Nields In-Studio
Long-time friends-of-the-show The Nields came by to record an in-studio that we’ll broadcast on June 11, but I wanted to give you a preview now of their lovely song “Anna Kick a Hole in the Sky,” including a brief introduction of the origins of the song’s name. They’re doing a ton of stuff to celebrate twenty years in the music business, including a family show that morning, a scavenger hunt, and a full-band reunion that night. Check out their website for more.
Playlist for 2011-05-28
Listen any old time at our page at WRSI.com!
Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – LMNO
Stacey Peasley – Every Day
Steve Weeks – Birdsong
ID
Dog on Fleas – Buffalo Gals (feat. Elizabeth Mitchell)
Gustafer Yellowgold – Infinity (Infinity Sock)
ID
Jason Riley – Camptown Races
Segment 2
Sweetback Sisters – Cowboy Ham & Eggs
Sophie & les Petits – Les Trois Petits Cochons
ID/prep to rock
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock!
Weezer – Pork & Beans
Justin Roberts – Meltdown
ScribbleMonster – I’m a Utility Pole (The World’s Worst Dance Song)
Segment 3
CandyBand – Cookie Jar
Yuck – The Wall
Billy Kelly – The Family Garden
ID
The Little Bits – Dance Bounce Jump
Kindercastle – Ferris Wheel
Dan Zanes – Wonder Wheel
ID
Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Fountains of Wayne – Song of the Passaic
Bob Dylan – Watching the River Flow
ID
Rhymezwell – I Love Music
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo – Gotta Be Me
ID
Segment 5
Recess Monkey – Your Favorite Book
Paul Simon – Graceland
Mister G – Blast Off
ID
Lucky Diaz & the Family Jam Band – Gato Astronauto
Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Segment 6
Deedle Deedle Dees – Teddy Days
Gourds – Country Days
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem – They All Ask’d For You
ID
The Missing Piece – Cucumber Canoe
ID
TMBG – House at the Top of the Tree
TMBG – Spare the Rock
2011-05-21 Playlist
Today at 3:00, Elizabeth Mitchell & You Are My Flower with very special guests Mates of State, at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst. It’s just $6 at the door, benefiting the Northampton Community Music Center!
Tickets will be sold starting at about 2:30.
Listen any time you like at our page on WRSI.com!
Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – My Name is Kingof Socks
Lori Henriques – Happy To Be Me
Fugees – Happy To Be Me
ID
Father Goose – Island in the Sun
Lead Belly – Rock Island Line
ID
REM – Driver 8
Segment 2
Okee Dokee Brothers – Lucy & Tighty
Heidi Swedberg – Train Medley
ID/prep to rock
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock!
…hole Surfers – Underdog
Mister G – Pam the Pug
The Missing Piece – Little Brown Dog
ID
Segment 3
Sugar Free Allstars & Secret Agent 23 Skidoo – Cooperate
Alchemystics – Type A Prayer
ID
Flannery Brothers – Wake Up Song
Mr. Leebot – Bright Ideas
Lunch Money – Roller Coaster
Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Royal Order of Chords & Keys – Punk Rock, One Sock!!! (Flywheel 1:30 Sunday with Mister G)
Kinder Castle – Beddie Bye
Salteens – I’m So Happy
ID
Cat & a Bird – Night Owl
Book Time with Ella (The Looking Glass Wars (Frank Beddor))
Segment 5
Shiprock & Anchordog in-studio
Rufus Thomas – Can Your Monkey Do The Dog
Segment 6
ID
Frances England – Place in Your Heart (Mind of My Own)
Mates of State – Starman
ID
Elizabeth Mitchell – Keep On the Sunny Side (Sunny Day) (Eric Carle Museum today at 3:00)
Loretta Lynn – High on a Mountain Top
White Stripes – Rag and Bone
ID
TMBG – Robot Parade
TMBG – Spare the Rock
Book Time with Ella for 5-21-11
Click on the book cover to find an online independent bookseller carrying The Looking Glass Wars, which Ella talked about on today’s show.
Today! Elizabeth Mitchell + Mates of State!
Today at 3:00, Elizabeth Mitchell & You Are My Flower with very special guests Mates of State, at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst. It’s just $6 at the door, benefiting the Northampton Community Music Center!
Tickets will be sold starting at about 2:30.
2011-05-14 Playlist
You can listen on demand any time you like at our page at WRSI.com.
Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Pictures of Pandas Painting
Sophie & Les Petits – Le requin Vegetarien
ID
Caroline Herring – Seasons
ID
Justin Roberts – All Eyes On You
Tom Waits – Way Down in the Hole
Segment 2
Michael Franti – Closer to the Sky
Frances England – Sleepyhead Mommy
ID/prep to rock
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock!
Paul Westerberg – Meet Me in the Meadow
Hipwaders – Educated Kid
Liz Phair & Doc Dauer – Everything’s Controlled by the Brain
ID
Segment 3
Mister G – Grilled Cheese
Mighty Mighty Bosstones – Kinder Words
ID
ScribbleMonster – All Ready to Go
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo – Opposite Day
ID
Parliament – Mothership Connection
Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Mates of State – Like U Crazy
Lunch Money – You and Me and a Bottle of Bubbles
ID
Elizabeth Mitchell – Jubilee
Steve Earle – Every Part of Me
ID
Nields – Anna Kick a Hole in the Sky
Segment 5
Cloud Cult – The Birth: You Were Born
Gourds – Fossil Contender
Artichoke – Darwin
ID
Beatles – Octopus’s Garden
Medeski, Martin & Wood – Let’s Go Everywhere
Segment 6
Trout Fishing in America – What I Want is a Proper Cup of Coffee
ID
Johnny Cash – I’ve Been Everywhere
Dan Zanes – All Around the Kitchen
Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper – Elvis is Everywhere
ID
TMBG – Science is Real
TMBG – Spare the Rock
2011-05-07 Playlist
Thanks to Lucky Diaz for the guest DJ set!
