setlist 3/31/09 for the Women On Women Music Program on WLUW 88.7fm Chicago / wluw.org online

The Rondelles - "The Upshot" The Fox (Teenbeat)
X - "Riding With Mary" Under the Big Black Sun (Elektra/Rhino)
The Blacks - "Take Me Now" Dolly Horrorshow (Bloodshot)
Tilly and the Wall - "Pot Kettle Black" O (Team Love)
The Velvettes - "Needle in a Haystack" The Best Of (Spectrum)
All Girl Summer Fun Band - "Something New" Looking Into It (AGSFB)
Apples In Stereo - "She's Just Like Me/Taking Time" Fun Trick Noisemaker (SpinART)
Heavenly - "Cool Guitar Boy" Heavenly Versus Satan (K)
Cub - "Surfer Girl" Betti-Cola (Mint)
The Hidden Mitten - "Roma! Roma!" Roma! Roma! EP (S/R)
Mazzy Star - "Ghost Highway" She Hangs Brightly (Capitol)
John Parish & Polly Jean Harvey - "Dance Hall At Louse Point" Dance Hall at Louse Point (Island)
18th Dye - "Is" Amorine Queen (Crunch Frog)
Pistol Whipped - "Love is a Queer Thing" Quality Songs for Quality People (S/R)
Vivian Girls - "Wild Eyes" S/T (In The Red)
The Slits - "Love Und Romance" Cut (Island)
Chicks on Speed - "Mind Your Own Business" Will Save Us All (EFA)
Lush - "Single Girl" Ciao! (4AD)
Dressy Bessy - "In Your Headphones" Holler and Stomp (Transdreamer)
Mary Timony - "Friend To JC" Ex Hex (Lookout)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Dull Life" It's Blitz! (Interscope)
Lily Allen - "I Could Say" It's Not Me, It's You (Capitol)
Blondie - "Fade Away And Radiate" Parallel (Capitol)
Bitesize - "Greta Garbo" Sophmore Slump (Packing Heat)
Tracy and the Plastics - "Dawn Feather" Real Damage (Dim Mak)
Eleanor Murray - "Joseph's Song" For Cedar (Anonymous Monk)
Yo La Tengo - "By The Time It Gets Dark" Little Honda EP (Matador)
Sonic Youth - "Secret Girl" Made in USA (Rhino)
Mirah - "Country Of The Future" (a)spera (K)
Lady Sovereign - "Let's Be Mates" Jigsaw (Midget)
Blevin Blectom - "Squeezed" Gular Flutter (Aagoo)
Juliana Hatfield and Tanya Donelly - "Josie and the Pussycats" V/A: Saturday Morning Cartoons' Greatest Hits (MCA)

Video Fridays: Julie Atlas Muz

New York based burlesque performer Julie Atlas Muz brings so much more to the stage than tassel twirling and booty shaking (not that those aren't both great in their own right). Combining her skills as both a modern dancer and a performance artist, Muz uses burlesque to push and break boundaries. Her performances are riviting and embrace the line between grotesque and beautiful, merge comedy and sexuality and bend gender expectations. Muz uses her body and the space around her to make meaning and create expressions and experiences, asking the viewer to see more than just a nude female form.

This video, captured at the Clore Ballroom in London, is of the routine that won her the title of Miss Exotic World in 2006. There is nudity, so don't watch this one around the boss or the kids!

Do It Your D*mn Self Craft Show - This Saturday!

Do It Your Own D*mn Self! Reuse, recycle and re-craft this saturday with the Chicago Craft Mafia at the Do It Your Own D*mn Self Show. It happens Saturday March 28 from noon to 4pm at the Pulaski Park Fieldhouse at 1419 W Blackhawk. Craft away!

WOW setlist 3/24/09 - listen to the Women On Women Music Program every Tuesday 8pm to 10pm on WLUW 88.7fm / wluw.org

setlist for 3/24/09

Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings - "Let Them Knock" 100 Days 100 Nights (Daptone Records)
Dresden Dolls - "Christopher Lydon (live at the Sanders Theatre)" A is for Accident
Colleen - "Blue Sands" Les Ondes Silencieuses (Leaf)
Laura Gibson - "Postures Bent" Beasts of Seasons (Hush)
Meg Baird - "Maiden In The Moor Lay" Dear Companion (Drag City)
Asobi Seksu - "Gliss" Hush (Polyvinyl)
Architecture In Helsinki - "Feather in a Baseball Cap" Places Like This (Polyvinyl)
Headlights - "Centuries" The Enemies EP (Polyvinyl)
Metric - "Hand$hake$" Live it Out (Last Gang)
Saint Etienne -"Dream Lover" Tales from Turnpike House (Savoy Jazz)
Belle and Sebastian - "Act of the Apostle Part 1" The Life Pursuit (Matador)
Cat Power - "Lived In Bars" The Greatest (Matador)
Marissa Nadler - "Ghosts & Lovers" Little Hells (Kemado)
Neko Case - "This Tornado Loves You" Middle Cyclone (Anti-)
Kirsty MacColl - "Innocence" Galore (IRS)
Sarah Shannon - "Hey Heartache" City Morning Song (Minty Fresh)
Mary Timony Band - "Pause/Off" The Shapes We Make (Kill Rock Stars)
Mirah - "The Forest" (a)spera (K)
Liz Isenberg - "Country Song" Seeports, Seaports, Seeports (Leisure Class)
Laura Veirs - "Ocean Night Song" Saltbreakers (Nonesuch)
Jana Hunter - "Palms" There's No Home (Gnomonsong)
Lily Allen - "Him" It's Not Me, It's You (Capitol)
Puffy Ami Yumi - "Forever" Hi Hi Puffy Amiyumi: Music from the Series (Sony)

M.I.A. - "Fire Fire" Arular (Interscope)
Lady Sovereign - "Student Union" Jigsaw (Midget)
Coupleskate - "Bless The Bees" Don't Scare the Horses (Coupleskate)
The New Black - "Time Attack" Time Attack (Thick)
Pilot Scott Tracy - "Big Fan" Any City (Alternative Tentacles)
Annie Hayden - "Swingin Party" The Enemy of Love (Merge)
The Gossip - "Keeping You Alive" Standing in the Way of Control (Kill Rock Stars)

Link Love - Stuff we talked about tonight on the Women On Women Music Program...

Happy Ada Lovelace Day! Let's hear it for women in technology, and for good old Ada, the very first computer programmer in the history of the world! Want more information on Ada Lovelace Day? Visit FindingAda.com.


Do It Your Own D*mn Self! Reuse, recycle and re-craft this saturday with the Chicago Craft Mafia at the Do It Your Own D*mn Self Show. It happens Saturday March 28 from noon to 4pm at the Pulaski Park Fieldhouse at 1419 W Blackhawk. Craft away!

All Female Macbeth! Babes With Blades, a group working to expand opportunities for women in the field of stage combat, is putting on an all-female Macbeth. It starts April 27th at the Dream Theatre. Visit BabesWithBlades.org for details.

Video Fridays: "Atomic"

My brain always associates this song more with the club scene in Trainspotting than nuclear war. Still, apparently nuclear war's got a good beat and you can dance to it.

setlist 3/17/09 Women On Women Music Program on 88.7fm WLUW / online at wluw.org

Colleen - "Sun Against My Eyes" Les Ondes Silencieuses (Leaf)
Brigid Boden - "One Glimpse of You" V/A: Dublin to Dakar: A Celtic Odyssey (Putamayo)
The Cranberries - "(They Long to Be) Close to You" V/A: If I Were a Carpenter (A&M)
Meg Baird - "Sweet William and Fair Ellen" Dear Companion (Drag City)
Laura Viers - "Ocean Night Song" Saltbreakers (Nonesuch)
Cub - "Green Eyes" Mauler (Au-go-go)
Dressy Bessy - "In Your Headphones" Holler and Stomp (Transdreamer)
Asobi Seksu - "Blind Little Rain" Hush (Polyvinyl)
Joanna Newsom & the Ys Street Band - "Colleen" Joanna Newsom & the Ys Street Band EP (Drag City)
Gore Gore Girls - "Sweet Potato" Get the Gore (Bloodshot)
Lene Lovich - "Lucky Number" Stateless (Stiff)
Essential Logic - "Shabby Abbott" Fanfare in the Garden (Kill Rock Stars)
Tychonaut - "My Father the Jeweller" V/A: Dunnings's Lost in Europe: The Best of Indie Ireland (S/R)
Damien Rice - "The Blower's Daughter" O (Vector)
Sarah Shannon - "Near and Far" City Morning Song (Minty Fresh)
Maria Taylor - "Irish Goodbye" Lynn Teeter Flower (Saddle Creek)
Mates of State - "You Are Free" Re-Arrange Us (Barsuk)
Kirsty MacColl - "You Just Haven't Earned it Yet Baby" Galore (IRS)
Sinead O'Connor - "Jump In The River" I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (Chrysalis)
Patti Smith Group - "Because The Night" Easter (Arista)
Cibo Matto - "White Pepper Ice Cream" Pom Pom: The Essential Cibo Matto (Rhino)
Erase Errata - "Another Genius Idea From Our Government" Nightlife
PJ Harvey - "Snake" Rid of Me (Island)
ESG - "Dance" A South Bronx Story (Universal Sound)
Gaelic Storm - "The Night I Punched Russell Crowe" What's the Rumpus (MRI)
All Girl Summer Fun Band - "Grass Skirt" Summer of '98 (Magic Marker)
Mavis Staples - "This Little Light" Live: Hope at the Hideout (Anti-)

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Tune in tonight for a celebration of the wearing of the green on the Women On Women Music Program - 8pm to 10pm on 88.7 WLUW or online at wluw.org!