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Here’s what you heard today on an extra long final show of the semester:

The Hold Steady – “Girls Like Status” (from Boys and Girls in America)
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists – “The Sons of Cain” (from Living with the Living)
Bright Eyes – “Four Winds” (from Cassadaga)
Bjork – “Earth Intruders” (from Volta)
TV on the Radio – “Wolf Like Me” (from Return to Cookie Mountain)
Arctic Monkeys – “Brianstorm” (from Favorite Worst Nightmare)
Modest Mouse – “We’ve Got Everything” (from We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank)
The Shins – “Australia” (from Wincing the Night Away)
Arcade Fire – “Keep the Car Running” (from Neon Bible)
Dinosaur Jr – “Almost Ready” (from Beyond)
The Jam – “Going Underground” (from The Best of the Jam)

The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
Nouvelle Vague – “Melt With You” (from Nouvelle Vague)
Low – “Hatchet” (from Drums and Guns)
Petra Hayden – “Don’t Stop Believing” (from Guilt By Association)
Ben Folds – “In Between Days” (from Speed Graphic EP)
Gomez – “Love is Better Than a Warm Trombone” (from Bring It On)
Belle and Sebastian – “Me and the Major (live)” (from If You’re Feeling Sinister)
Apples in Stereo – “Energy” (from New Magnetic Wonder)
Pulp – “Disco 2000″ (from Different Class)
Blues Brothers – “Rubber Biscuit” (from The Blues Brothers: The Definitive Collection)
Teenage Fanclub – “Neil Jung” (from Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Six Seconds: the Best of Teenage Fanclub)
Matthew Sweet – “The Ballad of El Goodo” (from Big Star, Small World: Tribute to Big Star)
Big Star – “Thirteen” (from #1 Record / Radio City)
Craig Wedren – “Higher and Higher” (from Wet Hot American Summer)
Cornershop – “Brim Full of Asha” (from When I Was Born for the 7th Time)
Talking Heads – “Life During Wartime” (from Fear of Music)
Sonic Youth – “Kool Thing” (from Goo)
Death Cab for Cutie – “Crooked Teeth” (from Plans)
The Stone Roses – “I Wanna Be Adored” (from The Stone Roses)
Echo & the Bunnymen – “Bring on the Dancing Horses” (from Songs to Learn and Sing)
R.E.M. – “Exhuming McCarthy” (from Document)
Wilco – “Theologians” (from A Ghost is Born)
The Hold Steady – “Stuck Between Stations” (from Boys and Girls in America)
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists – “Biomusicology” (from The Tyranny of Distance)
Spoon – “The Way We Get By” (from Kill the Moonlight)
Billy Bragg – “A New England” (from Must I Paint you a Picture? The Best of Billy Bragg)
The Zombies – “This Will Be Our Year” (from Odessey and Oracle)

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Well, better late than never I suppose. Here’s what was played last Sunday:

Bjork – “Earth Intruders” (from Volta)
Arctic Monkeys – “Brianstorm” (from Favorite Worst Nightmare)
TV on the Radio – “Wolf Like Me (live)” (from Live at Amoeba Music EP)
Pavement – “Rattled by the Rush” (from Wowee Zowee)
Of Montreal – “Suffer for Fashion” (from Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?)
Radiohead – “Just” (from The Bends)
Fiery Furnaces – “Sing for Me” (from The Fiery Furnaces EP)
The Cure – “Boys Don’t Cry” (from Staring at the Sea: The Singles)
The Hold Steady – “Chips Ahoy! (live)” (live on WXPN)
Camper Van Beethoven – “Take the Skinheads Bowling” (from Telephone Free Landslide Victory)
Elvis Costello & the Attractions – “Accidents Will Happen” (from Armed Forces)
XTC – “Generals and Majors” (from Waxworks: Some Singles 1977 – 1982)
Big Star – “Mod Lang” (from #1 Record / Radio City)
Blur – “Charmless Man” (from The Great Escape)

No shows on WQAQ this weekend due to “May Weekend,” so see you on the 6th!

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The first annual “Lefty Awards” were handed out today and Mike and I had fun looking back at some of our favorite music from the past year.

Here’s what you heard (and the awards they won too)
Pearl Jam – “Gone” – “Live Lefty” Winner (from Albany, NY 5/12/2006)
The Hold Steady – “Stuck Between Stations” – Brian’s Favorite Album of 2006 Lefty (from Boys and Girls in America)
Dirty Pretty Things – “Doctors & Dealers” – “Brad Johnson” Lefty (for a consistently solid but not great album) (from Waterloo to Anywhere)
Lupe Fiasco – “Hurt Me Soul” – Outstanding Achievement in Hip Hop Lefty (from Lupe Fiasco’s Food and Liquor)
Spoon – “The Book I Write” – Soundtrack Lefty (from Stranger than Fiction OST)
Sonic Youth – “Incinerate” – “Don’t Call it a Comeback” Lefty (from Rather Ripped)
Belle and Sebastian – “White Collar Boy” – The “Most Offensive Humorous Reference” Lefty (from The Life Pursuit)
Sleater-Kinney – “Modern Girl” – The “Farewell” Lefty (from 2005’s The Woods)
TV on the Radio – “Wolf Like Me” – “Critics Choice” Lefty (from Return to Cookie Mountain)
Arctic Monkeys – “A Certain Romance” – “Lebron James” Lefty (from meeting and/or exceeding tremendous hype) (from Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not)
The Rapture – “Woo! Alright-Yeah… Uh Huh” – “Wreckx-N-Effect” Lefty (for best “Rump Shaker) (from Pieces of the People We Love)

Next week’s show is the last show of the semester, so I’ll be planning something for it.

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Today’s show was an instant classic – a special 2 hour edition featuring guest DJ Mike! Mike kept me company, picked a whole bunch of songs, and acted as the rock of sanity around all of my ridiculous bullshit. Mr. Giaquinto will have to come back soon and frequently!

Here’s what you heard:

Sonic Youth (w/ Chuck D) – “Kool Thing” (from Goo)
The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
The Smiths – “Girlfriend in a Coma” (from Strangeways, Here We Come)
Slowdive – “Machine Gun” (from Souvlaki)
Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins – “Handle With Care (w/ Ben Gibbard, Conor Oberst, and M. Ward” (from Rabbit Fur Coat)
Squeeze – “Another Nail in my Heart” (from Argybargy)
The Specials – “Rudi, A Message to You” (from Singles Collection)
The Pogues – “Dirty Old Town” (from Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash)
Pablo – “Half the Time” (from Half the Time)(website here)
The Hold Steady – “Party Pit” (from Boys and Girls in America)
Thin Lizzy – “Jailbreak” (from Jailbreak)
The New Pornographers – “It’s Only Divine Right” (from The Electric Version)
Wilco – “Airline to Heaven (live)” (from Kicking Television: Live in Chicago
Superdrag – “Sucked Out” (from Regretfully Yours)
Pulp – “Disco 2000″ (from Different Class)
Arctic Monkeys – “A Certain Romance” (from Whatever People Say I am, That’s What I’m Not)
Billy Bragg – “A New England” (from Must I Paint You a Picture?)
Badly Drawn Boy – “Everybody’s Stalking” (from The Hour of Bewilderbeast)
Scissor Sisters – “I Don’t Feel Like Dancing (w/ Elton John)” (from Ta-Dah)
The Dead Boys – “Sonic Reducer” (from Young, Loud, and Snotty)
Dinosaur Jr – “Just Like Heaven” (from Ear Bleeding Country: The Best of Dinosaur Jr)
Johnny Cash & Joe Strummer – “Redemption Song” (from Unearthed)
Neutral Milk Hotel – “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” (from In the Aeroplane Over the Sea)
Buzzcocks – “What Do I Get?” (from Singles Going Steady)
The Who w/ Eddie Vedder – “I’m One (live)” (from Live at the Royal Albert Hall)
The Stone Roses – “She Bangs the Drums” (from The Stone Roses)

See you next week!
[BW]

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