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1. the courtneys/silver velvet/II/flying nun records 2. DD dumbo/satan/utopia defeated/4AD   3. everything is recorded (with sampha)/close but not quite/xl   4. vince staples/yeah right/big fish theory/def jam   5. frankie rose/trouble/cage tropical/slumberland records   6. the war on drugs/up all night/a deeper understanding/atlantic     7. dirty projectors/up in hudson/dirty projectors/domino      8. jens lekman/evening prayer/life will see you now/secretly canadian     9. broken social scene/hug of thunder/hug of thunder/arts and crafts     10. hailu mergia & dahlak band/wede harer guzo/1978  

New episode! Featuring Subway, Alvvays, Natalie Prass (pictured), Willie Burns, Colleen Green, White Fang, Parquet Courts, and Sleater Kinney.

Hi Guys! Here's today's playlist: Can't Do Without You / Caribou / Our Love (Merge 2014) November Skies / Tomas Barfod (feat. Nina Kinert) / 5oFoF (Friends of Friends 2014) Air Bud / Kurt Vile / Wakin' On A Pretty Daze (Matador 2013) Coronus, The Terminator / Flying Lotus / You're Dead (Warp 2014) Black Ballerina / Ariel Pink / Pom Pom (4AD 2014) New Calm Pt. 2 / Oughts / Once More With Feeling EP (Constellation Records 2014) Red Eyes / The War On Drugs / Lost In The Dream (Secretly Canadian 2014) Johnny & Mary (Robert Palmer cover) / Todd Terje (vocals by Bryan Ferry) / It's Album Time (Olsen Records 2014) War Paint (pictured - thumbs up from Mary Timony!) / Ex Hex / Rips (Merge 2014)  

Hi! I'm back!  Here's today's playlist: EMA / Solace / The Future's Void (Matador 2014) Jamie xx / All Under One Roof Raving (Young Turks 2014) Ty Segall / The Hand / Manipulator (Drag City 2014) Perfume Genius / Queen / Too Bright (Matador TBA) Tobias Jesso Jr. / True Love (Self-Released) (break) Sharon Van Etten / Your Love Is Killing Me / Are We There (Jagjaguwar 2014) MC Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf (pictured) / Methods / Big Shots (Stone's Throw 1993 and re-released on the soundtrack of the 2014 documentary Our Vinyl Weighs A Ton) The New Pornographers / War On The East Coast / Brill Bruisers (Matador 2014) FKA twigs / Two Weeks / LP1 (Young Turks 2014) Cam'ron & A-Track / Dipshits / Federal Reserve EP

Hi Everyone! Sorry for the extended hiatus. Here are today's songs! 1. Shut Up / Posse / Soft Opening 2. Horizon / Real Estate / Atlas 3. American Horror / Speedy Ortiz / Real Hair EP 4. Let My Baby Stay / Mac DeMarco / Salad Days 5. Digital Witness / St. Vincent / St. Vincent 6. Parallel Jalebi / Four Tet / Beautiful Rewind 7. Birthday Song / Frankie Cosmos / Zentropy 8. Simon Ferocious / Mogwai / Rave Tapes 9. Eras / Juana Molina / Eras Bye!

Hi! Hi!!! Hiiiiiii! music: Mutual Benefit / Advanced Falconry Lorde / Ribs Crystal Stilts / Star Crawl Courtney Barnet / History Eraser Bill Callahan (pictured) / Spring The Range / Metal Swing Ben Khan / Eden Julianna Barwick / One Half HAIM / Falling Fuck Buttons / The Red Wing

PLEASE NOTE: In the podcast, I keep calling this Episode 6. It's not Episode 6; it's Episode 5.  The Pastels / Check My Heart Takako Minekawa & Dustin Wong / New Circle Was Begun Eleanor Friedberger / Stare At The Sun Scout Niblett / Nasty (pictured) Kurt Vile / KV Crimes Sonny And The Sunsets / Green Blood Baths / No Eyes Hunx And His Punx / You Think You're Tuff Daft Punk / Get Lucky Deerhunter / Leather Jacket II Byeee x

Hi! I'm back! Here are some amazing new song and an episode I really love!  Veronica Falls / If You Still Want me Waxahatchee / Peace and Quiet Low / Holy Ghost No Joy / Lunar Phobia My Bloody Valentine / New You Youth Lagoon / Mute Matmos / You Steve Mason / Safe Population Smith Westerns / Varsity Rhye / The Fall x

