WTMD A-Z List

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A
ABC - The Look of Love
Arctic Monkeys - Leave Before the Lights
Alexi Murdoch - All My Days
ALO - Maria
Apples in Stereo - Energy
Andrew Bird - Heretics
Allman Brothers - Wasted Words
Allen Toussaint - Yes We Can Can
Amy Winehouse - Rehab
Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes
Al Green - Take Me to the River
Augustana - Stars & Boulevards
Tori Amos - Bouncing Off Clouds
The Animals - Don't Bring Me Down
Aretha Franklin - Rock Steady
Aztec Camera - Oblivious
Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1
Amos Lee - Night Train
Aimee Mann - Pavlov's Bell
Arrested Development - Mr. Wendal
Average White Band - Pick Up the Pieces
Ani DiFranco - What If No One's Watching
Ryan Adams - New York, New York
Aqualung - Brighter Than Sunshine
Alejandro Escovedo - Iwoya
Avett Brothers - Die Die Die

B
B-52s - Good Stuff
Bad Religion - 21st Century (Digital Boy)
Beck - Hell Yes
Blondie - The Tide is High
Built to Spill - Liar
Blur - There's No Other Way
Black Crowes - Remedy
Black Keys - Strange Desire
Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
Beatles - Come Together
Belly - Gepetto
Be Good Taynas - The Littles Birds
A Band of Bees - Chicken Payback
Bloc Party - The Prayer
Brazilian Girls - All About Us
Marc Broussard - Home
The Bridge - Shake 'Em Down
The Bogues - My Name is Love
Barenaked Ladies - If I Had $1,000,000
Boomtown Rats - She's So Modern
Better than Ezra - Good
Bruce Cockburn - Wondering Where the Lions Are
Brandi Carlile - What Can I Say
Blind Melon - No Rain
David Bowie - Fame
Beautiful South - We Are Eachother
Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice

C
Johnny Cash - Cry! Cry! Cry!
Cold War Kids - Saint John
Cracker - Duty Free
Clash - Spanish Bombs
Coldplay - In My Place
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Over and Over Again
Crowded House - Chocolate Cake
Lloyd Cole - Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken
Calexico - Quattro
Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
Shawn Colvin - Sunny Came Home
Citizen Cope - Brother Lee
Chemical Brothers - Do It Again
Cassandra Wilson - Go to Mexico
Counting Crows - Daylight Fading
Cheap Trick - Southern Girls
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Cornershop - Brimful of Asha
Cat Empire - Sly
Carbon Leaf - Desperation Song
Cat Power - Living Proof
Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane
The Cure - Staring At The Sea
The Changes - Today Is Tonight
The Cars - Moving In Stereo

D
Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone
Desmond Dekker - Rudy Got Soul
Dixie Chicks - Not Ready To Make Nice
The Decemberists - 16 Military Wives
Duran Duran - Ordinary World
Nick Drake - One of These Things First
Death Cab for Cutie - Crooked Teeth
Damien Rice - Cannonball
Dar Williams - Echoes
Dire Straits - Walk of Life
Dr. Dog - My Old Ways
The Doors - Land Ho!
Donavon Frankenreiter - Move By Yourself
Derek & the Dominos - Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad
Delbert McClinton - Old Weakness
Dinosaur Jr. - Start Choppin
Damnwells - I Am A Leaver
Dave Matthews Band - What Would You Say?
David Gray - Be Mine
Thomas Dolby - Silk Pyjamas
Brett Dennen - So Much More
John Denver - Poems, Prayers and Prom
David Gilmour - On an Island
The Dears - Ticket to Immortality
Del Amitri - Stone Cold Sober
Dada - Dizz Knee Land

E
Elvis Presley - Burning Love
Elvis Costello - Watching the Detective
Elvis Perkins - While You Were Sleeping
English Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom
Eels - Saturday Morning
Melissa Etheridge - Bring Me Some Water
Emmylou Harris - Here I Am
Elliot Smith - A Fond Farewell
Eddie from Ohio - Number Six Driver
Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky
Erin McKeown - To The Stars
Eagles - Pretty Maids All In A Row
Kathleen Edwards - In State
Echo & the Bunnymen
Editors - Munich
Eva Castillo - I Can't Stay
Eurythmics - Sisters are Doin' It For Themselves
Etienne De Rocher - The Lizard Song
Euphoria - Back Against the Wall
Elton John - Honky Cat
Edwin Starr - War

F
Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action
Flaming Lips - The W.A.N.D.
Fountains of Wayne - '92 Subaru
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
Fatboy Slim - Wonderful Night
The Fratellis - Flathead
The Fray - Over My Head
Faces - Stay With me
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes
Feist - My Moon My Man
Fiona Apple - Criminal
Five For Fighting - '65 Mustang
Frou Frou - Breathe In
French Kicks - No Mean Time
Bryan Ferry - It's All Over Now Baby
Finn Brothers - Won't Give In
Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove
The Fixx - One Thing Leads to Another
The Features - Contrast
Flying Lizards - Money
Four Tops - Ain't No Woman Like the One I Got
Foo Fighters - My Hero
Fools & Horses - Frera
Fine Young Cannibals - Good THing
Freedy Johnston - Can't Sink this Town
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
The Frames - Falling Slowly
Ben Folds - Gracie

G
Grateful Dead - Cassidy
Great Lake Swimmers - I Am Part of A Large Family
Goldspot - Rewind
G. Love - Love
Gillian Welch - Wayside/Back In Time
Gran Bel Fisher - Moment
Galactic - Uptown Odyssey
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
Gomez - See The World
The Go-Betweens - Cattle and Cane
Grey Eye Glances - Close Your Eyes
Peter Gabriel - Shock the Monkey
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals - Ah mary
Gladys Knight - Midnight Train to Georgia
Golden Smog - 5-22-02
Marvin Gaye - Ain't That Peculiar
The Guggenheim Grotto - Told You So
Guster - Careful
Roger Glover - Queen of England
Guillemots - Trains to Brazil

H
Ben Harper - Better Way
Jimi Hendrix - Bold As Love
John Hiatt - Memphis in the Meantime
Hoodoo Gurus - I Want You Back
The Hold Steady - Stuck Between Stations
Hot Chip - Over and Over
HEM - Half Acre
Robyn Hitchcock 'n' The Egyptians - Madonna of the Wasps
John Hammond - Slick Crown Vic
Bruce Hornsby - Circus on the Moon
Colin Hay - Love Plus One
George Harrison - Give Me Love
Herbie Hancock - Stitched Up
The Holmes Brothers - Shine
Ari Hest - They're On To Me
James Hunter - People Gonna Talk
PJ Harvey - Down By The Water
Heavycoats - Sea Song
The Hidden Cameras - A Woo
The Hiders - Everything I Wanted
Ed Harcourt - Born In The '70s
Handsome Boy Modeling - Breakdown
Jesse Harris - All My Life
Sarah Harmer - Almost
Terri Hendrix - Truth Is Strange
Josh Wesley Harding - Negative Love

I
Iguanas - Late at Night
Indigenous - Rest of My Days
Interpol - The Heinrich Maneuver
Iggy Pop - Nightclubbing
Chris Isaak - Let Me Down Easy
Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine
Isaac Hayes - Walk On By
Isley Brothers - It's Your Thing
Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek
Iron & Wine - Jezebel
Idlewild - El Capitan
Icicle Works
The Ike Reilly Assassination - When Irish Eyes Are Burning
Impressions - People Get Ready
Ike & Tina Turner - Proud Mary
Ingrid Michaelson - Breakable
Incubus - Anna Molly
Ian McCullouch - Love In Veins

J
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Joseph Arthur - Devil's Broom
Joe Jackson - I'm the Man
John Butler Trio - Daniella
Jackie Greene - Hollywood
John Mayer - Bigger Than My Body
James Brown - I Got You
The Jam - That's Entertainment
Jonah Smith - When We Say Goodnight
Jonny Lang - Lie To Me
Jayhawks - Tailspin
Josh Ritter - Kathleen
Mason Jennings - Be Here Now
J.J. Cale - The Problem
Jeff Beck - Over Under Sideways Down
Jamiroquai - Drifting Along
Jackson Browne - Tender Is The Night
Janis Joplin - Try
Jem - They
Jurassic 5 - Work It Out
Jack Johnson - Bubble Toes
Joni Mitchell - A Case of You
Jane's Addiction - Jane Says
Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers
Jean Knight - Mr. Big Stuff
Jet - Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
Josh Rouse - Come Back
James - Laid
Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
Judd & Maggie - Perfectly
Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth
Julian Velard - Joni
J-Roddy Walston and the Business - Rock and Roll the 2nd
Joe Strummer - Coma Girl
Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come
Jarvis Cocker - Don't Let Him Waste You
Jenny Lewis - Rise Up With Fists!!
Jeb Loy Nichols - They Don't Know

K
Keane - Somewhere Only We Know
Kings of Leon - On Call
K's Choice - Not An Addict
Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby
Mark Knopfler - Boom, Like That
Keller Williams - Life
KT Tunstall - Suddenly I See
Ben Kweller - Penny On The Train Track
The Kinks - Read My Mind
Mat Kearney - Nothing Left To Lose
Kasey Chambers - Barricades & Brickwalls

L
Led Zeppelin - Gallows Pole
LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum
Los Lobos - Shakin' Shakin' Shakes
Lily Allen - Knock 'Em Out
Lucinda Williams - 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
Luna - Malibu - Love Nest
Lake Trout - Street Fighting Man
Lyle Lovett - Church
Nick Lowe - Raging Eyes
Los Lonely Boys - My Way
Betty LaVette - Joy
Love and Rockets - Kundalini Express
Lemonheads - Become the Enemy
The La's - There She Goes
John Lennon - Whatever Gets You Thru
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - The Sons of Cain
Luscious Jackson - Naked Eye
Los Straightjackets - Can You Dig It?
Lone Justice - Ways to be Wicked
Jerry Lee Lewis - Pink Cadillac
Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows
Low Millions - Eleanor
Ben Lee - Gamble Everything for Love
Daniel Lanois - For th Beauty of Wynona
Annie Lennox - Walking on Broken Glass
Eric Lindell - Feel Like I Do
The Lightning Seeds - The Life of Riley
La Rocca - This Life
Jamie Lidell - Multiply
The Last Town Chorus - Modern Love
Greg Laswell - Sing, Theresa Says
Toby Lightman - Don't Wake Me
Patty Larkin - Wolf At The Door
The Little Willies - Streets of Baltimore

M
Martin Sexton - Happy
M. Ward - To Go Home
Tift Merritt - Good Hearted Man
James Morrison - You Give Me Something
Mazzy Star - Halah
Moby - Natural Blues
Medeski Martin and Wood - NIght Marches
The Meters - Hand Clapping Song
Mindy Smith - Come to Jesus
Willy Mason - Save Myself
Madness - One Step Beyond
Men at Work - It's A Mistake
Marshall Crenshaw - Someday, Someway
Paul McCartney - Ever Present Past
Morphine - All Wrong
Margot & the Nuclear So & So's - Skeleton Key
Midlake - Head Home
Mojave Three - Breaking the Ice
Mika - Grace Kelly
Magic Numbers - Love Me Like You
Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes
Bob Marley - Buffalo Soldier
Damien Marley - All Night
Morrissey - Suedehead
Muse - Starlight
Meat Puppets - Backwater
Jesse Malin - Don't Let Them Take You Down
George McCrae - Rock Your Baby
Maktub - You Can't Hide
Matisyahu - King Without A Crown
Mates of State - Goods
Michael Franti - Yes I Will
Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy
Modest Mouse - We've Got Everything
My Morning Jacket - Off the Record
moe. - Crab Eyes
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get
Malcolm McLaren - Madam Butterfly
Billy Miles - We Can't Help You
Morcheeba - Trigger Hippie
Matthew Ryan - Little Things
Shawn Mullins - Lullaby
Nellie McKay - David
Bob Mould - See A Little Light
Marcy Playground - Sex and Candy
Marc Cohn - Walk Through the World

N
Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On
Norah Jones - Sinkin' Soon
Leona Naess - Calling
Nouvelle Vague - Guns of Brixton
Harry Nilsson - Everybody's Talkin'
Anna Nalick - Breathe (2 AM)
The Nightwatchman - The Road I Must Travel
Neil Finn - Driving Me Mad

Robbie the Underwriting guy! Of course he's a Pool Shark!

WTMD LIsteners ..is that Red Bull causing that Red Eye?

Live At Sonar!

And Patchen's drinking soda!


Here's John Mathews In front of the Mic giving us all things indie and alternative




Ace Volunteer Fletcher, Erik and Patchen debatng what the Best Indie Band of All Time Is!


Pictures as they happen from our live broadcast right now...for Altered Fridays.

1st Thursday concert recap

Hi everybody,

I posted a review of last night's show on my new Baltimore Sun nightlife/local music blog.

Read it here.

-Sam

A-Z in 1985

Well I'm a young guy...born in '85...I've had many 80's parties in my college career and if A-Z was done for 1985 it might look something like this:

A-Ha - Take On Me
Bruce Springsteen - Glory Days
Chaka Khan - I Feel For You
Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
Eurythmics - Would I Lie To You?
Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is
Glenn Frey - The Heat Is On
Honeydrippers - Sea of Love
INXS - This Time
John Parr - St. Elmo's Fire
Kool and the Gang - Misled
Lionel Richie - Penny Lover
Madonna - Like A Virgin
New Edition - Cool It Now
Billy Ocean - Suddenly
Phil Collins and Philip Bailey - Easy Lovet
Stacey Q - Shy Girl
REO Speedwagon - Can't Fight This Feeling
Starship - We Built This City
Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule The World
U.S.A. For Africa - We Are The World
Luther Vandross - Til My Baby Comes Home
Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
Klymaxx - I Miss You
Paul Young - Everytime You Go Away
ZZ Top - Sleeping Bag

"F" is for Folk

Continuing our A-Z excitement, here's an alphabetical list of great contemporary folk artists and singer/songwriters (with musical accompaniment by Kate Rusby)...


Beth Amsel
Dan Bern
Cry, Cry, Cry (which lets me squeeze in Lucy Kaplansky)
Ani Difranco
Eddie from Ohio
Melissa Ferrick
John Gorka
Annie Hayden
Iron & Wine
Jim's Big Ego
Jess Klein
Patty Larkin
Peter Mulvey
The Nields
Old Crow Medicine Show
Rose Polenzani
The "Queen of Quiet," Erin McKeown (pronounced "Mc-'Q'-en")
Kate Rusby
Richard Shindell
The Frames
Utah Phillips
Vance Gilbert
Dar Williams
Moxy Fruvous
Yonder Mountain Spring Band
Kristin Allen-Zito

WTMD's Web Stream Could Be Stopped

Hey Music people... Its Bug again.. wow 2 blogs in 2 weeks this must be important, and it is.. Recently at the station we have had a few small discussions about a new Fee that could change internet radio as we know it. In the past few months the Copyright Royalty Board has endorsed a plan by the RIAA (Record Idusrty Assosciation of America) to impose fees for internet streaming. Many radio stations and buisnesses that use streaming technology are argueing that they will not gain nough revenue from these streams to keep them running. We are all learning about this as it is happening. I have found a couple articles from various sources that explain a little about whats going on.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9163084

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/03/internet_radio.html

http://www.forbes.com/home/technology/2007/03/06/radio-internet-ruling-tech-cx_lh_0307radio.html

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6426252.html?display=Breaking+News&referral=SUPP&nid=2228

This is a huge issue and i wanted to make some infomation available so everyone can get an idea of what this means for internet radio.

Sam's top 26

Here are my favorite 26 songs by 26 of my favorite bands, in alphabetical order:

Zeppelin - Ten Years Gone (14 guitar tracks? what?)
Young, Neil - Love in Mind (sometimes makes me teary)
Xavier Rudd - Fortune Teller
Warren Zevon - Hasten Down the Wind
Van Morrison - Sweet Thing
U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name
Traffic - The High Spark of Low Heeled Boys (dark, hypnotic)
Stones - Heartbreaker (Do Do Do Do Do)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Power of Equality (hey batta batta)
Queen - Under Pressure
Presely, Elvis - Don't be Cruel (bop, bop)
Oranges Band - White Ride
New Deal, the - Ray Parker Suite II (my favorite newish band)
Monty Python - Sit On My Face
Lindsay Buckingham - Big Love (sick guitar work)
Killers - All These Things That I've Done
Jackson Browne - These Days (he wrote it for Nico)
INXS - I Need You Tonight
Hall and Oates - She's Gone (some fine '70s soul)
Georgie James - Cheap Champagne
Frankie Valli - Can't Take My Eyes Off You (too good to be true)
Eric Clapton - Motherless Children
David Bowie - Golden Years
Cale, J.J. - Magnolia ('you're the best I've ever had')
Beatles - Don't Let Me Down
America - Golden (cover, but still, sweeping)

Whistling Letters

You can't go wrong with a whistling song. Just ask the Seven Dwarfs- it worked for them! And to get us ready for Peter, Bjorn and John's Morning Sessions Friday, let's purse our lips, take a sip of water and whistle along to these tunes:

1. Tori Amos- Cornflake Girl
2. David Bowie- Golden Years
3. The Cruel Sea- Black Stick
4. De La Soul- Eye Know
5. Eels- I Like Birds
6. Faith No More- Helpless
7. Peter Gabriel- Games Without Frontiers
8. Harry Nilsson- Wasting My Time
9. Ricki Lee Jones- I Won't Grow Up
10. J Geils- Centerfold/Billy Joel- The Stranger
11. Edward Kowalczyk of LIVE- Waitress
12. John Lennon- Jealous Guy
13. The Meat Puppets- the Whistling Song
14. Neil Finn- Try Whistling This
15. Otis Redding- Sitting on the Dock of the Bay
16. Paul Simon- Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard
17. Q-
18. Phish- Reba
18. Split Enz- Six Months in a Leaky Boat
18. Terrence Trent D'Arby- Wishing Well
19. My Morning Jacket- It Beats For U
21. Victoria Bergsman helping out Peter, Bjorn and John- Young Folk
22. Ween- Don't Get Close to My Fantasy
23. XTC- Generals and Majors
24. Neil Young and Crazy Horse- Prime of Life
25. Z

...As you can see, I've got a couple of open spots for "q" and "z". Any ideas? Queen? Zappa?

"V" is for Video

And with this video of The Aislers Set, I kick off my video-packed A-Z list:

The Aislers Set (with another version of "Hit the Snow")
Belle & Sebastian
Crooked Fingers
The Decemberists
Eisley
Fountains of Wayne
Ben Gibbard (of Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service)
The Hold Steady (edging out the obscure and videoless Haywood)
Imperial Teen
Jude
Karmella's Game
Led Zeppelin (they can't all be indie!)
Monarch (with apologies to Mates of State and The Mountain Goats)
Neutral Milk Hotel
The Old 97's
The Push Kings
Q and Not U (I'm totally lying; my favorite "Q" is Queensrÿche)
The Russian Futurists
Stars
Too Much Joy
Uncle Tupelo
The Vaselines (and Nirvana covering them)
The Weakerthans
XTC
Yo La Tengo
Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer (with a nod to Warren Zevon)

Enjoy the tunes...and I hope you're excited for our A-Z Spring Fund Drive!

From A to Z...

Let's start at the top...

A - Alexi Murdoch...our very first emerging artist and one of the most authentic artists around today.

B - Beck...always one step ahead.

C - Cash...Johnny Cash

D - Dylan...nuff said

E - Elvis...

F - Fools & Horses...gotta get some B-More music in this list

G - Gnarls Barkely...still crazy

H - Hendrix...

I - Iron & Wine...one of the few artists who can write songs that are 9 minutes + and I still want more...

J - Jeff Buckley...one can only imagine

K - The Killers...they make me wanna drive really fast

L - Lily Allen...what a firecracker

M - Dave Matthews Band...possibly the most grounded band in rock n roll

N - Neil or Norah...pick one

O - Oasis...whether the music or the bickering, you gotta love it all!

P - Pearl Jam...Ten is still one of the most freq. played records in my CD player

Q - Quincy Jones...HE PRODUCED THRILLER!!!

R - Red Hot Chili Peppers...John Frusciante is an amazing story himself, but a band that just seems unstoppable

S - Stones'....Rolling, Sly, Joss

T - Traffic...Mr. Fantasy still one of the greatest debuts of all-time

U - U2...that's an easy one

V - Vans...Morrison & Hunt

W - Waits...I'm working my way backwards through his catalogue and it is truly amazing

X - X

Y - Yusuf...aka Cat Stevens, I feel like I'm cheating on this one, but it's getting tough

Z - Zappa...let's end with another tie to B-More

Alpha Beta Cal

26 artists may sound like a lot, but when you do it Alphabetically it's FUN!
Talk with your co-workers, friends & family; see how many they can come up with in one sitting. Submit yours here and be sure to listen in as we start with A on May 5th.

Here is my list of artists from A to Z:

Albert Hammond Jr.
Bjork
Concerte Blonde
Decemberists
Steve Earle
Feist
Gnarls Barkley
John Hiatt
Imogen Heap
Jerry Lee Lewis
Ben Kweller
G. Love
Arctic Monkeys
North Mississippi Allstars
Old 97s
Brothers Past
Queen
Radiohead
Son Volt
Temple of the Dog
Uncle Tupelo
Victor Wooton
Lucinda Williams
Xavier Rudd
Neil Young
Frank Zappa

Steph's A to Z

Luv a little challenge ... and wanted a few "extra points"... so searched for some X bands and thanks to the help of a "Ask Us Now" librarian (check out bcplonline.org) found some. But... haven't had a chance to listen to any of them yet!! Maybe our WTMD programmers will decide to play one or two!!

Amos Lee
Beatles
Citizen Cope
Nick Drake
Eastmountainsouth
Ben Folds
Buddy Guy
Jimi Hendrix
Incubus
Josh Rouse
Lenny Kravitz
Led Zeppelin
Alexi Murdoch
Nirvana
Oasis
Pink Floyd
Queen
Rolling Stones
Stevie Ray Vaughan
The Thorns
U2
Van Hunt
The Who

Xcessive - Pop Rock
Xcountry - Country
Xkizofrenia - Progressive Metal
Xoch - Pop
Xrayok - Alternative Rock

Yo La Tengo
Ziggy Marley

John's A To Z Clash

All The Young Punks(Boots & Contracts)
Brand New Cadillac
Clampdown
Death Or Glory
English Civil War
Four Horsemen
Guns Of Brixton
Hateful
I Fought The Law
Julies Been Working For The Drug Squad
Know Your Rights
London's Calling
The Magnificent Seven
North South
Overpowered By Funk
Police On My Back
Rudie Can't Fail
Spanish Bombs
Train in Vain
Wrong'Em Boyo