8/16/23 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

The Haskells – Taking The City By Storm – 7″ – Taking the City By Storm, The Birth of the Milwaukee Punk Scene is finally screening.
Ayaléw Mesfin – Menèw Bèqèrèbegn – Ethiopiques, Vol. 24 – Golden Years of Modern Ethiopian Music (1969-1975) – [C]
Oh Baby & Kelly Stoltz – Not Enough (Extended Mix) – Singularity 11: Not Enough (Extended Mix)
Dippers – Kitchen Paralysis – Clastic Rock – [N] – Formerly known as Thigh Master.
Alan Silva & The Celestrial Communication Orchestra – Amplitude II – H​.​CON​.​RES​.​57, Volume I
Weak Signal – Songworld – WAR&WAR
Maple Stave – Cincinnati Hairpiece – Arguments – [N]

Rat-Nip – Schemer – My Pillow 7″
Ben Salisbury – Aubade – Devs (Original Series Soundtrack) – [C]
The Krelboynes – Chicxulub Returns – Boyne Again – [N]
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Replica – Ongaku Zukan – Originally released in 1984. Out in September.
Neil Young – Sample & Hold – Trans
branch riordan sexton galipault – 2006.10.13 Live At The Zeitgeist Gallery (Cambridge MA) – Tour CDr
The Wedding Present – Living & Learning – Tommy 30

Camino Sound – 27:59 – Live on WPRB – http://caminosound.bandcamp.com

METZ – Good, Not Great – Split Single with Mission of Burma – Mission of Burma cover.
Ferkat Al Ard – Matar Naem – Habibi Funk 019: Oghneya
Siesta Rates – Kubrick Stare – Thunk Gunk – [C]
Moon Drugs – Staring At The Moon – Staring At The Moon
Mary Lattimore & Paul Sukeena – Didn’t See The Comet – West Kensington



8/9/23 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Tee Vee Repairmann – Drownin’ – What’s On TV? – [N]
De La Soul – Buddy (Native Tongue Decision) – 12″ – Featuring Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, Queen Latifah & Monie Love.
75 Dollar Bill – Like Like Laundry – Southeaster b​/​w Like Like Laundry – Reissue of a 2015 cassette.
micro.raygun – home.of.the.brave – pulse.pulse – Naked Raygun cover.
Spruce Island – That’s Not The Way I Heard It – That’s Not The Way I Heard It
Attarazat Addahabia & Faradjallah – Al Hadaoui – Habibi Funk 011: Al Hadaoui
Just Ducky – New Metro Stomp (live) – Without Warning: Early Montana Punk, Postpunk, New Wave & Hardcore 1979-1991 – [C] – Steve Albini’s high school band.

Sweeping Promises – Ideal No – Good Living Is Coming For You – [N] – So great in Philadelphia last night!
Seyoum Gèbrèyès & Alèm-Girma Band – Hamétègnaw – Éthiopiques 24: Golden Years Of Modern Ethiopian Music 1969-1975  – [C]
The Fall – I’m Into C.B. – 7″
Tuluum Shimmering – Tamalpais (At About 6) – Tamalpais (At About 6) – David…Crosby…cover?
Kenneth Masters x BoFaat – What The Is – A Life Less Ordinary
Naomi Hull & Andy Dolan – Fizz Friends – Fizz Friends – Samples the sound of a seltzer can opening.
Thousandaire – No Good – Ideal Conditions

Audible – 28:14 – Live on WPRB – https://audible.bandcamp.com

Camino Sound – Joule – The Camino Sound EP – LIVE ON NEXT WEEK’S SHOW!!!



8/2/23 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Gee Tee – Dudes in the Valley – Atomic EP
Al Massrieen – Hatgeni Tani – Habibi Funk 006: Modern Music – Originally released in 1980.
New Standards Men – Boney Lunar Dust – Against Our Vanishings – [N]
RVG – Midnight Sun – Brain Worms
Freddie Hubbard – Povo – Music Is Here: Live at Maison de la Radio, Paris 1973
clipping. – Check the Lock – Visions of Bodies Being Burned
The Embarrassment – Careen – Heyday 1979-83 – Thanks to all who came to Montclair last Thursday! WPRB is sponsoring the Philly premiere of the Embarrassment documentary on Wednesday, August 30th and I’ll be introducing the film there too! Come on out!

