Spring Break 2009! A Collection Of The Best...

Well here it is, and it's all about fun. This show takes some of my all time favorites along with some fresh new hits and swirls it all into one big party mix. Your foot won't stop tapping...that's for sure.

The full track listing will be embedded in the mp3 should you choose to download it or subscribe to the podcast...but you can expect to hear: The Thrills, Ladybug Transistor, Of Montreal, The Research, The Pipettes, Mint Royale, Pulp, and Tahiti 80 as well as brand new songs from Neko Case, Camera Obscura and The Super Furry Animals....24 tracks in all!

The show is an hour and a half. Just for spring break. Just for 2009. Just for you.

Show #41- Ups and Downs

Well, I don't know what to make of 2009 so far. It's been a bizarre year and we're only 2 month in. Congrats to Kelli on getting the Boettcher. Sorry to Sean and Leslie for losing their computers. Props to Cowboy for defending the house. Thumbs down to the Denver Police that were no help what-so-ever. Best wishes to Paul G and Carina movin' in together...dang!!!

Here is a nice long show to keep your mind off of the world's craziness:
0. (Stereolab - Dear Marge)
1. Metric - Empty
2. Annie - Always Too Late
3. Weezer - The Good Life
4. Beulah - What Will You Do If Your Suntan Fades
5. Ballboy - A Relatively Famous Victory
6. Pulp - She's a Lady
7. The Cure - The Walk (Everything Mix)
8. The Duke Spirit - The Step and The Walk
9. Does It Offend You, Yeah? - We Are Rockstars
10. Bob Marley and the Wailers - Punky Reggae Party
11. Mojave 3 - Give What You Take
12. Blonde Redhead - Silently
13. (New) Morrissey - I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris
14. My Morning Jacket - Off the Record
15. Ratatat - Lex
16. Justice - Phantom II
17. Usher - What's Your Name - Awww Yeah!

Show 40 - A mostly mellow non-holiday show for the holidays

The Cure
Denise James
Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s
The Lucksmiths
MGMT
St. Etienne
Blur
Thao with The Get Down Stay Down
Neil Halstead
Feist
The Smiths
The Clientele
Memphis
Stars

Show #39 - I've been away..but now I'm back...oh baby baby...

Well, we are nearing the end of 2008...it's about time I got off my butt and put forth some music for everyone. This show features some new Oasis, new Stereolab, a couple of songs from Voxtrot, a bad-ass song by Santogold, and some of my all time favorites from Depeche Mode, The Cars, David Bowie, the Smiths, and Ride. Also included is Elliott Smith, Metric, The Sounds, The Ting Tings, Sea Wolf, and Tellier & Oizo & Sebastian! It's jammed packed baby!!!

Full track listing available when you download the mp3 or if you subscribe to the podcast using:

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Write me at: vincentparenti@hotmail.com

Show #38 - Feel It!

Well, here we are again. Ready to rock? Hope this show keeps your toe tappin' and/or booty shakin'.

1. We’re the Pet Shop Boys (A new classic)
2. Mates of State - My Only Offer (Coming to Denver 10/1/08)
3. The Arcade Fire – Une Annee Sans Lumiere
4. Ballboy - Godzilla vs. The Island of Manhattan (So good..so so good!)
5. The Rentals – Getting By
6. Neon Neon – Belfast
7. The Toasters – Don’t Blame Me
8. The Lucksmiths – Tmrw vs. Y’day
9. Sea Wolf – The Rose Captain
10. The Ramones – When I Was Young
11. The Cardigans – My Favourite Game
12. Neko Case – I Wish I Was the Moon (Prettiest voice in the world?)
13. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (One of my all time classic favorites)
14. Faithless - She's My Baby
15. T. Rex – Hot Love (A perfect closer)

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Show #37 - Better Than the Radio

Wow, how do I do it? Here is another amazing hour of music that is sure to rival anything you can find on the radio! So fear not faithful listeners, you are guaranteed at least 1 hour of excellent, commercial-free music to enjoy (2 hours if you listen twice)!

Bedroom Walls		Kathy In Her Bedroom			0:53
Neon Neon		Dream Girls			4:11
The Zebras		I Quit			7:33
General Public		Tenderness			11:32
James William Hindle		Doubt			14:57
M. Ward		To Go Home			17:59
The Ocean Blue		Bye			21:37
Denise James		Coud You Love Me			25:42
The Clash		Rudie Can't Fail			28:01
Belle and Sebastian		Storytelling			31:31
Frankie Valli		My Eyes Adored You			34:27
Pants Yell!		Two French Sisters			37:47
The Wombats		Sunday TV			41:16
The Coral		Put the Sun Back			46:26
New Order		Bizarre Love Triangle			49:24
The Moldy Peaches		Anyone Else but You			56:02

All Request Show #2

I'm finally done with the show! These take me a while because I have to wrangle up all the songs first then edit the show. But I think you've all made a good one.

