2nd Season #5

Playlist from October 15th, 2010:

1. Big Sur - The Thrills

2. Why Wont You Make Up Your Mind - Tame Impala

3. On Melancholy Hill - Gorillaz

4. Little Golden Age - Wolf Parade

5. Actor Out Of Work - St. Vincent

6. Summer Mood - Best Coast

7. Holland, 1945 - Neutral Milk Hotel

8. Idiotheque - Radiohead

9. The Splendour - Pantha du Prince

10. Answer To Yourself - The Soft Pack

11. Goodbye / Farewell - M83

12. Memories - Clinic

13. Wait For The Summer - Yeasayer

14. Glitter - No Age

15. The Coast Is Always Changing - Maximo Park

16. In The Sun - She & Him

17. The Magic Position - Patrick Wolf

18. Brave New World - Weezer

19. Hunting For Witches - Bloc Party

20. Flashover - Klaxons

21. Kaili - Caribou

22. Song To Sing When I'm Lonely - John Frusciante

23. Proffesor Nohair - Martin, Medeski & Wood

24. Phantom Other - Department of Eagles

25. Corpus Christi Carol (For Roy) - Jeff Buckley

2nd Season #4

Playlist from October 8th, 2010:

1. Ulysses - Franz Ferdinand

2. We Share The Same Skies - The Cribs

3. Phenomenons - Twin Sister

4. Rococo - Arcade Fire

5. Kanske Ar Jag i Dig - Jens Lekman

6. Every Planet We Reach Is Dead

7. Feel It All Around - Washed Out

8. Windsurfing Nation - Broken Social Scene

9. Like A Tourist - Of Montreal

10. Solitary Gun - Rogue Wave

11. Sandpiper - Action!

12. My Friend John - The Fratellis

13. Love's Not A Competition (But I'm Winning) - Kaiser Chiefs

14. Thieves in the Night - Hot Chip

15. Take 'Em - Last Good Tooth

16. Love Makes You Happy - Rafter

17. Warsaw - Groove Armada

18. Reel Life (Evolution II) - The Cinematic Orchestra

19. Not So Nice - The Vespers

20. In The Morning - Graham Coxon

21. She Gone - Gonjasufi

22. Istanbul Can Be Dub - Wax Poetic

23. Indian Summer - Manic Street Preachers

2nd Season #3

This week's show was just one hour:

1. Gulag Orkestar - Beirut

2. World News - Local Natives

3. Who Knows Who Cares - Local Natives

4. Tiny Insects - Elf Power

5. Got The Shakes - James

6. 2080 - Yeasayer

7. Legal Man - Belle and Sebastian

8. Gotta Move -The Avery Set

9. Gold Lion - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

10. Future Memories - Klaxons

11. Local Joke - Neon Indian

12. Meeting Place - The Last Shadow Puppets

13. Butterflies and Hurricanes - Muse

2nd Season #2

Tonight's show:

1. Echoes - Klaxons

2. It's Not Meant To Be - Tame Impala

3. Don't Look Back - She & Him

4. Soleil Soleil - Meklit Hadero

5. Mike Mills - Air

6. Gong - Sigur Ros

7. Triskaidekaphobia - Shooting Jennings and Hieroplant

8. Everything to Nothing - Manchester Orchestra

9. Twin Peaks - Surfer Blood

10. Equus - Blonde Redhead

11. Blackest Eyes - Porcupine Tree

12. Fool's Day - Blur

13. Dust - Queens Club

14. Our Deal - Best Coast

15. Winter Winds - Mumford and Sons

16. Barricade - Interpol

17. No Drugs To Use - Turbo Fruits

18. Come on Home - Franz Ferdinand

19. Saint Simon - The Shins

20. The Mystery Zone - Spoon

21. Party For Children - Ratatat

22. The End of the World Party - Martin, Medeski & Wood

23. Broken Mirror - Travis

24. Meadowlarks - Fleet Foxes

25. Congratulations - MGMT

2nd Season #1

Here's the playlist of the first show of the fall semester:

