Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with WILLIAM BROAD!

Holy crap, an actual MTV video from the age of MTV videos on a real name Music Series. It's Billy Idol everyone, with, 'To Be A Lover'

Give us your best sneers in comments!

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with MATHANGI ARULPRAGASAM!

Here's the $2000 point question in this category and if you guessed M.I.A. you'd be right. M.I.A. had her song, ' O...Saya' nominated for Best Song at the Academy Awards for Slumdog Millionaire in 2008. This is 'Paper Planes' also in the movie.

Extra points if you catch The Clash sample in this song.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with SUSAN BALLION!

Susan, short for Siouxsie perhaps. Change your name, get some Banshees, make great music. An all-time classic up next, 'Cities In Dust'

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with DAVID ROBERT JONES!

This one many of you may have known. David Bowie couldn't be David Jones, ie the Monkees already had a David/Davy Jones so David Bowie is was. 'Starman' on Top of the Pops with a kid in the worst sweater vest in history somehow allowed up on stage.

Late night open thread

Time for Oscoda, After Dark

Saturday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with PATTY GRIFFIN!

Johnny's birthday weekend so it's nothing but faves tonight.

Johnny's faves. Cuz it's his birthday weekend. Johnny has seen the amazing Patty Griffin live 4 times and he'd see her again in a heartbeat. The Church of Patty Griffin is now open, please turn to page 122 in your PG hymnals to the uplifting, 'Blue Sky'

Saturday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with NEKO CASE!

Johnny's birthday weekend usually involves Neko Case, you kids should know this by now. This track, 'Red Tide' was described by Neko as sort of her breakup song with the Pacific northwest. Let's listen along, shall we?

Saturday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE WHO!

Oh Johnny just adores this song off the best album ever. So big and brassy yet angry and raw. This birthday weekend Johnny is out of his brain on the train and that train is the '5:15'

Late night open thread

It'll be a Saturday night Music Series this week as tomorrow for Johnny is wide open but for the 4-6" of snow he'll be running the pup out into. It'll be a perfect set up!

Time for Oscoda, After Dark

Late night open thread

Time for Oscoda, After Dark

It would seem you're gonna be stuck with Johnny a bit longer...

Johnny's heart has been testing poorly. He had an echo cardiogram in November that just didn't look right and a closer look revealed bad things.

Very bad.

He went for a stress test in Saginaw this morning with one of two outcomes being possible: A double bypass open-heart zipper job or a hearty handshake with, "Nothing else can be done, good luck to you" as the other possible outcome. It's not hard to choose one from these two awful options but Johnny's heart handled the stress test with aplomb and so a surgery date will be set.

Now you know what all this health talk has been about. And you'll have to deal with Johnny a while longer.

Late night open thread

Johnny has been tossing around the idea of posting this song on St. Patrick's Day for a few years now. It's beyond controversial but seeing as Johnny's health is as it is, and he really wants to stir the pot here's The Wolfe Tones with 'Go On Home British Soldiers' 

Johnny likes listening to this one in his "IRA, The World's Only Undefeated Army" shirt.

Time for O'scoda, After Dark

Come on Johnny, just play the damned song, we know you're saving it

You've got Johnny well figured. The Pogues and Dubliners with the classic St. Patrick's Day sing-a-long, 'The Irish Rover'

Let's head inside the pub and listen to some magnificent music, shall we?

McGann's Pub, Doolin Ireland gives us a wonderful pub jam that does the soul good.

Anyone mind if our St. Patrick's celebration morphs into the Friday night Music Series?

Didn't think so. Just without all those capital letters.

The Chieftains and 'O'Sullivan's March' up next.

A wonderful dinner selection...

The Chieftains & Alison Krauss with the haunting 'Molly Ban'

Michigan State won their opener so maybe time for some 'Whiskey in the Jar'

Take it away Dubliners...

A St. Patrick's Day classic for lunch

Sinéad O’Connor & The Chieftains with 'The Foggy Dew' done proper, done live.

The High Kings and 'The Rocky Road to Dublin'

Johnny has never been on that road so he'll take their word for it.

Up next, The Flags of Dublin...

By The Four Winds!

Happy St. Patrick's Day 2023! Here comes the music!

Johnny found this great jig by Katy Adelson a few years back and added it in thinking it'd add some flavor. Now it's become an annual favorite! 'The Swallowtail Jig' starting us off this year.

Late night open thread

Make sure to come back Friday for our annual St. Patrick's all-day Music-fest. That's a lot of hyphens!

Time for Oscoda, After Dark

Oscoda, Pure Michigan...and witches

They say home is where the heart is. Here in Michigan we could not agree more. Whether you’re interested in history, in wildlife, a wild night, or witches casting spells on Tawas, Oscoda, it's Pure Michigan.

Late night open thread

Time for Oscoda, After Dark

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE SEARCHERS!

One wonders what happened to the first 8 love potions before they landed on 'Love Potion No. 9' as the one. Was number 2 like pop music Covid or something? Did love potion number 6 cause a rash? So many questions.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with MIDNIGHT OIL!

Midnight Oil, the one band, movie, star or entity from Australia American media couldn't bastardize into a caricature. 'The Dead Heart' up next.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE EVERLY BROTHERS!

Few classics meld harmonies with the perfect pitch of song the way 'But Bye Love' does. Pretty close to a perfect song Johnny thinks. 

Late night open thread

Time for Oscoda, After Dark

Saturday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with JOY DIVISION!

One of 1980's best songs, and Johnny knows because he was there, it's Joy Division and 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' leading off tonight. What a great song this is. 

Saturday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE BUZZCOCKS!

Johnny is gonna go out on a limb and say this is the only song of the pop era, going back to the 1950's, that uses the word 'Shouldn't've in the title.

He is. 'Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've) up next.

Saturday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with HEART!

A cry for rock and roll from a long-ago era, 'Kick It Out' takes us out tonight. The original northwest sound.

Late night open thread

Time for Oscoda, After Dark

It's a Saturday Night Music Series this week folks

Johnny has a late-day vet appointment in Tawas for the dire wolf and with the snow coming in (not to fear, 1-3") he'll just spend the night in the Iosco southlands and be back for a banger of a Music Series tomorrow evening.

Late night open thread

Damn straight Johnny has a classic Duncan Imperial yo-yo. He was pretty good with the tricks in middle school. 

Time for Oscoda, After Dark

Now here's Johnny with an Oscoda City Desk Action Sports update...

Boy howdy, violence erupted in the Wurtsmith Air Force Base gymnasium, years ago, and now Johnny has the video! This is probably why the base closed right here, basketball fights.