B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 26 DEC. 2009

Singer/songwriter Vic Chesnutt, photographed here by Mary Ellen Mark in 1996, died yesterday, xmas day, at the age of 45, due to a coma induced by an overdose of muscle relaxers. Tragic and deeply sad. Details still withheld or fuzzy, but according to a The New York Times article, Chesnutt was facing a significant debt due to medical costs. A lack of a National Health Plan (i.e. "single payer") in this country is killing our artists. Fortunately, Mr. Chesnutt has left a treasure trove of great art.

BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM

Sockin’ Soul/ JOHNNY & DELORES (’68, 7"single) [True Soul]

You Can’t Buy My Love/ BARBARA LYNN (’65, ’08 collection, The Jamie Singles Collection, 1962-65)

Now What You Gonna Do/ FRANK FROST (’62, ’98 Very Best of Frank Frost Big Boss Man)

Cadillac Walk/ MINK DeVILLE (’77, Cabretta)

Crimson Enemy/ THE BATS (’09, The Guilty Office)

Scissors/ BARBARA MANNING (’91, One Perfect Blanket)

In a Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul/ THE CLEAN (’09, Mister Pop)

The Boy With the Perpetual Nervousness/ THE FEELIES (’80, Crazy Rhythms)

Lulla/ TINARIWEN (’09, Imidiwan: Companions)

Run That That Thru Your Mind/ THE FEMININE COMPLEX (’69 Livin’ Love)

Dressy/ THE REIGNING SOUND (’02, Time Bomb High School)

Forever Yours/ PAUL BURCH & THE WPA BAND (’00, Blue Notes)

There She Still Remains/ PETE MOLINARI (’08, A Virtual Landslide)

Color Him Father/ LINDA MARTELL (’69, Color Me Country)

Endless Sleep/ NICK LOWE (’78, ’08 reissue Jesus of Cool)

Black Silk Ribbon/ 7 WORLDS COLLIDE/ BIC RUNGA & KT TUNSTALL (‘09, The Sun Came Out)

Flirted With You All of My Life/ VIC CHESNUTT (’09, At the Cut)*

Isaiah 45:23/ THE MOUNTAIN GOATS (’09, The Life of the World to Come)

Sisters of Mercy (live ‘08)/ LEONARD COHEN (’09, Live in London)

Privilege (Set Me Free)/ PATTI SMITH (’78, Easter)

In the Evening/ NINA NASTASIA & JIM WHITE (’07, You Follow Me)

Come to Me/ MARK LANEGAN (w/ PJ HARVEY) (’04, Bubblegum)

You Can’t Put Your Arm Around a Memory/ JOHNNY THUNDERS (’78, So Alone)

She Fell Away/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’86, ’09 reissue, Your Funeral…My Trial)

Submarines of Stockholm/ AC NEWMAN (’09, Get Guilty)

Real Men/ THE JAZZ BUTCHER (’84, Scandal in Bohemia)

Why Can’t I Touch It?/ THE BUZZCOCKS (’79 collection, Singles Going Steady)

You Are a Jaguar/ EVANGELISTA (’09, Prince of Truth)*

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 19 DEC. 2009

Founding L7 bandmember/leader, Jennifer Finch, displays her buoyant hair style. Apparently, she has dialed in the Hot Circles, as with the other band members, past and (somewhat) present. C'mon in, grrrls. Welcome. Photo courtesy of Pat Graham, who shot this at a gig in Madison, WI, in the early 1990's.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM

Inspiration Information/ SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS (’09, Dark Was the Night) [for Red Hot Organization]

If I Was Your Girlfriend/ PRINCE (’87, Sign ‘O’ the Times)

Golden Age/ TV ON THE RADIO (’08, Dear Science)

Scarecrow/ BECK (’05, Guero)

My Girls/ ANIMAL COLLECTIVE (’09, Merriweather Post Pavilion)

