Saturday, December 20, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 20 DEC. 08


BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM
Let’s Make Christmas Mean Something This Year/ JAMES BROWN
Christmas Day/ DESMOND DECKER
La Luna en tu Mirada/ LOS ZAFIROS (’99, Bossa Cubana)
How It Rained/ LORETTE VELVETTE (Rude Angel)
Jesus, Etc./ WILCO (’02, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)
Christmas in Washington/ STEVE EARLE (’97, El Corazon)
White Winter Hymnal/ FLEET FOXES (’08, self titled)
Come On Over (Turn Me On)/ ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN (’08, Sunday At Devil Dirt)*
These Days/ NICO (’67, Chelsea Girl)

Keep an Eye on Other’s Gain/ BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY (’08, Lie Down in the Light)*
Crystal Days/ ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN (’84, Ocean Rain)
Wicked Midnite/ THE MEKONS (’93, I ♥Mekons)
Cretin Hop/ THE RAMONES (’77, Rockets to Russia)
Great DJ/ THE TINGS TINGS (’08, We Started Nothing)*
Swing Set/ THE CUTTERS (’01, Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!)

Yoo Hoo/ IMPERIAL TEEN (’98, What is Not to Love)
I’ve Got the Hots/ ROBYN HITCHCOCK (’80, Underwater Moonlight)
Take A Walk/ SPOON (’01, Girls Can Tell)
Statues and Glue/ SUNSHINE FIX (’04, Green Imagination)
Helpless/ SUGAR (’92, Copper Blue)
Navy Sheets/ THE HOLD STEADY (’08, Stay Positive)*
Candy Machine/ STEVE WYNN & THE MIRACLE 3 (’03, Static Transmission)
Something’s Gone Wrong Again/ THE BUZZCOCKS (’79)
Nothing Every Happened/ DEERHUNTER (’08, Microcastle)*

Nitroglycerine/ THE GORIES (’90, I Know You Fine, But How You Doin’)
Box Elder/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY (’99)
Torture/ KING KHAN & THE SHRINES (’08, The Supreme Genius of…)*
Jimmy’s Fantasy/ REDD KROSS (’93, Phaseshifter)

Confection/ NELS CLINE SINGERS (’07, Draw Breath)
*new or recent release

Saturday, December 13, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 13 DEC. 08

BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM
Say No Go/ DE LA SOUL (’89, 3 Feet High and Rising)
Paper Planes/ MIA (’07, Kala)
That’s Not My Name/ TINGS TINGS (’08, We Started Nothing)*
North American Scum/ LCD SOUNDSYSTEM ’06, Sound of Silver)
CD Windfall 2088 AD/ THE FALL (’88, I Am Curious Oranj)
Clap Hands/ TOM WAITS (’88, Big Time)
Way Down in the Hole/ COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS (’93, Gamblin’ Days Are Over)

Rockin’ Around With You/ TOM PETTY & HEARTBREAKERS (’76, self titled)
Soliel/ IAIN ARCHER (’06, Magnetic North)
It’s A Bad World/ TEENAGE FANCLUB (’87, Songs From Northern Britain)
She’s Got Everything/ THE KINKS (’67)
The First Part/ SUPERCHUNK (’94, Foolish)
John the Revelator/ NICK CAVE (’06, The Harry Smith Project)

The Have Nots/ X (’82, Under the Black Sun)
Burning House of Love/ X (’95, Unclogged)
Trail of Time/ THE KNITTERS (’85, Poor Little Critter on the Road)
God’s Gonna Cut You Down/ JOHNNY CASH (’06, American V)
You’ll Never Change/ THE DETROIT COBRAS (’07, Tied & True)
Woo Hoo/ THE ROCK-A-TEENS
Girls in Paris/ LEE HAZELWOOD (’67)
Come on Over/ ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN (’08, Sunday at Devil Dirt)
Je T’aime Moi Non Plus/ SERGE GAINSBOURG (’69, w/ JANE BIRKIN)

Don’t Crowd Your Mind/ LORETTE VELVETTE (’00, Rude Angel)
Swing Set/ THE CUTTERS (’01, Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!)
Ballroom Blitz/ THE SWEET (’73, Desolation Boulevard)
I Just Want to Have Something to Do/ THE RAMONES (’78, Road to Ruin)
Same Reaction/ SNAKE HIPS (’97, Memphis Juke)

Funny Face/ THE MUFFS (’95, Blonder and Blonder)

*new or recent release

Saturday, December 6, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 6 DEC. 08


Nina Nastasia, Where's the New Record?

BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM
Think/ THE 5 ROYALES (’57)
Willy Nilly/ RUFUS THOMAS (‘65)
Brand New Cadillac/ VINCE TAYLOR & HIS PLAYBOYS (’61)
You Got Me Hummin’/ SAM & DAVE (’67)
You Got Me Hummin’/ THE REIGNING SOUND (’04, Too Much Guitar)
Leave My Kitten Alone/ THE DETROIT COBRAS (’07, Tied & True)
Pleasure Unit/ THE GORE GORE GIRLS (’07, Get the Gore)
This Damn Nation/ THE GODFATHERS (’85, Hit By Hit)
Kingdom of Love/ THE SOFT BOYS (’80, Underwater Moonlight)
Fire Engine/ RICHARD LLOYD (’90, Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye)

I Did My Part/ THE HELLCATS (’87, Hoodoo Train)
Don’t You Want It/ GOLDEN MEAN ('06, Black Operation)
See You Tonight/ VETIVER (’08, More of the Past)
How Does It Fee to Feel/ THE CREATION (68)
What Goes On/ THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (’69)
Let’s Save Tony Orlando’s House/ YO LA TENGO (’00, And Then Nothing Turns Itself Inside-Out)
The Alibi/ LUNA (’02, Close Cover Before Striking)

Old Fashioned/ FRIGHTENED RABBIT (’08, The Midnight Organ Fight)*
Up P’Tit Air/ TETES RAIDES (’96, Le Bout Du Toit)
Le Roi Des Fourmis/ FABIENNE DELSOL (’07, Between You and Me)
I Move Around/ LEE HAZELWOOD (’66)
Cotton/ MOUNTAIN GOATS (’04, We Shall All Be Healed)
Take Care the Road You Choose/ RICHARD THOMPSON (’07, Sweet Warrior)

I Don’t Like the Man That I Am/ PETE MOLINARI (’08, A Virtual Landslide)
Paha Vaanii/ MARKO HAAVISTO
Crystal Frontier (orig. version)/ CALEXICO ('01, Aerocalexico)
Lucifer Sam/ THE SADIES (’06, In Concert)
In the City/ THE JAM (’77, In The City)
Saying Goodbye/ THE MUFFS (‘93, self titled)
Kiss Me on the Bus (orig. studio version)/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’85, Tim)

*new or recent release

Saturday, November 22, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 22 NOV. 08

BOY WONDER’S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM
My Lover’s Prayer/ OTIS REDDING (’66)
Temptation/ ELVIS COSTELLO & STEVE NIEVE (‘96, live, Troubador)
Life’s Little Ups and Downs/ CHARLIE RICH (’69)
There She Still Remains/ PETE MOLINARI (’08, Virtual Landslide)
Talk About the Passion/ REM (’83 Murmur)
You Can Have It All/ YO LA TENGO (’00, And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out)
Sealegs/ THE SHINS (’07, Wincing the Night Away)
Lady Jane/ BELLE & SEBASTIAN (’08, The BBC Sessions ’96-’00)

Feelin’/ THE LA’S (’89, BBC Sessions)
I Like Birds/ THE EELS (’00, Daisies of the Galaxy)
That’s the Way We Get By/ SPOON ('02, Kill the Moonlight)
See You Tonight (‘70’s cover, Wizards/Sweden)/ VETIVER (’08, More the of the Past)*
Baby Strange/ T. REX (72, The Slider)
I Want Candy/ THE STRANGELOVES (’65)
In the Street/ BIG STAR (45 version, ’08, Thank You Friends)
Buffalo Boots/ LUNA (’04, Rendevouz)

Brand New Cadillac/ VINCE TAYLOR & THE PLAYBOYS
Don’t Crowd Your Mind/ LORETTE VELVETTE (’00, Rude Angel)
Sweet Tooth/ KING KHAN & THE SHRINES (’08, Supreme Genius of…)*
+81/ DEERHOOF (’07, Friend Opportunity)
He’s Frank (Slight Return)/ MONOCHROME SET (’83)
Another Girl, Another Planet/ THE ONLY ONES (’78)
Do You Want to Touch Me There/ JOAN JETT (’92, Bad Reputation)
I Don’t Know/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’87, Pleased to Meet Me)
Leave My Kitten Alone/ THE DETROIT COBRAS (’07, Tied & True)

Tonight We Ride/ MATTHEW SWEET ('03, Kimi Ga Suki* Raifu)
Route/ SON VOLT (’95, Trace)
I Am a Tree/ GUIDED BY VOICES (’97, Mag Earwhig)
Draw Us Lines/ THE CONSTANTINES (’06, Tournament of Hearts)
Mr. Pharmacist/ THE OTHER HALF ('68)

*new or recent release

Saturday, November 15, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 15 NOV. 08

BOY WONDER’S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM
Cool Jerk/ THE CAPITOLS (’66)
He’s Really Saying Something/ THE VELVELETTES (’67)
Nothing But a Heartache/ THE FLIRTATIONS (’67)
Lost Time/ THE PLIMSOULS (’81, self titled)
As Long As I Have You/ THE DETROIT COBRAS (’07, Tied & True)
Be Easy/ SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS (’07, 100 Days, 100 Nights)
Afro/ JSBX (’92, Mo’ Width)
Automatic/ RED DEVILS (’92, King King) Lester Butler,vx/harp
Hard Row/ THE BLACK KEYS (’03, Thickfreakness)
King of the Mountain/ S.C.O.T.S. (’00, Liquored Up & Laquered Down)

Rockabilly Boogie/ JOHNNY BURNETTE (’56)
Don’t Crowd Your Mind/ LORETTE VELVETTE (’00, Rude Angel)
Torture/ KING KHAN & THE SHRINES (’08, The Supreme Genius of…)*
Back to School/ THE FLESHTONES (’08, Take A Good Look)
Keep on Running/ SPENCER DAVIS GROUP (’67)
Wicked Midnite/ THE MEKONS (’93, I Love Mekons)
Time the Avenger/ THE PRETENDERS ’84, Learning to Crawl)

Unguarded Moment/ THE CHURCH (’81, Of Skins and Heart)
Privilege (Set Me Free)/ PATTI SMITH (’78, Easter)
Out in the Street/ THE SHANGRI-LA’S (’65)
Family Song/ LITTLE IS NOT BIG ENOUGH
He Woke Me Up/ SUFJAN STEVENS (’04, Seven Swans)
For Every Field There’s a Mole/ BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY (’08, Lie Down in the Light)*
Family Tree/ TV ON THE RADIO (’08, Dear Science)*

Fanfare/ ERIC MATTHEWS (’95, It’s Heavy in Here)
42 West Avenue/ CASHIER NO.9*
Palmcorder Yajna/ THE MOUNTAIN GOATS (’04, We Shall All Be Healed)
Kiss Me on the Bus/ THE ‘MATS (’85, Tim, demo version)
Devil Doll/ X (’83, More Fun in the New World)
Safe European Home/ THE CLASH (’78, Give’ em Enough Rope)
Pen/ THE SIMPLE ONES (’91, Worth the Weight)
*new or recent release

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ TUES., 11 NOV. 08

BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ MIDNIGHT-2 AM
Change is Gonna Come/ OTIS REDDING (’66, Otis Blue)
Superstar/ SONIC YOUTH (’94, If I Were a Carpenter)
Why We Fight/ TORTOISE (’95, 7” single, A Lazarus Taxon)
Nothing Ever Happened/ DEERHUNTER (’08, Microcastle)*
No Llama/ JUANA MOLINA (’08, Un Dia)*
Up on the Sun/ THE MEAT PUPPETS (’85, Up on the Sun)
Cancelled Check/ BECK (’98, Mutations)
Houses/ VETIVER (’08, Thing of the Past)

42 West Avenue/ CASHIER NO.9 ('08, 7" single)*
Pages Turn/ 28TH DAY (’85, original release; ‘03, Complete Recordings)
Buffalo Boots/ LUNA (’04, Rendevouz)
Soleil/ IAIN ARCHER (’06, Magnetic North)

New Sensations/ LOU REED (’84, New Sensations)
Tower of Song/ LEONARD COHEN (’88, I’m Your Man)
Moby Octopad/ YO LA TENGO (’97, I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One)
Telegram Sam/ T. REX (’72, The Slider)
Hang On/ TEENAGE FANCLUB (’93, Thirteen)

Love Me Anyway/ STEVE WYNN (’08, Crossing Dragon Bridge)*
Do You Love Me/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (07, Let Love In)

Via Chicago/ Spiders (Kidsmoke)/ WILCO (’07, live, Troutdale)
*new or recent release

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ MON., TUES, 3, 4 NOV. 08

BOY WONDER/ G.M.'S MUSIC BOX/HOT CIRCLES/ 10:00 PM-1:00 AM
Oh Lord, Don’t Drop the Atomic Bomb on Me/ CHARLIES MINGUS (62, Oh Yeah)
Eisenhower Blues/ J.B. LENOIR (1954)
Do I Worry?/ THE INK SPOTS (1956)
Great Atomic Power/ LOUVIN BROTHERS (’61)
Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive/ BING CROSBY & THE ANDREW SISTERS
God’s Gonna Cut You Down/ JOHNNY CASH (’06, American V)
I Don’t Want to Be President/ PERCY MAYFIELD
Who’s Gonna Help Brother Get Further/ LEE DORSEY ('70)
A Change is Gonna Come/ SAM COOKE
People Get Ready/ ARETHA FRANKLIN (’68, Lady Soul)
Inner City Blues/ MARVIN GAYE (’71, What’s Going On)

Political World/ BOB DYLAN (’89, Oh Mercy)
Dad’s Gonna Kill Me/ RICHARD THOMPSON (’07, Sweet Warrior)
You Know the Rest/ STEVE EARLE (’97, El Corazon)
Election Day/ THE ‘MATS (’87, Pleased to Meet Me, outtake)

Political Science/ WILCO
A Few Words in Defense of our Country/ RANDY NEWMAN (’08, Harps and Angels)*
American Without Tears/ ELVIS COSTELLO (’86, King of America)
Mohammed’s Radio (live, ’80, at the Roxy)/ WARREN ZEVON (’80, Stand in the Fire)
Darkness on the Edge of Town/ BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND (’78, Darkness on the Edge of Town)
Lost in Space/ AIMEE MANN (’02, Lost in Space)
I’m Gonna Change My Ways/ PETER CASE (’07, Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John)

Manhattan Fault Line/ STEVE WYNN (’08, Crossing Dragon Bridge)*
Deep Down/ CALEXICO ('06, Garden Ruin)
Beny Ou Benak Eih/ NATACHA ATLAS & THE MAZEEKA ENSEMBLE (’08, Ana Hina)*
Valkoiset Linnut/ MARKUS ALLAN (’97, from Man Without a Past, st)
The Canon Song/ THE FOWLER BROTHERS w/ STAN RIDGEWAY (’85, Lost in the Stars)
Road to Peace/ TOM WAITS (’07, Orphans)

President Richard Nixon/ GENE MARSHALL
H2O Gate/ GIL SCOTT-HERON & BRIAN JACKSON (’74, Winter in America)
Yes We Can/ POINTER SISTERS (’73)
Funky President/ JAMES BROWN
Higher Ground/ STEVIE WONDER (’73, Innervisions)
Brothers Gonna Work It Out/ PUBLIC ENEMY (’90, Fear of a Black Planet)
Love Your Enemies/ WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS (’90, Dead City Radio)
Straight to Hell/ THE CLASH (’80, Combat Rock)
Paper Planes/ MIA (’07, Kala)
Thick As Thieves/ THE JAM (’79, Setting Sons)
Middle of the Road/ THE PRETENDERS (’82, Learning to Crawl)
Torture/ KING KAHN & THE SHRINES (’08, Supreme Genius of…)*

Un Dia/ JUANA MOLINA (’08, Un Dia)*
*new or recent release

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ TUES., 28 OCT. 08


Wilco offers free download of their Dylan cover, "I Shall Be Released," recorded live in Bend, OR, 2008, with Fleet Foxes - if you promise to vote.

BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ MIDNIGHT-2 AM
The Love You Save (May Be Your Own)/ JOE TEX (’66)
Shelley, My Love/ NICK LOWE (’94, Impossible Bird)
Better Burn Your Fun/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY & THE BROKEOFFS (’08, Dirt Don’t Hurt)*
Without a Word/ GIANT SAND (w/ NEKO CASE, ’08, Provisions)*
Midnight Man/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’08, Dig, Lazarus Dig)
Love Me Anyway/ STEVE WYNN (’08, Crossing Dragon Bridge)*
Old World/ THE MODERN LOVERS (’76, self titled)
What Goes On/ VELVET UNDERGROUND (’69, Velvet Underground)

Honeychild, What Can I Do?/ ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN (’06, Ballad of the Broken Seas)
Victims of the Night/ LEE HAZELWOOD & ANN MARGARET (’69, The Cowboy & the Lady)
Yacht Dance/ XTC (’82, English Settlement)
1,000,000/ REM (’81, Chronic Town)
Dear Boy/ PAUL & LINDA MCCARTNEY (’71, Ram)
The Moth/ AIMEE MANN (’02, Lost in Space)
The Kneeling Drunkard’s Plea/ LOUVIN BROTHERS (’58)

Dar (Que Dificil)/ JUANA MOLINA (’08, Un Dia)*
Protest Song/ oRSo (’08, Ask Your Neighbor)*
Michigan Girls/ CALIFONE (’03, Quicksand/Cradlesnakes)
Walking in the Rain/ KENDRA SMITH (’91, The Guild of Temporal Adventurers)
Acid Tongue/ JENNY LEWIS (’08, Acid Tongue)*
Rattle My Attic/ LILA NELSON (’08, Letter Home)*
Canal Song/ IAIN ARCHER (’06, Magnetic North)
The White Lady Loves You More/ ELLIOT SMITH (’00, live, La Boule Noire, Paris)

Boo/ PINBACK (’01, Blue Screen Life)
Sing! Captain/ THE HANDSOME FURS (’07, Plague Park)
Happenstance/ THE dB’s (’82, Repercussion)
Thanksgiving Prayer/ WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS (’90, Dead City Radio)
It’s Going to Happen/ THE UNDERTONES (’81, Positive Touch)

I Shall Be Released/ WILCO (’08, live, Bend, OR, w/ FLEET FOXES)*
*new or recent release

Saturday, October 25, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 25 OCT. 08

BOY WONDER/ 9-11 PM/ "RADIO ROULETTE"
Oye Como Va/ TITO PUENTE
Spill the Wine/ WAR (1970, w/ ERIC BURDON)
El Pito/ JOE CUBA
America/ (1960, West Side Story, st)
Deeper Shade of Soul/ RAY BARRETO (’68, Acid)
El Gusto/ LOS LOBOS (’88, La Pistola y El Corazon)
Corona/ CALEXICO (’04, Convict Pool)

Dara (Que Dificil)/ JUANA MOLINA (’08, Un Dia)*
What They Said (Barnburner Mix)/ SKELETONS AND THE KING OF ALL CITIES
Houses in Motion/ TALKING HEADS (’80, Remain in Light)
Kingdom of Lies/ FOLK IMPLOSION (’99, One Part Lullaby)
42 West Avenue/ CASHIER NO.9 (’07, New Music From Northern Ireland)*
Feelin’ ('89 version)/ THE LA’S ('06, BBC in Session)

16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought Six/ TOM WAITS (’88, Big Time)
Kingdom of Love/ THE SOFT BOYS (’80, Underwater Moonlight)
Long Cool Woman/ THE HOLLIES (’71)
Reptile Style/ REIGNING SOUND (’02, Time Bomb High School)
Honey Bee/ LUCINDA WILLIAMS (’08, Little Honey)*
Leave My Kitten Alone/ THE DETROIT COBRAS (’07, Tied & True)
Nitroglycerine/ THE GORIES (’90, I Know Your Fine, But How Are You Doin’)
Ah-So/ 5,6,7,8’S (’92, Can’t Help It)
Pleasure Seeker/ THE BOTSWANAS (’01, Fade and Your Gone)
Rock On/ T. REX (’72, The Slider)
Beer, Gas, Ride Forever/ JOHN DOE (’92, Roadside Prophets, st)
Stiff Competition/ CHEAP TRICK (’78, Heaven Tonight)

Kiss Me on the Bus/ THE ‘MATS (’85, Tim, studio demo)
Pen/ THE SIMPLE ONES (’95, Worth the Wait)
Almost Ready/ DINOSAUR JR. (’07, Beyond)
*new or recent release

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ MON.,20 OCT. 08/ TUES., 21 OCT. 08

BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10:00 PM – 1:00 AM
FreaKonomics/ TRIO M (’07, Big Picture)
Gazzelloni/ ERIC DOLPHY (’64, Out to Lunch)
Smarty Pants/ SCOTT AMENDOLA BAND (’05, Believe)
Our Discussion/ NINA NASTASIA & JIM WHITE (’07, You Follow Me)
Impossible Germany/ WILCO (’07, Sky Blue Sky)

Reach Out I’ll Be There/ THE FOUR TOPS (’66)
7 Rooms of Gloom/ THE FOUR TOPS (’67)
I Surrender/ FONATELLA BASS (’65)
You’ve Been in Love Too Long/ MARTHA & THE VANDELLAS (’66)
Down in Mexico/ THE COASTERS (’56)
Teenage Rock/ RONNIE JONES & THE CLASSMATES (’57)
Send for the Doctor/ DOC POMUS (’50)

