Airwaves
by Brian Goslow
Recent Worcester Phoenix coverboys Quintaine
Americana, celebrate the release of their Decade of the Brain
(Cherry Disc) CD at a benefit show for WSCW (94.9 FM) on Thursday, March 26, at
the Space. They're joined by Lamp, Popgun Picnic, and Say Hi to
Lisa. Co-music director Brian Knight says WSCW has been playing lots of
local music this semester, and he encourages musicians from all genres to
continue sending their recordings to WSCW, Worcester State College, 486
Chandler Street, Worcester 01602. If you read this column early enough, you can
catch Chillum and Seven Hill Psychos at another benefit for the
station at the college's Student Center Blue Lounge on Thursday night (March
19). Call WSCW at 793-8000 (ext. 8512) for more details.
BOSTON'S FECES PIECES will perform live on Gary Brooks's Local
Show on WCHC (88.1 FM) on March 25 between 10 p.m. and midnight. A new
recording by the group, notorious for a sound as grating as their name, is
featured on an upcoming compilation on Wonder Drug Records, which joins their
self-titled debut on Curve of the Earth. Brooks will also be spotlighting new
CDs from Plumm Crazie, Vinegar Tom, the Unseen, and Choke
Puppy. Expect a live set from Gangster Bitch Barbie in April.
Highlights of the remaining month of WCHC's spring '98 schedule include Mike
Veniziale's Interzone, which features ambient, experimental, electronic,
and other forms of innovative music Fridays from 10 p.m. to midnight. The
hip-hop nation rules Da Underground with Oyekunle Jegede Saturdays from
8 to 11 p.m. while the drum and bass sound vibrates on BeatsandBreaks
Sundays from 3 to 5 p.m. The Hong Kong and Taiwan Sound is spotlighted by
Adrian Leung on the Hong Kong Express Sundays from 5 to 6 p.m., while
Megan Pinch presents Women on the Edge Sundays from 6 to 7 p.m. You can
never get enough of the Detroit sound -- James Moorehead hosts the Motown
Soul Hour from 9 to 10 p.m., while Jason Willoughby's Look Ma, No
Flannel celebrates the best in Indie Rock Sundays from 10 p.m. to
midnight.
Christian Rock from the Newsboys to D.C. Talk, Eric
Champion to the Kry airs Saturdays from 9 to 11 a.m. and Sundays
from 10 a.m. to noon with Damian Shaible. Speaking of religious experiences,
Bob King, Bill Reidy, and Tim DiMarco present Simply Sinatra Sundays
from 2 to 3 p.m.
RADIO STATIONS NATIONWIDE have been raving about live performances by
Iowa folk musician BeJae Fleming, who visits Rich Fox on New
Traditions this Tuesday (April 24) at 7:30 a.m. on WCUW (91.3 FM). The
North Carolina-born singer, who spent years picking up the tricks of the trade
in Austin and Dallas, will perform tracks from her most recent CD, Red Cross
Woman (Trailer Records), and talking about her March 28 show at the Green
Rooster Coffeehouse. Waterbug recording artist Kate McLeod visits WCUW
on March 31 to hype an April 4 appearance at the Bull Run, in Shirley, where
she'll open for Patty Larkin. Expect some good stories from her visit to this
year's South by Southwest New Music Conference along with selections from
Constant Emotion and Trying To Get It Right. Scheduled in-studio
guests for April include Mary Gauthier (April 14), Les Sampou
(April 21), and Andrew McKnight (April 18).
Fox's featured artist for the month of March is Annie Gallup, whose
third CD, Courage My Love (Prime CD), features members of Steely Dan, 5
Chinese Brothers, and the Suzanne Vega Group and "A Million Ways," a song that
has been described as "the '60s in three verses and a chorus."