Today. The 1st in a monthlong series of shows devoted to Part Time Punks' picks for the Best Releases of 2023!
Today: Devoted entirely to the year's best reissues!!
Today: MAXIMUM volume is required!!

This week Nico takes over the Part Time Punks radio show to share some trip hop sounds (Bowery Electric, Sneaker Pimps, No-Man, Portishead) and some heavy shoegaze tracks (Nothing, Starflyer 59, Hum, Deftones). She will also share some tunes from bands she's recently discovered and seen live (Ulrika Spacek, Holy Wave), and bands she's going to see live soon (Spiritualized, QoTSA)!!

Today. Part Time Punks follows up last week's birthday salute to psycheshoegazedelic innovators J. Spaceman and Sonic Boom (aka Jason Pierce and Pete Kember) -- by devoting an afternoon to their lesser-known but equally brilliant REMIX work. First, in the set of remixes that J.Spaceman carried out for other bands, then in a set of remixes Sonic Boom did for other bands, and wrapping the show with a mix of SPIRITUALIZED and SONIC BOOM/SPECTRUM remixes done by the birthday boys themselves. In short, an afternoon engineered for Spacemen ALL...

Today. Part Time Punks has put together a special birthday tribute to a pair of special Scorpios -- psycheshoegazedelic innovators J. Spaceman and Sonic Boom (aka Jason Pierce and Pete Kember) -- who share a birthday, born on the same day: November 19, 1965! So today, expect a mix of their innovative and influential bands: SPACEMEN 3, SPIRITUALIZED and SPECTRUM!

Today. Part Time Punks shifts its focus from vinyl to CDs for an afternoon. (A radical paradigm shift, I realize). So please tune in for a special tribute to the great UK label VOLUME, founded by Rob Deacon. Although largely unknown now (ie completely absent from any streaming formats) this remarkable short-lived label was for a brief while one of the most important and influential labels in the UK. Between 1991-1997 Volume released a series of 17 astounding compilation CDs, each packaged with a CD-sized book, and each containing unreleased tracks by some of the best indie artists of the 1990s, as well as exclusive interviews and photographs with the bands!

Only about a half dozen of the tracks featured on this afternoon's broadcast later resurfaced in other formats (typically b-sides) -- and even less than that popped up on Spinitron here as I was entering the track info -- which means unless you have these original CDs you have most likely never heard most of these tracks! So tune in and turn UP these glorious rarities (courtesy of Part Time Punks)!

(For more information go HERE: https://www.discogs.com/label/1647-Volume.)

Today. Part Time Punks radio show follows up on our previous tribute to John Peel two weeks back to pick up where we left off, keeping the focus on Peel Sessions by innovative post-punk bands with powerful women lead vocalists -- but this time focusing strictly on the bounty of bands that emerged in 1980. All, incredible sounds, and incredibly rare. So tune in and turn it UP.

Today Guest DJ Nico dedicates the show to Elliott Smith, in honor of the 20th anniversary of his passing. We'll hear released tracks, unreleased tracks, and rare tracks by him. We''ll hear music from his days in Heatmiser, and earlier projects, as well as his guest appearances. We'll also listen to artists that inspired him such as Nico (no relation to Guest DJ Nico), Oasis, The Beatles, and more!

October 25th marks the 19th anniversary of the passing of great BBC DJ John Peel. So. Today Part Time Punks offers you an afternoon of Peel Sessions circa 1977-1979 from some of the best punk & post-punk bands of the period -- all featuring powerful women lead vocalists like Ari Up, Siouxsie Sioux, Poly Styrene, Lora Logic, and more...

Today. Part Time Punks focuses its first two hours on some of the best releases of the year -- first, a set of tracks from recent reissues, then a set of brand new music. The final set features a mix of old and new, digging into the dub-influenced and inflected sounds of indie guitar music. So turn tune IN and turn UP the sounds of outer space...

Today. Part Time Punks pays tribute to longtime KXLU listener Randy Walters who passed away last month. Randy got in contact with me this summer asking if I would like to buy his record collection -- pointing out how there were a ton of 4AD originals still in their shrinkwrap which he had only listened to once back when he bought these records and immediately transferred them to cassette. He said he'd been listening to the Part Time Punks show since it began -- and listening to KXLU 88.9FM since the 1970s -- and wanted his beloved records to go to a good and loving home. So today I want to pay tribute to Randy by spending the afternoon with you all listening to this magical stack of his records... These records will continue to be loved, Randy, and you will be greatly missed...

Today Guest DJ Nico takes over to share some tunes she's been listening to lately. We'll hear some music by The Verve, Spiritualized, Dark Star, and Portishead. We'll also hear music by Swans in celebration of the live show they did at the Lodge Room in LA recently, plus some music by Steven Wilson, in celebration of his upcoming album release, and much, much more!!

Today. Part Time Punks presents an(other) afternoon of all-vinyl rarities -- again devoted entirely to the 7" format -- and again in shades of goth, punk and post-punk -- but a completely different playlist of sounds and eras altogether...

Today. Part Time Punks presents an(other) afternoon of all-vinyl rarities -- again devoted entirely to the 7" format -- but this time in shades of goth, punk and post-punk.

Today. Part Time Punks presents an afternoon of all-vinyl rarities -- devoted entirely to the 7" format -- in shades of ethereality, gothicentricity, and grungeousity.

Today Guest DJ Nico takes over the Part Time Punks radio show to celebrate albums that turned 30 (and 20) years old this year!

So far, in 2023, there are a handful of bands experimenting with combining shoegaze with dance and dub textures -- this of course just the latest case of musical history repeating itself (as of course this was first done in the early 1990s in fascinating fashion). So today, Part Time Punks radio show shines a light first on this handful of new bands, then digs deep into the roots of these sounds from the 90s, where layers and loops of noise and distortion were first overlaid with rhythms you could dance to (fast and slow) -- which of course is highly recommended today (unless you're on the freeway of course -- then just keep it LOUD)...

Today. Part Time Punks again trains its focus on some of the best releases of the year -- featuring a dazzling sampling of tracks from a strong set of reissues that have been pouring out this year -- as well as the sounds of nu-grunge, post-punk, and ethereal. PLUS the FM debut of Nico's musical project TOMORROW TOMORROW -- to close the show out -- so make sure and stick around for that!

Today. Part Time Punks devotes another afternoon to some standout new releases of 2023 -- including a jaw-dropping set of brand new shoegaze sounds, a label-focus on the series of 10" records released by the awesome Precious Recordings Of London this year -- AND opening with a special set curated and mixed by our show's tireless engineer --BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP! (And a big thanks to him for his years of work since the Pandemic started and PTP began recording at home! This show would not exist these past few years without him and his efforts!!!)

Today Part Time Punks presents an afternoon-long challenge to your Shazam...with an afternoon of vinyl rarities in the post-punk, goth and synth vein...picked up in various travels across the South- and Middle-West over the last year...

Today Guest DJ Nico takes over the Part Time Punks radio show to do a show featuring music she has been listening to lately. For the first two hours she will explore the music of Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley, George Harrison (of the Beatles), Spiritualized, Spacemen 3, and much more! After that, she will focus in on one of her new favorite artists, Elliott Smith, and do a special hour long set of his music in celebration of what would have been his 54th birthday on August 6th.