December 13, 2004

The Karaoke Kid

This week we had a party with The Fabulous Bakelite Boys in the studio. Thanks again to Jim and Cam for coming up the mountain and playing some great tunes. Here's the playlist:

  1. ? // Donna Summer on the Radio
  2. Bakelite // Division of Fractions
  3. Chinese Stars // Passing Out Nails
  4. Primes // Who's in Control Now
  5. Ex-Dead Teenager // ?
  6. The Stranglers // Curfew
  7. Huey Lewis and the News // The Power of Love
  8. Bad Dudes // Dawn of the Dudes
  9. Wire // 3 Girl Rumba
  10. Dalek I Love You // Destiny
  11. Turn Pale // Sycophant
  12. Ex-Models // You Got Master
  13. The Fall // Hey Luciani
  14. Bakelite // Fall
  15. Rod Stewart // Young Turks

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December 06, 2004

Les Maledictus Sound

First off, a couple How to Bowl housekeeping notes... If you'd like to download the Halloween show, I've finally uploaded a listenable version. I've also posted recordings of the last two weeks. It's all on the sidebar, so download away!

Here's this week's playlist:

  1. Unknown Artist // Ghost Riders in the Sky
  2. Juan De La Cruz Band // Love of a Woman
  3. Daddy's Hands // Summertime
  4. Raymond Scott // Hertz Theme
  5. Raymond Scott // Secret Agent
  6. The Atlantics // Come On
  7. John Rydgren // Girl Watching
  8. The Cowsils // Most of All
  9. Dangerman // New World
  10. Melchoir Alias // L'Arquarium
  11. Bob Dylan // Copper Kettle
  12. Les Maledictus Sound // Inside My Brain
  13. The Ugly Ducklings // Nothin'
  14. Black Rice // The Furious Furious

Be sure to tune in next week for a special guest appearance by Bakelite! The following two weeks will be our Xmas specials.

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November 28, 2004

A Return to Radio

After missing the last 3 weeks, it's good to be back. In my absence, Patrick did some amazing work including an all Guided By Voices show with his friend Jarrett last week. I wasn't able to get a recording of that so lucky you if you tuned in.

Here's this week's playlist:

  1. The Velvett Fogg // Yellow Cave Woman
  2. Burquitlam Plaza // Parents Bowling Fun Night
  3. Camera Obscura // Let's Go Bowling
  4. Nate Dove and the Devils // Ghetto Street USA
  5. POS Crew // POSible Intro
  6. Trash // Living in a Garden
  7. Tom Northcott Trio // Just Don't
  8. The Papercuts // Poor and Free
  9. The Small Faces // Autumn Stone
  10. Xmas // Your Humble Suitor
  11. Pussy // The Open Ground
  12. BBGun // The Wasps and the Bees
  13. The Savoys // Razorback

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October 31, 2004

Halloween to Bowl

This Halloween was absolutely splendid! I hope everyone got a little extra gunpowder in their roman candles this year. I think the Halloween Show was the most fun we've had on the radio yet.

Sorry for the choppiness in the last few minutes of the downloadable version. Sigh. Burned again by the crappy cd burners at the station. I'll upload a cleaner copy next week.

Here lies the haunted playlist:

  1. King Horror // Loch Ness Monster
  2. The Bomboras // Night of the Bomboras
  3. The Shaggs // It's Halloween
  4. Kido Natsuki // Disco Space, Baby
  5. The Haunted Mansion Suite
  6. Loscil // Kursk
  7. The Sonics // The Witch (For Patrick's Dad)
  8. L'Orkestre des Pas Perdus // Bricolage
  9. Old Time Relijin // Vampire Victim
  10. The Bus // If Santa Claus Was A Vampire
  11. The Mongols // Sleepwalk
  12. The Ghastly Ones // Ghastly Stomp
  13. The Great Pumpkin // Vince Guaraldi Trio

We also played the following movie trailers: Carnival of Blood, Curse of the Headless Horseman, and Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks.

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October 24, 2004

Crustless

No theme this week on How to Bowl--unless you count some songs with saxophones. But next week is Halloween, so we're saving our strength.

I finally got the recording of the show figured out. Well, almost. It's maybe a bit loud this week and I forgot to turn it on until after the first song. Anyway, check the sidebar on the right for the link.

