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the old mackerel's almanac

Aug 20, 2025 11:00 PM – 1:00 AM

Music

With DJ Mackerel

welcome to the old mackerel's almanac!!!! hmmmm what do the ancient texts have for us this week....

final summer show </3

hello fish fam, this is our last summer show let's make it count!!!! (next week i'll be away in chicago so brodius will be fillin in for me)

my solar return is in two days can u believe it :o we're playing all my favorites from this past season and some new things ofc too <3 hyperpop, electronica, experimental, r&b

11:10 PM		kimj 1-800-F*****F (feat. underscores & umru) KOREAN AMERICAN youngkimj 2025
11:12 PM		Extra Small Just Obliterate (Remix) Extra Small Nepotism Child - EP Extra Small 2022
11:15 PM		junko warui feel Ü junko warui Bite Risk!!!!! 888 limited 2023
11:18 PM		Lucy Bedroque How to Pretend Lucy Bedroque Fête de la Vanille - EP AUTOSARCO MUSIQUE 2024
11:23 PM		Jane Remover Royal Blue Walls Jane Remover Royal Blue Walls - Single Many Hats Distribution 2022
11:28 PM		Riovaz m i wrong? Riovaz Riovaz Riovaz 2024
11:30 PM		kmoe Thousand yard stare kmoe K1 deadAir 2025
11:33 PM		acloudyskye Heliov acloudyskye Blood Rushing Like Current Through a Powerline acloudyskye 2021
11:38 PM		gabby start Blasé gabby start Blasé - Single Knapsack 2025
11:38 PM		username 3/3 username no mercy LIKEWISE 2025
11:58 PM		Björk I See Who You Are Björk Volta Atlantic Records/ATG 2007
12:02 AM		quickly, quickly Take It From Me quickly, quickly I Heard That Noise Ghostly International 2025
12:05 AM		Dijon Yamaha Dijon Baby Warner Records 2025
12:10 AM		Bickle cry on the dancefloor! Bickle Gut Feeling Bickleboy Big International 2025
12:13 AM		venturing No Sleep venturing Ghostholding deadAir 2025
12:16 AM		Alex G June Guitar Headlights Alex G/RCA Records 2025
12:19 AM		ML Buch Fleshless hand ML Buch Suntub 15 love 2023
12:39 AM		Kevin Abstract, Quadeca Abandon Me Kevin Abstract Blush Kevin Abstract 2025
12:42 AM		Kevin Abstract, Quadeca, Ameer Vann Red Light Kevin Abstract Blush Kevin Abstract 2025
12:44 AM		Robert Glasper Better Than I Imagined (feat. Her & Meshell Ndegeocello) Black Radio III (Supreme Edition) Loma Vista Recordings 2022
12:49 AM		Kal Banx MOB Kal Banx RHODA Top Dawg Entertainment 2025
12:51 AM		Daniel Caesar Freudian Daniel Caesar Freudian HV Recordings 2017

Chat is archived.

a smelly gloomy day for me, but always smells lovely tonight and for the last time for summer Wednesdays

And happy birthday like I had this month

thank you ossy:)

sorry to hear u had a gloomy day!! hope tmrw is better

Jane Remover <33

the best of the best<3

I can't believe we're already on the precipice of September. Thank you for the tunes every week this summer, it's been so much fun!

crazy how time works! thanks for listening tandy :)) it's been a fun summer here

@ DJ Mackerel (host) Thanks for a fun summer of sounds. You may have mentioned this during a mic break and I missed it, but ... may we look forward to Mackerel being the audio catch-of-the-day somewhere on the WPRB autumn menu?

yes, i'm gunning for a regular showtime in the fall but the sched is still being determined by the wprb gods

so we'll see!!! def want to make room for the new crop of djs coming in

won't mind having you as a regular : ^)

also hope you can catch more sleep to make up for your sleep deficit! I love late night djing because the lack of sleep really brings out the inner id

I do agree that pop music does tend to borrow a bit too much from the lesser mainstream sources but, hey, that's pop for you. They can't stop churning out more of the same and occasionally they decide that it's time to be it's original, it's probably not original

hahaha thanks a :) yes the sleep deprivation truly activates a strange monster within me

mhm yep, it seems to always be an indie person in the credits whose sound is being milked for the larger artist

but at the same time, i quite enjoy tracking mainstream pop trends, seeing what beomes fashionable, what the crowds favor, who quickly public opinion can change or evolve and who's to thank for that

*how

I appreciate your musing and context very much. I guess there's a fuzzy line between parasitism and symbiosis art/production art

yup yup, always exciting to see new breakouts

I will say that maybe ten years ago before I actually became a regular listener and just occasionally tuned into the radio, I generally thought the DJs at WPRB talked way too much. Which was true for me at the time compared other stations because I only cared about the music. But I think what changed for me was that at some point when I became invested in not just the music but the radio show as a concept. Every DJ has their style and commentary which is what I now love about wprb

but yeah, what Ears said

aw thanks ears !!

hahaha yeah we are famous yappers

glad to hear that a :) my ramblings are more unhinged than usual today thats for sure...but yeah i love how different every dj's show can sound!

You don't get to be njs only radio station for nothing!

😎😎😎

lovely chill smells tonight, mackerel, for the wednesday night finale and thanks for the cheering up response, earlier :)

Happy break & bd. I'll listen out for you

Thank you SO much for the show, DJ Mac! I'm hoping you'll be back next season, or sometime after! Enjoy the rest of your summer :)

@ DJ Mackerel (host) Thanks for the hopeful news about your continuing at WPRB. :-D

much love yall<3 have a great rest of the summer