Welcome back to the Song, by Toad Fresh Air show, with the lovely Ruth.  This week we have Russell from Mammoeth live in session, although the poor bugger’s already done a brilliant session for us before Christmas which was unfortunately swallowed by the Fresh Air computers, which are a bit like a suspiciously special needs version of Hal most of the time.

Last week’s Session with The Last Battle can be found at the bottom of the page, in the form of downloadable session tracks, a podcast of the interview and session videos.  The sound is really nice considering there were six of them and we only have two microphones.

Live on Air 8pm-9.30pm – Listen live here.

I’ll fill in the playlist live below from 8pm onwards, so please come and say hello, shout mindless abuse or whatever else it is you internet people spend your time doing.

1. The Besnard Lakes – Chicago Train
2. Liars – Scarecrow On A Killer Slant
3. Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse – Revenge
4. Bjork – Generous Palmstroke (Live)
5. Mammoeth- Scrambled Eggs (Live in Session)
6. Dirty Projectors – Two Doves
7. Mammoeth – Trigonometry (Live in Session)
8. Berzilla Wallin – Conversation with Death (Oh Death)
9. Sparklehorse – Heart of Darkness
10. Mammoeth – I’m Glad That I Died Today (Live in Session)
11. Mammoeth – Lap Dog
12. Fleetwood Mac – Honey Hi
13. Mammoeth – Wendy House (Live in Session)
14. Blur – Out of Time
15. Joanna Newsom – ’81

Last week’s session can be found after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

Once more we get to Fresh Air time, and this week I have a splendidly hot off the press mp3 from the new New Pornogrgaphers album.  It arrived in my inbox just as I was getting ready to leave work, so you can’t get much more news-whorish than that!

For the rest of the show, however, I am going to take a slightly different tack to the usual indie-folk, or whatever you want to call it.  I have some Dusty Springfield, some Nicole Atkins, some Bettye Swan and even some Dionne Warwick just because erm… well no reason really, it just struck my fancy when I was picking songs for the playlist in all honesty.

Live on Air 8pm-9.30pm – Listen live here.

I’ll fill in the playlist live below from 8pm onwards, so feel free to leave feedback, constructive criticism, mindless abuse, etc in the comments during the show.

01. Dionne Warwick- I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself
02. Joanna Newsom- On a Good Day
03. Grand National- Boner
04. Hot Lava- The Auctioneer
05. Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose- 3 Knife
06. Dusty Springfield- Don’t Forget About Me
07. The Come Ons- Strangelove
08. The Morning Benders- Excuses
09. Mountain Man- Honeybee
10. Nicole Atkins- Brooklyn’s On Fire
11. Scott Walker- The Girls And The Dogs
12. Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Love Over and Over
13. New Pornographers- Your Hands Together
14. Lissie- Everywhere I Go
15. Morrissey- You’re Gonna Need Someone On Your Side
16. The Tallest Man On Earth- King of Spain
17. Vampire Weekend- White Sky