2/15/12 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

The Haskels – Taking The City By Storm – 7″ – RIP Richard LaValliere.
K.S. Chithra feat. S.P. Balasubramaniyam – Vaa Veliye – S/T
Cloud Nothings – Wasted Days – Attack On Memory – [N]
Stanton Miranda – Wheel Over Indian Trails – Trevor Jackson Presents Metal Dance – [C]
Assuke – Taxes At Work / Circle A / Feasts Of War / Counterattack – Ukelear Annihilation
Art Con – Night Regulations – Claptrap 2012
Blasted Canyons – Lasers vs. Lizards – #1 – [N]

Torche – Kicking – Harmonicraft – Forthcoming.
The Trypes – Force Of Habit – Music For Neighbors – This reissue is fantastic.
Dustin Wong – Pink Diamond (edit) – Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads – Ex-Ponytail.
Oil Tasters – Get Out Of The Bathroom – S/T – RIP Richard LaValliere.
Estrogen Highs – I Wanna Be Tall – Irrelevant Future
Brief Candles – The Completist – Fractured Days – [N]
Superchunk – Lying In State – Hit Self-Destruct – Verlaines cover.

Gaunt – Valentine – Split 7″ with New Bomb Turks – For all the young lovers.
Org. Ritmos de Sabanas – Monteria – The Original Sound Of Cumbia – 1948-79. – [N] – [C]
Lesbian – Pedomorphienne/Autoeroticasphyxiography – Pedomorphienne/Autoeroticasphyxiography
Ted Lucas – Love & Peace Raga – S/T – 1975 solo record reissued.
Wooden Shjips – Crossing Remix (Andy Weatherall) – Remixes 12″ – Forthcoming.
Led Bib – Power Walking – Bring Your Own
Metal Urbain – Cle’ De Contact – Anarchy In Paris! – First Rough Trade single.

The Haskels – Baby Let’s French – 7″ – RIP Richard LaValliere.
Brothers & Sisters – Don’t Let’m Tell You – Eccentric Soul: The Nickel & Penny Labels – 1972. – [N] – [C]
Damien Jurado – Ohio – Rehearsals For Departure
Jason Urick – Don’t Digital – I Love You – [N]
Dangerbird – Powerload – III – F.O.D. cover.
Jason Adasiewicz’s Sun Rooms – Hi Touch – Spacer – [N]
A Minor Forest – Cocktail Party – So, Were They In Some Sort Of Fight? – Happy birthday, Andee.

Frustrations – The Drill – Negative Reflections – [N]
Loren Conners – On Our Way – Red Mars
Th’ Faith Healers UK – The People – Imaginary Friend – [R]
Kyle Sowash – What If The Ouija Board Was Right? – Not Songs But Anthems – Volume 2 – [C]
Christopher Robin – One Million & One Watts – 45



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Supplemental Reading.


What’s up, February? Here’s this week’s links/videos/items of interest based on topics discussed during last night’s radio show.

RIP Don Cornelius. Read what Questlove of The Roots had to say about the Soul Train creator’s passing.

Artist and early Destroy All Monsters member Mike Kelley was also found dead yesterday.

Happy 56th birthday to Exene Cervenka of X!

Your free, legal downloads this time out include Pittsburgh’s Code Orange Kids, a belated Christmas song by The Ettes, a great Bombino track and two Portland, Oregon bands covering older Portland, Oregon bands care of Jackpot! Recording.



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2/1/12 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Pens – Cry-Baby – Hey Friend, What You Doing?
3:33 – LFTG IX – Live From The Grove – [N]
Shale – Proud R.J. – 12″
Hermit Thrushes – Braided Stones – Mystery Ocean
David Bazan, Will Johnson, Bubba Kadane & Matt Kadane – Redback Strike – Esopus 17: Fear Itself – Members of Pedro The Lion, Centromatic & Bedhead. – [N] – [C]
SWCK – Mechanical Worries – Unicorn Chasers
Wild Hairs – Everybody Humps My Baby (But Me) – S/T – Unreleased!

Code Orange Kids – Give (The Rats, They Want You) – CYCLES
The Ettes – The Stars In The Sky – mp3 – Belated Christmas song.
Thee Speaking Canaries – Terrestrial / Famous No Space – Songs For The Terrestrially Challenged (Lo-Fi Version) – Recorded by Wayne Rogers.
Don Cornelius & The Soul Train Gang – Spectrum – 45 – RIP.
Laura Stevenson & The Cans – The Wait – Sit Resist – Playing the Don Giovanni Records Showcase.
Bombino – Tar Hani (My Love) – Agadez – Forthcoming.
X – Because I Do – Under The Big Black Sun – Happy 56th birthday, Exene Cervenka!

Swiz – Much – No Punches Pulled
Sidney Pinchback – This Is The Woman – Eccentric Soul: The Nickel & Penny Labels – 1972. – [N]
The 198$$ – Treasure Of The Nervous Nothing – Split 12″ with Solex
Nathan Salsburg – Affimed – Affirmed – About the horse. – [N]
Mission Spotlight – Noel, Jonah & Me – Jackpot! Covers Portland – Spinanes cover.
Viktor Timofeev – Eden_Olympia – Give Heath 999 – [N]
Hart – Time Machine – Split Cd with CCR With Skulls – Local.

Radon – Live It Down – A Corporate Giant 7″ Compilation – [C]
Dan Friel – Desert Song – Ghost Town – Member of Parts & Labor.
Rebecca Gates & The Consortium – Dangerous – mp3 – Cool’R cover.
Geoff Farina – Prick Up Your Ears – The Wishes Of The Dead – [N]
Delta 5 – The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter – 45
Bill Goffrier & Saucer – Ghost Of Emily Returns – The Saucer Years – He of Big Dipper. – [N]
Sonic Youth – Orange Rolls, Angels Split – Dirty – RIP Mike Kelley.

Black Flag – Nervous Breakdown – The First Four Years – [R]
Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Time To Be Clear – Wolfroy Goes To Town – [N]
Him – Out Here – New Features
Blaise Pascal – Algiers – Foreword
Destroy All Monsters – Vampire – 1974-76 – RIP Mike Kelley.
David Redford Triad – Violent Stupid Friend – Blue Cloud
Fugazi – Glue Man – S/T – [R]

Dag Nasty – Can I Say – Can I Say – [R]
Souls Of Mischief – Spark – Cd5
Game Theory – Shark Pretty – The Enigma Variations 2 – [C]
Gito Gito Hustler – Amibition – Gito Gito Galore



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Supplemental Reading.


Here’s this week’s links/videos/items of interest based on topics discussed during last night’s radio show. More downloads galore to be had below, but first enjoy Solex covering Echo & The Bunnymen.

The “bratpunk” of Philadelphia’s Slutever!

Live music from Jonathan Kane’s February!

The second Instamatic Ep!

Off the forthcoming Tim Foljahn record!

A slower version of a Superchunk song you might already know!

The first single from the latest Damien Jurado album!

Pay what you choose for The Holidays Don’t Have To Be So Rotten: Volume 2!

One song for every NFL team by DiskothiQ!

You’re all set. See you next Wednesday evening.



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1/25/12 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Sludgehammer – Big Water – 7″
South Shore Commission – You Got Me Hummin’ – Eccentric Soul: The Nickel & Penny Labels – 1969. – [N] – [C]
Adam Arcuragi – Presidents’ Song – Like A Fire That Consumes All Before It… – Forthcoming.
Solex – The Cutter – Split 12″ with The 198$$ – Echo & The Bunnymen cover.
Voivod – Blower – To The Death 84 – [N]
Noun – Pearly Gates – Holy Hell – Marissa from Screaming Females.
Latin Dogs – Killed In Jail – Bloodstains Across The Midwest – 1982. – [C]

Slutever – Seventh Grade – Sorry I’m Not Sorry – Local.
Thurston Moore – Triple Moine – mp3
Jonathan Kane’s February – Blissed Out Rag – Live at ISSUE Project Room
Cranford & Thompson – Murder Of The Lawson Family – mp3
Instamatic – Replacement For Life – See The Signal
Tim Foljahn – New Light – Songs For An Age Of Extinction – Forthcoming on Kiam Records.
Pet Milk – Husker Dudes – Philadelphia Punklife – Local.

Acid Baby Jesus – Fingerpainting – S/T – Greek. – [N]
Ornament – Tonight – 45 – Marcy Mays, Greg Dulli, Steve Earle and others.
W.W. Lowman – Stout Leroy – Kumquat May – [N]
Junkers – Painter-Man – 7″ – Now known as Fossil Eyes.
Abdul Hameed feat. Nahid Akhtar – Catch Me If You Can – Life Is Dance! – [N] – [C]
Andrew Cedermark – Untruth – Split 7″ with Family Portrait – Formerly of Titus Andronicus.
Superchunk – Blinders (Slow Version) – Unreleased

