Alternative Airwaves – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Taking a stroll down memory lane, I've started a new project: going through my CD crates one-by-one and thinking about where my life was when I listened to these albums, and listening to them again to see what I think of them. Playlist:

1. Emerald Park - We Wasted All Our Memories
2. Barenaked Ladies - In the Car
3. Tizzer/krumpet_love - rebufffering
4. Matt Mays - Rough N' Tumble Down
5. Queens of the Stone Age - You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar But I Feel Like a Millionaire
6. Strange Highways - End of the Road
7. Of Canada - Memories
8. Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals - In the Colors
9. Beck - Scarecrow
10. Beck - Elevator Music
11. Nick Falcon - This Month
12. Wooden Cabin - Somethin
13. Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton - Reading in Bed
14. Sloan - Everybody Wants You
15. Muddy Belle - I Got Time

The first crate:

• Sloan - A Sides Win (2005)
• Sloan - Never Hear the End of It (2006)
• Sloan - Pretty Together (2001)
• Sloan - Navy Blues (1998)
• Hot Hot Heat - Happiness Ltd. (2007)
• Hot Hot Heat - Elevator (2005)
• Barenaked Ladies - Stunt (1998)
• Barenaked Ladies - Maroon (2000)
• Barenaked Ladies - Everything to Everyone (2003)
• Barenaked Ladies Are Me (2006)
• Matt Mays & El Torpedo - Self-titled (2005)
• Matt Mays - ...When The Angels Make Contact (2006)
• Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002)
• Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways (2006)
• Ben Harper - Both Sides of the Gun (2006)
• Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals - Lifeline (2007)
• Ben Harper - Give Till It's Gone (2011)
• Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For the Deaf (2002)
• Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze (2005)
• Metric - Old World Underground Where Are You Now? (2003)
• Metric - Live It Out (2006)
• Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton - Knives Don't Have Your Back (2006)
• Beck - Guero (2005)
• Beck - Guerolito (2005)
• Beck - The Information (2006)
• Sarah Harmer - I'm a Mountain (2005)
• Sarah Harmer - All of our Names (2004)

Support Alternative Airwaves by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/alternative-airwaves

This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

2020 was a tough year and the first 6 months of 2021 haven't been great either, but we always have music. Here are some songs that look forward to some better days. Hopefully, I will get to my goal of revamping the website and podcast to go with it.

Track List:

1. The Spin Wires - Night Life
2. Mercury & The Architects - See the World
3. Songwriterz - Fell in Love With Summer
4. Mr & Mrs Smith - Big Jet Wings
5. Kinematic - Monday at 8am
6. Bert Jerred - The Distant Sun
7. D Jay Koi ft. Fil Straughan - House Party
8. Back on Earth ft. Telltale - Brand New Day
9. The Gasoline Brothers - Sleeping Pills & Asteroids
10. Wallcrush - I'm Not a Stalker, Trust Me
11. Anthony Rubery - Overdue
12. Mahideveran Rock Band - Ex-Friends
13. Hot Fiction - All My Love in Vain

Support Alternative Airwaves by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/alternative-airwaves

This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Script Hi and welcome to Alternative Airwaves - I'm your host Steve, bringing you the best in Creative Commons music. This is the Weekly Airwave: one track with some information about the song or the artist.

This week's track: Don't Wait by The Halt. What do you know - another track out of the US. This time, The Halt: a rock group that formed in 2017 featuring Neil Matharoo (from the band Soundstatues) and Andrew Schwartz, both from Brooklyn. They don't have any albums on Jamendo, but they do have four singles at the time of recording. Don't Wait is a good mix of alternative and grunge, leaning more on the alt rock spectrum. You can buy their music at the halt dot band camp dot com.

Be sure to check out alternative airwaves dot com for more podcasts and music reviews. See you next time.

Support Alternative Airwaves by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/alternative-airwaves

I'm finally back with a new podcast!  It's been since the end of July since I released a new episode, and for that I am deeply sorry.  But the move is complete, and I have some brand new stuff for you.  Today I was just winging it a little, but I plan to put some more work into the blog and get some exciting things happening.  Okay, enough talk - onto the track listing!

