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The interview with German ambient artist Markus Mehr is available to download now (telephone, 20 mins approx.) here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/427249818/Markus_Mehr_Interview_Podcast.mp3


featuring...

...electric toothbrushes, Black Sabbath, Depeche Mode, living in small town Germany, the bar-raising pressure of live performance, and more...

Here's what I thought of his album earlier in the year.

Markus Mehr - Lava (Hidden Shoal)
Ambient drone loveliness from the German, with plenty of heartwrenching drama among the pulses and drifts. Hubble is the most gorgeous synth orchestration I've heard in ages, a 1000-yard low drone gathering sparkles of melody as it rolls. Cousteau, fittingly, rumbles and creaks with deep-sea atmospheres. For fans of kosmische (isn't that everyone?). Soak in it like a hot bath. On the never-less-than-excellent Perth-based label.

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Tuesdays 11.00am-12.00pm GMT
repeated Tuesdays 8.30pm
Cork Campus Radio, 98.3FM
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uplifting pop music of every creed

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Tuesdays 11.00am-12.00pm GMT
repeated Tuesdays 8.30pm
Cork Campus Radio, 98.3FM
*listen live on the web at www.ucc.ie/ccr

Here's what we've been listening to this month in the UOH coal bunker. All albums, unless otherwise noted.

Callers - Life of love (Western Vinyl, from the album Life of love)
Beguiling title track from the Brooklyn trio's latest album. Certain air of a Stax update about it, with the stripped back rimshot, unfussy bass and muted guitar figures. And of course Sara Lucas' breathy, soulful voice, hinting casually at soul, blues and folk colours within the same phrase. Fantastic.

Liz Janes - I don't believe (Asthmatic Kitty, from the album Say goodbye)
Soul revival is catching this month. Former Sufjan Stevens touring band member joins her sweet whisper-in-your-ear vocals with warm electric piano and a mellow (with a capital M) trumpet. That the song may be a prayer of doubt addressed to a higher power does nothing to detract from its understated beauty. Labelmate Rafter Roberts is also on production duty, which is another reason to love this.

Kurt Wagner & Cortney Tidwell - A special day (City Slang, from the album Kurt Wagner and Cortney Tidwell present KORT: Invariable heartache)
Just one of many sublime cuts from this new collaborative project based around the output of the Chart Records label (run by Cortney's grandfather). Strikes me as the Nashville cousin to She & Him's (His & Her?) West Coast pop archaeology. Here you have a straightforwardly gorgeous arrangement of weeping steel guitar wrapped around Tidwell's husky tones, culminating in an angelic middle 8 of multi-tracked doo-doo-doo's. To die for.

Frankie Rose and the Outs - Frankie Rose and the Outs (Memphis Industries)
From the woman who provided the wonderfully no-nonsense and rock solid back beats of Crystal Stilts and Vivian Girls. Frankie and her cohorts come across like the (only very) slightly more refined older sisters of the Dum Dum Girls, with whom they share a love of girl groups, Phil Spector and fuzz guitars. However, as distinct from those girls, here are added intriguing touches of garage and surf rock (see beguiling first single Candy and the rollicking Don't tred). There's also more than a hint of the C86 sound (Girlfriend island with its lovely, twangy guitar solo over battering drums), adding wispiness under the guitar crunch. And even a nod to a kind of timeless shoegaze (the glorious opener Hollow life and the rousing Save me). Adds great weight to the project that creates a place for female vulnerability along the spectrum of rock 'n roll. Or treat it as one classic pop song after another. Either way, a triumph.

Grinderman - Palaces of Montezuma (Mute, from the album Grinderman 2)
Irresistible Sympathy for the devil-ish background woo-hoos with rolling piano and "knock-three times" bass rhythm. From their hilariously entertaining second album.

Laetitia Sadier - Another monster (Drag City, from the album The trip)
Fingerclicks, a mellotron, a bass riff (that somehow reminds me of The Go-Betweens, Springhill Fair era), ba-ba-ba backing vocals, spindly guitar lines and Laetitia counselling a friend. A welcome return for the Stereolabber.

