The Sabauteur Radio Hour

Remember when you used to make mix tapes to make friends and impress girls? So do I. And, I miss it. Therefore, I bring you the new endeavor from our humble little blog; The Sabauteur Radio Hour.

To kick off my excitement of all things musical in 2012, here is the very first episode of a new podcast type effort I'm calling The Sabauteur Radio Hour. The concept is pretty simple: There are songs I like and some stuff I want to say about those songs. So, that is primarily what happens here.

Along the way, I will attempt to uncover the new, revisit the old and aged and talk about what's going on in music that excites me. In the first installment we check out the new single from the forthcoming Shins LP. I wax poetic about the first LP from Youth Lagoon, wish a happy birthday to a soul legend, mention many times, many bands on the playlist that will also be playing at Coachella, and I'll explain why The Eagles are a far greater scourge on society than Marilyn Manson or Judas Priest.

You can listen or download the Sabauteur Radio Hour here.

The written down version looks a lot like this . . .

Sabauteur Radio Hour | Episode 001

Intro Music | Upside Down - Fela Kuti

Simple Song - The Shins
Options - Gomez
Honey Bunny - Girls
Agent Double-O-Soul - Edwin Starr
Holland, 1945 - Neutral Milk Hotel
It's Real - Real Estate
Santa Fe - Beirut
Daydream - Youth Lagoon
Come Back To Us - Release The Sunbird
Taking It Easy Too Long - Blitzen Trapper
Leave Me Alone - Destroyer (New Order Cover)

Outro Music | The Fool - Neutral Milk Hotel

Arcade Fire To Appear On Austin City Limits

According to the Pop Candy blog over at USA Today, Canadian rockers/indie-superheroes/Grammy Awardsters, Arcade Fire will appear in concert on an upcoming installment of the PBS music program, Austin City Limits. The Arcade Fire episode will air on most PBS affiliates on the evening of Jan. 14.

This is just another notch in an impressive belt of recent big name acts to grace the ACL stage. In the very recent past, ACL has aired episodes from Spoon, Coldplay, Gomez, The Decemberists, and the elder statesman of awesomeness, Tom Waits. In addition to that, upcoming episodes from the likes of Wilco, Lykke Li, Fleet Foxes and Florence and the Machine indicate that PBS is working hard to swing their demo to folks other than the Werther's gobblers that have been eating up Season 2 of Downton Abbey.

You can watch a live performance of We Used To Wait mixed with behind the scenes footage in the video below.



Arcade Fire "We Used to Wait" at ACL: Behind the Scenes from Jonathan Jackson on Vimeo.