Category: Radio

DJ set list for August 01, 2018

This was the first of my three shows in August.  The others will be August 15th and August 29th (which will be my final show of the summer).  Thanks to all who listened.  Here’s my playlist from August 01st:

  1. The Legendary Shack Shakers – Agony Wagon
  2. The Cramps – Save It
  3. Soledad Brothers – Sights Unseen
  4. Game of Survival radio ad
  5. Gas-s-s-s vintage radio ad
  6. The White Stripes – When I Hear My Name
  7. Soundgarden – Mailman
  8. George Thorogood and the Destroyers – Gear Jammer
  9. Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapor – See You in the Morning
  10. Love Hustler – Shoot Me Up
  11. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Melting
  12. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Inner Cell
  13. Vintage drive-in intermission spot
  14. Pet Shop Boys – My Girl
  15. Kula Shaker – Troubled Mind
  16. Triple Feature Flesh Feast vintage drive-in ad
  17. Thunder – She’s So Fine (live / requested)
  18. My Bloody Valentine – Soon
  19. UNKLE and the Black Angels – With You in My Head
  20. Carlo Savina – Theme to Lisa and the Devil
  21. Ladytron – He Took Her to a Movie (live)
  22. Rick James – Give It to Me Baby
  23. Chrissy Hynde – Adding the Blue (requested)
  24. Twitch of the Death Nerve radio ad
  25. BODEGA – Boxes for the Move
  26. DJ Random – House of Horrors
  27. Radiohead – The National Anthem (live)

See you in the 15th!

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DJ set list for July 26, 2018

Thanks to all who listened to my first WSND show in a couple weeks.  I was a bit late getting into the studio due to more problems with my ID card and pass code, but a kind janitor let me into the building.  Here’s my set list from last night, which includes many artists I saw at this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago.  I’ll have a full review of that on the blog soon.

  1. Screaming Females – Agnes Martin
  2. Adam and the Ants – Red Scab
  3. The Texas Gentlemen – Pain (requested)
  4. Melkbelly – Kid Kreative
  5. The Sword – The Warp Riders
  6. Devo – Smart Patrol / Mr. DNA
  7. Alvvays – Plimsoll Punks
  8. Lucy Dacus – I Don’t Want to Be Funny Anymore
  9. Natural Information Society and Bitchin’ Bajas – Anemometer
  10. Toolbox Murders vintage radio ad
  11. Skyland Drive-In Theatre vintage intermission ad
  12. Robert Palmer – Trick Bag
  13. Tame Impala – The Less I Know the Better
  14. Zola Jesus – Dangerous Days
  15. Rival Sons – Manifest Destiny Part 1 (requested)
  16. Moses Sumney – Doomed
  17. The Town that Dreaded Sundown vintage radio ad
  18. Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band – Tarotplane
  19. Big Daddy Kane – Ain’t No Half Steppin’ (requested)
  20. Diagonal – Find the Sun
  21. Chaka Khan – Like Sugar
  22. Kelly Lee Owens – Arthur

I should be back on air at least once in August.  Stay tuned.

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DJ set list for July 11, 2018

Thanks to everyone who listened to my “Best of 2018 So Far” show last night on WSND and offered suggestions.  There was a lot that I didn’t get a chance to play, but here’s what I spun last night.

  1. Steve Davit – Philly Sophia
  2. Crystales – Boring
  3. The Damned – Standing on the Edge of Tomorrow
  4. St. Paul and the Broken Bones – Midnight on the Earth (requested)
  5. Suspiria vintage radio ad
  6. The Young Mothers – Francisco
  7. Blown Out – Void Sucker
  8. Janelle Monae – Make Me Feel (radio edit)
  9. Tales from the Crypt vintage radio ad
  10. Flasher – Who’s Got Time?
  11. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Little Thing Gone Wild
  12. Fat Hot – Bad Drink
  13. Tales that Witness Madness vintage radio ad
  14. Screaming Females – Glass House
  15. Vazum – Big Gulp Lie
  16. Here Lies Man – Fighting
  17. Skyland Drive-in Theatre vintage intermission spot
  18. Ty Segall – Every 1’s a Winner
  19. The Duke Spirit – Cherry Tree
  20. MOTSUS – Warm
  21. Interpol – The Rover (requested)
  22. Teenage Psycho Meets Bloody Mary vintage radio ad
  23. Earthless – Gifted by the Wind
  24. Makeness – Stepping Out of Sync
  25. Texas Chainsaw Massacre vintage radio ad
  26. Blackwater Holylight – Willow
  27. CHAI – N.E.O.
  28. Joe Perry – Aye, Aye, Aye (requested)
  29. Shopping – The Hype
  30. Marian Hill – Subtle Thing
  31. The Thing with 2 Heads vintage radio ad
  32. BODEGA – How Did This Happen?!
  33. A Place to Bury Strangers – Never Coming Back

I’m back on air July 19th with a Pitchfork Music Festival preview show.  I hope you give me a listen.

