Trick or Treat? You decide; we took a break from talking this episode to bring you more than an hour of great music. Some of it's local, some of i's spooky, some of it is just plain fun. Shamon.

BETTY DAVIS - Talkin Trash
HUNX & HIS PUNX - You Don't Like Rock & Roll
KURT VILE - Freak Train
WHY? - This Blackest Purse
A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS - In Your Heart
MISSION OF BURMA - 1,2,3, Partyy!
BUILT TO SPILL - Pat
THE SOUND - The Fire
MILES BENJAMIN ANTHONY ROBINSON - The Sound
ISLANDS - Vapours
ANTI-POP CONSORTIUM - Volcano
THAO WITH THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN - Know Better Learn Faster
FLAMING LIPS - Worm Mountain
EARLY BEAT - Lightning Bug
RUM FELLOWS - Bully In The Alley
MEAN SPIRITS - Lon Chaney
HOPE SANDOVAL & THE WARM INVENTIONS - Blanchard
DEAD MAN'S BONES - My Body's a Zombie For You

This episode is pretty large.  Lots of new releases and some great gateway music.  With summer winding down, looks like we may be able to be a little more frequent. Hope you enjoy.

OS MUTANTES - Teclar
CIRCULATORY SYSTEM - Round Again
DAVID BAZAN - Bless This Mess
IMOGENE HEAP - First Train Home
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE - Bar-Nasha
ARCTIC MONKEYS - Crying Lightning
PISSED JEANS - Dream Smotherer
EL PASO HOT BUTTON - Runner
MT. EERIE - Stone's Ode
REIGNING SOUND - Debris
VIVIAN GIRLS - Can't Get Over You
FLAMING LIPS -Kuhndalini Express
KITTY, DAISY, & LEWIS - Mean Son Of a Gun

!!!GATEWAY DRUGS!!!
DEAD KENNEDYS - Terminal Preppie/Moral Majority
BEDHEAD - Crushing
music under talking - Inglorious Basterds OST

It's summer and things slowed down, but Tom & Will have managed to piece together a few new releases for your hot night listening.

STARLIGHT MINTS - Paralyzed
COLD CAVE - The Trees Grew And Emotions Died
FRUIT BATS - My Unusual Friend
JULIAN PLENTI - Games For Days
DRUG RUG - Never Tell
JAY REATARD - It Ain't Gonna Save Me
NURSES - Caterpillar Playground
HATCHAM SOCIAL - Crocodile
GANGLIANS - Valient Brave
TINY VIPERS - Dreamer
TY SEGALL - Standing At The Station
AMANDA BLANK - Make Up

!!!GATEWAY DRUGS!!!
Prince - Sister
Nar - Cool District

Despite the relentlessness of Jazz In June and the onslaught of dead celebrities, Tom, Will, and Travis have put together another episode of recent releases.
SUNSET RUBDOWN - Idiot Heart
LIECHTENSTEIN - All At Once
WILCO (the band) - Wilco (The Song)
REGINA SPEKTOR - Laughing With
TORTOISE - Prepare Your Coffin
BUSDRIVER - Me-Time (With Pulmonary Palimpsets)
DIRTY PROJECTORS - Stillness Is The Move
DINOSAUR JR. - Over It
SONIC YOUTH - Sacred Trickster
GOD HELP THE GIRL - Come Monday Night

++!!GATEWAY DRUGS!!++
DOSH - Naoise
Yé-yé GIRLS - FRANCOISE HARDY - Tous Les Garçons Et Les Filles

with background noise from CHUCK, THE SECRET STARS, THE FIELD

It was time for a field trip. Will, Tom, and Travis take it outdoors for this episode.
GRIZZLY BEAR - Cheerleader
TYVEK - Hey Una
BLANK DOGS - Blue Light
THE INTELLIGENCE - Thank You God For Fixing The Tape Machine
THE WARLOCKS - Red Camera
CLUES - Perfect Fit
BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW - Born On A Day the Sun Didn't Rise
STARDEATH & WHITE DWARFS - Age Of The Freak
POINT JUNCTION, WA - Sick On Sugar
NAOMI SHELTON & THE GOSPEL QUEENS - What Have You Done?
PISCES - Dear One
SIR RICHARD BISHOP - Kaddak El Mayass
IGGY POP - I Want To go To The Beach
LOXSLY - Battalions
playing in the background during talking because it's so fucking long
SUNNO))) - Alice

