Public Service Blogcast Episode 60

One of Northern Ireland's hottest properties are Belfast's The Jane Bradfords whose number while alternating between being as large as a seven piece and as small as just one guy in a studio (cursing at old keyboards that used to work perfectly well) averages out at 5. Their fusion of the nonchalant swagger of The National, the driving tight Peter Hook style bass and at times the euphoric hosannas of Arcade Fire has won plaudits from Huw Stephens and the readership of Alternative Ulster magazine who voted their 2008 debut album into the list of 50 best records of the 2000s. Look out for a new album from TJB in 2010, exclusive previews of which can be heard on this blogcast.

Public Service Blogcast Episode 60
29 minutes 32 seconds
Recorded 02/12/09
Tracklisting
00.01 The Jane Bradfords - Judicial Duel (exclusive new track from forthcoming 2010 album)
04.52 Clown Parlour - Stark (from Introducing Clown Parlour album - White Mountain Music)
06.55 The Jane Bradfords - More Than This (exclusive new track from forthcoming 2010 album)
13.15 Robyn G Shiels - Drunk Myself A River (from unreleased new album - Dancing Records)
18.04 The National - Slow Show (acoustic recording for Bandwidth Films)
22.13 Three Tales - The Things That We Know (from The Hidden Possibilities In All Things EP - Furious Tradesmen)
26.33 The Jane Bradfords - Too Much Christmas (free download)

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Public Service Blogcast Episode 59

Cutaways use two boys, one girl, two synths, one guitar, a drum kit and bags full of hooks and melodies to make their jagged and boisterous pop music. 2009 saw the NME hailing the Belfast trio as "your new favourite band" and Ireland's Hot Press and AU magazines both name Cutaways as one of the bands to watch. In March the band made their first TV appearance on ITV1’s 'Live at The Limelight' while the summer saw them play a number of key festivals including headlining Belfast Pride and also taking in Indie Week Ireland, Glasgowbury and Feile Festival.

Paul, Grace and Ryan take a break from recording album #2 - lierally as you will hear - to takeover this blogcast. Belfast residents take note of the Cutaways Xmas Party! Xposure @ Auntie Annies on December 16th!

Public Service Blogcast Episode 59
31 minutes 7 seconds
Recorded 16/11/09
Tracklisting
00.01 Cutaways - Lovers Are Lunatics (from Earth And Earthly Things album - self-released)
03.57 Robotnik - I Found Jesus In The Year 2027 (from Pleasant Sqaure album - self released)
08.05 Cutaways - I Spilled Your Drink So You Broke My Heart (from Earth And Earthly Things album - self-released)
10.50 Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is the Move (from Bitte Orca album - Domino Records)
16.33 Before Machines - We Were Stayed
20.30 The Benjamins - Love Like Fire
23.57 Oppenheimer - Take the Whole Midrange and Boost It (from Take The Whole Midrange And Boost It - Bar/None Records)
27.29 Cutaways - A Better Paul (from Earth And Earthly Things album - self-released)


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Public Service Blogcast Episode 58

Surrey's smart jangle-popsters Stagecoach present a blogcast that will please the song-hungry listeners among you, with not minimal but rather optimal chat and importantly loads of quality tunes. The Alcopop! 5-piece release a limited to 100 units seasonal acoustic single - presented in signed Chrissy cards - in mid December before hitting the Christmas party circuit (see below) and then touring with Elephants from Jan 29th at London's Buffalo Bar.

14 Dec 2009 - The Social (Alcopop Christmas Party w/Tellison & My First Tooth) London
19 Dec 2009 - Westend Centre (Tag Team w/Hold Your Horse Is, Shoes & Socks Off) Aldershot
20 Dec 2009 - The Windmill (4 Or 5 Magicians Christmas party) London

Public Service Blogcast Episode 58
35 minutes 14 seconds
Recorded 21/11/09
Tracklisting
00.19 Stagecoach - Break (from We Got Tazers! EP - Alcopop!)
03.33 Hold Your Horse Is - Broken Sound (from AA single - Apres Vous)
07.20 Pavement - Major Leagues (from Terror Twilight album - Domino Records)
10.36 Algernon Cadwallader - Some Kind Of Cadwallader (from Some Kind Of Cadwallader album - Be Happy/Sars Records)
13.15 Dinosaur Pile Up - Beach Bug (from The Most Powerful EP In The World EP - Friends Vs Records)
17.54 Kevin Devine - Another Bag Of Bones (from Brother's Blood album - Big Scary Monsters)
21.38 Favours For Sailors - Broke Back Futon (from Demos cassette – Tough Love Records)
25.38 Talons - The Tragic Decline Of Buff Orpington
29.06 My First Tooth - Sleet & Snow (from My First Tooth & The Rubies split EP - Big Scary Monsters)
32.40 Stagecoach - Broke Piano (from The Holy Spirit limited Christmas single - Alcopop!)

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Public Service Blogcast Episode 57

Ryan and Stephen aka Coventry's Tough Love Records - home to William, Dead!Dead!Dead!, the first label to release The Twilight Sad and purveyors of many a fine split single the most recent of which showcases Male Bonding and Eat Skull - present an entertaining takeover taking a goth-slash-tropical bent and including new finds (and probable future big-deals) Becoming Real and Spectrals.

Public Service Blogcast Episode 57
46 minutes 38 seconds
Recorded 20/10/09
Tracklisting
00.48 Graffiti Island - Headhunters (from Sisters EP - Sister Phunk)
04.25 Japandroids - Wet Hair (from Post-Nothing album - Polyvinyl)
09.38 Tap Tap - Queen Of Hearts (from On My Way album - Stolen Recordings)
14.36 Becoming Real - Let The Right One In
20.50 Gold Panda - Like Totally (from Phatom Channel Presents...Part 2 album)
24.39 Spectrals - Don't Mind
29.37 A Grave With No Name - And We Parted Ways At Mt Jade (from Mountain Debris album – No Pain In Pop)
35.42 The Twilight Sad - I Became A Prostitute (from Forget The Night Ahead album - Fat Cat)
44.08 Fair Ohs - Almost Island (from Sex Is Disgusting split vinyl - Tough Love Records)


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Public Service Blogcast Episode 55

This episode is a takeover by Adam and John Fuck Dress presenting stolen mp3s from the Norwich area and beyond plus the best bits from the very good debut Fuck Dress album due early 2010.

Public Service Blogcast Episode 55
50 minutes 7 seconds
Recorded 16/09/09
Tracklisting
00.14 Fuck Dress - Suburban Nietzsche Freak (from forthcoming debut album out spring 2010 – Words On Music/Primeros Pasitos)
04.22 The Milgram Experiment - Try Me Out
07.28 Fuck Dress - Heroes At Home (from forthcoming debut album out spring 2010 – Words On Music/Primeros Pasitos)
13.08 Micropenis - TV License Kalashnikov
16.39 Suicidal Birds - Song for the Sleepyheads
21.52 Bearsuit - Foxy Boxer (from Foxy Boxer 7" 2007 - Fantastic Plastic)
26.43 Fuck Dress - Scumbag Philosopher (from forthcoming debut album out spring 2010 – Words On Music/Primeros Pasitos)
31.08 Chameleons - In Shreds (from In Shreds single 1982 - Epic)
36.03 Paul Hawkins and The Awkward Silences - The Evil Thoughts (Split 7" with L'il Lost Lou 2007 - Jesus Factory Records)
42.05 Heidi’s Head - Kleenex (from Kleenex/LiLiPUT The Complete Recordings 2000 - Kill Rock Stars)
46.44 Fuck Dress - Tickbox Exercise (from forthcoming debut album out spring 2010 – Words On Music/Primeros Pasitos)

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Public Service Blogcast Episode 54

This episode is a takeover from the mysterious and sickeningly inventive Lemonade Kangeroo, one of the best new electronic musicians unearthed in the blogcast series. In his own words - A kangaroo jumping up and down on a Midi Keyboard (actually USB), while kicking a computer stuffed with samples and, on the track Rowan, Tim (who I hope doesn't mind me using just his first name - it could be considered a bit forward as we haven't actually met) who has allowed me to use one of his amazing (bit brown nosey so far? am trying not to) poems in one of my mediocre songs! You may have seen Tim on the TV in Charlie Brooker's Screen/Newswipe or in Cowards - a BBC sketch show that was also a Radio 4 series (which I still haven't heard)

Public Service Blogcast Episode 54
39 minutes 42 seconds
Recorded 02/08/09
Tracklisting
00.01 Lemonade Kangaroo - LK's Intro
02.31 Lemonade Kangaroo - Rowan ft. Tim Key
05.21 Lemonade Kangaroo - Missing Words
09.16 Sunken Foal - Can't Fuck The Moonlight (from Fallen Arches album - Planet Mu)
12.03 Dabrye - My Life (from Two/Three album - Ghostly International)
15.15 Lemonade Kangaroo - Clank
19.29 The Stranglers - Sweden (All Quiet On The Eastern Front) (from Black & White album - EMI)
22.17 Tiga - Shoes (from Ciao! album - 3201937 Canada Inc)
27.20 Lemonade Kangaroo - The Human
30.16 Exile - The Sound Is God (from Radio album - Plug Research)
33.20 Flying Lotus - Testament ft. Gonja Sufi (from Los Angeles album - Warp Records)
35.41 Aphex Twin - Logon Rock Witch (from Richard D James album - Warp Records)

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Public Service Blogcast Episode 53

Recorded in the office of their Subbacultcha! magazine, Leon and Bas aka Dutch underground beat-skronkers The Moi Non Plus present tracks from their self-titled debut album - out October 12th on STA - the accompanying remix album that quick-fingered STA customers will be rewarded with for pre-ordering the album from us over the next couple of weeks, as well as songs from quite possibly the best new bands to have emerged over the last couple of years such as Women and Fuck Buttons.

The Moi Non Plus play a White Heat night at the Lexington in London on October 16th and Manchester In The City two days later on October 18th before jetting off to New York for the annual CMJ event between October 19th - 25th. There'll then be a 2 week MNP UK tour in November.

Public Service Blogcast Episode 53
34 minutes 59 seconds
Recorded 18/07/09
Tracklisting
00.20 Gang Gang Dance - First Communion (from Saint Dymphna album - Warp Records)
03.25 Women - Lawncare (from self-titled album - Jagjaguwar)
08.26 The Moi Non Plus - I Lie (from self-titled album - Smalltown America)
11.26 Holy Fuck - Milkshake (from LP album - Young Turks)
15.58 The Moi Non Plus - Sudden Impact (Brenmar Remix) (from The Moi Non Plus Remixed album - Smalltown America)
20.50 Fuck Buttons - Ribs Out (from Street Horrrsing album - ATP Recordings)
24.48 The Moi Non Plus - Jill Sander Makes Your Eyes Black (from self titled album - Smalltown America)
28.48 Sonic Youth - Tunic (Song For Karen) (from Goo album - Geffen)

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Public Service Blogcast Episode 52

A year to the week (pretty much) the series launched, here's the 52nd and final submissions-based Public Service Blogcast and we go out with bangs from Gaggle, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Sucioperro plus tracks from 2 of the bands playing the next STA London show - The Terrordactyls and Superman Revenge Squad play live on Saturday at London's Wilmington Arms, doors at 8pm. Scroll down for the poster.

The blogcast's been both fun (the buzz from stumbling across a genuinely great mp3 from an undiscovered band that unceremoniously appears in the inbox) and a huge ball-ache (anyone who's tried to upload a video file to Blogger will understand what a RAM gobbling chore it is). Thanks to all the bands that agreed to have their song played and to everyone who got in touch to say nice things.

The occasional guest blogcast takeovers will continue and October will see the launch of the downloadable monthly STA Public Service Podcast - you'll get to hear it first right here.

Public Service Blogcast Episode 52
43 minutes 34 seconds
Recorded 07/09/09
Tracklisting
00.01 Bygones - Fool Evolved (from By- album – Sargent House)
05.13 Gaggle - Hidden Army
09.22 Superman Revenge Squad - Captain Non-entity (from This Is My Own Personal Way Of Dealing With It All album - self-released)
12.15 The Terrordactyls - Zombie Girl (from self-titled album - Don't Stop Believin' Records)
14.17 Ethical Debating Society - Hobson's Choice
16.46 Elk - Lightheavyweight (from We Should Start Our Own Gang - self-released)
19.14 Something Beginning With L - Say (from Beautiful Ground single - Drift Records)
22.50 Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Bournemouth (from All In One Sixty Dancehalls EP - Greco Roman)
27.12 Prince Harry - My Hands
31.44 Sucioperro - Dissident Code (from Dissident Code EP - Xtra Mile Recordings)
35.33 Le Reno Amps - The Stand Off (from Tear It Open album - Drift Records)
39.52 Reuben - Blitzkrieg (from We Should Have Gone To University double album - Xtra Mile Recordings)

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Public Service Blogcast Episode 51

From Let Our Enemies Beware:

This is our blogcast. Don't listen to it.

Seriously DON'T.

LOEB would like to thank Vicious Biting Thing for his dedication to THE CAUSE.

At one point we have paraphrased a quote from the Armando Iannucci Show without permssion. We would like to make it clear that we are huge fans of the work of Armand Iannucci and that of Alan Ford. Whilst we do have the utmost respect for them, we were compelled to hear their work through a threatening Stephen Hawkins-esque voice-box named 'Fred'. Please don't sue us or we will come round and batter the chins from your living skulls.



Public Service Blogcast Episode 51
25 minutes 48 seconds
Recorded 10/07/09
Tracklisting
00.45 Let Our Enemies Beware - Noise = Death (from forthcoming Against Karate album - pre-orders coming soon - get a free exclusive bonus disc - Smalltown America)
04.24 Honey Ride Me A Goat - Quentin's Curly Shoes
06.55 The Ergon Carousel -
Hindsight Is A Wonderful Thing (from Ergon EP - Holy Roar Records)
08.17 Mind Without Maths - What You Advertise
13.02 Cups On Strings - Flight Plan Four
16.38 And So I Watch You From Afar - The Voiceless (from self titled album - Smalltown America)

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Public Service Blogcast Episode 50

The musical event of the Bank Holiday weekend is of course This Ain't No Picnic Derry - 10 acts including The Dangerfields, Panama Kings, LaFaro, Black Bear Saloon and - with offers of suitcases of Mean Fiddler money falling on deaf ears - now headlined by what I'm going to call Fighting With Ferris as Andrew Ferris takes to the stage with Fighting With Wire for a full live set of Jetplane Landing classics and over-ambitious covers for just £8 at St Columb's Hall. Andrew and Fighting With Wire's Cahir O'Doherty took time out from the TANP'D propaganda whirlwind of interviews and PR to showcase some of the bands playing on Saturday and also rocking the STA office with 2 exclusive acoustic Backlash Cop favourites.

Public Service Blogcast Episode 50
26 minutes 9 seconds
Recorded 27/08/09
Tracklisting
00.26 Spectator - On Deaf Ears
04.31 LaFaro - Tuppeny Nudger (from self-titled EP - Field Records)
09.25 Black Bear Saloon - First Against The Wall (from forthcoming debut album)
14.54 Stereo War Favourites - Sleeping Rooms
20.58 Andrew Ferris/Cahir O'Doherty - Sam Cooke (live acoustic version)
23.17 Andrew Ferris/Cahir O'Doherty - Song For Sonia Sanchez (live acoustic version)

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Public Service Blogcast Episode 49

The penultimate submissions show before the series goes out with a triple whammy of a This Ain't No Picnic Derry preview from Andrew due online later today, the long-awaited - and probably controversial - Let Our Enemies Beware takeover ahead of next month's debut album and the final bumper non-takeover blogcast Episode 52 with a stupid amount of songs that upon uploading will probably tip Google's server over.

Public Service Blogcast Episode 49
34 minutes 53 seconds
Recorded 26/08/09
Tracklisting
00.01 Just Handshakes We're British - Paper Cranes (from Paper Cranes / Talking Picture Double A side – self-released)
04.15 Action Force - Bored Of Being
07.27 Ran - Nebauchadnezzer (from self-titled mini-album - Neck Deep Records)
11.52 Bomb The Music Industry! - 9/11 Fever!!! (from Scrambles album - Quote Unquote Records)
13.23 Alice{Musics} - The Handkerchief Drill
15.42 The B Of The Bang - Lung (from Beginning. Middle. End album - self-released)
20.19 Elephants - Alexander (from Lions EP - Vacuous Pop)
23.09 Green Man Says Go - Burning Owls
26.12 Itch - Here Comes The Cavalry (from An Illusion Of Grandeur From A One Trick Pony album - Tip Toe Records)
30.29 These Waves - Lights Out (from Painting By Units EP - self-released)

