Sad Sack Serenade: January 28th (Icelandic Music Special)

I was really disappointed today when the hour ended because I was having such a great time playing all the music and reading all the trivia about Iceland. I didn't get around to playing any Bjork or Sigur Ros, but I guess that was kind of cool because we got to include a bunch of lesser-known acts, but I even had a few more of those to share with you that we didn't have time for. Unfortunately as lovely as Icelandic music tends to be, it also tends to be kind of long and not really suited for the radio, so I'm sorry I was only able to play eight songs. They were a superb eight songs though, and we also got to learn a lot about the great nation of Iceland, so it was time well spent.

Here's what played on CJSF 90.1FM from 9-10am on January 28th:

Pornopop - Centre

Múm - I Can't Feel My Hand Anymore, It's Alright, Sleep Tight

Seabear - Hands Remember

Slowblow - Aim for a Smile

Frakkur - Untitled

Ólöf Arnalds - Innudir Skinni

Amiina - Fjarskanistan

Parachutes - Fingertips

Ólafur Arnalds - Gleypa Okkur

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Thanks for tuning in to the special show everybody! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Next week is back to regular bummer music, but I am still planning on doing an Elliott Smith retrospective theme show soon, so that should be on your radar.

Sad Sack Serenade: January 21st

Good morning to you, I hope you're feeling better baby... This is what played at 9am on CJSF 90.1FM:

Kathryn Calder - So Easily
Phantom Planet - Our House (Crosby, Stills, and Nash cover)
Great Lake Swimmers - Concrete Heart
Names of Stars - Speak
Kathleen Edwards - Sure as Shit
Brandi Carlile - That Year
Forest City Lovers - Oh the Wolves!
Dirty Projectors - No Intentions
The Concretes - Grey Days
Explosions in the Sky - Your Hand in Mind
Elliott Smith - Last Call

Mp3 of the show: 1st half hour/2nd half hour.

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Thanks for listening everybody, be sure to tune in next week at 9am for our very special Icelandic music day!

Sad Sack Serenade: January 14th

Hello and happy weekend radio listeners. This was what played on CJSF 90.1FM this Friday morning at 9am on Sad Sack Serenade:

Jon Brion - Little Person
Silje Nes - Symmetry of Empty Space
The Salteens - Don't Break My Heart
Nada Surf - The Film Did Not Go 'Round
Alexi Murdoch - Orange Sky
Olenka and the Autumn Lovers - Odessa
Blink 182 - Miss You
Robert Plant & Allison Krauss - Through the Morning, Through the Night
Sloan - Live the Life You're Dreaming Of
Tokyo Police Club - Favourite Food
Winter Gloves - Trap the Mouse
Bruce Springsteen - The Wrestler

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Thanks for listening everybody and for all the nice comments I've got in the last week. Hope to feel your presence through the radio next week.

Sad Sack Serenade: January 7th

Today was the first broadcast of Sad Sack Serenade at its new time, Fridays at 9am Pacific Standard Time on CJSF 90.1FM. I really enjoyed doing the show in the morning because it gave me some incentive to get out of bed, and the weather and quiet atmosphere of the morning hours are far more suited to the show than the often sunny and cheery afternoons. Fuck afternoons!

This is what I played today:

Paper Jones - David Bowie (I Love You Since I Was Six)
K.C. Accidental - Them (Pop Song #3333)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Little Shadow
Deerhunter - Earthquake
Regina Spektor - Carbon Monoxide
Belle & Sebastian - I Didn't See it Coming
Neil Young - Birds (live)
Gregory and the Hawk - Oly Oly Oxen Free
The Postal Service - Brand New Colony
Trespassers Williams - The Rainbow Connection (Kermit the Frog/Paul Williams cover)
Sun Kil Moon - Alesund

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Thanks for tuning in everyone. Be sure to listen again next week at 9am.

Sad Sack Serenade: December 6th

Happy December radio listeners! This was my last broadcast of Sad Sack Serenade on CJSF 90.1FM for the year, but I will be back in the new year with more unhappy pop tunes on a different day at a different time. Keep checking back to find out when exactly it will be. The rest of December and the first week of January will feature Maddie doing a super rad jumbalaya of sorts, I don't know exactly what he's doing, but he's got good taste. Anyway this is what I played to cap the year off:

Smog - In the Pines
Land of Talk - Color Me Badd
Melaena Cediz - Falling Down
She & Him - Take It Back
Mates of State - Love Letter (Nick Cave cover)
Sparklehorse - Hundreds of Sparrows
The Mountains and the Trees - More & More & More
Patrick Watson - The Great Escape
Tegan & Sara - I Can't Take It
The Watson Twins - Tell Me Why
Oasis - Half the World Away
Mogwai - Cody
Rosie Thomas - All the Way to New York City

Mp3 of the show: 1st half hour/2nd half hour.

Thanks for listening everybody. Try to enjoy the holidays as best as you can. Talk to you again in the new year!

Sad Sack Serenade: November 29th

Hey radio lovers, thanks for being with me today, I really needed you today and you were so gentle and sweet. This is what I played on CJSF 90.1FM:

Cass McCombs - Morning Shadows
Colleen and Paul - Paper Days
The Abbasi Brothers - The Sound of Silence
Gregory and the Hawk - A Century is All We Need
The Caretakers - Blue Skies (song for Afghanistan)
Broken Social Scene - I'm Still Your Fag
Annie Lou - Heavy Heart
Constantines - New King
Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton - Reading in Bed
Brian Eno - Small Craft on a Milk Sea
The Age of Rockets -Pétales Aiment la Saleté
Joshua Radin - Starmile
Blonde Redhead - My Plants Are Dead
Golden Smog - Strangers (Kinks cover)

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Thanks for listening everybody. Tune in again next week... or else!

Sad Sack Serenade: November 22nd

Hello everyone. Today's show was a little rough, but we made up for it by having an awesome guest on the show, a local musician by the name of Riun Garner. That was a totally improvised thing by the way, he just came in with his friend who is a CJSF volunteer and we were like, "let's get him on the show" and so we did and it was wonderful. Congratulations to whoever won the tickets to Rian's show, and I hope you had a good time. It was a pleasure to have him on Sad Sack Serenade on CJSF 90.1FM.

Anyway this is the tracklisting:

Lost in the Trees - Walk Around the Lake
Susan Cogan - Farewell
Death Cab for Cutie - No Joy in Mudville
Riun Garner - Up To and Down
Winter Gloves - Glow in the Dark
Ryan Adams - Starlite Diner
Ray LaMontagne - A Falling Through
Eels - Elizabeth on the Bathroom Floor
Conor Oberst - Breezy
Casey Mecija - Dear Prudence (Beatles cover)
Riun Garner - Cranberry Field
Grizzly Bear - All We Ask
Ra Ra Riot - The Orchard

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Thanks for listening everybody, and thanks to Riun for joining us. Be sure to tune in again next week Monday at 1pm PST.