When a young hopeless romantic heads west to break into the film-making business, he finds himself living a life directed by fate and My Bloody Valentine. This is his soundtrack.
loveless is still celebrating the new year (and a return to Los Angeles) so in lieu of a full show tonight, i’ll be playing previews to a few full albums for your listening pleasure. you can hear them first here and only here!
first up, we have Owen Pallett’s “Heartland” from 8:30 to 9:18 PM.
then we’ll have the self-titled album from super-group Broken Bells featuring Danger Mouse and Shins front-man James Mercer from 9:18 to 10:45 PM.
finally, we’ll wrap up with Yeasayer’s “Odd Blood” from 10:45 PM to 11:20 PM.
fully hosted shows by yours truly will be returning SOON!
for now, enjoy previews to these three great albums.
2009 was my first season as a DJ for www.audiocandyradio.com. Listen in this spring for my shows on Sunday nights from 7-10 PM EST. No big surprises.It was a great year for music. I had moments where I was lost in just a handful of albums (see the top five) and other times where I had an unquenchable thirst for new music. Here’s what I loved this year:
Top 20 Albums of the Year
1. Animal Collective – “Merriweather Post Pavilion”
2. Grizzly Bear – “Veckatimest”
3. Dirty Projectors – “Bitte Orca”
4. Phoenix – “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix”
5. Bat for Lashes – “Two Suns”
6. St. Vincent – “Actor”
7. Bon Iver – “Blood Bank EP”
8. Girls – “Album”
9. Dark Was the Night (Compilation)
10. Dan Deacon – “Bromst”
11. Atlas Sound – “Logos”
12. Sunset Rubdown – “Dragonslayer”
13. Neko Case – “Middle Cyclone”
14. The XX – “XX”
15. Fever Ray – “Fever Ray”
16. Junior Boys – “Begone Dull Care”
17. Ramona Falls – “Intuit”
18. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – “S/T”
19. A Sunny Day in Glasgow – “Ashes Grammar”
20. Beirut – “March of the Zapotec EP”
Honorable Mentions:
The Antlers – “Hospice”
Bob Dylan – “Together Through Life”
Cymbals Eat Guitars – “Why There Are Mountains”
Camera Obscura – “My Maudlin Career”
Mirah – “(a)spera”
this next song goes out to dearest Catherine Basham who’s on assignment with the Peace Corps in Panama!
11) “Cath” – Death Cab for Cutie
12) “Fell In Love With A Girl” – The White Stripes
13) “Everything With You” – The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
14) “Teen Creeps” – No Age
15) “Zebra” – Beach House
i’ll be doing a special show of my favorite albums of 2009,
including 5 favorite songs and 5 albums to look forward to!
check back soon for more information.
16) “To West Texas” – Explosions in the Sky
17) “The Night Starts Here” – Stars
18) “Portions for Foxes” – Rilo Kiley
and it’s bad news
i don’t blame you
i do the same thing
i get lonely too
19) “Can You Tell” – Ra Ra Riot
20) “The Magic Position” – Patrick Wolf
21) “A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger” – of Montreal
22) “Where in this World?” – The Notwist
23) “This Tornado Loves You” – Neko Case
24) “Always Right” – Ramona Falls
25) “Nikorette” – Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
26) “El Caporal” – My Morning Jacket
27) “Off Street Parking” – The Bicycle Thief
28) “The Way His Collar Falls” – Saves The Day
29) “The Remedy (I Won’t Worry)” – Jason Mraz
30) “Canons” – Jeremy Enigk 31) “Keep Your Voices Down” – Days Away (requested by @paigedearing)
32) “Where is My Love” – Cat Power
neutral milk hotel’s ‘in an aeroplane over the sea’ is one of the best albums of all time.
merge records just reissued ‘in an aeroplane over the sea’ and ‘on avery island’ on vinyl and they’ve posted two videos of live performances by the band in 1998.
i’ve never seen these before… and they’re pretty amazing!
1) “In The Flowers” – Animal Collective
2) “Wait for the Wintertime” – Yeasayer
3) “Crushed Bones” – Why?
4) “Marrow” – St. Vincent
5) “Accidntel Deth” – Rilo Kiley
6) “The Gypsy King” – Patrick Wolf
7) “I’m Good, I’m Gone” – Lykke Li
Here’s the new single “Norway” by one of my favorite bands,
Beach House, available as a free download here!
“Norway” – Beach House
@caitlindewey says “norway is totally the new sweden.”
thanks for listening, caitlin!
9) “Teen Angst” – M83
10) “Ashes Maths” – A Sunny Day in Glasgow
11) “We Are Nowhere and It’s Now” – Bright Eyes
12) “Sink Ships” – Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
13) “Max, Jill Called” – The Bicycle Thief
14) “Brackett, WI” – Bon Iver
15) “Carousels” – Beirut
16) “Spring Hall Convert” – Deerhunter
I love the end of the year because we get lists of fun things like best movies and music.
NPR’s got a pretty solid list for what they call the most important recordings of the decade. I definitely agree with their choices. It’s a good starting point for those who want to get a good background on some of the most influential music of the past ten years.
You should also check out Pitchfork.com’s decade in music. They’ve got a very interesting list of artists – and many that are different from NPR’s selections.
I’ll be compiling a list of 20 favorite albums of the year and 5 favorite songs sometime in December – but it won’t be a list of the most “important” or “best” work. Look forward to that!
loveless #9 comes to you in pre-recorded form because DJ @tuanquocle is trying not to be loveless in los angeles, if you know what he means.
this show is also dedicated to the wonderful caitlin dewey, editor-in-chief of 20 Watts magazine. check out http://20watts.wordpress.com for the web version of the zine. she’s one of my closest friends! songs i’ve chosen specifically for her are highlighted in red.
listen to 2 hours of interrupted music right here… and fall in love.
stream the show here:
or download the mp3 here: http://www.divshare.com/download/9281870-5e7
1) “The Birth and Death of Day” – Explosions in the Sky
2) “Two Weeks” – Grizzly Bear
3) “A Postcard to Nina” – Jens Lekman
4) “LDN” – Lily Allen 5) “Die Slow” – HEALTH
6) “Young Hearts Spark Fire” – Japandroids 7) “A Teenager in Love” – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
“now you go unseen, perfect you’ll stay hidden
and i can dream of things you’ll never see”
“Come in Alone” – My Bloody Valentine
9) “Lauren Marie” – Girls 10) “Little Secrets” – Passion Pit 11) “Girl on the Wing” – The Shins
12) “I’m Making Eyes at You” – Black Kids
13) “Ghost Under Rocks” – Ra Ra Riot
14) “My Lady’s House” – Iron and Wine
15) “Tiny Cities Made of Ashes” – Modest Mouse 16) “Party” – El Perro Del Mar
17) “Inn Town” – Whiskeytown
“I can try. I can see.
I can want it to be
I can laugh. I can feel.
I can’t see anything without dreaming.”
18) “Love Goes On” – The Go-Betweens
19) “Mushaboom” – Feist 20) “Nothing Better” – The Postal Service
21) “I’m Ready, I Am” – The Format
“old classmates please drop all your pens,
don’t write a word cause i wont reply
and i’m not bitter, no
it’s just i’ve past that point in my life.”
22) “Parachutes (Funeral Song)” – Mates of State
23) “The Owls Go” – Architecture in Helsinki
24) “We Own The Sky” – M83
25) “Higher” – The Cardigans
26) “Walk in the Park” – Beach House
27) “The Miner” – Bell
28) “Like Dylan in the Movies” – Belle and Sebastian
29) “Blood Bank” – Bon Iver
“You said ‘ain’t this just like the present To be showing up like this‘
As a moon waned to crescent
We started to kiss”
i’m finally back after a month long hiatus. still alive and in LA. i apologize for not being around!
here are my excuses (that you shouldn’t accept):
nicecast upgraded and i couldn’t follow suit.
i had no money to upgrade.
i’ve been really really busy.
i’ve taken care of all those issues in the past month and i promise to broadcast regularly – either through a recorded show or a live set.
anyway, this set has some major technical difficulties… namely my microphone not picking up my voice… but we’re here for the music and that’s what you’re going to get – 2 hours of tuan’s musical selections.
hey , it’s currently raining here in Los Angeles and I’ve just recorded “loveless” #7!
