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Edition #21/22/23: Penny Arcade, Let's Talk! listen to part 1 | listen to part 1 with RealPlayer listen to part 2 | listen to part 2 with RealPlayer listen to part 3 | listen to part 3 with RealPlayer First broadcast June 19 | July 10 | July 31, 2006 A conversation in three parts with Downtown NY's very own International Superstar, Penny Arcade! For 2006, Penny is performing and touring, all the while simultaneously stemming the ever encroaching local and worldwide pandemic of Cultural Amnesia, with her smart as Hell, wickedly funny pull no punches performances. Make no mistake, Penny was right there - think Andy Warhol's Factory - and has lived, witnessed, defined, lit the elephant, and smashed holes clean through the darkest corners of (whatever) hegemony; and you thought you were just laughing at her jokes! We welcome you with Hope There's Someone, From Antony and The Johnsons latest release, I Am a Bird Now,. We take our leave with Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah. *Note Part 2 Intro: "Sympathy" by Chris Rael, from his album "Cranberry Street" Outro: "O Death" by Charley Patton Part 3 Intro: "Dance Me To The End Of Love", by Leonard Cohen, from his album "Leonard Cohen - More Best Of" Outro: "Turn It On", by Sleater Kinney, from their album "Dig Me Out" Lower East Side Biography Project |
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Edition #20: Welcome to Clint, Michigan - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast March 27, 2006 Beautiful people, it's another live Clocktower Gallery Event. Located somewhere in Real Time, Virtual Space, and halfway between Heaven and Juvenile Parole, host Frances Sorensen and the Transister Radio Show proudly bring you: Clint, Michigan. In a town not far from (far away from) here, Clint Asay (The Isotoners, Clintellectual), Pinky Weitzman (LD & The New Criticism, The Three Terrors), and Mason Brown have been sent by their higher power to bring you songs of heartache, chemical dependence, co-dependence, antibiotics, and desperation. Armed only with a guitar (Clint), a viola, a stroh (Pinky), a mandolin (Mason), and a slight sense of worthlessness, these three impoverished blue bloods have called an emergency town hall forum. With guest vocalists Amy Bezumartea and Scott Matthew. |
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Edition #19: Scott Matthew with Louis Schwadron - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast March 13, 2006 If angels caressed with razorblades, lovingly, Scott Matthew would be among them. Exquisite voiced, literate, gorgeously corporeal Scott gives over, free falls, and entwines us in his raptures of: pain, love, death, broken and broken open hearts. Join us for this amazing live set with Scott Matthew and Louis Schwadron. Scott Matthew wrote and performed several songs in John Cameron Mitchell's (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) recent film Shortbus. He has performed songs for the Japanese anime series the Ghost in the Shell, the Cowboy Be-Bop feature film (on Victor Records) and wrote lyrics for Billy Preston for the title song of Japanese anime Licensed by Royal. He has also co-written and performed in a band called Elva Snow with Morrissey's drummer Spencer Cobrin (available on cdbaby.com) For the past two years French Hornist Louis Schwadron has been a touring member of The Polyphonic Spree. He also toured with Keren Ann, David Bowie, performed with The Posies, Guster, Elton John, and Queen. Schwadron recently arranged and produced the music for John Cameron Mitchell's film Shortbus. In addition to writing and producing music, he has written and directed several theatrical productions, the most recent of which, A Polyphonic Christmas Carol, starred the Polyphonic Spree at the Nokia amphitheater in Dallas in December 2005. |
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Edition #18: L.D. and The New Criticism - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast February 20, 2006 File under "Experimental Countrypolitan Deathpop." LD & The New Criticism is a musical collective headed by LD Beghtol, a displaced Southerner currently in exile in Deepest Brooklyn. He is the leader of orchestral-pop collective FLARE, one half of the willfully obscure bicoastal experimental duo, MOTH WRANGLERS, and approximately one third of THE THREE TERRORS (with Stephin Merritt and Dudley Klute). Like Flannery O'Connor, Beghtol is not as innocent as he looks... LD & the New Criticism's latest release Tragic Realism, the band's 2005 hi-fi- debut on Darla in America, features 16 original rollicking pop songs about cheating, lying, fucking, stealing, murder, suicide, revenge and other natural disasters both public and private. Tragic Realism could as well be filed under: Baroque-Hoedown. LD Beghtol: Lead vocals and ukelele Chuck Plummer: guitar, mandolin, backing vocals Pinky Weitzman: viola, stroh violin, backing vocals Doug Quint: bassoon, bass guitar Jim Andralis: accordion, backing vocals |
