B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 23 OCT. 2010

Before "Dry the Rain" was featured in a scene of the 2000 film, High Fidelity, The Beta Band, who formed in St. Andrews, Scotland, wallowed in obscurity. Then a handful of years later, they broke up. However, "Dry the Rain, " and the 1997 EP, Champion Versions, still stand the be the band's finest hour. Well, not even...
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10:00 PM - MIDNIGHT

Slummer the Slum/ THE 5 ROYALES (’58)

Shake ‘Em On Down/ R.L. BURNSIDE (’94, Too Bad Jim)

Roadrunner/ BO DIDDLEY (’58)

Shakin’ All Over/ JOHNNY KIDD & PIRATES (’60)

Bang Bang My Baby Shot Me Down/ NANCY SINATRA (’66, How Does That Grab You?)

My Babe/ LITTLE WALTER (’55)

I Did My Part/ THE HELLCATS (’90, Hoodoo Train)

Radio Sweetheart/ ELVIS COSTELLO (’77, ’93 reissue, My Aim is True)

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

Dancing With Joey Ramone/ AMY RIGBY (’05, Little Fugitive)

Sheena Is a Punk Rocker/ THE RAMONES (’77, Rocket to Russia)

Psychotic Reation/ COUNT FIVE (’66)

Lucifer Sam/ THE SADIES (’06, In Concert)

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

Consolation Prizes/ IGGY POP & JAMES WILLIAMSON (’77, ’10 remix, Kill City)*

Girls/ DAVID JOHANSON (’78, self titled)

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

Past Time/ THE BASEBALL PROJECT (’08, Vol. 1 Frozen Ropes & Dying Quails)

Hot Freaks/ GUIDED BY VOICES (’94, Bee Thousand)

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

Dirty Blvd./ LOU REED (’89, New York)

Howl/ JUNIP (’10, Fields) *

Dry the Rain/ THE BETA BAND (’97, Champion Versions ep)

42 West Avenue/ CASHIER NO.9 ('08, 7” single)

Clap Hands/ BECK (’05, Guerolito)

Us v Them/ LCD SOUNDSYSTEM (’07, Sound of Silver)

Let, Let Me In/ DE LA SOUL (’91, De La Soul is Dead)

Alright Hear This/ BEASTIE BOYS (’94, Ill Communication)

The Story of Hip Hop/ THE BOOKS (’10, The Way Out)*

In Time/ SLY & THE FAMILY STONE (’73, Fresh)

*new or recent release

GUS MOZART'S MB/ KHSU, 90.5/ MON., 18 OCT. 2010

From Francis Ford Coppola's often wrongfully lambasted 1982 film, One From the Heart, where he built an entire set of the Las Vegas strip. Surreal, stunning and a great soundtrack provided by Tom Waits (with the vocal assistance of Crystal Gayle).
BOY WONDER SUBBAGE/ 10:00 PM - MIDNIGHT

Blues For Pablo/ MILES DAVIS & GIL EVANS (’57, Miles Ahead)

What Is This Thing Called Love (C. Porter)/ FRANK SINATRA (’55)

Picking Up After You/ TOM WAITS (w/ CRYSTAL GAYLE) (’82, One From the Heart st)

I Almost Lost My Mind/ CHARLIE RICH (’69, Fabulous Charlie Rich)

She/ GRAM PARSONS (’73, GP)

Tonight Will Be Fine/ TEDDY THOMPSON (’06, Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man st)

That’s Not The Part of Him You’re Leaving/ ELVIS COSTELLO (’10, National Ransom)*

Bag of Bones/ POKEY LaFARGE & THE SOUTH CITY THREE (’10, Riverboat Soul)*

I Hear Them All/ DAVID RAWLINGS MACHINE (’09, A Friend of a Friend)

Further On Up The Road/ JOHNNY CASH (’08, American V: A Hundred Highways)

Little Satchel/ SAM AMIDON (’07, All Is Well)

To The Sweet Sunny South/ FRANK FAIRFIELD (’09, self titled)

