Cascadia Now!

2011

2011-12-27T21:38:00.000-08:00

Based on my iTunes count, the following presents a pretty accurate list of the songs released in 2011 that I listened to most:

1 "Separator" by Radiohead, from The King of Limbs

Say what you will about Radiohead's reigning status (since, oh, about 1997) as the lowest common denominator of middle-brow art rock, it is a huge pleasure to hear this band continue to evolve, if not pushing artistic boundaries at least becoming more and more comfortable in their own skins--even if the music itself remains as anxious as ever. The King of Limbs came out of nowhere and made my year, and this song's crisp rhythms and gorgeous spidery guitar melody are its crowning moment.

2 "Street Halo" by Burial, from Street Halo EP

Burial doesn't have to evolve to remain on the bleeding edge of international electronic music--Burial has been doing basically the same thing since 2006 and the rest of dubstep is still struggling to keep up. Quavering bass tones, shuffling tech beats, disembodied voices blending with evocative synth melodies--I could be describing any number of "atmospheric" dubstep tracks released in the last year, but then why does nothing else hit me right in the base of the brainstem quite like Burial does?

3 "Platetectonics" by United Waters, from Your First Ever River

New York free rock duo Mouthus will for me forever be one of the defining groups of the 2000s, the decade in which noise seemed poised to conquer the indie underground, before it all dissolved into pop nostalgia. With this solo project Mouthus guitarist Brian Sullivan pries open his former band's claustrophobic lo-fi drift, with layers of tranquil guitar and drum machine loops unfolding into hazy fractal vistas like some psychedelic nature documentary narrated by a murmuring loner folk auteur.

4 "Sixteen Years" by Pink Reason, from Shit in the Garden

This is the most consonant and driving song on Pink Reason's latest LP, a follow-up to the drudge-punk masterpiece Cleaning the Mirror from 2007. Like the mutant RIYL offspring of Joy Division, My Bloody Valentine, and Einsturzende Neubauten.

5 "Light of the Light" by Six Organs of Admittance, from Alseep on the Floodplain

Six Organs mastermind Ben Chasny has been gathering momentum since the early 2000s, and his latest album returns to his roots as a disciple of the American Primitive school of acoustic guitar, with a batch of solo pieces that focus on his precise, heartfelt guitar compositions and ephemeral vocals.

6 "Continuing the Good Life" by Matt Valentine, from What I Became

Like Chasny, in 2011 MV released this stripped-down solo joint that highlights his ability to rip a stellar post-Crazy Horse guitar solo and at the same time develop an intensely personal vocabulary within the tradition of stoned folk rock. Like a mini "Day in the Life," this little gem of a ditty builds a whole world of emotion out of a heart-tugging fingerpicked figure, backmasked effects, plaintive hoots and harmonica.

7 "West Hartford" by 200 Years, from 200 Years

The unassuming side project of couple(?) Elisa Ambrogio (frontwoman of East Coast noise rockers Magick Markers) and Ben Chasny (see above @5), this album is probably most pleasurable for a fan of both artists' more recognized work. Ambrogio lets down her guard and assumes an intimate singer-songwriter pose that yields beautiful results like this lamentful hometown reminiscence, while Chasny's fluent and understated lead guitar work and backing vocals offer proof of the bond between the two players.

8 "Swerve... The reeping of all that is worthwhile (Noir not withstanding)" by Shabazz Palaces, from Black Up

It may be that hip-hop was born deconstructed, but it still sounds like Shabazz was doing something all kinds of unprecedented on Black Up, nowhere so much as this track, an album-closing banger and lead single that doesn't really bang, with cold-ass beats and guest vocals from Thee Satisfaction that seem at once distant and immediate. But try not to let this sparse but highly detailed jam highjack your sense of time, space and rhythm.

9 "Viper's Fang" by Skullflower, from Fucked on a Pile of Corpses

While great, nothing from Celestial Lineage, the lastest album by eco-purist black metallists Wolves in the Throneroom, even cracked my top 150 tracks of the year. This odious, hissing dirge, however, went on an unstoppable rampage through my psyche. Matthew Bower has released literally days worth of harsh psychedelic guitar noise over the last three decades, but until this track he had barely played a recognizable riff since 2005. And what a riff this is, its primitive BM roar slammed home by molasses-heavy drums and a wall of corrupting static.

10 "The Highwayman" by Arbouretum, from The Gathering

This song barely beat out Destroyer's Roxy Music simulacrum "Blue Eyes," probably because I was trying to figure out how to play it. Or maybe because in Arbouretum's hands this classic Jimmy Webb ballad (popularized by the eponymous country rock super group of Johnny Cash, Willy Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson) is polished to a deep golden sheen and fired deep into the heart of the cosmos. Yeah, that's probably it.

Honorable mentions, including not released in 2011: Bob Dylan (had my belated Dylan phase in August, totally worth it), Richard & Linda Thompson, Fleetwood Mac, "Brain Champagne" by Thadwick Tristen Trevor III & Swan Coltrane, Stare Case, Prurient, Godflesh, Hummingbird of Death.

Best show of my entire life: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Seattle, February. Runners up for most fun shows of 2011: Seattle Halloween loveliness by Nod and the Hobgoblins, and Guate ragga jams by Fajaman.

Looking forward to 2012: The Glass Masses, the excellent debut album by my brother's band Rags & Ribbons; seeing Bloodsweep play live and sewing a backpatch on my jacket; maybe finally recording something myself?

Fund Rainy Dawg Radio

2011-03-01T15:50:00.000-08:00

To: asuwpres@u.washington.edu

Dear ASUW President Madeline McKenna,

My name is Phil Neff, 2007 alumnus of the University of Washington. During my time as an undergraduate and graduate student at the UW, I served as a volunteer DJ with Rainy Dawg Radio for more than four years, and served as Music Director for the station during 2005-2007. I can state without exaggeration that my experience at Rainy Dawg provided some of the most memorable and enriching experiences of my time at the UW. I came to be close friends with knowledgeable and dedicated volunteers and staff members, worked with exciting upcoming and internationally-recognized artists, and had the opportunity to vastly expand and share my own knowledge of music, especially local music produced in the Pacific Northwest, to which I dedicated my long-running show Cascadia Now!

Although I do not currently work in the music industry, my experience as Music Director provided me with skills that have translated directly to my current work in Guatemala supporting local human rights organizations as part of the Network in Solidarity with People in Guatemala, including coordination of volunteers, facilitation of organizational meetings and strategy, and writing on a deadline. Many colleagues of mine from Rainy Dawg, however, have found their calling as artists and as members of the music community, including as radio DJs for KEXP and The End, as concert and band promoters, as writers and critics, and as locally and nationally renowned performers and producers. I have no doubt that many of them found their path into a career in music greatly facilitated by the contacts and direct experience provided by their association with Rainy Dawg.

University radio stations are a crucial part of the music community's life-cycle and ecosystem, training generations of students in the skills that make it possible for the rest of us to enjoy new, exciting, creative art every day. I urge you to continue to fund Rainy Dawg Radio and to reject cuts which would eliminate staff positions at the student-run station. These positions, in addition to nurturing individuals who are interested in careers in music, help support students' tuition and living costs, and are particularly critical during a time of rising tuition costs, economic difficulties, and skyrocketing student debt.

Thank you,

Phil Neff

B.A. English and Human Rights, University of Washington 2007

Music Director, Rainy Dawg Radio, 2005-2007

P.S. You can't kill rock!

Rangda and AFCGT: Seattle's premier avant-rock supergroups

2010-06-13T12:43:00.000-07:00

Collaboration, in art as in other endeavors, leads to one of two ends: either the dilution of individual character and effort into collective slurry; or a communion of minds and bodies, blending singular egos into a fortified concoction that transcends the sum of its parts. Unfortunately, the rock "supergroup" is a recipe that too often yields bland, watered-down, or simply underwhelming results. This, luckily, is not the case of AFCGT and Rangda, two all-star combos which have recently gushed forth from Seattle's underground rock wellspring.

Of the two groups, Rangda probably enjoys the most international renown. A non-traditional power-trio, the band formed in late 2009 and features guitarists Rick Bishop and Ben Chasny alongside percussionist Chris Corsano. Bishop is a long-time luminary on the experimental rock scene, a member of seminal avant-garde tricksters Sun City Girls, and a prolific solo artist who has explored world folk and rock guitar styles under the name Sir Richard Bishop. Chasny, a recent Seattle transplant, is the main creative force behind the psychedelic folk/rock project Six Organs of Admittance. And Corsano is perhaps Earth’s greatest living free percussionist, collaborating with a laundry list of spectacular artists including Paul Flaherty, Jandek, Björk, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Nels Cline, and most of the members of Sonic Youth. While Chasny and Corsano previously played together on School of the Flower, one of Six Organs’ most expansive and contemplative releases, Rangda is to the best of my knowledge both artists’ first recorded meeting with Bishop. They debuted with a mind-melting live performance at The Sunset in Ballard in autumn of last year, and in May they released the album False Flag on the Drag City label.

False Flag offers about what one would expect from a group of Rangda’s pedigree: assured, magisterial psychedelic and classic rock tropes delivered with searing improvisational energy. Structurally, the album alternates between noisy, free-form experiments and gorgeous, even restrained pieces that showcase each artist’s signature sounds. Both sides of the LP kick off with attention-grabbing blasts of razor-sharp guitar shredding and explosive thunder-peals from Corsano’s kit, on tracks appropriately titled “Waldorf Hysteria” and “Serrated Edges”. The entry-point for curious listeners should be the album’s second piece, “Bull Lore,” helpfully featured on the band’s MySpace page. Over an ominous foundation of spaghetti-western arpeggios and slashing outbursts of guitar and drums, Bishop lays down an acid-drenched lead that is at turns aggressive and mournful, especially when Chasny’s backing transitions into a major key during the middle of the song. As Corsano’s drumming becomes more martial in tone, Bishop ups the distortion for a fiery finale. Corsano’s limber, highly textural percussion occupies the foreground of “Fist Family” while strands of guitar noise twist in the wind. Meditative tracks close out each half of the album: “Sarcophagi” features the expressive, gentle side of Chasny’s take on pastoral psychedelic folk; while the epic “Plain of Jars” allows the trio to stretch out for a quarter hour, delicately circling around an anthemic riff that sounds like it could spiral off into eternity. Imagery of wind-sculpted sand dunes, meteor-streaked skies, ruined monuments to long-dead empires. In addition to satisfying fans of all three individual artists’ work, Rangda’s False Flag should also appeal to aficionados of the stoner-metal duo Om, world music-influenced post-rockers the Grails, and astral jazz icon Alice Coltrane.

While yielding an end result of equally high caliber, AFCGT’s collaboration is less recognizably a product of the individual brains and brawn behind the ruckus. AFCGT stands for A Frames/Climax Golden Twins, the two Seattle bands from which the band’s five members (three guitars, one bass, and percussion) are drawn. Erin Sullivan, Lars Finberg, and Min Yee of A Frames released three albums of scabrous, post-apocalyptic art-punk before temporarily going on hiatus during the later 00s (they’re back to playing live shows as of early 2010); Climax Golden Twins’ Jeffrey Taylor and Robert Millis traffic in displaced found-sound snippets, twisted Americana roots, and free improv sensibilities, as well as managing Wall of Sound, one of Seattle’s best indie record stores. The collective entity cryptically and hilariously describes its sound as “Drooling Hillbilly Metal, Sea Urchin Psychedelia, Yukon Freak Thrash, and Beatnik Swamp Drone.” They released a few appetizers (always self-titled, always on vinyl) on boutique labels like Uzu Audio and Dirty Knobby before transitioning to Sub Pop to release their first fully-realized long-player in 2010.

AFCGT is a beautiful-looking slab of ivory-colored vinyl accompanied by mysterious imagery and containing even more mysterious sounds. None of the pieces are easy to characterize, and describing the album’s general contours would require graduate-level experience in advanced topography. The churning, gut-wrenching “Black Mark” introduces the album, all atonal noise rock squall and blown out guitar leads, before segueing into the slow-burn psychedelia of “Two Legged Dog,” probably the album’s grooviest track. Wordless babbling vocals and Jeffrey Taylor’s bluesy slide guitar riffs simmer and sizzle atop a lumbering low end of galloping drums and wobbly bass courtesy Lars Finberg and Min Yee—think a country-fried Public Image Limited and you’ll be maybe half-way there. The album’s most formally compelling piece is “New Punk 27,” which in three short minutes cycles through movements of lo-fi noise punk jams, free-jazz freakouts, chaotic minimalist improvisations, slashing discordant riffage, and back again. The band’s weird sense of humor is epitomized by a brief moment at the end of the transitional track “New Punk,” where a deranged voice parrots some sort of Terrence McKenna-esque New Age snake oil about “major cycles” and the expectation of “a grand phase of destruction”. The only other recognizable vocals on the album are found on “Nacht,” which builds up a sinister atmosphere of gamelan-like cymbal tones and twisty guitar squiggles, over which a disembodied voice intones seemingly-random words in a series of languages—I recognize German, Spanish, at the very least. Even more unsettling is the horrific industrial drone of “Reasonably Nautical,” sounding like chopped-and-screwed Einsturzende Neubauten. After all the foregoing creative ferment, AFCGT makes the decision to close the album with “Slide 9,” an amorphous haze of queasy slide guitar, tinkling percussion, and what sounds like Sun Ra’s Atlantis-period electronic organ noodling. It takes the album out on a typically obtuse note, leaving the listener sedate but disoriented.

The success of both Rangda and AFCGT attests to the great fertility and potential for cross pollination within Seattle’s experimental rock community and beyond. Listeners inspired by either of these releases would do well to explore other local artists associated with the responsible parties: try looking up Master Musicians of Bukkake (featuring AFCGT producer Randall Dunn), Alan Bishop (brother of Sir Richard, fellow member of Sun City Girls, and curator of the world-renowned label Sublime Frequencies), Scott Colburn (producer of False Flag as well as Animal Collective’s Feels) and avant-punk acts like The Intelligence, Unnatural Helpers, and Walls, for starters.

Originally written for the Rainy Dawg Radio blog.

CN! is dead / Long live CN!

2010-06-13T12:40:00.000-07:00

With our June 9 show, CN! is now officially off the air as UW's Rainy Dawg Radio goes on hiatus for the summer. Thanks to all who listened and made this a great year - we heard tons of amazing Cascadian music, and played songs by more than 175 individual bands from the greater Pacific Northwest. CN! won't be back next year, but please check out our extensive archive of podcasts and keep an eye on this blog for reviews and links relating to Cascadian music and culture.

CN! 06/02 playlist and podcast

2010-06-02T13:06:00.001-07:00

CN! podcast

Part I - Part II

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"Dead Moon Night" - Dead Moon, Echoes of the Past

"My Children Watch TV When I'm Happy / My Children Watch TV When I'm Sad" - Horse Grinder, How Your Actions Every Day Make You Guilty

"Hunter" - Hail Seizures, For the Ruin

"A Black Heart" - Dandelion Junk Queens, Black Hearts and Red Balloons

"Moonsong (Twinkle Monster)" - Slow Teeth, Slow Teeth

"TVA" - Junk Bones, Junk Bones

"Live Like We're Dying" - Tin Tree Factory, Admire the Mess

"Wallingford" - Damien Jurado, Saint Bartlett
"Reckless Burning" - Jessie Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter, Reckless Burning

"Full Moon in June" - Black Prairie, Feast of the Hunter

"The Pull" - The Microphones, It Was Hot We Stayed in the Water

"Mt. St. Helens" - Mirah, Advisory Committee

"Goin' Against Your Mind" - Built to Spill, You in Reverse

"Dance Yrself Clean" - LCD Soundsystem, This is Happening

"Ghost Rider" - Suicide, Suicide

"Nightclubbing" - Iggy Pop, The Idiot

"I Know I Got Religion" - Kurt Vile, Square Shells EP

"Nothing Was Stolen (Love Me Foolishly)" - Phosphorescent, Here's To Taking It Easy

"Pieces" - Villagers, Becoming a Jackal

"Wild Orchids" - Jeremy Jay, Splash

"Do Your Thing" - The Clean, Modern Rock

"More of This" - Vetiver, Tight Knit
"So Long Supernova" - Comus, To Keep From Crying
"Surrounded" - Matador, The Taking

CN! 05/19 playlist and podcast

2010-05-24T20:41:00.000-07:00

CN! podcast

Part I - Part II

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"Garbage" - Student Nurse, As Seen On T.V.

