April 2010
3 posts
Watchmaggieandthehat:
If I asked you guys to REBLOG IF YOU LOVE ME OR EVEN IF YOU LIKE ME A LITTLE BIT, will I end up horribly depressed?
WTSR favorite Maggie & the Hat featured on Wanderer Sessions! Check her out.
March 2010
7 posts
WatchIf he was from Venus, would he meet us on the moon? If he died in Memphis, then that’d be cool, babe.
Rest In Peace Alex Chilton.
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Yeasayer fans say they sound too much like AnCo now, too much pop and not enough weird stuff. I think their videos went the opposite way. Gotta love their theme of messing with people faces [via hoods and mirror faces from Ambling Alp vid and All Hour Cymbals art].
Check out the Almblin Alpy vid here: Clicky click
Also can I just say: Anaaaaannnndddd!
Yeasayer: Just some bros who love...
Download MGMT's new single "Flash Delirium" →
I mean, if you really want to. It’s ok. But you should download it anyway.
WatchWhat an appropriate new She & Him video with all this nice weather.
In the Sun-She & Him
Some New Stuff We Love
WTSR works day and night to bring you the best in new alternative music. In a band? Know a band? Get us their CD and we’ll see what we can do!
Dinosaur Feathers-History Lessons
Cold War Kids-Coffee Spoons
Boy Eats Drum Machine-Syncopated
Titus Andronicus-Richard II
Jaguar Love-Polaroids and Red Wine
Shanya Raid & The Catch-Morning Sun
Sambassaduer-Small Parade
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John's Emo Music Hour
John picked you out some new & old emo[tional] music to cry to in your room as midterms take over your lives. We’re happy people in real life, I promise!
Radiohead-No Surprises
The Secret Machines-Sad & Lonely
Flying Machines-Hopelessly Alone
Local Natives-Warning Signs
Field Music-Them That Do Nothing
Midlake-Winter Dies
Ben Folds Five-Brick
February 2010
12 posts
Four Great New Albums →
Check out WTSR for four great album reviews from your favorite music directors (and both soon to be retired!) Chris and Melissa! Keep your eyes open for their successors, and catch these fools before they’re gone!
WTSR Show Biographies! →
Go check out WTSR’s on-air schedule and brush up on your knowledge of the various shows TSR puts on your radiowaves. Since the link for Milk & Cereal will just take you to this blog, here’s a short silly bio:
Melissa (Milk) and John (Cereal) have been friends since school started. They first decided they should be BFFs when they discovered their common love of The Decemberists,...
Win the Up in the Air Poster and Soundtrack!
Listen this Thursday, Feb. 18th to Milk & Cereal for a chance to win the Up in the Air Poster and Soundtrack featuring songs from Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Bright Eyes, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, and Dan Auerbach!
Listen in and we’ll let you know how to win!
Call in! 609.771.2554 or IM us at WTSRDJ!
Stars “Your Ex-Lover Is Dead” from...
Spoon “The Two Sides of Monsieur...
Metric “Sick Muse” from the album...
Just a handful of new stuff
Here’s some new stuff we put on the airwaves this week, also, a goofy picture of Dev Hynes from Lightspeed Champion. He’s a wizard!
Yeasayer-Madder Reel
Massive Attack-Babel
Them Crooked Vultures-Dead End Friends
Blakroc-On the Vista
Spoon-Trouble ComesRunning
Lightspeed Champion-Madame Van Damme
Jason Boesel-French Kissing
Beach House-Zebra
Winter Tracks for a Snowy Day
Match the wintery song to the picture!
White Winter Hymnal-Fleet Foxes
Horchata-Vampire Weekend
Kick Drum Heart-Avett Brothers
Winter Winds-Mumford & Sons
The Crane Wife 3-The Decemberists
Answers: C’monnn
February's Songs of the Month! →
As picked by the wonderful and benevolent Christopher R. Payne, of course. Eight tracks this month that are the cream of the crop, the best of the best, etc. etc. PLUS! Chris always add in just enough goofy pictures of bands to convince you even more that they’re worth checking out.
