Flatbasset Radio: Episode #97

I'll say what this means to me, I'll do what I can...

Well hello again, everybody. Welcome to Flatbasset Radio: Episode #97!

That's right, folks! Four weeks in a row! I think that may be the first time that's happened in the history of this, ahem... weekly podcast. Good times.

This week's show is filled with all the things you've come to know & love about the Flatbasset Radio podcast. I've got some new local stuff, some old local stuff, some classic pop, some beats, some hip-hop, some anniversaries, the Cover Of The Week, and a particularly heartbreaking Flatbasset Flatclassic.

Along the way I review a big-time show at the Xcel Center, highlight some upcoming shows around town, explain how to game the Green Line system, lose all of my credibility for the third straight week, struggle to remember concerts from a decade ago, celebrate some 35 year old Australian low-fi dub (yeah, really...), struggle with pronunciation, rehash my story of the best show I've ever seen, and do my best to memorialize yet another 90's icon gone too soon.

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

If you don't have the time or desire to download the show, just click the Mixcloud player below and you're good to go.



Here's how Ep. #97 plays out:

01. Hall & Oates - I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)

02. Now, Now - SGL

03. Klaxons - Gravity's Rainbow

04. Justin Townes Earle - Can't Hardly Wait

05. Eric Mayson - Red Circles/Outro

06. Bonobo - Flashlight

07. Tears For Fears - Memories Fade

08. Panther Ray - Something Else

09. Sage Francis - Black Out On White Night

10. Zerox Dreamflesh - Squids Can Fly

11. Wilco - Impossible Germany

12. Soundgarden - Fell On Black Days










There you have it, folks! Enjoy!

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Flatbasset Radio: Episode #96

Reached the bottom and now we're just looking forward...

Well hello again, podcast fans. Welcome to Flatbasset Radio: Episode #96.

Folks, it's a gorgeous Friday here in Minneaolis, so I appreciate the fact that you've neglected your family, friends, & community to stay inside and listen to me mumble through another show.

This marks three straight Fridays with a new show which, for a purportedly "weekly" show shouldn't be much of an accomplishment, but if you've been following along you know just how rare it is that I get my shit together for three straight weeks.

This week's show if full of jams. Local music, indie rock, hip-hop collectives, classic punk, some anniversaries, some power-pop, some big, dumb, rock music, the Cover Of The Week, & the Flatbasset Flatclassic. Along the way we discuss why I should probably avoid talking politics on the show, prog or not-prog, indie rock in a post-Vampire-Weekend world, shoegaze of the Far East, the worst substitute for Conference Final hockey, some upcoming concerts, the low point of one of America's great pop-punk bands, and the greatest song in the history of mankind. Good stuff, for sure.

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

If you don't have the time or desire to download the show, just click the Mixcloud player below and you're good to go.



Here's how Flatbasset Radio: Ep. #96 plays out:

01. Fountains Of Wayne - Someone To Love

02. Dan Deacon - Big Milk

03. Cool Pollution - Paul Bunyan Style

04. Jonathan Rado - Thunder Road

05. Youthmemory - City

06. Psymun - Glitch Tundra (w/Chester Watson)

07. Whitehorse - Devil's Got A Gun

08. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Berlin

09. Hippo Campus - Vines

10. Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment - Sunday Candy (w/Jamila Woods & Chance The Rapper)

11. Millencolin - Entrance At Rudebrook

12. All - Dot










There you have it, folks! Enjoy!

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Flatbasset Radio: Episode #95

They'll even print my recipe for pasta with pesto...

Well hello again, podcast fans! Welcome to Flatbasset Radio: Episode #95!

I'm back on my hosting grind again this week. I've got all kinds of jams on this one - local rock, anniversaries, upcoming shows, some indie rock lifers, classic hip-hop, local electro-pop, the Cover Of The Week, and, as always, the Flatbasset Flatclassic!

