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Your hosts are Amy, Emily, and Vu.

Meet Emily, the girl who fell in love with The Replacements and moved to Minneapolis in stalking pursuit of Paul Westerberg. Her first show at "the legendary" First Avenue, it was an all-ages show for Built to Spill, while her first cassette purchased was for Dionne Warwick and The Four Tops. Who doesn't love oldies and Motown?

The main focus of the show is Mark Lanegan and his latest album, Blues Funeral, which came out February 2012, via 4AD. This is the first Mark Lanegan Band album since 2004's Bubblegum.

You might know Lanegan as the lead singer of the 90s band Screaming Trees, but he's become known more and more as successful solo artist. His collaboration list is also quite diverse, being in Queens of the Stone Age, The Gutter Twins (with Greg Dulli), and Isobel Campbell (of Belle & Sebastian).

Song of the show is Mark Lanegan Band's "Ode to Sade Disco".

He's currently on tour, Amy & Emily will be seeing him at the Cedar in Minneapolis.

10 May 2012 • New York, NY - Webster Hall
11 May 2012 • Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
12 May 2012 • Philadelphia, PA - Theatre Of The Living
13 May 2012 • Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club
15 May 2012 • Toronto, ON - Mod Club
16 May 2012 • Detroit, MI - Small's
17 May 2012 • Chicago, IL - Metro
18 May 2012 • Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural Center
20 May 2012 • Denver, CO - Bluebird Theatre
22 May 2012 • Los Angeles, CA - Gene Autry Museum
23 May 2012 • San Francisco, CA - Great American Music
25 May 2012 • George, WA - Sasquatch! Festival
26 May 2012 • Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
11 August 2012 • France - La Route Du Rock Festival
13 August 2012 • Frankkfurt, Batschkapp - Longhorn
14 August 2012 • München - Freiheizhalle
16 August 2012 • Hasselt, Belgium - Pukkelpop Festival
17 August 2012 • Germany - Highfields Festival
18 August 2012 • Switzerland - Gampel Festival
20 August 2012 • Holland - Lowlands Festival
21 August 2012 • Falmouth - Princess Pavilion
22 August 2012 • Wolverhampton - Wulfrun Hall
24 August 2012 • Uk - Leeds Festival
25 August 2012 • Saint-Cloud, Fr - Rock En Seine Festival
26 August 2012 • Uk - Reading Festival
28 August 2012 • Aberdeen - Garage
29 August 2012 • Edinburgh - Picturehouse
1 September 2012 • Uk - End Of The Road Festival
2 September 2012 • Verona, It - A Perfect Day Festival

PLUS:
I have a sad, sad, sad love for Wilson Phillips. This was my first cassette purchased at the Wherehouse (Blackstone location) in Fresno, California. The trio is back, and with a new covers album, Dedicated. Check out their live performance of "Good Vibration" via youtube.com. Wendy looks great!

They're coming to Minneapolis State Fair!

6/5/12 Austin, TX Long Center for Performing Arts
6/6/12 Dallas TX Winspear Opera House
8/17 & 8/18 San Diego, CA San Diego Symphony
8/31 & 9/1 St. Paul, MN Minnesota State Fair

*more tour dates to follow

BONUS: Things taken out of context: Emily's rant on the industry failing to grow out of the 60s, Paul Westerberg is a big Twins fan, "Kurt's dead, that's great!", "I'm Vu, Vu-me!". Falsetto, explained… which lead to Jeff Hanson (yes that song I used is by Jeff Hanson!). Emily's first cassingle was Salt-N-Pepa's "Ain't Nuthin' But A She Thing" and Vu was "How Long" by Information Society (that was 1991, I bought the CD Single later on as an upgrade). The cassingle played the same on both side A & B, you can see a scan of the cover here (along with "Think").

ROCK FOR PUSSY IX: Friday, June 8, 2012, at First Avenue in Minneapolis. Featuring Steve Price, John Eller, Dave Russ, Tommy Alsides, Janey Winterbauer, Christian Erickson, Aby Wolf, Chastity Brown, Venus and All the Pretty Horses, Adam Levy, Dan Israel, Reed Wilkerson, Laurie Lindeen, Dave Campbell, Ciaran Daly, Orion Treon, Liam Watkins, Michelle Massey, Brenden Green, Chris Perricelli, Leslie Ball, Chris Lynch, Kevin Nord, Matt Coffee, DJ Jake Rudh and many more!!!

Your hosts are Amy, Emily, and Vu. While I dominated this show (because of Twisted Sister), Emily and Amy will talk more in next week's show.

Normally these podcasts don't appear back-to-back, but because of the untimely death of MCA (Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys), I felt that I had to push this as a breaking news podcast. I had just heard the news as I was bringing up the recording equipment for the podcast, so none of us were really prepared to talk about Beastie Boys and their massive influence.

As you recall, Adam had to cancel all the Beastie Boys tour, due to a cancerous tumor in his left parotid gland (that was in 2009). The last BB news we reported was that they released Hot Sauce Committee Part Two (part one was never released!).

The majority of this show is about Twisted Sister, thanks to the gold mine that is Dee Snider's biography "Shut Up and Give Me the Mic". The book comes out May 8th via Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster Publishing. If you can't bother to read the review, you can give us a listen.

Amy recalls her first and only hand-written fan letter to Twisted Sister. Her reward was a glossy 8x11 photograph of the band. I know the timeline is a little off, but for the most part, the UK broke Twisted Sister and they got a record deal with Atlantic Records. We briefly touch on their rise and eventual fall (no thanks to Tipper Gore).

We also talk about his relationship with his wife, Suzette. They met when she was 15 and he was 21!

We played a clip of Dee Snider's Dee Does Broadway album, coming out May 8th, as a nice companion to his book.

Song of the show is the classic Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It" from their triple platinum 1984 album, Stay Hungry.

PS, according to twistedsister.com, this will be the "best Twisted summer ever", they'll be on tour in Europe and the USA. If I get a tour announcement, I'll let you know.

Shoegeezers Vu and Amy sit down to talk about Shoegazing/Shoegaze music.

Although "shoegazing" emerged from the UK in the late 80s, it wasn't until the early 90s, that the name really kicked into popularity because the UK music press (NME and Melody Maker) were using it to describe the bands and the audience for their tendencies to look at their feet at gigs.

This subgenre of alternative rock had some key elements: (1) Lots and lots of guitar effects and layers and (2) Indistinguishable vocal melodies that blend in the guitar noise

Bands on our list:

Slowdive (later Mojave 3)
Chapterhouse
My Bloody Valentine
Moose
Catherine Wheel
Fleeting Joy
Belong
DIIV (recently changed their name from Dive)
Twilight Sad
Ringo Deathstarr
Young Prisms
The Depreciation Guild
Song of the show is Catherine Wheel's "Black Metallic"

Just in time for the Kevin Shield's remastering of his My Bloody Valentine re-issues: Glider (Mar 27th), Ep's 1988 - 1991 (May 15th), Loveless (Jun 5th), and Isn't Anything (Jun 5th).

BONUS: Looper, not to be confused with the new Sci-Fi movie, but is the Scottish band that lived off "Mondo 77" for five years (thank you Tom Cruise), plus Dreampop and M83.

Just a silly little interview with Kate from Crush on Kristi. Apology for the poor audio, this was taped live in front of the 400 Bar and the music portion were lifted through an analog line from myspace. If I get a better audio source, I will update the download.

Here's what went down:

Origin of the name "Crush on Kristi"
Third big gig (4/21/12)
Unknown songs on their setlist
Attempt at answer "favorite female artist" question
How the band met
Eight of the ten artists covered have played at the 400 Bar.
Song of the show "You Were Right About Everything" (Erin McKeown)

Welcome Amy to the W♥M family.

We talked about these things:

Record Store Day 2012! Mostly only vinyl releases for RSD, happening today (Saturday, April 21st). Some regional releases like UK's Club AC30's Taffy, The Megaphonic Thrift, and Daniel Land & The Modern Painters.

Spectrals at First Avenue. Their bassist is awesome.

When Amy met Vu (at Elastica's concert at First Ave on 09/26/00). Peaches & Gonzales forever!

Amy's band wishlist: Jesus and Mary Chain, Vu's wishlist: Pulp (again).

Song of the show is Beach House's "Lazuli", from their upcoming album, Bloom, via Sub Pop Records. Amy, hands down, is calling Bloom the album of 2012. Lara called Beach House's Devotion album of 2008. Vu saw them in 2007 and called them "painfully shy".

BONUS: Mono vs Mono.

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PS, I have placed more orders for 500 W♥M business cards as I have run out (I have given 1,000 cards!). I have always used Vistaprint to print my cards. They are cheap and I liked how my cards turned out.

Normally the show is about music, but I had this batch of movie-related items that I thought was timely and good enough to appear as its own show.

Once again, Lara is this week's guest.

BONUS: The Philadelphia Story (1940) and sneaking in food and drinks in theaters.

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Lara is this week's guest. There are two parts of this show, the first is about live shows we've recently seen and the second part is all about music shows on television.

BONUS: Brooklyn Vegan.

ABOUT THE VOICE
The competition heats up as the top twenty-four artists from Teams Adam, Blake, CeeLo and Christina get set to compete for America’s votes as the live performance phase kicks off Mondays beginning April 2 (8-10 p.m. ET) followed by an hour-long live results show on Tuesdays beginning April 3 (9-10 p.m. ET). The live shows will culminate in a two-hour season finale on Tuesday, May 8 (8-10 p.m. ET)

[ Read more on news.weheartmusic.com ]

ABOUT SMASH
13 tracks from SMASH will be available as an album, available everywhere on May 1st. The album will feature stars Katharine McPhee, Megan Hilty, and various cast members performing the original Broadway-type music for "the musical-within-a-musical" show.

[ Read more on news.weheartmusic.com ]

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Sally previews some bands from the upcoming Groovin' the Moo music festival, which takes place at Prince of Wales Showground, Bendigo (5/5), Murray Sports Complex, Townsville (5/6), Showgrounds, Maitland (5/12), University of Canberra (5/13) and Hay Park, Bunbury (5/19).

For more articles on GTM, head over to gtm.net.au or W♥M.

BONUS: Guitar Wolf is on tour! Read their tour dates here and here. Also, Dig It Up at Sydney on April 22nd: Sally is looking forward to Red Kross, Hoodoo Gurus, and The 5,6,7,8's. And let's not forget Super Morrissey Brothers' "This Charming Man" in 8-bit style.

Maccabees are on tour:

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Before SXSW, I had to talk about Jane's Addiction and their appearance at the grand opening of Minneapolis' new concert venue, The Brick. You can read about it here.

Song of the show is Django Django's "Default".
BONUS: Carson Daly and Pomegranates.

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Django Django are on tour:

03.25.2012 Norwich - Norwich Arts (SOLD OUT)
04.05.2012 Geneva - Electron Festival - CH
04.21.2012 Rotterdam - Motel Mozaique
04.24.2012 Rouen - Le 106 - FR
04.25.2012 Nanates - Stereolux - FR
04.26.2012 Bordeaux - Rock school barbey - FR
05.11.2012 Brighton - Great Escape - UK
05.22.2012 Tourcoing - Grand mix - FR
05.23.2012 Strasbourg - La laiterie - FR
05.25.2012 Paris - La maroquinerie - FR
05.26.2012 Clermont Ferrand - Europavox
05.31.2012 Southampton - Cellar - UK
06.02.2012 London - Field Day - UK
06.05.2012 Oxford - Academy 2 - UK
06.06.2012 Birmingham - Academy 2 - UK
06.08.2012 nr Sheffield - No Direction Home
06.09.2012 Manchester - Parklife Festival - UK
06.10.2012 Clapham, Yorkshire - Rough Beats - UK
06.11.2012 York - Fibbers - UK
06.13.2012 Dundee - Doghouse - UK
06.14.2012 Leeds - Cockpit - UK
06.15.2012 Cambridge - St Pauls Church - UK
10.31.2012 London - Heaven - UK

WHM125: SXSW 2012

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March 10, 2012 05:09 AM PST

Brody stopped in to talk about SXSW 2012. What's in store for him?

