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Next Show: Episode #349 | 24 July 2010 features:

New Rock Album: Nada Surf, If I Had a Hi-Fi (2010) . . . Sthird time this New York band has been featured on this show, & this time out the boys have made a really fun covers album (I think of other good ones such as Rush's Feedback & The Church's Box of Birds) . . . their takes on songs by artists such as Depeche Mode, the Moody Blues, & Kate Bush show a love for the originals & a fine creative restlessness to make the songs their own . . .

Classic Rock Album: Emerson, Lake, & Palmer, Trilogy (1972) . . . been four years since this UK progressive rock outfit was on this show . . . this album, their third, is a number of things: strange, pretty, funny, & by its culmination a bit of new musical land has been visited, one more strange morning in a youth's lifetime has passed, & it was a good one . . .

Storybook Time: Chapter Six of The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture by Stewart Tendler & David May. . .

Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artists are some of those featured on the excellent Cold Mountain (2003) original soundtrack . . . I think of July & sometimes simply remember the July of my 17th year when I would walk along the low wall in front of the local museum, & dream simply toward all that might be . . .


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July 24, 2010 show features:
New Rock Album: Nada Surf, If I Had a Hi-Fi (2010) . . . Sthird time this New York band has been featured on this show, & this time out the boys have made a really fun covers album (I think of other good ones such as Rush's Feedback & The Church's Box of Birds) . . . their takes on songs by artists such as Depeche Mode, the Moody Blues, & Kate Bush show a love for the originals & a fine creative restlessness to make the songs their own . . .
Classic Rock Album: Emerson, Lake, & Palmer, Trilogy (1972) . . . been four years since this UK progressive rock outfit was on this show . . . this album, their third, is a number of things: strange, pretty, funny, & by its culmination a bit of new musical land has been visited, one more strange morning in a youth's lifetime has passed, & it was a good one . . .
Storybook Time: Chapter Six of The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture by Stewart Tendler & David May. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artists are some of those featured on the excellent Cold Mountain (2003) original soundtrack . . . I think of July & sometimes simply remember the July of my 17th year when I would walk along the low wall in front of the local museum, & dream simply toward all that might be . . .

07.24.2010 show


July 17, 2010 show features:
New Rock Album: Shout Out Louds, Work (2010) . . . Swedish indie rock band with their third release, pull out all the stops . . .this album is a hard pretty pretty ride . . . its bright, moody, acoustic charms can be attributed at least in part to producer Phil Ek, who previously worked with Band of Horses & the Shins . . . gets better & stronger, track by track, listen by listen . . .
Classic Rock Album: Taste, Taste (1969) . . . This Irish power trio featured guitarist/vocalis Rory Gallagher, 20 years old & at the start of his long career . . . they sound cut from the mold of Cream, and in fact opened for them on their farewell tour . . . raw, bluesy, & very likable psychedelic work, the kind that lingers in the ears a long while . . .
Storybook Time: Chapter Six of The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture by Stewart Tendler & David May. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is the Wallflowers, selections from their excellent work . . . feeling like this is the fourth phase of my living in Boston (when I visited here from Connecticut, when I moved here, when I lived far but remembered here fondly, & hereon), & I believe in these early days it may be the best one of them all!

07.17.2010 show


July 10, 2010 show features:
New Rock Album: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Mojo (2010) . . . It's been 8 years since Petty & the Heartbreakers' last release, & this time out they have opted for a run at the blues . . . the result is a sprawling, ambitious, frequently exciting record that shows this band hasn't slowed down or begun to rust . . . some songs hit the first time around, some after a few listens, but either way, it's a great & welcomed return by a legendary rock group . . .
Classic Rock Album: Bow Street Runners, Bow Street Runners (1970) . . . This Fayetteville, North Carolina band put out just one relatively obscure album that has, happily, resurfaced in the past few years . . . take some fuzzed-out guitars, classic organ, a few horns (even a few backward loops), throw in some trippy lyrics & good rock singers, male & female, and you have a record worth recovering from the dust of years gone by . . .Storybook Time: More entries from my "Road Diary," kept along the long road from Portland, Oregon to Boston, Massachusetts . . .
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Five of The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture by Stewart Tendler & David May. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is Sting, a selection from his many, many great songs . . . finally returned to Boston, finally moved into a new place, finally settling in, finally getting to the business of resuming this radio program. The word "gratefulness" comes to mind again & again of late. What newly possible . . . indeed . . .

07.10.2010 show


June 12, 2010 show features:
New Rock Album: Blitzen Trapper, Destroyer of the Void (2010) . . . Suddenly this band from Portland, Oregon has a new album out, & it's as charming & rocking as their previous releases . . . good music, smart lyrics, a twist of the weird darkness life sometimes tosses up, & here is another winner!
Classic Rock Album: Simon & Garfunkel, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, & Thyme (1966) . . . Talk about classic rock albums . . . S&G never touched the ground during the making of this one . . . roars & purrs both with beautiful, funny, dear, tender, sometimes furious music . . . SO GOOD!
Storybook Time: More entries from my "Road Diary," kept along the long road from Portland, Oregon to Boston, Massachusetts . . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is Radiohead, & cuts from their excellent 2001 live album, I Might Be Wrong. . . this is the second of two shows produced while traveling in Boston & not yet moved in here, so recorded live but broadcast later . . . good feelings all around for moving back here, resuming, renewing . . .

06.12.2010 show


June 5, 2010 show features:
New Rock Album: Widespread Panic, Dirty Side Down (2010) . . . this veteran Georgia jam band has put together quite an epic . . . songs that reflect joy, weariness, and a long fascination with the strangeness of life and how it can be transmitted to music . . . deep and beautiful jamming . . .
Classic Rock Album: Creedence Clearwater Revival, Creedence Clearwater Revival (1968) . . . one of this show's most favorite bands, always good to get their music on air . . . this album was their first, and shows them rocking good and hard right out of the gate first time around . . . and they got even better!
Storybook Time: Entries from my "Road Diary," kept along the long road from Portland, Oregon to Boston, Massachusetts . . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is Coldplay, songs from their brilliant 2002 album, A Rush of Blood to the Head . . . this weekend a road show of sorts from the Boston area, the usual mix with some odd new dashes . . .

06.05.2010 show


May 22, 2010 show features:
New Rock Album: The Black Keys, Brothers (2010) . . . this Ohio duo is a big discovery for me, though they have been around for nearly a decade (again confirming my faith that not only is there good current rock music, but that there is a LOT of it!) . . . their new album is nearly an hour in length, usually a red flag in my book as most bands releasing albums that long could use someone to help them cut their work down to about 45 minutes, gaining tightness over indulgence . . . but this album works over a lot of territory and justifies its length . . . their music is often called blues-rock, which fits well enough but not comprehensively . . . there are quite a few blues numbers but the band moves restlessly and fluidly into soul, hard rock, psychedelic rock, and does not shy from ballad-y or funny moments either . . . this album is a major achievement . . .
Classic Rock Album: Ultimate Spinach, Behold and See (1968) . . . Continuing this show's recent review of the late '60s "Bosstown Sound" out of Boston, the Spinach made some very pretty, trippy music for a couple of years running, some shorter acoustic pieces and longer electric jams . . . worth recovering from their obscurity (oddly, it is said that a band with this name, but no original members, and little musical relation to the original band, has toured around Oregon since 1970). . .
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Five of The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture by Stewart Tendler & David May. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is Wilco, and music from their several albums up to their 2001 release Yankee Hotel Foxtrot . . . this week's broadcast marks the last one to come from Portland, and also the last one from the West Coast, where I have been situated since 2004 . . . soon, the first broadcast from the East Coast since 2004, and the first from Boston since 2002! Thank you, Portland, Seattle, West Coast . . . I return East more of a fully realized person for having lived out here . . .

05.22.2010 show


May 15, 2010 show features:
New Rock Album: Great Lake Swimmers, Lost Channels (2009) . . . This Canadian band has several previous releases but this is the first one where their melodies & their melancholy marry perfectly in a luscious folk-rock atmosphere . . . this album realizes their potential . . .
Classic Rock Album: The Plastic Cloud, The Eyes of The Plastic Cloud (1968) . . . Part of the "Bosstown Sound" (as opposed the "Haight-Ashbury Sound") that also featured bands like Ultimate Spinach & Orpheus . . . marketing ploys aside, this album lets it all out, mostly melodic acid rock but with a few oddities thrown in too . . . serious shit, but with a light moment's touch here & there . . .
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Five of The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture by Stewart Tendler & David May. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is the Jayhawks, a band I loved on high starry nights in Boston many trips ago, & plan to love again when returned there soon . . . been a year since I hit the bricks, scrounging for work in hard times, but soon the bricks will be far more familiar, & I think my hopes will rise . . .

05.15.2010 show


May 8, 2010 show features:
New Rock Album: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (2009) . . . The lighter, prettier charms of this New York band are weighed to a heavy electric sound . . . music that drops deeper into the ears & mind with each listen . . . I didn't think so, then was unsure, then yah & yah & yah!
Classic Rock Album: The Beacon Street Union, The Eyes of The Beacon Street Union (1967) . . . Part of the "Bosstown Sound" (as opposed the "Haight-Ashbury Sound") that also featured bands like Ultimate Spinach & Orpheus . . . marketing ploys aside, this album lets it all out, mostly melodic acid rock but with a few oddities thrown in too . . . serious shit, but with a light moment's touch here & there . . .
Storybook Time: Chapter Five of The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture by Stewart Tendler & David May. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is the Grateful Dead, some live cuts from the early '70s, my mind remembering high Hartlee nights a decade ago when just about all that made sense some nights were these songs . . . the sunny days take a longer nibble on the skin, & change is all, & the bravest, simplest view is that change is good . . .

05.08.2010 show


May 1, 2010 show features:
New Rock Album: El Goodo, Coyote (2009) . . . It was fellow SpiritPlants Radio DJ Catfishrivers who hooked me into this deeply addictive Welsh band, one that plays vintage 60s music on vintage instruments . . . sounding like the last four decades or so were just someone's bad joke or a creepy dream that has gone on too long, El Goodo rocks it out, every great song leading to the next great song, and the conclusion leading to the necessity of flipping the platter over and starting again . . .
Classic Rock Album: Rush, Counterparts (1993) . . . this program is a long-time fan of this Canadian trio (this is their fifth album to be broadcast) . . . this album came out during a time of ever-rising popularity, but they play it out their way as always, existential lyrics wrapped within music both tight & expansive . . . there is no other band in the world quite like Rush, & glad they keep making their magic their way . . .
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Four of The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture by Stewart Tendler & David May . . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is The Doors & cuts from their 1971 album Other Voices, released just months after lead singer Jim Morrison's demise . . . back after two weekends off, part of it spent re-connecting to old & deep roots in New England . . . soon time to return & build, continue, contrive new among the fresh & the remembered . . .

05.01.2010 show


April 10, 2010 show features:
New Rock Album: Titus Andronicus, The Monitor (2010) . . . This New Jersey band has released a pretty amazing new album, an ambitious punky rock 65-minute set that reminds me in a very favorable way of Green Day's 2004 American Idiot . . . moody, funny, odd, just a splendid piece of work that bears many enjoyable listens . . .
Classic Rock Album: The David, Another Day, Another Lifetime (1967) . . .Wonderful obscure Los Angeles band's sole album beautifully excesses in rocking tunes, horns, strings, sentiments both romantic & hippie . . . another wonderful find courtesy of the blogs hid in crevasses 'cross cyberspace . . .
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Four of The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture by Stewart Tendler & David May. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is Annuals, & cuts from their charming brand new EP, Sweet Sister . . . the weather warms in the Pacific Northwest and, despite new job woes, I am smiling right now, and looking east again with curiosity soon to be pursued . . .

04.10.2010 show


April 3, 2010 show features:
New Rock Album: Frightened Rabbit, The Winter of Mixed Drinks (2010) . . . It's been two years (5/3/2008) since this show has featured this great Scottish rock group . . . their new album is emotionally deep & powerful, & rings again & again with musical beauties . . . there is release in these songs, a blowing out of anguish, hands gesturing to sea & sky newly after a long darkness . . .
Classic Rock Album: Skip Spence, Oar (1969) . . . last weekend's show featured Beck & Friends' recent terrific full-length cover version of this classic record . . . now return to the original, a brilliant, haunted, funny, released after the sometime Moby Grape guitarist had spent six months in a psychiatric hospital . . . those six months of confinement led to less than a month in a Nashville studio recording, by himself . . . clarifying, if only for himself, that bad hours gone (and those to come) need not own him for a little while anyway . . .
Storybook Time: Chapter Four of The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture by Stewart Tendler & David May. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is Blitzen Trapper, a great Portland band, & songs from their fine 2009 EP, Black River Killer . . . tis April, one of my favorite months, the month I was born in, & a push to find the best blooms deep in to ride it, ride it high, ride it ever on, & again, & again!

04.03.2010 show


March 27, 2010 show features:
New Rock Album: Beck & Friends, Oar (2009) . . . rock master Beck's newest project is called the "Record Club," wherein he recruits a variety of musicians to cover an entire classic album in one day's worth of recording . . . for the third entry in this series, he teams up with Wilco, Jamie Lidell, Brian LeBarton, James Gadson, & Leslie Feist to record a cover of Alexander "Skip" Spence's legendary 1969 album Oar. . . Beck and his crew create a new work from the old, a deeply focussed, deeply funky re-interpretation that stands as much as a love letter as it does as a powerful, stand-alone work. . . the trippy grooves they conjure are most potent!
Classic Rock Album: Steely Dan, Pretzel Logic (1974) . . . the Dan is an old favorite of this show, this being the fifth time their music is featured . . . their third album continued their exploration of a jazz-rock sound nobody has replicated in the decades since . . . a masterful sound, by turns sad, serious, funny . . . they know how to rock, how to blow out the horns, how to run wide their own special, weirdly smiling ground . . .
Storybook Time: Chapter Three of The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture by Stewart Tendler & David May. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artists are some of those whose music is featured on the fantastic soundtrack to the Coen Brothers' fantastic 2000 film, O Brother, Where Art Thou?. . . spring has arrived, and hope is stretching out and showing her potency in the greening and blooming of the trees, and in the actions of men and women who sometimes do believe in the better road ahead & act on these beliefs . . . enough to make a soul walk a little taller, look around with clearer eyes . . .

03.27.2010 show


March 20, 2010 show features:
New Rock Album: Drive-By Truckers, The Big To-Do (2010) . . . great Georgia band last featured on this show 3/15/2008 (cuts from their double album Brighter Than Creation's Dark), & now they are back with a combustible slew of rocking tales . . . death, infidelity, and Dixie-flavored lunacy . . . dark, funny stuff . . . as they say down there, "turn it up . . . "
Classic Rock Album: Cat Stevens, Teaser & the Firecat (1971) . . . this British folk rocker had many hits back in the '70s, and then nothing but controversy when he converted to Islam and left the music business . . . happily, he seems to have his faith and his music now . . . this album is one of his classics, an intense, pretty, deeply questioning album that leaves one gasping at its beauty time & again . . .
Storybook Time: Chapter Three of The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture by Stewart Tendler & David May. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is Fapardokly, a California band that only existed by way of a 1966 album of songs cobbled together from various sources, featuring most of the same players, but some trippy nuggets on it nonetheless . . . after a couple of weekends off to re-charge, it's good to be back on air and spending Saturday morning among all this good music, these fine words, & what I bring to the table as well . . .

03.20.2010 show


February 27, 2010 show features:
New Rock Album: Wye Oak, The Knot (2009) . . . This Baltimore indie rock duo's 2008 debut album, If Children, was played on the 4/19/2008 broadcast of this show . . . their follow up is darker, and just as good . . . between the trippy rock fuzziness of the music, and the rich weirdness of Jenn Wasner's lead vocals, the band sounds like cousins to the legendary Mazzy Star . . . they are approaching that level of greatness as well . . .
Classic Rock Album: Dan Fogelberg, Phoenix (1980) . . . Fogelberg made too many great rockers in the 1970s and 1980s to be cast simply as another singer/songwriter of the time . . . this album finds him during that time of artistic and commercial success, releasing hit singles backed by great albums if one went looking . . . his vision is romantic, poetic, visionary, but there is in the man too a solidity, be the song sweet and lovely or rocking hard . . . I was around 17 or so when I first heard this album, and returning to it years later I better hear its suffering and its joys . . .
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Two of The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture by Stewart Tendler & David May. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is Pisces, an obscure rock trio from Rockford, Illinois, and some sweet cuts from A Lovely Sight, best described as a recent compilation of their songs which back in 1969 were not released as an album . . . it's still February, which in the Northern Hemisphere means cold, and in the Pacific Northwest means wet and grey most of the time . . . still, the buds outside my window are starting to appear, and I will look at them gladly when broadcasting this show . . .

02.27.2010 show


February 20, 2010 show features:
New Rock Album: Spoon, Transference (2010) . . . This Austin, Texas's third appearance on this show (following up 6/18/2005's Gimme Fiction & 7/28/2007's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga) . . . I'll admit it took me a few spins to warm up to their new album but I did . . . Spoon's style is somewhat roundabout, drawling, but their sound keeps sticking deeper in . . . first one song, then a few, then all of them in a flood . . . they damned well know how to rock . . .
Classic Rock Album: Can, Monster Movie (1969) . . . One of the first so-called "Krautrock" bands that came into being in Germany in the late 1960s, Can's debut album is an amazing journey, at times droney, at times thumpingly mad, it climaxes with the 20-minute long psychedelic epic "Yoo Doo Right" which, the Wikipedia tells us, was edited down from a six-hour improvisation . . . this one is for the hardcore travelers in the further realms, lysergic & otherwise . . .
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Two of The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture by Stewart Tendler & David May. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is Steve Winwood, a long-time favorite of this show, & some great cuts from his 1970s & 1980s solo work . . . once upon a time, not long ago, this show was the lone bloom in SpiritPlants Radio's fields . . . now it stands happy & fine among a wide-ranging bouquet . . . sweet smells all around . . .

02.20.2010 show


February 13, 2010 show features:
New Rock Album: Rusted Root, Stereo Rodeo (2009) . . . somehow I missed this legendary jam band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, until now . . . funky multi-instrumentalists with the ability to go deep, serious, then turn it around fine & funny . . . their new album is a groovy flowing treat . . . they even take a turn at covering an old Elvis Presley song & rock it out. . . I'll be keeping an ear out for this band for both future records and tour dates!
Classic Rock Album: The Open Mind, The Open Mind (1969) . . . this UK band released one impressive album, a nearly-forgotten psychedelic gem that is worth reviving . . . there are some trippy nuggets here, as tales of time machines, magic potions, & greek gods intertwine with songs of love & longing . . . a lysergic dream voyage for drifting on a Saturday afternoon or evening . . .
Storybook Time: Chapter Two of The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture by Stewart Tendler & David May. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is the Marshall Tucker Band, some of their finest country-rock classics from the 1970s . . . starting this program's 12th year with some very exciting music & texts, a pathless passing through the hours . . . come along . . .

02.13.2010 show


January 30, 2010 show features:
Featured Rock Album: The Who, Tommy (1969) . . . Tommy is one of rock & roll's landmark events, like the jazz milestones of John Coltrane's 1964 A Love Supreme or Miles Davis's 1970 Bitches Brew . . . a rock opera, Tommy tells the story of Tommy Walker who journeys from the abuse of his childhood through encounters with doctors and shamans to his final state of enlightenment . . . it is funny, it is profane, it is beautiful . . . were it not for the titanic musical prowess of The Who as a band, it would be long forgotten, as are most other attempts that have been made over the years to create a rock & roll epic . . . four decades come & gone since its release (and subsequent film, and Broadway show), & yet the original has diminished none in power or effect . . . it is a dangerous, wild, visionary treasure, a work of High Art to play for anyone who doesn't yet get what rock & roll can do, or how it can swallow whole & happy so many brilliant musicians (this spinning of Tommy is for my friend JBIII, who has played every song on this album a thousand times, at least) . . .
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter One of The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture by Stewart Tendler & David May. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . it is now 11 years to the day that I began this radio show on Radio Free Cambridge (R.I.P.), a pirate radio station located in a large closet in the back of an art gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts . . . I can think of a lot of things that have come & gone (& sometimes come again) in my life since that day . . . every time I go on air I do with the gratefulness of a person once a boy who broadcast radio shows in his head while delivering the morning newspaper every day of the week before dawn . . . here's to many more shows to come!

01.30.2010 show


January 23, 2010 show features:
New Rock Album: Blind Pilot, Three Rounds (2008) . . . this Portland, Oregon band makes very big acoustic rock music . . . bright guitars are colored by horns, strings, banjo, vibraphone and the like . . . lyrically, they are obscurely sharp, again & again . . . one wonders what their future albums will sound like if they expand their simple palette even more . . .
Classic Rock Album: Relatively Clean Rivers, Relatively Clean Rivers (1975) . . . It is amazing sometimes to find a lost gem of a record and realize yet again that greater quality does not always equal greater fame . . . this trippy jewel is just delightful, made by a tight, high beautiful group of California players . . . another treasure floating through cyberspace to be luckily found by some . . .
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter One of The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture by Stewart Tendler & David May. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artists recorded songs for the excellent 2001 I Am Sam film soundtrack . . . it seems as though societal hope has recently turned to cynicism, a kind of snarky darkness . . . and it's easy to fall into it . . . resist the worst of these times, it's difficult, but do, and I will too . . .

01.23.2010 show


January 16, 2010 show features:
New Rock Album: Surfer Blood, Astro Coast (2010) . . . 'Tis said this Palm Beach group recorded this debut album in their University of Florida dorm room . . . their sound is that of mature indie rock, makes me think of them as similar to the Shins (a great rock band, indie or no). . . pretty, driving, melodic rock that wears well even after multiple listens . . .

Classic Rock Album: Stray, Stray (1970) . . . This London prog-rock outfit never quite hit the big-time, so their story goes . . . but, that question of success aside, they made a hell of a debut album for musicians not yet even in their 20s . . . their sound fuses an acid rock propulsion with expansive ambitions suggesting the coming era of Yes, ELP, and King Crimson . . . a nice platter of grooves, be they boogie, acoustic, or flat out loud . . .

Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter One of The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture by Stewart Tendler & David May. . .

Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is The Lemon Pipers, enough songs of theirs to show that their 1968 #1 hit "Green Tambourine" was a popper aspect of a very talented rock band . . . it feels like a different year already, though some of the struggles are the same, it feels more like the future than the past, and I do now know fully what that means . . .

01.16.2010 show


January 9, 2010 show features:
New Rock Album: Brakes, Touchdown (2009) . . . This English band is led by the same brothers, Thomas & Alex White, who front the Electric Soft Parade, whose excellent 2003 release, The American Adventure, was featured on this show on 1/13/2007 . . . Brakes is a much punchier outfit, with a trippy punk sensibility that is hard to resist . . . their new album is a fast, frenzied delight, rocking head candy . . .
Classic Rock Album: Stone Harbour, Emerges (1974) . . . This duo from Youngstown, Ohio recorded one dandy psychedelic album together that, in its own time, never saw much attention, but has since become a genuine favorite among acid rock collectors in the cyberspace age . . . Stone Harbour's Ric Ballas and Dave McCarty make some amazingly sweet lysergic music together . . . their trip is worth sharing . . .
Storybook Time: Opening & Chapter One of The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture by Stewart Tendler & David May. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is the Ramones and cuts from Acid Eaters, their classic 1993 cover album of '60s classics . . . 2009 gave everyone a hot painful shower of reality, a frank view of how bad things have gotten . . . a new year beginning and things don't seem quite so bad, the world is still here, there are still all sorts of chances for things to go right, and while maybe there isn't much excitement right now that they will, I am hopeful there will be . . . and hope is something every last one of us needs . . .

01.09.2010 show


December 12, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: Ganglians, Monster Head Room (2009) . . . Sacramento's Ganglians are new & out of the box exciting . . . their debut album starts harmoniously soft and sweet, then builds out, filling in its spaces with odder instrumentation, idiosyncratic lyrics, an enveloping atmosphere smoky with late-night hashish pipes and half-lit studio rooms . . .
Classic Rock Album: The Teardrop Explodes, Kilimanjaro (1980) . . . this was the debut album from the legendary English neo-psychedelic band (led by Julian Cope), and it is killer from first track to last . . . limitless energy, a sort of literate trippy music good for dancing or dosing, or both . . .
Storybook Time: Conclusion to Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck . . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's 7th annual holiday broadcast brings to close this year's run of shows . . . 2009 was the first full one without the Idiot King, and yet it was proven that restless humans will forget bad days quickly, find their way into new challenges quickly, for better or worse . . . wishing everyone all the best of the Season of Lights . . .

12.12.2009 show


December 5, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: Megafaun, Gather, Form and Fly (2009) . . . this North Carolina band offers a beguiling album that ranges from front porch folky jamming to trippy electronic darkness . . . lyrically strange & powerful & moving . . . for those looking for the rock music experimentation of the 1960s carrying on today, Megafaun is a group to hear and to keep track of . . .
Classic Rock Album: Phil Ochs, Pleasures of the Harbor (1967) . . . Ochs began his career in the early 1960s as a folk singer, a very good one . . . when Dylan went electric in ’65, and the Beatles turned the recording studio into a new kind of instrument, Ochs decided to widen his palette, and this album resulted . . . a dark album, the work of a man whose heart took in closely the ills of his world, its wars, its brutalities, its quieter kinds of suffering . . . a beautiful album, not quite anything else in its own time or since . . .
Storybook Time: Epilogue to Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck . . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is Bauhaus, a seminal post-punk rock band from the late ‘70s and early ‘80s . . . sometimes a soul lies in its own darkness, its worst murk of fears & regrets, and time leaves and time is gone . . . but time is an illusion, and so is any claim that hope does not seed any hour . . . remember this . . .

12.05.2009 show


November 21, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: The Cave Singers, Welcome Joy (2009) . . . this fairly new Seattle band has gotten the tag "indie folk" but what I hear is some fine, fine rock and roll with an acoustic angle at times . . . their sound is rich with warm and varied, their lyrics strange & moving . . . lifting music to raise a spirit or two when the drizzly days in the Pacific Northwest (and elsewhere) go on too, too long . . .
Classic Rock Album: Grant Lee Buffalo, Mighty Joe Moon (1994) . . . this Los Angeles band made rockers and ballads comparable to their more well-known 1990s contemporaries R.E.M. (with whom they toured) but they did not receive as much praise nor did they last as long . . . this album rattles deep the soul & ears, full of haunted sounds & strange figures . . . night time music, music for woods & stars & movements not quite real flashing by . . .
Storybook Time: Epilogue to Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck . . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is The Monks (a group of wild American soldiers serving in Germany in the mid-1960s) & cuts from their raw, funny, gorgeous 1965 release, Black Monk Time, a lost underground classic worth reviving . . . this month lays back the odd lights & mystery heats that gird the daylight hours, sit underneath, powerful & unshackled . . . check your dreams more often . . .

11.21.2009 show


November 14, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: The Avett Brothers, I and Love and You (2009) . . . I've been following this North Carolina band for awhile now, waiting till they released an album that floored me from start to finish . . . their new one does that . . . it is haunted music, haunted by love, by loss, by guilt, by life's mysteries . . . beautiful music, with many acoustic highlights mixed in with some rockers . . . holds nothing back, exhausting, exhilarating . . .
Classic Rock Album: Harry Chapin, Verities & Balderdash (1974) . . . aside from being another album whose music & maker I idolized in my late youth--in a recent run of them on this show--a deep bag of stories of the lonely & wanting--this album also poses to me a question: what is psychedelic music? Can it be as simple as music that strives for clearer vision, for empathy, for more kindness and deeper understanding? And if this music moves the soul, its melody sticking deep, its lyrics sharp, how can this not be psychedelic music? I leave it an open question. . .
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Thirty-eight of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck . . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is Sopwith Camel, & songs from this nearly forgotten San Francisco band's 1967 trippy debut album . . . mid-November is a time of inward looking, sweet melancholy, the leaves fall, the years pass, the faces change, come and go, and sometimes come again, and at best there is gratefulness in reminisce, and hope yet for days to come . . .

11.14.2009 show


November 7, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: Built to Spill, There Is No Enemy (2009) . . . its been 3.5 years since this show featured BTS's last album, the fine, fine You in Reverse . . . this Idaho band's new release is every bit as good and, frankly, the song "Things Fall Apart" is one of 2009's best rock songs, period . . .
Classic Rock Album: Billy Joel, Streetlife Serenade (1974) . . . Joel's follow-up to his smash album Piano Man, this one is fairly well forgotten 35 years later, yet it is a beautiful rocking experience, and shows Joel still forming his ideas about fame, music, romance, and the world he sees around him . . . personally, this was one of several LPs of Joel's that as a teenager I played till they wore out . . . so i've LONG known it's good . . .
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Thirty-eight of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck . . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is The Troggs, the '60s UK band that gave the world "Wild Thing" have a few other fine tunes to offer . . . the days crawl toward year's end . . . the air cools, deepens, the pockets way in soul open up for the mulling, if one wishes and wills and dares . . .

11.07.2009 show


October 17, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: Monsters of Folk, Monsters of Folk (2009) . . . call them the "Indie Rock Wilburys," a brand new supergroup consisting of Jim James from My Morning Jacket, Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis from Bright Eyes and M. Ward . . . their eponymous debut album is a grand delight of rocking, folking, idiosyncratic treats . . . one of 2009's especial treats . . .
Classic Rock Album: Love and Rockets, Earth, Sun, Moon (1987) . . . this British band had a run on the college rock charts in the late 1980s . . . this album was a peak of this period, an acoustic deliciously trippy album, at odds with so much of the rock of the period . . . yet twenty-plus years later it holds up and still shines . . .
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Thirty-eight of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck . . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is The Monkees, cuts from the soundtrack to their 1968 psychedelic cult classic film, Head . . . the autumn has arrived in the Pacific Northwest, a familiar gorgeous music, new, timeless . . . a happiness in colors no human hand has wrought . . .

10.17.2009 show


October 10, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: The Dodos, Time to Die (2009) . . . it was just a month ago that this show featured this California band's 2008 album, Visiter, & I did not know at the time that they had a new one about to come out . . . that album was great but this new one is amazing, as in fuck-ing amazing . . . an acoustic-driven, quirky-instrument decorated, darkly lyrical, flat-out psychedelic rock masterpiece, easily one of the best albums of 2009 or really any year . . . period . . .
Classic Rock Album: Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band (1972) . . . a previous incarnation of this band from the '60s, known simply as Manfred Mann, scored a few big hits, including a cover of Bob Dylan's "The Mighty Quinn" . . . a shift in style & moniker in the early '70s led to this self-titled album . . . musically it taps into R&B, folk, straight-ahead rock, but there is something else going on here, a brew that comes out humorous, sad, visionary, an album that has creates its own path & drives it with fury & kindness . . .
Storybook Time: Continuing hapter Thirty-eight of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck . . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is the Eagles, a quartet of excellent songs from their 1994 Hell Freezes Over reunion album . . . from deep in the autumn a stirring to hope & to action, toward the easiest, brightest of things, and toward the harder ones . . . a wish to range bravely across the map of human possibilities, and fear nothing, nothing at all . . .

