B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 30 APRIL 2011

Formed in 1986, Sebadoh was created by Lou Barlow (after having exited Dinosaur Jr.) and Eric Gaffney in Westfield, MA. Jason Lowenstein joined in 1989, solidifying the band of three gifted instrumentalists/songwriters. However, tension brewed and Gaffney left in 1993 (he would later return to the band, only to leave again); Bob Fay replaced Gaffney, leaving Barlow with a bulk of the songwriting duties. Their 1994 album, Bakesale, is a culmination of Barlow's pop side, resulting in numerous gems that still hold up today. Sub Pop will be reissuing Bakesale with a second disc of rarities and B-sides.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

Band of Gold/ FREDA PAYNE (’70, Band of Gold)

It’s Your Thing/ ISLEY BROTHERS (’69)

Miss Millie/ DENNIS COFFEY w/ KINGS GO FORTH (’11, self titled)*

Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World is Today)/ THE TEMPTATIONS (’70)

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

The Only One/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY & THE BROKEOFFS (’11, No Help Coming)*

Tomorrow Night/ ELVIS PRESLEY (’54)

Heartbeat Chilli/ ALLO DARLIN’ (’10, self titled)

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

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

L’oiseau/ SYLVIE VARTAN (’68, ’09 collection, Irresistiblement: 1965-68)

Puyaili/ DARA PUSPITA (mid '60s, ’10 collection, Dara Puspita 1966-1968)

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

Rip Her to Shreds/ BLONDIE (’76, self titled)

Chasing Heather Crazy/ GUIDED BY VOICES (’01, Isolation Drills)

Million Miles Away/ THE PLIMSOULS ('81, ’10 issue, Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal)

You’ve Got My Number (Why Don’t You Use It)/ THE UNDERTONES (’80, Hypnotised)

Back of a Car/ BIG STAR (’74, Radio City)

Skull/ SEBADOH (’94, ’11 reissue, Bakesale)*

Big Day/ XTC (’86, Skylarking)

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

Waiting For Suerpman (alt version)/ FLAMING LIPS (’99, Soft Bulletin)

Surfers Hymn/ PANDA BEAR (’11, Tomboy)*

Spiders (Kidsmoke) (live)/ WILCO (’05, Kicking Television: Live in Chicago)

Marquee Moon/ TELEVISION (’77, Marquee Moon)

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

Outer Realms/ THE CAVE SINGERS (’11 No Witch)*

Frank’s Wild Years/ TOM WAITS (’83, Swordfishtrombones)

Odd Said to the Doe/ NINA NASTASIA & JIM WHITE ('07, You Follow Me)

*new or recently released

FOGOU/ BW SUBBAGE/ WED., 27 APRIL 2011/ KHSU, 90.5

Eureka native Mike Patton looking slickly Italiano. His elegant treatment of various '60s and '70s songs from Italian films, Mondo Cane, is still a record that I come back to with pleasure. Graci Senor Patton!
BOY WONDER SUBBAGE/ 2:00-4:00PM

La Paserelle/ TINDERSTICKS (‘11, Claire Denis Film Scores, 1996-2009)*

Roundabout/ YES (’72, Fragile)

May the Circle Remain Unbroken/ 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS (‘68, ‘11 reissue, 7” single)

Surfers Hymn/ PANDA BEAR ('11, Tomboy)*

Dear One/ PISCES (mid 60s, ‘09 collection, A Lovely Sight)

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

Me and You/ TAKE IT EASY HOSPITAL (‘09, No One Knows About Persian Cats st)

Soul Raga/ MEHRPOUYA (‘09 collection, Pomegranates: Persian Pop, Funk, Folk, and Psych Of The 60s & 70s)

Biro Pen/ CORNERSHOP w/ BUBBLEY KAUR (‘11, Cornershop and the Double-O Groove Of)*

Salmon River People/ JERRY MARTIEN (‘11, The Road to Heaven)

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

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

Amnesia/ THE MONSTER WOMEN (‘04, Spacegirl Espionage)

Sao Lam Plearn/ CHAWEEWAN DUMNERN (‘10 collection, The Sounds of Siam: Leftfield Luk Thung, Jazz & Molam in Thailand, 1964-1975)

Bangkok/ ALEX CHILTON (‘75, Bach’s Bottom)

I Love My Label/ NICK LOWE (’78, ‘08 reissue, Jesus of Cool)

God Save the Queen/ THE SEX PISTOLS (‘77, Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols)

Career Opportunities/ THE CLASH (’77, self titled)

Do Anything You Want to Do/ EDDIE & THE HOT RODS (’77, Life on the Line)

Blank Generation/ RICHARD HELL & THE VOIDOIDS (’77, Blank Generation)

Saturday Night is Right For Fighting/ ELTON JOHN (‘72, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road)

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

I Got a Woman (live)/ ELVIS PRESLEY (‘69)

