Monday morning show new trax 12-27

Back in the old Monday morning saddle today. Felt might fine. Here are new trax I played.

6 a.m. hour

Megafaun -- Heretofore
High Dials -- Chinese Boxes
Jason and the Scorchers -- When Did Get So Easy (to Lie to Me)
Martina Topley Bird -- Orchids
Stereolab -- Supah Jaianto
Tom Jones -- What Good Am I?

7 a.m. hour

Sufjan Stevens -- Bad Communication
Autumn Defense -- Back of My Mind
James -- It's Hot
Clinic -- Bubblegum
Black Dub -- Last Time
Hot Panda -- Shoot Your Horse
Jonathan Richman -- We'll Be the Noise, We'll Be the Scnandal
Girls -- Alright

8 a.m. hour

Bobby Bare Jr. -- Your Goat is on Fire
Deerhunter -- Don't Cry
Giant Sand -- Fields of Green
Extra Lens -- ... Clinic 17
Margaret Cho -- I'm Sorry
Viva -- What's Your Sign Baby
Posies -- Plastic Paperbacks

Recurrent trax (4-12 months old)

Gil Scott Heron -- Running
Walkmen -- Woe Is Me
Galactic featuring Irma Thomas -- Heart of Steel
Gorillaz featuring Mark E. Smith -- .... Freeze

elipses are used where I can't read my early morning writing

Doing the Monday morning show Dec. 27

Filling in fot Grant and Pat. See you there. MSE 91.7/ wmse.org

It's Not Christmas without the Ventures Christmas LP

I had to play the Ventures, which was a staple in my household during my junior high years (let the record show that was a number of years after the album was originally released. My mom bought a cutout). When it came out on CD in the '90s, I snapped it up.
The rest of this week's showgram included a bevy of new tracks and the '80s at 8:30 Christmas music with special guest Bunnyman.

New tracks
6 p.m. hour

Billy Nayer Show -- Reno
Southern Culture on the Skids -- Come As Your Are/ Lucifer Sam
Giant Sand -- Thin Line Man
John Wesley Coleman -- Get High Babe
Jonathan Richman -- If You Want to Leave Our Party Just Go
Small Black -- Goons
Black Dub -- Last Time

Recurrent (4-12 months old)

Yeasayer -- Rome

7 p.m. hour

Darker My Love -- Dear Author
Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3 -- On the Mend
The Black -- Freeway (Exile)
Viva -- What's Your Sign Baby
Brian Eno -- Flint March
Clinic -- Radiostory
Neil Young -- Rumblin
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's -- Let's Pain Our Teeth Green

8 p.m. hour

Marnie Stern -- Transparency is the New Mystery
Warpaint -- Bees
Deerhunter -- Coronado
Grinderman -- Evil
The Extra Lens -- Adultry

The 80s at 8:30

Timbuk 3 -- All I Want for Christmas
Ramones -- Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)
The Damned -- There Ain't No Santy Claus
Chris Stamey -- You're What I Want for Christmas
Joan Jett - Little Drummer Boy
Couch Flambeau -- Santa Claus Skips Cudahy
Basement 5 -- Last White Christmas

Top 10 of 2010

This is far from a definitive list. I haven't listened to all the new CDs released this year and I don't want to. This is really more a list of my favorites and stuff I thought was super cool.

In no particular order....

Bobby Bare Jr. -- A Storm - A Tree - My Mother's Head. Bobby's most consistent and rewarding album in a while. Backed by My Morning Jacket. Funny and deep and not serious and good.

Drive By Truckers -- The Big To-Do. If this world was right, this would have been a smash hit. A classic album with a variety of styles and great lyrics all in the general arena of DBT's gothic southern rock.

Black Angels -- Phosphene Dream. Best psychedelia from Texas since Roky Erickson. Loud and proud.

The Goodnight Loving -- Supper Club. These guys grow on me more all the time. Jangly and homespun. Their most consistent effort to date.

Galactic -- Yakamay. Live the funk. Feel the funk. Organic and modern all at once with variety of guest vocalists.

The Fall -- Your Future Our Clutter. Who woulda thought Mark E. Smith had this in him -- the brains to work with a kick-ass band that rocks its arse off while he warbles about ex-pats and other stuff.

Neil Young -- Le Noise. You either love Neil or you don't get him. If you love Neil, this features some might fine gee-tarr chords and nifty songs. New approach thanks to producer Daniel Lanois.

Deerhunter -- Halcyon Digest. Every tune I've heard on this is expertly crafted and delivered. Bradfod Cox rox.

Jaill -- That's How We Burn. I'm looking like a homer here with two Milwaukee bands on my list, but the first three tracks on this release were one of the best starts to any CD I heard this year. A few other gems on here, too. Straight ahead alt rock.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club -- Beat the Devil's Tattoo. This one doesn't jump out at you like some of their previous works, but after numerous listens, it's got some great material.

Honorable mentions: Gil Scott-Heron, Clinic, Walkmen, Sleigh Bells, Black Keys, Dum Dum Girls

Diggin the music Wednesday night 12-8

If I didn't dig it, I wouldn't play it. That's all I'm sayin.
Here are this week's new tunes and the '80s at 8:30 Flipper/ Gun Club-fest.

