No Radio Show this Morning

Sorry gang, but you'll have to wait until next Friday morning to get your fix of local and regional jams. I promise I'll make it up to you.

imagine asians on Today's Show

What's shakin' gang? I hope you make time in your busy schedule tomorrow afternoon to tune into the Indie Ghetto from 1:00 - 3:00. I'll be welcoming the crew from imagine asians into the WRVU studios during the second hour of the show. In addition to getting the low down on what's up with these guys, they've also promised to bring some instruments and woo us with their tight and dreamy pop tunes live on the air.

In case you don't know, imagine asians is sweet juice product of Jeffrey Neutron's mind grapes. The sound pulls from both the classic and slightly cracked pop traditions to forge a strange, yet pleasing dynamic. IA will soon be releasing their excellent new LP, We Are the Future, which was produced by De Novo Dahl mainman and all-around sweetheart, Joel J. Dahl.

Taking a revolving door approach to making music, imagine asians list of live and recording contributors and collaborators reads like a who's who of the local music scene. We Are the Future features contributions from a number of Nashville's finest: Joey Andrews (De Novo Dahl), Kyle Hamlett (Lylas), Joel J. Dahl (De Novo Dahl), Adria Heimburger & Terah Thompson (ex-Girls & Boys), Serai Zaffiro (De Novo Dahl), Luke Schneider (Cortney Tidwell, Lylas), Keith Lowen (De Novo Dahl, ex-108 different bands), Arlo Hall (Hannah Barbarians, ex-De Novo Dahl), Benjamin Patton (My Tyger, ex-Girls & Boys), Caryn Cast (ex-Lylas and one bad-ass artist) and Mark Bond (The Features, Vovo). On the live stage, IA has included even more local talent over the years: Matthew Hungate (De Novo Dahl), Rod Kelly (ex-Love Society), Caldwell Dunlap (ex-Bubblegum Complex, Spanish Bombs), Josh Walker (my second favorite Grimey's employee), Willa Derrikson, Andrew Brassel (And The Relatives), Erik Lehning (Non-Commissioned Officers) and the always fetching Miss Lauren Sandidge.

Jeffrey and Co. will be playing their first show in quite some time this Friday night at the 5 Spot along with Velcro Stars & The Hannah Barbarians. If you're free that night, I encourage you to make it over to the Eastside for this one.

As always, I'll be spinning the best local and regional jams I can cram into 120 minutes. Hit us up with your requests at 615.421.7625 or 625.322.7625. If you forgot to pay your cell phone bill or don't know how to work a phone, shoot us an email at indieghetto@gmail.com. In addition, I'll be giving away some guestlist spots for a few excellent shows this weekend. Tune in to win, my nugs.

-Happy Valley featuring Jensen Sportag, Mindub & Principal and Coach (Friday, Aug 29th @ Aerial)

-How I Became The Bomb, Howlies & Eureka Gold (Saturday, Aug. 30th @ Mercy Lounge)

-Parachute Musical, Mean Tambourines, Roman Candle & Stories That Live (Sunday Aug. 31st @ Agave)

Tune in won't you? Its always a good time.

XO
-jbc

My Ghetto Padawan Takes Over

Since I'm not in Nashville this week, my trainee - no, make that former trainee - Matt Hearn shall be manning the controls of the WRVU transmitter, bringing y'all the local goodness you're used to hearing each Thursday afternoon from 1:00 - 3:00.

If someone wouldn't mind keeping tabs on how many times young Hearn screws up, I'd greatly appreciate the effort. Little Buddy's getting exactly one lashing for each mistake he makes. For helping yer boy out, I'll gladly let you video the punishment proceedings and post it on Youtube if you like.

Anyway, be sure to keep your ears piqued in the Fall as Matt's gonna have his own locally-focused radio show on WRVU called Holly House. Can't wait to see him try to steal my thunder. Good luck, ol' boy... good luck.

Radio Show Playlist - 08.07.08

Well, there's no Ghetto on your radio next week... yer boys is gonna be down in the Dirty Dirty, the ATL, gettin' crunk at a stock options trading seminar. So if you start jonesin' for some hot local action, you can always stream this week's show again and again.

