7/21/21 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Mudhoney – Shoot The Moon (remastered) – Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition – [N]
Biz Markie – Make the Music with Your Mouth, Biz – 12″ – RIP.
CAN – Drei – LIVE IN STUTTGART 1975 – [N]
Mac McCaughan – Dawn Bends – The Sound of Yourself – Out in September. Joined by Yo La Tengo & Jon Wurster.
Maximum Joy – Stretch (12″ Version) – 12″ – Re-issue of a 1981 record.
Calibro 35 – Bushwick, Nigeria – Afro Sides Vol. 2 – [C]
TAQBIR – Sma3 – Victory Belongs To Those Who Fight For A Right Cause 7” – Moroccan punk rock.

ANDEMIC – 1989 – We Are Andemic – Solo project by Andy from Lefty’s Deceiver.
De La Soul Ft. Biz Markie – Lovely How I Let My Mind Float – Ego Trippin’ (Part Two) – RIP Biz.
Melanas – Osa Polar – Osa Polar – Grauzone cover.
Various Artists – Side A – Field Recordings From The Sahel – [C]
Kurt Vile & The Violators – Run Run Run – I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground & Nico – [C]
William Tyler & Luke Schneider – The Going Through – Overstand
Pylon – Precaution – Pylon Box

Sondra Sun-Odeon – 18:26 – Live on WPRB – http://sondrasunodeon.bandcamp.com

Datblygu – Fanzine Ynfytyn – Wyau – 1988 album reissued. RIP David R. Edwards.
Big Thief – Of You – Bills & Aches & Blues (40 Years of 4AD) – [C] – Breeders cover.



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7/14/21 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Silkworm – Drag The River – Firewater – Thinking of the friends and families of Michael Dahlquist, John Glick and Doug Meis.
clipping. – Wriggle Like An Eel (clean) – Wriggle (Expanded)
Unrest – Hydro – Cath Carroll Cd5 – [R]
Rogér Fakhr – Express Line – Habibi Funk 016: Fine Anyway – Recorded in late 1970s Beirut.
Quattracenta – It Gave Way – II
Arushi Jain – Under The Lilac Sky – Under The Lilac Sky
Delivery – The Explainer – Yes We Do – [N]

Rapeman – Kim Gordon’s Panties – Two Nuns & A Pack Mule – Let us celebrate solving last week’s mystery (the band was I’m Being Good) with another cover of Sonic Youth’s “Schizophrenia!”
Lucy Dacus – Triple Dog Dare – Home Video
Oyiwane – Fatima – Music from Saharan WhatsApp 11
The Kyle Sowashes – Random Rules – Not Exactly Budokan – Silver Jews cover. Recorded live in Columbus, OH at Ace Of Cups on September 13, 2019.
Kid Millions & Jan St. Werner  – Color Bagpipes – Imperium Droop
EXEK – The Plot – Good Thing They Ripped Up The Carpet
Hum – Sundress – Electra 2000 – RIP Bryan St. Pere.

The Rutabega – 29:42 – Live on WPRB – http://theseknottylines.blogspot.com

Lithics – Hands – Tower Of Age
Andal Sukabe – Toy Wadaabe – Music from Saharan WhatsApp 07
The Fire Show – The Making Of Dead Hollow – Saint The Fire Show
Cyanotype – Oakland Drive – Birdsongs of the Necromancer



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7/7/21 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


Can you ID this recording?! A cover of Sonic Youth’s “Schizophrenia” taped off WPRB in the early 1990s. Artist unknown! For now!

The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Hum – In The Den – Inlet – RIP Bryan St. Pere.
The Chambers Brothers – Uptown – The Time Has Come
Vanishing Twin – Big Moonlight (Ookii Gekkou) – Ookii Gekkou – Out in October!
Heavenly Bodies – A View To Beauty Of Form – White Dwarf – Local.
Les Filles de Illighadad – Telilit – At Pioneer Works
Pink Skull – Taki Chrome – 45
Meat Wave – Yell At The Moon – Volcano Park EP

Hum – Hello Kitty – 45 – RIP Bryan St. Pere.
Sault – London Gang – Nine
Birds of Maya – Recessinater – Valdez – [N]
COS – Mein Maschine Ist Schön – COSMIX
Matthew Goodheart & Broken Ghost Consort – Prelude in Disintegrations / Impulse Response Variations – Presences: Mixed Suite for Five Performers and Nine Instruments
Tangled Shoes – Rejection – Turn My Dial – M Squared Recordings & More, 1981-84 – Australian band of 10-14 year-old kids!
Todd Briefly – Houseproud – Demos

Grass Is Green – 21:28 – Live on WPRB – http://grassisgreen.bandcamp.com

Speedy Ortiz – 19:30 – Live on WPRB – https://speedyortiz.bandcamp.com



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6/30/21 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Upper Wilds – Love Song #5 – Venus – Out next month!
El Wali – Youth Of The Nation – Tiris
Aldous Harding – Old Peel (Alterate Version) – 45
Ill Considered – West (Part 1) – ILL CONSIDERED 9 – East / West
So Cow – The Sheds Of Glennafosha – Bisignis – New record coming in July.
Blackalicious – Paragraph President – Blazing Arrow – RIP Gift of Gab.
Wet Leg – Chaise Longue – Chaise Longue – Possible Song of the Summer candidate.

CAN – Father Cannot Yell – Monster Movie

Interview with Tom Scharpling (part one)

Unrest – Cherry Cherry – 45

Interview with Tom Scharpling (part two)

The Feelies – Away – Only Life

Interview with Tom Scharpling (part three)

Theme Weavers LLC – Green Room Blues – Nothing But The Best: The Very Best of Theme Weavers LLC

Risk/Reward – 16:39 – Live on WPRB – http://riskreward.bandcamp.com

Kind Of Like Spitting – Foolish Words of a Woman in Love – Learn 2: The Songs Of The Karl Hendricks Trio
Luka Productions & Kandiafa – Ballani Diarra – Music from Saharan WhatsApp 06
Horton’s Wrath – Anagram Of Your Country – Tours Your Mind (Live at Campus Club 5/21/88)
Spread Joy – Mystery Curtain – S/T – [N]



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Tom Scharpling joins me on Wednesday night.


I’m delighted to welcome The Best Show host, Double Threat co-host and AUTHOR of the new book “It Never Ends” Tom Scharpling back to my radio show this Wednesday night (June 30th) for an extended conversation.

The show starts at 5:00 pm ET on 103.3 fm WPRB and wprb.com.

📷 – @badgrammer



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6/23/21 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Pardoner – Totally Evil Powers – Came Down Different – [N]
Mamaki Boys – Takkai – Patriote
This Is The Kit – Found Out (Horns Version) – Off Off Oddities
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – A Military Alphabet (five eyes all blind) [4521.0kHz 6730.0kHz 4109.09kHz] / Job’s Lament / First of the Last Glaciers / where we break how we shine [ROCKETS FOR MARY] – G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! – [N]
Public Enemy – sPEak! – Nothing Is Quick In The Desert
The Catenary Wires – Liminal – Birling Gap – [N]
Mt. Mountain – Tassels – Centre – Thanks, Cap’n.

Dag Nasty – Values Here – Can I Say
Attarazat Addahabia & Faradjallah – Moulate Salef – Habibi Funk 011: Al Hadaoui – From 1972.
Six Organs of Admittance – Last Station, Veiled Sea – The Veiled Sea
Mythic Sunship – Maelstrom – Wildfire – [R]
xPOEMSx – We Are Golden – Who Makes The Summers (do ya mind tellin’ me?) – Local.
Jean-Luc Guionnet – II A – l’épaisseur de l’air
Drinking Boys and Girls Choir – Hit The Corner – Marriage License – [N] – Out next month.

Fake Limbs – 22:16 – Live on WPRB – http://fakelimbs.bandcamp.com

Mountain Movers – Way Back To The World – World What World – [N]
Duma – Cannis – 45 – June 2021 Sub Pop Singles Club release. From Kenya.
Makoto Kubota – Itoshi No Mary – Sunset Gang – 1973 album reissued.
Crippled Black Phoenix – Faced With Complete Failure, Utter Defiance Is The Only Response – (Mankind) The Crafty Ape – [R]
Mike Lust – All We Could Do – Demented Wings



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6/16/21 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

LIDS – Furniture – 45 – Brand new Sub Pop Singles Club release by folks from Constantines, Holy Fuck and METZ.
Jeich Ould Badou – Elyn – Music from Saharan WhatsApp 03
Body Meπa – Horse Flower Storm / Fabulouso – The Work Is Slow – Members of UI *and* Rollins Band?!
Florry – You Don’t Know – Big Fall – Local. Out in August.
Luggage – Fear – Happiness
Corsano, Maranha & Youngs – We All Become Everything – S/T
Reigning Sound – Make It Up – A Little More Time With Reigning Sound – [N]

The Chats – AC/DC CD – AC/DC CD
Oddly – Concrete Jungle – Odd Man Out – From Kyoto, Japan.
Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band – Little Johnny Jewel – Solar Live Vol 6: Little Berlin – Television cover.
Madlib – The New Normal – Sound Ancestors
Scattered Purgatory – Cloudborn – Lost Ethnography Of The Miscanthus Ocean
The Chills – Scatterbrain – Scatterbrain – [N]
gnawing – So Glad – You Freak Me Out

Modern Hut – 14:19 – Live on WPRB – http://modernhut.bandcamp.com
Noun – 14:52 – Live on WPRB – http://nounmusic.bandcamp.com

Dirty Hands – Come Race In To The Fire – Come Race In To The Fire
Minutemen – June 16th – Double Nickels On The Dime – If not today, then when?
Olden Yolk – Grand Palais – Living Theatre
Maserati – A Warning In The Dark – Enter The Mirror
Acanthus – Isa’s Ceremony 2 / Runaway Train – Le Frisson Des Vampires – 1971 film score.



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6/9/21 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Squid – Narrator ft. Martha Skye Murphy – Bright Green Field – [N]
Veyrouz Mint Seymali – Dwaye – Music from Saharan WhatsApp 09
New Standards Men – Spain’s First Astronaut A – Spain’s First Astronaut
The Raincoats – Fairytale In The Supermarket – Left Of The Dial: Dispatches From The ’80s Underground – [C]
Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – I Am A Youth Inclined To Ramble – Superwolves – Traditional tune, assisted by Mdou Moctar.
WASNT WISNT – Nefarious Elders – Disassembling – Local.
sallow – Claw – Cloud Of Thought

The Maids – Back To Bataan – 7″
emily – All The Delay – Bealtaine
75 Dollar Bill – I Was Real (2019) – Live Atelliers Claus
Upper Wilds – Hole In The Sky – Hole In The Sky – Black Sabbath cover.
Lucy Dacus – Brando – Home Video – Out later this year.
Sigh of Relief – The Tranquility Sequence – The Dark Surround – Bubba from Bedhead.
Datblygu – Dafydd Iwan Yn Y Glaw – Wyau – Reissue of a 1988 album.

Literature – 19:40 – Live on WPRB – http://literature.bandcamp.com

black midi – Hogwash & Balderdash – Cavalcade – [N]
Sabir Mateen, Patrick Holmes, Federico Ughi – Clarifying – Survival Situation
Anorak Patch – Irate – Irate
The Bevis Frond – Enjoy – We’re Your Friends, Man



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6/2/21 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Mudhoney – Ounce of Deception – Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
Sylvia – Love Is The Only Thing – Sweet Stuff – 1975 album, reissued.
FACS – Alone Without – Present Tense – [N]
The Goon Sax – In The Stone – Mirror II – Out later this year.
Improving Grodin – I Don’t Have A Computer – .mp3 – RIP Charles Grodin.
John Dwyer, Ryan Sawyer, Peter Kerlin, Tom Dolas, Brad Caulkins, Kyp Malone & Marcos Rodriguez – The War Clock – Moon Drenched
Engine Kid – Angel Dust – Angel Dust – Previously unreleased. Will be part of the band’s 6xLP retrospective!

Cable Ties – Lani – Live At The Scrap Museum
Mdou Moctar – Asdikte Akal – Afrique Victime – [N]
Kath Bloom – Pass Through Here – Pass Through Here
Fucked Up – Year Of The Horse – Act Four – Year Of The Horse
Hailu Mergia & The Walias Band – Tezeta – Tezeta – A second reissue from 1975!
Unrest – Hydrofoil (Live in Portsmouth) – England, 1992
The Schizophonics – Re-Make / Re-Model – 45 – Roxy Music cover.

Dama/Libra – 38:12 – Live on WPRB – https://damalibra.wordpress.com

Mini Skirt – With Your Hands – Casino
Dudu Phukwana and the “Spears” – Joe’s Jika (Joe’s Groove) – S/T – Originally from 1968.
Lighthawk – Certainties – PRF/BLM – [C]



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5/12/21 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Unsane – Concrete Bed (IM) – Improvised Munitions & Demo – [R] – Previously lost 1989 recordings.
Madlib – Dirtknock – Sound Ancestors – Dig that Young Marble Giants sample!
black midi – Slow (Loud) – Cavalcade – Forthcoming.
Mary Lattimore & Mac McCaughan – Opus Thread – Opus Thread
Silver Synthetic – Out Of The Darkness – Silver Synthetic – [N]
Rebecca Gates – St. Ides Heaven – Live at Doug Fir Lounge – August 4, 2013 – Legitimate chills listening to this one.
formal wear – Suffer Today – Suffer Today b​/​w Timekeeper – Eli from The Gotobeds + Ryan of Wicketkeeper.

Mainframe – Employee – A Long Time Alone – [C]
Mamaki Boys – Kagani Kagani – Patriote
Porridge Road – Wet Road – Wet Road – Scout Niblett cover.
Osees – Improv at Zebulon 2/6/21 – Improv at Zebulon 2/6/21
Serengeti with Advance Base – Tom Dooley – Be A Man
Eiki Nonaka – Phlanged Vortex – Heisei No Oto: Japanese Left-field Pop From the CD Age, 1989-1996 – [C]
Spread Joy – Violence – S/T

The Bad Doctors – 27:21 – Live on WPRB – https://baddoctors.bandcamp.com

Engine Kid – Bear Catching Fish – Everything Left Inside
Amaria Hamadalher – Tamiditine – Music From Saharan WhatsApp 05
Clinic – Congratulations – Wheeltappers & Shunters
Baldi / Gerycz Duo – The Holy Retrievers (In Transit) – After Commodore Perry Service Plaza
So Cow – Hurricane Season – Do Re Mi Fa So Cow



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