May 8, 2013

Grover Washington Jr. - Sausalito > Funkfoot - Live at the Bijou (Kudu)

!!! - One Girl/One Boy - Thr!!!er (Warp)
Pacific Gas & Electric - Wade In The Water - Wade in the Water (Byg)
Kurt Vile - KV Crimes - Wakin' On A Pretty Daze (Matador)

Michael Urbaniak - Zad - Body English (Arista)
Billy Bragg - I Ain't Got No Home - Tooth & Nail (Cooking Vinyl)
Big Star - Thirteen - Big Star Live (Ryko)
Hal Blaine - The Swinger - Drums! Drums! a Go Go (reissue)(Varese Vintage)
Keith Levene - Killer in the Crowd - Search 4 Absolute Zero (murderglobal.com)

Keith Levene Interview

Public Image Ltd. - Public Image - Public Image (Virgin)

May 1, 2013

Rodriguez - Crucify Your Mind - Searching For Sugar Man (Sndtrk)
Randy California - Rain - Kapt. Kopter & His Famous Twirly Birds (Edsel)

Lee Perry - Right Yo Dub - Megawatt Dub (Shanachie)
Grace Jones - Private Life - Compass Point Sessions (Island)
Flaming Lips - The Terror - The Terror (WB)

Joy Division - She's Lost Control - Unknown Pleasures (Deluxe Ed.)(Rhino)
Bee Gees - First Of May - Odessa (Atco) (request)
Ministry - My Possession - Twitch (Sire)
Roger Miller - Age Of Reason - Maximum Electric Piano (Ace of Hearts)

Jandek - Talk That Talk - The Living End (Corwood)
Keith Levine/Jah Wobble - Killer In The Crowd - Search For Absolute Zero
Mighty Sphincter - Centerfold Murders - The New Manson Family (Placebo)

Soul 7-inchers

The Corner Boys - Gang War (Neptune)
The Soul Children - Doing Our Thang (Stax)
Nickie Lee - And Black Is Beautiful (Mala)
Joe Simon - Standing In The Safety Zone (Studio 7)
Brinkley & Parker - Don't Get Fooled By The Pander Man (Darnell)
Melvin Van Peebles - Eyes On The Rabbit (Atlantic)
Soul Searchers - Funk To The Folks (Sussex)
Steel Jake & Jeff - The Impeachment Story (Peach-Mint)

April 24th, 2013

Neil Young - This Land Is Your Land - Americans (Reprise)
Public Image Limited - Graveyard - Second Edition (Island)
Jim Morrison & The Doors - To Come Of Age (Stoned Immaculate) - An American Prayer (Elektra)
Dub Syndicate - Stoned Immaculate - Pay It All Back Vol. 1 (On-U Sound)
Dave & Ansell Collins - Double Barrel - The Heavy Monster Sounds of... (Beatville)

John Hollenbeck - Bicycle Race - Songs I Like A Lot (Sunnyside)
Os Mutantes - Ganja Man - Fool Metal Jack (Krian)
Nick Lowe - Marie Provost - Jesus of Cool (Yep Roc)
Rollins Band - Ghost Rider - Hammer of the Rok Godz (Imago)

Richie Havens:

C. C. Rider - Electric Havens (Douglas)
The Loner - Mixed Bag II (Stormy Forest)
The Klan - Something Else Again (MGM)
Handsome Johnny - Mixed Bag (MGM)

Shouldn't All The World Be Dancing? - Stonehenge (Stormy Forest)
I Don't Need Nobody - Portfolio (Stormy Forest)

Just Like A Woman - Mixed Bag (MGM)
Alarm Clock - Alarm Clock (Stormy Forest)
Going Back To My Roots - Connections (Elektra)
The End - Mirage (A&M)

March 27th, 2013

Miles Davis
Unreleased Studio Tracks
1972-76

Frank Zappa - Willie The Pimp - Hot Rats (Ryko)
Love of Life Orchestra - Young Girls - Geneve (Lust/Unlust)
Richard Thompson - Good Things Happen To Bad People - Electric (New West)
Urge Overkill - Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon - Stull (Touch & Go)
Jonathan Richman - I Eat With Gusto, Damn, You Bet! - Jonathan Richman (Rounder)

Vanilla Fudge - The Spell That Comes After - Renaissance (Atco)
Procol Harum - Quite Rightly So - Best Of (A&M)
Essra Mohawk - I Have Been Here Before - Primordial Lovers (Reprise)

Essra Mohawk Interview

Essra Mohawk - Change of Heart - E-Turn (reissue) (Mummypump)
Essra Mohawk - Thunder In The Morning - Primordial Lovers (Reprise)

March 6th, 2013

Fela Kuti & Africa 70 - No Agreement - Shuffering and Shmiling/No Agreement (MCA)

Ikebe Shakedown - Kumasi Walk - Ikebe Shakedown (Ubiquity)
DJ 4AM - Transmitting Live From The Tower District - Sex, Darwinism & The Gardens of Hades (Nightmare Soul)

James Brown - Mother Popcorn - Star Time (Polydor)
Funkadelic - Hardcore Jollies - Hardcore Jollies (Priority
Funky Porcini - B Monkey - Hed Phone Sex (Ninja Tune)

Bob Downes Open Music - Dawn Until Dawn - Electric City (Repertoire)

Lester Chambers Interview

Robyn Hitchcock - Strawberry Dress - Love From London (Yep Roc)

February 27, 2013

Pink Floyd
KQED-TV
4-29-1970
(excerpt)

Ikebe Shakedown - Pepper - Ikebe Shakedown (Ubiquity)
Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Si, Se Puede - Liberation Afrobeat Vol 1 (Ninja Tune)
James Brown - Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose - Best of James Brown Vol 2 (Polydor)
Bless Those - Little Annie - The Master Recordings Vol. 2 (On-U)

Herbert Weixelbaum - Tanzmuzik - 8-Bit Operators (Astralwerks)
Fred Frith - Light Erases The Thought - The $100 Guitar Project (Bridge)
Robyn Hitchcock - Stupefied - Love From London (Yep Roc)
Gallon Drunk - Misirilou - Tonite...The Singles Bar (Ryko)

Bob Dylan - Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - Best of the Original Mono Recordings (cOLUMBIA)
Brian Eno - Cindy Tells Me - Here Come The Warm Jets (EG)
Brian Eno - I'll Come Running - Another Green World (EG)

December 5th, 2012

John Lennon Interview (excerpt)
WHRW-FM
June 1972
with Bob Yass

Faust - The Lurcher/Kraut Rock/Do So - BBC Sessions (Re Records)

Fat Boy Slim - Don't Let The Man Get You Down - Palookaville (Astralwerks)
Dafos - The Gates of Dafos -Dafos (Mickey Hart, Airto, Flora Purim) (Ryko)
Boards of Canada - Amo Bishop Roden - In A Beautiful Place Out in the Country (Warp)
Tonto's Expanding Headband - Tonto's Travels - It's About Time (Polydor)

Tangerine Dream - Rubycon (excerpt) - Rubycon (Virgin)

November 28, 2012

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November 14, 2012

David Peel & The Lower East Side - Legalize Marijuana - The American Revolution (Elektra)
Tower Of Power - What Is Hip - What Is Hip (Meat Beat Manifesto remix) (WB)
Moby - James Bond Theme - I Like To Score (Elektra)
Butthole Surfers - Sweat Loaf - Locust Abortion Technician (T&G)

The Vocokesh - The Truth Regarding Sunspots - All This & Hieronymous Bosch (SAA)
Kramer - The Seven Siezures - The Guilt Trip (Shimmy Disc)
Soul Coughing - Monster Man - El Oso (WB)
Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains - I Often Dream of Trains (Midnight)

Yo La Tengo - Speeding Motorcycle - live on WFMU
Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater - I Can Hear The Heart Beating as One (Matador)
Southern Culture on the Skids - Viva Del Santo - Santo Sings (Estrus)
Young Marble Giants - Radio Silents - Nipped In The Bud (Rough Trade)

Frank Zappa - Transylvania Boogie - Chunga's Revenge (Ryko)
Frank Zappa - Toads of the Short Forest - Weasels Ripped My Flesh (Ryko)
The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight - Underwater Moonlight (Ryko)

Brian Eno:

Pawpaw Negro Blowtorch/Baby's On Fire - Here Come The Warm Jets
The Fat Lady of Limbourg - Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy
The Roil, The Choke - Nerve Net (EG)
Broken Head - After The Heat (Sky)

November 7th, 2012

Boom Boom Satellites - Push Eject (Meat Beat Manifesto remix) - Push Eject (Epic)
Dark Day - Nudes In The Forest - NY Noise Vol 3 (Soul Jazz)
Twin Peaks Sndtrk - Dance of the Dream Man (WB)
Public Image Ltd. - Deeper Water - This Is PIL (pilofficial.com)
Catacombz - Mother Tongue - Mother Tongue (catacombz.bandcamp.com)
Sursiks - A Bundle, A Pistol of Rahina - I Didn't Know I Was Singing (Housecore)
Peter Sellers - Any Old Iron - Classic Songs & Sketches (EMI)

Frank Zappa - Zomby Woof - YCDTOSA Vol 1 (Ryko)
What the Funk - Funky Tonk - live at Reno's, JC NY 1983
Nurse With Wound - The Funktion of the Hairy Egg - Huffin' Rag Blues (United Jnana)
Kanaz Mcstine & Thor - Words Unheard - Conniptions of St. Ignatious (http://thebigig.bandcamp.com/)
Negativland - The Perfect Cut (excerpt) - Helter Stupid (negativland.com)

Playlist for November 30, 2011

Emil Vilicvky - Troochu Funky - The Funky Way Of Emil Vilicvky (Vampisoul)
Kraan - Let It Out - Let It Out (Passport)
If - The Light Still Shines - Waterfall (Metromedia)
George Duke - Old Slipper - Feel (MPS)

Peter Thomas - The Hound of Blackwood Castle - Futuremuzik (Scamp)
Frank Zappa - Louie Louie/Dog Breath Variations - Uncle Meat (Ryko)
Robbie Krieger - Solar Wind - Singularity (Oglio)
DNA - Vivo - Influences (Rasa)
Howie B - Who's Got The Bacon? - Turn The Dark Off (Island)

Little Fyodor - I Want An Ugly Girl - Slither 7-inch (Walls of Genius)
Hiram Sherman- A Little Investighation - How Now Dow Jones (RCA)
Daniels Francis Doyle - Sharing Stories - There Are 2 of You (7-inch) (Soungs)
Tony Joe Whitye - 300 Pounds of Hungry - The Train I'm On
Jimmy Castor - D.R.Y. (7-inch) (Smash)
The Fabulous Knickerbockers - Your Kind of Lovin - Lies (Challenger)
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - First 2 albums (Tomlab)
Richard Thompson - Haul Me Up - Dream Attic (Shout Factory)
Mark Almond - Riding Free - Mark Almond (Columbia)

Playlist for September 7th, 2011

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Bruce Cockburn
KFOG
San Francisco, CA
Dec 11, 2001

African Percussion - Ipeligang - Master Drummers of Africa (Arc Music)
Santana - Savor/Jingo - Santana (Columbia)
Maceo & The Macks - Cross The Track - Funksouljazzdisco (Virgin)
Fred Wesley & The JB's - House Party - Funksouljazzdisco (Virgin)
Bill Withers - Lovely Day - - Funksouljazzdisco (Virgin)
Gary Clail & On-U Sound System - Human Nature - Emotional Hooligan (Perfecto)

Dizzy Gillespie - Land of Milk & Honey - Dizzy's Party (Pablo)(Niles Chandler Remaster)

Can - Dizzy Dizzy - Cannibalism (Celluloid)
Captain Beefheart - Nowadays a Woman's Gotta Hit a Man - Clear Spot (Reprise)
Brian Eno & Snatch - RAF - 7-inch (Polydor)
Henry Rollins - It's Good To Know - Everything (2.13.61)
MC 900 Foot Jesus - Truth Is Out Of Style (12-inch)(IRS)

Frank Zappa - Friendly Little Finger - Zoot Allures (Ryko)
Todd Rundgren - Fascist Christ - No World Order (Forward)
MC5 - I Want You Right Now - Kick Out The Jams (Elektra)
Front 242 - Headhunter V 3.0 - Front By Front (Epic)

Negativland - Nesbitt's Lime Soda - Escape From Noise (Seeland)
Negativland - Our National Anthem - Free (Seeland)
Neil Young - Barstool Blues - Zuma (Reprise)
The Raybeats - Instant Twist - It's Only A Movie (Reprise)
Pecker - Kylyn - 21st Century Dub (ROIR)
Spirit - Ice - Clear (Epic)
R Stevie Moore - I See Stars - Verve (rsteviemoore.com)
Pere Ubu - Heart of Darkness - 390 Degrees of Simulated Stereo (Ubu Projex)
Nazz - Some People - Nazz III (Rhino)

Penn Jillette – Great Green Globs... - Goobers (Tec Tones)

Playlist for December 16th, 2009

zappa from footfoot on Vimeo.

