KTUH Playlist Friday 1/17/14 6-9 AM, USED BLUES: the "What Could Be But Isn't" edition

I subbed in this morning and played some alt country and new blues from 6-9 AM. Show went well, played some great music and I managed to keep the technical flaws to a minimum. Hell, I even managed to record, save, and upload the surf report for once!

I've been showless for awhile, but I'm trying to rectify that. The problem is that they're hesitant to give me a show since they know I'm going to be leaving again. See, I'm a full time student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, but I'm also a seasonal park ranger for the National Park Service. It's kind of difficult to manage consistency in my life, but I do what I can. Playing music at KTUH is one of the simple joys in my life and I'd really like to continue to bring quality musical programming to the world. Want to help? If you've been listening to my shows and like what you hear, email the bosses and tell them that you want Mateo the Destroyer to get his own show. I don't know if it would make a difference, but it's worth a shot. Shoot along comments to these fine folks: specialties@ktuh.org, pd@ktuh.org, and gm@ktuh.org.
Many mahalos to everyone who tuned in this morning, especially those fine folks who called in with questions and requests!!!


ARTIST    -    SONG     -     ALBUM

--- 6 AM ---

Bran Nue Dae - Long Way From My Country
Willard Grant Conspiracy - Distant Shore
The Angels of Light - Untitled Love Song - How I Loved You
Calexico - El Picador - Hot Rail
Lucero - It Gets Worse At Night
Johnny Cash - I Won't Back Down
Willy Mason - Live It Up (live)
Marshall Tucker Band - Fire on the Mountain - Greatest Hits
Cowboy Junkies Misguided Angel - The Trinity Session
Uncle Tupelo - No Depression - No Depression
Drive By Truckers - Where the Devil Don't Stay - Dirty South
16 Horsepower - Wayfaring Stranger
The Yayhoos - Love Train
Dan Auerbach - Heartbroken, In Disrepair - Keep It Hid

--- 7 AM ---

The Mastersons - Birds Fly South -
BR5-49 - Chrokee Boogie
Wilco - Monday - (Live) - Ashes of American Flags
Sun Kil Moon - Ocean Breathes Salty - Tiny Cities
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Easy Pleateau - Cold Roses
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Let It Ride - Cold Roses
Old 97s -Let the Whiskey Take the Reins - The Grand Theatre Vol. 1
GE Smith & David Lindley - Play It All Night Long (live)
Maria McKee - Life is Sweet - Life Is Sweet
Ha Ha Tonka - Usual Suspects
Leon Russell - Tight Rope - Carney
Jack White - I'm Shakin' - Blunderbuss

--- 8 AM ---

The SteelDrivers - Whe You Don't Come Home
Soggy Bottom Boys - I'm a Man of Constant Sorrow
Old Crow Medicine Wheel - Wagon Wheel
Dan & Paul Kelly with Missy Higgins - Droving Woman
Ralph Stanley - O Death **
Spotted Eagle Song
Jimmy Little - Cattle & Cane (live, Go-Betweens cover)
Wildflower - Galiwin'ku
Kev Carmody - Attack!, Attack!

--- 9 AM ---

I've uploaded a copy of my entire show and you can download it by clicking this link.

 Ranger Danger, lol.

USED Blues KTUH Playlist 1/8/13, 6-9 AM

Started with some jazz then moved into down tempo electronic music, shifted into some dance pop, and capped off the last hour with a full on barrage of noise.

Artist    -       Song

DJ Arnie's Jazz Picks (several Jazz songs were played at the beginning of the show)
Clams Casino - I am God
Massive Attack - Paradise Circus
The Sound Defects - Take Out
Phaeleh - Should Be True
Quantic - Time is the Enemy
The Jazzual Suspects - This Beat (Original Mix)
RJD2 - Suite 1 - More Is Than Isn't
RJD2 - Temperamental - More Is Than Isn't
Savages - You're My Chocolate
Bonobo - Kiara
Tycho - A Walk
Damu the Fugemunk - Da Coffee Tatle
Jel - You Don't Know
Little People - You Don't Know
Thieve feat Die Heuwels Fantasies - Way to Go
Will Mono ft Jax Panik - Ken My Vie
Jokers of the Scene - Baggy Bottom Boys
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Everything
Savages - She Will
Savages - Shut Up
Destruction Unit - Slow Death Sounds
Sticky Antlers - Blind Horse
Sticky Antlers - I'm Being Shadowed
Make-Overs - Show Us Some Love
Make-Overs - Skeletons
The New Tinnitus live in Potch
PS I Love You - Get Over
Metz - Can't Understand
Palma Violets - Best Friends
The So So Glos - Lost Weekend
The So SO GLos - Blowout

