B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ MON., 20 JULY 09

'Tis sad news to hear of Frank McCourt's death. He was a writer, teacher and human being who deserved the success, the awards and attention he received for his first memoir, Angela's Ashes, a well-written, non-sentimental and humorous look upon his upbringing from NY to Limerick, Ireland. The movie version is poxy.
GUS MOZART'S MUSIC BOX/ BOY WONDER SUBBAGE/ 10-MIDNIGHT

Crawdad Suite/ JIMMY GUIFFRE & JIM HALL (w/ Ralph Pena) (’57, The Original Trio)

Root and Branch/ GO HOME

Lullaby/ WORLD SAXOPHONE QUARTET (feat. Mor Thiam, vocals, ’90, Metamorphosis)

Call to Prayer/ BAABA MAAL (’89, Passion: Sources)

Tessalit/ TINARIWEN (’00, The Radio Tisdas Sessions)

Raga in D/ TED LUCAS (’68)

Occoee/ JOHN LUDINGTON (’09, Attic Window)*

Song of the Sea/ TUNNG (’03, Mothers Daughters And Other Songs)

Such a Beautiful Day/ BETH SORRENTINO (’09, Believer Music Comp.)*

I Wish I Was the Moon/ NEKO CASE (’03, Blacklisted)

Moon Over Goldsboro/ THE MOUNTAIN GOATS (’06, Get Lonely)

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

Soliel/ IAIN ARCHER (’06, Magnetic North)

Moonage Daydream/ DAVID BOWIE (’72, Ziggy Stardust)

Rocket Machine/ OPAL (’87, Happy Nightmare Baby)

Rocket Ship/ ROBYN HITCHOCK & THE VENUS 3 (’06, Ole Tarantula)

Silver Rocket/ SONIC YOUTH (’88, Daydream Nation)

Puttin’ People on the Moon/ THE DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS (’04, The Dirty South)

Walking Spanish/ TOM WAITS (’85, Raindogs)

Sick Bed of Cuchulainn/ THE POGUES (’85, Rum, Sodomy & the Lash)

Johnny’s Far Away/ RICHARD THOMPSON (’07, Sweet Warrior)

Moonland/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’08, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!)

Start A War/ THE NATIONAL (’07, Boxer)

Shangri-La/ M. WARD (’09, Hold Time)*

The Cold Hard Facts if Life/ JOHN DOE & THE SADIES ('09, Country Club)

The Mermaid/ MARTIN CARTHY ('06, Rogue's Gallery)*

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 18 JULY 09

Ms. Bobbie Gentry, pictured here in 1972, defines "hot" as in "Hot Circle." Well, OK, maybe "hotter" than that! Welcome to Boy Wonder's Summer Fun!

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

Don’t Jump/ FONTELLA BASS ('65, w/ Bobby McClure)

You Got Me Hummin’/ SAM & DAVE (’67)

Let Me Come Within/ RENALDO DOMINO (’70)

Home in Your Heart/ SOLOMON BURKE ('62)

The Devaster/ STORMY (’67)

Ma/ TOM ZE

Cantor De Mambo/ OS MUTANTES (’72)

Supergirl/ STEREO TOTAL

Young Girl/ PEPPER POTS (’09, Now!)*

All Around the Houses/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY (’03, Truly She is None Other)

Fancy/ BOBBIE GENTRY (’70)

Don’t Break My Momma’s Heart/ THOSE DARLINS (’09, self titled)*

Belated Promise Ring/ IRON & WINE (’09, Around the Well)*

Wild & Blue/ THE MEKONS (’91, Curse of the Mekons)

River/ AKRON/FAMILY (’09, Set’em Wild, Set’em Free)*

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

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

One We Walked in the Sunlight/ PAPERCUTS (’09, You Can Have What You Want)*

Crystal Lake/ GRANDADDY (’00, Sophtware Slump)

Harmony/ CLINIC (’02, Walking With Thee)

Primitive/ THE GROUPIES (’66)

Let’s Talk About Girls/ CHOCOLATE WATCHBAND (’67)

Torture/ KING KHAN & THE SHRINES (’09, Supreme Genius of…)

Kiss Me on the Bus (demo)/ THE ‘MATS (’85, Tim)

Frenchette/ DAVID JOHANSEN (’78, self titled)

Sacred Trickster/ SONIC YOUTH (’09, The Eternal)*

*new or recent release

GUS MOZART'S MUSIC BOX/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ MON., 13 JULY 09

Velvet Underground's frontman Lou Reed and chanteusse Nico check out the late 1960's NY terrain. The late singer, actor and bus driver (for the Velvets in the early years of touring) still casts a looming artistic influence.
BOY WONDER (Sub For G.M. Music Box)/ 10 PM - MIDNIGHT

Larkspur/ JOHN ZORN (’09, Alhambra Love Songs)

Believe/ THE SCOTT AMENDOLA BAND (’05, Believe)

Be Bread/ MYRA MELFORD (’06, Be Bread)

Kertesz/ A HAWK & A HACKSAW (’09, Delivrance)*

Wishful Thinking (live, ’08)/ WILCO (’09, Ashes of American Flags)

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

Agaetis Byrjun (live, acoustic)/ SIGUR ROS (’07, Hvarf/Heim)

Two Doves (feat. Angel Daradoorian)/ DIRTY PROJECTORS (’09, Bitte Orca)*

These Days/ NICO (’67, Chelsea Girl)

Times Square/ MARIANNE FAITHFULL (’90, Blazing Away)

My Friend/ BILL CALLAHAN (’09, Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle)*

A Place Called Home/ PJ HARVEY (’00, Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea)

Yacht Dance/ XTC (’82, English Settlement)

Freckle Song/ CHUCK PROPHET (’07, Soap and Water)

