7 January 2012: w/ Ilima Considine!

7 January 2012: w/ Ilima Considine!

Ilima Considine

Today on What’s This Called? Ricardo Wang featured an interview with local artist Ilima Considine.  In-Studio interview with Ilima Considine.  However, Ricardo was suffering from a frog lodged inexplicably in his throat.  So, at the last minute, I stepped up to the plate and offered my vocals for the purposes of helping interview, and feature, her band The Sexbots, with tracks from their new album, and some violin pieces from a zombie movie soundtrack that she recorded.  Check out her website (liked above) for information about upcoming shows, and how you can get a copy of her new album,Don’t Stop.   While I always feel a little strange filling in for The Wang, he was there the whole time helping guide the show, and this is very much a WTC? show in every form.

Enjoy!

31 December 2011: Union Pole Cassette Label Sampler

31 December 2011: Union Pole Cassette Label Sampler

Union Pole: http://unionpoletapes.bandcamp.com/ the tracks are selections from the cassette sides, I did not usually play the whole side, but I played more than one piece on most of them.

Side B Irving Klaw Trio King of Pin-ups
Side A Noggin Confused Over Expression and Impression
Side B Azalia Snail Teenage Bedroom
Side B Crank Sturgeon Crank Sturgeon/Wham-O Split
Side B Jackie-O Motherfucker Shit to Gold
Side B Cock ESP Dancing Test Tubes/Cock ESP Split
Side A climax golden twins Climax Golden Hiss
Side A Wham-O Confused Over Expression and Impression
Side A Malaise S/T

24 December 2011: White Noise Christmas

24 December 2011: White Noise Christmas

White NOISE XMAS!

Space Blue Sausage Infant Flight of the Solstice Queens
Mater Suspiriorum & Vulnera Cordis Imbolc MWT NTR KWH KVA
bitemporal electrode Trepan Vent intracranial pressure
Cinise KK Null Cinise
New Vietnam Blues Nipple Creek Can’t/Nipple Creek
Eurodisney kaspar hauser Caves
Trees kaspar hauser Caves
el elektrofuk Ripit Waste Coast
el elektrofuk Ripit Waste Coast
Introduction/Manipulation Aluminum Noise Manipulation
Pristine Aluminum Noise Manipulation
Track 1 Democri$y Democri$y
09 Tim Koh, John Wiese, & Yasutoshi Yoshida Frankenstein and Dracula Girls Tokyo Headlock
Kloof Volvox a small mistake has crept in
Track 1 Keiji Haino The Sad Face
yesterday’s favorite Permanent Death Permanent Death/Mangenerated/JAN AG
fru Pulse Emitter pulse emitter
untitled Mangenerated Permanent Death/Mangenerated/JAN AG
Forming Mouths, Grafting Words City of Habits Thrum Thrush Thrust
Thrum Thrush Thrust City of Habits Thrum Thrush Thrust
Error Supply Cock ESP featuring Crank Sturgeon Greatest Dicks 3
On the Road to Rehab Cock ESP featuring Prairiepusher Greatest Dicks 3
200 MPH In The Liquor Store Checkout Lane Cock ESP Greatest Dicks 3
Freaky Concussions Cock ESP Greatest Dicks 3
First Band at the Bar Cock ESP Greatest Dicks 3
Goin’ 4 Broke Cock ESP Greatest Dicks 3
Noise Communes Work In Theory, But Not In Practice Cock ESP Greatest Dicks 3
Good One Cock ESP Greatest Dicks 3
Long Gone Before Soundcheck Cock ESP featuring Crank Sturgeon Greatest Dicks 3
Yankin’ the Power Chord Cock ESP Greatest Dicks 3
Outside the Great Cock ESP Greatest Dicks 3
Bitchiness as Usual Cock ESP Greatest Dicks 3
Smash ‘Em, Crash ‘Em Cock ESP Greatest Dicks 3
Song for the Asskicking Cock ESP Greatest Dicks 3
Shut Up Sometimes Cock ESP featuring Eugenics Council Greatest Dicks 3
Why Can’t I Beat You? Cock ESP featuring Eugenics Council Greatest Dicks 3
Nothing Sicker Cock ESP featuring Rotten Piece Greatest Dicks 3
Schlong In Space Cock ESP featuring Rotten Piece Greatest Dicks 3
No Cock Blues Cock ESP Greatest Dicks 3
I Love Cock All The Time Cock ESP Greatest Dicks 3
The Cock Looks Red Cock ESP Greatest Dicks 3
Cockpower Cock ESP Greatest Dicks 3
Dirty Cocks Cock ESP Greatest Dicks 3
Shaking Cock Cock ESP Greatest Dicks 3
Cock Violence Cock ESP Greatest Dicks 3
Cock Mechanic Now On Duty Cock ESP Greatest Dicks 3
My Cock God Cock ESP Greatest Dicks 3
Teenage Cock Cock ESP Greatest Dicks 3
Eric’s Cock Cock ESP Greatest Dicks 3
untitled Solip/Schism solip/schism
2004104g Will Soderbergh powerless electronics
track 1 IAMI SANDBLASTING
unitled PINNEEDLEDIGITS Building Blocks
Theresa’s Cock World Cock ESP Greatest Dicks 3
Master-Dick Cock ESP Greatest Dicks 3
Further Excerpts from Panicsville Sunday Cock ESP featuring Panicsville Greatest Dicks 3
Hey Baby! Cock ESP Greatest Dicks 3
Fleet Street Cock ESP Greatest Dicks 3
Only Myself to Blame Cock ESP Greatest Dicks 3
Exciting Season Program Cock ESP featuring Newton Greatest Dicks 3
Cock ESP Must Be Destroyed Cock ESP Greatest Dicks 3
Cock’s Promise Cock ESP remixed by Burning Star Core Greatest Dicks 3
Cock ESP Interview Cock ESP conducted by Funky Winklebean Greatest Dicks 3
untitled 0781KY Frequency of Hertz

