Ruby Slippers November 4 2016 7-8 pm

Hey everybody

Over the chocolate hang over from earlier this week? Have dutifully bagged up the remaining stuff and will be leaving it far far out of reach this weekend. Maybe even in another city. 

Working on this week's playlist has been a real pleasure. There are some covers that warm my heart and some little gems winkled out of the big pile of CDs on the dining room table.

Hope you enjoy it!

Purple Speed Queen ... Curved Air
Kindling to Cremation ... The Acorn *

Black Swan ... Astrid's Tea Party

Happiness Is A Warm Gun ... Bend Sinister *

You Told Me Not To Talk To Your Boyfriend ... Sheer Agony *

Come Alive ... Chromeo *

Sunglasses At Night ... DJ Kommandandt vs. Cory Hart *

The Record keeps ... Girls Would Kill *

Lonely Places ... Lighthouse *

Music Is The Victim ... Scissor Sisters

Serve The People (Young Galaxy remix) ... Handsome Furs

Indestructable Sam ... Buck 65 *

Paper Tiger ... Beck

That's All For Everyone ... Tame Impala

Kinda taking a lot of sharp turns with this one!

Thanks for listening

*Cancon

Ruby Slippers for October 28 Halloween show! 7-8 pm

Hey everybody!
It's SPOOKTACULAR SHOW time@!
Halloween, my fav holiday (kinda, sorta) is on Monday and for those of us with Pumpkin fever, it really embraces the entire weekend.

So, without further ado, here is the playlist, some old some new.
(Rhymes and everything...how's about that?)

Brain Salad Surgery ... Emerson Lake and Palmer
Monster Mash (OF COURSE) ... Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Crypt Kickers
Haunt This House ... Library Voices *
My Body's a Zombie For You ... Dead Man's Bones
(Ghost) Riders In The Sky ... Handsome Ned *
Riders on The Storm (Doors cover) ... Dead Skeletons
Spooky ...The Vampire Bats *
The Afterlife ... YACHT
Cemetary ... Headstones * (this is a tradition here on the show)
My Hometown ... Eric and the Soo * BRAND SPANKIN NEW (not Halloween)
Monster ... You Say Party! We Say Die! *
She Said No ... Black Fever * (new and UNRELEASED !!! Exclusive!)
Bela Lugosi's Dead ... Bauhaus (request from listener and AWESOME SONG)

I NEED MORE TIME

Thanks for listening and be safe out there.

*Cancon

Ruby Slippers October 21 7-8 pm

Hey everybody!

Here it is only ONE WEEK UNTIL HALLOWEEN!!@!@!@ or at least the Halloween show.

Pretty excited about both, to be honest.

This week is also worthy of wonder and amazement, though. New tracks from some of my personal favs, Gingerale and the Monowhales, Pink Pearl Dragon and Gabby Young and Other Animals. PLUS we hear from our special friends from Jackson Heights, none other than MAKAR!

So without further adieu, here we go.

Old Man ... Reignwolf *

Salute Your Solution...The Raconteurs

Death Wolf...Death On Two Wheels

Edge of Darkness... The Diodes *

Big Shot... Exxotone *

Ask You A Question...Gabby Young and Other Animals

Not Alone...Pink Pearl Dragon *

None But Shining Hours...The Books

White Walls...Gingerale and the Monowhales *

My Secret...Cities and Dust *

Prozac Rock...Margot & The Nuclear So and So's

Weeping Sore...PANIC *

Little Miss Impossible...The Dollyrots

Pure Pain...Kurt Vile

Together This Sunrise is Ours...Light Fires *

Bottle Of Beauty...MAKAR

Lovely Rita...The Beatles

Sunshine Superman...Donovan

That's it for this week.

Stay tuned for the SPOOKTACULAR event next Friday!

Thanks for listening

*Cancon

Ruby Slippers october 14 7-8 pm

Hey everybody

It's finally FALL for reals. Cooler temps, sweaters out of storage and some nights, the furnace even goes on.

Just the right time to kick back and listen to some great music before heading out to enjoy the season.

If I Could ... Doll * (from Ottawa which they call the city that fun forgot. Not true, btw)

Bruised Broken Beaten ... Controller Controller *

Let's Spend The Night Together (cover) ... David Bowie

Scratch at the Latch ... Megafauna

Little Things ... Bev Zizzy *

Book Club ... Arkells *

Hammer Down ... Eugene Ripper *

Gold Dust Woman  (cover) ... Karen Elson

The Same Thing ... Muddy Waters

Clap Hands ... Tom Waits

Problem With You ... Daryl Hall

Voodoo Doll ... Diamond Rugs

Back From The Dead ... Camouflage Nights *

Light From The Darkness ... Andrew Collins Trio * who are playing at Hugh's Room Oct 21 here in TO

Thanks for listening

*Cancon

Ruby Slippers October 7 2016

Hey everybody!

