This week includes the triumphant bowing out of X, Mishell Ndegeocello musing on the works of James Baldwin, plus new music from Illuminati hotties, The Cure, Swami John Reis, Oso Oso, Kississippi, Bleachers, The Ceys and much much more. Enjoy!
Please note that there will be no update next week as I'll be on a beach earning 20 percent. The week following will likely be jam-packed as a result. There will be no Album Show or 10 at 10 next week, but for this week...
ALBUM SHOW NOTES
I said several weeks ago that I would feature the new album by Footballhead ("Before I Die") when it dropped but I'm not certain that this is it, and I've already added all the good stuff from this album to the station. I also said that when the new album from Black Smoke Trigger ("Horizons") I would play it and it's a good rock and roll album. From bands new to the station also comes Bridget Calls Me Baby and their new album "The Future is Our Way Out", but there is also the new Mishell Ndegeocello album ("No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin") which is a damned fine album and from which I've added 2 songs to the rotation of the radio station, but there can be only one group at the top and it shouldn't surprise you that this group would be X. X dropped their final album "Smoke & Fiction" this week and it's a barn burner.
Do I really need to tell you who X is? They are the original Los Angeles punk band. The first and the greatest. Exene Czervenka, John Doe, Billy Zoom and DJ Bonebrake. I moved to Los Angeles in 1982 and they were already the top of the crop, along with The Motels, The Blasters and Oingo Boingo. They were the first unsigned band to sell out the Greek Theater - a 3,600 seat outdoor ampatheater in Los Angeles. Their biggest world-wide hit, a remake of "Wild Thing" is quite possibly the worst thing they ever did, which they admit to readily. Such rock and roll staples as "Los Angeles", "Burning House of Love", The Hungry Wolf", "Your Phone's Off the Hook but You're Not", "Johnny Hit and Run Pauline", and of course "The World's a Mess, It's In My Kiss" - all originals. Their first few albums were produced by Ray Manzerek of The Doors. I've seen them live multiple times, and they are breathtaking live.
Of course we're going to play "Smoke & Fiction" on the Album Show. Nothing wrong with what everyone else has put out. There's good stuff there, but there can be only one.
The Album Show plays on Thursdays at 9am and 9pm Pacific Standard Time.
RFC 2432
For those of you who stay away from Spotify the current week's additions will be played on Wednesdays. This is a change from prior programming: what we're going to do going forward is just play the music added this week only. Every other day will be the usual rotation, but we set aside Wednesdays for just the new additions for the week. This week that's 58 songs (a new record for one week!) which we will play in the same order that they're in on the Spotify playlist of the same name up at the top of this post. So if you tune in at just about any time on Wednesday you will hear the whole playlist.
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 I played a group of songs from 2003, and this week we're going back 5 1/2 decades (plus) from the present to bring you a few classics.
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:
About goddamned time. Thanks Bernie.
Flip sliding away... And Jenna Ellis takes the prize!
How many votes do you need again? We only need 12.
Dear Stephen Miller: Get Fucked.
Doesn't seem so veiled to me.
What do I think? I think Fat Elvis.
Now we know what the teddy bears he sells on his website are made from. (Seriously, WFT Dude?!)
Cue Doctor Evil.
Something about Reaping and Sewing.
Because of course.
Time to burn the Blue Slips.
And because I love you, Here's Toad the Wet Sprocket and friends covering REM.
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