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Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – I Can Hear You
Caspar Babypants – Spider John
Harmonica Pocket – Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
ID
Dean Jones – Baby In My pcoket
Lunch Money – You and Me and a Bottle of Bubbles
ID

Segment 2
Cat & a Bird – Cat & a Bird
Bob Marley – Three Little Birds
ID/prep to rock
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock!
Spoon – Underdog
Deedle Deedle Dees – Teddy Days
ID

Segment 3
Todd McHatton – Don’t Stop It Won’t Pop
Ozomatli – Can’t Stop
ID
Ethan Rossiter & the Hartwells – Jamberry
Rhythm Child – Bowl of Cherries
ID
Charity & the JAMband – Beach

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Frances England – Charlie Parker
John Coltrane – My Favorite Things
Baby Loves Jazz – The Scat Song
Miles Davis – Bye, Bye Blackbird
ID
CandyBand – Blackbird

Segment 5
Mister G in-studio

Segment 6
Alastair Moock (w/ Anand Nayak) – Born to Dance
Sly & the Family Stone – Dance to the Music
ID/Book Time With Ella (Howl’s Moving Castle)
Jonathan Coulton – Princess Who Saved Herself
Jimmies – Every Day’s a Holiday
ID
TMBG – The Sun is a Mass of Incadescent Gas (Live)
TMBG – Spare the Rock

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Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – New York City
Kimya Dawson – Happy Home (Keep On Writing)
Nick Cope – Grow Grow Grow
ID
Ella Fitzgerald – Don’t Fence Me In
Sweet Honey In The Rock – Shoo Fly
ID
Alastair Moock – Three Like Me

Segment 2
Weezer & Hayley Williams – Rainbow Connection
Israel Kamakawiwo’ole – Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World
ID/prep to rock
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock
Frank Turner – I Still Believe
ScribbleMonster – Stop!
ID

Segment 3
Royal Order of Chords & Keys In-Studio repeat

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Mike Doughty – 27 Jennifers
Chip Taylor & the Grandkids – I’m Just Thinkin’ About What I’m Thinkin’ About
ID
Troggs – Wild Thing
Frances England – I Scream, You Scream
Billy Kelly – It’s Close Enough
ID
Segment 5
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo – Speak the Truth
ID
Dramarama – What Are We Gonna Do?
Dean Jones – Little By Little
ID
Yosi & the Superdads – Wake Up!
The Not-Its! – Freeze Tag
ID
Dressy Bessy – Electrified

Segment 6
Justin Roberts – She’s a Yellow Reflector
Dirty Dozen Brass Band – Feet Can’t Fail Me Now
ID
Bunny Clogs – Olive’s Olives
ID
TMBG – Sensurround
TMBG – Spare the Rock

Today (Saturday, September 17) at 1:00, it’s the Royal Order of Chords and Keys kicking off our yearly series at the Eric Carle Museum!  Tickets are just $6 at the door, and the show benefits the tremendous work of the Northampton Community Music Center.  Note that ticket purchase doesn’t include museum admission — but you can go to the concert without going to the museum too.

Here they are, rocking out on a warmer day in 2010:

We’ll present their in-studio from 2010 in an encore presentation on the radio this morning, too.

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Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Birds Fly
Shannon Wurst – Farm to the Table
Trout Fishing in America – Rock and Roll Roosters
ID
Dean & Britta – Ginger Snaps
Mates of State – Jellyman Kelly
ID
Nields – Muffin Man

Segment 2
Caspar Babypants – Long Long Dream (w/ Al Yankovic)
Elizabeth Mitchell – Here Comes My Baby
ID/prep to rock
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock
Primal Scream – Movin’ On Up
The Not-Its! – Welcome to Our School
White Stripes – We Are Going To Be Friends
ID

Segment 3
Super Furry Animals – (Drawing) Rings Around the World
Lunch Money – I Love My Library
ID
Steve Lee – Wake Up
Mr. Richard – Our Rocketship
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Toy Trains – Little Toy Train
Jayhawks – Smile
Mister G – Grilled Cheese
ID (Carle 10/2)
Weston – La, La, Love You (Where Is My Mind?)

Segment 5
Blitzen Trapper – New Shoes
Paolo Nutini – New Shoes
ID
Waco Brothers – The Fox
Luv Clowns – K I D S
Telephone Company – Panda Brain
ID
Andrew Bird – Bein’ Green

Segment 6
Hipwaders – Time In Time Out
The Clash – Rock the Casbah
Baron Von Rumblebuss – Ooh La La (Play Me That Song)
ID
Jimmies – The Hook
Recess Monkey – Your Favorite Book
ID
TMBG – We’re the Replacements
TMBG – Spare the Rock

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Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Whirlpool
Justin Roberts – Everything Else Starts With E
ID
Caspar Babypants – Baby Cloud (w/ Rachel Loshak)
Frances England – Animal Inside You
Deedle Deedle Dees – Major Deegan

Segment 2
Victoria Williams – Come Up, Horsey
Tom Waits – Shiny Things
ID/prep to rock
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock
T. Rex – Metal Guru
Boogers – The Big Rock Candy Mountain
Hipwaders – My Dog Steve
ID
ScribbleMonster – I Want to Hold Your Ear

Segmenst 3-5
Andy Ure guest DJ set
1. I left my shoes at home – Tages
2. Take good care of your feet – The Beach Boys
3. How Big Am I – Ishtar Soundtrack
4. Record Breakers – Roy Castle
5. Sitting In The Sun – Cellophane Cloud
6. Groovin In The Sunshine – Bob McGrath
7. Storybook – The Alan Bown
8. Pegasus – The Hollies
9. Up, Up and Away – The Sunshine Company
10. Sky Hawks – Hot Wheels O.S.T.
11. Double Decker Bus – Count Five
12. Dodge Veg-O-Matic – Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
13. Little Honda – Yo La Tengo
14. Skateboardin’ Queen – Sneakers and Lace
15. I Want to be in a Cartoon – AudraRox
16. Unpack Your Adjectives – Daniel Johnson
17. Grapefuit – Allen & Grier
18. Ding Dong The Witch is Dead – The Fifth Estate
19. Happy Land – Skip Bifferty

Segment 6
ID
Dan Zanes & Friends – The Farmer is the One
Alastair Moock – Feets Up (w/ Rani Arbo)
ID
Sondre Lerche – Mr. Bassman
Wilco – Heavy Metal Drummer
ID
TMBG – D Is For Drum
TMBG – Spare the Rock

We can all agree that selling a t-shirt for girls ages 7 to 16 emblazoned with “Too Pretty to Do Homework, so my brother has to do it for me” is a terrible, terrible idea, right?  (With the caption “Who has time for homework when there’s a new Justin Bieber album out? She’ll love this tee that’s just as cute and sassy as she is.”)  The problems with that shirt (setting aside its awful design) are many — tying appearance to the need to do homework, suggesting getting a boy to do it for you.  Just terrible.

If you’ve been following the show on Facebook, you might have guessed that the next release from Spare the Rock Records will be connected to girls’ education (not yet ready to fully announce it, but soon), and this is exactly the sort of message that is damaging.  And gets me really, really angry.  I intend for this shirt to be a prime example of exactly what we need to do better in messages to our daughters.

JC Penney won’t be getting our back-to-school shopping.  Or any other shopping.

You can contact JC Penney here.  I did already.

Update: It looks like they’ve taken it down.  Good on them as a first step.  How about an acknowledgment that it was a terrible, terrible idea?  Publicly?  Screenshot of what it was is above; click on it for a full-sized view.

Update 2:  They’ve apologized, and in a pretty straightforward, non-“we-apologize-if-you-were-offended” way.  Good on them.

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Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Older
Randy Kaplan – No Nothing (in-studio)
Caroline Herring – Building of the Road
ID
Grenadilla – Arabella Angelique
Dean Jones – Lucky
ID

Segment 2
Bobby Bare – I Care
Dr. Dog – Unicorn
ID/prep to rock
They Might Be Giants – Don’t Spare the Rock!
Alkaline Trio – Movin’ Right Along
Strange Kidz – Corren
Rabbit! – In My Blue Jeans
ID

Segment 3
Mr. Richard – Butterfly Day
Graham Parker – The Kid With the Butterfly Net
ID
Men Without Hats – Safety Dance
New York Dolls – Dance Like a Monkey
Lunch Money vs. Grody – You Are Here (remix)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Wee Hairy Beasties – Cyril the Karaoke Squirrel
OK GO – Muppet Show Theme Song
Todd McHatton – Green Eleven
ID
Muckafurgason – Dictionary

Segment 5
Farmer Jason – Punk Rock Skunk
Beat Farmers – Never Goin’ Back
ID
Hipwaders – Hey, Josie!
Mike Park – Everybody Loves to Jump (Smile!)

Segment 6
Jimmies – Every Day’s a Holiday
Replacements – Jungle Rock
ID
Dan Zanes – Saro Jane (with Barbara Brousal)
Primate Fiasco – Sunny Side of the Street
John & Mark – Colors
ID
TMBG – Particle Man
TMBG – Spare the Rock