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Stone Fruit Radio
A semi-regular radio show where I play music I’ve been digging lately. Think of it as curated mixed CD (or whatever is equivalent to that in your age group.)
Barbenheimer! It's what all the kids are talking about. Does this episode have anything to do with the major-movie marketing event of the summer? No. But I'm trying to game the algorithm so just roll with it.
TRACKLIST:
The dBs, Big Brown Eyes
The Anemic Boyfriends, Fake ID
Brian Eno, Cindy Tells Me
Washer, Afraid to Care
Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers, New England
Silver Jews, People
TV Star, Trigger Itch
Travelling Wilburys, Handle With Care
Felt, Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow
Guided By Voices, Girls of Wild Strawberries
@, Letters
Shell of a Shell, My Wildfire
Pardoner, Broadway
Tom T. Hall, That's How I Got to Memphis
Shop Assistants, All Day Long
The Bevis Frond, Drowned
Cream, Deserted Cities of the Heart
I love taking the bus -- who doesn't? Here's a bunch of songs about the bus that rock as much as riding the bus does!
TRACKLIST
The Guess Who, Bus Rider
The Replacements, Kiss Me On the Bus
The Fatima Mansions, Only Losers Take the Bus
The Hollies, Bus Stop
Thundercat, Bus These Streets
Lou Reed, Busload of Faith
The Count Five, Double Decker Bus
Bruce Springsteen, Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?
Tin Machine, Bus Stop
Pipe, The Metal Bus
Secret Hate, Get on the Bus
Tee Vee Repairmen, Bus Stop
The Chats, Bus Money
18th Dye, Label
Skeeter Davis, Bus Fare to Kentucky
Casino Ashtrays, Bus to Vegas
The Moldy Peaches, Greyhound Bus
Lee Hazelwood and Ann-Margret, Greyhound Bus Depot
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, Greyhound Bus
The Who, Magic Bus
Bow to your sensei... you've entered the dojo of dueling guitar duets. An exercise in discipline, strength, fortitude. Do YOU have what it takes to shred with the masters?
TRACKS:
Lou Reed, Sweet Jane
Mesh, Company Jeep
Gary Numan, M.E.
Naked Spot Dance, Secrets
Maps and Atlases, Ted Zancha
Thin Lizzy, Cowboy Song
Circle Jerks, 86'd (Good as Gone)
International Submarine Band, I Must Be Somebody Else You've Known
Art Garfunkel, Down in the Willow Garden
X-Ray Spex, Warrior at Woolworths
The Handsome Family,Winnebago Skeletons
John Berberian and The Rock East Ensemble, The Oud & the Fuzz (4/4)
Love Tractor, Cutting Corners (Cultural
Show of hands: who here is excited for today’s episode of SFR? Don’t be show! I see you there in the back, don’t hold back raise your arm nice and high so we can all see! Wow so many of you are excited! Well, here you go!
TRACKLIST:
Mainly Spaniards, That's What Friends Are For
The Mods, Spring Dance
Strapping Fieldhands, Boo Hoo Hoo
Wild Carnation, Dodger Blue
Fuses, Sex Crimes
Vomit Launch, Kill The Bouncer
Polyrock, This Song
Spelling Mistakes, Feels So Good
Dos, Number Four
Neil Young, For The Turnstiles
Dinosaur Jr, Repulsion
Pavement, Rain Ammunition
Los Straightjackets, Crime Scene
Dump, Superpowerless
Oh, how I wish I could tell you this is an episode about snails… but alas, sometimes even the divine music research skills that I have been endowed with (humbly and by god’s grace) fall short. Instead, this is almost a snail-themed episode, expanded with excellent tunes about the city of Philadelphia, playing the piano, domestic disagreements, potato heads, and the constrictiveness of the body. Please enjoy.
TRACKLIST
Atom and his Package , Philadelphia
Green River, Ozzie
Versing, Body Chamber
Wares, Surrender Into Waiting Arms
World of Pooh, Playing One's Own Piano
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Andy
The Centurians, Latinia
Silkworm, Cotton Girl
Lee Hazelwood, I'm Glad I Never…
Snail Mail, Pristine
Robert Pollard and Doug Gillard, Slick as Snails
Azalia Snail, St. Nowhere
The Smashing Pumpkins, Snail
Bjork, Crying
A musical spelling bee! Songs with spelling are just plain fun – using the elements of language as musical building blocks, both deconstructing syntax and phonemes while reconstructing sonic meaning. Or, you know, just having fun.
TRACKLIST:
Aretha Franklin, Respect
Monochrome Set, B-I-D Spells Bid
The Belles, Melvin
Soursob, Gizmo
The Modern Lovers, Girlfriend
Pinch Points, Spelt Out
Squire, B-A-B-Y Baby Love
Stephen Malkmus, Troubbble
Spowder, Spowder
The Magnetic Fields, Washington D.C.
Pixies, Velouria
Eric's Trip, Cloudy
Ween, Zoloft
Idles, Danny Nedelko
Cheekface, The Fringe
The Coathangers, Wreckless Boy
Helmet , Baby's Going Underground
Bo Diddley, I'm A Man
Experience the flight of the mind to the lofty city in the clouds. Enjoy the view from the pristine ivory tower of noetic contemplation. Today’s episode of SFR is a modus tolens of philosophical tunes, from being-in-the-world to Plato’s cave through the labor theory of value to epistemic epoche. My worlds collide as I prove I am a jack of all trades – a middling radio host and a mediocre historian of philosophy.
