September 6, 6pm
Here’s the link to tonight’s broadcast. It’s broken up into two one-hour mp3’s. Enjoy.
First hour.
Second hour.
Tonight’s guest, Kevin Pina is an American journalist and filmmaker. He is known for his reporting that focused on human rights abuses in Haiti following the ouster of Jean-Bertrand Aristide on February 29, 2004 and the installation of the interim government of Gerard Latortue and Boniface Alexandre in March 2004. Pina reported on events in Haiti from 2003-2006 as a Special Correspondent for the radio program, Flashpoints,
heard on KPFA – the flagship station of Pacifica Radio based in Berkeley, California. Pina is also the Founding Editor of the Haiti Information Project (HIP), a non-profit news agency based in Port-au-Prince and Northern California, and an Associate Editor for the Black Commentator, an online magazine.
This promises to be a hard-hitting discussion.
Check out these sites for more information regarding Haiti:
Haiti Action
Haiti Information Project
Music that followed the interview:
Come Undone: Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan
Big Wave: Jenny and Johnny
Still Alive: Three Mile Pilot
Perfect plan: Sarah Jaffe
August 30, 7pm
The Finkelstein Shit Kid – Mr. Stoner->Up In Smoke: Cheech & Chong
I Love Livin’ in the City: Fear
Sex Bomb: Flipper (live)
Out Of The Blue: Julian Casablancas
Light & Day/Reach for the Sun: The Polyphonic Spree
Hand of God: Jason Boesel
Heart Of Stone (Raveonettes Cover): Dum Dum Girls
ZOL!: BLK JKS
Outer Limits: Sleep Over
Bone Dry: A B & The Sea
How can I get by: Old Lights
Dot Dash: Tartufi
Stop that Train: Bob Marley & the Wailers (07-11-73)
Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow->
Nanook Rubs It->
St. Alfonzon’s Pancake Breakfast->
Father O’Blivion: Frank Zappa (09-21-78)
Concert Outlook (music bed Kilayum: Masada 04-10-96)
About a Girl: Sex Mob (02-05-02)
The False Husband: Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan (06-12-08)
Suspicious Minds: Elvis (02-23-71)
When the Saints go Marching In: Louis Armstrong (04-14-62)
I Wish I was in New Orleans->When the Saints go Marching In: Tom Waits (??-78)
Badge: Cream (05-05-05)
Muswell Hillbilly: the Kinks (11-11-72)
August 23, 6pm
Here we go with week two. Thanks for all the love so far. I have a Facebook page you should check out as well. This week’s show will feature the latest from Arcade Fire, as well as some new Boris with Ian Astbury of The Cult. More new Boris in the second hour.
I feel like my shows need to be more challenging for the listeners, so this show got a little more noisy than usual. I like it. I hope you do too. Or not. I really don’t care. That’s why my name is Hell. John Hell.
Here’s the link. Click on the August 23 podcast, parts one and two.
Enjoy.
The Finkelstein Shit Kid – Mr. Stoner->Up in Smoke: Cheech and Chong
I Love Livin’ in the City: Fear
Feeling Good (Troublemaker Remix): Nina Simone
Magickal Child: Boris w/Ian Astbury
Tumor Report: National Hardwood Floor Association
Rococo: Arcade Fire
Girls FM: Happy Birthday
What do you want from life: The Tubes
My Generation: The Melvins
Hands: Ting Tings
Fuck You: Cee-Lo Green
Go Tell it on the Mountain: Blind Boys of Alabama & Tom Waits
Fire and Fast Bullets: Blitzen Trapper
Shrinking Moon for You: Wooden Shjips
Raise the Knowledge: Gogol Bordello
Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime: Dean Martin
Boris: Luna
Concert Outlook (music by Porn with Merzbow)
A More Perfect Union: Titus Andronicus
In the Mouth of a Desert: Pavement
Working On My Soul: The Holy Soul
What a Wonderful World: Louis Armstrong
August 16, 6pm
My first show at my new radio station, Radio Valencia. I’m thrilled beyond words. Thanks to a great staff.
Here’s the link to the podcast. It’s broken into two one-hour parts.
After four months of organizing, San Francisco’s newest radio station is on! Check out my show every Monday 8-10pm (pst).
Here we go!!!!
