On tonight’s edition –> Michele K-Tel plays music from the first CIBO MATTO album in 15 years, exposes Bill Callahan in dub, salutes earnest folk hero Pete Seeger and takes a wee journey to Scotland with Alasdair Roberts, Withered Hand, King Creosote + Jon Hopkins and Mogwai.

Playlist 1.30.14

Animal Collective “Moonjock” Centipede Hz (Domino)
Can “Full Moon On The Highway” Landed (Mute)
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys “There’s A Silver Moon On The Golden Gate” Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 10 (Rhino)

Cibo Matto “Hotel Valentine” Hotel Valentine (Virtual)
Mum “When Girls Collide” Smilewound (Morr Music)
Valentin Clastrier “Gyroturbation” Valentin Clastrier (Innacor)
The Limiñanas “Votre Coté Yéyé M’emmerde” Costa Blanca (Trouble in Mind)

Pete Seeger, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee “Down by the Riverside” live on Rainbow Quest TV show
Bright Eyes “A Machine Spiritual (In The People’s Key)” The People’s Key (Saddle Creek)
Billy Bragg “I Ain’t Got No Home” Tooth & Nail (Essential Music)
Mount Eerie “The Place I Live (Human)” Clear Moon (P.W. Elverum & Sun)
Four Tet “Our Navigation” Beautiful Rewind (Temporary Residence)

THEE SILVER MT ZION “WHAT WE LOVED WAS NOT ENOUGH” FUCK OFF GET FREE WE POUR LIGHT ON EVERYTHING (Constellation)

Withered Hand “Horseshoe” New Gods (Slumberland)
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins “John Taylor’s Month Away” Diamond Mine (Domino)
Alasdair Roberts & Robin Robertson “The White-Handled Knife” Hirta Songs (Stone Tape Recording)
Mogwai “No Medicine For Regret” Rave Tapes (Sub Pop)

Bill Callahan “Highs In the Mid-40’s Dub” Have Fun With God (Drag City)
Fellow Travellers “Rainy Days And Mondays” Things And Time (Okra)
Amy Denio “I’m Glad Today Is Monday” Prodigal Light (Spoot Music)

Illàchime Quartet “Flying Home” I’m Normal, My Heart Still Works (Fratto9 Under the Sky)

On tonight’s edition –> Michele K-Tel presents Neneh Cherry’s new Four Tet produced project + the third release from Franc-o-phonic crooners The Limiñanas. Also get ready for a DISCO ROTO Rocket (#9) to the Planet Venus and a musical leap into the arctic vortex. Brrrrrr. Confused? Tune in and singalong to the snow.

1.23.2014

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks “Chart Junk” Wig Out at Jig Bags (Matador)
Barney Bigard & His Jazzopators “Moonlight Fiesta” The Duke’s Men: Small Groups – Vol. 1 (Legacy)
Meridian Brothers “El Enamorado” Devoción (Works 2005 – 2011) (Staubgold)
The Limiñanas “Rosas” Costa Blanca (Trouble in Mind)

Neneh Cherry “Weightless” Blank Project (Smalltown Supersound)
Arquitecto vs. Greench “Orbit” Super Heroe (Cubamusic)
K. McCarty “Rocket Ship” Dead Dog’s Eyeball (Bar/none)
Sun Ra And His Solar Arkestra “Rocket Number Nine Take Off For The Planet Venus” Sun Ra Visits Planet Earth/Interstellar Low Ways (Evidence)
Quasimoto “Astronaut” Yessir, Whatever (Stones Throw)
Lightnin’ Hopkins “Happy Blues For John Glenn” The Best Of Lightnin’ Hopkins (Fantasy)
Rose Melberg “Mr. Spaceman” Portola (Double Agent)
Grinderman “Man In The Moon” Grinderman (Anti)
Kassin+2 “Astronauta” Futurismo (Luaka Bop)
Television Personalities “Goodnight Mr. Spaceman” Closer To God (Fire)

The Blow “Not Dead Yet” The Blow (Kanine)
Christian Borle, David Hyde Pierce, Ensemble “Monks Chant / He Is Not Dead Yet” Spamalot (Decca)
Frank Williams & The Rocketeers “Good Thing, Pt. 1” Eccentric Soul: The Deep City Label (Numero Uno)
Joanna Gruesome “Tugboat” 7″ (Slumberland)

Hauschka “Snow” Foreign Landscapes (FatCat)
My Bloody Valentine “Soft As Snow (But Warm Inside)” Isn’t Anything (Sire)
The Halo Benders “Snowfall” God Don’t Make No Junk (K)
Galaxie 500 “Listen, The Snow Is Falling” This Is Our Music (Rough Trade)
Ceramic Dog “Special Snowflake” Your Turn (Northern Spy)
Laura Marling “Goodbye England (Covered In Snow)” I Speak Because I Can (Ribbon Music)
Doc Watson And Clarence White “Footprints In the Snow” The Vanguard Years (Vanguard)
Souled American “Six Feet Of Snow” Around The Horn (Rough Trade)

Jim O’Rourke “Happy Trails” Bad Timing (Drag City)

On this week’s edition –> Michele K-Tel blares new music from Mogwai, Stephen Malkmus, French hurdy-gurdy maestro Valentin Clastrier + Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra, PLUS hops a freight train with The Cramps, Laura Veirs and Bonnie “Prince” Billy and gets HAPPY in the new year with múm, The Buzzcocks, Willem Brueker and Lee “Scratch” Perry. ¡Feliz año nuevo!

Playlist 1.9.2014

The Cramps “Drug Train” Off The Bone (A&M)
Railroad Jerk “The Ballad Of Railroad Jerk” One Track Mind (Matador)
Billy Bragg “Train Train” Talking to the Taxman About Poetry (Elektra)
Laura Veirs “Say Darlin’ Say” Warp and Weft (Nonesuch)
Dawn McCarthy and Bonnie “Prince” Billy “Milk Train” What The Brothers Sang (Palace Records)

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra “Take Away These Early Grave” Blues Fuck Off We Pour Free Light On Everything (Constellation)
Cat Power “Human Being” Sun (Matador)
Julie Ruin “Girls Like Us” Run Fast (The Julie Ruin)
Blow “I Tell Myself Everything” The Blow (Kanine)

Mogwai “Simon Ferocious” Rave Tapes (Sub Pop)
Alasdair Roberts “Join Our Lusty Chorus” Farewell Sorrow (Drag City)
Valentin Clastrier “Au fond des temps, pt. 1” Valentin Clastrier (Innacor)
Julianna Barwick “Forever” Nepenthe (Dead Oceans)

Stephen  Malkmus + The Jicks “Rumble at the Rainbo” Wig Out at Jig Bags (Matador)
Boogarins “Erre” As Plantas Que Curam (Other Music)
Nikki Sudden “Kitchen Blues” Treasure Island (Secretly Canadian)
John Fahey “Worried Blues” Return Of The Repressed: Anthology (Rhino)
Roosevelt Sykes “Boot That Thing” 1929-41 (Phantom Sound & Vision)
Thee Oh Sees “What You Need” Singles Vol 3 (Castleface)

múm “One Smile” Smile Wound (Morr Music)
The Buzzcocks “Everybody’s Happy Nowadays” Singles Going Steady (Parlophone)
Willem Breuker Kollektief • Mondriaan Strings • Toby Rix “I Want to be Happy” Metropolis (BVHaast)
Little Frankie “Happy, That’s Me” Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found: One Kiss Can Lead To Another (Rhino)
The Memories “Squeeze Me” Love is the Law (Burger)
Country Rockers “My Happiness” Free Range Chicken (Telstar)
The Kinks Everybody’s Gonna Be Happy The Singles Collection
Lee “Scratch” Perry “I am Happiness” Who Put The Voodoo `Pon Reggae? (Ariwa Sounds)

Burial “Come Down To Us” Rival Dealer EP (Hyperdub)

On this week’s edition, Michele K-Tel presents her Best of 2013 picks in a countdown race to #1.  The question is — will she make it?!

