KDVS Fundraiser 2012!: Your Beacon in a Sea of Sound

With your support KDVS can continue to bring the best in alternative programming to the Sacramento/Davis area and beyond! Our station goal this year is to raise $64,000 and with the ever-increasing cuts to our already minimal budget and the growing threat of commercial media conglomerates we need our listeners help more than ever. Please consider donating at fundraiser.kdvs.org and choose from an array of premiums you can receive as a thank-you gift from us at KDVS. If you are more of a social type you can also call in locally at (530)754-5387 and long distance toll-free at (877)399-5387 and one of our friendly volunteers will take your tax-deductible donation.

Tune in this afternoon from 1-4:30pm for the "Triplofonic Souls"** a joint effort between yours truly and The Color Technic organized specially for this year's fundaiser. We'll talk about all of the unique things that KDVS brings to the community - from locally produced music, news and public affairs programs to live shows and even our very own quarterly magazine. Expect to hear a few anecdotes about our wild and crazy times at the station too. This week will also feature special in-studio performances from:

DREAMDATE - Sweet Oakland dreampoppers reincarnated acoustically just for you!


J-NEW - Local freestyle flows. Yell out a word and he'll go from there!


BAMU EXPRESS - Sacramento mulit-insturmentalist inspired by acts like Toro Y Moi. We'll hear some older pieces and a few selections from his latest album "Awful Earlies", a mix of darker electronic pop that sometimes reminds me of Geneva Jacuzzi and Glass Candy (w/Chris's distorted male vox of course)... First ever live performance!


During the show we will have a couple of exclusive premiums available including the "Triplofonic Souls" compilation, a selection of 60s and 70s pop, garage, soul and r&b hand picked by Lady Kay and The Color Technic. A special limited printing of the cover art designed by Bamu Express himself will also be up for grabs.

**Donate any amount during the show and I'll throw in a Limited Lifetime Warranty for "The Triplofonic Sounds of the Hacienda Sunrise" that you won't want to redeem.

Please tune in and help us keep the lights on and the VU meters bouncing for another year by going to fundraiser.kdvs.org and pledging.

4/20/2012 New Bamu, Slovenly Releases, and the most sleep I'll get until next month!

As always, here's the broadcast: TS 4/20/12  Hoping to return to the more detailed, in-depth posts next week; it's already getting crazy down here in Lower Freeborn in preparation for our annual fundraiser. Keep it tuned!

*means it's a new release!


*Bamu Express    "Amherst Street"    Awful Earlies    (self-released)    Sacramento, CA
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*U.S. Girls    "The Island Song"    The Island Song EP    (Calico Corp.)
U.S. Girls    "Red Ford Radio"    Go Grey    (Siltbreeze)    2009
*Bamu Express    "Who R U"    Awful Earlies    (self-released)
Nice Face    "Thing In My Head"   Thing In My Head EP    (Sacred Bones)    2008
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Night Beats    "H-Bomb"    H-Bomb EP    (Trouble in Mind)    2010
Outer Minds    "Until You're Dead"    Bloodshot Eyes EP    (Hozac)    2010; re-released on full-length
*El Jesus De Magico    "Bone Knife"    Just Deserts    (Columbus Discount)
*Dan Melchior    "Strange Antannae"    Ghost in the Supermarket EP    (Moniker)    *from his forthcoming album available (tomorrow!) on Record Store Day
Limbo Race    "Down and Backwards"    b/w What It Is    (Limborations)    1982 Boston
U.X.A.    "I Don't Lose Sleep"    Illusions of Grandeur    (Posh Boy)    1981
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Liquorball    "Untitled"    Untitled 7-inch    (Blackjack)    1991
*Joyce Collingwood    "Crying Shame"    self-titled EP    (self-released)    Vancouver, BC
Shit Eagle    "So Sad"    Girls in School EP    (Florida's Dying)    2008
*The Spits    "Planet Failure"    P.A.I.N. EP    (Slovenly)
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*Slow Trucks    "Wizard At The BK Lounge"    Hard    (20 Sided)
The Stand GT    "Sugar Buzz"    Sugar Buzz EP    (Top Drawer)    1993
*Tokyo Storm Warning    High Times at the Black Eye    (Mind/No Mind)
*GG King    "Bag"    Joyless Masturbation EP    (Total Punk)
*Magnetix    "Nulle Autre Que Toi"    Brain Out EP    (Slovenly)
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*Los Vigilantes    "Mi Mami Dijo"    Mi Mami Dijo EP    (Slovenly)    for fans of Davila 666!!! San Juan, Puerto Rico
Standard Tribesmen    "Waiting"    Waiting EP    (Mt. St. Mtn.)    2010
Standing Nudes    "Fight Song"    When I Arrive EP    (True Panther Sounds)    2006
*Clear Plastic Masks    "Rolling Down A Hill"    self-titled    (self-released)
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Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band    "Mirror Man"    Mirror Man    (Buddah)    1965

4/13/2012 Friday the 13th

The KDVS streaming archives are back up! Listen to this weeks' broadcast of The Triplofonic Sounds HERE.

*The Zoltars    "Make It Go Away"    Should I Try Once More?    (Sundae)    Austin, TX
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Tubeway Army    "Bombers"    Bombers EP    (Beggar's Banquet)    1979 London
The TV Babies    "Monster Of Love"    High Contrast EP    (Rockin' Horse)
Radio Birdman    "Non-Stop Girls"    Radios Appear    (SIRE)    1977 Australia
The Radiators From Space    "Great Expectations"    TV Tube Heart    (Chiswick)    Ireland 1977
The Radiators From Space   " Roxy Girl"    TV Tube Heart    (Chiswick)
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13th Floor Elevators    "You're Gonna Miss Me"    Fire In My Bones    (Texas Archive Recordings)    Recorded live from the "Sumpin' Else" TV Show in 1966
The Paupers    "Magic People"    Magic People    (Verve Forecast)    1967 Canada
Maureen Tucker    "Will You Love Me Tomorrow"    b/w Around And Around    (Trash)    1981, that's Velvet Underground drummer Mo Tucker!
Trapeze    "Suicide"    self-titled LP    (Threshold)    1970 England
The Hollies    "48 Hour Parole"    Clarke, Hicks, Sylvester, Calvert, Elliot    (Epic)    1976 England
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Tranzistors    "Yoo Don't"    Yoo Will 7-inch    (Cass)    2007 cover of Leslie Gore's 1964 hit "You Don't Own Me"
*The Hollows    "Up & Down"    Vulture    (Trouble in Mind)
*Clear Plastic Masks    "Pegasus In Glue"    Working Girl 7-inch    (self-released)    Brooklyn, NY
*Estrogen Highs    "It Has To Rhyme"    Irrelevant Mind    (Trouble in Mind)
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*Hex Dispensers    "Personality X-Ray"    Sister Series EP    (Razorcake)
*Angry Dragons    "Bang Bang"    Bloodstains Across the Prairies    (Mammoth Cave Recording Co.) Winnipeg side!
*Candy Muscle    "The Headache Trilogy"    The Headache Trilogy EP    (Wolf Man)
*Microdot    "End Credits Roll"    Bloodstains Across the Prairies    (Mammoth Cave Recording Co.)   Winnipeg side!
*Little Queenie    "Blackout"    Blackout    (Sweet Rot)
Radio Birdman    "Aloha Steve And Danno"    Radios Appear    (Sire)    Hawaii Five-O tribute
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*Trophy Wife    "Frankie's Song"    Stella, My Star 7-inch    (Private Leisure Industries)    Murfreesboro,  TN

4/6/2012 Flux Capacitor Sounds Part I: '80s Throwbacks

Uh-oh, the KDVS streaming archives are broken!!  I'll be back later to post more tracks and videos, so indulge in the playlistings for now.

*denotes new releases/arrivals.

