7/18/12 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Dicks – All Night Fever – Kill From The Heart – Reissued! Finally! – [N]
Scout Niblett – Just Do It! – The Calcination Of Scout Niblett
White Manna – Acid Head – S/T – [N]
Sugar Skulls – The Waking Hour – Live on WPRB – RIP Red Burns.
Konkoma – Kpanlogo – S/T – [N]
Killdozer – Hush – For Ladies Only – Deep Purple cover. RIP Jon Lord.
Final Solutions – Rubber Stamp Test – Songs By Solutions

Rebecca Gates & The Consortium – Suite Sails – The Float – RG is here in studio all night. She picked the songs for this set.
Califone – 3 Legged Animals – Roots & Crowns
Steve Gunn – Money Train Blues – Sundowner
Swell Maps – Let’s Build A Car (Single Version) – Jane From Occupied Europe
Autoclave – I’ll Take You Down – 45
Slovenly – To Tito With Love – Highway To Hanno’s

The Spinanes – Lines & Lines – Strand – [R]
Batida – Tirei O Chapeu – S/T – Featuring Ikonoklasta. – [N]
Joy Division – Atmosphere – Permanent – As covered by Codeine.
Chant! Chant! Chant! – Play Safe – Strange Passion – Early 1980s Irish post-punk. – [N] – [C]
Developer – Glitter & Stone – Another Song For The Weekend
Girls Against Boys – All The Rage – You Can’t Fight What You Can’t See
Baroness – The Line Between – Yellow & Green – [N]

Rebecca Gates & The Consortium – Harlesden To Vals – The Float – RG is here in studio all night. She picked the songs for the rest of the show.
Orchestre Super Borgou De Parakou – Wegne Nda M Banda – The Bariba Sound – [N]
Lungfish – Love Is Love – Love Is Love
Battles – Toddler – Gloss Drop

David Kilgour – You Forget – Here Come The Cars – First time on vinyl. – [N]



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Rebecca Gates co-hosts tonight!


This just in: Rebecca Gates (formerly of The Spinanes and currently of a stellar solo record titled “The Float“) will be my co-host tonight on WPRB. 7-10 pm ET.

Fun will be had. Don’t miss it!



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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, the PRF BBQ set by Heather Loves Silkworm.

RIP Dennis Flemion of The Frogs.

Download a Codeine demo, a Bone & Bell valentine, some United Sons Of Toil remixes and a Stuck session from The Gary.

Speaking of The Gary, here they are in fine form at Quencher’s in Chicago.

Well worth missing my curfew!



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7/11/12 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Avengers – Teenage Rebel – S/T – Stellar two disc reissue.
Alemayehu Eshete – Tchero Adari Negn – Ethiopiques 8 – 1970. – [C]
The Army – Percodans Please/Do The Nipsy – What Happened To Your Hand? – 1986. Steve Albini & Jay Tiller.
Crocodile Shop – April Reigns – Head.
The Frogs – I Don’t Care If You Disrespect Me (Just So You Love Me) – It’s Only Right & Natural – RIP Dennis Flemion.
Arc In Round – One-Sided – S/T – Local. – [N]
Silkworm – Internat’l Harbor Of Grace – Chokes!

Japandroids – Adrenaline Nightshift – Celebration Rock – [N]
Eric B. & Rakim – The R (Extended Remix) – Follow The Leader
Codeine – Kitchen (Demo) – When I See The Sun: Frigid Stars – Sunday in New York!
Mission Of Burma – 7’s – Unsound – [N]
Bone & Bell – Be Sweet To Me – Be Sweet To Me
The Gary – The Evidence – STUCK Presents…Hardly Sound – Lungfish cover.
Dogmatic Element – Just Friends – Strange Passion: Explorations In Irish Post Punk DIY & Electronic Music 1980-83 – [N] – [C]

Mudhoney – Ritzville – Head On The Curb – Previously unreleased version.
Jen Schande – I Really Like Sonic Youth & I Really Want To Have Sex With You – 19 Songs For & Inspired By Valencia: Chapter 19 – [N] – Jen from Shove.
Analogue – Punchout Turned Me Gay – Rock Proper
Destroyer – Savage Night At The Opera – Kaputt
Tar – Feel This – 45
Kalabius “Sapeltek” Simbolon – Pinasa Si Dun-Dungon – Smithsonian Folkways World Music Collection – Indonesian. – [C]
Morbid Angel – Chapel Of Ghouls (Re-mix) – Altars Of Madness – 1989 debut.

This Moment In Black History – Family Day At Euclid Beach – 45 – [N]
United Sons Of Toil – Panic (Metric Ton Of Soil Mix) – USOT Remixed
Light Coma – This Is Gonna Break Your Heart – Countermeasures
The Starlite Desperation – I’m Ready Again – Take It Personally
The Guns – Jetsons Theme Song – S/T – 1982. – [N]
Lozenge – Mr. Fancypants – Mishap – Live at the Empty Bottle, 2/23/02.
Dis- – Ed Was Solace – Small Fry 1 & 2

Torche – Sky Trials – Harmonicraft – [N]
Big Troubles – Never Mine – Romantic Comedy
Meddlesome Meddlesome Meddlesome Bells – Worried Land Blues – Worried Land – Local. – [N]
Victims Family – Have A Nice Day – 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.

RIP Sean Roberts of Thirty Ought Six and drummer Tim Mooney (Sleepers, Toiling Midgets, American Music Club, Sun Kil Moon).

Download a song from the new Slug Guts record and grab Nihiti’s Psychic Paramount remix while you can.



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6/20/12 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Unsane – Ghost – Wreck – [N]
Digital Underground – Rhymin’ On The Funk – Sex Packets
Thirty Ought Six – Dealt – Bosozoku – RIP Sean Roberts.
Martial Canterel – You Today – You Today – [N]
The Kyle Sowashes – Bloomington, In – Somebody – Forthcoming.
Suzanne Ciani – Live Buchla Concert 1975 – S/T – Plus an Atari commercial for good measure. – [N]
Wormrot – Compulsive Disposition – Dirge

Bottomless Pit – The Colchis Eagles – Lottery 2005-2012 – Japanese import.
Gary Sloan & Clone – Harmonitalk/Mind Script Vacation Permit #35-17 – Harmonitalk – Forthcoming.
Slug Guts – Adult Living – Playin’ In Time With The Deadbeat
The Psychic Paramount – Echoh Air (Nihiti’s Air On The Nth String Mix) – .mp3 – Unreleased.
Swallow – Lovesleep – Volume Four – [C]
Toiling Midgets – Mr. Foster’s Shoes – 45 – RIP Tim Mooney.
Cerebral Bore – Flesh Reflects The Madness – Maniacal Miscreation – Scottish. – [N]

Coffin Pricks – Cielo Drive – 45 – Debut single. – [N]
Butthole Surfers – American Woman – Rembrant Pussyhorse – The Guess Who cover.
Gallon Drunk – Ruby – Volume Two – [C]
Thirty Ought Six – Moreau – 45 – RIP Sean Roberts.
Joe Kusy – Just My Breed/John Lewis, Ne’er-Do-Well – 45 – Member of Far-Out Fangtooth. – [N]
Sun Kil Moon – Glenn Tipton – Ghosts Of The Great Highway – RIP Tim Mooney.
Pins Of Light – No Way Home – II – [N]

The Chefs – Commander Lonely – Messthetics #108 – 1981. – [C]
The Young – Plunging Rollers – Dub Egg – [N]
American Music Club – Keep Me Around – Mercury – RIP Tim Mooney.
Necrophagia – Beast With Feral Claws – Death Trip 69
Upper Egypt Ensemble – Mazamir Holiday – The Rough Guide To Bellydance Cafe – [C]
The Shining Path – The Day When He Himself Shall Wipe Away My Tears – S/T
Parts & Labor – Outnumbered – Constant Future

The Max Levine Ensemble – Anthem For A New Morning After – The Thing That Ate Larry Livermore – [N] – [C]
The Sahara All Stars – Take Your Soul – Nigeria Disco Funk Special – [C]
Lorelei – Hammer Meets Tongs – Enterprising Sidewalks – Forthcoming.
Arcwelder – White Elephant – 45 – Volcano Suns cover.
Mike Quinn – Yonda – Magico – He of Okay Paddy. Isn’t this a Spinto Band tune?
Olekranon – Spillage – Enumbara
Tortured Tongues – Let Me Down – 45



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6/13/12 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Heavy Cream – Louise – Super Treatment – [N]
Oscar Sulley & The Uhuru Dance Band – Bukom Mashie – Ghana Soundz: Afro-Beat, Funk & Fusion In ’70s Ghana – [C]
Apache Dropout – Dry Basement (Live) – S/T – Cd-only bonus track.
Yung Wu – Shore Leave – Shore Leave
Angela Alexander & J.D. Sandler – Don’t Make Me Kill You – Boddie Recording Co: Cleveland Ohio – [N] – [C]
Daniel Johnston – Freedom – Is & Always Was
Dear Landlord – Walking Distance – The Thing That Ate Larry Livermore – [N] – [C]

Campaign – Old Haunts – Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!
Giant Giant Sand – Slag Heap – Tucson – Not a typo. – [N]
Panda Riot – Serious Radical Girls – 7″ – Forthcoming.
Mike Scheidt – Breathe – Stay Awake – He of Yob. – [N]
Volcano! – So Many Lemons – Pinata
Bailterspace – No Sense – Strobosphere – Forthcoming.
Dead Ending – All Your Satellites Are Falling – S/T – Members of Articles Of Faith, The Bomb, Alkaline Trio & Rise Against. – [N]

Cheap Time – Dream It Up – Wallpaper Music – [N]
William Onyeabor – Better Change Your Mind – Nigeria 70 – [C]
White Wires – Please Write – III – [N]
Sujo – Paraffin – Split Cd with Korperschwache
Bappi Lahiri – Aafat – Bollywood Bloodbath – Unreal. – [N] – [C]
Hector – Wired Up – Clap Your Hands, Stomp Your Feet! (More Junk Shop Glam) – 1973. – [C]
Cross Stitched Eyes – Earth’s Defiant – Decomposition – [N]

The Karl Hendricks Trio – Some Girls Like Cigarettes – Some Girls Like Cigarettes – [R]
Gold Crowns – If Looks Could Kill – 45 – Local. – [N]
The Paperhead – Can’t Keep My Eyes Open – S/T
Kandodo – Yamadharma – S/T – Simon Price of The Heads. – [N]
Matthew Sawyer & The Ghosts – Mynah Birds Call – How Snakes Eat
Snow Caps – No Name #2 – Moonbreak
Vaura – Obsidian Damascene Sun – Selenelion – [N]

Women In Prison – Strange Waves – 45
The Hunting Accident – Sometimes I Wish I Was A Pretty Girl – Trees & Parks – Members of Arlo, Burning Brides & Piebald. Robyn Hitchcock cover. – [N]
The Yarrows – Over You – North Room – Local.
Moholy-Nagy – Brute Neighbors – Like Mirage – Ex-Tarentel. – [N]
Gang Of Four – Guns Before Butter (Alternate Version) – Entertainment! – [R]
Eric Showboy Akaeze & His Royal Ericos – We Dey Find Money – Nigeria Afrobeat Special – 1972.
Patron Kooper Planetarium – Voyager – Glass & Bone – [N]



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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 Ray Bradbury. You must read this remembrance from Neil Gaiman.

Learn more about a photographic benefit for Coptic Light’s Jeff Winterberg.

Your downloads: A new Jennifer O’Connor demo. A taste of Far-Out Fangtooth. A benefit for Jason Noble. A couple of Laurel Canyon songs. A track by Imperial China. A cross-section of Arriver recordings. A complete Family Ghost record. A Spider Bags single.



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6/6/12 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Mother Of Tears – Little Ratty – Hookup Klub Round One – [C]
Bobby Conn – Can’t Stop The War – Macaroni – [N]
Coptic Light – Mix The Races – S/T – For Jeff Winterberg. Get well soon.
Public Image Limited – Out Of The Woods – This Is PiL – Not terrible! – [N]
The Cakekitchen – Fahrenheit 451 – Far From The Sun – RIP Ray Bradbury.
Bola Johnson – Lagos Special – Anthology – Nigerian. – [C]
The Ex + Tom Cora – Everything & Me – And The Weathermen Shrug Their Shoulders

Future Of The Left – I Am The Least Of Your Problems – The Plot Against Common Sense – Forthcoming.
Jennifer O’Connor – All Of Us Kids (Lo-Fi Florida Mix) – mp3
Far-Out Fangtooth – Hate – Pure & Disinterested
The Pauses – Don’t Wake Me Up – In Pleasant Company: A Mixtape For Jason – http://jasonnoblebenefit.bandcamp.com
Laurel Canyon – Street Duck – mp3 – Local.
Imperial China – Limbs – How We Connect
Arriver – This Dark Corner Of The Continent – Simon Mann

Mission Of Burma – Second Television – Unsound – Forthcoming.
The Family Ghost – Taken – S/T
Adam WarRock – F.451 – adamwarrock.com – RIP Ray Bradbury.
Spider Bags – Friday Night – Shake My Head – Forthcoming.
Each Other – The Hoof Of The Engineer – S/T
Crocodiles – Sunday (Psychic Conversation #9) – Endless Flowers – [N]
Loving Thunder – Magic Wand – Split 7″ with Mountain High

Ceremony – Silhouettes – Rocket Fire
Graham Repulski – Come On, Ancient Cloud – Electric Warrior
Richard Pinhas – Schizophrenia – Metal/Crystal – Aided by Merzbow & Wolf Eyes. – [N]
Trophy Wives – Nobody’s Home – Old Scratch
Ov – Bone Of The Bone Scholar/Moon Of The Moon Scholar – Noctilucent Valleys – Loren Chasse & Christine Boepple.
White Suns – Fire Sermon – Sinews – [N]



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5/30/12 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

June Of 44 – Have A Safe Trip, Dear – Engine Takes To The Water – [R]
Turing Machine – Yeah, C’mon – What Is The Meaning Of What – [N]
Plastic Little – Crambodia (Instrumental) – 12″
Inhalt – Vehicle – Vehicle – [N]
Meddlesome Meddlesome Meddlesome Bells – The Devil’s Lonely Son – The Sirens Too Sang That Way – Local.
Orchestre Super Borgou De Parkou – Dadon Gabou Yo Sa Be No. 2 – The Bariba Sound 1970-1976 – Benin. – [N]
Die Kreuzen – Imagine A Light – October File – Recently reunited.

God – The Day They Buried Hemensley – S/T
Vocoder – Amor De Robot – Cuadro Sinoptico – 1985. Spain. – [N]
White Hills – Paradise – H-p1
The Funkees – Akula Owu Onyeara – Dancing Time – 1971. Nigeria. – [N]
The Senders – Don’t Make Me Mad – Seven Song Super Single
Doc Watson – Sing Song Kitty – Songs For Little Pickers – RIP.
Normal Love – Lend Some Treats – Survival Tricks – [N]

My Sexual Dad – Take Out The Cartridge & Blow It – Shark
Dark Day – No, Nothing, Never – Exterminating Angel – 1980. Robin Crutchfield of DNA. – [N]
Zelda Rising – Cosmos Rising – S/T – Totally mysterious and information-free.
Doug Paisley – City Lights – Golden Embers – [N]
Br’er – Abscess Marked Return – Of Shemales & Kissaboos – Local.
Shellac – XVI – The Bird Is The Most Popular Finger
Evans The Death – Threads – S/T – [N]

Black Music Disaster – Black Music Disaster – S/T – Matthew Shipp, J Spaceman, Steve Noble & John Coxon. – [N]
Pigeons – Laisse Tomber Les Filles – Liasons – Serge Gainsbourg tune.



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