Welcome to the latest edition of Pitchfork's Guest List. Each week, we ask one of our favorite artists to fill us in on what they've been up to lately: which tracks they can't stop spinning, what books they can't put down, and what new bands they've caught on tour. This week it's Jared Phillips of Times New Viking, who reminisces about their tour with Yo La Tengo, agrees that the Dewey Cox movie could have been a lot funnier, and always tunes into country radio stations named after animals.

>> Favorite New Songs of the Past Year

Little Claw, that we played with for a while there, they had a song called "Race to the Bottom". It's not on anything, but they played it every night and it was pretty fucking good. Shit, most of the songs, specific songs we like, are older stuff. I guess we're just more into the...you know, old record category.

>> Favorite Older Songs at the Moment

Well we got this Mark Perry 45 that's really awesome. The guy from Alternative TV and he had a bunch of solo shit, he's got this 45, it's called "Whole World's Down on Me". Really good. We've just listened to that nonstop.

There's a reissue of an album by this guy named Raven that just came out, like his brother-in-law reissued it. It's this guy from the Columbus area, it's kind of like biker trash rock, kind of bluesy. That's really good. That came out in like 1970 or something; it got reissued. That's a really good one.

What other old shit? You know, anything like TV Personalities, like that "Part Time Punks" 7" we listen to pretty constantly. Yeah, those are pretty good. The Young Marble Giants reissue was good.

>> Favorite New Band

Well I guess we're kind of expected to say Psychedelic Horseshit even though that's kind of true. And Tyvek. They're pretty good. Those are some good bands.

I don't know, Los Llamarada was probably one of the best bands that we've seen. The first time we saw them was pretty mind-blowing. We saw them in Austin and then we played like two shows with them, we went to Mexico and played two shows with them. And that was pretty amazing.

That whole album is like...it's pretty gnarly, the whole thing, straight through. Their songs are, I guess they're catchy in a way, but they're more just kind of like fluid and real, super repetitive. I wouldn't say they have hooks or anything like that, just real long...they're kind of like the Fall but they have that weird, real gnarly cheap keyboard sound that we like.

>> Favorite Song Ever

Adam [Elliott] wanted me to mention that our favorite song would be "Baby Blue" by the 13th Floor Elevators... he's the only one that felt strongly enough about it to have one. But I'll agree with that. You can't really get much better than the 13th Floor Elevators doing a Bob Dylan song.

>> Best Recent Concert

Oh, the Clean. Easy. Philly, actually. The Philly show was fucking ridiculous.

>> Last Great Film I Saw

You know, I was a little disappointed by that Dewey Cox movie [Walk Hard]. I kind of wish that had been a lot better. Man, other than that I can't really remember the last good movie I've seen, it's been kind of a bummer. I liked Superbad a lot. We've been watching a lot more comedies lately.

>> Last Great Book I Read

Shit, I haven't read a good book in a while. The last thing I read was H.P. Lovecraft, on tour a couple of months ago. Then Jared's read [Allan W. Eckert's] The Frontiersmen, or he almost finished it. That would be a good one.

>> Favorite Piece of Musical Equipment

The drum. I like that.

>> Favorite Record Shop

Well, there's either Love Garden Sounds in Lawrence, Kansas...and then there's a place called Atomic in L.A. that we went to that we found all kind of New Zealand shit just really cheap. Academy Records in Brooklyn is a good store, too.

>> Best Purchase of the Past Year

Hoo, boy. Probably that Television Personalities 7", that "Part Time Punks" record.

>> Best Thing I Did This Year

Man, that's heavy [laughs]. Probably going to Mexico. We all got in cars and toured and went down there.

Pitchfork: Where all did you go?

Monterey and Victoria. We got about six hours into Mexico. Then we went to the world's nastiest beach after that. That was pretty interesting.

>> Favorite Music Venue

Well, I don't know. I don't know where the best place we've played would be. Probably one of those places that we played with Yo La Tengo that we'll never get to play again [laughs]. Those were all pretty fun but, you know, if it ever happens we'll be 40 years old by the time we play in a place that big again.

>> Favorite TV Show at the Moment

Well I've been watching a lot of "Seinfeld". I know Adam's a big of fan of that...what's the one about the guys from New Zealand, "Flight of the Conchords"? I haven't actually seen that yet but he was telling me it's fucking hilarious.

>> Favorite Video Game at the Moment

Eh, none of us really play video games. My roommate bought "Halo 3" and we played that for long enough. So I got my fix for the year.

>> Favorite Radio Show

Anything country. You know, like contemporary country. It doesn't really matter what station, you know it's always one of those stations like the Beaver, the Hawk, the Gator, so no matter where you're at you can always get country. So if we're on tour we always end up listening to the country radio because our CD player doesn’t work most of the time.

>> My Ringtone

Adam, he's the only one who actually has a specific ringtone, but I can't remember which one it is. It's something by the Grateful Dead, I think it's "Friend of the Devil".