New trax Ju-ly 22 '09

Did anyone see Sonic Youth? How was it? I was too tired Monday night from a fine but cool summer weekend.

6 pm hour
Dinosaur Jr. -- Your Weather
Mega Faun -- The Process
Sonic Youth -- Leaky Lifeboat
White Rabbits -- Percussion Gun
Bjork -- Innocence
Viva Voce -- Catch and Release
Jarvis Cocker -- Caucasian Blues

7 pm hour
New
Felice Bros. -- Memphis Flu
Crocodiles -- Refuse Angels
Luminescent Orchestra -- Nasty Tasty
Micachu -- Eat Your Heart
Eels -- Fresh Blood
Grizzly Bear -- While You Wait for the Others
War Tapes -- Mind Is Ugly
Ha Ha Tonka -- Pendergast Machine

Recurrent
Alejandro Escovedo -- Chelsea Hotel
Walkmen -- In the New Year

8 pm hour
Iggy Pop -- Nice to be Dead
Art Brut -- Alcoholics Unanimous
Dirty Projectors -- No Intention

The 80s at 8:30
The Specials -- Nite Klub
Mission of Burma -- Fight Academy Songs
Cherry Cake -- Mrs. Wilson
Pete Shelley -- Homosapien
Minutemen -- Political Song for Michael Jackson
Bush Tetras -- Cowboys in Africa
Grant Hart -- All of my Senses
Sisters of Mercy -- First and Last and Always

Tremendous new trax -- July 8

Whew. Survived the post-holiday back-to-work and two-WMSE-shows in one week scene. I know -- it's tough all over. Here are new trax followed by 80s at 8:30 trax from this week's City Rock Showgram.
BTW, I played 21 new tracks in first 2.5 hours of the showgram (admittedly a bit above my average). The point is that at WMSE, we just play new and local music, as we always have. There are no "new music" days because it's every stinkin day!

6 pm hour
New
Lemonheads -- Dandelion Seeds
Say Hi -- Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh
Dengue Fever -- Tip My Canoe
Eels -- Tremendous Dynamite
John Vanderslice -- Summer Stock
NASA feat. John Frusciante and others -- Way Down
Dirty Projectors -- Cannibal Resource

Recurrent (released 4 to 12 months ago)
KatJon Band -- Do You
Eagles of Death Metal -- Anything Cept the Truth

7 pm hour
Grizzly Bear -- Ready, Able
Dinosour Jr. -- Over It
Pink Mountaintops -- Execution
Jarvis Cocker -- Caucasian Blues
Sonic Youth -- Thunderclap for Bobby Pyn
Junior Boys -- Bits & Pieces
Grand Duchy -- Lovesick
Viva Voce -- Die A Little
Iggy Pop -- Nice to be Dead
White Rabbits -- The Salesman
Bjork -- Declare Independence

Recurrent
Mugison -- Mugiboogie

8 pm hour
Crocodiles -- Soft Skull
King Khan and the Shrines -- Outta Harms Way
NY Dolls -- Nobody Got No Business

The '80s at 8:30
Snakefinger -- The Man in the Dark Sedan
Pogues -- The Good the Band and the Ugly
The Raunch Hands -- What Yer Doin
Julian Cope -- World Shut Your Mouth
Elvis Costello -- Club land
Gang of Four -- I Will Be a Good Boy
Couch Flambeau -- Credit and Hwy 100

Special Rich Mars show Monday morning

Happy holiday weekend!
I will be "filling in " for Grant this Monday morning July 6 from 6 am to 9 am on WMSE/ 91.7. It will be a more mellow scene than my nighttime gig. Regular City Rock Showgram also happening -- Wednesday July 8 from 6 to 9 pm.

New music + '80s @ 8:30 6-24-09

A tropical heat wave of music for your enjoyment....