Foxygen - San Francisco (We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic) Tegan and Sara - Closer (Heartthrob)  Toro Y Moi - So many details (Anything In Return) Alexis Taylor - You Want Me (Nayim From The Finish Line) Grouper (pictured) - Vital (The Man Who Died In His Boat) Marnie Stern - Year of The Glad (Chronicles of Marnia)  Ducktails - Under Cover (The Flower Lane) Ex Cops - James (True Hallucinations) Darkstar - Armonica (News From Nowhere) 

As promised! Part 2 of my Best of 2012 Special - THE DANCE MIX.  This is very fun, and I hope you all really like it! Something to dance to, or for the gym or whatever.  Here's what I play: 1. Chromatics , Kill for love  2. Azealia Banks, Jumanji  3. Death Grips, I've Seen Footage 4. Solange, Losing You 5. Hot Chip, Motion Sickness  6. King Tuff, Bad thing 7. How To Dress Well, & It Was U 8. Ultraista, Bad Insect  9. Japandroids, The House That Heaven Built  10. Chairlift, I Belong In Your Arms 11. Icona Pop, I Love It 12. Royal Headache, Psychotic Episode 13. Grimes, Oblivion (pictured, style icon of 2012) x esther

Hi! Welcome back! Happy New Year! It's Season 5! Beginning with a 2-part Best of 2012 Special. Part 1 is just a lot of songs I really loved this year. Part 2 (next episode) will be the Best of 2012 DANCE MIXXX. A Sounds Ace tradition!  Today's songs: Fiona Apple / Werewolf (The Idler Wheel...) Liars / No.1 Against the Rush (WIXIW) Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti / Only In My Dreams (Mature Themes) (pictured) Cat Power / Silent Machine (Sun) Tame Impala / Feels Like We Only Go Backwards (Lonerism) Julia Holter / Goddess Eyes II (Ekstasis) Sharon Van Etten / Give Out (Tramp) Perfume Genius / Take Me Home (Put Your Back N 2 It) Dum Dum Girls / Season in Hell (End of Daze EP) Lotus Plaza / Strangers (Spooky Action At A Distance) Jens Lekman / The World Moves On (I Know What Love Isn't) Frankie Rose / Moon In My Mind (Interstellar) Dirty Projectors / Dance For You (Swing Lo Magellan) x esther

It's the final episode of Season 4! WHATTA SEASON.  Anyway here's the playlist! How to Dress Well - & It Was U Peaking Lights - Beautiful Son Divine Fits - Shivers Grizzly Bear - A Simple Answer Royal Headache - Psychotic Episode  Dum Dum Girls - Trees and Flowers (pictured, now blonde!) Actress - N.E.W. Dirty Projectors - Dance For You Port St. Willow - Amawalk Woods - Is It Honest? (intro/outro: Q-Tip - Wait Up)

Hello! I'm back after a little hiatus (SORRY!) with a Country Ladies special, as a sort of tribute to the recently departed Kitty Wells (who I may have referred to as Kitty Webb in the actual episode, thank you 3am). Featuring Dolly Parton (pictured), Jolie Holland, Emmylou Harris, Patsy Cline, The Dixie Chicks, Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard, Loretta Lynn, Gillian Welch, Neko Case and of course, Kitty Wells.  Bye!

Hi everyone! This week's episode features brand new music FROM: King Tuff (pictured), Beck, Lower Dens, Fiona Apple (yes, again), Liars, Laetetia Sadier, Hot Chip, Azealia Banks, Perfume Genius and Lotus Plaza. Hooray! Just a regular episode of Sounds Ace.  x esther

Sounds Ace & Friends! Sounds Ace pal and fellow Jerusalem resident Laura Graber and I decided to make an episode about the music we were listening to when we started caring about music, I guess, or when we were finishing high school and starting university. Heads up; nostalgia for 2002-2004.  Featuring The Strokes, Wilco, Cat Power, Broadcast, Erlend Oye, Ben Kweller, The Postal Service, Broken Social Scene (pictured, and a word about this picture: I had this picture up on my wall. I thought it was beyond cool), The Flaming Lips and The Fiery Furnaces. 

I'm back i'm back i'm baaaaack. Sorry it's been so long. I was away! Anyway back now, with really a great episode with lots of new songs that I really love INCLUDING Spiritualized, Hunx and his Punx, Eleanor Friedberg (ever-photogenic, and pictured), Japandroids, Diiv (f/k/a Dive), Daniel Rossen, Chromatics, Fiona Apple, The Men and The Shins. I hope you like it!  As ever, Esther C. W. 

