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Wicked broadcast from Monday, March 15, 20TEN. The featured band of the week is WHITE FENCE (above), a cool dude from L.A., Cali. by the name of Tim Presley. WHITE FENCE’s song “Be Right To” off his upcoming debut album is featured as the fourth song of the broadcast. WHITE FENCE is a great Psych-Pop/ Garage/ Lo-Fi’ed out one man project that brings together 60s sunny pop, through the likes of the Mamas and Papas, Syd Barrett, the Byrds, and some great trashy throwback FUZZZ. Also a full time member of the Austin, TX band THE STRANGE BOYS, Tim’s newest self-titled album “WHITE FENCE” will be released on the Brooklyn based WOODSIST record label in late April. The rest of the playlist features Caribou, some ‘78 Garage-Punk, modern Garage-Punk, and 60s Psych-Pop. Check the comments tab below for the playlist from March 15, 20TEN.

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Awesome Spring Break show from when I stayed home in Athens, GA on March 8th, 20TEN. The first and featured track of the broadcast is by Pill Wonder and called “Gone to the Market” off the Jungle/Surf EP (or Pill Wonder EP) that recently came out in 20TEN. Pill Wonder (above) is Will Murder, from Seattle. He creates great lo-fi psych inflected Brian Wilson pop with lots of interesting instrumentation. Rest of the playlist features great 60s Garage tunes and lots of contemporary heavy Garage-Punk you’ve grown to love on Sundialing. Start the playlist about 30 min in because I was blocked out of the station for a while… Check the comments tab below for the playlist from March 8th.

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Very diverse playlist featuring some current Psych, Lo-Fi, Electronic, Garage-Punk Fuzzed out Pop you’ve grown to love on Sundialing, the best in Psych-Pop/Garage-Rock. Featured band of the week is Les Problemes, a French ‘65 Garage-Punk band full of FUZZZZZZ. Their song “Je Ne Vois Rien” is featured as the 9th song of the broadcast and appeared on their ‘65 EP “Je Ne Vois Rien.” Start the broadcast around 10 or 15 min in due to one of us DJs runnin late. See you next week Sundialers. Keep the FUZZZ rockin’. Playlist for March 1st found under the comments tab below.

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Psychedelic broadcast from February 22nd, 10! Features diverse sounds from Garage to Garage-Punk and some straight up 60s Psych-Pop. Group featured for this week is The Hex Dispensers (above), band from Austin, TX. They have come out with two LPs, the second one being “Winchester Mystery House” and the first one a self-titled debut. I played their song “Tentacles” from their 2007 self-titled debut, which is featured as the fourth song of the broadcast, and includes some heavy garage-punk chords. Playlist from the 22nd can be found under the comments tab below.

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Great music from February 15th, 10! NERVE CITY. is the featured band of the week. NERVE CITY., Richmond, Virginian native, is a one-man psych-drugged out noise-pop band who creates great music all the time. SERIOUSLY, this guy is putting out 7″ more than the amount of girls Tiger Woodz committed adultery with on his wife. NERVE CITY.’s song “Disaster” if featured as the second song of the broadcast from his newest album recently released in Twenty-Ten, which is entitled “NERVE CITY. Recordings: 2008-2009.” I (DJ ZAN) took the first hour followed up by DJ WILL with the last.


Playlist from the show on the 15th can be found by clicking the comments section below.

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Great broadcast from Monday, February 8th, ‘10! Features the band of the week, The Curiously Strong Peppermints, a current band hailing from Minneapolis, Minnesota with their song “George Bush,” which is the first song off the broadcast. Their album “Endless Fields of Poppy” is absolutely great. Fantastic Psych-Pop / Noise-Pop similar to the Elephant 6 collective. First half of the broadcast features largely Psych-Pop and then Psych-Electro-Pop, with the last half centering on blistering Garage Rock from the 60s onwards.

Playlist from the broadcast is under the comments section below.

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Entertaining broadcast I did (DJ Zan) by myself on Blank Generation’s show Wednesday, February 3rd. Blank Generation’s a cool show that DJ Will normally does that encompasses 60s, 70s experimental music and 80s Hardcore. Because I don’t listen to enough 80s stuff that isn’t anything other than really Garage rock/punk I included some more current Hardcore/Garage-Punk bands. So I would consider this show jam packed full of 60s Garage/ 70s Prog/Psych rock/ 70s Synth-Pop / and current Garage-Punk/Psych-Pop. A current band featured within the first hour of the broadcast is Alex Bleeker and the Freaks, from New Jersey, WISC. Kind of a supergroup really, Julian Lynch is also featured on lead shredding guitar, their self-titled album recently came out just a few months ago. Side B is featured and runs for 11 minutes as a Classic rock revivalism jam session.

The other highlight that corresponds more to a Blank Generation type of artist is the Krautrockin’ Germans, Kraftwerk. Their highly influential song for all things Electronic, “Metal on Metal”, from their ‘77 album “Trans-Europe Express” is featured within the first hour of music too.

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Great recording of Will and myself (Zan) doing Sundialing on Monday, February 1st, 2010. Band spotlight of the week is on the The Necessary Evils, a Garage-Punk band that formed in 1997 in Austin, TX. Currently, the band seems to be on hiatus with their members devoting more time to their solo projects, which have also received time on Sundialing’s airwaves throughout the years. Their band biography on IN THE RED Records does a great job of summing up their sound: Interplanetary transmissions and the sound of blood lust – get ready for the extreme psychodelic and otherworldly sounds of the Necessary Evils. Their brand of sci-fi inspired fuzz rock stands alone. Founded in 1997 by Steve Pallow (formerly of The Beguiled) and James Arthur (formerly of Fireworks), and rounding out their line up with Kyle John Hall on drums and Jimmy Hole on bass, The Evils have carved a nasty path of destruction over the last few years. Their’s is the darkest, sickest, meanest sound around – truly the product of a disturbed psyche. Steve Pallow’s voice issues warnings and threats throughout their rock n’ roll demolition derby while James Arthur wrangles sounds out of his beat up Electra guitar that range from the sound of metal on metal grinding to that made by a flying saucer. Jimmy and Kyle’s rhythm gives one very fat bottom to this ugly beast. With a nod to 60’s psychedelic music (see covers of The Seeds, Black Rose, White Light and ineptitude kings The Keggs). The Evils make a racket that’s brutal, intrusive and uncompromising. Their song “Play With Fire” from their ‘99 Release The Sicko Inside Me is featured as the fifth song of the broadcast. The rest of the playlist is great with an emphasis on Garage-Punk, Garage-Pop, and Psych-Pop from the 60s, 70s, 90s, and 00s, and can be found under the comments tab under this post.

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The Ruby Suns, win the highlight of this week’s broadcast recorded live on Monday, January 25, 2010. The Ruby Suns, lead by California native Ryan McPhun, are out of New Zealand and play great Kiwi-tinged Psych-Pop. I was lucky enough to see them in the summer of ‘08 when they were touring behind their last brilliant album, Sea Lion. Their newest single “Cranberry” moves through an Animal Collective-esque intro. and then moves quickly into a Beach Boys inspired Psych-Pop chorus full of images centering on the Sun’s glorious rays and tropical fruit. Lookout for their newest album entitled “Fight Softly,” featuring “Cranberry,” which is out on shelves March 2nd courtesy of Sub-Pop Records. Although the picture below seems to hold 8 members in the band, there remains only 2 members including McPhun himself (He’s the half-naked one with the top-hat and eating fruit). I’ll also attempt to post a video of the show I went to in the Summer of ‘08 in ATL. @ The Variety Playhouse, as well as some pictures from the event on Sundialing’s blog later in the week. Look in the comments tab below to access the entire playlist of the show in a following link. See you next Monday, Sundialers.

According to numerous websites and online sources, Jay Reatard died in his sleep this morning at 3:30 AM home in Memphis, TN. Total bummer. Some sources suggest he had flu-like symptoms before his death, according to Jay’s close friends. Sad night for Memphis and the entire garage-rock scene. RIP Jay…you and your music will be missed. I leave you with my favorite song and awesome video by Jay, entitled Blood Visions.” This video of “Blood Visions” was recorded live at the Earl in Atlanta on December 3rd, ‘09.