GM's MUSIC BOX/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ MON., 22 FEB. 10

Originally from Rockford, IL, youthful singer/songwriter Lissie Maurus has released an impressive ep, Why You Runnin', on Fat Possum. Throw in a dose of Bobbie Gentry and Jeannie C. Riley, with a contemporary edge, and you get an idea what Lissie is capable of. Only time will tell how the transplanted Southern Californian survives the road, the business and all the rest. Good luck. Really.
GUS MOZART'S MUSIC BOX/ BOY WONDER SUBBAGE/ 10 PM-MIDNIGHT

Divining/ THE NELS CLINE SINGERS (’10, Initiation)*

Hydrosphere/ YUKO HONDA (’10, Heart Chamber Phantoms)*

Thurston County(live at Café du Nord, SF, 3 Sept. 09)/ THE NELS CLINE SINGERS (’10, Inititiation)*

New Hampshire/ SONIC YOUTH (’04, Sonic Nurse)

Frozen Gtr/ THURSTON MOORE (’07, Trees Outside the Academy)

Salt Truck/ ELENI MANDELL (’07, Miracle of Five)

Rain on the City/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’10, Rain on the City)*

The Gravity of Levity/ LILA NELSON (’08, Letter Home)

First Light/ IDA (’08, Lovers Prayers)

Take Care the Road You Choose/ RICHARD THOMPSON (’07, Sweet Warrior)

Listening Heart/ PETER GABRIEL (’10, Scratch My Back)*

Shake That Devil/ ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS (’08, Another World ep)

Under the Waves/ PSEUDOSIX (’07, Pseudosix)

Burning House of Love/ X (’95, Unclogged)

Little Lovin’/ LISSIE [MAURUS] (’10, Why You Runnin’ ep)

Back Side of Dallas/ JEANNIE C. RILEY (’69, Things Go Better With Love)

Success/ KELLY WILLIS (’07, Translated From Love)

Every Little Girl/ DALE HAWKINS (late 50’s/early ‘60’s)

Satisfied Mind/ PETE MOLINARI (’09, Today, Tomorrow and Forever)

The Singer/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’86, Kicking Against the Pricks)

Better Things/ MAGNETIC FIELDS (’10, Realism)*

Heads Will Roll/ ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN (’83, Porcupine)

Goldfinger(live, 31 Jan. ’97, Fillmore, SF)/ TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS (’09, Live Anthology)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KSHU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 20 FEB. 10

Not so fast...well, actually faster pussycat! Tura Santana takes down another heel in Russ Meyer's 1966 classic, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

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

Kaze To Otoko No Ko/ MEIKO HIROTO (’67)

Vilaines Fiulles Mauvais Garcon/ FABIENNE DEL SOL (’07, Between You and Me)

I Want Candy/ THE STRANGELOVES (’65)

I Need You/ THE KINKS (’65)

Shakin’ All Over/ JOHNNY KIDD & THE PIRATES (’60)

El Ovni/ LOS OVNIS (mid '60's)

Your Love Is Mine/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY (98, ’01, Singles Round-Up)

Nervous Breakdown/ EDDIE COCHRAN (’61)

Crazy About You/ THE HELLCATS (’90, Hoodoo Train)

Love is Like an Itching in My Heart/ THE SUPREMES ('66)

Save It For Later/ SOLOMON BURKE (’68)

Baby I Love You/ ERMA FRANKLIN (’68, Super Soul Sister)

Gimme Gimme Good Lovin’/ CRAZY ELEPHANT (’69)

Minnie Skirt Minnie/ THE PLIMSOULS (’81,self titled)

It’s Alright/ THE COME ONS (’01, Hip Check!)

Sock It To ‘Em JB/ REX GARVIN (’66)

Digue/ EMMANUELLE SEIGNER (’10, Digue)*

Cherry Bomb/ THE RUNAWAYS (’75, self titled)

Rip Her to Shreds/ BLONDIE (’76, self titled)

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!/ THE BOTSWEEDS ('66)

Trashcan/ KEN WILLIAMS

I Ain’t Nuthin’ But a Gorehound/ THE CRAMPS (’83, ’01, Smell of a Female)

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

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

Sheena’s a Punk Rocker/ THE RAMONES (’77, Rockets to Russia)

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

Don’t Underestimate Me/ THE SAN FRANCISCO SEALS (’94, Now Here)

52 Girls/ THE B-52’S (’79, self titled)

Foggy Notion/ THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (’69, Velvet Underground (The Album))

Great DJ/ THE TING TINGS ('08, We Started Nothing)

Kidnapped by Neptune/ SCOUT NIBLETT (’04, Kidnapped by Neptune)

Crawfish/ JOHNNY THUNDERS & PATTI PALLADIN (’85,Copy Cats)

Floored/ THE NELS CLINE SINGERS (’10, Initiate)*

*new or recent release

GM MUSIC BOX PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ MON., 15 FEB. 10

Rev. Jen Miller is more than an celebrated author, underground screenwriter/actress, super hero and performance artist. Rev. just may be one of the last true eccentric art stars that once frequented the Lower East Side, East Village, Alphabet City and greater parts of Brooklyn. She also has recently published a new kick-ass and hilarious book, Live Nude Elf: The Sexperiments of Reverend Jen, on Soft Skull Press. Rev. Jen is always welcome to Boy Wonder's World.
GUS MOZART'S MUSIC BOX/ BOY WONDER SUBBAGE/ 10:00 PM-MIDNIGHT

Hat and Beard/ ERIC DOLPHY (’64, Out to Lunch)

Not Sa No Sa/ NELS CLINE (’06, New Monastery: A View Into the Music of Andrew Hill)

Knocking From the Inside/ MYRA MELFORD (’09, Whole Tree Gone)*

Look For Me (I’ll Be Around) / NEKO CASE (’02, Blacklisted)

Worried Mind Blues/ IDA (’07, Lover’s Prayer)

Cursed Sleep (live, Edinburgh, ’07)/ BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY (’08, Is It the Sea?)

Thuas Ag Gort an Chornain/ DOLORES KEANE & JOHN FAULKNER (’83, Sail Óg Rua)

Katie Cruel/ KAREN DALTON (’71, In My Own Time)

Wrapping Paper/ GRAHAM PARKER (’91, Struck By Lightning)

The Devil Raises His Own/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’10, Rain on the City)*

Si Tu Disais/ FRANCOIZ BREUT ('01, A Vingt a Trente Mille Jours)

Time of the Assasins/ CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG (’10, IRM)*

Je Prefere Tes Bras/ SYLVIE VARTAN (’65)

Qui etes-vous?/ EMMANUELLE SEIGNER (’10, Dingue )*

Smile a Little Smile For Me/ THE FLYING MACHINE (’69)

Little Lovin’/ LISSIE [Mauris] (’10, Why You Runnin’ EP)*

Flood/ THE ACORN (’07, Glory Hope Mountain)

Yacht Dance/ XTC (’82, English Settelment)

Reptile/ 7 WORLDS COLLIDE/LISA GERMANO (’09, The Sun Came Out)

Modern Drift/ EFTERKLANG (’10, Moving Chairs)*

Agaetis Byrjun (live version)/ SIGUR ROS (’07, Hvarf/Heim)

From a Sinking Boat/ THE MAGNETIC FIELDS (’10, Realism)*

How Many Worlds/ MARIANNE FAITHFULL (’09, Easy Come Easy Go)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 13 FEB. 10

Syd Barrett, after leaving Pink Floyd, produced his acid-injested 1970 solo debut, The Madcap Laughs. Considered by many as a work of a cracked genius. The Besnard Lakes, with the upcoming (and impressive) new record, The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night, contribute an excellent version of Barrett's "Love You," on Mojo magazine's recent comp., in tribute to Syd's Madcap. Welcome, man, one and all to the groovy Hot Circle lounge (including the lady in the back).
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM

If I Was Your Girlfriend/ PRINCE (’87, Sign ‘O’ Times)

Tired of Being Alone/ AL GREEN (’71, Al Green Gets Next to You)

Divorce Decree/ DORIS DUKE (’69, I’m a Loser)

Little Lovin’. LISSIE (’10, Why You Runnin’, ep)*

Le Vent Nous Portera/ NOIR DESIR (’01, Des Visages des Figures)

Tanguilo de Maria/ OJOS DE BRUJO (’02, Bari)

Roundabout/ YES (’72, Fragile)

The Rest is Noise/ FIELD MUSIC (’10, Measure)*

Got Nuffin/ SPOON (’10, Transference)*

Mass Romantic/ NEW PORNOGRAPHERS (’00, Mass Romantic)

From a Whisper to a Scream/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’80, Trust)

Mother of Pearl/ ROXY MUSIC (’73, Stranded)

Goldfinger (live, ’97, Fillmore/San Francisco)/ TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS (’09, Live Anthology)

Rumble/ LINK WRAY (’58)

Cadillac Walk/ MINK DeVILLE (’77, Cabretta)

Killing Floor/ SNAKEHIPS (’10, Month of Sundays)*

Are You Gonna Be There (at the Love In)/ THE CHOCOLATE WATCHBAND (’67)

Love You/ BESNARD LAKES (’10, Mojo: The Madcap Laughs Again!)*

Children Kiss Your Mother Goodnight/ PISCES (’69, ’09 reissue, A Lovely Sight)

Better Things/ THE MAGNETIC FIELDS (’10, Realism)

Hefner and Disney/ T-BONE BURNETT (’82, Proof Through the Night)

Big Day/ XTC (’86, Skylarking)

We’re in Yr Corner/ CORNERSHOP (’97, When I Was Born For the 7th Time)

Turn It On/ THE FLAMING LIPS (’93, The Satellite Heart)

Candy Machine/ STEVE WYNN & THE MIRACLE 3 (’03, Static Transmission)

Only a Girl/ REDD KROSS (’93, Phaseshifter)

*new or recent release

G.M.'s MUSIC BOX/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ MON., 8 FEB. 2010

BOY WONDER SUBBAGE FOR GUS MOZART'S MUSIC BOX/ 10:00 PM-MIDNIGHT

Psisya/ JOHN ZORN/ MASADA QUINTET (’09, Stolas: Book of Angels)

Oriental Hora/ A HAWK AND A HACKSAW (’07, AHAAH and The Hun Hangar Ensemble)

Do-Li-Do/ ENSEMBLE PIRIN [Bulgaria] (’08, Believer Music Issue)

Padma Nodi/ STATE OF BENGAL VS. PABAN DAS BAUL [UK/India] (’04, Tana Tani)

Passion Play (When All the Slaves Are Free)/ JONI MITCHELL (’91, Night Ride Home)

Dead Horse/ ROBIN HOLCOMB (’06, Rogue’s Gallery)

Take Care the Road You Choose/ RICHARD THOMPSON (’07, Sweet Warrior)

Central Station/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’10, Rain on the City)*

To Ohio/ THE LOW ANTHEM (’09, Oh My God, Charlie Darwin)

I Want to Be the One/ BOBBY CHARLES (’95, ’03 collection, Last Train to Memphis)

Shelley My Love/ NICK LOWE (’94, Impossible Bird)

Me and Jane Doe/ CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG (’10, IRM)*

Checking In/ ON FILLMORE (’09, Extended Vacation)

Why We Fight/ TORTOISE ('95 7" single, ’06 collection, A Lazarus Taxon)

We Are/ THE ALBUM LEAF (’10, A Chorus of Storytellers)*

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

Weird Fishes/ RADIOHEAD (’08, In Rainbows)

Raincoats/ EFTERKLANG (’10, Magic Chairs)*

Polish Girls/ CALIFONE (’09, All of My Friends Are Funeral Singers)

My Friend/ BILL CALLAHAN (’09, Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle)

Party Girl (’78, live)/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (orig. recorded ’78, ’10, Live at Hollywood High)*

Wild One Forever/ TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS (orig. recorded ’80, Hammersmith Odeon, London, ’10 collection, The Live Anthology)*

Sugar Baby/ KATE & ANNA McGARRIGLE (’06, The Harry Smith Project)

The Dozens/ CAROLINE HERRING (’09, Golden Apples of the Sun)

Johnny 99/ BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (’82, Nebraska)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 6 FEB. 10

Not sure whose dog singer/songwriter Freedy Johnston has in his arms, but one thing's for sure - Johnston's new release, Rain on the City, on Bar/None is something worth howling about. It's his first recording of original material since 2001. Recorded and produced in Nashville by Richard McLaurin, Rain on the City could be one of Freedy's finest and one of the best records released this year (so far!).
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM

Say No Go/ DE LA SOUL (’89, Three Feet High and Rising)

Coulibaly/ AMADOU & MARIAM (’04, Dimanche a Bamako)

Quattro (Go Tan Project Remix)/ CALEXICO (’04, Black Heart ep)

The Robots/ KRAFTWERK (’78, The Man-Machine)

Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell/ THE FLAMING LIPS (’02, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots)

Gut Feeling/ DEVO (’78, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!)

Take a Walk/ SPOON (’01, Girls Can Tell)

Found a Job/ TALKING HEADS (’78, More Songs About Building and Food)

Monk Time/ THE MONKS (’66, Black Monk Time)

Walking With Thee/ CLINIC (’02, Walking With Thee)

Peaches/ THE STRANGLERS (’77, Rattus Norvegicus)

Long Cool Woman/ THE HOLLIES (’71, Distant Light)

Lost Time/ THE PLIMSOULS (’81, self titled)

Sex Beat/ GUN CLUB (’81, Fire of Love)

Superstar/ SONIC YOUTH (’94 compilation, If I Were a Carpenter)

Sleeping Annaleah/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’86, Kicking Against the Pricks)

Nothing is Good Enough/ AIMEE MANN (’99, Bachelor No. 2)

Lonely Penny/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’10, Rain on the City)*

Ram On/ PAUL & LINDA McCARTNEY (’71, Ram)

69 Annee Erotique/ SERGE GAINSBOURG (’69, ’02 collection, Initials SG: The Ultimate Best of)

Soft Beating/ EFTERKLANG (’10, Moving Chairs)*

Cotton/ THE MOUNTAIN GOATS (’04, We Shall All Be Healed)

In the Evening/ NINA NASTASIA & JIM WHITE (’07, You Follow Me)

Kidnapped By Neptune/ SCOUT NIBLETT ( '05, Kidnapped By Neptune)

I’m Beginning to See the Light/ THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (’69, The Velvet Underground)

iHop/ LUNA (’97, Pup Tent)

The World of Sex/ JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION (’92, Extra Width)

The Return of Jackie and Judy/ TOM WAITS (’06, Orphans)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 30 JAN. 10

Really, there's is no explanation. Josie and the Pussycats' 1971 smash, "Every Beat of My Heart" belongs in the Hot Circle familia. Welcome, cartoon or not, bubblegum or...fabricated?
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM

Memphis Train (’67) / RUFUS THOMAS

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

It Was Worth a Chance (’69)/ JOSEPHINE TAYLOR ('07 collection, Eccentric Soul: Twinight’s Lunar Rotation)

Nothing But a Heartache(’69)/ THE FLIRTATIONS

Money I$ King/ LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS (’09, My World)

Run Fay Run/ ISSAC HAYES (’74, Tough Guys)

Coulibaly/ AMADOU & MIRIAM (’04, Dimanche a Bamako)

I Zimbra/ TALKING HEADS (’79, Fear of Music)

Tensile/ THE CLEAN (’09, Mister Pop)

Long Legs/ THE MAGIC NUMBERS (’05, self titled)

Every Beat of My Heart/ JOSIE & THE PUSSYCATS (’71)

Valentine/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’87, Pleased to Meet Me)

O My Soul/ BIG STAR (’74, Radio City)

Another Girl, Another Planet/ THE ONLY ONES (’78)

Tattooed Love Boys/ THE PRETENDERS (’79, self titled)

Got Nuffin/ SPOON (’10, Transference)*

Venus in Furs/ VELVET UNDERGROUND (’66, The Velvet Underground & Nico)

Polish Girls/ CALIFONE (’09, All of My Friends Are Funeral Singers)

I Am a Jaguar/ EVANGELISTA (’09, Prince of Truth)*

I’ve Been Out Walking/ NINA NASTASIA & JIM WHITE (’07, You Follow Me)

Raphael/ COCOROSIE (’07, The Adventure of Ghosthorse and Stillborn)

News/ TUNE-YARDS (’09, Bird-Brains)*

Tane Mahuta/ THE RUBY SUNS (’08, Sea Lion)

Starstruck/ THE KINKS (’68, The Village Green Society)

Crystal Days/ ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN (’83, Ocean Rain)

Ashes of American Flags (live '08)/ WILCO (’09, Ashes of American Flags)

If You’ve Not Been Fed/ MYRA MELFORD/BE BREAD (’06, The Image of Your Body)

Notes to the Future/ PATTI SMITH (’02, live at St. Mark’s Poetry Project)

Disappear/ SONIC YOUTH (’90, Goo)

Suspended Head/ NELS CLINE SINGERS (’02, Instrumentals)

*new or recent release