12/26: League Radio on Vacation

Happy holidays, everyone. We'll be back in January.

12/19: Chris Carlsson on Bikes in SF

Chris Carlsson is considered one of the founders of Critical Mass. He is the editor of the Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration."He is also one of the creators of the non-profit-project Shaping San Francisco.

12/12: Leah Shahum and Eric Mar

Tonight's guests:
6 - 7 PM: Leah Shahum, Executive Director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. We'll be talking about the state of biking in San Francisco, including the long awaited, recently completed Environmental Impact Report on the SF bike plan.
7 - 8 PM: Eric Mar, Supervisor-elect for San Francisco's 1st District, representing the Richmond. We'll talk to Eric about his plans for the Richmond as well as citywide issues. Eric's daughter, Jade, will also be joining us, which is sure to push the cuteness factor off the charts.

12/5: Gavin Newsom's 7.5 hour State of the City

We watched all 7.5 hours of Mayor Newsom's State of the City address so you don't have to! Actually our esteemed guests sat through the entire thing (god help them). Our guests were:
- Benjamin Wachs of the SF Weekly
- Melissa Griffin of thesweetmelissa.com and the Examiner

Setlist (artist – song - album)
The Minutemen - Working Men Are Pissed
Boy Found Floating - Comfort in Relapse
Bob Dylan and Ralph Stanley - The Lonesome River
The Grit – Stuck in Streatham – Shall We Dine?
Get Dead – Only Human – Letters Home
GavinWatch – Walkaway Mayor
ADULT – We Know How to Have Fun – Anxiety Always
Russ and Roc – Spoitoresa Revisited – Electric Gypsyland 2
Eustachian - Cockatoo Flurosecense – Daly City Records Presents
Clark – Penultimate Persian – Turning Dragons

11/28: Buy Nothing Day and the Really Really Free Market

In the first hour, we talked about the Really Really Free Market, which takes place on the last Saturday of every month at Dolores Park. Heather, one of the founders of the market called in to talk with us about the project.

In the second hour we talked about Buy Nothing Day and Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping.

Setlist (artist - song - album)
Belle Monroe and her Brewglass Boys - It Takes a Lot to Laugh - Belle Monroe and her Brewglass Boys
Kemo Sabe - Shapesifting Lemming Skulls - Kemo Sabe

Rube Waddell - Jesus Didn't Die for Me -
LoopStation! - Tiptoe Through Fires
Holly Golightly - Nothing You Can Say - My First Holly Golightly Album

Benevento/Russo Duo - Echo Park - Play Pause Stop
M83 - Car Chase Terror - Before the Dawn Heals Us

Nas - Black Republican - Hip Hop is Dead
Vomica - Live on Pirate Cat Radio

11/21: Supervisor-Elect John Avalos & "San Francisco's Best Political Minds"

In the first hour, we talked with Supervisor-Elect John Avalos who was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for District 11.

In the second hour, we talked with the winners of the SF Usual Suspects "Best Political Minds in San Francisco" contest, Hope Johnson and Jason Fried. Alex Clemens, San Francisco gadfly and founder of sfusualsuspects.com, called in to join us.


Setlist (Artist - Song - Album):
Dan Reeder - Work Song - Dan Reeder
Clutchy Hopkins - Track 06 - The Life of Clutchy Hopkins
Nebula - So It Goes - Liquor & Poker Music Sampler*
Brand New Sin - Black and Blue - Liquor & Poker Music Sampler*
Clinton Sparks - Where You Been - Maybe You Been Brainwashed
Cage - Perfect World - Hell's Winter
The Mighty Underdogs - Laughing At You - Droppin Science Fiction

11/14: Review of the Eric Mar Campaign and Marriage Equality Protests

INTERVIEW 1: We talked with several people who worked on Eric Mar's campaign for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors District 1.

INTERVIEW 2: We talked with Kip Williams who is organizing civil disobedience actions at the Marriage Equality protest at City Hall tomorrow at 10:30. He also maintains the video blog, www.castrointhestreets.com.

SETLIST (Artist - Song - Album)
The Cool Kids - A Little Bit Cooler - The Bake Sale
Roots Manuva - Kicking the Crack - Run Come Save Me
Jack Killed Jill - Subsystem - Checkpoint Charlie
LaXula - Nada s Etrna - In X-Ile

The Grannies - Granny City Riot - The Grannies
Sista Sekunden - Kopenhamn - Sista Sekunden

Crystal Castles - Air Ship - Crystal Castles
Delux - Biscuit - Daly City Records Presents: Baby Godzilla

11/5: Jello Biafra and Ross Mirkarimi on the Election

Last Wednesday, Monkey (Pirate Cat Radio's General Manager) discussed the election results with a number of local luminaries, including Jello Biafra and Ross Mirkarimi. Here is the 30 minute excerpt with Ross and Jello.