Way Down the Old Plank Road/ UNCLE DAVE MACON (’26, ’97, Anthology of American Folk Music)

Bottom Below/ HOLLY GOLIGHTY & THE BROKE-OFFS (’08, Dirt Don’t Hurt)

Open All Night/ BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (’82, Nebraska)

Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (live, Manchester)/ BOB DYLAN (’66, ’98 issue, Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Live 1966)

Into the Mystic/ JOHNNY RIVERS (’70)

Season of the Witch/ LUNA (’96, I Shot Andy Warhol st)

Soleil/ IAIN ARCHER (’06, Magnetic North)

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

Let’s Save Tony Orlando’s House/ YO LA TENGO (’00, And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out)

Muzzle of Bees (live, Chicago/Old Vic)/ WILCO (’05, Kicking Televison: Live in Chicago)

Howl/ JUNIP (’10, Fields)*

Dream Baby Dream/ SUICIDE (’80, The Second Album)

Star Charmer/ GRINDERMAN (’10, “Heathen Child” single, b-side)*

You Are Not Alone/ MAVIS STAPLES (’10, You Are Not Alone)*

*new or recent release

Gus Mozart

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ 16 OCT. 2010

Boston-based Mr. Airplane Man, a dynamic garage duo, comprised of Margaret Garret on guitar/vocals and Tara McManus on drums/vocals recorded a killer record, C'mon DJ, at the legendary Easly-McCain Studios in Memphis, with Reigning Sound's Greg Cartwright at the production helm (and contributing guitar parts). Unfortunately, this turned out to be the band's swan song. McManus has since formed Turpentine Brothers.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10:00 PM-MIDNIGHT

You’re Good For Me/ SOLOMON BURKE (’63)

Save It/ SOLOMON BURKE (’68)

Baby I Love You/ ERMA FRANKLIN (’68, Super Soul Sister)

Let’s Get Funky/ LANGSTON & FRENCH (’68, reissue, Eccentric Soul: The Tragar & Note Labels)

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

Please Return to Me/ THE FLEETS (’64)

Minnie Skirt Minnie/ WILSON PICKETT (’68)

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

I’m On Fire [original mix]/ DWIGHT TWILLEY BAND (’75, The Great Lost Twilley Album)

Tunnel of Love/ WANDA JACKSON (’61)

Tell Me What You Want Me to Do/ MARY WEISS (w/ THE REIGNING SOUND) (’07, Dangerous Game)

Hoodoo Voodoo/ BILLY BRAGG & WILCO (’95, Mermaid Avenue)

Turn a Square/ THE SHINS (’03, Chutes Too Narrow)

You’ve Got My Number/ THE UNDERTONES (’80, Hypnotized)

Don’t Crowd Your Mine/ LORETTE VELVETTE (’00, Rude Angel)

You Belong To Me/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’78, This Year’s Model)

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

Fox on the Run/ SWEET (’73, Desolation Boulevard)

Rock and Roll All Night/ KISS (’75, Dressed to Kill)

1976/ REDD KROSS (’90, Third Eye)

Black Diamond/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’84, Let It Be)

Once Bitten, Twice Shy (live)/ IAN HUNTER (’80, Welcome to the Club)

Baby Strange/ T. REX (’72, Slider)

Is It My Body?/ THE BOTSWANAS (’01, Fade and Your Gone)

Strange Reaction/ SNAKE HIPS (’97, Memphis Juke)

Digging For Something/ SUPERCHUNK (’10, Majesty Shredding)*

Make You Mine/ MR. AIRPLANE MAN (’04, C’mon DJ)

Don’t Tred/ FRANKIE ROSE & THE OUTS (’10, self titled)*

Mellow Out/ JEFF THE BROTHER HOOD (’10, 7” single)

Something’s Gone Wrong Again/ THE BUZZCOCKS (’79, Different Kind of Tension)

Never Gonna Give You Up/ BARRY WHITE (’73, Stone Gon’)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 9 OCT. 2010

Former Thin Lizzy Irish frontman, Phil Lynott, released his first solo effort, Solo in Soho, in 1980. This star-studded gem (and Lynott's finest) is where Dirtbombs leader Mick Collins plucked Lynott's "Ode to a Blackman" for Ultraglide in Black.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10:00 PM-MIDNIGHT

A Salty Salute/ GUIDED BY VOICES (’95, Alien Lanes)

Do Li Do/ ENSEMBLE PIN (’08, Believer magazine comp.)

