B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM 90.5/ 14 JULY 08

BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLE/ MON., TUES., 14, 15 JULY 08
Maskil/ JOHN ZORN/ MASADA CHAMBER ENSEMBLE (’96, Bar Kokhba)
Jaisalmer/ SIR RICHARD BISHOP (’04, Improvika, Locust Music)
Ilhabibi/ A HAWK AND A HACKSAW (’07, …And the Hungar Ensemble)
Apache/ 17 HIPPIES (’07, Heimlich)
Blues, Too/ NELS CLINE SINGERS (Live in Montreal)

Right As Wrong/ INARA GEORGE (w/ VAN DYKE PARKS)*
On Teasing/ NINA NASTASIA (’03, Run to Ruin)
The Blue Room/ EVANGELISTA ( w/ CARLA BUZULICH +
GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR, ‘08, Hello, Voyager, Constellation)*
Dope Island/ T BONE BURNETT
Saro/ SAM AMIDON (’08, All Is Well)
Demon Days/ ROBERT FORSTER (’08, The Evangelist)*
San Bernadino/ MOUNTAIN GOATS (’08, Heretic Pride)
Protector/ THE FLEET FOXES (self titled, Sub Pop)*

Life’s Little Ups and Downs/ CHARLIE RICH (’69)
Every Night About This Time/ DAVE ALVIN (’87, Every Night About This Time)
There She Still Remains/ PETE MOLINARI (’08, A Virtual Landslide)*
Tulsa Telephone Book/ CALEXICO (’98, from Real: The Tom T. Hall Project)
Silver Wing/ THE KNITTERS (’85)
Not A Woman, Not A Child/ DAVE EDMUNDS (’78, Tracks on Wax 4)

Police and Thieves/ THE CLASH (’77)
Rudi, A Message To You/ THE SPECIALS (’79)
B Movie/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’80, Get Happy!!)
Clap Hands/ TOM WAITS (’88, Big Time, live)
I Got Kinda Lost/ BIG STAR (demo)
IHop/ LUNA (’97, Pup Tent)
After Dark/ SNAKE HIPS (’97, Memphis Juke)
Hold My Life/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’85, Tim)

Don’t You Want It/ GOLDEN MEAN (’05, Black Operation)
When the Money Comes/ BETTY LAVETTE w/ DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS (’07, Scene of the Crime)
Too Bad/ THE FACES (’71, A Nod Is As Good As a Wink…)
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues/ BOB DYLAN (Live 1966, Free Trade Hall, Manchester, UK)
Privilege (Set Me Free)/ PATTI SMITH GROUP (’78, Easter)
Make Me Yours/ BETTYE SWAN (’67)
Crawfish/ JOHNNY THUNDERS & PATTI PALLADIN (’88, Copycats)

Greenlight/ DETROIT COBRAS (Tied & True)
This Damn Nation/ THE GODFATHERS (’86, Hit By Hit)
Let’s Talk About Girls/ CHOCOLATE WATCHBAND (’67 No Way Out)
Hello There/ CHEAP TRICK (’77, In Color)
Sugar Kane/ SONIC YOUTH (’92, Dirty)
Beautiful Friend/ THE UNDERTONES (’81, Positive Touch)
*new or recent release

BW's "Hot Circles" on at 10:00 PM-1:00 AM (PST), Monday

The Boy Wonder will be filling in for Gus Mozart/ Music Box for the next two weeks (July 14th and 21st); in other words, I'll be on KHSU-FM, 90.5, from 10:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m.

Photograph by Birney Imes.

