Beat City Radio
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Watch The Soft Moon's Bleak Dystopian Vision in Room 205 Session
August 13, 2011 19:16The San Franciscan neo-post-punk outfit The Soft Moon is definitely high up on my list of spectacular contemporary bands. This Room 205 session lead by Louis Valquez, the principal songwriter of the group, is comprised of an inspirational set of dark, haunted and claustrophobic tracks. The music, as well as the avant-garde imagery by band member Ron Robinson, paints a fine image of techno-surrealistic dystopia. This is one hell of a great performance.
New Entries on Their Way
May 04, 2011 02:58We've been really busy and have neglected this web space; however, updates are coming soon. The playlist links below should be up-to-date and functioning, though. Stay tuned...
Playlist Issues
April 06, 2011 19:58Our playlist links are currently inactive as our hosting site seems to have devoured the data. I'll be re-entering all of the info and the links should be working soon. Thanks for listening!
Dirty Beaches - Lo-fi Fifties Pop and Lovelorn Ballads
April 05, 2011 02:10Dirty Beaches is the recording moniker of Taiwan-born international drifter and musician Alex Zhang Huntai. He returns after a string of singles with Badlands, a low-fidelity analog musical journey through the seedy side of the 1950s. This album hearkens back to the booming and naive age of the automobile, excess, waste, uniformity and kitsch, but safely avoids the deluded nostalgia that oftentimes accompanies a retro-fifties throwback. Badlands is not a record for people who swoon o...
Beat City Radio #585 - A Look Back at Pop from the Late 90s and Early Aughts
April 02, 2011 20:14Beat City Radio #585 Playlist Download (right-click, save target as): Beat City Radio #585 Stream: Bonus Video: Yes, this is a joke.
Beat City Radio #584 - Utah County Swillers playing live in Pocatello on April 2. Cowpunk, Psychobilly, Punk, & More
April 01, 2011 04:42Utah County Swillers Source: gonzoshots.com Beat City Radio #584 Playlist Download the show (right-click, save target as): Beat City Radio #584 Stream: Tonight's show is a mix of Psychobilly, Cow Punk, Roots Punk, Goth Rock, Surf, and more. The featured artist is Springville, Utah's redneck punkers, The Utah County Swillers, a band that recently played with the Queen of Rockabilly, Wanda Jackson, who is on tour in support of the Jack White produced album, The Party Ain't Over. ...
Beat City Radio #583 - New Music from Mountain Goats, Hosannas, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Moon Duo, Dirty Beaches
April 01, 2011 03:11This show features several new releases from March 29. More information about the records is below. *Update!* I think I mentioned in this show that All Eternals Deck was the Mountain Goats third LP, which is obviously incorrect (ouch, indie cred!). What I meant to and should have said was that this is the third LP with a more rock-oriented trio. Sorry, ya'll. Beat City Radio #583 Playlist Download show (right-click, save target as): Beat City Radio #583 Stream: A Few of This Week's New...
Beat City Radio #582: New Music from Hosannas, The Kills, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Moon Duo, Ringo Deathstarr
March 30, 2011 05:17Beat City Radio #582 Playlist Download (right-click, save target as): Beat City Radio #582 Stream:
Beat City Radio #581 - March 25, 2011: Guest DJ, Post-Punk, Shoegaze, Indie, College Rock, and Roller Derby Fun!
March 30, 2011 04:42Chenoa Roseberry of Somewhere in Texas Radio and Portneuf Valley Bruisers RDA fame put together this wonderful mix. Hopefully she'll grace us with her on-air presence more often in the future. Beat City Radio #581 Playlist Stream: Download (right-click, save target as): Beat City Radio #581: Guest DJ, Chenoa Roseberry Bonus Video: Uncle Leon & the Alibis - "Roller Derby Saved My Soul"
Beat City Radio #580 - March 24, 2011: Alt-Folk, Folk-Rock, Alt-Country, Janis Ian
March 30, 2011 04:29Beat City Radio #580 Playlist Stream: Download (right-click, save target as): Beat City Radio #580 Bonus Video: Janis Ian at age 16 performing "Society's Child" on the Smothers Brothers show.
