OPR 05_05_08

Monday, May 5th, 2008 @ 9:32PM

an hour of new music and whatever selected by corey o'brien every monday from 11pm _ midnight

This week...first thing is first.  The new NIN album, “The Slip” came out last night and it is FREE!!!  To get it click here.

Nine Inch Nails _ Head Down
Supergrass _Diamond Hoo Ha Man
REM _ Hollow Man
Clinic _ The Witch
Local H _ BMW Man

Death Cab For Cutie _ Long Division
The Wombats _ Let’s Dance to Joy Division
The Offsrping _ Hammerhead
Death Cab For Cutie _ Cath

Nine Inch Nails _ Lights in the Sky
Panic at the Disco _ Northern Downpour
Ladytron _ Ghosts
The Raconteurs _ Consoler of the Lonely

OPR 04_28_08

Monday, April 28th, 2008 @ 7:22PM

An hour of new music and whatever...dood, with Corey O'Brien, Mondays from 11p to midnight.

local h_24 hour break up session
goldfinger_one more time
the teenagers_french kiss
flight of the conchords_ladies of the world
ting tings_great dj
the matches_wake the sun
alkaline trio_help me
black kids_i’m not gonna teach your boyfriend how to dance
aiden_moment
m83_graveyard girl
nick cave and the bad seeds_dig lazarus dig
does this offend you yeah?_we are rockstars

OPR 04_22_08

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 @ 3:26PM

an hour of new music usually on mondays from 11-midnight but in this case tuesday---for a goof.

vampire weekend_wolcott
paramore_that’s what you get
alkaline trio_help me
mindless self indulgence_never wanted to dance
how i became the bomb_killing machines
nin_dicipline
anti flag_the bright lights of america
ting tings_great dj
phantom planet_do the panic
does this offend you, yeah?_we are rockstars
local h_24 hour break-up session
gossip_standing in the way of control
my morning jacket_touch me where i’m going to scream pt. II

OPR 04_14_08

Monday, April 14th, 2008 @ 8:27PM

A hour of new music and whatever else every Monday ear-picked by Corey O'Brien from 11p - midnight.l

mindlesss self indulgence_never wanted to dance
nerf herder_high school reunioni
flight of the conchords_ladies of the world
apacalyptica feat cristina scabbia of lacuna coil_sos (anything but love)
say anything_shiksha (girlfriend)
does it offend you yeah?_we are rockstars
goldfinger_one more time
how i became the bomb_killing machines
the kooks_always where i need to be
lcd soundsystem_big ideas
the last show puppets_the age of the understatement
local h_24 hour break up session
alkaline trio_help me

OPR 04_14_08

Monday, April 14th, 2008 @ 8:27PM

A hour of new music and whatever else every Monday ear-picked by Corey O'Brien from 11p - midnight.

mindlesss self indulgence_never wanted to dance
nerf herder_high school reunioni
flight of the conchords_ladies of the world
apacalyptica feat cristina scabbia of lacuna coil_sos (anything but love)
say anything_shiksha (girlfriend)
does it offend you yeah?_we are rockstars
goldfinger_one more time
how i became the bomb_killing machines
the kooks_always where i need to be
lcd soundsystem_big ideas
the last show puppets_the age of the understatement
local h_24 hour break up session
alkaline trio_help me

OPR 03_31_08

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 @ 7:18PM

An hour of new music and whatever every Monday from 11p to midnight.

phantom planet_do the panic
tokyo police club_tessellate
panic at the disco_when the day met the night
everlast_letters from the garden of stone
the ravonettes_ally, walk with me
radiohead_house of cards
lcd soundsystem_big ideas
aiden_moment
moby_alice
filter_soldiers of misfortune
american princess_real love
no use for a name_i want to be wrong
french kicks_abandon

