Arling + Cameron, Asylum Street Spankers, Baby Gramps, Bim Skala Bim, Bran Flakes, Buscemi, Cage the Elephant, Chinese Man, Cookie, Dan Deacon, Flop, Jesca Hoop, Jesse Rose, Mark Mothersbaugh, Meat Purveyors, Mister Heavenly, Mouse on Mars, Natty Bo, Nevada Bachelors, Noonday Underground, OK Go, Seks Bomba, Source, The Black Keys, The Bobs, The Coctails, The Evolution Control Committee, The Fastbacks, The Mooney Suzuki, The Pilgrims, The Puppini Sisters, The Quiet Ones, Tom Tom Club, Tune-Yards
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:: Guster ::

That may be Guster above, but we’re starting this episode off with a band called What!, whose brilliance is only outranked by their near-certain guarantee of internet anonymity their name gives them.

In this episode: Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Guster, Holly Golightly, Jason Trachtenburg, John Lennon, Komeda, Sex Bob-omb, Southern Culture on the Skids, The Budos Band, The Fratellis, The Monolith, The Ting Tings, Thee Oh Sees, They Might Be Giants, VV Brown, Ween, What!

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It seemed like a good idea at the time, Craig Venter’s encoding of a passage from Ulysses into the man-made DNA code of their self-claimed “synthetic life form.” Now the estate of James Joyce wants their cut. Think about it — this leak is an order of magnitude bigger than the most successful torrent out there. There could be billions of copies out there, and almost as many people waiting for Apple to approve the synthetic life form reader app. It’s a slippery slope, folks.

:: Band Marino ::

Nowadays, you know a band is dead when their top hit on Google redirects you to the myspace home page.

In this episode: Band Marino, Big Sandy, Boom Pam, Chico Hamilton, Derby, Devo, Dub Gabriel, Electric Light Orchestra, Klint, Mocean Worker, Porno For Pyros, Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians, The El Caminos, The Lonesome Organist, The Mabuses, The Sugarman Three & Co., They Shoot Horses Don’t They

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:: Devo ::

Devo swaps outs its batteries every few years yet continues to keep going. The version of “Jocko Homo” on here is live and performed halfway since the original version and now, on their long-rare Now It Can Be Told live album. They’re sitting down just to show they still can.

In this episode: Artichoke, Ben Kweller, Blue States, Devo, Gilberto Gil, Gry with F.M. Einheit, Heroic Doses, Holland, Ken Nordine, Luminescent Orchestrii, Muffulletta, Nevada Bachelors, Of Montreal, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Starlight Mints, The Cannanes, They Might Be Giants (with Robin ‘Goldie’ Goldwasser), Yerba Buena

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Asylum Street Spankers, Cage the Elephant, Caravan Palace, DJ Me DJ You, Evolution Control Committee, Four Corners, Gavin Bryars, Gerty, Hilken Mancini And Chris Colbourn, Hillstomp, Jega, Little Red Car Wreck, Lo-Lite, Mister Heavenly, Navet Confit, Nevada Bachelors, New Mjondalen Disco Swingers, Push Kings, S Prcss, Scientific American, Scruffy The Cat, Th’ Faith Healers UK, The Bobs, The Brunettes, The Coctails, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The Maxwell Implosion, The Mooney Suzuki, The Octopus Project, The Pogues, The Puppini Sisters, Trabant, Verbena, Violent Femmes
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:: Stereo Total ::

Honestly, I have to say I cannot think of a better name for Stereo Total’s bratty chanteuse than Françoise Cactus. The prickly European accent of no determinate origin does something to my innards, I tell you.

In this episode: Andrei Codrescu, Beach House, Chris Knox, Holiday, Komeda, Le Couleur, Looper, M.I.A., Os Mutantes, Rosie and Me, Stereo Total, The Epizootis, The Snitches, They Might Be Giants, Tripping Daisy, Two Cow Garage, Willie Nillie, hollAnd

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And The Moneynotes, Apples In Stereo, Ashley Park, Ben Folds Five, Butterglory, Cage the Elephant, Camper Van Beethoven, Caravan Palace, Die Moulinettes, Dulcie Younger & The Silencers, Eric Bachmann, House of Freaks, Jason Trachtenburg, King Missile, Maxence Cyrin, Montefiori Cocktail, Movits!, Mr. B The Gentleman Rhymer, Optiganally Yours, Photon Band, Presets, Rockapella, Skeewiff, The Coctails, The Evolution Control Committee, The Maytals, The Mondo Crescendo, The New Lou Reeds, The Shins, These Modern Socks, Valvola, Vells, aRTIST oF tHE yEAR
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