Tom, Will, And Travis are back with some bombastic half truths and hyperbolic narratives.
tracklist:
MEAT PUPPETS - Rotten Shame
JARVIS COCKER - I Never Said I Was Deep
JEFFREY LEWIS & THE JUNKYARD - To Be Objectified
BRICOLAGE - Bayonets
VASELINES - You Think You're A Man
THE WOODEN BIRDS - False Alarm
PASSION PIT - Little Secrets
JABEE - Little Earth feat. L.E.G.A.C.Y and Ob-one
I AND I- The Top
SAMANTHA CRAIN & THE MIDNIGHT SHIVERS - Long Division
JORGE BEN - Ponta De Lança Africano (Umbabarauma)
JOHN VANDERSLICE - Fetal Horses

++GATEWAY DRUGS++
PULP - Do You Remember The First Time?
UNWOUND - Petals Like Bricks
WIPERS - Over The Edge

Travis, Tom, & Will get a special surprise visitor & play new tracks from recent album releases!

PEACHES -Serpentine
AKRON/FAMILY - Creatures
ST. VINCENT - The Strangers
GREAT NORTHERN - Fingers
SILVERSUN PICKUPS - Panic Switch
MICACHU - Just In Case
ART BRUT - Slap Dash For No Cash
MIKA MIKO - Sex Jazz
THEE OH SEES - Enemy Destruct
WOODEN SHJIPS - For So Long
PINK MOUNTAINTOPS - While We Were Dreaming
JOKER'S DAUGHTER - Under The Influence Of Jaffa Cakes
CAMERA OBSCURA - French Navy

!!GATEWAY DRUGS!!
THE REPLACEMENTS - Kiss Me On The Bus
THEE OH SEES - If I Had A Reason

As it all began, Tom and Will are back with select artists from the Norman Music Festival line-up.  Think of it as a preview guide to a day full of free awesome!

EL PASO HOT BUTTON - Strobelight Honey
STUDENT FILM - Ye Tremble, Carcass?
MAN MAN - Ballad Of Butter Beans
STARLIGHT MINTS- Popsicle
OF MONTREAL - Beware Our Nubile Miscreants
STARDEATH & WHITE DWARFS - Chemical
UGLYSUIT -...And We Became Sunshine
BILLY JOE SHAVER - Thunderbird
LOCUST AVENUE - Frenzy
RAINBOWS ARE FREE - Crystal Ball
SUGAR & GOLD - Sex in the City
DORIAN SMALL - Newlyweds
TEA LEAF GREEN - Red Ribbons
EARLY BEAT - Back & Forth
CROCODILE - We Speak For Everyone

Chock full of music we don't like.  Not really, there's a lot of good stuff packed into this one.
DECEMBERISTS - The Rake's Song
OBITS - Pine On
OTHER LIVES - End Of The Year
GAVIN CASTLETON - Coffeelocks
DOOM - Ballskin
MSTRKRFT - Click Click
ROYKSOPP - Vision One
MASTODON - Divinations
KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS - I Found a Peanut
STRANGE BOYS - Heard you Wanna Beat Me Up
EULOGIES - Bad Connection
O+S - We Do What We Want To
THERON & DARELL - It's Your Love
PETER, BJORN, & JOHN - Lay It Down
MONO - Ashes in the Sun

Here comes a load of new and recent releases.  You should go buy some of them.
Tracklist:
Say Hi - November Was White December Was Grey
Cazals - Somebody Somewhere
N.A.S.A. - Money
Plushgun - Just Impolite
Neko Case - This Tornado Loves You
Condo Fucks - Whatcha Gonna Do About It?
Mirah - Gone are the Days
Bishop Allen - Dimmer
Julie Doiron - Consolation Prize
Handsome Furs - Evangeline
1990s - The Box
John Wesley Harding - Oh! Pandora
Marissa Nadler - Loner

!!!GATEWAY DRUGS!!!

