This is exactly what the DJs and interior of WAMH look like...

Ladies and gentlemen, I have arrived. No, wait… WE have arrived. ‘Where have we arrived’, you ask? The airwaves. The motherfucking radio airwaves. 60 miles in circumference from the sizable transmitter sitting atop Bear Mountain. That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, I, Marquis Meowmers IV, have a a college radio show. Friday afternoons. From 2-4P.M on WAMH Amherst, MA, 89.3 FM. What’s that? You can’t listen because you don’t live nearby? Well, make the jump for more info, and a few sweet tunez thrown in just because I love you.

Now, wait… what? You don’t even live in beautiful Western Assachusetts? Well, FRET NOT. You can still listen in (from 2-4pm Friday afternoons) at http://wamh.amherst.edu/programming.html . You can even chat with me there! That’s right. Direct internet contact with yours truly. And after every show, you can come here, read the set-list, and be all like “damn that sumbitch knows how to DJ a college radio show”. Awww yeah.

Wait, what’s that? You don’t want to just internet chat with me? You can to hear sarcastic, self-centered scoffs/relationship advice straight from my voice? Well than, call me up at 413.542.2288. That’s right. A real motherfucking request line at a real motherfucking college radio station. Awwwwwww yeahhhhh.

Wait, what’s that? You don’t care about my 2 hour long radio show filled with hot babes and sweet music? You just want hot tunes for your computer? Well, I’m not sure if I can do that right now, but damn baby, I’ll try:

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Beach House – Norway (YSI)

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Rye Rye (Ft. M.I.A) – Bang (DJ Sega’s Philly Club Remix) (YSI)

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J. Dilla – Fuck The Police (YSI)

Playlist for The Animal Show show (11/20/09):

song – artists (break song denotes a song played in the background during PSA announcements)

the day that mauro ran over elwy yost – 1-speed bike
Fuck The Police-Clean – Jay Dee
Detchibe 4:09 – Prefuse 73

Come On Feet (12″ Version) – Quasimoto

Welcome Home – Daedelus
Bang (DJ Sega’s Philly Club Remix) – Rye Rye F. M.I.A. – break song
Say Whoa – A-Trak
golden phone (etan’s golden pager ringtone) – micachu
Animal (Crookers Remix) – Miike Snow
Music sounds better with you – Stardust
Demon Lung – Electric Wizard – break song
Money Stinks (D.R.I.) – Ampere
Sick of Jock – Aerosols
Against All Youth – In/Humanity
Man You Suck! – Betercore
Downward Harmonization – Confines
Police – Fucked Up
Hungry Jack – Weedeater
With Teeth – Melvins
Aquarian – Sleep
Tongue Tied – Wanda Jackson – break song
Take My Hand – Randy Holden
Gypsy Ball – Blue Cheer
Let’s Talk About Girls – The Chocolate Watch Band
Violent Brave – Ganglians
Hammer I Miss You – Jay Reatard
The New Dark Ages – Dan Melchior’s Broke Revue
North American Scum – LCD Soundsystem – break song
Oozing – Kisser Chug
Cold – The Charlottes
You Are The Darkness – Fleeting Joys
Surfin’ With The Shah – Urinals
Let’s Go Crazy – Prince – break song

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Or at least my local radio station.

So as much as we’d like to be your only source for musical discovery, and though we’re proud to have, as a staff, the undisputed best music taste on the internet, I’ll have to admit: there are other places you can go for your music.  The ‘machine is a pretty good source of things, but I’d like to be on it more than I’d like to use it.  Usually, I lean on poor Edward here for new music discovery.  Sometimes, I turn on the radio.

Now, most of radio is junk.  Pretty unadulterated junk. It’s good if you want to blast The Fray (who wouldn’t?), but not so good if you want to listen to the Noisettes or even Vampire Weekend.  For that, I turn to my local 88.5, WXPN.  They’re funded in part by the University of Pennsylvania, but local businesses also pitch in, and they have membership drives every so often.  All in all, they operate much like an NPR station: no commercials, mostly good stuff, occasionally annoying membership drives.  They mostly focus on indie/eclectic sounds, so no mashups, but you’ve got the Show for that, right?

They also support “The World Cafe,” a radio and concert series hosted by David Dye.  Through this concert series, they’ve brought several notables like Andrew Bird, Phoenix, Avett Brothers, Grizzly Bear, and a few more to local venues, and several of them, like Andrew Bird, have held free lunch concerts at the radio station that anyone can attend.  All in all, it’s a great source for free music, and a great asset to the city of Philly.  It’s why I’ve decided to become a member recently, and for my pains, they sent me the latest compilation of recordings from these lunch time concerts.

If you’d like to listen to them online for free, you can do so at http://www.xpn.org.  Their stream will open right into the mp3 app of your choice, and you can listen away!  If you wanna hear some of the tracks from the World Cafe, they are below.

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Crying – TV on the Radio (World Cafe Live) (YSI)

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Daniel- Bat for Lashes (World Cafe Live) (YSI)

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Just Like Heaven – The Cure (World Cafe Live) (YSI)

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