Somewhere In Texas Radio

1-26-11

2011-01-25T19:11:00.000-08:00

Wed Jan 26 2011

Created and hosted by Melinda Walker and produced by Chenoa.

This show was a tribute to Broadcast, the Birmingham based experimental electro-pop group whose lead singer Trish Keenan recently passed away just this year due to complications from pneumonia. A few songs were chosen from each major record (in parentheses), starting with their earliest and progressing to their latest material. The last few songs are taken from their most recent material created with the Focus Group.

1. Living Room (Work and Non-Work)

2. Come on Let’s Go (The Noise Made by People)

3. Look Outside (The Noise Made by People)

4. Pendulum (Haha Sound)

5. Ominous Cloud (Haha Sound)

6. Lunch Hour Pops (Haha Sound)

7. Goodbye Girls (Tender Buttons)

8. Black Cat (Tender Buttons)

9. Tender Buttons (Tender Buttons)

10. Michael a Grammer (Tender Buttons)

11. Still feels like tears (Future Crayon)

12. Where Youth and Laughter Go (Future Crayon)

13. Dave’s Dream (Future Crayon)

14. Hammer Without a Master (The Future Crayon)

15. One Million Years Ago (Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age)

16. The Be Colony

(Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age)

1-12-11

2011-01-12T19:50:00.000-08:00

This is actually a rehashed show from 6-3-2009 with two new songs added to the end. Since we deleted the old blog (somewhereintexasradio.blospot.com), we'll post it here:

YACHT - Psychic City
The Fresh and Onlys - Peacock and Wing
Real Estate - Fake Blues
M. Ward - Fisher of Men

Withered Hand - Oldsmobile Car
The Russian Futurists - A Telegram from the Future
Crystal Stilts - Sycamore Tree (Daytrotter)
Stereo Total - C'est L'Amour

Peter and the Wolf - Bike of Jonas (Daytrotter)
Devendra Banhart - Bluebird
The Broken Hearts - Black Cat
O'Death - A Light That Does Not Dim

Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange
Reading Rainbow - In The City
The Raveonettes - Black White

Bauhaus - Terror Couple Kill Colonel
Beach House - Some Things Last A Long Time
Ela Orleans - Black and White

Position Normal - Jobsworth Twice Removed

PODCAST

1-5-2011

2011-01-05T19:45:00.000-08:00

Voila, the podcast

Viva L'American Death Ray - One Hour
Sore Eros - Giraffe's Kiss
Peter Wolf Crier - Crutch & Cane

White Hinterland - Icarus
The National - Sorrow
Hatchet Wound - Baby to Bed

Arms - Eyeball
Sharon Van Etten - A Crime
PS I Love You - Subtle & Majestic

The Morning Benders - Excuses
Giant Hand - Bones are my Home
Connan Mockasin - It's Chaode My Dear

Tearjerker - Wave
Now, Now - Roommates
Dr. Dog - It

Porcelain Raft - Dragonfly

12-29-10

2010-12-30T13:46:00.000-08:00

Playlist:

California Wives - Guilt
Harlem - Gay Human Bones
Idiot Glee - All Packed Up
Wye Oak - Civilian

MAN-CAT - Yeast
Glasser - Apply
The Soft Moon - Breathe the Fire

The Notes - Awake
Anika - I go to Sleep (Ray Davies/The Pretenders Cover)
La Femme - Sur La Planche
Young Man - Strangers

[Break]

Catwalk - No Room For Love
Jesse Woods - Mind Drips (Neon Indian Cover)
Apollo Ghost - Samurai Chatter
Little Jungles - Blue Heron

That Ghost - To Like You
Bloodhouse - Magic Tipi

And... PODCAST (listen here)

11-24-10

2010-11-24T19:24:00.000-08:00

Freelove Fenner - New Direction
The Smiths - This Charming Man
Tennis - Marathon

Millionyoung - Calrissian
Of Oceans - In Love, not Limbo
Writer - Bearfoot Art
Minks - Funeral Song

