John Tobias (host)
3:04:52 PM
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Total Tobias
Jan 18, 2026 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Music
With John Tobias
Total Tobias is mostly newish indie rock in many of its’ forms while genre hopping, decade hopping and language hopping sometimes all in one song
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| The Crabs The World Can't Bring You Down Years at the Unknown K Records 2025
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| SPELLLING Alibi Portrait of My Heart Sacred Bones Records 2025
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| The Miracle Seeds What You Know Nuclear Watermelon Fuzzed Up & Astromoon Records 2025
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| The Lemon Twigs I've Got A Broken Heart I've Got A Broken Heart - Single Captured Tracks 2025
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| DIIV Reflected (Live From Hell / 2025) Boiled Alive (Live) Fantasy 2026
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| Melody's Echo Chamber The House That Doesn’t Exist N Unclouded Domino Recording Co 2025
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| The Grogans Have a Little Dream Stagger Community Music 2025
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| Blonde Redhead & Brooklyn Youth Chorus Before (Choir Version) The Shadow Of The Guest section1 2025
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| Robert Finley Holy Ghost Party Hallelujah! Don't Let The Devil Fool Ya Easy Eye Sound 2025
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| CLAMM Bag I'm In Serious Acts Meat Machine 2025
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| Private Lives Be Your Girl Salt of the Earth Feel It Records 2025
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| Paper Jam Polka Dot Girl This and That 7820967 Records DK2 2025
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| GLIDDEEE SUPERTASTEUR KINETIC FLAW - EP Tiny House Music 2025
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| Artificial Go The World is My Runway Musical Chairs Feel It Records 2025
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| Motorbike Scrap Heap Kick It Over Feel It Records 2025
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| The Smarthearts Alone Together Not Forgotten - EP The Smarthearts 2025
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| Golomb Staring The Beat Goes On No Quarter 2025
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| Die Spitz Throw Yourself to the Sword Something To Consume Third Man Records LLC 2025
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| Anxious Never Said Bambi Run For Cover Records 2025
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| BAMBARA Face Of Love (feat. Midwife) Birthmarks Wharf Cat Records 2025
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| byebye99 Back To You Back To You - Single Hypnotique Presents 2025
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| Remember Sports Across The Line L N Across The Line - Single Get Better Records 2025
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| Silver Synthetic Charley's Girl Lagniappe Session - Single Well Kept Secret 2025 Lou Reed cover
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| Shintaro Sakamoto Is There A Place For You There? N Yoo-hoo Zelone Records 2026
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| Radkey Victory Victory - EP Little Man Records 2025
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| Speed Week Automate Me Weak Speed Endless Recordings 2025
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| The Goods Photograph N Don't Spoil the Fun Dandy Boy Records 2025
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| swim school Always On My Mind N Swim School (Deluxe Edition) Lab Records 2025
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| Jean Dawson Prize Fighter N Rock A Bye Baby, Glimmer of God Handwritten Records 2025
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| Jim E. Brown Spaghetti Hoops on Toast I Urinated on a Butterfly Didsbury Parsonage 2025
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| Water From Your Eyes Born 4 It's Beautiful - EP Matador 2025
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| Please Be Careful Violent Muggers On The Central Line L N Hot Surface Mint 400 Records 2025
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| Dirtwire & Vieux Farka Touré United N United - Single Sunrise Studios Records 2025
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| Hannah Jadagu My Love Describe Sub Pop Records 2025
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| saturdays at your place waste away These Things Happen Many Hats Distribution 2025
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| Teenage Tom Petties Freaky friday Rally The Tropes Safe Suburban Home Records 2025
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| Tony Molina Faded Holiday N On This Day Slumberland Records, Speakeasy Studios SF, Olde Fade 2025
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| Annahstasia Believer Tether drink sum wtr 2025
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| yeule Skullcrusher Evangelic Girl is a Gun Ninja Tune 2025
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| Rose City Band Seeds of Light Sol Y Sombra Thrill Jockey 2025
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| Tobacco City Bougainvillea Horses Scissor Tail Records 2025
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| MJ Lenderman Just Be Simple I Will Swim to You: A Tribute to Jason Molina V/A Run For Cover Records 2025
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| Hudson Freeman If You Know Me (demo) If You Know Me (demo) - Single Hudson Freeman 2025
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| Bombino Tarha Tarha - Single Fox Lane Music 2025 w/ Great Big Warm House
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| Florry Say Your Prayers Rock L Sounds Like... Dear Life Records 2025
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| Snocaps Heathcliff N Snocaps Anti/Epitaph 2025
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| Todd Snider THE HUMAN CONDITION HIGH, LONESOME AND THEN SOME. Aimless Records 2025
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| Wild Pink Disintegrate (Edit) Dulling The Horns (Deluxe Edition) Fire Talk 2025 w/ Fenne Lily
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| Circles Around The Sun Golden Boot N Interludes For The Dead: Volume 2 Circles Around The Sun 2025
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Chat is archived.
