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Music for the revolution in my head: choogling punks; power pop, both skinny-tied and long-haired; soul shouters and girl groups; bubblegum and acid rock; global fuzz; weirdos and outsiders, and the Weirdos and the Outsiders; Archie Shepp and J....

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East Orange, NJ

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Music for the revolution in my head: choogling punks; power pop, both skinny-tied and long-haired; soul shouters and girl groups; bubblegum and acid rock; global fuzz; weirdos and outsiders, and the Weirdos and the Outsiders; Archie Shepp and J. Geils. Plus, live bands.

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English

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Episode from May 8, 2026

5/8/2026
The Deadly Snakes - "Trouble's Gonna Stay Awhile" - Ode To Joy [0:00:00] Guilty Razors - "Wake Up" - Complete Recordings - 1978 [0:06:02] Hammersmith Gorillas - "She's My Gal" [RIP Jesse Hector] [0:08:10] Crushed Butler - "It's My Life" - Uncrushed [RIP Jesse Hector] [0:11:03] Venom P. Stinger - "How Right You Were" - Tearbucketer [0:13:07] Imaginary Icons - "Mediocre Standstill" - Portable Icons: Unreleased Studio & Live Recordings 2005-2007 [Reuniting next Saturday, 5/16, at Mama Tried with Tyvek and Added Dimensions] [0:16:02] Tyvek - "Girl on a Bicycle" - Origin of What [0:18:48] The Endtables - "Process of Elimination" - The Endtables [0:20:09] The Skunks - "The Mad Song" - Scratch 'n' Sniff [0:22:16] Hollywood Squares - "Hillside Strangler" [0:24:28] Heavenly - "A Different Beat" - Highway to Heavenly [0:33:19] The Lo Yo Yo - "China Blue" - The Lo Yo Yo [0:37:59] Added Dimensions - "Midtempo Mind" - Jane from Preoccupied America [Live on the show May 22!!!] [0:39:58] Gal Costa - "Vou Recomeçar" - Gal Costa [0:42:52] Ann-Margret - "It's A Nice World To Visit (But Not To Live In)" - You Turned My Head Around: Lee Hazlewood Industries [0:46:04] Outer World - "La Dimora" [0:48:15] White Fence - "Your Eyes" - Orange [0:50:37] The Hobknobs - "Are You Looking For Something?" - Helmets Off [0:54:11] The 15th - "Inside Out" [0:57:36] The Skeptics - "East Side Tenement House" - The Complete Early Years 1965-1969 [1:02:30] National Photo Committee - "Hand In Mud" - Live in NYC 7/12/23 [Mitch Frohman on sax] [1:14:37] Spike In Vain - "Gospel Motel" - Death Drives a Cadillac [1:22:38] Hound Dog Taylor & The House Rockers - "Taylor's Rock" - Hound Dog Taylor and the House Rockers [1:28:07] Tav Falco's Panther Burns - "Snake Drive" - Behind the Magnolia Curtain [1:32:57] The Brentwoods - "Busboy" [1:34:53] LSD - "You Can't Judge a Book" - Real Garage Punk from Sweden 1966 [1:36:37] Rev. Drayton - "By and By" - The Gospel Soul of Detroit [1:39:43] The Rock*A*Teens - "I'm Your Puppet" - The Rock*a*Teens [1:43:06] Duane Eddy - "First Love, First Tears + Kommotion" - $1,000,00.00 Worth of Twang [1:46:29] Albumen - "No Wine Before It's Time" - Albumen [1:57:57] Robert Lester Fulsom - "Burnt Carmine" - If You Wanna Laugh, You Gotta Cry Sometimes: Archives Vol. 3, 1972-1975 [2:04:02] Gene Clark & Carla Olson - "Don't It Make You Want To Go Home" - So Rebellious A Lover [2:09:05] Bill Callahan - "Stepping Out for Air" - My Days of 58 [2:13:04] Ben "Baby" Copperhead - "Buzzard Canyon" - Catch A Cold [2:19:39] Psychedelic Horseshit - "New Wave Hippies" - Magic Flowers Droned [2:22:44] Red Stuff - "The Air Is the Air" - Red Stuff [2:25:18] Love Story in Blood Red - "Arcadia (Sickened By Everything)" - Everything's Everywhere [2:30:34] Eat Skull - "Space Academy" - Eat Skul III [2:37:37] Kosmos Cowboys - "Side A (Excerpt)" - Kosmos Cowboys [2:42:25] Names Divine - "All I Want" - Take My Hand [2:49:52] Cabaret Voltaire - "Here She Comes Now" - Live At The YMCA 27.10.79 [2:54:50] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163944

Duration:03:08:34

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Episode from May 1, 2026

5/1/2026
Third World War - "Preaching Violence" - Third World War [0:00:00] Mopar Stars - "Only Bar in Town" - Official Researchers of the NJ Devil [0:08:11] Urge Overkill - "Blow Chopper" - Americruiser [0:09:58] Terminal Sunglasses - "Fear Of People (Who Look Insane)" - Wrap Around Cool [0:13:35] Oneida - "Up With People" - Happy New Year [0:18:14] Guiding Light - "Swinging and Stuck" - Teeter/Totter: A see/saw Benefit [0:25:45] The Rotting Lobes - "Confessions of a Rotting Lobe" - Teeter/Totter: A see/saw Benefit [0:27:43] Blurries - "Heat Dome" - Dot Dash MixTape Volume 4 [Nowhere Flower original] [0:30:31] Fake Last Name - "Stars in Dirt" - Dot Dash MixTape Volume 4 [0:33:06] Aunt Helen - "Big Money" - 7" [0:36:50] Brian Auger's Oblivion Express - "On the Road" - Brian Auger's Oblivion Express [0:45:10] Autos - "Stay Clean" - Autos [0:50:50] Radio Stars - "The Real Me" - The Chiswick Story [1979] [0:53:03] Plimsouls - "I Want You Back" - The Plimsouls [0:55:48] Cromwell - "You Got It Made" - At the Gallop [0:58:38] Sugluk - "Fall Away" - Native North America (Vol. 1): Aboriginal Folk, Rock, And Country 1966-1985 [1:02:01] Propeller - "Orchid" - Hidden Above [1:05:08] Pletyka - "Small Talk" - Kedves Kis Gonoszságok [1:09:25] Redd Kross - "I'm Alright" - Born Innocent [1:19:51] Vik Venus - "Everybody's On Strike" - single [1:22:40] The Troggs - "Say Darlin'" - Single [1:25:32] Rhythm Rockers - "Madness" - Sin Alley: 18 Action Packed Rockers [1:28:09] The Royal Pendletons - "No Teasin' Around" - The Sore Losers (OST) [1:30:23] The Blendells - "La La La La La - Part 1" - single [1:33:08] The Illusion - "Did You See Her Eyes" - single [1:36:07] Michael Yonkers Band - "My House" - Microminature Love [RIP Michael Yonkers] [1:39:36] Trad Gras Och Stenar - "I Ljuset av din Dag" - Box Set [1:42:09] The False Berries - "Outta Smokes" - The False Berries [1:49:40] Some Now Are - "Aftermath" - No One's Listening Anyway Volume 2 [1:53:00] Soft Shoulder - "Smudge on Kill / Nothing Happened" - Smudge On Plastic [1:57:01] Connie Converse - "How Sad, How Lonely" - How Sad, How Lonely [2:00:19] Cell/Borg - "Relay Repeater" - Three [2:11:06] Khun Narin - "Sut Sanaen (สุดสะแนน)" - III [2:15:46] Sun Ra - "Everything Is Space" [2:18:08] Roxy Music - "Sultanesque" - The Thrill Of It All [2:22:05] Su Tissue - "Salon De Musique" - Salon De Musique [2:27:28] Einsturzende Neubaten - "Sand" - 1/2 Mensch [Lee and Nancy cover; CD bonus track] [2:39:14] Michael Krassner, John Dieterich - "bullish(ish) (excerpt)" - Bull-ish [2:40:57] Steve Gunn - "Nearly Three" - Daylight Daylight Marnie Weber - "In the Meadow" - Returning Home: The Music of Marnie Weber [2:55:42] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163711

Duration:03:08:43

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Emily Robb LIVE from Monty Hall from Apr 24, 2026

4/24/2026
Killing Joke - "Unreleased Demo" - EXTREMITIES: The Albini Demos and Live Beginnings '88 [0:00:00] Big Boys - "Jump the Fence" - The Fat Elvis [0:08:42] Folded Shirt - "Mouth Clock" - New EP [0:10:28] No Peeling - "Mascot Fight" - EP2 [0:12:01] 100 Flowers - "Poltergeists at Home" - 100 Flowers [Originally released on Happy Squid in 1983.] [0:13:29] Rakketax - "Occasion" - Seven-inch single [Holland 1981] [0:16:30] Marbled Eye - "Stubborn Mind" - Forever EP [0:18:02] Hammerhead - "The Starline Locomotive" - Into the Vortex [0:22:02] The Educated Fools - "Penny Arcade" - Tantric Decapitation: 69 Minutes of Trichotomy and Liquefaction [0:31:13] Sex Tide - "Great Black Swamp" - Possessions Sessions [0:33:48] Slippers - "Wants For Everone" - Slippers 08 [0:36:37] 14 Iced Bears - "Balloon Song" - John Peel Session 26.11.86 [0:39:05] Alistair Galbraith - "Midnight Blue Vision" - Seely Girn [0:41:28] Mark Renner - "The Wild House" - Few Traces [0:43:53] Danz CM - "Lärm I (Hey Angel)" - LÄRM! [0:48:00] Golomb - "Real Power" - The Beat Goes On [0:52:12] Petty Crime - "Bad Astrology" - Forfeit Intent EP [0:55:10] Troutflies - "Cross On a Hill" - The Dancing Years [0:56:52] Set: Emily Robb Live from Monty Hall, January 23, 2026 (engineered by Dave Hollinghurst) Emily Robb - "Live at Monty Hall 1/23/26" - N/A [1:04:39] Bo Diddley - "Craw-Dad" - In the Spotlight [1:32:44] 22 Beaches - "Dust" - Dust: Recordings 1980-1984 [1:35:37] The Ngozzi Family featuring Chrissy Zebby Tembo - "Easy Baby" - Gate Crash '78 [1:40:58] Lonnie Mack - "Asphalt Outlaw Hero" - The Hills of Indiana [1:44:16] Natural Child - "Smokin' In the Kitchen" - Wooden [1:46:40] Caleb - "A Woman of Distinction" - Single [1:50:28] Fanny - "Blind Alley (Live)" - First Time in a Long Time: The Reprise Recordings [1:53:04] The Boyfriends - "I Need Your Love" - Wrapped Up In A Dream [1:57:35] Dave Edmunds - "From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)" - D.E. 7th [1:59:59] Marion Brown - "Mangoes" - Awofofora [1976] [2:09:20] Mac Blackout - "Cycle 1" - Cycling Vol. 1 [2:17:15] Peter Drake and His Talking Guitar - "I'm Just A Guitar (Everybody Picks On Me)" - Forever [2:22:48] Lulu - "Here Comes the Night" - 7" [2:26:17] Hegessipe - "Le Credo D'Hegessipe" - Wizzz! French Psychorama Volume 5 [2:28:21] Worst Worry - "Piece of My Art" - Single [2:31:06] Field Commander Ali - "Wildgeeses" - The Next From Field Commander [Michael Hurley cover] [2:38:12] Kris Kristofferson - "Josie" - Border Lord [2:41:02] Souled American - "Bad to Be Good" - Sanctions [2:44:48] Bhajan Bhoy - "Yangqin Beach (excerpt)" - Meditations [2:48:13] Maxx - "200 Years" - Brown Acid: The Twenty-First Trip (Heavy Rock From The Underground Comedown) [2:53:33] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163467

Duration:03:08:33

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Episode from Apr 17, 2026

4/17/2026
Ivy Green - "I'm Sure We're Gonna To Make It" - Ivy Green [0:00:00] Swell Maps - "Harmony In Your Bathroom" - The John Peel Sessions [0:06:34] Mercy Mercy - "Collector" - 7" [0:10:30] Cheap Time - "Country and City" - Exit Smiles [0:13:42] The Freeze - "Celebration" [The UK one, 1980] [0:18:40] Skinned Pig - "These Boots Were Made For Working" - Skinland Empire EP [0:21:16] Depression - "Debout Papa" [France, 1980] [0:23:47] Black Flag - "Yes, I Know" - 1982 Demos [0:25:20] Bungee Jumpers - "Wall" - Not Today... [0:27:59] Mirrors - "Need Me All Night" - High All the Time [0:33:51] The Fix - "Brain" - Best Days of Your Life [Not the Michigan one, 1994 (Action cover)] [0:36:59] Ian North - "Living with the Jet Set" [0:39:57] The Honeybus - "The Right to Choose" - The Honeybus Story [0:42:56] Kewi A Go Go Party - "Luxus Apartment" [0:45:58] Kevin Ayers & the Whole World - "Lunatic's Lament" - Shooting at the Moon [0:47:44] The Mad Scene - "Cupid 2" - Blip [0:53:36] Superchunk - "No Hope" - Songs in the Key of Yikes [0:57:24] Hedge Burners - "Long Time Listening" - Fall Out Of The Future [1:01:41] Scissor Fits - "I Don't Want To Work For British Airways" - It Wasn't Nothing [1:04:27] Heavenly - "Press Return" - Highway to Heavenly [Performing live tomorrow when Evan "Funk" Davies fills-in for Michael Shelley, 11am to 1pm.] [1:13:08] Spauv Georges - "Je Suis L'Etat" - French Psychorama, Vol 5: 1967-1979 [1:17:27] Adrian Pride - "Her Name Is Melody" - VA: Hallucinations - Psychedelic Pop Nuggets From The WEA Vaults [1:20:23] Starry Eyed and Laughing - "Keep It to Yourself" - Thought Talk [1:23:34] Coloured Balls - "Time Shapes" - The First Supper Last, or Scenes We Didn't Get to See [1:27:00] Bullseye - "Everything Is True" - Self-Titled - EP [1:32:00] Royal Trux - "Map of the City" - Thank You [1:34:55] Roy Montgomery - "Non-Transparent Re-Radiation" - Guitars Infernal [1:39:12] Ted Lucas - "Raga In 'D'" - Wayfaring Strangers: Guitar Soli [1:44:27] Pinky Tex - "Won't Come Back" - The Singing Angel From Devil Rock Canyon [1:47:32] Tabby Thomas - "He's Got The Whole World (In His Hands)" [1:57:07] Betty Everett - "Ain't Gonna Cry" [2:00:05] Nathan McKinney and the Valleyites - "Weep No More" [2:01:15] Blind Willie Johnson - "Dark Was the Night" - Jazz: Volume 2 [2:04:16] Pharaoh Sanders - "Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah" - Spiritual Jazz XII: Impulse! [2:07:29] Sachiko Kanenobu - "Keep On Smiling" [2:26:09] Robert Lester Folsom - "Burnt Carmine" - If You Wanna Laugh, You Gotta Cry Sometimes: Archives Vol. 3, 1972-1975 [2:29:57] Wendy Eisenberg - "Vanity Paradox" - Wendy Eisenberg [2:34:48] Blanche Blanche Blanche - "Heart and Soul" [2:41:40] Enno Velthuys - "Moonlight Serenade" - Music from the Other Side of the Fence [2:44:28] Musica Transonic + Mainliner - "Solid Static" - Solid Static [2:47:30] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163256

Duration:03:08:10