The Dresden Dolls – Gravity

Me’Shell Nelegiocello – Soul Record

Liz Phair – Never Said

Holly Cole – Onion Girl

Sixpense None the Richer – Kiss Me

Suzanne Vega – Luka

Sarah McLachlan – Black and White

N’Dea Davenport – Underneath the Red Moon

The Dresden Dolls – Truce

The Dresden Dolls – Boston

MC Lyte – Cha Cha Cha

Amy Ray – Bus Bus

B-52′s – Funplex

Lucinda Williams – Mama You Sweet

Emiliana Torrini – Today Has Been Okay

Lisa Loeb – Do You Sleep?

Tilly and the Wall – Lost Girls

Tilly and the Wall – Falling Without Knowing

Liz Phair – Polyester Bride

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts – Secret Love

Sinead O’Connor – Secret Love

The Cranberries – Go Your Own Way

The Corrs – Dreams

Amanda Palmer – Leeds United

Jenny Lewis – Carpetbaggers

Billie Holiday – When Your Lover Has Gone

Sleater Kinney – Was it a Lie?

–Special set–

Liz Phair – Polyester Bride

Bjork – Army of Me

Tori Amos – Cornflake Girl

Hole – Celebrity Skin

Pink – Long Way Home

Avril Lavigne – Together

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Lauryn Hill Doo Wop (That Thing)

Lady Sovereign – Love Me or Hate Me

Cyndi Lauper – What’s Going On

Sinead O’Connor – Fire on Babylon

Angelique Kidjo – Never Know

Queen Latifah – Life

Natalie Merchant – In the Ghetto

Cowboy Junkies – Miles From Our Home

PJ Harvey – Down By The Water

Holly Cole – Onion Girl

Kelis – Living Proof

Kelis – Bossy

Shivaree Goodnight Moon

Anyway, I forgot the playlist from my show this week at my apartment in Kirksville so I won’t be posting it to the blog until next week sometime. However, my first song was Leeds United by Amanda Palmer. The video was posted sometime last week and there is a mini-scandal that may remind some of us of Britney a la the VMAs. OK, that may be going a little far…but watch the video below and then we will discuss.

So, as you can see, Amanda looks mindblowingly hot in that open button-up shirt and jacket. According to Palmer’s email update to fans and her blog when the men in suits at Roadrunner Records (probably the very same no-taste-having-assholes who advise Nickelback) saw the video they urged her to re-shoot the scenes so that her belly would be covered. Apparently they think she looked fat. I could easily go on and on about the obvious double-standards within the music industry, but I won’t. It is a time to give thanks. I am thankful that Amanda Palmer drags her fabulous, last week’s smeared make-up face out on tour to deliver joy to us nerds to long to get a glimps of any part of her pale ex-gay mime body. So, thanks, Amanda. And Roadrunner Records: way to be part of the problem and not part of the solution, but thanks for playing a role in creating some belly solidarity!

The Dresden Dolls – Sex Changes

The Dresden Dolls – Slide

PJ Harvey – Missed

PJ Harvey – Dear Darkness

Goldfrapp – Ride a White Horse

Goldfrapp – Happiness

Eisley – Telescope Eyes

Eisley – Taking Control

Madonna – Beautiful Stranger

Rilo Kiley – The Absence of God

Tracy Chapman – Fast Car

Fiona Apple – Sleep to Dream

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Phenomena

The Horrorpops – Walk Like a Zombie

The Horrorpops – Thelma and Louise

Sweet Soubrette – Unlucky in Love

Magneta Lane – Ugly Socialite

The Gossip – Standing in the Way of Control

Last Town Chorus – Modern Love

Death By Chocolate – If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out

The Dresden Dolls – Sorry Bunch

The Shangri-Las – Leader of the Pack

The Shangri-Las – He’s a Rebel

Poe – Hey Pretty

Liz Phair – Polyester Bride

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts – Real Wild Child

The Cranberries – Go You Own Way

Nico – These Days

Nancy Sinatra – Bang Bang

The Dresden Dolls – Thirty Whacks

Amanda Palmer – Astronaut

Charlotte Gainsburg – The Songs That We Sing

The Pierces – Boring

Sinead O’Connor – All Appologies

Sinead O’Connor – Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home

Holly Palmer – A Rose by Any Other Name

No Doubt – Hateful

Indigo Girls – Clampdown

Heather Nova – Heart and Shoulder

Sarah McLachlan -Good Enough

Kate Bush – This Woman’s Work

Allison Moorer – Here Comes the Sun

Lisa Loeb – Summer

Bjork – Enjoy

PJ Harvey – Me-Jane

The Motels – Danger

Billie Holiday – It Had To Be You

Fiona Apple – Paper Bag

Patsy Cline – I Go Walking After Midnight

The Bobbettes – Mr. Lee

Garbage – Supervixen

The Dresden Dolls – Boston

The Dresden Dolls – Truce

The Dresden Dolls – Delilah

Amanda Palmer – Ampersand

Jess: We are excited you guys are here!

Tammy: Yeah, we are too, cool. I feel it. The energy is just there.

Harry: So, do you play a lot of towns this size?

Tammy: Yeah, college shows. Usually when there is a college radio station that is playing us we will definitely go there because we have fans there now thanks to you guys! And a lot of the times they are more fun than the big cities.

Harry: Really?

Tammy: Yeah, people are just genuinely loving music.

Harry: Where else have you been playing?

Tammy: Last night we played in St. Louis, tomorrow we are in Chicago. Our booking agent is looking at what radio stations are playing our band and that’s where we go. Why go somewhere if nobody’s even heard of you., ya know? You guys brought us here! I can’t even tell you how cool it is that you are playing our album.

Jess: I really like the album art.

Tammy: Thank you! I’ve done all our album art, but this is the first one I have started at the same time. Initially it was the stop sign, I didn’t have a title for the album or anything and then I started a song. And anytime I get sick of a song I would go back to the visual aspect. So it all came together at once.

Jess: It seems like a lot of work to do that all together.

Tammy: It was! I could sit for two hours with one butterfly trying to figure out where it should actually be. We have a ton of free buttons and stickers at our merch table and you guys should take some.

Jess: What is your merch person’s name?

Tammy: Robert. Please go say ‘hi’ to him, he’s awesome. He’s wearing his Halloween costume for the rest of the month, he said, he just feels so free and cool.

Jess: What is he dressed as?

Tammy: He has on a NASA jumpsuit.

Harry: Oh, yeah, I saw him.

Tammy: Tell him that each of you get a bookmark. I make bookmarks.

Jess: What a great hobby!

Tammy: Oh God, it’s so horrible! I’m all obsessed with my band, but it’s perfect when you have, like, a little bit of A.D.D. before it was ever diagnosed. But, I’m excited, you know, just in the past week there is this new optimism. Are you guys Obama supporters?…obviously.

Harry: Yeah.

Jess: Uh huh.

Tammy: I am reading it in people, I can see it in people’s faces, you know? I’ve just been explaining to people that, you know, we all want a different sort of government but first we need to get somebody really smart to fix all the fucked up shit…and Nader is always gonna be around, he’s young, you know what I mean. He’ll be 75 and finally be the president. Everybody is so optimistic around here and smiling; it’s good, it’s good to see.

Jess: On the road does it get you down, like, are people out there digging what you got but…

Tammy: but you can’t tell! They look like they hate you or something? Oh yeah! And then afterwards they’re like “oh my god, you were great!” ok, well why did you just stand there and stare at my fucking knee the whole time!?

Jess: *coughcough*

Tammy: Are you coughing because of my cigarette?

Jess: No, no, I am recovering from sickness…and nursing a hangover.

