10/4/17 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Street Eaters – Left Hand – The Envoy
Edsel – You Got Lucky – You Got Lucky: A Tribute to Tom Petty – RIP Tom Petty.
Unknown – Selfish One – Boddie Recording Company: Cleveland Ohio – [C]
Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band – History & Science Fiction – Dreaming In The Non-Dream – [N]
Grant Hart – 2541 – 12″ – RIP.
Skidz – Another Emotion – 2×45 – 1979.
A Giant Dog – Angst In My Pants – Toy – Sparks cover. – [N]

Spray Paint with Ben Mackie – Friendly Moving Man – 7″
Run The Jewels – Mean Demeanor (Clean) – FIFA 18 – [C]
Silkworm – Insider – Libertine – RIP Tom Petty.
Dreambook – Cold Window – Hidden Underneath – Local.
Bret Saunders – (Down Below) We’re Gonna Dance All Night – Bunker Blasters!
Collate – Phone Call – Material Inspection
Realistic Bodies – Screw You / Johnnycab – Open Your Mind

Oh Sees – Nite Expo – Orc – [N]
Nathaniel Braddock – Doesn’t Remember – Quadrille & Collapse
Lives Of Angels – Somebody Else – Hole In The Sky – Lost 1981-1986 recordings. – [N]
Tijuana Hercules – Listen To Her Heart – .mp3 – RIP Tom Petty.
Matt Jencik – The Future Door – Weird Times
Ted Leo – Lonsdale Avenue – The Hanged Man – [N]
The Breeders – Wait In The Car – 45

Trial By Fire – Cross Reaction – 1982 – Members of Strike Under & Naked Raygun. Previously unreleased.
Antibalas – Hook & Crook – Where The Gods Are In Peace – [N]
Jane Weaver – The Architect – Andy Votel’s Brutaliszt 250KG Readymix
Cloakroom – Steve Albini’s Blues – .mp3 – Jason Molina cover.
FACS – Silencing – Demo – Ex-Disappears.
Dinosaur Jr. – Change Of Heart – Live on Triple J Radio – RIP Tom Petty.
The Lonely Trojans – Phil’s Corner – Three Guys Six Songs – [R]

Feedtime – Any Good Thing – Gas



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9/27/17 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Husker Du – It’s Not Funny Anymore – Metal Circus – RIP Grant Hart.
Charles Bradley – Changes – Changes – Black Sabbath cover. RIP Charles Bradley.
Public Image Ltd. – Home Is Where The Heart Is – 45
Albert Brooks – Another Introduction & A Stereo Demonstration / Rewriting The National Anthem – Comedy Minus One
Patrick Cowley – Surfside Sex – Afternooners – Forthcoming.
Shoplifting – L.O.V.E. – Deconstruct
Glazer – Rangular Motion / Disaster Footage – On A Prairie, Live In The Dirt – [N]

Screaming Females – Black Moon – Black Moon
Gokcen Kaynatan – Sihirbaz – S/T
Magnetix – Feel High (When I Die) – Live In San Francisco – [N]
Irreversible Entangements – Fireworks – S/T
Lee Ranaldo – Thrown Over The Wall – Electric Trim
SAICOBOB – aMn nMn – SAB SE PURANI BAB – New quartet including YoshimiO of Boredoms.
METZ – Mr. Plague – Strange Peace

Husker Du – The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill – New Day Rising – RIP Grant Hart.
Charles Bradley – Love Bug Blues – Victim Of Love – RIP Charles Bradley.
Mission Of Burma – Trem Two – The Horrible Truth About Burma – Live.
Autohaze – Coode Island Baby (4 Track Demo) – 45
Dream Version – Fight Fair – Fight Fair
KRS-One – Get Yourself Up (Corporate) – Hot 12″
Bully – Right – Our First 100 Days – [C]

The Golden Boys – Dear Work – Better Than Good Times – Out in November.
The Younger Generation – We Rap More Mellow – Ego Trip’s Greatest Hip Hop Singles: 1979 – [C]
Duds – No Remark – Of A Nature Or Degree – From Manchester, UK.
Plates Of Cake – Detestable Things – Let’s Not Deprive Each Other
Colleen – Separating – A Flame My Love, A Frequency
Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band – Stay Away – SPIN Presents Newermind: A Tribute Album – RIP Charles Bradley. – [C]
Filthy Friends – Makers – Invitation

Survival – Triumph Of The Good – S/T



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9/13/17 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Planes Mistaken For Stars – Rhythm Dies – Fuck With Fire – RIP Matt Bellinger.
Mod Squad – Sing A Simple Song – Boddie Recording Company: Cleveland Ohio – [C]
Devo – Devo Corporate Anthem / Clockout – Duty Now For The Future – http://www.abcdevo.com
Wussy – Teenage Wasteland – Attica!
Tag Team – Vector Force Diagram #1 – 45 – Built around a Shadowy Men sample!
Poor Righteous Teachers – Can I Start This? – Holy Intellect
Unnatural Helpers – Long List Of Complaints – Wonder Years – “Lost” early 2000s recordings, unearthed.

