3/30/22 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Yard Act – The Overload – The Overload – [N]
Hassan Ideddir – Ydouchababe – Atfalouna – Originally released in 1989.
Sonic Youth – Basement Contender – In/Out/In – [N] – An out-take from The Eternal which was recorded in 2008.
Vanishing Twin – Cryonic Suspension May Save Your Life – Pensiero Magico – “This audio was originally recorded as part of a filmed concert, Pensiero Magico, November 25, 2020.”
Minibeast – Stimulance – On Ice – Peter Prescott of Volcano Suns / Mission of Burma. Out Friday!
Ennio Morricone – Senza Motivo Apparente Version 2 – Sans Mobile Apparent OST – Soundtrack to a 1971 cult French crime film.
Otoboke Beaver – Pardon? – Super Champon – Out in May.

Vintage Crop – Double Slants – Kibitzer – New album June 24!
Jane Weaver – Oblique Fantasy – 45
Gavilán Rayna Russom – Trans Feminist Symphonic Music – Trans Feminist Symphonic Music – Movement I: Elegy / Movement II: Expansion / Movement III: Beauty / Movement IV: Truth
The Feelies – Decide – Time For A Witness
Kraftwerk – Kometenmelodie 2 – Autobahn – …as covered by The Feelies!
Sprints – I’m In A Band – A Modern Job EP

The Spinto Band – 15:48 – Live on WPRB – https://www.facebook.com/SpintoBand

The Debutantes – She’s Out Of Your Way Now – The Buntingford Long Playing Album – [C] – From “1981.”



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3/16/22 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

BODEGA – Statuette On The Console / Статуетка на консолі – Broken Equipment – [N] – Played both the English and Ukrainian renditions.
John White – Right Off – Mainstream Funk – [C] – Originally from 1971.
The Best Around – Young – Young – Silkworm cover!
Lia Kohl – Join Me, Everybody – Too Small To Be A Plain – [N]
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – The Dripping Tap – The Dripping Tap
The Science Fiction Corporation – Galactic Adventures Of The Outer Space Fleet “Hope” – Science Fiction Dance Party – [N] – Recorded in 1968.
SPRINTS – Chaise Longue – Chaise Longe – Wet Leg song. They’re no Iced Shank, but who is?

The Chats – Struck By Lightning – Struck By Lightning – [N]
Nana Love – We Gonna Stay For The Party – Disco Documentary – Full Of Funk
Tuluum Shimmering – Marquee Moon – Marquee Moon – This extended rumination on a Television tune is “the fourteenth entry in the Tuluum Shimmering Records requests series.”
Dany Placard & Julie Doiron – Mayo – Mayo – Full album out April 29th!
The Vampires Of Dartmoore – Hallo, Mister Hitchcock – Dracula’s Music Cabinet – [N] – Originally released in 1969.
Pan•American – Just A Story – The Patience Fader – Mark Nelson of Labradford.
Horsegirl – Anti-glory – Versions of Modern Performance – Coming June 3rd.

Tim Midgett – 20:45 – Live on WPRB – http://timmidyett.com

Aeon Station – Fade – Observatory – [N] – Solo debut by Kevin Whelan, formerly of The Wrens.
James Ilgenfritz, Brian Chase & Robbie Lee – Fragile – Loss and Gain
Blunt Bangs – Everything Flows – Everything Flows – Teenage Fanclub cover.
WASNT WISNT – Tripping Hazard – Skunk’d Gunk – [C] – Local.
The Notwist – Ship – Vertigo Dubs Vol. 1: Odd Nosdam
Riverside Rocky – No Money – The Buntingford Long Playing Album – [C] – From “1981.”



