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NonDescript Playlist: 17 Aug 07

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Another playlist for my Friday show called NonDescript, airing at 1pm PDT. You can listen on my website (top of the right hand sidebar), or choose one of KCSB’s many webcast options.

Song, Artist, Album
Elevator Man, The Golden Dogs, Everything In 3 Parts
Cosi veloce, Jonathan Richman, Not So Much To Be Loved As To Love
Tremolo, Lismore, We Could Connect Or We Could Not
Doorways, Lotus, Float
Shadows of Tomorrow, Madvillain (fea. Quasimoto), Madvillainy
The Police And The Private, Metric, Live It Out
Electricity, Midway, Fist Full Of Quarters
Fire and Roses, Mimi, Soak
Are You Gypsified, Olaf Hund/Ursari De Clejani/Taraf De Haïdouks/Koçani Orkestar, Electric Gypsyland
Ashes to Ashes, Digital Spacepop Replicant, ib: Pop Artificielle
A Hit In Sweden, Say Hi To Your Mom, Numbers & Mumbles
The continuing struggle…, Sluts of Trust, We are all Sluts of Trust
Dead Wood, The Witnesses, Black Eyes White Lies
All The World Is Green, Tom Waits, Blood Money
It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier, Tom Lehrer, An Evening (Wasted) With

NonDescript Playlist: 11 Aug 07

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Yeah, I’m an absentee blogger these days, but such is life sometimes.

I will be on KCSB this (Friday) afternoon from 1p-2p hosting a music show called NonDescript - the playlist of said show is below. You can listen to the show on this very website by using the player in the upper right corner of the sidebar, or by visiting KCSB’s website and choosing one of webcast options listed.

Kathy In Her Bedroom, Bedroom Walls, Homemade Hits, Vol.2
Please Remain Calm, Cloud Cult, The Meaning Of 8
Sometimes Always, Brakes, Give Blood
Beginners, Faces On Film, Seven Sisters EP
Jacqueline, Fire Engines, 1981 - Codex Teenage Premonition (Bonus Tracks)
Stray Dog And The Chocolate Shake, Grandaddy, Sumday
(I Gotta) Feel, Lovetones, Meditations
American Rage, The Majestic Twelve, Schizophrenology
I Know What Women Want, My Robot Friend, Hot Action!
This City Is Dark and Cold, Our Delay, MySpace Download
Shady Lane, Pavement, Brighten The Corners
Natural Born Lover, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Naturally
Pushin’ On, The Quantic Soul Orchestra fea. Alice Russell, (Title Track)
I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend, The Rubinoos, Back To The Drawing Board
Leave Me Alone, Randy Pike, Big Mouth Master
Children of December, The Slip, Eisenhower
Stairway To Heaven, Rolf Harris, The Money or the Gun

NonDescript Playlist: 20 July 2007

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So in addition to The Friday Riff, I am hosting another radio show called NonDescript on Fridays at 1pm PDT. You can listen to the show on this very website by using the player in the sidebar, or by visiting KCSB’s website directly and selecting one of the webcast options.

To entice you to listen, here’s the playlist for the next show (Friday, July 20th):

Song, Artist, Album
Brian Song, Monty Python, Sings
867-5309, Less Than Jake, Loser, Kings, and Things We Don’t Understand
I`ve Been Thinking (Featuring Cat Power), Handsome Boy Modeling School, White People
The Hips (The Captain), Kids These Days, All These Interruptions
Draft Dodger Rag, Kind Of Like Spitting, Learn: The Songs Of Phil Ochs
Waiting For Mary, Pere Ubu, Cloudland
My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, The Persuasions, Frankly A Cappella
Working On a Beautiful Thing, The Pooh Sticks, Optimistic Fool
Sweet Transvestite, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Soundtrack
4 Out Of 5, Soul Coughing, Irresistible Bliss
Missing Persons, Tin Huey, Disinformation
Diamond In Your Mind, Tom Waits, Healing The Divide
Ever Fallen In Love, Nouvelle Vague, Bande A Part
Lawnmower Boy, Nous Non Plus, …Nous Non Plus
My Winter Vacation (Featuring Dose One), Populous, Queue For Love

Still poisoning pigeons after all these years

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on Wednesday, 18 July 2007
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The internet is awesome. Here’s a video of one of the most brilliant satirists of the twentieth century, Tom Lehrer.

http://www.archive.org/download/lehrer/lehrer_full.flv
A snippet from from Irving “Kaps” Kaplansky’s 80th Birthday Celebration

My favorite from this clip is the tune on Sociology… but I can think of a few people who may not find it so funny.

Web Radio: SoundExchange Won’t Enforce Payments

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on Friday, 13 July 2007
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So I had a post all ready to beg everyone and anyone who visits this blog - either on purpose or on accident - to call their congressional representatives and urge them to act before the July 15th deadline put services like Pandora, Live365, SomaFM, and other amazing web-based stations out of business. And when all hope seemed lost, Eliot Van Buskirk of Wired: Listening Post made the following announcement:

At today’s Congressional hearing about the new rates for online radio that would essentially destroy it (as readers of this blog already know), SoundExchange, which was scheduled to receive the new royalty payments on Monday morning (since the enforcement date falls on a Sunday), made a startling statement.

The SoundExchange executive [Jon Simson, executive director] promised — in front of Congress — that SoundExchange will not enforce the new royalty rates. Webcasters will stay online, as new rates are hammered out.

So what gave SoundExchange this change of heart? According to Pandora’s founder Tim Westergren (from the Wired article):

“This is a direct result of lobbying pressure, so if anyone thinks their call didn’t matter, it did. That’s why this is happening.”

I really hope that’s true. Lord knows, I had my doubts about Senator Feinstein. After I placed a call and sent an email to her office, I learned that the largest contributer to Sen. Feinstein’s campaign, according to the Center for Public Integrity, is “entertainment media”. That can’t be good.

I also learned that Feinstein’s former Chief of Staff, Mark Kadesh, has recently taken a position at the Music First Coalition, another RIAA-founded organization that will be seeking to raise royalty rates for terrestrial-based radio stations in the near future. That REALLY can’t be good.

Hopefully, this will by some time for congressional intervention. This is about the time I make some sarcastic comment about congress and the war in Iraq. Not today, folks… not today.