Here's the playlist for Part 2 of Coldwave (1980s French Post-Punk & Underground Rock), which was broadcast on Saturday, April 18, 2015. 

Martin Dupont - "Just Because"
Exces Nocturne - "L'ennemi"
Opera Multi Steel - "Regret Qui S'Ecaille"
Lucie Cries - "Clara"
Guerre Froide - "La Chanson D'Ian"
Modernes - "Ver L'est"
Les Garcons - "Les Deux Amants"
Act - "Ping Pong"
Polyphonic Size - "Je T'ai Tojours Aimee"
Indochine - "Miss Paramount"
Orchestre Rouge - "Je Cherche Une Drogue (Qui Ne Fait Pas Mal)"
Opera de Nuit - "Invitation"

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Here's the playlist for our Saturday, April 11, 2015, broadcast, which was a loosely themed 1980s-1990s (but mostly 90s) Britpop and U.K. indie-pop show (with a few Kiwi tracks thrown in). 

Hefner - "The Greedy Ugly People"
Television Personalities - "Smashing Time"
The Pastels - "Comin' Through"
Comet Gain - "Movies"
Heavenly - "Pet Monkey"
The Clean - "Beatnik"
The Bats - "Made Up in Blue"
The Pooh Sticks - "Time to Time"
The Soup Dragons - "Slow Things Down"
Supergrass - "Lose It"
Suede - "Moving"
Sultans of Ping F.C. - "You Talk Too Much"
Spare Snare - "As a Matter of Fact"
Adorable - "Still Life"
The Charlottes - "Liar"
The Chills - "Singing in My Sleep"
The Family Cat - "Pass Away"

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Here's the playlist for our Saturday, March 21, 2015, broadcast, which adhered to no particular theme. It's just a good batch of songs for a Saturday night in late March in Wisconsin:

Can - "I'm So Green"
Ride - "Close My Eyes"
Swervedriver - "Duel"
Sonic Youth - "The Sprawl"
Suicide - "Girl"
Moon Duo - "Slow Down Low"
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - "Vacuum Boots"
Bedhead - "Haywire"
Christie Front Drive - "Lot"
Tom Verlaine - "At 4 A.M."
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - "Inside the World of the Blues Explosion"
Destruction Unit - "Slow Death Sounds"

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This episode of our I'm a Rock'n'Roll Star series - the seventh so far - is a little different than most, in that it focuses on a man, Alan McGee, best-known as a record label owner, not a musician. McGee was in fact a musician (pictured above right with his 1980s indie-pop band Biff Bang Pow!) but he made his name as the notorious, outspoken head of the U.K. label Creation Records, which introduced the world to many of the best indie-pop, shoegaze, and Britpop bands of the 1980s and 1990s: The Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Ride, Felt, The Pastels, Teenage Fanclub, and Oasis, to name but a few.

Here's the playlist for "Alan McGee's Creation Stories: Riots, Raves and Running a Label," which was broadcast on Saturday, March 14, 2015:

Swervedriver - "Red Queen Arms Race"
Biff Bang Pow! - "Love's Going Out of Fashion"
Slaughter Joe - "I'll Follow You Down"
The Loft - "Up the Hill and Down the Slope"
Television Personalities - "Part Time Punks"
The Jesus and Mary Chain - "In a Hole"
My Bloody Valentine - "Feed Me With Your Kiss"
Slowdive - "Slowdive"
Ride - "Drive Blind"
The House of Love - "Destroy the Heart"
Felt - "September Lady"
Teenage Fanclub - "What You Do to Me"
Primal Scream - "Higher Than the Sun"

Here's the playlist for "Kim Gordon's Girl in a Band" - the sixth installment in our I'm a Rock'n'Roll Star series - which was broadcast on Saturday, March 7, 2015:

Sonic Youth - "Shaking Hell"
Theoretical Girls - "You Got Me"
DNA - "Blonde Red Head"
Destroy All Monsters - "Vampire"
Lydia Lunch - "Lazy in Love"
Sonic Youth - "Tunic (Song for Karen)"
Royal Trux - "Up the Sleeve"
Free Kitten - "Revlon Liberation Orchestra"
Big Nils - "Cuba Swag"
Pussy Galore - "Yu Gung"
Ciccone Youth - "Addicted to Love"
Sonic Youth - "Little Trouble Girl"
Body/Head - "Last Mistress"
Public Image Ltd. - "Flowers of Romance"

Here's the playlist for "Alex James's Bit of a Blur" - the fifth installment in our I'm a Rock'n'Roll Star series - which was broadcast on Saturday, February 28, 2015:

Blur - "Go Out"
New Order - "Blue Monday"
The Teardrop Explodes - "Reward"
The Clash - "Bankrobber"
Blur - "Country House"
Oasis - "Roll With It"
Elastica - "Never Here"
The Sugarcubes - "Delicious Demon"
Blur - "Threadneedle Street"
Fat Les - "Vindaloo"
Françoise Hardy - "To the End"
Graham Coxon - "R U Lonely?"
Assembly Line People Program - "Noise Vision 80"

Here's the playlist for "Neville Staple's Original Rude Boy" - the fourth installment in our I'm a Rock'n'Roll Star series - which was broadcast on Saturday, February 14, 2015:

The Specials - "Gangsters"
Desmond Dekker - "Rudy Got Soul"
The Skatalites - "Guns of Navarone"
Ray King Soul Band - "So Tired of Dreamin'"
The Clash - "(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais"
Elvis Costello - "Watching the Detectives"
The Specials - "Ghost Town (12" Version)"
The Bodysnatchers - "Let's Do Rock Steady"
The Selecter - "On My Radio"
The (English) Beat - "Ranking Full Stop"
Madness - "The Prince"
The Specials - "Rat Race"
Fun Boy Three - "The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum)"
The Go-Go's - "Our Lips Are Sealed"
The Toasters - "Too Hip to Be Cool"

Here's the playlist for "Iggy Pop's I Need More" - the third installment in our I'm a Rock'n'Roll Star series - which was broadcast on Saturday, February 7, 2015:

The Stooges - "1969"
Harry Partch & Gate 5 Ensemble - "Eleven Instrusions II: Study on Archytas' Enharmonic"
Bob Dylan - "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"
The Velvet Underground & Nico - "Heroin"
Iggy & The Stooges - "Shake Appeal"
MC5 - "The Human Being Lawnmower"
Alice Cooper - "Reflected"
Destroy All Monsters - "Bored"
Iggy Pop - "Dum Dum Boys"
David Bowie - "TVC 15"
Iggy Pop & James Williamson - "Kill City"
Minutemen - "Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs"

Here's the playlist for "Wolfgang Flur's Kraftwerk: I Was a Robot" - the second installment in our I'm a Rock'n'Roll Star series - which was broadcast on Saturday, January 31, 2015:

Kraftwerk - "The Robots"
The Who - "My Generation"
The Beatles - "Don't Pass Me By"
David Bowie - "Heroes (Single Version)"
Tangerine Dream - "Sunrise in the Third System"
Kraftwerk - "Pocket Calculator"
The Human League - "Only After Dark"
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - "Statues"
Depeche Mode - "Lie to Me"
Cabaret Voltaire - "Spread the Virus"
Kraftwerk - "Showroom Dummies"

For this Spring semester, we've decide to focus on a new themed series that we're calling I'm a Rock'N'Roll Star. The basic premise is that every week we'll take a musician's autobiography or memoir and soundtrack it, playing songs or artists that are central to the author's narrative in some way. (This is similar to the "Rock Lit" series we did a few years ago, where we soundtracked notable books about rock/punk history. That's always been a favorite series of ours, and one that we continue to receive comments and questions about to this day. Eventually we'll get audio of those shows posted to the archives, too.)

Here's the playlist for the first installment in our I'm a Rock'n'Roll Star series, "Peter Hook's Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division," which was broadcast on Saturday, January 24, 2015:

Joy Division - "Warsaw"
Sex Pistols - "No Fun (Live)"
Iggy Pop - "Funtime"
David Bowie - "Warszawa"
Throbbing Gristle - "We Hate You (Little Girls)"
Kraftwerk - "Trans Europe Express"
Joy Division - "Exercise One"
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - "Electricity"
The Buzzcocks - "You Say You Don't Love Me"
The Stranglers - "5 Minutes"
Joy Division - "Digital"
Section 25 - "Girls Don't Count"
New Order - "Ceremony"