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

Alas, after 27 years of marriage and work together, Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, the grand longstanding couple of Sonic Youth, made an official announcement of their break-up. It is not sure how this will affect Sonic Youth's future. Here's a blogsite for further details.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

Tomorrow Night / ELVIS PRESLEY (’54)

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

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

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

Girlfriend/ MATTHEW SWEET (’90, Girlfriend)

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

Preaching the Blues/ GUN CLUB (’81, Fire of Love)

Burn, Oh Junk Pile, Burn/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY & THE BROKEOFFS (’11, No Help Coming)

Keep On Hoppin’/ THE MEKONS (’87, Honky Tonkin’)

Real Men/ THE JAZZ BUTCHER (’84, Scandal in Bohemia)

Racehorse/ WILD FLAG (’11, self titled)*

Rosewood, Wax, Voltz + Glitter/ RED RED MEAT (’95, Bunny Gets Paid)

Airbag/ RADIOHEAD (’98, Airbag/ How Am I Driving ep)

Marquee Moon/ TELEVISION (’77, Marquee Moon)

Sing! Captain/ HANDSOME FURS (’07, Plague Park)

Scream (‘Till You Make the Scene)/ STEPHIN MERRITT (’11 collection, Obscurities)*

16 Years/ PHANTOGRAM (’11, Nightlife)*

Trails/ ASOBI SEKSU (’11, Fluorescence)

Shade and Honey/ SPARKLEHORSE (’06, Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain)

Red Desert/ PERNICE BROTHERS (’05, Discover a Lovelier You)

‘Till the Real Thing Comes Along/ NICK LOWE (’11, The Old Magic)*

The Poor Side of Town/ JOHNNY RIVERS (’66)

Superstar [L. Russell]/ SONIC YOUTH (’94 compilation, If I Were a Carpenter)

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

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

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

Breathless [N. Cave]/ CAT POWER ('08, Jukebox, bonus track)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 15 OCT. 2011

Irish singer/songwriter Ken Griffin roamed the States with his first band, Rollerskate Skinny, then later, he moved to Brooklyn and formed Favorite Sons. An eccentric talent and good bartender; it is unknown what he's doing these days (Mr. Griffin get in touch with me!). Check out Favorite Sons' 2006 release, Down Beside Your Beauty on Vice Records.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

Holiday Cheer/ THE MARTINIS (’11 collection, Charles “Packy” Axton: Late Late Party)*

Palm of Your Hannd/ DOLLY LYON (‘50s, 7” single) [DRA]

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

Love Ain’t Nothing/ JOHNNY NASH (’64, 7” single) [Argo]

The Pendulum/ THE ETTES (’11, Wicked Will)*

The Prowl/ DAN AUERBACH (’09, Keep It Hid)

Romance/ WILD FLAG (’11, self titled)*

Hey Luciani/ THE FALL (’86, ’90 collection, A Sides)

Kill A Billionaire/ KEN GRIFFIN (’02)

Scream (‘Till You Make the Scene)/ STEPHIN MERRITT (’11 collection, Obscurities)*

When You’re Away From Me/ FAVORITE SONS (’06, Down Beside Your Beauty)

Look Back in Anger/ DAVID BOWIE (’79, Lodger)

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

Desire/ ANNA CALVI (’11, self titled)

Swimming Horses/ SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES (’84, Hyena)

Caught in One/ DUM DUM GIRLS (’11, Only in Dreams)*

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

Standing O/ WILCO (’11, The Whole Love)*

Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting/ ELTON JOHN ’73, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road)

Keep On Runnin’/ SPENCER DAVIS GROUP (’66)

Time the Avenger/ THE PRETENDERS (’84, Learn to Crawl)

I Will Dare/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’84, Let It Be)

Aqui en mi nube/ SONIA (‘60s, ’11 collection, Chicas! Spanish Female Singers 1962-1974)

When Saturday Comes/ THE UNDERTONES (’81, Positive Touch)

Feelin’ (’89, BBC version)/ THE LA’S (’06 collection, BBC in Session)

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

Ain’t That Enough/ TEENAGE FANCLUB (’97, Songs From Northern Britain)

Picture of a Bird/ FRUIT BATS (’11, Tripper)*

Porno Starlet vs. Rodeo Clown / CALIFONE (’01, Roomsound)

Several Shades of Why/ J. MASCIS (’11, Several Shades of Why)

What It All Means/ SAM PHILLIPS (’09, Fantastic and Spectacular: Believer Music Issue Comp.)

