'Rocket Shop' is a weekly radio program that presents music from the Vermont Music Library collection, old and new. It's hosted by Jim Lockridge on 'The Radiator', a licensed low-power community radio station co-founded by Big Heavy World in 2007.

Vermont musicians appear as guests to co-host shows featuring their music and influences (contact jim@bigheavyworld.net).

Weekly playlists are published to TUNK, the news blog of Big Heavy World, The Radiator, and the VMLS.

'Rocket Shop' airs every Wednesday, 8-9pm in Burlington, VT at 105.9FM WOMM-LP.

The Radiator Crew: Lee Anderson, Jim Lockridge, Sean Larock, & Ryan Krushenick. Photo: Matthew Thorsen.

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Recent Playlists

Colin & Dylan of Pale Fire.

05/07/2008
With guest hosts Colin Doherty and Dylan Hudson of PALE FIRE and Kelsey Hanrahan with the weekend live music report:
The Dirtminers, 'American Typewriter'
Avi & Celia, 'Down To You'
Pale Fire, "Death of the Hired Man'
Maryse Smith, 'Worn Tee Shirt'
Pale Fire, 'Drunken Landlady'
Fiddleheads, 'Swallowtail Jig Set'
Pale Fire, 'The Tree Planter's Lament'
Third Wheel Neil, 'Dreams'
Duane Carlton, 'Small Town Heroes'
Stray Dogs, 'China Sea'
35th Parallel, 'Hepsi Yalandir'
Orchestra Naif, 'NaGuitaRam'
'Rocket Shop.' a local music radio hour, airs every Wednesday, 8-9pm in Burlington, VT at 105.9FM WOMM-LP 'The Radiator.'

04/30/2008
With guest host Dan Bolles, Seven Days Music Editor and live performance by the GOSHEN RAMBLERS:
Pretty & Nice, 'Grab Your Nets'
Shawn Grady, 'Magic'
Red Hot Juba, 'How's About You'
Plastic Billionaires, 'Girl In The Iron Lung'
Rubblebucket Orchestra, 'Rivers'
Forrest Muerath, 'In The Quiet of a Hangover'
Goshen Ramblers, 'Fast Folks' (LIVE)
Goshen Ramblers, 'Luther's Plea' (LIVE)
Goshen Ramblers, 'Sweet Little Kim' (LIVE)
Goshen Ramblers, 'Miss Foster' (LIVE)
Goshen Ramblers, 'Good Night' (LIVE)

04/23/2008
With guest hosts IN MEMORY OF PLUTO and special guest Trevor Nesbit from ECHO:
In Memory of Pluto, 'Cutting Open The Fiction'
In Memory of Pluto, 'A Century In The Dust'
In Memory of Pluto, 'From The Backseat'
Pretty & Nice, 'Grab Your Nets'
In Memory of Pluto, 'Set The House On Fire'
Aaron Flinn, 'Hill of Billy'
Jenny Montana, 'Pots & Pans'
Johnny Azer, 'Worship from Afar'
Tom Banjo, 'Rakes of Mallow'

04/16/2008
With guest host Bridget Burns from Wyld Stallions Records and special guest MARYSE SMITH, performing live, and the weekend scene report by Kelsey Hanrahan:
Gregory Douglass, 'Upside Down'
The Leaves, 'Yours Truly, Charlie'
Son of Nun, 'Right On'
Maryse Smith, 'Fences Are Offensive' (LIVE)
Maryse Smith, 'Fast One' (LIVE)
Hilla, 'Aloha from the Sunny Side of the Back Hallway, Lewiston High'
Jugtown Pirates of Lake Champlain, 'Haunted Hippie Mansion, Halloween'
In This Century, 'Cold and Quiet Day'
Maryse Smith, 'The Fear' (LIVE)

04/09/2008
Phish, 'Run Like an Antelope'
Trip Lizard, 'Hilltop'
Gypsy Reel,'The Breakgfast Jig / The Priestess / The Monaghan Jig'
Uncommon Tongue , 'Masquerade'
Raq, 'Botz'
Junk Music, 'Dracula Dance'

