Expressway To Yr Skull

RIP Expressway To Yr Skull

2016-03-27T12:33:00.003-07:00

The time has finally come to retire the name Expressway To Yr Skull in the context of this podcast - I started using it when I was doing a college radio show with a friend back in my early twenties & almost a decade later, I definitely feel like I've outgrown that particular moniker. Next weekend, I start a new weekly two-hour show at Freeform Portland & it seemed like an opportune time to change things up, so going forward, y'all can look forward to weekly radio dispatches from me under the show name Futures & Pasts. Hi.

Catch me on the air live on Saturday nights from 8-10pm PST in the Portland city limits at KFFP 90.3FM, or stream online from the Freeform Portland site wherever you are. Shows will continue to be posted after the fact for your streaming/downloading pleasure & to that end, I'll be migrating to a new blog (or rather, the Tumblr I've been using for a few months, with a fancy new domain name). This blog will stay up as a historical document & musical archive, but update your bookmarks & go to the Futures & Pasts site for all new content.

Feel free to drop me a line at ripitupstartagain[at]gmail[dot]com to stay in touch, send me music, say hey, etc.

xo, e.

Playlist / 02.28.16

2016-02-28T14:31:00.000-08:00

Human Switchboard

Well, it's official: staring in April, I'm going to be back on real radio airwaves again after a three-year hiatus (and on a weekly basis, at that), thanks to the low-power FM wonder that is Freeform Portland. Everything will still be archived digitally, but you'll also have the ability to stream in real-time, or tune in on an actual radio if you're fortunate enough to live in Portland. I'm also going to be changing the name of the show when that happens, because it's just time. Sit tight; more details forthcoming.

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Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

Chroma - Olor De Muerte - Cuerpos Dóciles - Nada Nada Discos
Aboriginal Voices - Loops - s/t EP - RF Records
The Photographs - Here I Go Again - Second Best 7" - Do Not Bend
Flin Flon - Kamloops - A-OK - Teenbeat
Moss Lime - I Always Get What I Want - Zoo du Quebec - Telephone Explosion
Dancing Cigarettes - Burn in Heaven - The School of Secret Music - Turnstile Media
The Cannanes - Cardboard - Cardboard 7" - self-released
Quango - Fatality - Fatality 7" - First World Problems
Stepping Talk - Common Problems - Alice in Sunderland 7" - Eustone
The Delmontes - Higher & Higher - Carousel - LTM
The Worms - Hollow Day - Everything in Order cassette - Negative Space
Human Switchboard - Fly-In - s/t 7" - Under the Rug
UT - Evangelist - In Gut's House - Blast First
Tough Customer - Tell You Off - The Worst! demo - self-released
Kleenex - Ü - You 7" - Rough Trade
The Units - Cannibals - High Pressure Days 7" - FDH
Witching Waves - Red Light - Crystal Cafe - Happy Happy Birthday to Me
Dislocation Dance - It's So Difficult - Perfectly in Control 7" - New Hormones
The Method Actors - 20XI - Little Figures - Armageddon
Muzak - Ilha Urbana - V/A - Não Wave - Brazilian Post Punk 1982-1988 - Man Recordings
Gentleworms - Alcoholic Racing Car Driver - Number One Beat cassette - Cheap & Nasty
Plastic Idols - I.U.D. - I.U.D. 7" - Vision
Dangerous Birds - Emergency - V/A - Laughing at the Ground 7" - Propeller Product
Dot Dash - Slide - s/t 7" - Fettkakao
Vitamin - Black Sheep - V/A - A Wicked Good Time, Volume Two - Modern Method
B.B. on Mars - Rififi - Shitty But What You Want demo - self-released
Mil Mascaras - I Said So Far - Fuzz 7" - Hozac
Public Eye - The Hours - Mood Change Party - self-released
2x4s - Nowhere to Be Found - V/A - Homework #102 - Hyped2Death

Playlist / 01.25.16

2016-01-25T12:51:00.000-08:00

Amoebas in Chaos

In case your various digital feeds have gotten the best of you & you happened to miss the announcement, it's official: the third issue of Dynamite Hemorrhage zine is in the works & should be in your hands by late spring or early summer. Jay's been kind enough to keep me on as a contributing editor & there are all sorts of amazing things planned for those printed pages, so stay tuned.

Expressway To Yr Skull | 01.25.16 by Alphabetizing on Mixcloud

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Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

The Berlin Wall - Fascism - Where's the Limit? cassette - Midas Tapes
Lime Crush - Never - split 7" with Alte Sau - Fettkakao
Slant 6 - Nights x9 - Soda Pop*Rip Off - Dischord
Chrome - Turned Around - Half Machine Lip Moves - Siren
Black Abba - Lost Dog - Bl'abba cassette - Holotrash
The Delinquents - All Talk & No Action - s/t - Live Wire
Gymslips - Dear Marje - Rocking with the Renees - Abstract Sounds
UV-TV - Lilith - split 7" with Shark Toys - Emotional Response
Algebra Mothers - Modern Noise - Strawberry Cheesecake 7" - Aftertaste
Witching Waves - Seeing Double - Crystal Cafe - Happy Happy Birthday to Me
Boy Trouble - Party Girl - Pink Playtex 7" - Angel of Shame
Helta Skelta - Modern Lover - Beyond the Black Stump - Deranged
Amoebas in Chaos - Computer Card Violence - On to Mayday - Hardly Music
The World - It Takes 2 - Managerial Material 7" - Upset the Rhythm
Le Chemin de la Honte - Les Joies du Metier - s/t - Danger
The Axemen - The Warhead of Love - Three Virgins, Three Versions, Three Visions - Flying Nun
Octagrape - Vertical Slum - Aura Obelisk - Sounds Familyre
Thee Headcoatees - When You Stop Loving Me - Ballad of the Insolent Pup - Damaged Goods
The Nixe - Searching - s/t 7" - Rock Against Records
Spider & the Webs - Inanition (Two Weeks is Too Long) - Spider Magic - Bumpidee
Y Pants - Off the Hook - Off the Hook 7" - 99 Records
Rays - Pain & Sorrow - Soundcloud demos - self-released
Fire Engines - Get Up & Use Me - Lubricate Your Living Room - Pop Aural
The Raincoats - Off Duty Trip - s/t - Kill Rock Stars
Tyrants - Power Signs - Dark Match cassette - Regrets Records
Cyclones - You're So Cool - You're So Cool 7" - Little Ricky
The In Out - Synth Corps - A Living Memorial in Deutschland - Dark Beloved Cloud
Heaven's Gate - Would - Woman at Night - Dull Tools
Young Marble Giants - Final Day - Final Day 7" - Rough Trade
Occult Chemistry - Fire - s/t 7" - Dining Out/Z-I-P Records
The Coolies - Shut Us Out - Kaka - Feeding Tube

Playlist / 12.24.15

2015-12-24T15:48:00.001-08:00

Pylon

2015 was a year & it's almost over now, so here's one last podcast for it. I'm also not joking when I mention sending me a copy of your Dress Up As Natives 7" if you have one & don't want it anymore.

Expressway To Yr Skull | 12.24.15 by Alphabetizing on Mixcloud

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Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

Country Teasers - Thank You God For Making Me An Angel - Satan Is Real Again (Or, Feeling Good About Bad Thoughts) - Crypt
Mansion - Early Life - Early Life - Degenerate Zine
Petty Crime - Closed Eyes - Forfeit Intent EP - Slampt
New Bloods - Cut - s/t 7" - Raw Sugar
Armed Force - Popstar - Popstar 7" - AFI
Sad Horse - Old Daze - Greatest Hits - Mississippi
Dress Up As Natives - You Had to Be There - You Had to Be There 7" - Public Records
Pylon - Driving School - Gyrate - DB
Pang - Attention Deficit - Attention Deficit 7" - Play Pinball
The Frumpies - You'll See - Eunuch Nights 7" - Kill Rock Stars
Sex Tide - Neighborhood Safe Space - Vernacular Splatter - Superdreamer
Kyra - Ego Maniac - Here I Am, I Always Am - M'lady's
Pagans - Street Where Nobody Lives - Street Where Nobody Lives 7" - Drome
Angry Angles - In My Room - split 7" with Digital Leather - Shattered
Maraudeur - I Crave - s/t cassette - self-released
Monik - Maybe I Know - V/A - We Are Not Together - Repsychled
Glueams - Strassen - Strassen 7" - Bachelor Archives
Lazy - Count On You - Time Works 7" - Goodbye Boozy
Unit 4 - Rules - V/A - FM-BX Society Tape 001 - S-S
Shoes This High - A Mess - s/t 7" - Siltbreeze
The Yummy Fur - British Children on Smack - Kinky Cinema - Guided Missile
The Liverbirds - Why Do You Hang Around Me - V/A - Girls in the Garage, Vol. 3 - Romulan
Suburban Wives Club - Guru Eye - Casual Cat at the Laundromat 7" - Music for Moderns
Foster Body - Touching & Moving - Moving Display - Diabolical
The Maxines - White Out - White Out EP - La-Ti-Da
Crap Detectors - Ghost - Diseases on Display - By the Skin of Our Teeth
Felt - When the Dawn Starts Creeping In - A Declaration - Cherry Red
Borzoi - Pinnacle - Pinnacle 7" - Pau Wau
The Vibrarians - Red Light - Red Light 7" - K
Household - A New Leaf - Elaines EP - Dull Knife

Playlist / 11.19.15

2015-11-19T08:49:00.005-08:00

The Cardboards

You have twice as many opportunities to read my words in print this month, as Bull Tongue Review #4 has just escaped the presses & arrived in my mailbox (and likely other people's, too). I take on the semi-recently published book All Ages: The Rise & Fall of Portland Punk Rock, 1977-1981 & if there's such a thing as constructive shit-talking, that's essentially what my contribution is this time around. And as usual, there's a new Maximum Rocknroll on the streets, which, yeah, has my monthly column, but more importantly, features an interview with the Minneapolis Uranium Club Band, who have pretty much smoked anything else to happen musically this year. Be a champ & pick 'em both up.

Expressway To Yr Skull | 11.19.15 by Alphabetizing on Mixcloud

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Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

Crash Course in Science - Kitchen Motors - Cakes in the Home 7" - Go Go
Top Down - Silver Ashes - Silver Ashes EP - self-released
Fatal Microbes - Violence Grows - Violence Grows 7" - Small Wonder
Bodysnatchers - Mystery - Frantic 7" - 540
The Degrads - Transposable DNA - s/t - Cameleon
Vegetable - Castration Frustration - CF Sol 7" - Gilgongo
The Cardboards - On the RTZ - Greatest Hits, Volume 2 - Mom's Records
Wireheads - Boy's Home - Big Issues - Tenth Court
Get Smart! - The Difference - Action Reaction - Fever
Art Yard - Something in Your Eyes - Allston 1981 7" - Ride the Snake
Maraudeur - Bad Morning - s/t - self-released
Immune System - Ambivalence & Sparkplugs - Ambivalence & Sparkplugs 7" - self-released
Lithics - Lizard - s/t demo cassette - self-released
New Girl Art Trend Band - Mis-en-Scene - A Certain Sacrifice cassette - Golden Hour
Suburban Reptiles - Saturday Night Stay at Home - Saturday Night Stay at Home 7" - Vertigo
Laika's Orbit - Anything Better to Do - No Matter What It Takes - Total Negativity
Glaxo Babies - This is Your Life - This is Your Life EP - Heartbeat
Send No Flowers - Playing For Time - Playing For Time 7" - Praxis
Big Bleach - Earth Girl - split cassette with Baghead - self-released
Half Japanese - Little Girls Have to Be Home Early - Our Solar System - Iridescence
Terrible Truths - See Straight - s/t - Bedroom Suck
Lost Cherrees - Consider the Challenge - Unwanted Children EP - Mortarhate
The Suburban Homes - Conformity in the UK - Conformity in the UK 7" - Total Punk
As Mercenárias - Polícia - Cadê As Armas? - Baratos Afins
Jungle Nausea - Sympathy - V/A - Flies Like History - Pigface
Departmentstore Santas - Kaleidoscope - At the Medieval Castle Nineteen 100-Year Lifetimes Since - Superior Viaduct
Black Abba - Betting on Death - Betting on Death 7" - Goner
x_x - A - A 7" - Drome
100 Flowers - Our Fallout - s/t - Happy Squid
Ursula - Relief - s/t demo cassette - self-released
Rosa Yemen - Herpes Simplex - s/t EP - ZE

Playlist / 10.12.15

2015-10-12T11:51:00.001-07:00

Toy Love

Okay, seriously, y'all - who's got the Stateside hook-up on those Vital Idles cassettes? The current dollar-to-pound conversion rate in conjunction with the fact that contemporary UK DIY is generally killing it lately is really hurting my heart.

Expressway To Yr Skull | 10.12.15 by Alphabetizing on Mixcloud

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Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

Terrible Truths - The Coast Is Clear - s/t - Bedroom Suck
The Haskels - Baby Let's French - Taking the City By Storm 7" - Milwaukee Hits
Delta 5 - You - Anticipation 7" - Rough Trade
Hierophants - Nothing Neu - Parallax Error - Goner
Josef K - Sixteen Years - The Only Fun in Town - Postcard
The Visible Targets - Mechanical Man - s/t EP - Park Avenue
Frau - Mira - Mira 7" - self-released
The Shapes - Airline Disaster - Blast Off 7" - Good Vibrations
Actual Crimes - I'm Getting Better - Five Songs cassette - Tunnel Vision
Stripsearch - Galileo - Jesus Over New York 7" - Vinyl Repellant
Toy Love - I Don't Mind - s/t - Deluxe
Boy Spit - Dog PhD - Important Plants EP - self-released
Silver Abuse - Plastic Rows - Fall From Grace 7" - Schwa
Raw Pony - Shattered - Bo Diddley 7" - Heel Turn
Fireplace - Fireplace - V/A - A Manchester Collection: Bands of the Manchester Musicians Collective - Object Music
Erase Errata - Tongue Tied - Other Animals - Troubleman Unlimited
Mozart - Die Slow - The Tick cassette - self-released
The Feelies - Forces At Work - V/A - Ork Records: New York, New York - Numero Group
The World - Managerial Material - Managerial Material - self-released
Turncoats - Waste of Time - V/A - The Fridge Freezer EP - Ridiculous Sharon
Shopping - Straight Lines - Why Choose - Fat Cat
Shrouded Amps - BF5 - s/t EP - self-released
Snapper - Buddy - s/t EP - Flying Nun
The Early Stages - 1992 - Waiting Around for Rides 7" - self-released
Sunday & the Menn - You Cheated - V/A - Girls in the Garage, Vol. 2 - Romulan
Psychic Soviets - Authority Complex - A Whore Lunch/Capitalist Night-Time Breakfast - Number 4 Door
Performing Ferrets - Field of Yellow Flowers - No One Told Us - Hyped2Death
Dame - Charm School - Charm School cassette - Harsh Reality
Vital Idles - Like Life - Demos II - self-released

Playlist / 09.20.15

2015-09-20T15:22:00.001-07:00

Deep Freeze Mice

Despite completely burnt out on social media lately & trying to minimize the amount of time that I spend engaging with it, this month's podcast might include more new releases that any other one that I've done so far this year (although this is mere speculation). Maybe it's an increased ability to focus when I'm not drowning in digital clutter? We'll see how long it lasts.

Also, a minor correction: contrary to what I say in the podcast, the Choo Choo Trains song is actually called "Things You Do", rather than "The One I Love".

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Expressway To Yr Skull | 09.20.15 by Alphabetizing on Mixcloud

Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

Shopping - Wind Up - Why Choose - Fat Cat
Wilma - Fast Fascist - Pornography Lies 7" - Subterranean
Edith Nylon - Hydrostérile - s/t - CBS
Polio Club - Eastern Medicine - Polio Club Tape - self-released
Eyes Behind - I Stumble - La Déclinaison - Jeet Kune

Chris Knox - Break - Seizure - Flying Nun
Tin Twist - Sometimes It's Funny - Sometimes It's Funny 7" - Mo Da Mu
Lithics - African Mask - s/t EP - self-released
The Urge - Babytalk - Bit by Bit 7" - Adolescent
The Aislers Set - Been Hiding - The Last Match - Slumberland
Wireheads - The Year of the Horse - Big Issues - Tenth Court
Great Plains - Letter to a Fanzine - Naked at the Buy, Sell & Trade - Homestead
Gauche - History - Get Away with Gauche cassette - Sister Polygon
Eggplant - Suicidearama - Catboy - Elefant
Primetime - Anyway - Anyway - self-released
Mutating Meltdown - Raised by a Pack of Television Sets - LP - Skrot Up
The Choo Choo Trains - Things You Do - Foggy Motion cassette - Meat n' Tatty
Deep Freeze Mice - Emile Zola - My Geraniums are Bulletproof - Cordelia
Jane From Occupied Europe - Annabel Lee - Ocean Run Dry 7" - 7% Records
The Pandoras - High on a Cloud - It's About Time - Voxx
Kitchen's Floor - Strength - Battle of Brisbane - Hozac
35mm Dreams - More Than This - V/A - Messthetics #2 - Hyped2Death
Tyrants - Initials B.B. - Tyrants First EP - self-released
Tactics - National Health - My Houdini - Larrikin
Wimps - Settling Down - Super Me cassette - Kill Rock Stars
Pussycat Trash - Crushomatic - La La Ovular 7" - Slampt
Mozart - The Monster - The Tick cassette - self-released
Rubella Ballet - Slant & Slide - Ballet Bag cassette - Xntrix
This Heat - A New Kind of Water - Deceit - Rough Trade
Calamari Girls - He Got That Plan on the Tag of the Back of His Jeans - Before Darwin cassette - Hidiotic

Playlist / 08.20.15

2015-08-20T01:54:00.000-07:00

Marie et les Garçons

Did I mention that I got sucked into the Tumblr black hole recently? I'm planning on continuing to post all of my podcasts here, but if you need endless videos of '80s female-fronted post-punk bands to watch while you're bored in a cubicle, or if you want to read my Maximum Rocknroll columns (I just posted my first one over there), you know where else to find me now.

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Expressway To Yr Skull | 08.20.15 by Alphabetizing on Mixcloud

Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

Chandra - Kate - Transportation EP - Cantor
UV-TV - Only Matters When - demo cassette - High Fashion Industries
The Monochrome Set - Inside Your Heart - White Noise: Early Recordings, 1975-1977 - Captured Tracks
Posture - Place - Never Knows Best cassette - Manic Static
Easter & the Totem - We Fade - The Sum is Greater Than Its Parts - S-S
Carambolage - Was Hat Das Für Einen Sinn - s/t - David Volksmund Produktion
Bent - Where's the Fire - Non Soon cassette - Virtual Cool
The Mo-Dettes - Fandango - The Story So Far - Deram
Negative Scanner - Would You Rather - s/t - Trouble in Mind
Essential Logic - Wake Up - Beat Rhythm News (Waddle Ya Play?) - Rough Trade
Look Blue Go Purple - I Don't Want You Anyway - This Is This EP - Flying Nun
Young Identities - Instant Feelings - New Trends 7" - 540
Polio Club - Tricky Witch - s/t cassette - self-released
Catastrophe Bizarre - Furniture - Melodien Für Schöne Stunden cassette - Limbabwe
Beat Frequency - Drew A Tale - split 7" with Cub - Overcome Some
Gauche - Cycles - Get Away With Gauche cassette - Sister Polygon
Diagram Brothers - We Are All Animals - Some Marvels of Modern Science - New Hormones
I.U.D. - Charm - Precious 7" - self-released

Marie et Les Garçons - Attitudes - s/t - Celluloid
Naked Lights - Mostly Bag - On Nature - self-released
Rank/Xerox - Masking Confessions - In A Hole 7" - Mongo Bongo
Knife Pleats - One Step Too Far - Hat Bark Beach - Lost Sound Tapes
The Blank Students - Background Music - V/A - Earcom 1 - Fast Product
Husker Du - In A Free Land - In A Free Land 7" - New Alliance
Terry - Talk About Terry - Talk About Terry 7" - Upset the Rhythm
Lori Sanders - Out of Your Mind - V/A - Girls in the Garage, Vol. 2 - Romulan
Sunday Painters - Something to Do - Something to Do - Terminal/What's Your Rupture?
The Scientists - Swampland - This is My Happy Hour 7" - Au Go Go
C.C.T.V. - Paranoia - s/t 7" - Lumpy
Oh-OK - Playtime - Wow Mini Album 7" - DB

Playlist / 07.12.15

2015-07-12T18:14:00.001-07:00

DA!

Maximum Rocknroll #387 just dropped this week & if you pick one up, my column this time around features some words about new releases from Fleabite & Börn, plus re-examinations of underrated early '80s post-punk EPs from the Side Effects, the Moderates & Voice of the Puppets. Buy or die!

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Expressway To Yr Skull | 07.12.15 by Alphabetizing on Mixcloud

Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

BOB - The Things That You Do - The Things That You Do 7" - Rerun
Vital Idles - Pitching - Demos cassette - Comfortable on a Tightrope
Boys Boys - Control Tower - Monkey Monkey 7" - Pass
Les Princesses - Oh! Dis-Moi - V/A - Girls in the Garage, Vol. 12 - Romulan
Sneaks - X.T.Y. - Gymnastics - Danger
Scissor Girls - Stim-Rspnse - Here Is the "Is Not" - Atavistic
The Terraplanes - Bad Lover - Terraplane Fixation - Hyped to Death
Black Time - More Pricks Than Kicks - Aerial Gobs of Love - Förbjudna Ljud
Reverse - Greed - Synchysis - Whiplash
Naked Lights - Barrel - On Nature - self-released
The Embarrassment - Lifespan - Heyday 1979-83 - Bar/None
The Rats - Can't Stand Back - In A Desperate Red - Whizeagle
Nots - Virgin Mary - Virgin Mary 7" - Goner
The Shop Assistants - All That Ever Mattered - Will Anything Happen - Blue Guitar
DA! - Dark Rooms - Dark Rooms 7" - Autumn
The Normals - Almost Ready - Almost Ready 7" - Last Laugh
Ausmuteants - Echo Beach - Mates Rates 7" - Hozac
The Commercials - Simon - Sixteen Again & Again 7" - Commercial
Twelve Cubic Feet - Hello Howard - Straight Out of Fridge - Namedrop
Shopping - Why Wait? - Why Choose - Fat Cat
Lucrate Milk - James Bond - I Love You Fuck Off - Bondage
Flesh World - Shaved Head - The Wild Animals in My Life - Iron Lung
Protex - I Can't Cope - I Can't Cope 7" - Polydor
Article 58 - Reflections - V/A - Irrationale cassette - Rational
The Dead C - Sky - Harsh '70s Reality - Siltbreeze

Playlist / 06.14.15

2015-06-14T13:15:00.000-07:00

Oil Tasters

I'm really psyched to say that I've recently been coaxed into writing a monthly column for Maximum Rocknroll & you can read the very first installment in glorious print in the current issue (#386!), which features really great interviews with Flesh World & the director of a new documentary on the Slits, among other things. Look forward to examinations of some of my favorite post-punk obscurities from decades past & musings on more recent releases that you should probably seek out if you're not a dummy. Grab a copy here!

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Expressway To Yr Skull | 06.14.15 by Alphabetizing on Mixcloud

Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

Flesh World - Strawberry Bomber - Wild Animals in My Life - Iron Lung
The Mockingbirds - Money - V/A - Vaultage 80: A Vinyl Chapter - Attrix
Wire - Love Ain't Polite - Pink Flag (Japanese Edition) - EMI
Fleabite - Magic 106.7 - TTYL 7" - Puzzle Pieces
Electric Eels - Cyclotron - Agitated 7" - Rough Trade
Lime Crush - It's You - V/A - The Fourth Totally Wired Records Label Compilation - Totally Wired
Real Numbers - Might I See You Tonight - s/t EP - Three Dimensional
Flowers - Confessions - Confessions 7" - Pop Aural
The Fall - Rowche Rumble - Rowche Rumble 7" - Step Forward
Laika's Orbit - What Do You Want Me to Do? - Summer Promo Tape - self-released
Au Pairs - You - You 7" - 021 Records
Aquarian Blood - Savage Mind - Savage Mind 7" - Goner
Hand Grenades - Coma Dos - Demo to London 7" - self-released
The Legends - I'll Come Again - V/A - Back From the Grave, Vol. 1 - Crypt
Börn - Niðurvald - s/t 7" - Total Negativity
The Petticoats - Normal - Normal 7" - Bla Bla Bla
World of Pooh - Scissors - The Land of Thirst - Nuf Sed
Phantom Rides - Inside - Demo One cassette - self-released
Finally Punk - Boyfriend Application - Casual Goths - Army of Bad Luck
The Rosehips - I Shouldn't Have to Say - s/t EP - Subway Organisation
Spray Paint - Fishing - Punters on a Barge - Homeless
Nocturnal Projections - Moving Forward - Nerve Ends in Power Lines - Raffmond
Lost Kids - Alle Taler - Cola Freaks 7" - Sing Sing
Tomboy - Emma - Sweetie - Ride the Snake
The Maggots - 2/2/79 - Let's Get Tammy Wynette 7" - Discourage
Vital Idles - Jeane - Demos cassette - Comfortable on a Tightrope
Oil Tasters - Let Me Sleep on Your Couch - V/A - History in Three Chords - Splunge
25 Cents - Don't Deceive Me - Don't Deceive Me 7" - Flying Nun
Shiny Coin - Green Smoothie - V/A - Living in a Shadow - Vacant Valley
The Go-Betweens - Don't Let Him Come Back - People Say 7" - Able Label
Fish Turned Human - The International - Turkeys in China 7" - Sequel
Housewives - Brown Out - split 7' with Ausmuteants - Total Punk

Playlist / 05.16.15

2015-05-16T15:44:00.001-07:00

Unknown Gender

Sorry to anyone who might have contacted or written to me in the past few weeks & hasn't heard back from me yet - I got hit by a car while I was biking to work exactly one day after I posted my last podcast & I was in an incredibly scattered, Vicodin-induced haze for a bit. I'm finally getting around to playing catch-up, so bear with me! Also, stay tuned for a couple of new secret-for-now projects that I'm currently working on, one of which would greatly benefit from y'all tipping me off to any new music you're making. Talk to me.

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Expressway To Yr Skull | 05.16.15 by Alphabetizing on Mixcloud

Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

Point Being - Degustation - Degustation 7" - Mystic Olympic
Come On - Housewives Play Tennis - New York City 1976-80 - Heliocentric
Disturbed Furniture - Information - Information 7" - Disturbed
Red Red Krovvy - New Year - Global Citizen 7" - Helta Skelta
Emily's Sassy Lime - Soda Jerk - Summer Vacation 7" - Christmas
The Modern Lovers - I Wanna Sleep in Your Arms - The Original Modern Lovers - Bomp!
Sheer Mag - Button Up - II 7" - Katorga Works
What to Wear - We're the Martians Now - V/A - Messthetics #104 - Hyped2Death
Nicolle Meyer - Nowhere Bei Mir - Nowhere Bei Mir 7" - Virgin
Shitfucks - Alla På Bussen - Det Är Ditt Fel 7" - Rör Du Så Dör Du Skivproduktion

Unknown Gender - Little Dictator - An Important Message - Gry Records

The Features - City Scenes - Perfect 7" - Propeller

Midnite Snaxxx - Don't Wake Me Up - Don't Wake Me Up 7" - Total Punk

The Mistakes - 16 Pins - Radiation 7" - Twist & Shout

Circles - Fives & Tens - Shadowgraph - Diminished Arc

Uranium Club - Vanishing Point - The Minneapolis Uranium Club Plays Human Exploration cassette - self-released

Ama-Dots - Silver Crawlers - s/t - Rerun

Shark Toys - Stayed Up - Stayed Up 7" - Felter Skelter

Vexx - Flattened Scenes - Give & Take 7" - Katorga Works

The Wallsockets - Euthanasia - V/A - Four Stars - Sausage

Surveillance - Jonso - Stressed & Depressed EP - self-released

Glorious Strangers - Move It Time - V/A - New York Noise, Vol. 2 - Soul Jazz

The Shifters - Creggan Shops - s/t cassette - Comfort 35

Nervous Patterns - No Control - s/t - Cochon

The Debutantes - Adams Apples - Adams Apples EP - Emotional Response

Alpaca Brothers - The Lie - Legless EP - Flying Nun

Coitus Int. - I Shouldn't Go - Dead Excitement EP - Bunkerpop

Slum of Legs - Doll Like - Doll Like 7" - Tuff Enuff

Rays - Drop Dead (demo) - s/t demo - self-released

Meth Teeth - Bus Rides - Bus Rides 7" - Sweet Rot

Playlist / 04.14.15

2015-04-14T22:04:00.003-07:00

Self Control

Some of y'all have probably noticed that all of the links on this blog to stream or download any of my previous podcasts have been broken & generally non-functioning for the past few weeks. Basically, my old file host (Divshare) had some sort of total network meltdown & all of the shows that I had archived there for the past three or four years were completely wiped out. Thanks to two kind souls by the names of Brett & Jay, I've been able to repost a good chunk of the episodes that were lost (on a different file host & with a brand new streaming player!), but there's still quite a few that I'm missing because I'm a dummy & didn't back anything up in a non-cloud format. So, if any of y'all might happen to have any old downloaded shows that you could share with me, please get in touch at the email address listed on the sidebar & I'll let you know what pieces I'm still needing to collect! I'll even make you a mixtape or something for your troubles.

With that said, here's a new episode! Fuck the cloud.

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Expressway To Yr Skull | 04.14.15 by Alphabetizing on Mixcloud

Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

Sunday Painters - Rebel Rebel - In My Dreams - What's Your Rupture?/Terminal
Honey Bane - Girl on the Run - You Can Be You EP - Crass
Skull Kontrol - Camouflage - Deviate Beyond All Means of Capture - Quarterstick
Crossed Wires - Can't Say No - s/t EP - self-released
The Flatmates - I Don't Care - The Singles EP - Lamia
Juniper - Think & Die Thinking - Think & Die Thinking 7" - Fantastic
The Shifters - Benedictine Man - s/t cassette - Comfort 35
The Degrads - I Saw Bobbie Sobbing in the Lobby - Frontal Lobotomy 7" - Ronto
Amos & Sara - Sexy Terrorist - Sara Goes Pop EP - It's War Boys
Blowdryer - Threadbare - Deprogrammed EP - Manic Static
Dizzy & the Romilars - The Stir - Daily Dose - Medical
Dominadora - No Chill - s/t demo - self-released
Skinned Teen - Dance All Night - V/A - Elastic Jet Mission - Slampt
Las Feas - Children of the Night - Bebes de la Playa Seca - self-released
Self Control - Sometimes - Broken Up - Dancing Sideways
The Scrotum Poles - Night Train - Revelation 7" - Dulc-i-tone
The Nervous Ticks - Purity Control - Skynet - self-released
The Moodists - Gone Dead - Gone Dead 7" - Au Go Go
CCCP-TV - Fear that Mindless - V/A - Propeller Product EP - Propeller
The Trashwomen - Date's On Me - Spend the Night with the Trashwomen - Estrus
Monotony - Luxury Flats - split 7" with Sauna Youth - Upset the Rhythm
Sea Bags - My Cigarette (Is My Only Friend) - V/A - We're Still Pissed - self-released
The Bastards - Impossibilities - Impossibilities 7" - Zaki
Civil Union - My Father Below - My Father Below - self-released
The Mutettes - Shark on the Beach - Leatherette Heart 7" - America's Darling
The Early Stages - Summer in Vermont - Wizard in the Fog 7" - self-released
Fifty Foot Hose - Red the Sign Post - Cauldron - Limelight
Mirrorism - Night Flight - Night Flight 7" - Trouble in Mind
Jesse Garon & the Desperadoes - Splashing Along - Splashing Along 7" - Narodnik
Nancy - (Get the) Revvup - (Get the) Revvup 7" - Eat the Life
The Pinups - The Last Time - V/A - Brisbane Bands of the Early '80s - Brisbane Music Graveyard

Playlist / 03.09.15

2015-03-09T20:01:00.000-07:00

Do y'all have a copy of the second issue of Dynamite Hemorrhage yet? I would hope so, but if not, hop over to that link & pick one up from Jay while the getting is still good. Words stolen from the man himself, regarding the contents of said zine (including my contributions of a bunch of record reviews & a piece on one of my perennial favorite topics, namely female-fronted punk/post-punk):

- An interview and career-spanning retrospective with BILL DIREEN, the New Zealand-based musical iconoclast and creator of some of the most weird and wonderful underground pop music of the last 35 years. Great old photos of Vacuum, Six Impossible Things and more - with Direen's take on his many recordings, bands and general outlook on creation & creativity.

- Tim Warren from Crypt Records, on the eve of two new volumes of the mind-destroying "BACK FROM THE GRAVE" 60s punk compilations, takes us through in profanity-strewn detail how he's been putting these comps together since 1983, and the pain the man has endured to make sure you and I get to hear some of the most raw and rare rocknroll chaos of all time...!

- Interview with bedroom lo-fi pop savants HONEY RADAR, currently making many short, abrasive and lovely mini-masterpieces out of Philadelphia

- Interview with NOTS, raw and slashing earworm punk band from Memphis

- KING TEARS MORTUARY, Sydney, Australia's answer to the question "What would a mix of C86, KBD punk and The Gories sound like?"

- Erika Elizabeth's overview of lost and neglected female-fronted punk and post-punk bands and records you've never heard of

- The Layman's Guide to 1970s Jamaican DUB - an overview of wild, weird and wacked dub reggae created during its peak era, along with ten essential dub recordings, explored

- Interviews with Jon Savage and Stuart Baker on the new PUNK 45 series of archival 70s punk reissues

- 87 record reviews

- 15 book reviews

- Advertisements from today's top hitmaking labels

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Expressway To Yr Skull | 03.09.15 by Alphabetizing on Mixcloud

Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

The Slits - Vindictive - The Peel Sessions EP - Strange Fruit
Uranium Club - The Collector - Human Exploration demo cassette - self-released
The Revillos - No Such Luck - Motorbike Beat 7" - Dindisc
Matrimony - Frantic Romantic - Kitty Finger - Kill Rock Stars
Honey Bucket - Where's Bill Grundy Now? - Honey Bucket Plays the Classics - self-released
Red Tape - Can't Have You - Can't Have You 7" - Ultra Trel
The Stones - Something New - Three Blind Mice - Flying Nun/Captured Tracks
The Buzzcocks - Breakdown - Spiral Scratch EP - New Hormones
Laika's Orbit - Probably Might - s/t demo - self-released
The Minutemen - Paranoid Chant - Paranoid Time EP - SST
Pink Section - Tour of China - Tour of China 7" - self-released
The Gooch Palms - Sleep Disorder - Trackside Daze 7" - Urinal Cake
The Accident - True Detective - Kill the Bee Gees 7" - No Threes
Institute - Giddy Boys - Giddy Boys 7" - Katorga Works
Sado Nation - Messed Up Mixed Up - We're Not Equal - Radiation Reissues
Teardrop Factory - Tastes Like Medicine - Thrash in the Heart - Faux Discx
Culture Shock - Forever & Ever - Forever & Ever 7" - JMR
Thigh Master - Head of the Witch - Head of the Witch 7" - Tenth Court
The Moderates - Yes to the Neutron Bomb - Fetishes EP - Open Eye
Primitive Parts - TV Wheels - TV Wheels 7" - Faux Discx
Silent Noise - Heart to Heart - I've Been Hurt (So Many Times Before) 7" - Easy
Mystery Date - Dreaming in Black & White - Dreaming in Black & White 7" - Three Dimensional
Jason Eddie & the Centremen - What'cha Gonna Do Baby - V/A - Joe Meek Freak Beat - Castle
The New Season - Pure Vision - V/A - Living in a Shadow - Vacant Valley
Halfsour - Lunchroom Punch - split LP with Reports - Ride the Snake
The Meanies - It's True - Waiting for You 7" - Vendetta
Twerps - Adrenaline - Range Anxiety - Merge
Microfilm - Window - Centrefold 7" - Unforgettable Music
Cub - Hello Kitty - Betti-Cola - Mint
Universe People - Chemistry - Are Coming to the Dance - Dragnet

Playlist / 02.04.15

2015-02-04T03:04:00.002-08:00

The Skinnies

I'm turning thirty in a little under two weeks, so with the fact that I've (almost) successfully escaped my twenties in mind, this edition of the radio show goes out to all of my fellow eccentric Aquarians out there, wherever y'all might be. Also, just saying - I will gladly accept any/all birthday gifts of rare off-kilter post-punk singles & wild female-fronted ruckus that y'all want to send me...

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Expressway To Yr Skull | 02.04.15 by Alphabetizing on Mixcloud

Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

Nasal Boys - Hot Love - s/t 7" - Sing Sing
Hierophants - Pneumatic Drill - Pneumatic Drill 7" - Moontown
Bok Bok - Come Back to Me - Come Back to Me 7" - Captured Tracks
Count Vertigo - I'm A Mutant - X Patriots 7" - Mississippi
Witching Waves - Better Run - Fear of Falling Down - Soft Power
The Reactions - Marianne - Love You EP - Reaction
Sunday Painters - Like A Reptile - In My Dreams - What's Your Rupture?/Terminal
Marine Girls - In Love - Beach Party - Cherry Red
The Varicaps - Frustrations - s/t cassette - self-released
Irreparables - Broken Sound - s/t - Nominal
Art Object - Ride the Metro - Ride the Metro 7" - Constant Motion
Börn - Ef - s/t cassette - High Ledges
Popular Mechanics - Gee Why - From Here to Obscurity 7" - Doublethink
Happy Refugees - Ill Wind - Beyond Moth & Rust - self-released
Bonnie Jo Mason - Ringo, I Love You - V/A - Girls in the Garage, Vol. 4 - Romulan
The 'B' Girls - Heartbreaker - Who Says Girls Can't Rock - Other Peoples' Music
Nots - Decadence - We Are Nots - Goner
The Skinnies - I'm A Dullard - Kill the Beat 7" - Last Laugh
Scrabbled - Losing My Way - Welcome to Pig City - Virtual Cool
The Intended - Huguenot - Huguenot 7" - All Gone
Death in the Shopping Malls - Purpose - Man on a Tightrope 7" - Modern Methadone
Zebra Hunt - Call It Off - City Sighs - Tenorio Cotobade
Standing Waves - No Judy - Early Warning 7" - Classified
Silent Era - Rope's End - s/t cassette - self-released
Legal Weapon - Live My Way - No Sorrow EP - Arsenal
The Breakaways - Everyday Things - Walking Out on Love - Alive
The Fireworks - Tightrope - Switch Me On - Shelflife
Mydolls - Nova Grows Up - Nova Grows Up 7" - C.I.A.
Young Canadians - Just A Loser - This Is Your Life EP - Quintessence
Summer Saints - Take A Day - Habit Life - self-released
The Suburban Homes - Pseudo-Intellectuals - The Suburban Homes 7" - Market Square

Playlist / 01.15.15

2015-01-15T13:09:00.001-08:00

Dow Jones & the Industrials

What you get this time around (excerpt): a bunch of songs from 2014 that didn't show up on my doorstep until 2015 rolled around, some classic snotty KBD gems, one of my favorite power-pop songs ever from the Australian/New Zealand axis, bizarre French new wave, giddy Swiss & Austrian post-punk, brand new jangling pop from both American coasts & the sound of me in the throes of a cold and/or a bout with some horrendous seasonal allergies.

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Expressway To Yr Skull | 01.15.15 by Alphabetizing on Mixcloud

Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

Sheer Mag - What You Want - s/t 7" - Wilsuns Recording Company
Comet Gain - The Kids at the Club - Holloway Sweethearts 7" - Soul Static Sound
Rebel Kind - I Wanna Be - Today - Urinal Cake
Pink Kross - No Time for Bimbo - Punk or Die EP - Bouvier
Eyes - Disneyland - V/A - Yes L.A. - Dangerhouse
Sissy - Sail or Rail - s/t cassette - self-released
The Staff - TV Fan - Out of Bounds - Polydor
Flesh World - A Line in Wet Grass - A Line in Wet Grass 7" - Iron Lung
Chin Chin - Dark Days - Sound of the Westway - Mississippi/Slumberland
Lime Crush - Baby - s/t 7" - Fettkakao
Dow Jones & the Industrials - Let's Go Steady - Let's Go Steady 7" - Hardly Music
The Tables - Electricity Bill - Diary EP - Voices of Wonder
Laika's Orbit - Just Perfect - s/t demo - self-released
The Users - (I'm) In Love With Today - Sick of You 7" - Damaged Goods
The Marching Girls - True Love - V/A - Dogs in Space soundtrack - Atlantic
Needle Exchange - Counteract Now - Is This My Program? - self-released
The Music Machine - Double Yellow Line - Best of the Music Machine - Rhino
The Gotobeds - Affection - Poor People Are Revolting - 12XU
Bobby Soxx - Learn to Hate in the '80s - Learn to Hate in the '80s 7" - Cheap Rewards
White Pages - Terms of Endearment - Bam Bam EP - Can't Stand Ya
The Ladybugs - How Do You Do It? - V/A - Girls in the Garage, Vol. 1 - Romulan
Zebra Hunt - Already There - City Sighs - Tenorio Cotobade
The Busy Signals - Do What You Want - Love & Dust EP - Douchemaster
Actual Crimes - Fast (and Unlearned) - s/t demo - self-released
Desperate Bicycles - Smokescreen - Smokescreen 7" - Refill
The Fireworks - Stay Here - Switch Me On - Shelflife
The Urinals - Male Masturbation - Negative Capability... Check It Out! - In the Red
Wilma & the Wilbers - My Guy - Tiger Beat 7" - Bedrock/Breaker
Martyr Privates - Sores - s/t - Bedroom Suck
The Chronics - Calling All Cardinals - V/A - Homework #105 - Hyped2Death
La Peste - Better Off Dead - s/t - Matador

Playlist / 12.20.14

2014-12-20T01:56:00.001-08:00

The Brat

One last show for 2014, with none of that forced "best of the year" nonsense acting as a limitation - if anything, it wound up being unintentionally heavy on releases from 1980, of all years. See y'all (hopefully) in 2015!

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Expressway To Yr Skull | 12.20.14 by Alphabetizing on Mixcloud

Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

The Rondelles - Backstabber - Revenge 7" - K
Testors - Together - Together 7" - Windian
Cleaners From Venus - Renee (Who's Driving Your Car?) - In the Golden Autumn - Captured Tracks
The Gordons - Adults & Children - Future Shock EP - Flying Nun
Germ House - Over/Under - Showing Symptoms - Trouble in Mind
The Screamers - In A Better World - Demos 1977-78 - Sob
Nots - Reactor - We Are Nots - Goner
The McTells - Hold On - V/A - Winter's Mist 2 - Silver Girl
Tyvek - A Hole in My Head - Time Change 7" - Les Disques Steak
The Numbers - Leather Jacket - s/t 7" - Blasto
Boyracer - Pete Shelley - Pete Shelley EP - Emotional Response
Z-Cars - Is There Someone Out There? - This Is Z-Cars 7" - Au Go Go
The Brat - Attitudes - Attitudes EP - Fatima
Proto Idiot - You're Wrong - You're Wrong 7" - Trouble in Mind
The Vultures - You're Not Scared - Good Thing EP - Narodnik
This Sporting Life - Difference - In Limbo EP - Flying Nun
Ausmuteants - Boiling Point - Order of Operation - Goner
Pink Plastic & Panties - Bla-Bla - Bla-Bla 7" - self-released
Sneakers - Condition Red - s/t 7" - Carnivorous
Eastlink - Overtime - s/t - In the Red
Chalk Circle - Subversive Pleasure - Reflection - Mississippi
Naked Spots Dance - Underwater Data - Falling - NSD
Weed Hounds - Best Deli - s/t - Katorga Works
Beyond the Implode - Look Back & Crash - 11th Hour Breakdown - Diverse
The Spelling Mistakes - Hate Me Hate Me - Feel So Good 7" - Sing Sing
A-Frames - Ionic - 2 - S-S
Sex Clark Five - Neita Grew Up Last Night - Neita Grew Up Last Night 7" - Records to Russia
Wet Blankets - TV Suicide - Dieter Caught My Bus 7" - Goodbye Boozy
Revolving Paint Dream - My My, Hey Hey - Off to Heaven - Creation
Dangerloves - Young Pretender - Young Pretender 7" - Static Shock

Playlist / 11.26.14

2014-11-26T20:24:00.000-08:00

Neo Boys

If you haven't done so already, I'd highly encourage y'all to go pick up a copy of the latest issue of Dynamite Hemorrhage, which just arrived from the printers this week! You can order it over at Jay's blog - even if I hadn't done a bunch of writing for this thing, I'd be really excited about it. You'll get to read a number of insightful interviews & articles, plus reviews of enough records to keep your bank account dwindling for awhile. See me gush in print about countless things that I've been playing on these podcasts!

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Expressway To Yr Skull | 11.26.14 by Alphabetizing on Mixcloud

Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

The Cramps - Sunglasses After Dark - Songs the Lord Taught Us - IRS
The Number Ones - I Wish I Was Lonely - s/t - Static Shock
The Dream Dates - Moans on the Phone - Moans on the Phone 7" - Ugly Pop
Frau - Punk is My Boyfriend - Punk is My Boyfriend 7" - Static Shock
The Marauders - Nightmare - V/A - Teenage Shutdown: She'll Hurt You in the End - Teenage Shutdown
Wireheads - Junkie See Junky Do - The Late Great Wireheads - Format
Neo Boys - Give Me the Message - s/t 7" - Trap
Rakta - Tudo Que É Sólido - Tudo Que É Sólido 7" - La Vida es un Mus
Thee Headcoatees - Teenage Kicks - Punk Girls - Sympathy for the Record Industry
Wrecks - Punk is an Attitude - V/A - Not So Quiet on the Western Front - Alternative Tentacles
Ruined Fortune - Black & Red - s/t - Hozac
The Replacements - Takin' A Ride - Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash - Twin/Tone
Sloppy Kisses - New Pompeii - s/t demo - self-released
The Chills - The Hidden Bay - Doledrums 7" - Flying Nun
Cold Circuits - New Annex - V/A - San Francisco is Doomed - Crime on the Moon
The Miracle Workers - One Step Closer to You - Inside Out - Voxx
Leggy - Sweet Teeth - Cavity Castle - self-released
The Bags - Survive - Survive 7" - Dangerhouse
Underpass - Side - Assimilation - Desire
The Photon Band - I Don't Need to Be Told - I Don't Need to Be Told 7" - Compulsiv
The White Wires - No Good For Me - s/t - Douchemaster
Germ House - A Matter of Call - Showing Symptoms - Trouble in Mind
The Pastels - Truck Train Tractor - Truck Train Tractor EP - Glass
Kindling - Given - Spike & Wave 7" - Moon Sounds
Dead Moon - Poor Born - Crack in the System - Tombstone
Neighborhood Brats - Lust to Love - Total Dementia 7" - Dirtnap
Plastix - Konsumier Mich - Konsumier Mich 7" - Danger
Dog Faced Hermans - Balloon Girl - Humans Fly - Calculus
Ethical Debating Society - Hobson's Choice - Hen's Teeth cassette - Tuff Enuff
Jany L. - Le Restaurant Chinois - Le Restaurant Chinois 7" - Germinal

Playlist / 10.26.14

2014-10-26T22:12:00.002-07:00

Bound & Gagged

A sampling of this month's offerings - a few of the bands I'm profiling in my piece for the forthcoming issue of Dynamite Hemorrhage on unsung female-fronted groups of the late '70s/early '80s, some jumpy power-pop, more than one song that's heavily guided by Guided By Voices & a couple of European post-punk obscurities, among other things.

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Expressway To Yr Skull | 10.26.14 by Alphabetizing on Mixcloud

Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

Too Much - Silex Pistols - Silex Pistols 7" - Pathe
Sloppy Kisses - Hang Up - s/t demo - self-released
Bound & Gagged - Clutter - s/t EP - Modern Method
Little Whirls - Marching in Trunks - Sedateness at the Movies - Rok Lok
The Vaselines - The Day I Was A Horse - The Way of the Vaselines - Sub Pop
Crayon - Live With It Baby - Brick Factory - Happy Happy Birthday to Me
The Marmite Sisters - Wouldn't Bother You - Tug EP - Tea Tapes & Records
Snatch - When I'm Bored - s/t - Pandemonium
Crimson Wave - Say - Say 7" - Accidental Guest
They Must Be Russians - Where Have I Seen You - V/A - Hicks From the Sticks - Rockburgh
Landlines - Things Haven't Been the Same (Since You Got Back From Italy) - Log Out, Tune Up, Drop Dead - self-released
Active Ingredients - Bird on Fire - Hyper Exaggeration 7" - Active
The 1-4-5's - Volvo Hatchback - Planetary Annihilation! 7" - Estrus
Honey Radar - Circuit in the Sunlight - Chain Smoking on Easter - Third Uncle
Screaming Sneakers - Violent Days - Marching Orders EP - self-released
Radiator Hospital - Leather & Lace - Torch Song - Salinas
Kandeggina Gang - Sono Cattiva - Sono Cattiva 7" - Cramps
Deep Teens - Surprise Memorial - s/t EP - self-released
The Coneheads - Alien & Warm - s/t cassette - self-released
The M&M's - Knock Knock Knock - I'm Tired 7" - Quark
Weed Hounds - At Night - s/t - Katorga Works
The Moderns - When the Time Comes - The Year of Today EP - 1977
Lost Twin - Under the Sun - Whirlpool - self-released
The Hi-Fi's - Look What You've Done - I Don't Know Why You Love Me 7" - Show Time
Husker Du - Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill - New Day Rising - SST
The Threat - High Cost of Living - V/A - Strange Passion - Cache Cache
The Safe Distance - Sandpits - s/t 7" - Emotional Response
Jessica Six - Souvenir - All Good Things - Act Your Age
Act - Ping Pong - Ping Pong 7" - self-released
Big Flame - Man of Few Syllables - Rigour (1983-1986) - Drag City
Ausmuteants - Freedom of Information - Order of Operation - Goner

Playlist / 09.04.14

2014-09-04T19:26:00.002-07:00

The Frantic Elevators

Posting this one relatively early in the month - will September finally be the month where I bang out more than one of these? Anything could happen.

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Expressway To Yr Skull | 09.04.14 by Alphabetizing on Mixcloud

Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

Eric's Trip - Kiss Me on the Head - Long Days Ride Till Tomorrow - Sappy
Primetime - Tied Down - s/t 7" - La Vida es un Mus
The Paragons - Abba - V/A - Teenage Shutdown: Nobody to Love - Teenage Shutdown
Negative Scanner - Ambitious People - Ambitious People 7" - Trouble in Mind
The Kants - This Book is Deadly - This Book is Deadly - Streetcar Music
The Frantic Elevators - Voice in the Dark - Voice in the Dark 7" - TJM
Arre! Arre! - Silent Treatment - Word on the Street EP - self-released
Real Numbers - You're Breaking Up - s/t 7" - Bachelor
Wasted Lives - Divorce - split 7" with Big Black Puppets - Spoken
Downtown Boys - Work - s/t 7" - Sister Polygon
Chug - Evel Knieval - Sassafras - Alias
Cascadia - Lockpick - Conditionally cassette - Green Burrito
King Tears Mortuary - Face Blind - Asleep at the Wheel of Fortune 7" - Vacant Valley
The Donner Party - John Wilkes Booth - s/t - Cryptovision
Wild Balbina - Stoned Heart - Sisters Before Misters - Elefant
Chit Chat - Don't Go - Never Know EP - self-released
Fast Cars - You're So Funny - The Kids Just Wanna Dance 7" - Streets Ahead
Kitten Forever - Cry Baby - Pressure - Guilt Ridden Pop
The X-Teens - Tonight Tonight - s/t - Dolphin
The Hobbes Fanclub - I Knew You'd Understand - Up at Lagrange - Shelflife
Angel & the Devines - The Octopus - The Octopus 7" - Siana
Staring Problem - Faced - Three Song EP - self-released
Pop Singles - The King - I Know Your Name 7" - Vacant Valley
Trust Fund - Reading the Wrappers - split 12" with Joanna Gruesome - Happy Happy Birthday to Me
Tuxedomoon - No Tears - No Tears EP - Superior Viaduct
Chain & the Gang - Curtain Pull - Minimum Rock n' Roll - Radical Elite

Playlist / 08.21.14

2014-08-21T13:48:00.000-07:00

Family Fodder

If you want something to read while you listen to this latest show, I just did an interview with Jay on his Dynamite Hemorrhage blog (Expressway To Yr Skull's de facto twin brother) about music curation in the digital age. Topics of discussion include why crate digging for records without a smartphone is so exciting, why the current state of online music journalism is kind of terrible & how I spent my teenage years making notes in the margins of music zines with highlighters & pencils.

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Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

Numb Bats - Tummy So Hungry - Gentle Horror - Lolipop
Dreamsalon - Twenty More Days - Thirteen Nights - Captcha
The Nervebreakers - My Girlfriend is a Rock - Politics 7" - Wild Child
Mil Mascaras - She Always Dies - Beko Digital Singles - Beko
Sneaks - This Is - s/t EP - self-released
Devo - Turnaround - Recombo DNA - Rhino
Penny Machine - Loser - s/t cassette - self-released
The Shivvers - Teenline - s/t - Sing Sing
Dumptruck - Perspective - D is for Dumptruck - Big Time
Earth Girls - Wrong Side of History - Wrong Side of History EP - Grave Mistake
Pamela Blue - Hey There Stranger - V/A - Let's Go! Joe Meek's Girls - RPM
Vain Aims - You - You 7" - We Practise in a Garage
Terry Malts - Let You In - Insides EP - Slumberland
Saralee - White Pipes - s/t - Ride the Snake
The Exploding Budgies - Paulsong - V/A - The Last Rumba - Flying Nun
Shopping - For Your Money - V/A - I Know Why the Caged Grrrl Sings - Tuff Enuff
Family Fodder - Debbie Harry - Debbie Harry 7" - Fresh
Z.S.K.A. - Keinen Teddybar - La Surete cassette - Extremmist Cassetten
Wimps - Distraction - Party at the Wrong Time 7" - Help Yourself
The Termites - Tell Me - V/A - Destroy That Boy! More Girls With Guitars - Ace
Fat Creeps - Comes in Loudly - Must Be Nice - Sophomore Lounge
Scientific Americans - G-Stalt - Beyond Rational Thought 7" - Tekno Tunes
Los Cripis - Don't Hurt My Little Sister - Los Cripis Long Play - Unwork
Janis Martin - Bang Bang - That Rockin' Gal - Bear Family
Joanna Gruesome - Coffee Implosion - split 12" with Trust Fund - Happy Happy Birthday to Me
Bette Davis & the Balconettes - Shopping on the Internet - Paul Power T-Shirt EP - Baby Boom
The Poconos - Ten Hour Drive - Days Are Getting Shorter EP - Jigsaw
The Proper Ornaments - Summer's Gone - Wooden Head - Slumberland
The K-Tels - Where Are You? - Automan 7" - Quintessence
Scrawl - Breaker, Breaker - He's Drunk - Rough Trade
Fine Pets - Let's Get Married - No Gaze - Kennel Jitters

Playlist / 07.16.14

2014-07-16T00:58:00.000-07:00

The Plommons

Partial table of contents for this episode: Swedish girls in the '60s garage, contemporary sounds from New Zealand that owe more to Unwound than Flying Nun, lady-centric covers of the Monks & Thin Lizzy, some throwbacks to the glory days of '90s college radio via the Merge & Matador rosters, not one but two all-female Swiss punk combos from the late '70s/early '80s & more than a few hot-off-the-presses noise-pop delights from Argentina, Memphis & a bunch of other spots on your globe.

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Expressway To Yr Skull | 07.16.14 by Alphabetizing on Mixcloud

Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

Butterglory - Trapped - Crumble - Merge
Cold Beat - Mirror - Over Me - Crime on the Moon
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Undertaker - Admonishing the Bishops EP - Matador
The Darlenes - (I'm Afraid) You'll Hurt Me - V/A - Califia: The Songs of Lee Hazlewood - Ace
Nots - Fix - Fix 7" - Goner
The Kick - I Got A Gun - s/t - Static Age
Times New Viking - Little Amps - Present the Paisley Reich - Siltbreeze
Civil Union - We Are a People on a Mission - s/t cassette - self-released
Big Star - Mod Lang - Radio City - Stax
The Minders - Better Things - Cul-de-Sacs & Dead Ends - Elephant 6
Los Cripis - All My Friends Are Dead - Los Cripis Long Play - Unwork
Rose Melberg - Jailbreak - September cassette - Lost Sound
Adrienne Poster - Shang A Doo Lang - Shang A Doo Lang 7" - Decca
Dog Legs - Beast Like Me - V/A - I Know Why the Caged Grrrl Sings - Tuff Enuff
Spray Paint - I Need A Bag - Rodeo Songs - S-S
Guided By Voices - Your Name Is Wild - Under the Bushes, Under the Stars - Matador
Mumbly - 1, 2, I Lost You - Mumblyblue EP - Dufflecoat
Cancers - Dig - Dig 7" - Off the Books/Dirt Cult
Glueams - Mental - Discography - Static Age
Black Tambourine - Throw Aggi Off the Bridge - Complete Recordings - Slumberland
Ye Nuns - Oh, How to Do Now - Nun More Black - Tuff Enuff
28th Day - Pages Turn - s/t - Bring Out Your Dead
Rank/Xerox - Stairs - split cassette with Grass Widow - Wizard Mountain
Low Life - Friends - Dogging - RIP Society
The Plommons - Last Train to Liverpool - V/A - Girls in the Garage, Vol. 3 - Romulan
The Boat People - Capitalist - Capitalist 7" - Stamp & Go
Kleenex Girl Wonder - Julie & Barbara - Graham Smith is the Coolest Person Alive - MOC
Vexx - Stress - s/t - M'lady's
Lush - Baby Talk - Scar EP - 4AD
Acid Fast - Tease - Rabid Moon - Protangonist Music

Playlist / 06.20.14

2014-06-20T02:15:00.002-07:00

39 Clocks

I'm two weeks shy of my one year anniversary in Portland, which also means that I've been doing this scrappy homebound FCC-dodging version of the podcast for nearly a year, too (we won't even get into the eight or so years I spent in the college radio dungeon). Kind of blows my mind, to be honest.

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Expressway To Yr Skull | 06.19.14 by Alphabetizing on Mixcloud

Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

The Photos - Shy - Irene & Barbarellas 7" - Epic
Ye Nuns - Higgledy Piggledy - Nun More Black - Tuff Enuff
Perspex Whiteout - You Turn on My World - You Turn on My World EP - Sunflower
Suburban Lawns - My Boyfriend - Gidget Goes to Hell 7" - Suburban Industrial
The Dishrags - Death in the Family - Love/Hate - Other People's Music
No Ditching - Where You Off To? - Face Ache cassette - Tuff Enuff
Catchers - Dead Friends Fall - Cotton Dress 7" - Setanta
Nikki Sudden & the French Revolution - Great Pharoah - Groove - Creation
The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet - s/t - CBS
Heathers - Dalliance - I Know cassette - self-released
Pink Military - Degenerated Man - Do Animals Believe in God? - Virgin
The Terminals - Frozen Car - Uncoffined - Flying Nun
The Word D - Today is Just Tomorrow's Yesterday - V/A - Acid Visions: Tripping With the Texas Girls - Spalax
Silver Shadows - Say Anything - s/t EP - self-released
Roky Erickson & the Aliens - Two Headed Dog (Red Temple Prayer) - s/t - CBS
39 Clocks - My Tears Will Drown the World - Zoned - de Stijl
Vexx - Clairvoyant - s/t cassette - M'lady's
Playthings - Sit Down - V/A - Time to Go: The Southern Psychedelic Moment, 1981-86 - Flying Nun
Fat Tulips - Where's Clare Grogan Now? - Where's Clare Grogan Now? EP - Heaven
Celia & the Mutations - Mean to Me - Mony Mony 7" - United Artists
Expert Alterations - A Bell - s/t cassette - self-released
Liechtenstein Girl - Hitch - Circus Exhibit 7" - Fluff
The Mustangs - That's For Sure - V/A - Where the Action Is! - Rhino
Nice Try - No Good - Convinced 7" - Madeline Ava
Neu! - After Eight - Neu! 75 - Astralwerks
Fleabite - Shitty Beau - Over It cassette - Puzzle Pieces
As Mercenarias - Imagem - The Beginning of the End of the World - Soul Jazz
The Griefs - Whenever You're Around - Throwing a Tempo Tantrum - Spoonful
The Prissteens - Wild Man - The Hound 7" - Ectoplasm

Playlist / 05.08.14

2014-05-08T11:08:00.001-07:00

Tru Fax & the Insaniacs

Springtime in Portland has me feeling exceedingly restless these days (maybe it's the sunshine, but I'm not entirely sure what to do with myself), so the natural response should be to hang out in my living room & make another podcast, right? I hope so.

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Expressway To Yr Skull | 05.08.14 by Alphabetizing on Mixcloud

Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

The Soft Boys - Fat Man's Son - (I Want to Be An) Anglepoise Lamp 7" - Radar
Bored Games - Joe 90 - Who Killed Colonel Mustard? EP - Flying Nun
Numb Bats - Cry Baby - Cry Baby single - self-released
X-Ray Spex - The Day the World Turned Day Glo - Germ-Free Adolescents - EMI
B Team - Youth Corpse - Buy American EP - self-released
Eureka California - Twin Cities - Crunch - Happy Happy Birthday to Me
Dolly Mixture - Never Let It Go - Dreamism EP - Trattoria
Expert Alterations - Three Signs - s/t cassette - self-released
Tru Fax & the Insaniacs - Washingtron - Mental Decay - Wasp
The Visible Targets - Just for Money - s/t EP - Park Avenue
The Tenants - Submind - V/A - Homework #102 - Hyped2Death
Tunabunny - Good God Awful - Kingdom Technology - Happy Happy Birthday to Me
Protex - Don't Ring Me Up - Don't Ring Me Up 7" - Good Vibrations
The Monochrome Set - He's Frank - Black & White Minstrels, 1975-79 - Cherry Red
Mary Monday & the Bitches - Popgun - I Gave My Punk Jacket to Rickie 7" - Hozac
Trick Mammoth - Week End - Floristry - Fishrider
Holly & the Italians - I Wanna Go Home - The Right to Be Italian - Virgin
Hubble Bubble - Look Around (I Was So Upset) - s/t - Radio Heartbeat
Darlingchemicalia - Felt Goods - Spun in White - A Wicked Company
Baby Doll Lounge - Velocity Girl - V/A - Welcome to the Wetherbeat Scene, 1988-91 - 555
Wireheads - Redheads - s/t - Major Crimes
Victory Acres - A Cup of Coffee, Please - split LP with Joke Flower - Placebo
Crabapple - Loose Ends - Is It You? cassette - self-released
DNA - Not Moving - DNA on DNA - No More
The Umpteens - Turn the Living Room Into a Dancefloor - Turn the Living Room Into a Dance Floor 7" - Monotone
Tweens - Don't Wait Up - s/t cassette - Hard Body Sounds

Playlist / 04.18.14

2014-04-18T15:31:00.001-07:00

Manicured Noise

It's April now! Here's yet another hour & a half shot (give or take) of fucked up psych-garage, blown-out pop fuzz & post-punk paranoia!

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Expressway To Yr Skull | 04.18.14 by Alphabetizing on Mixcloud

Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

Pylon - Functionality - Gyrate Plus - DFA
Good Throb - Acid House - Fuck Off - White Denim/Sabermetric
Erase Errata - How to Tell Yourself From a Television - Other Animals - Troubleman Unlimited
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - I Won't Hurt You - Part One - Reprise
Boomgates - Widow Maker - split 7" with the Bats - Bedroom Suck
Sally Skull - Raven - V/A - In Spelunca - Vesuvius
Fleabite - Last Call - Over It cassette - Puzzle Pieces
Chi-Pig - Ring Around the Collar - V/A - Homework #105 - Hyped2Death
Pang - Young Professionals - Young Professionals 7" - Grazer
Slumber - Night - V/A - Sunny Sunday Smile - Sunday
Opposite Sex - La Rat - s/t - Fishrider
Sightlines - Foreknowledge - split 7" with Crystal Swells - Trbl Fckr/Alarum
Tronics - The Other Man - What's the Hubub Bub? - M'lady's
The Seeds - Can't Seem to Make You Mine - s/t - GNP Crescendo
The In Out - The Stupidity - split 7" with Guinea Worms - Botulism Music
Manicured Noise - Metronome - Metronome 7" - PRE
Eureka California - I Bet You Like Julian Cope - Crunch - Happy Happy Birthday to Me
Darlingchemicalia - Final Girl - Spun in White - A Wicked Company
Wire - Start to Move - Pink Flag - Harvest
Trampoline Team - Feels Like Nothing - Velveteen Dream 7" - Pelican Pow Wow
Youth for a Price - Oh Yeah - V/A - Class of 81 - Propeller/Festival
Burnt Palms - Don't Go - split cassette with Gurr - Very Gun
The Pin Group - When I Tell You - Ambivalence - Flying Nun
Unity Floors - Holy Hell - Exotic Goldfish Blues - Popfrenzy
July - My Clown - s/t - Epic
Blue Orchids - Wait - The Greatest Hit - LTM
The Mentalettes - Lovers' Wasteland - Lovers' Wasteland 7" - Sunny Day

Playlist / 01.29.14

2014-01-29T09:11:00.004-08:00

Th' Faith Healers

Even though I'm being forced to move out of my apartment soon & just looking at my record collection in that context is making me a little nauseous, I managed to finally put this show together right before January disappeared for good. Onward to February!

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Expressway To Yr Skull | 01.29.14 by Alphabetizing on Mixcloud

Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

Mane - Bloodstone - Bloodstone - self-released
Th' Faith Healers - See-Saw - Imaginary Friend - Too Pure
Sad Horse - For Real Now - SH - Curly Cassettes
Gun Outfit - Flyin' Low, Maria - Hard Coming Down - Post Present Medium
The Clean - Big Soft Punch - Vehicle - Flying Nun
The In Out - Agenda - Agenda EP - self-released
Mad Planets - Eavesdrop - Music Makes Me Think of You - Papercut
Household - Calculations - Elaines EP - Dull Knife
Friday & the Girls - An Older Boy - V/A - Acid Visions: Tripping With the Texas Girls - Spalax
Love Cuts - Dream Lover - V/A - The Le Sigh, Vol. 1 - Birdtapes
Flesh World - Reckon & Know - s/t - La Vida Es Un Mus
Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground - Hallowed Ground - Slash
Faux Fur - I Saw You Standing - s/t - self-released
Ausmuteants - Tinnitus - Amusements - Aarght!
April March & the Makers - Bust Out - April March Sings Along With the Makers - Sympathy for the Record Industry
The Prefab Messiahs - (I Met Her) At the Laundromat - Devolver - Burger
The Sufferjets - New Kind of Kick - Spew City cassette - White House
Electrelane - At Sea - No Shouts, No Calls - Too Pure
Slum of Legs - Benetint & Malevolence - s/t cassette - Tuff Enuf
California Lightening - Legosi - V/A - Calling All Kings & Queens - Mr. Lady
Octagrape - Gold & Free - Red UFO - Thing Thing Thing
Talbot Tagora - The Weather Man - Lessons in the Woods Or a City - Hardly Art
Angie - Shadow Twin - Stars & Dust - Turning
The Gamma Rays - Forbidden - Lovely 7" - Teenbeat
Spider & the Webs - Save Me - s/t cassette - self-released
Personnel - Hysteria - s/t EP - Double Dot Dash