Episode 142: Going Somewhere New
(Featuring a selection of new-ish-er music by artists that I’ve been into, but haven’t had a chance to fit into the show yet.)

As I’ll be running late this week due to an unforeseen problem, to make up for it I’m going to take you on a musical journey through outer space as we present Going Somewhere New.  While this show does have Sci-Fi Themes and Content, don’t let that detour you!  We are focusing on new-ish-er albums, from the last year or so (or, in some cases, so and so), in an effort to feature music that doesn’t normally make it into this show.

There are a number of great albums that come out all the time, but circumstances don’t always offer me a chance to present them on the air.  And while these records are helping me rock at any given time in my own life, when it comes to the radio they are sometimes ignored, and wrongfully so.  This is an effort to fix that, by reducing the theme to something really basic: new albums.

Of course, that doesn’t mean we don’t get to have some fun on the way.  In the first section of the show, I bring you some samples of the shoegazer gems that have been popping up recently.  If you have to bring back a genre, they picked a good one.  Section two focuses on some of the pop and hip-hop that I’ve been pretty excited about late.  Then we close with some hard-rockin’ slabs of musical wonderment in an effort to stay strong until the very end.  All the while, our musical accompaniment for this journey comes from the fantastic sci-fi, hip-hop gem, Star Pilot’s Lament, which mixes sound effects, dancey beats, heavy guitars, and a fantastic plot that spans an entire disc.  That, and a cut from the new Tom Waits album.  This is a classic episode from start to finish.

See ya in seven!

Going Somewhere New
# Title * Artist * Album * Label
01.) Launch * Kielen King * Star Pilot’s Lament * Self-Released
02.) Plasma Shells [Excerpt I] * Kielen King * Star Pilot’s Lament * Self-Released
03.) Age Class * Weekend * Sports * Slumberland Records
04.) Nostalgia For The Future * Moonbell * Figurine E.P. * Self-Released
05.) Tawny Young Turks * Half Eye * Don’t Blow Up Your Dog * Pecho Grande Records

06.) Plasma Shells [Excerpt II] * Kielen King * Star Pilot’s Lament * Self-Released
07.) The Lie * The Black Lips * Arabia Mountain * Vice Records
08.) Steilacoom * The Knives & Plates & Forks & Spoons * “Firefly” b/w “Steilacoom” * Pecho Grande Records
09.) Rill Rill * Sleigh Bells * Treats * Mom + Pop Records
10.) Tadlock’s Glasses * Beastie Boys * Hot Sauce Committee Part Two * Capitol Records
11.) 1, 2 * Kielen King * Star Pilot’s Lament * Self-Released

12.) Terminal Pain * Sister Iodine * Flame Desastre * Editions Mego Records
13.) Get Lost * Tom Waits * Bad As Me * ANTI- Records
14.) Tax Time * Iarvles * Iarvles * Pecho Grande Records
15.) Birth Dues * Ehnahre * Taming The Cannibals * Crucial Blast Records
16.) Invisibugs * RABBITS * Live KPSU 13 February 2011 * Self-Released
17.) A Little Rest * Kielen King * Star Pilot’s Lament * Self-Released