Late MWGA Show 8/10/16

We were late setting up for MWGA. Top ten jams was on at 6PM with replay tonight at 10PM.

The Lemon Twigs "These Words"
Deerhoof "Model Behavior"

- WXCI Top 10 Jams 8/10/16 -
12. Peaer "Pink Spit"
11. Lvl Up "Pain"
10. Warpaint "New Song"
9. Gucci Mane "Waybach"
8. Against Me! "Haunted, Haunting, Haunts"
7. Wilco "If I Ever Was a Child"
6. Banks & Steelz f/ Kool Keith "Sword In The Stone"
5. Krill "Meat"
4. The Dean Ween Group "Mercedez Benz"
3. Stove "Mrs. Robertson"
2. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats "Remember Tomorow"
1. Miguel "Cadillac"

Schoolboy Q f/ Jadakiss "Groovy Tony"
Total Slacker "Turn On The Lights"
Alex G "Black Hair"
Phoenix "Napoleon Says"
Self "Missed The Friction"
Charli XCX "Doing It"
The Knux "Cappuccino"
The Internet "Gabby"
Ryan Leslie "Diamond Girl"
D'Angelo and the Vanguard "The Charade"
Rihanna "Love On The Brain"
Miguel "Adorn"
Jannelle Monae "Ghetto Woman"
Outkast "ATLiens"
Prince "Sign O' The Times"

MWGA Presents "Make 2009 Great Again"

Did Lady Gaga appear in our "Best of 2009" special? You bet she did.
Here's Mike's 2009 retrospective from last October: http://tastemykidsblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/2000-jams-from-2000s-part-10-2009.html

And here's the full playlist from our show yesterday (which was possibly re-broadcast last night):

Miguel "Come Through and Chill"
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats "Remember Tomorrow"
Total Slacker "Turn On The Lights"
Weaves "Shithole"
Krill "Meat"
Phantogram "You Don't Get Me High Anymore"

-Make 2009 Great Again-
Ovlov "Mustachio"
Lil Wayne f/ Beyonce & Nicki Minaj "Sweet Dreams (Remix)"
12. The xx "Crystalised"
11. Passion Pit "Little Secrets"
10. Ke$ha "TiK ToK"
9. Silversun Pickups "Substitution"
8. Neon Indian "Should Have Taken Acid With You"
7. Grizzly Bear "Two Weeks"
6. Pill "Dimes of Hard"
5. Kid Cudi f/ Kanye West & Common "Make Her Say"
4. No Age "Genie"
3. Animal Collective "Brother Sport"
2. Gucci Mane "Lemonade"
1. Animal Collective "What Would I Want? Sky"
Japandroids "Wet Hair"'
Goblin Cock "We Need a Bleeder"
Beak> "Iron Acton"
The Hood Internet "Comfortable In Here"
Plies "Becky"
Pill "Trap Goin' Ham"

Dreezy "Wasted"
Rihanna "Consideration"
Rihanna "James Joint"
Stove "Mrs Robertson"
Outkast "Ain't No Thang"
C.S.S. "Off The Hook"
Miguel "Cadillac"
Wolf Parade "Floating World"
Giraffe Giraffes "Scorpion Bowls At the Hong Kong"
Grass Is Green "Big Dog Tee Shirt Birthday Weekend"
Yo La Tengo "Stockholm Syndrome"
Geronimo "Aging Sound"
Make Believe "For Lauri Bird"
My Bloody Valentine "Don't Ask Why"
Thinking Fellers Local Union 282 "Empty Cup"
Frank Ocean "Thinking about You"

"Make 2006 Great Again" plus top 10 jams show

Get it? iPhones did not exist in 2006.

Today we did the top 10 Jams of 2006 show, plus we did a bonus top 10 songs of the past week (because there was no show on Monday due to the tower being worked on during our shift). Also a musician from the local area stopped in during our Top 10 show, and so we made good on our promise to play his song which came in at #12.

Here's what we played:

- 2006 Top Ten Jams Special -
Boris & Michio Kurihara "You Laughed Like a Watermark"
12. Be Your Own Pet "Adventure"
11. Rihanna "S.O.S."
10. Paris Hilton "Stars Are Blind"
9. Sonic Youth "Do You Believe In Rapture"
8. Lupe Fiasco "Kick Push"
7. Thom Yorke "Black Swan"
Justin Timberlake f/ Three 6 Mafia "Chop Me Up"
Midlake "Young Bride"
6. TV On The Radio "Province"
5. Mogwai "Glasgow Megasnake"
4. Of Montreal "Gronlandic Edit"
3. Silversun Pickups "Well Thoughts Out Twinkles"
2. The Flaming Lips "The W.A.N.D."
1. T.I. "Why You Wanna"
Clipse "Ride Around Shinin'"


The Internet "Gabby"
Beck "The New Pollution"
Self "Borateen"
Two Inch Astronaut "Black Fridge Area"
Surface to Air Missive "Get In the Truck"
Aaliyah "One in a Million"
Can "Uphill"
Frank Ocean "Songs For Women"
Fugazi "Strangelight"
Mac Demarco "Dreamin'"
Mac Demarco "Freaking Out The Neighborhood"
Disco Doom "Dead Eye"

- Top 10 Jams Aug 3, 2016 -
12. J Brinck "Overthrow"
(Local artist arrived with a CD 15 minutes before the top 10 started! We didn't expect this idea to actually work. As promised, we played the song! If any other local musicians want their song played during the top 10 show, we'll make it happen. Just show up with your CD at some point during the show.)
11. Witch Hair "Somewhere High"
10. Miguel "Come Through and Chill"
9. Goblin Cock "Island, Island"
8. Schoolboy Q "Groovy Tony"
7. Big Thief "Masterpiece"
6. Krill "Meat"
5. TTNG "A Chase of Sorts"
4. Wilco "If I Ever Was A Child"
3. Warpaint "New Song"
2. Gucci Mane "Waybach"
1. Stove "Mrs. Robertson"

Future Biff "Redline"
Rihanna "Consideration"
Rihanna "James Joint"
Radiohead "Let Down"
Beastie Boys "Looking Down The Barrel of a Gun"
Kanye West "No More Parties In LA"
The Avalanches "Colours"
DJ Kool "Let Me Clear My Throat"
Deluxx Folk Implosion "Daddy Never Understood"
Veruca Salt "Seether"
Herbie Hancock "Magic Number"
Nirvana "Endless Nameless"
Erykah Badu "Next Lifetime"

MWGA Celebrates 2004

Hi this is Lyle reporting live from the official WXCI "Make WXCI Great Again" looking for some great 2004 jams. It's playing live now and here are the songs we played or "are playing" or something.

Here is Mike's 2004 list from last October: http://tastemykidsblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/2000-jams-from-2000s-part-5-2004.html

And here's the stuff we played on the 2004 Top Ten Jams special.

- 2004 Top Ten Jams Special -
Incubus "Pistola"
Madvillian "Shadows Of Tomorrow"
12. Death From Above 1979 "Romantic Rights"
11. Modest Mouse "The World At Large"
10. Prince "Call My Name"
9. Jimmy Eat World "Work"
8. Slipknot "Duality"
7. Lil Wayne "Go DJ"
Pixies "Ain't That Pretty At All"
Jay-Z "99 Problems"
6. Ciara "Goodies"
5. Animal Collective "Leaf House"
4. Ashlee Simpson "Pieces Of Me"
3. Autolux "Plantlife"
2. Kanye West "We Don't Care"
1. TV On The Radio "The Wrong Way"
Fabolous "Breathe"
Dungen "Festival"
The Killers "All These Things That I've Done"
Pinback "Non-Photo Blue"
Twista f/ Kanye "Slow Jams"
Snoop Dogg f/ Pharrell "Let's Get Blown"
Nelly "Flap Your Wings"
Wilco "Spiders (Kidsmoke)"
Wilco "The Late Greats"
Sleepy Brown f/ "I Can't Wait"
Madvillian "All Caps"
Ghostface Killah f/ Jadakiss "Run"

Make WXCI Great Again: Denver Airport edition July 25, 2016

On today's show, the automation computer was down so our access to WXCI's digital library was limited. Normally that wouldn't be a big deal, except I also forgot to bring my laptop charger. So we had limited music, production and access to talk topics. We did our best to entertain as best as possible but that did not prevent one caller from saying "hey why don't you assholes shut up and play some music?" about 15 minutes from the end of our shift. Around that point we had just about had enough, and so we gave that guy the old "be careful what you wish for" and played 3 Jute Gyte songs.

We also discussed the conspiracy theories involving the Denver airport, which is the location of Bluecifer and the scary gasmask-dude murals (shown above).

Radiohead "Decks Dark"
Deerhoof "Model Behavior"
TTNG "A Chase of Sorts"
Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch "Wildside"

Black Sabbath "Weevil Woman '71"
Whitney "Golden Days"

Sham69 "Hersham Boys" (request)
Rihanna "Consideration"
Rihanna "James Joint"
Alex G "Rules"

Drug Dogs "Dog"
Taste Butter
Rihanna "Love On The Brain"
D'Angelo "Til It's Done"

Top 10 Jams
12. Pill "100% Cute"
11. Tinashe "Superlove"
10. TTNG "Coconut Crab"
9. Connections "Moore’s Nautilus"
8. The Julie Ruin "Time Is Up"
7. Schoolboy Q "Groovy Tony"
6. Wilco "If I Ever Was a Child"
5. Ty Dolla Sign "No Justice"
4. Lvl Up "Pain"
3. Gucci Mane "Waybach"
2. Stove "Graduate and Congratulate"
1. Krill "Meat"

