You wanted the best, you got the best, the hottest Christmas carols handpicked by YOU the faithful, the experimental, the weirdoes, the real people who are anti-Reality thank you very much!

Rudolph with Your Nose So Bright Won’t You Click These Streams Alright?:

First Hour of Program

Second Hour of Program

Playlist:  Artist – “Song/Piece/Track/Thang” – Album or Whatevs

Joseph Byrd – “Carol of the Bells” – A Christmas Yet to Come; Bonfire Madigan Shive – “Mad Sounds: The Lion in Winter 3-5” – Mad Sounds: The Lion in Winter; Balto! – “Christmas Balls!” – Christmas 5; People Like Us – “Winter Wonderland” – Live at The Tate Modern, 18 December, as part of the Christian Marclay Exhibit – 2004; Tia Blake – “Jane Jane” – Folksongs & Ballads; Big Star – “Jesus Christ” – Sister Lovers; Tom Waits – “Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis” – Swordfish Trombones; Jimmy Jules & the Nuclear Soul System – “Xmas Done Got Funky” – Classic Spacefunk Radio; (the) Melvins – “Charmicarmicat” – Eggnog; Scanner – “Insulation Mix (after G.F. Handel’s Messiah)” – Messiah Remix; Chris Martinez – “Merry Christmas” – Contagion Original Movie Soundtrack; Attrition – “Dream #9 Recurring” – Winter Wishes; CAN – “Silent Night” – Silent Night – Rollerball – “Carol of the Bells” – Winter Wishes; The OF – “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus/Snow Miser Song” – Green Monkey Records Presents Merry Krampus; Chloedada – “Christmas isn’t Christmas (unless it’s year ’round) [slippery white wrap mix]” – Soundcloud; Peter Aldrich – “Christmas Dub Against Master” – Winter Wishes; U-men – “Blue Christmas” – Christmas ’84; Evolution Control Committe – “Christmas Wrong” – Christmas Wrong; Roland Kirk – “We Free Kings” – We Free Kings; The Tom & Jim Yuletide Contraption- “(All I Want For Christmas Is A) Big Black Eye” – Green Monkey Christmas VII; King Diamond – “No Presents for Christmas” – single; Locust Pudding – “Santa Clause, He’s My Friend” – I Am the Mighty Santa; Fate Signals – “Santa Is Fat” – The Rest of Wolf/Judy/Gug; Sonic Youth – “Santa Doesn’t Cop Out On Dope” – Just Say Noel; ‘All I Want For Cristmas is a Goat’ – “Oh Holy Night (Goat Version)” – All I Want For Cristmas is a Goat.

rIn an on-air interview with your host Ricardo Wang, artist/musician Arrington de Dionyso brings us up to speed on his recent targeting by alt-right trolls at best very confused by his art. Featuring music from his bands Old Time Relijun, Malaikat dan Singa, and Ten Thousand Tigers!

Stream Here (You may “Save As” to Download too!)

Songs Included in the Program:

“Witchcraft Rebellion”  Old Tim Relijun  Witchcraft Rebellion

“Cold Water”   Old Tim Relijun  Lost Light

“I Feel the Quickening”  Malaikat dan Singa  Open the Crown

“Ecstatic Abundance” Ten Thousand Tigers (w/ Thollem McDonas)   Ten Thousand Tigers

See Arrington Live in Portland January 12th at Lola’s Room!

A special 2 hour bittersweet What’s This Called?

We say Goodbye to 2016, a year that was itself 365 days full of goodbyes.

Goodbye Joey Casio. Goodbye David Bowie. Alan Vega. Pauline Oliveros. Leonard Cohen. Gilli Smyth (Mother Gong). Bernie Worrell. Richard Lyons (Negativland). Goodbye to more great musicians than we can honor in one show…

Hear the First Hour Here!

Hear the Second Hour Here!

In addition to paying tribute to those that have left us, the show features sounds created and released by artists in 2016. Artists who last checked are still with us, including: Uneasy Chairs, Thollem McDonas, Age Coin, Sea Charms, Nocturnal Habits, Azalia Snail, Zach Zinn, Big Business, Kim Gordon, Fischkopf Sinfoniker, Yoko Ono, Bob Bucko Jr…

Playlist:  Track   Artist   Album

Daybreak   Joey Casio   Daybreak

I Can’t Give It All Away   David Bowie   Blackstar

New Skin   Nocturnal Habits   New Skin for Old Children

It Was Not Meant For Man’s Eyes To See   Fischkopf Sinfoniker   Soundcloud

The Mystery Beyond Matter   Quiet Music Ensemble/Pauline Oliveros   The Mysteries Beyond Matter

Red Sliders   Pauline Oliveros   Blanton Museum of Art

Ghost Rider (Live)   Suicide   London 2005 at the Electric Ballroom

Father’s Day   Big Business   Command Your Weather

Warm Cornish Room   Uneasy Chairs   Bandcamp

Raptor   Age Coin   Performance

10 minutes with Bernie Worrell   Bernie Worrell   MoogFest Pop-Up Shop May 20, 2016

Freedom Hoarders   Thollem McDonas   Machine in the Ghost

Hell Car   Negativland   Over the Edge Vol. 2 Pastor Dick

A Spell to Keep You Warm   Orbit Service   Stereo Magic (Portal in 13 Parts)

You Want It Darker   Leonard Cohen   You Want It Darker

Walking On Thin Ice   Yoko Ono   Yes, I’m a Witch Too

Field Rep   Azalia Snail   for Standing Rock

That Pale Light   Zach Zinn   Unexplained Sounds 2016 – the 2nd annual recognition test

Quantum   Gilli Smyth   Mother

Live at the DAAC Ruix Space (excerpt)   Bob Bucko Jr.   November 2015

Game Show IL   Sea Charms   Midwest Tour (Live) 2016

Murdered Out   Kim Gordon   single, Matador

Chemical Playschool Vol. 18 Side 2 (excerpt)   Legendary Pink Dots   Chemical Playschool Vols. 16 & 18

Join us Saturday, December 3rd 2016 from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time for a return engagement of Federal Way’s electronic reconstructor Four Dimensional Nightmare on the What’s This Called? program at KPSU.org

Tom Nicol AKA 4DNM who first performed on What’s This Called? in March of 2013 with a noise-guitar oriented set promises this time to build a wall of modular synthesizers, the kind of wall we LIKE to see built.

Ride The Freaking Stream!

While Four Dimensional Nightmare was soundchecking, your host Ricardo Wang did a special Pre-Game Show featuring music by The Residents and Pere Ubu.

Hear the Pre-Game Show Here!