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Circuits

Nov 12, 2026 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

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.

Now With Seven Throbbing Inches

12:05 PM		Jonathan Richman Roadrunner 7" 1978
12:09 PM		Telefones She's In Love With the Rolling Stones 7" 1980
12:12 PM		Lalo Schifrin Jaws 7" 1976
12:18 PM		Robert Wyatt I'm a Believer 7" 1974
12:21 PM		Jalen Ngonda Just Like You Used To 7" 2022
12:24 PM		The Gluons Sue Your Parents 7" 1981
12:27 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:33 PM		The Portsmouth Sinfonia William Tell Overture 7" 1974
12:35 PM		Andy Williams The Days of Wine & Roses 7" 1963
12:38 PM		The Matthew Shipp Duo w/ William Parker Summertime 7" 1995
12:44 PM		Merlene Webber Stand by Your Man 7" 1971
12:47 PM		Cheap Trick Waiting for the Man / Heroin 7" 1996 Recorded live in '74
12:53 PM		Suicide I Remember 7" 1978
12:57 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:03 PM		Children's Crusade Blue Venus Aflame 7" 1990
1:10 PM		Death Valley Girls Sisters of the Moon 7" 2025
1:15 PM		Panther Burns Ode to Shetar 7" 1988
1:20 PM		The Trashmen Bird Dance Beat 7" 1964
1:22 PM		The Nomads ESP 7" 1985
1:24 PM		World/Inferno Friendship Society Tattoos Fade 7" 1994
1:29 PM		Sex Gang Children Sebastiane 7" 1983
1:32 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:40 PM		Kraftwerk Tour de France 7" 1983
1:43 PM		Nausea Vocal Expression 7" 1982
1:46 PM		Pierre Henry Psyché Rock 7" 1970
1:49 PM		New Order Ceremony 7" 1981
1:53 PM		Madeleine Chartrand Ani – Kuni 7" 1973
1:57 PM		Patti Smith Hey Joe (Version) 7" 1974
2:01 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:09 PM		Chandley Duffus Bitter Rose 7"
2:12 PM		Replacements If Only You Were Lonely 7" 1981
2:14 PM		Hiss Golden Messenger Jesus Shot me in the Head 7" 2012
2:19 PM		Nikki Sudden Chelsea Embankment 7" 2017 Recorded 1983
2:21 PM		Peter Laughner Cinderella Backstreet 7" 1987
2:28 PM		Mercury Rev feat. Margo Price Sermon 7" 2019
2:32 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:38 PM		Black Sabbath A Hard Road 7" 1978
2:43 PM		Sebadoh Gimme Indie Rock + Ride the Darker Wave 7" 1991
2:48 PM		Tubeway Army Bombers 7" 1978
2:52 PM		The Bug Featuring Miss Red Diss Mi Army 7" 2012
2:55 PM		Nino Tempo & April Stevens Stardust 7" 1963

Chat is archived.

Greetings & Salutations

Allo!

Get ready for three hours of the little records with the big holes.

an ALL 45s Show❣️⁉️

7 up?

Personally, I'd rather hear an all cassette show.

Messy Mix is a theme

potpourri if you're fancy

Beep Beep!

To the power of 7

Always wanted to know is he saying “going faster miles an hour “ in the beginning there?

I can absolutely feel it out in Needham now.

I believe he is saying "going faster miles an hour"

THE POWER OF SEVEN COMPELS YOU! THE POWER OF SEVEN COMPELS YOU! THE POWER OF SEVEN COMPELS YOU! The record... it BURNS!!!!

and good afternoon everyone

Is seven seven seven the antithesis of six six six?

The Power of Seven most often compels ME when I'm confronted by a box of old reggae 45s and they're all priced a buck a pop.

As is often the case.

a hint.... is there a reggae 7 inch segment comin at us today (hopes... waits patiently...)

I think 777 is 111 more evil than 666

Good afternoon.. does a turntable you’re using have a 45 adapter to it, or do you have to put one on every record?

Carlos, I'm not an animal. 45 adapters are a must! (And we have fancy metal ones here in deBarge.)

Do the Jaws Disco Kids!

