The Clockwork Cabaret

The sisters play the Glad Game and share their lists of the simple things that make them happy. A brief recap of the June Clockwork Ball and a list of helpful things not to say to steampunk DJs are included in this week's program.

6.28.09 Playlist:

Tom Waits - Everything Goes to Hell

Asylum Street Spankers - Be Like You

Hazmat Modine with Huun Huur Tu - It Calls Me

Goody and his Good Timers - Digga Digga Doo

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Nocturama

John Barrowman and Kevin Kline - Night and Day

Lemming Malloy - The Bunker Song

Ditty Bops - Wishful Thinking

Luminsecent Orchestrii - Kombucha Monster

Ukulele Mike - My Blue Heaven

Rufus Waiwright - Beauty Mark

Mavis Rivers - Five O'Clock Whistle

Slow Poisoner - Run Rooster Run

Max Raabe mit Palast Orchestre - Uptown Girl

Malcolm Mclaren and the Bootzilla Orchestra - I Like You In Velvet

Kate Bush - Babooshka

Amelie Soundtrack - Guilty

Betty Hutton - Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief

Danbert Nobacon - Information Storm

Hayseed Dixie - Strawberry Fields Forever

Klaude and Emmett have had a very bad no good day. Emmett is still trying to recover from the squid flue, while Klaude seems to be having even less luck than normal with her adventures. Even the simple act of walking down the stairs ends in disaster. Enjoy some of the sisters favorite down tempo songs as they wallow in a stew of their own mopey-ness.

6.22.09 Playlist:

Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles)

Man Man - The Ballad of Butterbeans

Deathat - The Stranger

The Scarring Party - Everything I touched Caught Fire

Blixa Bargeld - Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Jill Tracy - Quintessential Unreal

Ian Whitcomb and the White Star Orchestra - Musical Hall March Medley

Louis Prima and Keely Smith - That Old Black Magic

Slow Poisoner - Roadside Altar

Abney Park - The Wrong Side (Vernian Process'd Mix)

The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing - Stephvenson

Sting and Dominic Muldowney - The Ballad of Mac the Knife

The Decemberists - The Rake's Song

They Might Be Giants - Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

Cake - Sad Songs and Waltzes

Tiger Lillies and Kronos Quartet - ABC (Arsenical Bun)

Rasputina - Oh Injury

Over the Rhine - Don't Wait for Tom

Reverend Horton Heat - Octopus Mode

Kirsty MacColl and the Pogues - Miss Otis Regrets/Just One of those Things

David Bowie and Massive Attack - Nature Boy

The Gourds - Luddite Juice

Current 93 with Nick Cave - All the Pretty Little Horses

Mad Tea Party - Where the Morning Glories Grow

Emmett, Klaude and Phineas P Moneyload celebrate the anniversary of Klaude's birth. The sisters play some of Klaude's favorite music, Klaude related poetry is read, songs are sung, and Klaude almost overdoses on birthday.

6.15.09 Playlist:

They Might Be Giants - Older

Two Man Gentleman Band - Let's Make a Sandwich

White Stripes - Conquest

Asylum Street Spankers - Dance This Mess Around

Holly Yarbough - You are Special

David Byrne - Don't Fence Me In

Muse - Knights of Cydonia

Dr Steel - Planet X Marks the Spot

Mr B, Gentleman Rhymer - Piece of My Mind

Grinderman - Honey Bee (Let's Fly to Mars)

Lemming Malloy - One Foot Off the Merry Go Round

Gothic Archies - How Do You Slow This Thing Down?

Nick Cave - The Carny

Rasputina - Brand New Key

Luminescent Orchestrii - Tea

They Might Be Giants - Fingertips

DeVotchKa - We're Leaving

Decemberists - The Mariner's Revenge Song

Man Man - Engrish Bwudd

Tiger Lillies w/Kronos Quartet - Gin

Slow Poisoner - The Hex

Voltaire - Happy Birthday (My Olde Friend)

The sisters answer listeners questions about steampunk and themselves.

06.08.09 Playlist:

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Opium Tea

Sweet Soubrette - Can't Stop Thinking

Adam Ant - Stand and Deliver

Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me with Science

Cinema Strange - Time

Rasputina - 1816, The Year Without a Summer

Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Gamma Ray

The Zydepunks - Long Story Short

The Slow Poisoners - Todo Es Mal!

Jolie Holland - You're Not Satisfied

Unextraordinary Gentlemen - Mr Soot's Black Book

Cheyenne Mize and Bonnie Prince Billy - Beautiful Dreamer

Tom Waits - Hoist That Rag

Billy Bragg - A New England

The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing - Stephvenson

Jonathan Coulton - Skullcrusher Mountain

Flogging Molly - Tobacco Island

They Might Be Giants - Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

Decemberists - Infanta

Neko Case - Deep Red Bells

Grinderman - Electric Alice

Kate Bush - Cloudbusting

Emmett and Klaude Davenport wax whimsical on their lovely weekend adventure at Con Carolinas Aught Nine. The girls brainstorm possible steampunk themed adventure groups, the Gear Guides and Cog Cadets. Merit badges to follow.

6.1.09 Playlist:

Man Man - Spider Cider

The Little Willies - I'll Never Get Out of this World

Kate Bush - Babooshka

Voltaire - The Man Upstairs

Rasputina - Thimble Island

World/Inferno Friendship Society - Only Anarchists are Pretty

Babyshambles - There She Goes

Sting and Dominic Muldowny - The Ballad of Mac the Knife

Tiger Lillies - Weeping Chandelier

The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing - Fox

Beirut - Postcards from Italy

Beat Circus - Delerium Tremens

Brickbats - She's So Victorian

Adam Ant - Puss'n'Boots

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Lovely Creature

Black Tape for a Blue Girl - Knock Three Times

DeVotcKa - Lunnaya Pogonka