3/26/14 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Sonic’s Rendezvous Band – City Slang – Destroy All Monsters – RIP Scott “Rock Action” Asheton.
Tinariwen – Chaghaybou – Emmaar – [N]
MV & EE with The Golden Road – Canned Happiness – Fantasy Set – Live at Zebulon, January 2011.
Shoes This High – Mental Whiff – Straight To Hell – [N]
Slint – Nosferatu Man – Spiderland – “Breadcrumb Trail” documentary = highly recommended.
The Chambermaids – Electric Sky – Whatever Happened Tomorrow
Lerdo – Gran Canon – Division De Oro – Chilean.

OFF! – Hypnotized – Wasted Years
The Rutabega – Feel The Pain – .mp3 – Dinosaur Jr. cover.
Horseback – Chanting Out The Low Shadow – Piedmont Apocrypha – Record Store Day 2014 release.
McTells – Snowy White – Snowy White
Myrrias – Focus – Endless Winter Session – Local.
Doug Gillard – Overseas – Parade On
Lazy – Party City – Epitonic Saki Session

The Monks – Monk Time – Black Monk Time – RIP Gary Burger.
Johnny Noise – Faster – The Day Is Coming – [N]
Native Tongue – All Wronged Up – S/T – 1981.
Wooden Wand & The World War IV – Our Father The Monster – S/T
Eleventh Dream Day – Orange Moon – 45
Promised Land Sound – Wandering Habits – S/T
New Grenada – Emergency Brigade – Modern Problems

Dear Landlord – Hey Caroline – .mp3 – New demo.
Radiator Hospital – Solomon Grundy – TOTAL REQUEST
Brown Company – Tidal – Spring 2014 Pre-Release
Wussy – Teenage Wasteland – Attica!
Nachtambulous – Midnight Mass – The Holidays Don’t Have To Be So Rotten Vol. 4 – [C]
Creepoid – Truth – Wet – Record Store Day 2014 release.
Therapists – I Need It – Portland Mutant Party – [C]

Circle – Earthworm – Hollywood – [N]
Weird Hot – Coal Dragon – The Best Of Shawn Kilroy & Weird Hot – Local.



Supplemental Reading.


Happy Ash Wednesday! Here’s this week’s links/videos/items of interest based on topics discussed during tonight’s radio show.

If you want to help Philadelphia’s JJL replace their instruments, lost due to an arson that destroyed their practice space, you can do so here.

The free, legal downloads are copious. Check out Portland, Oregon’s ALTO!, a Turing Machine remix, Volcano Suns live on WERS, AZITA and the late Brian Torrey Scott, an old Quilty single, the debut album by Milwaukee instrumentalists Wereworm, new music from Benjamin Shaw, Beastqueef getting in the posthumous holiday spirit and a full record by Tyranny Is Tyranny.



3/5/14 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Polvo – Can I Ride – Cor-Crane Secret – Happy Ash Wednesday!
Deltron 3030 – City Rising From The Ashes – Event 2
Atlantic Thrills – Holy Mountain – S/T – [N]
Like A Fox – Gold – Where’s My Golden Arm? – http://tinyurl.com/helpJJL
Top Soil – Sea Of Black – Way Out
Twerps – Jam Song – S/T
Cosmic Psychos – 74 Seconds – Down On The Farm / Cosmic Psychos – [N]

Mean Jeans – Freaked & Geeked – Portland Mutant Party – [C]
The Selmanaires – In The Direction Of Yes – indieATL Session
ALTO! – Piece 1-3 – S/T
Turing Machine – If Its Gone Its On (Al Doyle remix) – What Is The Meaning Of Remixes
Volcano Suns – JAK – Live on WERS – April 7, 1985
AZITA & Brian Torrey Scott – Intro – Detail From The Mountainside – RIP Brian Torrey Scott.
Nox Boys – Save Me – S/T – Pittsburgh teens. – [N]

Die Schacht – Finsternis – 7″ – [N]
Quilty – Chris On The Beach – Black Hole
Wereworm – Hercules Is Cold – Wereworm Is A Place
The Mountain Goats – Up The Wolves – The Sunset Tree – As heard on this week’s episode of “The Walking Dead.”
Nothing – Get Well – Guilt Of Everything – [N]
Benjamin Shaw – Goodbye, Cagoule World – Goodbye, Cagoule World
PyPy – Pagan Day – Pagan Day – [N]

Shoes This High – The Nose One – 7″ – 1981 single re-issued. – [N]
Hospitality – I Miss Your Bones – Trouble
Beastqueef – Thirsty For The Blood Of You & Yours (Cheetah Eve Theme) – Songs Of The Christmas Cheetah
Bardo Pond – Sangh Seriatim – Refulgo – Forthcoming collection.
Tyranny Is Tyranny – The American Dream Is A Lie – Let It Come From Whom It May
Venus & The Razorblades – Dog Food – 45 – “Produced and directed by Kim Fowley.”
Split Single – Monolith – Monolith

Karp – Get No Toys (When You Pay The Money) – Suplex – [R]



Live performance #228 – Risk/Reward.


Engineered 2/20/14.

Risk/Reward web site

Killer / Keep Your Mouth Closed / In The Sea / Easy On The Heart / Addle Me



2/26/14 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Audacity – Pick Slide – Butter Knife – [N]
The Pawners’ Society – Judy Is A Punk – .mp3 – Ramones cover.
Mogwai – Remurdered – Rave Tapes – [N]
Scars – Adult/ery – Mutant Pop
saxRuins – Vrresto – Blimmguass – [N]
Jack Rose – Cross The North Fork – The Black Dirt Sessions
Warema KK! – Warema KK! – Indice De Desempleo – [N]

Night Sun – No Pressure – 45 – [N]
Don Muro – Squash (New Terrors Remix) – Squash Remixes
Memorial Gore – Total Recall – Endless Gore
Mirror Twin – A Shot – 45
Vertical Scratchers – These Plains – Daughter Of Everything
Okkervil River – Money Changes Everything – Golden Opportunities 3 – The Brains cover.
Dark Warble – Rider Waite – Moon Is Trouble

Risk Reward – Live on WPRB – 16:38 – http://riskreward.bandcamp.com

Andy Votel – Twisted Nerve Mixed – Twisted Nerve Mixed

Zulus – Kisses – S/T
Jon Autry – Warm Fire, Soft Snow – The Holidays Don’t Have To Be So Rotten: Volume Four – [C]



Supplemental Reading.


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

RIP Devo’s Bob 2.

Nothing but free, legal downloads from here on out. A digital single by Amateur Party, Flannelgraph’s latest The Holidays Don’t Have To Be So Rotten collection, Tractor Hips live on WXDU, Brazil’s Rakta, a five-songs-in-five-minutes demo from Bowl Ethereal, Fuzz covering The Kinks, Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band covering Television and two songs by TV Colours.

You can order Damnably’s Philippines Typhoon Appeal benefit compilation here.

Live on next week’s show: Risk/Reward.



2/19/14 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

The Traps – Illinois – Boom Pow Awesome Wow – Long-lost 2003-04 recordings. – [N]
Devo – Smart Patrol / Mr. DNA – Duty Now For The Future – RIP “Bob 2.”
Silkworm – A Cockfight Of Feelings – Italian Platinum – http://buy.couldntyouwait.com
Burnt Skull – Sewer Birth – Sewer Birth – [N]
Vanishing Voice – 2029 – The Morning After
Shellshag – 1984 – Rumors In Disguise
Male Bondage – Do Me Again – Love Moon

Amateur Party – Glad Tidings – The Song Is You
Soporus – Dad’s Home Movies Of Me With My Transformers – The Holidays Don’t Have To Be So Rotten: Volume Four – [C]
Minutes – Get Off Your Ass (demo) – Roland Bonus Ep
Tractor Hips – Joshua – Live At WXDU
The Poets Of Rhythm – Funky Train – The Anthology 1992-2003
Ratka – Run To The Forest / Repetition – S/T
Golden Gurls – Come On Over – After The Storm – [C]

The Book-Burners – Sidesteppers – People’s Songs – [N]
Endless Boogie – On Cryology – Long Island
Today’s Hits – Why Can’t You? – Sex Boys – [N]
Hans Chew – Queen Of The Damned Blues – Tennessee & Other Stories
Saint Rich – Young Vultures – Beyond The Drone – [N]
Scream – Bedlam – Still Screaming
Johnny Ill Band – Post Office – 45 – [N]

Cloud Nothings – I’m Not Part Of Me – Here And Nowhere Else
Tara Jane O’Neil – Elemental Finding – Where Shine New Lights
Bowl Etherial – Twenty Three Exciter Dreams – Five Minutes – New sounds from Pen Rollings!
Fuzz – Til The End Of The Day – Split 7″ with CCR Headcleaner – Kinks cover.
Cheatahs – Geographic – S/T
Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band – Little Johnny Jewel – Live – Television cover.
TV Colours – The Kids Are All Grown Up – 7″

Risk/Reward – Easy On The Heart – S/T – Live on next week’s show! – [N]
Bark Haze – One For Merz – One For Merz – Thurston Moore & Andrew MacGregor.



