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¡DISCO ROTO! Strange Things

June 14, 2016
8:00 pm

Cherry Glazerr
On this edition: Michele K-tel files a DISCO ROTO REPORT from HUICHICA, along with new music from Brazilian percussionist Cyro Baptista, the “Intern” Angel Olsen, NYC’s 75 Dollar Bill (and other strange things).

Playlist 6.14.16

Sister Rosetta Tharpe “Strange Things Happening Every Day” Gospel Blues
Wire “Strange” Pink Flag
Big Black “Strange Things” Atomizer
Billy Bragg “Strange Things Happen (Alt Version)” Life’s A Riot With Spy Vs. Spy
The OUTSIDERS “Strange Things are Happening” The Complete Singles 1965-69

DISCO ROTO REPORT FROM HUICHICA
Frankie & The Witch Fingers “Lou Reed” Frankie and the Witch Fingers
Cherry Glazerr “Grilled Cheese” Papa Cremp (@The Chapel 6/14)
Farallons “Yile Nile / Sea Urchin” Outer Sun Sets EP
DRUG CABIN “Easy” Wiggle Room
Sun Hop Fat “Yum Yum” Sun Hop Fat
Giant Sand “Lester Lampshade” Backyard Barbecue Broadcast (live at WFMU)
Jennifer Castle “You Don’t Have To Be” Pink City
Willie Weird “I Don’t Care What The World’s Up To” The Scuzzy Inputs of Willy Weird

Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog “Hide With Me” 7″ split w/ Deerhoof (@ The Chapel 6/21)
Cyro Baptista “Love Song” Bluefly (Tzadik)
Gétatchèw Mèkurya “Akalé Wubé” Éthiopiques 14: Negus Of Ethiopian Sax
75 Dollar Bill “Beni Said” WOOD / METAL / PLASTIC / PATTERN / RHYTHM / ROCK (Other Music)
Debo Band “Yalanchi” Ere Gobez
Family Atlantica “Baião Infinito” Cosmic Unity

Horse Lords “Bending to the Lash” Interventions
Matmos “Excerpt Five” Ultimate Care II
Angel Olsen “Intern” My Woman
SEX SWING “Night-Time Worker”

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¡DISCO ROTO! Singles Going Steady

May 10, 2016
8:00 pm

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On tonight’s edition Michele K-tel spins 2 hours of singles going steady from the legendary Buzzcocks in honor of their 40th anniversary tour stop in SF (5/25 @ Slims)

Buzzcocks “Harmony In My Head” Singles Going Steady
Buzzcocks “Noise Annoys (John Peel Show 1978)”
Buzzcocks “Operators Manual” Love Bites

Buzzcocks “I Believe” A Different Kind Of Tension
Buzzcocks “I Need” Another Music In A Different Kitchen
Buzzcocks “Driving Insane” Peel Sessions (2003)
Buzzcocks “Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)?” Love Bites
Buzzcocks “Real World” Love Bites
Buzzcocks “Everybody’s Happy Nowadays” Singles Going Steady

Buzzcocks “Boredom” Spiral Scratch EP (1977)
Buzzcocks “Fast Cars” Another Music In A Different Kitchen
Buzzcocks “You Say You Don’t Love Me” A Different Kind of Tension
Buzzcocks “No Reply” Another Music In A Different Kitchen
Buzzcocks “I Don’t Mind” Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks “In The Back” The Way (2014)
Buzzcocks “Jerk” Peel Sessions (2003)
Buzzcocks “Fiction Romance” Another Music In A Different Kitchen
Buzzcocks “Sitting Round At Home” A Different Kind Of Tension
Buzzcocks “I Don’t Know What To Do With My Life” A Different Kind Of Tension

Buzzcocks “Orgasm Addict” Singles Going Steady
Buzzcocks “Oh Shit!” Singles Going Steady
Buzzcocks “Why Can’t I Touch It” Singles Going Steady
Buzzcocks “Why She’s A Girl From The Chainstore” Live @ Shepherds Bush Empire (2003)
Buzzcocks “Breakdown” (Live @ The Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester)
Buzzcocks What Do I Get? Singles Going Steady

Buzzcocks “I Love You, You Big Dummy” Time’s Up
Buzzcocks “Lester Sands” Peel Sessions (2003)
Buzzcocks “Love Is Lies” Love Bites
Buzzcocks “Love Battery” Another Music In A Different Kitchen
Buzzcocks “Raison D’etre” A Different Kind Of Tension

Buzzcocks “Time’s Up” Spiral Scratch EP
Buzzcocks “Late For The Train (John Peel Show 1978)” Love Bites

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¡DISCO ROTO! Gone Crazy

May 3, 2016
10:00 pm

pyramids

This week Michele K-tel plays new not-yet-out-sounds from jazz ensemble Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids, Baltimore’s Horse Lords + the ethereal vocal loops of Miss Juliana Barwick.

