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, and as always, our two most recent shows are archived in their entirety in RealAudio. Just visit the RRR web page anytime to listen to this noise and accompanying yakkin' by Ron and Jean.

Playlist for Friday, August 18, 2006

SAVVY SHOW STARTER (always locally recorded !)
Tetes Noires -- Chains/Don't Say Nothing Bad About My Baby (American Dream LP; Rapunzel)

For some reason it has been a long haul since we last played Minneapolis' Tetes Noire, and there's no good reason for that. Tetes Noire ("black heads," for the sextet's dark hair) included this Goffin/King writ pair 'o songs on their otherwise all-original 1984 LP "American Dream." Chris Osgood, of the Suicide Commandos, produced. We were inspired to play this by the band's appearance in "First Avenue Hay Day," a two-hour film about the bands of Minneapolis' First Avenue nightclub. The film utilizes video shot by the club from 1985-1992, then basically forgotten in the basement till an enterprising filmmaker convinced the management to loan him the surviving footage. Interspersed with vintage (and illuminating) interview clips of manager Steve McClellan and other club and rock luminaries, it is one killer film, and guaranteed to put a smile on the face of anyone who, like Radio Rumpus Room's hosts, were here "back in the day." Unfortunately the film showed only once, a sold-out performance at last week's Sound Unseen festival, and we can only hope that it's brought back again. And soon!

The Fondas -- That's All (Runaway Bombshell; Sympathy for the Record Industry)
The Answer -- I'll Be In (v/a Garage Beat '66, vol. 3; Sundazed)
The Greenhornes -- At Night (East Grand Blues; V2)

The 99ers -- Surfin' Beatnik Babe (Minnesota Sun; CD-EP)
The Pebbles -- Surf To There (v/a Ratholic Presents California Sun; Clapworks)
Danny Amis con Lots Acapulco -- Miradas de Amor (Daddy-O Grande en Mexico; Mosstrissimo)

The Mojo Spleens -- Urban Sprawl (Live At The Hexagon; CD-R)
The Dieselfitters -- 20 Megaton Sex Bomb (20 Megaton Sex Bomb; www.dieselfitters.com)
The Mighty Mofos -- Mindreader (Sho' Hard LP; Treehouse)

The Monks -- Monk Time (Black Monk Time; Infinite Zero)
The Electric Prunes -- Ain't It Hard (Lost Dreams; Birdman)
The Lyres -- We Sell Soul (Some Lyres; Taang!)

Hasil Adkins -- Change Gears on That Thing (Drinkin' My Life Away; Shake It)
Johnny Guitar Watson -- Space Guitar (v/a Space Guitar & Deathray Boogie; Buzzola)
Gin Gillette -- Train to Satanville (v/a Scum of the Earth; Weed)
Scott Biram -- 18 Wheeler Fever (Graveyard Shift; Bloodshot)

Connie Smith -- Tiny Blue Transistor Radio (Connie Smith and Miss Smith Goes to Nashville; Westside)
Neko Case -- John Saw That Number (Fox Confessor Brings the Flood; Anti)
The Bottle Rockets -- Zoysia (Zoysia; Bloodshot)

ELVIS DIED ON HIS TOILET ON WEDNESDAY, AUG. 16 -- A MEMORIAL
Syd Straw -- Listening To Elvis (v/a Luxury Condos: Coming To Your Neighborhood Soon; Coyote)
Charlie Burton -- Breathe For Me Presley (One Man's Trash: The Charlie Burton Story; Bulldog)
Mr. Bonus -- Elvis What Happened (v/a Luxury Condos: Coming To Your Neighborhood Soon; Coyote)

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