a pre-tape is when I show you how I intend to love you later on.  just listen. Axis: Sova — Shock Recognition  /  Qlowski — Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder  /  Pylon Reenactment Society — Crazy (Part Time Punks Session)  /  The Glands — Pretty Merrina  /  Wavves — Emo Christmas  /  Sloan — Where Are You Now?  /  Pink […]

this one’s for Bleecker Bob.  the world is in no more need of a lotta things.  but I’ll always take another record store. Iceage — Broken Hours  /  Shame — Rock Lobster  /  The Hives — Supply and Demand (live on Later with Jools Holland)  /  Say Sue Me — Christmas, It’s Not a Biggie  /  The Glands — Grey […]

Happy Thanksgiving to you…  and yours…  and theirs…  and that other guy who just showed up, and you’re not sure how to feel about it because your sister insisted she was done with him.  good tidings all around. Fontaines D.C. — Too Real  /  Pill — Dark Glass  /  Feels — Car  /  Foxwarren — Everything Apart  /  audiobooks — Call of […]

it’s a weird, angular version of the show this week, in what looks more like junior-year geometry than inspired radio programming; we get leftfield musings from audiobooks, an unearthed gem from the Lynch-Badalamenti paradox Thought Gang, plus a double-dose of The Glands.  it’s like they say — we’ll always have Athens. audiobooks — Mother Hen  /  […]

it gets pretty gritty tonight.  but then, it also gets… pretty tonight.  some dude showed up at the station with salsa in a canvas bag, and asked a lot of questions about where to drink and whether to feed the meter.  sometimes KX is a bit like that colorful mat you buy for the baby, […]

hey, Pill is back.  reason enough to have a show (though it’s a weekly thing, so truthfully it was already in the works).  we muse over what a frogstrap is, Ty takes on The Dils, The Skiffle Players busk their way through the midsection, and Death Valley Girls bring it home as we close the […]

we start off with a double-bang of Cloud Nothings, and end with a double-bang of Concrete Blonde (only because I timed the thing wrong and ended up with 2 minutes of surplus real estate).  it’s all good, cuz that last one is sufficiently Halloween-ie.  trick or treat, y’all… Cloud Nothings — Offer an End  /  Cloud Nothings — […]

in search of the freshest possible fruit, we find ourselves going back… and back… and back… to Australia.  I don’t play favorites.  I just play hits. The Dodos — If  /  Say Hi — Mathematicians  /  Bad Moves — One Thing  /  Ben Katzman’s DeGreaser — Kindness is Hot  /  Ben Katzman’s DeGreaser — Too Old for Retail  /  Oh Boland — Jane Russell  /  The Squires — […]

it’s a 2-hour endurance test, as we experience at least one instance of playing two songs at the very same time.  not so much a mashup as a f***up.  register to vote so that this sort of thing never happens again.  it’s in your hands now. F’d Up — The One I Want Will Come for […]

i get ready for Desert Daze.  i get you ready for Desert Daze.  i also play new old stuff from Bowie & Joe Strummer.  i live without regrets, but often with more irrational fear than I’d like. All Them Witches — Fishbelly 86 Onions  /  Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats — Shockwave City  /  Beak> — Brean Down  /  A […]