November 27, 1pm
Here it is the first official show of the holiday season, and other than things like Black Friday and Tech Monday, it’s all about the music.
I’m so totally psyched to have former Radio Valencia star DJ, Mikl Em of Can Haz DJ. Mikl, like myself, is a total music nerd. Once you get us started it’s hard for us to stop. And like me, he’s into every genre imaginable. The idea of doing a two hour show with him, though limiting, was impossible to pass up.
We made this a concept show. We open up with music we’re listening to now, followed by music that inspired us as we were children. There’s some teenage “angst” in there, as well as music from our college years, breakup songs, and road songs. We feature some musical heroes, female power, and finally a holiday treat for those so inclined. I think you’ll like our choices on the latter.
The banter is whimsical, and Mikl even shot video footage of us, live in the studio. We need to do this more than once a year.
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As always, enjoy.
jh
Song host is marked accordingly, by initials.
Music We Love Now:
Master of my Craft: Parquet Courts (Mikl Em)
Fun Times in Babylon: Father John Misty (John Hell)
Pirates in the 9th: Mathew Jonson (M.E.)
Thank God For Sinners: Ty Segal (JH)
Childhood Inspiration:
Goin’ Blind: Kiss (JH)
Messin’ with the Kid: Blues Brothers (JH)
St. Stephen: Grateful Dead (JH)
Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan (M.E.)
Yer Blues: The Beatles (M.E.)
The Little Fiddle: Danny Kaye (M.E.)
Teenage Years:
Death and Glory: The Clash (JH)
Everybody Wants You: Billy Squire (M.E.)
Silver Rocket: Sonic Youth (JH)
Feeling Gravity’s Pull: REM (M.E.)
Road Songs:
Roadrunner: Modern Lovers (M.E.)
(I Live For) Cars And Girls: The Dictators (JH)
Breakup Songs:
Keep it out of my Face: Mudhoney (JH)
Walk Away Renee: Billy Bragg (M.E.)
Felbomlasztott Mentokocsi (Bong-Ra Remix):Venetian Snares (M.E.)
Musical Heroes:
I’m a Greedy Man: James Brown (JH)
The Piano’s Been Drinking, Not Me: Tom Waits (M.E.)
Female Vox:
We Are the One: The Avengers (M.E.)
Rebel Girl: Bikini Kill (JH)
Holiday Songs:
Shouldn’t Have Given Him a Gun For Christmas: Wall of Voodoo (M.E.)
Mr. Grinch: Mojo Nixon & The Toadliquors (JH)
Stoned, Drunk and Naked: Anders Osborne (M.E.)
Next Monday night, December 3rd, Dan Foley will be in to talk about some upcoming shows at the Dark Room Theater. And set your calendar for Monday, December 17th, 6-10PM for ROCK FIGHT 9! Ron Donovan and I go head-to-head in a bootleg battle royal! It’s not to be missed.
November 26, 2pm
The return of Can Haz DJ himself, Mikl-em on John Hell’s A Season in Hell, tonight, 8-10PM (PST).
They’ll take two hours to decide the following:
- Album you discovered as a kid that changed your life
- Album you associate with your teenage years
- 2 Albums from college. One that came out during it, another that is older but you discovered in college that changed your life
- Musical heroes
- Greatest live shows and play a song you heard that night
- Favorite jazz album
- Favorite punk rock album
Maybe more. Tune in.
November 12, 4pm
…tonight on A Season in Hell, with John Hell.
A year ago I did my most listened to show in years, 1971. It’s time to feature another AMAZING year for music, 1972.
Tune in 8-10pm (PST) tonight.
http://www.radiovalencia.fm
87.9FM in SF (or so I’m told)
There’s a popup player you can her me on, or go to the site and join in on the conversation with our chatterbox.
jh
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October 21, 10pm
Julie Anderson, curator for the Altered Barbie Exhibition will be John Hell’s guest on A Season in Hell, Monday night at 8pm.
Julie will be bringing along with her members of Junko and the Gypsy Brass Band, who will perform live in the Radio Valencia studios.
Info for the exhibition is below.
The 10th Annual San Francisco AlteredBarbie Exhibition
Shotwell 50, San Francisco, CA 94103
10/24/2012 – 11/18/2012
Julie Andersen
Altered Barbie 2012 Curator/ Event Producer
16 Flood Ave., SF CA 94131
jilleele@yahoo.com
www.alteredbarbie.com
415-240-2202
Junko and the Gypsy Brass Band: The project “Gyspy Punk Opera” will launch on Oct 26th (Fri) at the AlteredBarbie Show. Gypsy Punk Opera is a music story with a message of nuclear nuclear power & the war industry today.
Music by Cyclub+East Bay Brass Band
Butoh by Hiroko Tamano with Earthchild
The Ethel Merman Experience! The Broadway diva with the big voice and big hair returns to the Altered Barbie closing night party! With Eddie James on bass and Boom Boom Bow Wow on drums: a new sound, new songs and lots of new energy! Let’s party!
Tuan Tran
Tuan Tran Couture –
Tuan Tran will be the featured fashion designer at the closing of the “2012 Altered Barbie” show November 16, 2012 at 7:30.
He will be showcasing a variety of his innovative, and stunning designs. The designs included the wide spectrum of his collections. Torn and woven repurposed cloth, recycled telephone wire and hand painted garments with a variety of themes. Tuan’s sophisticated and stunning designs bring couture fashion made from re- purposed materials to a new level!
“Life cannot be taken too seriously. Fun, enjoyment and thought are what I hope to bring in each of my pieces.” , “Green can be beautiful”.
Gregangelo / Velocity Circus:
This year Gregangelo & Velocity Circus present Barbie and Ken living statues at the opening Artistist Reception October 26, 2012
Barbie ala Gaultier Couture Sensual & Ken who proudly wears his vascular system on his sleeve – aka The Anatomy of Ken
Gregangelo is the founding and artistic director of Velocity Arts and Entertainment and Velocity Circus. A genuine San Francisco native, Gregangelo was born, raised, educated and established his professional world headquarters in San Francisco. He is a graduate of the California College of the Arts and has over three decades of extensive training and performing experience in visual arts, dance, music, circus arts, costume and theatrical production design.
October 15, 3pm
Tonight on A Season in Hell with John Hell, I’m feeling a bit METALish. So it’s going to get loud in here.
We have some of the best metal shows on the radio, anywhere, so I’m not going to try to one-up them. There’s no way I could. Instead, I’ll do the John Hell style of metal show. That means whatever the hell I’m in the mood for. This should be fun.
Tune in 8-10PM (PDST) Monday
September 24, 5pm
Gary Buechler, owner of Comic Outpost, 2381 Ocean Avenue in SF is on my show tonight at 8PM. We’ll be talking all things comics. Just a few short years ago it appeared that comics were destined to remain pushed to the back of the garage. Then Hollywood stepped in to begin producing some of the largest blockbuster movies of all time, based on comic book heroes.
Tune in 8-10PM tonight as John Hell and Gary talk up comics, movies, and even play some comix-inspiried music. What the what?
See you on the air.
July 23, 9am
I know a good band when I hear them, and Rin Tin Tiger is one great alt folk trio from SF! I first saw them playing during Sunday Streets in the Mission earlier this year. I couldn’t step away. I’m excited to have them in the studio tonight at 8PM talking about their upcoming CD release party for their latest feature-length “Toxic Pocketbook” at Great American Music Hall, this Thursday, July 26th. You can purchase the CD here.
June 18, 3pm
For over four years John Hell and Rotten Ronnie Donovan of Firehouse Kustom Posters have gone mano-a-mano in a brutal bootleg battle royal.
John and Ron are huge live bootleg collectors, and twice a year they pit their collections against one another to find out who has the superior sonic sorcery of sound. You be the judge.
Tonight’s show will feature:
*One-on-one battles
*Rock Blocks
*Local Hero Tributes
*Ronnie Montrose Tribute
*Summer Theme Rock
*Premier of an AWESOME, never before heard Led Zeppelin show from 1975!!!
*Special Guests at 7 and 9
*Silkscreen poster prizes
*….and MORE…much MUCH MORE
How do we do it? Volume, volume, TURN UP THE VOLUME!
Tune in tonight, 6-10PM (PDST) to what promises to be a battle to end all ROCK FIGHT battles (until the Rock Fight 9 in December).
Lovingly,
John Hell
Twitter: @johnhell
@radiovalenciasf
June 4, 5pm
The return of the Ragi da Lawyer show on A Season in Hell with John Hell. Ragi is an active attorney here in San Francisco, and when he’s not helping clients he’s telling his friends not to take complete advantage of him. So, tonight and tonight only Ragi welcomes you all to take total and complete advantage of his services. Call in 415-875-4091, or hit us up on the chat box on the homepage. No question too irrelevant or lame. Ragi is here to save you from the woes of legal pitfalls.
April 30, 5pm
What a great night for radio!!! 8-10PM (PDST) tonight, I’ll be featuring some of the finest James Brown in celebration of his upcoming birthday, in the first hour. In hour numero dos, it’s week for of eight (read: 4/8) of my tribute to the 40th anniversary of the Grateful Dead’s 1972 European tour which culminated in a fine triple-LP set, “Europe 72”. I have all of the shows and I thought “Hey, let’s make this happen”. Therefore the second hour tonight and the following four Monday nights is all live Dead from the Europe 72 tour.
Also, this Thursday, May 3rd, from 6-10pm I’ll be co-hosting the annual 24 hour “Doin’ it to Death” James Brown birthday special on KFJC, 89.7FM in the Bay Area, http://kfjc.org
