6/3/15 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

The Sonics – The Hard Way – This Is The Sonics – [N]
Bedhead – The Unpredictable Landlord – Live In Chicago
Corners – Love Letters – Maxed Out On Distractions – [N]
Valentino, Inc. – Impact – Production Music Library
Sarah Mary Chadwick – Am I Worth It? – 9 Classic Tracks – [N]
Spike – Magic Table – Orange Cloud Nine – 1983.
The Stranglers – Get A Grip (On Yourself) – Burning Ambitions: A History Of Punk – [C]

Meatbodies – Off – S/T – [N]
Montana – Warp Factor II – 12″
Mudhoney – Who You Driving Now? – Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge – Check out their 1991 interview at wprbhistory.org!
Redspencer – Ride It Out – S/T – Australian.
Fleabite – Magic 106.7 – T.T.Y.L. – [N]
Yo La Tengo – Deeper Into Movies – Stuff Like That There – Updated version of an old song.
Circus Lupus – Tightrope Walker – 7″

Flesh World – Shaved Head – The Wild Animals In My Life
Lazy Salon – Rai – LZY SLN 003
Baksey Cham Krong – B.C.K. – Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock & Roll – [C]
Daughn Gibson – I Let Him Deal – Carnation
Miss Pussycat – Magical Nebulon Rainbowland – Anthropomorphizer
Co-Mix – Revol Rules OK – Science Fiction Park Bundesrepublik: German Home Recording Tape Music Of The 1980s – [C]
Kinski – Detroit Trickle Down – 7 (Or 8) – [N]

Shellshag – 1984 – Rumors In Disguise
Portastatic – An Elegant Chaos – Spillage – Julian Cope cover.
Chris Brokaw – Skating Under Glass, Living Like A King – The Periscope Twins – [N]
??? – Kassena-Nankani Festival – Ghana: Ancient Ceremonies, Dance Music & Songs
Signer – Low Light Sleep – The New Face Of Smiling
Inflatable Boy Clams – I’m Sorry – S/T – 1981 double 7″ reissued. – [N]
Monotonix – As Noise – Where Were You When It Happened?

Useless Eaters – Plaque Is Vague – Singles: 2011-2014 – [N]
Ought – Pleasant Heart – More Than Any Other Day



Live performance #238 – 75 Dollar Bill.


Engineered 5/10/2015.

75 Dollar Bill web site

Intro / Like Laundry / Tetuzi Akiyama / Water In The Lock



5/27/15 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Flesh Lights – Flashback To The Majestic – Too Big To Fail
Famous Blue Jay Singers Of Birmingham – Clanka A Lanka (Sleep On Mother) – The Rise & Fall Of Paramount Volume Two (1928-32) – [N] – [C]
Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara – Hershey Horowitz-Mary Elizabeth Doyle Wedding Plans – The Last Two People In The World – RIP Anne Meara.
The Ukiah Drag – Night Of Immaculacy – In The Reaper’s Quarters – [N]
Akendengue – Oklo – Piroguier
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Peasantry Or ‘Light! Inside Of Light!’ – Asunder, Sweet & Other Distress – [N]
Toy Love – Pull Down The Shades – Live At The Gluepot 1980

Scrotum Poles – Helicopter Honeymoon – Messthetics #105 – RIP Craig Methven.
Blanche Blanche Blanche – Fire – Breaking Mirrors – [N]
Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara – Regina Margaret Mulcahy, Middle American – Laugh When You Like – RIP Anne Meara.
SAVAK – This Currency Exchanged – .mp3 – Members of Edsel and Obits.
David Arvedon – The Education To My Equation (Long Version) – The Best Of Dave Arvedon Volume 2 – Unhinged. – [N]
Minibeast – Bubblegum Disaster – .mp3 – Peter Prescott of Volcano Suns / Mission Of Burma.
Mac McCaughan – Whatever Light – 45

75 Dollar Bill – Live on WPRB – 38:20 – http://75dollarbill.bandcamp.com

Thee Oh Sees – Lupine Ossuary – Mutilator Defeated At Last
Yol Aularong – Cyclo – Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock & Roll – [C]
American Werewolf Academy – I Can’t Lose – 45
Kleines Schwingvergnugen – 10 Jahre Frauenbewegung – Science Fiction Park Bundesrepublik: German Home Recording Tape Music Of The 1980s – [C]
Virginia Wing – World Contact – Measures Of Joy
Digital Leather – Cold Inside – All Faded
Snooty Garbagemen – You & Ernie – S/T – Tom Triplett of OBN IIIs.

Flesh Wounds – Let Me Be Clear – 45
No More – Suicide Commando – A Rose Is A Rose – 1981.
The Early Stages – Wristwatch – Single #2 Outtakes
Kickstand Boyfriend – Lying In A Coffin – Christ’s Night Out



75 Dollar Bill live on WPRB this Wednesday night!


75 Dollar Bill, the duo of Rick Brown (Fish & Roses / Run On) and Che Chen, stops by 103.3 fm WPRB this Wednesday night for a tremendous, hypnotic three song live session.

The “singular music of this instrumental duo draws various sources from around the world and across disciplines, everything from Mauritanian guitar to raw minimalism and blown-out urban blues, yet sounds unlike anything [you’ve] heard before.”

The pair’s album “Wooden Bag,” released by Other Music, is one of 2015’s best records.

Stream it below.

“Che Chen’s guitar: a cut-rate Japanese model sketching looped figures inside old Arabic modes, pushing jagged sound through a small amplifier. But as Mr. Chen stood playing hypnotic guitar repetitions, moving with the stresses of the riffs, the drummer Rick Brown sat on a square wooden box, open in the back, and attacked it from above. Sometimes he used his heel to bounce on a kick-drum pedal, pointing backward toward the box; mostly he was striking the sides of the box with his hands and a homemade mallet, hard, finding different pitches in different places. He cued transitions in the music, building odd or compound rhythms, turning them around and blurring distinctions between downbeats and upbeats. On the surface, the rhythms were only secondary to the guitar lines; deeper down, they were enfolded. One couldn’t do without the other.”The New York Times



“No More Music By The Suckers” with Jon Solomon.


Last night I had the pleasure of guest-hosting “No More Music By The Suckers” on Radio Nope, playing an hour+ of classic 80s/90s hip hop.

You can stream the show below and check out the full playlist after the jump.

Radio Nope

“No More Music By The Suckers” airs live every Thursday night at 10:00 pm ET.

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5/13/15 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

The Replacements – I’m In Trouble – Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash
Twerps – Simple Feelings – Rage Anxiety – [N]
Tatvamasi – Collapse Of Time – Parts Of The Entirety
Giant Sand – Texting Feist – Heartbreak Pass – [N]
King Champion Sounds – World Of Confusion – Different Drummer – G.W. Sok of The Ex on vocals.
Death – Relief – N.E.W. – [N]
Sham 69 – Borstal Breakout – Tell Us The Truth

Party Cops – Again – Knife Licker
Daniel Bachman – Won’t You Cross Over To That Other Shore – River
Plastiktanz – Pelikan – Science Fiction Park Bundesrepublik: German Home Recording Tape Music Of The 1980s – [C]
Drakkar – Crazy Loving You – Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock & Roll – [C]
Guantanamo Baywatch – Shenanigans – Darling…It’s Too Late
Max Guld – Den Sorte Prins – For Enden Af Corridoren – 1985.
Close Lobsters – Let’s Make Some Plans – Firestation Towers 1986-1989 – Box set.

METZ – Nervous System – II – [N]
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – The River – Quarters! – Four songs, each 10:10 in length.
Love – Young & Able (Good & Evil) – Black Beauty – Lost 1973 album. – [N]
Carlos Peron – Nothing Is True; Everything Is Permitted (Instrumental) – Dirty Songs
Krill – Theme From Krill – Krillpilation Volume 1 – [N]
Fred Fisher – Asa-sa – Afro Baby – The Evolution Of The Afro-Sound In Nigeria 1970-79 – [C]
Dick Diver – Waste The Alphabet – Melbourne, Florida – [N]

75 Dollar Bill – Seventy Five Dollar Bill – Cdr – Performing live on this show in two weeks!
Mac McCaughan – Our Way Free – Non-Believers – [N]
??? – Endiaw Mela Mela – Sleeping In The Market – Ethiopian Music & Sounds From Amhara – [C]
Frog – King Kong – Kind Of Blah
Sleater-Kinney – Jumpers – Start Together
The For Carnation – Get And Stay Get March – Fight Songs



5/6/15 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Dirty Fences – Deep In Your Heart – Full Tramp – [N]
Logan’s Sanctuary – The Game – S/T – Fake soundtrack to a non-existent sequel.
Saun & Starr – Big Wheel – Look Closer – [N]
Bonnie Stillwatter – The Devil Is People (The Cheech Wizard’s Hemiolic Chantey At The Edge Of The Anthropocene Epoch) – The Devil Is People – Bundy K. Brown remix.
Silkworm – It’s Too Bad… – Developer
Olivia Neutron-John – Injury Train & I’m Never Getting Off It – S/T – [N]
The Jury – Ain’t It A Shame – With The Lights Out – Leadbelly cover. Kurt Cobain & Mark Lanegan.

Warm Soda – Dream I Left Behind – Symbolic Dream
Igneous Eyes – The Same – Split cassette with Writhing Squares
Bardo Pond – In Every Dream Home A Heart Ache – Is There A Heaven? – Roxy Music cover.
The Pretty Greens – Elevator Eyes – Lonely Hearts Club (No Jerks Allowed)
Shellac – Pull The Cup – Live in Princeton, 1994 – Damon Che on vocals.
DIT – Abbelstiel – Science Fiction Park Bundesrepublik: German Home Recording Tape Music Of The 1980s – [C]
Caroles – Now You Know – Flying Out Presents: The Other’s Way – [C]

Jawbox – Cutoff – Novelty
Quasimoto – J.A.N.’s – The Further Adventures Of Lord Quas
Kraftwerk – Home Computer – Computer World
Superchunk – Come Pick Me Up – While No One Was Looking – Ryan Adams cover. – [C]
Classix Nouveux – Guilty – Living In Oblivion – The 80s Greatest Hits Volume 1 – [C]
Mogwai – You Don’t Know Jesus – Rock Action
High Tension Wires – People I Know – Send A Message

TV Colours – The Neighborhood – Purple Skies, Toxic River – [N]
SWIVS – 676767 – Free Period Blood Money
Hagerty-Toth Band – Qalgebra – Qalgebra
The Lemonheads – Mallo Cup – Bored On The Fourth Of July – Peel Session.
Sonic Youth – Society Is A Hole – Bad Moon Rising
King Tuff – Stranger – Live At Pickathon, Vol. 2 – Split record with Ty Segall.
Weekend – Hazel – Slumberland Records 25th Anniversary Sampler – [C]



Live performance #237 – The Gotobeds.


Engineered 4/14/2015.

The Gotobeds web site

No Present / Fast Trash / Brass Not Rash / Jenna Rations / Wasted On Youth / Melted Candle / Krisis Time / Funky Machine / Affection / Amazing Supermarkets



4/29/15 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Ivy – Arch-Foe – S/T – [N]
Yo La Tengo – The Asparagus Song – President Yo La Tengo
Warm Soda – All Grown Up – While No One Was Looking – Gore Gore Girls cover. – [N] – [C]
The Dictators – Two Tub Man – Go Girl Crazy! – RIP Verne Gagne.
Serengeti – Shidoshi – Kenny Dennis III – [N]
Sweet – No You Don’t – Desolation Boulevard
Six Finger Satellite – Home For The Holy Day – The Pigeon Is The Most Popular Bird – RIP Peter Phillips.

Kerbivore – Opportunity Costs – All Dressed
Mac McCaughan – Come Upstairs – Non-Believers – Forthcoming.
Grune Rosen – Jungle – Science Fiction Park Bundesrepublik: German Home Recording Tape Music Of The 1980s – [C]
The Jean Paul Sartre Experience – Cut Out – I Like Rain: The Story Of The Jean Paul Sartre Experience – Box set.
Ex Hex – Everywhere – Live at Chaz’s Bull City Records
Writhing Squares – Walking Blues – Split cassette with Igneous Eyes
Peoples Drug – Roach’s Song – S/T

The Gotobeds – Live on WPRB – 40:47 – https://thegotobeds.bandcamp.com

Mikal Cronin – Say – MCIII – Out soon.
Dads – Ride The Moon Into The Sun – Brown On Brown
Edsel – Flywheel – WGNS Gots No Station Compilation Volume Two – [C]
Six Organs Of Admittance – The Acceptance Of Absolute Negation – For Octavio Paz
Big Dipper – Wrong In The Charts – Boo-Boo



The Gotobeds live on WPRB this Wednesday night!


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I’m thrilled to welcome The Gotobeds, one of my favorite rock/roll outfits going today, to 103.3 fm WPRB this Wednesday night for a career-spanning (uh, sure!) 10 song live session – including a slew of songs off their forthcoming Sub Pop full-length.

If you don’t own the band’s debut LP for 12XU “Poor People Are Revolting,” you’re missing out on 2014’s best record and I suggest you rectify that horrific oversight presently.

Stream it below.