Jason Boesel plays at WTBU

This past Saturday night Jason Boesel (of Rilo Kiley and the Elected) came in studio to perform and promote his new solo album Hustler's Son.

Check out this video of him performing the song "Burned Out and Busted" in WTBU's studio:




For more information check out SHUT UP ZINE online.

TOP 30 MOST PLAYED 2/15 -- 2/22

1 VAMPIRE WEEKEND Contra XL
2 BEACH HOUSE Teen Dream SUB POP
3 SURFER BLOOD Astro Coast Kanine
4 SHOUT OUT LOUDS Work Merge
5 ADAM GREEN Minor Love Fat Possum
6 SPOON Transference Merge
7 NANA GRIZOL Ruth Orange Twin
8 GOLDEN GIRLS "Amateur Teen Sex Attics" [Single]
9 TWIN SISTER Vampires With Dreaming Kids
10 YAWN Yawn [EP] Self-Released
11 LOS CAMPESINOS! Romance Is Boring Arts And Crafts
12 BYNARS Back From Outer Space [EP] Self-Released
13 XIU XIU Dear God, I Hate Myself Kill Rock Stars
14 PAST LIVES Tapestry Of Webs Suicide Squeeze
15 MANY MANSIONS/TRUMAN PEYOTE Peaced Together whitehaus family
16 GIRLFRIENDS Girlfriends Self-Released
17 MANNERS Look Into Look Unto Whitehaus Family Record
18 REAL ESTATE Real Estate Woodsist
19 GROOMS Rejoicer death by audio
20 GIGI Maintenant Tomlab
21 MIDNIGHT MASSES Rapture Ready, I Gazed At The Body
22 JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD Heavy Days Infinity Cat
23 TORO Y MOI Causers Of This Carpark
24 JAKE JENKINS No Folk Luck Swallows Everything Get Young
25 QUILT Quilt Self-Released
26 THIN HEIR Thin Heir [EP]
27 KAL MARKS Recovering After The Storm Self-Released
28 EELS End Times Vagrant
29 MAGIC MAN Real Life Color Self-Released
30 BIG TROUBLES Freudian Slips Blackburn


NEW IN ROTATION THIS WEEK

VARIOUS ARTISTS A Grinding Tapes Promo Disc Grinding Tapes
QUASI American Gong Kill Rock Stars
THIN HEIR Thin Heir [EP]
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS Genuine Negro Jig Nonesuch
RUBY SUNS Fight Softly SUB POP
THICK SHAKES Ooh Mommy Snugglehound

WTBU Interview w/ All Ages Movement Project

Today WTBU interviewed All Ages Movement Project coordinator Kevin Erickson. AMP is a national nonprofit that connects all-ages venues and youth music organizations around the country, so that people who run all ages spaces/organizations can learn from one another, become stronger, and grow.

We talked about the history and goals of AMP, their tactics for connecting organizations, and the importance of all ages venues/organizations. Download an mp3 of the entire interview here.

AMP is currently in the running to win $50,000 from Pepsi's "Refresh Everything" contest! If AMP wins, they plan to put some of the money towards publishing a book on organizing all-ages venues, and funding a national book tour. Check out the contest here, vote for AMP, and help make all-ages music happen in every town!

AMP: The What What from Shannon Stewart on Vimeo.

Redefined interviews Glenridge

Tune into Re: Defined this Friday from 10PM to Midnight to hear a live interview with New Hampshire band Glenridge!