Susuma Yokota - Kaleidoscope (Lo Recordings)
Another intriguing album from the Japanese sonic adventurer. As the title suggests, it has a shimmering, ineffable, hard-to-pin-down quality which is likely to reward repeated listening. Less upfront vocals than his last album, with greater emphasis on a stately array of electronic textures. Try the to-die-for synth orchestrations of Sprouting symphony, the oceanic drama of Wave drops, the unexpected detour of Blue moon from Middle Eastern streetscape into church choir, the overlapping Reichian piano figures above a lone chant of After falling twice, the meditative effect of 2 skys. As always with Mr Yokota, a sublime travelogue and an absolute pleasure.

Peter Broderick - Music for Contemporary Dance (Erased Tapes)
Compilation of two dance soundtrack commissions (2009's Falling from trees and 2010's Congregation). Music for falling from trees had already found much love here in the UOH cabin since first heard last year. Although Music for Congregation (a ballet designed, choreographed and composed for pedestrian performers) contains only four tracks (about 24 minutes in total), it's possibly even more beautiful. Minimal percussive samples, swooning strings and drops of glockenspiel on Discovery create a hazy bed which the word gorgeous doesn't do justice to. Understanding begins with a bass throb, before breezy accordion and lurching cello slides add character, with a trademark stoic piano making its first appearance. Together, the arrangements are so big it sounds like the London Philharmonic is involved, but I'm assuming Mr Broderick was responsible for every note and beat himself as usual. It's a fantastic collection and worth going out of your way for.

Darren Hayman & the Secondary Modern - Winter makes me want you more (Fortuna Pop, from the album Essex Arms)
Typically wry, self-deprecating track from the ex-Hefner man, centred around an irresistible piano swing with mandolin, accordion and xylophone accompaniment, and featuring the immortal chorus "the patio heaters glow, pawprints in the snow, the shivering smokers know I love you so". Brilliant.

Thread Pulls - New thoughts (Osaka Records)
The last thing I see myself as is a cheerleader for the "Irish music industry" (TM). However, this feels like an important Irish rock album at the beginning of a new decade. The fact that this Dublin band consists of nothing but a bass player and a drummer (with a few electronics worked in) compounds the feeling of a new template. Thread Pulls have taken out cymbals, synths and guitars, all the better to highlight the power of drum and bass. Why is this album important? Because it's full of catchy tunes with a powerful punch that you can dance to (my own favourite, and one of the songs of the year, is Weight, with its floppily insistent post punk rhythm interspersed with drum flurries and a sweetly melodic, almost new wave, breakdown). In a major departure for a Dublin band, Thread Pulls also patently do not take themselves too seriously. Fuck the Irish music industry, do your record collection a favour and get this.

*Interview with Gavin and Peter from Thread Pulls coming up next month.

Warpaint - Undertow (Rough Trade, from the album The fool)
Comes on like a psychedelic Bangles, with female harmonies floating ecstatically above a bed of understated power chords. Wonderful.

Our Broken Garden - Golden sea (Bella Union)
Second album from Anna Bronsted, sometime keyboard player with fellow Danes Efterklang. This collection of songs is more direct than that band but nonetheless beautiful. Drifting shoegaze tendencies are happily to the fore (though few guitars) with an appealingly smoky voice sitting on top (calls to mind Natasha Khan at times), extremely suitable for suggesting the mysterious, shimmering, hidden depths of oceans. Among all the mists and drifts, though, there is always enough of a bass throb to anchor (pardon the pun) proceedings. Also includes tunes with hooks at every turn - The departure, In the lowlands, The burial to name a few of many. So I think we can say this is dream pop to sustain you through a long winter. Glorious.

