days, but perhaps that's just because I never actually sit down at shows anymore because I'm always running around getting stressed out or feeding off of Cody's stress.) I thought they were pretty good, but I was a little surprised that I wasn't more into it. A few years ago, I might have been absolutely thrilled that Rebecca and her brother Josh--that guy with the familiar face and radio show--were here in Victoria; however, 2008 brought me so many bands that are ripping off the C86 cute-but-still-with-a-punk-rock-edge thing (which I like way more) that I haven't felt a need to listen to stuff that's only cute without being particularly witty or snarky to get my pop fix. In this way, Watercolor Paintings felt like a blast from my personal musicology past. Still, how can you really go wrong with a brother-sister band that plays baritone ukulele and celtic harp? Iji was fun, but really loud, and the group screaming ("aah!") was a little brusque after the gentle Watercolor Paintings. The singer actually has a really sweet indiepop voice, though, and I'm glad they rocked out a little. This band also featured some indie pop celebrities: Chris from Indiepages, who was wearing an Eric's Trip shirt chosen specially for his visit to Canada I'm sure, and Jon Manning of Lost Sound Tapes. I don't feel like I can properly comment on Almonds, Cohen, because I hear them jamming so often in my living room. Largely, this concert was a huge geekfest--a comforting, DIY geekfest. Lost Sound Tapes had all their merchandise for sale, including the Endless Bummer's Donald Fagen Mix Tape.

It was a busy Sunday, a busy weekend, and a busy week. So it's no surprise that I'm sick now, but getting better. Also, the eczema on my hands is flaring up, so I just swallowed a spoonful of hemp oil because it's supposed to help my cell membranes or something? Eugh. Swallowing oil feels so gross...