Playlist 5.3.16

CX KiDTRONiK w/ Tchaka Diallo “Lets Go Crazy” Afro-punk Vol. 2: FUCK ROCK STARS
The Clash “Let’s Go Crazy” Sandinista!
King Tubby & The Aggrovators “Real Gone Crazy Dub” Heavyweight Sound (Blood & Fire)
James Brown “I’ll Go Crazy” James Brown Live At The Apollo, 1962
Clifford Brown And Dinah Washington “Crazy He Calls Me (Live In Los Angeles / 1954)” Brownie: The Complete EmArcy Recordings Of Clifford Brown
Suckdog “Go Insane” Little Flowers Dying
The Feelies “Crazy Rhythms” Crazy Rhythms

Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids “Rhapsody in Berlin” We Be All Afrikans (Strut)
Karl Hector & The Malcouns “Jo Nibunga” Unstraight Ahead
Abayomy Afrobeat Orquestra “Omolu” Abra Sua Cabeca
Heliocentrics “Looking Back” From the Deep
Royal Jesters “Afro-Lypso” Royal Jesters: English Oldies

Xiu Xiu “Falling” Music of Twin Peaks (Polyvinyl)
Tiny Ruins +David Lynch “Dream Wave”
Angelo Badalamenti “Dance of the Dream Man”
Twin Peaks “Strange World (DEMO)”
Rebekah Del Rio “Llorando (Crying)”
case/lang/veirs “Honey and Smoke” case/lang/veirs
David Lynch “a verse of unknown origin” “The Music of David Lynch”

Horse Lords “Truthers” Interventions (Northern Spy)
GoGo Penguin “Unspeakable World (Matthew Herbert’s Onc Workout) Man Made Object (Blue Note)
Tomeka Reid “Billy Bang’s Bounce” Tomeka Reid Quartet (Thirsty Ear)
Billy Bang Sextet “The Nagual Julian” The Fire From Within (Soul Note)

Julianna Barwick “Nebula” Will (Dead Oceans) @ The Chapel 5/7

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¡DISCO ROTO! POP LIFE (Dig It)

April 26, 2016
8:00 pm

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On this edition: Michele K-tel plays new music from the artist formerly known as Antony, San Jose’s Xiu Xiu does Twin Peaks, Colin Stetson goes Górecki and we’ll pause for a cool glass of water — after we party like it’s 1999.

Playlist 4.26.16

Dump “1999” That Skinny Motherfucker with the High Voice EP (Shrimper)
The Flatmates “When You Were Mine” 7″
Age of Chance “KISS”
Prince “Pop Life” Around the World In A Day
Fol Chen “The Beautiful Ones” SPIN Presents Purplish Rain
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings “Take Me With U” SPIN Presents Purplish Rain
94 East “If You See Me” Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound (Numero)
Prince “Creep” live @ Coachella 2008

ANOHNI “Drone Bomb Me” Hopelessness
Glenn Mercer “Here Come the Warm Jets” Incidental Hum
Andy Stott “Damage” Faith in Strangers
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down “Give Me Peace” A Man Alive
Bitchin Bajas and Bonnie Prince Billy “Despair is Criminal” Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties

Xiu Xiu “Into The Night” Plays the Music of Twin Peaks
Angel Olsen “White Water (Bonus Track)” Burn Your Fire For No Witness
Jenny Hval “Mephisto In The Water” Innocence Is Kinky
The Sons Of The Pioneers “Cool Water” Hillbilly Fever: Vol. 4 – Heroes Of Country Music
Mirah “Cold Cold Water” Advisory Committee
Empress Of “Water Water” Me
The Who “Water” Two’s Missing

Colin Stetson “II” SORROW – a reimagining of Gorecki’s 3rd Symphony
Dump “Pop Life” That Skinny Motherfucker with the High Voice

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¡DISCO ROTO! BIG EARS REPORT

April 5, 2016
8:00 pm

BIG EARS

Michele K-tel gives a ¡DISCO ROTO! glimpse into Knoxville’s wonderfully eclectic Big Ears Festival.

