There's No Wave Like No Wave

Back when NY was affordable to live in, dirty, sick and fun! Release of a new "coffee table/art" book, published by Abams, No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980, scribed by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley. NY Times article on its release. Pictured: DNA #1's lineup/ Ikue Mori, Arto Lindsay and Robin Crutchfield (photograph by Julia Gorton).

Up For A Ride?

The femme fatales of Russ Meyer's classic, Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!

B.W.'s PLAYLIST, KHSU-FM, 90.5, 10 JUNE 08

BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ TUES., 10 JUNE 08/ MIDNIGHT-2 AM
Old Fashioned/ FRIGHTENED RABBIT (The Midnight Organ Fight, ‘08)*
For Emma/ BON IVER (For Emma, Forever Ago)*
Tonight Will Be Fine (L. Cohen)/ TEDDY THOMPSON (Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man)
Little Satchel/ SAM AMIDON (All Is Well)*
Sky Blue Sky/ WILCO
To Baby/ VETIVER (Thing of the Past)*
Summer Rain/ JOHNNY RIVERS (1967)
King of Carrot Flowers/ NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL

Ruler of My Heart/ IRMA THOMAS
Mohair Sam/ CHARLIE RICH
Dirty Blvd./ LOU REED (New York, ‘89)
Dad’s Gonna Kill Me/ RICHARD THOMPSON
Clap Hands/ TOM WAITS (Big Time, ‘88)
Paint Work/ THE FALL (This Nation’s Saving Grace)

Keep on Runnin/ THE SPENCER DAVIS GROUP
Time the Avenger/ THE PRETENDERS (Learning to Crawl, ‘84)
Favorite Thing/ SUGAR (File Under: Easy Listening, ‘94)
Wrecking the Flow/ THE DIRTBOMBS (We Have You Surrounded, ’08)*
Same Reaction/ SNAKE HIPS (Memphis Juke, ’97)
Bad Liver and a Broken Heart/ HAYES CARLL (Trouble in Mind, ’08)*

Suffering Jukebox/ SILVER JEWS (Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea, ’08)*
Autoclave/ MOUNTAIN GOATS (Heretic Pride, ’08)
Bigmouth Strikes Again/ THE SMITHS (The Queen is Dead, ’86)
The Lovely Sky Boat/ THE SUPERIMPOSERS
God Only Knows/ THE BEACH BOYS (Pet Sounds)
Waitin’ For Superman/ FLAMING LIPS (Soft Parade, ’99)
Turn on Me/ THE SHINS (Wincing the Night Away, ’07)

Don’t Take Anyone to be Your Friend/ SISTER ROSETTA THARPE

*recent release

B.W.'s Playlist, KHSU-FM, 90.5, 2,3 June 2008

BOY WONDER'S "HOT CIRCLES"/ MON, 2, JUNE 08/ 10:00 PM-1:00 AM
Wham Bam Thank You Mam/ CHARLIE MINGUS (Oh Yeah)
The Neon/ DAVID WITHAM (’07, Spinning the Circle)
Suspended Head/ NELS CLINE SINGERS (’02, Instrumentals)
Help Me Somebody/ ENO/BYRNE (’80, My Life in a Bush of Ghosts)

Say Man/ BO DIDDLEY (1958)
Bo Diddley/ BUDDY HOLLY (1955)
Willie & the Hand Jive/ JOHNNY OTIS (1958)
She’s the One/ BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & E STREET BAND (Live, April 2008, Arco Arena, Sacramento)
Earthquake Heart/ DIRTBOMBS (’03, Dangerous Magical Noise)
Hard on Love/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’86, You Funeral, My Trial)
Nighttime/ THE STRANGELOVES
Roadrunner/ BO DIDDLEY (1959)

16 Shells in a Thirty-Ought Six/ TOM WAITS (live, Big Time)
I Don’t Wanna Grow Up/ HAYES CARLL (’08, Trouble in Mind)*
Poke/ FRIGHTENED RABBIT (’08, Midnight Organ Fight, Fat Cat)*
Black is the Colour/ HAMISH IMLACH (‘66)
Keep Your Eye on Other’s Gain/ BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY (’08, Lie Down in the Light)*
Dry Lips/ LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION (’08, Falling Off the Lavender Bridge)*
Killing For Love/ JOSE GONZALEZ (’07, In Our Nature, Imperial Recordings)
Creeped Out/ ROBYN HITCHCOCK (’04, Spooked)

Arriving on a Train/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’01, Right Between the Promises)
Take Care the Road You Choose/ RICHARD THOMPSON (’07, Sweet Warrior)
From the Rivers to the Ocean/ BILL CALLAHAN (’07, Woke on a Whaleheart)
Handshake Drugs/ WILCO (live, Troutdale, OR, Aug. 07)
Hurry on Sundown/ VETIVER (’08, Thing of the Past, Hawkwind cover)*

Seven Seas/ ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN (’83, Ocean Rain)
So You Know Now/ AMY RIGBY (’05, Little Fugitive)
Wave/ CALEXICO (’04, Por Vida, Alejandro Escovedo tribute)
Summer Rain/ JOHNNY RIVERS
Ram On/ PAUL & LINDA McCARTNEY (’71, Ram)

The Least I Could Do/ SUPERSUCKERS w/ AMY NELSON
Silver Wing/ THE KNITTERS (’85, Poor Little Critter on the Road, M. Haggard)
Behind Closed Doors/ CHARLIE RICH (1972)
Wichita Lineman/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’93, Unlucky ep)
Houses/ VETIVER*
Stranger in the House/ RACHEL SWEET (’78, Fool Around, E.Costello cover)
She Left Me For Jesus/ HAYES CARLL*
Burning House of Love/ X (’95, Unclogged)

Flume/ BON IVER (’08, For Emma, Forever Ago)*
*recent release

Sneaker Pimps

Gelhorn & Hemingway Hitched in Honolulu, 1940

William Eggleston (Big Star "Radio City" cover)

New and Recent Releases of Note

Pete Molinari, A Virtual Landslide (Damaged Goods)
Sam Amidon, All Is Well (Bedroom Community)
Robert Forster, The Evangelist (Yep Roc)
Hayes Carll, Trouble In Mind (Lost Highway)
Vetiver, Thing of the Past (Gnomonsong)
Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar)