This week's playlist:

Milwaukee Sky Rocket - Braid - Frame & Canvas
The Stars - Algernon Cadwallader - Some Kind of Cadwallader
Relative Surplus Value - The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour
Search Party - So Many Dynamos - Flashlights
Location, Location, Location - Bridge & Tunnel - Bridge & Tunnel
Hooray - Minus the Bear - Menos el Oso
Going Steady - Death from Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Human(e) Meat - Propagandhi - Supporting Caste
Saved by the Bell was a Super Good Show - O Pioneers!!! - Neon Creeps
The Body and the Slow Burner - Let Me Run - Meet Me at the Bottom
As He Climbed the Dark Mountain - Thursday - Common Existence
I'll Never Love Again - New Found Glory - Not Without a Fight
Red and Blue Jeans - The Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good
Never Meant - American Football - American Football
Invalid Litter Dept. - At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
It's Me - Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
Senor & the Queen - The Gaslight Anthem - Senor & the Queen
Yesterday's Lunch - Lemuria - Get Better
Waiting Room - Fugazi - 13 Songs
No Future, Pt. 1 - Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances
Ohio! - Slingshot Dakota - Their Dreams are Dead, But Ours is the Golden Ghost
Motion in the Ocean - Nana Grizol - Love It Love It
Two-Headed Boy - Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Rolling Clouds - Paul Baribeau - Your Heart Breaks
Northern Soul - Darker My Love - 2
Baboon - This Town Needs Guns - Animals
Stay Alive - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Slumberland
Mama, I'm Satan - Cursive - Mama, I'm Swollen

Radiothon Madnessssssss

Happy St. Patrick's day! We however at WHUS are celebrating Radiothon all week, our pledge-drive fundraiser. If you missed The Big Takeover this week, call up during another show and pledge a few dollars and get some great premiums in return! The phone number is 1-800-599-9487, and you can check out all the sweet prizes you can get for donating at www.whus.org.

Tonight's playlist:

Barroom Hero - Dropkick Murphys
Never Alone - Dropkick Murphys
Caveman - Cursive - Mama, I'm Swollen
The Martyr - Cursive - Domestica
Seein' Diamonds - Hot Water Music - Till the Wheels Fall Off
Like a Fish - Let Me Run - Meet Me at the Bottom
Late Bloomer - Bouncing Souls - How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Do You Still Hate Me? - Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
Cowards Sing at Night - Tom Gabel - Heart Burns
Subway Funeral - Thursday - Common Existence
Reasons - New Found Glory - Not Without a Fight
Vampira - The Misfits - Collection I
If You Don't, Don't - Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
I Have a Major Weight Lifting Problem - O Pioneers!!! - Neon Creeps
(Shut) Up the Punx!!! - Bomb the Music Industry! - Scrambles
Red Line Season - These Arms Are Snakes - Tail Swallower and Dove
In Motion - Angleworm - Post Rock
Gin and Tonic - Civet - Hell Hath No Fury
Highways of Gold - Jaguar Love - Take Me to the Sea
Aside - The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving

So my last few days have been pretty epic: I saw These Arms Are Snakes two nights in a row (pictures coming soon!), the first night I got stranded in New York City after missing the last train back to Connecticut, and the second night I interviewed 3/4 of the band, and they played "Cavity Carousel," just for me. =D

The interview will air next week, probably. I've still got to edit it.

But for this week, we rocked out to lots of sweet tunes:

Crazy Woman Dirty Train - These Arms Are Snakes - Easter
Cavity Carousel - These Arms Are Snakes - Tail Swallower & Dove
Rats & Rats & Rats for Candy - Blood Brothers - Crimes
Riot - Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
Thresher's Flail -Be Your Own Pet - Be Your Own Pet
No - Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls
Friends in the Armed Forces - Thursday - Common Existence
For Science Fiction - Maritime - Heresy & The Hotel Choir
You're the One I Want - Jets to Brazil - Perfecting Loneliness
Come Saturday - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Slumberland
Call it Sane - Faraquet - Anthology '97-'98
You are the Music - Three Second Kiss - Long Distance
Practical Animals - We Versus the Shark - Dirty Versions
Look What Happened - Less Than Jake - Anthem
Stuff That I Like - Bomb the Music Industry! - Scrambles
An Eluardian Instance - Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
Corazon de Oro - Rancid - Life Wont Wait
Reach for the Sky - Social Distortion - Sex, Love, and Rock n Roll
Mental Health - Zebrahead - Phoenix
I Couldn't Love You - Cursive - Mama, I'm Swollen
Ma Jolie - Bear vs Shark - Right Now, You're in the Best of Hands
The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows - Brand New - Deja Entendu
One Thousand Paper Cranes - Motion City Soundtrack
Another Innocent Girl - Alkaline Trio - From Here to Infirmary
Skeleton in New York City - Coldsnap
Mist & Mast - Jettison - Drag
All of Life is Coming Home - My Heart to Joy - Virgin Sails
Black and White - Subverso
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues - The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
Playing Your Song - Hey Mercedes - Loses Control
Mechanical - Lemuria - Get Better

Surprise coming next week!!


As for what happened this week...

Beyond Electric Dreams - Bad Religion - The Empire Strikes First
The First Eviction Notice - The Lawrence Arms - Apathy & Exhaustion
New York is Burning - Jawbreaker - Bivouac
Blue Carolina - Alkaline Trio - Good Mourning
Crimes - The Blood Brothers - Crimes
Time's Arrow - Thursday - Common Existence
I Know I Know - Freshkills - Freshkills
Subtle Body - These Arms Are Snakes - Easter
Red Line Season - These Arms Are Snakes - Tail Swallower and Dove
Funeral for a Friend - Planes Mistaken for Stars - Fuck with Fire
Magic Word - Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
I, The Swan - The Sound of Animals Fighting - The Ocean & the Sun
8 - sBACH - sBACH
Romantic Rights - Death from Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
From the Hips - Cursive - Mama, I'm Swollen
Red Letter Day - The Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home About
Seventy Times Seven - Brand New - Your Favorite Weapon
Planet Shhh - Cap'n Jazz - Analphabetapolothology
Dead City Sound - O Pioneers!!! - Neon Creeps
Here's My Destroyer - Let Me Run - Meet Me at the Bottom
Story of My Life - Social Distortion - Social Distortion
Listen to Your Friends - New Found Glory - Not Without a Fight
Goodbye Forever (Yes Really) - Male Nurse - All My Friends Are Assholes
Things I Wish - Paul Baribeau - Grandledge
Consider the Ravens - Dustin Kensrue - Please Come Home
Born Beautiful - Kind of Like Spitting - Bridges Worth Burning
One of These Days - Owen - At Home With
Atlantis to Interzone - Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
Ice Monster - Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
The Deadly Rhythm - Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come

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