Johnny Whopper episode 13

We're back! Winter break forced us to take a short hiatus from our radio show, but we're starting what will hopefully be a long and fruitful 2011. Also new this year is Adam's weekly column devoted to amazing and/or important tracks.

01. Dirty Beaches - Speedway King

02. California Wives - Blood Red Youth

03. World Champion - Dream

04. Beach Fossils - Calyer

05. Smith Westerns - All Die Young

06. La Sera - Devils Hearts Grow Gold

07. Young Prisms - If You Want To

08. John Lennon - Stand By Me [Adam's weekly column]

09. Ducktails - Art Vandelay

10. Kurt Vile - Jesus Fever

11. Clive Tanaka y su Orquestra - All Night, All Right

12. White Fence - Lillian (Won't You Play Drums)

13. Times New Viking - No Room To Live

14. No Age - Teen Creeps

Those Clive Tanaka and California Wives tracks were both beautiful and uplifting in a time when too many tracks just go for the "bummer" vibes. Also great to hear some new stuff from La Sera, whose upcoming S/T LP should be exciting.

On a related note, I've noticed that a lot of the hyperlinks in earlier posts are messed up - I'll go back and fix them sometime. For now, though, it should be fairly obvious where they should be taking you, even if they just lead to 404s.

Johnny Whopper episode 8

Broadcast on 11/15/10:

01. Beach Fossils - Distance

02. Korallreven - The Truest Faith

03. Games - Shadows in Bloom

04. Chrome Sparks - I'll Be Wait For Sadness Comes Along

05. Cocteau Twins - Elizabeth Fraser (Star Slinger remix)

06. Ducktails - Dorm Room

07. Tennis - Take Me Somewhere

08. Frankie Rose and the Outs - Little Brown Haired Girls

09. Memoryhouse - Heirloom

10. Millionyoung - Calrissian

11. Purling Hiss - Don't Even Try It

12. Kurt Vile - In My Time

13. Weekend - Monogah, WV

14. Brian Eno - 2 Forms of Anger

15. The Fresh & Onlys - Summer of Love

16. Chuck Person - Lightning Strikes

Gorgeous Korallreven track "The Truest Faith" was the highlight for me this week - grab it over at GvB. Chrome Sparks' grammatically-challenged "I'll Be Wait For Sadness Comes Along" was also a beautiful surprise. And Kurt Vile's new track "In My Time" is only increasing my anticipation for this Saturday's show.