Selected Setlists From WMUA's Vinyl Fair on Saturday December 5th 2009.

Setlists after the break.

 

WMUA loves beards.

I've been neglecting my duties on the blog lately, but this show tonight is so awesome that it pulled me out of my posting slump.

Friday, August 21st (that's tonight!)
DANIEL HIGGS (he used to be in an amazing band called Lungfish; maybe you've heard of them)
BILL NACE
WHYTE KASTLES
at the APE Gallery (126 Main Street) in Northampton
8pm, $5

While you're there, check out the excellent Release The River art show, featuring drawings from a whole slew of rad area folks!

Chaos 1st Music Festival

Join us for Chaos 1st! : An all-day music festival brought to you by WMUA at UMass Amherst on Sunday, August 16th.
Bands will begin playing at 2pm SHARP outside on the Library Lawn (inbetween the campus pond and the library) until 6pm and move into the Student Union Ballroom from 7pm to Midnight!
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Lightning Bolt!
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Noise Nomads!
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Mallory!
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Sylphid!
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Belltonesuicide!
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Invisible Circle!
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Id M Theftable!
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Brava Spectre!
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Sords!
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Problem With Dragons!
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Gastric Lavage!
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Cellura Peptid!
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White Crime!
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Able Archer!
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Untitled Original!
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Sisters and Brothers!
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Yak Snot!
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Relics!
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Behaviour!
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19 Bands back to back! Be there or be square!

concert photos! golden cities + these are powers.

big thanks again to fossil mountain, hadoken, golden cities, and these are powers for playing wmua's summer kick-off concert on june 15. it was a total blast, we were so glad to have all those bands on board. everyone kicked some serious tush.

some photos from the night:

golden cities


these are powers

WE HAZ PODCATZ ! ! !

Yeah, yeah! WMUA has a podcast page now (http://wmua.ath.cx/podcasts), where you can currently download two live in-studio noise performances by Rot Ton Bone and Skirt Flank & Pizzle from the 6/13/09 episode of MYNDBLYNDRZ. Hopefully many more podcasts are to come as we upload archived and future in-studios and interviews.

ONE CATCH! There aren't going to be many full show podcasts, because, in order to avoid breaking copyright laws, the podcasts have to feature music that has been given the consent of the artist or label to use. EACH and EVERY artist. That's like 50 artists per show. So don't expect your favorite WMUA shows to start putting up every episode online, this isn't a replacement for the real deal - that is good olde fashioned WMUA live broadcasts, streamin and reamin out yr computer and radio speakers (respectively).

So please... SUBSCRIBE! The instructions are listed on the page, and if you use an RSS Feed or iTunes, its easy as pie. If you are a WMUA dj, please contact Gabe, Dana or Wei for information on how you can post your own stuff.

O M G ! THESE ARE POWERS, GOLDEN CITIES, FOSSIL MTN., HADOKEN PLAY FREE AT WMUA!

You know we at WMUA, we're big fans of our listeners (and blog readers). We just love to make you smile, whether its the music we pump through the frequencies and online streams, the on-air giveaways we surprise you with, the record festivals we organize now and then, or the badA$$ free concerts we like to throw every coupla months. And our FREE SUMMER KICK OFF CONCERT on June 15th is no exception!!!

In the words of that seductive chanteuse, Alice Cooper, "schooool's out for summer!", but that doesn't mean we've forgotten about our loyal local listeners (nor does it mean that our summer programming is any less balls-2-tha-wall). That's why when These Are Powers asked us to help them get a show together in the valley, we were like BRING IT OWWWN! Yadda yadda yadda, here's a press release...

"WMUA 91.1fm is launching off the summer season with a free avant-garde rock concert on Monday, June 15th at the Earthfoods Cafe in the UMass Campus Center. The line-up features UMass' resident soundscapers Hadoken, the debut performance by Amherst instrumental punk melody-makers Fossil Mountain, psychedelic post-rock from Houston's Golden Cities, and is headlined by Brooklyn's experimental dance-deconstructionists These Are Powers. Currently traversing the East Coast to promote their sophomore album on Dead Oceans, All Aboard Future, These Are Powers (press kit) combine elements of noise, electronic, dance and punk into a heavy sonic assault that promises a memorable live show.

The show will start at 8pm, doors will open at 7:30. Mark your calendars and help us spread the word about this free, exciting evening of underground rock and roll. Please contact publicity@wmua.org or visit http://www.wmua.org/ for more information."

photo report: wmua's spring record fair.

hey hey, so in the spirit of capturing wmua's history as it happens, here are some photos from our april 4 record fair. they're not very good photos, but i never claimed to be a photographer.


rosa drives a hard bargain! (catch her on air wednesdays 12 - 2:30.)


gabe has a giggle while holding down the 1s and 2s.


now i play something.


turn it up repping noho at the fair.


it's all about digging.


wmua's rock block represents.


sesame street band aids <3s the smiths.

flywheel record fair!

hey everyone! what are you doing this saturday morning? what's that, you're supporting your local arts collective and checking out their new space? cool!

that's right, flywheel is throwing their twice-a-year record fair from 10 - 3. you can get a sneak peak at their new home, the former easthampton town hall. it's a really great space, it's gonna get you pumped for the forthcoming grand reopening.

bring yr ears, and bring yr wallets! (and then after you beef up yr record collection, head to amherst for the second week of the farmer's market. i love spring!)

FUNKDEK!

Hi WMUA Listeners - Ladewtangclan here.

Jandek went all LAST EXIT / Funkadelic at his first show in Houston 04/05/2009.

I didn't believe it either until someone showed me this.

When are we getting 'dek to New England again? I'll see you all there.

Until then - Parts and Labor awaits this weekend - see wmua.org for more info.

Thurston Moore Book Signing - Northampton MA

Tuesday March 3rd 2009
7:30 PM @ A.P.E. Gallery
126 Main St Northampton MA



Thurston will be involved in a multimedia presentation focusing on his 2008 book written with Byron Coley No Wave Post-Punk Underground New York 1976-1980

Be there to support Flywheel in opening their new space!

R.I.P. Touch and Go Records

Pitchfork is reporting T+G will no longer release new music. I am one sad, sad panda today, folks.

MAgik Markers / Thurston Moore & Mats Gustaffson et. al 01/29/09 Florence MA

This Thursday 1/29 in Florence at the vfw, CT's own Magik Markers!

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Thurston Moore will be performing alongside Sweedish free jazz stalwart Mats Gustafsson. I'll refrain from naming too many names of the latter 2 musician's spec sheets, but lets just say that they are also a major chunk of a group called Original Silence which should be checked out promptly @ http://www.myspace.com/thefirstoriginalsilence

Noise nomads, Bill Nace and Pak will also be on hand.

8pm. 7 bucks. 18 meadow st. florence

Tuesday, Feb. 3rd @ Earthfoods @7:00

The Cheaters Club
www.myspace.com/thecheatersclub2

Sunrise Swords
www.myspace.com/sunriseswords

Eric Hnatow
www.myspace.com/erichnatow

AND, ON TOUR FROM BALTIMORE:

Mark Brown
www.mcbrown.info

Thrust Lab
www.myspace.com/thrustlab


PS. If you have christmas lights or any other type of colorful/fancy lighting, BRING EM

Christmas Time Is Here I Guess

Happy holidays, and merry Christmas if yr into that sort of thing. Remember a few weeks ago when WMUA held a record fair? The one where twenty vendors from throughout the Northeast came and set up shop, thousands and thousands of records in tow? Well, enjoy a trip down (a very recently paved) memory lane.


brown recluse sings performs as first act of the day. check out their myspace. they rule.


digging and chatting.


local mad genius eric hnatow. go and listen to him. he's coming back to campus february 3rd with thrust lab.


everyone loves vinyl! everyone is happy!


northampton all-stars rabbit rabbit. rejoice in sound.


umass basketball and umass radio. it's a beautiful friendship.


wmua advisor glenn siegel talks music.

