this week's show!

I'm reallyreallyreally digging the new O Pioneers!!! and Thursday albums. In fact, I started and ended my show with those bands today. That is just how great they are. ^_^


Saved by the Bell Was a Super Good Show - O Pioneers!!! - Neon Creeps
Dead City Sound - O Pioneers!!! - Neon Creeps
Can I Pay My Rent in Fun? - Bomb the Music Industry! - Scrambles
Grow On, Grow Up, Grow Out - Moving Mountains - Pneuma
The Moon Shifts the Sea the Sea Shapes the Shore the Shore Shakes the Sand the Sand Sinks the Ship - A. Armada - Anam Cara
Herstory of Glory - Do Make Say Think - You, You're a History in Rust
Pink - The Max Levine Ensemble
Live Long - Ampere - Our Tomorrows End Today
Dirge for 95 and 10 - One Reason
Sorry, Irma Thomas - One Reason
The Origamists -Lemuria
Pumble Bears Cloud Maker - James K. Polk and the Family Friends
Mirror Images - Monikers - Eat Your Young
Holiday - Monikers - Eat Your Young
Nothing With You - Descendents - Cool to be You
Red and Blue Jeans - The Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good
TV Casualty - The Misfits - Static Age
Parishiltonisametaphor - Dillinger Four - Civil War
Glass - Young Freaks
Magenta - Subverso - Existence on the Shelf
Virgin Sails - My Heart to Joy at the Same Tone - Virgin Sails
Scottish Song - London Classics - London Classics
A Line in the Sand - Q and Not U - No Kill No Beep Beep
The Recluse - Cursive - The Ugly Organ
Turn - Christie Front Drive - Anthology
Pop Lie - Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
Still Ill (Live) - The Smiths
Contender - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Young Adult Friction - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Never Ending Math Equation - Modest Mouse
Orange Rhyming Dictionary - Jets to Brazil - Four Cornered Night
Safety Is Of - The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower - Dissertation, Honey
Dinner's For Suckers - None More Black
Manthem - Bouncing Souls - How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Subway Funeral - Thursday - Common Existence

So tonight was my first show in my new time slot. yay. Awesome songs were played.

Here Come the Rome Plows - Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
Orchard - Indian Summer - Discography
Remember When it Meant Something? - O Pioneers!!! - Black Mambas
Like a Fish - Let Me Run - Meet Me at the Bottom
Heart Attack at 30 - Polar Bear Club - Sometimes Things Just Disappear
Resuscitation of a Dead Man - Thursday - Common Existence
Teeth - Jettison - Drag
Passionate - Kind of Like Spitting - Bridges Worth Burning
All That's Left Has Gone to Sleep - Envy - Abyssal
Horse Girl - These Arms Are Snakes - Easter
Knights - Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
Alligator Assassinator - Fake Problems - It's Great to be Alive
Empty Lives - Star Fucking Hipsters - Until We're Dead
Look at the Dawn - Subhumans - Death Was Too Kind
Tell the World - Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls
I Was a Lid - Manchester Orchestra - Let My Pride Be
Reunion Tour - Weakerthans - Reunion Tour
Oh, Comely - Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
It's Me - Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
Sowing Season - Brand New - The Devil & God Are Raging Inside Me
Puddle Splashers - Cap'n Jazz - Analphabetapolothology
Motivational Song - Algernon Cadwallader - Some Kind of Cadwallader
The New Nathan Detroits - Braid - Frame & Canvas
Luckie St. - Cartel - Chroma
Nutrition - Dead Milkmen - Death Rides a Pale Cow
Die Die My Darling - The Misfits - Collection I
Now I Know - Pennywise - From the Ashes
Jaguar Pirates - Jaguar Love - Take Me to the SEa
Wayfarer - Hot Water Music - Caution

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have big news.

Starting next week, The Big Takeover is officially on at a new time! It will now air on Monday night/Tuesday morning from midnight until 2:00am. So, same time but different day! Mark your calendars!

