Ears Wide Open - Mike's Podcast

Hello Again,

Something old, something new, something borrowed......sorry about that, I've nearly finished with it.....and something blue.

This time;

The Style Council - Blue Cafe

Pablo - Record Shop 

Bobby Hepp - Sunny

Lift To Experience - Just As Was Told

Rodriguez - Sugar Man

The Antlers - Sylvia

Sunset Rubdown - Silver Moons

Pixies - Where Is My Mind?

Cypress Hill - Hits From The Bong

Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side

Monkey Swallows The Universe - Elizabeth & Mary

Doug Sahm & The Sir Douglas Quintet - Song Of Everything

Tony Galla - In Love

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Ohio

Besnard Lakes - Destruction

Department of Eagles - Floating On The Lehigh

Ben Folds Five - Underground

Slade - Miles Out To Sea

Lawrence Arabia - Look Like A Fool

AA Bondy - When The Devil's Loose 

Ivor Cutler - I Used To Lie In Bed

For the dead & the dying.

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?