THE BUCK CALHOUN SHOW/ KHSU, 90.5/ WED., 13 APRIL 2011

Well, it's been "Wonder Week," subbing for Gus Mozart's Music Box on Mon., now Buck Calhoun! Here's a rare and lovely photo of the short-lived LA group Opal, featuring Rain Parade's David Roback and Dream Syndicate's Kendra Smith. Roback would later team up with Hope Sandoval to produce a more slicker version of this superior band. The legendary music photographer Laura Levine took this wonderful street snap of the band's main duo, circa 1987.
BOY WONDER SUBBAGE/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

Soul Lam Plearn/ THE PETCH PHIN THONG BAND (’10 collection, The Sound of Siam: 1964-1975)

Heleyos/ ZIA (’09 collection, Pomegranates: Persian Pop, Funk, Folk and Psych of the '60s and '70s)

Bond 303/ ASHA BHOSLE (’84, ’07 collection, The Bombay Connection, Vol. 1: Funk From Bollywood Action Thrillers 1977-1984)

I Will Be a Good Boy/ GANG OF FOUR (’82, Songs of the Free)

Why Can’t I Touch It/ THE BUZZCOCKS (’79, ’10 reissue, A Different Kind of Tension)

Gangsta/ tUnE-yArDs (’11, whokill)*

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

Tomboy/ PANDA BEAR (’11, Tomboy)*

Coming Up/ ASOBI SEKSU (’11, Flourescence)*

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

Hot as Day/ WYE OAK (’11, Civilian)*

Take It With You/ THE ETTES (‘09, Do You Want Power)

4 Months/ IAN FAYS (’05, The Damon Lessons)

Oceans in the Hall/ LADYBUG TRANSISTOR (’99, The Albemarle Sound)

There is a Light That Never Goes Out/ THE LUCKSMITHS w/ KAREN MORCOMBE (’07 collection, Spring a Leak)

Reno/ FINISHING SCHOOL (’03, Destination Girl)

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

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

S.F. Sorrow/ THE S.F. SEALS (’95, Truth Walks in Sleepy Shadows)

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

Time is Nigh/ DOUG GILLARD (’09, Call From Restricted)

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea/ NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL (’98, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea)

In My Time/ KURT VILE (’11, Smoke Ring For My Halo)*

Ballrooms of Mars/ T. REX (’72, Slider)

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

I'm in Love With a Girl/ BIG STAR ('74, Radio City)

*new or recent release

GUS MOZART'S MUSIC BOX/ SAT., 11 APRIL 2011

Come Gather Round Us, an outstanding Portland outfit, led by singer/songwriters Catherine Feeny and Sebastian Rogers, released a folk pop gem last year, Despair? (self released). Excellent harmonies and resourceful percussion is the hallmark of this group. Touring as a duo, Come Gather Round Us is a must-see group in live performance.
BOY WONDER SUBBAGE/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

Plunge/ ENDANGERED BLOOD (’11, self titled)*

Thank You/ KERMIT DRISCOLL (’11, Reveille)*

Duality/ VIJAY IYER, PRASANNA, NITIN MITTA (’11, Tirtha)*

Thurston County (live)/ THE NELS CLINE SINGERS (’10, Initiate)

Aftershocks/ JERRY MARTIEN & SHAO WAY WU (’10, The Road to Heaven)

Love Your Enemies/ WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS (’90, Dead City Radio)

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

Free Money/ PATTI SMITH (’75, Horses)

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

Universal Applicant/ BILL CALLAHAN (’11, Apocalypse)*

To Be a Rabbit/ COME GATHER ROUND US (’10, Despair?)

County Line/ CASS McCOMBS (’11, Wit’s End)*

Lost in Space/ AIMEE MANN (’02, Lost in Space)

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

Swim Club/ THE CAVE SINGERS (’11, No Witch)*

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

One Stolen Moment/ PETE MOLINARI (‘08, A Virtual Landslide)

You See Everything/ LOW (’11, C’mon)*

Agaetus Byrjun/ SIGUR ROS (’07, Hvarf/Heim)

Vinkonur/ OLOF ARNALDS (’10, Innundir Skinni)

Hang Me, Oh Hang Me/ THE DEEP DARK WOODS (’07, Hang Me, Oh Hang Me)

Rambling Fever (Merle Haggard)/ BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY & THE PICKET LINE (’09, Funtown Comedown)

Great Atomic Power/ THE LOUVIN BROTHERS (’61, ’95 collection, When I Stop Dreaming)

