Episode VI: The Empire Strikes Black... or Indie Rock Fest: a hipsters wet dream

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This was our Intonation Wrap Up show showcasing many of the bands we enjoyed at the Intonation Music Fest in Chicago curated by Pitchfork Media (.com).
On the right you can see one of the many pictures we took at the festival, this one featuring Drew with one of the young black boys that he lured back to his hotel later that night.


Our show usually features many of the artists that performed anyway, but we wanted to do a whole show dedicated to it (except the intro track, of course)... it didnt quite go as well as I planned.
Most of the show was spent making fun of Pitchfork's comments about certain bands... here are some examples of what we were making fun of:
About Pelican:

a respectable throng had gathered down front, leaning heavy on the barricade with obligatory devil horns dutifully raised. With cosmic force, Chicago's finest instru-metal infantry drove each measure in mechanic repetition: a hulking, forward motion gaining exponential force before crashing down like an ocean tide punishing the earthen shore. Dusty manes thrashing in the heat and detonating crushing sound blasts without reproach or remorse, Pelican drew fresh attendees, jaws agape, like carnivores to the kill.

About Four Tet:

The Theremin-flavored electro-vocalese on the latter, when heard in the direct sun on this scorching day, resonated like a hymn to Ra, with Hebden's constant tweaks and on-beat dropouts shoving the music forward. One labored dissection of a trebly gurgle went on a little long, but the broken beats eventually healed and took over completely to end the set.

... WHAT????!?!
Do they know what they sound like? they sound like a bunch of vaginal products, like a bunch of bitches. Like college students trying to hard to sound cool and uber intelligent in a stupid college music journal that got too popular for no reason.

As our show is only 2 hours and we don't plan ahead, we ran out of time without finishing what we wanted, as we always do. We neglected MANY of the Intonation bands, and many of the ones we actually wanted to play.
But Drew stole The Decemberists' tambourine and we had an impromptu jam session with it on the air. it was either a complete success or a complete disaster, but i did it mostly to annoy the DJ for the following program on after us who insists on coming into the studio 45 minutes early every fucking week so he can hang around and bother us while we're trying to talk to our fans. GOD its SO FUCKING ANNOYING! i hope we freaked him out.

Anyway.. here is our disjointed PLAYLIST, which crashed down like an ocean tide, punishing the earthern shore that is our radio listeners.

Buddy Miles - Them Changes
Four Tet - Smile To The Face
Diplo - Big Lost
AC Newman - On The Table
Prefuse 73 - It's Crowded
Head Of Femur - Skirts Are Takin Over
Andrew Bird - Skin Is, My
Death From Above 1979 - Black History Month (Remix)
Death From Above 1979 - Blood On Our Hands

A few dedication and shout out/requet songs to change it up :

Junior Senior - Itch U Can't Scratch
Ladytron - Sugar
When In Rome - The Promise

Out Hud - JGNDG - cut short
Tortoise - Blackjack
Death Cab For Cutie - The Sound Of Settling (better known as Baah Bahhh! Baah Baaah!!")
The Decemberists - July! July!

As you can see it was a very short play list considering what we wanted to get through, and considering we only played 9-10 out of the 22 bands that performed at the festival on the show. oh well.
we'd follow it up with a second festival showcase radio show, but next weeks show is being canceled because of the fucking gay ass BLUEFISH game. I HATE THE BLUEFISH!!! and i hate college radio that is funded by a baseball team which we therefor get our shows canceled for and have to promote sports games on a rock show. URGH

thanks for listening and calling if you did...

please comment if you are reading this, i dont think anyone besides Drew is.

-Jordan

Chiiiccaagggoooooooo, heeerree weee coooooooooommmmee!

