Travlt

Incredibly busy.

Onsdagses spilleliste:

1. Always on my Mind – Pet Shop Boys
2. Music on the Radio – Sissy Wish (N)
3. The Accident – Cake on Cake (SV)
4. Where Birds Don’t Fly – Club 8 (SV)
5. Anything – David & the Citizens (SV)
6. Soft Evening Brilliant Morning – Trembling Blue Stars
7. Angelina Ballerina – epo-555 (DK)
8. Blue Corolla – Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
9. Sea Shell Mind – Oliver North Boy Choir (DK)
10. Paris 2004 – Peter Bjorn & John (SV)
11. Think About Talking – Attention Now! (N)
12. Young Love – Moto Boy (SV)
13. Saintly Friend – Said the Shark (DK)
14. Algeria – JJ72

I really don't have time to be doing this. I will, however, give you this -- in addition to the podcast, you can also download Think About Talking. If you can get it to load, there are lots of other Attention Now! songs to download, too, on their (Norwegian-language; click the buttons that say 'last ned') website.

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone is playing a show in Portland on I think Tuesday. Anyone want to go?

--DL--
Ashtrays Podcast (28. maj 2008)
Think About Talking (Attention Now!)

Tre tinge fra her...

I’ve just written a long paper about H.C. Andersen. I now know everything there is to know about H.C. Andersen. I also kind of hate him. He was insufferably insecure.

Now I have to start writing a paper about the role of the European Union in the World Trade Organization, something I know nothing about. Tips, anyone?

But before I embark on my journey down that unpleasant path, a few things (that you probably already know):

1. Air France has a new, 6-track CD out. It’s called No Way Down, and I can’t even find a stream anywhere. (So to listen, you'll have to buy it, here.) But this is what it says on their myspace (spaces and punctuation added) and that’s good enough for me:

No no no morals any more -- throw bottles at your door,
Sort of like a dream -- no better. What about not telling anybody about this? I’ve got a headless feeling -- this is not your first time; your past agrees with me -- no excuses left -- we are waiting to fail, but not quite yet.

There are also videos for the On Trade Winds EP. Four of them -- one for each song. All four of the videos feature an airplane (or at least a view from one). Can you guess what airline these planes belong to? Anyway -- somehow I missed these when they first came out… not even last year, but December of 2006. I’m not really into videos, and I’ll probably never watch them again; nonetheless they made me pretty happy.

2. You can now purchase the new Radio Dept. single, Freddie and the Trojan Horse. It includes three other songs, and very attractive cover art. CD only. It doesn’t come out officially until 4. june, but if you order it in advance, Labrador will ship it to you now. The full-length album, to be called Clinging to a Scheme, is slated for release 10. september. That’s only like a year after when it was originally supposed to be. Pretty happy.

3. Since it occurred to me that I have never yet publicly announced this in English: I am going to Denmark. I am leaving in two weeks. I’ll be there for about a month -- just long enough for Roskilde. I’m scared and nervous (and broke) and a bunch of other things, but I guess I’m also pretty happy.

--DL--
Freddie and the Trojan Horse (the Radio Dept.) if you haven’t already

Spilleliste

For some reason, I don’t feel like writing anything on this tonight, so here’s the playlist and nothing more. (Sorry.)

1. Calculation Theme - Metric
2. Ex Lion Tamer – Wire
3. Lion Tamer versus Tigers – Echo is Your Love (FN)
4. Skimret – Nordpolen (SV)
5. Needle of Death – Yo La Tengo
6. Sogni – 9 (DK)
7. A Man of Happy Solutions – My Friend George (DK)
8. Mouth – No and the Maybes (DK)
9. Scene I – Just Like You Don’t – Blue Swan (DK)
10. Mount Wroclai (Idle Days) – Beirut
11. Cut Your Fingers Off – Electrojuice (DK)
12. Old Friends – the Bear Quartet (SV)
13. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea – Neutral Milk Hotel
14. Grey Days – the Concretes (SV)

--DL-
Ashtrays (23. maj 2008)

Elliott... levende i Sverige?

Her er spillelisten fra i gårs aften:

1. A Vacant Heart – Wolfkin (DK)
2. Singing Arc – Seabear (IS)
3. 6 (Live, untitled) – Southern Belle
4. I Always Know I’m Right – Bakers at Dawn (SV)
5. Europewide Search for Love – ballboy
6. Great Expectations – the Ballet
7. On My Shoulders – the Dø (FN)
8. Glory to the World – El Perro del Mar (SV)
9. Hoppipolla – Sigur Rós (IS)
10. One Day It’s You – Tiger Baby (DK)
11. Lucky – the Tough Alliance (SV)
12. Cosmic Dancer – T. Rex
13. The Devil Behind Me – My Twin (DK)
14. Djuna – Frida Hyvönen (SV)

Første, hurtig -- hvis du har ikke set videoen for Hoppipolla, se det nu.