6 pm hour

Margot and the Nuclear So and So's -- New York City
Warpaint -- Bees
Neil Young -- Sign of Love
Swans -- Reeling the Liars
Pomegranates -- Skull Cakin
The Extra Lens -- Adultry
Testa Rosa -- The Black Saltwater Sea
LCD Sound System -- Get Innocuous (live)

Recurrent track (4-12 months old)

Gil Scott-Heron -- Me and the Devil

7 pm hour

Brian Eno -- Flint March
Small Black -- Photojournalist
Bobby Bare Jr. -- Your Goat is on Fire
Deerhunter -- Revival
Darker My Love -- Dear Author
Crocodiles -- Stoned to Death
Dandy Warhols -- Boys Better (new best of)
Clinic -- Milk & Honey
Mararet Cho -- I'm Sorry
Girls -- Alright

Recurrent
Black Angels -- Phosphene Dream

8 pm hour

John Wesley Coleman -- Fields of Love
Cloud Cult -- Today We Give Ourselves to the Fire

Recurrent
Gogol Bordello -- We Comin Rougher (Immigraniada)

The 80s at 8:30

Flipper -- Ever
Gun Club -- Eternally Is Here
Flipper -- Way of the World
Gun Club -- Give Up the Sun
Flipper -- Life
Flipper -- Sex Bomb (alt. version)

Thanksgiving eve tune-age

While your turkey was basting, I was keeping the WMSE transmitter warm Thanksgiving eve. Here are new trax plus 80s at 8:30 featuring the dBs.

6 pm hour

Deerhunter -- Coronado
Clinic -- Lion Tamer
Girls -- Alright
Margaret Cho -- I'm Sorry
Southern Culture on the Skids -- Come As You Are/ Lucifer Sam
Black Mountain -- Hair Song

Recurrent (4-12 months old)

Jaill -- She's My Baby

7 pm hour

Limes -- Rusty Old Clock
Bobby Bare Jr. -- The Sky is the Ground
Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3 -- On the Mend
John Wesley Coleman -- Get High Babe
Matt Freeman's Devil's Brigade -- Gentlemen of the Road
Matthew Dear -- Soil to Seed
Crocodiles -- Sleep Forever

8 pm hour

Posies -- Notion 99
LCD Sound System -- Daft Punk
Grinderman -- Mickey Mouse and the Goodbye Man

Recurrent

The Slew -- 100 %

The 80s at 8:30

This week's feature was on the dBs, a power-pop/ jangle pop band from N.C.

Bad Reputation
Neverland
A Spy in the House of Love
Say It Again
Rendezvous
Change with the Changing Times
Amplifier
Black and White

Pledge drive showgram Nov. 10!

Hey all, please give a call tonight from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. during the City Rock Showgram and support WMSE in our fall pledge drive. Any amount counts. Take a short pause for a worthy cause. Do it at 414-799-1917 or wmse.org. Thanks in advance.

Hallowed musical ground 10-27

Thanks to Bunnyman for helping ring in the scary spirit that I would otherwise ignore. The '80s at 8:30 Halloween music was fun. And, of course, the regular showgram was a blast not from the past.

New tracks

6 pm hour

Clinic -- Lion Tamer
Hot Panda -- Shoot Your Horse
!!! -- Hollow
Chilly Gonzales -- Never Stop
Posies -- Plastic Paberbacks
Sufjan Stevens -- Get Real Get Right

Recurrent (4-12 months old)

Drive By Truckers -- Drag the Lake Charlie
Goodnight Loving -- Ain't It Wierd

7 pm hour

this hour's lineup looks like some kind of new music Wednesday but every stinkin day is that at MSE.....

Matthew Dear -- You Put a Smell on Me
Swans -- Reeling the Liars
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's -- Let's Paint Our Teeth Green
Bobby Bare Jr. -- Rock & Roll Halloween
Eels -- Looking Up
Black Angels -- Entrance Song
Black Angels -- Bad Vibrations
Devils Brigade -- Gentlemen of the Road
Neil Young -- Walk with Me
Crocodiles -- Billy Speed

8 pm hour

Billy Nayer Show -- Fredward
Morcheeba -- Cut to the Bass
Cloud Cult -- Today We Give Ourselves the Fire

The 80s at 8:30 (Halloween edition)

The Cramps -- Rockin Bones
Plasticland -- A Brief Commentary on Wax Museums
Fuzztones -- She's Wicked
The Cure -- Funeral Party
Siouxsie and the Banshees -- Halloween
The Meteors -- My Daddy is a Vampire
Bauhaus (request) -- Bela Legosi's Dead

X (the band not the rating) and new stuff 10/13

6 pm hour new stuff

Salteens -- Last Train from London
Margot and the Nuclear So & So's -- New York City Hotel Blues
Deehunter -- Coronado
Versus -- Invincible Hero
Matthew Dear -- Monkey
Clinic -- Saffire

7 pm hour

Walkmen -- Angela Surf City
Bobby Bare Jr. -- The Sky is the Ground
Black Angels -- Sunday Afternoon
Grinderman -- Evil
Hot Panda -- Shoot Your Horse
James -- It's Hot
Blonde Redhead -- Oslo
Posies -- Notion 99
Limes -- Rusty Old Clock

8 pm hour

!!! -- Hollow
Neil Young -- Walk with Me
Crocodiles -- Sleep Forever
Devil's Brigade -- Gentlemen of the Road

Recurrent (4-12 months old)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club -- River Styx

The '80s at 8:30

Featured artist X

Sex and Dying in High Society
The Once Over Twice
Johnny Hit and Run Pauline
White Girl
Because I Do
We're Having Much More Fun
Riding with Mary
Love Shack
Heater

X is featured artist on 80's at 8:30 Oct. 13

Yep, the cats and freaky catette from LA. Any ideas/ requests, call 'em in during my showgram Wednesday night, 414-799-1917.
Thanks
Rich

End of summer (bummer)

These last couple days have been great outside. I was in the WMSE studio last night and it was hot due to the studio lights and the tunes, man. Hope to see you at the Food Slam Friday night. I will be there doing coat check early on and hanging out like everyone else after that.

