2018

• Lala Lala – “Copycat” – The Lamb (Hardly Art)
• Ovlov – “The Best of You” – Tru (Exploding in Sound)
• Stove – “Animortal” – ‘s Favorite Friend (Exploding in Sound)

like fistfuls of medicine shoved down your throat:

• awakebutstillinbed – “Life” – What People Call Low Self​-Esteem Is Really Just Seeing Yourself The Way That Other People See You (Tiny Engines)
• Wimps – “Giant Brain” – Garbage People (Kill Rock Stars)
• Idles – “Colossus” – Joy as an Act of Resistance (Partisan)
• Frankie Cosmos – “Apathy” – Vessel (Sub Pop)
• Anmlplnet – “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” – Fall Asleep (Ba Da Bing)
• Bernice – “Passenger Plane” – Puff: In the Air Without a Shape (Arts & Crafts)
• Moaning – “Close” – Moaning (Sub Pop)
• Deeper – “Pavement” – Deeper (Fire Talk)
• Ross From Friends – “Thank God I’m A Lizard” (Brainfeeder)
• Fit of Body – “Eighty One” – Black Box No Cops (2MR)
• Peggy Gou – “It Makes You Forget” – Once (Ninja Tune)
• Underworld & Iggy Pop – “Bells & Circles” – Teatime Dub Encounters (Caroline)

1. Beach Day – “Runaway With You” – Run Away With You – (Chocolate Covered)
2. Jesse Daniel – “Soft Spot For The Hard Stuff” – Jesse Daniel – (Die True)
3. Josh T Pearson – “A Love Song (Set Me Straight)” – The Straight Hits! – (Mute)
4. Whateverglades – “I Do I Did I Don’t” – Knock Knock – (No Egrets Records)
5. Kacey Musgraves – “Kansas City Star” – King of the Road: A Tribute to Roger Miller – (BMG)
6. The Muddy Roses – “Long Black Veil” – KALX Live! – (KALX)
7. Illuminati Hotties – “Paying Off The Happiness” – Kiss Yr Frenemies – (Tiny Engines)
8. Jessica Hernandez and the Deltas – “Sorry I Stole Your Man” – Secret Evil – (Instant)
9. Bon Bon Vivant – “Gone Gone Gone” – Live At The New Orleans Jazz Museum – (Gallatin Street)
10. Belly – “Human Child” – Dove – (Belly Inc)
11. Lindi Ortega – “You Ain’t Fooling Me” – Liberty – (Shadowbox)
12. Mike Beck and The Bohemian Saints – “I Wanna Find Out” – Alta California – (Reata)
13. Secret Emchy Society – “Bears” – Mark’s Yard (The Campfire Covers) – (S/R)
14. Underworld and Iggy Pop – “Bells and Circles” – Teatime Dub Encounters – (Caroline)
15. I See Hawks In L.A. – “Poour Me” – Live and Never Learn  – (S/R)
16. Amy Rigby – “One Off” – The Old Guys – (S/R)
17. Eleanor Friedberger – “Make Me A Song” – Rebound – (Frenchkiss)
18. Bettye Lavette – “Things Have Changed” – Things Have Changed – (Verve)
