we’re on the precipice of marking the 25th anniversary of a horrible event that would usher in an unprecedented n?-normal era of authoritarianism and mass surveillance. EVR management would have you believe the webcam to the station’s on-air booth is currently off-line due to “technical issues” but could the reason really be they’re afraid of the truth coming out : that when the camera is turned to first avenue, passers-by have their likenesses captured and sent directly to Planatir, Leidos,James Dolan and somewhat inexplicably, guitarist Warren Haynes. Perhaps so he and Dolan can have something else in common to talk about, I really don’t know.

Anyhow, I’m happy to continue this technical snafu ruse for as long as it takes (or until next week, whichever comes first)

Turning Jewels Into Water – Fire Of Flowers
Hiss Is Bliss ft. Kojo Neatness – Rub A Dub Soldier
Saint Abdullah – Mined For Disturbances
Shit and Shine – Steve’s Pool
Spectre – Anti- Gravity
Zoviet France – Gathering Breathing
Circle – Here Come The Warm Jets
Ultramantis Black – West Siberian Plane
Killing Joke – Butcher
Celebrity Handshake – World War Five
The Retail Simps – Hi-Heel Sneakers
2X4’s – Mechanistic Girl
Steven R. Smith – End Of The Fillaments
The ER Band – All Around The Street Corners
Kendraplex – Cigarettes
Kit Clayton – track 1 from ‘Live On Shortwave Radio’
Chewing Glass Collective – Anaesthetic Attack
Black Dirt Oak – Freak Fang
Los Lichis – All Repro

there’s a gushy piece in today’s Guardian about a teenager who took to IG to document his attempts to listen to one Merzbow album each day. It’s a fun article and the fella in question seems nice and inquisitive enough, except WHAT THE FUCK, this twerp STOLE MY IDEA. Long before some of you little shits were even conceived, i took to rec.music.moebandy to chronicle my efforts to listen to and rank the entire Moe Bandy discography. Where was my goddamn parade? Some kid made it all the way thru ‘Akasha Gulva’? Big whoop, where were you when i was struggling to make it till the end of ‘It Was Always.So Easy (To Find An Unhappy Woman)’ ? I’ll see your ‘Noisembryo’ and raise you “I Cheated Me Right Out Of You’. ON TODAY’S SHOW : YET ANOTHER WAY YOU’VE ALL CONSPIRED TO FUCK ME OVER.

eberg – Place Between Now and Then
Klara Lewis – Ta Min Hand
Emeka Ogboh – No Counterfeit Mark Remix
Chrome Chasm – The Star
Volodja Brodsky – Low-Tide Observations
CIA Debutante – Spill
Tom Wanderer – Warm Vehicles
UDDER – Or I’ll Kill You
Pig Destroyer – Mapplethorpe Grey
Lice & Flies – Moth In A Jar
Truck Violence – My Dog Would Fuck The Air
$500 – Logos vs. Gnarly Wave?
Half Japanese – Miracles Happen Every Day
P. Wits – Father
Decimus – side a of Decimus 12
Rosy Parlane – Part Two
Oliver Coates – Reunification 2018

I usually try to stay away from promotional gimmickry on the program — I am sure you’ll agree between the musical selections and my effervescent commentary, no such pandering is required to maintain a vast audience. However, under considerable pressure from EVR management, this week I have been tasked with giving away 2 tickets to the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award ceremonies honoring Breckin Meyer. Yeah, I know, “second prize is four tickets”, I use that line every Levitation Festival. But really, in this instance, second prize really _is_ four tickets. And third prize is Breckin Meyer (you’ll have to supply your own crate and/or shock collar). All details will be explained in the chat but please keep in mind, if you’ve won Breckin Meyer during an EVR show over the last six months, you’re not eligible. Give someone else a chance! ??

(fourth prize is an entire warehouse of
I BRAKE 4 BRECKIN bumper stickers)

Cities Aviv -Blkcard Prince / The World Shares Her Tears
Bhajan Bhoy – Flicker Dreams
Abstract Concrete – Small World
Void Control – Dead Space
emer – Room Five
Pessimist – Under Surveillance (Original Mix)
A LARGE SHEET OF MUSCLE – Our Illustrious Police
Raymond & Peter – Nova Express Times Survey on Alcoholism
Open Carry – Nosebleed
Obituary – The Wrong Time
“Rhinestone” trailer
75 Dollar Bill – Black To Comm / 9 To 5 feat. Sue Garner
The Soft Pink Truth – Acapella
Jenny Hoyston / Dolly Parton – Here You Come Again (remix)
Tyondai Braxton – 4 Zones
Ballister & Luke Stewart – Carpet Joint
Horse Lords – Law Of Movement (live, Madison WI 07/25/26)
Minor Science – Contingency

I know what you’re saying, “that is one ugly ass Furby”. In fact, it’s a FUGGLER, and I know this because I tried to attend this weekend’s Sound & Furby Festival and was asked to leave because they found the FUGGLER in my backpack. It’s a Furby-only festival and apparently there are very strict rules about allowing Fugglers on to the festival grounds.

