Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Daphni - Ye Ye* - Jiaolong (Matador)
Loscil - Red Tide* - Monument Builders (Kranky)
OneOverZero - Marshlands* - Low Sync Syncopation (Independent)
Sound of the Mountain - B: Part 1* - Amplified Clarinet and Trumpet (Mystery and Wonder)
Foonyap - The Fun Machine (monochrome rainbow remix)* - Apropos EP (Independent)
Moby and the Void Pacific Choir - A Softer War - More Fast Songs About the Apocalypse (Arts and Crafts)
DWNTWN - Fourteen - Racing Time (Jullian)
Kuma - Sugar - The Stranger (Independent)
Eine Kleine China - Mothersbaugh for Your Mind* - Feels Industry (Boat Dreams from the Hill)
Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Monday, January 1, 2018
Best of 2017
1) The Horrors - V (Wolf Tone)
2) Woolworm* - Deserve to Die (Mint)
3) Whimm* - A Stare Ajar (Pleasance)
4) Beck - Colors (Capitol)
5) Gesture* - No Past, It Started All Over Again (Independent)
6) Future Islands - The Far Field (4AD)
7) Alvvays* - Antisocialites (Royal Mountain)
8) LCD Soundsystem - American Dream (DFA)
9) Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent (Domino)
10) Gun Control* - Volume 1 (Independent)
Honourable Mentions: Hermetic* - Postscript (Big Smoke), Walrus* - Family Hangover (Madic), METZ* - Strange Peace (Royal Mountain), Algiers - The Underside of Power (Matador), Clark - Death Peak (Warp)
2) Woolworm* - Deserve to Die (Mint)
3) Whimm* - A Stare Ajar (Pleasance)
4) Beck - Colors (Capitol)
5) Gesture* - No Past, It Started All Over Again (Independent)
6) Future Islands - The Far Field (4AD)
7) Alvvays* - Antisocialites (Royal Mountain)
8) LCD Soundsystem - American Dream (DFA)
9) Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent (Domino)
10) Gun Control* - Volume 1 (Independent)
Honourable Mentions: Hermetic* - Postscript (Big Smoke), Walrus* - Family Hangover (Madic), METZ* - Strange Peace (Royal Mountain), Algiers - The Underside of Power (Matador), Clark - Death Peak (Warp)
Sunday, December 31, 2017
Who We Lost in 2017
Sylvester Potts (The Contours)
Jaki Leibezeit (Can)
Butch Trucks (Allman Brothers)
Geoff Nichols (Black Sabbath)
Deke Leonard (Man)
Sonny Geraci (The Outsiders, Climax)
Stuart McLean
Sib Hashian (Boston)
Jimmy Dotson
Jimmy Dotson
Bob Wootton (Johnny Cash)
Gregg Allman
John Blackwell (Prince)
Erich Schwandt*
Jerry Lewis
Melissa Bell (Soul II Soul)
Skip Prokop* (Lighthouse)
Walter Becker (Steely Dan)
Dave Hlubek (Molly Hatchet)
Skip Prokop* (Lighthouse)
Walter Becker (Steely Dan)
Dave Hlubek (Molly Hatchet)
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Video Playlist #18: We're Stars
In honour of Christmas, we present a star themed playlist!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0QOmyo1JgZc7oevlpwEnmKkCP3iUV70X
1) Stars* - Your Ex-Lover is Dead
2) Shimmering Stars* - East Van Girls
3) The Wooden Stars* - Outlaw
4) Stars on 45 - Stars on 45
5) Tin Star - Disconnected Child
6) Big Star - September Gurls
7) Atlantic Starr - Always
8) Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
9) Blinker the Star* - Orion
10) The Star Spangles - I Live for Speed
11) Black Star Liner - Duggie Dhol
12) Ringo Deathstarr - Imagine Hearts
13) Star Anna - Big Bad Wolf
14) Five Star Homeless* - Hands of the Devil
15) STRFKR - Open Your Eyes
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0QOmyo1JgZc7oevlpwEnmKkCP3iUV70X
1) Stars* - Your Ex-Lover is Dead
2) Shimmering Stars* - East Van Girls
3) The Wooden Stars* - Outlaw
4) Stars on 45 - Stars on 45
5) Tin Star - Disconnected Child
6) Big Star - September Gurls
7) Atlantic Starr - Always
8) Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
9) Blinker the Star* - Orion
10) The Star Spangles - I Live for Speed
11) Black Star Liner - Duggie Dhol
12) Ringo Deathstarr - Imagine Hearts
13) Star Anna - Big Bad Wolf
14) Five Star Homeless* - Hands of the Devil
15) STRFKR - Open Your Eyes
Monday, December 11, 2017
DNTTA Playlist for August 11, 2017
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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The Book of Lists - Moon Balloon* - The Book of Lists (Scratch)
Grim - Let's Be Sinners* - Monsters (Independent)
Teenanger- Two Middle Fingers* - Teenager (Telephone Explosion)
Ornament and Crime - Treatable* - Burglaries (Independent)
Crystal Eyes - High Moon* - The Female Imagination (Independent)
Swane - Average Bear* - Biota (Independent)
Gesture - In a Clearing* - No Past, It Started All Over Again (Independent)
Needles//Pins - Miracle* - Goodnight, Tomorrow (Mint)
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Lord of Lightning - Murder of the Universe (ATO)
Abrdeen - Secret Handshake* - Endless Nights and Dreamlike Mornings (Independent)
Slates - Coyotes* - Summery (New Damage)
Killing Joke - Wardance - The Singles Collection (Spinefarm)
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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The Book of Lists - Moon Balloon* - The Book of Lists (Scratch)
Grim - Let's Be Sinners* - Monsters (Independent)
Teenanger- Two Middle Fingers* - Teenager (Telephone Explosion)
Ornament and Crime - Treatable* - Burglaries (Independent)
Crystal Eyes - High Moon* - The Female Imagination (Independent)
Swane - Average Bear* - Biota (Independent)
Gesture - In a Clearing* - No Past, It Started All Over Again (Independent)
Needles//Pins - Miracle* - Goodnight, Tomorrow (Mint)
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Lord of Lightning - Murder of the Universe (ATO)
Abrdeen - Secret Handshake* - Endless Nights and Dreamlike Mornings (Independent)
Slates - Coyotes* - Summery (New Damage)
Killing Joke - Wardance - The Singles Collection (Spinefarm)
Saturday, December 9, 2017
DNTTA Playlist for August 4, 2017
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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MoonMuseum - Edge City* - Eternal Return (Independent)
Do Make Say Think - A Murder of Thoughts* - Stubborn Persistent Illusions (Constellation)
Civvie - Drift* - Inheritance (Independent)
Pond - Paint Me Silver - The Weather (Modular)
Triptides - Rewind - Afterglow (RPUT)
Mundy's Bay - Strange Feeling* - Wandering and Blue (Blue Skies Turn Black)
Blve Hills - I'm So Lost* - Come on In (Independent)
Hermetic - Smoke* - Postscript (Big Smoke)
Co-Op - Don't Turn the Page* - Co-Op (Independent)
Prairie Cat - Crib Talk* - Is Cary Pratt (Fuzzy Logic)
Bill Nelson - Flaming Desire - The Love That Whirls (Mercury)
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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MoonMuseum - Edge City* - Eternal Return (Independent)
Do Make Say Think - A Murder of Thoughts* - Stubborn Persistent Illusions (Constellation)
Civvie - Drift* - Inheritance (Independent)
Pond - Paint Me Silver - The Weather (Modular)
Triptides - Rewind - Afterglow (RPUT)
Mundy's Bay - Strange Feeling* - Wandering and Blue (Blue Skies Turn Black)
Blve Hills - I'm So Lost* - Come on In (Independent)
Hermetic - Smoke* - Postscript (Big Smoke)
Co-Op - Don't Turn the Page* - Co-Op (Independent)
Prairie Cat - Crib Talk* - Is Cary Pratt (Fuzzy Logic)
Bill Nelson - Flaming Desire - The Love That Whirls (Mercury)
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Forgotten Music #27: Michael Penn - No Myth (1989)
A few songs are simply lightning in a bottle. They are released, they are seemingly inescapable for a few months, then they disappear. M's "Pop Musik" comes to mind. And so does this track.
I was standing in line waiting for a prescription to be filled and heard the opening guitar riff come over the grocery store PA system. I thought... "I know this song". And then it hits you. A song so familiar to you it's impossible to forget, it sat stirring about in your subconscious for years and years, waiting for a time when you heard it again to get you singing along with the lyrics. And you wonder how you could have forgotten what this song sounded like.
Michael Penn is the brother of actors Sean and Christopher Penn. He recorded with a band called Doll Congress before releasing his debut solo album, March, in 1989. It was an immediate critical success and the song "No Myth" rose into the Top 20 in the US, Canada and in Australia. One couldn't go anywhere in 1989 and 1990 without hearing this song. He also won the Best New Artist at the MTV Music Awards in 1990. The album was his only commercial success though, and the song his only Top 40 hit.
He released albums up until 2005. He's also found fame as a film score composer (he did the score for Boogie Nights), and as a producer (producing the Wallflowers and Aimee Mann) amongst others. His work also appeared on the soundtrack for Lena Dunham's project, Girls. He married Aimee Mann in 1997. He continues as a score composer to this day.
"No Myth" was from Michael Penn's 1989 debut March.
I was standing in line waiting for a prescription to be filled and heard the opening guitar riff come over the grocery store PA system. I thought... "I know this song". And then it hits you. A song so familiar to you it's impossible to forget, it sat stirring about in your subconscious for years and years, waiting for a time when you heard it again to get you singing along with the lyrics. And you wonder how you could have forgotten what this song sounded like.
Michael Penn is the brother of actors Sean and Christopher Penn. He recorded with a band called Doll Congress before releasing his debut solo album, March, in 1989. It was an immediate critical success and the song "No Myth" rose into the Top 20 in the US, Canada and in Australia. One couldn't go anywhere in 1989 and 1990 without hearing this song. He also won the Best New Artist at the MTV Music Awards in 1990. The album was his only commercial success though, and the song his only Top 40 hit.
He released albums up until 2005. He's also found fame as a film score composer (he did the score for Boogie Nights), and as a producer (producing the Wallflowers and Aimee Mann) amongst others. His work also appeared on the soundtrack for Lena Dunham's project, Girls. He married Aimee Mann in 1997. He continues as a score composer to this day.
"No Myth" was from Michael Penn's 1989 debut March.
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