March 7, 2010 by
kevin |
1 Comment » Tagged as: Bear in Heaven,
Cloud Nothings,
Horse Feathers,
Javelin,
Julian Lynch,
Mumford and Sons,
Phosphorescent,
Radio Dick,
Sleep Over,
Titus Andronicus,
Woven Bones
This week’s been at least a touch calmer over at Citizen Dick headquarters and while I’m probably not in any shape to have an excellent brunch, this week’s tracklist is pretty stout. The forecast for the next three months looks promising, and we’ll do our best to keep you updated. As we usually advertise, don’t [...]
March 1, 2010 by
kevin |
No Comments » Tagged as: Born Ruffians,
Low Sea,
Neon Indian,
Radio Dick,
She and Him,
Shearwater,
So Many Wizards,
The New Pornographers,
We Were Promised Jetpacks,
White Hinterland,
Wounded Lion
As Brian mockingly mentioned earlier in the week, we’ve hit the winter doldrums here at Citizen Dick and have been swamped with our 9 to 5’s. Call it burnout, call it stress, but we’ve been neglecting our readership quite a bit. As we slowly crawl out of our ice caves and begin to hit you [...]
February 21, 2010 by
kevin |
1 Comment » Tagged as: AB and the Sea,
Annuals,
Broken Social Scene,
Cant,
Class Actress,
Epstein,
Future Islands,
Radio Dick,
Ted Leo,
The Megaphonic Thrift,
The Morning Benders,
Yeasayer
As you may have noticed, we’ve been a little weak with the content this week. You get our sincere apologies. It’s been a busy few weeks for all of the Dicks and we’re slowly finishing up the circle laps we’ve been swimming. We’ll keep this short and simple: There are huge things happening musically and [...]
February 14, 2010 by
kevin |
5 Comments » Tagged as: Japandroids,
Joanna Newsom,
Little Girls,
Mumford and Sons,
Or The Whale,
Pattern is Movement,
Radio Dick,
Shearwater,
The Golden Filter,
The Morning Benders,
The Radio Dept.,
We Are Wolves,
Yeasayer
I believe one of our first Radio Dick features was on Valentine’s Day last year. I vaguely remember hosting a sarcastic discussion about how I was more interested in getting my tax return than in any sort of holiday for lovers. It’s probably fitting this week that the blogosphere was splattered with so much loving [...]
Nice to see Brian hit his Lazy Saturday post, even if it’s on Sunday. In any event, as promised, I’ve got the second installment of this week’s Radio Dick primed and ready to go. So as y’all overindulge today and watch the Colts take it to the Saints, do it with a soundtrack of new [...]
Those dudes up there attended Yale. They’re ambitious and reliable. If I were forced to hop in a boat with 9 other dudes for my own safety, I’d be pleased to have these young lads at the helm. We’re not as reliable at Citizen Dick, or at least we haven’t been over the last three [...]
January 31, 2010 by
kevin |
No Comments » Tagged as: Beach Fossils,
Caribou,
Clipd Beaks,
Four Tet,
JD Salinger,
jj,
Lali Puna,
Mumford and Sons,
Phoenix,
Radio Dick,
Serena-Maneesh,
These New Puritans,
Vivian Girls
This has been a tough week as a literature teacher. Brian alluded to the heartfelt loss we feel as a reading community at the loss of Howard Zinn and JD Salinger this week. Zinn was a seminal author for Brian, and understandably so. For me, however, Salinger’s writing marked a pivotal change for me. My [...]
January 24, 2010 by
kevin |
No Comments » Tagged as: David Byrne,
Drive-By Truckers,
Grizzly Bear,
High Places,
Inlets,
Mumford and Sons,
Radio Dick,
She & Him,
Shearwater,
The Antlers,
The Ruby Suns,
The xx
Editor’s Note: Albums are already starting to stack up, and oddly, this week’s installment of Radio Dick offers a playlist of things to come (and probably fitting that most of these are heavy hitting acts with prolific careers already). I’m starting to get the feel that many bands used 2009 as an off-season and this [...]