Kelly Nielsen
3:09:48 PM
Hello!
John Tobias (host)
3:10:35 PM
Hello Kelly and the global masses
S E
3:32:46 PM
Wondering if Samantha Crain has made it to your 2025 fave list? Heard her here first and she immediate became one of my faves (her live show was great, too!)
John Tobias (host)
3:34:17 PM
Haven't heard much of it yet so I can't really say. I'll check it out now 'cause of you.
S E
3:40:04 PM
Gumshoe album is great— particularly Ridin’ Out The Storm
John Tobias (host)
3:41:32 PM
Thanks, putting in my "future show" list. I have this show all lined up
Kelly Nielsen
3:49:34 PM
This Artificial Go is delightful
John Tobias (host)
3:50:22 PM
Agreed, it's pretty popular round these parts.
John Coffey
4:06:39 PM
Lucky me, was losing interest in Pats Texans game, too nasty out for a dog walk so took a peek at WPRB to see who was spinning. Now a listener till 5. Pats just scored a TD.
John Tobias (host)
4:07:46 PM
Sounds good thanks for tuning in as always
John Coffey
4:10:35 PM
@J Tobias, several of my fave DJ’s stepped up to fill shifts. Thanks all y’all.
John Tobias (host)
4:11:09 PM
Thanks, it's a busy and fun time for me.
Kelly Nielsen
4:34:39 PM
This is great
John Tobias (host)
4:35:24 PM
yeah it was. Agreed
Lester Wiggs
4:47:26 PM
R U Serious?
John Tobias (host)
4:47:48 PM
100% - is it that bass line or the sax?
Lester Wiggs
4:47:55 PM
srry I meant, R U a human radio station? lol I kid
John Tobias (host)
4:48:16 PM
the next track - not so serious
John Tobias (host)
4:49:04 PM
100% there, too.
John Tobias (host)
4:49:41 PM
No algorithm can do this
Lester Wiggs
4:50:01 PM
I was thinking about Mondo 2000. Man that was cool.
John Tobias (host)
4:51:38 PM
who could forget
Lester Wiggs
4:54:26 PM
Checking the cameras. There are tracks in the parking lot. I have a lot of salty CD's When the snow melts, there are always hot pockets.
Kelly Nielsen
4:54:42 PM
I really dig this. It's such a neatly balanced song
John Tobias (host)
4:55:04 PM
Kelly, you have excellent taste
John Tobias (host)
4:55:36 PM
LW, best to say inside unless you were the DJ replacing me at 6
John Tobias (host)
4:55:47 PM
say = stay
Kelly Nielsen
4:55:55 PM
Haha well thanks. Just love WPRB for playing so much great music
Lester Wiggs
4:56:48 PM
tracts. Hot pressed in vinyl. Jon. Its my birthday today Could you play an alt track of When In 18?
John Tobias (host)
4:56:52 PM
that's the goal
John Tobias (host)
4:57:28 PM
LW, I'm a;ready locked in til the end.
Lester Wiggs
4:57:30 PM
When I am 18, remixed with When I am 64?
John Tobias (host)
5:01:00 PM
I'll check it out then I get home
Lester Wiggs
5:06:41 PM
Here's what I never understood. 2 + 2 is four. Pretty obvious. Also 2 X 2 is four also. But if we generalize this to 4, 4 + 4 is Ate. (eight) But- OTOH. 4 X 4 is Sixteen. I do remember that song. Mooroney key, Noise core
John Tobias (host)
5:07:43 PM
This is why I don't teach math.
Lester Wiggs
5:07:54 PM
I did love Coltanes interpretation of an inchworm. But there were complications.
John Tobias (host)
5:09:45 PM
Agreed
Lester Wiggs
5:14:17 PM
I don't know about how you feel, well how could I? But my feels tell me there is some kind of underlying principle that could help us understand the current milieu
Kelly Nielsen
5:15:12 PM
Teenage Tom Petties is an amazing name
Lester Wiggs
5:15:30 PM
Bakers Basin. ahem.
