Name Dropping

We know how to win friends and influence people, just check out the smattering of A-listers who have popped into the WFMU studios over the past few months (click links to listen to the performances in real audio):

The Posies (sweet pop melodies from Ken Stringfellow, Jonathan Auer, et al.)
Rob Sonic (hip-hop from the Def Jux label, ex-Sonic Sum)
The Hospitals (trashcan garage rock thrown in a blender)
Yura Yura Teikoku (catchy Japanese art-psych)
King Coleman (legendary mashed potato man)
Doug Gillard (can you say ex-Guided By Voices?)
Burmese (fuzzed-out noisy rock from SF)
Art of Flying (lovely off-kilter folk)
Paul Metzger (improv banjo, experimental folk)
Circle (crunchy space-core from Finland)
Art Brut (snotty 3-chord hooks from the UK)
Enablers (contemplative spoken word over dark harmonic rock)
Marissa Nadler (singer-songwriter on acoustic guitar, mysterious and minimal)
Magik Markers (no wave destructo)

Comments

[zach in philly]

Gargantuan Ups for the very alive:
+ Paul Metzger -- The Coolest Sound I've Heard On Wfmu All Year!!
+ Magik Markers -- winning sounds, failing descriptions.
+ I'd add the boot stompin' Mutts from Terre T's Oct 8th show

Deep, like, as in, far-out Ups for:
+ Circle -- if your windows default imploding cube screen saver had a soundtrack (and wasn't a windows default screensaver), these cats would be playing it.
+ Enablers -- these guys could do a marathon performance without it getting tired -- real fresh grinds.
+ I'd add the congenial cacophony of Daniel Menche from Dan Bodah's Oct 16th show

Just listened to live Yura Yura Teikoku the other night ... delicately heavy!