 

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Playlist 150 - Dream Pop Special Part I
Tues Nov 2nd 2010
11.00am-12.00pm
(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio, 98.3FM
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http://rapidshare.com/files/427816524/UOH_Dream_Pop_I.mp3

Playlist
The Byrds - Wild mountain thyme (5D, 1966)
Glen Campbell - By the time I get to Phoenix (By the time I get to Phoenix, 1967)
Richard Hawley - The ocean (Coles Corner, 2005)
Dean & Britta - Night nurse (L'Avventura, 2002)
Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra - Some velvet morning (Movin' with nancy, 1967)
Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin - 69 Année Érotique (Jane Birkin Serge Gainsbourg, 1969)
Botany - Feeling today (Feeling today EP, 2010)
Beach House - Turtle island (Devotion, 2008)
My Bloody Valetine - Only shallow (Loveless, 1991)
Angelo Badalamenti feat. Julee Cruise - Mysteries of love (from the soundtrack of the film Blue Velvet, 1986)
School of Seven Bells - Windstorm (Disconnect from desire, 2010)
The Soundcarriers - Moring haze Celeste, 2010)
Free Design - Make the madness stop (Kiltes are fun, 1967)
Laetitia Sadier - Another monster (The trip, 2010)
Stereolab - Cybele's reverie (Emperor Tomato Ketchup, 1996)

*next week's show is Part II of the Dream Pop Special, with music from Cocteau Twins, The Beach Boys, Harmonia, M83, The Ronettes, Frankie Rose & the Outs and Ennio Morricone, aong others

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Playlist 151 - Dream Pop Special Part II

Tues Nov 9th 2010
11.00am-12.00pm
(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio, 98.3FM
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Playlist
Cocteau Twins - Iceblink luck (Heaven or Las Vegas, 1990)
The Beach Boys - Til I die (Surf's up, 1971)
Susumu Yokota feat. Nancy Elizabeth - A flower white Seeland remix) (A flower white EP, 2009)
Harmonia - Dino (Musik von Harmonia, 1974)
Sankt Otten - Ein himmel voller galgan (Morgen wieder lustig, 2009)
M83 - Kim & Jessie (Saturdays=Youth, 2008)
Pantha du Prince - lay in a shimmer (Black noise, 2010)
The Ronettes - Paradise (1966)
Toro y Moi - Leave everywhere (2010)
Frankie Rose & the Outs - Hollow life (Frankie Rose & the Outs, 2010)
The Monkees - Porpoise song (from the soundtrack of the film Head, 1968)
Lambchop - The Saturday option (What another man spills, 1998)
Ennio Morricone - Come Maddalena (from the soundtrack of the film Maddalena, 1971)






*next week's show features music from The Go! Team, Dutch Uncles, Fujiya & Miyagi and Caitlin Rose among others, as well as an interview with Thread Pulls

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Just a quick reminder of this week's show coming up tomorrow morning:

The Underground of Happiness
Tuesday Nov 16th 2010
11.00am-12.00pm GMT
(repeated Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio 98.3FM
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www.ucc.ie/ccr

*this week's show features music from Boa Morte, The Go! Team, Dutch Uncles, Fujiya & Miyagi, Caitlin Rose, Seeland and The Chills, among others, as well as an interview with Dublin duo Thread Pulls

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Playlist 152
Tues Nov 9th 2010
11.00am-12.00pm

(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio, 98.3FM
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*listen back to this show at
http://rapidshare.com/files/431218639/UOH_Podcast_Nov_16_2010.mp3



Playlist
Boa Morte - Priceless prize (playing The Pavilion, Cork, Nov 28 w/ Adrian Crowley)
The Go! Team - T.O.R.N.A.D.O.
Dutch Uncles - Fragrant (playing Koko Theatre, London, Nov 23 w/ Field Music)
Fujiya & Miyagi - 16 shades of black and blue (playing ICA, London, Dec 1)
Caitlin Rose - Learning to ride (playing The Fleece, Bristol, Nov 19)
*d'load recent i'view with Caitlin here
http://rapidshare.com/files/418795355/Caitlin_Rose_UOH_Interview_Podcast.mp3

Small Black - Photojournalist (playing Primavera Club, Barcelona/Madrid, Nov 24-28)
Thread Pulls - Weight
Thread Pulls Interview
*d'load the full i'view here
http://rapidshare.com/files/430980967/UOH_Thread_Pulls_Interview.mp3

Seeland - Abraham, Martin and John (playing The Slaughtered Lamb, London, Dec 2)
Marmaduke Dando - Life can't get any better
Syd Matters - Hi life
Cloud Control - Meditation song #2
Sufjan Stevens - Too much







*next week's show features music from Telekinesis, Deerhunter and Neville Skelly, among others

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the chills - double summer

came after seeland in playlist 152

 

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Thread Pulls Interview
The interview with Dublin duo Thread Pulls is available to download now (26 mins approx.) here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/430980967/UOH_Thread_Pulls_Interview.mp3

featuring...
...talk of influences from The Specials to Krautrock, the practice of improvisation and collaboration, moving from a three-piece to a two-piece band, developing live performance, their debut album New thoughts, circuit diagrams, and more...

The interview with Gavin and Peter was done in the salubrious suroundings of the snug in the Long Valley bar, around the corner from where the band played later that night, at the Triskel Substation building on Caroline St, as part of the rhizomes Tour with Thulebasen and Patrick Kelleher.
The gig itself was a thing of great power and beauty. The industrial, warehouse setting of the Substation venue seemed to suit Thread Pulls' music - stripped back, bare-to-the-bone, oddly compelling rhythms (one of the current, very vogueish, genre tags, post-wave, a meld of post-punk and new-wave, might even be appropriate as a description). Because the three bands were several dates into their tour, something of a party atmosphere also prevailed (added to by the BYO beer cans in the audience). I must say it was endearing to see art rock interpreted with a smile on its face. Highlights for me were album standouts These new thoughts and Weight, with its fantastic drum flurries. Incidentally, Thulebasen were also highly enjoyable, in a deeply proggy, but again playful way, as was Patrick Kelleher, like some 80's goth/electro-pop wonder gone (wrong) right. All in all, a great night and an encouraging picture of Irish alternative rock in 2010.

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Tuesdays 11.00am-12.00pm GMT
repeated Tuesdays 8.30pm
Cork Campus Radio, 98.3FM
*listen live on the web at www.ucc.ie/ccr

 

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Playlist 153
Tues Nov 23rd 2010
11.00am-12.00pm

(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio, 98.3FM
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http://rapidshare.com/files/432637346/UOH_Podcast_Nov_23_2010.mp3



Playlist
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Round and round
Titus Andronicus - Theme from "Cheers" (playing Cyprus Avenue, Cork, Nov 28)
Twin Sister - All around and away we go
Jumpel feat. Chloe March - Edinburgh
This is the Kit - Sometimes the sea (playing "Looking for Ennio Morricone", Cube Cinema, Bristol, Nov 26)
Klima - A trick of the sea (Arctic Circle Explorer's Club, jointhecircle.net)
Delorean - Simple graces
Deerhunter - Helicopter (playing Button Factory, Dublin, Mar 25 2011)
Dear Thief - Under archway
Twin Shadow - Shooting holes
Telekinesis - Dirty thing (playing on3 Festival, Munich, Nov 27)
Igor Boxx - Russian percussion
Mogwai - Hunted by a freak (live) (playing Radisson Blu Hotel, Galway, Feb 14 2011)
Junkboy feat. Eleanor Whittle - Pieces in the sky






*next week's show features music from Neville Skelly, Smoke Fairies and Asha Bhosle among others, as well as an interview with New York based composer Liam Singer

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Just a quick reminder of this week's show coming up tomorrow morning:

The Underground of Happiness
Tuesday Nov 30th 2010
11.00am-12.00pm GMT
(repeated Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio 98.3FM
*listen live on the web at
www.ucc.ie/ccr