Remember - My annual Frank Zappa Birthday
Tribute is next Wednesday, 23-Dec-09, at 7AM.
3 full hours of FZ music, live tracks, rarities,
interview excerpts and whatever else isn't nailed down!

Frank Zappa -
Opopoppa Concert
Soliden, Skansen
Stockholm
Sweden
21-August-1973
(excerpt)

Alice Coltrane - Rashied Ali - Universal Consciousness (Impulse)
Meat Beat Manifesto - Wildlife - Actual Sounds & Voices (Nothing)
Jean-Michel Jarre - Diva - Zoolook (Dreyfus)
J McLaughlin-Carlos Santana - A Love Supreme - Chicago, Sep 1 1973
Charles Earland - Suite For Martin Luther King Pt 1 - Charles Earland In Concert (Prestige)
Bill Nelson - Living In My Limousine - Quit Dreaming & Get On The Beam (Cocteau)
Jacques Schwarz-Bart - Dio Pann - Abyss (Obliq)
DJ Spooky/Ursula Rucker - Being Black - Crosstalk (Bridge)

Brian Eno - St Elmo's Fire - Another Green World (EG)
Sybarite - Memory End - Cut Out Shape (Psapp)
Sly & Robbie & Howie B - Fatigue Chic - Strip to the Bone (Island)
Negativland - You Don't Even Live Here - Escape From Noise (Seeland)
Agitation Free - Sahara City - Psychedelic Underground Vol 7 (Garden of Delights)
The Bevis Frond - Begging Bowl - Vavona Burr (Flydaddy)
David Bowie - Warszawa Low (Ryko)
Rhys Chatham - Die Donnergotter - Die Donnergotter (Table of the Elements)
Afroskull - Me & My TV - To Obscurity & Beyond (Skull Sound)
Tyler Von Jeebes - The Zap Rap - 12-inch (The Holmes Line)

Playlist for November 25, 2009

Pandit Kamalesh Maitra - Tabla Tarang - Melody On Drums (Smithsonian Folkways)
Master Musicians Of Jajouka - The Truth Forever - The Truth Forever (Point)
Alice Coltrane - A Love Supreme - World Galaxy (Impulse)
Olivia Tremor Control - various tracks - Animation Music
Zevious - Coma Cluster - After The Air Raid (Cuneiform)
Captain Beefheart - Mirror Man - Mirror Man (One-Way)
William DeVaughn - Be Thankful for What You Got - Be Thankful for What You Got (Roxbury)

Bevis Frond - Defoliation Part 1-Reflections In A Tall Mirror - Inner Marshland (Rubric)
Hal Blaine - Flashes - Psychedelic Percussion (MCA)
Meat Beat Manifesto - Intermission Dub - In Dub (Run)
High Aura'd - Part 6 - Bridge Cable Music
Syd Barrett - Dominoes - Barrett (EMI)
Funkadelic - I Got A Thing - Funkadelic (Westbound)
Bob Holman - The Impossible Rap - In With The Out Crowd (Mouth Almoghty)
Firesign Theatre - Thanksgiving (or Pass The Indian Please) - live a the Ash Grove 1970
Kleptones - Know How Frogs Function - 24 Hours (kleptones)
Bill Nelson - Falling Blossoms - The Summer of God's Piano (ENigma)
National Health - The Mind Your Back Tango - Missing Pieces (Voiceprint)
Coldcut - That Greedy Beat - Coldcut Cut Outs (A Moment of your Time)
Steinski & The Mass Media - The Motorcade Sped On - What Does It All Mean? (Illegal Art)

The Muppets sing Bohemian Rhapsody

November 4, 2009

Shawn Phillips
Chicago
March 31, 1977

Bevis Frond - Malvolio's Dream Journey to Pikes - The Auntie Winnie Album (Reckless)
Mu - Ain't No Blues - The Band From The Lost Continent (Ocean Records)
Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off Baby - Lick My Decals Off Baby (Straight)
Geggy Tah - Don't Close The Door - Sacred Cow (Luaka Bop)
Soupy Sales - Pachalafaka - Still Soupy after All These Years (MCA)

Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire - Greatest Hits Vol. 1 (Columbia)
Frank Zappa - Brown Shoes Don't Make It - Absolutely Free (Ryko)
Yoko Ono - Hirake - Fly (Apple)
Mariachi Tequila (track from demo CD - this is a regional band)
Esquivel - Who's Sorry Now? - Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music (Bar None)
Grateful Dead - New Speedway Boogie - Workingman's Dead (Warner Bros)
Soupy Sales - A Singer Without A Song - The Soupy Sales Show (Reprise)

Ozric Tentacles - Stretchy - Jurassic Shift (IRS)
Harry Miller's Isipigo - Family Affair - Full Steam Ahead (Reel Recordings)
Ken Hyder's Talisker - The Black Bear - Dreaming of Glenisa (Reel)
Soupy Sales - The Mouse - Still Soupy after All These Years (MCA)

Cristina - Mama Mia - Cristina (Ze)
Frank Zappa - Packard Goose - Joe's Garage Vol II (Ryko)
Merrell Fankhauser & HMS Bounty - Lost In The City - Things (Sundazed)
Moxy Fruvous - Kick In The Ass - You Will Go To The Moon (Bottom Line)
Love Psychedelico - Fantastic World - This Is Love Psychedelico (Hacktone)
David Bowie - Word On A Wing - Station To Station (Virgin)
Soupy Sales - The Soupy Shuffle - The Soupy Sales Show (Reprise)

Laika & The Cosmonauts - Circumstantial Evidence - Cosmopolis 1988-2008 (Yep Roc)
Rockabye Baby - Stairway To Heaven - Rockabye Baby (Baby Rock)

October 28, 2009

expo 70 at permanent records (chicago) october 3rd, 2009 from acid marshmallow on Vimeo.

"Rest on Water" - Blues Control from whitetapas on Vimeo.

Blues Control
Expo 70
Live at The Shop
Ithaca, NY


Suicide - Frankie Teardrop - Suicide (Red Star)
Meat Beat Manifesto - Sterophrenic - Subliminal Sandwich (Nothing)
DJ Spooky - Cognitiva - The Secret Song (Thirsty Ear)
Groove Armada - But I Feel Good - Love Box (Jive Electro)

Flaming Lips - The Sparrow Looks Up At The Machine - Embryonic (Warner Bros)
MX-80 - It's Not My Fault - Out Of Control (Atavistic)
Sun City Girls - Esta Susan En Casa? - Horse Cock Phepner (Placebo)
Mr Scruff - Whiplash - Ninja Tuna (Ninja Tune)
The Mekons - Garage D'Or - The Edge of the World (1/4 Stick)
Faust - Faust Meets Faust - Cloudhill Studios 2/09 (private pressing)
Shockabilly - Lucifer Sam - Just Beautiful (Shimmy Disc)
Mission of Burma - That's When I reach For My Revolver - The Definitive Editions (Matador)

The Rubinoos - Rock And Roll Is Dead - Rubinoos (Berserkeley)
Mudhoney - Baby O Baby - promo CD - (Warner Bros)
Morphine - Thursday - Cure For Pain (Ryko)
Minor Threat - Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White - Complete Discography (Dischord)
The Beatles - You've Got To Hide Your Love Away - Help (Capitol)

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - The Longest Time - Ruin Johnny's Bar Mitzvah (Fat Wreck Chords
Rhinoceros - Top of the Ladder - Satin Chickens (Elektra)
David Porter - This Song Has No Title - Sweat & Love (Enterprise)
Big Audio Dymanite - Stone Thames - This Is Big Audio Dynamite (Columbia)
Emmitt Rhodes - Shoot The Moon - Farewell To Paradise (ABC)
Guided By Voices - Interest Position - Hold On Hope EP (TVT)
Steppenwolf - Who Needs Ya? - Steppenwolf 7 (Dunhill)

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