April 2010
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Mark Sultan - Icicles $ (Last Gang Records)
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March 2010
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An Uncontrollable Urge Playlist 3/29/10
I am amazing at this. I might have to play some Fat Boys every week until the final episode of An Uncontrollable Urge in May.
* denotes a new release
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Action Swingers, The - Kicked in the Head - Quit While You’re Ahead - Caroline Records
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OH YEAH
I should’ve mentioned this earlier, but I’ll be on the radio tonight. Tonight’s program should be an eclectic mix of sound, including pieces by Soft Machine, Crowbar, Parts & Labor, Xhol Caravan, and … the Fat Boys.
Don’t miss it.
That’s 10 PM until 12 AM, streaming at WMUA.org and broadcasting at 91.1 FM on your radio dial.
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Post Shit Notes - Untitled
Bri’ish trash...
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WatchThe Mummies are the greatest band ever to have existed. No question.
WatchThis isn’t nearly as twee as the beginning would have you think.
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Fucked Up + Duchess Says = yes →
Check out this live recording of Fucked Up, featuring like fifty guitars, a string section, and the girl from Duchess Says. It’s fucking awesome. I wish I could’ve embedded it here, but that seems not to be an option. But head over there, click “regardez,” and watch 20 minutes of excellent live footage.
Hooray for yelling!
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An Uncontrollable Urge Playlist 3/22/10
Another week where I run out of time and can’t get to all the shit I said I’d get to. Crowbar and that Karen Cooper Complex thang? Next week, we’ll say.
Really happy to have dedicated a Butthole Surfers song to someone. I hope Charlotte & Andrea enjoyed that Butthole.
* denotes a new release
# denotes a request
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*Serena-Maneesh -...
An Uncontrollable Urge: Back From the Deadly!!!
I’ve returned from a weekend in New York, and don’t worry, I’ve got the goods. Tonight: Flipper, that Henry Cow I’ve missed playing the past couple of weeks, and perhaps some Karen Cooper Complex?
Tune in, tonight, ten to midnight, only on WMUA, your alternative radio station in the Pioneer Valley, streaming online at WMUA.org and broadcasting live at 91.1 FM.
Maybe, if...
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The White Stripes - Black Math (Live) Under Great...
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Watch“Cadence fucking Weapon.” - elrealslimcorey
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The Hotrats - The Crystal Ship Turn Ons (Fat...
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Serena-Maneesh - Honeyjinx S-M2: Abyss in B Minor...
An Uncontrollable Urge Playlist 3/15/10
Today, when I arrived at the WMUA office, I found a cassette tape in my mailbox. It was from Charlotte, who you may remember as my valentine, and Andrea. They’ve called in to my program many times, asking for me to dedicate whatever song I had just played, or was about to play, to Charlotte. Apparently, they’ve been doing this with a few other DJ’s on the station, and the...
An Uncontrollable Urge: SPRING BREAK, WOOO!!!
While the rest of the university is on Spring Break, I’m stickin’ around for you, because I’m just such a swell guy. Tonight, I’ll be on the air from 10 until midnight, playing those strange, experimental sounds, including pieces by Sonny Sharrock, Can, and Husker Du.
That’s broadcasting and streaming live at 91.1FM and WMUA.org, respectively. And check back...
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Fela Ransome Kuti & The Africa 70 -...
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Dth - I Hope I Can Feel Something Like That One...
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Archie Bronson Outfit - You Have a Right to a...
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This Moment in Black History - Pollen Count Public...
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Black Tambourine - Lazy Heart Black Tambourine...
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Interview with author of GaragePunk History →
Chunklet’s got a pretty interesting interview with the author of the forthcoming trash rock history We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut 1988-2001, Eric Davidson (from New Bomb Turks, by the way). Among the groups Davidson interviewed for the book are Dwarves, Supersuckers, Mummies, Devil Dogs, Oblivians, NBT, Bassholes, Jon Spencer, Gories, Cynics, Didjits, Billy Childish. It...
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An Uncontrollable Urge Playlist 3/8/10
Tonight’s show was vaguely rock-themed, either experimental rock, or experimental music somehow influenced by rock. Got a request for some Kronos Quartet, and while looking through their records, I found a performance of “The Misirlou Twist,” which blew my mind, so even though I had already began playing their rendition of “Purple Haze,” I had to throw that on as...
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Magic Places - In the Conservatory… The...
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An Uncontrollable Urge on Yr Radio
What’s on the queue for tonight’s program of experimental rock music?
So far, two new releases from Cuneiform Records (Algernon, and a new record from Univers Zero!), Sonny Sharrock, Henry Cow, the Butthole Surfers, Sonic Youth, Glenn Branca, Red Krayola, and something new from Acid Mothers Temple.
This gnarly edition of An Uncontrollable Urge airs on WMUA tonight, broadcasting at...
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Mulatu Astatke - Yekatit Timeless (Mochilla)
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Googoosh - Talagh Pomegranates (Finders Keepers)
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Splinters - Splintered Bridges Kick (Double...
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NT - Not DoNT (self-released)
The group...
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WatchPeter Prescott is the man.
An Uncontrollable Urge: Special "Horny" Edition
Alex Hornbeck, of Strange Light, hosts tonight’s edition of An Uncontrollable Urge. Tune in to 91.1 fm or stream it online at WMUA.org from 10 to midnight for Heldon, Morton Subotnick, Alva Noto, hot new jams from Silk Flowers, Flower-Corsano Duo, A F C G T, Indignant Senility, and (probably) loads more!
Thanks to Alex for filling in on such short notice while I’m at home being...
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Capsize 7 - Johnny Falcon Horsefly (Pig Zen...