Laurie Anderson “From The Air” Big Science
Lambchop “The Good Life (Is Wasted)” Mr. M
Marc Ribot “Fat Man Blues” solo acoustic @ The Falcon in Marlboro, NY

Yo La Tengo w/ Lambchop “Automatic Doom” and “Today is the Day” Live @ The Bijou, Knoxville
Yo La Tengo Drone (w/Bryce Dessner, Danny Ray Thompson, Mary Lattimore, Chris Abrahams) Big Ears Festival 2016
Sun Ra & His Solar-Myth Arkestra “The Lady With The Golden Stockings” Marshall Allen presents Sun Ra And His Arkestra: In The Orbit Of Ra

The Gloaming “Slán le Máighe” 2
Olivia Chaney “Imperfections” The Longest River
Phantom Orchard Ensemble “Luminous Fairies” Through The Looking Glass
Circuit des Yeux “Do the Dishes” In Plain Speach

Boogarins “Sei Lá” Manual
Mary Halvorson “Ida Lupino” Meltframe
Sam Amidon “Way Go, Lily” I See The Sign
Anthony Braxton “No. 170a” Wesleyan (12 Alto Solos)

Big Brave “On The By – And – By And Thereon” Au De La
Angel Olsen “Stars” Burn Your Fire For No Witness
John Luther Adams “The Wind in High Places: Maclaren Summit”

Kamasi Washington “Final Thought” The Epic

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¡DISCO ROTO! MOVES IT

March 29, 2016
10:00 pm

JebLoyNichols

Michele K-tel MOVES IT w/ new music from Jeb Loy Nichols, Bitchin’ Bajas + Bonnie Prince Billy, Mexrissey, Mavis, Xenia Rubinos, UK jazz outfit The Heliocentrics.

Jeb Loy Nichols “Moving Time” Long Time Traveller
Bob Marley “Keep on Moving” Bob Marley vs. Lee “Scratch” Perry: The Best of the Upsetter Years 1970-1971
The Soul Stirrers f/ R.H. Harris “I’m Gonna Move In The Room With The Lord” Shine On Me
Ghostpoet Feat. Paul Smith “Be Right Back, Moving House” Shedding Skin
King Tuff “Keep On Movin'” King Tuff

Heliocentrics “Discovery” From the Deep
GoGo Penguin “Protest” Man Made Object (@ SF Social Hall on 4/21)
Bitchin Bajas and Bonnie Prince Billy “You Are Not “Superman”” Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties
Mini-Mekons & Robbie Fulks “Refill” Jura
Sarah Neufeld “The Glow The Ridge
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh “Rún” Music for an Elliptical Orbit

Mavis Staples “Action” Livin’ On A High Note
Freakwater “Take Me with You” Scheherazade
Mariachi El Bronx “I Would Die 4 U” SPIN Presents Purplish Rain
Mexrrissey “Estuvo Bien (Suedehead)” No Manchester – Mexico Goes Morrissey
Carmelo Torres y Los Toscos “La Camisola” El Chacho

Xenia Rubinos “Lonely Lover” Black Terry Cat (@Mezzanine on 4/2 w/ Quantic!)
Savages “Sad Person” Adore Life
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down “Guts” A Man Alive
John Cale “Guts” Seducing Down The Door A Collection
John Cale “Thoughtless Kind” (M:FANS) Music For A New Society/M:Fans

Sonny & the Sunsets “Well But Strangely Hung Man” Moods Baby Moods
Protomartyr “Why Does it Shake” The Agent Intellect
September Girls “Black Oil”
Tacocat “Talk” Lost Time

Bitchin Bajas and Bonnie Prince Billy “Your Hard Work is About to Pay Off. Keep On Keeping On” Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties (Drag City)

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¡DISCO ROTO! GETS JIGGY

March 22, 2016
8:00 pm

IRISH

Michele K-tel celebrates St. Paddy’s Day by spinning up jigs, reels, celtic indie folksters + Gaelic guitar feedback from #Ireland. Sláinte!

