PAGAN DANCE MUSIC/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 9 MAY 10/

Two members of the Columbian band Bomba Estereo chill out in a field of golden weeds while on a U.S. tour late last year. Check out Bomba Estereo's blend of electronica, cumbia and MIA-like rap. Time to start compiling the summer soundtrack? Start with Bomba Estereo's Blow Up.

BOY WONDER SUBBAGE/ 10:35 PM-MIDNIGHT

Sleepwalking Through the Mekong/ DENGE FEVER (’05, Escape From Dragon House) [USA/Cambodia]

Els Nens Sense Memoria/ ALMASALA (’06, Eloh) [Spain]

Bob/ OTTO (’99, Samba Pra Burro) [Brazil]

Tew Ante Sew/ GIGI (Ejigayehu Shibabaw) (’01, Gigi) [Ethiopia]

Aynali Koruk/ FERYAL ONEY (’06, Bulutlar Gecer) [Turkey]

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

Cala Cala/ DJ DOLORES (’08, 1 Real) [Brazil]

La Boquilla/ BOMBA ESTEREO (’09, Blow Up) [Columbia]

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

Imazeghen N Adagh/ TINARIWEN (’09, Imidiwan: Companions) [Mali]

Ngamen/ JUSTIN ADAMS & JELDEH CAMARA (’07, Soul Science) [UK/ Ghana]

Vanereva Nepasipo/ OLIVER MTUKUDZI (’03, Tsivo) [Zimbabwe]

Inel Inel De Aur/ SHNATEL VS. RONA HARTNER & DJ CLICK (’05, The Edge of Heaven) [Germany/ Romania/ France]

Bossa Cubanan/ LOS ZAFIROS (’99, Bossa Cubana) [Cuba]

Sorte/ CESARIA EVORA (’99, Café Atlantico) [Cape Verde]

A Minha Menina/ OS MUTANTES (’68, ’99 collection, Everything is Possible) [Brazil]

Serbian Cocek/ A HAWK AND A HACKSAW (’07, A Hawk and a Hacksaw and The Hun Hangar Ensemble) [USA/ Hungary/ UK]

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 8 MAY 2010

Songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David, like other great songwriting teams of the 1960's (such as Barry/Greenwich, Hayes/Porter and Leiber/Stoller, to name a few), created an amazing string of hits, most notably for Dionne Warwick. What do you get when you fall in love? Pneumonia, apparently.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM

Don’t Make Me Over/ DIONNE WARWICK (’62)

The Look of Love (single version)/ ISAAC HAYES (’70, To Be Continued)+

Do You Know the Way to San Jose/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’08, My Favorite Waste of Time)+

Always Something There to Remind Me/ JIM O’ROURKE (w/ THURSTON MOORE) (’10, All Kinds of People)*+

(They Long to Be) Close to You/ THE CRANBERRIES (’94, If I Were a Carpenter)+

I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’78, Live Stiffs)+

Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head/ SHONEN KNIFE (‘98, What the World Needs Now: Big Deal Recording Artists Perform The Songs Of Burt Bacharach)+

Ruler of My Heart/ SCOUT NIBLETT (’05, Comes With a Smile comp., Vol. 14)

+songs by Burt Bacharach & Hal David

Money/ SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS (’10, I Learned It the Hard Way)*

I’m Just Trying to Break Your Heart/ JC BROOKS & THE UPTOWN SOUND (’10, single)

Night Time/ THE STRANGELOVES (’65)

Ride Your Pony/ LEE DORSEY (’66, Ride Your Pony)

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

Psychotic Reaction/ THE COUNT FIVE (’66)

Friendly Ghost/ HARLEM (’10, Hippies)*

I Get So Excited/ GENTLEMAN JESSE (’08, self titled)

I Want You Around (single version)/ (’78, Road to Ruin)

Satellite/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’89, ’97 collection, All For Nothing, Nothing For All)

Crash Years/ THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS (’10, Together)*

So You Know Now/ AMY RIGBY (’05, Little Fugitive)

Days/ THE KINKS (’68, The Kinks Are the Village Preservation Society)

Hopscotch/ COCOROSIE (’10, Grey Oceans)*

Home/ ALEXI MURDOCH (’06, Time Without Consequence)

The Sixties/ T-BONE BURNETT (’83, Proof Through the Night)

Anyone’s Ghost/ THE NATIONAL (’10, High Violet)*

Ted Williams/ THE BASEBALL PROJECT (’08, Vol. 1 Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails)

Anarchy in the UK/ THE SEX PISTOLS (’77, Never Mind the Bullocks)

You Got Me Hummin’/ THE REIGNING SOUND (’04, Too Much Guitar)

Sugar Kane/ SONIC YOUTH (’92, Dirty)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 1 MAY 2010

Singer/songwriters, Brit "Wreckless" Eric Goulden and Nashville/Brooklyn-based Amy Rigby from two sides of "the pond" (Atlantic Ocean), met several years ago in a pub in Hull, England. Now they're married, and Amy now has National Health. Oh, and they released a terrific pop record together, Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby, on Stiff, late in 2009. Two very witty, ironic and funny songwriters could not have gotten it more right this time 'round. Check out their record! Best of luck (I'm terribly envious of Wreckless Eric; I've had a crush on Amy since her days with The Shams, playing in Brooklyn!)
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM

Sexy on the Inside/ ROMANTEEK (’05, 7” split single w/ Scream Team, “If You Want It”)

North American Scum/ LCD SOUNDSYSTEM (’07, Sound of Silver)

Supergirl/ STEREO TOTAL (’97, Monokini)

Margerine Rock/ STEREOLAB (’04, Margerine Eclipse)

Naked Eye/ LUSCIOUS JACKSON (’96, Fever in Fever Out)

Baltimore Is the New Brooklyn/ JC BROOKS & THE UPTOWN (’09, Beat of Our Drum)

Fire/Sign/ THE GOSSIP (’03, Movement)

Live Fast Die Young/ KING KHAN & THE SHRINES (’08, The Supreme Genius of…)

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

Rock Billy Boogie/ JOHNNY BURNETTE (’57)

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

Murder In My Mind (Wreckless Eric cover)/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY & THE BROKEOFFS (’10, Medicine County)*

Round/ WRECKLESS ERIC & AMY RIGBY (’09, self titled)

Weed Party/ BAND OF HORSES (’06, Everything All the Time)

Tell That Girl to Shut Up (Holly & The Italians cover)/ TINA & THE TOTAL BABES (’00, She’s So Tuff)

Scissors/ BARBARA MANNING (’91, One Perfect Green Blanket)

Let’s Save Tony Orlando’s House/ YO LA TENGO (’00, And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out)

Dum Maro Dum/ ASHA BHOSLE (’70, Raat Akeli Hai)

Komacchau Na/ LINDA YAMAMOTO (’66, ’09 collection, Nippon Girls)

Jealous Girl/ THE MONSTER WOMEN (’04, Spacegirl Espionage)

Don’t You Worry/ JIM NOIR (’08, self titled)

Underground Sun/ ROBYN HITCHCOCK & THE VENUS 3 (’06, Ole! Tarantula)

Neon Rainbow/ THE BOX TOPS (’67)

Men in Sandals/ AMY RIGBY & WRECKLESS ERIC (’09, self titled)

You Must Be Out of Your Mind/ MAGNETIC FIELDS (’10, Realism)*

Lemonade/ COCOROSIE (’10, Grey Oceans)*

Sunlight/ tUnE-yArDs ('09, BiRd BrAiNs)

Bloodbuzz Ohio/ THE NATIONAL (’10, High Violet)*

By the Time I Get to Arizona/ PUBLIC ENEMY (’91, Apocalypse ’91...The Enemy Strikes Back)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 24 APRIL 2010

Portland singer/songwriter Casey Neill is currently on tour with his outfit The Norway Rats (comprising of members of The Decemberists and The Minus 5, among others). Neill & The Rats will be nesting locally, at the Arcata Playhouse (in the old Creamery Building), on Sunday evening, April 25th. There's also an excellent new album he will be peddling, Goodbye to the Rank and File.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM

You Got Me Hummin’/ SAM & DAVE (’67, Doubly Dynamite)

Just One More Day/ OTIS REDDING (‘65,The Soul Album)

Raise Your Hand/ EDDIE FLOYD (’67)

If You Call/ SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS (’10, I Learned the Hard Way)*

Tenshi No Itazura/ EMY JACKSON (’66, ’09 collection, Nippon Girls)

Out in the Street/ THE SHANGRI-LA’S (’65, Myrmidoms of Melodrama)

Just to Walk That Little Girl Home/ MINK DeVILLE (’80, Le Chat Bleu)

Si Tu Disais/ FRACOIZ BREUT (’00, Vingt a Trente Mille Jours)

I’m a Man You Don’t Meet Everyday/ THE POGUES (‘85, Rum, Sodomy and the Lash)

I Wish I Was Your Mother/ MOTT THE HOOPLE (’73, Mott)

Lay and Love/ BONNIE BILLY & THE PICKET LINE (’09, Funtown)

Lapse/ BILL CALLAHAN (’10 compilation, Stroke: Songs For Chris Knox)*

How to Fight Loneliness/ WILCO (’99, Summerteeth)

When I Came to You/ CASEY NEIL (’10, Say Goodbye to the Rank and File)*

Major Leagues/ PAVEMENT (’99, Terror Twilight)

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

Cells/ TEENAGE FANCLUB (’05, Man-Made)

Weeping Wine/ LLOYD COLE (’91, Don’t Get Weird on Me Babe)

A Chance Counsel/ RICHARD BUCKNER (’04, Dents and Shells)

Secret Meeting/ THE NATIONAL (’05, Alligator)

8’s/ THE SAN FRANCISCO SEALS (w/ BARBARA MANNING) (’94, Nowhere)

Bring Back the Past/ ROKY ERICKSON (W/ OKKERVIL RIVER) (’10, True Love Cast Out All Evil)*

When He Comes/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY & THE BROKEOFFS (’10, Medicine County)*

Old Fashioned/ FRIGHTENED RABBIT (’08, The Midnight Organ Fight)

I’m Gonna Change My Ways/ PETER CASE (’07, Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John)

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

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

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

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 17 APRIL 10

New Zealand singer/songwriter Chris Knox, who led The Tall Dwarfs in the early 1980's, then leading a solo career, suffered a stroke in June 2009. A number of New Zealand musicians/mates (such as Don McGlashan, The Bats), as well as a long, impressive list of Stateside musicians (including Bill Callahan, Portastatic, Yo La Tengo, The Mountain Goats), got together to release a compilation, Stroke: The Songs of Chris Knox (Merge Records) to help raise funds for Knox's rehabilitation. It's a excellent compilation, exhibiting the prolific and expansive songs in Knox's repetoire. On May 6, 2010, there will be benefit concert at New York's Le Poisson Rouge, featuring Jeff Magnum, Yo La Tengo, among others.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM

Think / THE 5 ROYALES (’57)

Teenage Rock/ RONNIE JONES & THE CLASSMATES ('57)

Barefoot Rock/ THE BLASTERS (’80, American Music)

I’m Shakin’/ LITTLE WILLIE JOHN (’60)

Come On Home/ ANNA KING (’64, Back to Soul)

If You Call/ SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS (’10 I Learned the Hard Way)*

Suki Yo Ai Shite/ MARI ATSUMI (’70, ’09 collection, Nippon Girls)

Run That Thru Your Mind/ THE FEMININE COMPLEX (’69, Livin’ Love)

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

Sugar Man/ RODRIGUEZ (’70, Cold Fact)

Season of the Witch/ LUNA (’96, I Shot Andy Warhol st)

Round These Walls/ THE TOKEY TONES (’10, Stroke: The Songs of Chris Knox)*

In a Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul/ THE CLEAN (’09, Mr. Pop)

