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The Freeform Pathogen

Jul 19, 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.

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12:05 PM		Jonathan Kane's February Sis February Table of the Elements 2006
12:14 PM		Frankie and the Witch Fingers Futurephobic N Data Doom RAS / Greenway 2023 New album in September!
12:18 PM		Special Interest Concerning Peace Endure Rough Trade 2022
12:22 PM		SANAM Bell N Bell - Single Mais Um 2023
12:27 PM		Richard Tate Road Runner Tate a Téte Deram 1974
12:31 PM		Richard Hell & The Voidoids Destiny Street Destiny Street Remixed Omnivore Recordings 2021
12:36 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:42 PM		Wobbly Absorb the Host N Additional Kids Hausu Mountain 2023
12:46 PM		Gudrun Gut Baby I Can Drive my Car N Hope for Her Future: A Compilation for Girls in Afghanistan V/A 2023 https://underground-institute.bandcamp.com/album/hope-for-her-future-a-compilation-for-girls-in-afghanistan
12:49 PM		Blackbird I Need You The Big One V/A Flipside 1991 Kinks.
12:55 PM		Lava La Rue Magpie Butter-Fly - EP Marathon Artists 2021
12:58 PM		African Head Charge Microdosing N A Trip to Bolgatanga On-U Sound 2023
1:02 PM		Geese 3D Country N 3D Country Partisan 2023
1:07 PM		Barney Kessel Honey Rock Swing for a Crime V/A Jazzbo 1988
1:09 PM		Paul Nero This is Soul The In-Kraut Vol. 2: Hip-Shaking German Grooves 1967-1974 Marina 2006
1:10 PM		Hugo Strasser Black Night The In-Kraut Vol. 2: Hip-Shaking German Grooves 1967-1974 V/A Marina 2006 Deep Purple
1:13 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:20 PM		Metal Boys Sweet Marylin 7" Mantra 1979
1:24 PM		Magazine A Song from Under the Floorboards 7" Virgin 1980
1:28 PM		Lords of the New Church Dance With Me 7" Illegal 1983
1:32 PM		Mudhoney Butterfly Stroke 7" Sub Pop 1999
1:35 PM		Barbara Manning Don't Let It Bring You Down 7" Forced Exposure 1990
1:38 PM		Hailu Mergia Yegle Nesh 7" Awesome Tapes from Africa 2018
1:42 PM		Juliana Luecking Sistahood and Guppie Wordcore Vol. 5 7" Kill Rock Stars 1992
1:45 PM		Peggy Lee Me and My Shadow 7" Capitol 1969
1:48 PM		Kraftwerk Computer Love 7" Warner Bros. 1981
1:52 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:56 PM		Sweeping Promises Connoisseur of Salt N Good Living Is Coming For You Feel It Records 2023
2:00 PM		Red Monkey Not for Rent Make the Moment Troubleman Unlimited 1998
2:02 PM		Schlong Night Kitchen Split 10" w/ False Sacrament Very Small Records 1992
2:06 PM		XDS Defective Tray N Bicycle Ripper Mt. St. Mtn. 2023
2:08 PM		Chitra Neogy Krishna and the Lovely Cowgirls N The Perfumed Garden Modern Harmonic 2023 Re-up, orig. 1968
2:12 PM		Ellen Zweig Network of Letters (feat. Dylan Henner) Fiction of the Physical Phantom Limb 2023 Re-up, orig. 1979
2:19 PM		Bobby Lee Reds for a Blue Planet N Endless Skyways Tompkins Square 2023
2:23 PM		Terry Reid Silver White Light Terry Reid Epic 1969
2:26 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:32 PM		Walter Salas-Humara Upside Down Instead Love is My Only Crime 2xLP V/A Veracity 1993 "21 Unreleased Love Songs"
2:36 PM		GracieHorse What I'm Missing N L.A. Shit Wharf Cat Records 2023
2:40 PM		Roxy Gordon Crazy Horse Is Alive N Crazy Horse Never Died Paradise of Bachelors 2023 Re-up, orig. 1988
2:44 PM		Cory Hanson Ghost Ship N Western Cum Drag City 2023
2:48 PM		Zomes Haunted House N Love's Lesson Feeding Tube 2023
2:53 PM		The Titillators If the Morning Comes N That's the Night 2023

Chat is archived.

Mike, can your show drown out the gutter cleaning leaf blowing crew going through our townhouses?

and good afternoon everybody

sing-along is encouraged

Hi Rob!

YO PITCREW. WELCOME BACK TO THE SHOW THAT NEVER STARTS.

Hi Readie!

Mike, you could turn that into a song

Yo Mike!

Sing along with Mike instead of Mitch

Hello Ambrose/Bo

Readie, Rob!

Hey hey pitcrew!

Bo, Mike, richard!

Hi Readie!

Glorious opener!

Hello richard!

Right on, Ambrose. This JK song is THE JAM. Years ago, after a gig, I told him how much I loved it. I later found out that for, like, a YEAR after that interaction, he would send this song out to me every time he played it live (all shows I didn't go to). Missing all of these personalized shoutouts from Jonathan Kane made me feel like a WORLD CLASS SHMUCK.

Hi Ambrose, Rob and Mike!

"SYSTEM LACKS A WAY TO CONNECT" = a great chorus I didn't see coming for 2023 in this FatWF song.

@Mike, WOWZA! Are all his songs that good?

this song is fantastic

@Ambrose, YES!

World Class. Only way to schmuck. The Frankie seemed to be at lower vol than the Kane

@Andrew, AGREE! Can't wait for the new LP. Pre-ordered it on the strength of this song and the lo-fi, VHS horror movie vibes of the video.

Frankie & t WF always deliver ya

their videos are bonkers

Hand up everyone (who isn't Commie Francis): Does this Special Interest song give you CRASS vibes? (She and I agree that it does.)

hi i'm summoned

And I don't wanna sell any of my colleagues short, but I think Commie and I are the pre-eminent Crass fans at WPRB.

HAHAHA

literally just came here to look at the schedule

🤚

I still have this misbelief that Frankie and t WF are Australian. Heard them first on WPRB at a time when i first heard of a ton of Oz bands

LIAR, YOU DIDN'T WANNA MISS OUT ON THE #CRASSTALK

say crass 3 times and i shall appear

I have to re remember each time that they're not

Hahahaha

@Brian, I totally get that

Like this one right outta the gate

Stare. At. Blurple. Square. With. Black. Void.

Operation Re-Heat My Hour Old Cup Of Coffee is complete. Didn't even need an abnormally long song to get it done.

@Brian, 😳😟😧😮😵😫

Did the coffee get those oil slick rainbow lines on top? More good tunes. This audio player sounds like the louder one the Kane was on earlier

And. The. Hits. Keep. A. Comin".

If you fused War/ Burdon "Spill the Wine" with Lou Reed "Kicks" you might get this R Hell

Ouch.

"'Member that time that you and me was 'memberin' about DICK HELL?"

Name that quote/lyric. Anyone?

Screech stunt guitars!

Minutemen

I'm looking for my special biscuit.

Quine ripping it up

or fIREHOSE

Or no.. i see that was the reissue... maybe Ribot was on that or Ivan channeling Quine

Crass Vibes. New wprb DJ show title or... retro 80s indie band name. You decide

Ducks.

The ducks in the bathroom are not mine: https://27bslash6.com/strata.html

Wibbly wobbly

Very David the Weatherman from Negativland hints in here on the Wobbly

new from WPRB-O! The most absorbable host this summer!

For sure. I think Wobbly is a sometimes member (or at least a routine collaborator) with Negativland.

also, speaking of absorbable things, how did I forget I had a bad ass WPRB beach towel coming at me. It was a good mail day yesterday.

I miss Robert Quine. I saw fIREHOSE once, on a show with Schoolly D. That was fun.

That's great, Colin! Yes - the towels are pretty boss. Hopefully worth the wait. (Had worked to get them into everyone's hands by the 7/4 holiday weekend, but P.U. postal facility had other ideas...)

I have beach day tripped planned for the weekend. The timing could not have been more perfect

Oh! Forgot to confirm: The "'memberin' about Dick Hell" lyrics was actually from Firehose (not the Minutemen, as I think I saw someone comment, though certainly close!)

Back in the naughty nineties, I worked at a record store in Trenton and a colleageu and I (who were both Minutemen/SST Records nerds) would frequently just insert a Mike Watt-esque "'Member?" remark into random sentences.

My real name is not Watt. Just an internet pseudonym. A tribute to Mike.

Tour schpiel econo

Yes, Brian, the Minutemen were the best.

👍🏼

Rest of the album ain't doing it for me yet, but I LOVE LOVE LOVE this Geese song. Doomed to be a Freeform Pathogen hit. (The curse of death!)

Ducks, a Blackbird and some Geese.

SPOT THE LOON!

👀

Love that Vegas Grind ish sleazy guitar and sax

Mike, a Python reference!

Number 1: "The Larch".

If it laid an egg, it would roll back behind the television.

Oh that was Barney Kessel! Jazz great gtr slinger there. His fretting hand was magic

Deep Purple getting the night club revue treatment

DESERVEDLY SO!

Would love to interrupt Richie Blackmore in the middle of eating a giant turkey leg at the RenFaire to ask him to comment on this.

I'm old. I saw Deep Purple open for Faces in 1972

He walked into John and Peter's about 20 yrs ago when my band was getting ready to play. We had no idea up in the green room. He got some stares i hear. Then walked down the street and set up a gtr and small amp in the old location of Martines. Did an impromptu concert

Ritchie B that is

@ Mike Lupica (host) The Hip-Shaking vs. "Hip-Shaping" vs. auto SpellChecker riff has totally made my afternoon (along with your fab playlist, of course)!

