5/4/16 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Polvo – Can I Ride – 2×7″ – RIP Eddie Watkins.
Iran – Four Armed Star – The Moon Boys – RIP Aaron Aites.
The Feelies – Barstool Blues – Uncovered – Neil Young song. RSD 2016 release.
94 East – If We Don’t – The Cookhouse 5 – 1975 session, featuring Prince Rogers Nelson.
Gwen Glass & Her Boy Gang – Leper Messiah – PRF Monthly Tribute Series: April 2016 – Metallica cover. – [C]
T-Tops – Ralphie – S/T

Polvo – Vibracobra – 45 – RIP Eddie Watkins.
Prince – Partyman – Batman – RIP.
Iran – Spherical Cockpit – S/T – RIP Aaron Aites.
Meadowlark Lemon – Shoot-A-Basket – 45
Life Without Buildings – Pop Life – Prince cover.
Negativland – The Perfect Cut (Canned Music / Rooty Poops) – Helter Stupid – RIP Richard Lyons.
Asylum – Vicious Cycle – 7″ – [N]

Polvo – In The Hand In The Sieve – El Cid – Split single with Erectus Monotone. RIP Eddie Watkins.
Iran – Evil Summer – Dissolver – RIP Aaron Aites.
Prince – The Cross – Sign O The Times – RIP. Didn’t turf out this time.
Igneous Eyes – Anake Coil – Cassette – Local.
Afghan Whigs – I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man – Live – Prince cover. 1998.
The Zoltars – Run Off Key – Office Supplies #8
The Gotobeds – Brass Not Rash – Blood // Sugar // Secs // Traffic – Forthcoming.

Polvo – Tilebreaker – 45 – RIP Eddie Watkins.
IfIHadAHiFi – Sign O The Times (Rough Mix) – The Fake Jan EP – Prince cover.
Gastr Del Sol – The Harp Factory On Lake Street – The Harp Factory On Lake Street
POUND WI – When Doves Cry – I’ve Got A Terrible Secret – Prince cover.
Sunwatchers – Moonchanges – S/T – [N]
Revelons – The Way (You Touch My Hand) – 45 – 1979.
The Impossible Shapes – Survival – Horus

Polvo – Fast Canoe – Exploded Drawing – RIP Eddie Watkins.
Little Scream – Love As A Weapon – Cult Following – This Prince-inspired record was playing when I heard of his passing.
Negativland – Our National Anthem – Free – RIP Richard Lyons.
Stina Nordenstam – Purple Rain – .mp3 – Prince cover.
Red Cross – Annette’s Got The Hits – S/T
Zig Zags – Giving Up The Ghost – Running Out Of Red – Forthcoming.

Polvo – Tragic Carpet Ride – Celebrate The New Dark Age – RIP Eddie Watkins.



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4/27/16 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


RIP Prince.

The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Prince – Controversy – Controversy
Dump – Pop Life – That Skinny Motherfucker With The High Voice?
Prince – Let’s Pretend We’re Married – 1999
Mariachi El Bronx – I Would Die 4 U – Purplish Rain – [C]
Prince – Hot Thing – Sign O The Times
Jennifer O’Connor – I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man – .mp3 – Recorded for tonight’s show!
Prince & The Revolution – Let’s Go Crazy (Special Dance Mix) – 12″

Prince – Uptown – Dirty Mind
The Jesus & Mary Chain – Alphabet Street – Come On
Prince – Dance On – Lovesexy
Smog – Prince Alone In The Studio – Wild Love
Prince & The Revolution – Computer Blue – Purple Rain
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone – When You Were Mine – Young Shields
Prince – Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad? – S/T

Prince – U Got The Look – Sign O The Times
Love Is All – Darling Nikki – Love is All Play 5 Covers
Prince – Le Grind – The Black Album – My mom saved this record from the town dump. Thanks, mom.
The Time – The Bird – Ice Cream Castle
Prince – Purple Medley – 12″
DJ & Dixie – Se7en – .mp3
Prince – Automatic – 1999

Prince – Bambi – S/T
Crooked Fingers – When You Were Mine – Reservoir Songs
94 East – If You Feel Like Dancin’ – Minneapolis Genius – 1977 recording. Prince on guitar/synths.
Ida – Dirty Mind – Live at Carnegie Hall
Faiz Razi – SunnO))) the Times – .mp3 – Mash-up. If not now, when?
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings – Take Me With U – Purplish Rain – [C]
Prince – I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man – Sign O The Times

Prince & The Revolution – Pop Life – Around The World In A Day – [R]



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4/20/16 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

The Chills – Look For The Good In Others And They’ll See The Good In You – Brave Words
Songs: Ohia – Coxcomb Red – The Lioness – As heard on this week’s Fear The Walking Dead?!
Pylon – Gravity – 7″ – Live.
Unwound – Hexenzsene – New Plastic Ideas
Joan Shelly – Jenny Come In – Over & Even
Sonic Liberation Front / Sunny Murray – Meaningless Kisses – Sonic Liberation Front Meets Sunny Murray
Didjits – Goodbye Mr. Policeman – Lovesicle

Dinosaur Jr. – The Wagon – 45
Wilderness – Post Plethoric Rhetoric – S/T
Electric Hawk – Crystal Dojo – II
Birds Of Paradise – Baby Daughters – 7″
Nervous Curtains – Low Defender – Low Defender – Forthcoming.
The Idols – You – 45 – 1979.
Mercury Girls – Ariana – 7″ – Out next month.

The Coathangers – Make It Right – Nosebleed Weekend
Atoms & Void – Waves Of Blood – And Nothing Else
Ilsa – Pass / Out – Relapse Sampler 2015 – [C]
Higher Authorities – Colour – Neptune – Members of Clinic, reportedly.
Wussy – Ceremony – 7″ – RSD 2016 release. Joy Division cover.
The Twin Atlas – Atlantic – Big Spring
Black Helicopter – Deadines For Deadbeats – Deadines For Deadbeats

No Comment – Farmer Hitler John – Common Senseless – WEST COAST POWER VIOLENCE.
Cyclops – Simpleton – 45
Dog Chocolate – Everyday’s The End Of The World For Someone – Snack Fans – Forthcoming.
Ned Collette & Wirewalker – Stampy – 2
Kid Millions – Begging Attire – The Sanguine Cadaver
The Room Outside – What Is Coming – S/T
The Goblins – Giant Robot Rock ‘N’ Roll – 45

Kepone – Loud – Ugly Dance – [R]
Time Zone – Wildstyle – Change The Beat: The Celluloid Records Story 1979-87 Vol. 2 – [C]



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Live performance #242 – Wussy


Engineered 3/31/2016.

Wussy web site

Dropping Houses / She’s Killed Hundreds / In The Tall Weeds / Hello I’m A Ghost / Better Days / Pizza King



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4/13/16 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Jerry’s Kids – Spymaster – 45
The Erasers – I Won’t Give Up – 45 – Previously unreleased.
PCPC – Fell Into The Wrong Crowd – Ramsgate – Live collaboration between PC Worship and Parquet Courts dudes. – [N]
Pang – Young Professionals – 7″
Dianogah – Lone Tree Point – As Seen From Above
The Body – Shelter Is Illusory – No One Deserves Happiness – [N]
Bicycle Face – Irrelevant – 45

Cherubs – Pink Party Dessert – 45
Soldier Kane – Hoagy’s Groove – S/T – Dave Soldier & Jonathan Kane. – [N]
Elastica – Smile – S/T – Another $2 well spent at the public library.
Alastair Galbraith – Gone – Orb
Die Kreuzen – Big Bad Days – 45
Surf City – No Place To Go – We Knew It Was Not Going To Be Like This
METZ & Swami John Reis – Caught Up – 7″ – RSD 2016 release.

Wussy – Live on WPRB – 28:19 – http://www.wussy.org

Audacity – Dirty Boy – Hyper Vessels
Getatchew Mekuria & The Ex & Friends – Eywat Setenafegagn – Moa Anbessa – RIP.
Joseph Levora – This Rabbit Has To Run – A-Okay : Okee-Doker
Tony Conrad with Faust – From The Side Of Woman & Mankind – Outside The Dream Syndicate – RIP.
Tang Soleil – Beth’s P.A. – Outboard Sensory Meridian Response
Chris Abrahams – As Tranquil As An Apple – Fluid To The Influence – He of The Necks.
Drillers – Starving – UNINTIMIDATED: Wisconsin Musicians Against Scott Walker – [C]

OBN IIIs – Rich Old White Men – 45 – Out next month. Everything a single should be.
The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience – Cut Out – I Like Rain – RIP Jim Laing.
Tortoise – Lonesome Sound – 45 – RIP Michael O’Bannon.
Common Eider, King Eider – Crystalline Shore – Extinction
Alf Danielson – Mary Had A Steamboat – 45



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4/6/16 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Student Teachers – Christmas Weather – 45 – 1979.
Getatchew Mekurya – Akale Wube – Ethiopiques 14 – RIP.
Jennifer O’Connor – It’s Gonna Get Worse – Surface Noise – [N]
Luckyj – Candy Tray – .mp3 – Unreleased.
Water Shed – Drill Press – Sales & Service
Small Awesome – Flowers – SONGER – [N]
Knife The Symphony – Last Dance – Split 12″ with Smoke Signals…

Bob Mould – Hands Are Tied – Patch The Sky
Nick Millevoi – Desertion & The Arsonist’s Match – Desertion – Forthcoming.
Piper’s Son – Wake Up – Who Started This?
The Ex & Getatchew Mekurya – Ethiopia Hagere – Moa Anbessa – RIP.
Shonen Knife – lml – Adventure – 19th album!
SAVAK – Keys To The City – Office Supplies #6
Parquet Courts – Two Dead Cops – Human Performance

Throw – All Too Human – 45
Patio – Arbitrary Numbers – Luxury
Jake McKelvie & The Countertops – Lots & Lots & Lots Of Money – Solid Chunks Of Energy
Goat – I Sing In Silence – 7″ – Out in May.
Meat Puppets – New Gods – II
Fudge – Inez – Bomb Pop Ep – “The ferocious rhythm of precise laziness…”
Savages – The Answer – Adore Life – [N]

Mike & The Melvins – Limited Teeth – Three Men & A Baby – Recorded in 1999, released in 2016.
Vollmar – Out To Sea – Open Window
Doctor Cosmo – Childe Roland To Dark Tower Came – Live on WPRB – Five years gone. You’re still missed, Doctor C.
Eric Bachmann – The Old Temptation – S/T
Razor – Hypertension – Relapse Sampler 2015 – [C]
Motel Beds – Dorm Police – Split 7″ with Nate Farley – RSD 2016 release.
Hard Left – Economy – Economy

Wussy – Dropping Houses – Forever Sounds – Live on next week’s show!
Getatchew Mekuria & The Ex & Friends – Yegna Mushera – Y’Anbessaw Tezeta – RIP.
Guapo – Obscure Knowledge (Part I) – Obscure Knowledge



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3/30/16 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Love Child – Know It’s Alright – 7″
A Tribe Called Quest – Buggin’ Out – The Low End Theory – RIP Phife Dawg.
Butthole Surfers – Revolution Part 1 / Part 2 – Piouhgd – RIP Garry Shandling.
Princess Reason – Your Divorce – 45 – RIP Garry Shandling.
Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band – Alice In Blunderland – 45 – Captain Beefheart cover.
Mark Wynn – Rip Off The Fall – Singles – But They’re Not Really Singles, I Just Sent Them to the Screen and Said They Were Singles’ Singles by Mark Wynn
Maple Stave – Townsend – V – Happy birthday, Chris.

Synthetic ID – Blind Spots – Impulses – Forthcoming.
Fumaca Preta – Baldonero – Impuros Fanaticos
The Lines – Zoko AM3 – Hull Down – The “lost third record.”
The Pawners’ Society – You Should Hire A Singer – Leftovers
Spacin’ – U.S. Ruse – Total Freedom
Shearwater – Radio Silence – Jet Plane & Oxbow
Gremlins U.K. – You Live In A Park – S/T

The Gotobeds – New Dress (Debutante) – 45
Orchestra Of Spheres – Anklung Song – Brothers & Sisters Of The Black Lagoon
Groovy Movies – A Walk In The Park – S/T – Local.
Explosions In The Sky – Colors In Space – The Wilderness
Pet Milk – Destroy All Human Life – .mp3
Skinless – Serpenticide – Relapse Sampler 2015 – [C]
Otoboke Beaver – Bakuro Book – Bakuro Book

Baroness – Morningstar – Purple – [N]
Capra Informis – Womb Of The Wild – Womb Of The Wild – A member of Goat’s side project.
The Terminal Orchestra – Spring Song – The Seasons
The Space Merchants – Good Day To Die – S/T
A Tribe Called Quest – Can I Kick It? – People’s Instinctive Travels & The Paths Of Rhythm – RIP Phife Dawg.
Canty / Kerlin / Burst – Sleepwalkers, Do Not Bother Other Sleepwalkers. – Mulling
The Knockout Pills – Summertown Rundown – 1 + 1 = Ate

Corndolly – Come Out – 45
White Out with Nels Cline – Ragged Mist Of Stalled Horizons – Accidental Sky – [N]
Red Red Meat – Chain Chain Chain (4-Track Demo) – Bunny Gets Paid – Deluxe double disc reissue.



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Live performance #241 – Memorial Gore


Engineered 2/28/2016.

Memorial Gore web site

Not The D.F. / Carly Schmitt / French Tickler / Cavalier Handler / Say What You Will / Spring Green / Fillin’ The Void / Quarantine / What’s Left



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Live performance #240 – Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band.


Engineered 2/28/2016.

Chris Forsyth web site



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3/9/16 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Dead Moon – It’s O.K. – Echoes Of The Past – RIP Andrew Loomis.
Glenn Jones – Portrait Of Basho As A Young Dragon – Fleeting – Recorded in Mount Holly, NJ! – [N]
PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Love – To Bring You My Love – $2 well spent at the public library.
Jimbo Easter – Rum Rubbish – 45 – [N]
The Feelies – It’s Only Life – Only Life – Re-worked bonus track.
Airlines – Point That Thing Somewhere Else – Cleaned Out! – Clean cover. – [C]
Bummer’s Eve – I Want Your Drugs – S/T – [N]

Table – Gag Box – 45
True Love Always – Concentric – Return Of The Wild Style Fashionists
Don Cherry & Jon Appleton – Jon – Don & Jon
John Stuart Mill – Eternal Story – Forget Everything
Purple Pilgrims – Is You Real? – Eternal Delight
TW Walsh – Shallow Water – Fruitless Research
Thee Headcoats – No Way Out – Heavens To Murgatroyd, Even! It’s Thee Headcoats! (Already) – Daniel Clowes art.

Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band – 46:04 – Live on WPRB – https://chrisforsyth1.bandcamp.com

The 1985 – The Isle – Seven Inch Record
The Muff & The Mole – Pink Turns To Blue – PRF Monthly Tribute Series: January 2016 – Husker Du cover.
Bronze – Dulcinea – Live In San Francisco
Nick Mellevoi – Just For A Moment, I Stood There In Silence – Desertion
Benji Hughes – ? Take You Home – Songs In The Key Of Animals
Pere Ubu – The Fabulous Sequel (Have Shoes Will Walk) – Architecture Of Language 1979-1982
Pig Destroyer – Trojan Whore – Relapse Sampler 2015 – [C]

Memorial Gore – Fillin’ The Void – New Golden Dawn – Live on next week’s show! – [N]
Akompi – Absua Bone – I’ve Found My Love: 1960s Guitar Band Highlife Of Ghana – [C]
Glazer – 40 Minutes of Continuous Shredding – Amplified Mind – Local.



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