Clearly, the event promoters are just another case of people who pay lip service to things like inclusion but when push comes to shove, protecting the Furby IP takes precedence. I’ll use this disrespect to fuel this week’s program and shall remain hopeful that at some moment in the future, the Fugglers will have their day in the sun.

Ghost Dubs – Low Times
Cube – Windfall
Trigger Object – L. Ron Karesh
Godflesh – Living Ending
Die Kruezen – Among The Ruins
nqthqn – adversary
bailterspace – place and palaces
Syko Friend – Cloudy Yellow Star Pollen
Fatboi Sharif & Child Actor – How To Disinfect A Live Grenade
LOUSE – The Deer Caller
The Fall – Fantastic Life (Live)
ZZ Top – Moving On Down The Line
Soggy – Waiting For The War
Ayal Senior – Nor The Moon By Nite
Derek Monypeny / Kelby Clark – live at Acme Milwaukee
Alan Licht / Tamio Shiraishi – Our Lips Are Sealed
Bill Orcutt – The Four Louies II
Rick Rizzo & Tara Key – Insanity Stomp
BPA – 10 Dead Boy

earlier this week I was looking up an old Popular Mechanics story about a global oxide shortage (hoping for some insights as to why Cassette Store Day is no longer a thing — I mean, there could be no other reason, right) and instead saw a report that despite a US ban on biological weapons, the CIA developed a HEART ATTACK GUN made from shellfish toxins.

I’m no expert on this stuff, but it seems it would have more sense for the CIA to simply take American’s enemies to dinner at Red Lobster and let nature do its thing. Or failing that, train aspiring Jason Bourne2Losers in the art of Ox Baker’s HEART PUNCH.

If you’re thinking this was all a huge pretext just to use a photo of Ox Baker, you’re smart enough to run the CIA.

Sensational – Paper Chase
Sensational – Sound Turned Proper
Sensational – Stock Market Connection
Torture – Thick Marker
Sensational & LABRATT – I’m That Guy
Sensational ft. Planteaterz – You Don’t Know Me Like That
Abu Ama – Acid Rokkaz (feat. Sensational)
Sensational & Spectre – The Boom?
Jungle Brothers – Troopin On The Down Low (feat. Torture)
Supreme Low – Blowing (feat. Sensational)
Sensational – Slide With Me
Koenig – Diffidence (feat. Sensational)
Sensational – I Rock It Like No Other
Shit and Shine – DBGN #3-1
3Musketiere – Go
Fruited Plane – Little Dictator
Daughter of The Vine – Sound Behind The Sound
The Grebes – Old Guard
Dry-Thrust – The Waiting
Water Damage – Reel 45
Thee Speaking Canaries – Burning Loose (alt)
Beak> – Brean Down
Stable – Untitled
Yuro Araki -Whipping Lights

there’s so many things I deeply appreciate about Blabbermouth.com but there’s no feature on the site nearly as crucial as their devotion to updating us with detailed progress reports such as these. If Sully from Godsmack’s spoken word album is “70 percent done”, we can wait with bated breath for the news down the line that at some point he’ll be “80 percent done”. If you’re spending today mourning the end of yet another music news site, ask yourself if they really did enough to keep you informed about how close Michael Schenker is to completing his followup to 2011’s ‘Temple Of Rock’ (surely he’s at 60% by now)

Schooly D – No More Rock’n’Roll
Move D & Pete Namlook – Hardwired Target
Nora On Tape – Grey and Green and Crimson
Bourbonese Qualk – Dummy Run
Deadbeat & The Mole – Keep On Going On
Dale Cornish – Shout Outs
Coaster Pine – Sleepless But Sedated
Bruce Langhorne – Riding Thru The Rain
David Kilgour – Sometimes
Bizarros – White Screen Movies
The Diodes – Tired Of Waking Up Tired
House Of All – Time Is Out Of Joint
Helen – Linda’s Head
DMZ – When I Get Off
Lyres – Buried Alive
Bryce Franich – Resonate/Chop
Simon J Karis – indie music’s death knell there is no more shop and no more free tattoos
Dion Workman – For I/X
Absurd Cosmos Late Night – Process Music For The Morley’s of New Cross
Squanderers -Theme For A Soft Resolution
Ali Bahnhof – I Don’t Wanna Get Married In A Pet Laboratory
Ben Bennett – Chuffed To Smithereens

While some of my friends are rightfully taking exception this morning to the announcement of NewsMax and Meta’s “content partnership”, I am very sorry to say I’m instead firmly focused on the misdeeds of the latter concern. To wit, the IG algorithm serving me a relentless, mind-numbing spate of clips from “The Nanny” (CBS, 1993-1999). While my friends are graced with a never-ending array of Sopranos, Breaking Bad and death match wrestling videos, I get nothing but a steady diet of Fran Drescher. I don’t know if there’s any that can be done about this (at the very least I am entitled to some compensation), but I am fully prepared to complain for two hours.

