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Show #30 Top 10 of 2009

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So finally here is my official best of music list for 2009 and it's the oldsters who have kicked ass across the board. Even though we kick-off the set with The XX there were two other newish groups that made it on the radar; first being a band from Mass called The Young Leaves and another Fungi Girls which features a bunch of 16-18 olds from Texas. Comeback/reunion shows in our top list events o ...

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Don't have a lot of time but in this here set i mixed some new music with a bunch of new brunswick bands like Butthead(aka Buzzkil on Alternative Tentacles) from their Heat  Blast 7" i play the first whole side, The Young Leaves, Groucho Marxists, Fungi Girls, Nude Swirl, Screaming Females, Laminated Cat, Bubble/Gum, We Were Promised Jet Packs, The Smiths, Boss Jim Gettys. Full of Fancy, Bionic Rhoda doing their cover of "She blinded me with Science" and The Stuntcock's ...

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------How do we remember time? We celebrate it with the new and the old hoping that we can learn something from everything that has come before us. They call this history. Weather the past is old enough to teach us is always a concern. We tend to villanize a lot of things that later will be revered mostly because we're scared. Almost everything. We can say that Bush II ain't no hero but MJ is going t ...

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The start of summer has officially started for all the working stiffs. This show is packed with so much  new stuff we barely had time to fit it in everything we wanted to spin. Which is a good problem to have these days. So much great new music out there. As per our usual though we've mixed in the old with the new and this time we even gave you some metal or at least the review stalker music blog version of it.First set starts with Bedlam doing lost in space theme, Making Time by The C ...

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Getting back to business dipping into some new LPs and some older stuff DJ Spork is back with a vengeance in 2009. This show is dedicated to Lux Interior RIP and we hope it reminds you that there is a lot of amazing music out there as influential and great as The Cramps were. The Rock recovery system is about letting us drive for an hour of your time. Also in this show we feature new music by The Groucho Marxists, Andalusians, Full of Fancy and The Ergs. We dig deep in the archives and pull ...

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Aahh the glory of yet another year down for the count. The slow death of all things we know. Welcome to the drunken analog set Kissing 2008 Goodbye, The best of. ha! Apologies in advance for commentary from Jonah Hill. The guy would not shut the fuck-up. Our list was long this year. Some bands put out actual records that were great from start finish are featured in this podcast like No Age, The Notwist, British Sea Power, Young Widows, The Raveonettes, Pete and the Pirates. A reissue of Nic ...

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Winter is freezing us all out. DJ Spork was hard at work thinking of some rock just for you in this latest podcast so get some Holiday Cheer! This show is like all the others although we do terrorize you with some Christmas music which will be out of date in a few days so we hope you don't notice. Includes some nostalgia from New Jersey Bands like Animation, Buzzkill, Eastern Anchors (this is actually a debut) and Transilvia. Plus some new stuff from Young Widows, No Age, Trail of Dead and ...

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Summer is gone and we're in the twilight of a terrible situation. In this show we feature Holier Than Seattle compilation on Heat Blast Records but kick-off the set with a RAC Remix of "Be Good" by Tokyo Police Club, "Second Hand-Smoke by the Moist Boyz 7", a DJ Shadow instrumental hip-hop mix. I am not sure exactly when the Heat Blast compilation came out exactly but I think it was early 91 or so. The A side has Freak Theatre featuring Tommy Southern on guitar followed ...

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Summer tunes from the DJ Spork archives and some new classics. This cast's theme is about a trying to have a care free summer and how grand things can be in even in a recession / depression and a reminder not let high gas prices bring us down too much. We will survive this but it will take a village to come together - idiots and all.  Kicking of the first set is Jesus and Marychain's 'I love rock in Roll' off of Munki, Attack el Robot! by Calexico from Feast of Wire, Sonic Youth Covers ...

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Sometimes, it is better to play back the Devil you know and compare it to the new, the obvious and obscure. In this mix DJ Spork and Review Stalker present the buthole surfers from their creamcorn ep "Florida", "Death & Destruction" from The Last  Sucker by Ministry, Rollins Band "Black and White", "No Lucifer" by British Sea Power, No Age kicks it nue school with "Everybody's Down" to round up the first set. Switchin ...

