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