HOUR ONE: 1) Rockaway Beach THE RAMONES 2) Kill Surf City JESUS & MARY CHAIN 3) California Girls MAGNETIC FIELDS 4) Remember (Walking in the Sand) THE SHANGRI LAS 5) 1930’s Beach House MOVIETONE 6) Surfer Girl THE BEACH BOYS 7) Mr Moto THE BELAIRS Baja THE ASTRONAUTS 9) Summer MODEST MOUSE 10) Sex on the Beach JOHNNY FIVE 11) Summer Here Kids GRANDADDY 12) Hawaii Five-O THE VENTURES 13) Mission Impossible THE KANE TRIPLETS 14) The Creature Stole My Surfboard DEAD ELVI 15) Werewolves on Wheels THE BORN LOSERS 16) Devil’s Martini THE DYNOTONES 17) Surf Zombies THE HELLBILLIES 18) Dream Surf Baby ADVENTURES IN STEREO 19) Daytona Beach HALF JAPANESE
HOUR TWO: 1) Summer Days BOB DYLAN 2) Summer Trippin THE PUSH KINGS 3) Sleep All Summer CROOKED FINGERS 4) Constant Rain SERGIO MENDES AND BRAZIL 66 5) Summertime BILLIE HOLIDAY 6) Live Let Live BRIAN WILSON 7) In the Summertime MUNGO JERRY Beachcomber THE POMEGRANATES 9) This Ain’t a Surf Movie GRIZZLY BEAR 10) Dead Man’s Curve JAN AND DEAN 11) Ride the Wild Surf JAN AND DEAN 12) Ride the Wild Surf THE ZIGGENS 13) Wipeout THE SURFARIS 14) Let’s Go Trippin DICK DALE 15) Miserlou DICK DALE 16) Pipeline THE CHANTAYS 17) Surf’s Up THE BEACH BOYS

Five things or more of AWESOME this (and last) week b/c I love you:

1)Star Trek! Saw it, really liked it! And I liked playing Guitar Hero at the theater while waiting to be seated. I scored a 94% on Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage.” I’m definitely out of practice.

2)Speaking of Star Trek, summer is movie theater going time. I can’t wait to see Bruno, The Hangover, Year One and Paper Heart. I love action adventure movies, but I’m predicting these comedies are gonna be my top notch hits of the summer. Yes, I’m calling Paper Heart a comedy cuz some of my favorite funny people are in it.

3)Dangermouse/Sparklehorse/David Lynch collaboration. You know I’ve been listening to this over the last week and its growing on me. When I heard about it, I was stoked and since listening to it, its a little “meh” for me, but I love the concept for the album.

4)…click the pic and share in the laughs with me!

5)Jarvis Cocker playing art gallery in Paris a few weeks ago… gray beard n all!

6)Free episodes of Twin Peaks online. My obsession begins…AGAIN!

7)Rocky Mountain Low: The Colorado Musical Underground of the Late 1970s

New Modest Mouse single. You know I actually stopped buying their records after The Moon & Antarctica, but I’ve continued to see them in concert if they’re in a city I’m in, but I’m hoping this new record is as good as this single and will maybe get me “into” the band again.

Mon – 5/11-Are You Gonna Be There (At the Love In) The Chocolate Watchband cut this in a day for a ‘67 exploitation about what those pre-rave hippies were up to.
Tues – 5/12 – The Rains Came a classic from 1965 and a legend in waiting. Doug Sahm leads the Sir Douglas Quintet in a sounds that combines a Cajun with a Mersey beat.
Weds – 5/13 – The Golden Age of Rock and Roll is recalled in this 1974 piece of nostalgia as Mott the Hoople remembers leather guitars and electric jackets. Or something like that.
Thurs – 5/14 – The Man with the Child in His Eyes. Kate Bush, 19 in 1978, sings well beyond her years about a guy who has that Peter Pan thing going on. But she is digging it.
Fri – 5/15 – Ronnie and the Delinquents take you to a Bad Neighborhood. Dr. John Mac Rebennack was a kid playing guitar in this New Orleans band when this was recorded. A barroom brawl, a pistol goes off and injures a finger, he switches to piano. But first, three minutes in the bad part of town!

Dedicated to all mommies out there:

And this is especially dedicated to my mom who for years I called my mom “Mother” in the voice of Danzig, in which she would do her best Danzig and say “Aaalishhhhaaaa”!

<3 to you,
djAlisha.

PS: This too from last night’s Saturday Night Live-

So I chatted a bit about it on-air, but if you didn’t get a chance to listen (Wednesday 4-6p), you might have missed me talk about the film Rachel Getting Married.

Have you seen it?

I cannot get the musical aspect out of my head. Of course it shouldn’t be easy to shake… the film was directed by Jonathan Demme, who did Stop Making Sense and Neil Young: Heart of Gold both wonderful concert films. But this film was different, not a concert, but an indie film with a handful of great actors and musicians.

I honestly didn’t know anything about the film except that Anne Hathaway was supposed to be all messed up in it and it was nominated for awards. So I was pleasantly surprised when the film begins and I see names like Robyn Hitchcock and Fab Five Freddy in the opening credits.  Then as the film continues I notice the guy playing the groom looks awfully a lot like Tunde the lead singer from TV on the Radio, and it was! Robyn Hitchcock was singing in the wedding band and  Fab Five Freddy was one of Tunde’s family members. Each one of their performances were small, but endearing.

Demme said that when he decided that he was making the film he imagined putting together the best dinner party ever and that’s how he went about casting… pulling people from all corners of his world to bring this film to life. The wedding scene was my favorite part of the film – warm, loving, fun and just awesome. The dvd featurettes are insightful too.

Here’s a clip from the wedding scene… I promise it doesn’t spoil anything for you, its just this is the part I can’t kick… Tunde singing Neil Young’s “Unkonwn Legend” to his bride (it starts about 1:17 in):

(yes this is a bootleg copy taped in a Spanish theater, but the first version I sleuthed online)

<3,
djAlisha

Happy Cinco de Mayo! I love May, it should be summertime anyday!

What else am I loving on…

Jazz handzz go out this week to Radio 1190’s new CD of the Month for May. Its a band called NOMO. 1190 has chosen their album Invisible Cities as our premiere album of the month. You might have heard of them. They’re from Detriot. This is a band that’s new to me, but I’m digging the Fela-inspired jazz they make. I’ve only heard a few songs, so I’ll have to give it a longer listen at the studio. Its out on Ubiquity, which is a great label, home to artists like Brakestra and Greyboy.

1)The Streets’ (aka Mike Skinner) “He’s Behind You, He’s Got Swine Flu” song and video…

2)As my friend Brandon says, “Peaches and Fischerspooner have albums out today, what year is it?!” Yes, they do and I’m down with it, I need some dancey summer jamzzzzzz from some “classic” electroclash groups.

3)The Faint and Ladytron tonight at Ogden!!!!!!!!

4)Finally saw The Wrestler! It was just as great as I’d wanted it to be. RAM JAM!

5)Hausu: I love this quirky, weird, Japanese horror film and I was just overly-excited about the film again because my friend Pablo is going to watch it and now I will know someone else who has seen it and we can discuss it. If you’ve seen it, let’s chat about it!

<3,
djAlisha.

PS: Jazz handzz & a high five to Baby’s Gang “Challenger” song! The most amazing pop culture gem about the explosion of the Challenger next to that Punky Brewster episode! Second thought… I don’t know if they’re singing about the explosion or about the rocket before it launched……?!

MON: Leon Russell and the Shelter People put a Tulsa twist on Robert Heinlein’s sci fi themed STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND from ‘71. TUES: Little Caesar recording in LA in 1952 includes a murder and a suicide in the blues stunner GOODBYE BABY. WEDS: From DU 1965, Colorado’s Lothar and the Handpeople and the tale of the TV WEATHERMAN. THURS: Skip Spence, the driving force behind Moby Grape, flips out and records his solo album Oar in 1968. We hear WAR AND PEACE. FRI: The week wraps up with THE MURDER MYSTERY a favorite from the Velvet Underground’s self titled album from 1969. Agatha Christie eat your heart out.