Scary Mansion - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Cindi Lauper Cover)
Soda Shop - Farewell
Braids - Vendevel
Dead Ghosts - When it Comes to You

Sharon Van Etten - One Day
Nirvana - Sliver
Anika - Officer, Officer

Anika - Yang Yang (Yoko Ono Cover)
Destroyer - China Town
The Hundred in the Hands -Ghost

French Films - Golden Sea
Palms on Fire -
Rollerskaters - Boyhood

Blouse - Into Black

Very good show, take a listen here: PODCAST

11-17-10

2010-11-24T10:16:00.000-08:00

Playlist (created by guest host Melinda Walker)

Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes
Panda Bear - Comfy in Nautica
Yeasayer - O.N.E.
Local Natives - Wide Eyes

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - 40 Day Dream
Ima Robot - Ruthless
Wolf Parade - Language City
Ra Ra Riot - You Can Tell
Grizzly Bear - Track 9 (?)

Mumford and Sons - The Cave
Band of Horses - Compliments
Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange

LCD Soundsystem - All I Want
Broken Bells - The Ghost Inside
Florence and the Machine - Rabbit Heart (Raise it Up)

***The Podcast will be up later***

11-10-10

2010-11-24T10:10:00.000-08:00

Playlist for 11-10-10

Broken Water - Dead Light
Bass Drum of Death - Heart Attack Kid
Big Deal - Locked Up

Beauty Feast - Things to do
Broadcast - Oh How I Miss You
Home Video - The Tundra
Shimmering Stars - I'm Gonna Try

Pixies - The Happening
Air Waves - Knockout
Guards - Swimming After Dark
Sea Oleena - Island Cottage

Carnivores - The Florentine
Grass House - A Cockroach
My Friend Wallis - Free Day

Forest Swords - Glory Gongs
The Books - Cold Freezin' Night

Silver Swans - Secrets

10/27/10

2010-10-27T20:28:00.000-07:00

We had a show last week, but I am not posting it because it contains a full album.
This weeks set list is as follows:

Generationals - Trust
Intelligence - Like Like Like Like Like Like Like
We Are Trees - Sunrise Sunset

Telekinesis - Dirty Thing
TV Girl - If You Want It
Women - Eyesore

Paleo - The King James Fakebook
Sea Oleena - Asleep at the Wheel
Crystal Stilts - Shake the Shackles

Warpaint - Undertow
Angust & Julia Stone - The Beast
Air Waves - Shine On

Eternal Summers - Safe at Home
Beck - Devil's Haircut
The Horrors - I Can't Control Myself

Stream or download the
PODCAST HERE

Return

2010-10-14T11:57:00.000-07:00

Hello,
The show was supposed to return two weeks ago, but alas, it did not.
It WILL begin next week, Wednesday at 9 MST.
Sorry, with the loss of a parent, missing school, and midterms, I was unable to produce shows.

The shore is in sight!

2010-09-27T16:03:00.000-07:00

Howdy listeners,
I am proud to announce that Somewhere In Texas Radio will be back on the air Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 9 p.m. MST.
Stream it live at kisu.org or, if you're in the area, listen to it on the airways at KISU 91.1 Pocatello, 91.3 Idaho Falls.

SWIT Revival

2010-08-19T14:45:00.001-07:00

Coming soon - new episodes of SWIT Radio! Stay tuned!

Questions?

2010-06-15T21:48:00.001-07:00

Where did I go?

I am taking a break. I stopped my show so I could get good grades . . . and I did.

As of now, the show is on an indefinite hiatus. I might be starting a new show on KISU soon.

We'll keep you posted.
Thanks

SWIT's Xmastravaganza! (12-23-09)

2009-12-24T12:56:00.000-08:00

Jesus, it's Christmas?! Dang...

Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus (Live)
Sonic Youth - The Sprawl
Black Lips - Big Black Baby Jesus Of Today
Leftovers - Vote for Santa Claus
Crocodiles - Neon Jesus

Flaming Lips - Stand In Line
Flaming Lips - Jesus Song No. 6

Girls - Ghost Mouth
Beck - Steal My Body Home
Flaming Lips - Thank You Jack White (for the Fiber-Optic Jesus That You Gave Me)
The Residents - Seasoned Greetings

Dead Kennedys - Soup is Good Food

Also, intermixed throughout are parts of Cheech and Chong's "Santa Claus and his Old Lady."

>>>>>PODCAST<<<<<

Or Stream it> HERE

2009-12-17T15:31:00.000-08:00

Silk Flowers - Windows Close
Beach Fossils - Time
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Home
Fresh and Onlys - Grey Eyed Girls

Meat Puppets - The Whistling Song
Wounded Lion - Friendly?
Wetdog - Tidy Up Your Room
The Spooks - (I forget, I'll update later)

Yellow Fever - Hell Fire
A Classic Education - What My Life Could Have Been
Hank Williams III and the Melvins - Ramblin' Man
Danger Beach - Milky Way

Break

The Mantels - Don't Lie
Sharon Van Etten - Much More Than That
Rats (Covering the Animals)
Wild Harem - Golden Man

A Grave With No Name - Sofia
Family Band - Hated
Best Coast - Sun Was High (So Was I)

Dragon Turtle - Island of Broken Glass

download:
PODCAST, yo

or stream:
PODCAST

11-18-09

2009-11-18T18:38:00.000-08:00

Generationals - Angry Charlie
Mahjongg - The Stubborn Horse
Glass Ghost - Mechanical Life
Mazzy Star - Free

Total Slacker - Crystal Necklace
Thomas Function - Magic City
His Clancyness - Misinterpret My Words
Belle and Sebastian - Fox in the Snow
Jordaan Mason - What's In Your Head
Low - Words

The Coral - Lizah
Brimstone Howl - They Call Me Hopeless Destroyer
That Ghost - Shouldn't Leave The Estate

The Fresh & Onlys - Invisible Forces
Crystal Stilts - Verdant Gaze
Best Coast - When I'm With You
Metric - Calculation Theme
Real Estate - Green River

PODCAST

Tonight, 11/11/09

2009-11-11T17:52:00.000-08:00

The Pastels - Baby Honey
Happy Family - Going To
The Sandwitches - Fire

Factums - Split Screen
Flaming Lips - Enthusiasm for Life Defeats Existential Fear (Progressive Dixieland Mix #2)

Christmas - Winter
The Strange Boys - The Girls Taught Me a Dance

Frozen Bears - Tape Eater
Mika Miko - Bastard in Love
Beat Happening - Me Untamed
Clinic - The Return of Evil Bill

Sparks - Sherlock Holmes
Comas - Moonrainbow
Those Darlins - Red Light Love
Christmas Island - Bed Island

Dunebuggy - W Thing

PODCAST

Last week, Nov. 4, 2009

2009-11-11T17:49:00.000-08:00

Firey Furnaces - Tropical Iceland
Flaming Lips - Convinced of the Hex
Small Black - Bad Lover

The Girls at Dawn - It's the Only Time
The Xx - Crystalised
Chad VanGaalen - Corvette
Taken By Trees - Watch the Waves

Titus Andronicus - Time Outside the Womb
Flight - My Business
King Khan & BBQ Show - Fish Fight

Teepee - I Told You So
Mason Family Picnic - Sounds Drifting On
Small Black - King of Animals
Eternal Summers - Lightswitch

Animal Tropical - Waterbed City
Girls - Lauren Marie
Culture Reject - Museums

Yeasayer - Ambling Alp

We're a bit behind, aren't we?

2009-10-29T12:30:00.000-07:00

Let's see. We've got to get the show with guest host Jordan Brooks posted.
Then last week's show... then yesterday's Halloween episode.

Let's start with the playlist from last week:
Position Normal - Fart in a Bottle
Brave Radar - Field Guide

Karen O and the Kids - All is Love
Sonny and the Sunsets - Too Young to Burn
Hornet Leg - Night of the Phantom

Ganglians - Blood on the Sand
Woven Bones - If You're Gold I'm Gone
Ruby Suns - There are Birds
Dark Meat - When the Shelter Came

Omon Ra - Aubade
The Rosebuds - Leaves Do Fall
Tape Deck Mountain - Bat Lies

Eula - Housewolf
Thee Headcoats - Tub's Twist
Antoine - Le Marchand de Temps

Sonic Youth - Schizophrenia
Position Normal - Jobsworth Twice Removed

Now here's the playlist from yesterday:
Ghostwood - Rest My Soul
Jeff & Jack Lewis - If You Shoot The Head You Kill The Ghoul
Bird From the Abyss - Ways of Slaughter
Gnarles Barkley - The Boogie Monster

The Cramps - What's Behind The Mask?
Beat Happening - You Turn Me On
Mr. Fab - Cannibal Zombie Mom

Dead Man's Bones - Lose Your Soul
Karen O and the Kids - Pumpkin
Magnetic Fields - Zombie Boy
Warren Zevon - You're a Whole Different Person When You're Scared

Coconut and the Duke - This is Halloween (cover of the Nightmare Before Christmas song written by Danny Elfman)
Men Diamler - Black as a Cat in the Morning
Tape Deck Mountain - Ghost Colony

Giana Factory - Bloody Game
Elf Power - I Walked With a Zombie

Podcasts of all three shows up shortly.

2009-10-13T09:18:00.000-07:00

This playlist is from a couple of weeks ago.........

Electric Tickle Machine - Gimme Money
Bear In Heaven - Wholehearted Mess
Dead Man's Bones - In The Room Where You Sleep
(I especially like that Dead Man's Bones track)

Desolation Wilderness - Boardwalk Theme
Land of Talk - May You Never
Small Black - Bad Lover
Fields of Industry - I'm Not Afraid of a Fight

Church - Graveyard
Wye Oak - Take It In
Desolation Wilderness - Come Over in Your Silver Car

Inoculist - Provenance
Estasy - Tree of Dead
A Grave With No Name - Open Water
Shark - I'm an Animal

Caribou - After Hours

I'll get the podcast for that show, as well as the one from last week (with guest host Jordan Brooks) up by the weekend. Week from hell at school, tell you what.

September 15, 2009

2009-09-21T15:06:00.000-07:00

*this just in*
Montana, of Beat City Radio, and I have decided to start a kisu music blog. This will be a cooperative effort, including writers from several of our locally produced shows. It will be your one-stop-shop for some of the best music programming concocted this part of the state (and beyond). Readers will be able to find playlists and podcasts, as well as information about upcoming KISU concerts. There will be record reviews, commentary, general music knowledge, music videos, and most likely more. We'll see, yes? We hope you will join us.

Here's the playlist from last week, September 15th '09

The Feelies - The Undertow
Devolver - Packing for the Soul
Good Omens - You're a Drag
Love is All - Felt Tip

Tickley Feathers - Trashy Boys
Modern Exteriors - Black and White
Thee Oh Sees - It Killed Mom
Grass Window - To Where

The Sediment Club - Stop of Go
Yo La Tengo - My Heart's Reflection
Teenage Waistband - Beast

Ty Segall - Lovely One
Memory Tapes - Swimming Field
Kurt Vile - Amplifier

Cobson - Blues For Hire
Tarkio - Weight of the World
Belle and Sebastian - Electronic Renaissance

Here's the PODCAST

Thanks!

August 26, 2009

2009-09-02T15:22:00.000-07:00

Most of this playlist is Jeff Pearson's, our guest host. I'll italicize my few contributions.

Knight School - Pregnant Again

The Clash - Brand New Cadillac
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Run Away
Hank Williams - Six More Miles (to the Graveyard)

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Hardcore Pops Are Fun
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Twin of Myself
Modest Mouse - Edit the Sad Parts
Atlas Sound - Attic Lights

Neutral Milk Hotel - Engine
Dinosaur Feathers - Don't Fear the Vagabonds
Deerhunter - Dot Gain
Viking Moses - Jones Boys

Atlas Sound - Walkabout (Feat. Panda Bear)
Shark? - Fear!
Helado Negro - Deja

Beach Boys - Warmth of the Sun

Julian Lynch - Rancher

Postcast coming soon.

August 19, 2009

2009-09-02T15:14:00.000-07:00

Atlas Sound - Memorial Corridor
Freelove Fenner - New Direction
Meth Teeth - Unemployment Forever
Clinic - Country Mile

Frat Dad - Freak in Nature
Flight - Flowers
Animal Collective - Daffy Duck
The xx - VCR

Real Estate - Black Lake
The Horrors - Sea Within A Sea
Yo La Tengo - Tired Hippo

Nodzzz - True to Life
Truman Peyote - New Wife, New Life
Soft Cat - Dar When it Should Be Violet Hour

Brazos - They're There, Airport Rebel

Podcast coming soon.

August 12, 2009

2009-08-18T11:00:00.001-07:00

Here's the playlist for last week's somewhat moody show.

Broadcast - Tender Buttons
Akron/Family - Fiver
Eternal Summers - Fall Straight Back

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Woodfriend
Beach House - Saltwater
Le Loup - Beach Town

Chad VanGaalen - Clinically Dead
Voxtrot - Berlin, Without Return
Brian Eno - Sombre Reptiles
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Even If Love

Mum - Small Deaths Are The Saddest
Sea of Bees - Willis
Belle Orchestre - Les Lumineres Parts 1 &2

The Shivers - Just Didn't Need to Know
Nurses - Bright Ideas
Woods - Get Back

Sgt. Dunbar and the Hobo Banned - Everything Is, Part III

Bonus Track

2009-08-11T13:42:00.000-07:00

I thought this was rather amusing. Click to play and you'll see why I can't play it over the public airwaves. At least not on KISU.
Megapuss - A Gun On His Hip and A Rose On His Chest

August 5, 2009

2009-08-05T17:25:00.000-07:00

My horoscope said "tonight: make it easy," so I did. That's my terribly scabby excuse for not having a new show tonight. I've picked a pretty good episode for you, though. Here's the playlist:

Panda Bear - Take Pills
Leonard Cohen - Diamonds in the Mine
Her Space Holiday - Sleepy Tigers

The Jesus and Mary Chain - I Hate Rock n' Roll
Feral Children - Jaundice Giraffe
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood

Circulatory System - Symbols & Maps
The Boggs - How Long?
Lyrics - So What?
Of Montreal - Eros' Entropic Tundra

Yo La Tengo - Flying Lesson [Hot Chicken #1]
Here We Go Magic - Only Pieces
Camera Obscura - I Need All The Friends I Can Get
Apostle of Hustle - They Shoot Horses, Don't They

This show was originally aired on May 23, 2009.
You can stream or download this episode HERE

July 29, 2009

2009-07-29T19:34:00.000-07:00

Howdy folks. Here's your playlist:

The Wave Pictures - If You Leave It Alone
The Champagne Socialists - Blue Genes
Pill Wonder - What We Know

Fluffy Lumbers - Cruisers
Cotton Jones - Gotta Cheer Up
Wild Beasts - All The King's Men

Holiday Shores - Edge of Our Lives
I'm Turning Into - Would It Matter
Warpaint - Burgundy
Beach Fossils - Vacation

Woven Bones - Your Sorcery
Kurt Vile - Space Forklift
Destroyer - Your Blood
Ducktails - Beach Point Pleasant

Zola Jesus - Clay Bodies

And here's the PODCAST of this episode.

Seeing Sonic Youth tonight! I am very excited.

See All You Could Have Seen, Or Did.

2009-07-26T09:10:00.000-07:00

I'd like to share with you some photos from last week's show at Ross Park.

