DoublePlusGood Thu Oct 1 with Lizbot on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

Hello Hello! It's good to be back!

Greetings!

Hi Number 6!

Hello in there

The familiar intro is playing!

Hi thomas hatch!

Is that the Brazilian Nico?

I will be going to Smithville Synth Night soon, but I will listen in the car.

I like Smithtown. Where do they have events like that?

Smithville

@thomas hatch - oh man, basically! Yeah, Ney does sound a LOT like Nico, now that you mention it! He'd been around for a while by '73, but didn't get local fame in Brazil until that time.

@Number 6 - Have fun!

Oh it’s a man ok

@thomas hatch - His countertenor voice is almost falsetto but not quite, which does land it right smack dab in that Nico range

@thomas hatch - He was known for his high voice, and Nico for her low voice, and they sorta meet in the middle!

Yeah I was getting a little femme fatal vibe

@thomas hatch - That's actually pretty on brand for Ney Matogrosso! He is still kicking, in his 70s now, and he was a very expressive dancer with over the top costumes when he sang. He's an homme fatal! But yeah, he could cover Nico's Femme Fatal well I'm sure

an homme fatal, nice

Kinda bummed #6 left I have a friend who makes music I think he might like

Wondering if he’d be interested in checking it out

@thomas Hatch - He's usually here at the beginning of the show, so I imagine he'll be back next week!

Really like his show especially the mini drama series he plays

But I can’t ever chat because I’m always driving when he’s on

Fishing with John ruled!

Hi, Welcome Back

Thought we should be saying that to you @j carter

Hi JimmyCarter IsMy Hero!

We were already here it’s you who came back

@thomas hatch - Fishing with John was SO great. I rewatch my DVD of that show at least once every 3 years or so

@thomas hatch - Re: @JimmyCarter IsMy Hero's welcome - It's probably because i had a sub last week

Tom Waits is my favorite episode

@thomas hatch - That episode is great, and I think about that "Fishers of Men" song a lot, especially near rivers!

I see now

I'll be leaving in a few mins., so say it now and loud. :)

@thomas hatch - Apparently shooting that episode killed Lurie and Waits friendship for many years! A lot went wrong and allegedly Tom Waits blamed John for that.

@thomas hatch - This is like an old-school late 90s Prodigy . net bulletin board for forming bands now! @Number 6 is here if you have that synth friend's name!

Claw of Midnight is one of his projects I think you might like @#6

Oh there was a lot of tension there you could see

Okay, I'll look it up, thanks!

@thomas hatch - I loved Lurie & Waits together in Down By Law, but yeah, Waits was clearly not having a good time on that episode! The tension was palpable. That river adventure they went on also looked the least fun of all the Fishing with John excursions. Looked like it was swarming with mosquitos!

Great I’ll let him know thanks have fun

BCNU!

Hello Lizbot et al!

@JimmyCarter IsMy Hero - I really wish I could've come in last week and I was looking forward to my show, but my uncle died that morning. Other than my mom, he was the last blood relative left in that generation of my family.

Hi addie “5 snakes” plum 🐍! I like yr owl drawing!

Thanks!! I’m excited to try “owltober”

@addie “5 snakes” plum 🐍 - I assume Owltober will involve an owl jack-o-lantern!

@addie “5 snakes” plum 🐍 - Congrats on yr new gig, BTW!

Owlantern

@thomas hatch - I still have my owl lantern from Bryn Mawr, red glass and black metal.

Aloooo BOT 🤖

@addie “5 snakes” plum 🐍 - Yr longer commute = more time for listening to WPRB! I'd also hit up some longer audiobooks on the longer drives. I liked Barkskins by Annie Proulx, that was friggin long but enjoyable historical fiction about north amercian/canadian logging and its longterm effects

Hi jimbooooo!

@jimbooooo - How's Western Massachusetts autumn coming along?

@ Lizbot (host) Frances Chang's "No avatar" is a sterling example of WPRB playing our favorite music that we didn't know we liked. ;-D

@Lizbot too true about more WPRB listening time! I have loved Annie P before, will see about some audio books!

