You can celebrate the new year in a couple of ways this week:

First up, on Tuesday at 4, Danny Adlerman & Yosi will play a free after-school show at Cup & Top Cafe in Florence.  These guys have been mainstays of the show since the very start and have released (along with Kevin Kammeraad) a great winter record, “…And a Happy New Year.”  Bucket of fun, this will be.  (And they’ll be on the show on Saturday.)

Then on Saturday at 3, Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem will have a CD release party at First Churches, benefiting Nontuck Community  Preschool.  The band’s new CD, Ranky Tanky, is more fun than is allowed in some countries.  You should be there.

I’ve been so excited about our Meltdown announcements and the like that I’ve almost entirely forgotten to talk here about the fact that Elizabeth Mitchell will be in town on Saturday, February 6, at 1:00, doing a benefit for the Northampton Community Music Center.  The show will be at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, and it’s just $6 at the door (cash only, doesn’t include admission to the museum).  Later in the spring, we’ll welcome to the series Uncle Rock for a solo show as well as Debbie & Friends and Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem.  So: Mark your calendars for what promises to be a lovely afternoon with Liz and friends!

You can listen to the show any time at our page at WRSI.com.

So fun to have Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem in the studio!  Here again is some video from their visit:

No book time with Ella this week, since it’s an all-Bill show (except for the in-studio).

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Meet the Elements
Brendan Taaffe – May Well the World Go (Little Boots)
Bob Dylan – Forever Young
ID
Telephone Company – Little Mermaid Time (Panda Brain)

Segment 2
Von Swing Family – Jambalaya (Honey, Sugar Baby Mine)
Tracey & Melissa Beehive – Five Feet High & Rising (‘Til Things Are Brighter)
ID/prep to rock with Elijah
Charity & the JAMband – Get Your Booty Out of Bed (Party Like a Twinkle Star)
Tiny Masters of Today (feat. Karen O) – Hologram World (Bang Bang Boom Cake)
Alastair Moock – Belly Buttons (A Cow Says Moock)
ID

Segment 3
Danny Adlerman & Yosi & Kevin Kammeraad – …and a Happy New Year
Renee & Jeremy – Right Now (C’Mon)
Asylum Street Spankers – Mommy Says Now! (Mommy Says Now!)
The Baby Grands – Diggin’ a Hole to China
ID
Deedle Deedle Dees – Little Red Airplane (American History + Rock & Roll = Deedle Deedle Dees)

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Wall of Voodoo – Mexican Radio
Stan Ridgway & Pietra Wexstun – Have You Ever Wondered (Silly Songs for Kids)
Rhythm Child – Everybody Is the One
Michael Franti & Spearhead – Hey World (Remote Control Version)
ID

Segment 5
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem in-studio

Segment 6
ID
Todd McHatton – It’s a Breeze
Sippy Cups – Springtime Fantastic (Electric Storyland!)
Talking Heads – Don’t Worry About the Government (77)
ID
They Might Be Giants – Birdhouse in Your Soul
TMBG – Spare the Rock

Local writer Vincent Bator wrote a nice piece about us for the Hartford site of Examiner.com.  In it, he breaks a little news that we will announce during today’s show — Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem will be one of the acts at the Meltdown!

Remember — They Might Be Giants, New Year’s Eve, 3:00 kids’ show, 8:00 cursin’ show, The Calvin. Tickets at IHEG.com.

(One of the best versions of the title song is by the Asylum Street Spankers on their terrific “A Christmas Spanking” release.  And I observe that they’re playing a rare kids’ show on January 10 at the 92nd Street Y.  Go, New Yorkers, go!)

Listen any old time at WRSI.com!

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Put it to the Test (Here Comes Science)
Billy Bragg & Wilco – My Flying Saucer
Tom Waits – You Can Never Hold Back Spring (Bawlers)
Stan Ridgway & Pietra Wexstun – Bring It On the House
ID
Frances England – Daddy-O (Fascinating Creatures)
Earthworm Ensemble – Bang a Drum (s/t)
Kaiser Cartel – The Season Song (Park Slope Parents Vol.1)
ID

Segment 2
Dog on Fleas w/ Elizabeth Mitchell – Handsome Molly (High Mountain Songs)
The Good Ms. Padgett – So So Good (The Good Ms. Padgett)
ID/prep to rock
Jingle Punx – Auld Lang Syne
ScribbleMonster – Winter Wonderland
I’m From Barcelona – Collection of Stamps (Let Me Introduce My Friends)
Sgt. Major – Nellie the Elephant (Play)
ID

Segment 3
Flannery Bros – One Wasn’t Enough
Jonathan Richman – That Kind of Music
Nields – Anna Kick a Whole in the Sky
Robbins in a Tree-O – Never Cook Your Sister in a Frying Pan (We’re Not Kidding, a Tribute to Barry Louis Polisar)
ID/book time with Ella (The Adventures of Robin Hood)
Neko Case – This Little Light (The Tigers Have Spoken)

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Marty Beller Guest DJ set:
ID
B-52s – Roam
AudraRox – Five Minutes More (world premiere)
Jim Croce – Bad Bad Leroy Brown
Stew – The Smile
April March –

Segment 5
Marty Beller Guest DJ set, con’t:
Green Day – Viva La Gloria
They Might Be Giants – Speed & Velocity
Jon Samson – Right Now
Sundays – Here’s Where the Story Ends
Go-Gos – Vacation

Segment 6
Ella Jenkins – Kwanza Time
Gear Daddies – Zamboni
James Kochalka Superstar – Hockey Monkey
ID
Deedle Deedle Dees – Tres Muralistas (History + Rock & Roll = Deedle Deedle Dees)
Telephone Company – I Don’w Want to Shop (The King’s Surprise)
The Verve Pipe – Be Part of the Band (A Family Album)
Board of Education – Ice Ages Are Fun! (Board of Education)
ID
They Might Be Giants – D is for Drums (Here Comes Science)

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