Sorry! I have a cold and that shit's all up in this episode. Hope you think it sounds cute, or something. So! Regular Episode here, featuring Grimes (pictured), Julia Holter, Crystal Stilts, dumbly spelled Miike Snow, Lotus Plaza, Perfume Genius, Disappears and Sleigh Bells. 

I FOUND IT!  enjoy

I'm back! From Paris! Just in time to bring you this Slumberland Records Special. Slumberland are one of my favourite labels ever, active since the late 80s and continuing to release really great music from their Oakland HQ. Featuring old and current bands from the Slumberland roster, including The Softies, The Aisler Set (pictured, with Amy Linton seated on the floor), Henry's dress, Frankie Rose, The Ropers, Boyracer, Lilys, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and Veronica Falls.  I hope you like it!  x esther

Okay! Regular episode this week, featuring music both NEW and OLD! Lower Dens, Sharon Van Etten, The Partridge Family, Japanther, R. Stevie Moore (gloriously pictured), Chairlift, Nicolas Jaar, Neutral Milk Hotel, Zola Jesus and Girls At Our Best.  I hope you liiiiiiiiiike it and you can email me if you have any questions or suggestions for specials! Or if you want to be on Sounds Ace and Friends.  x esther 

It's the 6 Degrees of The New Pornographers Special! Featuring a sizeable amount of 90s Canadian indie rock. The New Pornographers, AC Newman, Neko Case, Destroyer, Zumpano, Katheryn Calder and Maow.

Hi everyone! Here's a bunch of songs I didn't get to play before 2011's end. Featuring Eleanor Friedberger, Drake, Austra, Julia Holter (pictured), Isle Adore, Atlas Sound, Japanther, Quilt and Marissa Nadler.  Thanks for listening!  WELCOME TO SOUNDS ACE 2012!!!!  x esther

Part 2 of our Best of 2011 Special. WHAT. A. YEAR. YOU GUYS.   :(  Okay so! This is the dance ("Dance") special. FEATURING: Holy Ghost, St. Vincent, Beyonce, Tune-Yards, The Black Lips, Air, Azalea Banks, Eric Copeland, M83, Cut Copy and The Smith Westerns.  Happy New Year xo

END OF THE YEAR! Best of 2011 PART ONE: It's great. Who is on it is a total surprise. I hope you like it!  x esther

Brill Building! "The building has been described as the most important generator of popular songs in the Western world." Home to some of the must influential composers, lyricists, producers, publishers and labels of the 60s, The Brill Building produced some of the best and most timeless music of it's time. FEATURING: The Ronettes, Bobby Darin, The Shirelles, The Shangri-las, Jay and the Americans, Aretha Franklin, Ellie Greenwich (pictured), The Dixie Cups and writing or production by Greenwich and Jeffy Barry, Carole King, Phil Spector, Neil Diamond, Burt Bacharach and lots more.  

Episode 10! Yeah! Lots of new music this week including boy wonder King Krule (pictured), something from Belle and Sebastian's Stevie Jackson's new record, more from Melbourne band Twerps, new Oneohtrix Point Never, Crystal Stilts, Foster the People and Delmar & The Dedications. Next week (or in two weeks; depending on whether or not I feel like lying about the frequency of my pocast) will be a Brill Building special so feel free to send in suggestions or requests!  OKAY! Ur all seriously the best.  x esther 

Hi Everyone!  It's me, Esther with a new SPECIAL. The theme of this special is 6 Degrees of Sleater-Kinny/Carrie Brownstein/Wild Flag and it features Sleater-Kinney (pictured) AND Wild Flag but also Helium, The Minders, The Lee Memorial, The Spells, Quasi and The Corin Tucker Band.  I hope you like it!  x esther c w 

Hi! Hiiiiii it's me.  This week we are playing lots of NEW music, predominately by MALE artists. I had all this new music to play over the past two eps and I don't know why, but I divided it into GIRLS and BOYS. So! New things from Twerps, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Girls (pictured), Cymbals Eat Guitars, Real Estate, Jens Lekman, Atlas Sound and M83. Hooray! Thanks to all the new Facebook page fans! What else. Suggestions for specials are welcome, you can totally email me.  Okay! That's all. I hope everyone's week is WONDERFUL.  x esther c