January 17, 2010 by
kevin |
2 Comments » Tagged as: Active Child,
Eat Skull,
El Perro Del Mar,
jj,
Laura Veirs,
Phantogram,
Phillip Oskar Augustine,
Radio Dick,
Rogue Wave,
Seabear,
The Morning Benders,
Thomas Western,
Twin SIster
The mid-January thaw in Cleveland is always a nice reprieve from the snowy assault that usually spans five months of our year in the snow belt of Ohio. Typically, the gods smile intermittently and allow us the chance to catch up with the plowing and salting of the roads. The slight increase above freezing temps [...]
January 10, 2010 by
kevin |
2 Comments » Tagged as: Barzin,
Beach Fossils,
Ben Sollee,
Daniel Martin Moore,
EELS,
FUR,
Love is All,
Pavement,
Radio Dick,
Radiohead,
The Knife,
White Hills,
Xiu Xiu
Let the games begin, so to speak. The holiday lull is officially over. Pronounced and emphasized by the amazing leaks from the past four days, January is in full gear and the horde of new music is primed and ready to go. Our goal at Citizen Dick, as always, is to do our best to [...]
January 1, 2010 by
kevin |
3 Comments » Tagged as: Beach Fossils,
Broken Bells,
Eumig and Chinon,
Family Band,
Local Natives,
Moddi,
Quail Lungs,
Radio Dick,
Retribution Gospel Choir,
Serena-Maneesh,
Sondre Lerche,
The Kays Lavelle,
The Very Sexuals
There’s really no way that I’m actually awake as this post hits the interwebs. We’re shooting this post out into the ether just to say hello and wish our readers a healthy and prosperous 2010. One year ago today, we jump started Citizen Dick at midnight as the ball dropped, and it’s been an amazingly [...]
December 13, 2009 by
kevin |
No Comments » Tagged as: harlem,
Hostage,
Liars,
Moon Duo,
Pantha Du Prince,
Radio Dick,
Salem,
Tanlines,
The Go Find,
The Soft Pack,
Title Tracks
Editor’s Aside: Before I dig into today’s music and drop you off at our 11 song list, I wanted to remind all of our readers to follow along with our “Best Albums of 2009″ list that we’re slowly unveiling. Click on our Best Albums of 2009 tag to see our list. We’re doing things a [...]
December 6, 2009 by
kevin |
No Comments » Tagged as: Art Museums,
Cloud Nothings,
Eluvium,
Fang Island,
Final Fantasy,
Grizzly Bear,
Jonsi,
Little Girls,
Neon Indian,
Okkervil River,
Radio Dick,
Shearwater,
Shout Out Louds,
Ted Leo,
Thee American Revolution,
Tycho
We’ve received plenty of emails recently asking us about our end of the year list. Readership, let’s begin.
Our inaugural year in the blogosphere has been spectacular, and although we have our customary mix of free and legal tunes below, we’re stoked to announce our “Best Albums of 2009″ coverage starting tomorrow. As we candidly use [...]
November 29, 2009 by
kevin |
3 Comments » Tagged as: Boy & Bear,
Chll Pll,
Citay,
Efterklang,
Fucked Up,
Grizzly Bear,
Magneta Line,
Past Lives,
Radio Dick,
Sirius XMU,
The Kissaway Trail,
the name,
The Notwist,
The Sandwitches,
Toro Y Moi
I’ve never been a Sirius Satellite Radio subscriber, but I think I’m going to take the leap. I visited my parents in grand Cincinnati this weekend for the holidays and my mother and I also took the winding four hour drive through Tennessee, as they have a vacation cabin just outside of Knoxville. Along the [...]