You can download the mp3 of this 30-minute excerpt here:
MonkeyMan-1105-Mirkarimi_biafra.mp3
Or the entire two-hour show here:
MonkeyMan-20081105.mp3

November 7, 2008: Election Recap

Tonight's guest was Marc Salomon, who talked with us about the local San Francisco election results. We also had several telephone reports from Qing Caligula who was out in the streets at the No on Prop 8 protests between Civic Center, the Castro, and Dolores Park.

Setlist (Artist - Song - Album)
Sly and the Family Stone - Poet - There's a Riot Goin' On
Shotwell - Neighborhood Man - Patriot
La Plebe - Dirty Old Town - Entre Cerveza, Ritmo, y Emocion
Bar Feeders - 1970 - Vomitorium

INTERVIEW: Marc Salomon on the election results

Girl Talk - Play Your Part (pt 2) - Feed the Animals
Crystal Castles - Courtship Dating - Crystal Castles
Zeph and Azeem - That Type of Music - Rise Up
Cltutchy Hopkins - Track 2 - The Life of Clutchy Hopkins

INTERVIEW: Marc Salomon on the election results

Steve Earle - The Graveyard Shift - Mountain
Greg Brown - Ain't No One Like you - Honey in the Lion's Head
She keeps Bees - Focus - Nests
Elliott Brood - Back of the lot - Ambassador
The Whoreshoes - Jefferson Highway - Get Lucky
Devil makes Three - Ol Number 7
Blumchoad - George W is the Antichrist - Blumchoad

October 24, 2008: Board of Education special & the Loin's Mouth

In the first hour we talked about the San Francisco Board of Education. Our guests were Board of Ed commissioners Jane Kim and Kim-Shree Maufus and two of the candidates they've endorsed for November: Sandra Lee Fewer and Barbara "Bobbi" Lopez.

INTERVIEW: Board of Education part 1
1. Steve Earle
2. Fugazi - Full Disclosure - The Mountain
3. Totimoshi - Viva Zapata - Ladron

INTERVIEW: Board of Education part 2

4. Sly & the Family Stone - Luv n Haight - There's a Riot Goin' On
5. Todd Snider - Fortunate Son - Peace Queer
6. Gogol Bordello - Start Wearing Purple - Gypsy Punks

In the second hour we talked with Rachel M., the editor of the Loins Mouth zine.

7. Hipster - Hipster

October 17, 2008: Interview with Eric Quezada

Tonight we talked with Eric Quezada, candidate for District 9 of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, covering the Mission and Bernal neighborhoods.

Here's the setlist of music played:
Blue Ribbon Glee Club - Waiting Room - Live
Weedeater - Gimme Back My Bullets - God Luck and Good Speed
INTERVIEW: Eric Quezada - Candidate for District 9 Supervisors
Zach de la Roch & DJ Shadow - March of Death
INTERVIEW: Eric Quezada - Candidate for District 9 Supervisors
50 Foot Wave - Sally is a Girl - Golden Ocean
Minutemen - Working Men Are Pissed - Post Mersh Vol. 3
Two Seconds - An hour Alone - 2007
Boy Found Floating - Comfort in Relapse - The Push
Vex - On the Ground - Till Death
Neurosis - Day of the Lords - The Word as Law

October 10, 2008 Setlist

Bob Dylan - Mississippi
Gogol Bordello - Start Wearing Purple
Talk: Chicken John and the ethics commission
The Grannies - your Band Sucks
The Bar Feeders - Lotto Beach ATM
Talk: Supervisor Aaron Peskin on Nancy Pelosi
The Whoreshoes - Jefferson Highway
Rube Waddell - Boom Boom
Heavy Trash - That Ain't Right
Talk: Supervisor Aaron Peskin on Prop H, the San Francisco Clean Energy Act
Mark Growden - Take Me to the River
The Wet Spots - Do You Take It
Dan Reeder - The Coolest Blues Ever
the Crystals - He's a Rebel
Ike and Tina Turner - River Deep, Mountain High
Them Two - Am I a Good Man
Talk: Mark Sanchez, president of the SF Board of Education and candidate for the Board of Supervisors.

Octber 3, 2008 Setlist

Music from this weekend's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival.

Setlist:

Del McCoury Band - Eyes That Won't Meet Mine
The Wronglers - Pretty Polly
Steve Earle - John Walker's Blues
Reverend Billy - The First Amendment
Start Wearing Purple - Gogol Bordello
Heavy Trash - Pure Gold
Kieran Kane, Kevin Welch, & Fats Kaplin - Postcard from Mexico
Patty Griffin - Love Throw a Line
Jerry Jeff Walker - Louise

In between the music we talked about the festival, Warren Hellman (the Republican billionaire who pays for it), the bailout bill, and other fascinating topics.

Interview with Supervisor Aaron Peskin

An interview with Aaron Peskin, the president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Check out these mp3 excerpts from the interview:
- Peskin on the national political landscape.
- Peskin on local politics.
- Peskin on the June 2008 election results.
- Peskin on the Battle for the Board in November.
- Peskin on San Francisco media.

Power Vote Youth Organizers

We talked with three youth organizers from the League of Young Voters who are working on the “Power Vote” campaign. Power Vote is a national non-partisan effort spearheaded by the Energy Action Coalition, that seeks to elevate the issue of climate change in the 2008 election by mobilizing one million young “climate voters.”

Download the mp3 of the interview.

Lani Silver Interview 6/13/08

Click on the link above to listen to the podcast of our interview with Lani Silver. Lani is an oral historian who is the Director of the James Byrd Jr. Racism Oral History Project and founder of the Holocaust Oral History Project.

She is organizing a 10th Anniversary Tribute to James Byrd Jr. of Jasper, Texas
Working Together to Reduce Racism
Sunday, June 22nd, 2:00 PM, Herbst Theatre 401 Van Ness Avenue
Tickets: $10, $20, $35. Order tickets at www.cityboxoffice.com or call 415.392.4400

Performances by Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir, Bill Spooner of the Tubes. Tributes by many community leaders.
Click for more details.
Download the mp3 of our interview with Lani:
• Lani_Silver-Pirate_Cat.mp3

(To download these mp3s on a Windows computer, right-click on the links, select "Save Link As..." and then save the files to your computer. On a Mac, Ctrl-click on the links and select "Save Link As...")

Cindy Sheehan Interview 4/25/08

Click on the link above to listen to the podcast of our interview with Cindy Sheehan. She is running for congress against Nancy Pelosi as an independent. Find out more at www.cindyforcongress.org/.
• Cindy_Sheehan-20080425-part1.mp3
• Cindy_Sheehan-20080425-part2.mp3
• Cindy_Sheehan-20080425-part3.mp3
• Cindy_Sheehan-20080425-part4.mp3

(To download these mp3s on a Windows computer, right-click on the links, select "Save Link As..." and then save the files to your computer. On a Mac, Ctrl-click on the links and select "Save Link As...")

March 28th Playlist

Daniel Lanois - Frozen
Gnarls Barkley - Who's Gonna Save My Soul
Interview: Charlie Getter talking about Poem Under the Dome, a poetry reading in City Hall
Ubidube Whitaker - Doing It Again
Zeph and Azeem - That Type of Music
Ghetto Gold - Jetsetter
In God We Trust - Northern Lights
Nina Gordon - Straight Out of Compton
Interview: Rachel M. from the Loin's Mouth zine
Blue Ribbon Glee Club - Waiting Room
Minutemen - Working Men Are Pissed
J Church - Misery
Interview: More with Rachel about the Loin's Mouth
Jim Bianco - Handsome Devil
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan - Ramblin Man
Jimbo Mathis - Hypnotized
Bob Dylan and the Band - Going to Acapulco
League of Pissed Off Voters Fishbowl: Weekly discussion of political current events
San Francisco Budget
Shiite Civil War in Basra
Jerry Garcia Band - Mission in the Rain
Bobby Kennedy - Speech on the Assassination of Martin Luther King
Barack Obama/Miles Davis mashup - Brewing A More Perfect Union (mp3 file): Barack's speech on race mashed up with Miles' song Feio form the Bitches Brew sessions.

Help with podcasts

Our podcasts are just a big long two-hour mp3 file of each show. They're usually about 80 MB. It work best if you download them to your computer first and then listen to them. Here's how you do that:

1. Right-click on the link (or ctrl-click if you use a Mac).
2. Select "Save link as"or "Save target as" to save the mp3 file.
3. Select where you want to save the file and what you want to name it, and click "Save."
4. Once it's saved, open it in iTunes or Windows Media Player or whatever and enjoy!

You can download the six most recent podcasts on our page on PirateCatRadio.com:
http://www.piratecatradio.com/playlist.php?dj=kings
We also archive some of them on the archives on this blog, so please poke around.

March 14th Playlist

J Church - Yellow Blue and Green
Eric's Trip - Happens all the Time

Interview: John Ross and Diamond Dave - Talking about poetry and politics, the Mexico City earthquake, Mexican revolutionary politics, San Francisco history and where the revolution went wrong.

John Ross poem - The revolution
Bishop Allen - Things Are What You Make of Them
Stina Nordenstam - Dynamite
Soulsavers - Revival

Interview: Kevin Patterson from SavetheCowPalace.com - Talking about the campaign to save the Cow Palace from being sold to greedy developers. State Senator Leland Yee and the city of San Mateo are trying to demolish the Cow Palace without consider alternative proposals that would preserve the Cow Palace.

Nirvana - Sliver (live at the Cow Palace, New Year's Eve 1992)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - After Hours (live at the Cow Palace, New Year's Eve 1992)
David Murray - Return of the Lost Tribe - A Sanctuary Within
Sonic Youth - I don't want to push it

Interview: Barry Hermanson - Green Party candidate for congress on the west side of San Francisco and down the Peninsula. Barry is running on a platform of reducing military spending and drawing attention to the fact that over 60% of the U.S. discretionary budget goes to the military.

Black Flag - TV Party
Grateful Dead - Help's on the Way (live at the Cow Palace, New Year's Eve 1976)
Grateful Dead - Slipknot! (live at the Cow Palace, New Year's Eve 1976)