B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 8 JAN. 2011

The inventive, quirky and fun band, Deerhoof, will be offering a great new release, Deerhoof vs. Evil, on Polyvinyl Record Co. It's been recorded in the band's Oakland rehearsal space and guitarist, Ed Rodriguez's Portland basement. No outside engineers or producers. Perhaps their most cohesive and assessable full-length to date.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10:00 PM - MIDNIGHT

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

Metal/ GARY NUMAN (’79, ’98 remastered, The Pleasure Principle)

Do You Love Me?/ NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS (’94, Let Love In)

Waitin’ For A Superman (alt. version)/ THE FLAMING LIPS (’99, The Soft Bulletin)

Remember Last Time/ AVI BUFFALO (’10, self titled)

Alter Ego/ TAME IMPALA (’10, Innerspeaker)*

Astronauts/ OTOUTO (’10, Pip)*

Sunlight/ tUnE-yArDs (’09, BiRd-BrAiNs)

The Perfect Me/ DEERHOOF (’07, Friend Opportunity)

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

The Merry Barracks/ DEERHOOF (’11, Deerhoof vs Evil)*

Desire Lines/ DEERHUNTER (’10, Halcyon Digest)*

Satellites/ THE BATS (’09, The Guilty Office)

Crystal Lake/ GRANDADDY (’02, The Sophtware Slump)

Crash Years/ THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS (’10, Together)

How I Left the Ministry/ THE EXTRA LENS (’10, Undercard)*

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

Bridge/ ORANGE JUICE (’84, ’10 collection, Coals to Newcastle)

It’s Easier/ JOHN GRANT (’10, Queen of Denmark)

Save Yourself/ SHARON VAN ETTEN (’10, epic)*

Lonely Sea/ STEVE ALMAAS & ALI SMITH (’06, You Showed Me)

How Long/ MR. AIRPLANE MAN (’04, C’mon DJ)

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

Willie/ CAT POWER (’06, The Greatest)

*new or recent release

BW's PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 1 JAN. 2011

The raw soul voice of Merry Clayton can be heard on the original Rolling Stones' version of "Gimme Shelter," from 1969's Let It Bleed. However, on her take, from her excellent 1971 solo release is a gale-force soul stopper.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ DANCE PARTY EDITION/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

Mama Feelgood/ LYNN COLLINS (’72, ’86 collection, James Brown’s Funky People)

Tainted Love/ GLORIA JONES (’64)

Watch the Dog That Bring Home the Bone/ SANDY GAYE (’69, '08 collection, Eccentric Soul: The Tragar & Note Labels)

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

Gimme Shelter/ MERRY CLAYTON (’71)

Get On Back on the Right Track/ MARY GRESHAM (’72)

Better Things/ SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS (’10, I Learned the Hard Way)

Danger Heartbreak Dead Ahead/ THE MARVELLETES (’65)

What a Good Man He Is/ TAMMI TERRELL (’69)

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

I Can’t Rest/ FONTELLA BASS (’66)

In the Basement, Pt. 1/ ETTA JAMES & SUGAR PIE DESANTO (’66)

Bar B-Q/ WENDY RENE (’64)

Crazy About You/ ANN PEEBLES (’70, Part Time Love)

Different Strokes/ SYL JOHNSON (’67, ’10 collection, The Complete Mythology)*

Minnie Skirt Minnie/ WILSON PICKETT (’68)

Return to Gijon/ THE NEW MASTERSOUNDS (’06, 102%)

Immigrant Song/ MOUNTAIN MOCHA KILIMANJARO (’09, self titled)

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

Mystery Achievement/ THE PRETENDERS (’79, self titled)

Wicked Midnite/ THE MEKONS (’93, I ♥ Mekons)

That’s Not My Name/ THE TING TINGS (’08, We Started Nothing)

Metal/ GARY NUMAN (’79, The Pleasure Principle)

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

Bottle to the Nipple/ GRACE JONES (’82, Living My Life)

Nasty Girl/ VANITY (’82, self titled)

Use Me/ BILL WITHERS (’72)

Lovin’ Machine/ THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION (’98, Acme)

Paper Planes/ MIA (09, Kala)

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

The Messge/ GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE (’82)

