Sounds Ace

It's the 6 Degrees of The New Pornographers Special! Featuring a sizeable amount of 90s Canadian indie rock. The New Pornographers, AC Newman, Neko Case, Destroyer, Zumpano, Katheryn Calder and Maow.

Hi everyone! Here's a bunch of songs I didn't get to play before 2011's end. Featuring Eleanor Friedberger, Drake, Austra, Julia Holter (pictured), Isle Adore, Atlas Sound, Japanther, Quilt and Marissa Nadler.  Thanks for listening!  WELCOME TO SOUNDS ACE 2012!!!!  x esther

Part 2 of our Best of 2011 Special. WHAT. A. YEAR. YOU GUYS.   :(  Okay so! This is the dance ("Dance") special. FEATURING: Holy Ghost, St. Vincent, Beyonce, Tune-Yards, The Black Lips, Air, Azalea Banks, Eric Copeland, M83, Cut Copy and The Smith Westerns.  Happy New Year xo

END OF THE YEAR! Best of 2011 PART ONE: It's great. Who is on it is a total surprise. I hope you like it!  x esther

Brill Building! "The building has been described as the most important generator of popular songs in the Western world." Home to some of the must influential composers, lyricists, producers, publishers and labels of the 60s, The Brill Building produced some of the best and most timeless music of it's time. FEATURING: The Ronettes, Bobby Darin, The Shirelles, The Shangri-las, Jay and the Americans, Aretha Franklin, Ellie Greenwich (pictured), The Dixie Cups and writing or production by Greenwich and Jeffy Barry, Carole King, Phil Spector, Neil Diamond, Burt Bacharach and lots more.  

Episode 10! Yeah! Lots of new music this week including boy wonder King Krule (pictured), something from Belle and Sebastian's Stevie Jackson's new record, more from Melbourne band Twerps, new Oneohtrix Point Never, Crystal Stilts, Foster the People and Delmar & The Dedications. Next week (or in two weeks; depending on whether or not I feel like lying about the frequency of my pocast) will be a Brill Building special so feel free to send in suggestions or requests!  OKAY! Ur all seriously the best.  x esther 

Hi Everyone!  It's me, Esther with a new SPECIAL. The theme of this special is 6 Degrees of Sleater-Kinny/Carrie Brownstein/Wild Flag and it features Sleater-Kinney (pictured) AND Wild Flag but also Helium, The Minders, The Lee Memorial, The Spells, Quasi and The Corin Tucker Band.  I hope you like it!  x esther c w 

Hi! Hiiiiii it's me.  This week we are playing lots of NEW music, predominately by MALE artists. I had all this new music to play over the past two eps and I don't know why, but I divided it into GIRLS and BOYS. So! New things from Twerps, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Girls (pictured), Cymbals Eat Guitars, Real Estate, Jens Lekman, Atlas Sound and M83. Hooray! Thanks to all the new Facebook page fans! What else. Suggestions for specials are welcome, you can totally email me.  Okay! That's all. I hope everyone's week is WONDERFUL.  x esther c

Hello everybody! Big week here at Sounds Ace. Lots of new music but also LADIES DAY! Featuring Twin Sister, Feist, Bleached (Jennifer and Jessie Clavin from Mika Miko, pictured), Veronica Falls, St. Vincent, Colleen Green, Laura Marling and WILD FLAG, supergroup of the year.  UGH! Thanks for listening, everyone. Send along suggestions and requests! xoxo Esther

IT'S a real special! Italo-Disco, or the music that kept Europe dancing throught the 80s, is the inspiration for this week's episode. Featuring Valerie Dore (YES!), Baltimora, Pino D'angio (pictured, what's not to like?), Den Harrow, Tracie Spencer, Ryan Paris and Italo-Disco revivalists Sally Shapiro and Glass Candy.  Like the fan page! (This week's new fans are DEVORAH WOLF and DANIEL ZANA. Thanks you two!) 

