Bones, Jones, & Xylophones
Wednesdays 4-6 PM
I’ve been pretty much been listening to the Wu-Tang Clan since the fourth grade. Tune in and you might hear something like Stevie Wonder, Flying Lotus, Gorillaz, and Jurassic 5. You’ll probably catch me freestyling over some crazy xylophone beats too.

Pretentious bands like to call themselves “unclassifiable” and claim that they “don’t conform to genre parameters,” but usually when the edgiest of the edgy start to play, they merely sound like the current indie flavor. Liars, however, are a band who routinely moves away from the genres critics pigeonhole them into (‘dance punk,’ ‘post-punk revival,’ the totally fake ‘kraut punk’) and never brag about it. They’ve never had enough of an ego to say “we are a band like no other” but every few years they release an album that builds off their influences rather than steal from them.

Their new album, Sisterworld, alternates its tone between two feelings: creeped out and angry as hell. There aren’t as many noise freak-outs here as you’d expect if you’ve heard the band’s past work, but when Liars want to – they dial everything into the red and singer Angus Andrew screams his falsetto away. The slower, sometimes orchestral pieces that make up the rest of the album are beautiful but totally unsettling.

Sisterworld opens with “Scissor,” an initially a capella song that draws the listener in with quiet, multi-tracked vocals. At the 50 second mark, minimal piano, bass guitar and violin accompaniment are introduced. At 1:45, it’s all steamrolled over by the old Liars— the ones the press used to call “noise terrorists.” “Scissor” is followed by three less-focused atmospheric tracks that wander around for ten and a half minutes before letting the album continue on its noisy way.

On the first listen through, the peak-to-valley drop off in tempo hurts. It’s a frustrating moment comparable to a car exiting the autobahn to drive through a retirement home parking lot. Subsequent trips through the Sisterworld reveal that tracks two, three and four are well-structured and offer as much depth as any of the album’s more aggressive tracks. The songs clearly belong where they are, how they are, but it takes time to respect that and not see them as buzz kills.

The album’s other seven songs follow the same bang-whimper-whimper-bang pacing as the first four while Andrew sings about cold-blooded murder, setting fires, fleeing crimes and hiding bodies. Lyrically, the band is essentially running through the Insane Clown Posse list of ways to scare parents and excite their delinquent children. What make Liars’ tales of hobo slaughter work here is the textured creepiness of the music, which includes the most sinister-sounding bassoon ever set to tape.

Sisterworld is a grower. The problem for many will come when they don’t want to give it time to warm up. It’s too easy to listen to a four-minute long ambient yawn like “Drip,” hit ‘next track,’ and then never return to find the song’s brilliance.

- DJ Alex Rudolph

Dancing With Wolves
Thursdays from 2-4 pm
Jackie Goncalves bumps tunes like she’s being paid and the rent is due tonight. Tune in to Dancing With Wolves to hear all the newest indie and hip hop, with lots of danceable throwbacks tossed in from radical artists like Biggie, Prince, and Paul Simon!

Dearest Whomever
Every other Monday, 2-4pm
This show is the best thing since leopard print snuggies, if it was longer than 2 hours it would be so intense that your face would melt off like that end scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark. The show has two DJ’s but I’m better looking and have a slightly better taste in music,style, fine Persian rugs, and I only wear clothing with my initials sewn into them in leather. Sadly, the show is every other Monday but this is perfect because if it was every Monday the power of the music would throw the earth off its orbit and into the sun, thus resulting in no more music. Oh… its also really cool and stuff.

Deep Cuts
Mondays 4-6 pm
Deep Cuts” is an auditory excursion through the astral airwaves accompanied by the semi-coherent but ever-engrossing mind/voice of Seth Shamon, aka DJ Scrilla. The show will mostly feature electronica, house, and ambient tracks, with a focus on new music.
Some of Seth’s favorite albums: Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys, OK Computer by Radiohead, Ys by Joanna Newsom, Revolver by The Beatles, The Lonesome Crowded West by Modest Mouse

Studio 10 with Disco Dianna
Tuesdays from 2-4pm
This show is an expression of self, an explosion of deep soulful vocals and pounding bass to electrify the airwaves. From drag queen divas to freestyle phenomenons all the way to hip hop kings, these two hours will keep your ears on a musical lock down sure to not pop out. These particular songs are meant for people who are listening to get down. So be ready to get schooled because class is in session.