Tell Me Now So I Know/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY (’03, Truly She Is None Other)

Beautiful View/ LUNA (’97, Pup Tent)

I'm Gonna Wait/ GEORGE JACKSON ('67)

*new or recent release

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

Faux-French indie band (it means that they are not a "real" French band), Nous Non Plus, based in NY, with stage names such as Celine Dijon and Jean-Luc Retard, among others, just released a "faux" debut record, Freudian Slip. It's sung in French and it's fun and it's "indie." French pop with humor and excellent pop licks. Tres magnifique!
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

Margerine Rock/ STEREOLAB (’04, Margerine Eclipse)

Pas la Peine/ NOUS NON PLUS (’11, Freudian Slip)*

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

Doors Unlocked and Open/ DEATHCAB FOR CUTIE (’11, Codes and Keys)*

The Couples/ THE LONG BLONDES (’08, Couples)

Summer Fun/ TAMMAR (’11, Visits)*

Bedroom Eyes/ DUM DUM GIRLS (‘11, Only in Dreams)*

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

Tell That Girl to Shut Up/ TINA & THE TOTAL BABES (’01, She’s So Tuff)

Tattooed Love Boys/ PRETENDERS (’80, self titled)

Don’t Lose Your Mind/ LORETTE VELVETTE (’00, Rude Angel)

Saying Goodbye/ THE MUFFS (’93, self titled)

Racehorse/ WILD FLAG (’11, self titled)*

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

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

The Unguarded Moment/ THE CHURCH (’81, Of Skins and Heart)

Glad Girls/ GUIDED BY VOICES (’01, Isolation Drills)

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

Mystery Plane(original mix)/ THE CRAMPS (’80, Songs the Lord Taught Us)

I Could Be Lost/ ELEVENTH DREAM DAY (’91, Lived to Tell)

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

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

No One Is (As I Are Be)/ STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS (’11, Mirror Traffic)*

Jeannie’s Diary/ EELS (’00, Daises of the Galaxy)

Needle of Death [Bert Jansch]/ YO LA TENGO (’03, Today is the Day! ep) +

The Farthest Lights/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’99, Blue Days Black Nights)

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

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

+Bert Jansch, 1943-2011

Just One More Day (live)/ OTIS REDDING ('66, '10 issue, Live on the Sunset Strip)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 1 OCT. 2011

Wilco offers their 8th studio record, The Whole Love, and it just might rank up amongst its finest. Released on the band's own label, dBpm, The Whole Love, is definitely the logical follow-up to 2007's Sky Blue Sky, and songs such as "Art of Almost" is brilliant.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

Real Live Flesh/ TUNE-YARDS (‘09, Bird-Brains)

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

Art of Almost/ WILCO (’11, The Whole Love)*

Candy Machine/ STEVE WYNN & THE MIRACLE 3 (‘03, Static Transmission)

Short Version/ WILD FLAG (’11, self titled)*

Submarines of Stockholm/ A.C. NEWMAN (’09, Get Guilty)

Caught in One/ DUM DUM GIRLS (’11, Only in Dreams)*

New Hampshire/ SONIC YOUTH (’04, Sonic Nurse)

Left On/ THE SEA AND CAKE (’07, Everybody)

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

Crimson Enemy/ THE BATS (’09, The Guilty Office)

Summer Fun/ TAMMAR (’11, Visits)*

Girl Afraid/ THE SMITHS (’84, Hatful of Hollow)

Dreaming/ ALLO DARLIN’ (’10, self titled)

My Mistakes/ ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER (’11, Last Summer)*

