G.M.'s MUSIC BOX/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ MON., 8 FEB. 2010

BOY WONDER SUBBAGE FOR GUS MOZART'S MUSIC BOX/ 10:00 PM-MIDNIGHT

Psisya/ JOHN ZORN/ MASADA QUINTET (’09, Stolas: Book of Angels)

Oriental Hora/ A HAWK AND A HACKSAW (’07, AHAAH and The Hun Hangar Ensemble)

Do-Li-Do/ ENSEMBLE PIRIN [Bulgaria] (’08, Believer Music Issue)

Padma Nodi/ STATE OF BENGAL VS. PABAN DAS BAUL [UK/India] (’04, Tana Tani)

Passion Play (When All the Slaves Are Free)/ JONI MITCHELL (’91, Night Ride Home)

Dead Horse/ ROBIN HOLCOMB (’06, Rogue’s Gallery)

Take Care the Road You Choose/ RICHARD THOMPSON (’07, Sweet Warrior)

Central Station/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’10, Rain on the City)*

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

I Want to Be the One/ BOBBY CHARLES (’95, ’03 collection, Last Train to Memphis)

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

Me and Jane Doe/ CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG (’10, IRM)*

Checking In/ ON FILLMORE (’09, Extended Vacation)

Why We Fight/ TORTOISE ('95 7" single, ’06 collection, A Lazarus Taxon)

We Are/ THE ALBUM LEAF (’10, A Chorus of Storytellers)*

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

Weird Fishes/ RADIOHEAD (’08, In Rainbows)

Raincoats/ EFTERKLANG (’10, Magic Chairs)*

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

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

Party Girl (’78, live)/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (orig. recorded ’78, ’10, Live at Hollywood High)*

Wild One Forever/ TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS (orig. recorded ’80, Hammersmith Odeon, London, ’10 collection, The Live Anthology)*

Sugar Baby/ KATE & ANNA McGARRIGLE (’06, The Harry Smith Project)

The Dozens/ CAROLINE HERRING (’09, Golden Apples of the Sun)

Johnny 99/ BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (’82, Nebraska)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 6 FEB. 10

Not sure whose dog singer/songwriter Freedy Johnston has in his arms, but one thing's for sure - Johnston's new release, Rain on the City, on Bar/None is something worth howling about. It's his first recording of original material since 2001. Recorded and produced in Nashville by Richard McLaurin, Rain on the City could be one of Freedy's finest and one of the best records released this year (so far!).
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM

Say No Go/ DE LA SOUL (’89, Three Feet High and Rising)

Coulibaly/ AMADOU & MARIAM (’04, Dimanche a Bamako)

Quattro (Go Tan Project Remix)/ CALEXICO (’04, Black Heart ep)

The Robots/ KRAFTWERK (’78, The Man-Machine)

Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell/ THE FLAMING LIPS (’02, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots)

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

Take a Walk/ SPOON (’01, Girls Can Tell)

Found a Job/ TALKING HEADS (’78, More Songs About Building and Food)

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

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

Peaches/ THE STRANGLERS (’77, Rattus Norvegicus)

Long Cool Woman/ THE HOLLIES (’71, Distant Light)

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

Sex Beat/ GUN CLUB (’81, Fire of Love)

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

Sleeping Annaleah/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’86, Kicking Against the Pricks)

Nothing is Good Enough/ AIMEE MANN (’99, Bachelor No. 2)

Lonely Penny/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’10, Rain on the City)*

Ram On/ PAUL & LINDA McCARTNEY (’71, Ram)

69 Annee Erotique/ SERGE GAINSBOURG (’69, ’02 collection, Initials SG: The Ultimate Best of)

Soft Beating/ EFTERKLANG (’10, Moving Chairs)*

Cotton/ THE MOUNTAIN GOATS (’04, We Shall All Be Healed)

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

Kidnapped By Neptune/ SCOUT NIBLETT ( '05, Kidnapped By Neptune)

I’m Beginning to See the Light/ THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (’69, The Velvet Underground)

iHop/ LUNA (’97, Pup Tent)

The World of Sex/ JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION (’92, Extra Width)

The Return of Jackie and Judy/ TOM WAITS (’06, Orphans)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 30 JAN. 10

Really, there's is no explanation. Josie and the Pussycats' 1971 smash, "Every Beat of My Heart" belongs in the Hot Circle familia. Welcome, cartoon or not, bubblegum or...fabricated?
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM

Memphis Train (’67) / RUFUS THOMAS

Do I Make Myself Clear ('65)/ ETTA JAMES & SUGAR PIE DeSANTO

It Was Worth a Chance (’69)/ JOSEPHINE TAYLOR ('07 collection, Eccentric Soul: Twinight’s Lunar Rotation)

Nothing But a Heartache(’69)/ THE FLIRTATIONS

Money I$ King/ LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS (’09, My World)

Run Fay Run/ ISSAC HAYES (’74, Tough Guys)

Coulibaly/ AMADOU & MIRIAM (’04, Dimanche a Bamako)

I Zimbra/ TALKING HEADS (’79, Fear of Music)

