Episode #272 - Reality Cheque (6/4/26)

9:00 PM | TV Star | Reality Cheque
9:04 PM | Rostam | Like a Spark 
9:07 PM | Vampire Weekend | A-Punk 
9:11 PM | Vera Ellen | when it's over (feat. Hemi Hemingway) 
9:15 PM | Elvis Costello | Welcome to the Working Week 
9:16 PM | Shellshaker | eddy had an ender
9:22 PM | Slowdrive Avenue | Dirty Pane 
9:25 PM | Los Lobos | I Got Loaded 
9:28 PM | Refreshments | Banditos 
9:34 PM | David Byrne & Brian Eno | Strange Overtones
9:39 PM | lucky break | Big Swing 
9:43 PM | Pamela. | Better Than Before 
9:47 PM | Sinead O' Connor | Drink Before the War 
9:52 PM | Kevin Morby | Javelin

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:03

Wash and dry your clothes, lay your radios, I can eat your coffee pop. I am always there with lots of power to spare calls.

SPEAKER_00 0:12

I'm ready, from beautiful downtown Merrifield in the shadow of the Mosaic District, it's the Ready Kilowatt Hour on Radio Fairfax. Tonight, a brand new song from the DC native Rostum, New Zealander Vera Ellen, Australian duo Pamela, Bay Area Musicians Lucky Break and Shell Shaker, and Boston Band Slow Drive Avenue, plus some very early Elvis Costello, Los Lobos, and their refreshments, and even more. For now, a band from Seattle called TV Star off their album Music for Heads. This is Reality Check.

SPEAKER_07 4:45

I only wanted you to feel afraid of it. I only wanted you to feel afraid of it.

SPEAKER_03 4:54

I only wanted you to feel afraid of it.

SPEAKER_07 5:11

I trained to feel it. I only I wanted you to feel free to do it. I only I wanted you to feel free to do that. I only wanted you to feel free to do it. Except for me, I only have wanted you to feel free to then.

SPEAKER_00 9:51

They've done five albums together, they haven't done a new one in a couple of years. Before that, we heard Rosatom, who is one of the founding members of Empire Weekend. With his latest album, American stories we heard like a story. Rosatum D.C. Went to Columbia University, New York. Rosaton with his writing in D.C. and you want to get a nine. We started out with a TV star. Ranging getting close to New Jersey. Don't you want to go to the meeting? Anyway, good evening. You are rock and roll. You're on Ellen. And she's singing with another fellow New Zealander, Henry Hemingway. Her brand new album, her third. It's called Heaven Knows What a Time. The song is When It's Over.

SPEAKER_07 11:12

You can say that a terrible thing to start I can see you allowed me. When it's so that I don't want to be raped. You don't wanna love, you just wanna be right. I can end it this way tonight. You don't wanna know on the ball out of this way. I met your girlfriend for a dress. Stop your dancing, I can't sing. And we're both afraid that you sing. You're always pushing me to shrew.

SPEAKER_05 13:05

If I could draw blood from a star, you're gonna end up home, you know.

SPEAKER_07 13:12

Well, that's a terrible thing, I'm thinking the cruelest girl I've ever known. I can see you pull out in me all the weeks. I was born with slow enough. Now that you're precious every perfectly advanced, you can have a wall that you have ever desired. Wow, wow, wow, wow, what do I work?

SPEAKER_02 17:15

Instigating the song I heard you sing. Do you know it's Solomon? Where's the time of God? Keep your secrets by staying out there.

SPEAKER_04 17:39

Salami, his bird, Islamic speed, is salad, sweet, salad, sweet, salad.

SPEAKER_02 18:29

I told you he had an attitude when he missed his marks, mound your curves, wear your shoes, chase the high right past the day.

SPEAKER_00 20:30

A band led by two brothers from the San Francisco Bay Area. The song is called Eddie Had an Ender. Before that, Elvis called Hello, welcome to the Working Week. From my name is Drew from 77 in the B side with a single Ellison. It was recorded with the band Clover, which eventually evolved into Louis and the news. Elvis are currently touring around Europe right now with the imposters and guitarist early performing toward old radio. We heard an Ellen Ellen Hemi Hemiway. I am the somewhat well-endowed Ready J Kill Out. Low Drive Avenue is out of Austin. They have a brand new single. It's called Dirty Pain.

SPEAKER_07 22:28

Another sunrise through a dirty pain. Same old city, but it feels rewired again. Coffee cooling while my pulse kicks hard. Tryna stitch myself back from the clouds. I won't fade out. I won't slow down even when the noise gets loud. Cause I'ma let's not break it free. Crashing through what's left of me. Every five stars shine with crash.

unknown 22:59

Every time stew, open time. Well keep closing it, I'll tear it.

SPEAKER_07 23:07

Open with the trend, I'll break it free. Street lights buzzin' like they know my name. Caught between the chaos and the growing pains of it. Walk in circles just to stay alive. But now cut the lines across the night. I won't fade out, I won't lay you down even when the doubt gets loud. Cause I'm a lift by breaking free. Crash it through what's left of me. Ever free for life, dusty, crash, dust, dusty, over time, so left up. Well, keep closing. I'll tear it all down with a friend. Yeah, I'm a lift, try, break it free. No more standing still. No waiting on the world to shift and done with holding back. This time I'm the whack that lives, cause I'm a landslide, breaking free. Crashing through what's left of me. Every far line starts to shine with fresh shift turns to over time so left. Why keep closing and I'll tell it? Open with a grin. Yeah, I'm a ribs right. When you crash it through what's left of me, free. So let's wanna keep closing it, now tear it. Open with a bring him. Let's fly with free. Last night. But I feel all right. I feel all right, feel alright. I got loaded on a bottle of whiskey. On a bottle of whiskey, not the ballet, I got loaded, on a bottle of whiskey, on a bottle of whiskey, but I feel all right, I feel all right, I feel all right, feel all right, feel all right.

SPEAKER_06 28:56

Like I was a supermodel. No one else we could trust. We'll say nothing and no one know how we thus. And never crack or smile, or flinch or crypto, nobody We'll give your idea to the border guard. Yeah, you're ready to say the goddamn shot of the card. You're not a federation of planets.

SPEAKER_07 29:36

You see one big angle shiny way. The world of old stupid people. So meet me at the mission at midnight. Everybody knows the world of all the stupid people.

SPEAKER_06 29:59

Well, I got the pistol, so I got the pistols. Yeah, not too fast. Put the sugar in the tank and the sheriff's cards.

SPEAKER_07 30:24

Get the word, been a home. Now you're ready to set the cabin. Charlie McGarden United Federation of Friends. Everybody knows what the world is for stupid people. So make me information at midnight to be up there. Everybody knows what the world is for stupid people.

SPEAKER_06 31:03

But I got the pistol, so I got the pistols.

SPEAKER_07 31:47

Everybody knows what the world is supposed to be people.

SPEAKER_05 31:53

So beat me up the fish in the middle now to be up there. But everybody knows what the world's supposed to be people.

SPEAKER_06 32:06

But I got the pistol, so I'll get the pistols. Yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_00 33:03

The song Banditos! Nineteen ninety-five. The album was called Vegan Fly. I think we played a band from the last week of the week before. I got loaded. We have on everything that happened.

SPEAKER_07 35:32

I hear you feel the state. I hear you shall be fashion. I saw you underhand. Strange of the tones in the music you are playing. It is strong and your tongue.

SPEAKER_03 36:38

It's getting colder tonight. A snowball in my kitchen.

SPEAKER_07 36:47

How much did milk before my son still needs a coldness? Grandmoth knows all of my expression. He stands for now. The best part I get older. That's what it is best friends. Cause when I was a teenage, I was ever playing. So tipped around people, and there is myself. Try to love everything just I feel ashamed that I just can't go. I have to move. Oh darling, don't be amazing. You know you mean so much to me. Still know what I'm waiting for. Everywhere that is an open door. I'll need you someday. Give me a break on my mind. Oh no, you will be all smoking. Oh, it's me. I can stop, I can't stop.

SPEAKER_06 45:44

And that's not saying much.

SPEAKER_00 45:50

That's Pamela. A song called Better Than Before. Off an EP coming out July 10th called It's Nice to See You Here. A duo from Sydney, Australia, Sarah Ellen and Josh Campin. So Pamela's not just a girl. Before that, we heard Lucky Break. Another Bay Area artist tonight. Also known as Emma Gerson. The song is called Big Swing. The album is made it. Emma Gerson is inspired by a couple of singers that we played last week, Fiona Apple and Liz Fair. This is her debut album. We started out with David Vernon Ryanito with an album called Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. That was from the year 2008. We heard strange overtones. You're listening to the Ready to Kill What Hour? We're gonna take it to the top of the hour now with a pair of songs. We're gonna start out with Renato Connor. A song about the headmaster at the reform school she attended in Ireland who didn't like her music. This is her debut album, The Lion and the Cold Run from eighty seven. The song is called before the war.

SPEAKER_07 49:23

Somebody cut out your eyes, you refuse to see. Ah somebody cut out your heart, you refuse to feel in a shade. You create your own head. You live in the past to my ticket And it's a life you can see down to you and best it's not gonna happen.

unknown 50:11

Oh no, no, no.

SPEAKER_07 50:13

You can never break it down so again to us We've lived our lives basically being good men So stop talking about we've had it all before What else do we have? Just something else for the beauty Back in town all by myself.

SPEAKER_05 52:40

I should go dancing. Take my boots off the shelf. Don't be concerned, babe. At least not yet. I am still happy to be breathing in. You know I have been, you know I have been track puddling through the air and down the highway like a jack puddling Towards all count town in the bubble bell. Remember when they asked us baby just how it felt to be alone in the middle of middle of middle when the sun the earth goes back for the day Did you one day the day we call me my husband It might have been this be a lie? Could you be my wife? Everything ending now beginning now when you fall your kid back up in paint a picture now The world will eclipse you now fall your kid back up in Rome Old Cowtown Bubble Bell Remember when the ass was baby just how it fell on jack the two of them into the matter.

SPEAKER_00 56:03

Javelin that's off his latest album, Little Wide Open. Kevin Morby's from Lubbock, Texas, though he grew up in Kansas City. Aaron Desner of the National produced this new album. Kevin Morby playing in DC next Friday, June 12th at the Lincoln Theater. Sinead O'Connor before that. Drink before the war off The Lion and the Cobra. Sinead O'Connor passed away about three years ago. Song about a lot of people thought that that song was about the the IRA and the troubles going on in Northern Ireland back in the 80s, but no, it was about her headmaster at her school, and she couldn't get along with him very well. So she didn't know why she called that song Drink Before the War, but there you go. It is time to unplug the Ready Kilowatt Hour for another week. A reminder you can stream our old shows on readykradio.buzzroute.com and on your favorite podcast apps. We are back on Radio Fairfax next week with both rock and roll. Until next time, it's Ready K Kilowatt, your rock and roll servant. Stay well, stay safe, and please don't kill anyone. Good night.