Gucci Mane "First Day Out Tha Feds"
Disco Doom "Ex-Teenager"
Surface To Air Missive "Never Going Out Again"
Cake "War Pigs"

Jute Gyte "At The Limit of Fertile Land"
Jute Gyte "The Harvesting of Ruins"
Jute Gyte "Like the Woodcutter Sawing His Hands"

Make WXCI Great Again July 13, 2016 (including the hottest jams of 2001 top 10)

Yo we had a really fun show today. Took votes to determine which year between 2000-2014 the listeners wanted to hear us count down and they went with 2001 so we then we threw together a really quick spontaneous top 12 thing. It was good. We will probably do the same thing next Wednesday. (I won't be around on Monday, but Real_Trap_Rich might be. But we will both def be around next Wednesday 7/21.)

Western Medicene "Goes Around"
Esperanza Spalding "Earth To Heaven"
Car Seat Headrest "Fill In The Blank"
Iron & Wine "The Wind Is Low"
Toys That Kill "Times We Can't Let Go"
Wilco "How To Fight Loneliness"
Sonny and The Sunsets "Moods"

My Morning Jacket "Rocket Man"
Punch "Making Room"
Dangers "Power Chord Blues"
Dead In The Dirt "Strength Through Restraint"
Nails "Life Is a Death Sentence"
Pharmakon "Bang Bang"
Converge "Last Night"
Fat History Month "Old Lady Smokers"
Grass Is Green "Sammy So Sick"

The Spirit Of The Beehive "Natural Devotion"
Black Sabbath "Warning (Part 1)"
Vaccine "Hell On Earth"
Alex G "Serpent Is Lord"
Fuzz "Let It Live"

Mac Demarco "Robson Girl"
Meat Puppets "Plateau"
Run The Jewels "Blockbuster Night Part 1"
Failure "Undone"

-Mandatory BasedGod-
Lil B "The Age On Information"

TV On The Radio "Satellite"
Pixies "Wave Of Mutilation (UK Surf)"
Liz Phair "Supernova"
Pinback "From Nothing To Nowhere"

TOP 10 JAMS: 2001 Edition
12. Sum 41 "In Too Deep"
11. Jimmy Eat World "Bleed American"
10. Petey Pablo "Raise Up"
9. Bubba Sparxx "Ugly"
8. System Of a Down "Shimmy"
7. White Stries "Dead Leaves on the Dirty Ground"
6. Fugazi "Full Disclosure"
5. Sparta "Cut The Ribbon"
4. Radiohead "Knives Out"
3. Trail of Dead "Relative Ways"

Bonus 2001:
Andrew WK "Party Hard"
Jay-Z "Girls Girls Girls"

2. The Strokes "Is This It"
1. Jagged Edge f/ Nelly "Where The Party At"

Extra Bonus 2001:
Pinback "Concrete Seconds"
Built To Spill "Strange"
Seu Jorge "O Samba Tai"
Autolux "Sugarless"
Guided By Voices "Glad Girls"
Wyclef Jean "911"
Stone Temple Pilots "Hello It's Late"
Wilco "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart"

"Make WXCI Great Again" July 11, 2016

Kendrick Lamar "Hood Politics"
Flying Lotus "And The World Laughs With You"
Vicmass Luodollar "Bank Otuch Remix"
Bat For Lashes "Sunday Love"
Metronomy "Hang Me Out To Dry"
Cut Copy "Take Me Over"
Radiohead "Weird Fishes"

Tweet "I Was Created For This"
Disco Doom "Dead Eye"
Deerhoof "Kafe Mania"
Deftones "Be Quiet And Drive"
No Doubt "Simple Kind of Life"
Tweet "Oops (Oh My)"
Feels "Tell Me"
Fugazi "Strangelight"
Ringo Deathstarr "Stare At The Sun"
Two Inch Astronaut "Type Four"
Autolux "Brainwasher"
Palm "Ankles"

Tony Molina "Don't Come Back"
Lil B "Clink Clink"
Frank Ocean "Swim Good"
The Avalanches "Saturday Night Inside Out"
Dru Hill "How Deep Is Your Love"
Green Day "When I Come Around (Woodstock 94)"
Surface To Air Missive "Going Out"
Beastie Boys "Looking Down The Barrel Of a Gun"
halfsour "Porch Sittin'"

The Julie Ruin "I'm Done"
Diarrhea Planet "Ain't A Sin To Win"

12. DJ Luke Nasty "OTW"
11. The Lemon Twigs "These Words"
10. Weaves "One More"
9. Miguel "Come Through and Chill"
8. Jackal Onasis "You Should Listen To Your Nurse"
7. Aphex Twin "CHEETAHT7b"
6. Lumpy & The Dumpers "I'm Gonna Move To New York"
5. Descendents "Without You"
4. Avalanches "Colours"
3. J&L Defer "Hard Fiction Road"
2. Blood Orange "Augustine"
1. ScHoolboy Q f/ SZA "Neva CHange"

