The Left of the Dial website will probably take a brief hiatus while I re-think it’s design and purpose. I’m leaning towards a podcast but I’m open to ideas (brian “at” leftofthedialradio” dot” org if you have ideas)

Come back soon for an update on the muxtape, pictures, and other things from today’s show.

Here’s what you’re heard today:
The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
The Band – “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” (from The Last Waltz)
Billy Bragg – “A New England” (from Back to Basics)
The Magnetic Fields – “California Girls” (from Distortion)
Pearl Jam – “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town” (from Live at the Gorge)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “Hearts of Oak” (from Hearts of Oak)
The Strokes – “Someday” (from Is This It?)
Superdrag – “Sucked Out” (from Regretfully Yours)
Jason Anderson – “Watch Your Step” (from The Hopeful and the Unafraid)
Radiohead – “Bodysnatchers” (from In Rainbows)
The Smiths – “The Headmaster Ritual” (from Meat is Murder)

The Replacements – “Bastards of Young” (from Tim)
The Church – “Under the Milky Way” (from the Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the ’80s Underground box)
Rilo Kiley – “With Arms Outstretched” (from The Execution of All Things)
Andrew W.K. – “She Is Beautiful” (from I Get Wet)
Jonathan Rice – “Further North” (from Further North)
Arcade Fire – “[Antichrist Television Blues]” (from Neon Bible)
Superchunk – “Art Class (song for Yayoi Kusama)” (from Here’s to Shutting Up)
She & Him – “Sentimental Heart” (from Volume 1)
Sonic Youth – “Youth Against Fascism” (from Dirty)
Animal Collective – “Fireworks” (from Strawberry Jam)

The Replacements – “Alex Chilton” (from Pleased to Meet Me)
Pavement – “Stereo” (from Brighten the Corners)
Elvis Costello – “Welcome to the Working Week” (from My Aim is True)
Talking Heads – “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)” (from Stop Making Sense)
Wilco – “Pot Kettle Black” (from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)
The Miracle of ‘86 – “Dance! Dance, Revolution!” (from Every Famous Last Word)
Cornershop – “Brim Full of Asha” (from When I Was Born for the 7th Time)
Elliott Smith – “Waltz #2 (XO)” (from XO)
Broken Social Scene – “Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl” (from You Forgot it in People)
Feist – “I Feel It All” (from The Reminder)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “Biomusicology” (from Tyranny of Distance)
The Jam – “Going Underground” (from The Best of the Jam)
R.E.M. – “I’m Gonna DJ” (from Accellerate)

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Here’s what you’re hearing:
The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
Broken Social Scene – “Almost Crimes (Radio Kills Mix)” (from You Forgot It in People)
Dinosaur Jr – “Been There All the Time” (from Beyond)
The Verve – “This Time” (from Urban Hymns)
Death Cab for Cutie – “I Will Possess Your Heart” (from Narrow Stairs)
The Stone Roses – “I Wanna Be Adored” (from The Stone Roses)
My Morning Jacket – “Evil Urges” (from Evil Urges)
The Raconteurs – “Salute Your Solution” (from Consolers of the Lonely)
She & Him – “This is Not a Test” (from Volume 1)
LCD Soundsystem – “Big Ideas” (from 21 OST)
Frank Black – “Hang On to Your Ego” (from Frank Black)

The Replacements – “Unsatisfied” (from Let it Be)
Tokyo Police Club – “Juno” (from Elephant Shell)
Blur – “Song 2″ (from Blur)
Badly Drawn Boy – “All Possibilities” (from Have You Fed the Fish?)
R.E.M. – “Hollow Man” (from Accelerate)
Semisonic – “Singing in My Sleep” (from Feeling Strangely Fine)
Joy Division – “Atmosphere” (from Substance)
Animal Collective – “Peacebone” (from Strawberry Jam)
Radiohead – “Optimistic” (from Kid A)
Vampire Weekend – “A-Punk” (from Vampire Weekend)
The Hold Steady – “Multitude of Casualties” (from Live at Lollapalooza 2006)
The Jam – “Ghosts” (from The Gift)

The Replacements – “Alex Chilton” (from Pleased to Meet Me)
The Black Keys – “Strange Times” (from Attack and Release)
B-52s – “Private Idaho” (from Nude on the Moon Boxset)
R.E.M. – “Maps & Legends” (from Fables of the Reconstruction)
Bloc Party – “So Here We Are” (from Silent Alarm)
Ted Leo – “Since U Been Gone / Maps” (live recording)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “Parallel or Together?” (from Tyranny of Distance)
Billy Bragg – “I Keep Faith” (from Mr. Love & Justice)
The New Pornographers – “Use It” (from Twin Cinema)
Arcade Fire – “Keep the Car Running” (from Neon Bible)
Spoon – “Jonathon Fisk” (from Kill the Moonlight)
My Bloody Valentine – “Soon” (from Loveless)
Eddie Vedder – “Hard Sun” (from Into the Wild OST)

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Animal Collective – “Peacebone” (from Strawberry Jam)
Eisley – “Many Funerals” (from Combinations)
Arcade Fire – “Wake Up” (from Funeral)
The Jam – “Strange Town” (from Setting Sons)
Squeeze – “Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)” (from Singles 45’s and Under)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “Six Months in a Leaky Boat” (from Sharkbite Sessions EP)
Against Me! – “Thrash Unreal” (from New Wave)
The Rolling Stones – “Play With Fire: (from Hot Rocks: 1964 – 1971 and The Darjeeling Limited OST)
Nirvana – “All Apologies” (from MTV Unplugged)
Elliott Smith – “Angeles” (from Either/Or)
The Shins – “Phantom Limb” (from Wincing the Night Away)
The Miracle of ‘86 – “Dance! Dance, Revolution” (from Every Famous Last Word)
Husker Du – “New Day Rising” (from New Day Rising)
Pavement – “Silence Kit” (from Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain)
R.E.M. – “The One I Love” (from R.E.M. Live)

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The Replacements – “Within Your Reach” (from Hootenany)
Superchunk – “Rainy Streets” (from Here’s to Shutting Up)
R.E.M. – “So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)” (from Reckoning)
Bright Eyes – “Train Under Water” (from I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning)
Guided By Voices – “Everybody Thinks I’m a Raincloud (When I’m Not Looking)” (from Half Smiles of the Decomposed)
Radiohead – “Sit Down, Stand Up” (from Hail to the Theif)
The Fiery Furnaces – “Sing for Me” (from The Fiery Furnaces EP)
The Hold Steady – “Killer Parties” (from …Almost Killed Me)
Animal Collective – “Grass” (from Feels)
M83 – “Don’t Save Us from the Flames” (from Before the Dawn Heals Us)
Rilo Kiley – “My Slumbering Heart” (from The Execution of All Things)
Big Star – “O My Soul” (from #1 Record / Radio City)
Band of Horses – “Is There a Ghost?” (from Cease to Begin)

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Animal Collective – “Peacebone” (from Strawberry Jam)
Iron & Wine – “Boy with a Coin” (from The Shepherd’s Dog)
Jose Gonzales – “Down the Line” (from In Our Nature)
Matt Pond PA – “Sunlight” (from Last Light)
Pinback – “Good to Sea” (from Autumn of the Seraphs)

The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
The Who – “The Real Me” (from Quadrophenia)
The Jesus & Mary Chain – “Darklands” (from Darklands)
Black Lips – “O Katrina!” (from Good Bad Not Evil)
Low – “When I Go Deaf” (from The Great Destroyer)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “La Costa Brava” (from Living with the Living)
The Hold Steady – “First Night” (from Boys and Girls in America)
The New Pornographers – “Letter from an Occupant” (from Mass Romantic)
Against Me! – “Thrash Unreal” (from New Wave)
Paul Weller – “That’s Entertainment” (from Days of Speed)
The Minus Five – “Where Will You Go?” (from Down With Wilco)
Jonathan Rice – “THC” (from Further North)

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