Supplemental Reading.


Here’s this week’s links/videos/items of interest based on topics discussed during last night’s radio show.

RIP Adam “MCA” Yauch.

This simple post on Twitter summed up what I loved about Yauch and how he faced growing older fearlessly.

The Beastie Boys had no shortage of great moments during their nearly 30 year career and I’m embedding some favorites I’ve watched between MCA’s passing and now throughout this post.

I was also taken with Sasha Frere-Jones’ remembrance.

Free downloads this week too. The first three songs by Legion Of Strangers for starters and (for a limited time) the Nicholas Szczepanik record “We Make Life Sad.”

Can’t wait for the Government Issue live series.

Try and get this Ex Friends song out of your head.

You can still grab Beastie Boys’ “Now Get Busy” here.

Live on next week’s show, Kiam recording artist Tim Foljahn!



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5/9/12 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Hollywood – Toe-To-Toe – Stunts – [N]
Beastie Boys – The Sounds Of Science – Paul’s Boutique – RIP, MCA.
The Homosexuals – Walk Before Imitate – Astral Glamour
The Sugarman 3 – Your Friendly Neighborhood Sugarman – What The World Needs Now – [N]
Hive Dwellers – Get In – 12″
Beastie Boys – Hold It, Now Hit It (Acapulco) – 12″ – RIP, MCA.
The Lonesome Savages – Got Love If You Want It – 7″ – [N]

Ty Segall Band – Wave Goodbye – Slaughterhouse – Forthcoming.
MCA & Burzootie – Drum Machine – 12″ – RIP, MCA.
Legion Of Strangers – Sink Or Swim – mp3
Nicholas Szczepanik – Another Screened World – We Make Life Sad
Dope Body – Weird Mirror – Natural History – Forthcoming.
Run DMC – Slow & Low – mp3 – Beastie Boys cover. RIP, MCA.
Wax Idols – Schadenfreude – 7″

Government Issue – Partyline – 1983.08.03 Minneapolis
Beastie Boys – 33% God / Dis Yourself In ’89 (Just Do It) – Love American Style – RIP, MCA.
Ex Friends – Punk Rock Wedding, Punk Rock Divorce – mp3
Ghostface Killah – Daytona 500 (Clean Instrumental) – mp3 – Happy birthday, Ghostface.
Noxagt – Titanic – Peel Session – July 14, 2004.
Beastie Boys – Now Get Busy – The Wired Cd: Rip. Sample. Mash. Share. – RIP, MCA. – [C]
Condemned To Death – Lost Tweekend – Diary Of A Love Monster

The Flesh Lights – Not Coming Home – Bring Beer – [N] – [C]
Beastie Boys – Rock Hard – 12″ – RIP, MCA.
Man Forever – Surface Patterns – Pansophical Cataract – [N]
Steinbeck – Possession (Not The One By Danzig) – Up End Atom: A Tribute To Atom & His Package – [C]
Pierre Raph – Batterie Fields – The B-Music Of Jean Rollin – [N] – [C]
Beastie Boys – Just A Test – Hello Nasty – RIP, MCA.
Antimony – Circumlocutor – Phantom Itch

Tim Foljahn – All Fall Away – Songs For An Age Of Extinction – Live on next week’s show! – [N]
Beastie Boys – She’s On It – 45 – RIP, MCA.
Plankton Wat – Spirits – Spirits – [N]
Grubstake – Instrumental Vurdalak – What’s The Point In A New C.D. Anyhow – Local.
Barry Adamson – Get Your Mind Right – I Will Set You Free
Beastie Boys – Bodhisattva Vow – Ill Communication – RIP, MCA.
Fireballs Of Freedom – Sick Again – Total Fucking Blowout

Beastie Boys – Beastie Boys – Polly Wog Stew – RIP, MCA.



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Supplemental Reading.


Here’s this week’s links/videos/items of interest based on topics discussed during last night’s radio show.

I love you Blasted Canyons.

Check out Peter Cortner of Dag Nasty on the new episode of the Used Wigs podcast.

Mark Edwards from My Dad Is Dead has a new band. They’re called Secular Joy.