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Edition #17: Gretchen Phillips - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast July 4, 2005 Presenting Austin-based fringe legend, singer, songwriter, out-front lesbian activist Gretchen Phillips; a retrospective sampler spanning her more than twenty years of making music, and a frank chat. Playlist 01 Meat Joy - 1984 02 Two Nice Girls - 1991 03 Lord Douglas Phillips - 2001 04 Gretchen Phillips - 2004/5 |
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Edition #16: Lisa Jackson - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 2, 2005 Lisa Jackson performs on WPS1 and does not hold back. It is safe to say that this rocker chick extraordinaire delivers everytime, and this was no exception. Lisa plays guitar and sings three of her songs, and catches up host Frances Sorensen on some recent musings and upcoming projects for Lisa Jackson and Girl Friday. Plus, two bonus tracks: live from CBGB'S and one from their latest CD, to be released in 2005. A dash of Pat Benatar, a hit of Bowie, a dose of (really good) 70's rock - Lisa serves up the real thing. |
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Edition #15: Mike Albo - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast April 18, 2005 Monologuist, actor, dancer, and chanteuse Mike Albo performs excerpts from his recent sold out show My Price Point, and his latest novel The Underminer, and chats with host Frances Sorensen. Obvious questions like Where the hell are we? arise, as well as weightier musings, such as What brand am I? and What's up with love, anyway? Albo has published pieces for The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, New York Times Book Review, The New York Observer, New York Magazine, The Village Voice, and many others He has has written about fashion and style for the Men's Fashion of the Times, Paper, and Surface Magazines. His first novel, Hornito: My Lie Life, was published by HarperCollins in 2000 to wide critical acclaim. He has just finished his next book, The Underminer, forthcoming from Bloomsbury USA. As a monologuist and performer, Albo has toured three critically acclaimed shows: Mike Albo, Spray, and Please Everything Burst--co-written with his longtime friend, Dr. Virginia Heffernan--as well as many solo performances. And so much more... |
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Edition #14: The Moth Wranglers - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast April 4, 2005 The Mothwranglers, LD Beghtol (from Flare) and Chris Xefos, present live performances of their dark, eau du irony songs, about all things love--lost, lorn, and battered--from their first CD, Never Mind the Context, and their latest, Never Better. Come on in, listen, and indulge, (always indulge)-to the wickedfunnybeautiful Mothwranglers. |
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Edition #13: Seaman & Queerfunkle - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast March 21, 2005 Host Frances Sorensen welcomes Seaman and Queerfunkel aka Ryan James and Jason Conover, two irrepressible lads, who met and joined forces post college, to formed their mesmerizing duet. After you hear them you, too, will ask, "how could they not?" Be on the lookout for their upcoming CD, "Squeezin' Teat." Playlist 01 Heteros Who Like Rainbows 02 Stood Up 03 Festering Boil of Love 04 Fool's Moon 05 How The Story Goes |
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Edition #12: Taylor Mac - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast February 28, 2005 Actor, director, playwright and performance artist Taylor Mac is author and performer of the solo-shows, "The Face of Liberalism," "Okay," and "Cardiac Arrest or Venus on a Half-Clam." His song "The Revolution Will Not Be Masculinized" is an emerging classic. He has performed in a variety of venues including PS 122, Joe's Pub, FEZ, CBGB's, and the San Francisco Opera House. Among his exploits and adventures, he headlined the 8th annual Queer at Here Festival, appeared in Karen Finley's "Make Love," opened for music icon Nina Hagen, and played his first Martian opposite C. Thomas Howell in the Sci-Fi Channel original feature, "Graveland." |
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Edition #11: Hattie Hathaway - listen | listen with RealPlayer Host Frances Sorensen pulls out all the stops for the great Hattie Hathway (Brian Butterick), the legendary New York nightlife impresario and one fantastic character, performing live at the Clocktower. Hathaway's storied history includes forming the band, 3 Teens Kill 4, with the artist and writer David Wojnarowicz in 1980 (their cover of "Tell Me Something Good" was an underground hit), then going on to co-found both the Pyramid Club, a seminal performance venue, and the Wigstock Festival in the East Village. Hathaway later became a co-producer of Jackie 60 extravaganzas (see "Evening Air") and the curator of the Downtown Costume Institute, a traveling show of nightlife fashion and history with stops in Atlanta, Chicago and New York. Most recently, Hathaway joined the cast (with Alan Cumming, Edie Falco and Christine Baranski) of "The Threepenny Opera," in a new translation by Wallace Shawn currently in development at the Roundabout Theater. Playlist 01 Atomic Zone, by David Wojnarowicz/Brian Butterick 02 Winter Sky, by Billy Edd Wheeler 03 The Fallen Jet, by Brian Butterick |
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Edition #10: Larry Krone - listen | listen with RealPlayer Larry Krone is a singer-songwriter- of the heartbroken, hard-drinkin' country persuasion, and man who is passionate for Dolly Parton and all things glittery and beaded (especially costumes). He will make you laugh and cry, and he will laugh, and his hand-stitched, rhinestone-studded cowboy duds will be but a heap on the floor - but that will not stop this you-heard-it-here-first live performance with the Isotoner's accordion man, Jim Andralis. Playlist 01 "Jolene" - Dolly Parton 02 "I Will Always Love You" - Dolly Parton |
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Edition #9: Grounded - listen | listen with RealPlayer What do you do when you're grounded? You listen to metal! Really loud! On Frances Sorensen's program can you hear the sounds of Allegra Rose and Pam the Metal Queen's band, Grounded. Catch them here, or catch them live - the underground lives at WPS1, art radio! |
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Edition #8: Miss Guy - listen | listen with RealPlayer He may have left the Toilet Boys, (be sure to hit "links") but there is no stopping Miss Guy. This child of the original East Village performance scene is now a solo act and more beautiful than ever. Here he previews five new tunes for Frances Sorensen, including the aptly named "Pretty Boys," co-written and sung with Boy George, and "God Save New York," with Deborah Harry. You will want to climb on this cloud and stay awhile. Guy is writing and producing his album with Barb Morrison and Charlie Neiland of Super Buddha Studios. |
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Edition #7: Kiki and Herb - listen | listen with RealPlayer Well beyond commonly held notions of character, performance and rock and roll, Justin Bond and Kenny Mellman are wickedly smart, no-holds-ever-barred iconoclasts. Catch them here, in the flesh with host Frances Sorensen to celebrate "Kiki and Herb Will Die For You", recorded live September 19, 2004 at Carnegie Hall |
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Edition #6: Antony - listen | listen with RealPlayer During her heavenly half-hour with the angelic-voiced crooner and performance artist known as Antony, Frances Sorensen elicits one of the silky-smooth vocalist's signature tunes, namely "I Fell in Love with a Dead Boy," and recollections of a "The Lake," which he adapted from Edgar Allan Poe for recent concert with the Johnsons, the musical ensemble that is driving them wild from New York to London and back. |
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Edition #5: The Isotoners - listen | listen with RealPlayer Performing live in the WPS1 Clocktower "Ear," the adorable Isotoners - Ben Lerman, Clint Asay, Jim Andralis and Bryce Edwards - play selections from their new CD, Sometimes I Sit Down When I Pee, for justifiably adoring host Frances Sorensen. Funny, smart, sexy and sharp. (Really) |
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Edition #4: Theo and Rob Roth - listen | listen with RealPlayer Frances Sorensen's boundary-crossing performers this week are former Lunachick Theo Kogan and her collaborator, video artist Rob Roth. Expect psychedelic new-wave metal. No, you have not heard it before. |
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Edition #3: Julian Fleisher - listen | listen with RealPlayer Host Frances Sorensen chats with Rather Big Band vocalist Julian Fleisher. The son of concert pianist Leon Fleisher, he's a chip off the old?well, not really. |
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Edition #2: John Kelly - listen | listen with RealPlayer Host Frances Sorensen with guest, performance artist John Kelly, whose varied persona include Egon Schiele, Joni Mitchell and Dagmar Onassis. (Joni approves!). |
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Edition #1: Justin Tranter and Xavier J - listen | listen with RealPlayer Host Frances Sorensen shares the secrets of the emergent performance/music scene as she presents two gender-fluid newcomers with fresh CDs:Justin Tranter and Xavier J. They love the 80s, and how, but that doesn't stop them from being just so now. |
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