Wednesday, May 28, 2008


FINN'S REVOLUTION! playlist 5/27/08

It's, like, almost Walt Whitman's 189th birthday! Tap the keg, pour the shots, break out the Victorian erotica, squeeze into your sexiest rubber fetishwear, and get ready to rock!

N-new;C-comp

artist/album/cut
Elvis Costello & The Imposters/Momofuku/Pardon Me Madam, My Name Is Eve N
Muslims/Muslims/Right & Wrong N
Bonnie "Prince" Billy/Lie Down In The Light/Easy Does It N
Miles Davis/On The Corner/Vote For Miles
Jimmy McGriff/The Best Of The Blues Vol. 1/Jumping The Blues
*RIP JIMMY McGRIFF*
Eddie Bo/New Orleans Funk/Check Your Bucket C
!!!/Myth Takes/Myth Takes
*CONGRATS TO ROBERT WHO'LL BE SEEING !!! @ WILLIAMSBURG HALL OF MUSIC ON JULY 27TH!*
Utah Phillips/Classic Labor Songs/The Preacher & The Slave
*RIP UTAH PHILLIPS*
Boris/Statement (7")/Statement N
Serge Gainsbourg/You're Under Arrest/Gloomy Sunday
Augustus Pablo/200% Dynamite/Rockers Rock C
Vampire Weekend/Vampire Weekend/One (Blake's Got A New Face) N
Billy Bragg & Wilco/Mermaid Avenue/Walt Whitman's Niece

*To celebrate the May 31st birthday of Walt Whitman, interview with our friend Mankh, one of the editors of the book PRIMAL SANITIES, featuring readings from poet/contributors: Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan, keeper of the dirty Whitman jokes Dr. David B. Axelrod (Suffolk County Poet Laureate), Gladys Henderson, the engaging Barbara Southard, Robert Savino, Ruth Sabath Rosenthal, the fascinating Charlene Babb Knadle, super-cool Douglas G. Swezey, Pramila Venkateswaran, Mankh (Walter E. Harris III), my bud Mark Donnelly & last but not at all least, charming Northport poet Andrea Rowen. Get the book: www.allbook-books.com Pick up a copy of Leaves Of Grass @ your local bookstore while yer at it! Reading @ the Whitman birthplace in West Hills, Rt 110, on Sunday June 8th, 2pm. Check it!*

artist/album/cut
Jack Kerouac/Kerouac Reads On The Road/Ain't We Got Fun
John Cale/Words For The Dying/Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
New York Dolls/One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This/Seventeen

*Thanks to all the poets & callers! Party on, Walt!*

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

FINN'S REVOLUTION! 5/20/08 playlist

N-new;C-comp;R-request
artist/album/cut

Robert Forster/The Evangelist/If It Rains N
Tom Waits/Frank's Wild Years/More Than Rain
Fuck Buttons/Streeet Horrrsing/Bright Tomorrow N
Setona & African Crossroads/Live/Tagalimo N
Awesome Color/Electric Aborigines/Step Up N
Awesome Color/Awesome Color/Grown
Lucky Dragons/Ambient Not Not Ambient/Sayles Street OK OK N
Black Keys/Attack & Release/So He Won't Break N
Shearwater/Rook/Leviathon, Bound N
Raconteurs/Consolers Of The Lonely/Many Shades Of Black N
Port O'Brien/All We Could Do Was Sing/In Vino Veritas N
Be Your Own Pet!/Get Awkward/Super Soaked N
Elvis Costello & The Imposters/Momofuku/Go Away N
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds/Dig, Lazarus!!! Dig!!! (single)/Accidents Will Happen N
Indian Jewelry/Free Gold!/Temporary Famine Ship N
Sonic Youth/(SYR 7)/J'accuse Ted Hughes N
Jens Lekman/Night Falls Over Kortedala/A Postcard To Nina
Skatalites/Greetings From Skamania/I Wish You Love
Elvis Costello & The Imposters/Momofuku/Mr. Feathers RN
Benga/Diary Of An Afro Warrior/Zero M2 N
Toumast/Ishumar/Kik Ayittma N
Excepter/Debt Dept/Any And Every N
Charlie Parker (w/Dizzy Gillespie, et al)/The Complete Savoy Sessions/A Night In Tunisia
The Busters/Sukiyaki vs. Tokyo Ska Zone/Sukiyaki


NEXT WEEK: Radio Walt - IT's WHITMANTASTIC!