Sonic Youth
"100%"
"Teenage Riot"

Shellac
"Squirrel Song"

It's killing time - dead people and a special visit from a special someone!
Tracklist:
Dark Was The Night/The National - So Far Around the Bend
Morrissey - I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris
...And You Will Know us By the Trail Of Dead - Isis Unveiled
Alela Diane - White Diamonds
Vetiver - Everyday
Asobi Seksu - Me & Mary
Black Lips - Short Fuse
Psapp - The Monster Song
Sholi - Tourniquet
Mi Ami - New Guitar
Odd Nosdam - Fly Mode
Abe Vigoda - Don't Lie
Iran - I Can See the Future

GATEWAY DRUGS!
Sheffield synth pop
Cabaret Voltaire - Kino

Touch & Go is closing!
Jesus Lizard - Thumbscrews

RIP Lux Interior
The Cramps - Green Fuzz

It's a love letter to you.  The best show we've done in 10 years.
Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Young Adult Friction
Titus Andronicus - S/T
Six Organs Of Admittance - Creation Aspect Fire
Zero Boys - Livin' In The 80's
The Bird And The Bee - Diamond Dave
Passion Pit - I've Got Your Number
Fol Chen - No Wedding Cake
Beirut - La Llorona
Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses
Matt & Kim - Daylight

Gateway Drugs: SOUL/JAZZ
The Gaturs - Yeah You're Right, You Know You're Right
Jackie Opel - You're Too Bad
Universal Two - Dancing Heart

Keep the fire; keep it smooth.  Here are a few new releases from the last week or so and an introduction to a very special man.
Tracklist:
American Football - The One With the Tambourine
Andrew Bird - Effigy
Animal Collective - My Girls
David Bazan - Please Baby Please (demo)
Bon Iver - Blood Bank
The Boys - We're Too Young
Glasvegas - Go Square Go
Late Of The Pier - Fokker
Omar Rodriquez-Lopez - Old Money
Owen - Gazebo

This just may be the best we have done this year.  It's a final stab at songs from what we think are the best albums of 2008.

Tracklist:
Shearwater - The Snow Leopard
Sigur Ros - Inní Mér Syngur Vitleysingur
Jay Reatard - Always Wanting More
Jesu - Why Are We Not Perfect (Alternate Version)
Evangelicals - Party Crashin'
Girl Talk - What It's All About
Department of Eagles - Teenagers
Chad VanGaalen - Cries of the Dead
No Age - Teen Creeps
Tim and Eric's Awesome Record, Great Songs - Raz
Vivian Girls - Where Do You Run To
Fennesz - Vacuum
Black Mountain - Tyrants
M83 - We Own the Sky
Crocodile - August Is Over
Why? - Simeon's Dilemma
Of Montreal - For Our Elegant Castle

After that pseudo-legal debacle resulting in the last episode getting knocked off the SAFW blog page, I hope you're still with us.  Better get this one before someone else's robo-lawyer tries to wipe it out too!
Tracklist:
New Order - Love Vigilantes
The Smiths - Jeane (Troy Tate Sessions mix)
Flaming Lips - In Excelsior Vaginalistic
Girl Talk - Set It Off
Lou Reed - Caroline Says I
Postmarks - 11:59
Belle & Sebastian - (My Girl's Got) Miraculous Technique
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - The Raven
Pelle Carlberg - 1983 (Pelle & Sebastian)
Current 93 - Ai Christus Christus (The Shells Have Cracked)
Flipper - Love Canal
Dead Can Dance - The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove

+++Gateway Drugs+++
Bauhaus - Hair Of The Dog
The Specials - GhostTown

Here's a chunk of recent releases and a new batch of gateway drugs.  Oh, and Will is a Marxist.

Vic Chesnutt/Elf Power/Amorphous Strums - And How
Crystal Stilts - Shattered Shine
Kaiser Chiefs - Never Miss A Beat
School Of Seven Bells - Connjur
Bloc Party - Trojan Horse
Squarepusher - The Coathanger
The Cure - Underneath The Stars
Eulogies - Two Can Play
Frida Hyvonen - Enemy Within
Samothrace - Awkward Hearts

+++Gateway Drugs+++
Tom
Minor Threat - Screaming At A Wall

Will
Housemartins - Happy Hour

It's been two weeks and we're back with a nice dose of healing for your ails.  Not only that but we've added a new segment!  Change is everywhere.
This episode's tracks:
Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
Japanese Motors - Better Trends
Jay Reatard - Always Wanting More
Giant Sand - Belly Full Of Fire"
I'm From Barcelona - Ophelia
Tobacco - Dirt (ft. Aesop Rock)
The Dears - Money Babies
Sebastian Grainger - Who do We Care For?"
Jolie Holland - Mexico City
Of Montreal - Id Engager
Pit Er Pat - Evacuation Days
Parts & Labor - Nowheres Nigh"
White Hinterland - Chant De Grillon
++Gateway Drugs++
Buzzcocks - What Do I Get
Kind Of Like Spitting - When I'm Gone

Tom and Will have a boatload of new releases in this episode.

TV On The Radio - Dancing Choose (Prefuse73 remix)
Jobriath - I'm A Man
Cold War Kids - Something Is Not Right With Me
Pica Beats - Hope, was Not A Smith Family Tradition
Yelle - Je Veux Te Voir
Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
Emiliana Torriini - Big Jumps
Dungen - Finns Det Nagon Mojlighet
Joseph Arthur & The Lonely Astronauts - Faith
Dear And The Headlights - I'm Not Crying, You're Not Crying, Are You?
Mogwai - Batcat
Polysics - イロトカゲ
Vivian Girls - Such A Joke
Fucked Up - Crooked Head
Department Of Eagles - No One Does It
Women - Black Rice
Margot & The Nuclear So And So's - Holy Cow!

This one's all over the place.  It's Episode 5 with Tom & Will manning the tracks again.

Fujiya & Miyagi - "Sore Thumb"
Tricky - "Council Estate"
The Shaky Hands - "We Are Young"
Frank Bango - "I Saw The Size Of The World"
Matt Bauer - "Don't Let Me Out"
Growing - "Green Flag"
Brazilian Girls - "Nouveau Americain"
Crystal Antlers - "A Thousand Eyes"
Young Widows - "Old Skin"
The Low Lows - "Sparrows"
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - "Buriedfed"
Dressy Bessy - "Simple Girlz"
James - "Of Monsters & Heroes & Men"
Amanda Palmer - "Astronaut: A Short History Of Nearly Nothing"
Beaujolais - "Love At Thirty"

And some bonus background music to make those long-ass talking segments a little more pleasing.

Tom and Will are back with another dose of new music from the last month and a few that we'll see soon!

DEATH VESSEL -Block My Eye
JEFF HANSON -If Only I Knew
JENNIFER O'CONNOR - Here With Me
RA RA RIOT  - Dying Is Fine
LYKKE LI - I'm Good, I'm Gone
STEREOLAB - Three Women
WALKMEN - In The New Year
UGLYSUIT - Chicago
EARLY BEAT - Maybe I Love You
COLOURMUSIC - Put In a Little Gas
BOUND STEMS - Happens To Us All Otherwise
CALEXICO - Two Silver Trees
DONKEYS - Walk Though A Cloud
ALL GIRL SUMMER FUN BAND - Something New

Ahhhh - half the year has gone by so
Tom and Will have decided to share a
few songs from a few of the best
albums thus far this year.

Replacements-I Will Dare

Tom's block
Abe Vigoda- The garden
Grouper-Heavy Water I'd Rather Be Sleeping
James Blackshaw-Infinite Circle

Will's block
Black Angels-Doves
The Last Shadow Puppets-Only The Truth
She & Him-I Was Made For You

Tom's 2nd block
Bananas-Gentrification For Dummies
Mt. Eerie-Don't Smoke
Rameses III-Origins III

Will's 2nd block
Shearwater-Leviathan Bound
Morrissey-All You Need Is Me
Evangelicals-Paperback Suicide

After working out a few technical issues and throwing away an entire initial recording, Will and Tom are back with a new episode. This time we have a few mid-summer releases, some show updates, and some breaking news (at least at the time of recording).

Sigur Rós-Inní Mér Syngur Vitleysingur
The Anniversary-I Believe That The End Of The Reign Of Terror Is Soon Near
Jay Reatard-Tiny Little Nome
Nurse With Wound-Ketamineaphonia
The Watson Twins-How Am I To Be
The Wombats-Let's Dance To Joy Division
Earlimart-Song For
Albert Hammond Jr-Bargain Of A Century
Ratatat-Mirando
The Saturday Knights-Dog Park

Well, it had to happen sometime.

The premier episode of the Shoes Are For Work podcast is
all about the Norman Music Festival.  We'll see you on Main
Street in Norman 26 April 2008!

Debris-Female Tracks
Chainsaw Kittens-Mother (of the Ancient Birth)
The POlyphonic Spree-The Fragile Army
British Sea Power-Waving Flags
Octopus Project-Truck
Anvil Salute-Abduction
Klipspringer-Put It Out
Evangelicals-Stoned Again
Cheyenne-The Whale
Starkweather Boys-Straight Razor Baby