The Doctor is now blogging for PREX!

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The Doctor is now writing music reviews and articles for the Princeton Record Exchange's weblog, which can be found here or by clicking the above picture. My first entry for the Prex blog is here.

Oh yes, the Princeton Record Exchange is a very nice place to "dig"!

Bad News and Good News

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The bad news is, I'm sick and won't be on the air this week. Don't know what I've got (and apparently my doctor don't know either) but it sure is a bear.

Bummer.

The good news is that I'll soon be blogging on the Princeton Record Exchange's blog. I'll be doing articles and reviews of music, new and old.

More good news: My last two weekly podcasts (see links at end of te two most recent playlists) are still available for your perusal and enjoyment.

I'll be on the air next week, cross my heart and hope I don't die!

Playlist for March 24, 2009

Pigbag
Milan, Italy
15-April-1985

The Rozatones - Weapons Of Control - Tastes So Good
Tower of Power - Just Make A Move (And Be Yourself) - Back On The Streets
(Columbia)
The Beatles - Don't Ever Change - Live at the BBC (Capitol)
Frank Zappa - Brown Shoes Don't Make It - Absolutely Free (Ryko)

Voodoo Glow Skulls - Walking Frustration - Band Geek Mafia (Epitaph)
Sonic Youth - Plastic Sun - Murray Street (DGC)
The Byrds - Everybody's Been Burned - Younger than Yesterday (Columbia)
Paul & Barry Ryan - Gotta Go Out To Work - The Best Of... (Repertoire)

Ra Can Row - Things Beyond Our Control - Ra Can Row (Eye Records)
Lord Buckley - Murder - Blowing His Mind (***)

Seelenluft - Something Tropical - Tipsy Remix Party (Asphodel)
The Bad Plus - Lithium - For All I care (Heads Up)
Frank Zappa - Peaches En Regalia - Hot Rats (Ryko) *
The Bran Flakes - Dance of the Sugarsnap Fairy - I Have Hands (Illegal
Art)
Negativland - Time Zones - Escape From Noise (Seeland)
And You Will Know Us By Our Trail Of Dead - The Far Pavilions - The
Century of Self (Justice)
Mr Scruff - Music Takes Me Up - Mr. Scruff (Ninja Tune)
Lee Hazelwood - If It's Monday Morning - Requiem for an Almost Lady (Smells Like Records)
Harmonic 313 - Dirtbox - When Machines... (Warp)

Podcast HERE (sorry it took so long!)

Playlist for March 4th, 2009

Tim Buckley
live at the Felt Forum, NYC
1972-23-09
(Opening for Frank Zappa!)

Setlist:

1. Buzzin’ Fly (7.46)
2. Love from Room 109 (4.36)
3. Happy Time (5.53)
4. I just don’t work right
in the morning (16.07)
5. Gypsy Woman (17.18)

Tim Buckley: 12 string guitar
Lee Underwood:Lead guitar
Carter CC Collins: conga drums
Maury Baker: drums
Mark Sporer: Bass

Buzzcocks
Manchester Polytechnic
1980 05 22
Radio Broadcast FM

01. I Don’t Mind
02. Ever Fallen In Love With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve
03. What Do I Get
04. Strange Thing
05. Why she’s A Girl from the Chainstore
06. What Do You Know
07. Autonomy

Sonny Sharrock/Nicky Skopelitis - Sacrifice - Faith Moves (CMP)
Spring Heel Jack - Obscured - Amassed (Thirsty Ear)
Joy Division - She's Lost Control - Unknown Pleasures (Factory)
John Cale - Barracuda - Fear (Island)

Hot Chip - Sexual Healing - Remixes and Rarities (Astralwerks)
Southern Culture on the Skids - She's Bought A Dog - Too Much Pork... (Moist Records)
Funkadelic - I'll Bet You - Funkadelic's Greatest Hits (Westbound)
The Fugs - Turn On Tune In Drop Out - Tenderness Junction (Reprise)
R. Stevie Moore - Cathy Cline - I Killed The Monster (various artists) (Second Shimmy)

Mr. Scruff - Nice Up The Function - Mr. Scruff (Ninja Tune)
Modern Lovers - Dodge Veg-O-Matic - Rock & Roll with the Modern Lovers (Berserkeley)
The Bran Flakes - Marchy March - I Have Hands (Illegal Art)
Tom Verlaine - A Town Called Walker - Flash Light (IRS)
Jefferson Handkerchief - I'm Allergic To Flowers - Pebbles Vol 3 (BFD)

Hot Water Music - Jet Set Ready - No Division (Some Records)
Funkadelic - Free Your Mind & Your Ass Will Follow - Free Your Mind &
Your Ass Will Follow (Westbound)
Parliament - Presence of a Brain - Up For the Down Stroke (Casablanca)
Southern Culture On The Skids - Camel Walk - Dirt Track Date (DGC)*
Funkadelic - Super Stupid - Maggot Brain (Westbound)

Charles Manson - Don't Do Anything Illegal - Charles Manson Sings (ESPdisk.com)

It's that most wonderful time of the year!

How This Works...

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The Doctor has a confession to make. I've never given money to a public radio station during its pledge drive. No tote bags or travel mugs for this boy! The only radio station I've ever made a pledge to is WFMU. Why WFMU and not the other public radio stations? Because WFMU doesn't get corporate funding like the NPR stations do. This means you'll never hear a commercial for soy milk, investment firms, body lotion or Fox TV. It also means that the only way they're going to stay on the air is if we make it possible for them to do so. And as anyone who knows anything about radio will tell you, running a radio station ain't cheap!

As good as WHRW is, it is only one member of a great fleet of free-form radio stations across the USA and Canada. WFMU is their East Coast flagship. WFMU has never failed to amaze The Doctor, no matter when I tune in. I keep on hearing great music which I never knew existed and probably would never know about without the hard work of the dedicated dudes and damsels in WFMU's Jersey City studios. Give them a listen and see what I mean! And while you're at it, pledge a few coins to the coolest free-form station in the nation. (Check out their pledge premiums! You'll be convinced!)

(Shout outs to WFMU web dude and former WHRW DJ, Ken Garson!)

Playlist for February 25, 2009

Bevis Frond
Great American Music Hall
San Francisco, CA
4-18-98

John Cale/Terry Riley - Church of Anthrax - Church of Anthrax (Columbia)
The Stranglers - GMBH (Bearcage) - The Raven (IRS)
David Bowie - Memory of a Free Festival (Bonus Track) - Space Oddity (Ryko)

The Soft Boys - Vyrna Knowl is a Headbanger - Raw Cuts (Overground)
The White Stripes - Well, It's True That We Love Each Other - Elephant (Third Man)
Donovan - Sunshine Superman - Donovan's Greatest Hits (Epic)*
Rollins Band - Get Some Go Again - Get Some Go Again (Dreamworks)
Rick Derringer - Rebel Rebel - Live In Cleveland (Blue Sky)
William Shatner - Lucy In The Sky with Diamonds - The Transformed Man (Geffen)

Of Montreal - An Eduardian Instance - An Eduardian Instance (Polyvinyl)
Morrisey - Something Is Squeezing My Skull - Years of Refusal (Attack)
Led Zeppelin - The Girl I Love - BBC Sessions (Atlantic)
The Bad Livers - Dancing Days - The Song Retains The Name (Safe House)
The Bad Plus - Lithium - For All I Care (Heads Up)
Dr Seuss - Green Eggs & Ham
Puffy Amiyumi - Atarashii Hibi - Love So Pure CD5 (Sony Music Imports)

Wazmo Nariz - Checking Out The Checkout Girl (Illegal)
Lee Ranaldo - Live #1 Paradise - Easst Jesus (Atavistic)
Sun Ra - Synth Solo (excerpt) - Live in Cleveland (Leo)
Suicide - Universe - Y B Blue (Enemy)

Neil Pepper - Stairway To Heaven - Stairways To Heaven (Atlantic)

* - by request - Call (607) 777-2137 or AIM "whrwmusic"

Playlist for February 18, 2009

The Cramps
New York
August 8, 1979
via FM broadcast

Cramps - Lonesome Town - Gravest Hits (IRS)

T-Rex - Buick Mackane (alt version) - The Slider (reissue - Rhino)
Delta 5 - You - Singles & Sessions 1979-81 (Kill Rock Stars)
The Distillers - LA Girl - Give Em The Boot II (Hellcat)
Asobi Seksu - Sing Tomorrow's Praise - Hush (Polyvinyl)

Smashchords - Brand New Rambler - The Smashchords (Smash Trade)
Hanoi Rocks - Better High - What About Finland (AV Kopiset)
The Move - Walk Upon The Water - Move (Repertoire)
Was Not Was - I Feel Better Than James Brown - Are You OK? (Chrysalis)
Boom Boom Satellites - Push Eject - Push Eject (Sony)

Pere Ubu - Street Waves - Datapanik in the Year Zero (Geffen)
Dead Kennedys - Buzz Bomb from Pasadena - Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death (Alt Tentacles)
Atilla The Stockbroker - New World Order Rap - Live In Belfast (Helmet)
Sonic Youth - Computer Age - Daydream Nation (reissue - Geffen)

The Bad Plus - Comfortably Numb - For All I Care (Heads Up)
Vaselines - Sex Sux - Way of the Vaselines (Sub Pop)
The Wedding Present - I Found That Essence Rare - Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
Del McCoury - I Feel The Blues Movin In - Best Of Del McCoury (Groove Grass)
Penn Jillette - Great Green Globs - Goobers (Tec Tones)

Cramps (tribute to Lux Interior):

Bikini Girls With Machine Guns - Stay Sick (Enigma)
Surfin' Bird - Gravest Hits (IRS)
What's Inside a Girl? - Rockin and Reelin... (Vengeance)
Eyeball in My Martini - Look Ma, No Head! (Restless)
Sheena's In A Goth Gang - Big Beat from Badsville (Epitaph)
Sinners - Flamejob (Medicine)
She Said - Bad Music For Bad People (IRS)
I Aint Nothing but a Gorehound - Smell of Female (Illegal)
'm Cramped - Songs The Lord Taught Us (IRS)

The Delta 72 - Rich Girls Like to Steal - The R&B Of Membership (T&G)
Horseflies - Human Fly - In The Dance Tent
Bevis Frond - Once More - Inner Marshland (Rubric)

Milton Berle - Yellow Submarine

PODCAST Finally Available HERE!