10.10.2009 show


October 3, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: Delta Spirit, Ode to Sunshine (2008) . . . this new San Diego band effuses a sweet, sometimes sharp, Southern California wit & ethos . . . their lead singer Matthew Vasquez has a voice that really gets into the best of a song's potential & coaxes it out, time after time . . . and as a group they punch out the old-time rock-and-roll values: liberation, tolerance, curiosity, fun . . .
Classic Rock Album: Skip Bifferty, Skip Bifferty (1968) . . . this British band was only around for about a year or so in the late '60s but managed to produce a tight, trippy, smart as fuck psychedelic album . . . their music is classic acid rock, both hard and soft . . . their lyrics return again and again to the struggle of the working man and woman, to life's traps, to the freedom many found and still find in rhythms & melodies . . .
Storybook Time: Chapter Thirty-eight of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck . . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is Loose Fur, (a band whose members include Jeff Tweedy and Glenn Kotche of the band Wilco, and Wilco collaborator Jim O'Rourke), and cuts from their amazing 2003 self-titled debut album . . . sweet autumn travels along, spreading, deepening, a multitudinous beauty to be drunk quietly alone, or noisily in great bunches!

10.03.2009 show


September 26, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: The Clean, Mister Pop (2009) . . . back in August this show featured a classic album by this great New Zealand band one week, and a new album by Clean spin-off band The Bats another week . . . now The Clean themselves are back together and with a fucking great new album . . . it's an record full of beautiful psychedelic rock, sweet at times, funny at times, a most endearing new release, and one that adds proudly to their great catalogue of records . . .
Classic Rock Album: Tom Petty, Full Moon Fever (1989) . . . speaking of great albums, great great albums, this is one of Tom Petty's pure classics . . . he made it with most of his Heartbreakers band, so it reflects their jingle jangle sound, and he made it during the peak of his Traveling Wilburys days, so it contains songs with gorgeous harmonies & longjawed humor . . . so load your bowl full of good green ganja, kick back, and get on this ride . . .
Storybook Time: Chapter Thirty-seven of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck...
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is The Charlatans (a fine '60s San Francisco band that never quite made it big like the Dead or the Airplane), and cuts from their 1969 self-titled album & an equally cool album of 1966 demos . . . the leaves are falling and scattering all over this city, and the cool air is sweet as fresh cream . . . this time of year is short and precious, and urges the soul to lift, to watch, to listen, to praise . . .

09.26.2009 show


September 19, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: Phish, Joy (2009) . . . when Phish called it a day in 2004, they'd been touring together and making records for over 20 years . . . they were tired, they were not having as much fun anymore . . . they'd grown from boys to men as a single unit, and it was time to move apart for awhile . . . they had some personal issues to work out too, especially lead singer/guitarist Trey Anastasio . . . then time passed, and there was a recurring sense in each of them that it might be time to resume their musical travels again . . . this album is part of that reunion that occurred this year . . . I am happy to say, as a deep lover of their music, that it's an honest, at times great, album . . . tells bits and pieces of their time away, and expresses, as beautifully as can be done, their happiness as being a band of brothers again, on the road, renewing nights with their phamily . . . I look forward to the next show I can be at, and I know I'll be smiling and crying at the same time . . . for all that has gone by, and everything to come . . .
Classic Rock Album: The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Great Conspiracy (1968) . . . this Los Angeles band made some beautiful rock music for a short stretch in the late '60s . . . a bit in the mold of Big Brother and the Holding Company, with a fine female lead singer and a crackerjack band . . . definitely a band to lift from the muck of forgetfulness and bring to light again . . .
Storybook Time: Chapter Thirty-seven of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck...
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is Yes, and cuts from their classic 1973 live album, Yessongs . . . the autumn is seriously setting in, and its weighty loveliness affects the hours and one's thoughts . . . time an illusion, yet time a truthful presence in the heart . . .

09.19.2009 show


September 12, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: Fanfarlo, Reservoir (2009) . . . this UK band's debut album is a combustible mix of ballads and rockers, weird instrumentation, and a range of charming, strange moments . . . their sound is kin to that of indie rock heroes the Arcade Fire, but their group spirit is their own, and a fine one indeed . . . it will be exciting to hear the work they do in the future as they mature in their art and craft . . .
Classic Rock Album: The Rolling Stones, Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967) . . . partly inspired by their then-rivals the Beatles, and their recently released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Stones came out with their own version of psychedelic rock, and it sounds like no other album of the time . . . playful, bleak, awash in lyrsergic instrumentation . . . after this album, the Stones went back to the hard-edged bluesier songs they were known for, but try this one . . . it shows a rare, and compelling, side of their talents . . .
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Thirty-six of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck...
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is The Beatles, cuts from their 2003 remixed version of 1970's Let It Be, re-titled Let It Be... Naked . . . this show is back on the air after a desert festival hiatus . . . the autumn is arriving slowly to the Pacific Northwest, and with it all the possibilities of a sharper, deeper time . . . here's to its coming . . .

09.12.2009 show


August 22, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: The Dodos, Visiter (2008) . . . this California band makes moody, noisy, beautiful music that shifts from sun to shadow to storm and back again . . . imagine a cavernous club . . . a hookah at every table . . . a band on stage that will play till sunrise if let to . . . a music that insists on being heard, and no other place you would rather be than in that place, listening to every note and word . . .
Classic Rock Album: The Hollies, Evolution (1967) . . . Graham Nash's more pop-rock-oriented band before he joined Crosby, Stills, and sometimes Young . . . like just about every other band of the time, however, this UK group was turning on and making music more warbley than a few years previously . . . one can best say this is soaring, harmonious pop-rock arriving at your turntable via the courtesies of a special sugar cube . . .
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Thirty-six of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck...
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is The Unfolding, a project of David Dalton, which recorded in 1967 one album, both memorable and self-describing in title, How to Blow York Mind and Have a Freak-out Party . . . every notice how dull & dumb things get toward the end of August? The summer sun seems to whip the brain out of most people . . . this show will be off for two weekends while its DJ and his beloved choose to go deeper into the summer sun, where is shines unfiltered on the desert . . . and a 21st century freak-out party, er, unfolds . . .

08.22.2009 show


August 15, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: Sloan, Parallel Play (2008) . . . this Canadian band has been around some years now, but I did not pick up on their bright, jangling sound until very recently . . . what differentiates bands and albums like this from many others is a set of uniformly good songs well sequenced to flow like one experience . . . the simple and hard truth that flow is all . . .
Classic Rock Album: The Clean, Modern Rock (1995) . . . The Clean helped to created a rock scene in New Zealand where there had been none before . . . this album finds them noisily channeling the Velvet Underground, one of their obvious touchstones, but in ways that eschew imitation for new turns, steps far into other lands . . .
Storybook Time: Chapter Thirty-six of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck...
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is a variety of lovely and obscure British acid rock bands featured on the Psychedelic Scene (1967-1969) anthology . . . the call of the desert is greater as the month passes along . . . the dream art, phantom smiles, eventual immolation . . . and yet the many beautiful hours to live until then too . . .

08.15.2009 show


August 8, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: The Minus 5, Killingsworth (2009) . . . The Minus 5 are Pacific Coaster Scott McCaughey's brother band to his Fine Young Fellows, whose new album was featured on this show about a month ago . . . this is a a folk-rockier album than the Fellows' new release, and features as a bonus many kinetic members of the Decemberists . . . there are some ridiculously charming songs on this album, but charm with a latent hard bite . . . be warned . . .
Classic Rock Album:Blur, Blur (1997) . . . UK-britpopsters Blur were superstars by when this, their fifth album, was released . . . what makes it stand out is its propulsive ambition, confidence to rock in a dozen and more different directions . . . this is the sound of a band meeting the challenge of making challenging, exciting rock music for a huge and hungry audience . . .
Storybook Time: Chapter Thirty-five of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck...
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is Sly & the Family Stone, on stage & funking down the house at 3 a.m. at the Woodstock Festival in 1969 . . . moving into August, and my thoughts turn to the desert, its week-long imaginary city, its endless art and horizon, its perennial burn . . . coming soon . . .

08.08.2009 show


August 1, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: The Bats, The Guilty Office (2009) . . . this New Zealand band is charming as hell . . . pretty music that sometimes rocks out . . . moody music that sometimes drifts in sweet sentiments . . . music that sometimes drifts further into warning, portent . . . I was unsure of how much I liked their music but I kept listening and liking them more as I did . . . they've got great jingle jangle light and dark . . .
Classic Rock Album:XTC, The Big Express (1984) . . . a brief story . . . I was introduced to this amazing UK band about 20 years ago, by my boss at a used bookstore I worked at in Connecticut . . . he'd put a sticker on one of their albums for sale in the LP bins which read something like: "in a fairer world, this band would have been the next Beatles" . . . yes, XTC is the kind of band one gets obsessed with, follows their music from its new wave origins in the '70s to its psychedelic apex in the early 2000s . . . this album is along the way, a bit angular still, but clearly the more lysergical days are nigh . . .
Storybook Time: Chapter Thirty-five of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck...
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is the Jefferson Airplane and their great performance at the Woodstock Festival in 1969 . . . 40 years later, many of us still pursue the music groove for what truths we can't find another way, and so keep the path, from the murks of creation to the hereon of hyperspace, clear and welcoming to those that would wake and walk it . . .

08.01.2009 show


July 18, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: The Eels, Hombre Loco: 12 Songs of Desire (2009) . . . It is not so often that an album of love songs works its music in ways as magical as this one does . . . think of Beck's Sea Change from 2002 . . . this American band led by singer/songwriter E has produced an album of ballads and rockers that flows seamlessly from start to finish, laying out in lovely music and artfully simple words the dark, sticky, sometimes beautiful, sometimes grotesque facts and fugues of human want . . .
Classic Rock Album: Camper Van Beethoven, Camper Van Beethoven (1986) . . . hsuch a glorious relic from an often dark and charmless time, CVB seem interested in playing every esoteric instrument they can find, and coupling their music with the good times trippy cracked goofiness of lead singer David Lowery's lyrics . . . you may not understand every scene through the window, but the ride will have you tapping toes and smiling . . .
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Thirty-four of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck...
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is Santana and cuts from their incendiary performance at the Woodstock Music Festival in 1969, what turned them from an obscure Latino band into rock legends . . . past halfway of this truly strange year and most of us are still here, still making our ways forward a step and another and a few more at a time . . . we're still on the big path, wherever it is bound . . .

07.18.2009 show


July 11, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: Young Fresh Fellows, I Think This Is (2009) . . . this Seattle band rocks it old school, what with the bright, banging guitars and the warped lyrics. . . a warm, strange, funny, and dear sound . . . I wonder how I could have lived in Seattle for years and missed out on them, but they haven't had an album out in 8 years, so maybe that's why . . . feeling lucky to have found them . . .
Classic Rock Album: The Fuzztones, Lysergic Emanations (1985) . . . holy cow! what a week for discovering musical treasures! This NYC band rocked the mid-80s like it was the mid-60s . . . their debut album roars breathlessly through a dozen crunching, crying, wildly unbalanced songs that could charm the shit from a corpse, and probably tried back in the day . . . ridiculously good! . . .
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Thirty-four of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck...
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is World of Oz, cuts from their 1969 self-titled sole album, an obscure, loopy psychedelic pop release . . . and here's a pointed observation: this show has finished celebrating its various milestones (anniversaries, numbers of shows), & I am glad to say this particular broadcast has nothing more or less going for it than some fucking hot tunes and whatever else I can toss into the fire! heh . . .

07.11.2009 show


July 4, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: Grizzly Bear, Veckatimest (2009) . . . the new album by this Brooklyn band did not hit me at first, but I think that is because I had to learn how to listen to it . . . dance with its music . . . at times slow, and strange in its ways . . . move with it as though each dance step has never been taken before, as though no dance step had been taken before . . .
Classic Rock Album: The Byrds, Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde (1969) . . .coming upon the defection of many of the original members, this album has all sorts of surprising treats on it . . . what makes the Byrds a compelling band is they take their stellar musicianship in all sort of directions . . . they make music that sometimes takes its place at acid parties, and sometimes on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry . . . they're just that great . . .
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Thirty-four of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck...
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is the Dukes of Stratosphear and cuts from their legendary 1985 psychedelic album 25 O'Clock (psst . . . if you know the secret of the Dukes, don't tell!) . . . this week's broadcast marks this show's 200th on SpiritPlants Radio since coming on board in 2004 . . . I don't know what big numbers like that mean, since each show is built from the ground up and let fly one at a time . . . I do know that my gratefulness to everyone who has supported my show and the station over the years is boundless . . .

07.04.2009 show


June 20, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: Wilco, Wilco (the Album) (2009) . . . this is, flat out, Wilco's best album in years . . . they sound like they give a shit again, the loud songs rock, the soft songs sink deep, and there's even some especially weird ass Jeff Tweedy obsessional songs toward the tail end...for those who wondered if this great band could tighten up and fly high again, wonder not a second longer...they are back and they MEAN IT . . .
Classic Rock Album: The Grateful Dead, The Grateful Dead (1967) . . . the Dead were a long time ago one of a group of great San Francisco bands . . . they became something unique unto themselves, of course, but this first album catches them when they were part of a scene, with a sound not dissimilar from Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and the like . . . this is near to where the long, strange journey began, and it's a really good record . . .
Storybook Time: Chapter Thirty-four of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck...
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems . . . & this week's featured artist is the Long Ryders, another great band from the Los Angeles Paisley Underground movement, a latter-day Byrds-y powerhouse . . . the weather in the Northwest has been cool and grey well into the late spring months . . . cool like what is needed for the human world to calm the fuck down and do right by itself . . .

06.20.2009 show


June 13, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: Harlem Shakes, Technicolor Health (2009)....debut album from a very good young band from New York...quirky, bouncy, & fun...but then something else too...I listened to this album on and off for some weeks before realizing I was listening to it over and over...hoping this band is together for many albums to come...
Classic Rock Album: The Police, Zenyatta Mondatta (1980)...this was the legendary UK band's third album, the one that put them over the top with the hit single "Don't Stand So Close to Me"...it's a strange album, has a couple of instrumentals, some forays into contemporary politics, and lots of strange, snappy, delightful music only these three players for a short time could make...
Storybook Time: Chapter Thirty-three of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck . . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist s are Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood, cuts from their amazing reunion show at Madison Square Garden in New York City on 26th February 2008...it's one crazy fucking world out there, people shooting in every direction, but as a friend of mine said to me today: music is a damned miracle...hallelujah, brother! . . .

06.13.2009 show


June 6, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: Green Day, 21st Century Breakdown (2009)....last heard on this show 2/13/2005 with their 2004 masterpiece protest album, American Idiot, Green Day is back with a follow up that matches its predecessor...ambitious, rocking, punky, soft, smart, haunted...Green Day took their time to make this album, brought all their demons and angels into the process, and have come up with a new and exciting work of art...
Classic Rock Album: The Doors, An American Prayer - Jim Morrison (1978)...a little late this year with the show's annual Doors album, and this one a little bit unusual too...five years after Jim Morrison died, the remaining trio of Doors recorded backing music to some of Morrison's '60s poetry, added other bits of music and dialogue, and produced a kind of homage to their old friend that stands, strangely and validly, as a Doors album...
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Thirty-two of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck . . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is Badfinger, a fine rocking band that Paul McCartney helped to bring to prominence in the late 60s and early 70s...with President Obama in the Middle East trying to bring peace to long-time combatants, and maybe the worst of economic days passing for much of the world, slowly but passing, one can't help but hope to hang on, better days coming not so much by prayer or luck, but with the ingenuity, imagination, and persistence humans can show when they decide to give a damn, not let the bastards inside and out run the ship...here's to ya if you're helping!

06.06.2009 show


May 30, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: Manchester Orchestra, Means Everything to Nothing (2009)...this indie rocking band from Atlanta, Georgia is charming as fuck, whether they are blasting it out or pulling back slow and acoustic...they are strange, they are great musicians, and they are worth a listen by everyone...
Classic Rock Album: Opal, Happy Nightmare Baby (1987)...Opal was a Paisley Underground band featuring David Roback and Kendra Smith...this was their sole album, a dark, dirty, beautiful, lysergical treat...while touring to promote it, Kendra Smith quit Opal, and Hope Sandoval took her place as singer...the band renamed itself Mazzy Star (another Paisley Underground band featured on this show, back in Feb 2009)...Opal's album stands brightly as Mazzy Star, if a little more obscurely...
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Thirty-two of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is Better Than Ezra, a New Orleans band with a luring '90s college rock band sound...it's been several weeks since this show was on the air, and SpiritPlants Radio had some rough days to pass through, but it's back on the air, and it is coming on strong with the summer taking over the Pacific Northwest...

05.30.2009 show


May 9, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: Bob Dylan, Together Through Life (2009)...the old bard's last new album was 2006's sprawling Modern Times (heard on this show 12/2/06)...he's back with a stomping blues-rocker...cranky, obscure, funny as ever, what makes this album burn high is that Dylan has a world class band backing him...no rust, no sentiment, Bob and his band mercilessly scorch through ten new tunes...his music is vital as ever...
Classic Rock Album: The House of Love, The House of Love (1988)...powerful debut by this UK outfit...driving psychedelic rock, in both its subtle and its rocking moments...amazing that it clocks in at barely over half an hour...this band reminds me favorably of another trip rock band, Australia's The Church (whose newest album featured on this show just last week)...both these bands prove that the 1980s produced rock music as great as times before then and since...
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Thirty-two of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is Gang of Four--a post-punk UK band that flourished especially in the late '70s and early '80s--and cuts from their amazing debut album Entertainment...the springtime around these parts pushes hope to the fore, insists that positive action can be fruitful...that, moreover, there being no fixed moral grounding to this world, no action or belief that girds all else, one can come at things in countless ways...why not hope? why not try? Why believe the book or person preaching despair?

05.09.2009 show


May 2, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: The Church, Untitled #23 (2009)...I've been a fan of this legendary Australian psychedelic rock band for 20 years, and this show has featured their music more than half a dozen times, most recently their 2005 album Beast With Two Backs on the 12/6/2008 broadcast...their songs are literate, elusive, sometimes hard and fast, sometimes dirge-like...one joins in their lysergic dream and finds amazing lands and secrets within...
Classic Rock Album: Tangerine Dream, Electronic Meditation (1970)...debut album by this long-lived German band, considered one of the originators of the experimental underground "Krautrock" musical genre...named for a line in a Beatles song, this band came out of the gate with this delicious, terrifying musical collage...strangely enjoyable, wordlessly deep...this will likely be the first of many TD albums featured by this show in times to come....
Storybook Time: Chapter Thirty-two of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is Fleetwood Mac and tracks from their fine 2003 double album Say You Will...I keep thinking lately: why the continuous rise and fall of the times? Why take it for granted that good times won't last? Is this the best we can do, reach for days when fewer of us are needlessly suffering? Can something happen this go-round that will break the cycle of feast & famine? I think it can, and it will involve many souls, and a lot of hard work. But some door is opening, again...

05.02.2009 show


April 25, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: The Tragically Hip, We Are the Same (2009)...last heard on the 3/17/07 broadcast of this show with their excellent 2006 release, World Container, this Canadian band is back with a great new album...their music rings and harmonizes but at its heart is often very dark, haunted, often shatteringly beautiful...it's a pleasure to have new music by them to spin...
Classic Rock Album: Tea & Symphony, An Asylum for the Musically Insane (1969)...this short lived acid folk band released only two albums in their time...this album, their first, is pure lysergical loveliness...a vintage example of a rock band not giving a fuck for hit singles or commercial accolades, instead diving deep as possible into its instruments, its collective thoughts and hard-fueled imagination...another obscurity worth new appreciation...
Storybook Time: Chapter Thirty-one of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is Phish and cuts from their March 6, 2009 show at Hampton Coliseum in Hampton Virginia, their return to touring after five years off the road...so many of us not there that night were listening from afar, and thrilled to our bones that TreyMikePageFish are again roaring across the land...listening to Phish riles my heart and memories more than almost any other band heard on this show and, if lucky, many more of us will be soon again on some concert lawn grooving high to their tunes...bring back the Meatstick!! Whoa, shocks my brain!

04.25.2009 show


April 11, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: The Doves, Kingdom of Rust (2009)...this UK band is an old favorite of this show, their previous three releases having been featured in 2004 and 2005...their new album took me a few spins to catch into...more groove, less melody, is one way to put it...the lyrics are often harsh and dark...but it drives deeper and deeper upon each listen, how following it length produces a obscure cartharsis...
Classic Rock Album: Palace Brothers, Days in the Wake (1994)...this album was an early project of the strange musical soul known as Will Oldham, who these days records and performs as Bonnie "Prince" Billy...this album is under 30 minutes, and feels very kin to Nike Drake and Iron & Wine...essentially, a poetical spirit alone with his demons and his guitar...his images & stories are haunted with sin, blood, pain, evil...one is left feeling cleansed rawly...
Storybook Time: Chapter Thirty-one of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is yet another L.A. Paisley Underground band to be featured on this show, the Three O'Clock, and cuts from their bells-high 1983 debut album, Sixteen Tambourines...we are come into the spring, the re-greening of the northern hemisphere...I believe there are green shoots of hope pressing out from the dark twists of the collective human psyche as well...hope is powerful and who would oppose it after awhile...who?

04.11.2009 show


April 4, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: The Veils, Sun Gangs (2009)...last heard on this program 5/5/2007 with their bright, brooding release, Nux Vomica, this British band is back, and good as ever...when they dirge, they dirge hard...when they rock, everything flies up into the air...they remind me of U2 in a way, having a singer with a flamboyant style and a band behind him that can play anything, but I'd say their new release easily outdoes U2's most recent effort...the Veils are a band that should get more recognition with the kind of impassioned music they make...
Classic Rock Album: David Gray, White Ladder (1999)...I had vaguely known this British singer/songwriter from his worldwide hit "Babylon," which I had mistakenly thought was sung by a woman of African descent...I was wrong!...the happy news to report is that "Babylon" is one of eleven great songs on White Ladder...Grey brings an amazing lyrical depth & breadth to his songs, & they are fleshed out by his own stellar musicianship and that of his band...a really delightful find, one who I'd recommend to anyone...
Storybook Time: Chapter Thirty-one of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is Death Cab For Cutie, songs from their excellent new EP, Open Door (which contains songs left off their recent Narrow Stairs album)...if one sniffs the zeitgeist right now, one would find a growing hope failingly held back by an old fear...to say better days are coming is not so much a simple faith in human decency or ingenuity as a belief that humans are restless and times move on, again and again, better to worse, worse to better, always moving on...

04.04.2009 show


March 28, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: The Decemberists, The Hazards of Love (2009)...a long time favorite band of this show, this Oregon band was last heard on the 1/17/2009 broadcast with their excellent EP, Always the Bridesmaid...this time around, front man Colin Meloy and crew have fashioned a sort of indie rock opera about, as AllMusic.com puts it: "a girl named Margaret, shapeshifters, forest queens, and fairytale treachery"...simply put, another delight from this band on an even grander scale...musically gifted, funny, odd, obsessed...and look for them on tour, they put on a great show!...
Classic Rock Album: Status Quo, Pictures Matchstickable from the Status Quo (1968)...this British band once hit the heights with their song "Pictures of Matchstick Men" (so wonderfully covered decades later by indie rock heroes Camper Van Beethoven)...this album is their first, trippy sweets to make the mind wander golden, glaring lands, and the hand reach for pipe, bong, or that special Alice in Wonderland sheet...a somewhat obscure classic that deserves new listeners...
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Thirty-one of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is the Pacific Northwest US band The Lolipop Shoppe (originally called, more appropriately, The Weeds), and cuts from their sole 1967 album Just Colour, a vintage blast of hippyish punk devilry...spring 2009 has come, and the world is still shambling along, can't say the year is more sunshine than shadows yet, but there's lots of work left for each of us to do toward that goal...come, get some music in ya, it'll feel good!...

03.28.2009 show


March 14, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: New Rock Album: U2, No Line on the Horizon (2009)...It's been over four years since U2's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, (broadcast on this program 11/14/04) arguably the weakest album of their catalogue that somehow won 8 Grammy Awards (another indication of the uselessness of such awards for actually honoring the best in any art form . . . Emmys, Oscars, etc. they're all media-driven crap)...the Irish boys took their time to follow up, realizing that a lot of people felt they had lost their long-time edge...their new album is a promising return to form, not to the level of Joshua Tree or All That You Can't Leave Behind but it does show them writing & playing with some real fire again...perhaps they are spending less time endorsing iPods and more in the studio with their instruments and each other...
Classic Rock Album:Eric Burdon & the Animals, Every One of Us (1968)...this was the last album by the original Animals and it is a good one, standing squarely in the flaring excitement and danger of its times...a trippy blues-rock that Burdon and his mates had been working deeper for years...people talk about how the best rock music reports the front-line news of the day, giving large events the humanizing perspective of individual hearts and souls...this album is one of that kind...riven beautifully with hope, anguish, sentiment, humor, and great music....
Storybook Time: Chapter Thirty-one of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is the New York band Ambulance LTD, some tasty trip-rock tracks from their 2004 debut release, LP...there seems more than ever a disconnect between the widespread terror the mass media is saying has gripped the US and the world, and the growingly evident truth of the matter: down but not out, working anew toward better ground, knowing it will take time and believing it will happen...times have been bad long enough, and it's a long path ahead, but that is daylight up there, sure as the gift of life, that is daylight...

03.14.2009 show


March 7, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: Cotton Jones, Paranoid Cocoon (2009)...Cotton Jones is a new band from Baltimore whose members come from another psychedelic band, Page France...the two bands share a love of jingly music and beautiful harmonies...AllMusic.com says Cotton Jones' sound has more of a rainy, Pacific Northwest US sound to it, perhaps similar to the Decemberists or the Shins...perhaps, but what's more pointed to say is that this album is quite a sugary treat with some lyrical bite to it...
Classic Rock Album: The Doobie Brothers, The Captain and Me (1973)...this classic album features such hits as "China Grove" and "Long Train Runnin'" but the whole album is worth hearing...the Doobies lay out eleven tracks that range from pretty instrumentals to flat-out rockers...for whatever one thinks of their later, slicker successes (I think much of it is good too), their early music is certainly off the leash..
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Thirty of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is Simon & Garfunkel, cuts from the live album of their January 22, 1967 show at Lincoln Center in New York, a delicious, deep, sweet, acoustical delight...it took 10 years and about 5 weeks to reach this program's 300th show...the world has been in trouble more so recently than usual, and hope gathers against cynicism, nihilism, and interests that make good coin from the suffering of many...I'd like to think that this is what the nadir looks like and the light just down the road there is the sun, not the neon of one more closing shop...

03.07.2009 show


February 28, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: The Snake The Cross The Crown, Cotton Teeth (2007)...another band I found per chance, this indie rock group from Huntsville, Alabama makes dark, catchy music...their music gets folky and plain, then it busts out in psychedelic glory...weirdly classic and new both, surely a band to hear now and keep an ear out for in the future...
Classic Rock Album: The Music Machine, (Turn On) the Music Machine (1966)...led by singer/songwriter Sean Bonniwell, this California band enjoyed a brief fame with the Top 20 hit "Talk Talk," and their debut album fulfills the promise of this song...ranging between bright covers by the Beatles and Neil Diamond, and delightful trippy originals, it's only sad that this album was not the first of many (it was the first of only two)…
Storybook Time: Chapter Thirty of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is the Bangles, a pick inspired by DJ Loro's '80s show on SpiritPlants Radio last weekend, and the fact that the Bangles were the one band from the Los Angeles Paisley Underground movement that hit it big...spring is nearing again, and if the fresh air cleaning out Washington D.C. doesn't cheer you, then the coming green days should!

02.28.2009 show


February 21, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: The Annuals, Such Fun (2008)...this North Carolina band was last featured on this show on 12/16/06, with their excellent debut album, Be He Me...their sophomore release sounds smoother, deeper, and darker, as though the band members had been out in those vast Carolina woods, up in them strange Carolina mountains, or staring out to the sea from the craggy Carolina shores...beautiful music from a beautiful land…
Classic Rock Album: Mazzy Star, Among My Swan (1996)...it was another DJ on SpiritPlants Radio, Loro, who turned me onto this band...its roots lie in the 1980s Paisley Underground as its guitarist, David Roback, had been a member of the the seminal Rain Parade...Roback eventually ended up with the smoky-voiced, mesmerizing singing Hope Sandoval...this album was their third and, alas, final release...they are so deep in the Mystery here, so far and so fine, that any word but "listen" is irrelevant...
Storybook Time: Chapter Twenty-nine of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is Paul McCartney & Wings, a band which embodied McCartney's sometimes successful efforts in the '70s to make great music without his brother Beatles...so there was that 10th anniversary show back end of January, and a two-weekend break since, now ready to storm back onto the airwaves & begin this show's 11th year, crack the ground & the raise some dust!

02.21.2009 show


January 31, 2009 show features:
Featured Album: Phish, A Live One (1995)...Phish culled together a number of songs from their 1994 summer/fall tour, and it flows like a really great show from the hundreds they did in the 1990s...it brings back to me many happy memories of standing in outdoor ampitheaters, grooving as the band grooved, as the audience grooved, as we for awhile grooved as one big mysterious thing...
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Twenty-eight of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems...it was January 30, 1999, that this show begin in a closet-sized room in the back of an arts studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts....now it's 10 years and nearly 300 shows later...it's been three radio stations, four states, hundreds of albums and many books featured on the air...from the end of the Clinton era through the Bush nightmare to the dawning of Obama's better America...extra long show to have an expansive celebration...join in, please!

01.31.2009 show


January 24, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: Sparklehorse, Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain (2006)...Sparklehorse is driven primarily by Mark Linkous, who creates much of the band's music from his home studio in Virginia...atmospheric, moody, raucous at times, there is a sweet, persistent charm to this record, one that culminates in the 10+ minute instrumental finale...
Classic Rock Album: The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Markley, A Group (1970)...this band's first release, 1967's Part One, was played on this show back on 2/3/07...the current show's album was their fifth and last, and not originally marketed as a WCPAEB album, but as one by Markley, namely Bob Markley, the group's strangely charismatic leader...the short and the long of this band is that they make some really fine rocking music and marry it to Markley's obsessions with money and sex...their final release bears every one of their charms and quirks, and is something of a lost classic...
Storybook Time: Chapter Twenty-eight of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, cuts from their seminal 1972 country rock triple-album Will the Circle Be Unbroken...this week the world finally began to change, hope took on the mantle of power, the test of how much humanity really wants peace and long-range survival begins anew...nobody knows what is going to happen, but the choice is in each of our hands, our fates waiting our making every hour...

01.24.2009 show


January 17, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: Blitzen Trapper, Furr (2008)...this album came to me via my beloved KD's suggestion...the band from Portland, Oregon, nice to be playing some local boys this week...their sound is rooted comfortably in the early '70s, which is to say it rocks prettily, but there is an ambient tint to the music which indicates that these musicians have heard and enjoyed more recent music, and let their sound be inspired by it as well...
Classic Rock Album: Them, Time Out! Time In for Them (1968)...this band started out in Belfast, Ireland before moving to England, they featured Van Morrison before he went solo, and their sound was more R&B before it turned decidedly psychedelic after Morrison left...with its whirling sitars, raw instrumentation, and trippy lyrics, this album embodies the psychedelic rock of its time, a sugary musical treat for those who love such lysergical sounds....
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Twenty-seven of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is The Decemberists (also a Portland band albeit a more well-known one), cuts from their 2008 Always the Bridesmaid singles series, such a delight any time to play new music by them! Tell me, if you can, any way you'd like, can you feel a bit of the stress on the world lifting a little as that demented cowboy lunatic departed the White House for the last time? Honest, did you feel it? The talk of diplomacy again in the world, of bringing relief and comfort to the poor and desperate? Do you feel it coming? Things do need to get worse, and in fact have gotten better. Look around, listen within, discover if you feel this too...