What’s Good/ LOU REED (’92, Magic and Loss)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 9 APRIL 2011

Los Amigos Invisibles, a sincerely energetic band from Venezuela was signed by David Byrne after hearing an early release of the band in a NY record store. A mixture of '80s funk (especially that little guy - Prince), new wave, rock and South American rhythms make this band a blast to watch perform and listen to.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10 PM-MIDNIGHT
Monkey See, Monkey Do/ THE BUDOS BAND ('05, self titled)
Oye Como Va/ TITO PUENTE ('63, '10 collection, Nu Yoria Roots!)
Cumbia del Desierto/ LOS DESTELLOS ('10 collection, The Roots of Chicha 2)
Corduroy/ LOS AMIGOS INVISIBLES ('11, Not So Commercial)*
Immigrant Song/ MOUNTAIN MOCHA KILIMANJARO ('09, self titled)
Rocket USA/ SUICIDE ('77, self titled)
Cosmic Cars/ THE DIRTBOMBS ('11, Party Store)*
Before Destruction/ SPOON ('10, Transference)

Biro Pen/ CORNERSHOP w/ BUBBLEY KAUR ('11, Cornershop & the Double-O Groove Of)*
42 West Avenue/ CASHIER NO. 9 ('08, 7" single)
My Girls/ ANIMAL COLLECTIVE ('09, Merriweather Post Pavilion)
Here to Fall/ YO LA TENGO ('10, Popular Songs)
Ballade de Melody Nelson/ SERGE GAINSBOURG ('71, Historie de Melody Nelson)

Sugar Man/ RODRIGUEZ ('70, '08 reissue, Cold Fact)
Bottle of Blues/ BECK ('98, Mutations)
Outer Realms/ THE CAVE SINGERS ('11, No Witch)*
Drover/ BILL CALLAHAN ('11, Apocalypse)*
Walking Backwards/ DAMON & NAOMI ('11, False Beats and True Hearts)*
Witches/ LOW ('11, C'mon)*
Hefner and Disney/ T-BONE BURNETT ('82, Proof Through the Night)

Red Desert/ PERNICE BROTHERS ('05, Discover a Lovelier You)
Chasing the Tide/ THE SUPERIMPOSERS ('05, self titled)
Deep See Diving Suit/ THE LUCKSMITHS ('07 collection, Spring a Leak)
That's Entertainment/ THE JAM ('80, Sound Affects)
In a Dream Life You Need a Rubber Soul/ THE CLEAN ('09, Mister Pop)
One Day/ SHARON VAN ETTEN ('10, epic)

I'll Be True to You/ SPENCER WIGGINS ('65, '01 collection, The Goldwax Story)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 2 APRIL 2011

The most recent film by Kurdish-Iranian filmmaker, Bahman Ghobadi, No One Knows About Persian Cats, a fictional central storyline mixed with real-life experiences of part of the underground music scene in Tehran, Iran has just become available on DVD. Ghobadi, who gained well-deserved international attention in 2000 with his first feature, A Time For Drunken Horses, drew on stories of Kurdish villagers, connected by culture, language and music. Here, with Persian Cats, he follows the story of Negar Shaghaghi and Ashkan Koshanejad, who are the nucleus of Take Home Hospital, who are attempting to get a band together to perform in London. The obstacles are enormous, and Ghobadi follows this interesting labyrinth that illustrates the conflicted modernity of Iran. If bands from "western" industrialized countries start whining about how hard things are, see this film.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10 PM-MIDNIGHT

Soft Crush [Konono No. 1]/ TUSSLE ('10, Tradi-Mods vs Rockers)

Listening Wind/ TALKING HEADS (’80, Remain in Light)

Robots/ KRAFTWERK (’09 remaster, collection, The Mix)

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

Sound and Vision/ DAVID BOWIE (’77, Low)

Hoy Supe Que Viajas [Kasai Allstars]/ JUANA MOLINA (’10, Tradi-Mods vs Rockers)

Me and You/ TAKE CARE HOSPITAL (’10, No One Knows About Persian Cats st)

Welcome/ CLINIC (’02, Walking With Thee)

Alleys of Your Mind/ THE DIRTBOMBS (’11, Party Store)*

Clap Hands (live)/ TOM WAITS (’88, Big Time)

Towers of London/ XTC (’80, Black Sea)

Fri/end/ THURSTON MOORE (’07, Trees Outside the Academy)

