Flatbasset Radio: Episode #119

You can see the shadows wandering off somewhere...

Well hello again, everybody! Welcome to Flatbasset Radio: Episode #119!

Oh my goodness, folks, it's been a minute. How have you been? Feeling alright? It's spring, the sun is shining, St. Patrick's Day is behind us, Facebook is crumbling... What a time to be alive, right?

Anyway, sorry I was away for a few weeks. At this point you know my litany of excuses better than I do so I won't bother rehashing them here. Let's just get to the show.

On this week's episode I've got all kinds of sweet, sweet jams for you. We begin what I'm sure will be a rich & rewarding journey into the Father/Daughter Records catalog, check in with one of the Twin Cities longest-running indie rockers, here some Denver Rap, catch a warm weather jam (in the name of spring), revisit one of the best debut albums by a Twin Cities band of the last 20 years, celebrate a few anniversaries, take a dive into Nate's Archives, take a trip in the old Minnesota Way-Back Machine, and mark the 20th anniversary of a link in the chain that is quintessentially American power-pop. It's a hell of a show, folks.

As always, Flatbasset Radio is completely free. I've finally set up a decent downloading site, so if you'd like to download Flatbasset Radio: Episode #119 (with all the appropriate iTunes tagging), just click here.



Here's how Episode #119 plays out:

01. Family Trees - Dream Talkin'

02. INTL Falls - Those Kind Of Girls

03. Curta - Ghost Milk

04. LeMays - Dirty Work

05. Refused - Coup D'Etat

06. Bill Waters - New Car

07. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Midnight Man

08. Gospel Gossip - Revolutions In Physics

09. Blueprint - The Day To Day

10. The Miami Dolphins - Map Off

11. Gary Louris - She Only Calls Me On Sundays

12. Fastball - The Way









Beats by Phatnumber
Flatbasset Radio Artwork by Ross Auger

Thanks for listening!

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Flatbasset Radio's 25 Most Played Albums: October '17

Rabbit rabbit, everybody! Welcome to another installment of the always compelling Records I Listened To Between Jobs!

Yes, November is upon us. Yes, I'm a day late with this post. No, I don't regret falling asleep after work and missing my deadline. See, that's the beauty of self-imposed deadlines - they still fall behind "napping" on the list of important things to do.

Anyway, as always, thank you to everybody who listened to the show this month. It was only a couple of shows, but they were pretty good ones, right?

Alright, let's get to the collage.

(As always, one "play" equals one song. For example, that new Extraterrestrials album has 11 songs on it, so each time I listen to it front to back it counts as eleven "plays." As usual, all stats come from my Last.FM page. Give it a follow if you really want to stay up on what's getting the most plays.)

01. The Miami Dolphins - Water Your Waiting For (98 plays)

02. Stanley - Stanley (80 plays)

03. Extraterrestrials - Extraterrestrials (77plays)

04. Loud Sun - Sea Grave (70 plays)

05. The National - The National (60 plays)

06. Green Day - Nimrod (55 plays)

07. Everclear - So Much For The Afterglow (47 plays)

08. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West (46 plays)

09. The Apples In Stereo - Tone Soul Evolution (46 plays)

10. The Hives - The Black & White Album (41 plays)

11. V/A - Unpop 153 (41 plays)

12. The Pietasters - Willis (41 plays)

13. Arcade Fire - Everything Now (39 plays)

14. The Verve - Urban Hymns (39 plays)

15. V/A - Gold Mold Records Summer Sampler 2017 (37 plays)

16. R.E.M. - Automatic For The People (36 plays)

17. Pissed Jeans - Honeys (36 plays)

18. The Cramps - Look Mom No Head! (36 plays)

19. The Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good (36 plays)

20. Babyshambles - Shotter's Nation (36 plays)

21. Sloan - Smeared (36 plays)

22. Pixies - Come On Pilgrim (34 plays)

23. Tim O'Reagan - Tim O'Reagan (33 plays)

24. Lifter Puller - Half Dead And Dynamite (33 plays)

25. The Horrors - Strange House (33 plays)

There you have it, folks. Stay tuned for more shows throughout November!

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Album Of The Week: March 17th-23rd, 2014

My Album Of The Week for the week of March 17th-23rd, 2014:

The Miami Dolphins - Capri Sun

01. Pink Bird
02. Minted Slime
03. Hissing Priss
04. Doodler
05. Dominion
06. Venice Beach Widowed
07. Chaste

The Miami Dolphins are one of those bands that have been living around the periphery of my awareness for a while now.  For reasons I'm not totally sure of I haven't checked them out until now.

On its first few spins, Capri Sun seems to be a charmingly ramshackle punk album.  If you're going to put out a record that jams 7 songs into a mere 9 minutes, there's really only two ways to go: be super tight or super energetic (or, I suppose, both).  Unlike last week's AOTW, Cave (which built its sound on a lock-step rhythm), The Miami Dolphins build their sound on pure energy.  Yes, it's sloppy, but that's kind of the point.  I'd be shocked to learn that any of these songs was given a second take in the studio.

Capri Sun (which my Minnesotan accent pronounces as "Caaapri Sun") should be an entertaining listen over the course of the week.  It's been my experience over the years that albums like this tend to reveal their borders & base ideas with repeated listens.  Right now, it sounds like a 9 minute song with several tempo changes and not much else.  Come Sunday I'm sure the hooks will be rattling around in my head.

This record came out back in the summer of 2012.  The band is set to release a new album this summer, so swing by their Bandcamp page to get caught up on the story so far.