129 Years Ago Today...

Paul Klee
1879-1940

I know it's over... still I cling

Well, Fall broadcasting is over for the year at KWCW.

But do not fret.

I plan on putting in an application for next year.

Not sure when programming should start up again then, but I will keep you posted.

For now, show #4 (mix show #2), is coming up very soon.

I will also be putting my tail in gear on getting the rest of these other shows recorded and posted.

As ever,

Stay Tuned.

Show # 3 'Manchester... Nothing To Answer For'

Mr. Steven Patrick Morrissey said it well when he revised his statement "Manchester, so much to answer for."

In my humble opinion, if it was made in Manchester...
It is awesome.

It all started, for myself, with New Order and Joy Division.
Respectively, The Smiths and Morrissey soon followed.
Then, an 'UNCUT' magazine featuring New Order on the cover and Bernard Sumner seemingly holding the CD which came with the issue (or perhaps it's Hooky holding it, I'm still not certain). There was a very long New Order article (multiple pages long) and an awesome spread about essential Manchester records. I still have that magazine around somewhere.

It is kind of funny how a certain part of the United Kingdom has produced such greatness.
And I suppose, we have Mr. Anthony Wilson to thank for bringing much-deserved exposure to a few of these ones.

Thanks, Tony.

"My theory on Manchester and why it produces the bands it does is that because the world is willing to listen to them, it gives the kids a confidence and and a belief that what has happened before might happen again. It's something to aim for."
- Jimi Goodwin (May '00)

**download** MANCHESTER, SO MUCH TO ANSWER FOR Airdate 30th of September '08

V = Vinyl

HAPPY MONDAYS '24 Hour Party People'
JOY DIVISION 'No Love Lost'
THE FALL 'Middlemass'
BUZZCOCKS 'Ever Fallen In Love'
JOY DIVISION 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'
CURE 'The Holy Hour (live '80 - dedicated to Ian Curtis)'
A CERTAIN RATIO 'Do The Du'
MAGAZINE 'Because You're Frightened'
DURUTTI COLUMN 'The Missing Boy'
SECTION 25 'Always Now'
NEW ORDER 'Temptation (7")'
CHAMELELONS 'Less Than Human'
SMITHS 'How Soon Is Now? (Italian pressing)'
HAPPY MONDAYS 'Hallelujah (Club Mix)'
STONE ROSES 'Shoot You Down'
CHARLATANS 'The Only One I Know'
NEW FAST AUTOMATIC DAFFODILS 'Big'
JAMES 'Sometimes (Lester Piggot)'
DOVES 'Black And White Town'
I AM KLOOT 'No Direction Home'
CHAMELEONS 'Don't Fall' V

'12:13 Dream' The Cure MySpace Secret Show...

Oh dear, oh dear! Those boys are sneaky indeed!

So I'm checking my myspace page, and notice that The Cure have a new bulletin.
And this is what I see.

How MUCH I regret not being anywhere near Hollywood right now!

Unless I am mistaken, this does NOT happen often.

We are talking about a venue that only fits around 500 people!
This is a chance to be just feet away from Robert Smith!
AMAZING!

I keep thinking of The Cure 'Play Out', and how much I want to be there in that small, cramped audience, every time I watch it!
And now, people will have that opportunity Saturday, on the 13th of December.

These ones that get into the Troubadour are in for one unforgettable show!
How I envy them.

Show # 2 'The Soul Selects Her Own Society'

Mix Show # 1 (2005)

Man Ray 'Larmes (Tears)' 1930-32.

THE SOUL selects her own Society -
Then - shuts the Door -
On her divine Majority -
Obtrude no more -

Unmoved - she notes the Chariot’s - pausing -
At her low Gate -
Unmoved - an Emperor is kneeling
Upon her Mat -

I’ve known her - from an ample nation -
Choose one -
Then - close the Valves of her attention -
Like Stone -

-Emily Dickinson c. 1862


**download** THE SOUL SELECTS HER OWN SOCIETY Air date 23rd of September '08

DREDG 'Bug Eyes'
CURE 'Cut'
PLACEBO 'The Bitter End'
STELLASTARR* 'Sweet Troubled Soul'
THE NATIONAL 'Abel'
WRITTEN IN ASHES 'Inside Of You'
CURE 'If Only Tonight We Could Sleep (live)'
DEFTONES 'No Ordinary Love'
DEPECHE MODE 'Precious'
STRANGLERS 'Strange Little Girl'
CLEARLAKE 'Amber'
THE NATIONAL 'Baby, We'll Be Fine'
BLOC PARTY 'Tulips'
THE PERNICE BROTHERS 'There Goes The Sun'
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN 'Waking Up To Us'
THE NATIONAL 'Secret Meeting'
JEFF BUCKLEY 'So Real'
BAUHAUS 'Kingdom's Coming'
CURE 'End'
RADIOHEAD 'Reckoner'
MORRISSEY 'Southpaw'

Show #10 'Abstract With Memories' -SPECIAL ADVANCE download

Mix Show #4

All right, so there are a few firsts that I am about to unleash here.

