tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30943842012-01-26T18:46:13.696-05:00Playlists, podcasts and music from WQFS Greensboro's <i>J's Indie/Rock Mayhem</i> - Wednesday Nights 6pm - 8pm at 90.9 FM!J. Neashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903887073895946321noreply@blogger.comBlogger5961100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3094384.post-85288359218942374242012-01-26T18:23:00.005-05:002012-01-26T18:46:13.702-05:00

[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. My trainees didn't show up this week - which was fine, considering I had Ryan Snyder from YES Weekly in for our monthly Indie/Rock Roundtable. We had a great time discussing new releases from Nada Surf, Lambchop and some quickie reviews of new Of Montreal and Cloud Nothings. Always a great time with Ryan, so take a listen below. The show

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. This week and next I will be joined by new DJ trainees. My trainees tonight were great, as you'll hear, and they didn't do a terrible job of picking out music for the show that still fit what their show will most likely focus on. Good luck to them.Looks like Ryan Snyder from YES Weekly will be joining us next week for Indie/Rock Roundtable, so

J. Neashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903887073895946321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3094384.post-77068281846222681112012-01-11T21:36:00.005-05:002012-01-11T21:42:24.348-05:00

[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Good to be back with my first official podcast of 2012, but also getting started on a great year of music. We've already got a ton of great new music coming down the pipe and tonight is a great example of that. This really was a tremendous show as a listener. As much as I'm the one programming this stuff, I'm just as much a listener as you all

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem - the last of 2011. But we're back to the normal stuff, already previewing new stuff coming down the pipe in 2012, as well as visiting some of the music that didn't make my top 25 list last week or the best singles list either.I want to take a moment to thank all of you who have been listening to the show this year. I appreciate the downloads,

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[It's the 10th Annual Top 25 Albums show and I'm excited. It's one thing to have been a DJ here at WQFS for 12+ years, but now to have my annual best albums countdown reach its first decade, well, that's even more exciting. Hopefully the list will do what all the best lists on sites do for me as a reader - inspire you to check out stuff you haven't heard or had dismissed earlier in the year

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[Welcome to one of my favorite episodes of the year, the annual Best Singles of the Year show. It makes sense that this would, in some ways, trump next week's Top 25 Albums show if only because this episode is wall-to-wall great songs. I'll be trying to represent great whole album works next week with single songs, but this week, the single's the thing.Due to temporary scheduling at the station,

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem - the last regular show before our two weeks of year-end countdowns. Next week is the Top Singles of the Year show and then, in two weeks, it's the 10th annual J's Indie/Rock Top 25 Albums of the Year. Going to be a lot of fun the next few weeks, so make sure you catch all the action.Let's get to it. Onward.]J's Indie/Rock Podcast: 7th December

J. Neashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903887073895946321noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3094384.post-51897523104906495302011-12-02T17:03:00.005-05:002011-12-02T17:08:46.947-05:00

[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Sorry I didn't get last week's Thanksgiving Eve show up, though if you'd like to take a fun listen, check it out here. I'm not going to post a playlist - it's more fun that way anyway.The end of the year stuff is coming up soon - on Wednesday, December 14th we'll have the Top Singles of the Year show and probably the last episode of Indie/Rock

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. I had the 3/4ths of the fantastic Bombadil stop by and play some songs and talk about their new record, All That the Rain Promises. It was a fantastic show and I greatly appreciated them coming by.Now, onward.]J's Indie/Rock Podcast: 9th November 2011 showTheme Song - Peaches - "Rock Show">Surfer Blood - "Miranda" [from tarot classics. got to

J. Neashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903887073895946321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3094384.post-62792129851003121582011-11-04T16:06:00.002-05:002011-11-04T16:08:38.552-05:00

[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. A fantastic show, chock full of good stuff, so I hope you enjoy. Next week, I should be graced by the presence of Durham, North Carolina's Bombadil. They'll be stopping in to play a few tunes from their new album, All That the Rain Promises, which is out next week. It'll be great to finally have them stop in and should be a good time.Now,

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. I had a certifiable blast with Ryan Snyder of YES Weekly this week doing our Indie/Rock Roundtable. We did our first hip-hop album, which ought to be good. I know my dalliances with hip-hop on the show are few and far between, but that's only because I don't play as much on the show as I actually enjoy listening to myself. We'll have one more

J. Neashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903887073895946321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3094384.post-86618700447225480552011-10-21T15:19:00.003-05:002011-10-21T15:25:21.409-05:00

[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. I was lucky enough to be joined by the members of Asheville, North Carolina's Now You See Them in the studio this week. They played at the Green Bean on Wednesday night and are down our way at least a few times per year. They're working on finishing a new full-length LP as well and graced us with three live performances of songs off of that

J. Neashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903887073895946321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3094384.post-5418248249417995782011-10-19T21:28:00.004-05:002011-10-19T21:31:11.063-05:00

[Welcome to another edition of J’s Indie/Rock Mayhem. Another great show this past week – sorry for the long delay in posting. Eric Moye, one of the chief fundraisers for the ongoing Lungs for Lee campaign stopped in to talk about their upcoming events and we had a good time. Plus tons of new stuff. The fall is so ridiculously chock full of new, good stuff. We’ll be hearing tons as the season

J. Neashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903887073895946321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3094384.post-54683672887946376052011-10-06T16:45:00.002-05:002011-10-06T16:48:41.630-05:00

[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Big thanks to Zach for filling in for me last week. You can catch his show on Tuesday mornings at 8 AM here on WQFS, so make sure to check it out. Tonight I was joined in studio by Baeden Buckner, member of the Quiet Brace and also Vice President of the Official Beard and Moustache Club of North Carolina. Their annual Beardtoberfest is coming

J. Neashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903887073895946321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3094384.post-84296194638825914952011-09-23T16:13:00.003-05:002011-09-23T16:16:00.786-05:00

[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. A pretty great show this week with lots of great new music, so there you go. Ought to be awesome.I'm going to be AWOL for next week's show, so there will not be a podcast, but make sure you tune in live on 90.9 FM or on our live webstream to listen to whomever fills in for me. It ought to be good regardless.Now, while we can, onward.]J's Indie

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. A great show this week kicking off the 12th anniversary of my first how here at the station. And what better way to celebrate than by playing tons of good, new stuff? So let's get to it. Onward.]J's Indie/Rock Podcast: 14th September 2011 showTheme Song - Peaches - "Rock Show">Male Bonding - "Can't Dream" [from the new endless now. i'm really

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Finally, after a month's hiatus, Ryan Snyder of YES Weekly re-joined us for the monthly Indie-Rock Roundtable. You can check out our thoughts on the podcast and in an abbreviated version below. We also talked about this weekend's Hopscotch Music Festival in Raleigh and what we are looking forward to seeing. A pretty good show on the whole.Fall

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. First off, I'd like to take a moment to thank all of the kind listeners who wrote in about last week's show, whether it was just to express shared sorrow over Tim's passing or even to say, on some occasions, that despite not knowing Tim, the show moved them in some way. I had a lot of fun with that show, despite the terrible circumstances

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. This week's show was dedicated to the memory of Guilford College alumni, former WQFS DJ and General Manager, musician and friend, Tim LaFollette. You've heard me talk about Tim numerous times on the show over the past two years as he has lived out his struggle with ALS/Lou Gehrig's disease. Through the Often Awesome organization and the film

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Sorry for the unplanned two week break; those of you who listen live on the stream or on the air caught last week's show, but sadly, it wasn't recorded. That's okay as the first six or seven years of my show went unrecorded except on cassette tapes. This week's show became a touch self-indulgent as this coming Sunday marks my birthday and I'm

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Quite a great show which included a first for me - an international phone request! Lis, long time listener and Twitter acquaintance, called up to request a song for her husband's birthday. I was only too happy to oblige, especially given the song. More on that down below.I was a guest on the Instant Depths podcast this week as we talked about