New trax

6 pm hour

Junip -- Howl
Bobby Bare Jr. -- The Sky Is the Ground
Jaill -- On the Beat
Isobel Campbell/ Mark Lanegan -- You Won't Let Me Down Again
Of Montreal -- Godly Intersex
The Posies -- Notion 99
The Eels -- Looking Up

Recurrent (4-12 months old)

Drive By Truckers -- After the Scene Dies

7 pm hour

Matthew Dear -- Soil to Seed
Versus -- Gone to Earth
Deerhunter -- He Would Have Laughed
!!! -- AM/FM
Walkmen -- Woe Is Me
Black Angels -- Entrance Song
Grinderman -- What I Know

Recurrent

The Hold Steady -- The Smidge
The Black Keys -- Sinister Kid

8 pm hour

Rasputina -- Humankinds As the Sailor
Black Mountain -- The Hair Song
Alejandro Escovedo -- Tender Heart
Goodnight Loving -- Pan

The 80s at 8:30
This week's theme: Athens, GA scene

B 52s -- Hero Worship
Love Tractor -- HEB Pharohs
Pylon -- M-Train
Dreams So Real -- Golden
REM -- 1,000,000
Flat Duo Jets -- Jet Tone Boogie
Let's Active (request*) -- Every Word Means No
Time Toy -- Hi

* Not from Athens but two listners thought they were, so what the heck. Mitch East produced early REM records which is good enough for this showgram.

Post-Cebar showgram trax

I had the pleasure of following Paul Cebar this week -- he was filling in on the Blues Drive right before my showgram. Lacking his vast knowledge of roots music and his massive record, CD and tape collection, I stuck with my usual thing. Here are new tracks and the official start of a new concept for the 80s at 8:30 -- a featured artist or theme.

New tracks

6 pm hour

!!! -- AM/FM
Elf Power -- Wander Through
Hot Hot Heat -- Biznezz Az Uzual
Black Mountain -- The Way to Gone
The Walkmen -- Angela Surf City
Blonde Redhead -- Not Getting There
Morcheeba -- Cut to the Bass

Recurrent (4-12 months old)
Mike Benign Compulsion -- The Soothing Sounds of Seals and Crofts

7 pm hour

Of Montreal -- Godly Intersex
Rasputina -- Humankind as the Sailor
Matthew Dear -- Monkey
Maps & Atlases -- Living Decorations
Grinderman -- Micky Mouse & the Goodbye Man
Billy Nayer Show -- Fredward
Jaill -- On the Beat

8 pm hour

The Long Shadow of the Paper Tiger -- Devry
The Thermals -- You Changed My Life
Limes -- Rusty Old
Goodnight Loving -- Deep Black Pool
Black Angels -- Bad Vibrations

The 80s at 8:30

Featured artist Lou Reed!

Standing in Ceremony
Waves of Fear
Don't Talk to Me About Work
Doing the Things that We Want To
Spit It Out
Romeo & Juliette
The Blue Mask

Back to Cool -- first show of September

I may have missed scribbling down one or two of the first hour's new trax. I will update if I figure it out. Otherwise, here goes.

6 pm hour

Maps and Atlases -- The Charm
The Goodnight Loving -- The Pan
Billy Nayer Show -- Fredward
Matthew Dear -- You Put a Spell on Me
Of Montreal -- Coquet Coquette

7 pm hour

Walkmen -- Woe is Me
Isobel Campbell/ Mark Lanegan -- You Let Me Down Again
Morcheeba -- Cut to the Bass
Love Language -- Horophones
Alejandro Escovedo -- Tender Heart
Sleigh Bells -- Kids
School of Seven Bells -- xxx

Recurrent (4-12 months old)
New Pornographers -- Your Hands Together

8 pm hour

Jaill -- The Stroller
Wolf Parade -- Two Men with New Tuxedos
The Long Shadow of the Paper Tiger -- Devry

The 80s at 8:30
This week's theme: the first two albums by Echo and the Bunnymen and the Psychedlic Furs (with special guest Bunnyman, who is no relation....)

Echo and the Bunnymen -- Going Up
Psychedelic Furs -- We Love You
Echo -- Monkey
P Furs -- Soap Commercial
Echo -- The Cutter
P Furs -- So Run Down
Echo -- Do It Clean (live version 1983/ song from the first LP)

Hot dang it's this week's new trax and '80s

Back in the saddle of the Wednesday night gig.... I even played a little cowpunk and roots rock on the '80s at 8:30. Here's the list, yo.

New trax

6 pm hour

Jaill -- Everybody's Hip
Love Language -- Horophones
The Joy Formidable -- Austere
Lou Rhodes -- Circles
Wovenhand -- Denver City
Black Keys -- Howlin for You
Hot Hot Heat -- Zero Results

Recurrent (4-12 months old)

Galactic w/ Rebirth Brass Band -- Boe Money

7 pm hour

Sleigh Bells -- A/B Machines
Billy Nayer Show -- Fredward
Elk City -- For the Uninitiated
Matthew Dear -- Soil to Seed
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti -- Hot Body Rub
Carnivores -- A Crime
Goodnight Loving -- Ear Worm
The Fall -- Hot Cake
Wolf Parade -- Cloud Shadow on the Mountain

8 pm hour

Gun Club -- A Devil in the Woods (on the new Mojo mag Highway to Hell CD)
Ratatat -- Neck Brace
Yello -- Oh Yeah 2009
Wavves -- Post Acid

The 80s at 8:30 -- tribute to '80s cowpunk/ alt country/ roots rock

EIEIO -- This Time
Green on Red -- The Drifter
Beat Farmers -- Riverside
Blasters -- Trouble Bound
Jason and the Scorchers -- Help There's a Fire
Long Ryders -- Looking for Lewis & Clark
Meat Puppets -- Whistling Song
Raunch Hands -- What Yer Doin
Rank and File (request) -- Amanda Ruth

Monday morning showgram playlist 8/9

Nothing like getting up at the earliest of a.m. and doing a Monday morning radio showgram. Especially today with a thunderstorm and the whole shebang. But really, it was fun. Here is the list of new tracks. Back to the regularly scheduled City Rock Showgram next week Wednesday Aug. 18 -- at night.