Tammy: I got really sick on tour, actually the last trip we did three days in our bass player got sick: coughing and sneezing and I’m like “oh fuck..”, two days later the drummer, myself and another guy got sick and we were sick the whole time. It was that month long thing that just lingered.

Jess: What’s it like doing a show when you are just feeling like shit?

Tammy: You just gotta do it.

Jess: Drink it off?

Tammy: Totally, drink and smoke it off. Rock and roll just overcomes everything, you know? You guys are drinking PBR…man, I’ve had some PBR nights on this tour.

Harry: That’s, like, every night of my life.

Tammy: Cheers, rock and roll you guys!

I can remember not too long ago when Marisa (the old station manager and my dear friend) had her last shift. This was also the last show in the old station which was in itself an emotional event. I saw how much Marisa loved the station, the large part in her life that it filled, how much she was going to miss it. Witnessing that made me realized how hard it would be for me and I have been expecting this for some time, but I don’t really know how I am going to handle it.

In other news, I went to a really rockin’ show on Saturday. Dressy Bessy played a show and I scored a sweet interview with Tammy Ealmon. I am still working on transcribing the interview, but once I do it will be posted on this blog. You can check out Dressy Bessy’s myspace here and while you are checking out some links you should mosey on over to the new Kirksville Rocks page.

Keep checking back for that interview, I promise it is going to be very entertaining. Here is the playlist from this week:

The Dresden Dolls – Truce

Cat Power and Karen Elson – I Love You (me Either)

Billie Holiday – Gee, Baby, Ain’t I Good to You?

Lisa Loeb – Do You Sleep?

Rebekah – Little Black Girl

Black Box Recorder – Sex Life

Cowboy Junkies – State Trooper

Jill Sobule – I Kissed a Girl

Matson Jones – He Means Nothing Dear

Natalie Merchant – In the Ghetto

Aretha Franklin – In Case You Forgot

Dressy Bessy – She Likes It

The Ettes – To Arms

All Girl Summer Fun Band – Not the One for Me

Amanda Palmer – Another Year

The Andrew Sisters – Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

The Capricorns – The New Sound

Emmylou Harris – Two More Bottles of Wine

Sinead O’Connor – Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home

Annie Lennox – Here Comes the Rain Again

Cyndi Lauper – Time After Time

Cyndi Lauper and Minus Five – Midnight Radio

Le Tigre – Deceptacon

L7 – Wargasm

Liz Phair – Polyester Bride

Liz Phair – What Makes You Happy

Amanda Palmer – Runs in the Family

Second, I want to encourage you to consider some of the artists I played this week on my show as muses for your Halloween costume this year. You will notice there is no short, pleated-skirt Brit-Brit or every-woman Spice Girl here. So, before you resort to the usual slutty pop idol, take a second look into being Karen O this time around. You know, I heard she didn’t wear a damn thing (sans some strategically placed glitter) for her first performance with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. But, I understand the urge to dress with skanky irony for Halloween, and for your enjoyment, here is a picture of me a couple of years ago dressed as Courtney Love.

This year I will be going as Doc Brown from the Back To The Future movies. I don’t have my costume completed yet, but I imagine it will look something like when I dressed up as Albert Einstein, which you can see below.

