Quick Radio Update

For any interested parties, I'll be sitting in during Ampersand Theater tomorrow night (Thursday, March 12) from 10-11:30 PM. If you want to make any requests or call in to congratulate me on whatever amazing things I'll be playing, the phone number is 401-863-9277. For people in the Providence area, you can tune your dial towards 88.1 FM and for anyone with an internet connection you can stream it live here.

Sound of Confusion WMUA Finale 01/19/09

The final Sound of Confusion at WMUA studios goes out with it's head held high in an all-out airwave audio assault. People from the past check in to offer their congratulations and good riddances, most notable of all being Hollywood terror Jonathan Lipnicki and the dreaded return of the Providence, Rhode Island duo of Matt and Mike Darshner, better known as the River City MIDI Committee. If your ears weren't bleeding through their [literally] screaming covers of "Closing Time," "Disarm," "Jumper," or "Good Riddance," then their rip-roaring hip-hop remake of No Doubt's "Don't Speak" will come as a welcomed treat for the ears. Comedian Kenny Starr checks in from Obama's inauguration and Redman appears to have wound up in a sticky situation in Thailand. Links to download all these calls as well as the final show in its entirety follow.

"So what would happen was like Hard Nutz would play a song and then they'd have to serve ice cream to all the people who were there."
- Kenny Starr

Sound of Confusion - Kenny Starr Checks in From Obama's Inauguration

"I guess the Redman's reputation precedes himself."
- Redman

Sound of Confusion - Redman Calls in From a Thai Prison

"YOU HAD ME AT YOU DIE NOW!!!"
- Jonathan Lipnicki

Sound of Confusion - The Wrath of Lipnicki

wet - like a sprinkler
is that your friend? i must have her
my chain is tangled in my chest
i have to see you breast to breast

i don't speak, you don't speak
we don't speak, they don't speak
he don't speak, she don't speak
on your knees you're a nasty freakk

choice: greater or lesser
girl you sidechain my compressor
ride like i ride the fader
you're the luke to my darth vader
- River City MIDI Committee

Sound of Confusion - The Return of the River City MIDI Committee Pts. 1-3

Sound of Confusion's Final Show Part 1 and Part 2

As an added bonus, an associate producer from Late Night with Conan O'Brien called in to the WMUA program "Sweet Baby Lou and the Reverends of Funk" the following day to present the show and station with lawsuits.

"If [Barack Obama] can get the economic green machine going, then I'm all for it."

Sound of Confusion - Associate Producer Jordan Schlansky Presents WMUA's "Sweet Baby Lou and the Reverends of Funk" Show With Lawsuits

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release
* # Time Played Artist Song Title Album Title Label
20:07:07 - Breeders, The - Divine Hammer - Last Splash - 4AD
20:10:20 - Velvet Underground, The - I'm Set Free - The Velvet Underground - Polydor
20:13:39 - Deerhunter - Cryptograms - Cryptograms - Kranky
20:35:52 - Big Star - Take Care - Third/Sister Lovers - Rykodisc
21:12:44 - Brainiac - Nothing Ever Changes - Hissing Prigs in the Static Couture - Touch and Go
21:12:58 - Yo La Tengo - Today is the Day - Today is the Day EP - Matador
# 21:33:26 - Harvey Milk - Goodbye Blues - Life...The Best Game in Town - Hydra Head
21:41:28 - Magnetic Fields, The - Lonely Highway - The Charm of the Highway Strip - Merge
21:58:43 - Spacemen 3 - Walkin' With Jesus - The Perfect Prescription - Taang

Upcoming Sound of Confusion Reminder

As you're gearing up for the weekend don't forget to keep the energy level full throttle well into Monday because next week's Sound of Confusion show will be my last at WMUA. There will be no going out like a loser on Monday. I'll be the winning horse at the racetrack that gets put down for blowing out all its legs down the home stretch. Don't miss it!

Sound of Confusion with Dr. Chocobo, Worthologist Live In-Studio 01/12/09

This week's special in-studio guest was Dr. Chocobo, Worthologist. Dr. Chocobo runs an advice column online, which apparently gives advice to those in need assuming they're big video game freaks. Attempting to upstage Dr. Chocobo's in-studio session was call-in Kenny Starr, supposed Bill Clinton joke expert. Have you determined what your personal hell is? If you haven't, consider a comedian that only tells dated 1997-98 Bill Clinton sex scandal-era jokes.