some technical difficulties resulted in this episode only being 1 hour long, but i promise it’s a really really great one. i’ll record another one to make up for the lost time.
i just bought snow leopard so whenever it arrives i’ll be streaming LIVE again. hopefully within the next week or two. meanwhile, ill still be recording shows off of my iPhone via the voice memo app!
you can stream loveless #7 here:
or download the mp3 here (to listen anytime on your iPod or in your car):
1) “Overture” – Patrick Wolf
2) “Blindness” – Metric
3) “Marrow” – St. Vincent
4) “Nude” – Radiohead
5) “MacArthur Park Revisited” – The Bicycle Thief
6) “Lover I Don’t Have To Love” – Bright Eyes
“The first time I heard Bright Eyes or Radiohead, I was just like oh my god. And I just sat there, just like when I was a kid, reading that Bright Eyes, that “Lifted,” listening to it over and over again, reading the lyrics, just like when I was a kid. It’s something about music that, that’s very… it’s the only thing that makes sense to me.”
- Bob Forrest
7) “These Years” – Lotus Plaza “Damn, Sam (I Love A Woman That Rains)” – Ryan Adams
9) “Lauren Marie” – Girls
10) “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” – Neutral Milk Hotel
11) “Sheila” – Atlas Sound
12) “Train Song” – Feist + Ben Gibbard
13) “Act of the Apostle” – God Help The Girl
14) “Daylight” – Matt and Kim
15) “Too Young” – Phoenix
listened in to Audiocandy+ with Paige Dearing, who talked about Animal Collective’s new EP, “Fall Be Kind” and played a song from Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear’s solo project, CANT.
16) “Ghost” – CANT
back to loveless with…
17) “Half Asleep” – School of Seven Bells
sorry, my show stopped recording, and i didn’t know! i’ll make it up to you guys soon… but thanks for listening!!! let me know what you think! more like this?
1) “Lust for Life” – Girls
2) “Idiot Heart” – Sunset Rubdown
3) “Wait for the Summer” – Yeasayer
4) “Ashes Maths” – A Sunny Day in Glasgow
5) “Theseus” – Patrick Wolf
6) “The Darkest Day” – Ramona Falls
7) “Love & Communication” – Cat Power “How It Feels To Be Something On” – Sunny Day Real Estate
9) “Black Swan” – Thom Yorke
10) “Anna” – Taken By Trees
11) “Fences (Friendly Fires Remix)” – Phoenix
12) “Kingdom of Rust” – Taken By Trees
13) “Help I’m Alive” – Metric
14) “Summer Song” – YACHT
15) “Prince of Peace” – School of Seven Bells
16) “Mouthful of Diamonds” – Phantogram
17) “Husks and Shells” – Volcano Choir
18) “Blush” – The Raveonettes
19) “Phantom Limb” – The Shins
20) “Protect Me You” – Sonic Youth
21) “Phenomena” – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
22) “Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe” – Okkervil River
Sorry for the technical difficulties! We’ll make better mistakes tomorrow.
hey guys, this is tuan! this show was recorded from price, utah in my super 8 motel room.
the show is now titled “loveless,” an homage to my bloody valentine’s fantastic album.
i’ve got a very special show for you guys. it turned out to be fairly personal, and definitely worth listening to. i’m sure you’ll learn something new about me.
you can listen to it here at your convenience:
or download the mp3 directly: http://www.divshare.com/download/8704780-f0b
and it’ll be streaming on audiocandy+ radio on tuesday thanks to paige!
1) “The Lisbon Maru” – Fuck Buttons
2) “Tightrope” – Yeasayer
3) “Audience No. 2″ – Autolux
4) “Come In Alone” – My Bloody Valentine
5) “Higher Than The Stars” – The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
6) “Failure” – A Sunny Day in Glasgow
7) “Melectric” – Ramona Falls “Walkabout (w/ Noah Lennox)” – Atlas Sound
9) “Lust for Life” – Girls
10) “Knotty Pine” – Dirty Projectors + David Byrne
11) “Upward Over The Mountain” – Iron and Wine
12) “To Lose Someone” – Taken By Trees
13) “Husks and Shells” – Volcano Choir
14) “Skinny Love (Live from Hollywood Forever Cemetery at Sunrise)” – Bon Iver
15) “Brand New Colony” – The Postal Service
16) “Rome” – Phoenix
17) “The Stars of Track and Field” – Belle and Sebastian
18) “The Party” – St. Vincent
19) “Your Hand” – Explosions in the Sky
20) “Wanderlust” – Every Time I Die
21) “Young Forever (feat. Mr. Hudson)” – Jay-Z
hey guys, sometimes i have spontaneous shows by request for the loyal listeners.
