Time to Chill Down again. Going crazy from the heat. Got some nice music and words that evoke images of relaxing on nice beaches with cool breezes. Some songs that sound like some well-known surfer turned singer-songwriter. Good summer mix over all.

Wow-hard to believe after all these years the (NY) Dolls are doing another record. Not bad in fact. Open things up with their single and play some other interesting new stuff. Share some Taiwan memories (with MoShang's Nun Other in the bed) and do new segment, "According to Me" reccomending Chuck Prophet to Jim.

Today's MindField is a very noirish rendering of Jack Mangan's flash fiction piece: Truth or Consequences Motel, which was published in Neometropolis magazine. Here is the music that help's set the mood.

Treasure Island is the name of a flavor of ice cream scraped together from the bottom of several tubs of ice cream. Today's show is a "treasure island" of music-great interesting stuff, my newest eX-Wife Files (The Dream Sequence), some promos: Share the pain and Spherical Tomi, and my continued lunacy slowed down only by playing the best music I can find. Come on in the water is fine.

Today's FreeCulture News welcomes Jean Marais from Capetown, SA. More recently multi-cultural (African/Chinese) electronic recording artist MoShang(Jean's recording name) from Taichung, Taiwan. I had the pleasure of talking with Jean in his home studio allowing me to view some of his computer music tools and instruments. Jean is a very interesting person with a real good feel for music as you will hear in the interview.

For the contest-Jean is giving away a new MoShang: Chill Dynasty CD to the first person that provides correct answer to clue included in the podcast. All the info for contest is at the ChillDynasty site.

More specifically a "Thee" and "A" show. All the band names begin either with "thee" or "a". The "thee" bands tend to have a pronounced "British invasion" garage band flavor and more than likely include Thee Billy Childish. Some interesting stuff in any case. Shout out to Jack M and Deadpan podcast.

Well if you are some of the few who haven't heard JC Hutchin's 7th Son podiobook. You're in for a pleasant surprise, with a twist. This episode welcomes JC Hutchins to GLU. JC informs us of the musical tastes of his 7 clone characters and one extra: Master cloner baddie: John Alpha. Great selection of eclectic genre/nation music. Why am I talking when I should be showing, duh:

Clone
John: Monster 3:15 Sparkle*Jets U.K.
Michael: Estranged Panic 3:22 JT Bruce
Jack: No Meaning No 3:12 Chuck D With Fine Arts Militia
Jonathan: Sénégal Fast Food 4:19 Amadou & Mariam
Fr. Thomas: Hand of Mercy 3:47 Hope Trueblood
Dr. Mike: Juego 5:26 Mutandina
Kilroy 2.0: TTC 3:59 Dancingbox (Modeselektor remix)
Cloner Baddie-John Alpha: Force Fed 5:23 Strapping Young Lad
Clonical music bed: Sister Saviour (Blackstrobe Remix) 7:05 The Rapture

Today's cast is just some music pointed out by some different friends. Good stuff and all new to me-yeah, the best kind. Nothing better to me than friends bearing "music." Mention a couple of listener VM's, comments, e-mails-the stuff that rocks my world. Also mention a podcast I'll be doing with JC Hutchins, author of the Seventh Son. We'll compare notes and come up with songs to represent the different key characters in his exciting novel. The show with JC will be up on 7/14.

Well happy to do a little texas-themed music show. theree is so much stuff from that place,a nd about that place. Could do dozens if not hundreds of shows, but... I did this "one" so here it is. Talked about major political/social changes in Taiwan that occurred when I first arrived and some culinary experiences. No, not the canine kind. Played a Vm from new listener Andy and a promo from Seventh Son/Infected contest.

Here is annual 4th of July all rock show for you. 12 songs uninterrupted guaranteed to get you in that "rockin" mood. Hope you have a great family/friend/personal time. Deep philisophical comment: "Just remember people are what make a nation great. What makes America great is that the people are from all nations and ethnic backgrounds offering a rich mix of culture. We have the tools to extract and understand the truth. It's up to us to utilize them." Happy 4th-Bring our boys and girls home.

SoundStory time gang. David's dillema, where diplomacy and dialogue serve as dutiful devices. Delightful ditties drive us to delectable delerium during the audiodrama. Ok I'm alliterated out. Dig the music.