Category Archives: WRTC Playlists

It was a confluence of cultures at tonight’s shorter than usual radio show. The death of Nelson Mandela Thursday at 95 meant a set of music of activist music against apartheid, largely from the 80s, followed by songs marking the end of Hannukah. That led to a touch of Christmas tunes (the avalanche is coming) [...]

2Started a little bit late — the day, after all, started in northern Michigan. But also stayed late again. Began with Cream for some reason, turned toDevil Makes Three and hits of 1963 before a quartet of songs about the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination. Because one of those songs was by Lou Reed, [...]

Good news: Muggers did not prevent me from making it to the studio today. But instead of the big stack of Halloween music I was going to play last week, events dictated that we dedicate a big chunk of the show — nearly two hours — to the work of the singular and influential Lou [...]

Started with some Byrds and topical “Shut Down” from the Beach Boys, then a bunch of They Might Be Giants because they’re in town for the comedy fest. Also, some music from other acts playing hereabouts from Ra Ra Riot and Franz Ferdinand to Tift Merritt. There was a salute to the end of “Breaking [...]

Started with some flying saucer stuff to segue from the previous show, moved to “Million Dollar Quartet” era stuff from Elvis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis, whose theological studio argument with Sam Phillips over Jesus, the devil and rock ‘n’ roll was included. A big chunk of the show was given Superchunk, [...]

A Friday the 13th show proved lucky enough. Had a few songs about superstition (and a couple about the number 13). Also, played a lot of acts that played here this week, including Blondie, X and Tommy Keene, and looked forward to a couple next week, Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys. Also, we sampled [...]

A last minute call to fill in tonight gave me the opportunity to do a lot of things over a show that lasted four hours. In all that time, I got to fill in the holes of last week’s March on Washington 50th Anniversary Salute, recreate much of the setlist of the Replacements’ first concert [...]

Started the show later than usual, but stayed late, too. The weekend marking the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington led to what Dylan played at the event (“When the Ship Comes In”), other songs at the event, and some that were inspired by it or the era. An array of music in and [...]

Back after a few weeks off, I was back at the station tonight for a two hour show in which I thought the microphone didn’t work for most of it. I don’t talk all that much anyway, but I realized how generally unnecessary speaking is on the show. Anyway, I began with some world music, [...]

I didn’t get kicked off the air following my first show last week, so they let me do it again tonight. I started by focusing on the artists in Tuesday’s Americanarama Festival of Music stop here, Bob Dylan, Wilco and My Morning Jacket (the latter two of which have also covered Dylan songs, which we [...]