21 May 2016: Thollem McDonas, LIVE!

TODAY Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time we have a SUPRISE GUEST on What’s This Called?, the one and only constantly moving keyboard virtuoso Thollem McDonas!

STREAM IT LIKE A DREAM: http://131.252.216.13:8080/listen

Thollem is a classically trained pianist with a love for the lo-fi as well, who’ll likely be bringing in thrift store half broken keyboards to apply his vast knowledge of musical possibilities to, completely on the fly. Thollem, who’ll be playing at the Portland Cinema Project tomorrow night. Thollem lives on the road, constantly collaborating and performing solo and expanding his music. We are thrilled to nab this opportunity to capture him having fun at the Saturday lunch hour!

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Punkish Pre-Game Show Starting NOW! :

Playlist as it goes down! – Red Kross – “Lita Ford Blues” – Born Innocent; The Runaways – “Cherry Bomb” – The Best of…; Coffin Break – “Kill the President” – No Sleep Till the Stardust Motel; The Wipers – “Return of the Rat” – Hype! The Motion Picture Soundtrack

So to give the artists their due speed… Red Kross – “Linda Blair” – Born Innocent; The Runaways – “Born to Be Bad” – The Best of…; Coffin Break – “Just Say No…” – No Sleep Till the Stardust Motel; U-men – “Dig It a Hole” – Hype! Motion Picture Soundtrack

Frightwig – “My Crotch Does Not Say Go” – Wild Women Never Die… … They Just Dye Their Hair; Echo and the Bunnymen – “No Dark Things” – Heaven Up Here; The Cramps – “Caveman” – Psychedelic Jungle

Thollem McDonas setting up now!

Big Star – “You Get What You Deserve” – Radio City; Dolly Parton – “Here You Come Again” – Super Hits; (the) Melvins – “Grinding Process” – 10 Songs; SubArachnoid Space – “Slow Boat to China” – Delicate Membrane;Psychic TV – “Message from thee Temple” – Force the Hand of Chance

NOW! Thollem McDonas LIVE!

Closing the show with the title track of Sun Ra – Atlantis in honor of his birthday tomorrow!

20 February 2016: Cyclopsycho, LIVE!

Today from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time on KPSU.org, What’s This Called? presents the world premiere live performance of Olympia, WA’s Cyclopsycho!

Featuring manipulated sounds created entirely from her own voice, she will mesmerize you with her elecro-acapella sound sculptures.

Catch the Live Stream and be forever changed!

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Performance Excerpt by Ricardo Wang:

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Photos by Ryan Ray, Engineer

10 October 2015: Journey Into Space, LIVE!

26 September 2015: Uneasy Chairs, LIVE!

Playlist & Footnotes: https://whatsthiscalled.net/2015/09/26/26-september-2015-uneasy-chairs-live

Today at Noon Pacific Standard Time on What’s This Called? I am thrilled to present Live in the KPSU studio, the delicate noise guitar stylings of Patrick Neill Gundran AKA Uneasy Chairs! Patrick is a member of many avant groups in the Seattle area including Colour Out of Space, the Rolling Blackouts, and Devil’s Club, but his solo outings have a special over the top energy that you won’t want to miss for brunch.

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Streaming All Over Your Speakers from: kpsu.org

29 August 2015: Big City Orchestra, Live

Hard to believe it’s been nearly 5 years since the long running Bay Area experimental pioneers Big City Orchestra played on What’s This Called? but it really has!

BCO ended up enlisting some unmasked members of Dead Air Fresheners to help them play the KPSU studio with contact mics and processors.

Big City Orchestra, Live:

22 August 2015: Goodbye Tunacan Jones

Today from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time on What’s This Called? your host Ricardo Wang says farewell to the long running program character actor and sound effects producer Tunacan Jones who is passing to the pastoral pastures of Spokane, Warshington. TJ, as his listeners and fans affectionately refer to him, has provided countless skits and commercials during the program as well as unsurmountable creaking chair and coffee percolating audio since he first became involved in the program in the late ’60s when he was fired from the Closet Radio show by Miss Rikki. Perhaps TJ’s most triumphant performance on WTC was as the absent Noah Mickens during this past year’s White Noise Christmas, where he magically became the popular PDX circus impresario for the entire podcast. In any case, this will be your last chance to catch TJ’s wacky shenanigans live on WTC before he retires to a life of agriculture and dedicated WoW playing! Shove aside those rumors he’s actually moving to Gresham and not Spokane, this is probably for real this time!

16 May 2015: Space Gambus Experiment, LIVE!

Today from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time on What’s This Called? your host Ricardo Wang is thrilled to welcome Kamal Sabran, visiting artist from Malaysia, performing with Eric Hausmann in their Space Gambus Experiment collaboration!

Kamal Sabrann is multidisciplinary yet sound plays a key role in his practice.
His instrument? The Gambus.
A qanbūs or gambus (Arabic: القنبوس is a short-necked lute that originated in Yemen and spread throughout the Arabian peninsula. Sachs considered that it derived its name from the Turkic komuz, but it is more comparable to the oud.

25 April 2015: Overdose The Katatonic, LIVE!

Overdose the Katatonic will be LIVE on What’s This Called? today, Saturday April 25th at noon Pacific time.

11 April 2015: What’s This Called 1st Annual UltraBrunch! (Incomplete)

(Unfortunately, this recording is incomplete, and only contains the first half of the performances.)

What’s This Called? is thrilled to be closing out the 2nd ever KPSU All Night Broadcast this Saturday with our own 3 hour block of experimental crunchy goodness!

Set your alarms for 10 AM so you can hear all the great live sounds emitting from your listening device. Here’s the schedule of performers (all times are Pacific Standard Time, so adjust appropriately for your own time zone!):

10 AM AKERO https://soundcloud.com/akero-1
10:30 AM Ryan A Ray & David Ritchie  https://youtu.be/V9kA8_t4W4o
11:00 AM Ifsh (Ryan Stuewe of Eet) https://soundcloud.com/ifsh-it-do-ryan-stuewe
12:00 PM Fischkopf Sinfoniker (from Bellingham) https://soundcloud.com/fischkopfsinfoniker

This whole event is part of the KPSU Pledge Drive, which unlike other college/community stations doesn’t involve a lot of hitting you over the head every 5 minutes asking for money. If you like what you hear and want to support where you hear it, feel free to call (503) 725-5945 and your host Ricardo Wang will set you up with some rare recordings nobody else even has. Cool?

Event Invitation

Playlist:

AKERO – Otomezuka (maiden’s grave)
Melt – Advance
ARU – Bangra Train

4 April 2015: Bob Bucko Jr., LIVE!

Hear the fantastical droneamericana psych guitar and pedal explorations of Iowa’s second proudest export after corn ethanol Bob Bucko Jr!

Your host Ricardo Wang and cohost/soundboard cosmonaut Austin Rich are thrilled to hang with Bob who put in an amazing set last night at Mothership Music.

Set Your Listening Device to the Heart of your mind then ease your seat back and tune in baby.

MyFacester+ Photoset

28 March 2015: Crank Sturgeon, LIVE!

MyFacester+ Twinstiristaphoto Set

14 March 2015: Soriah, LIVE!

(Note: This is a heavily trunkated version of the broadcast, which has been lost, unfortunately.  This recording contains both performances by Soriah, with a small story told by him that was not included as part of the original broadcast.  The playlist that follows is from the lost broadcast.)  

Playlist:

“Daglarym” by Uger-Khan from Songs of the Masters
“And Slowly Fell My Ocean Drone” by Sevens Collective
LIVE SORIAH
Chad Organica in A Minor
Soriah Live
Nathan Youngblood & Soriah – Recuerdos De Luna
Lustmord w/ Soriah – Grigori

Austin’s MyFacester+ & Twinsti-Risto-Grammaphone Photoset