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The Freeform Pathogen

Aug 24, 2022 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

With Mike Lupica

Freeform radio for creative weirdos and deskbound dreamers. A sonic one-stop for Acid Dub, Beardo Bhangra, Micro-Folk Turntablism, Krautdrone, Cambodian Synthwave, Glam Pop, Art-Damaged Metal, Electro-Stoner Jazz, Proto Soul-Punk, DIY Hip-Hop, Psychedelic EDM, Minimalist Power Violence, Pre-Hipster NYC Weirdcore, and Afro-Hillbilly Futurism. Up and down this goddam dial since 1992.

Sometimes I remember that I'm on Twitter.

Mark Farner Homeboy Cabdriving Deathstomp

Wednesday Night Pitcrew, please rise! Apologies for my recent absence from our weekly appointments. Last week I thought my kid had Covid (turns out she didn't), but I took off anyway in anticipation of Needing To Deal With That. Zillion dollar thanks to Commie Francis for stepping up on short notice to cover the show last week.

No webcam, no nickel gags, and no parlor tricks tonight. Just a pile of great records and three hours with which to burn through 'em. Refresh this page to see the most recently-played songs, say hello in the Listener Lounge, and be among friends in these waning days of summer.

8:01 PM		Chris Joss Little Nature Sticks 18th Street Lounge 2009
8:07 PM		U.S. Girls So Typically Now N So Typically Now - Single 4AD 2022
8:10 PM		Spizzenergi Soldier Soldier 7" Rough Trade 1979
8:14 PM		Oneida Beat Me to the Punch N Success Joyful Noise Recordings 2022
8:19 PM		ABBA Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) 7" Atlantic 1979
8:23 PM		Boris My name is blank N Heavy Rocks (2022) Relapse Records 2022
8:26 PM		Warlock Pinchers Island of the Misfit Toyboys Circusized Peanuts Boner 1991
8:31 PM		Sex Pistols No One is Innocent The Great Rock & Roll Swindle Virgin 1979
8:34 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
8:41 PM		Madness Embarrassment 7" Stiff Records 1980
8:44 PM		Tall Dwarfs Life Is Strange N Unravelled: 1981–2002 Merge 2022 Glory be!
8:47 PM		Why Bother? Laughing at What I Forgot N Lacerated Nights Feel It 2022
8:49 PM		Homeboy Sandman Lovin It N Digital Single 2022
8:52 PM		Fusilier No Words Treason - EP 2022
8:56 PM		Steve Wynn Watch Your Step Here Come the Miracles (Expanded Edition) Blue Rose 2001
9:00 PM		The Kinks The Village Green Preservation Society The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (2018 Stereo Remaster) 1968
9:03 PM		The Frowning Clouds Not the Fool N Gospel Sounds and More from the Church of Scientology LP Anti Fade Records 2022
9:05 PM		Kitty Ford Blue Diamond Ring N Pussycat Sundazed 2022 Orig. a long time ago
9:07 PM		GA-20 Dry Run N Crackdown 2022
9:10 PM		The Reivers Star Telegram End of the Day Capitol 1989
9:15 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
9:22 PM		Roxy Music Take a Chance with me 7" WB 1982
9:26 PM		Just Mustard Still N Heart Under Partisan Records 2022
9:29 PM		The Kleptones Let's Get the Dirt From Detroit to J.A.
9:34 PM		Alice Cohen Wild Wolf N Moonrising Styles Upon Styles 2022
9:39 PM		Empire Expensive Sound N Expensive Sound Munster 2022 Orig. 1981. Members of Generation X!
9:42 PM		Nilüfer Yanya Baby Blu Miss Universe ATO Records / Fontana North 2019
9:47 PM		We Ragazzi Being Alive Is Like Vandalizing Suicide Sound System My Pal God Records 2004
9:49 PM		Paul McCartney Eat At Home Ram Apple 1971
9:53 PM		Jimmy Pursey Animals Have More Fun 7" Epic 1981 He of Sham 69
9:55 PM		Cliff Richard We Don't Talk Anymore 7" EMI 1979
10:00 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:07 PM		The Grifters Centuries Full-Blown Possession LP Sub Pop 1997
10:11 PM		Conjunto Ingenieri Aefo N Digital Single El Palmas 2022 From a forthcoming LP compiling the best of the Venezuelan big band's 3 LPs
10:14 PM		Jimetta Rose & Voices of Creation Answer the Call N How Good It Is Day Dreamer 2022
10:21 PM		Reevo Dirty Secret N All Welcome on Planet Ree-Vo 2022
10:26 PM		Edan Humble Magnificent Primitive Plus Lewis Recordings 2002
10:29 PM		White Hills Oceans of Sound N The Revenge of Heads on Fire 2022
10:34 PM		Allison Lorenzen VALE (feat. Midwife) N Tender Whited Sepulchre Records 2022
10:40 PM		Zachary Cale Sundowner Duskland No Quarter 2015
10:43 PM		Roky Erickson & The Aliens Bloody Hammer I Think of Demons LP Edsel 1987
10:47 PM		Daniel Higgs Say God Say God Thrill Jockey 2010