17 December 2011 (No Recording)

17 December 2011 (No Recording)

In the Interval between grasp & reach Swim Ignorant Fire Psidronic 3
Take On Me Sexbots Don’t Stop
Buddha Rubs Bubble Crank Sturgeon Double Dose Adventure
Che Spacemen 3 Revolution single
Pigeons On My Eyes (GO TO Bed!!) Melt Banana Scratch to Stitch
Track 5 Gangster Computer God CDR
Guitar Trio (1977) Rhys Chatham From the Kitchen Archives No. 3 Amplified: New Music Meets Rock, 1981-1986
Purgatory Uladat Uladat
Swallow My Pride Fastbacks Sub Pop 200
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Joan Jett The Hit List
20th Century Boy Replacements Let It Be

10 December 2011 (No Recording)

10 December 2011 (No Recording)

Are You Experienced? Big Drum in the Sky Religion Psidronic 3
Running Up That Hill Sexbots Don’t Stop
Radioactivity Kraftwerk Radioactivity
In My Mind, Her Image Was Reversed Eric Glick Rieman In My Mind, Her Image Was Reversed
#9 Moodring Scared of Ferret
Space of Eights Seven That Spells Cosmoerotic Dialogue with Lucifer
Blues in A Robyn Hitchcock Invisible Hitchcock
Houses Tilting Towards the Sea Hood The Cycle of Days & Seasons
The Orchids Psychic TV Dreams Less Sweet
Track 4 daniel menche Incineration

3 December 2011: More Pleasing Noises (No Recording)

3 December 2011: More Pleasing Noises (No Recording)

please noise more

Latent Marlo Eggplant Psidronic 3
Tour CD (edit) Runar Magnusson Tour CD
Prepare Yourself for Europe featuring Yana Aural Resuscitation Unit Dub Plate Vol. 3
The Visitor (edit) Jim O’ Rourke The Visitor
Skippy Four Dimensional Nightmare Sludge
the rising of the phoenix star Intergalactic Wizard Psidronic 3
oakca Tecumseh Return to Everything

26 November 2011: Without the Title the Registration Means NOTHING (No Recording)

26 November 2011: Without the Title the Registration Means NOTHING (No Recording)

NOTHING

Dance Macabre Aural Resuscitation Unit Third Ice Cream
Revolution Spacemen 3 Single
Chill Air Harold Budd & Brian Eno Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror
Dead Man Walking Kujumars MP3
Ubu Noir Coil Scatology
Helpless Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds The Bridge
La Viaje Mystical Santa Sangre Bastardo America
Song from the Ocean Grindwall Night Whispers
Twinkle Eric Ostrowski Twinkle 3″ DJ Mix
Psycho Mafia Sonic Youth 4 Tunna Brix
Cellar Fire Delphine Dora For Christmas
Ohm Sweet Ohm Kraftwerk Radioactivity
Don’t Smoke in Bed Nina Simone Ultimate Nina Simone
You Can Have It All Yo La Tengo Prisoners of Love

19 November 2011: November Drain (No Recording)

19 November 2011: November Drain (No Recording)

Guerra Uladat Uladat
A Wall of Blood Wobly Drinking the Goat’s Blood
Too Long for this Wolrd Bob Bucko JR Always with the Don’t Go
Space Four Dimensional Nightmare Sludge
B2 La Quantique De La Maieutique Ilitch La Maieutique De La Quantique (Quantum Maieutics)
IT TANGO Laurie Anderson Big Science
Alpha-Globin Santiago Latorre Orbita
In Circles Einsturzende Neubauten Silence is Sexy
Six Cats on a Dead Man’s Chest Edward Ka-Spel Eyes! China Doll
Sidewalking Jesus & Mary Chain
Celluloid Heroes Joan Jett Hit List
777 Uladat Uladat

12 November 2011: November Pop Rot Therapy (No Recording)

12 November 2011: November Pop Rot Therapy (No Recording)

Ok, I’m sorry. I know I have this experimental music show, but I can’t stop myself from just playing moody noise rock today at Noon Pacific Time. Jesus & Mary Chain, Big Black, Orbit Service, Hood, Blonde Redhead, Husker Du, Unwound, Irving Klaw Trio… Streaming Live from the link below.

Everything Is Alright When Your Down The Jesus & Mary Chain Barbed Wire Kisses
Heartbeat Big Black 7″
What You Want My Bloody Valentine Loveless
Wolves Orbit Service Songs of Eta Carinae
Demons Sing Love Songs Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You
I’ll Never Forget You Husker Du Zen Arcade
I Am There While You Choke Me Blonde Redhead La Mia Vita Violenta
How Can You Drag Your Body Blindly Through? Hood The Cycle of Days and Seasons
I Was Gone Before I Ever Began Irving Klaw Trio Irving Klaw Trio
A Love Song Noggin Hajex from the Light
A Man Who Never Sees a Pretty Girl That He Doesn’t Love Her a Little The Sea and Cake Nassau
The Disease Echo & The Bunnymen Heaven Up Here
Happy Place The Jesus & Mary Chain Barbed Wire Kisses
Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World The Ramones
I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend (Demo) Ramones Ramones

5 November 2011: Cornelius F. Van Stafrin III, LIVE!

5 November 2011: Cornelius F. Van Stafrin III, LIVE!

Today Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time on What’s This Called? I am joined in the KPSU studio by traveling noise minstrel Cornelius Van Strafrin of oms-b and YDMM.

http://youtu.be/mx2m-L27M_A

ID EET What’s This Called?
Cow EET Danger Barn
Dig It a Hole U-Men Solid Action
Lathe Cut Cornelius Van Strafrin Single
Live Cornelius Van Strafrin on What’s This Called?
Blood of the Land (edit) daniel menche Blood of the Land