The Race Is On/ YO LA TENGO (’06, I’m Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass)

If I Needed Someone/ THE BEATLES (’65, Rubber Soul)

Feelin’ (’89 BBC session)/ THE LA’S (’06, BBC in Session)

1880 or So/ TELEVISION (’92, self titled)

Beauty of the Draft/ KEANE BROTHERS (’06, Blues and Boogies Shoes)

Alibi/ LUNA (’02, Close Before Striking)

Houses/ VETIVER (’08, Thing of the Past)

Dear One/ PISCES (late ‘60’s, ’09, A Lovely Sight)*

Le Verre Pile/ FRANCOIZ BREUT (’00, Vingt a Trente Mille Jours)

Horseback Tenors/ EFTERKLANG (’07, Parades)

Galileo (Someone Like You)/ DECLAN O’ROURKE (’04, Since Kyabram)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 11 JULY 09

Those Darlins (truly!), a rockin' group fronted by three lovely ladies from Murfreesboro, TN, home of Middle Tennessee St. They're truly an unruly young countrybilly/garage outfit that rivals the late great Memphis band, The Hellcats (thanks to the boys at Missing Link Records, Arcata, CA, for turning me on them!). Check out Those Darlins killer debut. Welcome to Boy Wonder's Wonder. Buy y'all a drink?
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM
Make Up Your Mind/ ANNA KING ('63)
Bar-B-Q/ WENDY RENE ('64)
Down in the Country/ TEE FLETCHER ('68)
Amos Moses/ JERRY REED ('71)
Hollywood/ STEVE WYNNN & THE MIRACLE 3 ('03, Static Transmission)
Shake 'Em On Down/ RL BURNSIDE ('93, Too Bad Jim)
Heartbroken, In Disrepair/ DAN AUERBACH ('09, Keep It Hid)
Goo Goo Muck/ RONNIE COOK & THE GAYLADS ('62)
The Most Exalted Potenate of Love/ THE CRAMPS ('83, Smell of a Female)
Night Time/ THE STRANGELOVES ('65)

Honey, I'm Too Old For You/ JACK OBLIVION ('03, A History of Memphis Garage: The 90's)
Snaggle Tooth Mama/ THOSE DARLINS ('09, self titled)*
Eight Piece Box/ SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS ('91, Too Much Pork...)
Ramblin' Man/ HANK WILLIAMS, SR. ('51)
Hallalujah Blues/ PETE MOLINARI ('08, A Virtual Landslide)
Cryin' Over You/ JAMES INTVELD ('95, self titled)
Wichita Lineman/ FREEDY JOHNSTON ('93, Unlucky ep)
Before I Wake/ JOHN DOE & THE SADIES ('09, Country Club)*

Vampiring Again/ CALIFONE ('03, Quicksand/Rattlesnakes)
Bull Black Nova/ WILCO ('09, Wilco (The Album))*
Happy Nightmare Baby/ OPAL ('87, Happy Nightmare Baby)
Ex-Girl Collection/ THE WRENS ('03, Meadowlands)
I Will Dare/ THE 'MATS ('84, Let It Be)
Dirty Water/ THE STANDELLS ('66)
I Want You Around/ THE RAMONES ('78, original version)
Top of the World/ CHEAP TRICK ('78, Heaven Tonight)

Blank Generation/ RICHARD HELL & THE VOIDOIDS ('77)
I Am a Tree/ GUIDED BY VOICES ('97, Mag Earwhig)
Doc Ellis/ THE SF SEALS ('93, Baseball Trilogy)
Real Men/ THE JAZZ BUTCHER ('84, Scandal in Bohemia)
Ode to a Black Man/ THE DIRTBOMBS ('01, Ultraglide in Black)
*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 4 JULY 09

UK artist Cornelia Parker ponders her "Cold Dark Matter," an installation piece from fragments of exploded elements (literally). That, and wondering what the heck the Boy Wonder will play next, especially on Independence Day.
THE BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM
By the Time I Get to Arizona/ PUBLIC ENEMY ('91, Apocalypse '91)
1999/ PRINCE ('83, 1999)
Superfly/ CURTIS MAYFIELD ('72, Superfly st)
Us vs. Them/ LCD SOUNDSYSTEM ('06, Sound of Silver)
Help Me Somebody/ BRIAN ENO & DAVID BYRNE ('80, My Life in a Bush of Ghosts)
Jigsaw Falling Into Place/ RADIOHEAD ('08, In Rainbows)
Little Man With a Gun in Your Hand/ THE MINUTEMEN ('83, Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat)

Jack the Ripper/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS ('92, Henry's Dream)
Against Pollution/ THE MOUNTAIN GOATS ('04, We Shall All Be Healed)
See How We Are/ X ('90, Unclogged)
Thanksgiving Prayer/ WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS ('90 Dead City Radio)
Wave/ CALEXICO ('04, Por Vida)

Ashes of American Flags (demo)/ WILCO
Ashes of American Flags (live, '08)/ WILCO ('09, Ashes of American Flags)
Perfect Day/ LOU REED ('72, Transformer)
Great Atomic Power/ THE LOUVIN BROTHERS ('61)
Soul Corruption (live)/ GRAHAM PARKER ('89, Live In America)
Ghost Town/ THE SPECIALS ('81, 12" version)
B Movie/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS ('79, Get Happy!!)
Heads Will Roll/ ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN ('82, Porcupine)

Good Nurse/ THE CONSTANTINES ('06, Tournament of Hearts)
Submarines of Stockholm/ A.C. NEWMAN ('09, Get Guilty)
Natural's Not in It/ GANG OF FOUR ('79, Entertainment!)
Plenty For All/ HOT SNAKES ('04, Audit in Progress)

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