Agit Radio is a weekly program featuring the music covered by webzine the Agit Reader. Broadcast on WCRS, a community radio station in Columbus, Ohio, and available as a podcast and download, Agit Radio is hosted by Pat Leonard and rotating members of the Agit Reader staff, who each week discuss and play a choice selection of new and old cuts of substance, as well as on occasion talk with the artists covered by the Agit Reader about their music and own favorites.

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This show features music from the ever-prolific Robert Pollard. Hear tunes from the soon-to-be released solo album Moses on a Snail and a track from his side project, Circus Devils. Plus there's stuff from Horse Feathers, Sam Amidon, Apples in Stereo and Big Audio Dynamite.

Download: http://www.agitradio.com/podcast/10/agit_radio_43.mp3

Play List:
Horse Feathers - "Vernonia Blues" from Thistled Spring
Sam Amidon - "How Come That Blood" from I See the Sign
Kim Salmon and the Surrealists - "RQ1" from Grand Unifying Theory
Plants and Animals - "Tom Cruz" from La La Land
Apples in Stereo - "Dance Floor" from Travellers in Space and Time
Dave Nada - "Drummer's Rock" from Bustin' Loose
Big Audio Dynamite - "The Border Line" from This Is Big Audio Dynamite: Legacy Edition
Robert Pollard - "Arrows and Balloons" from Moses on a Snail
Circus Devils - "Bam Bam Bam" from Mother Skinny
Robert Pollard - "Moses on a Snail" from Moses on a Snail

The band Liars explore the desire to escape from one's self in their new release Sisterworld. Hear three songs from that album in this show, plus music from Dosh, Nice Nice, and Elliott Smith.

Download: http://www.agitradio.com/podcast/10/agit_radio_42.mp3

Play List:
Elliott Smith - "A Fond Farewell" from From a Basement on the Hill
The Tallest Man on Earth - "You're Going Back" from The Wild Hunt
Dosh - "Number 41" (featuring Andrew Bird) from Tommy
Murs and 9th Wonder - "The Lick" (featuring Verbs) from Fornever
Nice Nice - "See Waves" from Extra Wow
Mi Ami - "Latin Lover" from Steal Your Face
Chin Chin - "Never Surrender" from Sound of the Westway
Liars - "Scarecrows on a Killer Slant" from Sisterworld
Liars - "The Overachievers" from Sisterworld
Liars - "Goodnight Everything" from Sisterworld

Dan Snaith's project Caribou takes a turn toward dance rhythms with the release of Swim. We hear three songs from it, plus music from High Places, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

Download: http://www.agitradio.com/podcast/10/agit_radio_41.mp3

Play List:
Erykah Badu - "20 Feet Tall" from New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - "I Learned the Hard Way" from I Learned the Hard Way
The Dø - "On My Shoulders" from A Mouthful
Boy Eats Drum Machine - "Syncopated" from Hope + Wire
High Places - "The Longest Shadows" from High Places vs. Mankind
Viv Albertine - "Never Come" from Flesh EP
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "The Weeping Song" from The Good Son
Caribou - "Odessa" from Swim
Caribou - "Hannibal" from Swim
Caribou - "Leave House" from Swim

Zola Jesus is the featured artist this time around. Hear two songs from her new EP entitled Stridulum. There's also new stuff from King Rhythm, Via Audio and Titus Andronicus.

Download: http://www.agitradio.com/podcast/10/agit_radio_40.mp3

Play List:
The Bird and the Bee - "Kiss On My List" from Interpreting the Masters Volume 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall and John Oates
Via Audio - "Lizard Song" from Animalore
King Rhythm - "The Machinist" from Hardships & Head Trips
Titus Andronicus - "No Future Part Three: Escape from No Future" from The Monitor
Black Tambourine - "Throw Aggi Off the Bridge" from Black Tambourine
Zola Jesus - "Six Feet (from My Baby)" from The Spoils
Zola Jesus - "Manifest Destiny" from Stridulum EP
Zola Jesus - "Night" from Stridulum EP

This week's featured article on the Agit Reader is about James Williamson of Iggy and the Stooges. A "deluxe edition" of Raw Power has been released, and we hear three songs from it. Also, familiar names like She & Him, Bette Serveert, Matt Pond PA, and Eddy Current Suppression Ring fill out our list of reviewed discs.

