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Title of show /
cassette |
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Who |
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| 1990 October 14th |
A
Parliafunkadelicment Thang.
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| 1990-08-28 |
It was a very special evening ruined by that piano player |
DJ Lebowitz live in the studio |
William and DJ Lebowitz, Chris Knight |
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Thanks to Chris for throwing me in the deep end! |
| 1990-10-16 |
XTC
!!! |
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| 1990-10-21 |
(sexual
discrimination undercompensation - no men allowed)
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| 1990-10-23 |
Bowie
1966-73
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| 1990-10-28 |
Death
& Decay with Jamie Sandrolini
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| 1990-10-30 |
Robyn Hytchcock & the
Soft Boys
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| 1992-06-08 |
Joe comes home
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| 1992-07-26 |
Theater group The Weird Leading the Bored does a radio show, and doesn't stop for ten years |
A radio play |
Rick
Burkhardt, Bethany Cooper, Mark Enslin, Joe Futrelle, William Gillespie |
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| 1992-08-09 |
Jack Testosterone Show |
Breakthrough half-scripted half-improvised riffing in various
styles of FM announcers |
Rick
Burkhardt, Joe Futrelle, William Gillespie |
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| 1992-08-16 |
Jack Testosterone Show 2 |
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Bethany
joins the fun |
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| 19920823 |
Jack is fired |
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| Labor Day 1992 |
Static Show |
We
brought our own static to the station, and wrote scripts and songs using
static, including Adam Cain's Static Song. |
Rick Burkhardt, Mark Enslin, William Gillespie |
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| 1992-09-14 |
New Wave and Ska |
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Barry Cox |
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| 1992-09-28 |
Jamie Hutchinson will not
be televised |
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| 1992-10-06 |
The Well-Tempered Tantrum |
A story by William Gillespie scored for four voices, K90.1 FM,
and a live update on what the other FM stations were doing for listeners who
were considering touching that dial. |
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| 1992-10-06 |
Pledge Hell |
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| 1992-10-13 |
Pledge Heaven |
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| 1992-10-25 |
10 25 92 / No SLACK / Bob Carlot's Illini Sportstalk Minute |
Typewritten parody of WDWS AM featuring a left-wing Rush
Limbaugh: Left Counteract, a character invented, written, and performed (I
think) by Keith Johnson |
Elizabeth "Moth," a woman who emerged from the pond at
the Gesundheit Institute, appeared on Eclectic Seizure, and flew off into
time. |
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| 1992-10-29 |
Cooking with Jaw |
Some band embedded in a bewildering number of radio theater
scripts by the Eclectic Guy |
some band & Casey Malone |
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| 1992-11-08 |
standup comedy |
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William, Rick |
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| 1992-11-15 |
Susan Parenti |
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| 1992-11-23 |
poetry/Holloway
the COLD COLD liquid Ditch |
The night I drove into a ditch after the
broadcast driving around in the country in the middle of the night listening
to a tape of the show. It was that good. |
Holloway, me, Rick, Mark, Keith |
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Exquisite Seizure! |
| 19992-11-30 |
Nina Paley |
Radio show with cartoonist Nina Paley, performing her strips on the radio |
Mark, Rick, William |
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| 1992-12-27 |
[SCREW] Nonsense 2 |
Weird, wonderful, & with whales. Cummings, Beckett, Stein,
et al. |
William, Rick, Keith... |
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Mmm... |
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Miscellaneous Show Engineer Keith Johnson on Squirrels / The
Show They Wouldn't Let Into the Military. |
A great show orbiting gay consciousness. A surprising
performance by the Eclectic Guy. A script probably by Keith Johnson featuring
Mark Enslin in a helicopter. Rick Burkhardt reads Jean Genet. Some good
Maestro Subgum and the Whole. And some goofing around with the wireless
microphone, as WEFT roving reporter Chip Wilcox (Adam Cain) gets into Keith's
van and drives away, while broadcasting. |
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L+ A+ |
| 1993-05-03 |
"if we had known we was gonna be eclectic..." |
Very nice mix, from Bach to the Last Poets, and our performance
of "Death," a play by Woody Allen, is a keeper. |
Keith Johnson, William Gillespie. |
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LA |
| 1993-04-16 |
Nice Weather Downstate. |
Good electronic music, Penn Jillette listens to Ralph Records.
This show features "Neighborhood Record Collection Salesman" by
Keith Johnson, and some ill-advised cut-ups. |
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XX |
| 1993 24 May |
MUSICPHOBIA |
Absolutely baffling. A dense, aetherial mix from way back when I
was heavily into relaxation tapes and motivational cassettes of various
sorts. Oh, whoops, that was the show before mine. This always happens when I
listen to these tapes: I am amazed at how wonderfully eclectic my show is,
and then I discover that it was the previous show: Doug Down with
"Departing Platform 5." |
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L+ |
| 1993-06-13 |
Feldenkrais. |
Interview with Larry Goldfarb, "Feldenkrais Guy," and
discussion of the Feldenkrais movement education program. |
XX |
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| 1993-06-27 |
"Wild desire formed and focused on steel and wheels" |
The tape opens with a bunch of intolerable squeaking, which
turns out to have beem the previous show. I didn't say a word and spun a
lovely mix of gentle British psychedelic B-sides, fading into rough British
punk. |
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L+ |
| 1993 July 4 Fourth of July with Kate McDowell. L. |
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| 1993-07-14 |
A/OLD MISS MAHONES |
This is a prerecorded tape for a broadcast. It consists of a
song "Old Miss Mahones" by Brendan Holloway, and an interview with
Herbert Brün conducted by, and (to the detriment of this recording)
simultaneously typed into a computer by, Joel Chadabe. The interview is
interesting, but one wonders why he recorded it and keyed it in
simultaneously, unless he was simply desperate to show off his laptop. |
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| 1993-11-13 |
"We're going to be in real trouble." Segue-free radio,
or The Night of 100 Records. |
This is an interesting mix of new music, novelties, and sound
effects. It has archivable moments, especially during the recorded segment of
the show that came on before mine. (I would start the recording at home
before I left home to go to the station and so I would record 20 minutes of
the previous show) |
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LA |
| 1994-01-24 |
HEARING AID RADIO |
with Herbert Brün, Rick Burkhardt, Mark Enslin, William
Gillespie, Susan Parenti, Rishi Zutshi. |
Skits centered around and music related to... hearing aids. With
original pieces by Susan Parenti, and performances by the live cast. |
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B SIDES FROM THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR OF OBLIVION |
Obscure mixes with two turntables: Herb Alpert, Timothy Leary,
Robert Frost, Negativland, Good Morning Vietnam, in-studio electronic effects
made with the delay on the variable-speed tape deck. |
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LA |
| 1994 April 3 or March 4 (date format unclear) |
CPT.BEEFHEART TOM CORA 7 THE EX / RANDOM |
This radio show consists entirely of computer-generated text,
including a press conference, answering machine messages, commercials, and
pledge drive pitches. Sometimes you can hear the players reading scripts that
are being read as they come cranking out of the noisy IBM proprinter we set
up in the studio, along with my old PC convertible. The randomly-generated
texts alternate with electronic music of various types. |
With performances by Rick Burkhardt, Adam Cain, Mark Enslin,
William Gillespie, Rishi Zutshi. The computer program "bonzo" was
written by Adam Cain and the specific output was programmed by Adam Cain and
William Gillespie. |
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L+ A |
| 1994-05-16 |
EMERGENCY BACKUP RADIO JOE SHOW |
, with Rick Burkhardt, Adam Cain, Mark Enslin, William
Gillespie. |
A radio broadcast dedicated to the the works of Joe Futrelle,
then at Hampshire college. Man, this is fun to listen to! At the time,
William Gillespie may have been the best living scholar on the works of
Futrelle, and could whip out a vast multitude of basement tapes and rare
texts. Virtually everyone who attempts to perform Futrelle's writing on this
broadcast cracks up at some point. L A+ ["Fish Head Difficulty" is
a great piece composed of sampled voicemail menus - if only we had remembered
this one during "Answering MACHINE RADIO." And its great to hear
"Critter Clatter", or at least its audible portions...] |
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| 1994-07-25 |
Cybersub Thump |
I think this was an overnight broadcast, substituting for the
Cybersphere Guy, who came on after Eclectic Seizure. This show featured the
Eclectic Guy and guest Joe Futrelle, featuring compositions by Joe, and the
music of the Thump Piano Duo. When they try to mimic country airshifters,
their accents wander all over the American south. |
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| 1994-07-25 |
(continued).....Subbing Cyberjack Thump Ouch. |
There are a number of poetry performance experiments. "The
Creep" verges on succesful. This overnight show descends into madness as
Joe and William intentionally reenact every unprofessional mannerism radio
hosts can have, and then proceed to play "Jumping Jack Flash" three
times in a row. People actually called in to complain. We're lucky that's all
they did. Parts of this show make it to the paradoxic extreme "so bad
it's good," but the rest of it is merely so bad. There's some good rock
music in between though. |
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A X |
| 1994-07-25 |
(the agony of the five-hour overnight slot continued)
SORRY->BONK |
The overnight airshifters continue their self-destructive cycle
of playing commercial music they hate for no identified reason other than an
aggressively cynical non-commercial stance. |
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| 1994-08-01 |
Pretenders |
An eclectic mix with some awkward experiments with narrative
records and old radio plays. Some very nice music though, such as the Club
Foot Orchestra's "Tango." An intense and metallic cover of the
Stones' "We Love You" by musicians unknown. "(We're Gonna)
Rock" by the Police Car Doors sets the time period. Joe Futrelle's
Computer-assisted Linguistic Composition with multiple simultaneous word
ladders is guaranteed to get all the dogs in the neighborhood barking. |
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| 1994-08-29 |
Ravel, Ives, Schoenberg, Haydn and Ives. |
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A wonderful show produced from suffering, and I don't mean to
suggest that the good show justified the suffering. A bunch of music by
Ravel, Ives, Schoenberg, Haydn, and Ives. Could this be the original
broadcast performance of that classic skit: "The Making of the Making Of
Eclectic Seizure"? Worth repeated listenings for Rick Burkhardt's
selections from Ravel, Ives, Schoenberg, Haydn, and Ives. |
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A+ L+ |
| 1995-07-01 |
CIGARETTES |
A radio show in which every song uses the word
"cigarettes," with the Eclectic Guy running out of songs and
imploring listeners to call in the anmes of songs using the word
"cigarette," with a great audience response that pulls the show
through to two hours |
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| 1997-11-09 |
The Olympics on TV at the
Experimental Music Coffeehouse over the Radio in a Dorm Room |
, a radio play by the students of Music 199: Music and Beyond |
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| 2000-10-11 |
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newspoetry radio |
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| 2000-10-14 |
from bard to verse (substituting for carl estabrook) |
from bard to verse (substituting for carl estabrook)Hannah
Arendt's & ee cumming's
birthday party, hosted by
William Gillespie & Danielle Chynoweth |
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| 2000-10-25 |
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New Music, featuring the works of
Cooper |
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| 2000-11-08 |
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Danielle Chynoweth with Radio Free Mexico |
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| 2000-11-11 |
from bard to verse (substituting for carl estabrook) |
interview with q. synopsis re. johnny werd |
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| 2000-11-22 |
Prince Myshkins |
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| 2000-12-06 |
MC Carl Estabrook reads Wallace Shawn's The Fever |
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| 2000-12-20 |
the year in newspoetry:a
retrospective |
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| 2001-01-03 |
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| jan3 2001 |
Herbert Brün |
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| 2001-01-17 |
