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W♥M111: NXNE

W♥M111 (30 mins) Listening options: Archive.org: W♥M111

NXNE is coming, June 13-19, 2011, in Toronto, Canada. I am flying in on the 12th, and I guess will be doing touristy things in the city. If you want to hang out, send me a note. The music portion, as far as looking at the schedule, doesn't actually start until Wednesday, the 15th. Which means, I have a lot of time to kill, perhaps I'll attend some of the movies that NXNE has to offer (I am probably going to try and make it to "Upside Down – The Creation Records Story", a documentary about Creation Records). I have gone on record and stated that I think Alan McGee is a genius.

Bands on NXNE that Cristina and I touched on:

Men Without Hats: Love them. Can't believe they are still around. Basically cannot wait to hear them play their big two hit songs, "The Safety Dance" ("because if your friends don't dance, then they're no friends of mine!") and "Pop Goes the World".

Evan Dando and Juliana Hatfield: I haven't seen either bands (Lemonheads or Juliana Hatfield Three), so I am definitely excited to see them for the first time. Lara claims that Dando brings a sort of time machine with him: to the year 1992.

The Pharcyde: Cristina seems more excited about this 90s hip hop band, who, to be honest, I was never into hip hop - but if they are playing, I'll check them out!

Art Brut: I think they're really, really funny. They also love their comic books (they have a fascination with American comics, because they're from the UK). I've seen them before, but I'll love to see them again. See below for more Art Brut dates:

6/15 - Chicago at Double Door
6/16 - Cleveland at Beachland Ballroom
6/17 - Toronto at Mod Club
6/18 - Montreal at Il Motore
6/20 - Boston at Brighton Music Hall
6/21 - Hoboken at Maxwells
6/22 - DC at Black Cat
6/23 - Brooklyn at Music Hall Williamsburg
8/27 - Los Angeles at Sunset Junction Festival

Peelander-Z: Recently added to the bill. They're playing a few dates, one of which I cannot make it to. It'll be good to see them again.

Washington: Also a late addition (she wasn't on the initial lineup), but I'll finally get a chance to see her. She canceled her Minneapolis show, so this will be my first time seeing her in Canada. First song of the show is Washington's "Sunday's Best".

Click "read more" to see the entire schedule for NXNE (or head over to nxne.com). So many of the bands starts at 9pm, so it's definitely not an all-day party as far as it compared to SXSW.

BONUS
Two interesting Peelander-Z projects coming up, including Peewonder-Z, the sister band of Peelander-Z, and TheBlackCherry, a side project of Peelander-Green (aka Cherry) and Peelander-Black.

Both Peewonder-Z and TheBlackCherry are playing at Death By Audio in New York on June 9^th, details on fb.com

Also, Australia's The Panda Band has return with their single, "The Fix", which is available as a free download. Second song of the show is Panda Band's "The Fix".

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W♥M110: "Macho Man" Randy Savage RIP

W♥M110 (24min) Listening options: Archive.org: W♥M110

Cristina and I did a "Macho Man" Randy Savage and NXNE recording, which I had to split up in two parts. The first part is about Macho Man, which did run a little too long (about ten minutes).

As a child growing up in the 80s and 90s, I watched a lot of WWF (later WWE, no thanks to the World Wildlife Fund). Was never a fan of NWA (later WCW), the league that generally had "Nature Boy" Ric Flair as champion. As Cristina said, they were also considered a second-rate wrestling compared to WWF.

I have a lot of good memories of watching Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, André the Giant, Big John Studd, Jake the Snake, Hulk Hogan, Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat, "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, the Heart Foundation, and, of course, "Macho Man" Randy Savage. They were all so colorful! They were always fueding with each other.

A little trivia, but did you know many stars of wrestlers are from Minnesota? Sure, we all know Jesse "The Body" Ventura is from here, but Minnesota is home of these wrestlers: Barry Darsow, Greg Gagne, Verne Gagne, "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig, Nikita "The Russian Nightmare" Koloff, Bam Neely, "Mean" Gene Okerlund (technically not a wrestler), "Ravishing" Rick Rude, and Tom Zenk.

