B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KSHU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 27 JUNE 2009

It's a 45 RPM Party! Muy bien, the gals from the Pepper Pots (Adriana Prunell, Marina Torres and Merce Munne), the hip soul/ska band from Barcelona, Spain, understands what it takes to sling the Hot Circles. Welcome to the club, ladies. Check out their new record, Now!, on Black Pepper Records.

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

Niki Hokey/ ARETHA FRANKLIN (68, Lady Soul)

Lucky Girl/ THE PEPPER POTS (’07, Shake It!)

One Step Beyond/ MADNESS (79, One Step Beyond)

Guayaba/ LUCHO MACEDO (Bugulu Tropical, Vol. 1)

El Pito/ JOE CUBA (’65)

Spanish Stroll/ MINK DeVILLE (’77, self titled)

Red Eye #2/ THE PLUGZ (’81, Better Luck)

Then He Kissed Me/ THE CRYSTALS (‘63)

Kid/ THE PRETENDERS (’80, self titled)

Don’t Forget Me/ NEKO CASE (’08, Middle Cyclone)

I’m Waiting For the Day/ THE BEACH BOYS (’66, Pet Sounds)

L’oiseau/ SYLVIE VARTAN (’68)

The Girls in Paris/ LEE HAZELWOOD (’67)

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

Le Feuiles Mortes/ IGGY POP (’09, Preliminaires)*

I’ll Be There/ THE JACKSON 5 (’70)

Shot in the Arm (live, ’08)/ WILCO (Ashes of American Flags)*

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

Under the Waves/ PSEUDOSIX (’07, self titled)

The Sound of Fear/ THE EELS (’00, Daisies of the Galaxy)

Baby Strange/ T. REX (’72, The Slider)

Little Girl/ SYNDICATE OF SOUND (’66)

The Rest of My Days/ GENTLEMAN JESSE (’07, Introducing…)

Gimme the Car/ THE VIOLENT FEMMES (’83, single)

Beer, Gas, Ride Forever/ JOHN DOE (’92, Roadside Prophets st)

Make It Black/ THE BOTSWANAS (’01, Fade and Your Gone)

Slowly, Slowly/ MAGNAPOP (’94, Hot Boxing)

Search and Destroy/ IGGY & THE STOOGES (’72, Raw Power)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 20 JUNE 09

No, I swear it's him, not me. Mr. Peter Sellers, the fab actor of the British Swinging '60's (and then some), in 1968, during the filming of I Love You Alice B. Toklas. He's not around anymore, but he sends his best from the "other side," listening to the Hot Circles. Naturally.

BOY WONDER’S HOT CIRCLES/ SAT., 20 JUNE 09/ 9-11 PM

Hidden Hand/ THE BUDOS BAND (’09, self titled, EP)*

Love Comes and Goes/ LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS (’09, My World)

Love Makes a Woman/ BARBARA ACKLIN (’68)

I’ll Be There/ FRANCINE THOMAS (’68)

A Jelly Blows My Mind/ ELTON WHITE

Automatic/ THE RED DEVILS (’92, King King)

Only Daddy (That’ll Walk the Line)/ THE SKELETONS (’92, Waiting)

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

Freed Pig/ SEBADOH (’91, III)

Mass Romantic/ THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS (’00, Mass Romantic)

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

You’ll Never Change/ THE DETROIT COBRAS (’07, Tied & True)

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

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

Dirty Blvd./ LOU REED (’89, New York)

Dad’s Gonna Kill Me/ RICHARD THOMPSON (’07, Sweet Warrior)

Drive On/ JOHNNY CASH (’94, American Recordings I)

My Dad/ PAUL WESTERBERG (’04, Folker)

Chain Chain Chain/ RED RED MEAT (’95, Bunny Gets Paid, 09 reissue)*

Waste of Time/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’01, Right Between the Promises)

Too Drunk to F#@k/ NOUVELLE VAGUE (’05, self titled)

L’Hotel Particulier/ SERGE GAINSBOURG (’71, Histoire de Melody Nelson, ’09 reissue)*

Corona/ CALEXICO (’04, Convict Pool)

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

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

Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)/ JOAN JETT (’92, Bad Repution)

Red Eyed Troll/ THE MUFFS (’95, Blonder and Blonder)

Jimmy’s Fantasy/ REDD KROSS (’93, Phaseshifter)

Box Elder/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY (’99)

Problems/ THE SEX PISTOLS ('77, Never Mind the Bollocks...)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHUS-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 13 JUNE 09

I, the Boy Wonder, once served the lovely and talented actress Catherine Keener, while working at an LA bookstore, Book Soup, formerly in West Hollywood. It was just before her first nomination for an Academy Award in 2000. A great thrill. That, and the fact that Ms. Keener has joined the Hot Circle Army. Welcome.

