20081030

Hallo! Weiners!!!

Well, it's ante-samhain which means we are well into our second week of Halloween related celebrations, which will climax this weekend with many parties and costume changes. Of course, our show is like the first climax...okay, the FIRST climax was Zombie Lurch 2008. What an excellent opportunity to disturb children, make sorority girls cry and delight the elderly! Here now is our SECOND climax....

Tom Waits - 'Taint No Sin -The Black Rider
Coyle & Sharpe - Maniacs in Living Hell - Audio Visionaries
Tobacco - Backwoods Altar - Fucked Up Friends (n)
David Byrne & Brian Eno - I Feel My Stuff - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (n)
Golden Paliminos - Victim - Dead Inside

The Monocles - The Spider & The Fly - Pebbles Vol. 2 (q)
The Mansfields - Who Wants to be a Zombie Anyways? - Cramp Your Style (n)
The Coffin Daggers - Interstellar Overdrive - s/t
Jesu - The Funeral Party - Perfect As Cats: A Tribute to the Cure (n)

Me First & The Gimme Gimmes - Ghost Riders In The Sky - Love Their Country
The 3D Invisibles - Creature of the Drive-In - Jump Off The Screen
The Lords of Altamont - Lightening Strikes - The Altamont Sin (n)

Grampall Jookabox - 3, 11 - Ropechain (n)

Old Time Relijun - Vampire Victim - Lost Light
Like Wow - The Haunted Thrift Shop (I'm Freakin' Out) - Burn World Burn
Yoko Ono - Yes, I'm A Witch - Yes, I'm A Witch
Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare - Mascara & Monsters
Black Sabbath - Electric Funeral - Paranoid

Louise Hubener - The Demon Spell for Energy/Orgies - A Tool of Witchcraft - Seduction Through Witchcraft
The Mummies - I'm Gonna Kill My Baby Tonight - Death By Unga Bunga

Subgenius - HOS #1175

20081023

Postpledge bliss...

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh.

Tones on Tail - OK This Is the Pops - Night Music
Lungfish - Fearfully and Wonderfully - Love Is Love
Robyn Hitchcock - Cynthia Mask - Eye
Math - Halloween - Basic
Screaming Lord Sutch & The Savages - Til the Following Night - It's Hard to Believe It: The Amazing World of Joe Meek (VA)

My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult - Do You Fear for Your Child? - I See Good Spirits and I See Bad Spirits
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - The Barbarian - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Asylum Street Spankers - Leaf Blower - God's Favorite Sampler* (Q)
Gene and Wendell - The Roach (Dance) - Hairspray (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Evolution Control Committee - No Time for Yes - Plagiarhythm Nation
Yes - Siberian Khatru - Close to the Edge (Q)
MC Lars - Mr. Raven - The Laptop EP

New Disk @ Nine
Of Montreal - tracks 1, 5, 13 - Skeletal Lamping*
Mogwai - tracks 2, 7, 8 - The Hawk Is Howling*

TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me - Return to Cookie Mountain
The Barcode - Shock & Awe - Music for Military Torture

Hour of Slack #1174


* = New release
(R) = Request
(Q) = Question, comment, or concern from the listening public
(VA) = Various artists compilation

20081016

Pledge Drive, Part II: Electric Whaddaryagointodo, Just Sit There Reading? PLEDGE!!!!

We really, REALLY need your support this week, people. Our funding has been cut, giant spiders are taking over Britain, and soon Great Cthulhu will rise from the sea and eat us all. You won't need your money once The Great Old Ones return. Won't you donate generously to WORT now, before your eyes are sucked out of your head by fanged tentacles?

Zach Hill - Be Off in Your Head - Astrological Straits*
The Slow Poisoner - The Red Eyed Agents of Satan Have the Upper Hand - Voices in the Wilderness: Dissenting Soundscapes (VA)*
Bruce Haack - National Anthem to the Moon - The Electric Lucifer

Polarity/1 & Danny Schechter - Media Wars (The More You Know, the Less You Watch) - Media Wars
Raphael Sadeeq - Rifle Love - Ray Ray
Frank Zappa - I'm the Slime - Overnight Sensation

James Kochalka Superstar - Don't Trust Whitey - Don't Trust Whitey
The Political Blockheads - Disco All Around Town - Rhymes Against Humanity*
Wooden Shjips - We Ask You to Ride - Wooden Shjips

Flight of the Conchords - Business Time - Flight of the Conchords
Evolution Control Committee - I Want a Cookie - Plagiarhythm Nation
King Missile - Sex with You - The Way to Salvation
Firesign Theatre - Sex with My Hat - Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death

New Disk @ Nine-ish
The B-52s - tracks 2, 3, 7- Funplex*

Messer Chups - Soul Dracula - from the Internet (go click on the hyperlink to hear it, like)

Butthole Surfers - Underdog - Saturday Morning (cartoons' greatest hits) (VA)

Approximately 43 Minutes of Slack, Sliced, Diced, and Sufficed for Maximum Enjoyment and Pledge Garnishment, Allowing for Time to Harangue You for Donations to Keep the Station Going

Bongwater - Chicken Pussy - The Power of Pussy
Jom Tones - What's New, Pussy? - compilation CD

More of That Approximately 43 Minutes of Slack, Sliced, Diced, and Sufficed for Maximum Enjoyment and Pledge Garnishment, Allowing for Time to Harangue You for Donations to Keep the Station Going

"Mad Donald" Oblongata - Space Music -
Brainpan Litterbox

Even More of That Approximately 43 Minutes of Slack, Sliced, Diced, and Sufficed for Maximum Enjoyment and Pledge Garnishment, Allowing for Time to Harangue You for Donations to Keep the Station Going

Messer Chups - Model - from the Internet

Even Yet More of That Approximately 43 Minutes of Slack, Sliced, Diced, and Sufficed for Maximum Enjoyment and Pledge Garnishment, Allowing for Time to Harangue You for Donations to Keep the Station Going



* = New release
(R) = Request
(Q) = Question, comment, or concern from the listening public
(VA) = Various artists compilation

20081009

PLEDGE!!!! PLEDGE AS IF OUR LIVES DEPENDED ON IT!!!

Because this is community radio, peoples...they do depend on it. Or rather, on YOU. So...yeah. Pledge. PLEDGE. PLEDGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thievery Corporation featuring David Byrne - The Heart's A Lonely Hunter - The Cosmic Game
Beck - Richard's Hairpiece (Aphex Twin Remix of "Devil's Haircut" & American Wasteland (Mickey F. Remix of "Devil's Haircut") - Odelay (augmented rerelease)
Led Zeppelin - Black Dog - Live at the BBC
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son - Fortieth Anniversary

The Raconteurs - Salute Your Situation - Consoler of the Lonely
Gogol Bordello - Not a Crime - Gypsy Punks
Aniv de la Rev - The Little Helpers - Aniv de la Rev*

The Magnetic Fields - California Girls - Distortion*
Eagles of Death Metal - Wannabe in LA - promo EP*
American Astronaut - Goodbye California - Goodbye California*

New Disk @ Nine
Tobacco - tracks 3, 5, 12 - F***ed Up Friends*

Mogwai - Batcat - The Hawk Is Howling*
Todd Rundgren - Mercenaries - Arena*
Jefferson Starship - Chimes of Freedom - Jefferson's Tree of Liberty*

Various Completely Awesome Individual Moments That Add Up to Approximately an Hour of Slack


* = New release
(R) = Request
(Q) = Question, comment, or concern from the listening public
(VA) = Various artists compilation



20081002

It's THE GUN SHOW!

Bang, kids! BANG!! This evening's experiment in the visceral effect of sustained musical gunfire and tuneful barrage is principally conducted by Bad Sister Heidi, with Father Angus and Rev. Velveteen keeping the ammo and gunpowder in ample supply. We want to shoot you...full of happiness...and keep firing until we see the reds of your third eyes.

The Breeders - Happiness Is a Warm Gun - Pod
Warren Zevon - Roland, The Headless Thompson Gunner - Excitable Boy
Nick Cave - The Kindness of Strangers - Murder Ballads
Johnny Cash - Mister Garfield - Murder
Original Cast - Everybody's Got the Right - Assassins soundtrack (Q)

Spiritualized - Borrowed Your Gun - Songs in A & E*
The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays - The Fine Art of Surfacing (Q)
cLOUDDEAD - Son of a Gun - Ten
M.I.A. - Paper Planes - Kala
Nouvelle Vague - Guns of Brixton - Nouvelle Vague

Mink Stole - Sometimes I Wish I Had a Gun - A Date with John Waters (VA)
Betty Wright - Mr. Lucky - Eccentric Soul (VA)
Original Cast - Shoot FDR? - Assassins soundtrack

Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun - Live at the Fillmore East

Gangster Fun - I'd Buy a Gun - Time Flies When You're...
Firewater - Storm Warning - Songs We Should Have Written

Vanity 6 - Sex Shooter - Vanity 6 (Q)
Raphael Sadeeq - Rifle Love -
Ray Ray
Rick James - Love Gun - Lost in Translation soundtrack
Negativland - Sycamore - Escape from Noise
Southern Culture on the Skids - Shotgun - Plastic Seat Sweat

Leslie Hall - Zombie Killer -
Door Man's Daughter
Steinski - The Motorcade Sped On - What Does It All Mean?* (Q)
The Dirtbombs - It's Not Fun Until They See You Cry - We Have You Surrounded

Hour of Slack #1172

* = New release
(R) = Request
(Q) = Question, comment, or concern from the listening public
(VA) = Various artists compilation