Category: Shows

11/5/15 Radio Show feat. Elizabeth Davison and Anastasia Quintana on the Power of Networks

Elizabeth Davison is a graduate student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering here at Princeton University where she studies the capability of using networks to measure the processes in our brain. We speak generally on what a network is, what are neural networks vs. “a network of neurons”, and her work specifically, then we broaden to applications.

Next, with Tasha Quintana, doctoral candidate at the Nicholas School of Environment at Duke University, we discuss one powerful application of networks — information sharing in fisheries in Baja California. Then we go on to discuss work to broaden successful networks in Baja to larger networks, like the environment we all share.

For more information on this fascinating topic, Elizabeth Davison recommends:

Another beautiful representation of networks and information flow. This image is a network of information flow in the sciences through citations. Follow the link and you can click on different portions of the ring to see how certain fields have a lot of interactions, as well as looking at the data journal-by-journal.
http://well-formed.eigenfactor.org/
From well-formed.eigenfactor.org, this beautiful image tracks information flow in the sciences by following citations in journal articles.
Additionally, we got some music in! Here’s what we played:
Artist Song Album Label
The Descendants Myage Milo Goes to College Cesstone Music
Aye Nako Killswitch The Blackest Eye Don Giovanni
Ethiocolor Helle Loyo Helle Ioha S/T Selam
Mika Miko Business Cats CYSABF Kill Rock Stars
Interview with Liz Davison, Part 1 Networks
Young Fathers I heard Tape 2 Just isnt music
GLOSS Masculine Artifice Demo S/R
Shopping No Show Why Choose FatCat
Adam Miller Death Row Democracy http://www.adammillerdrums.com/#!beats/ctd9 S/R
Stromae quand c’est Racine Carree Mosaert
Interview with Liz Davison, Part 2 Networks
Pens Love Rules Love Rules/You only like me when I’m telling you I’m wrong De Stijl Records
Palehound Dixie Dry Food Exploding in Sounds Records
Speedy Ortiz No Below Major Arcana Carpark Records
Lord Nelson Shengo West Indies Funk Vol 3 Voodoo Jazz
Mischief Brew Coffee, God, and Cigarettes Songs from Under the Sink Fistolo Records
Interview with Tasha Quintana, Part 1 Fisheries as networks
Stone Foxes Stomp Bears & Bulls Boonie Blues
My Morning Jacket Rocket Man Chapter 1: The Sandworm Cometh Darla Records
Interview with Tasha Quintana, Part 2 Fisheries as networks
(The featured image for this post is from “World-airline-routemap-2009” by Jpatokal – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi…)

10/29/15 Radio Show feat. Jessie Schwab, Developmental Psychologist

Between sweet tunes like Qfolk and Diet Cig, I discuss early childhood development, specifically of language, with Jessie Schwab, doctoral candidate of developmental psychology at Princeton University. We get in to how this is measured (the efforts of the new Princeton Baby Lab), and even get in to the debate in psychology and linguistics of whether language is a learned or innate ability.

Artist Song Album Label Comments
Mischief Brew Slow Death Hymn This is not for children Alternative Tentacles
The Rezillos Top of the pops Can’t stand the Rezillos Sire Records
Royal Headache Another world High What’s your rupture
The Babies Get Lost Our House on the Hill Woodsist
Talking with Jessie Schwab Developmental Psychology
Shovels and Rope O Be Joyful O be joyful dualtone music group
Qfolk Leftist Love Song Songs I wrote S/R Bandcamp Princeton’s own!
Angel Olsen Enemy Burn your fire for no witness jagjaguwar
Mulatu Astatke Tezeta (Nostalgia) Ethiopiques vol 4 CRC edition
Torres Sprinter Sprinter Partisan Records 2015 album
Talking with Jessie Schwab Developmental Psychology
Billy Bragg, Wilco California Stars Mermaid Avenue Nonesuch interviewee selection
Tea Leaf Green Not Fit Raise up the tent Surfdog records interviewee selection
Old 97’s Big Brown Eyes Too far to care Elektra entertainment group interviewee selection
Portugal. The man The Sun The Satanic Satanist Equal Vision Records interviewee selection
Computer Magic Fuzz Fuzz Channel 9 Records
The Adverts Gary Gilmore’s Eyes Crossing the red sea with the adverts fire records
Deaf Wish Calypso Pain Sub Pop
Hinds Chili Town Very Best of Hinds so Far Mom+Pop
Diet Cig Scene Sick Over Easy Father/Daughter Records
The Coathangers Drive Suck my shirt Suicide Squeeze

10/22/15 Radio Show feat. Stephane Cooperstein, Particle Physicist

In this show we discuss the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, generally how particle physicists do what they do, and of course the Higgs boson. Stephane is part of the CMS detector group at Princeton and is actively working towards fully characterizing what’s called the Higgs boson “decay modes” (the different ways the Higgs could decay). We discuss it, so listen in!

