The Clockwork Cabaret: Steampunk Radio

The sisters spend a quiet night in, playing some music for their listeners, while the rest of America celebrate their independence. 07.04.11 playlist: ELO - Telephone Line Professor Elemental - Fighting Trousers The Raconteurs - Steady As She Goes Pete Molinari - I Don't Like the Man that I Am Man Man - Engrish Bwood The Clash - English Civil War Cocteau Twins - Pitch the Baby June Christy - Shoo Fly Pie & Apple Pan Dowdy Ukelele Loki's Gadabout Orchestra - I Kiss Too Soon Steam Powered Giraffe - Captain Albert Alexander State Radio - Keepsake Mumford & Sons - After the Storm Unextraordinary Gentlemen - Goodbye 1870s Squirrel Nut Zippers - Ghost of Stephen Foster Two Man Gentlemen Band - William Howard Taft The Ghost Project - Grand Guignol Morella & the Wheels of If - Vincent Shilpa Ray & her Happy Hookers - Dames a Dime a Dozen Jonathan Coulton - Skullcrusher Mountain Sweet Soubrette - Petit Souris Flight of the Conchords - Robots Cog is Dead - The Death of the Cog Cast - Time Warp (from 'Rocky Horror Picture Show') They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in Your Soul Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Mingan Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

A lot of the music Emmett & the Ducole Company play during this episode give us a taste for the unusual ingredients that make up this magical, musical gumbo known as Steampunk music. 06.27.11 playlist: Over the Rhine - Don't Wait for Tom Curtis Eller - Sweatshop Fire Detroit Spinners - Rubberband Man Hellblinki - Sanjula's Junk Robert Preston & Julie Andrews - You & Me (from 'Victor/Victoria') The Weepies - Please Speak Well of Me Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys - Off With Her Head! Tom Waits - What's he Building? Reverend Glasseye - Sleep Sweet Countrymen Tiger Lillies - My Funny Valentine Nina Simone - I Put a Spell on You Nouvelle Vague - Blister in the Sun Why Are We Building Such A Big Ship? - Release the Kraken Rickie Lee Jones - I Won't Grow Up Bette Midler & Janes Caan - I Remember You/Dixie's Dream (from 'For the Boys') Pepe Deluxe - Ms. Wilhemina & her Hat The Moody Blues - Dear Diary Emilie Autumn - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Marie Digby - Umbrella 8 in 8 - Nikola Tesla Andrews Sisters - The Coffee Song Gracie Fields - One of Those Old Fashioned Ladies Tom Jones - Delilah Guests: Lady Attercop & Mister Ducky Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Mingan Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

The sisters are once again joined by Mister Moneyload, and he regales their listeners with his rendition of the birthday song, as well, as new sponsors and other matters of a more serious nature... 06.20.11 playlist: Miranda Sex Garden - Tonight Cocteau Twins - Itchy Glow Bo Blow Tom Waits - Fish in the Jailhouse Eisley - Marsh King's Daughter Humanwine - Script Language Dex Romweber Duo - People, Places & Things Adam Ant - Prince Charming Gogol Bordello - Pala Tute Sunday Driver - The Gayatri Mantra Emilie Autumn - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Harpsichord version) New Town Drunks - Lost Marianne Faithful & Chris Spedding - Ballad of a Soldier's Wife Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins - Born Secular Rolf Harris - Maximillian Mouse Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - I Wanna Be Like You The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again Groucho Marx - Lydia the Tattooed Lady Tally Hall - Banana Man Cast - Siamese Cat Song (from ' Lady & the Tramp') Ethel Merman & Howard Keel - Anything You Can Do (from 'Annie Get your Gun') Professor Elemental - Fighting Trousers Nina Hagen - Let's Call the Whole Thing Off Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - They All Laughed Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Mingan Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

After several requests by their listeners, the sisters have invited the Ducole Company to once again visit aboard the Calpurnia. They discuss names for steampunk horror films and other strange things. Overall, it was a lovely visit, even with the Klaus Nomi impressions. 06.13.11 playlist: Lotte Lenya - So What! Helena Bonham Carter - A Little Priest (from 'Sweeney Todd') The Tenth Stage - Cinderella's Revenge Den of Thieves - Worst Wizard Ever Rasputina - This Little Piggy The Muppet Jug Band - To Morrow Variable Dr. N - Aliatone The Bewitched - The Dark Joanna Newsom - Inflammatory Writ The Drifting Boulders - Wooden Shoes in Tirol Mad Tea Party - Who Built the Ark? Clockwork Quartet - Watchmaker's Apprentice Klaus Nomi - The Twist They Might Be Giants - The Robot Parade Richard Cheese - Creep Bobby Darin - Mack the Knife Wayne Newton - Danke Schoen Tom Waits - It's Alright With Me Beat Circus - The Ghost of Emma Jean Circus Contraption - Hot Potato Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Mingan Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

