5/4/11 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Jawbreaker – Sluttering (May 4) – Dear You – R
X-Ray Spex – Oh Bondage Up Yours! – 45 – R – RIP Poly Styrene.
Willie Wright – Right On For The Darkness – 5″ – N
The Ex – Double Order – mp3 – Unreleased.
Salem 66 – Playground – A Ripping Spin
Arthur Russell – She’s The Star / I Take The Time – World Of Echo
Titus Andronicus – No Future Part Three: Escape From No Future – The Monitor

Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments – Edge Central – You Lookin’ For Treble?
X-Ray Spex – Iama Poseur – 45 – RIP Poly Styrene.
Smart Went Crazy – A Good Day – 20 Years Of Dischord – C
Lalo Orozco Y Su Combo Sabroso – Salsa Sabroso – Caragena! – C – N
Venom – Sacrifice – Black Metal
Buried Beds – Steady Hand – Tremble The Sails
Crisis Hotlines – Fallout Shelter – Casual Victim Pile II – C – N

Robert Scott – Too Early – Ends Run Together – N – From The Bats.
X-Ray Spex – Highly Inflammable – 45 – RIP Poly Styrene.
The Yah Mos Def – Major Taylor Goes Awol – Excuse Me, This Is The Yah Mos Def – Featuring MC Dino-kale.
Eleventh Dream Day – I’ll Come Running – Unreleased – Brian Eno song.
The Whitefield Brothers – Prowlin’ – Soul Fire – The Majestic Collection – C
Implodes – Oxblood – Black Earth – N
Scratch Acid – Ain’t That Love? – Just Keep Eating – R

Boston Chinks – Hey Boy – 7″
X-Ray Spex – Identity – 45 – RIP Poly Styrene.
Jonathan Kane – Curl – February
Grayson Gilmour – I Am A Light! – No Constellation – N
??? – Tourist Barong Gamelan – Night Recordings From Bali – C
Ladies Auxiliary – Charity Reprise – My Side Of The Mountain – Local.
Black Helicopter – Dutch Uncle – That Specific Function

Killing Joke – Requiem – S/T – R
Poly Styrene – Trick Of The Witch – 12″ – RIP.
Authorization – Soft Needles – Version 1 – Ex-Black Eyes.



Video premiere: Titus Andronicus – “No Future Part Three: Escape From No Future”


A salute to the great state of New Jersey. Directed by Tom Scharpling. You saw it here first!



Supplemental Reading.


Here’s 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.

Rest in piece Kent Morrill of The Wailers.

My condolences as well to the friends and family of Billy Bang and TV On The Radio bassist Gerard Smith.

Download a previously unreleased Make A Rising record here.

Glad to see that Resurrection: The Amplified Bible Of Heavenly Grooves is still in print.



4/20/11 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Skewbald / Grand Union – You’re Not Fooling Me – 45
Eric B. & Rakim – Lyrics Of Fury – Follow The Leader
Kaia – Slamander – S/T
Plearn Promdan – Ruk Kum Samong – Thai? Dai! – C – N
The Wailers – Dirty Robber – At The Castle – RIP Kent Morrill.
Radical Dads – Recklessness – Mega Rama – N
Bork! – Gerard’s Dick – 45 – AKA Squirrel Bait.

Cobra Verde – A Story I Can Sell – Egomania (Love Songs)
Rosendo y Su Banda – Me Voy Pa’La Costa – Cartagena! – C – N
Big Black – Heartbeat – 45 – Wire song.
Grass Widow – Walking Out On Love – Under The Covers Vol. 2 – C – N
Regressive Aid – It’s A Song / Someone Down There – Why Settle For Less When You Can Regress?
Come – Off To One Side – Eleven : Eleven
Rayon Beach – Death Rides A Horse – Casual Victim Pile II – C – N

Fiddlehead – Hard Genny – Bag Of Jakes – C
Make A Rising – Nommo Days – New I Feeling – Free download!
Hunx & His Punx – Bad Boy – Too Young To Be In Love – N
Babylon Dance Band – Someday – 45
The Torchbearers – Know They’re You – Resurrection – C
Eleventh Dream Day – Testify – Beet
Pressgang – Retail II – Split 7″ with The 1985

Rain – Worlds At War – State Of The Union – C
Desk – Come On – 7″
Sharp Ends – Whiteout – 6 x 2 x 12″ – C – N
Vomit Launch – Heart Of Darkness – 45 – Pere Ubu cover.
J Mascis – Not Enough – Several Shades Of Why – N – With Kurt Vile.
TV On The Radio – The Wrong Way – New Health Rock – R – RIP Gerard Smith.
Candy Machine – Humming Clutter – History Of A Bourgeois Revolution

The Eat – Communist Radio – Killed By Death #2 – C
Billy Bang Quartet – Know Your Enemy – Spirits Gathering – RIP.
Sarandon – Mackenzie – Sarandon’s Age Of Reason – N
Sunday Puncher – Jury Duty – 45
Hochenkeit – Help Me / Help You – I Love You
Edsel – Draw Down The Moon – Detroit Folly
The Hookers – Crush – S/T

T.V. Killers – Dancehall Music – Have A Blitz On You
Public Record – Comfortability – S/T
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Even In Dreams – Belong – N
Oakley Hall – Hiway – Second Guessing



4/13/11 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Spavid – Jarneck Chump – 7″
Antietam – Something’s Gonna Give – Tenth Life – N
Jeffrey Lee Pierce – The Fertility Goddess / Portrait Of The Artist In Hell – 12″
Brown Recluse – At Last – Evening Tapestry – N
Breaking Circus – Warhead – 45 – UK Subs cover.
Megan Reilly – Horse (For Corrie Beth) – Arc Of Tessa
The Bollweevils – Lost & Found – 45

A Giant Dog – The Grand – Casual Victim Pile II – C – N
Aurora Paralysis – The Messenger – 45
The Men – Wasted – This Is The Men
Old Calf – I Saw A Peacock With A Firey Tail – Borrow A Horse – N
Hubcap – No Love Lost – 45
The Spinanes – Lines & Lines – Strand
Hot Snakes – Paid In Cigarettes – Suicide Invoice – R

Various WPRB DJs – In-A-Gadda-Da-Oswald – Doctor Cosmo Tribute Show

Bitch Magnet – Carnation – Star Booty – Reunited!
Steve Wynn & The Miracle 3 – Resolution – Northern Agression – N
The Glass Bees – Eagle Rock – glassbees.com
Silverfish – Big Bad Baby Pig Squeal – Fuckin’ Drivin’ Or What…
Red House Painters – New Jersey – S/T
Phosphenes – Blue Drapes – S/T
Sleeper – Display – 45

The Frustrations – My New Shirt – Buck Naked Dancing Fool
Butthole Surfers – Gary Floyd – Psychic…Powerless…Another Man’s Sac – R
Myelin Sheaths – Drugstore/Pharmacy – 45 – N
American Speedway – Howl Ya Doin? – 45



Live performance #216 – Che Arthur.


Engineered 3/28/11.

Che Arthur web site

To The Core / Too Real / Kerosene / The Dark War / Like Revenge / Farewell / Hit Ink / The Black Hills / Valley Of Fire / Dead Trajectories



4/6/11 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


Designed by Doctor Cosmo.

The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Burnout – Lounge – 45
Liquid Liquid – Optimo – New York Noise – C – R
Beaters – They Don’t Really Care About Us – 6 x 2 x 12″ – C – N
Animal Man – Do You Feed? (The Curry Song) – David’s Town – C
Associates – Message Oblique Speech – 45 – Scottish.
Roots Radics – Christmas Dub – 12″
Exploding White Mice – Without Warning – 45

OBN III’s – Do My Thing – Casual Victim Pile II – C – N
Dead Rider – Mothers Meat – The Raw Dents – Ex-US Maple.
Buzzmuscle – Assembler – 7″ – Bacon vinyl.
Doctor Cosmo – Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came – Live on WPRB – RIP.
Gutbucket – d0g Help Us – Flock – N
Legitimate Reason – He Steals – 7″

Che Arthur – 27:05 – Live On WPRB – http://www.chearthur.com

Kids For Cash – Society – First Cassette
Ale Mania – Lustful Fistful – 45
Thin White Rope – Eye – 45 – Poster Children cover.
L.U.N.A.R. Revolt – We Told You Not To Come Back (Don’t Make Me Have To Tell You Again) – Cassette – Local.
Cavemen From Oklahoma – Psychic Reason – Pittsburgh Punk Ain’t Dead…But It’s Burning Up Pretty Quickly! – C
White Wires – Letter To G – Under The Covers Vol. 2 – C – N
The New Christs – I Saw God – 45

Rhys Chatham – Die Donnergotter – An Angel Moves Too Fast To See – RIP Doctor Cosmo.
Bardo Pond – Waynes Tune – S/T – N



My appearance on The Takeaway.


I was asked back on WNYC’s national morning program The Takeaway earlier today, talking about “One Shining Moment” as part of a piece titled “When Bad Music Happens to Good Sports.” You can listen to my appearance here.



Supplemental Reading.


Here’s 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. Here’s video of The Mountain Goats covering Silkworm’s “Plain.”

Download a free protest song by Ron House & Moviola. Then grab the new Wizard Smoke album.

RIP Grand Ulena drummer Danny McClain.

Live on next week’s show, Past/Futures recording artist Che Arthur.



3/30/11 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Moving Targets – Underground – Burning In Water – R
The Feelies – When You Know – Here Before – N – Picks right up where they left off.
McCarthy Commission – Mind Set – Advanced Calculus – C
Ron House & Moviola – Fire Tressel, Not Teachers – mp3
The Grifters – Tat – So Happy Together – R
Creeping Weeds – Outsiders – See Through
Parts & Labor – Hurricane – Constant Future

Obits – Everything Looks Better In The Sun – Moody, Standard & Poor – N
The Modern Lovers – Affection – Back In Your Life – Happy birthday, Julia Factorial!
Defektors – Not The One – 6x2x12″ – N – C
Silkworm – Plain – Lifestyle
Eleventh Dream Day – Away With Words – Riot Now! – N
Jean Paul Sartre Experience – Elemental – The Size Of Food – R
Cola Freaks – Mig Mig Mig – 45 – N

Government Issue – Blending In – Joyride – R
Kurt Vile – Runner Ups – Smoke Ring From My Halo – N
That Petrol Emotion – Everybody’s Goin’ Triple Bad Acid Yeah! – Split 7″ with The Membranes
Grand Ulena – Grand Arsenal – Gateway To Dignity – RIP Danny McClain.
Wizard Smoke – Growing – The Speed Of Smoke
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears – Livin’ In The Jungle – Scandalous – N
Wire – Surgeon’s Girl – Pink Flag – R

Simple Circuit – Sattrash – Casual Victim Pile II – N – C
Wild Carnation – Dodger Blue – 45
Matthew Shipp Trio – The New Fact – Art Of The Improviser – N
Seam – Kernel – Kernel – R
Harem Scarem – Sweet Thing (new version) – 45
Audacity – Ears & Eyes – 45 – N
Agent Orange – Everything Turns Grey – Living In Darkness – R

Che Arthur – Dead Trajectories – Iron – Live on next week’s show!
Steel Pole Bath Tub – European Son – 45 – Velvet Underground cover.
Friends Forever – Winners – Killball
The Feud – There Is No Sleep/Desized – Language Is Technology
Nikki Sudden – Crossroads – Kiss You Kidnapped Charabanc – R
Reading Rainbow – Stand Back & Take A Good Look – Under The Covers Vol. 2 – N – C – Nerves/Plimsouls tribute.
Home Blitz – Sliding Decks – R