The Mo & Matts Show

I never met a Matt I didn't like, which is a good thing since today I had not one, but TWO Matts appearing as special guests on my show!

We had Matt Jennings, playing his Spanish guitar stylings (flamenco, but not)... Followed by Venice's - by way of Sydney, Australia - own rockin' troubador, Matt Ellis. Both groovy and delicious. Check 'em out.

And now, the playlist:

4.21.08

Piacere Sequence - Teo Usuelli
Frozen Signal - On
A New World - DeVotchka
Beware of Darkness - George Harrison
Shivers - Boys Next Door
Ego Tripping - Nikki Giovanni
If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night) - Me'shell N'Degeocello
Since We Last Spoke - RJD2
The Rest of Us Sleep - Gram Rabbit
Electric Feel - MGMT
Been So Long - Vetiver
Wait For the Summer - Yeasayer
Remember When - Liam Finn
~Matt Jennings Interview
Nobody Cares - sarabeth Tucek
Subzero Fun - Autolux
~Matt Ellis Interview
Sugar - You Am I
Do It Right - The Three Tops & Phyllis Dillon
Warwick Avenue - Duffy
Go On Back To Him - Solomon Burke
But I Ain't No More - Vera Hamilton
Kisses For the Misses - Richard Swift
Distraction #74 - The Avett Brothers
Rebels in the Roses - Everest
Swamp Thing - Chameleons

That's it for this week... tune in again next week as I've dug up some fun new stuff. Yay!

Manic Monday

The Monday Morning Mo Show continues... and if you didn't tune in, you missed a chance to win a pair of 3 day passes to Coachella. Can you believe it? (Because the only way I would go this year is for free, for sure. Maybe for free, with VIP. Oh, how I hate festivals...)

Anyway, the playlist? Of course!

4.14.08

Groovin' With Mr. G - Richard "Groove" Holmes
I Dig You - Boss Hog
Summertime Cowboy - Husky Rescue
Seasons Change - Candie payne
Imogene Threw Me Over - Actionslacks
Mrs. Rosenthal - Brian Wright & The Waco Tragedies
Seven days - The Apollas
For the Price of a Cup of Tea - Belle & Sebastian
Am I Black Enough For Ya - Billy Paul
Stax - Belles Will Ring
Standing Bird - Love Psychedelico
Lights & Music - Cut Copy
Homosapien - Pete Shelley
Beat My Guest - Adam Ant
Alaska - The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black
Welcome to Nowhere - The Mint Chicks
She's So Fine - The Easybeats
Check Me Out - Little Denice
Watch the Sun Rise - Big Star
Reloader - Everest
New England - Tanya Donnely
Do Me A Favour - Arctic Monkeys
Is It Nice - Barkmarket
Don't Sweat the Technique - Erik B. & Rakim
Deleted Scenes - Piano Magic
Some Place Else - Saint Etienne
Anti-Love Song - Betty Davis

The Monday Morning Mo Show... Mondays @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, 7pm in Berlin and 5am Sydney!

Goodbye, the Ides of March...

First April show on Little Radio, and that ain't no foolin'. And we're at 10am now! Oye, I do miss the sleeping in I used to do on Mondays, but I love that so many people are listening now. Thank you!!

Here's the playlist:

4.07.08

Near Dark - Burial
Happiness - Goldfrapp
Shadows - Honeycut
Testify - Johnny Taylor
Alphabet Aerobics - Blackalicious
The Gospel - Saturday Knights
Moonage Daydream - David Bowie
Tame - Pixies
Broken Heart Beats Sound Like Breakbeats - Los Campesinos
Hott Date - The Gossip
Git Back - Sugar Pie Desanto
Night of the Lotus Eaters - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Undone - DeVotchka
Scenic - Beirut
Gypsy's Curse - Calexico
Let Her Dance - Bobby Fuller Four
A Song About Hope - Ulrich Schnauss
Hustler - Simian Mobile Disco
Touch Me - Spank Rock
Fat Mama - Tito Puente
Dollar Bill - Screaming Trees
This Thing Nowhere - Bettie Serveert
Company Dance - Sam Champion
Pretty Girl from Chile - The Avett Brothers
Here No More - The Breeders
Rockferry - Duffy
All the Umbrellas of London - Magnetic Fields
Spiral Stairs - Elf Power
Second Chance - Liam Finn
Jack U Off - Robyn
Black Cat - Ladytron

Tune in every Monday at 10am PST... I'm gonna have some cool stuff to give away from time to time. Yay!

Little Radio & SXSW

Hey y'all~

New time for the show - Mondays from 10am till Noon PST. If you caught it, here's what you heard! (A bit of a texas influence, I have to admit...)

Little Radio Playlist
3/31/08

The Wolves (Act I & II) - Bon Iver
Wolf Like Me - TV On The Radio
Sunrise - Yeasayer
Raising the Sparks - Akron/Family
Safari - The Breeders
That Kind of Man - The Heavy
Feelin' Alright - Lulu
Warwick Avenue - Duffy
Expressway To Your Heart - Amen Corner
Uptight - Stevie Wonder
Along The Way - DeVotchka
Georgia You Were Right - Sally Jaye
Music Moves My Feet - Liam Finn
You Burn Bright - Everest
Death Prayer In Heaven's Orchard - Howlin' Rain
Poor Girl - X
Because I Do - X
Bang On - The Breeders
Konichiwa Bitches - Robyn
We're In The City - Saint Etienne
Collapsing New People - Fad Gadget
Something In My Eye - Ed Harcourt
Hole In The Middle - Emily Jane White
Seems Like Home To Me - Two Gallants
Skinny Love - Bon Iver
Go Places - The New Pornographers
The Party's Over - The Baldwin Brothers feat. Mark Lanegan
Wait For Summer - Yeasayer

Remember, it's the Monday Morning Mo Show now... Yay!

They Come in 3's...

My grandfather, my mother, and now my grandmother..

Mi abuela - Manuela Tenorio. She passed away on Easter, although the news made its way to us faraway relatives a little later than that. She was the matriarch of the clan, a brood of energetic and rowdy (in the best way) Colombians whom she ruled with discipline and food, or so I've been told.

In 1990, when these relatives first relocated to the East Coast, I was sent to stay with them for about 6 weeks. Every day, my grandfather would come collect me and take me to their house, where my grandmother would be in her "office" making massive quantities of food. We'd have a huge lunch (usually about 6 courses) and then she'd pack the rest up into containers. My grandfather would then walk to every relative's home, put their food in the fridge, and drop me off knowing that the family had dinner for the night.

I knew that after my grandfather passed, my grandmother wouldn't be far behind. Even in the depth's of his advanced Alzheimer's, he would still pass by my grandmother in her wheelchair, and say, "Bonita, bonita..." They held hands till the last minute, so I'm glad they can be together again.

Dona Manuela Ines Tenorio - que dios los bediga a todos.

Adventures in Austin

SXSW 2008... in Pictures! With some notes, of course.

Two Gallants - aka Two Furious Boys who make Furious Noise.

Bon Iver - He overcame the chaos of the street with his melancholy tunes... asking the crowd to sing loudly the "what might have been lost" part of the track "Wolves (Act I & II)," drowning out the drunken revelry down below.
Yeasayer by night - an incredible (and far too short!) set of hippie indie goodness.
Los Campesinos - The sun and heat forced these pasty Brits to reveal some skin, and at one point, the singer claimed he was going to take everyone's cameras and erase the pics of themselves so the rest of the world couldn't see their pastiness. They missed mine, obviously.
Howlin' Rain - The grooviest, possibly hairiest set of all.
Liam Finn - Cute & Little & Hot & Sweaty & Melodically Noisy.
Devotchka - Nick Urrata calmed an impatient Billy Bragg audience and swoons ensued.

Everest - LA boys done good! Completely rockin' in the free world. With abandon.Sally Jaye - backed by Brian Wright & the Waco Tragedies, a beautiful country voice in our world.
Moving Picture Show - Matt showing his guitar chops.
X - More fun in the new World. (No picture of Billy Zoom as he freaks me out a bit these days.)
Duffy - absolutely charming in a Dusty-meets-Lulu way, and a fantastic performer too.
The Heavy - out of Noid, UK... The singer jumped off the stage and freaky danced with me, probably because I'd just taken this pic and the security guy got mad at me.
Slim Cessna's Auto Club - Zombie tent revival rock and roll.
The Mint Chicks - howling their way out of New Zealand.

Yeasayer by day - Yes, I saw them twice, because they were THAT AMAZING.The Night Marchers - John Reis (RFTC) gets skinny and rock wildly with his new band.
The Breeders - Bang on, ladies.
See you next year, Austin!

Beware the Ides of...

It's March - and Little Radio is remade/remodeled... That's a Roxy music joke for those not as dorky as myself.

So the show is back, and here's what we heard:

Little Radio Playlist
3/03/08

Save It For Later - The English Beat
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away - The Beatles
Shing-A-Ling - Tito Puente
Wouldn't It Be Nice - The Beach Boys
A Natural Man - Lou Rawls
Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
Pretty Girl From San Diego - The Avett Brothers
Out of My Head & Back In My Bed - Loretta Lynn
He'll Have to Go - Solomon Burke
I Don't Love Anyone - Belle & Sebastian
Stupid Now - Bob Mould
Konichiwa Bitches - Robyn
Mini Skirt - Esquivel
Collapsing New People - Fad Gadget
The Talk - Erland Oye
American Hookers - Gram Rabbit
Hole In The Middle - Emily Jane White
The World I Used to Be Afraid of - Blanche
We're Going to Be Friends - White Stripes
Deanna - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Does This Mean You're Moving On? - The Airbourne Toxic Event
Winter '94 - Henry's Dress
She Shot A Hole in My Soul - Clifford Curry
Too Many People - Cold Blood
Look At Me - Terry Callier
Caledonia Rain - The High Society
Should've Been In Love - Wilco
The Party's Over - The Baldwin Bros. feat. Mark Lanegan
Words - Doves

Thanks for listening!