In My Time/ KURT VILE (’11, Smoke Ring For My Halo)*

Where Are You/ J MASCIS (’11, Several Shades of Why)*

Endless Grey Ribbon/ NICK LOWE (’79, ’11 reissue, Labour of Lust)

America!/ BILL CALLAHAN (’11, Apocalypse)*

Slipping (Into Something)/ THE FEELIES (’86, 11 reissue, The Good Earth)

Double Feature/ LUNA (’95, Penthouse)

From a Window to a Screen/ THE dB’S (’82, Repercussion)

Try to Sleep/ LOW (’11, C’mon)*

Hearts of Iron/ HANDSOME FURS (’07, Plague Park)

Heads Will Roll/ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN (’82, Porcupine)

Jack the Ripper/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’92, Henry’s Dream)

In the Wait/ THE PLUGZ (’81, Better Luck)

Just Like Anyone/ AIMEE MANN (’99, Bachelor No. 2)

Two Small Deaths/ WYE OAK (’11, Civilian)*

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 26 MARCH 2011

Nicknamed "The Basher," Nick Lowe, singer/songwriter and producer, was working on his second solo record, Labour of Lust, in 1979, simultaneously recording Dave Edmunds' excellent recording, Repeat When Necesssary. Of course, drummer Terry Williams and guitarist Billy Bremmer were featured on both (collectively, with Lowe and Edmunds, as Rockpile). In the same year, Lowe also produced the seminal Elvis Costello and The Attractions album, Armed Forces and The Pretenders' single, "Stop Your Sobbing," the Kinks cover. Heck, it was one busy year for Mr. Lowe, who also released one of his finest pop solo efforts, which is now reissued on CD by Yep Roc.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10:00 PM-MIDNIGHT

The Midnight Hour/ THE MESSENGERS (mid-‘60s, ’09 collection, 2131 South Michigan Avenue)

Lie, Beg, Borrow & Steal/ THE PLIMSOULS (’83, Everywhere At Once)

I Bet You [Funkadelic]/ DENNIS COFFEY w/ MICK COLLINS & RACHEL NAGY (’11, self titled)*

You Got Me Hummin’ [Sam & Dave]/ THE REIGNING SOUND (’04, Too Much Guitar)

Make It in America/ THE BEARDS (’01, Funtown)

Pleasure Seeker/ THE BOTSWANAS (’01, Fade and Your Gone)

Goodnight/ SWEET APPLE (’10, Love & Desperation)

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

I Am a Tree/ GUIDED BY VOICES (’97, Mag Earwhig!)

There is a Light That Never Goes Out/ DUM DUM GIRLS (’11, He Gets Me High EP)*

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

Hot as Day/ WYE OAK (’11, Civilian)*

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

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

Trails/ ASOBI SEKSU (’11, Fluorescence)*

Witches/ LOW (’11, C’mon)*

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

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

Bad News/ WHITEY MORGAN & THE 78s (’10, self titled)

The Least I Could Do/ THE SUPERSUCKERS w/ AMY NELSON (’00 collection, Down the Promised Land: 5 Years of Bloodshot Records)

Silver Wings/ THE KNITTERS (’85, ’93 reissue, Poor Little Critter on the Road)

Ramblin’ Man/ HANK WILLIAMS (’51)

Perfect World/ JAMES INTVELD (’95, self titled)

Queen of Hearts/ DAVE EDMUNDS (’79, Repeat When Necessary)

Cadillac Walk/ MINK DeVILLE (’77, Cabretta)

Cracking Up/ NICK LOWE (’79, ’11 reissue, Labour of Lust)

Dogs and Cats/ THE HEAD AND THE HEART (’11, self titled)*

Breakfast in Bed/ DUSTY SPRINGFIELD (’69, Dusty in Memphis)

Love is a Wonderful Thing/ PRINCE MITCHELL (’68)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 19 MARCH 2011

Yes, before Prince, there were masked dancing bandits from India (here, a still from awesome 1965 Bollywood film, Gumnaam). Bombay Connection has released two excellent volumes of Bollywood, The Bombay Connection, Vol. 1: Funk From Bollywood Action Thrillers 1977-1984 and Bombay Connection, Vol. 2: Bombshell Baby of Bombay, Bouncin' Nightclub Grooves From Bollywood Films 1959-1972. If have a shred of interest in Bollywood soundtrack music, these two collections are a must.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

Don’t Knock My Love [Wilson Pickett]/ DENNIS COFFEY (w/ FANNY FRANKLIN) (’11, self titled)*

