Today is the last official broadcast of the Wednesday morning radio show A Distorted Reality, on WMBR, Cambridge 88.1FM. Hopefully listeners have enjoyed the past year that the show was on the air—we laughed, we cried, and we kicked out the jams—but it’s time for the show to take a backseat while I take care of some untimely requirements involved in completing my graduate studies here at MIT (i.e., I have to write a masters thesis in the next few months and the 6am weekly time slot had become counterproductive).

If you enjoyed the diverse styles and genres of “independent,” non-major label music that I played on A Distorted Reality, don’t fret, I’m still going to be on the air every other Wednesday during the upcoming spring season hosting the Breakfast of Champions, where I’ll be alternating weeks with BoC DJ Mary. I know it’s not quite the same, and it’s at a different time, but it’ll have to do for now. There’s a possibility that A Distorted Reality will make a fantastic return when the summer rolls around, so stay tuned for that, and also, take note that my future playlists for BoC will likely appear here as well! (And perhaps some blog posts about cool happenings in “independent” music… if I can shake off my proclivity for being extremely lazy.)

Below is the playlist for the last broadcast of A Distorted Reality:

“Pretty Ugly (Before)”
Elliott Smith - Pretty Ugly (Before) 7-inch
[Suicide Squeeze; 2003]

“Lonesome Valley”
Magnolia Electric Co. - Fading Trails
[Secretly Canadian; 2006]

“Looks Just Like The Sun”
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
[Arts & Crafts; 2002]

“He War”
Cat Power - You Are Free
[Matador; 2003]

“Our Swords”
Band of Horses - Everything All The Time
[Sub Pop; 2006]

“The Fitted Shirt”
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
[Merge; 2000]

“Staring at the Sun”
TV on the Radio - Young Liars EP
[Touch & Go; 2003]

“Cold Wind”
The Arcade Fire - Cold Wind 7-inch
[Merge; 2005]

“The Best Of Jill Hives”
Guided By Voices - Earthquake Glue
[Matador; 2003]

“Stereo”
Pavement - Brighten the Corners
[Matador; 1997]

“Nobody But You”
The Black Keys - Chulahoma
[Fat Possum; 2006]

“Sad Days, Lonely Nights”
Junior Kimbrough - You Better Run: The Essential Junior Kimbrough
[Fat Possum; 2005]

“Jumble, Jumble”
The White Stripes - De Stijl
[Sympathy for the Record Industry; 2000]

“Mansion In The Sky”
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Tepid Peppermint Wonderland: A Retrospective
[Tee Pee Records; 1999]

“Built In Girls”
The Wrens - Secaucus
[Grass Records; 1996]

“Mall Of America”
Desaparecidos - Read Music / Speak Spanish
[Saddle Creek; 2002]

“The Ballad of Johnny Burma”
Mission of Burma - Vs.
[Ace of Hearts; 1982]

“You’re No Rock ‘n Roll Fun”
Sleater-Kinney - All Hands On The Bad One
[Kill Rock Stars; 2000]

“Stay Afraid”
Parts & Labor - Stay Afraid
[Jagjaguwar; 2006]

“Let’s Make Love And Listen To Death From Above”
Cansei De Ser Sexy - Cansei De Ser Sexy
[Sub Pop; 2006]

“Parentheses”
The Blow - Paper Television
[K Records; 2006]

“Hustler”
Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release
[Wichita; 2007]

“Ladyflash”
The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
[Memphis Industries; 2004]

“I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You”
Black Kids - Wizard of Ahhhs EP
[Self-released; 2007]

“No Satisfaction”
Black Mountain - Black Mountain
[Jagjaguwar; 2005]

“Her Name is Suicide”
Serena Maneesh - Serena Maneesh
[Honey Milk Records; 2005]

“The Cardinal Movements”
Bottomless Pit - Hammer Of The Gods
[Self-released; 2007]

“Bankrupt On Selling”
Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
[Up Records; 1997]

“Tropical Iceland”
The Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird’s Bark
[Rough Trade; 2003]

“Returning To The Fold”
The Thermals - Daytrotter Sessions (Live)
[N/A; 2008]

“A Distorted Reality Is Now A Necessity To Be Free”
Elliott Smith - Pretty Ugly (Before) 7-inch
[Suicide Squeeze; 2003]