"Dirty White Lies" - Neo Boys, Sub Pop Cassette Zine #5

"Job Club" - Jungle Nausea, Sub Pop Cassette Zine # 5

"Wake Up" - Climax Golden Twins, Imperial Household Orchestra

"We Bricklayers" - Bow + Arrow, Mathematics is the Study of History

"From Exile" - The Intima, Peril and Panic

"Never Too Late To Learn" - Meercaz, Never Too Late To Learn

"Unemployment Forever" - Meth Teeth, Everything Went Wrong

"Funny Disguises" - White Fang, What the Heck? Fest 2009

"Five Little Rooms" - Menomena, Mines

"For Revering the Gone and Dead" - 10-4 Rog

"FFunny Frends" - Unknown Mortal Orchestra

"Your Cells Are In Motion" - Jackie-O Mother Fucker, Fig. 5

"The Mermaid Parade" - Phosphorescent, Here's To Taking It Easy

"Bloodbuzz Ohio" - The National, High Violet

"Still Listening" - Mount Carmel, Mount Carmel

"The Antlers of the Midnight Sun" - Comets on Fire, Blue Cathedral

"Waiting" - X, Aspirations

"No God" - Germs, What We Do Is Secret

"Humor Me" - Pere Ubu, The Modern Dance

"O.F.Y.C. Showcase" - The Fall, Your Future Our Clutter

"Look Alive" - Indian Jewelry, Totaled

"Feels So Good" - Crazy Dreams Band, War Dream

"Troubles Will Be Gone" - The Tallest Man On Earth, The Wild Hunt

"Dark Noontide" - Six Organs of Admittance, Dark Noontide

CN! 05/12 playlist and podcast

2010-05-18T23:13:00.001-07:00

CN! podcast

Part I - Part II

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"Untitled I" - Daniel Menche, Beautiful Blood

"Insanity" - Nerveskade, Insanity/Forced to Live 7''

"Blood Spilt//No Guilt" - Asymmetric Warfare, Asymmetric Warfare

"Paralytic" - Silentist, The Tunnel

"Junk Existence" - Society Nurse, Junk Existence 7''

"Strong and Able First" - Walls, one-sided 12''

"Augwick Bill" - Lords of Light, Energy LP

"Politicians In My Eyes" - Death, For the Whole World to See

"Biblical Violence" - Hella, Hold Your Horse Is

"Ordinary People in Idaho" - Ruins, Hyderomastgroningem

"S.O.S." - Lightning Bolt, Earthly Delights

"Found Out" - Caribou, Swim

"Latin America" - Holy Fuck, Latin

"All I Want" - LCD Soundsystem, This Is Happening

"Lovefingers" - Silver Apples, Silver Apples

"Lay in the Sun" - The Godz, Contact High

"Ah, Sunflower Weary of Time" - The Fugs, The Fugs

"Til the Sun Rips" - Woods, At Echo Lake

"We'll Be Here Soon" - Phosphorescent, Here's to Taking It

"Bitter Wild Rabbits/Builds the Bone" - Giant Skyflower Band, Blood of the Sunworm

CN! 05/05 playlist and podcast

2010-05-10T21:11:00.000-07:00

CN! Podcast

Part I - Part II

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"Lear in Love" - Frog Eyes, Paul's Tomb: A Triumph

"My Shepherd" - The New Pornographers, Together

"Elemental" - A.C. Newman, Get Guilty

"Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth" - Neko Case, Middle Cyclone

"Don't Become the Thing You Hate" - Destroyer & Frog Eyes, Notorious Lightning and Other Works

"Bull Lore" - Rangda, False Flag
"Pantomime Magic" - Diminished Men, Shadow Instrumentals

"Schism Prism" - Master Musicians of Bukkake, Totem One

"Sev Acher" - Sun City Girls, Valentines from Matahari

"Litany Split" - ((speak)), ((speak))

"Indanthrone" - Doublends Vert, Doublends Vert

"Cascades" - Horse Feathers, Thistled Spring

"Mad Dog" - Cap Lori

"Apple On A Table, Green" - John Houx, Green Period

"Oh My Love" - Birds Fled From Me, Deeper Lurking

"Golden Pennies" - Dovekins

"Goodbye Sweet Dreams" - Roky Erickson with Okkervil River, True Love Cast Out All Evil

"With Cornstalks or Among Them" - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & the Cairo Gang, The Wonder Show of the World

"Aurora Borealis" - Meat Puppets, II

"Invisibility: Nonexistent" - Kurt Vile, Square Shells EP

"Hot Cake" - The Fall, Your Future Our Clutter

"Night Worship" - Balaclavas, Roman Holiday

"Can't I Know?" - Avi Buffalo, Avi Buffalo

"The Lung" - Dinosaur Jr., You're Living All Over Me

"Crooked Scene" - Male Bonding, Nothing Hurts

"Gila" - Beach House, Devotion

CN! 04/28 playlist and podcast

2010-04-29T23:17:00.000-07:00

CN! podcast

Part I - Part II

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"Search and Rescue" - A Frames, 2

"Sibling Rivalry (or Heavenly Grave)" - Naomi Punk, Naomi Punk

"Trigga Hickups" - Menomena, I Am the Fun Blame Monster

"Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect" - The Decemberists, Castaways and Cutouts

"Crooked Little Heart" - Black Prairie, Feast of the Hunter's Moon

"33-53.9 N/118-38.8 W" - Dolorean, You Can't Win

"A Flower in a Glove" - Frog Eyes, Paul's Tomb: A Triumph

"Pyramid Vision" - Eternal Tapestry, The Invisible Landscape

"Defender feat. Reva Devito" - Dark Time Sunshine, Vessel

"Mic Diplomat feat. DJ Collage" - Ghislain Poirier, Breakupdown

"Desordenador" - Filastine, Dirty Bomb

"The Bombs That Keep Dropping Make It Hard to Sleep" - Yellow Swans, Bring the Neon War Home

"Found Out" - Caribou, Swim

"Let's Dance and Freak" - Luke Vibert, Kerrier District

"Our Tears Help the Flowers Grow" - Cold Cave, The Trees Grew Emotions and Died

"Heaven's On Fire" - The Radio Dept., Clinging to a Scheme

"In the Dreamlife U Need A Rubber Soul" - The Clean, Mister Pop

"Love Without Lies" - Comet Gain, Broken Record Prayers

"Chino" - The Fall, Your Future Our Clutter

"Here Comes All the People" - Liars, Sisterworld

"Black and White Trees Line the Paths of Sleep" - The Fire Show, Above the Volcano of Flowers

"Melody for Jaana" - Serena-Maneesh, S-M 2: Abyss In B Minor

"All The Good Songs Have Been Written" - Peaking Lights, Imaginary Falcons

"That Time of Day" - Eddy Current Suppression Ring, That Time of Day

CN! 04/21 playlist and podcast

2010-04-26T22:27:00.000-07:00

CN! podcast

Part I - Part II

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"Men In Your Life" - Green Pajamas, Book of Hours

"Burned" - The Minus Five

"A Murder of Crows" - Green Pajamas, Book of Hours

"Down in the Bottle" - Lonesome Shack, Falling Down On Your Floor

"Across the Black Prairie" - Black Prairie, Feast of the Hunters' Moon

"I Better Be Quiet Now" - Elliott Smith, Figure 8

"Water In the Clouds" - Nettle Honey

"Stone Yard" - Gravel, No Stone Unturned

"Going Blind" - Melvins, Houdini

"Hats Made of Veal and That New Car Scent" - The Abominable Iron Sloth, The Abominable Iron Sloth

"I Video Tape Your Diet" - Pig Heart Transplant, Hope You Enjoy Heaven

"The Statement of Will (Movement II)" - Blood of the Black Owl, A Banishing Ritual

"Bhang Bhang, I'm A Burnout" - Dum Dum Girls, I Will Be

"Sunshine/Pretty Girls" - Unnatural Helpers, Cracked Love & Other Drugs

"Helen Fordsdale" - Mars, The Complete Studio Recordings / No New York

"Blonde Red Head" - DNA, DNA on DNA / No New York

"Dish It Out" - James Chance & The Contortions, No New York

"Nas Paredes Da Pedra Encantada" - Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho, Paêbirú

"Jardim Di Alma" - Arto Lindsay, Salt

"Sound of Kuduro feat. M.I.A., Dj Znobia, Saborosa, Puto Prata" - Buraka Som Sistema, Black Diamond

"Sun" - Caribou, Swim

"Subtractions" - Dosh, Tommy

"Lifted" - Lemonade, Pure Moods EP

"Poor Man's Daughter" - Retribution Gospel Choir, 2

"Guitar Solo 4" - Neil Young, Dead Man Soundtrack
"The Burden" - MV & EE with the Golden Road, Gettin' Gone

CN! 04/14 playlist and podcast

2010-04-20T23:30:00.000-07:00

CN! podcast

Part I - Part II

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"Modula" - A Frames, 2

"Untitled" - Mindless Thuggs, Live at Blue Moon Tavern, December 2006

"Reasonably Nautica" - A Frames/Climax Golden Twins, AFCGT

"Behold the Vastness and Sorrow" - Wolves in the Throne Room, Two Hunters

"The March" - Grails, The Burden of Hope

"Eternal" - Wilderness, Eternal/Citadel

"Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine Part 2" - Earth, Earth Two: Special Low Frequency Version

"Aron" - Tiny Vipers, Hands Across the Void

"Burden of Tomorrow" - The Tallest Man On Earth, The Wild Hunt

"A Cloud Story" - Dark Dark Dark, The Snow Magic

"True Love Cast Out All Evil" - Roky Erickson with Okkervil River, True Love Cast Out All Evil

"Nobody to Love" - 13th Floor Elevators, Easter Everywhere

"Hurry Sundown (Mono Single Version)" - The Bubble Puppy, A Gathering of Promises

"That's What Our Love Is" - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & the Cairo Gang, The Wonder Show of the World

"Early Days of Channel Führer" - The Fall, Fall Heads Roll

"Children of the Universe" - Comus, To Keep From Crying

"Same But Different" - Vashti Bunyan, Lookaftering

"In Every Mind" - Red Sparowes, The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies the Answer

"World Police" - Godspeed You! Black Emperor, 24.01.02, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France

CN! 04/07 playlist and podcast

2010-04-15T23:09:00.000-07:00

CN! podcast

Part I - Part II

"Reject All American" - Bikini Kill, Reject All American

"Frostbitten, Twice High" - Eel Eater

"Blasting Through Nothing / Obscene Tank Driver" - Behead the Prophet No Lord Shall Live, I Am That Great and Fiery Force

"Leotard" - TacocaT, Shame Spiral

"#1 Must Have" - Sleater-Kinney, All Hands on the Bad One

"High Deserts of Oregon" - Jordan O' Jordan, Carbon Cycles

"Harsher Winter" - Pet Dander

"Choose Your Own Adventure" - Junk Bones

"Engine Heart" - Mirah, You Think It's Like This But Really It's Like This

"Uphostery" - Splinters, The Watchmaker

"Tito" - Nudge, As Good As Gone

"Drifter's Sympathy" - Holy Sons, Transmissions from Sinai

"Mystic Prism" - White Rainbow, Prism of Eternal NOW!

"Walking Through the Night" - Excepter, Debt Dept.

"Street Woman" - Ornette Coleman, Science Fiction

"Space Is the Place" - Sun Ra and his Arkestra, The Other Side of the Sun...

"King of Spain" - The Tallest Man On Earth, The Wild Hunt

"Troublesome Houses" - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & the Cairo Gang, The Wonder Show of the World

"An Insular Life" - Shearwater, The Golden Archipelago

"Ostinato del Caminito" - Black Prairie, Feast of the Hunter

"Seattle" - Public Image Ltd.

"Lips that Would Kiss" - The Durutti Column, The Return of the Durutti Column

"Transparent" - Awesome Color, Massa Hypnosis

"Fillmore Jive" - Pavement, Crooked Rain

CN! 03/31 playlist and podcast

2010-04-02T12:28:00.001-07:00

CN! podcast

Part I - Part II

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"Warped" - Big Spider's Back, Warped EP

"Ocean Weeze" - Mega Bog (a.k.a. Little Swamp), Surf Songs

"Bug Song" - Retsin, Cabin in the Woods

"Animal Song (If I Could Ramble Like A Hound)" - Michael Hurley, Blueberry Wine: First Songs

"Clouds Below" - Peppermint Majesty

"Told To Send" - Song Sparrow Research, Welcome to the Potato Famine

"Beach Side Property" - Modest Mouse, This Is A Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About

"Answer" - Windscale, Windscale CS (Actual Noise)

"Stricken" - Forest of Grey, Forest of Grey

"Frank Apple" - Great Falls, Demo CS

"The Hidden Stone" - Mount Eerie, Wind's Poem

"Blackest Crow" - Black Prairie, Feast of the Hunters' Moon

"Ribbon Bows" - Joanna Newsom, Have One On Me

"Oh Sweet" - Animal Collective, Animal Crack Box

"Repetition" - Love Is All, Two Thousand and Ten Injuries

"Darling" - Girls, Album

"Anxiety" - Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Rush to Relax

"She Is Science Fiction" - Pissed Jeans, King of Jeans

"Jail La La" - Dum Dum Girls, I Will Be

"Out Go the Lights" - Spoon, Transference

"Goodnight Everything" - Liars, Sisterworld

"Last of the Lemach Line" - Magik Markers, BOSS

Shows!

2010-03-31T13:28:00.000-07:00

Deakin

(Josh from Animal Collective)

Jabon

(Scott Colburn)

& Peppermint Majesty

(members of Fleet Foxes, Heatwarmer, etc.)

Wednesday March 31, Neumos, all ages

~ ~ ~

Big Spider's Back

(Cascadian chillgaze)

Song Sparrow Research

(Dramatic art rock)

Mega Bog

(DIY indie swamp folk)

Jeremy Burk

Thursday April 1, Conor Byrne Pub, 21+, $8 sliding scale

Benefit for AHAC: "The Alternative Healthcare Access Campaign, is a women-led local non-profit organization that provides free acupuncture, naturopathic medicine, and massage therapy at five Seattle homeless shelters, as well as Tent City 3. We believe that access to quality, holistic healthcare is a right, not a privilege, and it should not be denied or limited because of economic status. This event is a fundraiser for us!"

CN! 03/10 playlist and podcast

2010-03-15T00:27:00.000-07:00

CN! Podcast

Part I - Part II

(click to download)

"Stormbringer" - Wildildlife, split 7'' with Harvey Milk

"The Hanged Man" - Emeralds, Serpent BodieSS E.P.

"Words of Clarity" - Agatha

"Hell, Holly, and I" - Council of Lions

"Falling Spikes" - Past Lives, Tapestry of Webs

"Dinosaur's Mambo" - The Beakers, Four Steps Toward A Cultural Revolution

"Catholic Guilt (At Night)" - Die Monitr Batss, Girls of War

"Big Black Road" - Thousands, The Sound of Everything

"Change in the Ocean" - Shanna Cleveland

"Untitled 3" - Kazu Nomura, Live on Experimental Sounds

"In Love with the Doubt" - Dolorean, You Can't Win

"Jungle with Lions" - Spanish for 100, Metric

"Swim Until You Can't See Land" - Frightened Rabbit, The Winter of Mixed Drinks

"Two Little Hitlers" - Elvis Costello & the Attractions, Armed Forces

"Distant Fingers" - Patti Smith Group, Radio Ethiopia

"Venus" - Television, Marquee Moon

"Corridors" - Shearwater, The Golden Archipelago

"Drop Dead" - Liars, Sisterworld

"Let's Build A Car" - Swell Maps, Jane From Occupied Europe

"Hide Me From Next February" - Les Savy Fav, Rome Written Upside Down

"Trem Two" - Mission of Burma, Vs.

