The New England Americana Festival Returns!

Back in February, I promoted the New England Americana Festival, gave out a ticket, and had one of the bands come on my show. The show brought together more than 30 regional bands for three sold out shows in Boston.

Well, I recently got an email from the Festival's coordinator, Noel Coakley, saying that the festival is back this summer at the Hard Rock Cafe in Boston!

I know it's late notice, but the first show is TONIGHT. You still have time to get ready for the other shows since the second third shows are on July 29 and August 26.
This time, the show is for all ages, although there's a special treat for those old enough: there'll be FREE BEER for the first hour of tonight's show.
I won't be there tonight, but I might make it to Boston for one of the other shows.

For more info, including the full line-up check out NEAF's website as well as the Facebook event.

What, they're back?

Okay, so I have no idea how I'm only finding out about this now, but Interpol finished their new album and announced it on their site nearly two weeks ago. Maybe you've already heard about it, but it's news to me, so I'll talk about it anyway.

They put one of the songs, "Lights," up on their site and you can download below (or just listen to it on YouTube). The song's pretty solid and definitely sounds like the Interpol we know.

The post also made another important announcement: Carlos D has left Interpol.
Don't worry, he's still on the album and it wasn't a nasty split-up or anything.

The news post said they'd be touring this summer (dates & places TBA), so look out for that. Of course, Carlos won't be touring with them, but they claim to "have some very exciting new recruits joining us on the road."

They said they'd update their site later with more info.

"all in one place, a generation lost in [cyber]space..."

I had to stop myself from writing down the rest of that line, and now I've got "American Pie" stuck in my head...

Anyway, I figured rather than make you scroll through a bunch of posts or go to another website to listen to recorded shows, I might as well have them all available in one place: here. I've made a blog post where I'll post every recording in reverse chronological order (most recent first). I've already put a few in there, and I'll add more. I'll link to the post on the right of the blog for easier access.

Lemme know what you think of the recordings post (and the recordings themselves)!

Recordings

This post is for all show recordings in reverse chronological order. New recordings will be posted here once they're put up. The recordings are also available for download at OurMedia.org and Archive.org unless stated otherwise.

Slothbear interview aired May 3, 2010:

Extended Slothbear interview:


April 2, 2010:

March 26, 2010:

March 5, 2010:

Feb 26, 2010:

Feb 12, 2010:


Feb 5, 2010:


Jan 29, 2010:

"Are we live?"

So, if you were listening last night, you'd know that it was the final Schist That Rocks of the semester. Don't worry, I'll still be able to share some Schist that totally Rocks with you over the summer from my computer. And the show will be returning (hopefully at a slightly better time, as nice as 2-4 am was) to WTBU in September. Once I'm done with work, back home and settled (Saturday), expect to see the rest of the recorded shows making their way on here.

Also, I promised I'd have this up on Wednesday, and it's still technically Wednesday, so here's the interview with Slothbear:
First, the version I played on air


And then the extended version (sound quality might be better in the aired version).


The basic difference between the two is that the second one goes more in-depth on the album, talking about specific songs.
They're a pretty cool group of guys, and the interview was fun. Check out their Myspace.

Anyway, it's been a great semester and I'll do my best to give it a great follow-up.

Good morning, sweet prince....

[This post was started in the studio and then continued in my room]
I'm sitting in the studio now, wrapping up the final 2-4 AM broadcast of Schist That Rocks. Don't worry, the show ain't over! I'm doing two shows next week (at arguably better times!) and I think I'll have a better time next semester, but I'm gonna miss this time slot a little. Oh well...

I had a nice little interview with Doug, Craig, and Josh from Slothbear Wednesday night and you'll be able to hear the interview on Monday at 10pm! Maybe I'll even let a listener win a copy of their new album Qids (which would be stupid, cuz it's available online), or something. I realized that the studio ran out of Bitch Slap posters, so I can't give those out...

But before you can listen to Slothbear on Monday, I've got an event to plug for Saturday! The Thin Heir, Lamp Attack, and my good friend Jimmy Ikeda will be playing at the All Asia Bar tomorrow (Saturday) from 3-6pm! I'll definitely be there, and Jimmy has kindly agreed to let me make an appearance during his set and steal the show away. Come on down, support local music, and have a good time! Oh, and it's 8 bucks to get in (but it's not 21+).

Right now, I can't think of anything else. Except for sleep. So, yeah, see you on saturday, listen in on monday, good luck with finals.

Drum roll please...

Hey guys, I'm proud to announce that although Schist That Rocks did not win "Best Variety Show," I did win "Best Sweeper/Show Header!" Okay, so they added "the" to the name of my show, but it still counts! I was a little more excited that I was nominated for this one because everyone gets nominated for their own genre, but I was actually nominated for Best Header for something I did. Also, I'm the only one to record my own header as opposed to doing it with our Productions Manager, Joe (who does a great job with headers), and did it on Audacity no less.
The award show was pretty fun, even though they only had deep-dish pizza (it's good, but it's more of a casserole). There were some great performances by Intimate Sleepover (pop covers on Ukuleles and a kazoo), The Lonesome Mississippi Drifters (pop covers on acoustic guitars), and Jesse Schwartz (serious music with an accoustic guitar) too.


In other news, I still have two interviews waiting to happen: Slothbear and Red Vinyl. If you have any questions for the interview, let me know.

Also, I'm still uploading all the recorded broadcasts of the show, and added a link to my page on OurMedia.org (although I kinda like the player on archive.org better). I'm starting to think that maybe I should've chosen a better quality format than 64kbps MP3, cuz I'm hearing some fuzzyness and distortion in a couple spots, what do you guys think?
Anyway, here's the February 5 one:

I realized too late that the header I used in this one (and possibly in one other) was not the award-winning header, but rather it's evil uncensored twin brother. I'm really sorry about this.

Also, tomorrow (Tuesday) night at 7pm, BU's Linguistics Association is showing Francois Truffaut's film L'enfant Sauvage (The Wild Child) in the Geddes Viewing Room, CAS 537C. It's supposed to be a great movie, and it's on a great topic. I'll definitely be there.

Anyway, time is running out so I better make these last shows rock!