Thanks to all you listeners who tune into (or catch it archived) the radio show Listen Up! during this past year.

Let’s share some time listening to some 2018 faves this week and next.

Some Faves of 2018. Music treats I dug from the past year

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Playlist (Artist -Title- Album – Year of song)

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level – Experiment Zero – 1996

Playlist
Khruangbin – Maria Tambien-Con Todo El Mundo-2018
Gaye Su Akyol – Laziko -İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir-2018
Melody’s Echo Chamber – Quand Les Larmes D’un Ange Font Danser La Neige- Bon Voyage- 2018

Richard Reed Parry – Gentle Pulsing Dust –Quiet River of Dust, Vol. 1-2018
Spiritualized – I’m Your Man –And Nothing Hurt-2018
Idris Ackamoor and The Pyramids – Message To My People-An Angel Fell-2018

Neko Case – Hell-On-Hell-On-2018
Cat Power – Black –Wanderer-2018
Kyle Craft- The Rager –Full Circle Nightmare-2018
Low Cut Connie – Beverly –Dirty Pictures (Part 2)-2018

Superchunk – Erasure – What a Time to Be Alive-2018
Cold Meat – Nice Girls –Pork Sword Fever-2018
RunHideFight- He’s A Jerk -Hidden Volume 7″ single-2018
Albert Hammond Jr – Set To Attack –Francis Trouble-2018

Cowboy Junkies – The Things We Do To Each Other –All That Reckoning-2018
Ry Cooder – Jesus and Woody –Prodigal Son – 2018
Mount Eerie – Tintin In Tibet –Now Only-2018

Caroline Rose – Jeannie Becomes A Mom – LONER – 2018
The Grip Weeds – Mr. Nervous –Trip Around the Sun-2018
The Bangles – Jet Fighter-3×4: The Bangles, The Three O’Clock, The Dream Syndicate, Rain Parade -2018

Parquet Courts – Back To Earth –Wide Awake!-2018
The Chills – Bad Sugar –Snow Bound-2018
Ty Segall – My Ladys on Fire –Freedoms Goblin-2018

Janelle Monae – Americans-Dirty Computer-2018

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It is that time of year again. Grab the nog, sport the Santa hats and reindeer antlers, trim the tree and join the Xmess party.

Listen Up! is getting into the holiday spirit with the annual collection of offbeat, cool and zany seasonal musical treats as well as to occasional solemn nod to the season.

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Playlist (Artist -Title)

The Tail Draggers – Let’s Talk About Claus
The Fleshtones – Hooray For Santa Claus
Flat Duo Jets – Christmas Time (Hey We’re Gonna Rock)
Jimmy Butler – Trim Your Tree

Linda Cassidy – Is Santa Claus A Hippy
Homer & Jethro – Santa Claus (The Original Hippie)
Buzz Zeemer – Psychedelic Santa
Apples In Stereo – Holiday Mood
The Residents – Fire (Santa Dog)

Lord Nelson – A Party For Santa Claus (Trinidad & Tobago)
Lou Monte with Hugo Winterhalter’s Orchestra & Chorus – Italian Jingle Bells
Pala Brothers Orchestra – Sausage and Sauerkraut

Jack Scott – There’s Trouble Brewing
Honey & The Bees – Jing Jing A Ling
Joe Jack Talcum – Santa, Take Me Off Your List
Mojo Nixon – Sleigh Ride
Sharon Jones & Dap-Kings – Ain’t No Chimney In The Ghetto
National Lampoon – Down The Dial To Kung Fu Christmas

Ernestine Schumann-Heink – Silent Night Stille Nacht

The Both – You’re A Gift
Graham Parker – Christmas Is For Mugs
The Minus 5 – Yule Tide Me Over

The Dollyrots – Because I’m Santa
The Sterilles – Mrs. Claus Has Menopause
Glam Chops – Countdown To Christmas
The Schizophonics – Christmas Casbah Party
Television City – The Night Johnny Thunders Saved Christmas

Clyde Lasley – Santa Came Home Drunk
Everly Brothers – Christmas Eve Can Kill You
The Handsome Family – So Much Wine

Butterbeans & Sue – Papa Ain’t No Santa Claus
Kay Martin & Her Body Guards – Santa’s Doing The Horizontal Twist
The Bellrays – Poor Old Rudolph

NRBQ – Christmas Wish

Listen Up! is going international with a trek around the world filled with various sounds from practically every continent.

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Playlist (Artist -Title –Album – Year of song)
William Onyeabor (Nigeria) – Better Change Your Mind – Various: World Psychedelic Classics 3 – Love’s a Real Thing – The Funky Fuzzy Sounds Of West Africa – 1978
Rawayana (Venezuela) – Entre Tus Sábanas-Trippy Caribbean-2016
Almendra (argentina) – Trema De Pototo-Various ‎– Love, Peace & Poetry – Latin American Psychedelic Music – 1969
Black Beats (india) – The Mod Trade-Various ‎– Simla Beat 71-1971
Wanderleia (Brazil) – Vou Lhe Contar (Pushing Too Hard)- Various: Brazilian 60’s Nuggets I
Carola (Finland)-Jo Riittaa!! (The Last Time)-Jo Riittaa!! / Hunajainen-1965
Mari Atsumi (japan) – Suki Yo Ai Shite-1970
Sume (Greenland) – Efterar-Sumut-1973
Bonnie Dobson (Canada) – I Got Stung-Bonnie Dobson-1969
Brigitte Fontaine (France)-Brigitte-Brigitte Fontaine -1972
Gaye Su Akyol (Turkey)-Laziko-Istikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir-2018
Tinariwen-Sastanaqqam-Elwan-2017
Freedoms Children (South Africa)-1999- Various: Love, Peace And Poetry (African Psychedelic Music)V-1971
Amon Duul II (Germany)-Archangels Thunderbird-Yeti-1970
Our Solar System (sweden)-En Bit Av Det Tredje Klotet-Origins-2018
Juan De La Cruz ( Philippines)-Shake Your Brains –Himig Natin-1973
I Chewing Gum (Italy) – Senti questa chitarra-Senti questa chitarra/Tu Sei Al Buio-1968
Dug Dug’s (Mexico)- Brillo De Sol-Los Dug Dug’s-1971
Kaleidoscope (Dominican Republic)- Colours-Various – Love, Peace & Poetry – Latin American Psychedelic Music-1969
Conjunto Hi-Fi (Portugal)- Crystals and Trees –Various – Portuguese Nuggets Vol 3: A Trip To 60’s Portuguese Psych, Surf And Garage Rock-1968
Soyol Erdene (Mongolia)- Minii sarnai –
Rachid and Fethi (algeria)-Habit En Ich-Various- 1970’s Algerian Folk and Pop-1976
The Son Of P.M. ( Thailand)- Lhow Lenum-Shadow Music Of Thailand
Super Eagles (Gambia)- Loves a Real Thing –Various: World Psychedelic Classics 3 – Love’s a Real Thing – The Funky Fuzzy Sounds Of West Africa –1969
Tinglado 13 (Spain) – I Miss You – Various: Atenshion! Refleshion! (Spanish Psychedelic Grooves, 1967 – 1976)-1975
Illes (hungary)- Nehez az ut-Nehez az ut-1968
Otis Waygood (Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) – Ten Light Claps And A Scream –
David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto – World Citizen-WORLD CITIZEN – i won’t be disappointed -2003

Meshing known and unknown platters of sound into a mind melting cocktail called Listen Up!

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Playlist

The Go-Betweens – You Won’t Find It Again

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Playlist
Dick Kent – Maker Of Smooth Music
Bongwater – Free Love Messes Up My Life
The Flat Five – Almond Grove
NRBQ – Housekeeping

Rickie Lee Jones – Sunshine Superman
Young Fresh Fellows – Mad John’s Escape
George Washington Brown – Donovan’s Colours
Gosdin Brothers – Catch The Wind
Donovan – Divine Daze of Deathless Delight

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – She’s On It/Jack The Ripper
Caroline Rose – Soul No. 5
The Checkerlads – Shake Yourself Down
Dee Dee Sharp – Gravy, For My Mashed Potatoes

Shocking Blue – Send Me A Postcard
Nirvana – Love Buzz
Thee Oh Sees – Penetrating Eye

Terry Dolan – Rainbow
Mountain Goats – Bridge Of Sighs
Anna St. Louis – Walkin’ With Jesus
Spacemen 3 – I Love You

The Creatures of The Golden Dawn – cy-o-nide
The Above – Flake Out
The Dartells – Hot Pastrami
The Oxfords – It Serves You Right

The Saints – Lipstick On Your Collar
The Tough Shits – Nice Rock ‘n’ Roll
The Velvet Underground – Temptation Inside Your Heart
Kyle Craft – Fake Magic Angel
David Nance & Simon Joyner – Angie

The Woggles – Do Just What I Say
The Romantics – When I Look in Your Eyes
The Vibrators – Whips & Furs

Dave Dudley – Coffee Coffee Coffee

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Listen Up! plays those stark, cold analog synth sounds of the 70s and 80s

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Playlist

Silver Apples – Oscillations
Be Bop Deluxe – Electrical Language
Drinking Electricity – Good Times

Kraftwerk – Computer World
Gay Cat Park – I’m A Vocoder

Throbbing Gristle – Hot On The Heels of Love
Bruce Haack – Mean Old Devil
Stereo – Somewhere In The Night

Kym Amps – You Don’t Know My Name (But I Know You)
Eurythmics – English Summer
Andie Oppenheimer – New Mexico

Raymond Scott – Don’t Beat Your Wife Every Night (with announcer)
The Residents – Shut Up Shut Up
Suicide – Dream Baby Dream

Tubeway Army – Down In The Park
Visage – Mind Of A Toy
John Foxx – A New Kind Of Man
Ultravox – Dancing With Tears In My Eyes

Futurisk – Meteoright
Linear Movement – On The Screen
The Human League – Being Boiled
Japan – Methods of Dance
YMO – Gradated Grey

Brain Eno – Everything Emerges With The Night

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This week, Listen Up! digs up punk rock pebbles and moldy new wave nuggets from the late 70s/early 80s (or close enough).

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Playlist

Alley Cats – Nothing Means Nothing Anymore
The Runaways – Thunder
The Dils – Mr. Big
The Plugz – Achin’

The Pop – Animal Eyes
The Quick – Pretty Please Me
The Lyres – I Want To Help You Ann
Classic Ruins – Geraldine I Need Money (More Than I Need You)

The Del Fuegos – I Always Call You Back
Manikins – I Never Thought I’d Find Someone Who Would Be So Kind

Blam Blam Blam – There Is No Depression n New Zealand
Jerks – Get Your Woofing Dog Off Me
Karanteeni – Vihaan John Travolta
Ice & The Iced – Polyschyzophrenya
Las Vulpees – Me Gusta Ser Una Zorra
Spelling Missteaks – Popstar

The Embarrassment – Sex Drive
The Dictators – Cars and Girls
The Dickies – Give It Back
The A’s – Teenage Jerk Off

Agent Orange – Bloodstains
Mission Of Burma – That’s When I Reach For My Revolver
No Trend – Teen Love

Human Sexual Response – Jackie Onassis
Ronnie And Rayguns – Nancy’s China
Maggots – Tammy Wynette

The Essentials – Turn Off Your Radio
Dennis The Menace – Go Go Wah Wah
The Bats – Popgun
The Jetz – Catch Me
The Basics – Sexual Object
The Neighborhoods – No Place Like Home

The Mumps – Crocodile Tears

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This week on Listen Up!, Hooks, riffs, harmonies, fat chords, and more!

Big Mess Orchestra – More Than A Feeling
Jellyfish – Joining A Fan Club
The Lemon Twigs – Never In My Arms, Always In My Heart
Warm Soda – Run Away With Me

Tommy Keene – Places That Are Gone
Dan Kibler – Times When
Teenage Fanclub – Sparky’s Dream

The Like – I Can See It In Your Eyes
The Music Explosion – Sunshine Games

Brunetta & Her Balubas – Baluba Shake
The Fleshtones – Whatever It Takes
The Woogles – Do Just What I Say
The Flowerz – Flyte

Green Pajamas- Walking in the Rain
Dovers – She’s Not Just Anybody
REM – Near Wild Heaven

Big Star – Motel Blues
Mark James – Suspicious Minds
Todd Rundgren – Couldn’t I Just Tell You
Raspberries – Tonight

Superchunk – Art Class
The Names – It’s A Miracle
Cheap Trick – Surrender

Jon Brion – Voices

Material Issue – Diane
Quitty and the Don’ts – (She’s Gonna) Break Your Heart
Flamin’ Groovies – Please Please Girl
Let’s Active – Room With A View
The Plimsouls – A Million Miles Away

Hoodoo Gurus – Bittersweet

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This Halloween tune your radio dial to 92.9fm or stream if via your favorite device. What better way to celebrate the Day of the Dead than with People Who Have Died. (Almost) all day, our music shows are only playing artists that are dead.   Tune in and dig sweet sounds from the great beyond.

It all begins at 2pm following Democracy Now! (noon-1) and The Missing Branch (1-2).

Listen Up! with Tom Casetta kicks it off from 2-4pm followed by Jim Bear (The Sunday Vibe ) at 4pm. Reade McCardell (FEWSH ) keeps the celebration going from 6-8pm and Joanna  (The Sunday Mix Tape) keeps it going from 9-10pm. At 10pm, it is time for Get Over The Hump to take you to the midnight hour.

Listen Up! Playlist

Dead Moon – Graveyard
Jim Carroll Band – Black Romance
The Gun Club -The Fire of Love
Sensational Alex Harvey Band – Swampsnake

Gene Vincent – Race With Devil
Johnny Lee Hooker – Boom Boom
Eddie Cochran – Twenty Flight Rock
Esquirita – Gettin’ Plenty of Lovin

Badfinger – Carry On Till Tomorrow
Alex Chilton – EMI Song (Smile For Me)
Chris Bell – You And Your Sister
Game Theory – Red Baron

Gene Clark – Why Not Your Baby
Harry NIlsson – Don’t Forget Me
John Lennon – Hold On

Dead Boys – All This And More
The Ramones – Judy Is A Punk
The Cramps – Human Fly

Uriah Heep – The Wizard
Robert Calvert – Widow Maker
Mick Ronson – Only After Dark
T Rex – Mambo Sun

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band – Moonlight On Vermont

Syd Barrett – No Good Trying
Kevin Ayers – Eleanor’s Cake (Which Ate Her)
Tim Buckley – Phantasmagoria in Two

Small Faces – Up the Wooden Hills to Bedfordshire
Gram Parsons – In My Hour Of Darkness
Sandy Denny – Who Knows Where The Time Goes
Johnny Thunders – You Can’t Put Your Arms Around A Memory

Nick Drake – Time Has Told Me

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Garage rock, rock & roll, three-chord wonders, snarl, snotty punk,/post-punk, glam stompers, art-damaged weirdos, phasing and fuzz, sludge, trash ,paisley, black, velvet and leather, feedback, beads, and safety-pins, drippy mascara, psych rock…obscurities & rarities, past and present, and assorted goo goo muck.

The Seeds – Evil Hoodoo
The Cramps – Garbageman
Oblvians – Call The Police
The Schizophonics- Ooga Boogo Boogaloo
The Up – Sister Sister (Sisters Rising)

Kurt Baker Combo – A Girl Like You

The 5,6,7,8’s – 19th Nervous Breakdown
The A-Bones – Rock The Boat
Soft White Underbelly-Betty Lou’s Got A New Pair Shoes

RunHideFight – Because I Love You
Paul Revere & The Raiders – I’m Not Your Stepping Stone
The Nomads – (I Can’t Use) The Stuff I Used To Use
Alice Cooper – Return Of The Spiders
The Spiders – No Price Tag

The Professionals – 1-2-3
Pale Lips – 1-2-3
The Speedies – !-2-3
`1910 Fruitgum Co. 1-2-3 Red Light

The Equals – You Got Too Many Boyfriends
Vertebrats – Left In The Dark
Thee Mighty Ceasars – You Make Me Die

The Beat – Rock N Roll Girl
The Muffs – Weird Boy Next Door
Warm Soda – When Your Eyes Meet Mine
Baby Shakes- Turn It Up

The Saints – Wild About You
Radio Birdman – Hand Of Law
The Jags – Don’t Tell Me
Amyl and The Sniffers- Balaclava Lover Boogie

The Love Society – You Know How I Feel (And Why)
Boyfriends – You’re The One
The Hall Monitors – Mercy Mercy Mercy Me

Jim Dickinson – Dixie Fried

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