Agony Shorthand

Track listing for the newest Agony Shorthand pretend radio programme: HOLT BODISH - Half Sunset DEBT RAG - Gary’s World MASSACRE - Subway Heart PIGGY BANK - False Reality UNWANTED CHRISTMAS PRESENTS - Industrial Death PIRANHAS - Piranhas Attack GAUNT - Jim Motherfucker THE SHAKLEFORDS - The Wonderer THE COBRAS - Goodbye THE HAIREM - She Wants a Piece of You U.F.O. - Run Away Boy BARKING SPYDERS -...

New stuff from LEGLESS TRIALS, RETAIL SIMPS, ARTIFICIAL GO, SAN KAZAKGASCAR, BUNGEE JUMPERS, CUTICLES and stuff I'd never heard before from The Essex Green (pictured) , Jonny Greenwood and more.  Track listing: SAN KAZAKGASCAR - Billionaire’s Shrug PIGGY BANK - Unknown Head BUNGEE JUMPERS - SMD CUTICLES - Incredible Ed Sheeran LEGLESS TRIALS - Complex ROYAL TRUX - Gold Dust (demo) MEAT PUPPET...

After months wandering in the wilderness, we're back with a 4th edition of the program. This one's all new material, and by "new" I mean = came out within the past 20 or so months. And some is so new it literally came out of the oven 20 minutes ago. All of it is highly, highly worthy of your time and investment over the next 76 minutes. Track listing: DEBT RAG - Solar Shirt BLU...

Too much adrenaline, junk shop glam, drugs in high school, giant girls in fifth grade, a fulfilled request from our trivia winner - and so, so much more.  Track listing: YUASA-EXIDE - A Hundred Bucks HONEYCOMBAK - Sex Change Sadie THE ARBORS - Love is a Groovy Game ANNA ST. CLAIR - L’Amour a Travers et a Tort FAUST - It’s a Bit of a Pain TINA HARVEY - I’m Waiting For The Man THE DICKS - Dicks Hate...

Traveling the dark corners of DIY sound, from psych to solo guitar to punk to abstract pop to folk to heavy metalloid music – and other corners besides. Track listing: OKAY TEMIZ TRIO - Batum VIA - 1,000 M.P.H. PUPPET WIPES - Having Ceremony Over His Wife’s Corpse EXPLICIT CORPSE - I Gotta Gistol THE STROKE - He’s Gone SUBVERSE - Still Friends TINA FULKER - Midweek Girl ROWLAND TAYLOR - Roughshod...

There's a new music podcast, and it's called Agony Shorthand . The host is Jay, and when you listen, you shall understand what it's all about and why it exists. (let it be said that it is not dissimilar from other podcasts once created by the same host).  TELEVISION - Horizontal Ascension LOS LLAMARADA - Something In My Head WALNUT BRAIN - Cabin 4 3 TOED SLOTH - Spark DANNY AND THE...

Great to be back, just ignore the "razor blade throat" and listen to new stuff from Burnt Envelope , Eraser , Sun Cousto , Jeanines and Honey Radar , and gems from the library from the likes of Space Dust (pictured), Big Boys , Growth , BPeople and France .  Track listing: BURNT ENVELOPE - The Plugs JEANINES - What’s Lost WORLD OF POOH - Lock Yr Room HONEY RADAR - Chelsea Frame SPACE DUS...

New material abounds this time around - FLEAS OF MERCY, GRAPHIC VIOLETS, ERASER, NOWHERE FLOWER, HEAVY MOTHER II, CHRIS BROKAW, PAPER JAYS, PHARDAH, ADDED DIMENSIONS and THE OBLIQUES - plus newly unearthed stuff from World of Pooh and Nice Smile . Track listing: ERASER - Talk To Me GRAPHIC VIOLETS - Broken Simulation ADDED DIMENSIONS - Time Blind WORLD OF POOH - Straw Man FLEAS OF MERCY - A Spell...

It has been a while, and don't we know it. Radio Dies Screaming #12 hopefully minds the gap w/ new stuff from Miranda Spatula & Nowhere Flower, The Obliques, Water Damage, Verdin Brothers + those fantastic World of Pooh and Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 reissues. There are other musical performances that you may find comfort the afflicted, while others that might afflict the comfortabl...

Track listing: NOWHERE FLOWER - Inside a Flower BRIDGET HAYDEN & THE APPARITIONS - Lovely on the Water TICKAWINDA - Cold and Raw DEPARTMENTSTORE SANTAS - Lost at Sea HOSE - Mobo SHOP REGULARS - Mischief LES LOUPS NOIRS - One Two For The Rock HONEY RADAR - Song For The Medical Mission Sisters OSTRAALY - Blind Melon (live in Jillong) NICK AND THE NOD - A Palace of Fords THE SPITS - Life of Crime...

It may be unpredictable in nature and timing, but you know that Radio Dies Screaming will almost always bring it when it counts. Sorry for the long delay. Here's a new episode with new stuff from KROPPSKÄNNEDOM, INDEX FOR WORKING MUSIK, DON HOWLAND & THE CHEATER SLICKS, VOYEUR’S MARKET and some new never-issued stuff from LES RAZILLES DENUDES and HARDWARE . There's more besides that...

This time we've got a bunch of reissues, a tribute to Tanzanian label Zaius Tapes and new stuff from Emily Robb, Yuasa-Exide, Fruited Planes + more. Track listing: FRUITED PLANES - Out of Reach TERRY REED - On Way To Alpha STEPHEN DAVID HEITKOTTER - Hanging All Night JIM SHEPARD - Pull The Switch, Henry MAHOGANY BRAIN - Silkskin Dawn PETER J. COX - Stinkin’ Rich THE ‘FRONTS - Whale Tale AMBIE...

Track listing: JIM SHEPARD - Peter Tork DAUGHTER OF THE VINE - Cosmic Eye THE CHERRY BLOSSOMS - Stars of Tennessee MEMPHIS GOONS - San Antonio Desert THE EXPRESSIONS - Return To Innocence NOBODY’S CHILDREN - Mother’s Tin Moustache MATTHEW J. ROLIN - Triangle HALL OF FAME - Motion Passings SPACEMEN 3 - Transparent Radiation (demo) OSTRAALY - Launceston GWENIFER RAYMOND - Hell For Certain (live) SAM...

THE SUBMISSIVES - Can’t You See GHOST BELLS - Bead Line THE WHITEFRONTS - World’s Fair THE GOBLINS - We Like The Rain STEFAN CHRISTENSEN - Cat’s Song MIKE GANGLOFF & C JOYNES - Rapid City WASNT WISNT - Jandek Hat HARMONIA - Watussi SUN RA - Some Blues But Not The Kind That’s Blue MATTHEW J ROLIN - Tilt HIGH RISE - Ikon

Continuing with variations on a theme, Radio Dies Screaming no.6 expands the boundaries of psych, folk and heavy metalloid music to bring you new material from THE CHERRY BLOSSOMS, JAKE BLANCHARD, WILL VEEDER and the VERDIN BROTHERS , with other things that are, like, new to me such as Wasnt Wisnt . In 69 minutes you'll be requesting another helping, I assure you. Track listing: PARAMETER - H...

Spaced-out sojourns and raw, unvarnished heavy metalloid music - it's Radio Dies Screaming #5, with new material from WILL VEEDER, ROCK CANDY, THE BIG NEST, THE SUBMISSIVES and a mindblower of a track from WATER DAMAGE that's, at this writing, a mere five days old. Track listing: THE BIG NEST - Sacro Bosco WILL VEEDER - The Lost and Found EDDY DETROIT - Mephisto Cigars THE SUBMISSIVES -...

