Ears Wide Open - Mike's Podcast

Happy New Year, I think. Not much cheer out there at the moment, so you might as well stay in and listen to music. Talking of which, here's some;

The Noveltones - Left Bank
Kenickie - Punka
Animal Collective - Bluish
El Guincho - Palmitos Park
Pavement - Stereo
Beach House - Darling
Department Of Eagles - Balmy Night
Curtis Mayfield - Eddie You Should Know Better
David Bowie - Sound & Vision
Music Tapes - The Minister Of Longiatude
The Jim Jones Revue - 512
Harper's Bizarre - Come To The Sunshine
Jackdaw With Crowbar - Fuck America
Neon Neon - Dream Cars
A Camp - Stronger Than Jesus
James Yorkston - Temptation
Roxy Music - Same Old Scene
Jenny Lewis - See Fernando
Kelley Stoltz - Memory Collector
Port O'Brien - I Woke Up Today
Hayes Carll - She Left Me For Jesus
Salad - Cardboy King
Of Montreal - An Eluardian Instance
Hope Of The States - The Red, The White & The Blue

It's good to be here again after a summer spent shaking my head at the lack of interesting music coming from these shores and sheltering from the awful English weather. I've still managed to amass a pile of new albums however and that's why this first podcast in a while is a little new track heavy.
So to the music;
Polyphonic Spree - Soldier Girl
Micah P. Hinson - We Embraced
Little Jackie - 28 Butts
The Ruby Suns - Adventure Tour
Voice Of The Seven Woods - Second Transition
Pink Floyd - The Great Gig In The Sky
Patrick Watson - Close To Paradise
Beachwood Sparks - Juggler's Revenge
Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir - Empire State Express
Lord Skywave - Dialogues
Swan Lake - All Fires
The Little Ones - Spoke On A Wheel
We All Have Hooks For Hands - Hold On, C'mon
Swirlies - Bell
Alton Ellis - Willow Tree
The Hold Steady - Sequestered In Memphis
Giant Sand - Flying Around The Sun With Remarkable Speed Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood
Nouns - Teen Creeps
Manitoba - Crayon
Lilys - Scott Free

The Olivia Tremor Control hail from Georiga, USA. They were founders of the Elephant Six collective, a group of experimental musicians and friends that spawned, among others, Apples in Stereo, Of Montreal, Elf Power, Great Lakes and Essex Green. I've concretated on the bands nearest to The Olivia Tremor Control on the E6 family tree as an introduction to this wonderfully psychedelic underworld of music.

If you want to know more about these bands and the Elephant Six Collective I can recommend their very own website: 'www.elephant6.com'.

Dedicated to Trev Faull, without whom I may never have discovered everything you hear on this Ears Wide Open special.

Circulatory System – Yesterday’s World
Olivia Tremor Control – Love Athena
Olivia Tremor Control – Define A Transparent Dream
Neutral Milk Hotel – The King Of Carrot Flowers (Parts 1,2 and 3)
Olivia Tremor Control – Hideaway
The Sunshine Fix – Everything Is Waking
The Sunshine Fix – Digging To China
Olivia Tremor Control – Jumping Fences
Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane, Over The Sea
Olivia Tremor Control – Holiday Surprise 1,2,3
Olivia Tremor Control – Grass Canons
A Hawk And A Hacksaw – A Hard Row To Hoe
Neutral Milk Hotel – Marching Theme
Neutral Milk Hotel – Where You’ll Find Me Now
Olivia Tremor Control – Courtyard
The Sunshine Fix – Hide In The Light
Pipes You See, Pipes You Don’t – Karaoke Free
Neutral Milk Hotel – Song Against Sex
Circulatory System – Lovely Universe
Olivia Tremor Control – No Growing (exegesis)
Neutral Milk Hotel – Ghost
Neutral Milk Hotel - 10
Olivia Tremor Control – NYC-25

Hello, this is what I gots for you this time.

Curley Moore & The Kool Ones – Funky, Yeah?
Jilted John – Jilted John
Cats In Paris – Foxes
Half Man Half Biscuit – National Shite Day
The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Why?
Beachwood Sparks – The Sun Surrounds Me
Portishead – Magic Doors
Les Georges Leningrad – Supa Doopa
Clinic – Tomorrow
Bobby “Boris” Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers – The Monster Mash
Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens – What Have You Done?
The Black Keys – Lies
The Cardigans – Sick And Tired
Mgmt – Electric Feel
The Sonics – Psycho
Fleet Foxes – The River
The Courteeners – Not Nineteen Forever
Seasick Steve – Things Go Up
Devotchka – New World
Hot 8 Brass Band – Fly Away
Portishead - Deep Water

Where's DJ Metrognome?

Hello again. Fancied a couple of months off to recharge my interest in new music. Hope to have another show ready for Easter Weekend. So what have we got here then?

The Sugarman 3 – Chicken Half
Blur – You’re So Great
Los Campesinos! – Broken Heartbeats Sounds Like Breakbeats
Justice – D.A.N.C.E.
British Sea Power – Waving Flags
Ida Maria – Drive Away My Heart Tonight
The Heliocentrics – Before I Die
Glasvegas – Daddy’s Gone
Let’s Go Sailing – Too Many Stars
Nobody – Wake Up And Smell The Millennium
The Magnetic Fields – Too Drunk To Dream
Nick & The Bad Seeds – Jesus Of The Moon
Eels – P.S. You Rock My World
Menomena – Rotten Hell
Koma Mosi – The Harbours Band
Jennifer Gentle – Telephone Rigging
Beach House –Wedding Bell
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing
Arthur & Yu – Flashing The Lobby Lights
Future Pigeon – High Rolling
Goldfrapp – Eat Yourself
Jimmy Cliff – Wonderful World, Beautiful People

For Ellie
xxx

Sorry for the delay. Christmas, the new job, a computer failure and various social events have meant that spare time has been at a premium. I hope you all had a fantastic festive period. I'll be spending some time over the coming weeks looking for new artists from all over the world, in the meantime I've put together some old favourites.

Hear (geddit?) to kick off Ears Wide Open for 2008…..

Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Hwyl Fawr I Pawb
Lemon Jelly – ‘69
Iron & Wine – The Devil Never Sleeps
Joy Division – She’s Lost Control
Ben Folds Five - Underground
Pepe Deluxe - Go For Blue
Rolano Alphonso - Phoenix City
The Montrose Avenue - Shine
Epic45 - Stars In Spring
Hydroponics Feat. Kenny Knotts - Sunshine Dub
Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't - Karakoo Free
Midlake - She Removes Her Spiral Hair
British Sea Power - Fear Of Drowning
Traffic - Paper Sun
Morwell Unlimited Meets King Tubby's - Concord
Cypress Hill - Ain't Goin' Out Like That
The Pigeon Detectives - I'm Not Sorry
The Sunshine Fix - Sail Beyond The Summer
Holy Fuck - Lovely Allen
The Sounds Of Tomorrow - Space Child
Super Furry Animals - Ice Hockey Hair