We’re all looking for signs of hope, and like bottled messages surviving the polluted open sea, a couple packages came to me in the oh so physical mail this week. That’s right, handmade home burned aluminum goodies just like back in the day. I told you the CD revival was coming. I told you all times are happening simultaneously.

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Playlist: Artist – “Musical Experience” – Filing System

Angel-11 – “The Vision of St. Christina”- NachtLicht

My Boyfriend the Pilot – “Cosmonnaise” – Space is the Taste

Mahler Haze – “Extended landfall” – You Tube

Teresa Barrozo – “fl-f_dB_ck” – A Thousand Tones

Icon template – “Unlocked perspectives” – Belgium experimental underground 017 survey

Orbit Service – “Woke Up in the Fire” – Stereo Magic

Remora (remix by Mudd Makr) – “My Bother’s Guns & Knives” – Tandan

Olive In Dreamland – “Melancholic Oscillation” – A Thousand Tones

SPACE GAMBUS EXPERIMENT – “Be Melting Snow and Wash Yourself of Yourself” – ??

Crank Sturgeon – “Your Old Blend, Man” – dens I sPit

Misantronics – “Leta” – Belgium experimental underground 017 survey

ARU – “Building the Ark” – Dub Plate Vol.3.5

Edward Ka-Spel – “cybersKapes (edit)” – cybersKapes

In honor of the national and Portland Women’s Marches this edition of What’s This Called? featured all female artists and female led groups. With only an hour to fill, many, many, many artists I would have loved to fit in are not here. 

LISTEN HERE!

Playlist: Artist – “Song” – Album or Source

Miss Murgatroid – “Dolls Inside the Walls” – Myoclonic Melodies

Pauline Oliveros – “The Fool’s Circle” – Crone Music

Cyclopsycho – “Snatch” – Bandcamp

Emma Tricca – “Winter, My Dear” – The Wire Tapper 42

Mecca Normal – “Strong White Male” – Jarred Up

Teenage Jesus & the Jerks – “Race Mixing” – Everything

Motion Sickness of Time Travel – “Casting a Spell” – Ladyz in Noyz 3

Morgenstern – “Looking Down a Hill” – The Different Faces;

Cyoakha Grace O’ Manion – “Ride It ‘Til the End” – Unknown Music from Dream-Quest of Kadath

Hobby Knife – “Mew (Wisconsin)” Ladyz in Noyz 3

The Waiters – “Cast a Shadow in My Direction” – Before Using

Julie Ruin – A Place Called Won’t Be There” – Julie Ruin

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts – “Everybody Needs a Hero” – Unvarnished

Angel-11 – “Heartbleeds” – SadoDamascus Winter Copulation 2016

Stereolab – “The Stars Our Destination” – Mars Audiac Quintet

Sea Charms – “Shift262” – SadoDamascus Winter Copulation 2016

Fearing white death from above (and also fearing our fellow Portlanders on the road as the minimal frosting of snow hit, seriously 1/2 an inch here = 2 feet anywhere else…) we opted to do What’s This Called? an hour early this week. Snowplows were literally pacing up and down the streets in anticipation.

Stream and/or Download the Snowy Show!

Longtime What’s This Called? cohost and webhost Austin Rich and his wife Marla suffered a horrible theft on Christmas day while moving and were robbed of several thousand dollars of possessions including computers and all of Austin’s recording equipment. I’ll post the link below to the fundraising site where our community is banding together to try to help recoup some small portion of their losses.

Meanwhile in What’s This Called? land, the show must go on, and I’ve decided to close out the grim reaper year of 2016 with a special tribute to Yet Another Pope Austin Rich called What’s This METAL? 

Stream or Download It Like an Axe Grinder, A Pile Driver…

And every time you bang your head click the link below and give a little: Austin and Marla’s Robbery Rescue Fund!

Playlist As The Hammer Fell: Band – “Song” – Album/Gig

Black Sabbath – “Into the Void” – Master of Reality

Diamond Head – “Helpless” – Lightning to the Nations

The Runaways – “Wasted” – Old Grey Whistle Test 1977

Judas Priest – “Victim of Changes (Live)” – Unleashed in the East

Accept – “Fast As a Shark” – Restless and Wild

Motorhead – “Overkill” – Overkill

Crazy World of Arthur Brown – “Fire” – The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

Metallica (Cliff Burton) – “(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth” – Kill ‘Em All

Iron Maiden – “Wrathchild” – Killers

Budgie – “Crash Course in Brain Surgery” – Squawk!