There's a new music podcast, and it's called Agony Shorthand. The host is Jay, and when you listen, you shall understand what it's all about and why it exists. (let it be said that it is not dissimilar from other podcasts once created by the same host). 

TELEVISION - Horizontal Ascension
LOS LLAMARADA - Something In My Head
WALNUT BRAIN - Cabin 4
3 TOED SLOTH - Spark
DANNY AND THE NIGHTMARES - Souvenir
WINGED WHEEL - August 6, 2024
THE EDUCATED FOOLS - Chicky Squawk
LONG JOHN HUNTER - El Paso Rock
RANIL Y SU CONJUNTO TROPICAL - Cumbia En Tu Soledad
BRIGITTE FONTAINE - Comme Rimbaud
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND - Triple Combination
SCRABBLED - Waiting For Godot
HAMS - Giving Thanks

Great to be back, just ignore the "razor blade throat" and listen to new stuff from Burnt Envelope, Eraser, Sun Cousto, Jeanines and Honey Radar, and gems from the library from the likes of Space Dust (pictured), Big Boys, Growth, BPeople and France. 

Track listing:

BURNT ENVELOPE - The Plugs
JEANINES - What’s Lost
WORLD OF POOH - Lock Yr Room
HONEY RADAR - Chelsea Frame
SPACE DUST - Cool Car
PISSED OFF ZOMBIES - Garbage
ERASER - Dinner Roll
BPEOPLE - The Other Thing
MR. SCIENCE - Sociobiology
FAGLAR I BUR - Platt
SMOKE BELLOW - Homecoming
SUN COUSTO - I Don’t Wanna Talk
THE PROLES - Police
THE BIG BOYS - Red Green
GROWTH - Ice Age
FRANCE - Destino Scifosi (Part 1)

New material abounds this time around - FLEAS OF MERCY, GRAPHIC VIOLETS, ERASER, NOWHERE FLOWER, HEAVY MOTHER II, CHRIS BROKAW, PAPER JAYS, PHARDAH, ADDED DIMENSIONS and THE OBLIQUES - plus newly unearthed stuff from World of Pooh and Nice Smile.

Track listing:

ERASER - Talk To Me
GRAPHIC VIOLETS - Broken Simulation
ADDED DIMENSIONS - Time Blind
WORLD OF POOH - Straw Man
FLEAS OF MERCY - A Spell
NOWHERE FLOWER - Winter Weeds
THE SHALLOWS - Trial By Separation
CHRIS BROKAW - Ghost Ship
AGUATURBIA - Heartbreaker
THE MORLOCKS - Born Loser
THE TRASHWOMEN - Sling Rave Curvette
NICE SMILE - It’s a Mess
THE OBLIQUES - Cigarettes
HEAVY MOTHER II - Heavy Burnout
PAPER JAYS - Eats Its Tail
PHARDAH - Village of Skulls

It has been a while, and don't we know it. Radio Dies Screaming #12 hopefully minds the gap w/ new stuff from Miranda Spatula & Nowhere Flower, The Obliques, Water Damage, Verdin Brothers + those fantastic World of Pooh and Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 reissues. There are other musical performances that you may find comfort the afflicted, while others that might afflict the comfortable. Give it a whirl if you're able!

Track Listing:

WORLD OF POOH - Acupuncture
THE OBLIQUES - St. Petersburg
TAV FALCO’S PANTHER BURNS - The Young Psychotics
THE RENEGADES - Geronimo
BIRD NAMES - Nobody Loves Me
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE - (Oh Dear) Miss Morse
THE WEST COAST POP ART EXPERIMENTAL BAND - I Won’t Hurt You
VERDIN BROTHERS - Shady Sadie
HARRIS NEWMAN - Bitten
NEIL YOUNG - Motion Pictures
WEBB CHAPEL - Springtime
THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282 - Keeps Repeating
MIRANDA SPATULA & NOWHERE FLOWER - Oaks Park
STEREOLAB - Revox
WATER DAMAGE - Reel 28

Track listing:

NOWHERE FLOWER - Inside a Flower
BRIDGET HAYDEN & THE APPARITIONS - Lovely on the Water
TICKAWINDA - Cold and Raw
DEPARTMENTSTORE SANTAS - Lost at Sea
HOSE - Mobo
SHOP REGULARS - Mischief
LES LOUPS NOIRS - One Two For The Rock
HONEY RADAR - Song For The Medical Mission Sisters
OSTRAALY - Blind Melon (live in Jillong)
NICK AND THE NOD - A Palace of Fords
THE SPITS - Life of Crime
DON HOWLAND & THE CHEATER SLICKS - Poor Me
ASNAKECH WORKU - Mingizem Yene New
FELA KUTI - Eke
PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND - East-West

It may be unpredictable in nature and timing, but you know that Radio Dies Screaming will almost always bring it when it counts. Sorry for the long delay. Here's a new episode with new stuff from KROPPSKÄNNEDOM, INDEX FOR WORKING MUSIK, DON HOWLAND & THE CHEATER SLICKS, VOYEUR’S MARKET and some new never-issued stuff from LES RAZILLES DENUDES and HARDWARE. There's more besides that as well, as you'll surely discover.

Track listing:

INDEX FOR WORKING MUSIK - Chains
DON HOWLAND & THE CHEATER SLICKS - Endgame
BUDDY VINCENT - Wooden Bird Twist
GIBSON BROS - Moon Twist
LES RALLIZES DENUDES - Flame of Ice
HARDWARE - Speed Unit
THE FLOWERS - After Dark
VOYEUR’S MARKET - Taking Care of Santa’s Business 
PEER GROUP - I Saw That Movie
THE SPROUTS - Doorbell
KROPPSKÄNNEDOM - Mitt extatiska förakt
NEGATIVE REACTION - The Hollow Men
INDEX FOR WORKING MUSIK - Purple Born

This episode marks the debut of a new organizational principle for the program, that being themed "wind it up and let it go" episodes, each devoted to a genre, a band, a sound, an era, a set of related records - or whatever. I make an intro, I get out of the way, and the music does all the talking, as it were.

I'm starting with a "re-run" that's only about 6 months old - Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #219 from July 2024, where I played nearly 90 minutes of the finest punk rock music from greater Los Angeles, California and 1977-1982 that you'll ever hear. Let it be a tribute to a place that is really suffering right now, as I write, but that has been the locus of many incredible music scenes for decades. 

I'll be back with more of these shortly!

Track listing:

THE GERMS – No God
ANGRY SAMOANS – Poshboy’s Cock
CIRCLE JERKS – Deny Everything
THE CROWD – Modern Machine
THE CHIEFS – The Lonelys
THE BAGS – We Will Bury You
DILS – Class War
MODERN WARFARE – One For All
FLESHEATERS – Disintegration Nation
MIDDLE CLASS – Out of Vogue
AGENT ORANGE – Bloodstains
SHOCK – This Generation’s on Vacation
THE ZEROS – Wild Weekend
BLACK FLAG – Clocked In
MINUTEMEN – 9:30 May 2nd
SACCHARINE TRUST – Mad at the Company
URINALS – I’m White and Middle Class
BAD RELIGION – Only Gonna Die
DEADBEATS – Kill The Hippies
THE GERMS – Lexicon Devil
THE BAGS – Survive
RHINO 39 – Xerox/No Compromise
RED CROSS – Notes and Chords Mean Nothing To Me
X – We’re Desperate
MINUTEMEN – Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs
45 GRAVE – Black Cross
BLACK FLAG – Nervous Breakdown
SACCHARINE TRUST – Hearts and Barbarians
THE DESCENDENTS – I’m Not a Loser
BAD RELIGION – Latch Key Kids
THE CHIEFS – Knocked Out
ANGRY SAMOANS – Lights Out
THE BAGS – Babylonian Gorgon
FLESHEATERS – Twisted Road
DEADBEATS – Let’s Shoot Maria
MIDDLE CLASS – You Belong
THE PLUGZ – Move
THE WEIRDOS – Solitary Confinement
X – White Girl
MINUTEMEN – Joe McCarthy’s Ghost
VOX POP – You’re My Favorite
BLACK FLAG – Police Story 
THE STAINS – Sick and Crazy
URINALS – Sex
MIDDLE CLASS – Insurgence
CIRCLE JERKS – Back Against The Wall
RED CROSS – Tatum O’Tot and the Fried Vegetables
FLESHEATERS – No Questions Asked
NIG HEIST – The Nig Heist

This time we've got a bunch of reissues, a tribute to Tanzanian label Zaius Tapes and new stuff from Emily Robb, Yuasa-Exide, Fruited Planes + more.

Track listing:

FRUITED PLANES - Out of Reach
TERRY REED - On Way To Alpha
STEPHEN DAVID HEITKOTTER - Hanging All Night
JIM SHEPARD - Pull The Switch, Henry
MAHOGANY BRAIN - Silkskin Dawn
PETER J. COX - Stinkin’ Rich
THE ‘FRONTS - Whale Tale
AMBIENT NOISE - Hostage Hotspot
GREEN ON RED - New World
75 DOLLAR BILL - Cummins Falls
WATER SHREWS with TETHYS IV - Swarm
YUASA - EXIDE - Deep End
TIMES NEW VIKING - Teenage Lust!
EMILY ROBB - Rotation-Free

Track listing:

JIM SHEPARD - Peter Tork
DAUGHTER OF THE VINE - Cosmic Eye
THE CHERRY BLOSSOMS - Stars of Tennessee
MEMPHIS GOONS - San Antonio Desert
THE EXPRESSIONS - Return To Innocence
NOBODY’S CHILDREN - Mother’s Tin Moustache
MATTHEW J. ROLIN - Triangle
HALL OF FAME - Motion Passings
SPACEMEN 3 - Transparent Radiation (demo)
OSTRAALY - Launceston
GWENIFER RAYMOND - Hell For Certain (live)
SAM ESH & HARD BLACK THING - Faro Goddamn
SANDY BULL - Blend II

THE SUBMISSIVES - Can’t You See
GHOST BELLS - Bead Line
THE WHITEFRONTS - World’s Fair
THE GOBLINS - We Like The Rain
STEFAN CHRISTENSEN - Cat’s Song
MIKE GANGLOFF & C JOYNES - Rapid City
WASNT WISNT - Jandek Hat
HARMONIA - Watussi
SUN RA - Some Blues But Not The Kind That’s Blue
MATTHEW J ROLIN - Tilt
HIGH RISE - Ikon