Supplemental Reading.


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

RIP Solomon Gruberger from Afrika Korps.

Heavy on the free, legal downloads again this week. Lots of Knife Skills tracks, the Sympathizers Ep I was talking about, an entire Dojinshi record, music long since forgotten by The Bigger Lovers, a song that did not make the debut of Minibeast (solo stuff from Peter Prescott of Volcano Suns/Mission Of Burma), a beauty of track off the upcoming third A.C. Newman solo record, the incredible Black Sabbath pastiche assembled by Andy Votel, the return of Ladyhawk and several albums worth of Olekranon recordings.

I continue to wish Baroness well on their road to recovery following an exceptionally scary bus accident.



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8/22/12 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

The Cravats – In Your Eyes – In Toytown – 1978-81 recordings. – [N]
Edsel – Glazed By The Cold Front – Techniques Of Speed Hypnosis
Ondatropica – I Ron Man – S/T – Black Sabbath cover. – [N]
Knife Skills – JT Leroy Meet Dennis Cooper – S/T – Jerry Fuchs on drums.
Puffy Areolas – Not Tonight – 1982: Dishonorable Discharge – [N]
The Sympathizers – Our Meteorologist (Ficca Doppler Mix) – Dread At The Control – Remixed by T. Tauri.
Drive Like Jehu – New Math – Yank Crime – [R]

Viza-Noir – Regarding Your Pleasure – No Record
JJ DOOM – Rymin Slang (clean) – Bite The Thong
Ominous Black – At The Face Of Mt. Shasta – 10″ – Local.
Dojinshi – 居着く – S/T
The Bigger Lovers – Barely 5:30 – .mp3 – Previously unreleased.
Minibeast – Uni – .mp3 – Peter Prescott of Volcano Suns/Mission Of Burma’s solo record.
Baroness – March To The Sea – Yellow & Green – Get well, good sirs. – [N]

Alien Father – World Of Treble – World Of Treble – Local.
A.C. Newman – Not Talking – Shut Down The Streets – Forthcoming.
Slug Guts – Order Of Death – Playin’ In Time With The Deadbeat – Re-appropriates a Public Image Limited chorus. – [N]
Andy Votel – Votel Is Paranoid Mix – .mp3 – Unreal Black Sabbath cover.
The Family Band – Night Song – Grace & Lies – [N]
The Afrika Korps – N.Y. Punk – Live At Cantone’s 1977 – RIP Solomon Gruberger.
Ladyhawk – You Read My Mind – No Can Do

Hurl – A Riot Failure – We Are Quiet In This Room – [R]
Samara Lubelski – Breaker Lights – Wavelength – [N]
Lyrics – They Can’t Hurt Me – Back From The Grave Vol. 2 – San Diego, 1965. – [C]
Mark Lanegan Band – Harborview Hospital – Blues Funeral – [N]
Olekranon – Barbarians – (Barbarians)
Fly – Fly Meets The Gooch – 7″
Oxford Collapse – Melting The Ice Queen – S/T

The Threat – High Cost Of Living – Strange Passion – [N] – [C]
Billy Bao – Anti-Copyright – May 08
Human Adult Band – Sugar – Lazy Determination
Wounded Lion – Pony People – 45
Ex Vivian – Treetops – S/T – Krysten Ritter & William Burnett.
Young Marie – Cookie Jar – 45



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Supplemental Reading.


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

This remembrance of Jason Noble from Leo Weekly is beautiful.

John Dudeck of Very Distro has passed away. Condolences can be sent to Eugene & Chong Dudeck : 9 E. Saylor Avenue : Plains, PA 18702.

A ludicrous number of free, legal downloads were played on the show this week. Have at’m!

1. A RZA-inspired track by Per Mission.

2. The first song off the 14th Thee Oh Sees album.

3. A complete Ep from Book-Burners.

4. Joel Phelps & GS Dahlquist team up.

5. New jangle by Literature.

6. A preview of something from the next Moon Duo full-length.

7. Police Teeth tease their next album with a raucous jam.

8. Recorded in one day for $80, an entire Architects & Builders record.

9. Eight minutes of Locrian.

10. Lame Drivers offer up a song from their split cassette with The Woolen Men.

11. Brian Chippendale of Lightning Bolt is Black Pus.

12. Arc In Round as remixed by Benoit Pioulard.

Phew. Have a good week, everyone!



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8/15/12 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Rodan – Gauge – Rusty – RIP Jason Noble.
Per Mission – The Aureates / Not Destroyed (Inspired by The RZA) – Skull Drones
Rachel’s – Technology Is Killing Music – Purposeful Availment
Shipping News – This Is Not An Exit – One Less Heartless To Fear
Rodan – Big Things Little Things – Working Holiday Live!

Thee Oh Sees – Flood’s New Light – Putrifiers II
The Book-Burners – “Bad Blood” – Intimidation
Joel Phelps/Stuart Dahlquist – Thine V.1 – Collaboration Attempt #1
Literature – Apples – 7″
Moon Duo – Sleepwalker – Circles
Police Teeth – Bellingham Media Blackout – S/T
Deep Pockets – Wet Firecracker – 7″ – Silkworm cover.

Redd Kross – Researching The Blues – Researching The Blues – First new album in 15 years. – [N]
Clockcleaner – Deaf Man Talking – Nevermind
Antibalas – Sare Kon Kon – S/T – [N]
Dag Nasty – Never Go Back – Can I Say – Played in memory of John Dudeck.
Detective – I’d Rather Run – Basket Of Masks – James Greer of Guided By Voices. – [N]
Obits – The City Is Dead – 45 – The Kids cover.
Lost Sounds – I Get Nervous pt. 1 – Lost Lost – [N]

Architects & Builders – Song For Don Dawson – The Joy Of Cooking
Locrian – Chalk Point – The Clearing – Forthcoming.
Lame Drivers – The Other Side – Split cassette with The Woolen Men
Black Pus – Neurotic Knife – Pus Mortem – Brian from Lightning Bolt.
Arc In Round – Said Astray (Void Edit by Benoit Pioulard) – .mp3
Wet Hair – Jane You Don’t Decide – Spill Into Atmosphere – [N]
Ceremony – Adult – Zoo

Homostupids – The Intern – The Load – Skull music.
Spider Bags – Standing On A Curb – Shake My Head – [N]
Heavy Times – Ice Age – 45
Dragon Turtle & Eric De Jesus – The Leaves On The Trees Were Green With Youth (The 20th Anniversary Of Paris ’68) – 45 – [N]
Crain – King Octane – Speed
Wymond Miles – Pale Moon – Under The Pale Moon – He of The Fresh & Onlys. – [N]
Evenings – One – Growing Isolation – Mixed with Ethan Sandler’s “Artificial Fellow Traveler Around The Earth.”



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Supplemental Reading.


Here’s this week’s links/videos/items of interest based on topics discussed during last night’s radio show. RIP Jason Noble.

Please purchase the benefit compilation In Pleasant Company: A Mixtape For Jason and/or a Rodan t-shirt. All proceeds from both go to Jason Noble’s family.

Corey Rusk of Touch & Go / Quarterstick, John Schaefer at Soundcheck, Alec Bemis and Jeffrey Lee Puckett of the Courier-Journal all have written beautiful remembrances.

You should also read this interview from last month with Jason Noble in The Paper.

One of the Per Mission tracks I played, the Poison Arrows remix and the Shipping News remix are all free to download. Sadly the Eazy Emo web site appears to be off-line…

300 amplifiers.



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8/8/12 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


RIP Jason Noble.

The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Rodan – The Everyday World Of Bodies – Rusty
Per Mission – Discovered / Incised – S/T
Shipping News – Nine Bodies, Nine States – Very Soon, And In Pleasant Company
Rachel’s – Family Portrait – Music For Egon Schiele
Easy Emo – Dead Prez vs. Shipping News – .mp3
Shipping News – Paper Lanterns (Zero Return) – Flies The Fields
Rodan – Tooth Fairy Retribution Manifesto – Monsters Of Rock II – [C]

Rodan – Before The Train – Peel Session
The YMD – The Beat That Makes The Native Nod – Excuse Me, We Are The Yah Mos Def – Samples Shipping News.
Per Mission – A Reminder (Orange) – .mp3
The Pauses – Don’t Wake Up – In Pleasant Company: A Mixtape For Jason – http://jasonnoblebenefit.bandcamp.com
King G & The J Crew – Sit Calm – Indestructible Songs Of The Humpback Whale – [R]
The Young Scamels – A Solemn Air – Tempest
Shipping News – Antebellum – One Less Heartless To Fear

Rodan – Exoskeleton – How The Winter Was Passed
Interstates – Another Body Another State – .mp3 – Shipping News remix.
Shipping News – Steerage – Save Everything
The Poison Arrows – Twenty Percent Brighter – Skull Drones part 2 – Remixed by Per Mission.
Rachel’s – Full On Night – Handwriting
Shipping News – Books On Trains – Split Cd with Metroschifter
Rodan – Darjeeling – Inclined Plane – [C]

Rodan – Tron – Aviary
Rachel’s – Reflective Surfaces – Systems/Layers
Truckstop – Truckstop Theme – Half Cocked: The Motion Picture Soundtrack – [C]
Kyle Crabtree & Jason Noble – Here In Your Mind – Metroschifter: Encapsulated
Shipping News – The Architect In Hell – Three-Four – [R]

Shipping News – Quiet Victories – Very Soon, And In Pleasant Company – RIP.



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Supplemental Reading.


Here’s this week’s links/videos/items of interest based on topics discussed during last night’s radio show. Above, Metuchen’s own Ralph Nielsen & The Chancellors.

RIP Bill Doss of The Olivia Tremor Control.

Free downloads as heard in set number two: A full record by Destroy This Place, an incredible Joel RL Phelps demo, new music from Minutes and the debut of Light Heat.

Ted Leo is additionally offering two recently recorded covers (a Donovan song and a tune written by Johnny Darrell) on his website.

Go Senegal!



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8/1/12 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

USS Horsewhip – Amish Rake Fight – Wants You Dead
BMG 44 – 44 – African Underground Vol. 1 – Go Senegal! – [C]
Don Cabellero – Delivering The Groceries At 138 Beats Per Minute – What Burns Never Returns – I can not un-learn what inspired this song title, sadly.
Ralph Nielsen & The Chancellors – Scream – Back From The Grave Vol. 2 – From Metuchen, NJ! – [C]
The Olivia Tremor Control – Love Athena – Singles & Beyond – RIP Bill Doss.
Naked Raygun – Coldbringer – Jettison – Every three years I see a Batman movie and then play this song.
Future Of The Left – Robocop 4 – Fuck Off Robocop – The Plot Against Common Sense – [N]

Destroy This Place – Fortunate Blood – Resurrect The Mammoth – Ex-Thunderbirds Are Now!
Ms. Melodie – Live On Stage – Diva – RIP.
Joel RL Phelps – On The Side – Pie Times
Can – Grabublau – The Lost Tapes
Minutes – Always National – .mp3
Light Heat – And The Birds – And The Birds – Quentin from Mazarin’s new band.
Wax Museums – Between – Eye Times – [N]

Mission Of Burma – What They Tell Me – Unsound – Playing for free in Brooklyn on Friday! – [N]
Public Enemy – Night Of The Living Baseheads – It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Racetrack – The War At Home – Go Ahead & Say It
Golden Retriever – Eudaimonia – Occupied The With Unspoken – Members of Au and Parenthetical Girls. – [N]
The Evens – Warble Factor – 45
Arnaldo Antunes/Edgard Scandurra/Toumani Diabate – Cara – A Curva Da Cintura – [N]
Bolt Thrower – Eternal War – Realm Of Chaos

The Gun Club – Thunderhead – Mother Juno – [R]
John Fahey – Dry Bones In The Valley (I Saw The Light) – Old Fashioned Love – Congratulations, Trevor & Liz!
Ted Leo – Green Green Grass Of Home – Radio Lab – Johnny Darrell tune.
The Paver – A Waste Of Time & Space – Capolavoro
Heyward Howkins – The Raucous Calls Of Morning – Hale & Hearty – Local.
Lorelei – Three Interlocking Screens – Enterprising Sidewalks – Reformed. Forthcoming.
Bailter Space – Dset – Strobosphere – First record in 13 years. – [N]

Come – Bitten – Near Life Experience – Happy birthday, Chris Brokaw!
Gary Sloan & Clone – Mix He Said (Jam) – Harmonitalk – [N]
Shabazz Palaces – The King’s New Clothes Were Made By His Own Hands – Black Up
Giant Giant Sand – Recovery Mission – Tucson – [N]
Silverhead – Ace Supreme – Clap Your Hands, Stomp Your Feet! – 1972. – [C]



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Supplemental Reading.


Here’s this week’s links/videos/items of interest based on topics discussed during last night’s radio show. Above, Jawbox completely reworks a song by The Avengers.

RIP Ms. Melodie, Sherman Hemsley and Red Burns of Sugar Skulls.

Details on August 5th’s Red Burns Memorial Show can be found here.

Today is Thurston Moore’s 54th birthday. Download a song from his new band Chelsea Light Moving. Free recordings by METZ, Lost Sounds and Brothers Of The Sonic Cloth are also there for the grabbing.

The latest Sick Room / African Tape and Caffeinated Recordings compilations are both full of great, gratis tunes.

This GSDahlquist piece “Bring Me A Monkey,” written for his late brother Michael, is quite honestly one of the most beautiful things I think I’ve ever heard.

Before I sign off for the week, the lengthy tour diary from Don Caballero’s final domestic jaunt is the sort of first-hand recount you can easily get lost in.



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7/25/12 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

The Dicks – Dead In A Motel Room – These People – Reissued. – [N]
Sugar Skulls – Light Of Despair – S/T – RIP Red Burns.
Gary Numan & Tubeway Army – Me! I Disconnect From You – Replicas
Debo Band – Asha Gedawo – S/T – Trad. wedding tune. – [N]
Mean Magic – Black Holes – Cdr
Boogie Down Productions – 7 Deejays – Edutainment – RIP Ms. Melodie.
Nervebreakers – Hijack The Radio! – Hijack The Radio – 1979. – [N]

METZ – Headache – S/T – Forthcoming. – [N]
Sharkey feat. Jean Grae – Summer In The City (Lovin’ It) – Sharkey’s Machine
Lost Sounds – A Foreign Play – The Lost Lost: Demos, Sounds, Alternate Takes & Unused Songs – [N]
Jawbox – Thin White Line – Cooling Card Cd5 – Avengers cover.
The Funstigators – Theme From “The Jeffersons” – Live At The YMCA – RIP Sherman Hemsley.
Chelsea Light Moving – Burroughs – Burroughs – Happy birthday 54th, Thurston Moore.
The Cesarians – The Creation Theory – Sick Room / African Tape Sampler 2012 – [C]

Cuffs – Private View – 45 – [N]
Spaceheads – Whatever Happened To Billy The Comedian? – S/T
Bing Selfish – Rekjavic – Selfish Works – [N]
Sugar Skulls – Swear & Sin – The Waking Hour – RIP Red Burns.
The Parasites Of The Western World – Politico – 7″ – 1980. – [N]
The Darkside – Guitar Voodoo – Volume One – [C]
Nonagon – Severe Presence (Live) – Caffeinated Recordings IV – Live at Quenchers Saloon. – [C]

The Gary – Rope – El Camino
Pylon – Gyrate (Pylon Mix) – Chomp More – Reissue bonus track.
Brothers Of The Sonic Cloth – Fires Burn Dim In The Shadows Of The Mountain – Split 10″ with Mico De Noche – Tad Doyle’s new band.
GSDahlquist – Bring Me A Monkey – .mp3 – Written for his brother Michael.
Ms. Melodie – To Sing All Night (Vocal) – Hype According To Ms. Melodie 12″ – RIP Ms. Melodie.
Victory & Associates – Plausibly Wild – 45 – [N]

Guardian Alien – See The World Given To A One Love Entity – See The World Given To A One Love Entity – [N]



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