So check them out!
A Few Choice Picks from Thursday
Yeasayer-Ambling Alp
Melissa: The first 4 star song of the year at WTSR! Basically what we’re saying is that if you don’t like this song, there’s something wrong with you. John:Seriously people, open your mind!
Los Campesinos!-A Heat Rash In the Shape of the Show Me State, or Letters From Me to Charlotte
John: I just really love songs with ridiculously long titles. Melissa:...
January 2010
6 posts
New Music Picks from Milk & Cereal!
Vampire...
Another Show on TSR with a Tumblr?! →
I should probably click that link and go follow them! Silly me for not thinking of that earlier! Go follow Sam and his many cronies on The Song Remains the Same on 91.3 WTSR Fridays 9-11.
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Next Semester Preview 1:
Empty-Hall Sing-Along:...
December 2009
7 posts
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The semester is over!
And hence Meats & Cheeses is on hiatus until the end of January. Keep an eye out for a new show with some of the same characters and some new additions as well! Also, perhaps a new name….
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The Firebird Band-Gift
An overlooked adorably...
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I just really like the phrase hot and happening:
Looking for something new and fantastic to listen to this week? Check these out!
What Would I Want? Sky - Animal Collective
Move Your Feet - Junior Senior
Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) - Florence + the Machine
Everybody Somebody - White Denim
Heartache - Lisa Jaeggi
The Crane Wife 3 - The Decemberists
Northshore - Tegan & Sara
Oh Abiliene - The Literary Greats
Isn’t It a Shame - So So...
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Let's Be Glad! →
I couldn’t pick just one track to reblog. Listen to all 4 pages of fantastic indie christmas music go go go!
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Merry Christmas to all and to all an Adams...
It’s December! Enjoy the many faces of Ryan Adams (Can you believe those are all the same person? I know, right?) Ryan Adams & the Cardinals always reminded me of winter, mainly because of the Cardinal connotation.
November 2009
28 posts
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WatchOk Go-WTF?
I’ve got two words: Solitaire victory.
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Telekinesis-Coast of Carolina
This was in a car...
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Fancy Pants.
eats
&
heeses
Yeah you should probably go check out Daily Drop Cap.
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Also, Thanksgiving!
Mini Thanksgiving/Fall Theme! Ok ok, we stretched that a little bit.
Thankful-Glen Phillips
Fist of a Flower-Gemma Ray
Seasons-The Ettes
Fortunate Family Tree-AM
Battles On-The Ghost Is Dancing
Banquet-Bloc Party
I Haven’t Seen You In Years-Socratic
See The Leaves-The Flaming Lips
Dear God (Sincerely M.O.F.)-Monsters of Folk
Always Wanting More-Jay Reatard
We Share the Same...
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A 7th Grader Was Suspended From School... →
…for wearing skinny jeans! Tiny, soon-to-be-hipsters, fight for your right to wear pants that are too small for you! Fight for it I say!
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What Would I Want? →
“Animal Collective pulling no punches, opening with a new song. ‘What Would I Want? Sky.’ Lolla kids look confused. They should read more blogs.” -stereogum @ lolla, obvi.
A favorite quote of stereogum. Listen to the Be Kind Fall EP, go go go
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WatchMusic Video Thursday! I just made that up! What?
Also this is Cousins by Vampire Weekend, off new album “Contra” due in January! HYPE.
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Everyone loves Poker Face
From my teenage sister to Kevin’s dad, everyone loves some “Poker Face.” Just look at all these covers!
Mika-Poker Face (Lady Gaga Cover)
Daughtry version of Poker Face
Christopher Walken performs Lady Gaga’s Poker Face
Weezer mashes MGMT’s Kids and Gaga’s Poker Face
Orba Squara plays Gaga’s Poker Face (TSR band!)
Orba Squara might be paying WTSR a...
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