Play It As It Lays 2009 Review

Last night's playlist in which I reviewed the bands and/or songs I played most during the year. I organize the bands into three sections: Coach, Business Class, and First Class. First Class had the most spins, etc. The show, Play It As It Lays, airs Wednesday nights from 8-10 PST. You can stream the station online at kuci.org

Play It As It Lays #384
Frequent Flyers 2009

Business Class

God Help The Girl--mary's market [matador] (mp3)
It Hugs Back--work day [4ad]
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart--higher than the stars [slumberland](mp3)
The Depreciation Guild--dream about me [kanine](mp3)
A Place to Bury Strangers--in your heart *cereal spiller remix [mute]
Gus Gus--moss [royal flush]
Lord Newborn & The Magic Skulls--disco loco [ubiquity]
Shawn Lee & Clutchy Hopkins--mimi tatonka [ubiquity]
The Whitefield Brothers--rampage [now again/stones throw]
Yo La Tengo--periodically double or triple [matador](mp3)
Esser--headlock [chocolate industries]
Bishop Allen--the ancient common sense of things [dead oceans](mp3)
Asobi Seksu--me & mary [polyvinyl]
Jason Lytle--yours truly, the commuter [anti]
Bibio--the palm of your wave [warp]

First Class
Mr. Scruff--kalimba [ninja tune]
Quantic & His Combo Barbaro--arianita [tru thoughts]
The Clonious--bugs n' fools [ubiquity]

Most played artist/song this year (I spun them the most last year too. I think I like them):
The Raveonettes--last dance [vice](mp3)

Coach
The xx--basic space [young turks/xl]
Liechtenstein--roses in the park [slumberland](mp3)
Sonic Youth--sacred trickster [matador](mp3)
Japandroids--young hearts spark fire [polyvinyl](mp3)
The Heavy--how you like me now? [counter]
Mexican Institute of Sound--escribeme pronto [nacional]
Rebotini--the spirit of boogie [le plan]

Dukes of Stratosphear aka XTC Box Set + MP3

XTC frontman and Ape House curator Andy Partridge recently released an MP3 from the Dukes of Stratosphear catalog in conjunction with the Dukes' limited box set, which Ape House released late last month. The two Dukes of Stratosphear albums were homages/parodies to the late '60s psychedelic sounds that Partridge listened to on the radio when just a wee lad. I myself was listening to XTC before I even listened to The Beatles—so I blame them for my penchant for all things psychedelic. Buy the box set and get the LPs on 180 gram vinyl and oh, so much more. I'm adding this to my wish list just in time for the holidays.

The Dukes of Stratosphear - I'm the Mole from the Ministry [MP3]

Link to the Ape House store (UK)
Link to Box Set on Amazon (USA)

New Tweets: Efterklang, Eenie Meenie, Bragg-esqueness, Hometapes

A new batch of tweets. Follow us at twitter.com/3hive

Efterklang announce '10 tour dates (U.S. in March) plus release song from third album due 2/23/10: "Modern Drift" http://bit.ly/8thpRA
3 minutes ago from web

Eenie Meenie Records celebrating 10th Anniversary w/ commemorative tee & CD. Sample: Oranger:
http://www.eeniemeenie.com/BrotherBrother.mp3
about 17 hours ago from web

Billy Bragg on speed? Nope. Lost Boy Scout: Out 12/14 from PopArt Records in London: http://bit.ly/8c1okE
9:54 PM Dec 13th from web

"8 Days of Hometapes" begins today with Slaraffenland's "Little Drummer Boy." A full week of holiday cheer.
http://bit.ly/Day1-Slaraffenland
4:40 PM Dec 11th from web

3hive's Top 50 of 2009

Let's go ahead and take a look back on 2009. Here are the most viewed reviews from bands we posted this year on 3hive. Not all of them necessarily released new music this year, though most did. From the top:

1. Bishop Allen
"The Ancient Common Sense of Things" [MP3]

2. The Radio Dept.
"David" [MP3]

3. Black Moth Super Rainbow
"Twin of Myself" [MP3]

4. Castiotone for the Painfully Alone
"Old and Panda Days" [MP3]

5. Milke
"Love Get Out of My Way" [MP3]

6. Lloyd Cole
"Coattails" [MP3]

7. Barzin
"Stayed Too Long in This Place" [MP3]

8. Dan Deacon
"Hi My Name is Robert" [MP3]

9. Men Without Pants
"My Balloon" [MP3]

10. Faunts
"It Hurts Me All the Time" [MP3]

11. Ruckus Roboticus
12. Hope Sandoval
13. Gnarls Barkley
14. Laura Gibson
15. Autokratz
16. The Very Most
17. Loyal Divide
18. The Depreciation Guild
19. Etienne de Crecy
20. John Hopkins
21. The Boy Koan
22. The Deep Dark
23. Paper Moon
24. Not Waving but Drowning
25. The Slew
26. The Soft Pack
27. Julie Doiron
28. William Fitzsimmons
29. Lord Newborn and the Magic Skulls
30. The Pains of Being Alone
31. The Layaways
32. Lymbyc System
33. The Von Bondies
34. Nickodemus
35. Kathleen Edward
36. Helicopters
37. The Submarines
38. Dag Nasty
39. Rae Spoon
40. Point Juncture, WA
41. Mr. Quintron
42. Osborne
43. The Sky Drops
44. Irving
45. The Mattson 2
46. Luke Top
47. Mr. Russia
48. Papermoons
49. Miles Tilmann
50. O+S

Noise Pop 2010 Dates + First Round of Artists

Noise Pop Industries recently announced Noise Pop, the West Coast's preeminent music festival, will take place the week of February 23, 2010 through March 1st. The first round of artists that have been confirmed include Magnetic Fields, Mark Kozelek, Rogue Wave, Atlas Sound, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Four Tet, John Vanderslice, We Were Promised Jet Packs, Wallpaper, Zee Avi, The Limousines & Foreign Born.

The festival also include a mini-conference to explore and discuss all sides and concerns of independent music today. Panelists and Keynote speakers will be announced in the near future.

Festival badges are on sale now for $150. Tickets to individual shows go on sale tomorrow. Stay tuned to the festival website for more announcements and details.

Follow 3hive on Twitter

Firing up the ol' tweet machine. Follow us at twitter.com/3hive. Because we want to fill your head with more music faster.

Here's an example of the last three tweets:

Unsigned UK garage band: Bromheads "Edey" http://bit.ly/5lRWnM

Last Gang Records signs dark, electro popsters: Fan Death. EP 2/10, album 5/10: Check out "Cannibal:" http://bit.ly/8y14Kc

Stereolab+Disco boogie goodness=New Via Audio track "Babies" Album out 2/23/10: http://tinyurl.com/y9lscde

We'd love to have you along...

F&#ked Up Christmas Benefit

Hairy Canadian punks F&#ked Up funded an all-star remake of the Geldof/Ure '80s hit, "Don't They Know It's Christmas" that is scheduled to be release via tomorrow. One hundred percent of the proceeds from the single will go to benefit three organizations in Canada working to bring an end to the epidemic of missing and murdered native women.

The musicians involved include: Yo La Tengo, GZA, Ezra Koenig (Vampire Weekend), Bob Mould (Husker Du), Tegan & Sara, Andrew W.K., Kyp Malone (TV on the Radio), David Cross (comedian) and Kevin Drew (Broken Social Scene). Check Matador Records for more info.

F&#ked Up music:
No Epiphany [MP3]
No Epiphany (No Age Remix) [MP3]
Twice Born [MP3]

Links to the beneficiaries:
Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (Montreal)
DTES Power of Women Group (Vancouver)
Sisters in Spirit (Ottawa)

Shout Out Louds Announce Album Date + MP3

Merge Records announced today that Sweden's Shout Out Louds will release their new record on February 23 of next year. The album was produced by Phil Ek (The Shins, Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses) the first non-Swede to produce a record with the band. The album took shape as the members of the band went their separate ways after touring for their last album. The main songwriter, Adam Olenius, wrote many of the new songs on his own using a synth, acoustic guitar, Garageband, and a laptop. The band then telecommuted their ideas back and forth to each other (one member was in L.A. and the other two in Sweden) until the record took the shape and sound they were happy with. The band is sharing "Walls" as the album's first listen.

Walls [MP3]