75 Dollar Bill live on WPRB this Wednesday night!


75 Dollar Bill, the duo of Rick Brown (Fish & Roses / Run On) and Che Chen, stops by 103.3 fm WPRB this Wednesday night for a tremendous, hypnotic three song live session.

The “singular music of this instrumental duo draws various sources from around the world and across disciplines, everything from Mauritanian guitar to raw minimalism and blown-out urban blues, yet sounds unlike anything [you’ve] heard before.”

The pair’s album “Wooden Bag,” released by Other Music, is one of 2015’s best records.

Stream it below.

“Che Chen’s guitar: a cut-rate Japanese model sketching looped figures inside old Arabic modes, pushing jagged sound through a small amplifier. But as Mr. Chen stood playing hypnotic guitar repetitions, moving with the stresses of the riffs, the drummer Rick Brown sat on a square wooden box, open in the back, and attacked it from above. Sometimes he used his heel to bounce on a kick-drum pedal, pointing backward toward the box; mostly he was striking the sides of the box with his hands and a homemade mallet, hard, finding different pitches in different places. He cued transitions in the music, building odd or compound rhythms, turning them around and blurring distinctions between downbeats and upbeats. On the surface, the rhythms were only secondary to the guitar lines; deeper down, they were enfolded. One couldn’t do without the other.” – The New York Times



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“No More Music By The Suckers” with Jon Solomon.


Last night I had the pleasure of guest-hosting “No More Music By The Suckers” on Radio Nope, playing an hour+ of classic 80s/90s hip hop.

You can stream the show below and check out the full playlist after the jump.

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“No More Music By The Suckers” airs live every Thursday night at 10:00 pm ET.

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5/13/15 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

The Replacements – I’m In Trouble – Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash
Twerps – Simple Feelings – Rage Anxiety – [N]
Tatvamasi – Collapse Of Time – Parts Of The Entirety
Giant Sand – Texting Feist – Heartbreak Pass – [N]
King Champion Sounds – World Of Confusion – Different Drummer – G.W. Sok of The Ex on vocals.
Death – Relief – N.E.W. – [N]
Sham 69 – Borstal Breakout – Tell Us The Truth

Party Cops – Again – Knife Licker
Daniel Bachman – Won’t You Cross Over To That Other Shore – River
Plastiktanz – Pelikan – Science Fiction Park Bundesrepublik: German Home Recording Tape Music Of The 1980s – [C]
Drakkar – Crazy Loving You – Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock & Roll – [C]
Guantanamo Baywatch – Shenanigans – Darling…It’s Too Late
Max Guld – Den Sorte Prins – For Enden Af Corridoren – 1985.
Close Lobsters – Let’s Make Some Plans – Firestation Towers 1986-1989 – Box set.

METZ – Nervous System – II – [N]
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – The River – Quarters! – Four songs, each 10:10 in length.
Love – Young & Able (Good & Evil) – Black Beauty – Lost 1973 album. – [N]
Carlos Peron – Nothing Is True; Everything Is Permitted (Instrumental) – Dirty Songs
Krill – Theme From Krill – Krillpilation Volume 1 – [N]
Fred Fisher – Asa-sa – Afro Baby – The Evolution Of The Afro-Sound In Nigeria 1970-79 – [C]
Dick Diver – Waste The Alphabet – Melbourne, Florida – [N]

75 Dollar Bill – Seventy Five Dollar Bill – Cdr – Performing live on this show in two weeks!
Mac McCaughan – Our Way Free – Non-Believers – [N]
??? – Endiaw Mela Mela – Sleeping In The Market – Ethiopian Music & Sounds From Amhara – [C]
Frog – King Kong – Kind Of Blah
Sleater-Kinney – Jumpers – Start Together
The For Carnation – Get And Stay Get March – Fight Songs



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5/6/15 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Dirty Fences – Deep In Your Heart – Full Tramp – [N]
Logan’s Sanctuary – The Game – S/T – Fake soundtrack to a non-existent sequel.
Saun & Starr – Big Wheel – Look Closer – [N]
Bonnie Stillwatter – The Devil Is People (The Cheech Wizard’s Hemiolic Chantey At The Edge Of The Anthropocene Epoch) – The Devil Is People – Bundy K. Brown remix.
Silkworm – It’s Too Bad… – Developer
Olivia Neutron-John – Injury Train & I’m Never Getting Off It – S/T – [N]
The Jury – Ain’t It A Shame – With The Lights Out – Leadbelly cover. Kurt Cobain & Mark Lanegan.

Warm Soda – Dream I Left Behind – Symbolic Dream
Igneous Eyes – The Same – Split cassette with Writhing Squares
Bardo Pond – In Every Dream Home A Heart Ache – Is There A Heaven? – Roxy Music cover.
The Pretty Greens – Elevator Eyes – Lonely Hearts Club (No Jerks Allowed)
Shellac – Pull The Cup – Live in Princeton, 1994 – Damon Che on vocals.
DIT – Abbelstiel – Science Fiction Park Bundesrepublik: German Home Recording Tape Music Of The 1980s – [C]
Caroles – Now You Know – Flying Out Presents: The Other’s Way – [C]

Jawbox – Cutoff – Novelty
Quasimoto – J.A.N.’s – The Further Adventures Of Lord Quas
Kraftwerk – Home Computer – Computer World
Superchunk – Come Pick Me Up – While No One Was Looking – Ryan Adams cover. – [C]
Classix Nouveux – Guilty – Living In Oblivion – The 80s Greatest Hits Volume 1 – [C]
Mogwai – You Don’t Know Jesus – Rock Action
High Tension Wires – People I Know – Send A Message

TV Colours – The Neighborhood – Purple Skies, Toxic River – [N]
SWIVS – 676767 – Free Period Blood Money
Hagerty-Toth Band – Qalgebra – Qalgebra
The Lemonheads – Mallo Cup – Bored On The Fourth Of July – Peel Session.
Sonic Youth – Society Is A Hole – Bad Moon Rising
King Tuff – Stranger – Live At Pickathon, Vol. 2 – Split record with Ty Segall.
Weekend – Hazel – Slumberland Records 25th Anniversary Sampler – [C]



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Live performance #237 – The Gotobeds.


Engineered 4/14/2015.

The Gotobeds web site

No Present / Fast Trash / Brass Not Rash / Jenna Rations / Wasted On Youth / Melted Candle / Krisis Time / Funky Machine / Affection / Amazing Supermarkets



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4/29/15 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Ivy – Arch-Foe – S/T – [N]
Yo La Tengo – The Asparagus Song – President Yo La Tengo
Warm Soda – All Grown Up – While No One Was Looking – Gore Gore Girls cover. – [N] – [C]
The Dictators – Two Tub Man – Go Girl Crazy! – RIP Verne Gagne.
Serengeti – Shidoshi – Kenny Dennis III – [N]
Sweet – No You Don’t – Desolation Boulevard
Six Finger Satellite – Home For The Holy Day – The Pigeon Is The Most Popular Bird – RIP Peter Phillips.

Kerbivore – Opportunity Costs – All Dressed
Mac McCaughan – Come Upstairs – Non-Believers – Forthcoming.
Grune Rosen – Jungle – Science Fiction Park Bundesrepublik: German Home Recording Tape Music Of The 1980s – [C]
The Jean Paul Sartre Experience – Cut Out – I Like Rain: The Story Of The Jean Paul Sartre Experience – Box set.
Ex Hex – Everywhere – Live at Chaz’s Bull City Records
Writhing Squares – Walking Blues – Split cassette with Igneous Eyes
Peoples Drug – Roach’s Song – S/T

The Gotobeds – Live on WPRB – 40:47 – https://thegotobeds.bandcamp.com

Mikal Cronin – Say – MCIII – Out soon.
Dads – Ride The Moon Into The Sun – Brown On Brown
Edsel – Flywheel – WGNS Gots No Station Compilation Volume Two – [C]
Six Organs Of Admittance – The Acceptance Of Absolute Negation – For Octavio Paz
Big Dipper – Wrong In The Charts – Boo-Boo



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The Gotobeds live on WPRB this Wednesday night!


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I’m thrilled to welcome The Gotobeds, one of my favorite rock/roll outfits going today, to 103.3 fm WPRB this Wednesday night for a career-spanning (uh, sure!) 10 song live session – including a slew of songs off their forthcoming Sub Pop full-length.

If you don’t own the band’s debut LP for 12XU “Poor People Are Revolting,” you’re missing out on 2014’s best record and I suggest you rectify that horrific oversight presently.

Stream it below.



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4/22/15 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Home Blitz – Seven Thirty – Foremost & Fair – [N]
MC Lyte – MC Lyte Likes Swingin’ – Lyte As A Rock
White Hills – Lead The Way – Walks For Motorists – [N]
Las Mordidas – 1,2,1,2 – WGNS Gots No Station Compilation Volume Two – [C]
Speedy Ortiz – Swell Content – Foil Deer – [N]
Earth – Seven Angels – Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version – When you’re Dylan Carlson, every day is Earth Day.
Day Creeper – The Way You’re Told – Central States – [N]

Uniform – Buyer’s Remorse – Perfect World – Forthcoming.
The Mountain Goats – Choked Out – Beat The Champ
X2 – Das Bild – Science Fiction Park Bundesrepublik: German Home Recording Tape Music Of The 1980s – [C]
Saints – Girl – Whole Body
All Them Witches – Interstate Bleach Party – A Sweet Release
De La Soul feat. Nas – God It – .mp3
Joanna Gruesome – Last Year – Peanut Butter – Out in June.

METZ – The Swimmer – II
Ruby Bluff – One Mile Postcard – S/T
Pointed Man Band – Flight Of The Blue Whale – Flight Of The Blue Whale
Wire – Split Your Ends – S/T – [N]
Close Lobsters – Just Too Bloody Stupid – Firestation Towers 1986-1989
Per Purpose – Blind & Assistant – 5 Years Of Bedroom Suck Records – [C]
Expert Alterations – Venetian Blinds – EP

Mannequin Men – Helpful – Lose Your Illusion, Too
Digital Leather – Face The Wall – All Faded
Jay-U Experience – Some More – Nigeria Disco Funk Special: The Sound Of The Underground Lagos Dancefloor 1974-79 – [C]
Fucked Up – California Cold – Year Of The Hare
Schnellertollermeier – X – X – [N]
Taxidermists – Angel II – 45
Johnboy – Pivotal – Claim Dedications

The Gotobeds – Ipso Facto (It’s All Happening) – 45 – Performing live on next week’s show!
Sun City Girls – Esoterica Of Abyssinia – Borungku Si Derita 2×7″
Doctors’ Mob – Why Should You Care Now? – Headache Machine – [R]



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4/15/15 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

The Dickies – Curb Job – The Incredible Shrinking Dickies
Elisa Ambrogio – Superstitious – The Immoralist – [N]
Jamhuri Jazz Band – Shangazi Naomba Taiti – Zanzibara 3 – [C]
Rough Francis – Blind Pigs – 7″ – Forthcoming.
Creature Automatic – Antikythera – Dust Clouds May Exist – [N]
Kepler – Light House – Fuck Fight Fail
Protomartyr – Blues Festival – A Half Of Seven – Split single with R. Ring.

Home Blitz – Downtown – Foremost & Fair – Out April 28!
Dreambook – Machine – Burn The Light Out – Local.
Ty Segall – The Man Man – Live at Pickathon, Vol. 2 – Split record with King Tuff.
Dump – First Birthday (High Tunnels 50th Birthday Mix) – High Tunnels
Wizard Oz – Bad Dreams – .mp3 – TV Colours cover.
Meg Baird – Locks & Bolts – Shirley Inspired – Shirley Collins song. – [C]
Shark Toys – Hemmingway – Serious Rockers: An Unblinking Ear Mixtape – [C]

The Gotobeds – New Dress (Debutante) – Poor People Are Revolting
Tseque-Maryam Guebrou – The Homeless Wanderer – Ethiopiques 21
The King Khan & BBQ Show – Snackin ‘ After Midnight – Bad News Boys – [N]
Meowww – Mission Of Purma – .mp3 – “That’s When I Reach For My Revolver.”
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Betty vs. The NYPD – Freedom Tower – No Wave Dance Party 2015 – [N]
Nile – Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten – Annihilation Of The Wicked
London PX – Orders – Messthetics #102 – [C]

World War IX – Employee Of The Month – Brown Bagging It
We Ragazzi – I Want You 2 Love Me So Much I Can’t Stand Up – The Ache
Flag Of Democracy – Mad House – Shatter Your Day – 2xLP re-issue of this 1986 album, loaded with extras. – [N]
The Midgetmen – Bunk Sock -> Cortez The Killer – Come Alive II
Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf – Devotion ’92 – Peanut Butter Wolf’s Jukebox 45s – [C]
Kleenex – Die Matrosen – Kleenex / LiLiPUT – [R]
The Lyres – How Do You Know? – Some Lyres – [R]

Titus Andronicus – No Future Part Three: Escape From No Future – The Monitor – [R]



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4/8/15 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

The Blind Shake – Tar Paper – Fly Right – [N]
Stan Freberg – Who Listens To Radio? – .mp3 – RIP.
Cuntz – ‘Ation – Here Come The Real Boys – Live. – [N]
Pete Galub – Psycho Seder – .mp3 – Happy Passover!
Donovan Quinn & The Thirteenth Month – Open Flame – Your Wicked Man
Paul Jones – Sheena Is A Punk Rocker – 45 – Ramones cover.
Liturgy – Reign Array – The Ark Work – [N]

Wand – Cave In – Golem – Huge. – [N]
The Karl Hendricks Trio – The Official Shape Of Beauty – A Gesture Of Kindness – http://tinyurl.com/karlauction
Itasca – Dream Of The Water Bearer – Unmoored By The Wind – [N]
Mikael Jorgensen & Greg O’Keeffe – Quincy – S/T
Zebra Hunt – 20 Ways To Belong – City Sighs
The Breeders – New Year – Last Splash
Kinski – Flight Risk – 7 (Or 8) – Forthcoming.

POW! – S T A T I C (Oh No Ok) – Fight Fire
Tim Foljahn – Plain As Day – Fucking Love Songs – [N]
CHBB – Ima Iki Mashoo – Science Fiction Park Bundesrepublik – German Home Recording Tape Music Of The 1980s – [C]
Diarrhea Planet – Spooners – Live At Pickathon – Split 12″ with Those Darlins.
Waxahatchee – Poison – Ivy Tripp
Bitchin Bonnie Billy Bajas – Pretty Saro – Shirley Inspired – Shirley Collins cover. – [C]
G.L.O.S.S. – Masculine Artifice – DEMO

Platinum Boys – Ride Free – Future Hits – [N]
Darksmith – Six Interiors – Total Vacuum
Mac McCaughan – Box Batteries – 7″
Dirty Lungs – I Suck In Bed – S/T
Pins – Hybrid Moments – .mp3 – Misfits cover.
Mike Pace – Kiss & Fly (Stats 12″ Remix) – .mp3
Autistic Behavior – A.B. Scam – Shattered Cattle – Previously unreleased 1982 album. – [N]

Hard Left – Hard Left Rules OK – We Are Hard Left
Speedy Ortiz – Frankenweenie – The Death Of Speedy Ortiz
Harold & The Purple Crayon – Book & Record Set – .mp3
Dot Dash – The Winter Of Discontent – Earthquakes & Tidal Waves
Milk Dick – I Swallow Your Hair – Cash Now
Career Girls – Dance Away – Flying Out Presents: The Others Way – [C]
Golden Pelicans – Chad & Stacie – Serious Rockers: An Unblinking Ear Mixtape – [C]

Really Red – Run ‘Em Out – S/T – [R]
Zs – Xe – Xe – [N]
Kicking Giant – Alien I.D. – Alien I.D.



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