RADIO BROADCAST #873 12-26–25

RADIO BROADCAST #873

12-26–25

Fanatic! I think the holiday season means different things to different people. I didn’t see any humans today and the weather was unseasonably warm, so it was more of an overcast September atmosphere. Some of my neighbors light their houses up. It looks like a lot of work. There is a car I’ve seen twice in the last few days that was wrapped in Christmas lights. The car was white, and the lights were multicolor and at night it looked really cool. The first time I saw the car, It was ahead of me turning onto the highway and the second time I saw it, the occupant was getting out to go into the gym as I was getting into my car. I wish I could’ve gotten a photo.

I can’t possibly know if you have any days away from your usual tasks as we march towards the end of the year, but if you do, I hope you get some good listening in. I’ve been checking out the Velvet Underground reissue box set, a lot of Stooges, David Bowie and tracks for our upcoming shows. Engineer X and I are a little over halfway done with our first show for next year. I think it’s going to be a great one.

I believe I mentioned last week or the week before, there are some really great records coming out next year, a few of them. I’ve been lucky enough to receive in advance. Others, I’ll have to wait for, but they will arrive eventually. I think we’re going to have some great listening coming up.

Fanatic, we finish another year of music appreciation together. On behalf of myself, Engineer, X and Engineer Am-Rock, thank you so much for tuning in. We hope we’ve put together shows that have been interesting and worth your while. We are going to do our Fanatic best to maintain this level of sonic good times into next year. 

Until then, enjoy the holiday and STAY FANATIC!!!  

–– Henry

We’re on Bluesky

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Hour 1

01. The Stooges - Search And Destroy / Raw Power

02. David Bowie - Blackout / Heroes  

03. Black Marble - Woods / It's Immaterial   

04. BB Bomb - Ban On Love / Practice Songs  

05. Molly Nilsson - Classified / Amateur

06. Tee Vee Repairmann - Only A Memory / Only A Memory / Bad News  

07. American Lips - Lawsuit / On Strike!

08. King Tubby & Soul Syndicate - East Avenue Skank / Freedom Sounds In Dub  

09. The Prize   Reaction / In The Red

10. Devo - Too Much Paranoias / Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!  

11. Rutland Artists - Stoop Solo / Rutland Times

12. Dee Dee Ramone - Get Out of This House / Hop Around

13. Loose Lips - Out of Time / Last Laugh

14. The Fall - Xmas With Simon / Shift-Work

15. Joy Division - Digital / Substance

16. Buzzcocks - Airwaves Dream / Singles Going Steady  

17. Eddie Kendricks - Keep On Truckin' / Those Funky 70's  

18. Birthday Party - Wildworld / Bad Seed EP

Hour 2

01. The Courettes - Misfits & Freaks / Misfits & Freaks 

02. The Ramones - Surf City / Acid Eaters 

03. Dr. Sure's Unusual Practice - Super Speedy Zipper Whipper / Remember The Future? 

04. Chain & The Gang - Never Been Properly Loved / Minimum Rock n Roll 

05. Party Dozen - Ghost Rider / 7" 

06. Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds - Let's Go! / Haunted Head  

07. The Pacific Cowboys - Let's Rock / Everybody's Boppin' - Early Northwest Rockers & Instrumentals Vol. 1

08. Sinn Sisamouth & Ros Serey Sothea - Mou Pei Na / Sleepwalking Through The Mekong

09. Why Bother? - Split Personality Crisis - Lacerated Nights

10. Caution - Pleasure Addict / Peripheral Vision 

11. The Clash - Corner Soul / Sandinista!

12. Von Sudenfed - Serious Brainskin / Tromatic Reflexxions 

13. Heather the Jerk - Lie Detector / Very Motorcycle E.P.

14. Automatic - Black Box / Is It Now? 

15. The Saints - This Perfect Day (single version) / (I'm) Stranded 

16. Miles Davis - Big Fun / The Complete On The Corner Sessions 

17. Lalo Schifrin - Mission: Impossible / The Reel Lalo Schifrin 

18. David Bowie - The Secret Life of Arabia / Heroes

19. Billy Tsounis - Psychic Detective Grudge / Pregnant Man Blues

RADIO BROADCAST #872 12-19–25

RADIO BROADCAST #872

12-19–25

Fanatic! I hope you had a great week and if you’re one to celebrate the holidays, I hope you have your travel plans in order. Many tours I’ve been on would end right before Christmas. It makes sense, there’s not a great deal of activity around that time. It would be right around now, I’d be looking at a multiple plane and airport experience. More than once, for some reason, the last show of the year would be in Moscow. I would hit the stopwatch as I walked out of the hotel lobby and stop it when I walked in to my house. As I remember, it was almost 24 hours. So many times, on this day, December 19, I’d be on a plane with hours and hours to go. The airports would often be full of families and inexperienced flyers.

Fanatic, I think last week I told you about that really cool Velvet Underground 5LP box set that was just unleashed by the great Sundazed label. My copy just arrived and I got right into it. My schedule will be one LP a night until I cycle through all five. I had not listened to the first Velvet Underground album in his entirety for a long time. Partway through the first track, Sunday Morning, it was almost as if I was five songs into the album. It was so completely immersive, perhaps due to the sheer amount of times I’ve listened to it. Just my opinion, but I think the album is an example of pure genius. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything like it. Easily one of the greatest albums I’ve ever heard. As I remember, my introduction to the Velvet Underground was administered by brainiac and all-around good guy Chris Hasket, who I was in a band with for many years. One night myself and many of the microscopic DC punk scene were at a show at the legendary Madam’s Organ. I think the Bad Brains and the Teen Idles might have been on the bill. Things would often start pretty late there. It wasn’t always so much of a show, but a party with bands playing now and then. As the show was letting out, Chris suggested that some of us follow him to his place. My car loaded up with people and several minutes later we arrived. We were hanging out in Chris's room and he put on a record. It didn't make any sense to me. He told me it was the Velvet Underground and the album was called White Light/White Heat. I remember hearing the song Sister Ray, and not understanding why a band would play a song for that long. I didn’t dislike the record, I just simply didn’t have a place in my mind to put it. A few years later, I heard the first Velvet Underground record, which I liked immediately and then revisited White Light/White Heat, and somehow understood it differently and really dug it. In early 1983., I got a copy of  the book Uptight: The Velvet Underground Story by Victor Bockris and Gerard Malanga. As I remember, it was very compelling and made me want to hear every record that was mentioned. This book inspired me to listen to the solo albums of Lou Reed, John Cale, and Nico. I loaned the book to someone and never got it back. It was one of two books I loaned to this person. I got the other back, but it took years. Anyway, we’re playing a track from the first Velvet Underground album tonight.

Tonight’s show will hopefully be a mixtape that hits the right notes and keeps you engaged for the entirety. We are almost done with 2025 and if all goes according to plan, we will be charging into 2026 with our usual Fanatic zeal. Engineer X, Engineer Am-Rock and I are now putting the finishing touches on next week’s show and should have it ready for you on time.

We hope you survive the holidays in safety and optimum health. Be careful out there and STAY FANATIC!!!  

–– Henry

We’re on Bluesky

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Hour 1

01. David Bowie - Beauty And The Beast / Heroes

02. Stooges - Gimme Danger / Original Punks

03. The Velvet Underground - I'll Be Your Mirror / Velvet Underground Boxset 

04. Via - JJ / Via  

05. Rodney Dangerfield - Why Tigers Eat Their Young / Caddy Shack 

06. The Gun Club - Araby / Mother Juno  

07. Sistema De Entretenimiento - 300 Noches Sin Dormir / 300 Noches Sin Dormir

08. Skull Practitioners - Leap / Negative Stars

09. The Damned - Rabid (Over You) / The Black Album (CD extra track) 

10. Molly Nilsson - Long Time No See / Amateur 

11. Brigitte Fontaine & Areski Belkacem - Le Brin D'herbe / Vous Et Nous 

12. American Lips - Sleep / On Strike! 

13. Screensaver - Solid Facts / Three Lens Approach  

14. Pascal Comelade-Pierre Bastien-Jac Berrocal-Jaki Liebezeit - Morceau En Forme De Pinces / Oblique Sessions 

15. Einstürzende Neubauten - Neun Arme / Zeichnungen Des Patienten O.T. / Drawings of O.T.  

16. Lee Scratch Perry & The Upsetters - Cloak & Dagger Horns Dub Plate Pressure / Cloak & Dagger  

17. Sonic Youth - Beauty Lies In The Eye / Sister

18. Joy Division - Leaders Of Men / Substance 1977-1980

19. The Fall - Deer Park / Complete Peel Sessions: 1978-2004 

20. Alan Vega - Body Bop Jive / Deuce Avenue  

Hour 2

01. Snooper - Hologram / Wordwide

02. Winged Wheel - Speed Table / Desert So Green

03. Morwan - Moyi Dni / Vse Po Kolu, Znovu 

04. Adele Dazeem - Misère / Metanoia 

05. Martin Rev - Ten Two / See Me Ridin'  

06. Renegades - Black Jack / Everybody's Boppin' - Early Northwest Rockers and Instrumentals Vol. 1 

07. Suomen Talvisota - Tehtaan Vahtimestari/ Psychedelic Phinland

08. Reatards - Stacye / Teenage Hate 

09. Blue Zero - Confusion / Confusion EP 

10. Optic Sink - Don't Look Down / Lucky Number 

11. Thor - Galaxina / Ride of the Chariots 

12. Loose Lips - Nothing That I Want / Last Laugh   

13. Straight Arrows - Turpentine / On Top

14. The Worlocks - I Love You / Back From The Grave Part 3 

15. Goblin Daycare - Godfreaks! / Q: EP? A: EP!! 

16. Why Bother? - Wasted Days / A Year of Mutations 

17. Devo - Going Under / New Traditionalists

18. Walter Steding - Subterranean Escape / Walter Steding 

19. Ramones - Born to Die in Berlin / Adios Amigos! 

20. SUNN O)))- Eternity's Pillars / Eternity's Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential  12”

RADIO BROADCAST #871 12-12–25

RADIO BROADCAST #871

12-12–25

Fanatic! I hope you had a great week. I had a chance to listen to the live Boris album Pink Days a couple of nights ago. So far, there was a very limited pressing of it on their website that sold out immediately, and then a larger pressing the band has been selling on tour. I have no idea as to the status of those. I believe the band has completed their North American dates and have headed back to Japan. Unfortunately, for now at least, copies online are expensive. It’s too bad. It sounds so good. I hope Boris will have mercy on people who do not want to pay exorbitant prices and press up some more. I was lucky, my good pal and sonic ally, Fanatic Denise snagged me one at the merch table when she saw them play recently. She’s done this multiple times over the years as I can never seem to find myself in the same city as Boris. Anyway, I hope you get a chance to check it out sometime.

You have a life and things to do, so you might not know this: David Bowie’s amazing album Heroes has been bootlegged and pressed in different colored vinyl. There are a lot of variants. If you want a visual, here are a few.

https://www.discogs.com/release/9125793-David-Bowie-Heroes

https://www.discogs.com/release/10439789-David-Bowie-Heroes

https://www.discogs.com/release/19145542-David-Bowie-Heroes

https://www.discogs.com/release/23008037-David-Bowie-Heroes

A few years ago, these were everywhere. I found eight different variants, including a picture disc. They sound a lot better than records like these usually do. Quite often bootlegs of official albums like these, (and there are plenty of them) use a digital source, like a CD. You can hear it very quickly on the vinyl. There’s a shallowness that’s unmistakable. I find the bootlegs more interesting than the official releases. When I found them, they were really cheap. Last night, I listened to one of them and was surprised at how good it sounded. It’s such a great record. My personal favorite album of David Bowie’s is Scary Monsters. All that Robert Fripp guitar, so high up in the mix. It’s a purposefully in your face record. That being said, I think Heroes is Bowie’s best, as far as composition, execution and the sounds. A serious meeting of the minds on that one: David Bowie, Tony Visconti, and Brian Eno. Wow! 

