An Apology, Mr. Limbaugh and Tonight on Darkside Radio with DJ Xavier

Octopus says: "Dance with the Green Faery!"

Greetings and Salutations! Last week, I am sure that you noticed that I was not on the air. Truth be told, I was feeling a bit under the weather after the night out at the strip club. But that is not what kept me from the airwaves. What kept me off was the stress from the drama of earlier that day with that horrid interview from last week that was all about making the Rothechilde Foundation look like a group of insensitive thugs due to a minor incident involving a few upset elephants. Although, I have weathered that storm, I am facing a similar, earth-shattering, internet radio stealing mental dilemma this evening as well.

What is this dilemma? Well, it is simple and two-fold. First, there was the clothing anxiety issue that almost sent me into anxiety overdrive. You see, I was asked to teach a jujitsu class as a substitute for my instructor who was off celebrating his birthday. That was not the problem, I can deal with handling that. The problem came as a result of my panicking because of my pants. They did not seem to be my pants.

For one, the color and texture of them felt "off." The other problem was that they did not feel "right." I felt like I was traipsing about in someone else's legs or something. I had a hard time focusing on driving and maintaining my calm because I was focused on the idea that I was, at that time wearing pants that not only felt weird, but felt like they may have belonged to someone else. I mentioned this to my secretary, whom asked me who's pants I thought they were (I did find them in my room). She asked me what about them made me feel as if they were not my pants and all I could reply was: "everything!" In any case, after teaching the class (for which I had to travel to the most wicked place in Michigan: Frankenmuth), I drove back to my Samurai City digs and quickly changed into a pair of jeans and a black mock turtle neck shirt. Actually, I would have preferred to be wearing slacks of some type, but the jeans worked well enough to stave off a full-fledged anxiety explosion.

The next issue that has my mind in a tizzy is this whole deal regarding Rush Limbaugh and Sandra Fluke. The story is, Rush called her a slut and a prostitute because she advocated health insurance plans covering health insurance. Her words to encourage state-sponsored baby anti-proliferation even had old Rushy boy calling for sex tapes so he could post them online. Surely, any whore who is seeking health insurance coverage for birth control must have a host of sex tapes from her numerous dalliances with shady men that are available for mass dissemination via some "porno tube" website.

This has me most concerned because Rush turned tail and apologized. Apologized! This surely is a different corpulent, angry bird of a politico that we have grown to love over the years. What happened, man? I was all for supporting the Republican idea that no one should ever use birth control. In fact, if you do not want children (and cannot afford a nanny or au pere to raise them, nor can you afford to travel to some other nation where abortions and contraceptives flow like milk and honey), then you probably should not have sex. Fucking is for people who can afford the luxury of preventing a potential pregnancy, or eliminating the accidental creation of little monster clones of yourself. If you cannot afford the traditional remedies offered by the wealthy (Brazilian abortions, French morning after pills, or European boarding schools), then either go celibate, or take your chances with a shady, back alley abortion specialist on the streets of Mexico or Seattle.

However, I was betrayed. Betrayal most foul! His Most Majestic Obesity back-pedaled and apologized to Ms. Fluke. He took back his venom and took the wuss way out all because a few sponsors decided to pull their ads from his show. Really? What the fuck, Limbaugh?! These sponsors knew what you were all about, and they probably support you in your medieval attitude towards women and civilization in general. But they know the score, Rush. They know that most people are afraid of the right-wing agenda. They know that people fear the wealthy and our insidious urge to keep the poor as destitute as possible, and as numerous; we need that population to subject and get cheap labor from. The problem is that you spoke the truth that we do not want spoken too often. Here is how it works:

1. Have horrid right-wing, preferrably a near-racist and sexist attitude.
2. Wait for some mouthy schmuck to voice this reprehensible concern.
3. Silently agree, then pull sponsorship from the jerk to keep our customers content and unaware that your corporation fully intends to reward the jerk with perks, back slaps, and tickets to Nazis on Ice at the local ice arena.

Rush, you added an undesired step, and apologized! Now the liberal will know that we are cowards who only want a silent, subtle manipulation of the people. That is, unless they are trying to get a piece of our one-percent pie. If that is the case beat those bastards down and trample them with elephants. So, way to go Limbaugh: you made a girl cry, and then took it back like a wuss. What are you going to do next, put on your girly shorts and listen to Selena Gomez albums with your widdle, gurlfriends?

But enough of that satirical sarcasm, on with the show. Below is the list of artists appearing on tonight's broadcast. To have a listen, tune your Internet browser to http://darksideradio.com. If that gives your trouble, try opening the link in your media player. But really, clicking the link should take you to the station. If it does not, keep trying. You want to listen, you know you do.

Tonight's Featured Artists (Subject To Change)

Type O Negative

Bauhaus

Joy Division

Siouxsie and the Banshees

Oingo Boingo

The B-52's

Sonic Youth

Dead Kennedys

Puscifer

Depeche Mode

The Cure

Blondie

The Police

Switchblade Symphony

Butthole Surfers.

Wednesday 13

Mindless Self Indulgence

Dragonette

Combichrist

Ministry & Co-Conspirators

Nine Inch Nails

Rob Zombie

Lacuna Coil

Bigod 20

Muse

Tool

The Smiths

Snake River Conspiracy

So, tune in tonight and enjoy the program. If you have Twitter, @XRothechilde and @Darksideradio give song-to-song updates during the show.

Commercials are from: "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" and "Grand Theft Auto IV"

Promotion spots for DJ Xavier produced and Created by: DJ Mirage, Ethermagus, and DJ Parallax

Just Say Yes Volume X: Just Say Darkside (reposted from xavierrothechilde.com)

Octopus says: "Dance with the Green Faery!"

Greetings and Salutations! It has been two whole weeks since I have terrorized the Internet with old New Wave, Classic Gothic, and a few modern tunes for you to listen to as you sit on your computer and play World of Warcraft or do something on Facebook. If you were really clever, you would play my show in the background while going into some x-rated chat room to meet a date for the evening. Doing so would definitely attract someone's curiosity, get me new listeners, and enhance your Internet experience a million fold!

Okay, you probably would not have the last of those prospects happen, but why risk it? Turn on the show and have a listen. It could only do you some good. Unless you are at work and should be doing other things rather than listening to me, or reading what is on this page. But that is not my concern, and probably should not be yours either. Musical cyber-intercourse of the ear with me is much more fun, stimulating, and can increase your own personal wealth (not financially, unless you are really industrious).

Well, enough of that prattle, let us get down to tonight's musical offerings. I remember working in a record store back in the Nineties. This was some sort of experiment to get me in touch with the common man, but that is a story for later. Where I am going with this, is that I remember sorting cassette tapes (remember those?) and compact discs into musical genres. Genres that seem to have disappeared lately. It seems now that music is either Rap, Rock, Country, or Classical. Hell, more often than not, I see the first three in that list simply grouped under popular (Whatever, country music. Having Nashville does not make one popular!). One of those genres was New Wave. Another was that innocuous label "College Radio" (I was disappointed when I learned that many under-educated morons were fans of the genre...). Then one day, those genres disappeared, and were replaced with "Alternative." I first noticed this change in Nineteen Ninety-One. Alternative became a buzzword and soon, a person could happily pay two hundred dollars at Hudson's (now Macy's) for a dirtied flannel shirt so that any suburban yutz could pretend to be Eddie Vedder while sipping over-priced coffee in some pretentious cafe while listening to horrible attempts at modern beatnik poetry. Ah, the Nineties...

So, hearkening back to that year, tonight's show will be peppered with songs from "Just Say Yes Volume V: Just Say Anything" from Sire Records. In fact, that is why I used that title (and you should read that as Volume X, not Volume Ten...). Back in the day, Sire used to take a bunch of "sub-culture" bands, put them on a compilation tape/cd and one could have a sample of what was new, progressive, and ofttimes, underground. Some of those bands pushed the envelope, others may have turned out to be minor musical grace notes. Whatever, the case, I have decided to feature a few of those artists who were there in that last year of what I remember as music before it was turned into a mess of "alternative, pop schlock."

To listen, tune to http://darksideradio.com at 10:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (US).

