It's the WOW Thanksgiving Show!

More songs about buildings and food!

Cynthia Fee - "Thank You For Being a Friend (Theme to "The Golden Girls")
June Christy with Stan Keron and His Orchestra - "Shoo-Fly Pie & Apple Pan Dowdy" V/A: A Woman's Place is in the Groove (Acrobat)
Janet Klein & Her Parlor Boys - "Biscuit Medley: I'm the Only Gal in the World Can Take a Biscuit Apart, How Long Is It Gonna Take?, Georgie" Put a Flavor to Love (Coeur De Janette)
Apples in Stereo - "Strawberryfire" Her Wallpaper Reverie (SpinART)
Shonen Knife - "Cookie Day" Happy Hour (Big Deal)
Dame Darcy - "Chicken" Greatest Hits (Bop Tart/Action Driver)
The Cramps - "Chicken" Date With Elvis (Vengeance)
Cibo Matto - "Know Your Chicken" Viva! La Woman (Warner Bros.)
Bessie Smith - "Nobody In Town Can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine" V/A: Sugar in My Bowl - Vintage Sex Songs 1923-1952 (Buzzola)
Bessie Smith - "I Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl" V/A: Sugar in My Bowl - Vintage Sex Songs 1923-1952 (Buzzola)
Faye Richmonde - "Tony's Got Hot Nuts" V/A: A Dirty Shame Soundtrack (New Line Records)
The 5.6.7.8's - "One Potato" S/T (Time Bomb Records)
Gore Gore Girls - "Sweet Potato" Get the Gore (Bloodshot)
Imperial Teen - "Sweet Potato" The Hair the TV the Baby & the Band (Merge)
Southern Culture on the Skids - "Camel Walk" Santo Swings 7"s (Estrus)
The Beautys - "Hello Floor" Thing of Beauty (Cheetah's)

Tune in Tuesday: Thanksgiving Food Special!

Don't forget to tune in tomorrow, Tuesday November 25th, for the Women On Women Music Program's special Thanksgiving food special show! We'll be featuring songs about food and giving thanks all night long, so leave your requests in the comments if there's something you'd like to hear.

* Please note: WOW will be delayed by one hour tomorrow, due to the broadcast of the Loyola University Ramblers basketball game. Expect us to be on from 9pm to 10pm, immediately following the game.

Video Fridays: The Moldy Peaches

I don't think I've seen choreography this awesome since the "Stand" video.



(Seeing as there's been a renewed interest in the Moldy Peaches ever since Juno came out, I thought I'd share this little gem. Sure, "Anyone Else But You" is a beautiful song, but have you ever seen the band behind the song? Was it what you expected?)

Women on Women Radio Show - Setlist 11/18/08

Numbers - "At the Mall" Ee-Uh! (Troubleman Unlimited)
Imperial Teen - "Imperial Teen" Seasick (Slash)
Mojave 3 - "Hard to Miss You" Spoon and Rafter (4AD)
Metric - "Combat Baby" Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? (Elgonix)
Pretty Girls Make Graves - "All Medicated Geniuses" The New Romance (Matador)
New Pornographers - "The Bleeding Heart Show" Twin Cinema (Matador)
Scotland Yard Gospel Choir - "I Never Thought I Could Feel This Way For a Boy" S/T (Bloodshot)
Future Bible Heroes - "I'm Lonely (and I Love It)" I'm Lonely (and I Love It) (Merge)
Mates of State - "Parachutes (Funeral Song)" Team Boo (Polyvinyl)
Babes in Toyland - "Sweet '69" Nemesisters (Reprise)
The Gossip - "Yesterday's News" Movement (Movement)
Sleater-Kinney - "Sympathy" One Beat (Kill Rock Stars)
Miss Alex White & the Red Orchestra - "Future Talk" Space & Time (In the Red)
Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter - "Tell the Boys" Oh, My Girl (Barsuk)
The Moldy Peaches - "Nothing Came Out" S/T (Rough Trade)
Joanna Newsom - "This Side of the Blue" The Milk-Eyed Mender (Drag City)
Amanda Palmer - "Blake Says" Who Killed Amanda Palmer (Roadrunner)
Kristin Hersh - "Vanishing Twin" The Grotto (4AD)
Azure Ray - "The Drinks We Drank Last Night (Live)" New Resolution (Saddle Creek)
Bjork - "All is Full of Love" Livebox Sampler (One Little Indian)
Rosa Passos - "Feitico da Vila" The Best of Rosa Passos (Velas)
That Dog - "Ms. Wrong" Totally Crushed Out (DGC)
The Breeders - "Invisible Man" Last Splash (4AD)
Josephine Wiggs - "Head to Toe" Bon Bon Lifestyle (Grand Royal)

The Time Is Now

Today cities around the country hosted protests against California's Proposition 8, a ballot initiative to ban gay marriage in California (where it had been legalized just months ago)that passed on November 4. Also passed on Election Day were similar propositions in Arizona and Florida as well as a law in Arkansas that outlaws adoption by unmarried persons (cough...gays...cough).