Along the way I work in some discussion about the state of Planet New Basset (hint: not great), the state of the unions (hint: not much better), the career trajectory of Arctic Monkeys, finding hope in 80's punk, confused spelling, shows for charity, shows for your enjoyment, international Jawbreaker Day, the story of how Johnny Marr joined Modest Mouse, putting faith in Millenials, the beauty of the horn coda, and a heavy discussion about this week's 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 #95 (with all the appropriate iTunes tagging), just click here.

If you don't have the time or desire to download the show, just click the Mixcloud player below and you're good to go.



Here's how Flatbasset Radio: Ep. #95 plays out:

01. Five Eight - Kids

02. Magic Castles - Sky Sounds

03. Astronautalis - These Songs (w/Fadeaway Jumpers)

04. Fury Things - New Day Rising

05. Beastie Boys - Finger Lickin' Good

06. Double Grave - Truth Is Whatever You Say

07. Modest Mouse - Dashboard

08. Jawbreaker - Sluttering (May 4th)

09. Vandaam - Warm Correspondents

10. The Happy Children - Came And Went

11. Arctic Monkeys - 505

12. Big Quarters - Song For Brown Babies









There you have it, folks! Enjoy!

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Flatbasset Radio's 25 Most Played Albums - April '17

Well, hello again everybody. Welcome to another edition of Album Collage Monthly!

That's right, folks, it's the first of May already and guess what? It fucking snowed today. I love you, Minnesota, but does it have to be like this? It's May! Come on!

Anyway, it's time for a little bit of instant nostalgia. Before I get to it though, just a quick thanks to everybody who checked out the last couple of shows. If you didn't notice, I got back behind the microphone for Ep. #94 and, while it probably did not improve the show for you, it felt great to add what little personality I have back to the show. Thanks for sticking with it.

Alright, let's get to it. I listened to a tremendous amount of music this month. Here are the 25 albums that got the most spins around Planet New Basset.

(As always, one "play" equals one song. For example, that new Chinchees 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 Chinchees - The Chinchees (79 plays)

02. Craig Finn - We All Want The Same Things (70 plays)

03. Prince - Prince (63 plays)

04. Talking Heads - Talking Heads: 77 (55 plays)

05. Various Artists - Unpop 146 (53 plays)

06. Big Quarters - Cost Of Living (42 plays)

07. Propagandhi - Less Talk, More Rock (42 plays)

08. Fountains Of Wayne - Traffic And Weather (42 plays)

09. Beastie Boys - Check Your Head (40 plays)

10. T.D. Mischke - The Best Of The Mischke Broadcast (40 plays)

11. The Early Americans - Aha! Airmen Secretly (39 plays)

12. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81 (39 plays)

13. Bright Eyes - Cassadaga (39 plays)

14. The Church - Gold Afternoon Fix (39 plays)

15. Angelic Upstarts - Reason Why? (39 plays)

16. Davenport - Davenport (38 plays)

17. Romantics - America (36 plays)

18. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare (36 plays)

19. Millencolin - For Monkeys (36 plays)

20. No Age - Nouns (36 plays)

21. Jawbreaker - Unfun (36 plays)

22. Greg Grease - Astral Beat Theories Vol. 3 (35 plays)

23. Descendents - Hypercaffium Spazzinate (35 plays)

24. Richard Ashcroft - Alone With Everybody (34 plays)

25. Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets (30 plays)

Thanks for stopping by! Lots more stuff to come in May!

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Flatbasset Radio: Episode #94

Let me rant & let me ramble...

Well hello everybody! Welcome to Flatbasset Radio: Episode #94!

April has nearly passed, so I figured I should get my lazy ass back to work. This week's episode features the... not "triumphant"... adequate return of my hosting duties. That's right, I'm back on the mic. That's not the only reason to tune into this week's show. Hell, I'm just hoping that's not an actual deterrent from you checking out the show. This week's show if full of some excellent jams.

