March 14: Girl O’clock’s experiment in psychedelia

Stephen Hawking’s wife is graciously taking over for me tonight with a performance in psychedelia, while I’ll be over at GCBC to see Fox Opera, Hunter/Gatherer, and Endangered Ape.  You should not be at home listening, but if you are, don’t let this lovely lady down and listen in stereo.  Focus on text.  She came up with a pretty solid set tonight, too, czech it out:

Dump | Beautiful Ones | That Skinny Mother Fucker with the High Voice?
The Urinals | Surfin’ with the Shah | Negative Capability… Check it out!
Yo La Tengo | Barnaby, Hardly Working | Fakebook
SubtractiveLAD | The Slender Stem | Where the Land Meets the Sky [69][x]
Montag | Labrador (Encore) | Hibernation [71][x]
Land of Kush | Rue du Départ | Against the Day [138][x]
Shout Out Out Out Out | Bad Choices | Reintegration Time [110][x]
Chin Chin | Peterdactyl | The Flashing, The Fancing [126][x]
Wavves | No Hope Kids | Wavvves [91]
Black Lips | Again & Again | 200 Million Thousand [127]
Milk Tea | Cosmic Dreamer | Empty Orchestra LP [569][x]
X | Hate City | ???
Rocks | You’re So Boring | You’re So Boring
Nobunny | Chuck Berry’s Holiday | Love Visions
Nodzzz | Is She There? | S/T
Pine Tarts | Hiver | Faux Fauves [571][x]
DD/MM/YYYY | Bronzage | Black Square [60][x]
Endangered Ape | Misunderstood by English Ears | Demos [324][x]
Vampires’ Sound Incorporation | The Lion and the Cucumber | ?????
Panty Boy | Frenchy | Orgy of the Senses [x]
Dump | Erotic City | That Skinny Mother Fucker with the High Voice?

Another edition of Do Not Listen To Girl O’clock!

This Saturday night the Hazard Lights, Sub-linguals, and 9/11 (best band in Lethbridge right now) are playing at GCBC Lounge (above Henotic, the new restaurant in Fire Hall no.1).  Do not stay at home and listen to Girl O’clock.  Listen to it in the car on yr way to this amazing show.

Here’s what’s on the menu for this week’s GOC:

Cheveu | Lola Langusta | S/T
Asobi Seksu | Glacially | Hush
The Grim Beat | Crash | Go Home EP
Water Saint Projects | Fox Hill Glens Apt | V/A CFRU Just West of Something Big
Kevin Barnhorst AKA The Dumb Bees | Husky Du | V/A CFRU Just West of Something Big
Belle & Sebastian | Lazy Jane | BBC Sessions
Volcano Suns | The Mouth That Roared | The Bright Orange Years
Milk Tea | Cross Your Heart | Empty Orchestra LP
Icky Boyfriends | Pay N Pak | A Love Obscene
Brainbombs | Obey | Obey
Hospitals | Rock N Roll is Killing My Life | S/T
Cheveu | Hello Friends | S/T
Wavves | Beach Demon | Wavvves
DD/MM/YYYY | Bronzage | Black Square
Kettle Black | Small Fish Big Pond | V/A Cassette
Endangered Ape | Tales of Survivalist Horror pt. 1 & 2 | V/A Alberta Boom!
Endangered Ape | Your Body in Snow | Demos
The Gruesomes | Unchain My Heart | Gruesomania
Brutal Knights | Rather See You Dead | Living By Yourself
Psychic Ills | Mantis | Mirror Eye

prepare to have fun this weekend

I haven’t posted in this thing for a long damn time.  If you haven’t been listening, I’m sorry to say you’ve been missing out on some of the best shows in the history of GOC.  Last week I had the elusive John Brooks co-host and blow minds on the Girl O’clock all-vinyl Feb’09 edition.  I played shitty playlist/cancon requirements, and he played wikked psych that no one can pronounce, and we discussed perceived immortality of favourite rockstars (or something like that).

Hey, tomorrow night (Thursday, Feb 12) Chad VanGaalen is FINALLY coming to Lethbridge.  I wanna give my deepest love and respect to Miss JP, VP Academic of the ULSU for doing something good and wholesome for the University of Lethbridge campus and organizing a week of events in support of sex, drugs, and rock and roll.  I am now a life-long fan of Dan Savage.

BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, please please please come out to the brand new GCBC Lounge (above Henotic, new restaurant in Fire Hall No. 1) this Friday, February 13th.  My pal Paul (you know him as yr professor, yr second favourite CKXU radio DJ, that guy who’s in a million bands, blah blah blah) has been helping me develop CKXU NIGHT LIVE, where we pluck some of our awesome CKXU DJs outta the on-air booth and plop ‘em into a live party.  First one is gonna be DJ’d by me and Paul, and it’s destined to be amazing.  Absolutely no cover, all we ask is for you to come and have a good time while we provide the soundtrack.

Also coming up is CKXU LOVES YOU III, our annual kitschy, romancy dance at the Slice on Saturday, February 14th.  Because of this, Girl O’clock will not be live, so don’t even bother listening anyway and come to the Slice cuz we’ve got Endangered Ape, The Square Waves, Love Potion Ice Nine, Chief Mountain and the White Guy, DJ Daemon and Shane the Librarian.  Dress up in yr letterman jackets, crimp yr hair, and spike yr drinx and shell out 10bux for yr favourite radio station, cuz we’re gonna entertain the shit outta ya.

another GOC write-off

Hi fans, so as you probably heard (or read on twitter) the Girl O’xmas special was unexpectedly cancelled.  Thankfully I was given an opportunity to do a live DJ set at my pal Akolade’s xmas party (where I stuck in a CD, hung out in the kitchen for a while, and played with his babby).  

Here’s a heads up: tonight might also be unexpectedly cancelled, so just incase I’m planning a “nothing special” show, even though its the last show of 2008.  Whateverrrr, the good stuff is gonna be next week where I will do a Girl O’clock 2008 review that will coincide with the monthly all-vinyl night.  Are you stoked?

Another thing you should be stoked about: instead of bothering to listen to my show tonight (which may or may not happen), GO TO THE SLICE.  Montreal’s Coulees, formerly Lethbridge’s Soy Captain, are coming back home and they’re gonna charm the hell outta ya.  Other acts tonight will be Menehune (a must see), the Day After Tomorrow Band (a grand reunion, members of the Buzzing Bees, blahblahblah), and the Darby & Joan Club.

Mixwit shuts down

We’ve put a year of work into Mixwit so this choice wasn’t taken lightly. I won’t go into the details of our situation but state simply that we boldly marched into in a position best described as “between a rock and a hard place.” We’re very grateful to be have been part of the mixtape revival of ‘08 and are satisfied to be able to to bow out while things are still good.

Daaamnn, first goes Muxtape, and here goes another one.  I’m gonna be scouring the “muxtape replacements” to see which one is best, again.  Although, the mixes I’ve made with Mixwit for my other blog done for my Sociology of Cyberspace class seem to still be in tact… click here and here to listen to them if you want or whatever.

Girl O’vinyl, December 13 2008

Quasimoto | The Return of the Loop Digga | The Unseen
Yo Majesty | Hit it & Quit it | Kryptonite Pussy EP
Electric Frankenstein | Life in Rewind | Maximum RnR/Electric Frankenstein 7″
Hot Panda | Cold Hands/Chapped Lips | 7″
Vancougar | Distance | 7″
The Famines | TWA Flight 553 | Black Sea
Ferule | The Slippery Slope Leads to Death | Ferule/Studiofan 7″
Razz M Tazz | ???? | v/a Top Notch! Songs From the Hive
Francoise Hardy | L’anamour | S/T
Vincent Gallo | A Somewhere Place | Recordings of Music for Film, Buffalo 66
Slint | Good Morning, Captain | Breadcrumb Trail
Shellac | Kittypants | Excellent Italian Greyhound
Wooden Shjips | Start to Dreaming | 7″
Sebadoh | I Can’t See | Weed Forestin
Country Teasers | Points of View | The Empire Strikes Back
Women | Sag Harbor Bridge| S/T
The Hidden Cameras | Ban Marriage | 4 track recordings 7″
The Velvet Underground | The Gift | White Light/White Heat

get ready for Girl O’vinyl tonight!

