Music Videos of the Week

Flight of the Conchords - Bowie from their album Flight of the Conchords

Caribou - Melody Day from the album Andorra


Apples in Stereo - Energy from the album New Magnetic Wonder


The Deathray Davies - Clock In Now from the album The Kick and The Snare


And the classic video of the week....

Smoking Popes - Ruebella from the album Born to Quit

Music Videos of the Week

Shy Child - Drop The Phone from the album Noise Won't Stop


Holy Fuck - Lovely Allen from the album LP


Boris - Statement from the album Smile


Femme Fatality - Pretty Mess from the album One's Not Enough


And the Classic Video of the Week [in honor of Earth Week]...

Grandaddy - Nature Anthem from the album Below The Radio

Music Videos of the Week!

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Think I Wanna Die from the album Pershing


Bon Iver (pronounced Bohn Eevair) - Wolves Act I & II from the album For Emma, Forever Ago


Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Possess Your Heart from the album Narrow Stairs


Bad Dudes - Eat Drugs from the album Eat Drugs


And the Classic Video of the week is...

Wilco - Box Full Of Letters from the album AM

Music Videos of the Week! (we are so behind!)

The popular, yet increasingly predictable music blog pitchforkmedia.com has launched a new addition to their music coverage with Pitchfork.tv. It was launched on April 7, 2008 and features documentaries, live concerts, music videos, and more! This week we will borrow some of the footage to give you a taste of what Pitchfork.tv is all about. If only MTV was this good.....ever!

The Thermals live on a rooftop...


And now back to our regular programming...

Cut Copy - Lights and Music from their album In Ghost Colours


M83 - Graveyeard Girl from the album Saturdays = Youth


The Death Set - Negative Thinking from the album Worldwide


The Ruby Suns - Tane Mahuta from the album Sea Lion


And the classic video of the week...

Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot from the album Daydream Nation

Music Videos of the Week

Foals - Cassius from the album Antidotes


Morrissey - That's How People Grow Up from the album Greatest Hits


Fuck Buttons - After Tomorrow from the album Street Horrrsing


Justice - DVNO from the album †


...and the Classic Video of the week....

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey from the album Psychocandy

KXZY CMJ TOP 200/LOUD ROCK CHARTS FOR THE WEEK OF March 25, 2008

Top 30....

1 DODOS Visiter Frenchkiss
2 RUBY SUNS Sea Lion SUB POP
3 WHY? Alopecia Anticon
4 HEADLIGHTS Some Racing, Some Stopping Polyvinyl
5 STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS Real Emotional Trash Matador
6 HIBERNAUTS Periodic Fable Self-Released
7 THESE NEW PURITANS Beat Pyramid Domino
8 BILLY BRAGG Mr. Love And Justice Anti
9 JUSTICE OF THE UNICORNS Angels With Uzis Little Lamb
10 STATE BIRD Mostly Ghostly Record Machine
11 FUCK BUTTONS Street Horrrsing ATP
12 JEFFREY LEWIS 12 Crass Songs Rough Trade
13 ELF POWER In A Cave Rykodisc
14 GHOSTLAND OBSERVATORY Robotique Majestique Trashy Moped
15 VALET Naked Acid Kranky
16 GRAND ARCHIVES Grand Archives SUB POP
17 EVANGELICALS Evening Descends Dead Oceans
18 FLEET FOXES Sun Giant [EP] SUB POP
19 DESTROYER Trouble In Dreams Merge
20 CRYSTAL CASTLES Crystal Castles Last Gang
21 UNWED SAILOR Little Wars Burnt Toast Vinyl
22 DUKE SPIRIT Neptune SHANGRI-LA
23 JON HARDY AND THE PUBLIC Working In Love Self-Released
24 KID DAKOTA A Winner's Shadow Graveface-Speakerphone
25 BLACK MOUNTAIN In The Future Jagjaguwar
26 MIA DOI TODD Gea CITY ZEN
27 MOSTLY BEARS The Ed Mitchell Clinic Funzalo
28 HELIO SEQUENCE Keep Your Eyes Ahead SUB POP
29 BORN RUFFIANS Red, Yellow And Blue Warp
30 MOUNTAIN GOATS Heretic Pride 4AD

Top 5 adds....

1 CLOUD CULT Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes) Earthology
2 MAN MAN Rabbit Habits Anti
3 LEMURIA Get Better art of the underground
4 TALL FIRS Too Old To Die Young Ecstatic Peace
5 PETER MOREN The Last Tycoon Touch And Go-Quarterstick

Music Videos of the Week!

Why? - Song of the Sad Assassin from their album Alopecia


The Dodos - Fools from their album Visitor


Black Mountain - Angels from their album In the Future


HEALTH - Heaven from their album HEALTH


....and the classic video of the week:

Talk Talk - It's My Life from the album It's My Life

Radical Face

Why? - Alopecia Review written by Naked Radio host Colin Miller

Band creates accessible music for a diverse audience

By Colin Miller
Guest Reviewer

Why should you care about Why? My initial response to this would be that listening to its new record could change your life drastically, but that would be a gross understatement.Why? has all the pop-playability of the most popular songs on the radio.When it comes to lyrics, “Alopecia” has far more emotionally penetrating verses than whatever fill-in-the-blank-slowdance-song people will play at their weddings.

With lyrics more intelligent and more poetic than almost anything you’ll hear put to music, Why? creates amazingly original music.Why? appeals to common experiences as if they were pop culture references: the reference is universal yet infiltrates into deeply personal experiences.This talented group has the equal capacity to shape the sound of any band still making music, to be played at your party this Friday and to be the study of any professor from the English or philosophy department.

Yoni Wolf, his brother Josiah, and Doug McDiarmid make up the talented Why? trio. “Yoni writes and sings mainly, but he’s also known to dance, play any instrument he can get his hands on (piano, keyboard, guitar, bass, drums, harmonica), sample and occasionally beat his chest like a gorilla,” according to http://www.anticon.com. “Doug (or “Death Metal Doug,” as the others prefer) is the utility man, maneuvering such heavy machinery as pianos, guitars, samplers and turntables,” according to the Web site. “Josiah plays drums, teaches drums to little kids, eats drums for breakfast and sleeps drums at night. Driven by brotherly competition, he also plays anything that Yoni plays.”

Yoni Wolf started the band as a solo effort named after his alias from group recordings in Greenthink and Clouddead. Wolf went on to start a label, Anticon, with fellow Clouddead member, Tim “Sole” Holland and a few other musicians. The members of Anticon have not won a spot on American Idol for a chance to record music. Instead, they started recording music on their own and pay their own paychecks now.

Wolf has been performing and recording for a decade, any fame or notoriety that he has gained over the years is because of personal ingenuity and ability. It doesn’t hurt that he surrounded himself with other highly talented and influential musicians. Why? has shared the stage with such notable acts as Yo la Tengo, The Islands and Fog.

“Alopecia” offers everything listed above in the way of intriguing lyrics, romantic notions, abstract narratives and creative music, but the standout feature of this album is the continuation of the popification of Wolf’s sound which started sometime after his first solo EP. Accessibility to the average listener made a huge leap from 2003’s “Oaklandazulasylum” and ’05’s “Elephant Eyelash” and with “Alopecia” Why? has taken this trend further.

Although many critics would instantly say an artist is selling out to the public’s will, this isn’t the case. A close listen to Why?’s work over the years uncovers musical and lyrical themes and motifs similar to those on “Alopecia.” The album sports a new rhythm and meter to the lyrics than is typical of Why?’s previous releases. “The Hollows,” the album’s first single, is a perfect example. The tracks “Good Friday” and “By Torpedo or Crohn’s” showcase Wolf’s penchant for rapping, where tracks like “Fatalist Palmistry” show a complete competence for creating upbeat pop nuggets. Also, “These Few Presidents” flexes Why?’s metaphor morphing muscles in ways that would make Wolf’s high school English teacher cry tears of joy.

Visit Why?’s Web site http://www.myspace.com/whyanticon.

Alopecia is the technical term for hair loss, according to http://www.dictionary.com.

The members of the band are not bald, so I do not know why they choose to give the album this title.

The verdict:

My best explanation is that the album deals with the intricacies and stresses of everyday life, leading to an outcome such as “Alopecia.” Miss it? Why?

KXZY CMJ Charts for March 4, 2008

Top 30...

1 HELIO SEQUENCE Keep Your Eyes Ahead SUB POP
2 HEADLIGHTS Some Racing, Some Stopping Polyvinyl
3 GHOSTLAND OBSERVATORY Robotique Majestique Trashy Moped
4 HIBERNAUTS Periodic Fable Self-Released
5 JUSTICE OF THE UNICORNS Angels With Uzis Little Lamb
6 EVANGELICALS Evening Descends Dead Oceans
7 BALMORHEA Rivers Arms Western Vinyl
8 BORN RUFFIANS Red, Yellow And Blue Warp
9 THE YMD Excuse Me, This Is The Yah Mos Def My Pal God
10 YESAN DAMEN Chronos/Kairos New Wine
11 BON IVER For Emma, Forever Ago Jagjaguwar
12 GRAND ARCHIVES Grand Archives SUB POP
13 LA SCALA The Harlequin [EP] Highwheel
14 MOUNTAIN GOATS Heretic Pride 4AD
15 PAPER AIRPLANE Middlemarch All Hail
16 BILLIONAIRES Really Real For Forever Too Soon
17 DUKE SPIRIT Neptune SHANGRI-LA
18 BATTLE ROYALE Wake Up, Thunderbabe Afternoon
19 CADENCE WEAPON Afterparty Babies Anti
20 BLACK MOUNTAIN In The Future Jagjaguwar
21 FLOWERS FOREVER Flowers Forever Team Love
22 HELLO, BLUE ROSES The Portrait Is Finished And I Have Failed To Capture Your Beauty... Locust-Locust Music
23 AIR TRAFFIC Fractured Life Astralwerks
24 JON HARDY AND THE PUBLIC Working In Love Self-Released
25 TYLER RAMSEY A Long Dream About Swimming Across The Sea Echo Mountain
26 LACH The Calm Before Fortified
27 KELLEY STOLTZ Circular Sounds SUB POP
28 BRITISH SEA POWER Do You Like Rock Music? Rough Trade
29 IDA Lovers Prayers Polyvinyl
30 XIU XIU Women As Lovers Kill Rock Stars

Top 5 Adds to our rotation....

1 WHY? Alopecia Anticon
2 RUBY SUNS Sea Lion SUB POP
3 ELF POWER In A Cave Rykodisc
4 DODOS Visiter Frenchkiss
5 VALET Naked Acid Kranky

Loud Rock Top 10...

1 WINDS OF PLAGUE Decimate The Weak Century Media
2 HATE ETERNAL Fury And Flames Metal Blade
3 BYZANTINE Oblivion Beckons Prosthetic
4 SWORN ENEMY Maniacal Century Media
5 DEAD TO FALL Are You Serious? Victory
6 KINGDOM OF SORROW Kingdom Of Sorrow Relapse
7 DEATH ANGEL Killing Season Nuclear Blast
8 GENGHIS TRON Board Up The House Relapse
9 BRAIN DRILL Apocalyptic Feasting Metal Blade
10 CAVALERA CONSPIRACY Inflikted Roadrunner

Loud Rock Top Adds....

1 MESHUGGAH ObZen Nuclear Blast
2 NEAERA Armamentarium Metal Blade