Friday, November 28, 2008

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

Thursday, November 20, 2008

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

Friday, November 14, 2008

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

Thursday, November 13, 2008

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

Friday, November 7, 2008

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