Johnny Whopper episode 18

Broadcast on 3/28/11:

01. EMA - Milkman

02. tUnE-yArDs - Gangsta

03. Craft Spells - Party Talk

04. Dead Gaze - Fishing With Robert

05. Farms - Just cuz I can't do a cartwheel doesn't mean I don't know how to party.

06. unouomedude - Frequency

07. Times New Viking - Ways to Go

08. Shimmering Stars - Dancing to Music I Hate

09. Muddy Waters - Let's Spend the Night Together [Adam's weekly column]

10. The Weeknd - What You Need

11. Birthdays - Howolding Girls

12. Bill Callahan - Drover

13. Coma Cinema - Caroline, Please Kill Me

14. Fabric - Camera

15. shortcircles - Iwishthatyouwould(pleaseloveme)

16. Anika - Sadness Hides the Sun

Super happy about the music on this week's show. I kinda found Farms and Birthdays out of nowhere, and they are making sick tunes. Ditto for somewhat more well-established artists Times New Viking, tUnE-yArDs, and EMA, who are also making next-level shit and have great new albums out (or almost out).

JW's Top 20 Tracks of 2010

We played the top 13 on our 11th episode of Johnny Whopper - here are the top 20, a composite of mine & Knox's lists.

20. Neil Young - Sign of Love
19. Dirty Gold - California Sunrise
18. No Age - Chem Trails
17. The Drums - Let's Go Surfing
16. Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal (Voice by Antony)
15. Sufjan Stevens - Too Much

14. Cee-Lo Green - Fuck You
13. Sam Amidon - Relief
12. unouomedude - Buildings
11. Beach House - Take Care
10. Fyfe Dangerfield - When You Walk in The Room

09. Kurt Vile - In My Time

08. Emeralds - Candy Shoppe

07. Robyn - Dancing on My Own

06 Chrome Sparks - I'll Be Wait for Sadness Comes Along

05. The War on Drugs - Comin' Through

04. Dead Gaze - Take Me Home or I Die Alone

03. Kanye West - Runaway (feat. Pusha T)

02. Surfer Blood - Swim

01. Deerhunter - Helicopter

Mixtape #1

1) Birthplace- Mon Khmer

2) Dreaming- Seapony

3) Easy- Fiveng

4) The Vast Structure of Recollection- Mark McGuire

5) Tip of Your Tongue- Porcelain Raft

6) Never Come Around- La Sera

7) Reservoir #3- Real Estate

8) Don't Wake the Dead- Guards

9) In the Library- Spook Houses

10) On Land- TV Girl

11) Western Wood- The Liberty Belles

12) Birthday Party- Unouomedude

13) Georgia- Big Troubles

14) Summer on the Rocks- Tropical Punk

15) Waterparker- Botany

16) On a Journey- Wet Wings

17) Take Me Home or I Die Alone- Dead Gaze

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"Dreaming" by Seapony is a great little lo-fi track. Seapony hails from Seattle, WA and this track contains catchy guitar hooks over nice girl vocals. Head on over to Double Denim Records to pre-order a copy of the 7", which the first 150 copies will be sold on clear seafoam vinyl.

"Take Me Home or I Die Alone" by Dead Gaze is a swampy psychedelic jam from Mississippi boy, Cole Furlow. This track is significantly different than his earlier stuff as Dead Gaze churns out even muggier tunes with creeping melodies. The single is dropping in late November on Fire Talk.

Johnny Whopper episode 3

01. The War on Drugs - Baby Missiles
02. Kurt Vile - Beach on the Moon
03. Twin Shadow - Castles in the Snow
04. Still Corners - Endless Summer
05. Guards - Don't Wake the Dead
06. Memory Screen - Chester
07. Wet Wings - Running Like a Man
08. Big Star - Thank You Friends
09. Balam Acab - See Birds (Moon)
10. Belle and Sebastian - The Fox in the Snow
11. Sam Quinn - Oceans
12. Dead Gaze - This Big World

So we definitely had a few pitchers of Stella before this show, which would explain the Big Star, the Belle & Sebastian, and the fact that I used the phrase "stone cold classic" to describe both of those tracks. Nevertheless, we're upstanding guys, and we stand by our selections, in particular Dead Gaze, which we played last week & who is one of our current favorite up-and-comers.

Johnny Whopper episode 2

01. Neil Young - Walk With Me
02. Psychic TV - The Orchids
03. Blue Hawaii - Lilac
04. Mountain Man - Loon Song
05. Fiveng - Easy
06. Dead Gaze - Take Me Home or I Die Alone
07. Sea Pinks - Japanese Knotweed
08. Blackhawks - Sunday Morning
09. Christmas Island - Black Cloud
10. Deerhunter - Basement Scene
11. Alasdair Roberts - The Daemon Lover
12. C V L T S - RADD PITT
13. Welcome Back Sailors - I’ll Be There
14. Pears - Mossel Bay
15. Low - Sunshine
16. Julian Lynch - Still Racing

Knox had some killer selections this time around - the Blue Hawaii, Fiveng and Dead Gaze tracks all slayed. My picks were more understated compared to Knox’s noise-pop bombast but I stand by them, especially Blackhawks, who legitimately rule, and Neil Young, whose new album is fire.

A little more on Sea Pinks, whom I was pretty tongue-tied about: they’re on CASS/FLICK and are related to Girls Names somehow. They share a member or something, yadda yadda, who blogs about it at BEACH COMBER.