Offend Maggie/ DEERHOOF (’08, Offend Maggie)*
Imidiwan Winakalin/ TINARIWEN (’06, Aman Iman)
Boogie Chillen’ / JOHN LEE HOOKER (’48)
Meydan Sizindir/ SELDA (’76, Selda)
Ya Se Ha Muerto Mi Abuelo. JUANECO Y SU COMBO (Roots of Chicha)
Que Lindo Sueno/ KING KHAN & THE SHRINES (’08, Supreme Genius of…)
Deep in the Sand/ BUDOS BAND (’07, Budos Band II)
Yesterday is Here/ TOM WAITS (’87, Frank’s Wild Years)
God is Gonna Cut Your Down/ JOHNNY CASH (’06, American V)
God is in the House/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’01, No More Shall We Part)
Love Letters/ KETTY LESTER

42 West Avenue/ CASHIER NO.9 (’07, New Music From Northern Ireland)
Feelin’/ THE LA’S (’89, BBC in Session)
Little Girl/ SYNDICATE OF SOUND (’66)
Mr. Mystery/ FABIENNE DEL SOL (’07, Between You and Me)
General Specific/ BAND OF HORSES (’07, Cease to Begin)
Bye Bye Bye/ PLANTS AND ANIMALS (’08, self titled)*

Care of Cell 44/ THE ZOMBIES
Kenya Dig It?/ RUBY SUNS (’08, Sea Lion)
Waiting For Superman/ FLAMING LIPS (’99, Soft Bulletin)
Keep on Runnin’/ THE SPENCER DAVIS GROUP (’65)
Time the Avenger/ THE PRETENDERS (’82, Learning to Crawl)
Back to School/ THE FLESHTONES (’08, Take a Look)*
Tossin’ and Turnin’/ THE ‘MATS (’87, Pleased to Meet Me outtake)
I Was Drunk/ THE MINUS 5 (’04, Por Vida)
Psyche Threat/ BOSTON SPACESHIPS (’08, Brown Submarine)*

Take a Walk/ SPOON (’00, Girls Can Tell)
Crying/ TV ON THE RADIO (’08, Dear Science)*
Scarecrow/ BECK (’05, Guero)
It’s a Long Way to the Top/ LUCINDA WILLIAMS (’08, Little Honey)*

Paper Planes/ MIA (’07, Kala)

*new or recent release

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ TUES., 14 OCT. 08

BOY WONDER PLAYLIST/ HOT CIRCLES/ MIDNIGHT-2 AM
42 West Avenue/ CASHIER NO.9 (’08, New Music From
Northern Ireland comp.)*
Kamera/ WILCO (’02, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)
Vampiring Again/ CALIFONE (’03, Quicksand/Rattlesnakes)
Free Until They Cut Me Down/ IRON & WINE (’04, Endless Numbered Days)
Going to Marrakesh/ THE EXTRA GLENNS (’01, Martial Arts Weekend)
Frozen Gtr/ THURSTON MOORE (’07, Trees Outside the Academy)
Killing Moon/ ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN (’84, Ocean Rain)

Yaylalar/ SELDA [BAGCAN] (’76, Selda)
Yassassin (Live Long)/ DAVID BOWIE (’79, Lodger)
Dam Maro Dum/ ASHA BHOSLE & KRONOS QUARTET (’05, You’ve Stolen My Heart)
Message to You Rudy/ DANDY LIVINSTONE & RICO (’67)
Jambalaya/ HANK WILLIAMS SR.
Transcendental Blues/ STEVE EARLE (’00, Transcendental Blues)

Halfway Home/ TV ON THE RADIO (’08, Dear Science)*
Suspended Head/ THE NELS CLINE SINGERS (‘02, Instrumentals)
Scream Team/ DEERHOOF (’05, Runners Four)
Fresh Born/ DEERHOOF (’08, Offend Maggie)*
Hot Head/ CAPTAIN BEEFHEART (’80, Doc at the Radar Station)
Clap Hands (live)/ TOM WAITS (’88, Big Time)
Honky Tonk Part 1/ BILLY DOGGETT (’56)

Swinging Party/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’85, Tim)
This is Where I Belong (R. Davies)/ BILL LLOYD
Animal Farm/ THE KINKS (’68, Village Green Preservation Society)
Oh Sister (Dylan)/ ANDREW BIRD & NORA O’CONNOR
Sabor A Mi/ LOS LOBOS ('78, Del Este de Los Angeles)
*new or recent release

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ TUES., 7 OCT. 08

BOY WONDER/ HOT CIRCLES/ MIDNIGHT-2 AM
I Fall in Love Too Easily (Sammy Kahn & Julie Styne)/ CHET BAKER (’52)
Almost Blue/ ELVIS COSTELLO & ATTRACTIONS (’82, Imperial Bedroom)
Life’s Little Ups and Downs/ CHARLIE RICH (’69)
Love Letters/ KETTY LESTER (’63)
She Never Spoke Spanish to Me (Butch Hancock)/ JOE ELY (’80, Live Shots)
Cryin’ Over You/ JAMES INTVELD (’95)
Adelaine/ PETE MOLINARI (’08, A Virtual Landslide)*
Everything is Broken/ BOB DYLAN (’89, Oh Mercy)
Get Over It/ CONTINENTAL DRIFTERS (’94, self titled)
Bad Liver and a Broken Heart/ HAYES CARLL (’08, Trouble in Mind)*
On the Bus (studio demo)/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’85, Tim reissue)*

Guatanamerika/ LX CHILTON (’89, Blacklist)
Twilight Distillery/ THE MINUS 5 (’06, Epistle Dedicatory)
Beautiful View/ LUNA (’97, Pup Tent)
Tonight We Ride/ MATTHEW SWEET (’03, Kimi Ga Suki Raifu)

Ultraviolet/ THE EXTRA GLENNS (’01, Martial Arts Weekend)
Snoopy Waves/ DEERHOOF (’08, Offend Maggie)*
Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head/ SHONEN KNIFE (’98, What the World Needs Now)
Go For the Exit/ BOSTON SPACESHIPS (,08, Brown Submarine)*
Bled White/ ELLIOT SMITH (’98, XO)
Beauty Trip/ TELEVISION (’92, self titled)
King For a Day/ XTC (’89, Oranges & Lemons)
Tonight Will Be Fine (Leonard Cohen)/ TEDDY THOMPSON (’06, I’m Your Man)

Nothin’ in This World Can Stop Me From Worryin’ ‘Bout That Girl/ MARK LANEGAN (’01, Give the People What They Want)
That’s Entertainment/ THE JAM (’80, Sound Affects)
Cold Moments/ PAUL WELLER (’08, 22 Dreams)*
5:55/ CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG (’06, 5:55)
Si Tu Disais/ FRNCOIZ BREUT (’00, Vingt a Trente Mille Jours)
Your Protector/ FLEET FOXES (’08, self titled)*
Cells/ TEENAGE FANCLUB (’05, Man-Made)

The Wrote & the Writ/ JOHNNY FLYNN (’08, A Larum)*
*new or recent release

Just Like a Woman


Ms. Charlotte Gainsbourg, daughter of renown French chain-smoker, songwriter and singer Serge Gainsbourg and British Swinging '60's actress, Jane Birkin, is a longtime fan of Boy Wonder's Hot Circles. We welcome her to the family. If only...

Check out her performance in the Todd Haynes film, I'm Not There and on the film soundtrack (with Calexico as her support band).

Saturday, October 4, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 4 OCT. 2008

BOY WONDER/ "RADIO ROULETTE"/ 9:00-11:00 PM
Superfly/ CURTIS MAYFIELD (’72, Superfly soundtrack)
She Spoke to Me/ PRINCE (’96, Girl 6 soundtrack)
Fight the Power/ PUBLIC ENEMY (’90, Fear of a Black Planet)
Say No Go (New Keys Vocal remix)/ DE LA SOUL (’89, 3 Feet High and Rising)
North American Scum/ LCD SOUNDSYSTEM (’07, Sound of Silver)
Gut Feeling/ DEVO (’78, Are We Not Men? We Are Devo)
Rip Her to Shreds/ BLONDIE (’76, self titled)

52 Girls/ THE B-52’S (’79, self titled)
Kingdom of Love/ THE SOFT BOYS (’80, Underwater Moonlight)
He’s Frank (Slight Return)/ MONOCHROME SET (’83)
I’m Waiting For My Man/ VELVET UNDERGROUND (’67, The VU & Nico)
Valentine/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’87, Pleased to Meet Me)
Cadillac Walk/ MINK DEVILLE (’77, Cabretta)
Alligator Wine (Leiber and Stoller)/ SCREAMING JAY HAWKINS ('58)

Baby, It’s You/ PATTI PALLADIN & JOHNNY THUNDERS (’88, Copy Cats)
Dressy/ REIGNING SOUND (’02, Time Bomb High School)
As Long As I Have You/ DETROIT COBRAS (07, Tied & True)
Crazy About You/ ANN PEEBLES (’69, Part Time Love)
Shake’em On Down/ RL BURNSIDE (’94, Too Bad Jim)
Rock On/ T. REX (’72, The Slider)
Never Aim to Please/ BASH & POP (’93, Friday Night is Killing Me)
In the Street/ BIG STAR (’72, #1 Record)

Don’t Want You Back/ THE SIGHTS (’02, Got What You Want)
Sister Surround/ SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES (’01, Behind the Music)
1976/ REDD KROSS (’80, Third Eye)
Cherry Bomb/ THE RUNAWAYS (’76, self titled)
Lucky Guy/ THE MUFFS (’93, self titled)
Ode to a Black Man/ THE DIRTBOMBS (’01, Ultraglide in Black)

Pass the Hatchet, I Think I’m Goodkind/ YO LA TENGO (’06, I’m Not Afraid of You…)

Newman's Own


Original poster from 1961 film, The Hustler, directed by Robert Rossen, based from the excellent (and underrated) novel by Walter Tevis. One of his finest performances and films, Newman portrays Fast Eddie Felson, with the brilliant supporting role by Jackie Gleason (as Minnesota Fats).

