Wow.  The new server is super-responsive.  It’s kinda nice.  Also kinda nice was tonight’s show. After subbing for The Haberdasher on The Man In the Grey Flannel Suit Show, I totally rocked it out on Mother’s Milk too.  It was a good evening.  If you’re interested in more late-night Josh-DJing, check out Dog Germs tomorrow night, as I’m subbing for Tommy Atrien. 

UPDATE: Podcast of the show is available for download here!

Here’s what I played tonight:

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Our migration to a new server – which is much speedier – is complete, and we’re very happy about it.  Please comment here if you notice anything that’s broken, but a quick examination seems to show everything functioning better than it ever has before!

Since the site was unavailable during tonight’s broadcast, I was unable to post the setlist here.  It is available at http://wrir.org/index.php?/blog/entry/1337/ – due to the way it was saved at the WRIR website (in a table) it’s not cutting-and-pasting properly, and I think it would be better for all parties if you just go ahead and click the link, rather than me throwing a big ole’ unformatted mess on this one.  Next week will see the setlists return to mothersmilkradio.com – we apologize for any inconvenience.

If you missed the show live, as per always, you can download it in convenient .mp3 form at Radio4All.net.

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Here’s the list of Mother’s Milk-recommended live-music awesomeness in the Richmond-and-surrounding-areas sorta region… as always, if you know of something I missed, please leave a comment or email mothersmilkradio@gmail.com and let me know. Keep drinking, brothers and sisters…

10/04/2010 – The Hold Steady, Wintersleep @ 930 (DC) (SOLD OUT)
10/05/2010 – Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax @ Hampton Coliseum (NOR)
10/06/2010 – Fight the Big Bull @ Balliceaux (RVA)
10/08/2010 – Southern Culture On the Skids @ Plaza Bowl (RVA)
10/08/2010 – Tereu Tereu @ Rock and Roll Hotel (DC)
10/09/2010 – Southern Culture On the Skids @ 930 (DC)
10/12/2010 – Jeff the Brotherhood @ Strange Matter (RVA)
10/13/2010 – Jeff the Brotherhood @ Black Cat (DC)
10/15/2010 – Volture!, Battlemaster @ Strange Matter (RVA)
10/15/2010 – Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan @ Rock and Roll Hotel (DC)
10/16/2010 – Horsehead, Blue Whisky @ The Canal Club (RVA)
10/16/2010 – Tim Barry, Josh Small, Pedals On Our Pirate Ships @ The Camel (RVA)
10/16/2010 – Dead Kennedys @ Rock and Roll Hotel (DC)
10/22/2010 – WRIR Monster Mashquerade feat. The Green Hearts @ The Camel (RVA)
10/19/2010 – Richard Thompson @ 930 (DC)
10/20/2010 – Gary Numan @ Black Cat (DC)
10/21/2010 – Insane Clown Posse @ The Norva (NOR)
10/21/2010 – Guided By Voices @ 930 (DC)
10/22/2010 – Photosynthisizers @ Balliceaux (RVA)
10/23/2010 – The Riot Before @ The Camel (RVA)
10/24/2010 – Rocky Votalato, Ha Ha Tonka @ The Camel (RVA)
10/26/2010 – Imperial Order, Low On Sanity, Tempelteka @ The Camel (RVA)
10/26/2010 – Social Distortion, Lucero, FRANK TURNER @ 930 (DC) (SOLD OUT)
10/27/2010 – Me First & the Gimme Gimmes @ Black Cat (DC)
10/29/2010 – Drive-By Truckers @ The National (RVA)
10/30/2010 – Pedals On Our Pirate Ships @ The Canal Club (RVA)
10/30/2010 – Drive-By Truckers @ The National (RVA)
10/31/2010 – Night of the Living Dead Bands 2 @ Strange Matter (NOFX, Bad Religion, Damned, Blue Oyster Cult, Descendants, and Misfits tribute bands)

Every Friday, Beers and Banjos @ the Camel
Poe’s Pub hasn’t updated their calendar for October yet, so I can’t tell if they’ll have anything worth seeing or not, yet. I’ll update this list if they’ve got anything.