The Blackouts – Dead Man’s Curve – History In Reverse
Damien Jurado – Museum Of Flight – Maraqopa – Forthcoming.
New Terrors – Christmas Means Carnage!!! – The Holidays Don’t Have To Be So Rotten: Volume 2 – [C]
DiskiothiQ – Patriots / Giants – The Football Albums – For our Super Bowl XLVI combatants.
Zomes – No. 2 – Improvisations – Asa Osborne of Lungfish. – [N]
Cardinal – Kal – Hymns – First album in 18 years?
Zipgun – Feel It Wearin – 8 Track Player

DC Snipers – Soviet Union – Missile Sunset
Human Adult Band – Byron Lives – Hearing Damage Sessions – [N]
Allen Karpinski – Red Echo – mp3
Charalambides – Before You Go – Exile – [N]
The Dirtbombs – Ode To A Black Man – Ultraglide In Black – Phil Lynott cover.
Waxahatchee – American Weekend – American Weekend – Solo record by Katie Crutchfield of P.S. Eliot. – [N]
Decahedron – No Carrier – Disconnection Imminent – Members of Fugazi & Frodus.

Jandek – Cathy Sue – Seattle Friday – Recorded 10/27/06. – [N]



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Supplemental Reading.


Here’s this week’s links/videos/items of interest based on topics discussed during last night’s radio show. A crazy number of free downloads this time out.

Above, a John Wesley Coleman video co-starring the late Esme Barrea. If you wish to help her family defer funeral costs, you can do so here.

Download The Happy Hamsters Go Ghostbustin’ at your own risk.

Happy 70th birthday, Muhammad Ali.

A new Mind Spiders track from their sophomore effort on Dirtnap.

The Third Bass remix I played and many other rare jams are housed here.

I’d like to hear more of this Laetitia Sadier collaborative record.

The new Reigning Sound album is a free record available through Scion AV.

Unreleased Tar!

Everything Regressive Aid ever did (and more).

Okkervil River have a second free covers album out titled Golden Opportunities 2.

David Williams and others remix Clinic songs.

The leadoff track from the forthcoming third Disappears album.

Jason Noble has uploaded a new Per Mission cut.

Literature say “name your price” for their full length Arab Spring.

The Brainiac Peel Sessions are part of a live archive project focused on Dayton’s finest.



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1/18/12 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Minutes – Peacetime – S/T – [N]
Blondie – Rip Her To Shreds – Best Of
The Happy Hamsters – Imperial March – The Happy Hamsters Go Ghostbustin’
John Wesley Coleman – Come On Cops – Bad Lady Goes To Jail
The Best Ever & Muhammad Ali – The People’s Choice – Hits & Misses – Happy 70th birthday, champ. – [C]
Supreme Dicks – In A Sweet Song – Breathing & Not Breathing – [N] – [R]
Sarin McHugh & The Everymen – Telephone – Rotocoma Pollution!

Mind Spiders – Wait For Us – Meltdown – Forthcoming.
Bappi Lahiri – Meri Jaan – Bollywood Bloodbath – [N] – [C]
Scrawl – Ted Nugent Medley – Travel On, Scrawl – Exactly what it says it is.
MC Serch – Back To The Grill (Remix) – 12″ – With Chubb Rock, Red Hot Lover Tone and Nas.
Half Man Half Biscuit – All I Want For Christmas Is A Dulka Prague Away Kit – Back In The D.H.S.S.
Latetitia Sadier – The Opposite Of Spectator – La Piscine – [C]
Austrian Death Machine – It’s Turbo Time – Jingle All The Way

Obnox – Gin & Coke Water – I’m Bleeding Now – Lamont Thomas of This Moment In Black History.
Scott McDowell – There Is A Change In The Air – WFMU Reinterprets The Music Of Sun Ra – Heavy Silence remix. – [N]
Giant Sand – Blue Lit Rope – Purge & Slouch – Reissue of a 1993 record.
Jack Ruby – Hit & Run – S/T – 1974 no wave. – [N]
The Midwest Beat – Back To Mono – 45
Mogwai – Drunk & Crazy – Earth Division
Reigning Sound – Everything I Do Is Wrong – Abdication…For Your Love

Tar – ??? – Over & Out sessions – Unreleased.
Big Daddy Kane – Raw – The Very Best Of… – [R]
Regressive Aid – Anti-Chair – Effects On Exposed People – [R]
Okkervil River – U.F.O. – Golden Opportunities 2 – Jim Sullivan cover.
The Jonah Jones Quartet – The Poor People Of Paris – Great Instrumental Hits
Clinic – Baby (Subtlety Is Old Hat remix) – mp3 – Remixed by David Williams.
White Mystery – Blood & Venom – Blood & Venom

