Radio Free California Episode 2422, radio station notes for the week, and I've outlived my father. Now what?

 

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 1997 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.

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!

Thots going into the weekend

 Cheap Shots:

In-Vitro Fertilization is Pornography.

The Convict President has taken a side in the Bloods vs. Crips war.

Facts are Verbotten in the House of Representatives.

President Convict believes he intimidates Hamas.

They don't want to turn the clock back to 1950, but 1850.

The Speaker of the House is openly a Christo-Fascist.

A Supreme Court Justice has openly supported the Attempted Insurrection.

Lap Dances... I mean Voter Outreach... in another state.

The Convict President has more harassment suits against it than a 1990's era Hooters.

Republican Liousiana law now states that abortion pills are a controlled substance.

In all seriousness...

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE!?!!?

But because I love you, have some rollickan' music from Cory Wong and his band:

Radio Free California Episode 2421, radio station notes and more!

 

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 (with Linda 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 1995 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.

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"

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:

Radio Free California Episode 2418, radio station notes, cheap shots and more

 

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 1992 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:

They Foxed the law and the law won.

Doonesbury goes there. Also, Doonesbury is still here.

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.

I am often reminded of an old Bloom County cartoon when stories like this appear.

Hillary was right. Still is.

"...Jimmy Carter is out there thinking I could maybe win this thing."

It ain't he said/she said. It's he said vs. facts.

Just what in the bleeding bagpipes is going on in Scotland?

And seriously, what the everloving FUCK is wrong with these people?

Oh hey, I know what the plan is. It's to lie.

Credit where credit isn't due.

I have never, not once, found this man to be funny.

Fake it until you make it?

And because I love you, here is the video for that first CHERYM song I heard.

And just for fun, check out the "Making of" videos two. They're hilarious.

Radio Free California Episode 2417, programming notes for the radio station, cheap shots and more

 

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.

Cheap shots:

Nick Fuentes must be single.

He broke the law and the law won.

I kinda feel bad that the man's name makes me snigger like a 12 year-old boy, but the headlines really do write themselves. (Note: making fun of a terrible person's name - not commenting on the trial).

If you want to pray for anything, how about praying that this newborn doesn't get killed as things go on

There is a branch of the Christo-Fascist wing of this nation that honestly believes that Jews can be Nazis. Fuck them.

I honestly believe that Gavin is aiming for a cabinet position in the next administration.

And because I love you, meet Lucy Rose:

Radio Free California Episode 2416, radio station notes, cheap shots and more!

 

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.

Cheap Shots:

No, the Arizona Ruling on abortion did not reset the age of consent to 10 years of age. However, back in the territory days that really was the age of consent. The man who came up with all this was a Pedophile.

I have to wonder, did the brokest millionaire in New York (or Florida) want revenge for Maggie shooting Mr. Burns?

Russia should really zip its pants back up.

Quite frankly I haven't paid any attention to anything done by The New York Times this century.

That little boy in the CD art (remember when we bought stuff and it came with art?) steps into his father's shoes.

No Mr. "Noun-vewrb-nine-eleven", he would have sold them more weapons. The receipts.

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.

The Good Liars are very good at this.

Funny how he keeps committing Election Interference while complaining about others doing it.

Dude, your legacy is that Dewar's Ice Cream sells sandwiches now. If they still do - I haven't been there in 40 years.

You say Deminsion, I say Dementia.... Let's put your ass in jail. (If you've now got a song stuck in your hear you're a true friend).

How the day went, in case you were interested. Apparently I'm not the only one who thought it was a snooze-fest.

Yay! New crimes!

Inching just a little bit closer.

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).

A whole different type of tampering.

And because I love you, have a live performance of Cory Wong with Alexander 23:

Radio Free California Episode 2415, radio station notes, a nearly exclusive song, cheap shots and more!

 

New music this week from Ukraine's The Sixsters, Hana Hope, Maxband, St. Vincent, Winemom, Cloud Nothings, Marcus King, Conan Gray, Sheila E., Kid Moon, Lola Young 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 2315. This includes music from Peter Gabriel, Mudhoney, Morris Day (!), Greta Van Fleet, Rich Allen, Nick Waterhouse, The Jonas Brothers, Mouistule, Fear 2 Stop 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 Sixsters is a Ukrainian rock band established in 2018 by Kateryna Kuziakina in a small town near Kyiv, Ukraine. Over a period of four years, the band participated in the Ukrainian rock scene. The band's name, The Sixsters, is a testament to the close bond shared among the five members. In 2022, the Russian invasion of Ukraine significantly impacted the band members' lives. Some members left the country early on, while others sought refuge in bomb shelters amidst the conflict. The band members found themselves dispersed across different countries. Now the members of The Sixsters managed to reunite in Essen, Germany, and have a new album out called "To Be Continued..." and we will play the entire album start to finish on this week's Album Show.

The Album Show will run this Thursday Aptil 11th at 9am and 9pm Pacific Standard Time.

RFC 2415

For those of you who stay away from Spotify this playlist will be played this Wednesday April 10th 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 Jacob Collier performing "Hyperballad", originally released by Bjork. The performance is so good that I have to add it to the rotation. Thing is, it hasn't been released as a single and is only available as a live performance on YouTube and of course, on 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 1981 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:

Um, what emergency is this exactly?

Maybe you shouldn't have tried crime?

Even DJT knows where the support for RFK Jr. will come from.

