Bill Withers — Lovely Day The Go-Betweens — That Way Helen Love — Summer Pop Radio Gutsies — Surfer Body The Pains of Being Pure at Heart — I’m With You Jay Reatard — Don’t Let Him Come Back Stevie Wonder — Love Having You Around Frumpies — Intertube Tomorrow Cold Cold Hearts — Yr [...]

Man, I just cannot express how much I am digging this Slow Club album, “Yeah So.” Because I can’t use profanity on the air, it’s only on the internet where can can say, with no censor, that it is fucking great. I know they’re from Sheffield, and I know they’re currently touring the States and [...]

Aki Tsuyuku — Como Suite [fragment] The Go-Betweens — That Way The Embarrassment — Don’t Play The Wrong Song Would-Be-Goods — Casanova 92 Speck Mountain — Stockholm The Daredevil Christopher Wright — Near Death Experience at Sea Charlie and the Moonbats — Obliteration The Bitters — Can You Keep A Secret Holiday Shores — Phones [...]

Ten minutes to the start of WCFM’s Tuesday Night Threesday, featuring three consecutive on-air programs — DJ Jason Danger and Transnational Underground at 6pm, Out of Joint with Vinyl D at 7pm, and That Way with me, Dan O. Williams, from 8-10pm. This will be followed by 48-144 hours of dead air. Don’t be a [...]

One of yesterday’s tasks was to paint the ceiling above our back porch. Now, painting is a hassle but it’s something I enjoy once I get through the rigamarole of pre-painting. That is, I like the application of paint to surface, but I’m put off by the preparation of surface, paint, and applicator(s). Thinking about [...]

I read this afternoon that Julius Shulman recently passed away. I’m a bit conflicted about the aesthetic and functional fallout of Modernism-as-architecture and, in general, about the reflexive impulse in post-Modern creative and intellectual life (ask me about this over a bottle of wine!), but I do enjoy the breezy rigor of Shulman’s photos (and [...]

As promised, a small MP3 as a token of apology for the lack of a real podcast. For your enjoyment, a track that could have played as well as the Boz Scaggs track on last night’s show, “Hollywood Situation” by the Hudson Brothers, one of the very best of the Made-for-TV pop groups — kind [...]

It is freezing again this morning. While weather widget claims it’s 50, the microclimate around our new house always feels a few degrees cooler than “at the airport.” And in the cold morning air, last night’s show still seems like a good one. I liked it, at least, and that’s what counts. I don’t know [...]

The Go-Betweens — That Way The Moles — Bury Me Happy Aztec Camera — The Boy Wonders Black Moth Super Rainbow — Twin of Myself Patience and Prudence — Tonight You Belong to Me Musette — 24 Marj The Zombies — Beechwood Park Chain and the Gang — Interview With the Chain Gang Hot Chip [...]

Getting all the bells and whistles set up for tonight’s show. Let’s see if they work. After some annoying technical difficulties, AIM should be active now. OK, fingers crossed. In the words of Matt Pinfield: “If it hips, if it hops, if it pops or rocks…”