Last show for 2011, with thoughts on the year in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Iran, and the U.S.

Set List:

The Randies - I Thought I Could Change
The Soviettes - Multiply & Divide
REM - Living Well is the Best Revenge
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Our Emergency
Love & Rockets - Bound for Hell

Metallica - Breadfan
The Distillers - LA Girl
Anthrax/Public Enemy - Bring the Noise
Rancid - Black Lung Fever
The Gits - Second Skin
Kitty in a Casket - Bride of the Monster

Le Tigre - Deceptacon
Pink - I'm Not Here for Your Entertainment
SoHo Dolls - I'm Not Cool
Katie Perry - Hot-n-Cold
Prodigy - Breathe
Propellerheads - Take California
Expoxies - Radiation
AC/DC - Thunderstruck
Pink Floyd - One of These Days
Pink Floyd - On the Turning Away
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground

Circle Jerks - Paid Vacation
FEAR - Let's Have a War
Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
Midnight Oil - What Goes On
The Clash - London Calling
Jimi Hendrix - If 6 Was 9

It's an all James Brown Christmas edition of Revolution Clash, marking the five year anniversary since Brother James danced over the line between us earthbound misfits and the truly immortal. In honor of all that he was, and still is, to those of us who are devoted to the funk soul spiritual of humanity.

Set List:

Reverend CyberSatan - Christmas Claims Godfather of Soul
Living In America
Hold It
The Scratch
Suds
Cross Firing
Limbo Jimbo
Joggin' Along
Doin' the Limbo
Can You Feel It? (Part 1)

The Reverend Cleophus Brown - Do You See The Light?
I Got You
Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
Soul Power, Part 1
Night Train
It's a Man's World
Cold Sweats, Parts 1 and 2
America is My Home
Prisoner of Love
Ain't That A Groove
Try Me
Get on The Good Foot
Get Up
Get Up Offa' That Thing

Say it Loud: I'm Black and I'm Proud (Live, on Soul Train)
The Big Payback
Super Bad
Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto
Don't Tell a Lie About Me
Sunny (Live, Paris)

The Iraq War officially ends for the U.S., Iran bags a creepy American spy drone, Russian citizens force Putin into a less-sketchy new election, and Syria's protest body count versus American casualties in the Iraq war, Barbara Walters discovers Kardashian clan's horrible reality, and the betting line on Bashar al-Assad closes (hopefully, along with his life).

Set List:

Pretty Girls Make Graves - This is Our Emergency
Anthrax - Antisocial
Menstrual Tramps - History Repeats
The Ex - Blueprint for a Blackout

Bruce Lee - Don't Think, Feel!
Koffin Kats - 9 Lives
The Like - He's Not a Boy
The Raveonettes - Attack of the Ghost Riders
The Shocker - Smoke Rings
The Randies - I Thought I Could Change
Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio

The Soviettes - Multiply & Divide
The Muffs - I Don't Like You
Los Olvidados - Something New
The Faction - Friends & Enemies
Rancid - The War's End
The Upsetters - Return of Django
Desmond Dekker - Get Up, Edina
The Clash - Armagiddeon Time
Midnight Oil - Kosiusco
Peter Gabriel - In Doubt/A Different Drummer

U2 - Desire
Soundgarden - Jesus Christ Pose
Van Halen - Everybody Wants Some
The Quakes - Paint It Black
Filter - Hey, Man, Nice Shot
Black Sabbath - Electric Funeral
Jane's Addiction - 3 Days
Misfits - Astro Zombies

Bankers get another 8-ball from various governments, Egypt has free elections, Syria in the Arab League dog house, Pakistan twists the knife, and a call to Occupy the streets on Christmas Day.

Set List:

Guns-n-Roses - Reckless Life
Anthrax - Got the Time?
Metallica - Damage, Inc.
Joan Jett - Bad Reputation

The Randies - I Thought I Could Change
Rage Against the Machine - Guerilla Radio
The Clash - Safe European Home
The Distillers - Warriors
Iggy Pop - Lust 4 Life
Rolling Stones - Street Fighting Man
The Beatles - Revolution

U2 - The Electric Co.
Misfits - Nike A Go-Go
The Exploited - Fuck the USA
Green Day - Jesus of Suburbia
Jane's Addiction - Ocean Size
The Police - Omega Man
Jimi Hendrix - Bold as Love

The Vandals - Oi to the World
The Gateway District - Run Away
Waldeck - Memories
Apocalypse Now - Ride of the Valkeries
24-7 Spyz - Jungle Boogie
The Soviettes - #1 is #2
The Kills - Fuck the People
The Propellerheads - On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Outkast/Queen - Neighbor/We Will Rock You

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Get on Top

Before heading over to the studio, I bumped into a musician buddy of mine and asked him what he was doing for the day. He took out a pipe loaded with some fragrant bud, offered it to me, and said, "Thinking about all the things and people I'm thankful for having in my life." Naturally, that inspired me. Oh, and this is the first time I've ever worked on Thanksgiving. But this isn't really work, ya' know . . .

Set List:

Jimi Hendrix - And The Gods Made Love
The Randies - I Thought I Could Change
The Soviettes - Multiply & Divide
The Horrorpops - Where I Can't Go

Vampire Weekend - A-Punk
Libertines - The Man Who Would Be King
Porno for Pyros - Tahatian Moon
Butthole Surfers - Pepper
The Clash - Rudie Can't Fail

Desmond Dekker - Get Up Edina
Johnny Cash/June Carter Cash - Jackson
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Make You Feel Better
Matchbox 20 - Let's See How Far We've Come
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression that I Get
Midnight Oil - One Country

Waldeck - Memories
Siouxie and the Banshees - The Passenger
Team Dresch - Take On Me
Green Day - Good Riddance
The Cult - Revolution
Arctic Monkeys - Riot Van
The Creepshow - All Fall Down
Mason Jennings - Godless

Vivian Girls - Wild Eyes
Bow Wow Wow - Do You Wanna' Hold Me?
Primitives - Shadows
U2 - Surrender
Social Distortion - Story of My Life
The Doors - LA Woman (Original Cut)

The bankers attack Occupy camps throughout America again, quick lessons in how to hold an unconventional line, the Arab League gives Assad his walking papers, and cipher code key Alpha.

Set List:

The Exploited - Fuck the USA
Anti-Nowhere League - Crime (Live)
The Randies - I Thought I Could Change
Alien Sex Fiend - I Walk the Line

Cyrus - Can You Dig It?
The Muffs - I Don't Like You
The Soviettes - 9th Street
Franz Ferdinand - Call Me
REM - Radio Free Europe
Body Count - There Goes the Neighborhood
Public Image Limited - Rise
Van Halen - Everybody Wants Some

Face to Face - Don't Change
Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs - Kiss, Kiss
Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf
The Gits - While You're Twisting, I'm Still Breathing
Green Day - Minority
The Distillers - LA Girl

Pink Floyd - One of These Days
The Clash - Straight to Hell
The Police - Invisible Sun

Los Headaches - Step Aside
Los Headaches - Madcap
The Feelies - Final Word

Motorhead - Ace of Spades

Occupy Cal beatdown, mass media takes Occupy Movement out of the headlines to assuage banker concerns, Penn State football child molestation outrage, Bank of America surrenders on debit fee increase, the HAJ!, al-Assad counts his days, and COINTELPRO masquerades as the "Black Bloc."

Set List:

Hawaii Five-O Theme
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground
The Soviettes - Paranoia, Cha-Cha-Cha!
Circle Jerks - Coup D'etat
The Breeders - Cannonaball
Fischerspooner - Emerge
B-52s - Private Idaho

The Gateway District - Run Away
Franz Ferdinand - You're the Reason I'm Leaving
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Kill Your Television
Social Distortion - Moral Threat
The Feelies - Away
Waldeck - Addicted
SoHo Dolls - I'm Not Cool
Katy Perry - Hot-n-Cold

Horrorpops - Headin' for the Disco
Misfits - She
The Cure - Killing an Arab
Adicts - Crazy
Mission: Impossible
Rancid - Arrested in Shanghai
Midnight Oil - Truganini
Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings

The Tawacores - Call to Prayer
The Kominas - Sharia Law in the USA
Metallica - Blackened

The Kills - Fuck the People

HALLOWEEN SHOW! Radio Clash dives off the edge of life, taking you with him on a grave journey through bones, werewolves, Promethian madness, and the Occupy Oakland police disaster. Your tombstone is waiting . . .

Set List:

J.S. Bach - Toccata & Fugue #9
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead (Live '80)
Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion
Fields of the Nephilim - The Watchman

Dr. Henry Frankenstein - IT'S ALIVE!
Metallica - Sanitarium
The Doors - The End

American Werewolf in London - Stay Off the Moors
Elton John - Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
Marilyn Manson - Personal Jesus
Nine Inch Nails - Head Like a Hole
The Creepshow - Halloween
Kitty in a Casket - Bride of the Monster
Voodoo Zombie - Manicomio
Danzig - Mother

Deadbolt - Jimmie's Grave
Misfits - All Hell Breaks Loose
Rise Against - Give it All
Rage Against the Machine - Guerrilla Radio
Pearl Jam - Life Wasted

Qaddafi is DEAD, ETA swears off violence, a 4.0 earthquake rattles the studio, and actress Alissa Magrill visits.

Set List:

Toy Dolls - Idle Gossip
Toy Dolls - Do You Wanna' Be Like Dougy Bell?
Pogues - Turkish Song of the Damned
Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace with God
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Black Sabbath - Electric Funeral

Samhain - Diablos '88
Samhain - Let the Day Begin
Rancid - Maxwell Murder
Rancid - The War's End
Misfits - Horror Business
Misfits - Death Comes Ripping
The Creepshow - All Fall Down
The Creepshow - Run for Your Life

X - We're Desperate (Live, '79)
X - Beyond & Back (Live, '79)
The Clash - White Man in Hammersmith
The Clash - Spanish Bombs
Go-Gos - Get Up and Go!
Go-Gos - Head Over Heels
Vivian Girls - Going Insane
Vivian Girls - Wild Eyes

Linkin Park - Shadow of the Day
Linkin Park - The Catalyst
CRASS - Systematic Death
CRASS - Berkertex Bribe
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Yeah, Yeah

A celebration of Tawakkul Karman's Nobel Peace Prize, and a live report on the Occupy movement in New York and D.C. by a fella who just arrived here from both places. WARNING: this show gets deep and unsettling fast. Even more so than usual.

Set List:

The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary (Remix)
Le Tigre - Deceptacon
The Misfits - She
The Epoxies - Need More Time

Marilyn Manson - Arma-goddamn-motherfucking-geddon
Linkin Park - The Catalyst
The Soviettes - Multiply & Divide
The Vandals - Oi to the World

Hole - Credit in the Straight World
Jimi Hendrix - Up from the Skies
Johnny Cash - Man in Black

Midnight Oil - Dreamworld
U2 - Wire
Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs - Kiss, Kiss
The Distillers - L.A. Girl
Rancid - Black Lung Fever

AC/DC - Thunderstruck
The Creepshow - The Garden
The Primitives - Shadow
Fischerspooner - Emerge
Pink Floyd - On the Turning Away

Outkast/Queen - Neighbor/We Will Rock You
White Zombie - Supercharger Heaven
Prodigy - Firestarter (Empirion Mix)

Yemen on the edge, Bahrain's price for free speech, the perils of Free Speech in America, Lesbians booted from airliner over a smooch, Palestinian statehood advances at the UN, Banks chisel profits from the broke and despondent, and Demanding "it all" in a culture designed to give you nothing.

Set List:

The Go-Gos - Get Up and Go!
U2 - Gloria (Live at Red Rocks)
TSOL - The Other Side
The Reverend Horton Heat - Psychobilly Freakout

The Cult - Bad Fun
Joan Jett - Bad Reputation
Green Day - Minority
The Soviettes - The Land of Clear, Blue Radio
The Kills - Fuck the People

Franz Ferdinand - Evil and a Heathen
Hole - Credit in the Straight World
The Gits - Second Skin
Tones on Tail - Go!
The Vivian Girls - When I'm Gone

Peter Gabriel - Sandstorm/Stigmata
Queen - Under Pressure
Queen - I Want It All
The Epoxies - Radiation
The Police - Demolition Man
Iggy Pop - Repo Man
The Anti-Nowhere League - For You

Berlin - The Metro
Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains
Soho Dolls - I'm Not Cool
Beck - Gamma Ray

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground
Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs = Mysteries
Nirvana - Lithium

Moody's downgrades its partners-in-crime, Obama's disgrace at the UN, Yemenis take up Libya's playbook, Wall Street's coke hangover, Meg Whitman 4 Life at HP, Ahmadinejad's closing act in NY, Neutrinos beat light speed, and More Human Than Human in the studio.

Set List

Mission: Impossible
The Distillers - Young, Crazed, Peeling
The Pogues - White City
Mighty, Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get

Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized
The Soviettes - #1 is #2
White Zombie - More Human Than Human

Rise Against - Give It All
Samhain - November's Fire
Misfits - All Hell Breaks Loose
Social Distortion - She's a Knockout
REM - Just a Touch
Rancid - Disorder and Disarray

The Prodigy - Breathe
Marilyn Manson - Arma-goddamn-motherfucking-geddon
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldier
The Doors - Not to Touch the Earth

The Clash - Bankrobber
Desmond Dekker - Rudy Got Soul
The Arctic Monkeys - Perhaps Vampires is a Bit Strong . . .

Fields of the Nephilim - The Watchman
Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love

The Kominas - Sharia Law in the USA
The Circle Jerks - Coup d'etat
The Epoxies - Radiation
The Gits - Second Skin

Palestinian statehood vote at the U.N., Britain and France visit Tripoli, sympathy for Qadaffi, Tacoma schoolteacher strike, Netflix loses a half-million subscribers, Tom Kennedy Immortal, and unlikely wisdom from SFGate.

Set List:

REM - Living Well is the Best Revenge (Live, Paris)
The Pogues - White City
Flogging Molly - May the Living Be Dead in Our Wake

The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace with God
White Zombie - Supercharger Heaven
Green Day - American Idiot
Metallica - Shortest Straw

Karen O - If You're Gonna' Be Dumb, You Gotta' Be Tough
Pink Floyd - One of These Days
The Police - Rehumanize Yourself
The Soviettes - Multiply & Divide
X - Johnny Hit-n-Run Pauline
Rancid - Roots Radicals
The Clash - London Calling

The Gateway District - Run Away
Social Distortion - It Coulda' Been Me
Jane's Addiction - Had a Dad
Body Count - KKK Bitch
Winston Wolf - I Solve Problems

Fishbone - Bonin' in the Boneyard
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Nobody Weird Like Me
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Knock Me Down
James Brown - Get Up!
The Propellerheads - History Repeating

U2 - Promenade

Sketchy bank fees killing job recovery, Christine Bartz termination, gender equality in espionage, Qaddafi's arrest warrant, Rancid at the Warfield, Sept. 11th thoughts, and keen clues as to Radio Clash's methodical madness.

Set List:

The Pogues - Medley (Live)
The Gateway District - Run Away
Queen/Outkast Mashup - We Are The Champions/Neighbor
Samhain - November's Fire

Guns of Navarone - Traitor
New Model Army - Vengeance
The Soviettes - Multiply and Divide
Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs - Mystery
The Gits - Second Skin

Mr. Wilson - Tell Him I'm Fucking Coming!
The Clash - Clampdown
The Cult - Nirvana
Skinny Puppy - Glass Houses
Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod
The Kills - Fuck the People

Delta Tau Chi - Nothing is Over . . .
Rancid - Maxwell Murder
Rancid - Journey to the End of the East Bay
Rancid - Leicester Square
Rancid - Black Lung Fever
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Hard to Concentrate
The Soviettes - Tonight
Waldeck - Memories

Boondock Saints - The Diversity of 'FUCK!'
The Creepshow - Halloween
Kitty in a Casket - Bride of the Monster
REM - Orange Crush
Public Image Limited - Disappointed
B-52s - Private Idaho

The White Stripes - Wild Orchid
Mason Jennings - Godless

The Soviettes! The secrets of successful international relations, F.W. Murnau wisdom, Qaddafi's fembot exit, al-Assad's Ramadan Massacre II, Sgt. Conrad, and a party with the P.C.S.O.

Set List:

Los Olvidados - Something New
The Soviettes - #1 is #2
The Creepshow - All Fall Down

F.W. Murnau - Scientists, in the Creation of Memories
The Gateway District - Run Away
D.O.A. - The Prisoner (Live, '79)
The Distillers - Warriors
The Kills - No Wow
Linkin Park - The Catalyst

Love and Rockets - Bound for Hell
Fischerspooner - Emerge
Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs - Kiss, Kiss
Waldeck - Addicted
The Clash - Janie Jones

Rancid - I Wanna Riot!
Rage Against the Machine - Guerrilla Radio
Motorhead - Ace of Spades (Live)
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
Hole - Gold Dust Woman
Johnny Cash/June Carter Cash - Jackson
The Misfits - She

Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
The Epoxies - Need More Time
The Breeders - Cannonball
Matchbox 20 - How Far We've Come
Midnight Oil - One Country

The Soviettes - Multiply and Divide
The God Damn Doo Wop Band - Talk Too Much
The Kills - Fuck the People

This episode is the result of pure synchronicity. I'd rather not spoil the surprise by engaging a typical summary.

Set List:

The Soviettes - Paranoia, Cha-Cha-Cha
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Kill Your Television
The Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia

Midnight Oil - King of the Mountain
REM - Just a Touch
Rancid - Hoover Street
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Easily

The Kills - Fuck the People
The Epoxies - I Need More Time
Linkin Park - Shadow of the Day
The Prodigy - Firestarter (Emperion Mix)
Ministry - N.W.O.

The Creepshow - Halloween
Marilyn Manson - Arma-goddamn-motherfucking-geddon

Johnny Cash - One Piece at a Time
Johnny Cash - Ballad of Ira Hayes
Desmond Dekker - Honour Your Mother and Father
Desmond Dekker - Fu Man Chu
The Doors - Riders on the Storm

Al-Assad's curtain call, BART front lines, banker bum rush, scorching alt babes, Monday Night Football, vital make-out skills, and how to take complete control.

The Tunes:

Jimi Hendrix - And the Gods Made Love
Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs - Miles Away
The Kills - Fuck the People
The Soviettes - Multiply & Divide
The Expoxies - Radiation

The Kominas - Sharia Law in the USA
Kitty in a Casket - Don't Get Me Wrong
Guns-n-Roses - Reckless Life
Soundgarden - Jesus Christ Pose
Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills

The Gits - Cut My Skin, It Makes Me Human
Vivian Girls - Going Insane
Nena - 99 Luftballons
Reel Big Fish - Take on Me
Face to Face - Don't Change
'Hungry Like The Wolf'

24-7 Spyz - Tango Skin Polka
The Vandals - Oi to the World
Jack Off Jill - Nazi Halo
Roxy & The Rebound - Unnamed
The Kills - No Wow
The Faction - Tongue Like a Battering Ram
The Clash - Complete Control (Live, NY - '81)

The Church - Reptile
Deadbolt - The Return of Patches
Red Hot Chili Peppers - If
The Feelies - Away
U2 - Elvis Presley and America

Black-Blue-White - Wang Chung

Fun with the word "Fuck," London's burnings, Wall Street's bipolar disorder, al-Assad: "Don't be a Qaddafi," the Dead Man's Party, atypical urban campgrounds (Sept. 17th), and helpful social tips from Uncle V.

Set List:

Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK
The Clash - White Riot
Samhain - Let the Day Begin
The Rolling Stones - Street Fighting Man
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground

Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party
Filter - Hey, Man--Nice Shot
Rise Against - Give It All
The Misfits - She

REM - These Days
Rancid - Start Now
Waldeck - Addicted
Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs - Kiss, Kiss
Linkin Park - The Catalyst
Kitty in a Casket - Bride of the Monster

The Police - Miss Gradenko
Midnight Oil - The Dead Heart
Johnny Cash - Man in Black
U2 - The Electric Co.
Peter Gabriel - In Doubt/A Different Drummer

The Creepshow - The Garden
Public Image, Ltd. - Rise
Silversun Pickups - Panic Switch
Valerie's Story/Conversion to Fearlessness

The Distillers - L.A. Girl
Metallica - Damage, Inc.

Assad proves that he's a complete monster, Mubarak's trial spurs near riots, corporate panic at the stock market disco, your right to 'cultural anonymity,' and fearless love over radio waves.

Set List:

Kitty in a Casket - Bride of the Monster
Voodoo Zombie - Manicomio
Jane's Addiction - C'mon, Ted, Just Admit It

Linkin Park - The Catalyst
Ministry - N.W.O.
REM - End of the World as We Know It
The Clash - Armagiddeon Time

Waldeck - Addicted
Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line
The Police - Hungry for You
Pink Floyd - Fearless
Jimi Hendrix - If 6 was 9

Rancid - Black Lung Fever
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Especially in Michigan
Green Day - Jesus of Suburbia
The Cult - Nirvana
The Doors - Spanish Caravan
Fields of the Nephilim - Endemoniada

Metallica - Frayed Ends of Sanity
Queen - Stone Cold Crazy
James Brown - The Scratch/Suds

The Primitives - Crash
Arctic Monkeys - I'll Bet You Look Good . . .

Screaming out across the free airwaves again, Radio Clash blows the doors off their hinges and unloads a sonic hurricane through your head. Celebrating the bravery of Bushra al-Maqtari, progress in Libya, Mubarak's impending Cairo trial, and other socially relevant points on the spectrum, today's show sets a new standard for unconventional PICAN requirement satisfaction. Dig it.

(Be patient through The Catalyst. You'll be glad you did.)

Set List:

The HorrorPops - Heading for the Disco
The Creepshow - Run for Your Life
Motorhead - The Ace of Spades

Cyrus - Can You Dig It?
Linkin Park - The Catalyst
AC/DC - Thunderstruck
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Rise Against - Give it All
Rage Against the Machine - Guerrilla Radio
Chopper - Cash Grab at Neville's

The Creepshow - The Garden
The Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs - Kiss Kiss
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
Mission: Impossible
Frida - There's Something Going On
Le Tigre - Deceptacon

Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
Arctic Monkeys - Still Take You Home
Franz Ferdinand - Evil and a Heathen
The Distillers - L.A. Girl
Anti-Nowhere League - For You
Flogging Molly - If I Ever Leave This World Alive

U2 - Surrender
The Clash - Straight to Hell
The Kills - Satellite
Voodoo Zombie - Manicomio
The Creepshow - Halloween

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Make You Feel Better