Flatbasset Radio: Episode #123

Heard your voice in between the lines...

Well hello again, podcast fans. Welcome to Flatbasset Radio: Episode #123!

It's a gorgeous spring day here in Minneapolis. Whether you spend it outside enjoying the thaw or inside struggling with crippling introversion, this week's episode's got you covered. 12 songs, 61 minutes, always free to stream/download.

This week's episode is full of jams to soundtrack your spring. I've got some new local music, some upcoming shows, our continuing exploration of the Father/Daughter Records catalog, instrumentals from Minneapolis to Brussels, an impassioned defense of the archetypal "blog band," a celebration of a post-hardcore masterpiece, some new local soft rock, and some new local dream pop. All that plus some anniversaries, the Cover Of The Week, our deep dive into Nate's Archives, a spin in the Minnesota Way-Back Machine, and the Flatbasset Flatclassic!

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 #123 (with all the appropriate iTunes tagging), just click here.



Here's how Episode #123 plays out:

01. Double Grave - Deadend

02. Mutual Benefit - Wishing

03. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Mainland

04. Franz Ferdinand - Leaving My Old Life Behind

05. Jawbreaker - Want

06. Atmik - Hardwired

07. Tapes 'N Tapes - Conquest

08. Kill Sadie - Erf (The Place You Live)

09. Loden - Uplift

10. Stanley - Light On

11. No Kim - About Your Youth

12. Semisonic - Singing In My Sleep










Beats by Phatnumber
Flatbasset Radio Artwork by Ross Auger

Thanks for listening!

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Newest Industry Presents - Flatbasset Radio: Episode #31

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Do you have the time to listen to me whine?

Hello again, free music fans! Welcome to Flatbasset Radio: Episode #31!
 
For those of you who are unaware of the Flatbasset Radio format, here's what you're looking at: TCDroogsma is our resident MP3 junkie. As you've probably noticed in his Songs Of The Week column, he's not always the most positive music fan. In an effort to prove that he is, in fact, a fan of music, we give him an hour each week to play the songs he's digging and talk a little bit about them. Once he's recorded his podcast we put it right here on the website for free to stream and/or download!

In this week's episode TCDroogsma is flying solo from Planet New Basset.  He spends the week celebrating the anniversaries of several of his favorite albums, uses one of his theories on life to justify playing U2, tells Beyonce to "put it away for a while," concedes to being years late to one of the 2000's great bands, does his best not to get sued, gets "super pumped" for the new Hold Steady album (while firing shots at their tour itinerary), discusses the roots of Kanye's controversy-filled career, misreads song titles, can't figure out how old he was 20 years ago, discusses three albums that shaped "music kids" in 1994, explains just how he spent ten years in a "punk rock wormhole," and plays the song that sent him on the path to music nerd-dom!

You can download the podcast for free by clicking the episode's title or stream the episode by clicking on the Mixcloud player below.

Flatbasset Radio: Episode #31

Flatbasset Radio: Episode #31 by Tcdroogsma on Mixcloud

01. Franz Ferdinand - The Dark Of The Matinee
02. Psymun (w/Chester Watson) - Dead Albatross
03. Damaged Bug - Photograph
04. Future - Drunk In Love
05. U2 - Invisible (Red Edit Version)
06. The Walkmen - The North Pole
07. Beat Culture - Drifter (Saint Pepsi Remix)
08. The Hold Steady - The Only Thing (Live On WYEP)
09. Kanye West - All Falls Down
10. The Autumn Defense - This Thing That I've Found
11. Kelis - Jerk Ribs
12. Green Day - Basket Case

There you have it, music fans!  Enjoy!

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