Post blizzard pre-February freeze showgram playlist

I was fortunate enough to traverse roads that were pretty well plowed by the time I arrived at the station last night. Some other DJs faced more daunting challenges earlier in the day but, gosh darn it, they made it to the MSE studios downtown. It warms my heart, sort of like the new tracks and 80s at 8:30 I played this week (with special guest Bunnyman)......

New tracks

6 pm hour

Bobby Bare Jr. -- Your Goat is on Fire
Say Hi -- Devils
Giant Sand -- Ride the Rail
British Sea Power -- Living is So Easy
Mogwai -- San Pedro
Fergus & Geronimo -- Girls with English Accents
Smith Westerns -- End of the Night

Recurrent (4-12 months old)
Clinic -- Milk & Honey

7 pm hour

Deerhoof -- The Merry Barracks
Wanda Jackson -- Nervous Breakdown
Devotchka -- The Common Good
Go! Team -- The Running Range
Cloud Nothings -- Rooftop
Gang of Four -- You'll Never Pay For the Farm
Darker My Love -- A Lovely Game

Recurrent
The Fall -- O.F.Y.C. Showcase

8 pm hour

Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers -- Hookers
Tapes n Tapes -- Desert Plane
Off! -- Jeffrey Lee Pierce

The 80s at 8:30

This week's theme -- bands in the '80s covering garage rock and psychedelic songs of the '60s

The Inmates -- Talk Talk (Music Machine)
The Feelies -- What Goes On (Velvet Underground)
The Danse Society -- 2000 Light Years from Home (Rolling Stones)
999 -- Little Red Riding Hood (Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs)
Lords of the New Church -- A Question of Temperature (Balloon Farm)
The Damned -- I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night (Electric Prunes)
Love and Rockets -- Lucifer Sam (Pink Floyd)
Husker Du -- Eight Miles High (The Byrds)

New tracks Jan. 19 '11

Frigid outside but it's only rock 'n roll inside the MSE studios. Here are new tracks from this week and then, of course, the 80s at 8:30.

Oh, and I mentioned on the air that I would start giving you more on the blog. Here goes for a starter. Link to a new article and video by Tapes 'n Tapes.
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/134897-tapes-n-tapes-freak-out-with-new-video-video-tour-dates/

6 pm hour

Testa Rosa -- The Black Saltwater Sea
Black Dub -- Last Time
Deerhunter -- Desire Lines
The Black -- Freeway (Exiled)
Jonathan Burks -- Hand to Hold
Tapes 'n Tapes -- Freak Out

7 pm hour

Suuns -- PVC
Billy Nayer Show -- Reno
Small Black -- Goons
Stereolab -- Laserblast
Giant Sand -- Brand New Swamp Thing
British Sea Power -- Living Is So Easy
Marnie Stern -- Nothing Left

Recurrent track (4-12 months old)
Gil Scott Heron -- Your Soul and Mine

8 pm hour

Gang of Four -- You'll Never Pay for the Farm
Off! -- Jeffrey Lee Pierce
Off! -- Blast

Recurrent
Zola Jesus -- Manifest Destiny

The '80s at 8:30

The Ramones in the '80s!

I'm Affected
We Want the Airwaves
Psychotherapy
Planet Earth 1988
Bonzo Goes to Bitburg
Garden of Serenity
Pet Cemetary
Chinese Rock

Finally the Fave tracks of 2010 (some of 'em)

Finally got ahold of my scratched-in entries on my playlist from Wednesday night to post tunes I played during my 90-minute tribute to (some of) my favorite tracks of 2010 (and one from very late 2009). Here goes.

Black Keys -- Sinister Kid
Devil's Brigade -- Gentlemen of the Road
John Wesley Coleman -- Get High Babe
Jaill -- The Stroller
Deerhunter -- Coronado
The Slew -- 100%
Drive By Truckers -- Drag the Lake Charlie
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club -- Bad Blood
Sleigh Bells -- Infinity Guitars
Anders Osborne -- Killing Each Other
Walkmen -- Angela Surf City
Hold Steady -- The Smidge
Goodnight Loving -- Earworm
Galactic feat. Rebirth Brass Band -- Boe Money
Black Angels -- Yellow Elevator #3
Bobby Bare Jr. -- The Sky is the Ground
Dum Dum Girls -- It Only Takes One Night
Gil Scott-Heron -- New York is Killing Me
Gogol Bordello -- We're Coming Tougher (Immigraniada)
The Fall -- Mexico Wax Solvent

Slice of (musical) heaven in 2011

OK it was just a regular City Rock Showgram. Well somewhat regular. I played some of my favorite tracks from 2010 between 7 and 8:30 (I will post that playlist by this weekend when I retrieve the info.). The 80s at 8:30 featured artists who released recordings in 2010 or late 2009 and were doing the same back in the day.

New tracks

6 pm hour

Stereolab -- Laserblast
The Pomegranates -- Skull Cakin
Warpaint -- Set Your Arms Down
Viva -- What's Your Sign Baby?
Crocodiles -- Sleep Forever
Grinderman -- What I Know
Marnie Stern -- The Things You Notice

7 pm hour

Devils Brigade -- Gentlemen of the Road
John Wesley Coleman -- Get High Babe
Deerhunter -- Coronado

8 pm hour

Bobby Bare Jr. -- The Sky is the Ground

(Most of the 2010 stuff I played is no longer in the "new" rack at the station, so I CANNOT include it in my "new tracks" list!)

The 80s at 8:30

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds -- The Mercy Seat (TV video mix) / 2010 release by Grinderman
Mission of Burma -- Fight Academy Songs/ 2010 release by Mission of Burma
Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians -- Goodnight I Say / 2010 release by Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3
Green on Red -- Track You Down / 2010 release by Green on Red member Chuck Prophet
Jason and the Scorchers -- Help There's a Fire/ 2010 release by Jason and the Scorchers
Laurie Anderson -- Sweaters/ 2010 release by Ms. Anderson
Dream Syndicate -- Tell Me When It's Over / 2010 release by Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3
Dinosaur Jr -- Just Like Heaven/ 2010 release by Dino Jr. member Lou Barlow

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