Chat is archived.

Refresh button bitches!

I'll make Plankton mind control you, like he did with Spongebob and made him his bitch, LOOOOOL

SO REFRESHING!

I live for the Wednesday evening essyesque

...but seriously, did anyone find my hat?

SPRING BREAK BITCHESSSSS

Right where you left it Jon!

DOG'S WORK, INDEED!

roffle tool it

took

Tooken

Also, hello good people of earth.

Correct assuming we're all earthlings.

And also to you dear stargazer.

Ahh, fair point. Smart money's on Vegans. Not that kind, the other ones.

Vegan is great is you have a choice. Ya know barring a zombie apocalypse and all that.

I am just glad they happen to be grass fed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega

Vegeta is entirely different I guess.

they still want an American to go, Mike

Do I have talk to that creepy bald guy first?

Of course!

Cashed out, in that case. Send Jodie Foster instead.

boy that guy is the bezos of the future

Jodie Foster has an Army, and she knows space balls!

yess i was just thinking about wanna buy a bridge

Totally had a Jodie Foster's Army sticker on my car in high school. I was routinely beaten up.

Where can I buy a bridge?

Awesome comp, Dave! Forgot that track is on there.

Dave Morris beat me.

This new Oneida record is super good.

2002 me never would have anticipated 2022 me reckoning with a world in which there IS a new Oneida record. But yes, totally agree.

I found that album by JFA in San Lois Obisbo! Brilliant! Who else would even get that reference! Yeah, I learning music with you guy!

Me love...

I learn puntuation! Look ,.?;":'"!

Crackin' whips break the speep of sound sometimes.

But spelling is still a bitch.

Gimme gimme gimme a JAM 🚨🚨🚨 after midnight

PST?

Heard this in the grocery store the other night and was all like "OH NO YOU DIDN'T" in the frozen food aisle.

Last time I tuned in to poison idea, now ABBA?? Radio perfection!

Lol Mike

Welcome back Mike!

This is from their split 7" on Profane Existence!

(Thank you)

haha amazing

I love that they made every dollar they had work. Smart AF.

ABBA--->BORIS segue. (DJ blows smoke off barrel of gun.)

Oh yeah the ABBA/extinction of mankind split

Mike plays the turntable with a knife.

Picked that up at the Smörgåstårta Not Bombs benefit.

@Rofflestomp, I have tried to play a slice of toast on a turntable but even I have my limits.

But you tried!

Meeester Mike, hallo!

crumby

I wonder who the prior WPRB DJ to play Warlock Pinchers is.

Jimbeaux walks in just as I start playing the Warlock Pinchers. He totally planned this.

It better have been me.

Best album name! Pinch me.

pinchy!

I requested warlock pinchers for the Christmas sjow

Thought this was some buckethead metal-crunch-rap at first!

But i have never played them myself

No record of Warlock Pinchers in my playlist archives...

I requested them for this year! But i think it was not radio friendly

I found their Christmas record while i was transcribing old mrr reviews

Most hits for "Warlock Pinchers" + "WPRB are old MRRs.

Is there a search function for spinitron?

This is the 2nd time I've played the Sex Pistols this summer. WTF, man?

Krista, yes, but you *might* need to be an admin to use it. I will investigate later, or maybe Jon knows?

It's okay, as I'd never heard this one before.

In the past 24 hours, only one radio station has played Warlock Pinchers.

The *best* station

My work on this planet is done.

Krista we can search wprb plays going back a decent amount but other stations only 24 hours

On to Vega!

I've played los punk rockers sex pistols covers twice

Jon, I think Spintron is awesome, I don't know about the community colleges in remote North Dakota playlist choises though.

