Friday, December 27, 2019

12/27/19 Best of 2019: Side A / KTUH Fri. 9am-noon

Looking back at just some of my favorite music this past year.  Technical faults aside, I hope everyone enjoyed this week's show.  There were a lot of music I enjoyed from this year while preparing for this show, so I might do another Best of 2019 show next week (unless something else comes up).  As usual, I'll update on this blog if any changes happen.

* Originally released as a single in 2018

9:00am
Nérija - Blume
Fumi Tomita - Second Bakery Attack
FKJ - Ylang Ylang
Nautilus featuring Mizuki Kamata - In a Crazy Blue (Bill's Chill)
Men I Trust - Numb
[.que] featuring 別野加奈 Kana Wakareno - anymore
Alfa Mist featuring Kaya Thomas-Dyke - Falling
諸星すみれ Sumire Morohoshi - 真っ白 Masshiro [Pure White]
fox capture plan featuring 宮本一粋 Issui Miyamoto - Precious My Heroes
Teebs - Shells
Brad Mehldau - Striving After Wind
Copeland - Pope *
Beck - Stratosphere
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Sun Forest

10:00am
Crumb - Ghostride
Nilüfer Yanya - Baby Blu
Durand Jones & the Indications - Walk Away
Free Nationals featuring Kali Uchis & Mac Miller - Time
Toro Y Moi - Ordinary Pleasure *
Benny Sings featuring Faberyayo - Nakemeguro 
Flying Lotus featuring Little Dragon - Spontaneous
iri - Wonderland
Lee Fields & the Expressions - It Rains Love
Angel Olsen - Spring
Vampire Weekend - Big Blue 
Chouchou - Utopia
Nai Br.XX & Celeina Ann - Threads
Jessica Pratt - Here My Love
サカナクション Sakanaction - ナイロンの糸 Nylon no Ito [Nylon String]

11:00am
Chromatics - Move a Mountain
土岐麻子 Asako Toki - Emerald 
Aimer - Torches
Lemaitre - Better Now
(Sandy) Alex G - Taking
Jay Som - Superbike 
Boris - どうしてもあなたをゆるせない Doushitemo Anata o Yurusenai -Sadesper Record Version-
The Japanese House - You Seemed So Happy
Ride - Future Love 
Friendly Fires with Friend Within - Offline
The Chemical Brothers - Got to Keep On
Hot Chip - Echo 
まじ娘 majiko - 春、恋桜 Haru, Koizakura [Love, Cherry Blossoms]
우효 OOHYO - Tennis 

Interstitial music:  Meitei, Beirut, The Cinematic Orchestra, Monster Rally, Com Truise, Dong Xi, Bibio, Susumu Yokota, Shlohmo, Bonobo, Ursula 1000

Have a safe celebration, and Happy New Year!

Friday, December 20, 2019

12/20/19 My Little Corner of the World / KTUH Fri. 9am-noon

Holiday special this week, featuring winter tunes among songs celebrating Christmas and Hanukkah.  New holiday tunes from Andrew Bird, Jizue, Yo La Tengo, Sondre Lerche, Phoebe Bridgers with Fiona Apple & Matt Berninger, Trentemøller, Now Now, and Lucy Dacus; plus more new music from Yerin Baek, Khruangbin & Leon Bridges, Bombay Bicycle Club & others.

Happy Hanukkah / Merry Christmas / Happy Kwanzaa / Happy Holidays!

9:00am
Andrew Bird - Christmas Is Coming
Explosions in the Sky - Day One
Ramsey Lewis Trio - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Les McCann - I'll Be Home for Christmas
Jimmy Smith - The Christmas Song
Sackville All Stars - Good King Wenceslas
Dave Brubeck Quartet - My Favorite Things [John Coltrane cover]
Vince Guaraldi Trio - Skating
Nujabes featuring Hiroto Uyama - Spiritual State
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Nori Tani - Winter
Penguin Cafe - Winter Sun

10:00am
James Blake - I'll Come Too
Caroline - Winter
Yerin Baek - Popo (How Deep Is Your Love)
Super Furry Animals - The Gift That Keeps Giving
Ovall - Winter Lights
Jizue - Different Christmas
Spitalfield - It's Cold Out There
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - 8 Days of Hanukkah
Stevie Wonder - Someday at Christmas
Khruangbin & Leon Bridges - Texas Sun
Yo La Tengo - Eight Candles
Arthur Lyman - Winter Wonderland
Ace Enders - Mele
Etta James - This Time of Year
Matt Pond PA - Holiday Road [Lindsay Buckingham cover]

11:00am
Mandolin Orange - Golden Embers R
The Band - Christmas Must Be Tonight
Sondre Lerche featuring The Silver Lake Chorus - Slip Into Character
Phoebe Bridgers with Fiona Apple & Matt Berninger - 7 O'Clock News / Silent Night [Simon & Garfunkel cover]
Trentemøller - Silent Night
Bombay Bicycle Club - Racing Stripes
Now, Now - Lonely Christmas
Rick James - Cold Blooded R
John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War Is Over) R
Lucy Dacus - Last Christmas [Wham! cover]
Snail's House - Magical Holiday
竹内まりや Mariya Takeuchi - すてきなホリデイ Suteki na Holiday [Wonderful Holiday]
Carpenters - What Are You Doing New Year's Eve
Edward Wright - Christmas Time Is Here [Vince Guaraldi cover]

Wednesday, December 18, 2019

12/18/19 The Heavy Entertainment Show (SUB) / KTUH Wed. 9pm-mid

Subbing in for DJ Ai Kane, who is currently on a trip to Japan.  Tonight's theme is night traveling, either a night drive or night flight or other ways of cruising through the dark skies.  Lots of night vibes, Rock n Roll via requests... and of course, requests.

Thank you all for the feedback and requests, even if I didn't get a chance to play all of them.

9:00pm
Beck - Stratosphere
Air - Surfing on a Rocket
Kraftwerk - Autobahn [single edit]
Slayer - Raining Blood R
Guns n' Roses - Nighttrain R
Blur - He Thought of Cars
Stan Getz, João Gilberto & Astrud Gilberto - Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Rush - Fly by Night R
Jay Som - Nighttime Drive
Black Sabbath - Neon Knights R
Enya - Orinoco Flow R
Jimmy Eat World - Night Drive

10:00pm
Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes to Midnight R
Takota - Car Park Conversation
The Cars - Drive
Michael Jackson - Human Nature R
Kavinskiy featuring Lovefoxx - Nightcall
Now, Now - AZ

10:30pm
Thundercat - Tokyo
Frank Ocean - Nightz (Sango Bounced It)
Chromatics - Time Rider
Lemaitre - Cut to Black [Club Mix]
Friendly Fires featuring Au Revoir Simone - Paris [Aeroplane Remix]
Negoto - Saturday Night

11:00pm
坂本真綾 Maaya Sakamoto - 30minutes night flight
Perfume - Night Flight
BTS featuring Halsey - Boy With Luv R
宇多田ヒカル Hikaru Utada - traveling
Goldroom - Embrace (Night Drive Remix)
Peggy Gou - Starry Night
Mondo Grosso featuring 満島ひかり Hikari Mitsushima - Labyrinth
Martin Solveig - The Night Out
Silversun Pickups - Bloody Mary (Nerve Endings)
Anderson .Paak - Parking Lot
kudasai - the girl I haven't met
Hum - Stars

Friday, December 13, 2019

12/13/19 My Little Corner of the World / KTUH Fri. 9am-noon

New music this week from Andrew Bird, T.K. Blue, Yazz Ahmed, Nai Br.XX & Celeina Ann, majiko, RADWIMPS, Ken Ishii & more.

Expect some holiday music (new and old, there's some pretty good ones this year) along with a couple of missed requests and suggestions next week (12/20). The week after that (12/27) will be my Best of 2019 show, so I hope you'll join me on the next two Fridays as well.

9:00am
(Sandy) Alex G - Crime
Elliott Smith - In the Lost and Found (Honky Bach) / The Roost
Joni Mitchell - In France They Kiss on Main Street
Hiroshi Suzuki - Romance
Earl Klugh - Waltz for Debby
Horace Silver Trio - Lonely Woman
Bill Evans Trio - Pensativa
Sackville All Stars - We Three Kings R
Andrew Bird - Skating [Vince Guaraldi cover]
Nina Simone - Beautiful Land
[.que] - memoria

10:00am
Fumi Tomita - Wind-Up Bird and Tuesday's Women
Ramsey Lewis Trio - Winder Wonderland R
Eric Wyatt - The Golden Rule (For Sonny Rollins)
Honolulu Jazz Quartet - Tenacity
Hiromi - Mr. C.C.
SOIL&"PIMP"Sessions - Monad
T.K. Blue - The Wise One Speaks
Yazz Ahmed - Ruby Bridges
Kaytranada featuring BADBADNOTGOOD - Weight Off
Raphael Saadiq featuring Rob Bacon - Something Keeps Calling
Harumi - Don't Know What I'm Gonna Do

11:00am
Donovan - Wear Your Love Like Heaven
Hand Habits - placeholder
Beck - Stratosphere
Nai Br.XX & Celeina Ann - Threads
Kings of Convenience - Cayman Islands
Kalafina - storia
FictionJunction featuring LiSA - From the Edge
まじ娘 majiko - グリム Grimm
RADWIMPS featuring 三浦透子 Toko Miura - Celebration
サカナクション Sakanaction - 陽炎 Kagerō [Heat Haze]
Daphni - Sizzling
Ken Ishii - Bells of New Life

Thursday, December 12, 2019

12/12/19 Totally Wired (SUB) / KTUH Thurs. 1-4pm

Subbing in for DJ Yoko Eno. More of a "go with the flow" setlist with a lot of Indie and Alternative (and some Electro) music I've been meaning to catch up on, or wanting to air for a while.

1:00pm
The New Pornographers - Opening Ceremony
Belle and Sebastian - Like Dylan in the Movies
Julia Jacklin - Pressure to Party
The Kinks - End of the Season
New Order - Run
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
Bombay Bicycle Club - Eat, Sleep, Wake (Nothing But You)
Hot Chip - Hungry Child
Tears For Fears - And I Was a Boy From School [Hot Chip cover]
Animal Collective - My Girls
Beck - Hyperspace
Placebo - Without You, I'm Nothing

2:00pm
Oasis - D'You Know What I Mean [2016 NG's Re-Think]
Engineers - Forgiveness
(Sandy) Alex G - Cow
Deerhunter - Desire Lines
Y La Bamba - Cuatro Crazy
St. Vincent - Northern Lights
Stereolab - Crest
Have a Nice Life - Trespassers W
My Bloody Valentine - What You Want
Wild Nothing - Chinatown
Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater

3:00pm
Luscious Jackson - Citysong
Big Head Todd & the Monsters - Bittersweet R
The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Clairo - Bags
Sparklehorse - Sick of Goodbyes
Money Mark - Maybe I'm Dead
Sonic Youth - Do You Believe in Rapture?
Beach House - Walk in the Park
Radiohead - Idioteque
Phoenix - 1901
Digitalism - Circles
Kedr Livanskiy - Your Need (Не должен) [Deep Mix]

Friday, December 6, 2019

12/6/19 My Little Corner of the World / KTUH Fri. 9am-noon

A lot of slow jazz and rainy music for this rainy Friday morning and the incoming cold weather, picking up energy as the clouds cleared up throughout the morning.  Plus new music from SOIL&"PIMP"Sessions, The Japanese House, LiSA, Andrew Bird, SPOOL, Polkadot Stingray & more.

9:00am
[.que] featuring 別野加奈 Kana Wakareno - Anymore
嶋津健一トリオ Kenichi Shimazu Trio - バラに降る雨 Bara ni Furu Ame [Double Rainbow]
Chet Baker - Soft Winds
Sadao Watanabe - Memorias
Yiruma - Kiss the Rain
Tomoya Naka - Rainy Song
Yuna - Tiada Akhir [No Beginning]
Coldplay - Sunrise
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Zurich
Bill Evans - Blue in Green
Honolulu Jazz Quartet - Real Old Style [Keola Beamer cover]

10:00am
Miles Davis - On Green Dolphin Street R
Horace Silver - Song for My Father R
Keith Jarrett Trio - Autumn Leaves R
SOIL&"PIMP"Sessions - In the Twilight
Mammal Hands - Three Good Things
Portico Quartet - Window Seat
Nicolas Godin - The Border
The Mattson 2 - Wavelength

11:00am
Beck - Uneventful Days
The Japanese House - Chewing Cotton Wool
Phoebe Bridgers & Matt Berninger - Walking on a String [alt version]
Stars - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
Tegan & Sara - Hello, I'm Right Here
LiSA - unlasting
Teebs - Slumber
Horse Feathers - Albina
Andrew Bird featuring Erika Wennerstrom - Manifest
SPOOL - Tip of a Finger
Polkadot Stingray - 阿吽 A-un
Awesome City Club - Outsider

Friday, November 29, 2019

11/29/19 My Little Corner of the World / KTUH Fri. 9am-noon

Keeping it a bit calm and relaxing as an escape from all the Black Friday chaos. Plus lots of new music from FKJ, Lee Fields & the Expressions, Nicolas Godin, Beck, [.que], The Shins, Iron & Wine, Coldplay, Spool & more.

9:00am
FKJ - Ylang Ylang
Bill Evans - Like Someone in Love
Chet Baker - While My Lady Sleeps (Take 10)
Fumi Tomita - T.V. People
Jamael Dean - Kronos
Stelvio Cipriani - Mary's Theme
Henry Mancini - Days of Wine and Roses
Tufano & Giammarese - I'm a Loser [The Beatles cover] R
Piero Piccioni - Bossa per Alberto
Fantastic Plastic Machine - Philter (In Viaggio Attraverso L'Australia)
Francis Lai - Un Homme et une Femme [A Man and a Woman]
Dick Hyman & Mary Mayo - Bye Bye Blues
Martin Denny - Love at Sight

10:00am
Monster Rally - Noché Peligroso
Towa Tei featuring Bebel Gilberto - Technova (La Em Copacabana)
Cortex - Huit Octobre 1971
Nautilus - People Make the World Go Round [The Stylistics cover]
Lee Fields & the Expressions - Don't Give Up
Michael Kiwanuka - Piano Joint (This Kind of Love) + Intro
Nicolas Godin [of Air] featuring Cola Boyy - The Foundation
Beck - Chemical
Cornelius - The Spell of a Vanishing Loneliness (Beach Fossils Rework)
Vagabon - Secret Machine
Teebs featuring Daydream Masi - Universe
Apparat - Laminar Flow
[.que] - petal dance

11:00am
Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele - Meet Me in the Garden [acoustic]
Tahiti 80 - Better Days Will Come [acoustic]
The Shins - Trapped by the Sea
Wilco - Before Us
Iron & Wine - Autumn Town Leaves
Miranda Lambert - Tin Man R
Coldplay - Church
Nilüfer Yanya - Baby Blu
Tirzah featuring Coby Sey - Devotion
諸星すみれ Sumire Morohoshi - 真っ白 Masshiro [Pure White]
Spool - Ghost
Jeff Buckley - Lilac Wine
Nick Drake - Place to Be

Friday, November 22, 2019

11/22/19 My Little Corner of the World / KTUH Fri. 9am-noon

Music for the windy & damp weather this past week, plus new releases from Jamael Dean, Abstract Orchestra, Matt Berninger & Phoebe Bridgers, Apparat, Madeon, Etsuko Yakushimaru, fox capture plan, Neon Indian & more.

