2009-01-03 Playlist

Happy new year! We had a really fun show this week, even though we were beat tired.

You can listen on demand at WRSI.com.

Here's what we played:

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Hovering Sombrero (Mink Car)
NRBQ - Accentuate the Positive
Walter "Wolfman" Washington & the Roadmasters - This Land is Your Land (Funky Kidz)
ID
Billy Bragg - The Beach is Free
Dan Zanes & Friends - Keep On the Sunnyside (Rocket Ship Beach)
ID

Segment 2
The New Standards - Rock and Roll (Rock and Roll)
Kimya Dawson - Sunbeams and Some Beams (Alphabutt)
ID
Jingle Punx - Auld Lang Syne (Coal)
Apples in Stereo - Energy (New Magnetic Wonder)
Uncle Rock - Disco Nap (Plays Well With Others)
ID

Segment 3
Bunny Clogs - Velveeta Girl & Squatsy (More! More! More!)
Grupa Fantasma - Gimme More!
ID
Jellydots - Bicycle (Hey You Kids!)
CandyBand - My Bike (Calling All Kids)
Madness - Our House

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Michael Franti & Spearhead - Hey World (Remote Control Version)
Baby Loves Jazz Band - The Wheels on the Bus (Baby Loves Jazz)
ID
Sippy Cups - One Day Soon (EP)
ID

Segment 5
ID
Liz Mitchell - What Goes On (You Are My Little Bird)
Maria Sangiolo - Celia Says
ID
Nields - With Catlike Tread (Rock All Day Rock All Night)
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - Hot Lava (Easy)
Harmonica Pocket - Spiders in My Breakfast (Ladybug One)
ID/book time with Ella

Segment 6
ID/book time with Ella conclusion
Richard Julian - Spring is Just Around the Corner
Lunch Money - Ate Too Much of My Favorite Food (Dizzy)
ID
Me 3 - Apple (The Thin King)
Go! Team - Milk Crisis (Proof of Youth bonus disc)
ID
TMBG - Nonagon (Here Come the 123s)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Almost entirely off-topic, but...

So our sister station is WHMP-AM, which has great local programming as well as Air America stuff.

One of the shows there is The Bill Dwight Show.

On New Year's Eve and tonight, Bill and his producer Jaz Tupelo are guest hosting for Rachel Maddow and Ron Reagan on Air America.

And tonight, they'll have (among others) my colleague Jennifer Levi to talk about Prop 8 and its current status. In addition to being on the faculty at the law school, she's director of transgender issues at GLAD. Her bio at GLAD is here and her bio at WNEC Law is here.

She'll be on during the Ron Reagan show, which at least locally is in the 8:00 hour.

So: Listen (to all of it; Bill and Jaz are great in their own right) and enjoy!

Upcoming Live Shows...

My heavens, we have a lot of great stuff coming up soon. It's all on the calendar over to the right, but let's just contemplate:

Saturday, January 10 at 11:00am: Maria Sangiolo at Cup & Top Cafe - free! (You can hear Maria's visit to our show here.)

Wednesday, January 14 at 3:00pm: Marcy Gregoire at Cup & Top Cafe - free!

Saturday, January 17 at 2:00pm: Uncle Rock at Northampton Community Music Center - $5! (net proceeds to NCMC's scholarship fund)

Saturday, January 24 at 1:00: Harmonica Pocket at Mass MoCA (we'll have them on our show either that morning or the following week, btw)

Sunday, February 1 at 1:00pm: Secret Agent 23 Skidoo at Lyman Hall, First Churches - $7! (a portion of proceeds to the church's capital campaign)

Saturday, February 21 at 2:00pm: Elizabeth Mitchell at Northampton Community Music Center - $5! (net proceeds to NCMC's scholarship fund)

Mark your calendars, folks. (And keep March 28 free, too, though we're not quite ready to formally announce what's happening that day.)

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2008: Our Favorites

My Fids & Kamily choices, with commentary, here.

2008-12-27 Playlist

Listen on-demand at WRSI.com!