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Tonight's show was packed with awesome new stuff and some fantastic old classics as well. I had fun digging through the archives leading up to this week and didn't even get to everything. That's usually the mark of a good week.Ryan Snyder from YES Weekly will be joining us next week for Indie/Rock Roundtable, so make sure you tune in and see

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. I really enjoyed last night's show and hopefully you will as well. It seemed like a pretty amped up, rockin' show (at least through the first hour) and then a good, lovely one on the back end.In two weeks we'll have Ryan Snyder from YES Weekly back on the show for the monthly Indie/Rock Roundtable review of new albums, so make sure you're here

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Lots of great stuff this week, so I'll keep the intro short. Onward.]J's Indie/Rock Podcast: 6th July 2011 showTheme Song - Peaches - "Rock Show">Royal Bangs - "Grass Helmet" [from flux outside. one of my favorite albums of this year so far and while it's been out for awhile, and you won't hear it much again before the end of the year, i just

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[Welcome to another episode of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Sorry for the delay in posting this week - the holiday took me to the mountains and, thus, away from the internet. Not bad to step away for a bit. I also realize I forgot to include any July 4th songs this week. Then again, the holiday was placed oddly compared to the show. Though I think next year July 4th will fall on Wednesday thanks to the

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Tonight's show hopefully makes up for one of the better shows of this year which those of you who listen solely to the podcast sadly missed out on: an interview and live performance with the Grand Ole Uproar. While that podcast from February was sadly lost into the ether, this show more than makes up for it as we went from the original

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. It's becoming a bit more random when we do this, but Ryan Snyder from YES Weekly stopped in again for this month's J's Indie/Rock Roundtable. We talked about new albums from the Rosebuds and Bon Iver and Ryan's recent trip out to Bonnaroo. All in all a good time and some great music, too.Next week on the show we're going to be revisited by

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. I'm back in my normal 6pm - 8pm on Wednesday slot, though I will also be sitting in for the 5 o'clock Democracy Now slow during the summer as well. You won't hear me on the air during that time, but I'll be at the station all the same getting stuff set up for the regular show.This week's show was a lot of fun and is a pretty great slab of

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Sadly, my USB did a number on me tonight and so there is no podcast. A bummer as this was a pretty righteous show, if I do say so myself. Hopefully things will be sorted out for next week. Apologies.We'll be starting the summer semester schedule next week and though I should have my normal slot, there's always a chance, so be on the lookout

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Sorry about the missed week last week, and I'll have to do it again next week, but I tried to make up for it tonight with a hot slab of new and classic stuff. There's quite a list of new music in this week's show, so it ought to be well worth it.The bi-annual Joe G's Cover Band Explosion is this Saturday, May 21st, at the Blind Tiger here in

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Great show tonight, digging into the vaults for some favorite classics and some new favorites as well. Was a good show all in all.Let's keep it short and simple. Onward.]J's Indie/Rock Podcast: 4th May 2011 showTheme Song - Peaches - "Rock Show">Obits - "Shift Operator" [from moody, standard and poor. i love this slower, chugging riff of a

J. Neashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903887073895946321noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3094384.post-68893338686309106742011-04-27T23:46:00.005-05:002011-04-28T20:46:52.991-05:00

[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. I had a number of special guests this evening. As always, joining us at the end of the month for the Indie/Rock Roundtable, was Ryan Snyder of YES Weekly. Also joining us during that segment was not one, not two, but THREE separate Emergency Broadcast System interruptions for tornado warnings. Those of you who catch the podcast and live

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Sorry for the unintentional hiatus last week, but life comes up sometimes. It was nice to get back to the studio and lay down some of the awesome new stuff.Next week will be the monthly Indie/Rock Roundtable with Ryan Snyder from YES Weekly as we talk about some new music and new music news. Pretty exciting on the whole. Always fun to talk

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. This week was a full-on rock party, no question, with some great new music and some fun older stuff as well. I'm not even going to spend a lot of time talking. Onward.]J's Indie/Rock Podcast: 6th April 2011 showTheme Song - Peaches - "Rock Show">Yuck - "Get Away" [from their self-titled debut. undoubtedly bound for my year-end best singles