you can download and listen to the to the 9.7.09 broadcast right here:
tweet here: @tuanquocle
and make your requests anywhere you can reach me.
here’s the playlist for the 9.4.09 set:
1) “Empire State of Mind” – Jay-Z (feat. Alicia Keys)
2) “Fantasy” – The XX
3) “Fuck and Run” – Liz Phair
4) “Caring is Creepy” – The Shins
5) “I’m Making Eyes at You” – Black Kids
6) “Planet Health” – Chairlift
7) “Art is Hard” – Cursive
and here’s the playlist for tonight’s show:
1) “Cupid’s Trick” – Elliott Smith
2) “Gonna Make You Love Me” – Ryan Adams
3) “The Stars of Track and Field” – Belle & Sebastian
4) “Fitz & Dizzyspells” – Andrew Bird
5) “Cut Your Hair” – Pavement
6) “This Place Is A Prison” – The Postal Service
7) “Daniel” – Bat for Lashes “Paint’s Peeling” – Rilo Kiley
9) “Planet Health” – Chairlift
10) “Sentimental Heart” – She & Him
11) “The Remedy (I Won’t Worry)” – Jason Mraz
12) “Empire State of Mind” – Jay-Z (feat. Alicia Keys)
13) “Family Tree” – TV on the Radio
14) “Street Lights” – Kanye West 15) “One Rose” – Why?
16) “Fences” – Phoenix
17) “Marrow” – St. Vincent
18) “Island, IS” – Volcano Choir
19) “VCR” – The XX
20) “Ny Batteri” – Sigur Ros
21) “Nothing Better” – The Postal Service
22) “Just Like Honey” – The Jesus and Mary Chain
23) “A Guitar and a Heart” – M83
24) “The Reeling” – Passion Pit
25) “Knotty Pine” – Dirty Projectors w/ David Byrne
26) “For Reverend Green” – Animal Collective
27) “I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You” – Black Kids
28) “Elmo’s Wish” – Gil Mantera’s Party Dream
29) “Another Day” – Jamie Lidell
30) “And I Remember Every Kiss” – Jens Lekman
31) “The Middle” – Jimmy Eat World
32) “La Costa Brava” – Ted Leo + the Pharmacists
33) “The Con” – Tegan and Sara
34) “Leslie Anne Levine” – The Decemberists
35) “European Oils” – Destroyer
36) “Lucky” – Fifteen
37) “When I Grow Up” – Fever Ray
38) “First Breath After Coma” – Explosions in the Sky
39) “Agaetis Byrjun” – Sigur Ros
40) “Panic Switch” – Silversun Pickups
41) “Your Ex-Lover is Dead” – Stars
get in your requests via: twitter: @tuanquocle AIM: minaharker
or send a comment on this post!
set list!
1) “Playground Love” – Air
2) “Clouds Up” – Air
3) “The Revisionist” – All Else Failed
4) “So Bored” – Wavves
5) “Black Hole” – Be Your Own Pet
6) “My Life’s Alright Without You” – No Age
7) “Kid On My Shoulders” – White Rabbits “So Post ‘Em All” – YACHT
9) “Who Could Win A Rabbit” – Animal Collective 10) “The Re-allocation of Dan Grgas” – Dan Grgas
Check Dan’s music out here! http://profile.myspace.com/dangrgas
11) “Good Lies” – The Notwist
“Let’s just imitate the real until we find a better one…”
12) “Kissing the Lipless” – The Shins
13) “Waitin’ for a Superman” – The Flaming Lips
14) “White Winter Hymnal” – Fleet Foxes
15) “Snakes and Ladders” – Basia Bulat
16) “The State I Am In” – Belle and Sebastian (from The BBC Sessions)
17) “Spring Hall Convert” – Deerhunter
If you’re in LA, you can get tickets for Deerhunter here: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/77642
“i walked outside i could not cry i don’t know why”
19) “Heart of Chambers” – Beach House
8:16:34 PM Caitlin Dewey: what are you playing now? 8:16:39 PM Tuan Le: heart of chambers, beach house 8:16:56 PM Caitlin Dewey: how very tuan of you. 8:17:08 PM Tuan Le: i played deerhunter, then atlas sound, then beach house 8:17:10 PM Tuan Le: its my fucking show 8:17:39 PM Caitlin Dewey: lol 8:17:46 PM Caitlin Dewey: can you please make that your tag line? 8:17:49 PM Tuan Le: hahaha 8:17:50 PM Tuan Le: yes 8:17:54 PM Caitlin Dewey: “live from LA: it’s my fucking show!”