Listen on demand at our page at WRSI.com!
Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – C is for Conifers
Hem – My Father’s Waltz
Buddie Emmons – Gravy Waltz
ID
Cat & a Bird – Surfer Turtle
Caspar Babypants – Speedy Centipede
ID
Segment 2
Asylum Street Spankers – Sidekick (live at the Iron Horse)
Robbie Schaefer – Fits Right In
ID/prep to rock
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock
ScribbleMonster – Just Happy To Be Me
Verve Pipe – Complimentary Love
ID
Daddy a Go Go – Come On, Get Happy
Segment 3
Skankin’ Pickle – Onyonghasayo
CandyBand – Down By the Bay
ID
The Not-Its! – Cheetah the Buffalo
Recess Monkey – Invisible Friend
Generation X – Ready Steady Go
ID
Lucky Diaz – Like Never Before
Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Mister G- Bugs (world premiere)
Rudy Trubitt – Wear My Pajamas to School
Byrds – So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star
ID
Billy Kelly – Coney Island Washboard
Primate Fiasco – You Are My Sunshine
ID
Segment 5
Lucky Diaz Guest DJ set
Segment 6
ID
Brady Rymer – I Don’t Like Change
Booker T & Sharon Jones – Representing Memphis
ID
Elizabeth Mitchell – Lovely Day (Carle on 5/21)
Mates of State – Jellyman Kelly
ID
TMBG – Speed & Velocity
TMBG – Spare the Rock
One More Quick Review
(Man, I’ve been listening to a lot!)
Mister G – Bugs. (In the interest of full disclosure, Ben’s a friend and I’ve helped him out scheduling shows, etc. But I don’t have any financial interest in it.) Most of the time, I shy away from artists who do much genre-hopping — jack of all trades, master of none and all that. But Bugs goes all over the place — ska, bossa nova, rock, etc. — without feeling like it’s lurching randomly. That’s largely because all of the songs have the steady presence of a skilled songwriter and the foundation of great performances (including Rani Arbo and others). With this record, Mister G has managed to capture on CD the energy and engagement he has in his wildly popular live shows. Circled tracks: “Bugs,” “Grilled Cheese,” “Snow Day,” “Shark in My Bathtub,” and “Pam the Pug.” We’ll premiere “Bugs” on the show this Saturday.
A few more (really really brief) reviews
Same deal as before — my very short thoughts on a few new things that have come in the mail, with notations of what track numbers got written down and circled, which is how I note which songs I’m most excited to hear on the radio machine.
ScribbleMonster & His Pals – Look Both Ways. ScribbleJim’s obsession with Sesame Street is well-known — a huge part of the guest DJ sets he’s done for us have always been obscure songs from the show, which means he’s a very specific and hilarious type of hipster — so this is, as I thought someone said (but I can’t find now), the record ScribbleMonster was born (spawned? created by a mad scientist?) to record. And it is exactly the right kind of insane genius. The arrangements are terrific and the song selections excellent. Circled songs: “Sesame Street Theme,” “Five People In My Family,” “Good Morning, Mister Sun,” “Clink, Clank,” “Stop!,” “I Want To Hold Your Ear,” “Just Happy To Be Me,” “Loud And Soft,” and “Thirty-Two Cracks In The Sidewalk.” And the last three got arrows, too. (And I wrote down every single track for getting airplay eventually.) Love this record.
Rudy Trubitt, Wear My Pajamas to School. Rudy of the on-hiatus Sippy Cups wrote virtually all of my favorite songs from that band, and this advance single is another in the line of super catchy guitar pop songs. We’ll play it on the show this Saturday (dare I call it a world premiere?) and I can’t wait for more.
Cat and a Bird, Cat and a Bird. Intricately layered jazzy stuff featuring violin, upright bass, and a bunch of other sorta random sounds (and the lovely voice of Emily Chimiak), this CD has gotten a lot of attention. Live at KindieFest, they took a different tack, with two violins and a 12-string guitar, and it worked in a totally different (but still good) way, with much of that being based on the strength of the songs. They’ll be at the Green River Festival this summer. Circled tracks: “Bee Jive,” “Cat and a Bird,” “Lion and the Challengers,” “Night Owl,” and “I Wanna Be Like You.”
Addition to Elizabeth Mitchell show
Totally psyched to be able to announce the addition of very special guests Mates of State to the Elizabeth Mitchell & You Are My Flower show on May 21 at the Eric Carle Museum. To make the schedule work, we’ve shifted the show to 3:00 p.m. that day.
Listen!
On demand any time PRX.org
Sat. 8 am - 93.9 The River, Northampton, MA/ Brattleboro, VT
Sun. 8 am106.1 The Corner, Charlottesville, VA
Sat. 9 am - KVRZ 88.9 Libby, MT
Sat. 7 pm - KIYU Western Koyukon Region, Alaska
Sat. 7 am - 103.3 VFR, Northampton, MA
TBA - WMCN St. Paul, MN
Science Fair
Science Fair, eighteen tracks themed around and benefiting science education for girls, is out now. Click the cover for details!
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