I watched this documentary about David Bowie again last night. Really cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7JbETQZlJc

A really great record you should be aware of. The Real Janelle by Bratmobile has been out of print for a long time. It’s just been reissued with The Real Janelle tracks on the A side and Bratmobile’s Peel sessions on the B. It sounds great.

CD/Dl here: https://bratmobile.bandcamp.com/album/the-real-janelle-the-peel-session

For vinyl, I saw a lot of them on Discogs. I didn’t see the vinyl listed at the Kill Rock Stars site.

This box sure looks good to me!

https://sundazed.com/velvet-underground-the-the-verve/mgm-albums-5-lp-deluxe-box-set.aspx

There’s a new  Heather The Jerk 7” called the Very Motorcycle EP. The vinyl is gone on Bandcamp.

https://heatherthejerk.bandcamp.com/album/very-motorcycle-e-p

You can still find some copies on Discogs.

https://www.discogs.com/sell/list?master_id=3982822

We’ll start tracks from it soon. 

We have a track from the cool band Adele Dazeem tonight. 

https://adeledazeem.bandcamp.com/album/metanoia

Fanatic, also take note that this is KCRW’s season of giving. Please, if you’re not yet a member, I encourage you to join at KCRW.com/give.

Hopefully, Fanatic, we’ve gathered what you will hopefully find to be a fantastic batch of tunes to spend some time with. Have a great night of listening and STAY FANATIC!!!  

–– Henry

We’re on Bluesky

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Hour 1

01. David Bowie - Joe The Lion / Heroes 

02. Iggy Pop / James Williamson - Consolation Prizes (no synth / alt vox) / Original Punks 

03. Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers - Get Off The Phone (original mix) / L.A.M.F. Definitive Ed. 

04. American Lips - Got It Made / On Strike!  

05. Velvet Underground - What Goes On (mono single) / The Velvet Underground - 45th Ann. 

06. Misfits - Hybrid Moments / Static Age 

07. Screensaver - Symptom Check / Three Lens Approach  

08. Dax Riggs - Radiation Blues / We Sing Of Only Blood Or Love 

09. Angry Angles - Apparent – Transparent / Angry Angles 

10. Loose Lips - Nothing That I Want / Last Laugh 

11. King Tubby - Dubbing My Way / Unleashed Dub From King Tubby's Studio Vol. 1 (1970s) 

12. Heather the Jerk - Heather Got A Divorce / Cable Access TV   

13. The Fall - Jawbone And The Air-Rifle / Hex Enduction Hour  

14. Buzzcocks - Autonomy / Another Music In A Different Kitchen

15. Molly Nilsson - My Dream From Last Night / These Things Take Time  

16. The Damned - Lively Arts / Radio One Sessions  

17. The Gun Club - I Can't Explain / Lucky Jim (CD extra track)  

18. Suicide - I Remember / Suicide (CD extra track)  

19. Monty Python - Novel Writing / Matching Tie and Handkerchief  

20. David Boring - Nancy Nightmare / Liminal Beings And Their Echoes

Hour 2

01. Snooper - Opt Out / Worldwide 

02. Devo - Are You Experienced? / Shout  

03. UK Subs - I Couldn't Be You / Another Kind Of Blues 

04. BB Bomb - Morning Call / Practice Songs 

05. Sistema De Entretenimiento - Zona Desconocida / 300 Noches Sin Dormir

06. Memo PST - I Used To Be A Pretty Boy / 7"  

07. Abi Ooze - Run + Hide / Forestdale Sessions  

08. Big Danny Oliver - Sapphire / A Minute with Miriam - Mad Mike Monsters - Vol. 02  

09. The Damned - Born To Kill / Damned Damned Damned 

10. David Bowie - I Can't Explain / Pin Ups 

11. Morwan - Temna, Yak Spogad / Vse Po Kolu, Znovu 

12. Deerhoof - Top Tim Rubies / Reveille 

13. Monty Python - Wasp Club/Tiger Talk / Matching Tie and Handkerchief 

14. The Prize - Say You're Mine / In The Red 

15. Gee Tee - Ain't Dumb / Prehistoric Chrome 

16. Spykes - Track 06 / AM 364 Battle For The Mind 

17. Le Butcherettes - Demon Stuck In Your Eye / Cry Is For The Flies 

18. Automatic - mq9 / Is It Now?

19. Keiji Haino + Shuta Hasunuma - Number / U TA  

20. Wolfmahattan Project - Braid Of Smoke / Wolfmahattan Project 

21. Adele Dazeem - Deep Sea Hand / Metanoia

RADIO BROADCAST #870 12-05–25

RADIO BROADCAST #870

12-05–25

Fanatic! There was a bit of snow in my neighborhood today. I just got a bag of raw shelled peanuts, and left some out on the back porch for the squirrels early this morning. A little while later, I returned to see they were all gone. Hopefully, I’ll help keep their food supply happening so they can get through the winter. 

Fanatic, this is our first show for December. We’ll be featuring songs from David Bowie’s excellent Heroes album. Such an amazing piece of work. I hope you had a chance to avail yourself to some of the Raw Power-era tracks of the Stooges from those records I suggested to you recently. I’ve been checking a few out every night for the last couple of weeks.

I got a chance to listen to the tracks that will comprise an album by an artist we listen to quite often on the show that will hopefully be released next year. It’s not for me to get in front of a band’s release, just remember I told you we’ve got a great record to look forward to. Also, I was given all the tracks for the new album by the great band from Hong Kong, David Boring, called Liminal Beings and Their Echoes. We have to wait until January 12 to play any track we want but if you go to their Bandcamp page, you can check out two songs now. This is a really interesting band and I’m looking forward to getting into these tracks next year. https://davidboring.bandcamp.com/album/liminal-beings-and-their-echoes

We’ve got a track from a cool band called Caution in the second hour of the show. I got the heads up about this group from our good pal and sonic ally, McGinty. The album comes out today. I’m looking forward to getting into the rest of the tracks.

I just got a chance to hear a test pressing of a project Larry Hardy at In The Red Records and I have been working on for weeks. It sounded great and a week ago, we made the order. When the records get to us, I’ll definitely let you know. I think you’re going to like this one. 

Fanatic, I’ve given this set of tunes the run through on multiple days on the treadmill, and I think we’ve got a good show for you tonight. Wherever you are, whatever the climate is, whatever you’re going through, we hope you dig all the songs we’ve gathered for you. Have a great weekend, a great night of listening and STAY FANATIC!!!  

–– Henry

We’re on Bluesky

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Hour 1

01. David Bowie - Helden / Heroes

02. Iggy Pop & James Williamson - Johanna / Original Punks 

03. Dax Riggs - Truth In The Dark / We Sing Of Only Blood Or Love 

04. American Lips - On Strike / On Strike! 

05. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Never Understand / The Complete John Peel Sessions 

06. Sachet - The Source / Taipei Learner

07. Fugazi - Birthday Pony / Red Medicine 

08. UK Subs - Ice Age / The Singles 1978-1982 

09. The Gun Club - Sleepy Time Blues (Nobody´s City) / Mother Juno

10. Ed Schrader's Music Beat - Laughing / Party Jail 

11. The Fall - The Man Whose Head Expanded / The Complete Peel Sessions: 1978-2004 

12. Joy Division - Interzone / Unknown Pleasures 

13. The Birthday Party - Pleasure Avalanche / Peel Sessions  

14. Einstürzende Neubauten - Sehnsucht (Zitternd) / Halber Mensch 

15. Monty Python - String / Contractual Obligation Album 

16. Escape-ism - Crime Wave Rock / Introduction To Escape-ism

17. Jimi Hendrix - 1983 / Naked Ladyland

Hour 2

01. Snooper - Guard Dog / Worldwide 

02. Prince Jammy and Scientist - The Son Of Darth Vader / Scientist and Jammy Strike Back!

03. Sick Bags - Only The Young Die Good / Only The Young Die Good 

04. Caution - Weeds / Peripheral Vision 

05. Bikini Kill - Jigsaw Youth / The C.D. Version Of The First Two Records 

06. BB Bomb - Single Celled Organism / Practice Songs 

07. Rangers & Kim Fowley - Mogul Monster / Technicolor Grease: Lost Treasures from the Vaults 1959-1969, Vol. 4 

08. The Calico Wall - I'm A Living Sickness / Trash Box Vol. 3  

09. Prison Affair - Isolation / Demo IV EP  

10. Loose Lips - Comin' Home / Last Laugh 

11. Den - In a Perfect Way / Post Pink  

12. Miss Destiny - My Destiny / Miss Destiny

13. Lithics - Glass of Water / Mating Surfaces 

14. Morwan - Na Shio / Vse Po Kolu, Znovu 

15. The Galaxies - This Rock And Roll / Automatic Bop - Volume 01  

16. Automatic - The Prize / Is It Now? 

17. Bosna – Miasma / You Know Too Much 

18. The Prize - Looking For A Reason / In The Red  

19. The Firesign Theatre - The Small Animal Administration / Dear Friends 

20. Black Eyes - Break A Leg / Hostile Design

RADIO BROADCAST #869 11-28–25

RADIO BROADCAST #869

11-28–25

Fanatic! I hope you had a great week and weren’t subjected to unwanted holiday intrusions. 

The first memorable Thanksgiving I can remember was in the year of 1980. I was working at a Häagen-Dazs ice cream store on Wisconsin Avenue in a very upscale section of DC called Georgetown. My boss, Steve, gave us the day off. Being the budding overachiever and workaholic, I told him I’d have the shop open from 10 until 4, just in case people needed vanilla ice cream for their Thanksgiving dinners and if there weren’t many or any customers coming in, I would do cleaning, organizing and other tasks to stay busy. He probably thought I was knocking myself out a bit too much for minimum wage, but perhaps appreciated my zeal and abundant intensity. Fanatic is as Fanatic does, I say. As I remember, we got a fair number of customers that day. The part I wanted to tell you about was that Steve had a restaurant down the street from the shop prepare a Thanksgiving meal and bring it over to the shop. I had no idea it was coming. Being low on finances and perpetually hungry, it was a good break. 

While I reject the images of indigenous peoples of the North American continent, grooving with European invaders, as depicted in paintings, I don’t mind the occasion to be thankful. I went to Sprouts and bought another bag of raw walnuts and laid them out in great plentitude for the two gangs of squirrels that run around in my front and back yards. They were all gone a few hours later. There are so many critters around here, I have no idea who made them disappear, but hopefully they were enjoyed.

I’m thankful for too many things to list here, but since we’re on the topic of tonight’s radio show, I’m thankful for the slot at KCRW. Honestly, I’m always surprised that we keep not getting fired. You never know with radio. I’m thankful that there’s so many great bands committing themselves and making such amazing music. I’m thankful that you tune into this show. I’m thankful that Jason Bentley sometimes sends me boxes of clothes he no longer needs so that I can have something to wear. 

The new Party Dozen track that starts our second hour is really cool. You can find it here.

https://party-dozen.bandcamp.com/album/mad-rooter-ghost-rider

Just my opinion, Fanatic, but I don’t think this band has made a record that should be missed. I can’t wait to hear the flip side of this record. 

Have a great night of listening to the marvelous mix we have prepared for you and STAY FANATIC!!!  

–– Henry

We’re on Bluesky

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Hour 1

01. The Rolling Stones - Hang Fire / Tattoo You 

02. Ivan - Real Wild Child / Magnificent: 62 Classics From The Cramps' Insane Collection 

03. Ruts - In a Rut / Peel Sessions 

04. Blue Zero - Rotten Angel / Confusion EP 

05. Vintage Crop – Friday / New Age

06. Jay Reatard - I Know A Place / Singles 06-07 

07. American Lips - Get On / On Strike! 

08. Scorpions - Hell-Cat / Virgin Killer 

09. BB Bomb - Such A Happy Fortune / Practice Songs 

10. Clash - Brand New Cadillac / London Calling 

11. The Damned - Ballroom Blitz / Chiswick Singles

12. Dax Riggs - Wall Of Death / We Sing Of Only Blood Or Love

13. Wire - Midnight Bahnhof Café / Document & Eyewitness 1979-1980 

14. The Fall - Craigness / The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall 

15. Joy Division - Means To An End / Closer 

16. Buzzcocks - I Need / Another Music In A Different Kitchen 

17. Kraftwerk - Radio Sterne / Radio-Aktivität

18. Klaus Schulze - Die Kunst, Hundert Jahre alt Zu Werden - Loch im Meer / La Vie Electronique 1 

19. David Essex - Rock On / AM Gold 1974 

Hour 2

01. Party Dozen - Mad Rooter / new 7”

02. The Misfits - Cough/Cool (7" version) / Box Set 

03. Raymond Scott - Take Me To Your Violin Teacher / Manhattan Research, Inc.

04. David Bowie - Queen Bitch / Hunky Dory

05. Iggy Pop - The Passenger / Lust For Life

06. The Duvals – Cotton / Mad Mike Monsters Vol. 03 

07. Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers - Get Off The Phone / L.A.M.F. 

08. Killing Joke - Complications / Killing Joke

09. The Prize - From the Night / In The Red 

10. Kid Congo & Naim Amour - Tucson Safari / Tucson Safari  

11. Snooper - Subdivision / Worldwide  

12. Spencer P Jones – Time / The Last Gasp 

13. Keiji Haino + Shuta Hasunuma - People / U TA

14. Den - Repeating Signs / Post Pink

15. Monty Python - Neville Shunt / Another Monty Python Record 

16. Mark Stewart + Maffia - To Have The Vision / Learning to Cope With Cowardice 

17. Funkadelic - Hardcore Jollies / HardCore Jollies

RADIO BROADCAST #868 11-21–25

RADIO BROADCAST #868

11-21–25

Fanatic! I hope the week was not too bruising and that you had the occasion to check out some great music. I’ve been getting some good listening in. It’s around this time of the year I start listening to a lot of Raw Power-era Stooges. What I mean by era is there’s a lot of music the band left in their comet trail of fury from 1973 into the first two months of 1974. There was of course the album but if you drill down deeper, there’s a lot more to check out. Hopefully, you won’t mind this short list of releases featuring the band live and at practice. Absolutely blistering.

The Stooges – Rubber Legs

The Stooges – Heavy Liquid

The Stooges – Rough Power

The Stooges – California Bleeding

The Stooges – Theatre Of Cruelty

The Stooges – You Think You’re Bad, Man? (The Road Tapes '73 - '74)

The Stooges – Born In A Trailer (The Session & Rehearsal Tapes '72 - '73)

Please note, there is a tremendous amount of overlap on these records, especially when it comes to the practice sessions but I think they’re all worth checking out. I’ve been listening to selections from these for the last several nights. I think it’s some of the best Rock music ever made. 

I found this record by Keiji Haino and Shuta Hasunuma called U TA to be super cool. We have a track from it in hour two. I found anything involving Keiji Haino is worth checking out. He is always 100% committed to the moment. https://shutahasunuma.bandcamp.com/album/u-ta

The Post Pink album by Den is really cool. We have a track from it on the show tonight.

https://digitalregress.bandcamp.com/album/post-pink

You might remember Fanatic, I’ve been telling you that I had no information on the American Lips On Strike! album. Our good pal, sonic ally Sebastien generously gave me the 411.

American Lips is:

Adrian Popovich - guitar, synth, voice

Jessica Bruzzese - bass, voice

Sebastien Grainger - drums, some voice

I play drums, co-produce, mix, do some writing and play some odds and sods on this project. 

Label: Ancient Fashion (my little label with Adrian)

The record came out October 29th and is available at DSPs and on vinyl at Bandcamp!

https://americanlips.bandcamp.com/album/on-strike

What a fantastic-o lineup of tunes we have for you on this Friday! I thought that we should floor it for the first few songs, just to make sure you’re in a wakeful state and ready for the nonstop barrage that follows. 

Speaking of Bed Maker, they have a show tomorrow night in Washington DC at Comet Ping Pong. With Sensor Ghost?! No way! I wish I could be there! 

https://app.opendate.io/e/open-city-bed-maker-sensor-ghost-november-22-2025-628045

Have a great night of listening and STAY FANATIC!!!  

–– Henry

We’re on Bluesky

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Hour 1

01. The Stooges - T.V. Eye / Fun House 

02. MC5 - Gotta Keep Movin' / High Time 

03. The Penetrators - Teenage Lifestyle / Basement Anthology 1976-84 

04. Den - Extraordinary Wealth / Post Pink 

05. Plaided - Can We Keep This / People Lying Around In Dirt Every Day 

06. Sistema De Entretenimiento - No Me Gusta A Realidad / 300 Noches Sin Dormir 

07. The Bites - One Million Miles / This Is A Full Stop

08. Gang Of Four – Glass / Entertainment!  

09. American Lips - This Is The Top / On Strike! 

10. Cat's Eyes - Teardrops / Treasure House 

11. Fats Waller - Christopher Columbus / Vol. 04 1935 – 1936 

12. The Fall - Bremen Nacht Run Out / The Frenz Experiment 

13. The Native Cats - My Risks Is Art / The Way On Is The Way Off  

14. Nico - Genghis Khan / The Drama Of Exile

15. Lou Reed - Gimmie Some Good Times / Street Hassle  

16. David Bowie - Alabama Song / Re: Call 3

17. Die Haut And Nick Cave - Stow-A-Way / Burnin' The Ice

Hour 2

01. The Viletones – Rebel / Taste Of Honey 

02. I Jog And The Tracksuits – Redbox / 7" Up!

03. Wire - Go Ahead / Document & Eyewitness 1979-1980 

04. No Peeling - Pink Flamingos / No Peeling 

05. Cluster - Für die Katz / Cluster II 

06. AUS - Für die Katz / AUS 

07. Moon Men - Other Side Of The Moon / Missing Links Vol. 3 

08. Joe Meek And The Blue Men - I Hear A New World / I Hear A New World 

09. The Prize - First Sight / In The Red 

10. Cramps - I'm Cramped / Songs The Lord Taught Us 

11. The Busters - Bust Out / Oldies Instrumental LP 

12. Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds - Our Other World / Gorilla Rose  

13. Lorelle Meets The Obsolete – Reanimar El Cuerpo / Corporal 

14. The Don - Sunshine Day / Thai Beat A Go-Go Vol. 03  

15. Automatic - Terminal / Is It Now?

16. Keiji Haino + Shuta Hasunuma - Sky / U TA 

17. Ignition - Standstill / Complete Services

18. Bed Maker - Candy Striper's Confession / Bed Maker

19. This House - Man Joke / Soft Rains Will Come

RADIO BROADCAST #867 11-14–25

RADIO BROADCAST #867

11-14–25

Fanatic! I hope November’s been treating you well. I’ve been supplying the two crazy squirrels in my backyard raw almonds for most of this year. Up until a few weeks ago, they seemed quite happy with them. One of the squirrels, not seeing any almonds scattered on the back porch area would come up to the window and bang its paws on the glass, reminding me that I have to supply the demand. For the last few weeks, I’ve been leaving almonds out, thinking the squirrels might need to bulk up for the winter months. I’ve watched them, day after day, walk right over the almonds. I did some research and found that squirrels are very careful about their diet and after awhile, might back away from the almonds, unless they bury them for later. Well, then, I’m going to have to find something else to give them. Later: I switched to raw walnuts, and the squirrels are eating them.

I just finished listening to the In The Red album by the great Australian group the Prize. We’ve been playing tracks from the band on the show, but I just had a chance to sit and carefully listen to the record all the way through. It’s really good. https://theprizemelbourne.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-red-usa

Very cool band on the great Damnably label called BB Bomb. We’re checking them out in the first hour. https://bbbombband.bandcamp.com/album/practice-songs

You might notice at the beginning of our second hour, new music by Ekko Astral. Hopefully, there’s more to come. https://ekkoastral.bandcamp.com/album/horseglue

The new album by Black Eyes, Hostile Design, just came out on Dischord. There’s a lot of FCC unfriendly language in the tracks and I don’t need the aggravation of trying to excise everything so we’re going to give the record a miss for the most part, but it should be checked out, absolutely. 

https://dischord.com/news/767/2025/8/black-eyes-hostile-design-out-on-oct-10th

https://blackeyes.bandcamp.com/album/hostile-design

The Morwan album we’ve been listening to over the last couple of weeks, Vse Po Kolu, Znovu, is really worth checking out. https://morwan.bandcamp.com/album/vse-po-kolu-znovu

You also noticed, that we’re listening to another track from that excellent Kid Congo & TNDE album Live @ St. Kilda . I’m sorry that we didn’t get into it more completely when it was first released. It’s so good and a great example of why you should never miss an opportunity to see Kid Congo.

https://kidcongopowerstheneardeathexperience.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-st-kilda

I just did a couple of podcasts with my longtime pal Paul Rieckhoff. If you wanna listen to them here they are.

Episode 372 - It’s Time to Bring Back Punk Rock

Episode 373 - On Venezuela: Show Me the Dope

I think we have a great mix of tunes for you tonight. I take the tracks to the gym with me and listen as I plot endlessly into the future on the treadmill, listening down before we subject you to do the same. It’s very helpful for final edits. It’s a multi-day process, but I think it’s worth it. I like what we have here and hope you do as well.

Thank you so much for tuning in, have a great weekend and STAY FANATIC!!!  

–– Henry

We’re on Bluesky

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Hour 1

01. Kraftwerk – Computerwelt 2 / Computer Welt 

02. Cluster – Caramel / Zuckerzeit 

03. Einstürzende Neubauten - Jet'm / Kollaps  

05. Die Haut And Nick Cave - Pleasure Is The Boss / Burnin' The Ice  

06. Scorpions - Speedy's Coming / Gold 

07. BB Bomb - Doctor / Practice Songs 

08. Swell Maps - Steven Does / A Trip To Marineville (CD extra track)  

09. Devo – Blockhead / Duty Now For The Future

10. American Lips - Cardboard Trash / On Strike! 

11. Lou Reed - Satellite Of Love / Transformer 

12. Sexfaces - Anti-Satanic Drugs / Bad Vibes 

13. The Fall - Pilsner Trail (aka Plaster In The Hands) / Perverted by Language (CD extra track) 

14. Joy Division - Insight / BBC Recordings   

15. Nico - Purple Lips / The Drama Of Exile 

16. Angry Angles - Blockhead / Angry Angles  

17. The Shangri-Las - Sophisticated Boom Boom / Myrmidons Of Melodrama 

18. Alan Vega - Jaxon Gnome / Dujang Prang 

Hour 2

01. Ekko Astral - Horseglue / Horseglue Dl 

02. Gun Club - Humanesque / Pastoral Hide & Seek

03. Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers - Born To Lose / Born Too Loose

04. Morwan - Bez Obluchya / Vse Po Kolu, Znovu 

05. Kid Congo & TNDE - Sophisticated Boom Boom / Live @ St. Kilda

06. The Vandals - My Friend / Work It On Out! - Northwest Killers Vol. 3

07. Kiki Dee - Supercool / Loving And Free 

08. Lucifer (Mort Garson) - The Ride Of Aida (Voodoo) / Black Mass 

09. Snooper - Blockhead / Wordwide  

10. Automatic - Country Song / Is It Now? 

11. Minutemen – Tension / The Punch Line 

12. Loose Lips - Careful What You Wish For / Last Laugh  

13. O/Pus - To The Sea / Out At Sea, The Water Is Deep

14. Keiji Haino + Shuta Hasunuma - Finger / U TA 

15. Dax Riggs - Even The Stars Fall / 7 Songs For Spiders

16. Optic Sink - Lucky Number / Lucky Number

17. Lorelle Meets The Obsolete – Palabra / Corporal

RADIO BROADCAST #866 11-07–25

RADIO BROADCAST #866

11-07–25

Fanatic! Here we are together again for our second Friday. I hope you dug last week’s show and are okay with our new time slot.

Before anything else, I think I need to clear something up. Last week I told you that I went up to DC and mixed some tracks with Ian MacKaye at Inner Ear Studios in beautiful Arlington, VA. The tracks we mixed were not a collaborative effort, besides the mixing itself. I am not on the tape. Ian is not on the tape. Neither of us are on the tape. What we were working on was a demo, recorded in 1979, by a legendary Punk band that recently came into my possession. I had the tape baked and transferred by the very capable Pete Lyman at Infrasonic Sound in Nashville and had him send the tracks to Ian so he could take them to Inner Ear and get them loaded in. The mix came together quite quickly because it was only eight tracks on one inch tape and the quality of the sounds were so good out of the gate, very little had to be done. The performances are fantastic. Ian and I played the mixes over and over days later and kept in touch to see if either one of us had any notes as to anything that needed to be changed and neither of us could find anything wrong with the work. I contacted a member of the band and asked if I could release the tracks. I got permission and started preparing the tracks for release. We sent the final mixes to Pete, who mastered them and they’re really good. I’m going to be working in collaboration with Larry Hardy at In The Red Records and we’ll be releasing the demo as soon as possible, as a four song 12”. You might already know that Larry and I have been putting out very cool and often extremely rare tracks on 7” and 12” records over the last few years. In fact, we have a great one at the pressing plant right now. Once it’s back, I’ll tell you all about it. It’s super cool. 

So Fanatic, October is several days behind us. I wanted to take advantage of the changing of months to put some cooler weather listening into our program tonight.

I really hope you like our first track in hour two by the band Morwan. Their new album on Feel It, Vse Po Kolu, Znovu, which transliterates into “all in a circle, again” is really different. It struck me much the same way as my first listen to the David Boring album Unnatural Objects And Their Humans. Very good and very memorable. I really hope you like the track we’re playing tonight. 

A lot of new music in our show tonight. Bandcamp is your friend for finding out more information should you find yourself interested. I got my first listen to the Loose Lips Last Laugh album a few days ago and think it’s really great. The new Lorelle Meets The Obsolete album is also really good. Just my opinion, Fanatic—there’s not one record LMTO ever made that should be missed. If you just connected with them one or two records ago, their back catalog is absolutely worth diving into.

I think we’ve struck a great balance of new and old and a subtle shift from our October programming tonight. I hope the new time slot is fitting in with your weekend activities. If not, there’s always the archive. I know that change can be difficult at times. I must say, I’m quite excited about being on Friday nights. 

Thank you so much for tuning in. We very much hope you enjoy the show. Have a tremendous weekend and STAY FANATIC!!!  

–– Henry

We’re on Bluesky

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Hour 1

01. Hawkwind - Motorhead / Warrior On The Edge Of Time 

02. Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation / No Thanks! The '70s Punk Rebellion 

03. Sods - Television Sect / Minutes To Go  

04. Upchuck - Forgotten Token / I'm Nice Now

05. The Skunks - Good From The Bad / 7”  

06. Loose Lips - Don't Mess Me 'Round / Last Laugh 

07. One Last Wish - Loss Like A Seed / 1986 

08. Automatic - Is It Now? / Is It Now? 

09. The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat (mono) / White Light / White Heat 

10. The Damned - I Fall / Damned Damned Damned 

11. The Prize - Down the Street / In The Red  

12. The Fall -  It's The New Thing / Live At The Witch Trials (CD extra track) 

13. Joy Division - Transmission / BBC Recordings 

14. Buzzcocks - Sixteen / Another Music In A Different Kitchen  

15. Revolutionary Corps Of Teenage Jesus - Puzz Puzz / Righteous Lite 

16. Johnny Thunders - In Cold Blood / Born Too Loose 

17. Black Flag - Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie / Everything Went Black 

18. Kraftwerk - Trans Europa Express / Trans. Europa Express 

Hour 2

01. Morwan - Vse Po Kolu, Znovu / Vse Po Kolu, Znovu (all in a circle, again)

02. David Bowie - Golden Years / Station To Station 

03. BB Bomb - Furry Song / Practice Songs 

04. Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - Dilación / Corporal  

05. Snooper - Pom Pom / Worldwide 

06. Danny & The Counts - You Need Love / El Paso Rock Vol. 9: Sand Surfin' - Border Town Rock N' Roll 1964-67 

07. Citric Dummies - I Don't Like Anything / Split With Turnstile  

08. No Peeling - Swift Half / No Peeling 

09. Lighters - Lost In Her Flowers / new 

10. Guerilla Toss - Panglossian Mannequin / You're Weird Now 

11. Scott Walker - 30 Century Man / Scott 3  

12. Optic Sink - Laughing Backwards / Lucky Number 

13. Eno +  Beatie Wolfe - And Live Again / Luminal 

14. The Mall - Behind The Heat. / Zone

15. Abi Ooze – Into / R.I.P. 

16. Ween - The Mollusk / The Mollusk 

17. Trouble Funk - Trouble Funk Express / Singles

RADIO BROADCAST #865 10–31–25

RADIO BROADCAST #865

10–31–25

Fanatic! Check out our new time slot. This has been in the works for quite a while. As you might know, there’s been some changes at KCRW. This is a brief article about what’s been happening.

https://www.dailynews.com/2025/10/20/kcrw-cuts-10-of-staff-amid-funding-slashes-djs-jason-kramer-jeremy-sole-and-jose-galvan-exit/

This newly implemented schedule allows us to have one more show in October. So, we decided to make it fun with quite a few tricks mixed in with the treats.

We’re stoked about being on Friday nights and look forward to starting off the weekend with you. If this time slot isn’t working for your schedule, please check us out on archive at the site. 

Years ago, I told someone that because of the misery of high school, Friday turned into my favorite day of the week. It was the beginning of 48 hours away from the gulag. The person I told this to explained that this sentiment was probably felt by every single person who ever endured school. Oh. Nonetheless, it’s still my favorite day of the week. The challenge for me has been to make the weekend stand up to the expectation I weigh it down with. Sometimes, thinking about it, anticipating it, using it as an incentive to get through some of the more excruciatingly mundane tasks of the rest of the week is better than the actual time. It was for me to make the weekend as great as I thought it could be. I’ve been able to achieve the proverbial great weekend with some consistency by listening to a lot of music. Obviously, there’s myriad destinations of happiness, and whatever works for you is the one or ones to go with. For many years, music has been what’s made the weekends memorable for me. When I’m able, I plan ahead, down to the exact records to be played, records to be looked at and records to be thought about and written down to make sure they get played later. Also, thinking about places. As I’ve no doubt worn you out over the years, my thoughts while the music is playing on a weekend night, often go to where I first concluded that somehow, music was going to be a big part of my life, even if it was just going to the record store, listening to music or checking out a live show. Whenever I have the opportunity to visit Washington, DC, where I come from, I try to go to as many of my favorite landmarks as I can. It’s a lot easier to think of these places than to actually be there, so I do my best to remember the last visit. A few weeks ago, I was afforded a couple of days walking around in the old neighborhood in the great autumn weather. Those memories have been with me for the last few weeks.

Weeks ago, I journeyed it to DC in order to work on a great project. Ian MacKaye and I went to Inner Ear Studios, where we made our first records decades ago and mixed a four song session with the great Don Zientara at the board. This is the same studio, where the Teen Idles, Minor Threat, Bad Brains, and many others recorded. It was amazing to be back there with Ian and Don. Part way through the mix, none other than Eddie Janney, he of the Untouchables, Rights Of Spring, One Last Wish, Happy Go Licky, Skewbald and other great bands joined us. The session benefited greatly by his presence. As to the tracks, I had them mastered several days ago, and I’m now working on the layout and design for the record. When it’s ready, I’ll let you know. We are extremely excited by this one.

We’re honored to be able to bring you a weekly show, and beyond grateful to be able to keep it happening, year after year. We’re looking forward to bringing you super cool music on Friday nights—the best night of the week.

We hope you enjoy tonight’s gathering of tunes and the stories that accompany many of them. Thank you so much for tuning in. Until next Friday, keep the jam session going and STAY FANATIC!!!  

–– Henry

We’re on Bluesky

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Hour 1

01. The Misfits - Halloween / 12 Hits From Hell 

02. Roky Erickson - I Think of Demons / The Evil One 

03. Cedell Davis - She's Got The Devil In Her / Feel Like Doin' Something Wrong  

04. The Damned – Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde / The Black Album 

05. Nightmare - Great Balls of Fire / 7"

06. David Lynch - Static Theme Mystery / The Air Is On Fire 

07. Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power / Raw Power (remix version) 

08. David Bowie - Breaking Glass / Low

09. Scientist - Dance Of The Vampires / Rids The World Of The Evil Curse Of The Vampires 

10. Wesley Willis - Vampire Bat / Rush Hour 

11. Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds - Spider Baby / 7" 

12. Dax Riggs - Demon Tied To A Chair In My Brain / We Sing Of Only Blood Or Love 

13. Todd Tappin - We the People / tape 

14. Robert Johnson - Me And The Devil Blues / The Centennial Collection  

15. Lucifer - It's Lucifer! / Lucifer 

16. Al Eide - Life On The Edge / Wild Fury 

17. RaVeN - Sex Candy / CDR  

18. The Misfits - Halloween II / 12 Hits From Hell 

19. Hole - Halloween III / Celebrity Sin 

Hour 2

01. Kosmetika - Special / new 2025 

02. Sex Mex - Dragging Me Around / 2025 dl 

03. Mark Stewart - Forbidden Dub / Mark Stewart

04. Upchuck - Pressure / I'm Nice Now

05. Howlin' Wolf - Evil (Is Going On) / The Genuine Article

06. Gee Tee - Ain't Dumb / Prehistoric Chrome 

07. Ronnie Cook & The Gaylads - Goo Goo Muck / Mad Mike's Monsters Vol. 1

08. Guerilla Toss - Crocodile Cloud / You're Weird Now 

09. Eno + Beatie Wolfe - Shudder Like Crows / Liminal 

10. Wire - Fragile / Pink Flag

11. Osees - Glitter-Shot / Abomination Revealed At Last

12. Optic Sink - Golden Hour / Lucky Number

13. Loose Lips- Last Laugh / Last Laugh 

14. The Fall - City Hobgoblins / The Fall Box Set

15. Joy Division - These Days / Substance

16. Buzzcocks - Friends Of Mine / Spiral Scratch EP 

17. The Cramps - Goo Goo Muck / Bad Music For Bad People

18. Wolf Eyes - Burn Your House Down / Dread

Fanatic! A brief midweek heads up.

Fanatic! A brief midweek heads up. Our show has moved from Saturday nights from 10 pm to midnight, to Friday nights from 8 pm to 10 pm, starting on 10-31-25! That’s tomorrow night, Fanatic.

Show notes will now be posted on Friday.

Get ready for The Knights Of The Friday Night!

Thanks for reading and STAY FANATIC!!!  

–– Henry

RADIO BROADCAST #864 10–25–25

RADIO BROADCAST #864

10–25–25

Fanatic! You might remember, last week I asked you to check the show notes for tonight. I just wanted to tell you that Larry Hardy at In The Red Records and I have another cool record at the pressing plant. We think you’re going to like this one. I’m not exactly sure when it will be back, but it won’t be long. When we have possession of them, I’ll let you know.

Also, I’m going to be putting up an announcement late next week, having to do with our show. So, if you can, please check out the site for the announcement, I’d say Thursday. 

Also, I wanted to tell you that Ian MacKaye and I recently mixed some tracks at Don Zientara’s Inner Ear Studios. We mastered the tracks with Pete Lyman at Infrasonic Sound and will be pressing them onto vinyl soon. It’s going to be a great one. When I have more news about a release date, I will let you know. 

Fanatic, we have what you will hopefully fine to be a tremendous gathering of tunes in the mood of October. And what would that be, exactly? Well, I’m glad I asked me. In our first hour, we will celebrate the month of months with bands and songs that, if you’re a listener to this show with any regularity, you might have become somewhat familiar with. As Thomas Wolfe, the great writer from Asheville, North Carolina once said in his book Of Time And The River—October is about returning. 

In our second hour, we’ll put some newer tracks into the mix. I’m already getting notices from some of our favorite labels, that there’s quite a bit to look forward to next year. I space. I’ll be getting album downloads very soon and of course will bring the music to you when the labels give us the green light. Definitely some great records on the way. 

I hope that wherever you are, you’re enjoying October. Have a great weekend and STAY FANATIC!!!  

–– Henry

We’re on Bluesky

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Hour 1

01. The Damned - Wait For The Blackout / The Black Album 

02. The Cramps - Human Fly / Gravest Hits 

03. UK Subs - Disease / Another Kind Of Blues 

04. Alternative TV - Action Time Vision - No Thanks! The '70s Punk Rebellion

05. Generation X - Night Of The Cadillacs / Valley Of The Dolls  

06. The Snakes - Serv-Pro Joe / I Won't Love You Until You're More Like Me       

07. Ignition - Temporary / Complete Services 

08. The Adverts - Bored Teenagers / Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts (CD extra track) 

09. The Ruts - Demolition Dancing / Grin & Bear It  

10. Escape-ism - Almost No One (Can Have My Love) / Introduction To Escape-ism 

11. Bad Brains - Jammin' At The Atlantis / Black Dots  

12. Würm - I'm Dead / The Blasting Concept: An SST Compilation  

13. The Fall - Sons Of Temperance / The Unutterable 

14. Buzzcocks - Time's Up / Spiral Scratch EP  

15. Joy Division - Failures / Substance 1977-1980 

16. Models - Man Of The Year / I Wanna Punk Rock  

17. The Misfits - Horror Business / Box Set  

18. David Bowie - A New Career in a New Town / Low

19. Roky Erickson & The Explosives - I Walked With A Zombie / Halloween Live 1979-1981 

Hour 2

01. Taleen Kali - Aepex / new  

02. The Prize - Static Love Affair / In The Red

03. Upchuck - Fried / I'm Nice Now 

04. Guerilla Toss - When Dogs Bark / You're Weird Now  

05. Grey Factor - All In A Day's Work / 1979 – 1980 A.D. 

06. Eraser - Simon Says / Hideout

07. The Night People  - The Troubled Streets / El Paso Rock Vol. 05: The Troubled Streets - Border Town Rock N' Roll 1958-64 

08. Optic Sink - How Can I Help You / Lucky Number  

09. No Peeling - Street Feast / No Peeling 

10. Brian Eno + Beatie Wolfe - Procession / Liminal 

11. Shepparton Airplane - Septic Dream / Forecast 

12. Say Sue Me - My Curly Hair Is Dancing In the Light / new  

13. Beastie Boys - A Year And A Day / Paul's Boutique 

14. The Damned - Curtain Call / The Black Album

RADIO BROADCAST #863 10–18–25

RADIO BROADCAST #863

10–18–25

Fanatic. I hope you had a great week of autumn weather and excellent analog playback. If you’re a fan of the band Boris, there’s a chance the new edition of their album Pink has arrived in your mailbox. The 6LP and 2LP variants showed up at my place yesterday, as well as another Boris reissue, Dronevil. As you can perhaps imagine, both albums were released in different colors, predictably, sending fan folks scrambling. I saw one of the 6LP sets on Discogs for a mere 499 USD. Wow! 

I think I forgot to mention this last week, but there’s a new album by Automatic called Is It Now?. I’ve played it once and will get back into it soon. We’ll start tracks from it, hopefully, in a show or so ahead. https://automatic-band.bandcamp.com/album/is-it-now

The new Snooper album, Worldwide, is great on vinyl. If you get a chance, check out the hype sticker on the cover. No way! https://snooper7.bandcamp.com/album/worldwide

I hate to complain, but the price of records seems to have spiked over the last several months. There was an album I really wanted to get, pressed in the USA, but I just couldn’t justify the expenditure of 30 USD. I’ve heard some of the tracks and I think you would like this band, and I would like to listen to the vinyl, but for now at least, I can’t do it. Maybe I’ll just have to adjust. I was looking for a download of the record, so I could at least get the tracks to you but so far, I haven’t been able to find one. I’ll keep looking. I hope this isn’t the start of something, to where vinyl becomes so expenditure-heavy, that people give up on the medium. 

In our first hour, we listen to tunes you might find familiar if you’ve been listening to this show over the years. Every October, I try to come up with a concept to honor the great month and of course to keep things as compelling as possible. If you’ve noticed a pattern over the last few weeks, you might see that in the first hour, we go for the familiar and in the second hour, we attempt to mix it up a bit. 

Kiss guitar man Ace Frehley has passed away. I met him in New York years ago, at Carnegie Hall. It was extremely cool to converse with a true Rock legend. 

Not a few hours ago, Engineer X and I put the finishing touches on our show for next week. Life does not hand out many guarantees, but hopefully the tunes will please you no end.

We hope you like the show we’ve prepared for you. Thank you so much for tuning in. Until next week, stay Fanatic.

–– Henry

We’re on Bluesky

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Hour 1 

01. The Damned - Love Song / Machine Gun Etiquette 25th Anniversary Ed. 

02. Wire - Mannequin (mono) / Pink Flag (2018 ed.) 

03. The Mob - Shuffling Souls / Let The Tribe Increase 

04. David Bowie - Always Crashing in the Same Car / Low 

05. Buzzcocks - Fast Cars / Another Music In A Different Kitchen 

06. The Fall - Dead Beat Descendant / The Fall Box Set 

07. Iggy Pop - China Girl (7" edit) / The RCA Years

08. UK Subs - She's Not There / Brand New Age  

09. The Ruts - Give Youth A Chance (7") / The Crack Box Set  

10. The Lurkers - Ain't Got A Clue / Fulham Fallout

11. The Adverts - We Who Wait / Radio Sessions 

12. Misfits - Hollywood Babylon / Static Age 

13. Killing Joke - Primitive / Killing Joke 

14. The Snakes - Six O’clock / I Won't Love You Til You're More Like Me

15. The Cuban Heels - Do The Smok Walk 7"

16. Bad Brains - Jammin' At The Atlantis / Black Dots 

17. Joy Division - Shadowplay / Unknown Pleasures 

18. The Cramps - Rocket In My Pocket / 04-20-79 Washington DC LBJ Club 

19. Jimmy Lloyd - Rocket In My Pocket / Songs The Cramps Taught Us Volume 3 

20. Flipper - Love Canal / Sex Bomb Baby

Hour 2 

01. Trompeta - No-Res / Fastfood 

02. Grey Factor - Learning Disco / 1979-1980 A.D. - Complete Studio Recordings 

03. Ghoulies - Genetic Flaw / Flat Earth 

04. Guerilla Toss - Deep Sight / You're Weird Now 

05. No Peeling - Hi Vis / No Peeling

06. Black Sunday - Destroy Everything in Your Path / Tronic Blanc 

07. Rene Kita – Luftikus / Nirgendwie 

08. Don Dell & The Montereys - Honey Doll / Kicksville! - Raw Rockabilly Acetates Vol. 02 

09. Birthday Party - Kewpie Doll / Junkyard 

10. Slag Queens - Hazard / Favours

11. Upchuck - New Case / I'm Nice Now 

12. Uncomfortable Police - Right Brain Polyurethane / Hazmat Kat 

13. Lair Of The Minotaur - Riders of Skullhammer, We Ride The Night / Evil Power 

14. Osees - Glass Window / Abomination Revealed At Last

15. Oog Bogo - On My Own / Cowgirls

16. The Pop Group - Shadow Child / Citizen Zombie

17. Say Sue Me - Good People / Your Book 7” 

18. Dax Riggs - Graveyard Soul / 7 Songs For Spiders 

19. The Damned - Noise, Noise, Noise - Machine Gun Etiquette 25th Anniversary Edition 

20. Sheriff Lindo and the Hammer - ! (Dub) / Ten Dubs That Shook The World

RADIO BROADCAST #862 10–11–25

RADIO BROADCAST #862

10–11–25

Fanatic! What a show we have for you tonight. The Misfits going right into David Bowie to start us off completely works for me. 

I hope you’ve been enjoying October thus far. I’ve been doing my best to keep up with all the new music that’s coming in, as well as revisiting old favorites as I like to do in this month. 

Snooper’s excellent new album Worldwide came out last week and if you mail ordered, it should be arriving about now. I think mine landed yesterday. Definitely going to get that one spinning as soon as possible. Here’s the Bandcamp info: https://snooper7.bandcamp.com/album/worldwide

Here’s information on that excellent new Kid Congo album Tucson Safari.

https://intheredrecords.com/collections/store/products/naim-amor-and-kid-congo-powers-tucson-safari

The new Guerilla Toss album You’re Weird Now continues to be a super cool listen. If you like the track we’re playing tonight, the rest of their catalog should be checked out without hesitation. I dug them the first time I was lucky enough to connect with their excellent music. This is a great band.

https://guerillatoss.bandcamp.com/album/youre-weird-now

The Grouper album Way Their Crept is getting a 20th anniversary reissue. Any record Liz Harris releases should be checked out. She’s never anything less than full on.

https://grouper.bandcamp.com/album/way-their-crept

Fanatic, if you look below, you’ll see a gathering of tunes that was selected specifically with your great enjoyment in mind. I took both hours to the gym and over a couple of days, plodding away on the elliptical treadmill, it sounded like a good mixtape to me. Hopefully, you’ll find the jams to be worth your while.

October is an amazing month! If you're located where you can actually see and feel seasonal change, I hope you get out there and breathe it in. Whenever possible, make time for music. Lots of it!

We very much hope you dig tonight’s show. Thank you for tuning in and picking up on this brave NPR signal. Have a great weekend and STAY FANATIC!!!  

–– Henry

We’re on Bluesky

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Hour 1

01. Misfits - In The Doorway / Static Age  

02. David Bowie - What In The World / Low 

03. Iggy Pop - I'm Bored / New  Values 

04. Magic Michael - Millionaire / 7"

05. The Ruts - Dope For Guns / The Crack

06. UK Subs - Disease / Another Kind Of Blues

07. Devo - Space Junk / Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! 

08. Buzzcocks - Fast Cars / Another Music In A Different Kitchen 

09. The Adverts - Back From The Dead / Punk Singles Collection 

10. Wire - 12XU (mono) / Pink Flag 

11. The Teen Idles - Get Up And Go / 20 Years Of Dischord

12. Bad Brains - Pay To Cum / Black Dots

13. The Untouchables - I Hate You / Flex Your Head

14. The Cramps - Rocket In My Pocket / 04-20-79 Washington DC LBJ Club 

15. Tex Rubinowitz - Rock & Roll Ivy / It's Rare Doo Wop Vol 6 

16. Cigarettes - They're Back Again, Here They Come / Will Damage Your Health! 

17. Gen X - Dancing With Myself / Kiss Me Deadly 

18. The Fall - Dr. Buck's Letter / The Unutterable 

19. Joy Division - Failures / Substance 1977-1980 

20. Black Sabbath - Iron Man / Paranoid 

Hour 2

01. Osees - God's Guts / Abomination Revealed At Last 

02. Eno + Beatie Wolfe - The Last To Know / Liminal  

03. Grey Factor - Above The Gun / 1979-1980 A.D. - Complete Studio Recordings 

04. Dragnet - Shadowboard / Dragnet Reigns! 

05. Grifters - The Want / So Happy Together

06. Brnda - Mt Eyes / Total Pain

07. J.J. Jackson & The Jackals - Oo-Ma-Liddi / A Minute With Miriam - Mad Mike Monsters Vol. 03 

08. Kid Congo & Naim Amour - Ouch / Tucson Safari  

09. Emmett O.C. - Feel This Way / New 2025 

10. Upchuck - Plastic / I'm Nice Now 

11. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Inside Me / Psychocandy

12. Guerilla Toss - Krystall Ball / You're Weird Now 

13. Shepparton Airplane - Stereo Youth / Forecast

14. Eraser - Dinner Roll / Hideout 

15. K2 & Techno Menses - Requiem In The Sun / Requiem In The Sun 

16. Les Rallizes Dénudés - White Awakening / Jittoku '76 

17. Sheriff Lindo And The Hammer - Eastern Bloc / Ten Dubs That Shook The World

RADIO BROADCAST #861 10–04–25

RADIO BROADCAST #861
10–04–25
 
Fanatic! It’s our first show for the month of months. Fanatic October has begun! I’ve been looking forward to this. Last night, I went to see Snooper play a show to celebrate the release of their new album, Worldwide. This was the third time I’ve seen them and they were great. There’s hardly any breaks between songs, just this hyper-onslaught of tunes. The new album is really good and it came out yesterday. https://snooper7.bandcamp.com/album/worldwide
 
John Dwyer texted me a few days ago, as he does now and then to check in. As a joke, I asked him, “How many records are you going to put out this week?!” John, choosing his words carefully, texted back, “Two.” I thought he was just humoring me.
https://johndwyer.bandcamp.com/album/pilot-soundtrack
https://ohsees.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-the-broad-museum
 
The new Upchuck album, I’m Nice Now just came out and it’s really good.
https://upchuckatl.bandcamp.com/album/im-nice-now
 
Brendan Canty, the incredibly talented musician and all-around great guy, sent this short feature on the Ruts and Ruts DC to Ian. We watched it and I asked if he could send me the link so I could pass it on to you. Here it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ATiMIG4fNg
 
If you check our second hour, you’ll see we’re listening to a track by Ron Rude. The guy has an interesting story. https://www.punkjourney.com/ron-rude.php
 
To start our first show for Fanatic October 2025, I thought it best that we commence with my favorite Damned song. A B side! I’ve never heard a live version of this track. Actually, it was a tossup between the Damned and Wire, so I put them next to each other. 
 
I’ve listened to both hours twice now, and I think we have a good balance. I hope you think so and enjoy tonight’s programming. We finished the work on next week’s show two days ago. I’m looking forward to you hearing it. But before that, we’ve got this cool batch of tunes to check out. 
 
Thank you so much for tuning in, have a great night of listening and STAY FANATIC!!!  
–– Henry
            
We’re on Bluesky
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Hour 1
01. The Damned - I Believe The Impossible / The Black Album CD
02. Wire - Ex Lion Tamer / Pink Flag 
03. The Snakes - Twelve Angry Men / I Won't Love You Until You're More Like Me  
04. David Bowie - Sound And Vision / Low 
05. Iggy Pop - Funtime / The Idiot 
06. Devo - Be Stiff (Booji Boy Version) / Greatest Misses 
07. XYZ - Firing Squad / XYZ Plays The Classics 
08. The Penetrators - The Break (s bomb @1:26) / :30 Over DC 
09. The Warmers - Walking Solves It / The Warmers 
10. Gen X - Untouchables / Kiss Me Deadly 
11. The Fall - Way Round / The Unutterable  
12. Buzzcocks - Harmony In My Head / Singles Going Steady 
13. Joy Division - Disorder / Unknown Pleasures 
14. The Adverts - One Chord Wonders / Radio Sessions 
15. The Ruts - Jah War / The Punk Singles Collection  
16. The Lurkers - Ain't Got A Clue / Fulham Fallout 
17. Tilt - Arkade Funk / 12"  
 
Hour 2
01. Osees - Coffin Wax / Abomination Revealed At Last 
02. Modern Jazz - Boom Boom Baby / Love And Other Numbers 1980 – 1984 
03. Mark Stewart - Blank Town / The Fateful Symmetry 
04. Upchuck - Tired / I'm Nice Now  
05. Misfits – Horror Hotel / 12 Hits From Hell 
06. Pure Hell - Thrillers Of Oz / Noise Addiction 
07. The Dynatones - Fender Rock / Kicksville! - Raw Rockabilly Acetates Vol. 02 
08. Eraser - Talk To Me / Hideout 
09. Sheriff Lindo - Headstepper / Aftershock Dubs 
10. Shepparton Airplane - Saw You Coming / Forecast 
11. Uncomfortable Police - Exile On Wall Street (MR) / Exile On Wall Street Dl  
12. Warm Drag - No Body / Warm Drag 
13. Kids Of Zoo - Sausages / Welcome To Parrot Eyes 
14. Guerilla Toss - CEO Of Personal & Pleasure / You're Weird Now 
15. No Peeling - Resuci Annie / No Peeling 
16. Ron Rude - Sixteen In Melbourne / The Borders Of Disgrace 
17. Oog Bogo - No Way / Cowgirls 
18. Grifters - Clot / So Happy Together 
19. Otoboke Beaver - Ikezu / Itekoma Hits 
20. Grinding Eyes - The Taste / Taste The Monochrome 
21. Le Butcherettes - Demon Stuck In Your Eye / Cry Is For The Flies 
22. K2 / K. Kusafuka - Yellow Blood #2 / Re-Musik

RADIO BROADCAST #860 09–27–25

RADIO BROADCAST #860

09–27–25

Fanatic! This is our last show for Fanatic September 2025. Next week will be our first show in October—the month of months. 

I had a chance to listen to the new Upchuck album, I’m Nice Now. It sounds really good. Don’t let the title fool you, the band is full on as ever. https://upchuckatl.bandcamp.com/album/im-nice-now

The new Kid Congo album, Tucson Safari, is now available. It’s really good.

https://intheredrecords.com/collections/store/products/naim-amor-and-kid-congo-powers-tucson-safari

The new Snooper album Worldwide is rippin’. It comes out on October 3.

https://snooper7.bandcamp.com/album/worldwide

We’re putting the finishing touches on next week’s show. We hope you like it. Until then, please enjoy tonight’s selection of tunes. Hopefully you will find it a good soundtrack to end September and anticipate October. 

Have a great weekend and STAY FANATIC!!!  

–– Henry

We’re on Bluesky

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Hour 1

01. David Bowie - Up The Hill Backwards / Scary Monsters 

02. The Birthday Party - Marry Me (Lie! Lie!) / Peel Sessions 

03. Tom Waits - Make It Rain / Real Gone 

04. Oog Bogo - Cell Atrophy / Cowgirls 

05. Misfits - We Are 138 / Static Age 

06. No Peeling - Hi Vis / No Peeling

07. Horsegirl - In Twos / Phonetics On and On 

08. Sex Mex - (Who Cares) Time To Die / Time to Die (Single) 

09. Uncomfortable Police - Boxed Set Regret / Adjunct Punk 

10. Iggy Pop - Sister Midnight (mono single edit) / RCA Years 

11. Hazy Sour Cherry - I Wanna Kill Your Girlfriend / Strange World 

12. Kid Congo & Naim Amour - Hypnotized / Tucson Safari 

13. Deerhoof - Plastic Thrills / The Magic 

14. The Blips - Yes Yes No Yes Yes No / The Blips 

15. The Fall - Firey Jack / Early Singles 

16. Joy Division - Insight / BBC Recordings 

17. The Adverts - Back from the Dead / Radio Sessions 

18. Sheriff Lindo and the Hammer - Fatal Dub / Ten Dubs That Shook The World 

Hour 2

01. Osees - Sneaker / Abomination Revealed At Last  

02. Kraftwerk - Das Modell / Die Mensch Maschine  

03. Mark Stewart - Crypto Religion / The Fateful Symmetry  

04. The Damned - Don't Cry Wolf (single 1977) / The Stiff Years 

05. The Night People - Lonely Before Dawn / El Paso Rock Vol. 05: The Troubled Streets - Border Town Rock N' Roll 1958-64  

06. Doctor Mix And The Remix - No Fun (single A side mix) / Wall Of Noise

07. Teri Gender Bender - Ambiciones / TGB 

08. BRNDA - My Mother / Total Pain 

09. Hyu - Gödel, Escher, Bach in the Circle of Fifths / Inaudible Works 1994-2008 

10. Nervous Patterns - No Control / Nervous Patterns 

12. Snooper - Worldwide / Wordwide 

13. The Damned – Citadel / Friday the 13th EP  

14. Grinding Eyes - Something Feels Better Than Nothing / Grinding Eyes 

15. Dax Riggs - Even The Stars Fall / 7 Songs For Spiders 

16. Wire - Three Girl Rhumba (alt mix) / Pink Flag (2018 box set edition)

17. Dr Sure's Unusual Practice - All My Friends Are All My Friends / Bubble 

18. 7FO - Hou / Ryu no Nukegara

RADIO BROADCAST #859 09–20–25

RADIO BROADCAST #859

09–20–25

Fanatic! I hope you had a great week. I had a chance to listen to some records. 

As I’ve told you too many times, I listen to seasonally and September I could be back into Joy Division records. I’ve been playing a bootleg live recording every single night this week and it’s been great. Unfortunately, postage and tariff hassles have made getting things from other countries a bit more involved than they used to be and a lot of these live albums are stuck in Europe or Australia. As far as good Joy Division bootlegs, may I suggest the band’s second-to-last show from April 19, 1980 at the Ajanta Theatre in Derby, England. It’s a great set list, featuring songs from Closer, and the band tears it up. You’ll see it listed under different titles, such as Dead Souls, Beginning Of The End, That’ll Be The End, and Dance To The Radio, which seems to be a new pressing, and not having heard it, I can’t vouch for its sonic integrity. This one just happens to be my personal favorite, but the Malvern Winter Gardens show is also great as is the University Of London show. I’m no expert by any means but I’m a fan and I think those are really good. At the end of the day, any live Joy Division is worth checking out. 

The new Snooper album Worldwide comes out on October 3. It is so good.

https://snooper7.bandcamp.com/album/worldwide

New 2LP set Les Rallizes Dénudés Jittoku '76. My vinyl just arrived.

https://lesrallizesdenudes.bandcamp.com/album/jittoku-76

The new Guerilla Toss album You're Weird Now is excellent.

https://guerillatoss.bandcamp.com/album/youre-weird-now

I just got my Uncomfortable Police Hazmat Kat 7”.

https://uncomfortablepolice.bandcamp.com/album/hazmat-kat

We have a great show for you tonight. We’re putting the finishing touches on our last September show right now and briskly preparing our October programming. It’s going to be great.

Remember, next week we start our pledge drive. Please keep KCRW.com/give in mind!

Thank you so much for listening, have a great night of listening and STAY FANATIC!!!  

–– Henry

We’re on Bluesky

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Hour 1

01. David Bowie – Fashion (7" version) / Fifty-Two Years - The Complete Singles 

02. The Gun Club - Lupita Screams / Mother Juno 

03. Wire – Lowdown / Pink Flag 

04. XYZ - Revolution N° 8 1/2 / XYZ Plays The Classics 

05. Dragnet – What It’s Worth / Dragnet Reigns!

06. Guerilla Toss - Red Flag to Angry Bull / You're Weird Now 

07. Those Naughty Lumps - Iggy Pop's Jacket / 7"

08. The Adverts - We Who Wait / Punk Singles Collection

09. BRNDA - Everyone Chicago / Total Pain 

10. The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog (original mix) / The Stooges 

11. No Peeling - Can I Pet That Dog? / No Peeling

12. The Fall - Two Librans / The Unutterable

13. Buzzcocks – Sixteen / Another Music In A Different Kitchen

14. Joy Division – Colony / Closer 

15. The Julie Ruin - Hit Reset (Radio Edit) / Hit Reset 

16. X Ray Spex - I Live Off You / Germ Free Adolescents 

17. The Ruts – Secret Soldiers / Grin & Bear It

18. Devo - Mechanical Man / Hardcore Devo Volume 1

Hour 2

01. Dr Sure's Unusual Practice – Ophelia / Bubble 

02. Grinding Eyes - When The Night Falls / Taste The Monochrome

03. Horsegirl - Live And Ski / Versions Of Modern Performance

04. Mark Stewart - Stable Song / The Fateful Symmetry

05. Omar Souleyman - Don't Wear Black - Green Suits You Better / Highway To Hassake

06. Little Ike - She Can Rock / Mad Mike's Monsters Vol. 1 

07. Pere Ubu - The Wire / Cloudland 

08. Sly & The Family Stone - Let Me Have It All / Fresh (alt version)  

09. Kid Congo & Naim Amour - Remembering The Witches Valley / Tucson Safari 

10. The Son Of P.M. - Klong Yao / The Shadow Music Of Thailand 

11. The Saints - Demolition Girl / (I'm) Stranded

12. Uncomfortable Police - Demonstration Recording / Adjunct Punk 

13. Sexfaces - Can't Do That / Bad Vibes 

14. Sex Mex - Pills / We're A Happy Family

15. Michael Beach - Sick Century / Big Black Plume 

16. Martin Rev - My Street / Demolition 9 

17. Getchertiktz - No Way / Getchertiktz

18. Liz Lamere - Lights Out / Keep It Alive

19. 7FO – Sou / Ryu No Nukegara

RADIO BROADCAST #858 09–13–25

RADIO BROADCAST #858

09–13–25

Fanatic! I hope you had a great week. We have a great show lined up for you tonight!

While not completely on the topic of music, I was hoping you might indulge me, nonetheless. For the last couple of days I’ve been talking with members of the agency L.E.A.D., otherwise known as Law Enforcement Against Drugs & Violence. https://www.leadrugs.org

They had a table next to the gym I go to and I’ve been having some very interesting conversations with them. Yesterday, I warned the young man at the table that I was in no way trying to frame him as being naïve, but more patiently optimistic and asked him if he thought a citizen-energized agency could make a difference. His answer was incredibly inspiring. He said he was the son of a preacher and simply believes in the goodness of people, and that no one wants to see children bullied, or in any way harmed or endangered by the prevalence of drugs and violence. He said he believes that by standing out amongst people and talking to anyone who would listen, that they might be inspired to contribute and hopefully do some good. I thought that was great. 

I asked him, besides gun violence what was the danger to school age people. He said drugs, and specifically, fentanyl. He related something that was told to him recently: someone was brought to the emergency room, apparently overdosing. They gave this person four doses of Narcan, which I’ve never heard of, but then again, I’m not a doctor. Thankfully, the person was revived, but it was only after tests were done that they found out this person had taken a new, synthetic form of fentanyl that the Narcan was less potent to combat. Again I’m not a doctor, but this stuff sounds incredibly dangerous. 

He told me about something that happened to him recently that blew my mind. He said he was in neighborhoods, looking for contributions and came upon a man standing on a corner. They got to talking and the subject of fentanyl came up, and the man grew nervous. He asked what he could do to help. The L.E.A.D. staffer told him that they were looking for $300 to meet their goal for the day. The man walked to a car and came back with the money in cash. It seemed a bit odd, so the staffer asked him why the contribution was in cash, and why it was in his car. The man said he was a fentanyl dealer. I commented to the staffer that it was in a way, blood money. He agreed and said the two of them had a conversation about how this bad money had been recycled. I asked if he called the man out on the danger he was creating by selling this stuff. He said yes, but ventured that he probably wouldn’t be stopping. He also said that a couple of days before, a woman came up to him and started crying. He asked her what was wrong and she said she’s been clean from fentanyl for quite a while and then had sadly relapsed earlier that day, and that she was high at that moment and heartbroken that she had fallen back. He told me they held hands and prayed for about 10 minutes while her boyfriend sat in their car and yelled at her to hurry up and get back in. 

Something I try to do, as best I can, is when I’m out amongst people and meet someone, I pretend that something awful happened to them the day before and conduct myself accordingly. Maybe there’s been a death in the family, maybe they lost a job or something isn’t going well. The point I’m making is everyone has issues and all humans, no matter how they might portray themselves, are incredibly complex. Anyway, I went to the website and made a contribution, and I am glad I did. 

So, music. I got my first listen to the new Guerilla Toss album that we’re featuring a track from tonight. It’s so good! https://guerillatoss.bandcamp.com/album/youre-weird-now

It looks like there’s finally a release date for the Kid Congo & Naim Amour album Tucson Safari. It seems to be October 11. Here’s a cool video for one of the tracks.   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THEJHrbQgaQ

This is Kid’s site address for tour information. He’s always great live. Not to be missed!

https://www.officialkidcongopowers.com/

BRNDA’s album Total Pain just came out.

https://brendadc.bandcamp.com/album/total-pain

We hope you’ll find tonight’s line-up to be excellent September listening fare. Thank you so much for tuning in. Until next week, keep rocking the jam session and STAY FANATIC!!!  

–– Henry

We’re on Bluesky

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Hour 1

01. David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes / Fifty-Two Years - The Complete Singles 

02. Scott Walker - Mathilde / Sings Jacques Brel

03. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Stranger Than Kindness / Your Funeral... My Trial 

04. Uncomfortable Police - Jello Hello / Adjunct Punk 

05. The Misfits - American Nightmare / Box Set

06. Guerilla Toss - Life’s a Zoo / You're Weird Now 

07. Ramones - Judy Is A Punk (mono) / Ramones - 40th Anniversary Edition 

08. The Ruts - Dope For Guns / The Crack 

09. Osees - Abomination / Abomination Revealed At Last 

10. XYZ - These Tears Won't Dry / XYZ Plays The Classics 

11. Dr. Alimantado - Poison Flour / Best Dressed Chicken In Town 

12. BRNDA - Books / Total Pain 

13. Ghoulies - Fake Rockstar / Flat Earth 

14. Kid Congo & Naim Amour - Showdown / Tucson Safari  

15. The Fall - Printhead / Dragnet  

16. Buzzcocks - I Don't Know What To Do With My Life / A Different Kind Of Tension 

17. Joy Division – Interzone / Unknown Pleasures 

18. Charlie Harper - Barmy London Army / The Best Of Charlie Harper & The Urban Dogs 

19. John Coltrane - Giant Steps (take 6) / Atlantic Recordings 

Hour 2

01. Black Sabbath - Hole in the Sky / Sabotage 

02. The Adverts - My Place / Punk Singles Collection 

03. Dragnet – Dragnet Reigns! / Cutting Edge 

04. Mark Stewart - Twilight’s Child / The Fateful Symmetry 

05. Iggy Pop – Baby / The Idiot 

06. The Ready Men - Disintegration / Get Ready!!

07. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Surfin' USA / The Power Of Negative Thinking: B-Sides And Rarities 

08. The Trashmen - Bird Dance Beat / Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume 11

09. 7FO - Snake / Healing Sword

10. The Warmers - Poked It With A Stick / The Warmers  

11. The Ascots - So Good / Back From The Grave Vol. 6 

12. K2 / K. Kusafuka - Remorse / Re-Musik 

13. Jimi Hendrix - Burning Of The Midnight Lamp / Black Strings  

14. Otoboke Beaver - Powerful Busu / Okoyashu!! 

15. Glaxo Babies - Who Killed Bruce Lee / Avon Calling 

16. Pere Ubu – Untitled / Terminal Tower - An Archival Collection

17. Charlie Harper - Talk Is Cheap / The Best Of Charlie Harper & The Urban Dogs

18. Heart - Barracuda / The Essential Heart

RADIO BROADCAST #857 09–06–25

RADIO BROADCAST #857

09–06–25

Fanatic. I hope your September has been grand thus far. I started my September listening with Scary Monsters by David Bowie and Pink Flag by Wire. 

This is pretty cool. There’s yet another release by the duo of Mark Robinson and Trevor Kampmann, otherwise known as Uncomfortable Police. This time around, it’s a 7” called Hazmat Kat. There was only 100 pressed. Here’s the information.

https://uncomfortablepolice.bandcamp.com/album/hazmat-kat

Bruce Loose, vocalist for the legendary San Francisco area band Flipper has passed away. Luckily, I got to see them play many times. Every performance, in its own way, was kind of amazing. Quite often, Flipper would be in the opening slot, going on before an audience who had a fair idea of the band’s predictable unpredictability. No matter what happened, like the night they played The Wheel for the entirety of their set, or when they brought on a horn player who didn’t know how to play, it was always memorable. Flipper were easily one of the most, if not the most uncompromising band I can think of. A good record to check out Flipper by is Sex Bomb Baby.

We’ve started our first show for September with the Mira and Ginger track Oh! September quite a few times. I think it’s the perfect track to roll into the autumn season. 

May I make a book suggestion? If you are a fan of The Fall, this is a great read: You Must Get Them All: The Fall On Record by Steve Pringle. I believe I’ve recommended it to you before, but I’ve been rereading it and the sheer amount of information is incredible. 

You might know that Larry Hardy, owner and operator of In The Red Records, and I occasionally find rare or unreleased music and put it on vinyl. So far, we’ve done this with the Ruts, Pure Hell, The Gun Club, Ruts DC, Alan Vega, the Panik, and most recently, the Adverts. I wanted to let you know that we just approved the mastering on a new record and we go to press very soon. This one is going to be really cool. When we get the vinyl back, I’ll let you know. 

Tonight’s show will hopefully usher in Fanatic Autumn 2025 and augment your weekend listening. I’ve got a few new records to check out, but I’m fighting the urge to listen to Perverted By Language by The Fall and Another Music In A Different Kitchen by Buzzcocks. 

Have a great night of listening, thank you so much for tuning in, and until next week, stay Fanatic.

–– Henry

We’re on Bluesky

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Hour 1

01. Mirah And Ginger - Oh! September / Teenbeat 20

02. The Gun Club - Bill Bailey / Mother Juno

03. BRNDA - Blenderman / Total Pain.  3:17

04. The Ruts - S.U.S. / The Crack 

05. Ghoulies - Unpack Your Bags / Flat Earth 

06. Minutemen - Monuments / The Punch Line 

07. The Penetrators - Teenage Lifestyle / Basement Anthology 1976-84 

08. 7FO - Ten / Ryu No Nukegara 

09. XYZ - I Got You / XYZ Plays The Classics

10. Uncomfortable Police - Supper Club Dub / Adjunct Punk 

11. The Snakes - Everything He Wants / I Won't Love You Til You're More Like Me 

12. Kid Congo & Naim Amour - Stoned By The Mile / Tucson Safari 

13. David Bowie - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (single version) / Fifty-Two Years 

14. Wire - Ex-Lion Tamer (3rd Demo Session) / Pink Flag (2018 Expanded Edition)  

15. The Fall - Bingo-Master's Break-Out! / Live At The Witch Trials (CD extra) 

16. Buzzcocks - Time's Up / Spiral Scratch EP 

17. Joy Division - Disorder / Unknown Pleasures 

18. Black Sabbath - Blue Suede Shoes / Black Night In San Francisco 11-07-70  

19. The Velvet Underground - I Heard Her Call My Name (mono) / White Light / White Heat 

Hour 2

01. Dion Lunadon - Gold Standard Love / flexi 2025

02. Sly & The Family Stone - I Don't Know (Satisfaction) / Fresh 

03. Dragnet - Grandstand / Dragnet Reigns! 

04. Mark Stewart - Neon Girl / The Fateful Symmetry

05. Misfits - She / Static Age 

06. Misterians - Intoxication / Work It On Out! - Northwest Killers Vol. 3 

07. Teen Idles - Trans AM / Dischord 100 

08. UK Subs - I Couldn't Be You / Another Kind Of Blues 

09. Dr Sure's Unusual Practice - Outside Looking In / Bubble 

10. Hyu – Indirect / Inaudible Works 1994-2008

11. The Adverts - We Who Wait / Punk Singles Collection

12. Osees - Fight Simulator - #857 (F @ End) / Abomination Revealed At Last

13. Cheater Slicks - Hook Or Crook (demo) / Don't Like You   2:30

14. Generation X - Night Of The Cadillacs / Valley Of The Dolls

15. Rites Of Spring - All Through A Life / EP 

14. The Damned - Smash It Up (7” Version) / Chiswick Singles

15. Sheriff Lindo And The Hammer - Dub House Of Horrors / Ten Dubs That Shook The World

RADIO BROADCAST #856 08–30–25

RADIO BROADCAST #856

08–30–25

Fanatic! In this broadcast, we bid farewell to summer and with great enthusiasm, run at Fanatic autumn with all speed. Please enjoy our final Charles M. Bogert track of the year. Depending on where you are, you might already see some signs of fall. Some trees in my area are starting to shed their leaves, even though the heat is considerable. 

Next week we start our autumn programming. Engineer X and I are putting the finishing touches on our first Fanatic September show right now.

There are some great records coming out in September and October, a lot to look forward to, as well as a lot of old favorites to revisit.

We hope you had a great summer of listening, and that our show provided a worthwhile expenditure of your time.

When I was younger, this weekend was the pits! It was always the following Monday that school started. I dreaded it. 

Have a great weekend and STAY FANATIC!!!  

–– Henry

We’re on Bluesky

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Hour 1

01. Charles M. Bogert - Mating call of Eastern Gray Treefrog / Sounds of North American Frogs

02. Embrace  - Dance of Days / Embrace

03. Soccer Team - Cavity Called Home / "Volunteered" Civility & Professionalism 

04. Tel Aviv - I Am Particular / The Shape Of Fiction 

05. Dr Sure's Unusual Practice - Blue Day / Blue 

06. Dragnet – Alta Vista / dragnet reigns!

07. Upchuck - Crashing / Bite The Hand That Feeds 

08. BRNDA - Peach Pit / Total Pain

09. UK Subs - Party In Paris / Diminished Responsibility 

10. Otoboke Beaver - Datsu Hikage No Onna / Itekoma Hits

11. 7FO - Mi / Ryu No Nukegara

12. Le Shok - 122 Hours Of Fear / split 7" 

13. Minutemen - '99 / What Makes a Man Start Fires?

14. XYZ - Cut Out Bin / XYZ Plays The Classics

13. Mosquito Ego - Glomb IV / Glomb

14. The Fall - Slang King / The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall

15. K2 / K. Kusafuka & Techno Menses - Requiem #1 / Requiem In The Sun

16. Paloma 004 - Ich Meine / lles Fängt Neu An

17. Horsegirl – Billy / Versions of Modern Performance 

18. Eddie Gale - Black Rhythm Happening / Black Rhythm Happening

Hour 2

01. Kim Salmon & The Surrealists - In The Underworld / Sin Factory

02. Gun Club - Black Train / Fire Of Love 

03. Dee Dee King - Commotion in the Ocean / Standing in the Spotlight 

04. Mark Stewart - Memory Of You / The Fateful Symmetry 

05. Đàn Bầu - Vietnam / Chinese Song / Ho ! #1 - Roady Music from Vietnam 

06. Rocky And His Friends - You Weren't Using Your Head / Work It On Out! - NW Killers Vol. 3

07. Floor - In A Day / Dove  

08. Unrest - Make Out Club Remix / B.P.M. (1991-1994) 

09. Hyu - Robotomy Mam / Inaudible Works 1994-2008 

10. The Clash - Gates of the West / Black Market Clash 

11. Kid Congo & Naim Amour - Murder We Wrote / Tucson Safari 

12. Mod Vigil - Driving is Easy / Mod Vigil

13. The Warmers - Mad At The Man / The Warmers

14. Rites Of Spring - Drink Deep / Rites Of Spring

15. Television - Marquee Moon / Marquee Moon

RADIO BROADCAST #855 08–23–25

RADIO BROADCAST #855

08–23–25

Fanatic! I hope you got some records played since last week. I did. Last night I listened to a Damned LP that I haven’t played in well over a year. It’s a bit of a barrel scrape, called The Chaos Years 1977-1982: Doom The Damned!. You can go online and check out the tracks. Audio quality is all over the place, but I found it to be a surprisingly good listen, especially as August is exiting and we’re getting ready for September. 

https://www.discogs.com/release/11902641-The-Damned-The-Chaos-Years-1977-1982-Doom-The-Damned

Did you check out the Boris Pink album reissue variants that went on sale a few days ago and were gone almost immediately? I was one of those people, refreshing the site over and over again until it was go time. I was able to score a copy of the six LP box set version. Too bad we have to wait all the way till October to hear it. Looking forward to this one. Thanks to Fanatic Denise for the heads up on this one.

Now that the bands have announced, it’s okay to tell you that the new Guerilla Toss album, You’re Weird Now is really good. We’ll be starting track soon. Also, the new Upchuck album. I’m Nice Now is great as well. We’ll start tracks from that in coordination with the release date. 

Some great records to look forward to

Guerilla Toss – You’re Weird Now

The Osees –  Abomination Revealed It Last

Upchuck – I’m Nice Now

Black Eyes – Hostile Design

Sheriff Lindo and the Hammer - Ten Dubs That Shook The World (heads up from Michael Mulholland)

Snooper – Worldwide

The Prize – In The Red

Some cool records to check out

Eraser – Hideout LP

https://siltbreeze.bandcamp.com/album/eraser-hideout-lp

Shepparton Airplane – Forecast (heads up from Michael Mulholland)

https://sheppartonairplane.bandcamp.com/album/forecast

Our good pals and sonic allies, Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe are putting out their third album already! It’s called Liminal and you can hear a track from it right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dokGhdZp844

You can get the record here: https://brianeno.lnk.to/Liminal

Will start tracks from it on October 11. Cool!

Fanatic, a great batch of tunes we have gathered for you tonight. We hope you enjoy them. Have a tremendous night of listening and STAY FANATIC!!!  

–– Henry

We’re on Bluesky

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Hour 1

01. Charles M. Bogert + Frogs - Blanchard's Cricket Frog With The Southern Leopard Frog In The Background / Sounds Of North American Frogs

02. Cramps - Garbage Man / Songs the Lord Taught Us

03. Slant 6 - Nights X 9 / Soda Pop * Rip Off

04. James Brown - Super Bad / The CD Of JB

05. Uncomfortable Police - Adjunct Punk / Adjunct Punk

06. Gun Club - Fire Of Love / Miami

07. John Dwyer - Grass / Chime Oblivion

08. Dr Sure's Unusual Practice - It's All Blue / Blue

09. Horsegirl - Frontrunner / Phonetics On and On 

10. The Fall – Immortality / Complete Peel Sessions

11. Kid Congo & Naim Amour - Surf Sirens / Tucson Safari

12. Metabolist - Racing Poodles / Works (1978—1981/ ) 

13. White Fence - Growing Faith / Is Growing Faith

14. The CIA - Magazine Love / split 7"

15. Cliquey Bitches - Catch And Release / Scorpio Scorpio

16. Alien Nosejob – Phone Alone / Paint It Clear

17. Cheater Slicks - Spanish Rose / Don't Like You 

18. Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Clear Spot / Clear Spot

19. ZZ Top – Loaded / Rhythmeen

20. Coyle & Sharpe - Grow Feathers / Audio Visionaries: Street Pranks & Put-Ons

21. K2 / K. Kusafuka - Yellow Blood #1 / Re-Musik

Hour 2

01. Iggy Pop - Sister Midnight / The Idiot

02. Killing Joke - Complications / Killing Joke

03. Wire - On Returning (6th Demo Session) / 154 (2018 Remastered & Expanded Edition) 

04. Mark Stewart - Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime / The Fateful Symmetry

05. Dog Chocolate - How Can We Destroy The Museum / Moody Balloon Baby

06. The Neons - Tucson - #855 / Mad Mike Monsters Vol. 02

07. The Scientists - Clear Spot / Set It on Fire

08. Oog Bogo - Is This Love / Cowgirls

09. Grinding Eyes - At Night / Grinding Eyes

10. Buzzcocks - I Don't Know What To Do With My Life / A Different Kind Of Tension 

11. Fungas - Spy / Intelligence 1

12. Candy Moore - No One Else / Humiliation Ritual

13. The Ghoulies - TRC / Shafted By The Algorithm LP 

14. Body Maintenance / The Boundaries / Far From Here

15. David Bowie - Red Money / Lodger 

16. Black Sabbath - Behind the Wall of Sleep/Fluff/N.I.B. / Black Sabbath