so yes, this is now “live from LA: it’s my fucking show!”
20) “Turnstile Blues” – Autolux
21) “Elephant Gun” – Beirut
22) “Many Lives -> 49 mp” – Final Fantasy
23) “My Lady’s House” – Iron and Wine
24) “Oh My Sweet Carolina” – Ryan Adams
25) “Say Yes” – Elliott Smith
26) “So Sorry” – Feist
“We don’t need to say goodbye We don’t need to fight and cry No we, we could, we could hold each other tight Tonight…”
Sorry I went all emo on you guys. But it’s going to continue.
27) “Our Hell” – Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton
28) “Where Is My Love” – Cat Power
29) “Two Weeks” – Grizzly Bear
30) “Portions for Foxes” – Rilo Kiley
31) “Jessie & My Whetstone” – Saves The Day
“please come dive in puddles with me…”
32) “Lost Girls” – Tilly and the Wall
33) “Brackett, WI” – Bon Iver (off of “Dark Was The Night” compilation)
34) “Gobbledigook” – Sigur Ros
35) “Peach, Plum, Pear” – Joanna Newsome (live from Green Man Fest)
36) “Heartbeats” – Jose Gonzales (cover of The Knife)
37) “Flower” – Liz Phair
38) “User28″ – On! Air! Library!
39) “My Cabal” – School of Seven Bells
40) “There Is A Light That Never Goes Out” – The Smiths
41) “Timorous Me” – Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
42) “All You Need Is Love” – The Beatles
get in your requests via: twitter: @audiocandyradio
twitter: @tuanquocle skype, search for: audiocandyradioline
or send a comment on this post!
set list!
1) “She’s No Sense” – The Big Pink
2) “I Think It Is Beautiful That You Are 256 Colors Too” – Black Moth Super Rainbow
3) “A Little Longing Goes Away” – The Books
4) “She’s The One” – Caribou 5) “Kim & Jessie” – M83 *** Paige’s Request ***
6) “Higher” – The Cardigans 7) “The Reeling” – Passion Pit ***Elsa’s Request*** “Too Young” – Phoenix
9) “Can You Tell” – Ra Ra Riot
10) “The Night Starts Here” – Stars
11) “Nineteen” – Tegan and Sara
12) “Staring at the Sun” – TV on the Radio
13) “Don’t Say No” – Patrick Wolf
14) “Little Bribes” – Death Cab for Cutie
15) “Hey Jude” – The Beatles
16) “Fluorscent Grey” – Deerhunter
17) “Nowhere” – Elika
18) “Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime” – The Field
19) “Black Cherry (M83 Remix)” – Goldfrapp
20) “Shadows on Parade” – Laura Gibson
21) “Effigy” – Andrew Bird
22) “Wet and Rusting” – Menomena 23) “While You Wait For The Others” – Grizzly Bear ***Paige’s Request***
24) “Warning” – Incubus
25) “The Way His Collar Falls” – Saves The Day
26) “Rocks Tonic Juice Magic” – Saves The Day 27) “Cute Without the E (Cut from the Team)” – Taking Back Sunday ***Alyssa’s Request***
28) “2080″ – Yeasayer 29) “Days of the Phoenix” – A.F.I. ***Steve’s Request***
30) “You Wouldn’t Like Me” – Tegan and Sara
31) “Take On Me” – A-Ha
“Camera Talk” – Local Natives
