Johnny Whopper: unouomedude

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).

December 6, 2010

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

October 26, 2010

people they stare at me

Been really digging the new free EP from Jacksonville, FL based unouomedude (you-know-you-owe-me-dude). We've played his standout track, "Buildings" on our show before, and we're also loving the final track on his EP, "Happy Birthday." You can get his Marsh EP for free at his bandcamp. There are also a few tracks available for download on his last.fm page. If that's not enough for you, head over to his immaculately designed (but sometimes slow-to-load) website. He's not playing live shows yet, but here's hoping that he takes his blissed-out, glowing, beat-driven tracks on the road soon.

MP3: unouomedude - Buildings

October 20, 2010

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

-Click to download-

"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.

October 19, 2010

Johnny Whopper episode 4

01. Balum - Camila
02. Women - Eyesore
03. Two Bicycles - The Holy Forest/Forever
04. La Sera - Never Come Around
05. Seapony - Dreaming
06. Real Estate - Reservoir #3
07. unouomedude - Buildings
08. Mark McGuire - Brain Storm (for Erin)
09. Perfume Genius - Mr. Peterson
10. Pepepiano - Bruce Springsteen
11. Sufjan Stevens - I Walked
12. Jay Reatard - Wounded
13. COOLRUNNINGS - Burnout
14. Squinch Owl - When I Woke Up

I mentioned a few websites on the show which I have linked up here, and I also added one to La Sera, which is the solo project of Katy Goodman of Vivian Girls. This is probably my favorite show so far - I loved Knox’s tracks from La Sera, Sufjan, and Seapony, as well as my own from unouomedude, Squinch Owl, and Mark McGuire.

UPDATE: COOLRUNNINGS made The Awl’s list of awfully-named bands at CMJ.