Hey everyone! Hope your week went well and you're doing fine in this suddenly freezing weather.
I finally put up the recordings of That Old Feelin' and Noel Coakley. If you missed it, I interviewed them on the show and That Old Feelin' gave an awesome performance. It's in 7 parts and the playlist can be found here.

I've been toying with the idea of posting each show's playlist, but I'm not so sure about it. A lot of the music I play on the show (and more) can be found on my Blip, and posting the songs on here would make each post really long. The only other option I can think of would be to make a seperate blog for the show's playlist and to provide a link to it on this page. Let me know what you think!

Also, I'll be at the All Asia bar in Cambridge for the Karmic Battle of the Bands tomorrow from 3-6. The 'Battle' is from 12-6 today and tomorrow. It's for all ages and it's $8 to get in if you're over 21, and $12 under 21. One lucky band will win an appearance on Schist that Rocks, so they better be good!

This hurts me more than it hurts you

I'm really terribly sorry about this, but it looks like there won't be a show tonight. I'm up to my neck with stuff to do for school right now (paper, project, 3 finals...). I'm sorry for the late notice on this too, but I had been hoping that I'd be able to finish enough of my work to make it tonight. At best, I would be able to make it to the second hour of the show, but I wouldn't count on it. I was really looking forward to this show, too (especially after not having a show over spring break).
Next week will have to be EXTRA SPECIAL to make up for this, and I'm already looking forward to it.

In other news, I'm now on Blip.fm, which is kinda like Twitter, but for DJs and music.
Speaking of which, John Fogerty is now following me on Twitter! I don't use my twitter too much yet, and he's my only follower so far, but it still made me feel pretty special!

Anyway,I'd better finish this paper. Feel free to send me hate mail... or suggestions, even.

Spring Break in Winter

Hey guys, sorry about the lapse in between updates. We won't be having our show this week because I'm on Spring Break, but I'll be back on air next week at the usual time (2am Friday Morning).
If you listened in this past week, you heard some great new music from the past couple months.
My top picks would be Johnny Cash's 'American VI: Ain't No Grave' and Gonjasufi's 'A Sufi and A Killer.'

I'll start with the Gonjasufi album (released this week): While the music has many roots and different sounds throughout the album, I've never personally heard much quite like it before. There's Hip-hop, World, Psychedelic, and even Punk-rock not all at the same time necessarily (that'd be a bit much), but fused and intertwined nicely with some grittiness. Some parts are soft, others are loud and strong, and some of it sounds like it was 'in the red' (as they say in the biz) during recording, causing it to become a little distorted (which totally works for me). I HIGHLY recommend that you buy it right away and listen over and over while staring at the album art (the back messes with your eyes more, I think). My fave tracks would probably be 'Sheep', 'She Gone.', and 'SuzieQ' (tracks 4, 5, and 6, respectively), but I can listen through the whole thing (also look out for the bonus bit towards the end of the last track).

Now for Ain't No Grave: I'm not sure I've ever heard anything from Johnny Cash that I didn't like (or at least nothing that I disliked). This is the last installment of his American series and last of his late recordings. While he definitely couldn't sing like he could when he was younger, Cash had an added weight and feeling in his older voice. Like much of the rest of the series, he covered (all but one of the tracks are covers) songs with somewhat of a focus on reflection and religion (he knew he was going to die before long). I'd recommend getting your hands on this one. I especially like the title track 'Ain't No Grave.'

I also played the relatively new debut single (came out late January) by The Black Belles, 'What Can I Do?' They're a band on Jack White's label: Third man Records. If you like his music, you'd probably like the Black Belles as well. I like the organ (kinda reminds of the Monks) and guitar, especially on the title track. The b-side is a pretty good cover of The Knickerbockers' song Lies. While I wouldn't recommend it as highly as the other two albums, it's definitely worth they $5 to buy it; to my knowledge, it's available on vinyl (via the Third Man website) and for download on iTunes.

Of course, I did play some great older music as well.

As always, if you have any suggestions/comments/questions about anything, or if you know of (or have) any music I should play/give a listen or bands I should have as guests, let me know!