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

Scream (‘Till You Make the Scene)/ STEPHIN MERRITT (’11, Obscurities)*

Yassassin/ DAVID BOWIE (’79, Lodger)

Ballad of Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)/ ALESSI’S ARK (’11 comp., Harrison Covered)* [Mojo Magazine]

All of a Sudden/ XTC (’82, English Settlement)

You’re Welcome/ THE UNDERTONES (’81, Positive Touch)

Saw Kill River/ DEVENDRA BANHART (’05, Cripple Creek)

Bus Stop/ THE HOLLIES (’66)

Chevy Mangold/ BOSTON SPACESHIPS (’11, Let It Beard)*

In the Core of the Flame/ THE GO-BETWEENS (’86, Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express)

Si Tu Disais/ FRANCOIZ BREUT (’00, Vingt a Trente Mille Jourse)

Cotton/ THE MOUNTAIN GOATS (’04, We Shall All Be Healed)

Love Lies Bleeding/ PETE MOLINARI (’06, Walking Off the Map)

Quails & Dumplings/ BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY ('11, Wolfroy Goes to Town)*

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 24 SEPT. 2011

BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

Summer Fun/ TAMMAR (’11, Visits)*

Jigsaw Falling Into Place/ RADIOHEAD (’08, In Rainbows)

Howl/ JUNIP (’10, Fields)

Art of Almost/ WILCO (’11, The Whole Love)*

Here to Fall/ YO LA TENGO (’09, Popular Songs)

Melody/ SERGE GAINSBOURG (’71, ’09 reissue, Historie de Melody Nelson)

Pink&Sour/ CALIFONE (’06, Roots & Crowns)

Crystalline (Omar Souleyman Version)/ BJORK AND THE OMAR SOULEYMAN GROUP (’11, single)*

Aynali Koruk/ FERYL ONEY (’06)

Lawl Qalandar Lal/ THE AAY JAYS (’11 collection, Pakistan: Folk and Pop Instrumentals 1966-1976)*

Some Place/ NICK WATERHOUSE (’11, 7” single) [Pres]

Love Is Strange/ JOHNNY THUNDERS & PATTI PALLIDIN (’88, Copy Cats)

I Said No/ PAT CLAYTON (’56)

Seven Day Fool/ ETTA JAMES (’61)

Love Ain’t Nothing/ JOHNNY NASH (’64)

Misery/ BARNETT STRONG (’61)

Your Life is Gone/ REPARATA (’72, 09 collection, The Laurie Records Story, Vol. Three)

Don’t Underestimate Me/ THE SAN FRANCISCO SEALS (’94, Nowhere)

Loretta [Nervous Eaters]/ NEKO CASE w/ THE SADIES (’04, The Tigers Have Spoken)

Teardrops in My Pillow/ DUM DUM GIRLS (’11, Only in Dreams)*

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

Racehorse/ WILD FLAG (’11, self titled)*

Long Hard Book/ STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS (‘11, Mirror Traffic)*

Dawned on Me/ WILCO (’11, The Whole Love)*

Twilight Distillery/ THE MINUS 5 (’06, The Epistle Dedicatory)

Chitlin’ Cookin’ time in Cheatham County/ POKEY LaFARGE AND THE SOUTH CITY THREE (’11, 7” single)* [Third Man]

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

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 17 SEPT. 2011

Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein formed Wild Flag with S-K colleague (and amazing drummer) Janet Weiss, Helium's Mary Timony and The Minders' Rebecca Cole. Their debut is stunning with garage-laced, psych-induced and straight shooting rockers. Wild Flag's debut (on Merge) could easily be considered for this year's "Best of" lists. It's that freakin' good.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

The Night Before Last/ MARISA ANDERSON (’11, The Golden Hour)

I Dreamed I Saw Jesse James Last Night/ CHARLIE PARR (’10, When the Devil Goes Blind)

That’s The Way It Goes/ GILLIAN WELCH (’11, The Harrow & The Harvest)*

The Calming Seas/ BEACHWOOD SPARKS (’00, self titled)

I’m On Fire/ WHITEY MORGAN & THE 78’S (’08, Honky Tonks and Cheap Motels)

Black Wings/ TOM WAITS (’92, Bone Machine)

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

Far Far Away/ WILCO (’96, Being There)

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

Be My Baby/ THE RONETTES (’63)

Give Him a Great Big Kiss/ THE SHANGRI-LA’S (’64)

Love is Strange/ JOHNNY THUNDERS & PATTI PALLADIN (’86, Copy Cats)

You Look Good in Blue/ BLONDIE (’76, self titled)

Caught in One/ DUM DUM GIRLS (’11, Only in Dreams)*

The Pendulum/ THE ETTES (’11, Wicked Will)*

Make It Black/ THE BOTSWANAS (’01, Fade and Your Gone)

Make It in America/ THE BEARDS (’02, Funtown)

Short Version/ WILD FLAG (’11, self titled)*

Avalanche Aminos/ GUIDED BY VOICES (’00, Hold on Hope ep)

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

Far Gone and Out/ JESUS AND MARY CHAIN (’92, Honey’s Dead)

Senator/ STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS (’11, Mirror Traffic)*

Here Before/ THE FEELIES (’11, Here Before)

The Way to Market Station/ THE AISLERS SET (’00, The Last Match)

The Couples/ THE LONG BLONDES (’08, Couples)

Lola/ THE RAINCOATS (’79, self titled)

Slowly But Surely/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY (’04, Slowly But Surely)

‘Til the Real Thing Comes Along/ NICK LOWE (’11, The Old Magic)

Just to Walk That Little Girl Home/ MINK DeVILLE (’79, Le Chat Bleu)

Just One More Day/ OTIS REDDING (’65)

Lord Tell Me Why/ RY COODER (’11, Pull Up Some Dust & Sit Down)*

Brother's Gonna Work It Out/ WILLIE HUTCH ('73, The Mack st)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 10 SEPT. 2011

From NY's Art Spielgelman's 2004 graphic novel/memoir, In the Shadow of No Towers, based on his personal trauma from 9/11.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT/ I ♥ NY ED.

Lord’s Prayer/ WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS (’90, Dead City Radio)

Lapse [C. Knox]/ BILL CALLAHAN (’10, Stroke: Songs For Chris Knox)

Killing Moon/ ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN (’84, Ocean Rain)

You Said Something/ PJ HARVEY (’00, Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea)

The Empty Page/ SONIC YOUTH (’02, Murray Street)

Empire of the Senseless/ THE MEKONS (’89, Rock ‘n’ Roll)

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

War on War/ WILCO (’02, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)

Big Day Coming/ YO LA TENGO (’93, Painful)

In World/ TELEVISION (’92, self titled)

I Believe/ R.E.M. (’86, ’11 reissue, Lifes Rich Pageant)

Protection/ GRAHAM PARKER AND THE RUMOUR (’79, Squeezing Out Sparks)

Rock Hard Times/ EELS (‘03, Shootenany!)

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

The Beast in Me/ NICK LOWE (’94, Impossible Bird)

Nighttime (live) [A. Chilton]/ ELLIOT SMITH (’00, Live at La Boule Noir, Paris)

See How We Are/ X (’95, Unclogged)

Wave/ CALEXICO (’04, Por Vida: A Tribute to the Songs of Alejandro Escovedo)

Christmas Time This Year/ RY COODER (’11, Pull Up the Dust)*

The Band Played Waltzing Matilda [E. Bogle, ’71]/ THE POGUES (’85, Rum Sodomy & The Lash)

Time/ TOM WAITS (’85, Rain Dogs)

Take Care the Road You Choose/ RICHARD THOMPSON (’07, Sweet Warrior)

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

What’s Going On (live, Hollywood Bowl, '92))/ LOS LOBOS (’93 collection, Just Another Band From East LA)

The World (Is Going Up in Flames)/ CHARLES BRADLEY (’11, No Time For Dreaming)*

My World/ LEE FIELD & THE EXPRESSIONS ('10, My World)

*new or recent release