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3/9/22 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Wet Leg – Angelica – S/T – Out April 8th. In Philadelphia on Saturday night.
Hamid El Shaeri – Dari Demou’ek – Habibi Funk 018: The SLAM! Years (1983 – 1988) – [N]
Florry and Brittle Brian – Vampire Blues – Neil Covers
KRS-One – Can You Dance – I M A M C R U 1 2 – [N]
Matchess – Through The Wall – Sonescent
75 Dollar Bill – Power Failure #2 – POWER FAILURES – 🍲 🍜 🥣
MICK TROUBLE – Me and the Riddle Tree – It’s Mick Trouble’s Second LP – New LP on April 5th!

Eyelids – Fantastic Life – Everything That I See You See Better EP – The Fall cover, joined by Paul Hanley on percussion.
FMC GANG feat EL DETERR – Favelas – Favelas
Mary Lattimore – Moon Over Deetjen’s – Moon Over Deetjen’s
Super Onze – Side A – Enregistrés Pour Yehia Le Marabout
Drag City Supersession – Old Man – Tramps, Traitors and Little Devils – Randy Newman cover sung by one Edith Frost.
Buddy Terry – Quiet Afternoon – Mainstream Funk – [C] – [N] – Originally from 1972.
The Kyle Sowashes – The Least That You Can Do – The Least That You Can Do

Bitter, Bitter Weeks – 17:40 – Live on WPRB – http://facebook.com/bitterbitterweeks

SAVAK – Empathy – Human Error / Human Delight – Forthcoming.
Hitomi “Penny” Tohyama – Tuxedo Connection – Tokyo Glow: Japanese City Pop, Funk & Boogie – [C]
Stander – Aberrant – Vulnerable
SUPER USER FRIENDLY – Clouds Part For The Sun – Señor Gato – Crugie from The Disturbed’s contemporary band.
OC Rippers – Eyes of Satan – Born To Fuck (Fall 21′ Demo) – Pagans cover!



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3/2/22 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


Exhibit A: “Doing face masks while listening to The Dead C.”

The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Superchunk – Refracting – Wild Loneliness – [N]
Wu-Tang Clan & Led Zeppelin – Whole Lotta Chessboxin’ (clean) – The Wu-Tang Zeppelin
Melody Dog – Movin’ On Up – 7″ – Primal Scream cover.
Freddie Hubbard – First Light – Music Is Here – Live at Maison de la Radio (ORTF), Paris 1973 – First official vinyl release.
PJ Harvey – The Glorious Land – Let England Shake – Demos
Lingo Seini et son groupe – Gomno Ankreyze – Musique Hauka
C.O.F.F.I.N – Under Your Wing – Split 7″ with Mini Skirt

The Choke – Top Man – The Buntingford Long Playing Album – [C] – From “1981.”
Nadeem & Shravan – Dekho Dekho Dekho Magar Pyar Se – Bollywood Bloodbath – [C] – [R] – Originally released in 1985.
The Breeders – The Last Time – Fate To Fatal – Vocals by Mark Lanegan. RIP.
Springtime – The Names Of The Plague – Night Raver EP – “Character studies” by members of Tropical Fuck Storm, Dirty Three and The Necks.
Highnoon – Back To You – Back To You – Local.
Black Country, New Road – Basketball Shoes – Ants From Up Here – [N]
Come – City Of Fun – Peel Sessions – Only Ones cover (not a Celibate Rifles tune as I always thought). Recorded in 1993.

Rebecca Gates – 13:36 – Live on WPRB – https://rebeccagates.bandcamp.com

Caterpillar – 36:03 – Live on WPRB – https://caterpillarlovesyou.bandcamp.com

Fingerprints – Nothing To Say – Where The Beat Goes On – 1980 single b-side.