Additional Kids and Vermicious Knids.

John and Peter's Place? New Hope. I haven't been there in years.

I practically lived there from about 1997 to mid 2000s

Had not been in years but I did go down for a tribute to Peter a few months back. RIP. John still with us in his mid 90 i think

Thanks Richard! Glad you are diggin' it!

John passed a few years ago Brian

Having grown up in this area (even though I was away in NYC/North Jerz for 20+ of the years in question), I have somehow never darkened the doorway of John and Peter's.

I don't think so . All the staff told me otherwise a few months ago

Huh....thought I saw something on their FB page....good to hear

They all said John Larsen still alive. He's about 95 or 96. Lost his eyesight

Pete Price passed earlier this year

I like Magazine.

A few key locals and bartenders passed in recent years unfortunately

afternoon. had my ears on up here in the hudson valley and just logged in to express approval.

Howdy Dale! Good to see ya here.

Currently reading "Friends of Mine: Punk in Manchester 1976-78" Martin Ryan. Good stories. Details on the early gigs / clubs / halls / dives etc in those years.

Brian, sounds cool. Is that new?

2018 new enough. Got recommend after reading Steve Hanley "The Big Midweek' few weeks back

Brian D. Probably some Mark E. stories.

A little early for Mark E. probably.

The lyrics to this Mudhoney song are EXTREMELY dark/messed up. IIRC, it is about Michael Jackson. (Shudder.)

Driving thunder of the Fall. Ya i expect this book will have MES stories. Steve's of course did wow

But no mention of Fall yet in current book. Still in the year 1976 so far

barb!

YAY!!!!!!!! Barbara Manning!!!!!!!!!

that was bubbles the monkey approved.

Barb is the coolest!

Mark E. was one of a kind.

Also, we all know how old Mike is thanks to Mark E.

LOL. Gotta add one digit to that now. Chorus no longer as catchy.

I'm 67. Getting old is not fun.

Just never act your age.

69 is even less fun!!

Good advice. I just went from west of Philadelphia to NYC a few weeks ago to see Faust and Ubu .

Umm that one sentence there... hmmm ... ending in jackets...hmmm

Mike, I guarantee that you will be one of the people watching shows when you are 70. I've been the oldest person at a show once or twice.

Sing it Mike L!

late but here. my first afternoon ffp. perfect day for it.

love the new prb t-shirt that arrived this week

Great to hear, Pete! Welcome -- glad you found us here.

Holy tight snare skin Batman

@Brian haha!

And now, to illustrate my remark about never acting your age, I will play a band called SCHLONG on the radio.

S'long overdue Mike!

sitar!

Most definitely, DTO!

The storytelling and sitar is so good but the album cover is so NSFW.

when i saw S______G on the echo i thought you were playing 'shitting' or some such.

@Gautham, that's one of the only songs that's really OK for the radio!

This Ellen Zweig piece is great!

Yes the Zweig is mesmerizing

@Rob, yeah! This whole album is super great. It was new to me, so thank god for re-issues of 40 year old weirdo art.

@Gautham, check out Plasmodium: “Clive Buckledown “, which sounds like Joe Frank.

I had to pick up this Bobby Lee. Soooogoood

@Richard, yes, sure to be a fave for 2023!

Seconding Dave's recommendation for that Plasmodium track! Someone played that last week on PRB.

I knew I recognized the lyrics of that Schlong song. Maurice Sendak!

Bingo!

I've lost track of Walter Salas and The Silos over the years, anybody got an update. I've held on to their records...

Same here, Dan. I think the last song I remembered tracking was this one! (Which is from 1992.)

Used to bump into the Silos back then, always nice guys, liked you'd expect...

Where were (are) they from?

I wore a late of denim in the '80s and was very team "roots rock" btw. Del-Lords, Rank and Fire, X, Gun Club, Blasters, Tex and the Horseheads...

PHOTOS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN, DAN.

Have a picture of me sitting with Dave Alvin around here in 1990 somewhere....

Love this Roxy re-issue!

Yes, I am very close to buying a copy for myself!

The Silos were a straight-up NYC band.

Yup put that Bobby Lee on the wishlist too

Walter was originally from Florida though...

Love this...

For those of you who are breathlessly waiting to see how I'm going to censor myself w/r to the two NSFW album titles in the current set, the answer is... I don't know yet.

Shizzle my Mizzle...

Walter Salas-Humara & Silos good stuff ya. Cubano Americano. Love Silos more than their contemp bands of that time

"Let's Take Some Drugs and Drive Around" was a Salas-Humara fave...

Mary's Getting Married too. And She Lives up the Street .... so many

Love the RenFaire dirge vibe of this Zomes record...

Thanks for another fine show!

thanks for the great music, mike!

Cheers, all! See ya next week!

Great show Mike!

Thanks Mike, really Fab show today!🥊👏

Thanks!