Bonus section: HBO's Game of Thrones! What a great show, I'm really enjoying the plot. Episode eight, to air next Sunday, will feature George R.R. Martin's script for the show (most of the previous episodes were written by David Benioff & D. B. Weiss, based on Martin's first book of A Song of Ice and Fire).

Other bonus song is Phoebe Cates & Bill Wray's song "Just One Touch", which appeared on the soundtrack for the sex comedy film, Private School (1982).

Join us next week for an epic NXNE preview podcast!

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W♥M107: Cover Lover Special

W♥M107 (57min: archive/podomatic/mypodcast)

Part of the Cover Lover series: this week is Cristina's choices.

This show is pretty epic. We planned on five cover songs and maybe 30 minutes of talk-time. Unfortunately, we derailed. As usual. We spent a lot of time talking about the Runaways. Well maybe it was mostly Cristina talking about the movie, since I haven't seen it. But it was good, the whole thing reminds me of The Fabulous Stains. Incidentally, we kept referring to the punk band as The Professionals, but, in fact, the band was called The Looters (which I have misheard as The Losers when I first saw the movie - which on retrospect, that is a better name).

Grace Jones' version of "She's Lost Control", changing the meaning of the song from the original Joy Division version.

Bimbo Jet's "El Bimbo", which is based on an obscure Afghan song, "Tanha Shudham Tanha" by Ahmad Zahir. According to Wikipedia, it is Paul Mauriat's version that appears on Police Academy.

"Falling in Love" is an old German song, and was covered by many bands, including: Kevin Ayers, The Beatles, Christina Aguilera (dance version), Nina Simone, and Claudine Longet. But the version Cristina loves is the Adicts' version.

Song of the week is Adicts' "Falling in Love".

"Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)" is a classic punk song from The Buzzcocks. The cover version by Fine Young Cannibals is pretty awesome too. Mostly because Roland Gift brings his own element to it with his vocals.

Luna was a 90s dreampop band from New York, who was probably most famous for that revenge-song “Slash Your Tires” off their debut album, Lunapark. After several years and dropping off their major Warner Brothers label, they released The Days of Our Nights under an indie label. Obviously, the album didn’t do that well, but on the album, they closed out with Guns n Roses cover “Sweet Child o’ Mine”. What I generally like about covers is that they try something different, and what’s different here is Dean Wareham’s calm, sad, dreamy vocals over the screamy metal quality of Axl Rose. Other covers we mentioned was Sheryl Crow and Ruby Isle's version. You can read the Ruby Isle/Mark Mallman details and free download here.

Bonus material includes:
Vu remembers man/woman Jane Child. Upon listening to her nowadays, she reminds me of La Roux. No seriously.
The Fighter movie and The Heavy band, "How Do You Like Me Now?"
Richard Cheese's "Ice Ice Baby". Yeahhhh baby.

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W♥M105: News of the Week

W♥M105 (27min: archive/podomatic/mypodcast)

Cristina and Vu talks news, despite just recovering from illness (illnesses?). There's just something about the start of a new season that does this to us. Next week we're doing the cover lover show - but this will take some multiple editing with multiple people - so send me your cover songs and if you want, I will call and have you included in the show.

Topics as follows:

BEADY EYE
Since Noel Gallagher left Oasis in late 2009, the rest of the band sort of just continued on as brother Liam eloquently puts it, “business as fookin’ usual”, writing new material under the guise of Beady Eye. A name I absolutely hate. I read somewhere that they sounded like “Oasis back to its roots” and I can tell you after listening to the album Different Gear, Still Speeding: it’s not to its original roots, but rather just a continuation of where Oasis left off. What I liked about it is that there are songs that tries to do something different (for instance, Oasis would’ve never had girl back up singers or fast-paced piano playing), but they still sound pretty much like “new” Oasis. Still, it should be interesting to see them live, how they match up to their former band - I suspect it’ll be pretty much exactly live minus Noel Gallagher.