Adventure Tour/ THE RUBY SUNS (’08, Sea Lion)

Cries of the Dead/ CHAD VAN VAALEN (’08, Soft Airplane)

Stray Dog and the Chocolate Shake/ GRANDADDY ('03, Sumday)

Sun Glow/ DOUG GILLARD (’09, Call From Restricted)

Wonderland/ SNAKEHIPS (’09, Month of Sundays)*

Open My Eyes/ NAZZ (’72, ’98 collection, Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From the First Psychedelic Era)

John Cage Bubblegum/ STEREOLAB (’95, Refried Ectoplasm)

Sugarcube/ YO LA TENGO (’97, I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One)

Disappear/ SONIC YOUTH (’90, Goo)

Friction/ TELEVISION (’77, Marquee Moon)

I Can See For Miles/ THE WHO (’67, Who Sell Out)

Wrong Time Capsule/ DEERHOOF (’05, Runners Four)

Confection/ THE NELS CLINE SINGERS (’07, Draw Breath)

Oxtail/ RED RED MEAT (’94, ’09 reissue Bunny Gets Paid)

Big Black Car/ BIG STAR (’78, 09 collection, Keep an Eye on the Sky)*

She Says/ THE BEATLES ('66, Revolver)

Merely a Man/ XTC (’89, Oranges & Lemons)

ELT/ WILCO (’99, Summerteeth)

Remote Control/ THE CLASH (’77, self titled)

Let’s Pretend We’re Dead/ L7 (’92, Bricks Are Heavy)

Annalisa/ Public Image (’78, self titled)

*new or recent release

GUS MOZART'S MUSIC BOX/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ MON., 14 DEC. 09

Contemporary pianist, composer and harmonium player extraordinaire Myra Melford will be performing with her group Be Bread on 29 Jan. 2010, to kick off the Redwood Jazz Alliance's new year, at Humboldt State University's Kate Buchanan Room. This concert by an accomplished musician and artist should not be missed. You may have recently seen her, joining violinist Jenny Scheinman on her recent West Coast tour. Inventive, angular and completely engaging.

BOY WONDER SUBBAGE/ 10:00 PM-MIDNIGHT

Big Pine/ TRIO M (w/ MYRA MELFORD, MARK DRESSER & MATT WILSON) (’09, Big Picture)

Fade to Green/ ALEX CLINE (w/ JEFF GAUTHIER, PEGGY LEE, MYRA MELFORD, SCOTT WALTON) (’09, Continuation)

Be Bread/ MYRA MELFORD (’06, The Image of Your Body)

Wisacre/ JENNY SCHEINMAN (’04, Shalagaster)

Kertesz/ A HAWK AND A HACKSAW (’09, Delivrance)

Valkoiset Linnut/ MARKUS ALLAN (’02, The Man Without a Past)

Working Class Hero/ MARIANNE FAITHFULL (’90, Blazing Away)

Chinaberry Tree/ VIC CHESNUTT (’09, At the Cut)*

Krill/ CALIFONE (’09, All of My Friends Are Funeral Singers)*

Johnsburg, Illinois/ TOM WAITS (’88, Big Time)

This Perfect World/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’94, This Perfect World)

Single Girl, Married Girl/ CARTER FAMILY ('29, ’97 collection, Anthology of American Folk Music)

Saro/ SAM AMIDON (’07, All is Well)

To Ohio/ THE LOW ANTHEM (’09, Oh My God Charlie Darwin)

Shelley My Love/ NICK LOWE (’94, Impossible Bird)

A Fond Farewell/ ELLIOT SMITH (’04, From a Basement on the Hill)

Ballad of El Goodo/ BIG STAR (’72, ’09 collection, Keep an Eye on the Sky)*

Waitin’ For Superman/ THE FLAMING LIPS (’99, The Soft Bulletin)

Le Chat Du Café Des Artistes/ CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG (’10, IRM)*

