Festival Office Radio

Hello from the Artist Monkey:

As artist monkey for the Calgary Folk Music Festival, I also have the illustrious position of being the office DJ. I have a pretty huge iTunes library that I keep on attempting to dump onto an external hard drive because I get the "Your Start Up Disk is almost full". That scares me but I like to horde stuff and mp3s are so easy to horde (and please I just can't part quite yet with my Beatles Discographuy quite yet).

So artists that we've booked for the festival this year are sending their CDs to me....The Acorn, Akron/Family (the new one!), Mark Berube and Iron and Wine....the list goes on. And now between artist CDs, CJSW 90.9 FM (listen online! www.cjsw.com), and my 51 days worth of music on my iTunes, we have a lot of music being played in the office. I'm calling it Festival Office Radio. I started it on May 1st. I come in, get my coffee, sit down and come up with a day-long playlist of music. I'd like to post the playlist here. Thing is, of course the playlists become pages and pages, and honestly maybe people don't care.

But here's the thing......

The music that we play determines the mood of the office. I noticed the moment I started playing doo wop and early funk last Friday, the office mood totally picked up. So I'm going to continue to make day-long playlists every morning and I'm going to continue to post what we play.

It's because I care. That's what artist monkeys do. We care. And then sometimes we freak out and throw our shit at people. Watch out when that happens (I suppose it also depends what I've eaten that day);)

