Super Rocket Rumble – Man…or Astro-man?
Did She? – Miaow
Raised in the City – The Replacements
Princess of the Street – Stranglers
It’s the Only Way to Live (Die) – The Cigarettes
Tijuana Two-Step – Tijuana Panthers
Tornado – El Ray
Medicine Water – Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs
Private Song – The Meows
Something Going On – The Blue Squares

Top of the Pops – The Kinks – Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround (Part One)
Life of Crime – Cub – Come Out, Come Out
It Will Follow the Rain – The Tallest Man on Earth – s/t EP
Lazy – Wm. Perry – Draw Your Own Design
Who Do You Love – UFO – UFO 1
Stranger In a Strange Land – U2 – October
Rito satanico en Mecochea – Los Peyotes – Psychotic Reaction
What She Said – Sidewinders – Witchdoctor
Ethyl My Love – The Muffs – Blonder and Blonder
Angle mort – Les Breastfeeders – Demos

Happy 35th Shakira bonus track: My Baby Got the Boom Boom – Fe Fi Fo Fums – Shake All Night

Oh Shit! – The Buzzcocks – Singles Going Steady
This Ain’t My Time – The Barracudas – Drop Out
One More Night – Kelly Willis – Kelly Willis
I’ll Make You a Star – The Ponys – Laced with Romance
Where They Have to Let You In – Game Theory – Lolita Nation
Silly – Go Sailor – Go Sailor
Sick Boys – Social Distortion – Social Distortion
Credo – Mercedes Sosa – Misa Criolla
Home At Last – Steely Dan – Aja
Sand – OP8 – Slush

Bonus track: 1952 Vincent Black Lightning – Richard Thompson – Live From Austin, TX

Learning Spanish with Shakira

Brosnachadh Catha – Oi Polloi – Ar Ceòl Ar Cànan Ar-A-Mac
Can’t Find Love – Giant Sand – Swerve
Happy Home – The Screaming Blue Messiahs – Good & Gone
It’s Not the Fall That Hurts – Caesers – Paper Tigers
I Remember You – Ramones – Leave Home
6’1″ – Liz Phair – Exile in Guyville
It – Rheostatics – Melville
Stars on Sunday – 1000 Mexicans – Music While You Work
Genie – Cheese People – Well Well Well
Something’s Gone Wrong Again – Les Thugs – Road Closed

Wishful Thinking Bonus Track: I’ve Got a Job – Jon Cougar Concentration Camp – ‘Til Niagra Falls

Jail Bait – Andre Williams with the El Dorados – Greasy
Leave the Planet – Galaxie 500 – On Fire
Somewhere Like Me (Feelin’ Blue) – The Walking Dead – The Carnival of Life
Ex-amigo – Autoramas – Stress, Depressão & Síndrome do Pânico
Coming Clean – This Microwave World – The Same Things Kill Your Kids
Swooping Buzzards – Pikelet – Stem
How Could I Be Such a Fool – Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention – Freak Out!
Out the Door – The Cost of Living – Comic Book Page
DODO – eX-Girl – Endangered Species
Single Again – Alex Chilton – Loose Shoes and Tight Pussy

Archive.org is a wonderful place. I now have Three Shakiras on my desktop.

Talk to Me – Chris Isaak – Silvertone
Y.F.O.C. / Slippy Floor – The Fall – Your Future Our Clutter
When You Give Your Heat – Laura Veirs – July Flame
Comme des enfants – Coeur de pirate – Coeur de pirate
Taste – Ride – Nowhere
Blood Free [Live] – Gang of Four – Entertainment
First Plane Home – Thee Headcoatees – Girlsville
The Smaller Song – The Geraldine Fibbers – What Part of Get Thee Gone Don’t You Understand?
TV Nation – Mouse About – Mouse About
Ultra Anxiety – Madder Rose – Panic On

Bonus track: Small Town – Jon Cougar Concentration Camp – ‘Til Niagara Falls

Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace – Cheap Trick – Cheap Trick at Budokan: The Complete Concert
Sole March – 18th Dye – Tribute to a Bus
Biking – Les Thugs – Road Closed
Luckiness – Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 – Propellor Time
Tom Verlane – The Family Cat – Tell ‘em We’re Surfin’
Happenstance – Giant Sand – Glum
Welcome to My World – Giant Sand – Ramp
Daytime Dilemma (Dangers of Love) – Ramones – Too Tough to Die
You Gotta Do It – Tokyo Sex Destruction – Le Red Soul Comunnitte
21st Century Schizoid Man / Mirrors – King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King

Bonus track: Sing Song Girl – R. Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders – Singing In the Bathtub

Surreal Sex Dreams – Dave Brock – Memos and Demos
Be My Hooker – The Fresh & Onlys – Play It Strange
Bright Lights, Big City – Half Japanese – Charmed Life
Jam Up Jelly Tight – Tommy Roe – 25 All-Time Bubblegum Hits
Singing At Your Door – Tiny Lights – Prayer for the Halcyon Fear
All the Nights to Come – Shoulders – Trashman Shoes
Kolchak – The Inhalants – s/t
Landscape at Speed – Shearwater – The Golden Archipelago
Untitled – Wooden Stars – The Very Same
Lonely Heart – UFO – The Wild, the Willing and the Innocent

Mondo Americana – Chain Gang – Mondo Manhattan
The Weight – Giant Sand – Storm
Venus vs. Gas Onna – eX-Girl – Endangered Species
Can’t Fool with Me – The Spaceshits – Misbehavin’
Samme Vej – Sune Rose Wagner – s/t
Sweet Girl – Ringo Deathstarr – Sparkler
Mood to Burn Bridges – Neko Case & Her Boyfriends – Furnace Room Lullaby
En las Batallas – Charades – Revolution Solar
Busy Bodies – Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Armed Forces
Face Paint – Pikelet – Stem

Deja Blue – Angela Strehli – Deja Blue
Raise the Roses – Throwing Muses – In a Doghouse
Soldier – Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part One
Right Here – Thinking Fellers Union Local #282 – Duck, Duck, Chimp
Days Gone By – Wiretree – Luck
Mail Order Bride – Cyanide Pills – s/t
Tell Me – Blue Shadows – Lucky to Me
Into Cold Water – The Blue Angel Lounge – s/t
Shiny Stockings – Alex Chilton – Loose Shoes and Tight Pussy
Thread of Light – Pale Saints – In Ribbons

Venus Meets Pluto – Eve’s Plum – Envy
Ghoulies Are Go! – The Groovie Ghoulies – Go! Stories
Light Up the Night – The Besnard Lakes – …Are the Roaring Night
Keep On Walking – The Ex – Catch My Shoe
I Fall Down – U2 – October
Ring the Bells – The Kinks – The Kinks Kontroversy
Dog Eyes – Wye Oak – Civilian
Plot Twist – Band of Susans – The Word and the Flesh
Cherry Bomb (Dance Mix) – Joan Jett and The Blackhearts – Cherry Bomb
Jawbone and the Air Rifle – The Fall – Hex Enduction Hour

Searching For the Now – The Adult Net – Incense and Peppermint 12″
Tiny Sioux – Box Elders – Tiny Sioux 7″
You’re So Cruel – The Blue Squares – Hard Times*
The Law – Yip Yip Coyote – Fifi
Save Your Love For Me – Nancy Wilson & Cannonball Adderley – Nancy Wilson / Cannonball Adderley
Reason to Believe – The Beat Farmers – Tales of the New West
Don, Aman – Slint – Spiderland
House of Memories – Merle Haggard – I’m a Lonesome Fugitive
La maison – Françoise Hardy – La question
Stayin’ Put – Moe Tucker – I Spent a Week There the Other Night

Bonus Track: Blah Blah Blah – Guns ‘N’ Wankers – Hardcore
Bloody Bonus Track – Martha Wainwright

* FWIW this made my list of Favorite Albums of 2010.

Darkness Descends – Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can*
Until the End of Time – The Fresh & Onlys – Play It Strange*
Walk the Nile – Elephant9 – Walk the Nile*
Scoundrel Days – Sissy Wish – Tuning In
Sway (Quien Sera) – The Boys – Alternative Chartbusters
Black Snake Diamond Rock – Soft Boys – Underwater Moonlight
Chunk of Coal – Giant Sand – Blurry Blue Mountain*
Dark Was the Night – Ry Cooder – Paris, Texas
Medley: The Trip/The Dreams of Today – The Vietnam Veterans – Green Peas
Deny All – Bettie Serveert – Pharmacy of Love*

Bonus track: The Royal Scam – Steely Dan – The Royal Scam

* FWIW this made my list of Favorite Albums of 2010.

My sports weekend. Stuttgart Valley beat Bear City (Berlin) 128-124 in the first Roll DMC Deutsche Meisterschaft earlier today. The L.A. Derby Dolls travel team challenges the Windy City Rollers tonight at the UIC Pavilion on the banked track.

On Sunday the Detroit Denver Broncos travel to Arizona hoping to avoid further embarrassment (and arrests).

Cheers!

U.S. to Host World Press Freedom Day in 1984 2011

The United States is pleased to announce that it will host UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day event in 2011, from May 1 – May 3 in Washington, D.C. UNESCO is the only UN agency with the mandate to promote freedom of expression and its corollary, freedom of the press.

The theme for next year’s commemoration will be 21st Century Media: New Frontiers, New Barriers. The United States places technology and innovation at the forefront of its diplomatic and development efforts. New media has empowered citizens around the world to report on their circumstances, express opinions on world events, and exchange information in environments sometimes hostile to such exercises of individuals’ right to freedom of expression. At the same time, we are concerned about the determination of some governments to censor and silence individuals, and to restrict the free flow of information. We mark events such as World Press Freedom Day in the context of our enduring commitment to support and expand press freedom and the free flow of information in this digital age.

Highlighting the many events surrounding the celebration will be the awarding of the UNESCO Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize at the National Press Club on May 3rd. This prize, determined by an independent jury of international journalists, honors a person, organization or institution that has notably contributed to the defense and/or promotion of press freedom, especially where risks have been undertaken.

(via b)

When the Night Comes – Thee Headcoatees – Girlsville
No Message – Appie Kim – (=AOK)
October – U2 – October
Pigeon Town – Lydia Lunch & Rowland S. Howard – Shotgun Wedding
Circle K – Bitch Magnet – Star Booty
Monk Time – The Monks – Black Monk Time
The Adultress – The Pretenders – Pretenders II
Bozeman – Steel Pole Bathtub – The Miracle of Sound In Motion
New Life – Walt Mink – The Poll Riders Win Again
Me-Jane – PJ Harvey – Rid of Me

Bonus track: DODO – eX-Girl – Endangered Species

Catchy Chorus – Autoramas – Stress, Depressão & Síndrome do Pânico
Theresa – Phenobarbidols – Alright, This Time, Just the Girls
End of Term – Palms – It’s Midnight In Honolulu
Complaint Department – Lykke Li – Youth Novels
Retard Girl – Hole – My Body, The Hand Grenade
White Russians – Sad Lovers and Giants – The Mirror Test
April Skies – The Jesus and Mary Chain – Darklands
Illuminous Insect – Isobella – A 24 Syllable Haiku
We’ll Be Turned On – Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Primary Colors
Funny Money – The Nightgowns – Sing Something

Bonus track: Dos Fridas – The Diamond Center – My Only Companion

Somewhere Outside – The Barracudas – Drop Out
Is She Shy – Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments – Bait and Switch
Meanwhile Back at the Agricultural Workers Collective – Farmers Market – Surfin’ USSR
White Night (Stars Say Go) – Adult Net – White Night (Stars Say Go) 12″
Here Is Love – Ute Lemper – Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
Got To Get You Into My Life – The Beatles – Revolver
Good and Gone – Caesars – Paper Tigers
Ten Words – The Mad Turks From Istanbul – Café Istanbul
La Huida – Mercedes Sosa – Misa Criolla
Blue Cross – The Geraldine Fibbers – What Part of ‘Get Thee Gone’ Don’t You Understand?

Bonus track: Gbe Keke Wo Taoc – The Psychedelic Aliens – Psycho African Beat