69 Annee Erotique/ SERGE GAINSBOURG (’69, ’02 collection, Initials SG)

She Fell Away/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’86, ’09 reissue, Your Funeral…My Trial)*

Weird Fishes/ RADIOHEAD (’07, In Rainbows)

Up on Crutches/ THE SEA AND CAKE (’07, Everybody)

My Girls/ ANIMAL COLLECTIVE (’09, Merriweather Post Pavilion)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 5 DEC. 2009

It's pretty obvious that The Boy Wonder is a huge fan of Ms. Holly Golightly. And visa versa? Apparently Ms. Golightly likes a stroll in the woods with her semi-hollow body guitar. Hmmm. Let's follow her down the primrose path. Hopefully, she will be waltzing near Humboldt County one day...
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM

Days/ THE KINKS (’68, The Kinks Are the Village Preservation Society

God Only Knows/ THE BEACH BOYS (’66, Pet Sounds)

Innocent When You Dream/ TOM WAITS (’87, Frank’s Wild Years)

Cursed Sleep (live) / BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY (w/ HAREM SCAREM AND ALEX NEILSON) (’08, Is It the Sea?)

The Wind and the Dove/ BILL CALLAHAN (’09, Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle)

A Pair of Brown Eyes/ THE POGUES (’85, Rum, Sodomy & The Lash)

Gone Like Water/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’94, This Perfect World)

These Boots Are Made For Walking (’66)/ NANCY SINATRA (’66, Boots)

The Girls in Paris/ LEE HAZELWOOD (’67, ’02 collection, These Boots Are Made For Walkin’)

Steady As Starlight/ THE WAXWINGS (’03, Let’s Make Our Descent)

Black and White/ THE dB’s (’81, Stands For Decibels)

I’m Not in Love/ THE TALKING HEADS (’78, More Songs About Buildings and Food)

Editions of You/ ROXY MUSIC (’73, For Your Pleasure)

In World/ TELEVISION (’92, self titled)

Divine Intervention/ MATTHEW SWEET (’91, Girlfriend)

Sister Surround/ THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES (’02, Behind the Music)

Lion in a Coma/ ANIMAL COLLECTIVE (’09, Merriweather Post Pavilion)

Tane Mahuta/ THE RUBY SUNS (’08, Sea Lion)

Yassassin (Long Live)/ DAVID BOWIE (’79, Lodger)

Polish Girls/ CALIFONE (’09, All of My Friends Are Funeral Singers)*

Ashes of American Flags/ WILCO (’09, Ashes of American Flags)

Margarine Rock/ STEREOLAB (’04, Margerine Eclipse)

Box Elder/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY (’99, ’01 collection, Singles Round-Up)

Chowder/ JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION (’98, Xtra Acme)

You Are a Jaguar/ EVANGELISTA (’09, Prince of Truth)*

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 28 NOV. 2009

Yes, even Finnish dogs pay attention to the Hot Circles blasting out of the speakers. This still is from the excellent deadpan film, Man Without a Past, directed by Finnish director, Aki Kaurismaki. And the soundtrack is pretty fab as well.

BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM

Fever (’56)/ LITTLE WILLIE JOHN (’93 collection, The Best of…)

Harlem Shuffle (’63)/ BOB & EARL (’97 collection, Beg, Scream and Shout)

Soul Butter/ JOHNNY BARFIELD & THE MEN OF S.O.U.L. (’06 collection Movers!)

Willy Nilly (’65)/ RUFUS THOMAS (’91 collection, Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968)

Get on This Plane (’66)/ THE PREMIERS (’09 collection, Where the Action Is: LA Nuggets 65-68)*

Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill!/ THE BOTSWEEDS (Born Bad, Vol. 1)

Lost Time/ THE PLIMSOULS (’81, self titled)

Foggy Notion/ THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (’69, The Velvet Undergound)

Down, Down, Down/ TOM WAITS (’83, Swordfishtrombones)

Keep on Running/ THE SPENCER DAVIS GROUP (’65)

Do the Shake (’64)/ THE RENEGADES (’02 st, The Man Without a Past)

Souljacker Pt. 1/ THE EELS (’02, Souljacker)

Live Fast Die Young/ KING KHAN & THE SHRINES (’08 collection, The Supreme Genius of…)

He’s Not Here Anymore (’66)/ THE CHYMES (’09 collection, Where the Action Is)*

Yeh Mera Dil Yaar Ka Diwana/ ASHA BHOSLE (’78)

Shot in the Arm/ WILCO (’99, Summerteeth)

Rainy Days and Mondays/ CRACKER (’94, If I Were a Carpenter) [A&M]

You Look Good in Blue/ L’ALOUETTE (’01 collection, How Many Bands Does It Take to Screw Up a Blondie Tribute?)

Beware Your Only Friend/ BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY (’09, Beware)

Desert Skies/ BEACHWOOD SPARKS (’00, self titled)

Jigsaw Falling Into Place/ RADIOHEAD (’07, In Rainbows)

A Chance Counsel/ RICHARD BUCKNER (’04, Dents and Shells)

When You Walk Out/ MATTHEW SWEET (’95, 100% Fun)

New Big Prinz/ THE FALL (’88, I Am Curious Oranj)

Methamphetamine Blues/ MARK LANEGAN (’04, Bubblegum)

Down By the Water/ PJ HARVEY (’95, To Bring You My Love)

You Are a Jaguar/ EVANGELISTA (’09, Prince of Truth)*

Rosewood, Wax, Volt + Glitter/ RED RED MEAT (’95, Bunny Gets Paid)

Tom Courtney/ YO LA TENGO (’95, Electr-O-Pura)

Confection/ THE NELS CLINE SINGERS (’07, Draw Breath)

*new or recent release

BUCK CALHOUN SHOW/ B.W. SUBBAGE/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ WED., 25 NOV. 09

Meiko Kaji from the 1973 classic, Lady Snowblood, the Japanese female samurai/revenge film, directed by Toshiya Fujita, that Q. Tarantino practically stole for part 1 of Kill Bill. He even lifted the title song (sung by Kaji) for his soundtrack. The nerve...stick with the original on this one.
BOY WONDER SUBBAGE/ 10:00 PM- MIDNIGHT

Blues in the Night/ ANNIE SHELTON (from ’93 BBC st, The Singing Detective)

Sometimes I’m Happy/ HADDA BROOKS (w/ CARLA BOZULICH) (’98 collection, I’ve Got News For You)

These Days/ NICO (’67, Chelsea Girl)

The Crane Wife 3/ MARIANNE FAITHFULL (w/ NICK CAVE) (’09, Easy Come, Easy Go)

And I Sat Sadly By Her Side/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’01, No More Shall We Part)

Come On Over/ ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN (’08, Sunday at Devil Dirt)

Your Love Is Mine/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY (’98, ’01 collection, Singles Round-Up)

Flower of Carnage/ MEIKO KAJI (’73, from ost, Lady Snowblood)

Red Desert/ PERNICE BROTHERS (’05, Discover a Lovelier You)

The Alibi/ LUNA (’02, Close Cover Before Striking, ep)

Superstar/ SONIC YOUTH (’94, If I Were a Carpenter)

Heads Will Roll/ ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN (’82, Porcupine)

Soliel/ IAIN ARCHER (’06, Magnetic Earth)

Thrill of it All/ ROXY MUSIC (’74, Country Life)

Give Blood/ RAIN MACHINE (’09, self titled)*

Requiem For O.M.M.2/ OF MONTREAL (’05, Sunlandic Twins)

Tensile/ THE CLEAN (’09, Mr. Pop)*

Blue Bell Knoll/ THE COCTEAU TWINS (’88, Blue Bell Knoll)

