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Don't Back the Front

Aug 6, 2025 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Dana K

Xerox music is here at last! Don't Back the Front brings you DIY weird waves from the classic punk era through today. All with extra saxophone!

(Your DJ reserves the right to play indie pop)

Filling in again for Jon Solomon!

5:02 PM		The Shivvers No Substitute Lost Hits from Milwaukee's First Family of Powerpop 1979-82 Hyped2death 2006
5:05 PM		The Desperate Bicycles Occupied Territory New Cross, New Cross 1978
5:13 PM		Bow Wow Wow C30, C60, C90, Go! 7" EMI 1980
5:16 PM		Private Lives Dealer's Choice Salt of the Earth Feel It Records 2025
5:19 PM		Toy Love Rebel Toy Love Flying Nun Records 1979
5:21 PM		Krypton Tunes Limited Vision Soul Jazz Records Presents SECRET SUPERSTAR SOUNDS – Scraping Bubblegum Off My Soul 1977-80: Punk • Powerpop • New Wave • DIY Soul Jazz Records 2025 1978 single
5:24 PM		The Fakes Sylvia Clarke 7" Deep Cuts Records 1979
5:27 PM		Famous Logs In History Static Missions Mind the Bollards Fuzzy Warbles 2025
5:31 PM		World Of Pooh Strip Club Tight and Loose Bulbous Monocle 2025 From a 1994 Bananafish compilation
5:33 PM		Buffet Lunch Perfect Hit! Perfect Hit! Upset The Rhythm 2025
5:41 PM		Autoclave Dr. Seuss Autoclave Dischord 1992
5:43 PM		Kilynn Lunsford Saddest of Dreams Promiscuous Genes Feel It Records 2025
5:46 PM		Twelve Cubic Feet Hello Howard Straight out the Fridge Sealed Records 2024 1982
5:49 PM		Alice Les châteaux faibles N Châteaux faibles Bongo Joe 2025
5:53 PM		David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights Chop Me In 1/2 David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights Flying Nun 1997
6:00 PM		The Midnight Steppers Memory Boys Isolation Drives Radical Documents 2020
6:05 PM		Alpha Plan Ice Lands Rarer Than Radium
6:11 PM		Again Again Co-Optimist The Way We Were - EP Cherry Red Records 1978
6:15 PM		Ballon D'Essai Simon Says Grow Up Flying Nun 1983
6:18 PM		Minibeast Burster The Maze of Now Minibeast 2025
6:22 PM		The Plants The Path Can't Stop It! Australian Post-Punk 1978-82 (2025 Deluxe Edition) Chapter Music 2025 1980
6:27 PM		Chance Operation Feel Rocker Place Kick Telegraph Records 1985
6:33 PM		Mofungo Hunter Gatherer Out of Line ZOAR Records 1983
6:39 PM		Wire Go Ahead Map Ref 41 Degrees N 93 Degrees W - Single pinkflag 1979
6:43 PM		Naked Roommate Successful Friend Pass The Loofah Trouble In Mind Records 2024
6:46 PM		Gay Cat Park I'm a Vocoder I'm A Vocoder Il Discotto Productions 1982
6:52 PM		Karel Fialka Armband All The Young Droids: Junkshop Synth Pop 1978-1985 Night School 2025 1979
6:55 PM		The Serfs Paid In Full Paid In Full - Single Trouble In Mind Records 2024
6:59 PM		Automatic Mercury N Is It Now? 2025
7:06 PM		Negativland Yellow Black and Rectangular Escape from Noise Seeland 1987
7:08 PM		Was (Not Was) Dad I'm In Jail What Up, Dog? Chrysalis\EMI Records (USA) 1988
7:09 PM		Rammellzee & K-Rob Beat Bop Beat Bop - EP Tartown 1983
7:20 PM		Jazaq! All Systems Go Soul Jazz Records presents ELECTRO THROWDOWN – Sci-Fi Inter-Planetary Electro Attack on Planet Earth 1982-89 Soul Jazz Records 2024 1985
7:25 PM		Shock Dream Games Dynamo Beat RCA 1981
7:29 PM		Lizzy Mercier Descloux Hard Boiled Babe Press Color (Deluxe Edition) ZE Records 1978
7:33 PM		Yumi Murata Watashi no Bus Nick Luscombe Presents Tokyo Dreaming Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd./NIPPONOPHONE 2020 1981
7:39 PM		Dinosaur L #5 (Go Bang!) [Francois K Mix] 24->24 Music Sleeping Bag Records 1981
7:47 PM		Colored Music Heartbeat Nick Luscombe Presents Tokyo Dreaming Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd./NIPPONOPHONE 2020 1981
7:55 PM		Tone Set The Devil Makes The Loudest Noise Cal's Ranch Zia Records 1982

Chat is archived.

Hello!

Ciao!

Hey Marcus! Rob!

howdy!

Richard! What's up gang!

Hey Dana! Hey everyone!

ParrScream!

Just found out there is a 1965 film “the liquidator” which I suspect is where The Harry J All Stars got the name for their 1969 hit song

We just bought a big collection of reggae singles at the record store I work at. Mostly 70s but I think some late 60s.

Ciao a tutti!

Of course the Specials have a great Liquidator cover. When I get to buying records I’m coming by the store. I bought crates from a retired Brooklyn reggae DJ years back. So many amazing tuned

🖤Toy Love🔥

These Soul Jazz comps are always great!

This new punky power pop one is so incredibly up my alley

Need to pick that one up.

good music

Woo Autoclave

Great tunes Dana K!

Thank you Brian!

Hi Dana, saw someone who looked like you driving a lime colored Ford. But sadly there was no WPRB bumper sticker.

That was ME

I'm lacking a WPRB bumper sticker at the moment!

You had just crossed Grays Ferry Bridge, where traffic is backed up in the morning with FedEx trucks! 🙃

TGIF!

This is Emma and Emma listening on the road in NJ—recent ex DJ from Vassar WVKR :)) Favorite new release atm?

TGIW???

YUP that was me! I'm always getting stuck on Grays Ferry!

@Emma, I think my favorite new record is Artificial Go - Musical Chairs - and I'm really into the two Automatic songs they've released ahead of their new album.

surprise wednesday evening, dana bash the front!

Hi Ossy!

Hi everyone, hey, @jimboooo!

S'up my people? S'up Ears?

wazzup EARS

Recent highlights have blistening to more of all the great stuff I've been hearing lately 🎶

*blerp...been listening

This is HEAVYYYYY

We moved a lot of books in our time, jimboooo, am I right?

Good evening, Ossy!

@Emma, I've really been into Matmos Metalic Life Review

evening ears

Greetings from an overcast Montco…sorry I’m late ..love Bow Wow Wow C 30 song

Hi Carlos!

I was in the audience for their first USA show after they cancelled a gig in NYC and played their next one at Cherry Hill NJ

Emerald City?

Correct…I remember having the ticketron stub and writing on the back of it…opening band? REM

Amazing!

G'day, Dana K, and fellow non-backers of the Front

Hey Chris!

The guitar on this track sounds a lot like Tom Herman on the Tripod Jommie record

I don't know that record. Gotta check it out.

Typo! Tripod Jimmie. Named for a 3-legged dog

Tom Herman was an early member of Pere Ubu

Saxophones as promised!

Here's your saxophone, sir!

A+++ arrived in excellent condition 😁

Never went to the folk fest but I ride my bike around there frequently..never say it out loud but urging people to shower and get a haircut

Do you do the wagon rides to the firehouses for the morning breakfast?

Ohhh yes the pancake breakfast! Yes!

They used to play this video on MTV

I like it here!

I've seen it on Youtube!

LOL it's been a while since I heard this

Hello Dana, I'm in jail!!

What was the name of the compilation that was like 1975-1982 synth pop

All The Young Droids

Sick thanks

https://night-school.bandcamp.com/album/all-the-young-droids-junkshop-synth-pop-1978-1985

This song Beat Bop sounds so Style Wars. Wow, It's Rammelzee, NYC Graffit legend I believe.

Yes!

📻🔊

Just went down a Rammelzee rabbit hole, hard to hear but Eszter Balint is on Violin. Wasn't she in Stranger Than Paradise?

Now I gotta watch Style Wars for the umpteenth time.

Yes, she was.

Here comes the Electrofunk

Top Rocking in Washington Square

TR 808 in the house

🤖

Nora and Nick aka "The Thin Man" series

Dash and Lilly: Dashiel Hammet and Lillian Helman

Dash Riprock & Lily Munster

Sorry I'm SOOOOO late

Circling back to Naked Roommate - Henry Rollins played them on his show, so @DanaK is right on board with "tomorrows new music today"

I didn't know Hank played them. Good for him.

Sleeping Bag records was home to soooo much funky music

Dana, how did I just find out DEVO is on Tiny Desk Concerts. You know where I'm heading at 8PM!

@Randy"tomorrows new music today" a reference to Yesterdays Now Music Today?

Whoa, I didn't know that!

This is the song Todd Terry sampled for "Bango (to the Batmobile)" a big club hit of '88

Everybody thank Todd Terry

Hot Tub Time machine take us back to Nells on 14th street in 1988

60's Pop? Don't sleep on The Clique

Thanks, Dana, this was a wonderful show!

Goodnight everyone! Thanks!!

Thank you, Dana K 😘