The Shape of Punk to Come - Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
Our Weekend Starts on Wednesday - Hey Mercedes - Everynight Fireworks
Make Out Kids - Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This to Memory
Americaspremierefaithbasedinitiative - Dillinger Four - Civilwar
What Time is Pensacola: Wings of Gold on, Anyway? - The Lawrence Arms - Cocktails & Dreams
Catamaran - Bear vs. Shark - Terrorhawk
Old White Lincoln - The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
The Dream Team - Fake Problems - It's Great to be Alive
The Body & The Slow-Burner - Let Me Run - Meet Me at the Bottom
Brittle Heart - The Loved Ones - Build & Burn
Louisiana - The Loved Ones - Build & Burn
Lost & Rendered - Alkaline Trio - Agony & Irony
Third Man In - Dropkick Murphys
Adventure - Be Your Own Pet - Be Your Own Pet
Two Cups of Tea - Star Fucking Hipsters - Until We're Dead
Old Devils - William Elliott Whitmore - Animals in the Dark
Lay Me Back Down - Portugal. the Man - Censored Colors
D.I.Y. Orgasm - Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains - Love Songs for the Apocalypse
Without Formal Company - Subverso - Existence on the Shelf
Fenway Park - London Classics - London Classics
All of Life is Coming Home - My Heart to Joy at the Same Tone - Virgin Sails
Seven Curtains - These Arms Are Snakes - Tail Swallower & Dove
Where Do You Run To - Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls
Gil - Push-Pull - Hello Soldier
Je M'appelle Macho - Red-Eyes Legends - Wake Up, Legend
Mr. Ego Death - We Versus the Shark - Dirty Versions
I'll See You When We're Both Not so Emotional - American Football - American Football
My Time Outside the Womb - Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances
Aside - The Weakerthans - Left & Leaving
Jinx Removing - Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
Baby, I'm an Anarchist - Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose
Friends in the Armed Forces - Thursday - Common Existence

perfect for the catastrophe

Hello.
I'm listening to the Blood Brothers right now. They are very awesome. But you probably already knew that.

WHUS is hosting a concert this Friday! Marissa Nadler + Luke Temple + Brie Sullivan. Student Union Ballroom at the UConn Storrs campus. Doors at 7:30, show at 8:00. The best part? It's FREE! It'll be a good time, come hang out with us!

Anyway, here is tonight's playlist!


The Black Hole - HORSE the Band - The Mechanical Hand
Shimmy Shimmy Quarter Turn - Hellogoodbye - Hellogoodbye EP
Our Ballads - Polar Bear Club - Sometimes Things Just Disappear
Never Give Up - New Found Glory - Sticks & Stones
Dog - Lemuria - Get Better
Blind Date - Bouncing Souls - Anchors Aweigh
The Patient Ferris Wheel - The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
For Our Elegant Caste - Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
Golden Skans - Klaxons - Myths of the New Future
L.A.X. - Q and Not U - Power
South - A Cursive Memory - Changes
Baboon - This Town Needs Guns - Animals
Into Days & Nights & Years & Months - A. Armada - Anam Cara
Daniel's Striped Tiger - Tiny Hawks - Fingers Become Bridges
Heck Yeah Summer - Fake Problems - How Far Our Bodies Go
Questioningly - Ramones - Road to Ruin
Don't Lose Touch - Against Me! - Searching for a Former Clarity
Fear & Loathing in Long Island - Latterman
Yo Soy Milk - Algernon Cadwallader - Some Kind of Cadwallader
Leveless - Planes Mistaken for Stars - Fuck With Fire
Your Pearly Whites - These Arms Are Snakes - Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When its Antelope Go Home
Autobiography of a Nation - Thursday - Full Collapse
Summerholiday vs. Punkroutine - Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
Safety is Of - The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower - Dissertation, Honey
Daedalus - Jettison - Drag
Kiss the Bottle - Lucero
Jackson Underground - Sundowner - Four One Five Two
My Time Outside the Womb - Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances
Organism - Caw! Caw! - Wait Outside
Unless It's Kicks - Okkervil River - The Stage Names
One Armed Scissor - At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
A-List Actress - Hey Mercedes - Everynight Fireworks

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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. 

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