Guest: Scott Rettberg of the
Electronic Literature Organization |
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| 2001-01-31 |
Luigi Nono |
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| 2001-02-03 |
? |
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| 2001-02-14 |
The Love Show |
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Co-host: Sarah Carsey of Radio Girl. |
| 2001-02-28 |
Piano Show |
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| 2001-03-14 |
Women's History Month:
female composers of classical (and 20th Century)
music
Co-host: Sarah Carsey of Radio Girl. |
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| 2001-03-28 |
Special Guest Warren Burt |
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| 2001-04-11 |
Poetry: Newspoetry & Michael Holloway |
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| 2001-04-25 |
The music of Iannis Xenakis
(hosted by Mark Enslin) |
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| 2001-05-05 |
(From Bard to Verse)
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poetry:
Michael Palmer, Bob Perelman, Leslie Scalopino, Barrett Watten
(hosted by Lorien Carsey & William Gillespie) |
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| 2001-05-09 |
David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress |
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| 2001-05-23 |
Pop Songs & Compositions |
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| 2001-06-06 |
SSFW
a story by William Gillespie
(starring Paul Kotheimer as Cyrus) |
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| 2001-06-20 |
Rock Production Techniques: the Art
of the Studio
(hosted by William Gillespie and Paul Kotheimer) |
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| 2001-07-04 |
Fireworks Music ( to complement the local fireworks display) |
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| 2001-07-18 |
Wallace Shawn's The Designated Mourner
performed by Carl Estabrook, Helen Estabrook, and William Gillespie |
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| 2001-08-01 |
How to listen to John Cage without talking |
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| 2001-08-15 |
Alix Olson / Woodstock Anniversary |
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| 2001-08-29 |
Newspoetry |
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| 2001-09-12 |
Prince Myshkins / Paul Kotheimer |
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| 2001-09-26 |
Thoughts on the War / String Quartets
and Electronic Music |
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| 2001-10-10 |
Eclectic Seizure Retrospective/<2:00:00 songs |
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| 2001-10-24 |
Dave Shoresman Memorial Ska Show |
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| 2001-11-07 |
William Vollman's An Afghanistan Picture Show, or How I Saved
the World |
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| 2001-11-21 |
Travelling Editorial Roadshow |
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| 2001-12-05 |
ten nine ten-minute pieces. |
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| 2001-12-19 |
Phil Ochs' Birthday! (including a reneactment of Phil's
testimony at the Chicago 7 trial) |
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| 2002-01-02 |
jan 2 Newspoetry: 2001 in Review |
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| 2002-01-16 |
Maria Silva and William Gillespie Play Beautiful Music and Read
Beautiful Poetry in Spanish and English |
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| 2002-01-30 |
Warren Burt. "Smooth Jazz." |
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| 2002-02-13 |
Valentine's Day our way, with Maria
Silva |
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| 2002-02-27 |
Songs in descending order of length |
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| 2002-03-01 |
Women's History Month Week, with
hostess Xenan Kredechie |
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| 2002-03-27 |
McSweeny's 6: McSweeney's vs. They Might be Giants, in
anticipation of Eggers' visit |
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| 2002-04-10 |
Oh shit is it a pledge drive? Luckily, my man Warren Burt is
there to talk about independent radio in Melbourne and engage with me in
improvisational music of severely dubious commercial potential. |
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| 2002-04-24 |
Michael Holloway's poetry class at the School for Designing a
Society |
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| 2002-05-08 |
Whoops! |
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| 2002-05-22 |
Sugarplastic & electronic music |
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| 2002-06-05 |
Serious Folking Music with Paul Kotheimer |
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| 2002-06-19 |
Samuel Beckett & the Firesign Theatre |
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| 2002-07-03 |
Interview with Unknown Cincinnati Poet Dirk Stratton |
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| 2002-07-17 |
Interview with Nick Montfort, co-author of 2002 and author of
The Help File |
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| 2002-07-31 |
Donald Barthelme |
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| 2002-08-14 |
Collage Techniques |
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| 2002-08-28 |
The Chamber Music of Rick Burkhardt |
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| 2002-09-11 |
September 11 w/Prince Myshkins |
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| 2002-09-25 |
Tom Cora R.I.P. |
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| 2002-10-09 |
Pledge Retrospective |
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| 2002-10-23 |
Fred Frith |
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| 2002-11-06 |
Prince Myshkins |
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| 2002-11-20 |
White Noise White Heat, by Larry
McCaffery |
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| 2002-12-04 |
Instructional Music featuring Sesame Street sings the Alphabet,
Schoolhouse Rock, Nature Songs, & Lou & Peter Berryman. |
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| 2002-12-18 |
History of Twelve-Tone with Rick Burkhardt & Mark Enslin:
Schoenberg, Webern, Adorno, Haydn |
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| 2002-12-24 |
Malcolm X-Mas with William S. Burroughs, Funkadelic, and
Bongwater |
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| 2002-12-25 |
History of Electronic Music with Rick Burkhardt & Mark
Enslin: Messaien, Varese, Brün, Ligeti, Cepstral, Futrelle, DeFotis, Roxy
Music, & Devo. |
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| 2003-01-01 |
Eclectic Guy's 33 1/3rd Birthday! VINYLGASM. |
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| 2003-01-15 |
Newspoetry newsparty new years eve reading |
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| 2003-01-29 |
History of United States with Stan Freberg & Firesign
Theater |
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| 2003-02-12 |
Proofs, by George Steiner |
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| 2003-02-26 |
Carl & Mindy |
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| 2003-03-12 |
Dead Aria I & Martin Spinelli |
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| 2003-03-26 |
Dead Aria II & Martin Spinelli |
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| 2003-04-09 |
? Off the air |
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| 2003-04-23 |
Radio Radio: Charles Bernstein |
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| 2003-05-07 |
Off the air |
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| 2003-05-21 |
Leo Connnelan's Crossing America |
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| 2003-06-04 |
Radio Radio: Gregory Whitehead |
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Last Show |
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| 2004-01-01 |
OMIGOD... IT'S ALIVE! on BSR 88.1
Providence, RI. BSRLIVE.COM
ECLECTIC SEIZURE LIVE POETS
& WILLIAM'S MIX, THE SHOW
DEDICATED TO JOHN CAGE & TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW MUSIC |
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| 2004-09-22 |
9-10 PM Anselm Berrigan & The Prince Myshkins. |
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../broadcasts/showsBSR/20040922burkhardt.mp3 |
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| 2004-09-23 |
1-2 AM Rick Burkhardt, Chamber Music. |
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../broadcasts/showsBSR/20040922burkhardtB.mp3 |
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| 2004-09-29 |
1-2AM The Prince Myshkins LIVE IN CONCERT AN UNBELIEVABLE EVENT
YOU WILL NOT WANT TO MISS AND ANYWAY IT IS ARCHIVED ON THE WEB SO YOU HAVE NO
EXCUSE. LISTEN TO THIS BEFORE THE ELECTION. |
"It's good that you got out of California, because even
though you've been complaining about it since you moved there, and even
though you've written many songs about how terrible it is, since
Schwarzenegger became governor of that supposedly left wing state, just
living there makes you look bad. It would be like saying: 'Yeah we live at
Disneyland. It's got its charm. We live on the Matterhorn, our apartment has
a view of the pirate ship. There's a strong activist community there
actually...'" |
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../broadcasts/showsBSR/20040929myshkins.mp3 |
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| 2004-10-03 |
"I Am Sitting In A Room," by Alvin Lucier, with John
Cage, Uncle Bonsai, David Bowie singing Jacques Brel, and the Monks of Doom
singing Frank Zappa. |
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../broadcasts/showsBSR/20041002iamsittinginaroom.mp3 |
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| 2004-10-06 |
Mairead Byrne Interview. "...too much attention is
paid to poetry, i think, not enough to the poet. so much of the literary
industry seems dedicated to the cult of content. so for this show, i'd like
to focus on the poet. the you. your writing is now, but you are forever. your
poetry writes you. people know your poetry by you. i would if i could talk to
your poetry about you, get it to answer a few questions." |
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../broadcasts/showsBSR/20041006mairead.mp3 |
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| 2004-10-10 |
1-2 AM, Herbert Brün |
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../broadcasts/showsBSR/20041009brun.mp3 |
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| 2004-10-17 |
György Ligeti |
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http://rockgeekchic.com/showsBSR/20041016ligeti.mp3 |
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| 2004-10-20 |
BERNADETTE MAYER. |
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http://rockgeekchic.com/showsBSR/20041020bernadette.mp3 |
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| 2004-10-24 |
Sunday Morning 1-2 AM. Loren's Mix. |
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| 2004 |
Eclectic Seizure Radio Theater Collective |
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| 2004-10-31 |
Election Day is Halloween. |
"Autumn brought election day so closely on the heels of
Halloween that the final moments of the presidential campaign were revealed
as masquerade. The crescendo of the pageant, two homecoming kings. Plastic so
lifelike, their rehearsed mannerisms, the sturdy brushstrokes of the world
they paint. |
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http://rockgeekchic.com/showsBSR/20041030electiondayhalloween.mp3 |
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| 2004-11-03 |
STEVE LACY MEMORIAL w/ ROBERT CREELEY & IRENE AEBI. . |
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http://rockgeekchic.com/showsBSR/20041103lacy.mp3 |
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| Sunday November 7th, 1-2 AM 2004 |
John Gulino Plugged |
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http://rockgeekchic.com/showsBSR/20041107doofgoblin.mp3 |
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| 2004-11-14 |
Tyler's Mix. Soundcollage and John Zorn's Spillane. . |
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| 2004-11-17 |
ENGLISH 10 FM. . |
"English 10, Electronic Writing, a class at Brown
University this fall and next spring, including the writing and performing of
Samantha Cornwall, Nicholas Friesner, Ming Holden, Sunil Hebbar, Francesca
Rios, Malika Rubens-Davis, Alex Sears & Donald Tetto along with
incidental guitar music by Giga Shane, a guy I met in the green pastures of
New College in Sarasota FL, & Jimi Hendrix performing most of a Bob Dylan
song live at the historic Monterey Pop Festival concert in 1967, & and 2 b-sides
not on Robyn Hitchock & Gillian Welsh's new album Spooked. This has been
electric literature." |
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midnight in the morning, Kaija Saariaho. The Finnish composer
Kaija Saariaho (born 1952) has been living and working in Paris since
1982. In 1982 she attended courses in computer music at IRCAM in Paris, since
when the computer has been an important element of her composing
technique. . |
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http://rockgeekchic.com/showsBSR/20041117b_kaiija.mp3 |
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| 2004-12-01 |
, Nick Montfort. Electronic Music and Electronic Literature. |
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http://rockgeekchic.com/showsBSR/20041201nickm.mp3 |
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| 2004-12-06 |
Captain Beefheart. |
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http://rockgeekchic.com/showsBSR/20041204beef.mp3 |
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| 2005-01-01 |
ECLECTIC SEIZURE LIVE POETS AND STRANGELY APPROPRIATE
MUSIC
& WILLIAM'S MIX, THE SHOW DEDICATED TO JOHN CAGE
& TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW MUSIC
YOU CAN ALSO LISTEN TO ARCHIVES FROM 2004 |
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| 2005-02-06 |
Quartet for the End of Time. .
& Cole Porter & Henryk Gorecki. .
Xing. Language Poetry and songs named after years in chronologic order. .
(This show was not archived but I attempted to play songs named after years a
second time in April, which archive is available below). |
2004 December 12, Pure Radio: Eclectic Seizure Archives. Season
Finale. "I'm really sad that the next hour of programming
will be the last before BSR goes off the air FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR (sniff)
so I wanted to use this last hour to explore pure radio, the purest radio.
What is pure radio? Let's work backward from dirty polluted corrupted radio:
commercial pop radio. Lame pop songs, vapid DJs, commercials. Lame pop songs
available on other stations, on albums, on the internet. Lame pop songs
available everywhere. Redundant radio, content-free radio. Formats forever
unchanging. Song song blab commercial. Verse chorus verse chorus bridge.
According to information theory: noise. Commercial radio is static.
Superfluity..................................................... This is
impure radio. Commercial radio. Radio that is merely another echo of the same
information, news and music, available everywhere else. Repetition muddies
the waters. Inbred, stagnant, claustrophobic radio.
Working backward, what is pure radio? Keeping the vapid DJ - that's me -
new information. Music not available everywhere. Not available on other radio
stations, not available on the internet, not available in music stores. Not
even available live in concert. I'm speaking of radio pre-produced for one
specific radio occasion. Information available once.
I’m speaking of the best radio shows in America: Democracy Now, Word Jazz,
This American Life, the Hour of Slack, Bike Talk, the Curious Person’s Guide,
the Mixtape Chronicles, and this whole semester at BSR.
Music is change, starting with the oscillating waveforms of pitches--a
drone is change--moving into the changing itches of melodies, the changing
chords of harmonic progressions, a composer's style changing over time, music
evolving into new forms never played on the radio. The same song is no longer
music.
If you play a three minute song at 1000 times the normal speed, it becomes
a click. If you play 1000 3-minute songs at 100 times the normal speed, you
will hear a tone: one note. Commercial radio is always the same: one
sustained pitch.
Information is change. What follows is an hour of the finest moments from
my decade in independent radio art. You may hear the call letters for other
stations in what follows but don't be confused. This is BSR. Er, I mean,
WELH...
But the airwaves are in the public domain. They’re all you. Fly them." |
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| 2005-02-13 |
Charles Olson, Conlon Nancarrow, and deranged piano music. . |
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| 2005-02-20 |
Michael Gizzi and Charles Ives. Featuring an in-studio reading
of newer work by Michael Gizzi. About four hours of really fairly difficult
to listen to but nontheless breathtaking music. Conversations about Ives.
Poetry by Michael. And then a collapse into sweet songwriting, followed by a
stiff nightcap of Gizzi. |
Part I: Hardcore Ives & Gizzi.
Part
II: Large Gizzi reading, more Ives but then less Ives. . |
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| 2005-02-27 |
Imaginary Cities. |
PART 1: . Italo Calvino, Kool Keith,
Bob Perelman.
PART
2: . Mark Blitzstein. Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. |
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| 2005-03-06 |
Retroactive Correction with Dirk Stratton |
PART 1: . Poetry & permuted
pianos.
Part
2: . Ballet Mechanique x 2. |
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| 2005-03-11 |
The Sugarplastic. . |
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| 2005-03-13 |
Mairead Byrne. . Ruth Crawford & Peggy Seeger. . |
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| 2005-03-20 |
Gil-Scott Heron. .
Harry Partch. . |
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| 2005-04-10 |
Burning Deck Poets. .
George Clinton. . |
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| 2005-04-14 |
100 Songs in 60 Minutes. . |
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| 2005-04-15 |
Tangoesque. . |
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| 2005-04-17 |
Vulpine. |
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| 2005-04-21 |
Songs named after years. . |
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| 2005-04-24 |
Encyclopedia . |
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| 2005-04-30 |
Lorien's Mix: Eclectic Seizure. . |
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| 2005-05-01 |
Lorien Carsey, Joshua Corey & William Gillespie read poetry. |
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http://rockgeekchic.com/showsBSR/20050501josh1.mp3 & http://rockgeekchic.com/showsBSR/20050501josh2.mp3 |
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| 2019-05-08 |
Last show ever! Almost! |
English 10.
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Newspoetry. .
William's Mix. |
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Five Last Shows |
Radio
Free Istanbul: music and poetry in Turkish, with Fulya. .
American
Political Song. .
Dude.Automator on the Fader?
with Matt. .
William's
Retro Jams. .
Jen
Tynes. .
20050515D_unknown1.mp3
20050515E_unknown2.mp3
20050515F_unknown3.mp3
20050515G_unknown4.mp3
The Unknown.
Spineless Books |
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| 2009-01-03 |
What is Power Pop? |
What is Power Pop? Listen as Cristy explains the difference and
spins crunchy earcandy. Our first radio show together, at the numbingly early
hour (for us) of 8 a.m. Saturday. You can hear the pain and trepidation in
our voice, but none of that is to be heard in this explosive mix of Power Pop
classics. |
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| 2009-01-09 |
Saturday on Rock Geek FM: Worst
Guitar Solos of all Time? |
Saturday on Rock Geek FM, we will
celebrate Cristy’s birthday with a show dedicated to the WORST GUITAR SOLOS
OF ALL TIME, taking a cue from a hilarious article in a 2004 issue of Guitar World magazine. Rick has
suggested “Cover of the Rolling Stone” by Dr. Hook and “Like a Hurricane” by
Neil Young. Larry goes with Wilco’s “I’m the Man Who Loves You.”
Any requests?
You can endure this broadcast Saturday 8-9 a.m.
(Chicago time) streaming online at http://weft.org, or 90.1 FM for those within a stone’s throw (like the Rolling
Stones’s cover of “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” during which Keith Richards throws
up a solo that scholars believe made Mick Taylor quit the band).
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| 2009-01-11 |
Silver Screen Songs |
On Rock Geek FM: Songs about the
movies. Actors, actresses, films, the movies, and other songs we snuck in on
a technicality. Pop some corn, get a gallon of iced soda, fight for an
armrest, and download this MP3. |
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20090111film.mp3
2014-03-29 12:16 169M |
Peg? |
| 2009-01-17 |
Under
the Covers |
In anticipation of the Great
Cover-Up, we encourage you to stay in bed, under the covers, and tune in, as
we play covers that are better than the originals, and explore the question
of why Dylan covers are almost always successful, and Beatles covers almost
always fall flat.
8-9 a.m. Central Time Saturday, streaming on the
World-Wide Web at http://weft.org, and broadcast feebly at 90.1 FM for the farmers.
Download and be astonished. Good songwriters borrow. Great songwriters mutilate.
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| 2009-01-29 |
< 2:00 |
Saturday morning on Rock Geek F.M., tune in as Cristy and I
come to blows about the most important question
facing our nation at this critical time: what are the best songs two minutes or less (fewer) in length? In our one-hour show (8-9 a.m. Central Time), we will be able
to play only 40 of these songs, so discretion will be fundamental.
You can listen online at http://weft.org. Please note that
the show is webcast at an entirely agreeable hour for those living in Sweden
and Norway. You can tune in at 90.1 FM only if you are one of our closest
friends (literally).
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20090129twominutes.mp3
2012-09-17 17:11 84M |
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| 2009-01-31 |
Songs That Name Their Bands
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Saturday the 31st on Rock Geek F.M. Cristy and I are looking for songs
that name their own band—songs whose lyrics
include the name of the band that plays them.
Unfortunately, we must steer away from rap for this theme, as it is part of
the genre for rappers to discuss themselves. When it happens in a rock song,
though, it can be a bit jarring. Although Cristy and I had to resort to
sound-collage, we were able to use almost everybody’s suggestions for the
radio show featuring songs that refer to their
bands by name. Except for Zach’s, and he wins the Golden Geek of the Week Award for
naming a song I had never heard of and couldn’t find: “Black ’47.” Scott
listened online and said the music was “baaaad,” and, as much as I relish
arguing with Scott, I have a nagging suspicion that he may have a point.
Beefheart’s “The Blimp” (suggested by Mark E. Nslin) caused a bit of on-air
friction between the two hosts. Even 15 seconds of “Iron Maiden” by Iron
Maiden was way too much for me.
Suggestions are welcome. Here’s what we have so
far.
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| 2009-02-07 |
Songs that Refer to Other Bands
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This week we’re dedicating our radio
show to songs that refer to other bands. We’ve recorded a short promo to explain our position on this complex and far-reaching
topic. For example, Robyn Hitchcock has songs that are about or refer to
Arthur Lee, Arthur Cane, David Byrne, Nick Lowe, and the Higsons. They Might
Be Giants has “We’re the Replacements,” “Rhythm Section Want Ad,” and
“Twisting” (my fave for the dB’s reference).
We hope this topic will be rich enough to create
a dazzling playlist of utter gems.
Your help naming songs is totally useful and
appreciated. And I hope Scott likes it. How is the rock radio in Norway,
anyway?
Rock Geek F.M. is broadcast on 90.1 FM and
webcast on http://weft.org Saturday mornings at the hung-over hour of 8-9 a.m. Chicago
time.
And here’s the whole show on MP3.
Thanks for listening. I hope Neil Young will
remember…
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| 2009-02-14 |
Valentines Day / Songs Named After Women A-M
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Thanks again to our entire facebook
rock geek advisory panel for the assistance identifying songs that refer to other bands.
This show worked out well. Scott liked it much better than he did songs that
refer to their own bands.
For Valentine’s Day Cristy and I are going to
dedicate a show to songs named after women, especially songs named after Judy or Caroline, as we have
found enough songs about these two ladies to make a collage. We’ll be getting
caught up with the Myshkins requests with “Mimi LaValley.” We’ll finally get
around to Phil Ochs with “Celia.” We will not play “Cecilia.” And we will play some things by bands other
than Material Issue.
We even recorded a short promo so you can try
before you download.
As we hope to organize these songs in alphabetic
order, we are in dire need of songs named after women whose names begin with
Q, X, and Z. Rock geek scrabble, anyone?
Flawedcasts of those two shows are downloadable
here: A-M / N-Z
Next Saturday we are going to devote an hour to
newly-released music. Last year saw a new album by some band called
Radiohead, and this week saw me finally get my pre-ordered LP of Goodnight, Oslo, by Robyn Hitchcock
and the Venus 3. Future Clouds and Radar, a Texas band that sounds British,
completed a concept album about Peoria, Illinois, for reasons that remain obscure. And Ben Folds titled his
latest after Normal, Illinois, and wrote a song about Effingham, even if he
got the name wrong. Downstate Illinois is the new Tobacco Road,
apparently.
Were there any new records last year (or this)
that struck your fancy? As music snobs stuck in the 1990s and 1980s,
respectively, Cristy and I will rely on your suggestions.
Tune in to Rock Geek
F.M. Saturday mornings from 8-9 a.m. CST on http://weft.org. Or at a more reasonable hour in
the Nordic countries. Or, if you’re reading this now, listen to the MP3 on the wayback machine.
