B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 11 JUNE 2011

Still from the 1981 excellent French film, Diva, directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix. Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez (as the opera diva, Cynthia Hawkins) and Frederic Andrei (as Jules) star in this film about purity of live performance, commodification of art and the art of buttering bread.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10 PM-MIDNIGHT

Aria from “La Wally”/ WILHELMENIA WIGGINS FERNANDEZ (’81, Diva st)

Molly Bawn (live, Edinburgh)/ BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY w/ HAREM SCAREM AND ALEX NEILSON (’08, Is It the Sea?)

Ruler of My Heart/ IRMA THOMAS (’63)

Oh So Lonesome For You/ PETE MOLINARI (’08, A Virtual Landslide)

Everywhere With Helicopter/ JASON ISBELL & THE 400 UNIT (’11, Sing For Your Meat: Tribute to Guided By Voices)*

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

Drover/ BILL CALLAHAN (’11, Apocalypse)*

Benediction/ THURSTON MOORE (’11, Demolished Thoughts)*

In the Evening/ NINA NASTASIA & JIM WHITE (’07, You Follow Me)

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

69 Annee Erotique/ SERGE GAINSBOURG/JANE BIRKIN (’69, ’11 reissue, Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg)

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

Swimming Ground/ THE MEAT PUPPETS (’85, Up on the Sun)

Desert Skies/ BEACHWOOD SPARKS (’00, self titled)

And She Rides/ THE LONG RYDERS (’84, Native Sons)

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

I’m On Fire (original mix)/ DWIGHT TWILLEY BAND (’75, 93 issue, The Great Lost Twilley Album)

In the Street (7” single version)/ BIG STAR (’72, ’08 collection, Thank You Friends: The Ardent Records Story)

Don’t Want You Back/ THE SIGHTS (’02, Got What We Want)

Ain’t That Enough/ TEENAGE FANCLUB (’87, Songs From Northern Britain)

Pot Kettle Black/ WILCO (’02, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)

1880 or so/ TELEVISION (’92, Television)

King For a Day/ XTC (’89, Oranges & Lemons)

Green Shirt/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’79, Armed Forces)

Woman’s World/ SQUEEZE (’81, East Side Story)

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

Infinito Particular/ MARISA MONTE (’06, Infinito Paricular)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 4 JUNE 2011

Group Doueh, a family-based musical outfit from the Western Sahara, has released a wonderful new release, Zayna Jumma, on Sublime Frequencies. It's still filled with crazy circular guitar patterns, dizzying rhythms and raw energy. Vocalist/guitarist Salmou Bamaar and vocalist (and spouse) Halima Jakani have expanded their sound (and band) to present arguably their finest release yet.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10 PM- MIDNIGHT

Disco Loco/ LORD NEWBORN & THE MAGIC SKULLS (’09, self titled)

Hoy Supe Que Viajas/ JUANA MOLINA (’10 collection, Tradi-Mods vs Rockers: Alternative Takes on Congotronics)

OK/ BEASTIE BOYS (’11, Hot Sauce Committee Part Two)*

Dry the Rain/ THE BETA BAND (’97, ’98 collection, The Three EPs)

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

Gimme Gimme Good Lovin’/ CRAZY ELEPHANT (’69)

The Magic Number/ DE LA SOUL (’89, 3 Feet High and Rising)

911 Curry/ CORNERSHOP (w/ Bubbley Kaur) (’11, Cornershop & The Double-O Groove of)*

Soul Lam Plearn/ PETCH PHIN THONG BAND (’10 collection, The Sound of Siam: Leftfield Luk Thung, Jazz & Malam in Thailand, 1964-1975)

Zayna Jumma/ GROUP DOUEH (’11, Zayna Jumma)*

Poor Old Lance/ FRANK FAIRFIELD (’11, Out on the Open West)*

Single Girl, Married Girl/ THE CARTER FAMILY (’28, ’97 collection, Anthology of America Folk Music)

Little Satchel/ SAM AMIDON (’08, All is Well)

I’m Not the Man You Don’t Meet Everyday/ THE POGUES [feat. Caitlan O’Riordan] (’85, Rum, Sodomy & the Lash)

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

Blood Never Lies/ THURSTON MOORE (’11, Demolished Thoughts)*

Up on the Sun/ THE MEAT PUPPETS (’85, Up on the Sun)

Try to Sleep/ LOW (’11, C’mon)*

Bluebeard/ COCTEAU TWINS (‘06, Four Calendar Café)

The Polaroid Song/ ALLO DARLIN’ (’10, self title)

Lloyd, I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken/ CAMERA OBSURA (’06, Let’s Get out of This Country)

Weeping Wine/ LLOYD COLE (’91, Don’t Get Weird on Me, Babe)

Melody/ SERGE GAINSBOURG (’71, Histoire de Melody Nelson)

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

Deep Down/ MIKE PATTON (‘10, Mondo Cane)

Sleeping Annaleah/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (‘86, Kicking Against the Pricks)

The Man I Love/ ROKIA TRAORE (’08, Tchamantche)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 28 MAY 2011

GIL SCOTT-HERON - R.I.P., 1949-2011.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

H2Ogate Blues/ GIL SCOTT-HERON & BRIAN JACKSON (’74, Winter in America)

Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos/ PUBLIC ENEMY (’88, It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back)

C.R.E.A.M./ EL MICHELS AFFAIR (’09, Enter the 37th Chamber)

This Land is Your Land/ SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS (’05, Naturally)

In the Basement/ ETTA JAMES & SUGAR PIE DeSANTO (’66)

Bar-B-Q/ WENDY RENE (’64)

Help Me/ SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON (’63)

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

You Devil You/ JOHN PAUL KEITH (’11, The Man That Time Forgot)*

Cryin’ Ove You/ JAMES INTVELD (’95, self titled)

Metal Mothers/ GUIDED BY VOICES (’92, Propeller)

Got It/ SEBADOH (’94, Bakesale)

Faster Gun/ THE WRENS (‘03, The Meadowlands)

Heavy Days/ JEFF THE BROTHER HOOD (’10, 7” single)

Statues and Glue/ THE SUNSHINE FIX (’04, Green Imagination)

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

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

Jump Jive and Harmonize [Thee Midnighters] & Come On Now [Kinks]/ THE PLIMSOULS (’81, ’10 issue, Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal)

Work-A-Day-World/ THE BEAT (’79, ’05 reissue, self titled)

The Rest of My Days/ GENTLEMAN JESSE (’08, self titled)

It’s Alright/ THE COME ONS (’01, Hip Check!)

Dig My Own Hole/ LINDA HECK (’98 collection, Shangri-La Records: 10 Years)

Little Rage/ THE MICE (’87, Scooter)

Tonight/ THE RASPBERRIES (’73)

On Top of the World/ CHEAP TRICK (’78, Heaven Tonight)

Hammering-Castle-Bird-Man/ MIKE WATT + MISSINGMEN (’10, Hyphenated-Man)

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

Real Live Flesh/ tUnE-yArDs (’09, BiRd-BrAiNs)

Faze Wave/ THE CAVE SINGERS (’11, No Witch)*

Long Time Man [Tim Rose]/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’86, Your Funeral…My Trial)

Everywhere With Helicopter/ JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT ('11, Sing For Your Meat: Tribute to Guided By Voices)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 21 MAY 2011

The French-Belgian band, Antena, drew modest attention in Europe in the early 1980s, with its mixture of minimal pop and electronica and Bossa Nova. The band however managed to make its indelible mark between Stererolab and The Slumber Party, and you can hear their influence in later groups such as Cibo Matto and LCD Soundsystem.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10:00 PM-MIDNIGHT

Camino Del Sol/ ANTENNA (’82, ’04 collection, Camino Del Sol)

Wow and Flutter/ STEREOLAB (’94, Wow and Flutter, ep)

Spoon/ CIBO MATTO (’99, Stereo Type A)

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

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

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

Not Great Men/ GANG OF FOUR (’79, Entertainment!)

Goin’ Out West/ TOM WAITS (’92, Bone Machine)

Lucifer Sam/ THE SADIES (’06, In Concert, Vol. 1)

Jumpers/ SLEATER-KINNEY (’05, The Woods)

Mass Romantic/ THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS (’00, Mass Romantic)

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

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

When You Make Up Your Mind/ GUTTERBALL (’93, self titled)

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

Day After Day/ THE PRETENDERS (’81, Pretenders II)

Valentine/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’87, Pleased to Meet Me)

Motor Away/ GUIDED BY VOICES (’95, Alien Lanes)

Twilley Don’t Mind/ THE DWIGHT TWILLEY BAND (’77, Twilley Don’t Mind)

Rock On/ T. REX (’72, Slider)

Hoodoo Train/ THE HELLCATS (’90, Hoodoo Train)

Won’t Go Out/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY (’01, Singles Round-Up)

Down By the Water/ PJ HARVEY (’95, Bring You My Love)

Messiah Ward/ NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS (’04, Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus)

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

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

What's New?/ BILLIE HOLIDAY ('55)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 14 MAY 2011

The LA-based band Dengue Fever adds a bit of Ennio Morricone in their unique blend of Cambodian pop, '60s U.S. psychedelia and rock for their new release Cannibal Courtship. There's a bit more of eclectic influences involved in this record that rewards you after repeated listenings.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)/ DIGABLE PLANETS (’93, Reachin’)

OK/ BEASTIE BOYS (’11, Hot Sauce Committee Part Two)*

Memories Can’t Wait/ TALKING HEADS (’79, Fear of Music)

Toumast/ TINARIWEN (’06, Aman Iman: Water is Life)

I Did Crimes For You/ DEERHOOF (’11, Deerhoof vs. Evil)

Way Down the Old Plank/ UNCLE DAVE MACON (’26)

Steel Strings No. 1/ PETER CASE (’86, ’11 collection, The Case Files)*

Freedom or Death/ COME GATHER ROUND US (’10, Despair?)