It's Thanksgiving weekend and here we are together again!
I have resisted the temptation to include nutsy songs about turkeys running for their lives and the joys of family gatherings to put together a varied and awesome (if I do say so myself) playlist befitting the occasion.

FYI the last track is by an amazing electronic artist, Robert T from his latest project available on Bandcamp. And a Canadian to boot!

Enjoy

Dead Honey ... Die Mannequin *
When Something Stands For Nothing ... Headstones *
Wastelands ... The Dead Love (new)
Undone (The Sweater Song) ... Weezer (it is fall after all)
Dreams (cover) ... The Kills
Eaten By A Bear ... deBra 666 * (camping on the long weekend)
Amadeus ... Bravestation *
Cheetah On Drugs ... Brother Octopus *
Saint Nothing ... Qristina and Quinn Bachand *
Sister of The Moon (cover) ... Craig Wedren & St. Vincent
Try Try Again ... The Rising Few *
The Less I Know The Better ... Tame Impala
Corona ... Robert T *

May you have a glorious and safe holiday

See you next week

*Cancon

Ruby Slippers September 30 7-8 pm

Hey everybody!

So excited, the first leg of the fall is done, the nights are cooler and October is tomorrow with pumpkins, a reason to wear orange other than incarceration, and Halloween.

Here's tonight playlist. If you listened to Catwoman this week, you may have noticed a few artists made both shows. Couldn't decide between tracks and had two hours so there you go!

Enjoy

Golden Stereo ... Shattervox * (new)

Said I Could Be Happy ... Kensington Market * (in real life a magical place in the Tdot)

The Things We Do For Love ... 10cc

V Six ... Fluke (electronica from the UK)

Sins So Vain ... Vallens *

Take This ... Lovebolt *

An Unfortunate Invention ... Benjamin Sheridan

Soldier ... Chloe Charles *

Heart Throb ... Maylee Todd * (more than 22 seconds: see last week! LOL)

Paper Girl ... July Talk * (keep coming back to this one)

You Never Give Me Your Money ... The Beatles

Careless ... Beach Fossils

Let Loose The Horses ... The Rescues

Eyes of a Stranger (cover) ... Dirty Ghosts *

Failing The Rorschach Test ... Matthew Good Band * (didn't get to this for TURF)

Digging In The Dirt ... Peter Gabriel (not likely to get this far but still)

In case you wonder why the Fab Four made both this and Catwoman fill in playlists, I saw "Eight Days A Week" this Monday and it inspired me. This doc was endorsed by  Yoko, Olivia Harrison, Paul and Ringo and was backed by Apple Corp. Not to mention that it was a Ron Howard film.

Great rare footage and a well balanced film from the point of view of the band itself.

Thanks for listening.

*Cancon

Ruby Slippers September 23 7-8 pm

Hey everybody!

It is now officially the Fall and despite the actual temperatures, I am fully embracing the transition into a more reflective time. Sun's up later, down earlier, mornings are finally cooler.

Which of course means music seems to change too. No more summer sunshine. (Well, at least not as much)

Don't know if this shift has really been captured in the playlist. See what you think.

Bird Party Yay ... Maylee Todd *
Burn The Witch ... Radiohead
Wallz ... Herokah * (new)
Soldier Girl ... Waxmen *
Shadow ... Midnight Lions * (also new)
Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon ... Flaming Lips (no idea, honestly)
Killer of dragons ... The High Dials *
So Cynical ... Immaculate Machine *
Nice To Know You ... Incubus (fell in love with this album in the fall, always go back to it then)
Devil Inside ... INXS (Halloween is coming! How many days away??? )
A Prince's Shadow ... Jon Davis *
The Good Soldier ... Nine Inch Nails
Monkeys Uptown ... Iron and Wine (always best heard very early in the morning. Oh well)
Boys In The Woods ... Fol Chen (expand your mind with this one)
Crossed Wires ... The Acorn * (cover) Love the video for this
Soldier ... Rachael Cardiello
Since Last wednesday ... Highasakite
Indoctrination ... Dead Can Dance (sometime will do an entire show around this band)

Thanks for listening. Taking over Catwoman next week so two hours of nonstop music and stuff.

Also Membership time coming up in November. Just saying.

*Cancon