A Giant Dog – Bendover – Toy
Gerry & The Holograms – Increased Resistance – S/T
Fishboy – Final Frontman – Art Guards
Mogwai – Crossing The Road Material – Every Country’s Sun
Man Forever – Ten Thousand Things (Breakmaster Cylinder Remix) – .mp3
Antietam – I’m So Tired – Intimations Of Immortality
Protomartyr – My Children – Relatives In Descent

Das Damen – Sad Mile – 45
Solomon Burke – Keep Looking – This Is Soul!! – [C]
Last Party – Die In A Spy Ring – 12″ – Later changed their name to The Bitter Springs.
Medusa – Black Wizard – First Step Beyond – 1975.
Wire – Culture Vultures – Peel Sessions – Recorded January 18, 1978.
Come – I Got The Blues – 45 – Rolling Stones song.
Butterglory – Alexander Bends – 45

The Whips – Hot Tone – Hot Tone
Can – Dead Pigeon Suite – The Lost Tapes – RIP Holger Czukay.
Mr. Magic – Rappin’ With Mr. Magic – Ego Trip’s Greatest Hip Hop Singles: 1980 – [C]
Earip – Blue – Electric Muse 10th Anniversary – From South Korea. – [C]
Superchunk – Love Vigilantes – Clambakes Vol 9: Other Music From Unshowered Grumblers – Live In 1990 – New Order cover.
Maria Teresa Luciani – Between Town & Country – Sounds Of The City
Ted Leo – Anthems Of None – The Hanged Man

Schande – It’s Recently Come To My Attention – I Wrote That
Jeb Bishop / Dan Ruccia – It Wasn’t The Buzz – Scratch Slice Jag



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9/6/17 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Superchunk – Not Tomorrow – S/T – Debut LP, re-issued.
The Final Solution – Theme From Brotherman – Brotherman OST
Mo-dettes – Masochistic Opposite – 45
The Rutabega – Stuck – Mid-Aughts Mess – 100% of the proceeds from this EP go to TREES, Inc (Transgender Resource, Education and Enrichment Services of Indiana).
Can – Halleluhwah – Tago Mago – RIP Holger Czukay.
Cloakroom – The Passenger – Time Well
The Modey Lemon – Grandpa’s Bones – House On The Hill – 2000 CD-R, now on vinyl.

Hammerhead – Slumberyard – 45
Shoes – Give Me Another Day – Eccentric Breaks & Beats – Built around “Eccentric Soul” samples galore.
Mermaidens – Lizard – Perfect Body
Can – Bel Air – Future Days – RIP Holger Czukay.
??? – Chant De Bienvenue – Musique Folklorique Du Monde – Les Iles Wallis Du Pacifique – Recorded by Maurice Bitter.
Lazy Salon – Hot Dinners – Trisset – Forthcoming.
Half Man Half Biscuit – The Trumpton Riots (Top 20 Mix) – 45

Downtown Boys – A Wall – Cost Of Living
Jimmy Spicer – Adventure Of Super Rhyme (Rap) – Ego Trip’s Greatest Hip Hop Singles: 1980 – [C]
Kurt Vile & Courtney Barnett – Over Everything – Lotta Sea Lice
HO-AG – Back Up The Lense – A Season’s Greetings
The I.L.Y’s – Well Known People Want To Know – Bodyguard
Aldous Harding – Imagining My Man – Party
Decibel – Selfish One – Start

Conan Neutron & The Secret Friends – Keep On Knocking – Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track – Death cover.



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8/30/17 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel – Hello.

Laughing Hyenas – Love’s My Only Crime – You Can’t Pray A Lie
Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band – Dreaming In The Non-Dream – Dreaming In The Non-Dream
Alexander O’Neal – Borrowed Time – Purple Snow: Forecasting The Minneapolis Sound – [C]
Miaow – Belle Vue – 12″
Data_Wolf – No Agenda – Finalist EP – From Trenton.
Jenny Mae – Runaway – There’s A Bar Around The Corner…Assholes – RIP.
Tenpole Tudor – The Swords Of A Thousand Men – 45

Tubeway Army – Blue Eyes – 45
KRS-One – Problems (radio) – 12″
Coco Hames – I Don’t Wanna Go – Merge Records 2017 Spring Sampler – [C]
Beefeater – Fred’s Song / Freditude – Plays For Lovers / House Burning Down – RIP Fred “Freak” Smith.
Orange Juice – Moscow Olympics – The Heather’s On Fire!
Joshua Wayne Hensley – The Plague – UNPRESIDENTED – He of The Rutabega. – [C]
Buzzcocks – Lipstick – 45

Upper Wilds – UFO – Guitar Module 2017 – Forthcoming fist-pumper.
Urge Overkill – Wichita Lineman – 45 – RIP Glen Campbell.
ISS – PART TIME ALL THE TIME – (Endless Pussyfooting) – Nice X-Ray Spex sample.
Sicle Cell & Rhapazooty – Rhapazooty In Blue – Ego Trip’s Greatest Hip Hop Singles: 1980 – [C]
Amanda X – Memory Loss – Giant
Bottle Tree – After The End – S/T
Brackets – Cage Droolers – .mp3

Oh Sees – The Static God – Orc
Say Sue Me – Good For Some Reason – Split 7″ with Otoboke Beaver – Out October 6th.
The Weeds – Look Hear – Note To Self-
PLAX – Mold – Clean Feelings – Members of OBN IIIs and Spray Paint.
The Adult Net – Searching For The Now – Incense & Peppermints – The Fall cover.
Lo Tom – Covered Wagon – S/T – David Bazan (Pedro the Lion), Trey Many (Velour 100, Starflyer 59), TW Walsh (Pedro the Lion, The Soft Drugs) & Jason Martin (Starflyer 59).
We’ve Got A Fuzzbox And We’re Gonna Use It – Love Is The Slug – 45

SEMINARS – Denver Fenton Allen – Pricks Die Young – Out Friday!



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8/2/17 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

The Poster Children – Dynamite Chair – Tool Of The Man
The Girls – I’ve Got My Eyes On You – Purple Snow: Forecasting The Minneapolis Sound – 1983. – [C]
Songs: Ohia – Captain Badass – Axxess & Ace
Big Quiet – Cutting Corners – Split 7″ with The Airplanes
Masters Of Ceremony – One To The Knot (Vocal) – 12″
Endless Boogie – Jefferson County – Vibe Killer – [N]
Tyvek – Kid Tut – Live At Third Man – Recorded 9.27.2010.

Cheater Slicks – Destination Lonely – Destination Lonely – 1991 second album, reissued. – [N]
Pink Skull – Drugs Will Keep Us Together (Trevor Loveys Remix) – 12″
Constantines – Hard Feelings – 45
The Rutabega – Fluorescent Funeral – Split 12″ with Owen
Super Lover Cee & Cassanova Rud – Do The James… (1992 Remix) – 12″ – “Radio vocal mix.”
Old Head – Brain Bruise – S/T – From Pittsburgh. Members of Modey Lemon.
Feature – Reeling – Banishing Ritual – Alas, already broken up.

SUPER THIEF – Sheepsquid – STUCK – Shares a drummer with XETAS.
Man Forever – Twin Torches – Play Whatever They Want – Featuring Laurie Anderson! – [N]
Collate – Adults – Process – Demo. From Oregon.
Ingurgitating Oblivion – A Mote Constitutes What To Me Is Not All, And Eternally All, Is Nothing – Vision Wallows In Symphonies Of Light
Obnox – Never Gonna Beat Myself Up Again – Niggative Approach – [N]
Amadou & Miriam feat. Santigold – Dougou Badia – Folila
My Teenage Stride – Gamma Radiation – Living In The Straight World – [N]

Nuisance – Sun God – Humbolt County
Antibalas – Gold Rush – Where The Gods Are In Peace – Forthcoming.
King Woman – Hem – Created In The Image Of Suffering – [N]



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7/19/17 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Pipe – Ashtray – 45 – [R]
Quiet Storm – Can You Deal With It – Purple Snow: Forecasting The Minneapolis Sound – 1981. – [C]
The Royal Arctic Institute – Do The Kuchar – French Method – Members of Das Damen & Phantom Tollbooth. – [N]
Elder – Staving Off Truth – Reflections Of A Floating World
MC Serch – Here It Comes Again – 12″
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Bellbottoms – Orange – As heard in “Baby Driver.”
Spoke – Hearken January – Seratonin

METZ – Cellophane – Strange Peace – Forthcoming.
Ultra Magnetic M.C.s – Ego Tripping / MC’s Ultra (The *Ultra* Remix) – 12″
Oxes – Boss Kitty – Oxxxes – [R]
Corndolly – Human Cannonball – 45
Automatisme – Simultaneite 3 – Momentform Accumulations
The Cure – I Dig You – Seventeen Seconds – Congratulations, Dana & Ben!
Ted Leo – You’re Like Me – The Hanged Man – Out in September.

Protomartyr – A Private Understanding – Relatives In Descent – 9/22/17.
Funky Four +1 – Rapping & Rocking The House – Ego Trip’s Greatest Hip Hop Singles: 1979 – [C]
Songs: Ohia – Black Link To Fire Link – Journey On: Collected Singles
Jaimie Branch – Jump Off / Theme Nothing / …Back At The Ranch – Fly Or Die – [N]
Secret Souvenier – Hold This Moment – Hold This Moment
George Chen – Giants Of Comedy – Word Origami
Glazer – Working Man’s Dog – On A Prairie, Live In The Dirt – Coming in August.

The Wynona Riders – Chidhood Game – Some Enchanted Evening
21-645 – Copulator – Demo – Unreleased!
Christopher Tignor – One Eye Blue, One Eye Black – Along A Vanishing Plane
Young Marble Giants – Cakewalking – Demo
Purple Ivy Shadows – Feeble – 45
Risking Converations – Your Intuition Is A False Prophet – The Comfort Of Not Knowing
The Jesus Lizard – 7 vs. 8 – 45

Silkworm – A Cockfight Of Feelings – Italian Platinum – Michael Dahlquist, gone 12 years.



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Interview: Erin Osmon (“Jason Molina – Riding with the Ghost”).


Erin Osmon interview

While on tour with Songs: Molina – A Memorial Electric Co., author Erin Osmon visited WPRB to discuss her biography of Jason Molina.

This hour-long piece combines discussion about Molina’s life with selections from both the Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co. catalogues.

Songs heard during our conversation:

Songs: Ohia – “Farewell Transmission” – The Magnolia Electric Co.

Songs: Ohia – “Cabwaylingo” – S/T

Songs: Ohia – “Didn’t It Rain” – Didn’t It Rain

Songs: Ohia – “I’ve Been Riding With The Ghost” – The Magnolia Electric Co.

Mark Kozelek – “It’s Easier Now” (Jason Molina cover) – Weary Engine Blues [C]

Songs: Ohia – “The Big Game Is Every Night” – The Magnolia Electric Co.

To purchase “Jason Molina: Riding with the Ghost” head here.



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7/5/17 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Tyvek – Real Estate & Finance – Origin Of What
Haze – Waiting For The Moment – Purple Snow: Forecasting The Minneapolis Sound – [C]
Dzeltenie Pastnieki – Kapec Tu Mani Negribi – Lentu Gabalini – Early 1980s Latvian post punk. – [N]
Follakzoid feat. J. Spaceman – Earth – London Sessions
The Front Bottoms – Backflip – Talon Of The Hawk
Brand Nubian – Wake Up (Stimulated Dummies Remix) – 12″
Love Cup – Tearing Water – 45

Electrelane – On Parade – On Parade
Minibeast – Anchor Ritual – Subterranean Series Vol. 4
Mike Adams At His Honest Weight – Diem Be – Casino Drone
El Smasho – Notorious – 45
Susperians – Black Holes – Ti Bon Ange
GZA – Knock Knock (Instrumental) – 12″
The James Rocket – We Are Here For You – 45

Interview with Erin Osmon – 1:00:03

Songs heard during this conversation:

Songs: Ohia – “Farewell Transmission” – The Magnolia Electric Co.

Songs: Ohia – “Cabwaylingo” – S/T

Songs: Ohia – “Didn’t It Rain” – Didn’t It Rain

Songs: Ohia – “I’ve Been Riding With The Ghost” – The Magnolia Electric Co.

Mark Kozelek – “It’s Easier Now” (Jason Molina cover) – Weary Engine Blues [C]

Songs: Ohia – “The Big Game Is Every Night” – The Magnolia Electric Co.

To purchase “Jason Molina: Riding with the Ghost” head here.

Monsterland – Get Out Of My Head – 7″
Sirconial – Gone – Twisted Nerve 10th Anniversary Mix – [C]
Fews – Metal – .mp3 – Gary Numan cover.
Flying – Marilyn – 12″ – 1985. – [N]
Public Enemy – sPEak! – Nothing Is Quick In The Desert
Unwound – Totality – 45



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Live performance #247 – Psychic Teens


Engineered 6/15/2017.

Psychic Teens web site

Out2C / Sicko / Emily / Hex / Everything / End



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