Episode #62 - The Day the Whole World Went Away

1. Song: Dont' Touch Dead Animals , Artist: Kayo Dot , Album: Kayo Dot / Bloody Panda (Holy Roar)
2. Song: Lake of Roaches , Artist: Wolf Eyes , Album: Human Animal (Sub Pop)
3. Song: Track 4 , Artist: Formication , Album: Agnosia (Dark Winter)
4. Song: The Killing Spree , Artist: Chromatics , Album: Night Drive (Italians Do It Better)
5. Song: Mr. Sandman , Artist: The Four Aces , Album: The Four Aces: Greatest Hits (MCA)
6. Song: Cool People , Artist: Kites , Album: Hallucination Guillotine/Final Worship (Load)
7. Song: Outh9X , Artist: Autechre , Album: Quaristice (Warp)
8. Song: Late Night , Artist: Belong , Album: Colorloss Record (St. Ives)

• Limited four-track 12"/digitial-only EP of covers from New Orleans ambient/shoegaze/post-rock duo Belong, who added their own vocals. Not that it matters, though, because they're buried too far down in the mix to be recognizable. Case in point: "Late Night", a cover of Syd Barrett (Pink Floyd). The other three cuts follow a similar late '60s UK vibe: "Beeside" (Tintern Abbey), "Girl from New York" (Billy Nicholls), and "My Clown" (July).

9. Song: Ossification , Artist: Nadja , Album: Bodycage (Profound Lore)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #62 2008-3-29

Episode #61 - Funeral March

1. Song: Sweet Love for Planet Earth , Artist: Fuck Buttons , Album: Street Horrrsing (ATP)
2. Song: Rationed Rot , Artist: Wolf Eyes , Album: Human Animal (Sub Pop)
3. Song: Sixteen Seconds Happy , Artist: Vincent Gallo , Album: Buffalo 66 (Will)
4. Song: Tweedle Dee , Artist: Lavern Baker , Album: The Departed (Warner Sunset)
5. Song: Ratnoise , Artist: Indian Jewelry , Album: Invasive Exotics (Monitor)
6. Song: Army Corpse/Supermen 2 , Artist: Kites , Album: Hallucination Guillotine/Final Worship (Load)
7. Song: Invaded , Artist: Agata , Album: Spike (Tzadik)
8. Song: Metal Machine Music, Part I , Artist: Lou Reed , Album: Metal Machine Music (Buddha)
9. Song: SonDEremawe , Artist: Autechre , Album: Quaristice (Warp)
10. Song: Intro / Instrumental , Artist: Xasthur , Album: Suicide In Dark Serenity (Bestial Onslaught)
11. Song: Jane Doe , Artist: Converge , Album: Jane Doe (Equal Vision)

• Great, epic track off of what (I think) is the best Converge album, from the opening salvo of "Concubine/Fault and Fracture", to "Homewrecker" to what sounds like two jaguars fighting on "Phoenix In Flames", to this, the final track, there isn't a dull spot on this album.

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #61 2008-3-22

Episode #60 - Stillborn

1. Song: Asleep On the Forest Floor , Artist: Genghis Tron , Album: Dead Mountain Mouth (Crucial Blast)
2. Song: Nightmare Paint , Artist: Swarm of the Lotus , Album: The Sirens of Silence (Abacus)
3. Song: Unblessed Be , Artist: Xasthur , Album: Defective Epitaph (Hydra Head)
4. Song: Breakpoint , Artist: Nadja , Album: Trembled (Utech)
5. Song: Origins 2 , Artist: Rameses III , Album: Basilica (Important)
6. Song: PS I Dub Ya Forever and Ever (12" Edition Rmxed by The Posterboys of the Apocalypse and Kid606) , Artist: Kid 606 , Album: PS I Dub Ya E.P. (Force Lab)
7. Song: Projections , Artist: The Howling Wind , Album: Pestilence & Peril (Profound Lore)
8. Song: Shelter From the Ash , Artist: Six Organs of Admittance , Album: Shelter From the Ash (Drag City)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #60 2008-3-15

Episode #59 - What a Beautiful Day to Die

1. Song: Obnoxious Sample , Artist: As the Sun Sets , Album: Each Individual Voice Is Dead In the Silence (Moment of Clarity)
2. Song: Memorial To the Waste of Life , Artist: Xasthur , Album: Defective Epitaph (Hydra Head)
3. Song: Bug/Golem , Artist: Nadja , Album: Truth Becomes Death (Alien8)
4. Song: Poison Blur , Artist: Kites , Album: Hallucination Guillotine/Final Worship (Load)
5. Song: The Folding Road , Artist: Genghis Tron , Album: Dead Mountain Mouth (Crucial Blast)
6. Song: Law of Life , Artist: Farah , Album: After Dark (Italians Do It Better)

• Italo-disco compilation on the Troubleman Unlimited imprint Italians Do It Better. Also features tracks from Chromatics, Glass Candy, Mirage, and Professor Genius.

7. Song: Moccasin Tramp , Artist: Cursillistas , Album: Wasp Stings the Last Bitter Flavor (Digitalis Industries)
8. Song: Alone with the Alone , Artist: Six Organs of Admittance , Album: Shelter From the Ash (Drag City)
9. Song: Babies , Artist: Colleen , Album: Check the Water (Leaf)

• Double disc set of ambient/IDM/trip-hop originally released as a celebration of Leaf's ten year anniversary that also features cuts from Four Tet, Caribou, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Murcof, Clue to Kalo, Boom Bip & Doseone, Psapp, Efterklang, Hanne Hukkelberg, and others.

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #59 2008-3-8

Earlier episodes have been restored

So after a couple calls to repost earlier episodes (I noticed that after a certain point earlier ones disappeared from the iTunes store), I've managed to restore the missing episodes so that anyone who started listening after the first episode is now able to grab all the previous podcasts they missed out on. Apparently it was as simple as changing the number of max posts in Blogger by tweaking the address of my feed in Feedburner (by default, only the first 512K is listed). You can now grab up to 500 episodes of Sounds of the Apocalypse, should I ever make it that far (crossing my fingers).

Episode #58 - Possessed By Demons

1. Song: Hallucination Guillotine , Artist: Kites , Album: Hallucination Guillotine/Final Worship (Load)
2. Song: Memory Leak , Artist: Nadja , Album: Truth Becomes Death (Alien8)
3. Song: Funerals Drenched In Apathy , Artist: Xasthur , Album: Defective Epitaph (Hydra Head)
4. Song: Larks On a String , Artist: Cursillistas , Album: Wasp Stings the Last Bitter Flavor (Digitalis Industries)
5. Song: Basilica , Artist: Rameses III , Album: Basilica (Important)
6. Song: Tick of the Clock , Artist: Chromatics , Album: Night Drive (Italians Do It Better)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #58 2008-3-1