Episode 140 - Making It Easy

Special Guest: None

I realized recently that it's really difficult keeping up with artists and finding new music. Good thing you have us here to help make it a little easier. What would you do without us? Actually it's debatable whether or not you're better off. You be the judge.

Track Listing
Yoav (Adore Adore) - King Coma (7 Years) - Chantilly Waryck (Pictures of Autumn) - Michael Leonhart (El Tapir) - Digital Underground (Same Song) - Golden Earring (Radar Love) - The Dig (Good Luck And Games) - Slow Death of Autumn (Blond) - Amy Winehouse (You Know I'm No Good) - Sheila Kirsten Hughes Band (Madison Street) - Sevara Nazarkhan (Tushim) - Amps e Lina (De que Canto Partiu?) - Hrsta (Beau Village) - The Loved One (The Depressionists) - Rodrigo Y Gabriela (Vikingman) - Wynn Walent and The Folks (Olivia, The Dear).

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Episode 139 - Been A While

Special Guest: Bret Mosley

We're getting re-aquainted with some artists this time around as well as kicking out some new stuff. We also sit down with Bret Mosley to discuss his new CD Light & Blood coming out on December 4th.

Track Listing
Eric Johnson (Cliffs of Dover) - Charlie Sexton (Beats So Lonely) - Mike B (Ghost In The Kitchen) - Darling Violetta (Cure) - The Dead Milkmen (Bitchin' Camaro) - The Faster Gore Core Girls (In Wonderland For A Nite) - Bret Mosley (Well and Good / Run It Again / Barnfire) - Jamie Leonhart (Hush) - The Drovers (The Boys And The Babies / Is Craig Here?) - Jeff Jacobson (Your California) - Sinéad O'Connor (You Cause As Much Sorrow) - Porcupine Tree (Way Out of Here) - Ray Charles (Busted) - Beyondo (Gambler) - This Will Destroy You (I Believe In Your Victory)

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Episode 138 - Music Nerds Unite

Special Guest: Ron "Q*Ball" Scalzo

Music nerds are compelled to tell you all the details of the most obscure band you never heard of. We're just trying to eradicate evil music from the world by spreading the truth. We're like superheroes without the spandex. Well not since the 80's.

Track Listing
Longwave (No Direction) - Bluebell (The Fight In The Cafe) - Dead Eddie (Jesus Won't Pay Your Phone Bill) - Julia Darling (Bury You) - Bess McCrary (You Like It) - Strapping Young Lad (Almost Again) - Q-Ball (Pez Dispenser / John Hughes) - Return to Earth (Beautiful Mess) - R. Carlos Nakai (Two World Concerto, Movement 3) - TelleR (Come and See) - Bronwen Exter (Trust What You Feel) - Ozomatli (Can't Stop) - Shane MacGowan (Haunted) - Adrian Belew (One Of Those Days)

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Episode 137 - The Art of Deception

Special Guest: Todd Robbins

This isn't really a radio program and I'm not really a nefarious bovine. It's all just an audio illusion. The music is real though. Someone who knows a thing or two about deception joins us this time around. We catch up with Todd Robbins to discuss his latest show "The Charlatans Seance" and his... hey, where's my wallet?

Track Listing
Muse (Stockholm Syndrome) - The Dead Milkmen (Laundromat Song) - Goddamn Electric Bill (Lost in the Zoo) - Shannon Hurley (Sunrise) - Eyon (Running Nun) - Charlie Faye (Last Kids In The Bar) - Alai (Sobre el Monstruo) - One Nation Under A Groove (Guardian) - Rob Zombie (Living Dead Girl) - Eddy Davis/NY Jazz Ensemble (Margie) - Jodi Sheeler (Never Gonna Fall) - Walking the Cow (Red Soul Box) - Harry Nilsson (Everybodys Talking at Me) - Hammock (Floating Away In Every Direction) - Rich Girls (You And What's His Name) - Joe Harvard Band ((How I Became A) Patriotic Pseudo Pacifist)

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Episode 136 - What You Like

Special Guest: Wakey!Wakey!

Whether it be music or beverage selections - you may try different things but you always come back to what you like. That's what we're doing this time around. Mike Grubbs also joins us to discus the new Wakey!Wakey! live disc.