B.W.'s PLAYLIST, KHSU-FM, 90.5, 8 JULY 08

BOY WONDER HOT CIRCLES/ TUES., 8 JULY 08/ MIDNIGHT-2 AM
Messiah Ward/ NICK CAVE & BAD SEEDS (’04, Abattoir Blues)
Crawfish/ ELVIS PRESLEY
Cadillac Walk/ MINK DeVILLE (’77, Cabretta)
Walking Spanish/ TOM WAITS (’85, Rain Dogs)
Ruler of My Heart/ IRMA THOMAS (’62)
Out in the Streets/ THE SHANGRI-LA’S
You Look Good in Blue/ BLONDIE (’76, self-titled debut)
Psychotic Reaction/ COUNT FIVE (’66)
Poor Girl/ X (’83, More Fun in the New World)

Kamikaze/ PJ HARVEY
(2000, Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea)
Soon/ MY BLOODY VALENTINE (’91, Loveless)
Little Eyes/ YO LA TENGO (’03, Summer Sun)
Kingdom of Lies/ FOLK IMPLOSION (’99, One Part Lullaby)
Sgt. Rock/ XTC (’87, Black Sea)

Gratification to Concrete/ ROBERT POLLARD
(’08, Robert Pollard Is Off to Business)*
Always Crashing in the Same Car/ DAVID BOWIE (’77, Low)
Ambulance/ TV ON THE RADIO
(’04, Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes)
Oliver James/ FESTIVE FOXES (’08, self-titled)*
Signal/ SAM PHILLIPS (’08, Don’t Do Anything)*
In the Evening/ NINA NASTASIA (’07, You Follow Me)
I Wish I Was Your Mother/ MOTT THE HOOPLE (’73, Mott)
Old Fashioned/ FRIGHTENED RABBIT (’08, The Midnight Organ Fight)*

Ain’t That Enough/ TEENAGE FANCLUB (’97, Songs From Northern Britain)
Love is Lies/ BUZZCOCKS (’78, Love Bites)
While I Wait For You/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’99, Black Days Blue Nights)
Oh Caroline/ BEACH BOYS (’66, Pet Sounds)
*new or recent release

Please, Please, Please

Mr. James Brown, Memphis, 1965; pix taken by legendary Memphis photographer, Ernest C. Withers.

B.W.'s PLAYLIST, KHSU-FM, 90.5, 1 JULY 08

BOY WONDER’S HOT CIRCLES/ TUES., 1 JULY 08/ MIDNIGHT- 2 AM
My Babe/ LITTLE WALTER
I’m Shakin’/ LITTLE WILLIE JOHN
Get Out of My Life/ ALLEN TOUSSAINT
Ma/ TOM ZE
Lucky Lucky Luck/ EVANGELISTA (w/ CARLA BUZOLICH, Hello, Voyager)*
Impossible Germany/ WILCO (Sky Blue Sky, ‘07)
White Winter Hymnal/ FLEET FOXES (self titled debut, ’08)*
For Emma/ BON IVER (For Emma, Forever Ago)*
Suffering Jukebox/ SILVER JEWS (Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea)*

Do You Know the Way to San Jose/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (My Favorite Waste of Time, ‘08)*
Temptation/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS
Ram On/ PAUL & LINDA McCARTNEY
One Stolen Moment/ PETE MOLINARI
Get Yourself Together/ SMALL FACES
Son of a Gun/ THE LA’S (BBC in Session)
Pretty (Ugly Before)/ ELLIOTT SMITH (From a Basement on the Hill, ’04)

When You Walk Out/ MATTHEW SWEET (100% Fun, ’95)
I’m Waiting For the Day/ THE BEACH BOYS (Pet Sounds, ’66)
Comfy in Nautica/ PANDA BEAR (Person Pitch, ’07)
Happy Spirits/ THE RADAR BROTHERS (Auditorium, ’08)
Jigsaw Falling Into Place/ RADIOHEAD (In Rainbows, ’08)
Midnight Man/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, ’08)*
Lovelines/ THE RELACEMENTS (Hootenany, ’82)
Voodoo Cadillac/ SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS (Too Much Pork, ‘’91)
Have You Ever Seen the Rain?/ MINUTEMEN (3-Way Tie for Last, ’85)
The Have Nots/ X (Under the Big Black Sun,’82)

Behind Closed Doors/ CHARLIE RICH
Motel Matches/ E.C. & ATTRACTIONS
I Must Be in a Good Place Now/ VETIVER (Thing of the Past, ’08, Bobby Charles cover)*
Help Me/ SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON
Ask Me No Questions/ JOHNNY THUNDERS (So Alone, ’78)
*new/recent release

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!