As you already know from last week’s show, the first half-hour of HJ features music from upcoming local shows. If you’ve got an event happening, send the info my way. No guarantee I’ll include it, though — I’ve really only got time for 5-6 bands in that first half hour. Actually, any feedback about this segment would be useful for me, since it’s purpose is to be useful. (Does that make sense? Probably not, but I think you know where I’m getting at.)

Anyway, here’s a totes meta song about the radio, courtesy of The Loose Salute, which features members of more-than-likely-defunct Mojave 3:

» The Loose Salute, “Turn the Radio Up” (from Tuned to Love)
You can stream the whole album here.

Her Jazz 05-29-2007

the breeders - saints - last splash
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DMBQ - taste - the essential sounds from the far east
brown recluse sings - western meadowlark - black sunday ep - N
run runner - future favorite walls - s/t
lavender diamond - in heaven there is no heat - calvary of light ep
bert jansch - when the sun comes up - the black swan
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spanky wilson - sunshine of your love - superfunk presents funk soul sisters - C
elk city - cherries in the snow - new believers - N
the triffids - do you want me near you? - in the pines - N
mean spirit’d robots - the distribution of wealth in this country really SUX - i’m freezing 7″
redd kross - lind blair - born innocent
silver daggers - joy - new high & ord - N
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american sneakers - the most popular girl - darts & daggers - N
sound directions - dice game - the funky side of life
whitehouse johnny & the trainstation hoods - i’m from new jersey but i sure as hell aint from the beach - 7″
kilkenny cats - shakin’ in the 60’s - hands down
boots - the change - s/t - N
the karl hendricks rock band - i’m not crying, karl - the world says - N
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homostupids - d*cksting - the intern LP - N
pink reason - motherf**ker - cleaning the mirror - N
michael hurley - got over it - sweetkorn
glenn mercer - morning lights - wheel in motion - N
electrelane - the greater times - no shouts, no calls - N
cause co-motion - which way is up? - 7″

Julie Doiron at the First Unitarian Church Chapel

Life has been a series of ups and downs in the past couple of weeks. In other news:

» I went up to NYC for the Popfest over Memorial weekend; kudos to the Popfest crew for putting a show on the Coney Island boardwalk. Having the opportunity to be on the boardwalk, soak up the sun, watch a couple bands and put my feet in the ocean were exactly what I needed. Brown Recluse Sings and Cause Co-Motion totally owned this festival — but whatever, I called that from a million miles away. The Besties aren’t too shabby either.

» Julie Doiron is on tour with Calvin Johnson for the next month, and I recommend that you catch her live. The intimacy of the FUC’s chapel (50-person capacity) meshes well with her always-genial persona; she’s also got Steve & Will from the Constantines backing her up.

» Of course you probably missed this, because it’s fucking One Tree Hill, but the Con’s “Soon Enough” was featured in the closing to an episode recently — and it works quite nicely.

» Aaaaand to meet my 1% Canadian programming requirement, here’s Toronto’s Small Sins, whom I caught on tour with Sloan recently. Seems like this song, “Stay”, was enough of a hit to warrant a remix 12″ with contributions from the Postal Service or something. Regardless it’s a nice, self-tormenting pop song, which given my crappy weekend seems pretty apropos:

Small Sins, “Stay” (from the self-titled album)

Eh, let’s make it a double-header — here’s my favorite Sloan track from the most recent album, which they totally did not play at their Philly show:

Sloan, “Can’t You Figure It Out” (from Never Hear The End Of It)
Yeah, it cuts off like that. Woo hoo, the joys of record sequencing.