OPR 03_24_08

Monday, March 24th, 2008 @ 8:28PM

An hour of new music or whatever presented by Corey O'Brien every Monday from 11pm-midnight

panic at the disco_she’s a handsome woman
lagwagon_i want to be wrong
chole day_lost - at burt’s tiki lounge on apr 23
the matches_wake the sun
filter_soldiers of misfortune
rem_man-sized wreath
pennywise_something to live for
portishead_nylon smile
goldfinger_one more time
great nothern_loose ends
the black keys_strange times
ting tings_great dj
does it offend you, yeah?_let’s make out

OPR 03_17_08

Monday, March 17th, 2008 @ 10:10PM

A full hour of new music and whatever else from 11p to midnight.

flogging molly_requiem for a dying song
manchester orchestra_where have you been? - concert @ in the venue 3_18_07 - tomorrow night
say anything_about falling - concert @ in the venue 3_18_07 - tomorrow night

filter_soldiers of misfortune - new album, ‘anthem for the damned’ may 13

jet lag gemini_run this city
play radio play_madi don’t leave
the black keys_catch and release

the clash_white man in hammersmith palias
goldfinger_one more time
r.e.m._man-sized wreath

the frames_falling slowly
adam green_morning after midnight

OPR 03_10_08

Monday, March 10th, 2008 @ 8:43PM

an hour of new music and whatever from 11p to midnight every monday.

does it offend you, yeah?_let’s make out
fall out boy_beat it
vampire weekend_a-punk
buck brothers_she’s red
clinic_the witch
lcd soundsystem_big ideas
the fashion_like knives
chloe day_lost
big linda_golden girl
great norther_loose ends
article a_what’s the point
be your own pet_the kelly affair
los campensinos_death to los campensinos

OPR 02_11_08

Monday, February 11th, 2008 @ 9:19PM

An hour of new music and whatever else, ear selected by me, Corey O'Brien every Monday from 11 to midnight.

the mars volta_ilena
the ravonettes_sad transmission
kelly stoltz_your reverie
the hard lessons_see and be scene
be your own pet_the kelly affair
the presidents of the usa_mixed up s_o_b_
hot chip_ready for the floor
my american heart_the shake (awful feeling)
gnarls barkley_run
switches_drama queen
mgmt_time to pretend
vamprie weekend_a-punk
metro station_control

OPR 02_04_08

Monday, February 4th, 2008 @ 9:32PM

New music and more by DJ C_O_B every Monday night from 11_midnight.

silversun pickups_little lovers so polite - i am sure we all know that is a guy singing.  the video will be out soon, which is directed by the number one johnny cash impersonator joaquin phoenix.
apocalyptica_i’m not jesus - i could have told corey taylor that as he is featured on this track by cello covering rockers.
switches_drama queen - this band is great.  the opened up for the bravery at club sound a couple weeks ago.  they were even nice enough to share their budwieser with me.  and you know the brits love that imported american beer so i thought them not only nice guys but they rocked the plywood walls like old pros.  here is the video:

gnarls barkley_run - and you should from this song.  i appreciate what they do but this sounds more like a tv show theme from the seventies.  let’s hope the album has more promise than this watered-down version of what they did on their last album.  gnarls barkely are no go! team.
louis xiv_stalker - goes without saying this is a creepy ass song but that is louis xiv.  sex, sex and rock n’ roll.  even and two person string section.  i caught them opening up for hot hot heat and editor at the avalon on saturday night and the sad thing is this band would have been selling out stadiums.  i got to finally meet louis xiv after the show and the shared the champange of beer, miller high-life, with me.  rock stars drink awful beers but are awfully generous with it.  get the new album, “slick dogs and ponies” on sale now at graywhale.  text “fat fin” to 79640 and get a text coupon to get the album for $9_60.
horrorpops_thelma and louise - what tired subject matter.  good thing the horrorpops kicks ass.  catch them at the avalon on th 21st.  i will be giving tickets away all week so listen.
coheed and cambria_feathers - i typically hate this band and i know that hurts many of you funnybook readers but i have to be me.  the fuzzy hair and the high vocals just don’t mesh well in my mind but i have to say this is a good song.  i expect we will all hear this one much much more in the future...mark my words.
be your own pet_the kelly affair - more catchy than crack.  this is my feel good song of the year thus far and it is from this from a four-piece austrailan jivers.  this is less punk than their ealier stuff but it is to be expected as i think the lead singstress graduated high school.  what a cutie

hot chip_ready for the floor - i still love this album after i have been listening to my leaked copy for like 4 months now.  good new is it is in stores now and you can get down with it’s grooves in your own home or at the gym on the elliptical machine, ya know, that one work out where you look like you are sqattin’ in the woods.  gross.  this video is soooo-cool, woot...umm whatever.

air traffic_charlotte - since the vines don’t seem to be doing anything so great these days i recommend this band.  not sure i recommend the entire album but play around on itunes.  i think this is the best song from the album.
morrissey_all you need is me - no morrissey is not above stealing your money so he put two new songs on his upmteenth greatest hits album so you would buy it.  i found that it’s a great album to listen to in the shower as you will either come off sounding just like the moz or cher and that’s cool too.
seether_rise above - some kid wanted to hear this real bad.  i honestly don’t care about this crap that any 12 year-old girl could write in her diary.  i would even guess the members of this band streal from their daughter’s diaries and then sing what they find.  see:nickelback, creed, finger eleven, evanesence (though she has her own diary i am sure)...you get it.  i hate em but sometimes i bow to you cause you have kept me on x96 for ten year this june.
moby_alice - i know everyone hates the bald freak but i like this song.  maybe it is because i like hip hop a bit but i love it nonetheless.  his new album will be out on april first called “last night.”

that is all for tonight’s opr...we will do it again next monday and thanks for supporting new music.

--Corey

OPR 01_28_08

Monday, January 28th, 2008 @ 10:05PM

An hour of new music and whatever else Mondays from 11p to midnight.

the small hours_owner of my honour - reminds me of nightmare of you and would kick more ass if they didn’t try to sound like morrissey so much but better than most things i get in the mail.
the whigs_right hand on my heart - why do all these bands sound like 80s deep-love-rock?  i don’t know either but the whigs are good because it isn’t moody like the cure (nothing wrong with it) but actually have a good pulse to them.  the album, mission control, is out now.
the kills_u.r.a fever - the kills are excellent if you like a bit of noise in your music.  bands this and the liars and maybe fiery furnaces are at their best when they can be somewhat coherent but not completely trying to be weird.  i like weird but i like to dance too.
chris walla_sing again - you may know chris as the guitarist from death cab for cutie and the wackiness the ensued when his laptop with all the tracks for the album was ceased at the border.  he plays about every instrument on the album and while it is good it is still not as listenable as death cab.  we have to wait a month or so from new music from that band.

the loved ones_sarah’s game - your typical fat wreck fair, much like lagwagon but then again lagwagon doesn’t sound like themselves these days.  the good thing about this band is there aren’t a lot of band representing this sound these days aside from maybe against me in any noteable fashion.
emigrate_new york city - this band is from the founder of rammstein and less industrial than the german outfit.  reminds me a bit of the jesus and mary chain but the lyrics are kind of cheesy.  though if you like rammstein why not?
hot chip_shake a fist - whether surfing the web or throwing a dance party hot chip works.  often simple beats and a whitened-down stevie wonder vocal by alexis the songs are extremely catchy and deserve all the hype as a live band as well as on their LPs or many, many eps and remixes.

sons and daughters_ chains - i first heard this band in 2004, the best year for music in this decade as far as i can tell, and they were simply great intense and beaty scottish rock.  i saw them open up for bright eyes and the crowd certainly wasn’t there for them and it reflected in their performance but i like them anyway.
louis xiv_tina - you could easily argue that hanging out with the killers didn’t do this band any favors but at least half the new album is still the great, f**k you inspired rock that came from their first album, the best little secrets are kept.  certainly not a band you would expect to come out of san diego but on this new album, slick dogs and ponies, louis do exactly what the killers did on their second album, grew up.  i am still a huge fan of louis xiv and can’t wait to see them next saturday to see if some of these songs light up for me performed live.

against me_stop - well, the age old question of whether you can be punk and sound like queen has been answered.  that combo should not be this catchy but you know for sure because all the old school fans hate this band now for trying to make a buck.  guess everyone can’t be starving artists forever.
vampire weekend_a-punk - this band is a sunny spot on a slow starting year and my one true recommendation for purchase so far.  from brooklyn and throws back to the obvious reference to guys that listened to graceliand too many times but more than that the album is completely listenable from front to back.  the only compliant i can muster is the name doesn’t match the music.

tiger army_pain - just a nice sendoff for another opr coming to and end.  thanks for listening

--Corey

OPR 01_21_08

Monday, January 21st, 2008 @ 11:47PM

A hour of new muisc and someties whatever else I want to play Monday's from 11p to midnight.

Metro Station “Shake It” - This song is really kind of poppy and dancy but not really that cool.  I don’t get why I like it but whatever.  Why do I love when my soul gets crushed everytime.  It pays to be deep, just ask the next band.
Brand New “Milestone” - I can sing this song really great in the shower actually, not so good while in the studio but it is track number 2 on their album “God and the Devil Are Raging Inside Me.” Cafe Rio is the only thing raging inside me.
Morrissey “That’s How People Grow Up” - This is from the Moz’s upcoming greatest hits album but it is a new song so not really tested as a greatest hit yet.  I don’t know if that is irony or a trick to make me pay $0 dollars when I steal yet another Morrissey greatest hits offline.  Officially out on Feb. 12.
Collin Meloy of The Decemberists “Everyday is Like Sunday” - On good Morrissey song deserves another and as if more dramatic downtroddeness needed to be wailed into one of the Moz’s songs this drama kid can do it.

The Helio Sequence “Keep Your Eyes Ahead” - So this band’s singer damaged his chords and ended up relearning to sing to Bob Dylan songs.  I learned to overthrow the goverment by listening to Bob Dylan so it looks like we both failed.  New album “Keep Your Eyes Ahead” out on Feb. 29th.
Zox “Goodnight” - So cool, like kids that smoked only to get lung cancer in their 30’s and have to get a hole in their neck to breathe.  So stop smoking or your band will have to break up and you won’t be as sly as Zox.
The Ramones “The KKK Took My Baby Away” - Cause I can and the original is better than the MXPX cover. RAWWWWK!
Ludo “Love Me Dead” - I don’t know about you but the message of this song sounds like a real bad idea.
Radiohead “Bangers & Mash” - This is from the B-sided if you spluged and orded the boxset of “In Rainbows.” Bangers and mash aren’t really that good.
Horrorpops “Thelma and Louise” - NOFX wrote the best songs about this Louise woman but this song is okay.  I am not sure how many more reference I can hear about this film before I actually have to see it.  I mean I just watched Road House.  The things I do for this job.

Bird and the Bee “Polite Dance Song” - Not as good as “Can I Be Your F**king Boyfriend” but good.  Great two player band.  Get all their stuff.

--FIN

OPR 01_14_08

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 @ 12:02AM

OPR 01_14_08 An hour of new music picked by Corey O'Brien on Monday's from 11pm to midnight

foxboro hot tub_mother mary
armor for sleep_hold the door
vampire weekend_a-punk
jet lag gemini_run this city
nada surf_whose authority
the white stripes_a martyr for my love for you (acoustic)
hot chip_shake a fist
morrissey_that’s how people grow up
air traffic_charlotte
switches_drama queen
mgmt_time to pretend
victim effect_alice alice

OPR 01_07_08

Monday, January 7th, 2008 @ 9:51PM

An hour of new music every Monday from 11pm to midnight.