Playlist 12.19.13

28. The Heliocentrics “Wrecking Ball” 13 Degrees From Reality (Now Again)
27. Laura Mvula “Green Garden” Sing To the Moon (Columbia)
26. Devendra Banhart “Daniel” Mala (Nonesuch)
25. The Memories “En Espanol” Love is the Law (Burger)

24. Mount Kimbie “You Took Your Time (feat. King Krule)” Cold Spring Fault Less Youth (Warp)
23. K.Flay “So What?” What If It Is EP (RCA)
22. Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog “Mr. Pants Goes to Hollywood” Your Turn (Northern Spy)
21. Colin Stetson High Above A Grey Green Sea New History Warfare 3: To See More Light (Constellation)

20. Joanna Gruesome “Do You Really Wanna Know Why Yr Still in Love with Me? ” Weird Sister (Slumberland)
19. Sons Of Kemet “Beware”  Burn (Naim Jazz)
18. Deerhunter “Dream Captain” Monomania (4AD)
17. Family Atlantica “Fly Through The Lightning To Speak With The Sun” Family Atlantica (Soundways)
16. Devon Sproule & Mike O’Neill “Nobody Tells Me a Thing” Colours (Tin Angel)

15. King Krule “Easy Easy” 6 Feet Beneath the Moon (True Panther Sounds)
14. Son Lux “Easy” Lanterns (Joyful Noise)
13. Surf City “No Place to Go” We Knew It Was Not Going to Be Like This (Fire)
12. Yo La Tengo “The Point of It” Fade (Matador)
11, Julie Ruin “Just My Kind” Run Fast (The Julie Ruin Records)

10. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds “We Real Cool” Push The Sky Away (Bad Seed Ltd.)
9. The Ex & Brass Unbound “Last Famous Words” Enormous Door (In the Fishtank)
8. Neko Case “Night Still Comes” The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You (Anti)
7. Abena Koomson + Rubblebucket + Superhuman Happiness w/ Sahr Ngaujah “ITT (International Thief Thief)” Red, Hot & FELA (Knitting Factory)
6. Jagwar Ma “That Loneliness” Howlin (Mom + Pop)

5. Juana Molina “Ferocisimo” Wed 21 (Crammed Discs)
4. The Dodos “Confidence” Carrier (Polyvinyl)
3. Laura Marling When Were You Happy? (And How Long Has That Been) Once I Was An Eagle (Ribbon Records)
2. Savages “She Will” Silence Yourself (Matador)
1.  Roberto Fonseca “siete rayos (nicolas guillen)” Yo (Concord Jazz)

Tonight’s edition –> a Special AKA salute to Nelson Mandela, NEW music from DOTT, Xiu Xiu covering Nina Simone, live Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Niger’s Tal National + Michele K-Tel celebrates the 80th anniversary of REPEAL DAY with a bunch of songs about booze.

Playlist 12.5.13

Bruno Blum/Nelson Mandela “Amandla Dub” Human Race (Patch Work)
Special AKA “Free Nelson Mandela” 12″ (Chrysalis)
Sam Fan Thomas “Zimo (To Nelson Mandela)” Makassa Again (Musiki Cameroun)

DOTT “Leave Tonight” Swoon (Graveface)
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down “You Can Have It All” The Feeling Kind – EP (Ribbon Music)
Xiu Xiu “See Line Woman”  Nina (Graveface)
Nina Simone “Don’t Take All Night” Gold (Verve)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds “Mermaid”  Live from KCRW (Bad Seed Ltd)
Sharkmuffin “Mermaid Sex Slave” CMJ Mixtape – Best of 2013
Death Grips “Feels like a Wheel” Government Plates (Harvest)
Jagwar Ma “Exercise” Howlin (Mom+Pop)
Dirty Three “Sometimes I Forget You’ve Gone” Toward The Low Sun (Drag City)

94 East “If You See Me” Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound Sampler (Numero Uno)
Mariachi El Bronx “I Would Die 4 U” SPIN Presents Purplish Rain
Batata Y Su Rumba Palenquera “Macaco Mata El Toro (Reaganomics Remix)” Geko Jones & Atropolis present: Palenque Records Remixed (Palenque)
Tal National “Zigda” Kaani (Fat Cat)

…a spotlight on the 80th Anniversary of Repeal Day…12/5/1933
Ivor Cutler “An American Drink” A Wet Handle
Tito Puente “The Drinking Mambo” The Complete 78s Vol.1 (1949-55)  (Fania)
Catherine Irwin “Piss to Gin” Little Heater (Thrill Jockey)
Tom Waits “Jockey Full Of Bourbon” Rain Dogs (Island)
Gil Scott-Heron “The Bottle” Tales Of Gil Scott Heron and his Amnesia Express (Castle)
Meridian Brothers “Fiesta (Con El Whiskey Del Folclore)” Desesperanza (Soundway)

On this week’s edition –> Michele K-Tel presents “Reasons to be Thankful Pt. 2013” stuffed full of songs about mashed potatoes (hey!), PIE PIE PIE and other reasons to give thanks — including being joined by special guest co-host DJ Lutinna! Gobble Gobble.

Playlist 11.28.13

Ian Dury & the Blockheads “Reasons to be Cheerful Pt. 3” Do It Yourself (Demon)
William S. Burroughs “A Thanksgiving Prayer” Dead City Radio (Island)
Ray Davies “Thanksgiving Day ” Single (V2)
Doc Watson Featuring Merle Watson “I Am a Pilgrim” The Vanguard Years (Vanguard)
Vince Guaraldi Trio “Thanksgiving Theme” Charlie Brown Holiday Hits (Fantasy)

King Khan & BBQ Show “Whats For Dinner?” What’s for Dinner? (In The Red)
The 5, 6, 7, 8’s “Hey! Mashed Potato, Hey!” Japanese Groupsound! (Spinout)
The Kaisers “Mashed Potatoes” Twist With The Kaisers (Spinout)
The Kinks “Hot Potatoes” “Everybody’s in Show Biz” (Velvel)
The Damned “Turkey Song” The Chiswick Singles And Another Things (Ace)
Buffalo Daughter “Silver Turkey” Captain Vapour Athletes (Buffalo Ranch)
Cracker “Sweet Potato” Kerosene Hat (Virgin)
Golden Smog “Pecan Pie” Down By The Old Mainstream (Ryko)
The Kinks “Maximum Consumption” Everybody’s in Show Biz (Velvel)
The Four Clefs “I Like Pie, I Like Cake” The Human Orchestra (Jasmine)
Danielson Fathom “The Nine Fruits Pie” Fetch the Compass Kids (Secretly Canadian)

Dizzy Gillespie “Rutabaga Pie” Soul Time (HDJ)
Big Star “Thank You Friends” Big Star’s 3rd: Sister Lovers (Ryko)
Zombies “Friends of Mine” Odessey and Oracle (Marquis Enterprises)
John Renbourn “Sweet Potato” Sir John Alot (Shanachie)
ART PAUL SCHLOSSER “Thanksgiving Stuffing” The Best of ART PAUL SCHLOSSER (APS)
Killdozer “Turkey Shoot” Uncompromising War On Art Under The Dictatorship Of The Proletariat (Touch n’ Go)
Robyn Hitchcock “Meat” Black Snake Dîamond Röle

Louis Jordan “Beans & Cornbread” Let The Good Times Roll (Geffen)
Sarah Vaughan “Gravy Waltz” Sarah Vaughan Sings Soulfully (Parlophone UK)
Thelonious Monk “Stuffy Turkey” It’s Monk’s Time (Legacy)
Tall Dwarfs “Fatty Fowl in Gravy Stew” In the Dying Days of Helen Young (Flying Nun)

Bettye LaVette “Thankful N’ Thoughtful” Thankful N’ Thoughtful (Anti)
William DeVaughan “Be Thankful of What You’ve Got” Soul Legend (Master Classics)
Lambchop “For Which We Are Truly Thanksful” How I Quit Smoking (Merge)

Lightnin’ Hopkins “Long Gone Like A Turkey Through The Corn” Country Blues (Rhino)

This week’s edition — Michele K-Tel plays new music from Death Grips, Thee Oh Sees, Gary Lucas, The Limiñanas…and maybe-maybe-maybe —> advance sounds from Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra’s upcoming 2014 release Fuck Off We Pour Free Light On Everything. 

