Dead Air Disco

This is the power conditioner located in the lobby of the WUSR studios. It stabilizes incoming power before sending it off to our sensitive, and extremely expensive broadcasting equipment. Note that should this conditioner lose power for whatever reason, it will be a minimum of several hours before the station can be brought back on the air. But no worries. As long as that little green light remains lit, everything is just peachy-keen in WUSR-land.

Wait, what do you mean the light isn't on?


Well, damn.

Anyway, here's another special online-only edition of the Magic Miku Moment, in which we feature the musical stylings of Japanese computer-generated vocal diva, and now V8 spokesperson, Miku Hatsune:



Next week: everybody gripes about how Catholic Charismatics don't know how to park! Be there!

#414: Eviction Notice (w/ guest host Los Angeles County Inmate #2409752)

In which all of the WUSR DJs who actually show up for their programs are officially told that they're being kicked out in favor of more student programs. You know, the ones that come in for three weeks, then are never seen again. Because they shouldn't have any problem at all filling in the Saturday time slots! I mean, look at 6 and 8 PM: Those time slots have only been open since... ohhhh... 2003. So no worries. Hooray for power trips!

Today's episode is brought to you by the all-new Blue Bear Grille and Tavern! Now featuring the words "Grille" and "Tavern" in its name! Tavern, that's a classy word right there. And that's a genuine 'e' in "grille", accept no substitutəs. That's the Blue Bear Grille and Tavern, still conveniently located in South Side, next to the shady Mexican restaurant, across the street from where someone left an old sofa on the curb!

Artist	Title	Album	Comments	New?
Holger Hiller	Fresh Young Girls in Commercials
Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno)	Tank!	Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack
LCD Soundsystem	Home	This Is Happening		*
Smoosh	Aaarplane Song	The World's Not Bad (I'm just gonna stick with this title)		*
The Eames Era	Fake DoGooders	Heroes & Sheroes
Bat For Lashes	Moon and Moon	Two Suns
Sean Lennon	On Again, Off Again	Friendly Fire
The Fiery Furnaces	My Egyptian Grammar	Widow City
Stars	He Dreams He's Awake	The Five Ghosts		*
St. Vincent	The Neighbors	Actor
marble	Mebae Drive	Hidamari Sketch Season 1 opening theme single
I'm From Barcelona (feat Loney, Dear)	This Boy	Let Me Introduce My Friends	These two songs are irrevocably linked in my mind now.
ceo	No Mercy	White Magic		*
	Pops McGonigle: Driving in the Slow Lane (encore presentation)
of Montreal	Art Snob Solutions	The Sunlandic Twins (Bonus EP)
The Apples in Stereo	Nobody But You	Travellers in Space and Time		*
New Young Pony Club	Chaos	The Optimist
Caribou	Bowls	Swim
Stereo Total	Barbe à Papa	Baby Ouh!		*
The xx	Heart Skipped a Beat	xx
The Sw!ms	Busload of Art Students Forced to Watch Hollow Man	Welcome to the Back of Beyond
Joanna Newsom	'81	Have One On Me		*
Lucky Stiffs	If It Weren't For Drugs	Lucky Stiffs 2
Jim's Big Ego	Pascagoula Pawn and Gun	free*
Johnny Cash	Sam Hall	American IV: The Man Comes Around
Tom Waits	Step Right Up	Small Change
Jenny Lewis (feat. Elvis Costello)	Carpetbaggers	Acid Tongue
They Might Be Giants	Experimental Film	The Spine
Art Brut	Summer Job	Art Brut vs. Satan	Roman Grecco Theme Continuation
Cub	Summer Samba	Betti-Cola
The Snow Fairies	Summer in Japan	Feel You Up
Kalmaria feat. Miku Hatsune	Summer Days	Sugar Particle	This week's Magic Miku Moment
The Chris Stamey Experience	The Summer Sun	A Question of Temperature
YACHT	Summer Song	See Mystery Lights
The Smurfs	Smurfin' Summertime	Best of Friends
DEVO	March On	Something For Everybody		*

What did we learn on today's programme?

• Bears cannot drive, despite what the Clerks animated series claims.
• It apparently takes a judge to determine that cheerleading isn't a sport now.
  

