Don Bovee is celebrating his 69th birthday at Cafe Bourbon Street tomorrow. Kyle Sowash is celebrating his 33rd that same night at the Treehouse. Mat Bisaro and Tony Allman are touring with Dan Melchior in Europe. The Queers are in town Monday night at Carabar. The Electric Grandmother is leaving town, but not before they do one last show at the Treehouse with Kepi Ghoulie on Monday.
WCBE is throwing a big bash tonight at Byrne's Pub and Woodlands Tavern, and the Alive has a summer music tour stop at Woodlands on Friday that benefits the Columbus Music Co-op. Whew...wish there was crap to do in this town...

Download the show by Right-clicking (Cntrl+click for you Mac weirdos) and then selecting "Save-As": May 26 broadcast

Don B. photo by Paul Anderson Gault

Play List:
Don Bovee (w/ Day Creeper) - "Batman" live at Ruby Tuesday, August, 2009
Cheater Slicks - "Crackin' Up" from Walk Into The Sea
Thee Now Sound - "3 to 1"
The Queers - "Don't Touch My Hat" from Back to the Basement
Dan Melchior - "Poison Pete's Holiday" from Catbirds & Cardinals
Kepi Ghoulie - "Fortune Teller" from Life Sentence
The Electric Grandmother - "Car Phone" from Pee Sells...Who's Buying?
Tom Evanchuck - "Somebody's Got To" The Evanchucks
Whoa Nellie! - "Awright Awready" Showed Up Anyway
Bush League Allstars - "Campaign Trail" from Cedar Knees
Old Hundred - "Say It Again" from Old Hundred
Narrow and the Brights - "Another Dawn"
The Kyle Sowashes - "Blast From the Past" live at Electraplay
Memory Map - "Sunburnt & Blown" from Holiday Band
Way Yes - "Gino" from Walkability
Dolfish - "I'm Proud Of You Joanna" from Your Love is Bumming me Out
Marie Corbo - "Hey Corbo"
Andrew Graham & Swarming Branch - "Final Boss" from Clasic Dogs (Demos)

As usual, there're shows going on tonight and this weekend. Agora 8 is happening Saturday. And I'm still jazzed about last weekend's festival in Nelsonville. It all spills over in tonight's podcast.

Download (Right-click and Save-As, or Cntrl+click and Save-As): May 19 podcast

Play list:
Drakkar Sauna - "Ballad of the Unborn (Cursory Shaker)" from 20009
The Black Swans - "Sunshine Street" from Don't Blame the Stars
Alwood Sisters - "Hold On" from Black Falcon & The Forest Spirit
survivalist - "Human Host" from gURL
The Sewing Machine War - "Weather" from The Sewing Machine War EP
She Bears - "What Morning Brings" from I Found Myself Asleep
The Spruce Campbells - "Black Sunbeams" from Mosques, Museums, & Mausoleums
The Royal Pines - "Perhaps Its Nothing" from Come Forth
The Royal Pines - "Someone Up There (Dont Like Me)" from Come Forth
Wheels on Fire - "Broken Up" from Cherry Bomb
The Growlers - "Gay Thoughts" from 7"
Great Architect - "Cat Part Home for Albert" from Cultural Games
The Spits - "Wouldn't Wanna Be Ya" from The Spits (Vol. 4)
TV Ghost - "The Recluse" from Cold Fish
Whale Zombie - "Islands" from Wale Zombie
Harboring Ghosts - "Snakebite"
Vela - "VALIDATION B" from ARGONAVIS

Lots of stuff goin' down musically tonight, tomorrow and Saturday night in Columbus. The Kyle Sowashes have a release party for their "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" 7" Saturday night at the Summit. Black Owls, Woosley Band, and the Harvest Kings are playing a Cinco de Mayo show tonight at the Treehouse. The Song Birds are releasing a cd at Ravari room on Friday. The Hot 17 is presenting Lord T & Eloise, The Town Monster, and Earwig at Kobo on Friday. Finally, on Saturday at Kobo, it's CMC Volunteer Appreciation night with Alert New London, New Tooth and Energy Clinic.

Next week, Saturday May 14, the Black Box Benefit is happening at Ruby Tuesday. Mors Ontologica is releasing two cds and a split 7" with Marvin the Robot.

So put on your galoshes and get out there!

Download this podcast (Right-click and Save-As, Cntrl+click and Save-As): May 5, 2011 Broadcast

Play List
Gibson Brothers - "The Sperm Count" from Dedicated Fool
Black Owls - "Glorious in Black" from June '71
The Woosley Band - "Echo Wheel" live at Electraplay
Harvest Kings - "Perfect" from Cardboard Crowns
The Salty Caramels - "Weasel"
The Song Birds - "Church Girl"
Earwig - "I Don't Want to Go" live at Electraplay
Alert New London - "Spoonfed"
The Town Monster - "B1G WH00P1N' 5K3L3T0N5 (I'm Not Guilty Anymore)" from EP 10 - October
Marvin the Robot - "Unremarkable" from The Loveiathan
Mors Ontologica - "Molly Merrill-Payne" from Hot Mess
The Kyle Sowashes - "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" from The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald 7"
The Blind Eyes - "January" from Modernity

New music from The Regionals, Branden Barnett, and Times New Viking. Old music from Clay, the Yips, and others.

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Play List:
Andrew Graham and Swarming Branch - "Holy Joeys, Cognoscenti, Tar Babies in Love" from Clasic Dogs (Demos)
Nathan Snell's Country Band - "Too Late to Worry Now" from demos
Joe Kile - "Tom Hill and Billy McMann" from Southern Beauty Queen
Clay - "'Til We Have Faces" from 7"
Clay - "Kim I Hate You" from 7"
Clay - "Ann O'Malley" from 7"
The Yips - "9 x 11" from 7"
The Yips - "First Place" from Bonfire In A Dixie Cup
The Yips - "Chapter of Not Dying Twice" from Bonfire In A Dixie Cup
The Axemen - "Sick and Tyred" from 7"
Times New Viking - "Rocks in My Heart" from 7"
Times New Viking - "Try Harder" from Dancer Equired
The Regionals - "Run" from Live at the Rumba (Hear another track here.)
Branden Barnett - "Heart Won't Bend" from Verse Chorus Verse (Totally downloadable.)
The Kyle Sowashes - "Vanilla Clown" from Vanilla Clown 7"
Solyoni - "Vanilla Clown" from Vanilla Clown 7"
Log - "She's The One" from 4 Song EP
Dane Terry - "Rojo Means Red" from Organ Grinder Single

Phone interview with David James of Wolf Ram Heart, plus lots of good music that runs the gamut. Study the play list below for various links to free or low-cost music download options.

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Play List:
The Obviouslies - "caca, culo, pedo, pis" from Pinky Download It! (facebook event link. YMMV)
The Obviouslies - "allergick to you" from Pinky
The Royal Pines - "All Wrong" from Come Forth
Day Creeper - "Dragons" from Blah 7"
Grave Blankets - "Forward" from split 7"
Fey Gods - "Untied" from 7"
Umbrella Men - "Tilt the Shade" from Music for Young Americans Buy It.
Wolf Ram Heart - "Betrayal of Hearts" from Betrayal of Hearts
Wolf Ram Heart - "Humming Doves" from Betrayal of Hearts
Wolf Ram Heart - "Mansions" from Betrayal of Hearts
Supervisor - "Hold on, young lovers" from Hold on, young lovers Free Download
Supervisor - "Chokolat" from Hold on, young lovers
Moon High - "Smoke Before My Eyes" live at Electraplay
Glass Winged Sharpshooters - "Lonesome Valley" from band camp songs
Molehill - "Untitled" from Audiotree Live (bandcamp)
Ryan Jewell - Espouse Elucidation Eschew Obfuscation; Espouse Elucidation

I did another radio show yesterday and posted it to the WCRS website. Hyped on said show is the Mealworms listening party for Radio Cabinet Rabbit Hutch, which is happening tonight at Spoonful Records. Also, there's a reunion/anniversary show featuring Grafton at the Summit tonight. Guinea Worms, Cheater Slicks, and Times New Viking are also on that bill.

Tomorrow night at Outland, the Books are playing. One of my favorite groups. If you've never seen them, I highly recommend it, if for no other reason than to watch the videos they play during their set. Here's a taste of it. It's a Benco show. Doors open at 7 p.m.

J. Rhodes and Scott Shelton are at it again. Another Ocean Ghosts work, entitled Die On Top will have its official release at the Rumba Cafe on Saturday, March 19. Also on the bill are Bum Wealthy, Wicked Lung & Wookalar, Elephant Bones, and DJ George Brazil. You can download Die On Top at OceanGhosts.com. I also dropped two tunes from it into my expanded podcast from yesterday. There's also some more interesting music from the free music archive. Find the new and improved hour-long podcast at the WCRS website.

The Wet Darlings are the first Electraplay session for 2011. We hear four songs and chat about the songwriting process and metaphor. Ghost Shirt and Yellow Light Maybe are also on this podcast. They're both playing with The Wet Darlings at their cd release show this Friday, March 18 at Skully's.

Download program #201. Or get it from my podcast feed.

Band photo by Dana Greene. Thanks, Dana!

Play list:
Magic City - "OH/IO (Washington Beach Party)" unreleased
The Wet Darlings - "Bicycle" live at Electraplay
The Wet Darlings - "Vampires" live at Electraplay
The Wet Darlings - "Your Ghost" live at Electraplay
The Wet Darlings - "Butterfly" live at Electraplay
Ghost Shirt - "Southern Girl" from Daniel
Yellow Light Maybe - "More of the World" from More of the World

Below are some bits of tonight's radio show that you can download and take with you for free, courtesy of the artists and IODA Promonet. I also wanted to let you know about The Evolution Control Co's show at Wild Goose Creative, happening tonight, doors at 8 p.m. Read more about it at The Fuse Factory's website. Also there's a happy hour show, 6-9 p.m. tomorrow at Rumba Cafe, just a couple doors down from Wild Goose, featuring Total Foxx and You're So Bossy.

Yeah, I'm starting to do the radio shows again with regularity, Thursdays and Fridays on WCRS at 6 p.m., but the day/time is likely to change once we go to a 24 hour schedule. Anyhoo...See all those links on the side of the blog under "Subscribe and Share"? That's the easiest way to keep track of my show. Don't be scared. Click on one of 'em until you find one you like. They all pretty much do the same thing.

And now...the freebies:

Withered Hand
"New Dawn" (mp3)
from "Good News"
(Absolutely Kosher)
Buy at iTunes Music Store
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Typhoon
"The Honest Truth" (mp3)
from "A New Kind of House"
(Tender Loving Empire)

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Brown Recluse
"Impressions of a City Morning" (mp3)
from "Evening Tapestry"
(Slumberland Records)

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Black Francis
"Bad News" (mp3)
from "The Golem"
(The Bureau)

More On This Album

Dane Terry joins us at Electraplay for four songs and some chattin'. He's off to New York City, so go see his farewell performance tonight at Carabar. There's also music from Day Creeper, Time and Temperature, and Nathan Snell's Country Band, plus a rendition of "O' Holy Night" by Brainbow, which comes from A Very Ohio Christmas which you can find on bandcamp. 100% of the proceeds go to Gracehaven House. Buy it. Do it. Now.

Download this week's program here. Or podcast-feed-o-rama.

Play list:
Magic City - "OH/IO (Washington Beach Party)" unreleased
I'm With Stupid - "Swank-O-Pation" from 7"
Day Creeper - "Dragons / Women Of Age" from Blah 7"
Savage Pinkos - "We're So Cheap" from 7"
Way Yes - "Important" from Walkability
Old Hundred - "Babe Sweet Darlin'" from Old Hundred
Nathan Snell's Country Band - "Too Late to Worry Now" from Promo Demo
Time and Temperature - "Those Woods" from Cream of the Low Tide
Brainbow - "O' Holy Night" from A Very Ohio Christmas
Dane Terry - "No Dance for Us" live at Electraplay
Dane Terry - "Untitled #13" live at Electraplay
Dane Terry - "Hellish Little Nightingale" live at Electraplay
Dane Terry - "Silent Night" live at Electraplay

I'd like to give special thanks to Electraplay Productions. James, Tony, Nathan, Tim and anyone else I've left out. Since October, 2009 Electraplay has produced 20 sessions for pat radio, helping me realize a vision I had for the show since I started focusing on local and regional music in 2007.

You've probably noticed that the shows are coming less frequently these days. Real-life is intervening, in a good way. I'm also devoting more time to making WCRS a viable media outlet for the city of Columbus. So if you don't hear from me in a while, it's because I'm trying to make good things happen somewhere else in the music/arts/media spectrum in this town.

Happy holidays!

-- Pat

Phantods are the in-studio guests this week. They play five songs from their soon-to-be-released cd, Creature. There's also new music from Black Owls, who are doing a release show this Friday for June '71. Paul Nini of Old 3C Records also joins me to talk about the Beetkeepers reunion show coming up in December. We also listen to new Old 3C releases from Randall Douglas Matson and the Malefactors of Great Wealth.

Download the show here. (Right-click and save-as).

Playlist:
Magic City - "OH/IO (Washington Beach Party)" unreleased
The Phantods - "Creature" live at Electraplay
The Phantods - "Raise the Dead" live at Electraplay
The Phantods - "Siren Song" live at Electraplay
The Phantods - "Thieves" live at Electraplay
The Phantods - "Our Last Goodbye" live at Electraplay
Black Owls - "We All Fall Down" from June '71
Black Owls - "When It Rolls In" from June '71
Beetkeepers - "National Rose" from Beetkeepers
Beetkeepers - "Since He's Been Gone" from Beetkeepers
The Malefactors of Great Wealth - "Today" from Today is the Best Day of My Life
Randall Douglas Matson - "South St" from Motorhome Boogie
Randall Douglas Matson - "My Bowler" from Motorhome Boogie

Updated! Two more videos added. See below.

This is the first of the videos from the Earwig session that we did in September. Thanks as always to James Allison, Nathan Photos, and Tony Stewart at Electraplay. Electraplay rules!



The videos for "Glorious and Gloom" and "I Don't Want to Go" are now up.

Nick Tolford & Company are the in-studio guest this week. The band is releasing its first full-length album, Extraordinary Love, at Carabar, Saturday October 9. We also hear music from release-show guests The Compressions, ExWhites, and Holiday Mary. Harvest Kings are also releasing a cd tomorrow, Friday October 8, at Hal and Al's. We hear two songs from Cardboard Crowns by the Harvest Kings. Special thanks, as always, to James Allison and Tim Race of Electraplay Productions for recording and mixing this week's in-studio session.

And hey...this snazzy show flyer was done by Dan Lerner.

Download the show here. (Right-click and save-as).

Play List:
Holiday Mary - "Rene" from an upcoming 12" 45rpm
Holiday Mary - "Modern Girl" unreleased
Exwhites - "Swim across" from demos
Exwhites - "Steady Pace" from demos
Nick Tolford and Company - "I'm In Love" live at Electraplay
Nick Tolford and Company - "I Kissed Her" live at Electraplay
Nick Tolford and Company - "Get Down" live at Electraplay
Nick Tolford and Company - "The Answer" live at Electraplay
The Compressions - "Pacific Radio Fire" from Stomping Ground
Harvest Kings - "Hey Little Josie" from Cardboard Crowns
Harvest Kings - "Two Bedrooms" (featuring Erika Carey) from Cardboard Crowns

Amy D, of madebyAmyD.com fame, is the guest emcee this time around. She interviews Lizard McGee, and George and Constan Hondroulis of the band Earwig. Lizard talks about the Rapture, the Holocaust, a magical dwarf, and how his dreams inspire his songs. We hear five songs performed live from Gibson Under Mountain plus one new tune. Also, Amy has a fashion show happening at Wholly Craft! tomorrow night, October 1, 2010.

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Also, I haven't flaunted my podcast feed in a while: http://patradio.org/mixtape.xml. If you are impaired by using iTunes, you can automagically keep track of my podcast by starting up iTunes and clicking on this link: itpc://patradio.org/mixtape.xml.

Play List: (all songs by Earwig and "live at Electraplay")
"Lovesong Cockroach"
"Starcrossed"
"Glorious and Gloom"
"I Don't Want To Go"
"Trees"
"Rumplestilskin"

Corey Fry from Monolithic Cloud Parade and Kevin Collins from The Lost Revival chat about their new records, which will be released at a show tomorrow at Skully's.

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Play List:
Way Yes - "Color Blind" from Herringbone
El Jesus De Magico - "Ancestor Worship" from Scalping the Guru
Monolithic Cloud Parade - "The Moon Fell Into The Sea" from The Sea and the Setting Sun
Monolithic Cloud Parade - "Cowboy" from The Sea and the Setting Sun
Monolithic Cloud Parade - "Adventurer" from The Sea and the Setting Sun
Two Cow Garage - "My Great Gatsby" from Sweet Saint Me
Two Cow Garage - "Lydia" from Sweet Saint Me
The Lost Revival - "Miles Of Ghosts" from To Hell With Them All
The Lost Revival - "King Of Electricity" from To Hell With Them All
The Lost Revival - "Blue Windows" from To Hell With Them All