19. Lump – “Curse of the Contemporary” – Lump – (Dead Oceans)
20. Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore – “Downey to Lubbock” – Downey to Lubbock – (Yep Rock)
21. Robbie Fulks and Linda Gail Lewis – “I Just Lived a Country Song” –  Wild! Wild! Wild! – (Bloodshot)
22. Fast Heart Mart – “So Many Problems” –  KALX Live! – (KALX)
23. Hollie Cook – “Stay Alive” – Vessel of Love – (Merge)
24. Neil Young and the Promise of the Real – “Carnival” – The Visitor – (Reprise)
25. Reverend Beat-Man – “I’ll Do It For You” – Blues Trash – (Voodoo Rhythm)
26. Gayle Lynn and the Hired Hands – “Twirl” – KALX Live! – (KALX)
27. Moonshine Maybeline – “Champaign and Cocaine” – End Of The Road  – (Spitfire)
28. Hillstomp – “I’ll Be Around” –  Monster Receiver – (Fluff & Gravy)
29. Trouble In The Wind – “Orion” – Hammer On – (S/R)
30. We Banjo 3 – “Good Time Old Time” – String Theory – (Sonas)
31. Bay Station – “Baja Blues” – Other Desert Cities – (S/R)
32. Laura Benitez and Heartache – “The Fool I Am Right Now ” – With All Its Thorns – (Copperhead)
33. Crying Time – “You’re Still Gone” – Last Saturday Night – (S/R)
34. Crooked Jades – “Ryland and Spencer” –  Empathy Moves the Water  – (Jade Note)
35. Guts Club – “Bad Aim” – Trench Foot – (S/R)
36. Lucero – “For The Lonely Ones” – Among The Ghosts – (Liberty and Lament Records)
37. John Prine – “Knockin’ On Your Screen Door” – The Tree of Forgiveness – (Oh Boy)
38. Zoe Speaks – “There’s A Hole Where Your Soul’s Supposed To Be” – Wings – (Redbird)
39. Tina and Her Pony – “Good Man” – Champion – (S/R)
40. Victoria Vox – “Out On The Rails” – Colorful Heart – (Obus)
41. Calexico – “Music Box” – The Thread That Keeps Us – (Anti-)
42. H.C. McEntire – “Baby’s Got The Blues” – Lionheart – (Merge)
43. Charlie Parr – “HoBo” – Dog – (Red House)
44. Caroline Rose – “More Of The Same” – Loner – (New West)
45. Jenn Champion – “O.M.G. (I’m All Over It)” – Single Rider – (Hardly Art)
46. Grimskunk – “Sick Bastards” – Unreason In The Age of Madness – (Indica)
47. Killer Kaya – “Gypsy” – KALX Live! – (KALX)
48. Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio – “Something Smells Funky Round Here” – Big Fun Trio – (Alligator)
49. Todd Novak And The Benny Hillbillez – “Sons Of Beaches” – Goats Head Surf – (S/R)
50. Country Joe McDonald – “Era Of Guns” – 50 – (Rag Baby)
51. Alanis Obomsawin – “Bush Lady” – Bush Lady – (Constellation)