01.17.2009 show


January 10, 2009 show features:
New Rock Album: Patti Smith, Twelve (2007)...Patti Smith came to prominence in the mid-1970s with such punk-poet-rock classic albums as Horses & Easter...her debut on this show, with more albums to come no doubts, is her most recent studio album, all cover songs, including tracks covering Hendrix, Nirvana, The Beatles, The Rollings Stones, The Doors, Stevie Wonder...she respects them, then she re-invents them...this album is one of a very few all-covers albums that have been featured on this show (joining Rush's Feedback, broadcast 8/1/04, & The Church's Box of Birds, broadcast 9/23/06), but it is compelling listening...
Classic Rock Album: Lou Reed, Berlin (1973)...a classic early solo work by Lou Reed, hardly a few years removed from his time in the Velvet Underground...a loosely conceptual album about a doomed couple that deals with drug use and depression...Reed uses much orchestration for the songs, while he sings and plays guitar...there are funny moments, as in any Reed work, and moments breakingly beautiful...a powerful work...
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Twenty-seven of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is Medeski, Martin, & Wood, cuts from their beguilingly charming 2008 album of children's music, Let's Go Everywhere...well, well, here is 2009, and hardly over a week til O takes office as US president...finding at the White House door a thousand-foot-high pile of horse manure with a sign stuck in it that says "Gon Fishin"...it will be a time pushing it out of the way, and a longer time forgetting the stink...but hope, meaningful hope, is found foremost in that first moment of doing all this...soon, very soon...

01.10.2009 show


December 20, 2008 show features:
New Rock Album: Ryan Adams & the Cardinals, Cardinology (2008)...Ryan Adams was in the short-lived but very successful alt-country band Whiskeytown in the 1990s...since about 2000 he's been releasing albums on his own and with the Cardinals...a hard one to pin down, as his music ranges from acoustic melancholia to flat-out rock...this new album reflects Adams' new-found sobriety...moody, at times brilliant, he and his band is one to catch up on if you haven't yet, and to follow for years to come...
Classic Rock Album: Mighty Baby, Mighty Baby (1969)...another great lost acid rock band, this one came to be when the George Martin-discovered band The Action disintegrated in 1968 or thereabouts...this self-titled album was the first of two they released as Mighty Baby...full of long sweet guitar jams, sweetened by horns, by reflective, sometimes mystical lyrics...a real lysergic treat for all...hehe...
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Twenty-seven of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week marks this show's 6th annual holiday broadcast (with Cheech & Chong, Simpsons, South Park, Ramones & more) ending a year that crescendoed in hope & disaster both...many people bet on hope on November 4, and there is as of yet no reason to believe that we as individuals, as nations, and as one world can't fundamentally change for the better the way millions, or even billions, of lives are lived by the end of 2009...repeat the mantra, now and always: YES WE CAN!

12.20.2008 show


December 6, 2008 show features:
New Rock Album: The Church, Back With Two Beasts (2005)...this album is part of this legendary Australian psychedelic band's "Jammed" series...a full-blown lysergic treat that climaxes with the surreal 20-minute masterpiece "Night-Sequence"...21st century psychedelic rock for those looking for it...
Classic Rock Album: The Youngbloods, Elephant Mountain (1969)...this American band hit big in 1969 with the re-release of the seminal hippie anthem "Get Together" but that year was also the year of this release...playing as a trio, this group puts on a stellar musical performance...they ride between folk and rock jamming, excelling at both...no one-hit wonder, many riches to be re-discovered here...
Storybook Time: Chapter Twenty-seven of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is Tommy James & the Shondells, a band also known for a very small portion of its music, the Top 40 pop hits, but one that could break out the acid...rock...and carry it far along...call me one of the lucky ones this week, I managed to score some short-term work and with news of hundreds of thousands of lost jobs on the news, I don't think lucky is the nearly quite the word...grateful! ecstatic!

12.06.2008 show


November 22, 2008 show features:
New Rock Album: Springhouse, From Now to OK (2008)...this New York band released two albums in the early 1990s, well-received but few sales...broke up for a few years...reunited about ten years ago and have been working on this new album since...much of their music is acoustic though they can go electric at times, and let out with orchestral flourishes too...dreamy, trippy, warm, sweet music...
Classic Rock Album: Fleetwood Mac, Fleetwood Mac (1975)...the Mac became another band when mad genius Lindsey Buckinghand and blonde enchantress Stevie Nicks joined up...their music blossomed and their lyrical power blew up...this album marks their rise to superstar band, something each of their members earned, and suffered for in the years to come...
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Twenty-six of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is The Jimi Hendrix Experience, a tribute to their recently passed drummer Mitch Mitchell...anyway, this week I job-hunted, a draining, depressing effort when the news is all about more lay-offs, and I also readied SpiritPlants Radio for its 5th anniversary and re-launch weekend...strange the two efforts in tandem...both necessary, and strangely supporting each other...no job yet, but the radio website looks wonderful!

11.22.2008 show


November 15, 2008 show features:
New Rock Album: The Pretenders, Break Up the Concrete (2008)...when the 4/7/07 broadcast of this program featured The Pretenders' 1983 masterpiece, Learning to Crawl, I did not suspect that a new Pretenders album as good as this new release was due any time soon...happy surprise, this new album is full of the kind of muscular rock songs and cool plaintive ballads that made Ohio native Chrissie Hynde and crew a great rock group in the first place...happy return to form...

Classic Rock Album: Rush, Roll the Bones (1991)...one of the Canadian power trio's indisputably great albums...this album catches them at a moment when they are most deeply infusing their hard rock with raw existential lyrics...drummer Neil Peart said of this music's philosophy: "But the bottom line...is to take the chance, roll the bones, if it's a random universe and that's terrifying and it makes you neurotic and everything, never mind. you really have to take the chance or else nothing's going to happen."...

Storybook Time: Chapter Twenty-six of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck. . .

Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is Elton John, a selection of his early songs, no doubt prelude to more of his work being featured on this show in the future...I've been a week hitting the bricks for work and it's been tough...it's still Bush's America for a little while longer, which means everyone has to hang on for that while...so much unnecessary trouble and suffering caused by one world-class buffoon...that said, the autumn in the Pacific Northwest is breathlessly sweet...nature's compensation for men's follies...

11.15.2008 show


November 8, 2008 show features:
New Rock Album: Snow Patrol, A Hundred Million Suns (2008)...there is a pantheon of current UK rock bands among which Snow Patrol resides (with Radiohead, Coldplay, Oasis, The Verve, Travis, Elbow, the Doves, among others)...their new album continues their breach into deep sugar veins of music...exciting, memorable for those who chance a listen...
Classic Rock Album: Steely Dan, Aja (1977)...this is the Dan's cool jazz-rock masterpiece, a long, smooth, clean-smoking doobie of an album...the cut "Deacon Blues" is on my list of top rock songs of all time...I remember some gone year ago riding the highway with some lost friend, blasting it on the stereo, its long-blowing freedom...
Storybook Time: Chapter Twenty-six of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is Kaleidoscope, a (mostly) late-60s folk-psychedelic band from Los Angeles, cuts from their debut album, 1967's shambling freak-fest *Side Trips*...what a difference a week makes...the world greets Barack Obama as he celebrates with all his landslide victory for US president...and, on a personal note, I was laid off from my job the morning after Election Day, one I'd had only about six weeks....before Bush's nightmare years, I'd never been laid off from a job...in the past 8 years, it's been half a dozen times...I was thinking that Obama's path to his current victory was marked by many setbacks, yet he kept his cool and kept his faith, and here he is...a lesson in this...if I am brave enough to heed...

11.08.2008 show


November 1, 2008 show features:
New Rock Album: The Verve, Forth (2008)...Aside from familiarity with the ubiquitous and wonderful Verve tune "Bittersweet Symphony," I had not known this band before recently...their body of work includes three great albums from the 1990s and this new one just released...a complex, moody, deep rock band, one to get to know over a long time...their new album brings them back with mucho gusto...they shake off the rust like there never was any...here's hoping their second life lasts years and years...
Classic Rock Album: Deep Purple, Deep Purple (1969)...an early release from this long-lived UK band, it catches them at a moment when they were working the border between progressive and heavy metal musics...at times lushly orchestrated, and at other times rocking fierce, this album harks back to a period in the late '60s when genres had first broken down and whatever worked, whatever sounded exciting and moving, was what the good and great bands would go for...a real treat and discovery for those who don't already know this album...
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Twenty-five of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck. . .
Readings from Labyrinthine fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is Steppenwolf, a band known back in the '60s for its major hits "Born to Be Wild" and "Magic Carpet Ride" but with a lot more variety and depth to offer than just these two great songs...Election Day in the US is next Tuesday and, like back in 1968, the whole world is watching...message to the world: there are millions of us here who are determined to get OBAMA elected and this country and the world onto a better path than in years...we're doing it!!

11.01.2008 show


March 17, 2007 show features:
New Rock Album: The Tragically Hip, World Container (2006)...long-beloved in Canada, but little known outside of their country’s borders, the Hip return with another run of excellent songs, rocking hard at times, often propelled by heartbreak & loss...I found out about this album just days ago & here it shall be on this show’s air...
Classic rock album: Arzachel, Arzachel (1969)...another mysterious record from the first golden era of psychedelia...a British band called Uriel made this album in one day and credited the band’s name and member’s names to pseudonyms...it’s said that it hardly sold a dozen copies in its day, but was later kept in circulation via bootlegs. . .only important point: it rocks magnificently...
Storybook Time: Chapter Five of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Why? fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is R.E.M., including a new track featuring the return of drummer Bill Berry!...plus wisdom from David Lynch, funny talk from Doug Stanhope, and the usual run of echoey weirdness and springtime freak excitement!

03.17.2007 show


March 10, 2007 show features:
New Rock Album: Arcade Fire, The Neon Bible (2007)...three years of waiting for this Montreal band to ready its second album yields high expectations. . .and happy rewards. . .their first album, Funeral, was shocking and exciting, and this follow-up bears out its promise, taking sorry stock on the landscape and blowing out soaring, weird beautiful sonic replies. . .
Classic rock album: The United States of America, The United States of America (1968)...this California band released just this one album, but an amazing one it is, at times sweet, solemn, enigmatic, then it rocks out, then it gets goofy as fuck. . .news of its times better than most history books tell it...
Storybook Time: Chapter Five of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Why? fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is Funkadelic, grooves from their early albums, deep tasty stomps not quite like anything else rock had then or since produced. . .springtime is so close, even in the wet Pacific Northwest, blooms n eggs n warmer fancies ‘bout to burst!...

03.10.2007 show


February 24, 2007 show features:
New Rock Album: Karate, Pockets (2004)...the last album by this Boston outfit is a moody, sometimes jazzy affair, musically obsesses on relationships, the struggles of daily life, the hours that wear, and sometimes produce great music...
Classic rock album: Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II (1969)...Led Zeppelin came out of the box fully formed and roaring...this second album of theirs is a hard rocking masterpiece, but one that does not lose moments of brilliant, beautiful subtlety for all the lovely crunch going on...
Storybook Time: Chapter Five of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Why? fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist are the Rain Parade, one of the so-called "Paisley Underground" bands out of Los Angeles in the early '80s, and a sweet, chimey discovery of mine in the past week, charming, catchy stuff, sometimes deeper too...plus some words to taste and know from David Lynch, Tim Leary, and Terence McKenna...a great show is brewing for you right now!...

02.24.2007 show


February 17, 2007 show features:
New Rock Album: The Broken West, I Can't Go On, I'll Go On (2007)...on their first this Los Angeles band sports glowing harmonies and chiming guitars with enough grit to keep it interesting and unexpected...not to mention naming this first album after a line from Samuel Beckett's fiction...
Classic rock album: The Electronic Hole, The Electronic Hole (1970)...his obscure California band released one album of magical, strange, engrossing rock music, droning, pretty, at times a fearsome trip that lingers in the ears...
Storybook Time: Chapter Five of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Why? fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist are the Chocolate Watchband, a dark jingling acid rock band who peaked out in the mid-'60s...plus there will be some Leary, and some David Lynch, and moments that come tonight in twisted dreams and continue on air on the morrow...

02.17.2007 show


February 3, 2007 show features:
New Rock Album: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Some Loud Thunder (2007)...this American east coast band released a fuck-nutty treat of a first album in 2005, played on this show late last year when I discovered it, but this new one is even better, full of wild rock moments and disturbing quieter ones...this album is, I think, one of those whose delights grow with greater familiarity...
Classic rock album: West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Part One (1967)......a somewhat forgotten Los Angeles band, their first major release album spills over with treats, a bit at times like the fellow LA band Love of the same period in marrying trippy acid rock to dark, twisted lyrics...candy to enjoy in the shadows, grooves to lean on and fall into...
Storybook Time: Chapter Five of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Why? fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist are the Strawberry Alarm Clock, best known for their only big Top 40 hit, "Incense & Peppermints," a great trip-pop song, but not the only lysergical delight in their grab-bag, a few more will get dusted off for the airwaves this week...still deep in winter here in the US Pacific Northwest, but there will be sunny vibes crossing through cyberspace to listeners far & wide, maybe a little smiling Leary, maybe other nuggets of cheer by word and chord...

02.03.2007 show


January 27, 2007 show features:
New Rock Album: The Beatles, Love (2006)...I did not know what to expect from this album; I'd simply heard there was a new Beatles' "re-mix album"...I first heard it while sitting in the Denver (Colorado, US) airport at Xmas time...I was floored, below-floored...Beatles' producer George Martin and his son Giles were contracted by Cirque du Soleil to create a soundtrack for their show of the same name. They received permission from Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr (and Yoko Ono Lennon, and Olivia Harrison, the latter two representing John Lennon and George Harrison, respectively). McCartney and Starr responded very favorably, and there is good reason to see why. The music is its perfect self, and yet re-imagined, it is drenched in fervent art & love, and stands its strong chance of pleasing both the oldest Beatles' nut and someone who's never heard of them...just beautiful...
Storybook Time: Chapter Five of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Why? fixtion & Many Musics poems...8 years ago this weekend, this show began in a tiny pirate DJ radio booth in the back room of an art gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts...now coming from a tiny apartment in Seattle, Washington...8 years, 3000 miles have passed...same old hippy shit, heh. . .

01.27.2007 show


January 20, 2007 show features:
New Rock Album: The Earlies, Enemy Chorus (2007)...This British/American combo is very impressive in this first proper album release (they previously had an amazing compilation of EPs)...their music is tinged with all sorts of influences, from '60s psychedelia to '70s horn-driven bands like Chicago...yet their sound is fresh, rooted deeply...
Featured Classic Rock Album: Country Joe & the Fish, Electric Music for the Mind & Body (1967)...Joe McDonald and the boys were powerful, funny, freaky, balls out rocking out of the gate...their songs can be sweet, nasty, chug along til the album is over and you're wanting to hear it all over again...released in January of 1967, this album began an amazing in rock and roll history...
Storybook Time: Chapter Five of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Why? fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is Harry Chapin, a singer dear to my heart, selected songs from his fantastic 1976 live album, Greatest Stories Live...there will be some grooving words from Dr. Leary, too, maybe Robert Anton Wilson, now like Kerouac, safe in heaven dead, and other moments none can foretell...

01.20.2007 show


January 13, 2007 show features:
New Rock Album: The Electric Soft Parade, The American Adventure (2003)This British band has not yet gotten enough attention in the US, but certainly deserves it. . .its bright, brooding psychedelic palette is wide, moving, intelligent. . .lyrically rife with fears, questions, hopeful gestures. . .a genuine pleasure to behold. . .their time will come...
Featured Classic Rock Album: Mad River, Paradise Bar & Grill (1969)...there are so many delights in hearing this San Francisco band’s second & last album. . .the guitar playing is sweet when it does not trouble & yowl. . .the lyrics are sometimes sad, sentimental, but then bark, rouse up fierce. . .a lost classic, timeless fine...
Storybook Time: Chapter Five of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Why? fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is America, a band that makes dark, deceptively pretty music...the new year is less than two weeks in, but can you feel the swells of raised energy, how liberty and control are jiving a little more seriously, how those in power are smiling more brittly, and those advocating for another world better for all are not backing down any more? Less backing down, feel it, feel that hope, put it on, it’s a stranger, it will feel good in time. . .

01.13.2007 show


January 6, 2007 show features:
Featured New Rock Album: The Shins, Wincing the Night Away (2007)...three year wait for their new album, no looking back with this band, I had to listen to this album many times to climb within it, find what had kept along and what broke new...it's really good, maybe even better than that...
Featured Classic Rock Album: Family, Music in a Doll's House (1968)...this British band was overlooked in its day, no reason why, their sound is dense and deep, their groove is over the horizon and out, theirs is a music that comes fresh and whole from its time, and arrives completely ready in any given hour...
Storybook Time: Chapter Five of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux...
Readings from Why? fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, a band I've seen blow houses down with their high sounds, laugh, pack up, onto the next town...it's a new year, boys n girls, what will it bring? Let us all vow toward healing, and better survival...

01.06.2007 show


December 16, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: Annuals, Be He Me (2006)...this brazen band of strange rocking youths endears, funny, dark at moments one would not quite expect. . .I tried them, again, again, & then their charms caught & held, & I was taken in further...
Featured Classic Rock Album: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (1968)...some weeks finding just the right album to play is more of a trying trick than others...this album fell into my lap just tonight, a tip from AllMusic.com, musical fucking weird shit fine...
Storybook Time: Chapter Five of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Why? fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, completing a triad for them this year on this show (Featured New Rock Album, Featured Classic Rock Album, and now Featured Artist)...2006 drawling to a close with some hope blooming up that the screwy fools are at last losing their grip to saner, calmer hands who know how to sail, & how far the boat may go with clear thought & fresh heart...

12.16.2006 show


December 9, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: The Dears, Gang of Losers (2006)...this band sounds a little like the Smiths, a little like the Cure, a little like Love, but a deeper listen and their strong, idiosyncratic, pretty sounds emerge, their push to something open & true, their way of music, none other's...
Featured Classic Rock Album: Emerson, Lake, & Palmer, Brain Salad Surgery (1973)...another prog-rock band new to me, but I have come to like them a lot, long tunes, epic, roads to everywhere, so much music that each ELP album consumes lifetimes for good attention to it...
Storybook Time: Chapter Five of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Why? fixtion & Many Musics poem...& this week's featured artist is the Grateful Dead, some tasty live cuts found here & there in their great art of jamming...some rants in this show, like others, bringing in some heroes who rail against the Empire in smart, funny ways, it will be a good'un, f'sure!

12.09.2006 show


December 2, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: Bob Dylan, Modern Times (2006)... This album finds BD in a bluesy, world-weary mood, lonesome, yearning, and rocking hard and slow by turns...burns strange, insistent good...
Featured Classic Rock Album: King Crimson, In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)... KC are relatively new to my ears, and this first album of theirs I find blithely mysterious, an enigmatic delight, prog-rock at its trippy origins... Storybook Time: Chapter Five of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Why? fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is Neil Young, some tunes from his recently released Live at the Fillmore East 1970 album...the year's last month begun, what a year, heavy with history & blood...

12.02.2006 show


November 18, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: Eric Clapton & J.J. Cale, The Road to Escondido (2006)...this album by Clapton and one of his biggest influences is a sneaky one...laid back, then it reaches up & bites...strange in being like this, intense mellowness, and then something too fierce at moments to be called mellow at all...
Featured Classic Rock Album: Billy Joel, Piano Man (1973)... Joel was pretty obscure when this album came out, the beginning of a run that would make him famous & burn him down...but, again, this was the beginning, he was wild, he loved making music, he didn't care so much for what happened next...I was 18 listening to this work, and learning lessons I would keep a long time... Storybook Time: Chapter Five of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Why? fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is Steely Dan, tricky manic jazz-rock music that kicks in deep & then laughing goes deeper...this show should be a sweet one, strange hungers will whip it up high...

11.18.2006 show


November 11, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: The Who, Endless Wire (2006)... It's been 24 years since The Who have released a new album, and they have now lost two of their original four members...that said, this album rocks, it is brash, sweet, yearning, and tuneful...the second half is a mini rock opera, to boot, as my Who fanatic friend JBIII said to me, if this is their finale, what a great way to go...
Featured Classic Rock Album: Big Brother & the Holding Company, Cheap Thrills (1968)... marry a free-swinging, demon-laden blues singer to her hard rocking psychedelic combo and you have a band that has never been equaled for their raw, deep, moving sound...
Storybook Time: Chapter Five of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Why? fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is John Mellencamp, an old favorite of mine whose rock and roll noise is still a fine pleasure...WE WON WE WON WE WON! THE KING IS NOW A LAME DUCK! LONG LIVE THE DUCK!!!

11.11.2006 show


November 4, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: Lindsey Buckingham, Under the Skin (2006)... Fleetwood Mac's sometime guitar god releases yet another solo work so rocking and tuneful it's amazing he remains somewhat of an obscure figure on his own...personal, sweeping, full of high musical food...
Featured Classic Rock Album: Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska (1982)... when this album came out, nobody much knew the Boss could take a single guitar and blow your world away with it...since then he has done it often, but this remains arguably his most intense acoustic statement...I heard this album when I was 18, my first intro to Springsteen, and its pleasures and mysteries have stuck with me all these years...
Storybook Time: Chapter Four of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Why? fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is The Who, some of their best known and some of their obscure best before next week's show when their brand new music comes to this show...it's cold, it's autumn, there are deeper thoughts to go swimming with all around...and the election to sweep All the King's Thugs away is at hand!

11.04.2006 show


October 21, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: Trey Anastasio, Bar 17 (2006)... the former lead guitarist of late-lamented Phish does not make Phish records by himself, but does sometimes make records possessed of the same kind of greatness...rocks, shines, dims, there are moments when one could forget the year and the passing of time, and be grooving with the boyz again...
Featured Classic Rock Album: Traffic, Traffic (1968)... an album that starts out rowdy, soars, and higher, rocks a little, then a lot more, & leaves you wanting to ride its ride many times more...brilliant grooves....
Storybook Time: Chapter Four of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Why? fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is Pink Floyd, some delicious live tracks...some Jon Stewart too, maybe some Huxley, maybe some political fires stoked, as the little King is soon to be swept to the curb of history!!

10.21.2006 show


October 14, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: Rum Diary, We're Afraid of Heights Tonight (2006)... this California trip-rock band makes pretty, dangerous sounds, some slow & soft, some loud, some crash, this album flows & you go, & where you arrive is an uncertainty...
Featured Classic Rock Album: The Rolling Stones, Beggar's Banquet (1968)... now they are old men, some say cartoonish, some wait for their clearer moments, which do come, and remember albums like this one from '68, when they roared, when they murmured, when they mattered...
Storybook Time: Chapter Four of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Why? fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is Radiohead, a band many are waiting & waiting on for new music...the autumn is sweetly arriving, leaves showing us all how to leave best & brightest for whatever worlds await from this one...

10.14.2006 show


October 7, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: Beck, The Information (2006)...he's been away for a couple of years, but busy, KD & I saw him, his band, & their puppets rock the Sasquatch fest this summer, full of new album energy...new album is grand, ambitious, as varied as one could hope, pretty, bouncy, laden & weightless...the strange master walks again in public...
Featured Classic Rock Album: Cream, Fresh Cream (1966)... debut album by one of the seminal British rock bands, sweeps into the world & watch trees, gods, & men stand aside...amazing to observe genius arrive fully formed...Cream pretty much invented the rock trio, so much would follow their steps...
Storybook Time: Chapter Four of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Why? fixtion (starting this one this week!) & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist are the Jayhawks, singing pretty, melancholy notes of sugar, bearing any heart high or low...more Robert Anton Wilson, more Jon Stewart, more reverb than anyone could know, maybe some Huxley, maybe something else...

10.07.2006 show


September 30, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: The Decemberists, The Crane Wife (2006)... so...this is the deal...neither Kassi nor I have heard this album but we are so into the Decemberists that it is going to go on air still unheard...so the reaction will be utterly fresh...I'm betting it will be awesome...
Featured Classic Rock Album: Buffalo Springfield, Buffalo Springfield Again (1967)... great album by a folk-rock band too short-lived, but their reach is long...especially that of Neil Young & Stephen Stills...return to their youth & see their promise in early bloom...
Storybook Time: Chapter Four of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Things Change fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is Wilco, wild poet boys from Chi-town USA...some other goodies, like Robert Anton Wilson, Jon Stewart, maybe even some more Huxley...this is show number 100 since being on SpiritPlants Radio!...jack in, hummmmmmmmmmmm!!

09.30.2006 show


September 23, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: The Church, Box of Birds (2006)...this Australian band has been a favorite of mine for many years, but I was not able til recently to find this all-covers album of theirs. Mmm mmm, what a treat, reminds me of Rush's recent Feedback album, songs loved and re-invented both...delights from Bowie, Neil Young, George Harrison, the Monkees, Hawkwind, Ultravox, Television, and more...again: mmm mmm...
Featured Classic Rock Album: Crosby, Stills, & Nash, Crosby, Stills, & Nash (1969)... pretty much the perfect hippie rock jam album, full of sky-high harmonies, blissed-out guitars, longing, idealism, desire, and moments untellably beautiful but by hearing them...surely one of the places to begin teaching anyone what the psychedelic revolution is like at its best...
Storybook Time: Chapter Four of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Things Change fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is Phish, one of this show's deepest favorite icons...a little Jon Stewart too, a little Robert Anton Wilson, a little Huxley, what a brew, sip with care & vivacity!

09.23.2006 show


September 16, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: Thom Yorke, The Eraser (2006)...this album from Radiohead's front man took me a number of listens to catch with...not a Radiohead album, yet not unrelated...quiet at times, yet furious...pretty but with little sentimentality...it stays in some nether place between mind and heart...
Featured Classic Rock Album: Paul Simon, Still Crazy After All These Years (1975)...Paul Simon is a great musical poet, one whose songs often pretty & familiar are also some of the darkest meditations on human love & loneliness & existence...then on occasion a silly one for no damned good reason and every one of them...
Storybook Time: Chapter Four of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Things Change fixtion & Many Musics poems...& this week's featured artist is XTC, lovely, British, so sweet, so high...also expect Robert Anton Wilson, Jon Stewart, and unknown other voices & noises & melodies, jazz, electronica, to appear...just like that!

09.16.2006 show


September 9, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: Tapes 'n Tapes, The Loon (2006)... this strange band from Minnesota sounds like indie rock but not like any other band making indie rock...a shaking, quaking odd run of pleasures, something more going on here...
Featured Classic Rock Album: Tim Buckley, Goodbye and Hello (1967)...Buckley is a lysergic troubadour, neither a lone peak like Dylan nor a quadrophenic Beatles...yet shares the qualities of both of these contemporaries...from a single soul a massive awesome noise...
Storybook Time: Chapter Four of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Things Change fixtion & Many Musics poems, & this week's featured artist are the Pixies, sneering down the years from their ranting, rolling subterranean...back on air after a month traveling to the desert...revved up, both ready and Freddy!

09.09.2006 show


August 5, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: Tom Petty, Highway Companion (2006)...Petty and a clique of guitars shows up every few years, full of broods & musings, rings the old hippie bell, finds some new sounds again, lyrics leave something to think on, "rust or run"...
Featured Classic Rock Album: Jefferson Airplane, After Bathing at Baxter's (1967)... the Airplane was highest for just a few years, a few albums, but what stories they told from up there, what lovely electric harmony tales of lysergia...
Storybook Time: Chapter Four of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Things Change fixtion & Many Musics poems, & this week's featured artist is the Talking Heads, a beguiling bag of funky nuts for those around wanting to reach a hand in...days now from the festival in the desert, vibes on this broadcast will blow hard & dusty no doubts!

08.05.2006 show


July 22, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: Golden Smog, Another Fine Day (2006)... Indie rock supergroup finally makes good on its own promise, the sound of Wilco, the Jayhawks, and Soul Asylum comes together and trips the beautiful noise high, very high...this is the album the seals them as good as their constituent sources...
Featured Classic Rock Album: Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bayou Country (1969)... CCR never made an album less than stellar, with moments smoky acoustic soft and others yowling lovely...they come on with albums half the length of some of the bloated messes released nowadays, and depart having said so much more in their brief time...
Storybook Time: Chapter Four of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Things Change fixtion & Many Musics poems, & this week's featured artist is Camper Van Beethoven, an indie rock band of old that caught its odd moment perfectly and splintered it out into a million groovy nuggets...listen to Jack Kerouac, for Jon Stewart, for Aldous Huxley, and for other moments too weird for lingua...

07.22.2006 show


July 15, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: Band of Horses, Everything All the Time (2006)... Seattle band with a country chiming flavor, enough enigma to keep it grooving, enough tune to sweet the listening ears, adds up to even more, and much promise too...
Featured Classic Rock Album: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Into the Great Wide Open (1991)... On the eve of Petty's new release, take a flight back to this early '90s trippy jangling powerhouse, Petty & his guitar partner Mike Campbell both opening up the doors wide on the jam...
Storybook Time: Chapter Four of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Things Change fixtion & Many Musics poems, & this week's featured artist are punk greats The Ramones, how great their cartoon music show shined in its time...and noise from Kerouac, Huxley, Jon Stewart, three hours thick of frivolity & deeper diggings!

07.15.2006 show


July 8, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: Drive-By Truckers, A Blessing and a Curse (2006)...Heavy sounds from this Georgia based outfit, songs of regret & redemption, loud and soft alike, from the land of stiffly hot summers & violent artistic passions...
Featured Classic Rock Album: The Black Crowes, Southern Harmony and Musical Companion (1992)... Another heavy Georgia band, story says they recorded this album in just a few days, and it sounds like a band locking the doors and turning up the amps, closing off the world while picturing it in thick chords and desperate words...
Storybook Time: Chapter Four of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Things Change fixtion & Many Musics poems, & this week's featured artist is rock guitar god of gods Chuck Berry...and there will be more, Kerouac pining and Jon Steward irony...each show bears its past kin along while trying to reinvent everything for a moment or two...

07.08.2006 show


June 24, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: Guster, Ganging Up on the Sun (2006)...this band ripples up and down stretches of melodies, and their new album creates its own land of ringing mountains and quiet shadows, come in and visit...
Featured Classic Rock Album: The Moody Blues, Days of Future Passed (1967)...no band up til this album had created a concept rock canvas completely suffused with full classical orchestration...none have surpassed it since...a thousand thousand journeys into the sun began by dropping the needle on this one...
Storybook Time: Chapter Four of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Things Change fixtion & Many Musics poems, & this week's featured artist is The Jesus & Mary Chain and their squalling bag of electric sweets...sometimes what to play seems such a vast question hardly seems possible the answer, but found one!

06.24.2006 show


June 17, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: Grandaddy, Just Like Fambly Cat (2006)... one last barrel of trippy nuggets from this West Coast band as they call it a day...a sweet, strange music, the kind a group of friends in smoky Saturday shadows might sink into the night listening to...
Featured Classic Rock Album: Grateful Dead, Anthem of the Sun (1968)... this album grooves torchingly along, ripping out gapes in simple daylight beliefs, and replacing them with surreal nocturnal complexities...sweet & dangerous, a trip inviting for endless re-visits...
Storybook Time: Chapter Four of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Things Change fixtion & Many Musics poems, the latter begun again & again til one day it hooks, maybe this time...& this week's featured artist is The Cure, rocking weirdo rock that dips in many mindpools and shimmers from below...Every show a treasure, every single one, I do not know where this one will go but am eager for its rise...