This weekend Drew and I will be on a sojourn to Chi-town to "cover" the Intonation Music Festival put on by pretentious music journal Pitchfork Media. This is a 2 day festival of some of the biggest (and also some of the best.. not always synonymous) indie-rock bands in this great nation. Their are 2 unfortunate sides of this story:
A. Intonation is the seemingly unneccesary nemesis of the FREE Siren Music Fest put on by the legendary Village Voice at the legendary ghetto/beach Coney Island. I go to Siren every year since its inception a few years ago, and I'm a little annoyed at
Pitchfork for choosing the same day to have their festival with better bands inChicago. But that's ok because since Pitchfork stole all the good bands, Siren don't have shit (except Spoon) this year.
B. Since Drew and I now "work" for my friends new online music journal called Titled, we had hoped and planned that we would be able to get backstage passes to this indie-rock music journals wet dream concert so we could take pictures, interview bands and steal food and equiptment from the bands we like. However, our soon to be majorly influential online music journal isn't off the ground yet and the ringleader of it could NOT get us any passes whatsoever. In fact, we had to get free entry passes from an entirely different source. So this post goes out to Bill for not getting us shit for being awesome and productive and ambitious music journalists.

Any ol way,
The point is that we will be showcasing all our favorite bands at said pretentious music festival and sharing our experiences NOT interviewing bands on our next show on Tuesday night.
This should be something to look foward to, because we will finally have a theme to the show and will be playing a majority of new and hip music for all you hipsters out there that don't listent to our show anyway.

Here are the bands playing at the fest that you can probably look foward to hearing next week:

El P vs. James Mcnew of Yo La Tengo
Diplo
Head of Femur
Pelican
The M’s
AC Newman
Magnolia Electric Company
Four Tet
Broken Social Scene
The Go! Team
Prefuse 73
Death From Above 1979
Tortoise


Thunderbirds Are Now!
Dungen
Xiu Xiu
Out Hud
The Hold Steady
Andrew Bird
Deerhoof
The Wrens
Les Savy Fav
The Decemberists

If Titled ever gets launched maybe you'll be able to read our article(s) on Intonation.. but they may never see the light of day..

Wish us luck in Chicago,
PAYCE!
-DJ Delicious
Drew and Jordan, two of Chi-Town's best

Episode V: A New Pope

So show #5 started off differently than most shows... while we weren't organized, we had a certain flow goin to our random off the cuff play list. We kicked it off with a song that describes our entire show, "THE BOMB!", bitch. Then we sort of got into a 60's style groove and started to run with it which turned out pretty well, I think.
We played A LOT more music this show and talked A LOT less... whether that's good or bad I'll never know... I know my voice makes the ladies cream their pants, but what can i do?

Bootsy Collins w/Fatboy Slim - The Bomb
*Fucking Awesome Show Intro Music: Fistful Of Dollars Theme - Ennio Morricone*
Ricky Gervais w/Noel Gallager - Free Love Freeway

*60's Themed Block Begins*
The Ravonettes - Twilight
The Pixies - Here Comes Your Man
The Bees - Chicken Payback
Georgie Fame - Yeh Yeh
Junior Senior - Rhythm Bandits
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - My Man Is A Mean Man
Jackson 5 remixed by Z-Trip - I Want You Back
The Beach Boys - Mountain Of Love
Jamie Lidel - Multiply

Scissor Sisters - Crevis Canyon (live)
Green Day vs. The Eagles - Lyin Eyes Mash Up
Violent Femmes - Gone Daddy Done
Railroad Jerk - Bang The Drum
XTC - One Of The Millions
Head Automatica - Beating Heart Baby *Dedicated to Mykie*
Postal Service - Such Great Heights
Hot Hot Heat - Bandages
Queens Of The Stone Age - Burn The Witch
Royksopp - Circuit Breaker
Cake - The Distance
Of Montreal - So Begins Our Alabe
Digable Planets - Where I'm From
DANZIG - MOTHER!!!

