Just a friendly reminder that we’re presenting a free show with Danny Adlerman and Yosi today at 4:00 at Cup & Top Cafe in Florence Center.  More fun will not be had in all the thirteen colonies.

I really, really like the new Renee & Jeremy CD, C’mon.  Where their first album was, as I said at the time, flat-out gorgeous and mellow, this one is flat-out gorgeous and up-tempo.  The vocal interplay remains as sweet as it gets, but now, after the It’s A Big World-induced nap, you can boogie with C’mon.

So I was pleased as can be to accept the offer of giving y’all a free download of the lead-off track, “Share.”  This will be up for one week only, so get downloadin’ while the downloadin’ is good!

Here it is:

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)
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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
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Deedle Deedle Dees – Little Red Airplane (American History + Rock & Roll = Deedle Deedle Dees)

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
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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!)