KTUH 90.3 FM Playlist for 05/26/12, 9 PM - 12 AM

No show this week. I had to have the legendary Steve Stoddard sub in for me due to the excessive rigors of academic life.
I'll be back to do Post Nothing on my regularly scheduled slot July 3, 2012, from 9-Midnight on KTUH Honolulu, 90.3 FM, www.ktuh.org live stream. Tune in if you dare.

KTUH Playlist for 06/202012, 9 PM-12 AM

Here's a picture of my best friend's son taken during their recent tip to China. He's posed to be future leader...

Rain, rain go away. I'm sick and tired of getting wet when I ride. It only rains when I ride!
I had a pretty good show of post rock and post hardcore. No one called in to get the tickets I was giving away.
C U Next Tuesday, Bitches! 9PM-Mid (HST) on KTUH Honolulu, 90.3 FM | ktuh.org live stream.


Artist                      Song                    Album                        Label

Japandroids – Evil’s Sway – Celebration Rock – Polyvinyl *

Japandroids – For the Love of Ivy – Celebration Rock – Polyvinyl *

Japandroids – Adrenaline Nightshift – Celebration Rock – Polyvinyl *-

Explosions in the Sky – The Magic Hours – How Strange, Innocence – Temporary Residence

SIANspheric – Radiodiffusion – Sounds of the Color of the Sun – Sonic Unyon

For Against – Clandestine Holy High – December

Serena Maneesh – Sapphire Eyes

65daysofstatic – The Conspiracy of Seeds – The Destructors of Small Ideas (Monotreme)

Jakob – Malachite – Solace

British Sea Power – Spearing the Sunfish – Man of Aran

-10PM-

Jesu – Star – Silver – Hydrahead

Sissy Mena – Young Girl – Young Girl

Butterfly Explosion – Next Year – Turn the Sky

Modest Mouse – Life Like Weeds – The Moon & Antarctica

Built to Spill – Don’t Try – Ancient Melodies of the Future

Mew – Vacceine – No More Stories are Told Today, I’m Sorry, They Washed Away

Asobi Seksu – New Years – Citrus

Polvo – Fast Canoe – Exploded Drawing

And So I Watch You From Afar – The Voiceless – This is our Machine

-11PM-

Tomahawk – God Hates a Coward

Faith No More – Midlife Crisis –

The Melvins – A Growing Disgust – Freak Puke

Hella – Ungrateful Dead – There’s No 666 in Outer Space

Unwound – December – Leaves Turn Inside You

Drive Like Jehu – Here Come the Rome Plows – Yank Crime

Rites of Spring – For Want Of

Fugazi – Turkish Disco

…And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead – The Rest Will Follow – Worlds Apart

Shellac – Steady as She Goes

Big Black – He’s a Whore

* New Release (will be charted for CMJ) 

KTUH 90.3 FM Playlist for 06/12/12, 9 PM - 12 AM

The above picture is a cake that my sister made. She's a pastry chef and had made some pretty fantastic cakes.
All the tracks in bold below are bands from Hawaii and are on the Flux Hawaii Summer 2012 mixtape. It's a free download available at http://fluxhawaii.com/mixtape/

Artist                       Song                    Album                        Label

Japandroids – Younger Us – Celebration Rock – Polyvinyl *

Japandroids – The House That Heaven Built – Celebration Rock – Polyvinyl *

Japandroids – Continuous Thunder – Celebration Rock – Polyvinyl *

Alice in Chains – Rotten Apple – Jar of Flies

Gnarwal – Gold

GRLFRNDS – Your Angst is Fake

Shindig and LFA’s Thunder Owl Remix - Talisman (Clones of the Queen)

Stephen Augsten and The Fourth Wall – The Second Hand

Maryanne – Waking Up (Produced by Slapp Symphony)

Anton Glamb – Another Rave

Pink Mist – We Are the Stars

Witch Baby – Kaleidoscopes

Welwing – Halfway Around

-10 PM-

Travis Wiggins / Dream Dragon – You Are A Cool Person!

Pinkwing – Stand Still

The Ukus – Heart Street

I Tramonti – Pliable as Water

Megaphone – Surfanholdhands

Clones of the Queen – Braided (Demo Version)

Guided By Voices – Forever Until It Breaks – Class Clown Spots a UFO – S/R *

Animal Kingdom– The Art of Tuning Out - The Looking Away – Mom & Pop *

Jeans Wilder – Dog Years – Totally – Ever Loving *

Motion City Soundtrack – Everyone Will Die – S/T – Epitaph *

Giant Giant Sand – Forever and a Day – Tuscon – Fire Records *

Soul Savers – Gone Too Far – Soul Savers – Mute *

Grey Turns Blonde – Brown Paper Bag

The Drones – Jezebel

The Temper Trap – London’s Burning – S/T – Glass Note/Columbia *

Hot Chip – Night & Day – In Our Heads – Domino *

-11PM-

Kimbra – Come Into My Head – Vows – Warner Bros *

Is/Is – Lie Awake – III – S/R*

Kindness – It’s Alright – World, You Need a Change of Mind – Casablanca *

Electric Guest – American Daydream – Mondo – Downtown *

Beck – I just Started Hating Someone Today – S/T – Thirdman *

Bear in Heaven – Sweetness and Sickness – I Love You, It’s Cool – Dead Oceans *

Exitmusic – The Modern Age – Passage – Secretly Canadian *

The Magnolias – Hello or Goodbye – Off the Hook – Alias

Broken Water – Underground – Tempest – Hardly Art ***

Daughter – Medicine – The Wild Youth – Glassnote

Ava Luna – No F – Ice Level – Infinite Best *

The Dandy Warhols – Slide – This Machine – Beat *

Electrelane – Gone Under Sea – The Power Out

The Drones – River of Tears ***

* New Release (will be charted for CMJ) 

*** Recommended!

KTUH Playlist for 06/05/2012, 9 PM-12 AM

Today I saw the Transit of Venus so hooray for me and fuck you.

Artist                       Song                    Album                        Label

Japandroids – The Nights of Wine & Roses – Celebration Rock – Polyvinyl *

Japandroids – Fire’s Highway – Celebration Rock – Polyvinyl *

Japandroids – Evil’s Sway – Celebration Rock – Polyvinyl *

Japandroids – For the Love of Ivy – Celebration Rock – Polyvinyl *

Japandroids – Adrenaline Night Shift – Celebration Rock – Polyvinyl *

Johnny Guitar Watson – Space Guitar

Pete Drake – The Spook

The Rogers Sisters – Your Littlest World – The Invisible Deck

-10 PM –

The Raveonettes – I Wanna Be Adored

Serena Maneesh – Drive Me Home the Lonely Nights – Fixations

Speck Mountain – Back Sliding (Some Sweet Relief)

Wye Oak – Dog Eyes – Civilian

Free Electric State – The Black Sea – Caress

School of Seven Bells – Bye Bye Bye – Disconnect Desire

Eluvium – Perfect Neglect in a Field of Statues – An Accidental Memory In the Case of Death- Temporary Residence

Yamantaka / Sonic Titan – Reverse Crystal

The Pineapple Thief – Private Paradise – Abducting the Unicorn

Smashing Pumpkins – Raindrops & Sunshowers – Machina

Silversun Pickups – Busy Bees – Neck of the Woods *

-11 PM-

Sigur Ros – Agaetis Byrjun – Hvarf/Heim

The Sky Drops – Hang On – Bourgeois Beats

Ghostwood – Red Version – S/T

Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun – Superunknown **

Kinski – Hiding Drugs in the Temple (Pt. 2)

The Poison Arrows – For Lack of an AK – Newfound Resolutions

A Shoreline Dream – Mid-Decembers – Recollections of Memory

A Place to Bury Strangers – A Shoreline Dream – S/T

* New Release (will be charted for CMJ) 