Hi Richard of Rocky Hill!

@Richard of Rocky Hill - Glad you liked it! Yeah, I'm really digging that whole new album of hers.

@addie “5 snakes” plum 🐍 - I love The Shipping News, and tried one of her nonfiction books, Bird Cloud, (i admit I was influenced by the title,) but couldn't get into that one. It was about her travails trying to build a house. Then during the pandemic I took on longer books and Barkskins was one of the more memorable ones

I loooooved Shipping News! I have Accordion Crimes on the TBR pile at the moment.

Sorry to WB and run, you are on from 2-5 in my time zone so I'm working and get called away over and over. My parents gen is thinning out fast too. At least we get to hang with our family at the services.

@addie “5 snakes” plum 🐍 - I also learned there were myriad ways to die whilst logging in the 19th century, not limited to getting crushed by a tree!

@addie “5 snakes” plum 🐍 - haha, I have Accordion Crimes in the pile too! I just reminded myself to start that one this fall or winter!

Death by splinter?

Oooooh!

@addie “5 snakes” plum 🐍 - Flying off the slippery contraptions by which they send logs down the river, logging co territory disputes, and more! I will just sprinkle that intrigue but no spoilers!

Hi Sean Burns!

@JimmyCarter IsMy Hero - Glad you could stop by!

Lizbotnkilling it we're heading into a strange and barely explored cosmic space

@sean burns - Thanks! I think transitional seasons affect my mind in interesting ways, and make me sleepy to boot, and give me more weird dreams, and all of that goes into the shows!

yeah, this set is amazing!!!!

@JimmyCarter IsMy Hero - Thanks!

Any Happy Rhodes fan should visit wretchawry.com. It was run by her late fan club chief. Her husband is keeping it active. Chock full of rarities, interviews, etc. An embarrassment of wretches, I mean riches.

I missed Mary Halverson? Aw man…

hi liz, great smells tonight! https://i.ytimg.com/vi/p_m8oY6cdL0/maxresdefault.jpg

and yes that's tara dressed as mandy(billy and mandy)

Hi Ossy!

Hi Ted!

@Ted - Good stuff on that site!

🦬🦬🦬

@thomas hatch - Yes, sadly! I'll play more Mary in the future I'm sure!

Hi George Korein! Hi buffalo!

@George Korein - You'd probably be interested in the Happy Rhodes archive site of rarities and interviews etc that Ted shared below!

Yes thanks for the tip!

@Ossy - Haha, amazing wig on Tara!

“I’ll throw my 🎩 in the ring”

people are so fortunate to know, meet and friend with Tara! Also the fact it's halloween season LOL

Saw her at Solar Myth with Par

@LB saw her at Solar Myth with Patricia Brennan

Amazing

@George Korein - Why the hat-throwing??

James Blake “I’ll come too”

@George Korein - whoa, you just inadvertently reminded me of a song I can't quite remember the artist OR title of, but was about throwing hats! and no, it was not Slapp Happy's Some Questions About Hats

@George Korein - Ah!

@thomas hatch - Oh nice! Solar Myth gets great artists!

@Ossy - oh yes, a season ripe with Tara character costume possibilities!

:D

Tom, are you saying you saw Mary Halvorson at Solar Myth?

@George Korein - I think that was last fall

@George Korein / @thomas hatch - And the reason I remember when that Mary Halvorson show was is because I try to see her whenever she's in Philly, but we took our teen daughter to NYC that weekend to see Chappell Roan!

I saw her in a living room gallery in fishtown with an upright bass player playing this album: https://stephancrumpintakt.bandcamp.com/album/super-eight

@George Korein Yes indeed I saw her and a great vibes player named Patricia Brennan

Were the vibes too cosmic?

@thomas hatch - I'll have to check out Patricia Brennan's music! I hope she's on Bandcamp

@George korein - ha!

