Showing posts with label improvisation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label improvisation. Show all posts

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Reagan Youth - Anytown

Dog Faced Hermans - The Heart of Everything
Don Cherry - Total Vibration, Part 1
Neneh Cherry and the Thing - Cashback
Rip Rig and Panic - HOWL! Caged Bird

Steve Ignorant - Take Your Elbows Off the Table
Sugarhill Gang - Hot Hot Summer Day
Kurtis Blow - Hard Times

Rhythm of Cruelty - Still Life (this cassette is being officially released THURSDAY, be there or feel like a fool!
Zebra Pulse - Night Tornadoes (click the link to see the new music video!
Pigeon Breeders - Ext/

All three of these bands are also performing June first for the release of my band Energetic Action's new LP. Other shameless links:
Energetic Action
Energetic Action Recordings

Public Image Ltd - Track 8
Jah Wobble and Holger Czukay - Hold on to Your Dreams
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express

Call me a hypocrite for not hating this like I hate the new Black Flag, but somehow I think this is pretty cool:
(new) Iggy and the Stooges - Job (Ready to Die, 2013)


Fang - Fun With Acid
Alice Donut - The Son of a Disgruntled Ex Postal Worker Reflects On His Life While Getting Stoned In the Parking Lot of a Winn Dixie Listening to Metallica
Tragic Mulatto - Sexy Money

Dead C - 8:47
Tiny Tim - Tip-toe Through the Tulips










Saturday, May 11, 2013

Celebrating Our Third Year as CJSR's Best Music Show...

...with music to make you cringe.

Wipers - D-7

B52s - Rock Lobster
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Best Batch Yet
DEVO - Jocko Homo

Dr. Feelgood - You Shouldn't Call the Doctor (If You Can't Afford the Bills)
Sam Sham and the Pharoahs - Haunted House
Mitch Rider and the Detroit Wheels - I'd Rather Go to Jail

Ornette Coleman - Voice Poetry
Daily Dance - Time Overlaps Itself
James Blood Ulmer - Jazz is the Teacher (Funk is the Preacher)

The Ex - Soviet Threat
The Thing - Viking
Full Blast + Friends - Deathbop

Rhythm of Cruelty - Can't Escape
Thee Onanist Order - Nervous
Christ Appearing As Sun - Program One (Excerpt)

Klaus Flouride - Fear Most
Butthole Surfers - Cherub

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Zebra Pulse - Night Tornadoes 
This is a never before heard cut from the new Zebra Pulse album Heh, Vay Bae-Bays out May 2. Zebra Pulse will be here next week debuting the whole darn thing for the first time live on the show, don't miss it!

Christ Appearing As Sun - Love Hour Series Volume One, Program One (excerpt) (tape release for this is happening this Monday)
Throbbing Gristle - Heathen Earth (excerpt)
Z'ev - Elemental Music (excerpt)

Bob Marley and the Wailers - Punky Reggae Party
Maytals - Sweet and Dandy
Clash - Justice Tonight / Kick it Over

Damned - New Rose
Alternative TV - Still Life
Joy Division - Disorder

Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer
Electric Chairs - Fuck Off 
Crime - Baby, You're So Repulsive

No Problem - Most Days
Death - Freakin' Out
Alice Cooper - Alma Mater

Love Electric - Same Dreams (tape release this Thursday!)
New Order - Temptation
Ultravox - Maximum Acceleration

Nu Sensae - Throw

Saturday, April 6, 2013

Iggy Pop - African Man

electric eels - Agitated
Death - Politicians in My Eyes
Mothers of Invention - Return of the Son of Monster Magnet

Liliput - Tschik-Mo
Mo-dettes - White Mice
Raincoats - Only Loved at Night

Minutemen - More Joy
Husker Du - 59 Times the Pain
Black Flag - Damaged I

Desperate Bicycles - Holidays
The Allovers - Allover Theme (great new locals, check out the link!)
Television Personalities - Part Time Punks

King Tubby - Say So
I-Roy - Satta
the Slits - Face Place

Rudimentary Peni - Alice Crucifies the Paedophiles
Void - Think
Melvins - Rickets

Beefeater - Blind Leads Blind
Really Red - Too Political?
Happy Flowers - There's a Soft Spot On the Baby's Head

