Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Taking a break

Between the Bars is no longer on the air. You're welcome to browse my old playlists, below.

Playlist for March 30, 2011

Some of my favorite songs...

Passion Pit "Seaweed Song"
Louise Attaque "See You Later Aligator"
Young Marble Giants "Choci Loni"
The Morning Benders "Promises"
Phantogram "Mouthful Of Diamonds"



Toro y Moi "Master Of None"
Smashing Pumpkins "Crush"
TV On the Radio "Ambulance"
Animal Collective "Banshee Beat"
Hot Chip "Over and Over"
Gorillaz "Oh Melancholy Hill"
Grizzly Bear "CheerLeader"
The Local Natives "Wide Eyes"
Mum "Green Grass of Tunnel"



Shout Out Louds "The Candle Burned Out"
Architecture in Helsinki "Maybe You Can Owe Me"
Black Moth Super Rainbow "Twin of Myself"
Sleigh Bells "Rill Rill"
Peter Bjorn & John "Let's Call It Off (Girl Talk Remix)"
Le Tigre "Eau D'Bedroom Dancing"
Papercuts "Future Primitive"
The Magnetic Fields "I Think I Need a New Heart"
Belle and Sebastian "If She Wants Me"
Beach House "Used To Be"
Yo La Tengo "Nowhere Near"
Vetiver "Strictly Rule"
Pavement "Spit On a Stranger"

Going on a hiatus

Tonight's show will be my last show! Or at least my last for a few months anyway...

Tune in from 8-10pm tonight to hear some of my greatest hits!

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Playlist for March 23, 2011

My SXSW wrap-up show!

Twin Shadow "Castles In The Snow"
The Luyas "Tiny Head" New
Gayngs "The Gaudy Side of Town"
John Vanderslice "Sea Salt"
Okkervil River "The War Criminal Rises and Speaks"
Tune-Yards "Sunlight"
The Joy Formidable "Whirring" New
Wild Flag "Electric Band"
The Antlers "Kettering"
Esben and the Witch "Marching Song" New
Dum Dum Girls "He Gets Me High" New
The Cults "Oh My God"
Toro y Moi "Still Sound" New
The Naked & Famous "Young Blood"
Friendly Fires "KISS OF LIFE"
Davila 666 "Obsesionao"
The Black Lips "Bad Kids"
OFF! "Upside Down"
Smith Westerns "Girl In Love"
Smith Westerns "Weekends" New
Dom "Living in America" New
Matt & Kim "Good Ol' Fashioned Nightmare"
Sondre Lerche "Good Luck"
Midlake "Acts of Man"
Menomena "Five Little Rooms"
Wye Oak "Holy Holy" New
Tapes N Tapes "Badaboom" New
The Fresh and Onlys "Tropical Island Suite" New
Foster the people "Pumped Up Kicks" New

Monday, March 21, 2011

Playlist for March 9, 2011

No show on March 16, 2011 as I will be in SXSW.  Next show will be March 23rd.

 The Magnetic Fields "When the Open Road Is Closing In"
 Jens Lekman "I Saw Her At the Anti-War Demonstration"
 Hold But Let Go "Six Organs of Admittance"
 Iron & Wine "In My Lady's House"
 Cotton Jones "Egg On A Sea"
 Papercuts "Do What You Will" New
 Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion "Speed of Light"
 Best Coast "Our Deal"
 Yo La Tengo "Tried So Hard"
 Arcade Fire "City With No Children"

 Dom "Jesus" New 


 Danielson "Grow Up"
 Hotels "The Bat Watusi"
 Mudhoney "Into The Drink"
 Lifehouse "Everybody Is Somebody"
 Zola Jesus "I Can't Stand" New
 Violens "Trance-Like Turn"
 Loch Lomond "Elephants and Little Girls"
 Marnie Stern "Transparency Is The New Mystery" New
 Port O'Brien & Cambria Goodwin "Tree Bones"
 Real Estate "Beach Comber"
 Devandra Banhart "At The Hop"
 Count Fleet "How It Ends"
 Liz Phair "Girls! Girls! Girls!"
 Red House Painters "Japanese to English"
 Destroyer "Song for America" New
 Women "Locust Valley"
 The Heligoats "A Word From Our Sponsor"
 Casiotone for the Painfully Alone "I Love Creedence"

 The XX "Heart Skipped A Beat"


 Bat For Lashes "What's a Girl to Do?"
 Suuns "ARENA" New

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Playlist for March 2, 2011

Short show, pre-empted by UCSB sports!

 Trust "Candy Walls"
 Warpaint "Bees"
 Bibio "Dwrcan"
 How To Dress Well "Ready For The World"
 Electrelane "Take the Bit Between Your Teeth"
 Davila 666 "Esa Nena Nunca Regreso" - free download
 Wavves "Get In The Sun"
 Weezer "Tired of Sex"
 Matt & Kim "Where You're Coming From"
 Women "Eyesore"
 Page France "Chariot"
 The Luyas "Too Beautiful to Work"
 Toro y Moi "Still Sound"
 Suuns "Pie IX" New

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Playlist for February 16, 2011

Papercuts "The Wolf"
 The Go Find "Everybody Knows It's Gonna Happen Only Not Tonight"
 Architecture in Helsinki "UnderWater"
 LCD Soundsystem "You Wanted A Hit"
 Avery Tare "3 Umbrellas" New
 Massive Attack "BABEL"
 Michael Stipe "Everything's Coming Undone"
 Islands "EOL"
 Deerhoof "The Merry Barracks" New
 Washed Out "Feel It All Around"
 Lykke Li "DANCE, DANCE, DANCE"
 White Flight "The Condition"
 Mi and L'au "Dance On My Skin"
 Fierce Creatures "The Great White" New
 Menomena "Five Little Rooms"
 Psapp "Tiger, My Friend"
 Micachu and the Shapes "Vulture"
 Say Hi "Take Ya' Dancin'" New
 Sleater-Kinney "OH!"
 The Stranglers "Hanging Around"
 Elliott Smith "SON of SAM"
 Reeks and the Wrecks "The Waltz"
 Smith Westerns "All Die Young" New
 The Whispertown 2000 "Old Times"
 Woods "Gypsy Hand"
 Copycat "Golden Lights"
 Yuck "GEORGIA" New
 Bear in Heaven "Casual Goodbye"
 Nurses "Apple's Acre"
 Shugo Tokumaru "Lahaha" New

Pretty excited about this Shugo Tokumaru release!

Shugo Tokumaru - Lahaha (Official Video) from Souterrain Transmissions on Vimeo.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Playlist for February 9, 2011

I was lazy this week, so you got a "Two for Tuesday."  On a Wednesday.


 Metric "Combat Baby" from "Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?" (2003)
 Metric "Stadium Love" from "Fantasies" (2009)
 The Flaming Lips "Flight Test" from "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" (2002)
 The Flaming Lips "The Sparrow Looks Up at the Machine" from "Embryonic" (2010)
*Destroyer "Chinatown" from "Kaputt" (2010) New
 Destroyer "New Ways of Living" from "Notorious Lightning and Other Works" (2005)



 Spoon "The Way We Get By" from "Kill the Moonlight" (2002)
 Spoon "Trouble Comes Running" from "Transference" (2010)
 The Thermals "It's Trivia" from "More parts per million" (2003)
 The Thermals "Never Listen to Me" from "Personal Life" (2010)
*Mogwai "Letters to the Metro" from "Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will" (2011) New
 Mogwai "Katrien" from "Young Team" (1997)
 Blonde Redhead "Missile" from "In an Expression of the Inexpressible" (1998)
 Blonde Redhead "Penny Sparkle" from "Penny Sparkle" (2010)
 Black Moth Super Rainbow "Colorful Nickels" from "Falling Through A Field" (2003)
 Black Moth Super Rainbow "Twin of Myself" from "Eating Us" (2009)
 Gorillaz "Kids With Guns" from "Demon Days" (2005)
 Gorillaz "On Melancholoy Hill" from "Plastic Beach" (2010)
 Beck "Broken Train" from "Midnite Vultures" (1999)
 Beck "Orphans" from "Modern Guilt" (2008)
*Tapes 'n Tapes "Mighty Long" from "Outside" (2011) New
 Tapes 'n Tapes "The Illiad" from "The Loon" (2006)



