Happy Genius Heroes Radio 5/20/11

Thanks for listening all year. That's the last show of this academic year. We'll be on hiatus for summer break. In the meantime, enjoy the recordings and think about what you want to hear next fall. Be well and have a great summer.

Happy Genius Heroes Radio - May 20, 2011

Tracklist:
1. Robert Randolph & The Family Band - I Need More Love
2. Lightnin' Hopkins - Once A Gambler
3. Levon Helm - Poor Old Dirt Farmer
4. Little Joy - Brand New Start
5. Lykke Li - Sadness Is A Blessing
6. My Morning Jacket - Bermuda Highway (acoustic)
7. Lynrd Skynrd - Simple Man
8. Old Crow Medicine Show - Next Go Round
9. Calexico w/ Jim James - Goin' to Acapulco
10. Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall (part 2)
11. Prince - Darling Nikki
12. Lionel Richie - Easy
13. The Talking Heads - Love - Building on Fire
14. Rodrigo y Gabriela - Tamacun

Happy Genius Heroes Radio 5/19/11

Show starts about forty seconds into the recording. Be sure to tune in tomorrow morning for our last show of this academic year.

Happy Genius Heroes Radio - May 19, 2011

Tracklist:
1. The Black Keys - She's Long Gone
2. Adele - If It Hadn't Been For Love
3. Bob Dylan - Song To Woody
4. Cat Power - Song to Bobby
5. Arcade Fire - Half Light II (No Celebration)
6. Alexander - A Million Years
7. Jimmy Cliff - Sitting In Limbo
8. The National - Lucky You (Daytrotter Session)
9. John Prine w/ Jim James - All The Best (Live on Letterman)
10. Jimi Hendrix - If 6 was 9
11. Tom Cochrane & Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe
12. Led Zeppelin - What Is And What Should Never Be (Live)
13. Pearl Jam - Yellow Led Better (Live)

Happy Genius Heroes Radio 5/12/11

Back with a successful recording and an eclectic playlist.

Happy Genius Heroes Radio - May 12, 2011

Tracklist:
1. William Tyler - Tears and Saints
2. Yellow Ostrich - Hahahaohhoho
3. J Mascis - Too Deep
4. The Joy Formidable - Austere
5. Alexander - Truth
6. My Morning Jacket - Victory Dance
7. The Band w/ Emmylou Harris - Evangeline
8. The Grateful Dead - China Cat Sunflower
9. Elvis Presley - That's Alright Mama
10. Howlin' Wolf - Wang Dang Doodle
11. Leo Sayer - You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
12. The John Henrys - Thought Yourself Lucky
13. Foreigner - Jukebox Hero

Happy Genius Heroes Radio 4/28/11

Happy Genius Heroes Radio - April 28, 2011

Tracklist:
1. Sharon Von Etten - Consolation Prize
2. Dr. Dog - Shadow People
3. Darker My Love - Dear Author
4. The Kills - DNA
5. My Morning Jacket - Circuital
6. Holy Ghost! - Wait and See
7. The Generationals - Ten-Twenty-Ten
8. The National - Think You Can Wait

Happy Genius Heroes Radio 4/21/11

Special guest Steve Soden was in the studio today for the second half of the show. Always fun to have some company...and an excuse to play some Billy Ocean.

Happy Genius Heroes Radio - April 21, 2011

Tracklist:
1. Bob Marley - Natural Mystic (live 9/23/80)
2. Deer Tick - Twenty Miles
3. Joe Pug - Lock The Door Christina
4. The Low Anthem - Boeing 737
5. Lykke Li - Get Some
6. Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
7. Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen
8. Adele - Someone Like You (live 2/15/11)
9. JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound - I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
10. Dropkick Murphys - Tessie

The Black Angels Live @ Lincoln Hall

The Black Angels Live @ Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL 4/18/11 Set List

Bad Vibrations
Prodigal
Entrance
Haunting
New Sniper
Surf City
Better Off
Yellow Elevator
Black Grease
Phosphene Dream
Telephone
Young Men Dead

-Riley

I Always Wanted to be a Beastie Boy When I Grew Up

Follow your dreams kids.

Happy Genius Heroes Radio 4/7/11

Have a listen to this weeks show below. Some good stuff in there.

Happy Genius Heroes Radio - April 7, 2011

Tracklist:
1. TV On The Radio - Caffeinated Consciousness
2. Broken Bells - Meyrin Fields
3. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - Morning Thought
4. James Leg - Drowning in Fire
5. My Morning Jacket - Smoking From Shooting (Live at Terminal 5)
6. Hunx and his Punx - Lovers Lane
7. Those Darlins - Mystic Mind
8. Wanda Jackson - Shakin' All Over
9. Middle Brother - Million Dollar Bill
10. Strand of Oaks - Wolves
11. The Rural Alberta Advantage - North Star
12. Peter Bjorn & John - Second Chance

Happy Genius Heroes Radio 4/1/11

Listen here or download for later. It only took me 2+ months to get a second show recorded. More can go wrong with this process than I anticipated. Anyway, enjoy.

Happy Genius Heroes Radio - April 1, 2011

Tracklist:
1. Broken Bells - The Ghost Inside
2. The Strokes - Machu Picchu
3. Fleet Foxes - Restlessness Blues
4. Destroyer - Chinatown
5. Foals - Miami
6. Frightened Rabbit - Swim, Until You Can't See Land
7. Joe Pug - Speak Plainly, Diana
8. Justin Townes Earle - Rogers Park
9. Middle Brother - Me Me Me
10. Charles Bradley - The World (Is Going Up In Flames)
11. The Builders and the Butchers - When It Rains
12. The Avett Brothers - Head Full of Doubt / Road Full of Promise
13. The Romany Rye - Untitled (Love Song)

The White Stripes Officially Call It Quits

The White Stripes 7/2/03, originally uploaded by J. Longstreet :I: www.happygeniusheroes.com.

Sad news for all us White Stripes fans, but not altogether surprising. Today it is official; The White Stripes are no more. The band released the following statement:

“The White Stripes do not belong to Meg and Jack anymore. The White Stripes belong to you now and you can do with it whatever you want. The beauty of art and music is that it can last forever if people want it to. Thank you for sharing this experience. Your involvement will never be lost on us and we are truly grateful.”

Kind of a cool way to go out. My memories of the '03 Aragon show will last forever. Great show. My only regret is that it was be the only time I saw The White Stripes live.

What are your favorite White Stripes memories? Leave us a comment.

A few tracks from their 7/24/07 MSG show that never get old.

1. Dead Leaves and The Dirty Ground
2. When I Hear My Name
3. Jolene
4. Hotel Yorba