It's been a long time...test fest 2008 and more!

The fest is gonna be awesome, you should be there


First show of summer 2008

Playlist:

1 Uzeda Steam, Rain, And Stuff Stella
2 Negative Trend How Ya Feelin Negative Trend EP
3 Star Champion of Love Devastator
4 Splitsville Manna - You Say You Believe Repeater
5 * Drunkdriver Women 12"?
6 The Rhythm Pigs Radio Silence Hyped to Death no 1
7 US Maple Bumps And Guys Talker
8 Pink Reason Storming Heaven Cleaning the Mirror
9 * The Hospitals Getting Out of Bed HAIRDRYERPEACE
10 * Spiritualized Soul on Fire Songs in A&E
11 Government Issue Hey, Ronnie Flex Your Head
12 Panicsville We Know They're Lying
13 Robert Wyatt Just as You Are Comicopera
14 Kurt Vile Don't Get Cute Constant Hitmaker
15 Tsurubami Kujiru Kaina
16 The Eat Communist Radio Killed by Death 2
17 Wold This Is How I Know Screech Owl
18 Filth Filth
19 Red House Painters New Jersey Retrospective
20 * Kid Romance Glitter and Ash Thriller
21 Vincent Gallo Laura When
22 Pia Fraus Mooie Island Pacific Union
23 Violent Students 2 Violent Students

Podcast for the show :


The past show we interviewed Kurt Vile, who is playing DNA test fest 2008. Not only is he one off the nicest dude, but his first full length is one of the best of the year. It's a mix of Neil Young, Jack Rose, My Bloody Valentine, and Jandek. Each song is different from the one before, and there is a certain kind of energy in each song we here at DNA haven't heard for a long time. Please check out his album at:


Also some really good records we've been listening to as of late

DNA TEST FEST 2008

JULY 25TH

7PM

AT WMUC STUDIOS

Dude do you remember the first time you heard that frogs record it's only right and natural? That was good times. Or when you bought the 3rd and 4th cro-mags lp, and it was the worst ever? So that's kinda what this will be like. DNA in the DNA has been on for pretty much a year. To party it up we're gonna have some of the harshest outsider punk noise art etc you can think of. If we can't get that then we can get bands that still think ESG is the best band of all time. Come one come all bring your cheers dvd box sets and let loose its time to do it to it.

Confirmed artists so far:

Eightyfive
True Womanhood
Nicholas Szczepanik (me)
The Lampshades

get stoked

Charlotte Hatherley called in last night and more interviews..Plus Boredoms tickets!

We talked to Charlotte Hatherley for about 30mins last night, thanks again Charlotte it was great Podcast is below

We are giving away Boredoms tickets in dc very soon!!!

next Week Pink Reason will be calling in, requesting music and more. Again STOKED. If you haven't heard Cleaning the Mirror, do it now!!!

Ian Nagoski who not only composes rad stuff will be on to talk about the newly released compilation BLACK MIRROR. We talk Boredoms, Nirvana, La Monte Young, and Amy Winehouse??!! This will be on in 2 weeks!

Coming up soon on the show Interviews:

Marnie Stern (Kill Rock Stars) - Rad math-y rock, US maple, Jehu, Hella!
Superdrag (YES SUPERDRAG!!!)


Podcast2/22 : here

play list:
1 Polvo Tragic Carpet Ride Celebrate the new Dark Age
2 Brigitte Fontaine Il Pleut Brigitte Fontaine Est...
3 Morton Feldman ntermission 6 (1953) All Piano (John Tilbury)
4 * Charlotte Hatherley I Don't Need Anyone
5 The Beatles You Never Give Me Your Money Abbey Road
6 Unwound Look A Ghost Leaves Turn Inside You
7 Django Reinhardt Nuages Echoes of France
8 * Xasthur Possession A Gate of Bloodstained Mirrors
9 Fugazi Repeater Repeater + 3
10 * El Guincho Antillas Alegranza
11 David Bowie Man Who Sold The World Man Who Sold The World
12 Marnie Stern Grapefruit IN ADVANCE OF THE BROKEN ARM
13 * Charlotte Hatherley Behave The Deep Blue
14 * Charlotte Hatherley Very Young The Deep Blue
15 Kate Bush Hounds of Love Pounds of Love
16 The Lewd Treasonable Choice Rivet
17 * John Wiese Atural Magic Soft Punk
18 * John Maus Navy Seals Love Is Real
19 Thrushes Aidan Quinn Sun Come Undone
20 Boredoms Hoy Pop Tatari

We interview Mike Shiflet and the New York Dolls!!

