setlist 9/30/08 Women On Women Music Program Tuesday nights on WLUW 88.7fm / wluw.org

Here's the setlist -

The Causey Way - "The Electronic Church (You Sell God)" With Loving and Open Arms (Alternative Tentacles)
Liz Phair - "Help Me Mary" Exile in Guyville (Matador)
Sleater-Kinney - "By The Time You're Twenty-Five" Get Up (Kill Rock Stars)
L7 - "On My Rockin' Machine" Slap-Happy (Bong Load)
The Donnas - "I Didn't Like You Anyway" Get Skintight (Lookout)
Kate Tucker & The Sons of Sweden - "Faster Than Cars Drive" S/T (Red Valise)
Throwing Muses - "Saving Grace" House Tornado/The Fat Skier (4AD)
PJ Harvey - "Dear Darkness" White Chalk (Island)
Tracey Thorn - "Easy" Out of the Woods (Astralwerks)
Neko Case - "Hold On Hold On" Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Anti)
Yo La Tengo - "Upside-Down" May I Sing With Me (Alias)
Liz Durrett - "Husk" Husk (Warm)
Sally Timms - "Cry Cry Cry" Cowboy Sally's Twilight Laments for Lost Buckaroos (Bloodshot)
Kim - "Under The Sun" S/T (S/R)
Dressy Bessy - "Just Like Henry" Pink Hearts Yellow Moons (Kindercore)
Sarge - "Half As Far" The Glass Intact (Mud)
Belle & Sebastian - "Beyond The Sunrise" Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant (Matador)
Scarlett Johansson - "Anywhere I Lay My Head" Anywhere I Lay My Head (Atco)
Jennifer O'Connor - "Daylight Out" Here With Me (Matador)
Kirsty MacColl - "They Don't Know" Galore (IRS)
Dar Williams - "The Pointless, Yet Poignant, Crisis Of A Co-Ed" Mortal City (Razor & Tie)
Miss Murgatroid & Petra Hayden - "Hummingbird" Hearts and Daggers (File Under Music)
Kristen Hersh - "Cry Baby Cry" A Cleaner Light (4AD)
Patti Smith - "Redondo Beach" Horses (Arista)
Portishead - "We Carry On" Third (Mercury/Island)
Asobi Seksu - "Thursday" Citrus (Friendly Fire)
Saint Etienne - "A Good Thing" Tales From Turnpike House (Savoy Jazz)
The Gossip - "Standing In The Way Of Control" Live in Liverpool (Red Int/Red Ink)
Mates Of State - "A Control Group" My Solo Project (Omnibus)
The Rondelles - "The Upshot" The Fox (Teen Beat)
Ann Peebles - "I Can't Stand The Rain" I Can't Stand the Rain (Hi)
Scotland Yard Gospel Choir - "Aspidistra" S/T (Bloodshot)

Links to stuff we talked about tonight -
Indie In The Windy City Handmade Market - This Saturday October 4th from 10am to 4pm at The New Friendly Towers, 920 W Wilson. Support your local economy and shop local!

Voter Registration ends in ONE WEEK - yikes! Make sure you are registered TODAY!
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Congratulations White Sox for taking it home tonight!

Thanks for listening!

Video Friday: Protoypes - Who's Gonna Sing?

We're big fans of Prototypes here at WOW. Although I have no idea what the heck they are signing about 99% percent of the time, I appreciate their beats and the way French sounds sassy and fun when sung aloud. When I discovered this video on the Minty Fresh YouTube page, I fell in love with them just a little bit more. This video features some hilarious clothes that seem to have come from my closet, circa 1987, including fluorescent pink sunglasses I swear I wore all during junior high. Additionally, there is a singing puppet. I won't ruin it anymore for you check it out below -


If you enjoyed that, I recommend their debut self-titled album.