6 am hour

Sally Seltmann -- Book Song
Billy Nayer Show -- Girl from the Moon
Mark Olson -- Bluebell Song
Lou Rhodes -- Circles
Pernice Brothers -- Something for You
Murder by Death -- On the Dark Streets Below
School of Seven Bells -- Windstorm

7 am hour

Hot Hot Heat -- Biznezz Az Uzual
Black Mountain -- Old Fangs
Laurie Anderson -- The Beginning of Memory
The Books -- Free Translator
Goodnight Loving -- Ain't It Weird
Anders Osborne -- Killing Each Other

8 am hour

Flaming Lips -- Eclipse
Hold Steady -- Barely Breathing
Black Keys -- Howlin for You
Gogol Bordello -- To Rise Above
Ratatat -- Barefeast
Drive By Truckers -- After the Scene Dies
Deerhoof -- Satan (new Mojo "Highway to Hell" compilation)

Showgram scheduling note

I will be away from the station (it hurts) this Wednesday night Aug. 4 and Andy Turner (usually does Friday afternoon Zero Hour) will fill in. But there's more -- I will be filling in myself on the Grant and Pat show this coming Monday morning, Aug. 11 from 6 am to 9 am. Yep, the old Monday morning slot. Catch you then.
Rich

Live and loud playlist 7/21

Well the transmitter magically returned to the air 12 (!) minutes before my showgram started Wednesday night. Thanks to the radio engineering gods/ godesses. Here are new trax and 80's at 8:30 playlist for this week.

6 pm hour

Black Mountain -- Old Fangs
Evelyn Evelyn -- Chicken Man
The Books -- I Know That
Hot Hot Heat -- Implosionatic
Dead Weather -- The Difference Between Us
The Goodnight Loving -- Earworm (and) Doesn't Shake Me

7 pm hour

Black Keys -- Next Girl
Minus the Bear -- Animal Backwards
The Joy Formidable -- Austere
Wolf Parade -- Two Men in Tuxedos
Sleigh Bells -- Infinity Guitars
School of Seven Bells -- Babelonia
Alejandro Escovedo -- Tender Heart
The Love Language -- Horophones

8 pm hour

The Fall -- Hot Cake
Devo -- Step Up
Male Bonding -- Weird Feelings

Recurrent (4-12 months old)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club -- Bad Blood

The '80s at 8:30

Specials -- I Can't Stand It
Siouxsie and the Banshees -- Israel
Clash -- Radio Clash
Lyres -- Help You Ann
Lyres -- Someone Who Will Treat You Right Now
Lyres -- Everyman for Himself
Black Flag -- Machine
Saccharine Trust -- Hearts and Barbarians

Tower Repairs -- in case you can't hear me

This is from the WMSE Web site. We're hoping to be broadcasting by tonight. If not, I will be doing show and you can stream live or download later.
Rich

Tower Repairs

Hey everyone. For Wednesday, July 21st, don't be alarmed when you don't hear music pumping frm 91.7FM WMSE frequency. We have some much-needed tower upgrades that need to be taken care of, so we'll be off the air for a significant amount of time on Wednesday, July 21st.

Thanks for your patience. We'll be back up in no time.

Playlist 7-7-10

Howdy radio pardners. Here are new tracks from this week's showgram and '80s at 8:30 including Killing Joke set.
Rich

6 pm hour
Black Francis -- Six Legged Man
Alejandro Escovedo (request) -- Tender Heart
Minus the Bear -- Animal Backwards
Black Keys -- Next Girl
The Love Language -- Horophones
Go Go Bordello -- Trans-Continental Hustle

7 pm hour
The Hot Rats -- I Can't Stand It
Evelyn Evelyn -- Chicken Man
Rotary Downs -- Montrez-vous
Hot Hot Heat -- Implosionatic
LCD Sound System -- I Can Change
Slegh Bells -- A/B Machines

8 pm hour
Sadies -- Another Day Again
Ratatat -- Neckbrace
Goodnight Loving -- Scary Bad

The 80s at 8:30 with special guest Bunnyman

Trip Shakespeare -- Rose
Jesus and Mary Chain -- Upside Down
Misfits -- Teenagers from Mars
Killing Joke -- Turn to Red, Complications, The Gathering
Revco (request) -- Big Sexyland

On the air Tuesday night! (6/29)

I am on the air tonight Tuesday 6-9 pm filling in on the Midnight Radio show at WMSE/ 91.7. I'll be playing a Midnight Radio-influenced Mars mix from 6 to 8. Then we have Local Live from 8-8:30 followed by local recorded music from 8:30 to close. See you then.

We've been doing this for 29-plus years. New trax 6/23

But who's counting?

Here's the new trax countdown from this week's Showgram

6 pm hour

The Hold Steady -- Barely Breathing
Patches & Gretchen -- Big Things
Juniper Tar -- Inner States
Sadies -- Cut Corners
Flaming Lips -- Eclipse
Wovenhand -- Denver City (prediction: I will start the City Rock Showgram with this track some day)
Ratatat -- Neckbrace
The Fall -- Funnel of Love

7 pm hour

Yo La Tengo -- Here to Fall (new remix EP)
Robyn Hitchcock -- Sickie Boy
LCD Sound System -- Drunk Girls
Kings Go Forth -- Get a Feeling
Black Keys -- Sinister Kid
Mike Benign Compulsion -- Soothing Sounds of Seals and Crofts
Balkan Beat Box -- Look Them Act
Black Francis -- Corrina
Drive By Truckers -- After the Scene Dies

8 pm hour

Gogol Bordello -- TransContinental Hustle
Sleigh Bells -- A/B Machines
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti -- Revolution's A Lie
Male Bonding -- Weird Feeling

The 80s at 8:30!

