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Meagan Dreams Ep. 9: Swoons

Meagan Dreams, episode 9: /swoons 08.20.2024
Join me for this week's installment of Meagan Dreams as I play and discuss songs that are romantic, sweeping, and majestic - music designed to make the listener swoon. You can listen to this show online at eardrumbuzz.net I’ll be live on air from 6 PM to 9 PM Pacific time tomorrow, Tuesday, August 20th. I’m excited to present these selections to you and to see if they evoke similar feelings and reactions for you, too.
Flyer photo and design are by Patrick Dickson - I chose it to represent the dizzying feeling of falling in love, gazing upwards in a blissful swooning daze.
Tracklist:
One Dove - White Love (Piano Reprise)
Pulp - This is Hardcore (Peel Sessions)
Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
 
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Rowland S. Howard - She Cried 
The Horrors - Who Can Say
Portishead - All Mine
 
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Bryan Ferry - Don’t Stop the Dance (Special 12” Remix)
David Sylvain - Ghosts (Remix)
Cocteau Twins - Lorelai
 
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Michael Penn - No Myth
The Cure - Snow in Summer 
The Sundays - Summertime 
Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater 
 
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The Smiths - I Want a Boy for my Birthday (OV: The Cookies)
New Order - Age of Consent
Soft Cell - Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go (OVs: Ed Cobb[composer]/Gloria Jones/The Supremes)
 
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Vince Clarke - Cathedral (from solo album Songs of Silence)
Depeche Mode - Sometimes 
Martin Gore - Loverman (OV: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)
 
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Patsy Cline - Crazy 
Roy Orbison - In Dreams
Julee Cruise - Falling
 
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Father John Misty - Hollywood Forever Cemetary (Live - Off-key in Hamburg)
Queens of the Stone Age - Make It Wit Chu
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Do You Love Me?
 
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Siouxsie and the Banshees - Melt!
MeShell N’degeocello - Outside Your Door
Sade - Cherish the Day 
Bryan Ferry - Slave to Love (12” remix)
 
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Prince - The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
Twin Shadow - Slow
 
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Yuck - Georgia
Swervedriver - Duress
My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes 

Meagan Dreams EP 8: Nature in Music

Join Meagan Masingill for this week's installment of Meagan Dreams as she presents selections of music that are inspired by, refer to or are specifically about or even directly incorporating sounds of nature. There won’t be as much talk or chat as usual during this particular show - she wants the music to speak for itself as much as possible. This show airs online every Tuesday at eardrumbuzz.net from 6 PM to 9 PM Pacific time. Her goal is for listeners to feel and experience connectedness to nature, and rekindle wonder and appreciation for our natural world when mixed with the beauty, magic and creativity of music. (Aired on August 13th, 2024)
 
Track list:
Jane’s Addiction - Ocean Song (from Nothing’s Shocking, 1988)Red Sparowes - The Soundless Dawn Came Alive As Cities Began to Mark the Horizon (from At the Soundless Dawn, 2005)The Soft Moon - Breathe the Fire (from The Soft Moon, 2010)Siouxsie and the Banshees - Cities in Dust (from Tinderbox, 1986)The Velvet Underground - Who Loves the Sun (from Loaded, 1970)Flesh For Lulu - Blue Sky (from 12” Singles 1986-1988)Swervedriver - The Birds (from Ejector Seat Reservation, 1995)Odin Stone - Howling at the Moon (from A Rare Find, 2023) “Odin Stone is Iain Stenhouse and Phil Poupart. Just two old punks, from two different worlds, bringing ideas together from 2000 miles apart.” - from BandcampNeko Case - I’m an Animal (from Middle Cyclone, 2009)Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant (from Sun Giant, 2008)Wild Nothing - Through the Grass (from Nocturne, 2012)The LSDays - Hey Moon (from Time to Travel, 2024)Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon (from Ocean Rain, 1984)Love & Rockets - Rain Bird (from Earth, Sun, Moon, 1987)David Sylvain - A Fire in the Forest (from Blemish, 2003)Isabelle Antene - Le Poisson des Mers du Sud (from Hoping for Love, 1987)Minaxi - Lost in the Water (from Lazuleen, 2022)Kikagaku Moyo - Old Snow, Winter Sun (from House in the Tall Grass, 2016)KLF - Pulling Out of Ricardo and the Dusk is Falling (from Chill Out)The Books - We Bought the Flood (from The Way Out, 2010)Julia Holter - Sun Girl (from Something in the Way She Moves, 2024)M83 - We Own the Sky (from Saturdays = Youth, 2008Junior Boys - Night Walk (from Waiting Game, 2022) Air - New Star in the Sky (from Moon Safari, 1998)Massive Attack - Risingson (from Mezzanine, 1998)Dead Can Dance - Children of the Sun (from Anastasias, 2013)Phoenix - Love Like a Sunset (from Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, 2009)Tori Amos - Beauty Queen/Horses (from Boys for Pele, 1996)Cowboy Junkies - Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis) (from The Trinity Session, 1988)Peter Gabriel - Here Comes the Flood (from Peter Gabriel (Car), 1977)Iron & Wine - Cinder and Smoke (from Our Endless Numbered Days, 2004)Jose Gonzalez - The Nest (from In Our Nature, 2007)