Charts and Adds! (week of 2/16/10)

top 30 most-played this week, feb 8--> feb 16

1 BEACH HOUSE Teen Dream SUB POP
2 VAMPIRE WEEKEND Contra XL
3 JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD Heavy Days Infinity Cat
4 MANNERS Look Into Look Unto Whitehaus Family Record
5 QUILT Quilt Self-Released
6 MANY MANSIONS/TRUMAN PEYOTE Peaced Together whitehaus family
7 REAL ESTATE Real Estate Woodsist
8 GIRLFRIENDS Girlfriends Self-Released
9 SPOON Transference Merge
10 MAGNETIC FIELDS Realism Nonesuch
11 TWIN SISTER Vampires With Dreaming Kids
12 MIDNIGHT MASSES Rapture Ready, I Gazed At The Body
13 BEST COAST "When I'm With You" [Single] Black Iris
14 GOLDEN GIRLS "Amateur Teen Sex Attics" [Single]
15 NANA GRIZOL Ruth Orange Twin
16 SURFER BLOOD Astro Coast Kanine
17 GROOMS Rejoicer death by audio
18 TORO Y MOI Causers Of This Carpark
19 VARIOUS ARTISTS Underwater Peoples Winter Review Underwater Peoples
20 BYNARS Back From Outer Space [EP] Self-Released
21 FUCKED UP Couple Tracks: Singles 2002-2009 Matador
22 BONUS EVENTUS Canaceros Dinosaurs In Vietnam
23 BEN SOLLEE AND DANIEL MARTIN MOORE Dear Companion Sub Pop
24 LOS CAMPESINOS! Romance Is Boring Arts And Crafts
25 VARIOUS ARTISTS Whitehaus Family Record Family Record Whitehaus Family Record
26 YAWN Yawn [EP] Self-Released
27 KAL MARKS Recovering After The Storm Self-Released
28 VARIOUS ARTISTS Casual Victim Pile: Austin 2010 Matador
29 VARIOUS ARTISTS Mozart Park All-Stars Breakfast Of Champs
30 TUNE-YARDS BiRd-BrAiNs 4AD

new in rotation this week:

1 XIU XIU Dear God, I Hate Myself Kill Rock Stars
2 PAST LIVES Tapestry Of Webs Suicide Squeeze
3 ADAM GREEN Minor Love Fat Possum
4 SHOUT OUT LOUDS Work Merge

Give-Aways and Interview on Schist that Rocks!

Schist That Rocks, Fridays 2-4AM, is giving away a 3 day pass to the New England Americana Festival on the show and having The Autumn Hollow Band, festival organizers and headliners, on the show for a performance and interview.

Switchfoot interview on "Redefined," Friday at 10PM

Tune into Redefined this Friday night, 10pm-Midnight to listen to a special Boston interview with Switchfoot's Tim Foreman, the bassist for the band. Listen to him answer questions about Switchfoot from BU students and from those around the Boston area and hear about his history, back when he was a Boston boy.



Tea Leaf Green concert review, Paradise Rock Club, 2/6/10

Tea Leaf Green can play many different ways – well-written songs, powerful rock and roll, dirty funk, loose jams, and sometimes all these at once – making its live show a potentially different experience every time. The band’s last two albums, 2005’s Taught To Be Proud and their 2008 effort Raise Up The Tent has seen a trend away from the earlier, longer jams of its first three records and towards a more concise, well-developed songwriting style. Saturday night at the Paradise Rock Club reflected this evolution.

That being said, Tea Leaf hasn’t dropped the early songs from its set lists and an early “Freedom” showcased guitarist Josh Clark at his apex. Equally at home digging into heavy metal or bouncing around a bluegrass tune, Clark’s versatility is a big part of what makes this band tick. With “Freedom,” Clark was able to take over the jam and build it to a high-intensity climax before the band switched gears into the earnest ballad “Faced With Love.”


“Faced With Love” echoes another aspect of the band, in that the song doesn’t appear on any of their studio albums. While most bands use studio albums to showcase and fine-tune its best songs, they are used as mainly just benchmarks for Tea Leaf Green, and its catalog of songs is so extensive that “Freedom” was the only song in the first set that has ever been recorded in the studio and released.