Track Listing
King Crimson (Frame by Frame) - Metisse (Boom Boom Ba) - Ollabelle (Troubles Of The World) - New York Dolls (Personality Crisis) - They Might Be Giants (Experimental Film) - Animal Logic (I Won't Be Sleeping Anymore) - Wakey!Wakey! (Car Crash Song / Take It Like A Man / Honey Covered Hands) - Monie Love (Monie In The Middle) - Casey Shea (Life In A Cube) - Mike Errico (On This Train) - Dominique Bélanger (Nor Fool Nor Pooled) - Peter Gabriel (Here Comes The Flood) - Analog Missionary (Dirty Road)

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Episode 135 - Your Title Here

Special Guest: Jason Hook

We've left the title blank this time around in the hopes that some big giant corporation will come along, give us a lot of money and rename the episode. We're not holding our breath which is apparent by how much rambling goes on this time around. Guitarist Jason Hook also joins us to discuss touring, music and his disc Safety Dunce.

Track Listing
Urge Overkill (Sister Havana) - The Weepies (Take It from Me) - Low In The Sky (Far Away Places) - Martin Sexton (In The Journey) - A Perfect Circle (Thinking Of You) - Los Doggies (Hugem) - Hater (Circles) - R. Carlos Nakai (Island Of Bows) - Jason Hook (Beaucoup Movement / Patience Tester) - The Men (I Built My House This Way) - Mogwai (Auto Rock) - Nancy Magarill & the Sirius String Quartet (The Clown in the Bulletproof Vest) - Have Her Home By 10 (Kids) - Danielle Gasparro (Dollar Five) - Wes Hutchinson (Down In Flames)

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Episode 134 - A Matter of Opinion

Special Guest: Bumblefoot

So while this might not be the best paying gig but it does have some perks. Not only do we get to play some of our new favorite artists this time around but we also catch up with Bumblefoot at the Locobazooka Festival to discuss his career, life philosophies and hot sauces. Sorry folks but the interview contains no Chinese Democracy spoilers.

Track Listing
Melissa Etheridge (Tuesday Morning) - Joggyn Smyler (Perth Amboy) - Atomic Tom (You Always Get What You Want) - Charles Theodore Zerner (The Hustle) - Rice (In Dreamz) - Celia Chavez (I Lose Myself In You) - Bumblefoot (Fly In the Batter / What I Knew / Turn Around) - Willie Nelson (Still Is Still Moving To Me) - Jane's Addiction (Then She Did...) - Michael Leonhart (Gentle Heathen) - Gorky Park (Bang) - Holler! Wild Rose (Mary Lawn Hair) - Michael Gordon (Decasia, Pt. 6)

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Episode 133 - Sometimes They Come Back!

Special Guest: The New MacBook

While the laptop didn't come back Nefarious Bovine Radio has. Also returning are some artists that we haven't played in a while. And to celebreate the arrival of the new MacBook which is making this all possible we're adding some new artists into the rotation. It's good to be back.

Track Listing
I Mother Earth (Hell & Malfunction) - Music For Girls (She's Gone) - Weird Ways (Done) - MAR (Go Away) - Derek James (Ain't No Thing Is Perfect) - St. Valentines Massacre (Nightmare Theory) - Marvin Pontiac (Pancakes) - Ashley Rogers (Blonde Over Blues) - Doll Hospital (Man In The Middle) - The Album Leaf (Shine) - Blake Morgan (Burn You Down) - Malvina Reynolds (Little Boxes) - Comitatus (Like A Hummingbird) - Mother Love Bone (Gentle Groove) - Gabrielle (Dreamtown) - Jamie Leonhart (Take Your Time)

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Episode 132 - Are You Happy Now Elizabeth?

Special Guest: Celia Chavez

Much like a vacation you always need to come back home. This time around we feature nothing but NY/NJ artists and it feels as good as putting on an old concert t-shirt. As an added bonus we sit down with Celia Chavez to talk about her new CD Sailor's Daughter and anything else that comes to mind.

Track Listing
Q*Ball (Fortune Favors The Bald) - Clara Venus (Liar) - Jonathan Ellinghaus (Saltwater Breeze) - Mike Errico (How It Ends) - Sonno (The Pleasures) - Rich Girls (The Sound Of A Broken Heart) - Celia Chavez (Snow / Sailor's Daughter / Vega$) - Black Pig (Fictitous Tree) - Jennifer Oines (Spanish Dance No 2) - DeSol (Cumbia Raza) - The Bravery (Give In) - Tom Hayes (North Atlantic) - Fools for April (Fallin' At Your Feet) - Lara Ewen And The Unstrung Orchestra (Manhattan/Kansas) - Jeff Jacobson (Castles)

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Episode 131 - Globally Insane

Special Guest: Lorena and Ciro from Diafanes

Maybe it was the heat of the Yucatan. Who knows? This time around I leave my beloved New York music scene briefly and focus on bands from around the world. 15 bands, 9 countries, 5 continents, and if that weren't enough we also sit down with Lorena and Ciro from Diafanes as they embark on their first U.S. tour.

