Why yes it is. Sonic Café that’s Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros, hey glad you stopped by, I’m your host Scott Clark and this is episode 299. Just one episode away from the big number 300! (that’s a lie) no, it’s true. We can’t believe it ourselves but this is our 299th episode. (that’s a big fat lie) Ahem. Hey, you’ll just have to take our word for it. So ahh yeah, on the precipice of another milestone in the history of our little radio program, to celebrate, this time the Sonic Café spins up a mix from the last 23 years with one outlier. Listen for Ian Dury & the Blockheads, Coldplay, The Black Keys, Liz Phair and many more including that outlier. From the psychedelic 60’s listen for The Ballad of you & me & Pooneil from Jefferson Airplane coming up near the bottom of the hour. Then comedian Kyle Kinane with some fashion advice for open carry gun owners. If you’re gonna pack the heat, you gotta look the part. So yeah. Oh and a big helping of welcome to our newest sponsor. Listen for a word from new Chewable Pampers. Do your part to save the planet and eat well at the same time with new, Chewable Pampers. So all that and more on the big 299th episode, here’s the Easy Star All-Stars with their over of Radiohead’s Electioneering. As always we’re the Sonic Café.
Song 1: Techno D-Day Artist: Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros LP: Rock Art & the X-Ray Style Yr: 1999 Song 2: Electioneering Artist: Easy Star All-Stars LP: Radioread Yr: 2006 Song 3: The Writer Artist: Ian Dury & the Blockheads LP: The Bus Drivers Prayer & Other Stories Yr: 1992 Song 4: Talk Artist: Coldplay LP: X&Y Yr: 2016 Song 5: An Aggressive Fashion Accessory Artist: Kyle Kinane LP: Yr: Song 6: Fire Walk With Me Artist: The Black Keys LP: Let's Rock Year: 2019 Song 7: Soberish Artist: Liz Phair LP: Soberish Yr: 2021 Song 8: The Ballad Of You & Me & Pooneil Artist: Jefferson Airplane LP: After Bathing At Baxter's Yr: 1967 Song 9: End Of History (radio safe) Artist: Bad Religion LP: Age Of Unreason [CD Edition] Yr: 2019 Song 10: Chewable Pampers Artist: SNL LP: SNL Yr: 2013 Song 11: I'm Comin' Out Artist: Shovels & Rope LP: By Blood Yr: 2019 Song 12: TRAILS Artist: Starset LP: DIVISIONS Yr: 2019 Song 13: Medicine Woman Artist: Tommy Castro & The Painkillers LP: The Devil You Know Yr: 2014 Song 14: Star Artist: Beck LP: Hyperspace Yr: 2019 Song 15: Seq.3 Artist: Roberto Pregadio And Romano Mussolini LP: Kriminal Yr: 1967
About the Producer:
Scott Clark has always had a lot of music in his life. Growing up outside of Chicago, he was mesmerized early on by the radio of the sixties and seventies and began collecting records at a very early age. From 45’s and LP’s to cassettes and CD’s and now digital… he really never stopped. Today everything in his library is digitized because he got sick of lugging all that stuff around.
The concept for the Sonic Café is to deliver the high production values and feel of the radio he grew up listening to. But unlike the tight, repetitious playlists of those commercial stations, feature a massive range of artists, genres and tunes. The whole idea is to package it in an eclectic, engaging, no repeat format that brings both new and old together in a unique, entertaining, and most importantly fun and fast paced way. There’s really nothing on the radio today, or in the past, that compares with it.
About the Sonic Café:
The show is set in an imaginary cafe overlooking the Pacific Ocean on the Central Oregon Coast. The cafe serves up eclectic, intelligent music, comedy and pop culture. The program originates from KYAQ radio located on the Oregon coast in the Pacific Northwest, so the imagery is not a huge stretch.
Each program is 58:00 minutes in length leaving room for station ID, promos and PSAs. Each episode is .mp3 encoded at a constant rate of 256kbps and ready for broadcast.
An episode is released each week. All episodes are evergreen; never focusing on time of year, weather, month, holidays, events etc. so each show is timeless. All music is presented in a no repeat format. Once a song airs in an episode it never airs again. Episodes may be downloaded and grouped together to quickly create program blocks of two, three, four or more hours in length.
The Sonic Cafe has a Facebook page (facebook.com/SonicCafeRadio) where complete show notes and playlists are presented for each episode. Listeners can also reach the show producers via email (SonicCafeRadio@gmail.com)