Tensile/ THE CLEAN (’09, Mister Pop)

Long Legs/ THE MAGIC NUMBERS (’05, self titled)

Every Beat of My Heart/ JOSIE & THE PUSSYCATS (’71)

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

O My Soul/ BIG STAR (’74, Radio City)

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

Tattooed Love Boys/ THE PRETENDERS (’79, self titled)

Got Nuffin/ SPOON (’10, Transference)*

Venus in Furs/ VELVET UNDERGROUND (’66, The Velvet Underground & Nico)

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

I Am a Jaguar/ EVANGELISTA (’09, Prince of Truth)*

I’ve Been Out Walking/ NINA NASTASIA & JIM WHITE (’07, You Follow Me)

Raphael/ COCOROSIE (’07, The Adventure of Ghosthorse and Stillborn)

News/ TUNE-YARDS (’09, Bird-Brains)*

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

Starstruck/ THE KINKS (’68, The Village Green Society)

Crystal Days/ ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN (’83, Ocean Rain)

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

If You’ve Not Been Fed/ MYRA MELFORD/BE BREAD (’06, The Image of Your Body)

Notes to the Future/ PATTI SMITH (’02, live at St. Mark’s Poetry Project)

Disappear/ SONIC YOUTH (’90, Goo)

Suspended Head/ NELS CLINE SINGERS (’02, Instrumentals)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 23 JAN. 10

Does it feel like 1975? The Dwight Twilley Band, via Oklahoma City, hit the charts with "I'm on Fire," signed to a small Los Angeles-based record company, Shelter Records, formed by Leon Russell and Denny Cordell. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers were labelmates. Under appreciated, the killer pop duo of Twilley and Phil Seymour finally took turns to solo projects, then...Not to worry, Boy Wonder abides! Welcome to the Hot Circle Family.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM

Gimme Gimme Good Lovin’/ CRAZY ELEPHANT (’69)

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

Love Grows (Where Rosemary Goes)/ EDISON LIGHTHOUSE (’70)

Tonight/ THE RASPBERRIES (’73)

Nobody/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’90, All Shook Down)

Her Name Is Venus/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’10, Rain on the City)*

I’m on Fire (original mix)/ DWIGHT TWILLEY BAND (’75, ’93 collection, The Great Lost Twilley Album)

Rockin’ Around (With You)/ TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS (’76, self titled)

Statues & Glue/ SUNSHINE FIX (’04, Green Imagination)

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

Too Late/ THE SHOES (’79, Present Tense)

Before Destruction/ SPOON (’10, Transference)*

When I Was Your Guy/ SNAKEHIPS (’10, Month of Sundays)*

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

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

The Right/ LOU BARLOW (’09, Goodnight Unknown)

Ex-Girl Collection/ THE WRENS (03, The Meadowlands)

Little Rage/ THE MICE (’86, For Almost Scooter)

Fanfare/ ERIC MATTHEWS (’95, It’s Heavy in Here)

LA/ ELLIOTT SMITH (’00, Figure 8)

From Her Fingers/ TOM VERLAINE (’06, Songs and Other Things)

I’ve Got the Hots/ THE SOFT BOYS (’80, Underwater Moonlight)

Beautiful Friend/ THE UNDERTONES (’81 Positive Touch)

That’s Really Super, Supergirl/ XTC (’86, Skylarking)

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

Hand in Hand/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’78, This Year’s Model)

Loose Ends/ BASH & POP (’93, Friday Night is Killing Me)

Walking With a Mountain/ MOTT THE HOOPLE (’70, Mad Shadows)

20th Century Boy/ T. REX (’73, Tanx)

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

This Magnificent Bird Will Rise/ DEERHOOF (’02, Reveille)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 16 JAN. 2010

Ms. Binoche has joined the meandering line of feline friends from France. Welcome Juliette to the Hot Circle zone. It's getting rather Betty Blue around here...
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM

If You Don’t Think/ ANNA KING (’64, Back to Soul)

See and Don’t See/ MARIE “QUEENIE” LYONS (’70, Soul Fever)

Mama Feelgood/ LYNN COLLINS (’73)

Minnie Skirt Minnie/ WILSON PICKETT (’68)

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

He’s Not There Anymore/ THE CHYMES (’66, ’09 collection, Where the Action Is LA Nuggets ’65-’68)*

I Want Candy/ THE STRANGELOVES (’65, ’98, Nuggets, Vol 4)

This Year’s Girl (live '78)/ ELVIS COSTELLO & ATTRACTIONS (’10 Live at Hollywood High)*

Old World/ THE MODERN LOVERS (’76, self titled)

Dance This Mess Around/ THE B-52’S (’79, self titled)

8’s/ THE SAN FRANCISCO SEALS (’94, Now Here)

Better Luck/ THE PLUGZ (’81, Better Luck)

Spring Rain/ THE GO-BETWEENS (’85, Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express)

For the Price of a Cup of Tea/ BELLE AND SEBASTIAN ('06, The Life Pursuit)

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

Got Nuffin/ SPOON (’10, Transference)*

Date w/ Ikea/ PAVEMENT ( ’97, Brighten the Corners)

You Satisfy Me/ BOSTON SPACESHIPS (’08, Brown Submarine)

Come On/ SNAKEHIPS (’10, Month of Sundays)*

Rock On/ T. REX (’72, Slider)

Casino Queen/ WILCO (’95, AM)

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

It’s Alright/ THE COME-ONS (’01, Hip Check!)