9:00am
Nautilus featuring Mizuki Kamata - In a Crazy Blue (Bill's Chill)
Vivian Sessoms - A Real Thing
Jamael Dean - Adawa
Lonnie Liston Smith & the Cosmic Echoes - Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord
Teebs - Shells
Antonio Adolfo - Afosamba
Bill Evans - Stella By Starlight [Victor Young cover]
Dick Hyman & Mary Mayo - Star Eyes
Hank Mobley - This I Dig of You
Monster Rally - Giant Leaves
The Mattson 2 - Moonlight Motel
Flamingosis & Birocratic - Look Both Ways!
The Olympians - Apollo's Mood

10:00am
Michael Kiwanuka - Living in Denial
Abstract Orchestra - Eye
Sudan Archives - Iceland Moss
Taylor McFerrin - I Would Still
Adrian Younge - Come Back
Lee Fields & the Expressions - Wake Up
Stevie Wonder - Village Ghetto Land
Vagabon - Flood
fka twigs - home with you
Wilco - Venus Stop the Train
Matt Berninger featuring Phoebe Bridgers - Walking on a String
Damien Rice - My Favourite Faded Fantasy
Jackson Browne & Leslie Mendelson - A Human Touch
Crumb - Ghostride

11:00am
Apparat - DAWAN
Madeon - Borealis
The Postal Service - Sleeping In
やくしまるえつこ Etsuko Yakushimaru - Unknown World Map
土岐麻子 Asako Toki - High Line
fox capture plan featuring 宮本一粋 Issui Miyamoto - Precious My Heroes
Ursula 1000 featuring Qypthone - Campari and Soda
Towa Tei - Last Century Modern (SRATM Remix)
Neon Indian - Toyota Man
Y La Bamba - Soñadora
Mark Ronson featuring Angel Olsen - True Blue
그루비룸 GroovyRoom featuring 헤이즈 HEIZE & 박재범 Jay Park - Sunday
Men I Trust - Dorian

Friday, November 15, 2019

11/15/19 My Little Corner of the World / KTUH Fri. 9am-noon

New music from the posthumous Susumu Yokota album, and releases from fka Twigs, Sudan Archives, Michael Kiwanuka, The Good Ones, The Mattson 2, Teebs, Free Nationals, TK from Ling tosite sigure, & more.

R.I.P. Kehinde Lijadu (The Lijadu Sisters, 1948-2019)

9:00am
Susumu Yokota - Incantation of the Stars
The Comet Is Coming - The Seven Planetary Heavens
Lonnie Liston Smith & the Cosmic Echoes - Rejuvenation
Kamasi Washington - Perspective
Nautilus - Cosmotron
Jeff Phelps - Wrong Space, Wrong Time
Dexter Wansel - Together Once Again
Tower of Power - Just When We Start Makin' It
Nérija - Blume
Angel Olsen - Endgame
Third Coast Percussion with Devonté Hynes - For All Its Fury: I. Reach

10:00am
fka Twigs - thousand eyes
Sudan Archives - Pelicans in the Summer
Michael Kiwanuka - Hard to Say Goodbye
Vagabon - Every Women
Damien Rice - Accidental Babies R
Whitney - Forever Turned Around
Tinariwen - Madjam Mahilkamen
The Good Ones featuring Kevin Shields - A Long, Sad Journey Watching You Die
The Lijadu Sisters - Come On Home
The Lijadu Sisters - Orere-Elejigbo
Buffalo Daughter - Great Five Lakes
坂本慎太郎 Shintaro Sakamoto - 君はそう決めた Kimi wa Sou Kimeta [You Just Decided]

11:00am
The Mattson 2 - Naima's Dream
DIIV - Horsehead
(Sandy) Alex G - Sugar
Caroline Polachek - I Give Up
Teebs - Mirror Memory
Baths - Aminals
Free Nationals featuring Syd - Shibuya
foryou, - ayy now
DEFFIE x weird inside - release
supercell featuring Ann, gaku - #Love
土岐麻子 Asako Toki - Emerald
For Tracy Hyde - Light Leak
TK from 凛として時雨 Ling tosite sigure with suis from Yorushika - melt
Chromatics - Closer to Grey

Thursday, November 14, 2019

11/14/19 Totally Wired (SUB) / KTUH Thurs. 1-4pm

Subbing for Yoko Eno, mixing in Indie Rock with some 80s New Wave/Post Punk favorites.  Featuring new music from Vinnie Caruana, Temples, Teebs, Have a Nice Life & more.

1:00pm
Friendly Fires - Silhouettes
サカナクション Sakanaction - 夜の踊り子 Yoru no Odoriko [Dancer of the Night]
Ride - Repetition
New Order - Vanishing Point
The Human League - Love Action (I Believe in Love)
Cut Copy - Living Upside Down
Holy Ghost! - Soon
D-DAY - Memory
Boris - Peaches [D-DAY cover]
Nasari - Ghosts
Greys - The Noise of Carpet [Stereolab cover]
The Muffs - Down Down Down
Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me
Frankie Cosmos - Rings (on a Tree)

2:00pm
Death Cab For Cutie - Before the Bombs
Vinnie Caruana - Dying in the Living Room
Wild Nothing - Chinatown
The New Pornographers - One Kind of Solomon
Spoon - You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
The Replacements - Alex Chilton
Modern English - I Melt With You
Soft Cell - Tainted Love [Gloria Jones cover]
Ciccone Youth - Into the Groove(y)
The Jam - The Eton Rifles
Dinosaur Jr. - Just Like Heaven [The Cure cover]
DIIV - The Spark

3:00pm
Sonic Youth - Disappearer
Radiohead - Blow Out
Phoenix - Armistice
Deerhunter - Heatherwood
Menomena - Wet and Rusting
Scott Walker - The Old Man's Back Again (Dedicated to the Neo-Stalinist Regime)
Silver Jews - Smith & Jones Forever
The Olivia Tremor Control - Define a Transparent Dream
Temples - You're Either on Something
Teebs featuring Panda Bear - Studie
Have a Nice Life - Science Beat
Sleater-Kinney - Reach Out
Stereolab - I Was a Sunny Rainphase
(Sandy) Alex G - Southern Sky

Friday, November 8, 2019

11/8/19 My Little Corner of the World / KTUH Fri. 9am-noon

New to this program this week from Third Coast Percussion, Nautilus, Kurofune, Boris, Sumire Morohoshi, Shiina Ringo, Cö Shu Nie, Asako Toki, Desired, CHVRCHES, Bombay Bicycle Club & more.

9:00am
A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Sullen Sonata
Nils Frahm - A Walking Embrace
Ólafur Arnalds - Happiness Does Not Wait
Ludovico Einaudi - Nuvole Bianche [White Clouds]
Third Coast Percussion - For All Its Fury: III. Coil
Tim Buckley - Dolphins [Fred Neil cover]
John Coltrane - Village Blues
Jesse Winchester - Biloxi R
Herbie Hancock featuring Norah Jones - Court and Spark [Joni Mitchell cover]
Nautilus - Introduction pt. 4
Kurofune featuring Daisuke Kaminaga & Masaki Ootawa - Yanbaru

10:00am
Buena Vista Social Club - Pueblo Nuevo
Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno - Cumbia Sobre El Mar [Cumbia on the Sea]
Dengue Dengue Dengue! - Simiolo
Minyo Crusaders - Kushimoto Bushi (Cumbia)
Y La Bamba - Gabriel
Portico Quartet - Gradient
Sudan Archives - Confessions
Helado Negro - Come Be Me
Fishmans - Baby Blue
Ursula 1000 - Relaxamento
ent - Sunset Moonrise

11:00am
Boris - Away From You
諸星すみれ Sumire Morohoshi - 真っ白 Masshiro [Pure White]
Snail's House - Pinky Promise
Shiina Ringo - Open Secret
Cö Shu Nie - bullet
halca - 朽葉色の音 Kuchibairo no Oto [The Sound of Decayed Leaves]
土岐麻子 Asako Toki - 美しい顔 Utsukushii Kao [Beautiful Face]
Desired - Emotions
Men I Trust - Tailwhip
CHVRCHES - Death Stranding
Bombay Bicycle Club - Eat, Sleep, Wake (Nothing But You)
DIIV - Skin Game
For Tracy Hyde - Glow With Me

Friday, November 1, 2019

11/1/19 My Little Corner of the World / KTUH Fri. 9am-noon

Some Post-Halloween spooks and chills for this All Hallows Day show. Featuring new music from Brad Mehldau, A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Lucy Dacus, along with some semi-new thrilling ones from Pelican, Josin, Guitar Wolf, Georgia Anne Muldrow & Dudley Perkins and more.

9:00am
Amon Tobin - Full Panther
Julee Cruise - Into the Night
Floating Points - Sea-Watch
Brad Mehldau - Paranoid Android III [Radiohead cover]
A Winged Victory for the Sullen - The Slow Descent Has Begun
Caroline Polachek - The Gate
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Night Raid
Efterklang - Supertanker
Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
Tim Buckley - Song to the Siren
Miles Davis - The Sorcerer
Oscar Brown, Jr. - But I Was Cool
Tom Waits - Way Down in the Hole

10:00am
Nick Drake - Time Has Told Me R
Donovan - Season of the Witch
Lucy Dacus - In the Air Tonight [Phil Collins cover]
Richard and Linda Thompson - Did She Jump or Was She Pushed?
Kris Kristofferson - The Silver Tongued Devil and I [The Austin Sessions]
Weyes Blood - Wild Time [Rough Trade Session]
Opeth - Windowpane
Pelican - It Stared at Me
Thom Yorke - Last I Heard (...He Was Circling the Drain)
Josin - Burning (For a New Start)
ANOHNI - Drone Bomb Me

11:00am
HTRK - Venus in Leo
Have a Nice Life - Bloodhail
Cursive - Get Fixed
Rainer Maria - Ears Ring
Guitar Wolf - LOVE&JETT
Hello Sleepwalkers - 午夜の待ち合わせ Goya no Machiawase [Overnight Appointment]
Cö shu Nie - 絶体絶命 Zettai Zetsumei [Desperately]
内核の波 Naikaku no Wa - あるいは無 Aruiwa Mu [...Or Nothing]
Klaxons - Magick
G&D - That's How
Chromatics - Twist the Knife
Joy Division - Atmosphere
St. Vincent - Surgeon

Friday, October 25, 2019

10/25/19 My Little Corner of the World / KTUH Fri. 9am-noon

New music this week from Amon Tobin, Floating Points, Robert Glasper, Lee "Scratch" Perry & Brian Eno, Tinariwen, Sudan Archives, Vagabon, Weyes Blood, Efterklang, Cursive, Somos, No Villains Left & more.

9:00am
Helado Negro - Sabana de luz
Y La Bamba - Entre Los Dos
Portico Quartet - With, Beside, Against
Mammal Hands - Boreal Forest
村咲ルミ Murasaki Rumi - Malmsjö
Amon Tobin - One Shy Morning
The Comet Is Coming - The Afterlife
Penguin Cafe - Chapter
Air - Space Maker
Floating Points - Requiem for CS70 and Strings
Nerija - Blume II
John Coltrane - Naima (Blue World, Take 1)
Robert Glasper featuring Herbie Hancock - Trade in Bars Yo
Sons of Kemet - My Queen is Harriet Tubman

10:00am
Lee "Scratch" Perry & Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Dreads
The Aggrolites - Say or Do
Tinariwen - Taqkal Tarha
Sudan Archives featuring D-Eight - Glorious
Vagabon - Water Me Down
Michael Kiwanuka featuring Tom Misch - Money
Tuxedo - You & Me
The Brothers Johnson - Stomp!
The Floaters - Float On
Delegation - Oh Honey
Caroline Polachek - Pang
Angel Olsen - Too Easy
Weyes Blood - Everyday [from Rough Trade Sessions]

11:00am
Damien Jurado - Lincoln
Kris Kristofferson & Brandi Carlile - A Case of You [Joni Mitchell cover] R
Straylight Run - Peach, Plum & Pear [Joanna Newsom cover]
Efterklang - Supertanker
Fishmans - In the Flight
DIIV - Between Tides
Cursive - What's Gotten Into You?
Somos - New Blood
The Toasters - I'm Running Right Through the World
No Villains Left - Bright Lights
Jimmy Eat World featuring Davey von Bohlen - A Praise Chorus
Ragamuffs - Yellow Daze

Friday, October 18, 2019

10/18/19 My Little Corner of the World / KTUH Fri. 9am-noon

A lot of atmospheric and tropical vibes. Including new music from Murasaki Rumi, Hiromi, Caribou, Julien Baker, Ryan Hemsworth & Wednesday Campanella, Caroline Polachek & more.

9:00am
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Sun Forest
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Shell
Penguin Cafe - Winter Sun
村咲ルミ Murasaki Rumi - Barebones
Portico Quartet - Double Helix
The Cinematic Orchestra - Lessons
toe - Two Moons
Hiromi - Kaleidoscope
John Coltrane - Traneing In [from Blue World]
Chick Corea - But Beautiful [from Trilogy 2]

10:00am
Antonio Adolfo - Tristeza De Nos Dois
Monster Rally - Tangerine Lounge
Ursula 1000 featuring Isabelle Antena - Bossa Hey
Montefiori Cocktail featuring Germano Montefiori - Comment te dire adieu [It Hurts to Say Goodbye] [Françoise Hardy cover]
Donald Byrd - Flight Time
David Holmes - Gritty Shaker
Beck - Deadweight
Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66 - Casa Forte
Os Mutantes - A Minha Menina [My Girl]
Caribou - Home
Vampire Weekend featuring Steve Lacy - Sunflower
Wilco - One and a Half Stars

11:00am
Yo La Tengo - Today is the Day
Helado Negro - Imagining What to Do
Kings of Convenience - The Weight of My Words
Julien Baker - Tokyo
Jeff Buckley - So Real
Lissie - Wedding Bells [Hank Williams cover] R
Angel Olsen - New Love Cassette
St. Vincent - Year of the Tiger
Chromatics - Light as a Feather
Ryan Hemsworth & Wednesday Campanella - Tiny Tea Room
Caroline Polachek - Look at Me Now
Radiohead - Bullet Proof... I Wish I Was
King Gnu - Hitman

Friday, October 11, 2019

10/11/19 My Little Corner of the World / KTUH Fri. 9am-noon

Playing mostly music matching the cloudy weather, especially after a night of heavy rain and thunderstorms. Plus new music from Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, TuneTown, Roxy Coss, Portico Quartet, Ursula 1000, City and Colour, Y La Bamba, DIIV, Tahiti 80 & more.

9:00am
Angel Olsen - Impasse
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Waiting for You
Penguin Cafe - Chinstrap
Nils Frahm - Keep
Thom Yorke - Suspirium
TuneTown - As She Wonders
John Coltrane - Like Sonny (from Blue World)
Stan Getz - Here's That Rainy Day
Oscar Peterson Trio + the Singers Unlimited - The Gentle Rain
Roxy Coss - Enlightenment
Duke Robillard & Herb Ellis - Easin' In R
Chick Corea - Serenity (live from Trilogy 2)

10:00am
Portico Quartet - Signals in the Dusk
Quantic featuring Nidia Góngora - Tierra Mama
Ursula 1000 featuring the Gentle People - Laka and Lono
Monster Rally - Menagerie
Tim Buckley - I Woke Up
Scott Walker - A Lover Loves
Helado Negro - Fantasma Vaga
Mandolin Orange - Echo R
Richard Thompson - The Storm Won't Come
Wilco - Bright Leaves
City and Colour - Living in Lightning

11:00am
Joni Mitchell - Just Like This Train
Y La Bamba - Octavio
Copeland - The Day I Lost My Voice (The Suitcase Song)
Chromatics - Move a Mountain
Death Cab for Cutie - Your Heart Is an Empty Room
Rocky Votolato - Uppers Aren't Necessary
(Sandy) Alex G - Taking
DIIV - For the Guilty
Ben Lee - Tornados
Tahiti 80 - Easy (acoustic)
The New Pornographers - Colossus of Rhodes
The fin. - Melt Into the Blue
Fred Neil - The Dolphins R
Inori Minase & Yurika Kubo - 雨だれの歌 Amadare no Uta [Raindrop Song]

Friday, October 4, 2019

10/4/19 My Little Corner of the World / KTUH Fri. 9am-noon

As of writing this playlist, KTUH has concluded its 50th Golden Anniversary show at Hawaiian Brian's with Richard Thompson & DJ Z-Trip. Many thanks to everyone that came out, and props to all the staff that helped out. You can check out interviews with Richard Thompson & DJ Z-Trip over at KTUH's Soundcloud page.