Get up offa that thing: James Brown
Brother’s gonna work it out: Willie Hutch
Pressure Drop: The Clash
Once there was a mountain: Joe Jones
Smokin’ Cheeba Cheeba: George Benson
Love of the common people: Leonard Nimoy
Ain’t no sunshine: Prophets of soul
I left my heart in SF: The Ultras
40 Day Dream: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Midnight Special: Harry Belafonte
Little Red Hen: Taj Mahal
Die!: The Mummies
Fish on->Tommy the Cat: Primus (11-17-93)
Tango til they’re sore: Tom Waits (11-03-85)
I Saw a Dragonfly: Heartless Bastards (05-04-10)
Honky Tonk Women: Rolling Stones (03-13-71)
Marie Marie: Dave Alvin and the Guilty Men (02-18-05)
Ten Years Gone: Led Zeppelin (05-26-77)
Rosalita (Come out tonight): Bruce Springsteen (08-09-78)
August 11, 9pm
It’s been a while, but I’m back on the “air”.
Since my departure from FCCFreeRadio last March, I’ve been involved in creating a new and very much improved, radio station in SF, Radio Valencia.
A Season in Hell, Monday’s 8-10pm.
My old friend Chicken John, whom I have done many shows since 1995, including Church of the Bleeding Ulcer, You Asked for it, Lost Vegas, and the Power Tool Drag Races, asked me to help him set up a true community radio station. It didn’t take me two seconds to jump at the opportunity.
After consulting with some roustabouts, that included Trademark G. of Evolution Control Committee, and Wrybread of Photoboof, it was decided that we can make this happen.
That was in April.
Today we flipped the switch!!!
We have 30 people on staff, and 24 two-hour weekly shows, featuring some of the best SF has to offer, including the Ask Dr. Hal Show, KROB, Drinks with Tony, and The Sound of Plaid (ECC), just to name but a few.
I’ve been involved in bay area radio since 1988, and micro-powered radio since I co-founded Radio Free Burning Man back in 1994. I have not been this excited about a radio station since I witnessed the immediate response RFBM would get from that community.
I truly believe that Radio Valencia has the power to drive the community as the bulletin board with the megaphone, all neighborhoods deserve to have.
At this moment the website is a shambles and the board looks like it’s had one too many beers spilled on it, but that’s what I love about community. Everyone is coming together to make this thing happen. In time the website will kick ass, we’ll have a new board, and other flashy bells and whistles a radio station needs to rock.
At least the automated playlist which plays when there is no live show, doesn’t suck.
A station with no meetings? A station with no mandated promos to play? A station where the DJs are encouraged to create art two hours a week, with no interruption? A station that is actively searching for inspired people to come and play with us, no strings attached? A station that hopes to inspire a community? That’s my kind of station. Sign me up!
June 9, 7pm
The only sport I really care about is ice hockey. It must have something to do with my late maternal grandfather, Chuck Workman; a Canadian, a WWII vet, and a hockey player. I was born in Toledo, Ohio, and for some reason I never cared for the Detroit Red Wings. My dad used to race stock cars their, where he had a lot of fun. He and I are very close, so you would think I would be a Red Wings fan, but no, I’m a Blackhawks fan. Maybe it’s the jersey. Tonight marks only their fourth Stanley Cup Championship, and their first since 1961.
My sister, Julie, bought me a jersey about 20 years ago. I’ve loved wearing it, and take pride when I do.
When the San Jose Sharks came to the Bay Area, I got very excited. Having lived in the Bay Area since late 1982, I was long waiting an NHL team. Today, it’s safe to say I’m a fan of both teams. It was hard to see the Sharks go down to the Hawks, in four games, in the Western Conference Finals this year. But if they were to go down to any team, it had to be the Blackhawks.
Congratulations Chicago Blackhawks on a great season, and a great second season (any hocky fan knows that the playoffs (the “second season”) is when the real hockey season begins.
I’ll savior this moment, and hope it’s not another 49 years before they win it again.
March 26, 2pm
Stay tune for the deets, but John Hell is off the air for a little while. I’m no longer involved with FCCFreeRadio. It was fun, it was real, but it sure wasn’t, well you know the rest.
Oh the drama is AMAZING! I love this stuff.
