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Filling In: Backwoods Playlist – November 29, 2008

Big Dipper “Stranded in the Jungle”
the Clovers “The Feeling is So Good”
the Boys “For Your Love”
the Super Stocks “Street Machine”
the Tiger “Try a Screw to Get Through”

Lulu Belle & Scotty “Mountain Dew”
Wynonna Carr “Nursery Rhyme Rock”
Marlene Deitrich and Rosemary Clooney “Good For Nothing”
Sister Rosetta Tharpe “Didn’t It Rain”

bed music: Learn Morse Code

the Browns “If the Whole World Stopped Loving”
Howard B Hays & Malinda Parker “Chicken is Nice”
Crowns “Hey Pretty Girl”
Dolly Parton “Dumb Blonde”
Rev. Louis Overstreet “Yeah Lord! Jesus is Able”
Pilgrim Travelers “I Can Do Better Than That”

bed music: John Kiley “If I Loved You”

Anita O’Day “Lover”
Martha Carter “You Can If You Think You Can”
Roaring Lion “Some Girl Something”
Nilsson “Nobody Cares About the Railroads Anymore”
the Majestics “La Bamba”

bed music: the Irving Fields Trio “Havannah Nagilah”

Walt Kelly’s Pogo “The Song For Not Now”
the Hawaiian Orchestra “White Birds”
the Sensations f. Yvonne Mills “You’re My Baby Now”

the Sunshine Boys “That’s Bad”
Julia Lee & her Boyfriends “The Spinach Song”
Trompska Romance “Niagara”
Sam Moore “Old Black Joe”
Fred McDowell “Bull Dog Blues”
Johnny Ace “The Clock”

bed music: Mulatu “Chifara”

Honey Boy Allen “Ford V8″
Alex Bradford “I Don’t Care What the World May Do”
Coyle and Sharp “Grow Feathers”
the Lion “Send Your Children To the Orphan Home”
Louis Prima “Banana Split For My Baby”
Don Costa’s Free Loaders “Medley: By The Light of the Silvery Moon / Goodnight, Ladies / Merrily We Roll Along”
Francis F Silas F.J. “Sex Education Of Children (excerpt)”
the Drifters “Bip Bam”
Elder Charles Beck “Rock and Roll Sermon pt 1 & 2″

bed music: Hakurotwi Mude “Taireva”

Raphael Saadiq “Let’s Take a Walk”
the Treniers “Poon Tang”
Little Richard “She’s Got It”
Classie Ballou “Hey Ma Ma”
Four Sounds “Mama Ubangi Bangi”

bed music: Hakurotwi Mude “Nhemamusasa” & Ojibwa of Lac Du Flambeau, Wisconsin “Fish Dance”

Bobby Darin “Dream Lover (demo)”

Pipeline!’s Most Played: 2007

Pipeline! Top Plays Of 2007
Based on a calculation of actual plays and live performances during the calendar year of 2007, here are the top 107 artists of the year

1 Antiques

2 Hallelujah The Hills
3 MV & EE With The Bummer / Golden Road
4 Drug Rug

5 Audrey Ryan
6 Marissa Nadler
7 The Big Disappointments
8 Big Blood

9 The Capstan Shafts
10 Mobius Band
11 Why Twist The Hair
12 Spouse
13 Lo Fine
14 The Remains
15 Little Wooden Men / Angels
16 Campaign For Real Time
17 Tiger Saw

18 The Octave Museum
19 UV Protection
20 Alec K Redfearn And The Eyesores
21 Anais Mitchell
22 Damon And Naomi
23 Winterpills

24 Clouds
25 Major Stars

26 Buffalo Tom
27 Dinosaur Jr
28 Magik Markers
29 Jason Anderson
30 Brown Bird
31 Viva Viva
32 Josh Ritter
33 Milkweed
34 Deer Tick
35 Cursillistas
36 Shepherdess
37 Auto Interiors
39 Dirty Projectors
39 Ketman
40 Freezepop
41 Don Lennon
42 Wheat
43 Crystal Understanding
44 Phantom Buffalo
45 The Toughcats
46 The Information
47 Boy In Static
48 Frank Smith
49 The Soft Drugs
50 Lori McKenna
51 Kristin Andreassen
52 Kurt Weisman
53 The Poverty Line Old Time Band
54 The Charms
55 Willard Grant Conspiracy
56 Uncle Earl
57 Humanwine
58 Bobb Trimble
59 Mike And Ruthy Merenda
60 Cheater Slicks
61 Hotel Alexis

62 Broken River Prophet
63 The Underpainting
64 The Mericans
65 Sam Amidon
66 The Mitchells
67 Athletic Automaton
68 Lights
69 The Snowleopards
70 The 85s
71 Thurston Moore
72 Mandy Moore
73 Dennis Crommett
74 Willy Mason
75 B For Brontosaurus
76 A.K.A.C.O.D.
77 Arborea
78 Bow Thayer
79 The Mary Timony Band
80 The Proselyte
81 Jow Jow The Death Knell Rung
82 Wonderful Spells
83 Nonloc
84 Cocked N Loaded
85 Gerard Mellen
86 Fire On Fire
87 Orb Mellon
88 The Vershok
89 Howarewe Hawaii
90 Hands And Knees
91 The Channels
92 Tiny Hawks
93 Hats And Glasses
94 The Downbeat 5
95 Sarah Borges And The Broken Singles
96 The Brother Kite
97 Teddy And The Pandas
98 Who Shot Hollywood
99 Erin McKeown
100 Soltero
101 The Wooly Mammoth Died
102 The Everyday Visuals
103 ER
104 Dan Blakeslee
105 Glenn Jones
106 Pretty And Nice
107 The Curses

Fundraiser Week + Catching Up

Been a little slow on the site lately, as we slip into fall here in Boston.

The past couple months have been fruitful at WMBR. Aside from our regular Pipeline! we’ve been engineering bands, both live sets for touring bands as well as multitrack stuff for some friends. We also added a new mic or two to our collection, as well as a new preamp unit that’s been coming in real handy.

Also, this week is FUNDRAISER WEEK! Instead of one live act we’re going to pack FOUR into our usual two hour slot. We’ve got some special guests coming down to help us raise money for the station:

Hilken Mancini & Chris Colbourn
Adam Glasseye and the Chorus of the Broken Spine
Ten Years Old
the Poppies

It should be a great time, so please be sure to tune in and pledge if you can!

You can also pledge online if you’d like.

Thanks!

Cyanide Valentine discover Pipeline engineers’ dark secret

Scroll to the 9/13 blog entry

If Nick and I are robots, we have to be the two laziest ones ever built.

AS220 Fest this Saturday in Providence

Posting’s been a little light during the summer, but here’s something y’all should know about. This saturday July 17rh AS220 is celebrating 20 years of existence in Providence, RI with AS220 Fest, a huge outdoor celebration.

Tons of bands from the area playing, many of which have played Pipeline! at some point. The lineup includes:

Ted Leo, Lightning Bolt, The Slip, Mahi Mahi, Billy Nayer Show, Mary Timony, Gloria Deluxe, Erin Mckeown, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Thalia Zedek, Tiny Hawks, Growing, Modern Day Urban Barbarians, Superchief Trio, Alec K Redfearn + The Eyesores, Mr. Bodega, The Nice Ups, David Gonzalez, , Sentimental Favorites, Jared Paul, JMMJ, Maria Ventura, String Builder, Scotty The Blue Bunny

and more.

And did we mention it’s FREE?

Pipeline is podcasting!

Here it is: the Pipeline! podcast, straight from WMBR’s studios!

What is podcasting, you ask? Basically, it is all about having your computer download mp3′s automatically, as they are published on the web. You can listen afterwards on your computer or portable mp3 player – however you want.

There are many programs configure and manage podcasts on your computer – iPodder, for example, is free/open source software for windows, mac, and linux. The websites ipodder.org and podcasting-tools.com both contain helpful links to other podcasting clients.

If podcasting scares you a little, you may just want to stream one of our archived programs, which are now available on demand. Sadly, legal restrictions limit us to providing only the past two weeks of broadcasts. (The podcast, on the other hand, contains only live performances and will be available indefinitely.)

Enjoy the live music, and let us know what you think!

UV Protection pictures

Jeff took a couple pics of UV Protection playing at PA’s Lounge last week (I think). They look pretty cool.

I like this one the best:

Number two:

Number three:

Are the pics too big, you think I should use thumbnails here on the main page?

Pipeline! archives now available online!

Miss the Pipeline! last week, when your favorite band was on? Well, no more worries. Starting today, at any point in time you’ll be able to go back in time and listen to the past *2* shows. And it’s not just Pipeline!–the same goes for all shows on WMBR.

To get to the archives, go here:

http://wmbr.org/?p=sched-tue#pipeline

Remember, though, that you only have two weeks. Unfortunately, for legal reasons, we can’t host more than that. Also note that the live sets start very close to 9pm, which is 1 hour into the show.

Next up, at least for Pipeline!: podcasting. It’s basically a way for your computer to automatically download the most recent show and put it on your iPod (or other mp3 player), all without you doing anything. Currently you need special software to do this, but Monday it was announced that an upcoming version of iTunes will have podcasting support built-in. ETA for new iTunes is around 2 months; hopefully we’ll have the podcast feed up by then. Stay tuned.

DynAudio monitors – first impressions

So after doing two mixes (Les Breastfeeders and the Charms) on the DynAudio monitors Andy brought by last week, I’ve got some early comments (in bullet form because I’m too lazy for complete sentences today):

- Having a subwoofer in the monitoring system is annoying, bottom line. It’s one more thing to mess with, one more thing to go wrong on you, and one more thing you have to find a home for. This is a pretty nice subwoofer (gain control, high-pass outputs, and a low-pass filter on the input that can be varied from 50-150 Hz with a pot), but I’d still rather just have mains that can push a reasonable amount of low-end.

- On the other hand, having a subwoofer four inches from your crotch while mixing is an oddly enjoyable sensation.

- The first time anyone mixed on them (UV Protection’s outside engineer) I had the subwoofer gain at about 10 o’clock and the bass in the control room was way too high. After fooling around with reference CDs (Gang of Four – Entertainment!) for an hour or so, I concluded that the optimum bass setting was between 8-9 o’clock, roughly. That album doesn’t really have a lot of really low bass though, so we’ll probably want to repeat that experiment sometime with Dalek or the Beastie Boys.

- The low-pass knob on the sub was more problematic. I never quite managed to get it to sound right, but the best setting seemed to be in the 100Hz neighborhood (6 o’clock). This is roughly in keeping with the fact that the mains are set to roll off at 80Hz (they have a high-pass on the input that can be set to 0, 60, or 80), so it’s close to the “sweet spot” where overlap between the sub and mains is minimal but there’s no gap in the sound. The overlap was still enough to muddy the low-end a fair amount during both mixes, but it wasn’t anything I couldn’t live with. Given the cost of these things, I think some more experimentation will improve the sound quite a bit.

- The mains are what you’d expect from a high-end set of monitors; highs and mids are very bright, clear, and detailed. There are some settings on the mains for high/low/mid shelves and things like that, but I didn’t even bother; they sound fine out of the box.

Both mixes translated to OTA reasonably well, but I still think I like the Samsons better. Their only major drawback (weak low response) was fairly easy to work around once you understood it, and they were much less of a hassle to work with. As I said though, these things could sound awesome after some tweaking (and better, since they cost quite a bit more than the Samsons), so we’ll see.

Deerhoof at MIT, Vampire Belt

The same crew that engineers Pipeline! is also going to be running sound for the Deerhoof show Friday at MIT. You can find details here, with advance tix available at Twisted Village. Not too much local connection, although openers Nedelle put out a record on our very own Kimchee Records a couple years back. Anyways, stop by the mixing board and say hi if you get a chance!

In other news, WMBR’s show “You Are Here” broadcast a pre-recorded live performance (kinda like a Peel Session, if you will) by the mighty Vampire Belt tonight; Kyle recorded it at WMBR a couple weeks back. They’re from western Mass and are very much worth hearing. Now, I can hear you thinking “too bad you told me AFTER it was aired, jerk!” Well, once our spiffy new online archive is up and running this problem will go away. Soon, very soon.