Tonight's playlist!

Unorchestrated (live) - Hey Mercedes - Unorchestrated
Take on Me - Cap'n Jazz - Analphabetapolothology
Dead Womb - Death From Above 1979 - Heads Up
Here Come the Rome Plows - Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
Search Party - So Many Dynamos - Flashlights
Trusty Chords - Hot Water Music - Caution
Million - Jawbreaker - Dear You
The Moon Shifts The Sea The Sea Shapes The Shore The Shore Shakes The Sand The Sand Sinks The Ship - A. Armada - Anam Cara
I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead - Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling
8105 - Moving Mountains - Pneuma
I Do Not Live in Love and Hate - Tiny Hawks - Fingers Become Bridges
Passion, Love, and Pride - Tip the Van - Passion, Love, and Pride
Gin & Tonic - Civet - Hell Hath No Fury
Sleeper Hold - Teenage Cool Kids - Queer Salutations
Rolling Clouds - Paul Baribeau - Your Heart Breaks
Turn Those Clapping Hands Into Angry Balled Fists - Against Me! - As the Eternal Cowboy
Motley Crue Probably Saved My Life - O Pioneers!!! - Black Mambas
Strange Symmetry - Past Lives - Strange Symmetry
5 - sBach - sBach
Hair Don't Grow - Annuals - Such Fun
Gin & Platonic - Joan of Arc - How Memory Works
Blue Jeans & White T-Shirts - The Gaslight Anthem - Senor & The Queen
Japam - Botch - An Anthology of Dead Ends
Another Leather Lung - The Sound of Animals Fighting - The Ocean and the Sun
The Separation of Church and Skate - NOFX - The War on Errorism
Anti-Manifesto - Propagandhi
Call to the Comptroller's Office - Bridge and Tunnel - East/West

So last night I went on a pretty epic adventure to Brooklyn to see Fucked Up, Vivian Girls, and Pissed Jeans. And this 80s hardcore cover band that was called 80s Hardcorps. I'm not making that up, either. I only got three hours of sleep last night (well, really it was this morning...) so I wont go retelling the whole adventure now, but the best part was by far buying the tickets, because they were math flash cards! Greatest idea ever?

Anyway. Onto the good stuff. Tonight's playlist:

(song - band - album)

Son the Father - Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
Tell the World - Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls
Straight-Edge - Minor Threat - Complete Discography
Six Pack - Black Flag - Damaged
I'm Not a Loser - Descendents - Milo Goes to College
Where Eagles Dare - The Misfits - Collection I
Chemical Warfare - Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Gainesville - Dillinger Four - Civil War
World's on Heroin - ALL
Ma Jolie - Bear vs. Shark - Right Now, You're in the Best of Hands...
Is This Thing On? - The Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good
Nothing Feels Good - The Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good
Calling Old Friends - Defiance, Ohio - The Great Depression
Casual Discussion in a Dome Between Two Temples - Algernon Cadwallader - Some Kind of Cadwallader
I Swallowed a Bug - Boy Problems - tour demo
Pastor of Muppets - Street Smart Cyclist - demo
Fear & Loathing in Mahwah, NJ - Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances
Cover the Roots/Lower the Stems - Moving Mountains - Pneuma
Ethric Double - These Arms Are Snakes - Tail Swallower & Dove
Isolation of a Light Source - Envy - Thursday/Envy Split
8 - sBach - sBach
My Girls - Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Call it Sane - Faraquet - Anthology 1997-98
Jaguar Pirates - Jaguar Love - Take Me to the Sea
Trash Flavored Trash - The Blood Brothers - Crimes
The Line - Make Do and Mend - We're All Just Living
Teeth - Jettison - Drag
Double Vision Quest - Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
I-78 - Slingshot Dakota - Their Dreams Are Dead, But Ours is the Golden Ghost!
When I Give the Signal, Run! - The Falcon - Unicornography

the big takeover.

So, for the last couple of weeks, I've been getting phone calls from people while doing my radio show asking if I have some sort of blog or website where I post my playlists, and I always feel bad saying no. And since I have now been asked this by multiple people that I do not even know, I've concluded that people actually listen to my show and therefore I should make blog for it.

Hi, blog.

Unfortunately I do not have my most recent playlist at hand right now to post in here, and in fact I am not even at the radio station as I am writing this. BUT. The good news: I am on the radio tonight. And every Wednesday night/Thursday morning.

12-2am.

www.whus.org.

Listen. It will be a good time. ^_^

And, since this entry kind of feels like a waste since there is not really anything in it, I figured why not tell the story behind the name of my show. 

It actually comes from two places.

1. "The Big Takeover" is one of my favorite Bad Brains songs. 

2. My freshman year of college I went to the University of New Haven (and totally hated it, but that's another story), and joined this "club" called HMS 101. I say club because it was run more like a class. HMS stood for Honing Music Skills, and this upperclassman named Marquis ran the whole thing. Marquis knows more about the music industry than anyone I have ever met before in my life, and the whole point of HMS was basically to learn exactly how the industry works, and, if you wanted to be a performer, perform everywhere you possibly can (including street corners!), and if you wanted to be involved with say, being an A&R or engineer or promoter, or anything else of the sort, you would have to do research on whatever job you chose and call up record labels all over the place trying to get internships (even if they were in California and you had no intention of going to California in the first place because we were stuck in West Haven). Now, being very much into indie and underground music, I was kind of the rebel of this club/class/whatever you want to call it, because the things we were being taught applied more to mainstream music and major record labels. Some of the bands I listen to are on labels that are only run by 1 or 2 people! So why pick only job that you want to do in this class?! When I first met Marquis and signed up for HMS, he asked me what I wanted to do in the music industry, and I, the young not-even-old-enough-to-vote freshman who listens to really obscure punk bands, responded, "Everything!" And he laughed, and said that you can't possibly do everything in the music industry.

Ever since that day, I have made it my goal to do as many awesome things involving music in some way as I possibly can. I also transferred my sophomore year, and was forced to change my major since UConn doesn't have my old major (which was originally music industry, but I changed it two months into the school year to music & sound recording.). So once I was at UConn, having a radio show seemed like a really sweet idea, because a) it would be fulfilling part of my goal to do as many awesome music-related things as possible, and b) I could play with mixing boards since I wouldn't be able to take classes in recording studios at my new school. 

Thus, The Big Takeover was born. 

<3chelsea>

P.S. I am quite in love with this layout. Polka dots = <3