Playlist 248 - Jan 8 2013

The first show of the new year. A couple of new songs, but mostly recapping on a fantastic year of music. I seem to say that every year but 2012 does seem to have been a particularly good year in fairness. If you flick through the recent podcasts/posts, you'll see I've compiled close to 80 of my favourite songs from the year. So quite a lot. (And by the way, the final post in the review of the year is on the way shortly.)

The new songs were Lord Huron - drawing on Paul Simon's Graceland very nicely - and the new single from the great Yo La Tengo. The rest was a Best of 2012 rundown. For more details on all of those, check the recent posts here.

Jan 8 2013 show feat. Lord Huron, Yo La Tengo + more Best of 2012 selections by Theundergroundofhappiness on Mixcloud



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Playlist 248
Tues Jan 8 2013
11.00am-12.00pm
(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
UCC 98.3FM
listen live on the web at www.ucc.ie/983fm
*listen back to this show here
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Playlist
Lord Huron - Time to run (radio edit)
Yo La Tengo - Well you better
Donnie & Joe Emerson - Baby
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Only in my dreams
Tame Impala - Keep on lying
Melody's Echo Chamber - I follow you
Jherek Bischoff feat Carla Bozulich - Counting
Best Boy Grip - Monster and me
Hidden Highways - Come wander with me (playing Whelan's One To Watch, Whelan's, Dublin, Jan 10)
FS Blumm & Lucrecia Dalt - Quizas perhaps quizas
Little Annie & Baby Dee - Angels gone before
B. Fleischmann - Your bibles are printed on dollars
Lower Dens - Brains

*next week's show features more Best of 2012 selections, plus music from Michael Price, Yo La Tengo and Days & Nights at the Takeaway 12, among others
**Check www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com for full Best of 2012 selections

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Conor O'Toole,
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University College Cork,
Cork,
Ireland.

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