(Playlist at the bottom, below the images.)

Below is a bubble chamber image, as discussed in the interview. Isn’t it beautiful?

bubble_chamber_small

bubble chamber fermilab

bubble chamber diagram

But when we discuss “jets” we’re referring to something like this:

particle jets

Some photos of the detector we discuss in the interview, and what Stephane works on, CMS.

CMS CMS_diagram

Artist Song Album Label
Modern Lovers Astral Plane Modern Lovers
Neko Case Man The Worse Things Get the harder I fight the harder I fight the more I love you Anti, Inc
Menace Beach Come on Give Up Ratworld Memphis Industries
Bratmobile Throwaway Pottymouth Kill Rock Stars
<Break – talking with Stephane>
Sharkmuffin Mondays Chartreuse Little Dickman Recrods
Young Fathers Shame White men are black men too Big Dada
Worriers Parts Imaginary Life Don Giovanni
Royal Headache Need You High What’s your rupture?
<Break – talking with Stephane>
Joan Shelley Not Over by Half NPR Tiny Desk Concert
Noah Gundersen Poor Man’s Son N/A Studio Litho
Denison Witmer Stations Of Joy and Sorrow Antique Shades
<Break – talking with Stephane>
Daniel Bachman Honeysuckle Reel Jesus, I’m a Sinner Tompkins Square
Tacocat Bridge to Hawaii NVM Hardly Art
Bara Heida I got your back S/T? Bara Heida
Flesh World Poolside Boys The Wild Animals in my life Iron Lung Records
Potty Mouth The Bomb Potty Mouth EP Planet Whatever
Marcus Mumford and Oscar Isaac Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song) Inside Llewyn Davis Soundtrack Nonesuch records
Downtown Boys Dancing in the Dark Full Communism Don Giovanni
Horse Lords All that is sold Hidden Cities NNA Tapes
Colleen Green Deeper than love I want to grow up Hardly Art
Waxahatchee La Loose Ivy Tripp Merge Records

10/15/2015 Radio show feat. Brian Kraus, Plasma Physicist

Aired 2-4am on Thursday, October 15th, 2015. Brian and I discuss at the most base level, how we do our measurements. We compare and contrast our respective work and what we need in order to accomplish it!

Additionally, it’s WPRB’s pledge week! Call in to WPRB (609 258 1033) or go to pledge.wprb.com asap!

Artist Song Album Label
The Mondern Lovers Astral Plane The Modern Lovers Sanctuary Records
Downtown Boys Wave of History Full Communism Don Giovanni
The Coathangers Adderall Suck my shirt Suicide Squeeze
Radiatory Hospital Your Boyfriend Something Wild Salinas Records
Mourn Misery Factory Mourn Captured Tracks
Screaming Females Ripe Rose Mountain Don Giovanni
Brian Kraus Interview – measurements
Diarrhea Planet Skeleton Head I’m Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams Infinity Cat Recordings
The Fucking Champs You’re Feelings III Smith, Greene, Soate
Skating Polly Alabama Movies Fuzz Steilacoom Chap Stereo
Potty Mouth Creeper Weed Potty Mouth EP Planet Whatever
Jawreaker Reunion Tearing Down the Posters Lutheran Sisterhood Gun Club Miscreant Records
Deaf Wish They Know Pain Sub Pop
Nick Drake Road Pink Moon UFO Music
Nick Drake Cello Song Nick Drake island records ltd
Girlpool Chinatown Before the world was big Witchita
Ladysmith Black Mumbazo Hello My Baby Shaka Zulu Warner Brothers
Worriers Unwritten Imaginary Life Don Giovanni
Chastity Belt Joke Time to Go Home Hardly Art
Sam Cooke Cupid The Man Who Invented Soul BMG Entertainment
Menace Beach Come on Give up Ratworld Memphis Industries

10/8/2015 Radio Show

No interview, just music this time. Though I do ramble a bit about Mars. Because water and the movie and stuff. Next week, an interview is a must! For now, enjoy these tunes.

