5.28.2004

 

Monday, May 24th 4-7 PM Last show of the Spring season

Jacob Druckman- Animus I- Electronic Music III (Turnabout Vox) vinyl; feat. Andre Smith on trombone
Gal Costa- Objeto Sim, Objeto Nao- Gal Costa
Marianne Nowottny- The Bell Ringer- Afraid of Me (Abaton) lovely, chaotic, weird, ambient music with spoken word/singsong Virgina Woolf-like lyrics
Octavius- Cellophane- Audio Noir (Mush Records)
The Blow- Come On Pauline (Amy's Cassette for Pauline)- The Concussive Caress (K/Secretly Canadian)
Angel Corpus Christi- Dream Baby Dream- The 80's (Gulcher)*
Mirah- The Dogs of B.A.- C'mon Miracle (K/Secretly Canadian)*
Francoise Hardy- Comment Te Dire Adieu?- Francoise Hardy (Golden Dragon Records) Korean vinyl comp
Richard & Mimi Farina- Reno Nevada- Urban Spacemen & Wayfaring Strangers
Brian Eno- Some of Them Are Old- Here Come The Warm Jets
The Go-Betweens- Clarke Sisters- Go-Betweens 1978-1990
Laurie Anderson- White Lily- The Ugly One With the Jewels
Luciano Berio/Cathy Berberian- Thema: Omaggio a Joyce- Electronic Music III (Turnabout Vox) Cathy Berberian (Berio late ex-wife) reciting from the 11th chapter of Ulysses with electronic manipulation; 1958
Astor Piazolla y Su Quinteto Tango Nuevo- Tristezas En Un Doble A- Tristezas En Un Doble A (Messidor)
Ultra Vox- Hiroshima Mon Amor- The Island Years
Charlie Hunter Quartet- Asby Man- Ready...Set...Shango! (Blue Note)
Cheer-Accident- Insomnia- Salad Days (Skin Graft)
Galaxie 500- Fourth of July- This Is Our Music (Rough Trade)
Modest Mouse- The World At Large- Good News for People Who Love Bad News (Epic)*
Iron & Wine- Sunset Soon Forgotten- Our Endless Numbered Days (SubPop) *
Julia Vorontsova- Rock N Roll- From St. Petersburg With Love (Abaton Book Company) 21-yr old Russian songstress *
Lesser Birds of Paradise- Josephine- String of Bees (Contraphonic)*
The Owls- Air- Our Hopes and Dreams (Magic Marker) pretty & twee-ish *
Pas/Cal- Poor Maude- Oh Honey, We're Ridiculous (Le Grand Magistery) excellently-crafted pop
Green Pajamas- Swans & Butterflies- Seven Fathoms Down & Falling (Rubric Records)
The Decemberists- Song for Myla Goldberg- Her Magesty the Decemberists (Kill Rock Stars) request
Bobby Fuller 4- Never to Be Forgotten- The Bobby Fuller 4 (Rhino Vinyl)
The Capitol Years- Ramona- The Capitol Years/The High Strung split 7" (Full Frame/Tee Pee)
William Penn V- Swami- Pebbles, Vol 3: The Acid Gallery (BFD Records) Aussie record label; vinyl 1979 release of rare psychedelia
The Feelies- Fa Ce La- Crazy Rhythms
Jonathan Richman- Our Swingin' Pad- Having a Party With Jonathan Richman (Rounder Records)
Betty LaVette- You're a Man of Words, I'm a Woman of Action- Lost Soul, Vol 1 (Epic)
Captain Beefheart- Harry Irene- I'm Going to Do What I Wanna Do (Rhino Handmade)
Eyeball Skeleton- The Smokey Turtle- The Smokey Turtle [single] s/r
The Skygreen Leopards- Let Me Grow In Your Meadow- 1000 Bird Ceremony (Soft Abuse) melodic pretty low-key pop *
Matt Pond PA- Red Ankles- Four Songs [EP] (Altitude Records)*
Juana Molina- Salvese Quien Pueda- Tres Cosas (Domino) ex-TV star from Argentina; 2nd full-length; acoustic/light electronics soft vocals *
Einsturzende Neubauten- Youme & Meyou- Perpetuum Mobile (Mute)*
Half Japanese- Summer Nights- Hello (Alternative Tentacles)Jad Fair talks over lilting melody
The Smiths- Back to the Old House- Hatful of Hollow (Rough Trade)
The Places- Clean Starts- Call It Sleep (Hush)*
The Dirty Three- Red- Horse Stories (Touch & Go)

posted by lizbot 8:35 AM

5.06.2004

 

NOTE: There was no show on Monday, 5/3 due to a [subsequently rescheduled] transmitter move.

posted by lizbot 1:02 PM

5.02.2004

 

:LIVE DJing ANNOUNCEMENT:

DJ LIZBOT BLEEPS & SPINS ON SILK CITY DECKS
PUNK, NO WAVE, ELECTRO, POST-PUNK, NEW WAVE
ABSOLUTELY NO COVER

THIS TUESDAY, MAY 4TH
10 PM - 2 AM

DJ Lizbot of WPRB stereo 103.3 FM [::doubleplusgood::] brings girl-centered punk, post-punk, no-wave, new wave & electro to Silk City, (5th & Spring Garden,) yet again this Tuesday night, FREE of charge.

DANCE to Girls at Our Best, the Delta 5, the X-Ray Spex, ESG, Le Tigre, The Raincoats, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, Nina Hagen, Takako Minekawa, Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Slits, Shell, Shonen Knife, The Rondelles, Yaz, Erase Errata, Crainium, Josie Cotton, The Slits, Total Coaelo, Sugarcubes, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Eurhythmics, Melt Banana, Bananarama, Bikini Kill, Bis Bratmobile, B-52s, BBBB and possibly some Bollywood divas, plus DEVO, Haircut 100, The Associates, Magazine, Liquid Liquid, The Stickmen, Bitter Lemons, The Contortions, The Queers, The Dance, Dinosaur L, Glenn Branca, Mars, The Damned, DNA, Konk, Material, Theoretical Girl, Icicle Works, The Minutemen, The Sparks, The Fall, China Crisis,The Birthday Party, Welle:Erdball, Talking Heads, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Gary Numan, The Smiths,The Styrenes, Human League, Clan of Xymox, and a chunk of rare German and Australian post-punk 7" jems

SEE DJ Lizbot beep, whirl, and attempt to maintain her calm whilst records fly deftly through her robotic appendages onto turntables or sticky liquor-stained floors.

Absolutely NO COVER! Break out of your residual winter hibernation to dance, drink and create general havoc and absurdity!

See you Tuesday!
~Lizbot

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posted by lizbot 5:11 AM

 

Monday, April 26th
4 - 6 PM

Her Majesty the Decemberists- Song for Myla Goldberg- her majesty the decemberists (KRS)
Thomas Winter- Voulez-Vous Danser?- I Hear Voices (Astralwerks France)
Plan to Pink- Lemon Fresh- Lemon Fresh/Spring Project 7 (extra small)*
Cheer-Accident- The Day After I Never Met You- Introducing Lemon (Skin Graft)
Chameleons- Up the Down Escalator- Script of the Bridge (Dead Dead Good)
Gary Numan- Metal- The Pleasure Principle
Beth Anderson- Torero Piece- Peachy-Keen-O (Pogus)*
Stereolab- Surrealchemist- Peng!
Yo La Tengo- Beach Party Tonight- Summer Sun (Matador)
Roy Montgomery- Trial By Separation- 324 E. 13th St. #7 (Drunken Fish)
The Mountain Goats- First Few Desperate Hours- Tallahassee (4AD)
The Lesser Birds of Paradise- Josephine- String of Bees (Contraphonic)*
Mirah-A Special Death- Advisory Committee (K Recs)
Johnny Cash- I Ride an Old Paint- Johnny Cash Sings Ballads of the True West (Columbia/Legacy)
Guido Deiro/Henry Doktorski- Pink Slippers Valse- Vaudeville Accordian Classics: the Complete Works of Guido Deiro (Bridge)*
Tom Recchion- F & T (RIFS #3)- I Love My Organ (Birdman) rec. in real time in late 80s; fun bouncy bizzarre organ tracks *
Gamelan Son of Lion- Machine Stop- The Complete Gamelon in the New World (Locust)*
Brian Eno- Another Green World- Another Green World: mixed with the Gamelan Son track above- frantic and soothing simultaneously
Magnetic Fields- Papa Was a Rodeo- 69 Love Songs (Merge) caught them in Philly performing songs from "I"; highlight: I Wish I Had an Evil Twin
Monade- Un Secret Sans Importance- Monade/Scott Bond split 7"
Calexico- Alone Again Or- Convict Pool (Quartstick Records) cover of Arthur Lee's Love with mariachi tinge *
Astor Piazolla y Su Quinteto Tango Nuevo- Biyuya- Tristezas En Un Doble A (Messidor Records)
Bonnie Prince Billie Riding Sings Greatest Palace Music Drag CIty *
Feelies Moscow Nights Crazy Rhythms
Glenn Branca Lesson No. 1 for Electric Guitar Lesson No. 1 Acute *

posted by lizbot 4:48 AM

 

Monday, April 19th
4 - 6 PM

Steven Malkmus & the Jicks- Deado- Steven Malkmus & the Jicks (Matador)
Magnetic Fields- Lovers from the Moon- The Wayward Bus (PopUp Records)
Plan to Pink- Lemon Fresh- The Spring Project/Lemon Fresh 7" (extra small) *
Pas/Cal- The Handbag Memoirs- Oh Honey, We're Ridiculous (Le Grand Magistery) lovely *
Ladybug Transistor- The Reclusive Hero- Argyle Heir (Merge)
Shell- Perfectly Good Sugar- Shell is Swell (Abaton) with Marianne Nowottny & her friend Donna
Sparks- My Baby's Taking Me Home- Lil Beethoven (Lil Beethoven Records)
Ya Ya Choral- Waiting Time- Such a Dutchman EP
The Clean- Tally Ho- Anthology (Merge)
The Clean- Platypus- Anthology (Merge)
Serge Gainsbourg- Docteur Jekyll et Monsieur Hyde- Comic Strip (Phillips/Mercury)
The Feelies- Fa Ce La- Crazy Rhythms (A&M)
The Decemberists- Myla Goldberg- Her Magesty the Decemberists
Lesser Birds of Paradise- Josephine- String of Bees (Contraphonic) *
Great Lakes- Teen Angel- A Gift from a Garden to a Flower: a Tribute to Donovan (Darla)
Belle & Sebastian- Big John Shaft- Storytelling (Matador)
The Rubinoos- I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend- Chartbusters: The Best of Beserkley 1975-1978 (Rhino)
Calexico- Corona- Convict Pool (Quarterstick Records) Minutemen cover!! great mariachi, loads of horns!; fun 6 song ep?/full length?/in between? *
Miss Mary- My Friend- A-Lines/Miss Mary split 45 rpm (Waxfruit)*
The Evaporators- Gerta Munsinger- Ripple Rock (Nardwuar Records) Nardwuar the Human Serviette *
Brother JT3- Shine Like Me- Hang in There Baby (Drag City)
Chris Richards- Maryanne with the Shaky Hands- Who's Not Forgotten: FDR's Tribute to The Who (FDR) GREAT COVER! i grew up with The Who- I love this tribute! *
The A-Sides- Going Gone- Seeing Suzy/Going Gone 45 RPM (Prison Jazz) Garage/mod outta Philly; super-catchy stuff *
Harbinger Complex- I Think I'm Down- Nuggets: Orig. Artyfacts from the 1st Psychedelic Era: Vol. 4 (Rhino)
Mission of Burma- The SetUp- ONoffON (Matador) wow. *
Pere Ubu- Navvy- One Man Drives While the Other Man Screams (Hearthan) *
Hella- Stephen Hawking Has a Posse- Hella/Fourtet 45 RPM (Ache) Vancouver label; HELLA: EXCELLENT spazzy guitar/drums duo from Cali; live they are IMPRESSIVE- (drums broke from sheer force) *
Bobby Conn & the Glass Gypsies- Home Sweet Home- The Homeland (Thrill Jockey) this album is genius; best B.C. i think; politically right on point
The Capitol Years- Ramona- The Capitol Years/High Strung split 7" (FullFrame Records/TeePee Records)
Eyeball Skeleton- The Smokey Turtle- The Smokey Turtle *
Frenemies- Love- Friendship Chris Freeland of Oxes (coming to Philly 4/28 with Lucero *
The Advantage/Eyeball Skeleton- BubbleBobble-Eyeball Skeleton The Advantage (5rc) NINTENDO!! VIDEO GAME MUSIC! *
Scott Bond- untitled- Scott Bond/Monade split 7"

posted by lizbot 4:39 AM

 

Spotlight on
The Sparks

Sunday, April 18th
5 - 7 PM

This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Two of Us- Kimono My House (1974)
Amateur Hour- Kimono My House
Talent is an Asset- Kimono My House
Complaints- Kimono My House
Moustache- Angst in My Pants
Sextown USA- Angst in My Pants
Lost & Found- Kimono My House
Hospitality on Parade- Indiscreet (1975)
Pineapple- Indiscreet
Propaganda- Propaganda (1974)
At Home, At Work, At Play- Propaganda
Happy Hunting Ground- Indiscreet
Under the Table With Her- Indiscreet
Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth- Propaganda
Looks, Looks, Looks- Indiscreet
In the Future- Indiscreet
Angst in My Pants- Angst in My Pants
I Predict- Angst in My Pants
Achoo- Propaganda
Tips For Teens- Whomp That Sucker (1981)
I Like Girls- Profile: The Ultimate Sparks Collection (Rhino) previously
unreleased track from 1973; Profile Collection put out in 1991 on Rhino
Get in the Swing- Indiscreet
No. 1 Song in Heaven No. 1- Song in Heaven Virgin (1979) (this was a
request & is my favorite of the disco-era Sparks)
Mickey Mouse- Angst in My Pants (request)
In My Family- Kimono My House
The Decline & Fall of Me- Angst in My Pants
Falling In Love With Myself Again- Kimono My House
Sherlock Holmes- Angst in My Pants
My Baby's Taking Me Home- Lil Beethoven (Palm/Lil Beethoven Records) (2002)
This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Two of Us- Orchesteral version found online

posted by lizbot 4:31 AM