A Safe Place for Cubs episode 8

a safe place for cubs is my biweekly radio show on KDVS 90.3 fm Davis, CA.
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Track	Artist	Song	Album	Label
10	Lucky Dragons	My Are Singing	Dream Island Laughing Language	Marriage Records	[playing behind DJ, thoughout show] 2008 - see them at O:RMF 5/16 - www.myspace.com/luckydragons
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	B Sexuals	PCG	Ceci n'est pas un band	Aunt Enna Records	2005 - very cool retired Sacramento band
	Joao Coracao	Agarra Em Mim	No1. Sessao de Cezimbra	Flor Caveira	2009 - another great release from Flor Caveira, an amazing Portugues label - www.myspace.com/joaocoracao
	Pink Reason	Winona	Winona 7	Woodsist	2008 - www.myspace.com/secondculture
11	Eat Skull	Dawn in the Face	Wild & Inside (tour edition)	No Label	2009 - www.myspace.com/eatskull
	U.S. Girls	Me + Yoko	Me + Yoko 7''	Not Not Fun Records	2009 - another winner - www.myspace.com/usgirlsss
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	Teddy And His Patches	Suzy Creamcheese	Pebbles Vol. 2	ESD Records	1967 - http://www.myspace.com/teddyandhispatches
	Roger & The Gypsies	Pass The Hatchet Pt 1			http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:wvfpxqtjldde
11	Sonics, The	Strychnine	Psycho-Sonic	Big Beat	1965 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sonics
5	Various Artists	Rock Shop- Is That Your Halo	Pebbles: Vol 11 Northern California	Archive International Productions	1966 - http://www.discogs.com/Various-Pebbles-Volume-11-Northern-California/release/1638137
	The Monocles	The Spider And The Fly	Pebbles Vol. 2	ESD Records	1966 - www.myspace.com/themonoclesmonoclesmonocles
10	Various Artists	Soultons - Rain Down Soul	Pebbles: Vol 11 Northern California	Archive International Productions	1968 - http://www.discogs.com/Various-Pebbles-Volume-11-Northern-California/release/1638137
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	C.O.B.	Sweet Slavery	Spirit of Love		1970 - great overlooked UK folk band - http://therisingstorm.net/cob-spirit-of-love/
	Children	Don't Ever Lose It	Rebirth		1968 - http://ravensingstheblues.blogspot.com/search?q=children
	Roy Harper	Hors d'Oeuvres	Stormcock		1971 - the legend - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Harper
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2	Wooden Shjips	For So Long	Dos	Holy Mountain	2009 - i love this album...all of their albums...can't wait to see them at O:RMF
1	Silver Darling	Living for Breath	Your Ghost Fits My Skin	Crossbill	2008 - www.myspace.com/silverdarling
	Thee Oh Sees	Go Meet The Seed	Help	In the Red	2009 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ohsees
	Meth Teeth	Unemployment Forever	Untitled 7''	Sweet Rot Records	2008 - www.myspace.com/methteethmusic
3	Mayyors	White Jeep	Megan's LOLZ	Gomerdome	2008 - they're already legendary, see them at O:RMF for the real Mayyors experience.
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7	The Nothing	Wagons Rumbling	Life in Decay	Precipitate	2007 - http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=1150715
	Booker T Jones	Pound It Out	Potato Hole		2009 - legend's new album - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T._Jones
6	Psychic Ills	Fingernail Tea	Mirror Eye	Social Registry	2008 - www.myspace.com/psychicills
	Mr. Andrew	The Bats	Magic Planet EP		1982 - http://www.last.fm/music/Mr.+Andrew
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	clips from Unit 99: ep 2, ep 3, and ep 11	played over the following songs			1950s radio show of the Sacramento police department - http://www.otrcat.com/unit-99-p-1950.html
5	Animal Hospital	What If They Are Friendly	Good or Plenty, Streets + Avenues	Mutable Sound	2009 - www.myspace.com/animalhospital
	Drahomira Song Orchestra	Celo Istis	Zamenhof	Institut Drahomira	2000 - www.myspace.com/drahomirasongorchestra
	Sir Richard Bishop	Kaddak El Mayass	The Freak Of Araby	Drag City	2009 - www.sirrichardbishop.net/
	Mary Halvorson & Weasel Walter	Rare Vodka From The Fourteenth Century	Opulence	Savage Land Records	2008 - http://freemusicarchive.org/curator/WFMU/WFMUs_Free_Music_Archive_Sampler_Vol_2
	Starkey	Spacewalk	Ephemeral Exhibits	Planet Mu	2008 - www.myspace.com/starkey