Enjoy!

Tonight's Featured Artists (Subject To Change)

*John Wesley Harding and Steve Wynn

Joy Division

Nouvelle Vague

Siouxsie and the Banshees

*Dinosaur Jr.

Tre Lux

Snake River Conspiracy

*The Judybats

The Do

Talking Heads

*Royal Crescent Mob

Bad Brains

Type O Negative

*Throwing Muses

The Cure

Depeche Mode

Switchblade Symphony

R.E.M.

*Seal

Tool

Lacuna Coil

*Bigod 20

Mindless Self Indulgence

Nine Inch Nails

Ministry

Mad Marge and the Stonecutters

The Koffin Kats

That Handsome Devil

Puscifer

*Morrissey

Berlin

Johnny Cash

So, tune in tonight and enjoy the program. If you have Twitter, @XRothechilde and @Darksideradio give song-to-song updates and make requests during the show.

*Selection from "Just Say Yes Volume V: Just Say Anything"

Commercials are from: "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" and "Grand Theft Auto IV"

Promotion spots for DJ Xavier produced and Created by: DJ Mirage, Ethermagus, and DJ Parallax

Big & Beautiful at the Strip Club, Shopping, and Tonight on Darkside Radio

Octopus says: "Dance with the Green Faery!"

Greetings and Salutations! Tonight marks a momentous night for yours truly. It is the night after I went out to a local strip club with my dearest of dears, Charlotte. We happened to go on a night that was a feature evening: "Big and Beautiful Night." The theme was big women, all amateurs, shaking it and getting naked for a chance to win a cool one thousand dollars.

What makes the night after such an even momentous? Very simple, I was both inspired and impressed by the fact that many of the entertainers last night danced to songs that one may hear some night if tuned into Darkside Radio. I am always pleased to see Gothic-Industrial-EBM strippers. Believe it or not, goth chicks have curves, only the males of our species tend to the skinny, waifish side of life...

But I digress... Before I get into the schedule of artists to be featured on Darkside Radio with DJ Xavier, let me give you a brief rundown of the events from last night. These will be highlights, people, a blog about the experience may come later. It may not even be necessary.

1. Instead of just having the BBW's dance and strip, the girls had to endure three "events." The third event, was the actual dancing, the first two events were 1) Topless Jump-roping, and 2) Naked Hula Hooping.
2. During the hula hoop event, one girl fell off of the stage, and onto a customer sitting in the audience.
3. One girl danced one entire song, and most of second, before pulling a lollipop out of her, we you know...
4. Not to be outdone by the "Crouching BBW, Hidden Lollipop" that came before her, the next contestant appeared with a giant lollipop shaped like a cock and began to get herself off with it. Really! She was going to town.

And there you have a brief rundown of what happened last night at the titty bar. Believe it or not, that is the first time that I have used the phrase "titty bar." And in print! I feel lecherous.

I went shopping earlier today and bought a couple of new suits, a coat, and a top coat. Why is this important? Well, dear readers, the suit shopping marks another milestone in the life of Xavier A.S. Rothechilde: one of the suits is actually sort of navy blue. Yes! It is true! The X man has actually purchased a suit that was not black! "It's the end of the world as we know it..." Further, I did not purchase a white shirt. I bought a blue shirt and a brownish one, and even a gold-ish colored tie. I bought clothing that has color!!! Not that there is anything wrong with that. There will be more to this tale as well. In fact, between the strip club and the shopping, I think I may have a total blog entry.

Well, I have gone on for quite enough time about stuff and should get on with the other purpose of this entry: the artist who will be providing the rhythm for the gothic dance with the Green Faery. Grab your absinthe, sugar and ice water, it is almost time.

 To listen, tune to http://darksideradio.com at 10:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (US).
Enjoy!

Tonight's Featured Artists (Subject To Change)

Cocteau Twins

Joy Division

Bauhaus

Siouxsie and the Banshees

Leonard Cohen

Nouvelle Vague

Tre Lux

Gerard McMann

Talking Heads

Sonic Youth

Dead Kennedys

Type O Negative

The Cure

Depeche Mode

Switchblade Symphony

The Gothacoustic Ensemble

U2

Lacuna Coil

Nine Inch Nails

Mindless Self Indulgence

Ministry & Co-Conspirators

HorrorPops

The Koffin Kats

That Handsome Devil

The Smithereens

Snake River Conspiracy

The Smiths

Placebo

Johnny Cash

Dead Can Dance

So, tune in tonight and enjoy the program. If you have Twitter, @XRothechilde and @Darksideradio give song-to-song updates during the show.

Commercials are from: "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" and "Grand Theft Auto IV"
Promotion spots for DJ Xavier produced and Created by: DJ Mirage, Ethermagus, and DJ Parallax

Your Assistance and Input is Requested and Tonight on Darkside Radio

Octopus says: "Dance with the Green Faery!"

Greetings and Salutations! Before I go on and present a list of the tunes that will be playing on tonight's show, I would like to take this opportunity to enlist the aid of any of you dear readers that are interested knowledgeable on the topic, and care to throw in your two cents. Last night, I watched VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" show. I admit it, I have a thing for history, and music, and there it was combined for my nerdly enjoyment. So feeling a little inspired, and a bit theft-y, I decided to come up with my own list.

My list however, is not going to reach one hundred. In fact, I am only looking for fifty, and I am not looking for artists (re: musicians). Rather, I would like to compile a list of the "Fifty Most Influential Gothic/Industrial Musicians." Now I would be hard pressed to find fifty such artists to qualify, so I will settle for songs. Fifty songs. My idea is to present the list in a blog, and to air the tunes on a broadcast of my show. If you are interested, send your song title (and try to be band specific, please), and if you would like, a short blurb about why you think this song is so relevant. If the song makes the cut, both your words (attributed to you) and the song will make the blog. The songs that will be chosen for the final list will be the ones that receive the most mentions/recommendations. If it helps, after the list is compiled, I can make a ballot to send to those who participate for the final vote. 

What do you think? Send your recommendations to me at: xrothechilde@gmail.com

And now, I present the artists that will be featured on tonight's show. As you may notice, I decided to make tonight's show an old school New Wave and Punk, earlier Gothic show with a dash of Alternative rock and Industrial sounds. To listen, tune to http://darksideradio.com at 10:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (US).

Enjoy!

Tonight's Featured Artists (Subject To Change)

The Doors

Joy Division

Bauhaus

Siouxsie and the Banshees

Hoodoo Gurus

Talking Heads

The Clash

U2

The Cure

Blondie

Adam Ant

Eurythmics

R.E.M.

Depeche Mode

Switchblade Symphony

Evanescence

Lacuna Coil
Sonic Youth

Ministry

Nine Inch Nails

Billy Idol

Muse

Eleven

The B-52's

Berlin

Pale Divine

Kate Bush

Dead Can Dance

So, tune in tonight and enjoy the program. If you have Twitter, @XRothechilde and @Darksideradio give song-to-song updates during the show.

Commercials are from: "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" and "Grand Theft Auto IV"

Promotion spots for DJ Xavier produced and Created by: DJ Mirage, Ethermagus, and DJ Parallax

Tonight on Darkside Radio (10 September 2011)

Greetings and Salutations! After the Labor Day break, it is time to return to the mechanics of everyday life. Summer vacation is over, the kiddies are all back in school, and I am returning to the airwaves to terrorize and entertain. Tonight's show marks a semi-return to my longer format. However, I have to admit that I will not be entertaining you for the full four hours, rather tonight's show is closer to three. Since I have done this, you all should be listening...

Image created by Oliver Twist'd

While I admit, that I have been neglecting my blog duties this last week, I assure you that I shall be returning to entertain, shock, and horrify, you all with tales from my beloved Rothechilde Foundation. Summer is always a slow time for our work as we must attend to important matters like vacation, sleeping in, eating, and lounging. Yet, another summer has indeed come and died and it is now time to continue the cycle of...whatever it is that we tend to put in some sort of cycle. However, tonight is not a night to go on about the opening week of Foundation business; it is not a night to discuss the development and implementation of the War Elephant Protocols. Tonight is a night for fun, music, and dancing.