TRACKLIST
Crack Cloud, The Philosopher's Calling
The Jean Paul Sartre Experience, Flex
The Scene Is Now, Sartre's Acid Trip
The Cure, Killing An Arab
L’Etranger, Today's Paper
Chris Weisman, Socrates
Marnie Stern, Plato's Fucked Up Cave
The Mountain Goats, When Olympius Returns
Socrates Drank the Conium, Distruction
Rosa Luxemburg, Zai Chugokuteki Shonen
Young Hegelians, House
Kal Marks, Heads Been Ringing
Trotsky Icepick, The Gaslight
Angels of Epistemology, The Charm
Lou Reed, Dime Store Mystery
Parquet Courts , One Man No City
Monty Python, Bruce’s Philosophers Song
Does ‘leisure’ rhyme with ‘pleasure’ or ‘seizure’? Does ‘cleave’ mean ‘to grab on’ or ‘to lop off’? Is language just a faint, futile facsimile of thought, imposing spurious structures on the inarticulable essence of being itself? Answers to these questions and more in this week’s episode of Stone Fruit Radio!
TRACKLIST
Thin White Rope, Moonhead
Cate Le Bon, Are You With Me Now?
The Bards, Never Too Much Love
My Dad Is Dead, Five Minutes
wished bone, reasons
The Verlaines, Take Good Care of It
The Gories, There But for the Grace of God Go I
Men I Trust, Lauren
Slovenly, Muddy Puddle
The Feelies, Sooner or Later
Warehouse, Arbitrarium V
The Waitresses, Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful
Francis Bebey, The Coffee Cola Song
Scott & Charlene's Wedding, Don't Bother Me
Remember Napoleon Dynamite? What a picture! This episode is inspired by that amazing film, starring Jon Heder (RIP).
TRACKLIST:
Foyer Red, Etc
Double Happys, Anyone Else Would
Elvis Presley, Help Me Make It Through the Night
Television Personalities, Part Time Punks
The White Stripes, Black Math
David Crosby, What Are Their Names
Phoebe Snow, All Over
Aldous Harding, Zoo Eyes
Beauty Pill, Lifeguard in Wintertime
True West, Steps to the Door
George McCrae, You Can Have It All
Let's Active, Every Word Means No
Ibex Clone, Hollow Tubes From Heaven
95 Bulls, Loud Mouth
Dinosaur Jr, Pieces
The current safe word: ananaso. Some past safe words: star fish, Mike Watt, clementine, irrumabo, [the secret name of god], developmentalist. Happy Valentine’s Day!
TRACKLIST
Bettye Swann, Cover Me
The Soft Boys, I Got the Hots
The Magnetic Fields, Somebody’s Fetish
Barbara Carr, If You Can’t Cut the Mustard I Don’t Want You Licking Around the Jar
Pixies, Gigantic
Bongwater, Nick Cave Dolls
The Amboy Dukes, Missionary Mary
The Units, Digital Stimulation
Kiss, Nothin’ to Lose
Donnie & Joe Emerson, Baby
The Frogs, These Are the Finest Queens (I’ve Ever Seen)
The Vibrators, Whips and Furs
Wet Leg, Wet Dream
Wynonie Harris, Keep on Churnin’ (Till the Butter Comes)
Divinyls, I Touch Myself
One day, I’m going to go viral with a video where I give my deeply thought-out, mind-altering take on some obscure esoteric post-punk song. I will be an object of derision, a recipient of fawning youtube comments, an insufferable egotist, a revered gatekeeper of knowledge. A dream come true.
TRACKLIST
Dumb, Pull Me Up
Eddie Noack, Psycho
The Fall, Edinburgh Man
One Eleven Heavy, Tyrant King
Goblin, La Via Della Droga
Modest Mouse , Trailer Trash
Luna, Slide
Thee Oh Sees. Dumb Drums
Lou Reed, Women
Buzzcocks, Lipstick
10,000 Maniacs, Maddox Table
Buck Owens, Hello Trouble
The Casual Dots, Frequency of Fear
The Pop Group, Justice
Close Lobsters , I Kiss the Flowers in Bloom
Frankie Cosmos, On the Lips
I am a tastemaker. Consider your tastes made. Let these delicious songs from the previous trip around the sun linger on your aural taste buds, pique your sonic appetite with umami guitar solos, luscious vocal lines, and tangy beats. Thanks for listening to this year’s run of SFR, more to come as always in the new year!
TRACKLIST
Chronophage, Summer Into Fall
Motherhood, Crawly I & II
Curtis Godino & the Midnight Wishers, I Hate to See You Go
Delivery, The Complex
The Bug Club, Intellectuals
Built to Spill, Fool's Gold
Heaven For Real, Slow Clap
Pinch Points, Am I Ok?
Kamikaze Palm Tree, Flamingo
Horsegirl, World of Pots and Pans
Smirk, Symmetry
Routine Caffeine, Peanut Butter Cookie
Snooper, Powerball
Fievel is Glauque, I'm a Place
RIBBON STAGE, It's Apathy
Marchica, Firing Squad
In this episode of Science for Rejects (SFR), we explore the physiognomy of regional dialects. For example, how does pronouncing 'water' like 'wooder' affect Philadelphian's jaw shape? All this and more on today's SFR!
TRACKLIST:
Student Nurse, Garbage
Able Tasmans, Little Hearts
Minutemen, Politics of Time
Antena, Spiral Staircase
Madison Cunningham , Pin It Down
Kikagaku Moyo, Trad
The Halo Benders, Will Work For Food
Pastel Blank, Cellophane Clock
The Osmonds, Crazy Horses
The Lovely Eggs, Alphabet Song
Lexie, Youngsters
Fievel is Glauque, Bring Me To Silence
Chuck Berry, Nadine
Dog Faced Hermans, Jan 9 (song)
David Bowie, Saviour Machine
Ahh monsters!!! So scary, but also great musical fodder. This year's Halloween ep of SFR celebrates the ghastly ghouls, vicious vamps, and mortifying mummies we all love. Best enjoyed with a pumpkin spice latte and a mini snickers bar.
TRACKLIST:
The Specials, Ghost Town
Ghostporn, Eurydice
Ghoulies, BTK
Unwound, Look a Ghost
Baron Daemon & the Vampires, Ghost Guitar
The Zombies, Friends of Mine
The Flesh Eaters, Pray Till You Sweat
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Zomby Woof
Trash Kit, 50 Ft Woman
Mellow Candle, The Poet and the Witch
Uranium Club, That Clown's Got a Gun
Kate Bush, Hammer Horror
Paul Simon, The Vampires
The Greek Pajamas, Vampire Crush
Slint, Nosferatu Man
Rubber City Rebels, Child Eaters
It’s that time of year folks – the fall of uncles, the season of the paternal agnate, avuncular autumn. Here is a cozy set of cozy tunes for sipping cider with your nieces and nephews, for warm scarves with your sister-in-law, for watching the changing leaves with your second cousin. It’s our favorite time of year here at Stone Fruit headquarters, and we do hope you and all the uncles out there enjoy.
TRACKLIST:
Cortex, Mayhem Troopers
Little Ann, Deep Shadows
Mary’s Danish, Don’t Crash the Car Tonight
The Rezillos, It Gets Me
Richard & Linda Thompson, Shoot Out the Lights
Geese, Fantasies/Survival
Pixies, Manta Ray
Shudder To Think, Red House
Lou Reed, Caroline Says I
The Spectre, Jos Jätät Minut
CCCP Fedeli alla linea, Curami
Subway Sect, Chain Smoking
Bread, Make It With You
Honey Radar, Caterpiller
Tiger Trap, Supreme Nothing
Freddie Wadling, Du är mitt morfin
My mama always said life is like a box of onions: it’s smelly and heavy, but it has a lot of uses and it’ll never go bad. I never understand the metaphor, but hey you always have to respect the wisdom of your parents. My mama could list the varieties onions…boy could she ever! Spanish onion, red onion, pearl onion, vidalia, yellow onion, white onion, Cipollini, Bermuda, scallion, shallot, and her favorite: the walla walla sweet onion. This episode goes out to all the allium-addicts like my mama!
TRACKLIST:
Shannon and the Clams, Onion
Mekons, Onion
The Incredible String Band, Chinese White
The Beatles, Glass Onion
The Dynamics Onion Salad
The Onion Dolls, The Kids
The Mountain Goats, Onions
Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, The Onion Song
Rapeman, Steak and Black Onions
The Rutles, Cheese and Onion
Lily, Twelve Midnight
Tudd Rundgren, Just Another Onionhead
Ty Segall, Big Man
Freddie King, Onion Rings
Jazz Butcher, Onion Field
Onion, Sick of You
The Onion Rings, She’s Gonna Cry
The Lovely Eggs, Magic Onion
Booker-T & the MGs, Green Onions
A team of Danish surgeons, led by Dr. Freji Boømbaarg, have unveiled a breakthrough surgery to remove 4x2 lego pieces that dads step on in the child’s playroom that get lodged in the calcaneus (heel of the foot). This outpatient surgery seriously lessens the possibilities of infection and reduces healing time. After several successful tests on bonobos, human patient trials will begin in Nov. 2022. I dedicate this playlist to those innovative doctors and scientists.
TRACKLIST
Human Music, Rhythm is Life
Anna Domino, Everyday, I Don’t
Mama Cass Elliot, California Earthquake
Wished Bone, Reasons
Mates of State, Nice Things That Look Good
Sheer Mag, Expect the Bayonet
Two Dollar Guitar, K45
Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection, Tombre En Morceux
Broken Water, Say What’s On Your Mind
Nap Eyes, No Fear of Hellfire
Squid, Match Bet
Merle Haggard, Mama Tried
Babehoven, Crossword
Otis Redding, Cigarettes and Coffee
Doesn’t it seem dangerous and ill advised that every single therapist in North American takes off in August? I can already feel myself sublimating my desires, performing transference on my cat, reaching for LSD instead of CBT… Well fear not! Stone Fruit Radio is here to fill the void left by your overpaid, overeducated, undersexed, well-kempt therapist and/or analyst (and I take insurance!).
TRACKLIST:
David Bowie, Fantastic Voyage
Visibly Choked, Mother Tongue
Bored Housewives Club, Smoking Weed / Kissing Dudes
Vomit Launch, Pretty Paper
Noun, Show Me Your Bones
The Numbers Band, Animal Speaks
Angel Olsen, Special
Aunt Sally, Subete Urimono
The Manikins, Premonition
Nick Drake, One of These Things First
Sinn Sisamouth, Kung Prous Srolanch
Caroline No, Up To Downtown
The Cardigans, Iron Man
Prison Affair, Encerrado contigo (en la prisión)
Yo La Tengo, I Should Have Known Better
Dummy, Daffodils
This episode well melt in your ear drums like a cold pat of butter on a warm dinner roll fresh out of the oven. Watch as it begins to melt, the edges at first, the center retaining a creamy, buttery goodness. Gently use your butter knife to reach from edge to edge, to have a delicious tang of the melting pat of butter in every bite.
TRACKLIST:
Chronophage, Passageway
Chumbawamba, More Whitewashing
The Cry, Lost and Found
Simon and Garfunkel, Patterns
Bingo Trappers, The Last Resort/Seinpost 1976
Brain Bent, The Upload
Helene Barbier, Rambling On
Jimi Hendrix, Gypsy Eyes
SF Seals, Ipecac
Cortex, Mind of Darkness
Drag King, Are You A Woman?
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, This Train
The Drin, Down Her Cheek a Pearly Tear
Folks, who doesn't love a nice, cold glass of milk? I know I do! And this episode features music that milk lovers will love! If you don't like drinking full-fat, lactose heavy cows' milk, then I don't know if this show is for you. Maybe just skip this episode and have fun with your 'soy' drink and your calcium deficiency. This episode is for MILK LOVERS ONLY.
TRACKLIST:
Milk Music, Illegal and Free
Billy Bragg, The Milkman of Human Kindness
Milk, Standards
Palm, Dog Milk
Badge Époque Ensemble, Milk Spilt on Eternity
Nirvana, Milk It
Flasher , Skim Milk
Neutral Milk Hotel, Gardenhead/Leave Me Alone
TV Freaks, Spilt Milk
Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, Safe As Milk
Body Double, The Floating Hand
Deerhoof, Milk Man
The Kinks, Milk Cow Blues
The Dead Milkmen, Stuart
Chocolate Milk, Action Speaks Louder Than Words
Take 3 chipmunks (or squirrels, or 1 rabbit) chopped into pieces; salt and dust with flour. Fry in an inch of olive oil in a Dutch over or other heavy lidded pot. Once browned, let piece drain on paper towel while you cook the sauce. Sweat an onion, then add tomato paste, 1 c. white whine, ¼ c. apple cider vinegar, plus oregano and paprika to taste. Bring to simmer and add back the chipmunk; let cook uncovered for 90 minutes, or until the meat falls off the bone. Serve with a hearty hunk of bread and side salad of dandelion greens, while listening to this week’s episode of SFR.
TRACKLIST
Cheekface, Best Life
Red Guitars, Good Technology
Bunalimar, Basak Saclim
Neil Merryweather, Eight Miles High
Alien Nosejob, Spearfish Torpedo
Circuits des Yeux, Dogma
Pearls Before Swine, Drop Out!
Dana Gavinsky, Under the Sky
Chavez, Unreal Is Here
Mo Troper, The Perfect Song
Erik Nervous, Bridgeport Lathe
Satanic Togas, Killin' Cops
Built to Spill, Twin Falls
Necros, Police Brutality
Sludgefest, Call Me
Velvet Underground, Ocean
Minutemen, Search
I – though hounded by amoral ornithoids urged to ravenous flight in brutish pursuit of the ambrosial nectar I so lovingly prepared for Roufous hummingbirds who inhabit the verdant, mellow climes of my current abode – I abided gallantly and with studied aplomb and thus bring you this newest batch of tunes. Please enjoy.
TRACKLIST
Havah, Mercoledi
Mope Grooves, Smashed Landscape
John Cale, Big White Cloud
Magazine, Permafrost
Ramona and the Sometimes, Lung Sandwich
Society, Loser
Yo La Tengo, Alyda
Kathy McCarty, Walking the Cow
Long Fin Killie, Hands and Lips
Uncaught in Promise, Backgammon
Robert Pollard, Pop Zeus
Weyes Blood, Everyday
Dead Kennedys, The Man with the Dogs
Fred Schneider, Monster
Orange Juice, Simply Thrilled Honey
Belly, Feed the Tree
Time to put away your yarn balls, get yourself a bowl of warm milk and your favorite cardboard box -- it's an episode all about cat music! Feline friends and tabby troubadours rejoice in frisky fest of kitty choruses and malkin music!
TRACKLIST:
Presidents of the United States of America, Kitty
Free Kitten, Kissing Well
Empress Of, Kitty Kat
Red Aunts, Kung Fu Kitten
Felines, Pretty Boy
Jerry Garcia Band, Cats Under the Stars
Seatbelts, Cats on Mars
Thundercat, Them Changes
Norma Tanega, Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog
The Kinks, Phenomenal Cat
Slaughter Beach, Dog Your Cat
The New Dimensions, Cat On A Hot Foam Board
Charlie Walker, Truck Drivin’ Cat with Nine Wives
Stiff Kitten, Contempt
The Coasters, Three Cool Cats
Marie Williams, Cat Scratching
Primus, Tommy the Cat
The Cramps, Faster Pussycat
A sternutation – the technical name for a sneeze – was viewed as a divine omen, variously portending good fortune or an apotropaic warning. Issuing from the center of the head (being the seat of the intellect and hence our kinship with the cosmos itself) one ought to attend closely to the ominous signs of nose. I for one, having sneezed mid-episode, will be assiduously assaying my comportment for the next few days. God bless!
TRACKLIST:
Sentridoh, Whitey Peach
Kate Fagan, I Don't Wanna Be Too Cool
The Reivers, Things Don't Change
Floating Room, Shimanchu
The Monkees, Circle Sky
Pretenders, Talk of the Town
Flipper, Shed No Tears
Bee Gees, Nights On Broadway
Muncie Girls, Isn't Life Funny
Lloyd Price, Stagger Lee
Galaxie 500, Temperature's Rising
Bob Dylan, I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
Moğollar, Sessiz Gemi
Velvet Condom, Funeral For Love
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Surreal Teenagers
I dedicate this episode to my building manager, Robert. A great communicator, very respectful, and punctual with maintenance requests. I will forgive the 3+ hours of smoke alarm testing midday on a Wednesday. Probably more of a me problem than anything. This episode is for you, Robert!
TRACKLIST
Century Egg, Do You Want to Dance?
Devo, Blockhead
The Astronauts, Kuk
Royal Trux, The Spectre
Iggy Pop, I’m Bored
Young Marble Giants, Wurlitzer Jukebox
Poliça, Leading to Death
Pardoner, Donna Said
Kate Bollinger, Yards/Garden
Holly & the Italians, Tell That Girl to Shut Up
Pavement, Soiled Little Filly
Kamuran Akkor, Yorgun Gözler
Sam Taylor, Heaven on their Minds
Phil Cordell, Red Lady
Hierophants, Citizen
Dry Cleaning, Dog Proposal
A. Savage, Eyeball
Shannon and the Clams, The Woodsman
Batter up! Today's episode is music all about baseball. America's pastime is fertile ground for musical reverence, erotic metaphor, and toe-tapping good tunes. So grab your glove, black your eyes, and let's hit some dingers!
TRACKLIST:
Ruth Roberts and Glenn Katz, Meet the Mets
The Baseball Project, Ichiro Goes to the Moon
The Mountain Goats, Cubs In Five
Sam & Dave, Knock It Out of the Park
Chuck Prophet, Willie Mays Is Up At Bat
Tsunami, Slugger
Fake Fruit, Swing and a Miss
Belle and Sebastian, Piazza New York Catcher
Loudon Wainwright III, Hometeam Crowd
Ben Gibbard, Ichiro's Theme
Faye Webster, A Dream With A Baseball Player
The Intruders, (Love Is Like A) Baseball Game
Paul Simon, Night Game
Charlie Pride, Before I Met You
Billy Bragg, Wilco, Joe DiMaggio Done It Again
Baseball Furies, I Hate Your Secret Club
Mabel Scott, Baseball Boogie
Death Lens, I Hate Baseball
Del Reeves, The Philadelphia Fillies
Keith Hampshire and The Bat Boys, OK Blue Jays
Your valorous host navigates between the Scylla of poor audio quality and the Charybdis of jet lag. Persevering in the face of these the twin perils, I bring you a mix of tunes that will variously elate the spirit, calm the mind, tickle the intellect, and excite the spleen.
TRACKLIST:
Jangus Kangus, Life On the Fault Line
Pink Floyd, Comfortably Numb
Butterglory, Trapped
The Mad Scene, Spilled Oranges
Young Canadians, Hawaii
Marchica, Firing Squad
Lee Hazelwood, Pour Man
The Uglys, Can’t Recall Her Name
Deliluh, No ID Denied
The Sound. Judgement
Electrelane, Take the Bit Between Your Teeth
Girls at Our Best, Politics!
Current Affairs, Breeding Feelings
Ramones, Havana Affair
The Pleasure Seekers, What A Way to Die
Really From, Yellow Fever
This episode is like an Argentinian empanada I recently had. It was filled with ground beef, olives, raisins, and a hard-boiled egg. The ingredients don’t seem like they should fit together—savory and sweet, tangy and eggy. But they worked so well that I wrapped two in a napkin and biked home with them and ate the leftovers while recording this episode. Make of this metaphor what you will, and buen provecho!
TRACKLIST:
Rose McDowall, Tibet
Sebadoh, Violet Execution
WOW, Morire Per Amore
Spread Joy, Kanst Du
Bonnie “Prince” Billie, I See a Darkness
Fleetwood Mac, I Know I’m Not Wrong
The Growlers, Salt on a Slug
Laika & the Cosmonauts, Surfs You Right!
Throwing Muses, Dragonhead
Screaming Females, Shake It Off
Joanna Gruesome, Wussy Void
The Younger Lovers, Danny
Junior Parker, Taxman
Gun Outfit, Ontological Intercourse
Waste Man, Proofreaders, Singles, And Philosophers
Dianogah, Seeing Stars
If PacMan could have a Ms. PacMan, who's to say SFR can't have a Lady SFR? We have our first guest on Stone Fruit, my talented partner Tracy! We trade songs back and forth, engage in amicable banter, and enjoy some great music. Enjoy this brief look into our endearing domestic world.
Tracklist:
Fiona Apple Fast As You Can
Luna Tracy I Love You
Nina Simone Ain't Got No
Japanese Breakfast Savage Good Boy
Hole Doll Parts
The Undertones Teenage Kicks
Kiwi Jr. Undecided Voters
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians The Wheel
Kate Bush Suspended In Gaffa
Zoon Bleached Wavves
Lana Cantrell The Sound of Silence
Polaris She Is Staggering
Ween Gabrielle
Beatles Ballad of John and Yoko
Talking Heads This Must Be the Place
Are you tired of hearing top forty nonsense at your local supermarket? Sick of the inane announcements at the grocery store? Can’t stand the bachata you hear at the bodega? Want some tastier grooves as you search in vain for ripe bananas? Well Stone Fruit Radio has got you covered! 18 songs all about the grocery story! Enjoy responsibly.
TRACKLIST:
Eugene McDaniels - Supermarket blues
David Byrne - Social Studies
Israeli Chicks - Supermarket
Grocer Keep - My Mind
The Tesco Bombers - Break the Ice At Parties
Groceries - Gold Mining
Mull Historical Society - Barcode Bypass
The Clash - Lost In The Supermarket
Little Milton - Grits Ain’t Groceries (All Around the World)
Bodega - Name Escape
Jonathan Richman - Corner Store
Goat Girl - Jazz (In the Supermarket)
Mick Farren/The Deviants - Let’s Loot the Supermarket Again Like We Did Last Summer
The Pressure Boys - Tina Goes To The Supermarket
Billy Nomates - Supermarket Sweep
Pat the Bunny - Song for a Supermarket Parking Lot
Big Supermarket - Laura C.
The Raincoats - Fairytale in the Supermarket
In this episode of SFR, I drink from the cool spring waters of the mountain of youth. Imagine if Ponce de León had an iPod touch? That’s the true secret of eternal agelessness – an imposing Everest of vernal tunes at your fingertips. Come, be rejuvenated by a smattering of synths, a spotlight on NY artband Palberta, and two songs called ‘Bad Boy’.
TRACKLIST:
Monochrome Set – Eine Symphonie Des Grauen
Hunx and His Punx – Bad Boy
The Space Cossacks – Solaris Stomp
They Might Be Giants – Youth Culture Killed My Dog
Molchat Doma – Sudno (bedpan)
Martha and the Muffins – Hide and Seek
More Fiends – Wild West Philly
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 – Get Off My House
Data – Still Skatin’
Lily Konigsberg, Lucy - U Got Me
Shit Love – Bed Worn
Lily Konigsberg – Bad Boy
Palberta – Cross It Out
Look Blue Go Purple – Circumspect Penelope
Mike Watt – Forever/One Reporter’s Opinion
Tyrannamen – Diamond Ring
Built To Spilt – Temporarily Blind
Honestly, ‘horny jail’ sounds awesome. I hope they chain you up! I honor of Saint Valentine’s Day, I present an hour + of some of the horniest songs I know. We all know what this holiday is about, so no sappy love songs here. Just pure, unadulterated erotic impulse. So dim the lights, chill the ham, and enjoy!
TRACKLIST:
Bongwater – Power of Pussy
Frank Zappa – Harder Than Your Husband
The Who – Squeeze Box
Dogbowl – Nothing Better
Kate Bush – L’Amour Looks Something Like You
Prince – Head
Ween – With My Own Bare Hands
Aretha Franklin – 96 Tears
Liz Phair – H.W.C.
Scott Walker – Next
Grace Jones – Pull Up To The Bumper
Muddy Waters – Crawlin’ Kingsnake
Dinosaur Jr – Severed Lips
The Pandoras – Six Times a Day
King Missile – Gary and Melissa
AC/DC – She’s Got Balls
Did you know you can patch an air mattress with a bicycle inner tube? Did you know it’s perfectly acceptable for a 30-year-old man to sleep on an air mattress without any sheets? Did you know that air mattresses are actually very comfortable and yes I’m getting new furniture soon so stop asking!
TRACKLIST:
Echo and the Bunnymen – My White Devil
Uranium Club – Opus
Thrilled Honey – Somebody Blame Louise
The Feelies – Sooner Or Later
Living Links – For the Paramecium
Dummy – H.V.A.C
Q and Not U – Passwords
The Minutemen – The Big Foist
Mock Orange – Make Friends
The Beatniks – Outside Chance
Popular Mechanix – Ted
Bethlehem Steel – Govt Cheese
Sneaky Feelings – Throwing Stones
The Del-Byzanteens – Lies To Live By
Johny Cash – Ring of Fire (Spanish Version)
Ultravox! – Hiroshima Mon Amour
I am a model of efficiency. This episode is tight, not one iota longer than it needs to be, no pause is pregnant, not a moment is wasted on idle chatter or puerile inanities. My boss at the radio podcast factory will reward me with a decorative candle for all the surplus value I have created.
TRACKLIST The Bonniwell Music Machine – Astrologically Incompatible
Soul Asylum – Can’t Even Tell Guided by Voices – The Lodger Carried a Gun Marbled Eye – Leisure Girl Trouble – Cold Shoulder
Mary Margaret O’Hara – Body’s In Trouble Ultra Vivid Scene – Special One Antietam – Eaten Up by Hate
Lean Logic – Safe In a Dream David Byrne, St. Vincent – I Should Watch TV Big Joanie – New Year The Globes – A Stitch Could Save the World
Fontaines D.C. – Television Screen Parsnip – Treacle Toffee World Poster Children – Modern Art Fire – Treacle Toffee World
April Wine – Sign of the Gypsy Queen
The moon is harsh mistress. The gleaming beauty of the lunar waxing and waning makes me wish I could paint. Crescent or full, the moon is an artistic inspiration for some of the best rock songs, artists, and albums. Enjoy this hour+ of selenic songs and lunar licks!