Sixteen Tons/ TENNESSE ERNIE FORD (‘55)

Los Ovni/ LOS OVNIS (‘60s, ’06 collection, Mas Rock and Rol: 26 Rare 60’s Teen-Punk Artyfacts)

El Clavo Y La Cruz/ THE PLUGZ (‘81, Better Luck)

You’ve Got Good Taste (live)/ THE CRAMPS (‘83, Smell of a Female)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 23 APRIL 2011

Willy Deville was one of the coolest cats to roam the streets of NY's Lower East Side and New Orleans, fronting his band, Mink DeVille. Here, he's pictured with his then-wife Toots at the legendary Bowery dive, CBGB's, in the late '70s. If you're curious about Mink DeVille's records, check out their '77 debut, Cabretta, and the excellent Steve Douglas produced third record, Le Chat Bleu (1980).
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

Doorstep/ tUnE-yArDs (’11, w h o k i l l)*

Cannibal Resource/ DIRTY PROJECTORS (’09, Bitte Orca)

Last Night at the Jetty/ PANDA BEAR (’11, Tomboy)*

Bedouin Dress/ FLEET FOXES (’11, Helplessness Blues)*

You See Everything/ LOW (’11, C’mon)*

Haller Lake/ THE CAVE SINGERS (’11, No Witch)*

Love More/ SHARON VAN ETTEN (’10, epic)

You and Your Sister (Country version)/ CHRIS BELL (’78, ’92 issue, I Am the Cosmos)

Since When/ REIGNING SOUND (’01, Break Up, Break Down)

Secondary Modern/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’80, Get Happy!!)

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

Fai Yen/ REAM DARANOI (mid-''60s, ’10 collection, The Sound of Siam: Leftfield Thung, Jazz & Malam in Thailand, 1964-1975)

Kunlarim Sensiz/ SEVARA (’07, Sen) [Uzbekistan]

The 911 Curry/ CORNERSHOP w/ BUBBLEY KAUR (’11, Cornershop & The Double-o Groove of)*

Gangsta/ tUnE-yArDs (’11, w h o k i l l)*

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

Ghetto Thang/ DE LA SOUL (‘89, 3 Feet High and Rising)

Irresistible Bitch/ PRINCE (’82, 7” single, B-side to “Let’s Pretend We’re Married)

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

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

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

Margerine Rock/ STEREOLAB (’04, Margerine Eclipse)

Then He Kissed Me/ THE CRYSTALS (’63)

Turn on Me/ THE SHINS (’07, Wincing the Night Away)

Fall Inn/ THE PONYS (’03, Laced With Romance)

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

Just a Kid (bonus track)/ WILCO (’05, Kicking Television)

The Whole Wide World/ WRECKLESS ERIC (’77)

Just to Walk That Little Girl Home/ MINK DEVILLE ('80, Le Chat Bleu)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 16 APRIL 2011

Innovative singer/songwriter/musician Merrill Garbus, better known as tUnE-yArDs, is a one-person onslaught of vocals, samples, loops, clashing instruments, old home recordings, often informed by African, punk and contemporary influences. Her new effort, w h o k i l l, on 4Ad, just may be the most creative and explosive and fun records to come out so far this year. It's a masterful record by the young Montreal expat (now in Oakland).
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/10PM-MIDNIGHT

Nothing But Heart/ LOW (’11, C’mon)*

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

Friction/ TELEVISION (’77, Marquee Moon)

Hot Head/ CAPTAIN BEEFHEART (’80, Doc at the Radar Station)

16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought Six/ TOM WAITS (’88, Big Time)

A Shot in the Dark/ JOHN ZORN (’89, Naked City)

Confection/ THE NELS CLINE SINGERS (’07, Draw Breath)

Sugar Kane/ SONIC YOUTH (’92, Dirty)

TV Eye/ THE STOOGES (’70, Funhouse)

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

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

Definitely Clean/ THE DREAM SYNDICATE (’82, The Days of Wine and Roses)

I’m Waiting For the Man/ THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (’67, The Velvet Underground & Nico)

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

Shakin’ All Over/ JOHNNY KID & THE PIRATES (’60)

City of Refuge/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’88, Tender Prey)

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

Comfy in Nautica/ PANDA BEAR (’07, Person Pitch)

Heavy Stones/ CHAD VANGAALEN (’11, Diaper Island)*

Gangsta/ tUnE-yArDs (’11, w h o k i l l)*

Hoy supe que viajas/ JUANA MOLINA (’10, Tradi-Mods vs Rockers)

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

Surrender/ OLOF ARNALDS (w/ Bjork) (’10, Innundir Skinni)

The Last Living Rose/ PJ HARVEY (’11, Let England Shake)*

Waiting in the Rain/ KENDRA SMITH (’91, The Guild of Temporal Adventures)

Belle/ AL GREEN (’77, The Belle Album)

*new or recent release

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