Interest in the band Purple Wizard is increasing. I notice a lot of people are coming to my site while searching for them. This very Kinks influenced band from New York was played on Little Steven’s Underground Garage this week.
If you’re looking for a place to purchase the album. Go to the source.
Always glad to see WCSB is ahead of the rest of the world in playing this band on the air.
Want to here the Inuit translation of the Stones’ Heart of Stone?
You gotta love WFMU.
So it’s the weekend again. This semester has been crazy busy. 2 more weeks and it’s over (for a week).
Lets see. This week I had another show on Monday morning. I met with the Art & Science advisor to make sure I can finish this summer. I can, but I have to take 1 more class than I expected. This summer I’ll have Mediation and Contemporary Urban Issues. The urban studies course will satisfy a writing requirement and it’s the only good writing class offered in the summer. I will be done in August this summer. It’s strange to actually be finishing college up. It has taken many years and sidetracks to get to this point. This last semester has been a killer in the amount of time required to do the work and I’ll be glad when it’s all over.
On a higher note, Les Breastfeeders will be playing here in CLE on June 15 at The Beachland Ballroom. We negotiated a fair arrangement for both sides. It will be a benefit for WCSB. Still arraigning the opening slot(s) and handbills. The CMJ/Rock Hall Fest is the week before, so we should be able to get the word out to a lot of people.
Show on Monday (7 - 9 EST). R.I.P. Hasil Adkins
The Pixies will be opening up the CMJ/Rock Hall Fest. They’ll be playing at the Rock Hall and later the same night at the festival village.
Still no word on the local college stations involvement in the event. I know WCSB is planning on having some of the bands come to the station to play, but nothing official associated with the festival has been established.
Come on CMJ get off your duff. Get this thing done and stop worrying about your fall festival in NYC.
It has been a few weeks since I posted here, but I do update my playlist each week I do the show. The MP3 streams are usually available by the next day.
There are plenty of good shows coming up. John Doe this Thursday at The Beachland Ballroom. He’s doing an in-store at Music Saves a couple of doors down before the show as well. I hope the X poster I ordered comes in before then, so I can ask him to sign it.
The CMJ/Rock Hall Fest artists have not been announced yet, but The Beachland has posted 3 that they’ll have. Stephen Malkmus, Spoon, and Chuck Prophet.
Les Breastfeeders are going to do a Great Lakes/Mid-West tour in mid-June. Hopefully they’ll be able to schedule some time to do a WCSB performance.
Today’s playlist has been posted and the MP3 streams have been updated.
Small tributes to the Rock Hall inductees and St. Patrick’s day were part of the show.
We went to see Alex Chilton at The Beachland Ballroom last weekend. It was a different kind of show. First, the ballroom was probably at about half capacity. I’ve only ever seen it packed when going to shows there. Second, he only did 1 Big Star song (In the Street). Finally, the backing band must have gotten together with Alex that day. He had “play books” for them to know how to play his stuff. It was awkward at times watching them not fit together very smoothly.
Doug Gillard, former guitarist in Guided By Voices opened up the show. He doesn’t really have a stage presence, but he sounded very good and that’s what counts.
Here are some pictures I took at the show.
Doug Gillard
Alex Chilton 1, 2, 3, 4
The playlsit has been posted for today’s show. The MP3 stream should be up late tonight (after class).
I didn’t get a chance to post about yesterday’s show yesterday, because of too many things going on at work and having class last night. The playlist is posted.
It seems like a pretty good show looking back at what was played, but it didn’t seem to be going very well while I was doing it.
Going to see Alex Chilton and Doug Gillard this weekend at The Beachland. It should be a good old-school rocker show. I don’t know how many hipster know who Alex Chilton is. The Doug Gillard album is pretty good. It will probably make it onto the top albums of 2005 at the end of the year.
The playlist from today’s show has been posted. I played a lot of newer stuff.
I got 2 Les Breastfeeders songs in. I can’t say enough about this band. The album is very good, but their live show is even better.
Congrats to Bob for winning the pair of tickets to the sold-out Wilco show this week. I didn’t know that many people would call in. Good to see people are listening in the local CLE area.