Going along with more Rock and Folk classics, plus new music from Jóhann Jóhannsson, A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Penguin Cafe, The Comet Is Coming, Steve Khan, Kero Kero Bonito, The New Pornographers, Tegan and Sara, Chromatics & more.

9:00am
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Harm
A Winged Victory for the Sullen - The Rhythm of a Dividing Pair
Penguin Cafe - At the Top of the Hill, They Stood...
Ólafur Arnalds - Hægt, kemur ljósið [Slowly, Comes the Light]
Lonnie Liston Smith - A Garden of Peace
The Comet Is Coming - The Softness of the Present
BADBADNOTGOOD - Timewave Zero
Pharoah Sanders - Astral Traveling
Steve Khan - Bouquet
John Coltrane - Blue World
Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark

10:00am
Townes Van Zandt - None But the Rain
Whitney - Valleys (My Love)
Jesse Winchester - The Brand New Tennessee Waltz
Wilco - Love Is Everywhere (Beware)
Slowdive - When the Sun Hits
Shelling - Shining Pool
Tim Buckley - Sweet Serenade R
Richard Thompson - The Calvary Cross
Elliott Smith - Happiness
Air - Ce Matin-Là [That Morning] R
Harumi - What a Day For Me 
Ogre You Asshole - 本当みたい Honto Mitai [Too Good to Be True]
Benny Sings featuring Faberyayo - Nakemeguro

11:00am
Angel Olsen - All Mirrors 
Kero Kero Bonito - When the Fires Come
(Sandy) Alex G - Gretel 
Wendy Waldman - Long Hot Summer Nights R
The New Pornographers - You'll Need a Backseat Driver 
For Tracy Hyde - 君にして春を想う Kimi ni Shite Haru o Omou [You, as a Season]
Tegan and Sara - Don't Believe the Things They Tell You (They Lie)
Chromatics - You're No Good
Men I Trust - Days Go By
Natalie Merchant - River R
The National - Ada
カワイヒデヒロ Hidehiro Kawai - 不可思議のカルテ Fukashigi no Carte
Rude-α - LIFE

Friday, September 27, 2019

9/27/19 My Little Corner of the World / KTUH Fri. 9am-noon

9:00am
Monster Rally - Twiggy's Flight
Burt Bacharach - What the World Needs Now Is Love
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass - This Guy's in Love With You
Andrew Oldham Orchestra - The Last Time [The Rolling Stones cover]
Eric Wyatt - Grand Street
Sadao Watanabe - Re-Bop
Antonio Adolfo - Casa Forte
Thalma de Freitas with John Finbury - Surrealismo Tropical
Intoxika - Poinciana [Nat Simon cover]
Dusty Springfield - The Look of Love
Emi Takada - Miagete Goran Yoru no Hoshi wo [Look Up at the Stars in the Night] [Kyu Sakamoto cover]
Louis Armstrong - Black and Blue (Live in Europe)

10:00am
Richard & Linda Thompson - Just the Motion
Richard Thompson - O Cinderella
Mandolin Orange - Late September
Townes Van Zandt - Dead Flowers [The Rolling Stones cover] R
Jesse Winchester - Biloxi R
Jesse Colin Young - They Were Dreamers
Jackson Browne featuring Los Cenzontles - The Dreamer
Whitney - Used to Be Lonely
Jackson Browne - Linda Paloma R
Beirut - Varieties of Exile
Vampire Weekend featuring Danielle Haim - Hold You Now
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Helplessly Hoping
Daniel Johnston - Hey Joe

11:00am
(Sandy) Alex G - Walk Away
Ogre You Asshole - 新しい人 Atarashii Hito [New Kind of Man]
The fin. - Wash Away
bonobos - アルペジオ Arpeggio
Pizzicato Five - La Règle Du Jeu [Rules of the Game]
shami momo - 町かどタンジェント Machikado [Street Corner] Tangent
capsule featuring Hazel Nuts Chocolate - Idol Fancy
CHiCO with HoneyWorks - 乙女どもよ。Otome Domo-yo [O Maidens]
あいみょん Aimyon - 空の青さを知る人よ Sora no Aosa o Shiru Hito yo [Her Blue Sky]
須田景凪 Keina Suda - MOIL
Bag Raiders featuring Tora - Back to Myself
Friendly Fires with Friend Within - Offline

Friday, September 20, 2019

9/20/19 My Little Corner of the World / KTUH Fri. 9am-noon

Some music for the cloudy weather, plus new music from Emi Takada, Snail's House, Cochemea, Monster Rally, The fin., (Sandy) Alex G & more. Also featured a track from The Cars and one of Ric Ocasek's production work in tribute.

R.I.P. Ric Ocasek (The Cars, producer, 1944 - 2019)

9:00am
Sadao Watanabe - I Thought of You
Stan Getz - Waltz for a Lovely Wife
Antonio Adolfo - Corcovado
Nick Kurosawa - What Do I Do [Kalapana cover]
Emi Takada - Stormy Weather
Resavoir - Clouds / Woah
Snail's House - なつまつり Natsumatsuri [Summer Festival]
Primitive Art Orchestra - Heart of Cosmos
Keiko Matsui - Invisible Rain
Chuck Mangione - Chase the Clouds Away

10:00am
Intoxika - Gold Lame' R
Cochemea - Mitote
Orchestra Baobab - Pape Ndiaye
Amadou & Mariam - Coulibaly
Bonobo featuring Innov Gnawa - Bambro Koyo Ganda
Disclosure featuring Fatoumata Diawara - Ultimatum
Quantic - September Blues
Taylor McFerrin - Now That You Need Me
Kindness - Raise Up
Raphael Saadiq - So Ready
Monster Rally - Adventure
Local Natives - Someday Now

11:00am
Fairport Convention - Farewell, Farewell
DJ Z-Trip featuring Chester Bennington - Walking Dead
HTRK - Dying of Jealousy
Gero x ARAKI - HHOOWWLL
Mandolin Orange - Golden Embers R
Explosion in the Sky - Day Five
Ride - Clouds of Saint Marie
The fin. - When the Summer is Over
Men I Trust - I Hope to Be Around
(Sandy) Alex G - Hope
Weezer - The World Has Turned and Left Me Here
The Cars - Good Times Roll
須田景凪 Keina Suda - veil

Saturday, September 14, 2019

9/14/19 Happy Oblivion Show (Half-SUB) / KTUH noon-1:30pm

Subbing the first half for Mild-Mannered DJ Bryan. Played a song each from a couple of Indie Rock albums celebrating their milestones: American Football's first self-titled album (1999) and Stars' Set Yourself on Fire (2004). Plus new music by Emi Takada, Frankie Cosmos, Spoon & more.

12:00pm
Emi Takada - All the Things You Are
Sondre Lerche & the Faces Down Quartet - Minor Detail
David Bowie - Space Oddity R
Bill Evans Trio, Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh - Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
João Gilberto, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil & Maria Bethãnia - Aquarela do Brasil [Brasilian Watercolor]
The Reign of Kindo - City Lights & Traffic Sounds
Kamasi Washington - Perspective
Jizue - P.D.A.
Jay Som - Tenderness
Death Cab for Cutie - Kids in '99
American Football - I'll See You When We're Both Not So Emotional

1:00pm
Stars - Soft Revolution
Goon Lei Goon - Sissy
Frankie Cosmos - Windows
Spoon - No Bullets Spent
Clairo - Sofia

Tagged out by Bryan. View the rest of the show's playlist on his blog or at Spinitron.

