Bittersweet Melody (Music)
With Allen
Wed Sep 28th 2011 5.00am–7.00am
R=listener request. N=music new at the station. L=local music. Your purchases using the Buy it! links
Time zone: central
4:59am | Stevie Wonder “Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away” from Fulfillingness' First Finale (Motown 1974) —Higher Ground, a Stevie Wonder tribute benefitting KDHX will be at Off Broadway this Friday night, Sept 30.Buy it! |
5:05am | Jason Boland & the Stragglers “Mary Ellen's Greenhouse” from Rancho Alto (Thirty Tigers www.thirtytigers.com/ 2011) N Buy it! |
5:09am | Robert Earl Keen “The Road Goes On and On” from Ready For Confetti (Lost Highway www.losthighwayrecords.com 2011) N Buy it! |
5:15am | The Alternate Routes “Still Can't Get Enough” from LATELY (Alternate Routes Records & Soundwave 2010) —@ Off Broadway this Saturday, October 1.Buy it! |
5:18am | Scott Miller & The Commonwealth “Iron Gate” from For Crying Out Loud (F.A.Y Recordings 2009)Buy it! |
5:21am | Alejandro Escovedo “Mountain Of Mud” from Thirteen Years (Lone Star Records/ Texas Music Group 1994)Buy it! |
5:25am | The Bottle Rockets “I Wanna Come Home” from The Brooklyn Side (East Side Digital 1994) L —@ Sheldon Concert Hall on Thursday, October 6.Buy it! |
5:30am | Tom Russell “Heart Within a Heart” from Mesabi (Shout Factory 2011) N —@ Off Broadway on Friday, October 7 and in Mt. Olive, IL with Gretchen Peters on Saturday, October 8.Buy it! |
5:34am | Chuck Ragan “Come Around” from Covering Ground (Side One Dummy www.sideonedummy.com/ 2011) N —From his 3rd solo album after years in the punk band, Hot Water Music.Buy it! |
5:40am | A.A. Bondy “The Heart is Willing” from Believers (Fat Possum www.fatpossum.com 2011) N —Sticking with solo artists who are releasing their 3rd solo album after starting with a punk band. In this case, Verbena.Buy it! |
5:44am | Elvis Perkins In Dearland “I Heard Your Voice In Dresden” from Elvis Perkins In Dearland (XL 2009)Buy it! |
5:50am | Bobby Long “In The Frost” from A Winter Tale (Up All Night Music 2011) N —Bobby Long will be at the Old Rockhouse on Saturday, October 8.Buy it! |
5:54am | The Head and the Heart “WINTER SONG” from The Head and the Heart (Sub Pop 2011) N —Originally released in '10 and re-released to wide distribution by SubPop in '11. I'll break some rules and put it in my top 10 of this year.Buy it! |
6:00am | Nirvana “Even In His Youth (Demo)” from Nevermind (Deluxe 20th Anniversary Edition) (Universal 2011) N —Nevermind was released 20 years ago on September 24, 1991Buy it! |
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6:08am | Yuck “Get Away” from Yuck (Fat Possum www.fatpossum.com 2011) N —Yuck will be playing a show at the Firebird on Tuesday, October 4.Buy it! |
6:11am | Sonic Youth “Wish Fulfillment” from DIRTY (DGC 1992)Buy it! |
6:15am | The Lonely Forest “End It Now!” from Arrows (ILG/Trans Records 2011) N —@ Cicero's on Thursday, October 13.Buy it! |
6:20am | Nada Surf “Concrete Bed” from The Weight Is a Gift (Barsuk 2005)Buy it! |
6:24am | Keren Ann “My Name Is Trouble” from 101 (Blue Note 2011) N R Buy it! |
6:28am | Sharon Van Etten “Peace Signs” from Epic (Ba Da Bing 2010)Buy it! |
6:33am | Blind Pilot “Get It Out” from We Are the Tide (Expunged Records 2011) N —Blind Pilot are opening for Brett Dennen at the Pageant on Sat., Oct 15 and will be doing an in-studio with yours truly to air on Oct 19.Buy it! |
6:36am | Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard “California Zephyr” from One Fast Move or I'm Gone (Music from Kerouac's Big Sur) (F-Stop Records/Atlantic 2009) R —Jay Farrar will be at the Sheldon on Fri, Oct 21 and Ben Gibbard will be with his band Death Cab for Cutie this Sunday at the Pageant.Buy it! |
6:40am | The Vegabonds “Brandee” from Dear Revolution (The Vegabonds 2011) N Buy it! |
6:44am | The Black Crowes “High Head Blues” from Amorica (COLUMBIA/LEGACY 1994)Buy it! |
6:49am | Telekinesis “Gotta Get It Right Now” from 12 Desperate Straight Lines (Merge www.mergerecords.com 2011) N —Telekinesis are opening for Death Cab for Cutie and doing an in-store at Vintage VinBuy it! |
6:53am | Robbie Fulks “That Bangle Girl” from The Very Best of Robbie Fulks (Bloodshot Records www.http://bloodshotrecords.com/ 2000)Buy it! |
Like everything else, times are approximate. Spinitron and this station are not liable for errors or omissions.