so this is what i’ve discovered — the board is _sensitive_. what i mean is that even the slightest adjustment in volume turns songs into all-out fuzzfests. this goes quadruple for me and my too damn loud voice. also, i think they need one of those spongy wind socks on the mics ’cause the vox are popping and essssing all over the place. the station is going through some equipment overhauls and right now i have to use separate headphones to cue records & talk on air. because i am me and i am a fool, there were a few times where i mixed up the two and couldnt hear anything while cueing or while i was on air [listen for the confused tone in my voice!].

otherwise, a relatively decent show. WQHS has a lot of weird old power pop records [ie, the shoes] that i need to dig through. and spotted in the stacks? _rodney dangerfield raps_. that’s for next week, kids.

carol cool - upside down - hustle! reggae disco
espers - dead queen - II
remote islands - apartment stripe - smother party
sugarcubes - planet (icelandic version) - 12″
fischerspooner - never win - odyssey
uv protection - chemicals - consumer material
sun ra - heliocentric - heliocentric worlds vol 1 &2 - N

yo la tengo - mr tough - i am not afraid of you and i will beat your ass – N
candy & the kisses - the 81 - cameo parkway 1957-1967
seekonk - hate the sun - for barbara lee
goldenboy - summer of the evening - underneath the radio - N
chandra - subways - transportation
skull kontrol - new rock critic - deviate beyond all means of capture
brick layer cake - killer - call it a day

ad astra per aspera - voodoo economics - catapult calypso - N
the red krayola - #2 - fingerpainting
electrelane - birds - the power out
fire in the kitchen - the fog - 7″
the shoes - in her shadow - boomerang
the breeders - roi - last splash

viva voce - the center of the universe - the heat can melt your brain
sola - osage avenue - the bottom
preservation hall jazz band - do you know what it means to miss new orleans - our new orleans 2005 - N
gary wilson - when you walk into my dreams - you think you really know me
king kong - funny farm - funny farm
the renderers - a million lights - 7″
slumber party - boys/girls - musik - N
olivia newton-john - magic - 7″

blood sisters - ring my bell - hustle! reggae disco

What’s not to love about a band called Pony Pants? Imagine two metal dudes playing metal guitar with a rambunctious, trebly girl singer singing stuff about –OMG YES– pony pants. [and so much more.] Those of you who have compared them to Le Tigre, you’re a bunch of lazy motherfuckers. LT never partied hard like this, nor could they ever since they were too wrapped up in being whatever the fuck they were being.

Listen Listen Listen »

Anyway, Pony Pants are on tour and blogging about it for the City Paper. They are living for this tour and it would be an honest-to-god crime if you didn’t check them out.

Sep 26 Kitchen Distribution Buffalo, NY
Sep 27 Garfield Artworks Pittsburgh, PA
Sep 28 The Wire Athens, OH
Sep 29 The Legion of Doom House Columbus, OH
Sep 30 Beat Kitchen Chicago, IL
Oct 1 The Nomad World Pub Minneapolis, MN
Oct 2 The Red Rooster Cafe Aberdeen, SD
Oct 3 The Filling Station Bozeman, MT
Oct 4 The High Dive Seattle, WA
Oct 5 Le Voyeur Olympia, WA
Oct 6 ACME Portland, OR
Oct 7 The Wetlands Eugene, OR
Oct 8 Club Pow Sacramento, CA
Oct 11 Thee Parkside San Francisco, CA
Oct 12 Stanford University Stanford, CA
Oct 13 High Energy Constructs Los Angeles, CA
Oct 14 The Stockton House San Diego, CA
Oct 15 Dry River Collective Tucson, AZ
Oct 19 the Sound Pony Lounge Tulsa, OK
Oct 20 The NEW Treehouse Little Rock, AK
Oct 22 House Show Savannah, GA
Oct 23 The Art Garage Columbia, SC
Oct 24 NightLight Chapel Hill, NC
Oct 25 SPAZZATORIUM GALLERIA Greenville, NC
Oct 26 The Fortress of Solidness / RVA House Richmond,VA
Oct 29 The Depot Baltimore, MD

We need help in the following areas: HELP!

Oct.10/11 San Fran/Northern California
Oct.16-18 North Texas area
Oct.21 Nashville
Oct.27 Harrisonburg/Charlottesville
Oct.28 Washington DC

Grandchildren at Haunted Cream Egg on 9/23/06

Same bat time, same bat channel! Tune in tomorrow, Wednesday 9/26, from 10AM - 12PM EST on WQHS. Let’s hope I remember how the telephone works — it was a little tricky last week.

BTW, if you are reading this and work for a record label/PR firm/etc, drop me a line. I’d like to give away some concert tickets, CD’s and dates with your bands. Everyone else can eff off! Oh, I’m just joking. You Listeners are the reason I keep doing this.

11:00 - 11:40 Ex Models
09:30 - 10:30 Lee, Jae-Won & Red Rocket (more on this in a sec!)
08:45 - 09:15 Voodoo Economics
08:00 - 08:30 Normal Love
07:00 - 07:30 Apes

You lazy bitches better represent, hear?

credit: frankie two thumbs

A Friend: http://theedge.bostonherald.com/bookNews/view.bg?articleid=158867

Maria Tessa Sciarrino: i guess XXX shouldnt hold out for that blook deal

Maria Tessa Sciarrino: stereogum, the book

Maria Tessa Sciarrino: baaarf

A Friend: ahhaa

Maria Tessa Sciarrino: her jazz the book would come with 200 blank pages, because i lost interest about 10 pages in

A Friend: ahhaha

Now you know where I stand on this most-pressing issue.

» File Under “Forgot To Mention”: I saw *Erase Errata*, *Mika Miko*, *The Gossip* and *UV Protection* not this past weekend, but the weekend before. UV Protection will delight anyone who’s been wishing for a female Devo/Kraftwerk counterpart replete with a dancer and videos. Seriously awesome stuff. Mika Miko is thrashy like Finally Punk and comes with a singer who screams into a red telephone handset plugged into an XLR cable. They are definitely one of those bands where the record hardly holds up to the live experience, so you know what to do next time they roll into town.

The real treat was seeing Erase Errata. I know that if I mention I’ve never seen them before this tour it will destroy any lingering trace of credibility I have with y’all but whatever, life just works out that way. Every other time they’ve played Philly somethings conflicted with their show. I don’t know if it was just me or Jenny Hoyston’s foray into flannel gear that skewed my view but I swear they sounded like fIREHOSE and/or Minutemen. I know some people are sad that Sara Jaffe’s gone but EE is now this amazing power trio and really, how can you argue with that?

» I saw some awesome newsprint posters for the new Oxford Collapse record this weekend at the Marvelous. You should hunt one down. Sayin’.

» file under so fucking weird: my old pet, coupland, is currently the most-loved thing about idolator. even if most people are still having an adverse reaction [its been barely live for a week, people, tsk tsk], they’ll eventually come around to the rest of it. what’s truly weird about this is that neither editor was aware of whose pet it was!

» if pitchfork reviews a record before a hipster blog’s existence, does it matter? so let’s see, this new review on pfork, plus the review of the record before brings dr. dog’s lifetime batting average to oh, 5.0. just like the three o’clock said, you’re half the way there, dudes.

» if there is one thing that truly frightens me, its the sight of old man ween. [NSFW]

» also what was up with everyone being able to talk about nothing but weird al yankovic yesterday? regardless, his chamillionaire parody “white and nerdy” is pretty awesome.

First show of the semester, but more importantly, my first show for WQHS. I wasn’t sure what to expect when walking into the studio, so I came prepared with a full show out of my record collection. Now that I’ve got a feel for things, this will be less likely to happen in the future. that said, i did managed to snag a bunch of records that werent my own.

things which bummed me out: no 45 adapters [?!], a crazy telephone that had the music input patched in [as a result i couldnt hear any of my phone calls, sorry!], the dj after me not showing up. in fact, as i write this, the cd i stuck in the player when i left is on its second or third spin.

anyway, did you listen in? let me know what you think — i wasn’t able to tape this one, so i’m really curious.

lesley gore - you don’t own me - 20th century masters
guther - many frames per moment - sundet - N
oh OK - playtime - the complete recordings
the rondelles - mission: irresistable - fiction, romance, fast machines
hi beams - white people - 7″
sugar pie de santo - go go power - mp3
as mercenarias - panico- 7″
oxford collapse - molasses - remember the night parties
belles of skin city - a case of rather unfortunate stage presence - you do the company proud - N

lyn collins - rock me again (and again and again) - 12″
albert ayler - D.C. - spirits rejoice - N
clockcleaner - #3 - demos
bassholes - hail bop! - long way blues (1996-1998)
scrawl - green beer - he’s drunk

sons & daughters - johnny cash - love the cup
R.E.M. - catapult - murmur
tsunami - olde city - 7″
the knitters - rank stranger - the modern sounds of… - N
magazine - the light pours out of me - 7″
shocking blue - inkpot - inkpot & attila
18th dye - glass house failure - tribute to a bus

mojave 3 - truck driving man - puzzles like you - N
edith frost - walk on fire - telescopic
the mo-dettes - paint it black - 7″
klee - gold - honeysuckle
b mulvey - super himalaya - cascades
railroad jerk - what did you expect? - one track mind
the feelies - slipping into something - the good earth

lesley gore - you don’t own me - ever since - same song, re-recorded 40+ years later

I adore the Trolleyvox’s power pop stylee very much, so go see them when they play… Ohio.

Big news in Trolleyvox land: after nearly 15 months of intensive recording and elaborate dining rituals, gazillions of copies of our new album “The Trolleyvox Present the Karoake Meltdowns” were mailed out to radio stations earlier his week. Its retail debut will be October 17th on the Transit of Venus Label, with national distribution by RedEye.

To celebrate this milestone, the Trolleyvox are packing their toothbrushes and hitting the road for a little Ohio warm-up tour before we return to Philadelphia for the official record release party on Friday Oct. 20th at the North Star with our pals BC Camplight and the Novena’s. Save the date, yo!

Here are the tour dates, if you live in one of these towns - come on out. If you know someone in one of these towns - e-mail or call them and tell them to get their rear-end to a show!

Thursday, September 21st - Kent Ohio - ECC - The Electric Cafe Club - 252. N. Water Street. Kent, OH - 8:30PM. Our Cleveland pals This is Exploding open.

Friday, September 22nd - Middlefield/Cleveland, OH - Club 87 - 15912 West High St Middlefield, OH with This is Exploding, Dr. Salt and the Brown Sugar Blues Band

Saturday, September 23rd - Cincinnati, OH - Crush on Main - MPMF Showcase - 825 Main Street, Cincinnati, OH with The Yo-Yo Contingency, Ballroom Dancing, Diet Audio, and Culture Queer. The Trolleyvox set is at midnight.

Sunday, September, 24 2006 Columbus, OH - Cafe Bourbon Street - 2216 Summit St., Columbus, OH. An early show with Columbus favorites Magic City. Doors at 7PM, Trolleyvox go on at 8PM.

Extra special bonus Non-Ohio show! Thursday September 28th - Dewey,Beach, DE - Dewey Beach Music Festival - Trolleyvox go on at 7PM on stage C (one of two inside stages) @ Rusty Rudder Inside. An early Trolleyvox set at 7pm. With Brian Kingston, Casey Desmond, Lovewhip, and Not Alone.

See you at the shows! Yes, all of them. You said “yes”. Everyone heard you say it. Nah, too late, man, you’ve already committed yourself.

B Mulvey, “Trivia”
Usually when record store employees/radio DJ’s/music nerds start bands, they wind up being this amalgamation of obscure influences crowned with snooty intellectualism. And while smartypants music is all fine and dandy in my book, there’s something kinda risqué about these kinds of folks kicking back and having _fun_. So even though Brian’s clearly yanked out the well-worn copies of Dinosaur Jr, Superchunk and GBV records from the WPRB stacks for inspiration, there’s no reason to feel shameful for digging this tune. I dig the slight, fuzzed-out boogie lilt of the opening riff!

Visit B Mulvey online here and pick up a CD while you’re at it, OK?

Klee, “Gold”
OK, maybe I’m just genetically predisposed to love any bassline reminiscent of New Order’s “Blue Monday”, but when it’s combined with the glossy discotheque sheen of Blondie’s “Atomic”, I am mere putty in this song’s hands. Also, I love foreign language post-punk because I can make up my own words! Throw this on your ipod and you can have your own Making Time at the drop of a hat [minus the booze, drugs and hipsters, natch].

Check out more Klee goodness at Minty Fresh Records.

Bent Leg Fatima, “Mouse/Lone Gunner”Lilys will more than likely become a chapter in Philly Indie Rock History, but here’s a footnote worth paying attention to. Long before Need New Body inspired Man Man to don moustaches, write carnival-inflected tunes and swipe their drummer, there was Bent Leg Fatima. Eventually morphing into NNB right before the turn of the millennium [but not let us forget about MILF, while we're at it], this band might be the genesis of any band in town with a tendency for outré weirdness. Sure they’ve got tons of great songs but “Mouse” is a stone-cold classic ’round these parts, deftly merging a hipshaking bassline with noisier psychedelia.

Don’t corner me at the Khyber to explain why your band isn’t like NNB — buy BLF’s CD instead!

I’m pleased to announce that my weekly radio show, HER JAZZ, is moving to WQHS, the internet-only student radio station at the *University of Pennsylvania* this fall. I’m psyched to continue DJing through the school year. Plus, I’ve managed to whittle my radio commute from nearly 2 hours to 20 minutes. Yee haw!

When: Wednesday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST
Listen: WQHS [internet only]