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ MON., TUES., 29, 30 SEPT. 08

BOY WONDER/ GUS MOZART'S MUSIC BOX/HOT CIRCLES/ 10 PM- 1 AM
Hat and Beard/ ERIC DOLPHY (’64, Out to Lunch)
Recognize I/ NELS CLINE SINGERS (’07, Draw Breath)
The Blue Room/ EVANGELISTA (w/ Carla Buzolich, ’08, Hello Voyager)*
Times Square/ MARIANNE FAITHFULL (’90, Blazing Away)
Just As You Are/ ROBERT WYATT (w/ Monica Vasconselos, vcls, ’07, Comicopera)
In the Evening/ NINA NASTASIA & JIM WHITE (’07, You Follow Me)
Ultaviolet/ EXTRA GLENNS (’01, Martial Arts Weekend)

Behind Closed Doors/ CHARLIE RICH (’72)
We Must Be Out of Our Minds/ GEORGE JONES (w/ Melba Montgomery, ’63)
A Few Words in Defense of Our Country/ RANDY NEWMAN (’08, Harps and Angels)*
Turn the Cards Slowly/ PATSY CLINE (’55)
1,000 Years From Now (rehearsal take)/ THE BYRDS (w/ Gram Parsons, ’68, Sweetheart of the Rodeo)
Lion’s Jaws/ NEKO CASE (’06, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood)
Thanksgiving/ LILA NELSON (’08, Letter Home)*
Slowly But Surely/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY (’04, Slowly But Surely)

Turn Me Around/ MAVIS STAPLES (’07, We’ll Never Turn Back)
I Am What I Hated When I Was Young/ IAN HUNTER (’07, Shrunken Heads)
Oh How It Rained (Eddie Floyd)/ LORETTE VELVETTE (’00, Rude Angel)
Michigan Girls/ CALIFONE (’03, Quicksand/Cradlesnakes)
I Shall Be Released/ WILCO (w/ Fleet Foxes, live, ‘08, Bend, OR)*
I Wish It Was Saturday Night/ DAVE ALVIN (’87, Every Night About This Time)
Don’t Worry Baby/ RONNIE SPECTOR
Starstruck/ KINKS (’68, Village Green Preservation Society)
Care of Cell ‘44/ THE ZOMBIES (’67)
Fanfare/ ERIC MATTHEWS (’97, It’s Heavy Here)

Halfway Home/ TV ON THE RADIO (’08, Dear Science)*
Sound and Vision/ DAVID BOWIE (’77, Low)
For Phoebe Still a Baby/ COCTEAU TWINS (’88, Blue Bell Knoll)
Your Lucky Day in Hell/ THE EELS (’96, Beautiful Freak)
Borrowing Time/ AIMEE MANN (’08, @#%&*! Smilers)*
Go For the Exit/ BOSTON SPACESHIPS (’08, Brown Submarine)*

Loose Ends/ BASH & POP (’93, Friday Night is Killing Me)
Tonight/ THE RASPBERRIES (’73)
TV (The American Dream)/ JON JAMES (’03)
Everyone Knows This is Nowhere/ MATTHEW SWEET & SUSANNA HOFFS (’06, Under the Covers)
Date to Church/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’86)
Crawfish/ JOHNNY THUNDERS (’88, Copy Cats)
Protest Song/ ORSO (’08, Ask Your Neighbor)*

Long Legs/ THE MAGIC NUMBERS (’05, self titled)
Big Kick, Plain Scrap/ NICK LOWE (’79, Labour of Lust)
These Boots Are Made For Walking/ NANCY SINATRA (’66)
I Surrender/ FONATELLA BASS
New Amsterdam/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’80, Get Happy!!)
Tell It to Me/ TOM WAITS (’06, Orphans)
Saro/ SAM AMIDON (’07, All is Well)
For Emma/ BON IVER (’08, For Emma, Forever Ago)*

*new or recent release

Beauty, Grace Does Age Well. Sometimes.


Kristen Scott Thomas
(Tony Cenicola, NY Times, 28 Sept. 08)

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ TUES., 23 SEPT. 08

BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ MIDNIGHT-2 AM
September Song/ LOTTE LENYA (’57)
Soldier’s Wife/ MARIANNE FAITHFULL (’85, Lost in the Stars)
Little Sister (Reed/Cale)/ NICO (’67, Chelsea Girl)
Galileo/ DECLAN O’ROURKE (’03, Since Kyabram)
It’s Only Time/ MAGNETIC FIELDS (’04, Ä° )
Carolyn’s Fingers/ COCTEAU TWINS (’88, Blue Bell Knoll)
Bye Bye Bye/ PLANTS AND ANIMALS (’08)*
I Can’t Talk About It/ EL PERRO DEL MAR

King Size/ CHRISTINA ROSENVINGE (’04, Foreign Land)
Girls/ ELENI MANDELL (’07, Miracle of Five)
Thanksgiving/ LILA NELSON (’08, Letter Home)*
Just to Walk That Little Girl Home/ MINK DEVILLE (’80, Le Chat Bleu)
Fernando/ THE BASEBALL PROJECT (’08, Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails)*
New Lace Sleeve/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’80, Trust)

The Boy Wonders/ AZTEC CAMERA (’83, High Land, Hard Rain)
Old Fashioned/ FRIGHTENED RABBIT (’08, The Midnight Organ Fight)*
Girl Downtown/ HAYES CARLL (’08, Trouble in Mind)*Gun Street Girl/ TOM WAITS (’88, Big Time)
Hot Blood/ LUCINDA WILLIAMS (Live in NY Town Hall, Oct. ’07)
In the Street/ BIG STAR (single version, ’72)
Dandelion/ MATTHEW SWEET (’04, Living Things)

One Wink at a Time/ THE ‘MATS (’90, All Shook Down)
Planet Queen/ T. REX (’71, Electric Warrior)
Desert Skies/ BEACHWOOD SPARKS (’00, self titled)
To Baby/ VETIVER (’08, Thing of the Past)*
Lazy Butterfly/ DEVENDRA BANHART (’05, Cripple Crow)
When I Was a Young Girl/ FEIST (’04, Let It Die)

You and Your Sister (Country Version)/ CHRIS BELL (originally recorded from '72-'75. ’92, I Am the Cosmos)
*new or recent release

Saturday, September 20, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 20 SEPT. 08

BOY WONDER'S RADIO ROULETTE/ 9:00-11:00 PM
Nickel Bag of Funk/ DIGABLE PLANETS (’93, Reachin’)
Matadjem Yinmixan/ TINARIWEN (’06, Aman Iman)
(I Know) I’m Losing You/ THE TEMPTATIONS
Tainted Love/ GLORIA JONES
Canto de Ossanha (Let Go)/ ASTRUD GILBERTO (’69)
Talking Old Soldiers/ BETTY LAVETTE (’07, Scene of the Crime)
Take Me/ GEORGE JONES & TAMMY WYNETTE
I Don’t Like the Man That I Am/ PETE MOLINARI (’08, Virtual Landslide)
The Lovely Sky Boat/ THE SUPERIMPOSERS (’05)
Hold Your Place/ LILA NELSON (’08, Letter Home)*
It’s Not the Only Way to Be Happy/ FIELD MUSIC (’05, self titled)

Nothin’ in the World Can Stop Me From Worryin’ ‘Bout That Girl/ MARK LANEGAN
Amnesia/ THE MONSTER WOMEN (’04, Spacegirl Espionage)
Mambo Sun/ T. REX (’71, Electric Warrior)
Open My Eyes/ NAZZ (’67)

Violence/ MOTT THE HOOPLE (’73, Mott)
Long Time Man/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’86, Your Funeral…My Trial)
Faster Pussycat/ THE CRAMPS (’83, Smell of a Female)
Dance the Night Away/ THE MOTORS (’77)
You’ve Got My Number/ THE UNDERTONES (’80, Hypnotized)
Ode to a Black Man/ THE DIRTBOMBS (’01, Ultraglide in Black)
You Sound Like Your Sick/ THE RAMONES (’81, Pleasant Dreams)
Is It My Body/ THE BOTSWANAS (’01, Fade and Your Gone)

Ghost on the Highway/ GUN CLUB (’81, Fire of Love)
You’re a Lucky Guy/ THE MUFFS (’93, self titled)
Only a Girl/ REDD KROSS (’93, Phaseshifter)
Reptile Style/ REIGNING SOUND (’02, Time Bomb Highschool)
Roadside Wreck/ SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS (’91, Too Much Pork)
Back Slider/ JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION (’92, Extra Width)
Pen/ SIMPLE ONES (’95, Worth the Weight)

*new or recent release

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ TUES., 16 SEPT. 08

BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ MIDNIGHT-2:00 AM
One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer/ AMOS MILBURN ('57)
Bossa Cubana/ LOS ZAFIROS
El Pito/ JOE CUBA
Slow Drain/ MINK DeVILLE (’80, Le Chat Bleu)
Fernando/ THE BASEBALL PROJECT*
Even So/ EVERTHING BUT THE GIRL (’85, Eden)
Too Drunk/ NOUVELLE VAGUE (’05)
Live Let Live/ BRIAN WILSON (’08, That Lucky Old Sun)*
Just As You Are/ ROBERT WYATT ('07, Comic Opera, w/ Monica Vosconselos)
Accidental/ INARA GEORGE (’08, An Invitation, w/ Van Dyke Parks)*
Identity Theft/ NELLIE McKAY (’07, Obligatory Villagers)

All the Way From Home/ THE GREEN PAJAMAS (’05)
Wave/ ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO (’01, A Man Under the Influence)
There She Still Remains/ PETE MOLINARI (’08, A Virtual Landslide)
Stranger in the House/ RACHEL SWEET (’78, Fool Around)
The Other Side of Town/ STEVE EARLE (’97, El Corazon)

The Great Atomic Power/ LOUVIN BROTHERS (’61)
Do Right Woman/ FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS (’69, Gilded Palace of Sin)
Do You Got the Time/ LILA NELSON (’08, Letter Home)*
Killing For Love/ JOSE GONZALES (’07, In Our Nature)
Kamera/ WILCO (’01, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)
Shade and Honey/ SPARKLEHORSE (’06, Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain)
Opportunity/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’80, Get Happy!!)
Ex-Girl Collection/ THE WRENS (’03, The Meadowlands)

The General Specific/ BAND OF HORSES (’07, Cease to Begin)
I Love My Label/ NICK LOWE
Good Friend/ PLANTS & ANIMALS (’08, self titled)*
Roscoe/ MIDLAKE (’06, The Trials of Van Occupanther)

Drink to You, Babe, Then/ A.C. NEWMAN (’04, The Slow Wonder)
*new or recent release

Thursday, September 11, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ WED., 10 SEPT. 08

BOY WONDER (for BUCK CALHOUN SHOW)/ WED., 10 SEPT. 08/ 10:00 PM-MIDNIGHT
Thingamajig/ JOHNNY LEE WILLS & HIS BOYS
Excerpt/ LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
Lady is a Tramp/ FRANK SINATRA ('57)
Each and Every One/ EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL (’85, Eden)
Shopping/ THE JAM
San Diego Zoo/ THE 6TH’S (’95, feat. Barbara Manning & Stephen Merritt, Wasps’ Nests)
A Place in My Heart/ ORANGE JUICE (’84, Texas Fever)
There She Goes/ THE LA’S (’88, BBC Session w/ Liz Kershaw)
Pages Turn/ 28TH DAY (’85)
Radio/ TEENAGE FANCLUB (’93, 13)

All of a Sudden/ XTC (’82, English Settlement)
Talk About the Passion/ REM (’83, Murmur)
Heads Will Roll/ ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN (’82, Porcupine)
Harmony/ THE CLINIC (’02, Walk With Thee)
Privilege (Set Me Free)/ PATTI SMITH (’78, Easter)
Digital/ JOY DIVISION +by request
Happy Nightmare Baby/ OPAL (’87, self titled)