October Faction - I Was Grotesque
Keith Rowe and John Tiulbury - Cathnor

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Rites of Spring - End on End

SNFU - The Electric Chair
Subhumans - Fuck You
Pointed Sticks - Out of Luck

Monks - I Hate You
Cramps - Surfin' Bird
Hasil Adkins - Chicken Walk

Bogshed - Tried and Tested Public Speaker
Gang of Four - Glass
Pop Group - Snow Girl

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Steal Softly Through Snow
Essential Logic - Albert Albert Albert / Alkaline Loaf (in the area)
Red Crayola - Yik Yak

Futureheads - Hounds of Love
Buzzcocks - Everybody's Happy Nowadays
the Smiths - The Boy With the Thorn in His Side

Keiji Haino - LOKSKOOIDGIIF
French Frith Kaiser Thompson - Where's the Money
Henry Kaiser - Devil in the Drain

Teen Idles - Teen Idles
Kaaos - Elephantti
Sick Pleasure - I Don't Play Pretty Music

Charles Mingus - Once Upon a Time There Was a Holding Corporation Called Old America

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Ice Age - Morals

Love Electric - Inside Joke
Nocturnal Emissions - Haldol Shuffle
Suicide - Girl

Soft Boys - Vegetable Man
Pagans - Real World
Pere Ubu - 30 Seconds Over Tokyo

Today's spotlight: 1984 Hardcore compilation P.E.A.C.E./War on R Radical Records. Hardcore punk from all over the world.
Holland:
Kalashnikov - Schluter's Kabinet
Local Disturbance - No U.S.A.
BGK - Arms Race

U.S.A! U.S.A!
Dicks - I Hope You Get Drafted
Dead Kennedys - Kinky Sex Makes the World Go Around
Butthole Surfers - 100 Million People Dead

Canada:
Unwarranted Trust - Honour's Calling
S.C.U.M. - So Much Hate
Porcelain Forehead - Will Amerika

Italy:
Negazione - Non Mi Dire
RAF Punk - Contro La Pace, Contro la Guerre
Wretched - Mai Arrendersi

Einsturzende Neubauten - Vanadium I-Ching
23 Skidoo - Fuck You G.I.
Lemon Kittens - The Hospital Hurts the Girl

bIG fLAME - All The Irish
Gary Debussy - Song
This Heat - Paper Hats

the Clash - All the Young Punks (New Boots and Contracts)
Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes


Saturday, January 5, 2013

New York Dolls - Human Being

Nomeansno - Ghosts
Alice Donut - Get a Life
Tragic Mulatto - Tac Squad

Patti Smith - Poppies
13th Floor Elevators - Rollercoaster
Chuck Berry - Too Much Monkey Business

Adicts - Chinese Takeaway
999 - I'm Alive
Generation X - Promises

Cutlass Dance Band - Accra Makola
Fela Kuti - Yellow Fever
Apagya Show Band - Sika Nti
Fela Kuti - Yellow Fever

Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Child of my Kingdom
Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music Part 2 (excerpt)
Kim Fowley - Control

Here and Now - This Time
Hawkwind - Hassan I Sabba
Gong - Floating Teapot


Saturday, December 22, 2012

I hate Christmas (please let it be over soon)

the Ravers - (It's Gonna Be a) Punk Rock Christmas

Crass - Merry Crassmas

the Mothers of Invention - Absolutely Free
the Fugs - Johnny Pisoff Meets the Red Angel
Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - Ballerin' Pain



the Fall - No Xmas for John Quay
the Ex - Jack Frost Was Innocent
the Kurws - Tans Mit Kommune 1

Art Bears - Terrain
Residents - Seasoned Greetings
Pigeon Breeders - Snowpines

Pablo Black - Silent Night
Freddie McGregor - Feliz Navidad
Eek-A-Mouse - The Night Before Christmas

Dog Faced Hermans - Volkswagen
Explode into Color - Sharpen the Knife
Sleater Kinney - the Remainder

RAMONES - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)
Pygmies - Santa Claus
FEAR - Fuck Christmas

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Blyth Power - Marius Moves

The (seemingly) weekly I love Dischord Records set
Fugazi - Epic Problem
Evens - Warble Factor
One Last Wish - My Better Half