*this week's show features music from Asha Bhosle, Field Music, Neville Skelly, Smoke Fairies and Suuns among others, as well as an interview with New York-based pop experimentalist Liam Singer

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Playlist 154
Tues Nov 30th 2010
11.00am-12.00pm

(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio, 98.3FM
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*listen back to this show at
http://rapidshare.com/files/434067576/UOH_Podcast_Nov_30_2010.mp3



Playlist
Asha Bhosle - Piya tu ab to aaja (from the soundtrack of the film Caravan)
Field Music - Measure (playing Bowlie 2 Festival, Minehead, Dec 11)
d'load recent i'view with Field Music here
http://rapidshare.com/files/422325139/UOH_Field_Music_Interview_Podcast.mp3

Neville Skelly - He looks a lot like me
Smoke Fairies - Strange moon rising (playing Workman's Club, Dublin, Dec 7)
Jonny - Continental
Liam Singer - Leave the world to those who care
Liam Singer Interview
Liam Singer - Erat hora
d'load full i'view here
http://rapidshare.com/files/433844759/UOH_Liam_Singer_Interview_Podcast.mp3

Horowitz - Tracyanne
Mr Ron Jetson - Femme fatale
The Kinks - Most exclusive residence for sale
Syd Matters - A robbery
Suuns - Up past the nursery
Blitzen Trapper feat. Alela Diane - The tree
Warpaint - Shadows






*next week's show features music from Delorean, Frankie Rose & the Outs and Seeland among others

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University College Cork,
Cork,
Ireland.

 

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Liam Singer Interview
The interview with New York-based pop experimentalist Liam Singer is available to download now (phone interview, 20 mins approx.) here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/433844759/UOH_Liam_Singer_Interview_Podcast.mp3

featuring...
...supernatural themes on his current album Dislocatia, vocal arrangements, American indie record labels, Ennio Morricone, Morton Feldman, and more...
Liam's album Dislocatia, out now on the Australian Hidden Shoal label, has been one of my favourite albums of 2010, a kind of avant garde chamber pop. It's highly recommended.
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Tuesdays 11.00am-12.00pm GMT
repeated Tuesdays 8.30pm
Cork Campus Radio, 98.3FM
*listen live on the web at www.ucc.ie/ccr

 

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Just a quick reminder of this week's show coming up tomorrow morning:

The Underground of Happiness
Tuesday Dec 7th 2010
11.00am-12.00pm GMT
(repeated Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio 98.3FM
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www.ucc.ie/ccr

*this week's show features music from Grinderman, Seeland, Frankie Rose & the Outs, Colourmusic and Delorean among others

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Playlist 155
Tues Dec 7th 2010
11.00am-12.00pm

(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio, 98.3FM
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*listen back to this show at
http://rapidshare.com/files/435461865/UOH_Podcast_Dec_7_2010.mp3



Playlist
Igor Boxx - Bunker sweetheart
Frankie Rose & the Outs - Girlfriend island (playing The Luminaire, London, Dec 14)
Cassius - Brotherhood
Colourmusic - Tog
Nickel Pressing - Beck is back
Rue Royale - Halfway blind
Seeland - Afterthoughts
Jumpel - Edinburgh
This is the Kit - Sometimes the sea
Grinderman - Worm tamer (playing ATP's I'll be your mirror, Alexandria Palace, London, July 24 2011)
Ben Butler & Mousepad feat. The Niallist - Infinite capacity (for love)
Angus & Julia Stone - Walk it off
Delorean - Real love
School of Seven Bells - ILU






*next week's show is a Christmas Special and features music from John Cale, Dean & Britta, Cocteau Twins, Sufjan Stevens, Esquivel and Darlene Love among others

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Just a quick reminder of this week's show coming up tomorrow morning:

The Underground of Happiness
Tuesday Dec 14th 2010
11.00am-12.00pm GMT
(repeated Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio 98.3FM
*listen live on the web at
www.ucc.ie/ccr