Hey fanclub, tonight I’m super stoked to do another all-vinyl edition of Girl O’clock.  Didn’t do it last week cuz I went on the Alberta Boom! tour (which was a simultaneous success and horrorshow).  This week I don’t have a guest sharing their wax, I’m taking a break from that so I can share what I’ve picked up over the months.  It might be a little all over the place.  Don’t forget to comment, twitter (martineoclock), or call in (403 315 9523) if you have any vinyl requests.

Also, next week I’m planning a Xmas special.  So far, I’ve got, like, three songs planned, and it might just be a Xmas segment.  or whatever.

goc: november 29, 2008

The Hidden Cameras | Music is My Boyfriend | Mississauga Goddam
The Cherry Blossoms | Rocks and Stones | ?????
The Country Teasers | Brown Jews Etc. | Destroy All Human Life
Thee Oh Sees | Kingsmeat | Peanut Butter Oven EP
The Mutators | What Cuts What | V/A Nothing on But Your Radio CJSW
The Lines | Come Home | Flood Band
Religious Knives | On a Drive | The Door
Hush Arbors | Bless You | S/T
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet | Jackpot | Dim the Lights, Chill the Ham
BBQ | Burn This Town | Tie Your Noose
Brutal Knights | Feast of Shame | Living By Yourself
The Virgins | Athiest in America | Miscarriage
The Gynecologists | Jimmy Jones | Hoosier Psychopaths
DD/MM/YYYY | Vantan | 777
The Grim Beat | Wayne Gretsky | Go Home!
Endangered Ape | Variations on a Theme | Variations on a Theme EP
Aids Wolf | ???? | Cities of Glass
Dark Meat | Three Eyes Open | Universal Indians
The Gutter Twins | We Have Met Before | Adorata
Yo La Tengo | Autumn Sweater | Prisoners of Love
Wilco | War on War | Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Play list from Nov 1 2008, all vinyl with Paul K

Yo Majesty | Break Bread | Kryptonite EP
Holzkopf | Burnt Out on Happiness | Pure Bliss No Earth EP
Vancougar | Obvious | 7″
Hot Panda | Good Christian Children | Cold Hands/Chapped Lips 7″
The Famines | Gimmie Some Numbers | Black Sea
Johnny Apple | Walk With Me and Smile | V/A Top Notch! Hits From the Hive

Wax Museums | Locked in the Mall | S/T
Hunx & His Punx | You Don’t Like Rock & Roll | 7″
The Nodzzz | I Don’t Wanna (Smoke Marijuana) | 7″
Blank Dogs | Setting Fire to Your House | 7″
Catatonic Youth | I’ve Had It | Piss Scene EP
Black Orphan | XX Spectrum | 7″

The Gories | Charm Bag | Houserockin’
The Monks | Boys are Boys | …Let’s Start a Beat
Royal Trux | The Banana Question | Accelerator

Cheveu | La Cerise | 7″ split w/ Crash Normal
The Anals | Commando of Love | 7″
Jack of Heart | San Francisco | 7″
The Ostrich | Rabies | Mt. Fuji in Red 7″
The Wicked Awesomes | Fighting the Wolf Spirit | 7″ split w/ The O-Voids
Sedatives | Cannot Calm Down | 7″
Defektors | Torn to Pieces | 7″
Thee Oh Sees | Visit Colonel | The Master’s Bedroom is Worth Spending a Night in

Don’t forget to read Paul’s record blog, www.sevententwelve.com.

all vinyl with Paul K

Last night was the first Saturday of the month, and the first Girl O’clock of the month, which means all vinyl Girl O’clock!  The November 2008 edition was a definite WIN, thanks to Paul agreeing to be a guest and sharing some of his wrekkid collection with me and the listeners.  He did, like, a best of 2008 in 7 inches.  I played the Royal Trux.

Since the internet is still not working in the CKXU on-air booth, the playlist wasn’t live-bloggable.  If you’re curious about the jams we jammed, I will be putting up the playlist later tonight.

ALSO, the CKXU Halloween bash was another win.  I took the advice from someone who posted halloween costume ideas on my other blog, and dressed up as Siouxsie Sioux.  Pictures later?