Episode #283 - Shooting Shadows (8/20/26)

9:01 PM | Sweeping Promises | Shooting Shadows 
9:03 PM | You Fool! | Vodka Ghosts  
9:07 PM | Alex Cameron | Red Hook Rain 
9:13 PM | Why Horses? | Yr Big Day 
9:16 PM | das bisschen Totschlag & lonalih | Windwaker 
9:19 PM | Karen Culi | Vices 
9:24 PM | Ceremony | Death Destruction Mayhem 
9:27 PM | hitorie | 3分29秒 
9:31 PM | Wacky Races 
9:32 PM | Dopamine | Crash 
9:37 PM | Real Numbers | Never Never Again 
9:41 PM | Cusk | Beauty queen 
9:44 PM | Natalie Merchant | Carnival
9:52 PM | B.B. King (feat. Cory Henry & Avery*Sunshine) | Everybody Lies A Little 

Transcript

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The service of Fairfax Public Access in Fairfax, Virginia.

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I am all the way there with beautiful downtown Merryfield in the Shadow of the Mosaic District.

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It's the Ready Kilowatt Hour on Radio Fairfax. Tonight, DC musicians, Karen Cully and you fool, we have a song from a Japanese band called Hit Hori. Plus a tribute album to BB King, and the latest from those wacky Germans, the Vision Torschlag, as well as White Horses, Alex Cameron Ceremony, dopamine, real numbers, and from the UK. For now, a band based in Lawrence, Kansas. They're called Sweeping Promises, and this is from their third album, UCI Romanticize, and this one is called Shooting Shadows.

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Can feel it brewing Ride over New Traffic on a turnpike we couldn't leave. Cause I would always run away when a wind gets turned and my wheels start burning. The world we love ain't stay.

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Can we hear it too?

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Can you feel the red hook rain? Like I feel it too. I've been counting stallions in the sea. I'm looking near them talking right to me. One, one, two, three, one come find me. We can feel it broke and ride or new traffic on a turnpike. We couldn't leave. When a wind gets turned and my wheels start burning, but the world we love ain't stay. You and me we had to start to chase, dancing on each other like a hurricane. And I still hear that red of the rain. Can you hear it too? But I can feel it coming on the sunny day. Can you feel the red of the rain? Like I feel it too. Can you feel it, baby?

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That's how I can do Red Hood Green. We heard it out with weakening cracking with a rolling crack this evening. No beat anymore. I run the old hand. It will be a union in ED and November 12. I don't think that's a train station either. Anyway, sound like a lot of fun. This is a quintessential heart of whale. The name of the band is White Horses. This is called You're a Big Day.

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You can't still sell your life, you can cut all over your cake.

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If you want, if it's not perfect on your victory.

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Your mother said you can cry on your mother.

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Not if it's not perfect, not too small. But it's not the point.

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The end is calling for a song. So tonight, rain has go so well. The vice is come to us, they have come to tell how much we need them to get them this every time.

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A song called Wind Waker. Our album is Eurodenciable Headroom. They're from Hamburg, Germany. And the translation of the band name is a little bit of man in the water. Okay. We started out with White Horses from Heart of Wales, Your Big Gay! And Your Big Gay here Thursday night back on the radio. You and I are listening to the world-famous Ready Kilowatt Hour coming to you live from the studios of Radio Fairfax. In the gentle environments of Fairfax, Virginia. If you have any comments or requests or just want to love us, visit our Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok pages. Or drop me a line at ReadyK Radio at gmail.com. That's R-E-D-D-Y-K-Radio. I am the ceremonial Ready K Kilowatt. What do you say? This is a band called Ceremony. They have a brand new album called Tell Me Your Dream. Well, okay then. I'll tell you my dream. How about three minutes of death, destruction, and mayhem still in all my energy?

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Give it up to everyone of me. No animal chest yet. Make it ride, make it ride, alright, alright. I don't wanna request. I don't wanna deep ball. Ever at flesh ever! Every day! Oh time come looking for the day! Bad world code on it through a lot to ride! What's gone is do for you to be. Let's go and try to ride. Fuck you through your hood at this.

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Competing for the title of the world's wackiest racer. Our turbo's starting line versus the turbo terrific driven by Peter Burke. Ruben drop cut and saw too for the buzzwagon. Lowering for possession is the Army Turbo Special. Oh, it is the lovely. And why not? They've been changed to a post by shifting sick master. On the way out, whacking races, but it was it one.

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Yeah, and I'm not a done one. But you find the middle done. You wake up in the hell is there?

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You wish this little bit of a lot of the other.

