The Entroporium

Summer has finally arrived, so my special guest DJ Oddman brought in his personal selection of the very best in lo-fi summer jams. Artists featured include THE DIRTBOMBS, the late great JAY REATARD, THEE OH SEES, NOBUNNY (pictured), BASS DRUM OF DEATH and many more. (There’s plenty of time for “many more” when the average track duration is roughly 1:48.) Plus hear the answer to the eternal question, “What the heck is garage rock?”

Joined in studio by DJ Bunnystyle and Dr. Sleep from the fine indie/dance show Dots & Loops, we go through this year’s artist roster and demonstrate that a “techno festival” has a much wider variety of styles than that rubric would imply. Not just techno, but classic disco, pop, and some ugly dubstep sounds that will probably make you throw up.

Two hours of fun & frolic to celebrate the End Of The World, coming May 21. Pop’s greatest moments of apocalypse, terror, rapture and nuclear fear.

First in a proposed occasional series, this episode dives deep into one of the most unique-sounding and enduring albums of the last 25 years. Starting with the beat that launched a million hip-hop sides, I examine how Public Enemy mixed history, revolution and musique concrete to create a masterpiece.

To celebrate the return of Elvis Costello and his Spinning Songbook, we’ll take a deep dive into Elvis’s back pages. I trawl through Elvis’s more recent, less widely known albums as well as take a walk through the tons of ‘bonus material’ from the many reissues of his classic LPs. When you get called on stage and the wheel hits on ‘REQUEST!’, you don’t want to be the lame-o who asks for Pump It Up, right?

The Rock’N’Roll Nurse took over The Entroporium for a week with a truly geeky look at the music, the manifestos, and the manic energy of a group of bands from the early 1990s lumped together as “Riot Grrrl” by a misinformed media.

In addition to stalwarts BRATMOBILE, BIKINI KILL, and SLEATER-KINNEY, the RNRN will play selections from some of the bands who set the stage for the female-fueled rebellion like X-RAY SPEX, the SLITS, YOKO ONO, the RUNAWAYS, and many others. Revolution Grrrl Style Now!!!

As a Valentine’s Day gift, my wife’s all-time favorite band Duran Duran is the subject of this week’s episode. As always in my artist profiles, I begin with a bunch of roots and influences to set the landscape. Then – believe it or not – I’ve got a ton of rarities, alternate mixes and other Duran-related stuff that might just surprise you. The wife joined me in studio to keep me in line.

In this episode, I explore the cover song through the good graces of my colleagues at The Chemung County Enlightenment Society, a global ragtag group of music dorks that tried to do the impossible last year: narrow down their favorite covers to just 10 each, then post to a shared folder. This show dives deep into that folder and finds treasures both weird and wonderful.

Best known as the leader of Berkeley’s Rancid, Armstrong is one of the biggest-selling and most influential figures in pop-punk over the last 15 years. He has been a key member of Operation Ivy, Rancid, Lars Frederiksen & The Bastards and The Transplants, among others. As a producer and songwriter, he’s been a hit machine for artists better known as popsters than punkers, like Pink and Gwen Stefani.