Midway through the first set the band took the show into uncharted territory with a cache of new songs. “Without A Broom,” “Oklahoma Home” and “Cottonwood Tree” were all part of the trend toward shorter and more focused songs that Tea Leaf seems to be embracing. The buoyant, energetic “Cops Took My Weed” was a fun romp through some lighthearted storytelling by keyboardist and singer Trevor Garrod.

The second set followed a similar trend to the first, with an absolute blow out of a jam in “Wet Spot” > “Invasion” > “Wet Spot” before settling back into more of a stop-start, song after song approach. “Jackson Hole,” another new song, preceded the feel-good “Papa’s In The Backroom” before crowd favorite “The Garden (Pt. III)” brought the show back to the level of intensity achieved during “Wet Spot.” “Incandescent Devil” showcased Garrod’s impressive harmonica skills as he stood on his keyboard stool to deliver his solo.


The encore of “Morning Sun” with guitarist Rusty Kelly from opening band Elmwood was another high-energy romp and served to underline the theme of the show. While some of the experimental and exploratory jams were missing from the set list, Tea Leaf Green’s multiple personalities and wide-ranging abilities assure that no show is ever a bad one.


- Dan Rys

WEEKLY CHART 2/1-2/8

TOP 30 MOST PLAYED

1 BEACH HOUSE Teen Dream SUB POP
2 VAMPIRE WEEKEND Contra XL
3 SPOON Transference Merge
4 JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD Heavy Days Infinity Cat
5 MAGNETIC FIELDS Realism Nonesuch
6 GROOMS Rejoicer death by audio
7 REAL ESTATE Real Estate Woodsist
8 BEST COAST "When I'm With You" [Single] Black Iris
9 QUILT Quilt Self-Released
10 SURFER BLOOD Astro Coast Kanine
11 GIGI Maintenant Tomlab
12 LOS CAMPESINOS! Romance Is Boring Arts And Crafts
13 EELS End Times Vagrant
14 GOLDEN GIRLS "Amateur Teen Sex Attics" [Single]
15 NANA GRIZOL Ruth Orange Twin
16 VARIOUS ARTISTS Whitehaus Family Record Family Record Whitehaus Family Record
17 YAWN Yawn [EP] Self-Released
18 BONUS EVENTUS Canaceros Dinosaurs In Vietnam
19 TRUMAN PEYOTE AND MANY MANSIONS Peaced Together Whitehaus
20 THE BYNARS Party All Night Self-release
21 KAL MARKS Recovering After The Storm Self-Released
22 VARIOUS ARTISTS Underwater Peoples Winter Review Underwater Peoples
23 FUCKED UP Couple Tracks: Singles 2002-2009 Matador
24 MANNERS Look Into Look Unto Whitehaus Family Record
25 VARIOUS ARTISTS Casual Victim Pile: Austin 2010 Matador
26 FOUR TET There Is Love In You Domino
27 FREELANCE WHALES Weathervanes Frenchkiss-Mom And Pop
28 MAGIC MAN Real Life Color Self-Released
29 VARIOUS ARTISTS Mozart Park All-Stars Breakfast Of Champs
30 TUNE-YARDS BiRd-BrAiNs 4AD


TOP 5 NEW ADDS

1 MANY MANSIONS AND TRUMAN PEYOTE Peaced Together Whitehaus Family Record
2 MIDNIGHT MASSES Rapture Ready, I Gazed At The Body
3 TITLE TRACKS It Was Easy Ernest Jenning
4 BEN SOLLEE AND DANIEL MARTIN MOORE Dear Companion Sub Pop
5 TWIN SISTER Vampires With Dreaming Kids

Killswitch Engage at the House of Blues - Boston, MA 2/4/10

When Killswitch Engage took the stage at about 9:30 pm at the House of Blues last Thursday night, the House of Blues crowd exploded at the opening riffs for Rose of Sharyn, the band’s hit from their 2004 album, The End of Heartache. As lead singer Howard Jones said, the band hadn’t played in Boston for far too long. Their devoted fans could not have agreed more.

Dark Tranquility and The Devil Wears Prada set the table nicely for Killswitch. Taking advantage of an early-arriving crowd, both bands did their job getting the moshing going and crowd pumping fists before the headliners.

At the first stop on their US Headline Tour, Killswitch did not disappoint. Playing on their home turf, the Massachusetts-based band ripped into a mixture of new songs and classics. During Arms of Sorrow, the crowd clapped in unison during the melodic opening notes before moshing as one as the song grew heavy. Though they are unquestionably a heavy metal band, one aspect of Killswitch’s music that cannot be understated are their deep lyrics and ability to fuse melodic harmony with brutal riffs.

Killswitch also has the ability to connect with their audience in ways that few headliners can. There is a mutual respect that is authentic and real and appreciated by the fans. A few songs in, Jones saluted a security guard at the foot of the stage for having an awesome Afro. Adam D made sure that Tom “Dice” Cavanaugh, his guitar tech who dealt with numerous technical difficulties during the show, was recognized for his efforts. It was also “Dice’s” birthday, so of course the band led a heavy metal version of Happy Birthday before launching into Take Me Away off the band’s self-titled 2009 release.

The band’s set list was almost tailor-made for the old, hardcore fans. During My Last Serenade, off 2002’s Alive or Just Breathing, the entire floor was engulfed in a most pit that was not for the weak. Although if someone fell, the pit stopped until the fallen soldier was lifted. Even though a pit is anything but friendly dancing, there is an unspoken code - if someone falls, pick them up.

Before closing the set with My Curse, off 2006’s As Daylight Dies, the band sincerely thanked the crowd for coming out and offering support. For the encore, we were treated to the band’s incredible cover of Dio’s “Holy Diver.” For a few minutes after the show, fans leaving continued singing the chorus in the hallway. At the beginning of the set, Jones asked that we make this show count. It sure did. If this tour is stopping at your city, be there.

--Josh Friedman, Boston 2010

Today: BUITM interviews the Vagabond Opera

Today around 11:30 BU in the Morning will be interviewing The Vagabond Opera, a 6-piece bohemian cabaret klezmer ensemble from Portland, Oregon! The band includes accordion, tenor saxophone, cello, violin, musical saw, banjo-lele, stand-up bass, drums and lyrics in thirteen languages, and has played with Pink Martini, The Decembrists, Gogol Bordello, Devotchka and more.

We will also be giving away 2 sets of tickets to their show tonight at Johnny D's in Boston so tune in!

TOP 30 MOST-PLAYED ALBUMS 1/25-2/1

1 BEACH HOUSE Teen Dream SUB POP
2 REAL ESTATE Real Estate Woodsist
3 JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD Heavy Days
4 NANA GRIZOL Ruth Orange Twin
5 GROOMS Rejoicer death by audio
6 GOLDEN GIRLS "Amateur Teen Sex Attics" [Single]
7 LOS CAMPESINOS! Romance Is Boring Arts And Crafts
8 TUNE-YARDS BiRd-BrAiNs 4AD
9 YAWN Yawn [EP] Self-Released
10 SPOON Transference Merge
11 BONUS EVENTUS Canaceros Dinosaurs In Vietnam
12 KAL MARKS Recovering After the Storm Self-released
13 EELS End Times Vagrant
14 VARIOUS ARTISTS The Underwater Peoples Winter Review Underwater Peoples
15 FUCKED UP Couple Tracks: Singles 2002-2009 Matador
16 VAMPIRE WEEKEND Contra XL
17 VARIOUS ARTISTS Casual Victim Pile Austin 2010 Matador
18 FOUR TET There Is Love In You Domino
19 BEST COAST "When I'm With You" [Single]
20 QUILT Quilt Self-released
21 SURFER BLOOD Astro Coast Kanine
22 MAGNETIC FIELDS Realism Nonesuch
23 FREELANCE WHALES Weathervanes Mom And Pop-Frenchkiss
24 KING KHAN AND BBQ SHOW Invisible Girl In The Red
25 BANG! BANG! ECHE! Sonic Death Cunttt Self-released
26 PANTS YELL! Received Pronunciation Slumberland
27 MAGIC MAN Real Life Color Self-release
28 VARIOUS ARTISTS Mozart Park All-Stars Breakfast of Champs
29 XX The Xx Young Turks-XL
30 TRUMAN PEYOTE New Wife, New Life [Single] Self-released


