Dear Outsters--
The new music continues here at New Music Month on "QueerWaves"--I just
might be caught up at the end of next week's show. But here's what you'd have
heard if you tuned in to "QueerWaves" this Saturday on 91.7fm KOOP Austin TX, or
if you connected you browser to _http://www.koop.org_ (http://www.koop.org)
around 3pm Central Texas Time..

(For Ronald Reagan's death--oh, yeah, and for the deaths of innocent victims
for the last 25 years..)
SCOTT FREE/"Ronald Reagan's Funeral"/They Call Me Mr. Free (Yeah, Scott--why
are you so angry..oh, yeah..I think I get it..)
(By request..and one of those victims..)
KLAUS NOMI/"I Feel Love"/Eclipsed: The Best of Klaus Nomi

CHIXIE DICKS/"Dancing Queen"/ABBAlicious
4 POOFS & A PIANO/"Abba And Out/Extreme Eighties"/Screamin' Party Anthems!
MICHAEL CLAY/"Austin, Texas"/Free Somewhere
TANYA PLUTH/"Traveling Home"/Saving Graces
DUG PENNICK/"Beautiful"/Emotional Animal
ATOMIC SWINDLERS/"Into The Strange"/CD EP
LISA MOSCATIELLO/"Ashtray"/Trouble From the Start
MORGAN/"Nice Day (For A Murder)"/Next Wave (Anthology from Braun and Brains
Music)
JASON & DEMARCO/"Trying To Get To You"/Till the End of Time
MATMOS (with THE KRONOS QUARTET)/"Solo Buttons For Joe Meek"/The Rose Has
Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast

NEXT WEEK: MORE new tunes--I swear I'll get to them all or find out why..and
a tune or two for Daddy too..
AND THE WEEK AFTER: KOOP's STONEWALL SATURDAY..more details to come..

Love from Taylor

06/03
Dear Outsters--
Well, Pride Month starts in Austin tonight with a parade, but I began it a bit early on today's "QueerWaves" with a look at some tasty new tunes and some special occasion pieces for some birthday boys..
So if you had your radios tuned to 91.7fm KOOP Austin TX or if you had your browsers connected to the webcast at http://www.koop.org here's what you'd have heard..

Salute to this week's Birthday Boys, Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg..

WALT WHITMAN (supposedly..with a recording this old, it might just be someone else reading..)/"America"/In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry
ALLEN GINSBERG/"A Supermarket In California"/"Howl" and Other Poems
BRADY EARNHART/"Whitman In 1863"/Manalapan

SHIMMERPLANET (with LESLEY GORE)/"Siren"/For the One Who Kills Tomorrow
TOMMY KEENE/"Lives Become Lies"/Crashing the Ether
GARRISON STARR/"Big Enough"/The Sound of You and Me
MAIA SHARP/"Something Wild"/Fine Upstanding Citizen
RICK BERLIN/"Do You Still Love Me?"/Me & Van Gogh
TODD ALMOND/"Let Me Guess"/Deep North Woods
WISHING CHAIR/"Adagio" and
JULIE LOYD/"The Waiting Room"/Peace from the Porch, Volume 2
JEREMY GLOFF/"July (Harder Every Year)"/Now's the Right Time to Feel Good.

NEXT WEEK: More pride and new stuff from The Nancys, Matmos, Rachael Sage, Jason and Demarco, and others..maybe you?

Love, Taylor

05/27
Dear Outsters--
Well, what can I say--"national language?" How about a special QueerWaves salute to America's national language that celebrates the many languages of Queer..Here's what you'd have heard if you tuned in to 91.7fm KOOP Austin Texas around 3pm Saturday, or if you had your browser linked to the webcast at http://www.koop.org instead..

MELISSA ETHERIDGE/"Refugee"/Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled
EL VEZ/"En El Barrio"/Fun in Espanol
ERIKA LUCKETT/"Sol Volvera"/Unexpected
JADE ESTEBAN ESTRADA/"Bella Morena"/Angel
MARK WEIGLE/"Panuelos Blancos Los Jueves"/Soul Sex: Wrestling the Angel
JOHN RAYMOND POLLARD/"Tango De Los Desparecidos"/Map of the Americas/Linhas da Mao
THE ISLE OF KLEZBOS/"Klezmerengue"/Greetings from the Isle of Klezbos
THE KLEZMATICS/"Man In A Hat"/Jews with Horns
PHRANC/"Tzena Tzena"/Milkman
NORINE BRAUN/"J'en Suis Desolee"/Now & Then
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT/"Complainte De La Butte"/Moulin Rouge:Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film
SANDRA CARTOLARI/"GuiGui"/TwoLips
CHAVELA VARGAS/"Paloma Negra"/Frida: Music from the Motion Picture

(Blues for Cliffy..from another Port Arthur native..)
JANIS JOPLIN/"Get It While You Can"/Greatest Hits

Love, Taylor

05/20
Dear Outsters--
Well, it seems like last week's storms might have taken a delayed toll on our station. I'm no tech person, but our transmission to the broadcasting tower from our temporary location went "ka-phooley" today. So it's unfortunate that only our Internet audience got to hear today's "QueerWaves" with Daniel Link. Daniel's performing tomorrow at Austin's 23rd Annual AIDS Candlelight Service at Republic Square Park. The event will begin at 8pm, and Mayor Will Wynn will light the first candle.
Here's what you'd have heard if you had your computers linked to http://www.koop.org at 3pm Saturday afternoon..

(Hey, we can't miss this lady's 60th birthday..)
CHER/"The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine"/Junior Vasquez, Vol 2

KEITH CHRISTOPHER/"Naked Truth"/Naked Truth
TOM ANDERSEN/"Yard Sale"/The Journey
SCOTT FREE/"Leather Ghosts"/The Living Dead
PAUL DELPH/"A God That Can Dance"/A God That Can Dance
DAN HARTMAN/"I Can Dream About You"/Keep the Fire Burnin'
QUEEN/"Don't Stop Me Now"/Greatest Hits, Volume 1
MICHAEL CALLEN (with CRIS WILLIAMSON and TRET FURE)/"Mother Mother"/Legacy
DANIEL LINK/"Priest/Altar Boy/Color Of Rain"/Color of Rain

NEXT WEEK: In honor of our National Language, next week's "QueerWaves" will feature songs by queer artists in German, French, Spanish, and Italian...

Con Amor, Taylor

05/13
Anyway, I survived my first show at 3pm--barely. Here's what you'd have
heard if you had tuned in to "QueerWaves" on 91.7fm KOOP Austin TX at 3pm this
Saturday, or linked to the webcast at _http://www.koop.org_
(http://www.koop.org) instead..

GNOOLY/"Three #49"/Gnooly's Greatest (?) Hits
THREE DOLLAR BILL/"We Are Not This Commercial"/Parody of Pleasure
THE ARK/"One Of Us Is Gonna Die Young"/State of the Ark
ARTHUR LOVES PLASTIC/"Alone Till The Day I Die"/Pursuit of Happiness
JEN JOHNSON, KIM CHI, and JANE WIEDLIN/"Live Freaky! Die Freaky!"/Live
Freaky!Die Freaky! Soundtrack
TOMMY KEENE/"Lives Become Lies"/Crashing the Ether
THE BUZZCOCKS/"Wish I Never Loved You"/Flat-Pack Philosophy
EX-BOYFRIENDS/"Relationship"/Dear John
ERASURE/"Boy"/Union Street
DROPJOY/"Sugar Rush"/Situational Ethics
JOSH ZUCKERMAN/"Out From Under"/CD single
WAYNE LATHAM/"Keepin' Secrets (House of Egypt Edit)"/Family Affair CD single
DORIA ROBERTS/"Simple Life"/Woman Dangerous
GARRISON STARR/"Pendulum"/The Sound of You and Me
GNOOLY/"Uncle Jack Needs A New Pair Of Shoes"/Gnooly's Greatest (?) Hits

NEXT WEEK: Well, since my heart won't be pounding so hard, things should be
a bit more together, and we'll dig into some more new (better auditioned!)
releases..