Souvlaki Bass Station Episode 18: What's the Connection?

At some point in Brandon Dudley's beginnings with his bass-centric show Souvlaki Bass Station, we discussed some ideas for themes for his shows. One of the ideas I suggested was playing songs that had some connection to each other. Well, being the big brain and music nerd that he is, Brandon took off with that.
 
Will there be bands sampling or covering each other, using the same bass guitars, sharing members, guests on songs? What's the Connection?
 
Souvlaki Bass Station can be heard on the first and second Sundays at 1pm & 9pm Pacific on Eardrum Buzz Radio at www.eardrumbuzz.net
 
Playlist:The Next Time - The Durutti Column
Haystack - Kevin Hewick & New Order
True To Form (Radio Edit) - Hybrid
Enough Is Enough - Devine & Statton
Colour Me - Dot Allison
So You Say You Lost Your Baby - Death in Vegas
autonomia - Mark Stewart
Kowalski - Primal Scream
Night In My Veins - Pretenders
Where Were You? - Badly Drawn Boy
Lime Green Dress - Daddy
On Track - Ian Brown
Clash City Rockers - Mike Watt
Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want The Truth? - Dos
Slip It In - Black Flag
Clean Sheets - Descendents
Become the Enemy - The Lemonheads
Perfect Day - Kirsty MacColl
Speed Your Love to Me - Simple Minds
After the Flood - Big Country
New Home New Life - The Alarm
Tower Of Strength - The Mission
My Lighthouse - Pulp
The Light at the End of the Tunnel - Richard Hawley
She Said - Longpigs
Arms Aloft - Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
 
 

Meagan Dreams Episode 7: Perfect As Cats

Join Meagan for this week's installment in her ongoing solo internet radio show. This show will be featuring songs that mention or are about cats, perfection, imperfection, cat behavior, and utopia. It's all happening live on eardrumbuzz.net from 6 to 9 PM Pacific time. Curl up into a ball in a warm place and listen along.
 
Meagan Dreams is a live weekly show on Tuesdays at 6pm Pacific time on www.eardrumbuzz.net
 
Greg, Meagan and Bret - VT Live promo
The Cure - A Night Like This (from the Head on the Door)Danielle Dax - Cat House (from The Chemical Wedding)Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion (from Show Your Bones)spoken break - 6:11 PM Pacific timeThundercat - A Fan’s Mail (Tron Song Suite II) (from the album Thundercat Presents: Drunk)Deee-Lite - Pussycat Meow (from a remix album, Sampladelic Relics and Dancefloor Oddities - Deee-Remixes)Tricky - The Love Cats (OV: The Cure) (from Vulnerable)spoken break - 6:26 PM Pacific timeThe Cure Rock and Roll Hall of Fame brief interview - Are You Excited?New Order - The Perfect Kiss (from Low-Life)Cat Fiction - Baltimore (fromThe Cure - All Cats are Grey (from Faith)spoken break - (mic didn’t connect)The The - Perfect (from Soul Mining)CatPeople - Fishes with Big Mouth (from Love Battle)Ride - Perfect Time (from compilation album Smile) spoken break - 6:57 PM (mic didn’t connect)Brendan Perry - Utopia (from Ark)The Cure - The Perfect Girl (from Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me)Cat Power - I Don’t Blame You (from You Are Free)Death Cab for Cutie - Metal Heart (OV: Cat Power) (from The Georgia EP)Cat Power & Iggy Pop - Working Class Hero (from The Faithful: A Tribute to Marianne Faithfull)Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug - Spacetime Continuum mixEchodrone - All Cats are Grey (OV: The Cure) (from The Cure in Other Voices)The Cure - Let’s Go to Bed (Live from Cleveland 1985)DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World (from Endtroducing)Empty Sleeps - Intro to PanthersThe Empty Sleeps - Panthers - Blush Response remixHey Calamity promoHey Calamity -  Perfect Mind (from Perfect Mind single)Soundgarden - Stray Cat Blues (from Badmotorfinger) (OV: The Rolling Stones)The Cure - Cats Like Cheese (Give Me It Demo)explosions in the sky -My Bloody Valentine - Soft as Snow (but Warm Inside)Kibble - Warm Fireplace (parody/rework of Warm Leatherette by the Normal)Toro y Moi - You Hid (instrumental) (from Causers of This - Instrumentals)Slowdive - Sleep (2020 remaster)Spiritualized - On the Sunshine (from And Nothing Hurt)Lush - Cat’s ChorusBroadcast - Black Cat

50 States of Shoegaze Part 2

Meagan Masingill returns to presenting her and Greg Peters, 50 songs for 50 States, New Jersey to Wisconsin plus some extra tunes during what would usually be Vapour Trail Live. 
 
VT Live - Just Meagan 7/26/2024
finishing the second part of These Shoegaze States of America (50 Bands from 50 States) 
two songs selected while Meagan gathered show songs:
Mitski - Your Best American Girl 
Chelsea Wolfe - American Darkness (born in Northern California)
 
These Shoegaze States of America (50 Bands from 50 States) begins: 
BLEAK - Is It Mine? X  - representing New Jersey (Boonton)
“BLEAK is a 4-piece nu-gaze / alternative rock band from Lea County, NM” - Bandcamp
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Soundpool - On High - On High (from On High SOLD OUT, released May 16, 2006) - representing New York (NYC)
Wednesday - Bath County - Rat Saw God - representing North Carolina (Asheville)
The Electric Blankets - Siren Song - Below Grade Studio Session - representing North Dakota (Fargo) “We play moody, atmospheric rock in Fargo, ND.” - B
Sungaze - So Light - representing Ohio (Cincinnati) “Midwest Shoegaze” - B
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Submotile - EDBZ Promo
Mutual Enjoyment - Winter Sun (demo) - representing Oklahoma (OKC or Oklahoma City)
As Above - Descend Into - representing Oregon
Her New Knife - Schoenberg - from Destroza, - representing Pennsylvania 
The Flowers of Hell - Darklands - representing Rhode Island (Providence)
Isaur - Leather - representing South Carolina
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Chris from The Orchids - EDBZ Promo
Off Contact - Demonize  - representing South Dakota
“Post-punk you can trip out to. A primal scream into a throw pillow. Gothic shoegaze in steel-toed boots. The hangover crust of self-doubt in the corner of last night's clear eye, if the crust had a melody and the melody had teeth. Unsettling. Invigorating. Terrifying. Cathartic.” - Bandcamp
Tape Deck Mountain - NOMO - representing Tennessee - “Shoegaze" project, Nashville, TN via San Diego, CA” - Bandcamp
Ringo Deathstarr - Summertime - Levitation Sessions (Live) - representing Texas (Austin)
World’s Worst - Dry It Out - representing Utah 
sleeping in - Big Starr - representing Vermont (Burlington) - “we want naps” - Bandcamp
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cathedral bells - EDBZ Promo
Keep - Sodawater - representing Virginia (Richmond)
Alcian Blue -  song is listed as A Fading Smile but correct song title is A Faded Smile - representing Washington, D.C. **NOT A STATE but this DJ believes that it should be and hopes that statehood will be granted to it in her lifetime - MVM **
The Long Lost Somethins (Sic) - Jacob Held High - Some Dodging Crows- representing West Virginia (Huntington) “Rock and roll tunes from Huntington, WV.” - Bandcamp
HUMID - Catch My Drift  - representing Wisconsin (Milwaukee) “A swirling wave that screams our dismal array.” - Bandcamp
Supportive Care - Old High - representing Wyoming (Laramie) “Laramie Shoegaze
2022-2024” - Bandcamp
End of These Shoegaze 
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Meagan’s 3 selections to represent Washington State
Screaming Trees - I Nearly Lost You
Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On
Shabazz Palaces - The Mystery of Lonnie the Døn
Two songs chosen purely for the love of them:
Franz Ferdinand - All My Friends (LCD Soundsystem cover) (UK)
The Smashing Pumpkins - Quiet (Chicago, Illinois)
Meagan selections to represent California
DIIV - Acheron
Weekend - Coma Summer (Live at the Independent, San Francisco)
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Vapour Trail Special - Robert Smith DJ Set

Ever wondered what music Robert Smith from The Cure likes?
In this bootleg Robert is in Australia playing songs and talking to some Aussies.
 
