B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 11 APRIL 09

Songwriter, musician, and artist Kate Bush was only 17 years old when she released her debut record, The Kick Inside, in 1977. Yeah, I know, this photo (espeically the dress) balances the fine point between looking chic and looking like Stevie Nicks. Fortunately, it falls (mainly) on the former. Then again, who gives a toss? She's still cool, talented and beautiful. Welcome, Ms. Bush, to Boy Wonder's World. So to speak. She was recently spotted at the recent official opening of Missing Link Records in Arcata, CA. Then again, maybe there was something in the free punch...

BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM

It’s Raining/ IRMA THOMAS (’62)
Alligator Wine/ SCREAMIN’ JAY HAWKINS (’58, Leiber/Stoller)
If I’m in Luck I Might Get Picked Up/ BETTY DAVIS (’73, self titled)
Broken English/ MARIANNE FAITHFULL (’79, Broken English)
Dum Maro Dum/ ASHA BHOSLE
Favorite Chair/ PJ HARVEY & JOHN PARISH (’09, A Woman A Man Walked By)*
Melody/ SERGE GAINSBOURG (’71, Histoire de Melody Nelson)

Jigsaw Falling Into Place/ RADIOHEAD (’08, In Rainbows)
Keep on Running/ SPENCER DAVIS GROUP (’65)
Time the Avenger/ THE PRETENDERS (’82, Learning to Crawl)
Speak to Me/ THE HEADCOATEES (’08, Boztik Haze)
Foggy Notion/ THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (’69)
7 And 7 Is/ LOVE (’67, Da Capo)

You May Be Blue/ VETIVER (’06, To Find Me Gone)
Oliver James/ FLEET FOXES (’08, self titled)
Sugar Man/ RODRIGUEZ (’70, Cold Fact)
Death of a Clown/ THE KINKS (’67, Something Else)
If You Know Time/ ROBYN HITCHCOCK (’04, Spooked)
The Crane Wife 3/ MARIANNE FAITHFULL (’09, Easy Come Easy Go)*
Heads Will Roll/ ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN (’82, Porcupine)

16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought Six/ TOM WAITS (’88, Big Time)
New Hampshire/ SONIC YOUTH (04, Sonic Nurse)
Doc Ellis/ SF SEALS (’93, Baseball Trilogy)
Walking With a Mountain/ MOTT THE HOOPLE (’70, Mad Shadows)

Rosewood, Wax, Voltz + Glitter/ RED RED MEAT (’96, Bunny Gets Paid, ‘09 reissue)*

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 4 APRIL 09

Never has the Boy Wonder been so honored. Artist extraordinaire Tara McPherson loves the Hot Circles. To paraphrase the great Roy Orbison, "In dreams..."

BOY WONDER’S HOT CIRCLES/ SAT. 4 APRIL 09
What You’re Putting Me Through/ DIANE NEWBY
Fox on the Run/ THE SWEET (’74, Desolation Boulevard)
Low Rider/ WAR (’75)
America/ WEST SIDE STORY (’60, Original Soundtrack)
The Message/ GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS 5 (’82)
Say No Go/ DE LA SOUL (’89, 3 Feet High and Rising)

Crosseyed and Painless/ TALKING HEADS (’80, Remain in Light)
Chet Boghassa/ TINARIWEN (’03, Amassakoul)
Friction/ TELEVISION (’77, Marquee Moon)
IHop/ LUNA (’97, Pup Tent)
Sooner/ MY BLOODY VALENTINE (’91, Loveless)
Love Me Anyway/ STEVE WYNN (’08, Crossing Dragon Bridge)

Crystal Lake/ GRANDADDY (’00, The Sophomore Slump)
Bled White/ ELLIOT SMITH (’98, XO)
Magpie to the Morning/ NEKO CASE (’09, Middle Cyclone)*
Staralfur/ SIGUR ROS (’08, Hvarf/Heim)
Carolyn’s Fingers/ COCTEAU TWINS (’88, Blue Bell Knoll)
Shangri-La/ M. WARD (’09, Hold Time)*

