The Clockwork Cabaret: Steampunk Radio

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