Na Na Na Yeh Kya Karne Lage Ho/ HEMLATA (’80, ’07 collection, The Bombay Connection: Vol. 1 Funk From Bollywood Action Thrillers 1977-1984)

The Bluff Master (title music)/ KALYANJI-ANADJI (’62, ’07 collection, Bombshell Baby of Bombay, Vol. 2 Bouncin’ Nightclub Grooves From Bollywood Films 1959-1972)

Giraffe Trapping Music/ SAPAN-JAGMOHAN (’78, ’07 collection, The Bombay Connection: Vol. 1 Funk From Bollywood Action Thrillers 1977-1984)

The Biro Pen/ CORNERSHOP (w/ BUBBLEY KAUR) (’11, Cornershop and the Double-O Groove of)*

Sharevari/ THE DIRTBOMBS (’11, Party Store)*

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

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

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

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

Lion in a Coma/ ANIMAL COLLECTIVE (’09, Merriweather Post Pavilion)

He Gets Me High/ DUM DUM GIRLS (’11, He Gets Me High ep)*

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

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

Thick As Thieves/ THE JAM (’79, Setting Sons)

Falling Away/ THE PLIMSOULS (’98, Kool Trash)

Almost Ready/ DINOSAUR JR. (’06, Beyond)

Funny Face/ THE MUFFS (’95, Blonder and Blonder)

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

Unsatisfied/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’84, Let It Be)

Hanna/ THE PARTING GIFTS (’10, Strychnine Dandelion)

I Am the Cosmos/ CHRIS BELL ('77, ’92 issue, I Am the Cosmos)

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

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

Witches/ LOW (’11, C’mon)*

Little By Little/ RADIOHEAD (’11, King of Limbs)*

Galileo (Someone Like You)/ DECLAN O'ROURKE ('03, Since Kyabram)

*new or recently released

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

Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood in the studio in the ye old innocent days of the '60s...
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLE/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

Storm Warning/ DR. JOHN ('59)

Mona/ BO DIDDLEY ('57)

Willie And The Hand Jive/ JOHNNY OTIS SHOW (’58)

Ch Dooky Doo/ ART NEVILLE (’58)

Teenage Rock/ RONNIE JONES & THE CLASSMATES (’57, ’99 collection, The End Records Story)

Fever/ LITTLE WILLIE JOHN (’56)

I’m Shakin’/ THE BLASTERS (’81, self titled)

Shakin’ Shakin’ Shakes/ LOS LOBOS (’87, By the Light of the Moon)

Minnie Skirt Minnie/ THE PLIMSOULS (’81, self titled)

Peacock Baby/ REIKO OHARA (’68, ’09 collection, Nippon Girls)

Bum Pam Bum Pam Pa Ra Ra/ ASHA BHOSLE & KISHORE KUMAR (’71, ’07 collection, Bombshell Baby of Bombay Vol. 2: Bouncin’ Nightclub Grooves From Bollywood Films 1959-1972)

Tak dej se k nam a projdem svet/ MARTINA KUBISOVA (‘66, ’09 collection, Ne! The Soul of Martina Kubisova)

Ore d’amore/ MIKE PATTON (’10, Mondo Cane)

My Baby Tonight/ THE PARTING GIFTS (’10, Strychnine Dandelion)

Pas Adeiu/ FABIENNE DEL SOL (’10, On My Mind)

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

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

Some Velvet Morning/ LEE HAZLEWOOD & NANCY SINATRA (’67)

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

The Glorious Land/ PJ HARVEY (’11, Let England Shake)*

I’ll Be Your Man/ ANNA CALVI (’11, self titled)*

Tell It to Me/ TOM WAITS (’06 collection, Orphans)

You Can’t Hurt Me Now/ BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY (’09, Beware)

Father to a Sister to a Thought/ PAVEMENT (’95, Wowee Zowee)

I Believe in You/ CAT POWER (’08, Jukebox)

Lion’s Jaws/ NEKO CASE (’06, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood)

You’re With Stupid Now/ AIMEE MANN (’95, I’m With Stupid)

Is It Done/ J. MASCIS (’11, Several Shades of Why)*

Waterloo Sunset/ THE KINKS (’67, Something Else)

Beautiful Gas Mask/ THE MOUNTAIN GOATS (’11, All Eternals Deck)*

Shipbuilding/ ROBERT WYATT (’82)

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

*new or recent release