The Clockwork Cabaret: Steampunk Radio

This evening Klaude brings to you a "Prudie-palooza", as she regales us with not 1 but 2 Dear Prudence letters. Phineas talks up his world famous 'History Kidnapping' Tours. All this stuff and more on tonight's episode. It's quite a show!

03.22.10 playlist:

• Squirrel Nut Zippers - Put A Lid On It
• birdeatsbaby - Shiver Up the Spine
• Rasputina - Olde Headboard
• Ewan McGregor, Jose Feliciano and Jacek Koman - El Tango de Roxanne
• Tom Waits - What's He Building?
• The Zydepunks - Dear Molly
• Exene Cervenka - Pinpoints
• Revue Noir - Sometimes Sunshine
• Mr B, the Gentleman Rhymer - Straight Out of Surrey
• Katzenjammer Kabarett - Gemini Girly Song
• Umbrella Tree - Wisemen
• Beirut - Elephant Gun
• Baby Dee - Bad Kidneys
• Voltaire - Accordion Player
• The Stranglers - Golden Brown
• Gogol Bordello - Immigrant Punk
• Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Johnny Appleseed
• David Byrne - Don't Fence Me In
• Man Man - Van Helsing Boombox
• Sting and Dominic Muldowney - The Ballad of Mac the Knife
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Opium Tea
• Johnny Cash - Streets of Laredo
• Dead Man's Bones - Paperships
• Younger Sister Band - Best Boyfriend

It's the ides of March and we all know what that means... Emmett plays nothing, but Murder Ballads & reenacts scenes from Julius Caesar? No, you silly goose, it's the annual St. Patricks' Day show! With all sorts of Irish music, limericks, and fun facts.

03.15.10 playlist:

• Flogging Molly - Devil's Dance Floor
• The Little Willies - I Gotta Get Drunk
• Tannahill Weavers - Up In the Mornins No' For Me
• The Poxy Boggards - Finnegan's Wake
• Gaelic Storm - Johnny Jump Up/Morrison's Jig
• The Cheiftans - The Rocky Road to Dublin (w/ Rolling Stones)
• The Pogues - Dirty Old Town
• Great Big Sea - Excursion Around the Bay
• Rufus Wainwright - Danny Boy
• Sinead O'Connor - Molly Malone
• Dropkick Murphys - Hail Hail, The Gang's All here
• Clannad - A Bridge (That Carries Us All Here Over)
• The Poozies - Crooked Road to Dublin/ Take Til Thomas
• Seven Nations - The Factory Song
• Flogging Molly - Tomorrow Comes A Day Too Soon
• Jackdaw - Hogjaw
• Octopodes - Zombie
• The Go Set - Sing Me A Song
• PiL - Rise
• The Muses - Whiskey You're The Devil
• They Might Be Giants - Drink!
• 3 Day Threshold - Pub With No Beer
• Gaelic Storm - Tell Me Ma
• The Pub Crawlers - My Brother Sylveste
• Dropkick Murphys - Rocky Road to Dublin
• Flogging Molly - Black Friday Rule
• Jug o Punch - Blackheart
• Pig's Ear - Sausages!
• Great Big Sea - MariMac
• Sherburn, Bartley and Scott - Whiskey in the Jar

The sisters are strangely subdued this show. Perhaps, it's the fact that they have missed one of their favorite musicians perform... Or they're recuperating from the weekend's adventures... or they have both been given a glass of warm milk. Your guess is as good as mine.

03.08.10 playlist:

• Curtis Eller - Sweatshop Fire
• Harlequin Jones - Gutter Tango
• Hawk and a Hacksaw - Waltz for Strings and Tuba
• Max Raabe and the Palast Orchestra - You Are My Lucky Star
• Tim Curry - Harlem on my Mind
• Frank Sinatra - Brazil
• the Lisps - Chaos
• Psyche Corporation - Part of Her Design
• Deathwatch Beetle Repairman - Season of the Dead
• Secondhand Marching Band - A Dance to Half Death
• Billy Childish and the Blackhands - John Hardy
• Pretty Balanced - Ode to An Electric Fan
• Tom Waits - Coney Island Baby 
• Leon Redbone - Lazybones
• Dead Man's Bones - Paperships
• Extraordinary Contraptions - A Kiss From A Girl
• Baby Dee - Dance of Diminishing Possibilities
• Over the Rhine - If a Song Could Be President
• Reverend Horton Heat - Loco Gringos Like A Party
• Jose Gonzales - Teardrop
• Voodoo Organist - I've Got the Fire
• Jay Munly - A Gentleman's Jihad
• Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer - Piece of My Mind
• Dr Steel - Planet X Marks the Spot
• Klaus Nomi - The Twist

Klaude recounts a tale of adventure, which we will forever call,'Fists of Floss'. Listen in to hear the exciting tale!

03.01.10 playlist:

• Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
• They Might Be Giants - Four of Two
• Flogging Molly - Sentimental Johnny
• Squirrel Nut Zippers - Trou Macacq
• Tom Waits - In the Colosseum
• Ghostfire - Vaudevillian
• The Lisps - The Familiar Drunk
• The Clockwork Quartet - The Watchmaker's Apprentice
• Richard Cheese - Down with the Sickness
• Ukulele Loki's Gadabout Orchestra - I Kiss Too Soon
• DeVotchKa - Viens Avec Moi
• The Denver Gentlemen - Vulture Girl
• Hayseed Dixie - Black Dog
• Maurice Chevalier - It's a Habit of Mine
• Tiger Lillies and Kronos Quartet - Learned Pig
• Tom Waits - We're All Mad Here
• Luminescent Orchestrii - Tea
• Max Raabe and the Palast Orchester - We Will Rock You
• The Lisps - Depravity
• Two Man Gentleman Band - William Howard Taft
• DeVotchKa - Last Beat of my Heart
• Flanders and Swann - Madeira, My Dear