I really like this piece Matthew Callan wrote about his band Record Ignite! being sampled by Le Tigre.

The Cheap Freaks album has me intrigued.

Downloads ahoy!

Grab a song from Roomrunner (ex-Double Dagger).

Blues Control are back.

The bonkers Bananazzz Ep is free for all.

Chicago’s Bloodiest contains many dudes with many beards.

Clicky Clicky Music Blog has dropped a gratis track-by-track compilation tribute to Ride’s “Nowhere” on all of our heads featuring 11 Boston-area acts.

The entire Women discography is waiting for you.

My condolences to friends and family of band member Daniel James Krawiec in light of his passing.



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5/2/12 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Blasted Canyons – Liquid Fiend – 2nd Place – [N]
Dag Nasty – Dag Nasty – Wig Out At Denkos
IfIHadAHiFi – Minotaur Documentation – Nada Surf – [N]
Blunderbuss – Pretty Grip – Conspiracy
Secular Joy – The Weapon Needs Its Ammunition – Made For Better Things – Mark Edwards of My Dad Is Dead’s new band. – [N]
Record Ignite! – Parting Wishes – Rebels Promise Change
Cheap Freaks – Nowhere To Go – Bury Them All – [N]

Roomrunner – Spinning – S/T – Drummer from Double Dagger’s new band.
Death Grips – I’ve Seen Footage – I’ve Seen Footage – [N]
Blues Control – Iron Pigs – Valley Tangents – Forthcoming.
BANANAZZ – Call To Arms Against The Oppression Of Tyrannical Monotony – S/T
Bloodiest – Slave Rule – S/T
Bedroom Eyes – In A Different Place – NOFUCKINGWHERE – Ride cover. – [N] – [C]
Women – Radiation – 7″ – RIP Dan K.

Floor – Namaste’ – Dove – [R]
The Spinto Band – Keep Them Alive – Shy Pursuit – [N]
100 Flowers – Dyslexia – 100 Years Of Pulchritude – #Sub60Songs.
L.U.N.A.R. Revolt – You Know Its True – Mind Losers – Local. Ex-Mountain High. – [N]
The Warmers – Thin Air – S/T
Shonen Knife – Super Group – Super Group
The Pharmacy – Dig Your Graave – 7″ – [N]

Guantanamo Baywatch – Boomerenga – Chest Crawl – [N]
The Psychic Paramount – Microphone II – Origins & Primitives Vol. 1 + 2
Matthew Shipp Trio – Elastic Eye – Elastic Aspects – [N]
Zmrzlina – Genealogy – Katastophe Vol. 3
Allo Darlin’ – Tallulah – Europe – [N]
Trapdoor Fucking Exit – Short Term Investment – Be Not Content
Arbouretum – New Scarab – Aureola – Split Cd with Hush Arbors. – [N]

Feedtime – Curtains – The Aberrant Years Sampler – Selected by Mark Arm. – [N]
The Wooden Owls – Song For A Friend – Song For A Friend – Another info-free black sleeve 12″ out of South Jersey…



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4/25/12 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Screaming Females – Tell Me No – Ugly – [N]
Scars – David – Author! Author!
Rob – Make It Fast, Make It Slow – Make It Fast, Make It Slow – 1977. – [N]
Buried Beds – Breadcrumb Trail – Tremble The Sails – Local.
Mclusky – She Will Only Bring You Happiness – The Difference Between Me And You Is That I’m Not On Fire
Quakers – Big Cat – S/T – Featuring Synato Watts. – [N]
Double Dagger – Camouflage – More

Miss Alex White & The Red Orchestra – She Wanna – Space & Time
Luke Roberts – Cartier Timepiece – The Iron Gates At Throop & Newport – [N]
The Crust Brothers – Yahoo Street Scandal – Marquee Mark – Bob Dylan & The Band cover. For Levon Helm.
Trophy Wife – Stella, My Star – 45 – [N]
Big Daddy Kane – Warm It Up, Kane – It’s A Big Daddy Thing
Steve Treatment – The Hippie Posed Engrossment – 25 “A” Sides
Constantines – To The Lullabies – S/T

