2013: Year in Review, Part 1

It's the winter recess here at UW, meaning we're taking advantage of the open schedule at WSUM to expand The Way Out to 2 hours every Thursday night. And we're kicking off the new year by looking back at the old one. For our Thursday, January 2, 2014, show, we broadcast the first of our two-part 2013: Year in Review series.

"Best of" lists always make us anxious. We're obsessive music fans and record collectors here at The Way Out, and "best of" lists just feel too definitive and restrictive. 2013 was a very good year for music (every year is, if you listen hard enough!), and there was just way too much notable stuff to include in even a few hours of radio. Moreover, it's inevitable that as soon as we finalize a list of the best artists, albums, or songs, we will immediately change our minds about something. That, or we discover something great that we completely forgot. So, our 2013: Year in Review isn't exactly a "best of" - it's just a shambolic run through some of the more interesting and exciting new sounds to come out during 2013. Here's the playlist for Part 1:

Jacco Gardner - "The One Eyed King"
TOY - "Fall Out of Love"
Destruction Unit - "Slow Death Sounds"
The Black Angels - "Twisted Light"
Crystal Stilts - "Future Folklore"
Temples - "Colours to Life"
My Bloody Valentine - "Wonder 2"
Survival Knife - "Name That Tune"
Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs - "I Watch You"
The Men - "Without a Face"
Pissed Jeans - "Cafeteria Food"
Coliseum - "Fuzzbang"
Ty Segall - "She Don't Care"
Iron Lung - "Plasma Separatist"
Drug Church - "Donny's Woods"
Condominium - "Eating the Universe"
Deafheaven - "Dream House"
Var - "The World Fell"
Iceage - "Everything Drifts"
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - "Water's Edge"
The Flaming Lips - "Butterfly, How Long it Takes to Die"
Hookworms - "In Our Time"
Kurt Vile - "KV Crimes"
Thee Oh Sees - "Toe Cutter - Thumb Buster"
Parquet Courts - "Yonder is Closer to the Heart"
The Pastels - "Check My Heart"
His Electro Blue Voice - "Death Climb"

Part 2 of our 2013: Year in Review will be broadcast live next Thursday, January 9, 2014, from 10:00 PM-midnight CST.

[No archived audio available.]

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The Way Out is a weekly radio show hosted by Andrew and Diana Bottomley on WSUM 91.7 FM in Madison, Wisconsin. We feature a wide range of punk, post-punk, indie rock, garage rock, psychedelica, no wave, noise rock, and other rock’n’roll esoterica. We're drawn to anything that's adventurous, different, and "out there." We've even been known to throw in a set of modern classical, prog, or country from time to time. Mostly, we play “classic” material from the 1960s through the 1990s, though we also mix in some newer music here and there. Following a "no hits, all the time" philosophy, we emphasize overlooked and otherwise unheard of artists, or lesser-known songs from more popular artists.

About WSUM

WSUM, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s licensed student radio station, is an award-winning station with over 200 members. Following a handful of different incarnations that operated between 1952 and 1993, WSUM officially began broadcasting on February 22, 2002, from Vilas Hall and has been going strong ever since. The station can now be found at 333 East Campus Mall, Suite 4100, in the new Student Activities Center. WSUM is a proud and active member of the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association and College Broadcasters, Inc., and has won myriad statewide and national awards for its dynamic music and talk programming, live sports broadcasts, and news coverage.

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