Darkside Radio with DJ Xavier

This is a night for listening to me on Darkside Radio and dancing in your living room, at your party, or in your computer seat as you type with one hand and gleefully masturbate to pictures of porn stars that you will never get to touch or even stand one hundred feet near.
Tonight's show marks a return of a few old favorites from shows past. Tonight's show will bring you a version of and old favorite of mine (and yours), "The Fuck Block." Unfortunately, it is not a true block of your fucking F-Bomb favorites, but two of the songs that defined that wonderful block of tunes have returned to the playlist. What are they? I guess you will have to tune in and have a listen. Also, Tonight the Rothechilde Experience extends the psychobilly and horrorbilly segment to more songs for you to grab your broad and swing to...

To listen click here or copy and paste the address below in your browser. You will need to follow the buttons at the top of the page to open your relevant music player.

To make a request, comment or just be a smartass or whatever, follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/xrothechilde

Darkside Radio - http://darksideradio.com

Tonight's Featured Artists

Bauhaus
They Might Be Giants
Peter Murphy
Joy Division
The Smiths
Specimen
The Cure
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
New Order
Dead Kennedys
The Damned
Portishead
Depeche Mode
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Reverend Horton Heat
Guana Bats
Mad Marge and the Stonecutters
HorrorPops
The Koffin Kats
That Handsome Devil (for my 'beth)
Tool
Lacuna Coil
Evanescence
Rob Zombie
Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13
Mindless Self Indulgence
Kidneythieves
Combichrist
A Perfect Circle
Ministry & Co-Conspirators (for Kelly)
Nine Inch Nails
KMFDM
Electric Six
Modulate
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult
The Gothacoustic Ensemble
Type O Negative (to Amy W. B.)
Puscifer
Switchblade Symphony
The Smithereens
The Cult
Tre Lux (to DJ Mirage)

(Commercials played on The Rothechilde Experiment are from Rockstar Games' "Grand Theft Auto" Series. Bumps and promos created and produced by: DJ Mirage, DJ Parallax, and Ethermagus. Blank MP3s created and produced by Oliver Twist'd)

New Wave Night on Darkside Radio – 27 August 2011

Greetings and Salutations! This week marks the second week that I have let the trivial incidents of the week prevent me from taking care of business and finishing my blog. I believe that I may be having a bit of writer's block, only not by my own design. I think I was given the literary equivalent of a cockblock. There I said it.

Thank you, DJ Zephyrael for this, it is still one of my favorites

This week has been an odd one. Greeted with ghost images from the past in the form of photographs, I found myself waxing a bit nostalgic and have decided that tonight's show will be a tribute to the Eighties that was the New Wave that begat the Goth. Coming up with this program was tough; for every song that I wanted to add, I found two more after the fact that I wanted to add. One song that did not make the cut was th Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love." Sorry, Tina and others, I opted to go with Talking Heads instead.
Below you will find the playlist for the evening as planned to this point. The artists are not necessarily played in that order and the list is subject to change. If you have any requests, follow me on Twitter (twitter.com/xrothechilde) and send me an message.
To listen click here or copy and paste the address below in your browser. You will need to follow the buttons at the top of the page to open your relevant music player.
Darkside Radio - http://darksideradio.com

Tonight's Featured Artists

Sylvia Juncosa
New Order
Men Without Hats
Wall of Voodoo
Switchblade Symphony
They Might be Giants
Billy Idol
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Talking Heads
Tre Lux
The Cars
The Dead Milkmen
Dead Kennedys
The Sex Pistols
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Depeche Mode
Puscifer (dedicated to My 'beth)
Morrissey
Mad Marge and the Stonecutters
The Koffin Kats
HorrorPops
Nekromantix
Reverend Horton Heat
That Handsome Devil
Suicidal Tendencies
Wednesday 13
Ministry
A Perfect Circle
Muse
Lacuna Coil
Garbage
The Gothacoustic Ensemble
The Cure
Nine Inch Nails
Portishead (dedicated to Amy W.B.)
Dead Can Dance (dedicated to The Gothic Barbie: DJ Mirage)

Ads played during the show are from Rockstar's "Grand Theft Auto" Video Game Series.

DJ Xavier and Darkside Radio promos created by DJ Mirage and Ethermagus

Tonight on Darkside Radio

Earlier this week I was asked why my taste in music is so diverse. The inquiry was based on my music collection and my musical tastes. You see, I have been know to quote lyrics from Public Enemy and The Cure in the same sentence. While this makes perfect sense to me, it did not necessarily make sense to everyone else.

This got me to thinking: where exactly did my interest come from? It was a short thought process. No matter where my mind ventured, everything made sense to me. For starters, being a child of the John Hughes Generation, many of the movies that I took in back in the day featured much of the music that I listen to currently, and subsequently feature on my show. In case you have forgotten, bands such as New Order, The Cure, Psychedelic Furs, etc. often appeared on soundtracks for movies in the Eighties. Not to mention the simple fact that the blurring of musical lines was already occurring, many just did not notice...

Back when the Sex Pistols were causing a scene, Debbie Harry was hanging with Sid and Nancy. Tina Weymouth and others had ventured on a side project from the Talking Heads, created the Tom Tom Club and began to experiment with rap. Bands such as The Art of Noise, New Order, and Kraftwerk were fueling the boom boxes for the cardboard-on-the-street breakdancing crews. Malcolm McClaren somewhere in there began to take proto-hip hop to Britain and instead of promoting Anarchy in the UK he began to sing of "buffalo girls coming 'round the outside..."

In a nutshell, the Gothic movement has always been an undercurrent of the music scene. When Bauhaus split up and left the world with Peter Murphy and Love and Rockets, the movement split with it. After Ian Curtis left this world, the surviving members of Joy Division went on with New Order. The Gothic world just remembered the roots of many of these new artists who began to enjoy commercial pop success. Remember Oingo Boingo? Danny Elfman went from having a "...Dead Man's Party..." to teaming up with Tim Burton, Matt Groenig and others to produce soundtracks for television and movies (ever wonder why a song by Siouxsie and the Banshees happened on the big screen? I do not. It is as it should be.).

I guess where I am going with this in a hurried, get done with this writing and prepare for the show tonight kind of way is that Goth has always been here. It is the darker side of New Wave, Rap, and Pop. It is what gave hard rockers and metal heads the dark kick they needed to form death metal, speed metal, and whatever. It is the music of old-school, skinny skateboards and broken wrists in illegally drained swimming pools. It is the Screamin' Jay Hawkins that invaded the world of the Blues. Goth is. It just is.

Tonight;s show will feature songs and artists that had an impact on the direction of Gothic music, at least from my impression. Some will say that much is not Goth, I say it is Dark Eighties. I say it is New Wave. I say it is a time to kick it old school for a night. From Punk to New Wave to Goth and in between, this is my interpretation of the roots of Goth. With the exception of maybe two or three songs, tonight's line up comes completely from the Eighties (possibly Seventies on a song or two). Be warned, this list of tonight's artists does not necessarily mean that they appear in this particular order.

So, tune in tonight and enjoy the show. To do so, click here, or copy and paste the link in another browser window or something. Follow me on Twitter for other updates or to make requests.

Darkside Radio - http://darksideradio.com

DJ Xavier on Twitter - @XRothechilde

Tonight's Featured Artists

The Art of Noise

Morrissey

Thomas Dolby

Oingo Boingo

Pat Benatar

Ben Charest (I really think the artist of this particular song goes by "M" however.)
Big Pig

R.E.M.

The Police

Switchblade Symphony

The Sex Pistols

Dead Kennedys

Bad Brains

Big Black

Black Flag

Soundgarden

Ozzy Osbourne
Snake River Conspiracy (Shout out to KJ)

Ministry

Nine Inch Nails

Fish Karma

Siouxsie and the Banshees

Southern Death Cult (A shiny farthing to who can tell me how many times some version of this band appears in tonight's line up).

The Smiths

Enya

The Fugees

Depeche Mode

The Cure

Love and Rockets

The B-52's

XTC

The Cult

Love Spit Love

Berlin

Bob and Tom