While Zooey Deschanel is currently doing her own thing, giving She & Him a rest, M. Ward’s been busy as well. The indie/alternative all-star band on A Wasteland Companion includes Dr. Dog’s Toby Leaman, Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley, DeVotchka’s Tom Haberman, the Cardinals’ Jon Graboff and Norfolk and Western’s Amanda Lawrence. The album comes out April 10.
This lush single’s video was directed by animator Joel Trussel.
Craig Finn – When No One’s Watching (Full Eyes, Vagrant) Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker, Yim Yames – Old L.A. (New Multitudes, Rounder) Jim White – Infinite Mind (Where It Hits You, Yep Roc) Laura Gibson – Skin, Warming Skin (La Grande, Barsuk) Graffiti6 – Free (Free EP, Capitol) The Asteroids Galaxy Tour – Major (Out Of Frequency, BMG) Jessie Baylin – Hurry Hurry (Little Spark, Blonde Rat/Thirty Tigers) Kathleen Edwards – Empty Threat (Voyageur, Zoe/Rounder) The Soul Rebels – Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This (Unlock Your Mind, Rounder) Shawn Lee’s Incredible Tabla Band – Apache (Tabla Rock, Ubiquity) Trailer Trash Tracys – You Wish You Were Red (Ester, Domino) Cloud Nothings – Stay Useless (Attack On Memory, Carpark Records) Portugal. The Man – Got It All (This Can’t Be Living Now) (In The Mountain In The Cloud, Atlantic)
1982 was definitely the “center lane” for Techno-Pop! New Brit and L.A. bands were experimenting with dance club mixes full of rhythmic beats, synthesized keyboards and added special effects. The rest of the U.S. was playing it safe with a clean, more polished sound. Many top market Rock stations were starting to tighten-up their playlists with highly-researched songs in a format called Album Oriented Rock (AOR). But don’t worry… we’ll be going a lot deeper than that on today’s program. Have fun listening! — Fred
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ARTIST
TITLE
ALBUM
The Steve Miller Band
Abracadabra (LP cut)
Abracadabra
Asia
Only Time Will Tell
(self-titled debut)
R.E.M.
Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)
Dead Letter Office
David Johansen (live)
We Gotta Get Out of This Place (trilogy)
Live It Up
The Fixx
Stand or Fall
Shuttered Room (debut)
Billy Joel
Allentown
The Nylon Curtain
Melissa Manchester
You Should Hear How She Talks…
Hey Ricky
Don Henley
You Better Hang Up
I Can’t Stand Still (solo debut)
Trio
Da Da Da
Musique
Supertramp
It’s Raining Again
…Famous Last Words…
Pete Shelley
Homosapien
Homosapien
Talk Talk
Talk Talk
Party’s Over (debut)
Chris de Burgh
Don’t Pay the Ferryman
The Getaway
Richard & Linda Thompson
Walking on a Wire
Shoot Out the Lights
TV THEME
“Cheers”
Musical Youth
Pass the Dutchie
The Youth of Today
A Flock of Seagulls
Space Age Love Song
(self-titled debut)
Martha and the Muffins
Danseparc (Everyday It’s Tomorrow)
Danseparc
Donnie Iris
Love Is Like a Rock
King Cool
The Police
Spirits in the Material World
Ghost in the Machine
Planet P (f/Tony Carey)
Why Me?
Planet P Project
MOVIE – David Bowie
Cat People (Putting Out Fire)
“Cat People” (OST)
Journey
Still They Ride
Escape
Icehouse
Great Southern Land
Primitive Man
Roxy Music
More Than This
Avalon
Duran Duran
Save a Prayer
Rio
LOCAL – Jim Peterik (w/Survivor)
Eye of the Tiger
Eye of the Tiger
LOCAL – Steve Winwood
Valerie
Talking Back to the Night
LOCAL – Adrian Belew (w/King Crimson)
Heartbeat
Beat
Joe Jackson
Breaking Us In Two
Night and Day
Warren Zevon
Looking for the Next Best Thing
The Envoy
Huey Lewis and the News
Bad Is Bad
Sports
The J. Geils Band
Freeze-Frame
Freeze-Frame
Moving Pictures
What About Me
Days of Innocence
Rainbow
Stone Cold
Straight Between the Eyes
Fleetwood Mac
Gypsy
Mirage
The Cars
Since You’re Gone
Shake It Up
THEN – Van Halen
Dancing in the Street
Diver Down
NOW – Van Halen
Tattoo
A Different Kind of Truth (forthcoming 2/7)
Peter Godwin
Images of Heaven
Images of Heaven (debut)
The Alan Parsons Project
Sirius–>Eye in the Sky
Eye in the Sky
Bonnie Raitt
Me and the Boys
Green Light
Lindsey Buckingham
Trouble
Law and Order (solo debut)
BEATLE – George Harrison
That’s the Way It Goes
Gone Troppo
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Now here’s a Mashup/cover I can get behind. Some people don’t get Bon Iver. Some people don’t like Bon Jovi. This video, from post-rock band Miracles of Modern Science, just might help out both camps.