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