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Doing crash off the new EP Get a Rise! They're a core set from Brisbane, Australia. Not to be confused with a band from England named Dopamine Crash. And also a sudden energy drop for people with ADHD, so that's what a dopamine crash is. Never heard of a band named Dopamine doing a song called Crash. Before that we heard Wacky Races, the theme song. You know who doesn't love an LP pitch stop, and of course, dick dastardly and mudly. I have no idea how that got into this set, but there you go. God bless Anna Barbera. Before that, from Japan, Hitry! You love the song we did in the original Japanese last week? Well, guess what? We had a little bit more of a hardcore song. The name of the song was Three Minutes and Twenty-Nine Seconds. It actually lasted three minutes and thirty seconds, so I'm I'm very disappointed in their lack of accuracy. It was off an album called Pharmacy from the year 2022. They were formed in Tokyo back in 2011. The original singer was Wowaka, he passed away in 2019. Shinoda is now their guitarist and vocalist, along with two of the original members, Igarshi and Yumao, and I guess the thing they have in common with Brazilian soccer players is that they have only one name. Tell me your dream, Ran Yu, their hardcore band out of LA. They're playing October 4th with the Black Cat in DC, playing with Poison Ruin and Dry Socket, and I take it with bands like that, you're probably not gonna hear any romantic love ballads. Anyway, you're listening to the Ready Kilowatt Hour on Radio Fairfax. This is a band from Minneapolis called Real Numbers. Brand new album called Was It Always This Way? This is a song called Never Never Again.

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What's to be done about it? No use to dance around it. You know I thought about it another station, familiar situations, the endless contemplation, and you know the future and the past expectant last never never again last year.

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I want to be done with all of this.

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Life walk these streets, would you see to me make up on their faces, act just their places next to me Life walk these streets in a carnival of sights to see all the cheap thrill seekers, vendors and the dealers they crowded around me Have I been violent? Have I been lost inside myself and my own mind hypnotized, mesmerized by what my eyes see I've walked these trees in a spectacle of wealth and poverty In the diamond market the styling welcome cafe that they just rolled up for me And I walked these streets In the madhouse silent they can be Where a while I missed the coffee The traffic an instant and he raids are saving me Have I been lost? Have I been lost inside myself and my own mind Hypnotize desmerized By what my eyes see Have I been lost? Have I been wise to shut my eyes and fear long? Hypnotized, paralyzed by what my eyes found by what my eyes see what they see.

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From her first album, Tiger Lily, it was her first album after leaving Ten Thousand Maniacs. The song Carnival is a song about her first impressions of New York City when as a 16-year-old farm girl she visited for the first time and I guess fell in love with New York City, and then she fell in love with music and rock and roll and uh or her version of rock and roll. She had a pretty good solo career and she's kind of walked away from it. She's doing a lot more stuff for charity, and uh I think she was never big on uh the whole rock and roll lifestyle, to be honest. Before that, Cusk, they're a London duo featuring Esme and Evie, the band name inspired by the author Rachel Cusk, a song called Beauty Queen, the EP is also called Kusk. We started out with Real Numbers, never never again, from their brand new album Was It Always This Way. Real Numbers from Minneapolis, led by musician Eli Hansen, and he has that jingle jangle. He's planning an East Coast tour this fall, but in the meantime, you can catch real numbers in Minneapolis on August 28th at the Cloudland Theater. If you're listening to the Ready Kilowatt Hour, we're going to take it to the top of the hour right now. Phoebe King put out an album back in 1975 called Lucille Talking Bad. And now there is a tribute to that album on I guess one year after its 50th anniversary. It's actually a remake of the album with modern blues musicians produced by Michelle and Diocello. And we're gonna hear a song performed by Corey Henry and Avery Sunshine. The song is called Everybody Lies a Little I wanna take one second.

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I wanna take one second everybody lies a little bit sometime.

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Every bad day lies a little bit sometime Some people lie about it better than the other people lie about it. Let it look out everybody, let's look at that.

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Corey Henry and Avery Sunshine doing a BB King song. Everybody lies a little from I guess what the correct term of this is it's a reimagining of the album Lucille Talks Back, which uh BB King released in 1975, and the new version produced by Michelle and Diocello with a lot of uh people like Dora Doyle Bramhol and other modern blues artists. BB King, of course, passed in 2015, but he lives on. And you know, everybody lies a little, it's true. Uh may deny that, even even Lucille, his guitar lied a little bit. That's what B.B. King said. But anyway, with that, it is time to unplug the Ready Kilowatt Hour for another week. A reminder you can stream our old shows. There's no lie about that. And you can stream them at readykradio.busfrout.com and on a variety of podcast apps, but not on Spotify for some reason. I don't think we like pre-recorded shows with sad list. Uh, we are back next Thursday on Radio Fairfax at 9 Eastern with both rock and roll. Till next week. This is Ready K Kilowatt, your rock and roll servant. Stay well. Stay safe. And please don't kill anyone. Good night.

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