3/26/25 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Superchunk – Bruised Lung (feat. Rosali) – Bruised Lung – [N]
CZARFACE – Savagely Attack (feat. Ghostface Killah – S/T
Magnolia Electric Co. – What Comes After The Blues – Sojourner
Accra Quartet – Batobe (They are Right) – Gbɛfalɔi (Travelers)
Ghost:Whale – Ghost:Whale – Echo:One
Abderrahmane Djalti – Ala Bladi Nebki – Sweet Rebels: The Golden Era Of Algerian Pop-Rai – The Ecstatic Electro Sound Of Original Rai Cassettes 1986-91 – [C]
Eraser – Dinner Roll – Hideout – [N] – Local.

Relay – New Domestic Landscape – Still Point of Turning – RIP Gerard Angelini.
Digable Planets – Dog It – Blowout Comb
Cyrus Pireh – What Are We Doing What Could Be Done? – Visitor
Doug Gillard – Dripping With Looks – A Tribute to Game Theory – Split single with Bunnygrunt.
Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas – Clock No Clock – Totality – [N]
Agora Sci-Fi – Portals – Portals
Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Swimming Hole – Swimming Hole – [N] – An unexpected return!

Lewis & Clarke – 30:04 – Live on WPRB – https://lewisandclarkemusic.bandcamp.com

Fucked Up – Self-Driving Man – Disabuse – [N]
Koji Kobayashi – Bokura no Date – Tokyo no Yane/Bokura no Date
Minibeast – Defenders of the Sound – The Maze of Now – [N]
Rise Up, Dead Man – The Summoning – The Summoning
The Rezillos – (My Baby Does) Good Sculptures – Can’t Stand the Rezillos



3/12/25 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death of Pop – Bikini Gospel

The Damned – Neat Neat Neat – Damned Damned Damned – RIP Brian James.
Boogie Down Productions – The Racist – Edutainment
Lost Girls – Menneskekollektivet – Menneskekollektivet – Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden.
Art Heist – October 16th : Evening – Demo Tape
Kim Deal – Wish I Was – Nobody Loves You More
Charif Megarbane – Hanadi – Habibi Funk 030: Hawalat
The Fall – Cab It Up! (BBC Radio Session) – BBC Radio Sessions – [N] – This session was recorded on October 25th 1988.

La Sécurité – Ketchup – Ketchup / Detour – [N]
Djilali Tiarti & Chaba Zohra – Matczaafiche Omizi – Sweet Rebels: The Golden Era Of Algerian Pop-Rai – The Ecstatic Electro Sound Of Original Rai Cassettes 1986-91 – [C]
Basic – Tension Envelope – Dream City EP – [N] – Mikel Patrick Avery, Chris Forsyth and Doug McCombs.
Billy Nomates – The Test – Metalhorse
Samara Lubelski – Bill Nace Duo – Gravity Drains – 43/80
Creature Comforts – Massachusetts – Massachusetts
Double Sun – Where Does the Sun Rise? – Where Does the Sun Rise? – From South Africa.

Mountain High – 18:04 – Live on WPRB – https://www.discogs.com/artist/892229-Mountain-High

The Gizmos – Johnny Got A Gun – Hoosier Hysteria – Split LP with Dow Jones & The Industrials.
Las Kellies – Closer – Suck This Tangerine
Stander – Patience – Vulnerable
Babe Report – DIY2K – DIY2K – [N]
Smegma and L’Autopsie A Révélé Que La Mort Etait Due A L’Autopsie – A : Transmissions 1 to 4 (excerpt) – Transmissions des fluides



3/5/25 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Thalia Zedek Band – Tsunami – The Boat Outside Your Window – [N]
Cheb Tahar & Chaba Noria – La Hbibi Ouaalah Ela – Sweet Rebels: The Golden Era Of Algerian Pop-Rai – The Ecstatic Electro Sound Of Original Rai Cassettes 1986-91 – [C]
Water Damage – Reel 28 – Instruments – [N] – Out in May!
Robyn Hitchcock – Gene Hackman – Jewels for Sophia – RIP.
T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo – Unité Africaine – Unité Africaine – Originally released in 1977.
Photo- Curio – 0 and 2 and Coffee Stains – The Reelsounds Sessions
Dow Jones & The Industrials – Set Yourself On Fire – Hoosier Hysteria – Cassette reissue of a 1980 split LP with The Gizmos.

The Bug Club – Have U Ever Been 2 Wales – Have U Ever Been 2 Wales – [N]
Kumiko Sawada – Your Love’s Away – Love Me Or Leave Me – 1979 album, reissued.
New York Dolls – Pills – S/T – RIP David Johansen. Learn more about an early 80s show of his in Princeton here. This is a Bo Diddley song.
盛洁 Sheng Jie (a.k.a. gogoj) and 邓博宇 Deng Boyu – 送魂使者 Soul Sender 2 – 送​魂​使​者 Soul Sender 
Ministry of Bad Ideas – The Great Dumpster Fire – The Great Dumpster Fire
Manu Dibango – Africa Boogie – Dibango 82 – Previously unreleased live recording by taped in Marseille, December 1982.
Horsegirl – I Can’t Stand To See You – Phonetics On & On – [N]

US Funk Team – 39:22 – Live on WPRB – https://usfunkteam.bandcamp.com

Coriky – BQM – S/T – This is my attempt to summon a Coriky show in 2025. We’ll see if it works…
My Heart, an Inverted Flame – The Metaphysical Swindle – Plague Notes, Unnamed, Unknown, A Finger Dragged Through Dust



2/26/25 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Steve Earle – The Revolution Starts Now – The Revolution Starts Now – ALL MY SPACE FRIENDS ARE BACK!
Fela Kuti & The Africa ’70 – Alu Jon Jonki Jon – Open & Close / Afrodisiac – Originally released in 1973.
Darc Arc – Collapsing – Collapsing EP – [N] – Local.
Chris Brokaw – Away From Me – Ghost Ship – He of Codeine and Come (among others).
Rattle – Your Move – Encircle – [N] – Out Friday!
Cheb Abdelhak – Ghir Hbibi Ouana – Sweet Rebels: The Golden Era Of Algerian Pop-Rai – The Ecstatic Electro Sound Of Original Rai Cassettes 1986-91 Selected By Cheb Gero – [C]
SEER – The Skin – The Word for World is Forest – [N]

Death By Unga Bunga & Mike Krol – Therapy – Therapy
Yuji Mitsuya – AFTER FIVE AT CAFE-BAR – Hi-Touch – Also on the new compilation “Tokyo Bliss.”
The Lord – (like) Christs Naked Ice – (like) Christs Naked Ice – “Explorative compositions & collaborations from Greg Anderson (Engine Kid, sunn O))), Goatsnake, and Southern Lord Recordings curator)”
Biche – Americanism – B.I.C.H.E. – [N] – With En Attendant Ana.
Three Grebes – Typ! – You Did A Good Job Of Being A Pleasure To Know
Marisa Paternoster – Your Mother Wants To Know – Paternoster Listener Alliance, Volume 1 – Scrawl cover!
The Fluid – Candy – Glue (2024 Remaster) – Also their side of a split single with Nirvana.

Mondo Topless – 34:05 – Live on WPRB – https://gethiprecordings.bandcamp.com/album/go-fast

MEMORIALS – I Have Been Alive – Memorial Waterslides – [N]
Twilighters – Can’t You Stay a Little Longer – Eccentric R&B: The Cuca Label – [C]
Neon Liminal – Summer Forever – Summer Forever
Love Tractor – Festival – S/T – Originally released in 1982.
Popular Music – Philadelphia – Popular Music Plays in Darkness – Neil Young cover.



2/19/25 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death of Pop – Bikini Gospel

DiskothiQ – Eagles – The Football Albums – National Conference – Birds went.

Split System – On The Loose – On The Edge / On The Loose – [N]
Edition Redux – Other Nichols Other Dimes (for Herbie Nichols and The Minutemen) / Salto (for Jacob Lawrence) / Pony Up (for Rebecca Morris) – Broadcast Transformer – Music performed and improvised by Erez Dessel, Lily Finnegan, Beth McDonald and Ken Vandermark.
Moon Orchids – Taciturn – S/T – [N]
Sho-Nuff – Monster Monster – Body Pressure – First-ever reissue of this 1983 album.
Voice Imitator – Civic Nite Work (Ela Stiles Remix) – Civic Nite Work (Ela Stiles Remix) – [N] – New remix of a song off their album “Of How Hits.”
Joshua Wayne Hensley – i’m proud of you, kid – i’m proud of you, kid
The Martha’s Vineyard Ferries – Context – Decorations b/w Context – [N] – Strike Under cover.

Chris Gethard & John Cozz – Lord Let Me Die In Essex County – Lord Let Me Die In Essex County – [N] – Playing this twice, because I said I would.

Future Living – Grinning Time – Get Vasectomy – [N]
Darius Jones – We Outside – Legend of e’Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) 
My Dad Is Dead – Babe In The Woods – Shine(r)
Tuluum Shimmering – The Carolina Lady – The Carolina Lady – “The first in the Tuluum Shimmering Records Folk Song Series. The Carolina Lady, aka: The Lady of Carlisle / The Lion’s Den / The Bold Lieutenant / The Fan. The version I’m most familiar with is Dillard Chandler’s.”
Wussy – Oh! Sweet Nuthin – .mp3 – Velvet Underground song.
Cheb zahouani – Zinek bekani – Gaa la jeunesse – Also compiled on the new collection “Sweet Rebels.”
Lambrini Girls – Bad Apple – Who Let The Dogs Out – [N]

Sally Crewe + The Sudden Moves – 14:49 – Live on WPRB – https://sallycrewe.bandcamp.com

Tower Defense – Girl U Want  – Repeat / Girl U Want – Devo cover.
Johnny Yoshinaga – The Rain – Johnny SECOND
The Bret Tobias Set – It Begins With a Lean – It Begins With a Lean – Happy Presidents’ Day!
The Mountain Movers – Factory Dream – Walking After Dark
The National Football League Marching Band – The Eagles’ Victory Song – The National Football League Marching Songs – [C]



2/5/25 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death of Pop – Bikini Gospel

OSees – Cassius, Brutus & Judas – SORCS 80 – “The Lost Set” from last week.
Love Child – Asking For It – Never Meant to Be: 1988-1993
Split System – The Wheel – Vol. 2
Noun – Consumed – Wanted/Consumed
Scared of Chaka – Baited Breath – Baited Breath
Street Eaters – The Point – The Point
Thine Retail Simps – Prismic Dangle – Strike Gold, Strike Back, Strike Out

Detention – Dead Rock ‘N Rollers – Dead Rock ‘N Rollers – [N] – Reissue including this New Jersey jokecore band’s 1983 single + more.
Roy Haynes – Tangiers – Hip Ensemble – Soon to be reissued by WeWantSounds.
The Replacements – Unsatisfied – Let It Be – As heard in the closing credits of “Flipside.”
Green Milk From The Planet Orange – U-Boat – He’s Crying “Look”
Matthew Hoopengardner – I Won’t Let You Down – Reserved Space – [N] – He of The Golden Boys.
Cheb Bakr – Samh Almea’ad – Habibi Funk 029: Samh Almea’ad
Tenpole Tudor – Swords of a Thousand Men – 45 – Well-used in an episode of “Say Nothing.”

Fucked Up – Year of the Snake – Year of the Snake – Happy belated Lunar New Year!
Ammar El Sherei – El Kamh El Leila – Music From The East – Re-issue of a 1976 album by this Egyptian musician.
Minibeast – Spots – The Maze of Now – Peter Prescott of Volcano Suns / Mission of Burma and band.
Nick Drake and the Sad Beads – Know – S/T – “The songs of Nick Drake as performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.”
clipping. – Change the Channel (clean) – Dead Channel Sky –
Eggs – The Government Administrator (extended version) – The Government Administrator EP – A newly unearthed version of one of my all-time favorite songs, originally released in 1993.
Delivery – Put Your Back Into It – Force Majeure – [N]

Handsome & King Shit – 20:55 – Live on WPRB – This might be the performance in the Wednesday Night Live Lookback Series with the least information around it…

The Feelies – Slow Down – The Good Earth – Xo.
New Standards Men – Thundercloud in Aquamarine – Against Our Vanishings



1/29/25 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


“Best of 2024 (part four!)”

Note: In the middle of my show last night WPRB suffered a massive network meltdown that initially made my broadcast slightly choppy (you can hear it towards the end of the mic break) before eventually turning unbearably jagged and finally silent. I’ve re-built the show so the second set sounds as intended and will air what would have been the final seven songs of the night when I’m on the radio next! – JS

The Rub – The Death of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Terry Gross – Sales Pitch – Huge Improvement
Sammy Obot – Edue Ukot Akpa Itong – Nigeria Special Volume 3: Electronic Innovation Meets Culture And Tradition 1978-93 – [C]
Arcwelder – Lafayette – Continue
SAULT – ACTS OF FAITH – ACTS OF FAITH
Silver Scrolls – Indoor Cat – Mind Lines
Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra – Underneath the Star Dome – Live at the Adler Planetarium
Crumbs – You’re Just Jealous – You’re Just Jealous

The Bug Club – The Intricate Inner Workings of the System – On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System
Tidiane Thiam – Néené Africa – Africa Yontii 
SUMAC – The Stone’s Turn – The Healer
Outer World – The Drum The Beat – Who Does the Music Love?
Meatbodies – Move – Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom
Three Grebes – You’re Not Going To Like It – You Were A Joy
Coffin Pricks – Group Home Haircut – Semi-Perfect Crimes – 2011 recordings.



1/22/25 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


“Best of 2024 (part three)!”

The Rub – The Death of Pop – Bikini Gospel

MEMORIALS – Lamplighter – Memorial Waterslides – Verity Susman (Electrelane) & Matthew Simms (Wire).
El Khat – القات  – Intissar – Mute
Songs: Ohia – Translation – Live: Vanquishers – Recorded in Tilburg, Netherlands on October 9th, 2000.
Bill Orcutt – The Four Louies II – The Four Louies
Kim Deal – Coast – Nobody Loves You More
Joshua Wayne Hensley – Get The Lights – Get The Lights – www.letterscharity.org
Oneida – Reason To Hide – Expensive Air

Being Dead – Firefighters – EELS
Mdou Moctar – Oh France – Funeral For Justice
Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin – en / två / tre / fyra – Ghosted II
Funmilayo Afrobeat Orquestra with Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 – Upside Down – Upside Down – Fela Song. “The only Afrobeat band in the world composed only of black women and non-binary people.”
The Routes – Ceremony – Surfin’ Pleasures – Surf covers of Joy Division songs.
Michel Jonasz – You Kill Me, I Kill You – Clara et les Chics Types OST – [C] – Reissue of a 1980 film soundtrack.
BEEF – Spell – Il Manzo EP

CLASS – First To Finish Last – Total Punk – “Order Of The Dirty Plates” Singles Club 2024
Horse Lords – Truthers – As It Happened: Horse Lords Live
Norio Maeda & All Stars – Yagibushi – Rock Communication Yagibushi – “…reinterprets 14 traditional Japanese folk songs into jaw-dropping Jazz Funk instrumentals.”
Tropical Fuck Storm – Stayin’ Alive – Tropical Fuck Storm’s Inflatable Graveyard – Bee Gees cover.
Mamman Sani & Tropikal Camel – Touareg Spaceship – Nijerusalem



1/15/25 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


“Best of 2024 (part two)!”

The Rub – The Death of Pop – Bikini Gospel

SPRINTS – Literary Mind – Letter to Self
Banda Los Cenzontles ft. David Hidalgo – Powderfinger – Powderfinger – Neil Young cover.
The Exorzist III – Fourth Coming – Fourth Coming
Rosali – May It Be On Offer – Bite Down
BASIC – New Auspicious – This is BASIC – Chris Forsyth, Nick Millevoi & Mikel Patrick Avery.
Jane Weaver – Univers (French Version) – Univers
Pissed Jeans – Moving On – Half Divorced

Superchunk – Everybody Dies – 45
Ahmed Malek – La La La – Habibi Funk 027: Ahmed Malek – Musique Originale De Films (Volume 2)
Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Nathan Salsburg & Tyler Trotter – The Evidence – Hear the Children Sing the Evidence – Extended Lungfish cover.
34 Trolley – Relaxation – Relaxation EP – Jarrett from Screaming Females. Featuring Marissa Paternoster plus Brittany Luna of Catbite.
Aseethe – The Cost – The Cost
Goat – Ouroboros – Goat
Lame Drivers – Spring – Become An Island

Babe Report – Turtle of Reaper – Did You Get Better
Bessa Simons – Sii Nana – Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In the Diaspora (1980-93) – [C]
Hot Tubs Time Machine – No Thanks, Google Maps – 50 Shades Of Marcus / No Thanks, Google Maps
Writhing Squares – The Damned Thing – Mythology
Pedro The Lion – Santa Cruz – Santa Cruz
Lupo Citta – White Bracelet – S/T
Landowner – Landowner Plays Dopesmoker 666% Faster and with No Distortion



1/8/25 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


“Best of 2024 (part one)!”

The Rub – The Death of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Shellac – Chick New Wave – To All Trains
Al-Qasar (feat. Sami Galbi) – Ssir w ztam (Get Busy) – Uncovered – Sean Paul cover.
Advance Base – The Year I Lived in Richmond – Horrible Occurrences
Jeff Parker & ETA IVtet – Freakadelic – The Way Out Of Easy
Wussy – The Great Divide – Cincinnati Ohio
clipping. – Run It (Clean) – Run It
Delivery – Digging the Hole – Digging the Hole

Bad Moves – Let the Rats Inherit the Earth – Wearing Out The Refrain
Etran de L’AÏr – Ighre Massina – 100% Sahara Guitar
Water Damage – Reel E – In E
English Teacher – Nearly Daffodils – This Could Be Texas
Camino Sound – Stacks – Corridor – Local.
Charif Megarbane – Stella Marina – Habibi Funk Limited 002: Hamra / Red
The Ex – The Evidence – 45

Chimers – 3AM – Through Today
Jake McKelvie – Pump Fake – A New Kind of Hat
Immersion Scriber  – 050 – 050
En Attendant Ana – Magical Lies – 45
Black Artist Group – For Peace and Liberty Part 6 – For Peace and Liberty, In Paris Dec 1972 
Faxed – New Dance In Hell – Grotesque Rescue – Mashes up the music of The Stones’ “Emotional Rescue” with the vocals of The Fall’s “Grotesque.” It works far better than it should.”
Mary Timony – No Thirds – Untame The Tiger

Wintery Love – Rudolph’s Dreamcatcher – Three Songs With Rudolph Drumming – Watery Love cover with love from Chicago to Philadelphia.
Hot & Sassy – Let’s Funk It Up – 45 – Originally released in 1980.
Chris Corsano – I Don’t Have Missions – The Key (Became the Important Thing [and Then Just Faded Away])