Used Blues: Broken Hearts Edition - KTUH Playlist January 1, 2013, 6-9 AM

What are you doing to ring in the New Year? I'll be walking the spirit line into a traditional Lakota lodge to sweat my brains out and bake in a womb like oven. Then I'll walk along the spirit line to emerge anew into the New Year.  http://lifeasametaphor.com/ This is how I began the New Year in 2013 as well, but this year is going to be a lot different.


Artist       -        Song                -           Album

--- 6 AM ---

Creedle - When The Wind Blows - When The Wind Blows
MC 900 Ft. Jesus - The City Sleeps (acousitc) - KCRW Presents
Peeping Tom - Don't Even Trip - Peeing Tom
Pedro the Lion - A Mind of Her Own - Winners Never Quit
Local Natives - Wild Eyes - Gorilla Manor
Local Natives - Sun Hands - Gorilla Manor
Loudermilk - Estrogen Oxygen Aches in the Teeth Again- The Red Record
Smashing Pumpkins - Raindrops + Sunshowers - Machina
Faith No More - Underwater Love - The Real Thing
Seaweed - Go Your Own Way - CLerks OST

--- 7 AM ---

Against Me! - Baby, I'm an Anarchist - Reinventing Axl Rose
Rise Against - Swing Life Away - Siren Song of the Counter Culture
Snow Patrol - Velocity Girl - Songs for Polar Bears
Spoon - Got Nuffin - Transference
Sponge - Plowed - Rotten Pinata
Japandroids - Shame - Heavenward Grand Prix
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart - Substance
Alabama Shakes - Heartbreaker - Boys & Girls
Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) - Kill Bill Vol. 1
Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite - I Don't Believe a Word You Say - Get Up!
Jack White - Love Interruption - Blunderbuss
The Dead Weather - The Difference Between Us - Sea of Cowards
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Red Eyes and Tears - B.R.M.C
Male Bonding - The Saddle - Enless Now
Marriages - Ten Tiny Fingers - Kitsune
Milemarker - Sex Jam Two:Insect Incest - Frigid Forms Sell
Misfits - Dig Up Her Bones - American Psycho
Morphine - Gone For Good - Yes

--- 8 AM ---

Nine Inch Nails - Hurt - The Downward Spiral
The Perishers - Weekends - Let There Be Morning
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Pyrite Pedestal - Elan Vital
Public Image Ltd. - Covered - That What Is Not
Rainer Maria - I Love You Too
The Ravonettes - Let Me On Out - Raven In The Grave
The Dandy Warhols - Sleep - Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia
120 Days - Get Away - 120 Days
Deer Tick - Ashamed - War Elepthant
Aloha - Summer Away - Here Comes Everyone
Bon Iver - Skinny Love - For Emma, Forever Ago
Vic Chesnutt - Free of Hope - Is the Actor Happy?
The Replacements - Answering Machine - Let It Be

DOWNLOAD the entire show here (click me!).

BONUS: Here is a playlist that I put together on youtube of songs that I wanted to play on this show, but I just didn't have time for-

USED BLUES: KTUH Playlist 12/7/13, Saturday 9 PM - Midnight

So, I'm back in Aloha Land (I arrived at HNL on 10 November) after a 6 month stint on Mainlandia working for one of the government's various branches of the great and grand Alphabet Soup. Now that I'm back I'm looking to graduate from UH Manoa after the Spring 2014 Semester and then I'll be moving on to bigger and better things, namely more alphabet soup and then the French Foreign Legion. In the meantime I'll hopefully be getting a new show on KTUH which I will call USED BLUES. The name for the potential show is derived from a second hand clothing store that existed on Route 9 in the bleak downtown section of some nameless borough in Western Massachusetts in the early 2000s. I had always been amused by the word play (the sign for the store had a logo featuring a pair of blue jeans) and double meaning in a term like "used blues," and I had always thought it would be a good name for a band, a record, a radio show, or some other project and now that time has finally come to retrieve that phrase from Ye Olde Memory Banks of Doom and deliver it unto worldly prominence which it so dearly deserves. So, now at this time and place and this KTUH the time is finally right to bring Used Blues to the masses, and a more fitting time could seldom be derived.

Used Blues will be a program focusing on Alternative Country (Alt Country for short), New Blues, Americana, and other alternatives such as Cow Punk, Country Rock, Blues Rock, Country Blues, and maybe even some Indie Folk/Folk Rock and Soul. This is meant to be a modern take on Roots music and I think it's going to make a very musically interesting radio show.

Why alt country? Why not alt country? To me it seems like an under represented genre in and of itself. Alt country is to country what alt rock is/was to rock, simply stated in its title, it's an alternative to the more formulaic, mainstream commercialism that is present in pop country and rock. Alt country is a more stripped down, lo-fi, back to basics version of the contemporary version of the country genre that most people are more familiar with. It infuses elements of rock and roots music with a punk ethos that creates a totally different experience than the fare one might experience on country music radio station.

Why new blues? Well...because blues music is an American art form that is vibrant, alive, and evolving into a new 21st century sound. Modern blues is raw and powerful. The sound has evolved a lot from the traditional roots of blues music, but the depth of sound and meaning of the music continues to resonate in  the same way spirit of the genre's original purveyors.

With alt country and new blues, I'm bringing modern contextualization of  traditional American roots music into a textured landscape of sound of raw, powerful music that isn't being featured elsewhere. The show that I'm trying to put together should expand people's musical horizons and get them tapped into new old sounds from all around and the underground. It should be pretty interesting.


Artist      -      Song     -    Album    -    Label

----- 9 PM ------

Bran Nue Dae – Long Way from My Country
Willard Grant Conspiracy – Distant Shore – Let It Roll – Loose Records
The Angels of Light – Untitled Love Song – How I Loved You
Sun Kil Moon – Ocean Breathes Salty (Modest Mouse cover) – Tiny Cities – Caldo Verde Records
Ryan Adams – Wonderwall (acoustic cover)
Horse Feathers – Curs in the Weeds – House With No Home
Willy Mason – Live It Up
Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson – (Ghost) Riders in the Sky
Johnny Cash – Hurt - American IV: The Man Comes Around – American
Wilco – Sky Blue Sky – Sky Blue Sky – Nonesuch
Band of Horses – Is There a Ghost – Cease to Begin – Sub Pop
The Flying Burrito Brothers – Christina’s Tune (aka Devil in Disguise)
The Mastersons – Birds Fly South – Birds Fly South – New West Records

----- 10 PM --------

Steve Earle – Copperhead Road – Copperhead Road – Uni Records/MCA
Whiskeytown – Nervous Breakdown (Black Flag cover) – Alt. Country Exposed Roots – K-Tel
The Old 97’s – Jagged (Live in 2000 on the Late Show) – Fight Songs
GE Smith & David Lindley – Play It All Night Long (live)
Son Volt – Methamphetamine – The Search – Transmit Sound
Uncle Tupelo - Moonshiner – March 16-20, 1992 – Rockville Records
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals – What Sin Replaces Love (Live from Henry Rollins Show)
The Drones – Jezebel – Gala Mill – ATP Recordings 
Dead Confederate – The Rat – S/T – The Artists Organization

----- 11 PM ------

The Tea Party – Sun Going Down – Splendor Solis – EMI
Crosstops - Old Milwaukee *
The Long Ryders – Looking for Lewis and Clark – State of Our Union – Island Records
La Plebe - Por Vida - Hasta la Muerte *
Ha Ha Tonka – Usual Suspects – Death of a Decade – Bloodshot Records
Drive By Truckers – Birthday Boy (live) – The Big To-Do – ATO
The Del Fuegos – I Still Want You – Boston, Mass – Slash Records
Cowboy Junkies – Ooh Las Vegas – Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons – Almo Sounds
Shearwater – Rooks – Rook – Matador Records
Doves – Kingdom of Rust – Kingdom of Rust – Heavenly Records
The Weight – Dragged Back In – Ten Mile Grace – Sabot Productions

* This song was played by request. :)

Download a FULL copy of the show:
https://www.mediafire.com/?h5c297wgd19dcov

Video Playlist of all songs:
 http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCO0AncTjlJUYH27kWRzranX4_fMK16Up