04/02/2008
With guest hosts the Common Ground Youth Center crew from St. Albans (Marisha Drown, Leah Mahoney, Erin Christiansen, Cameron Young, Jessica Trayah, & Colleen Kelly Estenbaum), live performance by PETE & THE MEATWHISTLE, and Kelsey Hanrahan's Weekend Scene Report.
Dirtminers, 'Addison County Clay'
Jazzam, 'High Times'
Farm, 'Boomtown'
Avi & Celia, 'Down To You'
Pete & The Meatwhistle, 'Untitled' (Live)
Pete & The Meatwhistle, 'Untitled #2' (Live)
The Breaking In, 'The Record Holder'
Jazzam, 'Bafangool5'

03/26/2008
With guest host KATIE TRAUTZ of Knotty Pine and Mayfly, guest KILAM, and Kelsey Hanrahan's Weekend Scene Report. Mark Legrand, 'When The Whistle Blows for Me'
Knotty Pine, 'Exstacy'
Laslo Cameo, 'How Can You Lose'
Crowfoot, 'Hair On Fire'
Knotty Pine, 'Abigail's Tune'
Crooked Still, 'Ecstacy'
Sugarblue, 'Red Rocking Chair'
Laslo Cameo, 'Love Is Enough'
Tammy Fletcher, 'Down To The Village'
Kilam, 'Trigga Man''Rocket Shop.' a local music radio hour, airs every Wednesday, 8-9pm in Burlington, VT at 105.9FM WOMM-LP 'The Radiator.'

03/19/2008
Guest host Joseph Beaulieu of Big Heavy World's 802 Booking Collective with Kelsey Hanrahan's live weekend report.
Zola Turn, 'Infamous U Turn'
Dysfunkshun, 'Brickless'
chainsaws.and.children, 'Flame On'
The Magic Is Gone, 'No Need to Argue'
Starlight Conspiracy, 'Silver Holler'
In Constant Motion, 'Untitled, Track #7'
5 Seconds Expired, 'One'
Drowningman, 'Sadder Than Saturday'
Kilam, 'Yea Buddy'
Dark Cloud, 'Puddy'
Dysfunkshun, 'Good Scene'

03/12/2008
Guest host Joseph Beaulieu of Big Heavy World's 802 Booking Collective and special guests Richard Bailey, Director of 242 Main (Burlington's teen center) with Rock Camp students and Kelsey Hanrahan's live weekend report. All songs by students of 242 Main's Rock Camp program:
'Mein Frere'
'U Tell Me'
'Seek and Destroy'
'What I Like About You'
'I Wanna Be Sedated'
'I Can't Make It'
'Fear the Reaper'
'Welcome to the Jungle'
'Wish I Knew'
'More Than A Feeling'

03/05/2008
With guest host Dan Bolles, Music Editor, Seven Days Newspaper. Guest Joseph Beaulieu, (802) Booking Collective. Live show report with Kelsey Hanrahan.
Jesse Haven, 'Postcards'
Patrick Fitzsimmons, 'Beautiful Jane'
Algorhythms, 'Dreams of Lisbon'
Mickey Western, 'Las Vegas'
Moses Atwood, 'Seventh Sin'
Paddy Reagan, 'Coffee and Cigarettes'
Dog Days, 'That Settles That'
My Own Sweet, 'New Strings'
Colin Clary, 'Missy's On The Loose'
Duane Carleton, 'Ballad of Horace Greene'
Souvenir's Young America, '6 39'

02/27/2008
Vitals, 'The Mocking Program'
Orange Mothers, 'Little Bird'
The Apostacy, 'By Fire By Moonlight'
Indecent Exposure, 'Track 5'
The Thunderbolts, 'A Taste of Honey'
Woody Keppel, 'War Is A Racket'
Alan Greenleaf, 'Me So Blue'
Michele Choiniere, 'Madeleine'
The Wards, 'Weapons Factory'
J. Willis Pratt & We're Bionic, 'Angry About T.V.'
Dialogue for Three, 'Complacency'
Cancer Conspiracy, 'i'
Cancer Conspiracy, 'ii'
Cancer Conspiracy, 'iii'

02/20/2008
With guest host Peter Williams and live music report by Kelsey Hanrahan.
Shamms Mortier, 'Juana Cigone'
Shamms Mortier, 'Lithuanian Fragment'
Prydein, 'Minstrel Boy'
Shamms Mortier, '4AM'
Shamms Mortier, 'Tasty Bitz'
Shamms Mortier, 'Mining for Gold'
Michael Chorney, (Track 10, Mother Tongue)
Rachel Brown, 'Spirit Won't Fall Down'
Grace Potter, 'Deliverance Road'

