INTRODUCING: The Life Aquatic on WNYU.ORG

Hi,

My name is Pier and I will be hosting a new net radio show at WNYU, broadcasting from NYC and streaming live on the internet on WNYU.org every Sunday evening from 6 to 8 PM. It is going to be super awesome. Here's the description:

In recent years, fleets of doo-wop-wistful garage pop bands with punk sensibilities have emerged from the musical wharves of LA, NY and beyond, bathed in lo-fi production and hazy effects pedals. From the gentle and ambient to the downright tempestuous, The Life Aquatic scoops them up with shovel and pail and skips them back out to join the surf licks and crooners of rock's past, complete with tales of marine adventure among the sound waves.

I am bad with the whole genre thing (or just apathetic), so don't be surprised if what you hear couldn't necessarily be classified as 'garage.' Everything will flow smoothly with similar musical conventions and nautical themes, though, rest assured. Still I think it's safe to say that this will be the weirdest show WNYU has ever had, and certainly the only concept-driven one united by an abstract theme.

I'll play new surf-redolent punk stuff like Vivian Girls, Meth Teeth, the Intelligence, King Khan & BBQ Show, and Box Elders, as well as more kicked-back, floaty drifters by the likes of Grouper, Desolation Wilderness, Real Estate, and Yo La Tengo. Obvious throw-backs to the Pixies will be a must, plus other favorites of mine that may seem out of place but totally and completely fit in like Sleater-Kinney, Bikini Kill, Patti Smith and the Smiths (I will refer to Morrissey as 'the Sea Otter').

There will ALSO be this cool literary aspect to the show, as songs will be inter-spliced with readings of fables, mythology and masterpieces of literature where thalassic themes reign.


I used to host a show called The Sound Between, a weekly two-hour block of brand new independent music. It was quite good and my new show will be much like it, but better. If you want to check out my old shows in the archives (the archiver broke at the end of july, though... but you can still check out my playlists from then on!) head on over to wnyu.org/archives.

TUNE IN
THE LIFE AQUATIC
SUNDAYS, 6-8 PM
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