Friday, November 28, 2008

2008-11-29 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Stream it on-demand at WRSI.com. And here's what we played:

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Fibber Island (No!)
Fountains of Wayne - Valley Winter Song (Welcome Interstate Managers)
Kimya Dawson - Wiggle My Tooth (Alphabutt)
ID
Johnny Bregar - Dragonfly (Dragonfly)
Yellow Snow PSA from Wee Hairy Beasties
Elizabeth Mitchell & Lisa Loeb - Catch the Moon (For the Kids Too) (Liz 2/21 at NCMC)
ID

Segment 2
Baby Loves Salsa - Vamos a la Playa
Steve Weeks - Monkeys (Alphabet Songs Vol. 2)
ID/prep to rock
Deathray - I Wanna Lose Control (Uh Oh) (Open Season OST)
Stray Cats - Stray Cut Strut
Wee Hairy Beasties - Tidy Up! PSA
ID

Segment 3
Jellydots - Quite Naturally (Hey You Kids!)
Jingle Punx - There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays
ID
Frances England - Fast Train to Grandma's (Family Tree)
T. Rex - Telegram Sam (The Slider)
ID
Mr. Leebot - Robot Dance
Board of Education - Lunchtime (Tin Foil Robots) (Board of Education)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Lunch Money - Everybody's Coming to the Zoo (Dizzy)
Guided By Voices - Teenage FBI (Do the Collapse)
ID
Michael Franti & Spearhead - Sey Hey (I Love You)
Jimmies - What's that Sound? (Make Your Own Someday)
Recess Monkey - Helping Hands (Wonderstuff)

Segment 5
ID
Randy Kaplan - No Nothing (Loquat Rooftop)- playing a FREE show this Wednesday, December 3, at 4:00 pm at Cup & Top Cafe...
ID
Jenny Lewis - Barking at the Moon (Bolt OST)
Great Lake Swimmers - See You on the Moon (See You on the Moon)
ID/book time with Ella - Runaway Dolls

Segment 6
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
ID
Ellen and Matt - Under Construction (Best Friends)
Terrible Twos - Math Stomp (If You Ever See An Owl)
ID
TMBG - Mammal (Apollo 18)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, November 21, 2008

2008-11-22 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Stream it on demand at WRSI.com.

Here's what we played:

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - I Can Add (Here Come the 123s)
The Real Tuesday Weld - I Love the Rain
ID
Dog on Fleas w/ Liz Mitchell - Handsome Molly
Brady Rymer & the Little Band that Could - Well May the World Go (Here Comes...)
Michael Franti - Firefly (Songs from the Front Porch)
ID

Segment 2
Les Chauds Lapins - Swing Troubadour (Parlez-Moi D'Amour)
Peter Gabriel - Down to Earth (Wall-E OST)
ID/prep to rock
Prince - Starfish and Coffee (Sign O' The Times)
ID

Segment 3
Starfish - Joshua's Treehouse
ScribbleMonster - I'm a Utility Pole (Songs with No Character)
Bruce Springsteen - Pay Me My Money Down (Seeger Sessions)
Egg - Summer Today (Sunny Side Up)
ID/book time with Ella

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child (Songs with No Character)
ID
Justin Roberts - She Sits (Pop Fly)
Mighty Weaklings - Sunny When You Share (You Can't Rock Sittin' Down)
ID
Wee Hairy Beasties - Here Comes My Shadow (Holidays Gone Crazy)
Be Good Tanyas - Littlest Birds (Animal Playground)
ID

Segment 5
Sebadoh - Ocean (Harmacy)
ID
Dog on Fleas - Lima Beans (w/ Uncle Rock) (Beautiful World
Asylum Street Spankers - Sidekick (live at Iron Horse for Spare the Rock)
ID
Lunch Money - I Love My Library (Dizzy) (premiere!)

Segment 6
Billy Bragg & Wilco - Hoodoo Voodoo (Mermaid Ave.)
Aric Bieganek/Recess Rock - Car Seat Driver
Asheba - No More Monkeys (Animal Playground)
ID
Ralph's World - Gotta Be Good (Rhyming Circus)
Board of Education - 8 Is a Number
ID
TMBG - Figure 8 (Here Come the 123s)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Saturday, November 15, 2008

2008-11-15 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Fun fun fun show! Thanks to Stefan and Amy for chatting, and congratulations to Justin Roberts for getting voted in first place for the second time in the Fids & Kamily Awards! (And thanks to Justin for calling in, too.)

Be sure to head over to the Fids & Kamily website to see capsule reviews of all of the winning CDs, and to see the honorable mention CDs too!

Go to our page at WRSI.com (and click on "Listen on-demand now") to hear the show if you missed it when it was live.

Friday, November 07, 2008

2008-11-08 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Stream the show on-demand at WRSI.com.

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Sleepwalkers (No!)
Harmonica Pocket - Spiders in my Breakfast (Ladybug One)
Jayhawks - Smile
ID
Gustafer Yellowgold - Your Eel (Live at Spare the Rock)
ID

Segment 2
Frances England - Best Friends (Family Tree)
Milkshake - Dance on My Shoes (Happy Songs)
ID
I'm From Barcelona - Treehouse
Starfish - The Hoppity Song (Starfish Rocks)
ID

Segment 3
ScribbleMonster - All Ready to Go (Songs with No Character)
Captain Bogg & Salty - Emphatical Piratical (Emphatical Piratical)
ID
Michael Franti & Spearhead - Hey World (Remote Control Version) (All Rebel Rockers) (11/23 at the Calvin)
Recess Monkey - Aquarium (Aminal House)

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Hipwaders - Baby Brother (Educated Kid)
Earth Wind & Fire - Shining Star
Princess Katie & Racer Steve - Sneakers (Fast & Feisty)
IDBook time with Ella
Keith Munslow - Accidentally (Accidentally [On Purpose])
ID

Segment 5
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - Luck (Easy)
ID
Egg w/ Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - I Like Fruit (exclusive)
The Go! Team - Junior Kickstart (Thunder, Lightning, Strike)
ID
Wee Hairy Beasties - Holidays Gone Crazy (Holidays Gone Crazy)
ID

Segment 6
ID (Northampton Community Music Center on Saturday, November 22
Dog on Fleas - Do You Wanna Know My New Dance Step?
Spoon - Underdog (Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga)
Rev. Horton Heat - Jonny Quest/Stop That Pigeon
ID
The Quiet Ones - Secret Tunnel (Make Some Noise)
ID
TMBG - Birdhouse in Your Soul (on The Tonight Show)
TMBG - Spare the Rock