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Playlist at a I Am Oak

Play some tuned at a I Am Oak concert recently (last saturday). Absolutely great show by the way.

I Am Oak:

 

 

The tracks:

 

De plaatjes:

Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day
Balthazar - Bunker
Cold Specks - A Broken Memory
Allah-Las - Worship the Sun
Steve Gunn - Tommy's Congo
Destroyer - Savage Night At The Opera
Bear's Den - Elysium
Poliça - Vegas
Villagers - Courage
Madagascar - Follow Me
Ryan Adams - Feels Like Fire
Alt-J - Something Good
James - Bitter Virtue
Limblifter - Hotel Knife
Grizzly Bear - Half Gate
Young Statues - Run The River Dry
Majical Cloudz - Turns Turns Turns

- Holden Goldmund -

Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle
Menomena - Pique
Eerie Wanda - I Am Over Here
Ultimate Painting - Kodiak
Julia Holter - Sea Calls Me Home
Landlady - The Globe

- I Am Oak -

Majical Cloudz - Downtown
Fat White Family - Cream of the Young
Ulrika Spacek - Beta Male
TV On The Radio - Careful You
Savages - Surrender
Lower Dens - To Die In L.A.
Szymon - Medusa
Dutch Uncles - I Should Have Read
Matthew E. White - Vision
Widowspeak - Dead Love (So Still)
Ryan Adams - Kim
Josef Salvat - Open Season
Spoon - Do You
Tame Impala - The Moment
Baywaves - Time Is Passing U By
Bon Iver - Calgary
Foals - Black Gold
Poliça - Warrior Lord
Szymon - Katyusha
Yeasayer - Henrietta

Ethan Johns March 6th Tracklist

Still had this in the tank.

Lovely show, with a small crowd unfortunately. But hey everyone enjoyed themselves. Ethan is one of those few true musicians left. By the way, Jordan Klassen ended his tour in the Café of Doornroosje and did a nice job as a starter. There is a bigger future in music for him.

Anyways: the tracks i've played.

YAST - How Many

Sufjan Stevens - Eugene

Steve Gunn - Tommy's Congo

Daughter - Mothers

Balthazar - True Love

Widowspeak - Dead Love (So Still)

Melody's Echo Chamber - I Follow You

Ultimate Painting - Kodiak

                       

- Jordan Klassen

 

Orphan Boy - Coastal Tones

Ryan Adams - Kim

Villagers - Courage

Allah-Las - Worship The Sun

 

 - Ethan Johns

Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day

Grizzly Bear - Half Gate

Ryan Adams - Trouble

The Tallest Man on Earth - Sagres

Julia Holter - Sea Calls Me Home

Fleet Foxes - Montezuma

Ulrika Spacek - Beta Male

Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle

January 2016 Top 20

This year's January chart

 

1. Yeasayer - I Am Chemistry

2. Glass Animals - Cocoa Hooves

3. Christopher Bissonette - Epoche

4. Cherry Coals - Albemarle

5. Metz - Eraser

6. Erdbeerschnitzel - Seyden

7. Cristobal and The Sea - Fish Eye

8. Plaudits - Honest

9. Roo-Panes - Tiger Striped Sky

10. Amber Arcades - Apophne

11. Miccoli - Home
12. Holly Ann - Dead Alive
13. NZCA Lines - Two Hearts
14. Seapony - Where We Go
15. Follow Me Not - At The Moon
16.Prawn - Slopes
17. Gabrielle Papillon - With Our Trouble
18. Family Trees - No One Will Ever Know
19. Giant Peach - Deserted
20. Marching Church - Coming Down

 

full playlist here: January 2016

 

Playlist DJ-set @ Balthazar Show 4-11-2015

So my first job as a small-time dj is done. Last Wednesday I played some records in advance and after the Balthazar-show in Doornroosje, Nijmegen, which was, as usual, a great one to witness.

For those who don't know Balthazar, here's my favorite track from the show

Even though they are a Major band in this part of Europe, I should talk about them a lil' bit more. They are a fascinating band.

