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

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
ID
TMBG – My Name is Kingof Socks
Cat & a Bird – Night Owl
Billy Jonas – Eyes Wide Open
ID
Andrew Bird – Measuring Cups
Papa Crow – That’s the Life for Me
ID
Uncle Rock – Play Outside Today (live at the River)

Segment 2
Renee & Jeremy – Rely
Caspar Babypants – Bunny Brown
ID/prep to rock
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock
Elvis Costello – (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding?
Deedle Deedle Dees – Zora
Guided by Voices – Doughnut for a Snowman
ID
Jimmies – Every Day’s a Holiday

Segment 3
Hipwaders – Educated Kid
Farmer Jason – Take a Hike
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REM – Get Up
James Brown – Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved
ID
Robbi K & Friends – Feel da Beat

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
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School for the Dead – Omnivore (live at Spare the Rock)
Billy Kelly – Me and My Brand New Haircut (feat. Davy Jones)
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Mono Puff – Unsupervised, I Hit My Head
The Board of Education – Know Your Inventors, Pt. 1
ID

Segment 5
Alastair Moock – Feets Up (w/ Rani Arbo)
ID
Uncle Rock – Secret Spaceman
Poochamungas – Imagination Train
ID
Rudy Trubitt – Wear My Pajamas to School
Mike Doughty – 27 Jennifers

Segment 6
Royal Order of Chords & Keys – Punk Rock, One Sock!
Fountains of Wayne – Laser Show
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Secret Agent 23 Skidoo – Secret Handshake
Grenadilla – Rhyming
ID
Madness – One Step Beyond
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TMBG – One Everything
TMBG – Spare the Rock

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Early in the morning after rawking as the opener for They Might Be Giants, Jonathan Coulton was kind enough to come by our studios.  We’ll air the in-studio with him on March 24, but you can listen now:

[audio:http://sparetherock.com/CoultonMarch2012.mp3|titles=Jonathan Coulton on Spare the Rock]

And you can watch the (partial) video for “The Princess Who Saved Herself” (the first performance ever other than actually recording it for Many Hands):

And for Mr. Fancy Pants:

This has been a pretty cool week.

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We had a great time hanging out with They Might Be Giants this afternoon (they’re at the Calvin tonight! You should go!).  We’ll air our chat on March 17, but if you want to listen now:

[audio:http://sparetherock.com/TMBGMarch2012.mp3|titles=TMBG on Spare the Rock]

And you probably want to listen, since it has music (including a crazy minor key version of Dr. Worm) and news about the next kids’ stuff they’ll be doing!  (Like, news you haven’t seen anywhere else, I’m pretty sure.)

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Who’s ready?  I’m ready.  Saturday morning, 10:00, Flywheel in Easthampton, the triumphant return of Uncle Rock.  Plus, free pancakes!

Suggested donation of $5 each or just $10 for a whole family!

(He’s signing holiday songs in that picture.  Probably not at Flywheel.)

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On my regular (grownup) shift on the River on Sunday, I did a short interview with John Flansburgh from They Might Be Giants.  They’ll be on the station Thursday afternoon before their show at the Calvin (don’t have tickets yet? get ’em now), and we’ll record an in-studio with them to air probably on March 17.  You can listen to Sunday’s interview here:

[audio:https://sparetherock.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Flansinterview.mp3|titles=Flans Interview]

Jonathan Coulton is opening the show, and we’ll be getting him in the studio too.

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If you’re a fan on Facebook (and you really should be), you may have seen this already, but just to be sure we get all of you RSS-only folks: We’re moving to Austin, Texas in August.  I’m joining a law firm there as senior counsel (and leaving teaching).  We’ll get to spend a chunk of summers in Minnesota, as the firm is based there.  We’re super sad to be leaving the Valley, but excited about being nearer family both in the South and the Midwest, and about being in the amazing city that is Austin.

I plan to have the radio show continue in one form or another, possibly (probably?) syndicated — meaning you’ll have the opportunity to try to get a station that’s local to you to carry it.  Or maybe we’ll find a station in Austin that wants our weird little show.  But I really don’t know.  We only made the final decision a week ago, and the next steps for the radio show were on the back burner until we knew for sure.  So, there will be more news.

By the time we move, we’ll have been doing the show for seven years — the first year and a half or so on Valley Free Radio, and since then on the River (also still broadcast on VFR).  I would never have expected to be doing this show for anything near that long, but I am utterly thrilled that we have.  And I’m equally thrilled that both kids really want to keep doing it.  So we’re going to do everything we can to make sure that happens.

Thanks to all of you for listening, making music, rocking, emailing, and so on.  You’re the best.

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Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
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TMBG – Pictures of Pandas Painting
Eels – A Daisy Through Concrete
Caspar Babypants – Lonely Glove
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Dean Jones – Little By Little
Enzo Garcia – Monkey Motions
ID
Leon Redbone – Polly Wolly Doodle

Segment 2
Kira Willey – Mr. Cricket Hop
Lori Henriques – Outside My Door
L’Autobus a Vapeur – Bonjour Bonjour
ID/prep to rock
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock!
ScribbleMonster – I Want to Hold Your Ear
Frances England – Come Back Home
Billy Bragg & Wilco – Hoodoo Voodoo
ID

Segment 3
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem in-studio

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
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Nields – Who are You Not to Shine
The Pop-Ups – Connect the Stars
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Decemberists – June Hymn
Alejandro Escovedo String Quartet – Sad and Dreamy (The Big 1-0)
ID

Segment 5
Elizabeth Mitchell – Lovely Day
Asylum Street Spankers – Be Like You
ID
Lunch Money – Original Friend
Justin Roberts – Best Friend
ID
Frank Turner – I Still Believe

Segment 6
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo – Gotta Be Me
Earth Wind & Fire – Shining Star
ID
Uncle Rock – Rock & Roll Babysitter
OK Go – Three Primary Colors
Violent Femmes – Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah (Means I Love You)
ID
TMBG – Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
TMBG – Spare the Rock

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