Hello! This week I just thought I'd play lots of new music that I've had on a lot lately, plus some OLD GEMS as well. New Charlotte Gainsbourg, new Feist, new Ty Segall (pictured), new Eleanor Friedberger, less new Black Lips, Purling Hiss, Yellow Ostrich, Lana Del Rey plus Maureen Tucker and Laurie Anderson. Remember when I wanted to make Sounds Ace t-shirts? :( That's all! I'll be back with a special at SOME POINT during the next two weeks. Feel free to submit ideas! Or whatever!  xo Esther C. Werdiger

It's a Sounds Ace & Friends! Featuring Meir Lagstein, who guided me through the surprisingly wonderful world of Israel Music, which is the theme of this week's episode. I AVOID Israeli music but recently COMMITTED to look until I found some stuff that I really liked. Scouring Israeli music from the 60's until today, Meir and I managed to avoid anything obviously Middle Eastern-sounding (sorry, racist) and found such good stuff! 90's girl band The Witches (in an excellent duet with Nick Cave, of all people), 80's synth darlings Etnics, poster boy of 90's alternative Aviv Geffen, 80's pop songstress Sharon Lifshitz (pictured), 60's pop revivalists Uzi Navon and Aquaintances, 60's love child Ariel Zilber, psychadelic pioneer David Ben Israel AND MORE.  Don't be discouraged if all of these names mean NOTHING to you; I was super excited to hear this stuff! 

I skipped a week! I'M SORRY OKAY. I'm sorry. So this week! New things AND ALSO old things. Elis Regina, Toro Y Moi (always adorable, and pictured), Comet Gain, Dum Dum Girls, Kate Bush, Washed Out, Kanye West + Jay Z and the Unknown Mortal Orchestra.  Go like the new Facebook page! Here it is: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sounds-Ace-with-Esther-C-Werdiger/166452070093423 Thanks! I hope you like it xo Esther

Here's a special I've been wanting to make ever since Sounds Ace was born! Kathleen Hanna (b. 1969, Portland) was a seminal member of the Riot Grrl movement, which aimed to create aware communities that fused art, music, punk, feminism, activism and DIY. Her bands include Viva Knievel, Bikini Kill, Julie Ruin and Le Tigre.  This podcast features Bikini Kill, Julie Ruin, Le Tigre, Kathleen Hanna, Yoko Ono, The Go Team and Internal/External.  I hope you love it! email me at estherwerdiger AT gmail DOT com with questions or suggestions or requests. Like the new Facebook page! And I'll say your name on the internet next week! Hooray! sluuuutttt

Welcome to Season 4 of Sounds Ace! Sorry for the wait but WE'RE BACK and it'll be a great season. FEATURING: Eric Copeland, Times New Viking, EMA, Bon Iver, James Blake, Gold Panda, Washed out and the Junior Boys. Use the link or subscriiiibe to the show via iTunes and you'll get an automatic download every time there's a new episode.  Thanks!  x esther

Podcast from Melbourne! I'm home for a bit and this week playing some new and excellent fare from: Bill Callahan (formerly Smog), Thao and Mirah, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Fleet Foxes, Natural Child, TV On The Radio and Panda Bear (pictured).  UGH. Okay! I hope you all like it.  estherwerdiger@gmail.com, if you want.

New Episode! Hi, Everyone. This week features Tune Yards, Frankie Rose, Townes Van Zandt (pictured with poultry), Au Revoir Simone, Make Up, Ponytail, Calexico and Crystal Stilts.     

This is a great Sounds Ace! A self-aware, insightful episode where I get the levels really right, I think. SO lots of songs today, including something from the new Dum Dum Girls EP, the new Strokes single, some John Cale, a song by this band called Weed, some Yuck, Yo La Tengo, Ike & Tina Turner, Kurt Vile (pictured) and Free Energy. Let me know if you're local and want to be on Sounds Ace & Friends. Thanks for listening! x

FEATURING newborn music from a particularly attractive crowd this week: Nicolas Jaar, PJ Harvey, Smith Westerns, Julianna Barwick (pictured), Cut Copy, Vivian Girls, Destroyer and Lykkie Li. The levels are a bit weird, I'm sorry! Also I apologize for the times I accidentally insult all of you.    Thanks for listening! WHO WANTS A T-SHIRT? x esther

On January 14 2011, English band Broadcast lost their lead singer, Trish Keenan, who died of pneumonia at the age of 42. I was so sad! I love Broadcast. So here is my Broadcast special. "[Psychedelia isn't] a world only reachable by hallucinogens but obtainable by questioning what we think is real and right, by challenging the conventions of form and temper… I discovered psychedelia and it seemed to have self-help properties that allowed me to let go of an immobilizing working class pride that was cementing a false identity into my psyche, stopping me from transforming." -- Trish Keenan, The Wire, 2009