Total Slacker "Turn On The Lights"
Alex G "Memory"

Make WXCI Great Again July 6 2016

Ty Segall "Sleeper"
My Bloody Valentine "Only Tomorrow"
Josh Homme "Nobody To Love"
Radiohead "Bangers and Mash"
Tommy Tutone "8675309/Jenny"
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard "Robot Stop"
Kaytranada "You're The One"
Domo Genesis "Dapper"
Potty Mouth "The Bomb"
Frank Ocean "Thinkin Bout You"
Frank Ocean "Super Rich Kids"

Creedence Clearwater Revival "Effigy"
Steve Gunn "Nature Driver"
Anderson Paak "The Waters"
D'Angelo "Prayer"
Lil B "No Black Person IS Ugly"
Sisqo "Got To Get It"
Skatebored "Cowboy"
Vertical Scratchers "Wait No Longer"
Vertical Scratchers "Turn Me Out"
My Bloody Valentine "Don't Ask Why"
Deftones "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want"
Jackal Onasis "You Should Listen To Your Nurse"
Two Inch Astronaut "Cigarettes Boys and Movies"
The Good Life "Everybody"

Wolf Parade "Floating World"

12. Potty Mouth "Summer In The City"
11. Flat Swamp "Don't Count On Me"
10. Goblin Cock "Something Haunted"
9. Tancred "Control Me"
8. Lea "The Lorax"
7. Maxwell "Gods"

6.66 Wolf Moon "Fresh Prince of Despair" & "Everytime We Touch"

6. Future Biff "Redline"
5. Weaves "One More"
4. Miguel "Come Through and Chill"
3. The Avalanches "Subways"
2. Deerhoof "Kafe Mania"
1. Blood Orange "Augustine"

Guided By Voices "Jon The Croc"
Kurt Vile "Pretty Pimpin"
Surface To Air Missive "Who Do I Think You Are"
Alex G "Black Hair"
Tobin Sprout "Cryptic Shapes"
Make Believe "Ooo-Yum"
Grass Is Green "Greenville"
Shaquille O'Neal "Biological Didn't Bother"
D'Angelo "Another Life"

Wilco "Box Full Of Letters"
Nirvana "Very Ape"
Dinosaur Jr "Puke + Cry"
Arcade Fire "Neighborhood #3"
Mother Tongue "Hangin' Around"
DJ Shadow "What Does Your Soul Look Like Pt 4"

MAKE WXCI GREAT AGAIN (June 22 2016)

JUNE 22 2016
MAKE WXCI GREAT AGAIN

YG "Twist My Fingaz"
Kurt Vile "I'm An Outlaw"
Kacey Musgraves "Good ol' Boys Club"
Palehound "Cinnamon"
Schoolboy Q "Groovy Tony"
Miguel "Do You..."
Two Inch Astronaut "Black Fridge Area"
Juicy J f. Travis Scott "No English"
Dr. Dre f/ Kendrick Lamar "Genocide"
The Internet f/ Vic Mensa "Go With It"
Aaliyah f/ Timbaland "Shakin'"
Alex G "Forever"
Sebadoh "Spoiled"
PM Dawn "Set Adrift On Memory Bliss"
Milford Jerome "So Right (Cleveland Remix)"
Guerilla Toss "Multibeast TV"
Deluxx Folk IMplosion "Daddy Never Understood"
Animal Collective "Golden Gal"
Earl Sweatshirt "Mantra"
Vince Staples "Norf Norf"
Lil B "Like A Gun"
Drake & Future "Jersey"
Beastie Boys "Pass The Mic"
D'Angelo "The Charade"
Palm "Crank"
Mac Demarco "Ode To Viceroy"
Guided By Voices "Hang Up and Try Again"
Failure "Undone"
At the Drive In "Pattern Against User"
Big Ups "Meet Where We Are"
Rodan "Tron"
Sleepyhead "CB"
Yo La Tengo "Center of Gravity"
The Get Up Kids "Stay Gone"
Surface To Air Missive "Going Out"
Prince "Pop Life"
Sisqo "Unleash The Dragon"
Elastica "Waking Up"
Two Inch Astronaut "Foulbrood"
Kendrick Lamar "How Much A Dollar Cost"
Kamasi Washington "Final Thought"
Dinosaur Jr "Sludgefeast"
Fugazi "Waiting Room (demo version)"
The Breeders "Huffer"

MAKE WXCI GREAT AGAIN (JUNE 20 2016)

WE ARE BACK IN THE GAME.