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Public Service Blogcast Episode 48

Public Service Blogcast Episode 48
31 minutes 56 seconds
Recorded 18/08/09
Tracklisting
00.01 Battle For Paris - Baby, You Are My Ammunition Dump (from With A Gun Between Your Teeth, You Speak Only In Vowels EP)
04.16 We're Only Afraid Of NYC - Superpop Allstars.....GO!! (from self-titled EP)
06.43 We Love Turbulence - F.Y.J.K.
11.57 Swimmers - It's Time They Knew (from Fighting Trees album - Mad Dragon Records)
15.45 Sky Lark - Colossus_The_Bear
18.56 Hold Your Horse Is - Christopher Walken (from Everyone Runs Faster With a Knife EP - self-released)
22.04 World Before Wireless - Ask (from Transistor:Resistor EP - self-released)
25.22 The Black Alley Screens - Class A Anecdote (from Mark Freeguard recordings)
28.19 The Bear - Our Peg Your Peg (from forthcoming debut album The Bear Vs The Computer)

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Public Service Blogcast Episode 47

This week's dive into the ball pit of submissions unearths Google-resistant Scottish post-rock, a band named after my favourite fruit and possibly Fawcett's favourite new twee pop idols.

Public Service Blogcast Episode 47
22 minutes 3 seconds
Recorded 17/08/09
Tracklisting
00.01 The Walking Continent - E.T's Big Adventure Part I
04.21 Pomegranates - Corriander (from Everybody Come Outside album - Lujo Records)
07.35 Moustache Of Insanity - The Ultimate Uno Championship Song (from self-titled EP - WeePOP! Records)
09.03 O Titus! - The Lecturer (from Analogue Demos 2009)
12.33 Favours For Sailors - 50s
15.48 Kidnapper Bell - What Arthur Said (from The Great Outdoors mini-album - Stressed Sumo Records)
19.09 The Adventures Of Loki - Dance Like A Maniac (from self-titled album - self-released)

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Public Service Blogcast Episode 46

For this takeover of the blogcast STA's Andrew Ferris caught up with BBC Radio Ulster's Stephen McCauley to discuss probably the best Northern Irish event in the summer festival calendar the small but massive Glasgowbury which took place last month and was headlined by ASIWYFA.

Public Service Blogcast Episode 46
25 minutes 19 seconds
Recorded 16/07/09
Tracklisting
00.29 Black Bear Saloon - Face The Future (from forthcoming debut album)
07.11 LaFaro - Mr Heskey (from EP 2 - self-released)
12.32 Cashier No. 9 - To The Death Of Fun
17.54 And So I Watch You From Afar - Clench Fists, Grit Teeth... GO! (from self-titled album - Smalltown America)

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Public Service Blogcast Episode 45

This episode: unquestionably one of THE bands of 2009, Ritzy, Rhydian and Matt aka The Joy Formidable present tracks from both their record collection and their A Balloon Called Moaning album. If you've failed to catch them live this summer then we ask 'How?' as they've played every festival going with the Festival Republic Stage at Reading/Leeds still to come and in the autumn they support Editors and Passion Pit. Plus they have pioneered use of the innovative Music Glue website as a means to promote their self-released album; if you don't own it here's how you can.

Public Service Blogcast Episode 45
34 minutes 17 seconds
Recorded 03/08/09
Tracklisting
01.38 Patti Smith - Free Money (from Horses album - RCA/Jive)
06.46 The Twilight Sad - Walking For Two Hours (from Killed My Parents And Hit The Road album - Fat Cat)
12.15 Passion Pit - Seaweed Song (from Manners album - French Kiss)
17.28 Type-o-Negative - Love You To Death (from October Rust album - The All Blacks BV)
25.33 The Joy Formidable - The Greatest Light Is The Greatest Shade (from A Balloon Called Moaning album - self-released)
31.23 The Joy Formidable - Austere (from A Balloon Called Moaning album - self-released)

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Public Service Blogcast Episode 44

Ahead of this weekend's marathon of bands playing the 4 Or 5 Magicians curated Our Band Could BBQ Your Life at the Brixton Windmill, all paying tribute to the influential 80s American underground pioneers documented in Michael Azzerad's must-read Our Band Could Be Your Life, Dan Ormsby presents a selection of tracks from both coverers and coverees.