Back so soon? Well, yeah - and with new material bursting at the seams from ROCK CANDY , VERDIN BROTHERS , LAURITZ SKEIDSVOLLS RAPID LIGHT , ETHAN WL and BASIC - plus high-quality head-rearranging reissues from Black Artists Group, Bardo Pond and Ostraaly . Track listing: BARDO POND - The Trail BASIC - For Stars of the Air ROCK CANDY - Across a Mirage EMILY ROBB - There It Goes Again 75 DOLLAR BIL...

Intermittent spin-off podcast Radio Dies Screaming episode #3, with hypnotic psych, solo guitar, astral folk, blown-out noise and wandering muses of many kinds. Note - I got caught in autocorrect hell and back-announced TRUCULENT as "TRANSLUCENT".  Track listing: TRUCULENT - St. Andrew’s Cross STEFAN CHRISTENSEN - Wishes For My Well THE BLACK ROSE - Love Handles EMBRYO INFINITY REBIRTH -...

ARTIFICIAL GO - Pay Phone THE GABYS - Ode VELVET UNDERGROUND - I’m Set Free (Closet Mix) THE MYSTIC TIDE - Mystery Ship KILYNN LUNSFORD - Terminator Baby XYX - Pan de Muerto THE DOUBLE - Dawn of the Double (edit) GUIDING LIGHT - Magpie S.M.E.F. - At Least We’re Here THE VACANT LOT - Multinationals PANTY RAID - Hot N’ Horny ETHAN WL - Hold Up Your Arms on the Red Cross SOPHIE COOPER - Klias Wetland...

Everything you always wanted in 62 minutes of sub-underground rocknroll music from the last six decades - and less. New material from GUIDING LIGHT, FEELING FIGURES, S.M.E.F, WORKERS COMP, THE GABYS, STEFAN CHRISTENSEN, BILDERS, GEE TEE and THE SUTROS too - plus old hits and favorites from The Fall, Smexmec, Peer Group, The Penetrators, Mole House, Giant Sand and more. Track listing: GUIDING LIGHT...

One great thing about aging is that the teenaged/twentysomething notion of “guilty pleasures” eventually grinds itself into nothingness, until there’s only pleasure and no guilt. At least that’s true as far as music is concerned. Now I was never one of those schmoes who ultimately copped to some quiet Steely Dan or Fleetwood Mac obsession, but man did I fall hard for 1960s French female “Yé-Yé” po...

A milestone 220th episode featuring new material from THE SUTROS (pictured), WORKERS COMP, MORDECAI, WATER DAMAGE , the CHEATER SLICKS and THE SPATULAS , plus stuff I ripped off of YouTube; heavy psych, spazzoid punk and more. Track listing: WORKERS COMP - Never Have I Ever MORDECAI - Divine Sea VIOLENT CHANGE - Conduction Wire THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282 - Every Day MOUNTAIN MOVERS - The Oth...

Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #219 is the first of an intermittent series of "wind it up and let it go" episodes - focused on a genre, sound or timeframe, and with minimal talking from me aside from a brief intro. This one's about the hallowed 1977-82 period of Los Angeles punk , from the Masque scene to the beaches & the pits - only 100% first-rate, high-quality, loud/fast music fo...

New discoveries and new releases and heaviness all around. WATER DAMAGE, CHEATER SLICKS, QUIETUS, WORKERS COMP, MONOCOT, BLUES AMBUSH, PUPPET WIPES and that new Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 reissue - and that's just the new stuff. Track listing: THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282 - Flames Up WORKERS COMP - Pick and Choose CHEATER SLICKS - I Am Low BENDERS - Can’t Tame Me DEATH OF SAMANTHA -...

Time once again to break some sort of mold and cobble together a riveting Adult Listening podcast full of bent Americana, rambunctious R&B, solo guitar meanderings, brassy girl-group wallop and gentle folk whispers. New -ish stuff on the table from RYAN DAVIS & THE ROADHOUSE BAND, NICK SCHILLACE, MATTHEW J. ROLIN and DOUGIE POOLE - among other old gems and new favorites. Track listing: RYA...