Today marks the debut of a new daytime shift. It's called "MAKE WXCI GREAT AGAIN." Here's what we played:

2:00-5:00PM

Action Bronson "Time For Some"
Stove "Wet Food"
Radiohead "Spectre"
Sigur Ros "Untitled 8"
Ringo Deathstarr "Heavy Metal Suicide"
TLC "If I Was Your Girlfriend"
Alex G "String"
Green Day "2000 Light Years Away"
Junior Mafia "Get Money"
Malkmus & The Jicks "Stick Figures In Love"
Jimi Hendrix "Crosstown Traffic"
Cracker "Low"
Replicants "Dirty Work"
Two Inch Astronaut "Andy's Progress Report"
YG f/ Nipsy Hustle "FDT"
Prince "She's Always In My Hair"
Surface To Air Missive "Get In The Truck"
Skatebored "Cowboy"
Spook The Herd "Running In Place"
Palm "Untitled"
Cavern of Anti-Matter "Liquid Gate"
Nothing "Vertigo Flowers"
Liz Phair "Supernova"

MANDATORY SISQO
Sisqo "Thong Song (A Cappella)"

Erykah Badu "Next Lifetime"
The Good Life "Everybody"
Nine Inch Nails "Piggy"
Explosions In The Sky "Losing The Light"
Ice Cube "Bop Gun"

5:00-6:00PM
TOP 10 JAMS
12. Spook The Herd "App Tofu"
11. Radiohead "Identikit"
10. Homeboy Sandman "Talking (Bleep)"
9. Flat Swamp "Don't Count On Me"
8. Autolux "Brainwasher"
7. Future Biff "Redline"
6. Jackal Onasis "The New Ron"
5. YG "Still Brazy"
4. Lea "The Lorax"
3. Wolf Parade "Floating World"
2. Domo Genesis "Dapper"
1. The Avalanches "Colours"

Mike Jones "Still Tippin"
Rihanna "Same Ol' Mistakes"
Skatebored "America's Dog"

6:15-7:15PM
'90s BLOCK
Positive K "I Got A Man"
Guided By Voices "Smothered In Hugs"
Shudder To Think "Earthquakes Come Home"
Busta Rhymes "Dangerous"
The Cardigans "Do You Believe"
Raekwon "Shaolin vs Wutang"
KP & Envyi "Shawty Swing My Way"
Radiohead "Polyetheline Pt 1 & 2"
Gin Blossoms "Found Out About You"
Helium "Pat's Trick"
Ween "Baby Bitch"
EPMD "Crossover"
Promise Ring "Why Would Ever We Meet"
Wu-Tang "CREAM"
Chavez "Break Up Your Band"
Pavement "Two States"
D'angelo "Brown Sugar"

2015 Mixtape (FULL LIST)

UPDATE: It's 9:06PM now. We just finished up our first radio show since early January 2015. Thanks for everyone who called in and to @Real_Trap_Rich and Jeff from Mother Tongue for helping with announcing, and special thanks to Alistair and Joe from Spectral Fangs for putting up with our poor sense of time judgement. (We had to cut into the first 35 mins of their show. So sorry!)

"Donald Trump Loves Mexican Food" - @real_trap_rich

Listening to all of these songs has been helpful for determining the results of our slightly more official list, the Hot Mix 2015 which will be posted on http://www.tastemykids.com at some point over the next couple weeks. Happy New Year!

75. Kamasi Washington "Isabelle"
74. Tenement "You Keep Me Cool"
73. Drake & Future "Big Rings"
72. Gunk "Hippy"
71. Puff Daddy featuring Lil Kim and Styles P "Auction"
70. Babysitter "Hippy In The City"
69. Mac Demarco "Another One"
68. Deerhunter "Snakeskin"
67. Wilco "Random Name Generator"
66. Erykah Badu featuring Andre 3000 "Hello"
65. Beauty Pill "Drapetomania"
64. Stove "Lowt Ide Fins"
63. Alessia Cara “Here”
62. Aaliyah featuring Timbaland "Shakin'"
61. Faith No More "Sunny Side Up"
60. David Bowie "Blackstar"

Stone Temple Pilots "Pop's Love Suicide" (RIP Weiland)