Phineas P. Moneyload once again joins the sisters and discusses strange and wondrous things, like, the gravitational pull of his head and the sponsors. 06.06.11 playlist: Slow Poisoner - Come to Me CocoRosie - Lemonade Morella & the Wheels of If - Things The Denver Gentlemen - Vulture Girl The Clumsy Lovers - Monumental Stupidity Madness - Dust Devil Dandelion Junk Queens - Bones Jill Tracy - Haunted By the Thought of You Siouxsie & the Banshees - Carousel Hannah Fury - Last Piece of Cake Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus Queen - Melancholy Blues Chris Randall - St. James Infirmary Blues Mad Tea Party - Box of Kittens Gothic Archies - Freakshow April Smith & the Great Picture Show - Bright White Jackets Rasputina - Possum of the Grotto Senryu - Oh Murder! T-Rex - Dandy of the Underworld Parov Stelar - Chambermaid Swing The Beatles - The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill Bonzo Dog Band - Hunting Tigers Out in India Neko Case - The Tigers Have Spoken Flanders & Swann - Hippopotamus Song Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Mingan Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

Emmett suspected it wasn't going to be a good day when she discovered that Pierre, her pet monkey, had put a self portrait of himself made out of bananas in her shoe. Mingan tripped and dropped a "bowling ball" (actually, a cannonball) on her foot. Both of the sisters have been mired down by a series of events that have put them both in a snit. So, they play some music to help them get over their terrible, horrible day. 05.30.11 playlist: Asylum Street Spankers - It Ain't Necessarily So Karen Elson - Mouths to Feed Fields of Nephilim - Preacher Man Unextraordinary Gentlemen - Skeleton Goes to Town Adele - Rumor Has It Muse - Uprising Blair Crimmins & the Hookers - This Modern World Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Curse of Millhaven Tiger Lillies - Kick A Baby Reverend Glasseye - Mother is a Carpegian Man Man - Big Trouble Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Revenge The 88 - Not Enough The Damned - In Dulce Decorum The Drowning Lovers - The Galaxie Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man Over the Rhine - Who'm I Kiddin' but me? Beirut - Elephant Gun Shilpa Ray & her Happy Hookers - Genie's Drugs Crispin Glover - These Boots Were Made for Walking Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Mingan Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

The sisters have returned from the Steampunk World's Fair and they discover someone waiting for them. Who is it, you ask? Why, it's our favorite rogue financier, Phineas P. Moneyload. 05.23.11 playlist: Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band - Bella Ciao Professor Elemental - Animal Magic The Beatles - Everybody's Got Something to Hide, Except for Me & My Monkey Frenchy & the Punk - It's Ok Two Man Gentlemen Band - War of Northern Aggression Siouxsie & the Banshees - Blow the House Down DeVotchKa - Head Honcho Miss Li - Don't Try to Fool Me Frank Zappa - Wowie Zowie Ode Hazelwood - The Good Life Legendary Shack Shakers - Ichabod! Hill of Beans - Satan Lend Me A Dollar Voltaire - When You're Evil Johnny Cash - Busted Grinderman - Go Tell the Women "Bonnie" Prince Billy - Death to Every Dream Tom Waits - Get Behind the Mule April Smith & the Great Picture Show - Dixie Boy They Might Be Giants - Istanbul (Not Constantinople) Tiger Lillies - ABC (Arsenical Bun) Annie Lennox - Keep Young & Beautiful Evelyn Evelyn - Have you seen my sister, Evelyn? Groucho Marx - Whatever it is, I'm against it T. Rex - Bang A Gong (Get It On) Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Mingan Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

Mingan is furiously packing for the upcoming Steampunk World's Fair, leaving Emmett to man the show. But, not to fear, Emmett is not alone! The Ducole Company stop by to keep the blues away. 05.17.11 playlist: Legendary Shack Shakers - Agony Wagon Danbert Nobacon - Information Storm Grinderman - Go Tell the Women Spunge - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) Steam Powered Giraffe - Captain Albert Alexander Ukulele Loki's Gadabout Orchestra - I Kiss Too Soon Antsy Pants - Vampire Future Bible Heroes - I'm A Vampire They Might Be Giant - Exquisite Dead Guy Adam Ant - Stand & Deliver The Tiger Lillies - Police Jonathan Coulton - Skullcrusher Mountain Frank Sinatra - Brazil Dex Romweber Duo - Lover's Gold Charles Trenet - Verlaine DeVotchKa - Somethin' Stupid 8 in 8 - Nikola Tesla April Smith & the Great Picture Show - Movie Loves A Screen The Dead Brothers - I Can't Get Enough Professor Elemental - Fighting Trousers Cab Calloway - Minnie the Moocher Over the Rhine - Trouble Obadiah Parker - Hey Ya The Be Good Tanyas - When Doves Cry The Magnificent Seven - The Last Waltz Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Mingan Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

Mingan seems down in the dumps, so Emmett makes her mission for the evening to cheer up her sister. 05.09.11 playlist: Nina Simone - Don't Smoke In Bed The Scarring Party - Everything I Touched Caught Fire The Gothic Archies - Smile! No One Cares How You Feel A Band Called Horse - Haunted Phonograph Karen Elson - The Ghost Who Walks The Riders in the Sky - Riders in the Sky The Dead Brothers - Trust in Me Tom Waits - Heigh Ho Cast - Siamese Cat Song (from 'Lady & the Tramp') Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing - Goggles Man Man - Van Helsing Boombox The Smothers Brothers - Chocolate Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Up Jumped the Devil Rasputina - Why Don't You Do Right? The Divine Comedy - My Imaginary Friend Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros - Home The Smiths - I Know It's Over Asylum Street Spankers - Cakewalk The Drowning Lovers - Kill Her Rufus Wainwright - My Phone's On Vibrate For You The Extraordinary Contraptions - Thorngauge The Cog Is Dead - The Copper War Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Mingan Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

The sisters contemplate infiltrating a Steampunk Drag Queen competition ala Victor/Victoria & ask listeners to come up with Steampunk Drag names for Mingan. They also discuss various events, play a lot of music and otherwise, enjoy themselves. 05.03.11 playlist: The Zydepunks - Angel Whiskey Tom Waits - Hang on St. Christopher Jay Munly - My Second Salvation Army Choir Eartha Kitt - I Want to be Evil Voltaire - The Man Upstairs Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Whistlin' Past the Graveyard Morella & the Wheels Of If - Vincent Iain Bellamy - Close to You They Might Be Giants - Edison Museum Robert Preston & Julie Andrews - You & Me (from 'Victor/Victoria') Man Man - 10lb Mustache Kate Tucker - I'm On Fire Howard Keel - Bless Yore Beautiful Hide (from '7 Brides for 7 Brothers') St. Vincent - King Or Queen Kozai Resonance - A Love Song to Science Wonders Steam Powered Giraffe - Sand of Tomorrow Queen - Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon The Beatles - Octopus's Garden Blair Crimmins & the Hookers - This Modern World Pretty Balanced - Ode to an Electric Fan The Puppini Sisters - Sisters Joanna Newsom - Clam, Crab, Cockle & Cowry CocoRosie - South 2nd Helena Bonham Carter - By the Sea (from 'Sweeney Todd') Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Ship Song Madness - The Liberty of Norton Folgate Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Mingan Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

This week's show finds Emmett feeling slightly foolish and apologetic, despite the sister's rule of 'No Apologies', and Mingan attempts to highjack the show with her mopey bloomer ways, but she is thwarted. 04.25.11 playlist: Jolie Hollander - Moonshiner The Younger Sister Band - Best Boyfriend Hellblinki - Don't Go Down to the Woods Tonight Creepin' Weeds - Waltz & 1/2 The Real Tuesday Weld - Waltz for One Robert Johnson - Me & the Devil Blues Why Are We Building Such Big Ships - Don't Go Skeedaddle - Stomp Stomp Squirrel Nut Zippers - Suits Are Picking Up the Bill The Soggy Bottom Boys - In the Jailhouse Now The Gourds - Ziggy Stardust Birdeatsbaby - The Devil's So Charming Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers - Dames a Dime a Dozen T-Rex - Ballrooms of Mars Arcade Fire - Wake Up The Scarring Party - Losing Teeth Man Man - Van Helsing Boombox The Be Good Tanyas - The Littlest Birds The Drowning Lovers - Kill Her Tom Waits - Romeo is Bleeding Eli August - Hidden Eden Billie Holiday - But Not For Me The Polka Dots - Dream A Little Dream Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Mingan Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

