--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So finally here is my official best of music list for 2009 and it's the oldsters who have kicked ass across the board. Even though we kick-off the set with The XX there were two other newish groups that made it on the radar; first being a band from Mass called The Young Leaves and another Fungi Girls which features a bunch of 16-18 olds from Texas. Comeback/reunion shows in our top list events of 2009 are The Jesus Lizard. The other was Prosolar Mechanics who played their first show in almost 8 years since hiding out in the basement for the Cruel But Fair documentary about the New Brunswick music scene from the mid 90's. The first of the oldsters to leave a mark on 00's and in our top five is Mission of Burma's The Sound The Speed The Light, then Echo and Bunnymen's super pop release The Fountain, followed by Dinosour Jr's The Farm, Built to Spill also made it in with their wake-up guitar riffage on Things Fall Apart. The Flaming Lips also represented with going back to a time where they experiment. Sort of on the newish side is the stellar unrelease of Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse guest filled Dark Night of Soul, Neko Case and Crystal Stilts. There are some other nuggets sprinkled in this show so enjoy.

Don't have a lot of time but in this here set I mixed some new music with a bunch of New Brunswick bands like Butthead (aka Buzzkill on Alternative Tentacles) from their Heat  Blast 7" i play the first whole side, The Young Leaves, Groucho Marxists, Fungi Girls, Nude Swirl, Screaming Females, Laminated Cat, Bubble/Gum, We Were Promised Jet Packs, The Smiths, Boss Jim Gettys. Full of Fancy, Bionic Rhoda doing their cover of "She blinded me with Science" and The Stuntcock's classic "punk rock guy". So just listen and rock out.

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How do we remember time? We celebrate it with the new and the old hoping that we can learn something from everything that has come before us. They call this history. Weather the past is old enough to teach us is always a concern. We tend to villanize a lot of things that later will be revered mostly because we're scared. Almost everything. We can say that Bush II ain't no hero but MJ is going to be bigger than Elvis, Bob Marley and the Beatles combined. He was world wide to the tiniest of huts. Some icons like Joe Strummer we wish were bigger. Some icons like Farah Fawcett we wish had won in the end but this story goes on without us whether we accept it or not. Even this blog entry will go deep someday soon but here you are reading it in the now. That is what we have. The download and hour or so of listening and then it is gone. That by definition is crazy.

Set-list:
Michael Jackson by Negativeland
The boogieman by The Jackson Five
Computer Camp Love by Datarock
Fall in Step / Jaydiohead
Hello There / Cheap Trick (Steve Albini In Color Mix)
People Who Died /The Jim Carrol Band
Pool Hoppin' / The Swingin' Neckbreakers
Is this it? / The Strokes LP
The Lie/The Truth by Double Dagger
Respectable Street / XTC
Far Pavillions / and you will know us by the trail of dead
It's still rocknoll to me by Billy Joel 45 @33rpms
Come on Everybody/ Rocket from the Cyrpt
Citadel (Stones Cover) Red Kross
Things that go boom in the night / Bush Tetras
Just like Honey/ The Jesus and Mary chain

The start of summer has officially started for all the working stiffs. This show is packed with so much  new stuff we barely had time to fit it in everything we wanted to spin. Which is a good problem to have these days. So much great new music out there. As per our usual though we've mixed in the old with the new and this time we even gave you some metal or at least the review stalker music blog version of it.

First set starts with Bedlam doing lost in space theme, Making Time by The Creation, American Heavy Metal weekend by the Circle Jerks from the album Wonderful. A new one by Dinosour Jr called I want you to know, Where have all the good times gone by Van Halen and another new one by Superchunk Learned to Surf. The second set features a newish tune by Bubble/gum from their free love lp called hearts forever, followed by Rick Froberg's new band Obits, Husker Du and The Night Marchers. Third set brings you some Pronto, Replacements, Capsula, The Clash and we wrap it up with The Feelies doing a cover of "What goes on".

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Getting back to business dipping into some new LPs and some older stuff DJ Spork is back with a vengeance in 2009. This show is dedicated to Lux Interior RIP and we hope it reminds you that there is a lot of amazing music out there as influential and great as The Cramps were. The Rock recovery system is about letting us drive for an hour of your time. Also in this show we feature new music by The Groucho Marxists, Andalusians, Full of Fancy and The Ergs. We dig deep in the archives and pulled out music by The Creation, Link Wray and the Wraymen, Skin Yard does Hey Bull Dog, Rye Coalition, Zeke, Unsane, Moist Boyz, Big Dipper, Wire, Feelies, The Major Labels and Lou Reed.