#onlyfrans #outofthefryingpanintothefran

Kaotic Styling – Check It Out
LA Timpa – Inconsiderate Boyfriend
Rome Streetz – (A)cid Vicious
DJ Warzone – Cans of Soden
Spitbender – Global Overgroove
TRUST – Anthracite
The Dr. Pete Larson Group – track1, ‘ The Dr. Pete Larson Group’
Stingray – Failed Harvest
Titfield Thunderbolt – (I Was) Born On The Wrong Planet
Bird Nest Roys – Alien
GracieHorse – Backup Slowly
Hannah Stretton – Morning Rain
Michael Beach – No One Knows Any Better (Live at Phoenix Central Park)
Razorlegs & Jim Sauter – Live At The Footlight
John Tchicai, Rent Romus’ Lords of Outland – ‘Descent Of The Avatar’
Vijay Iyer Trio – Blood Count
Big Brave – The Ineptitude for Mutual Discernment
Mope Grooves – Inside out
Ayami Suzuki & Rob Noyes – Vibrant Books

The Bug / Dis Fig – Vanishing (Numbness Dub)
Keith Le Blanc – You Drummers Listen Good
Leo – Spirit Level
Joachim Nordwall- Several Zones Below The Normal Zero
Beau Wanzer – Morning Pain
Static Cleaner Lost Reward- Basic Trouble?=
Dilinja – Majestic B-Line
Hi-Sherifs of Blue – Sloppy Drunk Again
Meat Flag – Motley Vomit
Dying Realm – Mace Buried Deep
Invertebrates – Accosted
Birth (Defects) – Throne
Ut – I.D.
Masami Kawaguchi & Anla Cortis – Astral Cord Boogie
V-Effect – A Tree Grows In Managua
Big Circle – Exit Plan
Drew Gardner – Conch Shell
The Sprigs – Come Along, Back Home
Laddio Bolocko – Dangler
Rachel Musson – Matched Up

in honor of today’s crucial England v Argentina tilt, I’d planned on playing The Special Moments’ 2009 opus, ‘Eric : The Falklands Follies’ from start to finish , however at the very last moment the licensing dept. rang and said permission had been denied. It seems Baz and Reg Lumley are attending the match in Atlanta today and regardless of which side wins, they intend to lead the stadium in a full throated singalong of “They Dropped A Bomb (On Me)” and would prefer not to have this occasion undermined (usurped, most likely) by this program. Which is fair enough, the Lumley’s are having-a-moment right now, as we like to say in the music biz, and I for one would not be surprised to see some stadium-sized reunion shows confirmed on the back of this nostalgia wave. OK, that’s enough Special Moments spoilers for one morning.

Evil Graham Lee – Nursery In The Beehive
Heldon – In Wake Of King Fripp
Chris Corsano / Tashi Dorji – Catch
Jacques Berrocal – Post-Card
Space Afrika – If This Is Hell ft. Deuén
Von S?denfed – The Rhinohead
Mystic Inane – Death Of A Disco Spiv
Dragnet – Para-noid
Life Stinks – Hanging From The Ceiling
Life Stinks – Drag You
Outdoorsmen – Decapitated
X- Delinquent Cars
Hound Rang – Hound Rang Live Vol. II
Moth Cock – Live In Akron
CJA – Choose Your Weeds Wisely
FUCK ME USA – First Born Son

I have to confess, until very recently I was not fully aware of the phenomenon commonly referred to as “rage bait”. Live Bait, Squirrel Bait, Live Skull’s 1985 masterpiece ‘Bringing Home The Bait’, sure, rage bait, maybe not. But that was before I saw countless “Best American Band Ever” lists posted on social media over the past week and upon learning The Cheater Slicks didn’t crack the top ten in any of them, well, yeah, I was genuinely enraged.

All of that said, I’m not gonna be on the outside looking in with this whole rage bait windfall business. I’m neither diginified or wealthy enough to turn up my nose at some clicks-4-pennies action so here we go, episode 319 without one single track featured from The Cheater Slicks’ new ‘Cafe Bourbon St 06/26/26 release. It’s an inexcuseable, incomprehensible omission, one as callous as it is deliberate. As the saying goes, if you cannot beat ’em, Wally Joyner ’em.

Dx2ov – Riddim Shutter
Topdown Dialect – A 07
Emeka Ogboh – Lesli Ajah Freeway
Brokenchordd – Liquid Mind Experiment
Trigger Object – Gum Disease Mind Control
Cell/Borg – Who’s Got The Square Waves?
Equipment Pointed Ankh – An Almost Completely Clear Hat
The Shadow Ring – Spin The Animal Dial
OVER-GAIN OPTIMAL DEATH – Oversleep
Haverá Futuro? – Nada
Witchfinder General – Love On Smack
Nightstick – The Pentagon
Anton Pearson – Teeth To Cut The Grass
Hippie Diktat – Gran Sasso Pt. III and Pt. IV
Justin Broadrick – track 13, Solo Guitar 1997
Bent Light – Gain