Get Yer Fix via Real Audio

The Selmanaires - Just to Get Yr Love (The Air Salesman)
Hotpipes - You Burn Or You Don't (Future Bolt)
Orange in Circles - My Shaker Mover (unreleased)
Imagine Asians - Jacquie Says (Imagine Asians EP)
John Davis - I Need Someone (Arigato!)
The Clutters - Rockaway (Don't Believe a Word)
The Dexateens - Lost and Found (Lost and Found)
Roman Candle - Something Left to Say (The Wee Hours Review)
Glossary - Chase Me Out of The Dark (The Better Angels of Our Nature)
The Features - Wooden Heart (Some Kind of Salvation)
Kings Of Leon - Crawl (Only By The Night)
This Modern Station - Evangelina (unreleased debut LP)
Pico vs Island Trees - Malibu (unreleased)
Stories That Live - I'm Gonna Kill Your Boyfriend (unreleased)
Kindercastle - Violet (unreleased debut LP)
The Northridge Rangers - Mustang Twist (Electric Shoes)
Tommy & The Whale - Brothers (Shot for the Moon)
Ghostfinger - Ann Marie (The Feeler)
Vovo - Well Known Theme (Vovo EP)
Cheap Time - Ginger Snap (Cheap Time)
Caitlin Rose - Gorilla Man (Dead Flowers EP)
Apollo Up! - The Heartbreak of Victory (Walking Papers EP)
Turbo Fruits - Tennessee, Baby (Turbo Fruits)
The Lonely Hearts - Nightingale (Born In The Dark)
The Protomen - Unrest in the House of Light (The Protomen)
Self - What A Fool Believes (Gizmodgery)
The Glib - We Will (Heaven & Hell Yes)
Coral Castles - Your Camera (the Corpse and the Cake)
Ricky Young - Suitcase Afternoon (Learn to Steal)
Josh Rouse - Dressed Up Like Nebraska (Dressed Up Like Nebraska)

Radio Show Playlist - 07.24.08

Big thanks to Michael Harrell for sitting down and chatting with us this week. Be sure to swing by Cafe Coco on Monday at 7pm for his show.

Dig it via Real Audio

Ghostfinger - Alabama (The Feeler)
Vovo - Lighter Side of Life (Vovo EP)
Coral Castles - The Intrigue and Eventual Despair... (the Corpse and the Cake)
Cuttlefish - Crow Dog (Marble)
Majestico - I like You (Boundary Conditions)
The Howlies - Baby Shake (Lake Fever Sessions)
Eastern Block - Predawn Cantina (Eastern Block EP)
The Lonely Hearts - Everybody's Got A Broken Heart (Born in the Dark)
Michael Harrell - Paint By Numbers (Jericho Blues)
Astronaut Pushers - Cut Me Off (EP)
John Davis - Nothing Gets Me Down (4-Track Demos)
The Semantics - Jenny Won't Play Fair (Powerbill)
Silver Seas - The Country Life (High Society)
Michael Harrell - Slide Away (Jericho Blues)
This Modern Station - Evengelina (unreleased)
The Nobility - The Mezzanine (The Mezzanine)
Roman Candle - You Don't Belong to this World (Wee Hours of Review)
Vermicious K'nids - Away O Way Oh (unreleased)
The Cable Company - Beached Whale (Syndication)
Vovo - Well Known Theme (Vovo EP)
Ghostfinger - Ann Marie (The Feeler)
Kindercastle - Postmaster General (Kindercastle)
My Tyger - It Can't Be You (Lake House Demos)
How I Became the Bomb - Fat Girls Talking About Cardio (Let's Go)

Michael Harrell & New Jams Today!

This afternoon on the radio show, Matt and I will be welcoming Michael Harrell into the studio for some tunes, pleasant conversation, and a maybe plate of cucumber sandwiches.

Taking cues from some of the shining stars in the power-pop cannon (think Teenage Fanclub, Kinks, Elliott Smith, et al.), his sound is classic yet never hackneyed. Though still quite young at 22, Michael is wise enough to surround himself with seasoned vets to help him coax the sounds in his head onto record. His debut LP, which is currently being mixed by Jason Bullock at Lake Fever (plug!), features a backing band made up of members of Superdrag, Reliant K, and The Lonely Hearts. Not too shabby, eh? And from what I've heard of it, this one is a louder and more aggressive upgrade from first excellent first EP, Greetings from the Village, which came out in '07.

Michael will be playing over at Cafe Coco next Monday, July 28th at 7pm. He'll be backed by Josiah Holland of The Lonely Hearts on bass and - get this - Superdrag frontman John Davis on the drums. I'll be there, chowing down on a Monte Cristo and knocking back some crushers. Hope you'll join me.

In addition, we're stoked to be debuting some unreleased goodness into your earholes. I've got my hands on the long-awaited sophomore LP from Ghostfinger, which will be available in September. In addition, you'll also be privy to the debut EP from Vovo, which is the brainchild of Features keyboardman, Mark Bond. This five-song gem features his band mate Rollum Haas on drums and bass, along with vocal work from Jonathon Rogers (Hotpipes) & Sam Ashworth (My Tyger) and some tasty pedal steel bits from Luke Schneider (Cortney Tidwell, Stone Jack Jones, ex-Character). Can't wait to spin both of these records for all y'all.

So go ahead and tune your radios to 91.1 WRVU from 1:00 to 3:00 this afternoon and get with it. Alternately you can stream the whole affair live via Real Audio at wrvu.org. And if you miss it, you can still stream it all week via the link to your right.

Radio Show Playlist - 07.17.08

Another week... another radio show. Apologies if we offended any of the following groups of people: Hippies, Trust Fund Hippies, Black Folks, White People, De Novo Dahl, Matt's Girlfriend, The FCC. Thanks.

Stream them jams from July 17th

De Novo Dahl - Shake Down (Move Every Muscle, Make Every Sound)
The Lonely Hearts - Nightingale (Born In The Dark)
Coral Castles - Ring Out Sing Out (the Corpse and the Cake)
The Features - God Save Rock & Roll (unreleased)
The Clutters - Radio (Don't Believe a Word)
Mean Tambourines - That's What I Said (from myspace)
And The Relatives - Cowboy Jazz (Below and Above)
Nite Nite - Hello, I'm Melancholic (Nite Nite EP)
Silver Jews - Candy Jail (Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea)
The Selmanaires - Broken Mirrors in the Mud (Lake Fever Sessions)
The Explorer's Club - Don't Forget The Sun (Freedom Wind)
Michael Harrell - The End (Greeting from the Village)
Mother Father - Blue Flux (Mother/Father)
The Pink Spiders - Gimme Chemicals (Sweat It Out)
Glossary - Chase Me Out of The Dark (The Better Angels of Our Nature)
Lifeboy - Rich Girls (Garage Rock Operas)
My Tyger - It Can't Be You (unreleased)
Kindercastle - Don Quixote (Kindercastle)
The Features - The Drawing Board (Some Kind of Salvation)
Howlies - Don't Taze Me Bro (Lake Fever Sessions)
Stories that Live - Lucky at Cards (unreleased)
Eureka Gold - Cannons of Dixie (unreleased)
Gringo Star - Guevon (Absolutely)
Joe Mormann - The Way It Was (unreleased)
How I Became the Bomb - Minute Romance (Let's Go!)
The Alcohol Stuntband - The Sheik (The Alcohol Stuntband)
John Davis - I Need Someone (Arigato!)
Cuttlefish - Crowdog (Marble)
We Were the States - Girl, You're Not a Thief (Believe the Thieves)
Hotpipes - The Future is Where We Belong (Future Bolt)
Meemaw - Blue in the Blacklight (Glass Elevator)

Radio Show Playlist - 07.10.08

Go ahead and tune into last week's show since they'll be a new one up in about 48 hours.

Stream the July 10th Indie Ghetto, son

Here's the playlist...
Glossary - Shout If From the Rooftop (The Better Angels of Our Nature)
The Lonely Hearts - Nightingale (Born In the Dark)
Tommy & The Whale - Blackout (Shot the Moon)
The Protomen - Unrest in the House of Light (The Protomen)
The Nobility - The Mezzanine (The Mezzanine)
The Privates - One Piece (Barricades)
Roman Candle - You Don't Belong to this World (The Wee Hours Review)
The Modern Station - Long Over Due (home demo)
Sam Ashworth - No Room (unreleased)
Repent or Forever Be Damned - The Last Thing I Gave Away (Repent or Forever Be Damned)
The Features - The Gates of Hell (Some Kind of Salvation)
The Jane Shermans - Popular Music Social Condition (Popular Music Social Condition)
Wes SP8 - Please (Please EP)
John Davis - Watch Me Walk Away Again (Arigato!)
Cuttlefish - Sanducky (Marble)
Coral Castles - Phatic, Static, Magic! (the Corpse and the Cake)
D Striker - Broken Strings Again (I Can Handle It)
Nite Nite - Amongst The Tenants (Nite Nite EP)
Kindercastle - Don Quixote (Kindercastle)
Magic Wands - Black Magic (Magic Love and Dreams)
The Silver Jews - Party Barge (Lookout Mountain Lookout Sea)
Ghostfinger - Let It Ride Real (unreleased)
Meemaw - Blue in the Blacklight (Glass Elevator)
Glossary - Blood In the Knobs (The Better Angels of our Nature)
The Howlies - Baby Shake (Unreleased Lake Fever Sessions)
Tristen - Eager For Your Love (Teardrops & Lollipops)
Apollo Up! - Heartbreak of Victory (Walking Papers)
Orange in Circles - Tall Favors (unreleased demo

Radio Show Playlist - 07.03.08 (plus last week's)

A big thanks to Josiah Holland of The Lonely Hearts for slumming it with us in the Ghetto for the first hour. Be sure to swing by 12th & Porter tonight (Saturday July 5th) for their big EP release show. $10 gets you in along with a copy of their stellar new disc, Born in the Dark.

Stream this week's show via Real Player, playa

John Davis - I Need Someone (Arigato!)
The Lonely Hearts - Nightingale (Born In the Dark)
The Jane Shermans - Young & Hungry (Popular Music Social Condition)
Kyle Andrews - Blow It Out (Real Blasty)
Red White Blue - Good Morning (Red White Blue)
The Lonely Hearts - Born In the Dark (Born In the Dark)
The Lonely Hearts - My Last Goodbye (Born In the Dark)
Superdrag - Slow to Speak Slow to Anger (4 track demo) (unreleased)
Ricky Young - Acoustic Guitars (Learn to Steal)
Thad Cockrell - Pride (Won't Get Us Where We're Going) (To Be Loved)
Apollo Up! - Heartbreak of Victory (Walking Papers)
The Nobility - The Mezzanine (The Mezzanine)
Kindercastle - Violet (Kindercastle)
The Raconteurs - Old Enough (Bonnaroo Backstage 2008)
This Modern Station - Long Over Due (unreleased home demos)
Pico vs Island Trees - Love Again (Love Again)
And The Relatives - Cowboy Jazz (Below and Above)
Cheap Time - Glitter & Gold (Cheap Time)
Mean Tambourines - That's What She Said ( unreleased)
The Cable Company - Beached Whale (Syndication)
The Cancer Bullets - My Maxine (Jesus Says Relax)
Eureka Gold - Cannons of Dixie (unreleased)

..and since I neglected to post last week's playlist, here you go. Better late than never, right?

Apollo Up! - The Heartbreak of Victory (Walking Papers)
Hotpipes - Born in a Bomb (Future Bolt)
Cheap Time - Too Late (Cheap Time)
The Mattoid - Suicide (Glory Holy)
Roman Candle - You Don't Belong to This World (Wee Hours Review)
Kindercastle - Violet (Kindercastle)
Pico vs Island Trees - Malibu
The Clutters - Radio (Don't Believe A Word)
Meemaw - Original Sin (Glass Elevator)
Mother Father - The Youngest God (unreleased)
Shoot the Mountain - My Little Girl (Jigsaw Mountain)
Norhtridge Rangers - The Thing (Electric Shoes)
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges (Evil Urges)
Eureka Gold - Cannons of Dixie (unreleased)
Gringo Star - Guevon (Absolutely)
Lehning Brothers - You Be The Pawn (Make Out With Violence)
The Glib - Mentor (Why Not Just Love Me Dr. Hoopty - demo)
Eureka Gold - Red Still (Eureka Gold)
Ocelots - Psychotic Mood Right Now (If Lightning Strikes Us Both)
D. Striker - Last Resort (I Can Handle It)
Cuttlefish - Sandusky (Marble)
Wes Sp8 - Please (Behind My Back)
Kink Ador - Little Sister (Get Lucky)
Ricky Young - Poor You (Learn to Steal)
Tristen - Heart and Hope to Die (Teardrops & Lollipops)
The Explorers Club - Forever (Freedom Wind)
Howlies - Poison Ivy (unreleased Lake Fever session)
13 Ghosts - Riverside (Lost and Found)
Pink Spiders - Sleeping on the Floor (Sweat it Out)
Tommy and the Whale - Brothers (Shot The Moon)
Orange in Circles - My Shaker Mover (unreleased)

Today's Radio Show

Hey gang. Go ahead and block off this afternoon from 1:00 - 3:00 for another installment of Indie Ghetto. We'll be welcoming Josiah Holland of The Lonely Hearts (that's him on the right up there) into the WRVU studios to chat about his band's forthcoming EP, Born in the Dark. They're celebrating its proper release this Saturday at 12th & Porter along with Red White Blue & Courtney Jaye.

Get your fix on the FM dial - 91 on the 1 - or online at wrvu.org. Feel free to hit us up with any requests of the local and regional nature: 615.421.7625 or 615.322.7625.

No Show Tomorrow

Please note that there will be no radio show this week. I currently find myself at a stock trading seminar in Houston, TX, where they dance just as good as they walk.

Parachute Musical on Today's Indie Ghetto

Hey gang,
Be sure to tune into today's radio show. I'll be welcoming Josh & Tom from Parachute Musical into the Ghetto for some Q&A and all-around slumming on the stoop. We'll be previewing tracks from their forthcoming album, Everything is Working Out Fine in Some Town. We'll also be giving away free passes to their big album release show next Thursday, June 16th at Mercy Lounge with Heypenny & Modern Skirts.

So go on ahead and tune in, fools. Catch it this afternoon from 1:00 to 3:00 - 91 on the 1 in radioland or at wrvu.org in your cubicle at your crap day job.

-jbc

ps Here's an entertaining - if not slightly homoerotic - video via the Vimby website, courtesy of those major dudes at Tugboat Productions.

VIMBY - Parachute Musical

Radio Show Playlist - 05.29.08

Here's the playlist for this past week's show... enjoy!

Stream via Real Audio

Eureka Gold - Just North (Eureka Gold)
Wax Fang - Oh, Recklessness (La La Land)
Tristen - Heart and Hope To Die (Teardrops & Lollipops)
Meemaw - Smoking In the Sun (Glass Elevator)
Nite Nite - Body of Water (Nite Nite EP)
Roman Candle - Something Left To Say (The Wee Hours Review)
We Were the States - Girl, You're Not a Thief (Believe the Thieves)
The Privates - On Your Mark (Barricades)
The Features - God Save Rock & Roll (unreleased)
The Eskimos - The Pills (Something Must Be Transmitted Somehow)
The Clutters - Rockaway (Don't Believe a Word)
The Explorer's Club - Forever (Freedom Wind)
Silver Jews - Party Barge (Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea)
Ricky Young - Suitcase Afternoon (Learn to Steal)
Coral Castles - Phatic, Static, Magic! (the Corpse and the Cake)
Ghostfinger - Let It Ride Real (unreleased)
Glossary - Chase Me Out Of the Dark (The Better Angels of our Nature)
Caitlin Rose - Gorilla Man (Dead Flowers EP)
The Glib - Southern Sense Of Urgency (Why Not Just Love Me Dr. Hoopty)
Tigers Con Queso - Better (Unleash the Fury)
Nite Nite - Hello, I'm Melancholic (Nite Nite EP)
Apollo Up! - The Heartbreak of Victory (Walking Papers EP)
The Dexateens - Naked Ground (Hardwire Healing)
Meemaw - Blue in the Blacklight (Glass Elevator)
The Features - All I Ask (Some Kind of Salvation)
Self - What A Fool Believes (Gizmodgery)
John Davis - Chant Down Babylon (Arigato!)
Pico vs. Island Trees - Love Again (Love Again single)
Stories That Live - Lucky at Cards (unreleased)
Umbrella Tree - Schizophrenia (The Church & The Hospital)
The Comfies - Medicine (Close To Me EP)
Eureka Gold - Belly Full of Wine (Eureka Gold)
Meemaw - Walk on Water (Glass Elevator)

Today's Radio Show

Fresh Jams today from 1:00 - 3:00. I've got new stuff from Apollo Up!, MEEMAW, Nite Nite, Tristen, Pico vs. Island Trees (or as Doyle called them in the Grimey's News letter, Disco Island Trees - which is probably a much better name), Ham1 (from Athens), The Barbaras (from Memphis), and oh so much more.

Tune at 91.1 or streaming online at wrvu.org!

Radio Show Playlist - 05.22.08

We kept the Ghetto chatter to a minimum this week and went straight for your eardrums. At 33 songs, I believe we exceeded our mark, setting a new Ghetto record. Damn, we good!

