Is This Spring?

I'm ready to believe it! There are a ton of great shows and other events coming up, the weather looks to be breaking and spring break is just two weeks away! Oh, my ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY show must be coming up too! More, later in the show...

1. The Walkmen: "They're Winning"
2. The Walkmen: "Wake Up"
3. Flaming Lips: "Buggin"
4. Asobi Seksu: "Strings"
5. Lali Puna: "Contratempo"

6. Broken Social Scene: "Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl"
7. Ride: "Vapour Trail"
8. The Dismemberment Plan: "The City"
9. Jets to Brazil: "Starry Configurations"
10. The Oxford Collapse: "Molasses"

11. Belle & Sebastian: "Act of the Apostle"
12. Camera Obscura: "Alaska"
13. Arrah & the Ferns: "Science Books"
14. Suburban Kids with Biblical Names: "Loop Duplicate My Heart"
15. New Pornographers: "The New Face of Zero and One"

16. Bling Kong: "Song I Know" (Coming this Saturday to the Grog Shop!)
17. Dillute: "Planet"
18. Do Make Say Think: "107 Reasons Why"
19. The Shins: "Red Rabbits"
20. Apples in Stereo: "Radiation"

21. Yo La Tengo: "I Should Have Known Better"
22. Norfolk & Western: "The Shortest Stare"
23. The Weakerthans: "Aside"
24. Damone: "Your Girlfriends"
25. Ok Go: "C-C-C-Cinnamon Lips"
26. Ok Go: "Bye Bye Baby"

El Presidente

In deference to the great orators who were our past presidents, I'll keep the intro short today... here's the music!

1. Yo La Tengo: "Green Arrow"
2. Low: "Starfire"
3. Magnolia Electronic Co: "Don't Fade on Me"
4. The Shins: "Sleeping Lessons"
5. Asobi Seksu: "Thursday"

6. Supercar
7. Lali Puna: "(This is) The Dream of Evan and Chan" (Remix for Dntel)
8. Postal Service: "Suddenly, Everything Has Changed" (Flaming Lips Cover)
9. The Microphones: "The Pull"
10. Quickspace: "Swisher"

Levin College Forum...This week!

The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA) has developed TOD guidelines for joint development projects adjacent to its transit facilities. Join us for a discussion of these guidelines, along with TOD best practices, information and displays featuring TOD future development opportunities, and discussion of local examples of TOD projects.

Thursday, February 22, 20078:00-12:00 p.m.
Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
Glickman-Miller Hall, Atrium

For more information: http://urban.csuohio.edu/forum/events/02_22_07_transit_oriented_development.shtml

Now, back to the music...

11. Arrah and the Ferns: "Skylark"
12. Suburban Kids with Biblical Names: "Trees and Squirrels"
13. M Ward: "Headed for a Fall"
14. Sneaky Thieves: "Nothing, Nothing."
15. Quasi: "A Case of No Way Out"

This just in! Bling Kong will be coming to the Grog Shop on Saturday, March 3rd for their second ever Cleveland show! You may remember Jonathan from his sexy interview on the program late last year... check out their site (www.blingkong.com) and see who they're playing with next month!

Here's a hint...Double Dutch Will Take You Higher:
http://www.cleveland.com/news/pdvideo/flash/index.ssf?jumprope_0207video

16. Mates of State: "A Control Group"
17. Rainer Maria: "Soul Singer"
18. The Anniversary: "Emma Discovery"
19. French Kicks: "Also Ran"
20. Camera Obscura: "Hands Up Baby"

21. The Shins: "Australia"
22. The Lucksmiths: "How to Tie a Tie"
23. Belle & Sebastian: "Nice Day for a Sulk"
24. Kissing Book: "Sad City"
25. Apples in Stereo: "7 Stars"

February, Beautiful February!

What a beautiful day, right? It's snowing and it's not 20 below zero! Delightful!

This show is going out to my friends who are in town from Philadelphia "on business." Congrats guys...and don't forget who knocked down an average of 107 pins per game last night at the bowling alley!

1. Broken Social Scene: "Capture the Flag"
2. The Decemberists: "The Crane Wife, Pt. 3"
3. The Mountaingoats: "Going to Bogota"
4. The Lucksmiths: "The Sandringham Line"
5. Neko Case: "Margaret vs. Pauline"

6. The Magnetic Fields: "Lovers from the Moon"
7. Unrest: "Six Layer Cake"
8. Cat Power: "Mr. Gallo"
9. Josh Ritter: "Girl in the War"
10. Jason Collett: "Pink Night"

11. Norfolk & Western: "The Shortest Stare"
12. The French Kicks: "Hey I Wait I"
13. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists: "Parallel or Together?"
14. Walking Concert: "Run to be Born"
15. Oxford Collapse: "Let's Vanish"

16. Walkmen: "Look out the Window"
17. Spoon: "Chicago at Night"
18. Peter Bjorn and John: "Objects of My Affection"
19. The Radio Dept.: "I Don't Like it Like This"
20. Dolorean: "We Winter Wrens"

21. Six Parts Seven: "Conversation Heart" & "Stolen Moments"
22. The Shins: "Phantom Limb"
23. Sondre Lerche: "John, Let Me Go"
24. Camera Obscura: "Lloyd, I'm Ready to be Heartbroken"
25. Suburban Kids with Biblical Names: "Loop Duplicate my Heart"

26. Kings of Convenience: "Toxic Girl"
27. Belle & Sebastian: "We Are the Sleepyheads"
28. Wedding Present: ""
29. Weakerthans: "One Great City!"

Brrrrrrr!

Ok, no excuses this morning...put on your heaviest, ugliest sweater and double-up on gloves, mittens & socks. It's crazy cold out there! We're hearing Cleveland could hit lows of -25 today with the wind chill. Considering how warm it was a month ago (eerily warm), this is a pretty significant shift! So, take heed! And hopefully these ballads will warm the inner place where music rests within your soul...

1. Broken Social Scene: "Guilty Cubicles"
2. Broken Social Scene: "Love and Mathematics"
3. Album Leaf: "Into the Sea"
4. Swords Project: "Squatting Level"
5. Do Make Say Think: "Soul and Onward"

6. Six Parts Seven: "Falling Over Evening"
7. The Shins: "Turn on Me"
8. Camera Obscura: "Alaska"
9. Suburban Kids with Biblical Names: "Marry Me"
10. Creeper Lagoon: "Tracy"

10. Peter Bjorn: "Young Folks"
11. Asobi Seksu: "Sooner"
12. Helio Sequence: "Let it Fall Apart"
13. The Frames: "When Your Mind's Made Up"
14. Le Firm: "Your Unknown"
15. Sloan: "Can't You Figure it Out?"

16. The Format: "I'm Actual"
17. Sufjan Stevens: [from Illinoise]
18. Sufjan Stevens: "All Good Naysayers, Speak Up! Or Forever Hold Your Peace!
19. The Shins: "Red Rabbits"
20. Yo La Tengo: "I Feel Like Going Home"

21. Belle & Sebastian: "Act of the Apostle"
22. Lou Barlow: "HOME"
23. The Weakerthans: "None of the Above"
24. The Anniversary: "Shu Shabat"
25. True Love Always: "In it to Win It"