Another Man Done Gone/ ODETTA (’54, The Tin Angel)

Unreleased Backgrounds/ THE BEACH BOYS (’66, Pet Sounds)

Carolyn’s Fingers/ COCTEAU TWINS (’88, Blue Bell Knoll)

Soon/ MY BLOODY VALENTINE (’91, Loveless)

Moby Octopad/ YO LA TENGO (’97, I Can Hear the Heart Beat As One)

Kingdom of Lies/ FOLK IMPLOSION (’99, One Part Lullaby)

Hot Freaks/ GUIDED BY VOICES (94, Bee Thousand)

Pipeline/ JOHNNHY THUNDERS (’78, So Alone)

I Ain’t Nuthin’ But a Gorehound/ THE CRAMPS (’83, Smell of a Female)

Preachin’ the Blues/ GUN CLUB (’81, Fire of Love)

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

Down on the Street/ THE STOOGES (’70, Fun House)

Ode to a Black Man [Solo in Soho/ PHIL LYNOTT]/ THE DIRTBOMBS (’01, Ultraglide in Black)

Brown Paper Sack/ REIGNING SOUND (’02, Time Bomb High School)

Aw Sh*t Man/ THE MINUS 5 (’06, The Epistle Dedicatory)

Strange Town/ THE JAM (’79)

Everything at Once/ SUPERCHUNK (’10, Majesty Shredding)*

Only a Girl/ REDD KROSS (’93, Phaseshifter)

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

Pretty Girls Go Insane/ OUTRAGEOUS CHERRY (’05, Our Love Will Change the World)

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

She’s Got Everything/ THE KINKS (’68, ’72 collection, Kinks Kronikles)

I Don’t Know/ THE UNDERTONES (’81, Positive Touch)

Rock Hard Times/ EELS (’03, Shootenany!)

Ghost World/ AIMEE MANN (’99, Bachelor No. 2)

Dear Boy/ PAUL McCARTNEY (’71, Ram)

Inside Story/ DON McGLASHAN (’10, Stroke: Songs For Chris Knox)

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

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

Howl/ JUNIP (’10, Fields)*

You Goin’ Miss Your Candyman/ TERRY CALLIER (’72, What Color is Love)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 2 OCT. 2010

Before Argentinian-Swedish singer/songwriterJose Gonzalez's solo career took off, he was in the band Junip, formed by Gonzalez and friends, Tobias Winterkorn (keyboards, percussion) and drummer Elias Araya, in the late '90's. Art school and solo careers postponed a full-length by Junip, until recently, with the excellent release of Fields. Fans of Gonzelez's solo work will not be disappointed with this collaborative effort, adding a beat and old keyboards to give Gonazelez's lyrics and guitar playing more of a pulse.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10:00 PM - MIDNIGHT

I Put a Spell on You/ SCREAMIN’ JAY HAWKINS (’56)

Part Time Love/ CLARENCE REID (’69)

Just One More Day/ OTIS REDDING ('66, live at The Whisky a Go Go, ’10, Live on the Sunset Strip)*

Ice Cream Song/ THE DYNAMICS (’69)

Bring Me All the Love You’ve Got/ CLAUDIA WHITTEN (’68)

Selfish One/ JACKIE ROSS (’64)

My Ever Changing Moods/ STYLE COUNCIL (’84, Café Bleu)

The Other Side of Love/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’10, Rain on the City)

Shopping Around/ AMY RIGBY (’03, Til the Wheels Fall Off)

Fancy/ BOBBIE GENTRY (’70)

You Won’t Let Me Down Again/ ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN (’10, Hawk)*

Going to Marakesh/ THE EXTRA GLENNS (’02, Martial Arts Weekend)

Rope & Summit/ JUNIP (’10, Fields)*

This is Where It Gets Good/ EELS (’10, Tomorrow Morning)*

All I Want/ LCD SOUNDSYSTEM (’10, This Is Happening)*

Teenage Wildlife/ DAVID BOWIE (’80, Scary Monsters)

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

Fractures in Plaster/ SUPERCHUNK (’10, Majesty Shredding)*

When My Baby Comes/ GRINDERMAN (’10, Grinderman 2)*

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

Story of Hip Hop/ THE BOOKS (’10, The Way Out)*

Brain Washed Follower/ DE LA SOUL (’89, ’01 reissue, 3 Feet High and Rising, bonus tracks CD)

Pusherman/ CURTIS MAYFIELD (’72, ’90 reissue, Superfly)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHUS, 90.5/ SAT., 25 SEPT. 2010

The original LP cover of Jesus of Cool, by producer, singer/songwriter Nick Lowe, released in 1978. It was the debut solo record by "The Basher." The rest is history. Mr. Lowe will be on a rare U.S. tour with Elvis Costello. They will be singing one another's songs. He'll also be touring with a full band (another rarity!), including old bandmates, Brinsley Schwartz and Bob Andrews (former members of The Rumour). Graham Parker will also be opening for Lowe on a few dates (Lowe had produced a number of Parker's early records). Click here for more details!
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10 PM-MIDNIGHT

Chapel of Love/ DARLENE LOVE (’63)

Remember (Walking in the Sand)/ SHANGRI-LA’S (’64)

(The Best Part of) Breaking Up/ THE RONETTES (’64)

Shy Guy/ THE CHARMERS (’63, ’09 collection, The Laurie Records Story)

They Don’t Know Him Like I Do [Van McCoy]/ CHERYL WILLIAMS (’64)

He Was Really Saying Something/ THE VELVELETTES (’64)

Baby Let Me Teach You/ ZENA FOSTER (’65)

Love is Like an Itching in My Heart/ THE SUPREMES (’66)

Suki Sa Suki Sa Suki Sa/ NANA KINOMI & LEO BEATS (’68, ’09 collection, Nippon Girls)

Nothing But a Heartache/ THE FLIRTATIONS (’69)

Slowly But Surely/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY (’04, Slowly But Surely)

Tunnel of Love/ WANDA JACKSON (’61)

Don’t Tred/ FRANKIE ROSE AND THE OUTS (’10, self titled)*

Jail La La/ DUM DUM GIRLS (’10, I Will Be)

Fairytale in the Supermarket/ THE RAINCOATS (’79, self titled)

Fried Egg/ GRASS WIDOW (’10, Past Time)*

Catherine Says/ THE AISLER SET (’03, How I Learned to Write Backwards)

Saturday/ ELECTRELANE (’07, No Shouts No Calls)

Kidnapped by Neptune/ SCOUT NIBLETT (’05, Kidnapped by Neptune)

Back Slider/ BLUES EXPLOSION (’93, Extra Width)

Jailbreak/ THIN LIZZY (’76, Jailbreak)

Lucky Guy/ THE MUFFS (’93, self titled)

Teenage FBI/ GUIDED BY VOICES (’99, Do the Collapse)

Everything at Once/ SUPERCHUNK (’10, Majesty Shredding)*

You Sound Like You’re Sick/ THE RAMONES (’81, Pleasant Dreams)

The Palace at 4 a.m./ A.C. NEWMAN (’09, Get Guilty)

Effortlessly/ FIELD MUSIC (’10, (Measure))

Back of a Car/ BIG STAR (’73, Radio City)

Cry Like a Baby/ THE BOX TOPS (’68)

I Love My Label/ NICK LOWE (’78, Jesus of Cool)

At Night/ THE GREENHORNES (’05, East Grand Blues ep)

Pablo Picasso/ THE MODERN LOVERS (’76, self titled)

Ramblin Man/ HANK WILLIAMS (‘53)

Negus Nagast/ THE SOULJAZZ ORCHESTRA (’10, Rising Sun)*

*new or recent release