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| 2009-02-21 |
Valentines Day / Songs Named After Women N-Z |
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20090221women N-Z.mp3
2012-10-17 14:31 89M |
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| 2009-02-28 |
Rock
Inbox: New Music |
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20090228NEWMUSIC.mp3
2012-10-17 14:31 89M |
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| 2009-03-01 |
Songs
About Space |
33
1/3 light years from home. |
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20090301space.mp3
2012-10-17 14:32 121M |
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2012-10-17 14:31 90M |
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2014-04-01 11:51 87M |
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Women
in Rock |
Every month is women’s month, but
March is women’s history month, so Cristy and I did a show on women in
rock, as we see the issue.
Next week we have decided to do a show on songs about food. Despite a
reputation for gluttony, rock stars seem to limit their excesses to drugs. In
thinking of songs to play, we haven’t gotten far beyond “Savoy Truffle.” We
need help! Requests? Suggestions?
Rock Geek F.M. airs on WEFT 90.1 FM but streams
on http://weft.org from the nauseatingly early hour of 8-9 a.m.
Saturday morning Chicago (CST) time. Rock fans, nurse your hangovers with an
hour of breakfast jams.
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SONGS
ABOUT FOOD |
Our Songs about Food show was HARD-ROCKING TESTOSTERONE-SOAKED MAYHEM!
Everyone who contributed suggestions was
personally thanked. Thank you.
This weekend, guest geek Rick Halberg will lead
us in a radio show dedicated to psychedelic soul. I expect this will be fully
legit, as Rick knows records
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20090321food.mp3
2012-09-28 23:49 88M |
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| 2009-03-28 |
PSYCHEDELIC SOUL with Rick Halberg
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A few episodes of Rock Geek FM have
come and gone since my last posting here – string sections, Joe
Boyd, songs with brass – but I wanted to post the show we did with
Rick Halberg on April 28: Psychedelic Soul
This Saturday Cristy and I have a DUEL. That is right. We are in
disagreement over which one of us graduated from high school in a better year
for rock.
1987 vs. 1996 pt. 1 / 1987 vs. 1996 pt. 2
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2012-10-17 14:33 90M |
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Strings |
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Joe
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20090411boyd.mp3
2012-10-13 20:04 59M |
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Brass |
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2012-10-17 14:33 89M |
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2012-10-13 20:04 59M |
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1987
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2012-10-17 14:34 95M |
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| 2009-05-16 |
Songs
About Animals |
Sunday, while I attended the Vintage
Vinyl sale in search of $1 AC/DC LPs, Cristy took over our radio show and
spun songs about animals. Except for the opening track, we decided
that songs about dogs and cats, as well as songs about insects, would each
merit a separate, future show. But mammals, birds, fish, and
arachnids are all represented here.
http://rockgeekchic.com/rockgeekFM.mp3
This Saturday, guest host Anderson will be
offering “Nighttime Sunshine”, an exploration
of one thread of L.A.’s Paisley Underground scene; the evolution and
influence of David Roback and Kendra Smith. At
the ungodly hour of 8-9 AM ILLINOIS TIME on http://weft.org, or 90.1 FM for those lucky
enough to live in the coolest town in the
world.
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2012-10-17 14:34 95M |
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LA Paisley Underground
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This Saturday, guest host Anderson
will be offering “Nighttime Sunshine”, an exploration of one thread of
L.A.’s Paisley Underground scene; the evolution and influence of David Roback
and Kendra Smith. At the ungodly hour of 8-9 AM ILLINOIS
TIME on http://weft.org, or 90.1 FM for those lucky enough to live
in the coolest town in the world.Our work with Anderson doing a show dedicated to the LA Paisley
Underground scene, featuring David Roback, Hope Sandoval, and Kendra Smith,
is posted here.
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2012-10-17 14:34 90M |
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| 2009-05-30 |
The
Great Philosophers |
Know of any songs that preach ways to
live and think (“You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” “If You Love Somebody,
Set Them Free”)? We’re looking for songs for a radio show called The Great Philosophers. Suggestions
are welcome, and pretentious songs are okay if not unavoidable… Well, here’s
what we came up with: a heavy, thoughtful MP3.
And always remember—wise man sing:
one thing leads to another
you can’t always get what you want
if you love somebody, set them free
people will always be tempted to wipe their feet
on anything with welcome written on it
life’s like a jigsaw: you get the straight bits,
but there’s something missing in the middle; life’s like a firework: you’re
only lit once, and you must stand and radiate correctly
arrive without traveling, see all without
looking |
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| 2009-06-06 |
Pete
and Theresa Getting Married |
Here’s a show we broadcast the
morning of our dear friends’ wedding, for them to pump on the backyard
speakers while they set up for the ceremony, hog roast, and trampoline theft.
Sincere, romantic, folky: an hour of our best wishes.
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| 2009-06-08 |
Women Making Waves: Marianne
Faithfull
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Cristy tells the story and plays the
music of Marianne Faithfull, and rounds out the broadcast with
punk-leaning songs by other women artists.
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| 2009-06-20 |
The
Rock Inbox |
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2012-10-17 14:35 87M |
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On June 29 Rock Geek F.M. hosted an
introduction to heavy metal featuring resident expert Jason Greenly. Here’s
the entire show, blood, pus, and all (uploaded temporarily, as I don’t want
the heavy metal copyright lawyers leaving a bloody axe impaled in my front
door).
Listen and worry about the kids of today.
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| 2009-07-04 |
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Here’s
Cristy and William rocking out, providing an alternative soundtrack to the
local fireworks display, celebrating this nation’s great composers. These
songs don’t run! |
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| 2009-07-11 |
Songs
About Summer |
Today
Cristy and I will be waking you up to songs about summer on Rock Geek F.M. |
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20090711summer.mp3
2012-09-29 23:45 95M |
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| 2009-07-17 |
Songs with Numbers in the Title 1-13
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Cristy and I are collecting songs with numbers in the title for
a sixty-minute radio show from eight to nine (CST) tomorrow morning on WEFT
ninety point one FM (streaming on http://weft.org). Our challenge is to
have sequential numbers from one to infinity, with the help of School House Rock and Here Come the 123s. We are a
long way from our goal, as you can see from our list so far:
17 days, prince
thirteen, big star
1%, janes
addiction
splash one, 13th floor elevators
year one, X
five to one, doors
the
four horsemen, aphrodite’s child (mind blowing)
25 o’clock, dukes
that
Chicago song (25 or …)
16 Military Wives
7 x 7 Is
1 is the Loneliest
Number
Two of Us
12XU
From a Buick 6
8 Miles High
1000 Umbrellas
I don’t know whether those arbitrarily-numbered
Bob Dylan songs should be allowed to count. Your assistance is needed.
Listen to it loud. This one goes up to 13.
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| 2009-07-25 |
Songs
About Sleep |
Wake
up to Songs About Sleep in one hour! As long as you’re awake and online, tune
into http://weft.org/ and hear songs about sleep, on Rock Geek F.M.
with Cristy and William, coming on at 8 a.m. Chicago time, right after
Alternative Radio. Whoops – look at the time. We’d better get to the
station. Or sleep in and catch it online. |
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2012-09-29 23:44 90M |
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| 2009-07-26 |
Women Making Waves: Country
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I am acting as research gofer while
Cristy hostesses Women Making Waves – the women of rock and country. |
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The
Rock Inbox |
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| 2009-08-14 |
The Shallow End
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Here’s the weirdest radio show Cristy
and I have done so far.
A radio show about the (self-)important music of
the 1960s.
The Shallow End,
with Mike Nickels and Joanie Cokespoon. Music for
thinking people, from when the music mattered.
Download an hour’s worth of attitude here.
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| 2009-08-09 |
Women Making Waves: Ladies of the
Eighties |
For
the next 2 hours, Cristy is hosting a women’s rock show called “Ladies of the
Eighties” on Womyn Making Waves, streaming on http://weft.org/. I am on hand to select Yaz songs. Download
this revisionist nostalgia in then-inconceivable podcast form. |
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| 2009-09-08 |
Rock, Roots, Alt-Country
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So Cristy and William got married.
And the morning before the party the father-in-law-to-be came in to co-host a show on the flavor of music he enjoys most. As if there wasn’t enough else to do. And a splendid time was
had by all. Although 24 hours from when this picture was taken, the gentleman
in the center of the picture would be in the throes of his first champagne
hangover. And that’s all the gossip you’ll get from this blog. |
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2012-10-17 14:36 109M |
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| 2009-09-05 |
Shack |
Honcho
joins us for a master class in UK’s Shack. This music is hard if not
impossible to find. Dig deep and hang on. |
John
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2012-10-17 14:37 92M |
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| 2012-10-13 |
Spinning Cats and Dogs |
How cute is that? A show of songs about cats and dogs.
And cats.
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2012-10-13 21:50 46M |
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2012-09-30 00:37 96M |
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| 2009-09-26 |
Songs Sung by Kids! |
Songs for, about, and sung by kids. Yes! Especially rock songs with children vocalists or choirs.
And happy birthday to Abbey Road. |
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2012-09-30 01:21 85M |
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Long
Long Songs |
Are we cheating? Longer songs=less
preparation. But so much more to discuss about the
excesses and pretentiousness of art rock, rock operettas, or songs that overstep the traditional boundaries of their pop
format.
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Songs About Television
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Saturday morning ear cartoons: songs
about television for the next hour with Cristy and William. Get a bowl of
cereal and listen online with your jammies on.
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2012-09-30 01:50 94M |
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Bugs! |
On this episode we play songs about
bugs. Insects, arachnids, and worms. Ew! Ew!
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2012-09-30 02:12 73M |
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| 2009-10-31 |
Honcho’s Halloween, Songs About Death
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An early, haunted, spirited,
sleep-deprived, headless romp through horror movie soundtracks, songs about
death, unexplained phenomena, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This is a fun download.
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| November 7, 2009 – 1:08 am |
The
Moon |
SONGS ABOUT THE MOON AND THE HISTORY
OF APOLLO 11 on Rock Geek FM. This is a fun ride. One of my favorites. Come visit the dark side with us.
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Songs
About Coffee? |
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Cristy,
Honcho, and William devote two hours of Rock Geek F.M. to the three members
of the Police, the Police, and other projects they’ve been involved with.
There is a lot of pent-up passion for this band released here, as well as
deeper tracks. Listen, Love, Learn, the arresting music of the Police. |
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Mod Bit |
William hosted Alex Laxarevich’s Mod
Bit and played new music with various
permutations and mutilations of text.
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For WEFT’s women in [folk] music
show, Cristy continues to augment the playlists with estrogen-fueled
rock. This show is dedicated to Holly Golightly.
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Bands With Weird Names |
Cristy, William, and guest
host Doeg Hoepker executed a radio show dedicated to Bands With Weird Names. The second
hour is dedicated to new music. At the end you can hear a bit of a live
in-studio performance by a band called Sykes (featuring a violinist!) whose
members are in high school. Check out the playlist here.
Thanks, Doug, for guiding us through what for us
was a highly subjective and virtually unlimited radio show theme! Listen
to/rip/burn/download/archive here.
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Xmas with Jolly Old St. Rick |
A mix from an avid scholar of
Christmas rock! Saint Rick Halberg! Download this down your chimney and
enjoy!