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Tonight, I was finally, thanks to a lack of ineptitude this month on my part, re-joined in the studio by Ryan Snyder, music editor at YES Weekly, for the Indie/Rock Roundtable. The last Wednesday of every month, we'll be reviewing two new records and talking about some random topic. Check out below to see what records we tackled and check out

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. It was a really awesome show tonight with a pretty consistent explosive rock and roll feel to the full two hours. I think you need to save this one for an awesome, sunny early-spring weekend afternoon that will be hopefully coming all of y'all's ways soon.Now, before we can even get distracted, onward.]J's Indie/Rock Podcast: 23rd March 2011

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. I was joined in studio tonight by Josh Kimbrough and Patrick Jones of the band Butterflies out of Chapel Hill. They're playing this Saturday night at the Green Bean along with Matty Sheets and the Blockheads as part of the Hand-to-Hand Market. Show starts at 8pm. Check out below for the interview and some live performances.We'll be back to

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. I was joined by the Charlotte, North Carolina band Illicitizen tonight. They're playing at Somewhere Else Tavern here in Greensboro this Saturday night, March 12th. We talked about the band and had them play some live songs which you can check out in the podcast.Next week on the show, Josh Kimbrough of Butterflies will be joining us to talk

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Sorry for the unexpected absence last week - a trip that was supposed to begin Thursday became a sudden Wednesday departure. Thanks to the able Steve-O of the Bits 'n' Pieces Show (Fridays, 8pm - 10pm) for filling in for me and making me receive several text messages where people praised what I was playing because they didn't know I wasn't

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Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. I apologize for the lack of show last week. A real bummer considering Josh and Derrick of The Grand Old Uproar came by and laid down an awesome set of live songs and a great interview. I hate that the recording wasn't possible. Sadly, that's how it goes.But thankfully, everything was all good this week as Caleb Caudle stopped by to talk about

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. It was a really solid night - the first just two hours of music in a few weeks. The next couple of weeks will see us with guests each week. On February 9th, Cold Water Shave will be joining us in studio. On February 16th, tentatively, Caleb Caudle will be joining us again for what has become a yearly visit from the Winston-Salem musician and

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Tonight's episode was underscored by a bit of sadness as the country legend Charlie Louvin died Wednesday at the age of 83 from complications of pancreatic cancer. I got the opportunity to interview Louvin in 2009 for Aquarium Drunkard and he was one of the more fascinating interviews I've had the chance of conducting in my years with AD. I

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem and boy, howdy, what a night. We were lucky enough to have the fantastic Megafaun drop by to talk and play some music and it was an incredibly fun time as it always is with those guys. Read more about it below and check out the live performances.Next week will mark the debut of the Indie/Rock Roundtable on the show as Ryan Snyder of YES Weekly

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. And the podcast is fixed! Thank goodness. So get ready to enjoy the goodness if you missed the live webcast. Still, I ended up at the station tonight until 9 which means if you were listening to the webcast, you could have heard an additional hour of music curated by yours truly. Shame on you for not catching it if you didn't.There are going

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. I have bad news again in that the recorder, again, wasn't functioning, so there is no formal podcast again this week. I can only apologize. I may try and recreate this show, but honestly, it's such a tedious endeavor to do so, I just doubt that I'll get around to it. Hopefully things will be back to normal next week.Some awesome interviews

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Sadly, there was, again, an issue with the podcast recording, so there is no podcast for this week's show. I'm hoping things will be fixed for next week, but always remember you can tune in live at the WQFS website and listen to me and all the other great shows on WQFS Greensboro.Now, here's the setlist at the very least, so you can see what

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[Welcome to the J's Indie/Rock Mayhem Christmas Holiday Spectacular! Just in time to celebrate the holidays with family, it's two hours of Christmas and holiday season related music that will make you laugh, make you cry, make you run for the liquor. My thanks to all the people I've talked with in the last week who submitted ideas for this to flesh out my traditional songs. If you're a long-time

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[Welcome to the Best Singles of 2010 here on J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. This podcast very nearly didn't make it.I got home last night and put the flash drive in my computer to upload when a sudden power surge knocked the computer off and back on. Irritated, but not really caring, I proceeded to reboot everything and then go look at the drive to get the show.It was empty.I panicked. Had I forgotten to

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Tonight combined a 'best of the rest' mentality along with some stone cold classics and a few other things worked in - some of the best live performances from this year on the show, for instance - to make a really fantastic show. In the coming weeks we have the annual Best Singles of the Year show (Dec. 8th) and the 9th annual Top 25 Albums of

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[Welcome to the annual tradition that is a J's Indie/Rock Mayhem Thanksgiving. While what I do on this particular show changes from year to year, it usually involves theme sets of me being 'thankful' for certain things and playing songs that reflect that. This year is no different, and I was thankful for so much that, sadly, it meant no "Alice's Restaurant Masacree" this year. But that's okay.

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. I'm still working my way slowly through the problem with my podcast host - apparently it's something I did that I didn't even realize I had done. Oh, well. Either way, it'll be another week before regular Wednesday night uploading to the podhost/iTunes will return, as opposed to weekend uploads. Until then, please remember to come here to the

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. I had a lot of fun with tonight's show and I think the songs are pretty well matched this evening. I'm especially fond of the pairs of Young Marble Giants/Hole and Dillard and Clark/Velvet Crush. All in all, a pretty enjoyable show.I didn't play any of him tonight, but Adam Thorn is playing his CD release show at the Maya Gallery on Tate

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Lots of good stuff tonight - I'm fond of this show. A heads up: because of a miscalculation in uploads on podcasts this month, I won't be able to upload this week's show to Libsyn (my podcast host) until Saturday. In the meantime, I'm going to host the podcast file on my personal storage host. What this means is that if you normally use

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Happy Halloween, Mayhem readers and listeners!As I said on the show this week, it felt like All Hallow's Eve was too many days away yet to really do a proper Halloween show. So here, as promised, is the Halloween Podcast 2010. It's around 45 minutes long and contains a hodgepodge of some random and not so random things. The tracklisting below gives you an idea of what songs are on it, though

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Tonight's show was pretty jam packed with great stuff and I loved the way most of it flowed. I'm pretty proud of this particular episode.I mention on the podcast that I elected not to play any Halloween music tonight because of how the holiday was still five days away. So later this week, here on the blog, you'll be able to download my first

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. A lot of great new music this week as well as dipping into some older stuff, as always. There are a couple of great shows this weekend here in Greensboro that I hype during the show, but I'll also mention them here.Friday, October 22nd at the Green Bean it's Caleb Caudle and the Bayonets and Lake Isle. This great combo played at the Green Bean

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Tonight I was joined in studio by Matty Sheets and the Blockheads and Marshall Owen in advance of the going-away show/party for Marshall this Saturday at the Flatiron here in Greensboro. This was the biggest band I've had play live in studio before with six members - upright bass, banjo, guitar, ukulele, percussion and accordion/melodica. It

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. I was joined in studio tonight by Crystal Bright, Diego Diaz and Taylor Bays of Crystal Bright and the Silver Hands. We talked about their upcoming shows at the Broach Theatre this weekend. The multi-media performance piece is called Illuminating and Transcending the Shadow and runs on both Friday and Saturday nights, October 8th and 9th.

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Update: The podcast from this week came out, well, odd. Instead of my show, it was a repeated shimmering music sound effect and then a female DJ (possibly the one on before me?) saying our station ID. And just those things looped over and over for two hours. I didn't notice this until this weekend - I don't listen to my own shows afterward. I guess I need to change that. So, sadly, this week's

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Tonight's show marks the first of the official fall semester schedule and, as a result, my 11th anniversary as a DJ at WQFS. And I could think of no better way to celebrate 11 years than by doing a great interview with Jonathan Moore of Romancer as a kick off to the annual GreensboroFest weekend which starts tomorrow. More information about

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. This was the second week of training schedule, so I was joined by Elizabeth and Kate, new DJs who will have their own wonderful shows this coming year, I'm sure. They were very good at playing exactly what I told them to play, but you'll get to hear some of the live training going on when they do on-air reads. So, pardon the spottiness of

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. This week and next are training weeks for our new DJs. I had the pleasure of being joined by long-time listener Frank and a former student of mine, Anthony, who are both going to become new members of the QFS family. They did a good job tonight and will do a fine job on their respective shows in the future.Tomorrow kicks off the Hopscotch

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Tonight's show was, to say the least, bonkers. I was joined by the members of the Alcazar Hotel who proceeded to give me one of the most energetic interviews I've had in a long time. I hope y'all enjoy it. They're playing at the Flatiron this Saturday, September 4th as a celebration show for the release of their new 7" single. Check it out and

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Tonight's show got off a little late due to me running late and horrendous parking on campus, so the podcast is about five minutes shorter than normal. I tried to make up for it; honest, I did.Next week on the show I'll have members of the Alcazar Hotel up on the show. They're playing a show on Saturday, September 4th at the Flatiron here in

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. This is my annual birthday show. My birthday is this Saturday, August 21st, so since this will be the show closest to my birthday, I'll celebrate by being a bit more self-indulgent than normal with my playlist, though there are some things that I really wanted to play that I didn't get to - they'll be on the show next week, no doubt.Let's keep

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Crystal Bright and the Silver Hands have rescheduled their appearance on the show until October, but their CD release show is still this Friday, so make sure that you go check it out. I look forward to having them on the show later this fall.Going to make this short and sweet tonight. A great show, but I'm tired. Onward.]J's Indie/Rock Podcast

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem on WQFS. A great show, without a doubt, tonight, with lots of new stuff and some classics.Next week on the show, Crystal Bright and the Silver Hands will be stopping by to talk about their upcoming CD release show, their new album and to play some live tracks for us. Ought to be a pretty great interview. Crystal has been on the show before with

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. A bold plethora of new music tonight, so I hope you enjoy the show. I got a really nice email about last week's show just saying that they enjoyed the summer rock goodness. I'm glad the shows are coming across that way - the weather is certainly an inspiration right now.I occasionally get up here in the main mast of the post and encourage you

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. I had a blast in Chicago at the Pitchfork Music Festival this past week. Saw some amazing shows and a few mediocre ones, but on the whole, it is, quite possibly, the best music festival going in the States right now. Priced low, lots of variety of music, a great environment and just good things all in all. Can't wait to go back next year.Now,

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. I'm heading to the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago this weekend and this show has a bevy of some of the acts I'm most looking forward to catching. While I'm at the festival I'll be live Tweeting performances and posting daily recaps at Aquarium Drunkard so make sure you stay up to date and get in on what's going on. If you're at the fest,

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. I'm really excited about this week's show - some great pairings, some great new stuff, some great requests. Next week's show ought to be a humdinger also as I do a large chunk of preview stuff for the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago. I'll be traveling to the fest again this year to cover it for Aquarium Drunkard and you can follow me on

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[Welcome to a, seriously, fantastic week of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Tonight's show is jam packed full of great new stuff, classic older stuff and not one, but two sets of thematically linked songs. It was a great week, to say the least.After nearly eleven years of hearing about it, WQFS has begun webcasting. I got the official email over this past weekend, and I couldn't be happier. So, those of

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Tonight's show was a humdinger, I think, with a ton of new material and some great old stuff as well. The usual proper mix of the show.I'm heading down to Athens, Georgia for Athfest tomorrow (Thursday) since Aquarium Drunkard is cosponsoring the kickoff show at the 40 Watt tomorrow evening with Autumn Tone label mates Roadside Graves and

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. A fantastic show tonight, if I do say so myself. I always can feel when I think I've put together a great run of music and tonight's show certainly feels that way. If I think I've made a great mix of songs that I'd enjoy listening to on my own, that's proof enough for me.I'll go ahead and get to it. Nothing to see here. Onward.]J's Indie/Rock

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. A great collection of old and new stuff tonight. Going to keep the introduction short 'cos there's tons to talk about. Now, onward.]J's Indie/Rock Podcast: 9th June 2010Theme Song - Peaches - "Rock Show">the Love Language - "Heart to Tell" [from the forthcoming libraries. i think this song is to this new album what "lalita" was to me on the

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. So, my theme music went missing tonight, so I was unable to open the show as normal. That's okay as it saved me a few minutes to squeeze in another song or so.I'll be busking downtown this Friday, June 4th, at the First Friday Indie-Market at the corner of Martin Luther King and Elm Streets at the public parking lot. Come on down and say hi.

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. As always, when I skip a week, I come back fiending from being away. I think tonight's show reflects a stockpile of great new music, and I also had a lot of fun with trainee, Shane, who was a DJ with us back in the 90s as well. He'll have his own show coming up in a couple of weeks.Now, let's go. Onward.]J's Indie/Rock Podcast: 26th May 2010

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. A pretty great set of songs tonight, both new and old.I'll be elsewhere next week because Blair will be playing at the Cave in Chapel Hill next Wednesday, May 19th at 7:30 PM. Come up and check out what will undoubtedly be a fantastic show.Also, come out this Friday and Saturday to see me MC'ing shows at the Blind Tiger. Friday features the

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. The music season is really getting ramped up as new release after new release has been dropping in the past few weeks - it's going to be an interesting year when we get to the end for the Top 25 Albums show. I think this week's show is pretty chock full of winners.I'd also like to quickly thank all of you who voted for me in Yes! Weekly's

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. A great, great show tonight as the members of Jews and Catholics came in, played live and talked about the new album. It was a fun time and the live performances are great.I mentioned on my Twitter account awhile back that I was part of a podcast about the Replacements. People have heard me talk about them tons over the years, but now it was

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. A fantastic load of new music this week, so tons of great stuff, as well as a look back at Peter Steele and Guru, of Type O Negative and Gang Starr, respectively, who both passed away this past week.The WQFeSt is this weekend - both Friday and Saturday night - with a whole load of great bands playing for free both nights. Friday night is a

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. I had the pleasure of being joined in studio, for the second time, by Caleb Caudle. Caleb was up in the studio in February of '09 when his last album came out and now his newest, Snake River Canyon, is getting ready to drop at he and his band's CD release show on Saturday, April 17th at the Garage in Winston-Salem. Can't wait for what will be

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem, the last one for March. Already one-third through 2010. The month of April is going to be dominated by interviews on the show - I'm hoping to get someone on the show each week, but right now we have two for certain. Caleb Caudle will be returning to the show for his second visit on April 14th to talk about his new album. Winston-Salem's Jews

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Tonight's show is dedicated to the memory of the late Alex Chilton who died last Wednesday at the age of 59.As a founding member of Big Star, Chilton's work has had as an enormous impact on the shaping of power-pop, indie-rock and the indie aesthetic in general with his uncompromising vision of the art that pop could create. His loss is

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. As I was working on typing up tonight's show, extremely sad news came out over the internet - Alex Chilton, founding member of Big Star, has died at the age of 59. The Onion AV Club posted this great obituary.It's really hard to even say how devastating Chilton's death is - especially since it happened on the eve of the first true Big Star

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Tonight's show is dedicated to the memory of Sparklehorse founder and creative force, Mark Linkous. Mark killed himself on Saturday, March 6th. He was 47 years old.This is a space where I celebrate music in all its misshapen glory, but I have to confess that Linkous' death, along with the December suicide of Vic Chesnutt, and the tragic OD

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Let's cut to the chase.So we can announce this week a date for the WQFeSt 40th Anniversary show - Saturday, April 24th. Details will be announced slowly, but keep an eye here for bands that will be appearing and other things going on. Hey, at the bare minimum you'll have a chance to meet yours truly. What more could you ask for? Naught, I say.

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. I had a tough time tonight with so much great stuff - no way I was going to get to all the good music I wanted to, so if I say I'm going to play something at the top of the podcast, take it with a grain of salt. I may end up not even getting to it. Oh, well.So, a bit of a fun announcement - the podcast had its best month ever in the three

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Another great show chock full of great new music tonight. 2010 is already off to an amazing start, new music wise, and there's already tons more slated for release in the coming months. Amazing.I completely blanked on mentioning the Decoration Ghost/Citified/A Rooster for the Masses show coming up this Saturday night, February 20th at the

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. I'm going to keep it short and simple. Obviously I'm back at the usual Wednesday 6pm timeslot for what is now my sixth straight year. I love this spot and it's thanks to being able to be here week in and week out that a good community of listeners and music has sprung up around the show. Great stuff.Now, before the gas hits the fire, onward.]

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. A stellar cavalcade of cavorting rock choruses and canoodling tonight. We're finishing up temp schedule for training this week and will be in our fixed spring timeslots by next Monday. I should be in my usual spot, so just check out the blog and the Twitter feed to make sure it's the case.Now, before the shine is off the shoe, onward.]J's

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[Welcome to another fantastic edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. The new music is flying fast and furious in tonight's show, so a lot of great stuff to hear.Tonight's show is retroactively in memory of Howard Zinn. You'll hear me talk about his death during the show as the information was coming over the web while I was broadcasting. Zinn's The People's History of the United States is one of the

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Tonight's show was really stellar - a great lineup of new and classic stuff, some great requests, some great randomness. I'm really enjoying getting the requests on Twitter during the show, so keep 'em coming at me. Just send an @ message to jneas81 and let me know what you want to hear. I'll do my best as always.We'll be going into training

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. We're getting back into the swing of things as new releases start dropping again after the holiday break, so a lot of great new music this week.Really sad news with the passing of Jay Reatard, rather unexpectedly, in his sleep at the age of 29. So much potential great music now lost. It's been a hard month or two for lovers of independent and

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[Welcome to the first edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem of 2010. First off, I'll have to apologize for the Best of 09 Album show not having made an appearance yet. I'm way behind on writing it up and playing catch up with a lot of work in general. I'm going to go ahead and throw this week's show up though just to stay on top of that. Keep your eyes peeled for the Top 25 Albums show coming

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Hey, folks. I hope you're having a happy holiday season so far. J's Indie/Rock Mayhem is on holiday break this week, but I'll be back next Wednesday with the 8th Annual J's Indie/Rock Top 25 Albums of the Year. It's going to be an amazing show.In the meantime, in what I hope will be the first of a number of non-radio podcasts in the coming year, I wanted to share with you my first attempt at a

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[Another year, another year-end wrap-up and another Top Singles of the Year show. This show has come to almost rival the Top 25 Albums show in my heart, if only because this is the show with nothing but wall-to-wall favorite songs from the year. Tonight's show was really something and I love my top 12 picks this year, as well as all the other songs that slid around in there. It makes for quite a

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[Welcome to the last regular edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem for 2009. Next week will be the annual best singles show and then in three weeks, on December 30th, the 8th annual J's Indie/Rock Top 25 Albums of the Year. It's a lot later than normal this year, but it's been a crazy year. I won't be on the air on Wednesday, December 23rd - it's my dad's birthday, so I'll be otherwise occupied, but

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. We really are getting down to the wire on this year's best-of sets. In two weeks, on Wednesday, December 16th, it'll be the annual Best Singles show, with the best single songs of the year that you heard on the show. Then, two weeks after that, on Wednesday, December 30th, it's the 8th annual J's Indie/Rock Top 25 Albums of the Year. It'll be

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[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem - the Thanksgiving special. As always, my show falls on the day before the Thanksgiving holiday, so it's up to me to spend two hours talking about things for which I'm thankful. This year's show is pretty fun and chock full of great stuff.I'll keep it short and sweet - jam on this stuff while you jam on some stuffing. Onward.]J's Indie/Rock

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