Feelin’/ THE LA’S (89, BBC in Session)
Doc Ellis/ SF SEALS (’93, Baseball Trilogy)
Thick As Thieves/ THE JAM (’79, Thick As Thieves)
Chain, Chain, Chain/ RED RED MEAT (’95, Bunny Gets Paid)
Nothing Ever Happens/ DEERHUNTER (’08, Microcastle)
Autonomy/ THE BUZZCOCKS (’78, Another Music in a Different Kitchen)

Lucifer Sam/ THE SADIES (’06, In Concert)
*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 28 MARCH 09

Sophie Dahl, grandaughter of writer Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Choclate Factory) and U.S. actress Patricia Neal (Hud) is new die-hard fan of Boy Wonder's Hot Circles. Welcome, Ms. Dahl, whose recent debut novel, Playing With the Grown-ups, was reprinted in paperback on Anchor.

BOY WONDER’S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM/ PST
You’ve Been in Love Too Long/ MARTHA & THE VANDELLAS (’65)
Make A Little Love/ ALEX CHILTON (’87, High Priest)
Bad Taste/ THE COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS (’92 Gambling Days Are Over)
Just Like a Dog/ THE HEADCOATEES (’08, Bozstik Haze)*
Tossin’ and a Turnin’/ THE ‘MATS (’87, Pleased to Meet Me)
Boys Keep Swinging/ LORETTE VELVETTE ('00, Rude Angel)
Houses/ VETIVER (’08, Thing of the Past)
Cold Spring/ CYMBALS EAT GUITARS (’09, Why There Are Mountains)*

Albatross, Albatross, Albatross/ MT. ST. HELEN’S VIETNAM BAND+
Everyone’s Guilty/ AKRON FAMILY+
Cheerleader/ GRIZZLY BEAR+
No One Does It Like You/ DEPARTMENT OF EAGLES ('08, In Ear Park)
Tightrope/ YEASAYER (’09, Dark Was the Night)+
+Guest dj Julie Ruin’s pix (KRFH)

Good Friend Yr Hunger/ CASTANETS (’05, First Light’s Freeze)+
Cobrinha/ TINE ('07, What’s Happening in Pernambuco: New Sounds of the Brazilian Northeast)
42 West Avenue/ CASHIER NO.9 (’08)
Under the Waves/ PSEUDOSIX (’07, self titled)
Frozen Gtr./ THURSTON MOORE (’07, Trees Outside the Academy)
Release the Spring/ SCARNELLA (’97, self titled)
Muzzle of Bees/ WILCO (’05, Kicking Television: Live in Chicago)

Tiny Waist/ ELENI MANDELL (’09, Artificial Fire)*
We Dance/ PAVEMENT (‘95, Wowee Zowee)
Hot Freaks/ GUIDED BY VOICE (’94, Bee Thousand)
Kenimania/ MONO MONO (’08, Nigeria Rock Special)
This Year’s Girl/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’78, This Year’s Model)

Natural’s Not in It/ GANG OF FOUR ('79, Entertainment!)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ SAT., 21 MARCH 09

BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM

Sinner Man/ GOSPEL SUPREMES
Bar B-Q/ WENDY RENE ('64)
Give Him a Great Big Kiss/ THE SHANGRI-LA’S (’64)
Speak to Me/ THE HEADCOATEES (’08, Bozstik Haze)
Leave My Kitten Alone/ DETROIT COBRAS (’07, Tied & True)
Chatterbox/ NY DOLLS (’74, Too Much Too Soon)

Shakin’ All Over/ JOHNNY KIDD & THE PIRATES (’60)
The Have Nots/ X (’82, Under the Big Black Sun)
Complete Control/ THE CLASH (’77, self titled)
Memphis, Egypt/ THE MEKONS (’89, Rock n’ Roll)
Make It in America/ THE BEARDS (’01, Funtown)
You Sound Like Your Sick/ THE RAMONES (’81, Pleasant Dreams)
Bad Reputation/ JOAN JETT (’81, Bad Reputation)
Li Li/ THE CUTTERS (’01, Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!)
Fox on the Run/ SWEET (’73, Desolation Boulevard)
Tonight/ THE RASPBERRIES (’73)
I Will Dare/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’84, Let It Be)

Sugar Kane/ SONIC YOUTH (’92, Dirty)
Open My Eyes/ NAZZ (’67)
Don’t Want You Back/ THE SIGHTS (’02, Got What We Want)
Great DJ/ THE TING TINGS (’08, We Started Nothing)
Egg Man/ BEASTIE BOYS (’89, Paul’s Boutique)
Carimbaeo/ NACAO ZUMBI (’08, Brazil Classics 7: New Sounds of the Brazilian Northeast)
Kill A Billionaire/ KEN GRIFFIN (’02)

Calling It Quits/ AIMEE MANN (’99, Bachelor No. 2)
Dear Boy/ PAUL & LINDA McCARTNEY (’71, Ram)
Dear God/ XTC (’86, Skylarking)
Beware Your Only Friend/ BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY (’09, Beware)*
42 West Avenue/ CASHIER NO. 9

Death By Northwest/ SCARNELLA ('98, self titled)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 14 MARCH 09

ELENI MANDELL just wants to hold your hand... Thanks to Chris and Nanda for the signed copy of Ms. Mandell's new release, Artificial Fire, on Zedtone Inc.!! Apparently, LA-based singer/songwriter/chanteusse is part of the Boy Wonder fan club. I wish...stay tuned for choice cuts from the new release in future Hot Circles.

BOY WONDER’S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 pm
Heartattack and Vine/ TOM WAITS (’80, Heartattack and Vine)
Help Me/ SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON (’63)
Shake ‘Em On Down/ RL BURNSIDE (’93, Too Bad Jim)
The Prowl/ DAN AUERBACH (’09, Keep It Hid)*
Voodoo Cadillac/ S.C.O.T.S. (’91, Too Much Pork For Just One Fork)
Shakin’ All Over/ JOHNNY KIDD & THE PIRATES (’60)
I Can See For Miles/ THE WHO (’67, The Who Sell Out)
Million Miles Away/ THE PLIMSOULS (’83, Everywhere at Once)

Southwood Plantation Road/ THE MOUNTAIN GOATS (’02, Tallahassee)
Mass Romantic/ NEW PORNOGRAPHERS (’00, Mass Romantic)
Love Is Here/ LUCIOUS JACKSON (’97, A Life Less Ordinary, soundtrack)
Kingdom of Lies/ FOLK IMPLOSION (’99, One Part Lullaby)
Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth/ SPARKS (’74, Propaganda)
All of My Days and All of My Days Off/ A.C. NEWMAN (’09, Get Guilty)*

Galway Bay/ DELORES KEANE & JOHN FAULKNER (’99, Sail Og Rua)
Caroline and Her Young Sailor Bold/ ANDREA CORR (’06, Rogue’s Gallery)
Summer in Siam/ THE POGUES (’90, Hell’s Ditch)
Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye/ LEONARD COHEN (’68, Songs of Leonard Cohen)
Train Song/ FEIST & BEN GIBBARD (’09, Dark Was the Night)*
Lovely Creature/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEES (’96, Murder Ballads)
Million Shards/ PSEUDOSIX (’07, self titled)
Chasing the Tide/ THE SUPERIMPOSERS (’05, self titled)

Is It My Body/ THE BOTSWANAS (’01, Fade and Your Gone)
Buried Alive/ MARK HARRISON & SNAKE HIPS (’92, 7” single)
Chowder/ JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION (’98, Xtra-Acme USA)
You Got Me Hummin’/ THE REIGNING SOUND (’04, Too Much Guitar)

Caroline Wheeler’s Birthday Present/ THE JAZZ BUTCHER (’84, Scandal in Bohemia)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ SAT., 7 MARCH 2009

Step on a crack...cool streetwalkers, The Come Ons, on the broken concrete of Detroit.

BOY WONDER’S HOT CIRCLES/ SAT., 7 MARCH 09
Controversy/ PRINCE (’81, Controversy)
Minnie Skirt Minnie/ WILSON PICKETT (’68)
Nighttime/ THE STRANGELOVES (’66)
Foggy Notion/ VELVET UNDERGROUND (’69)
Crazy About You/ THE HELLCATS (’87, Hoodoo Train)
Mr. Mystery/ FABIENNE DELSOL (‘07, Between You and Me)
My Babe/ LITTLE WALTER
Slummer the Slum/ 5 ROYALES (’58)
Do the Shake/ THE RENEGADES (‘60’s, UK)

Ma/ TOM ZE (’90, Best of…)
Kidnappped by Neptune/ SCOUT NIBLETT (’05, Kidnapped By Neptune)
Hey! Little Girl/ ALEX CHILTON (’79, Like Flies on Sherbert)
Cardinal Points/ ESSEX GREEN (’06, Cannibal Sea)
Shake That Devil/ ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS (’09, Another World, ep)*
Under the Waves/ PSEUDOSIX (’07, self titled)

Against Pollution/ THE MOUNTAIN GOATS (’04, We Shall All Be Healed)
Feel Good About It/ MARCHING BAND (’08, Spark Large)
Antenna/ THE ACORN (’07, Glory Hope Mountain)
Pages Turn/ 28TH DAY (’85, self titled)
Paper/ TALKING HEADS (’79, Fear of Music)
Real Men/ JAZZ BUTCHER (’84, Scandal in Bohemia)
No One Does It Like You/ DEPARTMENT OF EAGLES (’08, In Ear Park)
Red Tide/ NEKO CASE (’09, Middle Cyclone)*
Submarine of Stockholm/ A.C. NEWMAN (’09, Get Guilty)*

Zero Fix/ BOSTON SPACESHIPS (’08, Brown Submarine)
Back Slider/ JON SPENCER’S BLUES EXPLOSION (’93, Extra Width)
For a Little While/ COOL JERKS (’02, Cleaned A Lot of Plates in Memphis)
It’s Alright/ THE COME ONS (’01, Hip Check)
Quits/ PRISONSHAKE (’93, Roaring Third)
Kick Out the Jams/ MC5 (’69, self titled)

The Lung/ DINOSAUR JR. (’87, You’re Living All Over Me)
*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ TUES., 3 MARCH 09

LOS ENSEMBLE ECONOMIQUE/ BOY WONDER/ 10 PM-MIDNIGHT
Esoteric/ JACKIE McLEAN (’63, Destination Out)

On the Bones of the Homegoing Thunder/ ALEX CLINE (09, Continuation)*
Not Sa No Sa/ NELS CLINE (’06, New Monastery)

The Only Tune (Cycle)/ NICO MUHLY (’08, Mothertongue)

Shake That Devil/ ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS (’09, Another World, ep)*

Exposure/ ROBERT FRIPP (w/ Terri Roche, vocals, ’79, Exposure)
Rafael/ COCOROSIE (’07, The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn)
Alice/ TOM WAITS (’02, Alice)
Feeling Good/ MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND (’09, Dark Was the Night)*
Dounia/ ROKIO TRAORÉ (’08, Tchamantche)
Concion de Orteo/ LOS ZAFIROS (’99, Bossa Cubana)

Fez – Being Born/ U2 (’09, No Line on the Horizon)*
Vengeance/ NEKO CASE (’09, Middle Cyclone)*
Under the Waves/ PSEUDOSIX ('07, self titled)
Tonight Will Be Fine/ TEDDY THOMPSON (’06, I’m Your Man)
Every Path/ ALELA DIANE (’09, To Be Still)*
*new or recent release