"Light Up the Night" - The Besnard Lakes, The Besnard Lakes are the Roaring Night

"II" - Six Organs of Admittance, For Octavio Paz

"Baby Birch" - Joanna Newsom, Have One On Me

CN! 03/03 playlist and podcast

2010-03-09T22:06:00.000-08:00

CN! Podcast

Part I - Part II

(click to download)

"Play It Safe" - Cold Lake

"I Wanna If You Wanna" - My Parade

"Like It Is" - Gun Outfit, Dim Light

"Thank You God for Fixin' the Tape Machine" - The Intelligence, Fake Surfers

"Hoot Your Belly" - Lonesome Shack, Bound to Die

"Dance All You Can" - Nettle Honey

"Ball, Bouncing" - Club of Friends

"Impose Jam" - USF

"Remember Sweet" - Cock and Swan, Morning's Window Single

"Limited Space" - Yellow Swans, Going Places

"Weird Creatures" - Eluvium, Similies

"Stand Still" - The Album Leaf, A Chorus of Storytellers

"One Fine Day" - David Byrne and Brian Eno, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

"Black Eyes" - Shearwater, The Golden Archipelago

"Measure" - Field Music, Measure

"Bye Bye Blackbird" - Quasi, American Gong

"No Surprise" - Fugazi, End Hits

"Why Theory?" - Gang of Four, Return the Gift

"Happy Cycling" - Boards of Canada, Music Has the Right to Children

"Eyes to Form Shadows" - Dälek, Absence

"Holidays" - Gonjasufi, A Sufi and A Killer

"Blastit..." - Shabazz Palaces, Shabazz Palaces

Cold Lake & My Parade & friends @ 20/20 Cycle, Friday March 12!

More Magma Fest, hosted by Hollow Earth Radio

Nettle Honey West Coast tour in March!

Lonesome Shack live every 2nd Tuesday @ Cafe Racer!

CN! 02/24 playlist and podcast

2010-02-27T18:30:00.000-08:00

CN! Podcast

Part I - Part II

(Click to download)

"Let It Rain" - Pierced Arrows, Descending Shadows

"Anacortes Has A Secret Love" - The Microphones, Tests

"You're On the Phone" - Polka Dot Dot Dot, Syzygy

"Mt. St. Helens" - Mirah, Advisory Committee

"Your Hands (Together)" - The New Pornographers, Together

"Ida Walked Away" - AU, Versions

"Heartswarm" - Swan Lake, Enemy Mine

"Foam Hands" - Destroyer, Trouble In Dreams

"Flying" - Parasites of the Western World, Parasites of the Western World

"Silk Rd." - The Grails, Burning Off Impurities

"Pirates Song" - Red Squirrel, Magic Acorn

"Psychodelic Nightmare" - Dead Moon, Echoes of the Past

"It's An Action" - Poison Idea, Pick Your King

"Tania" - Sex/Vid, Tania EP

"Cenotaph" - This Heat, Deceit

"Sentiment (White Feathers)" - The Crass, Christ The Album

"Wicked Babylon" - Linval Thompson, Transmissions from Sinai

"Bankrobber" - The Clash, Black Market Clash

"Moody (Spaced Out)" - ESG, A South Bronx Story

"Lissoms" - Toro y Moi, Causers of This

"Satellite Sniper" - Pantha Du Prince, Black Noise

"Attack Music" - These New Puritans, Hidden

"World Town" - M.I.A., Kala

"Bring Down" - Midlake, The Courage of Others

"Blue Mountain" - Espers, The Weed Tree

"Jackrabbits" - Joanna Newsom, Have One On Me

"Path of Raven" - Blackbird RAUM, Under the Starling Host

CN! 02/17 playlist and podcast

2010-02-23T23:07:00.001-08:00

CN! Podcast

Part I - Part II

(click to download)

"The Whale Song" - Modest Mouse, No One's First, and You're Next

"July Flame" - Laura Veirs, July Flame

"Sophists for Sale" - The Charity Stripe, Here In the Mineshaft

"Pure Hatred" - ((speak)), Speak

"Weird Shower" - Heatwarmer, Heatwarmer

"Thrift Store Find" - Misterholmes & the Brotherhood, Wheedle's Groove

"The Truth" - Hunger, Strictly From Hunger

"A Bunch of Changes" - The Black On White Affair, Wheedle's Groove

"Gamma Knife" - The Dead Science, Bird Bones in the Bughouse

"It's Clay Again" - The Blackouts, History In Reverse

"All My Colours" - Echo & the Bunnymen, Heaven Up Here

"Work" - Blue Orchids, A Darker Bloom

"Castaways" - Shearwater, The Golden Archipelago

"I Built Myself A Metal Bird" - Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, Kollaps Tradixionales

"Touch Of Evil" - Jaga Jazzist, One-Armed Bandit

"Dear God, I Hate Myself" - Xiu Xiu, Dear God, I Hate Myself

"Slug Song" - The Clean, Anthology

"Wrapped Up" - Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Primary Colors

"Your Soul and Mine" - Gil Scott-Heron, I'm New Here

"Pray For Rain" - Massive Attack, Heligoland

"And All You Can Do Is Laugh, Pt. 1" - cLOUDDEAD, cLOUDDEAD

"You Ain't It" - Themselves, Crownsdown

CN! 02/10 playlist and podcast

2010-02-12T00:19:00.000-08:00

CN! Podcast

Part I - Part II

(click to download)

Cascadian Metal

"Evolve" - Asymmetric Warfare, Asymmetric Warfare

"Pareidola" - Great Falls, Demo CS

"Norge" - Thorr's Hammer, Dommedagsnatt

"Dwelling in a Den of Withered Skin" - Thunder Grey Pilgrim, Demogorgon

"Murder" - Black Breath, Razor to Oblivion

"Simon Legree" - Thrones, A Day Late, A Dollar Short

"Total Control" - Book of Black Earth, Horuskopus

"Ahrimanic Trance" - Wolves in the Throne Room, Black Cascade

"Splatterbeast" - The Accüsed, The Curse of Martha Splatterhead

"Healter Skelter" - Shining, Blackjazz

"Korin" - AFCGT, AFCGT 7''

"No Pasaran" - Fucked Up, Couple Tracks

"Going Through the Motions" - The Prefects, Amateur Wankers

"Secret Breakfast" - Citay, Dream Get Together

"The Widow's Man" - Company, Parallel Time

"Glass Rock" - Glass Rock, Talls Firs Meet Soft Location

"Split Second Feeling" - Cabaret Voltaire, Red Mecca

"Interplay: Your House" - Excepter, Self Destruction

"House Jam" - Gang Gang Dance, Saint Dymphna

"The Splendour" - Pantha Du Prince, Black Noise

CN! 01/27 playlist and podcast

2010-01-30T00:35:00.000-08:00

CN! Podcast

Part I - Part II

(click to download)

"Colored Paper" - Song Sparrow Research, Welcome to the Potato Famine

"Waltz" - THEESatisfaction, Snow Motion

"Lately (I've Been On My Back) - BOAT, Setting the Paces

"Crucial Contact" - Karl Blau, Zebra

"On A Frozen Beach" - Feral Children, Brand New Blood

"Unlucky in Love" - The Raggedy Anns, The Raggedy Anns

"Grave Song" - Nettle Honey

"To Save the Truth" - Thousands, The Sounds of Everything

"Good Old People" - Bill Frisell, The Intercontinentals

"Polypockets" - ((speak)), Speak

"Oslo Skyline" - Jaga Jazzist, What We Must

"New Punk 27" - A Frames/Climax Golden Twins, AFCGT

"Hide It Away" - Retribution Gospel Choir, 2

"The Leanover" - Life Without Buildings, Any Other City

"Swim (To Reach the End)" - Surfer Blood, Astro Coast

"Rulers, Ruling All Things" - Midlake, The Courage of Others

"Mirror Kisses" - Citay, Dream Get Together

"I Don't Know What To Say" - The Magnetic Fields, Realism

"Odessa" - Caribou, Swim

"Love Cry" - Four Tet, There Is Love in You

"Schrapnell" - Isolée, Wearemonster

CN! 01/20 playlist and podcast

2010-01-24T11:57:00.000-08:00

CN! Podcast

Part I - Part II

(click to download)

"I Can See Your Tracks" - Laura Veirs, July Flame

"Middle Cyclone" - Neko Case, Middle Cyclone

"The Motion Makes Me Last" - Eluvium, Similies

"Don't Make Me Laugh" - Big Spider's Back, Warped

"Repulsion" - Quasi, American Gong

"Crustacean Meadows" - Backward Masks

"The General's Gleaming Edge" - Hypatia Lake, Angels and Demons, Space and Time

"Passwords & Alcohol" - Kinski, Down Below It's Chaos

"Ark Drum" - Nice Nice, One Hit

"Hex Takes Hold" - Past Lives, Tapestry of Webs

"Don't Leave Me on the Speaker" - Eat Skull, 7''

"Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle" - Jay Reatard

"Nacht" - A Frames/Climax Golden Twins, AFCGT

"Oh Heartland, Up Yours!" - Owen Pallett, Heartland

"We Gathered In Spring" - Midlake, The Trials of Van Occupanther

"Air Born" - Camel, Moonmadness

"Hazy Paradise" - Ghost, Hypnotic Underworld

"Norway" - Beach House, Teen Dream

"Breathe Into Glass" - Asobi Seksu, Rewolf

"Haunt Me" - Arab Strap, The Red Thread

"L is for Love" - El Perro del Mar, Love Is Not Pop

"I Believe In You" - Talk Talk, Spirit of Eden

"Dinosaur Act" - Low, Things We Lost in the Fire

CN! 01/13 playlist and podcast

2010-01-17T18:06:00.000-08:00

CN! Podcast

Part I - Part II

(click to download)

"Zece Prajini" - Orkestar Zirkonium, Orkestar Zirkonium

"Baym Rebyn in Palesteena" - 3 Leg Torso, 3 Leg Torso

"Dead Sailors" - Slow Teeth, Slow Teeth

"Blairsville" - Tin Tree Factory, Admire the Mess

"Cat Faces" - Ugly Casanova, Sharpen Your Teeth

"Paranoia" - Pierced Arrows, Descending Shadows

"H Bomb" - Nightbeats, Street EP

"Throwaway Style" - The Exploding Hearts, Guitar Romantic

"In the Garden/Firebrand/They Shall Not Pass" - Behead the Prophet No Lord Shall Live, I Am that Great and Fiery Force

"Untitled" - Noggin, Two Violins

"Sundown" - Yuma Nora, Jewels in the Snakepit

"Untitled" - Trees Are Neurons, Live May 2008

"Abracadabraca" - These Arms Are Snakes, Easter

"This Little Island" - Nazca Lines

"Colour Television" - Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Primary Colors

"Monkey" - Kurt Vile, Childish Prodigy

"Blue Do Cachorro Muito Louco" - Satwa, Satwa

"All Along the Watchtower" - Träd, Gräs och Stenar, Träd, Gräs och Stenar

"Ride My Llama" - Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Rust Never Sleeps

"Lewis Takes Action" - Owen Pallett, Heartland

"Black Lacquered Shame" - Holopaw, Oh, Glory. Oh, Wilderness

"True Love" - Spiral Stairs, The Real Feel

"A Pine Bush Fantasy" - Coach Fingers, No Flies On Frank

"When I Grow Up" - Fever Ray, Fever Ray

"Youth & Lust" - Cold Cave, Love Comes Close

Show!

2010-01-12T21:36:00.001-08:00

Saturday, January 16, 8pm

Trees are Neurons, Harold Cisman, and Mouce Manouche @ The Starship Submarine, 825 Lake Washington Blvd. S, Leschi

CN! 01/06 playlist and podcast

2010-01-06T18:02:00.000-08:00

CN! Podcast

Part I - Part II

(click to download)

"Charlie Huston" - Saint Siren, Saint Siren

"The 36th Parallel" - Jordan O' Jordan, Not Style Nor Season Nor Hard-Handed Lesson

"Bound To Die" - Lonesome Shack, Bound to Die

"Look Down" - Nettle Honey

"A las barricadas" - Dandelion Junk Queens, Black Hearts and Red Balloons

"Murder of Crows" - Hail Seizures, Fucked Up Zoo

"Pool of Petals" - Wind Swept Planes, The Rose; Prickliest of Thorns

"Come True" - Jandek, Portland Thursday

"Two-Legged Dog" - AFCGT, AFCGT

"Apophenia" - Dull Knife, Apophenia

"polished.glass.autobahn" - our.love.will.destroy.the.world, Dirty Knobby 7''

"Silver Tongues, Soft Whispers" - Peaking Lights, Imaginary Falcons

"Salt" - Pocahaunted, Passage

"A Momentary Sun" - A Broken Consort, The Shape Leaves

"The Dance #3" - Brian Eno & Laraaji, Ambient 3: On Land

"Asphalt Rainbows" - GHQ, Crystal Healing

"The Paper Raft" - Of, Rocks Will Open

"Spring" - Charalambides, A Vintage Burden

"The Archangel (Hurray for the Beast)" - Giant Skyflower Band, Blood of the Sunworm

"Satellightning" - Nurse & Soldier, Marginalia

"Sheila" - Atlas Sound, Logos

Shows!

2010-01-04T16:41:00.000-08:00

Tune in to Cascadia Now! this Wednesday, January 6th from 1-3pm to hear tunes by local bands playing shows around town this week:

Wednesday, January 6

Cascadian bluegrass vagabonds Nettle Honey play @ New Crompton (4711 12th Ave NE) in the University District, with Your Yellow Dress, All Blood, and The Autumn Electric!

Saturday, January 9

New Zealand psychedelic noise by our.love.will.destroy.the.world (formerly Birchville Cat Motel, see also Black Boned Angel), local avant-rock supergroup AFCGT, Dull Knife, and Great Falls (debut show, formerly Hemingway) @ The Funhouse

CN! 12/16 playlist and podcast

2009-12-18T00:26:00.000-08:00

CN! Podcast

Part I - Part II

(click to download)

Harsh & Psychedelic Noise

"The Mansions In Heaven Are Empty" - Hemingway, The Mansions In Heaven Are Empty

"Untitled" - Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, Borre Fen

"Velvet Water" - Yellow Swans, PDX Pop Now! 2008

"Prison / Fortress" - Pig Heart Transplant, Hope You Enjoy Heaven

"Authority of Scripture" - Sex/Vid, Communal Living

"Tread On Me" - Walls, Walls 12''

"Hundreds of Child Soldiers" - Great Falls, Demo CS

"Spins the World's Wheel Again" - Prurient, Rose Pillar

"The Gift of Sighs" - Mouthus, Saw A Halo

"Cellar" - Wolf Eyes, Always Wrong

"Vile Veil / Mauvais Ange" - Skullflower, Vile Veil

"Ultra Vomit Craze" - Black Dice, Repo

"Universal Acceleration" - Sunroof!, Cloudz

Listen to Great Falls demo tracks online, and check out their first show at The Funhouse on January 9 2010 with our.love.will.destroy.the.world, AFCGT, and Dull Knife!
Background vibes on this episode: "Rectums Merging" by At Jennie Richie

CN! 12/09 playlist and podcast

2009-12-11T23:07:00.000-08:00

CN! Podcast

Part I - Part II

(click to download)

"Black Out" - Grouper, Way Their Crept

"Griselda Plans Her Revenge" - Dialing In, The Islamic Bomb

"87'" - Ear Venom, Acid Headband

"Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping" - Grouper, Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill

"Acid Rain" - The Grails, Acid Rain

"I Am the Dead (feat. Tom Patton)" - Eyvind Kang, Virginal Co-ordinates

"Tall Landlords" - Song Sparrow Research, Welcome to the Potato Famine

"What the Snakes Teaching" - White Fang, Whatever

"Icthus Hop" - Talbot Tagora, Lessons in the Woods or a City

"Counter Evolution" - A Frames, 2

"Paper (Hot Sax Version)" - Explode Into Colors, Paper 7''

"Now We Can See" - The Thermals, Now We Can See

"Newest Industry" - Hüsker Dü, Zen Arcade

"You" - Delta 5, Singles and Sessions 1979-1981

"Be Good To Me" - ESG, Step Off

"I Have Known Love" - Silver Apples, Contact

"Bleed" - Animal Collective, Fall Be Kind EP

"Scissor" - Liars, Sisterworld

"Should Have Taken Acid With You" - Neon Indian, Psychic Chasms

"Should I Tell You" - Brilliant Colors, Should I Tell You 7''

"Flowers" - Flight, Flight

"I Start To Run" - White Denim, Fits

"Lil' Girl in the Woods" - The King Khan & BBQ Show, Invisible Girl

"Dionysius" - Savage Republic, Ceremonial + Trudge

"Final Solution" - Pere Ubu, Final Solution

"Careering" - Public Image Ltd., Second Edition

"Mass Production" - Iggy Pop, The Idiot

Listen to music by Song Sparrow Research and download their full album Welcome to the Potato Famine free!
Backing vibes on this episode by Diminshed Men, from the album Shadow Instrumentals on Abduction Records...

