*Yawn* This weekend Month wore me out!

So much so that I haven’t had the energy to go up to the station to record the fifth President On Demand show… I did want to mention some things since a lot has happened in the last 70 days with me in office.

• - I got to play 100 songs on-air (check out the list here) with harms, Jeremy, and Jordin Silver and got some really great feedback.
• - The End revamped the website, now you can read our Blogs and listen to our Podcasts, and you can watch videos and steam audio – getting connected and leaving feedback is so much easier now, wouldn’t you agree?
• - We started running a “Pick of The Week” where harms, Jordin, and I pick a song and you vote for it, helping us decide what new music gets played on The End.
• - They flew me and Harms down to LA to catch the Grammys and interview celebs – Read all about it here and here.
• - Adam Carolla isn’t part of our morning show anymore, but something new is on the way, be sure to leave comments here.
• - I’ve interviewed Dyno Jamz, Jesse Harris, and Jordin Silver on my Podcasts… (plenty more of these to come)
• - No Name came back for a few days, and that was sooo much fun to see him back in the studio and hear him on-air.

I’m gonna go catch up on some sleep, so leave me some comments/feedback and let me know how you think I’m doing.

Thanks,
Nikko

Amanda Palmer (now solo, formerly of the Dresden Dolls) has always been pretty outspoken.  “Shy” isn’t a word many people would use to describe her.   She has been up to the studio a number of times and was always very cool, very fun and a great interview.

It appears as if she wants off her current record label bad.  So much so, she wrote a song about it.

You can also read about it on her very entertaining blog

Rivers Cuomo will be debuting some new material, which he worked on with The Office star Rainn Wilson, on April 11th.  That’s kinda weird.  As soon as I get music, I’ll post it on the blog.

ALSO
Cuomo will release a live CD/DVD package of his in-store performance at Fingerprintz in Long Beach, California last year. It comes out on April 28th and features an interview with done by Jason Schwartzman.

On Sunday’s show, Seattle rock trio Born Anchors came to the studio and took over the airwaves. In celebration of their new record (the difficult to pronounce Sprezzetura), they played dozens of songs that have inspired them over the years featuring everything from old, old, old stuff like TAD and Behead the Prophet and some more modern stuff like Damien Jurado and Crystal Skulls.

Here’s the full playlist:

Born Anchors – “Deep Cuts”
The Fluid – “7/14″
Jeremy Enigk – “Shade and the Black Hat”
Bikini Kill – “Rebel Girl”
Waxwing – “Kill the Messenger”
Tad – “Jinx”
Suffering and the Hideous Thieves – “Disappear”
Nirvana – “Oh, the Guilt”
The Halo Benders – “Virgina Reel Around the Fountain”
Born Anchors – “Cascading”
Crystal Skulls – “Hussy”
Sleater Kinney – “Words and Guitar”
The Soft Drugs – “Defending the Paint”
Behead the Prophet – “They Shall Not Pass”
Eyes of Autumn – “Distance + Time”
Soundgarden – “Nothin’ to Say”
Unwed Sailor – “Last Goodbyes”
Hammerbox – “Size of the World”
Dear Darling – “When Love Doesn’t Love You Back”
Born Anchors – “In Disguise”
Damien Jurado – “Frustrated”
Eliott Smith – “Baby Britain”
The Accused – “Inherit the Earth” 
Pedro the Lion – “Rapture”
Flop – “Julie Francavilla”
Born Anchors – “Safe Sex”
Melvins – “Honeybucket”
Seldom – “Meteor Showers”
Born Anchors – “St. Anne Marie” 

Born Anchors celebrate the release of their record on Sunday at the Cha Cha. Go! They put on a fantastic live show.

The dude from the Shamwow is in Shamtrouble (listen here)
MTV is doing something that will blow your mind (listen here)
New recycling laws! Good for 2 reasons (listen here)

One of my top 3 bands of all time Rancid (Nirvana and Sonic Youth are the other 2) are finally done with “Let the Dominoes Fall”!! Their 7th album and first in six years.”Dominoes” is scheduled for June 2 release on Epitaph, and of course the band will be in town in July at the WAMU theatre with Rise Against.

PLUS how cool is this?  The new record was recorded at George Lucas’ Skywalker Sound Studio in San Francisco, and produced by good buddy/Epitaph founder/Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz.

For the shows 20th anniversary (yeah guys, we’re that old!) Jimmy Fallon is trying to get the original cast to reuinte on his show.

Sign This Petition if this is something you’re into!!!!
Oh Kelly Kapowski!!!

The guys in Wolfmother have been away for awhile, two-thirds of the band quit….HOWEVER, a new record is done and will be released later on this year.
It’s still rock, it’s still awesome, it’s still Wolfmother.

Listen to “Back Round” Here
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If you wanna download the song for free, you can do so at the bands web-site.

This will be up on our End Session Page (along with the rest of the Session) soon, but in case you didn’t find it there or wanted to hear it early.  Here is “Dirt Room” from the Blue October End Session that happened this past Friday.

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Royksopp – Happy Up Here
The Gay Blades – O Shot
The Veils – The Letter
Doves – Jetstream
Emiliana Torrini – Jungle Drum
Richard Swift – The Atlantic Ocean

The Crystal Method – Drown in the Now
The Republic Tigers – Buildings & Monsters
Bell X1 – The Great Defector
Ladyfinger – Over and Over
Late of the Pier – Space & The Woods
Great Northern – Story
Soudtrack of Our Lives – Second Life Replay