Love, Taylor

05/06
Dear Outsters--
Blame Phideaux--okay, I'd already decided to play a set of Melanie, so I was in that 60s-70s vibe. I was pulling new releases when I saw Phideaux and thought, "You know--this might be the last show in a while that I'd be able to play something this long.." Thus the "QueerWaves Salute to the Rockin' 70s" was born..
Here's what you'd have heard it if you had your radios tuned to 91.7fm KOOP Austin or had your browsers linked to the webcast at http://www.koop.org for one last time at 430pm Central this Saturday..

DAVID BOWIE/"Changes"/Bowie: The Singles 1969-1993
JOHN BALDRY/"Intro/Don't Try To Lay No Boogie Woogie On The King Of Rock And Roll"/Boogie Woogie: The Warner Bro. Recordings
ELTON JOHN/"Take Me To The Pilot"/Classic Elton John
ROD STEWART/"The Killing Of Georgie (Part I and II)"/Downtown Train: Selections from THE STORYTELLER anthology
JOBRIATH/"Street Corner Love"/Lonely Planet Boy
(What can I say? There's not many 20 minute songs about vampire goats..)
PHIDEAUX/"Chupacabras"/Chupacabras
(A salute to my favorite 70s diva--Melanie!)
THE 6THS (w/MELANIE)/"I've Got New York"/Hyacinths and Thistles
TORTOISE and BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY/"Some Say (I Got Devil)"/The Brave and the Bold
MELANIE/"Estate Sale"/Freedom Knows My Name ( A wonderful cover of the Cheryl Wheeler song..)
KE'/"Lay Down"/I am [ ]

LAURA NYRO and LABELLE/"Monkey Time/Dancing In The Street"/Gonna Take a Miracle
MUMPS/"Rock And Roll This, Rock And Roll That"/How I Saved the World
WAYNE COUNTY AND THE ELECTRIC CHAIRS/"Rock'n Roll Cleopatra"/Rock'n Roll Cleopatra
CYNDI LAUPER AND THE MINUS 5/"Midnight Radio"/Wig in a Box: Songs from & Inspired by HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH

NEXT WEEK: Be sure to catch "QueerWaves" on its new time, 3pm Central. That's 3, as in the dollar bill..
Love, Taylor

04/29
Dear Outsters--
First, let me apologize to anyone who's tried to get some kind of commitment
from me recently regarding interviews and such lately. That might continue
for another month or so--KOOP has lined up a new location, and if you've ever
tried to make a move on this scale you'll understand that you just don't know
when you'll receive the word, "We're moving this weekend." I'm not sure if
the move would result in time off the air, and I'd rather not have to cancel a
phone call or studio visit. Things should be back to normal in June..

However, "normal" is changing too. Next week is "QueerWaves" last at 430pm
to 6pm Central Time. As of May 13, you'll be able to catch "QueerWaves" on
91.7fm KOOP Austin Texas (or on our webstream at _http://www.koop.org_
(http://www.koop.org) ) from 3pm to 4pm Saturdays.

You might notice we're going from 90 minutes to an hour. This is a change I
requested. KOOP is run by volunteers, and one of the ways we programmers "pay"
for airtime is by participating in volunteer activities. Since my heart
attack a while back, I've been finding myself wanting more "me" time. The
volunteer hours I need to complete to order to "earn" an hour a week fits where I am
right now. Expect more Queer Concentrated content for the show.

And yes, while I was waiting for final word on my place in the new schedule,
I was even more reluctant to plan interviews and the like. I wasn't sure
when "QueerWaves" would be, so I couldn't make plans for interviews or visits.
Heck, I'll be honest--if the new date and time created a hassle, I might not
have been able to continue my involvement with the show at all. But I love my
new time slot. Heck, I'll even be able to record my show! (Ever try to find a
90 minute tape, much less a 90 minute disc?)

I'm proud to continue on KOOP's award-winning Saturday's schedule, and I
invite anyone who listens to "QueerWaves" to check out the rest of the
day--heck, with our new schedule, check out all of KOOP's fine programs. After all,
when ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY declared that KOOP was one of the reasons to listen
to radio on the Internet, they must have been on to something, right? So look
up _http://www.koop.org_ (http://www.koop.org) this week to find out the new
schedule--and why not add KOOP to your MySpace Friends?

Man, my weekly playlists aren't NEARLY this long..

Love, Taylor