Lots of interesting tracks abound today. We’ve got a possible aborist/experimental musician from Burbank who plays a living tree as an instrument as well as a live introduction from my trip to the The Roxy Theater in Los Angeles to see local musician Chance perform. There’s bagpipe music leading into tracks about towns in the Southern California desert, Ennio Morricone influenced pop-folk and some mutinous piratical pub-stomping rock from up the coast in Santa Barbara. We even managed to find a band that recorded their album in San Pedro to tell a tale about a sad crane operator from the Ports of LA, with a brief introduction to the town from one of my liquored up friends who speaks of Bukowski and commerce.

Please enjoy today’s mixtape, so to speak.

TRT: 1:04:12

TRACK LISTING

1] The Mutineers – Hell No
2] California Celts – Hills of Yucca Valley
3] Superhumanoids – Palm Springs (KKS remix)
4] Pepepiano – Millennium Wet Dream
5] Francisco The Man – Broken Arrow
6] Stone Darling – All I Wanna Do
7] The Lonely Wild – Right Side of the Road
8] From Here to LA – Colorado
9] Letting Up Despite Great Faults – Teenage Tide
10] 50FOOTWAVE – Radiant Addict
11] 400 Blows – We Killed Like Champions
12] Codpiece – Lament of the Crane Operator
13] Diego Stocco – Music From a Tree
14] White Apple Tree – Circles
15] Chance – Independent (w/ live intro from The Roxy Theatre – 2011)

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Original Image By debaird @ FLICKR – Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

It’s actually been a crazy few months weatherwise, with the rare tendrils of snow (or graupel as a few local weather-snobs proclaimed) hitting the local Burbank area after a fifty to sixty or so year snow-drought. You’ll hear some crazy expletives at the head of the program in relation to this local action. On top of a record year in the Sierras a lot of rare events have been occurring, amongst some heavy heavy local burtations.

I hope you enjoy our 33rd full length episode.

TRT 58:41, NSFW

TRACK LISTING
1) Foster the People – Helena Beat | Facebook
2) Pic Vicious – Heart of Hearts | Facebook
3) Ballerina Black – Leaves | Facebook
4) Oregon Bike Trails – High School Lover
5) The Smiles – Cala Cola | Facebook
6) Lord Huron – The Stranger | Facebook
7) Hands – Brave Motion | Facebook
8) Romany Rye – Untitled (Love Song) | Facebook
9) Saint Motel – Puzzle Pieces | Facebook
10) The Henry Clay People – California Wildfire | Facebook
11) Tic Tic Boom! – Just Friends | Facebook
12) Airlines – Burial Grounds | Facebook
13) Damon Castillo Band – Your Fool (feat. SLO Symphony) (live) | Facebook

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LINKS
MAIN SOUNDBEDS BY TAPE DECK MOUNTAIN (“P.I.” | “It Goes Down”) & MOGWAI (“San Pedro”)
GOODNIGHT BURBANK (WEBSITE | FACEBOOK)
RATHOLERADIO.ORG
MAIN IMAGE OF MAMMOTH BY LORD HURON
ASSOCIATION OF MUSIC PODCASTING

At the last minute I decided to take the second half of the show and turn it into a dedication to a close friend’s father who passed away in late January, with some appropriate themed space-oriented tracks and mission audio from a few of those who spoke at the service.

At the tail end of the show we explain the sad situation thrust upon our friends up north at KUSF, and the fight they are taking to the FCC in a few weeks to keep Entercom and KUSC from wresting away future controls of their local airwaves through shady backroom dealings.

Turn it up, support your local artists, and please help support KUSF in the next few weeks as your local college or community radio station could get gobbled up next.

TRT 55:45, NSFW

TRACK LISTING
1) Trainwreck – The Drummer | Facebook
2) Trey Green – I Wanna Rcck N Roll | Facebook
3) The Little Heroes – Say I’ll Be Gone | Facebook
4) The Black Watch – Like in the Movies
5) Superhumanoids – Hey Big Bang | Facebook
6) Eulogies – You Hide | Facebook
7) White Lights – Ponzi Scheme | Facebook
8) Boris Smile – Satellites (Soundbed) | Facebook
9) High Places – From Stardust To Sentience | Facebook
10) Building a Better Spaceship – Spacey | Facebook
11) The New Division – Starfield | Facebook
12) Birdmonster – Spaceman | Facebook
13) Sleepless Nights – Radio Silence | Facebook

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LINKS
SAVE KUSF (WEBSITE)
SAVE KUSF (FACEBOOK)
STARDUST MISSION PAGE
MAIN SOUNDBEDS BY AUDIOSURFER:  SUNSET OVER LAGUNA, PACIFIC PARADISE, NOCTURNE
ORIGINAL IMAGE BY HELDER – Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0)

RIFFS & MELODIES
Nico Stai – Dead Pony (w/ short interview @ The Roxy) | Facebook
Kisses – People Can Do the Most Amazing Things | Facebook
The Power Cords – Texas Desert | Facebook
Lelia Broussard – Satellite | Facebook
Paul Avion – Stand Up, Be a Man | Facebook
A Book About Elephants – Copper Kettles | Facebook
El Ten Eleven – Indian Winter | Facebook
Downtown/Union – Keep the Engine Running | Facebook
Radars to the Sky – Mirror | Facebook
American Royalty – Lately | Facebook
AWOLNATION – MF | Facebook
Kyle Jester – LA | Facebook

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Some of the bands featured today have moved on, but that doesn’t mean the music is retired. Many of the groups here are quite active and are putting out new albums, while one or two have been around since the beginnings of the LA metal scene. Styles run the gamut from traditional metal to grindcore, including other metal influenced styles of rock. embellished with plenty of operatic screams for your enjoyment. It just wouldn’t be a proper show if it wasn’t replete with death growls for you closer to the finale, ripped out of the pages of your old Dungeons & Dragons campaign and recorded in bloody howling stereo.

TRT: 1:20:16. NSFW

FEATURED ARTISTS
The Plague Within – Fearless (clip)
W.A.S.P. – Long Way to Go
Fydolla Ho – Untied
Holy Grail – My Last Attack
PeepHole – New Set of Eyes
Black Flame 13 – Lindsay Lohan
Testing Tomorrow – Grip
Canobliss – Hit the Floor
Jagged Thought Process – Smirking (Tastes Like Floor)
Death Riders – Crucifixation
In This Moment – Beautiful Tragedy
Warner Drive – Lost
Black Chapel – Sands of Time
Prototype – Synthespian
A Race Called Man – Drifter
Crescent Shield – The Last of My Kind
Never Like The Movies – Ballad of the Horde
Ghostbuster – I Just Walked Two Miles With a Banana In My Pocket

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