EPISODE: Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill, Julie Ruin, Le Tigre)
Original Air Date: 8/19/11
LISTEN TODAY AT 3:30 PM (PST) HERE OR ON iTUNES RADIO HERE
Kathleen Hanna is an American musician, feminist activist, and punk zine writer. In the early- to mid-1990s she was the lead singer and songwriter of Bikini Kill, before fronting Le Tigre in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In 1998, Hanna released a solo album under the name Julie Ruin and is currently revisiting that solo project as The Julie Ruin.
For more info about Kathleen Hanna, check out www.kathleenhanna.com.
Playlist:
Bikini Kill – “Double Dare Ya”
X-Ray Spex – “Germfree Adolescents”
The Runaways – “Cherry Bomb”
Bikini Kill – “Rebel Girl”
Huggy Bear – “Herjazz”
Bikini Kill – “Outta Me”
The Bangs – “The Magician’s Assistant”
Bikini Kill – “Alien She”
Bratmobile – “Panik”
Julie Ruin – “The Punk Singer”
Julie Ruin – “Stay Monkey”
Julie Ruin – “Aerobicide”
Marnie Stern – “Transformer”
Julie Ruin – “Breakout A-Town”
Kathleen Hanna – “I Wish I Was Him”
Le Tigre – “Hot Topic”
Mika Miko – “Challenge the Throne”
Le Tigre – “Seconds”
Sleigh Bells – “Riot Rhythm”
Le Tigre – “After Dark”
Tracey + the Plastics – “Henrietta”
Le Tigre – “Sweetie (live BBC Evening Sessions)”
Air Date: 10/28/11
The topic of today’s show is one of my favorite women in rock, Jenny Lewis.
Jennifer Diane Lewis born in Las Vegas, Nevada, is an American musician/singer and
former child actress. She is best known for her work the indie rock band Rilo Kiley, but
has also released two solo albums and is currently in a band, Jenny & Johnny, with
boyfriend Johnathan Rice. Her biggest acting roles as a child were in “Troop Beverly
Hills” and in the 1989 movie “The Wizard” in which she co-starred w/ Fred Savage of
the Wonder Years and Christian Slater. Her big music break came in the band Rilo Kiley
with fellow child actor, Blake Senette.
For more info about Jenny Lewis, check out http://www.jennylewis.com.
Playlist:
Rilo Kiley – “It’s a Hit”
Rilo Kiley – “Hail to Whatever You Found in the Sunlight That Surrounds You”
Loretta Lynn – “Coal Miner’s Daughter”
The New Pornographers – “When I Was a Baby”
Rilo Kiley – “Jenny, You’re Barely Alive”
Tilly and the Wall – “Lost Girls”
The Elected – “Waves”
The Postal Service – “Brand New Colony”
Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins – “The Charging Sky”
Dusty Springfield – “You Don’t Own Me”
Jenny Lewis – “You Are What You Love (Live at the Echo)”
The Beachwood Sparks – “The Sun Surrounds Me”
Jenny Lewis (with Elvis Costello) – “Carpetbaggers”
She & Him – “Thieves”
Jenny & Johnny – “My Pet Snakes”
Johnathan Rice (with Jenny Lewis) – “The End of the Affair”
The Watson Twins – “You Showed Me”
Jenny & Johnny – “Committed”
dntel (with Jenny Lewis) – “Roll On”
Brandon Flowers (with Jenny Lewis) – “Hard Enough”
Rilo Kiley – “Rock and Roll Suicide (Live Bowie cover)”
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After introducing the TRAffIK School Students (also known as “Listeners”) to Thrash Metal in his last episode, the re-broadcast of “The Rise of Thrash Metal (original broadcast date: Friday the 13th 5/13/11)” on http://intraffikradio.com. Professor Pancake changes up the tone with his latest episode of TRAffIK School.
This week’s re-broadcast focuses on Stephin Merritt (Magnetic Fields, the 6ths, Gothic Archies, Future Bible Heroes) (Original Air Date: 5/27/11)
Stephin Merritt created and played principal roles in the bands, The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths, The Gothic Archies, & Future Bible Heroes. Under his own name, he also recorded and released the soundtracks to the films “Eban and Charley” and “Pieces of April,” and penned the music and lyrics for a 2009 Off-Broadway stage musical of “Coraline”, based on the graphic novel by Neil Gaiman.
For more info about Stephin Merritt, visit www.houseoftomorrow.com or check out the documentary, “Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields”, which premiered in March 2010.
Playlist:
- The Magnetic Fields – “Strange Powers”
- The Magnetic Fields – “Born on a Train”
- The Magnetic Fields – “100,000 Fireflies”
- Tracey Thorn and Jens Lekman – “Yeah! Oh Yeah!” (Magnetic Fields cover)
- The 6ths (featuring Dean Wareham of Luna) –”Falling Out of Love (With You)”
- The 6ths (featuring Sally Timms of the Mekons) – “Give Me Back My Dreams”
- Future Bible Heroes – “I’m a Vampire”
- The 6ths (featuring Gary Numan) – “The Sailor in Love With the Sea”
- Astrud – “With Whom to Dance (Magnetic Fields cover)”
- Mary Lou Lord – “I Don’t Want to Get Over You (Magnetic Fields cover, live)”
- The Magnetic Fields – “Two Characters in Search of a Country Song”
- Bodies of Water – “I Don’t Believe in the Sun (Magnetic Fields cover)”
- The Gothic Archies – “Things Are Not What They Appear”
- The Gothic Archies– “Shipwrecked”
- Superchunk – “100,000 Fireflies” (Magnetic Fields cover)
- The 6ths (featuring Georgia Hubley from Yo La Tengo) – “Movies in My Head”
- Stephin Merritt – “Forever and a Day”
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After walking us through the first lessons referencing the book “Our Band Could Be Your Life,” –and introducing the TRAffIK School Students (also known as “Listeners”) to bands such as Big Black, Minor Threat, Fugazi, Sonic Youth, The Minutemen, Black Flag, among many others– Professor Pancake is back with a whole new lesson. This series will focus on the genre known as Thrash Metal, via the re-broadcast of his latest show episode”The Rise of Thrash Metal (original broadcast date: Friday the 13th 5/13/11)” on http://intraffikradio.com at 11 am (PST)
Thrash Metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized usually by its fast tempo and aggression. Songs of the genre typically use fast percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work. The “Big Four” bands of thrash metal are Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax, who popularized the genre in the 1980s.
In tribute to the recent U.S. Big 4 Festival held recently in Indio, CA, this lesson will feature dazzling technical musical skills and brutally powerful music. We will hear from the Big 4 (Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax) as well as the early influences of thrash metal (Judas Priest, Motorhead), other thrash bands of the 80s (Testament, Exodus), the ongoing legacy of thrash metal in the melodic death metal scene (Children of Bodom, At the Gates), and a very special live recording of a song featuring members of the Big 4 sharing the same stage!
Playlist:
1. Metallica – “Battery”
2. Judas Priest – “Rapid Fire”
3. Motorhead – “Ace of Spades”
4. Diamond Head – “The Prince”
5. Metallica – “The Four Horsemen”
6. Metallica – “Last Caress” / “Green Hell”
7. Exodus – “Metal Command”
8. Testament – “The New Order”
9. Megadeth – “Holy Wars…And the Punishment Due”
10. Megadeth – “Hangar 18″
11. Slayer – “Raining Blood”
12. Slayer – “South of Heaven”
13. Anthrax – “Bring the Noise” (featuring Public Enemy)
14. At the Gates – “Cold”
15. Children of Bodom – “Lake Bodom”
16. Metallica / Slayer / Megadeth / Anthrax – “Am I Evil?” (live at the Big 4 Festival, Indio, CA, 4/23/11)
RE-BROADCAST OF TRAFFIK SCHOOL W/ PROFESSOR PANCAKE – EPISODE 2
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OUR BAND COULD BE YOUR LIFE: SCENES FROM THE AMERICAN INDIE UNDERGROUND
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In this Second Episode of TRAffIK School w/ Professor Pancake, a show that will re-visit the foundations of the music world and showcase those pioneers of music that have been the inspiration to many a modern day musician all the while educating the listener on these class acts, he continues to walk you through the world of the DIY bands of the 80’s as portrayed via Michael Azzerad’s book “Our Band Could Be Your Life, Scenes from the American Indie Underground” (the official text book of this four episode series)
Here is a little about the book (as taken from the book jacket:
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“It was a musical revolution that happened right under the nose of the Reagan Eighties: a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations, and other subversives who reshaped and reenergized American rock music with punk rock’s revolutionary do-it-yourself credo. The music that resulted was deeply personal, often brilliant, always challenging, and immensely influential. Remarkably, the stories of these now-legendary bands have never been told in any depth – until now.”
Episode Two – Our Band Could Be Your Life (focusing on Minor Threat, Husker Du, and The Replacements)– Part Two (Episode Originally Streamed on 2/18/11)
Playlist:
I. Minor Threat
1. Minor Threat – “Minor Threat”
2. The Cramps – “Jailhouse Rock”
3. The Teen Idles – “Get Up and Go”
4. Minor Threat – “Straight Edge”
5. The Germs – “What We Do is Secret”
6. Minor Threat – “Screaming at a Wall”
7. AFI – “Triple Zero”
8. Minor Threat – “Think Again”
9. Heroin – “In General”
10. Melt-Banana – “Tapir’s Flown Away”
II. Husker Du
11. Husker Du – “Pink Turns To Blue”
12. Dead Kennedys – “Holiday in Cambodia”
13. Husker Du – “Broken Home, Broken Heart”
14. Husker Du – “Terms of Psychic Warfare”
15. The Pixies – “Break My Body”
16. Husker Du –” Chartered Trips”
17. Jawbreaker – “I Love You So Much, It’s Killing Us Both”
18. Sugar – “Fortune Teller”
III. The Replacements
19. The Replacements – “Bastards of Young/I’m in Trouble (live)”
20. The Only Ones – “Another Girl, Another Planet”
21. The Replacements – “Left of the Dial”
22. The Gaslight Anthem – “High Lonesome”
23. The Replacements – “Alex Chilton”
24. Big Star – “Nighttime”
25. The Replacements – “I’ll Be You”
26. Wilco – “Pot Kettle Black”
27. Joan Jett & Paul Westerberg – “Let’s Do It”
TRAFFIK SCHOOL W/ PROFESSOR PANCAKE – EPISODE 1
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OUR BAND COULD BE YOUR LIFE: SCENES FROM THE AMERICAN INDIE UNDERGROUND
LISTEN VIA WWW.INTRAFFIKRADIO.COM
In this inaugural episode of TRAffIK School w/ Professor Pancake, a show that will re-visit the foundations of the music world and showcase those pioneers of music that have been the inspiration to many a modern day musician all the while educating the listener on these class acts, he dives right into the world of the DIY bands of the 80’s as portrayed via Michael Azzerad’s book “Our Band Could Be Your Life, Scenes from the American Indie Underground” (the official text book of this four episode series)
Here is a little about the book (as taken from the book jacket:
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“It was a musical revolution that happened right under the nose of the Reagan Eighties: a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations, and other subversives who reshaped and reenergized American rock music with punk rock’s revolutionary do-it-yourself credo. The music that resulted was deeply personal, often brilliant, always challenging, and immensely influential. Remarkably, the stories of these now-legendary bands have never been told in any depth – until now.”
Part I of Episode 1 – Professor Pancake covers Black Flag (from Morris to Rollins)
Nirvana “School”
Black Flag – “Nervous Breakdown”
Bad Brains – “Banned in D.C.”
State of Alert – “Public Defender”
Black Flag – “Six Pack”
Black Flag – “Black Coffee”
OFF! – “Upsidedown”
ICE T (and the Rollins Band) – “Police Story”
Part II of Episode 1 – Professor Pancake discusses San Pedro’s own Minutemen and Mission of Burma
The Minutemen – “Corona”
The Minutemen – “Life as a Rehearsal”
Gang of Four – “Damaged Goods”
The Minutemen – “This Ain’t No Picnic”
Wire – “Pink Flag”
Wire – “Three Girl Rhumba”
The Minutemen – “Tour Spiel”
Mission of Burma – “That’s When I Reach for My Revolver”
Mission of Burma – “Max Ernst”
Pere Ubu – “Heart of Darkness”
Mission of Burma – “Trem Two”
R.E.M – “Crush with Eyeliner”
Mission of Burma – “Spider’s Web”
Sleater Kinney – “Everything”
Tune in Next Friday (Feb. 18th) at 2pm for Part II of this series where the focus will be on Minor Threat, Husker Du, and the Replacements