Download: http://www.agitradio.com/podcast/10/agit_radio_39.mp3

Play List:
She & Him - "In the Sun" from Volume Two
Matt Pond PA - "Starting" from The Dark Leaves
The Internal Tulips - "Mr. Baby" from Mislead Into a Field By a Deformed Dear
Eddy Current Suppression Ring - "Walked Into a Corner" from Rush to Relax
Bettie Serveert - "Souls Travel" from Pharmacy of Love
Archie Bronson Outfit - "Shark's Tooth" from Coconut
Paul Revere & the Raiders - "Louie Louie" from The Complete Columbia Singles
Iggy and the Stooges - "Gimme Danger (1996 Iggy Mix)" from Raw Power: Deluxe Edition
Iggy and the Stooges - "I Got a Right" from Raw Power: Deluxe Edition
Iggy and the Stooges - "Search and Destroy" from Raw Power: Deluxe Edition

Yeasayer's new record Odd Blood is featured this time on Agit Radio. Stephen also plays new stuff from the Watson Twins, Kurt Wagner of Lambchop, and Cleveland's Cloud Nothings. And let's not forget Old Blue Eyes...

Download: http://www.agitradio.com/podcast/10/agit_radio_38.mp3

Play List:
Frank Sinatra - "Strangers in the Night" from Strangers in the Night
You Say Party! We Say Die! - "There Is XXXX (Within My Heart)" from XXXX
Kurt Wagner - "Gangs of Rome" from Ashley Beedle presents Mavis
The Watson Twins - "Calling Out" from Talking to You, Talking to Me
Puerto Muerto - "The Bell Ringer" from Drumming for Pistols
U.S. Girls - "I Don't Have a Mind of My Own" from Go Grey
Pantha du Prince - "Stick to My Side" from Black Noise
Cloud Nothings - "Hey Cool Kid" from Turning On
Yeasayer - "O.N.E." from Odd Blood
Yeasayer - "Madder Red" from Odd Blood
Yeasayer - "Ambling Alp" from Odd Blood

Stephen's brother Matt joins him for this week's Agit Radio. The featured band is White Denim, the last of this month's Rated Rookies. There's plenty of artists you've heard of before, including Los Campesinos, The Magnetic Fields, and Scout Niblett, plus new stuff from Clipd Beaks and classic gospel funk from the Gospel Comforters.

Download: http://www.agitradio.com/podcast/10/agit_radio_37.mp3

Play List:
Los Campesinos - "I Just Sighed, I Just Sighed, Just So You Know" from Romance Is Boring
Beach House - "Zebra" from Teen Dream
The Magnetic Fields - "You Must Be Out of Your Mind" from Realism
Scout Niblett - "Kings" from The Calcination of Scout Niblett
Silver Swans - "Realize the Ghost" from Realize the Ghost
Gospel Comforters - "Yes God Is Real" from Good God! Born Again Funk
Clipd Beaks - "Blood" from To Realize
White Denim - "Everybody Somebody" from Fits
White Denim - "I'd Have It Just the Way We Were" from Fits
White Denim - "Mirrored and Reversed" from Fits

Chaz Bundick, who calls his latest project Toro y Moi, doesn't mind being lumped in with other bands in the "glo-fi" genre, but Kevin Elliott insists that Toro y Moi is much more than that classification implies. He makes that case on this podcast and plays two tracks from Causers of This and one yet-to-be released track from Toro y Moi. We also hear the latest from Spoon, Four Tet, and Surfer Blood, among others.

Download: http://www.agitradio.com/podcast/10/agit_radio_36.mp3

Play List:
Spoon - "Is Love Forever?" from Transference
Surfer Blood - "Take It Easy" from Astro Coast
Oh No Ono - "Helplessly Young" from Eggs
Yellow Fever - "Psychedelic" from Yellow Fever
The Flirtations - "Stronger Than Her Love" from Keb Darge and Paul Weller present Lost & Found: Real R’n’B and Soul
Kevin Barker - "Mountain & Bear" from You and Me
Four Tet - "Sing" from There Is Love In You
Lindstrøm and Christabelle - "Keep It Up" from Real Life Is No Cool
Toro Y Moi - "Blessa" from Causers of This
Toro Y Moi - "Low Shoulders" from Causers of This
Toro Y Moi - "New Loved Ones"

Stephen and Josie host the show from Brooklyn this time around. Our fantastic Rated Rookie is a band called Darlings. Hear three songs from their album Yeah I Know, plus music by Sid Vicious, Freedy Johnston, and Vampire Weekend.

Download: http://www.agitradio.com/podcast/10/agit_radio_35.mp3

Play List:
Vampire Weekend - "Horchata" from Contra
Queen Omega - "Footsteps" from Joyful Noise
Dragonette - "Stupid Grin" from Fixin to Thrill
Owen Pallett - "The Great Elsewhere" from Heartland
Sid Vicious with Steve Dior, Arthur Kane and Jerry Nolan - "Something Else" from Sid! By Those Who Really Knew Him
13th Chime - "Sarah's Got a Chainsaw" from The Lost Album
Freedy Johnston - "Don't Fall in Love with a Lonely Girl" from Rain on the City
Darlings - "TV" from Yeah I Know
Darlings - "People Say" from Yeah I Know
Darlings - "Eviction Party" from Yeah I Know

