B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ 31 MARCH 2012

LA-based composer, arranger and performer Julia Holter has caught some critics attention with her new release, Ekstasis. And it's for a good reason: it's smart, inventive, and she has a unique delivery of dual vocals, looping and lo-fi tech instruments. One of my favorite releases to emerge this year - so far!
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

Les Plus Beaux/ FRANCOIS & THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS (’12, E Volo Love)*

Tenere Taqhim Tossam/ TINARIWEN [w/ Tunde Ade Bimpe] (’11, Tassili)

Ja Funmi/ KING SUNNY ADE (’82, Juju Music)

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

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

Four Gardens/ JULIA HOLTER (’12, Ekstasis)*

Doorstep/ tUnE-yArDs (’11, whokill)

God/ THEESatisfaction (’12, awE naturalE)*

All That (Natural Self Mix)/ LIZZIE PARKS (’10 comp., Tru Thoughts Funk)

Traveling Song/ QUANTIC & ALICE RUSSELL (’12, Look Around the Corner)*

Season’s Trees/ DANGER MOUSE & DANIELE LUPI (’11, Rome)

(Baby, Baby) Can I Invade Your Country/ SPARKS (’06, Hello Young Lovers)

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

Soon/ MY BLOODY VALENTINE (’91, Loveless)

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

Tomorrow Never Comes/ LEE RANALDO (’12, Between the Times and The Tides)*

I Move Around/ THE PURRS (’10, Tearing Down Paisley Garden EP)

Beautiful View/ LUNA (’97, Pup Tent)

It’s Only Life/ THE SHINS (’12, Port of Morrow)*

While I Wait For You/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’99, Blue Days Black Nights)

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

Sara/ CHAD VANGAALEN (’11, Diaper Island)

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

Moonlight Mile/ LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS ('12, Faithful Man)*

*new or recent release

B.W's PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ 17 MARCH 2012

Need I say more? Shane & Cait from the original lineup of The Pogues. Happy Irish!

BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES. 10PM-MIDNIGHT

Dirty Old Town/ THE POGUES (’85, Rum, Sodomy & The Lash)

Hog- Eye Man/ MARTIN CARTHY (’06, Rogue’s Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs And Shanteys)

Bully in the Alley/ THREE PRUNED MEN (’06, Rogue’s Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs And Shanteys)

Hemlocks and Primroses/ BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY & THE PICKET LINE (’09, Funtown Comedown)

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

New Lace Sleeves/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’81, Trust)

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

Salt Water/ ZOE BOEKBINDER (’12, Darling Specimens)

Doorstep/ TUNE-YARDS (’11, whokill)

Deeper/ THEESATISFACTION (’12, awE naturalE)*

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

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

Yacht Dance/ XTC (’82, English Settlement)

Neither Here Neither There/ LOST IN THE TREES (’12, A Church That Fits Our Needs)*

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

Inner Meet Me/ BETA BAND (’98, ’99 collection, The Three EP’s)

I Can Dig It/ ALEX CHILTON (’69, ’12 issue, Free Again: The “1970” Sessions)*

Soul Typecast/ JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION (’93, Extra Width)

Off the Wall/ LEE RENALDO (’12, Between The Times and The Tides)*

Date w/ Ikea/ PAVEMENT (’97, Brighten the Corners)

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

Our Love Will Change the World/ OUTRAGEOUS CHERRY (’04, Our Love Will Change the World)

Louise, Louise/ ORANGE JUICE (’79, ’10 collection, Coals to Newcastle)

I Won’t Share You/ SIXPENCE NONE THE OTHER (’12 comp., Please Please Please: A Tribute to The Smiths)

Aretha, Sing One For Me/ CAT POWER (’08, Jukebox)

Ode to Billie Jo/ BOBBIE GENTRY (’67)

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

Sarah/ DECLAN O’ROURKE (’04, Since Kyabram)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 10 MARCH 2012

Montreal-based band, The Barr Brothers, featuring Andrew and Brad Barr (also of The Slip), have crafted a exquisite debut of "alt. folk" gems on high quality Canadian label, Secret City. The Barr Brothers will be performing in town, Arcata, CA, at Humboldt Brews on April 6th. Not a show to be missed.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT
Gimme Shelter/ MERRY CLAYTON (’70, Gimme Shelter)
Can’t You Hear Me Knocking/ THE BAMBOOS (’12, Mojo Presents: Sticky Soul Fingers)*
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart/ JC BROOKS & THE UPTOWN SOUND (’11, Want More)
Mystery Achievement/ THE PRETENDERS (’79, self titled)
Lust For Life/ IGGY POP (’77, Lust For Life)
I Want Candy/ THE STRANGELOVES (’65)
Sugar Kane/ SONIC YOUTH (’92, Dirty)

Everything at Once/ SUPERCHUNK (’10, Majesty Shredding)
Sugarcube/ YO LA TENGO (’97, I Can the Heart Beating As One)
I Just Want to Have Something to Do/ THE RAMONES (’78, Road to Ruin)
Los Angeles/ X (’80, Los Angeles)
Another Girl, Another Planet/ THE ONLY ONES (’78)
I Don’t Know/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’87, Pleased to Meet Me)
Work-A-Day-World/ THE BEAT (’79, ’05 reissue, self titled)
Shaky City/ THE PLIMSOULS (’83, Everywhere At Once)


Funnel of Love/ WANDA JACKSON (’61)
Mae Kha Som Tam/ ONUMA SINGSIRI (’10 collection, The Sound of Siam: Leftfield Luk Thung, Jazz & Molam in Thailand 1964-75)
Watashi No Inori/ RUMI KOYAMA (’68, ’09 collection, Nippon Girls)
Pas la Peine/ NOUS NON PLUS (’11, Freudian Slip)
What If We Gave It Away/ R.E.M. (’86, Lifes Rich Pageant)
The End of That/ PLANTS AND ANIMALS (’12, The End of That)*
Turn on Me/ THE SHINS (’07, Wincing the Night Away)
The Polaroid Song/ ALLO DARLIN’ (’11, self titled)

Cannons/ YOUTH LAGOON (’11, The Year of Hibernation)
We Are 1980/ SAID THE WHALE (’12, Little Mountain)*
I Couldn’t Reach You/ ROSIE AND ME (’12, Arrow of My Ways)*
In the Yard/ BOWERBIRDS (’12, The Clearing)*
Beggar in the Morning/ THE BARR BROTHERS (’11, self titled)

Moonlight Mile/ LEE FIELDS AND THE EXPRESSIONS (’12, Faithful Man)*

*new or recent release

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