Thanks to everyone that contributed a song for the world to hear. Please keep in mind that my friends/listeners come from all different genres of music so this show is a little all over the place. But I think that's okay, it's okay to rock something new once in a while.

So dial it up and listen to the favorite songs of: Alex, Andy, Brian, Diana, Erica, Jen, Jill, Joe Murphy, Kelli, Lauren W, Mark W, Norm, PAF (kinda...), Paul G, Robin, and Zack!

Show #36 - A+ material from a teacher on summer break!

Excellent line up! Some songs for Jesse Johnson as well as everyone else on the planet. You can look forward to the likes of Belle and Sebastian, The Rosebuds, Lush, new Weezer, new Mates of state, some Morrissey, some Jarvis Cocker, Stereolab and lots, lots more. This is my longest show at a whopping hour and 8 minutes! Sit back because every song is A+ material!

Show #35 - Been a while...

Cowboy likes it! You will too!


Sooner Than You Think New Order
Do It All Over Again Spiritualized
The Crystal Lake Grandaddy
Song For The Ending Day The Ladybug Transistor
Berlin The Essex Green
French Rock 'N' Roll Black Box Recorder
Falling Ben Kweller
The Prettiest Star David Bowie
Radiation The Apples In Stereo
Born Under A Bad Sign Richard Hawley
The Garden That You Planted Sea Wolf
The night they drove old Dixie down Joan Baez
Can't Get Out Bed Charlatans
Orienteering Little Name
little sack of sugar Elizabeth Michell

Show #34 - Pretty Darn Ok!

Earlimart
Blonde Redhead
La Buena Vida
Manic Street Preachers
Evan Dando
Morrissey
Jens Lekman
The Sounds
His Name Is Alive
Lush
Stars
Sea Wolf
Ballboy
Wilco
M. Ward
Marvin Gaye

Oh Yeah.

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The Top 10 of 2007!!

Here they are, all of your favorites (ok, they're actually my favorites) from 2007. Most are repeats from previous shows but all 10 should be great to remember this fantastic year and get you all pumped for 2008! Be cool. Vin.

Show #33 - So Freakin' Good

Daft Punk
The Smiths
Peter, Bjorn, and John
Elefant
The Cardigans
David Bowie
Dear Nora
I Am the World Trade Center
The Lucksmiths
The Shins
Club 8
Work Clothes
Spoon
Sebastien Tellier
Rachel Goswell
Travis

Tell your friends!!!

Show #32 - Indie pop, good stuff, not jock rock

All the best indie pop jams from The Jesus and Mary Chain, Hermit Crabs, The Kinks, The Blow, Math & Physics Club, The National, The Sounds, Blur, Cat Stevens and so on and so forth

Show #31 - Brian K, April, and Seattle all rule!

Well, here's to another married friend....Brian K....Go Brian and April!

This show comes fully loaded with all of your favorites from Stereolab to Asobi Seksu to The Format, Beulah, Rooney, Au Revoir Simone, The Lemonheads, The Shermans and yes...Sisters!!! (and much much more!)

Show #30 - Wandering and not...

August 19, 2007

Here’s a very heartfelt mellow (yet poppy in spots!) show. I can’t believe I am to 30 already! Here are the songs this month:

– Persephone’s Bees – Frank Sinatra – The Cure – Ballboy – The Apples in Stereo (yeah, I know I play them like every month!)– The Aluminum Group – Belle & Sebastian– Nanook of the North – Rilo Kiley (from the brand new album: Under the Blacklight)– Neko Case (yeah, I know I play her like every month!)– Pet Shop Boy – Elastica– Camera Obscura Gilbert O’Sullivan

Show #29 - You can dance, I just know it

Strip down to your underwear and dance your butt off to the tunes of:

Interpol Fountains of Wayne St. Etienne The Ramones Super Furry Animals T.Rex Simon Finn Earlimart Spoon Lily Allen Coldplay Math and Physics Club Cat Stevens The Toasters and Mos Def

For the full track listing, download the mp3 and save to your ipod here (right-click and save): http://www.archive.org/download/VinShow29/Show29.mp3

Show #28 - I just don't know anymore...

Get down to some Aimee Mann, Pulp, The Starlight Mints, The Apples, The Hot Toddies, The Darkness, Rilo Kiley, The Loose Salute, Serge Gainsbourge, Weezer, The Rentals, Pat Benatar, and 2 special bonus songs!!

Summer Show 2007

Well, I've outdone myself on this one. Good times and summer fun, that's what this show is all about. I've got a rockin' show packed full of the following delights: Spoon, Blur (covering Rod Steward!), The Cardigans, The Avalanches, Electronic, Jet, Rocketship, Daft Punk, Rufus Wainwright, Gym Class Heroes, Teenage Fanclub, and Underworld! Come on in, the water's fine...

Show #27 - Ranked # 1

This show is ranked at the top of the list!

artists include: Stereolab, Mojave 3, Belle & Sebastian, New Pornographers, Guster, Peter Bjorn and John, Birdie (my feature song!), M.Ward, Tilly & the Wall, Komeda, Kevin Devine, John Lennon, The Decemberists, Morrissey, Rilo Kiley, and The Super Furry Animals!

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Spring Break 2007 Part 1

Here is Part 1 of my Spring Break radio shows! It's the slower of the two but don't discount the content. It's hot hot hot and is sure to move the earth beneath you!

Spring Break 2007 Part 2

This show has all your dance and rock favorites to celebrate a new season of fun in the sun!

Show 26 - The 2nd best podcast on the internet

Hey there, I hope you like some new songs and some old ones from New Order, The decemberists, Emitt Rhodes, Neko Case, Stereolab, The Catherine Wheel, Ride, Neutral Milk Hotel, Camera Obscura and more! Also, in this edition is a great audio clip of the lead singer of BallBoy's podcast. Great stuff.

Show 25 - The Best Around!!!

Awww Yeah. I am starting to amaze myself with how good these shows are. Check this show out if you like the Shins, the Cure, Mazzy star, Hutch and Kathy, Radiohead, Tilly and the Wall, Suede, Elliot Smith, Magnet, Nico, REM, The Avalanches, The Lightning Seeds, and Bedroom Walls (plus a special bonus track from back in the day)...

I know I'm recycling some of the same groups, but hey, good music is good music.

Christmas 2006!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!!! Here come's a killer Christmas show for ya. I've dug up some treats...everything from El Vez to Stars to Death Cab to Queen to Johnny Cash to John Denver and many more! Here are some links to try, I hope one of them works for you and I hope you all have some happy holidays!

Show 24---By far and away the best!

Radio Dept., Metric, Travis, Mazzy Star, Decemberists, Broadcast, Rentals, Adorable...

Show 23 (there is no 22?!) - Double Up!

Hey Hey it's time to double your pleasure with my latest show where I'm playing not 1 but 2 smash hits from your favorite artists. I'm not going to tell you those artists, I'm only going to tell you that the show is goooood!

Show #21

Well, what can I say. It's not the best, it's not the worst. Today I feature my good friends Brian and Norm's band The Diets, along with some Lily Allen, Eleni Mandell, Stereolab, Nico, Metric, and some other stuff like that.

Summer Show #1

Summer is over. But you can still rock.

(This show is rated G): RZA, Ramones, Magnet, Lenny Williams, Kings of Convienence, Grandaddy, Gillian Hills, ELO!, Eletralane, The Czars, Coldplay, The Aluminum Group, Masta Killa.

Summer Show #2

Thank you Marlana and Akila. Thank you Lara. Thank you John Lawless.

This show is rated PG because Mos Def has a potty mouth): The Cure, Elvis, Death Cab For Cutie, Johnny Cash, Mojave 3, St. Etienne, Morrissey, The New Pornographers, La Buena Vida, Stars, Mos Def, The Cocteau Twins, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Belle & Sebastian.

New Show...#20

It's that time again. Time for the latest and greatest show. They just keep getting better and better. I apologize in advance, but I do not talk on this show so I'll have to tell you up front about the artists. In this fine show you will hear brand new jams from the Essex Green, Camera Obscura, Belle and Sebastian, and Mojave 3. In addition you will hear the Ramones, The Darkness, the Cocteau Twins, The Dears, Interpol, Mel C, Beulah, the Scotland yard gospel choir, Aimee Mann (with Michael Penn, brother to Sean Pean, husband to Aimee Mann), The king, and Marvin Gaye. Not in that order.

Show 19 - Back in action

Show # 19 is fresh off the press. Included are T-Rex, Super Furry Animals, The Beautiful South, Aberdeen, The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, and a very special Morrissey song!

Go get 'em!

Show 17 - Coming out after show 18, go figure...

You'll be treated to the likes of: the red house painters, beulah, the cardigans, the rentals, new belle and sebastian, other crap....

Show 18 (coming out before show 17)

This one is great.

Show 16 - All new Stuff...

This show features bands I have not played thus far. Some are one-hit wonders, others have just managed to slip through the cracks.

Enjoy The Records, The Ocean Blue, Suede, Bob Dylan, The Gentle Waves and other stuff like that...

The Christmas Show! 2005!

Happy Holidays everybody! Are you ready for the craziest Christmas show of all time???

Spice Girls, The Darkness, Run DMC, El Vez, Saint Etienne, Everything but the girl, Erasure, The Sixth Great Lake, John Denver and so on and so forth.

Happy Holidays!!!

Show #15 - For Brian K (and everyone else too!)

This show goes out to Brian K who is heartbroken and had his car broken into. Damn.

It features 2 rap numbers with explicit lyrics along with some fly tunes from Josh Ritter, Coldplay, Weezer, Depeche Mode, New Order, Radiohead, The Decemberists, and more!

Show 14 - Here's to Math Day!!!

I took a handful of kids up to CSU for a math competition. It was one of the best days of my life!

Thus, I will treat you to the likes of Stars, Cat Stevens, James Hindle, The Postal Service, A Camp, David Bowie, Jens Lekman, Morrissey, Clearlake and The Red House Painters....lucky you!

God bless the math students of America...I love 'em to pieces!

Show #13 - Crankin' em out

It's all here. New Cardigans, Ernest Tubb, Fountains of Wayne, The Zombies, Matthew Sweet, etc...

Show 12 - I think it's good

Hi there! Show #12 features some nice jams with a slow but good feel to them. You'll be amazed by the works of: Belle and Sebastian, Los angeles de charley, Ben Kweller, The super furry animals, the innocence mission, Laura Cantrell, Tahiti 80, and The Aislers Set.

Show 11 - Back in action!

I've been away, but now I'm back. I went to Lauren and Mark's wedding, saw Oasis and Jet in concert, I saw Paul off to France, I taught some kids some math.....

This show includes some Essex Green, Beautiful South, Ben Kweller, Radio Dept., Lush, Bird York, some live Oasis, Hal, and Junior Senior....along with some others....

Show 10 - Here's to Lauren and Mark

Lauren and Mark are tying the knot...Congrats guys!!!

Show 10 features some tunes from the cocteau twins, electronic, massive attack, oasis, yo la tengo, and a bunch of other groups that I always play...

Show # 9 - A little late

This show is a little late but still a hot item....

Includes an opening song from Phoenix, and others from World Party, some new Death Cab for cutie, some Jens Lekman, Hal, Madness, and Gene. And a crap load more.

Show #8 - A- is its grade

Ok folks, this one just feels so much better than that last one. Enjoy it.

Song you'll hear are from: Moose, The Ramones, A Camp, Everything but the girl, The killers, Morcheeba, I am Spoonbender, and Floraline....and more too!

Show #7 - It's a C+ at best

I can't place my finger on it, but there's something about this show that makes it sub-par. However, having said that, it's still a good upbeat show. I will also add that the next show is in the works and it's already incredible.

Songs this week include: Annie, The Beautiful South, The Zombies, Snow Patrol, Mates of State, and a dedication to Paul G who is shipping off to France for 9 months.

Stay cool. Stay in school.

Show #6 - It's too many good

Here's show #6. It's a good one for a night when you feel like relaxing. Don't be fooled however, it's got some hot spots to get your toes tapping and your butt shakin'....

Artists include, but are not limited to, the following: Belle and Sebastian, Belle and Sebastian, Stars, Interpol, Morrissey, Belle and Sebastian, Everything but the girl, The Siddeleys....

Radio Show #5 - Stop talking during the music please

Show 5 is nice and easy to follow along with. I apologize for my 2 stories which happen to come right in the middle of songs! Good times though.

Annie, Camera Obscura, Daft Punk, Lindy Stevens, New Order, and yes....Kenny Loggins!

Radio Show #4, Mo' Upbeat!

Show #4 tends to be mostly upbeat with a slow jam or two thrown in.

Enjoy some songs off of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack from the bee gees along with the cure, the morrissey, the orb, the cardigans, the stereophonics and other 'the' bands. but not the the.

Radio Show #3, The Best Yet!

Hey All! Show #3 is incredible. No really, I mean it.

Songs from: The Other Two, Broadcast, The Rentals, La Buena Vida, Mazzy Star and yes....Ozzy!!!

After you listen to the show I expect you to report back here and comment on the show, or all the shows in general. Post some requests and comments and keep it real. Be Good, V.

CONGRATULATIONS LANCE ARMSTRONG ON 7!

Radio Show #2

Here's Show #2, which is better than show #1...

I think the microphone was a little bit loudened up but the tunes are intact.

Neil Halsted, Slowdive, Cibo Mato, The Cardigans, Ballboy, The Radio Dept., and more...