So if you missed it, or if yr just hungry for more delicious vinyl, keep it tuned to WMUA for news on the next record fair. Most likely happening sometime around April.


Enjoy the holiday.

Hey Look, It's Rudolph! from dina on Vimeo.

Alex Chilton really looks like Woody Allen now.

If I was really on top of my game, I would have posted one of these for every night of Hanukkah. Apologies to all my fellow Jews. Anyway, just in time for the fourth night of Hanukkah, here's Yo La Tengo doing the Velvet Underground's "Femme Fatale", with Alex Chilton, no less.

It's that time of the year...

About two weeks ago I asked our great DJs to submit their lists of favorite albums of the year. A bunch of people responded, I tallied the votes, and today we learn WMUA's collective favorite 20 albums of 2008. No recounts here, no Coleman/Franken stuff, these results are guaranteed. So let's hear 'em, low to high for maximum suspense. And be sure to check out DJs' individual top tens at the bottom.


20.
Kings of Leon - Only by the Night (RCA)

19.
TV on the Radio - Dear Science (DGC/Interscope)

18.
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Real Emotional Trash (Matador)

17.
Dodos - Visiter (French Kiss)

16.
No Age - Nouns (Sub Pop)

15.
Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Nonesuch)

14.
Baby Guts - The Kissing Disease (Guilt Ridden Pop)

13.
Marnie Stern - This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That (Kill Rock Stars)

12.
Deerhunter - Microcastle (Kranky)

11.
M83 - Saturdays=Youth (Mute)

10.
Portishead - Third (Mercury)

9.
Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst (Saddle Creek)

8.
Lil' Wayne - Tha Carter III (Cash Money)

7.
Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Drag City)

6.
Duchess Says - Anthologie des Trois Perchoirs (Alien8)

5.
Dan Friel - Ghost Town (Important)

4.
Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls (In The Red)

3.
Why? - Alopecia (Anticon)

2.
Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna (Social Registry)

1.
Parts and Labor - Receivers (Jagjaguwar)


Yes, after spending most every week since its release at number 1 on our weekly charts, Parts and Labor take the title of WMUA's favorite album of the year. Great job! Also, if you didn't go see them at Hampshire on the 11th because it was snowing outside, you're a wimp and you missed out pretty hard. Sorry to break the news.

Now check these individual lists. If you see something you like, tune in to the show. It's not any more complicated than that.

Dave Murray (host of In the Court of the Crimson King, Wednesdays 8 pm - 10 pm)
1. Parts & Labor – Receivers
2. Duchess Says – Anthologie des 3 Perchoirs
3. Racebannon – Acid or Blood
4. Tobacco – Fucked Up Friends
5. sBach – s/t
6. Total Abuse – s/t
7. Portishead – Third
8. Subtle – Exiting Arm
9. Darker My Love – 2
10. Deerhoof – Offend Maggie

Alex Hornbeck (host of Strange Light, Tuesdays 10 pm - midnight)
1. Portishead – Third
2. Gang Gang Dance – Saint Dymphna
3. Dan Friel – Ghost Town
4. Blood on the Wall – Liferz
5. Chad VanGaalen – Soft Airplane
6. Mahjongg – Kontpab
7. Max Richter – 24 Postcards in Full Colour
8. No Age – Nouns
9. Silver Jews – Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
10. Indian Jewelry – Free Gold!

Eric Marklein (host of Sound of Confusion, Mondays 8 - 10 pm)
1. Harvey Milk - Life...The Best Game in Town
2. Dan Friel - Ghost Town
3. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
4. Why? - Alopecia
5. Boris - Smile
6. Breeders - Mountain Battles
7. Torche - Meanderthal
8. Earles and Jensen - Just Farr A Laugh Vol. 1 & 2: The Greatest Prank Phone Calls Ever!
9. Deerhunter - Microcastle
10. Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life

Erika Patsy (co-host of Expressway To Yr Skull, Thursdays 5:30 - 8 pm)
1. Vivian Girls - s/t
2. Times New Viking - Rip It Off
3. Jay Reatard - Matador Singles '08
4. Love Is All - A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night
5. Parts & Labor - Receivers
6. Stereolab - Chemical Chords
7. No Age - Nouns
8. Dead Dog - s/t
9. The New Bloods - The Secret Life
10. Pants Yell! - Alison Statton