Torche – Kiss Me Dudely – Harmonicraft – [N]
Kaia – The Night Was On To Me – 2010 Demo
Kash – Monster Of Fire – Full Of – Forthcoming.
Victor Banana – Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron – Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron – “Official soundtrack.”
The Fresh & Onlys – Do What I Came To Do – Stash Rituals – Forthcoming.
The Book-Burners – Sidesteppers – PRF BBQ 2012: Rock Always Wins – [C]
OFF! – Cracked – S/T

Carolee – Spiral Start – Bring Beer – [N] – [C]
Chris Brokaw & Geoff Farina – Ginseng Blues – The Angel’s Message To Me – The Kentucky Ramblers tune.
TV Ghost – The Recluse – S/T
Zdrastvootie – May Yam Yaw – 2
Therapy? & Fatal – Come & Die – Music From The Motion Picture Judgement Night – Street Legal version. – [C]
Lois Maffeo & Brendan Canty – Monument – The Union Themes
The Celibate Rifles – Cuttin’ It Fine – Spaceman In A Satin Suit

Asshole Parade – Modern Problems – Embers
Bedroom Problems – You’re Boring – Cdr – Local. – [N]
V-3 – Negotiate Nothing – Sound Of Poverty: Anyway Singles 92-93 – [C]
Plante – Damnation Is A Lie – Harvest – [N]
The Perennials – Oh Kimmy – 45
David Greenberger & Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic – How Records Are Made – The Petite 7 Inch Record – [C]
The Hussy – Hard To Erase – 45 – [N]

The Nein – Handout – S/T
Th’ Faith Healers – Moona Inna Joona – Mr. Litnanski – [R]
Harris Newman – Feral Blues – Non-Sequiturs
David First – My Veil Evades Detection; My Veil Defied Exhaustion; My Veil & I Divorce – Privacy Issues – Mixed with several a cappella recordings.



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Live performance #217 – Nervous Curtains.


Engineered 4/9/12.

Nervous Curtains web site

Cats In The Dark / Wired To Make Waves / It’s Cramped In The Casket / There’s A New World Just Opening For Me (The Kinks cover) / Come Around Viral



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Supplemental Reading.


Here’s this week’s links/videos/items of interest based on topics discussed during last night’s radio show.

RIP Dick Clark. Glad someone uploaded the above song a few hours ago.

Happy 50th birthday Ian MacKaye!

On to the downloads, which include music from Small Professor, Megan Reilly, Psychotic Norman, These Days and Vomit Spots.

Thanks again to Ian, Robert and Sean from Nervous Curtains for coming to WPRB and recording a live set.

Pick up 12XU’s compilation “Bring Beer” for Record Store Day.

Screaming Urge are playing a show in Columbus, Ohio before the end of the month?!

One more song to grab: A track off the forthcoming Arc In Round record.



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4/18/12 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Teen Idles – I Drink Milk – Flex Your Head – Happy! – [C]
Skewbald/Grand Union – You’re Not Fooling Me – 45 – 50th!
Minor Threat – Salad Days – Complete Discography – Birthday!
Embrace – No More Pain – S/T – Ian!
Egg Hunt – We All Fall Down – 20 Years Of Dischord – MacKaye! – [C]
Pailhead – Ballad – Trait
Fugazi – Burning Too – Fugazi Live Series – Recorded in Princeton, NJ on April 6, 1989.
Fugazi – Birthday Pony – Red Medicine
The Evens – Shelter Two – S/T

Great Plains – Dick Clark – Length Of Growth – RIP Dick Clark.
Small Professor – The Old Eleven – mp3
Ty Segall & White Fence – Crybaby – Hair – Forthcoming. – [R]
Megan Reilly – Throw It Out – The Well – Likewise.
Psychotic Norman – Davey Jones/Water Cooler – 45 – 1985.
These Days – Widow’s Walk – S/T
Vomit Spots – Nina Haagen Dazs – 7″ – 1987.