"I was about to make my big break a few years ago, but I got upstaged at a Friar's Club Roast by Cloris Leachman. You know, she told some very salacious jokes about Brian Dennehy's prostate condition which just really, you know, put the damper on what I was about to do which was, you know, 20 minutes of Clinton."
- Kenny Starr

Sound of Confusion - Kenny Starr

"Has your boss asked you to do something that goes against your core ethos such as burning a village of innocents?"
- Dr. Chocobo, Worthologist

Sound of Confusion - Dr. Chocobo, Worthologist, Live at WMUA's Studio

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release
* # Time Played Artist Song Title Album Title Label
# 20:13:53 - Fucked Up - Son the Father - The Chemistry of Common Life - Matador
# 20:14:19 - Magnificents, The - Ring Ring Oo Oo - Year of Explorers - Mush
20:19:59 - Matt Besser - My Four Supervisors - May I Help You (Dumbass) - UCB
# 20:23:46 - Truman Peyote - Heavy Forestation - Whitehaus US Family Record Sampler Volume 2 - Whitehaus Family
# 20:31:17 - Harvey Milk - Motown - Life...The Best Game in Town - Hydra Head
21:13:48 - No Age - Teen Creeps - Nouns - Sub Pop
21:18:41 - Paramore - When It Rains - The Final Riot! - Fueled by Ramen

Sound of Confusion's Famous Zaireeka Radio Experiment 01/05/09

The first Sound of Confusion of the year was the can't miss radio show of 2009. With four CD trays at my disposal, I did the unthinkable: play the Flaming Lips four-Disc masterpiece Zaireeka over the radio. Hearing a mixdown on headphones is great, but physically hearing all four discs simultaneously playing through a set of headphones is mind-melting. On top of that, my friend Steve Binson called up to the show after his girlfriend broke up with him. The conversation is below and lets just say he had the breakup coming.

Sound of Confusion - Steve Binson and the Do Sho Ramin

*Note*: for whatever reason the show was not recorded properly so there are unexplained chops and breaks in the recording that will sound off.

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release
* # Time Played Artist Song Title Album Title Label
20:07:42 - Yo La Tengo - You Can Have It All - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out - Matador
20:10:58 - Joe Pesci - Take Your Love and Shove It - Vincent Laguardia Gambini Sings Just for You - Sony
20:24:27 - Flaming Lips, The Okay I'll Admit That I Really Don't Understand - Zaireeka - Warner Bros.
20:25:35 - Flaming Lips, The - Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now) - Zaireeka - Warner Bros.
20:33:11 - Flaming Lips, The - Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair - Zaireeka - Warner Bros.
20:38:41 - Flaming Lips, The - A Machine in India - Zaireeka - Warner Bros.
20:49:14 - Flaming Lips, The - The Train Runs Over the Camel But is Derailed by the Gnat - Zaireeka - Warner Bros.
20:55:43 - Flaming Lips, The - How Will We Know? (Futuristic Crashendos) - Zaireeka - Warner Bros.
20:58:43 - Flaming Lips, The - March of the Rotten Vegetables Zaireeka - Warner Bros.
21:05:27 - Flaming Lips, The - The Big Ol' Bug is the New Baby Now - Zaireeka - Warner Bros.
21:44:19 - Young Marble Giants - N.I.T.A. - Colossal Youth - Domino
21:44:35 - Portishead - We Carry On - Third - Mercury
# 21:50:25 - caUSE co-MOTION! - Which Way is Up? - It's Time! - Slumberland
21:51:11 - Pointed Sticks - Part of the Noise - Part of the Noise - Sudden Death
* 21:58:55 - Marked Men, The - Fix My Brain - Fix My Brain - Swami

Sound of Confusion Special New Year Notice!

Make sure to turn on your mp3 stream and radio dials to 91.1 FM WMUA this Monday from 8-10 PM because something special is happening. I've threatened to do this before and it's finally happening. That's right, I'm taking over the four CD players in the studio and playing The Flaming Lips '97 4-disc opus Zaireeka in its entirety. In fact, I recommend streaming live from the WMUA website and listen live on the radio to hear the album twice, albeit one having a 7 second delay. Or make your own Parking Lot Experiment with it.

Sound of Confusion and Year-Ending Mayhem!

Back for the winter session, racking up threats from call-ins right and left. An initial Harold Ramis bashing with Caddyshack's Danny Noonan, Michael O'Keefe, gives way to a heads up on the upcoming Jonathan Lipnicki directed flick The Circumsizor. And DJ Jammin' Jake calls in to tell us about his sad state of affairs.

"Desire, being the root of suffering, you call me Rimpoche right now."
- Michael O'Keefe

Sound of Confusion - The Circumsizor

Sound of Confusion - The Fall of DJ Jammin' Jake