there are clues in 4 of the songs that will help you get Billy out of the basement.  go. Cloud Nothings — Leave Him Now  /  The Intelligence — Debt & ESP (live in San Francisco)  /  Viagra Boys — Special Helmet  /  Swingin’ Utters — Louise and Her Spider  /  We Were Promised Jetpacks — Repeating Patterns  / Alien Boy — Hooked, Glued, You  /  […]

I’ve wanted to get down to Oz for years now.  tonight, we go there in our minds — but you didn’t bring your passport, so I send you to Ontario to catch Billy Moon, DC for some Escape-ism and LA for all the Warm Drag you can handle.  in the end, we’re back on terms. […]

celebrating the release of the 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of Ramones’ Road to Ruin, on the eve of its official release on September 21st, courtesy of the good folks at Rhino Records.  we play newly remastered cuts from the original album, an all-new ‘Road Revisited’ mix of some of the album tracks, and some of […]

it’s a pre-tape, which only means I had something far better to do.  I left the window cracked, some cold tofurkey in the fridge, and IDLES, Viagra Boys & scorching new Ty on the turntable.  you’ll be fine.  number’s on the fridge. IDLES — Great  /  Viagra Boys — Up All Night  /  Warm Drag — No Body  /  Flat […]

so the show has a mind of its own (once again) and decides to start itself 5 mins. before the hour, while I’m in repose in the lobby, enjoying a hot toddy.  a life of surprises.  new stuff from down under, and we dabble in punk just enough to wake you up but not enough […]

I urge you to register to vote.  then I play you a buncha freedom fries, like new stuff from Beach Goons, Ethers, BC Camplight and Ultra Beauty.  and you squeeze out the final rays of summer as you drift into the mix.  as it should be. Beach Goons — A.M.  /  Kill Surf City — Weird World  /  Ethers — […]

like an adult playdate, it’s two solid hours of fun with all the requisite ingredients:  post-punk, psych rock, shoegaze, indie pop and a little Naardwaar for seasoning.  you can’t get this kinda value just anywhere. Traps PS — New Chants  /  Cat Scan — nra  /  100 Flowers — All Sexed Up (edit)  /    Automatic — Highway  /  Kill Surf City — Mje  /  […]

The Beths, Jorge Elbrecht & Shy Boys keep the summer sun high in the sky, Moses Sumney puts a welcome wrench in things with his experimental protest anthem, and that Soft Boys track that got bumped outta last week and the week before finally sees its moment.  rest, Queen of Soul. The Beths — Happy Unhappy  /  […]

some old friends stop by to witness the slow destruction of a man afforded a mic, and we celebrate new releases from The Love Language, David Nance, Post Pink, Art Brut and more more more.  and I spin the new Sleaford Mods, only in hopes the dialect will rub off and I can summon it […]

is it Valentine’s Day?  mightaswellbe, cuz Iggy & Underworld, Protomartyr & Spray Paint, and Ty & White Fence all did the collab thing.  we get jittery & skittery with Dumb and Table Sugar, there’s some delightful bits of Old England in Peel Dream Magazine.   plus new-old stuff from The Lords of the New Church […]