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2009 in Review |
Cristy and William review the
releases of 2009, especially their favorites in light of the top album lists
released by more high-profile (and low brow) sources. 2009 lives forever
on the net and in our hearts.
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Microtonal Radio
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Andrew Heathwaite and Paul Kotheimer joined William Gillespie on Jay Eychaner and Jason Finkelman’s
experimental music show Fanfare for the Speeding
Bullet, and they spent an hour explaining,
discussing, playing, and performing microtonal music, with an emphasis on
just intonation and equal divisions of the octave. Get
in the cracks and listen. |
Paul
Kotheimer, Andrew Heathwaite |
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| 20100105 |
Radio
Radio |
Musical meta-radio. Well, there’s a
lot of songs about radio, most of them pretty damn cheerful. Are we
postmodern yet? Download this fun if effortless
mix.
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2012-09-30 06:06 170M |
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Rock
Instrumentals |
Rock music without singing? Wait. What? The point? You mean like, surf? No? Early 1970s
12-minute jams with the verses cut out? No? Well? Listen as William attempts
to answer these questions from Cristy. And then she throws him off the mike
and takes over with the Rock Inbox.
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Sons
with Talking Parts |
I just love a good talking part in a
song. Emphasis “good.”
Give me Elvis over Arlo any day; life is short.
Here’s a collection of some of our
favorites—mid-song orations, some soothing, many inexplicable, some classic,
and most not classic until we uploaded them to this site but are now canonical.
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Banjology |
Banjologist and Bookglutton CEO
Travis Alber hosted our show last night, spinning independent rock featuring
the banjo. The show was fun, but educational, but haunting, and yet homey. A
fun gathering around the glowing fire of the WEFT transmitter. Throw some mint in your julep and listen in. |
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2012-09-30 07:27 134M |
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Songs
About Mirrors |
We’ll be your mirror, holding up
songs that reflect our current taste and your future taste in rock, which
sometimes will smash the mirror. Ah well, look into your mirror and say
goodbye for me…. This show is now reflected on the
internet.
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2012-09-29 14:47 192M |
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Radio
Freestyle Anderson |
Radio Freestyle Anderson
Perhaps the best themes for shows are musical
ideas that can’t be put into words.
On a dark, frozen, dangerous snowy night, DJ J
Anderson joined us for a night of lesbian vampire
soundtrack weirdness that can only be surrendered to.
At the end you can hear a song performed live in
the studio by Cara Maurizi on WEFT Sessions.
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The
Night our Car Broke Down |
Cristy’s ultra-cute cybergreen VW new
beetle suffered another super-cute battery failure while we were filling the
tank on the way to the station.
As a result we arrived out of sorts and fell
back on a strategy we had not resorted to before: playing songs we really,
really like.
Isn’t that what freestyle rock radio by
passionate humans should be about?
Nah.
If that were so, we’d play the same stuff every
month.
But it took the edge off a stressful night. Listen, enjoy almost as much as we did, dancing in the studio.
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Songs
with Lists |
It’s a literary technique to compress
syntax into a paratactic collage, as well as an organizational technique that
figures on every album cover. Some songs list things. We’ve created a list of
them. And spun them into a show dense with nouns. Listen in.
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2012-10-01 11:50 176M |
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2012-10-01 11:50 207M |
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15 February 2010: A
show dedicated to the band the Clientele, starring Rock Honcho “Oscar”
Anderson from the weird city of Normal.
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2012-10-01 11:50 175M |
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5 April 2010: Songs
about weapons. Guns, knives, bombs, nuclear warheads, and yes, one rocket
launcher.
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2012-10-01 11:52 180M |
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2012-10-01 11:52 177M |
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Fanfare
for the speeding bullet: Experimental Vocal Music |
As a sub for Fanfare for the Speeding Bullet, the
avant-garde show, I had it in mind to do an entirely a capella show focusing on
experimental music for voice. I really wondered what two hours of
anticommunicative voices would feel like. People talking to you who did not
want anything from you. Halfway through, the usual host, who was supposed to
be taking the night off, showed up and hovered nervously. Perhaps to Jason I
was playing the wrong avant garde music. But isn’t that the point?
I include the complete playlist below and reconstruct the broadcast as well.
PART ONE
01 Central Park Transverse Vocal 1
0:43 Henry Flynn
Slender Fungus
3:36 Tones On Tail
Breaking Up Immediately
Recognizable Units of Significance Is Hard to Do 4:27
William DeFotis
Universal Drainage 1:24
Phil Minton
That’s Halloween 1:47
Duplex Planet
Zweiter Teil 3:13
Kurt Schwitters
Dritter Teil 2:43
Kurt Schwitters
FIDDLE 0:05
My, I’m Large
3:58 The Bobs
Anselm_Berrigan
5:55 Anselm Berrigan
Maledetto 14:33
Kenneth Gaburo
The Flow of (u) 23:01
Kenneth Gaburo
PART TWO
Lifting Leeks 2:44
Phil MintonShadowSong (1979) 5:10
Joan La Barbara
Three Lies 3:01
Phil Minton
Dialogue ”Lonnie Cooks Quail” 0:22
Dialogue with Glen Fitzgerald
Todor Todorka :trad.Bulgarian
3:11 Amasong
Unfortunate
0:14 Exene Cervenka
Erin (1980)
6:56 Joan La Barbara
Circlesong Two
4:14 Bobby McFerrin
Son Of Byford
0:27 Run-D.M.C.
Josquin: Petite Camusette
1:02 The Hillard Ensemble
01 Emergency
3:41 Sweet Honey In The Rock
02 Our Side
Won 5:10 Sweet Honey In The Rock
03 Ode
to the International Debt 3:16 Sweet
Honey In The Rock
04 Are My Hands Clean_ 2:56
Sweet Honey In The Rock
Well 2:08
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Ballad
2:15 Phil Minton
Dough Song 1 0:47
Phil Minton
Dialogue ”Acid Propaganda”
0:59 Dialogue with Lily Tomlin, Alan Alda & Ben
Stiller
Gil 1:22 Don Van Vliet
Dough Song
13 0:35 Phil Minton
ENOUGH
0:02
Wafflehead 4:04 Robyn
Hitchcock & The Egyptians
Whole Lotta Love
3:26 The Bobs
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On April 19, to celebrate both the
triumphant release of the new Roky Erickson album and the announcement that
Roky and Okkervil River would be performing at Urbana’s Pygmalion Music
Festival, Honcho from Normal took us on a tour of Roky’s rich, twisted catalog.
Come on down and drop out, Texas style. |
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We explore what psychedelic music might actually
mean, since music is not literally a drug. This exploration leads us off
genre, out of the 1960s, and into unexpected and delicious territory. A long
strange trip, online to expand your ears.
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Radio
for the Church Community |
Honcho is back from Normal, this time
with another maniacally thorough radio show dedicated to Australia’s The
Church. He has been working his imaginary WEFT Press Pass, and procured
exclusive interview footage as well as some possibly illegal bootleg recordings
given the nod by the gentlemen of the Church. This is pretty pure stuff, like
holy water. Enjoy a radio show like none other. |
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Songs about sports. Because rock
stars pride themselves on being in peak physical condition. Listen and see what we came up with.
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2012-10-17 15:17 184M |
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Jobs |
Songs about jobs. Working them,
hating them, losing them, finding them, hating them, quitting them. A
surprising number of musicians with no jobs have expressed anxiety on this
topic. Sometimes music delves into deeper truths than love and beauty. Punch in, turn on, and download. |
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Rock
and roll about rock and roll |
Is it a sign that a band has lost its
way when they record a song about how rock and roll is totally kick-ass? I
mean, how many putrid examples can you think of? The Stones, Bob Seger, Huey
Lewis, Kiss… Ew ew ew. Hurting for ideas? Or do they really think those songs
are a contribution?
It’s a problem. Well, one we couldn’t resist
exacerbating. Here’s a couple hours of preaching
to the converted.
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Big
Star |
It’s about time someone did a two-hour radio show on big stars Big Star, while one of them is
still alive.
That someone is Honcho.
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2012-10-17 15:18 181M |
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2012-10-17 15:18 191M |
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On June 21, abetted by the crew of
Rock Geek F.M., DJ “Two Tone” Tony Money birthed his brainchild, “Out of
Their Element,” in which we identified instances where bands attempted to
create music in styles that they were not suited for. Such as Brian Wilson’s
rap track.
This show felt like it quickly disintegrated
into total, wanton anarchy.
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Jazz/Rock
Fission |
On 28 June 2010 Cristy and William were joined
by guest host percussionist and jazz scholar Jason Finkelman, who took us on
a tour of the wild, sophisticated borderland of jazz and rock. Two hours of this left us pretty much speechless.
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2012-10-01 12:34 186M |
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Syd
Barrett |
In this episode, we are joined by
Honcho, who leads us on a two hour discussion of Syd Barrett, featuring
original and rare songs from Syd, early “The” Pink Floyd, and various cover
artists. Another true collaboration as the three of us each hand-pick tracks
from the small pool of Syd’s output, in which the fishies swim, crystal blue.
This is our tribute to one of our most revered
musicians. |
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2012-10-01 12:34 183M |
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Mod
Bit:Ashley’s Dust |
Meanwhile, William hosted an episode of Alex Lazarevich’s
contemporary classical show Mod Bit, dedicated to music with or against text.
This show is two hours long, and half of it is part of Robert Ashley’s creepy
spoken word opera Dust.
Look at the playlist or download the MP3. |
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2012-10-01 12:35 177M |
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2012-10-01 12:36 179M |
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Songs
About Cars |
23 August 2010: Rick Halberg joins us to discuss the history of rock and roll
music as viewed through the lens of songs about
cars. In the words of the Dude, I fucking hate the Eagles man. But
what Glen lacks, Ike Turner got. And what neither Frey nor Turner can
provide, Freddie Mercury got covered. A splendid mix, deep and educational.
Featuring Rock Geek News: hilarity ensues. |
Rick
Halberg |
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2012-10-01 13:15 183M |
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The
Rock Inbox |
30 August 2010: DJ Tony Money helps
us tear the envelopes off a stack of new arrivals as we bring you the Rock Inbox: totally new music.
Chaos, madness, ecstasy, and thirty fingers on the pulse of rock. Listen to what’s new, and which by now may be old, or, more
likely, never caught on to become current.
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2012-10-01 13:15 201M |
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Radio
Freestyle Anderson |
6 September 2010: Honcho spins freestyle. Soul, soundtrack, and rare seven inch treasures from the
archeology of music. Hear about his trip through the midwest and recent
concerts. Listen to the raw expertise of this
grizzled geek. |
John
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2012-10-01 13:15 198M |
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Doug’s
Power Pop Mixtures |
13 September 2010: Doug Hoepker joins us to play more than twenty power pop
classics, launching his new online collaborative mix project Mixtured. 20 rock geeks each
selected a song from the power pop idiom, and we manage to spin most of them.
A massive collaboration.
Cristy’s pick for the mix and what she wrote
about it:
Material Issue, “Renee Remains The Same”
I always think of power pop as a rock junkie’s
amazing discovery. The bands seem to shine in eras in which they’re most
unfashionable. The prog-drenched ’70s: Oh my gosh, there’s this band,
Big Star, who sound like the Beatles! The synthy ’80s: Whoa, there’s
this band, the dB’s, who sound like Big Star! The autotune-crazy ’00s:
Sweet, there’s this band, Generationals, who sound like the dB’s!