Listen in to Vapour Trail on eardrumbuzz.net 7pm Aust Central, Us Pacific AND UK time
 

Vapour Trail Live: Record Labels

Meagan Masingill, Greg Peters and Bret Miller look back at releases from some of their favorite record labels. I chose to keep it simple and chose Too Pure, Warp and FFRR plus four newer labels including Midnight Mannequin, Shore Dive Records, Blackjack Illuminist Records and Somewherecold Records.
 
Vapour Trail Live: Record Labels 7/12/2024 (13 July in AUS)
EDBZ Promo
 
Greg’s first set:
Cocteau Twins - Blood Bitch
Gary Numan - Films
EDBZ Reverb promo
The Durutti Column - The Missing Boy
The Field Mice - End of the Affair
 
Meagan’s first set:
topographies - Interior Spring
Clinic - Walking with Thee
Pixies - Gigantic
Shellac - I Don’t Fear Hell
 
Bret’s first set:
Too Pure Records
Bows - King Deluxe
Laika - Shut Off/Curl Up
Mouse on Mars - Frosch
Stereolab - Sleming and the Meaning
 
Greg’s second set:
The Telescopes - Precious Little
Ripe - Something Fierce
Swirl - Atomic
The Clean - Point that Thing Somewhere Else
 
Meagan’s second set:
DM - Somebody (Remix)
Liz Phair - Divorce Song
Parquet Courts - Total Football
Galaxie 500 - Ceremony (OV: written by Joy Division, released as first single for New Order; this recording was a CD bonus track from the 1997 reissue of their debut album On Fire)
 
Bret’s second set:
Warp Records
Aphex Twin - Heliosphan
The Black Dog - Object Orient
Boards of Canada - Nlogax
Autechre - Eutow
 
Greg’s third set:
Grinderman - Palaces of Montezuma
PJ Harvey - Dress
The Feelies - The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness
A Deeper Heaven - Fire
 
Meagan’s third set:
Parliament - Mothership Connection (Star child)
Tortoise - Glass Museum
Nine Inch Nails - La Mer
Peter Gabriel - Zaar
 
Bret’s third set:
Somewherecold Records
The Corrupting Sea: Voigt-Kampff
Shore Dive Records
We Melt Chocolate - Shades
Blackjack Illuminist Records
Vlimmer - Teerst
Midnight Mannequin Records
Jason Priest - Medicine
 
Full Frequency Recordings Records
Utah Saints - Something Good
One Dove - White Love (Radio Mix)
Luke Vibert - Voyage into the Unknown
Orbital - Oolaa
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Head Trip with Kelvyn Williams EDBZ 4th Anniversary special

Kelvyn Williams returns for a special Head Trip for Eardrum Buzz Radio's 4th Anniversary! Kelvyn's selections are as eclectic as ever and it's a joy to hear his voice again on the station. We hope to have another show by the end of the year, so look for that.
 
Head Trip Setlist (July 2024) - Artist, Title, Album Title, Label
All releases are available on Bandcamp apart from Sivert Høyem and SYBS. 
INTRODUCTION
1. Sivert Høyem – When Your True Love is Gone (On an Island, Hektor Grammofon)2. Bill Ryder-Jones - A Bad Wind Blows in My Heart pt. 3 (Iechyd Da, Domino)3. Cerys Hafana – Willy O’Winsbury (The Bitter, self-released)4. Skyjelly – What Have You Done (Spirit Guide, Mahorka/I Heart Noise)
INTERLUDE 1
5. 9-volt velvet – Hurricane Brain (Nude Beaches, Shore Dive Records)6. Split System – Alone Again (Vol. 2, Legless/Drunken Sailor)7. The Body and Dis Fig – Dissent, Shame (Orchards of a Futile Heaven, Thrill Jockey)8. A-Sun Amissa – Head Towards the Fog (Ruins Era, Gizeh Records)
INTERLUDE 2
9. Julia Holter – Talking to the Whisper (Something in the Room She Moves, Domino)10. Pissed Jeans – Junktime (Half Divorced, Sub Pop)11. Sam Evian – Why Does it Take So Long? (Plunge, Flying Cloud Studios)12. MIZU – Pump (Forest Scenes, self-released)
INTERLUDE 3
13. Objections – The Lurker (Optimistic Sizing, Wrong Speed Records)14. Joy Dimmers – Pale Blue Square (Red Will, Wrong Speed Records)15. E – Jumprope (Living Waters, Silver Rocket)16. Full of Hell – Doors to Mental Agony (Coagulated Bliss, Closed Casket Activities)
INTERLUDE 4
17. Kee Avil – Gelatin (Spine, Constellation)18. SYBS – Gwacter (Olew Nadroedd, Libertino)19. The Telescopes – Strange Waves (Radio Sessions, Tapete Records)
INTERLUDE 5
20. Wave Generators – I’ve Got My Whole Life Ahead of Me (After the End, Fused Arrow Records)
OUTRO
21. Blue Rhythm Combo – B.R.C.’s Groove (Magumba, Common Ground International)
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Tina & The Hams' EDBZ 4th Anniversary show

Damian Frood, Craig Tigwell and Sam Khan of Melbourne, Australia's Tina & The Hams picked a bunch of songs and played radio DJ for an hour to help celebrate Eardrum Buzz Radio's 4th Anniversary. Damian and Craig have been faithful listeners and supporters of the station and they've also put out some tremendous music! You can hear two Hams songs at the end of the set.
 
Thanks to Tina & The Hams for the great show and for the CD and digital giveaways!
 
Their latest album is Candles, Curtains, Bad Decisions https://tinaandthehams.bandcamp.com/album/candles-curtains-bad-decisions
 
PlaylistSAMArcade Fire - Antichrist Television BluesAnd You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead - Another Morning StonerNine Inch Nails - WishThe Red Space - Breathe Mine
DAMIANPink Floyd - Scream Thy Last ScreamFlaming Lips - Gingerale AfternoonSwordfish - HeadswirlFunkadelic - Super Stupid
CRAIGXTC - Complicated GameTransvision Vamp - Revolution BabyThe New Pornographers - Adventures in SolitudeTina & The Hams - RiddlesTina & The Hams - Fluer

Meagan Dreams Ep 5 - Take A Breath

This show will feature quiet, sometimes ambient music that is in turns reflective, melancholy and gentle. Presented on Tuesday, July 16th and live online at Eardrum Buzz Radio from 6 to 9 PM Pacific time on eardrumbuzz.net. Whether you’re preparing to turn in for the night or starting to begin your day, Meagan invites you to stop and take a breath with her as she plays carefully chosen sounds to share with you.
 
Bjork - Headphones (Ø Remix)Oval - Do WhileLusine - Make it Easy (John Tejada remix)Aphex Twin - Avril 14th (from Drukqs)Iman Aganj - Solo Twenty-Three (from Solos IV or Solos 4)Tori Amos - SuedeEverything but the Girl - English Rose (1983 cover of a 1978 song originally performed by the Jam)Beach House - Beyond LoveTalk Talk - I Believe in YouThe Haxan Cloak - MistePeter Gabriel - Mercy StreetCowboy Junkies - Dreaming My Dreams With You (OV: Waylon Jennings)Codeine - Atmosphere (OV: Joy Division)Low - WordsThe Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes (Closet mix) (from Peel Slowly and See)Jeffrey Silverstein - Sunny Jean Luscious Jackson - Mood Swing MeShell N’degeocello - May This Be Love (OV: The Jimi Hendrix Experience)Cocteau Twins - Oomingmak (instrumental)Vince Clarke - CathedralAngelo Badalamenti - Theme from Twin Peaks Jose Gonzalez - Time to Send Someone AwayMartin Gore - Lost in the Stars (from the musical Lost in the Stars co-written by Kurt Weill)Antony & the Johnsons - Bird GehrlJ. Tillman - Albuquerque (OV: Neil Young)Grizzly Bear - Owner of a Lonely Heart (OV: Yes)Washed Out - WeightlessAskarian and Katchaturian - Song of ComplaintJulee Cruise - The World Spins