Flatbasset Radio: Episode #135

Songs mean a lot...

Well hello again, everybody. Welcome to Flatbasset Radio: Episode #135!

It's time to start making up for lost, um, time on this week's show. Since I took pretty much the last 10 months of from the show it means we've got all kinds of ground to cover. Anniversaries, new local music, upcoming shows, the Cover Of The Week, the the Minnesota Way-Back Machine, and, of course, the Flatbasset Flatclassic all return in semi-triumphant form this week.

No agenda, no banter, no algorithms, just 12 songs over 44 minutes to help close out your week.

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



Here's how Ep. #135 plays out:

01. The Persian Leaps - Time Slips

02. Murs - The Science

03. Zoo Animal - Naive Enough

04. Yoni Wolf - As I Went Out One Morning

05. Joe Bartel - Ziggurat

06. Ancient Pools - Quarry

07. Fragile Canyons - Gilded Mirror

08. Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Moods For Moderns

09. Rockthrow - Darlin' Waltz

10. Funeral Advantage - A Large Place

11. Strand Of Oaks - Weird Ways

12. Pavement - Cut Your Hair









There you have it, everybody.

Beats by Phatnumber
Flatbasset Radio Artwork by Ross Auger

Thanks for listening!

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MinneClassics #3: "Hold Tongue" by Zoo Animal

My face is low, quite near the ground...

(Zoo Animal by Emily Utne)

Well hello again, podcast fans. Welcome to MinneClassics #3!

Folks, it's been quite a while since I've put together a MinneClassics episode, but Zoo Animal is playing their final show this weekend down at Amsterdam in St. Paul and that's cause for a deeper look at one of their most enduring tracks.

"Hold Tongue" comes from their 2008 album Young Blood. It's a simple song about the complex & personal subject of speaking to God filtered through Holly Hansen's deeply Minnesotan perspective. While that's true of much of Zoo Animal's work, I think "Hold Tongue" distills everything that Zoo Animal does well into a 3:00 song.  Like I said, give the show a listen. I dig a little bit deeper into those themes as well as Minnesota's long tradition of mixing the complicated subject of religion with the complicated beauty of guitars and just where Zoo Animal fits in that lineage.

As always, Flatbasset Radio is completely free. Just click the Mixcloud player below and you're good to go.

MinneClassics #3: "Hold Tongue" by Zoo Animal by Tcdroogsma on Mixcloud

There you have it, folks. Like I mentioned above, Zoo Animal is calling it a day tomorrow night (12/12) down at the Amsterdam Bar & Hall. Go check it out.

Thanks for stopping by.

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Flatbasset Radio's 25 Most Played Albums: November '15

That's right, folks. Another month has passed, which means it's time for an album collage.

It was a relatively busy November here at Planet New Basset. It felt great to get back on my podcast game.  Well, as close to "on my game" as my show gets anyway. Big thanks to everybody who checked out the shows or read the posts. I'm thankful for YOU this year.

And stuffing.

And pie.

Mmmmm.... pie....

What?  Oh yeah, the albums.  As always, these stats are pulled from my Last.fm page.

01. Kill The Vultures - Carnelian (84 plays)

02. nosunnofood - all the moving parts of the ultimately median man (66 plays)

03. Catsax - Catsax (63 plays)

04. Ugly Casanova - Sharpen Your Teeth (24 plays)

05. Gin Blossoms - Congratulations I'm Sorry (24 plays)

06. Guided By Voices - Under The Bushes Under The Stars (24 plays)

07. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots (24 plays)

08. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (20 plays)

09. Air - Talkie Walkie (20 plays)

10. Descendents - All (20 plays)

11. The Plastic Constellations - Crusades (20 plays)

12. The Monochrome Set - Love Zombies (20 plays)

13. Eels - Rotten World Blues (20 plays)

14. Eyedea - The Many Faces Of Oliver Hart Or How Eye One The Write Too Think (19 plays)

15. Retribution Gospel Choir - The Revolution (16 plays)

16. Stars - Nightsongs (15 plays)

17. Zoo Animal - 2014 Ruff Trax (15 plays)

18. Paul Westerberg - Stereo (14 plays)

19. The Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth (14 plays)

20. Ruth Ruth - Laughing Gallery (!4 plays)

21. Elvis Costello - This Year's Model (13 plays)

22. The Vandalias - Mach V (13 plays)

23. The Replacements - All Shook Down (13 plays)

24. Manny Phesto - Southside Looking In (13 plays)

25. R.E.M. - Automatic For The People (12 plays)

Image via Tap Music
Stats via my Last.fm page

Flatbasset Radio: Episode #68

Someday you will find me caught beneath the landslide...

Well hello again, podcast fans. Welcome to Episode #68 of the Flatbasset Radio show!

Thanks for stopping by this week, devoted listener(s). I'm coming down with a cold this week and I figured staying inside and playing some jams would be the best way to cope with it. If I have to live with this messed up voice then so do you!

In this week's show I play some jams and talk about being sick, our old friends in Nashville, some new local hip-hop from some not-so-new artists, explain just how late to the party I was on one of the Twin Cities best bands, revisit last week's "good shoegaze vs. bad shoegaze" discussion, scratch my experimental electro-jazz itch, celebrate Sweden's greatest pop-punk export, reminisce about old St. Paul record stores, & give some winter advice.  All that plus coughing and all the popped "P's" you could ever want!

Of course I also celebrate some anniversaries, get in a Cover Of The Week, and take a trip back to an iconic single for the Flatbasset Flatclassic.

As always, Flatbasset Radio is completely free. Just click the Mixcloud player below and you're good to go.

Flatbasset Radio: Episode #68 by Tcdroogsma on Mixcloud

01. Bad Cop - Wish You Well











02. Mixed Blood Majority - Insane World

03. Dosh - Nothing New

04. Social Distortion - Under My Thumb

05. Zoo Animal - Gravedigger

06. Catsax - You Can Find Me In The Tall Grass

07. My Bloody Valentine - When You Sleep

08. Millencolin - Jellygoose

09. Sophia Eris & Psymun - Fight/Love

10. Kudzu Wish - Are We Not Snow?

11. Oasis - Champagne Supernova








Enjoy, everybody!

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