Cheers,
Artist Monkey aka Kenna Burima

Festival Office Radio May 1st Playlist

Artist, Song, Album
Geminis, A Friend Of Mine, Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found
Roddie Joy, If There's Anything Else You Want (Let Me Know), Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found
The Raveonettes, My Boyfriend's Back, Pretty In Black
Bon Iver, Skinny Love, For Emma, Forever Ago
Chad VanGaalen, Cries of the Dead, Soft Airplane
The Searchers, Love Potion Number Nine, The British Beat: Best Of The '60s
Laura Marling, Ghosts, Alas I Cannot Swim
Calexico, House Of Valparaiso, Carried To Dust [2008]
Lulu, I'll Come Running, Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found
Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele, Meet Me in the Garden, The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele
The Angels, I Adore Him, Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found
Dee Dee Warwick, You're No Good, Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found
M. Ward, Rave On (Featuring Zooey Deschanel), Hold Time
The Marvelettes, I'll Keep Holding On, Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found
The Raveonettes, Somewhere In Texas, Pretty In Black
The Breakaways, That's How It Goes, Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found
Leslie Gore, Sunshine, Lollipops And Rainbows, Various
Dawn, I'm Afraid They're All Talking About Me, Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found
The Humane Society, 14_Knock, Knock , Nuggets: Original Artyfacts...
The Kinks, You Really Got Me, The British Beat: Best Of The '60s
The Velvelettes, Needle In A Haystack, Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found
M. Ward, Oh Lonesome Me (Featuring Lucinda Williams), Hold Time
The Mojo Men, 23_She's My Baby, Nuggets: Original Artyfacts...
The Sonics, Money (That's What I Want), Psycho-Sonic
Paul Simon, The Boy In The Bubble, Graceland
Buena Vista Social Club, Chan Chan, Buena Vista Social Club
Elton John, 24 Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting, Greatest Hits
David Bowie, Starman, Ziggy Stardust
Simon & Garfunkel, Mrs. Robinson, The Best of Simon & Garfunkel
M. Ward, Never Had Nobody Like You (Featuring Zooey Deschanel), Hold Time
Blossom Dearie, Doop-Doo-De-Doop (A Doodlin' S, Once Upon a Summertime
Beirut, My Wife, Lost In The Wild, March Of The Zapotec / Realpeople Holland
José González, How Low, In Our Nature
The Beatles, I Want You (She's So Heavy), Abbey Road
Adele, Chasing Pavements, 19
Nostalgia 77, Seven Nation Army, The Garden
Emily Wells, Symphony 1 In the Barrel of a Gun, The Symphonies: Dreams Memories & Parties
The Velvet Underground, There She Goes Again, The Velvet Underground & Nico
David Bowie, Oh! You Pretty Things, Hunky Dory
Bjork, Army Of Me, Greatest Hits
Zero 7, In The Waiting Line, Simple Things (Bonus)
Lykke Li, This Trumpet in My Head, Youth Novels
The Beatles, A Day In the Life, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Bjork, Joga, Greatest Hits
Fiona Apple, Extraordinary Machine, Extraordinary Machine
James Brown, Papa's Got A Brand New Bag pt.1, Sex Machine: The Very Best Of James Brown
J.J. Cale, Call me the breeze, Naturally
Iron & Wine & Calexico, He Lays in the Reins, In The Reins
Bruce Springsteen, Pay Me My Money Down, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions Disc 1
Zero 7, Home, When It Falls
J.J.Cale, After Midnight, Naturally
The Beatles, In My Life, Rubber Soul
Aretha Franklin, Chain Of Fools, Lady Soul
5.6.7.8's, Woo Hoo, Bomb The Rocks - Early Days Singles
Dusty Springfield, Son of a Preacher Man, Original Oldies 60's & 70's
Neil Young Greatest Hits, Heart of Gold, Neil Young & The Stray Gators
Soggy Bottom Boys, I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow, O Brother, Where Art Thou
Elliott Smith, Sweet Adeline, XO
Fats Domino, There Goes My Heart Again, Various
The Beatles, Eleanor Rigby, Revolver
Sam Cooke, Under the Board Walk, Sam Cooke
Chad VanGaalen, Red Hot Drops, Skelliconnection
Michael Bernard Fitzgerald, Can Be Done, Various
Lou Rawls, Nobody But Me, Best of Capitol Jazz & Blues Sessions
Jamie Lidell, Multiply, Multiply
The Surpremes, Baby Love, Various
The Velvet Underground, I'm Waiting For The Man, The Velvet Underground & Nico
José González, Down The Line, In Our Nature
The Chambers Brothers, Love, Peace, And Happiness [Single version], Time Has Come! Best Of The Chambers Brothers
Jimmy Smith, Walk On The Wild Side, Walk On The Wild Side: The Best Of The Verve Years
Lauryn Hill, Doo Wop (That Thing), The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
The Bosshoss, Toxic, Internashville Urban Hymns
Gladys Knight & The Pips, I Heard It Through The Grapevine, Best Of Gladys Knight & The Pips
Stevie Wonder, Part-Time Lover, Definitive Collection
Radiohead, Karma Police, OK Computer
Stevie Wonder, Boogie On Reggae Woman, Definitive Collection
Marvin Gaye, Me and Mrs. Jones, Various
The Consonant C, Lonely Kiss, Capes & Crowns
Dusty Springfield, It's In His Kiss, Various
Marvin Gaye, Can I Get a Witness, The Very Best of Marvin Gaye
Amy Winehouse, Fuck Me Pumps, Frank
Ray Charles, I Don't Need No Doctor, Anthology
RJD2, Ghostwriter, Prime Soundtrack
Donovan, Riki Tiki Tavi, Very Best Of Donovan
Devendra Banhart, Shabop Shalom, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
Left Banke, Pretty Ballerina, There's Gonna Be A Storm: The Complete Recordings 1966-69
Jens Lekman, Black Cab, Oh You're So Silent Jens

Festival Office Radio May 4th Playlist

Artist, Album
Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics, Inspiration Information- Entire Album
Kid Koala,Your Mom's Favourite DJ-Entire Album
Amelia Curran, War Brides- Entire Album
Danny Barnes, Dirt on the Angel- Entire Album
The Acorn, Glory Hope Mountain- Entire Album
Lyra Brown, All her tunes on Myspace Page (Youth Songwriting Conest Winner!)
Väsen, Live in Japan- Entire Album
Doug Cox, Slide to Freedom 2- Entire Album

Festival Office Radio May 5th Playlist

Artist, Album
Apostle Of Hustle, Eats Darkness - Entire Album
Mirah, (A)Spera- Entire Album
Labess, Tout Va Bien- Entire Album
David Byrne and Brian Eno, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today- Entire Album
Best of the Talking Heads
CJSW 90.9 FM (The Electric Company with Rob Faust) Listening online!