4/3/24 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death of Pop – Bikini Gospel

The Bismarck – Man of Science, Man of Faith – Constant Currency – [N]
Charif Megarbane – Tarator – Habibi Funk 023: Marzipan
Count Floyd – Count Floyd Is Back – S/T ET – RIP Joe Flaherty.
The Exorzist III – Fourth Coming – Fourth Coming – [N] – Exceptional long jammer by Psychic Paramount / Laddio Bolocko / White Hills folks. 
Helium – Leon’s Space Song – The Magic City
Bananagun – Bang Go the Bongos – The True Story of Bananagun 
Continuals – March 3rd – S/T – [N]

Mudhoney – I Hate The Bloody Queen – Head on the Curb – Queen Haters cover. RIP Joe Flaherty.
Gang Starr feat. Greg Nice – DWYCK (Album Clean Version) – 12″
Don Caballero – Puddin’ In My Eye – 45 – RIP Joe Flaherty. For respect.
Floating Cave – Amulet of Sound – Amulet of Sound – [N]
Swansea Sound – Markin’ It Down – Markin’ It Down – Record Store Day 2024 single.
Wau Wau Collectif – Riddim Rek Ya Niouy Mom – Yaral Sa Doom
Variety – The Light – The Light – [N] – Rhys and Zach from Borzoi.

Bathroom Plants – Raise your Consciousness to Class Consciousness – NewMind Solidarity – [N] – 🚨 PREMIERE! 🚨
Peter Laughner – Pale Blue Eyes – 1977 (Nocturnal Digressions) – Velvet Underground cover, recorded the night before he died.
Grupo Celeste – Todo Lo Tengo De Ti Menos Tu Amor – Saturno 2000: La Rebajada De Los Sonideros 1962 – 1983 – [C]
Julia Jacklin – Hay Plain – Don’t Let the Kids Win
Lightning Bolt – Ride The Sky – Ride The Skies – Second album, originally released in 2001.



3/27/24 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Mary Timony – No Thirds – Untame the Tiger – [N]
Ziad Rahbani – Final – Al Adala – Amrak Seedna & Abtal Wa Harameyah – Reissue of a 1987 Lebanese album.
75 Dollar Bill – Southeaster – Southeaster b​/​w Like Like Laundry (2023 Reissue)
Monde UFO – Lowered Shelf – 7171 (Expanded Edition)
Isaac Turner – Song for Darin (Lil’ Bit) – Grand Prairie – [N] – He of OUT, Minutes, Wowza In Kalamazoo, New Standards Men and (many) more…
Manzanita – Paga La Cuenta Sinverguenza – Saturno 2000: La Rebajada De Los Sonideros 1962 – 1983 – [C]
Meatbodies – Move – Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom – [N]

Young Moon – 20:32 – Live on WPRB – https://youngmoonmusic.bandcamp.com

Advance Base – 20:40 – Live on WPRB – http://advancebase.bandcamp.com

Red Eyed Legends – Monsters – Wake Up, Legend
xpoemsx – IV – At The Mod​.​Whitall Mansion, Philadelphia october 2023
Damaged Bug – Microminiature Love – Bug On Yonkers – Michael Yonkers cover.
Omar El Shariyi – Gafnoho – Oriental Music – Originally released in 1976.
Tangled Shoelaces – Political Jokes – Turn My Dial – M Squared Recordings and more, 1981-84
Mountain Goats – Snow Song – Dog So Large I Can Not See Past It – [C]
Weird Nightmare – Darkroom – S/T – Solo record by Alex Edkins of METZ.

Winged Wheel – Smudged Textile – Big Wheel – [N] – Out in May. Members of Spray Paint, Tyvek, Water Damage, Sonic Youth, Matchess and more!
Pelydron – (Hands, Palms Facing Outwards, Move Downwards with a Swaying Motion and with All Fingers Wiggling) – Snö – [C]



3/13/24 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

The Proletariat – Decorations – Soma Holiday
CAN – Paris 73 Eins – LIVE IN PARIS 1973 – One of Damo Suzuki’s final shows with the band. Best in this series so far.
Advance Base – Summon Satan – Nephew In The Wild – Live on this show in two weeks, alongside Young Moon!
La Sécurité – Serpent (Standard Emmanuel Remix) – Stay Safe! REMIXED – [N]
Lorelei – Caterwaul – Asleep – A member of this band is now CEO of Amtrak!
Jemeel Moondoc Trio – Campbell’s Soup – Tri-p-let – [N] – First recording since 1985!
The Martha’s Vineyard Ferries – Look Up – Mass. Grave

Eyelids – Faith Healer – No Jigsaw – [N] – Big Dipper cover.
Attarazat Addahabia & Faradjallah – Chama’a – Habibi Funk 011: Al Hadaoui
ErnstErnst – Persecution Plan – Without Warning: Early Montana Punk, Postpunk, New Wave & Hardcore 1979-1991 – [C] – RIP John Kappes.
The George Otsuka Quintet – Miles Mode – Loving You George – Recorded live on the 19th of July, 1975.
Florry – When I Kicked You Out of the Band (I Wasn’t Kicking You Out of My Life – Sweet Guitar Solos EP
KRS-One – Introducing – The B.D.P. Album (Special Edition)
mclusky – She Will Only Bring You Happiness – The Difference Between Me and You Is That I’m Not on Fire

Eric Carbonara – 42:48 – Live on WPRB – https://ericcarbonara.bandcamp.com

Variety – Plover – Plover – [N] – Rhys and Zach from Borzoi.
Junior Y Su Equipo – Alégrate – Saturno 2000: La Rebajada De Los Sonideros 1962 – 1983 – [C]
The Brown Christmas – A Stampede Indeed – Do They Serve Pizza In Heaven



3/6/24 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Breaking Circus – Took A Hammering – The Ice Machine
Fela Anikulapo Kuti* & Egypt 80 – O.D.O.O. (Overtake Don Overtake Overtake) – Beasts Of No Nation / O.D.O.O. – Originally released in 1990.
Unrest – Vibe Out! – B.P.M. (1991-1994)
Green Gardens – Things I Didn’t Do – This Is Not Your Fault 
Marlowe – Otherworld – Marlowe 2
Jane Weaver – Romantic Worlds – Love in Constant Spectacle – Out April 5th.
Pissed Jeans – Sixty-Two Thousand Dollars in Debt – Half Divorced – [N]

Coffin Pricks – Group Home Haircut – Semi-Perfect Crimes – [N] – Complete discography LP from Chris Thomson’s early 2010s band…
Bounaly – Chérie ye Bani – Dimanche à Bamako 
Yard Act – Blackpool Illuminations (Clean Edit) – Where’s My Utopia? – [N]
The Glass Bees – Eagle Rock – Because Tomorrow Disaster May Come
En Attendant Ana  – Teeny Tiny Tyche – 45 – [N]
Fairouz – Rah Nebqa Sawa – Maarifti Feek
CRUMBS – You’re Just Jealous – You’re Just Jealous – [N]

Run Runner – 31:25 – Live on WPRB – https://myspace.com/runrunner

Ein Heit – Replay – 45 – RIP John Kappes / JK Manlove.
Fumio Itabashi – Watarase – Watarase
Gerycz / Powers / Rolin – Activator – Activator – [N]



2/28/24 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Writhing Squares – Barbarians – Mythology – [N]
Rogér Fakhr – Drinking Tea – Habibi Funk 025: East of Any Place – Recorded in the late 1970s.
Switzer-Powers – Crazy Train – Bert Switzer 1977-2002  – Bert Switzer and 13-year-old Bobby Powers covering Ozzy. 1985 boom box audio.
Ramuntcho Matta – All Those Years – Junk – Originally from 1983.
English Teacher – Nearly Daffodils – This Could Be Texas – [N]
Healing & Peace – Mezzanine Man – Mezzanine Man – The band previously known as Kneeling In Piss.
Street Eaters – The Point – The Point – [N]

METZ – 99 – Up on Gravity Hill  – [N] – Out later this year.
Luther Thomas – Una New York – Funky Donkey Vol.1 – From 1973.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Broken Circle (Over and Over) – Fu##in’ Up – [N]
Bill Nace – Bill Nace – Bill Nace​ / ​Emily Robb Split – 2022 tour cassette, now on vinyl.
Checkpoint – 10th Dimension Advertisement Apocalypse – Drift – Thanks for hipping me to this one, Commie Francis!
Yo La Tengo – Pass the Hatchet, I Think I’m Goodkind – I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
R.M.F.C. – Access – Club Hits

Mitch Fiction – 46:25 – Live on WPRB – https://myspace.com/mitchfiction

MANFLESH – Pizza Street – Light Up the Night – [N]



2/14/24 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Split System – The Wheel – Vol.2 – [N]
Hamad Kalkaba and The Golden Sounds  – Astadjam Dada Sare – 1974-1975 (Analog Africa No. 24) 
Can – Halleluhwah – Tago Mago – RIP Damo Suzuki
Faxed – New Dance in Hell – Grotesque Rescue – “Imagine it’s 1980: The Rolling Stones fire Mick Jagger, hire brash upstart Mark E. Smith as their new singer and record one last album. This one. “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.”
SLIFT – Weavers’ Weft – ILION – [N]
Miracles – Neil Young Christmas – Christmas Miracles
Love Child – Asking For It – Never Meant to Be: 1988-1993 – [N]