Mac Krol – Fair Warning – 45 – [N] – Mac from Superchunk and Mike Krol.
Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek – Twilight Shimmer – New Future City Radio
Mammatus – Expanding Majesty – Expanding Majesty – [N]
Fenella – Telekinetoscopes – The Metalic Index – Jane Weaver, Peter Philipson and Raz Ullah.
Asnakech Worku – Mech Alkugn Lela Sew – Asnakech
EPMD – Da Joint – Back In Business
Lifeguard – Alarm – Crowd Can Talk / Dressed In Trenches – [N] – Two EPs combined on one record.

Kenneth Masters and Cramske – 30:57 – Live on WPRB – https://kennethmasters.bandcamp.com

TRVSS – (These Are Not Your) Children – Absence – Now known as MIRAKLER.
Mark Sultan – Coffin Nails – Let Me Out
Brigid Dawson and The Mother’s Network – The Fool – Ballet of Apes
Wrekmeister Harmonies – Behold! The Final Scream – The Alone Rush
Yoo Doo Right – Say Less, Do More – A Murmur, Boundless to the East



7/26/23 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Upper Wilds – Radio To Forever – Jupiter – [N]
Homeboy Sandman – Second Day of Christmas – 12 Days of Christmas and Dia de Los Reyes
GHOLD – Exact/Repulse/Suffer – Singularity 05: Exact/Repulse/Suffer 
The Budos Band – Frontier’s Edge – Frontier’s Edge EP – [N]
Gunn-Truscinski Duo with Bill Nace – Fencer – Glass Band – Out Friday.
Ahmed Ben Ali – Damek Majeeb – Habibi Funk 022: Subhana – [C] – Collection of mid-2000s recordings.
Famous Mammals – Parachute Traction Excites! – Instant Pop Expressionism Now!

Belonging – Stay – S/T – [N]
Vanishing Twin – Afternoon X – Afternoon X
The Necks – Bloodstream – Travel – [N]
Amaria Hamadalher – Tarhanine – Music from Saharan WhatsApp – [C]
Joy On Fire – 3rd Grade Fire – Another Adventure in Red – Local.
Shabam – On The Planet Of The Apes – 45
Tommy and the Commies – One Arch Town – Hurtin’ 4 Certain EP

Gildon Works – 34:00 – Live on WPRB – https://www.facebook.com/gildon.works/

Sgt. Papers – Sobaco Punk – SGTP
Nick Millevoi – Midnight Connection – Digital Reaction – [N]
Universal Eyes – Strange Attractors – The Golem Rescored – [C] – Members of Slumber Party and Wolf Eyes.



7/19/23 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Silkworm – Scrawl – L’Ajre – MJD / DM / JG. 18 years.
Charif Megarbane – 3aks el Seir – Habibi Funk 023: Marzipan – [N]
Chaosmonaut – Passion Aggression – Passion Aggression
The Breeders – Go Man Go – Last Splash (30th Anniversary Edition) – [N] – Previously unreleased.
Mars Williams & Vasco Trilla – The Tongue Set Free – CRITICAL MASS
Emily – The Sower – Arise
Yard Act – The Trench Coat Museum – The Trench Coat Museum – [N]

Baroness – Beneath The Rose – Stone – [N] – Out in September.
Daniel Schell & Dick Annegarn  – The ff BOOM – Egmont & the ff Boom – Originally released in 1978. “[T]his wholly individualistic concept album combines the lead members of the mighty COS (Daniel Schell and Pascale Son) with studio genius Alain Pierre (Ô Sidarta/Des Morts) and celebrated Dutch progressive rock singer Dick Annegarn, for what many consider to be both the overlooked hiding place of Belgium’s deepest psychedelic moment and European prog’s lost map to the ‘Franco-Flemish Boom’.”
Bounaly – Takamba – Music from Saharan WhatsApp – [C]
Virginia Wing – Half Mourning – Private LIFE
Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake – Planet E – From The River To The Ocean
Siavash Amini – Not Yet Plant-Life, No Longer Flesh – Singularity 03: Not Yet Plant-Life, No Longer Flesh – From Tehran, Iran.
Sweeping Promises – Throw Of The Dice – Good Living Is Coming For You – [N]

Greyhounds – 27:54 – Live on WPRB – https://myspace.com/greyhoundsphiladelphia

The Make Three – Sweet Carolina Blue – You, Me & The Make Three – [N] – Local. Out Friday.