Disappears – Replicate – Pre Language – Forthcoming.
The Human Switchboard – Maybe (Someone Wanted To Help) – Coffee Break – Thanks to the listener who digitized this live record for me!
Per Mission – A Reminder (orange) – mp3 – Jason Noble of Shipping News/Rodan/etc.
Nihiti – Pinko Norning – Faced With Splendor – [N]
Brainiac – Sexual Frustration – Peel Session – 1995.
Citay – Secret Breakfast – Dream Get Together
Literature – Criminal Kids – Arab Spring

Dustheads – Bike – Little Pieces



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1/11/12 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


“Best of 2011 (Part Two)”

The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel”

Implodes – Hands On The Rail – Black Earth
Rob – Just One More Time – Funky Rob Way – 1977. Ghanaian.
Jane & Jeff Hudson – 3 X 3 – Flesh
My Disco – Young – Little Joy
Gestapo Khazi – Escalators – 45
The Skull Defekts – Peer Amid – Peer Amid – With Daniel Higgs.
Mean Jeans – Steve Don’t Party No More – Dirtnap Records 2011 Sampler – [C]

Home Blitz – A.T.K. – 45
Notekillers – Goolab Rico – We’re Here To Help
Moon Duo – Seer – Mazes
Waipod Phetsuphan – Ding Ding Dong – The Sound Of Siam – [C]
System Liliputt – Smilet – Harpa – 1984 reissue. – [N]
Caterpillar – Johnstown – Johnstown – Local. – [N]
Thee Oops – Death To Brunetta – Taste Of Zimbabwe – From Sardinia.

Parts & Labor – Hurricane – Constant Future
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cononou – La La La La – The First Album – Benin. 1973.
Edie Sedgwick – Silver Bullets – Love Gets Lovelier Every Day
The Danse Society – Seen The Light – Demos Vol. 1 – 1983 reissue.
Black Bug – Run – S/T
Chain & The Gang – Music’s Not For Everyone – Music’s Not For Everyone
Cruddy – An Impasse – Negative World – [N]

Coitus Int. – Trap Questions / Dry Up Soon – Dead Excitement – Dutch. 1980.
Reading Rainbow – Wasting Time – Prism Eyes – Now known as Bleeding Rainbow.
Mogwai – Mexican Grand Prix – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
Sorry Bamba – Poory – Volume One: 1970-1979
Europa – Heroes Prefabricados – La Ultima Emocion! – 1981. Valencia, Spain. – [N]
Balaclavas – Down & Loose – Snake People – [N]
Apache Dropout – God Bless You Johan Kugelberg – S/T

Glenn Jones – The Orca Grande Cement Factory At Victoriaville – The Wanting – Chris Corsano on percussion. – [N]

The “Best of 2011 (Part One)” playlist can be found here.



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1/4/12 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


“Best of 2011”

The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Eleventh Dream Day – Cold Steel Grey – Riot Now!
The Thangs – Ride The Rings – Invading Your Space
Disco Zombies – Drums Over London – Drums Over London
Wugazi – Another Chessboxin’ Argument – 13 Chambers
Liturgy – Glass Earth / Harmonia – Aesthetica
Jennifer O’Connor – Change Your Life – I Want What You Want
Obits – Everything Looks Better In The Sun – Moody, Standard & Poor

Fucked Up – Queen Of Hearts – David Comes To Life
Tafo feat. Noor Jehan & Cheeku – Dil Be-Qarar Mangda Ae Pyar – Life Is Dance! – Lollywood. – [N] – [C]
Household – Go Away – Items – [N]
Simple Circuit – Sattrash – Casual Victim Pile II – [C]
The Psychic Paramount – DDB – II
Human Switchboard – In This Town – Who’s Landing In My Hanger? – Anthology. – [N]
The Men – Think – Leave Home – [N]

Thee Oh Sees – The Dream – Carrion Crawler / The Dream Ep – [N]
The Feelies – When You Know – Here Before
Ilaiyaraaja – One And Two Chachacha – Solla Solla – [C]
Carolee – Closed Light – Ep1 – [N]
Xex – Fashion Hurts – Group: Xex
Wire – A Flat Tent – Red Barked Tree
Psandwich – Stoned To Death – Northern Psych – [N]

The Hussy – Have A Say – Cement Tomb Mind Control
Robert Scott – On The Lake – Ends Run Together
Fuck Yeah, Dinosaurs! – These Are The People That I Want To See Eaten By Dinosaurs – Live At Howlers
Sroeng Santi – Kuen Keun Lueng Lueng – Thai? Dai! – Black Sabbath cover. – [C]
Antietam – Something’s Gonna Give – Tenth Life
Starter – Lunapark – S/T – 1981.
Again Again – Wrong Again – Messthetics #108 – [C]

Bass Drum Of Death – GB City – GB City
David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights – Diamond Mind – Left By Soft
Circuit Des Yeux – I’m On Fire – Portrait – Bruce Springsteen cover.
Dan Melchior – Atomizer – Assemblage Blues
Light Coma – Remake – Countermeasures – [N]
Parade Ground – Action Replay – The Golden Years – With Colin Newman of Wire. – [N]
Wild Flag – Romance – S/T – [N]

Disappears – Revisiting – Guider

…thus concludes part one. Next week: Part Two!



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2011 Christmas Stories.


Roughly three weeks before the 2011 edition of the 24-Hour Holiday Radio Show, I had the idea to ask a number of friends, musicians, comedians and others that I admired to record their definitions of an original “Christmas story” to intersperse throughout the program.

Despite the limited amount of time between the moment this concept came to me while stuck on Route 206 and Christmas Eve, I was thrilled both with the submissions that I received and the quality of them all. Some were unexpectedly bloody, some were legitimately funny, some were fully realized songs, more than one involved a dead pet.

Hopefully I’ll be able to expand this project in 2012. It would be great to have one new piece to debut each hour.

Below you’ll find all the 2011 Christmas Stories in the order they originally aired on WPRB (minus one I yet to have permission to post).

Rick Rizzo – Bloody Christmas

Rick Rizzo

Rick Rizzo is a founding member of Eleventh Dream Day. Their 10th album “Riot Now!” is one of 2011’s best.

Karlee Dean & Bill Goffrier – The Littlest Tree

Karlee Dean & Bill Goffrier

Bill Goffrier was in two of my favorite purveyors of terminal plaid shirt rock, The Embarrassment and Big Dipper. He has a new collection available called “The Saucer Years.”

Joel RL Phelps – Someday Soon (We Will All Be Together)

Joel RL Phelps

I am not lying when I say getting three songs emailed me to at the last minute by Joel Phelps was nothing short of a Christmas miracle in my book. When I think of my favorite “unique American voices,” he’s at the front of a list of artists (see also House, Ron and Gelb, Howe) where I will listen to and love anything they do.

Aaron Hertzog & Gregg Gethard – A Holding Court Christmas

Holding Court

Aaron and Gregg are the gentlemen behind the rambling, circuitous NBA-centric podcast Holding Court. We appear to share a love of the early ’00s Sacramento Kings.

Tom Scharpling – Christmas Story

Tom Scharpling

Tom Scharpling hosts The Best Show On WFMU every Tuesday night, but you already knew that. This piece was followed by the William S. Burroughs and Kurt Cobain collaboration “The ‘Priest’ They Called Him.”

Daniel Ralston – Christmas Story

Daniel Ralston

Low Times is one of the best new podcasts of 2011 and Daniel is 33% of the brain trust behind it. He also played in a band called Greyhounds, who visited my show in 2007. Not sure if he wants you to know that or not.

Seth Herzog – My Christmas

Seth Herzog

Seth is apparently the warm-up comic these days for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. He brings unto you a weekly show called Sweet in Manhattan that I am overdue to attend with all sorts of impressive guests. When I was a freshman in high school he was my Peer Group leader.

Brian Howard & Beth Howard – Howards Holiday Story

Brian and Beth

Editor in Chief of Book Business magazine! Former Editor in Chief at Cowbell Magazine! Former Editor in Chief at Philadelphia City Paper! Sometimes fill in host on Wednesday nights with “No Culture Icons“! Good guy with a good beard! That’s Brian Howard.

The finest athletic trainer in all of Division I! Proprietor of bethysmalls.com! Chef who made me a sun dried tomato macaroni and cheese I think about more often than I should! That’s Beth Howard.

They are brother and sister. This piece was followed by Fay McKay’s “The 12 Daze Of Christmas.”

Carolyn Huckabay – My Christmas Story

Carolyn Huckabay

Carolyn Huckabay was recently named Public Relations Associate by Canary Promotions. Previously, she was Arts Editor at Philadelphia City Paper. Not bad, kid.

Joel RL Phelps – O Come Emmanuel

Joel Rl Phelps

Joel RL Phelps – The New Year

Joel Rl Phelps

Merry Christmas and happy holidays, everyone. Thanks for your support during the show. That was some of the most fun I’ve ever had on the radio.

If you enjoy what these artists do, please visit their sites, follow them on the Twitter and buy their records.

Jon Solomon
103.3 fm WPRB



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