Un edited version of new york dolls interview here: http://wmuc.umd.edu/~smax/WMUCNewYorkDolls.mp3
edited version on show next week

Mike Shiflet (Avant Noise artist) here (podcast of last weeks show):
http://wmucradio.com/stream_ripper/fri/DNA_in_the_DNA_1800_2000.mp3

rad!!

2/1/08 playlist!

2/1/08

PODCAST: http://wmucradio.com/stream_ripper/fri/DNA_in_the_DNA_1800_2000.mp3


1 * Dead Meadow Ain't Got Nothing Wrong (To Go Wrong) Old Growth
2 The Smoke Trust Another Reason To Fast
3 Godstomper 2 Hell's Grim Tyrant
4 * Blank Dogs She's Violent Tonight Diana (The Herald)
5 Bastro Hirscheneck Antlers: Live 1991
6 Death In June We Drive East The Phoenix Has Risen
7 Nji R. Hadji Djoeaehn Tjimploengan (Sunda-Java) Black Mirror: Reflections In Global Musics
8 * Times New Viking Rip Allegory Rip It Off
9 Yoon Youn Sun ???? ???
10 * Hayden The Van Song In Field and Town
11 The Germs What We Do is Secret Complete Anthology
12 Quantic Walking On The Moon Rarest Funk 45s
13 Wold Nervosa Screech Owl
14 My Bloody Valentine Sugar Some EP
15 Thingy Mayday To The Innocent
16 Cheater Slicks I'm Coming Home Forgive Thee
17 * Sic Alps Bells (With Tremolo and Distortion) Description of the Harbor
18 Flux of Pink Indians Punk The Fucking Cunts Treat Us Like Pricks
19 * Jay Reatard It's So Easy Blood Visions
20 Mike Shiflet 1 ICHINOMIYA 5.3.6
21 Willie Nelson Stardust Stardust
22 Ike and Tina River Deep Mountain High River Deep Moutain High
23 Possible Selves Welcome Home Possible Selves

DNA in the DNA is on tonight! Other stuff

DNA in the DNA is on tonight, new season if you will, on 6pm to 8pm est! 88.1 fm if you're in the DC area, www.wmucradio.com if you're anywhere else.




Here at DNA in the DNA we have been jamming on the new-ish Natalie Rose Lebrecht called Warraw. It's hard for me to describe it. It would be really easy for me to say it's like acid folk. I would go to say it is a bit more "drone-y" than that. Also you can take out the folk really, so that term is pretty useless to describe this record. It lends it self more to a lot of space. The songs don't have a lot going on but for her, thats a good thing. Her vocals really soar. Shes able to create these really haunting harmonies, combine that with the fact the songs may only consist of drums and one guitar still blows my mind even though that's really nothing new. I would compare this to QUIX*O*TIC as it kind of has the same tone. Where as QUIX*O*TIC was a band effort for sure. This really does sound like something where the ideas came from one person, or one place. A lot of it reminds me of some of the later Death in June stuff as well, which I can't get enough of. It's only out in Japan and Germany right now, sucks. Although I did read 100 copies were made with handmade artwork, good luck finding that! Find out more about her Here

totally rad

Hayden

I really cannot say enough great things about this LP. Wow comes to mind, not because it's a wow type record (it is...not his best, but damn good!) but cause Hayden is always so consistent. It's pretty rare that someone makes killer records EVERYTIME. "More Than Alive" could be the most heartbreaking songs Hayden has ever written, on the other hand "The Van Song" could be the catchiest. I'm not really sure why he isn't bigger in the USA. I've tried to turn people onto him who like sappy sad bastard music, but all those dashboard types just write him off. I guess I really should give Hayden more credit than that but I always think "man if they get into him they could get into Neil Young, Jackson C Frank, John Fahey, Jack Rose...ok ok I admit those last two are a stretch, but still! Anyways "In Field and Town" really does sound like Hayden trying to do his own After the Gold Rush, and he does it well. Lots of piano, although I must admit I do miss the more acoustic songs, but hey man it's Hayden, sit back think of sad shit and enjoy..you're in for a sad ass ride!

