This week Ella talked about Dealing with Dragons.  Click on the book cover to find an independent bookseller to buy it from!

We have some new promos for the show, and I think they’re kind of fun (though I’m not sure about the voiceover at the end).  Check ’em out:

Eclectic
Beatles
Nerd

Thanks to The Verve Pipe for a terrific guest DJ set!

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

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Triops Has Three Eyes
Peter Siegel – Bugs
ID
Dan Zanes & Friends – Wonder Wheel (Family Dance)
Golden Smog – Pecan Pie (Down By the Old Mainstream)
Walter T and the Rated-Gs – Mr. Rabbit (Rough Day at the Sandbox)
ID

Segment 2
Pete Seeger – All Around the Kitchen
Dean Jones – Lucky (Rock Paper Scissors)
Asylum Street Spankers – Sidekick (Mommy Says No!)
ID/prep to rock
Los Straitjackets – Cavalcade (Viva Los Straitjackets)
Royal Order of Chords and Keys – Bright Lights, Big Kitty!!! (Punk Rock One Sock)
ID

Segment 3
Recess Monkey – My Brother is a Satellite
The Pop-Ups – Pasta
ID/Book Time with Ella (The Calder Game)
Billy Kelly – I Say I’m Tryin’ to Decide
Apples in Stereo – Energy (New Magnetic Wonder)
Robin Vaughan – What Do You Like More? (Rock ‘n’ Roll Coochicoo Revue)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Verve Pipe Guest DJ Set:
Verve Pipe – Suppertime
Beatles – Yellow Submarine
Robbie Schaefer – No no no
XTC – My Bird Performs
Verve Pipe – When One Becomes Two

Segment 5
Verve Pipe Guest DJ Set, con’t:
Verve Pipe – Wake Up
TMBG – Birdhouse in Your Soul
Free Design – Love You
Peter Himmelman – Imagination
The Verve Pipe – Cereal

Segment 6
David Bowie – Starman
ID
Justin Roberts – Trick Or Treat (Jungle Gym)
New Pornographers – Up in the Dark (Together)
Nields – Who Are You Not to Shine
ID
TMBG – Why Does the Sun Shine
TMBG – Spare the Rock

This week, Ella talked about The Calder Game.  Click on the book cover to find an independent bookseller selling it!

Listen to the show on demand at our page at WRSI.com.

Thanks to Brady Rymer for a fun guest DJ set!  He’ll be at the Iron Horse tomorrow (Sunday) at 2 – get your advance tickets at IHEG.com (discount family four-pack!).  And we’ll see you this afternoon for Uncle Rock at the Eric Carle Museum (1:00).

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – LMNO
Uncle Rock – The Night the Lights Went Out (The Big Picture)
ID
The Real Tuesday Weld – Little Boxes (Sing Me to Sleep – Indie Lullabies)
Sones de Mexico Ensemble – Quiereme Mucho (Fiesta Mexicana)
Dog on Fleas – Green Grass of Summer (When I Get Little)
ID
Tom Waits – Young At Heart

Segment 2
T-Bone Burnett – Humans From Earth (Until the End of the World ST)
John Sheldon – Mighty Fine Hound
ID/prep to rock
Pixies – La La Love You (Doolittle)
Roy Handy & the Moonshot – That’s a Great Idea!!! ((I’m Gonna Be) Your Best Friend)

Segment 3
ID
Verve Pipe – Complimentary Love (A Family Album)
The Not-Its! – The Great Compromise (We Are the Not-Its!)
David Byrne – Don’t Fence Me In (Red Hot & Blue)
ID/book time with Ella (The Red Pyramid)
Sugar Free Allstars – In My Pocket
Candy Band – Batman (High Five)
ID

Segment 4
Brady Rymer Guest DJ set
Soul Finger – The Bar-Kays – Soul Finger
Picky Eater – Brady Rymer – new demos
You Can Get It If You Really Want – Jimmy Cliff – The Harder They Come
Mail Myself to You – Pete Seeger – The Complete Carnagie Hall Concert, June 8, 1963
99 1/2 Wont Do – Sister Rosetta Tharpe – Gospel Train
Light of Love – Brady Rymer & the Lil Band That Could – Live – Greenport, NY, June 2009

Segment 5:
Brady Rymer guest DJ set
musical bed: Whipped Cream – The Stokes – The Stokes Selected Favorites
Opening Day – Brady Rymer – home recording
Boogie Shoes – KC & the Sunshine Band – The Best of KC & the Sunshine Band
Don’t You Just Know It – Huey “Piano” Smith & His Clowns – Having a Good Time with Huey “Piano” Smith & His Clowns
Just Say Hi – Brady Rymer – home recording
Beauty in the World – Macy Gray – Beauty in the World-Single
Musical Bed:Machine Gun – The Commodores – 20th Century Masters

Segment 6
ID
Justin Roberts – We Go Duck (Jungle Gym)
Dre Towey – Your House (Sugar On Top)
Andrew Bird – The Twistable, Turnable Man Returns (Twistable Turnable Man)
ID
Uncle Rock – Leave the Bees Be (The Big Picture)
Recess Monkey – Jet Pack (Final Funktier)
TMBG – Nonagon (Here Come the 123s)
TMBG – Spare the Rock

Click on the book cover to find an independent bookseller selling the new Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid, which Ella talked about on the show this week.

Listen any time at WRSI.com!

Check out information about Cartoonapalooza here.

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Violin (No!)
Keith Munslow – The Leftovers (Homemade Fun)
Dean Jones – Grow Little Flower (Napper’s Delight)
ID
Natalie Merchant – Topsy Turvy World
Johnny Cash – I Got a Boy and His Name is John
ID

Segment 2
Matthew Sweet – Good Night
Dala – Dream a Little Dream of Me (Sing Me to Sleep)
Laura Daisybee – Swing Swing With Me (Meltdown 2010)
ID/prep to rock)
Royal Order of Chords & Keys – Punk Rock One Sock (Punk Rock One Sock)
Candy Band – Cookie Jar (High Five)
Lunch Money – Cookie As Big As My Head (Dizzy)
ID

Segment 3
Recess Monkey – Moon Boots (Final Funktier)
Eddie Floyd – Big Bird
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem – The Green Grass Grows All Around (Ranky Tanky)
Leslie Bixler, Chad Smith – Cole’s Train (Rhythm Train)
ID
Joanie Leeds – I’m a Rock Star

Segments 4 & 5
Mark Anderson Guest DJ Set:
Brian Wilson – Speed Turtle
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo – Gotta Be Me
Woody Guthrie – Red River Valley
Eels – Fresh Feeling
Georges Moustaki – Une Petit Chanson
Louis Armstrong & Billie Holliday – My Sweet Hunk O’ Trash
Care Bears on Fire – Everybody Else
Theresa Andersson – Birds Fly Away
Prince – Starfish & Coffee

Segment 6
ID
Elvis Costello – Veronica (Spike)
Jon Samson – Everything Is Music To Me (Another Kid’s Album)
Egg – Flip Flops (Sunny Side Up)
Cake – Mahna Mahna
ID
Joe’s Backyard Band – Cities with Seagulls
ID
TMBG – One Dozen Monkeys (Here Come the 123s)
TMBG – Spare the Rock