Here's what we played:

  1. The Tijuana Bibles // Jetpack
  2. Johnny and the Hurricanes // Red River Rock
  3. William Bell // Any Other Way
  4. Robin and the Mercurys // Robin is Coming
  5. Baron Samedi ESQ. // Not an Afro in Sight
  6. Devendra Banhardt // Little Yellow Spider (For Eve)
  7. Les Angles Morts // La Ronde
  8. Jandek // Live in Glasgow
  9. The Famous Crew // Call Me Darling
  10. The Spiders // Anata to Irutoki Sonnatoki
  11. The Sonics/Japanther // He's Waiting/Super Loser (For Danny)
  12. Only a Mother // Fingers of a Pumpkin

For futher reading: A Guide to Jandek

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October 18, 2004

The Icing

I'd like to say a big thank you to all my friends that I got to spend my birthday with--in one way or another.

Whether it was singing happy birthday in German, dancing your ass off, drinking your ass off, laughing louder than everyone else in the movie theatre, eating vegan treats, or indulging in Denny's or even just having the same birthday...

You folks never cease to amaze and you made my day!


Here's the setlist from the How to Bowl birthday show:

  1. Solex // Take That Gum Out!
  2. Mates of State // These Days
  3. Pulnoc // All Tomorrow's Parties
  4. Lincoln Park Zoo // Love Theme From Haight St.
  5. Zumpano // I Dig You
  6. The Robosexuals // Women and Men
  7. Black Rice // Dressing Up For the Showdown
  8. The Clean // Tally Ho!
  9. Mrs. Miller // September in the Rain
  10. Roy Fleck // Shuffle Off to Buffalo
  11. The Moools // Unknown
  12. A Fever // Bakelite
  13. The Ugly Ducklings // She Ain't No Use to Me

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October 07, 2004

Radio from the Future

Live from Patrick's bedroom alcove on the edge of East Vancouver, I am pleased to present: the How to Bowl Film Festival Special! In honour of the 23rd Annual Vancouver Film Festival, we have put together over an hour of film-themed music, trailers and other cinematic surprises for you. Download it now before it even airs on Sunday. Here's the playlist:

  1. Roger Joseph Manning Jr And Brian Reitzell // Islands in the Sky (Logan's Sanctuary)
  2. The Holy Modal Rounders // Bird Song (Easy Rider)
  3. Cub // Who the Hell Do You Think You Are? (Hard Core Logo)
  4. Yeong-wook Jo // For Whom the Bell Tolls (Old Boy)
  5. David Moscoe // The Black Six Theme
  6. Yo Yo Ma (Ennio Morricone) // The Good The Bad and the Ugly
  7. Umebayashi Shigeru // Yumeji's Theme // In the Mood For Love
  8. Guy Maddin // Heart of the World
  9. Penguin Cafe Orchestra // Music for a Found Harmonium
  10. Neil Young // Dead Man Theme
  11. Mychael Danna // Huge Wave // The Sweet Hereafter

And don't miss our Halloween show on the 31st. This week was merely a warm up...

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October 03, 2004

Where There's Smoke

Sorry no internet broadcast or mp3 archive of this week's show. But I promise next week's special film fest themed show will be downloadable--maybe even before it airs. Here's this week's setlist:

  1. The Jams // Speak of the Devil
  2. Rogue Wave // Nourishment Nation
  3. Animalmonster // Electro-Tron
  4. Tomita // Passepied (Debussey)
  5. Final Fantasy // Kids Run Through The City Corner / Walz to Chocobo
  6. Black Rice // The Furious Furious
  7. Black Rice // Contact
  8. The Lollipop Shoppe // You Must Be a Witch
  9. Of Montreal // Everything About Her is Wrong
  10. Rev. Gary Davis // I Am The True Vine
  11. Horst Wende's Accordeon-Band // Schiffsjungentanz
  12. Central Falls // Weekenders
  13. The Hypothetical Prophets // Person to Person
  14. The Pink Mountaintops // Tourist in Your Own Town

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September 26, 2004

Fly Pan Am

Had a few technical problems on this weeks show... I can't even connect to the log files to upload the mp3 version for you. But we did manage 50% CanCon by some weird fluke. Here's the playlist:

  1. Super Mama Djambo // Pansau Na Isna
  2. The Robosexuals // NYW
  3. Gabby // 'Ahulili
  4. Robert Mitchum // Whipoorwill
  5. The Idle Race // Follow Me Follow
  6. Mt. Eerie // A Log in the Waves
  7. Roland Blinn // ???
  8. Pan Am Airlines // Three Commercials
  9. Matias Rozenberg // Small Fires Burn Bright
  10. Robert Marcel LePage // Nocturne ‡ 20h 17
  11. Le Fly Pan Am // Pas ‡ Pas
  12. Jacques De Silva // Fou
  13. Beau Dommage // La Complainte du Phoque en Alaska

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September 19, 2004

An Earlier Autumn

It's that time of year again: the weather has dynamics; wigs and capes are for sale at Value Village; and watchable films are playing at the cineplexes again. Autumn has arrived slightly ahead of schedule so we threw together some seasonal selections on How to Bowl this week. Stay tuned for more fall tunes and remember: there's no "I" in Rock'n (it's an apostrophe). Here's the setlist:

  1. Kim Addonizio // Night of the Living, Night of the Dead
    2. (Thanks, Josh!)
  2. Patrick Lane // "Zombie Life"
  3. Joel // Disease
  4. Beat Happening // Zombie Limbo Time
  5. The Zombies // Conversation Off Floral Street
  6. Velvet Fogg // Within the Night
  7. United States Air Force // Contemporary/Easy Listening
  8. The Baroque Bouquet // Remembrance of a Country Garden
  9. Trio Derome Guilbeault Tanquay // Michka
  10. The Field Mice // An Earlier Autumn
  11. The Varsity Singers and Players // Ten Little Indians
  12. Guided By Voices // Sleepover Jack
  13. The Lovin' Kind // I'm Free
  14. Rock'n // Apostrophe (Lightning Bolt Pictogram)
  15. Whyte Rawk // Fuck Face
  16. The Jury // Who Dat?

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September 12, 2004

Spaghetti and Gravy

"The campus community radio station gets funky on your brain." Patrick and I just finished our celebratory mixed grill and fired rice at the Hollywood Café after our first show. Be sure to tune in next week for our first restaurant review.

Guess what? You can download the entire show in mp3 (55 MB)! Here's the playlist:

  1. Professor B. - How to Bowl
  2. Takeshi Terauchi - House of the Rising Storm
  3. Japanther - Super Tap (Thanks Danny!)
  4. Foodbrain - Liver Juice Vending Machine
  5. Autry Inman - Ballad Of Two Brothers
  6. The Arcade Fire - Headlights Look Like Diamonds (For Josh!)
  7. Channels 3 & 4 - Streets
  8. Bakelite - Dewey Decimal
  9. The Mystic Zephyrs - It's Much Too Soon (For Emily!)
  10. The David - Sweet December
  11. Carl Sprague - The Mormon Cowboy
  12. Howard Public School - When I Set Out For Lioness
  13. The Youngers - My Love, My Love
  14. Joanna Newsom - Sadie
  15. The Doers - Grinding Halt

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July 30, 2004

How to Bowl

It's official. Patrick and I will be hosting a new radio show on CJSF called "How to Bowl." We made a demo tape this week and here's what was on it:

  1. The Idle Race - On With the Show
  2. Sister Roberta - God Made Sprinter
  3. The Doers - One End Snaps
  4. John Rydgren - Girl Watching
  5. The Tempters - Hey Hey Boy
  6. Frank Pahl - Charlotte Russe
  7. Channels 3 & 4 - Streets
  8. Bakelite - Dewey Decimal
  9. The Arcade Fire - Woodlands National Anthem
  10. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Toby, Take a Bow
  11. Carl Kress and Dick McDonnaugh - Stage Fright
  12. Canned Hamm - Father & Son
  13. The Shaggs - Wheels

Even though we had to keep it under 20 minutes, we managed to play enough short songs to make it like a mini-show. Had some trouble trying to explain our format because we really don't have one.

Stay tuned to find out when our regular timeslot will be.

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July 09, 2004

French Soul

Yesterday was our last practice radio show--next time's for keeps. Patrick and I both skipped class to be there and dispensed with playing by the playlist rules. Here's what happened:

  1. Balls of Ice - Three Inches of Blood (by request)
  2. The Duel - Giles Gobbeil and Rene Lussier
  3. She Ain't No Use to Me - The Ugly Ducklings
  4. South' Gonna Rise Again - Herschell Gordon Lewis
  5. Girls in Cages - Wavy Gravy
  6. Crazy World - Peck's Bad Boys
  7. Sex Before Marriage - Kadane Bros.
  8. Body Not Your Soul - Greenhornes
  9. Kalarash - Black Ox Orkestar
  10. Stampede - Chantal Dumas/Christian Calon
  11. Who Could Win a Rabbit - Animal Collective
  12. Get Up and Go - Intelligista
  13. H. C. She - Trin Tran
  14. Dedans le Sud de la Lousianne - Magnolia Sisters (for Annie!)
  15. ? - Jandeck
  16. Noise - Beat Happening
  17. Smoke and Mirrors - The Film Stills

We should have our own show in August with a regular weekly timeslot. Stay tuned. Maybe we'll upload our demo tape here when it's ready...

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June 30, 2004

So This is What the Volume Knob's For

Patrick couldn't make it into the studio today so I did my best to completely run our radio show into the ground. Here's today's playlist:

  1. Dance Music - The Mountain Goats
  2. For Bologna - torococorot
  3. Basement Band Song - The Organ (For Leah!)
  4. Storm the Gates - P:ano
  5. These Days - Mates of State
  6. Colors Bleed - Call and Response
  7. Loveless - Kittie (For Patrick!)
  8. The Velvet Ant - cLOUDDEAD
  9. Wig 21 - Odd Nosdam
  10. Poison Pit - Themselves
  11. Portland - The Soviettes
  12. Cocktail Vampire - Les Georges Leningrad
  13. Into the Night - Black Rice
  14. Snake Eyes - Fake Cops
  15. Pure Evil - P:ano
  16. Disconnect the Dots - Of Montreal
  17. Smoke and Mirrors - The Film Stills

We're changing time slots to Thursday at 3PM for next week then we have no idea when we'll be back on the air. We might take a few weeks off for finals and to prepare our demo tape and then we should have an official show sometime in August. I'll keep ya posted.

Gotta make sure and plug East Vanada Day which is happening tomorrow. I'm just gonna paste in the email I got...

EAST VANADA DAY thursday, july 1st 2004

from 1pm until 9pm
@ the UNDERWEAR FARM
1127 East Hastings (in the alley)

indoor (music)
BLACK RICE
FAKE COPS (Calgary)
THE DOERS
ALL PURPOSE VOLTAGE HEROES (Edmonton)
RAKING BOMBS
PAPER LANTERNS

outdoor (fun)
the east van COMMUNITY DRAWING
the artisan and small business FLEA MARKET
BBQ hosted JOEL and my roommate Curt!

all this and more(?) for
6 CANADIAN DOLLARS

the UNDERWEAR FARM is
all ages welcome, †sorry no booze dudes.

AND THEN?

from 9pm until 1am...
@ the ASTORIA HOTEL
769 East Hastings

after (dance)
BAKELITE
CADEAUX
LIVE GIRLS
RAD ALERT (dj's douggerobotinaut)

3 DOLLARS with a stamp from
the UNDERWEAR FARM or
5 CANADIAN DOLLARS

the ASTORIA HOTEL is
licensed, †sorry no minors dudes.

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June 23, 2004

Two Mutes

Prurient: Given to the indulgence of lewd ideas; impure-minded; characterized by lasciviousness of thought or mind (OED).

Here's today's radio rundown:

  1. Shoestring - Prurient
  2. What's So Funny? (I Don't Get It) - Rodney Graham
  3. On the Table - A.C. Newman
  4. La Ronde - Les Angles Mort
  5. Two Mutes Two Not - Fake Cops
  6. Factory - Black Rice
  7. People - Alfie
  8. Open the Shine - Cotton Casino (got bored of it halfway)
  9. Surf Panic! - Banzai Rebels (33, 45, 33, 45)
  10. Such Large Portions! - Beauty Pill
  11. Don't Die in Me - Mirah
  12. Sometimes You Just Can't Win - The Sect
  13. ? - The Baptist Generals
  14. Flashback Panic Attack - The EEM

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June 16, 2004

Never Cry Wolf

So they let us back on the radio. We were able to play lots of vinyl today thanks to Patrick's nimble turntable cueing. I worked the board, making sure that the levels were totally in the red all the time and otherwise caused havok. The playlist:

  1. No Border - Mind of Asian
  2. The Leather Uppers - She Digs Death (For Wally!)
  3. Lysergic Bliss - Of Montreal
  4. Stupid Stupid - Tiger Shovel Nose
  5. Terms of Reference - Champion, Alberta
  6. Pure Evil - P:ano
  7. The Silent Hero - Icy Demons
  8. Great Ghosts - The Microphones
  9. Ema - Loscil
  10. Get Up Lucy - Thee Michelle Gun Elephant
  11. Monument - Sleepy Township

Lots of short songs so we had to kill time by talking about pant suits, acid, tropical fish, The Chronicles of Riddick and wolves. We discussed wolves at length.

Here's the link to P:ano playing their new single, Pure Evil on ZeD TV. Dressed in fisherman slickers. And here's more P:ano, this time doing The Noni Song. I love the awkward "vibe" they have with the host, Sharon Lewis, and the way they project visuals onto the surface of the piano.

And while I'm at it, here's a bit of background on the legendary Leather Uppers who are back together and playing a few shows in Toronto this month.

The proto-primitive garage rock duo known as the Leather Uppers was founded in 1991 in Toronto, Canada by Greg Tymoshenko and Craig Daniels. Born out of the malaise and fatigue brought on by the post-metal, pre-grunge musical vacuum of the time, the Uppers opted for a bare-bones drums, guitar and vocal-based sound. Their outrageous 60's/70's-inspired matching stage costumes were clearly as much at odds with the "cool" styles of the time as their incredibly energetic, stripped-down brand of "panic rock" was.

Over the next three years they would tour the US and Canada extensively, release several 7" records and one still-classic full-length album. In 2002, their
album, "OK, Don't Say Hi", was re-released on Austin, Texas' Pantsuit City Records. The re-issue of this record led to three reunion shows in the spring and summer of 2003.

-You Drive Me Ape Fanzine, March 2004. via Toronto Comic Jam Discussion Group

Thanks to everyone who tuned in today. We'll be back again next Wednesday from 2 to 3 PM and maybe longer cause no one ever shows up after us. For Vancouverites, it's 90.1 FM and for out of towners, you can listen online (a bit crackley).

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June 09, 2004

Radio on the Radio

Patrick and I just did our first on-air session at CJSF, our campus radio station. Here's what we played:

  1. Unseasonably Sad - The Heavy Blinkers
  2. Cold Water - Old Time Relijin
  3. Guerino et Son Orchestre Musette... (feat. Django Reinhardt)
  4. Toyte Goyes in Shineln - Black Ox Orkestar
  5. Brother - The Organ
  6. Foot to Mouth - The Sleazy Listeners
  7. Psych Mo-Fo - Mixel Pixel
  8. Super Mario 2 (Underword + Overworld) - The Advantage
  9. Physics of a Unicycle - cLOUDDEAD
  10. Oublier et... Doucement REPARTIR - aMute

It was a bit nerve-racking doing live radio for the first time but man, it felt good pressing play and seeing the needle go into the red as someone says the f-word on FM. In addition to playing 50% Canadian content, one song in French and one in Yiddish, we played a little set of video game music. If you haven't already, check out The Advantage who play excellent Nintendo songs on guitars and drums.

If you'd like to tune in, we'll be on at 2 PM on Wednesdays until further notice. You can listen online or at 90.1 FM in Vancouver. Another show to check out is AttentionSpan hosted by my friend Colleen. It's on at 10 PM to midnight on Thursdays.

For more good radio, check out Venus, Emily's show on CKUT Montreal. It's on at 12 to 2 PM Eastern (9-11 AM in Pacific Time) every Thursday. Or you can download an mp3 of the show any time from the archives.

Patrick sent me a link to Tony Coulter who hosts an experimental music show on WFMU New York. On the site, you can actually download the individual tracks and browse playlists.

Please send me links to your favorite radio shows!

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