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Jun 16, 2026 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM

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.

Here is my DJ Bio.

I've quit all the corporate shitbro social media, but I'm on Mastodon if you want to follow me there.

I See What You Were Seeing

This week's selection of songs to wake up screaming to.

7:03 AM		Steve Gunn Shape of a Wave N Shape of a Wave EP 2026
7:09 AM		Gal Costa Negro Amor Caras y Bocas 1977
7:15 AM		Courtney Barnett Avant Gardener The Double Ep: A Sea of Split Peas 2013
7:20 AM		Pinky Tex Wild Horses N The Singing Angel From Devil Rock Canyon - EP 2026
7:24 AM		People Like Us Nu Moment Valley N 7" 2026
7:28 AM		Lee Dorsey Give It Up 7" 1969
7:30 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:35 AM		Jane Weaver The Electric Mountain The Silver Globe 2014
7:40 AM		Death by Chocolate My Friend Jack Death by Chocolate 2001 The Smoke cover
7:43 AM		YELKA Roll Over N Jeans 2026
7:46 AM		Weird Nightmare Pay No Mind N Hoopla 2026
7:49 AM		Madness My Girl The Return of the Los Palmas 7 EP 1981
7:51 AM		La Peste Color Scheme N I Don't Know Right From Wrong: Lost La Peste 1976 - 1979 Vol. 1 2026
7:53 AM		Steve Cropper With a Little Help From My Friends With a Little Help From My Friends 1969
7:57 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
8:05 AM		Minutemen The Price of Paradise 3-Way Tie (For Last) 1985
8:09 AM		Clete Stallbaumer Speedway N My House Is Your House 2026 Re-up, orig. 1978
8:12 AM		Abdou El Omari Sahraoui N Lost tape 1980 2026
8:16 AM		Nas It Ain't Hard to Tell Illmatic 1994
8:19 AM		Mekons War Economy (Version) N Horrorble (Mekons vs Tony Maimone In Dub Conference) 2026
8:22 AM		Atsumu Wonderful Yokocho N Fragments of the Boom - Japan Edition 2026
8:24 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
8:31 AM		Little Barrie Luggin' Hurt N Gravity Freeze 2026
8:38 AM		The Ramrocks On the Rocks Greasy Mike at the Beatnik Cafe V/A 2024 Song orig. 1958
8:41 AM		Gichard Human Resources N Chins For Lefty 2026
8:45 AM		Barbara Dane I Don't Want Your Millions Mister I Hate the Capitalist System LP 1973
8:48 AM		Marlene Dietrich Time On My Hands Lili Marlene 1959
8:51 AM		Blood Sucking Maniacs Arroyo Nights (feat. Calder Allen) N Blood Sucking Maniacs 2026
8:56 AM		Aimee Mann Lost in Space Lost in Space 2002
8:59 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
9:05 AM		Mort Garson Gemini the Cool Eye Cosmic Sounds of the Zodiac 1967
9:07 AM		Makoto Kubota Cowboy Datta Koro Dixie Fever 1977
9:12 AM		Gun Outfit Velvet Rope N Process and Reality 2026
9:14 AM		Dolly Mixture Side Street Walker Demonstration Tapes 1982
9:17 AM		Hüsker Dü Friend, You've Got to Fall Warehouse: Songs and Stories 1987
9:20 AM		Psapp Your Hot Knife What Makes Us Glow 2013
9:24 AM		New York Dolls Trash New York Dolls 1973
9:27 AM		Tony Powers Don't Nobody Move (This Is a Heist) 7" 1984
9:32 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
9:38 AM		Brian Eno King's Lead Hat Before and After Science 1977
9:42 AM		Darlene Love & The Blossoms Make a Change Laguna Tunes 1999
9:44 AM		Rachid Taha Rock el Casbah Tékitoi 2004
9:49 AM		Joe Strummer Love Kills Sid & Nancy: Love Kills (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 1986
9:52 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
9:54 AM		(OST) You Can't Stop the Beat Hairspray!

Chat is archived.

Good morning, weirdos.

Greetings and same to you!

Thirded

a fine morning to you.

RISE PITCREW. THERE ARE CAFFEINATED BEVERAGES TO CONSUME AND A WORLD TO BE TROUBLED BY.

Never underestimate the power of a well placed TRANGLE

i remember the morning bell and announcements in school. once i went to the office where they made the announcements from and there sat a fisher price xylophone - THAT'S how they made the bell sound.

Hi Mike and pitcrew!

Just call me Principal McGee.

I always wanted to operate that chime thing on The Price Is Right!

That's two 'Grease' references in the last two shows now.

The Carolina Wren on the other side of the open window is singing "Lupica Lupica Lupica" as it is wont to do on Tuesday morning

@Rob, good, glad my PayPal payment went through.

Usually it sings different three syllable songs like "procedure procedure procedure" or "good morning good morning good morning"

Hi Mike and early risers!

@Mike, it's the best paid Carolina Wren in Maryland!

Good morning everyone!

Howdy Yvang and everyone else! It's a lovely morning in Dirty Jerz. Sunny, clear, and cool. Portholes-open kinda morning at the Barge.

Lets try again...Hi Mike and pitcrew! Doing some breathing in after getting unceremoniously dropped by google.

On-air morning breathing exercises could add an unusual component to this weekly program.

Might also just sound super creepy, especially to folks listening through headphones.

@Rob took me a long time to figure out what was making that call. Carolina wrens are the no see ums of the birds

@ as long as im not in the fentanyl fold the other passengers are unlikely to call the authorities.

* @mike re breathin aloud

had to look up pinky tex - her story was written more like a fictional fable for and is a non de plume for a modern singer....she really was born after wwii and married to a rodeo cowboy?

miss vicki!

She's actually Toody from Dead Moon!

Pink Tex, that is. (Not Vicki.)

*Pinky

ah!

@Alex from Media, yes, Carolina Wrens are the no see ums. SO loud and SO invisible!

vicki posted on fb the video backgrounds she did for soft cell's stage show. pretty groovy stuff.

Always glad to hear People Like Us 😺

I am more of a spit crew

there was a 'the gun' with the gurvitz brothers who later played with ginger baker in the baker gurvitz army.

@Dave, then you are in the right place.

How deeply was Ginger Baker involved in Masters of Reality?

no clue, i only have that album because the gurvitzeseses did two albums with grame edge too and i had to have all the moody blues solo stuff.

graeme..

@ sugar lumps, nancy sinatra did a song about dropping acid "sugar town"

The original version of "My Friend Jack" got banned by the BBC for the not-so-subtle drug references!

Not to confused with the Shitkid sugar town referring to reform school.

Or the many songs about cocaine, aka Booger Sugar.

Laughed at booger sugar

They used to sell some type of legal cocaine that was more like a snot detergent.

my dad always had a vicks inhaler in his shirt pocket. a little methamphetamine to get you through the day. complimented the pack a day of kools and coffee.

will always remind me of the joe cocker version at woodstock. love that Dale

What's playing in background pease

@Elizabeth, that's a loop from an artist called Luisine.

Hello Mike! Zine-fest sounds amazing. As a former zine creator/editor from the 80's I'd love to see what the kids are doing thse days

Ziiiiiiiiines! ⭐️At the fantastic Princeton Public Library. Great news.

@Marcus, it is super inspiring. The kids are alright.

Thank you!!!!! I know that song

I'll be there double-dipping by helping my pal Matt from WFMU. Stop by and say hi!

Good morning ML, all others…belt or direct drive?

I used the computers at my job and very early versions of Display Postscript (pre-Adobe) to create "Dope Vector" in 1985. I may even have a copy in my basement. I'll try to drag my kid there. Maybe we'll run into each other

@dan: you can't scratch and cut with a belt drive

i saw minutemen at irving plaza. wished i had cherished the moment more but i'm sure i was pretty loaded.

Sounds great! My girlfriend and I used the copy machine at her 90s job at Harpers Bazaar to create copies of our zine. An unofficial subsidiary publication of Hearst Publishing.

Good morning 🫖 Mike, Marcus, Dan, Elizabeth, Gary, Dale, Number 6, Alex, Rob, scurrow 🐿, DTO 😶‍🌫️ and all.

@Dale, alas. A tale as old as time itself.

Good to know…in case I set up my twin Technics side by side.

Hi Christine 𓅓𓅥 𓅊!

Zines and tape mixes, I miss them both.

hey now christine.

Seems like a perfect time for a revival, Dan!

Hoarders had a VHS junkie, inside and outside the house, 202 bins outside alone.

Hello Christine!

Checking out of chat for work. Todays decision latex gloves to earn my pay or boxing gloves to earn a pink slip. Thanks Mike! Will keep my ears on.

Dale, I have been to Irving Plaza dozens of times and I can't remember half the bands I saw there for that same reason. The Ritz, I remember every show

Peas out, Alex!

Our brains only have so much room for esoteric information of yore.

Camp Punksylvania starts in t-minus 3 days.⌛⌚ You have been warned

Oh and hi christine

marcus, friends and i would usually have a bottle and drink it on someone's stoop first so we didn't have to buy drinks in the clubs. probably not the wisest decision but it was economical.

Sup yall!

Irving Plaza was where I first met someone on MDMA. Plastic face can't wipe the smile off. Never forget that night

Hey TAndy, welcome to the _____dome.