#413: This programme brought to you by Walt Disney Comics. (w/ guest host Eli Squinch)

I swear, if Peter Hocking ever decides to do a show here again, I am so going to find a way to crash it with 45 minutes of pointless CLAMP trivia.

Artist	Title	Album	Comments	New?
Coyle & Sharpe	Maniacs in Living Hell	Audio Visionaries: Street Pranks and Put-ons
Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno)	Tank!	Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack
DEVO	Fresh	Something For Everybody		*
LCD Soundsystem	You Wanted a Hit	This is Happening		*
ceo	Illuminata	White Magic		*
Smoosh	The Line	The World's Not Bad, or Withershins, depending on the phase of the moon, apparently.		*
Stars	The Passenger	The Five Ghosts		*
YACHT	It's All the Same Price	I Believe in You. Your Magic is Real.
Stereo Total	Baby Ouh	Baby Ouh!		*
Xiu Xiu	This Too Shall Pass Away	Dear God, I Hate Myself
Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band	Between My Head and the Sky	Between My Head and the Sky
Syd Barrett	Effervescing Elephant	Barrett
Tender Trap	Danger Overboard	Dansette Dansette		*
	Pops McGonigle: Driving in the Slow Lane (encore presentation)
The Flaming Lips	Suddenly Everything Has Changed	The Soft Bulletin
Joanna Newsom	In California	Have One on Me		*
Laura Veirs	July Flame	July Flame
The Thrills	You Can't Fool Old Friends with Limousines	Let's Bottle Bohemia
The Minus 5	The Disembowlers	Killingsworth
The Fiery Furnaces	Ray Bouvier	I'm Going Away
They Might Be Giants	The Ballad of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space)	Here Comes Science
The Aquabats	Hot Summer Nights (Won't Last Forever)!	Charge!!	Roman Grecco Theme Continuation
of Montreal	An Eluardian Instance	Skeletal Lamping
Bat for Lashes	Pearl's Dream	Two Suns
Bell X1	The Great Defector	Blue Lights on the Runway
The Apples in Stereo	Hey Elevator	Travellers in Space and Time		*
Wilco	Bull Black Nova	Wilco (the Album)
The Sw!ms	Turbo-Lined Suit	Itemlord
Tilly and the Wall	Bad Education	Bottoms of Barrels
The Like	Fair Game	Release Me		*
The B-52's	Funplex	Funplex
The Baseball Project	Harvey Haddix	Volume One: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails
Yo La Tengo	Periodically Double or Triple	Popular Songs
Tom Waits	Small Change (Got Rained On With His Own .38)	Small Change

What did we learn on today's programme?

• There is more than one old duck with glasses
• (Scrooge McDuck has whiskers, while Ludwig von Drake has some kind of long hair that comes down or something)
• Yes, some of these ducks actually do have hair. There are also ducks that have ears. Human ears.
• Most of the ones with ears seem to be policemen, making the law in Duckburg mostly mutant ducks.
• And so on, and so forth.
• The curly fry was originally an ancient Mayan delicacy.
  

#412: Fun with contingency plans! (w/ guest host A Pack of Feral Chihuahuas in Heat, with Grenades Taped to Their Backs)

In which numerous campus network problems turn this entire operation into a farce that doesn't even start until 5:30.

Playlist might be prettied up later. No guarantees.

(* = new)

- William Shatner - It Was a Very Good Year - Spaced Out: The Very Best of Leonard Nemoy and William Shatner
- Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno) - Tank! - Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack
- Smoosh - We Are Our Own Lies - The World's Not Bad, or Withershins, depending on who you ask and when. (*)
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- LCD Soundsystem - One Touch - This is Happening (*)
- ceo - White Magic - White Magic (*)
- The Apples in Stereo - Dance Floor - Travellers in Space and Time (*)
- Stars - We Don't Want Your Body - The Five Ghosts (*)
- New Young Pony Club - The Optimist - The Optimist
- The Ex - The Pie - Turn
- Xiu Xiu - Chocolate Makes You Happy - Dear God, I Hate Myself
- Steve Burns - Maintain - Songs for Dust Mites
- Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players - Mountain Trip to Japan, 1959 - Vintage Slide Collections from Seattle, Volume 1
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- Spoon - Written in Reverse - Transference (*)
- The Like - Wishing He Was Dead - Release Me (*)
- Tender Trap - Girls With Guns - Dansette Dansette (*)
- Pops McGonigle: Driving in the Slow Lane (encore presentation)
- Superdrag - Lighting the Way (live) - Changin' Tires on the Road to Ruin
- The New Pornographers - Valkyrie in the Roller Disco - Together(*)
- St. Vincent - Just the Same but Brand New - Actor
- Sean Lennon - Spectacle - Friendly Fire
- Eels - Little Bird - End Times
- Joanna Newsom - Baby Birch - Have One on Me (*)
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- Mostly Other People Do the Killing - Round Bottom, Square Top - Forty Fort
- The Lost Fingers - Tainted Love - Lost in the 80's
- Television Personalities - Walk Towards the Light - A Memory is Better Than Nothing (*)
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- They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul - Severe Tire Damage