See you on the radio.
jh
March 15, 5pm
The Finkelstein Shit Kid – Mr. Stoner->Up in Smoke: Cheech and Chong
The Devil’s Chasing Me: The Reverend Horton Heat
Glitter Freeze Ft. Mark E. Smith: Gorillaz
I’m New Here: Gil Scott-Heron
A Minor Altercation: Nice Face
Firecracker: Opal Axis
Ain’t No Grave: Johnny Cash
Home (RAC Mix): Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Jail La La: Dum Dum Girls
Frost Hammer: High On Fire
We Need A Lot More Jesus: Wayne Raney
Shit Luck: Modest Mouse
A More Perfect Union: Titus Andronicus
Do I Look Like a Slut: Avenue D
Concert Outlook
Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky: Lou Donaldson
Express Yourself: NWA
New Whirl Odor: Public Enemy
Kill the Poor: Dead Kennedy’s
Furious Five and Grandmaster Flash
Damn Sam the Miracle Man: Damn Sam the Miracle Man and the Soul Congregation
Strength Thru Shopping: Jello Biafra And The Guantanamo School Of Medicine
Let It Be Me: Nina Simone
The Other One->Cryptical Envelopment: Grateful Dead (04-15-70)
Country Roads: Toots and the Maytals (04-22-78)
Epicenter: Giant Sand (03-19-94)
Friction: Television (8-31-77)
Gloria: Patti Smith (01-30-76)
Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen: Santana (06-13-70)
March 8, 7pm
I had long-time friends and DJs DJ Justin Credible and Puzzling Evidence on my show tonight. It was the silliest show I’ve done in a ling time.
The Finkelstein Shit Kid – Mr. Stoner->Up in Smoke: Cheech and Chong
What do you want from Life: The Tubes
Friends: Flight of the Conchords
Green Grass (Tom Waits cover):Cibelle
Sunlight: The Tuneyards
Brother’s gonna work it out: Willie Hutch
Education of a Black Man: Schooly D
She’s a Lady/
A More Perfect Union: Titus Andronicus
I can’t stand the Rain: Ann Peebles
Me and My Vibrator: Suzie Seacell
John Hell and Justin Credible RFBM 1996/Drinking out of Cups (youtube)
Mona Lisa: Slick Rick
Walking in the Rain: Flash and the Pan
Don’t stop the Music: Yarbrough and Peoples
Too Many Dicks on the Dancefloor: Flight of the Conchords
I’m on a Boat: The Lonely Island
You’ve Got the Love (XX remix):Florance and the Machine
Cha Cha Cha: Mexican Sound Institute
Battle of Bongo Hill: Herbalizer
Til Sun’s in Your Eyes: DJ Vadim
First Time: The Junior Boys
Two Fools: Francine King
Your Man My Man: Betty Davis
Funky Woman: Parliament
C Is For Cookie: Cookie Mongoloid
Pass it On: The Knife
Can you get to that?: Funkadelic
Here comes the sun (Nina Simone cover of the Beatles): Francoise K (remix)
Panty: Monsieur Dolor Et Les Guitar Boys
Moment: Damian Lazarus
Cornbread and Butter Beans: Carolina Chocolate Drops
I’ll Meet You There: The Mother Truckers
Honolulu Rock-A Roll-A: Kitty Daisy & Lewis
Dream a Little Dream of Me: Zee Avi
Love and Affection: Segun Bucknor
Skot Kuiper came by at the end to talk about the Death of San Francisco.
March 1, 7pm
The Finkelstein Shit Kid – Mr. Stoner-> Up in Smoke: Cheech and Chong
Jet Boy Jet Girl: Elton Motello
All the pretty little horses: Mark Growden-DJ Vordo Remix
Four Score Part One->Four Score Part Two: Titus Andronicus
First Of The Gang To Die (Morrisey cover): Zee Avi
Tony Dushane interview
Winter Dies: Midlake
Flume: Bon Iver
Tony Dushane interview
Baby Doll (Alex Chilton cover): The Duke Spirit
Pornography: Bongwater
Tony Dushane interview (reads from his book)
Bird on a Wire: Leonard Cohen
Plebe Por Vida: La Plebe
Think Locally, Fuck Globally: Gogol Bordello
Mondo Bondage > Don’t Touch Me There > Mondo Bondage Reprise: The Tubes (4-23-76)
High Roller: Cheap Trick (3-28-97)
When the Music’s Over: The Doors (09-20-68)
John Zorn’s Masada Marathon
Abrons Arts Center, New York City
??: Cyro Baptista’s Banquet of the Spirits (2-17-10)
??: Ben Goldberg Quartet (2-17-10)
Lelabel: Jamie Saft Trio (2-18-10)
??: Masada String Trio (2-18-10)
Haamiah: Masada Quintet with Chris Potter (2-18-10)
Rahtiel: Masada Quintet with Chris Potter (2-18-10)
