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Thanks for tuning in this morning – here’s what you heard today:

Modest Mouse – “Paper Thin Walls” (from The Moon & Antarctica)
Jay Reatard – “See/Saw” (from Matador Singles ‘08)
The Walkmen – “In the New Year” (from You & Me)
Sleater-Kinney – “Modern Girl” (from The Woods)
The American Analog Set – “The Kindness of Strangers” (from Know By Heart)

The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
Built to Spill – “Temporarily Blind” (from Keep it Like a Secret)
Death Cab for Cutie – “We Looked Like Giants” (from Transatlanticism)
The Jesus and Mary Chain – “About You” (from Darklands)
Los Campesinos! – “Miserabilia” (from We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed)
Sufjan Stevens – “The Avalanche” (from The Avalanche)
R.E.M. – “7 Chinese Bros.” (from Reckoning)
The Smiths – “What Difference Does it Make?” (from The Smiths)
Colin Meloy – “Every Day is Like Sunday” (from Colin Meloy Sings Morrissey EP)
The Church – “Under the Milky Way” (from Starfish)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “Tell Balgeary, Balgury is Dead” (from Hearts of Oak)
The Feelies – “Raised Eyebrows” (from Crazy Rhythms)
Okkervil River – “Pop Lie” (from The Stand-Ins)

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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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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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Today’s show was the first show back for the semester and featured a ton of new music! Here’s what you heard:

The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
The Shins – “Sleeping Lessons” (from Wincing the Night Away)
Bloc Party – “Hunting for Witches” (from A Weekend in the City)
Modest Mouse – “We’ve Got Everything” (from We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank)
Arcade Fire – “No Cars Go” (from Neon Bible)
Deerhunter – “Spring Hall Convert” (from Cryptograms)
The Apples in Stereo – “Energy” (from New Magnetic Wonder)
LCD Soundsystem – “North American Scum” (from Sounds of Silver)
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – “La Costa Brava” (from Living With the Living)
Dinosaur Jr – “Almost Ready” (from Beyond)
Of Montreal – “Bunny Ain’t No Kind of Rider” (from Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?)

And today’s episode featured a bit of “bonus time” too! Here’s what you heard then:

Peter Bjorn and John – “Young Folks” (from Writer’s Block)
Sonic Youth – “Reena” (from Rather Ripped)
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians – “Madonna of the Wasps” (from the Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the 80’s Underground box set)
X – “See How We Are” (from See How We Are)
Arcade Fire – “Intervention” (from Neon Bible)

Here’s a link to a recent Hartford Current article on some of the people bringing underground rock music to Connecticut. Also, check out the Arcade Fire next Saturday on Saturday Night Live!

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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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