 The Magnetic Fields "A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off" from "69 Love Songs (Box Set)" (1999)
 The Magnetic Fields "You Must Be Out of Your Mind" from "Realism" (2010)
 The Apples In Stereo "Do You Understand?" from "Velocity of Sound" (2002)
 The Apples In Stereo "Dignified Dignitary" from "Travellers In Space and Time" (2010)
 The New Pornagraphers "These Are the Fables" from "Twin Cinema" (2005)
 The New Pornographers "Your Hands (Together)" from "Together" (2010)
 The Arcade Fire "Neighborhood #2 (Laika)" from "Funeral" (2004)
 The Arcade Fire "The Suburbs" from "The Suburbs"
 The Walkmen "Wake Up" from "Wake Up - EP" (2001)
*The Walkmen "Juveniles" from "Lisbon" (2010) New

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Playlist for February 2, 2011

Tried to do a theme show this week:  "folk + electro"

 Andrew Bird "The Happy Birthday Song"
 St. Vincent "The Strangers"
 Yeasayer "The Children"
 Psapp "Calm Down"
 Dr. Dog "My Old Ways"
 Kid Loco "Relaxin With Cherry" Request
 Gayngs "The Last Prom on Earth"
 The Knife "Got 2 Let U"
 Animal Collective "I Think I Can"
 Wilco "Deeper Down"
 Thom Yorke "Skip Divided"
 Beach House "Wedding Bell"
 Gentle Friendly "RIP Static"


Gentle Friendly 'RIP Static' from newtigerhearts on Vimeo.


 Tunng "Take"
 Atlas Sound "An Orchid"
 Mia Doi Todd "My Room Is White"
 Mum "Nightly Cares"
 Autechre "Clipper"
 Beck "Replica"
 Junip "It's Alright"
 Joanna Newsom "Good Intentions Paving Co."



 Caribou "Happy Ending"
 Devotchka "The Oblivion"
 Bear in Heaven "Lovesick Teenagers"
 Low "In the Drugs"
 Boom Bip feat. Nina Nastasia "The Matter (of Our Discussion)"
 Mouse on Mars "Download Softist"
 The Books "None But Shining Hours"
 Suuns "Armed For Peace" New

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Playlist for January 25, 2011

The Fall "L.A."
 Women "Narrow with the Hall" New
 The Velvet Underground "I Can't Stand It"
 Electrelane "To the East"
 Yonlu "Waterfall"
 Blessure Grave "Feeding the Silence"
 Washed Out "Get Up"
 The Walkmen "Woe Is Me" New
 Yacht "The Afterlife"
 Hot Chip "Look After Me"
 Hercules and Love Affair "Raise Me Up"
 The Rapture "Pieces of the People We Love"
 Phoenix "Love Like A Sunset (Animal Collective Remix)"
 Violens "Are You Still In The Illusion"
 Charlotte Gainsbourg "Trick Pony"
 Blood on the Wall "Acid Fight"
 King Khan & the Shrines "69 Faces of Love"



 La Sera "Never Come Around" - free download
 Beirut "The Canals of Our City"
 Grizzly Bear "On a Neck, On a Spit"
 Bardo Pond "Don't Know About You"
 Tricky "Come To Me" New
 Destroyer "Suicide Demo For Kara Walker" New
 Jay Reatard "Faking It"
 Pylon "Feast On My Heart"
 Broadcast "America's Boy"



 Hard Mix "Callers"
 Catherine Wheel "Fripp"

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Playlist for January 19, 2011

