B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 18 FEB. 2012

A Bon Voyage Emily Special! Good luck to KHUM/ Ferndale, CA's Sunday morning DJ diva of "Meet Me in the Morning," Ms. McLongstreet will be broadcasting her final show (she's heading off to the Big City) on Sun., Feb. 19th, from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. You'll be sorely missed!
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

Autumn in New York/ BILLIE HOLIDAY (’52)

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

De Cara a La Pared/ LHASA (’97, La Llorona)

Cinder and Smoke/ IRON & WINE (’04, Our Endless Numbered Days)

Ooh, Belle/ THE BARR BROTHERS (’11, self titled)

Nighttime [Big Star]/ ELLIOTT SMITH (’00, Live at La Boule Noir, Paris)

Thirteen/ BIG STAR (’72, #1 Record)

We Are Fine [live at The Sycamore, Brooklyn, NY ‘12]/ SHARON VAN ETTEN (’12, Tramp)*

Michelle/ THE BEATLES (’65, Rubber Soul)

Chittlin’ Cookin’ Time in Cheatham County/ POKEY LAFARGE AND THE SOUTH CITY THREE (’11, 7” single)

Banjo/ LEONARD COHEN (’12, Old Ideas)*

69 Annee Erotique/ SERGE GAINSBOURG (’69)

Tunnel of Love/ WANDA JACKSON (’61)

Suki Sa Suki Sa Suki Sa/ NANA KINOMI & LEO BEATS (’68, ’09 collection, Nippon Girls)

Aqui en mi nube/ SONIA (’66, ’11 collection, Chicas! Spanish Female Singers 1962-1974)

Crisis of Mine/ THE UNDERTONES (’81, Positive Touch)

The Kids Were Wrong/ MEMORYHOUSE (’12, The Slideshow Effect)*

Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken/ CAMERA OBSCURA (’06, Let’s Get Out of This Country)

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

Rattlesnakes/ LLOYD COLE AND THE COMMOTIONS (’84, Rattlesnakes)

Oh Pity/ CASHIER NO. 9 (’11, To the Death of Fun)*

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

Covers/ THE SEA AND CAKE (’11, The Moonlight Butterfly)

Wild Sage/ THE MOUNTAIN GOATS (’06, Get Lonely)

Before/ PLANTS AND ANIMALS (’12, The End of That)*

Sunken Waltz/ CALEXICO (’03, Feast of Wire)

I Couldn’t Reach You/ ROSIE AND ME (’12, Arrow of My Ways)*

O Que Voce Quer Saber De Verdade/ MARISA MONTE (’11, O Que Voce Quer Saber De Verdade)*

Marc Ribot & My Brightest Diamond [Shara Worden]/ BIRD ON A WIRE (’12, The Songs of Leonard Cohen Covered) [Mojo Magazine]

Safe Travels (Don't Die)/ LISA HANNIGAN ('11, Passenger)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 11 FEB. 2012

I remember seeing the 1959 British film, Room at the Top, for the first time - roughly 'round 1986 or so at The Film Forum in the Lower East Side, NY. I was floored - by the strong, independent female lead character and the actress who performed her: Simone Signoret. A long, long "distant" love affair started (and never ended) with the brilliant French actress (who won the Academy Award that year for Best Actress). Happy Valentine's Day, y'all.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

Didn’t It Rain/ SISTER ROSETTA THARPE (’47, ’02 collection, Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Original Soul Sister)

Gospel Train/ THE GOLDEN NUGGET (’73, ’11 collection, The Oxford American Southern Music CD #13)

I Need You’re Lovin’ Baby/ THE 5 ROYALES (’55)

I Wanna Know What’s Going On/ THE DETROIT COBRAS (’07, Tied & True)

Pass the Hatchet/ ROGER & THE GYPSIES (’69)

That’ll Work/ THE SKELETONS (’92, Waiting)

King of the Mountain/ SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS (’00, Liquored Up and Lacquered Down)

Bang a Gong (Get It On)/ T. REX (’71, Electric Warrior)

One More Time/ IAN HUNTER (’04, Por Vida: A Tribute to the Songs of Alejandro Escovedo)

Train From Kansas City/ NEKO CASE (’04, The Tigers Have Spoken)

The End of That/ PLANTS AND ANIMALS (’12, The End of That)*

Don’t You Want It?/ GOLDEN MEAN (’05, Black Operation)

Lindsay/ ELLIOTT BROOD (’12, Days Into Years)*

Divine Intervention/ MATTHEW SWEET (’91, Girlfriend)

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

Wheels On Fire/ THE MAGIC NUMBERS (’05, self titled)

Emily (live)/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’00, Live at 33 1/3)

Why She’s Acting That Way (live)/ TOWNES VAN ZANDT (’73, ’08 reissue, Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas)

So Long Marianne/ BILL CALLAHAN (’12 comp., The Songs of Leonard Cohen Covered)* [Mojo Magazine]

Someone Else’s Song/ WILCO (’96, Being There)

We Are Fine/ SHARON VAN ETTEN (’12, Tramp)*

King of Carrot Flowers Pt 1/ NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL (’98, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea)

Into the Mystic/ JOHNNY RIVERS (’70)

Knots/ LISA HANNIGAN (’11, Passenger)

See How We Are/ X (’95, Unclogged)

Ape-like/ CALIFONE (’09, All My Friends Are Funeral Singers)

Steel Stings No. 1/ PETER CASE (’11, The Case Files: Demos, Outtakes & Other Rarities)

Pale Blue Eyes/ THE VELVET UNDERGROUND ('69, self titled)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 4 FEB. 2012

The extremely talented singer/songwriter, who is based in Brooklyn (i.e. couch surfing), made a breakthrough with her previous 2010 release, epic. Now, after two years of constant touring, Van Etten has amassed an impressive collection of songs for new release, Tramp, released by Jagjaguwar. Here she is slowly moving beyond her tribulations over love & heartache, but most importantly, she has stepped up her overall songwriting and craft. The second half of this record, in particular, just soars.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

Love-A-Rama/ LEON BASS & THE KEYSTONES (’56, ’11 collection, The Oxford American Southern Music CD #13)

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

Leave My Kitten Alone/ LITTLE WILLIE JOHN (’59)

Rock Billy Boogie/ JOHNNY BURNETTE (’57)

Brand New Cadillac/ VINCE TAYLOR & HIS PLAYBOYS (’59)

Woo Hoo/ ROCK-A-TEENS (’59)

Rave On/ BUDDY HOLLY (’58)

Come On, Let’s Go/ RITCHIE VALENS (’58)

No Other Girl/ THE BLASTERS (’81, ’10 reissue, self titled)

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

Jubilee Train/ DAVE ALVIN (’87, Every Night About This Time)

Hot House/ X (’86, More Fun in the New World)

Automatic/ THE RED DEVILS (’92, King King) [American] [4:00]

Bad News/ JC BROOKS & THE UPTOWN SOUND (’11, Want More)* [3:30]

Step It Up/ THE BAMBOOS (feat. ALICE RUSSELL) (’10 collection, Tru Thoughts Funk)

What a Good Man He Is/ TAMMI TERRELL (’68)

Baby Let Me Teach You/ ZENA FOSTER (’65) [Veep]

She’s About a Mover/ SIR DOUGLAS QUINTET (’65)

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

At Night/ THE GREENHORNES (’05, East Grand Blues)

Fire Engine/ THE 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS (’66)

Dizzy Miss Lizzy (live)/ THE PLIMSOULS (’81, self titled)

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

I Was a Teenage Werewolf/ THE CRAMPS (’80, Songs the Lord Taught Us)

Waiting Room/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY (’96, 7” single)

Farmer John/ THE PREMIERS (’64)

No Love/ THE PLUGZ (’81, Better Luck)

Whacha Doin’ in the Woods/ HELLCATS (‘90, Hoodoo Train)

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

The Kids Were Wrong/ MEMORYHOUSE (’12, The Slideshow Effect)*

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

Ask/ SHARON VAN ETTEN (’12, Tramp)*

Old Mythologies/ THE BARR BROTHERS (’11, self titled)*

Egypt - Rise to Freedom (Basha Beats & Natacha Atlas)/ NATACHA ATLAS ('11, Mounqualiba - Rising: The Remixes)

*new or recent release

GUS MOZART'S MB/ BW SUBBAGE/ KHSU, 90.5/ MON., 30 JAN. 2012

The great bard, singer-songwriter, Leonard Cohen will be releasing a new studio album, Old Ideas, since 2004. It should smolder with lingering smoke. “My voice is getting lower and lower because I gave up smoking,” Leonard Cohen recently told Jon Pareles of The New York Times. “I expected it to rise but it’s gone the other way. I would like to take up smoking again when I’m 80. I may be on the road then, and it’s one of the things that invites me to tour again — smoking on the road.”
GUS MOZART'S MUSIC BOX/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

Mmmhmm/ VIJAY IYER TRIO (’12, Accelerando)*

Woodland Creatures/ JUSTIN WALTER (’12, Stars)*

Ali Farka Touche/ JENNY SCHEINMAN (’12, Mischief & Mayhem)*

Lulla/ TINARIWEN (’09, Imidiwan: Companions)

