Playlist: Kinky Afro, 3RRR August 12

I filled in for Karen Leng last night on Triple R's Kinky Afro program. Below is the playlist for anyone playing at home. Be aware too that the Radiothon is on at the moment, its the perfect time to show your support for the station and the good work it does across the year. Plus you can win prizes too. Yay! Join me from 4pm next week for a radiothon special of Kinky Afro... meanwhile, the playlist:

Kinky Afro, 4-7pm August 12 2010

The Black Keys - the only one
Beach Fossils - daydream
Deerhunter - revival
Jim O'Rourke - Ghost Ship in a Storm
Damien Jurado - Cloudy Shoes
Menomena - TAOS
Fang Island - treeton
ceo - white magic
Long long long - cuba gooding jr
JEFF the brotherhood - heavy krishna
Mystery Jets - the girl is gone
Yo La Tengo - Centre of gravity
Ratatat - drugs
tunng - don't look down or back
Sun Kil Moon - admiral fell promises
Dan Kelly - cool water
Avi Buffalo - whats in it for?
Arcade Fire - deep blue
Blitzen Trapper - the tree
Suckers - a mind I knew
The Books - all you need is a wall
No Age - glitter
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - bright lit blue skies
National Trust - see no evil
Beat Connection - in the water
Super Melody - champagne glass
PVT - window
((PVT interview))
PVT - and radiation
!!! - jamie my intentions are bass
Wild Nothing - the witching hour
The Ancients - street funk
The Solomons - ways of escape
Gold Tango - just an experiment
Panda Bear - tomboy
Twin Sister - all around and away we go
Happy Birthday - subliminal message
Envelopes - party
Archers of Loaf - harnessed in slums
Dr Dog - unbearable why
Spoon - i summon you

More here: http://www.rrr.org.au/program/kinky-afro/

Pavement on Kinky Afro

I presented the Kinky Afro program on Triple R again tonight. And my special guests were Bob Nastanovich and Mark Ibold from the newly reformed PAVEMENT. As is not immediately evident from the photo above I was FRICKING NERVOUS and excited to be interviewing them. I even got all indie-fanboy and not only got a photo but had them sign by Dancing With The Elders and Father To A Sister of Thought 7" singles. I will try to attach the interview soon, but for now here is the tracklist from the program:

Pocahaunted - save yourself (its nice)
Otouto - twelve ten
Modest Mouse - novocaine stain
Harlem - gay human bones
Guided By Voices - underwater explosions
Pavement - in the mouth a desert
** Pavement Interview with Bob Nastanovich and Mark Ibold **
Pavement - at&t
Pavement - date with ikea
Pavement - silent kit
Here We Go Magic - collector
MGMT - flash delirium
Holly Miranda - no one just is
Calexico with Iron and Wine - history of lovers
Smith Westerns - girl in love
Besnard Lakes - and this is what we call progress
Dum Dum Girls - heart of stone
Spoon - trouble come running
Neon Indian - sleep paralysist
Freelance Whales - generator 2nd floor
Bell Weather Department - hole in the sky
Joanna Newsom - soft as chalk
The Morning Benders - promises
Ruby Suns - cranberry
Sparklehorse - saturday
Sparklehorse - someday i will treat you good
Sparklehorse - hundreds of sparrows
Sparklehorse - gold day
Sparklehorse - sick of goodbyes
Sparklehorse + Danger Mouse - just war (with Gruff Rhys)
Sparklehorse - its a sad and beautiful world
Real Estate - Fake Blues
Surfer Blood - swim
Predrag Delibasich - serpent bites the young lion
Caribou - odessa
Tame Impala - 41 mosquitos (Canyons remix)

You'll notice that I played a bunch of tracks from SPARKLEHORSE. In case you were not aware Mark Linkous, the 47 year old singer-songwriter behind the name, died on March 6th. He committed suicide, and had been battling depression for many years. It's incredibly sad news. Robin Hilton pays tribute here on the All Songs Considered blog.

Here's just one of his beautiful songs:

Pavement reformation ist rad

I should have posted this last week (well, i did but on Twitter, not here). It seems that my favourite band ever - PAVEMENT - is reforming for a world-wide tour in 2010. Their tour begins on September 21st, the first of four shows at Rumsey Playfield in New York's Central Park. On how the reunion came about Spiral Stairs (aka Scott Kannberg) told Prefix Mag:

"Steve and I just had a conversation on the phone, and we'd never talked about it before at all,” he said. “We've talked over the years, but the subject never came up. Then our agent asked us about these New York shows, so we went around to everybody in the band, and they said, 'Yeah, the time is right. If everybody's ready to do it, then we'll do it and see what happens'. There was no real impetus – it just kind of happened naturally."

More awesome details at matador.com and crookedrain.com

Fingers crossed for Australian dates, although it is tempting to buy tickets and a plane fare for NYC! VERY tempting...



Stephen Malkmus is in Australia this week anyway. I'll be seeing him on Wednesday at the Prince of Wales... AND Spiral Stairs is also in town too... coincidence? Hmm.