Artist Song Album Label
The Modern Lovers Astral Plane The Modern Lovers Sanctuary Records Group
QUARTERBACKS Pool Quarterbacks Team Love Records
Jawbreaker Reunion Beer and Loathing Lutheran Sisterhood Gun Club Miscreant Records
Tinariwen Quallahila Ar Tesninam Amassakoul WEDGE S.A.R.L.
Krill Torturer A Distant Fist Unclenching Exploding in Sound
Worriers Most Space Imaginary Life Don Giovanni
The Lookouts Dying Spy rock road Don Giovanni
Lila Downs, Juanes La Patria Madrina Balas y Chocolate Sony
Downtown Boys (Brown and Smart) Full Communism Don Giovanni
Downtown Boys Monstro Full Communism Don Giovanni
Marvin Gaye A Funky Space Reincarnation – Live Live in Montreux – 1980 Eagle Records
Nice Try No Good Convinced – EP Kingfisher Bluez
Potty Mouth Bomb Potty Mouth ep Planet Whatever
Shopping Santa Monica Place Consumer Complaints Fat Cat
Hemlines Agenda All Your Homes EP S/R
Normal Person No Thanks #0001 S/R
Tacocat Spring Break-Up Take Me To Your Dealer S/R
Priests Design within reach Bodies and Control and Money and Power Don Giovanni
Radiator Hospital Cut Your Bangs Torch Song Salinas
David Wax Museum Singing to Me Guest House
King Krule Easy Easy 6 feet beneath the moon XL Recordings
The Black Keys Meet me in the city Chulahoma N/A
Junior Kimbrough Meet me in the city You better run N/A
Rhythms Del Mundo, Fleet Foxes Mykonos (feat. Fleet Foxes) Africa The End Records
Fatoumata Diawara Clandestin Fatou World Circuit Ltd
Mourn Philiphius Mourn Captured Tracks
Kylesa Crusher Exhausting Fire Season of Mist
Parquet Courts Instant Disassembly Sunbathing Animal What’s Your Rupture?

10/1/2015 Radio Show + Interview with Princeton Plasma Physicist Brian Kraus

Music and interview with Princeton plasma physics doctoral student Brian Kraus. We talked about what is a plasma, the difference between fusion and fission, why fusion energy is so much cleaner than fission (what’s done in nuclear reactors), but also so much harder. We talked about the fusion reactor being built in France – ITER – as well as other things you can do with plasmas, like propelling satellites and space ships!

New Yorker article on the fusion reactor, ITER. (In the show I mention an Atlantic article, however I was unable to find it. This one also looks good!)

Artist Song Album Label
The Modern Lovers Astral Plane The Modern Lovers Sanctuary Records Group
Jawbreaker Reunion Laughing Alone Eating A Salad Lutheran sisterhood gun club Miscreant Records
Screaming Females Angelo’s Song Baby Teeth Don Giovanni
Young Fathers Nest White Men are black men too Big Dada
QUARTERBACKS Not in Luv Quarterbacks Team Love Records
Shopping For your money Consumer Complaints Fat Cat Records
Talking with Brian Kraus
Ava Luna PRPL Electric Balloon Western Vinyl
Charanjit Singh Raga Bhairav Synthesizing – Ten ragas to a disco beat Saregama
Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell Ain’t No Mountain high enough United Motown Records
Tinariwen Arawan Amassakoul WEDGE S.A.R.L.
Man Man Pink Wonton On Oni Pond Anti, Inc
Talking with Brian Kraus
Hop Along Sister Cities Painted Shut Saddle Creek
Jeff Buckley The Sky is a landfill Sketches from My sweetheart the drunk NA
Sarah Jarosz Shankill Butchers Song up in her head sugar hill
Talking with Brian Kraus
Royksopp Vision One Junior Parlaphone

Radio Show + Interview with Neuroscientist Sam Mcdougle

Full radio show, aired on WPRB 103.3 Princeton from 2 to 4am on Thursday, September 24th, 2015. The show features an interview with neuroscientist Sam McDougle (doctoral candidate at Princeton University). We discuss the cerebellum, how we learn things, and why that myth that we only use 10% of our brain is bullshit. We also play a few tunes he selected in addition to a song he’s released (on soundcloud) as Polly Hi. You can find more of his songs on his soundcloud site.

