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Last Thursday’s Moheak Radio Music Meeting featured guests Chantal Claret (former Morningwood singer now on her own), PR dude Cary Baker, publishing exec Mara Schwartz, and Viper Room Head Talent Buyer/Moheak DJ Tom Hoppa. We rated and debated important new releases, with Chantal’s “Bite Your Tongue” a fave along with new tracks by Thomas Dolby, The Features, Anna Calvi, and The DB’s.

The show airs Thursdays 7-9p Pacific, 10-12p Eastern.

Here are links and the playlist from Friday’s Go Deep show on Moheak Radio. It airs every Friday from 1-3p Pacific, 4-6p EDT, 9-11p GMT. Hourly links at 128 are available for downloading or streaming, just below. The Moheak Radio Music Meeting, our new music panel show where we rate songs and discuss the industry, now airs Thursdays 7-9p Pacific, 10-12 EDT.

Hour 1

Hour 2

Real Estate – Easy (Deeper track from successful current album)
St. Vincent – Cruel (Holland and Germany this weekend)
Steve Kopandy – Now That I Have Your Sex (Australian living in London)
The Hundred Days – Sex U (Playing Moheak show Tuesday @ Viper Room)
Foster the People – Houdini (Belgium and UK this week)
Jack White – Love Is Blindness (U2 cover)
Friends – I’m His Girl (Brooklyn band gaining attention)
The Airborne Toxic Event – All I Ever Wanted (Hawaii shows in January)
The Features – Big Mama Gonna Whip Us Good (Great Music Meeting show reaction last night)
Cults – Do You Know What I Mean (UK this weekend)
Neko Case and Nick Cave – She’s Not There (Zombies cover on “True Blood” soundtrack)
The Rapture – Can You Find A Way (France, Germany, Spain this week)
Boots Electric – Boots Electric Theme (Jesse Hughes of Eagles of Death Metal)
Deer Tick – Main Street (Played this on Letterman recently)
Wu Lyf – We Bros (Vancouver, SF, LA this week)
Bombay Bicycle Club – How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep (Europe now, Hong Kong next month)
Jane’s Addiction – Underground (Surprising they aren’t touring more, beginning of Hour 2)
Pack A.D. – Sirens (Rome tonight, then French dates)
Goldsboro – Great White Buffalo (LA band got unanimous Music Meeting show positives)
Fun – We Are Young (Arizona band with Janelle Monae guesting on vocals)
Girls – Honey Bunny (LA date December 6)
Dum Dum Girls – Bedroom Eyes (Would have been huge 80’s hit)
Atlas Sound – The Shakes (Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox)
Justice – Audio, Video, Disco (Will play 5 NME Awards shows in UK next year)
Ski Lodge – I Would Die To Be (Andrew Marr, formerly of The Clementines)
Black Keys – Run Right Back (Second new track to emerge)
Girl In A Coma – She Had A Plan (Nice Carson Daly appearance)
Sleeper Agent – Shuga Cane (Think it should be the next single)
The Wavves – I Wanna Meet Dave Grohl (EP available digitally and on vinyl)
Noel Gallagher – Everybody’s On the Run (Sold-out LA date tonight)
Miles Kane – Come Closer (Friend of Arctics invited to join band “anytime”)

Here are links and the playlist from Friday’s Go Deep show on Moheak Radio. It airs every Friday from 1-3p Pacific, 4-6p EDT, 9-11p GMT. Hourly links at 128 are available for downloading or streaming, just below. The Moheak Radio Music Meeting, our new music panel show where we rate songs and discuss the industry, now airs Thursdays 7-9p Pacific, 10-12 EDT.

Hour 1

Hour 2

Noel Gallagher – AKA…Broken Arrow (Album finally out this week)
Wild Flag – Future Crimes (Definitely worth seeing live)
Boots Electric – Complexity (Jesse Hughes from Eagles of Death Metal)
Fanfarlo – Deconstruction (Another fine live band)
Grouplove – Tongue Tied (US tour after Thanksgiving)
The Good Natured – Skeleton (UK band getting some US love)
Fun f/Janelle Monae – We Are Young (Janelle on choruses)
The Eversons – Hyacinth Girl (New Zealand band, strong Music Meeting show reaction)
IAMDYNAMITE – Stereo (Detroit band got a great Music Meeting show reaction)
Girl In A Coma – One Eyed Fool (Playing December 2 here in LA)
Pack A.D. – Positronic (Deeper track from Vancouver band)
The Features – Kids (Very deep album)
The Joy Formidable – It’s Over (Roy Orbison cover from their new EP)
Mute Math – Blood Pressure (Check out their Conan TV appearance)
Dum Dum Girls – Teardrops on my Pillow (Amsterdam tonight, then UK dates)
Niki and the Dove – The Drummer (Song breaking out of England)
Beirut – East Harlem (Nice Letterman appearance)
Erasure – When I Start To (Break It All Down) (A fave 2011 track for me)
David Lynch f/Karen O. – Pinky’s Dream (She stopped in for a coffee and wound up recording)
Jane’s Addiction – Curiosity Kills (Huge airplay for their album)
Black Keys – Lonely Boy (Hottest song on rock radio; good thing it’s cool)
The Ting Tings – Hang It Up (Beastie Boys meet Billy Squier?)
Julian Casablancas – 11th Dimension (Happy 11.11.11)
Ursula 1000 f/Fred Schneider – Hey You (Fred of the B-52’s)
The Kills – Baby Kills (Strong strongest Music Meeting response this year)
The Raveonettes – Oh Stranger (Batman video game way in advance of film)
Sleeper Agent – Get Burned (Top Music Meeting show reaction this year)
Deer Tick – Let’s All Go to the Bar (Happy 11.11.11)
Jim Jones Revue – Dishonest John (Happy 11.11.11)
M83 – Raconte (Great reviews on his LA show this week)
Thomas Dolby – Spice Train (Talk of touring early 2012. Happy 11.11.11!)

Hope you can watch/listen tonight as I’m joined by another group of VIP’s to rate and debate important new indie releases. Moheak Radio DJ Mo Herms returns and has invited a few of her friends. Scott Ford, bassist of The Twilight Singers will hang with us along with online media expert Scott McDonald and long-time Rhino Records exec and music liscensing expert Mike Locke.

Among artists I’m planning to play: Karen O. (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) from the new David Lynch album, Boots Electric, which is the new project involving Jesse from Eagles of Death Metal, and a deeper Sleeper Agent track to see if they can keep their 5-song unanimous thumbs-up streak in tact.  The show airs every Thursday night from 7-9p Pacific, 10-12 Eastern, and 3-5 Friday morning GMT. Come hang, and check back over the weekend, and I will have posted the artists getting the best reaction from our panel.

The best reaction artists were local LA band Goldsboro, Sleeper Agent (6th unanimous thumbs up in a row), Atlas Sound, Duke Spirit, and Girl In A Coma.

Here are links and the playlist from Friday’s Go Deep show on Moheak Radio. It airs every Friday from 1-3p Pacific, 4-6p EDT, 9-11p GMT. Hourly links at 128 are available for downloading or streaming ,just below. The Moheak Radio Music Meeting, our new music panel show where we rate songs and discuss the industry, now airs Thursdays 7-9p Pacific, 10-12 EDT.

Hour 1

Hour 2

The Cranberries – Show Me (New album out Valentines Day, 2012)
Portishead – Chase the Tear (This new single was recorded several years ago)
The Rapture – Sail Away (Good buzz on this latest single)
Surfer Blood – I’m Not Ready (Deeper track from new EP)
Wild Flag – Romance (Great Troubadour show the other night)
Kasabian – Velociraptor (German tour mid-November)
Canon Blue – A Native (Band located in Nashville)
Los Campesinos – By Your Hand (Title track from upcoming album)
S.C.U.M – Amber Hands (Good Moheak Music Meeting reaction)
Gringo Star – Shadow (Atlanta band)
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Senator (Afraid these lyrics may apply for many years)
Bombay Bicycle Club – How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep (Hear our interview at http://godeepmusic.net/interviews.html)
The Vaccines – Tiger Blood (B-side recorded with Albert Hammond of The Strokes)
Arctic Monkeys – Evil Twin (New B-Side)
Funeral Party – NYC Moves to the Sound of LA (LA dates the middle of this month)
Calvin Harris – Feel So Close (Song is a UK hit, beginning of Hour 2)
M83 – Steve (Texas dates this weekend)
Washed Out – Eyes Be Closed (Consistent positives on this track)
Sons and Daughters – Gilt Complex (Deserving song brought back in footwear commercial)
Foster the People – Color On the Walls (Don’t Stop) (Song in car commercial)
Those Darlins – Red Light Love (Deserving song made current in car commercial)
Jane’s Addiction – Underground (Second single from their album)
She Wants Revenge – Not Just A Girl (Touring the US with Peter Murphy)
Justice – Parade (“Parade” and “Civilization” leading on this album)
Girl In A Coma – She Had A Plan (Album out this week)
The Airborne Toxic Event – Welcome to Your Wedding Day (Currently in the UK)
Florence & the Machine – Heartlines (Album heading for #1 in UK)
Cults – Do You Know What I Mean (Great Music Meeting show reaction last week)
Ursula 1000 – Mondo Beyondo (Have a good weekend!)

Hope you can watch/listen this evening as we rate and debate important new indie releases, and also discuss current trends in alternative radio airplay. Shawn Alexander, All Access Sr. Editor/Head Of Alternative, will be our guest. All Access is a leading radio industry trade. Also on the show will be Moheak Radio DJ and Music Director Darren Revell. Come hang 7-9p Pacific, 10-12p Eastern, 2-4a Friday GMT.

Artists getting the best reaction were Jack White with his U2 cover, Detroit band Iamdynamite, UK group The Good Natured, Fun featuring Janelle Monae, and The Kills.