Direct Download (archive.org)

• The Easton Ellises - Liquorstore
• .audiosport - Doobie, You
• Die Pretty - Let Me Out
• The Art Punk Band - Bridge to the River
• The White Soots - The Road
• Josh Woodward - Shadows in the Moonlight
• Allison Crowe - Wedding Song
• Bella Ruse - Satan Served Me Sandwiches
• Paper Tiger - Juice **

** Yes, I know I said in the podcast that Paper Tiger was Canadian.  I don't know where that came from, but on my computer that's how I have it marked down.  They are in fact from the Netherlands.

Support Alternative Airwaves by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/alternative-airwaves

""Dog Days" (Latin: diēs caniculārēs) are the hottest, most sultry days of summer.  Dog Days can also define a time period or event that is very hot or stagnant, or marked by dull lack of progress. The name comes from the ancient belief that Sirius, also called the Dog Star, in close proximity to the sun was responsible for the hot weather." -- Wikipedia

Your eyes are not lying! I'm going away this weekend, so I thought I would release the podcast a few days early.  It's a little long this time around, but since it's been three weeks since the last episode, I figured nobody will mind!  Some great music in there, starting off hard and fast and ending on a similarly strong note.  Except for one or two songs, everything in the podcast has been featured on the blog in the last three weeks. Direct Download (42 MB) - Length: 46:02

1. Prepare to Meet Thy Broom! - High Like it's 1989 - This song is one of the many awesome funky songs I found last Thursday.  That mixtape is still on its way.
2. MC Frontalot - Spoiler Alert - I really mentioned the infamous MC in passing, but I haven't ever featured his songs on the podcast so I thought it was about time.
3. Hot Fiction - War of Attrition - Awesome band, played them before - this song just fit perfectly for the set.
4. The White Soots - If I Go - great bluesy rock band that sometimes channels The Black Keys
5. The Polymorphines - The Clean and The Dirty - Great Ottawa band that is having a CD Release party this Saturday!  Go, if you can make it.  Details are here. *NOTE: I may have mentioned the EP is for free download.  It is not; it is however only $4 US! Very good price.
6. The Search - Distant - awesome song, really reminded me of the 80s when I heard it.  The rest of their album is much like this.
7. Ellus Bellus - Sticks, Stones and My Bones - I think this band has just about the best band name and the best album name on this entire podcast.
8. Gunther Brown - Minnesota - If I'm to believe the lyrics, Gunther Brown really don't like Minnesota.
9. Bella Ruse - Heart of Everyone - Played them simply because they're from Minnesota.
10. Not From Georgia - Caroline - Great band, plays catchy folk/pop music and licenses everything under Creative Commons.  Followed me on Twitter, so I checked 'em out.
11. These Animals - Four to the Floor - Great song at the end of their EP, it's also up for a remix contest of sorts at Aaahh Records.

Thanks for listening / downloading!  I hope you enjoy your own dog days of summer.

Support Alternative Airwaves by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/alternative-airwaves

Alternative Airwaves is now hosted on archive.org!  Eventually I'll be porting all the older podcasts over there so they can all be found in one spot.  Here's the original post for the podcast.

Hopefully the fan I had on to cool down the "studio" didn't cause too much background noise. I had a fun time putting together this playlist, and listening as I recorded. I guess if you read the track listing, the "secret cover song" won't be so secret!

Direct Download (via archive.org, 35.3MB)

Playlist (38:30):

1. Keyboard Rebel - Northern Sherpa - From the album Pop Grenade, available from Aaahh Records. 
2. The Laureates - Cooler Birds - Cool Chicago band that uses a lot of distortion; available at Free Music Archive
3. Silver Rocket - Crank it Up - Italian band on a German netlabel - talk about multiculturalism! Available at Free Music Archive 
4. Mouth's Cradle - Front Porch, Back Porch - 7-track free preview album released via FrostWire; full album available online.  Very good music, you should download it maybe.
5. Early Adopted - Thank-You - First heard of this group via FrostClick. Very good hip hop, cross between Eminem and Lupe Fiasco.
6. Tense Kids - Second Law - From the album Oh! Idaho, this is a fun little number.
7. Roar - I Can't Handle Change
8. Allison Crowe - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) [Eurythmics Cover] - Allison Crowe has done a number of covers, and her version of Hallelujah almost made it into The Watchmen.  Do a quick search on YouTube to find more.
9. Videogame Orchestra - Island in the Sun (Belmont's Revisal) - This track is from a Weezer tribute album with a twist - all songs are done using 8-bit sounds from various video games.

Support Alternative Airwaves by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/alternative-airwaves

I hope everyone is having a wonderful St. Jean Baptiste weekend!  I had a fun time finding tracks for this podcast, and there's a little bit of every genre in the show this week.  I hope you enjoy it.  In the meantime, please enjoy some reading material on St. Jean Baptiste Day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Holiday_%28Quebec%29 http://www.sootoday.com/content/news/full_story.asp?StoryNumber=52762

Direct Download - Now hosted on archive.org! (32.5MB)

Playlist:

1. Malajube - Luna ** - turns out I played a track that's not on Jamendo, because I got confused.
2. Alek et les Mauvaises Raisons - L'anniversaire
3. Hi Jack - Pears from New Zealand
4. Sweet Mother Logic - Ghost Army
5. Metatronik - Tortured Mind
6. Two Green Cats - They Want Me To Play
7. Les Residus Plasmiques - Elvis est mort ce matin / ce soir
8. Bombolesse - H.I.V.'ER

Support Alternative Airwaves by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/alternative-airwaves

Thanks for joining me for another fun-filled show.  Some great tracks, ranging from the 1970s (Single Bullet Theory) to a new track from 2011 (Josh Woodward).  I started the show a little differently today thanks to a fun song by Hot Fiction; I also announced the next themed podcast, coming up June 25th.  But it's still June 11th, so enjoy this podcast now!

1. Hot Fiction - Start it Off
2. Boxing Fox - Friends For Life
3. Single Bullet Theory - Lies (Get their compilation album here)
4. Nicolas Falcon - Big Big Boss (Get the Aaahhh Records compilation here)
5. Longsleeves - A Man Crossed Out
6. The Patinettes - The Man With the Electric Flag
7. Motoroma - Compass
8. The State Lottery - Fourth Street
9. Josh Woodward - Coffee (Get Sunny Side of the Street here)

Support Alternative Airwaves by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/alternative-airwaves

Today's podcast is a little mailed-in, mostly a result of being on vacation for five days over the Victoria Day long weekend.  But that doesn't mean I haven't selected some sweet tracks - on the contrary!  I consulted the Jamendo Top 100, and picked out a few songs that I really liked.  Enjoy!

Oh, and don't forget to join the Facebook page and follow the podcast on Twitter! Direct Download

1. BertycoX - The Signal (#3)
2. Pornophonique - Sad Robot (Procacci's funky android deconstructino remix) (#8)
3. CWF & BertycoX - DefectiV' (#27)
4. Wooden Legs - David & Goliath (#5)
5. Hot Fiction - If I Had a Girl (#76)
6. The Sterns - Did You Get It (#20)
7. Retrosonic - Until the End (#67)
8. The Dalai Lama Rama Fa Fa Fa - You Make Me Crazy (Label Gazing Feature)

Support Alternative Airwaves by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/alternative-airwaves

Another two weeks gone, another podcast episode in.  In today's episode, new tracks from Brad Sucks and I Am Not Lefthanded, plus the very first Label Gazing segment featuring Ostrich Tuning from Toronto!  All this plus some other great tracks for your listening enjoyment in today's episode.  Full playlist follows below.

Direct Download (31:32, approx. 28 MB)

1. Lungs for Gills - Starry Void
2. Studebaker's Blacksmith Shop - Merry Goes Around
3. Pawky Maven - Monsters
4. Ostrich Tuning - Floor
5. Laura Stevenson and the Cans - Landslide Song, The Dig
6. I Am Not Lefthanded - Alone (It's Not So Bad)
7. Brad Sucks - Come Back (Demo)

Support Alternative Airwaves by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/alternative-airwaves