Living For the City/ STEVIE WONDER (’73, Innervisions)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 25 DEC. 2010

Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Sharon Van Etten has emerged as a "cut above" the vast sea of singer/songwriters. With her sophomore release, epic, Van Etten delivers an excellent folk/pop record, filled with poignant lyrics, beautifully executed and arranged. epic definitely would have made my "Top 10" had I had discovered this late 2010 release earlier. My apologies, Sharon...a terrific album.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10:00 PM-MIDNIGHT

The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage/ SMOKEY ROBINSON & THE MIRACLES (’67)

Selfish One/ JACKIE ROSS (’64)

Ruler of My Heart/ IRMA THOMAS (’62)

Uptight Good Woman/ SPENCER WIGGINS (’67, ’01 collection, The Goldwax Story, Vol. 1)

I Am Trying to Break Your Heart/ JC BROOKS & THE UPTOWN SOUND (’10, 7” single)

Nickels and Dimes/ THE PLIMSOULS (’81, self titled)

Don’t Wait Up For Me/ THE BEAT (’79, self titled)

Pas Adieu/ FABIENNE DELSOL (’10, On My Mind)*

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

Feel a Whole Lot Better/ THE BYRDS (’65, Mr. Tambourine Man)

Start Again/ TEENAGE FANCLUB (’97, Songs From Northern Britain)

Hit the Snow/ THE AISLERS SET (’00, The Last Match)

2000 Miles/ THE PRETENDERS (’83, Learning to Crawl)

Nowhere Near/ YO LA TENGO (’93, Painful)

Bigmouth Strikes Again/ THE SMITHS (’86, The Queen is Dead)

Son of a Gun (BBC version)/ THE LA’S ('89, ’06 collection, BBC in Session)

Earn Enough For Us/ XTC (’86, Skylarking)

San Diego Zoo/ THE 6 THS (w/ Barbara Manning) (’95, Wasps Nests)

Beautiful View/ LUNA (’97, Pup Tent)

Don’t Do It/ SHARON VAN ETTEN (’10, epic)*

Finding You/ THE GO-BETWEENS (’05, Oceans Apart)

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

Rose Parade/ ELLIOT SMITH (’97, either/or)

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

Good to be on the Road Again/ CORNERSHOP (w/ Liz Frazier) (’97, When I Was Born For the 7th Time)

Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’01, No More Shall We Part)

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

Frost and Fire/ EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL (’85, Eden)

Candy Says/ THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (’69, self titled)

I’m a Man You Don’t Meet Everyday/ THE POGUES (’85, Rum, Sodomy & The Lash)

Vinkonur/ OLOF ARNALDS (’10, Innundir Skinni)*

*new or recent release

Captain Beefheart, 1941-2010

Don Van Vliet, better known as Captain Beefheart, was an uncompromising artist and musical pioneer, whose influence on contemporary music and musicians has been enormous. The list includes: Tom Waits, Deerhoof, Pavement, Marc Ribot, Nels Cline, Gang of Four, Beck, Jack White, John Zorn and The Minutemen, to name a few. In a recent LA Times obituary, Tom Waits succinctly (and poetically) expressed his lament of Van Vliet's death (due to complications from MS):

"He was like the scout on a wagon train," Waits wrote in an e-mail Friday. "He was the one who goes ahead and shows the way. He was a demanding bandleader, a transcendental composer (with emphasis on the dental), up there with Ornette [Coleman], Sun Ra and Miles [Davis]. He drew in the air with a burnt stick. He described the indescribable. He's an underground stream and a big yellow blimp.

"I will miss talking to him on the phone. We would describe what we saw out of our windows. He was a rememberer. He was the only one who thought to bring matches. He's the alpha and the omega. The high water mark. He's gone and he won't be back."

He will be missed, though his music still stands as a force.