The Dangtrippers -- Masquerede
The Shoes -- The Things You Do
Icehouse -- Icehouse
F/i -- Stop to the Left...Look to the Right
Half Japanese -- Colleen
Dummy Club-- The American Way
Sugar Cubes -- Cold Sweat
Beastie Boys -- track 2 Paul's Boutique

Dealing with summer. That's it. New trax 6/9/10

Here are this week's new tracks and recurrents (released in past 4-12 months)

6 pm hour

New

Black Keys -- Sinister Kid
Mike Benign Compulsion (the) -- What A Way to Go
Dum Dum Girls -- Bhang Bhang I'm a Burnout
Drive By Truckers -- After the Scene Dies
Balkan Beat Box -- Lejape Mare
Gogol Bordello -- My Companjera
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club -- Mama Taught Me Better

Recurrents

Yeasayer -- Rome
Kurt Vile -- Monkey

7 pm hour

New

Sleigh Bells -- Infinity Guitars
Rotary Downs -- Conniption
New Pornographers -- Your Hands (Together)
Elk City -- For the Uninitiated
Ratatat -- Neckbrace
Sadies -- Cut Corners
Anders Osborne -- Killing Each Other
LCD Sound System -- I Can Change

Recurrents

Girls -- Morning Light
The Slew -- Problem Child

8 pm hour

New

The Dead Weather -- No Horse
Get Up Kids -- Keith Case
Kings Go Forth -- Get A Feeling
The Hold Steady -- The Smidge
Flaming Lips -- Eclipse
The Fall -- Mexican Wax Solvent

Recurrent

Spiral Beach -- Battery

The 80s at 8:30

Siouxsie and the Banshees -- Peek A Boo
Joe Jackson -- Evil Eye
Replacements -- Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out
Replacements -- Answering Machine
Couch Potatoes -- first four tracks of first cassette medley
Flipper -- Sex Bomb

Profile pix

Just uploaded profile pix. Also on my Facebook. I'm at Rock HOF in early March wearing my MSE t-shirt. It was cool. Very cool

Hot Cake and other new trax 5/26/10

Houston is Hot Tonight is the way I started this week's showgram. Iggy Pop. From '81 fer chrissake. Now I present this week's showgram new trax and, well, the '80s at 8:30.

6 pm hour

New

New Pornographers -- Your Hands (Together)
Kings Go Forth -- Now We're Gone
Rotary Downs -- Montrez-Vous
The Dead Weather -- The Difference Between Us
Robyn Hitchcock -- The Afterlight
The Sadies -- Another Day Again

Recurrent (4-12 months old)

Retribution Gospel Choir -- Hide it Away
Yeah Yeah Yeahs -- Shame & Fortune

7 pm hour

The Fall -- Hot Cake
Mike Benign Compulsion -- The Soothing Sounds of Seals & Crofts
The Hold Steady -- The Smidge
Gogol Bordello -- My Companjera
Get Up Kids -- Keith Case
Let's Wrestle -- We're the Men You'll Grow to Love Soon
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club -- Bad Blood

8 pm hour

Black Keys -- Sinister Kid
Soft Pack -- Answer to Yourself
Drive By Truckers -- The Wig He Made Her Wear
Jaguar Love -- Don't Die Alone
Dum Dum Girls -- It Only Takes One Night

The 80s at 8:30

Toots and the Maytals -- Funky Kingston (live 1980)
Tom Tom Club -- Booming and Zooming
Fetchin Bones -- Leaning on the Horn
Scott Goddard (request) -- Cowpunk
Get Smart -- Just for the Moment
Elvis Costello and the Attractions -- Beaten to the Punch
Ramones -- Psycho Therapy
Dead Kennedys -- Rawhide

See you on the pledge drive Wednesday nite

I will be "helping" Richard Wednesday night from 6 pm to 9 pm on the Alt. Farm Rock show. Not only because he's a big pain but also because I want the station to succeed in reaching its goal. Please call and pledge.
Thanks
Rich

It was 30 years ago today -- Playlist no. 1

It can't be true but I cannot tell a lie -- my first radio show on 91.7 FM in Milwaukee was 30 years ago this week. May 14, 1980 to be exact. It was on a Wednesday night from about 6:15 pm to 8 pm (seems I had a problem getting the transmitter started). The station was then known as WSOE and it was supposedly just an MSOE campus station but the signal carried a few miles beyond that. The DJ who was on after me was -- Jules! She started there in 1977 as an actual MSOE student DJ.
In honor (and horror) of my very first show, I listened to the tape and logged the playlist. It is eclectic, as they say. Oldies (they weren't on the radio at the time, so it was sort of cool), FM rock stuff (more like the late lamented WZMF than market leaders at the time WLPX and WQFM) -- oh, and some of the acts that 'MSE made famous in Milwaukee like the Jam, the Clash and Jonathan Richman. Here goes....

Rodney Crowell -- Here Come the '80s
Buffalo Springfield -- For What It's Worth
Bob Dylan -- The Times They Are a Changin
Bob Dylan -- Slow Train
Allman Brothers -- Can't Take it With You
Neil Young -- Powderfinger
Warren Zevon -- Jungle Work
The Jam -- Eton Rifles
The Clash -- Guns of Brixton
The Clash -- Death or Glory (unedited!)
Grin -- Moon Tears
Moon Martin -- Bad Case of Loving You
John Hiatt -- Madonna Road
Joe Jackson -- Sunday Papers
The Undertones -- Under the Boardwalk
Warren Zevon (request) -- Poor Poor Pitiful Me
Felix Cavaliere (solo) -- People Got To Be Free
The Animals -- It's My Life
The Turtles -- Elenore
Rolling Stones -- Under My Thumb
Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes -- Baby's Gone for Good
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers -- Important in Your Life
Lou Reed -- Vicious Circle
The Tourists -- All Life's Tragedies
Loudon Wainwright III -- Drinks Before Dinner
Squeeze -- Slightly Drunk
Bonnie Raitt -- Runaway (live)
Jo Jo Gunne -- Run Run Run

Monday morning showgram (new) playlist

New tracks I played Monday morning May 3 on WMSE/ 91.7

6 am hour
Hope Sandoval -- For the Rest of Your Life
Miss Li -- Polythene Queen
Juniper Tar -- Inner States
Living Sisters -- Don't Let the Sun Go Down
Graham Parker -- More Questions Than Answers
Josh Rouse -- I Will Live on Islands
Mose Allison -- I'm Alright
Johnny Cash -- Aloha Oe