In the early ’90s, it was Material Issue, who
sounded like Cheap Trick. Most late Friday nights in junior high, I
watched MTV, slogging through videos by Queensryche, Poison, and
Cinderella. Cut to a black-and-white video featuring lanky clean-cut boys with a singer in a striped
t-shirt who played a jangly guitar and sung with a (fake) English
accent. I got the cassette as fast as I could, memorizing every
two-minute song, every shout-along chorus about girls. Then a few years
later, as it happens with these bands, Material Issue were gone. “But
melodies, harmonies, and skinny ties never die. They’ll be back up when
the pretty blue lights come on.
William’s pick for the mix and what he wrote
about it:
“And Your Bird Can Sing,” The Jam
“Powerpop?” I asked, “what’s that?” He didn’t
answer right away. Smoothing his moustache as he put the top down, tapped the
cassette into the dash, and dropped the convertible into gear. Easing
out of the parking lot, slowing to admire the waitresses on roller skates, he
checked his sunglasses in the rearview mirror, and said, “It all starts with
the Beatles.” I sense we are in for a long ride.
One facet of the Beatles is a preverb of
powerpop, except the Beatles escaped the curse of obscurity, that bad paradox
by which songs crafted to be so commercially perfect, pleasing, single-sized,
compressed, and seemingly radio-friendly are resigned to the box of shrugs,
not played in the sports car but left in the garage to be rediscovered at the
yard sale by people like us. So I choose this cover, one degree removed from
the Fab Four. No disrespect intended. To me the song has the characteristics
of my favorite gems of the genre: an overly melodic guitar line (more net
than hook—I’m thinking “Shake Some Action,” “Baby Blue,” “Starry Eyes”), a
certain bratty exuberance to the lyrics, and, of course, those loud lollipop
vocals: if it’s worth singing, it’s worth harmonizing.
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2012-10-01 13:16 182M |
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Songs
about rain |
Tonight: Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Light west
winds. Songs about the rain.
From 8-10 CST on Rock Geek F.M. with Cristy and
William: the music of Paul Kotheimer, Scott Walker, the Troggs, Marmalade,
Cracker, Tones on Tail, and a couple dozen others. Songs about rain drizzling
online at http://weft.org/stream, evaporated to the cloud right here.
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2012-10-17 15:19 203M |
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Bowie
Rarities |
To give the listener a unique trip,
Honcho and William may have neglected album tracks which cannot, in most
cases, be improved upon by David Bowie or by anybody else. Still, with nearly
half a century of solid material to edit into two hours, something had to get
neglected. We present David Bowie in roughly chronologic order, from 1967
through the turn of the millennium. Commentary aplenty, including a withering
dissection of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s latest round of draft picks.
Another collaboration, with William and Cristy handling matters through the
Ziggy Stardust era, and Honcho blazing on to the present.
Listen to a unique cross-section of this amazing
performer.
WILLIAM’S INTRODUCTION
After “Join the Gang:” And I quote: “Crazy
clothes and acid full of soul and crazy hip.” In swinging 1967 London, the
20-year-old David Bowie is trying to get caught up.
David Bowie (formerly David Jones) from 1967
through 1969 recorded a great many songs that fall somewhere between
psychedelic imagination and vaudeville novelty. The composer of music is
following the writer of lyrics. The music is imaginative, at times campy, and
also at times startlingly sweet.
During the next decade, David Bowie’s brutal
record contract required him to release two albums a year. Given both the
demands of this schedule, and the fact that we’re talking about the 1970s,
when the forces of bad taste conspired against rock music, this body of work
stands as a remarkable, multi-faceted achievement.
Due to the depth and complexity of Bowie’s
catalog, it is possible for two fans to be in love with what seem like two
different musicians.
This phase of Bowie’s recording career starts in
1969, with the album Man of Words/Man of Music (later reissued as Space Oddity). This record, while retaining strong lyric writing, sense of
narrative, distinct and distinct songs, feels in its arrangement more like
folk than rock.
This was followed by the moody hard rock of The Man Who Sold the World, then
followed by a retreat into the more sincere and orchestral piano-folk sound
of Hunky Dory, and then
one final advance into electric-guitar-dominated stage rock from which he
would not retreat. The road from folk to glam was apparently tortuous.
I am especially fond of the Bowie before 1973.
The 1972 landmark classic Rise and Fall of Ziggy
Stardust and the Spiders from Mars to me marks the
moment David Bowie stopped writing about his feelings and friends.
As the fans in the song “killed the man and
crushed his sweet hands,” David Bowie assassinated himself, erased himself
from his own work, adopting to the alienation of fame by making himself a
fiction. His lyrics, remaining smart and surreal, faded from the extravagant
poetry of “Quicksand” to a vernacular. While “Join the Gang” seems to mock
the times, the nazz with God-given ass seems very much of their period.
Not until 1980’s “Ashes to Ashes” would Bowie
write another song I can identify as autobiographical or vulnerable.
As Ziggy Stardust, Bowie became guarded,
impersonal and insincere. Alienated and alien. Full of cold sex and devoid of
warmth or love. He had removed himself and his friends from his writing and
instead populated his stage with a series of fashion poses, for example the
Thin White Duke.
He adapted, and while I haven’t found much to
hook me recorded after 1980, he perseveres. But as “David Bowie,” as an
ever-expanding Russian doll of poses.
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Songs
about trains |
This is as much fun as we’ve ever
had…so much material to fight over and argue about… Listen
as we go totally off the rails. |
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20101011trains.mp3
2012-10-05 13:02 189M |
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My
dinner with Ethan |
For this show, Ethan Madarieta and
William Gillespie took turns spinning songs chosen in response to the song
the other one just played, creating a spontaneous lattice of segues,
transitions, connections, arguments, and intermusical references.
Listen, download, tune in, and UNDERSTAND. Here’s the playlist.
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2012-10-05 13:02 211M |
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Halloween
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Songs
About Champaign |
On November 1, John Steinbacher of
Smile Politely Radio joined us, expertly mastering the WWII-era WEFT mixing
board, and hosting a show of songs by national artists that mention
“Champaign” (Illinois), and then, to fill the remaining hour and 45 minutes,
songs by national artists that mention other downstate Illinois communities,
songs by downstate Illinois bands that mention Champaign, songs with
“Champaign” in the title that are about something else, and bands that have
the word “Champaign” in their name. At no point was REO Speedwagon played.
Nor, apparently, does anybody have anything to say about “Urbana.” Listen to our world. |
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2012-10-05 13:04 175M |
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Money |
Songs about the almighty dollar, the
love of which is the root of all evil and a lot of crap stadium rock. What
better theme to get us through a pledge drive? Listen and you can still call in a pledge if you’re so moved.
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2012-10-05 13:04 163M |
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2012-10-05 13:04 186M |
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Scott
Walker |
On a stormy 11/22 Honcho emerged from
the mists to collaborate on a long-awaited Scott Walker show.
We covered Walker’s career in chronologic order,
touching on every solo album along the way.
Honcho took part 1, William took it from
there.
Get serious. Listen,
and follow us into the darkness.
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Byrds |
Professor Philip Graham, the world’s preeminent Byrds scholar,
joins us for a lively conversation about the surprising, important legacy of
America’s first folk-rock, raga-rock, bluegrass-rock, and country-rock band.
It seems that, in addition to being the best fiction coach in the world, Dr.
Graham also boasts of knowing more about the band the Byrds than any other
living human, including, it seems, the Byrds, whose memories of that great
time, understandably, are a bit fogged. |
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2012-10-05 13:05 174M |
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too can listen in and make your knowledge of this under-appreciated band
eight miles wide. |
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2012-10-05 13:06 186M |
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Songs
with Mellotrons |
We dedicated a two-hour radio show to the
Mellotron, which was a popular keyboard instrument using tape loops as a
sound source – the first sampling keyboard, (analog) – popularized in the
1960s in “Strawberry Fields Forever” and many other songs. Though we couldn’t
totally avoid King Crimson, Zombies, and early Genesis, the show focused on
recent examples. Featuring incidental mellotron music by Paul Kotheimer.
Afterward hear a bit of a live in-studio concert by Santah. Download the playlist. Or
skip the spoiler and listen with open ears. |
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2012-10-05 13:06 198M |
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2012-10-05 13:07 212M |
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Xmas
without Jolly Old Saint Rick |
Happy holidays. Play this and trim
the tree.
Afterward we attempt to join with Todd Hunter in
a year-in-review show. This fails to bring the holiday warmth to William, as
Hunter refuses to turn off the IM on the big Windows laptop he is using to
play music. Listen and grit your teeth with every
ping.
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20101220xmas.mp3
2012-10-05 13:08 213M |
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Side
One Track One |
This show is an exploration of a very
serious topic: good opening songs for albums. We kick off 2011 with lots of
side one track ones. It’s like listening to 20 records for three minutes
each. Much thought has likely been given by bands and producers to which song
to put first. Here we try to unpack some of that, while, in the mix, saving
ourselves a lot of time queuing CDs. Keep starting
to listen?
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2013-10-17 21:09 175M |
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Songs
with Telephone Voices |
Songs with answering machine
messages, dial tones, and telephone voices off the hook on Rock Geek FM! |
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Numbers:
Phone Numbers, Times |
Numbers: Phone Numbers, Times
January 24, 2011 – 7:53 pm
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Data is elastic.
Here’s what we have for phone numbers so
far:
867-5309, Jenny (Tommy Tutone)
853-5937 (Squeeze)
834-5789 (Wilson Pickett)
911 Is A Joke (Public Enemy)
777-9311 (The Time)
Beechwood 4-5789 (The Marvelettes)
Promised Land (Chuck Berry)… unless we find the
Meatloaf version
…and did you know that AC/DC’s phone number is
362436? Presumably that needs an Australian country code to work. Why not
give AC/DC a call? They have a good offer on dirty deeds.
Early results for dates and addresses are less
encyclopedic.
Freelance rock scholars, unite in the name of
research sharing! Here’s the show on MP3.
Tentative title: Songs
with Data.
Other shows include:
1-13
13-27
28-52
Years
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Robyn
Hitchcock |
The irrepressible Dave Witzany joins
us for a Valentine’s Day show dedicated to a songwriter we truly love: Robyn
Hitchcock. Two absolute Hitchcockphiles join
forces to somehow cull two hours from his 40-year career. Listen, love. |
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2012-10-05 15:01 200M |
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Radio
Free Anderson |
Freestyle soundtracks, Austin psych,
retro, and some astonishing early bullshit that forever destroys the punk
cred of Lou Reed.
Listen, learn.
Sorry, Lou.
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2012-10-05 15:21 131M |
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Procul
Harum |
Dr. Philip Graham, rock scholar,
leads a rigorous discussion of the works, personnel, and history of Procol
Harum, from their peculiar name and explosive, immediate success through
their continuing contemporary relevance and most recent releases. What you don’t know might help you. Tune in. |
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2012-10-07 09:25 77M |
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Numbers:
Songs with Dates, Addresses
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As a corollary to our shows about numbers and years, we had to devote a show to
addresses, ages, dates, and times. Are we geeks yet?