Just like always, the DJ for the next show came in 30 minutes early to annoy the fuck out of us...Let me paint a portait of him before I go on.
He's a scrawny skinny white kid, the whitest possible kid i know (in all ways). He wears think black glasses that could be either nerd glasses or emo glasses. You'd think he'd come in preparing for his emo rock show, but instead he comes in with his large latino DJ friend to do a Hip Hop show. When he comes in he talks to us in his normal, nerdy white kid voice, but as soon as he goes on the air his voice changes to urban-flavored hip hop DJ mode.
He entertained Drew with the story:

Yo so i was doin this event at the acoustic cafe and i went up to all these fine bitches and i'm like "Yooo girl you wanna get into the acoustic cafe fo' free, yo? you fine" and dey all like "im 20, it's 21 and over, so.." so I'm like "Bitch get the fuck outta here!"


Anyway, so another hugely successful show in the bag. We have a station meeting in 2 weeks so hopefully we'll be kickin some ass and getting shit done, staff-meeting-style!

Keep listening, keep calling, comment if you like the playlist or the show or if you are at this website at all because frankly I'm not sure if anyone has read this blog yet..

-Jordan (AKA DJ Delicious AKA Sam Whiskey AKA Johnny Welfare)

Episode IV: Revenge of R. Kelly (BWB.3 Reloaded)

So this weeks show had a lot of potential, especially considering that, since our last show was canceled without notification, we had all our nut juice building up for a whole extra week.. so we were ready to bust out all over the radio with hours of material, except for 1 thing: we had a 30 minute R Kelly showcase planned and the station stuck us with this 14 minutes of promos. their idea was to force DJs to promote for the upcoming Live From Las Vetas progam they are doing every friday or something, but instead of a 20 second promo they thought "hell, why not make it 7 minutes and include boring ass service anouncements, the science of GLACIERS (zzz boorring)and a whole shit load of adds for the Blue Fish baseball. And in between that lets go ahead and fill out the middles with long sections of boring rock music just to make this promo EXTRA long and boring"
real great idea guys. I for one certainly would not tune into a show and wait around for 7 whole minutes to hear adds and boring ass PSAs. Playing one 30 second promo every 20 minutes is one thing, but playing a 7 minute block of bullshit every hour on the hour is a whole other ball game. thats fucking nutz! that shit is bananas, b a n a n a s!

Anyway, we debuted R Kellys urban masterpiece/ridiculous trainwreck conceptual operetta "Trapped In The Closet chapters 1-5" in its entirety, cut with R Kelly Comedy Classics like "Feelin On Yo Booty" and the new gem "Sex Weed" where he subtly compares sex with weed and literally calls sex Sex Weed. I'm not sure what the hell this man is thinking, I guess he took a que from the great Rick James who did a good job with the analogy for sex with Mary Jane... R Kelly is just a moron through and through.




R Kelly is praying that the world doesn't realize what a ridiculously bad song writer he is

So here's the very very short but sweet playlist:

Oneida - High Life
Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
U2 vs Lyrics Born Mash Up -
Callin On Sunday
Jamie Lidell - Little Bit More
Andrew Bird - Skin Is My
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - My Yellow Country Teeth
LCD Soundsystem -
Slow Dive
Radio 4 - Save Our City
Art Brut - Emily Kane
The Mountain
Goats - No Children
R KELLY SHOWCASE:
Trapped In The Closet Ch. I
Feelin On Yo Booty
Trapped In The Closet Ch. II
Laundermat
Trapped In The Closet Ch. III
In The Kitchen
Trapped In The Closet
Ch. IV
Sex Weed
Ignition (remix) --> Put My T Shirt On
Trapped In
The Closet Ch. V

and thats when the weasley wigger DJ of the next show came in, forcing us to leave so he could turn on the charm and turn his voice from high pitched nerd squeel to a deeper, obviously wigger white-boy-wanna-be-bboy voice for his Hip Hop show.
This is quite the show, we'll have to get pictures of him and his co-host, a huge latino hip hop DJ. Picture Big Pun or Fat Joe with Thom Yorke or Rivers Cuomo and both of them doing a Hip Hop show together. It's truly hilarious.

We gave tickets away for the Digable Planets show at Toads Place on July 9th but no one who said they would call/listen actually did so some random guy got them. Thank you to all our loyal friends/fan out there...
-DJ Delicious (Jordan)

More Boring Ass Radio Pictures

HARD At Work

One that's slightly less gay: