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



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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!



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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



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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!



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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



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7/28/10 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Moonhearts – Never Lost Control – S/T – N
Alemayehu Eshete – Enkoy Nat Yabay Dar – Ethiopiques 25 – C – 1973.
Tar – Non-Alignment Pact – 45 – Pere Ubu cover.
The Horse’s Ha – Left Hand – Of The Cathmawr Girls – N – James from The Zincs, Janet from Eleventh Dream Day.
All Scars – End In Code – Stretching Jupiter
Adolescents – Kids Of The Black Hole – S/T
The Anomalys – Anomalys Now! – S/T – N

A-Frames – Melt – 333 – N – Previously unreleased.
Electrelane – Gone Darker – Axes
Tonistics – Holding On – Soul Messages From Dimona – N – C
Thomas Function – How Does It Feel? – In The Valley Of Sickness
Montagna & The Mouth To Mouth – At Full Speed – 45 – N
Graham Repulski – Valued Snakes – Man Pop
Simply Saucer – Bullet Proof Nothing – Cyborgs Revisited

Mike Rep et Les Quotas – Rocket To Nowhere – Stupor Hiatus – N – 1975.
Carolee – Exit Replacer – Cdr
The Budos Band – Unbroken, Unshaven – III – N
Carlton Melton – When You’re In – Pass It On…
Don Howland – Above The Clouds – The Land Beyond The Mountains
Northern Liberties – E.G.G. (Emerald Ghost Garden) – Ghost Mind Electricity
Bare Wires – Artificial Clouds – S/T – N

Home Blitz – Murder In My Heart – 45 – R – The Searchers cover.
Christina Carter – Re-Found Mary – Original Darkness
The Mullens – Esmerelda – It’s Hard To Imagine – N
The Chambermaids – Lily – Down In The Berries
Darin Gray / Loren Connors – Part 5 – The Lost Mariner – N
The Electric Love Muffin – What We Talk About – Second Third Time Around – R
Pere Ubu – Final Solution – Warning Bells Are Ringing

Screaming Females – I Don’t Mind It – Castle Talk – Forthcoming.
Moral Crayfish – Part II – Go To Church – N
Speed The Plow – Beautiful Place – Swerve – R
The Wooden Owls – The Long Forgotten Music Box – 12″ – N
Horton’s Wrath – Lisa Smokes Pot – Demo – Volatile Molecules song.
AT – Three Three Three – S/T
TW Walsh – Spread The Rubble – mp3 – Unreleased.

Balaclavas – Nine Livers – Roman Holiday
Ulaan Khol – Part 8 – III – N



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7/21/10 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Steel Pole Bath Tub – Bozeman – The Miracle Of Sound In Motion
Frew Haylou – Almaz Men Eda New – Ethiopiques 25 – C
Pontiak – Algers By Day – Living – N
Tender Trap – Fin – Film Molecules
Sonny Henning – 100 Tips Zum Uberleben – Cloud Cuckooland – N – C
The Jim Yoshi Pileup – Shark Repellent – It’s Winter Here
Mondo Topless – Nothing Can Bring Me Down – Freaking Out – N – Twilighters cover.

Silkworm – Dead Air – Lifestyle – Five goddamn years.
Crunch – Crusie – Peoples Potnetial Family Album – N
Tone – Confidence & Progress – Solidarity
Cumbia Siglo XX – Naga Pedale – Palenque Palenque: Champeta Criolla & Afro Roots In Columbia – N – C
The Poison Arrows – Tranquil Eyes – Newfound Resolutions – Forthcoming. Great.
My Dad Is Dead – Can’t Get Started – The Taller You Are, The Shorter You Get
Zoom – Flunkie – S/T – Reunited! Really!

Ty Segall – Bullet Proof Nothing – 45 – N – Simply Saucer cover.
Oxford Collapse – Please Visit Your National Parks – Remember The Night Parties
Empty Shapes – MLK – Split album with Carlton Melton – N
De La Soul – Ego Trippin’ (Part Two) – Buhloone Mindstate
Tuli Kupferberg – The And Song – Tuli & Friends – RIP.
Dan Sartain – Those Thoughts – Lives – N

Dan R. from “A Bit Stranger” helms the final hour tonight.

Big Star – Way Out West – Radio City – RIP Andy Hummel.
The Adult Net – Incense and Peppermints – 7″
Flux of Pink Indians – Neu Smell – Strive to Survive & Neu Smell
Evangelista – The Slayer – Prince of Truth
15.60.75 – Thief – Jimmy Bell’s Still in Town – R
Don Cherry – Brown Rice – s/t

Really Red – Decay – Teaching You the Fear
Superpitcher – Fever – Here Comes Love
Tom Dissavelt – Vibration (or the Visitor from Inner Space) – Popular Electronics
Die Haut and Nick Cave – Pleasure is the Boss – Burnin’ the Ice
Curlew – First Bite – North America
Pisces – Mary – A Lovely Story
Jaylib – The Red – Champion Sound
The Flesh Eaters – See You in the Boneyard – A Minute to Pray a Second to Die

Henry Flynt – Echo Rock – Back Porch Hillbilly Blues Vol. 2



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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.

RIP to graffiti artist and masked hip hop icon Rammellzee.

Saxaphonist Fred Anderson passed away last week at the age of 81. Howard Reich of the Chicago Tribune reports on overflow crowd for the funeral.

Will you be heading to Las Vegas for the Matador Records 21st birthday celebration?

Download all five 1980 “The Empire Strikes Back” hotline recordings here.



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6/30/10 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

The Misfits – Hybrid Moments – Legacy Of Brutality – For ABS & LCS.
Tartufi – Hole Or Space – Nests Of Waves & Wire – N
Rammellzee – Quack – Bi-Conicals Of The Rammellzee – RIP.
Easter Monkeys – 14th Floor – Splendor Or Sorrow – N – One of 2010’s best reissues.
The Fred Anderson Quartet – Birdhouse – Birdhouse – RIP.
Orthrelm – Redun 1-3 – S/T – N
Digital Dinosaurs – Eyes Front – Extinction: 1979-82

The Ruffed Grouses – USA Belongs To Me – American Terrace Anthems – Take that, Cock Sparrer!
Emma Tricca – Cobblestone Street – Minor White – N
Rammellzee vs. K.Rob – Beat Bop – New York Noise – C – RIP.
Clyde & The Nightswingers – The Enormous Midnight – 45 – N – 1967.
Fred Anderson – On The Run – On The Run: Live At The Velvet Lounge – RIP.
Go-Go’s – Skidmarks On My Heart – Beauty And The Beat
Worn In Red – When People Have Something To Say – In The Offing – N

We Are Scientists – Goal! England – mp3 – World Cup fever.
Pell Mell – New Saigon – Rhyming Guitars – R
C-3PO / Darth Vader / Han Solo / Luke Skywalker / Princess Leia – 1980 Phone Messages – The Empire Strikes Back
Mount Carmel – Hear Me Callin – S/T – N
Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake – Leap Forward – Back Together Again – RIP.
The Christmas – Hand – Vortex
Boston Spaceships – You Satisfy Me – Brown Submarine

Crom – The Usurper – The Cocaine Wars 1974-1989
Marilyn Crispell/Fred Anderson/Hamid Drake – Destiny 1 – Destiny – RIP.



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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.

Read this powerful piece from the Kansas City Star about the late Manute Bol, then download a song about the lanky center from Wizznutzz.

You can find my friend Will’s incredible simultaneous play of Codeine and the Bulgarian State Television Female Choir here.

Gang opened up for Lil’ Kim in Baltimore. The Couch Sessions and True Genius Requires Insanity were on the scene.



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