7 am hour
Roky Erickson w/ Okkervill River -- Bring Back the Past
Morning Benders -- Cold War
OK Go -- This Too Shall Pass
Adam Green -- Lockout
Robyn Hitchcock -- The Afterlight
Apples in Stereo -- Next Year At About the Same Time
Galactic w/ Irma Thomas -- Heart of Steel
Everybody Was In the French Resistance ... Now! -- GIRLFREN

8 am hour
Drive By Truckers -- Drag the Lake Charlie
Local Natives -- Camera Talk
Murder By Death -- You Don't Miss Twice (When Your'e Shavin with a Knife)
Frightened Rabbit -- Nothing Like You
Field Music -- Let's Write a Book
Jonsi -- Koinidur
Balkan Beat Box -- Look Them Act

'80s tracks
Dukes of the Stratosphear -- You're My Drug
Psychedelic Furs -- Run Run Run
Specials -- Hey Little Rich Girl

Monday morning showgram: May 3!

I will be filling in for Grant and Pat this Monday morning, May 3 from 6 am to 9 am. on MSE/91.7/ wmse.org. It's gonna be (sort of) a hootenany good time.
Rich

Late April reality check track listing

So the weather sucked ever since I proclaimed an early summer a couple weeks ago. Looks like it's improving the next few days. Here is this week's new track list and '80s list.

New tracks

6 pm hour

Drive By Truckers -- Get Downtown
Drive By Truckers -- Drag the Lake Charlie
The Apples in Stereo -- Next Year At About the Same Time
Galactic -- Dark Water
Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt -- Tokyo Drift
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club -- Bad Blood
Anders Osborne -- Killing Each Other
Adam Green -- What Makes Him Act So Bad

Recurrent (4-12 months old)

Fiery Furnaces -- Staring at the Steeple
Dinosaur Jr. -- Over It

7 pm hour

Goodnight Loving -- Scary Bad
Gil Scott-Heron -- Your Soul and Mine
The Soft Pack -- Answer to Yourself
Robyn Hitchcock -- Sickie Boy
Balkan Beat Box -- Lijepa Mare
Caribou -- Odessa
Dum Dum Girls -- It Only Takes One Night

8 pm hour

Rotary Downs -- Conniption
Quasi -- Rockabilly Party
Everybody Was In The French Resistance Now -- GIRLFREN (You Know I've Got A)
Let's Wrestle -- I Won't Lie To You
You Say Party We Say Die -- track 4 (title damn near impossible to find)

The 80s at 8:30

Alan Vega -- Raver
The Drongos -- Ghost Ship
Trio -- Sunday You Need Love Monday Be Alone
Drivin N Cryin -- Scarred But Smarter
Fleshtones -- Return of the Leather Kings
Screaming Blue Messiahs -- Wild Blue Yonder
Bush Tetras -- Too Many Creeps
Public Image Ltd. -- Four Enclosed Walls

Second showgram of summer!

Another summery night for a showgram. Special thanks to my unannounced guest Robb B. and Bunnyman, who contributed to the 80s at 8:30. Bunnyman drives to the station in his '60 Olds Rocket 88 when it's nice out. It's got plenty of room for hot wax.

New trax

6 pm hour

Quasi -- Rockabilly Party
Rotary Downs -- yep, I played something new by them
Everybody Was in the French Resistance Now! -- (I'm So) Waldo P. Emerson Jones
You Say Party We Say Die -- see Rotary Downs notation
Gorillaz with Lou Reed -- Some Kind of Nature
Rocky Erickson w/ Okkervill River -- Bring Back the Past
Let's Wrestle -- We Are the Men You'll Grow to Love Soon

Recurrent (4-12 months old)

The xx -- Heart Skipped a Beat

7 pm hour

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club -- River Styx
Galactic -- Wild Man
Pere Ubu -- Song of the Grocery
Titus Andronicus -- And Ever
Adam Green -- Lockout
Gil Scott-Heron -- Running
Yeasayer -- Rome

8 pm hour

These New Puritans -- Three Thousand
Apples in Stereo -- CPU
The Terror Pigeon -- Tokyo Drift

The 80s at 8:30

King Sunny Ade -- Maajo
Howard Devoto -- Way out of Shape
Einstein's Riceboys -- Massacre of Love
Simple Minds -- Up on the Catwalk
The Fall -- L.A.
Basement 5 -- Heavy Traffic

Playlist -- first show of summer!

From the 'MSE weather deck, it looks like a three-day summer break then back to April in Wisconsin. So I was in a semi-sunny disposition for this week's showgram.

New tracks

6 pm hour

Gil Scott Heron -- New York is Killing Me
The Morning Benders -- Cold War
Dum Dum Girls -- Bhang Bhang I'm a Burnout
Titus Andronicus -- ... And Ever
Juniper Tar -- Strings
Galactic -- Friends of Science/ Boe Money
These New Puritans -- Fire Power

7 pm hour

The Apples in Stereo -- C.P.U.
Magnetic Fields -- You Must Be Out of Your Mind
Quasi -- Rockabilly Party
Yeasayer -- Strange Reunions
Everybody Was in the French Resistance ... Now -- (I'm So) Waldo P. Emerson Jones
Gorillaz with Mark E. Smith -- Glitter Freeze
Phantogram -- Futuristic Casket

8 pm hour

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (new live) -- Spread Your Love
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (new studio) -- Beat the Devil's Tattoo
Adam Green -- Lockout
Miles Kurosky -- Pink Lips, Black Lungs

The '80s at 8:30 -- special tribute to Alex Chilton

No these aren't all from the '80s, but it's the late great man from Memphis so I made an exception.