Arguments for gay marriage have been articulated in newspapers, blogs, and t.v.: every citizen should have equal rights, denying some citizens equal marriage rights is unfair because they pay full taxes, it is matter of basic civil rights - the list goes on and on.

This movement isn't just about marriage rights, though. Not everyone wants to get married. Not everyone will get married, even if they have the legal right to. It is about no longer placing those in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community in the "other" category. And when people are placed in that category, it is so much easier for people to see them as diffrent - as less than. Which leads to violence. It is easy to hurt someone who you don't see as human as yourself. Or to hurt yourself when you're tired of being treated like a second class citizen.

We can't allow another Matthew Shepard to happen. Another Brandon Teena. We can't continue standing by while the gay teen suicide rate rises. The time for civil rights for EVERYONE is now.

So what can you do about it? Don't be complacent. Even if you aren't queer, even if you don't want to get married, this is something you should be concerned about. Tell your friends and family why this issue matters. Write letters to legislators. Donate funds to legal advocacy groups that are doing some of the heavy lifting around this issue, like Lambda Legal andNational Center for Lesbian Rights. Tell friends who are getting married that instead of a gift, you're going to donate to marriage equality in their name.

Boycott businesses that either donated funds directly to Yes on 8 or are in bed with groups who donated to Yes on 8:
McDonalds Corporation
Home Depot
Bonneville Radio Stations (In Chicago, they have 101.9, 100.3, 97.1, and 96.9 F.M.)
Lowes
And I'm getting really local here: Century 21 theater in Evanston.

This is a call to action - the kind we can't do on air. I'm talking to you, person who sits on their couch and thinks "Wow, this is all really messed up" and does NOTHING. Get up. Do something. We don't have time to waste.

Video Friday: Janis Ian's Married In London

The lack of civil rights of GLBT folks is no laughing matter, but Janis Ian brings humor to a horrible situation with her song "Married In London". Check out the video below. If you want to join the movement for marriage equality, join Chicago Against Proposition 8 this Saturday November 15 at 12:30 at the Federal Plaza (Dearborn and Adams). Raise your voice, raise your fist.

Women on Women Setlist 11/11/08 - Every Tuesday from 8 to 10pm, 88.7fm/wluw.org

April March - "Chick Habit" V/A: Quentin Tarantino's "Death Proof" Soundtrack (Warner)
The Goodies - "Sophisticated Boom Boom" V/A: One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds, Lost & Found (Rhino)
Tiger Trap - "Supreme Nothing" S/T (K)
The Slits - "Typical Girls" Cut (Island)
Asylum Street Spankers - "Funnel of Love" V/A: Hard-Headed Woman: A Celebration of Wanda Jackson (Bloodshot)
Imperial Teen - "Sugar" On (Merge)
Paula Kelley - "Showdown" Nothing/Everything (Stop, Pop, and Roll)
Dressy Bessy - "In Your Headphones" Holler and Stomp (Transdreamer)
Vivian Girls - "Wild Eyes" S/T (In the Red)
All Girl Summer Fun Band - "Something New" Looking Into It (AGSFB Music)
Yo La Tengo - "Double Dare" Painful (Matador)
Juliana Hatfield - "Fleur de Lis" Only Everything (Atlantic)
Eleventh Dream Day - "Ice Storm" Stalled Parade (Thrill Jockey)
Electrelane - "Two for Joy" Axes (Too Pure)
Edith Frost - "Thine Eyes" Calling Over Time (Drag City)
Penelope Houston - "Walnut" The Pale Green Girl (DBK)
The Cramps - "Lonesome Town" Gravest Hits (Illegal/IRS)
The Shaggs - "Who Are Parents" Philosophy of the World (RCA Victor)
The Luv'd Ones - "Walkin' the Dog" Truth Gotta Stand (Sundazed)
Pixies - "Bam Thwok" S/R on iTunes
Bratmobile - "The Real Janelle" The Real Janelle EP (Kill Rock Stars)
That Dog - "Ms. Wrong" Totally Crushed Out (DGC)
Puffy Ami Yumi - "Planet Tokyo" Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi Soundtrack (Epic)
Delta Five - "Mind Your Own Business" Singles and Sessions 1979-1981 (Kill Rock Stars)
Tracy + The Plastics - "Henrietta" Culture for Pigeon (Troubleman Unlimited)
Hole - "Gutless" Live Through This (DGC)
Sahara Hotnights - "Hot Night Crash" Kiss & Tell (RCA)
Numbers - "Disease" In My Mind All the Time (Tigerbeat 6)
Yma Sumac - "Five Bottles Mambo" Mambo (The Right Stuff)