Agony Shorthand

In a scene like this you get a contact high - and this scene is filled with heavy hitters like the new records from THE SHEAVES, THE CORDS, MORDECAI, GEE TEE, HONEY RADAR, BILL DIREEN/BILDERS and PUPPET WIPES . To say nothing of this episode's library material from Ike & Tina Turner (pictured) , The Moles, Doris Death, Jeanines, Cheater Slicks , the Electric Eels and a few more besides. T...

Part 216 in our long-running series of highly entertaining music podcasts, full of the sounds of wild youth from many eras - including our own. This time there's a big load of new stuff from HONEY RADAR, MORDECAI, BLUES AMBUSH, FAMOUS MAMMALS, THE SPATULAS, BURNT ENVELOPE, ANONYMOUS CARPETING + a song from that newly-reissued BRIDES LP.....plus Th' Faith Healers, The Chancellors (picture...

What's new? Crazed teen psychosis from ADDED DIMENSIONS, PAPERNIKS, ANONYMOUS CARPETING, AWFUL and FAMOUS MAMMALS is what's new.  There's also reissued dancefloor riot music from TWELVE CUBIC FEET,  PUMICE and a trio of murderers from 1960s Peru. Plus instrumental Velvet Underground, The Insults, Saccharine Trust, Smog, Puritan Guitars and even more. Track listing: ANONYMOUS CARPETI...

Spring is springing and the sound of crude guitar is all around us. Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #214 is mostly about the heavy psych and the ultra-raw no-fi 1960s, but not before we treat you to a feast of new stuff from THE SPATULAS, FAMOUS MAMMALS, AWFUL, THE CELEBRITIES, FLY ASHTRAY and PLEASANTS - plus WRITHING SQUARES and MOUNTAIN MOVERS later in the program. It's a whopper and I tripped a...

Back with an irregularly-scheduled ADULT LISTENING podcast, folks, our 11th. No "theme" this time, but there's a batch of acid/loner folk-rock; brassy no-nonsense female country from '68; greasy early 60s R&B; new stuff from VERDIN BROTHERS and HEX WINDHAM, plus new-ish from ROWLAND TAYLOR; and - of course - ALBINA LIETUVNIKAITE & WORCESTERIO LIETUVISKA ORKESTRA. Track...

A feast of sound from the previous six decades, front-weighted with fantastic new stuff from WRITHING SQUARES, BOG IMP, HELPFUL PEOPLE, I.L.L.O. and SLENDER - plus  more from X, Flying Fish Cove, Parlour Hour, Spanish Dogs, Twinkeyz, Dick Johnson and even more besides. Track listing: BOG IMP - Pinch & Hurry SLENDER - Up In The Air DICK JOHNSON - Stranger in Paris THE WHINES - Lines Between Us...

Recorded on a hot February night in the city, on the streets. Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #212 has some new material from HAPPY BODY and I.L.L.O. , plus a fantastic AVENGERS track (no, the 60s Bakersfield band) from the reissued Lost Innocence comp, and oh man - all sorts of mind-melters beyond those. Clone Defects (pictured) , Television, Pere Ubu, Vivienne Styg, Puzzlehead, Kriminella Gitarrer and...

NEW Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio - they show "they" couldn't kill - is back for 2024 with a 211th episode and more to come after that, I reckon. New stuff here from I.L.L.O. THE SPATULAS, VIOLENT CHANGE, THE CELEBRITIES and SNOOPER , plus a ton of stuff I kinda just found out about like As Sheriff, Bag People, Bärchen Und Die Milchbubis and The Frowning Clouds - and some old chestnut f...

Back with a second episode in a mere two weeks, as promised. RADIO DIES SCREAMING #2 is an hour of raw, free-form, genre-bending sub-underground music from many decades - and features a handful of brand-new releases + a ton of wild music from around the planet in many tongues and forms. Download it, stream it, and wake the town and tell the people. Track listing: VIPARAT PIENGSUWAN - Yok Yok = Jum...

RIP Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio, but hey! Here's RADIO DIES SCREAMING #1, a new podcast destined for another 11 years and 200+ episodes. We're about raw, free-form, genre-bending sub-underground music from many decades. Radio Dies Screaming tackles the dark corners of every continent's music, from dub to afro-funk to DIY punk to R&B to heavy metalloid music.  I'm excited to c...

Inspired by Thurston Moore's new autobiography, which I haven't even finished yet, this is a set of New York City's underground clash of post-punk cultures from the late 70s and early 80s. We'll call it Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #210 - the New York Noise Special Edition , in tribute to the compilations from 20 years ago that helped to bring much of this crazed stuff to many of...

An encyclopedic tour of all that's ever been worth listening to from in the world of recorded sub-underground sound in only 70 minutes - it's Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #209. New stuff from VIOLENT CHANGE, COLLATE, THE CUTICLES, ONYON, LETHAL WEAPON, JEANINES, HEALING & PEACE and more...plus stuff from that final Sonic Youth NYC show; Styrene Money; Kent 3; The Zoomers; crazed female-...

NEW stuff this time around from HEALING & PEACE (Kneeling in Piss! Yes!), SNOOPER, ONYON, FAMOUS MAMMALS, RETAIL SIMPS and CHRIS DURHAM , and a real cornucopia of goodtime, late-summer-vibes library material from Throbbing Gristle, Alastair Galbraith, Olla, The Flesheaters, Chalk Circle, The Minders and too many other mindblowers to mention here. Give it a whirl and then tell a friend! Track l...

Humdinger of a set this time around on Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio - new stuff bursting out from ONYON, SNOOPER, FAMOUS MAMMALS, THE SMASHING TIMES, NON PLUS TEMPS, RETAIL SIMPS, CHRISTOPHER ALAN DURHAM & THE PEACETIME CONSUMERS - plus reissued stuff from the almighty SAINTS, FLAK and BURNT ENVELOPE . Drunks With Guns to really get your feet moving.  And more more more.  Track listing: SNOOPER -...

Way out summer goodtimes this time around on Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio, where we've got new beachtastic material from FAMOUS MAMMALS (pictured) , LEDA, Михаил Минерал, RED PANTS, VOLUNTEERS IN POLICING PROGRAM and more - plus killer reissues from Burnt Envelope and The Dream Syndicate and the usual far-out frenzy of music from deep in the Dynamite Hemorrhage library. Track listing: FAMOUS MAM...

This time Adult Listening spins out a strong and meaty 65 minutes of acoustic solo guitar wizards in the American Primitive tradition - most from the 2020s, with a few buried gems from the past. New and new-ish stuff from ROB NOYES, ETHAN WL, LIAM GRANT (pictured), MATTHEW J. ROLIN, VERDIN BROTHERS, ROWLAND TAYLOR and more. There's nary a word spoken and chords ringing for days. Track listing...

Rubber-limbed punk, distorted avant-no wave, fidelity-challenged home recordings and even an attempt to see if "The Psychedelic Furs" might really once have been the Roxy Music/Velvet Underground hybrid people said they were: it's Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #205. New music this time from VOLUNTEERS IN POLICING PROGRAM, SOCIETY, NUSIDM, HONEY RADAR, BZDET, THE CHIVES + reissues from T...

We're heavying-up on the reissues this episode, with great new or recent unearthings from SHIZUKA (pictured), CRAWLING WITH TARTS, DREAM SYNDICATE, LES ABRANIS, THE PARTICLES and COME , plus truly new stuff from JEANINES, CELL\BORG, LEGLESS TRIALS, DEBT RAG and LENA KEMMLER . Somehow there's an inordinate amount of duos played as well, and we wrap the whole thing up in a mere 62 minutes....

Here's a 60s pop edition of our spin-off podcast ADULT LISTENING - the 9th episode of the program, this time featuring baroque, brassy, big and bouncy pop music from the 1960s. There are artists you're over-familiar with and perhaps some you've never heard over the course of the hour - enjoy this very, very "special edition"! Track listing: THE LEFT BANKE - Goodbye Holly T...

Time to get pitted with another wild helping of sub-underground rnr on the Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio programme. This time I've got new stuff just out from TASTE, DEBT RAG, FLY ASHTRAY, RAT PAWS and JOSNALI , along with old chestnuts & warhorses from Green On Red, Jackknife, Evening Meetings, Sauna Youth, The Mad and more. Surely you've got an hour to listen, or ten minutes to skip th...

It's raining and pouring new releases & new music on Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #202, so much so that it's crowding out the usual reliance on our "old reliables". So free your mind to the cranium-blowing sounds of OLIMPIA SPLENDID (pictured), DEBT RAG, SNOOPER, JOSNALI, RAT PAWS, CINDY, GEE TEE , YANKEE COWBOY and some outstanding reissues to boot. You may also hear bands yo...

Here's to the very first of our next batch of 100 episodes! Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #201 is packed to the gills w/ new stuff from DAN MELCHIOR BAND, LEDA and the CHEATER SLICKS, along with that new VIOLIN SECT reissue + some crazed 60s punk, a few trips to 70s/80s New Zealand, a fantastic new-to-me discovery (IN TIME) and even some SWELL MAPS (pictured). Track listing: VIOLIN SECT - Highday...

For our 200th show we thought we'd mark the occasion in fine style with a subjective selection of the greatest tracks from VELVET UNDERGROUND bootlegs. Ergo, "The Velvet Underground Bootleg Special Edition". Tracks from 8 different bootlegs, spanning 1966-1970. Track listing: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND - Guess I’m Falling In Love (The Velvet Underground and So On) THE VELVET UNDERGROUND...

Enjoy a heaping helping of new sub-underground rocknroll this time around from the likes of the CHEATER SLICKS, LÉGUMES SEX, PIEUVRE, GEE TEE, TRICKS, NON PLUS TEMPS and EQUIPMENT POINTED ANKH - along with demented DIY garbage from the Suburban Lawns (pictured), Jelly Babies, The Fall, Barreracudas, Rough Bunnies and so much more. Track listing: LÉGUMES SEX - Hymne CHEATER SLICKS - The #4 GEE TEE...

Format change? Who said anything about a format change? Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #198 is an hour of sub-underground rocknroll music from the last six decades, and features (for your listening pleasure) new stuff from BZDET, SHOW PINK, CHILDREN MAYBE LATER, BOB DESAULNIERS and more stuff we're just getting around to, like Privacy Issues, Fuzzhead and 14th Wish . And more! Track listing: PRIVA...