Out of sight brother

@LB Oh you’ll find it I’ve heard her on this station many times

@thomas hatch - Saw Mary with Jessica Pavone at Avant Gentleman's Lodge in West Philly in the mid-aughts, I guess that was the first time I saw her live. I love that she got Robert Wyatt to come out of retirement to sing on one of her Code Girl songs

@thomas hatch - Looking her up now

Difficult music

@thomas hatch - I looked up Patricia and bookmarked her bandcamp page. Looks very up my alley!

@LB latest album is a gem

By the way people I’m playing next Saturday October 10 at Roxyunk Porchfest, 4323 Pechin St. The show is noon to six, me and the spleen play 2:30

@George Korein Think I’m up on one of those porches too! I’m still waiting for the details or else I could tell what/where/when

We don't hear enough Cure :)

Oh rad!

I know Joel Chartkoff is playing on another porch in Position

@thomas hatch - Sad to miss that Solar Myth show, but at least I caught Mary Halvorson perform in Trevor Dunn's trio-convulsant at Roulette in Brooklyn as part of Bang On a Can's Longplay Festival last May. I loved that fest. Would love to get to Big Ears some time too!

Hi Kelly Nielsen!

Hi Lizbot!

@Kelly Nielsen - Never enough Cure! Well especially certain songs that don't get mainstream airplay! I was really impressed how great they still sound during their last tour. Great show and they played for a long time!

@George Korein Gonna be fun I’ll be sure to try and come see you since you were prepared with details and all

@George Korein - Oh yeah I think Joel sent me a promo message about Position playing. Maybe I'll be able to catch his set too

@George Korein I’ll be the guy in the PRB tshirt

@thomas hatch - Should be a good day of music! I love porchfests!

Ohhhhh this song is so perfect.

Well my attention needs to switch to my delicious evening meal which I am preparing. Hope to see some of you on October 10. I’ll be in a WPRP Taylor ham t shirt

@addie “5 snakes” plum 🐍 - I love too many Magnetic Fields songs intensely!

Taylor pork roll

@thomas hatch - mmm, Taylor Pork Roll is best in shirt form! Just the mention of it makes me think of its intensely salty smell when my grandmom used to make it for breakfast!

@thomas hatch - Have a good dinner!

Sucks when you wear it and people chase you around trying for a bite

@thomas hatch - Ha!

Kinks!

@thomas Thanks man! Hope to see you there!

such a great show!!

@thomas hatch - If you label that breakfast meat as pork roll in North Jersey they will not recognize it as food and will leave you alone

Hi Commie Francis! Thanks!

currently sitting in my car parked signing along

After I get my first paycheck from new job, I’m getting alllll the WPRB pork roll merch.

@Commie Francis - Nice!

@addie “5 snakes” plum 🐍 - Noice! The merch store is a gamechanger!

@LB I forget what they call it up there but as long as it tastes good

@addie “5 snakes” plum 🐍 - I got my mom and Hattie some until-recently-out-of print WPRB gifts last christmas!

@thomas hatch - They think it's ham, but it's not ham cuz it's pork roll, so says Trenton, from whence it comes and where it's still made, so they get the say-so. As we all know, Trenton Makes, the World Takes...pork roll

@LB so true

@thomas hatch - Speaking of Tom Waits from earlier, I'll be playing something of his in probably the next set

@LB alright I admit it I lived in Morris county during high school must have been where I picked that up

@LB can’t wait wonder which era.. don’t tell me it’ll be a surprise

@thomas hatch - Traitor! I throw a disco fry at you!

@thomas hatch - I like many parts of North Jersey, but when I was growing up, it was a vast hinterland to me and the Taylor Ham division line was rarely crossed except when going up to NYC

Yoyoyoshida💥💥💥

@jimbooooo - I managed to see him three times on that Ruins Alone tour!

Wow! Only saw Ruins once

Robyn Hitchcock! LB you’re the best

@jimbooooo - The tour before that he had a different guest bassist from each city he played accompany him, and both Philly bassist (Evan Lipson, no longer in Philly) and the NYC bassist (Jesse Krakow) for that Ruins tour are friends and former bandmembers of George's band

@thomas hatch - I sadly had to miss Robyn H's most recent tour! He always comes to Philly when I'm out of town!

@jimbooooo - I me some spastic energized prog written by a drummer, so Ruins is ideal!

I hung out with him in Baja Mexico with Peter Buck too!

Sounds pretty random but they are great friends and do a lot of music together

@thomas hatch - oh what? Robyn?!

@thomas hatch - I know he's played with Peter Buck a buncha times, seen some videos of them together

Oh yeah LB it was like a two week residency of shows and after parties at the Bucksters house

REMs bass player too Mike Mills? He was a really nice guy

@thomas hatch - What was the context?! He probably thought i was crazy when I handed him my drawing of a cake I thought he'd find funny, given he has a good number of songs about food! It was a cake they used to sell in NYC Chinatown near where the Chinatown buses from Philly let off passengers in the 2000s and it was a cake labeled "cake" in its own icing. I had to draw it and give it to him!

I’m sure he appreciated the gesture. Wild times in Baja m’lady wild times

@thomas hatch - Sounds like a blast!

loving this sound!

@Ossy - I figured you might! Very chip-tuney!

@LB it was definitely post REM but can’t remember the exact year. Brain doesn’t work like it used to

Dinner is ready! Look at me multitasking!

@thomas hatch - Have you been going to those Michael Shannon on vocals, Jason Narducy guitar, and John Wurster on drums R.E.M. cover shows where they have been doing through all the albums one by one each tour? I've caught a few of them at this point. I am generally not a big cover band person, but these are fun and the next best thing to REM since we're not seeing them live again...probably!

@thomas hatch - Dinner with Tom Waits for no one!

So gooood

@thomas hatch - The Shannon/Narducy/Wurster R.E.M. is coming back to Union Transfer in Philly to cover t

liz - oh yeah, like nerdy dj tis from her mostly video gaming show ' it is what it is!"..ooo i recall sparks few years back!

...the album Document in February.

My band at porchfest with most likely be playing Tom Waits Clap Hands

@Ossy - Oh yes, I have subbed for Tis and Tis has subbed for me! I called my Tis subbing show It's Not Tis, It's Liz or something along those lines! Our shows were back to back one season

That guitar solo is wild. Marc Rinot

I LOVE Document

I mean Ribot

I love Clap Hands!

Robot can’t not be wierd

evening.....been lurking.

@thomas hatch - Nice! Good song to cover! I like covers, (as you can tell if you listen to this show often!). I'm just not into the whole "we only play one band's music" type bands, like Led Zep cover bands etc, with SOME exceptions, like the Musical Box genesis covers are a whole experience, or this R.E.M. Michael Shannon endeavor

Ribot darn autocorrect!

@George Korein - Ah! Noted! Love Marc Ribot!

Hi Dale Hazelton!

70/30 cover original ratio is good

70 original 30 cover

@thomas hatch - general sale for that REM Document show is tomorrow I believe. They've played Ardmore Music Hall and Union Transfer. It generally sells out or gets close to it. People clearly miss R.E.M.! A lot of dancing happens at those shows, good vibe and Michael Shannon, maybe because he's a good actor, really nails Michael Stipes on-stage demeanor!

@thomas hatch - Yeah I think that's good ratio

See you there hopefully

@thomas hatch - Marc Ribot or Bark Ribbett, a dog and frog act set to the guitar stylings of Marc Ribot

@thomas hatch - Yeah and I'll be at PorchFest for sure unless we get another Nor'easter!

Is that real or made up?

Sorry LOL funny stuff LB

@thomas hatch - If we will it, it can be real...at least in my trippy autumnal dreams of late!

Follow the scent of Taylor PORK ROLL and you should find me

I’ve been having mad dreams lately too

@thomas hatch - ha! Yeah, maybe the station should had a scratch-and-sniff panel to the pork roll shirt!

@thomas hatch - I dreamt I was talking to a paper cutout cartoon character last night with a name like Calamity or somehting. Yeah, seasonal change does weird stuff to my dreams!

I woke up with instructions from the Galactic Elders and was so freaked out I couldn’t go back to sleep

@thomas hatch - Ack!

liz for earlier - oh so nice, like this one playing right now!

@Ossy - Glad you're digging it!

@LB all I could think of was who am I supposed to give the instructions to? Donald Trump?

@thomas hatch - that would probably backfire!

@LB I know who would he call into the oval office? Pete Hegseth? Kid Rock?

@thomas hatch - Oh god, one can only imagine!

Smooth and bulbous! Captain Beefheart next show LB?

In Albatros hung from the rafters

@thomas hatch - Beefheart is never a bad idea! My last car was a bit bulbous and silver so I named it Shiny Beast (Bat-Chain Puller)

@George Korein - An Albatross. Thank you, I knew that but could not call up their name in my head at that moment!

@George Korein - and the 13 Hedgehogs album tour was Melt Banana, who we also saw at the old iriginal Vox Populi location, but I ALSO could not call up Melt-Banana right then!

awesome ambient and mellow smells tonight, tara liz!

Thanks Ossy!

Had a blast in the chat thanks folks!

Thanks for hanging out, Thomas!

5:03 PM		Secos & Molhados Sangue Latino João Ricardo, Paulinho Mendonça A volta de Secos & Molhados Continental 1973 Original line-up of Secos & Molhagos (dry ones and wet ones), which featured glam countertenor Ney Matogrosso on lead vocals
5:05 PM		The Goat That Went "OM" The Pirate Song N Can't Stop It! II - Australian Post-Punk 1979-84 V/A Chapter Music 2026 Reissue of original compilation from 2007.
5:07 PM		Sweeping Promises Abduction On Camera N You Say I Romanticize Sub Pop Records 2026 Catch the WPRB Presents Sweeping Promises show with Zillas on Acid opening at PhilaMOCA on Thursday, November 12th!
5:10 PM		International Exiles Let's Be Sophisticated N Can't Stop It! II - Australian Post-Punk 1979-84 V/A Chapter Music 2026
5:13 PM		The Lounge Lizards Incident On South Street John Lurie The Lounge Lizards Editions E.G. 1981
5:16 PM		Unweather Utopian Ant Colony Will Robinson Methuselah OST sound as language 2021 Manchester-based composer/performer Will Robinson's soundtrack to METHUSELAH, an interactive digital narrative by artist Elle Bulger. The story guides the reader-player through a series of vignettes taking place in the non-human world, exploring the often unseen connections, competitions and collaborations between flora, fauna, landmasses, weather systems and celestial bodies. It's also a celebration of the history of digital narratives,with influences ranging from dating simulators and text-based adventure games to classic JRPGs. This music is intended not only to be a backdrop to the artwork but an aesthetic, narrative and conceptual response to it.
5:17 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:22 PM		Frances Chang Prosperity Shrimp Frances Chang N been thinking bout confession RVNG Intl. 2026
5:24 PM		Anthony Rocha I Loves You, Toby N Musics Grift Machine Records 2026 New Jersey-based musician
5:25 PM		Mary Halvorson Mexican War Streets (Pittsburgh) Mary Halvorson Artlessly Falling SG3 Records 2020
5:36 PM		Frances Chang No avatar Frances Chang been thinking bout confession RVNG Intl. 2026
5:39 PM		Unweather Methuselah Theme Will Robinson Methuselah OST sound as language 2021
5:42 PM		Summer Mastous Melusine Summer Mastous Kajillionaire (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Back Lot Music 2020
5:45 PM		Happy Rhodes Many Nights Kimberley Tyler Rhodes Rhodes II 7d Media 1983
5:47 PM		Moondog (Louis Hardin) Cosmicode Louis Hardin Miniatures 2 V/A Cherry Red Records 2000
5:48 PM		Scott Walker Montague Terrace (In Blue) Scott Philips 1967
5:52 PM		James Blake I'll Come Too James Blake Assume Form Polydor Records 2019
5:56 PM		Tobacco Higher Kind of Thing Thomas Fec Ripe & Majestic (Instrumental Rarities & Unreleased Beats) Rad Cult 2017 Tobacco, AKA Thomas Fec, is and electronic musician and frontman of Pittsburgh-based psychedelic rock band Black Moth Super Rainbow
5:56 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:01 PM		Crime of Passing Hunting Knife Crime of Passing Feel It Records 2022 Cincinnati-based post-punk
6:05 PM		Colourbox Philip Glass The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme 4AD 1986
6:09 PM		The Associates It's Better This Way Billy Mackenzie / Alan Peter Rankine Sulk Beggars Banquet 1982
6:12 PM		Cheer-Accident Range Vacate Cuneiform Records 2024 This song already felt autumnal to me before I heard Tim sing the line "With my windows open, the autumn air is pushing through"
6:15 PM		Kate Bush Army Dreamers Kate Bush Never for Ever Parlophone UK 1980 3rd studio album
6:18 PM		Gas Max Bljuvljana Mi Jih Beremo, Ko Jih Pobiramo Dokumentarna, Yugoslavia 1986
6:21 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:25 PM		Dislocation Dance It's So Difficult Perfectly In Control EP New Hormones 1980
6:28 PM		The Cure Jumping Someone Else's Train Jumping Someone Else's Train / I'm Cold Fiction 1979
6:31 PM		Charlie Duda Please Irene Charlie Duda Roller Coaster - EP Exotic Pet Songs 2021
6:34 PM		Neil Young Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown Tonight's the Night Reprise 1975
6:37 PM		The Plugz El Clavo y La Cruz Better Luck Fatima 1981
6:40 PM		The Magnetic Fields Long-Forgotten Fairytale 69 Love Songs Merge Records 1999
6:44 PM		Elia y Elizabeth Descripción Elia y Elizabeth Codiscos 1972
6:47 PM		The Kinks Death of a Clown (Live at The Playhouse Theatre, 1967) BBC Sessions: 1964-1977 Castle Communications 2001
6:50 PM		of Montreal Peacock Parasols Kevin Barnes Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse Polyvinyl Records 2001
6:53 PM		Sagittarius My World Fell Down John Carter / Geoff Stephens Present Tense Columbia 1968
6:55 PM		Flowchart New Radiolab-Rip-Off Sean O'Neal Multi-Personality Tabletop Vacation Carrot Top Records 1995 Philly band formed by late musician Sean O'Neal, who also founded record labels Foundsound, Little Helpers, Tuning Spork and Fuzzy Box.
6:59 PM		Ruins Equesspaldho Tatsuya Yoshida Ruins Alone Skin Graft 2011
7:02 PM		Robyn Hitchcock I Wanna Go Backwards While Thatcher Mauled Britain 5
7:05 PM		Combustible Edison Spy Vs. Spy I, Swinger Sub Pop 1994
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7:13 PM		Yellow Magic Orchestra Behind the Mask Ryuichi Sakamoto Solid State Survivor Alfa 1979
7:16 PM		Matmos Polychords Supreme Balloon Matador 2008
7:20 PM		Sparks Escalator Ron Mael, Russell Mael The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte Island 2023
7:23 PM		Tom Waits Way Down In the Hole Tom Waits Franks Wild Years Island Records 1987 Marc Ribot played guitar on this track!
7:26 PM		Arca Calor Alejandra Ghersi KiCk i XL Recordings 2020
7:30 PM		Cornelius Thatness and Thereness - Cornelius Remodel Ryuichi Sakamoto A Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto - To the Moon and Back V/A Milan 2022
7:33 PM		Florent Ghys Soli Florent Ghys Baroque Tardif: Soli Cantaloupe Music 2011
7:37 PM		John Thayer Being John Thayer Supermundane Moon Villain 2021
7:40 PM		Gang Gang Dance God's Money V God's Money The Social Registry 2005
7:44 PM		Tones On Tail Slender Fungus Pop Beggars Banquet 1984
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7:53 PM		Coil Red Birds Will Fly Out of the East and Destroy Paris In a Night Musick To Play In the Dark Dais Records 1999

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