What the FUCK is wrong with you!!??!?: 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.