Naturally, I kept a copy of this week's show for myself. A nice 2-hour MP3. Yup.
* New
Blossom Dearie / The Party's Over / Jazz Masters 51 / Verve The Smiths / There Is a Light That Never Goes Out / The Queen Is Dead / Sire *Beck / Chemtrails / Modern Guilt / DGC *Freddie Hubbard & the New Jazz Octet / Theme for Kareem / On the Real Side / Four Quarters Shelleyan Orphan / Century Flower / Century Flower / Columbia Talking Heads / This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody) / Once in a Lifetime (box set) / Jonathan Richman / Everyday Clothes / Action Packed: the Best of Jonathan Richman / Rounder *Deer Tick / Ashamed / War Elephant / Feow! The Aluminum Group / Mattachine Society / Plano / Minty Fresh *Radius / Hyde Park (I Miss You) / Neighborhood Suicide / The Secret Life of Sound Canasta / The Model / Find the Time / Broken Middle C Luxury / Green Hearts / Yellow Pills: Prefill / Numero Group *The Wedding Present / The Thing I Like Best About Him Is His Girlfriend (Santa Monica and La Brea Version) / El Rey / Manifesto The Decemberists / The Infanta / Picaresque / Kill Rock Stars Laurie Anderson / Smoke Rings / Talk Normal Anthology / Rhino *Allá / La Montaña Sagrada / Es Tiempo / Crammed Disc *The Fast Bullets / Scrub Yer Pup / The Fast Bullets / Self-released Patti Smith / Free Money / Horses / Arista The B-52's / Hero Worship / The B-52's / Warner Brothers *The Hold Steady / Stay Positive / Stay Positive / Vagrant *Ratatat / Dura / LP3 / XL Zerostars / Uptown / Basement Stories / Self-released Sufjan Stevens / Come On Feel the Illinoise / Come On Feel the Illinoise! / Asthmatic Kitty The Notwist / Alphabet / The Devil, You + Me / Domino Milo Binder / Dancing Queen / 20 More Explosive Fantastic Rockin' Smash Hit Explosions! / Pravda Blossom Dearie / Rhode Island Is Famous for You / Jazz Masters 51 / Verve Hedwig and the Angry Inch / Midnight Radio / Hedwig and the Angry Inch / Atlantic Smoking Popes / The Party's Over / The Party's Over / Double Zero
My last show on WLUW is this Friday morning, 7/25, 6-8am CDT. It's going to be a good one! So listen to it.
88.7FM on Chicago's north side; wluw.org anywhere (click on "listen live")
And I'll keep you posted on my future DJing gig with the Chicago Independent Radio Project. In the interim, I guess I will be a non-DJ. Or maybe just a DJ in between projects. Still, I feel ready to leave.
I've rebuilt the web site for my comic, Finn and Charlie are HITCHED. The new version is more robust, and I'm going to stop posting about it here every week. If you want to read it, bookmark this link: hitched.tonybreed.com. You can also now subscribe via RSS, if that's yer thing.
Such a precious thing - 7/19 show (subbing for Megan)
*New!
!!! / Heart of Hearts / Myth Takes / WARP Deee-Lite / River of Freedom / Mega Breakfast / Elektra *The Chap / Carlos Walter Wendy Stanley / Mega Breakfast / Ghostly International *Beck / Gamma Ray / Modern Guilt / DGC Parliament / Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker) / Mothership Connection / Mercury/Chronicles Muscles / Ice Cream / Guns Babes Lemonade / Modular *The Dials / Amoeba Amore / Amoeba Amore / No Fun *The Ting Tings / Great DJ / We Started Nothing / Columbia eX-Girl / Pop Muzik / Back to the Mono Kero / Ipecac Hedwig and the Angry Inch / Exquisite Corpse / Hedwig and the Angry Inch / Atlantic Haale / Ay Dar Shakasteh / No Ceiling / Channel A Bobby Conn and the Glass Gypsies / Relax / The Homeland / Thrill Jockey Madness / One Step Beyond / Total Madness: The Very Best of Madness / Geffen *Johnny Rumble / Almost Dead / Almost Dead / Self-released Depeche Mode / I Feel Loved / Exciter / Mute XTC / Generals and Majors / Waxworks: Singles 1977-1982 / Geffen No Kids / For Halloween / Come into My House / Tomlab *Flying Lotus / Parisian Goldfish / Los Angeles / WARP *Allá / El Movimiento / Es Tiempo / Crammed Disc Ungdomskulen / Witches Mate in the Underground / Cry Baby / Ever *edIT / Dura / Certified Air Raid Material / Alpha Pup
When I was a wee one, I remember Judy Collins was on Sesame Street. There were a lot of others, too, but I can't remember them. Anyhow, the tradition continues with Feist!
The Polyphonic Spree / Section 29 [Light to Follow] / The Fragile Army / TVT Laurie Anderson with Peter Gabriel / Gravity's Angel / Mister Heartbreak / WB Romeo Void / White Sweater / Warm, in Your Coat / *The Wedding PResent / I Lost the Monkey / El Rey / Manifesto *Herman Dëne / Pure Hearts / 1-2-3 Apple Tree / Everloving The Style Council / Changing of the Guard / Confessions of a Pop Group The La's / Freedom Song / The La's / Go! Nina Simone / I Put a Spell on You / The Best of Nina Simone / Philips *Allá / Tú Vida / Es Tiempo / Crammed Disc Shirley Horn / That Old Black Magic / Trav'lin' Light / Verve *Ratatat / Mirando / LP3 / XL Canasta / Microphone Song / We Were Set Up / Broken Middle C Har Mar Superstar / Body Request / The Handler / Record Collection *Tilly and the Wall / Cacophony / O / Team Love Björk / Wanderlust / Volta Yaz / Midnight / Upstairs at Eric's / Sire *The Ting Tings / Be the One / We Started Nothing / Columbia Los Blops / Esencialmente Así, No Mas / Del Volar De Las Palomas / Toms / Sun / Yellow Pills: Prefill / Numero Group M+M / Several Styles of Blonde Girls Dancing / Danseparc Royce / Girls on Bikes / Tuff Love / Galapagos4 *Bishop Allen / The Monitor / The Broken String / Dead Oceans *The Notwist / Gloomy Planets / The Devil, You + Me / Domino *Wolf Parade / The Grey Estates / At Mount Zoomer / Sub Pop The Returnables / Teenage Imposters / The Returnables / Dirt Nap The Shangri-La's / Give Him a Great Big Kiss / Myrmidons of Melodrama / RPM Screeching Weasel / Speed of Mutation / Television City Dream / Fat Wreck Chords The Vandervoorts / He's Realistic / (no album)
CocoRosie / Sunshine / The Adventures of Ghost Horse and Stillborn / Touch and Go Jane Siberry / Honeybee / Maria / Reprise *Deer Tick / Art Isn't Real (Sin City) / War Elephant / Feow! *The Lines / False Alarm / Memory Span / Acute Desmond Dekker / Israelites / Israelites / TKO Nina Simone / Break Down and Let It All Out / The Best of Nina Simone / Philips *The Notwist / Gravity / The Devil, You + Me / Domino Cass McCombs / Lionkiller / Dropping the Writ / Domino The Decemberists / Summersong / The Crane Wife / Capitol Office / Suburban Perfume / A Night at the Ritz / Scratchie/New Line *Radius/ Roger's Park (North Pole Bakery) / Neighborhood Suicide / The Secret Life of Sound Taana Gardner / Hearbeat / Larry Levan's Paradise Garage / West End Baby Teeth / Diaghelev Was Right / The Baby Teeth Album / Self-released (babyteethmusic.com) *The Wedding Present / The Thing I Liked Best about Him Is His Girlfriend (Santa Monica and La Brea Version) / El Rey / Manifesto Patrick Cleandemin / Until You Said I'm Gone / Baby Comes Home / Ba Da Bing Ted Leo & the Pharmacists / Army Bound / Living with the Living / Touch and Go The Tourists / It Doesn't Have to Be This Way / Reality Effect / Epic (r)Beirut / Postcards from Italy / Gulag Orkestra / Ba Da Bing *Bishop Allen / Click Click Click / The Broken String / Dead Oceans Annette Peacock / ½ Broken / Been on the Streets Too Long / Ironic Records Bettye LaVette / Before the Money Came (The Battle of Bettye LaVette) / The Scene of the Crime / Anti- *Tilly and the Wall / Blood Flowers / O / Team Love *Silver Jews / What Is Not but Could Be If / Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea / Drag City Muscles / Hey Muscles I Love You / Guns Babes Lemonade / Modular *The Ting Tings / That's Not My Name / We Started Nothing / Columbia Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin / Dead Right / Pershing / Polyvinyl *The Dials / 18 / Amoeba Amore / No Fun Troubled Hubble / Nancy / Live at Double Door 5/5/04 /
As I've said, I'll be leaving WLUW at the end of this month. I'm sad to leave the station, but I'm excited about my next project: the upcoming web radio station of the Chicago Independent Radio Project (CHIRP). There isn't time in my life to do both, and I'm looking forward to being one of the founding DJs of a new station.
Since last July, WLUW hasn't been the station it used to be. Being a part of WLUW wasn't just a matter of being on the air: we had a sense of mission. We were building something. When Loyola announced that they were taking back the station, everything changed overnight; the mission was gone. We were still trying to run a good station, but with the future uncertain, there was nothing to build.
Loyola didn't talk to the station volunteers for a full 9 months. Make no mistake, we were very poorly treated. Their refusal to meet spoke volumes: we were not important to them. And we were left on our own to parse and re-parse Loyola's meager press release, arguing about what it all meant. This treatment was saddest of all for the 60% of us who were Loyola students (many of whom graduated this year).
Then, after those nine months, a representative came and told us, essentially, not to worry, everything was fine, nothing was changing (aside from the station management — a change he denied Loyola had orchestrated, but that's a topic for another day).
In the meantime, a core group of WLUW volunteers, led by the former program director, had founded the Chicago Independent Radio Project, to create a new, truly independent station. I joined immediately. Initially, for me, it was a new sense of mission, and an outlet for the creative energies that were no longer needed at WLUW. Over the past year, I've seen CHIRP build into something with a good chance of success, and I'm very proud of what we've already accomplished.
Many WLUW djs decided to leave the station as of the moment Loyola took over, but I decided not to. The station was not fun anymore, but I still enjoyed my show. I've only been on air since early 2006 and I just wasn't ready to go yet.
Then CHIRP decided to start a webcast. Sure, it's a smaller audience, and it's not "real radio" yet -- but I want to be a part of it, and I want to be a part of it from square one. The choice was easy for me, and I gave notice.
I respect the decision of those who have decided to stay with WLUW and fight to keep the station great, and I wish them luck. It will not be the station it used to be; Loyola has made sure of that. However, it may still be great. Already, in the week since the official transition, Loyola has become more engaged with the station, fixing equipment problems and looking to the future (whatever that may be).
Meanwhile, if you've been one of my regular listeners, I'd like to hear from you. Leave me a comment here, or drop me a line at dj [at] tonybreed [dot] com. I'll keep you informed as CHIRP progresses.
I've been wanting to write one, and then yesterday, on her livejournal, she challenged people to create their own.
So I did it... not bad for a first try. But not exactly... deep. 2 or 3 years in a row in junior high I tried to write a novel over the summer. Those notebooks are probably still somewhere.
I remember standing on the corner with a piece of pizza - 7/4 show
* new (r) request
Blondie / Eat to the Beat / Eat to the Beat / Chrysalis Matt & Kim / Yea Yeah / Matt & Kim / IHEARTCOMIX *The Futureheads / Hard to Bear / This Is Not the World / Nul *Bonnie "Prince" Billy / Where Is the Puzzle? / Lie Down in the Light / Drag City Ushuaia Rocks! / Pink Moon / Un Fro Infierno / *Sigur Rós / Ára Bátur / Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spillum Endalaust / XL Richard Bona / Couscous / Munia: The Tale / St. Vincent / Marry Me / Marry Me / Beggars Josephine Foster and the Supposed / Silly Song / All the Leaves Are Gone / Locust The Beach Boys / I Know There's an Answer / Pet Sounds / Capitol *Frightened Rabbit / Head Rolls Off / The Midnight Organ Fight / Fat Cat The Sponsors / In and Out of Love / Yellow Pills: Prefill / Numero Group Mark Ronson feat. Santogold / Pretty Green / Version / RCA *Wolf Parade / Call It a Ritual / At Mount Zoomer / Sub Pop Sufjan Stevens / Pickeral Lake / Michigan (Outtakes) / Asthmatic Kitty Zerostars / Family Tree / Basement Stories / self-released (zerostars.com) The Aluminum Group / I Blow You Kisses / Happyness / Wishing Tree *The Notwist / Alphabet / The Devil, You + Me / Domino *Ladytron / Black Cat / Velocifero / Nettwerk The Humans / I Live in the City / Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the 80's vol. 3 / Rhino *The Dials / 3 is Better than 4 / Amoeba Amore / No Fun Kate Bush / There Goes a Tenner / The Dreaming / EMI Manhattan J David Trio / There Goes a Tenner / I Wanna Be Kate / Brownstar Joe Stummer and the Mescaleros / Willesen to Cricklewood / The Future is Unwritten: Joe Strummer | Music from the Julien Temple Film / Legacy *Flying Lotus feat. Dolly / Robertaflack / Los Angeles / WARP Xiu Xiu / Boy Soprano / The Air Force / 5RC The Fiery Furnaces / A Candymaker's Knife in My Handbag / Rehearsing My Choir / Rough Trade
I am officially no longer a DJ at WLUW. Long story.
However, the Chicago Independent Radio Project will have a webcast soon, and I'll be a part of that. And we can still talk about music... leave me a comment if there's something on your mind.
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