Mingan gets a bit worried with how competitive Emmett has suddenly become in regards to a contest. What could be causing Emmett to act so out of character? Maybe, it's the full moon? something she ate? Or could it be something more ominous? 04.18.11 playlist: Eddie Izzard - Being For The Benefit of Mister Kite Dengue Fever - 1,000 Tears of a Tarantula Neko Case - This Tornado Loves You Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Revenge The Magnificent Seven - Hell, the Devil & How to Sell Your Soul Muse - Uprising Secondhand Marching Band - Dance to Half Death Mighty Tiny - Fuel for the Stars Ghostfire - Vaudevillians The Last Shadow Puppets - The Chamber Adele - Rolling in the Deep Regina Spektor - On the Radio Fine Young Cannibals - Love For Sale Rufus Wainwright - Puttin' On the Ritz Beat Circus - Delirium Tremens Grinderman - Grinderman The Mountain Goats - Cotton Steam Powered Giraffe - Electricity is in My Soul Man Man - 10lb Mustache The Extraordinaires - Neighborhood Watch Neko Case - The Tigers Have Spoken Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Mingan Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

Tonight's show finds the sisters celebrating the birth of Mingan Davenport. So, prepare to have your ears filled with her favorite songs, musical selections picked out as aural presents from Emmett, poems and general giddiness. 04.11.11 playlist: T. Rex - Dandy in the Underworld Beats Antique - Dope Crunk The Harlem James Gang - Hoofer Take Five - Pantaloons Caro Emerald - A Night Like This Buddy & Julie Miller - Gasoline & Matches Caravan Palace - La Caravane They Might Be Giants - Older Tripod - Ashes to Ashes/Space Oddity The Breeders - Cannonball Max Raabe & Palast Orchester - Kiss Tori Amos - I Don't Like Mondays Nina Simone - Lilac Wine Cat Power - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction The Bastard Fairies - Ten Little Indians Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - I Let Love In Diamanda Galas - My World Is Empty Without You Rasputina - Rock n' Roll Florence & the Machine - Drumming Song Cher - Gypsy, Tramps, & Thieves Frank Zappa - St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast Cassandra Wilson - Last Train to Clarksville April Smith & the Great Picture Show - Bright White Jackets Bat For Lashes - Moon & Moon John Cameron Mitchell - Wig in a Box (from 'Hedwig & the Angry Inch') The Tiger Lillies - Your Suicides  Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Mingan Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

In this episode of Behind the Airwaves, the Davenport sisters speak for the first time - in an exclusive interview -- about their addictions, fame and the problems they faced... Tonight, hear the Davenports as you've never heard them before. 04.04.11 Playlist: Adam Ant - Friend or Foe The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star April Smith & the Great Picture Show - Movies Love A Screen Caro Emerald - Dr. Wanna Do Beirut - The Penalty Frenchy & the Punk (formerly The Gypsy Nomads) - It's OK Muse - Apocalypse Please Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Revenge The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist The Choinure Boys - I've Got the World On A String Sweet Hollywaiians - Ticklin' the Strings Two Man Gentlemen Band - There'll Be Time for Loving Blue Dahlia - I've Got Two Favorite Things Circus Contraption - Charmed, I'm Sure Tom Waits - Black Rider Grinderman - Worm Tamer Asylum Street Spankers - I Don't Wanna Eartha Kitt - Mink, Schmink Peggy Lee - I Don't Know Enough About You The Ditty Bops - Wishful Thinking Mad Tea Party - Who Built the Ark? The Scarring Party - Leslie Ann Merrimac The Decemberists - The Infanta Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Mingan Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

The sisters are quite optimistic about the show & the future. They talk about events in the upcoming month, recite poems, and play some wonderful music. 03.28.11 playlist: Jolie Holland - Moonshiner Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Carry Me Hearts & Daggers - Desperados Lullaby Sweet Soubrette - Avalanche Amanda Palmer - Runs in the Family Mad Tea Party - Indian War Whoop Aimee Mann - Borrowing Time Gogol Bordello - Immigrant Punk Bette Midler - Billy-A-Dick Over the Rhine - Trouble Joanna Newsom - Monkey & Bear Elvis Costello - Little Boxes Voltaire - This Ship's Going Down DeVotchKa - All the Sand in All the Seas Bat For Lashes - Seal's Jubilee Nouvelle Vague - Master & Servant Serge Gainsbourg - Comic Strip Lynn O'Brien - Italy Tom Waits - It's Alright With Me Lavender Diamond - You Broke My Heart Beat Circus - Delirium Tremens Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights Baby Dee - The Dance of Diminishing Possibilities Two Man Gentlemen Band - Prime Numbers Man Man - The Ballad of Butter Beans Tiger Lillies - Twenty-five Minutes Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Mingan Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.