B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 13 NOV. 2010

The Glasgow-based band, Orange Juice, led by singer/songwriter Edwyn Collins (pictured here) blazed a trail for eccentric pop groups - not only from Glasgow (including Aztec Camera, The Bluebells, Belle & Sebastian, The Vaselines and Camera Obscura), but for scores of other bands, including The Go-Betweens. Domino has just released an excellent 6-CD comprehensive box set entitled Coals to Newcastle, including a DVD. This will be tempting item for some Orange Juice fanatics right in the time for the holidays.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10:00 PM-MIDNIGHT

Snaheha/ PAN RON (’10, Electric Cambodia)

Singapore/ TOM WAITS (’85, Rain Dogs)

The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn/ THE POGUES (’85, Rum, Sodomy & the Lash)

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

The Boy Wonders/ AZTEC CAMERA (’83, High Land, Hard Rain)

Rip It Up (12” version)/ ORANGE JUICE (’82, ’10 collection, Coals To Newcastle)*

Pas Adieu/ FABIENNE DELSOL (’10, On My Mind)*

Rattlesnakes/ LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS (’84, Rattlesnakes)

Bigmouth Strikes Again/ THE SMITHS (’86, The Queen is Dead)

Freak Scene/ DINOSAUR JR. (’88, Bug)

You’re Gonna Miss Me/ 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS (’66, The Psychedelic Sounds of)

Astral Plane/ THE MODERN LOVERS (’79, self titled)

S.F. Sorrw/ SF SEALS (’95, Truth Walks in Sleepy Shadows)

Cry Mercy, Judge/ TOM VERLAINE (’87, Flash Light)

Chinatown/ LUNA (’95, Penthouse)

When I Was Your Guy/ SNAKEHIPS (’10, Month of Sundays)

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

Trigger Cut/Wounded-Kite at :17/ PAVEMENT (’92, Slanted & Enchanted)

Caterpillar Girl/ LOU BARLOW + MISSINGMEN (’10, Sentridoh III)

What Presence?!/ ORANGE JUICE (’84, ’10 collection, Coals To Newcastle)*

Que Lindo Sueno/ KING KHAN & THE SHRINES (’08 collection, The Supreme Genius of)

I Can’t Rest/ FONTELLA BASS (’66)

Say No Girl/ THE SPANDELLS (’64)

You’ll Never Change/ THE DETROIT COBRAS (’07, Tied & True)

I Walk By Your House/ REIGNING SOUND (’02, Time Bomb High School)

Within Your Reach/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’83, Hootenany)

My Kingdom/ ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN (’84, Ocean Rain)

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

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

Face a la Mer/ LOS NEGRESSES VERTES (’01, Acoustic Clubbing)

Dime Cuando/ ELY GUERRA (’00, Amores Perros st)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 6 NOV. 2010

Brookyn-based singer Kelli Scarr, former member of Moonraker, just released her impressive debut full-length, Piece. Recently collaborated with Moby for the NPR's "Project Song," Scarr will be performing at the Arcata Playhouse on Mon., Nov. 8th, at 8 p.m. Scarr will be joined by Cheyenne Mize, member of Louisville's Thomas A. Minor Picket Line, who collaborated with Bonnie 'Prince' Billy on his live record, Fundown Comedown. Mize will also be releasing her debut, Before Lately.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10:00 PM-MIDNIGHT

Misunderstood/ WILCO (’05, Kicking Television: Live in Chicago)

Route/ SON VOLT (’95, Trace)

20^th Century Boy/ T. REX (’73, Tanx)

Back of a Car/ BIG STAR (‘73, Radio City)

Loose Ends/ BASH & POP (’93, Friday Night is Killing Me)

Living Well is the Best Revenge/ REM (’09, Accelerate)

Statues & Glue/ THE SUNSHINE FIX (’04, Green Imagination)

Take the Long Way Round/ TEENAGE FANCLUB (’97, Songs From Northern Britain)

Everything at Once/ SUPERCHUNK (’10, Majesty Shredding)*

Slowly, Slowly/ MAGNAPOP (’94, Hot Boxing)

Ballroom Blitz/ SWEET (’73, Desolation Boulevard)

Stop Foolin’/ DRESSY BESSY (’05, Electrified)

Swing Set/ THE CUTTERS (’01, Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!)

