New music this week from Oceanator, Wishy, NOAPOLOGY, swim school, Ainsley Costello, Swim Deep, Bilial (and friends), Moby, Illuminati Hotties and much more. Enjoy!
ALBUM SHOW NOTES
Swim Deep's new album, "There's a Big Star Outside", is a self-admitted change in direction for the band. During the 5 years since their last full-length album the members of the band have undergone some personal upheavals and changes in their lives that are reflected in a more introspective approach to the music. There have also been a couple of membership changes and I think that's been an influence as well. This Birmingham (England) band is pretty big in their home country, and I think they are poised for bigger and brighter things - especially as the music has become more heartfelt. I think you'll like this album and it's my selection for this week's Album Show.
The Album Show will runs on Thursdays at 9am and 9pm Pacific Standard Time.
RFC 2424
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, DJ'd by yours truly. 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 fthat all had the same titleand 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.
New music this week from Soft Kills, Quivers, PONY, Woody and Jeremy, lovelytheband, Charlie xcx, Bonnie Light Horseman, Fantastic Cat, Leo, Deep Purple (!), Bon Jovi, Next Time Passions, Eels, Bloomsday 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 2324. This includes music from Dua Lipa, Ukraine's Death Pill, Dream Wife, Greta Van Fleet, Extreme, Leo, Death Valley Girls, Envy of None (featuring Alex Lifeson of Rush), Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, King Krule, Death Valley Girls 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
Back in 2015 the band Bodega Bay recorded an album called "Our Brand Could Be Your Life", a collection of catchy indie-rock ruminations on the slow-creep of corporate-think into youth culture. Outside of a few people in New York City, no one ever really heard the album although live tracks were performed from time to time. It's now 9 years later and the band (now known as simply "Bodega") have returned to the album, re-recorded it and unleashed it upon the public. It's pretty reminiscent of music released in the early to mid-1990's, like upgrading a low-fi album and producing it as if they were The Pixies. It's a good album and is this week's feature.
The Album Show will runs on Thursdays at 9am and 9pm Pacific Standard Time.
RFC 2424
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, DJ'd by yours truly. 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 2004and for next Sunday's show we're going to feature a small selection of songs fromWE'RE DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT!!! We're going to do a theme-based show this time and the theme is... 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.
You cannot call yourself a Christian and support Trump. You just can't. Now I'm not a Christian myself but my mom was a Sunday School teacher so I did pick up a few things, and there are some things you just don't do.
On Sunday Trump held one of his rallies in one of those crazy mega-churches that seem to be more about making the pastor rich than anything else (but what do I know?) and managed to start up and bask in a chant from the congregation of "Bullshit! Bullshit! Bullshit!"
You know, if memory serves that one of things you just don't do; curse in church. And certainly not when people have brought their children to the service. Not if you're a person who claims to share the faith of the people you're trying to lead, and certainly not if you are a congregant of that same church. I may make fun of people for religious belief, but even I know you don't chant "Bullshit!" in a church - not even an empty one.
So why do so many Christians (the actor who plays Jack Reacher on HBO excepted) follow this man, make excuses for this man, say that he's heaven sent?
I seem to recall that as of late God sends tests, not saviours.
The only conclusion I can reach is that these people either were led or purposely stepped off of their own path, and are so far removed from it that if their actual paht/teaching/scripture should appear in front of them they wouldn't recognize it.
According to your own scripture, you're all going to hell. If you call yourself a Christian and a Trump supporter, the sad thruth is that you are not a Christian. You're a Fascist.
And never once has a Fascist gone to Heaven.
As for Trump? If he's anything worth notice at all he's the Golden Calf. I mean, Gold letters on his buildings, Gold hair, Gold bronzed skin, Gold drapes, Gold Furniture... How many fucking hints did you need?
New music this week from bands as varies as Eclipse, Nick Cave & The bad Seeds, Another Michael, Andra Day, Crowded House, MOULE, Eminem, The Chameleons, Richard Thompson, Barry Adamson and much much more. Enjoy!
ROTATING OUT: SONGS LEAVING RADIO FREE CALIFORNIA
This means the music that is aging out is from Radio Free California Episode 2323. This includes music from Foo Fighters, The Alarm, Cowboy Junkies, Extreme, lovelytheband, Comet Gain, Sakamato Maaya, Motion Sickness, Rancid 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 only discovered the band "Another Michael" this past week and I've fallen in love with their catalog. I actually added a song from their previous album to the playlist because it's just too good to ignore. Their new album, "Pick Me Up, Turn Me Upside Down", is 12 songs of solid power pop, and is meant as a compliment to their previous album, "Wishes To Fulfil" which is why I felt no issue with including the song "Guitars" from that album. They're well worth checking out and you will get the cahnce to hear the full album this week.
The Album Show will runs on Thursdays at 9am and 9pm Pacific Standard Time.
RFC 2423
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 1977and 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.
Something I want to say before we continue: Donald J Trump is not a first time offender. He's a first time felon. It's worth pointing out that he, his children, and his companies have been charged with crimes many times and in almost every case he has been found guilty. He has paid millions in fines, is currently liable for hundreds of millions more in fines, and is presently not allowed to do business in several states, and is not allowed to run charities or schools in any form. A lot of that is civil but it's still crimes. The big difference is that now he's been convicted of felonies and for the first time may be facing prison.
He's been a criminal for decades.
Yes, I've met him, once, for lunch, way back in the early 90's. My exact quote to my co-workers after that meeting? "I wouldn't trust that man with a penny I found on the sidewalk."
"These are not the kinds of funding announcements that we want to make ever, but we need to make them, because communities have been clear they need this protection. Hatred is on the rise."
And because I love you, please enjoy one of our recent discoveries, Humbird:
New music from all over the spectrum this week, including Benjamin Russel with Greg Fraser, Motorists, New Age Healers, Cory Wong, Bess Atwell, Nada Surf, The Besnard Lakes, Scenic Route to Alaska, Kid Moon 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 2322. This includes music from Sparks, The Damned, Steve Lukather, Foo Fighters, Comet Gain, Panic Pocket, Hugh Lee, Baby Rose, Bayonne 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
I have been adding singles by Bess Atwell as she has been releasing them for much of 2024, so now that the album she's been teasing has dropped of course I'm going to feature it. That new album is called "Light Sleeper". This new album by the English songstress was produced by Aaron Dessner of The National and those touches show, but the album is quite introspective and personal for Ms. Atwell, dwelling on her own life as diagnosis with ASD and her decision to "wake up and feel everything", as noted on the title track. To me, she sounds like I wish Lana Del Rey or someone like her actually sounded like. The songwriting is fantastic and like I said, I've been adding songs from the album for months now.
The Album Show will runs on Thursdays at 9am and 9pm Pacific Standard Time.
RFC 2422
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 1997and 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.
No cheap shots today, but I am going to talk about a veteran in my family for Memorial day - my father.
He didn't want to be in the army. He hated the entire experience in fact. He had a young wife, pregnant with their first child, when he failed a class in Law school. The man who raised him (he was adopted) was so angry he arranged to have him drafted. They were all sent to Camp LeJuene. That probably shortened the lives of my father and my sister. You've heard the tales of the conditions there.
He had war stories of course, just about everyone who serves does. I have a nephew who served in Afghanistan and he has stories too. My father's service is a whole lot of top secret - George Bush the First in fact tried to stop-loss him back into active service during the first gulf war, despite the fact that he was already dying from several types of cancer and his hands were so gnarled up that he couldn't hold a coffee mug. He never went back to law school.
He's been gone a long time now. I don't miss him very often - he was kind of a broken man towards the end and he didn't live long enough to meet any of his grandchildren - but he's been on my mind lately, for what I have to admit are selfish reasons. You see, in the past couple of weeks I hit a milestone: I've lived longer than my father did.
He and I had very little in common. He smoked and drank even when in poor health and I've never smoked and don't drink so much any more. One thing he had was a commanding presence. He had a deep, overpowering voice that could engender awe in men bigger and taller than him. I didn't realize that I was 4 inches taller than him until I was nearly 20. Even though my parents divorced in 1971 and he remarried twice, he tried his best to be a father to me. I think looking back on it now I was as much a reminder of what he lost as what he still had. He never connected with my younger brother, so our experiences with the man are quite different.
Anyway, I've reached a point in my life where I have run out of role models. We didn't find out who my father's birth parents were until long after he died, and the less said about the people who raised him the better. The reason my father didn't know how to love his family in the face of hardship is all their fault. The death of my sister at a young age broke him and I don't think he ever understood that. Hell, I was only 4, and my younger brother hadn't yet been born. I didn't figure it out either until long after he was gone.
I'm rambling.
I don't know really how to feel about all of this. I may be one of the first of my group of friends to hit this strange milestone and it's a strange conversation to have. No one really knows how to feel about it, not even me.
But my dad would have said, "Get your shit together son, you're not done." I know that becuase he said it all the time, even when I did have my shit together. So just keep going. I imagine that this milestone will pass into memory like all the others have, like the first anniversary of his death, and the tenth, and the twentieth.
So thanks dad. I don't know if you're a cautionary tale or a celebratory one and the truth is probably somewhere in between, but I've been thinking about you today.
And because I love you, here's the live performance of the Cory Wong track added to the station this week. Enjoy!
Fantastic week for new music including tracks from Humbird, Childish Gambino, Black Smoke Trigger, Draag, The The, The Warning, Guster, Joywave, Collective Soul, Lake Street Drive, The Linda Lindas 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 2321. This includes music from blur, Homecomings, Yes, Todd Rundgren, MOULE, Greta Van Fleet, PONY, The Ocean 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
"Miranda Winters, as the voice of Chicago’s much-loved noisemakers Melkbelly, has spent the past few years happily in her own shadow. While she has quietly written and occasionally released her own music for 15 years, Winters finally steps out into the bright light with the release of Lawn Girl, the debut album under her Mandy moniker. She self-defines the breathlessly unraveling album as “dirty-bubblegum pop rock,” and while Mandy’s sound is packed full with such exhilaration, there are moments where the relentlessness relinquishes, instead offering up tender, yet equally weighty moments." I don't have a lot of patience for hype myself but I do like this album, which is kind of shoegaze and kind of punk, with solid songs as a foundation and played by an all female band (withLinda Sherman, Lizz Smith and Wendy Zeldin) Mandy's first full release, "Lawn Girl" is available now and will be featured on The Album Show this week.
The Album Show will runs on Thursdays at 9am and 9pm Pacific Standard Time.
RFC 2421
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 1995and 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.
No cheap shots this week. Just not feelin' it. I may write an essay as to why, but no today.
And because I love you, have a pretty damn good version of "Papa was a Rolling Stone"
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 2000and 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.
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 1975and 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.
New music this week from Owen, CHERYM, Linn Koch-Emmery, Liquid Mike, David Gilmour, The Hold Steady, Queen of Jeans, St. Vincent, Ringo Starr, Six by Six 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 2318. This includes music from phil broikos, Yes, Benjamin Russell, Brenda Mtambo, Annahstasia, Stewart Copeland, The National, Smokey Robinson 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
The second I heard the first few bars of the song "Alpha Beta Sigma" from the first full album by the British band CHERYM I know that this was a band to be reckoned with. They've released a few singles and have toured rather extensively, including multiple appearences at SXSW and tours around Europe supporting The Beths and Nova Twins. They describe themselves on their Spotify bio as serving up a zingy, fearless new recipe for pop rock, CHERYM are a three-piece band of muckers from Derry with some seriously infectious songwriting credentials. Taking influence from Charly Bliss, Bikini Kill, Sløtface, PUP and Pixies. To me I also hear early Green Day - this is a solid band with great songs and this first full album, called "Take It Or Leave It", is a powerful statement on music, sexuality, and in your face defiance and optimism and we're playing it in full on The Album Show. I also recommend checking them out on YouTube. They have great videos.
The Album Show will run this Thursday May 2nd at 9am and 9pm Pacific Standard Time.
RFC 2418
For those of you who stay away from Spotify this playlist will be played this Wednesday May 1st 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 1992and 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.
I seem to recall that every TV Police proceedural, when they profile a serial killer, look for early warning signs like the killing of pets and other small animals.
New music this week from Lucy Rose, Pearl Jam, Kaiser Chiefs, Cigarettes After Sex, Newmoon, Bnny, Sloe Noon, Ride, and someone named... let me see... Taylor Something? 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 2317. This includes music from Foo Fighters, Monna Lisa Blackout, The Damned, Everything But the Girl, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Pearl & The Oysters, Lucinda Williams 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
For their third full studio album Australian band Middle Kids decided to bring in Jonathan Gilmore (The 1975) to co-produce the album and have crafted a pop/rock treasure full of catchy hooks and singable songs. Although it's been only 3 years since they won best Rock album at the ARIA awards they knew they would have to go big this time, and thay have done just that. It's a quick and catchy batch of 13 songs and we're going to feature this new album, "Faith Crisis Pt 1" on this week's album show.
The Album Show will run this Thursday April 25th at 9am and 9pm Pacific Standard Time.
RFC 2417
For those of you who stay away from Spotify this playlist will be played this Wednesday April 24th 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 Sunday at 10am and again at 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 2005 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.
One thing before I get to insulting people: now that the trial is underway I will not be commenting on the election interference (it's not about paying off a porn star - it's about doing what he accuses his enimies of doing) trial underway in New York. You all know the one I'm talking about. I am a firm believer that because I am not in the courtroom myself I cannot under any stretch accurately comment on anything happening in there. This is a lesson I've learned the hard way.
I will comment once there is a verdict. This is the line I won't cross: I'll insult and make fun of just about anyone, including myself, but I'm not in the courtroom. Do I have opinions? Yes. Could I make comments like I do with everything below? Yes. Do I stand even the most remote chance of swaying a juror with my blog with its tens of readers? Nope.
Even so, this matters to me. Every thing that happens outside the courtroom I may comment on, and I have real opinions about whether or not the gag order has been violated (it has) and if he should be punished (lock him up), but that's not the trial itself.
I do find it interesting though (and just a touch psychotic) that in the same breath the defendant will say he's immune from prosecution because he has full immunity and proclaim that another person who would have the same immunity by his logic is breaking the law by having him tried.
Quite the list of new music this week, including English Teacher, Avi Kaplan, Bridget Kearney, Mark Knopfler, Airbag, Sikane, Nia ARchive, Metz, Bad Bad Hats, Orville Peck with Willie Nelson 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 2316. This includes music from what was then the new album from Metallica, along with The Linda Lindas, Temples, Magaziine, Geoff Castellucci, GoGo Penguin, The Tallest Man on Earth, Fruit Bats 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
I have known for weeks now that English Teacher finally released their new album that I'd feature it, but they have some real competition this week, including Morgan Harper-Jones' new album "Up to the Glass", Maggie Rogers' "Don't Forget Me", Sikane's "We Belong" and damn it there's a new album from Mark Knopfler too!. But English Teacher's album "This Could Be Texas" (thier first full-length album after a ton of singles and a couple of EPs) is a near masterpiece and you should hear it from start to finish. This is one of England's most exciting new bands in a long long time and they cover topics that only the young, brave, and unfairly stereotyped could do.
The Album Show will run this Thursday April 18th at 9am and 9pm Pacific Standard Time.
RFC 2416
For those of you who stay away from Spotify this playlist will be played this Wednesday April 17th 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.
However! This week we are adding an extra song that is not available on Spotify or practically anywhere else for that matter. It's a live recording of Joni Mitchell performing "I'm Still Standing", originally released by Elton John and co-written by Bernie Taupin. LIke last week's Jacob Collier addition, the performance is so good that I have to add it to the rotation. I seriously doubt it will be released as a single and she changed up the song considerably, turning into a slow-burn jazz number. It was part of the Gerishwin Honors and is a one off, although you can find bootleg performances on YouTube. I took the best one of those I could find and remastered it for you, my listeners at Radio Free California.
10 at 10
One last programming note: Every Sunday at 10am and again at 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 1982 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.
I hate to break it to you everyone but Bibi has a very poor record of just "Taking the Win."
I wasn't watching so I missed this: “It was a beautiful song but it ran too long; If you're gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit, so we cut it down to 3:05”
Yeah, I know I know, I'm one of the people who foisted Court TV on the world, but I really don't need this.
Does he even know that Baron is a high school Senior? As I've demonstrated before, he is what we used to refer to as a lyin' motherfuckin' cocksuckin' son of a bitch. (I betcha Melania had to remind him).