 Sparklehorse "Some Sweet Day"
 Damien Jurado "Cloudy Shoes"
 Lykke Li "Everybody But Me"
 Evangelicals "This Evening Descends"
 Las Robertas "Street Feelings"
 Suuns "Arena" New
 Royksopp "True to Life"
 JJ "Still"
 Peter Bjorn & John "Nothing to Worry About"
 Women "Locust Valley"
 Broken Social Scene "Bandwitch"
 Baby Eagle "Day of our Departing"
 Margot and The Nuclear So & So's "Let's Paint Our Teeth Green" New
 Neko Case "Vengeance Is Sleeping"
 Fleet Foxes "White Winter Hymnal"
 The Raconteurs "You Don't Understand Me"
 Tapes 'n Tapes "Freak Out" New
 The Babies "Run Me Over"
 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah "Gimme Some Salt"
 Sleigh Bells "Riot Rhythm"
 The Go! Team "Patricia's Moving Picture"
 Destroyer "Savage Night at the Opera" New
 Belle and Sebastian "I Can See Your Future"
 Badly Drawn Boy "Another Pearl"
 No Joy "Hawaii"
 Moondoggies "Tidelands" New
 Galaxie 500 "Another Day"
 Camera Obscura "Away With Murder"
 M. Ward "Never Had Nobody Like You"
 Lovers "Barnacle" New

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Playlist for January 12, 2011

A few tracks from tonight's show can be downloaded for free at Gorilla vs. Bear, links provided below.

An Horse "Camp Out"
La Sera "Devils Hearts Grow Gold"
Architecture in Helsinki "The Owls Go"
Fool's Gold "The World Is All There Is"
JJ "Kill You"
Pomegranates "One of Us" New
Handsome Furs "Hate This City"
Built To Spill "Carry the Zero"
Ra Ra Riot "Massachusetts" - Playing in Santa Barbara at Soho on 1/19
Tape Deck Mountain "It Goes Down"
The Babies "Wild I"
Pivot "Colorado"
Ducktails "Killing The Vibe"
The Walkmen "Blue As Your Blood" New
France Gall "C'est Pas Facile D'etre Une Fille"
Nouvelle Vague "Dance With Me"
Star Slinger "Like I Do"
The Avalanches "ETOH"
Violens "Until it's Unlit" New
Starfucker "Isabella of Castile"
The Blow "Parentheses"
Puro Instinct "Stilyagi"
Women "Untogether" New
Kurt Vile "Jesus Fever"
Kings of Convenience "The Build Up"
Beach House "Turtle Island"
Okkervil River "For Real"
Wire "Two Minutes"
Great Lakes "Summer Fruit" New

Sunday, January 9, 2011

The show is moving to Wednesday nights!

Same time, 8-10pm.

Playlist for January 3, 2011

 Portastatic "I Wanna Know Girls"
 Mirah "Advisory Committee"
 Oh No! Oh My! "Reeks and Seeks"
 Gossip "Eyes Open"
 A Sunny Day In Glasgow "Canalfish"
 Sufjan Stevens "I Walked" New
 Memory Tapes "Bicycle"
 RJD2 "Ring Finger"
 Blueprint "Radio-Inactive"
 Suuns "Armed for Peace" New
 Tracy + The Plastics "What You Still Want"
 Autolux "Audience No. 2"
 Women "Locust Valley" New
 No Age "Chem Trails"
 Bikini Kill "Rebel Girl"
 Fog "Glory"
 The 6Ths "Aging Spinsters"
 Ratatat "Bare Feast"
 Bright Eyes "Coat Check Dream Song"
 The Walkmen "Blue As Your Blood" New
 Scissor Sisters "Everybody Wants The Same Thing"
 Yacht "It's Boring/ You Can Live Anywhere You Want"
 Raveonettes "Bang!"
 Violens "The Dawn Of Your Happiness Is Rising" New
 Real Estate "Let's Rock The Beach"
 The Mumlers "Red River Hustle"
 Moondoggies "It's a Shame, It's a Pity"
 Jonathan Richman "Twilight In Boston"
 Mia Doi Todd "Autumn"
 Slim Harpo "I Got Love If You Want It"
 Mice Parade "Couches and Carpets" New