Grazia – Cheap – In Poor Taste – [N]
Brion Gysin – Kick (Disco Mix) – Junk – Originally released in 1983. Special guests include Don Cherry, Elli Medeiros, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Caroline Loeb and Senegalese drummer Prosper Niang (Xalam).
Water Damage – Reel E – In E – Out in April. Their best record yet……?
En Attendant Ana – Ces Mots Stupides – The Lagniappe Sessions – Sacha Distel cover.
Horse Lords – Truthers – As It Happened: Horse Lords Live – [N] – “Captured at a series of concerts across Europe spanning Horse Lords’ multiple 2022 and 2023 tours, As It Happened is a mediated, sometimes obviously edited presentation of a live performance that strives for a certain level of idealization.”
Al Massrieen – Longa – Habibi Funk 006: Modern Music 
Lord Sterling – Black To Comm – Weapon of Truth – Last week’s show (and a lack of a proper studio version of the original) put this MC5 cover in my head. RIP Wayne Kramer.

The Swimmers – 43:33 – Live on WPRB – https://theswimmers.bandcamp.com

Lupo Città – White Bracelet – S/T – [N] – Debut album from Sarah Black, Jenn Gori and Chris Brokaw.
Mikio Masuda – Let’s Get Together – Moon Stone – Also collected on “Funk Tide – Tokyo Jazz-Funk From Electric Bird 1978-87.”
Party Dozen – Balance – The Real Work



2/7/24 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death of Pop – Bikini Gospel

SPRINTS – Literary Mind – Letter to Self – [N] – Album version = faster than single version.
Ripple – I Don’t Know What It Is, But It Sure Is Funky – But It Sure Is Funky – [R] – As sampled by Kid ‘N Play *and* Special Ed.
MC5 – Black to Comm (Live At The Sturgis Armory, June 27, 1968) – Black to Comm – RIP Brother Wayne Kramer.
Tallawit Timbouctou – Side A – Takamba
Hurl – She Laughed, She Died – Empty Bottle 1997
Rosali – Rewind – Bite Down – [N]
Pissed Jeans – Moving On – Half Divorced

Superchunk – Everybody Dies – 45 – [N]
Fela – J.J.D. (Johnny Just Drop) – J.J.D. / Unnecessary Begging  – Originally released in 1977.
Scotch Rolex, Shackleton & Omutaba – Burnt Earth – The Three Hands of Doom
The Fall – Shoulder Pads #1 – Ben Sinister – As heard in…a J.Crew commercial??
Katsutoshi Morizono – Space Traveler – Bad Anima – Collected on “Funk Tide – Tokyo Jazz-Funk From Electric Bird 1978-87.”
The Feelies – Slow Down – The Good Earth – Happy anniversary, N!
Uranium Club – Small Grey Man – Infants Under the Bulb – [N]

The Jazz June – 42:58 – Live on WPRB – https://thejazzjune.bandcamp.com

BODEGA – Tarkovski – Our Brand Could Be Yr Life – [N]



1/31/24 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


“Best of 2023 (part four)!”

The Rub – The Death of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Tyvek – Rhythm / Pattern – Overground
Namian Sidibé – Garaba Mama – S/T
Comateens – Danger Zone – 12″ – Expanded reissue of a 1979 single.
MEMORIALS – Kind of Beyond – Music For Film: Tramps!  – One of *three* records released last year by Verity Susman (Electrelane) and Matthew Simms (WIRE).
FACS – New Flag – Still Life in Decay
Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek  – The Concord Hour – New Future City Radio
Snõõper – Pod – Super Snõõper

CIVIC – Time Girl – Taken By Force
The Free Music – Men Awel Marra – Habibi Funk 026: Solidarity with Libya – [C]
Oh Baby & Kelley Stoltz – Not Enough (Extended Mix) – Singularity 11: Not Enough (Extended Mix)
Sunwatchers – World People – Music Is Victory Over Time
Liturgy – Antigone II – 93696
Ramuntcho Matta – Zoique 3 – S/T – Originally released in 1985.
Famous Mammals – Parachute Traction Excites! – Instant Pop Expressionism Now!

Heartbeeps – Sick In Your Head – Cum Together
Sleaford Mods feat. Florence Shaw – Force 10 From Navarone (clean edit) – UK GRIM
The Necks – Signal – Travel
Swansea Sound – Click It and Pay – Twentieth Century
Wowza In Kalamazoo – Milo on a Bike – Milo on a Bike
Delivery & Workhorse – Who Makes Demands? – Who Makes Demands? – Collaborative single from these Australian bands.
Oozing Wound – Midlife Crisis Actor – We Cater To Cowards

SPRINTS – Literary Mind – Literary Mind
Giant Brain – Munich – Grade a Gray Day
Hard Copy – Pile of Rocks – 12 Shots of Nature
Nick Millevoi – Rock & Roll Start (feat. Jason Nazary) – Digital Reaction – Local.
Rocket 808 – Closing Credits – House of Jackpots



1/24/24 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


“Best of 2023 (part three)!”

The Rub – The Death of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band – Free From the Guillotine – Dancing on the Edge
Langendorf United – From Guramayle to Le Hogon -Yeahno Yowouw Land
Yard Act – The Trench Coat Museum – 12″
75 Dollar Bill – Anchor Dragging Behind – Singularity 06: Anchor Dragging Behind
Eyelids – I Can’t Be Told – A Colossal Waste of Light
Kurt Vile – Another Good Year For The Roses – Back To Moon Beach EP
Telehealth – Mindtrap – 45

Lewsberg – An Ear To The Chest – Out and About
Jaimie Branch – Burning Grey – Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
Mammatus – Expanding Majesty – Expanding Majesty
Rocky – Contents – S/T – Xanthe Waite (Terry, Primo) and Raven Mahon (Grass Widow, Green Child).
Horse Lords – Bending to the Lash (Live in Leipzig) – Live in Leipzig
Ahmed Ben Ali – Damek Majeeb – Habibi Funk 022: Subhana – “Libyan Reggae at its peak grooves.”
Theee Retail Simps – Rubble – Rubble b/w Jumpin Jack Off 

La Sécurité – Dis-moi – Stay Safe!
Alain Pierre – Funérailles chez les Hmongs (Thaïlande) – Des Morts (Of the Dead) – “Expanded reissue of mega rare 1979 unknown vanity pressing LP that blends ethnological field recordings, musique concrète principles and introspective synthesiser music from this cult European studio maverick and historic collaborator of COS, Philippe Druilet, Marc Moulin and John Surman.”
Induced Geometry – Caesium Standard – S/T – Solo tape from Daniel Provenzano of Writhing Squares.
Lalo Schifrin – Radio Source – Man On A Swing OST – Score to a 1971 film starring Cliff Robertson and Joel Grey.
The Exbats – Himbo – Song Machine
Leon Keïta – Gnanassouma – Leon Keïta (Analog Africa Dance Edition No.16) – Recorded in late 70s Mali.
Mudhoney – Human Stock Capital – Plastic Eternity

Screaming Females – Mourning Dove – Desire Pathway
Emily Robb – Hermit’s Cave – If I Am Misery Then Give Me Affection 



1/17/24 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


“Best of 2023 (part two)!”

The Rub – The Death of Pop – Bikini Gospel

En Attendant Ana – Wonder – Principia 
Homeboy Sandman – Second Day of Christmas – 12 Days of Christmas and Dia de Los Reyes
Water Damage – FUCK THAT : Reel 13 – 2 Songs
The Breeders – Go Man Go – Last Splash (30th Anniversary Edition)
The Free Music – Ana Qalbi Ehtar – Habibi Funk 021: The Free Music – Free Music (Part 1)
Jane Weaver – Love in Constant Spectacle – Love in Constant Spectacle – New album later this year!
Tee Vee Repairmann – Drownin’ – What’s On TV?

Vintage Crop – Springtime – Springtime
El Michels Affair & Black Thought – Grateful – Glorious Game
Hey Colossus – You Laugh At My Face – Singularity 07: You Laugh At My Face – Patrick Cowley cover!
Etran de L’AÏr – Toubouk Ine Chihoussay – Live in Seattle
The Feelies – Oh! Sweet Nuthin – Some Kinda Love: Performing the Music of the Velvet Underground
Daniel Schell & Dick Annegarn – The ff BOOM – Egmont & the ff Boom – Initially released in 1978.
Osees – Intercepted Message – Intercepted Message

Mac Krol – Fair Warning – 45 – Mac from Superchunk + Mike Krol.
Natural Information Society – Stigmergy – Since Time Is Gravity
Martin Frawley – Heart In Hand – The Wannabe – Solo record by a member of Twerps.
Andrzej Korzyñski – Third Part of the Night (Main Theme) – Third Part of the Night – Soundtrack to a 1971 Polish film.
The Krelboynes – Chicxulub Returns – Boyne Again
Farid El Atrache – Takassim Oud – Nagham Fi Hayati – From 1974.
Protomartyr – For Tomorrow – Formal Growth in the Desert

The Tubs – Two Person Love – Dead Meat
Alabaster Deplume – Child Playing in the Forbidden Ruins – Salty Road Dogs Victory Anthem