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Local Pop focuses on the Columbus, Ohio music scene and airs every Wednesday night on WCRS, Columbus Community Radio. We do regular podcasts which feature interviews with local and regional bands and musicians. We also have guest d.j.s and live, in-studio performances from time to time. You can stream any of the latest shows from the built-in player, and more information about each show is below.



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Another session this week from Electraplay Productions, this time featuring two bands in one, Trains Across the Sea and Lifescouts. Go over to the as-yet-unfinished Local Pop Radio Hour website to watch videos from the session.

Download: http://patradio.org/audio/09/program_176_TrainsLife.mp3

Play List:
Magic City - "OH/IO (Washington Beach Party)"
Trains Across the Sea - "Such Uncomfortable Chairs" live at Electraplay Productions
Trains Across the Sea - "Wheat Bread " live at Electraplay Productions
Trains Across the Sea - "Brother Can You Spare a Dime?" live at Electraplay Productions
Trains Across the Sea - "I Just Wanna Get Paid" live at Electraplay Productions
Lifescouts - "The Clown" live at Electraplay Productions
Lifescouts - "The Comforter" live at Electraplay Productions
Lifescouts - "Broken Cup" live at Electraplay Productions
The Lindsay - "Nothin' To Lose" from Syrup Bag
Heidi Howes - "Little Sister" from Even Lovers Drown

This week we kick off the first of hopefully a long series of sessions recorded at Electraplay Studio. This one features Sleepers Awake, who have a cd release this Friday at the Scarlet and Grey for their album Priests of the Fire. Also happening early on Friday is the Peloton Records Showcase at the Rumba Cafe. Peloton is unvavailing its City Sampler cd, and we hear eight tracks from it on this week's show.

Special thanks to James Allison for the quick turn around on the Sleepers Awake session. Thanks also to Tony Stewart and William Carroll of Electraplay. They shot video of the session which should be on the web soon.

Download: http://patradio.org/audio/09/program_175_SleepersAwake.mp3

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Play List:
Magic City - "OH/IO (Washington Beach Party)" unreleased
Sleepers Awake - "In Time" live at Electraplay Studio
Sleepers Awake - "Theme from Phantom of the Opera" live at Electraplay Studio
Sleepers Awake - "The Summoning" live at Electraplay Studio
Sleepers Awake - "The Collosus that Bestrode the Earth" live at Electraplay Studio
Sleepers Awake - "The Machines" live at Electraplay Studio
Bygones - "So Easy" from City Sampler
Matt Hoover and the Super Saints - "High Noon" from City Sampler
Calamities (featuring Erika Carey) - "Five Years" from City Sampler
Deerhead - "Trials" from City Sampler
Todd May - "Woodpile" from City Sampler
ALPHABETS - "Miriam" from City Sampler
Twin Souls of Sulfur - "Sulfur" from City Sampler
Dj Drastic - "Chop City" from City Sampler

Will Foster of Guinea Worms is my guest for the first part of the show. We chat and hear some tunes from the soon-to-be released double-album retrospective of Guinea Worms music. Later on in the show I talk with Travis Hoewischer of 614 Magazine about the 614 Music Showcase going on at Skully's on Saturday.

*Guinea Worms photo courtesy of Paula Masters Travis. Thanks, Paula!

Download: http://patradio.org/audio/09/program_174_GuineaWorms.mp3

Play List:
Guinea Worms - "I Know Where Will Foster Lives" from 7"
Guinea Worms - "Drunk in Yr Uggs" from Sorcererers of Madness (4rd Year in a Row)
Guinea Worms - "Maggot Therapy" from Sorcererers of Madness (4rd Year in a Row)
Guinea Worms - "Apples in the Oatmeal" from Sorcererers of Madness (4rd Year in a Row)
Guinea Worms - "Sex Against a Wall" from Sorcererers of Madness (4rd Year in a Row)
Puffy Areolas - "Lutzko Lives" from 7"
Mors Ontologica - "Lazarus" from Don't Cry
Paper Airplane - "1,000 Words" from White Elephants
Ghost Shirt - "Waitress" from Ghost Shirt EP
Black Owls - "Lighting Made Us Who We Are" from Lighting Made Us Who We Are
Phantods - "Wolf" from Revival EP
J. Rawls - "Can This Be Real" from mysapce

This program features four songs from a live recording of Times New Viking at Ruby Tuesday in Columbus. Times New Viking's Columbus release party for Born Again Revisited is tonight at the Summit with Envelope and Vile Gash.

Download: http://patradio.org/audio/09/program_173_TimesNewViking.mp3

Play List:
Vile Gash - "Cleanse the World" from Demo 1
Vile Gash - "F.Y.P.A." from Demo 1
Vile Gash - "Everyone's the Enemy" from Demo 1
Vile Gash - "Scum" from Demo 2
Envelope - "Teethsucker" from Sharkbolt
Times New Viking - "Martin Luther King Day" live at Ruby Tuesday, 8/15/09
Times New Viking - "I Smell Bubblegum" live at Ruby Tuesday, 8/15/09
Times New Viking - "No Time, No Hope" live at Ruby Tuesday, 8/15/09
Times New Viking - "Pentagram" live at Ruby Tuesday, 8/15/09
Unholy Two - "Beruit 1983" from 7"

Woody Pines joins us in the studio this week for five songs and a little chat. There's also a couple tunes from Saintseneca's recently released 7" EP.

Download: http://patradio.org/audio/09/program_172_WoodyPines.mp3

Play List:
Saintseneca - "God Bones" from Saintseneca 7"
Saintseneca - "No Names" from Saintseneca 7"
Moviola - "Rumors Of The Faithful" from Rumors of the Faithful
Woody Pines - "Ninety Nine Year Blues" live
Woody Pines - "Nashville" live
Woody Pines - "Casey Jones" live
Woody Pines - "The Weed Smoker's Dream" live
Woody Pines - "Chew Tobacco Rag" live

I realize that Stay Awake has been out for a year, and you probably already have a copy, but I've got two copies now, thanks to the Times New Viking goodie package that arrived in the mail yesterday. So I thought I'd give one away to the first caller when I say the word tonight on WCRS. Listen to 102.1 or 98.3 here in Columbus or online at www.wcrsfm.org. The number to call is 614-219-9277 ( 219-WCRS ).

Also, in a further effort to confuse my listeners and alienate my audience, I've renamed the show to "Local Pop". Not a great name, but it's at least more descriptive than "pat radio". This will also afford me the opportunity to turn the mic over to other folks who want to interview bands or host segments of the show. That will be happening soon, I think, and if it sounds like something you would like to do, let me know. Finally, tonight's show will be available for download on WCRS's website. Probably at this link. I've been making the distinction that shows without guests aren't really podcasts, but I figure folks still might want to hear them. So generic "radio shows" will be at wcrsfm.org, and shows with guests or exclusive content will be here.

James and Jacob of the Blastronauts stop by this week to play tracks from their new EP, Galileo. James also talks about the Outer Sounds, which is a web site, a series of shows at Oldfields, and a series of sessions you can download for free. We hear a number of tracks from new and older Outer Sounds sessions.

Download: http://patradio.org/audio/09/program_171_OuterSounds.mp3

Play List:
Blastronauts - "Even The Score" from Outer Sounds Sessions
Blastronauts - "It's Party Time" from Galileo
Blastronauts - "L.E.D." from Galileo
The Lost Revival - "King of Electricity" from Outer Sounds Sessions
The Town Monster - "North" from Outer Sounds Sessions
Our Cat Philip - "Dana's Song" from Outer Sounds Sessions
Rosewood Thieves - "Fair Lights Flashing" from Outer Sounds Sessions
Rosewood Thieves - "Lonely Heart' from Outer Sounds Sessions
The Creature - "Hell" from Outer Sounds Sessions
Couch Forts - "Delay Decay" from Outer Sounds Sessions
Truth for Sanity - "I Own Your Face" from Outer Sounds Sessions
The Books - "An Animated Description of Mr. Maps" from Lost and Safe

It's time for another Old 3C Records' blast from the past. Below is a link to a recording of Househearts' 1983 set at Comfest. Househearts featured Bob Robinson and Paul Nini, and was active in Columbus from 1982 to 1986. On this particular set John Weber is playing drums. Househearts list among their influences Television, Joy Division, Mission of Burma, and Pylon. If you like those bands, you'll love Househearts. If you're as old as me, the sound of Househearts will definitely take you back.

If you'd like to try before you download, there's a tune from the set called "Never Doubt My Words" that you can stream in the player below.

Download: Househearts Comfest 83 mp3 archive

Shawn and Aaron of Day Creeper are my guests this week. We chat and listen to most of their set from the Lost Weekend Super Summer Spectacular. More live stuff follows, courtesy of Old3C Records and WRUW. The Kyle Sowashes played WRUW's Studio-A-Rama last weekend, and we hear a tune from that set, also, there's an excerpt from a classic set by Columbus band of yore, Househearts, from their 1983 Comfest set. Look for downloads of the complete Sowashes and Househearts sets on patradio.org later this week.

Download: http://patradio.org/audio/09/program_170_DayCreeper.mp3

Play List:
Don B. (w/ Day Creeper) - "Batman" from live at Ruby Tuesday 8-15-09
Day Creeper - "Dipstick" from live at Ruby Tuesday 8-15-09
Day Creeper - "V.I.P." from live at Ruby Tuesday 8-15-09
Day Creeper - "Nervous Energy" from live at Ruby Tuesday 8-15-09
Day Creeper - "The Thrill is Gone" from live at Ruby Tuesday 8-15-09
Day Creeper - "You've Been Warned" from live at Ruby Tuesday 8-15-09
Day Creeper - "Working It" from live at Ruby Tuesday 8-15-09
Day Creeper - "And How" from live at Ruby Tuesday 8-15-09
Outer Spacists - "The Mind is as Outer Space" from 7"
The Kyle Sowashes - "Instabilities" from live at WRUW Studio-A-Rama
Househearts - "Never Doubt My Word" from live at Comfest 1983

Interviews this week with Ryan Horns of Paper Airplane and the band Phantods. There's new music from both bands' recent releases, plus some new Rollo and Bird and Flower and Moviola doing V3 live.