Pages Turn/ 28TH DAY (’85, ’03 collection, The Complete Recordings)

Thanksgiving Prayer/ WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS (’90, Dead City Radio)

Goin’ Out West (live)/ TOM WAITS (’09, Glitter and Doom Live)*

Can’t Get Over You/ VIVIAN GIRLS (’09, Everything Goes Wrong)*

Darling/ GIRLS (’09, Album)*

Too Much Freedom/ LOU BARLOW (’09, Goodnight Unknown)*

In the Evening/ NINA NASTASIA & JIM WHITE (’07, You Follow Me)

Thank You Friends/ BIG STAR (’75, 3rd/ Sister Lovers)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 14 NOV. 2009

Songwriter, musician, and vocalist Carla Bozulich, longtime veteran and maverick of the LA avant-garde/contemporary music scene (including fronting the infamous Ethyl Meatplow), will be slinging her internal roar and intense persona with Evangelista, a band formed with members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, at Arcata, CA's Jambalaya club, on Friday, Dec. 11th. If you're in the area, you don't want to miss this rare opportunity to hear a dynamic, inventive and unique performance. Evangelista has a new recording out, Prince of Truth, on Constellation Records.
*CORRECTION: Due to the double booking of Arcata's Jambalaya club, Evangelista was recently bumped from their scheduled Dec. 11th date. It appears that Carla & Co. will NOT be performing in these parts. So much for professional agreements...

BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM

It’s Gonna Rain (’65)/ SONNY & CHER

Willie & Hand Jive (’58)/ JOHNNY OTIS SHOW

I Want Candy (’65)/ THE STRANGELOVES

I Want You Back/ THE PLIMSOULS (’81, self titled)

Another Girl, Another Planet (’78)/ THE ONLY ONES

American Dream (Television)/ JON JAMES & THE FANTASY TRASHCAN (’03, self titled)

Surgical Focus/ GUIDED BY VOICES (’99, Do the Collapse)

You’re Taking Me Back/ CHEAP TRICK (’78, Heaven Tonight)

Watch the Sunrise (alt mix)/ BIG STAR (’72, ’09 collection, Keep an Eye on the Sky)*

Scissors/ BARBARA MANNING (’91 collection, One Perfect Blanket)

Letter to Bowie Knife/ CALEXICO (’06, Garden Ruin)

Jack the Ripper/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’92, Henry’s Dream)

Lucky Lucky Luck/EVANGELISTA (w/ CARLA BOZULICH) (’08, Now, Voyager)

One Block Wonders/ CRYPTACIZE (’09, Mythomania)

John Cage Bubblegum/ STEREOLAB (’95 collection, Refried Ectoplasm: Switched On, Vol. 2)

Scream Team/ DEERHOOF (’05, Runners Four)

Gut Feeling/ DEVO (’78, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!)

Walking With Thee/ CLINIC (’02, Walking With Thee)

Monk Time/ THE MONKS (’66, ’09 reissue, Black Monk Time)

You’ll Be Following (’66)/ LOVE (’09 collection, Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets: 1965-1968)*

Crimson Enemy/ THE BATS (’09, The Guilty Office)*

In a Dream Life You Need a Rubber Soul/ THE CLEAN (’09, Mr. Pop)

Hanging on a String/ FABIENNE DEL SOL & THE BRISTOLS (’07 collection, The Best of…)

Je Prefere Tes Bras/ SYLVIE VARTAN (’65)

Way Down in the Hole/ THE COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS (’95 collection, Gambling Days Are Over)

Fall Inn/ THE PONYS (’03, Loaded With Romance)

Pleasure Seeker/ THE BOTWANAS (’01, Fade and Your Gone)

Pipeline/ JOHNNY THUNDERS (’78, So Alone)

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

Freak Scene/ DINOSAUR JR. (’88, Bug)