NEW IN ROTATION THIS WEEK

COMPILATION Whitehaus Family Record Family Record Whitehaus Family Record
MANNERS Look Into Look Unto Whitehaus Family Record
TORO Y MOI Causers Of This Carpark
GIGI Maintenant Tomlab
GIRLFRIENDS Girlfriends Self-Released
MAGIC MAN Real Life Color

What to Look Out for in 2010:

David Cooper runs down upcoming releases (Updated 1/31/10).

Here’s my attempt to gather most of the upcoming releases for this year. I’m really excited for The Avalanches, Flying Lotus, Broadcast, Panda Bear, Battles, Growing and the new Animal Collective-scored film, Oddsac. Currently, I can’t stop listening to the Beach House album that just came out this week, so I would recommend that if you haven’t heard it yet. My apologies if I forgot something. This should be a great year for music. Cheers!

Already Released:
Beach House – Teen Dream
Four Tet – There is Love in You
Surfer Blood – Astro Coast
RJD2 – The Colossus
Spoon – Transference
Pit er Pat – The Flexible Entertainer
Jaga Jazzist – One-Armed Bandit
The Knife – Tomorrow, In a Year
Charlotte Gainsbourg – IRM
Owen Pallett – Heartland
Vampire Weekend - Contra
The Magnetic Fields – Realism
The Chicago Underground Duo – Boca Negra
Night Control – Life Control

February 2:
Toro y Moi – Causers of This
The Album Leaf – A Chorus of Storytellers

February 9:
Yeasayer – Odd Blood
Hot Chip – One Life Stand
Pantha du Prince – Black Noise
Gigi – Maintenant

February 16:
Field Music – Measure

February 23:
Eluvium – Similes
Xiu Xiu – Dear God, I Hate Myself
Yellow Swans – Going Places
Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me
Wolf People – Tidings

March 2:
The Ruby Suns – Fight Softly
Loscil – Endless Falls

March 9:
White Hinterland – Kairos
Liars – Sisterworld
jj – jj no 3
Titus Andronicus – The Monitor
Broken Bells – Broken Bells

March 15:
Jonas Reinhardt – Powers of Audition

March 23:
Serena-Maneesh - S-M 2: Abyss In B Minor
Jonsi – Go
She & Him – Volume 2
High Places – High Places vs. Mankind

March 30:
Dum Dum Girls – I Will Be

March:
LCD Soundsystem

April 6:
Harlem – Hippies
Growing – Pumps
Dr. Dog – Shame, Shame
Mi Ami – Steal Your Face

April 12:
Disappears – Lux

April 20:
Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
Caribou - Swim
Javelin – No Mas

May:
Arcade Fire
Broken Social Scene

September:
Panda Bear – Tomboy
The Thermals

TBA:
Gang Gang Dance
The Books
Wavves
The National
Outkast
Thee Oh Sees – Warm Slime
No Age
Broadcast
Battles
Of Montreal – False Priest
The Strokes
Fleet Foxes
Interpol
Here We Go Magic
School of Seven Bells
The Avalanches
Ariel Pink?
Universal Studios Florida?
Kanye West?
Radiohead?
Sigur Ros?
Julianna Barwick?

I wish:
The Olivia Tremor Control
Pavement
My Bloody Valentine
Boards of Canada

-David Cooper, Boston