For 15 years now Radio Rumpus Room has been broadcast Fridays at 9-10:30 p.m. on KFAI Fresh Air Radio, FM 90.3 Minneapolis and 106.7 St. Paul. The show streams live on the Internet; the two most recent shows are archived in RealAudio on the KFAI website, www.kfai.org.

Playlist for Friday, January 18, 2008

This show marked our 12th annual "Day The Surf Stood Still" mid-winter surf special. As usual, it was broadcast from the frozen center of windswept Lake Calhoun. It might have been the coldest edition yet! No California or toasty southern tier climes tonight -- only bands that had some inkling what REAL winter looks like. After all, we were freezing our asses off on Lake Calhous while playing this stuff. It only seemed right...

SAVVY SHOW STARTER (always a local artist!)
The Titans -- Motovation (The Titans History; no label)

The mighty Titans, from Duluth, Minnesota!

The Citations -- Moonrace (v/a Elemental Instrumentals; Ace) Milwaukee
The Greaseballs -- Iguana (Wake Up And Smell The Greaseballs; no label) Chicago
Laika & The Cosmonauts -- Salt Mine (Zero Gravity; Upstart) Finland

The Awkwards -- Rising Star (Minimum Maintenance Music; Obese Pirate) Minneapolis
Knuckel Drager -- Beatnik BBQ (self-titled; Lane Zero) Madison WI
The Vaqueros -- 80 Foot Wave (v/a Duluth Rocked, Vol. 1; duluthrocked.com) Northern Minnesota

The 99ers -- Surfin' Hop (CD-R) St. Paul, Minnesota
(spot) "A Terrible Surfing Accident"
The Bitch Boys -- Shark Attack (...In Heat; no label) Zagreb, Croatia
Los Mel-tones -- Surf Before Sunrise (Surf Before Sunrise; Halakahiki) Montreal, Quebec

The Apemen -- Surf Party (7 Inches Of Love; Double Crown) Rotterdam, Netherlands
Club Gerry Friedrich -- Holiday City (v/a Surf In Germany; Bear Family) Munich
The Astronauts -- Surfs You Right (Rarities; Bear Family) Boulder, Colorado

The Exotics -- Casbah (Go Go Guitars; Tiki Tone) Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The Goldentones -- Outbound (v/a Beyond The Beach; Upstart) Chicago
The Urban Surf Kings -- Saucers In The Sunset (Surf Vs. The Flying Saucers; no label) Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

The Gruesomes -- My Dad's A Hodad (Live In Hell; Ricochet) Montreal Quebec
The Trashmen -- Bad News (Tube City: Best Of The Trashmen!; Sundazed) Minneapolis, Minnesota
Surf Nation -- Party At The Sand Bar (Music For Dangerous Activities; no label) Winona, Minnesota

The Nebulas -- The Green Room (Hot Rods, Waves & Women!; Tivertone) Little Compton, Rhode Island
The Daytonas -- Surf Fever (Ready Set Go!; Sunlight) Sweden
The Surfites -- Tailslide (Big Pounder; Double Crown) Sweden

The Hypnomen -- Wonton Hop (Super Sonico!; Stupido Twins) Helsinki, Finland
The Volcanos -- Deora (Surf Quake; Estrus) Detroit
Phantom 309 -- Motor Oil (3000 Crooked Miles To Honolulu) Vancouver BC

The Yeti-Men -- High Himalayas (v/a Hipsville, Vol. 3: Return Of The Frozen Few; Kramden)
Rich Clayton & The Rumbles -- Flip Side (v/a Surfin' In The Midwest, Vol. 3; Unliminted Productions) Council Bluffs IA
The Metalunas -- Trajectory Of No Return (Swingin' Planet; Wildebeest) Canada

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