I've got some new local jams, some old local jams, some "in memoriam's," old stuff from great bands, old stuff from not so great bands, lost gems, the Cover Of The Week, and, as always, the Flatbasset Flatclassic. I also discuss overheating in the studio,  the reason I got back behind the microphone, Ben Folds' obituary, the time Kings Of Leon went for it and failed, spacing your coffee out so you peak at the right time (I did not to do this well), the moment Bad Religion started pulling apart their sound, the new direction of Lunch Duchess, the unrelenting consistency of Poliça, & respecting Jay Bennett on his own terms. It's really quite the show.

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

If you don't have the time or desire to download the show, just click the Mixcloud player below and you're good to go.



Here's how Flatbasset Radio: Ep. #94 plays out:

01. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Let Me Be

02. Greg Grease - Migraine

03. Antelope - Dead Eye

04. The Chills - Conversation Piece

05. The Chinchees - Pocano

06. Ben Folds Five - Smoke

07. Lunch Duchess - Intent

08. Kings Of Leon - Ragoo

09. Prince - Crazy You

10. Poliça - Lipstick Stains

11. Jay Bennett - Good As Gold

12. Bad Religion - Generator










There you have it, folks! Enjoy!

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Flatbasset Radio's 25 Most Played Albums - March '17

Well hello again, everybody. Welcome to another installment of Shit I Listened To While I Rode The Lightrail!

Sorry I'm a couple days late with this one. My busy March has bled into the beginning of April, so I've been doing quite a bit of working and not quite enough sleeping. I know you're all just dying to know what I've been listening to lately, so here we go.

As always, one "play" equals one song. For example, that new Good Doom album has 10 songs on it, so each time I listen to it front to back it counts as ten "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 around Planet New Basset

01. Hippo Campus - Landmark (91 plays)

 

02. Good Doom - New Shapes For You (72 plays)

 

03. The Bolt Weevils- Long Way Home (65 plays)

 

04. Frank Ocean - Endless (50 plays)

 

05. Paper Tiger - In Other Words: Part Three (48 plays)

 

06. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Pay Attention (48 plays)

 

07. Black Flag - The First Four Years (48 plays)

 

08. Jeff Rosenstock - Worry. (48 plays)

 

09. Greg Carr - Technological Retreat - Mixes Vol. 1 (45 plays)

 

10. Jay Reatard - Blood Visions (45 plays)

 

11. Metasota - It's Just Rap (45 plays)

 

12. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Mirror Traffic (45 plays)

 

13. MMYYKK - Astral Beat Theories Vol. 2 (45 plays)

 

14. U2 - Boy (44 plays)

 

15. Pet Milk - Demo (44 plays)

 

16. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank (43 plays)

 

17. Various Artists - Oz Waves: Compiled By Steele Bonus (40 plays)

 

18. Mike Ness - Under The Influences (39 plays)

 

19. Elvis Depressedly - New Alhambra (36 plays)

 

20. LCD Soundsystem - Sounds Of Silver (36 plays)

 

21. Bad Religion - Generator (34 plays)

 

22. Bug Fix - Error Messages (33 plays)

 

23. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (33 plays)

 

24. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (33 plays)

 

25. Dead Boys - Young Loud And Snotty

 

There you have it folks. Thanks to everybody for stopping. Special thanks to anybody who's checked out Flatbasset Radio: Episode #93. If you haven't yet, just keep scrolling down. It's an hour of jams assembled by yours truly with the utmost care. Give it a listen.

 

I'm burning some copies of Ep. #93 as we speak. I'll be dropping them off at Cheapo, The Fetus, & Reverie in the next day or two. If you'd like a copy just hit me up via Twitter or Facebook and I'll get one out to you.

For more of my rantings you can give me a follow on Twitter (@TCDroogsma).  Previous episodes of Flatbasset Radio are archived on my Mixcloud page.  Stop by Flatbasset Radio's Facebook Page & give it a "Like" if you have the time.