I liked the opening act Fossa very much aswell, darker tracks at the end of their half-an-hour really did it for me.

 

On to my playlist to support their show:

Villagers - Courage

Ghost Culture - Glaciers

Heyward Howkins - Forecasting

Eels - Spectacular Girl

Chastity Belt - Cool Slut

Guards - Nightmare

Empires - How Good Does It Feel

The Dandelion - Daddy Long Legs

Menomena - Pique

The National - Wasp's Nest

*** Fossa Show ***

St. Vincent - Apocalypse Song

Elbow - Bones of You

Orphan Boy - Coastal Tones

Kasabian - L.S.F.

Warpaint - Drive

***Balthazar Show***

EL VY - Return To The Moon

Allah-Las - Recurring

Hanni El Khatib - Moonlight

Julia Holter - Sea Calls Me Home

Limblifter - Hotel Knife

David Byrne Ft. St. Vincent - Who

Earth Mk. II - No One Cares For You

Death Cab for Cutie - Summer Skin

Ultimate Painting - Kodiak

Grizzly Bear - Half Gate

The Decemberist - O Valencia!

Lower Dens - To Die In L.A.

James - Bitter Virtue

TV On The Radio - Careful You

The National - Demons

Fat White Family - Cream Of The Young

Blonde Redhead - Barrágan

 

Cheers,

Impala top 10

Us, indie-lovers and alternative freaks, we like to claim a band, especially when you are the first one (in your social network) to discover a band. I am no exception. I am a proud of my long lasting relationship with Tame Impala, which I have on many occasions claimed to be the best band in the world. Five minutes later I said something else, but still...

That's why I started to give life to a new type of post on this blog, top 10s based on themes, bands, flavors and so on.

And what better way to do it, with the band, that finally emerged to a greater audience. And get the creds they rightfully deserve. All thanks to the recently released Currents, which was actually received with mixed opinions.

But what many people are unfamiliar with is their rich and unique heritage from previous years. Still dazzles me I forgot about 'Endors Toi'.

In random order:

 

 

More Dutch Indie I like.

Given it a small update:

Dutch Indie playlist

 

 

Deafheaven is back.

The band that has single-handedly changed the face of metal and gave it a resurrection is back. 

American Deafheaven have recently announced 'New Bermuda' record coming this fall and this is the first material that I've heard from that record. I haven't listened to much Deafheaven since it is music for a specific mood. And that's an understatement. Yet, their music fascinates, inspires and grabs the listener by the balls, like no band in metal can do right now. Some will even claim it is not metal anymore. 

Well, this track is more classic metal than they may have been ever. More than the complete of 'Sunbather' Lp at least. Still, their own identity springs from the music from second one. The tenacity is still there, while many metal-bands in my opinion, are lackluster and uninspiring. Deafheaven is showing again and again, that it doesn't have to be the case. Is the band going to get even further out of the dark depths of music? I think so. 

I gave it a place in the playlist of August: here.

photo from: pitchfork.com

Top 20 July 2015

Had this one still prepared for you. My favourites from July. Simply Said I fell in love with the noise-rock of Lightning Bolt, while most of the other music is really dreamy, must've been my state of mind that caused this playlist to turn out the way it did. Ironically the toughest song lands on number one.

Look into this band if you have tendencies to the extreme, both in stage performance and in how you like your music.

 

photo from: Brooklynvegan.com

1. Lightning Bolt - Colossus

2. Thud - Blank

3. Limblifter - Key of Caravana

4. Lower Dens - To Die in L.A.

5. Hibou - Dissolve

6. Vaghe Stelle - Hyper

7. The Holydrug Couple - Dreamy

8. Hiatus Kaiyote - Breathing Underwater

9. Tame Impala - The Moment

10. Slow Steve - Prince de Combat

11. The Slates - Prelapsarian

12. Silicon - Burning Sugar

13. Menace Beach - Super Transporterreum

14. Au.Ra - You're On My Mind

15. Grave Babies - Eternal (On & On)

16. Beach House - Sparks

17. Eskimeaux - Broken Necks

18. Spectres - Mirror

19. Ben Browning - Friends of Mine

20. Masayoshi Fujita - Tears of Unicorn

Full playlist here.

May 2015 Top 20.

Time for another top 20. Listened to a lot during the month and an artist I can keep recommending is on the number one spot. Barbarossa. And that while he's changed his sound a lot. More floating out there somewhere, different vocal style,  more melancholy perhaps, more electronics for sure. Still love it.

 

All I can say is, the rest of the list is very interesting as well. So check it out.

The List

1. Barbarossa - Imager
2. Nite Fields - Come Down
3. She Past Away - Katarsis
4. Neon Indian - Annie
5. Django Django - Reflection
6. Stranger Cat - In The Wilderness
7. Little Wings - By Now
8. KLangstof - Ignore Me
9. Mittenfields - optimists
10. Kamasi Washington - Re Run Home
11. Destroyer - Dream Lover
12. Herder - Gods
13. Herr Styler - Happiness Was a Light Sleeper
14. Bewilder - Carry On, Carry On
15. Elvis Depressedly - New Alhambra
16. Best Coast - Jealousy
17. Tyonday Braxton - Scout1
18. Wildfront - January
19. MOURN - Otitis
20. BURHOU - Please Delete

Full May Playlist here:

 

 

 

 

 

Powerful Best Kept Secret Line-up & The Best of December

The first part of the Best Kept Secret line-up has been confirmed and it's impressive, again. If you ask me, in the Netherlands, this is where you have to be this summer when it comes to good alternative music. It's completely clear in February. 

And my favorite twenty tracks from December, with a Indie neo-classic by Panda Bear on the first spot. A track that will be remembered for years to come. And I Have become a big fan of Dutch outfit PAUW. Great band.

full playlist here.

1. Panda Bear - Boys Latin
2. Arca - Thievery
3. PAUW - Shambhala
4. Young Statues - Run The River Dry
5. Soft Swells - Floodlights
6. Makthaverskan - Asleep
7. Bass Drum of Death - For Blood
8. Donnerwetter - Ego
9. Ghost Culture - Giudecca
10. The Afghan Whigs - Algiers
11. Roosbeef - Kalf
12. Motorama - Heavy Wave
13. The Hidden Cameras - Doom
14. Swans - Oxygen
15. Los Campesinos! - When Christmas Comes
16. Steve Gunn - Wildwood
17. Rich Aucoin - Yelling in Sleep
18. Deed Sea - Keep it High
19. Oceaan - Candour
20. Cheatahs - Controller

Sigh, the annoying radio on Christmas days....

Yet again, I feel obliged to come with my own christmas playlist. 2014 edition. With a Mark Kozelek cover in there. I promise he is not swearing in it.

Just a bunch of songs that remind me of, sound like or are just about Christmas.

enjoy!

 

The best of October: Top 20

The best from October according to... well... me. So... a lot of new names in there. But still the best is DMA's, absolutely impressed with this band.

Rebecca Clements, Springtime Carnivore, Ex Hex, Eerie Wanda. Exotic Little Month.

Enjoy!

The List:

1. DMA's - Laced
2. Dutch Uncles - In n Out
3. FKA Twigs - Video Girl
4. Fever The Ghost - Source
5. Aurora Aksnes - Awakening
6. Eerie Wanda - Volcano Lagoon
7. The Highest Violet - Sometimes
8. Marika Hackman - Drown
9. Cathedrals - Unbound
10. Iceage - Forever
11. Ajimal - This Human Joy
12. Gap Dream - My Other Man
13. Ex Hex - Waterfall
14. Springtime Carnivore - Name On A Matchbook
15. Montgomery - Pinata
16. Rebecca Clements - Wildlife
17. Snowmine - Tidal Wave
18. Indians - I Am Haunted
19. Tei Shi - See Me
20. Kattison - I Know You're Ready

 

Full Playlist Ears Are For Feeling Playlist October 2014

Enjoy!

Daily Pick #345

D.D Dumbo is an artist so original (he's playing solo, yes solo) that it is hard to compare him to anything else. I'm just getting an Alt-J feel, that's all I can say, which is a positive thing for sure.

He is featured on London Calling within a few weeks.

Speaking of that festival, very, very onfortunate that Phantogram and John Wizards had to be cancelled, luckily the line-up turned up pretty good anyway as you can clearly hear in the updated playlist: London Calling Autumn 2014

 

Playlist Updates (Channel: here) :

Favorites:

Bat for Lashes - Oh Yeah

Burning Hearts - Sea Birds

Coasts - Golden City

Empires - How Good Does It Feel

Liars - Mess on a Mission

D.D Dumbo - Tropical Oceans

Bad Breeding - Age of Nothing

Spoon - Do You

The Amazing Snakeheads - Here It Comes Again

 

And there is now an electronic playlist by Ears Are For Feeling:

Electronica

 

Thanks for the views and subscriptions.

Enjoy!

 

August 2014 Top 20

My 20 favourite Indie tracks I've come across on the web during august.

Enjoy!

Full Playlist here.

Some Aussie Synths on 1. Check out their EP!

 

1.Collarbones - Burnout

2.Dorsal Fins - Monday Tuesday

3.Coves - Beatings

4.Bad Breeding - Age of Nothing

5.The Kevin Costners - Bigger But Better

6.Tom Rosenthal - A Thousand Years

7.Dope Body - Hired Gun

8.Mother Engine - Weltraumwolf

9.Applescal - The Veil

10.Fickle Friends - SWIM

11.Miserable - High

12.Interpol - Ancient Ways

13.Saint Motel - My Type

14.Hookworms - The Impasse

15.PAUW - A Siren

16.Kid Francescoli - Blow Up

17.Racing Glaciers - First Light

18.Jenny Hval - Mephisto is in the Water

19.Outer Rooms - The 80's

20.Fractures - Embers

A playlist for the upcoming edition of London Calling

Here you go. 

More names to be announced, more playlists on the right.

Thanks for the views and subscriptions.

 

 

and more updates ofcourse:

Favorites:
Shura - Touch

September:
The Ukiah Drag - Dirt Trip

From the Past:
Sebadoh - Got It

July Top 20 & Playlist

I still owed you guys EAFF's best of july.

(Also I started on a London Calling (Amsterdam) playlist for the coming edition.)

So here they are.

Allah Las has impressed with the liveliness of their instrumental songs and how well they mix with their song that do include vocals. No Werewolf takes you back to the 60ies vibe even more than the material of the previous album. It's hard not to imagine a Western-setting when listening to this. Amazing track.

And I believe a premier for this blog to have a song with no vocals on the top spot.

Enjoy, keep subscribing and using the playlists! thanks!

Playlist July: July 2014

1. Allah Las - No Werewolf

2. Younghusband - Dromes

3. Niagara - Fat Kaoss

4. Jungle - Time (Lxury remix)

5. FKA Twigs - Pendulum

6. Beginners - I Need to Sleep

7. Pin Tweaks - Girl On The Wire

8. John Wizards - Muizenberg

9. James - Frozen Britain

10. Dream Bear - Sunset Eyes

11. Generationals - Gold Silver Diamond

12. Reigning Sound - Never Coming Home

13. S - Vampires

14. Monomyth - Vanderwaalskrachten

15. Blood Orange - Time Will Tell

16. Alt-J - Hunger of the Pine

17. Wampire - Wizard Staff

18. Spoon - Do You

19. Jim E-stack - Wake

20. Speedy Ortiz - American Horror

A playlist for this week: Lowlands 2014.

While I do not agree with the course this festival is taking, I have made a playlist with my recommendations for this weekend's edition. 15 of 'em!

Enjoy!

Like to see a thematic, collective or other festival playlist with my recommendations? let me know!

