As we do every quarter here on the Palo Alto Pop Overthrow, we have our quarterly retrospective, where we play one song from each of our featured albums, along with the weekly featured track.
Thanks for another fun quarter of the Palo Alto Pop Overthrow - I hope you continue to join us at our new, expanded time slot: Tuesdays from 7-9AM PDT/10-Noon EDT, only on KZSU Stanford, 90.1FM.
Here's what was played on the Palo Alto Pop Overthrow for September 30, 2008:
** Featured Album * Featured Track + Former Feature @ Request/Dedication
Palo Alto Pop Overthrow with Phil Andrews Tuesdays from 7-9AM PDT/10-Noon EDT KZSU Stanford, 90.1FM / http://kzsulive.stanford.edu/ Blog at http://www.palopop.org/
Fall is here, and so is the new program schedule at KZSU, bringing with it exciting news! The Palo Alto Pop Overthrow is returning to morning drive time, and is increasing to two hours of awesome power pop music to brighten up your morning. Thank you to our loyal listeners for their support - it wouldn't have been possible without you all.
Starting today, Tuesday the 30th, you can hear the sounds of 12 stringed guitars and harmonized vocals with your host Phil Andrews from 7AM to 9AM on the west coast, or from 10AM to Noon on the east coast. If you're in the San Francisco bay area, try tuning to 90.1FM to soothe your commuting pains. Worldwide, listen online at kzsulive.stanford.edu.
Also, I'd like to mention that we have a new email announcement list. I'll be sending out important quarterly updates about air times for the program, a monthly look at what SF Bay concerts are going to tickle your ear, and special email-only previews of interviews we'll be airing on the Palo Alto Pop Overthrow. Sign up today and you'll get a sneak preview of next week's as-yet-unannounced band.
It's a whole new time for the Palo Alto Pop Overthrow. Good things are ahead! This week we're having our quarterly retrospective, where you'll get to hear a one track each from our weekly featured albums and tracks over the past three months. See you this Tuesday--and every Tuesday--from 7-9AM PDT/10-Noon EDT.
Here's what was played on the Palo Alto Pop Overthrow for September 23, 2008:
Artist
Track
Album/Label
**Manning Jr., Roger Joseph
The Quickening
Catnip Dynamite Pony Canyon
+Fountains of Wayne
Radiation Vibe
Fountains of Wayne Tag Recordings
+Splitsville
Forever
The Complete Pet Soul Houston Party Records
**Manning Jr., Roger Joseph
Down in Front
Catnip Dynamite Pony Canyon
+Cash, Brent
Digging the Fault Line
How Will I Know If I'm Awake Marina Records
+Starbelly
Ordinary Now
Everyday and Then Some Not Lame Recordings
**Manning Jr., Roger Joseph
American Affluenza
Catnip Dynamite Pony Canyon
+@Rooney
When Did Your Heart Go Missing?
Calling the World Geffen
Corner Laughers, The
Thunderbird (rough cut)
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW www.myspace.com/cornerlaughers
*They Might Be Giants
Sleeping in the Flowers
John Henry Elektra Records (Local)
Toy Matinee
Queen of Misery
Toy Matinee Reprise Records
Teenage Fanclub
What You Do to Me
Four Thousand Seven Hundred And Sixty-Six Seconds Jetset Records
** Featured Album * Featured Track + Former Feature @ Request/Dedication
Palo Alto Pop Overthrow with Phil Andrews Tuesdays from 10-11PM PDT KZSU Stanford, 90.1FM / http://kzsulive.stanford.edu/ Blog at http://www.palopop.org/
For fans of nerdy pop music, young and old, They Might Be Giants are absolute favorites. On the album "John Henry," TMBG experimented with a fuller, band-backed sound. Today's featured track, "Sleeping in the Flowers," features a guitar solo from Robert Quine.
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Roger Joseph Manning, Jr., or Roger Manning as his friends call him, is an accomplished keyboardist, songwriter, singer, producer, and overall power pop musician. Along with Jason Falkner, he was a member of the Jellyfish, and thereafter went on to be in bands such as Imperial Drag, Air, and TV Eyes.
Today's featured album, "Catnip Dynamite," was released in Japan on Pony Canyon Music. Sadly, unlike his previous Japanese release "Solid State Warrior," which was released in the US as "The Land of Pure Imagination," this new release has not yet made it directly to America.
Favorite tracks: 3. Down in Front, 1. The Quickening, 12. American Affluenza, 10. Living in End Time
** Featured Album * Featured Track + Former Feature @ Request/Dedication
Palo Alto Pop Overthrow with Phil Andrews Tuesdays from 10-11PM PDT KZSU Stanford, 90.1FM / http://kzsulive.stanford.edu/ Blog at http://www.palopop.org/
The Explorers Club is a band from South Carolina, who made a big splash at South by Southwest in 2007 and were promptly signed to Dead Oceans. As KZSU DJ Sadie O has said in her review of "Freedom Wind",
"It doesn’t sound so much derivative to me as much as it sounds like someone discovered the lost acetate of the next record the Beach Boys were gonna put out... I’m not complaining!"
On tonight's episode of the Palo Alto Pop Overthrow, we aired an exclusive interview with Jason Brewer of The Explorers Club. We talked about... ...the wonders of South Carolina ...what it was like co-writing songs on Freedom Wind ...the genesis of Explorers Club as a band ...and lots more! Take a listen:
Favorite tracks: 2. Honey, I Don't Know Why, 1. Forever, 5. Do You Love Me?, 10. Hold Me Tight, 11. Last Kiss
Label: Dead Oceans RIYL: The Beach Boys Five stars. The album is simply addictive and so easy to listen to. When it comes time to draw the line, this will easily make my best of 2008 list.
Here's what was played on the Palo Alto Pop Overthrow for September 9, 2008:
Artist
Track
Album/Label
+New Amsterdams, the
The Spoils of the Spoiled
Worse for the Wear Vagrant Records
+Cineplexx
Tirados
Picnic Portia Records
+Cash, Brent
Digging the Fault Line
How Will I Know If I'm Awake Marina Records
**Sweet, Matthew
Time Machine
Sunshine Lies Shout! Factory
Proto-Pretty
Wondermints
Power Pop of the 90'S Rhino Records
+Corner Laughers, The
Everybody Knows
Tomb of Leopards Sandbox Records
**Sweet, Matthew
Byrdgirl
Sunshine Lies Shout! Factory
+Greenberry Woods, the
#37 (Feels So Strange)
Rapple Dapple Sire Records (Modern)
+Trés Bien
The Way We Know How
Trés Bien Self
**Sweet, Matthew
Back of My Mind
Sunshine Lies Shout! Factory
+Fountains of Wayne
Please Don't Rock Me Tonight
Fountains of Wayne Tag Recordings
+Rooney
I Should've Been After You
Calling the World Geffen/Cherry Tree
*Starbelly
Ordinary Now
Everyday and then Some Not Lame Recordings
** Featured Album * Featured Track + Former Feature @ Request/Dedication
Palo Alto Pop Overthrow with Phil Andrews Tuesdays from 10-11PM PDT KZSU Stanford, 90.1FM / http://kzsulive.stanford.edu/ Blog at http://www.palopop.org/
This track is from Starbelly's second release on Not Lame, entitled "Everyday and then Some." It was completed after Cliff Hillis left the band, and is produced by Andy Bopp (of Myracle Brah.)
Yes folks, the moment you've been waiting for (since 2004) is finally here: Matthew Sweet has released a new album, today's featured album, entitled "Sunshine Lies." Matthew is one of our all-time favorite musicians here on the Palo Alto Pop Overthrow. As we've mentioned in numerous posts, Matthew is the man credited with leading the American Power Pop revival of the 90s. After four years, we're finally treated to another outing with Mr. Sweet, who is joined by the throwback cast of musicians from the "Girlfriend" era, including Ivan Julian, Richard Lloyd, and Greg Leisz. As usual, Ric Menck (of the Velvet Crush), pounds the skins on "Sunshine Lies."
The album falls flat on a few fronts - let's just say it's no "100% Fun." Like the mediocre release "Living Things" from 2004, Matthew seems to put a lot of anger into his increasingly more rock-n-roll and less power pop music. There's more overdrive and less harmony on this disc, which lends me to believe that Matthew is abandoning the ways of albums like "Blue Sky on Mars" or "Kimi Ga Suki" and venturing off into more "Altered Beast" and "Girlfriend" territory.
Favorite tracks: 1. Time Machine, 3. Byrdgirl, 13. Back of my Mind
Here's a little power pop gem to brighten up your work week. Given that we've previously featured both The Greenberry Woods' album "Rapple Dapple" and the track "Forever" from Splitsville, here's a little gift of manna... From their album "Repeater", this is the track "Manna (Say You Believe):"
As promised, here is the full interview I conducted with Jason Falkner and aired this week on the Palo Alto Pop Overthrow. Exclusively for this blog, there are a few extra segments included that weren't aired on the radio. Thanks again to Jason for the chat.
As mentioned in the interview, here's a look at what's in Jason's CD player these days:
Tonight on the Palo Alto Pop Overthrow, we're featuring Jason Falkner's two most recent albums: "I'm OK... You're OK" and "Bedtime with the Beatles 2." Jason was kind enough to talk with your host, Phil Andrews, a few weeks back. Tune in to hear about all sorts of things, like:
Why I'm OK, You're OK took so long to come out (and when it's coming to the US!)
What it was like working for Paul McCartney on "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard"
