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Since Quinnipiac will be closed for Thanksgiving break this coming week, I won’t be on the air this Saturday (11/18) or the following one (11/25). Check back in a few days and hopefully I’ll have something special (podcast, radioblog, etc) to tide you over until then.

Also, mark your calendars for 12/2 for the First (Annual?) “Lefty” Awards honoring some of my favorite music from 2006. There’s also a very good chance that Mike will join the ceremony as well!

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This week’s show featured more new music than normal - I guess I was in the mood for it!

What you heard:

The Replacements - “I Will Dare” (from Let it Be)
Bright Eyes - “First Day of My Life” (from I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning)
Kevin Devine - “Just Stay” (from Put Your Ghost to Rest)
The Clash - “Police on My Back” (from Sandanista!)
…And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - “Gold Heart Mountain Top Queen Directory” (from So Divided)
R.E.M. - “Little America” (from Reckoning)
Pablo - “This Will Be Our Year” (from Half the Time)
Minus 5 w/ Wilco - “Where Will You Go?” (from Down With Wilco)
Spoon - “The Book I Write” (from Stranger Than Fiction: OST)
Sufjan Stevens - “Jacksonville” (from Illinois, or Come on, Feel the Illinoise!)
The Hold Steady - “Your Little Hoodrat Friend” (from Separation Sunday)
TV on the Radio - “Wolf Like Me” (from Return to Cookie Mountain)
Feist - “Mushaboom” (from Let it Die)
Pearl Jam - “Insignificance” (from Binaural)

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I described this past week’s show as “odd” not because it didn’t go well (it went quite well) but because my song selection was a bit strange. They’re all good songs but I picked some strange ones looking back.

Regardless, here’s what you heard:

The Replacements - “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
The Decemberists - “The Engine Driver” (from Picaresque)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians - “Madonna of the Wasps” (from Madonna of the Wasps)
The Afghan Whigs - “Creep” (from Honky’s Ladder EP)
The Wedding Present - “Our Lips are Sealed” (from BBC Radio1’s One Music 08-29-06)
Desmond Dekker - “King of Ska” (from The Definitive Collection)
The Specials - “Monkey Man” (from The Specials)
The Dismemberment Plan - “The City” (from Emergency & I)
Jamiroquai - “Canned Heat” (from Synkronized)
New Order - “Temptation” (from Substance)
Echo & The Bunnymen - “Bring on the Dancing Horses” (from Songs to Learn and Sing)
Dexy’s Midnight Runners - “Let’s Make this Precious (BBC Version)” (from Let’s Make This Precious)
Modest Mouse - “Gravity Rides Everything” (from The Moon and Antarctica)

See you next week!

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A few days late, but better late than never. This past week’s show was another 2 hour edition and once again I was joined by Mike in the studio which led to much banter and good music!

Here’s what you heard:
Guided by Voices - “Game of Pricks” (from Alien Lanes)
Blur - “Beetlebum” (from Blur)
The Get Up Kids - “10 Minutes” (from Something to Write Home About)
Jeff Tweedy - “The Ruling Class” (from Sunken Treasure: Live in the Pacific Northwest DVD)
Interpol - “Untitled” (from Turn on the Bright Lights)

CBGB’s “Tribute”
Patti Smith - “Gloria” (from Horses)
Talking Heads - “Life During Wartime” (from Fear of Music)
Television - “Venus” (from Marquee Moon)
The Ramones - “Sheena is a Punk Rocker” (from Leave Home)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists - “2nd ave, 11 AM” (from Hearts of Oak)

The Kinks - “I’m Not Like Everybody Else” (from Kinkdom)
The Replacements - “Bastards of Young” (from Tim)
Stephen Malmus - “Church on White” (from Stephen Malkmus)
U2 - ” ‘40′ “(from War)
The Velvet Underground - “Sweet Jane” (from Loaded)
Cornershop - “Brim Full of Asha” (from When I was Born for the Seventh Time)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - “Maps” (from Fever to Tell)
Built to Spill - “Big Dipper” (from There’s Nothing Wrong with Love)
Cracker - “Get off This” (from Greatest Hits Redux)
David Bowie (w/ John Lennon) - “Across the Universe” (from Young Americans)
The Hold Steady - “Chillout Tent” (from Boys and Girls in America)

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