Playlist 11/21/13

Death Grips “Lock Your Doors” No Love Deep Web (Harvest)
Lightning Bolt “13 Monsters” Ride The Skies (Load)
King Midas Sound “Earth a Killya” Waiting For You (Hyperdub)

Thee Oh Sees “Wait Let’s Go” Singles Vol 3 (Castleface)
Sleater-Kinney “I’m Not Waiting” Call The Doctor (Chainsaw)
Justin Townes Earle “Ain’t Waitin'” Harlem River Blues (Bloodshot)
Shrimp Boat “I Can’t Wait I Cannot” Something Grand (Aum Fidelity)
Les Paul & Mary Ford “The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise” The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise (Delta)

Latyrx “It’s Time” The Second Album (Latyramid, Inc.)
Alice Swoboda “I Think It’s Time (You Were Mine)” Eccentric Soul: The Tragar & Note Labels (Numero Group)
The Limiñanas “My Black Sabbath” Costa Blanca (Trouble In Mind Records)
SON LUX “Plan The Escape” Lanterns (Joyful Noise)
Lucius “Go Home” Wildewoman (Mom + Pop)
Oscar Isaac “Hang Me, Oh Hang Me” Inside Llewyn Davis: Original Soundtrack Recording  (Nonesuch)
The Be Good Tanyas “Waiting Around To Die” Chinatown (Nettwerk)
Amy Denio “Dead” Prodigal Lights (Spoot Music)
Gary Lucas “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence” Cinefantastique (Northern Spy)
Mazzy Star “Flying Low” Seasons of Your Day (Rhymes of an Hour Records)
Surf City “7 Sages of the Bamboo Grove” We Knew It Was Not Going to Be Like This (Fire)

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra “Austerity Blues”  Fuck Off We Pour Free Light On Everything (Communion)
Four Tet “Aerial” Beautiful Rewind (Text Recordings)

Juana Molina “El Oso De La Guarda” Wed 21 (Crammed Discs)
Neko Case “Things That Scare Me” Blacklisted (Bloodshot)
Malcolm Middleton “No Modest Bear” Into The Woods (Chemikal Underground)

On this week’s episode — Michele K-Tel spins new music from Psapp, Juana Molina, Boogarins and Bill Callahan, gets LAZY with Moe Tucker and Mochipet –> PLUS shines a jazz squonk spotlight on next week’s performance with Peter Brotzmann at SF’s Center for New Music (11/13).

Playlist 11.7.13

Four Tet “Kool FM” Beautiful Rewind (Temporary Residence)
RJD2 “Good Times Roll Pt. 1” The Horror (RJ’s Electrical Connections)
Roxy Music “A Really Good Time” Country Life (Reprise)
The Velvet Underground “We’re Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together” Live MCMXCIII (Rhino)
Prefuse 73 “When Is A Good Time?” Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian (Warp)
Modest Mouse “The Good Times Are Killing Me” (Alt. Mix ) Float On 7″ (Sony UK)
Bill Callahan “Ride My Arrow” Dream River (Drag City)

Juana Molina “La Rata” Wed 21 (Crammed Discs)
Robert Wyatt “Slow Walkin’ Talk” `68 (Cuneiform)
Moe Tucker “Lazy” I Spent a Week There the Other Night (Sky)
MOCHIPET Lazy Days (f/ K Flay) Microphonepet (Daly City Records)
The Replacements “White And Lazy” Stink [EP] (Twin/Tone)
Dee Dee Warwick “You’re No Good” Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found: One Kiss Can Lead To Another (Rhino)
Major Lazer “You’re No Good (f/ Santigold, Vybz Kartel, Danielle Haim) Free The Universe (Secretly Canadian)
The Beau Hunks “Goof ” The Beau Hunks Play The Original Laurel & Hardy Music  (Basta!)
Freakwater “Good For Nothing” End Time (Thrill Jockey)
Terry Malts “Well Adjusted” Nobody Realizes This Is Nowhere (Slumberland)

Wire “Love Bends” Change Becomes Us (pinkflag)
Psapp “What Makes Us Glow” What Makes Us Glow (The state51 Conspiracy)
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down “With a Girl Like You”  The Feeling Kind EP (Ribbon Music)
Alasdair Roberts “I Fell In Love” Farewell Sorrow (Drag City)
Maddox Brothers & Rose “I Want To Live And Love” America’s Most Colorful Hillbilly Band
Boogarins “Doce” As Plantas Que Curam (Other Music)

Peter Brotzmann + Paal Nilssen-Love + Mats Gusstafson “The Fat Is Gone” The Fat Is Gone (Smalltown Superjazz)