Wheelie was live with hosts Simkin, Roof Access and TJ Lavin for two hours of fuzzy post-punk, folk and shoegaze from the likes of American Football, Owls, Jawbreaker and Weezer.

Wheelie: Emo Special w/ Simkin, TJ Lavin & Roof Access - April 2021

Simkin, TJ Lavin and Roof Access are back with the latest Wheelie show, spinning two hours of Folk, Indie and Post-Punk new & old and featuring first plays of amazing new releases by Lou Terry and Caroline.

C Joynes - Triennale
Shirley Collins - Barbara Allen
Wizz Jones - Can’t Stop Thinking About It
Yasmin Williams - I Wonder (Song For Michael)
Caroline - Skydiving Onto The Library Roof
Aga Ujma - Night
Johnny Dowd - Off Broadway 
Bonnie “Prince” Billy & Matt Sweeney - Hall of Death
Chivalrous Amoekons - Fantastic Voyage
Buck Meek  - Second Sight 
Speed Training - Bright and Beautiful Morning
Platonica Erotica - Marriage of Convenience
Parannoul - Analog Sentimentalism 
My Bloody Valentine - Slow
Long Fin Killie - Heads of Dead Surfers 
Scrounge - Leaking Drains 
Table Sugar - Carried Away
Die Welttraumforscher - Kleiderschrank Auf Mütze
Hype Williams  - Distance
Animal Collective - What Would I Want? Sky
Pearls Before Swine - Drop Out!
Ryley Walker - Axis Bent
After This - Fields
The Tubs - Two Person Love
King Crimson - Absent Lovers
Mariah - Sokokara
Piglet - Mill
Lou Terry - Until It Fits In

Wheelie w/ Simkin, TJ Lavin and Roof Access - May 2021

Following the recent Robert Altman retrospective at the BFI, we’re back with a survey of his work ranging from early corporate films like the ‘The Dirty Look’ (1954) up to his 2006 swansong, A Prairie Home Companion, via a glut of bona fide classics of American cinema and one or two legendary flops – i.e. Quintet (1979). 

We discuss the key features of Altman’s visionary film style, trace the vicissitudes of his storied career and ‘get into it’ on a number of real favourites, including the essential revisionist western texts McCabe and Mrs Miller (1971) and Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976) and the brilliantly realised comic musical, Popeye (1980), before finishing up with our top 5 Altman films (at the time of recording!).

Featuring covers of ‘The Stranger Song’ by Leonard Cohen, ‘Thieves like Us’ by Iceage, a Hornpipe/Popeye Theme medley arrangement, ‘It Don’t Worry Me’ by Keith Carradine and ‘Everything is Food’ by Harry Nilsson.

Full filmography (in chronological order):
Modern Football (1951) 
The Dirty Look (1954) 
The James Dean Story (1957) 
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: “The Young One” and “Together” (1958) 
M.A.S.H (1970) 
Brewster McCloud (1970) 
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) 
Images (1972) 
The Long Goodbye (1973) 
Thieves Like Us (1974) 
California Split (1974) 
Nashville (1975) 
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson (1976) 
3 Women (1977) 
Quintet (1979) 
HealtH (1980) 
Popeye (1980) 
Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982) 
Secret Honor (1984) 
Aria (1987) 
Tanner ‘88 (1988) 
The Player (1992) 
Short Cuts (1993) 
Kansas City (1996) 
Dr. T & The Women (2000) 
Gosford Park (2001) 
The Company (2003) 
A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

Bibliography:
David Thomson (ed.), ‘Altman on Altman’, 2006.
Doran William Cannon, ‘The Kid Wanted to Fly—So They Gave Him the Air’ in The New York Times, Feb. 7, 1971.
Mitchell Zuckoff (ed.), ‘Robert Altman: the Oral Biography’, 2009.
Robert Niemi, ‘The Cinema of Robert Altman: Hollywood Maverick’, 2016.
Robin Wood, ‘Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan… and Beyond: Expanded and Revised Edition’, 2003.

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backseat tisakorean (**dr grabba**)

Theater Of The New Ear

Hope Leaves The Theater

the black cat (1934) / the long gray line (1955) / the beguiled (1971)

season two is upon us! new theme song. new segments. 3 classic films. an overstuffed episode with content leaking out of its edges. we each brought one of our favorites of all time that the other boys hadn't yet seen. 

supersized middle segment, which now has a title: mad men, entourage, spike lee, free the nipple (hello, newman), private lessons, & the color of money.

