Playlist for September 21, 2015

Posted: September 21, 2015 by brainwaves in Playlists
Band Song
Owl City When Will I See You Again?
Marshall Crenshaw Whenever You’re on my Mind
The New Pornographers Champions of Red Wine
The Handsome Family Far From Any Road
Calexico Cruel
It Bites Still Too Young to Remember
Chris Mars Don’t You See It
American Music Club The Horseshoe Wreath in Bloom
The Bats Simpletons
The Electrolites Sunny Pasadena
Vampire Weekend Oxford Comma
Nava Tehila Band Hallelujah
  Katamari Damacy
Gary Numan Cars
Grouplove Tongue Tied
Neon Trees Love in the 21st Century
Vance Joy Riptide
Aviv Blum Your Song (cover: Elton John)
Crosby Stills Nash and Young Woodstock
Echo and the Bunnymen Altamont
Counting Crows Hangin’ Around
Matt Pond PA The Hollows
Cloud Cult Everybody Here is a Cloud
Cloud Room We Sleep in the Ocean
A.C. Newman The Cloud Prayer
Teenage Fan Club Dark Clouds
The Rolling Stones Get Off of My Cloud
The Bangles Under a Cloud
Peter Gabriel Red Rain
Keira Knightley Tell Me if You Wanna Go Home
Glen Hansard Trying to Pull Myself Away
New Models Strangers in Disguise
Bow Wow Wow I Want Candy
Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark Electricity
Deaf School What a Way to End it All

Podcast for September 14, 2015

Posted: September 14, 2015 by brainwaves in Podcasts

September 14, 2015

Playlist for September 14, 2015

Posted: September 14, 2015 by brainwaves in Playlists
Band Song
Blackfield Pills
  Lost Souls
Steven Wilson Drive Home
Pearl Harbor and the Explosions Drivin’
Madness Driving in my Car
R.E.M. Drive
Arco Driving at Night
Neil Halstead Driving with Bert
Camera Obscura Happy New Year
Spirit of the West Another Happy New Year
Azure Ray The New Year
The Idan Raichel Project Blessings for the New year
The Madboojah Project Raul
The Rewiring Genesis Project Cuckoo Cocoon (cover: Genesis)
The Polyphonic Spree Let Them Be
Jason Mraz Wordplay
The Ozark Mountain Devils Jackie Blue
Christie Yellow River
Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Coldplay Yellow
Cribabi Yellow Herring
Of Monsters and Men Yellow Light
The Cranberries Forever Yellow Skies
20/20 Yellow Pills
The Green and Yellow TV Monday, Tuesday
Death Cab for Cutie Doors Unlocked and Open
Snow Patrol Chasing Cars
Human Sexual Response Andy Fell
Auto Escape Falling Asleep in the Snow
The Fray Fall Away
  Theme song to the TV show “Speed Racer”
Deaf School What a Way to End it All

Podcast for September 7, 2015

Posted: September 7, 2015 by brainwaves in Podcasts

September 7, 2015

Playlist for Septemer 7, 2015

Posted: September 7, 2015 by brainwaves in Playlists
Band Song
Maya Isacowitz Watch Me
  When I Get There
Sharon Van Etten I Don’t Want to Let You Down
Alt-J Arrival in Nara
Kodaline High Hopes
The Hutchinsons 1(800)Messiah
Shalom Hanoch Waiting for Messiah
Brian Wilson (feat: Kacey Musgraves) Guess You Had to Be There
Death Cab for Cutie I Was a Kaleidoscope
Islands We Swim
The XX Islands (Blue Nile Mix)
Cat Power Island
Said Cleaves Call it Sleep
The Fray All at Once
Pete Yorn The Man
Magnetic Fields The Things We Did and Didn’t Do
Tomihira World Class
Al Stewart On the Border
Elton John Border Song
So Called Ich Bin a Border by Mayn Vayb
Thomas Dolby Europa and the Pirate Twins
Jane Woodman Sister Europe (cover: The Psychedelic Furs)
The Psychedelic Furs No Tears
Siouxsie and the Banshees Christine (the Strawberry Girl)
Prince Raspberry Berry
The Shins We Will Become Silhouettes (cover: The Postal Service)
The Postal Service Such Great Heights
The Flaming Lips All You Need is Love (cover: The Beatles)
The The This is the Day
Phoenix Consolation Prizes
Buddhahead When I Fall
Caveman Sinners Grove
Cerulean Quiet Release
Deaf School What a Way to End it All