November 22, 2009 by
kevin |
1 Comment » Tagged as: Beach House,
Beck,
CFCF,
Crystal Antlers,
El Guincho,
Fan Death,
Hurricane Bells,
Jason Boesel,
New Moon,
People Eating People,
Radio Dick,
Small Black,
The Whitest Boy Alive,
Tim Cohen,
Vampire Weekend
Today’s Radio Dick will digress into semi-rant this weekend, not particularly because the tracklist I’ve got below is bad, but more because I’m knee deep in New Moon nonsense. Considering the soundtrack issue is relevant and thought-provoking, I wanted to follow up on my already disdainful, yet mildly successful take on my initial fears and [...]
November 8, 2009 by
kevin |
No Comments » Tagged as: Air,
Black Moth Super Rainbow,
Dirty Projectors,
Fool's Gold,
Grog Shop,
His Clancyness,
Jookabox,
Molina & Johnson,
Pants Yell!,
Radio Dick,
Sleigh Bells,
Small Black,
Tea,
Tegan & Sara,
The Raveonettes,
White Denim
At the very moment you’re reading this post, I, Kevin, of Citizen Dick, do solemnly swear that last night’s White Denim concert was the cat’s ass, and I also swear that I won’t wake up until at least 12:30 this afternoon. Leave a message at the beep.
In all seriousness, this post was compiled and completed [...]
November 1, 2009 by
kevin |
7 Comments » Tagged as: ARMS,
Cold Cave,
Dominant Legs,
Drink Up Buttercup,
Field Music,
Glass Ghost,
Mount Eerie,
Radio Dick,
Surfer Blood,
The Big Pink,
The Soft Pack,
Yeasayer
If you’ve noticed, I switched up the format of Radio Dick over the last couple of weeks into semi-review mode as opposed to the bag-o-tunes mentality. However, just this once, I’m going back to the old-school mode, specifically using the “I’ve got too much grading to do” argument. The end of the first nine weeks [...]
October 25, 2009 by
kevin |
3 Comments » Tagged as: A-Trak,
Cloud Control,
Damien*,
Emergency Blanket,
Faded Paper Figures,
Golden Silvers,
Lipgloss,
Memory Tapes,
Midnight Juggernauts,
O'Lovely,
OOIOO,
Parlour Steps,
Radio Dick,
The Uglysuit,
The Whigs,
Warpaint,
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
We’ve dished out quite a bit of content this week, so I suppose I’ll get to the music list early. If you’re just tuning in, I’ve switched up the way these Radio Dick posts go, attempting to offer a little more commentary on the tracks I’m posting. This week, I’ve got an interesting mix of [...]
October 18, 2009 by
kevin |
2 Comments » Tagged as: Cant,
Doveman,
Electric Wire Hustle,
Frat Dad,
LCD Soundsystem,
Little Girls,
Memory Tapes,
Old Canes,
Primary 1,
Radio Dick,
Surfer Blood,
Tamaryn,
That Ghost,
To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie,
Trophy Boyfriend,
Woven Bones
Sweetest Day didn’t go well for me. On one hand, I woke up entirely hung over from Friday’s Dr. Dog show at Beachland. We had a little Citizen Dick reunion of sorts, with Rob, Brian, and Justin all converging at my place after the amazing set the medicinally astute canine put on for us. Plenty [...]
October 11, 2009 by
kevin |
No Comments » Tagged as: Alela Diane,
Bear in Heaven,
Blue Arrow,
Ganglians,
GZA,
Mando Diao,
Molina & Johnson,
Music Saves,
Of Montreal,
Princeton,
Radio Dick,
Royksopp,
Slaraffenland,
Sleep Whale,
T.H. White,
Tape Deck Mountain,
The Jesus Lizard,
White Rabbits
I have a friend that’s soon going to be a famous actress. This is not a lie. I woke up yesterday morning to find “Paranormal Activity” as the top Twitter trending topic. See, I have friends in high places, and soon you’ll have to recognize that this is just how I roll. I eat fine [...]
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