Anden (men ikke egentlig) -- Bakers at Dawn har et nyt album, ud på Series Two Records. Han har også mange andre sange, som du må downloade gratis, her. Mit yndlingt er Lester.

Hvad kan jeg siger om Bakers at Dawn? Jeg synes, han lyder meget lige Elliott Smith. Og man kan ikke slå fejl med nogen som lyder lige Elliott Smith.

--DL--
Ashtrays Podcast (21. maj 2008)
Lester (Bakers at Dawn)

København!

Jeg har endelig fortalt alle som jeg skal fortæller personlig (f.eks. mine bedsteforældre), så kan jeg nu skrive det her: Jeg skal rejse til Danmark i juni. Jeg er meget glad for det. Jeg bekymrer også mig over det, fordi jeg har aldrig været ud af USA, og andre tinge -- jeg savner allerede mine venner... men jeg synes, det vil være godt.

Jeg er der først og fremmest for skole, så skal jeg have klasse, men jeg håber, jeg kan også se og høre nogle musik. Jeg skal være i Roskilde Festivalen (og tilbagerejser hjem lige efter) men jeg ved ikke mere. Det skal jeg vist se.

Og turen skal være godt, selv om her i Portland, skal jeg gå glip af to Modern Age natter, og også en indbildt koncert med begge Starfucker og Southern Belle, som vil være meget godt. Jeg troede, det var 12. juni, men koncerten er ikke virkelig. (Trist, for alle some vil være i Portland.) Jeg aner ikke, hvor kommet ideen fra. Men jeg ville så gerne at se den, så det er vist godt, at den skal ikke virkelig ske, når alt kommer til alt -- fordi jeg afgår den 11.

Mm... alle kommer for snart. Det ved jeg ikke. Nå, København skal være fantastisk, ikke?

Og også, her er Ride In Style, en sang af Southern Belle’s, fordi selv om de er ikke skandinav, de er rare unge, en af mine yndlinge bands i Portland, og du skal lytte til dem.

--DL--
Ride In Style (Southern Belle)

Sara elsker sommer

Yesterday was great -- saw El Perro del Mar and Anna Ternheim play a short in-store set, then five nice bands at the Modern Age, and someone (obviously confused) said I was actually dancing. That, and the weather was magnificent. It still is, and that's why I'm not going to write anything more, or anything in Danish -- sitting inside with a hot computer in my lap when it's this nice outside just sort of offends my sensibilities. So does having to leave for work in an hour -- although I consider that more along the lines of cruel and unusual punishment...

I will say one more thing now, though, because it ties in. Something else that has been great this week: It's A Trap! Usually a lot of the music that appears there is a bit heavy for my tastes. However, the other day, the mp3 feature was Little Jimmy Reeves' awesome Romance on Drugs (which you can still download there.) It's an older song, but apparently didn't see official release until late March. This is what I wrote the first time I heard it, ages ago:

Oh. My. God. This is so good. A love song to drugs. Gorgeous.

Also on It's A Trap! this week, the announcement of a new Sincerely Yours release. It's Skimret by Nordpolen, and despite the arctic name (it means the North Pole) the music has a very summery sound. It reminds me a lot of labelfellows Air France -- the only difference is that the words are in Swedish and sung in a distinctly male voice. However, if you like the Air France, I can't see any way you wouldn't love this, too. Especially appropriate for now weather. Stream at myspace, or purchase through Sincerely Yours.

P.S. Ando hosted my Friday radio show. I haven't listened to it yet, but if you would like to, it's on my archive page, too.

Ingen tid

I don’t have a lot of time -- or, rather, I have a lot of things to do and not enough time in which to do them -- but I’ll make time for this.

Her er i dags spilleliste:

1. Her Modest Mouth – And the Amazing Dancing Bear (DK)
2. Rocky Dennis’ Farewell Song – Jens Lekman (SV)
3. You’ve Gone Too Far – Slumber Party
4. If I Had A Film – Indurain (SV)
5. Grammisgalan – Johan Hedberg (SV)
6. 1983 (Pelle & Sebastian) – Pelle Carlberg (SV)
7. ADHD – Jonas Game (SV)
8. Stay (Just A Little Bit More) – The Dø (FL)
9. Guilty Rocks – Múm (IS)
10. Shoreline – Broder Daniel (SV)
11. Ud Af Mit Gode Skind – A.K. Hansn (DK)
12. With Fever – the Rainy States

I am going to try download links again and see what happens -- so here is the podcast. You may also download 1983 (Pelle & Sebastian), Pelle Carlberg’s new thing. It's one of his favorite tracks from the upcoming, as-yet-untitled album. The song is a “rough mix,” but I think it sounds pretty good. I also think the subtitle is really clever. Even though Pelle and Belle sound nothing alike spoken, they look very similar written. Perhaps it’s just wishful thinking, or association, but I think I hear a bit of a Belle & Sebastian-y tinge to the song. It’s got a spoken part, too, which for some reason I always really like. Anyway.

If you’re in Portland, you can also come to the Modern Age this week. Friday at seven -- five bands -- Southern Belle, Dykeritz, Sweeping Exits, the Rainy States, and Michael the Blind.

I will be at the Modern Age, but I will not be doing my Friday afternoon radio show, due to a very compelling engagement which you will probably hear about later. I will be back as usual next Wednesday, and Friday, Ando (formerly of the Pony Review) will be covering for me. I’m very excited to see what he’ll play, and expect the show will sound just as good, if not better than, it does when I’m there.

--DL--
Ashtrays Podcast (14. maj 2008)
1983 (Pelle & Sebastian) -- rough mix (Pelle Carlberg)

Nogen dag (askebægere)

First things first. David Fridlund (aka David and the Citizens) is now working days as a postman. In my head, there is something infinitely nice and twee about delivering letters for a living, and currently, I consider this to be the most desirable job in the world. Anyway, though. Despite having this fantastic new job, David is still finding time to make music. Recently he uploaded a new song -- it's a demo -- which can be streamed on the Citizens' myspace. It's called Someday. It's good. I like it.

In less exciting news, I have put the podcast links back in the sidebar. Also added is a link through which you can, theoretically, subscribe to the podcast. I don't have any idea how or even whether this works, but if you are into subscribing to things, it will probably make perfect sense to you.

That's all for now, as it's not even seven o'clock and I'm exhausted.

Dit ansigt høre på gulvet

9. maj:

1. Earl Grey with Honey - Loveninjas (SV)
2. Wooden Heart - the Duke Spirit
3. Dogs - Emily Frembgen
4. Don't Let It Slip Away (Oliver North Boy Choir remix) - Attention Now! (DK, NW)
5. What to Pass On/What to Keep - Jomi Massage (DK)
6. An Envoy to the Open Field - Mew (DK)
7. Sad Transmission - The Raveonettes (DK)
8. The Strawberry Festival - Oh No Ono (DK)
9. Heartbreaking Sound - Death Valley Sleepers (DK)
10. The Best of Jill Hives - Guided by Voices
11. Wrap My Arms Around Him - Heavenly
12. Leave the North - Club 8 (SV)
13. I Want You - Mugison (IS)

Wow -- a nice Danish block there in the middle. I didn't realize I'd done that.

You may download the podcast via my page in the KPSU archives.

Mager

Jeg glemte næsten -- men her er i gars:

1. A Track and a Train – Shout Out Louds (SV)
2. Like a Rolling Stone – Bob Dylan
3. Public Park – ballboy
4. Long Lost Penpal – Hello Saferide (SV)
5. Movies About Text – Bakers at Dawn (SV)
6. Thirteen – Elliott Smith
7. I’ll Be Your Mirror – the Velvet Underground
8. City – Billie the Vision & the Dancers (SV)
9. The Wrong Hands – Jens Lekman (SV)
10. Byen Driver – Under Byen (DK)
11. Camouflage – Agata & Me (DK)
12. Arms – Seabear (IS)
13. Mannen i Den Vita Hatten (16 Års Senare) – Kent (SV)

Jeg gik også min første rigtig telefonopringning -- det var VU sangen, som ville lyttede godt med Hello Saferide, men jeg kunne ikke finde det i nok tid. Jeg synes også, Movies About Text passer fantastisk sammen med Elliott Smith. Måske ikke dette Elliott Smith sang, men...

Siden jeg fjernede lette links, der har ikke været ingen mere ualmendelig downloader. Det skal jeg lade være for 3-4 dage mere, og hvis der er ingen mere, så skal jeg håbe det var et slumpetræf, og sætte altid tilbage igen. For nu, kan du finde podcasten på min arkivside med KPSU.

Alt for meget klikker

This relates to the second half of yesterday's post. I find it extremely unlikely that, overnight, 3700 more people decided they needed to download and listen to all of my podcasts. I don't know what's going on, but as both my podcast and individual mp3 numbers are all messed up, there's obviously something not right.

In the future, as I attempt to isolate the source of the problem, I may be temporarily disabling links, changing file hosts, and generally making inconvenient modifications to the site. I apologize to everyone who is a legitimate reader and/or listener. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to voice them in a comment or email to me.

Hopefully this issue will be resolved expediently. For the moment, all of the aforementioned precautions/traps and monitoring is necessary, because 1) I keep running out of bandwidth, 2) my stats are messed up (and I really love stats), 3) I am both incredibly curious and incredibly annoyed -- but mostly because 4) I really do not want KPSU's server to go down because some jerk is effing things around, here.

I would issue a plea to whoever is doing this to stop, but from the scope of things, I no longer believe that it is possible for one person to have done this manually. However, if this is you, and you have decided, for whatever reason, to open a vendetta with me by compromising the functionality of this blog, please know that I consider your actions entirely inappropriate and would much rather be confronted head on. I will meet you in person to address your grievances, or, if this is somehow not possible for you, I refer you again to my email.

For the rest of us: I will continue updating this blog, but probably will not be putting up any mp3s for a while. Nor will you see any new podcast links. You can still download the podcasts (new and old) through my page in the KPSU archives; it just won't be as direct. Again, I apologize for the inconvenience, and hope to have everything back to normal as soon as possible.

Socialnetværkningsider = lige med pokker

As if myspace was not enough -- Tiger Baby now has a facebook profile. It is the only facebook profile I have ever seen, and I aim to keep things that way. You can stream four songs there though, if you must.

I am having one of those days on which I feel an excessive and irrational hatred toward the internet, so I will not write any more.

However. While I’m here -- did 3,141 people really download my last show? I’d be elated if they had, but I really don’t think that’s the case. Obviously something must have gotten messed up -- although I can’t think what it would have been. But if you wish to download things from here: yes, that's what they're there for and yes, I am glad to have you listening to them, but please keep in mind that sometimes the load is slow... You really do only need to click once.

Spilleliste

Spillelisten fra 2. maj:

1. I Cried Like a Silly Boy – Devotchka
2. Tropical Ice-Land – of Montreal
3. Feels Like Drowning – the Lost Patrol Band (SV) -- hedder nu Invasionen
4. Rudie Can’t Fail – the Clash
5. Took You – Said the Shark (DK)
6. From the Valley to the Stars – El Perro del Mar (SV)
7. Stop in the Name of Love – Bang Gang (IS)
8. Suddenly Electric – the Rainy States
9. Line (the Small Sleep and the Big One) – David & the Citizens (SV)
10. All Is Swell – DAMPFBAHN! (DK)
11. Straight Thin Line – Frida Hyvönen (SV)
12. Bluebells – Patrick Wolf
13. Hello to the Floor – the Duke Spirit

Der var nogle, jeg ville gerne sige, men jeg har glemt. Undskyld. Det skal måske være i morgen. Men -- åh -- her er DAMPFBAHN!'s remix-side, med deres eget og ni forskellige versioner af All Is Swell, som du måtte downloade. Fernando Daxtas er godt. Det lyder lidt lige et '80s løbning sang.

--DL--
Ashtrays Podcast (2. maj 2008)
All Is Swell - Fernando Daxta remix (DAMPFBAHN!)

Radio radio...

Spillelisten fra i går aftes:

1. Weekender – Oliver North Boy Choir (DK)
2. Never Content – Air France (SV)
3. This Time – Bertine Zetlitz (NW)
4. The Air We Breathe – Figurines (DK)
5. Dayplanner – Free Loan Investments (SV)
6. Smother + Evil = Hurt – the Kissaway Trail (DK)
7. Caught in the Rain – Preston School of Industry
8. The Young Ones – Munich (DK)
9. Freddie and the Trojan Horse – the Radio Dept. (SV)
10. You Want the Candy – the Raveonettes (DK)
11. Red Tan – the Raveonettes (DK)
12. Pull Shapes – the Pipettes
13. Lions & Tigers – Asobi Seksu

Lige ONBC’s Weekender sidst weekend, Freddie and the Trojan Horse af the Radio Dept. er et nyt sang. Men det er en forpremiere, og skal officielt kom ud som titel sang af deres ny EP, 4. juni. Sang lyder meget lige andre Radio Dept. tinge -- men det er vist mere end det; Pitchfork (som første havde sanget) siger, det behandler Sveriges regering og tillidproblemer med statsministeren. Gudskelov, for de bor ikke i Tyrkiet...

--DL--
Ashtrays Podcast (30. april 2008)
Freddie and the Trojan Horse (the Radio Dept.)