CN! 12/02 playlist and podcast

2009-12-06T13:04:00.000-08:00

CN! Podcast

Part I - Part II

(click to download)

"Engine of Ruin" - Earth, The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull

"Time Takes" - Tiny Vipers, Live at Rainy Dawg Radio Vol. 2

"Hunting & Gathering (Cydonia)" - Sunn O))), Monoliths & Dimensions

"Entropy" - Silentist, Silentist

"Dracula Frizzi" - Alvarius B, Blood Operatives of the Barium Sunset

"Pantomime Magic" - Diminished Men, Shadow Instrumentals

"Space Prophet Dogon" - Sun City Girls, Torch of the Mystics

"Light in the Wind (Serpent Mound Revival)" - Ohioan & Native Kin, Being of the Good River

"Share the Night" - The Clientele, Bonfires on the Heath

"You Can Hide Your Love Forever" - Comet Gain, Broken Record Prayers

"Lazy Line Painter Jane" - Belle & Sebastian, Lazy Line Painter Jane

"Dumb Magician" - Blue Orchids, A Darker Bloom

"VCR" - The XX, XX

"Heaven Was Full" - Cold Cave, Love Comes Close

"Dive" - Bauhaus, In the Flat Field

"I Am Damo Suzuki" - The Fall, This Nation's Saving Grace

"Vitamin C" - Can, Ege Bamyasi

"Porno" - Clinic, 3 EPs

"What Would I Want? Sky" - Animal Collective, Fall Be Kind EP

"Best Love" - Kurt Vile, Constant Hitmaker

"Dreamsucker" - Grooms, Rejoicer

Seattle Plus 10: No WTO!

2009-11-26T00:14:00.000-08:00

THE PEOPLE’S SUMMIT Nov 27-29

WTO+10: Global Justice Forward!

On Nov 30th the World Trade Organization (WTO) will host a “restart” meeting in Geneva – 10 years to the day from when we shut down the Seattle WTO! On Dec 7th, the United Nations Conference on Climate Change opens in Copenhagen. These are uncertain times and much is at stake: Join us to reclaim and amplify our voices with the vision we have for a healthy planet and people. Let’s harness the spirit of the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle with a renewed commitment to move global justice forward!

Friday Nov 27 through Sunday Nov 29: three days of plenaries, workshops and a cross-sector strategy session, held at Seattle University, New Hope Baptist Church and Town Hall. Visit www.seattleplus10.org for a full list of speakers, plenaries, and workshops!

CN! 11/25 playlist and podcast

2009-11-26T00:02:00.000-08:00

CN! Podcast

Part I - Part II

(click to download)

"Almeria" - Sir Richard Bishop, Transmissions from Sinai

"Tiger Mountain Peasant Song" - Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes

"Saltbreakers" - Laura Veirs, Saltbreakers

"Free the Bird" - Karl Blau, Zebra

"Sleepwalkin'" - Modest Mouse, Building Nothing Out of Something

"I'm Out Nine" - Dead Moon, Echoes of the Past I

"Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" - The Sonics, Boom

"Puker Corpse" - Eat Skull, Sick to Death

"Psychodelic Nightmare" - Dead Moon, Echoes of the Past II

"Trying to Make the Best Pt. I" - Hunger, Strictly From Hunger

"Aisle 13" - Built to Spill, There Is No Enemy

"Gamma Knife" - The Dead Science, Bird Bones in the Bughouse

"New Punk 4/3 New Punk" - AFCGT, Dirty Knobby 10''

"Feral" - ¡TchKunG!, Post World Handbook

"Theocracy" - Asymmetric Warfare, Legacy of Destruction

"Into the Eyeless Sockets of the Night"- Catharsis, Passion

"Joan of Arc with Hair Aflame" - From the Depths, Germinal

"Dream Smotherer" - Pissed Jeans, King of Jeans

"The River" - Lords of Light, Enterruption 7''

"Motown" - Harvey Milk, "Life...The Best Game In Town"

"The Sweetest Curse" - Baroness, Blue Record

"City On Drugs" - Times New Viking, Born Again Revisited

"Let's Build A Campfire There" - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Vital Pink

"Sweet Jane" - The Velvet Underground, Loaded

"Losing Feeling" - No Age, Losing Feeling EP

"Pioneers of Sleep" - Eyes and Arms of Smoke, A Religion of Broken Bones

"Ape-like" - Califone, All My Friends Are Funeral Singers

"Psalms 40:2" - The Mountain Goats, The Life of the World to Come

"Sharing" - Lou Barlow, Goodnight Unknown

11/18 CN! playlist and podcast

2009-11-19T09:43:00.000-08:00

CN! Podcast

Part I - Part II

(click to download)

"Jumpers" - Sleater-Kinney, The Woods

"This Is A Crisis" - Horse Grinder, How Your Actions Every Day Make You Guilty

"The Smiling Cobra" - Melvins, Nude With Boots

"Something On Your Mind" - Jackie-O Motherfucker, Liberation

"Flaming Home" - Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron, Lost Wisdom

"The Sun" - Mirah, Advisory Committee

"You're On the Phone" - Polka Dot Dot Dot, Syzygy

"That Old Natural Feel" - Heatwarmer, Heatwarmer

"Aurolac" - Nudge, As Good As Gone

"Old Spooky and Moss Hut" - U.S.F. feat. Big Spider's Back, Ocean Sunbirds

"Rewinder" - Secret Colors, Reflections

"No Lock No Key" - Filastine feat. DJ Collage, Dirty Bomb

"New People" - Blue Scholars, Oof! EP

"Daxstrong" - Themselves, CrownsDown

"Reflections" - Anti-Pop Consortium, Fluorescent Black

"Possession" - Mission of Burma, The Sound The Speed The Light

"The Unheard Music" - X, Los Angeles

"Musicawi Silt" - Gétatchèw Mèkurya & the Ex, Moa Anbessa

"Decisions Are Made" - Religious Knives, The Door

"Funny Farm" - Lightning Bolt, Earthly Delights

"Ceaseless Effort" - The Fates, Furia

"Idumæa (David Tibet)" - Current 93, Black Ships Ate the Sky

"Catherine's Wheel" - Blackbird RAUM, Under the Starling Host

"Fake Blues" - Real Estate, Real Estate

"Back to the Underground" - Black Heart Procession, Six

Propaganda

2009-11-15T20:15:00.000-08:00

LOCAL ARTISTS

CONTACT

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OR SEND MATERIAL TO

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c/o

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Box 352238

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Mt. Eerie @ RainyDawg Local Showcase, Nov 20th

2009-11-08T19:16:00.000-08:00

Presented by the University of Washington's student-run internet radio station, RainyDawg Radio!

Featuring sure-to-be-stunning performances by cascadian artists:

Mt. Eerie
Cars + Trains
Naomi Punk
Secret Colors

Friday, November 20,

7:00pm - 11:00pm

HUB North Den, University of Washington HUB Building

The first 100 people in the door get a free copy of the brand-new "Live at Rainy Dawg Radio Vol. 2" compilation, featuring exclusive tracks with performances by Hotels, Born Ruffians, White Rainbow, Tiny Vipers, Nurses, and more!

Tickets are $4 with UW student ID, and $8 for General Public and available at the HUB Ticket Office on the first floor of the HUB Building.

11/04 CN! playlist and podcast

2009-11-04T23:04:00.000-08:00

CN! Podcast

Part I - Part II

(Click to download)

Cascadia Now! 4 November

"The River" - The Dutchess & the Duke, Sunset / Sunrise

"Your Side Now" - Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter, Reckless Burning

"What One Bottle Can Do" - Dolorean, You Can't Win

Interview: local film-maker Shaun Scott on his film Seat of Empire: Seattle 1909-2009

"Perfect Machine" - Big Spider's Back, Warped EP

"Drum Movie" - Valet, Naked Acid

"The Wires from My Broken Record Player" - Cars & Trains, Rusty String

"American View" - Anomie Belle, Sleeping Patterns

"Gravel" - Lake, Let's Build A Roof

"We Want It! We Want It!" - Boat, Setting the Paces

"Dead Man's Curve" - Blackouts, History in Reverse

"Life Magazine" - Cold Cave, Love Comes Close

"Dreams Never End" - New Order, Movement

"Blastit at the homie Rayzer's BBQ..." - Shabazz Palaces, I

"Who Medgar Evars Was" - Dälek, Gutter Tactics

"Vacuum" - Gang Gang Dance, Saint Dymphna

"Phantom Limb" - Fuck Buttons, Tarot Sport

"Harken Sawshine" - Sun Araw, The Phynx

"Logos" - Atlas Sound, Logos

"Blackberry Song" - Kurt Vile, Childish Prodigy

"Alice Marble Grey" - Califone, All My Friends Are Funeral Singers

"Dance, Dance" - Castanets, Texas Rose, The Thaw & The Beast

"Change of Heart" - El Perro del Mar, Love is Not Pop

2009-11-03T21:06:00.000-08:00

It's been a sad two weeks being off the air, but Cascadia Now! will be back tomorrow from 1-3pm on RainyDawg Radio: http://www.rainydawg.org

We'll be playing a variety of great local music as well as imports from afar, and we'll also have the pleasure of speaking with local filmmaker Shaun Scott about his new film "Seat of Empire", an imperial history of Seattle from 1909 to 2009. His film will be screening this Thursday at 6:30pm on the UW campus in the Communications building (CMU 120).

Please tune in, and remember, if you miss the show check back here later to download it!

Thanks!

SEAT OF EMPIRE sings the story of the social and environmental struggles that’ve shaped Seattle. From the Duwamish to the domed stadium, Bill Boeing to Bill Gates, the IWW and Philippine laborers to the Post-WWII boom that brought Seattle to unprecedented national prominence, SEAT OF EMPIRE explores the
cross-sections of environmental sacrifice, military development, and municipal struggles over space and resources. The film is one artist’s contribution to the small but growing canon of poetic reconstructions of our city’s history that began with Murray Morgan’s “Skid Road”.

SEAT OF EMPIRE is also a film about a city that made the film possible: it was funded by the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs; features interviews of local historians taped at the 911 Media Arts Center; makes use of archival footage and photography attained from MOHAI, The Seattle Municipal Archives, Seattle Schools, The Nordic Heritage Museum, and University of Washington Special Collections; and showcases the local music scene with scores from Scott Morning, Art Brown, Josh Rawlings, Anomie Belle, Lonesome Shack, and Evan Flory-Barnes’ orchestral outfit Threat of Beauty.

Seattle has a number of anniversary ceremonies on the horizon— not only of 1909's AYPE, but also of the Potlatches (first held in 1911), and of the World’s Fair (the 50th Anniversary of which is in 2012). Of course we have reason to commemorate the rise of a provincial outpost to a cosmopolitan city of international stature, but these celebrations are also opportunities to stop and think critically, and out loud, about how we got to where we are today. Subsequent screenings are in the works for The Burke Museum, Seattle City Hall, and Youngstown Cultural Arts Center. Presentations will invite audience feedback with Q&A and panel discussions featuring community activists, scholar-artists, and the producer.

SEAT OF EMPIRE is Shaun Scott’s first professional documentary effort after graduating from UW in 2007. Some of his early works are featured on the Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History Project website, and can be seen at depts.washington.edu/civilr/films.htm. He was the recipient of a 2008 City Artist Award from the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs; he is also working with the King County Equity & Social Justice Initiative to produce a public service announcement about the impact segregation is having on the health of King County’s residents. For more information about the film, to find out about or organize other screenings, or to arrange press coverage, write to theseatofempire@gmail.com.

10/14 CN! playlist and podcast

2009-10-15T16:41:00.000-07:00

Missed yesterday's debut show? Can't tune in to RainyDawg Radio on Wednesdays from 1-3pm? No problem! Check out the playlist below, featuring tons of local music from the Pacific Northwest as well as world-wide imports, and listen any time using the following links:

Part I - Part II

(Click to download)

Cascadia Now! 14 October

"Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog" - Wolves in the Throne Room, Black Cascade
"Wind's Dark Poem" - Mount Eerie, Wind's Poem
"Ursa Minor" - Six Organs of Admittance, Luminous Night
"Cremation Ghat I" - OM, God is Good
"People of the Drifting" - Master Musicians of Bukkake, Totem One
"Sum" - AU, AU
"Little Finger" - Jordan O' Jordan, Carbon Cycles
"Beach House" - Cave Singers, Welcome Joy
"Te Aro" - Dandelion Junk Queens, Black Hearts and Red Balloons
"Where the Water Drinks Like Wine" - Lonesome Shack, Born to Die
"Little War in the Midwest" - Nightbeats, Street EP
"Hot Smoke and Sassafrass" - The Bubble Puppy, A Gathering of Promises
"El Pirata" Tarkus, Tarkus
"Worm Mountain" - The Flaming Lips, Embryonic
"Hunchback" - Kurt Vile, Childish Prodigy
"For So Long" - Wooden Shjips, Dos
"Hindsight" - Built to Spill, There Is No Enemy
"Apology to Pollinateurs" - Karl Blau, Zebra
"Bonfires On The Heath" - The Clientele, Bonfires on the Heath
"Scorpio" - The Dutchess & The Duke, Sunset / Sunrise
"Houses" - Vetiver, Thing of the Past
"The Wind at Her Craft" - Donovan Quinn & the 13th Month, Moose Indian
"Honest James" - Thurston Moore, Trees Outside the Academy
"Strand the Test of Time" - Wilderness, (k)no(w)here

First show Wed Oct. 14 and weekend events!

2009-10-13T22:37:00.000-07:00

Please tune in to the show at www.rainydawg.org at 1pm on Wednesday, Oct 14! The show will be available in streaming format after that time so you can listen in even if you miss the live broadcast, and watch this space for a downloadable podcast version soon! Features will include a small taste of Cascadian black metal by Wolves in the Throne Room and Mount Eerie, locally-produced folk and blues from Jordan O' Jordan and Lonesome Shack, and psychedelic visions from Six Organs of Admittance and Master Musicians of Bukkake!

The weekend of the 17th and 18th also looks to be a busy one! Check out some cool events:

The 1st annual Seattle Anarchist Book Fair on Saturday and Sunday at the Underground Events Center, at 2407 1st Ave, between Battery St. & Wall St. Visionary and liberatory social engagement and learning opportunities, free and open to all ages!
A benefit show for Seattle Food Not Bombs at the Healthy Times Fun Club (see flyer below) featuring Team Awesome!, The Taxpayers, Premise Beach, My Parade, and Sky Larkin. More info at Seattle DIY...
Other shows: Kurt Vile and Eat Skull at the High Dive on Saturday 10/17; Mt. Eerie and Why? at the Vera Project on Wednesday 10/14

Cascadia Now! rides again...

2009-10-09T00:03:00.000-07:00

After nearly 3 years of dead air, Cascadia Now! will make its triumphant return on Wednesday, October 14, 2009, from 1-3pm on RainyDawg Radio, the student-run internet radio station at the University of Washington in Seattle, occupied Cascadia.

Stay tuned for more news on upcoming show playlists, features, and more...