Husker Du - Crystal
Replacements - I Will Dare
R.E.M. - Pretty Persuasion

Rolling Stones - I'm Alright
Yardbirds - Too Much Monkey Business
Small Faces  - Whatcha Gonna Do About It

Chrome - Pygmies in the Park
Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive
Defektors - Bottom of the City

Sly and the Family Stone - Hot Fun in the Summertime
Stevie Wonder - Black Man
Jimmy Castor Bunch - It's Just Begun

Christian Death - Figurative Theatre
Rhythm of Cruelty - Can't Escape
Sex Church - Slipped

the Famines - The First World War
Neu! - Hero
Peace - Winterhouse

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Nick Lowe - So it Goes

Kukl - Songull
Crass - Nineteen Eighty Bore
Killing Joke - Birds of a Feather

Can - Soup
Public Image Limited - Poptones
the Fall - Wings

Flux of Pink Indians - Desire / Blood Lust Rite
Ornette Coleman Double Quartet - Free Jazz (excerpt)
This Heat - 24 Track Loop

Doom - Confusion / Lifelock
Hellbastard - Heading for Internal Darkness
Amebix - ICBM

Ben Disaster - There is Hope (video just took second place at Metro Shorts festival!)
Will Scott - This is What it Sounds Like to Record in a Cave
No Problem - What Have I Become?

Blue Orchids - Sun Connection
Teardrop Explodes - Treason (It's Just a Story)
Peace - Fun and Games



Saturday, November 10, 2012

X-Ray Spex - Plastic Bag

David Bowie - Memory of a Free Festival
Slade - Gudbuy T'Jane
Gary Glitter - Hello I'm Back Again

NON - Turn Me on, Dead Man
Pigeon Breeders - Exterior Suite (excerpt)
Zebra Pulse - Name My Baby

Talking Heads - Houses in Motion
Brian Eno and David Byrne - Qu'ran
Tom Tom Club - L'elephant

the Courtneys - Nu Sundae
Weed - Tie to Everything You Own
Koko - A Lot Has Happened This Week
All these bands are on Green Burrito Records out of Vancouver, check them out HERE

the Fall - Spectre vs. Rector
Swell Maps - Gunboats
Ornette Coleman and Prime Time - Peace Warriors

the Skids - Sweet Suburbia
Rezillos - Flying Saucer Attack
Alternative - Another Subversive Peace Song

NON - Warm Leatherette

Saturday, November 3, 2012

Minutemen - Colors

John Cale - Guts
the Saints - Erotic Neurotic
Eddie and the Hotrods - Do Anything You Wanna Do

Bonzo Dog Band - Ready-Mades
Groundhogs - Rich Man, Poor Man
the Fugs - Dust Devil

Peace - Tattoo
Nu Sensae - Tajna
Defektors - I Don't Like Anything

John Lennon - Cold Turkey
the Stooges - Down on the Street
Yoko Ono - Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for a Hand in the Snow)

Fabulous Five - Ooh! Aah!
Linton Kwesi Johnston - Bass Culture
Max Romeo - I Chase the Devil

Fang - I Want to be on TV
Happy Flowers - Fever Dream
Flipper - Ever

Meat Puppets - Not Swimming Ground
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill
Violent Femmes - Kiss Off


Saturday, October 13, 2012

New Music Week!

Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Who Says?

the Ex - the Buzzword Medley
Shellac - My Black Ass
Nomeansno - And That's Sad

No Problem - Living in the Void
Minor Threat - Look Back and Laugh
Misfits - Bloodfeast

All new music! Click the links to listen to more.
Rhythm of Cruelty - Can't Escape http://rhythmofcruelty.bandcamp.com/track/cant-escape-rough-mix-2
The Love Electric - Have a >ision http://soundcloud.com/ben-disaster-1/have-a-ision
Peace - The Perp Walk http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/peace-world_is_too_much_with_us_album_stream

the Raincoats - In Love
Lora Logic - Stop Halt
LiLiPUT - Boatsong

This week's artist spotlight: The Slits! 
Love and Romance (Peel Sessions, 1977?)
Ping Pong Affair (Cut, 1979)
Life On Earth (Return of the Giant Slits, 1981)