Beat City Radio #579 - March 23, 2011 - Terminally Chill Spring Break: Disco, Electronic, Synth, Chill Wave
March 30, 2011 00:58Beat City Radio #579 PLAYLIST Stream: Download Show (right-click and save target as): Beat City Radio #579 (March 23, 2011) Bonus video: Source: Youtube
Beat City Radio #578 - March 22, 2011 - Rain-Drenched Sun: Springtime Show
March 29, 2011 20:53Sometimes the Spring season isn't as bright and cheery as it's supposed to be and post-winter seasonal depression kicks in. This angsty, psychedelia-tinged, shoegazing reverie of a show attempts to touch on that feeling, as well as the bi-polarity inherent in the start-stop-start-stop-again crawl of springtime, and the apprehension that sometimes accompanies the new beginnings, growth, and rebirth that occur during this time of the year. Plus, there are several tracks referencing the gaseou...
Beat City Radio #577 - March 21, 2011 - Vernal Equinox Edition
March 29, 2011 19:07Source: Woodstock Council for World Peace I'm back from my spring holiday and feel quite refreshed and ready to get back to work. We have implemented a new playlist reporting method at KISU, and it's kind of time consuming, so I think I'll just start linking to the playlist entries over there. We'll still post podcasts, mp3s, videos, and the like at this we location. Also, check out the widget on the top right-hand corner of the page. It's an indicator of what's live on KISU at the moment...
New Ringo Deathstarr Video - Two Girls (NSFW) + Imagine Hearts Video
March 29, 2011 07:43Following the trend of NSFW music videos that seem to be all over the place in recent times, Ringo Deathstarr's latest one for "Two Girls" features half-naked and sexy women, including Deathstarr Bassist/Vocalist/Narcissist Alex Ghering. It's a fun and provocative visual accompaniment for the wonderfully noisy track from the Texan Shoegazing Noise-Poppers' debut full length LP Colour Trip, which was released this year on Club AC30 in the U.K. and Sonic Unyon in the U.S.. Also, check out the "...
Beat City Radio #581 - March 25, 2011: Somewhere in Beat City, a Femme Fatale is Seducing Ears and Breaking Hearts + Jared Mees and Finn Riggins in Pocatello
March 25, 2011 18:55Firstly, the illustrious Chenoa Roseberry will be guest-hosting tonight's program as I'm on holiday this week. Leaked information indicates that the set that will include the likes of Bitches, Devo, and the Meat Puppets, among others, so tune in for a rocking mix at 8 PM (MST). If you miss the broadcast, we'll be posting a playlist as well as a stream and download link in the coming days. Secondly, I anticipated having time to post this week's podcasts and playlists while on vacation, but j...
How to Dress Well Videos: Suicide Dream 1 & 2
March 20, 2011 22:35It's been a while coming, and now we're all up-to-date on this, the online home of our humble radio program, and are looking forward to an enjoyable spring break. If you have some time over the next week or so, kick back with some headphones and enjoy the two How to Dress Well videos below. And don't forget to scour the rest of this blog for videos, mp3s, podcasts, playlists, and more. Feel free to drop me a line if you have any feedback about the show and/or blog. We'll be updating throughou...
Beat City Radio #576 - March 17, 2011: St. Patrick's Day Special
March 20, 2011 22:12St. Paddy's Day show featuring several bands of Irish descent and more. Bonus mp3s: Crystal Stilts - Verdant Gaze [mediafire] The Cramps - Green Door [mediafire] Randy Alvey and the Green Fuz - Green Fuz [mediafire] New Order - Everything's Gone Green [mediafire] Stream: Download (right-click, save target as): Beat City Radio #576 Playlist: Dropkick Murphys – The Spicy McHaggis Jig (Sing Loud, Sing Proud!) 2001 Flogging Molly – Drunken Lullabies (Drunken Lullabies...
Beat City Radio #575 - March 16, 2011: Mostly Shoegaze and Dream Pop
March 20, 2011 21:51Stream: Download (right-click, save target as): Beat City Radio #575 Playlist: Megaphonic Thrift – Candy Sin The Luyas – Too Beautiful to Work The Radio Dept. – We Would Fall Against the Tide The Vandelles – Summer Fling The Raveonettes – Break Up Girls! Neon Indian – Children of the Revolution *T. Rex cover* Young Cirlces – Sharp Teeth Beck – Sweet Sunshine Dead Gaze – Fishing with Robert Jatun – Ghost and Grey (Radio Edit) Hosannas – Multichamber American Future Acrylics – Sparrow Son...
