Radio Free California Episode 2349, radio station notes, cheap shots and more...

 

New music this week from Mary Spender, Polyphonic Spree, Ariel Engel, Get Violet, Motion Sickness, Harp, Duran Duran, Grouplove, Pop Filter, the final single from the new Peter Gabriel Album, and much more. Enjoy!

A couple of things about this week's playlist: When we get into December most major labels hold back on new music, because every radio station in North America is playing only Christmas music. It's very difficult to break out with a December release although there have been exceptions. So for the next few weeks you're probably going to see and hear a lot more indie artists than usual. I'd say there's a real chance to discover new artists coming up.

By the way, Track 18 is in Ukrainian. It translates to "Don't Kiss".

ALBUM SHOW NOTES

I find myself in an unusual spot when it comes to the new Peter Gabriel album, ("i/o") which I have known from day one I would feature on the album show. Thing is, every song on the album has already been released, as Peter Gabriel has been releasing a new song every full moon for the past year. He's even been releasing two different mixes of each song.So now that the full album is out it's actually two versions of the same album.

So I'm going to have two different shows. One to play the "Bright-Side Mix", the version of the album mixed by Mark "Spike" Stent (Madonna, Beyonce, U2, Muse, Frank Ocean) and the "Dark-Side Mix", the version mixed by Tchad Blake (Suzanne Vega, The Black Keys, Phish, Crowded House). They have the same 12 songs but sound quite differnt and will will run on different days.

The "Bright-Side Mix" version of the Album Show will run this Thursday December 7th at 9am and 9pm Pacific Standard Time.

The "Dark-Side Mix" version of the Album Show will run this Friday December 8th at 9am and 9pm Pacific Standard Time.

For those of you who stay away from Spotify this playlist will be played this Wednesday December 6th 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. This week, I even threw in an extra song that's not on the playlist above!

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 was 2005:

Cheap Shots:

He's still around on his show for a few more weeks, and he has run out of fucks to give.

You want the Liberty to have Consensual Threesomes? Go for it. But shut the fuck up about everything you've said for the last couple of decades.

The President isn't your boyfriend.

Sorry dickhead, but if I have to vote on who is tougher in every metric, I'm picking Robert.

"I don't want him to sit next to him on an airplane, but I definitely want him in Andy Cohen's menagerie of damaged human beings"

The spreading misuse of AI.

Look at the chart in this list and ask yourself, "Where would I want to live?" (also note the correlation between the minimum Wage and Abortion Rights).

Evacuate to where, exactly?

It wasn't the mafia, fortunately, but a lack of dental work.

You don't see this on any Republican's Immigration hotlist.

But then who are you going to get to staff the new Tim Horton's? (see previous link)

On a semi-related note, did Biden reverse the reversals made by the previous guy of the policies of Obama when it comes to the country this guy was spying for?

Yep, he did.

Who Snopes the Snopes?

Smoking gun? Dude, the bullets are still in the shrink-wrap.

Apparently having a Weapon of Mass Destruction is now worth only $7,500 for bail. Last time we started a war over it.

I looked at the photos of these two people and honestly thought it was AI-generated art.

And a chicken in every pot.

Broken clock and all that, but my takeaway is that this is what happens when Rupert retires and they starting hiring women who aren't stereotypical bleach blondes.

This is so obviously the opinion of a man who can't understand what he reads, if he even can read.

So the Supremes might be upending 1/3 of the tax code over a dispute of less than $15K.

"Peshka."

I forsee a new Quintin Tarentino movie.

And because I love you, the REAL Little River Band. Not those fucking posers touring under the name now.: