How It Went Down - October 29 2010

So, for the first time in a while, the show went exactly as planned. I had Maygen Kardash from SK band Violent Kin (playing the LO Pub on November 3rd) join me by phone and the folks behind Call/Response talked about the progress for the project and their big fundraiser next Friday and lastly we had Amanda Yusishen, the organizer of Tell - Tales from the 204.

Here's what I played in between interviews:

Set One: 6:30 - 7 PM

Len Bowen - Big Dreamer [Urbnet]
Teen Daze - Everywhere [Independent]
Violent Kin - Wolf [Independent]
Sun Airway - Shared Piano [Dead Oceans]

Set Two: 7 - 7:30 PM

Breathe Owl Breathe - Own Stunts [Hometapes]
Bokononists - The Future Is Dead [Independent]
The Details - Surface Breaks [Independent]
The High Dials - I'm Over You (I Hope It's True) [Rainbow Quartz]
Eskmo - You Go, I See That [Ninja Tune]
Humans - Mon Ton Ton II [Blood & Water]

Set Three: 7:30 - 8 PM

Jess Reimer - Sweet Darling and Sorrow [Independent]
Sara Mitra - Sunday Morning [Build An Ark]
Grimes - Sagrad [Arbutus Records]
Little Dragon - Runabout [Peacefrog]
The Very Best feat. Mo Laudi - Angonde (Remix) [Crammed Discs]

Next week we'll be talking to Winnipeg MC Len Bowen about his new EP and my interview with John Ralston Saul will likely air as well.

How It Went Down - October 22 2010

No interview with Andrew Collier about the American Association move for the Goldeyes, but hopefully in the near future we can catch up with him about what that entails. We did talk to Jen McDonald, one of the Red River College Cre.Comm. students behind MyTweet5 and the interview with Jeff Rubin about his scarily interesting book was equally interesting.

Here's what was played:

Set One: 6:30 - 7 PM

Dirty Projectors - I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine [Unreleased]
The Winks - Bookface [Oh!]
Interview with Jen McDonald
Amanita Bloom - Something You Said [Machette Records]
Open Fields - Son, You Better Wake Up [Independent]
The Mohawk Lodge - Let Go [White Whale Records]

Set Two: 7 - 7:30 PM

Women - Heat Distraction [Flemish Eye]
Avey Tare - Ghost Of Books [Paw Tracks]
Interview with Jeff Rubin

Set Three: 7:30 - 8 PM

Violent Kin - Wolf [Independent]
The Hundred In The Hands - Young Aren't Young [Warp]
Diamond Rings - You & Me [Secret City Records]
Cloud Nothings - Can't Stay Awake [Carpark]
Construction & Destruction - Nightshade [The Quarantine]
Ebo Taylor - Mizin [Strut]
El Guincho - Bombay [Young Turks]

Confirmed for next week is Amanada Yusishen talking about TELL - Tales From The 204, and my interview with John Ralston Saul has been recorded and is ready for air (sadly, Joseph Boyden couldn't join us) and I'm looking at also having Violent Kin on the phone prior to their show in Winnipeg on November 3rd.

How It Went Down - October 15 2010

Friday was a fairly packed show that included an interview with Jim Demos of the Dead Letters (and formerly of National Monument) who played Freud's Bathhouse on Friday night. We were also joined in the studio by Mike Petkau Falk of Head In The Sand who talked about the label/collective and premiered a new Les Jupes track.

Here's what was played:

Set One: 6:30 - 7 PM

Mama Cutsworth - These Eyes remix [Unreleased]
DJ Brace - NH1 [Independent]
DJ Brace - NH2 [Independent]
Interview with Jim Demos of Dead Letters
Dead Letters - War [Independent]

Set Two: 7 - 7:30 PM

Sunbears! - Desert Valley Nights [Lost Cause Records]
Belle and Sebastian - Come on Sister [Matador]
Olenka & the Autumn Lovers - Odessa [Oh!]
Allie Hughes - Not The Stars [Musebox]
Wolf People - Tiny Circle [Jagjaguwar]
Deerhunter - Revival Sailing [4AD]

Set Three: 7:30 - 8 PM

K. Frimpong and his Cubano Fiestas - Me Yee Owu Den [Analog Africa]
The Meligrove Band - Make Believe It [Nevado Records]
Les Jupes - The Mountain [Head In The Sand]
Interview with Mike Petkau Falk
Clinic & Sui Zhen - Tell Me Once [Red Bull Music Academy]

Coming up this week, we're going to be talking to a group of CreComm students at Red River about a project they've created called MyTweet5, Dom Lloyd (my co-host on the Bench Jockeys) and I will talk to Andrew Collier about the Winnipeg Goldeyes moving to the American Association and there may be interviews with economist & author Jeff Rubin about his book Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller and possibly Joseph Boyden and John Ralston Saul about the two latest entries in the Extraordinary Canadians series written by the pair.