Friday, September 13, 2019

9/13/19 My Little Corner of the World / KTUH Fri. 9am-noon


Tonight's KTUH Concert Series will be featuring local Rock bands Ragamuffs, No Villains Left & Goon Lei Goon among other artists & DJs. This show takes place tonight 6-9pm at the Hemenway Courtyard (Manoa Gardens).

Today's show features these three bands along with works from DJ Z-Trip & Richard Thompson in preparation of the KTUH 50th Golden Anniversary Show at Hawaiian Brian's coming up on 10/4. Also featuring new music from fox capture plan, Raphael Saadiq, Kindness, Ogre You Asshole, Gruff Rhys, Bag Raiders, Death Cab for Cutie & more.

9:00am
Alfred Sergel IV - Here Yet Gone
Sadao Watanabe - Butterfly
Jon Batiste - Creative
Antonio Adolfo - So Por Amor [Just for Love]
Brad Mehldau - Make It All Go Away
Robohands - Journey to Mars
Eric Wyatt - What the World Needs Now
David "Fathead" Newman - Ain't Misbehavin'
fox capture plan - NEW ERA

10:00am
Primitive Art Orchestra - Moon River (cover of Henry Mancini)
Naniwa Express - Jerome
Tatsuro Yamashita - Music Book
DJ Z-Trip - Dust in the Wind [Kansas vs. LL Cool J]
Raphael Saadiq - I'm Feeling Love
Cornershop - Sleep on the Left Side
The Avalanches - Harmony
Free Nationals featuring Kali Uchis & Mac Miller - Time
Men I Trust - Norton Commander
Yuna featuring Jay Park - Does She
Kindness featuring Seinabo Sey - Lost Without
Ogre You Asshole - わかってないことがない Wakattenai Koto ga Nai [Each the Other]
Jesse Colin Young - For Orlando

11:00am
Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights
Whitney - Day & Night
Gruff Rhys - Pang!
Clairo - Sinking
Rostam - Gwan
Daniel Johnston - Some Things Last a Long Time
Ragamuffs - Complaints and Extra Coffee Stains
No Villains Left - Anything
Goon Lei Goon - Doko
For Tracy Hyde - 櫻の園 Sakura no Sono [The Cherry Orchard]
Bag Raiders featuring Mickey Kojak - Wild at Heart
Lemaitre - Better Now
泉まくら Macra Izumi - endroll
Death Cab For Cutie - Man in Blue

R.I.P. Daniel Johnston (1961 - 2019)

Friday, September 6, 2019

9/6/19 My Little Corner of the World / KTUH Fri. 9am-noon

All new Jazz music for the first hour. And then we go on a little drive in the last hour, preferably on the coastline, or a highway with no traffic. Atmospheric vibes and fast breezy Powerpop tunes. The surf report and underwriting spots are our only stoplights for this journey.

Featuring a couple more Richard Thompson works to prepare us for the KTUH 50th Golden Anniversary show at Hawaiian Brian's on October 4, one by Shing02 who's performing tonight for the KTUH 50th Anniversary Concert Series at Hemenway Courtyard, and new music from Sadao Watanabe, Antonio Adolfo, Jon Batiste, Whitney, Common, Durand Jones & the Indications, For Tracy Hyde & more.

9:00am
Ezra Weiss Big Band - Jose's Drawing
Sadao Watanabe - Tree Tops R
Robohands - Peace
Miles Davis - Paradise
Antonio Adolfo - Ceu E Mar
Nérija - Nascence
Jon Batiste - Anatomy of Angels
Alfred Sergel IV - The Meek

10:00am
Quantic featuring Alice Russell - Now or Never
Whitney - Giving Up
Taylor McFerrin - Love and Distance
Common featuring Daniel Caesar - H.E.R. Love
Durand Jones & the Indications - Cruisin to the Park
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Our House
Richard & Linda Thompson - When I Get to the Border
Fairport Convention - The Deserter
Mandolin Orange - Into the Sun
유키카 Yukika - 좋아하고 있어요 [Cherries Jubiles]
For Tracy Hyde - 水と眠る Mizu to Nemuru [Seabed]
Jay Som - Devotion

11:00am
Hiroto Uyama featuring Shing02 - South Side
Mr. Carmack - Likelike Highway
LLLL - Long Drive
ピロカルピン Pirokalpin - Wonder World
Flying Lotus featuring Little Dragon - Spontaneous
Bibio - The Ephemeral Bluebell
[.que] - Wind Drive
DEPAPEPE - Wind on the Coastline
Polarsets - Just Don't Open Your Eyes Yet
Oso Oso - Wake Up Next to God
Spitalfield - On the Floor
パスピエ Passepied - BTB
Toro y Moi - Low Shoulders
Chromatics - Time Rider

Friday, August 30, 2019

8/30/19 My Little Corner of the World / KTUH Fri. 9am-noon

New music from Robohands, Ezra Weiss Big Band, Alfred Sergel IV, HTRK, Rich Brian, Mandolin Orange, Sleater-Kinney, Oso Oso, For Tracy Hyde & more. Along with a classic from Fairport Convention ahead of Richard Thompson's performance with his Electric Trio at the KTUH 50th Anniversary Concert, which happens October 4 at Hawaiian Brian's. Expect more of Richard Thompson's works (along with that of DJ Z-Trip) in the coming weeks.

9:00am
Wynton Marsalis - Daily Battles
Resavoir featuring Brandee Younger - Taking Flight
Nérija - Unbound
Robohands - Free Expression
Alfa Mist featuring Jordan Rakei - Door
Quantic featuring Sly5thAve - Orquídea
Nujabes - Sea of Cloud
Hugh Masekela - Night in Tunisia
Koop featuring Yukimi Nagano - Summer Sun
Ellis Marsalis - I Can't Give You Anything But Love

10:00am
Ezra Weiss Big Band - Fanfare for a Newborn
Alfred Sergel IV - Sleepless Journey
Jizue - W
bohemianvoodoo - morning glow
Bobbi Humphrey - Uno Esta
Blood Orange - Happiness
Tuxedo featuring Paris Alexa - Vibrations
Kaytranada & VanJess - Dysfunctional
iri - Flashlight
泉まくら Macra Izumi - yunagi
HTRK - You Know How to Make Me Happy
Taylor McFerrin - I Can't Give Your Time Back
Rich Brian featuring Joji - Where Does the Time Go

11:00am
Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
공중도둑 [Mid-Air Thief] - 쇠사슬 [Ahhhh, These Chains!]
Mandolin Orange - Time We Made Time R
Kishi Bashi - A Song for You
Tunng - It Breaks
Nai Br.XX & Celeina Ann - Round & Laundry
Jay Som - Superbike
Ride - Future Love
Sleater-Kinney - The Dog/The Body
Oso Oso - One Sick Plan
For Tracy Hyde - Can Little Birds Remember?
Friendly Fires - Sleeptalking

Friday, August 23, 2019

8/23/19 My Little Corner of the World / KTUH Fri. 9am-noon

This week's show featured songs about the end of summer as UH Manoa students start heading back to school, plus more tropical sounds, and new music from Thom Yorke, Wynton Marsalis, Maaya Sakamoto, Quantic, Taylor McFerrin, Macra Izumi, Aimer, We Are the Night, Bon Iver, Jay Som, Friendly Fires, Ride & more.

9:00am
Elliott Smith - Figure 8
Thom Yorke - Daily Battles
Wynton Marsalis - Daily Battles
Björk - losss
Yerin Baek - Merry and the Witch's Flower
Explosions in the Sky - Day One
Mammal Hands - Mansions of Millions of Years
Patrice Rushen - Shortie's Portion
坂本真綾 Maaya Sakamoto - 宇宙の記憶 Uchū no Kioku [Memories of Space]
Horace Silver - Cookin' at the Continental
Jizue - P.D.A.
Quantic - Incendium

10:00am
Martin Denny - Quiet Village
Tipsy - Mr. Excitement
Beirut - Corfu
The Olivia Tremor Control - Frosted Ambassador
Monster Rally - Sunshine
Caetano Veloso - Beleza Pura [Pure Beauty]
Manu Dibango - Camp Yabassi Echoes
Gal Costa - Caminhos Do Mar [Sea Ways]
The Isley Brothers - Summer Breeze, Pts. I & II
Taylor McFerrin - So Cold in the Summer
Stevie Wonder - Summer Soft
Yuna featuring Miyavi - Teenage Heartbreak
Madison McFerrin - Milky Way
Sauce81 & Shing02 - Reflections

11:00am
泉まくら Macra Izumi - as usual
iri - Common
Chouchou - Lost Utopia
Aimer - Torches
위아더나잇 We Are the Night - 밤의 기차 [The Night Train]
Bon Iver - Salem
Jay Som - Tenderness
Clairo - Bags
Friendly Fires - Kiss and Rewind
Ride - Jump Jet
Boris - To the Beach
Sugizo x miwa - A Red Ray

Friday, August 16, 2019

8/16/19 My Little Corner of the World / KTUH Fri. 9am-noon

Looking back at the Woodstock festival that took place at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York from August 15-18, 1969.  Playing mostly artists who performed at the festival (at least as much as we could fit in) with some of the tracks being performances from the festival.  Plus a handful of requests along the way.

9:00am
Melanie - Candle in the Rain
The Incredible String Band - Gather Round [live]
Santana - Waiting [live]
Ravi Shankar - Raga Puriya-Dhanashri/Gat in Sawarital [live]
Grateful Dead - Dark Star
Keef Hartley Band - Too Much Thinking
Acoustic Alchemy - No Messin' R
Richie Havens - Freedom [live]
Sweetwater - Motherless Child

10:00am
Harumi - Sugar In Your Tea R
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
Sly & the Family Stone - Everyday People [live]
Blood, Sweat & Tears - You've Made Me So Very Happy
Mountain - Theme for an Imaginary Western
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Long Time Gone
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Gold and Silver R
It's a Beautiful Day - White Bird R
Cannonball Adderley & the Bossa Rio Sextet - Corcovado R
Tim Hardin - If I Were a Carpenter
Joan Baez - Joe Hill [live]
John Sebastian - Younger Generation [from Real Live]

11:00am
Bert Sommer - America [Simon & Garfunkel cover]
Arlo Guthrie - Coming Into Los Angeles
Ten Years After - I'd Love to Change the World
Johnny Winter with Edgar Winter - I Can't Stand It [live]
The Who - My Generation
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising
Canned Heat - Going Up the Country
Quill - They Live the Life
Janis Joplin with the Kozmic Blues Band - Kozmic Blues [live]
The Band - I Shall Be Released [Bob Dylan cover]
Joe Cocker - With a Little Help From My Friends [The Beatles cover]
Jimi Hendrix with Gypsy Sun & Rainbows - Star Spangled Banner [live]

12:00pm BONUS
Joni Mitchell - Woodstock
Jimi Hendrix with Gypsy Sun & Rainbows - Hey Joe [live]

Friday, August 9, 2019

8/9/19 My Little Corner of the World / KTUH Fri. 9am-noon

Celebrating what would've been the 50th birthday of Elliott Smith (albeit a couple days later) with a short set of songs from the deluxe edition of XO and Figure 8. Going from some vibrant soul to tropical sounds with some new music from Hiromi, Nérija, Honeydew, Passepied, Choucho & more.

R.I.P. David Berman (Silver Jews/Purple Mountains, 1967-2019)

9:00am
Tuxedo featuring Dâm-Funk - Extra Texture
The Isley Brothers - The Highways of My Life
Patrice Rushen - Where There Is Love
Stevie Wonder - Knocks Me Off My Feet
James Morrison - You Give Me Something
Tower of Power - Time Will Tell
Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Better Days
Bill Withers - Let Me Be the One You Need
Vivian Sessoms featuring Shedrick Mitchell & Amp Fiddler - People (& Belles Personnes Reprise) [The Stylistics cover]
Takuya Kuroda - Green and Gold
SEED Ensemble - WAKE (for Grenfell)
Oscar Peterson & Joe Pass - Summertime

10:00am
Hiromi - Spectrum
Stan Getz Quartet - Yesterday's Gardenias
Chick Corea & the Spanish Heart Band - My Spanish Heart
Nérija - Riverfest
Manu Dibango - Baobab Sunset
Arthur Lyman - Isle of Enchantment
Martin Denny - Blue Paradise
El Chicano - Sabor A Mi R
Walter Wanderley - O Barquinho
João Gilberto - Chega de Saudade
Seu Jorge - Ziggy Stardust [David Bowie cover]
Kings of Convenience - Misread

11:00am
Elliott Smith - Baby Britain
Elliott Smith - Son of Sam
Elliott Smith - Our Thing
Elliott Smith - Because [The Beatles cover]
The Avalanches featuring David Berman - A Cowboy Overflow of the Heart
Silver Jews - Buckingham Rabbit
Honeydew - Dissatisfied
Boris - どうしてもあなたをゆるせない Doushitemo Anata o Yurusenai -Sadesper Record Version-
Passepied - resonance
Hiroto Uyama featuring Shing02 - South Side
ユキ(CV:花澤香菜) Kana Hanazawa as Yuki - Swallowtail Butterfly ~あいのうた~ Ai no Uta [Chara cover]
Choucho - オレンジ色 Orange-iro [The Color Orange]

Friday, August 2, 2019

8/2/19 My Little Corner of the World / KTUH Fri. 9am-noon

A set of rainy and windy songs on this rather clear day. Something for the tropical storms to come. Plus new music from Resavoir, Chick Corea, King Gnu, Kenshi Yonezu, Mark Ronson with Lykke Li, Tuxedo, Bonobo and more.

R.I.P. Gregory Shorter Jr. (a.k.a. Ras G, 1978 - 2019)

9:00am
Stan Getz Quartet - Where Did You Go (from Getz at the Gate)
Toots Thielemans - Rain Waltz
Bill Evans - Remembering the Rain
Mathias Eick - August
Daigo Hanada - Ouka
Copeland - Love Affair
Resavoir - Plantasy
Alfredo Rodríguez - Silver Rain
Herbie Hancock - The Eye of the Hurricane
Kamasi Washington - Show Us the Way
Chick Corea & the Spanish Heart Band - The Yellow Nimbus, Pt. 1

10:00am
Sun Ra - Space Jazz Reverie
Ras G - All is Well...
Sudan Archives - Paid
Brad Mehldau - Striving After Wind
Pat Metheny - Sueño Con Mexico R
Blues Magoos - Never Going Back to Georgia R
Manu Dibango - Miango Ma Tumba (Village News)
Naná Vasconcelos - Calmaria
Patrice Rushen - Remind Me
LASTorder - Embracing
Kishi Bashi - Violin Tsunami

11:00am
Gorillaz - Busted and Blue
BADBADNOTGOOD featuring Samuel T. Herring - I Don't Know
King Gnu - The Hole
米津玄師 Kenshi Yonezu - 海の幽霊 Umi no Yūrei [Spirits of the Sea]
우효 OOHYO - Swimming
Mark Ronson featuring Lykke Li - Late Night Feelings
Toro Y Moi - New Beat
Tuxedo featuring Leven Kali and Battlecat - OMW
Hot Chip - Positive
Bonobo - Linked
Lusine featuring CIFIKA - Step On

Friday, July 26, 2019

7/26/19 My Little Corner of the World / KTUH Fri. 9am-noon

Back in the Air Room with more new/semi-new music from Mercury Prize shortlister SEED Ensemble, Blood Orange, Chouchou, Lusine, RADWIMPS, Vickeblanka, SUGIZO with miwa & more.

