Playlist for Meltdown Saturday! (3/31/2012)

Mar 31

It’s Meltdown Saturday!  What are you doing reading this?  Get to JFK!

Listen any time you like at our page at WRSI.com!

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
ID
TMBG – My Brother the Ape
NRBQ – Animal Life
Frances England – Animal Inside You
ID
Nields – With Catlike Tread
Elizabeth Mitchell – Mr. Rabbit
ID
Paul Westerberg – Mr. Rabbit

Segment 2
ID
v/a – Felt Around the World (handaid.org)
Recess Monkey – Fiddlehead Fern
ID/prep to rock
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock!
Ellen & Matt – Playground
ScribbleMonster – Just Happy To Be Me
ID

Segment 3
CandyBand – Down By The Bay
Cloud Cult – Help
ID
School for the Dead – Superhero
Paper Moon – Your Attitude Towards Cuttlefish
ID
Alastair Moock & Friends – Ladybugs’ Picnic

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Deedle Deedle Dees – The Golem
Hey Dango – You Can Be
ID
Ratboy Jr. – Are We There Yet
Robbi K & Friends – Favorite Things
ID

Segment 5
Paul Simon – Under African Skies
ID
Jose Conde – Cumbamba
Rodrigo y Gabriela – Diablo Rojo
ID
Grenadilla – Oh Sing a Song to the Sun

Segment 6
Royal Order of Chords & Keys – Don’t Throw the Doll Into the Potty
Phineas McBoof – Are You Awesome?
ID
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo – Hula Hoop Soup
Us 3 – Cantaloop
ID
TMBG – Lazyhead and Sleepybones
TMBG – Spare the Rock

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Meltdown! Saturday!

Mar 30

All the details are at RiverMeltdown.com.  Short version: you wanna be there.  Amazing music, authors, activities, vendors, fun!  Download the whole program here (PDF)

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One More KidVid 2012 Matchup!

Mar 26

We’ve got the final matchup in the Ella Jenkins region right here, everyone.  Will Todd McHatton’s “I Think I’m a Bunny” (seeded #6) take out our friend from the Sun, Gustafer Yellowgold, and his “Pancake Smackdown”?  Watch ’em both and vote:

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2012-03-24 Playlist

Mar 24

Listen any time you like at our page at WRSI.com!

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
ID
TMBG – The House at the Top of the Tree
Simon & Garfunkel – At the Zoo
Gustafer Yellowgold – Four Leaved Clover
ID
Laura Veirs – Jamaica Farewell
Guy Davis – I Will Be Your Friend
ID

Segment 2
Musical Stew – States and Capitals
Randy Kaplan – My Little Laugh
Muppets – Danny Boy
ID/prep to rock
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock!
Incredible Chandler Travis Catualbirdomonic – First Warm Day
Alison Faith Levy – Like a Spinning Top
ID
Deedle Deedle Dees – Growl Growl

Segment 3
Spoon – The Underdog
Rabbit! – In My Blue Jeans
ID
Ratboy Jr. – Floating Up
Justin Roberts – Never Getting Lost
Terrible Twos – Caroline
ID
Matt & Kim – Daylight

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Dan Zanes – In the Basement (with Sharon Jones)
Baby Loves Jazz Band – Whole World In His Hands
Bruce Springsteen – This Land is Your Land (Live)
Billy Bragg – The Beach is Free
ID
Royal Order of Chords & Keys – Central Park Kitty

Segment 5
Jonathan Coulton In-Studio
Princess Who Saved Herself
Mr. Fancy Pants
I’m Your Moon

Segment 6
ID
Eloise the Great – Everybody Let’s Jump
Alkaline Trio – Moving Right Along
ID
Alastair Moock & Friends – These Are My Friends
Okee Dokee Brothers – Small and Simple (with Elizabeth Mitchell)
Dramarama – What Are We Gonna Do?
ID
TMBG – What Is a Shooting Star?
TMBG – Spare the Rock

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KidVid 2012, Round 2 – Pete Seeger Region

Mar 21

We’re pleased to welcome you back to the Spare the Rock Cafetorium, this week featuring the brutal matchup between Rabbit! and The Pop-Ups.  Up first, Rabbit!’s “Magic”:

And here’s The Pop-Ups’ “Balloon”:

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