New trax
6 pm hour
Viva Voce -- Rose City
Felice Bros. -- Chicken Wire
Jarvis Cocker -- Further Complications
Grizzly Bear -- While You Wait for the Others
Art Brut -- What A Rush
John Doe and the Sadies -- It Just Dawned on Me

7 pm hour
Super Drag -- Cheap Poltergeists
PJ Harvey/ John Parrish -- Pig Will Not
Yeah Yeah Yeahs -- Shame and Fortune
White Rabbits -- Percussion Gun
Wooldridge Bros. -- Does She Love Me Loud
Eels - Fresh Blood
Brakes Brakes Brakes -- Hey Hey
Dirty Projectors -- No Intention
NY Dolls -- Cause I Sez So
Cracker -- Time Machine

8 pm hour
Sonic Youth -- Sacred Trixter
Thermals -- When We Were Alive
Grand Duchy -- Black Suit
Los Straitjackets -- Teen Beast

'80s At 8:30 (special Summerfest edition)

Oingo Boingo -- Only a Lad (request)
English Beat -- I'm Your Flag (summerfest)
Translator -- When I Am with You
Semi Twang -- Do It (John Sieger/ summerfest)
R&B Cadets -- Check Your Bucket (Paul Cebar/ summerfest)
Elvis Costello -- Honey Are You Straight or Are You Blind? (summerfest)
Meat Puppets -- She's Hot (summerfest)
Meat Puppets -- Split Myself in Two (summerfest)

Mars email & facebook

Yep, I got both. To join Friends of Rich Mars (FORM) email list, send me one at rmars@tds.net. For Facebook, search on my name. I'm the guy wearing the old black sportcoat in an aqua-blue room (secret Mars music / reading cave).

New trax + '80s @ 8:30 June 10 '09

WMSE and I would appreciate your support Friday, June 12 during our 12-hour $12,000 fundraiser. I'll be calling in my pledge.
Here we go with playlist from this Wednesday night.
6:00 hour
New tracks
Handsome Furs -- All We Want Baby is Everything
Black Lips -- Again and Again
Dirty Projectors -- Cannibal Resource
Viva Voce -- Devotion
Green -- You Silly Cyborg
Eels -- Tremendous Dynamite
Recurrent track
Brazilian Girls -- Nouveau American

7:00 Hour
New tracks
Todd Snider -- Bring Em Home
Sonic Youth -- What We Know
Grizzly Bear -- While You Wait Fortune Others
Grand Duchy -- Black Suit
Los Straitjackets -- Teen Beast
Art Brut -- What A Rush
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart -- Hey Paul
Jarvis Cocker -- Homewrecker
Recurrent tracks
Holdy Steady -- Navy Sheets
Drive By Truckers -- Self Destructive Zones
Nick Cave/ Bad Seeds -- Dig Lazarus Dig

8:00 Hour
New
Brakes Brakes Brakes -- Worry About It Later
PJ Harvey/ John Parrish -- Sixteen, Fifteen, Fourteen
Pink Mountaintops -- Execution
King Khan and the Shrines -- (How Can I Keep You) Outta Harms Way
Recurrent
Giant Sand -- Saturated

THE '80s AT 8:30
Ian Dury and the Blockheads -- I Wanna Be Straight
Tom Tom Club -- Suboceana
Woodentops -- Get It On
Three on Fire -- All Too Blue
The Weeds -- Graceland USA
Throwing Muses -- Fear
Jim Carroll Band -- People Who Died

New Tracks May 27 '09 (belated)

I misplaced my track list and was re-creating it by replaying the showgram -- and then I found the original list. Anyway, a couple days delayed, but here it is.

New tracks
6 pm hour
Los Straitjackets -- Tubby
John Vanderslice -- D.I.A.L.O.
War Tapes -- Mind is Ugly
Jonathan Richman -- You Can Have a Cell Phone That's OK But Not Me (new 45!!)
PJ Harvey -- The Chair
Star F***er -- Bed-Stuy
Cracker -- My Inhaler
Jarvis Cocker -- Further Complications

7 pm hour
Neil Young -- Fuel Line
John Doe and the Sadies -- Night Life
Pink Mountaintops -- The Gayest of Sunbeams
The Obits -- Widow of My Dreams
Art Brute -- Alcoholics Unanimous
Comet Gain -- If I Had a Soul
Grand Dutchy -- Lovesick
King Khan and the Shrines -- No Regrets

8 pm hour
Yeah Yeah Yeahs -- Zero
Heartless Bastards -- Early in the Morning
Les Claypool -- Booneville Stomp
Recurrent track
Vivian Girls -- No

The '80s at 8:30
Godfathers -- Birth School Work Death
EIEIO -- That Love Thang
Screaming Blue Messiahs -- Too Much Love
Iggy Pop -- Pumping for Jill
REM -- 1,000,000
Psychedelic Furs -- Pulse
Drivin N Cryin -- Count the Flowers
The Lyres -- Every Man for Himself