Radio Free California Episode 2420, radio station notes and how damaging $35.00 can be

 

A real hodge-podge of new music this week from bands like The Ceys, MaidaVale, Woody and Jeremy, Johnnie Carwash, the late John Entwistle, Thunderpussy, Charles Connolly and much more! Enjoy!

ROTATING OUT: SONGS LEAVING RADIO FREE CALIFORNIA

This means the music that is aging out is from Radio Free California Episode 2320. This includes music from The Hives, Serge Tiagnyriadno, Leap in Exile, Daft Punk, Sparks, Ed Eagle, Pet Shop Boys, Mammoth WVH and much more.

We celebrate these songs with a new show that will play on Saturdays at 11am and again at 5pm PST. We will say goodbye to the songs that are now a year on the playlist with one last broadcast, which will be repeated a couple of times during the day.

You can of course still listen to this music - my playlists are still on spotify and you can find them here. They're all searchable as well.

ALBUM SHOW NOTES

"Hailing from various backgrounds both musically and geographically, Swedish psych wonder MaidaVale have had the ability to capture audiences with their spirited energy ever since starting out on the Stockholm underground scenes a decade ago. The band combine neo-psychedelia and krautrock with influences ranging from post-punk, funkadelia and the North African blues." Okay, enough of the Spotify bio and to the music: this is a solid album and three of the songs on it have found their way to the station rotation, so it only seems fair to play the songs we passed over so on this week's Album show we will feature MaidaVale's new album "Sun Dog".

The Album Show will runs on Thursdays at 9am and 9pm Pacific Standard Time.

RFC 2419

For those of you who stay away from Spotify the current week's playlist will be played on Wednesdays at 2am, 6am, 10am, 2pm and 6pm PST. All of the songs I feature on Radio Free California are played as part of the regular rotation. .If you want to hear the songs we've added to the station this week you can use the Spotify playlist above or you can listen to this show.

10 at 10

One last programming note: Every Saturday at 10pm and again on Sunday at 10am and 10pm we will feature our show "10 at 10", where we play 10 (and sometimes 11 or even 12!) songs from a year we pick at random. Again, all times are PST. Last week we featured a selection of songs from 2000 and for next Sunday's show we're going to feature a small selection of songs from.. well you'll have to tune in to find out! We also run the show at a "secret" time on Saturdays.

As always, you can go to https://global.citrus3.com:2020/public/radiofreecalifornia to listen to the station, and there is an imbed below. And did you know the station is available as an app? It's only for Google Play (sorry iphone users - Apples terms and conditions were too restrictive for me) but you can listen on your phone at your convenience too.

Cheap shot:

I said a couple of weeks back that I wasn't going to comment on the Trial, but something happened in today's testimony that I think is getting missed by everyone, and to me it's a key thing. When The Trump Org reimbursed Michael Cohen they paid the wire transfer fee. It's all of $35.00 and in the grand scope of things it doesn't seem like much, but in fact it's the whole fucking ballgame.

In accounting circles that’s an acknowledgement that Trump Org. is the “Responsible Party” in this whoe affair — in other words if Cohen had to pay the fee he wouldn’t have been made whole for the reimbursement, or would be stating that he had a share of responsibility for the origin of the expense. No one is really talking about that little banking fee, but it's a tacit acknowledgement that in reimbursing Cohen, they are the responsible party. The Trump Org. owed these funds to Cohen, for a transaction Cohen defines.

If Cohen had paid the bank charge it would have signalled that he was the responsibile party for making certain he was reimbursed - and this could be painted as Cohen getting paid off himself. But in paying the bank charge Trump Org. is assuming responsibility for the contents of the transfer, and to what it applies. 

It's everything.

This doens't mean he will be convicted. Like I said, no one is focusing on this little fact. But it does mean that he actually is guilty.

And because I love you, Have an early collaboration between two of my favorite musicians. It's Golden.

Radio Free California Episode 2419, radio station notes, cheap shots and more

 

New music this week from Snarls, Tom Vek, Hana Vu, Kid Moon, Mary Spender, Hollow Head, Work Wife, Lola Young, Deep Purple, Sia and much more. Enjoy!

ROTATING OUT: SONGS LEAVING RADIO FREE CALIFORNIA

This means the music that is aging out is from Radio Free California Episode 2319. This includes music from Iggy Pop, Gord Downie with Bob Rock, The Smashing Pumpkins, Cory Wong, Yusuf, Ben Folds, Peter Gabriel, Trev Lukather, Peter One and much much more

We celebrate these songs with a new show that will play on Saturdays at 11am and again at 5pm PST. We will say goodbye to the songs that are now a year on the playlist with one last broadcast, which will be repeated a couple of times during the day.

You can of course still listen to this music - my playlists are still on spotify and you can find them here. They're all searchable as well.

ALBUM SHOW NOTES

I "discovered" Sia probably a little bit before the rest of the world really did. Back in the late 2000's I caught a couple of performances by her on "Later... with Jools Holland" and she performed a song called "The Girl you lost to Cocaine", a nice solid pop-rocker (go check it out for yourself - it's at the bottom of this post and one of the last times she showed her face in videos). So when she dropped a new album this week I knew I'd want to feature it. The album features guest appearances from Chaka Khan, Kylie Minogue, Paris Hilton (needle scratching noises across the album)... Paris Hilton??? and the 15 songs that make up this new album, "Reasonable Woman", are Sia at her usual songwriting and performing best. She's going to have a few hits from this one I suspect.

The Album Show will run this Thursday May 9th at 9am and 9pm Pacific Standard Time.

RFC 2419

For those of you who stay away from Spotify this playlist will be played this Wednesday May 8th at 2am, 6am, 10am, 2pm and 6pm PST. All of the songs I feature on Radio Free California are played as part of the regular rotation. .If you want to hear the songs we've added to the station this week you can use the Spotify playlist above or you can listen to this show.

10 at 10

One last programming note: Every Saturday at 10pm and again on Sunday at 10am and 10pm we will feature our show "10 at 10", where we play 10 (and sometimes 11 or even 12!) songs from a year we pick at random. Again, all times are PST. Last week we featured a selection of songs from 1975 and for next Sunday's show we're going to feature a small selection of songs from.. well you'll have to tune in to find out! We also run the show at a "secret" time on Saturdays.

As always, you can go to https://global.citrus3.com:2020/public/radiofreecalifornia to listen to the station, and there is an imbed below. And did you know the station is available as an app? It's only for Google Play (sorry iphone users - Apples terms and conditions were too restrictive for me) but you can listen on your phone at your convenience too.

Cheap Shots:

Fuck Windows 11.

Oh yeah, that's not creepy at all.

White people, but with subtitles.

Do these people have any staff at all?

Is it bad that I still don't give a shit about any of this?

Not taking that bet.

If you were feeling sorry for Hope Hicks, don't.

Clever and unsettling.

I have to admit that the line, “He was kinda like Erin Brockovich, but a Kennedy.” made me laugh. Just for different reasons than intended.

Oh that's not creepy either.

Yet another reason to not visit Texas, and/or get the fuck outta there.

It's getting a wee bit difficult to feel sorry for people who travel to Russia voluntarily.

I guess I missed that day in Civics class where this requirement for the job was discussed.

Tenessee banned chemtrails, so why the fuck not.

Party doesn't matter when all you want to be is a crime boss.

Heat Death of the Internet. (hat tip to estherschindler at Counter Social, who found it first).

I was led to believe that the Wicked Witch of the West had green skin.

Lay down the Simbelmyne.

And because I love you, Here's that Sia song I mentioned earlier: