1. Spoon “The Beast And Dragon, Adored”
2. Brian Eno “Here Come The Warm Jets”
3. Marianne Faithfull “Come And Stay With Me”
4. Sun Ra “Two Tones”
5. Beck “Forget Marie”
6. Yo La Tengo “Spec Bebop”
7. Fleet Foxes “In The Hot Hot Rays”
8. Ramsey Lewis “Cry, Baby, Cry”
9. Elmore James “Rollin’ and Tumblin’”
10. Blind Willie McTell “Searching The [...]

Coachella was a big festival here out in the desert of So. Cal last weekend. I didn’t go but here’s some of the artists who were there. The picture is one of the art exhibits that was there too: crazy, huh? What artist goes, I’m gonna make a statue… OUT OF DIESELS!? [...]

1. Beach House “Gila”
2. The Velvet Underground “Sweet Jane”
3. Death Cab For Cutie “I Was A Kaleidoscope”
4. Roxy Music “For Your Pleasure”
5. Beck “Paper Tiger”
6. Francoise Hardy “Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour”
7. Laura Veirs “John Henry Lives”
8. The White Stripes “Black Jack Davey”
9. Johnny Cash “The Winding Stream”
10. Jim O’Rourke “94 The Long Way”

Bob Dylan’s second Theme Time Radio Hour was on the theme “Mothers” (it aired the week of Mother’s Day). Listening to it, and trying to find songs on my own for Rip-Off Hour, I could not help but notice that, though heartfelt, most songs about mothers are pretty cornball. I did my best [...]

As always, click the “Click To Play” for the music… I leave the songs up for 4-5 days maybe, and then I replace them with a new set of songs.
1. Tim Buckley “Buzzin’ Fly”
2. Cat Power “Lost Someone”
3. Goldfrapp “Crystalline Green”
4. Otis Redding “Day Tripper”
5. The Clientele “My Own Face Inside The Trees”
6. Radiohead “I [...]

1. TV On The Radio “Buffalo Girls”
2. Gnarls Barkley “Charity Case”
3. Saloon “Bicycle Thieves”
4. Langhorne Slim “English Tea”
5. The White Stripes “Little Cream Soda”
6. White Rabbits “Take A Walk Around The Table”
7. Daniel Lanois “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall (live)”
8. A Hawk And A Hacksaw “Portlandtown”
9. Big Star “Kangaroo”
10. Track A Tiger “Seashaken Heart”
11. Dizzee [...]

Bob Dylan has his own radio show and it is the Best Thing Ever. I am going to rip it off occasionally, and in the same order as his themes! Dylan’s first episode was a playlist of rad old (OLD) songs about the weather. Here’s my take on it:
1. Talib Kweli “NY [...]

1. Stone Roses “Waterfall”
2. Goldfrapp “Strict Machine”
3. Beck “Think I’m In Love”
4. Robert Plant “21 Years”
5. PJ Harvey “White Chalk”
6. Willie Nelson “Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power)”
7. Richard Thompson “She Sang Angels To Rest”
8. Howlin’ Wolf “Evil”
9. Red House Painters “Dragonflies”
10. Eugene McGuinness “A Girl Whom My Eyes Shine For But My Shoes Run From”

1. The Black Keys “Meet Me In The City”
2. Yo La Tengo “Be Thankful For What You Got”
3. DeVotchKa “Ocean Of Lust”
4. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds “Come Into My Sleep”
5. Beth Orton “Skimming Stone”
6. Smog “Distance”
7. Be Your Own Pet “Bicycle, Bicycle, You Are My Bicycle”
8. Low “Long, Long, Long”
9. The Yardbirds “White [...]