59. Dej Loaf "Back Up"
58. Kurt Vile "Pretty Pimpin'"
57. Gemma "As Ever"
56. Ringo Deathstarr "Heavy Metal Suicide"
55. Vince Staples "Get Paid"
54. Wilco "Cold Slope"
53. Weezer "Everybody Needs Salvation"
52. Palehound "Easy"
51. Philadelphia Collins "Dogsbody"
50. Rob Crow's Gloomy Place “Business Interuptus”
49. Faith No More "Separation Anxiety"
48. Stove "Jock Dreams"
47. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats "Melody Lane"
46. I Hate Sex "I Fucking Hate Sports"
45. Nicki Minaj featuring Drake & Lil Wayne "Truffle Butter"
44. Failure "Hot Traveller"
43. Kendrick Lamar "The Blacker The Berry"
42. Tahtiportti “Poikarakkaus”
41. Beak> "The Meader"
40. Palm "Doggy Doctor / "You Are What Eats You"
39. Earl Sweatshirt "Mantra"
38. Tame Impala "Stranger In Moscow"
37. The Internet featuring Vic Mensa "Go With It"
36. Alex G "Thorns"
35. Ava Luna "Coat of Shellac"
34. Radiohead "Spectre"
33. Babysitter "Hard Times"
32. Trust Fund "Dreams"
31. Surface To Air Missive "Who Do I Think You Are"
30. Faith No More "Superhero"
29. Miguel "Coffee (Fucking)"
28. Krill "Tiger"
27. Dilly Dally "Purple Rage"
26. Alex G "Brite Boy"
25. Failure "Mulholland Drive"
24. Stove "Dusty Weather"
23. Homeshake "Heat"
22. Janet Jackson "No Sleeep"
21. The Internet "Under Control"
20. Alex G "Kicker"
19. Surface To Air Missive "Going Out"
18. Philadelphia Collins "Sofa Queen"
17. Carly Rae Jepsen "Making the Most of the Night"
16. Palm “Ankles”
15. Miguel "The Valley"
14. Vince Staples “Norf Norf”
13. Gnarwhal “Have Fun Tomorrow from Ozzy / Stella”
12. Yuck “Hold Me Closer”
11. The Internet featuring Janelle Monae "Gabby"

Motorhead "Ace of Spades" (RIP Lemmy)

10. Dr. Dre “Genocide”
9. Palehound "Healthier Folk"
8. Earl Sweatshirt "Grief"
7. Kendrick Lamar "King Kunta"
6. Alex G “Bug”
5. Two Inch Astronaut "Good Behavior"
4. Miguel “Damned”
3. Surface To Air Missive “Get in the Truck”
2. Missy Elliott featuring Pharrell Williams “WTF (Where They From)”
1. Kendrick Lamar "Alright"

stuff i did at WXCI

We didn't bother mentioning anything about this on here until now, but I told the e-board that I'm on hiatus from WXCI until further notice. Back in February, I mentioned to fellow DJs Tom Carpenter and Real_Trap_Rich that they could hold down that Monday night LNN shift if they felt compelled to do so.

And the on-air schedule at WXCI still lists Late Night Noise being aired on Monday nights, although I'm not sure if anyone's actually been doing it. (Tom?)

I somewhat regret doing that one show in January 2015 because the 2014 Mixtape would have been a really awesome final hurrah. And I suppose I still consider it as such.

I may return to WXCI at some point in the future. And when I find time, I'm considering podcasting and launching a web stream as well. In the meantime, I wanted to make a big list here.... I decided that I should self-indulge and commemorate my accomplishments at WXCI. Part of the reason why it feels ok for me to begin an extended hiatus is because I'm pretty sure I've accomplished everything I ever wanted to do on radio while I was there.

2002
- I'm pretty sure the first song I ever selected to play on the air (during one of my first training shifts) was "Moth" by Failure.
- November 2002: First on-air interview with Luke from Hoveral. I pretended we were not in a band together and we discussed Hoveral's forthcoming shows.
- Took 2nd shift (of 3) during WXCI's Top 102 of 2002 on New Years Eve.

2003
- January 2003: Accepted offer to become Music Director until May 2004. Co-MDs were John Bohanon (June-December 2003) and Jay Lapierre (2004).
(Artists WXCI broke during this era include TV On The Radio, Kanye West, The Darkness, Mclusky, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Phoenix, Animal Collective, Madvillian, Annie, The Killers, Junior Boys, The Postal Service, Coheed and Cambria, Hot Chip, Kings of Leon. First played "Hey Ya" by Outkast in August 2003, 3 months before it was added to any local station playlists and 5 months before it hit #1.)
- February 2003: Without a DJ name, the GM started calling me "Mike Lazer" which stuck temporarily. Ultimately my DJ name was chosen as Pac-Man The Movie, which was the title of a bit from the MTV series Sifl & Olly.
- May 2003: Graduated and voted as Life Member.
- June 2003: First specialty show was called Mixtape. Tuesday afternoons. Different theme every week. Every 5-6 weeks a different year from the '90s was featured. Artist features were prominent. Topic features were sporadic. This was the show where I would frequently be joined by Russ from Lowt Ide, who would frequently shout about current events on the air.
- July 2003: The first annual Ween-A-Palooza Festival. Four hours of Ween. This special ran annually (except for maybe 2004) throughout the 2000s.
- July 2003: We did our first of many experimental Lowt Ide radio specials influenced by the band Negativland. Basically, we made a lot of noise and tried to mix both turntables and CD players simultaneously. A similar special took place on the afternoon of Halloween 2003.
- Late-September/Early-October 2003: "1993 A to Z." Over 4 weeks, played over 150 songs from the year 1993 in alphabetical order.
- December 2003: "2003 Mixtape." Joined by Jay Wright and Dave Rohlfing.
- December 2003: Compiled WXCI's Top 103 of 2003. Broadcast on 12/31/03.

2004
- Spring 2004: Mixtape continues. One on evening in April, the theme was "Short Songs" in which 103 songs were played in under 3 hours. I felt bad asking Dan Sterling to bring in his mom's vinyl copy of Tommy just so the 11-second song "Miracle Cure" could be included.
- Summer 2004: Top 100 Shows every Tuesday for 10 weeks, 1990 through 1999. The first week (1990) was probably the longest airshift I've ever held by myself, lasting from around 12PM until 10:15PM. (I overshot how long it would take to play all 100 the songs. The 9PM shift after mine gave me a free pass that one time, and I was finished by 9PM from that point forward.) The shortest shift was the 1995 special, from 2PM until 9PM. Years later, this series of shows was briefly and favorably noted in Piper Kerman's Orange Is The New Black.

- Fall 2004: Without a specialty show, I tried a few trial broadcasts of '90s Mixtape during my rotation shift.
- December 2004: "2004 Mixtape." Phone interview with Jeff "The Drunk" Curro from the Howard Stern show (and a few other interviews that I can't remember). This year kicked off a tradition of the "best of the year" countdown mixtape airing during the first Monday of finals week, because the studio was usually empty all day due to student DJs being too busy with finals. For 7 years (until 2010), this ended up being the case.

2005
- January 2005: Dave Rohlfing interviewed Fucked Up live in the studio and they played a few songs. (I actually wasn't present for this but I wanted to mention it anyway as one of the best on-air moments of this era.)
- January 2005: I interviewed Mark Borchardt from American Movie.
- February 2005: This was the peak of my "interview" era. During this month, I had a phone interview with Mark M from SickAnimation.Com, interviews and on-air performances from The Screwdrivers and Little Yellow Box, and Rutgers' professor John Bryk who called in about the grease trucks controversy.
- March 2005: Stella interview. Probably one of my 2 personal on-air highlights. http://tastemykidsblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/stellaaauuuhh-2005.html
- May 2005: WXCI held that amazing show at Monkey Bar with like 25 bands. Lowt Ide and Smooth Hands crashed the side-stage earlier in the day. Also featuring sets from Myna, Apse, Kiss Kiss, Schwervon, Arms & Legs, and We Die Only Once among many others.
- Summer 2005: Rotation shift over the summer combining music and live on-air Howard Stern influenced bits along with news and current events commentary with 2 co-hosts. This was probably the peak for me. I don't think my rotation daytime show ever got better than during this summer.
- July 2005: Ween-A-Palooza 2005 was two weeks this year. Our prank caller friend had "Hal" the computer call us during this broadcast.
- August 2005: The prank caller told us he had a girl tied up in his basement.
- Fall 2005: Tried to maintain the momentum of that previous summer's shows without co-hosts. Took many live calls during this era including the infamous "Double Meat" reporters and a frequent prank caller named "Willie." A handful of listeners would always call in and ask me about Howard Stern related things.
- Fall 2005: There was a 5- or 6-week-long specialty show devoted to Ween (30 minutes every Monday) called "The 8 O'Clock Brown-out."
- December 2005: '90 Mixtape officially launches for the first time as a weekly specialty show airing over 100 shows before its first hiatus in January 2008. Throughout '06 and '07, one frequent feature was a set of songs pulled from a movie soundtrack.

2006
- January 2006: The Smooth Hands live in the studio.
- January 2006: Co-hosts from Summer 2005 briefly returned during winter session. We started a weekly call-in bit titled "The 17-Year-Old Girlfriend Update," which was about a 20-something who always felt awkward around an attractive 17 year old who he worked with who was frequently making passes at him.
- May 2006: WXCI grants me access to maintain the automation computer, a position that I consistently held until 2014.
- Summer 2006: A few trial broadcasts of Late Night Noise. It was initially called "Late Night Listen," but it didn't stick around very long.
- July-September 2006: For 5 or 6 weeks, there's a "top 20 songs of the week" show that I hosted with Tom Carpenter and John Selwyn. It didn't last though.
- October 2006: High Pitch Erik from the Howard Stern show unexpectedly arrived at the studio with his manager and requested an on-air interview. One of my favorite live on-air moments.
- November 2006: Michael Showalter interview. He told me he loved me.
- November/December 2006: Attempted to launch a concert series around Danbury and ultimately no one cared. This was one of my failures as a staff member, but at least I tried. The series was called "The WXCI Gangbang."

2007
- April 2007: The 3rd and 4th attempts for the Gangbang series.
- May 2007: Made an effort to get TV On The Radio and Spoon to play the WXCI-curated spring concert, but instead they ultimately chose Lupe Fiasco, OK Go and Earl Greyhound. The show was poorly attended.
- August 2007: Not related to WXCI, but this was when the WCSU Music department attempted to steal my drum set and sell it on eBay because it was left overnight over the summer in one of their empty practice rooms.
- October 2007: By this point I was getting bored with '90s Mixtape, and started doing more "special" themes. One night was all songs from MTV Unplugged. There was a 2-part special paying tribute to Peel Sessions. And also a "Top 50" special where I tallied up every song ever played on the show since Dec '05, played the Top 50, and then retired all 50 songs from the show permanently (although the show only lasted 2 more months).
- December 2007: I'm pretty sure I compiled this: http://web.archive.org/web/20080517095809/http://clubs.wcsu.edu/wxci/top107.htm

2008
- January 2008: '90s Mixtape goes on hiatus for the first time. Reel To Reel launches, which is a show that focuses on '60s and '70s music. The first 8 weeks feature one year each week from 1964 through 1971. It lasts until May 2008 and attracts many older listeners. ("The Sick Set" is introduced here, featuring 7 noteworthy songs from a specific year every week.)
- June 2008: '90s Mixtape returns. The first song played is "'93 Til Infinity" by Souls of Mischief. Throughout the summer, "The Sick Set" is incorporated, featuring two years every week for 7 weeks - 1988 through 2001.
- September 2008: Already bored with '90s Mixtape. In mid-September, we began a 6 week series playing sets from each of Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of the 1990s.

2009
- February 2009: My job hours got changed forcing '90s Mixtape to fizzle out of existence aside from some "Best of '90s Mixtape" pre-recorded broadcasts. (The "best of" specials featured many bits recorded during 2003-2006.) By March, the show was on hiatus again.
- March 2009: Out of work at 11PM every Monday seemed like a good opportunity to give Late Night Noise another try. The show launches in March 2009 and airs somewhat consistently until January 2015.
- May 2009: Dave Rohlfing joins Late Night Noise as co-host, enabling the show's longevity.
- Summer 2009: Reel to Reel returns as a pre-recorded show on Sunday afternoons over the span of 12 weeks appearing after Third Stone from The Sun, intended as a companion summer mini-series. (No songs are repeated throughout those 12 weeks.)
- August 2009: The final episode of Reel To Reel was a 40th anniversary Woodstock tribute featuring sets that did not appear in the movie in the same order they were performed at the original festival, plus a few sets from 1994 and some stuff from Rage's 1999 set.
- December 2009: The "Late Night Noise Christmas Special" airs. So far, it's been re-aired every December ever since.

2010
- Spring 2010: Late Night Noise picks up some steam. We started doing a feature titled "The Exceptionally Amazing Song of the Week" which was usually a recent song that we considered compellingly terrible.
- Spring 2010: Rotation shifts during the Spring include 5 sets per week from Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of the 1980s (counted down from 100 to 1) over the span of 15 weeks.
- March 2010: Andrew WK interview. http://tastemykidsblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/andrew-wk-interview-2010.html
- April 2010: Tom Perkins and Brian Conner co-host with Dave and myself.
- June-July 2010: Dave and I co-hosted a country show called Country Caravan which lasted 4 or 5 weeks.
- August 2010: Dave leaves as co-host of Late Night Noise.

2011
- January 2011: The exceptional song of the week thing is replaced by "Mandatory Sisqo," a feature which surprisingly lasts well into August 2012.
- October 2011: '90s Mixtape makes a brief return during the last few months of this year.

2012
- April 2012: Empty Womb live in the studio. Hidden Temple Tapes guest DJ special.
- September 2012: Grass Is Green and Ricer live in the studio.

2013
- Summer 2013: Tom Carpenter and Real_Trap_Rich take over for Late Night Noise and launch a new feature titled Mandatory BasedGod which continues until the end of the year. I returned to the show in August.
- November 2013: The first and only episode of Full House Cash Cab. We had been talking about doing this since 2009 and it finally happened.
- December 2013: The year closes with what I assumed would be my last broadcast for a very long time. For the "2013 Mixtape" I was joined by special guests including The Smooth Hands, Jamie Found Out, Roomrunner, Jeff Peck and Real_Trap_Rich with live performances from Speedy Ortiz, Ovlov and Palehound. (This was the last show until the following summer.)

2014
- Fall 2014: Perhaps in an attempt to make up for lost time, my return to the station eventually included pre-recorded and intensely well-produced versions of "'90s Mixtape" and "Late Night Noise" along with a "Weekly Top 10" show. It only lasted this one semester though, and proved too time consuming.
- October 2014: Early on a Tuesday morning between 12AM and 6AM, Lil B's '05 Fuck 'Em Mixtape - all 6 hours - is aired in its entirety.
- December 2014: "2014 Mixtape" with Dave and Rich.