Adam F organized a benefit for WCRS at Carabar, coming up this Friday, January 6. Admission, as always, is free, and a portion of the bar goes to WCRS LP-FM, your community radio station. Come out and hear your new favorite local band. Five to choose from and the music starts at 9:30, sharp. No lyin'.

CLOSET MIX (ex-members of Log, Great Plains, and Vena Cava) 9:30
HOUNDSTOOTH BINDLES (Americana murderballads) 10:30
THE FRANCIS BACON BAND (they are real good) 11:30
DAY CREEPER (loud couch rock) 12:30
SEX TIDE (hermetic/erotic dirge masters) 1:30

Aaron of Day Creeper broke three guitar strings last night as the band banged through an eight-song set for my last show on WCRS. He is a beast! Look for a new Day Creeper album in 2012. What else is going on? Sick Thrills is at Carabar tonight, releasing a 7". Them Labs also have a release show tomorrow night at Oldfield's, with The Wells and Outer Spacists. Catch Alwood Sisters at the Rumba on Black Friday (Nov 25). Dane Terry will be all over town for a brief time, playing with various peoples. Dane wants to do another Terry Xmas show at Electraplay, so look for that in the coming weeks on this humble blog (cuz it won't be on the airwaves).

Download the show. You know how: November 17, 2011 - Day Creeper

Play List:
Johnny Cash - "We'll Met Again" from American IV: The Man Comes Around
The Rolling Stones - "The Last Time" from Out Of Our Heads
The Human Beinz - "Nobody But Me" from Nobody But Me
Envelope & Jacoti Sommes (Featuring Nikki Portman) - "You Want Me To Go" from This Could Go Either Way
alwood sisters - "curtains" from Across the Lines
alwood sisters - "the shore, NYC demo" from Across the Lines
Dane Terry - "For Dinner" from Dane Terry and the Cold Orchestra
Way Yes - "Automail" from Oranjudio
Them Labs - "It Comes From Me" from Them Labs
Day Creeper - "Get Off My Wavelength" (all songs live at Electraplay)
Day Creeper - "Don't Go Back"
Day Creeper - "Everybody Else Feels the Same Way Too"
Day Creeper - "Allergic to Myself"
Day Creeper - "Underneath the Mess"
Day Creeper - "Acid Rain"
Day Creeper - "Strange Delight"
Day Creeper - "Honest Jeans"

Lydia Loveless and her band are my guests this time around. We hear four songs from her new album, Indestructible Machine, performed live at Electraplay. Catch Lydia this Thursday in Cleveland at the Beachland Tavern. She's also doing her Columbus record release this Friday, September 30, at the Rumba Cafe. Lydia is also doing an in-store performance at Lost Weekend Records, prior to the show at the Rumba. A full list of tour dates is here.

Keep your eyes peeled for videos from this session at donewaitingTV.

Download (Right-click or Cntrl+click and "Save-As"): September 25, 2011 Podcast - Lydia Loveless

Play list:
Learn to Say No
Can't Change Me
Steve Earle
More Like Them

I failed to mention it on the air, but much thanks to Tony Stewart and James Allison at Electrplay for hosting my show again this week and doing all the technical audio things that I have no clue about. They are awesome. The Lindsay is awesome as well, and they played seven songs last night in the studio and you can hear them right now by clicking on the podcast link below. You have two chances to see the Lindsay this weekend, at Carabar tonight and at the Mega City Music Marathon on Saturday. The Townsmen, You're So Bossy, and The Patsys are also on the bill tonight at Carabar. Every band in the world is playing at the MMM on Saturday. Also tonight at Kobo, Indigo Wild releases If By Sea, their debut ep. Playing with them are their Outer Sounds cohorts, Narrow and the Brights, The Blastronauts, and The Town Monster.

Download (Right-click or Cntrl+click and "Save-As"): September 8, 2011 Broadcast - The Lindsay

Play list:
The Patsys - "In and Out With You" from On The 13th Kick
You're So Bossy - "Those Dolls" from live at the Treehouse
Indigo Wild - "When you say" from If By Sea
Blastronauts - "Even the Score" from Galileo
Nick Tolford & Company - "By My Side" from Extraordinary Love
Andrew Graham & Swarming Branch - "I Stole The Lime" from Andrew Graham's Good Words
Saintseneca - "On or No" from Last
Lydia Loveless - "More Like Them" from Indestructible Machine
The Lindsay - "Cuban Mark" all songs live at Electraplay
The Lindsay - "Prize Bag"
The Lindsay - "Jangled Away"
The Lindsay - "Power Auger"
The Lindsay - "Some of Your Friends"
The Lindsay - "Iranian Eyes"
The Lindsay - "I'm a Wreck"

This show starts with three songs from Saintseneca's first full-length lp entitled Last. Don't miss their Columbus album release show this coming Wednesday night at Wild Goose Creative. They are also playing at the Mega City Marathon on September 10. Urban Scrawl 5 is also happening even as I typed this belated blog entry. Many of the bands playing this now two-day event are featured in the podcast as well.

Download (Right-click or Cntrl+click and "Save-As"): August 25, 2011 Broadcast - Saintsenneca, Urban Scrawl 5

Play list:
Saintseneca - "Blood Drawing" from Last
Saintseneca - "Cold Water History" from Last
Saintseneca - "Wonderlust" from Last
Dolfish - "Dear Voicemail: 3 Things" from Your Love is Bumming Me Out
Time and Temperature - "I Know The Caves Are Deep" from Cream of the Low Tide
The Saturday Giant - "Reptilian Stem" from You've Heard of Dragons
Way Yes - "Singing" from Walkability
Slothpop - "One" from Slothpop
Trains Across the Sea - "Holidays" from Live at Groovebox Studio
She Bears - "What Morning Brings" from I Found Myself Asleep
Maza Blaska - "Underground" live at Electraplay
Moon High - "Smoke Before My Eyes" live at Electraplay
Bicentennial Bear - "Black Quarterbacks" from Lost Summers
The Lindsay - "I'm a Wreck" from Deep in the Queue
Whoa Nellie - "Drag Bottom" live at Electraplay
Daycreeper - "Problem at Hand" from 7"

Sam and Yoni of Maza Blaska are my guests in the first half-hour. We listen to a session Maza Blaska recorded at Electraplay back in April of this year and talk about the beginnings of the band, the pursuit of unique sounds and melodies, and the desire to tell stories on this new record. Indigo Wild, Narrow & the Brights, and Duke Junior and Smokey Boots are also featured, as they are all playing with Maza Blaska at the Storyteller release show tomorrow night at Carabar. Monolithic Cloud Parade's final show is tomorrow night at the Rumba Cafe, and Speed Governor play a show Saturday at the Treehouse, with Flamtronic and In Silent Movies. I finish the show with three classic tunes from Pere Ubu, just because I wanted to hear 'em.

Download (Right-click or Cntrl+click and "Save-As"): August 18, 2011 Broadcast - Maza Blaska

Play list:
Dane Terry - "Great Ape" from Dane Terry and the Cold Orchestra
Maza Blaska - "Animals" from live at Electraplay
Maza Blaska - "Can't Stop" from live at Electraplay
Maza Blaska - "Mississippi" from live at Electraplay
Maza Blaska - "Underground" from live at Electraplay
Narrow & The Brights - "Upswing" from Another Dawn
Indigo Wild - "Rowboats" from demo
Duke Junior and Smokey Boots - "Penny" from album ruff cut
Speed Governor - "D.B." from The Crime of the Century Last Century
Monolithic Cloud Parade - "A New Ice Age" from The Sea and the Setting Sun
Mors Ontologica - "Lapse/Relapse" from Dead and / or Famous
Pere Ubu - "The Book Is On The Table" from Terminal Tower
Pere Ubu - "My Dark Ages" from Terminal Tower
Pere Ubu - "Humor Me" from Terminal Tower

Kyle Siegrist from Lost Weekend Records joins me on this edition of the radio show. It's time once again for Kyle's Lost Weekend Super Summer Spectacular at Ruby Tuesday. Kyle plays tracks from bands playing the two-night extravaganza, including exclusive stuff from Vug and Sundown. He also brings some Columbus rarities along in the form of Post Industrial Noise, Near Paris, and Hairy Bears without Frank Sinatra.

Download this broadcast (right-click or Cntrl+click this link and then "Save-As"): August 4 "Super Summer Spectacular"

Podcast Feed: http://patradio.org/mixtape.xml

Show poster by Arturo Delon (colored by Kyle). Click on it for a higher-res version.

Play List:
Envelope - "Clippers vs. Yankees" from No Token Needed Vol 3
Vug - "Nothing I Can Do" from Nothing I Can Do
Vug - "No One At All" from Nothing I Can Do
Patsys - "Gonna Be Mine" from Both Sides Never
Sundown - "Life's Too Long" soon to be released
Sundown - "Sleepy Song" soon to be released
Envelope - "I Got My Motivations" from Sharkbolt
Nick Tolford and Company - "I Kissed Her" from live at Electraplay
Chicken Hawk Bird Getters - "Don't Trip" demo
Post Industrial Noise - "Show Promo" from Anthology 1982-83
Post Industrial Noise - "Sympathy for a Mind" from Anthology 1982-83
Near Paris - "Ceiling" from Near Paris
The Hairy Bears without Frank Sinatra - "Explanations" from 7"

Whoa Nellie!! plays live at Electraplay this week. Pick up a copy of Deep Blue Me at their show with the Flyin' Saucers at Ace of Cups on August 27. Speaking of Ace of Cups, the first two bands to have the honor of rocking out at that club are Scrawl and Exwhites. Check that out this Saturday. I hear it's a free show. If that ain't enough there's a Big Day in Music happening at Woodlands, all day on Saturday. Finally, Civil War Generals have linked a download link to Battle of the Wilderness to the pat radio facebook page. Download it, for it is good.

Download last night's radio show(right-click or cntrl+click and "Save-As"): July 28 broadcast - Whoa Nellie!! live

Play List:
Civil War Generals - "WhoooOOOooo Dares" from Battle of the Wilderness
Spruce Campbells - "Far Away" from Mosques, Museums, and Mausoleums
Exwhites - "Swim Across" from 7"
Scrawl - "Garden Path" from Travel On, Rider
Day Creeper - "Dragons" from Blah 7"
Day Creeper - "Women of Age" from Blah 7"
Useless Eaters - "Daily Commute" from Daily Commute
The Lost Revival - "King of Electricity" from To Hell with Them All
Holiday Mary - "Modern Girl"
Eat Sugar - "Shadowside" from Levantese!
Whoa Nellie! - "Take It Out on Me" (all songs live at Electraplay)
Whoa Nellie! - "One Who Done Me In"
Whoa Nellie! - "Panther Hollow"
Whoa Nellie! - "If I"
Whoa Nellie! - "Me Instead"
Whoa Nellie! - "Drag Bottom"

Moon High play live in the Electraplay studio in the second half of this show. Check out their album release show for Six suns at the Rumba this Saturday night. Volatility Festival, the 10th Annual, is happening on Saturday as well. I play some bands who are entertaining at Volatility this time around.

Download this show: July 14, 2011 Broadcast
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And as always...support your friendly neighborhood community radio station.

Playlist:
Times New Viking - "Skull Versus Wizard" from Dig Yourself
Bicentennial Bear - "Cardinal Codes" from Lost Summers
Strangers In Daylight - "Tax Returns" from Strangers In Daylight
Mooncussers -" Foolish" from Aperitif
Harvest Kings - "Just Like Yesterday" from Cardboard Crowns
Ghost Shirt - "Wolfpack!!!" from recorded live at Electraplay
Alwood Sisters - "Get Up Get Out" from Black Falcon & the Forest Spirit
Nathan Snell and the Country Band - "Don't Tell Me" from live at Mug and Brush
Moon High - "Seasons" (all songs live at Electraplay)
Moon High - "Tell Me Lies"
Moon High - "Smoke Before My Eyes"
Moon High - "Kentucky Moonshiner"
Moon High - "On and On"
Moon High - "I'll Be Here in the Morning" (Townes Van Zandt cover)

The CMC's 6th annual Parking Lot Blowout takes place this Saturday. The first half of this broadcast covers the bands in order of appearance. Joey Hebdo is doing a happy hour set at the Rumba tonight. The Saturday Giant plays with Wing and Tusk at Kobo tomorrow. And Saturday night B.J. of CDR/Necropolis/Vile Gash fame is turning 30. He's celebrating at Carabar by having his friends play Flipper covers. Even I remember Flipper. It was almost...30 years ago...

Download this show: July 7 podcast
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Electro-magic iTunes podcast subscription link: itpc://patradio.org/mixtape.xml

Play List:
Mooncussers - "Jessimine And I" from Aperitif
Blastronauts - "I Am a Ferris Wheel" from Galileo
Maza Blaska - "Broken Hearted Summer" from Home Recordings & Demos 2010
Righteous Buck & the Skull Scorchers - "Barabbas" from Deep River
Ugly Stick - "Soul Satisfaction" from Still Glistening
Exwhites - "no more issues" from demos
The Lindsay - "Your Supply" from Deep in the Queue
Denovo - "Dead Air" from Cringe.com/pilation volume 4
Weezer - "el Scorcho" from Pinkerton
Hebdo - "Where is the Love" from prosciutto
The Saturday Giant - "You're Bloody! We're Hungry!" from You've Heard of Giants
Flipper - "Sex Bomb" from Generic Flipper

Times New Viking roll back into town tomorrow night at the Wexner Center, along with Psandwich, Mike Rep and Tommy Jay. Spd Gvnr is at the Treehouse on Saturday. Rumtum, Shin Tower Music and Alleyes Path are at Carabar on Saturday as well. Plus I sample some of that awesome new lp by the Lindsay and the cassette release from Day Creep (Aaron Troyer of Day Creeper)

Download the podcast right now! (Right-click or Cntrl+click and Save-As): June 30 WCRS broadcast

Podcast Feed: patradio.org/mixtape.xml

Play List:
Times New Viking - "Ways to Go" from Dancer Equired
Times New Viking - "Want to Exist" from Dancer Equired
The Lindsay - "Power Auger" from Deep in the Queue
Day Creep - "Youth Shadow" from Underneath the Mess
Day Creep - "Acid Rain" from Underneath the Mess
Static Vessels - "Amoeba" from The Lovely Morning
Hebdo - "Come For Me" from prosciutto
Eric Nassau - "Borderline" from What's Left of Empty Space
Spd Gvnr - "Grant Park Compact" from 7"
Whoa Nellie! - "Everybody's Happy Now" from Showed Up Anyway
Mors Ontologica - "All the Kingsmen" from Hot Mess
Rumtum - "Red Room" from Soundcloud
SHIN TOWER MUSIC - "Everything At Once" from Mental Gold
alleyes path - "Merry Go Round" (featuring Illogic) single
Psandwich - "Sketchnya" live at Ruby Tuesday

Before the maelstrom that is "summer vacation" started for me, I had Bicentennial Bear in at Electraplay for our first-ever live broadcast. You can hear the results below. There's also live Psandwich, recorded back in February by Sperry, plus new stuff from Raw Milk. I'll post a play list later if I can find the time.

See Bicentennial Bear this Sunday at Comfest. Offramp stage.

Download: June 9, 2011 Podcast

Band photo by Erika Ray Photography.

Elvis Costello and the Imposters ripped through almost 30 songs in their two-plus hour set last night at the LC Pavilion, with a little help from audience members who helped construct the night's play list via a giant spinning wheel with 40 song titles on it.

It's a gimmick Elvis employed 25 years ago on the first 'spinning song book' tour, and he's resurrected the concept this spring, first with a few dates in major markets and then an expanded tour throughout June and July. I feel fortunate that the tour, now called "The Revolver Tour", touched down in Columbus last night, as I missed the original spinning song book tour, lo those many years ago.

Elvis relished his master-of-ceremonies role, as he plucked members of the audience and brought them on stage to spin the wheel. The lucky fans then got to sit in the "Society Lounge", a small bar next to a go-go dancing stand, while they enjoyed their selection. The free-spirited fans among the selected soon joined the dancer in the go-go cage.

Costello's voice showed signs of wear during slower balads like "Long Honeymoon" and "God Give Me Strength". He compensated by giving up-close-and-personal deliveries of the song, as he wandered through the crowd with a cordless mic. To call the vibe at the front of the stage a love-fest would be an understatement.

Elvis played several different guitars with abandon throughout the set. It's a guitar geek's dream watching these instruments come out over the course of the evening. While he's derisively referred to his guitar playing prowess as "little hands of concrete", I've always felt that Costello knows his limitations yet still adds effective solos to match the more frenetic numbers in his repertoire.

The Imposters were in top-notch form as usual. Pete Thomas (drums) and Davey Faragher (bass) made the rhythm seem effortless all night long. Keyboardist Steve Nieve switched from piano, to organ, to theremin, adding clever fills to some songs. The one I remember the most was "If I Only Had a Brain" from The Wizard of Oz, creeping into the end of the finale, "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love and Understanding". A smile broke out on Nieve's face as he played the tune and glanced at his bandmates, and I thought that this must be how one must keep it fresh after playing the same songs night after night.

But it's not the same songs, at least not the same songs in the same order, thanks to the serendipity of the spinning wheel.

The best thing about the show was the reactions of the folks chosen to come on stage to spin the wheel. Elvis picked a number of youngsters, maybe between 13 and 17 years-old, throughout the night. One boy welled-up on stage and gave Elvis a big hug. Another girl had The Singing Dictionary with her and opened it up to the song she wanted him to sing. Elvis looked at it, muttered something and then asked the girl's friend to spin the wheel. It landed on "God Give Me Strength". When it was done, the guitar tech handed Elvis a battered, red Stratocaster, and he launched into the song that the girl had requested from her songbook, "Less Than Zero". She started tearing-up as he played it, and gave him a hug and a peck on the cheek before being ushered off stage. She couldn't have been more than 16. It does my heart good to know that his music still resonates with young folks.

One clever son got his father and himself on stage with a hand-made sign that read "Mr Dynamite, please choose my dad on Father's Day." The boy's dad was ecstatic when the wheel landed on "Chelsea", and he danced in the go-go booth with a big grin on his face. Elvis took a short break after that tune and then came back out to sing "My Three Sons" in honor of Father's Day.

Near the end of the show, Elvis cheated (not the first time) to get the wheel to land on "Alison". Other highlights included a sing-along on "Everyday I Write the Book" and a cover of the Beatles' "And Your Bird Can Sing". "This is the Revolver Tour, after all," Elvis said, before starting the tune.

If you are a fan of 1977-86 era Elvis Costello, this tour will not disappoint, especially if you can get the wheel to land on "Happy" for Get Happy!!. See the play list (linked below) and you'll know what I mean.

Set list (from setlist.fm)

The Black Swans are releasing Don't Blame the Stars tomorrow night at the Rumba Cafe. There's also a two-night benefit for Joe Peppercorn at the Treehouse tomorrow and Saturday. Please stop in, make a donation, and stay for some awesome rock'n'roll music. Also, Ampline, from Cincinnati, are playing tonight at the Treehouse with The Garrison and Dead Indians. Finally, Organ Grinder Productions are throwing a Sadie Hawkins Dance at 400 Rich to usher the Dewdropper's EP into the world. That's happening on Saturday night. It's June. It's summer. Bring it.

Download this show (right-click or Cntrl+click and "Save As" this link): June 2, 2011 Broadcast

Play List:
In Silent Movies - "Smokescreen" from They Had Faces Then
Alert New London - "Silverdrive"
The Garrison - "Mind the Gap"
Ampline - "Passengers In Sleeping Trains" from You Will Be Buried Here
Moviola - "Disaster" (download it)
Alwood Sisters - "Water" from Black Falcon & the Forest Spirit
The Black Swans - "Blue Bayou" from Don't Blame the Stars
Strangers In Daylight - "Technical Blond" Strangers In Daylight
The Kyle Sowashes - "1997" from The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald 7"
Ghost Shirt - "Civil War" from Daniel
Two Cow Garage - "What Dying Is For" Sweet Saint Me
New City Gypsy - "Tugboat" from The Night Never Sleeps
The Receiver - "Goliath" from Decades
SHIN TOWER MUSIC - "Pink & Blue" from Mental Gold
The Dewdroppers - "Rosaline" from Comfest 2010 Demo

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)