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Aahh the glory of yet another year down for the count. The slow death of all things we know. Welcome to the drunken analog set Kissing 2008 Goodbye, The best of. ha! Apologies in advance for commentary from Jonah Hill. The guy would not shut the fuck-up. Our list was long this year. Some bands put out actual records that were great from start finish are featured in this podcast like No Age, The Notwist, British Sea Power, Young Widows, The Raveonettes, Pete and the Pirates. A reissue of Nick Lowe's Jesus of Cool made it to the top 20 list. New Jersey did not disappoint with The Gaslight Anthem 's The 59' Sound. Great cross-over alt/punk record, very proud of these native sons. TV on Radio also made it on the list with Dear Science,; She & Him Volume 1 is also steller thru and thru even though it might not be your cup of tea i like this because it is so 50's influenced in all sorts of cool ways making it essentially a true cover's record. For whateve reason we dig "A-Punk" by Vampire Weekend which is also very retro but a likable track, as is "Turn Tail" by  Young Knifes from Leicestershire. Lots of Brits on the best of list this year. Anyway, check it out. Looking forward to spinning some new stuff and old wax soon. If you haven't already definetely stop by Head Phone Music to grab some free tracks on last.fm. peace.

Winter is freezing us all out. DJ Spork was hard at work thinking of some rock just for you in this latest podcast so get some Holiday Cheer! This show is like all the others although we do terrorize you with some Christmas music which will be out of date in a few days so we hope you don't notice. Includes some nostalgia from New Jersey Bands like Animation, Buzzkill, Eastern Anchors (this is actually a debut) and Transilvia. Plus some new stuff from Young Widows, No Age, Trail of Dead and then we  throw in some surprises on top of all this crazyness. Enjoy It you holiday freaks!

Summer is gone and we're in the twilight of a terrible situation. In this show we feature Holier Than Seattle compilation on Heat Blast Records but kick-off the set with a RAC Remix of "Be Good" by Tokyo Police Club, "Second Hand-Smoke by the Moist Boyz 7", a DJ Shadow instrumental hip-hop mix. I am not sure exactly when the Heat Blast compilation came out exactly but I think it was early 91 or so. The A side has Freak Theatre featuring Tommy Southern on guitar followed with 'Give an Inch' then 'Save' by Glueneck. The B side has Big Nurse with 'Love you tomorrow' and the grand finale with 'Fuck Sharp' by Nudeswirl. This 7" ep was one of those pieces of wax that brought a  scene together in a lot of ways but unfortunately did not take off as it should have but it did produce Monster Magnet, got Nude Swirl on Beavis and Butthead and all sorts of mini-success stories. Set three goes accross the pond with The Young Knifes, 'The Crunge' by Zeppelin, 'Waving Flags' by British Sea Power,and finish off with Oasis. Back in the usa Idaho does 'The thick and thin', from Film Cool Hand Luke Paul Newman(RIP) does 'Plastic Jesus'. Last cut 'Colder' by Throwing Muses off their record House Tornado. Plus some other nuggets. Enjoy.

Summer tunes from the DJ Spork archives and some new classics. This cast's theme is about a trying to have a care free summer and how grand things can be in even in a recession / depression and a reminder not let high gas prices bring us down too much. We will survive this but it will take a village to come together - idiots and all.  Kicking of the first set is Jesus and Marychain's 'I love rock in Roll' off of Munki, Attack el Robot! by Calexico from Feast of Wire, Sonic Youth Covers 'Beat on  a Brat', The Ravenettes rip it up with Dead Sound from Lust, Lust Lust. The Dead Milkmen's classic 'Bitchin' Camero' (an ode to the jersey shore me thinks). Session Break music by Booker T and the MG's with Green Onions. Second Set: 'Value Here' by Dag Nasty off of Can I Say, 'Where is My Mind" Frank Black Francis, Mango Woman by Ween and 'Motorcycle' by Love and Rockets. Set 3: Nirvana by The Cult from their Album Love, A-Punk by Vampire Weekend, Rockaway Beach by The Ramones, Tear you Apart by She wants Revenge, 'My Myself and I' by De la Soul and Brainwave by NOMO from their new album Ghost Rock.

Sometimes, it is better to play back the Devil you know and compare it to the new, the obvious and obscure. In this mix DJ Spork and Review Stalker present the buthole surfers from their creamcorn ep "Florida", "Death & Destruction" from The Last  Sucker by Ministry, Rollins Band "Black and White", "No Lucifer" by British Sea Power, No Age kicks it nue school with "Everybody's Down" to round up the first set. Switching gears the second set we go brit with "Inside Out" by Might Lemon Drops, "Paralyzed" by The Meadows from LA., The Church with "Ryannah", Nick Lowe from the recently re-issued Jesus of Cool with "So it goes", a Steve Martin vamp from lets get small on smoking, and  Billy Bragg & Wilco "California Stars". We clean up the set with Bruce Springsteen's "Girls in their summer cloths", Tom Petty "you got lucky" and Grinderman "No Pussy Blues." Enjoy. -DJS. 

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Show no. 20 - With the advent of original television programming going down the tubes, this is a perfect time to rediscover albums and music. This show's theme centers around Politi; the only original thing on TV besides sports so you have nothing to lose and everything to gain. We unearth a lot great old wax and ask the question how come new American music  doesn't have any artists with a social edge or theme? (*with some exceptions) Featuring:  The music of The Stranglers,  Gang of Four, The Replacements* doing "kids don't follow", Dead Kennedy's*, Radio 4* with "Election Day", The Alarm playing "Marching On", "Life during war time" by the Talking Heads*(gotta dig that big ass white suit), "What ever happens" next by the Swell Maps ( i confused them with wipers during session), Shannon from the Cows breaks out the double horns with  "Heave Ho" (whatever happened to them?) they were one of the best ny punk bands ever,  Ted Leo and the pharmacist breakout "Bomb, Repeat, Bomb", Billy Bragg "Help save the youth of America" and end the set with a cover by  Radiodread 's Raga stars doing "electioneering". Enjoy. ~djs

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This show features  the Review Stalker wrap-up with some of this year’s best releases and downloads for 2007!  Kicking off the set with NegativeLand’s “You can’t Always Get What You Want�? and cues into Meddle by Pink Floyd, the intro is the Sporkian lazyman’s mash-up for no other reason what so ever of course. Chasing down some of these release is  never ever a direct path, they just are jsut good, and I must say that one of those albums that grew on me this year was Challenger by The New Pornographers, not quite the hit-machine as twin cinema but still some quality nuggets. Some of the documentaries that made it to the screening room were WE JAM ECONO about The Minutemen and the Joe Strummer doc The Future is Unwritten by Julian Temple. We also finally saw American Hardcore of which we could do a show unto itself; in ode to the later, though we feature a track by the 101’ers and Watt and the boys in celebration of these stellar releases. Followed by the guitar dirge of The Ponys, from their album Turn the light Out. Next up is something off of Sky Blue Sky by Wilco, “You are my face�?, They Might Be Giants off of their release the Else doing “The Captn’, followed by  Ted Leo / Pharmacists doing “Colleen�? off of Living with the living. Super Fury Animals, title track. Show your Hands. Spoon, doing “�? off of GA GA GA GA GA, The Shins off Wincing the night away with "Sleeping lessons". The historical document ends with New Radiohead, Of Montreal, and The National

N.J. is flooding, people are being evacuated from Trailerparks inWoodbridge, and us, in-between some shop-vac action, were able to get down to business in the Grandview studios basement and record this podcast. I truly noticed the water at first from a little shock while touching turntable number one. (Note to self: wear rubber sole shoes next time it's raining hard) That said, this set is dedicated to all the dead people from VA Tech. Up first by the Buthole Surfers, "Hurdy Gurdy Man" off of a 7", backed by Apostle of Hustle with "My Sword Hand's Anger" (nothing like a little swift justice), followed by "The Unwanted Things" by Jersey's Ted Leo and Pharmacist. Next set starts with a Uncle Tupelo doing "We've been Had" a live version contained on the their Anthology CD, followed by The Jim Carroll Band, from the LP Catholic Boy, w/ "People Who Died", and then a live cover by Gillian Welch doing a Radiohead cover "Black Star"(this is an awesome version of the tune btw). Set number 3 has Aztec Camera doing "Jump"(van halen), we squeeze in a little Black Sea by XTC with from "Respectable Street", followed by  "Michael & Heather at the Baggage Claim" from Fountains of Wayne's new one Traffic and Weather. (harrumph).