Latent Dialectic – April 15,2026
There are two flavors of music we run into a lot on Bandcamp's new music feeds -- super chill and hardcore. Everyone seems to be either really angry (depressed, frustrated) and looking for an outlet, OR in need of relief from the constant stress of everyday life. Where the present fails us, we fill in out of the past... New releases from which we sampled: JLQ, Dada Smurf, Morgan-X, Sharon Chen, XOXO Xopher.
Whatever The Party Calls For – Best Songs of 2016 Part I
This year was the first in three years that I’ve bothered to put together a year end best of compilation annual CD, as we had for so many years before. For whatever the reason, I got bored with current, nowaday music. I started listening to classical! It was bad. This year, maybe because of the...Continue reading→
A Wintry Mix – December 7, 2016
On Bubble Wrap radio this week, we tried to stay away from Christmas without being totally unseasonal in our selections. The end result was a wintry mix of new stuff just in and songs from past years with the words “winter” or “snow” in their titles. I know, it’s a cheap algorithm but it works, and gives...Continue reading→
A Return To Normalcy – November 30, 2016
This week on Bubble Wrap radio show, we vowed a return to normalcy. Did we succeed? Let’s see…. Obligatory Prince track? check. Unknown 80s Italo funk cut? got it. Interesting new music from Chicago? Yup. Ok, we’re back at least for the moment. The Italo funk was “Living” by Island and Holiday, a 1980s remix...Continue reading→
Be Thankful For What You Got… November 23, 2016
The holiday season is upon us. First up: Thanksgiving. Are we feeling thankful? Maybe not entirely but I think this year more than some others, we were in the mood for a good old fashioned, comforting family Thanksgiving with all the trimmings. This week on Bubble Wrap, we attempted to fit the mood of the...Continue reading→
Standing On Shakey Ground – November 16, 2016
This week’s Bubble Wrap was a return to pre-election routine, or so we thought. As it turned out, even when you’re not trying to make topical references, songs come out of the ether with a point of view all their own. Such was our experience this week, as we all try to make sense of...Continue reading→
OMG It’s Trump – the Post Election Show
We were looking forward to doing the Bubble Wrap show the day after the election, figuring Hillary would win and we could play upbeat pop songs with just a touch of whimsical sarcasm…. And then the unthinkable happened — Donald Trump won! How is this even possible. On one days notice it was back to...Continue reading→
Pre-Election Encouragement – November 2, 2016
Since the election was all anyone was thinking about anyway, we decided to provide some musical encouragement on Bubble Wrap this week. But we threw in someunrelated new stuff too, just to keep it interesting. First off, apologies in advance to purists who think Bruno Mars is too pop for an indie show. I agree. ...Continue reading→
Stronger Than Witchcraft – The Bubble Wrap 2016 Hallowe’en Show
Doing a Hallowe’en show on the radio is always fun — it brings out your inner ham and suddenly you’re playing sound effects records of haunted mansions and wishing you had Monster Mash on your iPad… This year’s Bubble Wrap Halloween playlist consisted of two types of Halloween song. There are the songs that are...Continue reading→
All Over Town: October 19, 2016
There are weeks when we’re less inspired by the Bubble Wrap playlist options than others, but we always try to put together a good mix of old and new, warped and accessible, or at least entertaining… This week, we dug back in the archives for forgotten gems like “Man in the House” by Greenskeeper and...Continue reading→
Moonlight People: Playlist for October 12, 2016
It’s hard to do a radio show in a vacuum, which is why this autumn’s media mayhem is great for sparking interesting musical choices. The interesting new artist of this week’s Bubble Wrap show was Chicago Farmer, aka Cody Dickoff (pronounced Dee-cough! — you can see why he calls himself Chicago Farmer.) The record, Midwest...Continue reading→
Wild Nothings: Playlist for October 5, 2016
This week on Bubble Wrap we focused on new music again with no particular theme in mind. There were a few chestnuts in there — accordion virtuoso Brent Buswell’s Pennsylvania Polka provided a rousing opening. In honor of hurricane Matthew, we tossed in Hurricane by Crooked Fingers, a perennial favorite of mine. We enjoyed a...Continue reading→
The Way We Play – September 28, 2016
No theme, no thought, just raw, unravelled rock and pop, also hip hop, spoken word, and a show tune, Bubble Wrap is past redemption, and we don’t care! Playlist below. September 28, 2016 The Way We Play Grandmaster Flash – The Adventures of GMF on the Wheels of Steel * Dirty Projectors with Bjork –...Continue reading→