The Arcade Fire Live

Another full show for you to kill some time in front of at work or home or on the toilet or while washing dishes or clipping your toenails or stalking your ex on facebook and stuff like that.
You know this band, don't you?

The Arcade Fire

Watch Arcade Fire on PBS. See more from Austin City Limits.

The History of Apple Pie

Just wanted to share this new cool band from London.
"The History of Apple Pie" may have a lightly infantile name but they keep a mature view when making music. There are definitely traces of My Bloody Valentine and some Teenage Fanclub in their bag and their forthcoming debut album might bring in a cool 90's britrock retro theme for 2012.

Tug by The History Of Apple Pie



More at their soundcloud page

Mr. Gnome

In the last few episodes of The Rock Show™ I have played a band called Mr. Gnome.
This duo from Cleveland deserve some more attention than just the odd plug here and there, so here's their full second LP for you to listen and enjoy.

The Rock Show

This time on The Rock Show I've dug up something from the archive, a show I recorded back in 2007. It's pretty instrumental this one, not many lyrics or talking through it.


Direct link:
http://pod.icast.co.il/106fm_shikron_040707.mp3

Tortoise

This is the track listing for the show:

Track	Artist	Album
Dirty Boots	Sonic Youth	Goo
Buried in the Avenue	Lebanon	Planet Rubble
New Paths to Helicon pt. 1	Mogwai	Government Commision
On The Chin	Tortoise	It's All Around You
Man & Ape	Hot Fur	Hot Fur
Elaimet Huutaa	Alamaailman Vasarat	Maahan
Young Ones (with accordeon)	kruzenshtern & parohod	Split with vialka
The Parting Surface	Drums & Tuba	Battles Ole
(Little) King Ink	Flat Earth Society	Isms
Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz	Mr. Bungle	Disco Volante
Heart Ache	Jesu	Heart Ache
Etna	Boris & Sunn O)))	Altar
Led Zep	Blonde Redhead	In an expression of the inexpressible
All That Will Be Has Become, All That Has Come Isn't Gone	Arboretum	Long Live the Well-Doer
Difficult Fourth Title	Stereolab	ABC Music
Pass The Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind	Yo La Tengo	I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass

Boris & Sunn O)))

A Batch of New Videos

First off with the scary weird one from Dpony, a band that put out an album called Movie which is also the soundtrack to a movie they made. You can download the full album and watch a bit of the movie here.
Dpony - The More I Know


Rob Crow is a talented man. He is mostly known for his band Pinback but he has a few more it's sometime hard to follow. His latest solo album came out in October 2011 and a new video has spawned from it this week.
Rob Crow - So Way


Finally we have the first single from Sharon Van Etten's third album. no official video yet, but I just had to use this excellent song today. 
Sharon Van Etten - Serpents

Reptar/Cyriak

Right, let's get to it.

When you listen to a lot of music you tend to categorize them into little comfy niches, that way it's easier for us to remember and understand it (works the same with people too).

Once in a while you hear something which doesn't fit into one of those familiar niches. That's a good thing, it makes you think harder, pay attention.

Reptar

This little intro applies to this band called Reptar. They come from Athens, Georgia and they do an upbeat version of modern indie music. Throw in some Animal Collective, a bit of Yeasayer and add some good influences from the past like P.I.L. and Talking Heads.

I also really like this video they made

This video by Reptar reminds me the work of an animation artist that calls himself Cyriak. This British oddball creates some of the most disturbing works you will get to see, they usually revolve around a main image that repeats itself and evolves during clip.
He definitely grew up  on a lot of Terry Gilliam's animations on The Monty Python Show.
Here's a good example:

The Slow Show

Now here's the deal. A new episode of the Slow Show is up:
http://pod.icast.co.il/Media/Index/Files/51107-06-01-2012.mp3

TV On The Radio

That's the track list for today:

Track	Artist
Nani's Song	Itamar Ziegler
Mr. Grieves	TV On The Radio
בדרך הביתה	מכולת
Tu Vas Pas Partir Sans Moi	Konki Duet
Rise	Eddie Vedder
Natural Tune	Efterklang
You Can't Steal A Gift	El Perro Del Mar
Honor Wishes	Joan as Police Woman
Tomorrow Never Knows	Junior Parker
Enjoy Yourself	Jolie Holland
אנבלה	דון ויקטור
Dream III	Leafcutter John
3 Years	Noam Kovacs
Green & Cloud	Paniyolo
Battle We Were	Mountain Home
The Glass House And The Gift-Horse	Autistic Daughters

El Perro Del Mar

Also available through here:
www.106fm.co.il/tracks/19134/