R.I.P. Art Neville (The Meters, The Neville Brothers 1937-2019), Johnny Clegg (1953-2019)

9:00am
SEED Ensemble featuring Cherise Adams-Burnett - The Dream Keeper
Vivian Sessoms featuring Keyon Harrold - Dreaming of a Boy
Lonnie Liston Smith & the Cosmic Echoes - Meditations
Sigur Rós - Glósóli [Glowing Sole]
Caspian - Moksha
Grover Washington, Jr. - Can You Stop the Rain R
Brad Mehldau - Striving After Wind
Keiko Matsui - Espirit
DEPAPEPE - Lion

10:00am
The Meters - Ann
Trinidad Steel Drummers - Cissy Strut [The Meters cover]
Savuka - Asimbonanga (Mandela)
Peter Gabriel - Biko
Miriam Makeba - Nongqongqo (To Those We Love)
AfroCubism - Djelimady Rumba
El Chicano - Sabor A Mi [Taste of Me] R
João Gilberto, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil & Maria Bethãnia - Aquarela do Brasil [Brazilian Watercolor]
Montefiori Cocktail - On a Clear Day (Tu sai chi sei) [Sunaga T. Experience Remix]
Bebel Gilberto - Momento
Yuna featuring Tyler the Creator - Castaway
크러쉬 CRUSH featuring MISO - Castaway
Blood Orange - Benzo

11:00am
Khruangbin - A La Sala
Stanley Turrentine - Salt Song R
Crumb - The Letter
Tycho - Into the Woods
Chouchou - Utopia
Cassius - Summer
Lusine featuring Jenn Champion - Not Alone
Yerin Baek featuring Car, the Garden - I Don't Know
Hot Chip - Clear Blue Skies
RADWIMPS - 愛にできることはまだあるかい Ai ni dekirukoto wa mada arukai [Is There Still Anything That Love Can Do?]
ビッケブランカ Vickeblanka - Lucky Ending

12:00pm BONUS
Sugizo x miwa - A Red Ray
iri - Wonderland
DAOKO - 水星 Suisei [Mercury] [tofubeats cover]

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

7/23/19 Totally Wired (SUB) / KTUH noon-12:30pm

Subbing the first half-hour for Yoko Eno. Mickey Weems takes over from 12:30-3:00pm with students from Gachon University as guests. Both Mickey and I will be playing all Korean music for this special show.

12:00pm
우효 OOHYO - Tennis
Yerin Baek - Maybe It's Not Our Fault
헤이즈 HEIZE featuring DEAN & DJ Friz - And July
크러쉬 CRUSH featuring 후디 Hoody - Close Your Eyes
치즈 CHEEZE - Be There
LOOΠΔ - Love Letter
아워멜츠 [Hourmelts] - Time Feedback
Humming Urban Stereo - ARS

Friday, July 19, 2019

7/19/19 My Little Corner of the World / KTUH Fri. 9am-noon

A block of music by João Gilberto in tribute to the father of Bossa Nova, and a tribute to Kyoto Animation featuring theme songs from some of my favorite KyoAni works (and a couple from my Plan-to-Watch list).

Plus new releases by Tycho, Khruangbin, Yuna & more.

R.I.P. João Gilberto (1931-2019); Jerry Lawson (The Persuasions, 1944-2019); and to the many animators and creators who lost their lives from such a pointless and cruel arson attack.

9:00am
まじ娘 majiko - Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing [Stevie Wonder cover]
John Coltrane - Equinox
Nat King Cole - The Very Thought of You
Les Louanges - DMs
Tycho featuring Saint Sinner - For How Long
Khruangbin - Sisters & Brothers
Brad Mehldau - O Ephraim
Kindo - Catch the Gleam
Keiko Matsui featuring Marcus Miller - Echo
Flying Lotus - Heroes in a Half Shell
Kamasi Washington - Testify
Lonnie Liston Smith & the Cosmic Echoes - Sunbeams

10:00am
Caetano Veloso, João Gilberto, Gilberto Gil & Maria Bethãnia - Bahia com H
João Gilberto - Chega de Saudade
Stan Getz & João Gilberto - Bim Bom
Stan Getz & João Gilberto featuring Astrud Gilberto - The Girl From Ipanema
João Gilberto - Este Seu Olhar
João Gilberto - Corcovado [from In Tokyo]
João Gilberto - Não Vou Pra Casa

10:30am
Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo
Cannonball Adderley & the Bossa Rio Sextet - O Amor Em Paz (Once I Loved) R
Phonte - Ego
The Persuasions - Good Times
Anderson .Paak - Such Great Heights [The Postal Service cover]
Yuna featuring Masego - Amy
iri - Shade

11:00am
Sharon Van Etten - No One's Easy to Love
Travis - Driftwood
우효 OOHYO - Tennis
Cut Copy - Unforgettable Season
Wild Nothing - Ride
John Mayer - Gravity R

11:30am
Chata - だんご大家族 Dango Daikazoku [Great Dango Family]
茅原実里 Chihara Minori - みちしるべ Michishirube [Guidepost]
aiko - 恋をしたのは Koi no Shita no wa [I Was In Love]
ちょうちょ ChouCho - 優しさの理由 Yasashii no Riyū [Reason of Kindness]
洲崎綾 Aya Suzaki - ドラマチックマーケットライド Dramatic Market Ride
放課後ティータイム Ho-kago Tea-Time - Don't say "lazy"

Friday, July 5, 2019

7/5/19 My Little Corner of the World / KTUH Fri. 9am-noon

The KTUH Alumni Airwave Takeover, where past DJs return to grace the airwaves once again with their talent and excellent music selection for one week, will be happening from July 7-13. Program schedule for the Alumni Takeover is now available at ktuh.org.

A little correction from earlier: you got PhDJ taking over this timeslot with It's Lit! for the Alumni Takeover week. Tune in then, and throughout the week for more excellent alumni DJs.
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Music prominently featuring the piano for most of the first hour, followed by some bossa nova. Plus new music from Daigo Hanada, Fabian Almazan Trio, Keiko Matsui, Kana Hanazawa & more.

9:00am
Crumb - M.R.
Brad Mehldau - The Garden
Steve Gadd Band - Norma's Girl
Mathias Eick - Family
Eluvium - Inherent Mosaic
Daigo Hanada - En
Moby - Porcelain R
Ólafur Arnalds - Ljósið [The Light]
Fabian Almazan Trio - Songs of the Forgotten
Bill Evans Trio - Some Other Time
Anat Cohen Tentet - Milonga Del Angel [Dance of the Angel]

10:00am
Keiko Matsui featuring Gretchen Parlato - Spirit Dance
Thalma de Freitas - Sorte!
Astrud Gilberto with Stanley Turrentine - Ponteio [Bridge]
Wanda de Sah - Agua de Beber [Drinking Water]
Nara Leão - O Barquinho [Little Boat]
Antônio Carlos Jobim - The Red Blouse
João Gilberto, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil & Maria Bethãnia - Bahia com H [Bahia With an H]
Bebel Gilberto - Lonely
Vinicius Cantuaria - Agua Rasa
Tatsuro Yamashita - Fragile
Tyler the Creator featuring Charlie Wilson & Jessy Wilson - Earfquake
Marvin Gaye - My Last Chance [Salaam Remi Remix]
Ben Pirani - Dreamin's For Free

11:00am
SBTRKT - Heatwave
Flying Lotus - Takashi
LASTorder - Lilac
Com Truise - Ultrafiche of You
Hot Chip - Echo
우효 OOHYO - Brave
花澤香菜 Kana Hanazawa - Hello, Again ~昔からある場所~ Mukashikara Aru Basho [A Place from Old Times] [My Little Lover cover]
まじ娘 majiko - Wish
The Appleseed Cast - Asking the Fire for Medicine
サカナクション Sakanaction - 忘られないの Wasurarenaino [Can't Forget]
E ve - 僕らまだアンダーグラウンド Bokura mada Underground [We're Still Underground]