A new feature in 2010 is "Rated Rookies", bands that we feel are on the cusp of greater notoriety. Jack Sharp's project Wolf People is our first Rated Rookie. We hear three songs from Wolf People's first full-length entitled Tidings. There's also new music from Goldspot, The Dry Spells, and Animal Collective, as well as a boss live track from Tin Huey

Download: http://www.agitradio.com/podcast/10/agit_radio_34.mp3

Play List:
The King Khan & BBQ Show - "Animal Party" from Invisible Girl
Bruno Spoerri and others (mixed by The Gaslamp Killer) - "Les Electroniciens..." from All Killer
Goldspot - "Clap Clap" from And the Elephant Is Dancing
The Dry Spells - "Batwood" from Too Soon for Flowers
Animal Collective - "On the Highway" from Fall Be Kind EP
Tin Huey - "The Comb" from Before Obscurity: The Bushflow Tapes
Wolf People - "October Fires" from Tidings
Wolf People - "Cotton Strands" from Tidings
Wolf People - "Black Water" from Tidings

As promised, here's the second half of the best-of list for 2009. Happy New Year!

Download: http://www.agitradio.com/podcast/09/agit_radio_33.mp3

Play List:
Micachu & the Shapes - "Golden Phone" from Jewellery
Blank Dogs - "The New Things" from Under and Under
Dirty Projectors - "Stillness Is the Move" from Bitte Orca
The Electric Bunnies - "Psychic Lemonade" from Through the Magical Door
Zola Jesus - "Devil Take You" from The Spoils
The Antlers - "Bear" from Hospice
Eat Skull - "Dawn in the Face" from Wild and Inside
Times New Viking - "Move to California" from Born Again Revisited
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - "Young Adult Friction" from The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Animal Collective - "Girls" from Merriweather Post Pavilion

Lost in the shuffle of holiday preparations and end-of-the-year-best-of lists was episode 31 of Agit Radio, which features three songs by Bassholes, along with Stephen and Pat's recollections of Bassholes and wishful thinking for a 2010 reunion of Don Howland's earlier group, The Gibson Brothers. There's also music from Deer Tick, Dragon Turtle, and Brimstone Howl.

Download: http://www.agitradio.com/podcast/09/agit_radio_31.mp3

Play List:
Julianna Barwick - "Cloudbank" from Florine
Memory Tapes - "Bicycle" from Compilation 8
Dragon Turtle - "Island of Broken Glass" from Almanac
Deer Tick - "Axe Is Forever" from More Fuel for the Fire
Brimstone Howl - "Everybody Else Is Having Fun" from Big Deal. What's He Done Lately?
Bassholes - "Little Boy Blues" from ...And Without a Name
Bassholes - "(I Like) Smoke & Lightning" from ...And Without a Name
Bassholes - "Swannanoa River" from ...And Without a Name

Dorian S. Ham guests this week. He and Stephen review albums from 2009 which placed 20th through 11th in the annual poll.

Download: http://www.agitradio.com/podcast/09/agit_radio_32.mp3

Play List:
The Hunches - "Your Sick Blooms" from Exit Dreams
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - "Passionate Introverts (Dinosaurs)" from Ashes Grammar
Fever Ray - "Seven" from Fever Ray
Bill Callahan - "Eid Ma Clack Shaw" from Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
Grizzly Bear - "While You Wait for the Others" from Veckatimest
Major Lazer - "Pon de Floor" from Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do
Phoenix - "1901" from Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Kurt Vile - "Overnite Religion" from Childish Progigy
Flaming Lips - "Worm Mountain" from Embryonic
The Fresh & Onlys - "Dude's Got a Tender Heart" from Grey-Eyed Girls

Bear in Heaven are the featured band on the Agit Reader this week. Click on the image to the left to read Kevin Elliott's interview with Jon Philpot and Adam Wills of Bear in Heaven, and listen to three songs from Beast Rest Forth Mouth below. There's also classic Cleveland post-punk from Easter Monkeys, damaged southern punk rock from Wizzard Sleeve, and re-issued Jawbox, plus more.

Download: http://www.agitradio.com/podcast/09/agit_radio_30.mp3

Play List:
Easter Monkeys - "Underpants" from Splendor of Sorrow
Wizzard Sleeve - "No Mongo" from Make the World Go Away
We All Have Hooks for Hands - "Made Up of Tiny Lights" from The Shape of Energy
The Mary Onettes - "Puzzles" from Islands
The Mercury Program - "The Church of Cause and Effect" from Chez Viking
Jawbox - "Savory" from For Your Own Special Sweetheart
Bear in Heaven - "Beast in Peace" from Beast Rest Forth Mouth
Bear in Heaven - "Wholehearted Mess" from Beast Rest Forth Mouth
Bear in Heaven - "Lovesick Teenagers" from Beast Rest Forth Mouth