Hell's Kitchen Radio #399: Keep With The Program

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How did we get here so fast? Well, it's been just about ten years, so not exactly fast, but 399 is a pretty big number. To be honest, I've hosted more than 400 shows on Radio Valencia since our inception in August 2010. Many of my specials like Rock Fight and the Annual Annual don't get a show number. So I'm closer to 420 than 400, but let's not let semantics get in the way of a good time. 

There's always an excuse to party, and in days like these we don't need many excuses. 

I don't know about you but I've been spending a lot of my days with the music flowing. Right now as I sit and write this I'm listening to a Sonic Youth show from November 26, 1992. What a fabulous soundboard!!! Maybe I'll feature it on my Wednesday afternoon show. Oh wait, I didn't tell you about my other show on Radio Valencia? I decided to commandeer Wednesday noon-2pm to feature my vast live bootleg library. I've hosted two shows so far, the first featuring a Pink Floyd show from 1970, and the second, a Led Zeppelin show from 1975. There's so much goodness to share, I just can't keep all of this great music to myself.

You should "like" my Facebook page and see what music I'm listening to, and take a poll to help me choose which bands/shows to play on my Wednesday slot.

As for my Monday show, and show #399, I start with a brand spankin' new Public Enemy track, showing that we haven't gotten very far in the past 31 years, let alone 401. There are covers as usual, some funk, some jazz, some punk, everything you have come to love and enjoy after 399 shows in Hell's Kitchen. 

Every set is the set of the night!

I don't know what I have in store for my official #400 show next Monday night. I'm not very good at planning my shows. Really, I'm not. I try to go with what feels good, so I may need to keep to that formula. 

Enjoy.

jh

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Fight the Power 2020: Public Enemy

Swampland: Melvins with Mark Arm

Black Mountain: Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan

Set It On Fire: The Scientists

Retribution: Abbey Lincoln

Farewell to Ibusa: Afro Funk

Banned in DC: Bad Brains

Baby: Psychic Ills

Cornflower Suite: Suni McGrath

Funeral For A Great Drunken Bird: All Them Witches 

Tiger Mountain Peasant Song: First Aid Kit

Let's Go Hunt For Grandpa: Goober and the Peas

Space Rinse: Gøggs

Immigrant Punk: Gogol Bordello

Earth People: Dr. Octogon

Do You Realize?: Flaming Lips

Biological Speculation: Funkadelic

Make It NY: Ghostface Killah

Lady Day and John Coltrane: Gil Scott-Heron

Susperia: Goblin

You Gotta Move: RL Burnside

Mistreating Queen: Radio Moscow

Bales of Cocaine: Reverend Horton Heat

Food Sickles and Girls: The Mummies

Ricky: Butthole Surfers

What A Wonderful World: Louis Armstrong

Check out that great new Public Enemy video for the updated "Fight the Power" right here!!!

Hell's Kitchen Radio #327: Express Yourself

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After so many shows where it feels like I'm paying tribute to some lost musical genius, I needed to cleanse my Hellish soul. This show is sure to get your toes tappin'. On the menu are some classics and some tracks that are soon to be classic in your collection.

I also take a few minutes in the middle of the program to discuss my current thoughts on the state of commercial radio (one of my favorite topics), and the possible (and hopefully impending) bankruptcy of iHeart Radio (formerly Clear Channel). I'd love your thoughts on this. Feel free to leave a comment.

Just take a look at this playlist. Curtis, JB, Fela, Beasties, Brother Ray, Last Poets, The Meters, Aretha, Toots, Parliament, NWA!!!!!!!

DAMN, GET ON THE GOOD FOOT!

Enjoy.

jh

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Mondays 8-10PM
Radio Valencia in SF
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Right On For The Darkness: Curtis Mayfiled
Lickin' Stick Lickin' Stick: James Brown

Let's Start: Fela Kuti and Ginger Baker
Hit It And Pass It: Rasputin Stash

Make It New York: Ghostface Killah
Sure Shot: Beastie Boys
Investigation: Carl Holmes
I Get A Kick Out Of You: Tony Bennett

Moonlight Mile: Lee Fields and the Expressions
There Is A Mountain: Jo Jones

Got What It Takes: Lord Loves A Working Man
Can't Help Myself: Brother Joscephus and the Love Revival Orchestra
Drown In My Own Tears: Ray Charles

F.U.N.K.: Betty Davis
The White Man's Got A God Complex: Last Poets
Darkest Light: Lafayette Afro Rock Band
Ride Your Pony: The Meters

Funky Kingston: Toots and the Maytals
People Get Ready: Aretha Franklin
Chocolate City: Parliament

Express Yourself: N.W.A.