God’s Gonna Cut You Down/ JOHNNY CASH (’06, American V: A Hundred Highways)

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

Faze Wave/ THE CAVE SINGERS (’11, No Witch)*

One Hundred Days/ MARK LANEGAN (’04, Bubblegum)

Sister in the Radio/ DENGUE FEVER (’11, Cannibal Courtship)*

Deep Down/ MIKE PATTON (’10, Mondo Cane)

Up on the Sun/ THE MEAT PUPPETS (’85, Up on the Sun)

Everywhere With Helicopter/ JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT (’11, Sing For Your Meat: Tribute to Guided By Voices)*

Pop Zeus/ ROBERT POLLARD w/ DOUG GILLARD (’99, Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department)

Staring at a Line is Not Always Fine/ GARDENS (’11, self titled)*

When You Know/ THE FEELIES (’11, Here Before)*

Friendly Ghost/ HARLEM (’10, Hippies)

Nitroglycerine/ THE GORIES (’90, I Know You Fine, But How You Doin’)

Way Down in the Hole/ COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS (’95, Gamblin’ Days Are Over)

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

Here Lies My Love/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY AND THE BROKEOFFS (’11, No Help Coming)*

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

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

Circus Girl/ BERNADETTE CARROLL (’65, ’09 collection, The Laurie Records Story, Vol. 3)

Mixed Up, Shook Up Girl/ MINK DeVILLE (’77, Cabretta)

You and Me/ PENNY AND THE QUARTERS (‘70’s, ’11 reissue, 7” single) [Numero Group]

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

I've Been Loving You For So Long (live)/ OTIS REDDING AND HIS ORCHESTRA ('66, '10 issue, Live on the Sunset Strip)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 7 MAY 2011

Cornershop, basically a duo of leader Tjinder Singh and Ben Ayres, has released an excellent new album, Cornershop and The Double-O Groove Of, featuring vocalist Bubbley Kaur (who appeared on Cornershop's 2004 single, "Topknot"). Kaur provides a Punjabi punch and a freshness to the band's not-always-consistent discography. In short, it's a winning mixture.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES (Extended Ed.)/ 9:00PM-MIDNIGHT

Sexy Sadie/ RACHEL UNTHANKS & THE WINTERSET (‘08, Mojo Presents: The White Album Covered)

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

Snaeha/ PAN RON (‘60s, ’09 collection, Electric Cambodia 14 Rare Gems From Cambodia’s Past)

Kiss of the Bufo Alvarius/ DENGUE FEVER (’11, Cannibal Courtship)*

Que Lindo Sueno/ KING KHAN & THE SHRINES (’08, The Supreme Genius of)

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

Opportunity/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’87, Get Happy!!)

Everywhere With Helicopter/ JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT (’11, Sing For Your Meat: Tribute to Guided By Voices)*

The Official Ironmen Rally Song/ GUIDED BY VOICES (’96, Under the Bushes Under The Stars)

Tom Courtney/ YO LA TENGO (’95, Electr-O-Pura)

Got Nuffin/ SPOON (’10, Transference)

iHop/ LUNA (’97, Pup Tent)

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

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

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

Shackles and Chains/ MARK HARRISON AND SNAKEHIPS (’93, Lit)

Jump Boys/ THE UNDERTONES (’79, self titled)

Ode to a Black Man (Phil Lynott)/ THE DIRTBOMBS (’01, Ultraglide in Black)

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

+81/ DEERHOOF (’07, Friend Opportunity)

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

Metal/ GARY NUMAN (’79, Pleasure Principle)

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

Paper Planes/ M.I.A. (’07, Kala)

Strictly Business/ EPMD (’88, Strictly Business)

Say No Go (New Keys Vocal)/ DE LA SOUL (’89, 3 Feet High and Rising)

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

Fight the Power/ PUBLIC ENEMY (’90, Fear of a Black Planet)

Geo/ IVAN KAPALA (’02, Radio Nagra)

Coulibaly/ AMADOU & MARIAM (’04, Dimanche a Bamako)

Soul Raga/ MEHRPOUYA (’09, Pomegranates: Persian Pop, Funk, Folk and Psych of the ‘60s and ‘70s)

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

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

Chicago Falcon/ BUDOS BAND (’07, II)

Tired of Fighting/ MENAHAN STREET BAND (’08, Make the Road By Walking)

Que Onda Guero/ BECK (’05, Guero)

Mentiras/ LOS AMIGOS INVISIBLES (’09, Commercial)

El Pito/ JOE CUBA (’65, ’00 collection, Nu Yorica Roots!)

A Patricia/ LOS DESTELLOS ('60s, ’07 collection, The Roots of Chicha)

Acid/ RAY BARRETTO (68, Acid)

Kunlarim Sensiz/ SEVARA NAZARKHAN (’08, Sen)

She Spoke 2 Me/ PRINCE ('96, Girl 6 st)

*new or recent release

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