Featuring Spanish speakers listening to sex pistols songs a time or two and then trying to sing them

It's amazing to find oneself in front of piles of records

Let's talk about the professionals

beeee careful

https://www.westword.com/music/warlock-pinchers-an-extensive-oral-history-straight-from-the-jokers-mouth-5718528

funny-haired kids turn on fascists

I found a February 2022 spin of Warlock Pinchers on a different radio station. - https://twitter.com/WZRDPlaylist/status/1498482922222931970

Hamilton, Montana still has one

Tell her how the super Walmarts used to be open all night lolol

24 hr grocery, that is

"I had a Walkman probably" Yuppers! lol

One of the most Philly experiences I have ever had is watching a lady in eagles pajama pants dancing sexy to pour some sugar on me at shop rite on aramingo

Thanks for the shoutout! Keep up your membership drive pledges kids, it pays off, I'm living proof

I was actually quite sick (not covid) by the time I did that show and barely remember it.

OMG, you had cancer too? So did until I talked to my cousins who work at John Hopkin's as Doctors.

Commie, that Los Punkrockers LP is GOLD.

I love it so much

I feel like we are getting flirtaciously close to hearing the damned

richard - Almost read one of your comments as Hsnnah Montana lol

Ossy me too

Good evening everyone

Chris and Alex!!!!!!!!!

Tyler! I received a terrific photo of you over the weekend! OK to share socially?

new comp out!

Hi Commie!

Oh dang can we get this tall dwarfs in new emph

Hi ossy!

Hahaha uh oh! Go ahead Jon. I'm only embarrassed for you to see what I've done to your parents shirt

Commie, I ordered it last week. I will see about "losing" the MP3 d/l card.

So nice to meet you this weekend tyler

Hannah Montana may be open too :)

that is what you make it! Miley/Hannah

Even though I have most of Tall Dwarfs albums. I am getting this. 55 songs. Hell yeah

This is getting redundant, but look in the last place you left the card. Apologies up front.

Okay either somebody is messing with me, or commie Francis and Dana K are the same person.

I have not seen any evidence yet that they are not the same person..

I am messing with you

We have done radio shows together at the same time although i guess i could just be changing voices

Well played, Commie.

Hahaha whew. It's like you all were right there!

After the whole Pato/Pangaeo scandal I don't know who to trust anymore

WPRB staff party on the playlist. See how many DJs you can summon.

Ha, two questionnaires will be devised. The one who answers the the cheesesteak question... Well, we shall see.

Desperate Dan Appreciation Society now called to order... the minutes please!

BTW, thanks Mike. But Robert's Rules just trumped us all!

Office Block Persecution Affinity... one for the employees

Right on time, Brian!

Draught Beer Preservation Society. And Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium. My faves of Mr Davies assocations

I certainly defer to Draught Beer Preservation!

I happen to have just become a member of the montgomery country opened canned beer appreciation society!

Canned in the house as well. Bucks repped

Where the gods lark!

Spell correct always does that to county.

Nice Kitty Ford pick! '60 ish

i agree, ford was jammin!

Kitty is the alter-ego of Mimi Roman. Can't wait for the official release, love everything I've heard so far.

Nice segue!

Thanks Dennis! Now the REAL question is determining who the last WPRB DJ to play the Reivers was.

Oooooh Zeitgeist...i mean Reivers.

This is an ultimate wistful-end-of-summer jam for me.

This has strong Martin Courtney (Real Estate frontman) solo album vibes, in a good way

Three pointer, Jimbeaux.

if i was a betting man i bet it was before the spintorn daze

Reivers cool. Reavers not so much.

Saw them live once...infrickingcredible!

And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Obscure Reivers References

Don't know this stuff. Thanks Mike. I love you fuckers and this is always why. I gotta get, but thank you all. Goodnight.

marcus,🧥

Translate Slowly is a masterpiece album.

Nice jimbeaux! I still play cassettes I recorded from records borrowed from Rockin' Rudys in Missoula MT in the late 80s during my radio show

microwave

BTW, I will always be listening.

Cool...when/wheres your show richard?

Roffle...thnks 2 you!

when the solar particle winds are just right, i hear wprb resonating on the various bits of metal embedded inside me.

idk, this moment is pretty good to me.

Colin, shortwave band 1 or 2?

KUFM Missoula 1989-90. Saturdays 2-6 am. Then Fridays 11-2am. Fun stuff with all the drunk Montana fans.

richard, that sounds fantastic!