March 13
Girls, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Fanfarlo, and Young Man at Fitzgeralds in Houston, Texas

March 14
Sydney Wayser at Betsy’s Bar (12pm)
Sydney Wayser at Rusty’s (1:45pm)
Radio Day Stage Austin Convention Center: Michael Kiwanuka (3pm), Alabama Shakes (4pm), Honeyhoney (5pm)
Warehouse: Blondfire (8pm), Tribes (9pm), fun. (10pm), Twin Atlantic (11pm), Neon Trees (12am), Kasabian (1am)
Tennis at Red 7 (10pm)
Pomegranates at Trinity Hall (11:30pm)
The Drums at Stage on Sixth Patio (1am)

March 15
Cedar Street Courtyard: Twiilite (11am), Coldair (11:30am), Paula i Karol (12pm), Zulu Winter (1pm), Reptar (2pm), Band of Skulls (3pm), Kaiser Chiefs (4pm), Keane (5pm)
Club de Ville: Sarah Jaffe (8pm), Hundred Visions (9pm), Fanfarlo (10pm), Tennis (11pm), White Rabbits (12am), Youth Lagoon (1am)
Spectrals at Swan Dive (8pm)
Jonquil at Latitude 30 (10pm)
Miike Snow at Lustre Pearl (12am)

March 16
Flat Top Burger Shop: Education (12pm), The Wedding Present (1pm), Spectrals (2pm), A Classic Education (3pm), Literature (4pm), The Spinto Band (5pm), Treetop Flyers (6pm), Dutch Uncles (7pm)
Fanfarlo at Radio Day Stage Austin Convention Center (2pm)
Cedar Street: Graffiti6 (4pm), Fanfarlo (5pm)
Easy Tiger Patio: Leftover Cuties (8pm), Sydney Wayser (9pm), D E N A (10pm), Ximena Sarinana (11pm), Alabama Shakes (12am), Girl in a Coma (1am)
Of Monsters and Men at Stubb's (9pm)
Tribes at Maggie Mae's Rooftop (1am)
Treasure Island: The Riff Raff (11pm), All the Young (12am)

March 17
Flat Top Burger Shop: Seapony (12pm), The Brute Chorus (1pm), Django Django (2pm), North Highlands (3pm), Jonquil (4pm), Wild Moccasins (5pm), The Staves (6pm)
Latitude 30: Clock Opera (9pm), Django Django (10pm), Maverick Sabre (11pm), Slow Club (12am), Toddla T (1am)
Sony Club at Red 7: The Twilight Sad (11pm), We Were Promised Jetpacks (12am), Star Slinger (1am)
Lissy Trullie at Clive Bar (12am)

The Cribs are on tour:

04/03 - Portland, OR – Holocene
04/04 - Seattle, WA - Crocodile Café
04/07 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
04/09 - Chicago, IL - Schubas
04/10 - Pontiac, MI - The Pike Room
04/11 - Toronto, ON - Lee’s Palace
04/13 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
04/14 - Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
05/07 - Nottingham - Rock City
05/08 - London - The Troxy
05/09 - Bristol - O2 Academy
05/11 - Glasgow - Barrowlands
05/12 - Manchester - Academy
05/13 - Eastbourne - Winter Gardens

BONUS: Jordan from Howler dissed the Minneapolis music scene, in particular calling out 4onthefloor as "crap". Howler is the hot-new-buzz band at the moment. Plus, Prissy Clerks.

Also, WHAT??? There's a second part to this show??? An unexpected Sally & Dave appearance:

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This is part two of Sally's appearance on W♥M Radio. The show was recorded February 10th, 2012.

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If you were wondering about the 3-2-1 Contact theme song, it's because the podcast is #123. I've love that PBS show.

So, Sally stopped by to discuss the music topics of the day.

J Mascis at the Sydney Festival.
Gotye. "Somebody I Used To Know" hottest song at the moment.

NME Awards 2012
Brit Awards 2012
Bands on our short list: Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian, Adele, Noel Gallagher.
Lana Del Rey canceled her Australian tour due to American backlash!

Band of the show is San Cisco, a band that we've both mentioned before. Their EP, Awkward was just released in America on February 7th, 2012, via Island City Records/MGM. The single is quite catchy with its boy-girl conversation-lyrics.

This is the last of the Trilogy of Lara's W♥M Radio appearance. Listen to Part One and Two.

Since most of the topics about music were pretty much used in parts one and two, this last show is a bit of a potpourri, with loads of random things that didn't fit anywhere. These little segments would work great in a 'best of' or bloopers show, but as it is... a bit of a jazz-theme.

Here's what went down:

The reason why Lara doesn't buy expensive electronic.
The 'genius' of Beady Eye. The podcast was recorded in early December, I've since saw them at First Avenue.
7th Street Entry and its revolting men's bathroom.
Fort Wilson Riot
Jamie N Commons' "The Preacher"

Second part of the show is just random nonsense: Black Friday, Jazz, Minnesota bands: Howler, Total Babe, and The Abdomen/Lynhurst.

Since I randomly saw Howler and noted they were "the buzz of the town". That was in early November. Now they're currently touring the UK, coming back to the states in March:

03/22 – Soda Bar – San Diego, CA
03/23 – Echo – Los Angeles, CA
03/24 – Hemlock Tavern – San Francisco, CA
03/26 – Mississipi Studios – Portland, OR
03/27 – The Media Club – Vancouver, BC
03/28 – Sunset Tavern – Seattle, WA
03/30 – Kilby Court – Salt Lake City, UT
03/31 – Hi Dive – Denver, CO
04/2 – Waiting Room – Omaha, NE

04/4 – Happy Dog – Cleveland, OH
04/5 – Underground at The Drake – Toronto, ON
04/6 – Le Divan Orange – Montreal, QC
04/7 – Great Scott – Boston, MA
04/10 – Knitting Factory – Brooklyn, NY
04/11 – Mercury Lounge – New York, NY
04/12 – Kung Fu Necktie – Philadelphia, PA
04/13 – Red Palace – Washington, DC
04/14 – Smiling Moose – Pittsburgh, PA
05/03 – Liverpool, The Kazimier (16+)
05/08 – London, The Garage (14+)

This is part two of Lara's epic W♥M Radio appearance.

I was originally going to include a review of Mitch Ryder's Devils & Blue Dresses: My Wild Ride as a Rock and Roll Legend book along with the podcast, but seeing as the book was just released last Tuesday (according to amazon.com) and my lack of time on my schedule this week, I've decided to just push this on the front page. I will put up a review for the book later. The audio recording is a first impression and thoughts on the book.

Details of the book:

DEVILS & BLUE DRESSESB
My Wild Ride as a Rock and Roll Legend
By Mitch Ryder
Publisher: Cool Titles
Publication Date: December 2011
Price: $25.95/hardcover; CD included
ISBN: 978-1-935270-01-0

The second half of the show is Lara's music pick of The Alabama Shakes and why she loves them. Song of the show is "You Ain't Alone", which was taken from their youtube, so apologies for the poor audio. Generally I'm sent the audio source, but the internet gods were not with Lara.

BONUS: Other 'modern' soul bands, Sharon Jones and Lady Dottie finish up the rest of the show. And to 'book end' the show is a rather off-topic discussion on Harry Potter.

Another really long show, this runs for about an hour. I wanted to cut more out, but they were all so laugh-out-loud that I kept most of it in.

Kristen, the guest of honor, does most of the talking, about her travels and future plans. Sally and Vu also there. Some of the things I learned:

Australians shortens everything. Derros and Povvos and such...

Kristen stalking Nick Banks and walking around Sheffield and Idlewild in Camden Town

Gorillaz and Damon DJing in Sydney

M.A.G.N.U.S. via britishpopsongs.co.uk

Playground Weekender 2011: Doves might cancel? Kool & The Gang's Rosanna Joanna. Rockabilly vibe. Midnight Juggernauts.

Keyboard Cats T-Shirt: a combination of Keyboard Cat and the Three Wolves T-Shirt

New vs Old Belle & Sebastian

Kristen's future tour plans: Holy F***, Primal Scream, Roxy Music, and Belinda Carlisle

Sydney Festival: Live: An intimate video study of the art of performing

Bonus material includes: Broadcast singer Trish's recent death, shopping in England, and The Wonder Stuff & Levellers.

Below are some photographs, courtesy of Kristen:


Damon Albarn
Nick Banks' pottery shop


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