I had a lot of problems, technical and otherwise, tonight and I cut the show short by a half-hour. Still, there's some good stuff here, and some of the tracks you can download for free. See below. Then of course if you like it, there are links to purchase the track and others from the same releases at your on-demand web music source of choice.

And if I didn't say it enough during the show, I'm begging until December 29. No amount is too small. 'Tis the season and all that.

1. Magic City - Evil    myspace.com/magiccity
2. The Beatdowns - So Tired    myspace.com/thebeatdownsohio
3. The Patsys - Give It To Me     thepatsys.com
4. The Detroit Cobras - Now You're Gone    Baby
5. Oxford Collapse - Loser City    Remember the Night Parties
6. Ouija Radio - Cookie    myspace.com/ouijaradio
7. Pink Nasty - Napoleon Complex    Mold The Gold
8. Terraplane - A Beer and a Cigarette     The Akron Compilation
9. Ben Adorable (remixing Mirah) - Sweepstakes Prize    JoyRide: Remixes
10. Love Is All - Felt Tip    Nine Times the Same Song

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11. Download "New Years" (mp3)
from "Citrus"
by Asobi Seksu
Friendly Fire Recordings

• Buy at iTunes Music Store
• Buy at eMusic
• Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody
• Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody

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12. Download "Stonefruit" (mp3)
from "Wholeness & Separation"
by Halou
Vertebrae

• Buy at iTunes Music Store
• Buy at eMusic
• Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody
• Buy at Napster
• Buy at GroupieTunes
• Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody

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13. The Blow - True Affection    Paper Television

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14. Download "Broken Streetlamp Serenade" (mp3)
from "2 A.M."
by Cars & Trains
Circle Into Square Records

• Buy at iTunes Music Store
• Buy at eMusic

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15. Penmanship - My Frozen Love myspace.com/penmanshipmusic

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16. Download "Steal the Blueprints" (mp3)
from "Let's Build a Fire"
by +/- {Plus/Minus}
Absolutely Kosher

• Buy at iTunes Music Store
• Buy at eMusic
• Buy at Napster

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17. The Hidden Cameras - Heji    Awoo
18. The Reverse - Tell Your Mother    The Longest Day of the Year

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19. Download "For All The Tanning Salons In Texas" (mp3)
from "Chin Up Chin Up"
by Chin Up Chin Up
Flameshovel Records

• Buy at iTunes Music Store
• Buy at eMusic
• Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody
• Buy at GroupieTunes
• Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody

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20. Dear Nora - The Flats Of Irony    There Is No Home
21. The Apples in Stereo - Tidal Wave    Science Faire
22. Portastatic - Sweetness and Light    Be Still Please
23. Tortoise - The Equator    TNT
24. CSS - Art Bitch    Cansei De Ser Sexy
25. The Fall - Oleano    The Light User Syndrome

...then you should love pat radio this month.

I don't go in for the traditional holiday music that gets played to death on the radio this time of year, but I do like unique original songs and clever interpretations of standard holiday songs by some of my favorite indie bands. That's what you'll be getting on pat radio through the rest of November on up to Christmas day. And I promise no more than one holiday track a half-hour.

To get the ball rolling and to also take advantage of my new IODA Alliance account (Thanks, Ed!), I have tracks from the latest Kill Rock Stars Christmas album, from the Mary Timony Band, Imaad Wasif and The Robot Ate Me. Click on the linkies below.

Download "Hapi Holidaze" (mp3)
by Mary Timony Band


Download "Wonderland" (mp3)
by The Robot Ate Me

Download "The New Year" (mp3)
by Imaad Wasif

from "Kill Rock Stars Winter Holiday Album"

Kill Rock Stars

Buy This Album

Must have been my uplink this morning, because everything sounds hiccup-free now. Enjoy!

I peaked at 4, count 'em, 4 live listeners and actually got some requests tonight. Pay-off for going all day with no internet access.

Here's the list:

1. Erase Errata - Another Genius Idea From Our Government    Nightlife
2. Jucifer - Pontius Of Palia    If Thine Enemy Hunger
3. Cobra Killer - Mr. Chang    Various Artists: Girl Monster
4. the flowers - after dark    Various Artists: Mutant Pop
5. Hint Hint - Natural Collegiate    Various Artists: Slaying Since 1996
6. Jennifer O'Connor - (Take Me on a Ride Around the) Sun    Another Side of Jennifer O'Connor
7. Midlake - In This Camp    The Trials of Van Ocupanther
8. Tapes 'n Tapes - Jakov's Suite    The Loon
9. PlusMinus - Fadeout    Let's Build a Fire
10. The Shins - Phantom Limb    Phantom Limb
11. Hello Saferide - Highschool Stalker    Introducing...Hello Saferide
12. The Decemberists - The Perfect Crime #2    The Crane Wife
13. Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - Loop Duplicate My Heart    #3
14. Pink Nasty - Take It Back    Mold the Gold
15. Masha Qrella - You Won"t Be There    Luck
16. Tortoise - deltitnu    A Lazarus Taxon
17. Yo La Tengo - The Story Of Yo La Tango    I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
18. Sigur Ros - Saeglopur    Saeglopur
19. Mrah Yom Tov Zeitlyn and Ginger Brooks Takahashi and Friends - Pure    Songs From the Black Mountain Project
20. Rilo Kiley - A Man/Me/Then Jim    More Adventurous
21. The New Pornographers - The Laws Have Changed    Various Artists: Matador at Fifteen
22. The Weakerthans - Watermark    Left and Leaving
23. Rainer Maria - Terrified    Catastrophe Keeps Us Together
24. Eux Autres - Patrick Nil    Hell Is Eux Autres
25. The Essex Green - Elsinore    Cannibal sea
26. The Eames Era - Go To Sleep    Double Dutch

I hate the internets.

...last Friday night. I'll try to document my memories before they become a week-old.

First of all, here's some pics of Colin Meloy and Jenny Conlee from the show. These pictures come courtesy of H-Bomb over at ThaBombShelter. He has more pictures there and a pretty thorough review. He was a bit closer to the stage and apparently surrounded by more drunk assholes than I was. The behavior he describes in his post is pretty much par for the course of any Columbus show at which buckets of Bud Light are for sale. Also, it turns out H-Bomb and I know each other in real life, but that's a story for another time perhaps.






Colin and co. pretty much served up the latest record, The Crane Wife, and older tunes were few and far between. I didn't mind so much as the new tunes are pretty good. The first highlight of the evening was the disco-inspired "Perfect Crime 2", during which Colin divided the crowd on the floor into three groups. One group was supposed to mosh, the other disco-dance, and the third African folk-dance. "You're sewing the seed," Meloy told the third group. Colin also slipped a couple lines from the Smiths' "The Queen Is Dead", which fit perfectly into the song and were completely lost on the 20-somethings surrounding me.

Later Meloy grabbed a cell phone from the crowd and sang a verse of "The Culling of the Fold" into someone's voicemail. Then there was the "La-dee-dah-dee-dah-dee-do-dee-dah-dee-dah" contest during "Sixteen Military Wives", and they ended the show with "A Cautionary Song", which featured Chris Funk, John Moen, and multi-instrumentalist / back-up singer Lisa Molinaro (of the Portland duo Talkdemonic) entering the crowd with a drum and percussion instruments. When they reached the center of the pit, not far from where I was standing, Meloy directed us to make room for them as they selected members of the audience to help them re-enact the battle of Gallipolis. It was a kooky bit, but at least they didn't retread the whole whale bit that they did for "The Mariner's Revenge Song" on their '05 tour.

I just read a couple recent online reviews of the Decemberists shows in Chicago and New York. Both critics disparaged these antics as rock-show grand-standing, that the serious subject matter of the songs demanded a more serious demeanor from Meloy. Whatever. The band was tight and the audience had fun. What more could one ask for?

It was also "bag on Death Cab" night, as Meloy made several disparaging comments about the band that was due to play the LC pavillion three nights after them. "How many of you have bought tickets for that show? It's too late now. They've got your money and they're laughing all the way to the bank." Meloy later admitted that they love "the boys from Bellingham", and they ought to, as Chris Walla of DCFC co-produced The Crane Wife.

And for the record, I liked hearing "July, July" and "Red Right Ankle", two songs which were left off of their set when they played last in Columbus. The crowd didn't piss me off that much, even with the people who barge by you and insist, "I just have to get back to my friends up there. Sorry." Bullshit. Just admit that you're rushing the stage at the last minute and inconveniencing the people who have paid their dues and stood here for two hours already. I could have done without the guy who kept yelling "Capital records, yeah!" Like it was some sort of "you're a bunch of sell-outs" commentary or something. And to the drunk dipwads who tried starting up the "OH-IO" chant during a lull in the set, do you people ever quit with that shit? Evar???

Please pardon the problems at the beginning of this audio archive. You'll hear the tail end of a Jam song and a bit of a Dressy Bessy tune before things kick off proper.

And can I just rant for a second? I just checked online for an eleventh-hour Decemberists ticket. Ticketbastard wants a $6.75 convenience fee on a $20 ticket. Looks like I'm driving to the box office today.

1. Clinic - DT      Clinic
2. The Hidden Cameras - Death Of A Tune      Awoo
3. The Invisible Cities - Double Fisted      Watertown
4. Phoenix - Sometimes In The Fall      It's Never Been Like That
5. Pretty Girls Make Graves - Speakers Push the Air      Good Health
6. White Rose Movement - Alsatian      Kick
7. Lime Spiders - That's How It Will Be      Slave Girl
8. Television - Foxhole      Adventure
9. The Clean Prophets - Addiction      Praise Is Poison
10. The Twilight Singers - Underneath the Waves      Powder Burns
11. Robert Pollard - Rhoda Rhoda      Normal Happiness
12. Portastatic - Like A Pearl      Be Still Please
13. Autour de Lucie - Island      Autour de Lucie
14. Yo La Tengo - Black Flowers      I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
15. Erin Mckeown - Just One Of Those Things      Sing You Sinners
16. Blossom Dearie - Just One of Those Things (Brazillian Girls Remix)      The Complete Verve Remixed
17. The Barcelona Pavilion - Tidy Up Tidy Up (Edit)      Various Artists: Colours Are Brighter
18. Client - Down to the Underground      Various Artists: Girl Monster
19. Sir Alice - Super Hero      Various Artists: Girl Monster
20. Jel - To Buy a Car      Soft Money
21. CSS - Alho Um Pouco Bom      Cansei De Ser Sexy
22. GusGus - Believe      Believe
23. Pere Ubu - Love Song      Why I Hate Women
24. Cyann & Ben - Words      Sweet Beliefs
25. Califone - Black Metal Valentine      Roots and Crowns
26. Wise In Time - Nine      The Ballad of Den the Men
27. Regina Spektor - The Flowers      Soviet Kitsch
28. sprites - I Started a Blog Nobody Read      Modern Gameplay
29. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife 3      The Crane Wife
30. Dios Malos - Starting Five      Dios
31. The Stills     Without Feathers

I added a 32 kbps mono stream to pat radio over the weekend. Those of you who only have dial-up access to the internet can finally hear what all the shouting is about.

It doesn't sound too bad. Like an A.M. radio broadcast.

The first live broadcast in 128 kbps stereo. What a great day this is.

First hour I had planned out. Second hour I just winged it.

1. Cobra Killer - L.A. Shaker    Various Artists: Monika Force
2. Miss Le Bomb - Pinkitan    Various Artists: Girl Monster
3. M Craft - she sells sanctuary    Sweet 7"
4. The Thermals - an ear for baby    The Body, The Blood, The Machine
5. Elf Power - Big Thing    Walking With the Beggar Boys
6. Portastatic - I'm In Love (With Arthur Dove)    Be Still Please
7. The Clean Prophets - Matinee    Praise Is Poison
8. The Minders - Go Wave Your Wand    Future Is Always Perfect
9. The Invisible Cities - Everything You Started With    Watertown
10. The Submarines - Vote    Declare a New State!
11. Califone - Pink&Sour    Roots and Crowns
12. Ulan Bator - La Joueuse de Tambour    Ego : Echo
13. Joan of Arc - For A Half-Deaf Girl, Named Echo    The Intelligent Design of Joan of Arc
14. Ladytron - Paco!    604
15. Asobi Seksu - Mizu Asobi    Citrus
16. Hot Chip - Over and Over    Over and Over Single
17. The Blow - Fists Up    Paper Television
18. Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - Noodles    #3
19. Peter Bjorn And John - Amsterdam    Writer's Block
20. Alpinestars - Green Raven Blonde    b.a.s.i.c.
21. Lemon Jelly - Ramblin' Man    Lost Horizons
22. Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - You Are What You Love    Rabbit Fur Coat
23. Bonnie Prince Billy - Lay And Love    Letting Go
24. Isobel Campbell - Beggar, Wiseman Or Thief    Milkwhite Sheets
25. Corrina Repp - That Which Has No Remorse    The Absent and the Distant
26. The Softies - Fragile, Don't Crush    It's Love
27. Earlimart - Unintentional Tape Manipulations    Treble and Tremble
28. Mary Timony - Harmony    Ex Hex
29. Tapes 'n Tapes - Manitoba    The Loon

Thanks to Matt in Santa Ana, California, we've got a 128 kbps stereo stream for at least the month of November. If you like the sound of it and you'd like to see it continue, you know which button to push. Nudge, nudge, nudge...