(The Z is full of intrepid volunteers, so "professional reasons" ain't the right phrase, but I digress. As. Usual.)
If you still check in here, rest assured that Garage is full, and will roar back to life during a summer near you.
Until then:
Friday, August 31, 2018
Are you receiving me
The Tangerine Amphetamine has been taking a break for the last couple of summers, for personal reasons.
(The Z is full of intrepid volunteers, so "professional reasons" ain't the right phrase, but I digress. As. Usual.)
If you still check in here, rest assured that Garage is full, and will roar back to life during a summer near you.
Until then:
(The Z is full of intrepid volunteers, so "professional reasons" ain't the right phrase, but I digress. As. Usual.)
If you still check in here, rest assured that Garage is full, and will roar back to life during a summer near you.
Until then:
Saturday, May 20, 2017
Lucky Number Seven
Dusting off this corner of the internet to say: IT'S ON.
Starting this coming Monday, the 22nd and continuing through the summer, The Tangerine Amphetamine is back at The Z.
I think this is my seventh year doing this show and shenanigans. Here's a tasty little preview:
Join me. Heck yes!
Starting this coming Monday, the 22nd and continuing through the summer, The Tangerine Amphetamine is back at The Z.
6-7pm, Mondays on 90.3 and streaming at wzbc.org.
I think this is my seventh year doing this show and shenanigans. Here's a tasty little preview:
Join me. Heck yes!
Monday, July 4, 2016
So, yeah!
We're doing this again, for the summer. The TA is on The Z, Mondays from 6-7.
Today is July 4th, so I'll be rocking the American sense of rebellion.
Join me tonight, and every Monday. 90.3FM in Boston and wzbc.org everywhere else.
Cheers!
Today is July 4th, so I'll be rocking the American sense of rebellion.
Join me tonight, and every Monday. 90.3FM in Boston and wzbc.org everywhere else.
Cheers!
Monday, May 4, 2015
The Tangerine Amphetamine will juice the summer airwaves!
Starting May 18th, 2015:
Mondays from 5-7p
TWO HOURS of garage rock, freakbeat, psychedelia, and Northern Soul, with the occasional dose of kitten pop.
Thursday, August 7, 2014
Have mercy, have mercy, baby
This may be my favorite show thus far.
Like any rabid, libidinous female, I am constantly in search of music that moves me. Not just spiritually or emotionally, y'heard? I mean physically. I want that sound that makes ya shake. The beat that makes ya bop. This rhythm that makes us rambunctious - you dig?
What I am (over)laying-out is that some favorite songs from the mid-60's -- after the originals themselves -- are garage covers of Soul and R&B tunes. Because they're the ones where the kids substitute wild enthusiasm for any practiced technique. The ones where there's yelling and hollerin' and havin' a good time. The ones where appreciation is so, so evident for the inspiration that comes from so far outside their own short experience.
When ya just don't wanna sit still. Dance and the jump.
Like any rabid, libidinous female, I am constantly in search of music that moves me. Not just spiritually or emotionally, y'heard? I mean physically. I want that sound that makes ya shake. The beat that makes ya bop. This rhythm that makes us rambunctious - you dig?
What I am (over)laying-out is that some favorite songs from the mid-60's -- after the originals themselves -- are garage covers of Soul and R&B tunes. Because they're the ones where the kids substitute wild enthusiasm for any practiced technique. The ones where there's yelling and hollerin' and havin' a good time. The ones where appreciation is so, so evident for the inspiration that comes from so far outside their own short experience.
When ya just don't wanna sit still. Dance and the jump.
She Comes In Colors
This is the color show. One request - a request by a very erudite listener with excellent taste - sent me spinning into show time. The request was for Green Fuz. Why? "Because it's fuzzy and raw and sounds like it was recorded in a barn," he sez.
Which is beautiful, like a martha-fishing rainbow. And, well, it's all fuzzy, so hey kids, let's do COLORS.
Erm, ain't never claimed this Summer! Of! Themes! on the TA is anything like rocket science; it's garage music. Themes are not complicated affairs here. And colors are tasty. Thus, let us groove.
Which is beautiful, like a martha-fishing rainbow. And, well, it's all fuzzy, so hey kids, let's do COLORS.
Erm, ain't never claimed this Summer! Of! Themes! on the TA is anything like rocket science; it's garage music. Themes are not complicated affairs here. And colors are tasty. Thus, let us groove.
Saturday, July 19, 2014
Girls talk
Show #4 was about the names of the ladies, the women who made the guys burn and pine and howl and sweat.
I just wrote a different and incredibly groovy, whole far-out intro and then deleted it by accident. Aargh. So we'll just get to it.
Show and playlist after the jump.
I just wrote a different and incredibly groovy, whole far-out intro and then deleted it by accident. Aargh. So we'll just get to it.
Show and playlist after the jump.
Monday, July 14, 2014
Too Much To Dream
Show #3: To sleep, perchance to play songs about dreams and dreaming, hallucinations and methods of occupying and preoccupying the brain. No idea why this actual playlist didn't post on the ZBC website...
Show and playlist after the divine jump.
Show and playlist after the divine jump.
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Is this just an atomic trip?
This week on the TA, agitation preparation for the upcoming holiday weekend. Songs about social change, the perception of freedom, war, and chicks, man. American girls.
It's impossible to talk about the 60's and American garage bands without talking about the Vietnam War. Out of the era's agitated social and hormonal landscape came poetic and wrenching protest songs. What gets me is what happened to so many of the kids writing and playing those songs. There were high school kids chugging along, playing music with their friends and having a good time, maybe about to get noticed or just been signed when somebody in the band got the call-up. And even if your singer, guitarist, bass player, drummer, fuzzy Farfisa man did make it home from Southeast Asia, nothing was ever the same.
Aaah, this show's not all sober and serious. Kit & The Outlaws get feisty; The Move brings electoral swagger; and Robby John & The Seven-Teens are downright head-scratchingly silly. Jerry Howard brings a little pop cheese to close out the hour.
Alas, none of the usual dazzling audio commentary for this show. Oh the irony of doing radio and being unable to talk! Not an illustration about the muzzling of our civil liberties. Mostly laryngitis.
After the jump, your link to the music and playlist.
It's impossible to talk about the 60's and American garage bands without talking about the Vietnam War. Out of the era's agitated social and hormonal landscape came poetic and wrenching protest songs. What gets me is what happened to so many of the kids writing and playing those songs. There were high school kids chugging along, playing music with their friends and having a good time, maybe about to get noticed or just been signed when somebody in the band got the call-up. And even if your singer, guitarist, bass player, drummer, fuzzy Farfisa man did make it home from Southeast Asia, nothing was ever the same.
Aaah, this show's not all sober and serious. Kit & The Outlaws get feisty; The Move brings electoral swagger; and Robby John & The Seven-Teens are downright head-scratchingly silly. Jerry Howard brings a little pop cheese to close out the hour.
Alas, none of the usual dazzling audio commentary for this show. Oh the irony of doing radio and being unable to talk! Not an illustration about the muzzling of our civil liberties. Mostly laryngitis.
After the jump, your link to the music and playlist.
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Back of my neck gettin' dirty and gritty
[... and - we're back!]
Hello, my chickens! The TA is back in bid'ness as of last Monday!
Pretend this next bit is flashing atcha:
MONDAYS 5-6 PM
90.3 WZBC-FM 'n' STREAMING AT WZBC.ORG
Best thing about an hour show? It so much easier for me not to putz out on posting the audio. Just a beginning and end to trim and -- here you go!
Hello, my chickens! The TA is back in bid'ness as of last Monday!
Pretend this next bit is flashing atcha:
MONDAYS 5-6 PM
90.3 WZBC-FM 'n' STREAMING AT WZBC.ORG
Best thing about an hour show? It so much easier for me not to putz out on posting the audio. Just a beginning and end to trim and -- here you go!
Saturday, May 10, 2014
It's ALIVE!!
The Tangerine Amphetamine will roar back to life in the middle of June, once again on The Z! Hurray!
Mondays, 5-6pm. Drive Time, baby. And in exchange for the groovy time slot, only an hour.
Which gives me the idea to focus each show. Some kinda theme, and you don't have to dress up for it. But, yesh, some kinda theme every week - broken hearts, summer, bands from New England, etc..
Still gotta get in that Northern Soul and French Ye-Ye/British Pop in at the end of the hour, too.
Can you smell the excitement?
90.3FM over the air in Boston and streaming at wzbc.org. Soon come, my chickens. Soon come.
Mondays, 5-6pm. Drive Time, baby. And in exchange for the groovy time slot, only an hour.
Which gives me the idea to focus each show. Some kinda theme, and you don't have to dress up for it. But, yesh, some kinda theme every week - broken hearts, summer, bands from New England, etc..
Still gotta get in that Northern Soul and French Ye-Ye/British Pop in at the end of the hour, too.
Can you smell the excitement?
90.3FM over the air in Boston and streaming at wzbc.org. Soon come, my chickens. Soon come.
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Thursdays!
Hurray! Tomorrow and the next two Thursdays, The Tangerine Amphetamine will rise again!
And I do mean rise, because the show's on from 7-9 AM. As in morning. As in, what the hell did I just do?
S'true. Last week was fun. Once I leave the darkness behind and flip on all the studio lights, it's time to wake up. And last week - well, last week I had a terrible cold, so I sounded like Vic Tayback. So the music was killer, but the information was scant. An archive of that show is here in The Z archives (scroll down to Thursday, January 2). It'll remain up for another week. If you want to feel good about yourself, you'll listen to it.
So I'll see you tomorrow, Janaury 9, and again on the 16th and the 23rd. Listen live at 90.3 WCBZ-FM in the metro Boston area. The show also streams live from wzbc.org. And also! For you iOS users, there's a free 'Z iPhone app so you can take the station with you wherever you and your pocket computer go.
Set your alarm - I am great to wake up with, m'hmm.
And I do mean rise, because the show's on from 7-9 AM. As in morning. As in, what the hell did I just do?
S'true. Last week was fun. Once I leave the darkness behind and flip on all the studio lights, it's time to wake up. And last week - well, last week I had a terrible cold, so I sounded like Vic Tayback. So the music was killer, but the information was scant. An archive of that show is here in The Z archives (scroll down to Thursday, January 2). It'll remain up for another week. If you want to feel good about yourself, you'll listen to it.
So I'll see you tomorrow, Janaury 9, and again on the 16th and the 23rd. Listen live at 90.3 WCBZ-FM in the metro Boston area. The show also streams live from wzbc.org. And also! For you iOS users, there's a free 'Z iPhone app so you can take the station with you wherever you and your pocket computer go.
Set your alarm - I am great to wake up with, m'hmm.
Monday, December 9, 2013
Who cleans up around here?
It is seriously dusty over here. Man.
Winter break is coming up at The Z, starting Monday, December 23. I hope to have a slot in the mornings.
(Well. "hope" and "morning" are not usually two words that go together for a nocturnal denizen of the garage like me, but you get the idea.)
In the meantime, a groovy guy over on YouTube has posted a Tangerine Amphetamine series of videos of songs played on past shows. I'm tickled.
Winter break is coming up at The Z, starting Monday, December 23. I hope to have a slot in the mornings.
(Well. "hope" and "morning" are not usually two words that go together for a nocturnal denizen of the garage like me, but you get the idea.)
In the meantime, a groovy guy over on YouTube has posted a Tangerine Amphetamine series of videos of songs played on past shows. I'm tickled.
Friday, July 26, 2013
Like What, Me Worry?
So, no, man. No more Tangerine Amphetmine for the summer. Bummer.
Two weeks ago the station decided that all that garage wailing in the middle of the NCP block was not good.
I have expressed my regret and disappointment at how it took nine weeks to come to this conclusion. We were up and running with a full head of both steam and garage band trivia, assembling all these groovy shows. But such is the world of college radio occasionally.
One would think I now have more time to put up old shows. Hmm - I'll get on that, and we can keep rocking.
Thanks. We'll try again later, for sure.
Two weeks ago the station decided that all that garage wailing in the middle of the NCP block was not good.
I have expressed my regret and disappointment at how it took nine weeks to come to this conclusion. We were up and running with a full head of both steam and garage band trivia, assembling all these groovy shows. But such is the world of college radio occasionally.
One would think I now have more time to put up old shows. Hmm - I'll get on that, and we can keep rocking.
Thanks. We'll try again later, for sure.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Hello Summer!
One of the things I love about subbing on The Z is that my summer comes earlier than ever before. Here in New England, we hail Memorial Day weekend as the unofficial start of summer. People decamp down the Cape, down east to Maine and, in some cases, glare at the upcoming July 4th holiday like ti's the beginning of the end.
Me, I love starting summer radio in May. The trees have just bloomed, the sky is full of puffy clouds, and gosh-darn-it, I can shed my leather jacket.
Here's the first show, at a wholly new time zone. This summer, I'm on from 9-11pm, Wednesday nights. I hate to interrupt NCP, but believe me - drop your tab halfway into Molly's 7pm show and we'll be good to go by 9pm. Trust. I am your interim spirit animal.
Oh, and I had a wicked cold last week. You can hear it. Eeeuch.
Audio and playlist after the jump -
Me, I love starting summer radio in May. The trees have just bloomed, the sky is full of puffy clouds, and gosh-darn-it, I can shed my leather jacket.
Here's the first show, at a wholly new time zone. This summer, I'm on from 9-11pm, Wednesday nights. I hate to interrupt NCP, but believe me - drop your tab halfway into Molly's 7pm show and we'll be good to go by 9pm. Trust. I am your interim spirit animal.
Oh, and I had a wicked cold last week. You can hear it. Eeeuch.
Audio and playlist after the jump -
Friday, November 23, 2012
Thanksgiving Leftovers
Hello, my chickens! I hope you all had a good Thanksgiving yesterday.
Today I had the opportunity to fill-in on the Z, so I chose to do a one-off, post-food coma show called Thanksgiving Leftovers: two solid hours of Funk and Soul to get you moving and fight the holiday lethargy.
Audio and playlist are after the jump. And I hope to be back on the air over Winter Break in a month or so (*gulp!* So soon!!). If all goes as planned, The Tangerine Amphetamine will be back, serving up a few installments of the finest Garage, Freakbeat, Psyche, Mod and Soul.
With one time out for The Monkey Show. More on that as we get closer to the New Year. Until then, thanks for your phone calls and stay tuned!
Today I had the opportunity to fill-in on the Z, so I chose to do a one-off, post-food coma show called Thanksgiving Leftovers: two solid hours of Funk and Soul to get you moving and fight the holiday lethargy.
Audio and playlist are after the jump. And I hope to be back on the air over Winter Break in a month or so (*gulp!* So soon!!). If all goes as planned, The Tangerine Amphetamine will be back, serving up a few installments of the finest Garage, Freakbeat, Psyche, Mod and Soul.
With one time out for The Monkey Show. More on that as we get closer to the New Year. Until then, thanks for your phone calls and stay tuned!
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Summer 2012
Mondays from 5-7pm on WZBC 90.3FM in Boston and streaming on the web @ wzbc.org.
Audio archives are kept for two weeks @ wzbc.org!
Now that I have this blog resistered, I'll see what I can do to get past shows up as podcasts plus set lists. Look for more of this in September, once the summer session is done.
Until then: Thanks for tuning in!
xoxo - Diana
Audio archives are kept for two weeks @ wzbc.org!
Now that I have this blog resistered, I'll see what I can do to get past shows up as podcasts plus set lists. Look for more of this in September, once the summer session is done.
Until then: Thanks for tuning in!
xoxo - Diana
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