Public Service Blogcast Episode 41

This episode: stars of our recent Brixton Windmill BBQ show The Patio Set are four young men - Michael on guitar / Sean on bass and vocals / James on drums and Gareth on guitar and vocals - from Medway who "make loud music with funny rhythms and some loud music with normal rhythms and some quiet music that gets loud and then quiet again". They have been described as "a head-on collision between The Cure and Fugazi" and the must-read Devil Has The Best Tuna blog praised their song Highgate Owl Nightmare for "cramming an album's worth of ideas into nearly four minutes of wild and wonderful alt-rock". And here on the STA blogcast you can hear what all the hoo-haa is about from the band themselves as they present three of their own tracks along with other favourites and influences.

Public Service Blogcast Episode 41
46 minutes 13 seconds
Recorded 12/07/09
Tracklisting
01.32 Deerhoof - My Purple Past (from Offend Maggie album - Kill Rock Stars)
06.37 The Patio Set - Highgate Owl Nightmare
11.47 Extra Life - I Don't See It That Way (from Secular Works album - LoAF Records)
22.03 The Patio Set - Then I Vegas
26.42 King Crimson - Red (from Red album - DGM)
34.51 Pageninetynine - The Lonesome Waltz Of Leonard Cohen (from Document #14: Singles - Reptilian Records)
41.47 The Patio Set - Opiates

If you have any suggestions for future takeovers or want to get a track played on a regular show, get in touch - email blogcast@smalltownamerica.co.uk

STA summmmmmer BBQ - this very weekend

Check it out, we've got a BBQ show going down in London this very weekend. Bands + free BBQ + fun music + DJing until they kick us out. i.e., it should be FUN TIMES. To the max. The poster should be bigger, but I guess blogger doesn't like me (I have made poster big - AF). Sorry internets.

In other news, this week I have enjoyed the following things: the new Future of the Left album, the dam-funk remix of Animal Collective's Summertime Clothes, season 8 of Scrubs, and the entire three hours of Bruce Springsteen's set at Hyde Park last summer. BOBBY JEAN!

Ice, Sea, Dead People Receive NME Endorsement

The love-hate (mostly hate) relationship between STA and the NME has been written about before but at the moment we're leaning more towards love after we spotted this call out for Ice, Sea, Dead People's show at the Macbeth in London next Tuesday night.


That Fucking Tank, Shield Your Eyes and The Patio Set are also on the bill.

Public Service Blogcast Episode 23

The best blogcast yet (I've said it before and I'll say it again); seriously, is there a radio station out there playing this many solid tunes in the space of under half an hour? Except when STA themselves are lording over the airwaves of course. All I need now is a cheesy jingle.

Public Service Blogcast Episode 23
28 minutes 6 seconds
Recorded 22/02/09
Tracklisting
00.29 Everything Everything - Photoshop Handsome (from forthcoming Photoshop Handsome single - Another Music = Another Kitchen Records)
03.45 Death Cigarettes - Total Fear (previously unreleased)
07.28 The Patio Set - Highgate Owl Nightmare (previously unreleased)
12.02 Elephant Vs Leopard - You Are Not (But I Might Be) (from Safariland album - Genin Records)
13.57 Boats!! - Dream Of A Dentist (from Intercontinental Champion album - self-released)
16.04 Shock Defeat! - Brute Economics (from forthcoming Olympic Village EP - self-released)
18.52 Asobi Seksu - Glacially (from Hush album - One Little Indian)
23.18 The Hysterical Injury - Etc (from self-titled EP - self-released)

If you have any feedback or want to get a track played, get in touch - email blogcast@smalltownamerica.co.uk