First off, #10?
Yes, I know that I have jumped from show #1 to #10.

My cousin Maija expressed an enthusiasm to hear the show right away since she missed it.
And my friend Jason, who helps me out quite a lot with all of this, already had recorded the live feed from kwcw.net.

So I figured that I would jump the gun, as it were...
I had the mp3 of the show, I can edit it a bit and post a show early and out of order.
The sound quality via the internet feed is a bit too treble-ly for my preference, but it will work for now. NOTE: The show has been re-recorded! Updated link below.
Secondly, this is yet another show that I did as a sub this past Wednesday night (not my usual time slot). The show ran from around 7 pm to 10!
So it's quite a bit longer than the rest of the shows that I've been posting (you can do the math!). I was a bit flustered with this particular show. I'm not so used to being in the studio that long. Tired, hungry and having many difficulty having to reproduce the playlist (thanks crappy old pc). So please do forgive any ineptness displayed. The fabulous playlist should make up for it.
note: Halfway through the show, I allude to the fact that Jay Jay Johanson collaborated with somebody whom completely slipped my mind at the time. Sorry, it would seem that I was, at the time, suffering temporary memory loss due to EXTREME hunger. Of course the Swedish band I was thinking of was The Knife, and the song was 'Marble House'. See, I always get there in the end.
**download** ABSTRACT WITH MEMORIES Air date 26th of November '08

* = request

LIFTER 'Swing'
BLUR 'Death Of A Party'
FIERY FURNACES 'Waiting'
764-HERO 'Whenever You See Fit (DJ Dynomite Remix)'
MASSIVE ATTACK 'Future Proof'
MANDALAY 'Insensible'
TV ON THE RADIO 'Things You Can Do'
PJ HARVEY 'The Garden'
JAY JAY JOHANSON 'Colder'
MINERVE 'High-Pitched Emotions'
KISSING TIGERS 'So Stay In Love'
COLDER 'To The Music -edit'
FISCHERSPOONER 'Never Win'
LADYTRON 'Evil'
JUNIOR BOYS 'So This Is Goodbye'
JAPAN 'Nightporter'
ROYKSOPP 'Tristesse Globale'
DURUTTI COLUMN 'The Missing Boy'
VELVET UNDERGROUND AND NICO 'All Tomorrow's Parties'
WINDSOR FOR THE DERBY 'The Same'
BAND OF HORSES 'The Funeral'
WALKMEN 'Another One Goes By'
FIERY FURNACES 'Benton Harbor Blues'
DEVENDRA BANHART 'Long-Haired Child'
TV ON THE RADIO 'Province'
SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE 'The Shark's Own Private ****'
AND YOU KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD 'Mistakes And Regrets'
DEFTONES 'Hole In The Earth'
A SHORELINE DREAM 'Love Is A Ghost In America'
DEARS 'The Highest'
MEW 'Snowflake'
CURE '2 Late'

CLEARLAKE 'I'd Like To Hurt You' *

Wednesday playlist...

Wednesday proved to be quite a MAD day!

I was working non-stop all day, and I had not even put my playlist together yet, or rather recorded the discs for it. It was so go-go-go all afternoon, that I didn't get on the air until 7 pm (not 6 pm as I had planned).

SO infuriating!
I explain this a bit on the show, which will be posted eventually.

But for now you will have to settle for the playlist, since this was something I promised to post.
... She said, as if anyone was listening to actually hear that promise!

Show #10 Mix Show #4 'ABSTRACT WITH MEMORIES'

Air date 26th of November '08

* = request

LIFTER 'Swing'
BLUR 'Death Of A Party'
FIERY FURNACES 'Waiting'
764-HERO 'Whenever You See Fit (DJj Dynomite Remix)'
MASSIVE ATTACK 'Future Proof'
MANDALAY 'Insensible'
TV ON THE RADIO 'Things You Can Do'
PJ HARVEY 'The Garden'
JAY JAY JOHANSON 'Colder'
MINERVE 'High-Pitched Emotions'
KISSING TIGERS 'So Stay In Love'
COLDER 'To The Music -edit'
FISCHERSPOONER 'Never Win'
LADYTRON 'Evil'
JUNIOR BOYS 'So This Is Goodbye'
JAPAN 'Nightporter'
ROYKSOPP 'Tristesse Globale'
DURUTTI COLUMN 'The Missing Boy'
VELVET UNDERGROUND AND NICO 'All Tomorrow's Parties'
WINDSOR FOR THE DERBY 'The Same'
BAND OF HORSES 'The Funeral'
WALKMEN 'Another One Goes By'
FIERY FURNACES 'Benton Harbor Blues'
DEVENDRA BANHART 'Long-Haired Child'
TV ON THE RADIO 'Province'
SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE 'The Shark's Own Private ****'
AND YOU KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD 'Mistakes And Regrets'
DEFTONES 'Hole In The Earth'
A SHORELINE DREAM 'Love Is A Ghost In America'
DEARS 'The Highest'
MEW 'Snowflake'
CURE '2 Late'

CLEARLAKE 'I'd Like To Hurt You' *

Tune in Wednesday...

Yes. My show didn't happen Tuesday.

But no worries.

Tune into K-dub Wednesday night at 6 pm for an extended edition of 'I Hung Around In Your Soundtrack'!

Who knows, I may actually go until 10, because I have that power!

Don't forget!

This is certain not to happen again any time soon.

The 4ad Edition

Some may think it a great injustice that I chose one of my weekend hour shows to dedicate to Britain-based 4ad records.

They would be somewhat correct on this point, but at least I have recognized that fact. The show could have easily have been far longer. And I also have to admit that I was not as informative as I SHOULD have been as far as the label's history.

The reason being...
It was a very last-minute idea.

I put the whole playlist together in just hours.
It is also very difficult to choose only less than an hour's worth of 4ad alumni.

Who knows, maybe it was somewhat of a stretch, but I figured this, if anything, could serve as a preview to a more extended show.

We shall see...

*note: Obviously, the last song is not a 4ad artist, but I was just happy to have got a request!

**download** THE 4AD EDITION Air date 15th of November '08

* request

Modern English 'Sixteen Days'
Pale Saints 'True Coming Dream'
Lush 'Thoughtforms'
Cocteau Twins 'Cherry-Coloured Funk'
This Mortal Coil 'Dreams Made Flesh'
Dead Can Dance 'I Can See Now'
Red House Painters 'Things Mean A Lot'
Blonde Redhead '23'
Gus Gus 'Is Jesus Your Pal?'
TV On The Radio 'Ambulance'
Pixies 'Gigantic'
Deerhunter 'Little Kids'
Mylo 'Drop The Pressure' *

The Nocturnal Edition

My first time in the K-dub studio at night.
Thus, the 'dark' theme.

It was not all as eerie as it seems.
Just a bit strange.

As always,
Robert Smith understands...

Sunk deep in the night
I sink in the night
Standing alone underneath the sky
I feel the chill of ice
On my face
I watch the hours go by
The hours go by
You sleep
Sleep in a safe bed
Curled and protected
Protected from sight
Under a safe roof
Deep in your house
Unaware of the changes at night
At night
I hear the darkness breathe
I sense the quiet despair
Listen to the silence
At night
Someone has to be there

**download** THE NOCTURNAL EDITION Air date 8th of November '08

Legendary Pink Dots 'Blacklist'
Daniel Ash 'Candy Darling'
Bauhaus 'The Passion Of Lovers'
Sisters Of Mercy 'No Time To Cry'
Death In June 'Nothing Changes'
Damned 'Twisted Nerve'
Tullycraft 'Georgette Plays A Goth'
Siouxsie And The Banshees 'Obsession'
Cure 'At Night'

'4:13 Dream' Listening Party

ALL Cure show!

Finally, after MANY months of waiting, The Cure's 4:13 Dream has arrived!

As usual, I'm never disappointed.

Of course I didn't expect to be, especially after hearing some of the new songs played live at the Sasquatch Festival.

Saturday the 1st of November, the week that '4:13 Dream' was released, I decided a listening party was in order.

So when the opportunity arose to sub for someone at K-dub for an hour, I took it!

My sister and niece joined me this time.

It IS a listening party afterall.

All the things we never know we need...

Looks like we get them in the end.

**download** 4:13 DREAM LISTENING PARTY Air date 1st of November '08

Underneath The Stars

The Only One

Reasons Why

Sirensong

Real Snow White

Hungry Ghost

Switch

The Perfect Boy

This. Here And Now. With You

Sleep When I'm Dead

Scream

Another Weekend Adventure...

Tomorrow at 4 pm on K-dub, I will be subbing yet again.
I have been doing this quite a bit lately.
I guess I just can't get enough of it!
And in a way, I am secretly hoping more of you will have an opportunity to live in LIVE. (I guess it's not so secret anymore)

Since the weekends shows that I have done (after tomorrow I will have done 3 thus far) are only an hour long and a bit off the beaten path, I will try to post them right away.
It should not take too long; an hour show is not as strenuous to record.

This is something I feel I really need to do, since I understand not many are listening to my shows live, even on the weekend! And yes, I know our lives ARE quite busy.

Since those of you are missing out on the immediacy of it all, I hope to rectify this by posting the weekend editions by next week.

If you do happen to listen in live tomorrow at 4 pm (btw - thanks Maija, I know you have been) always expect an educational theme (er... music-wise, I'm not gonna get THAT deep, people).

So amid our trying and hectic schedules...
Don't forget to stop and smell the vinyl.

As always, Stay Tuned! ... it's good for the soul, really!

Another Saturday Later...

Guess what?
I'll be subbing at K-dub again!
Tomorrow evening from 7 to 8 pm.
I've never been in the studio at night so...
there may be a special 'dark' theme.

Tune in!

Tune in Saturday...

Tune in to KWCW this Saturday afternoon 2 to 3 pm for a special edition of 'I Hung Around In Your Soundtrack'.

The Cure '4:13 Dream' Listening Party!

Show # 1 'Left Of The Dial'

K-dub studio (2007).

I have been an avid listener of College radio now since my early teens.
I am a bit older now, well... perhaps a lot older now and I have to say my feelings about college radio have not waned.

College radio is very important!

If it had not been for a particular local college radio station, I am not sure I would listen to as many bands as I do now.

A lot of the music I listen to today, I heard for the first time on KWCW.
Nowadays, kids have the internet to broaden their musical horizons and introduce them to the next most important band in their life.
Back in the 1990's, however, I did not have that luxury.
I, as many of you 25+ ones may concur, had to discover great music the old-fashioned way, turning my radio dial oh so far to the left... until I hit 90.5 FM.

I was a total K-Dub fanatic for a long while, sticking scotch tape on the top of hundreds of old used cassette tapes so as to record until they ran out.
I still have them all somewhere lying around. It's a riot to give them a listen today. A few in particular force me to remember my Gothy/Punk days with some admitted fondness.

Not so long after, my friend Amy suggested we apply for a Summer show at K-Dub.
Finally, I would be the DJ! A dream fulfilled!
'The Easy Cure' lasted around 10 weeks back in the Summer of 1999.

Some years later, well... a lot of years later, I decided it was time to resume my DJ role and 'I Hung Around In Your Soundtrack' was born.

And so... here I pay homage to the great College Radio!

"My mind is filled with radio cures..."

**download** LEFT OF THE DIAL Airdate 16th of September 2008

Innocence Mission 'Once Upon a Summertime'
Cut Copy 'Unforgettable Season'
Church 'A New Season'
Klaxons 'It's Not Over Yet'
Replacements 'Left Of The Dial'
REM 'Radio Free Europe'
Smiths 'Panic'
Elvis Costello 'Radio Sweetheart'
Joe Jackson 'On Your Radio'
Futureheads 'Radio Heart'
Josef K 'Radio Drill Time'
Joy Division 'Transmission'
Buzzcocks 'Harmony In My Head'
Modern Lovers 'Roadrunner'
Velvet Underground 'Rock And Roll'
David Bowie 'D. J.'
Talking Heads 'Radio Head'
Modest Mouse 'Dashboard'
Spoon 'Car Radio'
Clash 'This Is Radio Clash'
M. Ward 'Radio Campaign'
Roxy Music 'Oh Yeah!'
Thomas Dolby 'Airwaves'
OMD 'Radio Waves'
Stereophonics 'I Don't Believe Your Radio'
Teenage Fanclub 'Radio'
Pavement 'My Radio'
Cure 'Down Under'

And Now... My Autumnal Adventures...

I am well into the Fall programming at KWCW and having a blast more than ever! Ideas for new shows haven't failed me yet and the 'mix' shows are not running out any time soon.

Show # 1 is coming VERY soon...

Stay tuned...

BTW- Listening to '4:13 Dream' and enjoying it A LOT!

Waiting for...

... The Cure
4:13 Dream ...

... Tomorrow!!!

Show # 10 'Cold'

Mix Show # 5


And finally the last show of the Summer.

Which means that Fall shows are soon to follow!

So stay tuned...

**download** COLD Air date 19th of August 2008

Cure 'Burn'
Cocteau Twins 'Need-Fire'
Dead Can Dance 'The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove'
Blur 'Beetlebum (Moby's Mix)'Bauhaus 'She's In Parties'
Orgy 'Fiction (Dreams In Digital)'
Kraftwerk 'The Model'
Pop Will Eat Itself There Is No Love Between Us Anymore'
Lightning Seeds 'You Showed Me'
Placebo 'Bigmouth Strikes Again'
Portishead 'Over'
Joy Division 'Heart And Soul'
Cocteau Twins 'Strange Fruit'
OMD 'Of All The Things We've Made'
Suede 'The Next Life'
Nick Cave 'Sleepy River Piano'
Magnetic Fields 'Meaningless'
The Organ 'Steven Smith'
Bjork '5 Years'
Siouxsie 'Loveless'
Bat For Lashes 'A Forest'
The Sound 'Total Recall'
Innocence Mission 'Lake Shore Drive'
Keane 'Happy Soldier'
Cure 'Without You'
Morrissey 'Disappointed'


Cover art - variations on Paul Klee's Mourning (1934)

Show # 9 'The Vinyl Solution'

All vinyl show!




I love vinyl.
And there's really not much more I can say than that...
well... maybe a little more.

I have spoke briefly of this love affair earlier.
This you will know from my second show post.
There is something very special about records.
You place that intricately grooved slice of vinyl on the turntable... subtle shivers begin instantly!
Heaven knows if this is the millioneth time that needle has hit that first groove.
I believe that is part of the true art of it all.
Oh go on and call it nostalgia if you like, that is quite all right with me.
I have always had a bit of a weakness for nostalgia, anyway.


**download / listen** THE VINYL SOLUTION Air Date 12th of August 2008

* = request

New Order 'Love Vigilantes'
Echo And The Bunnymen 'Clay'
The Damned 'Shadow Of Love'
Depeche Mode 'It's Called A Heart'
Kate Bush 'Running Up That Hill'
Elvis Costello and The Attractions 'Accidents Will Happen'
Buzzcocks 'You Say You Don't Love Me'
Cure 'Jumping Someone Else's Train'
Naked Eyes 'Burning Bridges'
Stranglers 'All Roads Lead To Rome'
OMD 'La Femme Accident'
Kraftwerk 'Pocket Calculator'
Gary Numan 'I Die : You Die'
The Beat 'Mirror In The Bathroom' *
Split Enz 'One Step Ahead'
Tallking Heads 'Warning Sign'
Pretenders 'Stop Your Sobbing'
Peter Murphy 'Indigo Eyes' *

Morrissey 'That's Entertainment' *

Stranglers 'Golden Brown' *

Replacements 'The Ledge'

REM 'So. Central Rain'

Cure 'Just One Kiss'

Comsat Angels 'Waiting For A Miracle'

Smiths 'Hand In Glove'

Jesus And Mary Chain 'Some Candy Talking'

Chameleons 'As High As You Can Go'

Clash 'Rudie Can't Fail'

::Flashback:: Show # 1 REVISITED 'Step Into My Mainstream -Redux'

As I said way back at the beginning...Show # 1 from this past Summer, just might be re-recorded.
And so, amazingly, it has actually happened!

Since I currently have the means, this past afternoon, I decided a redux was finally in order. Especially, since it will not be too long until I am posting my Fall shows.

There's a slight change in the playlist.

A bit of editing and a request from my sister to my beautiful cousin Maija.
This one is for her... Dear M.
**download** STEP INTO MY MAINSTREAM -REDUX

air date 14th of October 2008 * = Request

CURE 'Play With Me'
DEVO 'Gut Feeling / (Slap Your Mammy)'
DAMNED 'Smash It Up Pts. 1 & 2'
NEW ORDER 'Haystack'
COCTEAU TWINS 'The Spangle Maker'
CATHERINE WHEEL 'Salt'
RADIOHEAD 'Weird Fishes/Arpeggi'
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM 'Not Too Late'
KNIFE 'N.Y. Hotel'
PORTISHEAD 'The Rip'
PJ HARVEY 'The Mountain'
BAT FOR LASHES 'What's A Girl To Do'
KATE BUSH 'Hounds Of Love'
RAINCOATS 'No One's Little Girl'PIXIES 'Bird Dream Of The Olympus Mons'
JESUS AND MARY CHAIN 'Sometimes Always'
MORRISSEY 'Boxers'
GENE 'Haunted By You'
U2 'Trip Through Your Wires'
HOUSE OF FREAKS 'The Hammer Came Down'
DEER TICK 'These Old Shoes'
FELT 'Fortune'
TALKING HEADS 'Heaven'
LOU REED 'Wagon Wheel'
MAGNETIC FIELDS 'When You're Old And Lonely'
MASSIVE ATTACK 'Protection' *