Here's what we played:

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - C is for Conifers (Here Come the ABCs)
The New Standards - Oh Tannenbaum (Candy Cane)
Brian Wilson - Vege-Tables (Smile)
ID
Steve Lee - Wake-Up (What Did You Do Today?)
ID

Segment 2
Bela Fleck & the Flecktones - The Hanukkah Waltz (Jingle All the Way)
Lyle Lovett - Straight Up and Fly Right
Matt Surowiec & the Tricentennial Band - BarBQ (Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas)
ID/prep to rock
Bzots - Join the Party (It's New Year's Eve!)
ScribbleMonster - Chocolate Milk
ID

Segment 3
ID
Uncle Rock - Sugar Talkin' (Plays Well With Others)
Princess Katie & Racer Steve - Holidays (Fast & Feisty)
The Boogers - This Song Is About Transportation (Road to Rock)
ID
Recess Monkey - Pedal Power (Tabby Road)
John Carlin - A Dinosaur Named Fred (Welcome to the Kids Music Underground)
Talking Heads - Wild Wild Life (True Stories)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Bunny Clogs - Confessions of a Teenage Lima Bean (More! More! More!)
Prince - Get on the Boat (3121)
Booker T & the MGs - Green Onions
Of Montreal - I Want to Have Fun (For the Kids Three)
ID (backsell River Rack)

Segment 5
Lunch Money - It Only Takes One Night (To Make a Balloon Your Friend)
Ingrid Michaelson - The Way I Am
ID
Maria Sangiolo - Mermaid Molly (at Cup & Top on 1/10, 11:00 AM)
ID/Book time with Ella
Laura Freeman - Purple (Color Wheel Cartwheel)
Michelle Shocked - When I Grow Up (Short Sharp Shocked)
ID

Segment 6
ID
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - Luck (Easy)
Sippy Cups - Springtime Fantastic (Electric Storyland)
ID
Deedle Deedle Dees - Ina Mina Dika (Let It Dee)
Elvis Costello - What's So Funny 'Bout Peace Love and Understanding?
ID
TMBG - Experimental Film (The Spine)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Best-Selling Kids' Music

I sometimes forget that we really don't play All The Hits, All The Time.

Until I see this kind of list.

Hmm.

But: Good on TMBG and BNL!

Tomorrow's show...

...is pretty great.

Most notably, we have new music from the Bunny Clogs, the new kids' side project from Adam Levy from The Honeydogs.

Plus, a holiday song from The New Standards, the very cool group with John Munson (Trip Shakespeare/Semisonic), Chan Poling (Suburbs), and Steve Roehm (Billygoat).

Also, new music from Bzots (!), John Carlin, Boogers.

And more.

Rawk.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

In case you missed it, you can listen to our mostly holiday music show from last Saturday any time.

And we'll be on this Saturday with something. My voice is nearly gone and has been for a day or two, but I woke up feeling a little better, so hopefully I'll be ready to go for that.

Finally, if you're not already following Santa on NoradSanta.org (or via its very cool Google Earth thingy), you should be.

Have a great holiday, everyone! We really do appreciate all of you listening and reading and look forward to another great year!

(Note: I wrote this on Christmas Eve. Blogger has been very bad and isn't publishing it, but I'm hopeful it will now, on Christmas. Merry Christmas!)

Playlist for 2008-12-20

If you missed the show live, you can stream it at WRSI.com.

Here's what we played:

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Liam ID
TMBG - Happy Doesn't Have to Have an Ending
Fountains of Wayne - Chanukah Under the Stars
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole... - Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World
ID
Robbi K - Favorite Things (Music Makes Me Happy)
Shawn Colvin - All The Pretty Li'l Horses (Holiday Songs and Lullabies)
ID

Segment 2
Low - Just Like Christmas (Christmas)
Trip Shakesepeare - Snow Days (Across the Universe)
ID/prep to rock
Ralph's World - Santa Please (unreleased)
Justin Roberts - Way Out (Way Out)
ID

Segment 3
Yosi & the Superdads - She Just Doesn't Get It (...and a Happy New Year)
Jingle Punx - You Gotta Get Up (Coal)
ID
Lunch Money - Cookie As Big As My Head
Candyband - I Want a Big Fat Cookie for Christmas (single)
Deedle Deedle Dees - Obedience School (Freedom in a Box!)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
G. Love - Julius Coolius (World of Happiness bonus track)
Lyle Lovett - Church (Joshua Judges Ruth)
Asylum Street Spankers - You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch (A Christmas Spanking)

Segment 5
Miles Davis - Godchild (Birth of the Cool)
Vince Guaraldi Trio - Linus & Lucy (Charlie Brown Christmas)
Ivy - Christmas Time is Here (Maybe This Christmas)
ID
Uncle Rock - Too Many Presents (Uncle Rock U)
TMBG - Santa Claus (Holidayland!)
ID

Segment 6
Gwendolyn & the Good Time Gang - Channukah Medley ('Tis the Season to be Rockin')
Mates of State - Jellyman Kelly
ID
ScribbleMonster - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Danny Adlerman & Friends - Two Sets of Footprints (...and a Happy New Year)
Polyphonic Spree - Happy Xmas (War is Over) (Maybe This Christmas Tree)
ID
TMBG - O Tannenbaum (Holidayland)
TMBG - Spare the Rock