Rules? Well, just giving street names is a
different mix. On the other hand, knowing that Heartbreak
Hotel is on the end on Lonely Street is probably
enough information to find it on a map of Miseryville. We’d also include
“53rd and 3rd”—enough to let you know which subway stop is closest to the
Ramones.
Download and get really specific with your
listening.
Other shows that require an abacus:
1-13
13-27
28-52
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Phone Numbers, Times
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The
Magic Band and Captain Beefheart |
Cristy is already sick tonight, so I
may as well dedicate our two-hour radio show to the memories and music of
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band.
Ah.
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2012-10-17 15:22 173M |
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Awkward
Pauses |
Silence is a powerful tool. In
interpersonal communications it can express rainbows of meaning. In rock,
especially rock geared for radio (which is almost all of it), it is as
inappropriate as it is effective. It’s hard to listen for, but … there it is.
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Songs About Bad Parties. Get in the spirit, download, listen,
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2012-10-08 12:57 175M |
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2012-10-08 12:57 174M |
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2012-10-08 12:59 172M |
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2012-10-08 12:58 175M |
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2012-10-08 13:04 172M |
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2012-10-08 14:01 48M |
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Songs
About Autumn |
Join us as we return to the airwaves
Saturday the 19th at 3 p.m. CST, streaming online, with a brand new show: Songs about Autumn. Music that turns
colors and falls to the ground, music that is partially overcast, music that
yields empty fields and provides a flicker of warmth in the encroaching
coldness.
Rock Geek Gothic.
Download an hour of falling leaves here.
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The
Great Miserablists/ Sad Bastards |
Hooray. An hour of some of the most
depressing songs of all time. This show owes a huge debt to This Will End in Tears, by Adam
Brent Houghtaling. Thanks, Adam! For the sorrow and misery. We were so eager
to share with the rest of the world. Sniff. Listen
and weep. |
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Songs
About Satellites Part 2
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Songs About Satellites Part 2.
William is alone in the capsule for this tight hour-long orbit. Featuring an
entire block of songs about Soviet Satellites (and space dogs). Listen. |
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Bands
Named After Food
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For Thanksgiving weekend, we’re
turning the radio show into a cozy restaurant serving up five courses of
bands named after food: appetizers, soup, entrees, fruit, and coffee with
dessert. For various reasons, we have a limited menu of only one hour, so please
be patient with our many specials and substitutions. And, oh yeah, we didn’t
find any bands named Water, so you’ll have to make do with no beverages—we’re saving
those for another show. Tuck in to our savory meal
and listen. |
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For the holiday season, we bring you
the second installment of Songs About Bad Parties. Get in the spirit, download,
listen, and sulk in the corner.
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The
Rock Inbox |
On
our first Rock Inbox in a few years, we venture into the dangerous territory
of new releases. Join Cristy as she tries on Camera Obscura, Thee Oh Sees,
and other cutting-edge discs. One fresh hour. |
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2013-12-15 18:24 83M |
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An
Incomplete and Capricious History of Ska
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DJ Reggaetone and I attempt to fit
3/4 waves of ska into two hours, replete with factoids, banter, and technical
glitches. Dreaming of a black and white Christmas. We field requests via
telephone, facebook, and cell, and wander into the treacherous cul-de-sacs of
bands we’ve never heard but which have funny names, one of the features of
third-wave ska. Listen and skank.
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We who are about to have a divisive
referendum salute you.
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Two hours of rock from Scotland! Has anybody coined the term Scotrock yet? If not, would it be unforgivable if we were to add that
to the rock geek lexicon along with Krautrock and Mathrock? Assembled with thanks to Alister Smith, Glasgow correspondent
Iain Matheson, and Ben from the Brighton Rock Geek Office!
Here’s the setlist:
Scotland – December 28, 2013
Turn Up the Radio – Sugar Crisis, n/a
Grey Streets – Felt, Forever Breathes the Lonely
Word, 1986
Taking Names and Heartbeats – Sugar Crisis,
n/a
The Living End (demo) – The Jesus & Mary
Chain, The Power of Negative Thinking, 2008
Kids Will be Skeletons – Mogwai, Happy Songs for
Happy People, 2003
New Year’s Resolution – Camera Obscura, Desire
Lines, 2013*
I’m Waking Up to Us – Belle and Sebastian, I’m
Waking Up to Us (single), 2001
Quicksand – Travis, 12 Stories, 2003
Good Morning Britain – Aztec Camera, Stray,
1990
I Hate Scotland – Ballboy, Club Anthems,
2002
Your Love Is the Place Where I Come From –
Teenage Fanclub, Songs from Northern Britain, 1997
Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam – The Vaselines,
MOJO comp: Roots of Nirvana, 2011
Gentle Tuesday – Primal Scream, Sonic Flower
Groove
Impossible Things – Looper, Up a Tree,
1999
Baby Don’t You Do It – The Poets, Comp: The
Perfumed Garden: 82 Rare Flowerings from the British Underground 1965–73,
n/a
Chinese White – The Incredible String Band,
Comp: White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, 2006
The Universal Soldier – Donovan, Comp: The
British Are Coming, 2002
Moscow Olympics – Orange Juice, The Glasgow
School, 2005
Simply Thrilled Honey – Orange Juice, Comp:
Beloved, 2008
Lorelei – Cocteau Twins, Comp: The Brit
Box
Somewhere in China – Shop Assistants, Comp: The
Brit Box
Nobody’s Wedding – Richard Thompson
Breakfast – Eugenius
Superstar – Barfly
Tell Her Tonight – Franz Ferdinand, Franz
Ferdinand, 2004
Thank You for Being You – The Pastels, Truckload
of Trouble, 1993
Dragon – The Beta Band, Hot Shots II, 2001
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Women and Punk: Cristy’s 18th
Birthday Show
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For Cristy’s 18th birthday, she and 13-month-old Heather blast
out the speakers with raw, electric estrogen, spinning women of punk
rock.
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Japanese Psych
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Ethan Madarieta and Erin Hayes join
William to share their expertise, and scratch the surface of the tip of the
iceberg of Japanese psychedelic music. This is an hour-long primer or a genre
known for half-hour-long songs, a gateway to the psychic labyrinth. Commit
suicide, drive to Belgrade, hijack a plane, eat sushi on acid, tune in, and turn on.
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2014-01-31 08:35 87M |
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Surfabilly
Freakout |
We
host the Surfabilly Freakout wrecking crew for an hour of modern madness! |
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Songs that DON’T Glorify Drugs (or
Sex)
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It wasn’t at all easy, but we put
together an hour of rock songs that portray drugs in an unmistakably negative
light. Get sober, get depressed, pull the covers up to your nose, turn off and tune in.
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Monkeys |
Songs about monkeys. With Cristy,
William, and Ba. Our second show in a row with a legitimate listener calling
in a legitimate request—this time it was a two-year-old. Peel a banana, sit
back on your favorite branch, and enjoy.
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2014-03-10 05:57 87M |
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Comics and Cartoons 1
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A sugary bowlful of songs about
comics and cartoons, with colorful audio marshmallows from classic and
vintage cartoons. Grab your favorite cereal, wriggle into those sleepers, and
get comfortable on the carpet as close to the radio set as possible. Download, up, up, and away. |
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20140322comicsandcar..> 2014-03-22
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Imaginary Bands
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Cristy, William, Heather Rose, &
Tony Money gather to present and discuss some of the greatest songs recorded
by nonexistent bands, from Ruben and the Jets to Spinal Tap to the Dukes of
Stratosphear. Although we overflow the hour, we can’t get to everything, nor
would we want to, so we also present a Rock and Roll Imaginary Hall of Fame.
Of sorts. Great fun. Listen here.
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Molly;
Bloomington, Indiana; Louisville; and the rest |
Molly Poganski lends her expertise
and vinyl to the Rock Geek project, taking us over the borders to report on
some of her favorite bands from Louisville and Bloomington, Indiana. She
whips up an honest mix featuring emo, punk, nearly country, and numerous gems
from the Magnetic South label. Download, tune in, get out your map of the flyover states and a sharpie, and add
some missing links to your map of the musical world. Thanks, Molly!
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It’s CRISTY’S MIX on the Rock Inbox,
spinning unknown quantities straight off the new arrivals shelf. We savor
some gems and choke on some ore. It’s a pledge drive, but somehow this
doesn’t ruin the fun. Listen and discover what we
heard.
SETLIST
Black Lips—Drive by Buddy, Underneath the Rainbow
HeartsRevolution—Ride
or Die, Ride or Die LP Singalong
Augustines—Cruel City, Augustines
Kaiser Chiefs—The Factory Gates, Education,
Education, Education & War
Skaters—Miss Teen
Massachusetts, Manhattan
Cibo
Matto—Emerald Tuesday, Hotel Valentine
Drowners—Long Hair, Drowners
Old 97s—This Is the Ballad, Most
Messed Up
JD Wilkes & the Dirt Daubers—Let It
Fly, Wild Moon
St Paul
& the Broken Bones—Call Me, Half the City
Aloe Blacc—Love Is the Answer, Lift
Your Spirit
The Rebel Set—Riddle Me This, How to Make a Monster
The Pack
AD—Animal, Do Not Engage
The
Faint—Mental Radio, Doom Abuse
Holy Wave—Psychological Thriller, Relax
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Ghosts
Part 1 |
Songs
about ghosts, live from the afterworld |
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2014-05-17 20:21 84M |
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Comics and Cartoons Part 2
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Up up and away! One more hour of
music about comics and cartoons, loaded with soundbites as tasty as
marshmallows in your Saturday morning cereal. Put on your pajamas, download, and enjoy.
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Ghosts
Part 2 |
Part 2 (following part 1) of songs about ghosts. An hour of haunted rock. Dim the
lights, pull the covers up to your nose, and listen to these songs that go
bump in the night? |
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20140607ghosts2.mp3
2014-06-10 05:40 81M |
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Degenerative Music
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Experiment: This show consists of three twenty-minute excerpts
from hour-long pieces of music, each of which is built from a process of
allowing a sound source to naturally decay. Results: An hour of
listener-unfriendly radio that sounds like sounds like the station, or
possibly music itself, or even civilization, is melting into static. Love it. |
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20140609degenerative..> 2014-06-10
05:40 84M |
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Legal
Issues |
Songs about legal matters, lawyers,
police, jail, punishment, release, and songs with actual courtroom scenes. A
judicious mix, but listen and judge for yourself.
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20140630legalissues.mp3 2014-07-01
13:18 83M |
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Tributes |
In this hour, Cristy and William spin songs that are full-on
tributes to other bands or musicians. We travel through rock, country, folk,
full-on worship, winking references, from and to rock royalty and peasantry
alike. Not covers, all originals.
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20140712tributes.mp3
2014-07-21 19:12 89M |
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Dub UEFT
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Reggaetone and MC Willy G spin two hours of dizzy dub, from
Tubby to Fatty, from Scientist to the Meow Meows.
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20140717dub.mp3
2014-07-17 21:45 165M |
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Illness and Doctors
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Songs about doctors, illness, hospitals, disease, dementia,
ambulances, and death. Sit down and someone will
be in to check your hearing shortly.
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20140717sicknessandd..> 2014-07-21
19:11 85M |
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Ska
Covers |
A fatty! An hour point five of ska
bands covering rock songs, soundtrack music, show tunes, Sinatra, heavy
metal, and even Nancy Sinatra. Put on your boots, click, download, and stomp.
