Might seem a bit sudden, but I have decided to give up my midnight shift at KCRW. The reason is really very simple, doing a midnight to 3am show during the middle of the week, especially on a day that I teach back-to-back-to-back classes, has just become to difficult to maintain. I’ll have more to say later today on my facebook page, but it is what it is. So, this might be my last show, because of some other developments (more on that later as well), or I might be moving back to “The Lab” Sundays from 3am-6am. This week’s show started the only way it possible could, with Public Enemy’s “By The Time I Get To Arizona” and Molotov’s “Frijolero,” a minor protest of Arizona’s recent immigration law. From there it’s the usual rundown of new music and classics, including M.I.A., Caribou, The New Pornographers, Paul Weller, Flying Lotus and closing with a song that I always used to close out when I moved to a new shift way back in the day at Album 88 and KALX, Tom Wait’s “Anywhere I Lay My Head.” This one is likely to stick around a little while, unless I do leave KCRW and they decide to take down my page…the future remains unwritten, but I’ll update when I know anything more certain.
Public Enemy – By The Time I Get To Arizona – Apocalypse 91…The Enemy Strikes Back
Molotov – Frijolero – Dance and Dense Denso
The Minutemen – Corona – Double Nickels On The Dime
Dum Dum Girls – Lines Her Eyes – I Will Be
Bikini Kill – Reject All American – Reject All American
Gaslamp Killer – Turk Mex – My Troubled Mind
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M.I.A. – Born Free – Single
Suicide – Rocket USA – Suicide
Gonjasufi – Kobwebz – A Sufi & A Killer
Baby Grandmothers – Somebody’s Calling My Name – Forge Your Own Chains
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Paul Weller – Up The Dosage – Wake Up The Nation
Love Is All – Less Than Thrilled – Two Thousand And Ten Injuries
Local Natives – Sun Hands – Gorilla Manor
Broken Social Scene – All To All – Forgiveness Rock Record
Four Tet – Circling – There Is Love In You
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Caribou – Leave Home – Swim
Ozomatli – Love Comes Down (Anthony Valadez Remix) – Ozomatli Vs. KCRW Soundclash
Jose James – Black Magic – Live on Morning Becomes Eclectic
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The New Pornographers – Up In The Dark – Together
The Like – Wishing He Was Dead – Release Me
The Strange Boys – Be Brave – Be Brave
Duane Eddy – The Trembler – Twang Thang
Holly Miranda – High Tide – The Magician’s Private Library
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Caetano Veloso – A Base De Guyatanamo – Zii E Zie
Clutchy Hopkins – Laughing Jockey – Story Teller
Quantic – Ciudad Del Swing – Death Of The Revolution
Mercury Dance Band – Envy No Good – Afro-Rock: Volume 1
Karl Hector & The Malcouns – Toure Samar – Black Man’s Cry
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Muddy Waters – Tom Cat – Electric Mud
Frankie Seay & The Soul Riders – Blackjack – 7”
Rusty Bryant – The Fire Eater – The Fire Eater
James Brown – You Mother You – Sho’ Is Funky Down Here
Les Baxter – Hogin’ Machine – Hell’s Belles
Mrr/Adm feat. Malcolm Catto – 013 – Untitled 10”
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Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings – If You Call – I Learned The Hard Way
Arthur Verocai – Caboclo – Timeless: Arthur Verocai
Bonobo – Kiara – Black Sands
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Flying Lotus – Table Tennis – Cosmogramma
The National – Afraid OF Everyone – High Violet
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Mercy Seat – Tender Prey
Dungen – C. Visar Vagen – Tio Batar
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Tom Waits – Anywhere I Lay My Head – Rain Dogs