playlist for 2/13

special VD playlist! every** song with the word love in the title!

artist - song - album
*new release

stars - your ex - lover is dead - set yourself on fire
belle & sebastian - i don't love anyone - tigermilk
vierners - sinister love - sinister devices
nouvelle vague - love will tear us apart - nouvelle vague

the magnetic fields - no one will ever love you - 69 love songs, vol. 2
anthony green - she loves me so - avalon
faunts - feel.love.thinking.of - feel.love.thinking.of
dum dum girls - ship of love - blissed out
the magnetic fields - the one you really love - 69 love songs vol.1
the bird and the bee - how deep is your love -

*kiss kiss - lovers - the heart of the nightlife
the thrills - your love is like
julieta venegas - canciones de amor - limon y sal
fitz & the tantrums - l.o.v - pickin up the pieces

blacklips - everyone loves a cocksucker
black tambourine - for ex - lovers only - s/t
the raveonettes - expelled from love - lust, lust, lust
love and longing - stellastar* - harmonies for the haunted

king khan and the shrines - 69 faces of love - what is?!
zoe - love
rogue wave - publish my love - descended like vultures
best coast - feeling of love - make you mine
bare wires - seeking love - seeking love

white lies - love lockdown -
let's wrestle - we are the men you'll grow to love love - in the court of wrestling let's
velvet underground- lady godiva's operation
os mutantes - quem tem medo de brincar de amor - a divina comedia ou ando meio desligado
the magnetic fields - love is like a bottle of gin - 69 love songs, vol. 3

tallest man of earth - love is all- the wild hunt
cabas - tu boca
taken by trees - greyest love of all - east of eden
bon iver - skinny love - for emma forever ago

velvet underground - chelsea girls
stars - how much more - live
brandi carlile - heaven - xobc ep
beach house - lover of mine - teen dream

*devotchka - 100 other lovers - 100 lovers
yeasayer - love me girl - odd blood
empire of the sun - walking on a dream - walking on a dream

flight of the conchords - business time - HBO one night stand

**not every song but most of 'em!! :]

2/6 playlist!!!

I want to thank Nausheen once again for coming in and talking about her film The Ground Beneath Their Feet! Please check out her movie site and if you'd like to contribute to her getting her film finished go to IndieGoGo to donate!

here's her movie trailer! thanks again Nausheen!

The Ground Beneath Their Feet 2010 Trailer from Nausheen Dadabhoy on Vimeo.

On to the playlist!:

artist - band - album
*- new releases up in here
+ request

Warpaint - undertow - the fool
land of talk - cloak and cipher - cloak and cipher
jed and lucia - you we're made of stone - superhuman heart
the bird and the bee - I can't go for that - interpreting the masters volume 1: a tribute to hall and oats

broken social scene - love and mathematics - feel good lost

*devotcha - 100 other lovers - 100 lovers
*deerhoof - I did crimes for you - deerhoof vs. evil
*the decemberist - calamity song - the king is dead
no bunny - motorhead with me - first blood
wanda jackson - hard headed woman - queen of rockabilly

*grouplove - colours - s/t
*the go team! - buy nothing today - rolling blackouts
*the veils - the stars came out once the lights went out - troubles of the brain ep
*the veils - the wishbone - troubles of the brain ep

*dolorean - fools gold ring - the unfazed
m. ward - never had nobody like you - hold time
*iron and wine - tree by the river - kiss each other clean
the walkmen - woe is me - lisbon

*british sea power - observe the skies - valhalla dancehall
frankie rose and the outs - thats what people told me - slumberland
zee avi - just you and me - zee avi

+oliver smith - pacific - youtube
chromeo - hot mess - business casual
chromeo - i'm not contagious - business casual
!!! - even judas gave jesus a kiss - strange weather, isn't it
ratatat - wildcat - classics

MAY's set! :)

maximo park - books from boxes - our earthly pleasures
mason proper - fog - olly oxen free
marching band - travel in time - spark large
marina and the diamonds - i am not a robot - the family jewels

*destroyer - savage night at the opera - kaputt
the dirty projectors - two doves - bitte orca

thanks for tuning and please tune in this saturday/sunday for more fun times!
♥ mel

Playlist for 1/30 plus exciting new news!

Exciting news for this week's upcoming show!
I'll be having aspring documentary filmmaker Nausheen Dadabhoy on my show. We'll be discussing her film The Ground Beneath Their Feet.

"'The Ground Beneath Their Feet' is the story of Ruqiya and Khalida, two young Pakistani women who were paralyzed in the devastating earthquake that struck the north of Pakistan in 2005. Their disability left them struggling to create a new identity for themselves once their cultural value as wives and homemakers was lost.

This documentary shows the five-year evolution of their attitudes, bodies, and futures. Made by a Pakistani-American woman, the film provides a truthful story of the strength of women in the Muslim world."

check out her website here or find her on facebook: @ the ground beneath their feet.

Tune it on this weekend to hear the interview and hear awesome music!

Thanks to Val for subbing for me also! she's the best! here's her playlist! she did awesome!

1/30/2011

artist - song - album

*new release

*Apex Manor - Elemental Ways of Speaking - The Year of Magical Drinking -
Merge Records

*HotChaCha - Traffic - Fantastic Static
Swirlies - Upstairs - What To Do About Them - Taang! Records
*Lovers - Peppermint - Dark Light - Badman Recording Co

Rollerskate Skinny - Bella - Shoulder Voices - Beggars Banquet Records
*No Age - Glitter - Everything In Between - Subpop
The Microphones - I Can't Believe You Actually Died - The Microphones
*Pomegranates - Anywhere You Go - One of Us - Afternoon Records

*Lily Bee - They Don't Make 'Em Like You - Daydream at Midnight
*Lily Bee - Days Like These - Daydream At Midnight
Codeine - Promise of Love - Barely Real

*The Red River - When We Are Wild - Little SOngs About the Big Picture -
Brave Records
*Sleepover - Burn - The Sun EP
Elisabeth Belile - Wolf In Girl's Clothing - Your Only Option is Surgery -
New Alliance Records
*Sky Larkin - Landlocked - Kaleide
*Screaming Females - Fall Asleep - Castle Talk - Don Giovanni Records

*Gold Motel - Fireworks After Midnight - Summer House - Terrorbird Records
Tamaryn - Haze Interior - The Waves
Beirut - Rhineland (Heartland) - Gulag Orkestar - Ba Da Bing Records
Coffin Break - So Long To Reality - Thirteen - Epitaph

*Plan B - Stay Too Long - The Defamation of Strickland Banks - Atlantic
Records
*Smith Westerns - Weekend - Dye It Blonde
Andreya Triana - Darker Than Blue - Lost Where I Belong
Golden Summer - Hot - Golden Summer

*Fujiya & Miyagi - Sixteen Shades of Black & Blue - Ventriloquizzing -
Yep Roc Records
*Stereolab - So Is Cardboard Clouds - Not Music
*Tennis - Bimini Bay - Cape Dory - Fat Possum Records
*Stereolab - Everybody's Weird Except Me - Not Music
The Black Heart Procession - Broken World - Amore Del Tropico

Delerium - Silence - Karma - Nettwerk Records
Black Tape For A Blue Girl - Remnants of a Deeper Purity - Unknown EP -
Projekt Records
M Thirty One - Too Much - Infected Dreams (from Myspace Page)
Frontline Assembly - Shifting Through the Lens (extended album version) -
Shifting Through The Lens - Metropolis Records
Delerium - Remembrance - Karma - Nettwerk Records

January 23 Playlist!

I'm always late putting this thing up! I try but I'm so forgetful! oh well! I can't believe we are already almost through with the first month of the year! crazeeee!

In other news the coachella peeps put out the line up this past week... here it is...




I'm pretty excited! I'll shall be attending! is anyone planning on headin' out to indio?


PLAYLIST TIME!

artist - song - album
*new release!!

