It was 30 years ago today -- Playlist no. 1

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Published May 10, 2010 at 8:22 p.m.

It can't be true but I cannot tell a lie -- my first radio show on 91.7 FM in Milwaukee was 30 years ago this week. May 14, 1980 to be exact. It was on a Wednesday night from about 6:15 pm to 8 pm (seems I had a problem getting the transmitter started). The station was then known as WSOE and it was supposedly just an MSOE campus station but the signal carried a few miles beyond that. The DJ who was on after me was -- Jules! She started there in 1977 as an actual MSOE student DJ ... In honor (and

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Bear In Heaven update

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Published Feb. 7, 2010 at 5:45 p.m.

I could neither read my notes nor remember the name of the song I played Feb. 3 by Bear in Heaven (this happens when you have been a DJ for darn near, uhh, three decades) ... Anyway, I've got it now and here it is: "Beast in Peace" ... I feel better now. Apologies to Bear in Heaven and its fans ... -- Rich ...

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All WMSE DJ picks of 2009

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Published Jan. 7, 2010 at 10:27 p.m.

My top 10 has belatedly (because I missed deadline) been added to the compendium of 'MSE DJ favorite CDs of 2010. To see what we've been digging, go to www.sonicdiet.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/wmse-dj-picks-of-2990 ...

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New Trax in Wax Jan. 06 '10/ Old crud '80s

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Published Jan. 7, 2010 at 10:14 p.m.

Back in the saddle of post-holiday living and DJ-ing ... New music ... 6 pm hour ... The xx -- Islands ... Spiral Beach -- Battery ... Melismatics -- Soul Sucker ... Real Estate -- Snow Days ... The King Khan and BBQ Show -- Animal Party ... Jookabox -- Phantom Don't Go ... Recurrent (4-12 months old) ... Thermals -- When I Died ... Comet Gain -- If I Had A Soul ... 7 pm hour ... Bear In Heaven -- Drug A Wheel ... Lou Barlow (request) -- Gravitate ... Mountain Goats -- Psalms ... Chuck Prophet

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Historic Jawbox performance preempted by WTMJ 4 to talk about frozen water from the sky

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Published Dec. 9, 2009 at 2:32 a.m.
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Words by DJ HostettlerSeriously, WTMJ? Seriously? OK, we get it–you’re a bunch of squares who don’t understand the magnitude of legendary DC post-hardcore indie-rockers Jawbox reuniting after 12 years to perform a one-off reunion on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Fine. But would it have killed you to wait 90 damn seconds until the end [ ... ] ...

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Point/Counterpoint: King Khan & BBQ at Mad Planet, 12.1.09

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Published Dec. 6, 2009 at 6:13 p.m.
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Both DJ Hostettler and Abbie Amadio attended last Tuesday’s Mad Planet show, and came out of it with differing takes on the evening. Here’s a Fan-Belt point/counterpoint on the merits of The King Khan & BBQ Show.DJ Hostettler: I’m late to the party on the King Khan and BBQ Show. Associates of mine have been [ ... ] ...

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Recap: Melt-Banana at High Noon Saloon, Madison, 12.2.09

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Published Dec. 3, 2009 at 11:36 p.m.
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Words by DJ HostettlerMelt-Banana claim to be from Tokyo, but I’ve long suspected that it’s a cover for their true identities as time-displaced creatures who sprung fully formed from the atomic blast at Hiroshima, ready to throw spastic blasts of hardcore noise-punk at anything that moved. How else can one explain such a frantic, inhuman-sounding [ ... ] ...

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“Golden” Moments: Shifting Tastes & Musical Watersheds

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Published Dec. 2, 2009 at 8:43 a.m.

By Jon Stone @jwstoneIn 1991, Boyz II Men and DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince put out the unforgettable singles Motownphilly and Summertime. If you were 11 or 12 like I was when those tunes came out, those were THE songs, right? You know you loved them (unless, as I sometimes suspect, all [ ... ] ...

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Team Fan-Belt Recaps The Jesus Lizard, 11.24.09

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Published Nov. 25, 2009 at 11:24 p.m.
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Words By:Anthony Schwader (AS)Abbie Amadio (AA)Dan Agacki (DA)(Note: Pretty much everyone from our humble little Fan-Belt crew attended Tuesday night’s ridiculawesome Jesus Lizard/IfIHadAHiFi show at Turner Hall, so it was decided we’d attempt a trainwreck of a combined, oral-history-style review of the show. Let’s see how this works out. –DJ)AS: Let me start by saying [ ... ] ...

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Wanna be in a video? Dance to The New Loud’s “Don’t Dance”

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Published Nov. 23, 2009 at 1:41 a.m.
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Words by DJ HostettlerMaking music videos seems like self-indulgent wankery to some. On one of his comedy CDs Lewis Black once said “music is like a drug; when you hear it, you have a vision. If you’re watching a music video and that video is exactly the same as your vision, kill yourself.” What Black [ ... ] ...

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