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Transmusic Airwaves presents the music of Redd Kross on the band’s 45th anniversary, with an in-depth interview with co-founder, Jeff McDonald (vocals/guitars).  This interview was conducted by John and Hannah Wasylko last month and features a set of tracks by other artists selected and discussed by Jeff along with many Redd Kross compositions.  

1.) Redd Kross - Switchblade Sister / Switchblade Sister (EP, 1995)

2.) Redd Kross - Stay Away From Downtown / Researching the Blues (2012)

3.) Redd Kross - Out of Focus (Blue Cheer cover) / Desperate Teenage Lovedolls (soundtrack, 1984)

4.) "The Source Family" movie trailer - 2013

5.) Redd Kross - Citadel (Rolling Stones cover) / Teen Babes from Monsanto (1984)

6.) Redd Kross - Linda Blair / Born Innocent (1982)

7.) Redd Kross - The Witches' Stand / Redd Kross (2024)

8.) Redd Kross - Ice Cream (Strange and Pleasing) / Beyond the Door (2019)

9.) Redd Kross - Born Innocent / Redd Kross (2024)

10.) Redd Kross - Candy Colored Catastrophe / Redd Kross (2024)

11.) Redd Kross - Stunt Queen / Redd Kross (2024)

12.) Redd Kross - The Main Attraction / Redd Kross (2024)

13.) Redd Kross -  Emanuelle Insane / Redd Kross (2024)

14.) Redd Kross -  It Won't Be Long (Beatles cover) / Teen Babes from Monsanto (1984)

15.) Redd Kross -  Janus, Jeanie & George Harrison / Neurotica (1987)

16.) Monkees - Pleasant Valley Sunday / Monkees Forever (2007)

Jeff McDonald’s selected music and discussion follows.  

This starts at show time 1 hour 12 minutes 52 seconds…

17.) Barry Ryan - Why Do You Cry My Love? / Sings Paul Ryan (1969)

18.) Avengers - Paint It Black / Paint It Black (1978)

19.) Phil Ochs - Chords of Fame / Chords of Fame (1976)

20.) Rockpile - Now and Always / Seconds of Pleasure (1980)

21.) Rolly - Eejanaika / Rolly's Rock Works (2019)

22.) John Barry - Beat Girl / The EMI Years Volume 1, 1957-60 (1993)

23.) Dorsey Burnette - Green Side of the Mountain / The Complete Motown Recordings 1964-5 (2014)

24.) The Mutants S.F. - Furniture / Fun Terminal (1982)

25.) Dave Edmunds - Trouble Boys / Tracks on Wax 4 (1978)

26.) Melanie - People in the Front Row / Garden in the City (1971)

27.) Redd Kross - What's In It For You? / Redd Kross (2024)

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Transmusic Airwaves presents our fourth Fresh Air Special from a WKSU broadcast of 8-30-1977 FOURTY SEVEN YEARS AGO, hosted by Sue Westfall.  This is 1½ hours of her 2½ hour final Fresh Air broadcast as she left the station after graduation from Kent State University.  At this time, Fresh Air was scheduled from 12:30am to 3am nightly on WKSU.  Little more than a year later, it would be expanded to 12am to 6am, with the weekends starting at 11pm.

Set #1 (beginning of program, missing the open announce)

1.) Audience – Indian Summer / The House On The Hill (1971)

2.) Diga Rhythm Band – Happiness Is Drumming / Diga (1976)

3.) Tom Waits – Pasties and a G-String (At the Two O’Clock Club) / Small Change (1976)

4.) The Chieftains - The Chattering Magpie / Bonaparte's Retreat (1976)

5.) Vince Guaraldi Trio – Linus and Lucy / A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)

6.) Big Brother And The Holding Company – Summertime / Cheap Thrills (1968)

7.) Chic Corea – Nite Sprite / The Leprechaun (1976)

Sue Westfall (back announce at 1:02am)

Wednesday Reels (WKSU Program Promo)

Sue Westfall (announce)

