Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

A Reminder if You Haven't Updated Your Feeds

2010-01-29T06:47:00.002-05:00

Hi,

If you're using an RSS reader and you haven't gotten the new Spare the Rock feeds, you should. The site now resides at this address and the RSS feed is here.

New Location for the Blog...

2009-11-30T16:31:00.000-05:00

As of today, unless it breaks, the show's blog is now at http://sparetherock.com/wordpress/. If you read the site in an RSS reader, you will need to subscribe to http://feeds.feedburner.com/sparetherock/wordpress.

The new site is, in my view, a lot prettier and easier to read. Being in Wordpress, it's a lot simpler to play with, and having two sidebars gives a lot more space to provide content.

You'll also see that we're adding in links to the books that Ella talks about in Book Time with Ella, and who knows what else will come?

I will try to post reminders on this site several more times.

2009-11-28 Playlist

2009-11-28T10:00:00.002-05:00

Listen online on demand any time at WRSI.com.

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - No! (No!)
Dean Jones w/ Felice Brothers - Mama Said No (Rock Paper Scissors)
ID
Ladysmith Black Mambazo - People Get Ready (Cover the World)
Brian Wilson - Vega-Tables (Smile)
Alan Sparhawk - Be Nice to People With Lice (See You on the Moon!)
ID

Segment 2
Caspar Babypants - Take the Sun (More Please!)
Gustafer Yellowgold - I'm From the Sun (live at Spare the Rock)
Bing Crosby - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
ID/prep to rock
Jesus Jones - Right Here, Right Now
Songeez - Love's Enough (Songeez)
Bunny Clogs - Three Dogs and a Pancake (More! More! More!)
Replacements - Jungle Rock (All For Nothing)
ID

Segment 3
ElEmEnOs - The Planets
ID
Mama Doni - Channukah Fever (Channuka Fever)
Danny Adlerman & Friends - I'm Spending Hannukkah in Santa Monica (...and a Happy New Year)
ID (Danny & Yosi at Cup & Top on 12/15 at 4:00)
Mr. T Experience - Spider-Man (Greasy Kid Stuff 3)
Deedle Deedle Dees - Bring 'Em In (History + Rock 'n' Roll = Deedle Deedle Dees)
Billy Kelly - People Really Like Milk (Thank You For Joining the Happy Club)
ID/book time with Ella

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Guest DJ set from Max Germer:
Medeski Martin & Wood - Where's the Music
Lunch Money - Tricycle
Fountains of Wayne - Hey Julie
Lisa Loeb - Disappointing Pancake
School for the Dead - Ayla
Rosie Flores - Red Red Robin

Segment 5
Guest Dj set, continued:
Justin Roberts - Yellow Reflector
TMBG - C is for Conifers
Jack Johnson - Jungle Gym
K. McKarty - Like a Monkey in the Zoo
Fawns - Snow Day
Ralph's World - We Are Ants

Segment 6
ID
Primate Fiasco - Bourbon St. Parade (later today at First Churches!)
Asylum Street Spankers - Everybody Loves My Baby (live at Spare the Rock)
Daisy Mayhem - They All Ask'd For You (Ranky Danky)
ID
TMBG - Put It To the Test (Here Comes Science)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Shows Galore!

2009-11-25T09:29:00.001-05:00

I've been remiss in updating you on shows. But there are a ton coming up, some part of the music series I've helped put together with the Northampton Business Improvement District. Behold:

11/28, 4:30 - Primate Fiasco brings their psychedelic Dixieland to the front lawn of First Churches - free!

12/5, 4:00 - Dennis Caraher - longtime friend of the show brings his family music to Thornes Marketplace - free!

12/6, 2:00 - Grammy winner Bill Harley comes to the Iron Horse in the No Nap Happy Hour series. Tickets available now, and you can get the family four-pack discount only in advance.

12/10, 4:00 - Mister G - another local hero with an enthusiastic fan base plays at Thornes - free!

12/11, 5:00 - Uncle Rock, presented by 93.9 The River, who will be broadcasting live from Thornes Marketplace. Uncle Rock has a great new holiday record out and will be playing bunches from it. Free!

12/12, 4:00 - Marcy Gregoire - happy and fun family music at Thornes Marketplace - free!

12/15, after school - Danny Adlerman & Yosi - Danny and Yosi (along with Kevin Kammeraad) have a great holiday record, "And a Happy New Year," and will be playing a free holiday show at Cup & Top Cafe.

12/17, 4:00 - Roger Tincknell - local legendary kids' musician will play a free show at Thornes Marketplace

12/18, 4:00 - Keith Munslow - the pride of Rhode Island, Keith brings his music and storytelling to Thornes - free!

12/19, 5:00 - School for the Dead - fresh off their triumphant Halloween show, School for the Dead will play a free show on First Churches' front lawn.

12/31, 3:00 and 8:00 - They Might Be Giants will do two shows (the first family, the second rawk) at the Calvin Theatre.

Rock!

Fids & Kamily: My Ballot

2009-11-23T15:48:00.000-05:00

So hopefully you've noticed that The Fids & Kamily Awards are up, and congrats to They Might Be Giants for getting voted the best family music release of the last year.

Here's who I voted for, in order:

1. Here Comes Science - TMBG
2. Dizzy - Lunch Money
3. Go Waggaloo - Sarah Lee & Family
4. More More More - Bunny Clogs
5. 26 Animals - Artichoke
6. Panda Brain - Telephone Company
7. Time Machine - Sippy Cups
8. Field Trip - Recess Monkey
9. Worser - Duplex
10. Robot Dance - Mr. Leebot

Some CDs I gave serious consideration to (in alphabetical order):

Baze & His Silly Friends
Ben Rudnick
Billy Kelly
Daddy A Go Go
Good Ms. Padgett
Gustafer Yellowgold
Human Tim + Robot Tim
John & Mark
Laura Doherty
Keith Munslow
Laura Freeman
Milkshake
Not-Its
Robbert Bobbert
Rocknoceros
Ziggy Marley

and probably some more.

The Pokey Pup has all of the winners on sale, plus basically any other kids' music you could imagine wanting, so go give 'em some money.

2009-11-21 Playlist

2009-11-21T10:00:00.000-05:00

Listen any time at WRSI.com.

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
Mister G - Run (Pizza for Breakfast)
Peter Rundquist - Bug Feathers (Bug Feathers)
Rock Your Baby - Pony Boy
ID
Bruce Springsteen - Erie Canal (Seeger Sessions)

Segment 2
Bill Harley - Grownups Are Strange
BNL - Pollywog in a Bog
Promo for Hot Chocolate Run
ID/prep to rock
Jonathan Richman - Roadrunner
ScribbleMonster - All Ready to Go
ID

Segment 3
ID
Polyphonic Spree - Running Away
Mr. Richard - The Hey Hey Song
Lanny Sherwin - Meltdown
Uncle Rock - Hold It In My Heart (Express Your Elf)
ID
David Byrne - Don't Fence Me In

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Jellydots - It's Your Birthday (Jelly Jukebox)
Justin Roberts - It's Your Birthday (Meltdown)
Owl City - Fireflies (Ocean Eyes)
Sippy Cups - Starry Morning
The Specials - Rudi, A Message To You
ID
Fids & Kamily Awards:
11. The Not-Its - When I'm Five

Segment 5
10. Sarah Lee Guthrie & Family - Go Waggaloo (Go Waggaloo)
ID
9. Captain Bogg & Salty - Don't Drink Sea Water (Emphatical Piratical)
8. Billy Jonas - Eyes Wide Open (Happy Accident)
ID
7. Gustafer Yellowgold - Melter Swelter (Mellow Fever) (Iron Horse 3-14)
6. Milkshake - Happy Place (Great Day)

Segment 6
5. Ziggy Marley - Wings of an Eagle (Family Time)
4. Peter Himmelman - My Trampoline
(My Trampoline)
ID
3. Recess Monkey - The Teens (Field Trip)
2. Lunch Money - Everybody's Coming the Zoo (Dizzy)
ID/book time with Ella
TMBG - Science is Real (Here Comes Science)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Tomorrow...

2009-11-20T06:48:00.001-05:00

We'll have the Fids & Kamily Music Awards announcement, recognizing the best family music of the last year.