Stream via Real Audio

Hotpipes - Born in a Bomb (Future Bolt)
De Novo Dahl - Be Your Man (Move Every Muscle, Make Every Sound)
Glossary - Blood on the Knobs (The Better Angels of our Nature)
Ghostfinger - Let It Ride Real (unreleased)
Meemaw - Walk on Water (Glass Elevator)
Orange in Circles - My Shaker Mover (unreleased)
Moonlight Bride - Walls (unreleased)
The Black Lips - I Saw a Ghost (Lean) (Good Bad Not Evil)
John Davis - Watch Me Walk Away Again (Arigato!)
The Features - GMF (Some Kind of Salvation)
Silver Jews - Aloysius, Bluegrass Drummer (Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea)
Magic Wands - Kaleidescope Hearts (Magic Love and Dreams)
Mean Tambourines - Liars Go to Hell (unreleased)
Michael Harrell - Pretty When you Cry (Greeting from the Village)
Ricky Young - Fade To Gold (Learn to Steal)
The Glib - Southern Sence of Urgency (Why Not Just Love Me Dr. Hoopty)
Wax Fang - World War II Part 2 (La La Land)
Stories That Live - I'm Gonna Kill Your Boyfriend (unreleased)
The Selmanaires - Images (Here Come The Selmanaires)
Superdrag - Bastards of Young (Greetings from Tennessee)
The Explorer's Club - Don't Forget The Sun (Freedom Wind)
The Clutters - Radio (Don't Believe A Word)
The Raconteurs - Attention (Consolers of the Lonely)
King of Leon - Razz (Aha Shake Heartbreak)
Gringo Star - Arms Stretched Out (Arms Stretched Out 7 inch)**
Jason Dean and the Options - Cheap Rhapsody (Cheap Rhapsody 7 inch)**
Herb Harris - Tennessee Farm (Tennessee Farm 7 inch)**
Noot D' Noot - Rah So (Jiggle City 7 inch)**
Eureka Gold - Lovely Lovely (Eureka Gold)
Tommy & The Whale - World Gone Mad (Shot the Moon)
How I Became the Bomb - Minute Romance (Let's Go!)
The Mattoid - I'm Gonna (Glory Holy)
Lifeboy - Rich Girls (Garage Rock Operas)

**courtesy of the ballers and hustlas at Solutionist Records (Jiggle City, USA) - more on these folks soon!

Radio Show Playlist - 05.15.08

Today's show was a good one. My gracious thanks to Ricky Young for hanging out. His new record is excellent, go pick that bad boy up.

Unfortunately the Vandy IT crew haven't made the new changes to the stream archive to reflect the new schedule, but you can catch the second hour of today's show below.

Stream via Real Audio

Silver Jews - San Francisco B.C. (Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea)
Magic Wands - Black Magic (Black Magic 7")
Coral Castles - Phatic, Static, Magic! (the Corpse and the Cake)
Autovaughn - The Cycles (The Cycles EP)
Anna Kramer & The Lost Cause - All Those Pretty Things (The Rustic Contemporary Sounds of...)
Ghostfinger - Let It Ride Real (unreleased)
Mean Tambourines - That's What She Said (unreleased)
The Raconteurs - Attention (Consolers of the Lonely)
Glossary - Little Caney (The Better Angels of our Nature)
The Features - The Drawing Board (Some Kind of Salvation)
The Black Lips - Transcendental Light (Good Bad Not Evil)
Ricky Young - Fade To Gold (Learn to Steal)
Ricky Young - Acoustic Guitars (Learn to Steal
Ricky Young - Sing Me A Song (live on air)
Ricky Young - Suitcase Afternoon (live on air)
Red White Blue - Honest Mistake (Red White Blue)
Wax Fang - Cannibal Summer (La La Land)
Caitlin Rose - Shotgun Wedding (Dead Flowers)
Ricky Young - Poor You (Learn to Steal)
The Dexateens - Devoted to Lonesome (Red Dust Rising)
Moonlight Bride - Walls (unreleased)
Be Your Own Pet - The Kelly Affair (Get Awkward)
Giant Tiger - 1976 (MeWe)
Coral Castles - Ring Out Sing Out (the Corpse and the Cake)
Gringo Star - Not A Sound (Gringo Star)
The Glib - We Will Go the Distance (Why Not Just Love Me Dr. Hoopty)
Parachute Musical - Worry (Parachute Musical)
The Mattoid - Suicide (The Glory Holy)
The Selmanaires - Just to Get Yr Love (The Air Salesman)
Superdrag - Slow to Speak Slow to Anger (4 track demo) (unreleased)
The Features - Lions (Some Kind of Salvation)

New Ghetto Time - Same Ghetto Sound

Semesterly speaking, the summertime is upon us, my darlings. Awww Yeah! It's time for short shorts, trips to Orange Beach and Tims Ford, fishin' the Little Harpeth, back sweat, Sounds games at Greer Staduim, sun-tanned honeys, and bumpin' some early Beach Boys outta the truck. It's also time for a very slight move.

It seems the Ghetto's been moved up an hour earlier in your sunny day. You can now get hip with us each and every Thursday afternoon from 1:00 to 3:00 - Central Standard Time, of course -  at 91.1 on the FM dial or at wrvu.org. Hey, guess this means I can now beat rush hour down 65 South!

To kick off this summer semester of hot and humid local jams, I'm stoked to welcome Mr. Ricky Young into the studio. Homeboy's got a brand new record coming out called Learn to Steal (quite the GhettoFabuous title, I must say... word.) and a big ole' party on Saturday at Exit-In to welcome its existence into this world. He'll bring his guitar to serenade us and his quick wit to woo us. Fathers, lock up your daughters... Or maybe your effeminate son (hey whatever, it's not my business). But definitely keep an eye on your little wifey. Ricky's appeal knows no age bounds. Indie Ghetto and its lawyers claim no responsibility for any resulting litigation.

Outside of kickin' it with Brother Young, I'll be keeping it high and tight with plenty of local and regional goodness to keep your afternoon bumpin' and/or grindin'. I'm feeling some Wax Fang, Mean Tambourines, Coral Castles, Caitlin Rose, Superdrag, Parachute Musical, AutoVaughn, Giant Tiger, Dexateens (Tuscaloosa represent!), Selmanaires, and a few unreleased gems from Silver Jews, Tommy & the Whale, The Features, and Ghostfinger.

But I'll need some requests to keep your ears abuzz for 120 minutes. Holler at yer boy: 615.421.7625 or 615.322.7625 or hammer out an email to indieghetto@gmail.com. And, no... I don't mind if you call in and request your own band. Just know that I can totally spot that kinda thing from miles away. Now I won't call you out on it,  'cause I'm cool like that. Lord knows I've been guilty of such things in the past. 

Tune in, my little nieces and nephews so we can get summer started a bit early!

Radio Show Playlist - 05.08.08

Big thanks to Darren and Ben from AutoVaughn for hangin' out. Those guys are pure gentlemen and funny as hell. The pleasure was all mine. Also, apologies to the black midget that hangs out on 12th Ave. - the one that was in Gummo - we meant no disrespect.

Stream via Real Audio

1. Wax Fang - World War II (pt. 2) (La La Land)
2. Silver Jews - Party Barge (Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea)
3. Autovaughn - The Cycles (The Cycles EP)
4. Autovaughn - Inertia (The Cycles EP)
5. Caitlin Rose - Gorilla Man (Dead Flowers EP)
6. The Features - The Temporary Blues (Some Kind of Salvation pre-release)
7. Ricky Young - Poor You (Learn to Steal)
8. Roman Candle - That's Why Modern Radio is A-okay with me (unreleased)
9. Autovaughn - Our Confidence (The Cycles) EP
10. Autovaughn - Dream a Little (The Cycles) EP

Radio is a sound salvation

The radio show is back today at 2pm. My guests will be the boys of AutoVaughn. They've got their big CD release show tomorrow night at the Cannery so they'll be slumming it with yer boy down in the Ghetto for some shameless self-promotion. I think we might also play a little Jukebox Jury to keep things interesting.

Tune in at 91.1 or stream it online at wrvu.org.

Whoops! (part II)

Dearest listeners,
As you well may know, sometimes ghetto life is tough. We all encounter some hurdles in our path as we ball and hustle our way outta the slums. More often than not, we can blame these things on The Man, as he's always trying to keep us down. But today, I cannot place blame anywhere else but on myself.

You see, I was planning to host a special Friday edition of Indie Ghetto this afternoon, but it seems that yer boy has lost the key to his hoo ride (not his keys mind you, but just the one). And without a a means of conveyance from the slums of Brentioch, there will unfortunately be no radio show today.

My sincerest apologies. I'll be in touch soon.

-jbc