Corey Charron (co-host of Fallen Through the Cracks/Vinyl Revival, Tuesdays 8-10 pm)
1. Why? ‐ Alopecia
2. Magnetic Fields ‐ Distortion
3. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks ‐ Real Emotional Trash
4. Duchess Says - Anthologie des 3 Perchoirs
5. Silver Jews ‐ Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
6. Baby Guts ‐ Kissing Disease
7. Oxford Collapse ‐ Bits
8. Jeffrey Lewis ‐ 12 Crass Songs
9. Marnie Stern - This Is It...
10. Shannon McArdle - Summer of the Whore

Zara Rose (co-host of Fallen Through the Cracks/Vinyl Revival, Tuesdays 8-10 pm)
1. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
2. Shannon McArdle - Summer of the Whore
3. Baby Guts - Kissing Disease
4. Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
5. Marnie Stern - This is it and I am it...
6. Oxford Collapse - Bits
7. Jeffery Lewis - 12 Crass Songs
8. Duchess Says - Anthologie des 3 Perchoirs
9. Jason Collett - Here's to Being Here
10. Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls

Gabe Chicoine (co-host of Mind Blinders, Mondays 10 pm - midnight)
1. No Age - Nouns
2. Dan Friel - Ghost Town
3. Jay Reatard - Singles ’06 – ‘07
4. Why? - Alopecia
5. Blood on the Wall - Liferz
6. Parts and Labor - Receivers
7. Awesome Color - Electric Aborígenes
8. Deerhunter - Microcastle
9. Portishead - Third
10. El Guincho - Alegranza!

Ian Nelson (co-host of Sesame Street Band-Aids, Mondays 5:30 - 8 pm)
1. lil wayne - carter III
2. dodos - visiter
3. deerhunter - microcastle
4. excepter - debt dept
5. white denim - exposion
6. air france - no way down EP
7. gang gang dance - saint dymphna
8. m83 - saturdays=youth
9. conor oberst - conor oberst
10. vivian girls - vivian girls

Barry Benham (co-host of Sesame Street Band-Aids, Mondays 5:30 - 8 pm)
1. lil' wayne - tha carter III
2. titus andronicus - the airing of grievances
3. dodos - visiter
4. little joy - s/t
5. conor oberst - s/t
6. kanye west - 808s & heartbreak
7. of montreal - skeletal lamping
8. m83 - saturdays = youth
9. panic at the disco - pretty odd
10. pretty & nice – s/t

Rich Ladew (host of End of Radio, Thursdays 8 - 10 pm)
1. Parts and Labor - Receivers
2. Dan Friel - Ghost Town
3. Torche - Meandrathal
4. TV On The Radio - Dear Science
5. Various Artists - Don't Stop: Recording Tap
6. New Order - Movement (Reissue)
7. Dark Meat - Universal Indians (Reissue)
8. Wire - Object 47
9. Melvins - Nude With Boots
10. Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic - Dawn Of The Cycads

Andujar (host of Clandestino, Mondays 2:30 - 4:30)
1. Nomo - Ghost Rock
2. Grupo Fantasma - Sonidos Gold
3. Bio Ritmo - Bionico
4. Kaleta & Kozo Afrobeat - Country of Guns
5. William Parker - Double Sunrise Over Neptune
6. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
7. Orchestra Baobob - Made In Dakar
8. Brownout - Homenaje
9. Bronx River Parkway & the Candela All Stars - San Sebatstian 152
10. Jesus Pagan y su Orquesta - Salsa de la Mata
(and check out Andujar's full list with write-ups by clicking here)

Pete Rizzo (on air Fridays 8 - 10 pm)
1. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
2. Kings of Leon - Only By the Night
3. The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
4. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
5. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
6. Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
7. Beck - Modern Guilt
8. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
9. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
10. Mars Volta - Bedlam in Goliath