Big Star -- Don't Lie To Me
Big Star -- live radio interview with Al
Big Star -- You Get What You Deserve
Alex Chilton -- Free Again (version 2)
Alex Chilton -- Jesus Christ
Alex Chilton -- Lost My Job
Alex Chilton -- Volare (request)
Alex Chilton -- Thing for You
Alex Chilton -- Don't Stop

Got the name of the These New Puritans track

"Three Thousand"

cripes

29th anniversary New trax/ 80's @8:30

To celebrate WMSE's 29th anniversary this week, I played all local Milwaukee / WMSE hits from the early 1980s during the 80s at 8:30. Sure was fun.

New trax

6 pm hour

Field Music -- Let's Write A Book
Yeasayer -- Madder Red
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club -- Beat the Devil's Tattoo
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (live) -- Rise or Fall
Jaguar Love -- Don't Die Alone
Quasi -- Rockabilly Party

Recurrent (4-12 months old)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs -- Dull Life
White Rabbits -- Percussion Gun

7 pm hour

New

Local Natives -- Camera Talk
Adam Green -- Goblin
OK Go -- This Too Shall Pass
Galactic -- Dark Water
Phantogram -- Running from the Cops
The Morning Benders -- All Day Day Light
Retribution Gospel Choir -- Your Bird

8 pm hour

New

Los Campesinos! -- Romance is Boring
Titus Andronicus -- ... And Ever
These New Puritans -- checking title

The Eighties at 8:30

Scott Puffer -- Death by Phone
The Sidewalks -- Natalie
Dominoes -- Local Disaster
Red Ball Jets -- Stars Are Right
Buck Byron and the Little Seizures -- Modern Problem
Oil Tasters -- Get Out of the Bathroom
Plasticland -- Rattail Comb
Ama Dots -- Silver Crawlers
Haskells -- Takin the City By Storm
The Prosecutors -- I've Got A Message

March madness playlist no. 1 : 3-3-10

Yes I'm a college basketball fan, so March is a great month. It also happens to be the 29th anniversary of WMSE which officially hit the air at 1,000 watts on March 17, 1981. I'm scheduled for a show on March 17, so something anniversary-related is bound to happen, unless I'm pre-empted.

Here is this week's new music and 80s at 8:30 list....

New music

6 pm hour

Video Audio -- Hello
Galactic -- Wild Man
Adam Green -- What Makes Him Act So Bad
Magnetic Fields -- Da Da Polka
Phantogram -- Futuristic Casket
Retribution Gospel Choir -- Your Bird

Recurrent (4-12 months old)
Electric 6 -- Waste of Time and Money

7 pm hour

New

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club -- Weapon of Choice (Live)
Brazos -- Kid
Juniper Tar -- Birds in Trees
The Album Leaf -- We Are
Yeasayer -- Rome
Pere Ubu -- Song of the Grocery Police
Local Natives -- Camera Talk

Recurrent
Tinariwen -- Tenhert
Dinosaur Jr. -- Over It

8 pm hour

New

Jaguar Love -- Don't Die Alone
Quasi -- Black Dogs & Bubbles
Drivin n Cryin -- Detroit City

Recurrent

Fiery Furnaces -- I'm Going Away
Vivian Girls -- When I'm Gone

Eighties At Eight Thirty

English Beat -- Sugar and Stress
Fishbone -- Modern Industry (Dub mix)
English Beat -- Rotating Heads
Green on Red -- Abigails Ghost
The Gun Club -- Eternally is Here
Gang of Four -- Call Me Up
Fuzztones -- Highway 69
Fuzztones -- Me Tarzan You Jane

Hey, it's this week's (new and 80s) playlist!

6 pm hour

New tracks

Yeasayer -- Ambling Alp
Thao and the Get Down Stay Down -- Easy
Juniper Tar -- Strings
Eels -- Unhinged
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club -- Took Out A Loan (live)

Recurrent (4-12 months old)

The Dead Weather -- Hang You From the Heavens
Art Brut -- Alcoholics Unanimous1
The Ettes -- I Can't Be True

7 pm hour

New

The xx -- Intro
What Laura Says -- July 23
Animal Collective -- On A Highway
Magnetic Fields -- Dada Polka
Local Natives -- Camera Talk
Them Crooked Vultures -- Gunman
Molina & Johnson -- Now, Divide
Galactic -- Liquor Pang
Retribution Gospel Choir -- Hide it Away

8 pm hour

New

Pere Ubu -- Ubu Overture
Los Campesinos! -- Romance is Boring
Lucero -- Sound of the City

The 80s at 8:30

Human League (request) -- Things that Dreams are Made Of
Hunters & Collectors -- When the River Runs Dry
The Clash -- Police on My Back
The Replacements -- Hold My Life
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds -- The Mercy Seat
The Mangos -- Paint the Town Red

Bear In Heaven update

I could neither read my notes nor remember the name of the song I played Feb. 3 by Bear in Heaven (this happens when you have been a DJ for darn near, uhh, three decades).
Anyway, I've got it now and here it is: "Beast in Peace"
I feel better now. Apologies to Bear in Heaven and its fans.
-- Rich

New schtuff 2-3-10/ old junkola o' the '80s

6 pm hour

New trax
Magnetic Fields -- Dada Polka
The Slew -- Problem Child
Retribution Gospel Choir -- Hide It Away
Spiral Beach -- Battery
Galactic feat. Big Chief Bo Dollis -- Wild Man
Hot Chip -- Take It In
Them Crooked Vultures -- Gunman

7 pm hour

Los Campesinos! -- Romance is Boring
The xx -- Basic Space
Eels -- Unhinged
Bear in Heaven -- Beat / Bemt om Peace/ Pear (notes unintelligible....)
Chuck Prophet -- Sonny Liston's Blues
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club -- Berlin (live)

Recurrent (4-12 mos. old)
PJ Harvey and John Parrish -- Sixteen, Fifteen, Fourteen
Yeah Yeah Yeahs -- Dragon Queen
NY Dolls -- Cause I Sez So

8 pm hour

New
Thao and the Get Down Stay Down -- Easy
Yeasayer -- Rome

Recurrent
Os Haxixins -- Onde Meditar
Super Drag -- Cheap Poltergeists

The 80s at 8:30 !

with special guest Bunnyman

Bow Wow Wow -- Cowboy
The dBs -- She's Got Soul
Billy Bragg w/ Johnny Marr -- Train Train
Fad Gadget -- Under the Flag
Nitzer Ebb -- Control In Here
X -- Because I Do (live)
The Wipers -- Romeo Rome
Screaming Trees -- In the Forest

Late -- not never -- new trax 1-20-10

I said I would post in 36 hours. We just hit 47, but hey ....