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2/23/22 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


Yard Act – 100% Endurance – The Overload
Etran de L’Aïr – Tarha Warghey Ichile – Agadez – [N] – “Best full album I’ve heard this year.” – me
The Grifters (under an alias) – Two Week Vacation – 1996 Empty Bottle Prom – The Embarrassment cover!
“Blue” Gene Tyranny – A Letter From Home – Out Of The Blue – Originally released in 1978. Thanks, DSM!
Fishboy – The Best Ever Boom Box Cassette Tape From Durham – The Best Ever Boom Box Cassette Tape From Durham – A song about The Mountain Goats’ “The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton.”
Bappi Lahiri – Meri Jaan – Bollywood Bloodbath – [C] – RIP.
Lucy Dacus – Kissing Lessons – Kissing Lessons – [N]

Big Supermarket – Peter – 1800
Sarah Vaughan – Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) – Mainstream Funk – [C] – [N] – 1972 single, written by Marvin Gaye.
Heavenly Bodies – Universal Resurrection – Universal Resurrection – Out April 1st. Local.
Neil Young – Crime In The City – Bluenote Cafe – Recorded at Jones Beach on 8/27/88.
COCHONNE – Trop – Emergency
What Cheer? Brigade – Here Come The Warm Jets – You Can’t See Inside Of Me – Brian Eno song performed by a marching band.
Bed Maker – Miss Dickens – Miss Dickens – New group from Jeff Barsky, Amanda MacKaye, Arthur Noll and Vin Novara.

Pierced Arrows – 18:49 – Live on WPRB – https://piercedarrows.bandcamp.com

Kurt Vile – 18:18 – Live on WPRB – https://kurtvile.bandcamp.com

Screaming Trees – Transfiguration – Even If & Especially When – RIP Mark Lanegan. This one hits hard.
Hauras – Half-Drawn Blinds (n’ee Graveyard People) – Half-Drawn Blinds (n’ee Graveyard People)
The Academy Blues Project – Move Closer To Your World – Once Again…



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2/16/22 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Yo La Tengo – Some Kinda Fatigue – May I Sing With Me – Been thinking about this song since Hanukkah.
Barry Miles – Little Heart Of Pieces – Mainstream Funk – [C] – Originally from 1971.
Tuluum Shimmering – Cinnamon Girl – Cinnamon Girl – This extended rumination on a Neil Young tune is “the sixteenth entry in the Tuluum Shimmering Records requests series.”
Attarazat Addahabia & Faradjallah – Albaki – Habibi Funk 011: Al Hadaoui
Pedro The Lion – Teenage Sequencer – Havasu – [N]
John Dwyer, Ryan Sawyer, Greg Coates, Wilder Zoby & Andres Renteria – Gong Splat – Gong Splat
Pinch Points – Reasons To Be Anxious – 45

Fugazi – Smallpox Champion – In On The Kill Taker
Natural Self – The Valleys (feat. Tanya Auclair & Milly Blue) – Allo Love: Volume Three – Three Electrelane covers in as many weeks.
Yamash’ta & The Horizon – Sunrise from West Sea Pt. 2 – Sunrise from West Sea – Originally from 1971 as well.
Teenage Pin Queen – Blue Horizons – Blue Horizons
Water Damage – Reel 2 – Repeater – Members of Spray Paint, USA/Mexico, Marriage, Black Eyes, Thor & Friends… Out in April.
The Breeders – Do You Love Me Now Jr? – Divine Hammer EP – With J. Mascis!
WWW – Realidad Virtual – Mundo Virtual

Sian Alice Group – 19:28 – Live on WPRB

BODEGA – Thrown – Broken Equipment – Album out March 11th.
Third Coast Kings – Jelly Roll – Afro Sides Vol. 2 – [C]
Off I Go – ’til the last house burns (day 14) – Triple digit days, vaseline nights (desert demos)
Arushi Jain – Look How Far We Have Come – Under The Lilac Sky



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2/9/22 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Superchunk – On The Floor – Wild Wild Loneliness
Pete Yellin – It’s The Right Thing – Mainstream Funk – [C] – Originally released in 1973.
The Exorzist III – Jabber – Gospel Jamming vol. 1 – Ex-Laddio Bolocko!
The Happy Somethings – I Wish You Could Sing Like Tracey Thorn – The Tracey Thorn Song (Double B-side)
Winged Wheel – Grey on Grey – No Island – Members of Spray Paint and Tyvek. Out in April!
Napoleon Da Legend & Amerigo Gazaway – Serpico (Radio Edit) – Serpico
Eyelids – The Accidental Falls – The Accidental Falls

Come Closer – Mayday – Pretty Garbage
Syl Johnson – Is It Because I’m Black – Syl Johnson: Complete Mythology – RIP, Syl. 1936-2022.
Earthless – Night Parade Of One Hundred Demons, Pt. 2 – Night Parade Of One Hundred Demons
Nu Garcon – Enter Laughing – Enter Laughing – Electrelane cover.
CREDENTIALS – Crowded With Gods – Why is My Arm Not a Lilac Tree?
Sharon Gal – The Golem – The Golem Rescored – [C]
CIVIC – Another Day – Future Forecast

Niagara Falls – 29:59 – Live on WPRB – https://niagarafalls.bandcamp.com

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – The Way It Shatters – Endless Rooms – Album coming later this year…
Camino Sound – Joule – The Camino Sound EP – Local.
Mogwai – Fuck Off Money (Alessandro Cortini Rework) – Take Sides
The Feelies – Slow Down – The Good Earth



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2/2/22 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


You exit, x-off, but what you really get: a box of Newports, and Puma sweats…

The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Stomatopod – Be The Hog! – Competing With Hindsight
LaMont Johnson – M’Bassa – Mainstream Funk – [C]
Garcia Peoples – Tonight’s The Night – The Lagniappe Sessions – Neil Young tune.
CAN – Brighton 75 Vier – LIVE IN BRIGHTON 1975
Hen Ogledd – Tip Trip (Trip To The Tip) – No Wood Accepted
BombJack – Saturday (BombJack Remix) – The Neon Years – Electrelane, remixed. Why did I start crying listening to this??
21-645 – Babble – Laughing at the Ground 7″ – [C] – RIP Randall Gibson.

Sgt. Papers – Ya Levántate – SGTP
Ziad Rahbani – Ma Tfel – Houdou Nisbi – First vinyl pressing for this album from Lebanon circa 1984-85.
MX-80 Sound – Hougher House: The Music – Hougher House – RIP Bruce Anderson, one of the best to ever do it.
The Disturbed – Dying Of Boredom – Live on WPRB – Recorded in 1984.
Solid Space – Spectrum Is Green – Space Museum – Originally released on cassette in 1982.
Joshua Wayne Hensley – Last Year Is Now Over – Stationing
75 Dollar Bill – Black to Comm/9 to 5 – Social Music at Troost vol​.​3: (Other) People’s Music – MC5 -> Dolly Parton!

Blues Control – 25:37 – Live on WPRB – http://bluescontrol.bandcamp.com

Mesmer – Take It Back – Take It Back
Syl Johnson – Tripping On Your Love – Foxy Brown
PSIRENS – Redux – Skunk’d Gunk – [C]



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1/26/22 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


“Best of 2021 (part four)!”

The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Upper Wilds – Love Song #7 – Venus
Robert Cotter – Love Rite – Missing You – Originally released (if you want to call it that) in 1976.
Kurt Vile & The Violators – Run Run Run – I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground & Nico – [C]
Julie Doiron – You Gave Me The Key – I Thought Of You
FACS – Alone Without – Present Tense
Etran de L’Aïr – Toubouk Ine Chihoussay -Toubouk Ine Chihoussay
Mini Skirt – DIY Nightmare – Split 7″ with C​.​O​.​F​.​F​.​I​.​N

Guardian Singles – Can’t Stop Moving – S/T
L’Orange – Durbin Was A Trap House – The World Is Still Chaos, But I Feel Better
Nolan Potter – Stubborn Bubble – Music Is Dead
Lucy Dacus – Triple Dog Dare – Home Video
Metz – A Boat To Drown In – Live at the Opera House
Wau Wau Collectif – Yaral Sa Doom II – Yaral Sa Doom
Pardoner – Totally Evil Powers – Came Down Different

Power Supply – Infinity – In the Time Of The Sabre​-​Toothed Tiger – The return of the band once named Ooga Boogas.
Michael Legrand – Run, Brother Rabbit, Run – La Piscine OST – From 1969.
Melenas – Osa Polar – Osa Polar – Grauzone cover.
Ryley Walker & Kikagaku Moyo – Shrinks The Day – Deep Fried Grandeur
Street Eaters – Simple Distractions – Simple Distractions EP
Natural Information Society with Evan Parker – d(OoOc) IV – descension (Out of Our Constrictions)
Styrofoam Winos – Stuck In A Museum – S/T

KEG – Presidential Walk – Assembly
Rebecca Gates – St. Ides Heaven – Live at Doug Fir Lounge – August 4, 2013 – “Performed as part of “No Name #1: A Celebration of the Life and Music of Elliott Smith”, a week long multi-city, multi-artist honoring of Elliott Smith.”
Mythic Sunship – Maelstrom – Wildfire
Vanishing Twin – Zuum – Ookii Gekkou
Todd Briefly – The Extensive Waterways Of The United Kingdom – Demos



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1/19/22 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


“Best of 2021 (part three)!”

The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Sweeping Promises – Pain Without A Touch – Pain Without A Touch
clipping. – Wriggle Like An Eel (clean) – Wriggle (expanded)
Squid – Narrator ft. Martha Skye Murphy – Bright Green Field
Les Filles de Illighadad – Telilit – At Pioneer Works
Thee Oh Sees – Encrypted Bounce – The Chapel, SF 10​.​2​.​19
Rogér Fakhr – Express Line – Habibi Funk 016: Fine Anyway
formal wear – Suffer Today – Suffer Today b​/​w Timekeeper – Eli from The Gotobeds + Ryan of Wicketkeeper.

Future Living – Do Not Take – Solutions​-​Based Entertainments
KRS-One – Knock Em Out (clean) – Save The Studio
Low – White Horses – HEY WHAT
jaimie branch – nuevo roquero estéreo – FLY or DIE LIVE
Joel R.L. Phelps – Just Been Born – 2021 Christmas Stories – Recorded for the 25-Hour Holiday Radio Show.
Sylvia – Love Is The Only Thing – Sweet Stuff – Originally from 1975.
Swansea Sound – The Pooh Sticks – Live At The Rum Puncheon – Debut from Hue Williams of The Pooh Sticks plus Amelia Fletcher & Rob Pursey of Heavenly / Talula Gosh / Tender Trap / Catenary Wires.

Spread Joy – Mystery Curtain – S/T
Space Afrika – B£E ft. Blackhaine – Honest Labour
Dry Cleaning – Strong Feelings – New Long Leg
Writhing Squares – Rogue Moon – Chart For The Solution
Antietam featuring Rick Rizzo – Shadowplay – HIs Majesty’s Request: A Wink O’Bannon Select – Joy Division cover. “His Majesty’s Request honors Wink O’Bannon’s memory as a performer, an archivist of the Louisville music scene, and a teacher to subsequent generations, by directing proceeds from the project to two Louisville charities whose mission is to educate and enrich young people in the Metro area through music: Girls Rock Louisville and AMPED.”
William Parker – Mayan Space Station – Mayan Space Station – Parker’s first electric guitar trio album as a leader.
CLAMM – Keystone Pols – Beseech Me

Dummy – Punk Product Number 4 – Mandatory Enjoyment
Mamaki Boys – Takkai – Patriote
Cable Ties – Lani – Live at the Scrap Museum
Bill Orcutt – Side A – A MECHANICAL JOEY – 1-2-3-4-5-6……



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