Frank Quinn “If You Are Irish (Come Into The Parlor)” If You Are Irish
Thin Lizzy “Gonna Creep Up On You (John Peel Session)” Vagabonds Of The Western World
Shane MacGowan “More Pricks Than Kicks” The Crock of Gold
The Undertones “Emergency Cases” The Undertones

The Gloaming “The Rolling Wave” 2
The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock “Suffer the Wait” The Brutal Here & Now
SoAK “Digital Witness” (St Vincent)
Bridgit Fitzgerald “An Sean Duine Doite” Celtic Mouth Music
The Tossers “The Pub” Long Dim Road
Girl Band “Pears For Lunch” Holding Hands With Jamie
September Girls ” Melatonin” Veneer EP

Lúnasa “Island Paddy” The Kinnitty Sessions [Live]
The Pogues “A Pair Of Brown Eyes” Rum Sodomy & The Lash
Them “One Two Brown Eyes” The Story Of Them featuring Van Morrison
Villagers “Memoir (Live at RAK)” Where Have You Been All My Life?
Holly MacRE “The Corner of My Mind (Bedroom Session)”

Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh “Cloud” Music for an Elliptical Orbit
my bloody valentine “is this and yes” m b v
Iarla Ó Lionáird “Oisin’s Dream” Invisible Fields
An Triúr “The King of the Faeries” Three People
Dolores Keane & John Faulkner Mouth Music Celtic Mouth Music
Stiff Little Fingers “Alternative Ulster” All This & More
BiCEP “Celeste”

Cian Nugent “Grass Above My Head”
Catherine McEvoy, Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh “I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her” Petticoat Loose Comb Your Hair And Curl It
Robbie O’Connell “Keg Of Brandy” The Celts Rise Again
Fionn Regan “Golden Light” 100 Acres Of Sycamore
The Pogues “The Parting Glass” Rum Sodomy & The Lash [Expanded] (US Version)

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¡DISCO ROTO! INT’L LADY DAY

March 8, 2016
8:00 pm

SCRAWL
On this edition Michele K-tel celebrates International Women’s Day with lady legends (Moe Tucker, Juana Molina, Celia Cruz, tUnE-yArDs, Loretta Lynn, Scrawl) + new music from the FEROCIOUS Thao & the Get Down Stay Down and the knockout trio of Neko Case, Laura Veirs + kd lang.

Julie Ruin “Girls Like Us” Run Fast
Childbirth “Nasty Grrls” Women’s Rights
Scrawl “Clock Song” Bloodsucker
Moe Tucker “That’s Bad” I Spent a Week There the Other Night
Nina Simone “See-Line Woman” Gold

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down “Meticulous Bird” A Man Alive
Juana Molina “Ferocisimo” Wed 21
Ana Tijoux “Antipatriacia” Vengo
tUnE-yArDs, Angélique Kidjo, Akua Naru “LADY” Red, Hot & FELA

Neko Case/kdlang/laura Veirs “Atomic Number” case/lang/veirs
Ruby “Bad Girl” Shirley Inspired
Nadia Reid “Ruby” Listen to Formation, Look for the Signs
Loretta Lynn “I Never Will Marry” Full Circle
Freakwater “Memory Vendor” Scheherazade
Lucinda Williams “Bitter Memory” The Ghosts of Highway 20
Band Of Susans “Bitter And Twisted”The Word And The Flesh
Dinah Washington “This Bitter Earth” The Essential Dinah Washington: The Great Songs
Zee Avi “Bitter Heart” Zee Avi
Lush “Bitter” Scar
Sleater-Kinney “Hey Darling” No Cities To Love
Laura Marling “Master Hunter” Once I Was An Eagle

IBEYI w/ Alfredo Rodríguez “Sabanas Blancas” Tocororo
Celia Cruz “Caramelos” La Guarachera – The Best Of The Seeco Years
Nicole Mitchell “B.K.” Artifacts
The Beth Custer Ensemble “Black Ops” For The Grace Of Any Man
Ava Rocha “Boca do Céu” Ava Patrya Yndia Yracema

Joanna Newsom “The Things I Say” Divers
Girlpool “Pretty” Before The World Was Big
Yo La Tengo “I Feel Like Going Home” I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass

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¡DISCO ROTO! Oh Baby

February 23, 2016
8:00 pm

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On this edition: Michele K-tel plays the usual eclectic earful with NEW! music from Animal Collective, Canadian violinist Sarah Neufeld, local clarinet queen Beth Custer, Brooklyn-based keyboardist Xenia Rubinos PLUS Portuguese-Venezuelan psychedelic fuzz funk from Fumaça Preta.

Innersouls “Just Take Your Time”
Golden Grrrls “Take Your Time” Golden Grrrls (Slumberland)
Animal Collective “Golden Gal” Painting With (Domino)

Freakwater “What the People Want” Scheherazade (Bloodshot) @ The Chapel 3/1
Ty Segall “Baby Big Man (I Want A Mommy)” Emotional Mugger (Drag City)
Holly Golightly “Hold Me Baby” Laugh It All Up! (Damaged Goods)
Alex Chilton “B-A-B-Y” Feudalist Tarts (Razor & Tie)
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five “I Want You To Be My Baby” Let The Good Times Roll: The Anthology 1938 – 1953
Portastatic “Baby” De Mel, Melão (Merge)
The Funkees “Baby I Need You” Dancing Time, the Best of Eastern Nigeria’s Afro Rock Exponents 1973-77 (Soundway)
Nina Simone “My Baby” Just Cares For Me Gold
Belle and Sebastian “You’re Just A Baby” Tigermilk
The Heptones “Baby” Sweet Talking
Stephen Malkmus “Baby” C’mon Face The Truth
Dinah Washington “Baby, You’ve Got What It Takes” The Essential Dinah Washington: The Great Songs

GoGo Penguin “Quiet Mind” Man Made Object @Social Hall SF 4/21
Sarah Neufeld “We’ve Got a Lot” The Ridge
Ava Rocha “Hermética” Ava Patrya Yndia Yracema
Fumaça Preta “La Trampa” Impuros Fanáticos (Soundway)
Sherwood & Pinch “Shadowrun” Late Night Endless
Low “No Comprende” Ones and Sixes
Half Japanese “Man Without A Shadow” Perfect
Herman Dune “Shadow of a Doubt” Tell Me Something I Don’t Know (5 tracks)

Charles Lloyd & The Marvels “Of Course, Of Course” I Long To See You
The Beth Custer Ensemble “Monkey In Your Soul” For The Grace Of Any Man (BC)
Quantic “Pushin’ On” The Best Of Quantic
Xenia Rubinos “Just Like I” Live Lowrider Session
King Midas Sound “Earth A Kill Ya – Mala Rework” Without You
Charles M. Bogert “Scream of the Southern Leopard Frog” Sounds of North American Frogs: The Biological Significance of Voice in Frogs
Tom Waits Such A Scream Bone Machine
The Wainwright Sisters “Screaming Issue” Songs In The Dark (@ The Freight 3/1)

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¡DISCO ROTO! Lullabies

February 16, 2016
8:00 pm

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On this edition: Michele K-tel brings in the new squall from Ty Segall & the Muggers, tenor saxman Charles Lloyd & the Marvels, the jazz electronics of GoGo Penguin, Chicago duo FREAKWATER + a few lullabies to put you straight to sleep.

Ty Segall “Diversion” Emotional Mugger (Drag City)
Bo Diddley “Say Man, Back Again” Roadrunner The Chess Masters: 1959-1960
Dub Syndicate “Forward Not Back” Stoned Immaculate (On-U Sound)
Half Japanese “Hold On” Perfect (Joyful Noise)
Marianne Faithfull “Hold On Hold On” Easy Come, Easy Go: 12 Songs For Music Lovers
Nadia Reid “Holy Loud” Listen to Formation, Look for the Signs

Able Tasmans “Home On The Range” Store In A Cool Place (Flying Nun)
Supergenerous “Home on the Range” São Paulo Slim
Milton Brown And His Musical Brownies “Show Me the Way to Go Home” Daddy of Western Swing, Vol. 4 : Keep a Knockin’
Hank Williams “I’m Goin’ Home” Rare Demos – First To Last
Hank Williams III “Trashville” Lovesick, Broke And Driftin’
Jon Langford “Nashville Radio/Death of Country Music” Gravestone EP (Bloodshot)

Charles Lloyd & The Marvels “Sombrero Sam” I Long To See You (Blue Note)
Hanna Mekonnen “Ali New Biye (Alternative Version)” Out of Addis
Tunng “Never Again” Shirley Inspired
Eleanor Friedberger “Never Is A Long Time” live @ Paste Studios
T Bone Burnett “The Long Time Now” The Criminal Under My Own Hat
Mini-Mekons & Robbie Fulks “The Last Fish in the Sea” Jura

Quasi “See You On Mars” Mole City (@The Chapel w/ Sally Timms 2/17)
Petra Haden “Life On Mars” A-Cappella

Freakwater “Falls of Sleep” Scheherazade (Bloodshot)
Go Home Productions “The Sleepwalking Tobacco Engineer” Raymond Scott Rewired
The Pretenders “I Go To Sleep” The Isle Of View
Artie Shaw and His Orchestra “Nightmare” The Essential Artie Shaw
The Wainwright Sisters “Lullaby” Songs In The Dark

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