Today on the Corner Pocket Radio Program is our second installment of the “Live From Murder Mountain” Series. We will be remote broadcasting LIVE from Murder Mountain headquarters from 5-7pm on todays program.
Our featured guest this week is Rooftops, Bellinghams purveyors of twinkling math-rock and calculus inspired riffs and taps! This band features veteran noodle’r Mark Dietrich of Lands Farther East fame, as well as newer hamSTAR transplants Wendelin Wohlgemuth and Drew Fitchette.
Listen online at www.hollowearthradio.com from 5-7pm TODAY! (or for the rebroadcast Thursday May 1st 2-4pm)
This week (April 22nd 7pm PST and April 26th 3pm PST), we will be airing an amazing treasure that Jacob Smigel found: a little cassette tape he’s dubbed “Band Nerd Love”.
He explains:
This full-length break-up/love-letter-cassette is straight out of the mid-80s and steeped in the worst kind of self-absorbed, fanciful, sniffling high-school bullshit you’ve ever heard. I hope everyone can tune in to hear Martin’s last tape letter to his underclassmen sweetheart: Elizabeth. In it, Martin speaks mostly in cliches as he pleads for remembrance, gets really creepy, vividly recounts his pseudo-sexual dreams, and finally strives for the maximal emotional impact by playing (and talking over) some Lionel Richie. This find is sure to bring you back to the time when you were a young band nerd too. You’ll remember how grown up you felt, and how you hated everyone but at the same time wanted them to like you. Yes, you’ll grit your teeth, squirm, and curse Martin for this, but it’s not his fault. He was just having a bad summer.
Just to get a sense of how amazing this tape letter find is, you can listen to a sneak preview: Band Nerd Love Clip.
Jacob inspired us at Hollow Earth Radio to put together our own found sound album, so this is really special that we get to share one of his latest finds in it’s entirety! Don’t miss out! Oh, and since Lionel makes an appearance in tonight’s broadcast, I thought it appropriate to seek out this video for your viewing pleasure:
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Suzanne from local folky punk band, Dance Music for Depressed People (aka DMFDP) is making neato monthly video podcasts that explore people doing cool things in Seattle. (Disclosure: She just interviewed us recently). This month’s topic was to learn about the Punk Rock Flea Market that Josh Okrent started in the basement of the Low Income Housing Institute downtown. Anyone have a million bucks they wanna put down to buy that building so it doesn’t ironically become condos?
Last night, I was fortunate enough to experience Daniel Johnston’s performance at Neumo’s in Seattle. Along with eight bottles of water lined up in a row, he brought two song journals on stage with him that he referenced the whole evening. He began one song with a warning that part of the lyrics were torn out of the journal so he didn’t know how far he’d make it through the song. He seemed to do just fine. The Dead Science, who was one of the opening bands, also performed as Johnston’s backup band for part of his set. In the middle of the set in order to introduce them, he had to ask them what their band name was again, and the guitar player graciously whispered in his ear to remind him. If you haven’t seen the documentary about this guy, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, you should. Here’s a bit of the show from last night:
I have always guessed that the chipmunks records made by playing the backing tracks at 1/2 speed while the singers sing REALLY slow. And I am almost positive this is how it was done. I took “Mr. Tamborine Man” and slowed it to 1/2 speed, as it would’ve been while the singers were tracking. The quality is weak, it was a 24 kbps mp3 that i got from April Winchell’s site, and then at 1/2 speed it’s a 12 kbps mp3?It’s kinda creepy though. If anyone has any Chipmunks records, please let me borrow them or rip them for me at HIGH quality, so I can make some more of these.
today we are pleased to bring to you a live set of music from a great Bellingham songwriter, Kayla Jeffress! tune in online today from 5-7pm and stay tuned for a rebroadcast time, as well!
I twirl my hair. I like to sing. I’m always scribbling. I am a hugger. “I contradict as has never been contradicted before and am nevertheless the opposite of a No-saying spirit.” “I’m a country station, I’m a little bit corny, I’m a wildwood flower– waving for you, a broadcasting tower waving for you.
” (Joni Mitchell!)
holy scary! don’t know what I’m doing, but I’m doing it. here you all go.
Influences:
Life— random thoughts from literature and art history classes; the desire to create, be contrary/original, and define myself; relationships.
Music—country/folksy stuff, Emmylou Harris, Diane Cluck, Ani Difranco, Bjork, jazz, REM, yes the Cranberries, Patty Griffin, Liz Phair, Weezer.