TRACKLIST:
Travelling Wilburys – New Blue Moon
Sun Kil Moon – Salvador Sanchez King Harvest – Dancing in the Moonlight Luna – Moon Palace
Sebadoh – Pink Moon Zen Guerilla – Moonage Daydream Sunflower Bean – Harvest Moon Dump – Moon River Pavement – The Killing Moon
Cocteau Twins, Harold Budd – Sea, Swallow Me Acid Moon and the Pregnant Sun – Creatures of the Abyss
Bedlam – Harvest Moon Ween – Don’t Let the Moon Catch You Crying Modest Mouse – I Came as a rat
Sonic Youth – Brave Men Run (In My Family) Credence Clearwater Revival – Bad Moon Rising Dead Kennedys – Moon Over Marin
The Fall – Before the moon falls
Vocals? We don't need no stinkin' vocals! Here is a show without a single vocal line, all instrumental songs that lack none of the narrative or emotional depth you want from a good rock song.
TRACKLIST: El Ten Eleven – The Sycophants Are Coming! The Sycophants Are Coming!
Piglet – Bug Stomp The Raybeats – Big Black Sneakers Meat Puppets – Maiden’s Milk Emily Robb – I Really Wanna Learn How to Moonwalk
Giraffes? Giraffes! – A Quick One, While She’s Away Tolgan Çogulu, Sinan Cem Eroglu – Kara Toprak
Carrom – Brahul Telepathy The Sensational Guitars of Dan & Dale – Batmobile Wheels Dirty Three – Red Man or Astroman? – The Joker’s Wild
Horse Lords – Fanfare for Effective Freedom The Mercury Program – There are Thousands Sleeping in Peace
The Sadies – Ridge Runner Reel
In which I compare Black Midi to Shohei Otani, hum along to Lou Barlow, and say the word interesting far too many times. Here's my favorite -- I'd never claim they're the best -- releases of the year. Year end lists are dumb (as Steve Hyden always says), but they're a fun opportunity to look back and discover things you might have missed. Thanks for listening, lots more SFR in 2022!
Tracklisting: Floatie – Water Recipe
Black Country, New Road – Sunglasses Babehoven – Annie’s Shoes
Kiwi Jr – Only Here for a Haircut Fake Fruit – Old Skin Rosali – Bones Lou Barlow – Privatize
The Goon Sax – Psychic Parquet Courts – Just Shadows Wednesday – They Burned Down Dairy Queen Amyl and the Sniffers – Hertz
Black Midi – Chrondomalacia Patella Mdou Moctar – Taliat Silicone Prairie – Born into Trouble
Motorists – Surrounded
Struggling to find a unifying thread, the valiant radio DJ rambles on about the idea of ‘England’ until he convinces himself that his setlist is thematically unified. Yet it is manifest to anyone with ears that this is a doomed, ad hoc attempt to psychologically shield himself from the ineffable truth: the true unifying theme is the power of music itself.
TRACKLIST: Fairport Convention – Tale in Hard Times
The Wedding Present – Don’t Be So Hard Date Stuff – Long Con Перемотка Peremotka – Супермарио (Supermario) The Vibrators – Keep It Clean
Paul Simon – Peace Like a River Keel Her – No Control Pulp – Babies Volcano Kings – Bongo Murder
Brain Peel – What We Did Last Night Mechanical Canine - The Deacon Ancient Grease – Eagle Song
The Coneheads – Violence Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin – 69 Année Érotique Duran Duran – New Religion
Stephen Malkmus/Lakespeed – Cadillac Darling
The music in this episode has been calibrated at the medically tested most efficient BPM for lung elasticity. These breathing exercises will open your lungs and your mind through the power of pulsing pulmonary post-punk pablum. Remember to inhale and exhale as directed for best results. (NB: SFR is not a doctor.)
TRACKLIST: The Bats – Take It
Lewsberg – Terrible Jonathan Richman – Not Three Yet The Kinks – Look For Me Baby The Teardrop Explodes – Second Head
Porridge Radio – Born Confused Remember Sports – Easy Horny Genius – Cha Cha with Hal Empath – Roses That Cry
Ty Segall – Caesar The Gizmos – Rock & Roll Don’t Come from New York Guided by Voices – Sot Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson – I Can Get Off On You
Quaker Parents – Manuscript of Low Blows Talking Heads – Drugs (live) King Tuff – Headbanger Black Lips – Navajo
Dock Boggs – Oh Death
Dear reader, I shiver to tell of my eldritch encounter upon the recent full moon. A mysterious visage -- a poltergeist of malicious intent or a kindly dæmon I cannot say -- appeared at my bedside and bade me in a voice as chilling as November frost: "Do a halloween episode of Stone Fruit Radio!" Twas gone as quickly as he appeared, and I mustn't disobey for fear of vengeance in this world--or beyond.
TRACKLIST: Skeletonbreath – Caveman
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Halloween Dead Kennedys – Halloween The Misfits – Halloween The Dream Syndicate – Halloween
Black Sabbath – Children of the Grave Pentagram – When the Scream Comes The Killing Joke – Wardance
RHPS – Over at the Frankenstein Place Otis Redding – Trick or Treat CCR – I Put A Spell on You The Cramps – Zombie Dance
Angel Olsen – Lark The Zombies – I Got my Mojo Working The Mummies – Your Ass is Next in Line Hella – 1-800-Ghostdance
Ween – Cold Blows the Wind
John Peel would've loved Wet Leg, so in his hono(u)r I present a personally-picked playlist of power punk and pop channeling proper Peel passion for your perusal and pleasure.
TRACKLIST: Nilüfer Yanya – In Your Head
The Widow Babies – Pyramids Red Aunts – Detroit Valentine Wet Leg – Chaise Lounge Gauche – Running
Buck Owens – I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail Spinning Coins – Vision of the Stars Bona Dish – 8am Graham Nash and Joni Mitchell – Our House (Demo)
Evergreen – Fairlane Death of Samantha – Conviction Cem Karaca & Mogollar – Obur Dünya Sediment Club – The Payoff Roky Erickson – I Think of Demons
The Beatles – And Your Bird Can Sing Post Pink – Moon Mark Lanegan & PJ Harvey – Hit the City The Phantoms – X-L3
Eleventh Dream Day – Tarantula
Today’s episode is a celebration of that most quotidian of chores: the laundry. I have collected a smattering of songs about sudsing-up shirts. Play this next time you’re at the launderette, or hanging your whites on the clothesline, or wondering how you have so many unmatched socks.
Tracks: The Detergents – Leader of the Laundromat
Vivien Goldman – Launderette The Softones – Laundromat Albert King – Laundromat Blues
Barlow – Landromat Joni Mitchell – The Magdeline Laundries Mitski – Washing Machine Heart Penny Lang – Laundromat Song
The Dead Milkmen – Laundromat Song Scared Little Weird Guys – Laundromat Pony Up! – Marlon Brando’s Laundromat Joe Walsh – All Night Laundry Mat Blues
Sonic Youth – Washing Machine Albert King – Answer to the Laundromat Blues
Rory Gallagher – Laundromat Andria Rose – Laundromat The Avett Brothers – Laundry Room
The New Birds of America – When We Seem Far Apart
In this episode, we interrogate the dyadic finite modal possibilities of potency and activity: can anything happen? Performativity compels me to answer in the affirmative: I, a hardened and unrepentant Anglophobe, find myself recommuning again and again with the sonic textures of the Queen’s Isle, demonstrating through my embodied animistic dynamism that anything can, and perhaps must, happen. QED.
Tracklist: The Sugarcubes – Hit
Dorothea Pass – Anything Can’t Happen The Clean – Anything Can Happen The Lotus Eaters – Love Still Flows
Morrissey – Song From Under the Floorboard Andy Shauf – Neon Skyline Shintaro Sakamoto – Lets Dance Raw
Buerak – Strast’ k Kureniyu Brigid Dawson and the Mothers Network – The Fool The Chameleons – Here Today Flying Burrito Brothers – Do Right Woman
Velocity Girl – Pretty Girl Personal and The Pizzas – Bored out of my brain Courting – Popshop!
Neko Case – Hold On, Hold On
The water’s on the boil, the overheads are calibrated to a sympathetic lull: ready the Ayahuasca and prepare for an Orphic katabasis into the depths of the soul. Stone Fruit Radio is a vibes-based aural experiment. In Promethean splendor and `patapsychological discomfort I must admit: this episode’s vibes are good. (The volume levels are a bit inconsistence forgive me I'm still new to this.)
TRACKS: Grass Widow - Tuesday Moontype - Stuck on You Natural Man Band - Working Nights Subsonic Eye - Fruitcake REM - King of Birds Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Yellow Brick Road Ultimate Spinach - Guilded Lamp of the Cosmos Mama Cass Eliot - Make your own kind of music Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Swim and Sleep (like a shark) Magik Markers - Surf’s Up Bottomless Pit - Dogtag OMD - Messages Crumb - Trophy Khruanbin - Two Fish and an Elephant Life Without Buildings - PS Exclusive Karen Dalton - Something on your mind
Listen up, gumshoes! On today's Stone Fruit Radio, join me as I uncover some of music's greatest mysteries. We uncover the second most heinous crime committed by Phil Spector, we sort out the vertiginous variegation of band nomenclature, and we engage in an alternate-history Gedankenspiel: what if the Good Friday agreement was ratified at a folk-punk concert?
TRACKS: The Delgados - Everything Goes Around The Water
Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Down at the Rock and Roll Club AJJ - Brave as a Noun Jeffery Lewis - Do They Owe Us A Living?
Thee Oh Sees - Crushed Grass Talking Heads - Crosseyed and Painless Neil Young - Roll Another Number The Crystals - He's Sure the Boy I Love
Steve Earle - Taneytown Guadalcanal Diary - Heathen Rage The Swallows - Mak Itty Mai Lla
D'Angelo - Ain't That Easy The Magnetic Fields - Deep Sea Diving Suit Kleenex (aka Liliput) - Nighttoad Jay Reatard - Hammer I Miss You
Tune-Yards - Gangsta
In this, the first episode of Stone Fruit Radio, we celebrate the stochastic art of the venerable janitor, rediscover an oneiric tessera presumed lost to the sands of time, and display our piety with a tongue so firmly in cheek we get mouth ulcers. Your host is Dr. Ad Hoc (@brotinus)
TRACKS: Sleaford Mods ft. Billy Nomates - Mork n Mindy
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - The Janitor Revealed Suburban Lawns - Janitor The Buzzcocks - Why Can't I Touch It? Simply Saucer - Nazi Apocalypse
Pink Floyd - Fearless Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane The Byrds - The Christian Life The Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers
Deerhoof - This Magnificent Bird Will Rise Billy Nomates - Heels Mother Tongues - Let You Down
The Slits - I Heard It Through the Grapevine