Fire Engine/ RICHARD LLOYD (’90, Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye)

I Only Said/ MY BLOODY VALENTINE (’91, Loveless)

*new or recent release

GUS MOZART'S MUSIC BOX PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ MON., 9 NOV. 2009

BOY WONDER SUBBAGE/ 10:00-MIDNIGHT

Clearing Our Streams/ ALEX CLINE (’09, Continuation)

Be Bread/ MYRA MELFORD (’06, The Image of Your Body)

Polygyne/ EFTERKLANG (w/ THE DANISH NATIONAL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA) (’09, Performing Parades)*

Staraflur (live version)/ SIGUR ROS (’07, Hvarf/Heim, from Heima st)

Molly Bawn (live, BBC)/ BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY (w/ HAREM SCAREM & ALEX NEILSON) (’08, Is It The Sea?)

Paper Kitten Claw/ EVANGELISTA [CARLA BUZULICH & GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR] (’08, Hello, Voyager)

1928/ CALIFONE (’09, All of My Friends Are Funeral Singers)*

Meet Me at Lookout Point/ DEVENDRA BANHART (’09, What Will We Be)*

Woke Up New/ THE MOUNTAIN GOATS (’06, So Lonely)

Windshield/ PETER MULVEY (’09, Letters From a Flying Machine)*

Saro/ SAM AMIDON (’07, All Is Well)

The Pirate’s Gospel/ ALELA DIANE (’06, The Pirate’s Gospel)

The Wind and the Dove/ BILL CALLAHAN (’09, Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle)

You May Be Blue/ VETIVER (’06, To Find Me Gone)

Masengo/ MULATU ASTATKE & THE HELIOCENTRICS (’09, Inspiration Information)

Intitlayaghen/ TINARIWEN (’09, Companions)*

Offend Maggie/ DEERHOOF (’08, Offend Maggie)

Someday/ LOS LOBOS (’93, Just Another Band From East LA)

Look For Me (I’ll Be Around)/ NEKO CASE (’02, Black Listed)

In the Evening/ NINA NASTASIA & JIM WHITE (’07, You Follow Me)

It’s a Rainbow (Blame Me)/ LISA GERMANO (’09, Believer Music Issue comp.)

Cello Song/ THE BOOKS feat. JOSE GONZALEZ (’09, Dark Was the Night)

Chocolate Jesus/ TOM WAITS (’99, Mule Variations)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 7 NOV. 2009

Ms. Jeannie C. Riley, (pictured her in the mid/late 1960's) best known for her hit, "Harper Valley PTA," gives more than a mere thumbs up for the Hot Circle Society. The Boy Wonder welcomes Ms. Riley (and all of her digits).

THE BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM

Selfish One/ JACKIE ROSS (’64)

She Spoke to Me/ PRINCE (’96, Girls 6 st)

Real Tru Love/ THE PEPPER POTS (’09, Now!)*

Do I Make Myself Clear/ ETTA JAMES & SUGAR PIE DESANTO (’65)

Mohair Sam/ CHARLIE RICH (’65)

The Back Side of Dallas/ JEANNIE C. RILEY (’69)

Fancy/ BOBBI GENTRY (’70)

I Got a Woman (live, ’68)/ ELVIS PRESLEY

Jelly Behind Woman Blows My Mind/ ELTON WHITE (’87)

San Diego Zoo/ THE 6THS (W/ BARBARA MANNING) (’95, Wasp’s Nests)

Son of a Gun (’88)/ THE LA’S (’06 collection, BBC in Session)

Kingdom of Love/ THE SOFT BOYS (’80, Underwater Moonlight)

No Thugs in Our House/ XTC (’98, Transistor Blast: Best of the BBC Sessions)

Thick As Thieves/ THE JAM (’79, Setting Sons)

Tonight/ THE RASPBERRIES (’73)

Don’t Want You Back/ THE SIGHTS (’02, Got What We Want)

Back of a Car (alt mix)/ BIG STAR (’73, Radio City, ’09 reissue Keep an Eye on the Sky)

Valentine/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’87, Pleased to Meet Me)

Kid/ THE PRETENDERS (’79, self titled)

Hang On/ TEENAGE FANCLUB (’93, Thirteen)

Use It/ THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS (’05, Twin Cinema)

Riot Act/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’80, Get Happy!!!)

Are You Ready to Be Heartbroken/ LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS (’84, self titled)

Doc Ellis/ SF SEALS (’93, Baseball Trilogy ep)

Friction/ TELEVISION (’77, Marquee Moon)

Something’s Gone Wrong Again/ THE BUZZCOCKS (’79)

Death by Northwest/ SCARNELLA (’98, self titled)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 31 OCT. 09 (YEAH, IT'S HALLOWEEN)

It's evident that The Boy Wonder uses the hell out of Snakehips' excellent song, "Hell On Earth," from frontman/singer/songwriter Mark Harrison, (taken from the killer debut 1993 record, Lit), for Halloween. It's named after the "Hell On Earth" annual Memphis celebration/ garage rock extravaganza. Snakehips, formed in Memphis, later finding residence in Nashville, rocks from the T. Rex/Mott-vein, Southern style. Check out their whole catalog, most of which, are available with Feralette Records.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 11;00-11:00 PM

I Put a Spell on You/ SCREAMING JAY HAWKINS ('57)

Woo-Hoo/ ROCK-A-TEENS (’59)

Let’s Have a Party/ WANDA JACKSON ('60)

My Baby’s Left Me/ ELVIS PRESLEY ('56)

Never No More Blues/ THE BLASTERS (’80, ’97 reissue, American Music)

Not a Woman, Not a Child/ DAVE EDMUNDS (’78, Tracks on Wax 4)

Leave My Kitten Alone/ LITTLE WILLIE JOHN (’59)

Faster, Pussycat! Kill!, Kill!/ THE BOTSWEEDS

Brand New Cadillac/ THE CLASH (’79, ’04 reissue, London Calling)

Devil Doll/ X (’83, More Fun in the New World)

Memphis, Egypt/ THE MEKONS (’89, Rock ‘n’ Roll)

You Got Me Hummin’/ REIGNING SOUND (’04, Too Much Guitar)

Loretta/ NEKO CASE (w/ THE SADIES) (’04, The Tigers Have Spoken)

Girls/ DAVID JOHANSEN (’78, self titled)

Ah-So/ THE 5, 7, 8’s (’92, Can’t Help It!!)

Swing Set/ THE CUTTERS (’01, Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!)

Tell That Girl to Shut Up/ TINA & THE TOTAL BABES (’00, She’s So Tuff)

Ghost on the Highway/ GUN CLUB (’81, Fire of Love)

Rip Her to Shreds/ BLONDIE (’76, self titled)

Grimly Fiendish/ THE DAMNED (’85, Phantasmagoria) + (by request)

What’s He Building in There?/ TOM WAITS (’99, Mule Variations)

The Rubber Room/ PORTER WAGONER (’72)

Delia’s Gone/ JOHNNY CASH (’94, American Recordings)

Psycho/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’81, '94 reissue Almost Blue, Live in Aberdeen)

You’ll Never Change/ THE DETROIT COBRAS (’07, Tied & True), orig. Bettye LaVette, '63

I Don’t Like the Man I Am/ PETE MOLINARI (’08, A Virtual Landslide)

Halloween/ DREAM SYNDICATE (’82, The Days of Wine and Roses)

You Got Good Taste/ THE CRAMPS (’83, Smell of a Female)

Hell on Earth/ MARK HARRISON & SNAKEHIPS (’93, Lit)

Don’t Lie to Me/ BIG STAR (’72, #1 Record)

Gut Feeling/ DEVO (’78, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo)