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The Freeform Pathogen

Jan 4, 2021 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

With Mike Lupica

Freeform radio for creative weirdos and deskbound dreamers. A sonic one-stop for Acid Dub, Beardo Bhangra, Micro-Folk Turntablism, Krautdrone, Cambodian Synthwave, Glam Pop, Art-Damaged Metal, Electro-Stoner Jazz, Proto Soul-Punk, DIY Hip-Hop, Psychedelic EDM, Minimalist Power Violence, Pre-Hipster NYC Weirdcore, and Afro-Hillbilly Futurism. Up and down this goddam dial since 1992.

Three for the Road

Welcome newcomers and the usual Monday night pitcrew!
Refresh this page to see the most recently played songs, and join the chat to say hello.

The Doomsday Pantry Cam (above) is back in action this week, or you can click here to open it in a new tab.

8:04 PM		Strafe Set It Off Set it Off 12" Jus Born 1984
8:12 PM		Salvo 1000 Possibilities Cooking the Books EP Last Minute 2005
8:16 PM		Mr. Lif Return of the B-Boy I Phantom Def Jux 2002
8:19 PM		Ennio Morricone Svolta Definitiva Città Violenta (Soundtrack) RCA 1970
8:24 PM		Baeshi Bang Janggi Taryeong N Digital Single Muju Records 2020
8:29 PM		The Savage Rose A Trial In Our Native Town In the Plain Polydor 1968
8:35 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
8:43 PM		Mudhoney Burn in Clean 7" Sub Pop 1989
8:46 PM		The Mummies Stronger than Dirt Never Been Caught LP Telstar 1992
8:48 PM		The Ruts Backbiter The Crack Virgin Records 1979
8:51 PM		Steve Wynn Milky White Decade 11xCD Box Set
8:56 PM		Radio Birdman The Man With the Golden Helmet Radios Appear LP Trafalgar 1977
9:02 PM		Little Richard Spreadin' Natta, What's the Matter? The Rill Thing LP Reprise 1970
9:06 PM		ABBA Ring Ring The Magic of ABBA K-Tel 1980
9:10 PM		Juana Molina Cara De Espejo N Anrmal LP Crammed Discs 2020
9:14 PM		Ramones Bad Brain Road To Ruin Sire 1978
9:17 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
9:25 PM		Alex Chilton Come On Honey + I Wish I Could Meet Elvis Free Again: The "1970" Sessions Omnivore Recordings 2011
9:32 PM		Cheap Trick Waiting for the Man / Heroin 7" Epic 1996
9:38 PM		Tamar Aphek Show Me Your Pretty Side N All Bets Are Off EXAG' Records 2020
9:42 PM		Schwabinggrad Ballett Under Control S/T Staubgold 2005
9:46 PM		Nuisance Nicotine Confusion Hill LP Lookout! 1991
9:51 PM		Cozy Cole Caravan (Parts 1 and 2) 7" Grand Award 1959
9:55 PM		Negativland Failure N The World Will Decide Seeland 2020
10:00 PM		The Stanford University Marching Band White Punks on Dope Starting Salary: $22,275.00 LP Embo 1979
10:03 PM		Unwound No Tech! Challenge For a Civilized Society Kill Rock Stars 1998
10:05 PM		Melvins Youth of America Sludge Glamorous EP From the Nursery 2010
10:14 PM		Soggy Waiting for the War Soggy Outer Battery 2016 Re-up, orig. 1981
10:16 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:27 PM		The Specials Man At C&A More Specials LP Two Tone 1980
10:30 PM		Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings This Land is Your Land N I Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Rendition Was In Daptone 2020
10:34 PM		Thatcher On Acid Yo Yo Man 7" K Records 1992
10:40 PM		Madvillain All Caps Madvillainy Stones Throw 2004 RIP MF DOOM.
10:43 PM		Madvillain Meat Grinder Madvillainy Stones Throw 2004 RIP MF DOOM
10:46 PM		The Rolling Stones Torn and Frayed Exile On Main St. Polydor Records 1972
10:49 PM		Kitty Kalen Someday 7"
10:52 PM		Mark Farina Everyday Om_100 3xLP

Chat is archived.

HERE FOR THE SMACK TALK

Will be dishin' in short order!

Happy New Year DJ Mike & DJ Commie Francis!

How are things is the Doom Pantry?

Same to you, Christine! I will be attempting to execute all of Woody Guthrie's new years resolutions right here before 11 PM.

happy new year! set it off, why dontcha?

Hell yeah, Esoterica! This song was MY MIDDLE SCHOOL ON-THE-BUS JAM.

Hey DJ Esoterica 👋

hi, mike, commie, and christine! this i priceless info. some things you want to keep close to the vest but this is all-out exuberantly great to share!

Healthy New Year to us all!!

Wait are you taking a bath on webcam?

Happy & Healthy 2021 to you all, DJ Mike, Commie, Christine, Mr. M!

No, Commie. I checked the box that said "Appropriate for Children."

Thanks Teresa! And welcome MrM!

Hey Teresa & MrM! 💀

DJ MikeLupica! Looking forward to the show! Off to a great start! I hope WebCam is plugged in this week! Outlet on the ceiling! Extension cord it!

Yes, I ripped down the extension cord that was powering our outdoor Chirstmas lights earlier this afternoon, so we should have juice to carry us through 11 PM.

Hello monsieur malcontent

Play that Ennio track AWL NITE LONGUE.

Hmmm Mike L replicating Esoterica playlist again / right E - if u still on chat :)

Greetings and Salutations, DJ CommieFrancis!!

Esoterica knows I've been ripping off her show for the last three years, at least. We have a cash-for-cred agreement. All above board, I swear.

This Baeshi Bang is bangin'.

@Jimbeaux, would that I could!

Hi Christine Duffy! 💿 🎶

This Charles Bronson/Telly Savalas vehicle from 1970 has the Italian title "Violent City" but is better known for its American title "The Family". "Svolta Definitiva" means basically "(Definitive) Turning Point".

Hahaha more like great minds think ....

Hola Mike! Great show so far. 3 year old daughter was grooving to Mr Lif

Hello, TeresaPeacock!

Yo Travis! Great to see you here!

Cheers to DJ Esoterica!

Hello Mr. M! Hello Christine! Hello Esoterica! Hello Mark! Hello Commie and Hello Travis

OK, human sacrifice time!

Hello Ms Teresa : happy new year!

hi, all! this is great stuff! and no, mark, I actually rip off mike l. !

music goes perfect with candles - ouji board time time?

Haha that is if u had advance perk at his playlist :)

Isn't this GREAT? So spooky! So witchy!

I really thought this was Death Valley Girls!

Space Cowboy, I think that violates YouTube's TOS.

* peek

Ha! Jimbeaux!

yes, ouija! all they way

Jimbeaux -- Right?!

So goooooood!

This song was one of my top ten musical revelations of the early 21st century. No shit.

Candles & ouija board should b in doom pantry !

You mean in EVERY doom pantry, right?

That's a good platform for someone running for elected office: Candles and a Ouija Board in every Doom Pantry!

Doom Pantry essential items for a rainy day, for Armageddon, when you're bored and out of nutmeg...

Maybe my platform if/when run for elected office / will appeal to PRB voter bloc

Please wipe Vaseline from camera lens. Thanks.

Mike is just naturally barbara walters blurry

Teresa coulda helped u w translation !

I am the opposite, right after the show I am PUMPED and cannot sleep.

My show that is

seattle!

oh yeah!

Cool.

i was staying at my pal td's apartment on avenue b in 1988 and guess who was also staying there? the dudes from MUDHONEY. i didn't know how major they were eat the time haha

*at

@ eso were they cool ?

HaHAHa @CommieFrancis “Barbara Walters Blurry”

How could they not be!

yeah they were!

mudhoney from movie hype -" our moms say were not losers"

DJ Mike, you may collapse in exhaustion after your show, but you make it look easy.

Oh it's the 90s all right

Still doing it, proof in the pudding.

shouldnt mike be dancing to this - I mean if your gonna have camera

OO-oo-oo! I know how old DJ Mike is! And I sorta kinda remember his birthday... (at least what month it's in... ) Holy crap! I lived basically right around the corner from you in 1988, Esoterica! Kismet!

rambunctious garage rock is the best!

Frug time?

@christine - NICE !

definitely a frugable song

FRUG FEE IS $15 PER FRUG.

(Sorry, just trying to "monetize my content")

Absolutely, Christine! I started Frug-ing during the Ennio Morricone

Do you take Bitcoin?

Bwah!

I keep hearing "Black Friday, you're a loser!"

love this song! wow. YOU'RE cool, teresa! i was just visiting from California. first time to avenue b...

Steve Wynn: Making rock & roll dreams come true for 40 years.

At least.

totally, he was touring with the dream syndicate with mott the hoople april 2019 saw them at the kewsick - steve wynn dressed like a sixties pop dandy - so cool

Hello DJ Mike!

LOVE this band!

Avenue B near Seattle infamous occupied CHOP zone ?

For a while in the early naughty aughties, he was gigging constantly around NYC. Saw many brain-meltingly-good shows of his, but maybe the best was he and his band doing all of "The Days of Wine & Roses" at Mantitoba's 3 days before 9/11.

Hey Bo! Welcome!

wow... great memories

I saw Stiff Little Fingers at the Village Underground that same weekend. A less poignant memory.

i didn't know mike could do funk - this would require the funky chicken dance

as per scribed by dr don cornelius

I would've flamed out pretty bad on Soul Train, Space Cowboy.

this song rn af

yeah that would have been great !!! soul train dance line ------ and then mike lupica - sweet lol

Hell yeah. Rock n roll was invented by a gay black man from Georgia and don't you forget it!

And the world is forever in his debt.

one of my friends figured out who don corneilus agent was and called to wish don cormeulus a hppy birthday on his birth day was at work bored---- funny but true

ahh like the juxtaposition - but it works

... somehow

Nice one. Can we just dedicate tonight's show to Don Cornelius? Hereo of my after school TV watching childhood.

ABBA tho yo

ABBA is Un-Fuck-With-Able.

K-TEL LYFE.

I have joey levine's office number but I'm too scared to call

and now teh idea of mike lupika somehow being transported to the soul train bewilderedly trying to fake his way through the soul train dance line!!!

I've been stressing a little because there is a small ABBA museum in stockholm but it's $27 and also i can't leave the country

abba museum -- sooo worth it- even just to say you went to the abba museum

holy s** i googled it its real!

$27 though that's $35 canadian.

Run to everything ABBA

Who am I kidding though, I'd go

i dunno kinda still worth it - what did you do in Stockholm? went to the abba museamu

I would crowdfund your admission. Not yr sweden tix, tho.

how the hell do you fill a museum with abba stuff --

pardon me while i email friends about this new discovery

I got the mob 47 garanterat mängel record and got some licorice and went to the abba museum

ABBA MUSEUM. #WOULDGO.

new tab.....

TELL THE WORLD SPACE COWBOY

i must...

Don't go to Abba-Zaba candy bar museum by accident

i mean the r & r museaum is cheesy in a bad way - but this is funny /good

I mean i would feel ok if I did

someday abba album side.... on wprb

rawk!!!

I feel like Juana got overshadowed by abba but i mean it's abba.That was great though.

Bad Brain. No treat!

are there going to be guests on mike show tonight/....

My kids keep telling me to TURN IT DOWN.

ill say it again rAWK!!

Tell them it's character-building.

@JIMisnt that supposed to be in reverse

its legal...

does amybody remember seeing the ramones movie?

It's a long way back to germany

thats funny ...

older brothers record collection scan be revelations

By the ramones movie do you mean rock n roll high school?

yep

I do remember seeing that!

yeah screw the rules break out the ktel

no way the little richard abba thing worked

@commie =- yeah i gotta rewatch that - been so long

agreed

Play more Radio Birdman please!

Ok so the bo batsignals are undertones and any band from Australia

And protex

btw Mike NOT NOW NEVER WAS

Terrific banter tonight

@Commie the COMMIEdian ;)

Wait, is there another Ramones movie?

Ramones 2: Electric Boogaloo?

Yes the other ramones movie was fictional entourage one: I wanna b sedated / pretty good couple of episodes

Christine, adding ":2 Electric Boogaloo" to nearly everything has been my most overabused punchline for 30 years.

I'm guilty of overuse also (see below).

Pretty sludgy for CT!

Totally... Live in '74!

Really. Pretty cool for sure.

I'll watch / listen to anything Cheap Trick-related. Even the web episode of them playing on "Live at Darryl's House" (Darryl Hall) smokes.

Saw them around 15 years ago and had a disturbing revelation: "The Flame" isn't actually a bad song.

agreed- plus bun e carlos rules

Is that cheap trick from when they recorded with Steve albini?

Oh wait it's not

BUT does everyone know that in the 90s they re-recorded in color with albini? As well as a new album that they actually released.

Yes, and that Albini mix of "In Color" SHREDS.

Oh did he just remix it? Regardless yeah it's fantastic.

Sorry, no, it was a re-recording. CT was apparently unhappy with the way "In Color" came out, so they burned through some already paid for studio time with Albini to turn it into the punk record it always deserved to be.

helllooo just popping in to listen for a bit!!!

Yo Peppa! Good to see you here!

It's Peppa! 🍭🍭🍭🐖🐖🐖 Check out her show!

jimbeaux how do you get the lollipop emojis?!

Hey Peppa! Good show on Saturday!

oh! thank you Commie Francis!

Yay Negativland! DJ Tim was playing a couple Negativland on his show earlier.

Just found them in my limited range on busted up phone 🍭🍭🍭 Peppa

Negativland, like Devo before them, was right. About everything.

Scarily correct.

apparently chaos has broken out..

GOOD!!!

I had a huge argument with an English person about whether this song was about heroin or weed

I enjoy the show.

Hey Jim! Good to see ya!

Also this rules

Only marching band versions of songs allowed moving forward.

Marching band versions and kazoo versions

@jim yeah!

sh*t I have to find that marching band record now

new tab....

Moving side to side OK, synchronously.

That marching band record is the shit. Read up on them, they're nuts!

Kazoo and mouth harp versions.

The Stanford Marching Band, ythat is.

Some unfortunate sexual misconduct allegations recently.

YOUTH OF AMERICA

...and wax paper over pocket comb versions of Wipers.

done I'll record it tonight

I dare say this cover is better than the original. It is 100% muscle.

It's unusual for me to like the less aggressive version but no i like the stupid long original best. This is great though.

Original is such a barn-burner.

Definitely not disrespecting the Wipers. This is a faithful cover, but it just hits harder,

In a good way.

Especially that part right there.

Also, I will take this opportunity to express my disappointment that no one has commented upon my Radio Shack t-shirt which I wore special just for tonight's webcam.

Sorry, couldn't see it.

Hard to tell with your mood lighting!

Just flashed y'alls.

Most of the time it appears you're disintegrating as if being teleported from the USS Enterprise.

THAT IS THE DESIRED EFFECT.

I can't wait for Doomsday Pantry T shirts.

You have achieved optimal pixelation.

and due to the modern wonders of the internet - the stanford marching band album is on its way to me!

Dang cowboy!

Watched some of the soggy live video you mentioned, Mike, and it is distinctly Nicky/DIY Big Blast energy

Spaced out shit Cowboy!

UNWOUND ❤️ Yay! I missed it. Boo.

Saw Melvins once. They quit after 20 min...weren't feeling it that night. No bloody shoes.

Peppa, totally! Nicky unchecked for 20 more years will = Soggy.

Specials FOREVER!

The closest i came to seeing the Melvins was leif garrett showed up at my birthday show after singing with them.

He was not prepared for my birthday show.

Leif Garrett...still exciting!

My friend who is like an 8 foot tall crusty frankenstein looking guy outsiders fanboyed all over him

#BestPartOfStory

I think this was the same general era of ny when Mike saw them, was that late 90s mike?

this album name rn af

Did you have him sign a cheished copy of Tiger Beat?

Well he was wishing me happy birthday when corey started quoting outsiders at him. So my leif moment was ruined. Btw he pronounced it "life"

“giggle giggle”

@commie, I think my Melvins gig was early 00s.

Hm was leif garrett with them? My show was spring 2000

Nope they played bowery ballroom. You saw em in summer 99 probly

Rest in Peace, MF Doom.

Heartbroken.

R.I.P. Jerry Marsden too.

Yes, meant to get to some Pacemakers tonight too, but outta time.

Later, doomsayers!

What a great final set. Thanks, DJ Mike!

great show! see you the flip side, mike!

Thanks Mike, great show!

thanks for the show mike!!

DJ MikeLupica, many thanks and big cheers and kind regards!!

Cheers Dears and even those with Big Ears!

Thanks for hangin out, y'all! Good night and good luck!

All y'all still hangin' out get to watch cleanup.

I will now present (for the webcam) all the records I didn't play tonight.

I peeped the Radio Shack t-shirt!

Maybe play them next Monday?

Maybe!

SO. MUCH. INCENSE.

Shack Attack!

Gonna go take out the recycling now.