1. Sun Hands - Local Natives

2. Someone's Missing - MGMT

3. Odessa - Caribou

4. Suburban War - Arcade Fire

5. Audience - Cold War Kids

6. Yulia - Wolf Parade

7. Stare Straight Ahead - Action!

8. Melatonin Rum - The Vespers

9. Johnny Cash - Sons and Daughters

10. 2+2=5 - Radiohead

11. The Reeling - Passion Pit

12. Solitude is Bliss - Tame Impala

13. I Walked - Sufjan Stevens

14. Tighten Up - The Black Keys

15. My Companera - Gogol Bordello

16. Eclipse - The Flaming Lips / Stardeath & White Dwarfs

17. Circling - Four Tet

18. The Wakening - Atticus Fault

19. Playground Love - Air

20. Black Sands - Bonobo

21. No One Does it Like You - Department of the Eagles

News

Fall semster at WRVU started this week and Myths Of The Near Future will be returning on air, on it's usual time, Fridays 8-10 PM. First show of the fall semester is tonight at 8PM! Fall Semester will end in mid-December.

And there are also some heart-wrenching news about the future of WRVU. Yesterday, VSC (Vanderbilt Student Communications Inc. - which owns WRVU) declared that they have been thinking about selling WRVU's broadcasting license, and use the incoming money funding the whole VSC student media. What this means is that, if it happens, WRVU will be an internet-only 'radio', in other words, WRVU Nashville 91.1 FM will be just wrvu.org. Various reasons have been presented by VSC for considering such a sale, ranging from the inevitable death of terrestial radio to most people using the wrvu.org to stream WRVU anyway. Although they do have some logic in their argument, one thing that should be noted is that WRVU is the oldest radio station in Nashville - the Music City USA.

If you want your comments to be heard, as a WRVU listener, the VSC board is willing to hear from you. All you have to do is to go to www.vandymedia.org/wrvu and post a comment below. Please do this, contact VSC, if you care about WRVU! The Executive Staff and DJs of WRVU are also planning about what kind of actions to take, in order to save WRVU.

What I've been listening to lately, #4

Since I found out that the die-hard New Yorkers, Interpol, has marked early September as the release date for their fourth album (Interpol), I've been shuffling through their past three releases. One thing I've noticed was how drab their progress was, from debut to the third. The debut, Turn on the Bright Lights, is a fantasic work of art, and it has already reached cult status in the indie-rock scene, just in eight years. It is such a strong, such an emotionally dense record. It has melancholy, it has agression, it has grief; everything that defines Interpol's music. But when I was listening the next two albums, Antics and Our Love to Admire, it occured to me that Paul Banks might have put out all of is sadness, let out all the sorrow he has collected in Turn on the Bright Lights; and that there was none left for the other two. Antics and Our Love to Admire are not overdosed by sonic extasy, but it just sounds like Interpol got somewhat alienated by the roots they established with Turn on the Bright Lights. Compared mostly to post-punk's creators Joy Division, -and Ian Curtis-, just like them, Interpol, -and Paul Banks- do get influenced by pain; just pure pain and simple tragedies of the everyday life. And it is this humanistic approach towards pain, the atmosphere of accepting it as a usual fact of life and coping with it, is what makes Interpol's music so special, and in particular making Turn on the Bright Lights such a beautiful album.

But as I've noted, as Antics arrive, and later followed by Our Love to Admire, there is a feeling that Interpol had some struggling with creativity, around that era. Facing struggles on their later albums is a common issue with bands that have ground-breaking debuts, but with Interpol it's quiet different. They didn't completely destroy what they have created with their debut, but their music just does not sound as free-flowing as it used to be. Some tunes on Antics and Our Love to Admire give the listeners a very tough listen, like reading a piece by a writer who has been facing "writer's block" for a time. I have to admit I can not listen to Our Love to Admire from beginning to end, throughly.

All in all, these are just my thoughts.

Though I don't see them as great albums as a complete work, there are tracks that I love from both Antics and Our Love to Admire, such as 'Take You on A Cruise', 'Next Exit', ' The Scale', or 'Mammoth'. Interpol is, after all, one of the most unique bands of this generation, and I am a fan. What I've been trying to say is that they have the potential of making perfect records, they are much more than a band that produces below-par albums with occasional mind blowing hits.

Paul Banks is a great poet on the other hand. His solo effort under the moniker Julian Plenti last year, was a very successful work. And it was also a proof of how melodic and romantic he could get as a musician, rather than standing up on stage dressed up like he's just been to a funeral, singing about "stabbing yourself in the neck".

These fashionable representers of post punk are definately one of a kind. Just don't blow this one away guys. We'll wait and see what the self-titled fourth one will bring, which is set to be released on September 7 in the USA.