Beth Schumacher (no winter show, check back in spring)
1. Why? - Alopecia
2. Mason Jennings - In The Ever
3. The Toadies - Deliverance
4. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
5. Copeland - You Are My Sunshine
6. The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
7. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
8. Secret Machines - Secret Machines
9. Brian Wilson - That Lucky Old Sun
10. Adam Green - Sixes & Sevens

Carly Stipek (no winter show, check back in spring)
1. The Rural Alberta Advatage - Hometowns
2. Deastro - Keeper’s
3. Walkmen - You & Me
4. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
5. Au - Verbs
6. Beach House - Devotion
7. Women - Women
8. Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
9. Deerhuner - Microcastle
10. Parts & Labor - Receivers

Jen Wanamaker (graduated - ciao!)
1. Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night
2. Born Ruffians - Red, Yellow And Blue
3. M83 - Saturdays=Youth
4. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
5. Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
6. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
7. The Black Keys - Attack & Release
8. Beck - Modern Guilt
9. School Of Seven Bells - Alpinisms
10. Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer?

Donald Hedeman (no winter show, check back in spring)
1. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
2. Theo Parrish - Sound Signature Sounds (Reissue)
3. Osborne - Osborne
4. DJ Stingray - Aqua Team 2
5. Der Zyklus - Cherenkov Radiation
6. Wisp - Katabatic
7. Madlib - Beat Konducta, Vol.5: Dil Cosby Suite
8. Bochum Welt - R.O.B.
9. Madvillain - Madvillainy 2: The Madlib Remix
10. Q-Tip - The Renaissance

Hank Berry (host of A Thousand Plateaus, Sundays 7:30 - 9:30 pm)
1. Michael Byron - Dreamers of Pearl
2. Handel: Tolomeo, Alan Curtis Conducting - Il Complesso Baracco (with Ann Hallenberg)
3. Jordi Savall directing Hesperion XXI - Fransico Javier: La Ruta de Oriente
4. Mozart: Don Giovani - Rene Jacobs Directing the Freibruger Barockorchester
5. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Stimmung
6. Anthony Braxton - The Complete Arista Recordings of Anthony Braxton
7. Ursula Oppens - Oppens Plays Carter
8. Henry Purcell - Keyboard Suites & Grounds, Keyboardist Richard Egarr
9. Eri Yamamoto - Redwoods
10. Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs

Darryl Clark (host of Old School, Thursdays 6 - 8 am)
alejandro escovedo "real animal
al green "lay it down"
jenny lewis "acid tongue"
dido "safe trip home"
marc cohn "join the parade live ep"
cat power "jukebox"
sprinsteen "magic"
alice smith "for lovers, dreamers & me"
dylan "telltale signs"
dr. dog "fate"
roberet forsterer "the eveangelist"
joni mitchell "shine"
randy newman "harps & angels"
maceo parker "roots and grooves"
sharon jones "100 days, 100 nights"

Glenn Siegel (host of Jazz In Silhouette, Fridays 9 am - noon)
The Heliocentrics - Out There
Umalali - The Garifuna Women's Project
Omar Souleyman - Highway to Hassake
Dem Trio - The Fountain
Various - Ayombe
Think of One - Camping Shaabi
Etran Finatawa - Desert Crossroads
Toumast - Ishumar
Raphael Cortijo - La Quiniela Del Dia
Various - Afrobeat Nirvana
Andrew McGraw - Kolaborasi
Sidestepper - The Buena Vibra Sound System
Chapinlandia - Marimba Music of Guatemala
Beto Villa - Father of Orquesta Tejana, Vol. 1
Buika - Mi nina Lola
Rudresh Mahanthappa - Kinsmen
Bronx River Parkway - San Sebastian 152
Nomo - Ghost Rock
Hanggai - Introducing Hanggai
Various - Rough Guide to Music of Mali
Savina Yannatou - Songs Of An Other
Juaneco y Su Combo - Masters of Chica 1
Various - Rough Guide to Klezmer Revolution
Shakers n' Bakers - Yearning for Zion
Eyal Maoz - Edom