#53 - season two

Jack, Yair and Geraint are joined by returning RP guest, Toronto's own Luke Savage, and his fellow Torontonian and co-host of the esteemed Michael & Us podcast, Will Sloan.

The topic of discussion is the film released as The Ghost Writer in the United States, and The Ghost in most other territories, in 2010; a conspiracy thriller based on Robert Harris' thinly-veiled account of his former friend Tony Blair's potential troubles with international criminal law, with a screenplay by Harris himself, and directed by another friend of his, none other than well-known sex criminal and fugitive from justice Roman Polanski.

We ask what this film tells us about its creators and their politics, about Tony Blair, cultural icon and international man of mystery, and its cooky central conspiracy that saw Twitter user oidptg famously describe the plot as "Blair gets cucked by the CIA". Along the way we run into some of Blair's contemporaries on the neoliberal scene, such as Jeffrey Epstein and Mike Gapes.

Follow Michael & Us on SoundCloud @michael-and-us, and Will's other podcast, the excellent Important Cinema Club, @the-important-cinema-club. Both podcasts are also on patreon @ https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus and https://www.patreon.com/theimportantcinemaclub. If you're in the game of subscribing to Patreons, you might also wanna check out patreon.com/reelpolitik, where we have some bonus content with Luke and Will.

Reel Politik

Episode 157 - The Cuckable Mr Blair (ft. Will Sloan & Luke Savage)

Roof Access was live with a Guided By Voices & Robert Pollard special - psychedelic, D.I.Y indie rock and post-punk guitar sounds for the full 120.

Dayton, Ohio 19-Something and 5 - Guided by Voices
Big School - Guided by Voices
To Keep An Area - Guided by Voices
Visit This Place - Guided by Voices
As We Go Up, We Go Down - Guided by Voices
You Satisfy Me - Boston Spaceships
Jane of the Waking Universe - Guided by Voices
Class Clown Spots a UFO - Guided by Voices
A Proud and Booming Industry - The Fake Organisms
Tour Guide at the Winston Churchill Memorial - Guided by Voices
Love Is Stronger Than Witchcraft - Robert Pollard
It Is Divine - Go Back, Snowball
Death of the Party - Keene Brothers
Quicksilver - Robert Pollard
I Love Kangaroos - Guided by Voices
Buzzards and Dreadful Crows - Guided by Voices
I’m A Strong Lion - Robert Pollard
Postal Blowfish - Guided by Voices
Coming Back From Now On - Guided by Voices
How Loft I Am - Guided by Voices
Photo Enforced Human Highway - Robert Pollard
And I Don’t (So Now I Do) - Robert Pollard & Doug Gillard
Slick as Snails - Robert Pollard & Doug Gillard
Wondering Boy Poet - Clinton Killingsworth
Liar’s Tale - Waxahatchee
Pantherz - Guided by Voices
Gold Star for Robot Boy - Guided by Voices
He’s The Uncle - Guided by Voices
Zoom (It Happens All Over The World) - Robert Pollard
Universal Truths and Cycles - Guided by Voices
Submarine Teams - Robert Pollard
Jam Warsong - Guided by Voices
Unleashed! the Large-Hearted Boy - Guided by Voices
She Saw The Shadow - Robert Pollard and his Soft Rock Renegades
Time Machines - Ben Zing
John the Dwarf Wants to Become an Angel - Boston Spaceships
Bunco Men - Guided by Voices
Secret Star - Guided by Voices
Woah Nelly - Guided by Voices
Blimps Go 90 - Guided by Voices
Drinkers’ Peace (Live at the Brightside, Dayton 2020) - Guided by Voices
On The Tundra - Guided by Voices
Sad If I Lost It - Guided by Voices
5 Degrees on the Inside - Guided by Voices
Walls and Windows - Jump The Swing

Roof Access: Guided By Voices Special - August 2020

Roof Access was live with a selection of punk, folk and post-rock sounds from the likes of Xylouris White, Caroline and Red Red Meat he was joined in the second hour by Sam Storey for an hour of tracks from the band Deerhoof.

Apple O' LP

Roof Access w/ Sam Storey - September 2020

Roof Access was live with a selection of tracks from his favourite live albums and bootlegs. Performances from The Stooges, Number Girl, Nina Simone and Built to Spill all feature.

Live Melodies Of The Future

Roof Access: Live Recordings Special - November 2020

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Film Graze, hosted and produced by Emmett and Sam from Phil Graves, is a podcast where we ruminate on new films and rep cinema.

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