For the record, I vouch for every band on this page as being something worth checking out, if you’re into the kind of music they do, except for the Dead Kennedys thing. I’m pretty sure there’s no Jello in there, so it’s basically a cover-band as far as I’m concerned; if you want to see a Dead Kennedys cover band, you could probably do worse than seeing one with original members in it, but after all the drama between those dudes n’ Jello Biafra, it just seems kinda… I dunno. I balk at giving them my thumbs-up; they’re presumably reasonably succesful, so I don’t think they’ll mind too much. I mentioned it here solely as a curiosity, rather than as a recommendation.

— devlocke

Weird show tonight.  Started out with two (quick) sober songs that I just adore, and that have been begging me to play them for months.  The rest of the first hour is gonna be some Americana-esque stuff, and then in the second hour we’ll be checking out some bands that are playing in the area this week.  Drink up, you mother-effers…

UPDATE:  Miss the show?  Wanna get drunk NOW?  Fine, just click here and download it.  We can ALL BE HAPPY, ALL THE TIME!

Setlist:

Colt .45 Theme
The LeRoi Brothers – Ballad of the LeRoi Brothers
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals – A Kiss Before I Go
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals – The End
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals – Hard Way To Fall
Kirk Rundstrom – Whiskey’s Gone
Jason & the Scorchers – Broken Whiskey Glass (Live)
Alejandro Escovedo – Little Bottles
Waco Bros. – White Lightning
Dash Rip Rock – Leave Me Alone (To My Bottle)
Rank and File – White Lightnin’
Used Carlotta – Wasted Words
Used Carlotta – Down On My Knees
Used Carlotta – Nothing Real
Me First & the Gimme Gimmes – Sunday Morning, Coming Down
Lys Guillorn – You Can’t Put Your Arms Around A Memory
Jazze Pha & Cee Lo Green – Happy Hour
C-Rayz Walz – Whiskey Mechanics
Slayer – DDAMM
Megadeth – Wake Up Dead
Anthrax – Finale
Battlemaster – This Mead Is Making Me Warlike
Tereu Tereu – Don’t Be Sore, Farmer John
Southern Culture On the Skids – Liquored Up and Lacquered Down
Destructive Minds – Fuck Light Beer
Viking Skull – Drink
Morphine – Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer
John Frusciante – New Dawn Fades
Ceann – Fest (Sime Humility)
Destructive Minds – Closing Time

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Great show tonight!  All over the place, as usual.  We’ll be startin’ out with rock but rapidly rolling on out into murkier waters.  It’s gonna be a good time, so grab yourself a beer, sit down your rear, and open your ears!

Setlist:

*The Toronados – Bottle Rocket
Steve McWilliams – Hard Road
Jimmy Catlett – 3.0
Jimmy Catlett – The Truth About Angels
Murder Inc. – Mrs. Whiskey Name
David Byrne – The Man Who Loved Beer
Shang-A-Lang – A Couple More Drinks
Daylight Lovers – King of Useless Drinking
Low Point Drains – Bottle ‘O’ Whiskey
Snow Patrol – Set the Fire To the Third Bar (feat. Martha Wainwright)
The Head and the Heart – Down In the Valley
Frightened Rabbit – Keep Yourself Warm
The Triffids – Born Sandy Devotional
The Triffids – Lonely Stretch
The Triffids – Goodbye Little Boy
Pat Macdonald – Whiskey Bottle
The Rolling Stones – Let It Loose
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals – Let It Ride
Pulp – She’s A Lady
The Beatles – Yer Blues
Teen Idols – Genuine Whiskey Man
New Soul Cowboys – Purple Whiskey Sack
Bastards On Parade – Whiskey In My Heart
Dear Landlord – Whiskey and Records
*Thousands – Whiskey Fueled Rockets

* – Couldn’t find a website for these guys.  The Toronados are defunct, but were an earlier Steve McWilliams band, and (some of?) the members backed him on Saturday.  The track by Thousands appears on a compilation.  YOU try searching google for a band called Thousands and tell me what YOU come up with.

— devlocke

MUSICS!  AND BOOZE!  Drink up, and enjoy a taste of what’s playin’ around town in the next seven days, followed by some requests by loyal listeners.  It’s gonna be a damn good time… I promise!

Setlist:

The Hold Steady – Rock Problems
The Hold Steady – Joke About Jamaica
The Hold Steady – Sequestered In Memphis
ZZ Top – Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers
Street Dogs – Tobe’s Got A Drinking Problem
Street Dogs – Drink Tonight
Street Dogs – 2 Bottles
White Cross – No Straight Edge
White Cross – Having Fun
White Cross – Wasted
White Cross – Fucked Up
Slash’s Snakepit – Ain’t Life Grand
Slash – Beautiful Dangerous (feat. Fergie)
Billy Bragg – Greetings To the New Brunette
Billy Bragg – Valentine’s Day Is Over
Fairport Convention – Three Drunken Maidens
Richard Thompson – God Loves A Drunk
Fairport Convention – John Barleycorn
Richard & Linda Thompson – Down Where the Drunkards Roll
Horsehead – Heartbreakin’ Songs
George Jones – If Drinking Don’t Kill Me
Corb Lund – Rye Whiskey / Time To Switch To Whiskey (Live)
Jerry Jeff Walker – Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mothers
Dash Rip Rock – Go Home Little Girl
Hayes Carll – She Left Me For Jesus
Flesh Mountain Boys – Taking Sally To the Morgue
Cole Porter – Well Did You Evah (feat. Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby)
Warren Zevon – Lawyers, Guns, and Money (Live)
SR-71 – Blood & Bourbon
Southern Whiskey Rebellion – The Ecstasy In Alcoholism
Elvis Costello – Honky Tonk Girl
Oingo Boingo – Ain’t This the Life

— devlocke

Rock n’ roll juggernaut!  Hell of a show for you tonight, guys… thanks for listening, and drink the hell up! The second hour will close out with episode 6 of Rum Doings, which will not be included in the podcast of the show. If you would like to hear that Rum Doings episode, click here to download it from the creator.

The podcast of the show, alternately, is available here.  It was a good show, despite my general state of confusion due to lingering illness, a long drunken night, and a busy day beforehand.

Setlist:

The Meatmen – Rock n’ Roll Juggernaut
The Meatmen – Wine, Wenches, and Wheels
The Meatmen – Alcohol
Canned Heat – Going Up the Country
Treat Her Right – I Wish You Would
Waco Brothers – To The Last Dead Cowboy
Bouncing Souls – Holiday Cocktail Lounge
Charlatans UK – Clean Up Kid
Public Enemy – 1 Million Bottlebags
Gang of Four – To Hell With Poverty
Oingo Boingo – Imposter
X – The Have Nots
Elvis Costello – Party Party
Modest Mouse – Polar Opposites
Joy Division – New Dawn Fades
The Hold Steady – Magazines
Pulp – David’s Last Summer
The Triffids – Tender Is the Night (The Long Fidelity)

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DJ Ginger was great filling in on Monday night – I don’t know if she’d ever even listened to an episode of Mother’s Milk before, but she really got the vibe just right.  Everything from brit-pop to bluegrass, it’s a delightfully eclectic and wonderfully boozy mix of grade-A tunes.  So check it out:  Click here to download it.  Curious about the setlist?  It’s over at the WRIR website, here.

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You may have noticed that last night, I wasn’t manning the 1’s n’ 2’s – I was fortunate enough to find a delightful sub for the 8/30 show so I could go see Tesco Vee’s current project at Banditos.  It was awesome, and – catching the last hour or so after leaving the bar, last night – so was DJ Ginger’s delightful take on Mother’s Milk.  Expect the podcast of that to be up in the near future, but until then, here’s our guide to great bands to get drunk to, this month!

09/01/2010 – Deftones @ The National (RVA)
09/03/2010 – Black Cash & the Bad Trips @ Cary St. Cafe (RVA)
09/03/2010 – Flesh Mountain Boys @ Balliceaux (RVA)
09/04/2010 – Hank III @ The National (RVA)
09/04/2010 – Octane Saints, Point Blank @ Wonderland (RVA)
09/04/2010 – The Riot Before @ Strange Matter (RVA)
09/04/2010 – Cowboy Mouth @ 930 (DC)
09/05/2010 – Tears For Fears @ The National (RVA)
09/05/2010 – Hank III @ 930 (DC)
09/09/2010 – The Charlatans UK @ Black Cat (DC)
09/10/2010 – Public Enemy @ The Hat Factory (RVA)
09/11/2010 – La Mere Vipere, Buck Gooter @ Couch Heaven (RVA)
09/11/2010 – The Bouncing Souls @ Black Cat (DC)
09/14/2010 – ZZ Top @ The National (RVA)
09/16/2010 to 09/19/2010 – F-Bomb Comedy Festival @ The Hat Factory (RVA)
09/16/2010 – Street Dogs @ Rock n’ Roll Hotel (DC)
09/18/2010 – White Cross, Craptain Jack and the Schmees @ Strange Matter (RVA)
09/18/2010 – Slash @ The Norva (NOR)
09/19/2010 – Billy Bragg @ 930 (DC)
09/20/2010 – The Hold Steady @ The National (RVA)
09/21/2010 – Alejandro Escovedo @ The Birchmere (DC)
09/21/2010 – Murder By Death @ Rock n’ Roll Hotel (DC)

09/23/2010 – Horsehead @ Sixburner (RVA)
09/23/2010 – Eels @ The National (RVA)
09/23/2010 – Bobby Bare Jr. @ IOTA (DC)
09/24/2010 – The Jim O’Ferrell Band @ Cary St. Cafe (RVA)
09/25/2010 – David Bazan @ Black Cat (DC)
09/26/2010 – Eels @ 930 (DC)
09/26/2010 – Shonen Knife @Rock n’ Roll Hotel (DC)
09/27/2010 – Gaslight Anthem @ The National (RVA)
09/28/2010 – Bermuda Triangles @ Strange Matter (RVA)
09/29/2010 – Peelander-Z, Point Blank, Hershel Stratego @ The Camel (RVA)
09/29/2010 – Swans @ Black Cat (DC)
09/30/2010 – Rory Block @ Ashland Coffee & Tea (RVA)

Buncha stuff this month!  Unfortunately, it seems like some of the most interesting stuff is in DC, so some road-tripping may be in order.

I suppose a bit of explanation is in order:  Generally speaking, every band I list on my monthly concert calendar has at least one truly great drinking song.  This month, there are a couple of exceptions; I included them, because they’re either bands I really like, or bands that other people I know really like, and I’m pretty sure that getting drunk at ANY of these shows will be a blast.

In case you’re worried you might accidentally see a band that doesn’t sing about drinking, here are the bands I can’t confirm a drinking song by: Deftones, Tears For Fears, Charlatans UK, Eels, Peelander-Z, Shonen Knife, and The Jim O’Ferrell Band. If you know of any drinking songs by any of those bands, please let me know in the comments so I can feel better about myself. 🙂

— devlocke

Tonight, we celebrate the immense and diverse collection of music put together by Hobbs!  All over the place, and a barrel of fun, starting off with an epic 25-minute-long blues number, but I promise that’s the ONLY super-long track I’m playing tonight.  Unlike, for example, The Haberdasher, this evening…:)

Miss the show?  No worries, mein Freund!  Click here to download it…

Setlist:

Buddy Guy & Stevie Ray Vaughn – Champagne and Reefer
Nikki and the Corvettes – Let’s Go
Southern Culture – Liquored Up and Lacquered Down (Live)
Los Lobos – Wicked Rain / Across 110th St. (feat. Bobby Womack)
Liz Phair – Help Me Mary
Lou Reed – New Sensations
Tiny Tim With Brave Combo – Sly Cigarette
XTC – Frivolous Tonight
Radiohead – The Bends
Pop Will Eat Itself – Wake Up! Time To Die!
The Fall – Cowboy George
Nashville Pussy – All Fucked Up
Page Wilson & Reckless Abandon – Nouveax Beaujolais
The Knitters – I’ll Go Down Swinging
Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys – Honky Tonk Women
Becky Hobbs – Rockin’ and Rollin’ and Raisin’ Hell
R. L. Burnside – R.L.’s Story
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – More News From Nowhere
Sisters Of Mercy – Flood I
Will Hoge – Be The One
Judas Priest – Exciter

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