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