Nervous Curtains – Live On WPRB – 22:20 – http://nervouscurtains.bandcamp.com

Cruddy – Home From War – Bring Beer – Record Store Day release. – [N] – [C]
Digital Dinosaurs – Batman – Huh? – 1980.
White Hills – Robot Stomp – Frying On This Rock – [N]
Doctor Cosmo with Saint Joan – The Waste Land: III. The Fire Sermon – Live On WPRB – April 30, 2004. We miss you, Doctor.
Pumice – Trophy – Puny – [N]
Camera Obscura – To Paint The Kettle – Insound Tour Support Series, Vol. 13 – The “other” Camera Obscura. – [C]
Sprinkler – Jr. Loaded – More Boy, Less Friend

Screaming Urge – We Are Mono – Impulse Control – 1980.
Rhyton – Pontian Grave – S/T – [N]
Yo La Tengo – Sudden Organ – Painful
Miezekatze – Check Please – 45
Lustre King – Thighs Are Vices – Ground Rule Double – [R] – [C]
Arc In Round – Hallowed – S/T – Forthcoming.
The Wooden Owls – Through The Looking Glass – Through The Looking Glass – [N]



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Supplemental Reading.


Here’s this week’s links/videos/items of interest based on topics discussed during last night’s radio show.

I hope you’ll read this Low Times piece I wrote about fake band Klean Cut Kids from a 1987 “21 Jump Street” episode.

RIP Cynthia Dall.

Download the soundtrack for the Doctor Who 8-bit game pictured above.

While you’re at it, here is a record from Bone & Bell and a few free songs by Noise & Light.

The entire unreleased album from The Mark can be found here.

Prowler offer both a new original and a digital single consisting of Inxs and Stooges covers.

A full Coffin Pricks live session.

RIP Dictators drummer Richie Teeter.

Performing live on next week’s show, Latest Flame recording artist Nervous Curtains.

Finally, here’s the Worriers track I played and a Lightning Bolt practice space jam.



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4/11/12 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Radar Eyes – In Love – S/T – [N]
Mahmoud Ahmed & Imperial Bodyguard Band – Ebo Lala – Ethiopiques 26
Imipolex G – Glamourous – The Challenge Of Flight
Agent Orange – Too Young To Die / Everything Turns Grey – Living In Darkness – Later “covered” by Klean Kut Kids.
The Trypes – The Undertow – Music For Neighbors – Out April 24th! – [N]
Group Doueh – Cheyla Ya Haluune – Guitar Music From The Western Sahara
Feedtime – Shovel – Today Is Friday – 1986. Unreleased version! – [N]

Wax Idols – Dilno – No Future – [N]
Doctor Octoroc – I Am The Doctor (Part One) – Doctor Who RPG OST
Bone & Bell – Flying, Falling, Crawling – Loom
Cut Chemist – Outro (Revisited) – Outro – Featuring Blackbird.
Noise & Light – Giddy Clouds – mp3
Cynthia Dall – Holland – Untitled – RIP. Duet with Bill Callahan.
The Mark – Beard Of Bees – How To Draw Horses?

Heavy Times – Let It Die – Jacker – [N]
Prowler – Leap Year – mp3 – Local.
Coffin Pricks – Worn Out Thunder – Epitonic Saki Sessions – Live.
Jandek – The Chance – Indianapolis Saturday – [N]
The Dictators – Science Gone Too Far! – Manifest Destiny – RIP Ritchie Teeter.
Solid Home Life – No Say – S/T – [N]
Obits – Fake Kinkade – I Blame You – RIP Thomas Kinkade.

Nervous Curtains – Moody Photos – Fake Infinity – Live in-studio on next week’s show! – [N]
Ceremony – Hysteria – Zoo
Twin Peaks – Come Bother Me – 2012 Demo
Tholem/Parker/Cline – Lives – The Gowanus Session
Pens – You Only Like Me When I Tell You I’m Wrong – 45
Greater Than One – Bloodstream – 7″
Fungi Girls – Some Easy Magic – Some Easy Magic – [N]

Worriers – Made To Mend – mp3
Lightning Bolt – 20 – mp3 – Practice demo.
From The Mouth Of The Sun – Color Loss – Woven Tide



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