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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6/15/05 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET
The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel – The theme song you know and love.
Crime – Rock ‘n’ Roll Enemy No. 1 – San Francisco’s Still Doomed – N – San Francisco’s first and only rock and roll band. Reissued by Swami.
Corndolly – Come Out – 45 – Meow.
Crucial Youth – I’m Straight – Singles Going Straight – Modern Lovers cover.
K.U.K.L. – Latent – Holidays In Europe – N – Pre-Sugarcubes Bjork. From 1985.
The Students – I’m So Young – The Golden Age Of Rhythm & Blues – C
Agentss – Agentss – Nao Wave – N – Brazilian early 80s post-punk.
Sema 4 – Up Down Around – Messthetics – C – York ’79.
Parts & Labor – A Great Divide – 45 – N
Frankel – Pass Out – Cdr – Demo.
Celibate Rifles – Back In The Red – Kiss Kiss Bang Bang – Live at CBGBs 7/12/86.
Benny Joy – Little Girl, Little Girl – Kicksville Volume 3 – C – N – Raw rockabilly acetates galore.
Fred Lonberg-Holm Trio – Winter In America – Other Valentines – Gil Scott Heron tune.
Tristan da Cunha – 4 Selected Screenplays – Cdr – Demo.
The Penetrators – Teenage Lifestyle – Basement Anthology 1976-84 – N – Syracuse’s kings of basement rock!
Birds Of Maya – Live on WPRB – 39:27 – www.birdsofmaya.com
Jukebox Zeros – Get Outta Philly – Get Outta Philly – C – N – New compilation of local garage/punk.
Quincy Jones and Bill Cosby – Groovy Gravy – The Original Jam Sessions 1969 – Hikky-burr!
Guitar Wolf – After School Thunder – UFO Romantics – R
Glen Valez – Pyramid – Internal Combustion
Eric B & Rakim – Microphone Fiend – Follow The Leader – N – 1988 12″ remix. Reissue.
Ants In Japan – Everything – Cdr – Demo.
The Toys – Livin’ Fast – This Is It! – C – Greater Buffalo’s greatest 1977-1984.
Birdbrain – I Hear It On The Vine – I Fly – Live next week on this radio show.
Charles Clark – Hidden Charms – Black Rock ‘n’ Roll Vol. 2 – C
Joel RL Phelps & The Downer Trio – What Are You Doing Here Cowboy? – Customs – Limited edition bonus disc packaged with first 1,000 copies pressed. Has Chills, Joy Division and Towns Van Zandt covers, along with two originals.
Numbers – We Like Having Things – Artrocker Sampler – C – Robots.
Isis – Hym – Oceanic – Remixed/Reinterpretations – N – JK Broadrick revamps “the Bitch Magnet of metal.”
Boredoms – House Of Sun – Seadrum – N – First domestic release in six years.
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Live performance #95 – Birdbrain.
Engineered 6/14/05.
Wind In The Sun/Heat/Not For Me/What It Is/Sea Cow/Confection Of Sound/I Fly/Desert Song
22:48
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Live performance #94 – Lesser Birds Of Paradise.
Engineered 6/10/05.
Always The Sound/When The Devil Does A Drive-By/A Mother’s Arms/Because We Are Also What We Have Lost/Claire Danes, If You Ever Get A Nose-Job, I Swear To Jesus I’ll Kill Myself/Spider Outside/A Magnet In You/Bridges & Balloons/Come To The City/Devil’s Rope
37:58
Lesser Birds Of Paradise web site
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Live performance #93 – Birds Of Maya.
Engineered 6/6/05.
Which Side Are You On/Fly Magic Pi/Black Foot Kin/Gypsy Woman/Cosmic Honeyshaker/Ancient Witches Rise
39:31
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Live performance #92 – Clockcleaner.
Engineered 5/16/05.
Bleeder/Looker/Missing Dick/Spit Drinker Woman/Shingles/Huge Slow/Deaf Man Talking/Interview With A Black Man
29:17
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Live performance #91 – Pattern Is Movement.
Engineered 5/9/05.
Julius/Pika Down/Icarus/Non Servium/Maple
17:45
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