Times New Viking blah blah blah

My friend richie sent me a copy of Times New Viking 2 years ago. I was stoked on this band, couldn't find much on them. I don't know if at the time it was out on siltbreeze or not, but I tried to find anything on them, no go. A few months later I saw them open up for Clockcleaner (before that big tour, I believe it was just a random date) I was not impressed. I for some reason thought the songs were just flat out boring live, though I think this had more to do with the fact that everyone was pretty drunk.
Fast forward a few months, new LP on siltbreeze, was good but I wasn't impressed as the first record. So I hear this third record, not thinking much, and I'm pretty much floored. Yeah we all know pitchfork and the others love this record, but for the first time in a long time, the hype is pretty much true at least on this record. Who cares if it's lo fi or not, its good, and the one thing that is impressive is that its "lo-fi-ness" is not something for the hell of it, why pay 1000's of dollars when you can make an LP thats just as good as anything else. Sure we're gonna hear about this "sebadoh lo fi" come back, but who cares, believe or not, people have been making albums like this for years. Even long before the late 80s Lo fi movement or whatever the fuck it was. All those killed by death LPs sound like shit, and they still slay it today. Whatever, the TNV album is a killer and shit. Good for them, I wonder what stuff that keyboard player sold on ebay.

The first Death LP

Man, so I just got the first LP by Death a few weeks ago called "Scream Bloody Gore". Of course this LP is a classic to the good old metal head, but it was a first for me, and I was floored to say the least. "Death Metal" always seemed a bit lame to me, but if the first wave of death metal is just like this, count me in...well at least for the early stuff. The first song "Infernal Death" is so awesome. It's as if you are getting your ass kicked over and over again by dudes who just threw out their discharge records for Venom and the first few slayer records. The title track though is really where it's at, no bull shit here. What really makes this LP work is the middle of the road, not too slick but not too raw production. This is par for the course for most early death metal, but it works. While discovering this band is no big deal, in the context of all the low fi noise psych shit I've been listening to, this is refreshing to say the least, and reinforces the fact that black metal and the "cool to like" southern lord metal isnt the only kinds of metal out there.

Yoon Youn Sun

Yoon Youn Sun - Wing of Peace

So I just got back from Atlanta, my friend who owns a rad on-line record store called Friendly Fireman Records just turned me on to this. Total early 70s organs meets Nick Drake if he was Korean. Each song is a heart breaker totally. I dunno what the songs are called as they are all in Korean, but the riff from the first song hits you right in the gut. Vocals are also seem to sound as though they were recorded in the red, I chalk this up to maybe not having the studio slickness that others may have. Needless to say, the vocals are the best part of this record. It's as if shes channeling someone else, as cliche as that sounds. The bass is way high in the mix, which actually helps guide the songs pretty well. I know WORLD PSYCHEDELIA (WORLD'S LEADING TERRORIST STATE)the label that re-issued this in America is awesome and as we speak I am getting more Korean Folk/psych records from Friendly Fireman. I can't recommend this enough!!
I'll be playing this in 2 weeks on DNA in the DNA 6pm-8pm fridays on WMUC 88.1 FM Http://www.wmucradio.com

DNA in the DNA records

We at DNA in the DNA are proud to announce our own record label, cleverly titled DNA in the DNA records. Our first release will be a new project by Neal Williams (The Slade Species, Possible Selves, Tin Tin and owner of Friendly Fireman Records). This is black metal like you've never heard before. Almost too black and/or too metal to even call it black metal. more info here

Next is WARMTH. Steev has been making a name for himself, doing splits with D. Yellow Swans, and a new 7" on Small Doses. This release promises to be a mix of his more "Shoegaze-y" type material with layers and layers of noise. First premiered on DNA in the DNA radio. More info here

Later a release from co-host Nicholas Szczepanik, this promises to suck. Just kidding! More info here