The real life mother of your host Ricardo Wang, Sandy McAdams, was found deceased on December 28, 2021. Her last contact with the family was at Christmas. Lennon and I picked music to honor her in this program. It would … Continue reading →

2021 has been a hard year for the What’s This Called? family, so hopefully 2022 will bring some new light. Have a listen below: PLAYLIST: Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra “It’s After the End of the World” [Space is the … Continue reading →

Instead of our regularly scheduled two hour What’s This Called? we are participating in the weekend long Freeform Winter Solstice DJ Challenge! Our half hour mix of experimental, psych, and post-punk flurries should chill your shortest day and longest night. … Continue reading →

#ExperimentalMusic #PostPunk #Drone #Noise #Psych PLAYLIST: New Asia “Central Proposition” [To the Outside of Everything – A Story of UK Post Punk 1977-1981] Siouxsie and the Banshees “Pure” [The Scream] Siouxsie and the Banshees “Jigsaw Feeling” [The Scream] Gunter Muller & Jim O’Rourke “a faster silence” [Slow Motion] … Continue reading →

#Listen: #Support: https://giveguide.org/nonprofits/ffp #Playlist: Play Human “Indifference” [SaDo Damascus 2013 Winter Copulation] Bit Shifter “The New Normal” [Closed System Blues] Plankton Wat “Modern Ruins” [Future Times] Black Midi “Ascending Forth” [Cavalcade] M83 “Gone” [Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts] Rose City Band “Real Long Gone” [Summerlong] Bardo Pond “Flux” [Lapsed] Fennesz “Dheli Plaza” [Hotel Paral.lel] … Continue reading →

Freeform Portland is in this year’s Willamete Week Give!Guide and this What’s This Called? show kicks off our participation in spreading the word. Sonicaly of course. PLAYLIST: Laurie Anderson “Let X=X” [Live in New York] Einstürzende Neubauten “Perpetuum Mobile” [Perpetuum Mobile] Jarl “Spectrum Confusion Part … Continue reading →

This will be the closest What’s This Called? air date to Halloween this year so in traditional Spooktacular mode the following musical selections will hopefully send chills up our spine. IF YOU DARE: PLAYLIST: Lustmord featuring Soriah “Grigori” [The Word as Power] … Continue reading →

After 16 years of Saturday daytime programming, What’s This Called? is moving to the evening hours again, albeit Early Evening. The program will now be heard alternate Saturdays on Freeform Portland from 6-8 PM Pacific Standard Time. We’ll still be … Continue reading →

A Special set of Classic Metal and Proto-Metal with just a touch of PNW Punk-Metal and Progressive Thrash for Freeform Portland. No telling when this one will air as it’s a fill in show for substitutions, but you can sway … Continue reading →

After three full years in the 2-4 PM PST time slot on alternate Saturdays on Freeform Portland, What’sThis Called? is moving to 6-8 PM PST on the same day! We were as surprised by this move as anybody, but as … Continue reading →