*this week's show is a Christmas Special and features music from Cocteau Twins, Dean & Britta, Louis Armstrong, Doris Day, The Beach Boys, South Park, The Temptations and Darlene Love among others

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Playlist 156 - Christmas Special
Tues Dec 14th 2010
11.00am-12.00pm

(repeated Tuesday 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio, 98.3FM
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http://rapidshare.com/files/436877992/UOH_Xmas_Special_Podcast_Dec_14_2010.mp3



Playlist
Cocteau Twins - Frosty the snowman
Louis Armstrong - Zat you Santa Claus
The Superimposers - Christmas again!
The Temptations - Santa Claus is comin' to town
Esquivel - Parade of the wooden soldiers
Can - Silent night
John Cale - A child's Christmas in Wales (live)
Camera Obscura - The blizzard
Dean & Britta - He's coming home
Cast of South Park - It happened in Sun Valley (from the soundtrack of the tv show South Park)
Tex Ritter and his Texans - Christmas carols by the Old Corral
The Partridge Family - Winter wonderland
Doris Day - Ol' Saint Nicholas
Sufjan Stevens - O come O come Emmanuel
The Beach Boys - We three kings of Orient are
Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley - Golden ticket/Pure imagination (Main title) (from the soundtrack of the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)
Lost Idol - Molten snow
Darlene Love - (Christmas) Baby please come home






*the next show is on Jan 4 2011, following the Christmas holidays
**Happy Christmas and a Poptastic New Year to everyone

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Hi y'all,

That time of year for lists again. A vaguely arbitrary exercise, although strangely satisfying. Especially when it's been another great year for pop music. Below is what has been soundtracking the UOH cabin for the past year.

Read. Discard. Listen. Enjoy.

I've also put together a Best of 2010 Podcast which I'll send details of in another mail.

Til 2011, stay warm.

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The Underground of Happiness - Dec 2010
Favourite Albums of 2010 (71)
Syd Matters - Brotherocean (Because Music)
Sone Institute – Curious memories (Front & Follow)
Dum Dum Girls - I will be (Sub Pop)
NLF3 - Beautiful is the way to the world beyond (Prohibited Records)
Joanna Newsom – Have one on me (Drag City)
She & Him - Volume Two (Double 6)
Christy & Emily - No rest (Klangbad)
Field Music – Field Music (Measure) (Memphis Industries)
The Ruby Suns - Fight softly (Memphis Industries)
Sarah Blasko - As day follows night (Dramatico)
Boxharp - The green (Hidden Shoal)
Boa Morte - The dial waltz (Kicking a Can Records)
Patrick Kelleher & His Cold Dead Hands - You look colder (remix album) (Osaka)
Gotan Project - Tango 3.0 (XL)
Coco Rosie - Grey oceans (PIAS)
Oh No Ono - Eggs (Leaf)
Olafur Arnalds - ...and they have escaped the weight of darkness (Erased Tapes)
The National - High violet (4AD)
Elite Barbarian - It's only when you get to the end that it all makes sense (Front and Follow)
Junkboy - Koyo (Enraptured Records)
Children Under Hoof - A collar can become a noose (self-released) (mini-album)
The Chap - Well done Europe (Lo Recordings)
Bjork & Dirty Projectors - Mount Wittenberg Orca (self-release, donation d'load)
Here We Go Magic - Pigeons (Secretly Canadian)
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before today (4AD)
Markus Mehr - Lava (Hidden Shoal)
Secret Cities - Pink graffiti (Western Vinyl)
Rich Bennett - On holiday (Hidden Shoal)
Wildbirds & Peacedrums - Rivers (Leaf)
Being 747 - Amoeba to zebra (Wrath Records)
The Soundcarriers - Celeste (Melodic)
The Superimposers - Sunshine pops! (Wonderful Sound)
Toro y Moi - Causers of this (Carpark Records)
Jaill - That's how we burn (Sub Pop)
Shearwater - The golden archipelago (Matador)
Caitlin Rose - Own side now (Names)
Liam Singer - Dislocatia (Hidden Shoal)
Dean & Britta - 13 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests(Double Feature)
Various Artists - Deutsche Elektronische Musiche (Soul Jazz Records)
Future Islands - In evening air (Thrill Jockey)
Dollboy meets Sone Institute - The sum and the difference (Front & Follow)
Seeland - How to live (LoAF)
Darren Hayman & the Secondary Modern - Essex Arms (Fortuna Pop!)
Kurt Wagner & Cortney Tidwell - Kurt Wagner and Cortney Tidwell present KORT: Invariable heartache (City Slang)
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest (4AD)
Frankie Rose and the Outs - Frankie Rose and the Outs (Memphis Industries)
Susuma Yokota - Kaleidoscope (Lo Recordings)
Peter Broderick - Music for Contemporary Dance (Erased Tapes)
Thread Pulls - New thoughts (Osaka Records)
Our Broken Garden - Golden sea (Bella Union)
Lali Puna - Our intentions (Morr Music)
Arch Garrison - King of the Down (Double 6)
Husky Rescue - Ship of light (Catskills Records)
Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM (Because)
Get Well Soon - Vexations (City Slang)
Essie Jain - Until the light of morning (Light of Morning)
Caribou - Swim (City Slang)
Grinderman - Grinderman 2 (Mute)
Pantha du Prince - Black noise (4AD)
The Golden Filter - Voluspa (Brille)
Laetitia Sadier - The trip (Drag City)
School of Seven Bells - Disconnect from Desire (Full Time Hobby)
Tuung - ...and then we saw land (Full Time Hobby)
Igor Boxx - Breslau (Ninja Tune)
Lost Idol - Brave the elements (Cookshop)
The Walkmen - Lisbon (Bella Union)
Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz (Asthmatic Kitty)
Lawrence Arabia - Chant darling (Bella Union)
S Carey - All we grow (Jagjaguwar)
Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid (Suites II & III) (Bad Boy Records)
Warpaint - The fool (Rough Trade)
Non-album highlights
Darwin Deez - Radar detector (Lucky Number)
Neville Skelly - Child of the morning EP (Setanta)
Hunter-Gatherer - Fingerprint Series (free download)
Arctic Circle Explorer's Club (subscriber series) (LoAF)
Extra Life - Your body's callin' (R Kelly cover) from the Black Hoodie EP (LoAF)
These New Puritans - Hologram (single) (Domino)
The artwork on Grinderman 2 Special Edition (stunning)
Gigs:
Caitlin Rose, Cyprus Avenue, Cork
Field Music, Cyprus Avenue, Cork
Tuneyards, Whelan's, Dublin
Beach House, Whelan's, Dublin
Lawrence Arabia, Whelan's, Dublin
Boa Morte, Crane Lane Theatre, Cork
Thread Pulls, Triskel (Loading Bay), Cork
Dean & Britta, Barbican Theatre, London
Shearwater, Barbican Theatre, London
The Unthanks, The Pavilion, Cork
Adrian Crowley, The Courthouse, Cork
Grizzly Bear/Camera Obscura/Midlake, Marquee, Cork
Primavera: Grizzly Bear, Dum Dum Girls, Van Dyke Parks, Clare & the Reasons, Tortoise, Pavement, Pixies, Ben Frost, Titus Andronicus, Clare and the Reasons, Liquid Liquid
Heard they were great:
Godspeed! You Black Emperor
Future Islands
Richard Hawley
Brendan Benson
Films:
The Road
Ponyo
Books:
The North will rise again: Manchester Music City 1976-1996, an oral history by John Robb (Aurum)
Lowside of the road: A life of Tom Waits by Barney Hoskyns (Faber & Faber)
Thank you for the days by Mark Radcliffe (Simon & Schuster)

 

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The Underground of Happiness
uplifting pop music of every creed