Supplemental Reading.


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

Did you know the late Shirley Temple’s daughter once played bass for the Melvins?

Free, legal downloads: A song from the forthcoming Protomartyr record, two sets of Magnolia Electric Co. & Songs: Ohia paying tribute to Jason Molina live in Chicago, something brand new by Pink Skull, an EP of instrumental pieces to compliment the excellent documentary Medora, the debut of Stomatopod and a 2013 demo by Basic Cable.

Finally, here’s (the unedited version of) the incredible DJ Moneyshot tribute to Public Enemy’s “It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back” that you heard during hour three.



2/12/14 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Cheap Time – Slow Variety – Exit Smiles – [N]
Melvins – Boris – Bullhead – RIP Shirley Temple.
Speedy Ortiz – Everything’s Bigger – Real Hair – [N]
Howlin Rain – Wild Life – Wild Life – Improvised around a Paul McCartney tune.
Death Of Samantha – Simple As That – If Memory Serves Us Well – Classic songs re-recorded. – [N]
Banque Allemande – Stadt Des Lichts – Eins, Zwei
Fake Limbs – Nosebleed At The Oxbow – The Power Of Patrician Upbringing – [N]

Protomartyr – Scum, Rise! – Under Color Of Official Right – Forthcoming.
The Magnolia Electric Co. – The Dark Don’t Hide It – Live at The Hideout – Tim Midyett of Silkworm/Bottomless Pit on vocals.
Pink Skull – Mutant Comfort – Huitlacoche
No Monster Club – I Wanna Be Brainwashed – Foie Gras
Bobby Emmett & Patrick Keeler – Rusty Kicked Out – The Sixth Man – From the soundtrack to the documentary “Medora.”
Stomatopod – Pay The Price – .mp3 – http://stomatopod.bandcamp.com
Basic Cable – Blonde Ambition – Demo 2013

Fucked Up – A Slanted Tone – David Comes To Life
The Memories – Dream About You – American Summer – [N]
Heavy Winged – The Hum Of The Universe – Fields Within FIelds
Bleeding Rainbow – See Thru – 45 – Local. – [N]
Total Control – Scene From A Marriage – 7″ – Australian. Shares a member with Eddy Current Suppression Ring.
Pontiak – Ghosts – Innocence – [N]

DJ Moneyshot – Solid Steel + The Hour Of Chaos (Clean) – Solid Steel Radio Show – A 25th anniversary tribute to Public Enemy’s “It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.”



1/29/14 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Epicycle – Undeground – You’re Not Gonna Get It: 1978-81 – [N]
The Rutabega – 44 – These Knotty Lines
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra – Austerity Blues – Fuck Off, Get Free, We Pour Light On Everything – [N]
The Heavy Bombers – Fordham Show – S/T
Damien Jurado – Return To Maraqopa – Brothers & Sisters Of The Eternal Sun – [N]
BKO – Desert Wind – Dirtmusic – Chris Brokaw, Chris Eckman & Hugo Race.
Grass Is Green – Sammy So-Sick – Vacation Vinnie – [N]

First Base – You Can Come Over – S/T – [N]
Life Coach – Alphawaves – Alphawaves
Figure Study – Interaction – S/T – [N]
Tar – Play To Win – 1988-1995 – Singles, compilation tracks and unreleased material.
Slushy – Pocket – 45 – [N]
Cellular Chaos – Adviser – Adviser
Eastern Anchors – James The Viking – Drunken Arts & Pure Science

Red Fang – Blood Like Cream – Whales & Leeches – [N]
Miss Chain & The Broken Heels – Calcutta – The Dawn
Man Man – Born Tight – On Oni Pond – [N]
Crush Kill Destroy – Walter Mondale – Metric Midnight
The Yolks – Pretty Thing – 45 – Willie Dixon song. – [N]
Bardo Pond – From The Sky – Cypher Documents I – Serious jam.
The Fluid – Hooked – Roadmouth

Solger – Raping Dead Nuns – Codex 1980
Patrick Cowley – Journey Home – School Daze – [N]
Chuck Johnson – Ransom Street Blues – Crows In The Basilica
Victory & Associates – The End Of Memory – Better Luck Next Life – [N]
Pain Jerk – Hello America (excerpt) – Live At The No Fun Fest 2007 – Mixed with “Selected Messages From The Badger Theater Answering Machine, 1993-1994” & “Emily Likes TV.”