*Veronica    "So In Love"    Pierre/Veronica split 7-inch    (Rysque)    previously unreleased Oakland funk c. 1985
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*Tim Tucker    "C'kret"    Tim Tucker/Davinity split 7-inch    (Rysque)    more 80s Bay Area funk
Teen Inc.     "Fountains"    b/w Friend Of The Night    (self-released)    2010 Los Angeles
Bubonic Plague    "Bad Moods"    Instant Coma    (Human Ear Music)    w/Geneva Jacuzzi
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti    "Beverly Kills"    Before Today    (4AD)    2010
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The Bats    "Tell Me Why"    b/w Popgun    (Gustav)    1980
Crystal Chandelier    "Suicidal Flowers"    Pebbles Vol. 3    (BFD)    1969 Texas psych
William Penn V    Swani    Pebbles Vol. 3    (BFD)    mid-60s Palo Alto, CA garage
Harry Nilsson    "Don't Leave Me"    Aerial Pandemonium Ballet    (RCA) 1971
Harry Nilsson    "Without Her"    Aerial Pandemonium Ballet    (RCA)
Jim Sullivan    "Plain As Your Eyes Can See"    U.F.O.    (Light in the Attic)    reissue; orig. 1969
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The Pyramid    "Summer Of Last Year"    b/w Summer Evening    (Dream)    1967 John Paul Jones on bass
The Association    "Standing Still"    Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies    (Valiant)    1966
Research 1-6-12    "I Don't Walk There No More"    Pebbles High in the Mid-Sixties Vol.3    (AIP)    1968
*La Barra de Chocolate    "El Divagante"    La Barra de Chocolate    (Munster)    reissue; orig. 1970 Argentina
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Kim Fowley    "The Canyon"    Pebbles High in the Mid-Sixties Vol. 3    (AIP)    1967 CBS interview
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Apache    "Crystal Clear"    Boys Life 7-inch    (Douche Master)    2007 San Francisco
*The Feeling of Love    "I Could Be Better Than You But I Don't Wanna Change"    Tour Split 7-inch    (Permanent)
*Obnox    "Sleeping (Redux)"    Masonic Reducer EP    (12XU)    Bim Thomas of Bassholes & Puffy Areolas fame
*Psychic Feline    "White Walls"    White Walls 7-inch    (Water Wing)    Portland. Don't miss 'em live!!  
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*Yi    "Host Body"    Host Body EP    (self-released)    playing KDVS's Operation Restore Maximum Freedom on May 19
*Feedtime    "Fractured"    Today is Friday    (SS)    reissue; orig. 1985 Sydney, Australia
Three Toed Sloth    "I Didn't Know I Loved You ('Til I Saw You Rock & Roll)"    I Didn't Know I Loved You... 7-inch    (Negative Guest List)    1993 w/Tom from Feedtime
The Alan Milman Sect    "Stitches In My Head/I Wanna Kill Somebody"    Punk Rock Christmas 7-inch    (Britz)    1977
Destroy All Monsters    "Bored"    Bored/You're Gonna Die 7-inch    (IDBI)    1978 Detroit, MI
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The Nils    "Fountain"    Sell Out Young EP    (Psyche)    1985 Canada

Back in the Summer of 2010 KDVS received a self-released 7" by Los Angeles based Teen Inc. that blew my preconceived notions of 'nostalgic throwback' a tad askew. Not only does it sound like these guys grew up listening to Prince, but "Fountains" and the b-side "Friend Of The Night" both sound like they came straight outta 1984.

"Fountains"


"Friend Of The Night"


After a little more internet research I discovered that Andrew and Daniel Aged, the brothers who formed Teen Inc., released an EP last year under the further abridged name "Inc." Turns out the Aged bros. cut their teeth touring and recording with acts like Raphael Saadiq, Beck and Elton John just to name a few.

Now it's time to gun your DeLoreans and hit 88mph cos we're going back to the mid-80s for real this time, courtesy of former KDVS DJ Dogtones (aka Ben Johnson) who runs the underground R&B and funk label RysQue' Records out of Sacramento.

Tim Tucker's "C'kret" is the A-side of a split 7-inch with another 80s Oakland funk project called Davinity that Tucker also performed with. This, along with the Pierre/Veronica split (see video above), were both previously unreleased tracks recorded to cassette and only just reissued on RysQue' at the end of last year. For a little more in-depth reading on how Ben came upon these recordings take a look at the Beat Electric blog.