Left Of The Dial #251 - Program Feeds Air
If you can guess where Vanessa Peters' song "Last Night Bus" is going before it hits the 48-second mark, I'll give you a Marvel-style " No-Prize ." Agnes Obel has a song on her latest album, Citizen of...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #257 - A Neat Day
I often delight in the results of what happens when one plays with music, and I found myself rather delighted to happen upon TRONICBOX . The producer somehow takes newish songs and makes them sound...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #263 - The Glimpse Of The Deam
This week we're playing new music from Emel Mathlouthi. In 2008 her music was banned in her native Tunisia and she has since lived in Paris and New York City. In fact, during the Tunisian Revolution of...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #269 - Pristine Tragedy
You know what they say, comedy is tragedy plus 6 minutes of Father John Misty singing about it. Pure Comedy is the name of Father John Misty's forthcoming album, due out on April 7th. He's also...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #277 - Danger Zone
Naming your electronic group The Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society (DDAS) is a bit like naming your thrash-metal band "Metallica Rules," but it does let listeners know what to expect from you. DDAS...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #281 - In The Air
There's this promo CD, from Air France, titled In The Air , and I guess Air France is just a really hip airline as it's one of the most well-crafted mixtapes I've ever heard. It's an unbelievably chill...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #283 - The Radio Never Lies
Jaye Jayle is the side-project of Even Patterson, the lead singer of Louisville pummelers Young Widows . Jaye Jayle is a chance for Patterson to explore the bleak themes of underground heavy metal with...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #293 - Wash Away The Grief
Once again, NPR Music's Tiny Desk Contest has found something wonderful and goshdarn different . This is worth 24 minutes of your time. This week on the show you'll hear new music from Chaz Bundick...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #307 - RX-FT500
It was recently announced that new music from The Mountain Goats is on the way. The album is titled Goths , which is an unsurprising theme from the mind of John Darnielle, considering his music is a...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #311 - Doesn't Mean It's Not A Nice Show
Dirty Projectors have released their first album following the romantic and musical separation of bandmates David Longstreth and Amber Coffman. Not to get all TMZ on you, but Longstreth decided to...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #313 - Love Songs On The Radio
As a child Jake Xerxes Fussell would accompany his folklorist father as he documented the lives and music of bluesmen of the south. Fussell developed an appreciation for Americana himself and records...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #317 - Genre Bending
This week on the show, we’ve got your covered. We’ll be genre-bending all your favorite songs as everything we're playing is a cover. When Ryan Adams released an album that covered Taylor Swift's 1989...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #331 - The First Station To Say 'Yes'
This weekend marks the release of new music from Gorillaz, the animated music sensation from Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett . It is packed with high-profile guests, including Vince Staples , De La Soul...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #337 - So Happy To Be Listening
There's new music from Juana Molina , an album titled Halo, and as I mentioned on the show, you'll not hear a better primer on the Argentine musician than what you get from Radiolab . By 1983, jazz...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #347 - Lost Like You
This week we'll hear new music from Algiers, the Atlanta band that melds themes and genres of the U.S. south into uneasy soul music. Lead singer Franklin James Fisher told The Mothership that he once...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #353 - Not Tricks
This week on the show I'm playing the hypnotic new album from producer Nym, titled Lilac Chaser . That name is a reference to an optical illusion created by vision expert and balloonist Jeremy Hinton ....
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