The Last Show of the Semester: The Greatest 'Last Songs"!!!

For the last show of the semester, we decided to show you, the listener, what our favorite songs are that close our favorite records:

1. Birth - The Faint
2. Condition 11:11 - Defiance, Ohio
3. Searching for a Former Clarity - Against Me!
4. Sorry About That - Alkaline Trio
5. The Backseat - The Gaslight Anthem
6. I Swear - The Loved Ones
7. Road to Joy - Bright Eyes
8. Heart BPM - Fake Problems
9. Play Crack the Sky - Brand New
10. The Disaster March - The Lawrence Arms
11. 100 Years of War - Tom Gabel
12. It's Never Too Late - The Whiskey Ring
13. Brothersport - Animal Collective
14. The Luckiest - Ben Folds
15. Street Spirit (Fade Out) - Radiohead
16. The Farewell Party - Cursive
17. It's All Gonna Break - Broken Social Scene
18. Broken Chairs - Built to Spill
19. Your Hand in Mine - Explosions in the Sky
20. Mr. November - The National

Listening Party: Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band

In honor of the new Conor Oberst and Mystic Valley Band record being released on Tuesday, May 5, we here at the New Pulse decided that we would play the new record, Outer South, and discuss it.

1. Slowly (Oh So Slowly)
2. To All the Lights in the Windows
3. Big Black Nothing [Freitas]
4. Air Mattress [Hollingsworth]
5. Cabbage Town
6. Ten Women
7. Difference is Time [Boesel]
8. Nikorette
9. White Shoes
10. Bloodline [Freitas]
11. Spoiled
12. Worldwide [Oberst/Taylor]
13. Roosevelt Room
14. Eagle on a Pole [Boesel]
15. I Got the Reason
16. Snake Hill [Hollingsworth]

Da Numbas Game Pt. 2

Leanne's list:
1. #1 - Animal Collective
2. 5K - Matt & Kim
3. 85a - Yelle
4. 23 - Blonde Redhead
5. 240 - Jeff Scott Craig
6. 7/4 (Shoreline) - Broken Social Scene
7. 405 - Death Cab For Cutie
8. Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) - Arcade Fire
9. Seventy Nine - Japanther
10. Three-Way - The Magnetic Fields
11. Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear
12. 15 - Rilo Kiley
13. 16 Military Wives - The Decemberists
14. 12:51 - The Strokes
15. 7 Souls - Ponytail
16. 2+2=5 (The Lukewarm) - Radiohead
17. 2080 - Yeasayer
18. 26 Miles (Santa Catalina) - Dent May
19. 2:45 A.M. - Elliott Smith
20. Dorothy at Forty - Cursive
21. 1901 - Phoenix
22. 60 Miles an Hour - New Order
23. Summer 91 - ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead
24. 90-Mile Water Wall
25. 5:15 Train - A Sunny Day in Glasgow
26. 40 Days - Slowdive

The Numbers Game Part I

For the next two weeks on The New Pulse, we are going to play the numbers game! What's the numbers game, you ask?! Well, for the next two weeks we are only playing songs with numbers in the title! It's a fun game for the whole family! So tune in at KCOU.FM and play the numbers game with us!

Kyle's show:
1. 1 2 3 4 - Fake Problems
2. Seventy Times 7 - Brand New
3. 100 Resolutions - The Lawrence Arms
4. Protest Song '68 - Refused
5. Four Winds - Bright Eyes
6. Six Years - Gallows
7. 61C Days Turned to Night - Justin Sane
8. Zero Tolerance Drug Policy - None More Black
9. Sleeper 1972 - Manchester Orchestra (***I made a mistake on the release date of the new Manchester Orchestra record Mean Everything to Nothing. It is, in fact, in stores this Tuesday April 21!)
10. 1930 - The Gaslight Anthem
11. Condition 11:11 - Defiance Ohio
12. Apartment 5F- Bouncing Souls
13. Holland, 1945 - Neutral Milk Hotel
(Let's Go to the Mall by Robin Sparkles?!?!)
14. 97 - Alkaline Trio
15. Tonight We're Gonna Give It 35% - Against Me!
16. Waiting for the 718 - Bloc Party
17. 1, 2, 3, 4 Guitars - The Blood Brothers
18. 1977 - The Clash
19. 100K - The Loved Ones
20. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - Bob Dylan
21. 911 for Peace - Anti-Flag
22. Spring Break 1899 - Murder By Death

NEW!

