There’s a great show at the Tea House tonight, but it’s not a name you’re likely to be familiar with.
Tavo Carbone is an exceptional songwriter, somewhere loosely in the vein of Tom Waits and Frank Zappa and other oddball geniuses. His arrangements are lush and orchestral and sound as if they were filtered through a gramaphone. Anyway, it’s [...]

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Well, the WTJU marathon is now over, and life is returning to something resembling normal (unfortunately it’s also returning to cool & rainy, but I’m not too disheartened).
Anyway I want to give a special shout-out to two of my favorite shows on the marathon, which both came in on the last day and may have [...]

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The WTJU marathon ends tonight… or should I say, very early tomorrow morning.
Monday 1-3am is my usual weekly time-slot, and I’m doing a show then –  and I had the bright idea of extending the marathon and staying up for another 3 hours so I could do a fourth show. It’s been really fun, although [...]

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I had an absolute blast doing the 4-hour long James Brown show; I hope y’ll had fun listening to it!  There’s plenty of other great stuff going on at the station today; Don from Wowsville is kicking ass right now with a 60’s psych show called “My Flower is Drippy with the Dew of Your [...]

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My James Brown show starts in one hour on WTJU… it’s from 8am to Noon, tune in if you can!

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Tonight at IS, it’s Sarah White, Straight Punch to the Crotch, and someone named Billy Baritone; I have a lot of stuff to do, but I may try to make it out for that one.
 
At the Tea Bazaar, it’s Ben Arthur with Bobby St. Ours (who hasn’t played here in a while … he’s good); [...]

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The Can show went excellently well; thanks so much to everyone who pledged to the station, and thanks to DJ Splinterfoot for kicking ass and answering phones. I managed to fit in every song I wanted to include, and we raised more money than I thought we would!  I have a high-quality recording of the [...]

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The entire damn WTJU marathon schedule for Friday just looks absolutely spectacular, and I’m really excited to play a small part of it.
I just came back from the station after hanging out at the end of the 1969 show and then answering phones for the Pacific Northwest Punk show with Emily and Christopher, and as [...]

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So I know you have finals right now, but there’s tons of much more entertaining stuff going on, so drag yourself away from Clemens for a minute. And if you can — dear god! — make it all the way downtown, here’s what:
Starting off, tonight at McGuffey Arts Center, This Little Bird Theater presents some [...]

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Thanks to everyone who came to the dance party last night! It was a lot of fun.
The Rock Marathon is now fully underway… after a hangover breakfast, I’m heading over to the station to answer phones for the Stax Records show at Noon. Colin Powell will be DJing it — his set at the dance [...]

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