06.17.2006 show


June 10, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: Snow Patrol, Eyes Open (2006)... this Scottish band rocks it pretty pretty and well, lodges high and comfortably among the dozen or so great UK rock bands carrying the flag in the early 21st century (among them Radiohead, Coldplay, Oasis, Belle & Sebastian)...
Featured Classic Rock Album: The Police, Ghost in the Machine (1981)... speaking of great British bands, it was a quarter century ago that The Police both carried and owned the flag of great rock, and for too short a time...Ghost was their fourth and penultimate album, mixing the longing and paranoia of those lost Cold War years with music bouncy, growly, strange & great...this music owned me back then, I was 17 and eyes like wide open doors...
Storybook Time: Chapter Four of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Things Change fixtion & Many Musics poems, the latter begun anew & ready to reveal...& this week's featured artist is Crosby, Stills, & Nash, focusing on their later 1970s/1980s work, gorgeous stuff often neglected...show's been away since late May, too long, bouncy to be back!

06.10.2006 show


May 20, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: Paul Simon, Surprise (2006)... the great poet/musician returns with an album whose strange & striking words are his own, but whose exotic soundscape he crafted with Brian Eno. . .Simon means business every time he releases an album, of the serious & comical kind both. . .
Featured Classic Rock Album: The Who, Who By Numbers (1975)... The Who rock hard & soft in this one, released after two successful rock operas & one aborted one. . .yet the ambition is no less here, and the results no less fiercely moving...
Storybook Time: Chapter Four of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Things Change fixtion & Many Musics poems. . .& this week's featured artist is R.E.M. & their first release, back in 1982, the gorgeous head candy EP, Chronic Town...the warm weather arriving, can its embedded hope be wholly untrue?

05.20.2006 show


May 13, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: Built to Spill, You in Reverse (2006)...it seems like this band was dismissed by many after their underrated 2001 album...no matter...their new one rocks fierce, no quarter...soft, hard, harder, a return stamped very good. . .
Featured Classic Rock Album: Santana, Santana III (1971)...this album is 35 years old yet excites the ears like it came out last week, fresh twin guitar frenzies, wild rhythmic rolls, carlos santana's original band showing why they still haunt the rock landscape...
Storybook Time: Chapter Four of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Things Change fixtion & Many Musics poems. . .& this week's featured artist is Rush, a run of songs from their decades of sonic genius...show number 200, took nearly 7 1/2 years to arrive!

05.13.2006 show


May 6, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: Neil Young, Living With War (2006)... another war has finally pushed ol' Neil's ire over the edge, & he has responded with a great, beautiful fury. . .it's been a long time since a major rocker has launched this mighty an attack on the Empire's easy, righteous destruction of life. . .
Featured Classic Rock Album: Pink Floyd, Animals (1977)... The Floyd are a dark band, and this album finds them down in the deep chasmic spaces they prefer. . .loosely based on George Orwell's novel Animal Farm, there are obscure moments of light to be found if one listens to each track in the whole. . .
Storybook Time: Chapter Four of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Things Change fixtion & some shards from the poem-beast Many Musics...& this week's show features the blistering hearts of U2. . .spring arriving on the West Coast. . .the dark days their grasp's annual loose...

05.06.2006 show


April 22, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: The Church, Uninvited, Like the Clouds (2006)... Australian psychedelia, pretty in moments, melancholy and terrifying at others...it wasn't but a couple of weeks ago that this show played their 1988 album Starfish as a classic album...now's time for their current news of the cosmos...
Featured Classic Rock Album: Supertramp, Breakfast in America (1979)... Supertramp was a long skyrocket of progressive pop sensibility...sweetness with a shadowy undercoating...nursery rhymes stretched into surreal lengths...rock light then heavier and deeper and watch their melodic staircase roar far & away...
Storybook Time: Chapter Four of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Things Change fixtion. . .& this week's show features the Smithereens, a Jersey band who rocked the late '80s like they were the late '60s and nothing bad had yet happened...this a show near to my birthday, what of it, the music smiles & does not care...

04.22.2006 show


April 15, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: Placebo, Meds (2006)...this band took awhile to convince me of its various musical prowesses, and did, and its sliding lyrical truths, and did...they mean what they say and play, and do it finely...
Featured Classic Rock Album: The Byrds, Younger Than Yesterday (1967)...The Byrds' first six albums came out in three years and bore a fury of fine harmonies, nutty sweet guitars, and high, near lyrics...this album rings with some of their best songs of that period...
Storybook Time: Chapter Four of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Things Change fixtion...& this week's show features Prince, a one-man planet of funky erotic psychedelic explorations...maybe some answers this week, or some better questions, or something neither and both, that deeper dwelling place of calm...

04.15.2006 show


April 8, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: Flaming Lips, At War With the Mystics (2006)...the Lips return after several years away, & jump into the current nutty buddy world, send out their melodic strangenesses in all directions & hit walls, ceilings, floors, clouds with all manner of splatters...
Featured Classic Rock Album: The Church, Starfish (1988)...I remember walking into a record store in Connecticut about '89, long bus trips to get to this store, & buying this Church LP, it took me more than I took it...saw them live twice that year...taught me psychedelic truths long before I hit the dots-n-drops myself...
Storybook Time: Chapter Three of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from random pomes and Things Change fixtion...& this week's show features Buddy Holly, one of the first to push rock-n-roll further than the sock hop, one of its first to die much too young...back to the mic after a break & its visits with some Dadaist lunacies, ready to tell on 'em...

04.08.2006 show


March 25, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: Rum Diary, Poisons That Save Lives (2003)...this music runs into dark, electric spaces, the deep places where a pipe rests on a teak table, sweet smoke rising, rumbles beyond the walls, crazy acoustic full moon yowling through the darked tinted windows...
Featured Classic Rock Album: The Doors, Morrison Hotel (1970)...it's spring again and time for this show's annual Doors' album offering, this year the so-called "comeback" album...blood on the rise and it's following me...mmm...
Storybook Time: Chapter Three of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Labyrinthine and Things Change fixtion...& this week's show features the Electric Light Orchestra, their great crescendoes of melodic cyclones...maybe something else too...what the weekly rants raise up with them, what carries along into the live & unbound...

03.25.2006 show


March 18, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: Built to Spill, Ancient Melodies of the Future (2001)... this music cuts through the decades & the miles & arrives at the place where the guitars have always led you up & up & up...
Featured Classic Rock Album: Yes, The Yes Album (1971)... this band travels the long wispy spaces that few bands conceive, much less put into music & words...the sweet & far away...
Storybook Time: Chapter Three of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from Labyrinthine and Things Change fixtion. . .& this week's show features the Monkees, a band only LSD & the last decadent phase of capitalism could have produced...hehe...

03.18.2006 show


March 11, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: The Shins, Chutes Too Narrow (2003)...This band's second album charms, is strange, charms strangely, lingers in a spill of bright light, of twangy guitars, of possibilities when music opens out raw & high...
Featured Classic Rock Album: The Smiths, Strangeways, Here We Come (1987)...the Smiths were a trippy rock band in the middle of the Reaganomics era, and so this earned them few, but fanatical fans...Morrissey moans sincerely, though a twinkle is suspected...Marr and the rest of the group rock it out behind him...rarely a stranger combo of personalities in one band...
Storybook Time: Chapter Three of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from New Songs poems and Things Change fixtion...& this week's show features the Traveling Wilburys, a dear little group of superstar buddies who joined up for just a bit to create a bunch of sly, dear, memorable songs...

03.11.2006 show


February 25, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: Impossible Shapes, Tum (2006)...This past and future release is a cherry bowl of trippy little nuggets...they splat your tongue with strange goodness, then poof and here comes the next...
Featured Classic Rock Album: Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited (1965)...Dylan was not walking on mortal ground when he penned these songs, they surely came from other ethers and landed in his hands by chance and luck...
Storybook Time: Chapter Three of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from New Songs poems and Things Change fixtion...& this week's show features the evilly delicious Smiths mmmm...yowzaaa & have another! Time to rave for the new world coming before it's gone again!

02.25.2006 show


February 18, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: Long Winters, When I Pretend to Fall (2003)... Long Winters perform songs that rock with guitars, horns, strings, swooping lyrical shine...they hit it hard & harder, then soft and softer, and that plumbs even further...a Seattle band and a pleasure to feature on this show...
Featured Classic Rock Album: Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin IV (1971)...one of the reassuring miracles about life is that someone today, and tomorrow, and beyond, is listening to this album for the first time, getting took by its power, its push toward liberation of mind & music...loveliness, sheer awe...
Storybook Time: Chapter Three of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from New Songs poems and Things Change fixtion. . .& this week's show features the singular swirling singing mists of Fleetwood Mac...these are long, chilly days but how we insist on walking on, how the sunshine is somewhere & here we come...here we come...as many of us as we can....

02.18.2006 show


February 4, 2006 show features:
New Rock Album: Rogue Wave, Descended Like Vultures (2005)... this band tosses off the harmonies like butterflies in the breeze...then the guitars hit & everyone goes ohhhhhhhhh...
Featured Classic Rock Album: The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)... this album's release year was full of higher profile classics by the Doors & the Beatles, to name just two...but decades along only a very few have shown the staying grit of this set of dark street sirens & pretty pleasings...
Storybook Time: Chapter Three of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from New Songs poems and Things Change fixtion. . .some hefty lefty rants for yer pleasure & chagrin...& this week's show features some tasty grooving sugar all over your brain tunes from the Gin Blossoms...taste it...you wanna...

02.04.2006 show


January 28, 2006 show features:
Featured Album: Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Live Rust (1979)... a seminal work from a rock god, capturing him & his long-time band near the end of their first golden era (there would be more)...Neil rocks, wails, croons, rants, lets it all out there & brings it all home again...
Storybook Time: Chapter Three of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from New Songs poems and Things Change fixtion. . .It was seven years ago around this time that i began hosting this show in the back room of a small gallery in cambridge, massachusetts, where a rudimentary pirate FM station had been set up...good days, though little audience, a year of that, and two years at the low power AM/web station Allston-Brighton Free Radio in Boston...then a long while no show...finally come to SpiritPlants Radio in Nov 2003...a good run & ready to carry into the 8th year of shows!

01.28.2006 show


January 21, 2006 show features:
New rock album: Belle & Sebastian, The Life Pursuit, (2006)...i did not like this band at all...then i tried this album...now i think this band is so...fucking...good...weird high brit rock at its finest...
Featured Classic rock album: Steely Dan, Katy Lied, (1975)...this band inhabits its own world of smooth jazzy rock deep discontent...they are fine, they are addictive, you have been warned...
Storybook Time: Chapter Three of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from New Songs and Things Change. . .& this week's show features a few clear rock nuggets from the mountain top which Eric Clapton plays...mmm...God knows how to rock!

01.21.2006 show


January 7, 2006 show features:
New rock album: Nada Surf, The Weight is a Gift, (2005)...this band is beguiling...they sometimes rock sly & sweet, sometimes they hit the chords hard & go...nice surprise when I discovered em & here they are for you too...
Featured Classic rock album: R.E.M., Automatic for the People, (1992)...surely one of the great rock albums of all time, & one of the highest of high points for this band...i used to walk through the boston common with a cassette of this record blasting through my walkman...over & over & over...
Storybook Time: Chapter Three of The Long Trip: A Pre-history of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux . . .
Readings from New Songs and Things Change...& this week's show features the odd, beautiful music of David Bowie...here goes another year...just now...this moment...here goes!

01.07.2006 show


December 24, 2005 show features:
New rock album: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (2005)... strange, strange band, but song by song they rock, their lyrics gain a weird hold in the mind, they are good musicians & tell the old tales new...took awhile, but I got convinced...
Featured Classic rock Album: Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cosmo's Factory (1970)...one of my favorite American rock bands, I could listen to them for days, deeply funky & melodic, lyrics that purr & singe...this album features among its highlights a long explosive version of "Heard It Through the Grapevine"...none other quite like CCR...
Storybook Time: Chapter Three of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs and Things Change...& this week's show celebrates the holiday season, sort of, hehe hehe...

12.24.2005 show


December 17, 2005 show features:
New rock album: The Tragically Hip, In Between Evolution (2004)... Canada's own rock supergroup, less known elsewhere, been around a couple decades now...they rock this one hard, electric fury, hard groove, freak lyric charms...this album took me over slowly, now arrived, staying...
Featured Classic rock Album: Tomorrow, Tomorrow (1968)...this album is drenched in the good acid rock rolling high through the UK in '68, shares the same trippy air as Pink Floyd & the Soft Machine, crazy fun for you nutty hippie kids of all ages..hehe...
Storybook Time: Chapter Three of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs and Things Change...& this week's featured artist is Donovan & his high vibey acoustic troubadour delights...

12.17.2005 show


December 10, 2005 show features:
New rock album: Supergrass, Road to Rouen (2005)... A new discovery for me, though this Brit band has been around awhile...rock a little like the oldies, punk a little too, a luring way with melody & rhythm, great new album...
Featured Classic rock Album: The Grateful Dead, Live/Dead (1969). . .ok, so you hit Dead shows back then or you missed em, either way, tune this album in, puff a little something good, lay back, it's all present now like always again, & here you go...
Storybook Time: Chapter Three of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs and Things Change...& something of a tribute to John Lennon, have you been gone that long? Why do you still seem so present, almost waiting for the rest of us?

12.10.2005 show


November 26, 2005 show features:
New rock album: Death Cab for Cutie, Plans (2005)...this album flies so deep in the fabric of rock-n-roll that trying to figure out what it did not influence since '73 when it came out would be impossible...still every bit the classic it's long been...
Featured Classic rock Album: Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon (1973)... this album flies so deep in the fabric of rock-n-roll that trying to figure out what it did not influence since '73 when it came out would be impossible...still every bit the classic it's long been...
Storybook Time: Chapter Three of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs and Things Change...thankful for many beautiful people & things in the world, & for SPF Radio indeed!

11.26.2005 show


November 12, 2005 show features:
New rock album: Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase (2005)... the Scottish duo BoC works a special ground between electronica & rock...move a listener with melodies & weirdness that sticks deep & good...this third album is their finest, trippiest yet...
Featured Classic rock Album: The Zombies, Odessey & Oracle (1968)... this brit band sings high & sweet, lyrics sometimes lush & romantic, but sometimes in a place not quite like any other's...easy to fall within their music, harder to find a reason to leave...
Storybook Time: Chapter Three of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs and Things Change...ready for this one? are you sure? it is coming fast atcha...

11.12.2005 show


November 5, 2005 show features:
New rock album: Neil Young, Prairie Wind (2005)... NY returns with what looks to be the third in his Harvest/Harvest Moon series of acoustic, reflective albums...this one takes awhile to reveal its rare, special bite, then it does, & makes a lot of sense thereafter...
Featured Classic rock Album: Love, Forever Changes (1967)... a weird album in a year of weird albums...horns, strange hippie wisdom, rocks some even...worth its path....
Storybook Time: Chapter Three of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs and Things Change...a week off always makes this show crazy revving to resume...

11.05.2005 show


October 22, 2005 show features:
New rock album: My Morning Jacket, Z (2005)...this Louisville, Kentucky band rocks into all sort of places, soft, raucous, weird, sublime, their album takes you up & along & never forgets to keep you in mind no matter how upside down sideways the view gets...
Featured Classic rock Album: The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)...chuck berry & buddy holly pretty much invented rock-n-roll...the beatles & dylan listened closely & reinvented it in their turn...this album is the sound of the beatles announcing that reinvention...it is also their proclamation that acid can drive art even wilder in genius hands...
Storybook Time: Chapter Two of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs and Things Change...bits of books, bits of pomes, bits of the moon at noon...bits of high building up higher...

10.22.2005 show


October 15, 2005 show features:
New rock album: Elbow, Leaders of the Free World (2005)... once called a Coldplay clone, this UK band has developed a sound odd & compelling & all its own...sweet, sometimes groovy, & over & over compelling new rock...
Featured Classic rock Album: The Waterboys, Fisherman's Blues (1988)... the best album to date by one of Ireland's best rock bands, there is folk in it, loud guitars, soft poetry, sweetness & bawdiness too...
Storybook Time: Chapter Two of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs and Things Change...the world a strange tangled place & music one of its few constant paths...come along...

10.15.2005 show


October 8, 2005 show features:
New rock album: New Pornographers, Twin Cinema (2005)...this album builds slowly in the mind until it moves in, takes over, & re-creates the interior in high colors & bouncy floors & walls...delicious stuff...
Featured Classic Rock Album: Small Faces, Ogden's Nut Gone Flake (1968)... this is surely a strange record, britishly endearing, trippy R&B that makes its musical place in the world...
Storybook Time: Chapter Two of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs and Things Change...back after a week off and ready to jump up, up, up! and in...wheeee...

10.08.2005 show


September 24, 2005 show features:
New rock album: Grandaddy, Sumday (2003)... this California band goos into one's pores with its strange keys & freak lyrics. . .and stays & stays. . .watch, listen, see how they stay & stay. . .
Featured Classic rock Album: Paul Simon, Paul Simon (1972). . .Simon had a tall reputation with Simon & Garfunkel to leap. . .and with this album he simply took a breath & walked straight through. . .
Storybook Time: Chapter Two of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs and Things Change. . . new, change, all that is & matters, all that comes & goes, all that is. . .

09.24.2005 show


September 17, 2005 show features:
New rock album: Super Furry Animals, Love Kraft (2005)...this Welsh band brings out a new luscious soundfeast slipping into the rockier and softer terrains...still weird, still lovely, still jamming...
Featured Classic rock Album: The Pretty Things, S.F. Sorrow (1968)... called by many the first rock opera, this also is a delicious picnic of pipers drawing you higher & higher, laughing & laughing...
Storybook Time: Chapter Two of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs and Things Change...some shows suggest themselves, some just open the door and say AHHHHH...

09.17.2005 show


September 10, 2005 show features:
New rock album: Guster, (2003)...this Boston band offers a bouquet of pop grooves, sweet, staying tunes, fine in the mind & booty...
Featured Classic rock Album: Pink Floyd, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)...anyone wanting to find the roots of acid rock must soon or sooner stop off at this debut release from one of the most vital bands ever...ever...
Storybook Time: Chapter Two of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs and Things Change...returned from the desert in more or less the same form, ready to lift up into the autumn and the several possible elsewheres related...heh...

09.10.2005 show


August 27, 2005 show features:
New rock album: Thirteen Senses, The Invitation (2005)...this UK band has it going from the start, moody, bright UK rock that leans toward even more...leans hard...
Featured Classic rock Album: Big Brother & the Holding Company, Big Brother & the Holding Company (1967)...This San Francisco band roared out of the gate on Janis Joplin's yowl carried on a sea of trip n funk n bluesy rock...yowwwwwwww...
Storybook Time: Chapter Two of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs and Things Change...leaving for the Great Burn not too many hours from now, & no clue as ever, & every hope stands high...

08.27.2005 show


August 20, 2005 show features:
New rock album: Snow Patrol, Final Straw (2003)... I didn't connect with this band at all. . .figured them for another UK wimp rock band...then came on their music on my computer by chance this week...bang, wow! they goooood...
Featured Classic rock Album: The Allman Brothers Band, Idlewild South (1970)...A southern rock band I'd never too much noticed, & then this week I did...and, again, bang, wow!...
Storybook Time: Chapter Two of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs and Things Change...nearing the great Burn in the desert, heart points toward it true, what will it teach this year? What can it be offered?

08.20.2005 show


August 13, 2005 show features:
New rock album: Gomez, Split the Difference (2004)... I had heard this band's name but not their music until this late evening, and even as this show is hours away, I'm grooving with this Brit powerhouse brand new...
Featured Classic rock Album: Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band, Greatest Hits (1994)...Seger & his boys rocked harder & smarter than most bands of his prime in the '70s or since...this album recalls & deepens the truth of this man's wildly good rock'n'roll music...
Storybook Time: Chapter Two of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs and Things Change...returning to the air after a couple of weeks in some weird tangled places...happily, ready to take the mic again & raise it up again & here goes again!

08.13.2005 show


July 23, 2005 show features:
New rock album: Teenage Fanclub, Man-Made (2005)...Scottish group rides deep into themes of love & loss...sometimes sweet, sometimes terrifying...music that gets hard at the beauty & sadness of living...
Featured Classic rock Album: The Who, Quadrophenia (1973)... talk about your long trips, & bands that lived before they got old...this double-album proved this band could do nearly anything...anything, really...rock of ages...
Storybook Time: Chapter Two of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs and Things Change...sometimes music is all that's left for comfort & instruction...hang on to it...when the words come along, they will be truer...hang on to them too...til letting go comes easily...

07.23.2005 show


July 16, 2005 show features:
New rock album: Sleater-Kinney, The Woods (2005)...the hard-rocking girls from the Pacific Northwest return on an even more ambitious plane this time, & going along with them is a challenge to the most open mind...but, yah, they still shake asses. . .
Featured Classic rock Album: Creedence Clearwater Revival, Willie & the Poor Boys (1969)...CCR shake asses too, push the cerebral into the swamps to face the deep funk there, & stay, & move further in...
Storybook Time: Chapter Two of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs and Things Change...singing & singing higher, here goes another, so many shows have come along & yet new & dangerous & only matters by being such & moreso...

07.16.2005 show


June 25, 2005 show features:
New rock album: Oasis, Don't Believe the Truth (2005). . .I used to hate this band as a blatant, bad imitator of the Beatles, but I tried this album out for ha-has, and damned if I didn't spend half an evening listening again & again...they have found their sound at last, and tis good!
Featured Classic rock Album: Traffic, Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (1971)... Steve Winwood & his crew set another album alight & drift ever upwards pretty & further than pretty...happiness in its many songs...
Storybook Time: Chapter Two of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs and Things Change...spreading the truths & whatever they are embedded in far & wide!

06.25.2005 show


June 18, 2005 show features:
New rock album: Spoon, Gimme Fiction (2005) ...dark, compelling new psychedelic rock, potent & controlled when not loose & unleashed...rocks and rocks and rocks...
Featured Classic rock Album: Neil Young, After the Gold Rush (1970)...on the LP cover, a tripped out image of glowering Neil is passing a tiny little woman, he is going to the studio to record loud noise & sweet murmurs...she is going home to cower from the menace of tall glowering hippies in the street...heh...
Storybook Time: Chapter Two of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs and Things Change...it will extend out as far as it can go, from pools to strands to bits, & what comes back will be...

06.18.2005 show


June 11, 2005 show features:
New rock album: Coldplay, X&Y (2005), FINALLY...their last album hit me one fine Saturday a couple of years ago while journeying in my old hometown far from here, and it's not stopped hitting since...their new one resumes their high, sweet course and leads to more pretty, dark places...
Featured Classic rock Album: The Byrds, Fifth Dimension (1966)...their jingle jangle guitars and harmonies upheld some witheringly hopeful sentiments...memorable, scarring music...from many miles up...
Storybook Time: Chapter Two of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs and Things Change...guest noises and yawps...tales of freaks from then, now, & henceforth!

06.11.2005 show


June 4, 2005 show features:
New rock album: Shpongle, Nothing Lasts . . . But Nothing is Lost (2005)...FINALLY...i got introduced to shpongle years ago and have been waiting like countless others for their next musical bomb...all i can say is...BOOM!!!....
Featured Classic rock Album: Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers (1971)... from its Andy Warhol real zipper-n-all cover to its ten dirty pretty tracks, this is one of the albums that keeps people showing up at the old geezers' shows...heh...
Storybook Time: Chapter Two of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs and Things Change... roars & rants from saturday's high noon high, what new, what next, whither bound? indeed!

06.04.2005 show


May 28, 2005 show features:
New rock album: Elbow, Cast of Thousands (2004)... this album resembles coldplay, pink floyd, and other rock giants, and then...delightedly...it doesn't anymore....
Classic rock album: Led Zeppelin, III (1970) the test of every really heavy rock band since LZ is can they go acoustic and make it beautiful? learn how the masters led the way, and lead it still...
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Two of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs and Things Change . . . roars & rants from saturday's high noon high, what new, what next, whither bound? indeed!

05.28.2005 show


May 14, 2005 show features:
New rock album: Yes, Keystudio (2001)...if any '60s band emerged in the new century still playing to the cosmic source as cleanly as ever, it was Yes, and a very few others...
Classic rock album: The Beatles, Revolver (1966). . .beatles turn on, tune in, rock out harder and higher than ever, invite everyone along...
Storybook Time: Chapter Two of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs and Things Change. . .i stayed up half the night readying this show, and i'm DELIGHTED...hehe...

05.14.2005 show


May 07, 2005 show features:
New rock album: Beck, Guero (2005)...funky white boy returns to his roots and finds the groove but no comfort there...thumps darkly...
Classic rock album: Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde (1966). . .godgurunutgenius can't stop making music when young so lets it all roar out til the record stops and you pass out to happy delusions...
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter One of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs and Things Change...& letting it all roar out til something somewhere responds in kind, and we laugh & laugh & laugh...

05.07.2005 show


April 30, 2005 show features:
New rock album: The Doves, Some Cities (2005)...brit rock alive and further along in the new century...strange album, difficult moments til it's easy and righteous...
Classic rock album: Grateful Dead, Aoxomoxoa (1969)...early Dead, some pretty, some roaring, freedom and terror in the days around them, they blew it all out...
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter One of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs, Things Change, & once again on saturday mornings like this show was when it was a tiny one on pirate FM in boston a long ago, long long...

04.30.2005 show


April 17, 2005 show features:
New rock album: Broken Social Scene, You Forgot it in People (2002)...jammy lovely wonder from a many membered collective making music to excite your groove and incite your hope...
Classic rock album: Billy Joel, Turnstiles (1976)...when i was 17, i'd sit at my kitchen table with this LP blasting on my portable turntable, and i'd play along the piano parts, my fingers tapping along, and i'd sing in my cracked voice first song to last, but especially the second side of the record...another classic and personal favorite unearthed from the back-when...
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter One of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs and Things Change, & efforts as always to go a step further along in webcasting & cyber-connections. . .

04.17.2005 show


April 10, 2005 show features:
New rock album: Arcade Fire, Funeral (2004)...this first album from AF is a strange wonder, mourns, exults, is a hyper-overflow of creative excitement...
Classic rock album: Harry Chapin, Sniper & Other Love Songs (1972)...this album was the soundtrack to my life some years ago when i was green...i hear it now and love it anew...sad, thoroughly loving...happy to unearth it from obscurity...
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter One of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs, New Period, and a jump up and out to see what is possible in aural cyberspace...what is possible?...heh...

04.10.2005 show


April 3, 2005 show features:
New rock album: The Decemberists, Picaresque (2005)...a carnival of words & sounds & delight...a strange candy eaten with your ears to fall onto a breeze out to somewhere really weird & good...
Classic rock album: The Doors, Strange Days (1967)...jim morrison & his crew pick up where they left off at the end of their first album, continuing to tale by beauty, hypnosis, grotesque conjurings, the pretty & dirty & unknowable corners of their time & other times & no times...
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter One of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs, New Period, a praise for coming green days, whatever it will be, will be, & elsewise too...heh...

04.03.2005 show


March 23, 2005 show features:
New rock album: Low, The Great Destroyer (2005) ...pretty & strange, rocks up and off the cliff at moments, then breaking lovely harmonies cause flight not crash...sweet bites of melody...
Classic rock album: Velvet Underground, White Light/White Heat (1967)...the Velvets rock as hard as anyone in the universe when they've a mind to, and then slow, stop, offer a grotesque trinket of acoustic, and raise it up again...
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter One of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs and Things Change, and chants for peace and sweetness and fresh wind among trees & souls...etc etc etc...

03.23.2005 show


March 7, 2005 show features:
New rock album: Bright Eyes, I'm Wide Awake It's Morning (2005) ...protean folk-rock work from a very exciting young voice in rock...his music resembles yesterday, lifts today, and gestures toward tomorrow...
Classic rock album: Pink Floyd, Atom Heart Mother (1970)...early Floyd rocked high, hard, and strange like there was no yesterday, today, or tomorrow...
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter One of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs, Things Change, new rants, new season here it comes...

03.07.2005 show


February 20, 2005 show features:
New rock album: Mercury Rev, Secret Migration (2005) ...It's been four years since this brilliant art rock band has been around, and the beautiful new music they have percolated has proven the wait for their return very much worth it...
Classic rock album: 13th Floor Elevators, What's Going On (1967)...hard rocking acid group from Austin, Texas, with music that kept the attention of my acid guru years back when we met...
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter One of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs, Things Change, and random, intentional, accidental, and dreamy too...

02.20.2005 show


February 13, 2005 show features:
New rock album: Green Day, American Idiot (2004) ...The little band that finally could...a punk rock opera for the ages busts this group out of the pack & shows the limitless possibilities of punk rocking while young maturing into full blown rocking later on...think of how XTC matured, Costello, Talking Heads, Pretenders, Blondie, and that is the excitement Green Day has finally generated...the music kicks ass...
Classic rock album: Marvin Gaye, What's Going On (1971)...After some years singing classic soul music, and getting to feel more and more bored and restrained, Gaye finally forced Motown to let him sing the truth of his times as he saw it...this brilliant record was the result...
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter One of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux...
Readings from New Songs, Things Change, and plenty of yawping, ranting loveliness all 'round...

02.13.2005 show


February 6, 2005 show features:
New rock album: John Fogerty, Deja Vu All Over Again (2004) ...The genius behind CCR has been firing out great solo albums every so often for many years ago...this one renews his musical potency, and is a gladly welcomed gift
Classic rock album: The Kinks, Something Else (1967)...The Brothers Davies made this album from their unique musical space, somewhat English, somewhat comical, somewhat tender, loveliness...
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter One of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux...
plus new lingual songs, fresh shouts into the ether, & other things unforeseeable...

02.06.2005 show


January 30, 2005 show features:
Featured album: Woodstock, 3 Days of Peace, Love, & Music, original motion picture soundtrack (1970)...to celebrate the 6th anniversary of this show going on air, the full triple album of glorious music...turn on, tune in...
Storybook Time: Chapter One of The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia Paul Devereux...
plus new poetry, new pleas, new meanderings, six years along now...

01.30.2005 show


January 23, 2005 show features:
New rock album: Throwing Muses, Throwing Muses (2004), Boston band from years back comes roaring along again with new beauty & bite sharpened...
Classic rock album: Stevie Wonder, Inner Visions (1973)...maestro funk man letting out his cries for love & praise of matters flesh, high, & fanciful...
Storybook Time: continuing Introduction to The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia Paul Devereux...
plus new poetry, new strangeness, old bleeps, odd hours...hehe. . .

01.23.2005 show


January 9, 2005 show features:
New rock album: Pearl Jam, Riot Act (2002), hard rockers with a deep love of melody & groove, this album something especially special among their releases...
Classic rock album: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Deja Vu (1969)... folk rock love high chorus, a beat, a beat, a beat, chorus, mmmmm......
Storybook Time: continuing Introduction to The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia Paul Devereux...
plus new poetry, and fresh rant, and music clear and music strange...hehe. . .

01.09.2005 show


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