Compilations that made the GREAT state of Berkeley proud!

• Dr. Demento Covered In Punk – (Demented Punk)
• Gunsmoke Volume 1 & 2 – (Stag-O-Lee)
• King of the Road: A Tribute to Roger Miller – (BMG)
• Something Weird: Greatest Hits!  – (Modern Harmonic)

Special Thanks to all the artists who appeared LIVE on the air with me, here on the Left Coast

• Brian Belknap and Erma
• Patsy Cline Tribute Show (with Margaret Belton)
• Collisionville
• Crying Time
• Fast Heart Mart
• Nate Jones and the Sloe Sippers
• Lavender Country
• Gayle Lynn and the Hired Hands (and Maurice Tani)
• Loretta Lynn Tribute Show (with Margaret Belton, Laura Benitez, Lisa Marie Johnson and Michelle Kappel)
• Moonshine Jelly
• The Muddy Roses
• Penny Opry
• Secret Emchy Society
• Trouble In The Wind
• Whateverglades
• Wormfarmer

• A Place To Bury Strangers – Pinned (Dead Oceans)
• Actress x London Contemporary Orchestra – Lageos (Ninja Tune)
• Bart & The Bedazzled – Blue Motel (Lovemonk)
• Beak> – >>> (Invada)
• Cut Worms – Hollow Ground (Jagjaguwar)
• Earth Girl Helen Brown – Four Satellites Vol. 1 (In The Red)
• Exit Group – Adverse Habitat (Castle Face)
• Exploded View – Obey (Sacred Bones)
• Gabe Gurnsey – Physical (Phantasy)
• Holy Wave – Adult Fear (The Reverberation Appreciation Society)
• IE – Pome (Moon Glyph)
• Instant Music – S/T (Dark Entries)
• Julien Boulier – A Film Not Yet Made (Time Released Sound)
• Kikagaku Moyo – Masana Temples (Guruguru Brain)
• Klaus Johann Grobe – Du Bist So Symmetrisch (Trouble In Mind)
• Leon Vynehall – Nothing Still (Ninja Tune)
• Les Halles – Zephyr (Not Not Fun)
• Lithics – Mating Surfaces (Kill Rock Stars)
• Lotic – Power (Tri Angle)
• Maarja Nuut & Ruum – Muunduja (Fat Cat)
• Martial Canterel – Lost At Sea (Dais)
• Motoko & Myers – Basis Keys (Open Hand Real Flames)
• Nonpareils – Scented Pictures (Mute)
• Paint – S/T (Mexican Summer)
• Papercuts – Parallel Universe Blues (Slumberland)
• Peel Dream Magazine – Modern Meta Physic (Slumberland)
• Skee Mask – Compro (Ilian Tape)
• Smerz – Have Fun (XL)
• Suuns – Felt (Secretly Canadian)
• Various Artists – The Bedroom Tapes (Minimal Wave)
• Yo La Tengo – There’s A Riot Going On (Matador)

• Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet – Landfall (Nonesuch)
• Big Freedia – 3rd Ward Bounce (Asylum)
• 카코포니(cacophony) – 和(Harmony) (Fluxus)
• Camille – OUÏ (Balulalo)
• Coeur De Pirate – en cas de tempête, ce jardin sera fermé. (Dare to Care)
• Philip Glass – Distant Figure (performed by Anton Batagov) (Orange Mountain)
• Damien Jurado – The Horizon Just Laughed (Secretly Canadian)
• New Music Detroit – Smoke (Innova)
• Les Poules A Colin – Morose (Famgroup)
• Saintseneca – Pillar of Na (Anti)
• Shannon and the Clams – Onion (Easy Eye Sound)
• Shannon Shaw – Shannon in Nashville (Easy Eye Sound)

Esme’s picks:

• At Eternity’s Gate
• Annihilation
• Avengers: Infinity War
• BlacKKKlansman
• Black Panther
• Blindspotting
• Burning
• Destroyer
• Eighth Grade
• The Favourite
• Hereditary
• If Beale Street Could Talk
• Madeline’s Madeline
• Mandy
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout
• Paddington 2
• The Rider
• Roma
• Shirkers
• Shoplifters
• Sorry to Bother You
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• A Star is Born
• Support the Girls
• Suspiria
• Three Identical Strangers
• To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
• Widows
• Won’t You Be My Neighbor
• You Were Never Really Here

Geralyn’s picks:

• American Animals, USA, Bart Layton
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, USA, Joel Coen
• Bohemian Rhapsody, USA, Bryan Singer
• A Fantastic Woman (Una Mujer Fantastica), USA, Sebastian Lelio
• Green Book, USA, Peter Farrelly
• Hostiles, USA, Scott Cooper
• The Insult, Lebanon, Ziad Doveiri
• Rodents of Unusual Size, (Documentary), USA, Quinn Costello, Chris Metzler, Jeff Springer
• Shoplifters, Japan, Hirokazu Kore-eda
• You Were Never Really Here, USA, Lynne Ramsay

Greg’s picks:

• American Animals
• Annihilation
• Beast
• Blindspotting
• Death Of Stalin
• The Favourite
• First Reformed
• Ghost Stories
• Hereditary
• Sorry To Bother You
• Three Identical Strangers

Sonia’s picks:

• Ben is Back
• Blindspotting
• Eighth Grade
• A Fantastic Woman
• The Favourite
• If Beale Street Could Talk
• Isle of Dogs
• McQueen
• Roma
• Shoplifters
• Sorry to Bother You
• Won’t You Be My Neighbor?