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20140719skacovers.mp3
2014-07-21 19:13 123M |
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Country-Ass
Music |
Like his heroes George Strait and Ketih Whitley, William is
unapologetically Country. His songs, while rooted in the present, call to
mind simpler times when the back porch was where folks gathered to network.
The first track on this show, ‘Trash,’ paints a picture of rural life that
speaks to his small town sensibilities. ”This song identifies who I am,” he
says. ”It shows character and that’s important where I’m from. You learn to
say ‘yes, ma’am’ and ‘no, sir,’ and to open the door for the ladies.”
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20140729country-assm..> 2014-07-26
19:01 88M |
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Losers |
Songs about losers, losing, losing
you, for losing, lost losers. Actually a pretty upbeat and punchy mix!
Tune it in and get happy here. I left a chunk of the previous show on this recording so you
can cringe at the awkward transitions that are a part and parcel of community
radio. It will be a sad day when commercial professionalism entirely consumes
the airwaves.
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20140801losers.mp3
2014-08-03 11:07 94M |
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Astonishing
Debuts |
Cristy, William, and Baby Chaos
identify their favorite stand-out debut albums from 1962 through the present,
playing tracks from the greatest first albums released between 1976-1996. All
accompanied by astute analysis, personal anecdotes, factual misunderstandings,
and a rambunctious toddler. Listen to the first
hour here. |
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20140809astonishingd..> 2014-08-09
20:54 103M |
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Freaks
and Geeks |
Rock
Geeks are joined by Chelsea Bandita and Milkwagon, and help co-host
Surfabilly Freakout in a human mash-up called Freaks and Geeks. Surf and
rockabilly music old and new, some from places with no beaches whatsoever. |
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20140809freaksandgee..> 2014-08-09
20:54 76M |
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Imaginary
Soundtracks |
A show dedicated to movie soundtrack
music that never appeared in movies.
We celebrate the fact that soundtrack music,
especially Italian horror and western soundtracks, has become a musical genre
detached from film.
A dense, lush, funky, orchestral, and creepy
mix.
Turn on the projector of your mind and listen
here.
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20140810imaginarysou..> 2014-08-30
21:49 91M |
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Decayed
Lace |
Subbing for one of our favorite shows Decayed
Lace, we try our hand at goth rock, with a few
moody digressions, closing with half an hour of music by bands whose names
include the letter X, that most alien of alphanumeric characters. |
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20140831goth.mp3
2014-09-02 20:33 209M |
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How to Sing Like a Fat Guy
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An instructional workout cassette. Grab some beer and donuts and listen.
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20140908howtosinglik..> 2014-09-09
16:35 81M |
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128
Candles at 45 RPM |
William’s 45th birthday party. Also
Kurt Bielema’s 43rd. And Jessy’s (do the math). Straight from the Mackie
mixer, a mix of old 45s, bad and worse, from an ad-hoc, Mad-Maxy,
duct-taped-together assemblage of iffy turntables. Scratches, pops, warts and
inexplicable variations in speed and all. All followed by a
not-judiciously-enough edited collage of karaoke attempts.
Join the party, edited down to three exhausting
hours, here.
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20140920_45thbirthda..> 2014-09-24
18:53 101M |
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Lunar
Fanfare |
Subbing for the experimental/ambient show Fanfare for the
Speeding Bullet, William offers a hypnotic two hours of arythmic, ambient,
electronic music all meant to convey a sea of tranquility. Featuring guest
appearances by JFK, Mission Control, and Elroy. You can listen here and lapse
gently into lunacy.
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20140928lunarfanfare..> 2014-09-30
14:19 162M |
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Tangoesque.
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Sitting
in on the Beat Blender, William pours a gourdful of Argentine music,
Argentine tango, and bastard tango from North America and Western Europe. |
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20140929tangoesque.mp3
2014-09-30 14:19 155M |
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Halloween:
Ghosts of Songs About Ghosts
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For Halloween this year, we descend to the cobwebby basement
studio for a home-recorded show. This time for the web: Little Records Radio.
We reprise parts one and two of songs about ghosts to fit the Little
Records Radio format of music recorded between 1976 and 1995, and provide new
commentary. We are haunted throughout by ghosts and gremlins banging on the
microphone table and sending hums through the cheap Radio Shack microphone,
but manage to make it to the finale.
Creep—Creep out!
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20141031ghosts.mp3
2014-10-18 07:49 85M |
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LSDC&W
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Alice D. and Textasy host the
international psychedelia show The New Elastic Infinite, and bring it down
home with two hours of psychedelic country and western music, and find that
the southern mind doesn’t always turn to thoughts of peace and love. Download or listen:
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20141122psychedelicc..> 2014-11-17
15:13 164M |
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Lewis |
Uncle Johnny “Honcho” Anderson from Reverberation Vinyl joins us for a
trip through the dubious facts but actual recordings of the artist known
sometimes as “Lewis.” Hear what Lewis Truthers have to say, as well as some
rare, somewhat recent, and barely released material from one of Lewis’s many noms de plume. Personally, my theory
is that Lewis is actually Jandek. Shhh! He doesn’t
want the world to know!
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20141222lewis.mp3
2015-01-02 11:23 81M |
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| 2015-01-26 |
ABCDEFGHIJKLLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
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26 songs, signifying A-Z, in one hour, from the Muppets to
hardcore punk. Join us in this race against time |
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20150126abcdefghijkl..> 2015-01-27
13:06 107M |
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| 2015-03-30 |
British Synth—Part One: the roots
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From Anthony Burgess, J.G. Ballard, and William Carlos to Wendy
Carlos, The Silicon Teens, and the Human League, we dig up the crunchy roots
of primitive Brit-synth in the first half of a two-part show. This show owes
a debt to the BBC documentary Synth Brittania as well as the book Mad World, with a special thanks to Doug Hoepker for research assistance
and tune-sharing.
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20150330britishsynth..> 2015-03-30
16:57 85M |
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| 2015-04-27 |
British Synth—Part Two: the blossoms
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In part two of our loving narrative of the rise of the
synthesizer in British post-punk, we hand-pick a bouquet of our favorite
earlier examples of the genre. Wendy Carlos, as before, makes a surprise
guest appearance or two.
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20150427britishsynth..> 2015-04-27
18:54 92M |
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| 2015-05-24 |
This is Their Music
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Austin and William sit in for Jason
Finkelman on Fanfare for the Speeding Bullet. William finishes a bottle of chartreuse to numb himself while
Austin spins—no, wait, his music is all on the
cloud—rains avant-garde jazz and noise and to mix it up a little
noise-jazz with Anthony Braxton and Wolf Eyes. With just enough squonk. Right
in the middle of the calamity, enjoy the calming sounds of Atmospheres—an homage to Kubrick in
anticipation of our soundtrack show the next day, recorded the previous
weekend. Download,
listen, or just read it. |
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20150525fanfare_aust..> 2015-05-25
00:03 169M |
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| 2015-05-25 |
No Name and Soundtracks
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Art Theater manager and all-around film lover and hater,
REDACTED, joins us for a spirited hour of odd music removed from its
context and rolled in vigorously unstructured dialog. |
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20150525soundtracks_..> 2015-05-26
10:58 90M |
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| 2015-06-15 |
The Songs of Bertholt Brecht vs. the House Un-American
Activities Committee
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Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Rock Geek FM
party? Here’s an hour of songs with lyrics by Bertholt Brecht, performed by a
variety of artists, and interspersed with recordings of Brecht’s
interrogation by the HUAC. |
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20150615brecht.mp3
2015-06-18 13:51 102M |
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| 2015-06-09 |
Dylan’s First Album and Its Roots
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Drawing inspiration from this LP, Constructing the Legend,
William plays through every song on Bob Dylan’s eponymous debut followed by
the song that inspired it, with additional information about the artists, and
an ad hoc reading of Rick Wakeman’s eulogy to Chris Squire. In all, a lot of
deep history is swept into Bob Dylan’s first collection, before he became
… BOB DYLAN! |
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20150629dylansfirsta..> 2015-06-30
14:17 136M |
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July 5th in America: Independence Day
Hangover Jazz
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At the end of a lovely Independence Day weekend, Austin and
William stand in for Jason Finkelman on Fanfare for the Speeding Bullet,
bringing you music from the distant fringes of jazz and the flip side of
patriotism.
Download the thing here or click on the isosceles triangle below.
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Austin
McCann |
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20150705independence..> 2015-07-06
13:52 168M |
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| 2015-07-27 |
Kurt Bielema live, not live, plugged
and unplugged
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Prior to his live radio concert on The WEFT Sessions, Kurt
Bielema joins William to share his eclectic musical history of alter egos,
unreleased tracks, his work with the scorching Angie Heaton, and new and old
tracks from teen metal to trip hop to power pop to kids playing improvised
jazz piano for six hands. Featuring a quiz: a guest appearance by Cristy
“Rockcyclopedia” Scoggins who is charged with guessing the birth years of
rock stars of note who celebrated birthdays in the previous two weeks…. |
Kurt
Bielema |
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20150727kurtbielema.mp3 2015-07-28
13:45 89M |
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The Songs of Cole Porter vs. The
United States of America
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No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the
highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming
a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As
some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love
that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women
to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do
respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for
themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded
from one of civilization’s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in
the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.
No doubt. By way of illustration, I call the
court’s attention to the songs of Cole Porter.
Richard Posner, writing for Slate:
Related to the preceding point, the chief
justice’s dissent is heartless. There is of course a long history of
persecution of gay people, a history punctuated by such names as Oscar Wilde,
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Alan Turing. Until quite recently, many
American gays and lesbians took great pains to conceal their homosexuality in
order to avoid discrimination. They value marriage just as straight people
do. They want their adopted children to have the psychological and financial
advantages of legitimacy. They are hurt by the discrimination that the
dissenting justices condone. Prohibiting gay marriage is discrimination.
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20150808coleporterob..> 2015-08-08
16:18 100M |
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These are a few of Austin’s Favorite
Things
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Babysitting Fanfare for the Speeding
Bullet, Austin and William deliver two hours of
unplanned or intentional technical and musical problems, with an emphasis on
implausible cover songs, featuring an entire hour of a beloved Julie Andrews
song being brutally stripped of all innocence, and most of its melody. |
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20150809austinsfavor..> 2015-08-09
21:14 164M |
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Country Joe and the Fish and
Quicksilver Messenger Service
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Neal Cassady Chair of Psychedelic Folk Art Philip Graham and
Professor of Rockthropology Alma Gottlieb lead Cristy and William through
some of the uncharted early albums of the nexus of the cultural myth known as
the “Summer of Love.” Learn which ruthless, murderous dictator the pacifist
Country Joe was named after, and which band member went on to be a voice
actor for the Smurfs. And lots of great music eclipsed in the shadow of the
Grateful Dead and Woodstock. |
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20150824countryjoe.mp3
2015-08-06 19:01 103M |
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| 2015-09-07 |
Closing
Tracks |
or our final scheduled show, Cristy and William explore the
discontinuous topic of great closing tracks on great albums. Except for “Hang
Loose,” which we forgot, which Cristy is still mad about, even though she
wouldn’t even let William consider including any They Might Be Giants songs.
So we’re burying the hatchet right between your ears. |
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20150907closingtrack..> 2015-09-07
09:39 88M |
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