John Tobias (host)
5:15:45 PM
I'm sure they were happy at that band meeting
John Tobias (host)
5:17:32 PM
BB is out base for the locals
John Tobias (host)
5:17:42 PM
out = our
jimbooooo
5:18:54 PM
tobias Tobias TOBIAS 💥💥💥
John Tobias (host)
5:19:51 PM
hello Jimbooooo!
Lester Wiggs
5:20:04 PM
Oats = Oars. Where is Ears? Probably drunk in a gutter somewhere.
John Tobias (host)
5:20:31 PM
in this weather I hope not
John Coffey
5:22:51 PM
10 turnover and still lots of time on the clock. God awful football on now. So happy Tobias is on till 6.
jimbooooo
5:23:04 PM
Happy birthday Lester!
John Tobias (host)
5:23:12 PM
I pride myself for my transitions but this next one will be brilliant or a failure, oh well
John Tobias (host)
5:23:47 PM
Go team
Lester Wiggs
5:24:22 PM
I will spin this up on my own. Please have charity to those folks thus unfortunate -although they are bad at math. 2 + 2 . wait till I get out my slide ruler.
Lester Wiggs
5:25:35 PM
thank you Boooooo my Boo is here with me He only bites.
jimbooooo
5:26:27 PM
bitey boo
Lester Wiggs
5:27:22 PM
We are in the Golden Age of WPRB chat.
Lester Wiggs
5:28:04 PM
It goes South soon. Maybe North. Nobody knows.
John Tobias (host)
5:30:44 PM
mentioned on air
Rob from Maryland 🦀
5:31:02 PM
Hello John and everyone!
Justin Casey
5:31:03 PM
I heard there was a golden age
John Tobias (host)
5:31:15 PM
that's the claim
Lester Wiggs
5:31:26 PM
I heard it. Its my birthday.
John Tobias (host)
5:31:32 PM
Hi Rob
jimbooooo
5:31:51 PM
golden rage. Welcome birders
Lester Wiggs
5:32:19 PM
I will fly away
John Tobias (host)
5:32:45 PM
violins incoming
Lester Wiggs
5:32:53 PM
More about Puffins
jimbooooo
5:33:46 PM
the lap steels are crying in the dusk
John Tobias (host)
5:34:25 PM
true
John Tobias (host)
5:34:37 PM
more crying ahead
Lester Wiggs
5:36:40 PM
down tempo minor. I would not fck with that guy.
John Tobias (host)
5:36:49 PM
nope
Rob from Maryland 🦀
5:37:31 PM
@Lester, puffins?
Lester Wiggs
5:37:31 PM
Unless I met him t a Hollywood club with a mirror
Rob from Maryland 🦀
5:38:11 PM
Hi jimbooooo and Lester
John Tobias (host)
5:38:37 PM
you can hear the wing coming through the mic on this one
John Tobias (host)
5:38:56 PM
wing = wind
John Tobias (host)
5:39:18 PM
not related to your current obsession with birds
Rob from Maryland 🦀
5:41:05 PM
maybe my next current obsession will be oceanography? ;-)
Rob from Maryland 🦀
5:41:31 PM
(sorry)
John Tobias (host)
5:42:07 PM
will see how it evolves
Lester Wiggs
5:43:17 PM
Gary What were you thinking when you put on that pressure suit? Did you think the Soviets didn't have missiles? We will trade John Coltrane for Mussorgsky's body? And then send them both to
Lester Wiggs
5:43:55 PM
A Moon of Saturn.
jimbooooo
5:47:05 PM
I love florrrrry
John Tobias (host)
5:47:10 PM
same
jimbooooo
5:47:40 PM
Superb live
John Tobias (host)
5:47:52 PM
I bet
Lester Wiggs
5:48:06 PM
Hai Rob. A birder. A man who finds truth in the orthinogical logic which in not
Lester Wiggs
5:50:22 PM
srry orthogonal. Take a normal equation and map it on a a radial chart.
John Tobias (host)
5:56:31 PM
thanks for all the comments this afternoon
jimbooooo
5:56:41 PM
Thx johnnnnn
Lester Wiggs
5:57:50 PM
We are in tune with the numbers. I had mistaken you for a human radio station.
Lester Wiggs
5:58:51 PM
but not wrong
Lester Wiggs
5:59:05 PM
Another metal Snake