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The Freeform Pathogen

Jul 5, 2023 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Music

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.

Radio Nerdvana

I'm back from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters conference with a bad case of jetlag, a belly full of convention center food, and more community radio station swag than you can shake a set of XLR cables at. Also, a bunch of great new records to spin for you on this criminally humid day. A great time was had and I'm so proud to have represented WPRB at this annual meeting of non-commercial broadcasting allies. Thanks to Sally, Lisa, Ernesto, Eva, David, Becky, Téa, Freddie, Herb, and all of the other fine folks I spent time with last week. For today's program, I invite you to come for the freeform radio, but to stay for the KVMR rolling papers.

12:02 PM		Armand Schaubroeck Bells I Came to Visit but Decided to Stay Mirror 1974
12:14 PM		Bobby Lee Acid Grassland N Endless Skyways Tompkins Square 2023
12:18 PM		Chisel Privileged & Impotent N Set You Free Numero Group 2023 Re-up, orig. 1997
12:20 PM		Guardian Singles Shimmer N Feed Me To the Doves Trouble In Mind Records 2023
12:24 PM		Shaki Tavi Apple Eyes Shaki Tavi I Mutation Records 2022
12:27 PM		The Rammellzee Do We Have to Show a Resume? The Bi-Conicals of the Rammellzee Gomma 2004
12:32 PM		Burka Band I Care for You 7" Staatsakt Rec. 2021
12:35 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:41 PM		Lalalar Mecnun'dan Beter Haldeyim Bi Cinnete Bakar Bongo Joe 2022
12:46 PM		Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers That Summer Feeling Jonathan Sings! Sire 1983
12:50 PM		Combustible Edison Theme from the Tiki Wonder Hour N Forbidden Isle of Demos Modern Harmonic 2023
12:54 PM		L'Rain New Year's UnResolution N [Digital Single] Mexican Summer 2023
12:57 PM		Homeboy Sandman Off the Rip N Rich Dirty Looks 2023 Full album comes out end of July
1:00 PM		Rocket 808 Mk Ultra Twist N House of Jackpots 12XU 2023
1:03 PM		Nathan Roche Don't Make Me Say It N A Break Away Born Bad Records 2023
1:07 PM		Thin Lizzy Old Flame Johnny the Fox EMI 2013
1:10 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:16 PM		Brian Eno The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh) 7" Island 1975
1:19 PM		Essential Logic Music Is a Better Noise 7" Rough Trade 1980
1:23 PM		Duane Eddy Stalkin' 7" Jamie 1958
1:25 PM		Preston Epps Bongo Rock 7" Original Sound 1959
1:27 PM		Fancy Wild Thing 7" Big Tree 1974
1:31 PM		Scarecrow Walls of Vacaville Sign Language 7" Box Set Allied 1992
1:33 PM		GIT + Hubbs Gitcraft 7" Usedwax 2014
1:36 PM		Bryan Ferry A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall 7" Island 1973 Bob Dylan
1:41 PM		Genesis Abacab 7" Charisma 1981
1:45 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:50 PM		Squid Swing (In a Dream) N O Monolith Warp Records 2023
1:54 PM		7FO Healing Sword N 7" EM Records 2023
1:59 PM		Ellen Zweig Green Silk Fiction of the Physical Phantom Limb 2023 Orig. 1979
2:06 PM		Roxy Gordon Living Life as a Living Target Crazy Horse Never Died Paradise of Bachelors 2023 Orig. 1988
2:09 PM		Algiers Momentary (feat. Lee Bains) N Shook Matador 2023
2:12 PM		Drive Like Jehu If It Kills You Drive Like Jehu Cargo 1992 RIP Rick Froberg. https://www.npr.org/2023/07/02/1185707046/rick-froberg-appreciation-hot-snakes-drive-like-jehu-punk
2:19 PM		Moss Icon Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly (Anniversary Edition) Temporary Residence Ltd. 2023 Orig. 1993
2:30 PM		Ivan The Tolerable and his Elastic Band Lantern Song N Toft House Session Stolen Body Records 2023
2:36 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:42 PM		Fred Lane I Talk to My Haircut From the One That Cut You Shimmy Disc 1983
2:45 PM		Crocodiles Groove Is In the Heart / California Girls Sleep Forever Pod 2010
2:48 PM		Purling Hiss Shining Gilded Boulevard N Drag on Girard Drag City 2023
2:56 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------

Chat is archived.

Happy day after the 4th of July!

hey hay!

busted economic theory trickling down

Dude if you think Denver is bizarre you should visit Boulder.

Level up!

Those front range afternoon storms are rather cool too.

Boulder is "high" on the weird list for sure.

Yo. Sorry for the wonky levels at the start there. Things were all kindsa messed up.

Boulder is on my list! Didn't have time this go-around, but definitely planning on it next time.

This Schaubroeck track has big GROB energy! To my ears anyway...

Those huge high plateau's you can see to the northwest of Denver are awesome all day long.

This Armand Schaubroeck seems to be an interesting dude..

Please explain me GROB?

I'm not sure GROB is something that can be explained. GROB needs to be experienced.

One sec. I'll find a link to one of the previous WPRBXmas GROB tracks...

For your listening pleasure: https://sluggishasxmastravaganza.bandcamp.com/track/grob-little-grobber-boy.

Looks like something Jon Solomon could easily play for Xmas, :)

Oh, Jon has. Many times!

Ah! Makes sense.

pass the rolling papers, please

Yes! KVMR really knocked it out of the park with those. Happy to report that the WPRB tattoos I brought with me also went like hotcakes.

Nice! Killer opening set, Mr. Lupica!

amazing radio station sticker haul!!

Hey Mike, enjoyed the empty Scooby Doo towns comparison to Denver.

@Colin, that's only the first day's haul! All of those (and many more) are now pasted up here on the equipment rack in the Barge.

@DSM, thanks! Very weird vibe. I did feel like I could live there, which is not something I usually say about places that aren't NJ or NYC.

I have a large frame with plastic surface, picked up at a thrift shop and contained a giant Lamborghini poster or something, that I use as a sticker surface that can be re-curated to different locations around the home.

I haven’t been in like 15 years. I think Neil Michael Hagerty calls it home these days?

Lambos are siiiiiick

I think NMH is having some major personal problems, last I heard.

Ayeee

HS! Helzz yeah!!!

He's so awesome. Would love to see about getting him down to the studio.

That would be amazing!

hello Mike & crew

Hey Andrew, welcome back!

🖤🎶🤍

😴

hooray just in time for essential logic

omg but missed combustible edison

Note: She's playing it cool, but I have it on solid confidence that Essential Logic starts playing every time Commie Francis walks into a room.

only in all of our hearts

This is a particularly sleaze version of Wild Thing.

*sleazy

Just want to check in and say thanks for making cleaning out my house for a move a lot more entertaining than it could be.

I live to serve, Mary. Good luck!

Thanks!

I remember hearing this Bryan Ferry song on Radio Luxembourg in 1973, broadcasting British top 30 all over western Europe after 8 or 9 pm. Thank you for playing it, Mike!

*I was living in Italy at the time (and was in high school)

Nice, Rob! Now, EVERYONE: Share your memories of hearing Abacab.

I really dislike Genesis but I have always loved this song. Got a stern talkin' to years ago my the store manager of at an allnite grocery store who didn't like the fact that I appeared to be "rocking out" (his term) in the frozen foods sectio while listening to it on my iPod.

What a frozen lump your manager was

As you can see, "rocking out" is still affecting my ability to spell and assemble a coherent sentence.

Also, I was merely shopping, not working. I only work in places where rocking out is tolerated, if not encouraged.

I hope that guy has thawed out since then!

My memories of Abacab? Catching it on the AOR radio stations in DC in the car while driving around

MIKE RUTHERFORD SEND ME TO HELL

I somehow convinced many of the high schools in Montana to hire me to DJ dances. Abacab was a favorite.

Pretty much the last Genisis album that had elements that I liked.

Roffle, my feelings too

sleezy guitar. I like that moniker

I ran into Mike Rutherford at LAX he sat his suitcase down for me to get a picture of him a bed sheet was sticking out and in the photo it looks like a kilo of blow was pouring out onto the floor. They were real good that night in L.A.

Hahaha, fantastic!

I just listened to Fancy's "Wild Thing" and I dimly recall having heard it when it was on the charts. I'm now on to their other US hit "Touch Me" and I have no recollection of ever having heard it.

Let the record show: The Fancy revival began RIGHT HERE, TODAY, IN THE EYES OF GOD, AND WITH ALL OF AS WITNESSES.

Green silk twisted around a light beige notebook :-D

I wish I'd heard that piece in 1979!

This feels like when you're at a group dinner you don't want to be at and you're just nodding blankly and zoning out

Yes, new to me but thought this was really great! Kinda reminded me of that Cheri Knight record from a while back. Also, Pamela Z.

Shades O' Philip Glass

Ellen Zweig Song plays like when I have wprb playing out from my laptop, on my phone and Alexa at the same time and there is just a milli second delay between them.

Haha, nice Gautham! I can relate!

This Algiers is so good

Super arresting album for sure. I really like Lee Bains, so I was drawn to that one right out of the gate.

Was surprised to learn this week that the first DLJ record is not officially on streaming.

As others will surely note later on today, RIP Rick Froberg of Drive Like Jehu, Pitchfork, Hot Snakes, Obits. https://www.npr.org/2023/07/02/1185707046/rick-froberg-appreciation-hot-snakes-drive-like-jehu-punk

This song was THEE smash hit single the summer I started DJing at WPRB.

55 natural causes? uhhh no

Yeah, not on Bandcamp either. Had to go into deep External Hard Drive Pergatory to extract this one.

Mike, did you go see Drive Like Jehu at Maxwell's in the early 1990s when the "opening act" was a long, black & white art film called Hippie Porn?

I definitely saw them there, but I don't think it was that show. (Because that sounds like something I would remember.)

Pretty sure I saw them on the Yank Crime tour, so probably after that.

We are going ALL IN on 90s post-hardcore anthems right now,eh?

I think the band was a last-minute addition to the bill.

I tuned in at just the right moment! RIP Rick

Jen, IIRC you were the one who ran out and bought a copy of the Pitchfork LP for PRB's stacks after Drive Like Jehu got real big here!

Pitchfork was one of my all-time favorites, so that makes sense. It was a critical gap! Nice when it was reissued later as well.

Pouring some out for that Pier Platters re-rock cheddar right about now.

Dude was a teenager in Pitchfork!

Found some photos from when Obits recorded at WPRB, in typical "me" fashion no pictures of the actual band playing but one shot I wish was less blurry of an Obits road case in front of an Audit In Progress poster.

@jon that was something i realized only this week! (the age thing)

I lost track of Hot Snakes after their first album, never got to properly investigate Obits. Lots of catchup homework on my plate.

There's a swankiness to the Obits material I think you will enjoy a great deal, Mike.

On it. (Says the guy who is currently cueing up a Fred Lane LP.)

Anyone who plays Moss Icon is okay by me 👍

Btw, I'm Back Sleeping or Fucking or Something (Moss Icon song)

Now THIS is trouble in tinytown!

Fred Lane!! French Toast Man!

FRED LANE FANS, TO THE FRONT OF THE LINE

Also, there's like, pretty recent YouTubeage of Fred Lane performing live and it is AWESOME.

"so evacuate your bowels, have a hot lunch, and dont be late for school" - Fred Lane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVRgUqVcH-E&pp=ygUOZnJlZCBsYW5lIGxpdmU%3D

FRED LANE MOSH PIT

I'M IN

I still need to see the Fred Lane documentary and I'm going to rectify this as soon as tonight.

Fred Lane is one of the heaviest cats in music

is it wrong that i recognized this cover from 10 feet away? what the heck

Good ears Jen 🚦

I just heard it for the first time while in Denver. Had the same RXN.

But did you anticipate the Beach Boys sidequest?

On pins and needles waiting to find out who does Q-Tip's verse.

damn this is pretty rad

Sidequest LOL

always be ready for a Beach Boys interlude

The Running Redlights Credo

HAHAA

don't scare them away just yet

Lolz

Unrelated to present discussion, this new Purling Hiss record is the shit.

DSM, I noticed the level of rad too! (crocodiles track is what you were pealing of?)

pealing of = talking about (odd typo there)

John Peel sessions

totally agree on Purling Hiss

Hurling Piss

It was Colin, and I kinda like "pealing of" as some new vernacular!

Sounds very Britlike dunnit

it dun

used in a sentence, with a heavy brit-ish accent. i'm over here pealing of these hot jams wprb gives us everyday.

I forgot about the bonus redlights today!

Oi pealing of, avent 'ad me scran yet

Thanks Mike! Try not to melt out there everyone

join me for bonuslights! thanks, Mike!

Sounds like I was smart not to cancel my Internet service yet if you’re gonna only be online

Keef passed out on the bloody drums, he was pealing of horse tranquilizers again like a bounder, the right bastard

Thanks for the show Mike!

See y'alls next week!

YAY 4 bonuslights!