Playlist 239 - Oct 16 2012



A few new tunes this week, along with a few recent but enduring obsessions. Owensie and Laetitia Sadier paired together at the beginning, both with a certain bossa nova shuffle going on, both playing gigs in Ireland soon. There's a Big Star documentary coming out (called Nothing can hurt me) so any excuse to play Alex Chilton and friends, alongside a great fuzz pop tune from a Dublin girl band called after that Big Star song (I'm assuming anyway), September Girls. New music also from Myles Manley & the Little People (touring Ireland this week), The Sea & Cake, ex-Codeine & Come stalwart Chris Brokaw and a transcendant Balkan folk guitar instrumental from Ryan Francesconi & Mirabai Peart, new signings to Bella Union (they're part of Joanna Newsome's touring band). Plus the new free d'load single from Melt Yourself Down (pictured above), which involves people from Acoustic Ladyland. It's frenetic, infectious dance music, drawing on jazz, world and club musics.

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Playlist 239
Tues Oct 16 2012
11.00am-1.00pm
(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
UCC 98.3FM
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Playlist
Owensie - Distance of her love (playing Unitarian Church, Dublin, Oct 26)
Laetitia Sadier - Find me the pulse of the universe (playing Workman's Club, Dublin, Nov 9, Róisín Dubh,, Galway, Nov 10)
September Girls - Green eyed (playing The Pavilion, Cork, Nov 24)
Big Star - September Gurls
Ulrich Schnauss - A long way to fall
The Sea & Cake - Skyscraper
Dirty Projectors - Dance for you
Peter Broderick - Proposed solution to the mystery of the soul
Myles Manley & the Little People - Gotta get out of this country (playing Whelan's, Dublin, Oct 17; Fred Zeppelins, Cork, Oct 21, and other dates)
Ryan Francesconi & Mirabai Peart - Road to Palios
Wussy - Pulverized
Chris Brokaw - Exemption
Melt Yourself Down - We are enough (playing Queen of Hoxton, London, Oct 18)
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature themes

*next week's show features music from Jon DeRosa, Melody's Echo Chamber, Sone Institute & Susanna, among others

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