Tuesdays 11.00am-12.00pm
(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
next show Jan 4 2011
Cork Campus Radio, 98.3FM
listen live on the web at www.ucc.ie/ccr


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Best of 2010 Podcast
*d'load this podcast at


http://rapidshare.com/files/437128544/UOH_Best_of_2010_Podcast.mp3



Playlist
Frankie Rose & the Outs - Candy
Field Music - Measure
Future Islands - Tin man
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Round and round
Caribou - Odessa
Peter Broderick - Part I: Discovery (from the soundtrack of the dance piece Congregation)
Toro y Moi - Leave everywhere
Wildbirds & Peacedrums - Fight for me
Bjork & Dirty Projectors - On and ever onward
Joanna Newsom - '81
CocoRosie - Hopscotch
Boxharp - The green
Sone Institute - On tree hill
She & Him - Over it over again
Oh No Ono - Swim
Secret Cities - Boyfriends
The Chap - Pain fun
Seeland - Black dot, white spider
Darren Hayman & the Secondary Modern feat. Emmy the Great - Calling out your name again
Dum Dum Girls - Bhang bhang, I'm a burnout
Caitlin Rose - Own side
Shearwater - Black eyes
Dean & Britta - Incandescent innocent
Boa Morte - Wooden floor
Beach House - Norway
Thread Pulls - Weight
Markus Mehr - Everyware
Charlotte Gainsbouirg - Le chat du café des artistes
Susumu Yokota - Your twinkling eyes
Sarah Blasko - We won't run
Botany - Feeling today
Our Broken Garden - The departure
Olafur Arnalds - Fun ert sonlin
Liam Singer - Leave the world to those who care






*the next show is on Jan 4 2011, following the Christmas holidays
**Happy Christmas and a Poptastic New Year to everyone

e-mail the show on [email protected]
or text +353 (0)86-7839800
please mark messages “uoh”

Conor O'Toole,
c/o Cork Campus Radio,
Áras na Mac Léinn,
Student Centre,
University College Cork,
Cork,
Ireland.

 

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Just a quick reminder of this week's show coming up tomorrow morning:

The Underground of Happiness
Tuesday Jan 4th 2011
11.00am-12.00pm GMT
(repeated Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio 98.3FM
*listen live on the web at
www.ucc.ie/ccr

*this week's show features music from The Go! Team, Colourmusic, Fujiya & Miyagi, Broken Records, Codes in the Clouds, Iron & Wine and Essie Jain among others

www.myspace.com/theundergroundofhappiness

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[underground]

The Underground of Happiness
uplifting pop music of every creed

www.myspace.com/theundergroundofhappiness

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=100000831467458

Playlist 157
Tues Jan 4th 2010
11.00am-12.00pm

(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio, 98.3FM
listen live on the web at www.ucc.ie/ccr
*listen back to this show at
http://rapidshare.com/files/440754873/UOH_Podcast_Jan_4_2011.mp3



Playlist
The Go! Team - Buy nothing day
Rich Bennett - Chase scene
The Walkmen - Stranded (playing Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona, May 26-28)
Deerhunter - Memory boy (playing Button Factory, Dublin, March 25)
Jumpel feat. Chloe March - Edinburgh
Essie Jain - Lay down
Fujiya & Miyagi - Yoyo
Colourmusic - Tog
Broken Records - You know you're not dead (playing Crawdaddy, Dublin, Feb 1)
Iron & Wine - Tree by the river (playing Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Feb 15)
Crystal Stilts - Practically immaculate (playing Cargo, London, March 30)
Serifs - Eses and ees (I)
Codes in the Clouds - Look back, look up
Syd Matters - Hi life






*next week's show features music from Dutch Uncles, The Phoenix Foundation and Marmaduke Dando, among others

e-mail the show on [email protected]
or text +353 (0)86-7839800
please mark messages “uoh”

Conor O'Toole,
c/o Cork Campus Radio,
Áras na Mac Léinn,
Student Centre,
University College Cork,
Cork,
Ireland.