1.) Brand X – Running On Three / Unorthodox Behaviour (1976)

2.) Emerson Lake & Palmer – Tank / Works Volume 1 (1977)

3.) Bob Johnson & Pete Knight – The Coming Of The Troll / The King Of Elfland’s Daughter (1977)

4.) Gentle Giant – In A Glass House / Playing The Fool (1977)

5.) Osibisa – Happy Children / Happy children (1973)

6.) Taj Mahal – Ain’t Gwine To Whistle Dixie (Any Mo’) / The Real Thing (1971)

7.) Country Gazette – My Oklahoma / Don’t Give Up Your Day Job (1973)

Jazz Beat (WKSU Program Promo)

Sue Westfall (back announce)

1.) The Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour / Magical Mystery Tour (1967)

2.) Genesis – Squonk / Trick Of The Tail (1976)

3.) Musica Orbis – Cataracts / To The Listeners (1977)

4.) Joan Armatrading – Like Fire / Joan Armatrading (1976)

(end of the recording, program continued for another hour to 3am)

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Transmusic Airwaves takes a detour from the usual and presents sets created (blindly) by all the hosts here for fun.  For this show, each Transmusic host was provided a track from the previous host in the chain to follow with their selection. None of us knew how it would turn out until the end!  Please note, there are some explicit lyrics in this show so keep that in mind.  If you want to stay surprised (like the hosts here are…they are hearing this mix for the first time too), don’t review the playlist until you have heard the show. This was fun!  Contact us and let us know how we did.  If you would like to contribute to Transmusic Airwaves, let’s go:  [email protected]

Selections by Transmusic hosts: John Wasylko, Jeff Wootton, Carl Palmer, Mark Orlandi and Carl Deaver

Set 1 

1.) Reverend Horton Heat – Psycobilly Freakout / Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em (1990)

2.) Röyksopp – Control / Profound Mysteries II (2022)

3.) Angie Haze – Swim / Time Thief (2024, Ohio Artist)

4.) Ian Dury – Books & Water / Ten More Turnips from the Tip (2002)

5.) Kruder & Dorfmeister – High Noon / G Stoned (EP, 1993)

6.) Marcus Moraes & Pablo Fagundes – Brother (Sofar Brasilia)

Set 2

1.) David Gilmour – The Piper’s Call / Luck and Strange (2024)

2.) Nash The Slash – Children Of The Night / Children Of The Night (1980)

3.) Sam Spiegel & Ape Drums ft Assassin - Mutant Brain / Office Christmas Party Motion Picture Soundtrack (2016)

4.) King Crimson - Dinosaur / Thrak (1995)

5.) Robbers on High Street - Dig The Lightning / WCBE Live from Studio A, Vol. 10 Disc 1 (2006)

6.) Richard Sinclair - Keep on Caring / Caravan Of Dreams (1991)

7.) Supersister – No Tree Will Grow (On Too High A Mountain) / To The Highest Bidder (1971)

8.) Ummet Ozcan - Baiame / Baiame (2022)

9.) Captain Beefheart - Well / Trout Mask Replica (1969)

10.) Brian Eno - Ali Click / Nerve Net (1992)

11.) Andy Summers – Reflex / Vertiginous Canyons (2024)

Set 3

1.) Dantalian’s Chariot - The Madman Running Through The Fields / The Madman Running Through The Fields (EP, 1967 reissued 2024)

2.) John Cale – How We See The Light / POPtical Illusion (2024)

3.) The Gentle People – Tiki Mix / Sound Track For Living (1996)

4.) King Missile – Jesus Was Way Cool / Fluting On The Hump (2004)

5.) Beth Hart/Joe Bonamassa – Chocolate Jesus / Don’t Explain (2011)

6.) Modern Folk Quartet – Jordan’s River / Changes (1964)

7.) Tom Waits – The Ghost Of Saturday Night (After Hours At Napoleone’s Pizza House) / The Heart Of Saturday Night (1974)

8). Red Peters – The Closing Song / Ol’ Blue Balls Is Back (2000)

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Transmusic Airwaves presents our Ken Nordine Special!  In 2018 Carl Palmer and Bryan Chandler joined Ken Nordine in his Chicago home for what was to become Ken’s last interview.  This program was Emmy nominated and had a 3-year run on PBS.  Transmusic founder Paul Ciminero, also interviewed Ken in 1981 for the WKSU Fresh Air program.  We have combined the two interviews interspersed with a good helping of his Word Jazz, and an introduction by artist Laurie Anderson.  Enjoy hearing Transmusic Airwaves encounters with Ken Nordine, produced by Carl Palmer.

Set#01

PBS Emmy Nominated Ken Nordine: Video for the Ear

© Wild Life Media 2020 intro Laurie Anderson

interview by Bryan Chandler (2018)

Blue / Colors (1966)

Island / Stare with your Ears (1979)

Word Jazz NPR Radio Program (70's & 80's)

Miss Cone / Son of Word Jazz (1958)

Looking At Numbers / Son of Word Jazz (1958)

Ken Nordine & The Fred Katz Group - My Baby / Word Jazz (1957)

Laurie Anderson - Language is a Virus Live/ Home of the Brave (1985)

Ken Nordine, Jerry Garcia, David Grism - Devout Catalyst (1991)

You’re Getting Better / The Word Jazz Dot Masters (1960)

Ken Nordine w/Freq Out - Thinking Out Loud / Interview Improv (2018)

Inside the Brain Credits Rip 1920-2019

Set#02 Fresh Air WKSU Kent, Ohio 1981 Interview w/Paul Ciminero

The Vidiot / Word Jazz (1957)

Ken Nordine Does Robert Shure ‎– Windshield Wipers / Twink (1967)

Paul Ciminero Interview (1981)

H.P. Lovecraft - Mobius Trip H.P. Lovecraft (1968)

Paul Ciminero Interview (1981)

H.P. Lovecraft - Nothing's Boy / H.P. Lovecraft (1968)

Tasters Choice Coffee Commercial (1986)

Levi’s Jeans  AD x2 (1971)

Eldon Top Eliminator Drag Strip Set Commercial (1966)

Paul Ciminero Interview (1981)

Spectrum / The Word Jazz Dot Masters (1960)

Outer Space / Son of Word Jazz (1958)

Paul Ciminero Interview (1981)

Alphabet Song / Stare With Your Ears (1979)

Detour Ahead Freq Out - w/Ken Nordine (2020)

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Transmusic Airwaves… it’s unconventional free-form radio - with guest host Mark Orlandi.

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Set 1

1) Godley & Creme - Welcome to Breakfast Television / Birds of Prey (1983)

2) Gustaf - Book / Audio Drag For Ego Slobs (2021)

3) Sparkle Division - You Go Girl! / To Feel Embraced (2020)

4) Hans Zimmer - Mombasa / Inception - Soundtrack (2010)

5) Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien / OK Computer (1997)

6) Randy California - Things Yet to Come / Kapt Kopter & the (Fabulous) Twirly Birds (1972)

7) John Lennon - I Found Out / John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970)

8) The Fantastics! - The Bone Breaker / All The People (2011)

9) Kee Avil - See, My Shadow / Crease (2022)

10) Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids - Afro Futuristic Dreams / Afro Futuristic Dreams (2023)

11) Wolf Parade - Am I an Alien Here / Cry Cry Cry (2017)

Set 2

1) Najma Akhtar & Gary Lucas - Rishte / Rishte (2009)

2) Quincy Jones - Soul Bossa Nova / Big Band Bossa Nova (1962)

3) Bill Frisell - White Fang / Unspeakable (2004)

4) 2Cellos & Zucchero - Il Libro Dell 'Amore / In2ition (2013)

5) Benjamin Clementine - Phantom Of Aleppoville / I Tell A Fly (2017)

6) Brian Eno - Bone Bomb / Another Day on Earth (2005)

7) Keith Slane - Devil's Elbow / Star Captain (1979)

8) Charles Lloyd & The Marvels - Ramblin' / Tone Poem (2021)

9) Tank And The Bangas - Mr. Bluebell / Red Balloon (2022)

10) Bleachers - Woke Up Today / Bleachers (2024)

11) Devin Townsend Project - Ain't Never Gonna Win / Ki (2009)

12) The Amboy Dukes - Scottish Tea / Journey To The Center Of The Mind (1968)

13) West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - A Child's Guide To Good And Evil / A Child's Guide To Good And Evil (1968)

14) Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet - CNN Predicts a Monster Storm / Landfall (2018)

15) Kamasi Washington - Interstellar Peace (The Last Stance) / Fearless Movement (2024)

Transmusic Airwaves closes up July with two sets mixed by host Mark Orlandi.  Some surprises await if you don’t spoil them by checking this playlist.  If you do scan through it first, enjoy the music and you’ll still be surprised!

Set 1 (Mark Orlandi Mix)

1) Jessie Ware - Shake The Bottle / That! Feels Good! (2023)

2) Brittany Howard - Every Color In Blue / What Now (2024)

3) DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World / Endtroducing..... (1996)

4) Califone - 2 Sisters Drunk On Each Other / Heron King Blues (2004)

5) John Scofield - Ideofunk / Uberjam (2002)

6) Throwing Muses - Calm Down, Come Down / University (1995)

7) Dengue Fever - Late Checkout at the Cedarwood Inn / Ting Mong (2023)

8) Kalyanji-Anandji - Theme From Twin Sheiks / Bombay 2: Electric Vindaloo (2001)

9) Meklit - Yesterday Is a Tizita / When the People Move, The Music Moves Too (2017)

10) California Guitar Trio - Swampy Space / CG3+2 (2002)

11) Menahan Street Band - Devil's Respite / The Exciting Sounds Of Menahan Street Band (2021)

12) Squirrel Flower - Seasonal Affective Disorder / I Was Born Swimming (2020)

13) Teenage Fanclub - Cells / Man-Made (2005)

Set 2 (Mark Orlandi Mix)

1) The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot / I Robot (1977)

2) Aphrodite's Child - Hic and Nunc / 666 (1971)

3) Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Pluto The Dog / Solar Fire (1973)

4) Be Bop Deluxe - Shine / Live! In The Air Age (1977)

5) Gato Barbieri - To Be Continued / Chapter One: Latin America (1973)

6) Sidestepper - Supernatural Soul / Supernatural Love (2016)

7) Meredith Monk - Walking Song / Volcano Songs (1997)

8) The Occasional Word - The Evil Venus Tree / Dust On The Nettles (2015)

9) SUSS - Shimmer (Reflection) / SUSS (2022)

10) Bee Gees - Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You / Bee Gees' 1st (1967)

11) Liquid Trio Experiment - Tony's Nightmare / Spontaneous Combustion (2007)

12) Cautious Clay & Arooj Aftab Feat. Kai Eckhardt - Glass Face / Karpeh (2023)

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Transmusic Airwaves today brings quite a few new releases, including a track from the Golems Of the Red Planet fresh off the mixing console just last week!  A new album from Grice just released last month, the Black Keys, and so much more.  These two sets were mixed by John Wasylko, with the second set pulling from some older releases, so enjoy your time hear ;-) 

Set 1 (John Wasylko Mix)

1.) The Black Keys – Fever Tree / Ohio Players (2024)

2.) Paul Weller – Soul Wandering / 66 (2024)

3.) Brian Protheroe – Salisbury Boys / A Salisbury Boy (Bandcamp, 2023)

4.) Black 47 – I Ain't Marching Anymore (Phil Ochs cover) / Bleecker Street: Greenwich Village in the 60's (Various artists) (1999)

5.) Kim Gordon – The Candy House / The Collective (2024)

6.) Still House Plants – M M M / If I Don't Make It, I Still Love You (2024)

7.) Squarepusher – Iambic 9 Poetry / Ultravisitor (2004)

8.) Tori Amos/Trevor Horn – Swimming Pools (Drank), Kendrick Lamar cover / Ancient & Modern (2023)

9.) Tom Waits – The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening With Pete King) / Small Change (1976)

10.) Animal Collective – Brother Sport - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

11.) Hawkwind – Rama (The Prophecy) / The Future Never Waits (2023)

12.) The Real Tuesday Weld – The Day Before You Came / Happy Hatter Christmas (EP, 2014)

13.) Grice – Mordant Lake / Mordant Lake (2024)

Set 2 (John Wasylko Mix)

1.) Golems Of The Red Planet – Damam / (advanced release Bandcamp, 2024)

2.) Owsley – Oh, No the Radio / Owsley (1997)

3.) 10cc – Clockwork Creep / Sheet Music – (1974)

4.) Jellyfish – He's My Best Friend (Spilt Milk - 1993)

5.) Tommy Keene – Gold Town (You Hear Me: A Retrospective - 2010)

6.) Odds – Crash The Time Machine / Crash The Time Machine (2023)

7.) Redd Kross – Ice Cream (Strange & Pleasing) / Beyond the Door (2019)

8.) Ghost of Vroom – Yesterday In California / 3 (2023)

9.) Stick Men – Sasquatch / Soup (2010)

10.) The Grays – Both Belong / Ro Sham Bo (1994)

11.) Let's Active – Waters Part / Cypress (1984)

12.) Claypool Lennon Delirium – South of Reality / South of Reality  (2019)

13.) Rooney – Blueside / Rooney (2003)

14.) Velvet Crush – Weird Summer / Teenage Symphonies to God (1994)

15.) Smithereens – In a Lonely Place / Especially for You (1986)

16.) Todd Rundgren – Pretending to Care / A Capella (1985)

17.) Orbital – Halcyon + On + On / Orbital (2) (1993)

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Transmusic Airwaves presents WKSU-FM’s Fresh Air special #3.  As listeners to Transmusic Airwaves have heard before, many of us here started our music experience from listening to Fresh Air on WKSU between 1971 and 1981.  This is not the interview program from NPR, but a freeform music program offered after midnight on WKSU.  This is a 2 hour fragment (2am to 4am) from the original 6-hour broadcast of January 21, 1978 hosted by Evelyn St. Clair.  This is all that we have of this show, captured by a listener who shared the recording for inclusion to the Fresh Air Archives.  See below for more information about Fresh Air.  With the heat of summer well upon us, talk of a snow storm that shut down Kent State University’s campus should keep things cool.  

Music heard on this program:

Al Di Meola – Mediterranean Sundance / Elegant Gypsy (1977)

The Alan Parsons Project – The Fall of the House of Usher / Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1976)

Chuck Mangione – Land Of Make Believe / Land Of Make Believe…A Chuck Mangione Concert (1973)

Mahavishnu Orchestra – Lila’s Dance / Visions of the Emerald Beyond (1975)

Can – One More Night / Ege Bamyasi (1972)

Weather Report – Black Market / Black Market (1976)

Course Of The Electric Messenger – Forest Of I Ching / (unreleased, band supplied tape for broadcast, 1978)

Evelyn St. Clair (back announce)

Vangelis – Ballad / Spiral (1977)

Brand X – Isis Mourning (Part 1 & 2) / Livestock (1977)

Kevin Ayers – The Confessions Of Doctor Dream / The Confessions Of Doctor Dream and Other Stories (1974)

Evelyn St. Clair (back announce)

Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express – Women Of The Seasons / A Better Land (1971)

Brian Eno – Golden Hours / Another Green World (1975)

Jimi Hendrix Experience – Rainy Day, Dream Away/1983…(A Merman I Should Be) / Electric Lady Land (1968)

Of course, this is where the recording ended, this show continued until 6 AM!

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Transmusic Airwaves presents a couple of mixes by John Wasylko, featuring quite a few recent releases and a nod to two music humorists who left us June 27th; Martin Mull and Kinky Friedman.

Set One (John Wasylko Mix)

1.)   Lickerish Quartet – Sollygoster Goon / Threesome Vol. 2 (2021)

2.)   Redd Kross – Cancion Enojada / Redd Kross (2024)

3.)   Tin Huey – I Could Rule the World / Contents Dislodged During Shipment (1979)

4.)   Art Bears – Rats and Monkeys / Winter Songs (1979)

5.)   OMD – Evolution of Species / Balhaus Staircase (2023)

6.)   Abstract Concrete – Ventriloquist (Dummy) / Abstract Concrete (2023)

7.)   Stickmen – Cusp / Deep (2013)

8.)   Julia Holter - Spinning / Something in the Room She Moves (2024)

9.)   Laetitia Sadler - Cloud 6 / Rooting for Love (2024)

10.)  Gerycz Powers Rolin - Sun Rays / Activator (2024) Ohio band!

11.)  Shay Hazan - Sunflowers / Wusul (2024)

12.)  Shawn Phillips - Withered Roses / Contribution (1970)

13.)  Richard Thompson - Freeze / Ship to Shore (2024)

14.)  Martin Mull - The Time of My Life / Soundtrack: A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018)

Set Two (John Wasylko Mix)

1.)   Kinky Friedman - Men's Room, LA / Lasso From El Paso (1976)

2.)   Corinne Bailey Rae – Earthling / Black Rainbows (2023)

2.)   Dave Swanson’s Mystery Airship – Last Days, Last Nights / DSMA (2024, Bandcamp)

3.)   Paul Kantner and Grace Slick - Sunfighter / Sunfighter (1971)

4.)   Mother Gong - I Am A Tree / The Owl And The Tree (1989)

5.)   English Teacher - This Could Be Texas / This Could Be Texas (2024)

6.)   The Shop Window - Who’s In Control / Daysdream (2024)

7.)   Halo Maud – Iceberg / Celebrate (2024)

8.)   The Free Design – Light My Fire / One By One (1971)

9.)   Gentle Giant – I Lost My Head / Interview (2023 Remix by Steven Wilson)

10.)  Crack The Sky - Nuclear Apathy / Safety In Numbers (1978)

11.)  Anandammide - The Orange Flood / Eura (2024)

US tours 2024:

July:

Al Stewart

Richard Thompson

Redd Kross

September:

Niights

October:

Gong

Renaissance

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Catch hosts Carl Palmer and Chalupa Roulette on a Transmusic Airwaves summer wave.  This is unconventional Freeform radio…without the mosquitoes!

TMA#09 Carl Palmer/Chalupa Roulette SUMMER MIX 2024

SET#01:

60 Channels – No Come Down / Tuned In Turned On (1998)

Glass Beams – Mahal / Mahal EP (2024)

Jack_OK - Between a Hard and a Rock Place / Soft Rock Hard Feelings (2024)

Mark Pritchard - Be Like Water / Be Like Water ( 2020)

Ghost Funk Orchestra - Fuzz Logic / Single (2020)

Yves Tumor – Meteroa Blues / Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume (2023)

St. Vincent – Broken Man / All Born Screaming (2024)

Amon Tobin – Wooden Toy / ISAM (2011)

SET#02:

Durry - Who’s Laughing Now / Suburban Legend  (2023)

William Orbit – Time to Get Wise / Strange Cargo (1993)

Childish Gambino – This is America / This is America (2018)

Pink Martini - Ohayoo Ohio (Hello Ohio) / Splendor in the Grass (2014)

Beck – Ghetto Chip Malfunction / Remix (2004)

Sublime – Doin' Time / Sublime (1997)

SET#03:

Gramatik - Chillaxin' By the Sea / Coffee Shop Selection (2015)

United Future Organization (UFO) – Sunday Folk Tale / No Sound Too Taboo (1994)

Massive Attack – What Your Soul Sings (ft. Sinead O'Connor) / 100th Window (2003)

Alpha - 1995 / Pepper (1998)

Happy 4th everyone!

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