MIKE STARR
Mike Starr, ex-Alice in Chains, passed away March 8th. He was the bassist up until Dirt (1993), and was displaced by another Mike (Inez) bassist. It would seem that he was a meth addict, having been arrested earlier last month for possessing controlled substances. I am coming under the conclusion that he died of a drug-related incident, but I haven’t seen any confirmation. On a related topic, singer Layne Staley died of a drug overdose in 2002.

SXSW 2011
SXSW just ended. The massive music+interactive+movies festival drew over 2,000 plus bands in the area. This year is supposed to be the “biggest yet’, and Dan was reporting LIVE from his iPhone by sending in pictures with brief commentaries to each band. He was really impressed by Carl Broemel from My Morning Jacket. He said he actually saw him by accident because he and his wife was getting brownies at St. David’s Bethell Hall and heard the music.

Song of the week is Carl Broemel's "Heaven Knows", which is available as a free download on his website.

BONUS:
Dexter explained and a bit about Wayne and the Flaming Lips.

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W♥M103: Potpourri (Outtakes #3)

W♥M103 (57min: archive/podomatic/mypodcast)

It's President's Day, so there's no new podcast this week.... instead here's another outtake episode.

New Vuart: What Jeopardy will be like in 2012

Failed podcast show with ******: the origin of ****** and Dungeon and Dragons. This show was interrupted because I had to leave in an emergency, so basically this is the only recording we've done.

Cristina talks Midnight Juggernaut and CMJ, this was never used on account that the regular show ran too long

Random magazine talk with Kristen whilst Sally goes to the toilet

Cristina and Vu talks gossips about Robert Rodriguez, Rose McGowan, Machete, "Don't!", and Buff

Music: La Sera and La Roux

Song of the week: Freemasons' "Heartbreak (Make Me a Dancer)", featuring Sophie Ellis-Bextor on vocals

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W♥M100

W♥M100 (68min, 47mb)

This took ages to edit, it's over one hour and it's only part one. I have about two more hours to edit for part two, but I suspect part two are more or less throwaway bits because all relevant stuff (music-related) are put into part one.

So, one thing is certain: when Cristina and I get going, we tend to go off the rail. So a conversation will start with one topic and end up completely different, but the steps that gets there makes sense - at least to us.

We talked about a lot of things, but I've only included these items in part one:

Britpop, early W♥M, Coast, etc.

Peelander-Z

And Toni Halliday and Curve and Chatelaine.

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W♥M098: Do They Know It's Christmas?

W♥M098 [download (23min, 15mb)] (alternative)

Cristina's favorite Christmas songs:

The Damned - "There Ain't No Sanity Clause"
The Weather Girls - "Dear Santa"
Band Aid - "Do They Know It's Christmas?"

It's always a winding road when we talk, mostly because we get distracted so easily. The good news is that 90% of that is taken out in post-production. The bad news is that most of that randomness will appear on W♥M Radio #100.

Other music I used for #98: Black Box's "Everybody Everybody", The Weather Girls' "It's Raining Men", Peggy Lee's "Johnny Guitar", Black Box Recorder's "Andrew Ridgley", and Shakespeare's Sister's "Stay".

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Danzig at the Trocadero in Philadelphia 6/19/10

 

On June 19^th, my friend, Sarah, and I celebrated our beloved Glenn Danzig’s birthday a little early – with him!  She drove down from Rhode Island and whisked me away to Philadelphia to see our pretend boyfriend on tour.  Unfortunately, traffic and beautification delayed our arrival, so we missed both Gorgeous Frankenstein and Seventh Void.  Still, we made it just in time to stand around in sweaty darkness for a good twenty minutes before shadows and gloomy sounds alerted us to his arrival.  When the light came on, I admit that I squealed.  But, I wasn’t the only one.  Sarah, for her part, made sure to kill the 12-year-old girl in me by saying: “Whoa, he looks old.”  All I could see was bare-chested, video-Danzig.  Sort of.

 

 

 

Danzig - On A Wicked Night

Danzig

 

For about an hour and a half, the band expertly played songs from every Danzig album.  I believe that he introduced three new ones.  I can only remember Hammer of the Gods and On a Wicked Night, which were pretty good choices.  Twist of Cain, Her Black Wings, Thirteen, my super-favorite How the Gods Kill, and a blur of other songs ended in Mother.  At this point, Sarah and I gave up her comfort and my wussiness and walked through the now-sluggish, sausage fest of a pit to get to the front.  The encore consisted of the appropriate Dirty Black Summer and Am I Demon.  My hair was pulled, my glasses got foggy, sweat burned my eyes, and men’s awful muskiness enveloped both of us.  Why had I waited so long??!  (Maybe because guys aren’t always willing to give up their spot even if it means a soft, short, less smelly cushion.  So, why risk punches to the head?)

 

 

 

As I said, the band sounded great.  The only bit of oddness was Tommy Victor’s constant hand gesturing.  (Does he act like this when fronting Prong??)  Admittedly, motioning to the crowd so that they can be louder is not weird.  BUT, when he couples it with the He-Da-(Satanic)-Man-style pointing at Danzig, it becomes all sorts of distracting things.  (You got the job, dude.  Cut it out!)  Meanwhile, bassist Steve Zing was rocking his locks and intensely posing.  Drummer Johnny Kelly had a calm demeanor and huge, welcoming smile. And, Danzig… Oh my sweet, sweet Danzig kept swinging his mic, pulling out the devil horns, gnashing his teeth, congenially talking to the crowd, throwing lots of bottles of water to the dehydrated fans, and being his perfectly bohunk-y self.  All of this, he did while delivering near-record-quality vocals.  The man can definitely sing live. I’ve heard people knock his live performances, but he doesn’t disappoint.  At the end, he thanked us and wished us a safe return home.  Sarah thought that his politeness calls his evil into question.  I think that it’s evil with a smile.

 

 

Delayed by Summer Session, Cristina

W♥M081: Peter Steele

W♥M081 [download (21min, 19mb)]

Cristina stopped in to talk about Peter Steele's unexpected death.� Steele is best known for being the singer and songwriter of goth/metal band Type O Negative.� He died of heart failure at the age of 48.

PS, Also, hey, I'm sick. I haven't been feeling good since Saturday, and I fear it's probably because I went out every night for the past three weeks. I must've picked up this bug from standing too close to someone sick or just simply that mother nature is trying to shut me down. Either case, I'm taking it easy this next few weeks.

W♥M Radio will be going on hiatus for a while. You see, I've become increasingly unhappy with the Comcast service I'm getting. For the most part Comcast works, but on the days when it's not working, it's very frustrating. For instance, today (Tuesday), it's been going in and out sporadically. It happens on all the holidays (the most recent being on Easter when I was so mad that I couldn't get any work done).

So here's the thing, I pay $60 a month for their "high-speed" service, and I'm gone for twelve hours a day for my day job and going to shows at night, so when I am home, I just expect it to work, you know? And don't tell me it's my modem or my router, I do know how to reset them if it comes to that.

What's my alternative? I can't/won't use DSL. Really? You want me to hook up a phone line first? Really??? No thank you. There's basically no cable-type internet in my area, so my only option will have to be the free wifi coffee shops. I am probably going with the free option with also a $30 unlimited AT&T data plan for the iPad, which is not out until May 7^th, so I'll have to wait for this option. That's my plan, I'll probably get rid of Comcast in June or July, we'll see.

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Update 5/1/2010 10:14am: Comcast's legendary comcrapstic service apparently reaches to a lot of people. And a lot of people vote for them to ultimately win The Golden Poo Award.� Number Two (get it?) is closely followed by Ticketmaster.

Congratulations Comcast; You're The Worst Company In America!

In a three-day, knock-down, drag-out bout with Ticket "Apollo Creed" Master, the little cable company that could showed just how badly their horrendous service, exorbitant costs, throttled internet and plans to acquire NBC Universal have ticked the Consumerist readers.

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W♥M078: Peelander-Z and Manic Street Preachers

W♥M078 [download (24min, 22mb)]

Once again, we just can't get rid of Cristina. Unstoppable Cristina.

 

Manic Street Preachers - A Design for Life

I think we have one more regarding some Australian bands, but we'll see how that plays out.

In this episode we talk about Peelander-Z and Manic Street Preachers.

Also, sorry for the bad photoshop job, it's been a long day.

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