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DJ set list for June 13, 2018

Thanks to all who tuned in for my latest WSND show and helped me determine what to play to celebrate Flag Day.  Here’s my set list from the show in case you want to know the name of that one weird band I played.

  1. Sandworms – Agent of Terror
  2. The Horrors – Machine
  3. The Paper Chase – One Day He Went Out for Milk and Never Came Back
  4. The Space Merchants – TranscendentalSuperConsciousState
  5. Melkbelly – R.O.R.O.B.
  6. Laura Carbone – Grace
  7. Screaming Females – It All Means Nothing
  8. Frenzy of Blood radio ad
  9. Dum Dum Girls – Heartbeat
  10. Hot Trash – One More Chance
  11. Vazum – Fall Guy
  12. The Noisettes – Hierarchy
  13. Skyland Drive-in Theatre intermission ad
  14. Voodoo Glow Skulls – Here Comes the Sun
  15. Vowws – Esseff
  16. Bjork – Enjoy (live)
  17. Madvillain – Operation Lifesaver AKA Mint Test
  18. Friday Foster radio ad
  19. Devo – Don’t Shoot (I’m a Man)
  20. The Clash – Lightning Strikes (Not Once but Twice)
  21. The Clash – Lose This Skin
  22. The Smithereens – A Girl Like You (Strip Club version)
  23. Spice Boys – I Don’t Get Around
  24. Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark – Dresden
  25. Sugar Hill radio ad
  26. Julian Cope – East Easy Rider
  27. King’s X – Black Flag (requested)
  28. Dead Parties – Now You’re a Star
  29. Chromatics – Blue Girl
  30. Muddy Waters – Take the Bitter with the Sweet

I’m back on air June 27th with a “Best of 2018 So Far” show.  Send me your suggestions.

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DJ set list for June 07, 2018

Thanks to all who listened to my show on WSND last night.  My nephew, Cody (AKA C-Hav) was my guest, and he picked out some of the songs.  Here’s our set list:

  1. Duran Duran – Planet Earth
  2. Zombie Zombie – Acera
  3. Peaking Lights – Amazing and Wonderful
  4. Sturgill Simpson – Turtles All the Way Down (requested)
  5. Stepford Wives radio ad
  6. The Damned – Standing on the Edge of Tomorrow
  7. ZZ Top – TV Dinners
  8. Spice Boys – Spice City Boys
  9. Fozzy – Judas
  10. The Walk-a-Bout – Things Are Looking Up
  11. Bear in Heaven – Lovesick Teenagers
  12. TV on the Radio – Nobody Else
  13. Eager Beavers – Hamm’s beer radio ad
  14. A Place to Bury Strangers – Act Your Age
  15. Skyland Drive-In Theatre intermission
  16. The Who – Under My Thumb
  17. The Clash – The Magnificent Seven
  18. White Manna – Acid Head
  19. Napoleon XIV – They’re Coming to Take Me Away (requested)
  20. John Williams – Duel of the Fates
  21. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – The Acrid Corpse
  22. Frankenstein’s Bloody Terror radio ad
  23. The The – Infected (requested)
  24. Stardeath and White Dwarf – The Age of the Freak
  25. The Kut – Mind Games
  26. Three Days Grace – Never Too Late
  27. Deap Vally – End of the World
  28. Oingo Boingo – Wild Sex (in the Working Class)
  29. Pink Floyd – Fearless (requested)
  30. Oh Sees – Drowned Beast

I’m back on air on June 13th at midnight.  Give me a listen if you’re up late.

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DJ set list for May 24, 2018

Thanks again to everyone who listened to my show last night, made requests, and played along with some of the games.  Here’s my set list for the show:

  1. The Smithereens – The Age of Innocence
  2. Gang of Four – Natural’s Not in It
  3. Cat Power – Always on My Own
  4. TV on the Radio – Dirtywhirl
  5. Julian Cope – World Shut Your Mouth
  6. Pinnick Gales Pridgen – Sunshine of Your Love (request)
  7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Pin
  8. Ron Gallo – Young Lady, You’re Scaring Me
  9. Slaughter Hotel radio ad
  10. Parquet Courts – Wide Awake
  11. Alan Simon – The Wings of the Dragon
  12. Ty Segall – Wave Goodbye
  13. Windhand – Hyperion
  14. Skyland Drive-In theatre intermission
  15. Joan Jett and Paul Westerberg – Let’s Do It
  16. Ringo Deathstarr – God’s Dream
  17. Los Superfonicos – Sigue Pa’lante
  18. Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell radio ad
  19. Imarhan – Tahabort
  20. T-Bone Burnett – Palestine, Texas (request)
  21. Golden Dawn Arkestra – Masakayli
  22. Olivia Newton-John and ELO – Xanadu
  23. “Big” Bill Broonzy – Sweetheart Land (request)
  24. MIEN – (I’m Tired of the) Western Shouting
  25. Slowdive – Sugar for the Pill
  26. Squirm radio ad
  27. The Black Angels – You on the Run
  28. Oh Sees – Animated Violence
  29. Pink Floyd – Learning to Fly (request)
  30. Follakzoid – Electric

I’m back on air May 30th at midnight EST.  I hope you give me another listen.

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DJ set list for May 17, 2018

Thanks to all who tuned in for my first WSND show of the 2018 summer.  It was good to be back on air, despite the bumps in the show from getting adjusted to the new equipment.  The new studio in the Duncan Student Center at the University of Notre Dame is impressive.

Here’s my set list from last night:

  1. New Order – Age of Consent
  2. Cassius – Nulife
  3. Caribou – Odessa
  4. The Wiseguys – Ooh La La
  5. Vintage radio ad for the horror film Sisters
  6. UK – In the Dead of Night (requested)
  7. Dave Ganzer – Chain Reaction
  8. Helmet – Diet Aftertaste
  9. Inner Circle – Bad Boys (Major Lazer x Gianni Marino remix – requested)
  10. Shit Robot – Grim Receiver
  11. Denim – Adler Socks (vintage 1960’s radio ad / song)
  12. Skyland Drive-In theatre intermission spot
  13. White Stripes – Death Letter
  14. Spinnerette – Baptized by Fire
  15. Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa – Black Coffee (requested)
  16. Low Cut Connie – Beverly
  17. Elephant Stone – Don’t You Know
  18. Bombay 405 Miles from the Bombay the Hard Way film score compilation
  19. The Beatles – I’m Looking Through You
  20. Neko Case – Margaret vs. Pauline
  21. The New Pornographers – Streets of Fire (live)
  22. Death from Above 1979 – Right On Frankenstein (live)
  23. Earthless – Cherry Red
  24. The Duke Spirit – Send a Little Love Token
  25. The Duke Spirit – Win Your Love
  26. Vintage radio ad for the giallo film Four Flies on Grey Velvet
  27. Sleater-Kinney – The Ballad of a Ladyman

I’ll be on most Wednesday nights at midnight EST over the summer, including this coming week when I’ll have a show highlighting the artists I saw at Levitation Austin this year.

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Good rest to you, David James – a local Irish music legend.

Many of you might not know who David James was, but I’ll try to sum up his amazing life in a blog post.

David James was well-known in the South Bend / Mishawaka (“Michiana”) area as a legend in the Irish music scene.  He pretty much put South Bend on the map as a hotspot for Irish music, and he wasn’t even Irish.  He loved the music, promoting it, and most of all playing it.  He played banjo, fiddle, bass, harmonica, and probably half a dozen other instruments I’ve forgotten about as I write this.  He was best known, however, for his mastery of the hammer dulcimer.  David won multiple prestigious awards at Irish music festivals for his dulcimer skills.

He was a Notre Dame graduate with a degree in political science and he remained an avid advocate for social justice all through his life.  He championed workers’ rights, LGBTQ and racial equality measures, education reform, and many other causes that sought to help the underdog.

The way David affected my life was that he co-founded Nocturne – the WSND program for which I DJ in the summer and winter – in 1968.  David worked at WSND as the host of “Celtic Traditions” for many years, broadcasting Celtic music all over the world.  He would often be there when I showed up for my Nocturne shows and tell me stories of playing grimy blues clubs with blues legends, Irish music festivals with hardcore hippies, and being in the middle of the politically charged 1960’s.

He was a lover of all kinds of music and often asked me about the music I spun on my show.  He’d hang out for the first couple tunes I’d play while we chatted and sometimes stop in mid-conversation and ask, “Who is this?”  I introduced him to Ancient River when I played one of their tunes and he said, “Sounds like someone’s been listening to a lot of Doors.”  I also turned him on to Gary Wilson and Earthless one of the last times I saw him over the summer of 2017.

I’ll always think of him when I spin at WSND now, and I wish he could’ve seen the new station once the construction is done.  I’m sure his spirit will slide into the booth now and then when he’s not kicking back a ghostly pint at the Fiddler’s Hearth in South Bend.  I plan to play a tribute to him this summer on WSND with lots of psychedelic rock, blues, and his own music.

Oh yeah, as if his local legacy, national tours with multiple bands, and international awards weren’t enough, he released two albums – Tiompan Alley in 1992 and The Lone Man’s Path a decade later.

Good rest to you, sir.

Keep your mind open.

 

DJ set list for August 24, 2017.

Thanks to everyone who listened to my last show of the 2017 summer on WSND. I should be back on air Wednesday nights this winter (or through December, at least).  It was a fun summer at the studio.  I appreciate all the listens, requests, Tweets, chats, and calls.  Here’s my set list from last night:

  1. Bebel Gilberto – Aganju
  2. She-Devils – Come
  3. The Mynabirds – Be Here Now
  4. EMA – I Wanna Destroy
  5. Frenzy radio ad
  6. Kasabian – Underdog
  7. Slowdive – Slomo
  8. Depeche Mode – Enjoy the Silence
  9. Robin Trower – In City Dreams (requested)
  10. RIDE – All I Want
  11. The Misfits – American Nightmare
  12. Fake Limbs – An Inconvenience
  13. Billy Idol – Eyes Without a Face (requested)
  14. Skyland Drive-In Theatre intermission
  15. Devo – Head Like a Hole
  16. Cloakroom – Big World
  17. The Raveonettes – Ignite
  18. So Many Wizards – Sic Boys
  19. Vadaat Charigim – Ein Li Makom
  20. Priests – Design Within Reach
  21. Husker Du – Ice Cold Ice (live)
  22. Gary Wilson – Gary Feels Cool
  23. Male Gaze – Wha Do Wha Do
  24. Screaming Females – The Bearded Lady
  25. Vacation – Fake It
  26. Fats Domino – Whiskey Heaven (requested)
  27. Stepford Wives radio ad
  28. Fairfield Four – Po Lazarus
  29. Elmore James – The Sky Is Crying
  30. The Black Keys – The Desperate Man
  31. Johnny Cash – Get Rhythm

Keep your mind open.

DJ set list for August 10, 2017.

Thanks again to everyone who tuned in for my WSND show last night.  I had some fun requests and calls.  Here’s my set list:

  1. D:Fuse and Scanners – Music Is About You
  2. Moby and the Void Pacific Choir – In This Cold Place
  3. Garbage – Why Do You Love Me? (requested)
  4. The Prodigy – Wild Frontier
  5. Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell radio ad
  6. Bad Religion – Against the Grain
  7. Aretha Franklin – Rock Steady
  8. Gothic Tropic – Stronger
  9. The Love Me Nots – Black & Blue
  10. Sleater-Kinney – Ballad of a Ladyman (requested)
  11. Slaughter Hotel radio ad
  12. Bonde Do Role – Marina Gasolina
  13. My Morning Jacket – Run Thru (requested)
  14. Boss Hog – Strawberry
  15. Skyland Drive-In Theater intermission
  16. The Dirtbombs – Possession
  17. The Dirtbombs – Theme from the Dirtbombs
  18. Muddy Waters – Trouble No More
  19. The Black Keys – Everlasting Light
  20. Frankenstein’s Bloody Terror radio ad
  21. The Rolling Stones – Love in Vain
  22. Queen – I’m in Love with My Car
  23. Maniacs Are on the Loose radio ad
  24. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Sleep Drifter
  25. Luis Enriquez – Django main theme
  26. Blue Man Group – Opening Mandlebrot
  27. Bomb the Bass – Empire
  28. Sons and Daughters – Dance Me In (requested)
  29. F for You – Disclosure
  30. Zavala – Mirrors
  31. Tabla Beat Science – Sacred Channel (live)

I might not be on air next week, as there’s a chance I’ll be in Kalamazoo, Michigan seeing the New Pornographers in concert.  If so, my last show of the summer will be August 24th.  If not, see you next week!

Keep your mind open.