2009-11-14 Playlist

2009-11-14T10:00:00.000-05:00

Listen any time you like at WRSI.com

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Shoehorn with Teeth (Lincoln)
Robbi K & Friends - Favorite Things (Music Makes Me Happy)
Butterflyfish - Ladybug (Ladybug)
ID
Harmonica Pocket - Spiders in My Breakfast (live at Spare the Rock)
Real Tuesday Weld - I Love the Rain

Segment 2
Renee & Jeremy - It's a Big World
Bill Brickey - Down in the Valley
ID/prep to rock
Boogers - This Song is About Transportation!
Baze & His Silly Friends - Everyone Everywhere (Toddlerville)
Daddy A Go Go - It's a Kids' World (Eat Every Bean and Pea on Your Plate)
Jimmies - Bedhead (Make Your Own Someday)
ID

Segment 3
Telephone Company - Bomb Pop (Panda Brain!)
Chuck Prophet - You Did
Board of Education - Ice Ages Are Fun! (at Cup & Top on 2/15)
ID
Jambo - It's a Good Day
Sarah Lee Guthrie & Family - Take Me to Show & Tell
Trout Fishing in America - It's a Puzzle
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Dream Warriors - My Definition
Cathy & marcy - It's the Beatbox
Prince - Starfish and Coffee
Bunny Clogs - Confessions of a Teenage Lima Bean
Kool & the Gang - Funky Stuff
ID

Segment 5
Cloud Cult - Everybody Here is a Cloud
Money Mark - Robo Dancing (Yo Gabba Gabba)
Flannery Brothers - Jump Up and Down (Love Songs for Silly Things)
ID/book time with Ella
Dean Jones & Felice Brothers - Rock Paper Scissors
Southern Culture on the Skids - Te Ni Nee Ni Nu (Countrypolitan Favorites)

Segment 6
Arcade Fire - Wake Up
Daisy Mayhem - If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out
Earth Wind & Fire - Shining Star
Deedle Deedle Dees - Party Girl (History + Rock 'n' Roll = Deedle Deedle Dees)
ID
TMBG - LMNO
TMBG - Spare the Rock

2009-11-07 Playlist

2009-11-07T10:00:00.001-05:00

Listen online any time at WRSI.com!

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Why Does the Sun Really Shine? (Here Comes Science)
Sarah Lee Guthrie & Family - Bright Clear Day (Go Waggaloo)
School for the Dead - Beautiful Day in the Woods (Ayla)
Liz Mitchell - You Are My Sunshine (You Are My Sunshine)
ID
Zee Avi - Honey Bee
David Tobocman - Home (I Count to Ten)

Segment 2
Lunch Money - Umbrella (Silly Reflection)
Frances England - Sleepyhead Mommy (Family Tree) ID/prep to rock
ScribbleMonster - Chocolate Milk (Chocolate Milk)
Paul Westerberg - Love You in the Fall (Open Season)
Clementown - Bathtub Driver (Polkabats and Octopus Slacks - The Music!)
ID
Sugar Free Allstars - Bathtub Boy (Live)
Princess Katie & Racer Steve - Tell Them How You Feel (Songs for the Coolest Kids)
ID (guest DJ set up next)

Segment 3
Guest DJ set from Ben:
ID
Altered Images - Happy Birthday
Wings - Heart of the Country
Weezer - Pork and Beans
Split Enz - I Got You
The Phenomenauts - (Don't Give Me That) Broccoli

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Cloud Cult - Lucky Today (Advice from the Happy Hippopotamus)
Duplex! - Alive
Artichoke - Iguana
The Format - Does Your Cat Have a Mustache?
Zoe Lewis - Sheep (Folk Playground)
ID

Segment 5
Dean Jones (w/ Felice Brothers) - Sing Like a Sparrow
Theresa Andersson - Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Funky Kidz)
ID/Beautiful Future plug/book time with Ella
Vampire Weekend - Horchata
Keith Munslow - Baby Brother (Homemade Fun)
Bill Harley - Wash Your Hands
ID

Segment 6
ID
Verve Pipe - Wake Up (A Family Album)
Eric Herman and the Invisible Band - Come Play (What a Ride)
Baze & His Silly Friends - Time of Your Life (Toddlerville)
The Shins - It's Okay, Try Again (Yo Gabba Gabba)
The Good Miss Padgett - Love My Kitty (The Good Miss Padgett)
Parker Bent - Lucky Day (Charlie Davidson's Tricycle Club)
Ratboy Jr. - Floating Up
ID
TMBG - Other Mother Song
TMBG - Spare the Rock

"The finest family radio has to offer."

