Viva Indie Rock Podcast #42 - Favorite Tracks of 2012!

Podcast version of the live Viva Indie Rock radio show Thursdays 9PM on Plaza Midwood Community Radio! This week: a recap of some of our favorite tracks from 2012. Mind you, this is only a one hour radio show, so we had to condense. But, here's 14 songs we absolutely love!

Track List:
1) Cloud Nothings  Attack On Memory  Stay Useless
2) Eternal Summers  Correct Behavior  You Kill
3) Moonface  With Sinaii:Heatbreaking Bravery  Teary Eyes and Bloody Lips
4) The Babies  Our House on the Hill  Alligator
5) Cheers Elephant  Like Wind Blows Fire  Leaves
6) Fawn  Coastlines  Pixels
7) CocoRosie  We Are On Fire Single  Tearz for Animals (feat Anthony Hegarty)
8) The Eversons  Summer Feeling  Could It Ever Get Better
9) PAWS  Cokefloat  Catherine 1956
10) Tanlines  Mixed Emotions  All of Me
11) KIDS  KIDS  My Sincerest Apologies
12) Satellite Stories  Phrases to Break the Ice  Anti-Lover
13) Stargroves  Within Me A Lunatic Sings Single
14) Frankie Rose  Interstellar  Interstellar

10 Favorite Tracks Second Half of 2012

Here are 10 tracks that never left heavy rotation on my personal playlist the second half of 2012. Again, it was brutal trying to pare this down to 10 songs. In truth, there were about 40 tracks I seriously considered. You can also revisit my 10 Favorite Tracks First Half of 2012!

#10 Reptile Youth - Morning Sun



#9 Plateaus - Blackout



#8 Local Natives - Breakers



#7 The Babies - Alligator



#6 Stargroves - Within Me A Lunatic Sings



#5 Satellite Stories - Anti-Lover



#4 Parakeet - Shonen Hearts



#3 PAWS - Catherine 1956



#2 Fawn - Pixels



#1 Eternal Summers - You Kill

7 Silly Questions w/ FAWN!

If you haven't heard of the FAWN before, you are in for a real treat. Their debut album Coastlines came out earlier this year and destroyed the CMJ Charts finding it's way into the Top 20 amongst heavy hitters like Beach House, Hot Chip, Ty Segall, and Japandroids. And, in truth, while I love all those bands, I would much rather listen to Fawn. Tracks like Pixels and Break it Off make you want to hit the repeat button on the iPod over and over and over again.



With a little help from our friends at Terrorbird, we were able to catch up with Fawn via the interwebs. Thankfully, band members Matt Rickle and Mike Spence had a few spare moments to answer our highly suspicious questionnaire.

What's the most embarrassing band you loved as a kid?
Matt: Michael W. Smith. Don't even bother looking it up.

What is the first record you bought?
Mike: Green Day's "Dookie." I was in fourth grade at a new school and felt really embarassed that I didn't know the lyrics to "Longview." Funny, transferring from public school to Catholic school inadvertently turned me onto that song.

Unicorns vs. Narwhals? Who would win in a fight?
Matt: No brainer. Narwhals win, because they are real human beings and unicorns are not.

What is the funniest thing that has happened to you on the road? 
Mike: We ended up at some truck stop that sold these strange, gothic novelty household decor items. There was a set of dragon figurines playing instruments - like saxophones and keytars. And then, there was this gem. A gargoyle toilet paper dispenser, which our friend Ray - who was with us - bought as a keepsake. Brian Peters from Qui-Sci said it best: "Fecaemon - protector of your most private of papers."

Who has the worst van etiquette? 
Mike: We navigated through the worst winter storm in history. There were times that we thought we were hallucinating because we had never seem such strange precipitation - like driving for miles through golf balls three feet deep. We thought we saw beams of light from a downed UFO. Turned out, it was a rest stop. Because we survived together, all sins of van etiquette are eternally forgiven.

Who is in heavy rotation on your iPod? 
Matt: On Halloween in was Oingo Boingo's "Dead Man's Party" all day, but now it's back to Chris Cohen's "Overgrown Path," Wild Nothing's "Nocturne," and Tame Impala's "Lonerism."

What is the worst fight over nothing that you got into with each other after being road weary and exhausted?
Mike: We never fought about anything. Ever. Until those Taco Bell gift cards came into the picture.

Viva Indie Rock Podcast #25

Podcast #25 is available for streaming online or downloading and listening at your leisure! Live broadcast radio shows are 9pm Thursdays (EST) on PMCRadio.org.



Tracklist:
1) The Helio Sequence Negotiations October
2) Chelsea Light Moving  Groovy and Linda
3) Future Islands  FAMOUS CLASS RECORDS / LAMC 7" SERIES LAMC # 2 Cotton Flower
4) Eternal Summers Correct Behavior You Kill
5) MNDR Feed Me Diamonds Faster Horses
6) Fawn Coastlines All The Lights
7) Gold Motel Gold Motel Musicians
8) Fulhäst Down The Deuce Robot Blood (instrumental)
9) Echo Lake Wild Peace In Dreams
10) Family Of The Year Loma Vista Living On Love
11) Mission Of Burma Unsound 7's
12) METZ METZ Headache
13) Taken By Trees  Dreams
14) Echo Lake Wild Peace Even the Blind

Viva Indie Rock Podcast #24

Podcast #24 is available for streaming online or downloading and listening at your leisure! Live broadcast radio shows are 9pm Thursdays (EST) on PMCRadio.org.




Tracklist:
1) Love Riot  Tilly and the Wall  2012 LP 
2) Diversity  Family Of The Year  Loma Vista 
3) Never Have To Fall In Love Again  Eleni Mandell w/ Benji Hughes  I Can See The Future 
4) Rice and Beans (But No Beans)  The Welcome Wagon  Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices 
5) Like a Fire  Erika Spring  Erika Spring 
6) Young Silence  Echo Lake  Wild Peace 
7) Waitin' 4 U  Foxygen  Take the Kids Off Broadway 
8) Violence Now  Milk Music
9) One-Sided  Arc in Round  Arc in Round
10) Beaches  A Lull   Meat Mountain - EP 
11) Trouble  Iron and Wine   7" 
12) OwlShark  Doseone  G is for Deep 
13) Pixels  Fawn  Coastlines 
14) Midnight Men  CAN  The Lost Tapes Sampler 
15) Close To None  Future Islands  On The Water

Viva Indie Rock Podcast #22

Podcast #22 is available for streaming online or downloading and listening at your leisure! Live broadcast radio shows are 9pm Thursdays (EST) on PMCRadio.org.



Tracklist:
1) Fawn  Coastlines  Break It Off
2) Doseone   G Is For Deep  Thy Pattern
3) Cat Power  Sun   Ruin
4) Penny Police  As Long As You Watch My Heart  As Long As You...
5) Langhorne Slim and the Law    The Way We Move   Two Crooked Hearts
6) Alt-J  Fitzpleasure
7) Nouveau Velo   Moestuin EP   What To Do
8) Ursprung   Ursprung  Kalte Eiche
9) The Welcome Wagon  Precious Rememdies Against Satan's Devices  The Strife Is O'er, The Battle Won
10) Olympic Swimmers   No Flags Will Fly   Father Said
11) Alice Cohen   Pink Keys   Cascading Keys
12) Erika Spring   Erika Spring  Hidden
13) Waters  If Only Single   If Only
14) Human Woman   Human Woman   Dddi