Show #3!
•123 Stop by The Postelles was going to be in the last show, but it seemed like a perfect song to open up with. It makes me want to get up and dance like it's the 50s. Why can't I live in another decade just for a few days?
•When We Were Animals by Data_recovery.... this song is pretty good, but I really don't understand why this band added an underscore to their band name.
•Kill The Light by Kitten. FREEINDIE.COM, I LOVE YOU. I can get picky with female singers in general, but I really enjoy this band. Sort of remind me of Florence + the Machine (who will be in the next show actually).
•Back of Your Neck by Howler. I think I actually found a recommendation of this band in Blender Magazine...wait no, Blender doesn't even exist anymore. Kerrang? Q? Man, I don't even remember what magazine it was anymore. But I was doing an assignment for my marketing class reading whatever magazine it was.
•Bears by Sam Issac. Thanks, Grooveshark. I still like you more than Spotify (it this was twitter I would hashtag it #unpopularopinion)
•I Get High by Fastball. I think that songs about getting high are super cliche, but this was my favorite song by this artist musically so I had to play it. Seeing the name I thought it would be some poorly done, joke song, but you know what? They sound amazing. Actually, very much like Counting Crows. Pretty sure I found them on a Counting Crows Grooveshark station.
•Paralyzed by Rock Kills Kid. This band reminds me of the Dandy Warhols (just wait for the next show's playlist!).
•Ordinary World by Get Set Go was found on a Grooveshark station. I bought it on itunes. Yeah, I still buy music, thank you very much.
•Montreal Calling by Mobile. Is a Canadian band. In the next playlist you'll hear more about my love for Canadians. For now, listen to this band.
•Mirage by The Relay Company. This band was suggested to me by my friend, Mackie. Not a huge fan of the singer's voice but this song is super catchy, I can't help but like it. Minus the dubstep part....
•Rails by Dave House really reminds me of Meet Pause, a band from New Jersey who I've played on the show before (and I've also booked to play the co-op March 16th).
•Young Love by I Love Monsters is a fun song, but once again, what is up with these band names??
•This Is What Rock N Roll Looks Like by Porcelain Black. Uhhh so this song. I don't even know. I actually found this song through somebody else's blog for this very Social Media class. I have a love/hate relationship with it. I don't really understand why a pop artist is singing about rock and roll (but I guess she isn't the first to do it), but it's so catchy (there I go again with that word, "catchy"). But Lil' Wayne being featured in this song. Why? Just why?
•And this lovely playlist ends with a song requested by my friend, Adrian, Now That We Found Love by Heavy D. Takin' it back to his younger days.
If you have any requests yourself LET ME KNOW! COMMENT HERE OR THE FACEBOOK PAGE OR EMAIL ME AT ALEXANDRA.BELLINK@PURCHASE.EDU ....not in caps.
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
Show #2
Greetings friends! Here's the playlist for the second show of this semester.
First off I would just like to say thank you to everybody who has been listening. This semester has had a great deal of listeners compared to last semester. I had 13 listeners at one point during the second show, which sounds like nothing, but because WPSR is very independently run and not on radiowaves, it can be difficult to get a lot of listeners. Some shows will only have 4 or 5 listeners at a time, so I am quite happy that I had 13 consistant listeners during my second show of the semester. I was also extremely happy with the playlist. Let's review!
•Some Nights by Fun. whose sophomore album (also entitled Some Nights) came out just yesterday. The album was streaming early, last week and I just cannot stop listening to this song, especially. It makes me feel like I'm on an African Safari.
•Pachuca Sunrise by Minus the Bear was the second song. Just another band that everybody else seems to already listen to that I didn't because I judge bands by their names. Hey, nobody said I wasn't judgmental.
•Various Kitchen Utensils by Skybox is next up. A song that I found on Grooveshark, a great site where you can play a "radio" and put in any song and have similar songs play afterwards. This song came up on Grooveshark after another song on the playlist called Empire by Jukebox the Ghost, which I literally cannot stop listening to. I have 16 plays on it in the past 6 days alone. And that's not including plays on my iphone...
•The Whip by Locksley makes me want to throw on a skirt and go to a sock hop... which was perfect because that week the co-op held a 50s diner which was quite successful!
•Brooklyn Bridge is by an amazing band right here on our very campus called Coyote Campus. I booked these guys for a Welcome Back show at the Food Co Op the second week of school and I was beyond excited with the outcome. They are an amazingly talented group of musicians and if they do not end up famous within the next few years, I may lose faith in the entire universe.
•Forget Me by Dozens. I really love this band, who remind me of Y LUV, a band that I played last semester on the show.
•Lipsmack by LA Font. I think I also found this band on freeindie.com.
•Mexico by Satellite Stories. Another song that I cannot seem to get out of my head.
•Tongue Tied by Grouplove. Well apparently this band is a lot bigger than I realized because the day after playing it on the show, I went to visit my friend at SUNY New Paltz and in their dining hall who did I happen to see a video of on MTVU? Grouplove!
•Can You Tell by Ra Ra Riot was a request from my dearest friend, Ashley Collins. I didn't expect to like them that much, but I was wrong on that! Ashley, send me more of their music!
•That's My Girl by Sam V was also a request by my friend Mackie in Las Vegas. Sam V is a rapper and friend of hers.
•No Control by Glitter Freeze is another Freeindie.com band. It's true, I'm a sucker for electronic pop.
•Scottish Winds by Frightened Rabbit is once again, a band I found on Freeindie.com (this site is great, seriously). They remind me a bit of Mumford and Son.
•The Eloise Suite by Lightsout is another band from Freeindie.
•And we end the playlist with Collector by Here We Go Magic. I always like to find a perfect ending song for my playlists and keep the longer songs over 5 minutes to the end.
To everybody who listened, thank you and I hope you enjoyed the show! If you didn't and are reading this, CHECK OUT THESE BANDS!
First off I would just like to say thank you to everybody who has been listening. This semester has had a great deal of listeners compared to last semester. I had 13 listeners at one point during the second show, which sounds like nothing, but because WPSR is very independently run and not on radiowaves, it can be difficult to get a lot of listeners. Some shows will only have 4 or 5 listeners at a time, so I am quite happy that I had 13 consistant listeners during my second show of the semester. I was also extremely happy with the playlist. Let's review!
•Some Nights by Fun. whose sophomore album (also entitled Some Nights) came out just yesterday. The album was streaming early, last week and I just cannot stop listening to this song, especially. It makes me feel like I'm on an African Safari.
•Pachuca Sunrise by Minus the Bear was the second song. Just another band that everybody else seems to already listen to that I didn't because I judge bands by their names. Hey, nobody said I wasn't judgmental.
•Various Kitchen Utensils by Skybox is next up. A song that I found on Grooveshark, a great site where you can play a "radio" and put in any song and have similar songs play afterwards. This song came up on Grooveshark after another song on the playlist called Empire by Jukebox the Ghost, which I literally cannot stop listening to. I have 16 plays on it in the past 6 days alone. And that's not including plays on my iphone...
•The Whip by Locksley makes me want to throw on a skirt and go to a sock hop... which was perfect because that week the co-op held a 50s diner which was quite successful!
•Brooklyn Bridge is by an amazing band right here on our very campus called Coyote Campus. I booked these guys for a Welcome Back show at the Food Co Op the second week of school and I was beyond excited with the outcome. They are an amazingly talented group of musicians and if they do not end up famous within the next few years, I may lose faith in the entire universe.
•Forget Me by Dozens. I really love this band, who remind me of Y LUV, a band that I played last semester on the show.
•Lipsmack by LA Font. I think I also found this band on freeindie.com.
•Mexico by Satellite Stories. Another song that I cannot seem to get out of my head.
•Tongue Tied by Grouplove. Well apparently this band is a lot bigger than I realized because the day after playing it on the show, I went to visit my friend at SUNY New Paltz and in their dining hall who did I happen to see a video of on MTVU? Grouplove!
•Can You Tell by Ra Ra Riot was a request from my dearest friend, Ashley Collins. I didn't expect to like them that much, but I was wrong on that! Ashley, send me more of their music!
•That's My Girl by Sam V was also a request by my friend Mackie in Las Vegas. Sam V is a rapper and friend of hers.
•No Control by Glitter Freeze is another Freeindie.com band. It's true, I'm a sucker for electronic pop.
•Scottish Winds by Frightened Rabbit is once again, a band I found on Freeindie.com (this site is great, seriously). They remind me a bit of Mumford and Son.
•The Eloise Suite by Lightsout is another band from Freeindie.
•And we end the playlist with Collector by Here We Go Magic. I always like to find a perfect ending song for my playlists and keep the longer songs over 5 minutes to the end.
To everybody who listened, thank you and I hope you enjoyed the show! If you didn't and are reading this, CHECK OUT THESE BANDS!
Thursday, February 9, 2012
First show success!
Thank you to all of you who listened to the first show of the semester! We started off the show with 6 listeners and went up to 10, with different listeners coming in and out.
In case you missed it, here's a review of the playlist:
•The first song was Hey Beautiful by the band The Solids. If you watch the sitcom How I Met Your Mother (which you should if you don't), you should recognize the song as the show's theme song. Fun fact: The Solids is a band that the producers, Carter Bays and Craig Thomas started in their college years at Wesleyan University.
•Next up we have All By Myself by Mariana's Trench. At the end of last semester, right after my last show one of my roommates and her boyfriend introduced me to this band. We were on our way to Stop N Shop in White Plains and listened to their CD. It was love at first listen and since then I can't stop listening to them.
•As I've stated in the show, I've recently gained a new appreciation and love for Fordham's Public Radio, WFUV and have found many great artists listening to it. Both the third and fourth songs were found from WFUV- Make A Little Noise by Joel Plaskett Emergency and Morning Thought by Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
•The fifth song was no other than Let's Go To The Mall by Robin Sparkles, a Canadian teen pop star 90s. She toured malls all around Canada and she is also played by Cobie Smulders in How I Met Your Mother.
•Next up was a throwback 70s with Terry Jacks' Seasons in the Sun. My friend Adrian who grew up around that time said this really took him back.
•The seventh song is You Were Right by Days Away. To be honest, I forgot where I found this band but I really enjoy them.
•Amber Rubarth with Pilot I found through bandcamp. Always a great place to find music often with free, legal downloads.
•Company of Thieves seems to already be pretty popular but I just fell in love with them a few weeks ago. Tallulah was indeed on repeat when I first listened to it, being the 9th song on the playlist.
•When You're Dancing by Thomas Bryan Eaton is next and a great song if you're into folk music. I found him through another band I love, Basement Band and he may very well be playing at the Purchase Co Op in April. Watch out for that!
•And speaking of Basement Band, the next song was one of theirs called July. I've loved this band since they formed in 2005. The drummer and lead singer were counselors at a camp that I went to which is how I found out about them. When I was 17 I tried to go see them with my friend at a bar. We got in for the first 30 minutes, left to get dinner and were unable to get back in later on because it was actually a 21+ show.
•If you're from Jersey you may have heard of the record label, Tiny Giants. I've found many great bands through them and Those Mockingbirds is another. The 12th song is by them and called Don't Stray.
•Elijah Ocean's A Glass of Water is the next song. He also may be playing at the Co-op in April.
•Episodes by Pela is next. This band broke up several years ago and the song that I really wanted to play called Lost to the Lonesome was nowhere to be found for download. Don't you just hate it when you find out about a band after they've broken up?
•The second to last song is by my all time favorite band, The Rocket Summer. In December I saw him play a very special show in which he played his first two albums, Calendar Days and Hello Good Friend in it's entirety. At the show he sold a special edition vinyl of Calendar Days along with a download to a previously unreleased song called Shoots and Ladders.
•And finally we end the show was an extravagant musical like song sung by Neil Patrick Harris for the 100th episode of How I Met Your Mother. Everybody should go and watch the video clip for Nothing Suits Me Like a Suit on Youtube. Now.
TUNE IN NEXT THURSDAY AT 8PM FOR MORE AWESOME TUNES.
In case you missed it, here's a review of the playlist:
•The first song was Hey Beautiful by the band The Solids. If you watch the sitcom How I Met Your Mother (which you should if you don't), you should recognize the song as the show's theme song. Fun fact: The Solids is a band that the producers, Carter Bays and Craig Thomas started in their college years at Wesleyan University.
•Next up we have All By Myself by Mariana's Trench. At the end of last semester, right after my last show one of my roommates and her boyfriend introduced me to this band. We were on our way to Stop N Shop in White Plains and listened to their CD. It was love at first listen and since then I can't stop listening to them.
•As I've stated in the show, I've recently gained a new appreciation and love for Fordham's Public Radio, WFUV and have found many great artists listening to it. Both the third and fourth songs were found from WFUV- Make A Little Noise by Joel Plaskett Emergency and Morning Thought by Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
•The fifth song was no other than Let's Go To The Mall by Robin Sparkles, a Canadian teen pop star 90s. She toured malls all around Canada and she is also played by Cobie Smulders in How I Met Your Mother.
•Next up was a throwback 70s with Terry Jacks' Seasons in the Sun. My friend Adrian who grew up around that time said this really took him back.
•The seventh song is You Were Right by Days Away. To be honest, I forgot where I found this band but I really enjoy them.
•Amber Rubarth with Pilot I found through bandcamp. Always a great place to find music often with free, legal downloads.
•Company of Thieves seems to already be pretty popular but I just fell in love with them a few weeks ago. Tallulah was indeed on repeat when I first listened to it, being the 9th song on the playlist.
•When You're Dancing by Thomas Bryan Eaton is next and a great song if you're into folk music. I found him through another band I love, Basement Band and he may very well be playing at the Purchase Co Op in April. Watch out for that!
•And speaking of Basement Band, the next song was one of theirs called July. I've loved this band since they formed in 2005. The drummer and lead singer were counselors at a camp that I went to which is how I found out about them. When I was 17 I tried to go see them with my friend at a bar. We got in for the first 30 minutes, left to get dinner and were unable to get back in later on because it was actually a 21+ show.
•If you're from Jersey you may have heard of the record label, Tiny Giants. I've found many great bands through them and Those Mockingbirds is another. The 12th song is by them and called Don't Stray.
•Elijah Ocean's A Glass of Water is the next song. He also may be playing at the Co-op in April.
•Episodes by Pela is next. This band broke up several years ago and the song that I really wanted to play called Lost to the Lonesome was nowhere to be found for download. Don't you just hate it when you find out about a band after they've broken up?
•The second to last song is by my all time favorite band, The Rocket Summer. In December I saw him play a very special show in which he played his first two albums, Calendar Days and Hello Good Friend in it's entirety. At the show he sold a special edition vinyl of Calendar Days along with a download to a previously unreleased song called Shoots and Ladders.
•And finally we end the show was an extravagant musical like song sung by Neil Patrick Harris for the 100th episode of How I Met Your Mother. Everybody should go and watch the video clip for Nothing Suits Me Like a Suit on Youtube. Now.
TUNE IN NEXT THURSDAY AT 8PM FOR MORE AWESOME TUNES.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Three similar blogs
Brooklyn Vegan, a well known website reviews shows and upcoming concerts mainly in the New York area. What's great is that they review all sorts of genres of music and keep up to date on events. I too will be discussing tour dates and reviews of any artists I have on my playlist for Discover the Undiscovered. Brooklyn Vegan even sponsors their own events often which would be something that I would love to do.
Fucking Nosalgic also looks at new and upcoming artists with reviews on them. Updated quite regularly they even include reviews with artists which is a goal I have for my own blog. I would also love to gain the popularity that they have on both my blog and radio show.
Hear Ya is another pop music review blog. On this site free streaming of the artists being reviewed are including for the reader to understand the reviews themselves. This is a terrific idea which I would love to do on my own blog in case readers missed the radio show when I played the music. WIth the live sessions on this site I am also inspired to get bands into the studio on my show and upload that.
Fucking Nosalgic also looks at new and upcoming artists with reviews on them. Updated quite regularly they even include reviews with artists which is a goal I have for my own blog. I would also love to gain the popularity that they have on both my blog and radio show.
Hear Ya is another pop music review blog. On this site free streaming of the artists being reviewed are including for the reader to understand the reviews themselves. This is a terrific idea which I would love to do on my own blog in case readers missed the radio show when I played the music. WIth the live sessions on this site I am also inspired to get bands into the studio on my show and upload that.
Welcome back!
Discover the Undiscovered is now in it's second semester! If you're just tuning in, Discover the Undiscovered is my radio show in which I focus on playing bands that are not so well known and waiting to be discovered. Sometimes I'll throw in major label bands that you've probably already heard just because I love them and think you should too. I cannot reveal the first show's playlist quite yet but tune in Thursday February 9th at 8pm to WPSR online for the first show!
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