Playlist for 3-4-11: Smilers Never Lose

Go away winter. New releases this week from Davila 666, Nick Lowe, Johnny Cash and Jonathan Burks. Plus, Trent Fox & the Tenants showed up to deliver a sweaty live set!

Download or stream the show right here.

Sunshine of Your Love – Ella Fitzgerald
I See Only Sunshine – Box Tops
Sunshine USA – Randy Whitburn
Open Up Your Heart & Let the Sunshine In – Pebbles & Bam Bam
Sunshine – The Meat Purveyors
You Are My Sunshine – Andre Williams
You Are My Sunshine – Travis Wammack

Oh Yeah – Government Cheese
Ooh Wee – The Accelerators
Night to Remember – Go Time

9th Ward Breakdown – Quintron
Alleys of Your Mind – The Dirtbombs
Black Wave – Wheels on Fire

Big River – Johnny Cash
Coo-Coo Bird – Andy Dale Petty
If This is Love – Charlie Pickett & The MC3
Where the Sidewalk Ends – Pat Todd & the Rankoutsiders

Local Lunchbox
Take the Money & Run – Killdozer
Hottentot – Killdozer
One for the People – Killdozer
Pig Foot & Beer – Killdozer

I Need a Woman (Cause I’m a Man) – The Mighty Hannibal
Love Me – The Phantom
The Hawg, Pt. 1 – Eddie Kirk
Cracker Barrel – Left Lane Cruiser
Bring it to Jerome – South Filthy

Vengeance Will Be Mine – The Matadors
Stacker Lee & Billy – Ike & Tina Turner
Chicken Scratch – The Commandos
A Handful of Memories – Baby Washington

Zombie – The Dyes
Mala – Davila 666
Heisse Hexe – Two Tears
No Friend of Mine – Bob Hocko & the Swamp Rats

She Brings – The Insomniacs
You & Me – The Strand
Dose of You – Nick Lowe
Lies for You – Palmyra Delran
Attack of the Misfit Toys – The Witches

Two Step – Jonathan Burks
Running Away From Home – The Singing Loins
C’mon Levi – Occult Detective Club
Gudby to Jane –The Condo Fucks

Trent Fox & the Tenants live in the studio!

Babba Diddy Baby – The Heart Attacks

Interview with Trent Fox & The Tenants

Matchbox – Ralph “Soul” Jackson

Playlist for 2/25/11: Something Wild

This week’s opening theme was brought to you by the year 1986, 25 years gone. Watched this movie, also of 1986 vintage and starring Melanie Griffith, Jeff Daniels, and by gosh The Feelies, when I got home. New music from the Insomniacs, Occult Detective Club and Left Lane Cruiser. Tune in next week for a live set from Trent Fox & the Tenants.

Download or stream the Feb. 25 show right here.

How Far Can Too Far Go ? – The Cramps
Slipping Into Something – The Feelies
Erica’s Word – Game Theory
Truck Train Tractor – The Pastels
I Was Lead to Believe – Thee Mighty Caesars

Up From the Underground – Occult Detective Club
Weinerschnitzel – The Descendents
Surf Combat – Naked Raygun
Thorns in Roses – The Exploding Hearts
Their Walls Around You – Occult Detective Club

Jokes – Trent Fox & the Tenants
St. Lita Ford Blues – Redd Kross
Get Me Back – Teengenerate
Pain in the Ass – The Candy Snatchers
Dairy Queen – The Dwarves

Go No Further – The Demolition Doll Rods
354 – The Devil Dogs

Local Lunchbox
Can’t Take My Eyes Off You – Fatty Acids
Function of the Heart – Faux Fir
Light Polluted Constellations – Fatty Acids
Modern Love – Faux Fir

Just Enjoy – The Insomniacs
Alice White – The Insomniacs
Funkensteen – The Insomniacs
Help Murder Police – The Insomniacs
My Favorite Story – The Insomniacs
Mental Holiday – The Insomniacs

All Night Boppin’ – The Real Kids
I Wanna Dance With You – Caroline & The Treats
Agile, Mobile and Hostile – The Goldstars
Miniskirt Blues – Simon Stokes & The Heathen Angels
Adult High – Preacher’s Kids
You Give Me Nothing – The Fleshtones

A Likely Lad – Hans Rotenberry & Brad Jones
Don’t Look Down – The Shazam
Fair Weather Fans – The Baseball Project

Put Your Love on Me – Jack Oblivian
You Talk I Listen (Goin to the Get High Shack) – Ross Johnson
Wild, Wild Women – Tav Falco and the Unapproachable Panther Burns
A Gal Named Joe – Mac Sales w/ the Esquire Trio
Pure Sugar Cane – John Paul Keith and the One Four Fives

24 Hr. – Left Lane Cruiser
Judgment Day – Jack O’ Fire
I’m a Lover Not a Fighter – Dowliners Sect
Maybe I Was Wrong – Bleed
Speed Kills – Bleed
I’m Gonna Be a Wheel – The Senders
Baptize Me in Wine – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
Take Some Ludes and Get Funky – Johnny Legend and his Rockabilly Bastards
You Got to Move – Rev. John Wilkins

Playlist for 2-4-11: The rabbit sat down and cried just like a little child

Blind Lemon Jefferson and others helped me salute the Year of the Rabbit to open the show. New music this week from the Godfathers, the Fleshtones, the Dirtbombs, Trent Fox & The Tenants, and Hans Rotenberry & Brad Jones. Tune into WMSE this Friday from noon to 3 p.m. when the legendary Godfathers stop by Zero Hour. And speaking of legends, Paul Collins, the king of power pop himself, will perform on Zero Hour on Feb. 18!

Update: Due to a visa mishap, the Godfathers show Friday in Milwaukee has been cancelled, so no Zero Hour visit. Dang it.

Download or stream the Feb. 11 show right here.


Jack Rabbit – Icky Renrut
Blue Jumped the Rabbit - Elmo Williams & Hezekiah Early
Rabbit Foot Blues – Blind Lemon Jefferson
I Hates Rabbits – Jerry Neal
Peter Rabbit – The Presidents
Buckingham Rabbit – The Silver Jews

Froggy Mountain Shakedown – Hans Rotenberry & Brad Jones
Pearly Gates – The Mockers
Miles & Miles to Go – Brad Jones
Little Truths – Bastards of Melody

Bite of My Soul – The Fleshtones
Cosmic Cars – The Dirtbombs
Your Beating Heart – Jay Banarjee
Why Do U Make Me Feel Like That – The Witches

Local Lunchbox
Mess Around - Trent Fox & The Tenants
(It’s Always) Rico, Rico, Rico – The Mistreaters
Dude Squad – The Mistreaters
Kiss You – Ramma Lamma

Funky Football – Harvey Scales & The Seven Sounds
I Resign From Your Love – Syl Johnson
Mom, Won’t You Teach Me to Monkey – Little Emmet Sutton
Football – The Swinging Seven

Leave My Kitten Alone – The Sonics
Tiger Man – Rufus Thomas
Put the Pot On Mary – Poontang Perkins
Sick, Sick, Sick – Terry Corin & Her Boyfriends

Back Into the Future – The Godfathers
Why Do We Have to Meet in the Dark – Thee Wylde Oscars
It’s My Life – Coba Seas
Bailando – Los Explosivos
Cherry Bomb – Wheels on Fire

People Who Died – Government Cheese
Kentucky Home – Government Cheese
I Miss Ronald Reagan – Daddy
Throwing it All Away – Adam Thorn & The Top Buttons

Any Good Englishman – The Singing Loins
Look Out! – Peter Case
Helen – Paul Collins
I Don’t Want to Be Like This – The Parting Gifts
Sadness Kicked the Door In – The Volebeats

Try Me One More Time – The Demon’s Claws
I Don’t Want to Follow You – The Royal Purple
Tubby – Los Straitjackets
Come On and Get It – Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
Don’t Bug Me Baby – Joe “King” Carrasco & The Crowns
Daddy Rollin’ Stone – Derek Martin
Done Done the Slop – Ervin Rucker