Johnny Whopper episode 22

Aired on 4/25/2011:

01. Alan Sparhawk - How the Weather Comes Over the Central Hillside

02. LAKE R∆DIO - I Wish You Could See In Technicolor, Too

03. Julian Lynch - Fort Collins

04. Clams Casino - Realist Alive

05. Neko Case - This Tornado Loves You

06. Kohwi - Reeling the Warmth

07. d'Eon - Kill A Man With A Joystick In Your Hand

08. John Maus - Believer

09. Bad Brains - Big Takeover

10. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run

11. Swimming - Summer Turtleneck

12. Nicolas Jaar - Colomb

13. Sunshower Orphans - Sunspots

14. Speculator - I Wait All Day

Really great playlist today. Of course I could just be saying that because I picked all the songs, but I am loving Clams Casino and d'Eon right now. Also can't wait for forthcoming albums by Swimming and John Maus that should be dropping soon.

Premiere: Swimming

Neil Lord (of Niall & Voyageurs et al.) sent me this track from his new project, Swimming, with Jared Hennessey (pictured above) and Brian Kupillas of Where's Lawrence?. Really great stuff, kinda sounds like Robin Pecknold singing for Real Estate, only with more sinister undertones than that pairing would imply. Swimming's album will be out "in the next few days," according to Neil, and the track below, "Summer Turtleneck," is apparently about "a guy coming to our bassist's door in Houston and asking, 'Do you wanna fool around?'" It's also going to be featured on the forthcoming Art Amiss 13 compilation.

Swimming will also be playing at the final show at the Brick House, along with Cats Purring denizens FLIGHT and Fort Smith surf-punkers Taifas. If you're not super stoked about this show already, you should be.

MP3: Swimming - "Summer Turtleneck"