The New Pulse!

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

2009-05-10T20:00:00.001-05:00

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

2009-05-03T20:00:00.002-05:00

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

2009-04-26T20:00:00.001-05:00

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

2009-04-19T20:00:00.006-05:00

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!

2009-04-05T20:00:00.006-05:00

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!!!

2009-03-08T20:00:00.000-05:00

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

2009-03-01T20:00:00.003-06:00

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

As Promised....

2009-02-22T22:25:00.002-06:00

As promised, here are some very amusing videos of Vince Offer at his finest.

Folk Punk Day!

2009-02-22T18:00:00.022-06:00

On this fine Sunday, we're playing lots n' lots of folk punk because it's

Folk Punk Day!

From Against Me! to Spoonboy, Fake Problems to Paul Baribeau, we're covering it all. ...Or what we can in two hours. So tune in and sit back to the folk-iest and punk-iest music you can find on the radio!

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O Pioneers!!! - I Heard That New Ashlee Simpson Record is Pretty Killer
Fake Problems - My First Million
Defiance Ohio - O' Susquehanna
Matt Skiba - The City That Day
Sundowner - War is Noise
The Sudden Passion - Never Really There
The Whiskey Ring - It's Never Too Late
LaGrecia - Silently Just
Chuck Ragan - The Boat
This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb - This is What I Want
Spoonboy - Actions And Words
One Reason - The Black and The Red
On The Strings Of - Brick By Brick
Against Me! - Armageddon
Conor Oberst - Souled Out!!!
Andrew Jackson Jihad - People II: The Reckoning
Delay - Jumpstart My Heart
The Dreadful Yawns - Kill Me Now
Kevin Devine - Yr Damned Ol' Dad
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Me And Mia
The Weakerthans - Our Retired Explorer (Dines With Michel Foucault in Paris, 1961)
Heathers - Remember When
Plastic Mastery - I Fell in Love on the Way to a Funeral
Paul Baribeau - Never Get To Know
Tin Armour - My True Step
Saw Wheel - Rocking Chair
Mike Park - Is It Safe for Me to Go Outside?

Listen, Listen!

2009-02-16T10:30:00.004-06:00

#1. Lily Allen is back and in full force. Her new album "It's Not Me, It's You" was released in the U.S. on February 10th and all I can say is that I'm completely in love with here all over again! And I think Leanne likes it too! The first single "The Fear" is phenomenal, but still is not the best song on the album, which is great. Stand out tracks include, "Fuck You" (my personal favorite), and "Not Fair". Overall, it's a great effort from a great songwriter/singer. I'm excited to hear more from Lily Allen in the future. I just hope she stays sassy! I can't find a link to the album but here's the video for "The Fear" but hopefully, if you're interested, you will check out the album!

#2. Propagandhi - Supporting Caste. Enough said. The boys from Canada are back and they aren't joking. The new album doesn't properly hit stores until March 10 but if you're a fan, you want this now. Propagandhi mixes the finest elements of Less Talk, More Rock and Potemkin City Limits with dashes of Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes thrown in all the right places for the greatest punk-pop punk-metal-anarchist record ever made. I just can't get enough. Stand out tracks are "Human(e) Meat (The Flansing of Sandor Katz), "The Bangers Embrace" and "Dear Coaches Corner" but the whole record is awesome! You can check out "Dear Coaches Corner" below.

Kyle

Guilty Pleasures (AKA: Songs You Hate to Love) Day!

2009-02-15T16:15:00.010-06:00

So we know we've been terrible at keeping this up, but today should make up for any and all of our missed show introductions because today is...

Guilty Pleasures (aka: Songs You Hate To Love) Day!

That's right! We're letting you judge us with your mightiest sword today because we are playing pretty much what we enjoyed back in the day and still sometimes slip in to our daily music routine just for shits and giggles. What will we play you ask? Will there be the infamous 90s boy bands gig? Will we play the one hit wonders of our childhood? Will we play the terrifying 80s hair bands? Will we be playing the songs that defined us as angsty tweens? Maybe, maybe not. You'll have to tune in to find out!

Go to KCOU.FM at 8 tonight, Sunday, to listen to The New Pulse! streaming live.
We promise it'll be a good time.

1. Alanis Morrisette - Ironic

2. Brand New - Seventy Times Seven

3. Taking Back Sunday - There's No 'I' in Team

4. The Killers - All These Things That I've Done

5. Green Day - She

6. No Doubt - I'm Just a Girl

7. AFI - Bleed Black

8. Third Eye Blind - London

9. Matchbox Twenty - Push

10. Counting Crows - Mr. Jones

11. Blink 182 - The Party Song

12. The Used - Lunacy Fringe

13. Lily Allen - Not Fair

14. T.I. - Whatever You Like

15. Gym Class Heroes - Taxi Driver

16. Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

17. Jimmy Eat World - Sweetness

18. Anti-Flag - No Borders, No Nations

19. Usher - Burn

20. Rancid - Hoover Street

21. NOFX - Linoleum

B-Sides Show

2009-02-08T20:00:00.001-06:00

02/08/2009 B-Sides Show

Saddle Creek Show

2009-02-01T20:00:00.002-06:00

Listen, Listen!

2009-01-27T15:40:00.005-06:00

I figured I'd start the "what we're listening to" segment. January has been a good month, not only for what I've actually been listening to but also for finding out what's going to be released this spring (aka what I'll be listening to soon). But as for right now:

#1: Lately, I've been hurled back into my love for The Bouncing Souls with the release of their latest track "Gasoline". For those that aren't familiar with the Bouncing Souls, they've been around for twenty years now and have released, I believe, 6 albums. In 2009, however, they are going the unconventional route. Instead of releasing a whole album, they have decided to release a new song every month of the year, making a total of 12. "Gasoline" was January's song and I think it may be one of the best songs the Souls have ever released. You can check it out here.

#2: I've been in love with Fake Problems for the last two years since I saw them open for Against Me! back in early 2007. I've managed to see them a few times since then and continue to collect everything that they put out. Their recent signing to Side One Dummy gave us a date for their new record "It's Great to Be Alive", February 17th. But the internet gave me one more reason for why I love it so much, music leaking and file sharing! The new record leaked back in the middle of December and I've been in love with it since the first note hit my ear. It is the best and most mature outing from the young band, and this won't be the last you hear of them. You can listen to it here.

If you like this also check out:

"How Far Our Bodies Go" (2007/Sabot Productions)

"Spurs and Spokes/Bull>Matador (2006/Sabot Productions)

Kyle

Introduction Day!

2009-01-27T12:26:00.005-06:00

So you've decided to listen to our radio show. And follow our blog! Good for you!
If you listened to our very first show, entitled What We Like To Listen To Day!, broadcasted on 88.1 FM in Columbia, Missouri or on kcou.fm, you know that Kyle and I both listen to mindblowingly terrific music.

01/25/09 What We Listen To!

Also if you listened to our show, you heard about the concept of what's going on. For all you listeners that missed out, I guess I can fill you in. Each week on The New Pulse! is a new theme for your listening enjoyment. Our show will be based around that theme. So all the music we play and whatever we discuss will revolve around our carefully selected topic. After our shows, we'll post our recorded shows for everyone that missed out because of a very important reason, and a tracklisting so you know what we played that week. We might, if you are so blessed, give you minute-by-minute updates as our show progesses. We also will probably start posting general music topics on here, such as "What We're Listening To" schpeils so you might just end up as great and informed as we are.
I guess that's all you need to know for now (especially considering my lab TA is giving me dirty looks).

Don't forget to tune in next Sunday, February 1 to The New Pulse!

Next week's theme: Saddle creek Day!