The Dresden Dolls – Mrs. O

The Raincoats – 57 Ways to End it All

Garbage – Androgyny

Allison Kraus and Gillian Welch – I’ll Fly Away

Arcade Fire – In the Backseat

The Cardigans – Iron Man

The Dollyrots – Brand New Key

Pretenders – Brass in Pocket

Fiona Apple – Sleep to Dream

Fiona Apple – O’Sailor

The Breeders – Invisible Man

Erykah Badu – Back in the Day

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Gold Lion

Tilly and the Wall – Falling Without Knowing

M.I.A. – Paper Planes

Bikini Kill – Rebel Girl

Magneta Lane – Teenage Boyfriend

Jack Off Jill – American Made

Mirah – Jerusalem

Gossip – Standing in the Way of Control

Peaches – Boys Wanna be Her

Luscious Jackson – Naked Eye

Sleater-Kinney – All Hands on the Bad One

Carla Bruni – Rapheal

Tori Amos – Cornflake Girl

Madonna – Borderline

B-52′s – Funplex

Neko Case – John Saw That Number

The Dresden Dolls – Necessary Evil

The Ettes – Two Shakes

The Ettes – Dead and Gone

Horrorpops – Walk like a Zombie

Hole – Rock Star

PJ Harvey – Rid of Me

Melissa Etheridge – Like the Way I Do

The Dresden Dolls – The Jeep Song

Eisley – My Lovely

Bonnie Raitt – Let’s Give Them Something to Talk About

Cyndi Lauper – True Colors

Blondie – Call Me

Bjork – Army of Me

Tori Amos – Barrons of Suburbia

Bow Wow Wow – I Want Candy

Kate Bush – King of the Mountain

Cat Power – Could We

The Casual Dots – Bumble Bee

The Cranberries – Salvation

Lisa Loeb – Do You Sleep?

Mosquitos – Blue Heart

Natalie Merchant – In the Ghetto

Poe – Hey Pretty

(Ode to Middle School Set)

The Cardigans – Love Fool

Sixpense None the Richer – Kiss Me

No Doubt – Just a Girl

Letters to Cleo – Cruel to be Kind

Jess: The Edge.

Caller: What’s this song you are playing on the radio right now?

J: “We’re both so sorry” by Mirah. (I said proudly thinking I had pleased their listening pallet.)

C: Oh. Well, could you play something more upbeat? We are at work and need something to keep us going.

J: Do you have anything in particular you would like to hear?

C: Play some AC/DC (“or some Led Zeppelin!” shouts another rowdy worker in the background).

J: OK, actually, you are listening the Women in Rock show, I play female artists and…

C: That’s too bad.

J: OK… where are you working tonight?

C: Golden Eagle (the local Anheuser-Busch distributor).

J: Well, I will try to play something catchier for you…

C: – hangs up-

After these calls I never know what to say or do. I, of course, am always polite on the phone telling the caller about the show and kindly asking them to request something by a woman, and many times they do, by very reluctantly and always struggling to name a female artist. Sometimes, I just want to screech at them “Have you been listening at all?!” I don’t really get angry at the ones who don’t know better and in their strain to request a female musician come up only with Alanis Morrisette…week after week. But, it is discouraging to think that these people don’t care about what I am playing or saying on air. My show is not doing anything it is meant to do: make even the slightest dent in the boys’ club that is rock music and the college radio airwaves. Do people only listen to my show impatiently waiting to hear the hip hop show post-dirty business?

Here is the playlist from this week, in case you missed it:

The Dresden Dolls – The Kill

Sleater-Kinney – One-beat

The Butchies – She’s So Lovely

The Andrews Sisters – Rum and Coca-Cola

The Sounds – Living in America

Mirah – We’re Both So Sorry

The Pipettes – Judy

The Shangri-las – He’s a Rebel

Suzanne Vega – Tom’s Diner

Hello Saferide – High School Stalker

Tilly and the Wall – Bessa

Sweet Honey and the Rock – Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around

The Mamas and the Papas – Dedicated to the One I Love

Dolly Parton – 9 to 5

The Capricorns – Teenage Boyfriend

Madeline Peyroux – Dance Me to the End of Love

Kathryn Williams – Spit on a Stranger

Magneta Lane – Ugly Socialite

Bikini Kill – Rebel Girl

The Cardigans – I Need Some Fine Wine and You, You Need to be Nicer

Fuzzbox – Spirit in the Sky

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Gold Lion

TAM – No Cars Go

The Raincoats – Lola

The Bobettes – Mr. Lee

Gwen Stefani – Cool

Carla Bruni – L’excessive

The Shangri-las – Leader of the Pack