Michele K-tel plays new girl group sounds from BLOOMINGTON (Thee Tsunamis), Chicago’s BITCHIN BAJAS (and NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY) and a few songs about BIG BANANAS. Plus, look! It’s a new track from BATTLES.

Playlist 9.8.15

Battles “FF BADA” La Di Da Di (WARP)
Jenny Hval “Kingsize” Apocalypse, girl (Sacred Bones Records)
The Soft Boys “We Like Bananas” 1976-81 (Ryko)
Machito “Bananas” Machito Plays Mambos & Cha Cha Cha (Palladium)
Los Pakines “Caminando Hacia el Arco Iris” Los Pakines (Infopesa)

Bitchin Bajas and Natural Information Society “Sign Spinners” Automaginary (Drag City)
Yo La Tengo “The Ballad of Red Buckets” Stuff Like That There (Matador)
Great Plains “I Must Have Made It All Up” Born in a Barn (Homestead)
Charles Plays “Somebody I Used to Know” on accordion
The Drapels “Wondering (When My Love Is Coming Home)” The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-1968
Stuart Moxham “I Wonder Why” Signal Path (Habit)
The Pastels “I Wonder Why” (Rough Trade) 1983
The Specials “You’re Wondering Now” Specials (RIP Rico Rodriguez)
Lightning Hopkins “Wonder Why” The Legend Collection
Laura Marling “Don’t Ask Me Why” A Creature I Don’t Know (Ribbon)
Duke Ellington “I Wonder Why (Take 2)” 1942, vol. 2

Destroyer “Sun in the Sky” Poison Season (Merge)
Eleventh Dream Day “Deep Lakes” Works For Tomorrow (Thrill Jockey)
Sam Hunt, David Kilgour and The Heavy Eights “Wavesong” The 9th (David Kilgour)
Dirty Three “Great Waves” Cinder (Tough & Go)
The Unthanks “The Happiness or Otherwise of Society (Jack Elliott)” The Unthanks with Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band – Diversions, Vol. 2 (RabbleRouser Music)
Alasdair Roberts & Trembling Bells “Coral and Tar (2015 Version)”

Thee Tsunamis “Skip Tracer” Saturday Night Sweethearts (Magnetic South Recordings)
Jessie Mae Hemphill “Take Me Home With You, Baby” She-Wolf (Shout!)
The Wedding Present “Take Me” Bizarro
Mac McCaughan “Box Batteries” Non-Believers (Merge)
The Coolies “This Car Is A Safe Place” Kaka (Feeding Tube Records)
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down “Girl Like You (Troggs) The Feeling Kind EP (iTunes)
Love Vacation “Lovefool” performing at the 20th Street Block Party Saturday, September 12

Helen “Violet” (KRANKY)
f/ Liz Harris from Grouper