Photo by Brynna Stefanson
Includes:
- Co-host Brynna Stefanson returns! She's full of tales from NYC.
- Surprisingly still on New Yorkers' minds: the soda-pop ban.
- While she was away, B interviewed Coney Island sword-swallower Betty Bloomers. She gives gritty details on damage from Hurricane Sandy. People looking to support the sideshow in recovering from the storm can donate at their website.
- B relays the tale of heading into the Alexander McQueen store, where she was afraid to touch anything. T shows off his limited knowledge of the designer (not including the fact that McQueen is dead).
- B runs down NYC's green spaces, including the High Line. She thinks it all great, until she mentions gentrification, and gets bummed out a little.
- T explains (if possible) the premise of Simbiopsychotaxiplasm, a fav movie of his that took place in Central Park.
- B relates her NYC art gallery visits to MOMA and New Museum's 'NYC 1993' exhibit. T scores an actual HBLB on Damien Hirst!
- We hear a ticket lottery for the Book of Mormon--and B tells us all about the play.
- We round the hour out with some high-quality NYC busking.
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Does Taylor lose the game? Y/N
No.
Photo of Mulligrub by David Van Den Bossche.
Includes:
- Guest host David Skene helps out with this edition of a rock'n'roll gossip show.
- The episode revolves around Ghost Hole's first show--D proclaims the whole new genre--GarfieldXCore!
- T and D somehow don't give away tixx to the hippest band on earth, TRST.
- We listen to Mulligrub, another GXC band, in a few of its different incarnations.
- D and T discuss the acts in detail, what made them hip and enjoyable.
- D points out the irony that the violin-and-drum combo Violent Screech was the most experienced act of the night.
- Another GXC band--The Uncanny Valley Girls--is discussed for their absurd Fripp-Eno dynamics. We hear a track from them.
- We round out the hour with a new segment titled "Is This Song About Me?" Before listening to Video Brats' only song, D makes his case that this song is about his exploits with the band members.
Download:
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Does Taylor lose the game? Y/N
No.
Includes:
- Taylor and guest host David Skene proclaim that they will investigate ripoffs definitively, to celebrate or condemn the offending artists.
- First, T plays a pairing which is an obvious homage: "Street Hassle" and "Ode to Street Hassle."
- D and T discuss the line between homage and ripoff; D says ripoff artists take others' work and pass it off as their own. D points out Spacemen 3 are citing their sources in the very song title.
- The next pairing is an unabashed sample: Liars uses ESG's original. T draws comparisons between the two bands, both New York bands removed by a few decades. As usual, Lydia Lunch has some pretty harsh things to say.
- D say these two songs sound to be of the same piece. T says the Liars song does stand on its own. However, the song blatantly references its inspiration, unlike other bands. [I didn't say this on-air, but the final lyric "Rather loved/ Than not loved" directly echoes Lunch's comments that Liars are looking for their moms' approval. Oddly, they've pre-empted her criticism and embrace that fact.]
- Next up: James Murphy. He does not stop admitting his influences/source material.
- T professes his love for The Rapture during the Echoes-era, but the influences are so obvious!
- Murphy's own band, LCD Soundsystem, does not escape T and D's scrutiny, and admiration.
Download:
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Does Taylor lose the game? Y/N
No.
Show date: February 3, 2013
Includes:
- Brynna reads a selection from the 2012 'winner' of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, and the winner of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award.
- B reads friends' submissions "My Supernatural Creation," and "The Most Beautiful Girl in School," which are from middle school and pret-ty embarrassing.
- Taylor gets his lazy butt out of bed and into the studio.
- T and B read Scott Leroux's creative writing from a couple years ago, and he calls in.
- T reveals the not-so-mysterious origins of his series Lightswitch, and reads a selection from one of his notebooks.
- B revisits her terrible literrry times.
Download:
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Does Taylor lose the game? Y/N
No.
Photo of Winnipeg's Personality Crisis by Terry Cox, via
Includes:
- Guest host David Skene starts things off with a twist--taking us back to railroad times, when the comedic greats came through town.
- T goes on about how amazingly psychedelic the Guess Who are. DS reveals the Guess Who's secrets to winning over crowds.
- T and DS poke fun at Neil Young cuz he left wpg, B knows a lady who fell asleep in the back of Neil Young's hearse.
- Quick detour into classic rock.
- We interview Julijana Capone about Wellington's, a Winnipeg punk club from the '70s thru the '90s. Bands from Personality Crisis to the Weakerthans all hung out.
- B, T, and DS, all wax romantic about the venues, shows, and bands which they've loved from 2000 on.
Download:
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Does Taylor lose the game? Y/N
No.