Artist Song Album Label
Nina Simone Everyone’s Gone to the Moon
Potty Mouth Truman Show Potty Mouth EP Planet Whatever
Young Fathers Nest White Men are Black Men Too Big Dada
Ben Harper, Blind Boys of Alabama Well, Well, Well There Will Be a Light Virgin
Guantanamo Baywatch Shenanigans Darling…It’s too late Suicide Squeeze
Talk with Sam McDougle
Ultimate Painting Ultimate Painting Ultimate Painting Trouble in Minds Records
Minor Alps Buried Plans Get There Barsuk Records
Sonny and the Sunsets The Application Talent Night at the Ashram Polyvinyl
Friendly Males Done it again Nopalera Lolipop
Talk with Sam McDougle
Give it up Polly Hi N/A N/A
Worriers They/Them/Theirs Imaginary Life Don Giovanni
The Cats Six Packs Grave Desecrator + 4 N/A
Heavens to Betsy Terrorist Calculated Kill Rock Stars
Velvet Underground Pale Blue Eyes The Velvet Underground (45th Anniversary Delux Edition) Universal Records
All Dogs Sunday Morning Kicking Every Day Salinas Records
The Julie Ruin Ha Ha Ha Run Fast TJR Records
Andrew Bird Fake Palendromes The Mysterious Production of Eggs
Fat Creeps Dad Weed Must Be Nice Fat Creeps
Chastity Belt On the Floor Time to go home Hardly Art
Royal Headache Garbage High What’s Your Rupture?
El Ten Eleven My Only Swerving El Ten Eleven Bar/None Records
Reviver Antennas Versificator Exigent Records
Mitski Francis Forever Bury Me At Makeout Creek Don Giovanni

Radio Show, Aired 9/17/2015

This is my first show at my new time slot: 2-4am on Thursday mornings. I played about a half hour of tunes, then the first 15 minutes of my interview on quasicrystals with Princeton Professor Paul Steinhardt.

Artist Song Album Label
Nina Simone Everyone’s Gone to the Moon The Essential Nina Simone RCA Records
NOFX The Brews Punk in Drublic Epitaph
Modern Lovers Astral Plane The Modern Lovers Sanctuary Records Group
Young Fathers Liberated White Men are Black Men too Big Dada
Potty Mouth Cherry Picking Potty Mouth ep Planet Whatever
Lila Downs, Juanes La Patria Madrina Balas y Chocolat Sony
Worriers Glutton for Distance Imaginary Life Don Giovanni
Ratatat cream on chrome magnifique xl recordings
<Break>
Paul Steinhardt Interview Quasicrystals
<Break>
Reviver Bukowski Versificator Exigent Records
Fitz of Depression Everybody and their dog Kill Rock Stars Kill Rock Stars
Los Cojolites El Conejo Frida (Original Motion Picture) Deutsche Grammophon
Blind Willie Johnson John The Revelator Dark Was the Night Sony
<Break>
Chelsea Wolfe Survive Abyss Sargent House
Flesh World Your love is like a house The wild animals in my life Iron Lung
Beirut Nantes Flying Cup Club EMI Music Publishing
Bully Sharktooth Feels Like Columbia Records
Bitter Bloom Don’t Know Enough Demo https://soundcloud.com/bitterbloom
<Break>
Guantuanamo Baywatch Too Late Darling…it’s too late Suicide Squeeze
Shirelles Dedicated to the One I Love The Very Best of Shirelles United Artists
Colleen Green Things that are bad for me, part 1 I want to grow up Hardly Art
Unknown Oaxaca Band Unknown (I recorded this at a bar) N/A
Daniel Bachman Leaving Istanbul (4am) Jesus I’m a Sinner Tomkins Square
Desaparecidos Von Maur Massacre Payola Epitaph
Off with their heads 1612 Havenhurst From the bottom No Idea Records
Beach Slang Punk or Lust Who would ever want something so broken? Dead Broke Rekerds
<Break>
Palehound Healthier Folk Dry Food Exploding in Sound Records
Makeshift Shelters (This Song is Definitely Not about a Boy) Something So Personal Broken World Media
John Darnielle + The Mountain Goats Choked Out Beat the Champ Merge

Radio Show (and first half on interview), 7/1/2015



This was a nerve-wracking show. At 38 minutes in I play the first half of my freshly edited interview with Dr. Reneé Hlozek, and it continues to 10 minutes in to the 2nd hour. Check out the audio and accompanying visuals here, on a separate post. Enjoy!

Artist Song Album Label
Tenement Foreign Phrase Predatory Headlights Don Giovanni
Girlpool Jane Girlpool Witchita Recordings
Nina Simone Sinnerman The Best of Nina Simone
Sleater Kinney Gimme Love No Cities to Love Sub Pop Records
Useless Eaters Proper Conduct Singles: 2011-2014 Slovenly
Heavens to Betsy Decide Calculated Kill Rock Stars
Shirley Ellis The Nitty Gritty In Action
We Five You Were On My Mind You Were on My Mind
Stevie (DJ) and Dr. Renee Hlozek Cosmology Interview Cosmology Interview
The Coathangers Follow Me Suck My Shirt Suicide Squeeze
Rocket Juice and the Moon Lolo (Feat. Fatoumata Diawara) Rocket Juice and the Moon Honest John Records
Angel Olsen Iota burn your fire for no witness jagjaguar
Dolly Parton Jolene Dolly Parton BMG Music
Torres Strange Hellos Sprinter Partisan Records
Buzzcocks Ever fallen in love Love Bites
The Dodos Red and Purple Visiter Frenchkiss Records
Bad Religion 21st Century Digital Boy Against the Grain Epitaph
Ay Du (with Ry Cooder) Ali Farka Toure Talking Timbuktu World Circuit
courtney barnett History Eraser The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas Mom+Pop/Marathon Artists
Joanna Gruesome Last Year Last Year (Single) Sumberland Records
Harry Nilsson Spaceman The Essential Nilsson
Moonlight Sonata II Beethoven Music for a moonlit night

Radio Show, 6/27/2015



Subbing for Dirty Laundry on Saturday from 6pm to 8pm (one time only). Hungover and unprepared, high on adrenaline, broadcasting to the tired masses yearning to be free. And somehow better than I usually am at my current show. I’m getting the hang of it, methinks. Or not and I’m deluding myself. I feel alright about that though.

The Playlist:

Artist Song Album Label Comments
Cayetana Dirty Laundry Nervous Like Me Tiny Engines  Show in Philly @ PhilaMoca 6/28/15
Screaming Females Burning Car Rose Mountain Don Giovanni
Tina Turner Proud Mary Tina! Parlophone
Bully Brainfreeze Feels Like Columbia New! New! New!
Laura Marling Crawled Out of the Sea Alas I cannot swim Ribbon Music
Chumped Eleanor Chumped Anchorless Records LLP
Jawbreaker Fireman Dear You DGC Records
The Kinks Lola Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround Sanctuary Records
Against Me! I still love you julie Reinventing Axl Rose No Idea Records
Shellshag Face to Face Shellshag forever Don Giovanni
Needs We forgot the records to our record release show File Under: Music The Noise Floor
Santigold Go! Feat Karen O Master of my Make Believe Atlantic
Mitski Jobless Monday bury me at makeout creek Double Double Whammy
Brand New Mene Mene Procrastinate! Music Traitors
Lez Zeppelin Kashmir Lez Zeppelin Emanation Records
Handsome Foxes Summer Camp City Everything is Bad, Everything is Wrong check out their bandcamp
Krill Sick Dogs (For Ian) Krillpilation Volume One ???
War Low Rider The Best of Setco, Vol. 51 Acewonder Ltd
Bratmobile Panik Pottymouth Kill Rock Stars
Chastity Belt Time to go home Time to go home Hardly Art Brand new record
Apogee Sound Cloud, Shell Shag Hungover Again Lifestyle Obsession Starcleaner Records
Sleater Kinney Bury our friends No cities to love Sub pop records
Black Flag Nervous Breakdown Nervous Breakdown Cesstone Records
Fungi Girls Honey Face Some Easy Magic Hozac New! New! New!
Neko Case Outro (with the bees) Blacklisted Mint Records
First Aid Kit Wolf Wolf (Single) Witchita Recordings
State Lines Tuesday Morning For the Boats Tiny Engines
Kishi Bashi This must be the place (Talking heads cover) 7” Singles Joyful Noise Recordings