Setlist 9/23/08 Women On Women Music Program - every Tuesday night on WLUW 88.7fm

Here's what you heard -
Sally Shapiro - "Anorak Christmas" Disco Romance (Discokaine)
Jennifer O'Connor - "Daylight Out" Here With Me (Matador)
The Kills - "Goodnight Bad Morning" Midnight Boom (Domino)
She & Him - "This Is Not A Test" Volume One (Merge)
Shannon Wright - "Everybody's Got Their Own Part To Play" Let in the Light (Quarterstick)
The New Pornographers - "Myriad Harbour" Challengers (Matador)
The Bangs - "S.O.S." Tiger Beat (Kill Rock Stars)
The Go! Team - "Universal Speech" Proof of Youth (Sub Pop)
Lesbians On Ectasy - "Sisters In The Struggle" We Know You Know (Alien8)
Prototypes - "Gentleman" Mutants Mediatiques (Universal International)
M.I.A. - "Boyz" Kala (XL)
Architecture In Helsinki - "Like It Or Not" Places Like This (Polyvinyl)
Ladytron - "Black Cat" Velocifero (Nettwerk)
Beth Orton - "This One's Gonna Bruise" Daybreaker (Astralwerks)
Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton - "Reading In Bed" Knives Don't Have Your Back (Last Gang)
Feist - "Mushaboom" Let it Die (Arts & Crafts)
The Bird and The Bee - "I'm A Broken Heart" S/T (Metro Blue)
Jenny Lewis - "Carpetbaggers" Acid Tongue (Warner Bros.)
Sarah Harmer - "Don't Get Your Back Up" You Were Here (Zoe)
Mary Lou Lord - "Lights Are Changing" S/T EP (Kill Rock Stars)
Yo La Tengo - "You Can Have It All" And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (Matador)
Mavis Staples - "You Must Have That True Religion" I Believe to My Soul (Rhino/Work Song/Hear Music)
Koko Taylor - "Voodoo Woman" Deluxe Edition (Alligator)
Aretha Franklin - "Do Right Woman - Do Right Man" V/A: Atlantic Rhythm & Blues (WEA International)
Carla Thomas - "A Woman's Love" V/A: Complete Stax/Volt Singles (Rhino)
Noisettes - "Don't Give Up" Three Moods of the Noisettes (Low Altitude)


Congratulations to Mike and Andy from WLUW's Outside The Loop Radio, who are celebrating their two year anniversary today - great job guys!

10th Annual Matthew Shepard March for LGBT Freedom - This Saturday, September 27 at 8pm, corner of Halsted and Roscoe. More information at http://gayliberation.net/

Voter Registration Information -
League Of Women Voters - http://www.lwv.org/Election2008/index.html
Register To Vote In Chicago -http://chicagoelections.com/
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Sonic Youth Video 3-fer

100%
If L7 was my first major feminist awakening ("Pretend We're Dead," 7/25/08), Kim Gordon was the next strong woman-in-rock type to smack me upside the head. This blonde, leggy badass was holding her own in a band with three noisy dudes, while simultaneously looking like a starlet and not giving a shit about anything. This video was my introduction to Sonic Youth. (Side note: supposedly, the second line in the second verse is "He's off to check his mind." I first heard it as "The zoftig chick is mine," and even though I'm probably wrong, enjoy singing it this way better.)


Bull in the Heather
Featuring the dance stylings of one Miss Kathleen Hanna! Check out the awesome riot grrl baby doll dress on Kim, too. (Hey, it was 1994!)


Little Trouble Girl (feat. Kim Deal)
Ah, the Kims. "Little Trouble Girls" is also the name of Rolling Stone's awesome book of women in rock (inspired by this song), which I highly recommend checking out.

Women on Women Setlist 9/16/08

Everybody's back, everybody's feeling healthy, and we're feeling Frenchy to boot! (Oh wait, the boot is Italy.)

Prototypes - "Je Ne Te Connais Pas" S/T (Minty Fresh)
Sonic Youth - "Ca Plane Pour Moi" V/A: Freedom of Choice (Caroline)
Le Tigre - "Fake French" Feminist Sweepstakes (Mr. Lady)
Francoise Hardy - "Oh Oh Cheri" The "Yeh-Yeh" Girl From Paris! (Vogue)
Serge Gainsbourg w/ Jane Birkin - "69 Annee Erotique" Love and the Beat 1 (Mercury)
Charlotte Gainsbourg - "Tel Que Tu Es" 5:55 (Because Music/Vice)
Nora O'Connor - "Bottoms" Til the Dawn (Bloodshot)
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings - "Let Them Knock" 100 Days 100 Nights (Daptone)
Ella Fitzgerald - "I Get a Kick Out of You" V/A: Verve/Remixed 4 (Verve)
Ladytron - "Runaway" Velocifero (Nettwerk)
The Polyphonic Spree - "Wig in a Box" V/A: Wig in a Box (Off)
Amanda Palmer - "Oasis" Who Killed Amanda Palmer? (Roadrunner)
Cub - "Pillow Queen" Box of Hair (Lookout!)
The Peechees - "Tomfoolery" Life (Kill Rock Stars)
Miss Alex White & the Red Orchestra - "Future Talk" Space & Time (In the Red)
Sarge - "Fast Girls (live)" Distant (Mud)
The Eyeliners - "Johnny * Lockheart" Here Comes Trouble (Panic Button)
Kaki King - "First Brain" ...Until We Felt Red (Velour)
Puffy Ami Yumi - "Can-Nana Fever" V/A: I Love Guitar Wolf ... very much (Narnack)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Art Star" S/T (Shifty)
Mecca Normal - "Who Shot Elvis?" Who Shot Elvis? (Matador)
Babes in Toyland - "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" V/A: If I Were a Carpenter (A&M)
Mo Tucker - "Fired Up" I Spent a Week There the Other Night (Sky)
Au Pairs - "You" The Very Best of (Cherry Red)
X-Ray Spex - "I Can't Do Anything" Germfree Adolescents (Caroline)
Lo/Hi - "Light Up" Say it More (Tiger Style)
Headlights - "Some Racing, Some Stopping" Some Racing, Some Stopping (Polyvinyl)

Setlist 9/9/08 - Emily Flies Solo!

In this episode of the Women on Women Music Program, Jenny and Elizabeth are both home sick, so Emily utilizes the philosophy of "less talk, more rock."

The Rondelles - "Tuesday Rock City" The Fox (Teenbeat)
Miss Alex White & The Red Orchestra - "Poison Arrow" Space & Time (In The Red)
Boss Hog - "Winn Coma" S/T (Geffen)
The Raveonettes - "Do You Believe Her" Whip It On (Columbia)
Papas Fritas - "Way You Walk" Buildings and Grounds (Minty Fresh)
The Dials - "Bye Bye Bye Bye Baby" Flex Time (Latest Flame)
Ex-Girl - "Pop Musik" Back to the Mono Kero! (Ipecac)
Lady Robotika - "Transmission Twist" (http://www.myspace.com/ladyrobotikaband)
The Breeders - "So Sad About Us" Safari EP (4AD)
The Plasmatics - "Tight Black Pants" New Hope for the Wicked (Cherry Red)
Nouvelle Vague - "Ever Fallen In Love?" Bande A Part (Luaka Bop)
Kim Wilde - "Kids in America" V/A: Living in Oblivion (EMI)
The Muffs - "Rock and Roll Girl" Hamburger (SFTRI)
Mucca Pazza - "Chick Habit" A Little Marching Band (S/R)
Moldy Peaches - "Who's Got the Crack?" S/T (Rough Trade)
Beat Happening - "Zombie Limbo Time" Music to Climb the Apple Tree By (K)
The Gore Gore Girls - "Fox in a Box" Get the Gore (Bloodshot)
Slant 6 - "Soda Pop-Rip Off" Soda Pop*Rip Off (Dischord)
The Slits - "Typical Girls" Cut (Island)
Julie Ruin - "Radical or Pro-Parental?" S/T (Kill Rock Stars)
Lunachicks - "Fallopian Rhapsody" Jerk of All Trades (Go Kart)
Rainer Maria - "The Contents of Lincoln's Pockets" A Better Version of Me (Polyvinyl)
The Velvet Underground - "I'm Sticking With You" VU (Verve)
The Shaggs - "I'm So Happy When You're Near" Philosophy of the World (RCA Victor)
Heavenly - "I'm Not Scared of You" Le Jardin de Heavenly (K)
Lois - "Charles Atlas" Bet the Sky (K)
Mecca Normal - "Cherry Flowers" Dovetail (K)
Mekons - "Hard to be Human Again" Fear & Whiskey (Quarterstick)
Velocity Girl - "Marzipan" Sorry Again EP (Pure Pop)
Kristin Hersh - "Trouble" Sunny Border Blue (4AD)
Apples in Stereo - "Ruby" Her Wallpaper Reverie (Spinart)
Go Sailor - "Last Year" S/T (Lookout)
The Hidden Mitten - "Marry Up" Roma! Roma! EP (S/R)
Lydia Lunch - "Why Don't We Do it in the Road" Widowspeak (New Millenium)
Yo La Tengo - "The Night Chicago Died" Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics (Egon)

Entertainment Law

I hate clowns. I don't like animals being used for profit. That said, I've had a long standing interest in circus arts/carnival culture. This Craigslist posting is just one example of what can be done with a law degree and a focus on entertainment law....and probably the only other rad thing to come out of Arkansas besides Beth Ditto!


Little Rock Firm looking for associate with interest in circus law (Little Rock, AR)

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Reply to: job-832730934@craigslist.org [?]
Date: 2008-09-08, 1:54PM CDT



Mid-sized Little Rock Law Firm Seeking Junior Associate With Interest in Circus/Carnival/Fair Law for immediate hire. According to BusinessWeek, one of the new emerging legal fields is Circus Law. There are many potential legal issues related to daily circus operations including injuries, animal safety and irresponsible carnival folk who act with a reckless disregard for Circus-goer safety. Our mid-sized firm is looking for a young ambitious attorney who will enthusiastically take on these issues and bring business to the firm

Requirements: Applicant must have graduated from an accredited law school. Applicant must have previous internship experience (no previous full-time experience necessary).

Compensation: Competitive salary. Negotiable.

In addition to submitting a resume in MS word format we request a short letter (200 words or less) detailing why you are interested in Circus Law and why you think you would be a good fit with our firm





Location: Little Rock, AR
Compensation: Competitive
Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
Please, no phone calls about this job!
Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.

Oooh, Barracuda!

Heart's "Barracuda" Played at Republican National Convention.

Ann and Nancy Wilson Bite Back.

An excerpt: "Sarah Palin's views and values in NO WAY represent us as American women. We ask that our song 'Barracuda' no longer be used to promote her image. The song 'Barracuda' was written in the late 70s as a scathing rant against the soulless, corporate nature of the music business, particularly for women."

I heart Heart. :)

Speaking of Politics...

Did we ever claim to be a fair and unbiased blog? No? Ok, just wanted to make sure we were all on the same page.



Check out the rest of Sarah Palin's vlogs (as brought to you by comedienne Sara Benincasa) here.



(Thanks to Tony for the link!)

WOW Setlist, 9/2/08

Juliana Hatfield - "Cool Rock Boy" Beautiful Creature (Sony International)
The Carter Family - "Hello Stranger" Country Music Hall of Fame (MCA)
Jolie Holland - "Amen" Escondida (Anti)
Rosa Passos - "Valera A Pena" Best of Rosa Passos (Velas)
Mirah - "Look Up!" C'mon Up (K)
Tsunami - "Stupid Like a Fox" Deep End (Simple Machines)
The Muffs - "Baby Go Round" S/T (Warner Bros.)
Bratmobile - "Don't Ask Don't Tell" Girls Get Busy (Lookout!)
Quintron - "Love is Like a Blob" Swamp Tech (Tigerbeat6)
Dame Darcy - "Chicken" Greatest Hits (Bop Tart/Action Driver)
Death by Chocolate - "Cutoutgirlscout" Zap the World (Jetset)
Bang! Bang! - "Turn the Tide" Do You Like It? (Heads Up)
Flossie & the Unicorns - "Miss Foxyface" LMNOP (Skin Graft)
Sarah Vaughan - "Whatever Lola Wants (Gotan Project Remix)" V/A: Verve/Remixed 2 (Verve)
Barbara Stephens - "Wait a Minute" V/A: The Complete Stax/Volt Singles Vol. 1 (Atlantic)
Koko Taylor - "What Kind of Man is That?" V/A: Chess Blues (MCA/Chess)
Lucinda Williams - "Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor" V/A: Classic Blues (Smithsonian)
The Goodies - "Sophisticated Boom Boom" V/A: One Kiss Can Lead To Another: Girl Group Sounds, Lost & Found (Rhino)
Yo La Tengo - "Don't Worry, Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking For Her Hand in the Snow)" Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics (Egon)
Free Kitten - "Oh Bondage, Up Yours!" Unboxed (Pearl Necklace)
Pizzicato Five - "Twiggy Twiggy/Twiggy vs. James Bond" Made in USA (Matador)
The Gossip - "Are You That Somebody?" Live in Liverpool (Columbia)
Le Tigre - "Viz" This Island (Universal/Strummer)
L7 - "Riding With a Movie Star" Hungry for Stink (Slash)
The Rogers Sisters - "Check Level" Three Fingers (Troubleman Unlimited)
Imogen Heap - "Daylight Robbery" Speak for Yourself (RCA Victor)