Friday, May 16, 2008

FINN'S REVOLUTION! 5/13/08 playlist

N-New; C-Comp; R-Request; L-Local

artist/album/cut

David Lynch & John Neff/Blue Bob/Blue Horse
Elvis Costello & The Imposters/Momofuku/Drum & Bone N
Nick Lowe/Jesus Of Cool/So It Goes
Nick Lowe/Heart Of The City (7")/Heart Of The City N
Martha Wainwright/Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (sndtrk)/The Traitor
Los Campesinos/Hold On Now, Youngster.../Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats N
Be Your Own Pet!/Get Awkward/Twisted Nerve N
Paul Westerberg/Come Feel Me Tremble/Making Me Go
Wilco/Sky Blue Sky/Slide With The Seeds R
Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint/The River In Reverse/The River In Reverse R
Professor Longhair/'Fess: Anthology/Mardi Gras In New Orleans
Elvis Costello & The Imposters/Momofuku/Flutter & Wow N
Sonic Youth/Goo/Titanium Expose
Ornette Coleman/Sound Grammar/Turnaround
The Wedding Present/Heaven & Hell/She's My Best Friend C
Larry Totaro/Window/Lipstick In Bed L
Black Keys/Attack & Release/Lies N
Tom Waits/Blue Skies (7")/Blue Skies
Lou Reed/Berlin/Men Of Good Fortune
Serge Gainsbourg/Comic Strip/Ford Mustang
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds/Dig, Lazarus!!! Dig!!!/Jesus Of The Moon N
Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3/Sicky Boy (7")/Sicky Boy N
Mick Harvey/One Man's Treasure/Hank Williams Said It Best
Hank Williams/Ultimate Collection/Moanin' The Blues
Etuborn Rex Williams & His Nigerian Artistes/Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife/Akpaison NC
Elvis Costello & The Imposters/Momofuku/Stella Hurt N
Neil Young/Chrome Dreams II/Boxcar
Toumast/Ishumar/Dounia N
Johnny Cash/Complete Sun Recordings/Cold, Cold Heart


Wilco for Debbie, EC & Toussaint for Harry

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

FINN'S REVOLUTION! 5/6/08 playlist

N=New R=Request C=Compilation
artist/album/cut

Elvis Costello & The Imposters/Momofuku/No Hiding Place N
Randy Newman/The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 1/Marie
Black Moth Super Rainbow/Zodiac Girls (7")/Zodiac Girls N
Robert Wyatt/Comicopera/A Beautiful War
Pattern Is Movement/(download)/Right Away N
Robyn Hitchcock/Groovy Decay/Midnight Fish N
Michel Legrand/Umbrella Of Cherbourg (sndtrk)/Overture
Charles Mingus/Let My Children Hear Music/Adagio Ma Non Troppo
The Ronettes/Phil Spector: Back To Mono (1958-1969)/Paradise RC
Black Keys/Attack & Release/Remember When N
Elvis Costello & The Imposters/Momofuku/American Gangster Time N
Frank Sinatra/The Reprise Years/The Summer Wind R
Terry Adams/Rhythm Spell/A Girl Who Loves The Stooges
Hoagy Carmichael/Stardust Melodies/Star Dust
Slim Gaillard/Laughing In Rhythm/That's A Bringer
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds/Dig, Lazarus!!! Dig!!!/Lie Down Here (& Be My Girl) N
Vampire Weekend/Vampire Weekend/Campus N
Cedric "Im" Brooks/Jamaica Funk/Silent Force NC
Joe Strummer/The Future Is Unwritten/Omotepe
Tom Waits/Orphans/Little Man
Goldfrapp/Seventh Tree/Some People N
Serge Gainsbourg/L'homme A Tete De Chou/Variations Sur Marilou
The Ramones/End Of The Century/Danny Says
The Velvet Underground/The Velvet Underground & Nico/Venus In Furs R
The Pogues/If I Should Fall From Grace With God/The Broad Majestic Shannon
The Westones/The Westones/Daydream Believer

Thanks Peter, Harry, Jack, Steve, Fifi, Danny, Susan and WUSB's own Mr. Edison for the calls & banter!!