** Request

Train Spotting

Hawaii used to have several functional rail systems, the most extensive of which was on Oahu. For those that don't know, Oahu is the island where the capital, Honolulu, is situated and it is the most densely populated of all the islands. Something like 2/3 of our population live on Oahu. The rails were mainly used in territorial days as a means of transporting agricultural products, mainly sugar cane. As alternate modes of transportation became available the rail began to be phased out. The and the rails have largely disappeared from the islands. There are a couple places where the trains run on a short span of tracks, mostly for the entertainment of tourists. On Oahu, the Hawaiian Railway Society is an organization that is committed to preserving what is left of Oahu's railway history. They refurbish old engines and cars and they run trains once a week, I think. I haven't ridden on a train here, but I've been to the yard several times to poke around in the old cars. I've posted 5 of my pictures here, the full set can be viewed on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fightingforward/sets/72157625954560463/with/5455923684/  They do not charge admission to the yard and it's worth going to check out if you're ever in the neighborhood. The ramshackle old cars are really something to see and have a lot of history. There's also the Waianae Mountains in the background for scenery. Also, the surrounding area of Barber's Point and Ewa are FULL of weird abandoned military sites (beware, some have been refurbished for civilian use and there is an active Coast Guard post in the area).

For awhile now there has been an ongoing debate about building a new light rail system on Oahu. We have some pretty ridiculous traffic over here. Basically, there are a lot of jobs in Town (aka Honolulu) and not so many jobs in other parts of the island so a whole lot of people commute. In the morning all the traffic is heading toward town and in the evening it's all headed out. Our freeway infrastructure is pretty lousy and has some major bottlenecks that create huge traffic jams. Other arteries and surface streets are much as you would expect in any other major metropolitan area during rush-hour: slow and treacherous. The freeway, however, is more like a parking lot. So, there has been a lot of talk about how to alleviate that traffic congestion and a rail system is one of the possibilities. There is always a lot of argument both for and against and it always gets shot down. Well, until recently. Now it's supposed to be built, but the nae sayers are still fighting it. Chief reasons of dissent are typically cites as cost inefficiency and system ineffectiveness (i.e. rail would not alleviate congestion). Of course, there are many ways that a train system could be a great success or an even greater failure and it's tough to know what would really happen. There are so many special interests involved (and probably a lot of corruption as well), so who knows how this thing would work out. Another big debate is where to put it. Space is very limited which is part of the reason for congestion. There isn't much space to expand infrastructure and there is more or less only one route to get anywhere due to the giant, jagged, impassible mountains that make up the center of the island.
I have included two articles in this post. One was a recent entry in an issue of AAA Hawaii about the history of the railway in Hawaii entitled, "Iron Giants." Unfortunately, there were a lot of cool vintage pictures and various diagrams in the magazine that were not published online. The second article is an editorial piece from the latest issue of the Honolulu Weekly  written by a professor of Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Hawaii. It's the best argument that I've seen to date that is anti-rail and actually seems to have been based off actual scientific data. I've always been a proponent of the rail, but I know how government can muck things up and I'm afraid they'll do a half assed job. If it isn't built right it will be worthless. We'll see what happens. Change (usually) occurs very slowly in Hawaii...

KTUH Playlist for 05/29/2012, 9 PM-12 AM

Blah, blah, blah, shishs-boom-bah. Another one bites the dust. I thought it was a pretty snazzy show this week. I hope you enjoyed it. I really suggest checking out Lightning Bolt! Also, the new Japandroids release dropped this week!!!

Artist                       Song                    Album                        Label

Holy Fuck – Lucky – Latin

65daysofstatic – White Peak/Dark Peak – The Destructors of Small Ideas

Heroes Severum – Tugwar – Plague Dogs

Deerhoof – This Magnificent – Bird Will Rise – Revelle

Experimental Aircraft – Stellar – Third Transmission

The Charlottes – Liar – Things Come Apart

Eluvium – Nepenthe

The Calm Blue Sea – We Happy Few – The Calm Blue Sea EP

The Calm Blue Sea – After the Legions  – The Calm Blue Sea EP

Explosions in the Sky – Let Me Back In – Take Care

-10PM-

Film School – Dear Me – Hideout

For Against – December – December

Aberdeen City – God is Going to Get Sick of Me – The Freezing Atlantic

Lightning Bolt – Colossus – Earthly Delights **

Japandroids – Adrenaline Nightshift – Celebration Rock – Polyvinyl *

Sleater-Kinney – Jumpers – The Woods

Russian Circles – Death Rides a Horse – Enter – Flame Shovel

Shellac – Crow – At Action Park

Fugazi – Margin Walker – Margin Walker – Dischord

Fugazi – And the Same – Margin Walker – Dischord

Unsane – Intimidation of Your Brain – Slap of Reality – New Renaissance

-11PM-

Aussitot Mort – La Ride du Lion – La Ride du Lion – Adagio Records

Te

Te – Dream is a euphemistic term for “lies” used to sugarcoat mediocre lives

From Monument to Masses – The Spice Must Flow – The Impossible Leap in 100 Steps

Followed by Ghosts – The Entire City Was Silent

Janel & Anthony – Where Will We Go – Where is Home – Cuneiform

Dirty Three – Red (live)

Cinemechanica – Ants in Japants – The Martial Arts

* New Release (will be charted for CMJ) 

** Recommended! 

KTUH Playlist for 05/22/2012, 9 PM-12 AM

On my way to the studio I was hit by a barrage of blustery wind and there was debris all over the road, or at least there was on MY road. Just as I started to get to campus it began to sprinkle rain. I was a bit apprehensive about the ride home (on my Vespa), but the next DJ has said it's nice and clear and calm out. Nice.

Well, this week's show was a nice mixed bag of post rock and noise with some unexpected but oh-so-welcome surprises, most notably All of Them Witches; check 'em out! Also, I finally played something by The Nationale Blue on my show at long last. I had to hit them up via the internet because my iTunes purchased tracks won't play on the laptop. Damn you DRM, DAMN YOU STRAIGHT TO HELL!!!
I'll be back on KTUH again next week. Same time, same channel: 90.3 FM Honolulu, 9-Mid. Until then, keep it real in this Post Nothing world!

Artist                       Song                    Album                        Label

Locomotora – Shopping Music for Bloody Wallets – S/T
Bury the Sound – Gemeni Unbound – Autumn Magnets
The Calm Blue Sea – We Happy Few – The Calm Blue Sea EP
Caribou – Melody Day - Andorra
New Beard – Given – Moment of Peace EP – Shoulder Tap *
The Cave Singers – Helen – Invitation Songs
Elecralane – Gone Under Sea – The Power Out
The Cure – Lullaby (Extended Mix) – Mixed Up
-10PM-
Cold Specks – When the City Lights Dim – I Predict a Graceful Expulsion – Mute *
David Bazan – Wolves at the Door – Strange Negotiations
Carina Round – The Last Time (feat. Sierra Swan) – Tigermending – Denisce *
Collapse Under Empire – Monumental Sequence – System Breakdown
Kinski – Your Lights Are (out or) Burning Badly – Airs Above Your Station
Team Sleep – Ever Since WWII – S/R
Caltrop – Shadow and Substance – Ten Million Years and Eight Minutes – Holiday for Quince *
All of Them Witches – Tocqueville – Breathers vs Drivers – S/R *
The Nationale Blue – Silver Alien Pyjamas – A Different Kind of Listening
Our Lives – Anything Can Happen Now – Out of Place EP – Spartan *
Sun Kil Moon – Third and Seneca – Admiral Fell Promises
Pink Shiny Ultra Blast – Ode to Godzilla – Happy Songs for Happy Zombies
-11PM-
Aloha – Microviolence – Home Acres - Polyvinyle
The Pineapple Thief – No One Leaves This Earth – Abducting the Unicorn
Jesu – Tired of Me – S/T
Cinemechanica – The Ruins of Karnac – The Martial Arts
Helms Alee – Speed Sk8r – Weatherhead
The Helms – Io – The Swimmer – Kimchee
Victory at Sea – Driver – Helms/Victory at Sea Split – Kimchee
Shellac – The Idea of North – At Action Park – Touch and Go
…And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead – How Near, How Far – Source Codes and Tags
Ano-Hi –ガラス越し陽炎 – Integral

* New Release (will be charted for CMJ)    

KTUH 90.3 FM Playlist for 05/15/12, 9 PM - 12 AM

This week I finally got around to airing my Australia and New Zealand set. I dug pretty deep and really came up with some golden stuff. I highly recommend Dirty Three, Drones, and Kev Carmody!

Tracks 1-19 are from the Australian & New Zealand Experience and can be downloaded from DL: hxxp://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ll21s2exncq9wny (change xx to tt)

Artist                       Song                    Album                        Label

Undercarriage - Blue Sky'd Day
Hussman - Blue Morning Sky
Hussman - Numbman
6ft8 - Faker
Fuce - Peace Keeper
D-Magnet - Anymore
Slim - Rise Up
Rezin - EWM3
7 Tongues - Broken
Mountains of Murray - Les Mosquitoes
Submerge - Mainline
Minus Title - Joe
Monkey Puzzle - Shaken Not Stirred
Foamy Ed - Skitz
Area-7 - Blind
Frenzal Rhomb - I Miss My Lung
Last House On the Left - Freak Magnet
Phineas Gage - Insect Stars
The Clean – Point That Thing Somewhere Else – Anthology
Jakob – Malachite – Solace
The Drones – Jezebel – Gala Mill
Magic Dirt – She-riff
Powderfinger – Skinny Jean – Double Allergic
The Scientists – Burnout – Blood Red River
-11PM-
Grey Turns Blonde – Brown Paper Bag
Hoodoo Gurus – Death Ship – Stoneage Romeos
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – West Country Girl – The Boatman’s Call
Dirty Three – Red – Horse Stories
The Drones – River of Tears – Cannot Buy My Soul
The Waifs – From Little Things Big Things Grow – Cannot Buy My Soul
Kev Carmody – Eulogy for A Black Person – Cannot Buy Soul
Pennywise – Land Down Under
The Master’s Apprentices – Buried and Dead – S/T  
Sunnyboys – Tunnel of Love – S/T
Something for Kate – Feeding the Birds and Hoping For - Echolalia

* New Release (will be charted for CMJ)    

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KTUH 90.3 FM Playlist for 05/08/12, 9 PM - 12 AM

Whoo-whoo, I'm through with my final exams! Good luck to the rest of you slobs. Also, I'm sick as a dog, however sick that may be. In my case it's quite. 

Artist                       Song                    Album                        Label

Cloud Control – This Is What I Said – Bliss Release

Cloud Nothings – No Future/No Past – Attack On Memory *

Cloud Nothings – Wasted Days – Attack On Memory *

Cloud Nothings – Stay Useless – Attack On Memory *

The Building Press – If You Think I Can’t Get to You, You’re Wrong – Young Money 54/40 Or Fight

Overstep – Private Party – The Bullring By the Sea – Anodyne – S/R

June of 44 – Sharks and Sailors – Anatomy of Sharks EP

-10PM-

And So I Watch You From Afar – The Voiceless – This Is Our Machine

Can Can – Pesadilla – Caos

Dig – Believe

Overstep – Private Party – The Bullring By the Sea – Anodyne – S/R

Lamb – Wonder – Between Darkness and Wonder – Koch Entertainment

Black Ocean – SM – Vultures for Permanent Fix – Red Triangle

System and Station – Broken Wheel – S/T – Crustacean

Lying In States – Most Every Night – Most Every Night – Flame Shovel

Silversun Pickups – Busy Bees – Neck of the Woods – Danger Bird *

Aaron Freeman – Marvelous Clouds – Marvelous Clouds – Partisan *

Ween – Zoloft – Quebec – Sanctuary

Wax – Never Been Better – What Else Can We Do – Caroline

-11PM-

Denovo – Words for Potentially Millions – S/T – We Want Action

Colossal – Embers Only – S/T – Asian Man

Mezzanine C-14 – Bound and Gagged – He Keeps Silent and Sacrifices Himself – Break Even 