Crimson Enemy/ THE BATS (’09, The Guilty Office)

In the Core of the Flame/ THE GO-BETWEENS (’86, Liberty Belle & The Black Diamond Express)

I’m Not in Love/ TALKING HEADS (’78, More Songs About Buildings and Food)

Singers Go First/ THE DANIELSON FAMILE (’01, Fetch the Compass Kids)

Doc Ellis/ THE SF SEALS (’93, Baseball Trilogy)

Past Time/ THE BASEBALL PROJECT (’08, Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails)

The Right/ LOU BARLOW (’09, Goodnight Unknown)

Insomnia/ THE MONSTER WOMEN (’04, Spacegirl Espionage)

Inside Story/ DON McGLASHAN (’10, Stroke)*

Blue Diamonds/ THE LONG WINTERS ('03, When I Pretend to Fall)

Real Live Flesh/ TuNe-YaRdS (’09, BiRd BrAiNs)

I’m an Example/ THE SLUMBER PARTY (’00, self titled)

16 Weeks/ THE IAN FAYS (’05, The Damon Lessons)

Your Head is on Fire/ BROKEN BELLS (’10, self titled)*

Yassassin/ DAVID BOWIE (’79, Lodger)

Black Tambourine/ BECK (05, Guero)

Forecast Fascist Future/ OF MONTREAL (’05, The Sunlandic Twine)

Real Men/ THE JAZZ BUTCHER (’84, A Scandal in Bohemia)

*new or recent release

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

Relative newcomers, JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound, a hard-edged Chicago band that mixes R&B, soul and garage. Check out the band's self released 2009 record, Beat of Our Own Drum. They have also played at some special gigs thrown by excellent label, The Numero Group. Hey, if those guys picked this band to play, you know this is a premier outfit.

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

Come On and Gettit (’73)/ MARION BLACK (’07 collection, Eccentric Soul: The Prix Label)

Better Things/ SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS (’10, I Learned the Hard Way)*

Love Is a Wonderful Thing/ PHILLIP ‘PRINCE’ MITCHELL ('68)

Aretha, Sing One For Me / GEORGE JACKSON (’67)

Minnie Skirt Minnie/ WILSON PICKETT ('68)

Harlem Shuffle / BOB AND EARL (’63)

Crawfish/ JOHNNY THUNDERS & PATTI PALLADIN (’88, Copy Cats)

Spanish Stroll/ MINK DEVILLE (’77, Cabretta)

Raw Ramp/ T. REX (’71, Electric Warrior)

Personality Crisis/ NEW YORK DOLLS (’73, self titled)

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

Too Bad/ THE FACES (’71, A Nod is as Good as a Wink…To a Blind Horse)

Train Kept A-Rollin’/ THE JOHNNY BURNETTE TRIO (’56)

World Class Fad/ PAUL WESTERBERG (’93, 14 Songs)

Join My Gang/ THE LONG RYDERS (’83, 10-5-60)

Souljacker, Part 1/ THE EELS (’02, Souljacker)

Kingdom of Love/ THE SOFT BOYS (’80, Underwater Moonlight)

Got Nuffin/ SPOON (’10, Transference)*

Damaged Goods/ GANG OF FOUR (’79, Entertainment!)

Effortlessley/ FIELD MUSIC (’10, Field Music (Measure))

Use It/ THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS (’05, Twin Cinema)

Bloodbuzz Ohio/ THE NATIONAL (’10, High Violet)*

The Official Ironman Song/ GUIDED BY VOICES (’96, Under the Bushes Under the Stars)

Don’t Want You Back/ THE SIGHTS (’02, Got What You Want)

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

Let’s Pretend We’re Dead/ L7 (’92, Bricks Are Heavy)

Make It in America/ THE BEARDS (’02, Funtown)

Ode to a Black Man/ THE DIRTBOMBS (’01, Ultraglide in Black)

Baltimore is the New Brooklyn/ JC BROOKS & THE UPTOWN SOUND (’09, Beat of Our Own Drum)

*new or recent release