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Show no. 20 - With the advent of original television programming going down the tubes, this is a perfect time to rediscover albums and music. This show's theme centers around Politi; the only original thing on TV besides sports so you have nothing to lose and everything to gain. We unearth a lot great old wax and ask the question how come new American music  doesn't have any artists with a social edge or theme? (*with some exceptions) Featuring:  The music of The Stranglers,  ...

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This show features  the Review Stalker wrap-up with some of this yearâs best releases and downloads for 2007!  Kicking off the set with NegativeLandâs âYou canât Always Get What You Wantâ and cues into Meddle by Pink Floyd, the intro is the Sporkian lazymanâs mash-up for no other reason what so ever of course. Chasing down some of these release is  never ever a direct path, they just are jsut good, and I must say that one of those albums that grew on me this year wa ...

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N.J. is flooding, people are being evacuated from Trailerparks inWoodbridge, and us, in-between some shop-vac action, were able to get down to business in the Grandview studios basement and record this podcast. I truly noticed the water at first from a little shock while touching turntable number one. (Note to self: wear rubber sole shoes next time it's raining hard) That said, this set is dedicated to all the dead people from VA Tech. Up first by the Buthole Surfers, "Hurdy Gurdy Man& ...

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On this show we spin tunes that sound like hits or are hits in our opinion. We are also celebrating the WFMU marathon: when you listen you'll catch a bunch of sound bites we swiped off their site and added to our already lo-fi production values... Plus as not to forget about St. Pattys we're playing a few Irish bands. As usual we're packing in the entertainment value for you. The setkicks it off with "Bunny ain't no kind of rider" off Of Montreal's new one, followed by "Brend ...

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Ah, the lovely stains, clicks and gnaws of that glorious vinyl sound show up on this show for your audile file listening pleasure. We dug deep in the archives to bring you some of these tracks because we wanted to show-up last year's show and NOT do any repeaters, as it were, and I think we were able to stalk pile for next years Valentine's show. Who knows, the  parameters are pretty wide but we kick it with a newtrack by Bloc Party, "Vision of Heaven", "He's a whore&quo ...

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Lush vinyl noise ringing in 2007 with some of the latest releases and some awesome "old stuff" from Homestead Records, Am/Rep, Touch and Go, and SST from the 90's.  Mixing and matching a bunch of records and spining them on my newish Newmark turntable was a lot of fun and I will be keeping it up.  This podcast is not safe for stoners or acid freaks and includes: includes Husker DU, the new Shins track "Sleeping Lessons", Big Dipper "Wrong in the Chart ...

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The best way to experience music is live and in person, second best is on album and well third best is through some type of media; at least in my opinion. For this cast we are eternally grateful to the rbally.net types who go out of their way to post and share some of the best indie and alternative music of our times (1960-00's). So this cast is dedicated to his persistence and taste for which a lot music would be most impossible to come by in particular since so much quality is l ...

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I thought it would be appropriate to put a war theme show together for the current political climate. It's all relative right? For one thing the most disturbing thing is more U.S. soldiers have died this past month(10/06) than any time since the invasion began. The stranger thing is that once I started searching for music that would fit the "War all the time theme" I started to see it going in all sorts of directions, so I included some timely tunes as well as some ...

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Lots of great rock music always comes in the 4th Quarter and most will  not measure up to hard task of putting together a best of list. There are some pretty well known creators who will be shadowed by lesser known giants; who've humbly and unknowingly put forth their best effort. The pay-off is a sweat spicey honey sauce that is sure to please even the most picky of taste buds. The best contenders show has some grea ...

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So over here at Grandview Studios we have finally recovered from Wefest and have gotten our summer/fall schedule packed. To kick off summmer heat we've put together a Jersey Boogie Nights in Asbury theme: The sound track when you were a weird kid wondering the streets looking for things to do includes: Frank Black Francis, Syd Barret, Tall Dwarfs (thanks for recommendation skiz), the classic trout-punk rock by DUH, Black Flag, Bubble/Gum, The Twilight Singers, Broken Soc ...

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