What's that lyric about the 666 tattoo? "He couldn't commit fully to the devil's side, his ink reads 665.9"

LALO SCHIFRIN 💙 🦈🩵

667..neighbor of the beast

I guess if you’re doing all 7 inches today you can’t be revisiting the 99 bottles marathon

I think they'd need to press a special 1 RPM single for that, and even at that speed I doubt we'd get past 39 bottles of beer on the wall.

Wyatt doin' Diamond (Monkees too) is very cool!

I played the instrumental version of 99 bottles of beer on my show yesterday.

Howdy Mike! Hope things are going well.

Hey Jon! Good to see ya here. Thanks for swingin' through...

If you had to bring these 45s from your personal collection, do you have one of those old carrying boxes for them?

I do! It's held together with a lot of tape, but still gets the job done.

The Alex P Keaton theme song

Yo, Mallory!

Tom Hanks as the drunk uncle drinking vanilla extract = EMMY moment on Family Ties.

Greetings, Mike & crew!

happy to have "found" your show Mike. has made thursdays better for sure!

First heard the word "gluon" right around that time too. 1979-1981 ish. Our 5th or 6th grade class had some current events word o the day or some such... it was bandied about in the science / astronomy world there for a minute

Brian D.. I used to work grocery stores for close to 20 years., we would always be finding vanilla extract, empty bottles on the shelves

I think you could definitely pull off a show of bands-mentioning-bands. "I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone" springs to mind

Gotta play Life is a Rock but the Radio Rolled Me in that set if so. We had a 45 of that in the family bright blue/light blue/white record holder box with fun cubic 3d art design back in the 70s 80s.

The first replacement album would have two songs..something to DU and Johnny is going to die…johnny thunders

I'll be at the Sweeping Promises show! Who else?

7"/45 WPRB carrying case would make a cool premium. Or an adapter/spindle.

Vanilla extract binges? Who knew?

some low hanging fruit classic rock songs that name other bands would be smoke on the water (deep purple), and monterey (the animals)

Motörhead with RAMONES

The Pavement song about REM. And the other one that name checks Stone Temple Pilots, et al.

@donutage- Me too.

I think a full show of decent songs that mention other cool musicians/songs is totally doable.

Nice #6

Lynrd Skynrd “I hope Neil Young will remember”

TMBG - db records back ..

Andy Williams.... Nice!

The dead milkman… crystal shit.. husker du, Depeche Mode, Jam master j

They Might Be Giants "We're The Replacements!" ... and we're playin' and we're playin' in a rock and roll band... hey where's Tommy... someone find Tommy ...

Nick Lowe has TWO great ones TWO!? TWO?!! Fn ponderous man... "Rollers Show" (Bay City Rollers! C'MON!) and "All Men are Liars" (Nick Rick Rolling us all before Rickroll was a thannngggg... Astley content!)

Southern Culture on the Skjds- Voodoo Cadillac re: Tony Joe White

I will clearly need to refer back to this playlist chat if I ever tempt fate and try to pull this off.

8 slappin pistons right'chere unda mah hood let's ride! Love that Tony Joe White tribute shout out from SOtC!

John Lennon Calling out his own band “I don’t believe in …. Beatles “

Mojo Nixon has quite a few, but not very positive way.. bring me the head of David Geffen… Don Henley must die and many more

Let's go out in a limb and assume this is the only space in the internet right now where people are talking about Southern Culture on the Skids.

*in = "on" x 2.

In other news, I hate tiny mac keyboards.

And in the Stiff rekkids like Nick Lowe, the late great Kirsty Maccoll "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis". Love that one

Yes, the parameters should be referenced in a positive manner

I mentioned Southern Culture on the Skids in the chat last week... Lance snacks Captain's Wafers... who's in charge here!!!???

Don Henley “Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac “ ?

Elvis is everywhere. Mojo

Recently heard one that mentioned Nick Lowe. Let me think ..

Is he still everywhere when he left the building?

Had to look it up thinking bandleader Rick Miller of SOtC must be like 70 or 80 by now and yes he is 70 years old this year! Love his geetar tone and overall sound.

SCOTS are a fun band to see live

There's probably a whole show of songs that mention Elvis. "Fight the Power" being chief among them in my mind.

The country and bluegrass world have a sheet ton of mentions. Honor the greats that came before they do

There would have to be a whole other show for the twang..

Thomas H: yep. Saw SotC about 30 years ago. So much fun. I did not catch any pieces of fried chicken though. But I have taken some big pulls off of Robert Pollard's Cuervo and Jack Daniels bottles at GBV shows. And no cold viruses contracted either. The proof level must have kept all us swigging people in the fronter areas safe n sound.

Cheap Trick? Doesn’t sound like them at all

I think Tom is singing here.

The Paranoid Style: "A Goddam Impossible Way of Life" (the Who), "That Guy's in Rammstein" (Rammstein), a bunch of others that are more oblique.

References to ' walkin' the floor over you' alone prob take up an hour, minimum.

Tornado warning pinged on the phone. I think Jerz area around Lambville/Ringoes etc might be affected. Not sure about Princeton

Oy. And me armed with only a bunch of three minute records.

Not enough time to go downstairs and hide in the closet.

I’m in South Jerz and it’s all sunshine and rainbows down here. Thought we were getting storms today

No Water Damage on a 7"?

Bob Wills is Still the King. Are You Sure Hank Done it This Way? My Baby Don't Dance to Nothing But Ernest Tubb.Don't Rock the Jukebox. And Rodney Crowell's man-he-had-the-cojones-to-reengineer-his-dad-in-law's-song-as-a-tribute-whew "Walk the Line Revisited".

Queue up a bunch of digital tracks and seek safe shelter! Stay safe everyone!

First Hour: TopNotch Selections! Cheers, DJ MikeLupica!

"I Remember" ≠ "Cheree"

Jon or somebody will have to bring some emergency supplies.

@Michael, oops! Can you tell I'm running on fumes?

Mike.. you mentioned flipper a show or two ago and I am trying to remember, didn’t flipper have a 45 which would play on forever unless you actually picked up the needle and moved it

@Amy, ha! Minimum Louie Louies!

@Carlos, yeah I think the "Brainwash" single does that. Didn't bring that one this week!

You could always play the flip sides.

Did it intentionally skip at the end or something?

@Thomas, intentional locked groove

I like the cover of their “ the lady who swallowed the fly” 45.. nice drawing of the old lady eating a dog while the minister is coming up the walk

That doesn’t sound like a nice drawing

Ever shrunk a 45 in the oven? I gots to know.

@Jim, no but now I am envisioning my full line of Panther Burns-themed Shrinky Dinks.

Death Valley Girls covering Fleetwood Mac (Stevie) there. From Tusk lp. Good tune.

It's the flip of the (very overplayed by me as recently as last Thursday) cover of "Fire & Brimstone"

Some are made of polystyrene but I guess you can't tell which unless you fire em up.

So put another way: apermanent addition to the jukebox

Thank gob I just looked that up.

You're doing the lord's work, Jim.

Who told me that? I hang out with maniacs.

This Trashmen song is an early example of "brand extension"

I think it was a story of trying to get a warp out of a record that did not go as planned.

Hair dryer is a much better approach and makes the house smell just as bad

That would be a better idea.

Faaaaaaaaade!!!

RIPCLOTH

The man who guided me out of adolescence (back when he was still just Pete V)

TAKE WHAT ACTION YOU CAN GET

Gone too soon

Indeed. Still shattered over that one.

The recordings really dont do their live show justice

TRUTH

At least we have "Live At North Six"

A perennial favourite at deathrock clubs all across the greater Long Beach, CA area

well said 👏

Halftime…hydration break

KRAFTWERK ❤️🖤❤️

That last sentiment was perfect, Mike

@Michael, I assume you are referenceing the SGC song and not... the Trashmen?

Cheers, Zach!

Guessing that tornado was a false alarm? Did the storm cause any damage or flooding around there?

Still sunny skies over the Barge here in Princeton.

Montco pa.. within the past hour, sun, rain, sun again, and now very windy and getting dark

NEW ORDER 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

I’m starting to see some clouds on the horizon but it’s been sunny all day so far in South Jersey

Tornado watch goes on for a few hours. Bulk of the rains seem to be 2-5pm ish for Bucks Co / Jerz Chent'n Princeton etc

hi mike and accomplices

Welcome, Andrew

you keep playing songs that are keeping me from getting out of the car to go shopping

THEN MY WORK ON THIS PLANET IS DONE. WELL, ONGOING. BUT AT LEAST IT'S WORKING.

Pittman Jerz content

That may be the most esoteric comment ever posted here, Brian.

BUT I SEE YOU

YOU ARE DOING A GREAT JOB ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Sorry one to many t's there. Pitman, NJ content. Proud daughter Patti

Patty’s from Pittman? I knew it was South Jerz but wasn’t sure exactly where

PATTI SMITH 🩷💖🩷

You made me misspell it too ha ha

You’ll have to catch up on Sleep Sunday night I guess Mike?

If you happen to go to the sleep, show at the TLA do not arrive fashionably late… first act , schitzophonics are great

I'm clocking out, gang. See some of you at the Church tonight. Enjoyed the show, Mike!

I would like to go to the Sleep show but I am opting for the Crimson project with Vai, Belew, Levin and Bozzio on drums!

There was a time when this Replacements single was the most expensive used record I'd ever bought. I think I got in in 1993 or so and I paid ... $12 for it at Nuggets in Boston.

Which means I probably didn't eat that day.

The sacrifices we sometimes make for musical pursuits…

WORTH IT

“Blues you stole from the English dudes” is a line another band totally stole for a song of theirs…

Sounds like a lost basement tape

Definitely basement. Definitely lost.

The 33 1/3 book on Bobbie Gentry's Ode to Billy Joe is a great read. Goes into detail on that lp of course but like a lot of that series, it delves into the artist's past and aftermath of the titular LP. Delta Sweete lp details in there. too. "Sermon" has bits of that old gospel tune that has been done by many (Run on for a Long Time / God's Gonna Cut You Down etc).

The trebly twangy Sabbath!

Nice. I must say, I have been lazily looking for a vinyl copy of The Delta Sweete for years and have NEVER found one (whereas her other records are abundant.) Not even for stupid expensive money.

I love off-brand Sabbath.

Lynrd Sabbath

Especially when Ozzy is being all lovey dovey

LOL Thomas

Great Stuffs 📻🎶🎵❣️ TopTier Show! Well done with the Fast Flips of the FortyFives! Big CHEERS, DJ MikeLupica!

Which LP is this Sab song even on? Technical Ecstasy? Never Say Die?

Flipping 45’s like burgers on the grill! Well done today ML!

SEBADOH 🖤♥️🖤♥️🖤

Good stuff, dj lupica

Esoterica has entered the game grid!

Yes!

DJ Esoterica knows Good Stuff! Another TopShelf Show this week! Happy 10th Anniversary! Cheers! 🖤💀

Thanks, Mr. M! Cheers to you!

DJ Dan Buskirk featured one of the bonus tracks from all the big bonanza deluxe 40-50 year anniv Black Sabbath box sets that came out over the past 6 years. Always fun to hear. He's great like that. Only on WPRB. He features a lot of the big Vince Guaraldi / Charlie Brown box set releases that came out over the past few years as well. Count on Dan B for that

Great soundtrack to clean the house, look at the window and watch the changing weather, season iron pans and wok. Thanks

Is this the flip side?! SEBADOH ♥️🖤♥️🖤♥️

Sabbath A Hard Road is on Never Say Die. Last of the Ozzy ol skool line up lps in the 70s

Thanks Mike! lovin' the Tubeway Army!

No F-word that I can recall. My favorite Sebadoh is original line-up Sebadoh! Thank you so much for the spectacular all 45s soundtrack to today's dreary MA day!

@Teresa, whew! I was *obsessed* with the first three Sebadoh records when I first got to PRB in 1992. Like, to an unhealthy degree.

Tubeway Army cures whatever ails ya!

Thx for another great show Mike!

Dearest Mike -- You are not alone!!!❤️

Cheers Amy!

Thanks for the small 7" show, BCNU!

Great show Mike!

Thanks Mike for the great spins!