Aside from being exceedingly nice and clearly a fan of our radio station, I really respect Jorja Fox’s choices as an actress. Her characters are consistently independent, smart and strong, which is unfortunately pretty rare overall for women in popular culture. Our recent Guest DJ session at KCRW is below.

1) Paul McCartney and Wings – Jet
2) The Matthew Herbert Big Band – The Story
3) Hot Chip – Transmission
4) Diana Krall – Black Crow
5) Ella Fitzgerald – So Danco Samba (Jazz Samba) (more…)

I’d meant to do a little mini-tribute to this new season of Autumn, but it’s too damn hot in Los Angeles right now for my brain to work properly, so I forgot to play the correct song from the Raveonettes, thus I’ll attempt a do over next week. Good amount of new music this week, such as new Built to Spill, Deerhunter, Comet Gain (new collection anyways), Roger Rivas from the Aggrolites, Breakestra and Lou Barlow plus classic tracks from McDonald & Giles, Billy Butler, the Velvet Underground and the Shangri-Las, who are also featured in this weeks “Pound For Pound”. Towards the end there’s an all too short tribute to one of the best and most entertaining turntablists of all-time, Grandmaster Roc Raida, who passed away recently. This one is on demand at KCRW.com until the next one comes around. (more…)

Couple of mini-tributes in this show, to start with for Jim Carroll and to close with Patrick Swayze. Now Jim Carroll is a no-brainer, but I might have lost some cool points with a few of you with a tribute to Patrick Swayze. However, if you grew up in the 80s/90s, it’s hard to name an actor more involved in some seriously entertaining films, The Outsiders, Red Dawn, Road House, Point Break and of course Dirty Dancing and Ghost, many of which are the textbook definition of a guilty pleasure. I defy you to turn the channel when any of these are on the tube on a Saturday afternoon…but I digress.

Brand new music this week from Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Built To Spill, Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, Calvin Harris, Kid Congo, Lou Barlow, The Raveonettes and Breakestra. Classics liberally spread throughout the show from Captain Beefheart, Yachts, The Pogues, Kraftwerk, Birthday Party and a wild funky one from Sugar Billy Gardner (got to highlight that record here soon). Catch it on demand (for real this time!) until the next one… (more…)

{Michael’s Note: For some reason this show never updated, but you do get to the hear the 9/2 show that begins with the full version of Bitches Brew…at least until 9/16 gets uploaded…All Apologies}

 
I probably should have thought of some mystical song to commerorate what a special date this show is on (09/09/09), but I’ve been overwhelmed lately with moving, beginning of the school year, life in general, and so this was an even more spontaneously combusting show than usual. Lots of heavy drums and psychedelic sounds in the early going, falling mostly into rock and funk camps. New music from the Phenomenal Hand Clap Band, The Heavy, The Pastels, Mayer Hawthorne (recently on MBE at KCRW), Kid Congo Powers, Tony Allen, Vivian Girls, and even KCRW’s very own Jeremy Sole’s Musaics! Make sure to make it all the way to the end for perhaps my single favorite pop-punk song of all time, Yachts 1979 classic “Love You, Love You,” which I originally heard on KALX but only recently tracked down. Show’s up for a week until the next one… (more…)