FIRST OF THE YEAR!!!

jimmy eat world_always be
deaf pedestrians_hail to the geek
just jack_starz in their eyes
plain white t’s_editors
the white stripes_conquest
switches_lay down the law
fischerspooner_the best revenge
plain white t’s_write you a song
metro station_control
nada surf_lucky
liam finn_second chance
louis xiv_air traffic control

OPR 12_03_07

Monday, December 3rd, 2007 @ 11:01PM

An hour of new MUSIC every Monday from 11pm to midnight.

The Hives “Hey Little World”
Metro Station “Control”
The Bird and the Bee “Polite Dance Song”
Sonny J “I’m So Heavy”
Wyclef Jean feat. Serj Tankian “Riot”
The Holloways “Dancefloor”
White Rabbits “Kid On My Shoulders”
Thrice “Digital Sea”
Radiohead “Last Flowers”
The Blakes “Two Times”
The Mars Volta “Wax Simulacra”
Louis XIV “Guilt By Association”
Bloc Party “Flux”

OPR 11_26_07

Monday, November 26th, 2007 @ 10:55PM

A full hour of new music every Monday from 11pm to midnight.

just jack “starz in their eyes”
nine inch nails “the beginning of the end (ladytron remix)”
nine inch nails “meet your master (the faint remix)”
the blakse “two times”
the killers “leave the bourbon on the shelf”
hot hot heat “harmonicas and tambourines”
sons and daughters “gilt complex”
CSS “music is my hot hot sex”
a whilhelm scream “these dead streets”
the stars “take me to the riot”
the holloways “dancefloor”

and also...i like John Mayer because he put it on the line for Ron Paul against that sickly Mac dude, Justin…

Yeah!! It’s a Ron Paul Revolution!!!

OPR 11_19_07

Monday, November 19th, 2007 @ 8:46PM

A Full hour of new music every Monday from 11pm to Midnight.

stars “take me to the riot”
she wants revenge “this is the end”
the bird and the bee “polite dance song”
the hives “it won’t be long”
the killers feat. lou reed “tranquilize”
nine inch nails “meet your master (the faint remix)”
streetlight manifesto “watch it crash”
say anything “this is f**king ecstacy”
the mars volta “was simulacra
sigur ros “hljomalind”
angles and airwaves “breathe”
i hate kate “major tom”

OPR 11_12_07

Monday, November 12th, 2007 @ 10:13PM

An hour of new music every Monday from 11pm to midnight.

pucifer “queen b”
fiery furnaces “right by conquest”
sigur ros “hjomalnd”
manchester orchestra “now that you’re home”
dashboard confessional “little bombs”
thrice “digial sea”
bloc party “flux”
say anything “the church channel”
the spill canvas “all over us”
serj tankian “saving us”
interpol “mammoth”
lenny kravitz “bring it on”

OPR_11_05_07

Monday, November 5th, 2007 @ 11:03PM

a full hour of new music every monday night from 11pm until midnight

the bird and the bee “polite dance song”
envy on the coast “sugar skulls”
moving units “pink minds”
shocking pink “emily”
just jack “starz in their eyes”
cassius “toop toop”
some velvet morning “let the good times come my way”
moros eros “safety net”
maritime “guns of navarone”
hot chip “shake a fist”
the frantic “fast girl”
west indian girl “to die in l.a.”
jet lag gemini “run this city”

OPR 10_29_07

Monday, October 29th, 2007 @ 8:39PM

A full hour of new music every Monday from 11pm to midnight.

manchester orchestra “now that you’re home”
angels and airwaves “secret crowds”
the cribs “men’s needs”
lenny kravitz “bring it on”
say anything “church channel”
thursday “voices on a string”
the go! team “doing it right”
avenged sevenfold “brompton cocktail”
serj tankian “lie, lie, lie”
rilo kiley “breakin’ up”
dashboard confessional “little bombs”
the hives “it won’t be long”
louis xiv “guilt by association”