There are a few tickets left, grab them here.

Public Service Blogcast Episode 44
38 minutes 34 seconds
Recorded 04/08/09
Tracklisting
01.07 Wonderswan - Cut It
04.11 The Muscle Club - Be Glad You're Neurotic (from Fragmented Ideas From Young Lungs album - Small Town Records)
07.26 Everyone To The Anderson - Harpoon Flesh Wound (from Doodlebug EP - Toy Soldier Records)
12.29 Ice, Sea, Dead People - My Twin Brother's A Brother (from forthcoming Teeth Union album - Smalltown America)
15.44 Winnebago Deal - Manhunt (from Plato O Plomo album - Fierce Panda)
20.19 Black Flag - TV Party (from Damaged album - SST Records)
24.40 The Replacements - Color Me Impressed (from The Best Of The Replacements: Don't You Know Who I Think I Was album - Rhino)
27.37 Minutemen - I Felt like A Gringo (from Buzz Or Howl Under The Influence album - SST Records)
30.09 4 Or 5 Magicians - Nice Little Earner (from forthcming Empty Derivative Pop Songs album - Smalltown America)
34.24 Dinosaur Jr - The Lung (from You're Living All Over Me album - Sweet Nothing Records)

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Public Service Blogcast Episode 43

The first of the final 10 sort-of weekly shows before the caterpillar-like blogcast mutates into a beautiful audio butterfly – so get your submissions into the electromail in-tray quick - including forthcoming headliners of the This Ain't No Picnic August Bank Holiday all-dayer in Derry (St Columbs Hall to be exact) Future Of The Left. Follow this blog for the latest on the full line-up and tickets.

Public Service Blogcast Episode 43
33 minutes 12 seconds
Recorded 02/08/09
Tracklisting
00.01 Future Of The Left - Stand By Your Manatee (from Travels With Myself And Another album - Too Pure)
02.37 Apple iiis - Lost Between The Lines
06.07 Arcs - Surprises In Different Sizes (from Surprises EP - self-released)
10.00 Super Extra Bonus Party - Comets (featuring Heathers) (from Night Horses album)
13.08 White Circle Crime Club - The Islanders (from Pictures Of Stares album - Crime Club Recordings)
17.16 The Yell - Party Lounge (from Down With The Yell album - Marquis Cha Cha)
20.48 Zoos Of Berlin - Below The Old House (from Zoos Of Berlin EP - self-released)
24.17 Sports - Vegetables (from I'm Hungry mix album - self-released)

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

Public Service Blogcast Episode 42

This episode: Hip hop poet Wile Man, described by ID Magazine as Derry's answer to Eminem, along with cohort and producer Andrew Munro present the least legal blogcast takeover yet.

Public Service Blogcast Episode 42
39 minutes 56 seconds
Recorded 17/07/09
Tracklisting
01.00 Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby (from To The Extreme album - SBK)
05.45 Funkdoobiest - I'm Shitten On 'Em (from Which Doobie U B? album - Euro Parrot)
08.35 Snoop Doggy Dogg - Tha Shiznit (from Doggystyle album - Death Row)
13.24 The Streets - Empty Cans (from A Grand Don't Come For Free album - 679 Records)
17.23 Re*Source - Fish Eyed Lens
21.38 Wile Man - An I.R.A Man The Story Of
25.52 Wile Man - I Wish E's Didn't Exist
35.30 Wile Man - Broken

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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

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Pubic Service Blogcast Episode 40

This episode: a sneak preview of what the STA bands will be writing about in their 'What I Did This Summer' essays that they have to hand in at the beginning of September

Public Service Blogcast Episode 40
24 minutes 17 seconds
Recorded 04/07/09
Tracklisting
00.01 Cold Pumas - Jela (Rory Recordings - Get Free Music at RCRD LBL.com)
05.09 Alaska Pipeline - Seatbelts (from Master Of Puppets album)
07.49 Bola Pear - Sign On
11.50 Swimming - Tigershark (from Fireflow Trade album - Colour School)
15.12 Illness - Three Bridges
16.46 Part Dinosaur - In Contest With The Bright Lights
20.52 Youth In Colour - The Start of Something/The End of Something (June 22nd) (from It's Difficult Sometimes, I Know mini-album)

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