Saturday, January 29, 2011

Playlist for 1/28/11: Bandwagon Jumpin'








It’s all Packers, all the time these days, so my opening theme was actually mandated by state law. New releases this week from the Witches, the Singing Loins and Government Cheese along with interviews with Brian Case of Disappears and Dangerbird Records’ Jeff Castelaz, who talked about the Pablove Foundation.

Download or stream the Jan. 28 show right here.

Green Onions – The 5.6.7.8.’s
Green Fuz – Randy Alvey & The Green Fuz
Wear Something Green – Jimmy Reed
Ode to Green – Clock Hands Strangle
Solid Gold (Thru and Thru) – The Real Kids
Pure Country Gold – Pure Country Gold
Pure Gold – Heavy Trash
Heart of Gold – Bill Kirchen

(We’re Gonna Do It) Naturally – Pure Country Gold

Interview with Brian Case of Disappears

Not Romantic – Disappears
Underwater To – Tyevk

Dying for Your Love – The Singing Loins
When It Rains, It Pours – Billy “The Kid” Emerson
After It’s All Over – Yvonne & Yvette
Get High Babe – John Wesley Coleman

Local Lunchbox
Little Gurl – The Obsoletes
I Won’t Let You Down – Ian Olvera & The Sleepwalkers
Fog – Call Me Lightning

Down on Ugly Street – The Witches
Empty Heart – Coba Seas
Mystery Girl – The Mono Men
I Saw You – The Frowning Clouds

Don’t Blame Your Troubles on Me – Paul Collins
Partytown U.S.A. – Jimmy Silva & the Empty Set
I Can’t Turn You Loose – The Plimsouls
Luke the Drifter – Lenny Kaye Connection

Camping on Acid – Government Cheese
Sunday Driver – Government Cheese
Stay With Me – Government Cheese


Interview with Jeff Castelaz of Dangerbird Records and the Pablove Foundation


Everyone’s Hip – Jaill
The Roller – Beady Eye

I Want You – The Godfathers
Beef Bologna – The Shitbirds
Reach That Woman – Bloodshot Bill
Rolling Stones Rice Krispies Jingle – The Great Gaylord with the Condo Fucks
Saturday Night – The Dwarves
17 Poles – The Supersuckers

I’m Coming Home – T-Model Ford
Party Hardy – Larry Dale and Wild Jimmy Spruill

Monday, January 24, 2011

Playlist for 1/21/11: Cry Baby








The first set pays tribute to the midnight hour - or at least the way I've been spending mine lately! Love you, Julia!

Download or stream the 1-21 show right here.

Cry Baby – The Sugar Stems
Baby Don’t Cry – Little Bob Story
Crybaby – The New Heathens
Cry Like a Baby – The Accelerators
Cry Baby Cry – Van & Titus
Crybaby – Percy Mayfield
My Baby Crying – Bill Fox

Louise – Swag
Gino is a Coward – The Spitballs
Same Mistakes – Chopper
No Way Girl – Jay Banerjee
Here I Go Again – The Spongetones

Trash Talking Woman – The Electric Mess
You Put the Hex on Me – Supercharger
Mustard – The Saints
Do the Robot – The Saints
Have a Say – The Hussy
Kill Yer Speed – The X-Rays

Local Lunchbox

12 Steps - Jonathan Burks
I Don’t Want to Wake Up – Jonathan Burks
Blood on the Saddle – Brian Ritchie & the Ghastly Trio
Predator Weapons – Drugs Dragons

Out of this World – King Uszniewicz & the Uszniewicztones's
Shortnin’ Bread – The Ready Men
Be Billy – Pat & the Californians
Walkin’ With Frankie – Frankie Lee Sims
Sexy Ways – Hank Ballard & The Midnighters

Red Dress – T-Model Ford & GravelRoad
Bulldog – Doo Rag
Purple Haze – Shockabilly

Waiting for the Gin to Hit Me – The Skeletons
Hair of the Dog – Ronnie Self
Teeney Weeney Man – Jimmy Wolford
Dough Got Low – NRBQ

I Want Everything – The Godfathers
I Want Answers – House of Freaks
Tear Up This Town – The Magnolias
Greaseboro - Adam Thorn & the Top Buttons

World Has a Ways to Go – The Ugly Beats
Happy – The Sights
Truckstop Queen – Rachel Sweet
Bone Dry Dirt – Southern Culture on the Skids
Little Sally Walker – Syl Johnson
Should I Care – Steve Alaimo
Dizzy Miss Lizzy – Larry Williams
Hanging on the Telephone – The Nerves

Simon Simone – The Figgs
Robert Ford – The Million Sellers
See You Tonight – The Volebeats
Far Far Away – The Cheepskates
Baby, I Dig Love –The What Four
I’ll Go Crazy – Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels
I Got You – Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels

Friday, January 14, 2011

Playlist for 1-14-11: Financing My Romance











Same day as the show aired? Amazing! Thanks to Erin for covering the first 20 minutes of my show. Not much in the way of new music this week, but there's plenty to enjoy, including a live performance from Sat. Nite Duets!

Download or stream the show right here.

Don’t Hurt Me Now – The Parting Gifts
Boom Boom – John Lee Hooker
Across the Wire – Calexico
Evil Ways – Black Mountain
Surf/Drag – Red Stuff
Baby – Warpaint

Gimme Back My Dog - Slobberbone
Financing His Romance - The Bottle Rockets
Wanted to be - Two Cow Garage
She's the One - Stephanie Finch and the Company Men
Put 'em In The Graveyard - Marah

Needle In The Camel's Eye - Waxing Poetics
You're Not Her - Loose Rails
Marlena - The Lackloves

Local Lunchbox
Next Victim – Plexi 3
All I Wanna Do – Trolley
999 Names of Love – The Squares
Born in ’77 - Trolley

Into The City - Teenage Fanclub
Roddy McCorley - Shane MacGowan & the Popes
Dark End Of The Street - Rico Bell
David Ruffin's Tears - Paul K And The Weathermen

Tell Me When It's Over - Joe Pernice
The Other Side – Steve Wynn & the Miracle 3
Big Soft Punch - The Clean
#1 Hit Song - The Minutemen

Smoke On, Jerry - The Minus 5
Cut and Paste - Bastards of Melody
Julie Is A Junkie - The Eastern Dark
Good Time Johnny – Ramma Lamma
My Danger - Shake Appeal

Wedding Boots - Finger
Hero of Gold - Brimstone Howl
Rattlesnake - The Replacements
Hidden Charms - The Gories
Fat Back – Link Wray & The Raymen

Trudy - Johnny Carroll
Our Little Rendezvous - Downliners Sect
Hot Dog - Dale Hawkins

Ski Storm (Part One) - The Snowmen

Sat. Nite Duets - Live in the Studio

Shake Real Low - BBQ

Sat. Nite Duets - Interview

The Lone Ranger of Love - Jack Oblivian and The Tennessee Tearjerkers
Heavy Kids - Leather Uppers
I Wanna Destroy That Boy - The No- Talents
My Bucket's Got a Hole in it - Jawbone

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Playlists for 12-31-10 and 1-7-11: 2010 Favorites













Used the last Zero Hour of 2010 to peek back at the year and consider my favorite new albums, reissues and compilations. For me, there was a lot to enjoy in 2010, so it wasn't hard to fill up a show. In fact, I forgot to bring a few albums with me and ran out of time on others, so I even started the Jan. 7 show with a few more 2010 favorites. Thanks for tuning in to Zero Hour as always - I look forward to bringing you more nutiness in 2011!

Check out my top 10 list for 2010 here.

Stream or download the Dec. 31 and Jan. 7 shows right here.

Playlist for 1-7Another Year Again - The Sadies
I Want You Back - The Plimsouls
Untamed Love - Hipbone Slim & the Knee-Tremblers
Every Day is the Day of the Dead - Ray Wylie Hubbard
All The Way To Denver - The Candy Snatchers

Bad Detective (demo) – The New York Dolls
I Love You (demo) - The Heartbreakers
Secret Agents - The Olympics
Henry's Got Flat Feet (Can't Dance No More) - Hank Ballard & the Midnighters
Teenage Letter - The Count Bishops
Who's got mine? - The Jim Jones Revue

Star Light Star Bright - Vermillion Sands
Something for Yourself – The Mullens
Cellophane – The Mullens
Lonesome Town - The Downbeat 5
Influenza - Big Lazy
Master/Mistress - The Piney Gir’ Country Roadshow
Psychopharmacology – Grandpaboy

Local Lunchbox
Tiger Don’t Change Its Stripe - Ramma Lamma
She’s a Psycho - Couch Flambeau
Radio Suicide - Kill-a-Watts
Truthin’ - Ramma Lamma

Through That Hallway - Adam Thorn & The Top Buttons
Here We Go Again - Hobart Willis & the Back Forty
She's A Hurricane - 6 String Drag
Cry Like A Baby - The Accelerators
Expressway To Your Heart - Adam Thorn And The Top Buttons

Louie, Louie – Coba Seas
Gloria – Goba Seas

Bang Bang – Dexter Romweber
It’s Karate Time – Travis Wammack
We Are Workers for the Lord - Yvonne & Yvette

How Many More Years - T-Model Ford & Gravelroad
Chicken Head Man - Ten Foot PoleCats

Slop Jar Blues - '68 Comeback
Prodigal Son – Rev. John Wilkins
Walking Through the Sleepy City – The Parting Gifts

Don’t Shoot Me Baby (I’m Not Ready to Die) – Bill Bowen & the Rockets
Nautiloid Surf - The Nautiloids
Why Did My Baby Turn Bad – The Invitations
Hook, Line and Sinker – The Minits
What’d I Say (Pt. 1) – Jerry Lee Lewis
What’d I Say (Pt. 2) – Jerry Lee Lewis
Dope Sniffin' Dog - Jack. O And The Tear Jerkers
Jenna Lee - The Little Killers
The Crawl - Guitar Junior
Shake Some Action (live) – Charlie Pickett
Wake Up Little Susie – Johnny Copeland

Playlist for 12-31
Colored Lights - Steve Wynn & The Miracle 3
Dress On – The Tandoori Knights
Lusty Lil’ Lucy - Nick Curran And The Lowlifes
If You Want Me To – The Sugar Stems
Ding Dong Party – The Ding Dongs

Bike + Stick - The Goodnight Loving
Burnt Orange - Hoodoo Gurus
I Don't Want To Be Like This - The Parting Gifts
(Yeah, Baby) It's Because Of You - Outrageous Cherry
Looking at You - Wheels On Fire
Go Give Yer Love Away - Wheels On Fire

You Spin Me Round - The Titty Twisters Orchestra
Earthquake - Slim Cessna's Auto Club
Suburban Soul Man - The Master Plan
Gonna Find a Cave - Mondo Topless
Do The Do - The Senders

Local Lunchbox
Laundry & Cigarettes Ian Olvera & the Sleepwalkers
Costume – Trapper Schoepp & the Shades
The Man In Me - Chris DeMay
Innerstates - Juniper Tar
Twenty-Two Forevs - Jonathan Burks
Chuds in Love - Drugs Dragons
Red Light – Sticks ‘N Stones

Jacquline Susann - Pernice Brothers
Unbalanced In the City - Outrageous Cherry
We Don’t Like to Forget – The Volebeats
You Were So Warm - Nada Surf

Where Was My Brain? – Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
Slow Drip - Superchunk
How's The Grave - Jaill
My God’s Bigger Than Your God – The Vaselines
Said That You Was Cool - The Sidewalks

On the Move - Pierced Arrows
Thunder Road - The Range Rats
Black Velvet Elvis - Carnival Season
Queen of the Blues - Finger
Back to Zero – Tommy Keene

Beyond the Law – Iggy Pop & James Williamson
She’s a Rainbow - Davila 666
Lipstick Burn - Overnight Lows
Never Been Kissed – No Bunny
I Get Nothin From My Girl – Mark Sultan

Broadway - Hank Ballard
Roll Roll Train - Hasil Adkins
Whole Lotta Shaking Going On - Timmy Thomas
One More Time - Roy Head & The Traits
Great Googly Moo - The Spaniels
That Beat's Got The Devil In It - Lenis Guess

Three Nights – The Successful Failures
It's The Music That Makes Me - Southern Culture on the Skids

Nashville Pussy: They Scare You Some (1998)

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