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[wvumDJBen]

Hey there everyone...

My name's Ben, I'm a DJ for the University of Miami radio station. We play all 'indie/alternative' music, but I've never really gotten into the scene at all (note: thats not to day I don't like it, I just haven't ever listened to it).

Anyways, Since during my last show I chose music based on cover-art, I figured you QC music fans might be willing to help me by suggestion cool groups and/or songs.  If you feel like tuning in sometime, you can hit up www.wvum.org and catch a live stream. My show runs 1am-4am Tuesday mornings...

[Praeserpium Machinarum]

Dinosaur Jr. - Feel the Pain
and anything with these guys and girls:
Pixies
Mew(songs: Special, Zookeeper's Boy, Why Are You Looking Grave?, which incidently has J. Mascis singing in it)
Low
Built to Spill
Tom Waits
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Under Byen
The Decemberists
Kitty Wu
Sufjan Stevens
Xiu Xiu(though that's a bit abrasive for some)
Godspeed You Black Emperor!(prog rock with 20 minutes tracks, might not be ideal but I wish someone would do it, Dead Flag Blues might be fun to play)
Einstürzende Neubauten
Hawksley Workman
Hüsker Dü(personally I like Don't Wanna Know If You Are Lonely, but I think most of it is good)
Portishead
Cat Power
The Fiery Furnaces
The The
Antony and The Johnsons
Will Oldham(Bonnie 'prince' Billy and all his other aliases)

and so and so forth...

[Micolithe]

Neutral Milk Hotel, and basically everything the guy before me posted.

[sp2]

Les Savy Fav
Bear Vs. Shark
At the Drive In
Constantines
Q and Not U
Fugazi
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Sonic Youth
Blonde Redhead
Jawbreaker
Dead Kennedys
Skinny Puppy
Frontline Assembly
Bauhaus
Ministry

[Praeserpium Machinarum]

You also need to play Nellie McKay, or I will henceforth refer to you as Big Ben, an eternity of torment no doubt. Seriously though, she is loads of fun, you cannot dislike her. If you are a human that is, aliens and rodents have strange tastes.

Songs:
Sari
Won't U Please B Nice
Inner Peace
Clonie
David etc.

[ASturge]

You can have a little game where you call some random student, ask him his taste in music, and when he says [insert shitty band] you can push a button that starts 3 minutes of mindless, mocking laughter.

You ----"so what do you like?"

J-Dawg the indie kid ---"Erm, I like The Killers"

*pushes button*

AAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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That'd hurt.

[tacroy]

Hey, I lived in Miami up until about a month ago (left for college), and I listened to WVUM every day on the way home from work.  Great station

For music, I'm a big fan of:
Of Montreal
The Album Leaf
The Arcade Fire
!!! (Me and Giuliani Down by the Schoolyard is great)
Cake (Nobody every plays these guys on the radio)

[wvumDJBen]

You also need to play Nellie McKay, or I will henceforth refer to you as Big Ben, an eternity of torment no doubt. Seriously though, she is loads of fun, you cannot dislike her. If you are a human that is, aliens and rodents have strange tastes.

Everyone already calls me Big Ben... my nickname on my floor has been shortened to BGB (Big gay ben, lol)..

Tacroy, you can still listen to WVUM, just grab the live stream from ourwebsite. If you use iTunes, it'll add itself to your library and you can use it whenever you want..

[Topper]

I nearly had a university radio show once. 'The Heart of Thursday Night' I was going to call it. Unfortunately the bloke in charge is an insufferable turd who just wants people to play commercial hip hop every night of the week. Not that I'm bitter. Damn his eyes.

[soak]

The Cure - why has no one mentioned the Cure
Iron + Wine

[wvumDJBen]

Here's another thing, I've only had two shows, and I'm not sure if the stuff I've been playing is even any good...

upon trying, theres no easy way to put my log up here, take a moment, go to  www.wvum.org and hit playlists, Look for 'Ben Tarsa' on September 27th 1am to 4am...

[Kai]

The Residents.
Zappa.
Beefheart.


Now that I've got my three obligatory posts out of the way...

Bauhaus, because I fucking said so.
Bob Dylan because he is ace.
Dead Kennedys, because you can play songs like "I Kill Children" and get away with it.
motherfucking Finntroll.
Gabby La La, if you want a crazy Asian lady with a citar, acordian, toy keyboard and banjo.
Mr. Bungle.
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (Who I'm totally fucking missing on Saturday and I'm kicking myself in the nuts over it.)
Praxis/Bill Laswell/Buckethead/Death Cube K/Giant Robot/whatever fucking name Buckethead is going by this goddamn week.
Renaldo and the Loaf.
The Residents again, because I CAN'T FUCKING STRESS IT ENOUGH
Siouxsie and the Banshees maybe?
Speaking of goth rock, Sisters of Mercy.
Sun Ra.
and, if you can find a song by them that doesn't swear enough that you can put it on the radio, Tenacious D.

[Kid Amnesiac]

You can have a little game where you call some random student, ask him his taste in music, and when he says [insert shitty band] you can push a button that starts 3 minutes of mindless, mocking laughter.

You ----"so what do you like?"

J-Dawg the indie kid ---"Erm, I like The Killers"

*pushes button*

AAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHA

HAHAHAHAHAHA

HAHAHAHA
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HAHA


That'd hurt.

I'm glad you don't have a radio show.

[Kai]

He could record all the laughing of that episode of Carson where he throws the axe into the guys nuts! that went for like, 20 minutes!

[saturnine1979]

All-Time Quarterback
Ambulance Ltd.
American Analog Set
Appleseed Cast
Architecture In Helsinki
Azure Ray (I saw that you played Orenda Fink. Maria Taylor's stuff is great, too)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Boards Of Canada
The Books
The Boy Least Likely To
The Brunettes
Cap'n Jazz
Chad Van Gaalen
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Cocorosie
The Czars
Dirty Three
Do Make Say Think
Eluvium
Engineers
Explosions In The Sky
The Faint
The Go! Team
The Honorary Title
Joanna Newsom
K.C. Accidental
M83
The Magnetic Fields
Metric
Neutral Milk Hotel
The New Pornographers
The Notwist
Of Montreal
On! Air! Library!
The Organ
Pretty Girls Make Graves
The Russian Futurists
Son, Ambulance
The Spinto Band
Spoon
Stars
The Stills
Tegan And Sara
Tilly And The Wall
Tortoise
The Wrens
Yo La Tengo

[AnonymousPosterChild]

If you play anything by The Rheostatics, I will love you forever.

[Algaësia]

That'd hurt.

And it's an indie station? They'd probably call me at least once.


...a day.

[wvumDJBen]

Hey guys!  Tune in tonight 1am to 4am (monday night, technically tuesday morning).  I'll be playing as much of your reccomendations as I can.  Feel free to call me with requests, If I've got it, I'll play it for you!