New trax 6 pm hour

Vampire Weekend -- Holiday
Thao and the Get Down Stay Down -- Easy
Chris DeMay -- Trying
Los Campesinos! -- Romance is Boring
The Heavy -- How You Like Me Now
Eels -- Unhinged

Recurrent (4-12 months old)
The Ettes -- Red In Tooth & Claw

7 pm hour

Retribution Gospel Choir -- Hide It Away
Spiral Beach -- Domino
Them Crooked Vultures -- Dead End Friends
Real Estate -- Snow Day
Dutchess/ Duke -- Scorpio

Recurrent
Tinariwen -- Tenhert (The Doe)

8 pm hour

The Slew -- 100 %
Black Heart Procession -- Rats
Jookabox -- Gonna Need Guns

Recurrent
Crocodiles -- Refuse Angels

The 80s at 8:30

Pretenders (request) -- Up the Neck
The Feelies (request) -- The Last Roundup
New Math -- Branded
The Cure -- Hot Hot Hot
Minutemen "Double Nickels on the Dime" super set --

Nature without Man
This Ain't No Picnic
Glory of Man
Storm in My House
Political Song for Michael Jackson

That's best of 2009

sheesh.
long day, apparently

All WMSE DJ picks of 2009

My top 10 has belatedly (because I missed deadline) been added to the compendium of 'MSE DJ favorite CDs of 2010. To see what we've been digging, go to www.sonicdiet.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/wmse-dj-picks-of-2990

New Trax in Wax Jan. 06 '10/ Old crud '80s

Back in the saddle of post-holiday living and DJ-ing.....

New music

6 pm hour

The xx -- Islands
Spiral Beach -- Battery
Melismatics -- Soul Sucker
Real Estate -- Snow Days
The King Khan and BBQ Show -- Animal Party
Jookabox -- Phantom Don't Go

Recurrent (4-12 months old)

Thermals -- When I Died
Comet Gain -- If I Had A Soul

7 pm hour

Bear In Heaven -- Drug A Wheel
Lou Barlow (request) -- Gravitate
Mountain Goats -- Psalms
Chuck Prophet -- Where the Hell is Henry?
Black Seeds -- Slingshot
Shaky Hands -- Love Curse
Gordon Gano and the Ryans -- Way That I Creep
Drivin n Cryin -- Detroit City

Recurrent
Dirty Projectors -- Hannibal Resource

8 pm hour

13th Floor Elevators -- You're Gonna Miss Me (from new soundtrack)
Them Crooked Vultures -- Gunman
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down -- Where We Swam
Mission of Burma -- 1, 2, 3 Party

Recurrent
Yeah Yeah Yeahs -- Dull Life
Brief Candles -- Sink or Swim

The 80's at 8:30

King Crimson -- Elephant Talk
Talking Heads -- Crosseyed and Painless
Syd Straw -- Crazy American
Salem 66 -- Love & Truth
The Bangles (indie EP) -- How is the Air Up There?
Elvis Costello -- Uncomplicated
Fear -- Let's Have A War

Typos and spelling

I apologize for a few spelling errors on Top 10 post. Also I meant that you should play Dino Jr. loud, not lound , whatever that is.
Rich

10 Best Faves of 2009

As always, this is subjective (of course) and limited to CDs I heard and listened to enough to recommend. I tried not to go too heavy on the geezer acts, but I can't help myself. These are in no particular order.

The xx. Self titled. Girl-guy vocals, understated, great melodies, young Brits. Has that deadpan modern semi-underground feel.

Dinosaur Jr. Farm. Second CD from the reunited original lineup kicks serious butt, if that's what you're into. Play lound.

Sonic Youth. The Eternal. Another long-time act kickin it in their best original style. More raw due to non-corporate approach, and great songs.

Jarvis Cocker. Further Complications. I probably played this as much as anything on the radio this year. Droll lyrics, rockin band and production and Jarvis' inimatble vocal stylings.

Fiery Furnaces. I'm Going Away. At first, I was put off by some of the newly mellow approach, but it grew on me. Where previous efforts were somewhat fingernails-on-chalkboard, this one is mostly palatable.

Viva Voce. Rose City. May not have all-time best Viva Voce tracks, but its their most consistent from start to finish, song for song. Enough rock and moodiness to roll on.

The Heartless Bastards. The Mountain. I caught the Heartless Bastards bug this summer and it was stuck in the CD player for weeks. The sometimes-desparate, sometimes-strong vocals, simple arrangements and basic strumming struck the right balance of, my God, grunge light and, God help me, World Cafe (I heard it there once, which almost ruined the album for me).

PJ Harvey & John Parish. A Woman A Man Walked By. When PJ is on, as she always is when working with Mr. Parish, she's incredible. Not her best work but very high quality stuff. If you like PJ.

The Handsome Family. Honey Moon. This husband-wife duo was a bit stuck in their mellow alt / goth country formula for a few albums but this one tried some new tricks and was recorded with some Caliexico cats.

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. It's Blitz. They refuse to get pigeonholed, de-emphasizing the guitar but still keeping the glam rock (can a female be glam?) flame scorching.

Honorable mentions: The Eels, King Khan, Art Brut, Felice Brothers, Spiral Beach, Grizzly Bear, The Ettes, the Crocodiles, the White Rabbits.