Bands Under The Radar (BUTR)

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BUTR – Covers 4
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Go Home Productions – Passenger Fever (Peggy Lee vs. Iggy Pop)
Cowboy Junkies – Sweet Jane (Velvet Underground)
Andrew Paul Woodworth – Fight For Your Right To Party (Beastie Boys)
Maureen Murphy – Black Sheep (Martin Sexton)
Matchbox Twenty – Never Going Back Again (Fleetwood Mac)
Sonic Youth – Superstar (The Carpenters)
The Veils – Drive (R.E.M.)
Smashing Pumpkins – Dancing in the Moonlight (Thin Lizzy)
Rob Dickinson Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want (The Smiths)
Eddie Vedder & The Million Dollar Bashers – All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan)
James Otto – Into the Mystic (Van Morrison)
The Lucky Bucks – Wicked Game (Chris Isaak)
Cookies ‘n’ Beans – Jolene (Dolly Parton)
Emmylou Harris – All My Tears (Julie Miller)
Florence and the Machine – Hospital Beds (Cold War Kids)
Florence and the Machine – Flakes (The Mystery Jets)
The Bloodsugars – Self Control (Laura Branigan)
Bat for Lashes – I’m On Fire (Bruce Springsteen)
Ane Brun – True Colors (Cyndi Lauper)
Nada Surf – If You Leave (OMD)
Nada Surf – All You Need Is Love (The Beatles)
The Kooks – Violet Hill (Coldplay)
Zoe Sky Jordan – Don’t Panic (Coldplay)
Benton Paul -Yellow (Coldplay)
My Brightest Diamond – Lucky (Radiohead)
My Brightest Diamond – Feeling Good (Nina Simone)
Dave Matthews Band – Waste (Phish)
Ty Stone – Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
Nelly Furtado – Maneater (Hall & Oates inspired)
Duffy – Ready for the Floor (Hot Chip)
Cat Power – Fortunate Son (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Cat Power – Don’t Explain (Billie Holiday)

1. Razorlight – Slipway Fires
2. Rob Dickinson – Fresh Wine for the Horses (plus re-recorded Catherine Wheel songs)
3. Kings of Leon – Only By The Night
4. Ours – Mercy (Dancing for the Death of an Imaginary Enemy)
5. MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
6. Hockey – Mind Chaos
7. Your Vegas – A Town and Two Cities
8. Ryan Adams And The Cardinals – Cardinology
9. Cat Power – Jukebox
10. Seal – Soul
11. Coldplay – Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
12. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
13. The Raconteurs – Consolers of the Lonely
14. Duffy – Rockferry
15. Girl Talk – Feed The Animals
16. Ray LaMontagne – Gossip in the Grain
17. TV on the Radio – Dear Science
18. AC/DC – Black Ice
19. Pink – Funhouse
20. The Veronicas – Hook Me Up

All of these records were released in the U.S. during 2008 except for Razorlights’s Slipway Fires which was released only in the UK on Nov. 3, 2008, but you can get it as an import on Amazon or at an indie record shop. I hope they release it in the U.S. soon and are planning a tour!

So what records did I leave off this list that you think should be on there?  My Morning Jacket, Fleet Foxes, The Killers, etc.  Post your suggestions.  Would love to know which records rocked your world in 2008!

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KK

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This podcast was recorded using The Snowball by Blue Microphones.

The Daylights – Little White Lies / Guess I Miss(ed) You
Hockey – Too Fake / Everyone’s The Same Age
Low vs Diamond – Wasted
Will Derryberry – Fool’s Good
Kings of Leon – Closer / Sex On Fire
Panic At The Disco – Nine In The Afternoon
Thrice – Moving Mountains / Come All You Weary
Brett Dennen – Make You Crazy (feat. Femi Kuti)
Ben Sollee – A Change Is Gonna Come (Sam Cooke)
Willie Nelson and Calexico – Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)
Stephen Malkmus and the Million Dollar Bashers – Ballad of a Thin Man
Tony Joe White – Can’t Go Back Home
The Draytones – Don’t Talk To Me
The Elms – Bring A Little Love / Who Puts Rock & Roll In Your Blood
Mystery Jets – Veiled In Gray
Dead Confederate – The Rat
Amos Lee – Listen
Matthew Perryman Jones – Motherless Child
Katie Herzig – Hologram
Holly Conlan – You Are Goodbye
Cory Chisel & The Wandering Sons – So Wrong For Me
Hard-Fi – Help Me Please
Coldplay – Lost!

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Coup – My Favorite Mutiny (with Black Thought and Talib Kweli)
Never Ending White Lights – Ran Away To Tell The World
Rob Dickinson – End of the World
Ours – Ran Away To Tell The World
Jimmy Stewart – Ange of the Night (Radio Edit)
BIGBANG – Long Distance Man
Wilco – You Are My Face
The Branded Sons – Goodbye Girls
The Raconteurs – Many Shades of Black
The Pack A.D. – All Damn Day Long
MGMT – Kids (not Weekend Wars) I played in the podcast
Coconut Records – West Coast
Eric Hutchinson – Ok, It’s Alright With Me
Griffin House – Flying Upside Down
Big & Rich – Eternity (feat. John Legend)
RyanDan – Like the Sun
Coldplay – Viva la Vida
Windy City Gentleman – Time Flies
The Wreckers – Cigarettes
Little Big Town – Fine Line
Buddahead – Rescue Me
Guillemots – Get Over It
Mystery Jets – Flakes
Kellie Pickler – I Wonder
Billy Currington – Must Be Doin’ Somethin’ Right
Robyn – Handle Me
Sons of William – Independence Day
Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles – Lonely Town of Love
Elbow – Grounds For Divorce
Brad Paisley – Whiskey Lullaby (feat. Alison Krauss)