Podcast for August 31, 2015

Posted: August 31, 2015 by brainwaves in Podcasts

August 31, 2015

Playlist for August 31, 2015

Posted: August 31, 2015 by brainwaves in Playlists
Band Song
Brian Wilson Our Prayer, Gee
  Heroes and Villains
The Motors Forget About You
The New Pornographers Testament to Youth in Verse
The Polyphonic Spree You’re Golden
Guster Lightning Rod
The Talking Heads Heaven
Barenaked Ladies Gonna Walk
Hole Boys on the Radio
The Bangles Lay Yourself Down
Mishael Dickman Couch Potato (new version)
New Order Temptation
Bill Nelson Close Your Eyes
Snow Patrol Open Your Eyes
Lords of the New Church Open Your Eyes
Keane Yours Eyes Open
Kaveret The Ballad of Ari and Derchi
Vicky Lawrence The Nights the Lights Went Out in Georgia
Jefferson Starship Jane
The Slants Con Kids
The Steeples Britney’s Tears
The Stone Roses She Bangs the Drums
R.E.M. Good Advices
Nada Surf Agony of Lafitte (cover: Spoon)
Spoon Everything Hits at Once
Counting Crows Four Days
Bloc Party Day Four
Mashina She Argued with Him for Hours
LCD Soundsystem Tribulations
David Broza Y Tu
Stereolab Percolator
Deaf School What a Way to End it All

Podcast for August 24, 2015

Posted: August 24, 2015 by brainwaves in Podcasts

August 24, 2015

Playlist for August 24, 2015

Posted: August 24, 2015 by brainwaves in Playlists

It’s the Brainwaves annual all “summer” show – where every song has “summer” in the title.

Band Song
Sounds Under Radio Portrait of a Summer Thief
Blackfield Summer
Blitzen Trapper Summer Town
Alice Cooper School’s Out for Summer
Fountains of Wayne The Summer Place
Bowling for Soup Summer of ‘69
Pink Floyd Summer ‘68
The Decemberists Summersong
The Cure The Last Days of Summer
The Gin Blossoms Idiot Summer
Matt Pond PA Summer (Butcher Two)
  Summer is Coming
Wiretrain Skills of Summer
Regina Spektor Summer in the City
R.E.M. Summer Turns to High
Death Cab for Cutie Summer Skin
Meatloaf Hot Summer Night (You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth)
Mungo Jerry In the Summertime
Seals & Crofts Summer Breeze
Simple Minds Someone Somewhere in Summertime
The Stranglers Midnight Summer Dream
Electric Light Orchestra One Summer Dream
The Wallflowers Feels Like Summer Again
Patti Smith Summer Cannibals
Barenaked Ladies Summertime
The Lovin’ Spoonful Summer in the City
The Monkees The Door Into Summer
One Direction Summer Love
Fountains of Wayne It Must be Summer
Jonathan Coulton Summer’s Over
Donna Summer On the Radio
Vanity Fare Summer Morning

Playlist for August 17, 2015

Posted: August 17, 2015 by brainwaves in Playlists

The “pretty” show – where every song passes the “Jody test.”

Band Song
Teenage Fanclub Sometimes I Don’t Need to Believe in Anything
The Church Under the Milky Way
Cheap Star You’ve Got it All
Matt Pond PA The Hollows
Josh Pyke Someone Else’s Town
Rosi Golan Shine
Blackfield Jupiter
The Bangles Eternal Flame
Nick Hewyard Kite
Queen ‘39
Passenger Let Her Go
Asaf Avidan and the Mojos A Ghost Before the Wall
Beck Blackbird Chain
Adrina Thorpe Sorry
Edie Carey Under a Sky
The Doobie Brothers Another Park Another Sunday
Bread Aubrey
R.E.M. Talk About the Passion
Iron & Wine Naked As We Came
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova When Your Mind’s Made Up
The Go Betweens Streets of Your Town
Aviv Geffen You Were Born to Love
Snow Patrol Cartwheels
Mike Cavenaugh Peacefully
Lily Frost All I Ever Wanted to Be
Lucy Schwartz When We Were Young
Maya Isacowitz Safe and Sound
Joe Jackson Different For Girls
No-Man Something Falls
Keane This is the Last Time
Deaf School What a Way to End it All