 

And ofcourse more playlist updates(Youtube/Soundcloud):

Favorites
Eagulls - Nerve Endings
The Acid - Animal
Black Lips - Funny
SOHN - Artifice

August
Tom Rosenthal - A Thousand Years
Kate Boy - Self Control
Born Gold - I Want To Be Naked
Merchandise - Green Lady

July
Wampire - Wizard Staff
Reigning Sound - Never Coming Home.

Live
Perfect Pussy - Interference Fits (Live @ Pitchfork Music Festival 2014)

Electronica
Lukid - My Teeth In Your Neck

Soundcloud Augus
Jonwayne - Echoes
Salt Cathedral - Good Winds

June Top 20

Skaters. Great Show on VF14 a while ago and this song was on constantly all of last month. Also: Rats on Rafts, Earth Mk. II, New Navy and Esben and the Witch are back and I'm very happy that they are.

Everything can be found in one playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv4PtUv7fStDdUKumESHclGdtWbhYTNjK

1. Skaters - Band Breaker
2. TOPS - Sleeptalker
3. James Holden - Renata
4. Alex G. - Black Hair
5. Rats on Rafts - Powder MOnkey
6. Landlady - The Globe
7. Luke Abbott - Free Migration
8. Ønskeøen - Baby Cigarettes
9. Pegase - Out of Range
10. L. Pierre - Doctor Alucard
11. The Acid - Basic Instinct
12. Earth Mk. II - Settle Down
13. Grimes Ft. Blood Diamonds - Go
14. Achterdochtig - Velperplein
15. American Football - Never Meant
16. New Navy - Heaven
17. Jack White - High Step Baller
18. Karawane - Wonder
19. Esben and the Witch - No Dog
20. Kassassin Street - The Royal Handkerchief Ballet

Enjoy!

May 2014 Top 20

At the end of a week in which Robin Thicke's album sold only 580 copies, I'd like to celebrate with some good music, a chart, the twenty best out of May.

Best one: Tijuana Panthers with Cherry Street, Raw song with a crazy video, enjoy!

1. Tijuana Panthers - Cherry Street
2. Kishi Bashi - Philosophize in it! Chemicalize with it!
3. Mike Sempter - Finest Line
4. Sylvan Esso - Coffee
5. Peace - World Pleasure
6. Thumpers - Unkinder (Tougher Love)
7. Always - Archie, Marry Me
8. Yumi Zouma - The Brae
9.September Girls - Sister
10. Valentina - Wolves
11. Royal Blood - Little Monster
12. Beginners - This Is Where I Got Off
13. Childhood - Haltija
14. How to Dress Well - Words I Don't Remember
15. Jaakko Eino Kalevi - Uu Uu Uu
16. Parquet Courts - Black and White
17. Matthew and the Atlas - Pale Sun Rose
18. Phobonoid - Deimos
19. White Lung - Face Down
20. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - What You Isn't

All in a playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv4PtUv7fStAMUN-AmitY0ap-DHBUWBCg

 

The best of April 2014: Top 20.

Best band/track of the month: Only one serious contender if you ask me: Eagulls. Their single Tough Luck shows what the band is all about. Rough but Smooth melodic Punk with honestly no real comparison at the moment. Be sure to check out their LP.

 

All tracks are found in the April 2014 playlist on the Youtube channel.

Here's the list:

1. Eagulls – Tough Luck

2. Big Black Delta – Love You This Summer

3.Real Estate – Talking Backwards

4. Protomartyr – Come and See

5. Sisters – Hush Hush

6. Villa Zeno – Self-Made Woman

7. SOHN – Artifice

8. Amatorski – Hudson

9. Radar men from the Moon – Surrealist Appearance

10. Jamie XX - Girl

11. Black Atlass – Blossom

12. Guards – Heard The News

13. Roosevelt – Montreal

14. Jessy Lanza – Keep Moving

15. Luluc – Without a Face

16. Teleman – Lady Low

17. The Horrors – Still Life (Connan Mockasin Remix)

18. Mevrouw Tamara – Maar Nu

19. Okapi Sun – Johnny Kis

20. Cosmin TRG - Panoramic