Echoes/Ephemera is my weekly show on WZBC 90.3 FM. I play mostly demos and home-recordings, and some other self-released lo-fi tracks. It airs every thursday from 6-7 pm. This is what I played today:

6:01pm 6:00pm Procession “Mementos” from Fade EP (self. 2011)
6:05pm SaraLee “Circle Of Hands” from DEMO (saralee.bandcamp.com 2011) L
6:07pm Speedy Ortiz “Kinda Blew” from the death of speedy ortiz
6:11pm Kathleen Hanna “I Wish I Was Him” from Woodcore Vol. One Comp (Kill Rock Stars 1994)
6:14pm Slingshot Dakota “Waiting Room (cover)” from demo (if you make it dot com)
6:16pm Cuffs “Albert Kroft (demo)” from 4-track demos (self 2010) L
6:21pm Widowspeak “Ghost Boy” from October tape (self 2010)
6:27pm P.S. ELIOT “Troubled Medium” from The Bike Wreck Demo (self 2008)
6:29pm Vivian Girls “Telepathic Love (Wipers cover)” from DEMO (2008)
6:31pm Young Adults “Impression” from Demo CD EP (2010)
6:35pm Life And Limb “First World Problem” from bandcamp (self)
6:37pm Dum Dum Girls “Hey Sis” from Dum Dum Girls 12inch CD EP (Captured Tracks 2008)
6:40pm Tiger Trap “Puzzle Pieces” from Tiger Trap 7‑Inch Single (K www.anti.com 1993)
6:43pm Girlfriends “i was here but i disappear” from first tape
6:46pm The Pains of Being Pure at Heart “I Wanna Go All the Way (Demo)” from Say No to Love (Lost and Lonesome 2010)
6:50pm The Babies “TROUBLE” from Cry Along with the Babies (New Images) —demo
6:55pm Galaxie 500 “Ceremony (demo)” Single —found it on the internet

Download the archive for 2 weeks after the show via zbconline.com.

2:49 am  •  10 February 2012

Echoes/Ephemera is my weekly show on WZBC 90.3 FM. I play mostly demos and home-recordings, and some other self-released lo-fi tracks. It airs every thursday from 6-7 pm. This is what I played today:

6:00pm Thee Oh Sees “Can You See (Demo)” from Zork’s Tape Bruise Demo’s (Castle Face 2009)
6:03pm Toro Y Moi “Dead Pontoon” from June 2009 (2012)
6:06pm Night Manager “Do I” from //////// (self 2011)
6:09pm Life Size Maps “It’s Leaking” from Magnifier (self 2011)
6:12pm Pet Milk “Christian Soliciters” from Ladyfest Boston comp
6:14pm Shimmering Stars “I’m Gonna Try (Demo)” from 2010 demos (self)
6:19pm Shoppers “I” from Silver Years (self 2011)
6:22pm Modern Hut “Wrong” single (2011)
6:24pm Parasol “Read Instead” from Crush Season (self 2011)
6:26pm Web Dating “Can’T Get Enough of You” from Lovin You, Freakin Easy (2011)
6:30pm Pale Yellow “Panel of Experts” from demo (2011)
6:33pm Nord Express “Promise (demo)” from Slumberland Records the first 20 years
6:35pm Little Spoon “slumber” from slumber/truss demos (self 2011)
6:38pm Mutual Benefit “Auburn Epitaths” from The Cowboy’s Prayer (Kassette Klub 2011)
6:44pm Twin Sister “Peach (instrumental demo)” Single (2010)
6:47pm Potty Mouth “Dog Song” from Bad Bad (Demo) (self 2011)
6:51pm P.S. ELIOT “Entendre” from The Bike Wreck Demo (self 2008)
6:53pm Heaven’s Gate “POGO” single (2011)
6:55pm Julie Ruin “The Punk Singer” from Julie Ruin Single (Kill Rock Stars 1998)
7:00pm Saara from You can be a Wesley “I got it real bad” single (2012)

The archive is available to download for 2 weeks here.

3:51 am  •  3 February 2012  •  1 note

Today I hosted the first installment of Echoes/Ephemera on WZBC: two hours of home-recordings, demos, self-releases, and DIY label releases. Airing every Thursday from 7-9am through December.