04/05/09
Today, we're taking everyone on a journey of the *newest* music from our favorite underground artists. Maybe it came out in January, maybe it came out yesterday, or maybe it hasn't even come out yet. Pretty intense, right? So tune in to The New Pulse! on KCOU.FM to listen to what we find to be the best new music of the now. And we know good music when we hear it. So you should listen up friends. Because our opinions rule.

1. Bluish - Animal Collective
2. Let Me Up - Cursive
3. California Goth - Wavves
4. Never Had Nobody Like You - M. Ward
5. Venice - Beirut
6. Time Erased - Crystal Antlers
7. One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Three Mississippi - The Mae Shi
8. Woof Woof - Dan Deacon
9. God Loves You, Michael Chang - Dent May
10. Natural Disaster - Andrew Bird
11. MF Doom: Vomit (Horse Race at Lan Lan Ranch) - The Ocatina of Rhyme
12. Through the Front Door - Vetiver
13. Dead City Sound - O Pioneers!!!
14. Diamond Rings - Fake Problems
15. She Stayed as Steam - Kevin Devine
16. Human(e) Meat (The Flansing of Sandor Katz) - Propagandhi
17. Slowly (Oh So Slowly) - Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
18. Cold Cold Ground - Brian Fallon
19. Distracted - The Loved Ones
20. Shake It Out - Manchester Orchestra
21. The Vulture [Act II] - Gallows
22. We All Sing Along - The Bouncing Souls

Golden Bands!!!

Today we're talking about our favorite bands that have been around for ten years or more. We give you a song from one of the band's original releases and a song from their latest album.  It's a pretty epic list!

1. Against Me! - Y'all Don't Wanna Step to Dis

2. Against Me! - Ocean

3. Dillinger Four - Supermodels Don't Drink Colt

4. Dillinger Four - Gainesville

5. Bright Eyes - Feb. 15

6. Bright Eyes - Cleanse Song

7. AFI - The Checkered Demon

8. AFI - Wester

9. Alkaline Trio - Trouble Breathing

10. Alkaline Trio - Calling All Skeletons

11. The Bouncing Souls - True Believers 

12. The Bouncing Souls - Gasoline

13. Anti-Flag - Free Nation?

14. Anti-Flag - War Sucks, Let's Party!

15. Radiohead - Street Spirit

16. Radiohead - Reckoner

17. Andrew Bird - Pathetique

18. Andrew Bird - Tenuousness

19. Modest Mouse - Novacaine Stain

20. Modest Mouse - Missed the Boat

21. Built to Spill - Car

22. Built to Spill - Strange

23. The National - Cold Girl Fever

24. The National - Fake Empire

25. Cursive - Downhill Racing

26. Cursive - What Have I Done?

Broken Up Bands Day

Bands breaking up are, like, one of the saddest things ever. Especially if they were great and one of the members decided to kill themselves. Or if they just had a falling out. Either way, it's depressing. So tonight, we're bringing them back to life via The New Pulse! on
Broken Up Bands Day!
Anyways, cheers, and enjoy the best bands that no longer exist.

1. The Postal Service - Nothing Better

2. Ben Folds Five - Battle of Who Could Care Less

3. My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow

4. Silver Jews - Remember Me

5. The Unicorns - I Was Born a Unicorn

6. Sleater-Kinney - Entertain

7. The Smiths - How Soon is Now?

8. Joy Division - Disorder

9. Elliot Smith - Baby Britain

10. Pavement - Here

11. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

12. The Clash - Washington Bullets

13. Operation Ivy- Bad Town

14. Hot Water Music - Trusty Chords

15. Jawbreaker- Boxcar

16. Desapericidos - Manana

17. Choking Victim - 500 Channels

18. The Blood Brothers - Salesman, Denver Max

19. The Distillers - City of Angels

20. Kid Dynamite - Cheap Shot, Youth Anthem

21. LaGrecia - Don't Wanna Be Right

22. Refused - Summerholidays vs. Punkroutines

23. Transplants - DJ DJ