Andy Gapin

Last night’s The Playlist was one of the last ever that I’ll be doing. The decision has been made that I’m not going to continue the show in the Fall semester. That would be the start of my tenth year at the station, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. I still plan on keeping my status as an active DJ by attending meetings, but I will not have a regular show anymore. I’ve been doing The Playlist itself for seven years and I will definitely be sad to see it come to an end, but last night sort of solidified the decision for me.

Ultimately, what it comes down to is that the station is a different place than it was a few years ago. The station is different, almost all of the people are different, the atmosphere is different. That’s not to say that it’s better or worse, it’s just different. It isn’t the station that I feel in love with and devoted much of my life to. The station is directly or indirectly responsible for most of the things in my life even now, but that’s not the same station that I still host The Playlist at. That difference really is the breaking point on top of all other things pointing towards moving on.

Like I said, I still plan on staying active and maybe subbing a show here or there and I’m not ruling out doing another show in the future sometime, but it won’t be called The Playlist and it won’t be the same format. With that being said, I don’t know the exact date for my last edition of The Playlist, but it will probably be in a few weeks. I’ll update when I know.

Last night’s show was a reminder of how bipolar doing a radio show based on new music can be. One week can be great and the next can be a struggle with no emotional connection to it. It was the latter last night, I just wasn’t there emotionally for the show, I didn’t feel connected to it at all. It was just CD in, CD out.

Here’s what I played…

• The Love Language – Heart To Tell – Libraries
• The Orbans – Left Side – When We Were Wild
• White Fence – Destroy Everything – White Fence
• The Like – Wishing He Was Dead – Release Me
• The Streets On Fire – Hey Lou – This Is Fancy
• Menomena – TAOS – Mines
• Seneca Hawk – Steal Your Heart Away – Sun Year Long
• These United States – Water And Wheat – What Lasts
• Upstairs Downstairs – Stationary’s Helping – Inland And Out
• Dean And Britta – Herringbone Tweed – 13 Most Beautiful: Songs For Andy Warhol’s Secret Tests
• Rogue Valley – I-5 Love Affair – Crater Lake
• Miniature Tigers – Dark Tower – Fortress
• Social Studies – Drag A Rake – Wind Up Wooden Heart
• Maps And Atlases – Living Decorations – Perch Patchwork

Source: 90.3 The Core

Last night’s show was interesting, my fiancée was with me and was distracting me by making shark faces at me in the beginning so I ended up having the whole sequencing of mic breaks, announcements, and songs off all night. It turned out to be pretty cool actually. I generally have a standard way of putting the show together and it’s been a long time since I really varied that. This was a welcome change and made everything feel much less mechanical.

The early part of the show started of rather fuzzy (band sound-wise), but that worked out somewhat well. Entirely unintentional. I also liked the new Steel Train song I played too…which was unexpected.

• Big Eyes – Since You Left – Big Eyes [EP]
• The Streets On Fire – The Basement – This Is Fancy
• Poison Control Center, The – Two Mountains – Sad Sour Future
• White Fence – Destroy Everything – White Fence
• Steel Train – You Are Dangerous – Steel Train
• The Like – I Can See It In Your Eyes – Release Me
• Faded Paper Figures – Limelight – New Medium
• The Love Language – Summer Dust – Libraries
• Telegraph Canyon – Welcome To The Night – The Tide And The Current
• Alba Lua – Ballad Of Joseph Merrick – Ballad Of Joseph Merrick [EP]
• Fol Chen – C/U – Part II: The New December
• The Orbans – Left Side – When We Were Wild
• Maps And Atlases – Living Decorations – Perch Patchwork
• Fjord Rowboat – We Both Know – Under Cover Of Brightness
• The Beauties – Devil Do – The Beauties
• Wavves – Linus Spacehead – King Of The Beach

Source: 90.3 The Core

Not a bad little show last night. I thought I was going to be short on music to play, but things ended up working out perfectly. Though, I feel like I was a little too bothered by the grammatical error in the song title for Kathryn Calder’s “A Day Past It’s Prime.” At first, I thought it was just wrong in our system, but the wrong form of ‘its’ is there on the back of the CD case as well. Oh well.

With all the feelings of wanting to finally throw in the towel and retire from college radio lately, it was nice to head into the studio last night and have a good show that I had fun doing. Maybe the week off helped.

• The Love Language – Anthophobia – Libraries
• Telegraph Canyon – Shake Your Fist – The Tide And The Current
• Villagers – Ship Of Promises – Becoming A Jackal
• Wolf Parade – Two Men In New Tuxedos – Expo 86
• The Black Rabbits – Hurry, Hurry – The Black Rabbits
• The Like – I Can See It In Your Eyes – Release Me
• Teenage Fanclub – Into The City – Shadows
• The Beauties – Devil Do – The Beauties
• The Streets On Fire – Chadwick Shut Up! – This Is Fancy
• Kathryn Calder – A Day Long Past It’s Prime – Are You My Mother?
• Fjord Rowboat – We Both Know – Under Cover Of Brightness
• White Fence – Destroy Everything – White Fence
• Kacey Johansing – Photographs And Letters – Seasons
• The Lincoln Bedroom – Help Me Get Back Into This Heart Of Mine – Broken Record
• Clean Girls – Siesta Siesta – Summer Camp

Source: 90.3 The Core