Beat City Radio #574 - March 15, 2011: Post-Punk, Punk, New Wave + Connect the Artists "Game"
March 20, 2011 21:38Captured Tracks will be re-issuing two of The Wake's 7" vinyl singles, as well as a tribute 7" featuring covers by Beach Fossils and Wild Nothing, as part of this year's Record Store Day celebration slated for April 16. The Wake were a Scottish post-punk-turned-postmodern indie band that existed from 1981 to 1994 and briefly included Primal Scream front-man and Jesus and Mary Chain drummer Bobby Gillespie. Downloads are below, and if you like what you hear, look for these releases on Rec...
Beat City Radio #573 - March 14, 2011: Psychedelic, Gaze, and Garage + New Kills Track
March 20, 2011 21:00The Kills released a new track today entitled "DNA" via their website. Sign up for their e-mail list to download it. Their latest album, Blood Pressures is out April 5. Stream: Download (right-click, save target as): Beat City Radio #573 Playlist: Ringo Deathstarr – Kaleidoscope (Colour Trip) 2011 Crystal Stilts – Shake the Shackles (Shake the Shackles 7”) 2010 Sunsplit – She Said (Sing for Sunday) 2007 The Jesus & Mary Chain – Reverberation (Doubt) (The Power of Negative Thinking: B-...
Beat City Radio #572 - March 11, 2011: Alt-country, Folk-Rock, Indie-Folk, Rockabilly, Robin Pecknold
March 20, 2011 20:52Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes. Source: Wikipedia This show features the Three Songs EP from hirsute Baroque-folker Robin Pecknold, better known as the frontman of Seattle's Fleet Foxes. The EP was somewhat clandestinely released via Fleet Foxes' Twitter account on March 7. The tracks should help sate the appetite of fans anxiously awaiting the sophomore record from the band, which is slated for release on May 3. Though Pecknold (and his amazing set of pipes) are behind these tracks, they'r...
Echo Lake - "Young Silence" Video + Mp3s: Swirling Dreampop Drenched in Reverb
March 20, 2011 04:38Echo Lake - Young Silence from Dan Nixon on Vimeo. The ghostly, titular video for Echo Lake's debut EP, Young Silence, was shot D.I.Y. style on an Xbox Kinect. This is the first Kinect-shot music video that I'm aware of, and puts the device to interesting use. "Flying too close to the sun with just their debut release, London's Echo Lake give an arresting take on the dronier side of psychedelic's pop frontier. Six tracks of chiming chorals, strangely metallic sleigh bells and string hit...
Museum Of Bellas Artes - "Watch the Glow" Video: Simultaneously Shadowy and Effervescent Swedish Synth-Pop
March 19, 2011 22:54Museum Of Bellas Artes - " Watch The Glow" from Jamie Harley on Vimeo.
Beat City Radio #571 - March 9, 2011: Too Young to Love: Indie Pop, Girl-Groups, Shoegaze, Fabulous Stains
March 19, 2011 22:46Stream: Download (right-click, save target as): Beat City Radio #571 Playlist: Dum Dum Girls – He Gets Me High (He Gets Me High EP) 2011 Ringo Deathstarr – Do It Every Time (Colour Trip) Sonic Unyon 2011 Crocodiles – Hearts of Love (Sleep Forever) 2010 Frankie Rose and the Outs – Candy (Frankie Rose and the Outs) 2010 Crystal Stilts – Shake the Shackles (Shake the Shackles 7”) Slumberland 2010 The Pink Mountaintops – Execution (Outside Love) 2009 Station Break Yacht – Waste of Tim...
Beat City Radio #570 - March 7, 2011: Whistle & Pop: Foster the People, Betty Airs, Mother Mother, PB&J
March 19, 2011 22:28Foster the People's ubiquitous "Pumped Up Kicks" is catchy-as-hell Bubblegum Pop replete with whistling and dark lyrics about a crazed "Cowboy Kid" wielding a six-shooter. It reminds me of Gus Van Sant's Elephant. Stream: Download: (right-click, save target as): Beat City Radio #570 Playlist: Peter Bjorn and John – Amsterdam (Writer’s Block) 2006 Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes – Home (Up From Below) 2009 Intelligence – Warm Transfers (Fake Surfers) 2009 Foster the People – Pumpe...