Here are a few of Warbonnet:

A few of Finn Riggins:

And some of Jared Mees and the Grown Children:

And one from the super-grand finale. Finn Riggins busted through the back door and joined in as Jared Mees & the Grown Children's last song exploded. I was too busy jumping and giggling to take any more. Yes, it was contagiously cute.

July 22, 2009

2009-07-22T16:44:00.001-07:00

Playlist:
Rainbow Bridge - Big Wave Rider
Forest Fire - Fortune Teller

Ganglians - 100 Years
Ty Segall - The Drag
The Go-Betweens - Spirit of a Vampyre
Holiday Shores - Phones Don't Feud

Daytime - Morning
Spectrals - Leave Me Be
Atlas Sound - Walkabout (feat. Panda Bear)
Royal City - Bad Luck

Haunted House - Chandeliers
Kurt Vile - Overnight Religion
Explode Into Color - Sharpen The Knife
Talbot Tagora - Replacing The North West

Real Estate - Green River
Sonic Youth - Theresa's Sound World

Royal City - Can't You Hear Me Calling (stream or download it)

Click here for the>> Podcast.

Enjoy!

July 15, 2009

2009-07-15T18:27:00.001-07:00

Here's the playlist for ya:

Ty Segall - Can't Talk
WHY? - This Blackest Purse
Fruit Bats - The Ruminent Band
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Bears! Bears! Bears! - I am Hand Drawn
Gene Vincent - Cat Man
Snakeflower 2 - Talk About It

Cave Wedding - Bring Your Love
WAND - Resuscitation Distillery Blues
Amen Dunes - Two Thousand Islands
Jacuzzi Boys - Island Ave

Sonic Youth - Shoot
Tonstartssbandht - Andy Summers
Woods - To Clean
The Cramps - The Way I Walk (Live at CBGB 1/13/1978)

Wooden Shjips - For So Long
Lay Low - Last Time Around

Here's the Podcast, enjoy!
(Left click to stream, or right click and save)

Upcoming Shows

2009-07-14T12:22:00.000-07:00

KISU Presents Jared Mees & the Grown Children, Finn Riggins, and Warbonnet...
- Saturday, July 18th 2009. Show starts at 6:30 P.M.
- At the Ross Park Band Shell in Pocatello (2900 S. 2nd Avenue)

This event is an outdoor concert and pot-luck. Bring a dish to share, a beverage for yourself, a friend, and please - a $3 (or more) donation. Donations will be used to pay for the venue, to build KISU-FM's concert fund, and most importantly, to pay the featured acts. See you out there!!!

Secondly, I'd like to announce the two opportunities to see Sonic Youth this month:

- You can catch them in Boise on July 23, 2009 at the Knitting Factory.

-They're also playing for FREE in Salt Lake City on July 30, 2009. It's the Twilight Concert Series.

New blog, new era.

2009-07-09T11:20:00.000-07:00

Back by a bit less than popular demand, but a demand all the same, I give you the Somewhere In Texas Radio blog. An online counterpart to the show where you will find podcasts, playlists, ramblings and the occasional video. I have to say, thank you to those of you who have encouraged me to restart this. It's been a terribly tough time getting myself to login to myspace lately, and frankly, that shit just doesn't do the job. It's good to be back.

Here's the playlist from July 8, 2009.

My Gold Mask - Monomania
Surf City - Headin' Inside
Here We Go Magic - Ahab
Bauhaus - The Spy in the Cab

Tiny Masters of Today - Pop Chart
Apollo Ghost - Little Yokohama
The Fall - Container Drivers

Slaraffenland - Meet & Greet
Foreign Born - Wander Aimlessly
Desolation Wilderness - Paris to New York
Cousin Chris - Head Down

The Almighty Defenders - Bow Down and Die
Generationals - Angry Charlie
Times New Viking - No Time, No Hope

The Horrors - Primary Colours
Apostle of Hustle - Kings & Queens

And here's the Podcast. <<(Left click to stream, right click and save)

Here's the fourth of july show as a bonus.
Go 'Merica.