Top of the World/ CHEAP TRICK (’78, Heaven Tonight)

White Girl/ X (’81, Wild Gift)

Dancing the Night Away/ THE MOTORS (’77, Motors 1)

Unguarded Moment/ THE CHURCH (’81, Of Skin and Hearts)

Hey Luciani!/ THE FALL (’87, Domesday Pay-Off)

Dirty Water/ THE STANDELLS (’66)

Got Nuffin/ SPOON (’10, Transference)

Sugar/ IMPERIAL TEEN (’02, On)

No One Ever Drowns/ STEVE WYNN & THE MIRACLE 3 (’10, Northern Aggression)*

Pink & Sour/ CALIFONE (’06, Roots & Crowns)

Howl/ JUNIP (’10, Fields)*

Try to Sit Out/ FIELD MUSIC (’03, ’06 collection, Write Your Own History)

Break Up/ KELLI SCARR (’10, Piece)*

Perfect Day/ LOU REED (’72, Transformer)

Riverman (N. Drake)/ NATACHA ATLAS (’10, Mounqalib)*

Inner City Blues/ MARVIN GAYE (’71, What’s Going On)

*new or recent release

THE BUCK CALHOUN SHOW/ KSHU, 90.5/ WED., 3 NOV. 2010

Led by guitarists, Bill Million and Glen Mercer, the New Jersey-based band, The Feelies, recorded their debut full-length, Crazy Rhythms, along with bassist Keith DeNunzio and drummer Anton Fier (who would eventually start his own band/project The Golden Palaminos, among others). Released in 1980, the album still retains a edgy, lo-fi vibrancy.
BOY WONDER SUBBAGE/ "HARDLY STICTLY NEW WAVE" NIGHT/ 10:00-MIDNIGHT

New World/ X (’83, More Fun in the New World)

Complete Control/ THE CLASH (’77, self titled)

Pretty Vacant/ THE SEX PISTOLS (’77, Never Mind the Bullocks Here’s the Sex Pistols)

The American in Me/ THE AVENGERS (’78, self titled ep)

Color Me Impressed/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’83, Hootenanny)

Teenage Lobotomy/ THE RAMONES (’77, Rocket to Russia)

Something’s Gone Wrong Again/ THE BUZZCOCKS (’79, Different Kind of Tension)

The Boy With the Perpetual Nervousness/ THE FEELIES (’80, Crazy Rhythms)

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

Blank Generation/ RICHARD HELL & THE VOIDOIDS (’77, Blank Generation)

Trash/ THE NEW YORK DOLLS (’73, self titled)

You’ve Got Good Taste/ THE CRAMPS (’83, Smell of a Female)

Cruiser’s Creek/ THE FALL (’85, This Nation’s Saving Grace)

Scary Monsters/ DAVID BOWIE (’80, Scary Monsters)

Lucky Number/ LENE LOVICH (’79, Stateless)

Rock N Roll Girl/ THE BEAT (’79, self titled)

Pump It Up/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’78, This Year’s Model)

Million Miles Away (live, ‘81)/ THE PLIMSOULS (’81, ’10 issue, Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal)

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

Rip Her to Shreds/ BLONDIE (’79, self titled)

Whole Wide World/ WRECKLESS ERIC (’78, self titled)

I Love My Label/ NICK LOWE (’77, Jesus of Cool)

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

Mystery Achievement/ PRETENDERS (’79, self titled)

Town Called Malice/ THE JAM (’82, The Gift)

No Thugs in Our House (BBC version)/ XTC (’98, Transistor Blast)

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

Gut Feeling/ DEVO (’79, Are We Not Men?)

Peaches/ THE STRANGLERS (’77, Rattus Norvegicus)

Privilege (Set Me Free)/ PATTI SMITH GROUP (’78, Easter)

GUS MOZART'S MB/ KHSU, 90.5/ MON., 1 NOV. 2010

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

I Left My Heart in San Francisco/ TONY BENNETT (’62)

Bossa Cubana/ LOS ZAFIROS (mid-‘60’s, ’99 collection, Bossa Cubana)

Too Drunk to…/ NOUVELLE VAGUE (’05, self titled)

69 Annee Erotique/ SERGE GAINSBOURG (w/ JANE BIRKIN) (’69)

Hazey Jane I/ NICK DRAKE (’70, Bryter Layter)

River Man (N. Drake)/ NATACHA ATLAS (’10, Mounqaliba)*

Working Class Hero (live)/ MARIANNE FAITHFULL (’90, Blazing Away)

Always/ JUNIP (’10, Fields)*

Yacht Dance/ XTC (‘82, English Settlement)

1880 or so/ TELEVISION (’92, self titled)

Run in the Dust/ JOHNNY MARR/7 WORLDS COLLIDE (’09, The Sun Came Out)

The Wind/ PJ HARVEY (’98, Is This Desire?)

Hot Freaks/ GUIDED BY VOICES (’94, Bee Thousand)

Dancing Barefoot/ PATTI SMITH GROUP (’79, Wave)

+81/ Deerhoof (’07, Friend Opportunity)

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

Country Home/ NEIL YOUNG (’90, Ragged Glory)

Super Heathen Child/ GRINDERMAN (w/ ROBERT FRIPP) (’10, Grinderman 2/ bonus tracks)*

2 Forms of Anger/ BRIAN ENO (’10, Small Craft on a Milky Sea)*

Inner Meet Me/ THE BETA BAND (’98, The Patty Patty Sound)

Shot in the Arm (alt. take)/ WILCO (’99, Summerteeth)

Vampiring Again/ CALIFONE (’03, Quicksand/Cradlesnakes)

Swinging Party/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’85, Tim)

Some Velvet Morning/ LEE HAZLEWOOD & NANCY SINATRA (’67)

Come Undone/ ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN (’10, Hawk)

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

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 23 OCT. 2010

Before "Dry the Rain" was featured in a scene of the 2000 film, High Fidelity, The Beta Band, who formed in St. Andrews, Scotland, wallowed in obscurity. Then a handful of years later, they broke up. However, "Dry the Rain, " and the 1997 EP, Champion Versions, still stand the be the band's finest hour. Well, not even...
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10:00 PM - MIDNIGHT

Slummer the Slum/ THE 5 ROYALES (’58)

Shake ‘Em On Down/ R.L. BURNSIDE (’94, Too Bad Jim)

Roadrunner/ BO DIDDLEY (’58)

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

Bang Bang My Baby Shot Me Down/ NANCY SINATRA (’66, How Does That Grab You?)

My Babe/ LITTLE WALTER (’55)

I Did My Part/ THE HELLCATS (’90, Hoodoo Train)

Radio Sweetheart/ ELVIS COSTELLO (’77, ’93 reissue, My Aim is True)

Suffering Jukebox/ THE SILVER JEWS (’08, Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea)

Dancing With Joey Ramone/ AMY RIGBY (’05, Little Fugitive)

Sheena Is a Punk Rocker/ THE RAMONES (’77, Rocket to Russia)

Psychotic Reation/ COUNT FIVE (’66)

Lucifer Sam/ THE SADIES (’06, In Concert)

Sister Surround/ THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES (’02, Behind the Music)

Consolation Prizes/ IGGY POP & JAMES WILLIAMSON (’77, ’10 remix, Kill City)*

Girls/ DAVID JOHANSON (’78, self titled)

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

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

Hot Freaks/ GUIDED BY VOICES (’94, Bee Thousand)

Date w/ Ikea/ PAVEMENT (’97, Brighten the Corners)

Dirty Blvd./ LOU REED (’89, New York)

Howl/ JUNIP (’10, Fields) *

Dry the Rain/ THE BETA BAND (’97, Champion Versions ep)

42 West Avenue/ CASHIER NO.9 ('08, 7” single)

Clap Hands/ BECK (’05, Guerolito)

Us v Them/ LCD SOUNDSYSTEM (’07, Sound of Silver)

Let, Let Me In/ DE LA SOUL (’91, De La Soul is Dead)

Alright Hear This/ BEASTIE BOYS (’94, Ill Communication)

The Story of Hip Hop/ THE BOOKS (’10, The Way Out)*

In Time/ SLY & THE FAMILY STONE (’73, Fresh)

*new or recent release

GUS MOZART'S MB/ KHSU, 90.5/ MON., 18 OCT. 2010

From Francis Ford Coppola's often wrongfully lambasted 1982 film, One From the Heart, where he built an entire set of the Las Vegas strip. Surreal, stunning and a great soundtrack provided by Tom Waits (with the vocal assistance of Crystal Gayle).
BOY WONDER SUBBAGE/ 10:00 PM - MIDNIGHT

Blues For Pablo/ MILES DAVIS & GIL EVANS (’57, Miles Ahead)

What Is This Thing Called Love (C. Porter)/ FRANK SINATRA (’55)

Picking Up After You/ TOM WAITS (w/ CRYSTAL GAYLE) (’82, One From the Heart st)

I Almost Lost My Mind/ CHARLIE RICH (’69, Fabulous Charlie Rich)

She/ GRAM PARSONS (’73, GP)

Tonight Will Be Fine/ TEDDY THOMPSON (’06, Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man st)

That’s Not The Part of Him You’re Leaving/ ELVIS COSTELLO (’10, National Ransom)*

Bag of Bones/ POKEY LaFARGE & THE SOUTH CITY THREE (’10, Riverboat Soul)*

I Hear Them All/ DAVID RAWLINGS MACHINE (’09, A Friend of a Friend)

Further On Up The Road/ JOHNNY CASH (’08, American V: A Hundred Highways)

Little Satchel/ SAM AMIDON (’07, All Is Well)

To The Sweet Sunny South/ FRANK FAIRFIELD (’09, self titled)

Way Down the Old Plank Road/ UNCLE DAVE MACON (’26, ’97, Anthology of American Folk Music)

Bottom Below/ HOLLY GOLIGHTY & THE BROKE-OFFS (’08, Dirt Don’t Hurt)

Open All Night/ BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (’82, Nebraska)

Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (live, Manchester)/ BOB DYLAN (’66, ’98 issue, Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Live 1966)

Into the Mystic/ JOHNNY RIVERS (’70)

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

Soleil/ IAIN ARCHER (’06, Magnetic North)

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

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

Muzzle of Bees (live, Chicago/Old Vic)/ WILCO (’05, Kicking Televison: Live in Chicago)

Howl/ JUNIP (’10, Fields)*

Dream Baby Dream/ SUICIDE (’80, The Second Album)

Star Charmer/ GRINDERMAN (’10, “Heathen Child” single, b-side)*

You Are Not Alone/ MAVIS STAPLES (’10, You Are Not Alone)*

*new or recent release

Gus Mozart