22 October 2011: Haunted Sub-Basement (No Recording)

22 October 2011: Haunted Sub-Basement (No Recording)

Panic Disorder and Agorophobia Big Tom the Lithuanian Infamous Polywogs Vol. 1?
Embryo Black Sabbath Master of Reality
Children Of The Grave Black Sabbath
Doors of Death Chuck Swaim with the Dead Air Fresheners Verses of Echo
Hands in the Dark dark day New York Noise Vol. 3
The Beach Childhood Friends Everything Is About To Change
It’s Spooky Jad Fair & Daniel Johnston It’s Spooky
Death Dies (Film version – Part 1) Goblin Goblin Voume II 1975-1980
Blood on the Floor Throbbing Gristle DOA the Third & Final Report
Ghost Bitch Sonic Youth Bad Moon Rising
Happy Death Men Echo & The Bunnymen Crocodiles
Flowers Don’t Grow in Hell U-Men Solid Action
Nommos’ Ghosts Muslimgauze Muslimgauze Systemwide Sound Secretion – Classics Selection
Death Machine Suicide American Supreme
Halloween Sonic Youth Bad Moon Rising

15 October 2011: Asian Women On The Telephone, LIVE!

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15 October 2011: Asian Women On The Telephone, LIVE!

All the way from Russia this revolving noise rock quartet put on a highly original and exciting performance.  Psych out and lose it all today on What’s This Called? as we welcome Live to the KPSU studio from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time the mutated sound of Moscow, Russia’s Asian Women on the Telephone! Not to be missed!

Washing Machine Sonic Youth Washing Machine
Live Asian Women on the Telephone on What’s This Called?

8 October 2011: Chris McBeth of Beta-lactam Ring Records (No Recording)

8 October 2011: Chris McBeth of Beta-lactam Ring Records (No Recording)

Walpurgis Igor Wakhevitch Dr. Faust
Action Vision GR Universal ante Rem N’Vapour Invisible
Osprey Loon s/t
IN Seven That Spells Death And Resurrection of Krautrock: AUM
Cosmic Space Drone (intro) Armchair Migraine Journey Cosmic Space Drone
A Calm Note from the West Orbit Service Reap
A Calm Note from the West Orbit Service Trajectory
Averseage GR Universal ante Rem N’Vapour Invisible

1 October 2011: October All Over (No Recording)

1 October 2011: October All Over (No Recording)

Dust Switch Squarepusher Music Is Rotted One Note
October All Over Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You
In Iron Light Hood The Cycle of Days and Seasons
I’m Set Free Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground
At One with the Savage (edit) Forrest Friends At One with the Savage
Silcon F.J. Pangolin CDR
Ten Dollars A Pile Melt Banana Scratch Or Stitch
BuZZer #P Melt Banana Scratch Or Stitch
Break On Thru Steve Fisk 448 Deathless Days
I Love Her All of the Time Sonic Youth Bad Moon Rising
Nostalgia Ever After Sand Snowman Nostalgia Ever After
Pharaoh Tips (edit) Puberty Puberty/ARU

24 September 2011: The New Fall Colors (No Recording)

24 September 2011: The New Fall Colors (No Recording)

Continental Breakfast Drift Aural Resuscitation Unit Beaver Moon
Beam Down Scientist Scientist Meets the Space Invaders
Solitude Black Sabbath Master of Reality
Forbidden Planet: Main Titles Louis & Bebe Baron Brain in a Box
Stress In Marriage Negativland Escape from Noise
It’s Bad You Know R.L. Burnside Come on In
The Playground Jandek Skirting the Edges
Snare Girl Wixel Wixel Plays Sonic Youth
It Doesn’t Matter Anyway Legendary Pink Dots Poppy Variations
White Nights Psychic TV Dreams Less Sweet
How Ghosts Affect Relationships His Name Is Alive Always Stay Sweet
Iseeiccontinamossbackkate Crank Sturgeon Double Dose Adventure
Crowds and Power (edit) Elliott Sharp Amplified: New Music Meets Rock, 1981-1986

17 September 2011: further decompressions (No Recording)

17 September 2011: further decompressions (No Recording)

This/Past Rebecca Moore Home Wreckordings 1997-1999
I Could Drive Forever Smog Knock Knock
What’s This Called? ID Crank Sturgeon Exclusive!
The Sun Highlights the Lack in Each Palace Arise Therefore
Using the Hope Diamond as a Doorstep American Analog Set From Our Living Room to Yours
Cry Baby Cry Bardo Pond Ticket Crystals
Theremin Solo Dr. Samuel Hoffman Brain in a Box
Texture Orchestra Marlo Eggplant 2011
Heaven Is of Honey Einsturzende Neubauten Silence is Sexy
Look A Ghost Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You
Without Feathers Blonde Redhead Blonde Redhead
When Will You Come Home Galaxie 500 On Fire
On the Wall The Jesus & Mary Chain Barbed Wire Kisses
Acoustic Phenomena (edit) Glenn Branca Tellus

10 September 2011: Deanne Michelle McAdams 11/27/1974 – 8/3/2011 (No Recording)

10 September 2011: Deanne Michelle McAdams 11/27/1974 – 8/3/2011 (No Recording)

This show is comprised of some of the very favorite music of Deanne Michelle McAdams 11/27/1974 – 8/3/2011. She will be forever missed.

I Don’t Understand Low Secret Names
Greyhound with a Lime Dead Air Fresheners with Chuck Swaim Infamous Polywogs
Song to the Siren This Mortal Coil It’ll End in Tears
Just Like U Said It Would Be Nomy Lamm Effigy
Three Little Birds Bob Marley and The Wailers
Behold the Salt Unwound All Tomorrow’s Parties 1.1
Wolves Orbit Service Songs of Eta Carinae
her innocent stock of words Hood Silent ’88
Lawns of Dawn Nico The Marble Index
Sterre Legendary Pink Dots Hallway of the Gods
Red Cross, Disciple of Christ Today John Fahey Red Cross
The Postman (Styrofoam’s Just Like the Nineties Never Happened Mix) American Analog Set
NYC Ghosts & Flowers Sonic Youth NYC Ghosts & Flowers
I See a Darkness Bonnie “Prince” Billy I See a Darkness
Psychic Hearts Thurston Moore psychic hearts

3 September 2011: Callow, LIVE!

3 September 2011: Callow, LIVE!

Today on What’s This Called? from Noon to 1 PM Pacific time we present a live in-studio appearance from Bay Area spacey ethereal dream-pop duo Callow http://callow.bandcamp.com/. Never mind the blistering sun outside, pull the blinds, light a candle and drift off with us.

DON’T LET OUR YOUTH GO TO WASTE Galaxie 500 Today
In Our Angelhood Cocteau Twins Head Over Heels
LIVE Callow On What’s This Called?
The Hot Breath on Your Neck Legendary Pink Dots Poppy Variations

6 August 2011: Goodby Deanne (No Recording)

6 August 2011: Goodby Deanne (No Recording)

Wednesday morning at 10:15 AM I lost my best friend, my partner, the mother of my beloved son, and the light of the last decade of my life. Deanne McAdams was also a very talented experimental/post-punk musician who while never interested in any sort of fame (in fact quite the opposite) leaves an admirable, if all too short, body of work. Her contributions to The Dead Air Fresheners are purely vocal (in the tracks represented) and are actually poems I wrote for her, while the Leopards tracks are all her on all of the instruments.

Greyhound with a Lime Dead Air Fresheners with Chuck Swaim Infamous Polywogs
She Dreams Herself in Books dead air fresheners A slip inside the quiet room
Psychic Hearts (Thurston Moore cover) Leopards unreleased
red murder, gray dawn Leopards Leopards
cupid breaks (Pro-ex Marauders cover) Leopards Leopards
trial by fire (or Jandek’s Vagina) Leopards unreleased
song for Mark Leopards unreleased
ghost cracked glass Leopards Leopards
there’s nothing attractive about a wasted woman Leopards unreleased
go to your watery grave Leopards unreleased
ghost cracked glass Leopards Leopards
we’re dying as we’re speaking (short version) Leopards unreleased
we’re dying as we’re speaking (long version) Leopards unreleased
Idon’twanttoknowwhat’sbeneathyourskin Leopards Leopards

30 July 2011: 2 HR. Special (No Recording)

30 July 2011: 2 HR. Special (No Recording)

2 Hr Special today on What’s This Called? from Noon to 2 PM Pacific Time with sonic goodness from the likes of Savage Republic, Late Severa Wires, Soup Purse, Yuchiro Fujimoro, Legendary Pink Dots, Suicide, Sobou Shuu, Tiffany Lee Brown, Ramsey Lewis, and MORE!

Track One Aural Resuscitation Unit Dub Plate Vol. 1
Last Known Surroundings Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
Tarot 2 for You Eric Hausmann with Tiffany Lee Brown 16 Degrees
Child It’s a New World Suicide American Supreme
Allowing Them Entrance Soup Purse Nanopocolyptic Profizzy
Live @ the Olympia Experimental Music Festival The Late Severa Wires MP3
Old Bird Tape Yuchiro Fujimoto Kineo
Evolution Legendary Pink Dots The French Collection
Circular Flexing Squarepusher Music Is Rotted One Note
Exodus Savage Republic Tragic Figures
100 Marsche & Tanze Column One Drinking the Goats Blood
Theme de Laetitia Sonic Youth SYR 9: Simon Werner A Disparu
Wolf Wind – Reprise Death In June Presents KAPO!
Fun House The Stooges Fun House
NerdGOREz Sobou Shuu Beaver Moon
Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey Ramsey Lewis Mother Nature’s Son
Night in Baghdad Laurie Anderson Tightrope
Stella by Starlight Frank Comstock Music from Outer Space

23 July 2011: 2 Hr. Special! (No Recording)

23 July 2011: 2 Hr. Special! (No Recording)

2 Hr Special today on What’s This Called? from Noon to 2 PM Pacific Time with sonic goodness from the likes of Savage Republic, Late Severa Wires, Soup Purse, Yuchiro Fujimoro, Legendary Pink Dots, Suicide, Sobou Shuu, Tiffany Lee Brown, Ramsey Lewis, and MORE

Track One Aural Resuscitation Unit Dub Plate Vol. 1
Last Known Surroundings Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
Tarot 2 for You Eric Hausmann with Tiffany Lee Brown 16 Degrees
Alien Observer grouper PDX Pop Now 2011
Child It’s a New World Suicide American Supreme
Allowing Them Entrance Soup Purse Nanopocolyptic Profizzy
Live @ the Olympia Experimental Music Festival The Late Severa Wires MP3

16 July 2011: What what WHAT? (No Recording)

16 July 2011: What what WHAT? (No Recording)

Midnight Dub Aural Resuscitation Unit Fearless Empire Killers
My Sound Squarepusher Music Is Rotted One Note
Nuke Concrete Ata Ebtekar Drinking the Goat’s Blood
CAL Office Products Business
Callarobbie Eric Hausmann w/ RLLRBLL 16 Degrees
B2 La Quantique De La Maieutique Ilitch La Maieutique De La Quantique (Quantum Maieutics)
Headhunter Death In June Presents KAPO!
When Mama Was Moth Cocteau Twins Head Over Heels
Track 1 Botched Facelift Aural Resuscitation Unit/Botched Facelift Split Net Release
Ora (God of Vengeance) Martin Denny Exotica
One Summer Sand Snowman Nostalgia Ever After
Night Music Christian Marclay Records
Secret Handshake Abstructive Gauzed Methodz
Secret Handshake Abstructive Gauzed Methodz

9 July 2011: End of One Train Working – 2 Hr Special (No Recording)

9 July 2011: End of One Train Working – 2 Hr Special (No Recording)

Lines and Blurs Eric Hausmann with Ricardo Wang 16 Degrees
Few Pleasures Hop-Frog’s Fatwa The Silk Road // Hop-Frog’s Fatwa
Wolf Wind Death In June Presents KAPO!
Dread Is Best Big Youth A Jamaican Story
Malim Nawar Morning Eric Hausmann with Yusuf Martin 16 Degrees
Crowds and Power Elliott Sharp Amplified: New Music Meets Rock 1981-1986 from the Kitchen Archives No. 3
Heat Marcos Fernandes 25 – Celebrating 25 Years of Sonic Explorations
World of Your Dreams Dr. Strangeloop Electric Carpets
Strong, Warm, and in Command // Steve Fisk Steve Fisk Kill Rock Stars // Steve Fisk
Tortistoria Aural Resuscitation Unit Puberty/ARU // Aural Resuscitation Unit
World Looks Red (live) Sonic Youth Amplified: New Music Meets Rock 1981-1986 from the Kitchen Archives No. 3 // Elliott Sharp
SUN3fieryrain // nadja nadja Under the Jaguar Sun // nadja
Camp Sulawesi // Sun City Girls Sun City Girls Superculto 3: Carnival Folklore Resurection // Sun City Girls
! Ay Triste! Bobvan The World According to Crammed // Bobvan
How to Shoot a Deer Eric Haussman with Marlina Haussmann 16 Degrees
So Italian, So Intense Irvin Klaw Trio Iving Klaw Trio
Black Sabbath Alec Empire Miss Black America // Alec Empire
End of One Train Working // Hood Hood Outside Close

2 July 2011: No Skinny Ties w/ Austin Rich (No Recording)

2 July 2011: No Skinny Ties w/ Austin Rich (No Recording)

Start Celebrating Independence on Sat. JULY 2ND from Noon to 2 PM Pacific Time as I’m joined by What’s This Called? Co Host Austin Rich for the Annual All American Post-Punk Firework Show: NO SKINNY TIES! Wipers, Big Black, Dead Kennedys, Avengers, U-men, Germs, X, Pussy Galore, SY, Minor Threat, Beat Nigs, Screamers, and MORE! The Revolution Was Not Televised, but It Is STILL Being Broadcast: http://www.kpsu.org/ Tune in or Move to Russia! Poster from 2006 KPSU Broadcast: 

Kerosene Big Black Atomizer
The American in Me The Avengers Avengers
Attitude Bad Brains Attitude The ROIR Sessions // Bad Brains
Pink Houses Avail Dixie
Turn On The News Hüsker Dü Zen Arcade
That’s When I Reach For My Revolver Mission Of Burma The Horrible Truth About Burma
Life is Cheap Flipper generic
Holiday In Cambodia Dead Kennedys fresh fruit for rotting vegetables
Gimme Gimme // Black Flag Black Flag Wasted…Again // Black Flag
Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing Minutemen Double Nickles on the Dime
Freeze Bomb // U-Men U-Men Solid Action
American Woman Butthole Surfers Rembrandt Pussyhorse // Butthole Surfers
Ragged Old Flag Steve Fisk 448 Deathless Days // Steve Fisk
Television The Beatnigs The Beatnigs
In ‘N’ Out of Grace Mudhoney Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles
Love Cums in Spurts Richard Hell & the Voidoids Blank Generation
Neutron Bomb // Weirdos Weirdos Weird World // Weirdos
The Fourth of July (Demo) X Beyond & Back: The X Anthology
In America Fastbacks Play 5 of Their Favortites // Fastbacks
D-7 Wipers Is This Real? // Wipers
Cray Fish Melvins 10 Songs // Melvins
Ghost Bitch Sonic Youth Bad Moon Rising
Race Mixing Teenage Jesus & the Jerks Everything
All In An Apple Orchard Jandek Living in a Moon So Blue
West Side Story Pere Ubu 1980-1982
Let It Ride Dinosaur Jr. Bug
Love You Till Friday The Replacements Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash
I Spy Beat Happening 1983-1985
Thug Swans Body to Body, Job to Job

25 June 2011: No.Fest/Noise BBQ Special! (No Recording)

25 June 2011: No.Fest/Noise BBQ Special! (No Recording)

Today from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time on What’s This Called? a special show featuring artists performing today in St. John’s No.Fest as well as those playing the Vancouver WA Noise BBQ including Moodring, Doug Theriault, Marlo Eggplant, Power Circus, and MORE!

Horse Moodring Scared of Ferret // Moodring
Slow Leak Marlo Eggplant Binge/Purge // Marlo Eggplant
Don’t Worry About the Future Doug Theriault & Bryan Eubanks Big Clouds in the Sky Today
Snakes Power Circus Power Circus // Power Circus
The Scarlet Market Dead Air Fresheners with Jennifer Robin Separated by Commas
Electric Saxophone // Brockten Benoit Brockton Benoit cdr

18 June 2011: Overdose The Katatonic, LIVE!

18 June 2011: Overdose The Katatonic, LIVE!

Our amps go up to 12.  Today on What’s This Called? a live experience featuring the dulcet sounds ofOverdose the Katatonic direct from Seattle WA! Cuddle up next to the speakers and prepare for a pharmaceutical wash of white noise bliss…

Apophis Tecumseh Return to Everything
Forgotten Legion Gogher/Aural Antithesis GAA/AAG
Larva Lamp Earthmonkey Alms of Morpheus
Beautiful Tile Sudden Infant Psychotic Einzelkind
LIVE Overdose the Katatonic on What’s This Called?
Wardrobe Einsturzende Neubauten Strategies Against Archetecture II
Track 3 Crank Sturgeon Unctuous Peduncle
No Weary for the Wrestlers L. A. Lungs Cryptic Snuggling
Whore Swans Body to Body, Job to Job

11 June 2011: Paintings For Animals, LIVE!

11 June 2011: Paintings For Animals, LIVE!

Today on What’s This Called? direct from the 17th Olympia Experimental Music Festfor a return engagement on WTC it’s Seattle to Oly transplants Paintings for Animalspresenting their hypnotic ambient drone Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time. STREAMING LIVE DREAMSCAPES HERE: http://www.kpsu.org/

Circles Einstrurzende Neubauten Silence is Sexy
First Rising Power Circus Power Circus
Blue Moon His Name Is Alive Always Stay Sweet
Live Paintings for Animals on What’s This Called?
Suspira – Black Forest Goblin Volume II 1975-1980
Interview Paintings for Animals on What’s This Called?
A Ruhmn Paintings for Animals Kristeater
Au Cafe Sonic Youth SYR 9: Simon Werner A Disparu

28 May 2011: Power Circus, LIVE!

28 May 2011: Power Circus, LIVE!

Today on What’s This Called?, I’m thrilled to host the Portland experimental convivial coterie Power Circus. If you’ve listened to the show a bit, you’ll recognize them from the Bogville Creature Feature soundtrack. The musical intimations of Meghann Rose, Jesse Reno and Lana Guerra today from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time Streaming Live from http://www.kpsu.org/

How Ghosts Affect Relationships His Name Is Alive Always Stay Sweet
When Mama Was Moth Cocteau Twins Head Over Heels
Fly Nick Drake Bryter Layter
LIVE Power Circus on What’s This Called?

14 May 2011: It’s After the End of the World

14 May 2011: It’s After the End of the World

Man On the Silver Mountain His Name Is Alive Always Stay Sweet
Outside the Trains Don’t Run On Time Gang of Four Solid Gold
No One is There Nico The Marble Index
Instruments of the Devil Artifact Shore Wiretapper 25
Death Dies Goblin Volume II 1975-1980
Escapades Sonic Youth SYR 9: Simon Werner A Disparu
Way Over the Rainbow Sun City Girls valentines from matahari
Fire and Smoke Taming the Outback 1986-1989
Heads Will Roll Echo and The Bunnymen Porcupine
Strange Phenomenon Jandek Living in a Moon So Blue
The Antigravitational Sense Of Nothingness my cat is an alien Wiretapper 25
We’ll Hang For That Swans Body to Body, Job to Job
Weeping Throbbing Gristle D. O. A.
Tenderness of Wolves Coil Scatology
Eggs In The Head (excerpt) Upside Down Umbrella Drinking The Goats Blood

7 May 2011: Pledge Drive Week 2 (No Recording)

7 May 2011: Pledge Drive Week 2 (No Recording)

Shows that play the kind of music you hear on What’s This Called? are rare even on college and community stations (and non-existent anywhere else). When a station has one it’s usually on at 3 AM sometime in the middle of the week.

NOT at KPSU though. For 6 years running, KPSU has been bold enough to let me doWhat’s This Called? on Saturdays at Noon Pacific Time, a slot most community station fill with the likes of Car Talk, bluegrass music, and Prairie Home Companion. Even in other time zones WTC is still on earlier than experimental music shows ever get to be (8 PM in merry old England for instance!) In broad daylight you get to hear the likes of Merzbow, Crank Sturgeon, John Cage, Sun Ra, Sun City Girls, and Marlo Eggplant, something unheard of practically anywhere else in the world. Nothing assures this continue more than when you pledge support to KPSU during or on behalf of What’s This Called?
Today, I am featuring scads of new and new-to-me music from the likes of Sonic Youth (SYR 9!), His Name is Alive, Taming the Outback and Sylvi Alli. I also have generous Thank You Gifts for those that contribute to keep the ship afloat including 2 CD sets from Beta-lactam Ring Records artists for a mere $25 pledge (choose from Legendary Pink Dots, Earthmonkey, Pepe Wismeer, and Tecumseh, or a single cd from Ilitch for a $15 pledge!) Plus anyone who pledges and is in or can visit Portland gets free gelato from Legong Gelato in St. John’s.
If anybody would like to claim one of those gifts NOW you can pledge right at http://www.kpsu.org, then just message my Facebook page with which cds you want!
Thanks to KPSU for giving the show a stable and dependable home since 2005, and thanks to YOU for making that possible!

Theme de Laetitia Sonic Youth SYR 9: Simon Werner A Disparu
Why People Disappear His Name Is Alive Always Stay Sweet
How to be a Werewolf Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
Through the Veil Sylvi Alli Vessel
Crack in Your Brain (Westworld) Taming the Outback 1986-1989
Heart of Darkness Pere Ubu Datapanik in the year zero
I Did Crimes for You Deerhoof Vs. Evil
June Fifth Paco Jones Radio
Worlds Approaching Sun Ra Strange Strings

30 April 2011: Pledge Drive Special (No Recording)

30 April 2011: Pledge Drive Special (No Recording)

Today Noon-1 PM Pacific Time on What’s This Called? Support KPSU and support Experimental Music in the daytime! I have some amazing Thank You Gifts fromLegong Gelato & Beta-lactam Ring Records, so you get even more for pledging than the great feeling of supporting free form college radio and eclectic programming (which really should be enough!)

Call 503-725-5945 or Message me via my Facebook page. Music (and some giveaways!) from Legendary Pink Dots, Tecumseh, Earthmonkey, Pepe Wismeer, Ilitch, Crank Sturgeon, Horaflora, Big City Orchestra and MORE!

Every Portlander (or anybody who plans on visiting) who pledges gets a free scoop at Legong Gelato in St. John’s. Ilitch – La Maïeutique de la Quantique CD with your $15 Pledge. 2 CD sets from Legendary Pink Dots, Earthmonkey, Pepe Wismeer, and Tecumseh all available with a $25 Pledge. A free pint of Gelato from Legong with your $25 Pledge.

Your support for KPSU is tax deductible and supports the station that has now been home for 6 years to the longest running experimental music show in the NW (since 1993!)

Call 503-725-5945 or message me on Facebook right away!

Apophis (edit) Tecumseh Music for Personality Disorder
B3 Le Cantique de la Quantique Ilitch La Maieutique de la Quantique (Quantum Meleutics)
Track 1 Horaflora Horaflora
Devilame (edit) Pepe Wismeer Between Sheep & Pigs
On Another Shore Legendary Pink Dots The French Collection
Nutshell Big City Orchestra Cockamame
Track 6 Crank Sturgeon & Lineland Other Occasions Not Minded
Mothership Earthmonkey Alms of Morpheus
Colony Collapse EET Danger Barn

23 April 2011: Horaflora & Pete Von Petrin, LIVE!

23 April 2011: Horaflora & Pete Von Petrin, LIVE!

Horaflora and Pete von Petrin Live!  Horaflora Pete von Petrin

Deep Shadows (Film version – Part 1) Goblin Volume II 1975-1980
The Letter Nirvana Sitar & String Group RE Search: Incredibly Strange Music Volume II
LIVE Pete von Petrin on What’s This Called?
Flesh Ken Nordine RE Search: Incredibly Strange Music Volume II
LIVE Horaflora on What’s This Called?
Smoke & Mirrors (edit) Pete von Petrin Smoke & Mirrors
Interview Pete von Petrin & Horaflora on What’s This Called?

26 March 2011: 2 HR Special (No Recording)

26 March 2011: 2 HR Special (No Recording)

Next to Nothing (cut) Savage Republic Tragic Figures
oakca Tecumseh Return to Everything
When All Else Fails Savage Republic Tragic Figures
Absolution Hypnogogic Orchestra The Hypnogogic Orchestra
Blooms Eventually Pulseprogramming Wire Tapper 9
2016 a Space Atrocity Hop-Frog’s Fatwa The Silk Road
Sweet Lightning Juice Earthmonkey Alms of Morpheus
Public Health Bomb Bob Bucko JR Volte Face
Night Goat Melvins Roots of Nirvana
The Hangman’s Ball Threshold Houseboy’s Choir Amulet Edition
Valley of the Shadow of Death Throbbing Gristle D.O.A. The Third and Final Report
Sex Bomb Flipper Roots of Nirvana
Beaverstate EET Art Rooster
A Mighty Stillness (remix) A Small Good Thing Wire Tapper 9
Abstract Big City Orchestra Cockamame
Alabama Song Ute Lemper All That Jazz
The Empress and the Ukraine King Can Unlimited Edition
Blood of the Land (edit) daniel menche Blood of the Land

19 March 2011: 2 Hour Special! (No Recording)

19 March 2011: 2 Hour Special! (No Recording)

Z.N.S. Einsturzende Neubauten Strategies Against Architecture II
You’re Not Patsy Big Dipper Roots of Nirvana
Look Into Me Zoviet France Low Creeper
A Dub Confession Eric Hausmann Slow Ambient Dub
Music For Personality Disorder nadja Skywriting (edit)
Night Goat (AmRep single version) Melvins Roots of Nirvana
Cyclez ov Marching Sardonik Grin Ccobocc
I Jeph Jerman & Doug Theriault Tathata
Bludgeon Jandek Living in a Moon So Blue
Hotel Z Legendary Pink Dots The French Collection
Music for Tones Future Image Electric Carpets
Strong, Warm, and in Command Steve Fisk Kill Rock Stars
La Maieutique des Cantiques Ilitch La Maieutique de la Quantique (Quantum Meleutics)
Intro Merzbow 1930
Tigerstripe Smoke and Mirrors Art Rooster
June Fifth Paco Jones Radio
Whiskey Priest Make Believe Bombs DSMS 013

12 March 2011: New Crank Sturgeon World Premiere (No Recording)

12 March 2011: New Crank Sturgeon World Premiere (No Recording)

Today on What’s This Called? from Noon-1 PM Pacific Time a world premiere exclusive of soon to be released material from the king fish of absurdist noise Crank Sturgeon!

Track 4 Crank Sturgeon Lineland
Track 7 Crank Sturgeon St. Doggery
Track 3 Crank Sturgeon Unctous Peduncle
Track 5 Crank Sturgeon Plentifold Gape & Lando
Track 6 Crank Sturgeon Mashacoustic
Munchen Merzbow 1930
Red Skirt Jandek Chicago Wednesday
Temictli Atlan Soriah with Ashkelon Sain Atlan
Toristoria Aural Resuscitation Unit Puberty/ARU

5 March 2011: Two Hour Show w/ Noah Mickens (No Recording)

5 March 2011: Two Hour Show w/ Noah Mickens (No Recording)

Saturday 3/5/11 on What’s This Called? Noon-2 PM Pacific Time I’m joined by my close personal friend and ringmaster of Portland’s seedy underbelly Noah Mickenspresenting new Polyglot Agency releases including: Machine Gun noise opera and Stooges saxman Steve MacKay w/ Radon Collective. photo by Kenneth Barton This is a special 2 hr show also mixing in artists Noah helped introduce to me including Rebecca Moore & Green Milk from the Planet Orange plus other favorites from Nico to the Dead C., Edward Ka-Spel and MORE!

Spectral Vapor in the Nueral Machine Rebecca Moore Home Wreckordings 1997-1999
A Vision in a Mirror in a Movie in a Dream United Scum Soundclash Machine Gun
Storm Season Prophets of Doom Bogville Exclusive Soundtrack
The Prisoner Steve Mackay Sometimes Like This I Talk
L.A. Blues The Stooges Funhouse
Track One Bastard Noise with Sikhara Tukhano Khalkha
Track Eight Hop-Frog’s Fatwa The Silk Road
Jeng Nequaquam Vacuum Black Plague Society
Batz in the Belfry No Gothz in Site Sardonik Grin Ccobocc
You Could Smell the Nightmares on the Pillow steve mackay and the radon ensemble You’ve Got Your Orders Vol. 2
Chasing the Asbestos United Scum Soundclash Machine Gun
Miastenia Ovo Anime Morte
Now I Fall the dead c Eusa Kills
Track 2 Edward Ka-Spel Dream Loops
Julius Caesar Nico The Marble Index
Sometimes My Bloody Valentine Loveless
Driving Eyes Closed Bob Bucko JR Volte Face
Atlantis Sun Ra Atlantis

26 February 2011: Swans in PDX Tomorrow! (No Recording)

26 February 2011: Swans in PDX Tomorrow! (No Recording)

Big Strong Boss Swans Filth
I am the Sun Swans Swans Are Dead
Vengence, pt. 2 Wooden Wand Harem of the Sundrum and the Witness Figg
Dread Effigy Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice Gipsy Freedom
See You Are (Live) Throbbing Gristle The Tyranny of the Beat
Your Offense of Innocence Argumentix Boss of Goth
Ahmet Another Earthmonkey Music for Personality Disorder
MRI Attack Paco Jones Radio
Falling Light Lilla Shroud with Power Circus Bogville Exclusive Soundtrack
Dub Housing Pere Ubu Dub Housing
Helicopters in a Vacuum Sun City Girls valentines from matahari
Pharaoh Tips Puberty Puberty/ARU

19 February 2011: Keep Yr. Pants Off! (No Recording)

19 February 2011: Keep Yr. Pants Off! (No Recording)

Bad Danger Irving Klaw Trio Irving Klaw Trio
We Took the Wrong Step Years Ago Hawkwind In Search of Space
Dryest Month in 100 Years Peter Jefferies Closed Circuit
Driving Eyes Open Bob Bucko JR Volte Face
Seraphim (excerpt) Claroscent Dray Drinking the Goat’s Blood
excerpt Merzbow & Carlos Giffoni Synth Destruction
Somniphobia Sudden Infant Psychotic Einzelkind
Cosmoerotic Giveaway Seven That Spells Cosmoerotic Dialogue with Lucifer
Conversations Boyband CDR
Expanded Oblivion Dual Pyroclastics
Roller – II Resvegno Del Serpente Goblin Volume II 1975-1980
Taphephobia (excerpt) Boar Evildoers
Rintin Fire Moodring Scared of Ferret

12 February 2011: Mangled Bohemians, LIVE! (No Recording)

12 February 2011: Mangled Bohemians, LIVE! (No Recording)

Mangled Bohemians Live on What’s This Called?

I’m Not Nice Johanna Buccola with Steve Fisk MP3
Track 19 unknown Kill Rock Stars
I Want Candy 8 eyed spy Luncheon
LIVE Mangled Bohemians on What’s This Called?
The Long Way Down Mangled Bohemians At the Edge of the Earth
Interview Mangled Bohemians on What’s This Called?
LIVE Mangled Bohemians on What’s This Called?
Facing the Wind Nico The Marble Index

5 February 2011: Offset Needle Radius, LIVE!

5 February 2011: Offset Needle Radius, LIVE!

Tranny Smelter Not Breathing Electric Carpets
49 Guitars & One Girl Pere Ubu Datapanik in the year zero
DT Office Products Business
LIVE Offset Needle Radius On What’s This Called?
Land of God Jandek Chicago Wednesday
A Present Spot Contagious Orgasm Drinking the Goat’s Blood
The City Sleeps Sand Snowman Nostalgia Ever After

29 January 2011 (No Recording)

29 January 2011 (No Recording)

Acoustic Barber Pole Flourescent Grey Drinking the Goat’s Blood
O (live 2/09/98) Office Products Business
Two Minutes Wire Red Barket
Soon My Bloody Valentine Lovelessq
Quiyhtonatiuh – Quetzalcoatl (WIND) nadja Under the Jaguar Sun
Raga Big City Orchestra Cockamame
A Fruitfly in the Beehive Gang of Four Content Was Always My Favorite Color
Black Holes Ghost to Falco Exotic Believers
Despair Japan Quiet Life
Blue Plastic Mat Jandek Chicago Wednesday
Nostalgia Ever After Sand Snowman Nostalgia Ever After
I Can’t Speak Wobly Drinking the Goat’s Blood

4 December 2010 (No Recording)

4 December 2010 (No Recording)

This Side of the Door The Silverman Time on Thin Ice
Where Even the Darkness Is Something to See Coil Loves Secret Domain
Eleusis Psychic TV Dreams Less Sweet
Maker of All Plug Drum’n’Bass for Papa
Side Two Nurse With Wound with Jim O’Rourke Tape Monkey Mooch – Angry Eelectric Finger 1
Track 22 X+X 23
B3 Le Cantique de la Quantique Ilitch La Maieutique de la Quantique (Quantum Meleutics)
A Crack in Melancholy Time Legendary Pink Dots The French Collection

27 November 2010: Daniel Menche, LIVE! (No Recording)

27 November 2010: Daniel Menche, LIVE! (No Recording)

Daniel Menche live in the studio! And a sad goodbye to Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson. 

The Orchids Psychic TV Dreams Less Sweet
Valley of the Shadow of Death Throbbing Gristle D.O.A. The Third and Final Report
Loves Secret Domain Coil Loves Secret Domain
Live daniel menche on What’s This Called?
The Moon is Dead The Threshold Houseboy Choir Amulet Edition
Interview daniel menche on What’s This Called?
Blood of the Land (edit) daniel menche Blood of the Land

20 November 2010: Howlin’ Houndog, LIVE! (No Recording)

20 November 2010: Howlin’ Houndog, LIVE! (No Recording)

Howlin’ Houndog Live in the KPSU studio!

Soul Kitchen X Los Angeles
Don’t Call Me Flyface The Reekers Meet the Reekers
London Sundays Green Pajamas single LP
Live Howlin’ Houndog on What’s This Called?
I Heard Her Call My Name The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat
You Speak Jealously Unwound Kill Rock Stars
I Woke Up Dreaming Teenage Jesus & the Jerks Everything
She’s Had Enough Green Pajamas Single
Interview Howlin’ Houndog on What’s This Called?
You’re Gonna Miss Me Thirteenth Floor Elevators High Fidelity Soundtrack
Live Howlin’ Houndog on What’s This Called?
Idle Hands Are the Devil’s Playthings Palace Brothers There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You
Get Back Enoch Light Spaced Out
Blue Sky & Branches Mecca Normal Single