I have a scrapbook of David Bowie images in my head. Ziggy Stardust – the vampire in The Hunger – singing Christmas carols with Bing Crosby – the Goblin King in Labyrinth – duet with Tina Turner. Then there’s that whole Tin Machine thing. I don’t know much about the man, but I got a pretty good feeling he’s pretty much a total bad-ass. I threw a bunch o songs on this one, somewhat haphazardly, thanks to Pascal for turning me on last minute to Seventeen Evergreen. Also, I finally included Thee Oh Sees, after threatening to play them in at least 2 maybe 3 episodes previously, a San Francisco Bay Area band (Seventeen Evergreen are also locals). A handful of older songs show up in the mix, hope you like it: David Bowie – Five Years ~63 minutes
the list:
David Bowie – Five Years
Psychic Ills – Mind Daze
The Horrors – Endless Blue; Changing The Rain
Seventeen Evergreen – Angels
Beat Happening – Indian Summer
Built to Spill – Car
Thee Oh Sees – The Dream
Jay Reatard – My Shadow
TV on the Radio – DLZ
Portugal, The Man – Senseless; Head Is A Flame (Cool With It); So American
Random Song
The Tambo Rays – Draggin Our Bones
Punk has been around forever. When it shows up, you think “oh yeah, there it is- punk rock man.” Most of the time it’s lurking just out of sight in all the usual places, but occasionally someone shines a light on it and we all get a good dose of punk. Punk is always where it needs to be, for those of us who really need it, when we need it. This show highlights a miniscule amount of punk, some of it hailing from Texas (a place that could use a whopping good dose of punk) and a little from Portland and a some from San Francisco, and other places as well – punk is everywhere. All of it really good stuff. 
Episode 8 is Part 5 of the Best of 2011, featuring a multitude of tracks from noise-pop indie rock all-stars: Japanther; the Death Set; Parts & Labor; Marnie Stern; and of course, Pterodactyl. In the less than a week that it took me to record this episode I think I switched my favorite album at least 4 times, maybe 5. In the end they are all very very strong albums, but I’d have to give the nod to Marnie Stern. 
Once again I have chosen a song not released in 2011 as the link to my best of 2011. I’m compiling (with a little help from my friends) a list of songs that are worthy of a slot on the best of 2011 list, so I’ve decided to shove a few in here and there where I can. I’m pretty sure “AFK” would’ve made my best of list for the year it was released, so I’ve grouped it in with a number of songs that have similar characteristics- well as similar as I can make them in my own mind. I’ve always had a bit of trouble trying to identify or specify distinguishing characteristics of artists that fall under the giant yellow umbrella that is “indie-rock”. For some reason the label Indie always conjures images of 8-track cassette recordings with xeroxed cover art folded into the case. While indie-rock is not quite mainstream, it has permeated into all areas of our lives, from Levi commercials to Starbucks counter-tops. The spectrum of “indie-rock” is much wider than even I want to consider trying to categorize, so I will just say, there is a shit-ton of music I consider to be indie-rock, and here is some of it. . . 
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