The jam dome

Did I just hear the 201 area code?

Mike Lupica steppin to the AM 🌅

Michael Jackson reportedly only let Nas sample Human Nature if he didn't curse

jim: as you may know MC Serch from 3rd Bass discovered and promoted Nas

@Dale, that practice is an economical idea in these days too. Have you seen some of the drink prices in Philly? 💰💸

Is definition of dub strictly one of time signature? Like say…waltz.

Dub is notoriously difficult to define and explain, but I will say that if the 1970s organ my parents had in the house when I was a kid had included a pre-programmed "dub" beat (as it did for "waltz") my life would likely have turned out very different.

Fascinating! I bet it had polka as well.

Oh totally.

Unlike Dad, I drink at home mostly Chris.

Looper pedal may have dub setting.

Gichard's vocalist reminds me of an even more severe Dry Cleaning.

Mountain hillbilly dub, less acid.

Had she lived long enough, I wonder if Barbara Dane would've been inspired to update this song for the age of Musk. ("I Don't Want Your Trillions Mister")

Last night I saw young Marty Short do impression of, “kid from Deliverance”. Creepy good.

I am thankful for many things in my life, but right now "being able to blast a Marelene Dietrich record all over NJ and Philly before 9 AM on a weekday" is topping the list.

Elon M*sk :( 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅

We need to bring back throwing rotten fruit at people we don't like

Aimee Mann! When I was in High School one of my friends (15 yrs) dated the guy from the "Voices Carry" video (24 yrs I believe).

We were all like, what?

My friend did some Go-Go Dancing on the bar the the Pyramid Club and the Drag Shows at the Tunnel before dying youg unfortunately

I met Aimee Mann once -- she was very nice.

Ouch, sorry Marcus. That's rough.

Love her in Big Lebowski

Mike, yeah it was heartbreaking to hear his passing. He was the guy who brought me new music back in the 80's

for some reason i have two copies of this album, and they both are super scratchy. some hippies must have really loved them.

Poke Salad Aimee

marcus - i remember that scene well. i used to wear a priest's shirt and collar to the pyramid. it was a conversation starter.

Dale, the Pyramid is where I saw my first face tattoo

I sure they loved the Catholic Discipline thing

First face tattoo I ever saw was on a city bus in San Francisco. It was on the forehead of a 14 year old kid and it said: "GG ALLIN"

#Regrets

#PoorLifeChoices

Mine say’s ouch

skinheads with face tats used to sit on the sidewalk on avenue a and used to bum money for a beer. at least they were honest.

OK Dale, you and I have definitely crossed paths. We would go to A47 on Ave A to listen to Mod/Ska

Toasters, Second Step

aztec lounge was my hangout.

maybe the kiev after.

Could you get into the Aztec under 18?

Keiv is where King Missile would hang

Thank you for Husker’s, brilliant album.

When I turned 21 I got married, got a job and stopped going out every night

Neighbors window just closed

Sounds unorthodox…

i was well over 18.

Mike, the show is amazing and the chat is delightful but the salt mines wait for no man! See You Next Tuesday (heh heh)

gotta toddle off. thanks for the sounds mike!

🗑 🚮 Trash! Pick it up!!

Ciao bellas!

That part of this song always gets stuck in my head.

@Christine, you know it! My next task at the Barge today, as soon as the show's over.

Give a hoot! 🦉 @Mike

Oh trash......! 💔

Husker’s, Eno, my god, what have you done?!?

@Dan, can you tell I had too much coffee this morning?

You’re better for it my friend

I love that Husker’s encore often included Mary Tyler Moore Show theme, at speed of sound.

Damn, great cover

He was the best. Died tragically young. Super memory of pogodancing in the rain with like 300 Algerian kids when he played Central Park Summerstage.

I've head they wrote the song after hearibg "Carte de Sejour", Taha's first band, so this cover makes even more sense.

This would have worked for Zero Dark Thirty movie credits.

Another Rachid Taha song was on the soundtrack to Black Hawk Down.

Great Playlist Mike! I would be extremely grateful if my band AVRA (search Avraband) could be included in your selections in the future. We are a local post-punk band influenced by Manchester bands. Are you or anyone on the thread interested in a link for free download from bandcamp?

Time to watch that again! I met Jeremy Piven at Cafe Intelligencia, Chicago years ago. Prince of a guy!

@Avra send links to mike [at] wprb [dot] com!

Will do! Thanks

Thanks Mike. Put myself in time out for thevrest of the show. Just bent the ear of some poor undergrad with Alexs life lessons.

Thanks Mike, see ya next week dude!

Thanks for a good hang this morning, pitcrew!

Thanks Mike, nice soundtrack for the start of the tuesday!

Thanks for another great show, BCNU!

Actually…you can