Download: http://patradio.org/audio/09/program_169_PaperPhantods.mp3

Play List:
Moviola - "End Of The Bar" from live, Ruby Tuesday 8/15/09
Rollo - "As She Waits" from 7"
Paper Airplane - "Time is Full of Photographs" from White Elephants
Paper Airplane - "Car Crash" from White Elephants
Paper Airplane - "Spring Vultures" from White Elephants
Bird and Flower - "Hot Boots" from Here We Cease Our Motion
Phantods - "Revival" from Revival
Phantods - "Missed the Boat" from Revival
Phantods - "Lone Highway" from Phantods
James & James - "Hope You're Doin' Well" from James & James 7"

Corey Fry of Monolithic Cloud Parade stops by to talk us through four tracks from their debut concept album Children With Wolf Heads. Then Steve McGann of Peloton Records and Erika Carey of Erika Carey and the Calamities drop in. Steve shares tracks from an upcoming compilation Peloton is putting out entitled Peloton Records City Sampler. Erika and Steve also do a song live.

Download: http://patradio.org/audio/09/program_168_MonolithicPeloton.mp3

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Play list:
Magic City - "OH/IO (Washington Beach Party)"
Monolithic Cloud Parade - "Children With Wolf Heads!" from Children With Wolf Heads
Monolithic Cloud Parade - "We'd Come Back Again" from Children With Wolf Heads
Monolithic Cloud Parade - "What Big Teeth (Pts 1 & 2)" from Children With Wolf Heads
Monolithic Cloud Parade - "Do Ghosts Dream of Death?" from Children With Wolf Heads
Megan Palmer - "Three Notes" from Take You Away
Alwood Sisters - "Water" from Peloton Records City Sampler
The Alphabet - "Prosthetic Face" from Peloton Records City Sampler
Erika Carey and the Calamities - "Simple Bastard" from Erika Carey and the Calamities
Erika Carey (w/ Steve McGann) - "The Ballad of Tommy Meeks" live
Heidi Howes - "Bring Me Down" from Peloton Records City Sampler

Kyle and Beth from Lost Weekend Records are my guests this week. Kyle spins bands and bands related to the bands who are playing his two-day Super Summer Spectacular. Beth spotlights some Jim Shepard rarities as well as some of her favorite Columbus music. I round out the hour with more music and info from what's promising to be an action-packed weekend of music in Columbus.

Download: http://patradio.org/audio/09/program_167_SummerSpec.mp3

Play list:
Magic City - "OH/IO (Washington Beach Party)" unreleased
The Kyle Sowashes - "The Cut-out Bin" from Yeah, Buddy
JPS Brown - "A Bitter End" from demo
Skillet Lickers - "Going Nowhere Fast" from unlreased
Girly Machine - "Snipe Hunt" from Girly Machine
Pica Huss - "Feel The Real"
Moviola - "Thank You, Matches" from 10"
Times New Viking - "A Lot Of Paintings" from The World's Lousy With Ideas Vol 8
Jim Shepard - "Voices of Men" from 7"
Cloud Tiger - "Break Down These Walls" from Matter Dominates Spirit, A Tribute To Shepard
Bob Pollard - "Bristol Girl" from Matter Dominates Spirit, A Tribute To Jim Shepard
Psychedelic Horseshit - "Anxiety of Influence" from Golden Oldies
Hugs and Kisses - "Totally Awesome/Casualites of Happiness" from Casualities of Happiness
Braniac - "Go Freaks, Go" from Internationale
J-Gladd - "Calculators Curse" from You Go Make Eggs
Bassholes - "I Like Smoke And Lightning" from ...and without a name
Mount Carmel - "Sacksburg" from myspace

I am happy to host Old 3C Records' digital release of the Beatdowns' "Disconnected Girl" single. Both sides are delicious slices of '60s garage pop. Listen to the songs below via the flash player, and download both mp3s plus the cd artwork in a .zip archive. If you prefer lossless audio and can stick around for a longer download, click on the aiff bundle.

Download: The Beatdowns - "Disconnected Girl" mp3 archive

Download: The Beatdowns - "Disconnected Girl" aiff archive

Rodeo Ruby Love is a band from Marion, Indiana. Last year they released a full-length cd entitled Rodeo Ruby Love Vs. The Great American Cities. Band leader Zack Melton says of their music, "I like the complexities and paradoxes of writing fun, catchy music with heartbreaking words." That paradox rings true on "Small House in the City", which you can find below.

Rodeo Ruby Love will be coming to our great American city this Sunday, appearing at the Treehouse with Traveling By Sea and local spazz-popsters This is My Suitcase.

MP3: Rodeo Ruby Love - Small House in the City