9/15/10 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Lefty’s Deceiver – Masse Is Never Luck – 45:00 – Happy birthday, Andy!
Asiko Rock Group – Everybody Get Down – S/T – 1976. Nigerian funk.
Les Savy Fav – Clean Spirits – Root For Ruin – N
Negative Element – Anti-Pac Man – You Weren’t There – C
Fey Gods – Bury Me Standing – 45 – N
Gildon Works – Exit Either – Artful Rifle – Local.
Volcano Suns – Openings – 45

Nasdat Rebel – Bounty – Demo
Death Culture At Sea – Field High & Burning (Rx) – mp3 – Members of Bedhead, Saturnine & The New Year.
The People’s Temple – Make You Understand – 45 – N
Da! – White Castles – 45
The Hanatarash & His Eve – Bom Bom Rider – 7″ – Happy belated Rosh Hashanatrash!
Shorty – Hot For Teacher – 45 – Van Halen cover.
The Buzzcocks – Fast Cars – Another Music In A Different Kitchen – As heard in last night’s episode of “This Is England ’86.”

Tre Orsi – Live on WPRB – 23:09 – http://www.treorsi.org

The Effigies – Below The Drop – Haunted Town
Montagna & The Mouth To Mouth – Washed Out – L’avenir – N – Local.
Shape DENTER – Immortal Portal Novice – Demo’o – Mountain High dudes.
Developer – Finally Home – Project 52
Speed The Plough – The River Will – mp3
Robert Scott – Daylight – Ends Run Together – He of The Bats.
The Fix – No Idols – At The Speed Of Twisted Thought…

Pink Skull – Bubblelog Aftermath – Zeppelin 3 – Live on next week’s show!
The Way-Outs – Surf Combat – Demo – Pre-Naked Raygun.
Roxy Jones – Chantal Goya – 45
Planeta Imaginario – Biomasa – Biomasa – N – Spanish prog/jazz.
Johnboy – New Jersey Roadbase – Pistolswing – R
Spain – Phone Machine – 7″
Strike Under – Elephant’s Graveyard – Immediate Action

Pegboy – Method – Three-Chord Monte



Live performance #212 – The Poison Arrows.


Engineered 8/13/10.

The Poison Arrows web site



9/1/10 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

The Intelligence – Sailor Itch – Males – N
Arthur Monday – What Goes Around Comes Around (Part B) – Fantastic Soulfisticated Music (Funk Is Everywhere) – C
Neon Judgement – TV Treated – Early Tapes – N – 1982.
Jandek – Naked In The Afternoon – Ready For The House – First song on the first record by the man from Corwood.
The Sword – Night City – Warp Riders – N
The Dickies – Banana Splits – Great Dictations
Screaming Females – Normal – Castle Talk – N

Bellini – The Thin Line – The Precious Prize Of Gravity – Aided by Tim & Andy from SKWM.
Medication – This Town – This Town – N
The Corin Tucker Band – Doubt – 1,000 Years – Forthcoming.
Fabulous Diamonds – 12 mins 15 secs – Fabulous Diamonds II – N
The Ukrainians – Marusya Bohuslavka – Diaspora
The Souljazz Orchestra – Agbara – Rising Sun – N
Nobunny – Hippy Witch – The World’s Lousy With Ideas Vol. 3 – C

The Poison Arrows – Live on WPRB – 31:06 – http://www.thepoisonarrows.com

Dow Jones & The Industrials – Can’t Stand The Midwest – Bloodstains Across The Midwest – 10 years! Crazy.
The Thermals – Your Love Is So Strong – Personal Life – N
Mogwai – Mogwai Fear Satan – Special Moves – Forthcoming. Live.
Sleepovers – Together Forever – 45 – N
Boys Club – Gotta Get Right – The World’s Lousy With Ideas Vol. 1 – C
Steakdaddy Six – Fishgiver – Arkadelphia
Solger – American Youth – Codex 1980

Tre Orsi – The Visible Hand – Devices + Emblems – N – Live on the show in two weeks!
Boduf Songs – Decapitation Blues – This Alone Above All Else In Spite Of… – Forthcoming.
The Monorchid – Sink The West Coast – Who Put Out The Fire? – R
Jailbreak – Brought Down – The Rocker – N – Chris Corsano & Heather Leigh.
Ill Will – Paranoid – Life Is Ugly So Why Not Kill Yourself – C – R
A Minor Forest – Look At That Car…It’s Full Of Balloons – Inindependence – R



Interview: Tony Rettman


Tony Rettman interview

An interview with author Tony Rettman about his new book “Why Be Something That You’re Not: Detroit Hardcore 1979-85.”

Songs:

Negative Approach – Why Be Something That You’re Not? – Total Recall
The Pagans – Six & Change – The Pink Album
Negative Approach – Genocide – 1981 demo
Laughing Hyenas – Hell’s Kitchen – Merry Go Round
The Fix – Vengeance – 7″
The Necros – Police Brutality – 1981 demo



Supplemental Reading.


This week’s links/videos/items of interest based on topics discussed during last night’s radio show. As always, I’ve attempted to post them in the order they were played on-air. Above, the latest Ted Leo video.

You can order a copy of the Tony Rettman book “Why Be Something That You Are Not” here.

More on December’s Government Issue reunion.

Happy 25th birthday, Amphetamine Reptile.

Download four new Celebration songs for free.

Next week, The Poison Arrows will be live in-studio.



8/25/10 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Woven Bones – I’ll Be Runnin – In & Out & Back Again – N
Joseph K – Radio Drill Time – Entomology
Do You Need The Service? – Green Countrie Town – I Hurl Myself Towards Glory – N – R – Local.
Chron Gen – Jet Boy Jet Girl – 45
Irmin Schmidt – Im Orient II – Kamasutra – N – Film score.
Shorty & The Junior Kools – Jamming With Shorty (Part B) – Fantastic Soulfisticated Music (Funk Is Everywhere) – C
Dan Melchior und Das Menace – Elev To Mezz – 7″

Government Issue – Connecticut – Crash – December 11th @ Black Cat in DC!
Celebration – What’s This Magical – Hello Paradise – N
The Pizzas – Bad-Ass Youth – 45
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – Bottled In Cork – The Brutalist Bricks – Video for this song = endorsed.
Tripod Jimmie – Mirror On The Wall – Long Walk Off A Short Pier
Atombombpocketknife – Window Washer Mafia – Alpha Sounds – Justin from ABPK’s new band The Poison Arrows will be live on WPRB next Wednesday night.
Home Blitz – Thin Ice – The World’s Lousy With Ideas Vol. 1 – C

Negative Approach – Why Be Something That You’re Not? – Total Recall
Tony Rettman interview – Part One – http://wbstyn.blogspot.com
The Pagans – Six & Change – The Pink Album
Tony Rettman interview – Part Two
Negative Approach – Genocide – 1981 demo
Tony Rettman interview – Part Three  
Laughing Hyenas – Hell’s Kitchen – Merry Go Round
Tony Rettman interview – Part Four
The Fix – Vengeance – 7″
Tony Rettman interview – Part Five
The Necros – Police Brutality – 1981 demo

Bored Youth – Outcast – 1981 demo
The Allied – Leave My Life Alone – Unreleased Ep
Violent Apathy – Desperation Takes Hold – The Master Tape
L-Seven – Secrets – Insanity
The Necros – Zuehir! – 1981 demo – Sham 69 cover.
Negative Approach – Dead Stop – ???
Crucifucks – Legal Genocide – 7″
McDonalds – Take Em’ Up – Demo

Blight – Blight – Detroit – 1982 demo.
Checker Kabb – By My Side – People Potential Family Album – N – C
Slovenly – Hamster Wheel – Highway To Hanno’s
Fungi Girls – Turquoise Hotel – 45 – N
God Bullies – Safety Zone – War On Everybody
Calamity Jane – Say It – 45
Romance Novels – Its All Lies – The World’s Lousy With Ideas Vol. 3 – C

The Poison Arrows – Parting Gifts – Newfound Resolutions – N – Live on WPRB next Wednesday evening.
Tindersticks – Black Smoke – Falling Down A Mountain



Supplemental Reading.


This week’s links/videos/items of interest based on topics discussed during last night’s radio show. As always, I’ve attempted to post them in the order they were played on-air.

Above, a fun video for a song on the John & Mark’s Children’s Record record, featuring two former members of The Coctails.

Oxes are playing shows again? Here’s footage of a new song.

Justin Bieber slowed down 800% is a thing of beauty.

Next week I’ll be interviewing “Why Be Something That You’re Not: Detroit Hardcore 1979-85” author Tony Rettman. Don’t miss it!



8/18/10 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Vitapup – Staple In The Sun – 45
Grass Widow – Old Disguise – Past Time – N
John & Mark – A Counting Error – John & Mark’s Children’s Record – Members of The Coctails.
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & The Cairo Gang – The Sounds Are Always Begging – The Wonder Show Of The World – N
The B Girls – Alibi – Who Says Girls Can’t Rock? – 1979.
New Radiant Storm King – Misdirected Energy – August Revital
Pagan Babies – Dumb Cops Attacked By Squirrels – Last – Previously unreleased.

The Poison Arrows – Precious Blood Is Made Of Stone – Newfound Resolutions – N
The Rats – Nightline – Intermittent Signals – Pre-Dead Moon.
L-Seven – Insanity – 7″
Oxes – And Giraffe, Natural Enemies – S/T – Reunited?
Voliatile Molecules – Lisa Smokes Pot – Cassette – Found. Thanks, K2!
This Kind Of Punishment – What Can I Say? – In The Same Room / Five By Four
Tre Orsi – Best Kind Of Failure – Devices + Emblems – N

Mark Sultan – Go Berserk – $ – N
Die Kreuzen – Earthquakes – Century Days
Davenport – S.I.C.K.Y. – 45
Upsilon Acrux – Transparent Seas (The Long Song) – Upsilon Live – N – 10.29.09 at The Smell.
The Young Scamels – A Solemn Air – Tempest – Forthcoming. Members of Rachel’s (sic) and Rodan.
Agent Orange – Bloodstains – Living In Darkness – R

The Stuffies – No One’s Gonna Miss You – Casual Victim Pile – R
Mark Lanegan – Ugly Sunday – The Winding Sheet
Imaginary Icons – Fade – 45
Justin Bieber – U Smile – mp3 – Slowed down 800% by some genius.
Tommy Jay & Mike Rep – Tom Says Nothing – The Grim-O Comix Sequence – N – 1974.
The Evaporators – Where’s The Butterknife? – Gassy Jack & Other Tales

Soviet Valves – Crossover Angst – 7″
Bottomless Pit – Kiss Them All – Blood Under The Bridge – R



Supplemental Reading.


This week’s links/videos/items of interest based on topics discussed during last night’s radio show. As always, I’ve attempted to post them in the order they were played on-air.

Happy 50th birthday, David Yow!

Hot Snakes played a three song surprise after Obits and Night Marchers’ sets in San Diego last month. Watch it below.

Taking the stage.

“If Credit’s What Matters, I’ll Take Credit”

“Automatic Midnight”

“No Hands”

It is official, Merge Records has the #1 record in the country.

Here’s the Andy Votel “Stone: Take The Trip” mix I promised.

Please help me defeat Ken Katkin and beat him to 300 Facebook “fans” by going here and showing your support. Victory must be ours!



8/11/10 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

The Jesus Lizard – Glamorous – Lash – Happy 50th birthday, David Yow!
The Spirit Of Israel – A Place To Be – Soul Messages From Dimona – N – C
Bricks – Losing Track (of the red line) – A Microphone & A Box Of Dirt
Post Post – Push & Pull – Residents – N – Local.
The Mighty Boosh – Jungle (excerpt) – The Complete Radio Series
Bottomless Pit – Is It A Ditch – Blood Under The Bridge – N – R
Ty Segall – Imaginary Person – Melted – N

Hot Snakes – If Credit’s What Matters, I’ll Take Credit – Automatic Midnight – Reunited (for a night)!
Versus – Cicada – On The Ones & Threes – N
The YMD – Stockton To Malone – Excuse Me, This Is The Yah Mos Def
Endless Boogie – Slow Creep – Full House Head – N
Toothpaste – Skinheads Are OK – S/T
Amy Bezunartea – All The Things We Were Supposed To Be – Restaurants & Bars – Forthcoming.
Guinea Worms – Oliver Reed – Sorcerers Of Madness (4th Year In A Row)

High Tension Wires – High Note – Send A Message
Mahjongg – LA Beat – Long Shadow Of The Paper Tiger – N
L7 – Broomstick – Smell The Magic – R
Andy Votel – Biker Mix – Stone: Take The Trip
Amy Annelle – Wild Geese From The West – Some From The Stream II –Johnny Price/Skip James tune.
Contortions – Jaded – No New York – C – R

Groove Diggers – Good Morning – How To Lie
OFS Unlimited – Mister Kidneys – Eccentric Soul: The Prix Label – C – 1973.
Brian & Chris – The Eyelids Of Bohidharma – Vectors
Sick Bees – Kick It – On The One
Ramses III – All Shall Be Well – I Could Not Love You More – N
Clean Equations – Hotel On The 5 – S/T
Shorty – Presto – Thumb Days

Smart Went Crazy – Null Set – Now We’re Even
Alan Licht & Loren Connors – Map Of Dusk (excerpt) – Into The Night Sky – N