FiL's Playlists

From HearNewBrunswick.com

Join host FiL Wisneski every Tuesday from 5-7 p.m. on HearNewBrunswick.com as he spans decades and genres to bring you familiar favorites and hidden gems from his vast archive of musical delights. If you read Mojo or subscribe to eMusic, this show is for you!

Podcasts of most of these shows are available on the HearNewBrunswick.com website. You can access them from the FiL With Sound page or the station's Podcasts page.

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Date	Notes
03.25.2008	Lots of theme sets this week--see if you can figure out the themes! New music from Plants and Animals, Mystery Jets, Drive By Truckers, and The Kennedys, plus a nice batch of sixties nuggets. And a FiL With Sound first! FiL plays a classical piece!
03.18.2008	Plenty of new music this week, plus a belated St. Patty's Day set. (Sorry, I'm too tired to come up with a better description.)
03.11.2008	I started off this week's show by wishing a very Happy Birthday to two good friends of mine celebrating today. I also acknowledged my own birthday, which was Saturday, with a set of music about getting older. Saturday was also International Women's Day, so I played several sets featuring women singers.
03.04.2008	I covered a lot of ground this week, visiting both Ohio and Texas in honor of the primaries being held there today. I also featured a set about miners, and finished up with a long set of new music.
02.26.2008	This week I celebrated what would have been George Harrison's 65th birthday by playing two hours of his solo songs, his Beatles songs, covers of his songs, and some songs he covered.
02.19.2008	Hard to describe this week’s show. It stared out pretty folky, but went off in some weird directions, with new music from Megafaun, the Heavy Circles, Dengue Fever, the Republic Tigers, Wisley, the Whitsundays, Rafter, and Anthony da Costa. I also played a set of Daniel Johnston music in anticipation of seeing him in Philly this coming Friday, and ended the show with a ‘50s send-up by Fleetwood Mac masquerading as Earl Vince and the Valiants.
02.12.2008	With V-Day near, I decided to take a step to the left and offer this antidote to the sickly-sweet pablum usually associated with the Hallmark Holiday. So, two hours of loneliness, longing, and heartbreak, first from the women, then from the men. Listen to it with someone you wish you were in love with!
02.05.2008	I ignored Fat Tuesday, Super Tuesday, and Giants Superbowl Celebration Tuesday, and instead celebrated the birthday of legendary musician Al Kooper, played a bevy of new music from groups you've probably never heard of, and topped it all off with a Monkees classic.
01.29.2008	I spent an hour paying tribute to Thomas Edison and the electric lightbulb, played some new music from the Helio Sequence, Joseph Authur, and Martina Topley-Bird, and caught up on some more 2007 releases. Sadly, due to technical difficulties at the station, there is no podcast of this show.
01.22.2008	I finally drank the Amy Winehouse kool-aid (hey, I'm slow sometimes), played a few songs for actor Heath Ledger, and finished the show with a bunch of covers.
01.15.2008	I spent much of this show playing catch-up with a lot of stuff I didn't pay enough attention to last year, including the National, Tinariwen, and Future Clouds & Radar.
01.08.2008	Man vs. Machine! This show may be hard to listen to. I battled a persnickety mixing board all night, so the levels were all over the place. I soldiered on, and presented an hour of music from British folk-rock goddess Sandy Denny in honor of her birthday, a set of soul inspired by watching the film "Talk to Me", a song for the recently departed jazz bassist Earl May, and some songs I missed last year.
01.01.2008	On this special 3-hour expanded show, I welcomed in the new year with a new theme song and a new name for the show ("FiL With Sound"). Then, I took a look back on 2007 by playing my favorite songs of the year.
12.25.2007	The missing show! This was a pre-recorded show that I was hoping to have played on Christmas Day. It didn't get played, but I'm still making it available in the podcast archives. Some of my favorite quirky Christmas songs, plus a cheesy old children’s Christmas story from my youth narrated and sung by Bing Crosby. Tune in next week as I finally give my show a name!
12.18.2007	A fairly typical show, though a little heavy on the Canadian and Midwestern artists. New music from the Sadies, Dion, Fire on Fire, the Acorn, and more, plus side one of Neil Young's Everybody Knows This is Nowhere done with cover versions, and a set of Christmas music.
12.11.2007	Back to the sixties! I continued my occasional psychedelic retrospective with the year 1968. Groove along with the well know (Steppenwolf, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Hendrix) and the obscure (The Apple, The Mirror, Os Mutantes, Salvation) and the music gets heavier.
12.04.2007	I acknowledged the beginning of Hannukkah, paid tribute to the late Evel Knievel, and played an hour's worth of songs about comic book superheroes.
11.27.2007	New music from Sigur Ros, the New Pornographers, and more. Plus, a 1974 AM pop hit from Redbone!
11.20.2007	This week's show started out strong, then slowly faded into a dreamspace populated with saints, angels, the ghost of Harry Nilsson, and visions of the future.
11.13.2007	This week: New music from Ian Ball (from Gomez), Arrested Development, Sia, and more; a quick tour through the horn-powered bands of the late 60s; some wiggy covers from Yes and Sufjan Stevens; plus ELO and LL Cool J.
11.06.2007	This week I acknowledged the birthdays of my older brother Pete (who influenced my musical tastes) and the late Gram Parsons (who influenced generations of country-rockers). I also doffed my cap to longtime NYC-area free-form DJ Vin Scelsa for his 40th anniversary in radio via several sets of music that covered everything from Sinatra to the Ramones.
10.30.2007	This was my Not-Quite-a-Halloween Show. I played lots of songs about ghosts and witches and zombies and werewolves, but I mostly picked songs that can be appreciated past Oct. 31.
10.23.2007	Got yer Neil right here! Neil Young has a new album out, Chrome Dreams II. I played several selections from it, as well as some older and unreleased Neil, and the usual assortment of new and not-so-new music.
10.16.2007	My first live guests! Adam Bernstein (All Gods’ Children, Solar, Driver Quartet, the Laurie Berkner Band, etc.) and his friend Paul Carbonara (Blondie) joined me for some live music and discussion of Adam’s new solo CD, “Dust Off the Timeless Night” and his days fronting the New Brunswick large band, All Gods’ Children. Oh, and ten minutes before show time, my car got towed.
10.09.2007	This week I celebrated our Indian Summer, went on a book tour, followed the thread from Steve Earle and Bruce Springsteen back to Pete Seeger, and explored America with Graham Parker and Joe Henry.
10.02.2007	New music from Steve Earle, Iron & Wine, and more, plus two sets of "She Says" songs. Once again Garrett Broad and I had technical difficulties transitioning between our shows. One of these days, we'll get it right!
09.25.2007	Break out your love beads and lava lamps, because this week I continued my occasional psychedelic retrospective, focusing on the big year: 1967. All the important bands are here, plus some real obscurities. Turn on, tune in, and drop out!
09.18.2007	The Ordinary People show, with 4 songs with that title, including the new 18-minute Neil Young epic. Plus, and epic Bob Dylan track and plenty of new music.
09.11.2007	My first Tuesday show! The radio gremlins were working overtime in the studio today. Fortunately, most of them don’t show up in the archive recording, except for a pesky Blue Oyster Cult track. Two sets about the radio, and I played "sounds like" with a new Bruce Springsteen track. Listen to the beginning of the archive for today’s edition of "The Retrospective" to hear the very end of my show.
09.06.2007	Time-trippin'! This week I played nothing by psychedelic classics and obscurities from 1966. Tune in and turn on! IMPORTANT NOTE: Next week, my show moves to Tuesdays at 5:00 p.m.
08.30.2007	This week I played new songs from Josh Rouse and Over the Rhine, and a set of songs about time. But the show really went to the birds at the end—two sets of bird-themed songs, plus a bonus hour (sadly, not in the archive) of more bird songs, as I filled in for the absent Charlie and His Dad.
08.23.2007	New music from Joe Henry, Devandra Banhart, Mavis Staples, the Gourds, and more. Plus a set of Donovan covers, including Donovan covering himself!
08.16.2007	I started my show with a set of live Tom Waits with the Kronos Quartet from "Healing the Divide", then played lots of new music from the likes of Illinois, Augie March, The Polyphonic Spree, Andrew Bird, and Future Clouds & Radar.
08.09.2007	It took me months to get around to buying it, but finally played tracks from the new Girylman CD. I also payed tribute to Jerry Garcia and played a few Beatles classics on ukulele.
08.02.2007	After a week off, it was good to be back on the air! I played music from many of the artists who appeared at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, including new faves Eilen Jewell and Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers.
07.19.2007	This week I previewed most of the artists appearing at next week's Falcon Ridge Folk Festival Emerging Artist Showcase. Most of the songs were taken from the artists' MySpace pages, so the sound quality is less than ideal.
07.12.2007	Themes of magic and musical evolution dominated this week, as I saluted the new Harry Potter movie, the mystery of love, and the possible genesis of a classic song.
07.05.2007	An antidote to the patriotic overload of the Fourth of July--a look at the American experience through the eyes of immigrants, Indians, and the downtrodden.
06.28.2007	Lots of new music, including the Avett Brothers, Bright Eyes, Mark Olson, John Doe, and more.
06.21.2007	In celebration of the first day of Summer, I played 90 minutes of Summer songs, from Martha and the Vandellas and Sly and the Family Stone to Josh Rouse and Mark Erelli.
06.14.2007	Adampalooza! To celebrate the release of New Brunswick legend Adam Bernstein's new album, I played 90 minutes of Adam Bernstein music, from the first All God's Children cassette to the new solo CD, with stops in between for Red Onion, Land of Minerals, Driver Quartet, Solar, Claire Daly, Mark Bradley, Fishermen's Stew, and Adam's last solo CD. Unfortunately, technical difficulties resulted in almost the entire show being broadcast in only one channel. So it goes in the wild world of Internet broadcasting.
06.07.2007	Lots of new songs, a California set, some 1970s soul, and a long song from Phish.
05.31.2007	Locked out of the studio, I got a late start, but ended up doing my longest show yet. Songs from the new Richard Thompson album sprinkled with other people's songs Richard contributed his guitar to, a mini-Daniel Johnson covers set, and some other new releases.
05.24.2007	New music from Arcade Fire and Fountains of Wayne.
05.17.2007	Jangly guitars through the decades, from Buddy Holly to the Apples in Stereo, with stops at the Byrds, the Beatles, R.E.M., and more along the way.
05.10.2007	Love, darkness, and light.
05.03.2007	The first show! New music from the Apples in Stereo, Winterpills, the Tyde, Jarvis Cocker, and Joanna Newsom.