Audio Conspiracy Annex

SUPER-LINK to Podcast of the SHOW!

acannex — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:51:05 +0000

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The Audio Conspiracy Blog is Back in Action with a new voice and some fresh features. It is my intention to link a podcast of each show to weekly blog posts like this one. These posts shall feature a list of the artists played on the corresponding show Such As the list below. I hope all of this works and that you enjoy the NEW possibilities of Radio (despite the plausibly arcane technology being manipulated here)…

THE SHOW FROM SUNDAY, 7-25-10!!!, wherein the theme was “The Pulsing Fist of Summer”:

http://netfiles.illinois.edu/echapma4/www

THE SONGLIST FROM THAT SHOW!!!:

How Many More Years – Howlin’ Wolf – Mean Old World: The Blues, 1940-1994
I Just Don’t Understand – The Beatles – Live at the BBC
It’s Hard to Believe It – Glenda Collins – It’s Hard to Believe It: The Amazing World of Joe Meek
Theme from a Fistful of Dollars – Ennio Morricone / The Hollywood Soundmakers – Great Music From A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Lonely Still – Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter – Reckless Burning
Rollercoaster – Sleater-Kinney – The Woods
C’Mon Marriane – Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons – Anthology
Devil Mood – Smoke City – Flying Away
Unknown Japanese Track – Unknown Japanese Band – Unknown Japanese Album
The Sermon – Ahab – The Call of the Wretched Sea
Manu’s Ideal – David S. Ware – Live in the World
How Do You Think I Feel – Elvis Presley – The Complete 50′s Masters
ABA – Black Dice – Broken Ear Record
Nag, Nag, Nag – Cabaret Voltaire
Colouring of Pigeons – The Knife in collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock – Transition Transmission: 14 Tracks from the New Heroes of Art Rock
All Come Down – Steve Mason – Transition Transmission: 14 Tracks from the New Heroes of Art Rock
Believer – Susanna & the Magical Band – The Wire Tapper 10
Just Losing You – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Special Occasion
Secret Love – Henry Mancini, His Orchestra and Chorus – Presents the Academy Award Songs
Slippery Elm – Jerry Byrd – Hi-Fi Guitar
Sittin’ & Thinkin’ – Ray Price – Make the World Go Away
Wedding Bells – Charlie Rich – Sings Country and Western
Chances Are – Johnny Mathis – Johnny’s Greatest Hits
She – The Monkees – More of the Monkees
Give Her Up – Smokey Robionson & the Miracles – Special Occasion
Wedding Bells – Charlie Rich – Sings Country & Western

Song of the Day: Sneaker Pimps

acannex — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:43:12 +0000

Sneaker pimps is one of a plethora of bands that always seem to blast out of the British Isles with talent and potential only to disappear suddenly. Here we have not only a track that is strong musically, but also acts as a type of time capsule. The time was the mid-90′s, a period when Ecstasy was making our friends a little to touchy-feely, an era when Elizabeth Shue was once again the subject of American wet dreams. Indeed it was one of those Shue induced fantasies that put Sneaker pimps on the map. A mostly forgotten film named “The Saint” made a very small wave with what was actually a mostly decent soundtrack comprised of electronic music.

Many people have tossed mud at the Sneaker Pimps for being on the softer (read: marketable) side of electronic music of the period. Personally I have no problem with that since most electronic music sound like awkward robot sex to me. Yes, yes, I know it is all the rage in Europe. I, for better or worse, am an American and require my music to be made with at least one identifiable instrument. The Sneaker Pimps are a nice little bridge between electronic haters like myself and glowstick twirling ravers stuck in ’96. Enjoy.

Parade of Nations: Canada

acannex — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:46:37 +0000

I love the winter Olympics. Really, deeply, truly love them. Sure I am a sports fan, but the sports is really secondary. I am far more interested in the fact that nations sponsor the mentally insane to accomplish feats that would be disregarded by most as suicidal.

Quite a few people point to events like the Olympics and the Soccer World Cup as shallow displays of jingoism. Maybe they are right. Personally, I think there are far more worrisome displays of jingoism than a person throwing themselves down an ice shoot dressed in their nations flag. So until the argument is settled one way or the other I am taking this opportunity to try and bring the world together musically. Today we are happy to present part one of the AC ANNEX parade of nations.

Since Vancouver is hosting this winter games I thought we would start off with some Canadian contributions to the world of music. Enjoy!

RUSH

You cannot really get more Canadian than Rush. I had the opportunity to see these guys a couple years ago and had my mind blown.

Arcade Fire

Islands

Great Lake Swimmers

Song of the Day (Olympic Version): Hammerfall

acannex — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:05:02 +0000

The Swedish people surely love their curling, who can really blame them? So what do you get when you cross a Swedish metal band and the Swedish Female Curling team? Well you get this pretty awesome video

Song of the Day: Shooter Jennings

acannex — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:15:12 +0000

Song of the Day: Squirtgun

acannex — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:10:32 +0000

Indiana Punk for a snowy midwestern morning.

Show Tonight

acannex — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:06:16 +0000

Be sure to tune into tonight and have some great tunes to watch the Super Bowl with.
8-10pm 104.5 FM

Song of the Day: The Smyrk

acannex — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:39:01 +0000

This tune could have easily been a part of our ongoing music and literature feature, but I liked it so much that I decided it should be our song of the day. I don’t know what you call a band like The Smyrk, Soul-Punk? Alt-Funk? Whatever it is, I love it. The music geek in me digs the sound. The comic geek in me smiles to see a song about Jason Todd. Enjoy.

Prairie Sounds: The Life and Times

acannex — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:31:14 +0000

Let me get one thing straight, I know next to nothing about Kansas City. I have never been to Kansas City, never read a book about Kansas City, never watched a documentary examining Kansas City from a unique angle. I am sure it is a nice place, it is simply off my radar. However if the quality of music coming out of Kansas City is an indication, it is probably a place I will visit before too soon.

Why am I going on and on about Kansas City? Well todays installment of Prairie Sounds features a band from that curiously named city. Life and Times is a band that I have been meaning to see for about two years but kept missing them every time they came through town. I finally got my shot this past fall when they played a show at Mike ‘N Molly’s in Champaign. They played a very enjoyable show despite the fact that the vocal levels were obviously out of whack. From what I can tell these guys have been touring their asses off for a while and deserve all the rewards they can get. Check them out…

Audio Conspiracy Finds You Free Stuff

acannex — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:02:15 +0000

We believe in the power of Free. Free radio, free speech, hell we even believe that there is such a thing as a free lunch. So when we discover a place to legally get free music (we would never tell you to do anything illegal) we get really excited. So when I saw that the very cool people at Afropunk.Com were giving away their latest Compilation album for free, I knew I had to pass it along.

Just go over to Afropunk.com and look around their front page for the link or just click this to be taken directly to the download page. Just jump through the very few hoops and soon you will be rocking out to 16 very cool tracks. Enjoy!