Upcoming Things...

Lots of stuff on the big show:

- This week, we've got a guest DJ set by local hero Aric Bieganek. Aric and his band, the Royal Order of Chords and Keys, will be playing at the Eric Carle Museum on Saturday, October 24, kicking off our series benefiting the Northampton Community Music Center.

- Next week (10/10), we'll have a guest DJ set by Laura Doherty. She's playing a benefit for Noho Pride on Thursday, October 15.

- The next week (10/17), we'll have a guest DJ set by Uncle Rock. He and his band the Playthings will be playing the next day (10/18) in the next in the No Nap Happy Hour series.

- The week after that (10/24), we'll have an in-studio with Dan Zanes, who's playing two shows at the UMass Fine Arts Center the night before (10/23). We will also have a pair of tickets to give away to that show, by the way.

- That same week (10/24), we'll have an in-studio by Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion, who have a great kids' CD coming out late this month. (More on that to come.)

- And on Halloween, we'll have an in-studio with local hero Tom Knight, who's playing a bunch of shows around town.

The calendar is always available over in the right-hand column with these and more events. Rock on completely!

2009-09-26 Playlist

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Electric Car
Ratboy Jr - Playing on the Patio

Segment 2
Ratboy Jr - Playing on the Patio, pt. 2
ID/prep to rock
Justin Roberts - Picture Day (Way Out)
Primal Scream - Movin' On Up
ID

Segment 3
Spoon - Fitted Shirt
Donovan - I Love My Shirt
ID
Uncle Rock - (It's Hot! Don't Touch It!)
Earth Wind & Fire - Sing a Song
Wee Scary Beasties - Monster's Disco
ID

Segment 4
Keith Munslow guest DJ set:
(Doin' The) Boom Boom - Eli Paperboy Reed
Lollipop - Corn Mo
New Year's Eve in a Haunted House - Raymond Scott Orchestra
Brand New Key - Melanie
Chattanooga Shoeshine Boy- Dan Hicks
Spork - Keith Munslow (Homemade Fun)

Segment 5:
Keith Munslow guest DJ set:
Linus & Lucy - Vine Guaraldi Trio
Me and My Arrow - Harry Nilsson
Shuffle Off To Buffalo - The Boswell Sisters
Everybody Eats When They Come To My House - Cab Calloway
Are You Gonna Eat That? - Keith Munslow (Homemade Fun)

Segment 6
ID
Jellydots - Where Is My Package? (Jelly Jukebox)
War - Why Can't We Be Friends?
Dan Zanes - Cape Cod Girls (The Fine Friends Are Here!)
Michelle Shocked - Flying Lesson
ID
TMBG - One Everything

Did I Mention?

A. Stefan is running a poll to get one set of answers to the question "What are the best kids' albums of all time?" Go vote. I haven't yet and I might not, to be honest, but that's because of the largeness of the task and my inability to focus.

B. This Saturday: guest DJ set from Keith Munslow! He's playing at the Cup & Top Cafe next Thursday in a free after-school show. If you haven't seen him live, you should. He's a bucket o' fun.

C. Also this Saturday, the first of what might be a series of "Playing on the Patio" performances with Ratboy Jr. It is exactly what it sounds like -- the band playing on our patio. You can even hear lawnmowers in the background!

The Dees!

What a great, fun, moving, hilarious and just plain energetic show the Deedle Deedle Dees put on today at the Iron Horse. I will post some pictures later (probably on our Facebook page), but for now, you can check out this video of their new song, "Susan B. Anthony," off their forthcoming record, "American History + Rock 'n' Roll = The Deedle Deedle Dees," due out on Halloween.

This song, as long-time listeners know, is based on a time in my elementary school days when we were assigned to do a book report about a biography. I chose Susan B. Anthony. After it was done, the teacher notified us that we'd be expected to present the book report to the class dressed as the subject of the biography. And that's how I ended up wearing a dress to school. I mentioned this in passing to Lloyd once, and this song was born.



Thanks to everyone who came out, and special thanks to the Dees for putting on such a great show in tribute to David Banigan-White. We raised a bunch of money to support cooperative arts and music in the Valley, had a fun party in his memory, and all left smiling, even if we cried a little too.

Today! Deedle Deedle Dees!

2:00 (1:30 doors) at the Iron Horse Music Hall. Family 4-pack is just $30, or individual tickets will be $13 at the door. (Infants free.) You will not see a better live band for kids, and it's for a great cause (supporting family music and arts in the Valley, in honor of the memory of David Banigan-White).

Also, I will be on stage providing backing vocals to the "Susan B. Anthony" song.

Rock!

2009-09-19 Playlist

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Pirate Girls Nine
Sam Hinton - Whoever Shall Have Some Good Peanuts
Randy Kaplan - Loquat Rooftop (Loquat Rooftop)
ID
Fox & Branch - Bear Hunt
Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel - Won't You Ride in My Little Red Wagon
ID

Segment 2
Lee Dorsey - Ya Ya (New Orleans Playground)
Booker T - Hey Ya (Potato Hole)
ID/prep to rock
Teddybears - Cobrastyle
Strange Kidz - Superhero
Ellen and Matt - Juice Box Rock
ID (and thanks to piratejokes.net)

Segment 3
Recess Monkey - Centipede Pirate
Board of Education - The Many Uses, and Dangers, of Commas
ID
Mighty Weaklings - It's Sunny When You Share
Robin Vaughan - What Do You Like More? (Rock 'n' Roll Coochicoo Revue)
ID
SteveSongs - On a Flying Guitar

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Egg - Zoom!
Flannery Bros - One Wasn't Enough
ID
Keith Munslow - Are You Gonna Eat That?
ID/book time with Ella
Syd Barrett - Effervescing Elephant
The Telephone Company - I-C-E C-R-E-A-M

Segment 5
Bruce Haack - Robot Dance
Mr. Leebot - Robot Dance (Extended Data Mix)
Robbert Bobbert - I Am a Clock
ID
Laura Doherty - Elevator Escalator
BNL - Crazy ABCs
Nields - ABC (Rock All Day, Rock All Night)
ID

Segment 6
Deedle Deedle Dees- Stand Up Straight (Let It Dee)
Deedle Deedle Dees - Underground Railroad (Freedom in a Box!)
ID
Dan Zanes (w/ Loudon Wainwright III) - All Around the Kitchen
Bruce Springsteen - Pay Me My Money Down (Seeger Sessions)
ID
TMBG - My Brother the Ape (Here Comes Science)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

2009-09-12 Playlist

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Roy G. Biv
Esquivel! - Begin the Beguine
Dog on Fleas - Beautiful World
Frances England - Animal Inside You
ID
Dan Zanes & Friends - Night Owl
ID

Segment 2
Dr. John - Row Row Row Your Boat
Steve Pullara & His Cool Beans Band - A Big Fat Pig (Zooboogie!)
Jon Langford - Take This Hammer
ID/prep to rock
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Kinder Words (Question the Answers)
The Quiet Ones - Ultrafoot (Make Some Noise)
CandyBand - Pancake Mountain
ID

Segment 3
Obama speech

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Milkshake - Dance in the Sun
Mister G - Fun
Chickasaw Mudd Puppies - Jambalaya
ID/book time with Ella
Cathy & Marcy - Soup, Soup

Segment 5
Primate Fiasco - South Pole and the Pyramids (Geek Dreams)
Flannery Brothers - Jump Up and Down (Flannery Brothers)
Deedle Deedle Dees - Henry Box Brown (Freedom in a Box)
ID
Baby Loves Jazz Band - Scat Song
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - Gotta Be Me

Segment 6
v/a - Chickens
Meters - Chicken Strut
Asylum Street Spankers - Super Frog
Medeski Martin & Wood - Where's the Music?
Shinyribs - Birthday is Over
ID
TMBG - Photosynthesis (Here Comes Science)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

The Dees Show

1. It will rock.

2. You should encourage people to come see it.

3. To facilitate (2), above, please download and print out this poster. Click on the image for the PDF:



4. Rock? Yes, rock.

2009-09-05 Playlist

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Here's what we played:

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Why Does the Sun Really Shine?
Kimya Dawson - Sunbeams and Some Beans
White Stripes - We Are Going to Be Friends
ID
Kirsty Hawkshaw - Telephone Song
Elizabeth Mitchell - 3 is a Magic Number
ID

Segment 2
Northamptones - Mushaboom
Don Robertson - The Happy Whistler
ID/prep to rock
Elvis Costello - Veronica
Mommie - Shadow (Mommie's Dearest)
Guided by Voices - Hank's Little Fingers
Artichoke - Sea Urchin (26 Animals)
ID

Segment 3
Los Lobos - Jenny's Got a Pony
Meters - Ride Your Pony
Charity & the JAMband - Whatcha Gonna Bring?
ID
Mister G - Squirrels (Pizza for Breakfast)
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Fat Cat Keeps Getting Fatter
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Eric Herman & the Invisible Band - How to Move a Monster (What a Ride!)
Hipwaders - Twitchy
Talking Heads - Wild Wild Life
ID/prep to rock
Weezer - My Best Friend

Segment 5
Killian Mansfield - Starman (feat. Todd Rundgren)
Rocknoceros - Playground (Pink)
ID
Flaming Lips - Yeah Yeah Yeah Song

Segment 6
Keith Munslow - Watchin' All the Cars Go By
Human Tim + Robot Tim - Lizard on My Leg
Southern Culture on the Skids - Camel Walk
ID
Deedle Deedle Dees - Aaron Burr
ID
TMBG - Speed and Velocity (Here Comes Science)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

What's that big thing over there on the right?

Why, that's a logo from the NAPPA Awards. We just got word today that the show is a Gold Award winner. The awards will be announced formally in November. Hooray!