Who’s the Mystery Girls?,/ NEW YORK DOLLS (’74, Too Much Too Soon)

Yoo Hoo/ IMPERIAL TEEN (’98, What Is Not to Love)

The Singer/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’86, Kick Against the Pricks)

Guilty/ PETE MOLINARI (’09, Today, Tomorrow and Forever)

In the Ghetto/ ELVIS PRESLEY (’69)

Inner City Blues/ RODRIGUEZ (’70, ’08 reissue, Cold Fact)

41 West Avenue/ CASHIER NO. 9 (’08, 7” single) [No Dancing Records]

Underground Sun/ ROBYN HITCHCOCK & THE VENUS 3 (’06, Ole Tarantula!)

Love at First Sight/ XTC (’87, Black Sea)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 9 JAN. 2010

BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9-11 PM/ THE EARTHQUAKE ED.

Aretha, Sing One For Me/ GEORGE JACKSON (’72)+

I Still Love You/ ANN PEEBLES (’70 Part Time Love)+

I’m Still in Love With You/ AL GREEN (’72)+

+tribute to the late Willie Mitchell

Could We/ CAT POWER (’06, The Greatest)

The Crane Wife 3/ MARIANNE FAITHFULL (’08, Easy Come, Easy Go)

Concord Country Jubilee/ VIC CHESNUTT (’09, At the Cut)*

The Needle Has Landed/ NEKO CASE (’05, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood)

Bang, Bang/ NANCY SINATRA (’66)

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

As Long As I Have You/ THE DETROIT COBRAS (’07, Tied & True)

The Prowl/ DAN AUERBACH (’09, Keep It Hid)

Flat Top Joint/ THE BLASTERS (’80 American Music)

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

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

Beautiful View/ LUNA (’97, Pup Tent)

Left On/ THE SEA AND CAKE (’07, Everybody)

Run in the Dust/ JOHNNY MARR/ 7 WORLDS COLLIDE (’09, The Sun Came Out)

In the End/ CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG (’10, IRM)*

When I’m Blue/ SNAKEHIPS (’10, Month of Sundays)*

The Boy Wonders/ AZTEC CAMERA (’83, High Land, Hard Rain)

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

Kid/ THE PRETENDERS (’79, self titled)

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

That’s Entertainment/ THE JAM (’80, Sound Affects)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 2 JAN. 2010

Vanity 6 really consisted of three women, fronted by Prince and sometimes backed (literally) by The Time. Negligees were never funkier. The Boy Wonder, for his special "Dance Party" show, rang in the new decade with killer stockinged gems.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9-11 PM/ SPECIAL "DANCE PARTY" EDITION

I’ve Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)/ ARETHA FRANKLIN (’67, I Never Loved a Man The Way I Love You)

Bring Me All the Love You Got/ CLAUDIA WHITTEN (’72, Skillet single)

Nobody But You/ LITTLE BOB & THE LOLLIPOPS (’65)

Selfish One/ JACKIE ROSS (’64)

Sha La La (Makes Me Happy)/ AL GREEN (’74)

Crazy About You/ ANN PEEBLES (’70)

Bar B-Q/ WENDY RENE (’65)

You Can’t Buy My Love/ BARBARA LYNN (’65)

Green Onions/ BOOKER T. & THE MG’S (’62)

He Was Really Sayin’ Something/ THE VELVELLETES (’64)

Cool Jerk/ THE CAPITOLS (’65)

Be Easy/ SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS (’07, 100 Days, 100 Nights)

Tell Me Something Good/ RUFUS (’74, ’93 collection, In Yo’ Face!, Vol. 2)

Pusherman/ CURTIS MAYFIELD (’72, Superfly)

Got To Give It Up, Pt. 1/ MARVIN GAYE (’77)

People Make the World Go Round/ THE SYLISTICS (’72)

Nickel Bag/ DIGABLE PLANETS (’93, Reachin’)

Nasty Girl/ VANITY 6 (’82, self titled)

Erotic City/ PRINCE (’84, b-side to “Let’s Go Crazy")

Come Around/ M.I.A. (’07, Kala)

Love Is Here/ LUSCIOUS JACKSON (’97, A Life Less Ordinary, st)

Double Rocker/ STEREOLAB (‘01, Sound-Dust)

Spoon/ CIBO MATTO (’99, Stereo Type A)

Heart of Glass/ BLONDIE (’78, Parallel Lines)

North American Scum/ LCD SOUNDSYSTEM (’06, Sound of Silver)

The Robots/ KRAFTWERK (’09 remaster)

White Lines/ GRANDMASTER & MELLE MEL (’83)

Brothers Are Gonna Work It Out/ PUBLIC ENEMY (’90, Fear of a Black Planet)