Track Listing
Dire Straits (Tunnel Of Love) - Red Rider (Lunatic Fringe) - Antennas To Heaven (Gravy Is Gravy) - Hacienda Uayamon (Track 01) - Teddybears (Cobrastyle (Feat. Mad Cobra)) - Mariachi Aguilas De México (La Malaguena) - Dominique Bélanger (Nor Fool Nor Pooled) - Enargeia (Modernity Sux Ass) - Diafanes (Ecosystem Equilibrium / Wilt / Shrub) - Luiz De Aquino (Caminhos De Cuba) - Múm (Green Grass of Tunnel) - Shakira (Dia Especial) - Hacienda Temozon (Track 02) - Edwin (And You) - The Police (Darkness)

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Episode 130 - The Waking Dream

Special Guest: None

The Waking Dream is that point in time when you're not really awake but not yet asleep. A time when you're in your own little world and everything around you becomes really silent. This is the music that goes along with that time.

Track Listing
Mazzy Star (Fade Into You) - Nick Drake (Pink Moon) - The Knotting Hillbillies (Your Own Sweet Way) - Heather Christian (Kiss The Girls) - Lizzy Grant (Rehab) - The Soul's Release (Dripping Whispers) - Oren Bloedow (I'm Your Creation) - Jimi Hendrix (May This Be Love) - The Sundays (Wild Horses) - Sting (Little Wing) - Dominique Bélanger (Are You Here Tonight) - Sigur Rós (Untitled 1) - King Crimson (Matte Kudesai) - Cowboy Junkies (To Love Is To Bury) - Paz Lenchantin (The Parade) - Sarah McLachlan (Ol' 55) - Allie Moss (Paper Cup) - Mike Errico (If I Were The Pope) - Martin Sexton (Candy) - The Firm (Satisfaction Guaranteed) - BBM (Naked Flame)

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Episode 129 - Mexico

Special Guest: None

If you're reading this then it means that I am either a) close to being on a plane to Mexico b) on a plane to Mexico c) somewhere in route to Mexico or d) in Mexico. If you're not reading this then you're smarter than I gave you credit for.

Track Listing
Leona Naess (Mexico) - Joe Thompson (Only In The Night) - Sweet ADRENALIN (Alice (Don't Let Go)) - Love Camp 7 (Little Mr. Elephant) - Jessie Lynn (Waving) - Wakey!Wakey! (Fallin' Apart (live)) - Stevie Wonder (Too High) - Chris Cubeta (Right Away) - The Go-Betweens (Old Mexico) - Julie Kathryn Smith (A Broken Love) - Nelly Furtado (Say It Right) - Liz Tormes (Where You Are) - Apartment 44 (Life) - Jeremy Wallace (Preacher Brown's Blues) - Salvavidas (Callada) - Paula Valstein (Mexico) - Andrew San Paul (Love Is Rare) - Spacehog (In The Meantime)

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Episode 128 - Down The Toilet?

Special Guest: Sean White

This show started off one way and quickly spiraled into something completely different. More magical? Perhaps. We'll let you decide. Sean from Slow Death of Autumn also calls in to discuss music, movies and the difficulties of getting anything accomplished.

Track Listing
Jeff Schram (Only One (Nefarious Bovine Remix)) - Mama Boom (Schwoong) - Jack Wagner (All I Need) - Bumblefoot (Real) - Larissa Shmailo (Lager NYC) - Teddybears Stockholm (Punkrocker) - Slow Death of Autumn (I've Had This Feeling Once Before / Independent #1 /  Birth of Two Kinds) - Billy and the Boingers (U Stink But I Love U) - Ethan Lipton (Sweet & Understanding) - Connie Francis (Bossa Nova Hand Dance (Deixa Isso Prá Lá)) - Casey Shea & Wakey!Wakey! (Dick in a Box) - Zard (Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You) - Tool (Intermission) - We Are The Music Makers (Spaziotempo) - Télépopmusik (Breathe) - Tears For Fears (My Life in the Suicide Ranks)

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Episode 127 - Ophelia Madison is Famous

Special Guest: Sarah the Tequila Snob

It's true! You'll just have to trust me on this. Listen in as we present even more famous people you might not have ever heard of as well as drink recipes and bird imitations.

Track Listing
Apartment 26 (Give Me More) - Katrine Ottosen (My Sea) - Marc Copely (Surprise) - Chris Bard (Slowhorse (Everybody Wants To Be #1)) - Chicago (25 or 6 to 4) - Adrian Belew (The Rail Song) - Antennas To Heaven (This Bloody Tarkhovsky Film) - Martin Sexton (There Go I) - Steve Vai (Still My Bleeding Heart) - Devin Townsend (Hyperdrive) - Oren Bloedow & Jennifer Charles (Lamma Badah) - Bee Gees (Lonely Days) - Bumblefoot (Normal) - Ollabelle (Two Steps) - Talk Talk (Life's What You Make It) - David Gilmour (On An Island) - Magges (Zorba) - Atomic Tom (Secret Fascination)

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Episode 126 - Catch-Up

Special Guest: None

With all the great music in the world how can I be expected to get to it all in a timely fashion? Sometimes you have to wait, sometimes I throw everything I've been meaning to play into one show. Would you like fries with that?

Track Listing
DramaGods (Fearless Leader) - Alana (Let Me Go) - Machiladora (Void Of Light) - Fools for April (Long Division) - Amina (Seoul) - Aaron Berg & The Heavy Love (Too Soon To Tell) - Punky Brüster (Metal Dilemma) - Martin Rivas (Hope) - Nick Drake (Northern Sky) - Stereoscope (The Typewriter) - Sevara Nazarkhan (Yallajonim (My Dearest Song)) - Brendan O'Shea (No Mystery) - They Might Be Giants ((She Was A) Hotel Detective) - Lara Ewen And The Unstrung Orchestra (Untethered) - The Rosy Nolan Band (Filler) - Goton Project (Mi Confesión) - Tin Machine (Prisoner Of Love)

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Episode 125 - International and a Man of Mystery

Special Guest: Jeff Jacobson

We circle the globe not once but twice in one show. If that's not enough for you we also shed some light on the mysterious enigma that is Jeff Jacobson and give you a preview of his debut album. What more can you ask for? Well yes, pie would be nice right about now.

Track Listing
Winger (Four Leaf Clover) - Wanda Phipps (Field Of Wanting) - Paz Lenchantin (Kentucky Hymm) - The Slow Beings (MyFriendKoolKiller) - UMEED (It Came Up Gently) - Slow Death of Autumn (Orgel) - Jeff Jacobson (Rock Through My Window / Pretty Picture / Who We Are) - Pralay (You) - V'nessa Tzavellas (Flashes) - A Flock Of Seagulls (Space Age Love Song) - Tracey Amos (Cadillac (feat) Angelo) - In Fine (A Piece of Bone) - Dasha (Self-Destructive) - Kyle Ervin (One) - Eluvium (New Animals From The Air)

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Episode 124 - Rip-offs, Remakes & Black Betty

Special Guest: None

Most musicians have played covers or have written a song that sounded like another song and some of them have actually released them. This time we take a look at, shall we say "musical tributes", and reveal just exactly why The Nefarious Bovine hates Switchfoot so much.

Track Listing
Blake Morgan (Maybe I'm Amazed) - When In Rome (The Promise) - Dirty Water Dogs (Wild Horses) - Casey Shea (We're All The Same) - The Axel Boys Quartet (Barbie Girl) - David Bowie (Under Pressure) - Gabrielle (Time After Time) - Leadbelly (Black Betty) - RamJam (Black Betty) - Tom Jones (Black Betty) - Whitesnake (Here I Go Again) - Ethan Lipton (Danger Zone) - Edie Brickell & New Bohemians (Forgiven) - Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine (Down With The Sickness) - Kraftwerk (Computer Love) - Nouvelle Vague (Too Drunk To Fuck) - Mike Errico (You Shook Me All Night Long) - Primus (Have A Cigar) - Jane's Addiction  (Sympathy)

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Episode 123 - Back To Normal

Special Guest: None

It all depends or your definition of normal now doesn't it? The Nefarious Bovine back in the studio flying solo and playing a "normal" set of eclectic music from around the globe. No guests, no interviews, just Sean alone with his thoughts - and we call that normal.

Track Listing
TelleR (Movin On) - The Buggles (Living In The Plastic Age) - Peter Rolland (Not The Only Thing) - Ethereal (The Devil's Hand) - Shea Seger (Last Time) - LaRoo (Hola) - Wynn Walent (Where Are You Now?) - Jodi Sheeler (Little Finger) - Naked Eyes (Always Something There To Remind Me) - The Divine Madness (Redemption) - Derek James (Free Love) - A Silver Mt. Zion (Tho You Are Gone I Still Often Walk With You) - Warmbodies (Photograph) - Dana Varon (Goodbye To Yesterday) - Plastic Parachute (Houdini) - Explosions In The Sky (Six Days At The Bottom Of The Ocean)

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Episode 122 - Bovine vs Alloy

Special Guest: Jeff Schram

We apologize in advance! Jeff Schram drops by the Westside Studio to drink, discuss the relaunch of Alloy Radio, drink, play some of our favorite local NYC artists and drink - not necessarily in that order.

Track Listing
Journey (Don't Stop Believin') - Blake Morgan (Least Likely Place) - Jeff Jacobson (Let You Down) - Julia Darling (Let's Do It Again) - Wakey!Wakey! (War Sweater) - Heather Christian (Kiss The Girls) - Jessi Robertson (I Always Feel So Empty When It's Over) - Mike Errico (Sooner Or Later) - The Undisputed Heavyweights (Money) - Doll Hospital (When I Take Back This Town) - Paula Valstein (Airplane) - Gabrielle (I Know You Know) - Tom Hayes (Brighter) - Professor and Maryann (Only Cool Spot In Town) - Casey Shea (Pretty Good Shape (For The Shape I'm In)) - Liz Tormes (Fade Away) - Attention Driver (45 mph) - Smoosh (Rad)

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Episode 121 - Shmammy

Special Guest: Wes Hutchinson

One man against the world? Not exactly. Wes Hutchinson joins the Nefarious Bovine down at The Delancy to discuss songwriting and the importance and a solid foundation. We also are giving our play by play of the Grammy's.

Track Listing
The Police (Omegaman) - Weird Ways (Fall) - Ethan Lipton (Tutto Tempo) - Dùnndotta (Late) - Flametal (Bruja Tortura) - Goddamn Electric Bill (Witching Hour) - Múm (We Have a Map of the Piano) - Wes Hutchinson (Stay 'til Someday / Things We Need The Most / Long Day) - Tracey Ullman (They Don't Know) - Holding Pattern (Muthaship) - Jeff Schram (So Wrong) - Desmond Higgins (Left In Pieces) - Siouxsie and The Banshees (Hong Kong Garden) - Crippled Black Phoenix (Goodnight Europe)

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Episode 120 - XTR

Special Guest: Trevor Exter

Trevor Exter stops by to discuss songwriting, traveling and the perils of cement trucks. We tried to find some place louder to have the interview but then you really wouldn't be able to hear anything.

Track Listing
Peter Gabriel (Darkness) - King Coma (One Shot) - Julia Darling (Wake Up) - Naomi Hall (Bride of the Monster) - Salvavidas (La Peor) - They Might Be Giants (Twisting) - Gabrielle (Close) - Trevor Exter (Water / Grow Up / The Money Men) - Sigur Ros (Untitiled 1) - National Airlines (Walk Free) - Bluebell (It's Out There) - White Zombie (Super-Charger Heaven) - Allie Moss (Paper Cup) - Sting (Valparaiso)

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Episode 119 - Resolutions

Special Guest: Sarah the Tequila Snob

The Nefarious Bovine doesn't believe in New Year's Resolutions but resolves to expand the range and variety of music this year. And you thought it couldn't get more eclectic than it already was.

Track Listing
Blue Murder (We All Fall Down) - Khartoum Capers (Turkish Delights) - Music For Girls (Analog) - Analog Missionary (Lilith) - Raliss (The Piano Song) - Conjure One (Face The Music) - Reeves Gabrels (You've Been Around) - Giorgio Moroder ((Theme From) Midnight Express) - Gnarls Barkley (Crazy) - The Sugarcubes (Hit) - Polar Bear (Friday) - The Warblinkers (What The Hell Is Wrong With You?) - Elvis Presley ((Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame) - Bigger Thomas (King For A Day) - The Midnight Hours (Miss Marie) - Tears For Fears (Year Of The Knife)

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Episode 118 - Happy New Year

Special Guest: Roaring fire, Tequila Snob, Flynn and random people making u-turns in his parking lot.

The Nefarious Bovine takes time out to reflect on some of his favorite tracks played in 2006.

Track Listing
Marc Copely (Electric) - Eyon (Several Dirty Little Things Left To Say) - Casey Shea (You Were Meant To Be Free) - Dominique Bélanger (Are You Here Tonight) - Atomictom (Movie Screens & Magazines) - Gabrielle (No Sign No Sound) - Salvavidas (Rosa y Gris) - Diafanes (Inside Me) - Heather Christian (The Din) - Stereoscope (Upon A Sky Corner) - Ollabelle (Riverside) - MissFlag (Hidden Thieves)

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