7/27/05 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET
The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel – The theme song you know and love.
The Bloody Hollies – Mind Control – If Footmen Tire You… – N – From Buffalo.
Fred Martin – I Want Another Chance – The Best Of Melron Records – C – Philadelphia soul label.
Mad Action – Upside Down – Let’s Breathe It In – Local.
Thee More Shallows – Walk Of Shame – More Deep Cuts – N – Hey, Chavo.
Paik – Jayne Field – Satin Black
Chino Horde – Merit – 45
The Omens – Yeah-Yeah – 45 – N
The Proles – Do You Wonder Why? – Thought Crime – 1977-1980 UK punk.
Fakts One – The Show Starter – 12″ – Featuring The Perceptionists, Mr. Lif & Akrobatik.
The Vocokesh – New Cropcircle Boogie – Through The Smoke – N – From Milwaukee.
Red Tide – It’s More A Feeling – Hyped To Death #1 – C – 1984.
Dungeons & Dragons – Black Dragon Boy – 45 – Part one.
Christmas – Junk – In Excelsior Dayglo
Grammar Debate! – Live on WPRB – 31:32 – www.myspace.com/grammardebate
Thee Minks – Outta Your Head – Are You Ready Now? – N
Diverse – Die Slow – 12″
Nassau String Band – Abaco Is A Pretty Place – Deep River Of Song: Bahamas 1935 – C – Field recording.
They Might Be Russians – Psycho Analysis – Messthetics #3 – C – British. 1979.
Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra with Arturo O’Farrill – Havana Special – Noche Inolvidable – N – Recorded live at Lincoln Center.
Dungeons & Dragons – Black Dragon Boy – 45 – Part two.
Fun At The Zoo – Grow Up! – 45 – 1981.
The Constantines – Young Lions – Young Lions – Live next week on this radio show.
Pelican – March Into The Sea – Cd5 – N
Syl Johnson – I’m Talkin’ Bout Freedom – Black & Proud 2 – C – “The soul of the Black Panther era.”
Denison Witmer – California Brown & Blue – Are You A Dreamer? – N – Local.
Mantronik – Drumming (Maximum Drum Formula) – Reich Remixed – C – The modern minimalist composer, reconstructed.
Edan – Funky Voltron – Beauty & The Beat – N – Featuring Insight.
Kevorkian – Immortality In Culture – From The Shadows – C – “Metal for the modern era.”
Lungfish – Way-Out Is The Way Out – Feral Hymns – N – Their 10th album!
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Live performance #99 – Mazarin.
Engineered 7/25/05.
NE Winter/New American Apathy/Another One Goes By/See You In The Evening/I’m With You & The Constellations
22:12
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7/13/05 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET
The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel – The theme song you know and love.
The 101ers – Hideaway – Elgin Avenue Breakdown Revisited – N – From 1975. Previously unreleased. Featuring Joe Strummer.
John Hovorka – Frozen Zone – Music For Republican Convention Halls
Seven Letters – There Goes My Heart – The Best Of Symarip
Kinski – The Snowy Parts Of Scandinavia – Alpine Static – N
The Sahara All Stars – Alikali Adajo – Afro Baby – C – “The evolution of the Afro-Sound in Nigeria 1970-79.”
Mazarin – For Energy Infinite – We’re Already There – N – Local.
The Brides – Pushed Around – 45 – Ripoff Records band from Chicago.
Realtors – Guilt By Association – Hyped To Death #1 – C – From Santa Cruz. 1979.
Kenny Smith & The Loveliters – Go For Your Self – Cold Heat – C – Heavy funk rarities 1968-1974. Compiled by Egon.
George Draguns – Tandoori Nightmares – Huffing Gas – N – Ex-Don Caballero.
JFA – JFA – Blatant Localism – R
Antibalas – Government Magic – Government Magic – N – New mini-album available only at shows and on-line.
Trust – Egoismo – mp3 – All-girl Argentinean straight-edge!
The Spinto Band – Live on WPRB – 19:35 – www.spintoband.com
Blood Lines – Only The Holy – S/T – N – Ex-Cranium.
Kahil El-Zabar’s Ritual Trio – Return Of The Lost Tribe – Live At The River East Art Center – Recorded 12/18/04.
Andrew Chalfen – Midvale – Luzerne – Local.
Ray Pate & The Rhythm Rockets – The Slide – Kicksville! Volume 3 – C – N – Rockabilly.
Last Rights – Chunks – 45
Combinations – Bump Ball! – Absolutely Allentown – C – N
Trust Fund Babies – Can’t Trust Me – 45 – From San Francisco.
Grammar Debate! – 7th & Gerard – mp3 – Live next week on this radio show.
Art Ensemble Of Chicago – Certain Blacks “Do What They Wanna” – Certain Blacks – N – Reissue. From 1970.
Totfinder – Plow – 45
Akira S Et As Garotas Que Erraram – Sobre As Pernas – The Sexual Life Of The Savages – C – N – Underground post-punk from Brasil.
The Gits – Second Skin – Seafish Louisville
Throw – All Too Human – 45 – From Chicago.
Thermometers – 20th Century Girl – Messthetics #3 – C – Scottish. 1979.
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Live performance #98 – Grammar Debate!
Engineered 7/11/05.
Ghost Of A Chance/Believe It Away/7th & Girard/I Stab Myself To Sleep/Love Is In Love/Circles/Hymn/Industry
31:32
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Live performance #97 – The Constantines.
Engineered 7/11/05.
Lizavetta/Soon Enough/Young Lions/Hyacinth Blues/Ride On (AC/DC Cover)
22:06
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Live performance #96 – The Spinto Band.
Engineered 7/10/05.
Stacey/Trust Vs. Mistrust/Crack The Whip/Direct To Helmet/Mountains/Groundboxes/Spy Vs. Spy
19:38
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7/6/05 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET
The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel – The theme song you know and love.
Detention – Too Noisy – Expelled – Early 1980s local jokecore. Previously unreleased.
Karl & The Country Dutchmen – Gary’s Polka – Deep Polka: Dance Music From The Midwest – C
Origin – Reciprocal – Echoes Of Decimation – N – Blinding.
The Pyramids – Can’t Leave Now – The Best Of Symarip – C – Rocksteady.
Tarentel – Hello! We Move Through Weather! – We Move Through Weather
Malachi Thompson & Africa Brass – We Bop – Chicago Jazz – C
Gospel – Congratulations…You’ve Hit Bottom – The Moon Is A Dead World – N – Ex-Knives, Helen Of Troy.
Hypnotics – Hypnotics Theme Song – Everyone Gets Their Nanosecond Of Fame – Super-obnoxious Long Beach punk rock. Originally found on the 1983 album “Expendables.”
Medications – …Or At Least As Bad – Your Favorite People All In One Place – N – Artwork uses the same font as The New Yorker. On purpose? I wonder.
Sonny Treadway – Don’t Let The Devil Ride – Sacred Steel – C – Traditional sacred African-American steel guitar music in Florida.
Kid Loco – Track 2 – The Graffiti Artist – N – Original film score.
Johnny & The High-Keys – Do You Believe – Absolutely Allentown – C – N – 1960s Lehigh Valley nuggets reissued.
Iron Cross – Fight’m All – Crucified For Our Sins
The A-Sides – Live on WPRB – 33:55 – www.a-sides.net
Fellini – Funziona Senza Vapore – Nao Wave – C – N – Brazilian. From 1987.
Ramsey Lewis – What’s The Name Of This Funk (Spider Man) – 45 – Stereo mix.
Crimpshrine – Summertime – The Thing That Ate Floyd – C
Laura Cantrell – Wishful Thinking – Humming By The Flowered Vine – N – Wynn Stewart song.
The Pits – Words – Can’t Stop It! – C – Australian post-punk 1978-1982.
Blatent Dissent – Is There A Fear? – Hold The Fat – The band that would be Tar.
The Mae Shi – Eat The Prize – Heartbeeps – N – Hats off on the record title.
The Spinto Band – Trust Vs. Mistrust – Nice & Nicely Done – N – Live next week on this radio show.
The Night-Liters – Down & Dirty – 45
Amy Annelle – Lion’s Share – Mile – C – N – Such a lovely voice. Previously unreleased.
Murphy’s Law – Crucial Bar-B-Q – S/T – R
Bootsy’s Rubber Band – Stretchin’ Out (In a Rubber Band) – Stretchin’ Out In – From 1976.
Isocracy – Hippie Man – Bedtime For Isocracy
Ho-Ag – Man The Dam – 45 – N – Split single with Laughing Light.
Wilderness – Post Plethoric Rhetoric – S/T – N – From Baltimore.
Peter Zummo – Fresh Batteries – Experimenting With Household Chemicals – A piece in six movements.
Jandek – Darkness You Give – Glasgow Sunday – N – Recorded live 10/17/04.
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6/29/05 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET
The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel – The theme song you know and love.
Fiya – Tell Your Children – Better Days – N – Fantastic new pastacore!
Bill Fox – Bird Of The World – 45 – From The Mice.
Cobra Verde – Underpants – Copycat Killers – N – Easter Monkeys cover.
The Harps – Ego’s Included – mp3 – Post-Clocks, pre-Yah Mos Def.
The Zebra Attack – Track 8 – Lightweight Into Ear Blocking Noises – That’s all the information I was given…
Congregation of the Wesley Methodist Church – He Rose From The Dead – John’s Island, South Carolina: It’s People & Songs – C – Folkways documentary Lp.
The Willowz – We Live On Your Street – Talk In Circles – N – Backing vocals by Keith Morris of Circle Jerks.
The Holy Mountain – Worship & Murder – Entrails – N
Symarip – Skinhead Moonstomp – Skinhead Moonstomp – Late 1960s rocksteady.
G.B.H. – Horror Story – Midnight Madness And Beyond… – R
Forrest McColough – Final F.L.I.G.H.T. – Final F.L.I.G.H.T. – Excerpt.
The Ridiculous Trio – No Fun – Plays The Stooges – Performed in the style of a marching band.
B.C. Camplight – Richard Dawson – Hide, Run Away – N – Local. Cynthia Mason (sounding like a superstar) on backing vocals.
Betty Davis – Git In There – They Say I’m Different – Miles Davis’ ex-wife. From 1974.
Drunk Horse – Strange Transgressors – In Tongues – N
Lesser Birds Of Paradise – Live on WPRB – 37:26 – www.lesserbirds.com
Blare Bitch Project – Catch Me – Double Distortion Burger – N – Bad band name, decent song.
McDonalds – Untitled – Reagan Regime Review – C
NRG Ensemble – Hyperspace – Chicago’s Avant Today – Free jazz.
Flux of Pink Indians – Progress – Strive To Survive – Reissue of 1982 debut full-length.
Mazing Vids – Soda Jerking – Are You Ready For Insects? – N
Jose Gutierez & Los Hermanos Ochoa – Siquisiri – La Bamba: Sones Jarochos From Veracruz
Saviours – Christ Hum – Warship – N – Ex-Yaphet Kotto.
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments – Outside My Scene – Straight To Video
“Frantic” Freddie Milander – Charmaine – Absolutely Allentown – C – N – Even more 1960s recordings from the Lehigh Valley!
3 – Western Thrashy One – Dark Days Coming
Fern Jones – I Was There When It Happened – The Glory Road – N – 1959.
High On Fire – Rapid Fire – Blessed Black Wings – Judas Priest cover.
The Hystrionics – Field Recording – Cd – Ex-Dancing Cigarettes.
Afirmative Action Jackson – Urine Trouble – 45 – N – Split single with The Sound Of Failure.
Earth – Living In The Gleam Of An Unsheathed Sword – Dissolution III – N – Recorded live 9/17/02.
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6/22/05 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET
The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel – The theme song you know and love.
The Left – 5:00 am – Hell…It’s The World
Golden Ball – Rices Mill – The Luxury Of Pause – N – Local.
Sympathizers – Kosmo Vinyl – Dread At The Control – To be released September 2005.
Nile – Chapter Of Obeisance Before Giving Breath To The Inert One In The Presence Of The Cresent Shaped Horns – Annihilation Of The Wicked – N – Man, this guy plays the double bass drum like he’s running in place!
Lesser – For Irritant – Gearhound
Smack – Mediocridade Afinal – The Sexual Life Of The Savages – C – N – Underground post-punk from Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Middle Class – Out Of Vogue – Out Of Vogue
400 Blows – The Biggest Hit Yet – Angel’s Trumpets & Devil’s Trombones – N
James Brown – King Heroin – There It Is – 1972.
The Molecules – God’s Favorite Son – S/T – N – Bubbly psych.
Mecht Mensh – Functional Riot – Barefoot & Pregnant – C – From Minneapolis. Pre-Tar Babies.
Tub – Crash – Why I Drink
Hot Snakes – No Hands – Peel Sessions – N – Recorded 11/18/04.
Birdbrain – Live on WPRB – 22:44 – www.theworldofbirdbrain.com
Bum – Here Comes The Magic – 45 – Split single with Teengenerate.
The Spinto Band – Oh Mandy – Nice And Nicely Done – N – The jauntiest of the jangly.
Calypso King & The Soul Investigators – Soul Strike! – S/T – Funk from Finland.
Blood Thirsty Butchers – Silencer – 45 – Split single with Copass Grinders. From Japan.
Need New Body – Peruvidia – Where’s Black Ben? – N
Acme Rocket Quartet – Hey, Hey, Hey (with ominous prelude) – 45 – Split single with Pell Mell.
Black Future – Eu Sou O Rio – Nao Wave – C – N – (more) underground post-punk from Brazil.
Lesser Birds Of Paradise – Come To The City – String Of Bees – Live next week on this radio show.
Niagara Falls – Barrel Vault – Barrel Vault
C-Rayz Walz – Paradise – Year Of The Beast – N – Produced by El-P.
Koro – Selfless – 700 Club
Joe Gibson – Evil Evie – Kicksville vol. 3 – C – N – Raw rockabilly acetates.
??? – Rezo Por Ano Nuevo – Bats’i Son – C – 1971-1974 field recordings from the Chiapas highlands.
Zero Boys – Living In The 80s – Vicious Circle
The Method – Daylight – This Is It! Greater Buffalo’s Greatest Hits – C – 1982.
Stainless Japan – Sunspots – S/T – Honeymoon Records, tonight’s MVP.
Red Sparowes – The sixth extinction crept up slowly, like sunlight through the shutters, as we looked back in regret… – At The Soundless Dawn – N
Thuja – Track 2 – Suns
Velvet Monkeys – Future – Rotting Corpse a-Go-Go
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