station to station: Artist Spotlight

A look at artists' history and discography with essential and recommended material:

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Beck: Turns 40

Big Star: September Gurls & #1 Records

Bob Mould: See A Little Light...Bob Mould's Solo (Poison) Years

The Charlatans U.K.: This Could Be A Myth In The Making

The Doors: Speaking Secret Alphabets

Jane's Addiction: Camera Got Them Images

Howard Jones: Cheese Or Genius?

Nick Drake: Saturday Suns, Poor Boys and Pink Moons
Pearl Jam: It's Evolution, Baby

R.E.M.: All You Hear Is Time Stand Still In Travel
Sonic Youth: Tuff Gnarls And Total Trash

The Stone Roses: The Resurrection and the Second Coming

Van Halen: Hit The Ground Running

Weezer: ...And I Ain't Fakin'

The White Stripes: 300 People Living Out In West Virginia

Upcoming Concerts In Eastern Midwest

Indianapolis:
2-18-12 Heartless Bastards @ Radio Radio
2-19-12 Charles Bradley @ Bluebird Nightclub (Bloomington)
2-23-12 Dropkick Murphys @ Egyptian Room
2-24-12 The Crystal Method @ The Vogue
2-27-12 Tennis @ Radio Radio
3-7-12 Rich Robinson @ Radio Radio
3-8-12 Maps & Atlases @ The Bishop (Bloomington)
3-9-12 The Head And The Heart @ The Vogue
3-14-12 Dr. Dog @ Deluxe
3-16-12 The Black Keys w/Arctic Monkeys @ Bankers Life Fieldhouse
3-22-12 The Joy Formidable @ Bluebird Nightclub (Bloomington)
3-24-12 Delta Spirit @ Radio Radio
3-27-12 We Were Promised Jetpacks @ Bluebird Nightclub (Bloomington)
3-29-12 Bear In Heaven @ The Bishop (Bloomington)
4-1-12 Sharon Van Etten w/The War On Drugs @ Rhino's All Ages Music Club (Bloomington)
4-2-12 Youth Lagoon w/Porcelain Raft @ Radio Radio
4-4-12 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds @ Egyptian Room
4-5-12 Neon Indian @ The Bishop (Bloomington)
4-16-12 Portugal.The Man @ The Vogue
4-21-12 Cults @ Rhino's All Ages Music Club (Bloomington)

Pittsburgh:
2-14-12 Trey Anastasio @ Heinz Hall For The Performing Arts
2-19-12 Heartless Bastards @ Club Cafe
2-24-12 Charles Bradley @ Rex Theater
3-1-12 Dr. Dog @ Mr. Small's Theatre
3-9-12 Reverend Horton Heat @ The Altar Bar
3-20-12 Grimes @ Brillobox
3-25-12 Fanfarlo @ Mr. Small's Theatre
3-28-12 Bear In Heaven @ Andy Warhol Museum
3-28-12 Cursive w/Cymbals Eat Guitars @ Mr. Small's Theatre
4-3-12 Cloud Nothings @ Brillobox

Columbus:
2-9-12 Craig Finn @ The Basement
2-6-12 Heartless Bastards @ The Basement
2-14-12 Sharon Van Etten w/Shearwater @ Wexner Center For the Arts
2-16-12 Heartless Bastards @ The Basement
2-22-12 Charles Bradley @ Skully's Music Diner
2-25-12 Jane's Addiction @ Lifestyles Communities Pavilion
2-25-12 Young The Giant @ Newport Music Hall
3-4-12 The Black Keys w/Arctic Monkeys @ Schottenstein Center
3-6-12 The Lemonheads @ The Basement
3-10-12 The Head And The Heart @ Newport Music Hall
3-16-12 Reverend Horton Heat @ Newport Music Hall
3-20-12 Andrew Bird @ Southern Theatre
3-27-12 Fanfarlo @ Skully's Music Diner
3-29-12 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds @ Lifestyles Communities Pavilion
3-30-12 Bear In Heaven @ The Basement
3-31-12 Margot & The Nuclear So and So's @ Lifestyles Communities Pavilion
4-7-12 Cloud Nothings @ Outland Live
4-7-12 Shabazz Palaces @ Horn Gallery (Gambier)
4-12-12 Blue October @ Newport Music Hall
4-25-12 Portugal.The Man @ Newport Music Hall
4-29-12 We Were Promised Jetpacks @ Outland Live
4-30-12 Real Estate @ Newport Music Hall
5-8-12 St. Vincent @ Newport Music Hall
5-11-12 Justin Townes Earle @ The Bluestone

Chicago:
2-14-12 Cate Le Bon @ Schubas Tavern
2-14-12 Heartless Bastards @ Lincoln Hall
2-16-12 Sharon Van Etten w/Shearwater @ Lincoln Hall
2-17-12 Sharon Van Etten w/Shearwater @ Lincoln Hall
2-17-12 The Jayhawks @ Vic Theatre
2-18-12 Charles Bradley @ Metro/Smart Bar
2-18-12 Dr. Dog @ Vic Theatre
2-18-12 Flogging Molly @ Aragon Ballroom
2-21-12 Zola Jesus @ Lincoln Hall
2-23-12 Young The Giant @ Riviera Theatre
2-26-12 Tennis @ Lincoln Hall
3-1-12 Islands @ Lincoln Hall
3-2-12 The Twilight Sad @ Empty Bottle
3-3-12 Reverend Horton Heat @ Metro/Smart Bar
3-7-12 The Head And The Heart @ Vic Theatre
3-8-12 The Head And The Heart @ Vic Theatre
3-9-12 Gomez @ Vic Theatre
3-9-12 Rich Robinson @ Schubas Tavern
3-10-12 EMA @ Lincoln Hall
3-14-12 Grimes @ Empty Bottle
3-17-12 G. Love & Special Sauce @ Metro/Smart Bar
3-19-12 The Black Keys w/Arctic Monkeys @ United Center
3-22-12 Prince Rama w/Psychic Ills @ The Hideout
3-23-12 Delta Spirit @ Metro/Smart Bar
3-23-12 We Were Promised Jetpacks @ Bottom Lounge
3-25-12 Cursive w/Cymbals Eat Guitars @ Lincoln Hall
3-26-12 The Magnetic Fields @ Vic Theatre
3-27-12 The Magnetic Fields @ Vic Theatre
3-28-12 Fanfarlo @ Lincoln Hall
3-28-12 Of Montreal @ Metro/Smart Bar
3-29-12 Bowerbirds @ Lincoln Hall
3-30-12 Chairlift @ Empty Bottle

Cincinnati:
2-17-12 Heartless Bastards @ Madison Theater
2-19-12 Dr. Dog @ 20th Century Theatre
2-24-12 Young The Giant @ Madison Theater (Covington)
3-2-12 The Black Keys w/The Arctic Monkeys @ U.S. Bank Arena
3-17-12 Reverend Horton Heat @ 20th Century Theatre
3-21-12 Reverend Horton Heat @ McGuffy's (Dayton)
3-22-12 Cloud Nothings @ Motr Pub
3-23-12 The Joy Formidable @ 20th Century Theatre
3-31-12 Bear In Heaven @ Motr Pub
4-4-12 Snow Patrol @ Bogart's
4-13-12 Blue October @ Bogart's

Louisville:
2-9-12 Drive-By Truckers @ Headliners Music Hall
2-13-12 Heartless Bastards @ Headliners Music Hall
2-14-12 Supersuckers @ Phoenix Hill Tavern
2-21-12 Charles Bradley @ Headliners Music Hall
3-2-12 Dr. Dog @ Headliners Music Hall
3-5-12 The Lemonheads @ Headliners Music Hall
3-6-12 The Head And The Heart @ Headliners Music Hall
3-8-12 Reverend Horton Heat @ Headliners Music Hall
3-21-12 Cloud Nothings @ Zanzabar
3-22-12 Fanfarlo @ Zanzabar
3-28-12 We Were Promised Jetpacks @ Headliners Music Hall
4-13-12 Death Cab For Cutie w/Low @ The Louisville Palace Theatre
4-20-12 Bear In Heaven @ Zanzabar
6-7-12 Red Hot Chili Peppers @ KFC Yum! Center
7-14-12 My Morning Jacket @ Louisville Waterfront Park

Detroit:
2-8-12 Craig Finn @ PJ's Lager House
2-10-12 The Darkness @ St. Andrews Hall
2-12-12 Charles Bradley @ The Magic Bag (Ferndale)
2-17-12 Flogging Molly @ The Fillmore Detroit
2-24-12 Jane's Addiction @ The Fillmore Detroit
2-28-12 Young The Giant @ The Majestic
3-3-12 The Black Keys w/Arctic Monkeys @ Joe Louis Arena
3-10-12 Reverend Horton Heat @ Magic Stick
3-11-12 The Head And The Heart @ Crofoot Ballroom (Pontiac)
3-23-12 Fanfarlo @ Blind Pig (Ann Arbor)
3-27-12 Cursive w/Cymbals Eat Guitars @ Blind Pig (Ann Arbor)
3-31-12 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds @ Royal Oak Music Theatre (Royal Oak)

More Concert Listings:
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Upcoming Album Releases

February 6th
Fly Moon Royalty – Fly Moon Royalty [Sportn' Life Records]
Lindstrøm – Six Cups of Rebel [Smalltown Supersound]
Pet Shop Boys – Alternative [UK Release] [Paralophone]

February 7th
A Place To Bury Strangers – Onwards To The Wall [EP] [Dead Oceans]
Air – Le Voyage Dans La Lune [Astralwerks]
Asleep - Unpleasant Companion [Self-Release]
Bahamas – Barchords [Bushfire Records]
Ben Kweller – Go Fly a Kite [The Noise Company]
Big Sir – Before Gardens After Gardens [Rodrigo Lopez Productions/Sargent House]
Blondes – Blondes [RVNG Intl.]
Die Antwoord – TEN$ION [ZEF Records]
Dierks Bentley – Home [Capitol Nashville]
Dr. Dog – Be The Void [ANTI- Records]
EMA – Past Life Martyred Saints [Deluxe Edition] [iTunes]
Francis Harris – Leland [Scissor & Thread]
The Fray – Scars and Stories [Epic Records]
Fucked Up – “Year of the Tiger” [12"] [Matador Records]
Goldfrapp - The Singles [Astralwerks]
The Lemonheads – Hotel Sessions [Hall of Records/Breath of Saltwater]
Mark Lanegan Band – Blues Funeral [4AD]
Mux Mool – Planet High School [Ghostly International]
of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks [Polyvinyl]
Paul McCartney – Kisses on the Bottom [Hear Music/Concor]
Pretty Good Dance Moves – LIMO [Mad Dragon/Township Records]
Red Hot Rebellion – Red Hot Rebellion [Self-Release]
Rococode – Guns, Sex and Glory [Head in the Sand Records]
Royal Baths – Better Luck Next Life [Kanine Records]
Scott Matthew - Gallantry’s Favorite Son [Digital Release] [Self-Release]
Sharon Van Etten – Tramp [Jagjaguwar]
Silver Swans – Forever [Self-Release]
Sunshone Still – ThewaytheworldDies [Potato Eater Records]
The Twilight Sad – No One Can Never Know [FatCat Records]
Wire – The Black Session – Paris 10 May 2011 [Pink Flag]

February 13th
Windy & Carl – We Will Always Be [Kranky]

February 14th
Amoral – Beneath [The End Records]
Amos Lee – As the Crow Flies [EP] [Blue Note]
Anvil - Pound For Pound [Reissue] [The End Records]\
Anvil - Strength of Steel [Reissue] [The End Records]
Anvil – Worth The Weight [Reissue] [The End Records]
Anya Marina – Felony Flats [Copy Shop/Atlantic Records]
Barry Adamson - I Will Set You Free [Central Control]
Beth Jeans Houghton - Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose [U.S. Release] [Mute Records]
Busdriver - Beaus$Eros [Fake Four, INC.]
The Caretaker – Patience (After Sebald) [History Always Favours the Winners]
The Cranberries – Roses [Downtown Records/Cooking Vinyl]
The Devastated - Devil’s Messenger [Century Media]
Earth – Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II [Southern Lord]
F. Strokes – Love, Always [EP] [Potholes Music]
Field Music – Plumb [Memphis Industries]
Heartless Bastards – Arrow [Partisan Records]
Howlin Rain - Russian Wilds [American Recordings]
Isidore – Life Somewhere Else [Communicating Vessels]
Islands - A Sleep & A Forgetting [ANTI - Records]
Lake Forest – Silver Skies [Verite Records]
Mike Acerbo – The Search [Self-Release]
The Minutes – The Minutes [EP] [Citzen Records]
Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded [Young Money/Cash Money/Universal]
Oy Vey – Recession Girls [Self-Release]
The Phantom Family Halo – When I Fall Out [Knitting Factory Records]
The Phenomenal Handclap Band – Form & Control [Tummy Touch Records]
Poliça – Give You The Ghost [Self-Release]
Rosie Thomas – With Love [Sing-A-Long Records]
Shearwater – Animal Joy [Sub Pop]
Sick Friend – The Draft Dodger [Self-Release]
Tennis – Young and Old [Fat Possum]
Tonight Alive – What Are You So Scared Of? [Fearless]
Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters – Underrated Silence [Bureau B]
Various Artists - Kitsuné Parisien II [Kitsuné]
Young Magic – Melt [Carpark Records]

February 21st
Archers of Loaf – VeeVee [Reissue] [Merge]
Avan Lava – Flex Fantasy [EP] [Self-Release]
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – “Time To Be Clear” [7"] [Drag City] The Chieftains - Voice of Age [Hear/Concorde]
Cheap Girls – Giant Orange [Rise Records]
Christopher Paul Stelling – Songs of Praise & Scorn [Mecca Lecca Recording Co.]ki
Cursive - I Am Gemini [Saddle Creek]
Damian Jurado - Maraqopa [Secretly Canadian]
Dirty Ghosts – Metal Moon [Last Gang Records]
Dot Hacker – Dot Hacker [EP] [ORG Music]
Ducky – The Whether [EP] [Self-Release]
Eddie Hazel – Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs[Reissue] [Real Gone]
Fatal Lucciauno – Respect [Sportn' Life Records]
Frankie Rose – Interstellar [Slumberland/Memphis Industries]
fun. - Some Nights [Atlantic Records]
James Vincent McMorrow – We Don’t Eat [EP] [Digital Release]
Jim O’Rourke – Old News No. 7 [Editions Mego]
Jonquil – Point of Go [Dovecote Records]
Galactic – Carnivale Electricos [ANTI- Records]
Grimes - Visions [4AD]
Lambchop – Mr. M [Merge/City Slang]
McGough & McGear – McGough & McGear [Reissue] [Real Gone]
Mezingers – On the Impossible Past [Epitaph]
My Best Fiend – Ghostlike Fading [Warp]
Perfume Genius – Put Your Back N 2 It [Matador Records]
Pontiac – Echo Ono [Thrill Jockey]
Porcelain Raft – “Unless You Speak From Your Heart”/”Something in Between” [7"] [Secretly Canadian]
Princeton - Remembrance of Things To Come [Hit City U.S.A./Easter Everywhere]
The Red Bird Girls – Very First Time in True Stereo[Real Gone]
Royale Canoe – Extended Play [EP] [Nettwerk]
RxGibbs – Future [EP] [Cascine]
Sara Randle – Same Sun Shines [Self-Release]
SBTRKT – “Wildfire” [12"] [XL]
The Sidekicks – Awkward Breeds [Red Scare]
Sinead O’Connor - How About I Be Me (And You Be You)? [MRI]
Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror [Mom+Pop Music]
The Strumbellas – My Father and the Hunter [Fontana North]
T.S. Bonniwell – Close [Reissue] [Real Gone]
Terry Malts – Killing Time [Slumberland]
Tindersticks – The Something Rain [Constellations]
Various Artists – Time To Go – The Southern Psychedelic Movement: 1981-1986 [Flying Nun]
Yalls – Fantasy [7"] [Gold Robot]
Young Liars – Homesick Future [EP] [Nettwerk Records]
War – “At War For Youth” [7] [Sacred Bones]
Wild Nothing – “Nothing” [7"] [Captured Tracks]
Zola Jesus – “In Your Nature” [7"] [Sacred Bones]

February 28th
Adam Vogelzang – Canary in a Coal Mine [Paper Anchor Music]
Alex Winston – King Con [V2/Cooperative Music]
Anaïs Mitchell – Young Man in America [Winterland Records/Thirty Tigers]
Andre Williams – Hoods and Shades [Bloodshot Records]
Auditorium – Nights Worth Living [EP] [Self-Release]
Ava Luna – Ice Level [Infinite Best]
Carolina Chocolate Drops – Leaving Eden [Nonesuch]
Chiddy Bang – Breakfast [U.S. Release] [EMI]
Dirty Three – Toward the Low Sun [Drag City]
Elliott Brood – Days Into Years [Paper Bag Records]
England In 1819 – Alma [Self-Release]
Erin Passmore – Downtown [EP] [Hidden Pony]
Estelle – All of Me [HomeSchool/Atlantic]
Eux Autres - Sun Is Sink [EP] [Self-Release]
Fanfarlo – Rooms Filled With Light[Canvasback Music/Atlantic Records]
Francis Harris – Leland [Scissor & Thread]
Gabriel and the Hounds – Kiss Full of Teeth [Ernest Jenning Co.]
Geographer – Myth [Modern Art Records]
Hank Thompson - Songs for Rounder [Reissue] [Real Gone]
House of Blondes – Clean Cuts [Glowmatic]
Hunk [of Hunx and His Punk] – Too Young to Be in Love [Hardly Art]
Jim Jarmusch and Jozef van Wissem – Concerning the Entrance Into Eternity [Important Records]
The Johnny III Band - Ask All The Doctors [Physical] [Urinal Cake]
Julia Nunes – Settle Down [Self-Release]
Juveniles – Ambitions [Kitsuné]
La Sera – Sees The Light [Hardly Art]
Loreena McKennitt – Troubadours on the Rhine[Quinlan Road]
Lyle Lovett – Release Me [Curb/Universal Music]
Mark Lindsay – The Complete Columbia Singles [Real Gone]
Masaki Batoh [of Ghost] – Brain Pulse Music [Drag City]
Memoryhouse – The Slideshow Effect [Sub Pop]
Moonlight – Twin Lakes [EP] [Self-Release]
Mouse On Mars – Parastrophics [Monkeytown]
Nneka - Soul Is Heavy [Yo Mama's Recordings/Decon]
Pink Floyd – The Wall ['Experience' Reissue] [EMI]
Pink Floyd – The Wall ['Immersion' Reissue] [EMI]
Planet Asia – Black Belt Theatre [Gold Chain/Wandering Worx/Greenstreets]
Plants and Animals – The End Of That [Secret City]
Robert Glasper Experiment – Black Radio [Blue Note/EMI]
Rick Nelson – The Complete Epic Recordings [Real Gone]
Rose Cousins – We Have Made a Spark [Outside Music]
Rotary Club – Second Year In Swine [Woodside Records]
School of Seven Bells – Ghostory [Vagrant/Ghostly International]
Soft Swells – Soft Swells [Modern Outsider]
St. Lucia – We Get It Wrong [Neon Gold/Columbia]
Sunstorm – Emotional Fire [Frontiers Records]
Suzanne Ciani – Lixiviation [B-Music/Finders Keepers]
Tiny Victories – Those Of Us Still Alive [EP] [BirdDog]
TOPS – Tender Opposites [Arbutus]
Trust – TRST [Arts&Crafts]
Water Liars – Phantom Lab [Misra Records]
We Have Band – Tension [Naïve Records]
X-Ray Eyeballs – Splendor Squalor [Kanine]

March 6th
Allo Darlin’ – “Carolina” [7"] [Slumberland]
Andrew Bird – Break It Yourself [Mom+Pop Music]
Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works Volume II [Vinyl Reissue] [1972]
backwords – By The Neck [Campers' Rule Records]y
Balkan Beat Box – Give [Nat Geo]
Bon Iver – “Towers” [12"] [Jagjaguwar]
Bowerbirds – The Clearing [Dead Oceans]
Bright Eyes – A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997 [Reissue] [Saddle Creek]
Bright Eyes - Oh Holy Fools: The Music of Son, Ambulance & Bright Eyes [Reissue] [Saddle Creek]
Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball [Columbia]
Crushed Stars – In The Bright Rain [Simulacra Records]
Denison Witmer – The Ones Who Wait[Asthmatic Kitty]
Dinowalrus - Best Behavior [Old Flame Records]
Dropkick Murphys – Going Out in Style: Fenway Park Bonus Edition [Born & Bred]
Every Time I Die – Ex Lives [Epitaph]
Fort Romeau – Kingdoms [100% Silk]
Jack Wilson – Jack Wilson [Fluff & Gravy Records]
Jennifer O’Connor – Want What You Want [Physical Release] [Kiam Records]
The Jesus and Mary Chain – Stoned & Dethroned [Vinyl Reissue] [Demon Music]
Kaiser Chiefs – Start the Revolution Without Me[Fiction/Cooperative Music/Downtown]
Lissy Trullie - Lissy Trullie [Downtown Records]
The Magnetic Fields – Love at the Bottom of the Sea[Merge]
The Men – Open Your Heart [Sacred Bones]
Mike Wexler – Dispossession [Mexican Summer]
Miniature Tigers - Mia Pharaoh [Modern Art]
Mux Mool – Planet High School [Ghostly International]
Nardwuar the Human Serviette – Busy Doing Nothing[Mint Records]
Nite Jewel – One Second of Love [Secretly Canadian]
Octoberman – Waiting in the Well [Saved by Radio]
Pond – Beard, Wives, Denim [Modular]
Ramblin’ Ambassadors – Ramble On [Mint Records]
Scott Matthew - Gallantry’s Favorite Son [Digital Release] [Self-Release]
Secret Music – Secret Music [Black Bell Records]
Scuba – Personality [Hotflush]
Tim Foljahn – Songs For An Age of Extinction [Kiam]
Tim Fite – Ain’t Ain’t Ain’t [ANTI- Records]
Todd Snider – Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables[Aimless Records]
White Rabbits – Milk Famous [tbd Records]
Yellow Ostrich - Strange Land [Barsuk]