Hello everybody! Big week here at Sounds Ace. Lots of new music but also LADIES DAY! Featuring Twin Sister, Feist, Bleached (Jennifer and Jessie Clavin from Mika Miko, pictured), Veronica Falls, St. Vincent, Colleen Green, Laura Marling and WILD FLAG, supergroup of the year.  UGH! Thanks for listening, everyone. Send along suggestions and requests! xoxo Esther

IT'S a real special! Italo-Disco, or the music that kept Europe dancing throught the 80s, is the inspiration for this week's episode. Featuring Valerie Dore (YES!), Baltimora, Pino D'angio (pictured, what's not to like?), Den Harrow, Tracie Spencer, Ryan Paris and Italo-Disco revivalists Sally Shapiro and Glass Candy.  Like the fan page! (This week's new fans are DEVORAH WOLF and DANIEL ZANA. Thanks you two!) 

Hello! This week I just thought I'd play lots of new music that I've had on a lot lately, plus some OLD GEMS as well. New Charlotte Gainsbourg, new Feist, new Ty Segall (pictured), new Eleanor Friedberger, less new Black Lips, Purling Hiss, Yellow Ostrich, Lana Del Rey plus Maureen Tucker and Laurie Anderson. Remember when I wanted to make Sounds Ace t-shirts? :( That's all! I'll be back with a special at SOME POINT during the next two weeks. Feel free to submit ideas! Or whatever!  xo Esther C. Werdiger

It's a Sounds Ace & Friends! Featuring Meir Lagstein, who guided me through the surprisingly wonderful world of Israel Music, which is the theme of this week's episode. I AVOID Israeli music but recently COMMITTED to look until I found some stuff that I really liked. Scouring Israeli music from the 60's until today, Meir and I managed to avoid anything obviously Middle Eastern-sounding (sorry, racist) and found such good stuff! 90's girl band The Witches (in an excellent duet with Nick Cave, of all people), 80's synth darlings Etnics, poster boy of 90's alternative Aviv Geffen, 80's pop songstress Sharon Lifshitz (pictured), 60's pop revivalists Uzi Navon and Aquaintances, 60's love child Ariel Zilber, psychadelic pioneer David Ben Israel AND MORE.  Don't be discouraged if all of these names mean NOTHING to you; I was super excited to hear this stuff! 

I skipped a week! I'M SORRY OKAY. I'm sorry. So this week! New things AND ALSO old things. Elis Regina, Toro Y Moi (always adorable, and pictured), Comet Gain, Dum Dum Girls, Kate Bush, Washed Out, Kanye West + Jay Z and the Unknown Mortal Orchestra.  Go like the new Facebook page! Here it is: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sounds-Ace-with-Esther-C-Werdiger/166452070093423 Thanks! I hope you like it xo Esther

Here's a special I've been wanting to make ever since Sounds Ace was born! Kathleen Hanna (b. 1969, Portland) was a seminal member of the Riot Grrl movement, which aimed to create aware communities that fused art, music, punk, feminism, activism and DIY. Her bands include Viva Knievel, Bikini Kill, Julie Ruin and Le Tigre.  This podcast features Bikini Kill, Julie Ruin, Le Tigre, Kathleen Hanna, Yoko Ono, The Go Team and Internal/External.  I hope you love it! email me at estherwerdiger AT gmail DOT com with questions or suggestions or requests. Like the new Facebook page! And I'll say your name on the internet next week! Hooray! sluuuutttt

Welcome to Season 4 of Sounds Ace! Sorry for the wait but WE'RE BACK and it'll be a great season. FEATURING: Eric Copeland, Times New Viking, EMA, Bon Iver, James Blake, Gold Panda, Washed out and the Junior Boys. Use the link or subscriiiibe to the show via iTunes and you'll get an automatic download every time there's a new episode.  Thanks!  x esther

Podcast from Melbourne! I'm home for a bit and this week playing some new and excellent fare from: Bill Callahan (formerly Smog), Thao and Mirah, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Fleet Foxes, Natural Child, TV On The Radio and Panda Bear (pictured).  UGH. Okay! I hope you all like it.  estherwerdiger@gmail.com, if you want.

New Episode! Hi, Everyone. This week features Tune Yards, Frankie Rose, Townes Van Zandt (pictured with poultry), Au Revoir Simone, Make Up, Ponytail, Calexico and Crystal Stilts.     

This is a great Sounds Ace! A self-aware, insightful episode where I get the levels really right, I think. SO lots of songs today, including something from the new Dum Dum Girls EP, the new Strokes single, some John Cale, a song by this band called Weed, some Yuck, Yo La Tengo, Ike & Tina Turner, Kurt Vile (pictured) and Free Energy. Let me know if you're local and want to be on Sounds Ace & Friends. Thanks for listening! x

FEATURING newborn music from a particularly attractive crowd this week: Nicolas Jaar, PJ Harvey, Smith Westerns, Julianna Barwick (pictured), Cut Copy, Vivian Girls, Destroyer and Lykkie Li. The levels are a bit weird, I'm sorry! Also I apologize for the times I accidentally insult all of you.    Thanks for listening! WHO WANTS A T-SHIRT? x esther

On January 14 2011, English band Broadcast lost their lead singer, Trish Keenan, who died of pneumonia at the age of 42. I was so sad! I love Broadcast. So here is my Broadcast special. "[Psychedelia isn't] a world only reachable by hallucinogens but obtainable by questioning what we think is real and right, by challenging the conventions of form and temper… I discovered psychedelia and it seemed to have self-help properties that allowed me to let go of an immobilizing working class pride that was cementing a false identity into my psyche, stopping me from transforming." -- Trish Keenan, The Wire, 2009

FIRST EPISODE OF 2011! Great! This week is a regular Sounds Ace new/old/whatever situation FEATURING: La Sera (pictured), The Ronettes, The Babies, Juana Molina, Bright Eyes, Kevin Ayers, Jeffrey Lewis and Vacant Lots.  I hope you like it!  x esther 

THIS IS IT! Final Sounds Ace of 2010! As promised, it's the second part to my Best Of series in honour of the year's end and features some of my favourite songs from this past year INCLUDING: Titus Andronicus (who's fronter Patrick Stickles is pictured), Joanna Newsom (best song of 2010 for me, I think???), Japanther, Women, Woods, Zola Jesus, The National and Ariel Pink!  Thank you to all my listeners, downloaders and subscribers! TOGETHER, WE SOUND ACE.  See you next year!  Esther

End of 2010! WHAT. A. YEAR. So I've decided to do TWO best of episodes; one this week and one next week! I thought that this week would be a dance party special edition, where I would play some of my favourite of those kinds of songs so you had something joyous to listen to! So now you do! FEATURING: Happy Birthday, Robyn, James Blake (pictured), Liars, Delorean, The Books, Sleigh Bells and Deerhunter!

Almost at the end of 2010!!! Still got room for Best Of episodes. BUT FOR NOW here are some excellent new/old tunes that have been wafting through Sounds Ace HQ (Sounds Ace HQ is a MacBook) during these past few weeks, BY ARTISTS SUCH AS: Stewart Brodian (who's he?? GOOD QUESTION), Super Wild Horses (Melbourne), Jonathan Richman (pictured, beautiful), Reading Rainbows (Philly), Junip (who're THEY? ANOTHER good question), KANYE WEST and ugh, how predictable, The Vassar College G-Stringers (I KNOW!).  I hope you like! xxx Esther "Sounds Ace" Werdiger

KIM DEAL SPECIAL! Featuring: The Pixies, The Breeders, The Amps and Sonic Youth.  Long overdue Kim Deal special will school you on all matters KD.  x

THIS WEEK ON SOUNDS ACE: Gil Scott-Heron, Caribou Vibrations Ensemble, Apples in Stereo, Botany, Abe Vigoda and Orange Juice. 

Matador Records turn 21! Featuring new Matador bands: Esben and The Witch, Harlem, Girls, Cold Cave, Kurt Vile, New Pornographers (ok, ONE old Matador band) and Perfume Genius (pictured).   yay!  x e

Feetch'ring: Susan Christie, How To Dress Well (pictured), Galaxie 500, Guided By Voices, Electrelane, Half Japanese, Karen Dalton and The Olivia Tremor Control.  FREEFORM. Hope you like it!  x

Featuring Judee Sill, Judy Garland, Joanna Newsom, Nina Simone, Neko Case and Odetta. 

Featuring Lydia Lunch, Jay Reatard, The Fastbacks, The Velvet Underground, The Shop Assistants, Daniel Johnston & Jad Fair (pictured), Dangerdoom and Shirley & Dolly Collins.   NOT FEATURING: Psychic TV, Kate Bush or Susan Christie. These songs either freaked me out or made me sad. Sorry!     

Featuring: Matthew Dear Belle and Sebastian  Pavement La Sera  Marnie Stern (pictured) ABBA No Age Candi Staton Thanks to the listener who sent me that Crocodiles record I asked for last week! Who wants to buy a t-shirt?? xxx