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

Watch the Dog That Bring Home the Bone/ SANDY GAYE (’69)

Oh Baby/ BO DIDDLEY (‘66)

Soul Butter/ JOHN BARFIELD AND THE MEN OF S.O.U.L.

Money I$ King/ LEE FIELDS (’09, My World)*

Bang a Gong (Get It On)/ T. REX (’71, Electric Warrior)

Nervous Breakdown/ EDDIE COCHRAN (’58)

That’ll Work/ THE SKELETONS (’83, Waiting)

Farmer John/ THE PREMIERS (’64)

I Can Only Give You Everything/ THEM (’66)

Living Well is the Best Revenge/ REM (’08, Accelerate)

Constructive Summer/ THE HOLD STEADY (’08, Stay Positive)

LTD A Go-Go/ IMPALA (’94, El Rancho Reverbo)

Night Life/ JOHN DOE & THE SADIES (’09, Country Club)*

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

Life’s Little Ups and Downs/ CHARLIE RICH (‘69)

Father to a Sister of a Thought/ PAVEMENT (’95, Wowee Zowie)

You Can’t Hurt Me Now/ BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY (’09, Beware)*

Suffering Jukebox/ THE SILVER JEWS (’08, Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea)

I’ve Just Seen a Face/ LUDELLA BLACK (’02)

I Need You/ THE KINKS (’65)

Lie, Beg, Borrow & Steal/ THE PLIMSOULS (’83, Everywhere At Once)

A Good Flying Bird/ GUIDED BY VOICES (’95, Alien Lanes)

And Your Bird Can Sing/ THE BEATLES (’66, Revolver)

Tower of London/ XTC (’80, Black Sea)

Bad Days/ THE FLAMING LIPS (’95, Clouds Taste Metallic)

+81/ DEERHOOF (’07, Friend Opportunity)

Matadjem Yinmixan/ TINARIWEN (’07, Aman Iman)

Marquee Moon/ TELEVISION (’77, Marquee Moon)

Anit-Orgasm/ SONIC YOUTH (’09, The Eternal)*

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLALIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 6 JUNE 09

Soul singer LEE FIELDS, who has kicked around since the 70's, hooked up with essentially the El Michels Affair (The Expressions), producing one of the finest soul records to be released this year, My World, on Truth & Soul. It's a subtle blending of Stax/Volt, James Brown-influenced soul with contemporary arrangements. In short, it's a killer record.

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

Do You Love Me/ LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS (’09, My World)*

Can’t See My Way/ ERMA FRANKLIN (’68, Super Soul Sister)

The Devastator/ STORMY ’67, Eccentric Soul: Twinight’s Lunar Rotation)

Mas O Menos/ THE BUDOS BAND (’07, Budos II)

Must I Holler/ JAMO THOMAS (’66)

Chicken Thighs/ ANDRE WILLIAMS

She’s My Baby/ THE MOJO MEN (’67)

Psychotic Reaction/ THE COUNT FIVE (’65)

Nitroglycerine/ THE GORIES (’90, I Know You Fine, But How You Doin’)

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

Donde Vas/ LOS GATOS SALVAJES

Savoir Faire/ MINK DEVILLE (’80, Le Chat Bleu)

Frenchette/ DAVID JOHANSEN (’78, self titled)

Supergirl/ STEREOTOTAL (’98, self titled)

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

Sexy on the Inside/ ROMANTIC RETARDNATION

North American Scum/ LCD SOUNDSYSTEM (’07, Sound of Silver)

Yeh Mera Dil Yaar Ka Diwana/ ASHA BHOSLE

Fire/Sign/ THE GOSSIP (’03, Movement)

Make It Black/ THE BOTSWANAS (’01, Fade And Your Gone)

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

Make It in America/ THE BEARDS (’02, Funtown)

Political Song For Michael Jackson/ THE MINUTEMEN (’89, Double Nickels on a the Dime)

The Modern World/ THE JAM (’77, This is the Modern World)

Achin/ THE PLUGZ (’81, Better Luck)

Dizzy Miss Lizzy (live version)/ THE PLIMSOULS (’81, self titled, ’92 reissue)

The Have Nots/ X (’82, Under the Big Black Sun)

All’s Quiet on the Eastern Front/ THE RAMONES (’81, Pleasant Dreams)

Kiss Me on the Bus (studio demo)/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’85, Tim, ’08 reissue)

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

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 30 MAY 2009

Hong Kong pop star Faye Wong, the eccentric and charming central character of Wong Kar-wai's brilliant Chungking Express, searches high and low for Hot Circles. Though, you might want to bring another bowl with you the next time, Faye...

BOY WONDER’S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM
Stranded in Your Love/ SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS (w/ LEE FIELDS) (’05, Naturally)
Let Me Come Within/ RENALDO DOMINO (’70)
In the Basement, Pt. 1/ ETTA JAMES & SUGAR PIE DESANTO
Minnie Skirt Minnie/ THE PLIMSOULS (’81, self titled)
Wicked Midnite/ THE MEKONS (’92, I ♥ Mekons)
Torture/ KING KHAN & THE SHRINES (’08, Supreme Genius of…)
Who Do You Love/ BO DIDDLEY (’66)
Bad Taste/ THE COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS (’95, Gamblin’ Days Are Over)

Earthquake Heart/ THE DIRTBOMBS (’03, Dangerous Magical Noise)
I’ve Got Levitation/ 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS (’67)
Higgle-Dy Piggle-Dy/ THE MONKS (’66, Black Monk Time, ’09 reissue)*
Welcome/ THE CLINIC (’02, Walk With Thee)
Take A Walk/ SPOON (’01, Girls Can Tell)
My New House/ THE FALL (’85, This Nation’s Saving Grace)
Days of Wine and Roses/ THE DREAM SYNDICATE (’82, Days of Wine and Roses)

Strange/ WIRE (’77, Pink Flag)
Why Can’t I Touch It/ THE BUZZCOCKS (’78)
Historie de Melody Nelson/ SERGE GAINSBOURG (’71, Historie de Melodie Nelson, ’09 reissue)*
Autumn Sweater/ YO LA TENGO (’97, I Can Hear the Heart Beat As One)
Drive On, Driver/ MAGNETIC FIELDS (’08, Distortion)

Lion in a Coma/ ANIMAL COLLECTIVE (’09, Merriweather Post Pavillion)*
Hard On Love/ NICK CAVE & THE BAS SEEDS (’86, Your Funeral…My Trial)
Draw Us Lines/ THE CONSTANTINES (’06, Tournament of Hearts)
Scream Team/ DEERHOOF (’05, Runners Four)
I Am a Tree/ GUIDED BY VOICES (’97, Mag Earwhig!)

Antenna/ SONIC YOUTH (’09, The Eternal)*
*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/KHSU-FM, 90.5/ MON., 25 MAY 09

Ms. Faithfull's faithful endowment and grace and beauty are honored on the Hot Circles platter. Check out Marianne Faithfull's terrific recent recording, Easy Come Easy Go, an album of covers, with a killer backing band (and produced by Hal Wilner).
I'm once again filling in for Gus Mozart's Music Box for another round of cool tunes for a lovely Monday evening.
GUS MOZART'S MUSIC BOX/ BOY WONDER/ 10:00 PM-MIDNIGHT

Myself When I Am Real/ CHARLES MINGUS (’64, Mingus Plays Piano: Spontaneous Compositions and Improvisations)

The Equator/ TORTOISE (’98, TNT)

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

The Water Under the Moon/ A HAWK & A HACKSAW (’05, Darkness At Noon)

Ah! Melody/ SERGE GAINSBOURG (’71, Historie of Melody Nelson, ’09 reissue)

Ice Cream Song/ THE DYNAMICS (’69)

Not Too Cool to Cry/ RENALDO DOMINO (’69, Eccentric Soul: Twinight’s Lunar Rotation, ’09 reissue)*

Selfish One/ JACKIE ROSS (’64)

Poor Side of Town/ JOHNNY RIVERS (’66)

Inner City Blues/ RODRIGUEZ (’70, Cold Fact, ’09 reissue)*

In My Own Time/ KAREN DALTON (’71, In My Own Time)

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

The Crane Wife 3/ MARIANNE FAITHFULL (’09, Easy Come Easy Go)*

King of the Carrot Flowers Pt. 1/ NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL (’97, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea)

Service Bell/ GRIZZLY BEAR & FEIST (’09, Dark Was the Night)*

Raphael/ COCOROSIE ('07, The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn)

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

Stars of Leo/ M. WARD (’09, Hold Time)*

Flood/ THE ACORN (’07, Glory Hope Mountain)

The Sixties/ T-BONE BURNETT (’82, Proof Through the Night, ’07 reissue)

Tonight We Ride/ MATTHEW SWEET (’03, Kimi Ga Suki Raifu)

Hawaii Five-O/ THE VENTURES (’69)

Lipstick Vogue/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’78, This Year’s Model)

Soleil/ IAIN ARCHER (’06, Magnetic North)

All of Sudden/ XTC (’82, English Settlement)

Vengeance Is Sleeping/ NEKO CASE (’09, Middle Cyclone)*

God’s Children/ THE KINKS (’71, Percy)

Moving on a Holiday/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’99, Blue Days Black Nights)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 23 MAY 09

Kim Gordon screams for the Hot Circles (and makes a second appearance on the website, I realize). Sonic Youth will be releasing their 16th record, The Eternal, on June 9th, from Matador. The NY-based band, now joined by former Pavement bassist Mark Ibold, truly rocks on this upcoming strong release.

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

Dr. Feelgood/ ARETHA FRANKLIN (’67, I Never Loved a Man The Way I Loved You)
What a Good Man He Is/ TAMMI TERRELL (’69)
Crazy About You/ ANN PEEBLES (’70, Part Time Love)
BarBQ/ WENDY RENE (’64)
Little Willie & Hand Jive/ JOHNNY OTIS (’58)
I Want Candy/ THE STRANGELOVES (’65)
Faster Pussycat Kill Kill/ THE BOSTWEEDS (’66)
Soul Butter/ JOHNNY BARFIELD AND THE MEN OF S.O.U.L.

Perfect World/ JAMES INTVELD (’95, self titled)
Flat Top Joint/ THE BLASTERS (’80, American Music)
Burning House of Love/ X (’95, Unclogged)
Night Life/ JOHN DOE & THE SADIES (’09, Country Club)*
Melody/ SERGE GAINSBOURG (’71, Historie de Melody Nelson, ’09 reissue)*
Walkin Blue/ SONIC YOUTH (’09, The Eternal)*
Bull Black Nova/ WILCO (’09, Wilco (The Album))*

Side With the Seeds/ WILCO (’09, Ashes of American Flags)*
Turn Me On/ ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN (’08, Sunday at Devil Dirt)
King of the Dogs/ IGGY POP (’09, Preliminaires)*
No Love/ THE PLUGZ (’81, Better Luck)
Today is Going to Be Mine/ DAVID KILGOUR (’01, Feather in the Engine)
Queen Bitch/ DAVID BOWIE (’71, Hunky Dory)
Thick as Thieves/ THE JAM (’79, Setting Sons)

Buried Alive/ MARK HARRISON & SNAKE HIPS (’93, 7” single)
Rip Her to Shreds/ BLONDIE (’76, self titled)
Mystery Plane/ THE CRAMPS (’80, Songs the Lord Taught Us)
Boys are Boys and Girls Are Choice/ THE MONKS (’66, Black Monk Time, ’09 reissue)*
Are You Going to Be There/ THE CHOCLATE WATCH BAND (’67, No Way Out)

Anti-Orgasm/ SONIC YOUTH (’09, The Eternal)*

*new or recent release