{"id":883,"date":"2011-11-17T13:30:27","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T20:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocc.org\/?p=883"},"modified":"2011-11-17T13:30:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T20:30:27","slug":"featured-show-theme-party-with-a-strauss-saturdays-5-7pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/2011\/11\/17\/featured-show-theme-party-with-a-strauss-saturdays-5-7pm\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED SHOW: Theme Party with A-Strauss — Saturdays 5-7pm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Major?\u00a0<\/strong>Studio art<\/div>\n
Grade?\u00a0<\/strong>Senior<\/div>\n
Name of show?\u00a0<\/strong>Theme Party<\/div>\n
How long have you been DJing on the SOCC?\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n
Since November 13, 2010. It’s my one-year anniversary!<\/div>\n
Does your show have a concept, genre, or theme guiding it?<\/strong><\/div>\n
I choose a different theme each session. For instance, this week the theme was crime. DJs typically devote their shows to specific musical genres, but I ran with the theme idea because it provides cohesiveness to a session while allowing me to pull from whatever genres offer songs relevant to the theme. I love lining up songs from disparate genres in sets that allow you to hear their similarities. The sets can also be like the game Telephone or Six Degrees to Kevin Bacon. Like last week, I started a set with Janet Klein and Her Parlor Boys, and ended it with The Velvet Underground. The fun is how a set gets from A to Z.<\/div>\n
Additionally, every Theme Party starts with a rundown of “This Day in Music.” So if it’s, say, April 3, I report on significant album releases, concerts, birthdays, deaths, etc. in music that took place on April 3 in whatever year. I spin related songs as I go. Major events sometimes determine the theme–I’ve done a Great Guitar themed show in honor of Jimi Hendrix’ birthday, and a Muddy Waters Blues Memorial.<\/div>\n
5 Favorite Bands\/Songs?<\/strong><\/div>\n
Only five? I can’t do that! I’ll feel guilty about the ones I leave out. To be unbiased and to show a little more range, here are the top ten most played songs in my iTunes library:<\/div>\n
Casa Abandonada–Julieta Venegas<\/div>\n
Victim Of Circumstance–Joan Jett<\/div>\n
Motorcycle Mama–Neil Young<\/div>\n
London Song–The Breeders<\/div>\n
Intro–Ojos De Brujo<\/div>\n
Sleep To Dream–Fiona Apple<\/div>\n
South Side–Moby<\/div>\n
Barefoot Rock–The Blasters<\/div>\n
Truckin’–The Grateful Dead<\/div>\n
Rockaway Beach–The Ramones<\/div>\n
Why do you DJ, what value do you see in Student radio?<\/strong><\/div>\n
I got my ears pinned to the radio at a young age. When you like something, especially when you’re a kid, you try to do it too. But how do you “do” radio? You DJ. In elementary and middle school, my friends and I huddled around a tape recorder on the floor in my room, singing and talking into the microphone for hours. One friend and I improvised a housekeeping show hosted by two British ladies, Victoria (me) and Petunia, who turned out to be strict German governess-types named Gretchen and Doris (me). We also did an improv “radio play” about Valley girls gone camping. The tape is mostly screaming. By middle school, another friend and I were captivated by the different formats a radio show could take. The elderly woman who lived next door to my friend listened to a late night show on AM on which lonely truckers called in on their CB radios and told their stories. I think it clicked that a radio show could be humorously idiosyncratic, as well as play excellent music. That is, DJing could unite my love of music with my propensity toward improv and silliness.<\/div>\n
As for student radio, I think it’s musically healthy for our generation. It probably goes without saying that websites–particularly ones anyone can contribute to like Last.fm and MySpace–allow the individual to easily listen to new music, that genome-based sites like Pandora cater “radio” to personal taste, and that features like iTunes playlist basically make anyone a DJ. These are all good resources, but what is missing is the traditional radio experience of tuning in with many other people in your community to hear what a musically knowledgeable person has to share. Tuning in or streaming a radio show to hear what a student DJ has to offer, what they are being intentional about sharing with their peers, is a genuine treat. It’s like eating out. It’s public, and something has been prepared for you. There is a shared element of surprise.<\/div>\n

\n<\/strong><\/div>\n[audio: http:\/\/www.thesocc.org\/audio\/Featured Shows\/Theme Party with A-Strauss Nov. 12.mp3]\n

(Setlist)<\/p>\n

Dion — \u201cA Teenager In Love\u201d
\nBooker T. & The MG’s — \u201cIt’s Your Thing\u201d
\nNeil Young — \u201cComes A Time\u201d
\nThe Velvet Underground — \u201cRock and Roll\u201d
\nSex Pistols — \u201cGod Save The Queen\u201d
\nRex — \u201cRide a White Swan (BBC Live – Top Gear 26\/10\/70)\u201d
\nGerms — \u201cRichie Dagger’s Crime\u201d
\nThe Mighty Mighty Bosstones — \u201cThe Rascal King\u201d
\nBob Marley and the Wailers — \u201cI SHOT THE SHERIFF\u201d
\nTaj Mahal — \u201cFrankie And Albert\u201d
\nWoody Guthrie — \u201cPretty Boy Floyd\u201d
\nThis Bike Is a Pipe Bomb — \u201cRebel Girl\u201d
\nX — \u201cJohnny Hit and Run Paulene (Live)\u201d
\nDead Kennedys — \u201cStealing People’s Mail\u201d
\nDead Kennedys — \u201cI Kill Children\u201d
\nIggy Pop — \u201cLittle Electric Chair\u201d
\nBlondie — \u201cKung Fu Girls\u201d
\nJoan Jett — \u201cVictim Of Circumstance\u201d
\nSublime — \u201cDate Rape\u201d
\nThe Brian Setzer Orchestra — \u201cSwitchblade 327\u201d
\nThe Ventures — \u201cFugitive\u201d
\nThe Ventures — \u201cSlaughter On Tenth Avenue\u201d
\nThe Slackers — \u201cMarried Girl\u201d
\nThe Ramones — \u201cYou’re Gonna Kill That Girl\u201d
\nViolent Femmes — \u201cDahmer Is Dead\u201d
\nSon House — \u201cMississippi Country Farm Blues\u201d
\nThe Aggrolites — \u201cPrisoner Song\u201d
\nBabyshambles — \u201cPentonville\u201d
\nThe Clash — \u201cStay Free\u201d
\nQueen — \u201cKiller Queen\u201d
\nElvis Costello — \u201cWatching The Detectives\u201d
\nAdam & The Ants — \u201cKiller In the Home\u201d
\nNeil Young — \u201cHuman Highway\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\nA-Strauss crafts inventive and ambitious playlists to get you going every Saturday evening. Organized around a single theme (this week’s was “crime”), each show is an exercise in creative juxtaposition, bringing together songs from accross genres and time periods in unpredictable ways. This is what college radio is all about. <\/p>\n

Click “continue reading” for this week’s setlist and an interview with A-Strauss herself.<\/p>\n[audio: http:\/\/www.thesocc.org\/audio\/Featured Shows\/Theme Party with A-Strauss Nov. 12.mp3]\n","protected":false},"author":1099,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa7fJU-ef","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}