New Feature: Left of the Dial Muxtape

March 30th 2008

Earlier this week I stumbled upon Muxtape, a new site that lets users upload 12 MP3s to create their own streamable mix that you can listen to right from your internet browser.  Once I saw the potential in making a Muxtape, I decided to start one for Left of the Dial.

So I’m pleased to announce the first edition of the Left of the Dial Muxtape!  I picked out twelve tracks from yesterday’s show to share with all of you, so even if you missed the show you can still hear some of the songs I played.

If you start your own Muxtape, let me know about it.  Until then, I’m going to keep thinking of ways I can use this for my own purpose.

See you next Saturday!

Left of the Dial Muxtape – Edited 03/29/08 (All songs played on 03/29/08 edition of Left of the Dial)

  1. “I’ll Bring the Sun” – Jason Collett
  2. “I Keep Faith (Live on Conan O’Brien)” – Billy Bragg (courtesy of Bradley’s Almanac)
  3. “See These Bones” – Nada Surf
  4. “Just Stay” – Kevin Devine
  5. “Death to Los Campesinos!” – Los Campesinos!
  6. “Precious” – The Jam
  7. “This Is Not a Test” – She & Him
  8. “Small Stakes” – Spoon
  9. “Achin’ to Be” – The Replacements
  10. “Union City Blue” – Blondie
  11. “Vapour Trail” – Ride
  12. “Terms of Psychic Warfare” – Husker Du

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Playlist for 03/29/08

March 29th 2008

Today’s edition of Left of the Dial, the first after a long hiatus, was appropriately an extra long show! Thanks to everyone who called/IMed in their requests!

Here’s what you heard today:

First Hour:
The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
R.E.M. – “Living Well is the Best Revenge” (from Accelerate)
Jason Collett – “I’ll Bring the Sun” (from Idols of Exile)
Billy Bragg – “I Keep Faith” (from Mr. Love and Justice)
Elvis Costello & The Attractions – “No Action” (from This Year’s Model)
Kevin Devine – “Just Stay” (from Put Your Ghost to Rest)
Nada Surf – “See These Bones” (from Lucky)
R.E.M. – “Accelerate” (from Accelerate)
R.E.M. – “Half a World Away” (from Out of Time)
Los Campesinos! – “Death to Los Campesinos!” (from Hold On Now, Youngster)
The National – “Apartment Story” (from Boxer)
Pearl Jam – “Come Back” (from Pearl Jam)
R.E.M. – “I’m Gonna DJ” (from R.E.M. Live)

Second Hour:
The Replacements – “I Will Dare” (from Let it Be)
Vampire Weekend – “The Kids Don’t Stand a Chance” (from Vampire Weekend)
The Hold Steady – “How a Resurrection Really Feels” (from Separation Sunday)
Jeff Tweedy – “Theologians” (from Sunken Treasure: Live in the Pacific Northwest DVD)
The Jam – “Precious” (from The Gift)
The Decemberists – “The Engine Driver” (from Picaresque)
U2 – “Ultraviolet (Light My Way)” (from Achtung Baby)
She and Him – “This is Not a Test” (from She and Him: Volume 1)
Pavement – “Stereo” (from Brighten the Corners)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “Biomusicology” (from The Tyranny of Distance)
The Jesus and Mary Chain – “‘Just Like Honey” (from Psychocandy)
Spoon – “Small Stakes” (from Kill the Moonlight)
The Gutter Twins – “The Stations” (from Saturnalia)

Final Half Hour:
The Replacements – “Aching to Be” (from Don’t Tell a Soul)
Sonic Youth – “Teenage Riot” (from Daydream Nation)
Blondie – “Union City Blue” (from Eat to the Beat)
Ride – “Vapour Trail” (from Nowhere)
Sufjan Stevens – “The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts” (from Come On Feel the Illinoise!)
Husker Du – “Terms of Psychic Warfare” (from New Day Rising)
LCD Soundsystem – “Big Ideas” (from 21 OST)

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Playlist for 02/25/07

February 25th 2007

Today’s show was unexpectedly long but turned out to go by somewhat fast. Here’s what you heard:

Built to Spill – “Conventional Wisdom” (from You in Reverse)
The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
Velvet Underground – “Sunday Morning” (from The Velvet Underground & Nico)
Jeff Tweedy – “Summerteeth” (from Sunken Treasure: Live in the Pacific Northwest)
The Good, The Bad, & The Queen – “History Song” (from The Good, The Bad, & The Queen)
Of Montreal – “Suffer for Fashion” (from Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?)
Dinosaur Jr – “Been There All the Time” (from Beyond)
Arcade Fire – “Keep the Car Running” (from Neon Bible)
The Hold Steady – “Most People are DJs” (from …Almost Killed Me)
Bloc Party – “Waiting for the 7.18″ (from A Weekend In the City)
Matthew Sweet – “Divine Intervention” (from Goodfriend: Another Take on Girlfriend)
Bob Dylan – “It Ain’t Me, Babe” (from The Essential Bob Dylan)
Mission of Burma – “Academy Fight Song” (from Signals, Calls, & Marches)
M83 – “Don’t Save Us from the Flames” (from Before the Dawn Heals Us)

The second hour began with a mini-set of ’60s soul:

Otis Reading – “It’s Too Late” (from The Great Otis Reading Sings Soul Ballads)
Aretha Franklin – “Think” (from Blues Brothers: The Definitive Collection)
Sam & Dave – “Hold On, I’m Comin’” (from Hold On, I’m Comin’)
Archie Bell & The Drells – “Tighten Up” (from Tighten Up / I Can’t Stop Dancing)
James Brown – “Night Train / Closing” (from Live at the Apollo, 1962)
Sly & The Family Stone – “Everyday People” (from Greatest Hits)
Sam Cooke – “A Change is Gonna Come” (from The Man and His Music)
Lily Allen – “LDN” (from Alright, Still)
The New Pornographers – “It’s Only Divine Right” (from Electric Version)
Sonic Youth – “Schizophrenia” (from Sister)
Sondre Lerche & The Faces Down – “Phantom Punch” (from Phantom Punch)
Ted Leo + The Pharmacists – “C.I.A.” (from Living with the Living)
Kevin Devine – “Holland, 1945″ (from Put Your Ghost To Rest B-Sides)
Sufjan Stevens – “Come On! Feel the Illinoise!” (from Come On Feel the Illinoise)

And the third(!) hour began with a mini-set of female singers.

Regina Spektor – “Fidelity” (from Begin to Hope)
Beth Orton – “How Far” (from Trailor Park)
Luscious Jackson – “Naked Eye” (from Fever In, Fever Out)
Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs – “Different Drum” (from Under the Covers, Vol. 1)
Sleater-Kinney – “Jumpers” (from The Woods)
The Spinanes – “Spitfire” (from Manos)
Stars – “Elevator Love Letter” (from Heart)
Broken Social Scene – “Major Label Debut” (live on KCRW)
Modest Mouse – “We’ve Got Everything” (from We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank)
Teenage Fanclub – “Star Sign” (from Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-Six Seconds: The Best of Teenage Fanclub)
Suede – “Trash” (from Suede)
The Thrills – “One Horse Town” (from So Much for the City)
LCD Soundsystem – “North American Scum” (from Sound Of Silver)

No links this week, I’ll be crossing my fingers for The Departed and Little Miss Sunshine at the Oscars tonight!

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Playlist for 11/11/06

November 13th 2006

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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