Coming up this week...

...the edited version of Ella (and her friend Sam) chatting with the Johns from They Might Be Giants.

And! a two-segment guest DJ set from ScribbleJim of ScribbleMonster. Rawk.

Full Interview with They Might Be Giants

Here, in its unedited glory, is the interview with TMBG. It will be edited and more listenable for next week's show, but in case you want to hear all of it, listen here:



Note: Some Windows machines can't do well with this stream. You can listen to the MP3 directly at http://sparetherock.com/tmbg2008full.mp3.

Playlist for 2008-10-25

It's a super-special Halloween episode! Listen on demand at WRSI.com.

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Whistling in the Dark
Steve Weeks - 4 Little Girls (Alphabet Songs Vol 1)
ID
Kimya Dawson - Little Monster Babies (Alphabutt)
Deedle Deedle Dees - Scared By My Own Costume (Let It Dee)
ID

Segment 2
Wee Scary Beasties - Pumpkinhead (Creepy Lullabies)
Telephone Company - Baby Halloween (The King's Surprise?)
ID/prep to rock
Roger Day - Monster Face (Ready to Fly)
Ralph's World - Harry's Halloween Circus)
Dr. Strangeblood & the New Zombies - Monster Mash (EP)
Salteens - All My Friends (Yo Gabba Gabba)
ID

Segment 3
Los Straitjackets - Munsters theme
Soccer Team - I'll Never Fear Ghosts Again
ID
Baze & His Silly Friends - Scare Me, Scare You!
Egg - Night Time Party
Jimmies - Soaper the Scaredy-Bot (Make Your Own Someday)
Mike Doughty - Firetruck (Smofe + Smang)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Justin Roberts - Maybe the Monster (Meltdown!)
Hank Hooper - Human Fly (Playground Fortune Teller)
B-52s - Planet Claire (Anthology)
ID/book time with Ella

Segment 5
Lamar Holley - Digestion (Classroom Pop Vol. 1)
ID
Aric Bieganek & Recess Rock - Bright Lights, Big Kitty! (Bright Lights, Big Kitty)
Monty Harper - Trick or Treat Smell My Feet (Great Green Squishy Mean Concert CD)
ID
Louis Armstrong - Jeepers Creepers (Back Through the Years)
Telephone Company - Lumberjack (Panda Brain)
ID

Segment 6
Mates of State - Starman
ID
Mighty Weaklings - Monster Under My Bed
Rechov Sumsum with Ronnie Rock - En Den Dino (Sesame Street Playground)
ID
TMBG - The Guitar
TMBG - Spare the Rock

TMBG in Northampton...

We had a fun time interviewing the Johns earlier this afternoon; that'll air on next week's show (11/1), if all goes well.

From the (grownup) show:

- One song they played is from the forthcoming Here Comes Science, and was a correction of sorts to "Why Does the Sun Shine?," pointing out that the sun is not in fact a mass of incandescent gas, but instead that "Why Does the Sun Really Shine? (The Sun is a Miasma of Incandescent Plasma)" (I believe that is the title of the song).

- Flans said in the interview that he's working on a song about Tesla. The scientist, not the awful band.

- And he thanked Ella and me from the stage during the show. Alas, Ella was home in bed, being too young to attend the show, but she will be psyched to hear it in the morning.

There was more -- much more -- that you'll hear next week, including the origin story of Dr. Worm.

Coming up...

Last Saturday's show by Aric Bieganek was great fun, and with a great crowd too. Aric played I think every song from his new CD, and you'll start hearing songs from it on Saturday's show.

This Saturday is going to be an extra fun show, beyond the fun of new Aric. It's not quite all Halloween music, but it's a lot of stuff that's at least sort of tied in to Halloween. We'll get to some brand new Wee Hairy Beasties and Baze & His Silly Friends, plus some Los Straitjackets, Deedle Deedle Dees, Ralph's World, Roger Day, Louis Armstrong, and, well, a lot more.

Playlist for 2008-10-18

Remember: Aric Bieganek live at Northampton Community Music Center this afternoon at 2:00! 139 South Street, Northampton.

You can listen at WRSI.com.

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Savoy Truffle
Deedle Deedle Dees - Major Deegan (Freedom in a Box!)
Dog on Fleas - Beautiful World (Beautiful World)
ID
Gustafer Yellowgold - Pinecone Lovely
ID

Segment 2
Kimya Dawson - Bobby-O (Alphabutt)
Neko Case - This Little Light (The Tigers Have Spoken)
Wee Hairy Beasties - Cyril the Karaoke Squirrel
ID/prep to rock
Fountains of Wayne - Utopia Parkway

Segment 3
Terrible Twos - Big Baby J (Jerzy the Giant)
Brian Vogan - Firefighter (Little Songs)
ID
Clash - Lost in the Supermarket (London Calling)
The Cat's Pajamas - Loose Tooth (Reading Rocks!)
Danny Adlerman & Friends - When I Grow Up (Listen Up!)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Aric Bieganek - Car Seat Driver (Live at NPC)
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Strange Overtones (Everything that Happens) (Calvin 12/2)
ID/book time with Ella

Segment 5
with Secret Agent 23 Skiddoo
Have Fun
I Like Fruit (with Egg)
Luck

Segment 6
Black-Eyed Snakes - Cheerios on the Floor
OST - Follow the Yellow Brick Road
Gorillaz - 19-2000 (Gorillaz)
Mocean Worker - Shake Ya Boogie
ID
Father Goose - Panama (It's a Bam Bam Diddly)

One more thing...

Randy Kaplan, Wednesday, December 3, 4:00 pm. Free after school show at Cup & Top Cafe!

This week...and beyond.

Hey! Don't forget! This Saturday, 2:00, it's Aric Bieganek's CD release show benefiting the Northampton Community Music Center! Just $5, and every penny goes to the scholarship fund at NCMC.

The Daily Hampshire Gazette calls Aric "the Jack Black of kids' music," and here's your chance to find out why. His lyrics are clever, his songs catchy, and his shows irresistible, and you can be among the first to hear some of the songs on his new kids' release, "Bright Lights, Big Kitty"! http://www.myspace.com/recessrock

Some other great shows coming up (all are on that calendar over to the right, too):

Sunday, Nov. 9, 4:00 pm - Secret Agent 23 Skidoo brings positive hip hop for kids to Northampton! Lyman Hall, First Churches (enter across from the Iron Horse). $7 at the door. 23 Skidoo will be on the radio show this coming Saturday, with the world premiere of a song done with Egg.

Saturday, Nov. 22, 2:00 pm - Dog on Fleas plays the second in our series at NCMC, again benefiting the scholarship fund. $5.

Saturday, Jan. 17, 2:00 pm - Uncle Rock makes his triumphant return to Northampton with the third show in our NCMC benefit series. $5.

Saturday, February 21, 2:00 pm - Elizabeth Mitchell finishes up the series at NCMC. I cannot express how excited I am about this show; we've been trying to set something up with Elizabeth Mitchell since we started the show. You. Must. Go. $5.

Playlist for 2008-10-11

Stream it at WRSI.com.

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - ICU (Here Come the ABCs)
Lamar Holley - Parts of a Plant (Classroom Pop Vol 1)
Bob Mould - Sunspots (Workbook)
ID
Brian Vogan - We Call It Fall (Little Songs)
The Whites - Keep on the Sunny Side (O Brother...)
ID

Segment 2
Spirit House - Billy Goat Drink Clear Water
Devotchka - Comrade Z (A Mad & Faithful Telling)
ID/prep to rock
Mighty Weaklings - Monster Under My Bed (You Can't Rock Sittin' Down)
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get (Let's Face It)
Jimmies - What's That Sound? (Make Your Own Someday)
ID

Segment 3
bits from ACL
Mr. Leebot - It Wasn't Me
Slavic Soul Party - 9 at the River (Teknochek Collision)
Terrible Twos - Jerzy the Giant (Jerzy the Giant)

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Aric Bieganek - Central Park Kitty (live at NCMC 10/18, 2:00, ncmc.net)
Secret Agent 23 Skiddoo - Hot Lava (Easy) (live at First Churches on Sunday, November 9 at 4:00 pm)
Us 3 - Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
ID


Segment 5
w/ Robyn Goodmark
Northern State - Mother May I
talk
Care Bears on Fire - Everybody Else
talk
Super Pal Universe - Super Pal Universe
ID

Segment 6
Tiny Masters of Today - Stickin' It to the Man (Bang Bang Boom Cake)
talk
Candy Band - Monsters (Calling All Kids)
Not-Its - B.A.T.H.
Quiet Two - Secret Tunnel (Make Some Noise)
ID
TMBG - Ana Ng
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Updated (Sadly): Want to see TMBG?

They Might Be Giants is playing a grown-up show at The Calvin on October 24.

And they still are doing that. But they are not playing the earlier show we'd announced at Obama HQ. Logistical problems resulted in it sadly having to be canceled.

Not sure yet if they'll be on the station earlier; if not, maybe we can get them to come chat for the show.

But again: no Obama appearance by TMBG, but the Calvin show -- at which they will be playing all of Flood -- is still on.

Stefan Recaps FMM2

here. Complete with video!

That'll be cool.

So this Saturday Granola Funk Express is playing Pearl Street. GFE is, as you might know, the grownup band that Secret Agent 23 Skiddoo is part of.

So Cactus will be coming by to promote the upcoming SA23 show (Sunday, Nov. 9, Lyman Hall at First Churches, 4:00), and we'll probably get to hear a premiere of the new song done together by him and Egg! That'll be on the following week's show (10/18).

This week...

It'll be a cool show this coming Saturday --

New music from Lamar Holley, Brian Vogan, the Mighty Weaklings, and more.

Plus! Sprout of Northern State in studio to talk about her great new book Girls Rock. A video promoting the book:

2008-10-04 Playlist

Listen on demand at WRSI.com.

Here's what we played (typed back when I was still not using the shift key):

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - stalk of wheat (the spine)
tom freund - party in the yard (hug trees)dan zanes - erie canal (with suzanne vega)
id
sinead o'connor - someday my prince will come (stay awake)
lunch money - nightlights (silly reflection)
frances england - firefly (family tree)
elizabeth mitchell - north wind (you are my little bird)
id

segment 2
moey's music party - pierre wouldn't wash his hair (moey's music party)
trout fishing in america - when you get dressed
eno/cale - one word
id/prep to rock
westerberg - love you in the fall (open season)
pixies - tony's theme (surfer rosa)
id

segment 3
egg - zoom (sunny side up)
justin roberts - she's a yellow reflector (pop fly)
id
teenage fanclub - star sign (bandwagonesque)
ralph's world - what's new pussycat (happy lemons)
id


segment 4
scribblemonster - spare the rock spoil the child
id
world party - put the message in the box
recess monkey - i got a toy but i played with the box (monkey town)
sippy cups - ladybug beat (one day soon ep)
id
jonathan richman - this kind of music

segment 5
sharon jones & the dap kings - this land is your land (naturally)
silly bus - earth and sun (silly bus)
id
johnny cash - dinosaur song (children's album)
astrograss - pit paddle paddle (let me stay up all night)
randy newman - you've got a friend in me (best of)
id

segment 6
uncle rock - rock and roll babysitter (plays well with others)
rem - it's the end of the world as we know it (and i feel fine)
ellen and matt - juice box rock (best friends)
id
bill janovitz - the farm where everyone does what they want to do (rock 'n' roll coochicoo revue)
id
tmbg - the bloodmobile

One more NCMC show

11/22 - Dog on Fleas at the Northampton Community Music Center, benefiting the center's scholarship fund.

But first, remember, 10/18 2:00, Aric Bieganek there.