Zebra Pulse - In the Tub of the Club
Flying Lizards - Hands 2 Take
Public Image Limited - The Suit

the Clash - This is Radio Clash
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - The Message
Blondie - Heart of Glass
(Come dance the way at the Non Stop Ecstatic Dance Party, tonight at the Cosmopolitan Music Society, I'll be spinning some platters along with other notable Edmontonians Alex McKie, Robert Burkosky and more! http://www.facebook.com/events/230926587035032/?fref=ts)

Saturday, August 11, 2012

Buzzcocks - Boredom

This week in the artist spotlight: Edmonton's own Ben Disaster (http://music.cbc.ca/#/artists/Ben-Disaster) Check out Ben Disaster and the Cosmonauts this Wednesday for free at The Empress Ale House on Whyte Avenue (http://www.facebook.com/events/395232203870541/)
Let's Dance - Take Part (2010)
Ben Disaster - Not Running (2011)
Japanese Treats - Glow (2012, not yet released, check out the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0jsfq7qdz0)

Au Pairs - Don't Lie Back
Ludus - the Escape Artist
Magazine - I Want to Burn Again

Desperate Bicycles - Handlebars
Mekons - Never Been in a Riot
Notsensibles - (I'm in Love With) Margaret Thatcher

the Germs - We Must Bleed
Alice Bag Band - Gluttony
Screamers - I Wanna Hurt

Residents - Diskomo
the Pop Group - Blood Money
Chrome - Pharoah Chromium

All these bands have upcoming gigs in the city, check the links for more info
Teledrome - Double Visions (http://www.facebook.com/events/126237530854556/)
Fist City - Weak End (Tuesday August 14 at the Wunderbar, no link available at this time.)
Feral Children - Massive Dream Rug (Today! August 11, http://www.facebook.com/events/268025146644878/)

Reagan Youth - I Hate Hate
Descendents - I Wanna Be a Bear
Negative Approach - Nothing

Zounds - Can't Cheat Karma
B-52s - 6060-842

Saturday, August 4, 2012

New Nu Sensae! "Sundowning" is out this week on Suicide Squeeze Records. See them at the Wunderbar this Monday: http://www.facebook.com/events/405742209463237/. Listen to to a live stream of the album here: http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/nu_sensae-sundowning_album_stream
Nu Sensae - Burnt Masks

Nu Sensae - Whispering Rule / Spit Gifting / Eat Your Mind

Peace - Your Hand in Mine (this is a brand new track, listen to it online here: http://www.spin.com/articles/listen-peaces-moonlit-your-head-mine)
White Lung - Bunny
Mutators - Get it Clean / Bourgeois Fantasy

Augustus Pablo - Africa (1983)
Abyssinians - Forward unto Zion
Bob Marley and the Wailers - So Jah Seh

Gil Scott-Heron - Whitey on the Moon / Lady Day and John Coltrane
John Coltrane - Resolution
Wilson Pickett - I'm Sorry About That

the Fall - Hexen Definitive / Strife Knot
Folk Devils - Albino
Bogshed - Fastest Legs

the Ex - Aha Gedawo (listen to this new track here: http://www.theex.nl/mp3/AhaGedawo.mp3)
Fugazi - Turnover / Repeater
fIREHOSE - Some Things

Butthole Surfers - Whirling Hall of Knives
Killdozer - Live Your Life Like You Don't Exist
Daddy Longhead - Driftwood


Saturday, July 21, 2012

Rolling Stones - Mother's Little Helper

Field and Stream - Fields
Dinosaur Jr. - Tarpit
Sonic Youth - Hey Joni

David Bowie - Star
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
T-Rex - Life's A Gas

Caroliner Rainbow Stewed Angel Skins - Dusk
Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Ella Guru
Lemon Kittens - Motet

Diodes - Death in the Suburbs
D.O.A. - D.O.A.
Pointed Sticks - The Witch

Boredoms - Bocabala
Neu! - Weissensee
Killing Joke - Chop Chop

Wipers - Alien Boy
Dickies - Give it Back
Bad Brains - At the Movies

Kool and the Gang - Stand Up and Sing
Eric Dolphy - Burning Spear
Pigeon Breeders - Cold Sweat

Shaggs - I'm So Happy When You're Near
Deerhoof - Look Away
Dos - Number Eight (I cannot suggest seeing this video highly enough: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFrgJBCtCmE)