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.

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

Johnny Whopper episode 1

Playlist for the first episode of JOHNNY WHOPPER:

01. Deerhunter - Helicopter
02. Ice Cream Shout - Tattooed Tears
03. No Age - Chem Trails
04. Tamaryn - Love Fade
05. MV & EE - Feelin’ Fire
06. OOIOO - SOL
07. Cloudland Canyon - Sister
08. Lower Dens - I Get Nervous
09. The Art Museums - Oh Modern Girls
10. Memphis Pencils - Helium Efforts
11. Mark McGuire - The Vast Structure of Recollection
12. My Dry Wet Mess - Yours Truly
13. Tennis - Cape Dory

Kind of an all-over-the-place show, but we’re just getting warmed up.

Tune in next week, and every week, at 8 PM (CST) Mondays, at www.khdx.fm or 93.1 FM if you’re on campus.

No podcasts this week, but I’m told they’ll start happening soon.