let me chop it, let me chop itl

The always amazing Odd Nosdam has posted a great mixtape of early garage and r&b songs in celebration of his birthday:

01 THE JUNIOR RAYMEN - RUMBLE '66
02 TEDDY AND HIS PATCHES - SUZY CREAMCHEESE
03 THE PASTEL SIX - BANDIDO
04 ROGER & THE GYPSIES - PASS THE HATCHET PT1
05 GENE AMMONS - MOITO MATO GROSSO PT1
06 ROGER & THE GYPSIES - PASS THE HATCHET PT2
07 GENE AMMONS - MOITO MATO GROSSO PT2
08 JOE TEX - IM A MAN
09 LOU DONALDSON - PEEPIN
10 BABY CORTEZ - GETTIN RIGHT
11 TEDDY AND HIS PATCHES - FROM DAY TO DAY
12 THE KINGSMEN - HAUNTED CASTLE PARTY
13 HARLOW WILCOX AND THE OAKIES - MOOSE TROT
14 THE RIVIERAS - H B GOOSE STEP

wish him a late happy birthday and download the mix here

KDVS Fundraiser

KDVS is an amazing freeform radio station in Davis California that I am lucky enough to have a show on. We are having our annual week-long fundraiser starting April 20, and are trying to raise $60,000. Two-thirds of our budget comes from listener donations, so we need your help to keep our freeform programing on-air. We have amazing premiums for those that donate $25 or more, you can view these premiums here (they work out to be about a dollar for dollar value - and they are tax deductible). Plus, if you donate during our show you will get an excellent CD mix that I put together with some really unique tracks (including Moon Wiring Club, Drahomira Song Orchestra, and a never before released song by Benedict Siegel). You can donate to our show here.

If you love freeform/community/alternative radio and the music that we bring with it - and if you can afford to donate (even a little) - then please support us.
Thank you

Drahomira Song Orchestra

Drahomira Song Orchestra is a French duo consisting of former film students Julien Pacaud and Jean-Christophe Sanchez. They make sometimes ambient, sometimes drony, sometimes industrial musical compositions...or I guess they're more like musical scrapbooks - musical ephemera (hehe). Their music is unlike anything I have heard before, yet it has always felt very familiar, like they taped in and recorded some sort of collective unconscious and put it to beautiful music.


They are also filmmakers and graphic artist - I haven't been lucky enough to see any of their films, but both Julien Pacaud's graphic art (as displayed) and Jean-Christophe Sanchez's paintings are remarkable and consistently intriguing. Their art can be viewed over their very fun website, and can be purchased at DeviantartArt

You can download some of their albums at their last.fm page, and some more over at Mutant Sounds. You can find a couple albums of theirs for sale here and here.

Here are a few tracks off their 1999 album Strange Baltic Laboratoire, which has quickly made its way into one of my all time favorite albums:

The Rules by Heart
Gymnastik Nocturne
Fin de Journée au Politburo
Now Change Head Back Sorry










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fwawn

fwawn is the musical alias of Cyrus Fisher. He puts out excellent electronic music self described as "dark and depressing trip hop/downtempo mostly played in uncommon meters." Depressing it might be at times (especially with titles like 'Everything is Meaningless' and 'Can Life Merely Be Despair?') but the best tracks have a wonderful sense of gloom, drama, and beauty (just listen to 'Everything is Meaningless') that Geoff Barrow would be proud to make.

He releases all of his music into the Public Domain: "No rights reserved. You may edit, remix, or reprint anything on this disc. Unauthorized copying, public performance, hiring and broadcasting of this record are encouraged. Please copy, download, upload, share, and tell your friends about this disc. It's yours now." What a deal.

Everything is Meaningless

Meaningless, Meaningless

Myself

Only Yesterday

El Cid - The Surf (fwawn Mix)

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Zola Jesus

Some more great stuff from Zola Jesus. These songs are off her most recent release the Tsar Bomba 12" EP, released on Troubleman Unlimited. 

"Intriguing release from Zola Jesus, a mini LP on Troubleman called 'Tsar Bomba'. She's trained in Opera studies and loves everything from No Wave to Classical arias and her emotive, tragic vocals carry along this unique trajectory, coming across a little like Julee Cruise & Kate Bush buried under this wonderful layer of discordance whilst industrial bass pulses & a John Carpenter-esque drum machines worm their way into your soul. It's like some distorted minimal dark-wave torch song shit, very Lynchian in it's eerie, otherworldly feel. Songs veer off into wild sludgy flatfields of sonic fall-out but the voice creeps back through the melee, like Bat For Lashes remixed by the DHR set or Cobra Killer. Fucking interesting record, yes I want this....." -from Norman Record

It looks like she has a handfull of releases coming up, including a full length (!!!):

New Amsterdam (WNYU Sessions) CD (Sacred Bones)

Collab w/Dead Luke Split 12" w/ Burial Hex (Aurora Borealis)

The Spoil LP (Sacred Bones)

(follow the links to download/stream)

Sea Talk

Last Day

WFMU Session

Odessa

Dog

Orthodox

Last Day

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interview at True Endeavors

@ the Corral Room in Madison on 5-29-08

New Dan Melchior Und Das Menace

Yesterday I picked up my copy of the new Dan Melchior Und Das Menace 2xLP "Thankyou Very Much," just released on S-S.  And it's no surprise that it's another remarkable album...so continues his amazing streak of superb releases (but has he ever released a 'bad' record??).  I dare say that I'm enjoying it even more than last year's "Christmas for Crows" LP, which many called his best work yet.  The sound is more reminiscent of (his previous band) the Broke Revue then anything since its break up...but, to be sure, his sound is not standing still (I don't think it ever will), it's yet a further evolution of his pounding pop sound.

This is already his third release this year; the first two were a pair of 7-inches released through the Columbus Discount Singles Club: "Mr. Oblivian" and "The Post Office Line" (copies still available via his website). And those two on the heels of the "She's So Blank" 7-inch and the "Christmas for the Crows" LP, both released last year. But the man will not rest: two more 7-inches are planned to be released in the next month, "Dim Are The Lights" on Convulsive Records and the other as part of the Dull Knife Songwriter Series, already up for preorder here. And still it doesn't stop there: his unreleased masterpiece (yes masterpiece), and (according to me) best work ever, "O' Clouds Unfold" will be released on Hook or Crook Records before the end of the year (according to his website).

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Shreber Harber Mole Flying Wheel

"Shreber Harber Mole Flying Wheel is a Japanese trio formed by Saitoh Tomohiro, Yamamoto Shinichiro, Kohno Nagahiro...they shows how to combine a perfect mix of dark ambient, catchy rhythms, IDM structures and electronic-pop oriented songs. All nice mixed and layered by warm and soft sounds, bright melodies, hidden guitars." (from U-Cover)

both songs from their 2004 release Air Comfort (on U-Cover CDr Limited):

Eyes

SOL

both videos from their 2007 album Bloom (on Rednetic Recordings):

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