B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 12 FEB. 2011

What a better way to express love for the upcoming Valentine's than say, "Wake up and make love with me..." Ian Dury & The Blockheads paved a unique road in the U.K. punk/pub rock scene in the late '70s, combining vaudeville, rock and roll and new wave. Unfortunately, the recent 2010 biopic on Ian Dury, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, is a shallow attempt on unveiling punk's eccentric entertainer and his life. Stick with the real music.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

Fallahi/ HOSSAM RANZY (’89, Passion – Sources)

Mentiras/ LOS AMIGOS INVISIBLES (’09, Commercial)

Juana/ BOMBA ESTEREO (’09, Blow Up)

Aarimbaeo/ NACAO ZUMBI (’08, What’s Happening in Pernambuco)

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

Golden Dunes/ THE BUDOS BAND (‘’10, III)

Goumou/ KHAIRA ARBY (’10, Timbuktu Tarab)

Mae Kha Som Tam/ ONUMA SINGSIRI (’10, The Sound of Siam: Leftfield Thung Jazz & Malam in Thailand, 1964-1975)

Bong Ja Bong/ DAW BANDON (’09 collection, Saimese Soul: Thai Pop Spectactular Vol. 2 1960s-1980s)

Kaze To Otoko No Ko/ MIEKO HIROTA (’67, ’09 collection, Nippon Girls)

Poo Yai Lee/ LOUISE KENNEDY (’04 collection, Thai Beat a Go-Go, Vol. 1)

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

Look Good in Blue/ L’ALOUETTE [Annette De La Cloche] (’01, How Many Bands Does It Take to Screw Up a Blondie Tribute?)

Ce Jour La/ FABIENNE DELSOL (’10, On My Mind)

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

Way You Walk/ PAPAS FRITAS (’00, Buildings and Grounds)

Wake Up and Make Love With Me (live, ’77)/ IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS (’78, Live Stiffs)

Sex With an X/ THE VASELINES (’10, Sex With an X)

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

Wichita Lineman/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’93, Unlucky ep)

By the Time I Get to Phoenix/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’86, Kicking Against the Pricks)

Party Girl/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’79, Armed Forces)

Beautiful Friend/ THE UNDERTONES (’81, Positive Touch)

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

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

Dirty Old Town/ THE POGUES (’85, Rum, Sodomy & The Lash)

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

*new or recent release

BW PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 5 FEB. 2011

This charging young U.K. garage rock outfit, led by bassist/vocalist, Mark Whittaker, blaze the path carved out by Billy Childish (especially The Milkshakes and The Mummies), The Monks and Mersey Beat. The quartet's new release, Psychotic Beat!, is an impressive collection on Dirty Water Records - going a cut above than the current ocean of garage acts, due to their strong songwriting and sincere dead-on energy.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10 PM-MIDNIGHT

Galang (Trio Riot Version)/ VIJAY IYER TRIO (’10, Historicity)

Sea Seizure (No. 19)/ MARY HALVORSON QUINTET (’10, Saturn Sings)

Thurston County (live, Café du Nord, SF, ’09)/ THE NELS CLINE SINGERS (’10, Initiate)

Disappear/ SONIC YOUTH (’90, Goo)

Pen/ THE SIMPLE ONES (’95, Worth the Weight)

Friction/ TELEVISION (’77, Marquee Moon)

Sugarcube/ YO LA TENGO (’97, I Can Hear the Heart Beat as One)

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

Hello There/ CHEAP TRICK (late ‘90s, Albini Sessions)

Clampdown/ THE CLASH (’79, London Calling)

Problems/ THE SEX PISTOLS (’77, Never Mind the Bollocks…)

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

Bombast/ THE FALL (’85, This Nation’s Saving Grace)

Idiot Son/ RED RED MEAT (’94, Bunny Gets Paid)

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

Lucidity/ TAME IMPALA (’10, Innerspeaker)*

Open My Eyes/ THE NAZZ ('68)

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

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

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

Take Me Down to The Hospital/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’83, Hootenanny)

7 and 7 Is/ LOVE ('67)

Monkey Mess/ THEE VICARS (’10, Psychotic Beat!)*

Blood Dries Darker/ WOODS (’10, At Echo Lake)

These Boots Are Made For Walkin’/ NANCY SINATRA (’66)

Little Miss Queen of Darkness/ THE KINKS (’66, Face to Face)

Willow Weep For Me/ PETE MOLINARI (’10, A Train Bound For Glory)

River Man/ NATACHA ATLAS (’10, Mounqaliba)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 29 JAN. 2011

The Essex Green was formed in Brooklyn, NY by former members of Burlington, VT's Guppypuppy (singer/guitarist Chris Ziter, singer/keyboardist Sasha Bell, guitarist Jeff Baron and bassist Mike Barrett), with the addition of Tim Barnes on drums. Their final record as a band was a crowning pop achievement, with 2006 Cannibal Sea. Eventually, Bell and guitarist Baron would join Ladybug Transistor.

BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10:00 PM-MIDNIGHT

Black Satin/ MILES DAVIS (’72, On the Corner)

Floored/ THE NELS CLINE SINGERS (’10, Initiate)

Why Can’t I Touch It?/ THE BUZZCOCKS (’78, ’10 reissue, Different Kind of Tension)

Secret Mobilization/ DEERHOOF (’11, Deerhoof vs. Evil)*

She Said ‘You Made a Thing of Me’/ GANG OF FOUR (’11, Content)*

Natural’s Not In It/ GANG OF FOUR (’79, Entertainment!)

Y Do U Make Me Feel Like That?/ THE WITCHES (’02, On Parade/ ’11 collection, A Haunted Person’s Guide to)*

Ghost on the Highway/ GUN CLUB (‘81, Fire of Love)

Reptile Style/ REIGNING SOUND (’02, Time Bomb High School)

For a Little While/ COOL JERKS (’02, Cleaned a Lot of Plates in Memphis)

Premeditated/ THE JIM JONES REVUE (’10, Burning Your House Down)

You’re Gonna Miss Me/ THE 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS (’66, The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators)

Plenty For All/ HOT SNAKES (’04, Audit in Progress)

On My Way/ SNAKE HIPS (’97, Memphis Juke)

The Song They Don’t Want You to Sing/ OUTRAGEOUS CHERRY (’06, Stay Happy)

Cardinal Points/ THE ESSEX GREEN (’06, Cannibal Sea)

Just Do It/ THE BATS (’10, Stroke: Songs For Chris Knox)

Venus in Furs/ THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (’67, The Velvet Underground & Nico)

Hear the Grinder Creak/ FAUN FABLES [Dawn McCarthy] (’10, Light of a Vaster Dark)

Suzanne & I/ ANNA CALVI (’11, self titled)*

Beautiful View/ LUNA (’97, Pup Tent)

Look Good in Blue/ L’ALOUETTE (’01, How Many Bands Does It Take to Screw Up a Blondie Tribute?)

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

Last Night at the Jetty/ PANDA BEAR (’11, 7” single)

Them That Do Nothing/ FIELD MUSIC (’10, Field Music (Measure))

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

Padma Nodi/ STATE OF BENGAL VS PABAN DAS BAUL (’04, Tana Tani)

Tounka/ ROKIO TRAORE (’08, Tchamantche)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 22 JAN. 2011

UK singer/songwriter Anna Calvi has been attracting loads of attention from critics and contemporaries (such as Nick Cave and Brian Eno). Her self titled debut is epic, ambitious and dark, drawing comparisons to Patti Smith, Siouxsie and The Banshees and PJ Harvey. Produced by Rob Ellis (PJ Harvey's stable of musicians), Anna Calvi is lush, dramatic and amazing. Calvi really pulls it off (for the most part), filled with Ennio Morricone-like grand gems.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10:00 PM - MIDNIGHT

King Queen/ THE NELS CLINE SINGERS (’10, Initiate)

We’re Laughing/ THE PSYCHEDELIC ALIENS ('60s, ’10 collection, Psycho African Beat)

Goumou/ KHAIRA ARBY (’10, Timbukto Tarab)

Lulla/ TINARIWEN (’09, Imidiwan: Companions)

Aynali Koruk/ FERYAL ONEY (’06, Bulutlar Gecer)

Espanola Kolo/ A HAWK AND A HACKSAW (’11, Cerventine)*

Rain Dogs/ TOM WAITS (’85, Rain Dogs)

Mushroom Cloud/ SAMMY SALVO (’61)

My Kingdom/ ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN (’84, Ocean Rain)

Dazzle/ SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES (’84, Hyena)

Blackout/ ANNA CALVI (’11, self title)*

Deep Down/ ENNIO MORRICONE (’68, ’01, collection, Danger: Diabolik)

Behold a Marvel in the Darkness/ DEERHOOF (’11, Deerhoof vs Evil)*

Lady in the Front Row/ REDD KROSS (’93, Phaseshifter)

When My Baby’s Beside Me/ BIG STAR ( ’72, #1 Record)

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

Autumn Sweater/ YO LA TENGO (’97, I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One)

Evil Will Prevail/ THE FLAMING LIPS (’95, Clouds Taste Metallic)

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

Privilege (Set Me Free)/ PATTI SMITH GROUP (’78, Easter)

Hear the Grinder Creak/ FAUN FABLES (’10, Light of a Vaster Dark)

Star of Venus/ ROBYN HITCHCOCK & THE VENUS 3 (’10, Propellor Time)

Harvest/ KELLEY STOLTZ (’11, Harvest Revisted)

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

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

A Change is Gonna Come/ ARETHA FRANKLIN (’67, I Never Loved a Man The Way I Love You)

*new or recent release

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