02/13/2008
With guest host Cheryl Willoughby and live music report by Kelsey Hanrahan.
Cancer Conspiracy, 'ii'
Colin Clary, 'dance, dance'
Heloise & The Savoir Faire, 'Datsun'
The Aviators, 'A.D.D.'
The Estes Boys, 'Name On A Stone'
Chin Ho!, 'The Last Time'
Missy Bly, 'This Song'
The Logger & The Fellers, 'Liza Jane'
Inner Fire District, 'Watermelon, Apricot, Watermelon'
Balkan Beat Box, 'Habibi min zaman'
Aquadora, 'Simple Sonic Waves'
Japhy Rider, 'W.E.S.T. > Theme for Moses'
Capstan Shafts, 'Can't You Tell A Slow Burn Woo When You Ignore One?'

01/30/2008
MusicSpeak, 'Spin Around'
The New Siberians, 'Gasoline'
Video Pigeon, 'Velour'
Carrigan, 'Catatonic (For You)'
Anais Mitchell, 'Hades & Persephone'
Ninja Custodian, 'All I Want'
Romans, The Last Fifty-Eight Quatraines of The Seventh Century'
Romans, 'Nail, Nail, Nail'
Romans, 'All Those Wrists'
Chainsaws of Babylon, 'Pteradactyl'
Pork Tornado, 'Fellini'
Phish, 'Taste' (Live 12/14/1995, Broome County Arena, Binghamton, New York)

01/23/2008
The Luxury, 'Let Go'
Caralina, 'Mayfield Place'
The New Element, 'xAx'
The Thunderbolts, 'Heart So Cold'
The Middle Eight, 'You Woke Me Up'
Tom Banjo, 'Simple Things'
Mike Gordon, 'Exit Wound'
Blinded By Rage, 'Let 'Em Swing'
Construction Joe, 'Misanthrope'
Missy Bly, 'Take Me To The Movies'
Wide Wail, 'She's Not The One'
Missy Bly, 'Past Midnight'
Manifest Next To Me, 'Victim Oblivion'
Torsion, 'thisbattleismine'

01/16/2008
Jesse Haven, 'Lonely Old Goat'
Crowfeather, 'Honey Pie'
Justin Levinson, 'Heavy Weight'
Dirt War, 'Track #3'
Austin Sirch, 'Wishing Bell'
Rik Palieri, 'Ozark Mouth Bow'
Missy Bly, 'Animal Eyes'
Buck & The Black Cats, 'Dixie Jean'
Capstan Shafts, 'Blue Foreign Cartoons'
Evolocity, 'Set You Free'
Caracalla, 'Looking Through The Obituaries For You'
Cleary Bros. Band 'Fancy Pants'
Duane Carleton, 'The True American'
Anais Mitchell, 'Hobo's Lullaby'
Heloise & the Savoir Faire, 'I Think U Suck'
Essex Green, 'Everything is Green'

Ryan Krushenick and Phil England of Unrestrained guest host 'Rocket Shop' and interview Harms Way (Chicago) in the broadcast studio.

01/09/2008
Tired Of Trying, 'Shelter'
Ninja Death Squad, 'If God Hates Fags, I Hate God'
Against All Authority, 'Dinkas When I Close My Eyes'
My Revenge, 'Passing In The Breakdown Lane'
My Revenge, 'Can't Kill My Dreams'
My Revenge, 'Passing In The Breakdown Lane'
My Revenge, 'Passing In The Breakdown Lane'
My Revenge, 'Renegade'
(If you're familiar with My Revenge, this playlist makes perfect sense...)
Harm's Way, touring from Chicago, performed live on air:
Harm's Way, 'Virgin of Nuremberg'
Harm's Way, 'Pure Hatred'
Harm's Way, (Untitled, 'Bolt Thrower')
Harm's Way, (Untitled, 'Sepultura')
Harm's Way, (Untitled, 'Carcass')
Harm's Way, 'Militant Mondays'
Harm's Way, 'In My World'
Harm's Way, 'Outro'
Harm's Way, 'Imprisoned'
In Reach, 'Driver's Test'

01/02/2008
Pilot To Gunner, 'It's So Good To Be Here In Paris'
Zola Turn, 'Bulletproof Vest'
The Emily Rock Group, 'Gleaming Powder Tide'
The Wards, 'Pyro'
Joshe Henry, 'Elephant'
chainsaws.and.children, 'cannibal.burn'
Disillusioned, 'Sense of Pressure'
Breakaway, 'Money Down'
Bag of Panties, 'Lift A Finger'
eye oh you, "Connekshun"
Belizbeha, 'Inhibitions'
Crackwhore, 'Preacher Man"
Dirtminers, 'Addison County Clay'
Unrestrained, 'Appleseeds'
Katherine Quinn, 'Did I Ever Tell You'
Starline Rhythm Boys, 'Smart Thinkin''
Colin Clary & The Magogs, 'Moped Rally'
The Static Age, 'The Blackout'

Jeff Foran of Maneuvers.

12/26/2007
Special in-studio guests MANEUVERS (Jeff Foran & Urian Hackney)
Dysfunkshun, 'Company You Keep'
The Magic Is Gone, 'Nixon'
Spencer Lewis, 'I Wish I Was'
Maneuvers, 'Argonauts'
Maneuvers, 'Operators and Palindromes'
Maneuvers, 'Montauk Sparrow'
Maneuvers, 'The Halt Memo'
The Pants, '2000'
The Interior, 'Parasite'
Prydein, 'Something Skattish'
5 Minutes Hate, 'Lost In April'
Crazyhearse, ' Undead Girlfriend'
Invisible Jet, 'Fighting You'
Chin Ho!, 'Home'

James Christensen of Vitals.

12/19/2007
Guests Richard Bailey from 242 Main and VITALS (Alex, Cam, and James)
The Wards, 'Daddy I Know You're Santa Claus'
Amadis, 'Amadis'
Vitals, 'Conquering Lands We Once Dreamt Of'
Vitals, 'Tulips for the Mathematician'
Romans, 'Tidepool'
Asobe Seksu, 'New Year'
Rusty Dewees, 'Christmastime Again in Woodchuckbury'
The Octopus Project, 'Snow Tip Cap Mountain'
Music Speak, 'Spin Around'
Huffy, 'Tinfoil'
Five Seconds Expired, 'Kill Your Idols'
The Cush, 'Time and Space'
Vitals, 'The Mocking Program'

Romans.

12/12/2007
(Guest hosts ROMANS: Justin Gonyea, Tom Kelly, Kevin Savage, Sean Martin)
The Nisht Geferlach Klezmer Band, 'Tish Nign'
Romans, 'The Last Fifty-Eight Quatraines of the Seventh Century'
Romans, 'Nail, Nail, Nail'
Drowningman, 'Sadder Than Saturday'
Carrigan, 'Hear Ye... Hear Ye'
Never Again, 'Strength to Prevail'
Suffer the Masses, 'Advancement'
Engineer, 'Scala Natura'
Romans, 'Carve Up and Give Away'
Downslide, 'Discarding Skin'
Engineer, (?)
Cancer Conspiracy, 'Loft Complication'
Non Compos Mentis, 'Henry'
The Year's Best, 'The Day You Let Down Everyone'
Carrigan, 'Sunshine Through the Waves'
5% Joe, 'Letter from Luke'
Prisoner 13, 'War Without Words'
Engineer, 'The Thinning Cycle'
Starlight Conspiracy, 'She Waits'
Starlight Conspiracy, 'Don't Leave the Stage'

12/05/2007
Twelve Times Over, 'Gravity'
Pretty & Nice, 'Lazy Lazy Bumblebee'
Lowell Thompson, 'Crenshaw'
Swale, 'Soft Fireworks'
The Grift, 'Bloom'
Envy, 'Sunday'
The Wards, 'Christmas in Afghanistan'
Evenmind, 'Be That Way'
Guppyboy, 'Snow Song'
Wagtail, 'Honey Man'
In Reach, 'Fight for Your Right'
Anais Mitchell, 'Your Fonder Heart'
Carrigan, 'Catatonic'
The Medea Connection, 'Mirror Mind'

11/28/2007
Jesus Nut, "Cock Rock"
Starline Rhythm Boys, "That's Where I Went Wrong"
Stupid Club, "Candy Music"
Rocketsled, "Main Man"
Trey Anastasio, "Let Me Lie"
James Kochalka Superstar, "Sleigh Ride to Heck"
Drowningman, "Rock And Roll Killing Machine"
Chin Ho!, "When Everything Explodes"
James O'Halloran, "Travel On"
The Faithfull, "Attitude"
Rick & The Ramblers, "I Heard the Highway"
The Cush, "Heart Shaped Melody"
Unrestrained, "Appleseeds'