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 18 DEC. 2010

Recently unearthed, The Psychedelic Aliens was a great funk band from Ghana, beginning from 1968. Their only known surviving recordings (only three '45 singles plus B-sides) have been put together by Academy Records, entitled Psycho African Beat. Six killer cuts of a hybrid of African and US soul/funk. Amazing.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10:00 PM - MIDNIGHT
New Mule Skinner Blues/ THE MADDOX BROTHERS & ROSE (’48, ’10 collection, Oxford American Southern Music No. 12)
Hard Times Come and Go/ POKEY LaFARGE & THE SOUTH CITY (’10, Riverboat Soul)
My Heart Skips a Beat/ THE SECRET SISTERS (’10, self titled)*
Willow Weep For Me/ PETE MOLINARI (’10, A Train Bound For Glory)
Mermaid Parade/ PHOSPHORESCENT (’10, Here’s to Taking It Easy)
Livin’ Too Close to the Rio Grande/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’10, Rain on the City)
You Won’t Let Me Down Again/ ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN (’10, Hawk)
Live With the Seasons/ TEENAGE FANCLUB (’10, Shadows)*

We End Up Together/ THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS (’10, Together)
Resolution/ STEVE WYNN & THE MIRACLE 3 (’10, Northern Aggression)*
Hammering Castle Bird Man/ MIKE WATT + THE MISSINGMEN (’10, Hyphenated-Man)*
Got Nuffin / SPOON (’10, Transerfence)
Everything At Once/ SUPERCHUNK (’10, Majesty Shredding)

Hot Head/ CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND (’80, Doc at the Radar Station)+
Sea Seizure (No. 19)/ MARY HALVORSON QUINTET (’10, Saturn Sings)*
Better Than a Machine (for Vic Chesnutt)/ BILL FRISELL (’10, Beautiful Dreamers)
Pius Ogola/ AKUMU ODHIAMBO (’10, Frank Fairfield's Pawnshop Presents Unheard Ofs & Forgotten Abouts)
Gbomei Adesai/ THE PSYCHEDELIC ALIENS (‘60’s, ’10 collection, Psycho African Beat)*
King Queen/ THE NELS CLINE SINGERS (’10, Initiate)
Ma/ TOM ZE (’75, ’90, The Best of Tom Ze)

Ice Cream For Crow/ CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND (’82, Ice Cream For Crow)
Clap Hands (live, ’87)/ TOM WAITS (’88, Big Time)
A Mushroom Cloud/ SAMMY SALVO (’61, ’10 collection, Oxford American Southern Music No. 12)
Tunnel of Love/ WANDA JACKSON (’61)
Suffering Season/ WOODS (’10, At Echo Lake)
Save Yourself/ SHARON VAN ETTEN (’10, epic)*

Better Things to Do/ SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS (’10, I Learned the Hard Way)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 11 DEC. 2010

St. Louis native, Ann Peebles carved her soul style, with a deep funk groove, in Memphis, signed to Willie Mitchell's Hi Records. On her 1971 release, Part Time Love (which her self-penned song, "I'll Get Along," is featured), Peebles' soul funk is backed by the legendary Hi house band, including the Hodges brothers. Peebles still remains a greatly overlooked Memphis soul great.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10:00 PM-MIDNIGHT
Just One More Day (live)/ OTIS REDDING (’66, ’10 issued, Live on the Sunset Strip)

Willy Nilly/ RUFUS THOMAS (’65)

You’ve Been Cancelled/ ERMA FRANKLIN (’68, Super Soul Sister)

Nothing But a Heartache/ THE FLIRTATIONS (’69)

I’ll Get Along/ ANN PEEBLES (’71, Part Time Love)

Crazy About You Baby/ THE HELLCATS (’90, Hoodoo Train)

Jump, Jive & Harmonize/ Come On Now/ THE PLIMSOULS (’81, ’10 issue, Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal)

Do You Wanna Love Me?/ PAUL COLLINS (’10, King of Power Pop)

I Need You/ THE KINKS (’65)

Everybody’s Happy Nowadays/ THE BUZZCOCKS (’79, A Different Kind of Tension)

Annalisa/ PUBLIC IMAGE (’78, Public Image: First Issue)

Dirty Knails/ LES SAVY FAV (’10, Root For Ruin)*

Dishonest John/ THE JIM JONES REVUE (’10, Burning Your House Down)*

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

Rope Light/ SUPERCHUNK (’10, Majesty Shredding)

Colored Lights/ STEVE WYNN & THE MIRACLE 3 (’10, Northern Aggression)*

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

Trash/ NEW YORK DOLLS (’73, self titled)

Nervous Breakdown/ EDDIE COCHRAN (’58)

Candy’s Room/ BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (’78, Darkness on the Edge of Town)

Star Charmer/ GRINDERMAN (’10, Grinderman 2, bonus tracks)

You Can Take Your Time/ NINA NASTASIA (’10, Outlaster)

Death Rattles/ WOODS (’10, At Echo Lake)

Suburban War/ ARCADE FIRE (’10, The Suburbs)

Ambivalent Landscape Z/ EXTRA LENS (’10, Undercard)*

Nothing’s Changed/ OUTRAGEOUS CHERRY (’10, Seemingly Solid Reality)

Falling and Laughing/ ORANGE JUICE (’82 version, ’10 collection, Coals To Newcastle)*

Howl/ JUNIP (’10, Fields)*

Today is Gonna to Be Mine/ DAVID KILGOUR (’01, A Feather in the Engine)

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

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 4 DEC. 2010

British-based band The Jim Jones Revue makes a strong cocktail of Little Richard, MC5, The Stooges, Little Willie John and Gun Club. The band's second effort, Burning Your House Down, produced by Cramps/Bad Seed/Grinderman drummer Jim Sclavunos, is a high octane rock n' roll highball.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRLCES/ 10:00 PM-MIDNIGHT
Tak dej se k nam a projdem svet/ MARTA KUBISOVA (‘60’s, ’09 collection, Ne! The Soul of Marta Kubisova)
Black Room/ JUN MAYUZUMI (’68, ’09 collection, Nippon Girls)
Fog of Trujillo/ THE LUCKSMITHS (’05, Warmer Corners)
Ce Jour La/ FABIENNE DELSOL (’10, On My Mind)*
Poor Old Soul (French version)/ ORANGE JUICE (’80, ’10 box set, Coals to Newcastle)* [Domino]
Cette Lettre La/ SYLVIE VARTAN (’65, ’09 collection, Irresistiblement) [RPM]
Let Me Get Close to You/ BEVERLY WARREN (’65, ’09 collection, The Laurie Records Story, Vol. 3)

Bloom/ BRISA ROCHE (’10, All Right Now)*
Nothing is Good Enough/ AIMEE MANN (’99, Bachelor No. 2)
Funny Little Frog/ BELLE & SEBASTIAN (’06, The Life Pursuit)
The Way You Walk/ PAPAS FRITAS (’00, Buildings and Grounds)
Rockin’ Around (With You)/ TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS (’76, self titled)
I’m Not in Love/ TALKING HEADS (’78, More Songs About Buildings and Food)
Colored Lights/ STEVE WYNN & THE MIRACLE 3 (’10, Northern Aggression)*
Everything at Once/ SUPERCHUNK (’10, Majesty Shredding)*
Valentine/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’87, Pleased to Meet Me)

I’m Shakin’/ LITTLE WILLIE JOHN (’59)
Hollywood Bed/ THE BLASTERS (’81, self titled)
Lucille/ LITTLE RICHARD (’57)
Premeditated/ JIM JONES REVUE (’10, Burning Your House Down)*
Out of Luck/ THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION (’92, Mo’ Width)
Little Man With a Gun in His Hand/ MINUTEMEN (’83, Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat)
Roadside Wreck/ SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS (’91, Too Much Pork For Just One Fork)
Join My Gang/ THE LONG RYDERS (’83, 10-5-60)
Adam Raised the Cain/ BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (’78, Darkness on the Edge of Town)
As Long As I Have You/ THE DETROIT COBRAS (’07, Tied & True)
Night Life/ JOHN DOE & THE SADIES (’09, Country Club)
Opportunity to Cry/ WILLIE NELSON (’60, ’03 collection, Crazy: The Demo Sessions) *[also known as the “Pamper Sessions”]

Alcohol/ THE KINKS (’71, Muswell Hillbillies)
Radio Montana/ CASEY NEILL & THE NORWAY RATS (’10, Goodbye to the Rank and File)
Gravity of Levity/ LILA NELSON (’08, Letter Home)

You Are Not Alone/ MAVIS STAPLES (10, You Are Not Alone)*
*new or recent release