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Goddag it’s Danish Thursday here at the Indie-Verse!  After a relaxing holiday, we’re back out and this week we brought a whole mess of Danish goodness for your ears.  I know that the great land of Vikings is set to make plenty of noise in 2009, so keep listening and we may be back soon.  As always, if you feel that I did the country a great disservice and missed a truly monumental act, please feel free to leave me a comment (and don’t go easy on me, I can take it).  
Hope you enjoyed this week’s show, next week we’ll make a quick hop to Belgium and see what they’ve got!  Farvel for now…

Catch the next episode of B.C. next Thursday at 4pm CST.

1. The Raveonettes - Dead Sound
2. The Floor Is Made Of Lava - IKEA Did A Job On You
3. 1 2 3 4 - Minor Chords
4. The Fashion - Solo Impala
5. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - Around The Bend
6. Jong Pang - Small Cut Sensations
7. The Blue Van - Be Home Soon
8. Men Among Animals - In Other Ways
9. Kiss Kiss Kiss - Recorded Smiles
10. The William Blakes - The Magician
11. The Choir Of Young Believers - Next Summer
12. The River Phoenix - Kittens
13. Are We Brothers? - Calm Down
14. Teitur - Catherine The Waitress
15. Mew - The Zookeeper’s Boys
16. Mew - Snowflake

Welcome to 2009 Indie-Verse, let’s hope that my slacking of nearly a full week isn’t a sign of the year to come! I’ve been neglectful of the posts I know, we’ll blame it on the egg nog and champagne. For anyone who missed the shows, our 4th installment on England on Christmas Day said farewell to the UK, and our guest Eric, I think we’ll all miss his antics so I may drag him back in for special occasions, and the 2009 kickoff show took New Year’s songs from all over the world and ran us from Australia to Europe to the US and many stops in between. But now that I’m shaking off all the holiday cookies and just general laziness of the holidays, it’s time to pack back up and head back out. In the meantime, we’ve got the last 2 playlists below, and I promise I’ll be more punctual this year!

1. These New Puritans - Swords of Truth
2. At The Lake - I Made My Excuses And Left
3. Placebo - Follow The Cops Back Home
4. The Tunics - Waiting
5. The Ting Tings - Shut Up And Let Me Go
6. James - Waterfall
7. I Was A Cub Scout - The Hunter’s Daughter
8. Look See Proof - You Don’t Get It
9. Muse - Map Of Your Head
10. The Courteeners - That Kiss
11. Captain - Keep An Open Mind
12. Fryars - Visitors w/Dave Gahan
13. Fryars - The Idea
14. The Twang - Either Way

1. Sarah Blasko - Planet New Year
2. Caesars - New Year’s Day
3. To Go Find - New Year
4. Noah And The Whale - 5 Year’s Time
5. Camera Obscura - Happy New Year
6. U2 - New Year’s Day
7. The Walkmen - In The New Year
8. Asobi Seksu - New Years
9. Living Things - New Year
10. Azure Ray - The New Year
11. The New Year - MMV
12. The New Year - X Off Days
13. Test Your Reflex - New Year
14. Death Cab For Cutie - This Is The New Year
15. Spirit Of The West - Another Happy New Year

Welcome to our 3rd week in England, today’s show put the spotlight once again on some great up and coming acts as well as some English staples that you may or may not have heard before.  We’ve had Eric in the studio all month to help pick out tracks and as usual his rants were only outdone by his ability to hunt down some great tunes.  With the double set from the Guillemots, I had to include a link to their video for Falling Out of Reach, in case you’re interested in watching a bunch of random British blokes carry none other than Sir Ian McKellan down the street.  Click Below!  See you next week for our last week in England then it’s back on the road with BagCheck 2009!

Catch the next episode of B.C. next Thursday at 4 p.m. CST

1. Klaxons - Golden Skans
2. Foals - Red Socks Pugie
3. The Cooper Temple Clause - Promises Promises
4. Late Of The Pier - Broken
5. The Enemy - We’ll Live And Die Iin These Towns
6. The Charlatans - Bad Days
7. Psapp - Camels Back
8. The Infadels - Free Things For People
9. Arctic Monkeys - Fake Tales of San Francisco
10. The Last Shadow Puppets - Falling Out Of Reach
11. The Rascals - I’d Be Lyining To You
12. Guillemots - Falling Out Of Reach
13. Guillemots - Annie Let’s Not Wait
14. Radiohead - All I Need

Week 2 of our trip to England has uncovered some fun little gems from up and coming artists like Friendly Fires and Fujiya & Miyagi, while showing off some great staples in the British music catalogue.  Who could miss the antics of Pete Doherty or our favorite Pulp malcontent?  Don’t forget we’ll keep our special guest, Eric, in the studio for the rest of the month and make him do half the work!  So sit back with your tea or lager and click on the links below to get more on any of the artists from our show.

Catch the next episode of B.C. next Thursday at 4 p.m. CST

1. Gomez - Whippin’ Piccadilly
2. Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Being Bad Fel Pretty Good
3. Friendly Fires - Paris
4. Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip - Thou Shalt Always Kill
5. Keane - Perfect Symmetry
6. British Sea Power - Waving Flags
7.Maccabees - Lego
8. Jarvis - Running The World
9. The Kooks - Always Free
10. The Libertines - Radio America
11. Babyshambles - You Talk
12. Fujiya & Miyagi - Uh
13. Editors - Bones
14. Editors - All Sparks