7/12/23 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Mac Krol – For Some Other Reason – 7″ – [N] – Mac from Superchunk (happy birthday!) teams up with Mike Krol.
Super Onze – FACE A – Hommage à Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT) 1992
Sweeping Promises – Egyptian Shumba – ILLUSION OF CHOICE – [C] – The Tammys cover.
Martin Frawley – Heart In Hand – The Wannabe – [N] – He of Twerps.
Bent Arcana – Psychic Liberation – Live At Zebulon
Say Sue Me – Mind Is Light – Mind Is Light – Touring the USA this month.
Protomartyr – For Tomorrow – Formal Growth In The Desert – [N]

Cable Ties – Crashing Through – All Her Plans – [N] – Very excited to see this Australian band in September.
Rogér Fakhr – Express Line – Habibi Funk 016: Fine Anyway – Recorded in late 1970s Beruit.
Sly & The Family Drone – Every Knife In This House Is Mine – Singularity 09: Every Knife In This House Is Mine
Bully Pulpit – Fragile Machine – Natural Flavors – First new album in a decade.
PJ Harvey – A Noiseless Noise – I Inside The Old Year Dying – [N]
Water Damage – Reel 1 – But The Rat Was Very Smart
Mekons – Where Were You – Heaven & Hell

A Sunny Day In Glasgow – 19:53 – Live on WPRB – https://asunnydayinglasgow.bandcamp.com

Drive Like Jehu – Super Unison – Yank Crime – One more for Rick Froberg. RIP.



7/5/23 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


RIP Rick Froberg.

The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Drive Like Jehu – Hand Over Fist – 45
Hot Snakes – This Mystic Decade – Audit In Progress
Drive Like Jehu – Luau – Yank Crime
Pitchfork – Sinking – 7″
Drive Like Jehu – Sinews (Original Version) – Head Start To Purgatory – [C]
Hot Snakes – Six Wave Hold-Down – Jericho Sirens
Obits – Refund – 45

Hot Snakes – If Credit’s What Matters I’ll Take Credit – Automatic Midnight
Drive Like Jehu – If It Kills You – S/T
The Yah Mos Def – Jive Like Jehu – Plays Ugly For Suckers EP – Samples the former.
Pitchfork – New Kid – Eucalyptus
Hot Snakes – Ben Gurion – Suicide Invoice
Obits – Everything Looks Better In the Sun – Moody, Standard and Poor
Drive Like Jehu – Do You Compute – Yank Crime

Obits – Pine On / Widow Of My Dreams / Run / One Cross Apiece / SUD / Military Madness (Graham Nash) – Live on WPRB – Recorded for the third-annual WPRB Membership Drive.

The Karl Hendricks Trio – I Think I Forgot Something…My Pants – The Jerks Win Again – Congratulations, Maeve + Dan!
Etran de L’AÏr – Toubouk Ine Chihoussay – Live in Seattle
Black Duck – Light’s New Measure – S/T – [N] – Doug McCombs, Bill MacKay and Charles Rumback.
Alison Cotton – What You Told Me On That Journey In the Horse & Carriage – Singularity 01: What You Told Me On That Journey In the Horse & Carriage
Maple Stave – The French Song – Arguments – Out August 1st.
Harold & Wayne – The Lung – MISC. TAPE Vol. 01 – Junior, Dinosaur – [C] – Dinosaur Jr. cover.
The Dentists – Just Like Oliver Reed (BBC session) – Janice Long session 02​.​04​.​87 

Drive Like Jehu – Here Come the Rome Plows – Yank Crime



6/21/23 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Sweeping Promises – You Shatter – Good Living Is Coming For You – [N] – Album out next Friday. Can’t wait.
Altin Lazer Blaster – High Waves – Sounds From the Galactic Skylanes (Original Music from Star Wars Jedi: Survivor) – [C] – a/k/a Altin Gün!
X-Ray Spex – Identity – Germfree Adolescents – As heard in the end credits of “Polite Society.”
MX-80 Sound- Promise Of Love – Crowd Control
Jaimie Branch – Take Over The World – Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) – [N] – Coming in August.
Nagat – Eyoun El Alb – Eyoun El Alb – First-ever vinyl pressing of a 1980 Egyptian album.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Flamethrower – PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation – [N]

Silicone Prairie – Serpent in the Grass – Vol. II – [N] – Forthcoming.
Danny Paul Grody – Path To Olema – Arc Of Day
Lewsberg – Communion – Without A Doubt b/w Communion – [N] – Early mixes of two tracks off their next album. Touring the states this fall!
Pelican – Ran Amber (Remastered) – The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw – Expanded reissue of a 2005 record.
Weird Nightmare – She’s The One – She’s The One – Ramones cover.
Matmos – After Mud Guts – Singularity 04: After Mud Guts
Heartbeeps – Hold Up – Cum Together

Rashanim – 35:43 – Live on WPRB – https://www.facebook.com/rashanim/

Breaking Circus – Driving The Dynamite Truck – Big Hits of Mid-America Vol. IV – [C] – It’s the longest day of the year / And you dribble into my lap / And it’s still reflected on the source of my good luck / I’m seething in the feeling that I’m driving the dynamite truck
Al Massrieen – Sah – Habibi Funk 007: An Eclectic Selection of Music From the Arab World – [C]
Pays P. – Olatunji – Ça v aller



6/14/23 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Todd Briefly – Maps – Demos 3 (Two new songs) – [N]
Sharhabil Ahmed – Argos Farfish – Habibi Funk 013: The King Of Sudanese Jazz
The Bret Tobias Set – Letters Sent – Letters Sent – [N]
Induced Geometry – Caesium Standard – S/T – “[T]he solo electronic project of Philadelphia musician & Writhing Squares bassist Daniel Provenzano.”
Hey Colossus – You Laugh At My Face – Singularity 07: You Laugh At My Face – Extended cover of a Jorge Socarras / Patrick Cowley song.
Alabaster DePlume – Child Playing in the Forbidden Ruins – Salty Road Dogs Victory Anthem – [N]
Ass Ponys – Two-Week Vacation – Earth To Grandma – The Embarrassment cover.

Shellac – Dog & Pony Show – At Action Park
Andal Sukabe – Hey Malale – Music from Saharan WhatsApp – [C]
The Cool Greenhouse – Hard Rock Potato – Sod’s Toastie
Kalamazoo Drone Society – One – Saturation & Compression
Nana Love – Hang On Baby – Disco Documentary – Full Of Funk
Escuadrón Del Ritmo – Las Cucarachas – Back Up: Mexican Tecno Pop 1980​-​1989 – [C]
Sprints – Adore Adore Adore – Adore Adore Adore

Remote Islands – 26:03 – Live on WPRB – http://remoteislands.bandcamp.com

Oozing Wound – Midlife Crisis Actor – We Cater To Cowards
Jacques Higelin – Je Jouais Le Piano – Pierre Barouh & The Saravah Sound – [C]
Nolan Potter’s Nightmare Band – Nightmare Forever – Nightmare Forever
Say Sue Me – True Love Will Find You in the End – 10 – Daniel Johnston song.
Zombi – XYZT – 2020



5/31/23 : 17:00 – 20:00 pm ET


En Attendant Ana live at Jerry’s On Front last Saturday night.

The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

En Attendant Ana – Ada, Mary, Diane – Principa – [N] – Gosh, they were great on Saturday.
Bob Destiny – Wang Dang – Habibi Funk 007: An Eclectic Selection of Music From the Arab World – [C]
Ayako Shinozaki – Heterodyne – Music Now For Harp – [N] – Originally released in 1974, with Takehisa Kosugi on violin + sound waves.
Bill Orcutt – Anxiety of Symmetry I – Anxiety of Symmetry
Man or Astro-Man? – Space 1991 – Space 1991
Moon Orchid – Into The Violet – Skin/Skein
Throwing Muses – Jak – Firepile EP – Volcano Suns cover.

Naked Roommate – Wandering Thumb – Typical Girls Vol. 6 – [C]
Jeich Ould Badu – Elyn – Music from Saharan WhatsApp – [C]
Lazy Salon – Deutzia – Bellis – [N] – Local. Out Friday!
Sharon Van Etten – Memorial Day – Remind Me Tomorrow
Anatomy Of Habit – Black Openings – Black Openings
Natural Information Society – Is – Since Time Is Gravity – [N]
Wax Chattels – Spanners & Implements – Clot

Begushkin – 23:29 – Live on WPRB – https://begushkin.bandcamp.com

Eggs – The Government Administrator – 45 – I recently had a dream where I led a cafeteria in a rousing sing-along of this tune…
Kid Millions & Jan St. Werner – Dark Tetrad – Imperium Droop
Olden Yolk – Every Ark – Living Theater