Show #237--6/27/10

Motherless Child—The Wailin’ Jennys
You Don’t Have to Do That—John Hartford
Counting the Crossties—Bad Livers
At Last!—The Dø
Delta Lady—Leon Russell
Superstar—Sonic Youth
Losing Momentum (for Jim Jarmusch)—Kurt Vile
Casual—Here We Go Magic
It’s You—The Millennium
Poor Baby—The Cowsills
A Master’s Fool—The Cryan’ Shames
Abergavenny—Shannon
Land of Oz—Le Cirque
Love—Snowglobe

Hour 2—70’s Dance Party!

End of the month--time to profile another decade!  Here's a free-for-all, thrown-together type of theme.  All danceables from the 1970s.  Have a favorite one?  Call me at the station during the show at 724-357-WIUP or contact me via AOL Instant Messenger (our screen name is iupradio).

MONDAY NIGHT AT 8:00 PM

IT'S "FIRST IMPRESSIONS"

THE NEW MUSIC REVIEW SHOW

FEATURING DR. GONZO & MARC MORRISON

THIS WEEK'S PICKS:

RATATAT'S "LP4"

&

THE MYNABIRDS' "WHAT WE LOSE IN THE FIRE WE GAIN IN THE FLOOD"

FOLLOWED BY

THE MONDAY SAMPLER FROM 9:00 PM TO MIDNIGHT

TONIGHT'S FEATURE ALBUM:

FREEDOM OF CHOICE by DEVO (1980) 

Show #236--6/20/10

LA Rain—The Mynabirds

Mr. Blue Sky—Electric Light Orchestra

Paris—Friendly Fires

Hurricane J—The Hold Steady
Ain’t That a Shame [Live]—Cheap Trick
Overdriver [Live]—Joe Satriani
La La La—The Bird and the Bee
Crash Years—The New Pornographers
Sueño—The Young Rascals
Syrinx—Hubert Laws
It’s All the Same—Spirit
L.A. Woman—The Doors

Hour 2—On the Road

An hour devoted to songs of the road (featuring truckers 'n' bikers, too), through the music of: 

 

Davie Allan and the Arrows, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Boston, Bread, Gomez, The Grass Roots, Kraftwerk, John D. Loudermilk, Percy Mayfield, Paul McCartney & Wings, Montrose, R. Lewis Band, Chris Spedding, and more!

AND COME BACK TOMORROW NIGHT, TOO (BEGINNING AT 8 PM).

"FIRST IMPRESSIONS" WITH DR. GONZO & MARC MORRISON

WE REVIEW and FEATURE TRACKS FROM 2 NEW CDs EACH WEEK.

THIS WEEK:

"SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY" by DEVO

and

"BODY TALK, PT. 1" by ROBYN

Show #235--6/13/10

Lighten Up McGraw—Crack the Sky

Laredo—Band of Horses

It’s Gonna Be—Norah Jones

Blue Pepper—Sam Yahel
Ballroom Baby—The Checks
Round and Round—Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
Respect—Rotary Connection
Easy to Be Hard—Three Dog Night
Get Up—Sleater-Kinney
Secrets—Van Halen
Run Outta Luck—The Golden Dogs
Jessica—The Allman Brothers Band

Hour 2:  S------N

A wordplay theme for the 9:00 hour that you can help me with.

 

What groups or singers' names begin with S and end with N?

Here's what wuz played during this hour:

Bye Bye Bird—Sonny Boy Williamson

Didn’t Mean It—Steve McNaughton

Hillbilly in the Band—Scott Henderson

I Want to Take You Home (to See Mama)—Syl Johnson

Cruisin’—Smokey Robinson

Rikki Don’t Lose That Number—Steely Dan

Black Like Me—Spoon

Heart That’s Pounding—Sally Seltmann

Let There Be Drums—Sandy Nelson

Meet Warren—Sarandon

I Want You—Savage Garden

Let the Music Play—Shannon

The Nest—Shelly Bhushan

Can’t You Figure it Out?—Sloan

Stare it Down—Steve Wynn

For You—Sharon Van Etten

___________________________________________________

AND...MONDAY NIGHT..."FIRST IMPRESSIONS" with DR. GONZO & MARC MORRISON

in which the hosts discuss new music 'n 'at.

This week's picks:  "TREATS" by SLEIGH BELLS

and

the self-titled full-length debut from THE SOFT PACK.

AND FINALLY...

This week's feature album during the MONDAY SAMPLER (9 to MIDNIGHT)

will be

"ONE MAN DOG" by JAMES TAYLOR (1972)

Show #234--6/6/10

Sometimes She’s a Little Girl—Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart
Moves—The New Pornographers
Measure—Field Music
The Renegade—Zeus
Old Timer—that dog.
Stylo—Gorillaz [feat. Mos Def & Bobby Womack]
Children of the Revolution—T. Rex
Be My Girl—Smith Westerns
Chasing Pavements—Adele
Dreams—Gabrielle
As Máscaras—Claudia Leitte
Son a Propulsion—Juan Pablo Torres y Algo Nuevo
Que Pasa?/Me No Pop I—Coati Mundi

Hour 2—A Round of Remakes

Distinctive versions of songs you know well.  Come and hear what The Baltimores, Jonatha Brooke, Capsula, Fol Chen, The Futureheads, Albert Hammond, Jr., Greg Laswell, Michael & the Messengers, Bette Midler, Van Morrison, Maria Muldaur, Pan for Punks, Utopia and M. Ward do...

TO/FOR:

The Beach Boys, Blue Lu Barker, Kate Bush, Bobby Freeman, Buddy Holly, The O'Jays, Prince, The Ramones,The Reflections, Jimmie Rodgers, Pete Townshend, and The Velvet Underground.

AND:

On Monday night's "First Impressions" show, Dr. Gonzo and Marc review Broken Social Scene's "Forgiveness Rock Record" and LCD Soundsystem's "This is Happening." 

Make sure you're happening at 90.1 FM on your dial or streaming live at http://www.wiupfm.org/ at 8pm EST, or we'll never forgive you.  (Gonzo might. I'm just a jerk). 

And, during Monday night's "Monday Sampler," during the 11:00 hour, the feature album?  Let's see...oh yes, Simple Minds' "Once Upon a Time" (1985).