Love missoula!

i bet there is some sick tapes of the show out there in montana

Born 45 miles south of there. Hamilton

I need more Tall Dwarfs

Colin, I had them recorded but I was too immature to save them

I think i played revivers once but probably pre wprb

Roxy Music is Aces!

Reivers

Roxy!😎

the question i end up asking myself, if i was hanging out with roxy music, would their conversations be over my head?

Rockin' Rudys would let DJs take any used record or CD out for 24 hrs for our shows. Absolutely life changing for me

There's a great Missoula punk comp in the PRB stacks. Commie, you know the name? It's a 7", came out in, like, 1996 or so?

The 2001 Roxy show on YouTube is great. Chris Spedding joins Phil.

There is a new LP compilation of 1980s Montana punk and related due out later this year...

Found it! https://www.discogs.com/release/11640233-Various-Landlocked-Missoulapuncomp

How could I forget band names like Honky Sausage and Humpy.

I wore out cassette recorders. I couldn't even keep up with listening. HA

mike, guess what i'm requesting next time i'm listening to an in studio dj!

Colin, hit up Grady or Ameena with that. They'll dig it.

Oh yeah i know that comp, too slow

Haven't heard it but I will take Commie's advice and wait to check it. I don't know the players

commie, slow is the comp or the data processor in your head?

My head

btw, that just mustard was nice!

honky sausage is very Montucky :D

and now that i think about it, i blend condiments, but never mustard

iiccecreammmm with pretzels and extra mustard

commie, i have the same processor!

Colin, from Ireland! Now I want to go there and see them play with Sprints.

Well that was a crap segue.

Mmhm, smelly yellow mustard! Quite the stinky1

not an easy one to pull off

Glad to see mustard talk can bridge two shows.

trying to pull you back in Jon

1. I live for mustard 2. Im scared of how bad my transitions are gonna be once I go back to playing records on the air. I'm so out of practice.

I never left! (Save for a break to wash some dishes.)

Commie, you can do some warmup shows from the Starlite Lounge if you want!

Aw thank you!

Wash mine pleas

As long as we're talking condiments, how do y'all feel about Capitol City Mambo Sauce?

new to me

T.B. has a whole mustard-themed show planned i hear...

pepper, vinegar-based?

or Megan The Stallion hot stinky sauce

Back on the winning segue track.

I gather you can now get Capitol City Mambo Sauce at Target.

I can't remember where I bought it but now I need to buy, like, a case of it.

Dang! The D.C. company arrived

Sounds good with the soy and sugar

Where is Rob

I've had incredisauce on my supper over the last three days.

If Twitter is to be believed, he is cheating on us with KEXP.

Gasp

RUDE

LOL

oh THAT sauce! someone put it on my pizza and there are knowe ragretts

***collapses on fainting couch***

That smells, Richard, HAHAHA

DID NOT ANTICIPATE THIS WOULD BE SO CONTROVERSIAL

if were coming clean about cheating... there has been a good punk show on kdu sunday nights

Dang! Now I have two more adds on my shopping list

Do you mean YONI my mortal enemy

i can't remember the guys name, but not yoni, his show is after the punk show.

Ah i dunno then. It just would have been funny if it was yoni

(we're not really enemies)

mustard does smell. I was chuckling about Jon's daughter who put extra mustard on mustard pretzel ice cream :)

Hey, this record sounds pretty good in 2022!

Agree!

I’m glad that fainting couch was there, Jon.

Shakti Yoni? I saw Gilli Smyth with Daevid Allen around 1980. Hot Club.

Oh i know the before yoni show. That is the only radio show that I know of that has played my band besides running red lights jen

level up your mustard skills https://food.fnr.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/food/fullset/2022/08/04/FN_frenchs-mustard-donut-1_s4x3.jpg.rend.hgtvcom.1280.960.suffix/1659627506970.jpeg

Then Jen must fight them.

HA Colin!

Jimmy pursey solo!!!

Everytime there's a stinky mustard conversation, I bring up my one classmate in 2nd grade that put mustard on his entire pizza, he had stinky ass breath!

I know, right? I bought this in that pile of records I've been talking about all night because of course I couldn't resist a 1 dollar Jimmy Pursey 45.

And then.. I also bought this.

SING IT, YOU BASTARDS.

Oh cliff

Sometimes it seems as if

You really are a cliff

When fascists try to push you over it

*nervously looks around the room and wonders if i'm the only one who never heard this before....

experience it Colin...

You'll know it soon enough

You probably know it by now

i have relocated from a seated to a standing stance during this jam

"[Cliff Richard] has sold more than 250 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time."

He has has #1 (UK) hits in SOX

Lol SIX decades

No Jackasses

Fine i won't tell you

:-0

Hopefully my petition to kick Mike off the air finally gets enough signature this season

👖

if my memory serves me correctly rosasolis is subbing for tb tonight, i may be wrong tho

Commie, I just played a Cliff Richard 45 on the air. I would kick me off the air.

I started the NO MORE DADS committee

WHERE DO I SIGN

Then again i played masterboy the other week so who am I to talk

I need to turn in. Have a good night everybody! Don't blow it, Mike!

Good night Jon!

See ya, Jon!

this is fantastic exit music for jon.

Night Jon!

#waltons

Also thanks for the show Jon, sorry for not saying earlier :x

lol, #waltonswithrecycling

I just unearthed this memory of driving through Albany with my dad in the 90s and listening to the RPI station and the DJs were talking like Thurston Howell and trying to give away grifters tickets and no one wanted them. I would have called in but we were going camping

Damn, can't believe the old Thurston Howell DJ Voice Trick didn't work.

commie be like, if i ever find a time machine guess where i'm going

Albany in the mid 90s?

Or the set of Gilligan's island?

who wouldn't with that knowledge!!

Free grifters tickets!!

MY favorite ticket giveaway memory is winningtix to see Blur on WTSR in, like, 1990 when no one knew who they were. I worked in Trenton at the time and the DJs were refusing to play more music until someone called for the tickets, so I stopped at a payphone on Olden Ave, dialed up, won, and went to the show with my friend Amanda that night.

mike, was the show great? I got free tickets to see blur in 92, and that to this day is one of the best shows i ever went too. never heard them till that night.

I would probably go back in time and buy a cough/cool 7"

Two cough/cool 7"s

Mine is Peter Hamill and Graham Smith at the Bijou

Hammill

Colin, I don't remember it! The Senseless Things also played, so maybe it was more like 1992?

I never won anything except a John Barry CD on the internet during that weird hipster lounge/exotica thing that happened

I won an Easter bunny coloring contest at a pharmacy when I was 10.

SO FUCK ALL Y'ALL

You won on TALENT not just chance. PURE TALENT

i bet mike still flexes his coloring game when nobody is looking🤣

You know it.

loved that jimetta rose funkadelic cover!

coloring art work displays in the playlist in the future?

also, wonders how many chain restaurant coloring placemats mike has rolled up in his basement.

Oh, I *killed it* at Denny's, Colin.

the great busboy art heist of 1986🤣

Side quest: Is it just me, or is heavy psychedelic rock Having A Moment again? White Hills, the new Loop record, that new Spiritualized record I overplayed for most of the summer... Seems like a thing.

now we're cruisin'

Cap'n Ahab stylee.

A good chunk of the shows i've been too over the last two years have been fuzzed out psych rock, and those guys were all on top of their chops!

[SPOILER] In that case, seems like a good night for some Roky Erickson.

I dunno if that kind of thing ever really went away?

I guess you're right, it just suddenly seems all up in my business again. Not a complaint, just an observations!\

Man what happened to Edan, those records are fire.

@Dave, last I looked, I think Edan is busy... re-issuing Edan records.

Needs to get busy Fumbling Over Words That Rhyme

Maybe YOU are having a heavy psych rock moment, sounds nice!

It's finding you

Look for my $60 double album on green vinyl with Tony Iommi's toenails pressed into the wax limited edition of 10.

ahhhhh...

Oh good Roky time

rokyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

...roky...

Roky!

I feel like this is the first time I've played Roky since the two hour tribute I did right after he kicked it.

STAND FOR THE FIRE DEMON

I wish I had a recording of that! amen

...say...

I think I recorded it, Richard. I'll let you know if it turns up!

that would go right to the phone!

thank youuuuuu mike!

i just beat my god goal on my fitbit

The first time i ever sang in a band we did stand for the fire demon and night of the vampire at someone's birthday party

Stand for the fire demon (repeat 16x)

Stand for the demon of fire

Cheers

Thanks team. Good hang tonight.

Great show Mike!

Thanks for the banger of a show tonight, Mike!

sounds like kid koala on the decks lol