The Americas – A Flower or a Star – Statuette – S/R

Burning In Water – Culture Jam Foundation – United Snakes – We Wish Records

The Mars Volta – Molochwalker – Noctourniquet – Warner

Casey Meehan – Shovel and Chain – Violet – Tense Forms

Pseudosix – Hazardous Movements – Days of Delay – 54/40 or Fight

Andy Wagner – Nothing to Defend – Horse Year – Tense Forms

Shrimp Boat – Sanchez River – Something Grand: The Music of Shrimp Boat River – AUM Fidelity

Autumn Walking – Simulating a Haystack – The Loudest Birthday Ever – Tense Forms

Orquestra del Desierto – Above the Big Wide – Dos Meteor City – S/R

Skin Tones – Showbiz – Rock Scene Problem – Crustacean

Sounds Like Braille – Triumphant Was the Trumpeting Strumpet – Right Out of Left Field, Straight to the Middle of Nowhere – Contraphonic 

* New Release (will be charted for CMJ)   

KTUH 90.3 FM Playlist for 05/01/12, 9 PM - 12 AM

Hate. That's how I feel about the new format of the blogspot website. OMFG, talk about difficult to navigate. Anyway, I think that the show was pretty decent today. I was in an all-over-the-place kind of mood so I played some kind-of-all-over-the-place music. I think that there was a little bit of something in there for everyone. I hope people enjoyed. No one called to complain, so I guess that's a good sign. Well, no one called at all so whatever. Meh. 

Until next week, keep it real in the field.

Artist                       Song                    Album                        Label

The Clash – Justice Tonight/Kick It Over – Super Black Market Clash

Built to Spill – Don’t Try – Ancient Melodies of

Modest Mouse – Life Like Weeds – The Moon and Antarctica

Our Lady Peace – Hope – Naveed – Relativity

Negativeland – Downloading – No Business – Seeland

- 10 PM –

Osker – Strangled – Idle Will Kill – Epitaph

Ass Ponys – God Tells Me To – The Known Universe – A&M

Dink – Green Mind – S/T – Capitol

Buffalo Tom – Postcard – Smitten – Polydor

Days of the New – Touch, Peel, & Stand – S/T – Outpost

Drive Like Jehu – Human Interest – Yank Crime – Interscope

Deerhoof – Odyssey – The Runners Four – Kill Rock Stars

Deerhoof – Wrong Time Capsule – The Runners Four – Kill Rock Stars

Idlewild – (I Am) What I Am Not – The Remote Part – Capitol

Idlewild – Last Night I Missed All the Fireworks – Captain

At the Drive-In – One Armed Scissor – This Station is Non Operational – Fearless

Sparta – Assemble Empire – Wiretap Scars – Dreamworks

- 11 PM –                                                       

The Mars Volta – Dyslexicon – Noctourniquet – Warner *

Red Red Meat – Brain Dead – Jimmywine Magestic – Sub Pop

Red Telephone – Underground – S/T – Warner

Dada – Pretty Girls Make Graves – American Highway Flowers – IRS

Aarktica – Am I Demon – In Sea

Silver Jews – What is Not But Could Be If – Look Out Mountain, Look Out Sea – Drag City

Sons & Daughters – Medicine – The Repulsion Box – Dominio

Soho – Love Generation – Goddess – Atco

Superchunk – Revelations – Foolish – Merge

Japandroids – The House That Heaven Built – Celebration Rock – Polyvinyle *

Seaweed – Start With – Spanaway 

* New Release (will be charted for CMJ)  

And here's a fun little treat for you:

Make WHAT?! Make ass??? These signs have been popping up around town, especially near college campuses. The signs reads Make Ass May 4 18+ and that's it. No further explanation. WTF is that supposed to mean? Never mind the who, what, where, how, or why. So everyone, if you're 18 or over on May 4th, I urge you to go out and make ass anyway you see fit.