Statues & Glue/ SUNSHINE FIX (’04, Green Imagination)
In the Street (single version)/ BIG STAR (’72)
Shackles & Chains/ SNAKE HIPS (’93, Lit)
Casino Queen/ WILCO (’95, A.M)
Date in Church/ THE ‘MATS (’87)
Faster Pussycat/ BOTWEEDS
Crazy About You/ THE HELLCATS (’87, Hoodoo Train)
Pleasure Seeker/ THE BOTWANAS (’01, Fade and Your Gone)
The Most Exalted Potenate of Love/ THE CRAMPS (’83, live, Smell of a Female)
Brand New Cadillac/ VINCE TAYLOR & HIS PLAYBOYS
Cadillac Walk/ MINK DeVILLE (’77)
Your Love is Mine/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY

Nitroglycerine/ THE GORIES (’93)
You’ve Got My Number/ THE UNDERTONES (’80, Hypnotised)
Thick As Thieves/ THE JAM (’79, Setting Sons)
Sugar Kane/ SONIC YOUTH (’92, Dirty)

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ TUES., 9 SEPT. 08

BOY WONDER’S HOT CIRCLES/ TUES., 9 SEPT. 08/ MIDNIGHT-2 AM
The Good Life/ THE WEEK THAT WAS (’08, self-titled)*
The Beast and Dragon, Adored/ SPOON (’05, Gimme Fiction)
Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1)/ YO LA TENGO (’95, Electr-O-Pura)
Chains, Chains, Chains/ RED RED MEAT (’95, Bunny Gets Paid)
Can’t Hardly Wait (the “Tim” version)/ REPLACEMENTS (’97, All For Nothing, Nothing For All)
Amphetamine/ STEVE WYNN & THE MIRACLE 3 (’03, Static Transmission)

Motorcycle Boy/ GUTTERBALL (’93, self titled)
Cigarettes, Coffee & Booze/ MINUS 5 (’06, the “Gun” album)
Fernando/ THE BASEBALL PROJECT (’08, Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails)*
The News About William/ CALEXICO (’08, Carried to Dust)*
Look For Me (I’ll Be Around)/ NEKO CASE (’02, Blacklisted)
Soon Enough/ THE CONSTANTINES (’05, Tournament of Hearts)
Pineola/ LUCINDA WILLIAMS (’07 October, NY/ Town Hall, live)

All the Same to You/ LAURA CANTRELL (’02, When the Roses Bloom Again)
Start a War/ THE NATIONAL (’07, The Boxer)
Secret Agent Eyes/ LILA NELSON (’08, Letter Home)*
Good Year for the Roses/ ELVIS COSTELLO & ATTRACTIONS (’81, Almost Blue)
Wichita Lineman/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’93, Unlucky ep)
Witchcraft/ FRANK SINATRA (’57)
Out in the Street/ THE SHANGRI-LA’S (’65, Greenwich/Barry tune)
Summer Wine/ LEE HAZELWOOD (’66, w/ Suzie Jane Hokum)
Virtually Happy/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY (’95, The Good Things)
Spanish Stroll/ MINK DeVILLE (’77, Cabaretta)
Don’t Ever Do That Again/ GOLDEN SHOULDERS (’04, Friendship is Deep)

Broken English/ MARIANNE FAITHFULL (’79, Broken English)
Fanfare/ ERIC MATTHEWS (’95, It’s Heavy in Here)
Ballad of Big Nothing/ ELLIOT SMITH (’97, Either/Or)
Bye, Bye, Bye/ PLANTS AND ANIMALS (’08, self titled)*
*new or recent release

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM 90.5/ TUES., 2 SEPT. 08

BOY WONDER/ HOT CIRCLES/ TUES., 2 SEPT. 08/ MIDNIGHT-2AM
Crescent City/ LUCINDA WILLIAMS (’92, self titled)
You’re Still on My Mind/ THE BYRDS (’68, Sweetheart of the Rodeo)
Don’t Break the Heart/ AMY RIGBY (’96, Diary of a Mod Housewife)
Passenger Side/ WILCO (’95, AM)
Neon Rainbow/ BOX TOPS (’67)
Look For Me I’ll Be Around/ NEKO CASE (’02, Blacklisted)
Hold Your Place/ LILA NELSON (’08, Letter Home)*
Dirty Life and Times/ WARREN ZEVON (’03, The Wind)
Dirty Old Town/ THE POGUES (’85, Rum, Sodomy & the Lash)
This Wonderous Day/ PETE MOLINARI (Walking Off the Map)

Drove Up From Pedro/ MIKE WATT (’95, Ball-Hog or Tugboat)
Bye, Bye, Bye/ PLANTS AND ANIMALS (’08, self titled)*
Gin Rummy/ NELLIE McKAY ('07, Obligatory Villagers)

Freeway/ AIMEE MANN (’08, @#%&*! Smilers)*
Don’t You Worry/ JIM NOIR (’08, self titled)

Past Time/ BASEBALL PROJECT (’08, Vol. 1)*
Baba O’Riley/ WACO BROTHERS
Let’s Love/ MATTHEW SWEET (’08, Sunshine Lies)*
About You/ TEENAGE FANCLUB (’95, Grand Prix)
Radiation/ APPLES IN STEREO (’07, New Magnetic Wonder)
Gold Day/ SPARKLEHORSE (’01, It’s A Wonderful Life)
Perfect Day/ LOU REED ('72, Transformer)
Messiah Ward/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’04, Abbatoir Blues)
Lowlands Low/ BRYAN FERRY & ANTONY (Rogue’s Gallery)
Let the Bitches Die/ LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION (’08, Falling Off the Lavender Bridge)
Johnny 99/ BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (’82, Nebraska)

Thanksgiving/ LILA NELSON (’08, Letter Home)*
Withered & Died/ ELVIS COSTELLO (Richard Thompson cover)
*new or recent release

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM 90.5/ TUES., 26 AUG. 08

BOY WONDER/"HOT CIRCLES"/TUES., 26 AUG. 08/MIDNIGHT-2 AM
The Other End of the Telescope/ ELVIS COSTELLO & STEVE NIEVE (live in Chicago, 18 May 96)
Cotton/ THE MOUNTAIN GOATS (’04, We Shall Be Healed)
Goin’ Down to Acapulco/ JIM JAMES & CALEXICO (’07, I’m Not There st)
We Must Have Been Out Our Minds/ GEORGE JONES (’63, w/ Melba Montgomery)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find/ SUFJAN STEVENS (’04, Seven Swans)
Human Racing/ ST. VINCENT (’07, Marry Me)
All Around the Houses/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY (’03, Truly She is None Other)

Maryanne With the Shaky Hands/ THE WHO (’67, The Who Sell Out)
Alone Again Or/ CALEXICO (’04, Convict Pool)
Good Friend/ PLANTS & ANIMALS (’08, Parc Avenue)*
Sunlight/ MATTHEW SWEET (’04, Living Things)
Stray Dog and the Chocolate Shake/ GRANDADDY (’03, Sumday)
King of Nails/ SPARKLEHORSE (’01, It’s a Wonderful Life)

Turn It On/ THE FLAMING LIPS (’93, The Satellite Heart)
Therefore, I Am/ JIM O’ROURKE (’01, Insignificance)
When You Make Up Your Mind/ GUTTERBALL (’93, self titled, w/ Stephen McCarthy and Bryan Harvey)
Constructive Summer/ THE HOLD STEADY (’08, Stay Positive)*
Torture/ KING KAHN & THE SHRINES (’08, The Supreme Genius of…)
Foggy Notion/ VELVET UNDERGROUND (’69, Velvet Underground, third record)

You’re Welcome/ THE UNDERTONES (’81, Positive Touch)
Here/ PAVEMENT (’92, Slanted and Enchanted)
Start a War/ THE NATIONAL (’07, Boxer)
Saro/ SAM AMIDON (’08, All is Well)
Hefner and Disney/ T-BONE BURNETT (’82, Proof Through the Night)
Talk About the Passion/ REM (’83, Murmur)
From a Window to a Screen/ THE dB’S (’82, Repercussion)

Afternoon Tea/ THE KINKS (’67, Something Else)

For No Good Reason


Just to show my admiration for performance artist, actress, director and writer Miranda July, who wrote, directed and starred in 2005 film, Me and You and Everyone We Know. Truly no other. Photo from a NY Times, June '05 piece.

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 23 AUG. 08

BOY WONDER/ "RADIO ROULETTE" PLAYLIST/ SAT., 23 AUG. 08/ 9:00-11:00 PM
Bar-BQ/ WENDY RENE (’64)
He’s Really Saying Something/ THE VELVELETTES (’64)
Nothing But a Heartache/ THE FLIRTATIONS (‘69)
Return to Gijon/ THE NEW MASTERSOUNDS (’06, 102%)
Be Easy/ SHARON JONES & THE DAP KINGS (‘07, 100 Days, 100 Nights)
Mesmerizer/ THE COME-ONS (’01, Hip Check!)
Chatterton/ MICK HARVEY (’95, Intoxicated Man)
Le Roi Des Fourmis/ FABIENNE DELSOL (’07, Between You and Me)
69 Annee Erotique/ SERGE GAINSBOURG (’69, w/ Jane Birkin)
All Tomorrow’s Parties/ VELVET UNDERGROUND (’67, Velvet Underground w/ Nico)
Some Velvet Morning/ LEE HAZELWOOD & NANCY SINATRA (’68)
Your Love is Mine/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY (Ike Turner cover, ’98, Serial Girlfriend)
Midnight Man/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’08, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!)*
Good Friend/ PLANTS AND ANIMALS (’08, Parc Avenue)*
Devil Never Sleeps/ IRON & WINE (’07, Shepherd’s Dog)
The Alibi/ LUNA (’02, Close Cover Before Striking)

Assouf/ TINARIWEN (’06, Aman Iman)
New Hampshire/ SONIC YOUTH (’04, Sonic Nurse)
Friction/ TELEVISION (’77, Marquee Moon)
I Can See For Miles/ THE WHO (’67, Who Sell Out)
Who’s the Mystery Girls/ NY DOLLS (’74, Too Much Too Soon)
Jeepster/ T. REX (’71, Electric Warrior)
Buried Alive/ SNAKE HIPS (’97, 45 rpm 7” single)

Pleasure Unit/ THE GORE GORE GIRLS (’07, Get the Gore)
Let’s Kill Ourselves/ THE PONYS (’03, Laced With Romance)
Back Slider/ JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION (’93, Extra Width)
Brown Paper Sack/ REIGNING SOUND (’02, Time Bomb High School)
Funny Face/ THE MUFFS (’95, Blonder and Blonder)
All’s Quiet on the Western Front/ THE RAMONES (’81, Pleasant Dreams)
Devil Doll/ X (’83, More Fun in the New World)

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Obama, Why Langford


Musician, songwriter artist and founding member of the great Leeds band, the Mekons, Jon Langford has threw in his hat into the political ring, so to speak, concerning the upcoming U.S. Presidential elections. Langford's piece originally appeared in the blogsite Largehearted Boy, on 7 Aug. 2008. His essay was part of a series entitled, "Why Obama," from a collection of authors and musicians.

"I never quite worked out how the last eight years happened. So soon after Vietnam my adopted homeland slides back down the rabbit hole, hijacked by mean old rich white zombies full of hate. I remember driving back from O'Hare in October 2001 after the Waco Brothers' stagger-a-bout down under and seeing all the flags taped up in the windows next to Halloween ghouls, vampires & dancing skeletons etc. Weird happenstance collages of doom - ominous shit indeed! Back in the 80s when I was still living in the UK and Reagan & Thatcher ruled the world; there were bombs falling on Libya, Argentinean conscripts sunk deep in the South-Atlantic with lungs full of cold water and the whole pub cheered when Reagan got shot. I still get into fights with hardcore anti-American drunks in Brit-cities who can't believe I came here and settled here (and me a socialist too) but I did and there are reasons.

The explosion of music that took place in this country during the last century swept me up and consumed early on. Not just the punk (though my ears were always pointed this way back in 77) but the whole shebang. In the 80s we (the Mekons) started listening to Country, Cajun, Blues, Zydeco, Western Swing and found what we did as a band was not some year-zero re-invention of any wheel but thankfully just another tiny helpless bio-cog in a huge beautiful organic cultural mechanism that spans the globe but is clearly fueled & sourced somewhere over here in the USA in the confused melding of African and European folk traditions. I have often said I have a love-hate relationship with it (Love George Jones hate George Bush) and I have often been told I should go back to Russia BUT I have seen this place and been treated with great kindness and respect here and am saddened by the hatred this current junta's actions have inspired across the planet. I have American friends living in Europe who have to pretend to be Canadian for f*ck's sake.

Time for a change no doubt and a smart young Black bloke from Chicago as president will suit me just fine. I think we all know what they'll fling at him, what dark forces they'll unleash to bring him down and how hard he'll have to fight to clean up their mess when he's elected but this is historic, symbolic, once in a lifetime stuff. This country has talked a great game about freedom and opportunity over the years and while I have been the willing recipient of much of that promise it shames me to see what's been done in its name by this crowd of zombies and vampires. I've been really happy here, settled and raised a family & I could never have done half the things I do if I'd stayed in the UK so I thank you America, now do yourself a favor, give yourself a present and elect Obama."
-Jon Langford

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ TUES., 19 AUG. 08

BOY WONDER PLAYLIST/ HOT CIRCLES/ TUES., 19 AUG. 08/ MIDNIGHT-2AM
634-5789/ WILSON PICKETT (’65)
Mohair Sam/ CHARLIE RICH (’65)
Oh How It Rained (E. Floyd) / LORETTE VELVETTE (’00, Rude Angel)
$1,000 Wedding/ EVAN DANDO & JULIANNA HATFIELD (’99, Return of the Grievous Angel)
Pineola/ LUCINDA WILLIAMS (’92, Sweet Old World)

All the Same to You/ LAURA CANTRELL (’02, When the Roses Bloom Again)
You Know the Rest/ STEVE EARLE (’97, El Corazon)
The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn/ THE POGUES (’85, Rum, Sodomy & the Lash)
Lovely Creature/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’96, Murder Ballads)
A Place Called Home/ PJ HARVEY (’00, Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea)
Because the Night/ PATTI SMITH (’78, Easter)
Happy Nightmare Baby/ OPAL (’87, Happy Nightmare Baby, w/ Kendra Smith)
Heads Will Roll/ ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN (’82, Porcupine)
69 Annee Erotique/ SERGE GAINSBOURG (’69, w/ Jane Birkin)
Harley Davidson/ MICK HARVEY (w/ Anita Lane, ’95, Intoxicated Man)
Ride/ LIZ PHAIR (’98, Whitechoclatespaceegg)

About You/ TEENAGE FANCLUB (’95, Grand Prix)
When My Baby’s Beside Me/ BIG STAR (’08, Thank You Friends: The Ardent Records Story)*
Valentine/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’87, Pleased to Meet Me)
Little Rage/ THE MICE (’86, For Almost Ever Scooter)
Exit Flagger/ GUIDED BY VOICES (’92, Propeller)
Statues & Glue/ SUNSHINE FIX (’04, Green Imagination)
Night Time/ THE STRANGELOVES (’65)
I Wanna Be a Girl/ KING KHAN & THE SHRINES (’08, The Supreme Genius of…)*
This Boy is Exhausted/ THE WRENS (’03, Meadowlands)

Less Than Zero (live)/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’78, Live at the El Mocambo)
Woman’s World/ SQUEEZE (’81, East Side Story)
Waitin’ For Superman/ FLAMING LIPS (’99, Soft Bulletin)
White Winter Hymnal/ THE FLEET FOXES (’08, self-titled)*
When You Have Ghosts (R. Erickson)/ JOHN WESLEY HARDING (’90, Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye)
*new or recent release

Monday, August 18, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ REVOLVING DOOR

BOY WONDER/ PLAYLIST/ SAT., 16 AUG. 08/ 9-11 PM
What A Good Man He Is/ TAMMI TERRELL ('69)
Love Makes A Woman/ BARBARA ACKLIN ('68)
Minnie Skirt Minnie/ WILSON PICKETT (’68)
Crazy About You/ THE HELLCATS ('87, Hoodoo Train)
Leave My Kitten Alone/ DETROIT COBRAS (’07, Tied & True)
Swing Set/ THE CUTTERS (’01, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday)
Brand New Cadillac. THE CLASH (’79, London Calling)
Brand New Cadillac/ VINCE TAYLOR & HIS PLAYBOYS
Mona/ BO DIDDLEY
I Need You/ THE KINKS
Thunderbird Esq./ THE GORIES (I Know You Fine, But How You Doin’)
Way Down in the Hole/ THE COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS

Life’s Little Ups and Downs/ CHARLIE RICH
Willie/ CAT POWER
These Girls/ RYAN ADAMS (’07, Easy Tiger)
September Gurls/ BIG STAR
Things/ PAUL WESTERBERG (’93, 14 Songs)
Boxful of Letter/ WILCO (’95, AM)

Navy Sheets/ THE HOLD STEADY (’08, Stay Positive)*
Memphis Egypt/ THE MEKONS (’89, The Mekons Rock n’ Roll)
Lady in the Front Row/ REDD KROSS (’93, Phaseshifter)
Lucifer Sam/ THE SADIES (’06, In Concert, Vol. 1)
Torture/ KING KHAN & THE SHRINES (’08 collection, The Supreme Genius of…)*
Earthquake Heart/ THE DIRTBOMBS (’03, Dangerous Magical Noise)
You Got Good Taste/ THE CRAMPS (’83, Smell of a Female)
Ramona/ THE RAMONES (’77, Rockets to Russia)
Fujiyama Mama/ WANDA JACKSON

Devil Doll/ X (’83, More Fun in the New World)
Another Girl, Another Planet/ THE ONLY ONES (’78)
Sex Beat/ GUN CLUB (’81, Fire of Love)
Loose/ THE STOOGES (’70, Fun House)
You Got Me Hummin’/ REIGNING SOUND (’04, Too Much Guitar)
Box Elder/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY

*new or recent release

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Beautiful Losers


Graphic artist Mike Mills (whose piece, "Who Am I," is pictured here) is among a group of artists, which included the wonderful painter Margaret Kilgallen, featured in the documentary, Beautiful Losers, about the formation and rise of the Alleged Gallery, located in NY's Lower East Side in the early 1990's (a much different neighborhood then). See the Nathan Lee NY Times article for further details.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST, KHSU-FM, 90.5, TUES., 12 AUG. 08

BOY WONDER/ PLAYLIST/ TUES., 12 AUG. 08/ MIDNIGHT-2:00 AM
Georgia on My Mind/ RAY CHARLES (Berlin 1962)
I Thank You/ SAM & DAVE
Where Did the Money Go/ SOLOMON BURKE (’06, Nashville)
Must I Holler/ JAMO THOMAS
Bad Liver and a Broken Heart/ HAYES CARLL (’08, Trouble in Mind)*
Sequestered in Memphis/ THE HOLD STEADY (’08, Stay Positive)*
Radio Nowhere/ BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (’08, Magic)
Let Your Light In, Babe/ ROBERT FORSTER (’08, Evangelist)*
Scissors/ BARBARA MANNING (’91, One Perfect Green Blanket)

Life’s Little Ups and Downs/ CHARLIE RICH (’69)
As I Sat Silently By Her Side/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’01, No More Shall We Part)
Mixed Up Shook Up Girl/ MINK DeVILLE (’77, Cabretta)
Muzzle of Bees/ WILCO (’05, Kicking Television/ Live in Chicago)

Major League/ PAVEMENT (’99, Terror Twilight)
Oliver James/ FLEET FOXES (’08, self-titled)*
Houses/ VETIVER (’08, Thing of the Past)*
Solitary Man/ JOHNNY CASH (’01, American III)
Motel Matches/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’79, Get Happy!!)
Teenage FBI/ GUIDED BY VOICES (’99, Do the Collapse)
Valentine/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’87, Pleased to Meet Me)
Out in the Street/ BIG STAR (Thank You Friends: The Ardent Records Story)
Fanfare/ ERIC MATTHEWS (’95, It’s Heavy in Here)

Thee Most Exalted State Potentate of Love/ THE CRAMPS (’83, Smell of a Female)
Fire Engine/ 13th FLOOR ELEVATORS (’66, The Psychedelic Sounds of…)
Twilight Distillery/ THE MINUS 5 (’06, The Gun Album)
You'll Never Going to Change/ DETROIT COBRAS ('07, Tied & True)
Blue Star/ SNAKE HIPS (’97, Memphis Juke)

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Boy Wonder Hits the Airwaves


The Boy Wonder (that's me) will be on KHSU-FM, 90.5, three times in the next week and a half. Yikes. Aside from my regular slot, Boy Wonder's Hot Circles, Tues. (early) mornings, midnight-2 a.m., I'll also be guest hosting the "Revolving Door," (what I like to call "Radio Roulette"), Sat., Aug. 16th, from 9:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m. I'll also be hosting Vinnie Devaney's "Fogou," next Wed., Aug. 20th, from 2:00-4:00 p.m.,
I also do catering. Just kidding.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHUS-FM, 90.5/ MON., 4 AUG. 08

BOY WONDER/ KHSU PLAYLIST/ TUES., 4, 5 AUG. 08/ 10:00 PM – 1:00 AM
Boogie Stop Shuffle/ CHARLES MINGUS (’59, Ah Um)
Hat and Beard/ ERIC DOLPHY (’64, Out to Lunch)
Brainfire and Buglight/ TRIO M (MYRA MELFORD, MARK DRESER, MATT WILSON) (’07, Big Picture)

Horseback Tenors/ EFTERKLANG (’08, Parades)*
Leaf House/ ANIMAL COLLECTIVE (’04, Sung Tongs)
+(by request)
Chasing the Tide/ THE SUPERIMPOSERS (’05, self titled)
Elena/ JUANA MOLINA (’07, Son)
Hejra/ SHOLI (orignally recorded by Googoosh, “Queen of Persian Pop”)
Hawaii No Yoru/ CRAZY KEN BAND

Cumbiamba/ EL SEXTO MIRAMAR
Porta de Lanca Africano/ JORGE BEN
Seen and Not Seen/ TALKING HEADS (’80, Remain in Light)
Yassassin (Long Live)/ DAVID BOWIE (’79, Lodger)
Que Onda Guero/ BECK (’05, Guero)
My Babe/ LITTLE WALTER (’58)
Honey Where’s the Money Gone/ SOLMON BURKE (’06, Nashville)
Before the Money Came/ BETTY LaVETTE (’07, Scene of the Crime)
I Believe in You/ CAT POWER (’08, Jukebox)
Teenage Rock/ RONNIE JAMES & THE CLASSMATES (’57)
Cadillac Walk/ MINK DeVILLE (’77)

Ridiculous Man/ T-BONE BURNETT (’82, Trap Door)
Saturday Morning/ EELS (’03, Shootenany)
Don’t You Worry/ JIM NOIR (’08, self titled)
Soon/ MY BLOODY VALENTINE (’91, Loveless)

Navy Sheets/ THE HOLD STEADY (’08, Stay Positive)*
Clampdown/ THE CLASH (’79, London Calling)
Teen Creeps/ NO AGE (08, Nouns)*
Color Me Impressed/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’83, Hootenanny)
Same Reaction/ SNAKE HIPS (’97, Memphis Juke)
This Ain’t No Picnic/ THE MINUTEMEN (’89, Double Nickels on a Dime)
It’s A Good Thing/ THAT PETROL MOTION (’86, Manic Pop Thrill)
It’s Going to Happen/ THE UNDERTONES (’81, Positive Touch)
A Place Called Home/ PJ HARVEY (’00, Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea)

Road to Peace/ TOM WAITS (’06, Orphans)
Hog Eyed Man/ MARTIN CARTHY & FAMILY (Rogue's Gallery)

White Winter Hymnal/ FLEET FOXES (’08, self titled) *
Waterloo Sunset/ KINKS (’67, Something Else)
B Movie/ ELVIS COSTELLO (’80, Get Happy!!!)

Vampiring Again/ CALIFONE (’03, Quicksand/Cradlesnakes)

*new or recent release

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Lion's Share


There's a new biopic about Darby Crash and the late/great LA punk band, The Germs, entitled What We Do Is Secret, directed by Rodger Grossman. It stars "ER" TV hunk, Shane West, in the featured role (originally cast with David Arquette). Talk about ironic. See the NY Times article about it. After Crash's suicide, Germs guitarist Pat Smear later joined Nirvana in 1993, only a year before Cobain's death. Smear doesn't seem to have much fortune working with vocalists.
Pictured: Germs gig/ Darby Crash and bassist Lorna Doom

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

B.W.'s Playlist (for Los Ensemble Economique), KHSU-FM, 90.5, 29 July 08

BOY WONDER PLAYLIST #2/ TUES., 28 JULY 08/ 10 PM-MIDNIGHT
Straight Up and Down/ ERIC DOLPHY (’64, Out To Lunch)
Clapping Music Variations/ GLENN KOTCHE (’06, Mobile)
What They Said (Barnburner Mix)/ SKELETONS AND KINGS OF ALL CITES, (duo from Oberlin, OH)
The Holy Men/ WORLD SAXOPHONE QUARTET (’91, Metamorphosis)
Help Me Somebody/ BRIAN ENO & DAVID BYRNE (’80, My Life in a Bush of Ghosts)
Di-Li-Do/ ENSEMBLE PIN (Bulgaria)

Matadjem Yinmixan/ TINARIWEN (’06, Aman Iman)
Y Sa Muerto mi Abuelo/ JUANECO Y SUS COMBO (Roots of Chicha: Psychedelic Cumbias from Peru)
Season of the Witch/ LUNA (from ’96, I Shot Andy Warhol st)
Hearts of Iron/ HANDSOME FURS (’07, Plague Park)
Your Protector/ FLEET FOXES (’08, self titled debut, Sub Pop)*

Mirador/ EFTERKLANG (’08, Parades)*
Adventure Tour/ RUBY SUNS (’08, Sea Lion)
Bros/ PANDA BEAR (’07, Person Pitch)
I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times/ BEACH BOYS (’66, Pet Sounds)
Marry Me/ ST. VINCENT (’07, Marry Me)
Re: Stacks/ BON IVER (’08, For Emma, Forever Ago)*

Wrong About It/ POKEY LAFARGE (’08, Beat, Move & Shake)*
I Don’t Like the Man I Am/ PETE MOLINARI (’08, A Virtual Landslide)
Suffering Jukebox/ SILVER JEWS (’08, Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea)*
Crystal Lake/ GRANDADDY (’00, The Sophomore Slump)

I Hate It Here/ WILCO (’07, Live in Troutdale, OR)
*new or recent release

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST, KHSU-FM, 90.5, TUES., 29 JUNE 08/

BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ TUES., 29 JUNE 08/ MIDNIGHT-2 AM
16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought Six/ TOM WAITS (’88, Big Time)
Little Johnny Jewel/ TELEVISION (’78, Live, Old Waldorf, SF)
Teenage Riot (live)/ SONIC YOUTH (’89, Amsterdam/ from Daydream Nation deluxe reissue, ’07)
Pass the Hatchet, I Think I’m Goodkind/ YO LA TENGO (’07, I’m Not Afraid of You and I will Beat Your Ass)

Lucky Lucky Luck/ EVANGELISTA (’08, Hello Voyager, feat. Carla Buzolich and Godspeed! You Black Emperor)*
Spider’s House/ CALIFONE (’06, Roots & Crowns)
Here Today/ BEACH BOYS (Pet Sounds)
Beautiful View/ LUNA (’97, Pup Tent)
Hejrat/ SHOLI*

Lazy Line Painter Jane/ BELLE & SEBASTIAN
For the Price of a Cup of Tea/ BELLE & SEBASTIAN (’06, The Life Pursuit)
You’ve Been in Love Too Long/ MARTHA & VANDELLAS (’65)
What a Good Man He Is/ TAMMI TERRELL (’69)
Makhloogh/ GOOGOOSH (Iran)
A Message to You Rudy/ DANDY LIVINGSTON & RICO
Ya Ya/ LEE DORSEY
Ruler of My Heart/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY
This Wonderous Day/ PETE MOLINARI (’06, Walking Off the Map)
Soul Corruption/ GRAHAM PARKER (’89, Live Alone in America)
The Cowboy’s Dizzy Sweetheart/ GOEBEL REEVES
Do-Li-Do/ ENSEMBLE PIN*
What They Said (Barnburner Mix)/ SKELETONS AND KINGS OF ALL CITIES*
Easy Does It/ BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY (’08, Lie Down in the Light)*

Galileo/ DECLAN O’ROURKE

*new or recent release

Monday, July 28, 2008

Jesus Died For Somebody's Sins But Not Mine


NY punk icon, musician, poet and artist, Patti Smith will be the subject of Steven Sebring's documentary, Patti Smith: Dream of Life. The film, a 12-year project, opens in Lower Manhattan (Film Forum) on 6 Aug. 2008, with a future airing on P.O.V. (PBS documentary series). See NY Times July 27th article by Terrence Rafferty.
photograph by Steven Sebring, 1996

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU FM, 90.5/ 21 JULY 08

BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ MON/TUES., 21/22 JULY 08/ 10:00 PM- 2:00 AM

Hat and Beard/ ERIC DOLPHY (’64, Out to Lunch)
Monkey Chant/ GLENN KOTCHE (’06, Mobile)
Big Gundown/ JOHN ZORN (’85, The Big Gundown)

Exile/ NELS CLINE TRIO
Signal/ SAM PHILLIPS (’08, Don’t Do Anything)*
Twilight Time/ JENNY SCHEINMAN (’08, self titled)*
In the Evening/ NINA NASTASIA & JIM WHITE (’07, You Follow Me)
Get Out/ MITTY COLLIER (1965)
Aretha, Sing One For Me/ CAT POWER (Jukebox, George Jackson cover)

Ma/ TOM ZE (Best of Tom Ze, Luaka Bop)
Over Under Sideways Down/ YARDBIRDS (’66)
Cler Achel/ TINARIWEN (’07, Aman Iman: Water is Life)
El Ovni/ LOS OVNIS (Mas Rock n’ Roll, Electro Harmonix)
Saisa Na Ma/ LITO BARRIENTOS Y SUS ORQUESTRA (’07, Columbia!)
The Water Under the Moon/ A HAWK & A HACKSAW (’05, Darkness at Noon)
Easy Does It/ BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY (’08 Tie Down the Light)*
For Emma/ BON IVER (’08, For Emma, Forever Ago)*

The Wheel/ BILL CALLAHAN (’07, Woke on a Whaleheart)
Maybe Partying Will Help/ THE MINUTEMEN (’84, Double Nickels on a Dime)
Natural’s Not in It/ GANG OF FOUR (’79, Entertainment)
Small Stakes/ SPOON
Cold Son/ STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS (’08, Real Emotional Trash)*
Fanfare/ ERIC MATTHEWS (’95, It’s Heavy in Here)
Dr. Vitas Werdegast/ 20 MINUTE LOOP (’08, Famous People Marry Famous People)*

Sing Me Spanish Techno/ NEW PORNOGRAPHERS (’05, Twin Cinema)
Skin Deep/ NICK LOWE (’79, Labour of Lust)
Don’t You Worry/ JIM NOIR (self titled)*
Pot Kettle Black/ TILLY AND THE WALL (’08, “O")*
Just A Little Bit/ THE KAISERS
These Boots Are Made For Walking/ NANCY SINATRA (’66)
Souljacker/ THE EELS (’01, Souljacker)
I Kinda Got Lost/ BIG STAR (unreleased demo version, Thank You Friends: The Ardent Records Story)
Living Well is the Best Revenge/ REM (’08, Accelerate)
Pleasure Seeker/ THE BOTSWANA (Fade and Your Gone)
Wrong Time Capsule/ DEERHOOF (’05, The Runners Four)
Night Time/ THE STRANGELOVES (1965)
Lie, Beg, Borrow & Steal/ THE PLIMSOULS (’83, Everywhere At Once, Mouse & the Traps cover)
Spanish Stroll/ MINK DeVILLE (’77, self titled debut)
Roadrunner/ BO DIDDLEY (1959)
Out in the Streets/ THE SHANGRI-LAS (’65, Jeff Barry/ Elle Greenwich)

Your Good Thing (Is About to End)/ MABEL JOHN
Life’s Little Ups and Downs/ CHARLIE RICH
Coffee, Coffee, Coffee/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’98, Real: The Tom T. Hall Project)
Messiah Ward/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
Seven Seas/ ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN (’84, Ocean Rain)
White Winter Hymnal/ THE FLEET FOXES (’08, self titled)*
Waterloo Sunset/ THE KINKS (’67, Something Else)
You May Be Blue/ VETIVER (’06, To Find Me Gone)
Lost in Space/ AIMEE MANN (’02, Lost in Space)

Braindead/ RED RED MEAT (’94, Jimmywine Majestic)
Sound and Vision/ DAVID BOWIE (’77, Low)
Turn On/ THE SEA AND CAKE (’07, Everybody)

