Bath

The weather reports are amusing here... every 12 hours or so they flip flop. If you check the weather in the evening and it says partly cloudy tomorrow, in the morning it will say rain, and vice versa (though, sadly, less often vice versa). So I wonder why I check the reports at all?

Even in the rain, Bath is lovely, I just wish I had better shoes. I was afraid it would be touristy, but though there were heaps of visitors, it still felt real. There are nice shops everywhere, so it feels more like a downtown.

Our hotel is a lovely B&B called Dorian House, just up the hill on the opposite side of the river. It has great views of town, and everyone has lovely gardens. The area is all big Georgian houses made of the same cream-colored stone as the rest of Bath.

We checked out the Georgian rowhouses at the Royal Circus and the Royal Crescent, but they were not more interesting than the rest of town.

Lunch was at a tiny pub... the smallest in Bath, they said. It was about the size of my sister's bedroom in Manhattan. We sat at the bar and had the full-on English Pub experience, complete with friendly barmaid, strapping young yokel, and loud and drunk but gregarious and intelligent barfly. We chatted with the barfly a while. When we said we'd been in Cardiff he gave us the sort of look you'd give a person who said they'd been to Cleveland. Why would you go if you didn't have to? Well, Cardiff was nice, and so, for that matter, is Cleveland. But they are not obvious choices. To eat, I had a fisherman's pie (barfly comment: "the game is, try to find the fish!" — there was plenty of fish), and Eric had a pork pie. And of course, we had more ale. (I find myself referring to drining beer often — but in fact, almost always we are drinking "real ale", the significance of which is somewhat lost on me, but which seems to be vaguely akin to having a "microbrew" in the US: it's code for "better".

We took a tour of the Roman baths, which were really fascinating. As part of the tour you are entitles to drink a glass of the waters as you leave. For heath, people used to drink as much as a gallon a day. It's described as an "acquired taste", but I can describe it better; it's like water from a broken drinking fountain: hot and metallic and generally unpleasant. We downed the glasses, though — an act of will, but perhaps to some salutory effect.

We'd bought tickets to the Royal Theater, and found ourselves without time for a proper early supper or tea, so we split a packaged BLT from Sainsbury's. The play was a double bill, called "Single Spies" — two somewhat related plays by Allen Bennet. The first ("An Englishman Abroad") was just OK; I think the playwright wasn't sure how to tell the story, and the actors seemed really unsure of how to approach the characters. The result was too broad, though still entertaining. The second play ("A Question of Attribution") was better in every way. The story and the acting were so much more nuanced. The actors seemed to really inhabit the parts.

Afterward we went to the pub next door for beer ("Beech Blonde" for me and IPA for Eric) and a snack (a sort of venison bresaola, they said, though it wasn't much like bresaola, plus some olives). We gabbed for a while and got to bed a little late.

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posted by Tony at 11:59 PM | 2 comments

More Cardiff

We'd intended to bike on our last day in Cardiff, but a combination of drizzle and sore legs made it not such a good idea. So we had a day of leisure, just hanging around.

We took a boat down to Cardiff Bay, which was a pretty nice but not exceptionally nice thing to do. We sat on a balcony overlooking the water and had some Brain's beer. The sun came out, but did not shine on us because we were on the wrong side of the building. Still, it was nice.

Back in town, we had a light supper in a new microbrewery called ZeroDegrees (new to Cardiff — they have other locations). The microbrewery seemed to be modelled on US microbreweries, esp. west coast (Portland, etc.). Eric had a Pale Ale (described as an American version of an English bitter) and I had a wheat beer. To eat, we shared a seared carpaccio and a goat cheese pizza, and had salads. It was all very nice.

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Steal, borrow, beg?

This week's Finn and Charlie is up!

I'm having fun with this storyline.

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Cardiff

We've been enjoying Cardiff despite the rain. Apparently it rains all the time here. The plants are lush, of course. Throught the city there are arcades, which are covered shopping streets (some narrow and Victorian, some just like big malls). Typically they are covered with glass peaked roofs, so the sunlight comes in, and the are quite nice... but they do tend to imply that there's a lot of rain.

Yesterday we went up to Caerphilly Castle, which is a massive medieval castle, one of the largest in the UK. It was truly impressive. (Unfortunately, the weather was terrible — light rain with high winds. The fact that we were out in this weather and not inside somewhere made us laugh.) We didn't buy any caerphilly cheese while there.

Then we went down to Penarth, a Victorian resort town south of Cardiff, on the water. There's a pier just like the piers you see in British movies when the people go to the seaside. We had lunch there, looking at the water, and then returned to Cadiff to dry off.

For dinner we went to Cardiff Bay, which is the area just south of Cardiff, on a sort of artificial bay at the mouth of the Taff river. We ate at Gilby's @ the Bay, which seemed like it would be a good place. The food was quite good. I had a galantine of guinea fowl and foie gras with ginger sauce, followed by a fillet of Welsh beef with Welsh rarebit on top, served with a potato thing. Eric had a carpaccio of Welsh beef, and then a chicken dish with a risotto. Note for the future: order beef "rare" if you do not want it well done. We shared a dessert, described as a timbale but basically jello, flavored with Pimm's, with berries in it and sort of a passion fruit puree. That was particularly delicious. (Pimm's is a gin-based drink, usually served with ginger ale and fruit.)

The weather is supposed to be halfway decent today, warm even (though not so far), and we are thinking about renting bikes. Though it will probably rain at some point. I've been checking weather reports, and they basically change constantly — it's worse than Chicago.

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Bristol

We arrived safely in London this morning... we scored upgrades to business class, which made an enormous difference in how much and how well we slept, and therefore how jetlagged we are now. So that was very nice.

On arrival we took the Heathrow Express to Paddington Station, where we were to catch our train to Bristol. Everything went so much more smoothly than we'd feared (Heathrow can be a mess), and we ended up with over an hour to kill at Paddington. Fortunately it was lunch time.

We went to a Fuller's Pub in the station, where we each had a pint (ESB for Eric, and a blonde called "Discovery" for me) and a sandwich (we shared two: cheddar with chutney, and sausage with pickled cabbage). It was all quite good. I confess I've been afraid of English food — people complain about it so much — but this was just good, basic pub food.

We got on the train for Bristol, and rolled all the way across southern England. From what I saw, the countryside was beautiful, but we were both asleep most of the time. (One reason we decided to go directly to Bristol after London was so we'd have a train trip where we could sleep.)

Bristol is a nice town. It has a good vibe. I like visiting cities that feel like people live there. Bristol is not touristy, but there are people everywhere. Much of it is new, since a lot was flattened in the war, but the new architecture is pretty nice, and there's enough old architecture to maintain interest.

It's also quite hilly. One of the things we did was to climb up to Cabot's Tower, which is in a park atop the tallest hill, overlooking all of Bristol. When we got to the top I couldn't believe we'd climbed so far up — it hadn't seemed like that much. The tower itself was closed for renovations, but you can see plenty from the park.

For dinner we went to the Hole in the Wall, which is a pub off Queen's Square, in the old city and near the harbor and which is reputed to be the model for the "Spyglass Inn" (or something?) in Robert Louis Stevenson' Treasure Island. That's not why we went, though; we went because I'd heard the food was good. It's a creative take on traditional pub food. The inside is homey — mismatched furniture, etc. The food was good. We started with a chicken liver patê served with toast and rowanberry and apple jelly, which was very good. Then I had a pork, apple, and wild boar sausage with caramelized onion mashed potatoes (basically a fancy bangers-and-mash), and Eric had the pot pie of the day, which was beef and vegetable. These weren't as good as the appetizer, but they were still good. The beer selection was not as good a this place — mostly mass-market beers. I had a Stella Artois and Eric had a bitter called something like Timothy Thompson's.

Now we are back in our hotel, and ready for bed.

Incidentally, I don't expect to post every day like this. We didn't bring the laptop. However, this hotel, surprisingly, comes with a computer in the room (The City Inn Bristol — nice place!), and so I'm taking advantage of it.

Tomorrow: Cardiff!

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All I did was dream my baby - 5/23 show

The week I had a trainee, Ritchie, and I had him to the second hour of the show.

* New!
(r) Request!

artist	song	album	label
My first set (6-7):
Rufus Wainwright	Baby	Rufus Wainwright	Dream Works
Laurie Anderson	Babydoll	Talk Normal Anthology	Rhino
*Otter Petter	Everyone	Fireflies and Lamp Lights	Self-released
*M83	Skin of the Night	Saturdays=Youth	Mute
Air	Left Bank	Pocket Symphony	Astralwerks
*Jamie Lidell	Wait for Me	Jim	Warp
*The Raconteurs	Old Enough	Consolers of the Lonely	Third Man/Warner Brothers
The Andrews Sisters	Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree	Greatest Hits	CURB Records
Bobby Conn	Punch the Sky!/Anybody	King for a Day	Thrill Jockey
Ben Folds	In Between Days	Supersunnyspeedgraphic LP	Epic
Amy Winehouse	Back to Black	Back to Black	Island
Future Bible Heroes	Losing Your Affection (Client on Demand Mix)	The Lonely Robot	Instinct
Ritchie's set (7-8):
Dillenger Escape Plan with Mike Patton	Come Up Daddy	Irony Is a Dead Scene EP	Ipecac
Square Pusher	Decathlon Oxide	Maximum Priest EP	WARP
End	Countdown to the End	Sounds of Disaster	Ipecac
*Tokyo Police Club	Graves	Elephant Shell	Saddle Creek
The Kills	Fried My Little Brains	Keep on the Mean Side	Rough Trade
PJ Harvey	White Chalk	White Chalk	Island
*Goldfrapp	A&E	Seventh Tree	Mute
Siouxsie	Here Comes the Day	Mantaray	Decca
*Cut Copy	Lights and Music	In Ghost Colours	Modular
TRS-80	Bamboo Shoots Battle	Backup:01	Invisible
µ-Ziq	Octelcogopod	Bilious Paths	Planet Mu
Plaid	Didymousedid	P-Bane EP	WARP
*Atmosphere	Painting	When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold	Rhymesayers
J Dilla	Let's Take It Back	Ruff Draft	Stones Throw
*Sun Kil Moon	Moorestown	April	Caldo Verde
My second set (8-9):
Cocteau Twins	Lorelei	Stars and Topsoil 1981-1990	4AD
The Mae Shi	Young Marks	HLLLYH	Team Shi
Luxury	Green Hearts	Yellow Pills: Prefill	Numero Group
*Flight of the Conchords	Robots	Flight of the Conchords	Sub Pop
*Portishead	We Carry On	Third	Island
Los Campesinos	Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats	Hold On Now	Arts & Crafts
The Noisettes	Bridge to Canada	What's the Time Mr Wolf	Universal/Motown
(r)Tom Waits	The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)	Small Change	Asylum
*Zerostars	Family Tree	Basement Stories	Self Released (zerostars.com)
*The Last Shadow Puppets	Calm Like You	The Age of Understatement	Domino
Kaspar Hauser	Glass Case Full of Dead, Stuffed Birds	Quixotic/Taxidermy	Backwardmasking
Mustafa Özkent ve Orkestrasi	Üsküar	Gençlik İle Elele	B-Music/Finders Keepers
The Fiery Furnaces	Guns under the Table	Rehearsing My Choir	Rough Trade
*The Cure	The Only One	Single	Sure Tone
*Elvis Costello & the Imposters	Drum and Bone	Momofuku	Lost Highway

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posted by Tony at 8:07 AM | 0 comments

Wait, what?

Finn and Charlie is up, finally!

Do enjoy.

And, oh: this story is completely fictional. As time goes by, less and less of what appears in this comic reflects anything that really happened to me. Life is still an inspiration, but, you know, life also tends to lack any narrative arc.

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posted by Tony at 11:59 PM | 0 comments

Taking on Tom

This morning on my show I played Scarlett Johansson. But let's back up.

Some time last year, I heard that Scarlett Johansson, the actress, was recording an album. She had recorded a song for something, and someone was impressed with her voice, and wanted her to record and album. She didn't want to be an actress-turned pop star, like Lindsey Lohan, and she said she would record an album, but it would be all standards. Then she changed her mind and said they would be all Tom Waits covers.

(I should say, this is how I remember the story; I haven't looked up any of this to verify my memory.)

Anyway, I was impressed with that. It's gutsy to take on Tom Waits. He's a unique artist with a distinctive voice and style. He's a great songwriter, but his performance of his songs is as important as the songs themselves. (Compare, to take an extreme example, ABBA: the songs are better written than they are performed, and are highly adaptable to other styles.) Announcing that you are going to do an album of Tom Waits covers says, I think, that you want to be an musician's musician.

So of course, you have to have the chops. Johansson is certainly a talented actress, but that's a different matter from singing. Still, the story was that she had a good voice.

An artist I like a great deal, Holly Cole, did her own album of Tom Waits covers some 13 years ago. Cole is primarily a jazz vocal interpreter, though she has also done pop. Her style is also distinctive, but more importantly, she has the chops. There are some tracks which are perhaps unimaginatively close to the original, but even those are very good. Her slow smoky groove in "Tango Til They're Sore", on the other hand, is quite a surprise, and a real change from the quirky original.

This past Monday I happened to see a link somewhere to watch the video for Johansson's cover of "Falling Down". And I thought, oh yeah, she was making that album, I'm interested to hear it! So I clicked on the link.

It was very meh. The style was a wash of feedback and guitar, like the Jesus and Mary Chain (which seems to be coming up a lot lately; aside from
The Raveonettes, whose recent album, like all of their albums, sounds like JaMC, The Magnetic Fields this year did an album in that same style, called Distortion). It's the sort of style that's good for one or two bands, but you really don't want that much of it. It's also a style that you can hide behind, because of the distortion of the feedback. Her voice was fine, but unspecial. And I thought, OK, now I know what it's like. I was a little disappointed, and a little liberated, because I felt like I was done with the album.

Later that day, it showed up in new rotation at WLUW. I was surprised, because she's such a starlet; does she really need indie radio? On the other hand, the choice of Tom Waits indicates that she'd rather be on indie radio than on top 40. The label is Rhino, which is to me neither indie nor major; it's like another category somehow. Anyway, we'd recently been playing She and Him a lot, which is the pairing of the musician M Ward with the actress Zooey Deschanel. If I can play and like Zooey Deschanel, why not Scarlett Johansson?

There are some differences worth pointing out, actually. Zooey Deschanel is a successful, working actress, but she's not a starlet. She hasn't gotten the same level of attention as Johansson has. I know that should not make difference, but it does. Also, Deschanel teamed up with M Ward, which gives her a certain level of credibility — in fact, it was M Ward who convinced her to make the album. The two recorded together, in more or less equal billing, under the name of "She and Him", whereas Johansson is recording simply under her own name. Finally, Deschanel wrote her own songs, which she'd been doing for years (but hadn't apparently shown to anyone before Ward). Johansson wrote one song, and the rest are covers.

Also, I haven't seen any of the She and Him videos, but the video for "Falling Down" was pretty self-indulgent. It's just clips of Johansson wandering going from place to place and being famous (modeling, acting, driving off in a limo). Maybe "self-indulgent" isn't the right word, but the video is entirely wrapped up in her and who she is; it doesn't seem to be about the song at all, unless there's a parallel I'm missing. It was, to put it simply, the video of a famous actress.

So while my initial thought was to ignore the album altogether, I decided I'd play something this week, and then leave it, unless I was convinced that it was really great stuff.

Other DJs have been playing her, thought I only really heard it once. On Tuesday night, the Women on Women Music Show played her cover of "I Don't Want To Grow Up", which is ultimately pretty odd. The dense layers of feedback are accompanied by an 80's style synth-pop drum line. I could hear, around the edges, the possibility of a really good voice, but I couldn't be sure, under it all. The hosts, Jenny, Emily, and Elizabeth, concluded that is was very meh.

So here's what I did today: I played a Scarlett Johansson Tom Waits cover, followed by a Holly Cole Tom Waits cover, followed by a Tom Waits original. The listener response? One call, right after Johansson had ended and Cole had begun, saying "please play some real Tom Waits". I said absolutely — I'd been intending to.

Still, I think it was an interesting set, and I hope my audience thought so as well.

As for me, I think I'm done with Scarlett Johansson as a singer. She's fine, but not all that interesting.

Meanwhile, another CD that was added to rotation this week is by
the Last Shadow Puppets, and that sounded really good. (I accidentally played two songs — after the break, I started the same CD again. Oops. Both songs were good.)

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Get in Your Car and Drive Real Far - 5/16 show

* New!
(r) Request!

artist	song	album	label
Blondie	Rapture	Best of Blondie	Chrysalis
The Detholz!	I.M.A. Believer	Live on Radio Free Chicago	WLUW
*Jamie Lidell	Out of My System	Jim	WARP
*The Foals	Olympic Airways	Antidotes	Sub Pop
Talking Heads	The Great Curve	Remain in Light	Sire
*Man Man	Mister Jung Stuffed	Rabbit Habits	Anti-
Ella Fitzgerald	Get Ready	Ella	Reprise
Gang of Four	I Love a Man in a Uniform	Return the Gift	v2
(r)Kill Hannah	All That He Wants (American Jet Set)	American Jet Set	Brat Pack
*The Last Shadow Puppets	My Mistakes Were Made for You/Black Plant	The Age of Understatement	Domino
*M83	Graveyard Giri	Saturdays = Youth	Mute
Headlights	Centuries	The Enemies	Polyvinyl
Imogen Heap	Daylight Robbery	Speak for Yourself	RCA Victor
New Order	1963 ('95 Arthur Baker Remix)	Selections from Retro	Warner Brothers
Kristy MacColl	You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby	Galore	IRS
The Cells	They Don't Know	Self-released EP	Self-released
*Zerostars	Sleeping In	Basement Stories	Self-released (www.zerostars.com)
*Scarlett Johansson	Green Grass	Anywhere I Lay My Head	Rhino
Holly Cole	Jersey Girl	Temptation	Alert
Tom Waits	Eggs and Sausage	Nighthawks at the Diner	Asylum
The Normal	Warm Leatherette	Warm Leatherette/T.V.O.D.	Mute
The Cure	Close to Me	The Head on the Door	Fiction
The Happy Mondays	Step On	Pills 'n Thrills and Bellyaches	Elektra
*Portishead	Silence	Third	Island
*Atmosphere	Your Glasshouse	When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold	Rhymesayers
*Tokyo Police Club	In a Cave	Elephant Shell	Saddle Creek
Basement Jaxx	Broken Dreams	Rooty	Astralwerks
Feist	Inside and Out	Let It Die	Polydor
DeVotchKa	Basso Profundo	A Mad & Faithful Telling	Anti-
*Haale	A Dar Shekasteh	No Ceiling	Channel A
*The Thalia Zedek Band	Begin to Exhume	Liars and Prayers	Thrill Jockey
Tijuana Hercules	This Orchard is Rotten	Tijuana Hercules	Black Pisces
The Husbands	Cut Me Loose	There's Nothing I'd Like More Than to See You Dead	Swami
*Santogold	Say Aha	Santogold	Downtown
The Propellerheads feat. Miss Shirley Bassey	History Repeating (Knee Length Mix)	History Repeating singlem	Wall of Sound
Serge Gainsbourg	Chez Les Yé-Yé	Love and the Beat 1 (L'amour à la Gainsbourg)	Mercury
*Islands	Pieces of City	Arm's Way	Anti-
*The Presets	Yippiyo-Ay	Apocalypso	Modular
(r)Gary Wilson	Gary's in the Park	Mary Had Brown Hair	Stones Throw
Turner Joy	Should Know Better	Hope	Mohofusu
The London Suede	She's in Fashion	Headmusic	Columbia

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posted by Tony at 8:23 AM | 1 comments

Smooth, dude

Finn and Charlie has just been posted.

The boxes are the wrong dimensions, horrors, which makes an already wordy comic look wordier. But, ya know, it's fine.

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Eliminate the Ninnies and the Twits - 5/9 show

Just a playlist now, music notes to come later in another post.

*: new stuff
(r): requests

artist	song	album	label
Devo	Through Being Cool	Hot Potatoes	Virgin
Lady Sovereign	9 to 5	Public Warning	Island/Def Jam
*Does It Offend You, Yeah?	Being Bad Feels Pretty Good	You Have No Idea What You are Getting Yourself Into	Almost Gold
*Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	Albert Goes West	Dig, Lazarus Dig!!!	Anti-
Chin Up Chin Up	Why Is My Sleeping Bag a Ghetto Muppet?	We Should Never Have Lived Like We Were Skyscrapers	Flameshovel
*Otter Petter	Moment's End	Fireflies and Lamplights	Self-released
Saint Etienne	Lose That Girl	Trave Edition 1990-2005	Sub Pop
*Cut Copy	Nobody Lost, Nobody Found	In Ghost Colours	Modular
Ella Fitzgerald	Sunny	Things Ain't What They Used to Be	Reprise
Thunderbirds Are Now!	Ppl R Anmls	Make History	French Kiss
Psalm One feat. DJDQ of Glue	Beat the Drum	The Death of Frequent Flyer	Rhymesayer
*Flight of the Conchords	Inner City Pressure	Flight of the Conchords	Sub Pop
Pet Shop Boys	West End Girls	Discography	EMI
Talking Heads	Thank You for Sending Me an Angel	More Songs about Buildings and Food	Sire
Elliott Smith	Baby Britain	XO	Dreamworks
Leonard Cohen	Morning Glory	Dear Heather	Columbia
The Tiger Lilies	Hailstones	Plague Songs	4AD
*Portishead	Machine Gun	Third	Island
*Zerostars	Family Tree	Basement Stories	Self-released (zerostars.com)
The Earlies	The Ground We Walk On	The Enemy Chorus	Secretly Canadian
*Haale	Off-Duty Fortune Teller	No Ceiling	Channel A
(r)Gogol Bordello	Zina-Marina	Super Taranta!	Side One Dummy
Luxury	Countdown	Yellow Pills: Prefill	Numero Group
The Noisettes	Don't Give Up	What's the Time Mr Wolf?	Universal/Motown
The Husbands	Sha La La Daniel	There's Nothing I'd Like More Than to See You Dead	Swami
*Clinic	Tomorrow	Do It!	Domino
*Santogold	Lights Out	Santogold	Downtown
Selda	Yaylalar	Selda	B-Music/Finders Keepers

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The more things stay the same...

