From the Music Desk: Snoop Dogg, Flying Lotus, Finale, King Khan ...

This is my last radio show for 2009, so thanks to all my fellow DJs, guests and listeners. Good times.

Next week, January 4 at noon, we're pleased to present Philip Lumbang, exhibiting at Giant Robot SF this January.

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Also, some of you don't know I write about video games weekly for the Examiner. Check that out. Lately we've posted on The Bigots of Modern Warfare, and what could go wrong with Dead Space 2.

News: Rescue Roach-bots | 'SF Chronicle'

Big thanks to the BML, Prof. Full, and the IEEE. Original source, of course: Gizmodo.

One day a tiny robotic cockroach could save lives.

UC Berkeley engineers driven by such a vision are ebullient this winter over DASH - a cheap, lightweight, six-legged robotic cockroach that can survive a four-story drop, crawl over objects twice its height and run for an hour on special watch-size batteries. ...

[Read all of 'Robot roaches would be a benefit, not a pest' by David Downs, Special to The Chronicle]

'Grizzly Bear Market' | East Bay Express

Bands, Trujillo says, shouldn't have high expectations. "Number one, you're not going to make any money. ... Knowing that keeps you from being de-motivated and quitting."

Read Grizzly Bear Market at East Bay Express.

Web Radio: Tracy Morgan, Unicorn Dream Attack, James Pants

This week we got some twisted Christmas music, Edward Sharpe, Dead Prez, Dam Funk and Lou Reed.

Special thanks to Episode 24 guest Tamaryn Brown of Tamaryn.

I'm especially stoked on this bizarre new James Pants release from Stone's Throw, Seven Seals. Crazy synth and trap kit weirdness. Here's the playlist.

Thanks and may your Christmas be free of domestic altercations.

Web Radio: Air, Oh No, Cold War Kids ...

Hiya. I've been busy with holiday travel and new assignments. But I still found time to record Grand Theft Audio episode 23, my latest weekly radio show at Pirate Cat Radio. Here's the playlist. And here's GTA:22 from last week, in case ya missed it. (GTA is recorded like every Monday from Noon to 2 p.m. Listen to it via iTunes radio - eclectic- Pirate Cat.) Thanks, ya'll.

Web Radio: Thom Yorke, DOOM, Why?, Chromeo ...

Click here to download Monday, November 30th's episode of Grand Theft Audio #21. It runs weekly at Pirate Cat Radio. Special thanks to DJ Ellie Elle.