Tell It To Me/ TOM WAITS

*new or recent release

Monday, July 21, 2008

Wonder Not


Raised in the Lower East Side tenements of New York, the legendary US photographer Dorothea Lange captured numerous images of the working class and minorities, from the south, midwest and the west. Pictured, a boy is reading the funny papers while in the Japanese American concentration camp, Manzanar, during WW II, from Impounded, published posthumously.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM 90.5/ 14 JULY 08

BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLE/ MON., TUES., 14, 15 JULY 08
Maskil/ JOHN ZORN/ MASADA CHAMBER ENSEMBLE (’96, Bar Kokhba)
Jaisalmer/ SIR RICHARD BISHOP (’04, Improvika, Locust Music)
Ilhabibi/ A HAWK AND A HACKSAW (’07, …And the Hungar Ensemble)
Apache/ 17 HIPPIES (’07, Heimlich)
Blues, Too/ NELS CLINE SINGERS (Live in Montreal)

Right As Wrong/ INARA GEORGE (w/ VAN DYKE PARKS)*
On Teasing/ NINA NASTASIA (’03, Run to Ruin)
The Blue Room/ EVANGELISTA ( w/ CARLA BUZULICH +
GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR, ‘08, Hello, Voyager, Constellation)*
Dope Island/ T BONE BURNETT
Saro/ SAM AMIDON (’08, All Is Well)
Demon Days/ ROBERT FORSTER (’08, The Evangelist)*
San Bernadino/ MOUNTAIN GOATS (’08, Heretic Pride)
Protector/ THE FLEET FOXES (self titled, Sub Pop)*

Life’s Little Ups and Downs/ CHARLIE RICH (’69)
Every Night About This Time/ DAVE ALVIN (’87, Every Night About This Time)
There She Still Remains/ PETE MOLINARI (’08, A Virtual Landslide)*
Tulsa Telephone Book/ CALEXICO (’98, from Real: The Tom T. Hall Project)
Silver Wing/ THE KNITTERS (’85)
Not A Woman, Not A Child/ DAVE EDMUNDS (’78, Tracks on Wax 4)

Police and Thieves/ THE CLASH (’77)
Rudi, A Message To You/ THE SPECIALS (’79)
B Movie/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’80, Get Happy!!)
Clap Hands/ TOM WAITS (’88, Big Time, live)
I Got Kinda Lost/ BIG STAR (demo)
IHop/ LUNA (’97, Pup Tent)
After Dark/ SNAKE HIPS (’97, Memphis Juke)
Hold My Life/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’85, Tim)

Don’t You Want It/ GOLDEN MEAN (’05, Black Operation)
When the Money Comes/ BETTY LAVETTE w/ DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS (’07, Scene of the Crime)
Too Bad/ THE FACES (’71, A Nod Is As Good As a Wink…)
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues/ BOB DYLAN (Live 1966, Free Trade Hall, Manchester, UK)
Privilege (Set Me Free)/ PATTI SMITH GROUP (’78, Easter)
Make Me Yours/ BETTYE SWAN (’67)
Crawfish/ JOHNNY THUNDERS & PATTI PALLADIN (’88, Copycats)

Greenlight/ DETROIT COBRAS (Tied & True)
This Damn Nation/ THE GODFATHERS (’86, Hit By Hit)
Let’s Talk About Girls/ CHOCOLATE WATCHBAND (’67 No Way Out)
Hello There/ CHEAP TRICK (’77, In Color)
Sugar Kane/ SONIC YOUTH (’92, Dirty)
Beautiful Friend/ THE UNDERTONES (’81, Positive Touch)
*new or recent release

Monday, July 14, 2008

BW's "Hot Circles" on at 10:00 PM-1:00 AM (PST), Monday



The Boy Wonder will be filling in for Gus Mozart/ Music Box for the next two weeks (July 14th and 21st); in other words, I'll be on KHSU-FM, 90.5, from 10:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m.
Photograph by Birney Imes.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST, KHSU-FM, 90.5, 8 JULY 08

BOY WONDER HOT CIRCLES/ TUES., 8 JULY 08/ MIDNIGHT-2 AM
Messiah Ward/ NICK CAVE & BAD SEEDS (’04, Abattoir Blues)
Crawfish/ ELVIS PRESLEY
Cadillac Walk/ MINK DeVILLE (’77, Cabretta)
Walking Spanish/ TOM WAITS (’85, Rain Dogs)
Ruler of My Heart/ IRMA THOMAS (’62)
Out in the Streets/ THE SHANGRI-LA’S
You Look Good in Blue/ BLONDIE (’76, self-titled debut)
Psychotic Reaction/ COUNT FIVE (’66)
Poor Girl/ X (’83, More Fun in the New World)

Kamikaze/ PJ HARVEY

(2000, Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea)
Soon/ MY BLOODY VALENTINE (’91, Loveless)
Little Eyes/ YO LA TENGO (’03, Summer Sun)
Kingdom of Lies/ FOLK IMPLOSION (’99, One Part Lullaby)
Sgt. Rock/ XTC (’87, Black Sea)

Gratification to Concrete/ ROBERT POLLARD

(’08, Robert Pollard Is Off to Business)*
Always Crashing in the Same Car/ DAVID BOWIE (’77, Low)
Ambulance/ TV ON THE RADIO

(’04, Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes)
Oliver James/ FESTIVE FOXES (’08, self-titled)*
Signal/ SAM PHILLIPS (’08, Don’t Do Anything)*
In the Evening/ NINA NASTASIA (’07, You Follow Me)
I Wish I Was Your Mother/ MOTT THE HOOPLE (’73, Mott)
Old Fashioned/ FRIGHTENED RABBIT
(’08, The Midnight Organ Fight)*

Ain’t That Enough/ TEENAGE FANCLUB (’97, Songs From Northern Britain)
Love is Lies/ BUZZCOCKS (’78, Love Bites)
While I Wait For You/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’99, Black Days Blue Nights)
Oh Caroline/ BEACH BOYS (’66, Pet Sounds)
*new or recent release

Please, Please, Please


Mr. James Brown, Memphis, 1965; pix taken by legendary Memphis photographer, Ernest C. Withers.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST, KHSU-FM, 90.5, 1 JULY 08

BOY WONDER’S HOT CIRCLES/ TUES., 1 JULY 08/ MIDNIGHT- 2 AM
My Babe/ LITTLE WALTER
I’m Shakin’/ LITTLE WILLIE JOHN
Get Out of My Life/ ALLEN TOUSSAINT
Ma/ TOM ZE
Lucky Lucky Luck/ EVANGELISTA (w/ CARLA BUZOLICH, Hello, Voyager)*
Impossible Germany/ WILCO (Sky Blue Sky, ‘07)
White Winter Hymnal/ FLEET FOXES (self titled debut, ’08)*
For Emma/ BON IVER (For Emma, Forever Ago)*
Suffering Jukebox/ SILVER JEWS (Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea)*

Do You Know the Way to San Jose/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (My Favorite Waste of Time, ‘08)*
Temptation/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS
Ram On/ PAUL & LINDA McCARTNEY
One Stolen Moment/ PETE MOLINARI
Get Yourself Together/ SMALL FACES
Son of a Gun/ THE LA’S (BBC in Session)
Pretty (Ugly Before)/ ELLIOTT SMITH (From a Basement on the Hill, ’04)

When You Walk Out/ MATTHEW SWEET (100% Fun, ’95)
I’m Waiting For the Day/ THE BEACH BOYS (Pet Sounds, ’66)
Comfy in Nautica/ PANDA BEAR (Person Pitch, ’07)
Happy Spirits/ THE RADAR BROTHERS (Auditorium, ’08)
Jigsaw Falling Into Place/ RADIOHEAD (In Rainbows, ’08)
Midnight Man/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, ’08)*
Lovelines/ THE RELACEMENTS (Hootenany, ’82)
Voodoo Cadillac/ SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS (Too Much Pork, ‘’91)
Have You Ever Seen the Rain?/ MINUTEMEN (3-Way Tie for Last, ’85)
The Have Nots/ X (Under the Big Black Sun,’82)

Behind Closed Doors/ CHARLIE RICH
Motel Matches/ E.C. & ATTRACTIONS
I Must Be in a Good Place Now/ VETIVER (Thing of the Past, ’08, Bobby Charles cover)*
Help Me/ SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON
Ask Me No Questions/ JOHNNY THUNDERS (So Alone, ’78)
*new/recent release

Thursday, June 12, 2008

There's No Wave Like No Wave


Back when NY was affordable to live in, dirty, sick and fun! Release of a new "coffee table/art" book, published by Abams, No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980, scribed by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley. NY Times article on its release. Pictured: DNA #1's lineup/ Ikue Mori, Arto Lindsay and Robin Crutchfield (photograph by Julia Gorton).

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Up For A Ride?


The femme fatales of Russ Meyer's classic, Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!

B.W.'s PLAYLIST, KHSU-FM, 90.5, 10 JUNE 08

BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ TUES., 10 JUNE 08/ MIDNIGHT-2 AM
Old Fashioned/ FRIGHTENED RABBIT (The Midnight Organ Fight, ‘08)*
For Emma/ BON IVER (For Emma, Forever Ago)*
Tonight Will Be Fine (L. Cohen)/ TEDDY THOMPSON (Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man)
Little Satchel/ SAM AMIDON (All Is Well)*
Sky Blue Sky/ WILCO

To Baby/ VETIVER (Thing of the Past)*
Summer Rain/ JOHNNY RIVERS (1967)
King of Carrot Flowers/ NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL

Ruler of My Heart/ IRMA THOMAS
Mohair Sam/ CHARLIE RICH
Dirty Blvd./ LOU REED (New York, ‘89)
Dad’s Gonna Kill Me/ RICHARD THOMPSON
Clap Hands/ TOM WAITS (Big Time, ‘88)
Paint Work/ THE FALL (This Nation’s Saving Grace)

Keep on Runnin/ THE SPENCER DAVIS GROUP
Time the Avenger/ THE PRETENDERS (Learning to Crawl, ‘84)
Favorite Thing/ SUGAR (File Under: Easy Listening, ‘94)
Wrecking the Flow/ THE DIRTBOMBS (We Have You Surrounded, ’08)*
Same Reaction/ SNAKE HIPS (Memphis Juke, ’97)
Bad Liver and a Broken Heart/ HAYES CARLL (Trouble in Mind, ’08)*

Suffering Jukebox/ SILVER JEWS (Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea, ’08)*
Autoclave/ MOUNTAIN GOATS (Heretic Pride, ’08)
Bigmouth Strikes Again/ THE SMITHS (The Queen is Dead, ’86)
The Lovely Sky Boat/ THE SUPERIMPOSERS
God Only Knows/ THE BEACH BOYS (Pet Sounds)
Waitin’ For Superman/ FLAMING LIPS (Soft Parade, ’99)
Turn on Me/ THE SHINS (Wincing the Night Away, ’07)

Don’t Take Anyone to be Your Friend/ SISTER ROSETTA
THARPE

*recent release