The Soft Pack - c'mon - S/t
The Soft Pack - down on loving - S/t
The Soft Pack - answer to yourself - S/t
The Soft Pack - move along - S/t
The Soft Pack - pull out - S/t
The Soft Pack - more or less - S/t

blood feathers - don't know me at all - goodness gracious
sisters crayon - souls of gold - single
cold cave - life magazine - love comes close
los campesinos! - there are listed buildings
tune- yards - sunlight - bird brains

tamaryn - mild confusion - single
maps - die happy, die smiling [A Place to bury strangers] - LP single
the dutchess & the duke - hand - sunset sunrise
local natives - sun hands - sun hands

kurt vile - overnite religion - overnite religion
pastels & tenniscoats - two sunsets
the xx - basic space - xx
no age - you're a target - single
the depreciation guild - sky ghosts - mama's mad cos i fried my brain

the spinto - jackhammer - single
white demin - i start to run - single
darlings - eviction party - yeah i know
a place to buy strangers - in your heart - e.p

vivian girls - when i'm gone - everything goes wrong
rain machine - give blood - rain machine
islands - no you don't - vapours
girls - laura - album

*screaming females - i don't mind it - castle talk
*stereolab - so is cardboard clouds - not music
broken social scene - love and mathematics
*lovers - figure 8 - dark light

!!! - jaime, my intentions are bass - strange weather isn't it?
*chromeo - hot mess - business causal
ratatat - gettysburg - classics
death from above 1979- black history month - you're a woman, I'm a machine

french kicks - one time bells - one time bells
the red river - morning routine - little songs about the big
picture

beirut - elephant gun - lon gisland

thanks for listening people! this week I'll be having a sub fill in for me cause shall be outta town! muchas gracias to val for subbing!

tune in next week and the week after that and after that and etc.........
♥ mel

Top 10 Albums of the Year and Top 5 Songs

First of all, thanks to the DR. and Black Rose for filling in for The Professor while she was on her way.... either way thanks to the three for subbing my show on Saturday!

So my friends and I do this thing every year where we choose our Top 10 albums of the year and Top 5 songs of the year just for funizes and giggles. here's my list. I'm probably going to be playing some of these bands on Saturday's show.

On to the lists!!

Top 10 ALBUMS:

10. Jenny & Johnny : We're Having Fun Now



I think this album didn't get as much recognition as it deserved. I loved the album for what it was and I think it delivered great songs and songwriting. Jenny and Johnny make a great team and I hope the relationship lasts long enough for a second album :)

9. Fitz and the Tantrums : Pickin' Up the Pieces



This band blew up really fast and for good reason! Not only can you dance around in your undies in your room to this album but they are A-MAZING live. One of the best shows I went to this year! Check them in concert in you ever have a chance cause it's definitely worth it!

8. The Soft Pack : The Soft Pack



Everything about this album is fantastic! Every song on this album is catchy and if there is one thing I love it's a GOOD catchy song that gets stuck in my head for days and days. I saw them at FYF Fest during the summer and I fell in love even more.

7. Stars : The Five Ghosts



Such a great album! Stars is one of those bands you know will never disappoint and they delivered a great album! "I Died so I Could Haunt you" and "Fixed" are great songs of the album. Also when I saw them at the Wiltern in November I've never had a band be so grateful to their fans. And the keyboardist [Chris Seligman] gave me a rose and I swooned so hard I almost fainted :] ♥

6. Kanye West : My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy



Despite all the hoop-la around Kanye West and all his shenanigans I think this album was fucken amazing. I loved every song and I think he still kept great beats but was able to incorporate his new electronic touches. I thought it was great and whether you love him or hate him that boy can rap and make a great album.

5. Sufjan Stevens : The Age of Adz



Before I even heard this album I already saw/heard about how it was soooo different from anything Sufjan has done before and it was his "Ok Computer" album. After listening to it with an open mind I loved it. It is different but it still the same Sufjan with his hauntingly beautiful voice and amazing songwriting.

4. Belle & Sebastian : Write About Love



Pure Belle & Sebastian! The fact that I also saw them at Hollywood Forever Cemetery might also be why they are so high on my list :)

3. Best Coast : Crazy For You



I wanted to long for this record and Beth & Co. did not disappoint! It was filled with all the sappy love songs I wanted. I swear this woman is writing the soundtrack to my life!

2. Beach House : Teen Dream



Could this album be anymore perfect? Everything about it is so beautiful and haunting. Victoria's voice is so androgynous and Alex's use of guitar is fantastic. This is what dream pop is all about!

1.The Arcade Fire



It took me a while to actually listen to the album but when I did I was so mad for waiting as long as I did. I think I thought that with this album they might lose that special touch they have but they were still able to wrap their musical hands around my heart and squeeze my heart strings! How's that for some visual imagery?

Top 5 Songs O' the Year

5. Beach House - Silver Soul



4. Best Coast - Our Deal



3. Fitz & the Tantrums - Money Grabber



2. Avi Buffalo - What's It in For?



1. Arcade Fire - Suburban War



Well, there ya go!
Tune in to my show on Saturday - Midnight to 3am! :)
Thank you greatest listeners on the planet!

♥ mel

12/5 Playlist!

artist - song - album
*new release
+request

ladytron - destroy everything you touch - witching hour
gold frapp - alive - head first
hot chip - - over over -

feliz da housecat - radio - virgo blaktro the movie disco
*girl talk - oh no - all day
*girl talk - let out - all day

+Pizzicato Five - TWIGGY TWIGGY-TWIGGY VS JAMES BOND(MIX) - youtube
the specials - too much too young - greatest hits
audrey - you'll lose a good thing - original ska
hepcat - gimme little sign - push n' shove

jonsi - go do - go
the besnard lakes - and this is what we call progress - the roaring night
*ginderman - bellringer blues - ginderman 2
seether - careless whisper

ashtar command -deadman's gun -red dead redemption
I Monster - the best - a dense swarm of ancient stars
rad odem - rad athem - rad omen
paul simon - quality - the doo woop box vol 4

wrecking dead - viking rock n roll - viking rock n roll
the national - conversation 16 - high violet
the raveonettes - last dance - in and out of control
sufjan stevens - get real get right - the age of adz

the rapture - i need your love - echoes
fujiya & miyagi - pussyfooting - lightbulbs
*the posies - licenses to hide - blood/ candy
friendly fires - paris - s/t

*belle & sebastian - i want the world to stop - write about love
*elliot smith - happiness - an introduction to...
*the walkmen - angela surf city - lisbon

wolf people - october fires - single

Playlist for 11/28

Thanks to Claudia for coming into the studio! here's the playlist for Sunday's show.

artist - song name - album
* new artist


wavves - beach goth - wavvves
*no age - glitter - everything in between
the veils - sun gangs - sun gangs

shout out louds - show me something new - work
tom vek - c-c(set the fire in me)- we have sound
the raveonettes - last dance - in and out of control
gravy train - double decker supreme - hello doctor
goldfrapp - rocket - rocket remix
stars - tonight - nightsongs

*soft cirle - reaper - shore obsessed
ratatat - wildcat - classics
girl talk - bounce that - night ripper
*blue sky black death - slow years - third party

beach house - used to be - teen dream
*warpaint - undertow - the fool
*the jezabels - mace spray - dark storm

*of montreal - i feel ya strutter - false priest
*chromeo - night by night - business casual
*oh land - white nights - oh land ep

*the green hornes - underestimator - ****
*your youth - small sparks - aloha
black lips - take my heart - 200 million thousand
moondoggies - uncertain - tidelands
mountain goats - dance music - the sunset tree
gus van sant - stranger - s/t

sleigh bells - infinity guitars - treats
crystal castles - not in love - s/t
*chromeo - i'm not contagious - business casual
barrington levy - murderer

*belle and sebastian - i want the world to stop - write about love
*paul avion - stand up, be a man - ru with me
cass mccombs - dream come true girl

hope ya'll had a pleasant thanksgivin'!


MEL!