What did we learn on today's programme?
- Somebody at 'Da U tripped over a very important ethernet cable today
- A company is working on a cellphone app that will convert spoken words into text mesages in order to avoid being distracted by typing on the keyboard. I've got a better idea: why don't you just, you know, call the person? Phones can do that now. Amazing, isn't it?

#411: Technical Excellence! (w/ guest host Geoff Peterson)

In which my computer decides that it's time to end the show.

Artist	Title	Album	Comments	New?
Sam Chalpin	Michelle	My Father the Pop Singer
Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno)	Tank!	Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack
ceo	Come With Me	White Magic		*
Micachu & the Shapes	Vulture	Jewellery
Los Campesinos!	I Just Sighed. I Just Sighed, Just So You Know	Romance is Boring
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists	Even Heroes Have to Die	The Brutalist Bricks
Pernice Brothers	Jacqueline Susann	Goodbye, Killer		*
Young Fresh Fellows	If You Believe in Cleveland	I Think This Is
Archers of Loaf	Wrong	Icky Mettle
Superdrag	The Staggering Genius	Last Call for Vitriol
Frank Black	Headache	93-03
The Flaming Lips	Be My Head	Transmissions From the Satellite Heart
Nøb Dylan and His Nøbsoletes	Motorpsycho Nitemare	Positively 12 Stiff Dylans!
	Pops McGonigle: Driving in the Slow Lane (encore presentation)
They Might Be Giants	Lullaby to Nightmares	Long Tall Weekend
Stars	Wasted Daylight	The Five Ghosts		*
Camera Obscura	Swans	My Maudlin Career
The Like	Catch Me if You Can	Release Me		*
Shonen Knife	Evil Birds	Super Group
Kalmaria (feat. Miku Hatsune)	Summer Days	Sugar Particle	This week's Magic Miku Moment
YACHT	Women of the World	I Believe In You. Your Magic is Real.
The Apples In Stereo	It's All Right	Travellers in Space and Time		*
Caribou	Leave House	Swim
Felix Kubin & Coolhaven	Notbremse	Suppe Für Die Nacht
Xiu Xiu	Apple For a Brain	Dear God, I Hate Myself
Mostly Other People Do the Killing	Rough and Ready	Forty Fort
Joanna Newsom	No Provenance	Have One on Me		*
Sufjan Stevens	Movement II - Sleeping Invader	The BQE: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
St. Vincent	Black Rainbow	Actor
Asobi Seksu	Blind Little Rain	Rewolf
mocksession.com	Crazy Train (Microsoft Songsmith version)		Roman Grecco quasi-theme continuation moment
Eläkeläiset	Humppaneitsyt	Humppasirkus
Supersuckers	Rubber Biscuit	Play
The Bran Flakes	The Sidewalk Song	I Have Hands
The Smurfs	Smurfin' Summertime	Best of Friends
The Yamaha PSS-170 Keyboard	Just the Way You Are	The infamous WUSR Technical Difficulties track	Thank you, Traktor!
Rifle Nice	Move Closer to What Deaner Was Talking About	Songs from the Sixth Borough
Juliana Hatfield	The End of the War	Peace & Love

What did we learn on today's programme?

• Reenacting Battleship Potemkin on a commercial flight is apparently a trend now.
• The police hate those %*#@ speed cameras, too.
• Apparently even Brian Carpenter is now getting sick of hearing Brian Carpenter ramble on over the phone for 45 minutes.
• Traktor DJ Studio is a QUALITY product