Elisa Nicolas guests tonight and plays three songs from her cd Compass and a Pen. I also chat with Erik Pepple of the Wexner Center about the awesome April line-up at the Wexner. (Check out the April mixtape at wexarts.org if you don't believe me.) Plus music galore from local bands playing tonight, tomorrow and this weekend.

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Play List:
1. Magic City - OH/IO (Washington Beach Party)
2. The Mary Anns - BC    myspace.com/themaryanns
3. Elisa Nicolas - State of Everything    live
4. Elisa Nicolas - Compass and a Pen    live
5. Elisa Nicolas - Always to You    live
6. Umbrella Men - Farmer's Prayer    Umbrella Men
7. Eric Metronome - Go Bye    You Should Be Happy
8. Jens Lekman - The Opposite Of Hallelujah    Night Falls Over Kortedala
9. The Paper Chase - We Know Where You Sleep    Now You Are One of Us
10. My White Bread Mom - Milkey Way Estates Spacely    cringe.com/redhour/bands/MWBM/
11. Pet U.F.O. - Big Flattie    cringe.com/redhour/bands/PetUFO/
12. Heavy Mole - Who Is That Guy    myspace.com/heavymole
13. Miranda Sound - Close Calls    Western Reserve

Kyle Sowash and his band are embarking on a tour of Ohio, PA, DC starting this week in support of their new We Want Action release, Yeah Buddy!. In this program, I ring Kyle up to chat a bit about the record and the tour. We hear 3 songs from it as well.

The other bands on the program, like usual, are local and/or regional acts who are playing our fair city within the next week, possibly even tonight.

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Our fact-checking department informs me that Houseguest is indeed from Akron, not Cleveland. I make this error when talking about their show with Hot Cha Cha and Sinkane.

Play List:
1. Magic City - OH/IO (Washington Beach Party)
2. The Kyle Sowashes - Cutout Bin    Yeah Buddy!
3. The Kyle Sowashes - My Resume    Yeah Buddy!
4. The Kyle Sowashes - Korea    Yeah Buddy!
5. Hopewell - Monolith    Beautiful Targets
6. TV Eye - Leave Behind Your Troubled Mind (demo)    myspace.com/tveyetveye
7. Grave Blankets - We Were Young    myspace.com/graveblankets
8. Box Elders - One Foot In Front Of The Other    myspace.com/boxelders
9. Wax Fang - Bi Polar Bear    myspace.com/waxfang
10. The Jellyhearts - Steeplechase    myspace.com/prospectors
11. Rosehips - The Remainder    Rosehips
12. Hot Cha Cha - Heidi Was Never Good    myspace.com/hotchachahotchacha
13. Sinkane - Color Voice    Color Voice

I do my first phone interview on this week's show, and James of the Blastronauts is the lucky callee. We talk about the band's new EP, Interstellar Groove Machine and the Outer Sounds Festival, which is taking place tonight at the Rhumba Cafe and tomorrow night
(Thursday March 13) at the Scarlet and Grey Cafe. Other local gigs are on the horizon for Woody Pines, HenriHenrietta, and Hotel War, and we hear from them as well.

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Play List:
1. Magic City - OH/IO (Washington Beach Party)
2. Blastronauts - Ten Black Horses    Interstellar Groove Machine
3. Blastronauts - In A Fire    Interstellar Groove Machine
4. Blastronauts - The Croc    Interstellar Groove Machine
5. Our Cat Philip - Time's Just A Healer    ourcatphilip.net
6. Our Cat Philip - Cut & Dry
7. Aperture - The Thing That Heard Itself Coming    myspace.com/apertureohio
8. Woody Pines and the Lonesome Two - Delta Bound    Woody Pines and the Lonesome Two
9. Woody Pines and the Lonesome Two - Richland Woman    Woody Pines and the Lonesome Two
10. HenriHenrietta - Names of Those Cities    myspace.com/omgitshenrihenrietta
11. The Priest And The Devil - Old Time Mantra    myspace.com/priestanddevil
12. Hotel War - Play    Hotel War

David and Melissa from The Black Canary drop in to chat and play us their new single, which you can pick up at their release party this Friday night at the Ravari Room. If you can't make the show, you can buy it at your friendly neighborhood independent record store or from the band's myspace site. There's plenty of other great music from Columbus and beyond on this show. Check it out.

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Update: People with Animal Heads has a nice interview with David of The Black Canary. Also I learned that the band rescheduled their single release party for April 18 at the Ravari Room because of the BLIZZARD OF '08.

Play List:
1. Magic City - OH/IO (Washington Beach Party)
2. The Lions Rampant - cryin' all the time!    play rock'n'roll
3. The High Strung - Maybe You're Coming Down With It    Get the Guests
4. The Black Canary - Vampire    new 7"
5. The Black Canary - Sing    new 7"
6. The Black Canary - Rediffusion (Demo)
7. Afternoon Naps - Orange Paw    Sunbeamed
8. Flotation Walls - Worms    myspace.com/flotationwalls
9. Church of the Red Museum - A Flush Never Felt So Bad    Church of the Red Museum
10. Spanish Prisoners - How the Fallen Fell    myspace.com/spanishprisoners
11. The Dreadful Yawns - Your Little Cloud    Early
12. Elisa Nicolas - Who's Going To Love You    Compass and a Pen