Was there any conquering involved? (too soon?)

This dude is as Christian as the leader of Hamas.

Here's the general consensus about impeaching over a policy dispute.

Give whales the vote!

Let the games begin!

One gets the impression that this pastor was never spared the rod.

Do you have any idea how difficult it is to get a 100% deficiency rate?

I think his position is "I'll say whatever to get elected."

By the same token, this guy's position is crystal clear.

Looks like someone wants to break the seventh seal.

Ryan, the secret is alcohol. Lots and lots of alcohol.

Did no one ask The Indigo Girls?

Tacozilla? Tacozilla?

And it bears repeating: A vote for RFK Jr. is a vote to end Democracy as we know it.

I honestly don't understand why he keeps going to court. He always loses.

And because I love you, here is Jacob Collier performing that extra track I've added to the station:

Radio Free California Episode 2314, radio station notes, cheap shots, and this is an April Fools Day free zone.

 

Fantastic week for new music from artisis like Snarls, Peter Garrett, Jordan Rudess, Evangeline, Blues Pills, The Flints, gglum, Thunderpussy, A Short Walk To Pluto, Sum 41 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 2314. This includes music from Crown Lands, The No Ones, lovelytheband, The New Pornographers, Bully, Boy Genius, The Zombies (!), Pete Townshend, Fantastic Negrito, L.A. Guns 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

Emily Wolfe is a singer/songwriter/guitarist from Austin TX who has just put out her third album, "The Blowback". She might jsut be poised for a big breakthrough, having opened for a number of the greats of classic rock over the past few years, from The Pretenders to Heart to The Strutts to Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. To me she sounds like one hit single away from entering the lext level in this business, and I think that single is on this album - but I don't know which song so I'm going to play the full album for you. "The Blowback" is out this week at all the usual places and will be the featured release on this week's Album Show.

The Album Show will run this Thursday Aptil 4th at 9am and 9pm Pacific Standard Time.

RFC 2414

For those of you who stay away from Spotify this playlist will be played this Wednesday April 3rd 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 1970 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:

I fucking hate April Fools Day.

As if all of this wasn't awful enough already.

Seems to me that everyone can bitch about their job if they want.

Preach Senator, preach.

Is Lee Greenwood as much a shit musician as he is a shit Bible Salesman? I dislike Country as a general rule so I have no real idea what qualified as "good" country vs. "bad" country. To my hears, it's all bad.

She was a better singer in the days when she was with Dr. Teeth.

Bile has risen.

Seems to me that a guy who has a Master's Degree, even from an "Evangelical Christian University", should know what a metaphor actually is, and how to use it.

I did the math, and that $6 Billion that DJT earned on it's first day is now worth $2.6 Billion and cratering fast.

Racist fucks say what? 

Somebody needs to lay down the law.

Jesus dude, I haven't stepped into a church voluntarily in 4 decades and even I know this one.

אתה מגויס

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say... probably not.

And because I love you, here's a live-in-studio performance that people my age will find quite nostalgic.

Radio Free California Episode 2413, radio station notes about a very indie week, cheap shots, my new video and more!

 

A very indie list this week, with new music from Mourn, Smack Champion, Slow Fiction, Punchlove, Cloud Nothings,  Hollow Head, The Veronicas, Andy Partridge (and friends) 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 2313. This includes music from Fall Out Boy, Mammoth WVH, NIckel Creek, Depeche Mode, Thunderpussy, The Regrettes, Morgan and the Organ Donors, Darren Jessee 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

Mourn is a band from Spain that began as a collaboration between guitarists/vocalists Jazz Rodríguez Bueno and Carla Pérez Vas, a pair of teenage friends from El Maresme, Catalonia. When they met at school, their shared fondness for '90s indie rock led them to make music together. The pair uploaded videos of their bracing acoustic songs online. They recruited drummer Antonio Postius and bassist Leia Rodríguez (who was just 15 when she joined) and started recording albums. Their 5th, "The Avoider", is out this week and will be the featured release on this week's Album Show.

The Album Show will run this Thursday March 28th at 9am and 9pm Pacific Standard Time.

RFC 2413

For those of you who stay away from Spotify this playlist will be played this Wednesday March 27th 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 2002 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:

Believe it or not Senator, I think you'd be welcome on our side of the isle. But given the state you represent, going Indie is probably for the best.

So suddenly he's less liable for all his criming? Appeal this horseshit ruling.

Disecting the "what if".

We didn't veto peace? What is the world coming to?

Attending your career's own funeral.

Assigning blame, and noting a difference between NBC and MSNBC

The Crown can't catch a break, can they?

To be honest, I had never heard of the Social Media site "Elk" before today.

Fuck yes I'm better off now than I was 4 years ago.

A new reason that April 15th this year will be more interesting than usual.

While the idea of a summit is a big fucking deal, what I glean from this article is that the next leader of North Korea might be a woman.

He gets a stay of execution and then promptly lies about it. The appelate court should revoke the stay.

Well that was... something.

This was 3 times funnier yesterday.

Yeah, like anyone under the age of 15 doesn't know what a VPN is. 

He's unlikely to win, but the story is fascinating just the same.

You think you've ever had remodelling and/or building delays? Try this for size.

Oh please. This video was shot in 4 minutes on an iphone.

If you've listened to any of his podcasts you'll know what I mean, but Olbermann finally got his wish.

And because I love you, have a first look at the video that I am officially releasing tomorrow for my version of "I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass":