8/21/19 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

The Celibate Rifles – Back In The Red / Temper Temper / JNS / Pretty Colours – Kiss Kiss Bang Bang – RIP Damien Lovelock.
DJ Shadow featuring De La Soul – Rocket Fuel – .mp3
Purple Mountains – All My Happiness Is Gone – S/T – RIP David Berman.
METZ – M.E. – 7″ – Gary Numan cover.
She Keeps Bees – Coyote – Kinship
Lefty’s Deceiver – Civvies – S/T
Ladrones – No Le Tengo Miedo A Perder – S/T – [N]

The Celibate Rifles – Sometimes – The Turgid Miasma Of Existence – RIP Damien Lovelock.
Automatic – Mind Your Own Business – 45 – Delta 5 cover.
Silver Jews – Time Will Break The World – Bright Flight – RIP David Berman.
Parts & Labor – A Pleasant Stay – Live on WPRB
Mulatu Astatke – Wello – Assiyo Bellema – 1994.
Jennifer O’Connor – Driving Through – The Color & The Light – RIP David Berman.
Model Zero – Mr. Soul / Missile Protector – S/T – Members of Ex-Cult and The Sheiks. – [N]

The Celibate Rifles – 24 Hours – Quintessentially Yours – RIP Damien Lovelock.
Peter Laughner – Solomon’s Mines – 1972 (Fat City Jive) – [N]
clipping. – Nothing Is Safe – There Existed an Addiction to Blood – Out in October.
Les Americains – Swiss Ave. – Other People’s Lives
In Order To Survive – Eternal Is The Voice Of Love – Live / Shapeshifter – William Parker / Rob Brown / Cooper-Moore / Hamid Drake. – [N]
Gastr del Sol – A Watery Kentucky – The Serpentine Similar
The Golden Pelicans – Grinding For Gruel – Grinding For Gruel – [N]

Chuck Cleaver – Anything – Send Aid – Catch Chuck, Lisa and Mark from Wussy live on next week’s show!



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7/24/19 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Hammered Hulls – Written Words – 7″
Tron & DVD – Me Time (clean) – Manhunt
Horrific Child – Frayeur – Strain Crack & Break: Music From The Nurse With Wound List Volume One – [C]
Sea Slug – Sympathy – Visions – Local.
This Heat – Repeat – Repeat
Desertion Trio – I Hear A World – Twilight Time
Grey Hairs – Ghost In Your Own Life – Health & Social Care

Telekrimen – Richman Holocausto – Culto A Lo Imbecil – [N]
The Mountain Goats featuring WCKR SPGT – The Last Day Of Jimi Hendrix’s Life – Cool Beans #4 – [C]
Wolfmanhattan Project – Sticky – Blue Gene Stew – Mick Collins, Kid Congo Powers & Bob Bert. – [N]
Edsel – Coil-Re-Coil – 45
Dire Wolves – Paradisiacal Mind – Paradisiacal Mind – [N]
T Minus Ten – Drag – Tea With The Telepaths
Hoaries – Dun Around – Crudforms Vol. 3

Uzeda – Speaker’s Corner – Quocumque Jeceris Stabit
Secret Souvenir – Fear No Evil – Hold This Moment
SANS – Gene’s Last Chance – S/T
Purling Hiss – Ostinato Jam – Interstellar Blue
Something Tough – You’ve Been Speaking English Again – Low-Fi Fourth of July
Oxford Collapse – I Feel Better – Tiny Changes: A Celebration Of Frightened Rabbit’s “The Midnight Organ Fight” – [C]
Obscura – Diluvium – Diluvium

The Membranes – Black Is The Color – What Nature Gives…Nature Takes Away – [N]
Mulatu Astatke – Tsome Digua – Assiyo Bellema
Teenage Fanclub – Weedbreak – God Knows It’s True
Drinking Woman – Dog Boy – Go In The Dark – [C]
Pouch – Stupid Man – 7″
Goggs – Space Rinse – Pre Strike Sweep – [N]



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7/17/19 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Silkworm – Tonight We’re Meat – Blueblood – 14 years.
Cobra Man – Speaking In Tongues – Toxic Planet – [N]
Rastro! – Some Things – Go In The Dark – [C]
Crash Worship – Pyru – Triple Mania II
C-Clamp – Passing – 7″
Deveykus – Contraction Of Infinite Light – Pillar Without Mercy
Xenu & The Thetans – Muy Ocupado / Dos Imperios – S/T – Members of Crocodiles and Davila 666. – [N]

Life Without Buildings – The Leanover – Any Other City – WHAT SONG HAS THE SAME VOCAL DELIVERY AS THIS ONE?!?!

The Van Pelt – It’s A Suffering – Stealing From Our Favorite Thieves – It isn’t this, but this is close.

Ought – Beautiful Blue Sky – Sun Coming Down – Same here.

Life Without Buildings – The Leanover – Any Other City – Last try.

The Necks – Aether – Aether – 63:49

The Karl Hendricks Trio – The Policeman’s Not Your Friend – Declare Your Weapons – Happy birthday, Karl. I miss ya.
The Never Quartet – 1.01.001 – 1.01.001-1.01.003 – Michael Morley of The Dead C.
Amin Xaaji Cusmaan, Cabdulaahi Iman “Zamir” & Kuusow “Kurtunwaarey” – Jamiila – Jamiila – Songs From A Somali City – [C]
Business Of Dreams – N.R.E.A.M. – Ripe For Anarchy – [N]



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7/10/19 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Oblivians – Christina – Popular Favorites – Brownie McGhee song.
Amin Xaaji Cusmaan, Nuur Maxamed “Curuba” & Cabdulaahi Iman “Zamir” – Siina Miiri – Jamiila – Songs From A Somali City – [C]
The Gotobeds – Debt Begins At 30 (Alt Version) – Debt Begins At 30 – With Victoria Ruiz of Downtown Boys. – [N]
Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch – Concerning The White Horse – An Attempt To Draw Aside The Veil
Anita Klever – Harold & The Purple Crayon Parts I & 2 – 45
Mike Adams At His Honest Weight – I’m Young – Aquarium Drunkard: Laginappe Sessions – Erin Tobey tune.
Bad Dream House – Savannah – 7″

Titus Andronicus – Just Like Ringing A Bell – An Obelisk – [N]
Modern Nature – Footsteps – How To Live – Ex-Ultimate Painting.
Don Caballero – Shuman Center 91 – 7″ – Recorded at their second-ever show.
Log – Idiot Proof – Anyway Records 4 Song EP
S.O.S. – Suite – Looking For The Next One – Live in 1974.
Eggs – Skyscraper – 45
The Briefs – Nazi Disco – Platinum Rats – [N]

METZ – Ripped On The Fence – Automat
Golden Boy (Fospassin) – Loving Jazz – .mp3
Gokcen Kaynatan – Cehennem Yolu – Cehennem
Fire Party – Gethsemane – New Orleans Opera – https://www.noecho.net/features/past-forward-2-fire-party
F. Woods – The Other Side Of The Sod – FOUND ON ROAD DEAD – Local.
George Atwell – Meat Grinder – Plastic Dance Volume 2 – [C]
Yes Vacancy – Begin Again – Demos

Windhand – Diablerie – Eternal Return
Dennis Most – I Get A Kick Out Of You – Failed Tribute Bands Two! – Cole Porter (in the style of Gary Numan). – [C]
HIDE – Mommy – Girl On Girl
Spain – Maya In The Summer – Mandala Brush
Steve Moore – Your Sentries Will Be Met With Force – Beloved Exile
Aseethe – Throes – Throes – [N]



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7/3/19 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

The Austerity Program – Ezekiel 39:17-20 – Bible Songs I – “All of the wrath of god, none of the salvation.”
The Monroes – What Do All The People Know – Living In Oblivion Vol. 3 – 1982. – [C]
75 Dollar Bill – I Was Real – I Was Real
Burning Airlines – Back Of Love – Split 45 with Braid – Echo & The Bunnymen cover.
Stabat Stable – IIO – Plastic Dance Volume Two – [C]
Bricks – Smoking Hooch With The Flume Dude – The Getting Wet Part
Pallbearer – Atlantis – 7″

Pagan Babies – Dreams – Immaculate Conception
Michael Chapman – Bluesman – True North
Thee Oh Sees – Henchlock – Face Stabber – New 21:00+ single.
Josephine Wiggs – Slipping Through The Cracks – We Fall – Solo debut for The Breeders’ bassist.
Methodist Hospital – Godzilla ’98 – Giants
Mdou Moctar – Tarhatazed – Blue Stage Session
Baroness – Throw Me An Anchor – Gold & Grey – [N]

Reigning Sound – Lyin’ Girl – Abdication…For Your Love – Originally released in 2011. – [N]
Endlessly – This Body – Move Softly On Thin Ice
Man…or ASTRO-man? – Transmissions From Venus ’94 – Astro Launch
Advance Base – Young & Insane – Tomorrow’s Homes Today – Magnetic Fields song.
Ryan Werner – (Don’t) Forever – (Don’t) Forever
Durul Gence – Black Cat – 7″ – “Untameable Anatolian feline fuzzy folk funk finally uncaged.”
Pavement – Sue Me Jack – Trigger Cut Plus Two

Ceremony – Turn Away The Bad Thing – In The Spirit World Now
Steve Gunn – Shrunken Heads – Be Still Moon



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6/26/19 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Drahla – Twelve Divisions Of The Day – Useless Coordinates – [N]
Roger Georges – Mama – Alefa Madagascar – [C]
Thee Oh Sees – Drone #3 / Grave Blocker – Grave Blockers EP – Yet another reissue.
Scrawl – Everyone I Saw Tonight (demo) – Travel On Scrawl
Arriver – Emeritus – Emeritus – Concept album about Chernobyl.
Prince – Make-Up – Originals – Written for Vanity 6.
Shellac – Ghosts – The End Of Radio – 2004 Peel Session.

Jawbox – Motorist – For Your Own Special Sweetheart
Budos Band – Arcane Rambler – V – [N]
Pinkish Black – Next Solution – Concept Unification
Tiny Desk Unit – Standing There – Naples – 1981.
Lucy Dacus – Forever Half Mast – 2019 – A song for the Independence Day.
Kid Millions & Sarah Bernstein – Sign This – Broken Fall
Prettiest Eyes – The Shame – Volume 3

USA/Mexico – Matamoros – Matamoros – [N]
Fortunes – Bread – The Golden Groups – Part 53 – “The Best of Parrot / Blue Lake Records.” – [C]
Car Seat Headrest – Beach Life-in-Death (Live at Crossroads, KC, Kansas City, MO) – Commit Yourself Completely
Resavoir – Clouds – S/T
The Lon Talbot Group – Maybe Someday – .mp3
Dean Sabatino – Foreign Architectures – Foreign Architectures – He of Dead Milkmen.
Carbonas – I’m A Stray – Your Moral Superiors: Singles & Rarities – [N]

Restricted Code – Then There Was You – Demo – 1979.
Chris Corsano / Bill Nace / Steve Baczkowski – Over The Line – Mystic Beings
Damo Suzuki & Black Midi – Sound Carriers, Part 1 – Live At The Windmill Brixton



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6/19/19 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Low Life – Lad Life – Downer Edn – [N]
Craig Leon – The Respondent In Dispute – The Canon Anthology Of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 2
Damien Jurado – Silver Ball – In The Shape Of A Storm – [N]
Zeni Geva + Steve Albini – Kettle Lake – Maximum Implosion
Sounds Of Liberation – New Horizons – Columbia University 1973 – Previously unheard material by this Philly seven piece. – [N]
China Crisis – King In A Catholic Style (Wake Up) – Living In Oblivion Vol. 5 – [C]
Maple Stave – Thunderkiss ’85 – Protons & Elections: Aton 10 – Split 7″ with Conan Neutron & The Secret Friends.

Nervous Curtains – Mass Amnesia – I Tried To Fight It But I Was Inside It
Lee Fields & The Expressions – Two Faces – It Rains Love – [N]
Karma Rocket – Legs – Failed Tribute Bands Two! – PJ Harvey cover. – [C]
Paul Timo – Listen To Spirit – Listen To Spirit – [N]
Rozi Plain – Dark Park – What A Boost
Swans – Will You Be Mine – The Golden Groups – Part 53 – “The Best of Parrot / Blue Lake Records.” – [C]
Sonny & The Sunsets – Drug Lake – Hairdressers From Heaven – [N]

The Kyle Sowashes – Bowling Ball – cassingle
SPAZA – Magwinya, Mangola neWhite Liver – S/T – From South Africa.
Ancient Justice – Worst Trip To The Beach – Super Friends Summer Mix Vol. 2 – [C]
Andrzej Korzynski – Zombie House – Plastic Dance Volume Two – [C]
Olden Yolk – Cotton & Cane – Living Theatre
Skyjelly – Terra Nostra – We Pull The Stars Over Our Heads Like Covers
METZ – Dry Up – Automat

Mountain High – Co-Op Shmo-Op – 7″
Jane Weaver – Element / Milk Loop / Arrows / Found Birds – Loops In The Secret Society
Mike Adams At His Honest Weight – So Faded – There Is No Feeling Better
Sonic Youth – She Is Not Alone – Live At Battery Park ’08
Tony Molina – Hard To Know – Songs From San Mateo County
Hearing Things – Tortuga – Here’s Hearing Things
LIFE – Hollow Thing – A Picture Of Good Health



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6/12/19 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Exit Group – Plastic Coffin – Adverse Habitat – [N]
Fascinators – Can’t Stop – The Golden Groups – Part 53 – “The Best of Parrot / Blue Lake Records.”– [C]
Intaferon – Get Out Of London – Living In Oblivion Vol. 4 – 1983. – [C]
Circle – Rakkautta Al Dente – Terminal
Atom & His Package – Minds Playin’ Tricks On Me – S/T – Geto Boys cover. RIP Bushwick Bill.
Dan Melchior – Mallet’s Mallet / Land Of Grey Night – Melpomene
Nots – Low – 3 – [N]

The Razor Ramones – Hard Time Blues – .mp3 – https://therazorramones.bandcamp.com
Ahmedou Ahmed Lowla – Lvayez – Terrouzi – From Mauritania. – [N]
Oneida – Sheets Of Easter – Each One Teach One
Jake McKelvie & the Countertops – Who Is Who – Good News, Vol. 1 – [C]
Vanishing Twin – Backstroke – The Age Of Immunology
Pedro The Lion – Quietest Friend – Phoenix – [N]
Mammoth Grinder – Superior Firepower – Cosmic Crypt

The Membranes – Demon Seed / Demon Flower – What Nature Gives…Nature Takes Away
Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble – Solar Power – Where Future Unfolds
Eliya Gwetta – Pheas – Pheas
Gerry & The Holograms – Jeep (version) – Plastic Dance Volume Two – [C]
Love Child – Song To Abe Lincoln – Live on WPRB – Roky Erickson tune. RIP.
Luka Productions – Djessou – Falaw – From Mali. – [N]
The Intelligence – Strange Suit – Un-Psychedelic In Peavy City

Martha – Wrestlemania VIII – Love Keeps Kicking – [N]
Fox Millions Duo – Clasp – Biting Through – 2019 Record Store Day release.
Annie Mok & The Knight Dreams – I’m On Fire – S/T – Springsteen cover.
Boogarins – Dislexia Ou Transe – Sombrou Duvida
Brussels Art Quintet – Vasy-y Voir – 45 – 1968, originally.
Buzzer – Stunning Freak – 45



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6/5/19 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

The Goon Sax – A Few Times Too Many – We’re Not Talking – [N]
Parrots – Weep Weep Weep – The Golden Groups – Part 53 – “The Best of Parrot / Blue Lake Records – Vol. #2.” – [C]
Endless Boogie – Stanton Karma – Vol. I, II
Belly – Puberty – King
Thee Oh Sees – We Are Free – Thee Hounds Of Foggy Notion – Live record, reissued.
Mdou Moctar – Tarhatazed – Ilana: The Creator – [N]
Torche – Times Missing – Admission – Out in July.

Fitz Of Depression – Mind Over Matter – Swing – RIP Mikey Dees.
GZA & Masta Killa – One Rhyme (skit) – Of Mics & Men
Antietam – Good Life – Music From Elba
Earth – She Rides An Air Of Malevolence – Full Upon Her Burning Lips
Hamish Kilgour – Opening (Welcome To Finkelstein) – Finkelstein – He of The Clean. – [N]
Writhing Squares – Dirt In My Mind’s Eye – Live On WPRB
Lame Drivers – Spring – .mp3

Iron Reagan – Take The Fall – Relapse Sampler 2018 – [C]
Charles Bradley – Lonely As You Are – Single – Posthumous release.
The Funstigators – It’s Worse Than You Think – Live On WPRB
PJ Harvey – The Crowded Cell – The Virtues OST
Rattan – Cosmic Overdose – Plastic Dance Volume Two – [C]
Wasn’t Wisnt – White Columns – White Columns
Miss June – Twitch – 7″ – NZ band.

Fitz Of Depression – Everybody & Their Dog – 10″ – RIP Mikey Dees.
Spacemen 3 – Rollercoaster – Walkin’ With Jesus 12″ – Thirteenth Floor Elevators cover. RIP Roky.
The Daktaris – Daktari Walk – 100% Pure Funk – [C]
Butthole Surfers – All Day – A Texas Trip – [C]
B Mulvey – Paper Wasps – Cascades



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5/29/19 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET



The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

The Grifters – Soda Pop – 45
Donnie & Joe Emerson – My Heart – Dreamin’ Wild – 1979 album, reissued.
Somnambulists – Memories Of The Blind – From The Fields To The Factory
The Gotobeds – On Loan – Debt Begins At 30 – Out Friday!
Brat Curse – Spring Break Reagan – S/T
The Shade – Drops Accrue – S/T – Local. – [R]
Uzeda – Deep Blue Sea – Quocumque Jeceris Stabit – First record in 13 years.

Big Quiet – Sleep Sleep Eat – Interesting Times – The pride of Staten Island.
Lincolns – Pleasing Me Pleases You – The Golden Groups – Part 29 – “The Best of Atlas / Angletone Records Volume 2.” – [C]
Korean Jeans – Ballot – No Trust
Gauche – Body Count – Split 45 with Joyero
Foxhall Stacks – Turntable Exiles – The Coming Collapse – Members of Government Issue, Minor Threat, Jawbox and Velocity Girl (among others).
Suzanne Ciani – Flowers Of Evil – Flowers Of Evil – Previously unreleased 1969 recording.
METZ – Pure Auto – Automat

Pig Destroyer – The Torture Fields – Relapse Sampler 2018 – [C]
Jane Weaver – Mission Desire (Loops Variation) – Loops In The Secret Society – Coming in June.
Daniel Carter / William Parker / Matthew Shipp – Seraphic Light part I – Seraphic Light – Live at Tufts, 2017. – [N]
Karl Hendricks – Punk Rock Superstar – Punk Rock Superstar
Ti-Tho – Die Liebe Ist Ein Abenteuer – Plastic Dance Volume Two – [C]
The Flesh Eaters – My Life To Live – I Used To Be Pretty – Updated recording of a song off 1982’s “Forever Came Today.” – [N]
An Horse – Get Out Somehow – Modern Air

Positive No – Teenage Waistline – 7”
Al Riggs – The Deer In The Forest – Godkiller



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