Another Finn and Charlie is up for your reading amusement.

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Inventing Situations - 5/2 show

One of the new albums in the studio is by the New Zealand parodists Flight of the Conchords. Humor bands can get tiresome, but these guys seem pretty good. The song I played is a parody of a French 60's pop, and features the kind of French dialogue that you can understand if you've ever studied French, ever, even for just a year. It's a funny song (with a funny video).

Anyway, this inspired me to play a full set of French songs. In the 80's, the French pop music scene was a bit of a wasteland, but now they are producing a lot of good stuff. Everyone knows Air by now; they made the soundtrack to the movie The Virgin Suicides, and last year's Pocket Symphony was one of my favorite albums of the year. So, what else is there?

Camille came recommended to me by my friend Graziella. Her music is reminiscent of afropop, with overdubbed harmonies that sound like Zap Mama. I picked Le Fil up last spring (2007), but it's a couple of years older than that.

Les Négresses Vertes started in the late 80's mixing rock with bal musette; sometime in the 90's they shifted their sound to something much more electronic and dancey. I picked up Trabendo in 1999.

Stereo Total is band that's also gotten some international attention. The duo do not sing well, but it's good rock music, and good singing is not required.

I've been trying to think of other French bands I know, that I could have played — Louise Attaque, Les Innocents, Olivia Ruiz, Superbus, L'Affaire Louis Trio, Orwell, Justice, Paris Combo, Uztaglote. Am I missing anything?

(Not to mention Quebecois bands and artists like Ghislain Poirier and Les Sequelles. Really, that's a whole other scene.)

*: new stuff
(r): requests

artist	song	album	label
Talking Heads	Found a Job	More Songs about Buildings and Food	Sire
Bebel Gilberto	Bring Back the Love (Bombay Dub Orchestra Remix)	Bring Back the Love Remixes	Six Degrees
*Pomegranates	Thunder Meadow	Everything's Alive	Lujo
*Jamie Lidell	A Little Bit of Feel Good	Jim	Warp
Universal Jubileers	Childhood Days	Good God! A Gospel Funk Hymnal	Numero Group
*Portishead	The Rip	Third	Island
Nina Simone	You Better Know It	My Baby Just Cares for Me	Duchesse
The Zincs	Burdensome Son	Black Pompadour	Thrill Jockey
Antony & the Johnsons	Deeper than Love	Antony & the Johnsons	Secretly Canadian
*REM	Mr. Richards	Accelerate	Warner Brothers
The Red Krayola	Born in Flames	Singles (1968 - 2002)	Drag City
Canasta	Microphone Song	We Were Set Up	Broken Middle C
*Tokyo Police Club	Your English is Good	Elephant Shell	Saddle Creek
The Smiths	Hand in Glove	Hatful of Hollow	Sire
The London Suede	Can't Get Enough	Headmusic	nude/Columbia
*(r)The Foals	Cassius	Antidotes	Sub Pop
*Flight of the Conchords	Foux de Fafa	Flight of the Conchords	Sub Pop
Camille	La jeune fille aux cheveux blancs	Le fil	Virgin
Les Négresses Vertes	Les mégots	Trabendo	Virgin France
Stereo Total	Miss Rébellion	Paris-Berlin	Kill Rock Stars
*Haale	No Ceiling	No Ceiling	Channel A
*Why?	Simeon's Dilemma	Alopecia	Anticon
Paper Airplane Pilots	Helium Balloon	Western Automatic Music	Spade Kitty
*Zerostars	Sleeping In	Basement Stories	Self-released zerostars.com
Shy Child	Break Your Neck	One with the Sun	Say Hey Records
*Man Man	The Ballad of Butter Beans	Rabbit Habits	Anti-
Astrud Gilberto	Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)	Jazz Masters 9	Verve

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posted by Tony at 10:38 AM | 1 comments