Deacon’s Son/ THE BARR BROTHERS (’11, self titled)*

O Que Se Quer/ MARISA MONTE (’12, O Que Você Quer Saber De Verdade)*

Hollow Bones/ ZOE BOEKBINDER (’11, Darling Specimens)*

Safe Travels (Don’t Die)/ LISA HANNIGAN (’11, Passenger)

Everything/ MEGAFAUN (’11, self titled)

All I Can/ SHARON VAN ETTEN (’12, Tramp)*

Free Money/ PATTI SMITH (’75, Horses)

You Can’t Put Your Arm Around a Memory/ JOHNNY THUNDERS (’78, So Alone)

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

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

Si Tu Disais/ CALEXICO (’04, Convict Pool EP)

Tell It to Me/ TOM WAITS (’06, Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards)

Michigan Girls/ CALIFONE (’03, Quicksand/Cradlesnakes)

Like a Rose/ LUCINDA WILLIAMS (’88, self titled)

Man of Sorrow/ SHARON SHANNON (w/ JACKSON BROWNE) (’00, The Diamond Mountain Sessions)

Bow Down/ THE GO-BETWEENS (live at KCRW, ’99 collection, Bellavista Terrace: The Best of the Go-Betweens)

Rain on the City/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’09, Rain on the City)

One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley’s Boyfriend)/ WILCO (’11, The Whole Love)

How Many Worlds/ MARIANNE FAITHFULL (’08, Easy Come Easy Go)

Sisters of Mercy/ LEONARD COHEN ('68, Songs of Leonard Cohen)

*new or recently released

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 28 JAN. 2012

OK, it takes the band Imperial Teen five years to make an album. The last three albums have been released in 5 year stints, including their new release, Feel the Sound. Not a massive departure for this pop group, but it's still hook-filled and sugar sweet.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

It’s Bad You Know/ R.L. BURNSIDE (’98, Come On In)

Everything Will Be Fine/ JC BROOKS & THE UPTOWN SOUND (’11, Want More)*

Down Down Down/ TOM WAITS (’83, Swordfishtrombones)

Date to Church/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’97, All For Nothing)

Blind Man’s Bluff/ SNAKEHIPS (’04, Monster Bars)

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

Dig My Own Hole/ LINDA HECK (’09, Shangri-La: 10 Years) [Shangi-La Records]

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

Leave My Kitten Alone/ THE DETROIT COBRAS ( ’07, Tied & True)

Rip Her to Shreds/ THE COME ONS (’01, How Many Bands Does It Take to Screw Up A Blondie Tribute?)

Within Your Reach/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’83, Hootenany)

Just Like Honey/ JESUS AND MARY CHAIN (’85, Psychocandy)

Chinatown/ LUNA (’95, Penthouse)

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

Hanging About/ IMPERIAL TEEN (’12, Feel the Sound)*

Blue Diamonds/ LONG WINTERS (’03, When I Pretend to Fall)

Oh Pity/ CASHIER NO. 9 (’11, To the Death of Fun)*

Pas la Peine (Oh No Not Again)/ NOUS NON PLUS (’11, Freudian Slip)*

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

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

The Wicked & The Blind/ THE DO (’11, Both Ways Open Jaws)*

Magic Chords/ SHARON VAN ETTEN (’12, Tramp)*

When I First Came to Town/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’92, Henry’s Dream)

In the End/ CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG (’09, IRM)

Oh Belle/ THE BARR BROTHERS (’11, self titled)*

Forgiven/ SKALLANDER (’07, self titled)

Cursed Sleep/ BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY (’06, The Letting Go)

Tonight Will Be Fine/ TEDDY THOMPSON ('06, Leonard Cohen: I'll Be Your Man, ST)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 21 JAN. 2012

The blazing voice of Etta James is unmistakable - filled with power and emotion. “A lot of people think the blues is depressing,” she told The Los Angeles Times in 1992, “but that’s not the blues I’m singing. When I’m singing blues, I’m singing life. People that can’t stand to listen to the blues, they’ve got to be phonies.” The legendary R&B singer died just 5 days before her 74th birthday. R.I.P. Ms. Peaches. Along with the passing of Johnny Otis, James marks a second huge loss to the music universe this week.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

Seven Day Fool/ ETTA JAMES ('61)

Do I Make Myself Clear/ ETTA JAMES & SUGAR PIE DeSANTO (’65)

Hound Dog/ BIG MAMA THORNTON (’52)

Keep on Loving Me Baby/ OTIS RUSH & HIS ORCHESTRA (’58)

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

Big in Japan/ TOM WAITS (’99, Mule Variations)

Gangsta/ TUNE-YARDS (’11, whokill)

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

I Did Crimes For You/ DEERHOOF (’10, Deerhoof vs. Evil)

Transformer/ MARNIE STERN (’08, This is It & I Am It…)

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

She’s a Mindbender/ THE BOTSWANAS (’01, Fade and Your Gone)

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

Your Phone’s Off the Hook, But You’re Not/ X (’80, Los Angeles)

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

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

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

I Am A Cutter/ JOHNNY RENDER (’12, Rendervoux)*

14 Cheerleader Coldfront/ GUIDED BY VOICES (’92, Propeller)

Arrows and Balloons/ ROBERT POLLARD (’11 collection, The Kids Will Eat It Up)

Come On Baby Grace/ BOSTON SPACESHIPS (’11, Let It Beard)

The Right/ LOU BARLOW (’09, Goodnight Unknown)

The Lighthouse Will Lead You Out/ CASHIER NO. 9 (’11, To The Death of Fun)*

Hanging About/ IMPERIAL TEEN (’12, Feel the Sound)*

Tensile/ THE CLEAN (’09, Mister Pop)

S.F. Sorrow (Is Born) [The Pretty Things]/ S.F. SEALS (’95, Truth Walks in Sleepy Shadows)

Serpents/ SHARON VAN ETTEN (’12, Tramp)*

In a Magazine/ MARISSA NADLER (’11, self titled)

Everything/ MEGAFAUN (’11, self titled)*

Forgiven/ SKALLANDER (’07, self titled)

Kitty Train/ LISA GERMANO (’09, Magic Neighbor)

Central Park West/ JOHN COLTRANE ('64, Coltrane's Sound)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 14 JAN. 2012

Michelle Williams, whose stellar performances in Wendy and Lucy, Blue Valentine and Meek's Cutoff, among others, returns with a complex portrayal of Marilyn Monroe in the pseudo-biopic, My Week With Marilyn, based on a non-fictional memoir, during Monroe's filming of the 1957 film, The Prince and the Showgirl. Again, Williams enters her character with intricate depth (and she sings in the film!).
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10 PM-MIDNIGHT

When Love Goes Wrong/ MICHELLE WILLIAMS (’11, My Week With Marilyn ST)

Lil Marlene/ LALE ANDERSON (’39, ’93, The Singing Detective ST)

My Baby Cried All Night Long/ LEE HAZELWOOD (’66, ’02 collection, These Boots Are Made For Walkin’)

Little Girl [The Crystals]/ MINK DEVILLE (’77, Cabretta)

You and Me/ PENNY & THE QUARTERS ('70s, '10 issue, 7” single) [Numero Group]

If Your Love Is Your Friend/ JOHNNY COPELAND (’68, 7" single) [Atlantic]

Heart of Gold/ CHARLES BRADLEY (’11, 7” single) [Dunham]

Tit For Tat/ RUBY ANDREWS (’69, ’11 collection, Oxford American Southern Music)

Honey Child What Can I Do/ ISOBEL CAMPBELL AND MARK LANEGAN (’06, Ballad of the Broken Seas)

Skin Deep/ NICK LOWE (’79, Labour of Lust)

Dry the Rain/ THE BETA BAND (’97, Champion Versions EP)

Oh Pity/ CASHIER NO 9 (’11, To the Death of Fun)*

Howl/ JUNIP (’10, Fields)

Bigmouth Strikes Again/ THE SMITHS (’85, The Queen is Dead)

Panic/ KITTEN (’11 compilation, Please Please Please: A Tribute to The Smiths)*

Paradise Is Not So Bad/ LIFEGUARDS (’11 collection, The Kids Eat It Up: The Best of Robert Pollard 2010-2011)

This Boy is Exhausted/ THE WRENS (’03, The Meadowlands)

Son of Sam/ ELLIOT SMITH (’00, Figure 8)

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

Before Destruction/ SPOON (’10, Transference)

Cosmic Cars/ THE DIRTBOMBS (’11, Party Store)

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

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

Pas la Peine [(Oh No) Not Again]/ NOUS NON PLUS (’11, Freudian Slip)

The Wicked & The Blind/ THE DO (’11, Both Ways Open Jaws)*

You Are Not Alone/ MAVIS STAPLES (’10, You Are Not Alone)

Is It Because I’m Black/ SYL JOHNSON (’69, ’11 collection, Complete Anthology)

*new or recent release