7:22 pm  •  15 September 2011  •  3 notes

4:51 pm  •  6 September 2011  •  1 note

Playlist above, audio archive here.

2:07 pm  •  24 August 2011

4:33 pm  •  16 August 2011

I played these songs on WZBC this morning:

7:02am Beach Fossils “Calyer” from What a Pleasure CD Album (Captured Tracks www.capturedtracks.com/ 2011)

7:08am Alan Watts “Spectral Void” Single (self)

7:14am Washed Out “Amor Fati” from Within and Without CD Album (Sub Pop 2011)

7:18am Moon Duo “When You Cut” from Mazes CD Album (Sacred Bones 2011)

7:23am Ema “Anteroom” from Past Life Martyred Saints CD (Redeye 2011)

7:27am Memoryhouse “Modern Normal” from The Years (Sub Pop)

7:33am John Maus “Quantum Leap” from We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves MP3 Album (Upset The Rhythm 2011)

7:36am Braids “Lemonade” from Native Speaker CD Album (Flemish Eye www.jagjaguawar.com 2011)

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2:29 am  •  13 July 2011

‘Blank Tape Club’ is my show on WZBC this summer. The show airs Tuesdays 7-9 am, meaning that on Tuesday I am awake before most of Allston.

Since it is early, I try to start the show slow and droney, then move on to spacey psych-pop, then more upbeat/jangly noisepop, and end with heavier garage rock stuff.

I am excited about ~blank tape club~ and hope it lasts longer than one summer. The ‘blank’ refers more so to the characters involved, versus the state of an actual blank tape. The name was inspired by the film Blank City and the song “Blank Generation”, and also sort of by online music communities, which sometimes seem like updated interpretations of tape clubs to me.

It’s nice to not be restricted to only playing new music — instead I can play whatever I’m feeling at the moment which is pretty fun. I know there are people listening but since it is so early I’ve often forgotten that I’m not just playing music for myself.

archive here.

7:02am Woods “Sol y Sambra” from Sun & Shade (Woodsist www.woodsist.com 2011) N —Woods play Brighton Music Hall on July 11 with Kurt Vile and the Violators.

7:14am Prince Rama “Thunderdrums” from Shadow Temple CD Album (Paw Tracks www.paw-tracks.com/ 2010) —next record ‘Trust Now’ out oct. 4 via Paw Tracks //psyched//

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6:19 am  •  6 July 2011  •  1 note

Hi! Blank Tape Club is my show on WZBC this summer, Tuesday mornings 7-9am until September! Today I played these songs:

7:00am Beach Fossils “DISTANCE” from What a Pleasure CD Album (Captured Tracks www.capturedtracks.com/ 2011)

7:03am Vivian Girls “The Other Girls” from Share The Joy CD Album (Polyvinyl 2011)

7:11am The Pains of Being Pure at Heart “Strange” from belong CD Album (Slumberland www.slumberlandrecords.com 2011)

7:14am Seapony “I Never Would” from Go With Me (Hardly Art 2011)

7:18am Ducktails “Art Vandelay” from Ducktails III : Arcade Dynamics CD Album (Woodsist www.woodsist.com 2011)

7:21am La Sera “Left This World” from La Sera CD Album (Hardly Art 2011)

7:25am Black Tambourine “We Can’t Be Friends” from Black Tambourine CD Album (Slumberland www.slumberlandrecords.com 2010)

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3:52 pm  •  7 June 2011

Archive here, playlist below. If I sound like a zombie, pls excuse me, it’s because the show I booked at Great Scott the night before went way later than expected. I didn’t get out of there until around 2:30ish, then was up by 5:30 to get to ZBC for 7. Eeeek.

7:03am Herbcraft “Road to Agartha” from Discovers the Bitter World of Agartha (Hello Sunshine 2010)

7:08am Memoryhouse “Lately (Deuxiame)” from The Years EP MP3 EP (2010)

7:11am Beach Fossils “Fall Right In” from What a Pleasure CD Album (Captured Tracks www.capturedtracks.com/ 2011)

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1:51 pm  •  1 June 2011  •  1 note