2009-11-04T11:43:00.000-05:00

We'll take that. Thanks, NAPPA, both for the Gold Award and for naming our show one of the few "Family Fun" winners! We're the only radio show or station to get any NAPPA award, and, well, that's pretty cool.

2009-10-31 Playlist

2009-10-31T08:54:00.002-04:00

Listen any time at WRSI.com.

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Hovering Sombrero '05 (Here Come the ABCs)
Tom Knight in-studio

Segment 2
Steve Weeks - 4 Little Girls
Telephone Company - The Old Man Song (Panda Brain)
ID/prep to rock
Baze and His Silly Friends - Scare Me Scare You!
Mighty Weaklings - The Monster Under My Bed
ID

Segment 3
REM and Muppet Rocker - Furry Happy Monsters
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell on You
Monty Harper - Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet
ID
Ralph's World - Monster
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Spellbound

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
ScribbleMonster - A Monster Goes Rrraargh!
Los Straightjackets - Munsters Theme
Laura Freeman - My Brother's a Monster
Clementown - Skeleton Flowers
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - Boogie Man
ID/play time with Ella

Segment 5
Tom Waits - Heigh Ho (The Marching Song)
ID
Pixies - Tony's Theme
Robbert Bobbert - We R Superheroes
School for the Dead - Superhero
ID
CandyBand w/ Detroit Youth Symphony - Monsters
Wee Scary Beasties - Pumpkinhead
Keith Munslow - Boogieman

Segment 6
ID
I'm From Barcelona - Just Because It's Different Doesn't Mean Scary (Yo Gabba Gabba)
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1
Bobby "Boris" Pickett - Monster Mash
ID
Uncle Rock - Picnic in the Graveyard
Sippy Cups - Day After Halloween
ID
TMBG - Experimental Film
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Halloween!

2009-10-26T15:45:00.000-04:00

This Saturday, we'll be at the Florence Rag Shag Halloween Parade gathering. It starts at Trinity Row Park, which is where we'll be set up. If the weather is nice enough, we'll have live music from School for the Dead; otherwise, we'll have a great Halloween playlist.

And! We'll have a pile of the Yo Gabba Gabba CDs to give away!

2009-10-24 Playlist

2009-10-24T10:00:00.000-04:00

Listen any time at WRSI.com!

Thanks to Sarah Lee & Johnny and to Dan Zanes for coming by!

Here's what we played:

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - E Eats Everything
Sarah Lee & Johnny In-Studio
- If Mama Had Four Hands
- Take Me to Show-and-Tell

Segment 2
Wilco - What Light
Astrograss - The Homework Machine
Aric Bieganek - Central Park Kitty (live in-studio) (1:00 at Eric Carle Museum)
ID/prep to rock
Hipwaders - Twitchy
Deedle Deedle Dees - Bring 'Em In (History + Rock and Roll = Deedle Deedle Dees)
CandyBand - Wheels on the Bus (CandyBand)
ID

Segment 3
Pogues - Metropolis
Peter Himmelman - Feet (My Green Kite)
Terrible Twos - Lily Names Everthing Sandy (Jerzy the Giant)
Mr. Richard - Tummy Talk
ID/book time with Ella
The Roots - Lovely, Love My Family
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - Family Tree
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Jim Armenti - The Great Pumpkin Roll (Town Center Library Project)
Vibrations - Ain't No Greens in Harlem
Dick Dale & Stevie Ray Vaughan - Pipeline
Juliana Hatfield & Tanya Donelly - Josie & the Pussycats
Danny Adlerman & Friends - How Much Wood Could a Woodchuck Chuck? (One Size Fits All) 
ID

Segment 5
Dan Zanes in-studio:
Catch That Train
Rock Island Line
Moonlit Town

Segment 6
Sippy Cups - Magic Toast
NRBQ - RC Cola and a Moon Pie
Justin Roberts - Maybe the Monster
ID
TMBG - The Bloodmobile (Here Comes Science)

In the Springfield Republican

2009-10-24T09:30:00.000-04:00

Donnie Moorhouse, the music columnist for the Springfield Republican, wrote a nice piece about the show a week or two back. For some reason, it's not online, but if you like, you can see a scan of it here.

Dan Zanes Tonight & Tomorrow

2009-10-23T15:41:00.000-04:00

Dan Zanes & Friends are at the UMass Fine Arts Center tonight at 7:30. Before heading there to soundcheck, he stopped by the station and recorded an in-studio we'll air in the morning. (And Jaz will play one track from it this afternoon). We also chatted some, including a discussion about whether he has any aspirations to write a Broadway musical himself...

Here he is doing "Rock Island Line."

30% Off Dan Zanes Tickets

2009-10-22T11:40:00.003-04:00

Heck of a deal, folks. Go buy tickets here for Dan Zanes & Friends' show at the UMass Fine Arts Center, and you'll get 'em for 30% off. That makes adult tickets $24.50 and kid tickets $7. Do it!

(Dan will be on our show on Saturday morning, with one song from our session with him airing with Jaz on 93.9 The River Friday afternoon too.)

Brady Rymer Show Postponed

2009-10-20T18:52:00.001-04:00

Due to a scheduling issue, the Brady Rymer show in the No Nap Happy Hour series has been postponed. We'll announce a new date soon.

2009-10-17 Playlist

2009-10-17T10:00:00.000-04:00

Listen any time at WRSI.com!

If you want to win a pair of tickets to see Dan Zanes & Friends on Friday at the UMass Fine Arts Center, send me an e-mail (show AT sparetherock DOT com) with the name of the DZAF song we played today by the end of the day on Sunday. One lucky e-mailer will win!

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - What Is a Shooting Star?
The Nields - Percy on Pluto (Rock All Day, Rock All Night)
Little Mo' McCoury - Man Gave Names to All the Animals (Little Mo' McCoury)
ID
Trout Fishing in America - What I Want is a Proper Cup of Coffee (Family Music Party)
Lead Belly - Rock Island Line (Sings for Children)

Segment 2
Miles Davis - Move (Birth of the Cool)
Gunnar Madsen - Sun Comes Up
ID/prep to rock
B-52s - Rock Lobster
Miz B - Raise the Brain(Raise the Brain)
ID/book time with Ella

Segment 3
ID
Deedle Deedle Dees - Growl Growl (History + Rock 'n' Roll = Deedle Deedle Dees)
Duplex! - Orange Popsicle (Worser)
Princess Katie & Racer Steve - Jeans!
ID
Ramones - Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio
Jimmies - Do the Elephant (Live) (Trying Funny Stuff)
ID

Segments 4 & 5
Guest DJ set from Uncle Rock:
Dean Jones & the Felice Bros - Hail Hail the Gang's All Here
Paul McCartney & Wings - Magneto & Titanium Man
Daniel Lavoie - Le Baby Dragon
Alan Lomax - Down in the Valley
Donovan - Riki Tiki Tavi
Uncle Rock - The Night the Lights Went Out
Wanda Jackson - Let's Have a Party
Phillips Wonders - Hambone
Kim Walsh - The Troll
Tarantainas De La Casa Sin Pared
Pete Seeger - I Know a Little Girl
Dave Clark 5 - Live in the Sky
Dean Jones - Baby in My Pocket

Segment 6
(Dan Zanes ticket giveaway)
Dan Zanes & Friends - I Won't Grow Up (76 Trombones)
Rhythm Child - Riding on the Bus (Eat a Bowl of Cherries)
ID
Asylum Street Spankers - Don't Turn Out the Light (Mommy Says No!)
ID
TMBG - Particle Man
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Tomorrow...

2009-10-16T07:20:00.002-04:00

1. You must listen to Uncle Rock's guest DJ set. It's got some great field recordings, new music from him, and new music from Dean Jones, backed up by the Felice Brothers. Remember that Uncle Rock and the Playthings are playing at the Iron Horse on Sunday at 2. Advance tickets, including the great-deal family four-pack, are available at IHEG.com. The family four-pack is only available in advance.

2. Also tomorrow, listen for your chance to win tickets to see Dan Zanes & Friends next Friday. You will just have to e-mail me the name of the (new!) Dan Zanes song we play towards the end of the show. I'll draw one name from all correct entries that I receive by the end of the day on Sunday. You will need to pick up the tickets at WRSI in Northampton.

Rock!

New Renee & Jeremy

2009-10-15T11:01:00.002-04:00

We've been playing tracks from the new (terrific!) Renee & Jeremy record C'mon for a while now. Here's your chance to get the title track for yourself!:

The No Nap Happy Hour Continues! (and other updates)

2009-10-10T13:47:00.001-04:00

I haven't done an overview of the series recently, so let's do that. All shows (except TMBG) are at the Iron Horse Music Hall on Sundays at 2:00. I believe all shows will have advance only family four-packs for $30. And all are great. Check it out:

10/18 Uncle Rock & the Playthings - Uncle Rock will be guest DJing on Saturday 10/17, featuring new music from Dean Jones, backed by the Felice Brothes. This is Uncle Rock's first Valley performance with his band the Playthings.

12/6 Bill Harley - Grammy winner Bill Harley played to a packed house with the Greenfield Symphony earlier this year; here's your chance to see this great musician and storyteller in a more intimate venue. Bill will also be doing a guest DJ set.

12/31 They Might Be Giants - It's not part of the No Nap series, but we're very happy to be part of bringing They Might Be Giants to the Calvin Theatre on New Year's Eve, with a 3:00 family show and an 8:00 14+ show. Tickets are on sale now, with a special family four-pack for $60.

2/21 AudraRox - AudraRox makes their first full band appearance in the Valley, supporting a great new record! You've seen Audra on Noggin, Sesame Street, and elsewhere, and her band tears up the stage with a raucous show for the whole family.

3/14 Gustafer Yellowgold - The New York Times called Gustafer Yellowgold a cross between Sgt. Pepper's and Dr. Seuss, and they've opened for the likes of Wilco and the Polyphonic Spree. Creator Morgan Taylor's melodic songs tell the story, along with the "moving storybook," of Gustafer Yellowgold, who is a creature from the sun trying to make his way on Earth.

4/11 Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - The first great hip hop for kids from a member of GFE. SA23's live show is certain to make you laugh and dance.

TBA Brady Rymer & the Little Band That Could - Grammy nominee Brady played the Taste of Amherst over the summer and has played here one or two other times too. Great roots rock from one of the best bands in kids' music. Brady will be doing a guest DJ set prior to his show.

Plus! On Friday, October 23, Dan Zanes & Friends will be at the UMass Fine Arts Center. Listen to our show on October 17 to hear how you can win tickets, or visit Hilltown Families to enter to win a four-pack from them. Dan will appear on Spare the Rock the next morning, as will our recording of Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion!

2009-10-10 Playlist

2009-10-10T10:00:00.001-04:00

Listen any time at WRSI.com!

Thanks to Laura Doherty for her guest DJ set! Remember, she's doing a benefit for Noho Pride this coming Thursday at 4:00 at the Florence Civic Center. Tickets are available at Cup & Top Cafe.

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - I C U
Deep Fried Pickle Project - Pickle Juice
Laura Doherty - El Train (Kids in the City)
ID
Gourds - Fossil Contender

Segment 2
The Good Ms. Padgett - So So Good
Asylum Street Spankers - Sidekick (Mommy Says No!)
ID/prep to rock
Deedle Deedle Dees - Put on the Dress (History + Rock 'n' Roll = Deedle Deedle Dees)
Artichoke - Marie Curie (26 Scientists)
Milkshake - Happy Place
ID

Segment 3
ID
Wee Scary Beasties - Pumpkinhead (Creepy Lullabies)
Dan Zanes - 76 Trombones
The Not-Its - When I'm Five (We Are the Not-Its)
Sippy Cups - Seven is the New Fourteen (Time Machine)
Peter Bjorn & John - Young Folks
ID

Segments 4 & 5
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Laura Doherty guest DJ set
Human Tim + Robot Tim -
Beatles - Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite
Bird and the Bee - Tonight You Belong to Me
Jannie B - My Pony
Jim Gill - The Banana Song
--
XTC - Ballet for a Rainy Day
Dan Zanes & Friends - Mole in the Ground
Erin Flynn & the Co-Op Band - Butterfly
Michelle Shocked - Strawberry Jam
Karen Banks - Oooh...It's Halloween
Ralph Covert - Salamander Green

Segment 6
ID
Uncle Rock - There's Love in My Food
Sarah Lee Guthrie & Family - Go Waggaloo (Go Waggaloo)
ID
Henning Ohlenbusch - Carnival (Looks Like I'm Tall)
The Band - Live is a Carnival
ID/book time with Ella/concert announcement - TMBG - 12/31 - family show at 3, 14+ show at 8, Calvin
TMBG - Science is Real

Here's what you're doing on New Year's Eve

2009-10-09T08:47:00.002-04:00

Well, we were kinda thinking we were announcing this on tomorrow's show, but Monte talked about it this morning, so let's go ahead and announce it here too:

We are so glad to be part of this, TMBG's first ever family show in the Pioneer Valley!

They Might Be Giants
Family show!
New Year's Eve!
3pm
The Calvin Theatre
$20 in advance, family 4-pack = $60 (general admission)

They Might Be Giants
New Year's Eve!
Thursday, December 31st
8pm
The Calvin Theatre
14+ show
$32.50 in advance (general admission up at the front of the floor, reserved for the rest)

Tickets will go on sale to the Iron Horse mailing list on Wednesday, October 14 and to everybody else on Friday, October 16.

Austin City Limits Rocks. As does Austin Kiddie Limits.

2009-10-05T17:53:00.002-04:00

That's really all there is to it.

I didn't try to be methodical in tracking our movements or shows or anything, and so I won't have a formal wrap-up. (I am sure Stefan will, or maybe already has; same with Gwyneth. [I haven't looked through Reader yet upon getting home.])

But it was a ton of fun, even with the rain and ludicrous quantities of mud. We loved Lunch Money and Secret Agent 23 Skidoo (who, by the way, is coming to the No Nap Happy Hour in April) and Mr. Leebot and Milkshake; we, alas, missed some other great stuff on the kids' stage. On the other stages, we saw the Avett Brothers, the Felice Brothers (who are producing and playing on Dean Jones's new record, and it sounds great), B-52s, Dirty Projectors, Flogging Molly, and a bunch more than that I'm not remembering right now.

Ella's favorites were Lunch Money on the kids' stage and Flogging Molly and Dirty Projectors elsewhere. One assumes that the Molly being Flogg[ed] is not Molly of Lunch Money.

Off-festival-grounds, we saw a ton of friends and ate great food.

Thanks, as always, to the nice folks at C3, especially Tor, for their hospitality!

2009-10-03 Playlist

2009-10-03T10:00:00.000-04:00

Thanks to Aric Bieganek for a great guest DJ set! You can listen to the show any time you like on our page at WRSI.com.

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - How Many Planets?
Hipwaders - The Books I Like to Read
Steve Weeks - Monkeys
Tarika Sammy - Hendry (African Playground) ID
ScribbleMonster - Scratchy Records (Songs with No Character)

Segement 2:
Uncle Rock - Please Don't Make Me Laugh When I'm Upset (live at Spare the Rock)
Johnny Bregar - 9 lb hammer
ID/prep to rock
Captain Bogg & Salty - Emphatical Piratical
Pixies - La La Love You
Yosi & the Superdads - Funky Monkey

Segment 3
Soccer Team - I'll Never Fear Ghosts Again (Play)
Chris Collingwood - Cookie Jar
AudraRox - All My Toys Are Broken
ID
Artichoke - Elephant

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Aric Bieganek guest DJ
Beatles - Nowhere Man
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
The Who - Boris the Spider
James Brown - Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
Aric Bieganek - Bright Lights, Big Kitty

Segment 5
Aric Bieganek guest DJ
Blitzen Trapper - Sleepytime in the Western World
John Vanderslice - Time Travel is Lonely
Paul Westerberg - Jingle
Golden Smog - Starman
Joey Ramone - What a Wonderful World

Segment 6
ID
Mister G - Pony with a Problem
Renee & Jeremy - Do Do Do Do (C'mon)
Jellydots - Adventure Quest!
Bob Marley - Redemption Song (B is for Bob)
ID
TMBG - I Am a Paleontologist
TMBG - Spare the Rock